Have you been feeling different than your usual self lately? Maybe you've been irritable or unhappy almost every day for a good while and it's really impacting your life and relationships. Mental illness can be harder to identify than physical illness, since you don't just feel a pain to signal something being wrong. If not caught early on, it's possible for you to continue to sink deeper into this negative mental health space. This is why learning science that you may be struggling with your mental health is so important.   Number one, emotion and personality inconsistencies. Have you noticed yourself doing some odd things? Maybe a friend has pointed out some things you've said or done that aren't totally on brand. This could take the form of changes in mood. Perhaps you know yourself to be calm and even tempered, but lately you've been feeling irritable or anxious most of the time. Maybe you experience extreme highs or bouts of joy, but also extreme lows or episodes of deep sadness or anger. It can also look like laughing at inappropriate moments or feeling extremely angry at small inconveniences. According to the Mayo Clinic, emotions that feel excessive or disproportionate to the matter at hand can also be a sign. This can include excessive anxiety, fear, anger, guilt, sadness or happiness when not completely appropriate. These feelings can take an emotional toll on you as it's exhausting to feel so much so deeply and so frequently. If you've been experiencing persistent or excessive heightened emotions or have even said done or felt things that you wouldn't normally, then you may be battling a mental illness. Engaging in unsafe behavior. In 2019, a group of UK researchers found that symptoms of depression can be accompanied with additional symptoms. Right, like regular symptoms aren't bad enough.   You may find yourself caring less about your appearance and skipping the grooming session. Mental illness can cause you to have also developed physically unhealthy habits such as eating or sleeping significantly more or less than usual. Sure, eating a large meal or even skipping a meal is fine once in a while. Of course, sleeping in and having a lazy day once in a blue moon is also fine. But you may be doing so in a way that has become bad for your nutrition and overall health. This also may extend to engaging in dangerous or risky behaviors such as substance abuse or self-harm. This may not merely be a sign of laziness or being adventurous, but instead a sign that you're struggling with your mental health. Number three, social withdrawal. Another sign to take note of is withdrawal. Have you lost interest in activities that you used to enjoy? Have you dropped your school, extracurricular or work obligations? Perhaps you've found that you can't quite bring yourself to keep up with them. It's also possible that you've withdrawn from social engagements. Have you been declining invites or cancelling arrangements to spend time with friends or family? Perhaps you've been acting more closed off and spending too much time alone. This isn't you being rude or introverted. If you have significantly withdrawn from these activities and interactions in your life, you may be struggling with a mental illness. Number four, illogical thoughts. Have you been having difficulties with focusing, remembering things or making decisions? Has it become harder to tie your thoughts together and express them? Mental illness can also affect your ability to concentrate and use logic to think through things. You might notice these changes while you go about your day, as it's possible for these to affect your performance in school, work or even simple household tasks. It can be difficult to pinpoint the cause of these changes in thinking or to even notice them at all. Because mental illness can make the mind feel foggy and unclear. The American Psychiatry Association gives us examples of these illogical thoughts, such as having an overwhelming suspicion or fear of someone or something when no threat is posed. Having an illogical or exaggerated belief that you have powers, that you can influence events or showing signs of magical thinking. An example of this could be a child who believes that if he wears purple socks, his parents won't fight. Do any of these signs remind you of anyone you know? This could be a sign they're battling mental illness and need to seek the proper support. And number five, romanticizing negative emotion. Sadness is a part of life and everyone feels it from time to time. However, battling a deep sadness that feels endless and seeps into every crack of your life is a completely different story. This is a sadness that you may not even know the exact cause of and can seem nearly impossible to escape. Such sadness can lead to feeling hopeless and can make you feel like giving up. This can take the form of numbly letting the days pass by, no longer caring for yourself and not even doing the most basic of tasks. This can also take the form of more active thoughts of taking your own life. If you're experiencing such feelings, this is a warning sign that you're battling serious mental health issues. And you need to seek professional help immediately. What you're feeling doesn't have to be permanent. According to the DSM-5, symptoms of mental illness must cause clinically significant distress or impairment in your social life, work or school or other important aspects of life. These signs can vary in severity and frequency, depending on the individual. To most, feeling that overwhelming sadness may sound agonizing. But believe it or not, there are some who love being sad or even find comfort in the sadness. Based on a 2020 study done on early signals of mental illness, participants who held a special significance to words related to sadness and perception, typically were diagnosed with some sort of mental illness. Remember, one sign or another here and there is normal. Having a reasonable level of negative emotion in a negative situation is normal. When it begins to negatively affect life and relationships, it becomes a warning signal, just like your stomach hurting. For these reasons, it's important to reach out to a professional for a complete diagnosis. If you or anyone you know could be struggling with their mental health, please don't hesitate to reach out to a qualified mental health care provider. If you're feeling depressed or contemplating suicide, please remember that you are not alone and things can change. We've included suicide hotlines in the video description below.


Troy, your most recent news release appears to be extraordinary, but I'm going to need you to explain it to me. Drilling results in Quebec, yes? Yeah, yeah, very, very strong results, Tracy. And I would say not just this release, but this release is a culmination of releases from our summer exploration program at Bardifer. As you know, is a zone of nickel, copper, cobalt mineralization located on the north shore of Lake Superior in Quebec. And what the intention, the full intention of this summer program was from a drilling perspective, it was to expand and extend that known zone of mineralization. Overall, right from the first hole, which was very strong, right through to the 10th hole, which ended off the program very strongly, we did that. So we expanded mineralization at depth, we expanded mineralization on strike, so in both directions to the north and to the south, and continued to hit high-grade nickel, copper, cobalt mineralization. This is for everyone at Investor Intel that's going, huh, we got a critical minerals play here for all intense purposes. Again, nickel, copper, and cobalt, yes? It, exactly. Yeah, you look at, you know, look at nickel, the nickel market right now is, it is very, very much undersupplied. And you look at the demand profile going forward, especially class one nickel. And when I talk about class one nickel, all that really means is that's a nickel that is required to make batteries for electric vehicles, or batteries in general. And class one nickel, you look out to 2030, some projections say that you're going to need 600% more class one nickel. And where you get class one nickel from is nickel sulfide deposits, which is which, which is what we have at HPM, which is what Bartifer is. So in reading your 2022 summer drilling program results, can you tell us what your infrastructure is like in Quebec, where these results were found? Yeah, the project itself, HPM, it's in the Manic Wagon region. And it's on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River. So it's north of, it's north of Bacomo or Septille, south of Fremont. And that area has fantastic infrastructure. And what I mean by that is it has road access. It doesn't only have road access, it has rail. And very importantly, that rail goes down to the North Shore of the St. Lawrence to a deep water port. And it also has hydroelectric facilities. So there's a hydroelectric facility, the Hartjoon hydroelectric facility within kilometers of the project. So all of the critical pieces of infrastructure, road, rail, and power are within kilometers of the HPM project. And so for those of you reading this news release going PXRF, if I read this properly, this is a portable X-ray fluorescence technology. So you might have more than just