� Please stand for the national anthem led by Jaylen Webb, and lift every voice and sing led by Frank Byron. Can you see what so cries brought strides and bright stars? Lift every voice and sing. Please be seated. Chancellor Dixon, with your permission, I declare our 170th Commencement Convocation open. Chancellor Dixon, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, these are our honorees for the hour. Please join me in saluting them. Apostle Edna Lawrence, pastor of Good Works Community Church in Herbert, North Carolina, will now come to deliver the invocation. Let us pray. O Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord, for allowing us to be here today, God. We give you the praise, Lord, and we give you the glory, Father. Lord, we thank you for such a rich opportunity for this Commencement, for these wonderful students who have paved the way, who have studied so hard in their families, Lord, and every staff, everyone, God, that makes up this group, Lord. We thank you for this moment. And Lord, we ask God that your Holy Spirit will come into this wonderful occasion, Lord, and do a work. Let us be calm and let us be at peace and let us rejoice and let us reflect about how good you've been to all of us. And Lord, we pray that the same peace and the same joy and the same calmness, Lord, would not only be in this place, Lord, but each one of us, Lord, will just share that sameness, Lord, not just here, but everywhere we go, Lord, and bless this class like none of the class.  And he wouldn't let the coronavirus stop you today, but he brought a good day with good weather, with rejoicing hearts, just for you today. So to this class, you are seen as bright flowers in God's eyes this very day. Let us all be blessed in our Father's name, we pray, amen. Distinguished platform guests, faculty, staff, students, families, friends, and graduates, good morning, and welcome to Elizabeth City State University's 172nd Commencement Convocation. Congratulations class of 21. At this time, I am pleased to introduce Trustee Stephanie Johnson, Secretary for Elizabeth City State University Board of Trustees, who will extend the welcome. After Trustee Johnson, we will have greetings from Governor David Powers, Member of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, and Mr. Jimmy Chambers, President of the Elizabeth City State University Student Government Association. Good morning. I am Dr. Stephanie Johnson, a proud graduate of Elizabeth City State University and a member of the Elizabeth City State University Board of Trustees. On behalf of Jan King Robinson Chair and the members of the Board of Trustees, it is my great pleasure to bring greetings to today's graduates, their families, and distinguished faculty, our supportive staff, and steadfast alumni. I would like to take a moment to acknowledge and thank our Chancellor, Dr. Kerry Dixon, for successfully leading our MMR model. Dr. Governor Powers, it is also a pleasure to have you on our campus at any time, and we appreciate your continued support of Elizabeth City State University. To our keynote speaker, Anita Brown Graham, I look forward to your words today. Thank you and your family for taking time to visit with us and inspire our future leaders. Graduates, we are here to celebrate you and your accomplishments. The experiences learned during your time at this institution will resonate throughout your life. Elizabeth City State University has provided you with the knowledge and skills that will support your future endeavors. As we celebrate you today, remember those professors who committed their time and talent that allowed you to excel. Thank your family members for their unconditional support and stay connected with the Elizabeth City State University as proud alumni. This is your time you've grown to go, to you've grown, and you want to glow. It is now your time to go forth and prosper to the spring 2021 graduates of Elizabeth City State University. Congratulations and Godspeed. Good morning. Thank you so much, Chancellor Dixon, for inviting me today. We all owe a sincere thanks to Chancellor Kerry Dixon, who is a passionate advocate of this great university. As the leader of this vital institution, Chancellor Dixon has succeeded in helping Elizabeth City State University deliver on its promises to future generations of students. ECSU is very fortunate to have you here at this exciting juncture in this history. Thank you. On behalf of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, Chairman Randy Ramsey and UNC System President Peter Hans, it is my immense pleasure to bring greetings to today's graduates, their families, to Chancellor Dixon and our distinguished keynote speaker, Anita Brown Graham, and to this university's distinguished faculty, staff, and alumni, the Board of Trustees and other members of the platform party. Graduates, congratulations. As the son of a North Carolina public schoolteacher and the husband of a North Carolina public schoolteacher, I've never been able to get away with anything in my life. I have to offer a special congratulations to our education majors here today. Those of you who have chosen to teach others, thank you. And I would also like to say a special thank you to those students who set in commissions in the United States Army. You have chosen a life of service and you have our gratitude and our respect. Graduates, you've reached a great milestone and about to venture out on a new beginning. You came here four years ago, or so, from towns and cities across North Carolina, the nation, yes, the world. You all went through a great exercise in self-examination while receiving a first-class education at an institution with almost 130 years of distinguished history of excellence in higher education and service to the people of our great state. Your Elizabeth City State education has prepared you well for your journey into the future, and I know it will be an exciting journey. Your time here has also been a celebration, a celebration of the rich physical, cultural, and intellectual diversity that the Elizabeth City State offers. The joys of new friends, the rigors of your academic study, and the robust debate of ideas all contributed to your growth as a student and a well-rounded individual. No matter your path, I encourage you to stay connected to this wonderful place. Elizabeth City State guided you and prepared you for success. I want you to always remember that and become an ambassador for your university. I want you to return the favor by giving back to Elizabeth City State with your time, your energy, your enthusiasm, and when you're able, your treasure. Mark Twain once said that the two most important days in your life are the day you're born and the day you find out why. Take your experience here at Elizabeth City State and go find your why. Do well and do good. Make your way and make your mark. Change the world. Have some fun along the way and never ever forget your Viking. Congratulations and thank you very much. Greetings to Chancellor Dixon, platform participants, faculty, staff, alumni, but mostly important. Get it up for the class of 2021. I am Jimmy Chambers Jr., the student body president here at Elizabeth City State University. It's my honor to congratulate you all today. I want to leave with you today that I know that your journey this year was very hard. You faced so many different hardships, but you did so well. I'm sorry, I was a little nervous, but you did so well making a lifetime commitment to make sure that your education is important. So remember, when you go into your next phase of life, continue to keep ECSU at your heart. And always give back. Love y'all. Of 2021, you are in for a treat. At this time, we will be favored with a senior tribute by Jaylen Webb, Niaja Luke, and Frank Bryan. Come on, y'all. I need to hear y'all make some noise. Come on, y'all can get louder than that. Make some noise, y'all. Kind of blessings. Class of 2021 will always be remembered. And as they said in their song, class of 2021, get ready. Get ready. You're about to embark on things you've never seen before. And we're going to be right there with you. So thank you so much for that senior tribute. Thank you. It is my pleasure to introduce our commencement speaker. You will find a detailed bio of our speaker in the program. And I have to say, I was so glad when she answered my call to be here with us today because she is dynamic. Miss Anita Brown Graham leads NC Compact in the School of Government at UNC Chapel Hill. NC Compact is a special initiative that seeks to expand the school's capacity to work with public officials on complex policy issues. She serves as host for the NC Impact Television Program on PBS NC, a public affairs program featuring innovative community collaborations across North Carolina. In 2007, Brown Graham became director of the Institute for Emerging Issues at North Carolina State University. There she led IEI's efforts to build North Carolina's capacity for economic development and prosperity. In 2013, the White House named her a champion of change for her work at the Institute for Emerging Issues and the Triangle Business Journal named her a 2014 Woman in Business for her policy leadership in the state and a 2017 CEO of the year. The UNC School of Government named her the Gladys Hall Coates Distinguished Professor in 2020. She earned an undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University and a law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Please join me in welcoming our commencement speaker, Miss Anita Brown Graham. All right, mask off, glasses on. I think I'm about ready to get started. Chancellor Dixon, members of the faculty, administrators, students and guests, thank you for having me today. Now I do want to say I think it is really bad manners to ask somebody to speak after that song we just heard. I don't know about y'all but I'm still singing in my head. It is truly an honor to be speaking to the fine graduates of the class of 2021 at Elizabeth City State University. This is one of our state's finest institutions and you should know that I'm a huge and long time fan.  But I know, I know you've worked hard to get to where you are today. Some of you have pulled all-nighters, you've made some lifelong friends, leaving behind some people you're not sorry to say goodbye to. You've made connections with your professors who have reshaped your entire way of thinking. You've discovered passions you never knew you had. You volunteered in ways that made this campus, this city, this nation better. You've learned to love coffee on those weeks when it just didn't seem there were enough hours. You thought you'd never get it all done. My friends, yes, you have laughed, you have cried, you have given it all and you are here today. Now please know that I understand you didn't get here by yourself. Gathered here today are your families, your friends, your professors and so many others who contributed to what you have accomplished. So if you'll excuse me for a moment, I'd like to shift the focus to them. To all of you here today in the stands who are here because you cared about, cared for one of these graduates, I want to congratulate you too. This is where you clap for them graduates, yeah. Whether you've known your graduates since the day they were born or you came into their lives more recently, they have reached this milestone in part to you. As a mother whose own younger daughter will be graduating next Saturday, I understand the pride you feel today for them but also pride for yourselves.  