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. 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 link's email 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 Advise 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. During this section, we will cover your Computer Science LSA requirements. This video will detail information specific for the Computer Science major. For questions and information about LSA requirements, policy, rules, and distribution, please connect with your LSA advisor as they will be the most expert in supporting that aspect of your academic progress. All major required courses must be taken for a letter grade and students must receive a C or B to satisfy the major requirement. In order to declare it, the following must be completed. The four pre-declaration requirements that include two calculus, math courses, EECS 203 or equivalent, and EECS 280. Students must also achieve a C or B across these pre-declaration courses. Exceptions to this may be transfer credit, which will show up as a T grade or AP credit. And lastly, your student record should be clear of any academic standing issues. For more information about approved math combinations, please reference page two of the CSLSA program guide or consult an advisor. The program's major core requirements include EECS 281, EECS 370, EECS 376, and approved statistics course from the list on page four of the CSLSA program guide. Students are also required to take an approved capstone course, which is recommended to be taken in one of your final two semesters. In addition to these requirements, CSLSA majors need to complete a total of 16 credits of upper-level CS technical electives. This will equal four courses. As a note, students must be declared in order to enroll in your capstone and ULCS courses. Ensure accuracy and reflection of changes. We recommend that you consult the approved list of computer science technical electives and capstone courses on the CS website and program guide prior to registration. On page nine of the CSLSA program guide, you will find information about CSLSA tracks. The track requirements are fulfilled when pursuing coursework to complete your ULCS requirements. Please note that you must complete the entire track for these classes to contribute towards the ULCS aspect of your major requirements. Pursuing a track is optional, but students may explore this option to craft more experience and knowledge in a specific area of CS. Those interested in this option will want to read through page nine carefully and follow up with an advisor if any questions arise. General course planning recommendations. Lastly, for this section of the video, we'd like to share some general course planning considerations and recommendations with you as newly declared CSLSA majors. Due to the rigorous nature of the computer science courses, we generally recommend students taking no more than two four credit EECS courses 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 workload survey provided on page six of the program guide or course Atlas to learn more. It is also important to be aware of the new add drop deadline each term. Remember you are able to add drop courses as needed throughout the first three weeks of classes. This gives you the opportunity to try out a combination of classes and make any necessary adjustments. If you're interested in studying abroad, you should start considering this at the beginning of your sophomore year so that you can plan your schedule accordingly. We recommend students connect with an advisor once a semester to ensure your core sequencing and plans are working toward 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 in mere 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 webpage where students can learn more about undergraduate research opportunities in computer science. You can also review the specific CSC Research Areas page. If you click 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 the Engineering 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. And of course, go blue!


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we are going to discuss the following question which says that Our company operates best services between two cities. Data regarding passenger traffic during three days is as follows On the first day there were 3 senior citizens, 5 males and 12 females and total revenue is $420 On second day there were 10 senior citizens, 6 males, 4 females and total revenue is $360 On third day there were 9 senior citizens, 7 males and 6 females and total revenue is $420 Find the fare charged for each senior citizen, male and female using matrix theory If we are given 3 simultaneous equations in 3 variables x, y and z that is a1x plus b1y plus c1z is equal to d1 a2x plus b2y plus c2z is equal to b2 a3x plus b3y plus c3z is equal to b3 Then these system of equations can be written in the matrix form as ax is equal to b where a is equal to the 3 by 3 matrix containing elements a1, a2, a3, b1, b2, b3, c1, c2, c3 x is the 3 by 1 matrix containing elements x, y, z and b is the 3 by 1 matrix containing elements d1, d2, d3 x is equal to b implies that x is equal to a inverse into b With this key idea we shall proceed with the solution Let us denote the fare charged by the senior citizens bf by the males bm by the females bf Then we are given the following system of equations We are given in the question that a company operates the services between 2 cities On the first day there were 3 senior citizens 5 males and 12 females and their total revenue is $420 So we have 3s plus 5n plus 12f is equal to $420 On the second day there were 10 senior citizens 6 males 4 females and their total revenue is $360 That is 10s plus 6m plus 4f is equal to 360 On third day there were 9 senior citizens 7 males and 6 females and their total revenue is $420 That is 9s plus 7m plus 6f is equal to 420 And we need to find the fare charged for each senior citizen male and female using matrix theory And from the key idea we know that if we are given 3 simultaneous equations in 3 variables x, y and z The equations are of the form a1x plus b1y plus c1z is equal to d1 a2x plus d2y plus c2z is equal to d2 a3x plus b3y plus c3z is equal to d3 Then these system of equations can be written in the matrix form as ax is equal to b Where a is given by the 3 by 3 matrix containing elements a1, a2, a3, b1, b2, b3, c1, c2, c3 x is the 3 by 1 matrix containing elements x, y, z and b is the 3 by 1 matrix containing elements b1, d2, d3 ax is equal to b also implies that x is given by a inverse into b Now these system of equations can be written in the matrix form or can be written as ax is equal to b where a is the 3 by 3 matrix containing elements 3, 10, 9, 5, 6, 7, 12, 4, 6 x is the 3 by 1 matrix containing elements s, m, f and b is the 3 by 1 matrix containing elements 420, 360, 420 and we know that x is given by a inverse into b Now we shall find a inverse which is equal to 1 by determinant of a into a joint of a determinant of a is given by which is equal to 3 into 6 into 6 that is 36 minus 7 into 4 that is 28 minus 5 into 10 into 6 that is 60 minus of 4 into 9 that is 36 plus 12 into 10 into 7 that is 70 minus of 9 into 6 that is 54 which is equal to 3 into 36 minus 28 is 8 minus of 5 into 60 minus 36 is 24 plus 12 into 70 minus 54 is 16 3 into 8 is 24 minus of 5 into 24 is 120 plus 12 into 16 is 192 which I am further solving gives 96 so determinant of a is equal to 96 Now we shall find a joint of a which is given by the 3 by 3 matrix containing elements a11, a12, a13, a21, a22, a23, a31, a32, a33, a11 a11 is equal to cofactor of a11 that is 3 and is given by minus 1 raise to power 1 plus 1 into determinant of 6476 which is equal to 1 into 16 to 6 that is 36 minus of 7 into 4 that is 28 a12 is equal to cofactor of a12 that is 5 and is equal to minus 1 raise to power 1 plus 2 into determinant containing elements 10, 9, 4, 6 which is given by minus 1 into 10 into 6 that is 60 minus of 9 into 4 that is 36 which is equal to minus 1 into 24 that is minus of 24 a13 is equal to cofactor of a13 that is 12 and is given by minus 1 raise to power 1 plus 3 into determinant containing elements 10, 9, 6, 7 and is given by 1 into 10 into 7 that is 70 minus of 9 into 6 that is 54 which is equal to 16 so we have 1 into 16 that is 16 a21 is equal to cofactor of a21 that is 10 and is given by minus 1 raise to power 2 plus 1 into determinant containing elements 5, 7, 12, 6 which is equal to minus 1 into 6 into 5 that is 30 minus of 7 into 12 that is 84 which is equal to minus 