nickel, cobalt and copper, because that's all it's actually can identify. Did I read that correct? Yeah, well, so that's what we're analyzing for. So you know, a PXRF, it's a common instrument that's used in our business to get field level results or an indication of results. How we've applied the PXRF is in a different way, I would say in a more progressive way, where we stood up a completely unbiased sampling process. And that unbiased sampling process, the samples are then analyzed with the PXRF. And that's how we compile this data to then be able to communicate it to the market. But it's also important for us internally, because it allows us to continue to progress our work and not have to have our team at a standstill waiting for lab results. So we can continue to work on the results, we can continue to interpret, we can continue to model, we can continue those critical path elements internally and not be at a standstill waiting for lab results. Of course, I'm aware of your formidable background, technical background, very senior technical background. I know you're dying to tell us some of the highlights from a technical perspective. Would you mind hitting on those starting with the fact, of course, these results were very near surface. Just give us the technical highlights, please. Yeah, the technical highlights, here we go. Yeah, starting with the most recent, BDF 10, 2210, which is the last rule that we put out, had 20 meters, over 20 meters of 1.27 percent nickel equivalent. And that's starting at 29 meters downhole. So 29 meters downhole is, that's the end zone, and that's from the blue line in a hockey rink. That's pretty shallow, and that's exactly what we want, right? Because you have shallow accumulations, near-surface accumulations of high-grade mineralization, and that leads us to believe that Bar-Defer has the potential to be open pit amenable, or amenable to open pit mining or open pit extraction, which is definitely a net positive from a project development perspective, from a cost perspective. Now, these results, they come following very strong results overall from this summer drill program.  You look within that interval, that's eight meters of 3.38 percent nickel equivalent, which, Tracy, nickel grades, not everyone has a good feel for nickel grades. If you were to put that eight-meter interval into a copper equivalent, that would be over 10 percent copper. Our strongest hole of the program, which was one of the strongest holes drilled globally in the nickel exploration space in 2022, was BDF 02. That hole hit 121 meters of massive, semi-massive disseminated sulfide mineralization, 121 meters at 1.39 percent nickel equivalent, or if you put that into a copper perspective, that's over 121 meters at 4 percent copper equivalent. Very, very strong results, very high grade, continue to demonstrate continuity in terms of grade, in terms of mineralization, and really significantly expand the vartifer zone of mineralization at depth and on strike. Really importantly, it remains completely open, and when I mean completely open, there is room for expansion on strike, there's room for expansion at depth, and it's unconstrained by drilling. That sets up a natural progression. Where do we go from here? We continue to expand vartifer. Further to this, I'll be honest with our investor intel audience. I took your several pages of charts and threw them over to Dean Bristow and Peter Clausi and Byron King and said, what do these mean? All the responses were very favorable, so you have a lot of highlighted numbers here. Which one are you most proud of? When you look at, I just highlighted some numbers from vartifer 02. That was the second hole we pulled on the program, that 121 meters. That's a phenomenal, very material intersection of nickel-bearing sulphide mineralization. You look at that from a couple of perspectives. One is the grade and the thickness of that mineralization, but the other thing that's important is the type of mineralization. Getting a bit deep into the technical weeds here, but talking about a magmatic sulphide system. We're seeing loop textures within the sulphides, which is an indication for how those sulphides form. How those sulphides form based off the textures that we're seeing is truly from a magmatic system. What that says to me is, look for scale. Magmatic systems have the potential to be highly scalable. That leads us to the other aspects of what we did this summer, which was a significant prospecting program at HPM as well as regional geophysics. You can start to see where we're at. We're expanding vartifer, expanding a known zone of mineralization, moving that forward into a resource estimation stage. We have a number of near-surface or at-surface occurrences of nickel-bearing sulphide mineralization on a trend. Stacking up a number of targets on a trend, and then we also flew our regional geophysics for the remaining portion of the property, which highlighted a significant number of EM or electromagnetic anomalies on the site, which we in our exploration model equate to imaging those systems or those near-surface sulphide bearing mineralization systems that we're interested in. It goes from resource, building out a resource at vartifer with a pipeline of de-risk exploration targets at HPM, which will demonstrate the camp scale potential that I was just mentioning. For those of you interested in learning more about these results and reviewing these drill results, which there's a lot of bolded ones here, Troy, please go to their website and or email their team. Thank you, Troy. Thank you very much.


Hi, this is Brad from A&U and you may have heard that this thing, Tiangong-1, or the Heavenly Palace, the first Chinese space station is coming back to the Earth. And it's actually designed to land in the ocean, but it may enter a bit early and it may break apart in the Earth's atmosphere. Now, it's unlikely that any of these pieces are going to land near your house. You're actually more likely to win the lottery multiple times and have any of this hit near you. But if you are in an area where you can see it, you'll enjoy a nice light show just as in the ending of the movie Gravity. So go outside if you happen to be near it and enjoy a remarkable yet common thing that happens in the Earth.


I just wanted to sit down and talk about this month for a little bit March was truly special and it was very eventful The best thing about March I guess was our ladies coats sixth anniversary It's been six years since we debuted and I just want to say thank you to all our fans for the support and love that you guys have shown us for the past six years and Just I don't know what to say besides thank you and that we are truly so grateful I think if we're celebrating our sixth anniversary with us by tuning into our V live and sending us Cakes and letters and presents and stuff like that. We love you so much. So thank you and Peniel's birthday was also in March and we tried to surprise him for his birthday Didn't turn out the way we expected it's kind of a fail But still we had a lot of fun and another eventful thing was that we Performed on immortal songs. It's been a while since the three of us got together on a really big stage So this was a pretty big deal for us And the end of March was basically spent practicing and preparing for this Which will be coming out on April 13th. So if you guys get the chance, please check out our performance on immortal songs and Yeah, of course as usual hanging out with Joan beans is always a blast I know since they're monthly vlogs, they're a bit longer, but I hope you guys will still have fun watching this So without further ado, let's get started with the March vlog The air surrounding us right now is just so hazy. It almost looks like fog, but it's not fog. It's all dust Wait, don't you have a YouTube channel too? Are you like I'm trying to Subscribe to our channel. It'll be right here. Right here. Yeah, Hannah Jin Young Moon About the kimchi fried rice, we got the katsu, sandal, the mapo ragu and egg noodles. It's a lot of food We kind of killed it.  We have sweet potato croissants here We got a green tea latte and black sesame ice cream Bonsi I'm at radio now. We started a new season yesterday here on sound k and we have yuna joining us today So i'm really excited about that. We are live. We're listening to a song right now and i'll see my sails Hello I'm so happy to be back. I am you don't know how happy I am like She is actually No seriously how happy you are because this is like the most happiest i've seen you since we did sound k together You don't even seem that happy back then Rebecca from australia says so glad to have you back with this yuna I can't wait to see the three of you talking about anything and it is march 7 ladies codes Sixth year anniversary today. I just came out of the shop We got our hair and makeup done because we are doing vlive tonight Usually if it's not like a special occasion, we'll just do our own hair and makeup But we wanted to look pretty for our fans for our sixth year anniversary My pants are way too tight today. I couldn't really eat anything. So i'm eating this right now It's only 50 calories for this peach konjac jelly I'm working on my new york vlog right now And i'm just watching some tutorials on youtube just how to color grade and Add some effects to your videos on final cup pro because you know I kind of want to spice up my videos and make it esthetically pleasing But i'm so confused i'm just watching this tutorial on youtube and i'm just like what This is the video i'm watching example here. I have three clips So what i'm going to do is i'm going to take this base correction and drag it till the end I'm going to click these to get the desired look we're going for I'm going to begin introducing teal into my shot is looking very green I'm going to take my global slider and i'm going to bring it down in the screen channel to remove that green look Oh, you're looking so hip today christine. Hi. Hi guys. We're like dressed to the total opposite. I know Christine and I are at akujung real deal right now. We're gonna go to a cafe first And we wanted to check out this new cafe right here land of butterfly and creamers Cormorous cormorous.  