Now I want to confess, I've been struggling a little bit for weeks to think of something worthy to say to you. Something that left you either happy to join me and the regions, legions of others who can't remember a single word of their college commencement speech or the mighty few who somehow decades later seemed to be holding on to all the wisdom didn't really matter to me which one you fell into as long as I kept it short and sweet. But recent weeks in Elizabeth City leave me needing to offer something that respects the context of this moment in which you graduate. Something that offers to you and your families the comfort you deserve. After more minutes searching for the message than I care to admit, I've come up with three words that I hope meet this goal. They are graduates at all costs protect your peace. This may seem like a strange message for this moment in your life. You probably came expecting a message about how you will soar in the days ahead. However, you are grown folk now and I came to give you a grown up message. I came to remind you that the world will wear you down. Craziness on the job can make you want to holler. The stuff of families can make you physically ill. And the realities of the life you will lead can cause you to want to hide your head in the ground. So to become what you were destined to be, to see the things the song said you've never seen, you have to be prepared to protect your peace. Let me start with the very short Modern Parable by Terry McAdoo. It's about a worm, yes, yes, it really is about a worm. You see once upon a time in a great big forest at the bottom of a very tall tree, there crawled along in the dark earth a caterpillar who was brown and squishy and his name was Bumpadoo. The odd thing about Bumpadoo was that he didn't know he was a caterpillar, he thought he was a worm. That is why he crawled at the bottom of the very tall tree, instead of climbing up into the tree and into the branches and out onto the stems into the bright sunlight as he should have. Bumpadoo had not always lived in the dirt. A long time ago he had followed his true nature into the tree and out onto the leaves and as he dined there in the bright sunshine he grew bigger and happier as should happen when you're eating lots of good stuff. But one day a wind came along, rustled through the tree branches and shook the leaves mightily. Bumpadoo thought he was going to fall, he thought he was going to die. And so he scurried off the leaves and over the branches and down the bark of the tree to the safety of the quiet still. In this earth he met other creatures who crawled where he liked to crawl. They identified themselves as worms and since Bumpadoo liked the quietness and stillness of the earth he began to think that he too was a worm. He forgot how beautiful the forest could look when viewed from high in the very tall trees and he forgot there was more to life than crawling around in the dirt like a worm. One dreary rainy day in the quiet muddy earth Bumpadoo suddenly heard something bounce with a little plop. He poked his head out of the ground to see what had happened and came face to face with a big worm that looked a lot like him. Oh my, where am I? exclaimed the stranger. I was munching on my dinner, hanging on as best I could to the slippery wet leaf and a wind came along. It shook me and I fell and here I am but where am I? You are with me, said Bumpadoo. I am a worm called Bumpadoo. The stranger I, Bumpadoo, carefully said, very much alike, that means you are not a worm, that means you are a caterpillar. How can you say I'm not a worm, insisted Bumpadoo.  You have no right to claim that you are a caterpillar that will someday become a gorgeous butterfly. You're crazy. The caterpillar stared silently at Bumpadoo for a minute and she turned around and started to head for the tree. Bumpadoo looked high, high up into the forest. Aren't you afraid of falling again when the wind returns? he asked. The caterpillar attached her front feet to the base of the tree. The fall is not what we should fare, she said, staying in the third after the fall. Now that is what should make us tremble with motivation to do what we have to do to become the butterflies we were created to be. Graduates, the first thing you must do to protect your peace is to know your purpose in life. If I asked you today what is your purpose, I wouldn't be asking you what is your purpose this afternoon. I would be asking you why are you here. Without steadfast understanding of your purpose in life, you could end up settling for being an earthworm when you were meant to sail among the trees as a beautiful butterfly. Now you may be thinking to yourself, but Bumpadoo was chilling, he seemed pretty peaceful to me. I agree that he was without stress in the dirt, but let me assure you that peace is not about the absence of stress. Peace is about the presence of purpose. What graduates is your purpose? Now many of you here are from that generational cohort, Gen Z, you know, the latter half of the millennium generation.  You've pivoted to zoom university, lived with social distances, marched in the street, and you made it all work. Today we find our country at a turning point, both in domestic terms and global affairs. A turning point as significant as any time since the outbreak of World War II. Your childhood and upbringing have been shaped by these factors, and they, I assure you, have prepared you for your purpose. It is your turn, class of 2021, it is your turn. It is your turn to lead in the sea suites and in the streets. It is your turn to take the lead. The second tip to protecting your peace is you must find your people. Bumpadou missed the moment. He could see that he looked like the caterpillar, but rejected without investigation that they were the same. Now let me be clear, this is a parable, I don't want you to take it literally.  You are the most racially diverse generation in our country's history. You are more comfortable with all kinds of differences than your parents' generation and their parents' generation because you have the ability to accept people of all demographics, backgrounds, and choices, and you can connect to thousands of them with the click of a button. You might think that your people is a big number, but I came here to tell you, when you know your people, you will probably be talking about as many fingers as I have. Choose your people wisely. There is a difference between followers and friends and your people.  They're also the ones who hold you accountable for failing to live up to your potential. If you don't have someone in your life who will tell you, the fall is not what we should fare, staying in the dirt after the fall, now that should make us tremble, then call me after graduation, I will be your people. Finally, you must stay positive. That doesn't mean from time to time you won't be mad. When the time calls for it, I encourage you to be mad. But instead, I'm asking here for you to stay positive in your belief that you can effectuate change. You are already incredibly, sometimes maddingly, maddingly, and certainly almost disconcertingly optimistic. According to a Pew research study, 49% of you think the United States best years are yet to come. That's more than any other generation poem. Despite rough economic waters, higher levels of student loan debt, and lower levels of wealth than your predecessors, more than 8 in 10 of you say you currently have enough to lead the life you want or expect to in the future. No other age group is this optimistic. Now, I can see some parents and grandparents up there in the stands shaking their head, and I must concede that some of this is simply the optimism and sense of possibility that goes along with being in your parents' pocketbook. My elder daughter claims all the time she's not motivated by money, doesn't need it at all, but she never says no to the stuff that comes from my pocketbook. Seriously, you are positive because you know you will make a difference. More of you than any other generation in our history are looking for jobs and career paths that don't just pay the bills, but also have meaning. You want passion, you want fulfillment, you want to make a difference, and my friends, I have no doubt you will. More of you in more ways than you could know in this moment will change our world. I know some of you don't believe me. You think that duty falls on some other people, not you. There are the people in Washington, the people who are born with a silver spoon in their mouths, the people who have already started a non-profit, contributed cancer research, want to go metal by the time they're 17, you know those people who just make things. But let me tell you something though, the funny thing about the people who end up making a difference, none of them knew they were going to do it until it was done. None of them had any idea it was going to happen. They woke up, they worked hard, they did their best, they did what's right, and they changed the world. Graduates, I encourage you to go do things because they are right, because they are necessary. Time will pass more quickly than you can imagine. Before you know it, you will be sitting at a college graduation bursting with pride at a graduate, and you will know that their future is bright. You will know that new opportunities are out there for them because each day you met your challenge of the day. And through it all, graduates, you knew to protect your peace. Congratulations, and I wish you all the best. Thank you, Anita Brown Graham, for such an inspirational message to our class of 2021. Protect your peace and know your purpose. Graduates, always remember that. So Miss Brown Graham, on behalf of Elizabeth City State University, we would like to thank you for those inspirational words and present you with a framed poster of the announcement of your visit to Elizabeth City State University.  So thank you so much for joining us. Thank you again. Each year, we have representation from our stakeholders who join us as we congratulate and celebrate our graduates. I would like to acknowledge those who are joining us today, both in person and virtually. Thank you so much to UNC Board of Governor, David Powers, who serves as liaison to Elizabeth City State University. And I have to say, Governor Powers, you have always been our champion, and we thank you for your continued support. Also, at this time, if you are present, please stand. ECSU Board of Trustees, thank you. ECSU Trustee Emeriti, if you are here, please stand. ECSU Foundation Board Members, if you are present, please stand. ECSU National Alumni Association Officers and Directors, please stand. Professors Emeriti, please stand. ECSU Retirees Association, please stand. Representatives from local, state, and national government, please stand. Representatives from branches of the military, please stand where you are. Thank you for your service. And I would like to also acknowledge Miss Brown Graham's daughter and husband are here. Thank you for being here. And also, guest of our Apostle, thank you for being here. And acknowledgement of my senior cabinet, thank you all for all you do. At this time, we will have Governor David Powers come to the podium to present the 2020-2021 Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. Thank you again, Chancellor. As much as we are here today to celebrate you, we are also here to celebrate the people that helped you get here. Their dedication and their contributions both to this university and to your future success. There are a number of faculty members on this campus who exemplify outstanding teaching. Today, I want to recognize one of them. It is my privilege to present this year's Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching to one of your most outstanding faculty members. Established by the Board of Governors in 1994 to underscore the importance of teaching and to reward great teachers across the university, the awards are given annually to a tenured faculty member from each UNC campus. Recipients are nominated by special committees on their home campuses and selected by the Board of Governors Committee on Personnel and Tenure. Each winner receives a bronze medallion and a cash award. This year's recipient from Elizabeth City State University is Dr. Dibani Kanyelu. Is that close? Dr. Kanyelu joined Elizabeth City State University as an assistant professor in the fall of 2010. Her research areas include labor and health economics and applied microeconomics. She has been published in multiple outlets and one of her most recent presentations earned a best paper award at her disciplines 2020 conference. She is dedicated to her students which is demonstrated through her work in chairing the Master Faculty Advisor Council and her mentorship with several student clubs and organizations. She was previously departmental teacher of the year at Elizabeth City State in 2016. She was recently promoted to the rank of professor of economics in the department of business accounting and sports management in spring of 2020. Dr. Kanyelu actively serves in various committees at the department and the university and is completing her term as the vice chair of the faculty senate and has served as a member of the vice chancellor's leadership academy. Dr. Kanyelu, we celebrate your outstanding professional