1 into minus of 54 that is equal to 54 a22 is equal to cofactor of a22 that is 6 and is given by minus 1 raise to power 2 plus 2 into determinant containing elements 3, 9, 12, 6 and is equal to minus 1 raise to the power 4 that is equal to 1 into 3 into 6 that is 18 minus of 9 into 12 that is 108 which is equal to minus 90 and is given by 1 into minus 90 that is minus 90 a23 is equal to cofactor of a23 that is 4 and is given by minus 1 raise to power 2 plus 3 into determinant containing elements 3, 9, 5, 7 which is equal to minus 1 raise to the power 5 that is minus 1 into 3 into 7 that is 21 minus of 9 into 5 that is 45 which is equal to minus 1 into 21 minus 45 is minus 24 that is minus 1 into minus 24 is 24 now a31 is equal to cofactor of a31 that is 9 and is given by minus 1 raise to the power 3 plus 1 into determinant containing elements 5, 6, 12, 4 and is given by minus 1 raise to the power 4 that is 1 into 5 into 4 that is 20 minus of 6 into 12 that is 72 which is equal to 1 into 20 minus 72 is minus 52 that is 1 into minus of 52 is equal to minus of 52 a32 is equal to cofactor of a32 that is 7 and is given by minus 1 raise to power 3 plus 2 into determinant containing elements 3, 10, 12, 4 which is equal to minus 1 raise to the power 5 is minus 1 into 3 into 4 that is 12 minus of 10 into 12 that is 120 which is equal to minus 1 into 12 minus 120 is minus of 108 and is given by minus 1 into minus of 108 that is 108 now a33 is equal to cofactor of a33 that is 6 and is given by minus 1 raise to the power 3 plus 3 into determinant containing elements 3, 10, 5, 6 minus 1 raise to the power 6 is 1 into 3 into 6 that is 18 minus of 10 into 5 that is 50 which is equal to 1 into 18 minus 50 is minus of 32 that is 1 into minus of 32 is equal to minus of 32 therefore a joint of a which is given by the 3 by 3 matrix containing elements a11, a12, a13, a21, a22, a23, a31, a32, a33 is given by a11 is equal to 8, a12 is minus of 24, a13 is given by 16, a21 is equal to 54, a22 is equal to minus of 90, a23 is equal to 24, a31 is given by minus of 52 a32 is given by 108, a33 is given by minus of 32 therefore a joint of a is given by the 3 by 3 matrix containing elements 8 minus 24, 16, 54 minus 90, 24 minus 52, 108 minus 32 a inverse is given by 1 by determinant of a into a joint of a and determinant of a is given by 96 so we have a inverse is equal to 1 by determinant of a that is 96 into a joint of a which is given by the 3 by 3 matrix containing elements 8 minus 24, 16, 54 minus 90, 24 minus 52, 108 minus 32 and we know that x is given by a inverse into b x is equal to a inverse that is 1 by 96 into the 3 by 3 matrix containing elements 8 minus 24, 16, 54 minus 90, 24 minus 52, 108 minus 32 into b that is b is the 3 by 1 matrix containing elements 420, 360, 420 now if we multiply these two matrices then the resultant multiplicant will be of order 3 into 1 so we have 1 by 96 into 3 by 1 matrix containing elements 8 into 420 plus 54 into 360 minus 52 into 420 minus 24 into 420 minus 90 into 360 plus 108 into 420, 16 into 420 plus 24 into 360 minus 32 into 420 which is equal to 1 by 96 into 3 by 1 matrix containing elements 8 into 420 is 3360 plus 54 into 360 is 19,440 minus 52 into 420 is 21,840 minus 24 into 420 is minus of 10,080 minus of 90 into 360 is 32,400 plus 108 into 420 is 35,360 now 16 into 420 is 6720 plus 24 into 360 is 8630 minus of 32 into 420 is 13,430 which is equal to 1 by 96 into 3 by 1 matrix containing elements 960, 2880, 1920 which is equal to the 3 by 1 matrix containing elements 960 divided by 96 that is 10, 2880 divided by 96 that is 30, 1920 divided by 96 that is 20 so we have x is equal to the 3 by 1 matrix containing elements 10, 30, 20 which can be written as the 3 by 1 matrix containing elements SNS is equal to the 3 by 1 matrix containing elements 10, 30, 20 so we can write x is equal to 10, m is equal to 30 and x is equal to 20 hence best way for senior citizens is 10 dollars, for males is 30 dollars and for seniors is 20 dollars which is the required answer this completes our session hope you enjoyed this session


Gaffer, it's about as heartbreaking as it gets, I would imagine. Can you sort your thoughts for us this evening? Yeah, heartbreaking is a good way of putting it. I thought the players were absolutely fantastic. I thought the supports were brilliant. In fact, 93 minutes of brilliant night inside Valley Parade. Unfortunately, right at the end there, it's just gone against us. They managed to get possession in the middle of the pitch. The shot they hit took a deflection. Into the bottom corner. But for the rest of the game, we were completely dominant and really good. But we just couldn't find that golden touch in front of the goal. We tried really hard and created numerous opportunities and keep us made some really good saves. We've been a little bit wasteful on a couple of others. As a general performer, I can't say anything negatively about my players, apart from one lapse of concentration. A little bit of luck that went against us, but it's a kick in the balls. No mistake about that. Disappointment, yes, but how proud are you of the players tonight? We seem to do everything but score and, like we said, football is a cruel game and it punishes you right at the end. Yeah, I'm proud of the team because we've been hit hard with losing players before games and during games tonight. And whoever stepped in has risen to the occasion, risen to the level that the team wants to perform at. And everyone that watches that game will be saying the same things, even the most hard of them. We can support, we would understand it. Maybe go away one, but all that self-football is you've got to hang in there sometimes in a fight and keep plugging away, which they obviously did and they've got their reward right at the end. But certainly, from my perspective, looking at my team, honestly, apart from scoring the goal, I couldn't ask anything more of them. They were absolutely superb. Not just the sort of heart and the character and the battling, but you look at the pitch today, a lot of people would probably have presumed that it might have been a bit of a dogfight, was dragging them into a pretty gritty dogged performance. But through the stuff we played, the chances we created and the way that we attacked the league won opposition, a fantastic attack. Yeah, I think every credit is to the players. We are good players out there and mobility. We are there in pace. We had a really assertiveness in possession and real confidence. And like I say, against a good league one team, and by far we were the better team. But we've shown that on other occasions. We've shown it at Derby in this competition as well. How we've played in this competition, we feel we deserve to be in the final, but we have to get our heads around that really quickly because what we can't let is this massive disappointment affect anything that we've got going forward. We have to use it as fuel. It's hurting everybody because we were so close to having the opportunity to do something special. But there's still opportunities there this season and we have to make sure that we are determined to make sure that we go into the summer and we're smile on our faces. We haven't got one tonight. We can't do it. We're in a results-based business. We came here to win. We wanted to win. We did everything we could to win. It's gone against us, but we have to make sure that come Saturday we are ready to show that sort of level of performance again. There's a dearless to prepare for it. We're back in action pretty much straight away. How much can we use this raw disappointment, this heartbreak to fuel us like you say, not just for Saturday, but for the remainder of the campaign? Well, I think we did that in my second game against Knox County when we were four-nil down at halftime, live on Sky, really hurting, really hurting. And we turned it around to have a fantastic run after that. And since that sort of game, we've been there previously tonight, we've lost three in 19 and won a lot of games. So these players have it within them to show great character, great personality. They've shown it tonight. We'll have to show it again on Saturday because their games come thick and fast. No one outside of Bradford is going to feel sorry for us. So we can't let ourselves to feel sorry for ourselves. We have to make sure we're determined to use it as fuel. Wherever negative comes along your way in life, in football, you have to try and turn it into a positive and not be a victim. And we have to make sure we're not victims.