Yay Let's go Is it closed Okay, never mind everyone. It's closed. They're all out of bread for today Oh So many wants to get bookie You got to get the shape so we can get a free one. I used to eat this all the time after school in third grade. I feel like people know what this is, but it's like sugar with baking soda Like when you eat it, it's kind of like airy and like crunchy That's like really good. That's basically what it is burnt sugar, but it's like a good kind of burning, you know And it used to be a very popular snack for both our parents and our generation when we were younger in Elementary school back then for me. This was 300 ones so 30 cents Yeah Yeah, so none is still really cheap We have my childhood I was doing such a good job too It's okay after 30 minutes of searching.  Yeah, I couldn't do all the hanyak. It's like down about Pengsu Go on in Jeremy.  How do you like cook dilated by this? Electrious determinimus Hey destroying angel. Wow A shaggy cap Ox tongue. Well, that does look like that. I should try saying this one Tricholoma portentosum We sound like Harry Potter Some spells I want to live here The buckwheat place we wanted to go to is not opened yet. So christine wants a hype bae shot I'm here. I'm here to take photos for you all. I'm back. Yes. I already got my alpha shot It's for her OOTT It smells good Jalapeno Oh Jalapeno. I love Jalapeno. Jonesman of Sausage sounds these days This is real potato. I'm getting this Yeah, I want to see I want to see you guys's reaction My dog Yeah, it tastes like a poor fried hash brown. Okay guys. I'm gonna end it because I want to try it It's been about three months since I got my hair done And of course the gray is all gone now, but I just wanted to get the roots touched up a little bit I'm still debating if I should trim my hair or not, but I don't know. Probably not. Yeah, not much today The leopard robe is on. I really like this color though. I'm reaching my hair today, but I'll actually be dyeing the top of my hair Sugar I'll take this. We're all getting our hairs done today It's a reunion. I'm done dyeing my hair. I didn't finish styling it yet, but now it's time to do my nails And there's a nail shop right here. So Oh, thank you. Oh, thank you, Jones. Like Ashley getting her nails done. It's been a while split off like last time vlog I can't include the footages from tomorrow in there since the actual performance isn't gonna air till april So I think I'm gonna just make a separate video on our experience at immortal songs So stay tuned for that started coming off on the side a little bit And I couldn't stand looking at it dangling just kind of ripped the side off And I swear this morning All my gel nails were intact except that little piece that was dangling off and now a few hours later. They're all off It's just not get gel nails anymore. It's just not worth it and just about to Put some manicure on right now yellow greenish color from etude house. Today's actually the day after our Immortal songs performance. So I have nothing today except radio I would usually go to practice, but I'm just relaxing at home today I have about two hours till I go to radio. So I'm just gonna do my nails and get ready. Hopefully I won't have to use the bathroom because It's gonna get messed up. It's dark, but you know with uh in my life the experience I've had in my life I'm even I read that I'm like, of course. Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah pairing it down But one is the analytical thinking deciding thing and done with my nails It looks very yellow On the screen, I'm gonna show you guys far away because it looks really bad. It's line green ish Hi guys, I'm currently on my way to the tanning shop right now. I haven't gone since Here we are back then I went for like five sessions and then I thought it was good enough So I stopped then I got so pale again Um, I was like, okay time to tan again Some of you guys might be like, why are you tanning? But I don't know I used to be so dark when I used to live back in the states And it was natural because I spent so much time outside But after I came to korea because I'm almost always indoors. I never see the sunlight So I just look like a vampire now and I just prefer being a little on the dark side I have to use artificial tanning machines to do that for myself, which is sad, but Summer is coming up. So I am prepared myself And I'm going to this tanning shop called Ibiza. They have chains all across korea But I used to go to the one in Apgujeong Back in 2014 when we were preparing for kiss kiss because remember guys, I was really dark back then too We found a closer one that was near our dorm and I go to the one at Dongdaemun now. So yeah, we're here and I'll take you guys with me This is the machine I'll be going into Looks very cool.  It's usually a tendo You know this top I'll be inside dancing to the music while tanning fully naked All right All right, I am done with my first session I wanted to film in there, but the music was just too loud and I was afraid I was going to get copyrighted They give me a towel.


District 2's fun walk returned after a two-year hiatus as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing over a thousand students who danced and sang along as they made their way across the world network connecting Lance Road, San Susi and Barnard Hill. The event was created some 14 years ago with the intention of encouraging students to adopt healthier lifestyles so that they may have the best possible education experience. An officer for District 2, Merlin Polymers Innocent, emphasized the need for students to pay close attention to that connection. Our children enjoy themselves, our principals worked, our teachers worked, we the DEO worked, our minister worked, it is an opportunity for the children to see the benefits of exercise because we all know that exercise is very beneficial to a healthy lifestyle. Vice Chairman of District 2's Sports Committee, Micah Alexander, says the activity is particularly significant, especially as most of the sporting events of the district will be held during the second term. Well, second term is actually known for athletics and so given that we're commencing with our fun work it leads straight into our individual school sports meets and of course our field event segment, well of course we're going to have our cricket ball through activities which will be following up quite soon. Education Minister Hon. Sean Edward took pleasure in supporting District 2's activity, impressing on the importance for the young ones to continue to be physically active to help fight chronic and non-communicable diseases. As you know, Saint Lucia, as a small country we have a lot of chronic non-communicable diseases that our people have to live with on a daily basis and it is costing the government of Saint Lucia a lot of money to procure medication and to provide care for those persons and the health practitioners have said to us that quite apart from being able to go to the doctor on a regular basis to seek medical care prevention is always the better option. Nutritionists from the Ministry of Health one hand to promote an ongoing campaign to get school children more knowledgeable on the choices of beverages to help avoid an overload of sugar which over time can lead to metabolic illnesses. Saint Lucia has been recorded as having one of the highest rates of diabetes in the region and indeed the world. Well, research has shown that the excessive intake of added sugars can cause obesity in children and obesity is associated with chronic conditions, chronic diseases so we see it fitting because we realize that children consume so much sugary beverages and we see it fitting so that we can educate them because we want our nation to be healthy especially our children. The Ministry of Health has been meeting with officials from the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Commerce as well as other stakeholders aimed at finding the correct approach in reducing the purchase and consumption of beverages with high sugar content in schools on the island. The 2023 District 2 fun work was held under the theme building healthy bodies to sustain energetic minds. From the communications unit of the Ministry of Education Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training I am Chris Sutney reporting.