achievement and salute your demonstrated commitment to great teaching and inspiring a new generation of leaders. In honoring you, we also acknowledge the more than 14,000 dedicated faculty member who teach our almost 240,000 students throughout the University of North Carolina. Congratulations again. Chancellor Dixon. At this time, it is my pleasure to present to you Miss Anita Brown Graham for the conferment of her honorary degree. Miss Anita Brown Graham, please come forward and join me at the podium. Chancellor Dixon, it is my privilege to report to you that the candidate Miss Anita Brown Graham has qualified in all aspects for the honorary doctorate degree Doctor of Public Service. Miss Anita Brown Graham is the director of NC Impact at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has selfishly supported causes by serving on many boards and organizations including the Research Triangle Foundation, the Smith Reynolds Foundation, North Carolina Housing Coalition, the North Carolina Justice Center, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation, East Durham Child Children's Initiative, the Triangle Community Foundation and many others. She has received many accolades including the Triangle Business Journal 2014 Woman of the Year, 2017 CEO of the Year, 2020 Gladys Hall Coates Distinguished Professor of Public Law and Government. In 2013, she received the White House Champion of Change and Civic Engagement Award. Chancellor Dixon, upon the nomination by Anita Walton, Vice Chancellor for University Advancement, vetting by the ECSU Honorary Degree Committee and approval by the ECSU Board of Trustees. It is my pleasure to present to you Miss Anita Brown Graham for the conferment of the honorary degree Doctor of Public Service. By virtue of the authority vested in me by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and the Elizabeth City State University Board of Trustees, I do hereby confer upon Miss Anita Brown Graham the honorary doctorate degree Doctor of Public Service for which you have qualified with all the honors, privileges and responsibilities thereon to appertaining. Congratulations.  Welcome to the Viking family. Lieutenant Colonel Robert Freeman, please come to the podium to deliver the oath of office to our newest ROTC officers. Good morning Elizabeth City State University family and friends. I am Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Freeman Jr., the Professor of Military Science and Commander of Viking Battalion. Today I have the honor and privilege of reaffirming the oath of office for 2nd Lieutenant Gamir, 2nd Lieutenant Harris and 2nd Lieutenant Howell. 2nd Lieutenant, please join me on stage. These 2nd Lieutenant received their commission yesterday in a separate ceremony in front of their families, friends, peers, university leadership, faculty, staff and ECSU alumni who have supported them on this incredible journey. Thank you again Chancellor Dixon for attending, your kind words of wisdom and encouragement and your unyielding support to Viking Battalion. All military members begin their career by accepting an oath of office. Doctors, lawyers, public officials and our military are some of the few professionals that take such an oath. The oath of office represents an officer's right of passage from cadet to a commissioned officer on behalf of the President of the United States. The oath affirms a commitment to defend the American people and our way of life against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Raise your right hand and repeat after me. I state your full name. Do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. And that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon the office I am about to enter. So help me God. Please give him a round of applause. And as I told them yesterday in their commissioning ceremony, I had something very special made just for you. It is a challenge coin, ECSU, that I want you to carry with you for the rest of your life and know that the Viking family is always with you. Chancellor Dixon, we now recommend candidates for graduate degree. Chancellor Dixon, it is my privilege to report to you that the candidates here assembled have qualified in all aspects for their degree by successfully completing the curricula offered by the graduate program in school administration, biology, mathematics, biology and education at Elizabeth City State University. With the candidates for the master of school administration, master of science and mathematics, master of science and biology and master of education, please stand and remain standing. Chancellor Dixon, it is with pleasure that I present to you these candidates who have completed all of the requirements for graduation. They have been certified by the registrar and have received an affirmative vote of the faculty to be awarded the master's degrees in school administration, mathematics, biology and education. I now recommend them to you for the conferral of their degree. By virtue of the authority vested in me by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and the Elizabeth City State University Board of Trustees, I do hereby confer upon you the degree for which you have qualified with all honors, privileges and responsibilities thereunto appertaining. We will also present a special medallion to our graduates who have successfully completed their master's degree. With the candidates for the master of school administration, master of science and mathematics, master of science and biology and master of education, please proceed to the stage to receive your degree. Diamond Ayanna Brookins Taylor Griffin Ayesha Latanya Massey Robinson Robin Victoria Walden Manisha Lewis Cole Hope C. Lenea Majette Jacobs Joseph Hedley Congratulations, please be seated. Chancellor Dixon Chancellor Dixon, it is my privilege to report to you that the candidates here assembled have qualified in all respects for their degrees by successfully completing curricula offered by the academic departments at Elizabeth City State University. They have been recommended by their department chairs, approved by the Honors Council where apropos, certified by the registrar and have received an affirmative vote of the faculty to be awarded the degrees, the Bachelor of Science in Education, the Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Social Work. At this time, I am pleased to begin the conferment of undergraduate degrees by presenting the bearer of the man. Chancellor Dixon, it is my pleasure, most distinct indeed, to inform you that the official bearer of the man is Olivia Grace Vaughn. With the bearer of the man, Olivia Grace Vaughn, please come forward for the conferment of your degree. Chancellor Dixon, I am pleased to present the bearer of the man, Olivia Grace Vaughn, who has earned a cumulative grade point average of 3.9633. Bearer of the man, Olivia Grace Vaughn, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and the Elizabeth City State University Board of Trustees, I do hereby confer upon you the degree for which you have qualified with all honors, privileges and responsibilities thereon to appertaining. Trustee Dr. Stephanie Johnson of the ECSU Board of Trustees will now hood you. Congratulations, Olivia. Chancellor Dixon, before we proceed with the conferment of degrees, I am honored to have the opportunity to recognize those seniors who are graduating with highest honors, summa cum laude, having achieved by their diligence a cumulative grade point average of 3.8 to 4.0. With the graduates graduating summa cum laude, please stand and remain standing. Those seniors who are graduating with high honors, magna cum laude, with a grade point average of 3.6 to 3.79, please stand and remain standing. Will those seniors graduating with cum laude honors with a grade point average of 3.25 to 3.59, please stand and remain standing. Please join me in congratulating these students on their accomplishments. You may be seated. Now I wish to recognize seniors who have completed four years in the university's honors program, many of whom were just standing. Will those students who have completed four years in the honors program please stand so that we may congratulate you. Congratulations. You may be seated. I am pleased to acknowledge all of the summa cum laude, magna cum laude, cum laude graduates and graduates of the university's honors program. I commend you for having achieved the excellence required by a highly rigorous curriculum. I encourage you to continue to excel. Thank you so much for your hard work. We recognize you for your excellence. Thank you. Chancellor Dixon, I am now pleased to present candidates for their respective degrees. Chancellor Dixon, on the recommendation of their department chairs certified by the registrar and by affirmative vote of the faculty, it is my pleasure to present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Social Work. Please stand. By virtue of the authority vested in me by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and the Elizabeth City State University Board of Trustees, I do hereby confer upon you the degrees for which you have qualified with all the honors, privileges and responsibilities thereunto appertaining. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Social Work please be seated. Will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education please come forward to receive your degrees. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education please be seated. Will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science degree please stand. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science degree, candidates please come forward to receive your degrees. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education please be seated. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education please be seated. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education please be seated. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education please be seated. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education please be seated. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education please be seated. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education please be seated. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education please be seated. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education please be seated. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, will the candidates for the Bachelor of Arts degree please stand. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Arts degree, please come forward to receive your degree. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education please be seated. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, will the candidates for the Bachelor of Social Work degree please stand. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Social Work degree, please come forward to receive your degree. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Arts degree, please come forward to receive your degree. To present the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education, will the candidates for the Bachelor of Science in Education please be seated. Congratulations, please be seated. This concludes the conferral of degrees upon the candidates comprising the spring graduating class of 2021. Now, would all of the baccalaureate graduates please stand to please symbolize the attainment of your degree by turning your tassles from the right to the left. Congratulations, please be seated. I have to say is to God be the glory. To God know we're supposed to be, know we're supposed to be quiet, but to God be the glory. 