All week we've been celebrating the 1998 World Series champion New York Yankees are going to be honored tomorrow on field in a ceremony at Yankee Stadium. Some call it the greatest team ever. It's obviously an arguable point, but the fact that they're in the conversation is pretty neat. The Michael K. Schoen 9870 S-Pan brought you by Geico, the real value in car insurance. Isn't how much you save. It's also the kind of service you get. Good thing Geico's been perfecting both for over 75 years and we couldn't talk to all the members of the team without talking to the manager of the team. The guy who put it all together and that is Joe Torrey. Joe thanks for joining us in the show. How you doing? I'm doing well Michael. I'm looking forward to this tomorrow. I remember when you and I were in the booth two years ago I said I'll see you in a couple of years you know and God willing we're both here and I'm looking forward to tomorrow. Now you've seen a lot of great baseball in your life. You played it, you managed it. Is this the greatest team that you've ever seen? Well it certainly is in my existence just the way they went about things and you know I think we all sort of look back and wonder you know how this came about after losing in in 97 and but that ball club came came to spring training so determined that they left stuff on the table in 97 and I really never realized how determined there was until they just you know refused to you know not make winning so important on a day-to-day basis. You know you witnessed that I witnessed it and you know I felt like I you know sort of pulled them into spring training and all of a sudden jumped on their backs and just enjoyed the ride. Now to me you lived it when there were two bumps amazingly one was at one in four we've had a couple of guys on and Jorge spoke about the meeting that you called did you think the team was in trouble at one and four because you're not a big meeting guy from what I remember. No but I was really disturbed you know you come out of spring training and you know you have high expectations I know we start on the road but that's no big deal although I guess it's more of a big deal when you're closer if I'm not mistaken Mariana was on the DL yeah starting the season but then we got beat up I mean we beat up we didn't play well and and I remember in Seattle just you know really upset and I wasn't upset with any in particular person it was just the fact that we weren't playing up to our capabilities even though it was early and you know I remember I went out for dinner after the game all by myself and Don Zimmer says you know you want company I said no and I just wanted to be by myself and then you know next day came back and we had a meeting David Cohn played a prominent role in that meeting and you know I'm not even sure we won that night but you know we seemed to start winning catch fire and I remember we came home for the welcome home dinner and you know we were sort of you know sort of back on in on on level ground and and from never look back from there you know I'm wondering though because you know people forget and you know 98 followed 97 when you guys got knocked out against the Indians and you had won the championship in 96 and there have been rumors at that time Joe with a 1 in 4 start was Joe Tory going to get fired would you ever thought did you ever think at that time that your job was in jeopardy well you know I mean we work for George and you know you're always on the tightrope you know that George is he reacts and and he's impulsive and and all this stuff you know I was hoping that wasn't the case but you know you're on the road and things get magnified because you're you're only hearing you know negative stuff but you know I over the years I maybe it's because I was fired three times in my managing career that that didn't bother me as much as you know getting the team on track and I remember what when I showed up my wife Ali and I showed up at the welcome home dinner George come over and said you're my guy you're my guy I said well you know thank you George and whatever I think we came home three and four or something on that trip so but you know it wouldn't surprise me only because of George's history I was hoping it wouldn't be the case and as it turned out it worked all right all right for me yeah I was reading something by Ken David off in the post that I didn't remember this that in that meeting you know that I guess the day before Joe that Jamie Moyer had hit Paul O'Neill and then Andy Pettit didn't retaliate and some of his teammates were upset do you recall that part of it well you know for some reason uh Paul O'Neill got hit every time we played Seattle yeah he and Lou got along so well it's strange yeah he and Lou and and I know part of that meeting was that uh you know we we can't let this happen we we've got to retaliate I'm not a retaliate guy but but a retaliation guy but when you know the same guy keeps getting hit by the by the same team you know this obviously is intentional and and you know you've got to recognize it and do something about it and I I did make a statement and it was a little touchy making a statement about you know you know maybe hitting somebody on in their lineup when you know your clubhouse contains a couple of the main guys who came over in the trade you know Nelson and and Tino that's right now the other the other bump was in September I mean we all celebrate the fact that you won 114 regular season games but at some point Joe I think like like August 10th you were on pace to win 122 and you could have easily done that and you ran into a rut now the way Posada remembers it that everybody wasn't playing every day because you were trying to keep everybody healthy did that rut upset you in September you know what Michael I it was inside I guess it was early September we were in Tampa and there was one game that really concerned me I wasn't concerned about records obviously you're concerned about you know you're you're in postseason but you want to make sure that you know the the second season is something memorable but there was one game in Tampa we played awfully yeah it's awful baseball and I had a meeting after the game and and really the crux of my meeting was you know guys you spent the whole summer making guy making teams afraid to play you and and then you go out and play this kind of baseball you know you it's just it's not acceptable and I started laughing and I had a turnaround because and I know you'll you'll understand this I look in the corner and there's my favorite Bernie shaking his head up and down as I'm talking and I said I can't look at him because I'll laugh and I and I turned around and finished the meeting it was a short meeting but I just wanted to let them know even though you know we're in you know we were going away we win the division I think we've already clinched by this time and but it you know it doesn't it doesn't carry over you know you're going to have to play in postseason and you're certainly going to have to go in there not on your heels but on the balls of your feet so as I say it was a short meeting but I need anytime I felt I needed to say something even if it was to one individual Michael I felt that everybody may get something out of what I'm saying because I I felt you know very close to all our teams and you know as well as I do that it was it was a close-knit group and and guys who walked in from other teams and played for our club you know they caught on in a hurry it was just something like you know we're a family type I know it's a little corny but we're a family type club that if we had issues we dealt with it inside and and it was our business and nobody else's talking the Hall of Famer Joe Tory the manager of that 1990-18 we're going to give away tickets a little bit later on in the show to tomorrow's game thanks to Pepsi and 9870 SPN I think the only misstep or the only sweat maybe I'll put it that way in the playoffs down two to one uh to Cleveland and then El Duque set to pitch and I read a story today at George Steinburner came in the clubhouse and was like trying to pump up El Duque and El Duque just looked and he said mañana no problemo did you have any doubt that he was going to step up in that game well the day of the game it was interesting I did I believe it was a Sunday because we were you know we were uh my wife and I was sitting having a late breakfast early lunch whatever it was and and the restaurant was a little overwhelmed in the hotel and Duque was up there helping wait on tables and I said well this guy's not nervous you know he was in there just you know helping the waiters and waitresses you know move because they were obviously uh understaffed and they're a little overwhelmed and and I remember that particular day George uh had called me or had sent sent a message to me he wanted to see me up in his uh up in his suite so I told him I'd be up after after breakfast and I went up there and he says what do you think you know and uh kiddingly and you know I I laughed because it was just George and I and he was watching the Michigan I think it was the Michigan Ohio State game and Michigan was winning and and he says what do you think I said well I think Ohio State will come back and win this game that's not what he was talking about and I said I said the only thing I could tell you George I said Duque's down there helping wait on table so you know even though he hasn't pitched and you know I mean he kept going to the back of the line we won the division and then he you know had to take his turn in the rotation so he hadn't pitched for a while and that was my only concern but as far as his approach he uh he was loose as a goose and you know obviously went out there and dominated the game now we saw it in 2001 Joe when the Mariners won 116 they didn't win the world series it's like it never happened and I'm sure the Red Sox are going to feel the same pressure this year were they're on pace to 115 wins did you feel you had to win the world series to validate the season yes and I and I think you know obviously a big part of that you were the Yankees and but 114 games would have totally been ignored if we didn't do what we were expected to do and and that's huge huge pressure for anybody and we felt that every step of the way even during the Texas series I remember having one meeting down in the runway during the game I said guys were up two games to none I said they're not up two games to none but these guys were were tight but they were unique in the fact that they played well they you know they even though they were they were tight they they still played well didn't give anything away fought for every at bat and you know we had to squeeze out a run here or there but the expectation was in all our minds and and the pressure that was dealt with but you know it wasn't it was a little bit of a bumpy ride because of the pressure we had on us ourselves now pull on you know I'm going to have on a little bit later on it's told me a hundred times yo that that team was shocked when it lost they came into every game expecting to win as the manager did you feel the same way yeah it really was they they never really cared about the