Hi everybody, let's talk about the pepperoniaca perrata. Okay, coming up. What I love about this plant is the color of the leaves. The pepperoniaca perrata has hard-shaped leaves with a dark, deep green color. The green becomes even darker and deeper as we go to the interior part of the leaf, almost black. And as you go more to the exterior part of the leaf, we have a lighter green. We also get an undertone of purple, really dark purple, which I think is really pretty. This plant usually flowers between the summer and the fall. So if it flowers for us, of course I will show you. But I found some pictures and it looks like this. When it has fully grown, the pepperoniaca perrata measures about 25 centimeters. So it is on the smaller side of the spectrum. Oh, and pepperonias have succulent leaves. So they retain lots of water in the leaves, which we will come back to when we are talking about watering. Okay, so now let's see how we can keep this plant healthy and happy at home. The pepperoniaca perrata will be happy with normal household temperatures. Just make sure that you don't leave them in a room that is lower than 13 degrees Celsius because this is too cold for them. Although they're closer to the succulent side of the spectrum, these plants love humidity. So we want to keep humidity levels high. I have this one in our bedroom, but we have two humidifiers at the moment. So the humidity levels are about 50 to 60%. And she seems to be very happy there. So a humidifier should be really good. Just don't put her so close to the humidifier because we don't want the leaves to be really wet. We just want humidity around her. The pepperoniaca perrata is darker and it needs less sunlight than her variegated cousins. I have seen that this one likes lower light conditions. I have her in a room with a north facing window and granted I have some grow lights there, but the light is not on her so much. So I would say that this one gets low light and she seems to like it. With this plant, we really want to prevent over watering. And as I said, this plant is closer to the succulent side of the spectrum, which means that the leaves really retain lots of water. As you can see, the leaves of the pepperomia are very thick. This is because they retain water and moisture inside. So when we think about water, we really want to make sure that we let the soil dry in between watering. So in order to prevent over watering, I would strongly recommend to check the soil with our finger. Once you feel that the soil has dried out, then you can water. One pretty telling sign that you're over watering your plant is if it is losing the leaves, especially if they become yellow before dropping. This is a very good sign that you're over watering your plant. So remember, always let the soil dry in between waterings and then you can water. Now, also more rare, we can also underwater this plant, in which case you will see that the leaves are gonna lose the color and become thinner and more soft. If you see this, first check the soil to make sure that it is dry. And if it is too dry, you may be under watering your plant, so just provide some water for her. And if you know me, you know that I love the bottom watering method. This method is also perfect for this plant because we make sure that the water gets into the roots from below. But then once I'm done, I take the plant out of the water and I let the excess water drain down through the drainage holes. That way I make sure that the pouring mix is moist but not super wet, which is very important for this plant. And it helps us prevent root rot. Only fertilize your plant during the growing season which usually is from spring to fall. I try to use organic fertilizers because these come more diluted than synthetic fertilizers. And they help me prevent over fertilizing my plant. Make sure that you always read the instructions and always observe your plant. That way you will know if she's happy or she's not so happy with the fertilizer. I have read that some signs that we're over fertilizing our peperomia caperata is if you see that the leaves are getting softer, so not so solid like this one. Or if you see some abnormal growths, this will cause the plant to collapse. So always observe your plant and make sure that she's happy with the fertilizer that you're providing to her, which usually should be in the growing season every two weeks or every month even, depending on the fertilizer that you provide. Potting mix is a very important factor when it comes to the care of this plant. Remember, we want to prevent over watering. So for our potting mix, we wanna provide one that has good drainage. This can be an all-purpose house plant potting mix but always make sure that it comes with perlite. This will increase the drainage. You can also add it yourself or add pumice. And another thing that you can do to increase drainage is to add some rocks at the bottom of the pot. This will help the excess water drain down even further. Do you have any other tips for this beautiful plant? Make sure to comment below so we can all learn together. And as always, I will see you in the next video. Okay, ciao.


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I'm Brian May in our Cal OES studio. We've still been getting a lot of questions from you about the right of entry forms that need to be signed before the state can come on and remove debris from your property that's been affected by the recent wildfires. A lot of questions still concern who you talk to if you're not sure what these right of entry forms are, where you go to get them, and why is there now a deadline in order for you to sign them? Well, this morning I had a chance to talk to Mark Gillarducci, the director of Cal OES, and he has some very clear and precise answers about the ROE process, how it works, who you talk to if you have questions about them, and who you absolutely should talk to before you sign these forms. Very clear answers that will help a lot of you with your questions. Here's our interview with Mark Gillarducci. Mark, first of all, thanks for joining us. You've been at this a long time. Describe to me now where we are in this very long recovery process. Yeah, good morning. So the big focus has been, of course, shortly after the fires were contained, was to get a good handle on not just the number of people that were impacted, but really what their needs were gonna be. So we've actually approached this in a few phases. The first phase, of course, was trying to get people into immediate shelters and then ultimately into some temporary rentals and or other kinds of maybe mobile homes or mobile shelters. And that's been moving forward. The other phase was, of course, to start to get the community cleaned up. And that was really to get this debris operation, debris removal operation started. That's been underway for some time now, last few weeks. It starts off with going out and removing all the household hazardous waste. We're talking hazardous materials, propane, pesticides, paints, other chemicals. And that's been a concerted effort and a partnership effort between the Department of Toxic Subjects Control, which is a state agency and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. And we've split the counties that have been impacted up for the various agencies to go in and do that. And that's really the first phase and that's been going very, very well. We've actually are ahead of schedule with regards to cleaning up the household hazardous waste. And that's really key because once you get that household hazardous waste cleaned up, it clears the way for the debris removal teams to come in and remove all of that fire debris with the intent to get the lot cleaned and cleared and hazard-free so that it can be ready to build on. And of course, to get that process going, there's a requirement that each homeowner sign a right of entry agreement that allows the government to go in and begin to remove that debris from their respective property. And those right of entry forms, what we call ROEs, are very critical. And what we did is we set the date of November the 13th as the date to really get those ROEs in. And that's an important date because, and that's an important action because it really does focus everyone in being able to get those signed and allows us to get that debris operation in a comprehensive way moving forward. It's really important that the sooner we can get the debris cleared from these lots, the faster we can begin the recovery process within the community. People can feel like they're beginning the recovery process. There is action taking place. We are moving forward. And we are very cognizant that we are entering into winter. This is going to be a factor. So we're trying to move as expeditiously as possible to get this program started and get as many of these lots cleared. And of course, we have set a metric with the debris contract teams to be able to get these lots cleared by early 2018. And it's a combination effort between state agency CalRecycle, part of the California Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which we have tasked them through our partners at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Hundreds have signed the ROE, the Rite of Entry Forms. For those that are still debating, should I sign this form or try and get my lot cleaned up on my own? Can you talk to that and why the ROEs are important? Yeah, I mean, you know, look, the first line of defense and that anybody should do is once you have a case like this, is you need to call your insurance company and you need to make contact with your insurance adjuster and have them let you know what your insurance covers. Some cases, people have insurance in their policy, a debris removal portion that will allow for them to hire a private contractor to come in and remove the debris from their property and their insurance will cover the cost. We have no problem with that and that is everyone's right to do that and we encourage you to do that as soon as possible. We know that there are a lot of insured homeowners in the fire area, but in many cases, we find that people are either underinsured, I should say, or they don't include a debris portion of their policy or the third option is that the debris portion of their policy is very low and the cost to clean up would exceed. So what your first line of action should be is to check with your insurance company. If you don't have insurance or you're underinsured or you choose to go to the state program, this is at no charge to you, the homeowner, and it allows us to come in and we will do all of this debris removal operation. It's done in a comprehensive way. We make sure that your lot is certified, clean and safe by state environmental protection standards and it's one of these situations where you, if you're lost your home, you're focusing on rebuilding your life, your records, trying to work through the impacts of this, allowing us to come in and clean that debris in one fell swoop. It's really better for you and it's better for the community at large in that it is really