2021 graduates, this is your day. This is your day. You've been through a lot, unprecedented times, but Vikings, we are resilient and we are blessed. And I thank all of you. I'm off script, but I want to just say this because it's in my heart. I thank all of you for coming here today to make this possible for our graduates. There was no way as my provost and my executive cabinet and with our trustees as we talked about this, we knew how important this day is for many families and for our graduates and we wanted to make sure it happened. So I just thank all of you for being patient with us, for being flexible, and most of all for being here to celebrate the great accomplishment of the class of 2021. And we have, we have titled or given the name to this class as the class of resilience, because they've been through a lot and celebrate them as best as you can and as much as you can. So that pause and praise is all right. So spring class of 2021 graduates, I extend sincere congratulations to each of you for achieving this milestone in your lives. At this time, I would also like to recognize our honor marshals as listed in the program booklet honor marshals are the highest ranking students academically from the freshman sophomore and junior classes. Also, at this time, I would also like to recognize and thank ECSU commencement committee. You all made it happen. Thank you so much. And again, I applaud that senior tribute from our three graduates Jaylen Webb, Nyazia Luke and Frank Bryan. You made this day memorable. And we are thankful that you shared your talents with us today. I welcome to the podium, Astasia Robinson, president of the senior class to deliver farewell remarks. Good morning class of 2021. Congratulations on making it to this special day. Staying up to 1159 p.m., balancing schoolwork and still be a move, being able to make it to by confess and homecoming events has prepared you for life after graduation. As a graduate, you are transitioning from a student to a leader. To lead means to God on a way to direct the operations activity or performance of. Today, I would like to talk to you about a popular leadership position, the lion leader. In elementary school, the kids will give their right arm to be the lion leader. Why? Maybe it's because they want to feel accomplished or may just want to be the attention of the teacher. But let me examine the role of a lion leader. The lion leader is basically given the responsibility of leading the people behind them to a particular destination. With that being said, couldn't we conclude that everyone in the lion is a leader? The second person has someone behind them. The third person has someone behind them and the same for the fourth person. The responsibility does not stop there. You also have to be the support for the person in front of you. If they fall, shouldn't you help them up? Please do not pass them or walk over them. The last person is also a leader. They are just as brave as the first person in line because they have their backs turned against the unknown. Some may even say that the last person is the protector of those in front of him. It also takes a lot of patience to be in the back of the line. You may be wondering what all of this has to do with you. So let me just ask, are you in line? And let me just answer, yes you are. Look to the left of you, look to the right of you.  Someone is always watching you. A friend, cousin, auntie, uncle, or even grandparents may decide to attend college because they witness your passion, commitment, and discipline. All of us are leaders in some way, shape, or form. Some of us shy away from being first and others hate to be last. No matter where you are in the line, you are still important. So whether you are leading in business, teaching, science, social work, or any of the wonderful studies ECSU has to offer, be the best line leader you can be. Congratulations class of 2021, you did it. Thank you Ms. Robinson. At this time is my pleasure to bring to the podium Mr. Clarence Goss, member of the National Alumni Association Board of Directors who will administer the oath of allegiance to the university and alumni penning in Mr. Abdul Rashid's absence. Boy, Chancellor Dixon to everybody. You know this graduation is going to hit a little different from me. I told you know this one hits to my heart because I see so many faces out there and if you hear the trim of my voice, I'm trying to make it through. It's a little different because 2017 a lot of y'all minister your freshman penning. Was there your freshman penning? One man gave you that. And you put those pens on. I'll take you to pre-alumni oath. So you know this is family. You're now in a family of months, a bigger family than once you came with. And that still holds true today. You look to your left and your right behind you and all the alumni around.  And I'm completely off my script, but I'm full right now. So I'm going to get back to my script because when I got out of here, I get to hug some people and before I start stuttering. And so just bear with me. So I'm here on behalf of the President Abdul Rashid. President, hold on, okay. On behalf of President Abdul Rashid, President of the National Alumni Association and retired captain Anthony Swain, Board of President, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Alumni Association, I bring you greetings. I am Clarence Goss Jr., class of 1997, and a proud graduate, proud, proud graduate of Elizabeth City State University. Okay. I stand for you today to minister the oath of allegiance to the university. I can say a chance of thanks that I don't think you understand just how much this class here means a lot to me. I know a lot of their stories in here. You have a lot of stories in here that were delayed and denied. Delayed but not denied. You have a lot of folks in here who broke a lot of things, bones, and they had a lot of setbacks, but those setbacks set them up or set up. There's a lot of legacies in here. Legacies in here who came in and made their own. There's some students in here who came in here and made their own legacies. And they're going to continue to be here. There's some in here who are going to reach higher heights, not only just the aviation majors who are going to go beyond. A lot of those who started at J.C., who started at the bottom, and now you're here. I love you all, and it's going to be some great heights. So let's get to this oath of allegiance because we've got another part too. So if you will, please stand. This is why you're going on script because you go by the heart. You just lose it right now. All right. So if you will, repeat after me. And if you need to, it's on page 20. You know what? And I'll ask if you're an alumni in the building right now, will you please stand and repeat this too? Because a lot of time as alumni, once we get out, we forget what the allegiance that we are, that we made. We forget about that love. We don't forget the love. We forget about the commitment that we made to the university. So if you will, please stand with our newest alumni and repeat this oath of allegiance. I hereby solemnly pledge unbroken allegiance to my alma mater in appreciation for the, to my alma mater in the appreciation for the opportunities for development afforded me as a student at Elizabeth City State University. I pledge active membership in the National Alumni Association wherever I may be through association with my fellow alumni. I shall forever do my best to uphold the ideals and traditions of my alma mater. I pledge as a person to exemplify high ideals by rendering positive and dignified service to the community, to the state, to the nation and world, thus living to bring honor and respect to my alma mater. So the next part, I think there's in your chairs if she'd be a pin. I'll just my allergies. So there's a pin and at this time I will now conduct the pin portion. This pin you received inducts you into a group of over 20,000 individuals who have earned the unique title of being ECSU alumni.  This morning we will close that circle by giving you this pin. Please take to note two of the components on the pin. One, it is a picture of Lane Hall, our oldest building which has been a part of the university's history over 111 years. And two, the word alumni. By you receiving this designation you are becoming a part of the largest and only permanent constituent group of ECSU. We ask that you wear your pin with pride wherever you go. We would normally ask you to pin alumni with to pin our graduates but due to COVID graduate will ask you to pin themselves. So graduates, you may now pin yourself on your left side. Please be careful. Congratulations. I love you and it's nothing you can do about it and that's on P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby way. Viking pride. Viking pride. And Viking pride. You may be seated to the spring 2021 graduates. Thank you. Thank you for allowing Elizabeth City State University to be woven into the tapestry of your life. As you go forth, remember that you continue to be ambassadors for ECSU. I encourage you to tell our story. Know your story. Share your Viking experience with someone so that they will be inspired to sit where you now sit at the threshold of great opportunities. You will be successful and I urge you to make a difference. Remember the lessons you learned both in and out of the classroom. Always remember to return to visit your university. I wish you much success as you continue your life's journey. At this time, if you will join me, we lost one of our giants that was a big part of the Viking family this week. Please join me for a moment of silence as we recognize the memory of coach Robert L. Vaughn who passed away on Wednesday and he impacted so many lives within the Viking family and beyond. So let's give him a moment of silence. Thank you. Thank you so much. Viking pride. Viking pride. Viking pride. Congratulations class of 2021. Please stand for the singing of the Alma Mater which will be led by Jalen Webb, Nyasia Luke and Frank Bryan. To the water a tribute song we sing of thy true worth to all of us O heroes who thy lovely halls ECSU with duty calls ECSU faith hearts will still love thee ECSU so now we'll join together we'll stay to work let none of us be pained at heart nor in need do we share O to thy lovely halls ECSU will hear when duty calls ECSU faith hearts will still love We have come to the conclusion of our ceremony. We ask that everyone will remain seated until the graduates exit. You will be directed by security. Chancellor Dixon, with permission I declare our 172nd Commencement Convocation closed. Let us receive the benediction from Apostle Edna Lawrence. Before the benediction, I would like to thank everyone for allowing me to come and experience the campus one more time. It makes me remember those of you who are near my age. We had some good days. Isn't that right? It's not about us. It's about you. So we're going to give you a benediction and ascending off from the Lord at the same time. Is that all right? That's all right. Mighty Father, in the precious name of Jesus, Lord, we thank you for these graduates. We ask that your holy hands will wrap around them and do a work in their lives. Father God, as they enjoy each other right now, but God, when the celebration is over, we ask that these graduates will have lives of many celebrations in many forms. Father God, when the work is upon them, Lord, we ask God that they will receive a peace and ability to work like they've never worked before. Father God, when these young people who will become old folks, Lord, a challenge, Father, we ask God that they shall ever remember that they can call upon your precious name and you shall respond. Father God, we ask, Lord, that when the speeches are over and this event is commenced, Father God, we ask that you will give them experiences that will cause them to raise their voices in dark places, to raise their voices in court rooms, in justice halls, in pool pits, in workplaces, in classrooms, in board rooms, wherever you want to use these young folks, God. Father God, use them. But Lord, before they can truly be used, there needs to be something set afire. So, Father God, with the apostolic anointing that you've given me, Lord, I ask that an anointing shall be placed upon the class of 2021. I ask that an anointing from glory shall light a fire in each graduate this day. And may that anointing keep them out of harm's way. The anointing keep them from being unemployed, Lord, that the anointing will give them a peace and understanding. The anointing will bring your skills up from your heart. That anointing will cause you to hold on to your brother and your sister regardless of their differences. Class of 2021, as this comes to a close, let it be a great beginning in your life. May the Holy Spirit set a fire in your belly as never before. And may that fire light up because we really want you to go out into the world and set this world on fire like it's never been set before. May you carry grace, love, achievements and new discoveries for generations to come. Amen, amen and amen. Class of 2021, go forth into the world and make it better in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Amen.