standings they just wanted to go out there they they got to go to the ballpark every day you know like some some people have to go to the office they got to go to the office every day and it was really cool but we had that one meeting also Michael and after that terrible game two against Cleveland where you know the ball was laying there and we threw it away and we just beat ourselves in game two I remember having a meeting and said to the guys that you're not having any fun and Paul O'Neill respectfully waited and you can ask him about this here respectfully waited for the meeting to be over and then he we have to walk into each other either in the lunch room or in my office whatever and he says skip it's not fun unless we win skip and then you can hear Paul O'Neill your partner say that because he's he was priceless I mean we all loved him for for the right reasons and but there were a lot of things that come to mind when we think about that 98 season strangely when we had on Jorge earlier in the week he said I said does it feel like 20 years and he said not really it feels like 10 I don't know how he delineates that does it feel like 20 years ago no but you get to my age you know it's like standing on the platform of a subway station and watching those cars go by man it's it's quick it's quick and you know it's great to look back on and and realize you still have a closeness with the players that you know played on those teams but it certainly doesn't seem like 20 years because I you know when I when I get the Yankee job you know after the the season in 95 and and it was always brand new to me and you know all of a sudden it was 12 years you know there and gone and managed a couple you know a few years in LA and and here I am now you know 20 years later that's that's ridiculous and 96 22 years I mean it really is amazing to me and and it's just great to look back and and look forward to what we're going to do tomorrow now I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you because you mentioned earlier about you you're not a retaliation guy what happened in Miami you know Keith Hernandez said that's the way we did it and I have no problem with doing it what's your take Joe I mean does the person that's hot deserve to get hit just to stop them well you know why it used to take care of itself well you know as Keith said but you have to understand it's it's more than that anymore the thing that concerns me is that every time somebody gets hit there seems to be a retaliation now you know you have so many guys throwing 100 miles an hour and now when they try to to be precise with their placement of pitches if they're gonna pitch inside they're gonna hit somebody that appeared to me the other day like it was intentional and you know social media and you know I was listening to the announcers when I was watching a replay because I wasn't watching it live and they were talking about it before the pitch was thrown so you know it gets so much airtime and you know obviously players aren't oblivious to this because they hear everything and and and they contribute probably on their own but it it's it's concerning because how hard we throw anymore you know the only saving grace in that one the other day is the fact if you know it looked as I said looked intentional to me that if it was intentional at least it was to the middle of the body and not to the head area because you know that ends somebody's career as it turned out you know this ball hit him in the elbow which is frightening and I was happy he was in the lineup last night now your third base coach from 98 willy randolph was on yesterday said he understands he actually understands what Keith was saying he said but the way it should be done he said you move somebody off the plate and you don't throw it their head he said yes don't try to hit them would you be in agreement with that yeah I mean there there are times you know as we're going back to talking about paul o'neill you know he you know they didn't make him move his feet they hit him they hit him so you know if you're gonna if you're gonna you know make a point and retaliate you know it you know and I've seen you know again the the suspensions are a little bit more excessive when it's in the head area because I don't think players because of the style of hitting anymore are able to get out of the way as easily as well I went like my time because it's a different style of hitting but you know if they're gonna insist on retaliating with hitting somebody you know it's probably the rear end or somewhere in that area is the safest but not they don't have that kind of control anymore and that's frightening to me now final thing because of the 12 years I spent around you when you were the manager I feel like I know Bob Gibson because you would always tell Bob Gibson stories did Gibson hit people on purpose I had times he you know made a point let's put it that way uh you know everybody used to say I remember uh willy star drill may a soul rest in peace will he used to say well you keep pitching inside he's I don't pitch inside and he didn't pitch inside he stayed away away away if he pitched if he threw the ball into somebody it was for a reason and and that reason uh you know was the fact that they were going out there hitting pitches they shouldn't hit uh you know because they were too comfortable uh let me do you have a minute for sure for for a quick story sure bill white bill white was bob Gibson's roommate okay and and bill white uh he said the bob Gibson said to him hey bill if you ever get traded and you go out there and pull that pitch outside or the outside corner he said I'm going to hit you he just told him right there then he does get he does get traded to Philadelphia we go in the Philadelphia and you know bill white gets a hit off in the first time because he you know he threw a pitch down the middle he should hit it uh next time up bill white you know he pulled the ball that was a ball outside and he pulled it down the first baseline he was a left hand hitter next pitch he hit him in the ribs bill white looked at me she're crazy as he's going to first base he said told you don't and they were really close right they weren't there's yeah to this day they're still very close but uh you know it was just that you know a different time you know again i'm not saying you know which is better uh but you know that was more you pretty much took care of those things on your own you know it really wasn't orchestrated in those days you you had a sense for what needed to happen and and you know you pretty much took care of it my first week in the big leagues michael uh i got knocked down in every city and and and when i say knocked down they threw up my head in every single city just to see how the rookie would handle you know getting knocked down i mean that that was just the the style of play in those days and it's different now it has to be right because people have to come in it certainly is and i think we're taking the things a lot more uh personal than then you know this is a game we're playing you know it seems to be a lot more personal you know great stuff yeah sometimes it's volatile thank you so much i can't wait to see you tomorrow in the dugout before the ceremony the same here michael


Hey guys Today we got something kind of fun. We're gonna do remember that camera. I bought at the flea market We're gonna see if it works Stay tuned Okay, guys. This is that camera. I bought The late 60s I forget exactly what year I'm thinking 68 or 69 We're gonna put some batteries in here and try this thing out Because I don't know if if you can see I can hold it right. Let's put some batteries in here Batteries are in the handle now. I thought the film Used up, but I got to looking at it and it's not Now you can still buy film for these cameras. It's a little pricey But this just it pulls out so that little thing Just unscrew like that takes four double a minus Plus it's just like that tighten it down Then you stick this in here.  I'll put the fall Do another video on the footage of what I take with this? So I think that's pretty cool man. Just awesome So there you go. It does work pretty cool Pretty cool So there you go guys There's a quick little upload for you So you might be wondering about it. I was wondering about it. So I thought I'd try it out. So Listen guys, it does work. Stay tuned in the future for the footage that I'm going to film with this Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one. Shea bearer the myth man the legend. I'm going for now. Bye. Bye guys


Hi and welcome to the session. Today we will learn about arithmetic mean. In our present day life we need information in the form of numerical figures which is called data. This data can be related to the profits of a company during some year, the monthly which is earned by the workers in a factory, marks obtained by the students of a class etc. So before collecting data it should be clear to us that for what purpose we want to use that data. Now once we have collected the data we must organize it in a tabular form so that it can help us at any point of time. Now let us see what is average. Average is a number that represents or shows the central tendency of a group of observations or data. Now different forms of data need different forms of representative or central value to describe it. So here one of the representative value arithmetic mean. Now let us see what is arithmetic mean. So the arithmetic mean denoted as AM or mean or average is defined as sum of all observations upon number of observations. Let us take an example. Suppose we are given some observations that is 30, 25, 40, 35 and 65 and we need to find out the mean or arithmetic mean of these observations. Then first of all we will find the sum of all observations which will be equal to 30 plus 25 plus 40 plus 35 plus 65 which is equal to 195 and here the number of observations is equal to 5 as there are 5 observations. So now mean is given by sum of all observations upon number of observations. So this will be equal to 195 upon 5 which will be equal to 39. So mean of these given observations is 39. Now if you will see it carefully then you will notice that mean always lies between the greatest the smallest observations. If you find out the mean of any two numbers say 5 and 13 which will be equal to 5 plus 13 upon 2 that is 9. So here 9 lies between 5 and 13. Now our next topic is range. If we are given few observations and we need to find out the range of observations then this will be equal to highest observation minus lowest observation. Let's take an example for this. Let's take the same observations which we took in our last example that is 30, 25, 40, 35 and 65. Here we need to find the range of these observations. So to find out range first of all we will arrange these observations in ascending order. Thus we have 25, 30, 35, 40 and 65. Now range is given by highest observation minus lowest observation and here 65 is the highest observation and 25 is the lowest observation. So range will be equal to 65 minus 25 which will be equal to 40. With this we finish this session. Hope you must have understood all the concepts. Goodbye, take care and have a nice day.