the most rapid way of doing it. And if you do have a little insurance, if you have insurance proceeds that are directly attributed to debris, the state does work with your insurance company to recoup those specific costs for the debris to help offset the cost. So even if you have insurance and you have a debris piece of that policy, the state can still come in. After you sign your right of entry form, we can still come in and do that work and then we will work with your insurance company to recoup just the portion that are associated with debris. You mentioned encouraging people to talk to their insurance agents. People whose houses have burned during these fires have a lot of questions. So aside from talking to insurance agents, I know you've set up centers around the infected areas or impacted areas for people who have questions to go to these local assistance centers. Can you talk about just getting out and asking questions? Yeah, that's really important. There's several things a way we're trying to get the message out to people. The first is that there has been, since shortly after the fire, local assistance centers set up in your community. These are centers that include local, state and federal, maybe some non-governmental organizations that allow you to go in and sit with those various state, local and federal agencies to talk about all of the various aspects that are required that you, you know, I mean, who knows really what to do if you lose your home in a catastrophic way. These folks are there to sit and sit with you and walk you through the process. The other important thing is, is that this is a major disaster declaration by the president. We encourage you to register with FEMA. Even if you're insured, please register with FEMA and get into the process. You may receive a letter that says that you're an eligible, but if you look below the eligible portion, there are a number of bullet points that you're gonna wanna come back to FEMA. The average is three or four times when you're working with FEMA to be able to work through all these things because once you determine what your insurance covers and doesn't cover, FEMA again can come in and assist you in some way. So it's important that you go to the Local Assistance Center and you register with FEMA and you sit with all of the different state and local agencies that can help you work through it. There's also agencies that are there that will immediately rebuild your records, provide a new license, give you new auto registration. There's people from the Franchise Tax Board and other IRS to be able to deal with your lost records. The other thing is once the Local Assistance Center's closed, FEMA continues on with these assistance centers that will be in the community for the long-term. They're called disaster recovery centers and they're being stood up throughout all of the communities that have been impacted by the fire now so that those long-term centers will be a one-stop shop for you to go in and sit with FEMA and the other state agencies and talk about what your needs are. Mark, I know you've been out in the communities almost nonstop since the fires began. You've met with state, local, federal officials. You've been at community meetings all the time. What are you hearing from people and how are you answering those questions?  It's hard. I had family that was evacuated and impacted by this disaster. This is beyond professional. It's personal. We have a number of people that are here in the state operations center or have responded to the field. Many of some of our employees have been impacted or lost their homes. We're all in this together. And so we hear the concerns. We have really, and we will continue to lean as forward as possible, attending town hall meetings, providing external information, clarifying any questions that people may have until people don't have any more questions. And that is that through the town hall meetings and through the media outlets, we're trying to get the messages out. But, you know, and we're even working with our partners at FEMA to have teams go out and meet with people where they congregate, shopping centers, churches, other places, schools, to be able to share information and technical data so that they're as informed as possible. Information is key here, and we wanna make people as informed and as empowered as possible to make the right decisions as they move forward. One of the messages that is becoming clear after these fires have now been contained is that the recovery process is moving quicker than it has in many previous natural disasters. Talk about why the speed of this this time. Well, I think that you've got, you know, we've got great partners at FEMA, FEMA Region 9, the administrator and I go back many years. We've managed many disasters. You know, we have, we deal with a lot of disasters in California, unfortunately, kinda hones our skills a little bit. And I think that we know that staying out in front of an evolving crisis like this is really critical. We don't wanna be slow to what the needs are. So we anticipate the needs. We have great partners at the local level. The local community, your local elected leaders, your professional staff, your state elected leaders, and their professional staffs are all working over time. Our federal counterparts at the federal elected leaders. And then the agencies, you know, FEMA has over 20, 22 federal agencies engaged in this. We have the entire state family. This has all been managed by a unified coordination group of the governor's cabinet, all coming together in a one team, one fight effort to ensure that objectives are made and met. So we put metrics in place and we are sticking to those metrics that are measurable each and every day to ensure that we can move forward. And look, we know winter's coming. This is the biggest disaster in loss of structures in totality that we have seen in recent times. And there's no time to sort of dilly-dally on this. We need to work very decisively and we need to move rapidly to get our community back out. What our goal is, is to address the needs of the people that have lost, make sure our local communities rebound and the economy gets back operational and that we rebuild in a positive, safe and secure manner. Those are our goals and working together, we'll continue to get there. Mark, thanks for the clarity in your answers in your time this morning. Happy to be here. Thank you.


Even though printing your posters is the last thing you'll do, it actually takes a lot of preparation and planning to make it happen. If you've ever designed something for printing before, like a graphic or maybe something you've published, you'll know there's a lot of little things you have to pay attention to. In order to have the best printing experience at Western, it's really important to arrange time with the STC well in advance. It's important to have many weeks of advance notice in order to get a good time, and they're not able to do a walk-in with you if you forget. So make sure to handle that early on in your process as soon as you know when you're creating a research poster. If for some reason you were unable to schedule with the Student Technology Center, your next best bet is going to copy services. Unfortunately, in this case you do have to pay out of your own pocket. You don't have the same free print privileges that you would get with the STC, but they do have the best prices compared with places that aren't on campus. But if you plan ahead, you won't ever have to worry about it. In order to make your poster one that can be easily printed, you should use PowerPoint to create your poster design. You can use it on Mac or on PC. You should avoid using PowerPoint online because it's not as flexible and can't create the correct size document in order to be as large as you need it for a poster to be. You can also use the website Canva.com, which is really useful if you're using a Chromebook instead of a Mac or a PC. It has lots of useful features for designing for print. Your poster needs to be 30 inches by 40 inches, and you can change that setting in PowerPoint using the Design tab. It's okay if you use landscape or portrait orientation as long as it matches those dimensions. In Canva there's also an option to change the size, so make sure you do this first before you start your design. When you're nearing the end of the process, one of the best ways to be sure that you're ready to print is by seeing your design large somehow. There are tools you can use to do this, such as the Research and Writing Studio's Surface Hub tool that lets you see a large computer screen and it shows you almost the exact size of an actual poster. You can also use a classroom with a projector to project your design large onto the wall and see what it looks like again when it's large and what it would be like for people to walk by it. When you do this, you should check to make sure that nothing spills over the edge of the document. So if you think about the edges of your PowerPoint, sometimes you might accidentally cover those up with shapes or text boxes, and if you go too far it'll simply disappear when printed. So this is a really great way to double check.  To do this, you can proofread however you normally do, but also use some advanced strategies which help make your brain get into the right mode for noticing really tiny issues that you might not otherwise see. You can do this by zooming in really close so that your words and design look larger, much larger than they normally look on the screen. You can read backwards starting with the last sentence or the last piece of information and working your way up to take them out of context. You can read out loud which has a similar effect, helping you notice things you wouldn't see if you were just reading normally. And you can use this opportunity to make sure that the spacing and the contrast between all your elements is what it should be for readability. When you go to your printing appointment with the STC, you'll need to bring a USB drive that contains your PowerPoint and a PDF copy of your PowerPoint. The reason you need a PDF is because it ensures that every font that you use can be printed on the STC's printers, no matter what computer it's attached to. To create that PDF in PowerPoint, use the File, Export option, or in Canva just download the completed poster as a PDF file. One other thing to do before printing your poster is to make sure you've worked with other people on it. You can contact the studio for support with planning your research, writing the content for your poster, and also getting a second opinion before you print it all out. The Student Technology Center can support you if you're working on the visual design of your poster, or if you run into any difficulty with the software that you're using to make it happen. Both the studio and the STC are available in person and online, so it doesn't matter if you're close or at a distance, it's all going to be the same kind of support available to you. So be bold, collaborate, and showcase what you've accomplished.