Hello everyone, I am K. R. Biradhar, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Telecommunication Engineering, Palchand Institute of Technology, Sallapur. Welcome to video lecture on event and odd signals. Let us start with the learning outcomes first. At the end of this session, students will be able to identify event and odd signals, find event and odd component of the signal. These are the some of the contents, event signal, odd signal, properties of event and odd signals, event and odd component references, event signal. A signal x of t or x of n is referred to as an event signal if it is identical to its time reversed counterpart that is with its reflection about the origin. In continuous time, a signal is even if it satisfies the condition x of minus t is equal to x of t for all t. Similarly, for a discrete time signal, e is even if it satisfies the condition x of minus n is equal to x of n. Event signals are symmetric about the vertical axis or time origin, x of t is an event signal. If you take x of minus t, time reversal of this signal or mirror image of this signal both must be same. Let us see here. So, this is my x of minus t. If these two signals are same, then it is an given signal is an event signal. So, this is an example for discrete time event signal. Then odd signal, a signal is referred to as odd if it satisfies the condition x of t is equal to minus of x of minus t for all t for continuous time signal, x of n is equal to minus of x of minus n for discrete time signal. Then odd signal must necessarily be 0 at t equal to 0 or n equal to 0. Odd signals are anti symmetric about the time origin. The given x of t is an odd signal. Now, you find the x of minus t that is time reversal of this signal or mirror image of this signal. Next, you find the minus of x of minus t which is the amplitude scaling by minus 1. That means, the signal which is present above this x axis will shift towards below this x axis. The signal which is present below this x axis will shift the above x axis. The first x of t and x of minus of x of minus t are same therefore, it is an odd signal. Discrete time example for odd signal let us see here x of n this is minus of x of minus n these two must be same. Now see step by step my x of minus n will be whatever the signal which are present at n equal to minus 1, minus 2, minus 3 should shift at n equal to 1, 2, 3 respectively. Similarly, the signals which are present at n equal to 1, 2, 3 should shift at n equal to minus 1, minus 2, minus 3 respectively. This is a x of minus n or mirror image of this signal x of n. Next amplitude scale by minus 1 the signal which are present at the below this x axis will shift to above this x axis and signal which are present at above the x axis will shift to below the x axis. This is x of n this is x of minus minus of x of minus n these two are same therefore, it is an odd signal. Then properties of even and odd signal first one is product of an even signal and an odd signal results into odd signal. Second one the product of two even signals results into even signal and two odd signal results into even signal. Third one the summation of an odd signal x of n for all n is always 0. And proofs we shall see now product of an even and odd signal consider x 1 of n be an odd signal and x 2 of n be an even signal. So, therefore, x 1 of minus n is equal to minus x 1 of n this is equation number 1. Similarly, x 2 of minus n is equal to x 2 of n this is equation number 2 because this is an even signal this is an odd signal. Let y of n is equal to x 1 of n multiplied by x 2 of n equation number 3 replace n by minus 1 in the above expression therefore, y of minus n is equal to x 1 of minus n into x 2 of minus n equation number 4 substituting equation 1 and 2 in 4 therefore, y of minus n is equal to x 1 of minus n is odd signal it minus of x 1 of n. Similarly, this if I consider even x 2 of minus n becomes x 2 of n this is equal to minus of x 1 of n multiplied by x 2 of n this is equal to minus of y of n therefore, y of minus n is equal to minus y of n therefore, it is product of even and odd signal results into odd signal. Proof number 2 product of 2 even and 2 odd signals let y of n is equal to x 1 of n multiplied by x 2 of n replace n by minus n y of minus n is equal to x 1 of minus n multiplied by x 2 of minus n let x 1 of n and x 2 of n be even signals. So, y of minus n is equal to if I substitute that is even signals it becomes x 1 of n into x 2 of n therefore, y of minus n is equal to y of n product of 2 even signals results into even signal. Similarly, if x 1 of n x 2 of odd signals then y of minus n is equal to. So, x 1 of minus n becomes minus x 1 of n x 2 of minus n becomes minus x 2 of n because it is an odd signal. So, if you product of these 2 becomes equal to y 1 of n multiplied by sorry x 1 of n multiplied by x 2 of n which is equal to y of n their product is x 1 of n multiplied by x 2 of n which is equal to y of n. The product of 2 odd signal results into an even signal summation of an odd signal consider x of n is an odd signal y of n is equal to summation equal to minus infinity to infinity x of n if I divide the limits from minus infinity to infinity. So, if I change a sign here n equal to n equal to minus 1 2 plus minus infinity now becomes equal to 1 to infinity. If I change a summation sign here the n sign also changes here summation equal to 1 to infinity x of minus n plus x of 0 minus summation equal to 1 to infinity x of n. We know if it is an odd signal x of minus n equal to minus x of n this becomes minus of summation n equal to 1 to infinity x of n plus x of 0 plus summation equal to 1 to infinity x of n. So, there is a minus sign there is a plus sign these 2 get cancels only x of 0 remains which is equal to 0 as x of n is 0 at n equal to 0 for any odd signal even and odd components. The x of t can be expressed as even and odd components x of t is equal to x e of t plus x o of t this equation number 1. Replace t by minus t in the above expression x of minus t is equal to x e of minus t plus x o of minus t x of minus t is equal to if it is an even signal x of minus t is equal to x of t. Therefore, x e of minus t becomes x e of t and x of o of minus t becomes minus x of t this is equation number 2 adding equation 1 and 2. So, x of t plus x of minus t is equal to 2 x e of t the even component is given by x e of t is equal to 1 by 2 into x of t plus x of minus t subtracting equation 2 from 1 x of t minus x of minus t is equal to 2 x o of t. Therefore, the odd component is given by x o of t is equal to 1 by 2 into x of t minus x of minus t. Similarly, for discrete time signal the even and odd components are x e of n is equal to 1 by 2 into x of n plus x of minus n x o of n is equal to 1 by 2 into x of n minus x of minus n. Draw the waveform and identify the even and odd signals for the following signal first one is y is equal to cos x second y equal to sin x. Pause the video for a moment and think and write your answer. This is a cosine wave or cos of x it is an even signal. Similarly, this is a sin wave we can see here this is an odd signal. Find the even and odd components of x of t for the given signal x of t. We know that the even and odd components is given by x e of t is equal to 1 by 2 into x of t plus x of minus t x o of t is equal to 1 by 2 into x of t minus x of minus t. If I want to find even component we need to have x of minus t also convert that is x from x of t to x of minus t that is x of minus t is the mirror image of this signal. Take x of t and x of minus t find x of t plus x of minus t. So, from minus 2 to minus 1 this is 0 and this is minus 1 you are going to get minus 1 from minus 1 to plus 1 this is 1 this is also 1 1 plus 1 equal to 2 from plus 1 to 2 this is minus 1 this is 0 you are going to get minus 1. Next is x e of t is equal to 1 by 2 this much you divide it by this signal by 2 you are going to get this signal. Similarly, x of t minus x of minus t subtract x of minus t from x of t and subtract x of minus 2 to minus 1 this is 0 and this is minus 1 0 minus of minus 1 equal to plus 1 from minus 1 to plus 1 this is 1 this is also 1 it becomes 0 from 1 to 2 x of t is minus 1 x of minus t is 0 that is minus 1 minus 0 equal to minus 1. If you divide it by this signal by 2 you are going to get x of t these are the references I have referred to prepare the above PPT. Thank you.