The panel, the discussion, an objective and impartial view of the issues of interest to you. Nation Beat is on now. For many decades, the South Alois Community College has been one of the island's biggest repositories of unherald talent, equipping thousands of young citizens with degrees and diplomas who are making their mark on island and abroad. Over the years, the college has adapted to include more digital solutions to their learning programs and today has further evolved with the assistance of the CDF to place a sharp focus on developing the innate talent and artistic creativity in its students. Every cooperation agreement... According to the chair of the board of SALCC, Mr. Cletus Springer, cooperation is the essence of life and the signing of this memorandum of understanding is a positive step in providing students with a healthy balance. The core purpose of education ought to be, in fact, must be to help our people to discover and to develop their innate talent. The South Alois Community College needs and appreciates the help of others so that it can do more to assist others. I have no doubt whatsoever, no doubt whatsoever about the positive impact this will have on the lives of our students and on the development trajectory of our country. Charing the CDF board, Mr. Dowingard expressed how he felt about the new partnership and the importance of art and creatives in education. I think that for the most part, artists have been left to chance, not with intent and purpose, but almost left to chance after probably secondary school to figure out exactly what it is they're going to do. When I heard about this partnership, I was elated. For me, it is a profound collaboration. It is one that we need to appreciate because of where it is going to go. For the artists who are going to take part in this project, I feel very inspired because for the first time, we are actually nurturing seeds from beginning to end. Representing the Ministry of Tourism, Investment, Creative Industries, Culture and Information was Anne Margaret Adams, who commended the organizations for the initiative. It is inarguable that this sector is of tremendous importance to our tourism industry and the economy as a whole. The Ministry is aware of the arduous work of the two agencies, CDF and Sir Arthur Lewis, in developing such a program over the past year. And we are excited. I said, pleased initially, but excited and inspired to be part in witnessing what is expected to be the commencement of much needed support in enhancing the competitiveness of the creative industry sector. Renowned sculptor and artist Jalem Yudovic brought the ceremony to a close with his own personal testimony and endorsement for art in education. What role does art play in our development? In terms of crafting our identity as a people and as a nation, what's the role of art? In terms of the development of our spirituality, our spiritual selves, and I believe that's where we make the error most times. We see art as a product, as a commodity. I believe that art is an essential part of the development of who we are. Officials from the CDF and SALCC have sworn to do all within their power to make this partnership a long-standing and fruitful one for college students, the creative industry sector and the wider nation. Hello everyone and welcome to a special launch of the business of the arts project. My name is Natsili Jodi-Fanes and today I am joined by representatives of three of our national developmental institutions and I have to put it that way because they have some responsibility in nation building. So joining me today to my immediate left is Jacqueline Alley and she is the project officer with the social development, Senusia Social Development Fund. Next to her in between the two ladies is Mr. Darwin Gard and he is currently the chairman of the Cultural Development Foundation and as you know they have a great developmental role in the creative industries and that is going to be our focus today. And our final panelist today is Ms. Cantilia Louie representing the South Alois Community College which as you know is the national tertiary institution of Senusia and of course I assume her responsibility is for the training aspect but we will get to that. So the creative industries as we know is such a vital component of our development of our economy these days generating so much fund and as we go into the carnival season we understand the relevance of that and of course it's important for everybody within that industry to be trained and to be a professional and we always need funding to be able to do that. So we're going to start first with the representative from the Senusia Social Development Fund Ms. Alley to tell us just about her entity's involvement in this project. Ms. Alley over to you. Thank you Ms. Fanes. Basically we received a proposal from the CDF asking for funding for a program, well actually two programs that we speak specifically on the business of the arts where it's a skills building skills training capacity strengthening program that is being funded by the Basic Needs Trust Fund and the Basic Needs Trust Fund is the flagship program developmental program of the Caribbean Development Bank and we receive grant funding to fund projects that in vulnerable communities or to assist vulnerable persons within Senusia. Great vulnerable persons within St. Lucia. So let's switch off to Mr. God one time. Mr. God how do the RTS that fall under the purview of the CDF how are they likely to benefit from that program that is going to be funded by the CDB? Well first of all I just want to thank the SSGF to BNTF for the funding and obviously the South Lewis Community College for making this happen for us partnerships and collaborations the things that we always look forward to in going forward if our mandate. How are they going to benefit? For us it's always about adding value to the artist and I think for us this particular project adds value in the sense that it allows for the artist now to have a business perspective. We understand the expansion of the creative industries in terms of you know the professionalism and branding and marketing and management and finances and for us that is truly important from a CDF's perspective we know in the past we have funded tremendously in terms of giving the artist directly. This time around though what we love about this project is that it is about the management to some extent of the artist and I think that adds to a wonderful contribution to the creative industries. Thank you so much Mr. God and we will get back to you for a little more development of those points but I want to just bring in Ms. Lucia here I have skills building I hear the importance of branding and the focus on management before you get into just explaining the program. For the initiation of this just what was the college and CDF thinking in terms of developing that program and what they wanted to achieve? Well Saffa Lewis Community College as you said as our tertiary institution we recognize that the creative industries is one of the fastest growing industries in St. Lucia and one of the pillars of course is making sure well I should say all three pillars of Saffa Lewis actually connect quite nicely with the development of the creative industries when you think of the idea of being innovative the need for sustainability that's something we hear all the time especially with parents with young you know creative industries practitioners saying how is my child going to be able to sustain a living in terms of this and of course our third pillar which is entrepreneurship. We are ensuring that okay this area which is growing which as we said is the way I think to go for us as a small developing state we need to ensure that we give all the skills necessary to our practitioners so that they cannot only make their mark here but globally. Great Mr. Goddard I wanted to reach back to you I think we are sure we know for sure that CDF provides a platform for our creatives where they organize activities or events that allow them to be showcased and now with this project you've written a proposal to seek funding and I know you've spoken to the fact that you want management and branding but based on what you see of our artist in St. Lucia can you speak more to how you're going to meet that need for training in terms of how the program was developed. Well first of all partnering with the Authorist Community College was important because for us again we have done a number of programs but we sought certification as being very important in the process. Too many times we've had programs where you just have the programs but at the end of the day the artist does not have certification so that's one thing for us that's important and that being said I think it's important to partner with a reputable educational institution that adds value to that to that to the certification. In terms of how we we're going to ensure here's what we've recognized. We recognize the need within the industry like I said to have management. If you look at the successes of a lot of the artists if you look at the successes of a lot of the artists you'd realize that those who do extremely well have management and for us that's important. Have management so maybe we will have to develop that a little bit in terms of because you think of artists having an external entity manage them I think that's some of what we have been seeing we see artists who will tell you I only want to focus on my craft and I don't want to get into the other things. How do you create that balance where they are not too bogged down with all of the other management how do they balance developing their craft and and having that skill. So I understand quite clearly what you mean by that you know artists go back and forth about I just want to be an artist and of course there's always the importance of management however it's also very important for the artists to understand that they're a professional they're a business or a business person and what does that mean in relation to the creative industries is different from other industries because you end up being a product to some extent. So how do you now as an artist as much as you want to focus on being an artist how do you make sure for example at the end of the month you can still pay your bills how do you make sure you get the best price for your services and products that is part of the the the skills these are some of the discussions the different things we were trying to ensure that we can give an avenue or a forum for the artists to understand. So through this program you can either one come out of it and manage