Hi, this is your host, Sapnil Bhartya. And today we have with us Tracy Miranda, Executive Director of the CD Foundation. Tracy, first of all, welcome to the show. Thanks, Sapnil. Great to be here. Let's start with the continuous delivery. How would you define continuous delivery? Also, what about the CI part of it? Because when we talk about it, we always say CI CD. Yes, for sure. So continuous delivery, we define that as it's a software engineering approach in which teams work in short cycles and they ensure that the code is always released at any point in time. Now, traditionally, people tend to speak a lot about continuous integration and continuous delivery, so CI CD. Now, continuous integration is when developers regularly commit at least once a day to a mainline and keep that mainline up to date. But I see continuous delivery as really this umbrella of all the practices you need to keep that software ready to be released at any time. So that includes continuous integration. It includes security features. It includes testing and a general set of practices. Awesome. And if you look at the continuous delivery, it's not a problem to be solved. It's already a solved problem. But it was a lot of patchwork. It was a lot of do-it-yourself. You have to build Jenkins and all those things. But then Spinnaker came, which is a lot of things. And now we have a foundation. So can you talk about what role is the foundation playing in this space? So while we know a lot about continuous delivery today and we appreciate that it is really important because it makes such a difference to every business today, not just software companies, but banks or health care industry. But what we find in practice is that the adoption of continuous delivery practices is super, super low. Like many people think they're doing it, but maybe they're doing some continuous integration and they haven't quite figured out how to get through automation. And then to top it off, what makes things even more complicated is very recently we've seen the rise of microservices and cloud-native technology. And now, while these give us huge benefits in terms of scalability and making it easier to work on separate parts of the application, that has also resulted in just increased challenges, like a proliferation of environments and teams having to contend with all these different parts that make up an application. So the Continuous Delivery Foundation is really there to help support teams and organizations in their adoption of these practices, both from the sense of taking advantage of open-source projects in this space. But also, we're working towards democratizing the best practices. And we actually have a very recent working group that's spun up to help anyone in this space get better at delivering software. You mentioned earlier security. And security is really becoming a serious concern. It's no longer an afterthought. Mostly when we look at any hacks or systems compromised, in most of the cases, it's about unpassed software. The patches are there. In most cases, open-source. The patch is there, but it was never applied because most companies still have that engine model for. When you have already applied something on billions of machines, it's really hard. So if we make security as part of developers' workflow, it becomes easier. So talk about the roles CD can play in further improving security. Yes, for sure. Security is a super top concern. And I think there are lots of different elements to this. So on the one hand, what we want to make sure is, like we talk a lot about shift left of security. And really, we need to be making sure the security professionals and the folks focused on security are really tightly involved with the rest of the team. So there's no silos. People don't regard security as someone else's problem. Security starts with the developers. And then as an industry, I think, separate from how companies organize themselves around DevSecOps and building better teams, as an industry, I think it's really important that we work together to solve the industry-level problems. I think you raise a good point there when you say, in many cases, these patches haven't been applied, but the fixes are out there, which kind of makes you think, like, is security and actually an outreach problem? Do we need to be better at telling people, update to this release? It's super important. This is why you do it. And making sure we cut through the noise of all the different messaging they're hearing. And I think that's another example where something like the Continuous Delivery Foundation can make a difference in addressing these broad industry problems that we all have to kind of come together to tackle. And since we're talking about the problem, one more thing is that microservices, they are everywhere, but companies are kind of facing a challenge for the consistent release strategies on a scale. And at times, they're not prepared for it. So can you talk about, within the ecosystem or as part of the foundation itself, what is being done around solving the problem of continuous delivery for microservices? That's a great question. And we definitely have kind of this big split of folks who are used to delivering a monolith and they have their existing setup, all geared towards supporting that. And then a number, and this is increasing every day, a number of folks who are trying to take advantage of microservices and then all the implication that means. So one of the hot topics that's emerged for us is configuration management. And how we think about this is before your application, the scope of it was very well-defined. But now with microservices, the definition of an application changes. It's a set of microservices. How do we talk about which version of each microservice goes into a specific app? And then how do we manage if we are continuously pushing code and integrating that? How are those different versions changing relative to each other and how are we testing that all together? So we've definitely seen configuration management as a really hot topic and people are looking at tooling in the space. I think we have a couple of interesting projects that might be coming in the pipeline to CDF as well that will specifically help to drive visibility into this space and give people just better tooling to manage all the dependencies around microservices. One more thing, as you're saying or talking earlier that there are so many projects or open source tools for CD, which may also lead to a problem of interoperability. So first of all, how big is the concern for the foundation and what are you doing to kind of increase interoperability within these tools? Yeah, so interoperability is one of those interesting kind of problems where if you're just working in your own organization, sometimes it's not really a problem until perhaps it's time to adopt a new tool or add something into your workflow. But if we step back and look at the industry as a whole and take a look across the whole landscape, at the moment it's hugely fragmented. There's a lot of tools doing similar things. It's very difficult for people to move from different CI tools or different pipeline orchestration tools without having to go through a lot of pain to figure out how to do that. So it's a big problem because then also tool providers are having to kind of implement plugins for different systems and it's kind of a waste of time and it slows down innovation when we could be kind of moving up the stack. So I think where we're at today, there's a greater appreciation from, well, increasingly end users as well, about saying, OK, we want to simplify this. We want to find better ways for tools to interoperate. And actually, at CDF, one of the very first special interest groups we had was an interoperability working group. And this is just a set of like-minded folks who got together and said, hey, as an industry, we should be better and we can be better and we're all going to get talking and we're going to figure that out. And it's a really good group because we've got the folks who build the projects like the Jenkins X and Tecton and Spinnaker. And we've also got a lot of end user members represented. And that perspective comes in. So we've got folks from companies like Ericsson and eBay and they make sure that as the problems are being solved, they really apply to real world use cases. So it's an open group and people are welcome to join those conversations. There's a lot at the moment about maybe standardizing interfaces or metadata. Why can't we have a standardized way to express all the metadata around a release or all the metadata around a set of testing results? So yeah, I'm really excited about what this group is doing and look forward to if they can really achieve this very, very difficult goal and just bring some consolidation around the tooling. One last question before we wrap this up is COVID-19. How has COVID-19 affected continuous delivery? Yeah, no, I think great question. So it has definitely increased. Like we've seen some surveys which say, it talked about what people were expecting to do in terms of cloud adoption and continuous delivery adoption, and all those numbers have increased in terms of the expectation of how they're going to accelerate that adoption. And I think it's become pretty clear to companies things like the pandemic have emphasized the need to be more resilient. They've emphasized the need to adapt quickly and they've emphasized that most organizations are going to evolve to be very distributed. And so for all these things, continuous delivery practices work really well. They enable all those things and they make all the difference and actually the companies who are already doing these practices have a significant advantage in times like these. So it will be really interesting and I think one of the benefits we have as a foundation is that open source has always been about that collaboration at scale and in distributed way. So we're hoping we can take kind of all those lessons and marry open source practices to continuous delivery practices and really just make it easier for everybody to adopt them. It shouldn't just be kind of elite few companies who could do it. It should be something that's possible and achievable for every company and every organization out there. Tracy, thank you so much for taking time out and talk to us today about the foundation continuous delivery and I would love to talk to you again. So thank you. Thank you so much for having me. It's been my pleasure to share what we are up to.