And now we come to the very exciting bit of complex item values. So I have x prime of t equals 6x minus y, y prime of t equals 5x plus 4y. I say that's a linear system of the differential equations. I need to solve for that. If I let x equal this column vector xy, that means I'm going to have the following. x prime is going to equal 6 and negative 1. 5 and 4 is my matrix of coefficients times x. If that's xy, if I put x and y there, I multiply this out. I'm going to be exactly there. So if I just look at a minus lambda i, that is going to equal 6 minus lambda and negative 1 of 5 and of 4 minus... Why do I put y there? Let's do that. 6 minus lambda, negative 1, 5 and 4 minus lambda. If I get the determinant of this, a minus lambda i, and I've got a set that equal to 0, that's going to be 6 minus lambda and 4 minus lambda minus negative 5 which is plus 5 is going to equal 0. So I'm going to have a lambda squared. I'm going to have negative 4 lambda and negative 6 lambda which is negative 10 lambda. And I'm going to have 6 as well as 24 plus 5 is 29. It's going to equal 0. Now I have to use my quadratic equation to solve this. I'm going to say lambda equals negative b which is negative 10. So that's 10 plus minus the square root of 100 minus 4 times 29 and it is going to be over 2 times a which is this 2. So lambda is going to equal 10 divided by 2 is 5 plus minus 100 divided by 24 minus 9 that's 116, that's the square root of 16 which is 4i, 4 divided by 2 is 2, so it's 2i. So I have lambda sub 1 equals 5 plus 2i and lambda sub 2 equals 5 minus 2i. So I have complex eigenvalues here. Let's start with lambda sub 1. So that is going to be 6 minus 5 which is just 1. 1 minus 2i, we're going to have the negative 1a, we're going to have the 5a and then 5 minus 4 minus 5 minus 2i that's negative 1 minus 2i. So that is what I'm going to get for a minus lambda sub 1i. That's what I'm going to get for this. I have to multiply this by k so that I can just make some space in this case of 1 and case of 2 and that's going to equal 0. So what am I going to have? 1 minus 2i case of 1 minus case of 2 equals 0 in other words 1 and then you can do the same with the 5 and you'll just see if you multiply there will be something which you can multiply this first one with you'll just get the second one. These are just actually constant multiples of each other as always. So I'm going to have k2 equals 1 minus 2i case of 1. So if I let k sub 1 equal 1, my case of 1, eigenvector there is going to be 1 and 1 minus 2i, 1 minus 2i. Now you can work out case of 2 but you can do that but I'm going to show you if these are real, if the matrix of coefficients here is real values and you have complex numbers in your eigenvectors, these two are just going to be, the k1 and k2 is going to look exactly the same other than the fact that these will have to have, now remember that's plus 0i. So this was going to be 1 minus 0i plus 1 and 1 plus 2i. So what we're going to have is that k2, this is going to be the complex conjugate of k1. It's always going to be under the circumstances that I've mentioned. So that positive for the beta there, remember that's alpha and beta, alpha and beta for the complex number. So that positive becomes a negative, that negative 2 becomes a positive 2. So you're always going to have that and you can see here as well with lambda, remember that lambda2 is just going to be the complex conjugate of lambda1, lambda1 and as much as I had 5 plus 2i and I'm going to have 5 negative 2i for lambda2. So that's always going to work out. So you have these two values so you can have and you'll note that they are not, they're not constant multiples of each other. This one you'll use for x sub 1, this one you'll use for x sub 2 so it's going to be c sub 1 and then x sub 1 is just going to be this. 1 and 1 minus 2i and it's going to be e to the power that was 5 plus 2i t and plus c sub 2 which was going to be 1 and 1 plus 2i e to the power of 5 minus 2i t. I hope you can see that. So that was going to be my final, let me just take you away so you can see that that was going to be my final set, general set of solutions there. Now we'll expand a bit on this in the next example.


Hello everyone. My name is Sam Jenkins and I'm Director of Operations at Tech Impact. Today I'm going to show you how to attach files to email from SharePoint and OneDrive and the differences between doing that in the latest version of Outlook out with 2016 versus older versions. It's gotten a lot easier. So I want to show you first probably how you're already attaching files. Let's go ahead and create a new email inside of Outlook. And if I click here on my attached file dropdown, I can go to browse this PC and I can just navigate to where my files are. Now if you are not in SharePoint, probably those files are in a map network drive, maybe your P drive or your H drive, or maybe they're in your My Documents, right? So you just navigate to that and you pick the file that you want to attach and then you click Insert and that attaches the file to my email. Now when you're in SharePoint, it works a little bit differently because those files are not stored on the local computer or in a map network drive. They're in SharePoint. So when you were using Outlook 2013, the way to attach a file was, we're going to actually go to our application. Here is PowerPoint for instance. And I'm just going to open up a file that I've worked in recently. This is SharePoint and there's my OneDrive. So it is very easy to open up files that are stored in SharePoint. Let's go ahead and open up this recent file. And then when this file is open, I can very easily attach this to an email just by clicking on File, Share, Email. And then I can either send a link or I can send it as an attachment. And if I send as attachment, I'm just going to pop open a new email there. And then here's my attached file and the size and I can just put who it's to and then click Send. Not really very complicated. With Outlook 2016, it's gotten even easier. That's what I want to show you today. So if I open up Outlook again, let's create a new email. And then here under Attach File, it looks different than it probably does on your machine. So instead of just having files that are on my computer, I can actually access things that are in SharePoint or OneDrive directly. So here's that same presentation. It's automatically tracking all the files that I've opened recently. I can also go to browse web locations and I can browse directly into SharePoint or my OneDrive for business right from here. So it makes it very, very easy to open up recent files. And if I just pick a file that I've worked on recently here, then I can actually just automatically send a link for people to be able to edit. Or if I wanted to, I could change this and I could attach a copy to the email or I could change permission so that people can only view that file. And this makes it really easy to send files directly from Outlook rather than needing to go into the Office application. That's a new feature of Outlook 2016. Office 2016 is available online from TechSoup or directly as a download from Office 365.