artists or you can be an artist who understands yourself better as a professional because we like to use that word a lot especially in St. Lucia I am a professional but what does that really mean a professional has to balance all sides of the career and so with this we have a number of areas as we said not just looking at for example how do you go about organizing your finances to make sure you and you know in land revenue and good spare you know good standards for example but what does it mean when we say creative industries in St. Lucia and in the region we are going to examine what the trends are I find for example a lot of artists don't focus on one area how do you know which of your skills you can monetize and which should be just for development of yourself so this course this program is going to help them to find the right path the right turns to take and become in a better vision of themselves. Let me just add something quickly I'm hoping because of the uniqueness of this program I know there's a stress on the artist being able to what I expect may happen with this program is that some of the artists who go in may come out being managers of artists because of the perspective so I'm hoping that it's a it's a situation where the perspective on the management and the arts and creative industries is broaden to allow people to see other opportunities so some may go in as artists who just want to deal with themselves but may find that oh there's actually an opportunity to manage an artist what I'm doing and so probably now that the management side of things will probably come out which is extremely necessary as a potential to creative industries. Excellent we need to go to break I hope we have artists tuned in and if they are not I appeal to you to call them and ask them to join we are talking about a business of the arts program that is a collaboration between the South and the Wiskirvnity College the cultural development foundation and funded by CDB through the social development fund so stay tuned we will be right back to talk more about the qualification that will be received and why this program is one that you should be a part of. Stay with us. Be your brother's keeper make the change end the gun violence now. A message from the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice and Empowerment. Welcome back to the launch of the business of the arts program it's a project done in collaboration with the South Lewis Community College the Cultural Development Foundation and the St. Lucia Social Development Fund with funding from the business trust fund. I know I must start a letter in that but that's cool. If you were with us before we're going to continue our conversation if you're just joining us this is an exciting venture for our creatives again we speak to how the creative industries expanding it isn't a forerunner for economic development and it's important that we have all our artist qualified so we have with us a representative from the South Lewis Community College in the person of Ms. Cantilia-Louis why didn't say before but she's no she is a creative herself so she understands the dynamics and she was instrumental in having this program designed also with us is another creative himself brand designer Mr. Darwin God who currently serves as the chairman of the Cultural Development Foundation and the funding agency representing the funding agency we have with us Mr. Jacqueline Alley so in our first segment we were really speaking about the necessity of such a program and I want to go back to that a little bit with Ms. Alley just to say you she said to us that a proposal was written but I'm sure there are measures there are benchmarks that you use in terms of approving such things why did this project in particular qualify for funding okay the the mandate of the BNTF as I said is to reduce vulnerabilities and under the there are several sectors that the basicness trust fund CDB grant funding several sectors that we fund and and this particular project came under the human resource education and human resource development sector which also includes livelihood enhancement and this is where this fits in because the focus is on CDB the BNTF and the SSDF we all have the same mandate which is to reduce unemployment we CDB has an emphasis also on employment generation and entrepreneurship so the proposal when we got this proposal obviously it had to be the processes that we have to go through like needs assessments etc however it met a lot of the criteria and we also align a lot of our programs or projects that that are funded under the BNTF they're aligned with the SDGs also the sustainable development goals so we believe and specifically the employment generation part of it I also want to mention just to piggyback on something Mr. God said about certification it is BNTF CDB is very important they're very it is very important that when they fund skills training programs that the beneficiaries get certification that they could use outside of the country it's not specific to St. Lucia and they could go anywhere and gain employment with that excellent excellent Mr. God I'm hearing Miss Alessi creating employment but I'm also hearing within what she's saying the struggling artist yes and CDF coming to deal with that issue I think it's real I think we we know a lot of artists will tell you that they probably if there's not even paycheck to paycheck and sometimes people even take advantage of their talent in terms of just having them come to do something they don't know necessarily how to cost etc so to speak to CDF's representation of the struggling artist I think on a broader scale I don't think the the creative industries is still a developing industry the injection in terms of economics in the creative industry I think we can do a lot better I know government is actually helping in that regard but I think we can do a lot better in terms of creating an environment where the artists are able to do well and have access to a lot more opportunities but like any other budding industry anywhere but budding sector it will have its difficulties which is why when an SSDF comes to to say a listen we can help you move this forward and it's awful it's going to cause us hey we'll put this program together for you the CDF is is always happy to have these collaborations because we think it's important so I think the sector on the whole creates some kind of vulnerability but we're moving forward and like I said when we have these kind of collaborations it works certification first is very important because for our understanding is to do programs where you're not certified means that you probably secure in a particular space so if let me give an example if a business says I'm going to do a program most times these people remain in the program so there's no need for certification because it's training within a particular area but in terms of if you're getting you doing a program where you have to go outside certification is necessary I mean you know you want to present your your your collateral to whatever entity you going to so that they can see the the value that you come with the prerequisites for example for us is important so when you put all of that together you creating a valuable artist a valuable artist and a valuable contributor within a business and professional sector and for us that is the you know a part of what we're doing we understand the modernization of the industry we understand where it's going and so we want to create people within the sector who can thrive not just survive but thrive and we think that these that that is necessary okay let's talk about value a little more in terms of the level of qualification that the artist will receive miss me can you speak to that yes so it's a professional certificate so at the end of it's a three semester program you start off in August well September and you are done by August and the following year so it's a year-long program and you receive that certification and again Sir Arthur Lewis wanted to ensure that it is open to all who need it and so the requirement is three years experience in the sector that's it three years experience so you have to again it's not for someone just decided is this what I want to do it has to be for someone who has been in it and has had the different experiences because you're going to realize when you come into the program that for the different courses a lot of the material is actually your experience so I miss it more relevant yeah so when you leave there you are talking and you're relating everything that you do to your personal business your personal approach and we wanted to remove that you know I come I learn something and now let me go and try and apply it to what it is I am doing you are the subject matter and three years experience gives you enough for the for you to be able to analyze yourself to be able to you know apply the various approaches that will be exposed in the practice the participants do so it's it's a lot of application a lot of application let's speak still on on the qualification and where artists can take that because I think that's always an issue it is Arthur Lewis certificate yes it's coming from a community college a reputable educational institution how do you see and I think I would like both of you to answer that how do you see that transferring possibly to other islands or other regions is that a certificate that can carry that kind of weight and maybe even if they want to continue to pursue another level of education is that something where they can possibly get transfer credit yes definitely so the the program will be a prerequisite for certain courses at South always coming to college our creative industries and events management ad program our creative industry creative and performance programs and other programs it will be and because we have such a network with various colleges and not only in the region but internationally our certification is accepted so it would allow or it should be an avenue for artists if they want to continue not only here but go for the field that can be used to help them in terms of administrative at sorry admission into other programs so that sounds wonderful so it looks like we have to just take another break I really wanted to talk to cost and whether CDF would be charging anything for this but we take another break and when we come back we will be getting into the process how do you become part of this program statement for that I'm Chauvan Matthew I am the inspector in charge of the criminal investigations department in castries the IRS LPF has received several reports of a new scum targeting