The United Way of Bemidji is celebrating another year of surpassing their annual fundraising goals. Reporter Cheryl Moore takes us to their annual dinner. A lot of different organizations have put a lot of work into fundraising over the year and to see that their hard work has paid off when we have met our goal for the community is just an amazing feeling. The United Way of Bemidji has a lot to celebrate. They didn't just meet their fundraising goal, with exactly $465,529 raised, they surpassed it. We allocate funds to 24 different agencies and the people here tonight represent different businesses in town who helped us fundraise. They're a lot of our top donors and people that just really care about Bemidji. Cultures of this year's campaign, Brian and Leah, helped raise a lot of the funds. They got involved because they loved Bemidji and wanted to give back. We're both really involved in the community and we really care about our community. We're both from Bemidji, graduated from Bemidji High School and we both graduated from Bemidji State University. Some of the highlights we had over the past year, in my opinion, were the really fun and fundraising events that we got to attend. We went to a trap shoot, we got to attend the chili feed, we went to the beer and wine tasting event and it raised so much money for the community and it's really fun seeing the community come together and support the United Way. More than 100 people gathered here tonight to help celebrate the United Way of Bemidji's year. This year's campaign was deemed the best of Bemidji because tonight they celebrated nothing but the best. Everybody is super excited to be part of this. We talk about community and what it is to be part of a community and investing in the community and so you see all these people that are here to support that investment. The celebration dinner served as a way to thank donors and highlight individuals who live united every day. With the 2019 campaign kicking off, the United Way of Bemidji says it's important to remember that anyone and everyone can get involved. Our brand credo this year is that together we can do more than any one of us can do our loan. So getting involved in the United Way just means you're becoming a part of a team that is going to help Bemidji thrive. Reporting from Bemidji, Shreya Moore, Lakeland News. If you'd like to learn how you can get involved with the United Way of Bemidji, check out this story on our website at lptv.org. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


My name is Makila James. I'm a senior advisor at the United States Institute of Peace Africa Center. We recently held our second African diplomat seminar for relatively newly arrived diplomats from 34 African countries, including Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa. The goal of the program was to provide a platform, a forum for newly arrived diplomats to understand better how to navigate Washington and to learn who the key players, the key agencies, the key departments are that work on advancing U.S. Africa policy. The seminar was very successful in many ways, primarily because we focused on something that's really very important and that's the nexus between peace and development. To that extent, we brought in the private sector to talk about trade and investment on the continent. We brought in U.S. government agencies that talked about the tools and the approaches that they use in trying to promote development in Africa. And of course, we drew upon U.S.I. peace experts who focused on peace building in Africa. Overall, we think it was a very successful seminar. We're looking forward to building on our relationship as we have these events in the future. The interagency for me, how the agencies, different agencies work together has really been an eye opener for me and how important it is as diplomats to understand the importance of actually being at the heel most of the time and understanding how the heel operates and how it relates with the administration and other agencies that are working with the State Department and so forth and how these agencies would make our life easier as diplomats to promote our country's trade and investment and clarify certain policy positions that our governments take that perhaps are misunderstood in the U.S. For me, it's a brilliant program because being new in the U.S., I found it a bit intimidating, the size. Though I've served in many other countries, it took me time and it was really slow integrating but coming into the program for these few times have opened me up to a faster way of integrating into the system. It's actually been very helpful. Being a global strategic partner, the U.S. looks to hear the voice of Africa and see Africa placed on various tables in decision-making. All those issues that relates to peace, for us, is very important because also fitting within Africa, Africa we would like to have in the future where we are now looking at silence in the guns in the continent and we have USIP really having, you know, zooming this laser focus, as they say in the U.S., on issues relating to peace. And I think that through this institution, diplomats are able to even get into Congress, get assisted with linking up with members of Congress on issues that relates to conflict and so forth so that we can all of us work together towards making sure that there is peace on our continent of Africa and broadly throughout the world. In South Africa, we normally say that one of our biggest challenges, actually we call them the triple challenges in South Africa, that's unemployment, poverty and inequality. And that is the driving force of all South African diplomats abroad to say that we need to work hard and assist our government to make sure that we address these triple challenges. Now in the U.S., the multiple ways of doing that actually, from civil society, from think tanks to government to private sector, and it's such a big area that we need to zoom in and I think that my country tends to benefit a lot and is benefiting a lot from the bilateral relations with the United States. As a strategic partner, South Africa values these relations very much because it does assist, but it's a mutual benefit for both countries. The U.S. benefits from the relations, South Africa benefits from the relations and I think more investments into South Africa would assist our government in addressing the triple challenges that I just alluded to. Coming to this seminar has opened up my ideas as to how I can engage better with the diaspora community in the U.S. And in many ways, just use the platforms that the U.S. makes available to improve the lives of not just Nigerians in the U.S., but also Nigerians at home.