As much as vegans care about animals and being cruelty free, it makes me wonder why so many of them have dogs. Doesn't owning an animal go against the idea of being a vegan? Shouldn't all animals be wild and let free to roam? That would only make sense, but vegans don't care about that because at heart vegans are simply cute, cuddly animal lovers that will justify anything they feel like doing. Vegans don't care about the insects, they disregard pasture-raised grass-fed animals and make lies about the environment. The only real explanation here is that they see something cute that goes wink-wink and can't bear the thought of eating that animal. Being a vegan and having a dog is one thing and not really a big deal. However, a large number of vegans insist on a vegan diet being adequate for dogs, which is completely crazy.  There is an interesting parallel with humans here, except it's a bit more believable that dogs are supposed to be carnivores as opposed to humans being carnivores despite there being ample evidence that both humans and dogs share their special bond because of their hunting skills and presence of meat in the diet. Feeding a dog a high amount of starch puts a burden on the pancreas to produce starch-digesting enzymes that dogs haven't really evolved to do in large capacities, but dogs are not capable of producing various plant-digesting enzymes that herbivores can, nor are they efficient at utilizing plant foods for protein. Not only that, plant foods sits in dogs' intestines, irritates the bowels, causing inflammation, and feeds bad bacteria. People who choose to make dogs vegan for their own moral benefit at the expense of their dog's health are showing the true colors of veganism. It's about what works for them at any point in time. Maybe they should have gotten a rabbit for a pet. The whole idea that dogs can be vegan is purely an assumption. There is no proof that dogs are omnivores and the only supported evidence we have about a dog's primitive diet is that they were carnivores as they are the direct descendants from wolves. Dogs have always consumed a diet of meat and it is only now in our modern world we are changing our ideas of their diet, just like we do with our own diets. Dogs cannot live a happy and healthy life without meat. Let's take a look at one of these vegans and what he has to say about feeding his dog a vegan diet.  Let me tell you a little bit about V-Dog, also about Indy, because I think it's important. A lot of people think that dogs are carnivores, which is not true. Dogs are true omnivores and they've been domesticated for the past 11,000 years, so they are a little bit different than their cousins, the wolves and stuff. They do very well on a proper plant-based diet and they actually thrive on a plant-based diet and a lot of the science proves that. He goes to a team of five vets which Indy has gone to for the last eight years now and they agree that he's on the best diet that he can be on. He's doing great on V-Dog and I can't say enough good things about it because the truth is Indy, who's not with me right now, let me put in some B-roll of Indy, Indy had Parvo when I got him as a puppy and I ended up paying a lot of money to save him. He had to go to intensive care overnight for like a week and they had to watch him very closely because Parvo is a very life-threatening virus for dogs and once they come down with symptoms it's usually too late and I didn't know anything about this. So I brought Indy there and I said it doesn't seem right, something doesn't seem right and they said oh he's got Parvo, he has to be positive for Parvo and what Parvo does is it destroys their internal organs and their digestive system and that's what it did. So he wasn't able to digest his food after that for a very long time, not trying to get too graphic here but it was like diarrhea for the next year and I had him on all kinds of medicine that they prescribed, I had him on premium dog foods, vet prescribed foods and nothing seemed to work and when Indy turned one-year-old I decided to go against the wishes of the doctors where he was on vet prescribed formulas and stuff like that and I took him off his medicine and I put him on a vegan formula. I think it was nature's recipe and he immediately got better within a week. He was finally able to digest his food and I thought this was great and then I moved him over to another more premium dog food and he was doing great still but I noticed that he had, he had a pretty bad rash that he always had and he would always bite at it and it was like under in his belly, under belly, near his groin and stuff and it was all red all the time and he'd always be chewing at it so I finally switched him over to V-dog which is a premium dog food, it is a hypoallergenic vegan dog formula and the rash went away and that was, oh I don't know maybe five or six years ago and he's been doing super, super good ever since so he's very healthy, he's eight and a half now, he's about 115 pounds, very smart, very playful and now Zeke or Stark over here is also on it and he loves it, he'll eat his food, like I said he'll eat his food in about two or three seconds more like seven seconds but yeah he eats it very very fast so hopefully we can get something to slow him down there but yeah he seems to really like the food, he's doing well, no digestive problems, hey come on over here, come on over, come on we're talking about you so highly recommend V-dog formula, I do have a promo code for there and just to be transparent here I know a lot of people this is important to people but I'm genuine when I say that this really works, I'm not getting paid for saying this but zombie-dog is a promo code you can use as a first-time customer you will save, I don't know I'm 10-15% on your order, they also have dog treats which I did bring with me, I brought some dog treats for Zeke to try to train him a little bit out here, beautiful day out here so if you guys have any questions you know let me know in the comments below also you can go to their website they have all kinds of articles and different vets you can talk to there or links for that at least let me get this straight he's not getting paid for saying this but he has a promo code that is one hell of a lie this lunatic literally said that dogs can thrive on a plant-based diet and the veterinarians agree with him yeah no shit because your dogs are getting sick as hell and you're paying the veterinarians car payments on their new Mercedes he made his dog sick put it on antibiotics and is apparently sponsored by this V-dog company the ingredients in this dog chow are almost reminiscent of the crap we feed to conventionally raised animals that makes them sick so a vegan feeding this to a dog and then saying factory farming is bad doesn't really make much sense not to mention there's literally dozens and dozens and dozens of laboratory ingredients compounds in this food it's not what we should be consuming no one should consume something that contains dozens and dozens and dozens of ingredients that we don't know the long-term effects of them half of these things are chemicals and the other half are produced in a laboratory and what's even worse is if you go to the testimonial section of this website there's more lunatic vegans justifying that their dogs are happy and healthy yet these dogs don't look too happy in their pictures and I know a lot of I get a lot of hate comments here too a lot of people say why would you you know I know you're vegan that's one thing but why would you force your dog to be on a vegan diet well I guess really if you look at it that way everybody's forcing their dog to be on whatever diet they put them on and I would rather him be on the healthiest diet he can be on than some of the crap that they sell at the store you'd be surprised at the kind of meat that they put in it's like second meat yeah roadkill that I know that some some of the meat and some of the products has euthanized meat in there and then they put it up to high temperatures but then it destroys all the nutrients and stuff so you're better off going with like you know a very fresh organic whole food making your own or finding something like v-dog to give to your dog hold on a second did this guy not look at the ingredient list of the v-dog crap he's feeding to his dog it doesn't get worse than laboratory chemicals and vegetable oils so how can you say that modern dog feed or what they add to it is any worse than what you're feeding your dog how about this one let your dog choose just like you should let your children choose what to eat put a piece of meat in front of the dog and then put a vegetable or fruit or your crappy v-dog chow and see which one they eat don't make the choice for them let nature let the animals natural instincts dictate what food they want to eat do not put words in your dog's mouth do not say how their diet is making them so healthy and happy because you don't know what your dog is thinking you don't speak dog although i'm sure if you could speak dog you would put some dog ears on and a fursuit and go execute with all the dogs because vegans are really just you know i i say it over and over again they just like cute animals it thought nothing 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Welcome, this is Melissa Armell with the Stock Swoosh and I'm reviewing the options newsletter results for the tracking for February, first week of February expiring, February 4th, 2022. Now why am I doing this? I decided to go back and show pretty much all the newsletters for the whole year. I'm not going to do that in live time because obviously you have to sign up and pay for the subscription services if you want to join. And so I decided I will do this retroactively to show the trains that were in the past. January's is up. I did both advanced trader and beginner so people could see if they risk different amounts what the results would be. I often get those questions. So now I'm going to do the month of February advanced trader and risk 2. But I divided them out because there's a lot of trains week by week to go over the results week by week. I also think it is important for people to look at their goals that way. Sometimes you will have a good day, sometimes you will have a bad day, sometimes you'll have a good trade, sometimes you'll have a bad trade. The fact is you can't live and die by one good trade or one bad trade or one bad day. You have to look at everything over the course of week by week, month by month, and year by year. It's one of the reasons why the newsletter is a subscription service that is over a range of time. So I have a six month service and a 12 month service. That gives you a lot of time to get acclimated to the letter, take the trades, and really see the benefits of the service. So again I'm meant to do this actually just like two months ago even. It's August and I just been so busy. But I am finally getting to this and I am going to continue to show all the newsletters for the year. So hopefully by, well it won't be by the end of this year because I won't be showing December's and December's but it'll be well into the beginning of 2023 that I will have shown 12 consecutive months of newsletters. I don't think it should take people that long to make a decision to sign up and you're not going to get any benefit looking at these trades to do them retroactively. You've got to be in the letter to get the trades and in options if you know this, if you traded options, timing is extremely important in options trades too. But I do think it is important to show the trades, how I made the calls ahead of time and then the trades that went on to work and those that did not. And I think that it is important because some people can get a feel for what they would can expect when they sign up and to see how many trades we're doing on any given different periods. Some weeks are busier than others, okay. So this was a week where we had a win ratio of 50% and the average return on investment for this particular week, again 2-4 expiration was 67%. So let's go over it. If you have questions, you can email me. You can always watch me on Fox Business, Fox News and a lot of other channels now as well. But if you have questions, you can email me at MelissaTheStockSwitch.com. You can call me at 929-3200 Gap. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype as well. So everything I do, every pick on this newsletter is based on my Golden Gap Rating System. You will not learn the system signing up for the subscription service. However, you will learn the system in the Golden Gap course. If you want to learn the system and sign up for the newsletter, I think that's the best case scenario for you to understand what's going on. But I do have this subscription service for options where there are no prerequisites. You don't have to have taken any classes of mine to sign up for the newsletter. There are people making money on the newsletter who have never taken one class with me. So that's totally up to you. So let's look at the trades reviewed now for this week. This is a win ratio of 50% for the week. There were five winners, zero break evens, five losers and 10 trades called this week with it again expiring the fourth. And this was an average risk I'm using for advanced trader is 8,000. You can risk more, you can risk less. I will do beginner later. Advanced trader profits for this particular week was $10,425. Average return on investment 67%. So let's take a look at what happened this week. Again, this was 24. I called the BA puts the 195 on the 26. So I called them on Wednesday. Usually I'll call trades in the morning, but this was an afternoon trade. It was the 195 strike expired the fourth. It was a put. I do put the symbol of the strike the expiration date and the type to do. The exit on this was a 28. Cost was $6, 12 contracts. Risk was 7,200. Shoulder 1150 was a profit of 92% return investment of $6,600. I get this question a lot where people say, you know, how long are you in these? It could go on this day. I call it or it could take two days or it could take a week. You know, ideally something will go within 24 to 48 hours. I will say that I will say that if it doesn't, it doesn't mean you have to kill it. You have to decide if you were going to kill a trade in the in the mid-time period, if it's down 50%. Your money management plan is yours. However, I hold everything winter loose, but that's that's something that you could do. I think you will find good results doing that, but you might take a trade. You might take a trade, flip around, be down in it, and it may never go right. And it may go bust and you could have saved 50%. So you really have to look at your risk and see what you can live with as far as holding. Sometimes things take a couple of days. Oh, I will say that. Now, let's look at the chart here in BA. We got to go all the way back to January. Drop, drop, fell, eggs on the 28th. There was a nice move. Boom. Got the drop. Again, a short, a putt is a short. Okay. So again, that was nice. It was a 190 and 195 puts. You can see how that worked. Oh, I have the chart in here. I know I stuck it in here. Here we go. So again, the drop. Apple, the 170 calls expired February 4th. Again, called on the 31st, exit the 31st. This was the Apple calls. 365 for one. 20 contracts cost 7,300. Sulta 525 profit $3,200 return and investment 44%. And this went the day that I called it. So we are on the 31st. So this closed here, gapped up. Here's the run up. And actually, you could have held this. I'm just seeing this now. This continued. Again, you can hold something if you want. This was one that kept going, actually. Yeah. I mean, that looks like that ran all the way up to 176. So you're not always going to get the highest, highest price in the exit. That's impossible to do. Sometimes I do get really good exits, but you tie them the best you can. You look at the targets and be reasonable. What is important is to make money. She could have made more in this, actually. That was a nice move there. Then Microsoft on Wednesday, the 26th, it was the 300 calls. This expired again the 4th. This cost $9. A contracts risk was 7,200. Sulta 1450. Profit was $4,400. Return investment 61%. So this was one that was a long. So again, the 26th. Oh, yeah. Here was this one here. So again, this didn't exactly work the way anticipated it though, to be honest with you. Close to your gapped up, had somewhat of a move. It was positive. It didn't go as fast as I wanted it to or as big as I wanted it to. I mean, it was positive though. Yep. That was that one. Again, it was the 300 calls. If this had, again, time has let you with options, you could see where it went. It went through the strike. If it had gone faster, it would have been worth way more. Like the day I called it on the second day. Do you know what I mean? But it still was positive. So that was that one. MCD was a 240 puts expired on the 4th. This did not work at all. This was a total bust. Again, this is one where you could have saved money and killed it mid-range bound. It just never, never did anything right. This was on the 27th. I don't know why this didn't work right. Should have worked. Again, just one of those ones that didn't work right here. This sold off in here. You can see it. It took, it went later. Yeah. It was lower. Just didn't act right on that one particular day. That was unfortunate. Then we did the BA puts 185. This was Friday the 28th. This did not work out too. 525, 1578, 75. The whole thing did not work out. What happened here? 127. Again, we are on the 27th. Don't work down. That should have worked out too. Just looking at that. Actually, if I'd gotten in that the day before it would have worked. So it started to go. I didn't get out. It wasn't up enough. Wasn't up enough to get out of my opinion. So actually, this was up. You could have made money on it. You can see where it dropped in here. I thought that this would go further and it didn't. That's when it reversed. Yeah. So this was one you could have like scalped it actually within the first 24 hours. Q's 340 strike expired to four puts. Let's look at the 340s. This did not work. A 20 was for one. So 10 was 8,200. This did not work. This was on the 28th. Ran up. Tried to fall here right for the expiration failed based out. We ended up falling later in the month. I knew we were lower here, but it couldn't do it right. So that was the 340s. This one lost. It's 5,427 puts again same day Friday early in the morning right out of the gate 750 again did not work. This was the same same tray with the Q's like I can tell it right off the top of my head. What happened here? Same one here just didn't go right. Reversed based out fell later. Then the Facebook 290s. This was 128 and then went on to 3 was a huge one. The cost was $9. A contract's risk was 7,200 sold at 50 bucks. This really made the whole week actually. So I called this on Friday morning the same day I had called the Q's and the spy 32,800 profit return investment 456% which is here. So this made the whole week. Let's take a look at the chart. Oh, I remember what happened with this. This was the earnings. That's right. That's right. So this trade when I called it reversed and was down. So you had I mean by holding it through the earnings which is not something I don't normally take a trade into earnings. In this case, I didn't plan on holding it through the earnings. The trade was down. You couldn't have lost any more than what you risk with an option. So you had to hold it because you could have made money. Like you weren't going to lose more than you're going to lose because it was totally down. Here's a reversal after the trade was calm and then it went and that's why that works so well. That's right. Gosh, it seems like so long ago. This was up here the night before on the earnings. It was around 320. You can see how it reversed. So it was so far through the strike at that point. It was a short. It rallied up then it collapsed on the earnings. Seems like again a long time ago 240 and again it was the 290 puts. So that worked and the earnings were were before the expiration date which was Friday and actually if you held it into even Friday, you could have made more. But the point was that trade didn't set up right the first day or the second day to exit it with profit. Earnings came out and then boom, it worked in our favor. There are times that will happen if you do the trades and let them play out. That's one of the reasons I tell people to let things play out. In this case though, it was a planned plan to do it into the earnings, but it did work out for all the best. Then the spy was 425s on Friday the 28th. This didn't work out. Again, this was a put too. This was a time when everyone thought the market was just going to push back right up higher and then it didn't do it. It didn't do it. Again, this was that same Friday had the reversal based down dropped at the end of February. February ended up being a good month of short but not right of ways not right out of the gate. People were buying the dips. The UPS 220s, this was an earnings one. This was a call. This was on Tuesday. It was a small winner just in and out. This didn't work exactly the way I wanted to even though it was a small game. Sometimes you get out of something right before the day of expiration if it's up. If it's just something that's going to make it 950 for one, 8 was 7600. You could have made 1200 bucks with this risk. Let's see what happened. This just did not work right. I don't know why. Sometimes things don't work right and there isn't any reason and you can't kill yourself over it. You really can't. You do the best you can. Here was the gap. Closed here, gapped up. Again, ran up here and then couldn't get going. It was a positive trade but it was extremely expensive and you couldn't get out of it with money. What time did we do this? I was before I opened. That was expensive because I called it early and then it opened way past the strike. You can see where it opened at 225 there. Again, if you manage the trades to kill everything at 50% or scout everything, get out of everything the first day if it's positive the first day, that's one way to play it. That isn't what I do though. If you have a small account, you want to do that. It condenses your losses and you have fast gains but you will miss trades like Facebook. You will miss trades that go big. You will miss the big winners and you will also take losses and trades that go into work later in the week. That is something that you will have to make a decision with yourself. If you'd like to sign up, the Gap Options newsletter annual subscription, which is 12 months, is $69.99. Everyone pays the same. It's 12 months of the letter. Trades are emailed to you in live time, most are set in the morning and most are set before the open. You can email me at melissathestoxswish.com to sign up. Again, sign up for only half annual. This is six months. I offer for $49.99. This is actually a great deal. It's five grand to get six months in the letter. This is going to take you into early 2023. So, you sign up now. You're just going to take into January 2023. That's plenty of time. Plenty of time to get in the letter, plenty of time to follow the trades, and plenty of time to make money. So, this was, again, first week of February expiration. I will do the consecutive weeks in February.  I'm trying to take it step by step to do that. Again, we're doing them retroactive because I do not want people to take the trains. They must sign up for either one of these subscriptions to pay to get the trades. I also do not have any trial. So, please do not ask me. This letter is like goal. If you do not know how to place an options trade, I'm not teaching people how to do that. You must get that information from your broker. This is where you're getting the actual newsletter like I showed you. If you're familiar with how to place an options trade on your platform, then you're good to go to do it because we're just doing straight calls puts based on momentum trades. These are longs or shorts and it's based on the gap. If you have any other specific questions, feel free to email me again at MelissaTheStockSwitch.com and have a great day everyone.