people who are looking to purchase vehicles via Facebook the scum involves the following steps the scum post an advertisement for a vehicle via Facebook using stolen photos and fake details then you'll be given a phone number and asked to contact this person to arrange some sort of meeting the scummer also asked you to ensure that you carry along with you cash at that vehicle as multiple buyers and will be sold if you do not purchase rather than asked to meet up at a private location where you'll meet up with an individual who will ask you for the money and hand you a vehicle key and will instruct you to go to a different location to collect the said vehicle perpetrators of this scum will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law I'm encouraging persons to report any suspicious advertisements or transactions the crime hotline 555 remember if it sounds too good to be true it probably is stay safe and be vigilant online thank you so much for staying with us we are getting to the most important part of the business of the arts program how can you as an artist access it so if you know an artist who's not watching please tell them we are continuing with this conversation about the business of the arts program that has been developed by the cultural development Foundation at CDF in collaboration with the South Lewis Community College as the training Institute and with funding from the basic needs trust fund I think I got that right this time so mr. God you have offered this program for the development of our teased it is a one-year you say three semesters it's not an accurate it's more than an academic year that's why she said three semesters but it's like a full calendar yeah for the most part this is I think it comes out of course the SSDF I'm not joking in terms of SSDF again has just done a wonderful job in getting funding for us and they've done such a tremendous job that the understanding again when I spoke about the vulnerability of artists is free because we understand yes if let me go back to FR that's right free it is but but it is because again we understand the help that the industry needs and the sector needs but in investing that money in these artists and these professionals what you're going to get out of that is far more than for me what it is we're going to inject and therefore we see the returns on on on on what we get from the artist and it was an easy it was an it was an easy it was easy for us to say it was free and like I said SSDF did a wonderful job in in supporting programs like this cannot happen with just one entity getting it done it has to be collaboration and again you know I just want to thank the SSDF and the staff of this committee college because what you see in here is the CDF being the administrator and saying a we want this program because we understand the need for it but then we need to get partners to help us move it forward and we needed the financing and also we needed the programming and I just think that the three entities coming together just did a remarkable job in making this project happen so again back to the question when you ask what is the cost because of the wonderful work that the SSDF has done in fine and seeking financing for this project it's absolutely free but then again I think they have allowed this because they themselves have seen the returns on the investment and them so I think it was the easy choice to make this office committee college obviously would have put the project together in terms of helping the the CDF in terms of understanding registration online start date what is necessary what period is necessary for the amount of students we have come in so like I said it is it is an idea it's a vision we had but visionaries need persons to make these things happen and we've brought the right persons on board I would allow Cantilia I think as she has some more information as it pertains to the registration and so forth the details so next so as we tell us tell the artist about the registration process for this program well you have until the 3rd of August to register for this program it's an online well the form is online you can go to the Sir Arthur Lewis committee college website or the CDF website and just sign up now I know it's free but of course you know we have limits when numbers are concerned so I urge persons don't wait do it as quickly as possible to make sure you can get into the cohort we are catering for persons north and south it doesn't matter where in the island you are from we are going to ensure that we do our best to make sure that you have access to this this program if you have any questions or queries please feel free to get in touch with Sir Arthur Lewis committee college or at CDF if you need assistance or clarification with any aspect of the form but it's a very simple form just fill it out give us your information as we said your experience and you'll start a wonderful journey with us I'm sure the artist would be interested in knowing with how the program will be offered is it in person is it online do you have a blended modality it's a blended modality so one of the things that we did with this program was to make sure that we have as we said balance we know artists are very busy and so the idea of trying to find three four days a week to be able to meet for classes may be difficult so there's some aspects of the for all the classes that will be online where you can go on and do some of the assignments and work on your own but at least once a week the participants will come together to discuss to work in their groups to be able to get feedback from the different lecturers and let me say when I say lecturers I use that not in the traditional you know way facilitators we deliberately went out and got practitioners experts in their field to be part of this so you're not only getting the knowledge from them but they're also given you real world experience they're telling you about what it is that they've done and the experiences that they've had and so you are sure by the end of the time you learn about as we said all areas and the last course you end up with a business plan you can go forward with so you'll know how to market how to use social media how to organize your finance in your management and how to be able to analyze the trends to know where you should go in terms of your product development that sounds like a complete package to me so for an artist who definitely has their head on and they want to continue in that field so just let me get it clear again so you use you give those the end date for registration when does registration open registration opens the 13th of July so it's just around the corner the 13th of July registration be open as we said you'll find the link on the Sa'afa-Lewis Community College webpage as well as the CDF webpage and it's only an online application online application so it's easy for everyone you have to worry about paper you can sit down on your phone and just do that quickly and that's it great so mr. God and given all of that what are your expectations about the response from the artist once we have launched this program no I think I think the artist will be excited I think that is something that the the entire sector is looking forward to so my expectation is that the Sa'afa-Lewis Community College will be calling to see CDF we just have so many people applying that that is something we have to look into expansion and I'm not hoping it will it will be this program for me is one that has to continue I think it's going to play a significant role as we move forward because for us again it's about you know getting artists the development and the nurturing of artists and then we are proud to have collaborated with the SFDF and this is our service coming to college in making this project move forward it's a beginning and there will be room for expansion like I said and like I said working is the Sa'afa-Lewis I know somewhere down the road they will come up with more ideas you know CDF we think you should this high think it can be more impactful SFDF I again understanding the returns on investment I think once this program shows its legitimacy within the sector I can see doing extremely well so I'm asking the artists to participate and I'm asking them to you know really take the opportunity to develop themselves in that regard as we close I really want to give the representative of the funding agency just just for her to to speak as we close to encourage artists and to speak to that contribution that is being made towards the development. Considering all what Mr. God has said I think he basically touched on every area however the BNTF as I said shares the same mandate as the SFDF and it's about reducing on inequalities our programs are gender sensitive but most importantly sustainability where BNTF is very big on sustainability we expect all our programs should be sustainable it's not a situation where and that's the other reason for the certification as Mr. God said where you just come you're not just going to be doing a course and then you know you walk out there is an investment there is no cost to the artist the Caribbean Development Bank through the basic needs trust fund is funding 95% of the project and the government of St. Lucia is funding 5% so and again as you can see here we're one we're not working in isolation of anyone we're partnering with CDF we're the implementing agencies but they're more or less facilitating the project with with Sa'afa and it is we're anything that is going to reduce on poverty reduce on inequality and our young persons can generate funds but or sustain maybe have more sustainable livelihoods we're we're always willing to fund and assist with that. Thank you so much for that so we are speaking to success to again the pillars of sustainability and we know of course that art is so innovators so final words I suspect I should let Mr. God go last so I will I will invite Miss Louie to give her final words as we close off. I just would like to take this opportunity to thank not just the CDF but all the the creative industry experts that we engage during this process we didn't just sit down and come up all this happened I can say I use my experience as a creative we met with lots of creatives in the field and asked for their opinions and there was this took a year of back and forth and interaction because we wanted to make sure Sa'afa always wants to make sure that whatever product they put out they really meet the needs of its clients and so thank you so much CDF for engaging in that process with us and we look forward to making our contribution to the development of the