Welcome to the Computer Science and Engineering Division of EECS. We are so excited you decided to declare with us today. The fast rate of innovation in computer technologies has created many new and exciting opportunities for students with undergraduate degrees in our department. We look forward to working with you for your major declaration. In order to complete the final step of declaration, please be sure to fill out the CSE Declaration Request Form that is linked in the description of this video. And thank you for taking a moment to watch this video in advance. This video will review course planning tools, your curriculum requirements and several campus resources that will support your success in our program. There are also many people in the CSE UAO or undergraduate advising office here to help. This includes both staff and faculty advisors available for scheduled advising appointments as well as virtual drop-in advising. We are located at 2808 Byster Building and you'll be hearing from some of our staff advisors throughout this video today and in your major declaration session. Let's get started with course planning tools. Please take a moment to open and bookmark the links emailed to you which are also provided in the video description below. The LSA Course Guide, Engineering Bulletin, and Course Profile Atlas will all be helpful to reference as you plan your courses each semester. The Degree Audit Report is also an important document which allows students to monitor their individual progress toward graduation. You can access this information through Wolverine Access. Log in and select Student Business to find the Student Center tile. Next, click on My Academics and then View My Advisement Report to generate an updated version of your Degree Audit Report, also called your DAR. This should allow you to track your progress in each requirement section which my colleague will review in more detail now. We will start by reviewing what is referred to as your Common Engineering Requirements. You likely review these requirements with your Engineering Advising Center advisor and will have already made progress in this portion of your degree. Students are required to complete a series of calculus, science, and engineering courses. Students will complete between 36 and 39 credits in total. These courses are required for all College of Engineering students but will have some variations depending on the major you declare. CSNG students are required to receive a C or better in all Common Engineering courses. You are also required to take Math 214, Applied Linear Algebra, or some equivalent course. If you'd like to discuss alternative options, we invite you to talk to an advisor. Intellectual Breath Your Intellectual Breath requirement is made up of at least 16 total credits of Liberal Arts courses, commonly referred to as LACs. To learn more about courses that qualify as LACs, we encourage you to review the definition in the Engineering Bulletin. Within those 16 credits, you are required to complete at least three credits of Humanities and at least three credits of a 300 level or higher LAC course. Some students are able to satisfy these specific requirements with just one class. You are also able to complete up to four credits of Professional or Creative Development courses, also known as PCDC, for this requirement, but PCDC courses are optional. General Requirements There are some general requirements that all College of Engineering students must complete in order to graduate. You must have completed at least 50 credits at the U of M Ann Arbor campus. This includes remote semesters during the COVID semesters. Your cumulative and program GPAs must be a 2.0 or higher. You must complete a minimum of 128 credits. And while completing coursework at U of M, you have the option to take up to 14 credits past fail outside of COVID semesters and use them toward your degree. The only courses that can be taken past fail are your General Elective and Intellectual Breath courses. You are not able to take more than two courses per term past fail. The Computer Science and Engineering major requirements include completing a minimum of 58 credits. This does not include prerequisites. All major required courses must be taken for a letter grade and students must receive a C or better to satisfy the major requirements. In order to declare a major in CSN, you must, one, be a College of Engineering student. Two, have completed at least one full term at U of M and Arbor. Three, have an overall U of M GPA of 2.0 or better in courses taken at U of M. Four, be in good academic standing. And five, completed or earned credit by exam or transfer for at least one course in each of these categories. Category one is Calculus, so Math 115 or 116. Category two is Calculus-based physics lectures like Physics 140 or 160 or Chemistry lectures like Chem 130. And Category three is Required Engineering courses like Engine 100, 101, or 151. The program's major core requirements include X203, X280, X281, X370, X376, and Statistics. There are multiple ways to satisfy the Statistics requirement, which you can find listed under the Program Core section on page two of the CSN program guide and or meet with an advisor if you have additional questions. Students are also required to take an approved major design experience or MDE, which is a capstone design project which is recommended to be taken in one of your final two semesters. In addition to these requirements, CSN's majors need to complete a total of 26 credits of technical electives. At least 16 of these credits must come from an approved upper level CS technical electives courses list and the remaining 10 credits must be from courses designated as flexible technical electives. As a note, any credit you earn in upper level CS or ULCS courses beyond the minimum 16 will count towards your flexible technical electives requirement. The program guide also lists a link on page five under CS flexible technical elective where you can find flex text in other fields that have been approved. We recommend that you consult the approved list of computer science technical electives and major design experience courses on the CSC website prior to registration. Please keep in mind that there are separate lists for the different requirements, so be sure to consult the appropriate elective list. Additionally, on page five of the CS program guide, you will find some major design experience courses listed in bold under upper level CS and CS flexible technical electives. Although under these sections, your MDE requirement is separate from your technical elective requirements and cannot double count or be shared with your 26 required technical elective credits. The computer science engineering major also requires students to take some technical communication and professionalism courses. All students are required to take TECCOM 300, EECS 496 and TECCOM 497. TECCOM 300 is a prerequisite to TECCOM 497. It's important to note that your TECCOM 497 requirement will need to be completed in the same term or after your major design experience course. EECS 496 must be completed in one of your final two semesters and is often taken with TECCOM 497 and your MDE. However, EECS 496 is not required to be taken concurrently with these two courses. General Course Planning Recommendations We'd also like to share some general course planning recommendations with you as newly declared computer science engineering majors. Due to the rigorous nature of computer science courses, we generally recommend taking no more than two for-credit EECS classes per term. It may be possible to take more depending on your individual circumstances, but be sure to consider the workload for each individual course. We suggest using the student time guide and course profile atlas to learn more. It's also important to be aware of add-drop deadlines each term. Remember, you're able to add and drop courses as needed throughout the first three weeks of classes without a W on your transcript. This gives you the opportunity to try out a combination of classes and make any necessary adjustments. A note that if you're interested in studying abroad, you should start thinking about it by the beginning of your schedule accordingly. Once students have declared computer science, the CSE undergraduate advising office, or UAO, will be your home base for advising. We will be the advising staff guiding you through course planning, requirements, and academic assistance as a declared computer science student. Your engineering advising center, or EAC staff, will always be rooting you on and happy to hear your successes. We recommend students connect with advisors in the CSE UAO once a semester to ensure your course sequencing and plans are working towards your academic goals and graduation. And now we will discuss resources to aid your personal and academic success. Michigan's campus offers a variety of resources to support you while pursuing this major. Tutoring is incredibly beneficial in strengthening your understanding of course material and the CSE department offers tutoring options for many EECS classes specifically. There are individual appointments, group sessions, and some free options so you can identify which works best for you. The engineering center for academic success also provides a helpful list of academic resources for engineering students providing support in a variety of subject areas. The Honor Code outlines the standards of ethical conduct for engineering students at the University of Michigan. Students are responsible for reviewing and understanding the policies established in writing for each course at the beginning of this semester. These can vary significantly so it's important to consult your instructor if they are unclear. We take the Honor Code seriously to prevent instances of copied code and plagiarized work. However, we do encourage students to support each other in their education and know that activities such as helping classmates with code debugging are common and near real world industry collaboration. For more information on what constitutes an Honor Code violation, you may consult the Honor Council. Your health and well-being is of the utmost importance and should be your number one priority as a student on campus. The care center is the central hub on campus to assist engineering students by providing genuine and practical support both inside and outside of the classroom. They can help you navigate many of the mental health support resources we have including but not limited to the following. Michigan Engineering CAPS the acronym for Counseling and Psychological Services offers counseling groups for those wishing to explore personal growth and gain awareness to enhance their functioning in personal and academic settings. This is in addition to one-on-one counseling that CAPS offers regularly to help foster emotional well-being. UHS or University Health Services also offers wellness coaching providing a holistic approach that optimizes wellness for student success via a collaborative non-judgmental partnership with a coach. It is important to note that wellness coaching is not therapy and cannot fill in for traditional therapy offered by CAPS or other campus and community resources. Thinking about a holistic approach to wellness and your undergraduate experience we encourage you to explore the student groups and teams offered in CS to get the most of your experience in and outside of the classroom. Research is another great experience to engage in outside of the classroom. We maintain a web page where students can learn more about undergraduate research opportunities in computer science. You can also review the specific CSC research areas page. If you want to learn more for any research area on this page, you'll find a list of faculty doing research in that area with their research website linked. This is a great way to start contacting faculty to express interest in joining their lab or collaborating on independent research. In addition to our support and academic resources, CSC is continually striving to build a more inclusive and supportive environment welcoming people of all identities and backgrounds. These resources to promote inclusion are here to help you find and create a strong sense of community as you navigate your college experience. We appreciate that one of the chief reasons students achieve an undergraduate degree is to prepare them for their future career path. After you declare your major you will likely start more intensive planning for your future after graduation. Students can meet with advisors in Career Resource Center or ECRC for assistance in career development and exploration. You can also attend their career fairs and networking events or access a variety of resources on their website. Thank you for watching CSC's declaration video. Any questions you have can be directed to the CSC Undergraduate Advising Office. We look forward to meeting with you in the future. If you requested to declare your major today we welcome you to the department Go Blue!