creative industries. Final words Mr. God for me again it's just this for me is ideally what CDF is about collaboration we don't know it all we're not our mandate is but we sometimes we need help in pushing the mandate forward and so the partnership that we see here today is what I look forward to moving forward in making sure that we develop and you know we stick to our mandate I want to thank this after Louis committee college they've done a tremendous job and it's been a long time a lot of emails and conversations and programming professionals deciding how things are moving but we knew that we had depended on the right institution for that because of the reputation in the the ability to in education I mean you look around St. Lucia and the A level students have done tremendous so for us that was an easy that was an easy go I'm from SSDF we are happy it's about equality for them and making sure that there's equal opportunity and I think that is what we're trying to strive for as a potential artist within sectors that they get equal opportunity so for us it was a wonderful experience again and I hope that we continue to partner in such a way because we believe collaboration just gives you so much more so I just wanted to thank you I hope the artist understand the opportunities that they're gonna they're gonna get from this and I hope they can take that opportunity and help other artists within the industry because one thing it's not about self yes you've developed yourself but at the end of the day it is to go out there now and to continue because that's how we're going to make this industry grow we have to understand that at this point in time in a budding industry we have to give so we've learned so may pass it on to my other pairs who may not have been able to get opportunity because limited space so I'm hoping that they take that into regard but again it's a wonderful project I'm proud to be a part of it I want to thank CDF staff they worked extremely hard on this as well and I hope to see the fruits of this project great great way to end thank you so much miss we missed a card miss Aleph joining us today the call is out to all artists to sign up for the business of the arts program due to start in August go to the website of the south of the Wisk community college www.salcc.edu.lc to register now get your certification thank you so much for joining us for the launch of the business of the arts program the panel the discussion an objective and impartial view of the issues of interest to you nation beat is on now


We began with the thanks and the praises of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala praising him and proclaiming to him alhamdulillah Our very ability to say alhamdulillah is a blessing from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So the gratitude that we express to him subhanahu wa ta'ala deserves gratitude in and of itself and so we should always find ourselves in a state of shukr in a state of expressing our thanks to him subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has chosen each and every single one of us to be here at an individual level That he has selected your name to be in this gathering today and He has selected other people who wanted to be here today and he has not allowed them to come and So our sitting in this gathering is being chosen by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala To partake in the mercies and the forgiveness that exists in this gathering Such that that the angels They go about the heavens and the earth searching for the gatherings of the zikr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala until they finally find one and Then when they find this gathering they come and they this descend upon this gathering and the angels begin to surround us and With the surrounding of the angels comes the mercy and the forgiveness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So your very presence in this gathering is Different than any other gathering that you could possibly imagine Because your presence in this gathering in and of itself without having to do any extra effort is a means of attaining forgiveness and mercy If we make a simple analogy If someone is sick and they go and visit their physician or doctor By attending the appointment This person it will only gain information This person will gain Medicine this person will receive a plan But the cure does not occur in the meeting with the physician the cure does not occur in the meeting or the appointment But it comes with the work and the effort that comes afterwards If you compare that to this gathering that we are in We don't need to do any work after this We do need to do work of course but in terms of simply attending the gathering just in that is forgiveness and mercy and So with that intention we sit here today in front of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Says in the Quran that he has sent the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam as a Rahma He has sent him sallallahu alaihi wasallam as a mercy He has sent him sallallahu alaihi wasallam to demonstrate what it means to embody mercy Towards creation So when we look at the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam we are obliged To respond to him in favor When someone does good to you you are you feel a sense of obligation to say at least thank you When someone hands you the coffee you say casually thank you when someone opens a door for you casually you say Thank you when someone brings you water or says something nice to you and praises you in a certain way you say thank you and So any benefit that we receive we feel a sense of wanting to repay that With the mention of thanks and gratitude So when we look at the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam when we look at Nabi Kareem What is it that we have Except that it has come from him sallallahu alaihi wasallam The faith that we proclaim today is because of him sallallahu alaihi wasallam The ability to congregate and pray in the way that we do is because of him sallallahu alaihi wasallam The ability for us to thank Allah the way that Allah deserves to be thanked the method of thanking Allah is taught by him sallallahu alaihi wasallam and This is reflected in the hadith That is very well known But oftentimes goes uncompleted may yuridillahu bihi khaira yufaqihu fiddin That whoever Allah wants good for he gives that person an understanding of the religion That person begins to understand what this deen means That person understands the Quran and understands the hadith and understands the character of Nabi Kareem sallallahu alaihi wasallam But then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam continues and he says That I am the one that distributes and Allah is the one that provides and gives That everything that we know Has been given to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam In particular to Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam in relation to us because we are of his ummah sallallahu alaihi wasallam Wahu wa qasim and he is the one who gives he is the one who distributes that which Allah gives to him So the knowledge that you have about Allah has come from him sallallahu alaihi wasallam The way that you know to worship Allah has come from him sallallahu alaihi wasallam your ability to read the Quran Has come from him sallallahu alaihi wasallam your ability to even look at the words of the Quran is Because of him sallallahu alaihi wasallam every connection that you have to Allah Who subhanahu wa ta'ala is because he distributed that to you sallallahu alaihi wasallam And so what should be our response if we're able to say thank you to the barista That gives us a cup of coffee or to our children when they bring us a cup of water What are the things due to Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam if? When we're entering and leaving this door, we can say thank you to the person that opens that door for us What is the thing? Thanks that we need to give Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam If someone helps us stand up because we're struggling to get up And they help us up and out of the bottom of our hearts because of the kind gesture that this person did Perhaps for me or perhaps for an elderly person That feeling that you feel inside if that person deserves thanks What is the thanks that Nabi Kareem sallallahu alaihi wasallam deserves The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam has asked something simple of us He has asked something simple of us He has said all you need to do is to send salawat upon me If you want to thank me then send salawat upon me Man sallallahu alaihi wa ahidah whoever sends one mercy upon the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam sallallahu alaihi ashrah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sends ten mercies upon that person and what do our scholars say about ten mercies from Allah? What does it mean to have ten mercies from Allah? Our scholars tell us that the ten mercies that we receive from Allah One is enough for your deen and your dunya for your world and you're hereafter What of the other nine the other nine are bonus for you One is enough for you and will suffice you in your entire worldly affairs and your entire hereafter What of the other nine? Because it is with the saying Muhammadur Rasulullah that we are entered into Jannah How many people before us have said la ilaha illallah? How many people today say la ilaha illallah, but not until they accept Muhammadur Rasulullah will they be entered into Jannah? Your ticket and your gateway into Jannah is completing the testimony of faith of la ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasulullah This is a promise from Allah and his messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam and their promise is true And so it is our duty to send Salawat on him sallallahu alaihi wasallam out of this gratitude that we feel towards him and Look at the way that Allah responds with the gratitude That we feel in relation to Nabi Kareem sallallahu alaihi wasallam Verses even him subhanahu wa ta'ala the amount of honor and Praise that he gives the one who sent salawat on the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam sallallahu alaihi ashra that he is going to give salawat upon you tenfold Who are the you sallalli alaykum wa malayka to who he and his angels sent salawat upon you tenfold Because of his love for the slave that sent salawat upon Nabi Kareem sallallahu alaihi wasallam and not to take away From the Zikr of Allah in no way am I intending to do this But when we mention Allah, what does he say? Fa dhkurooni adhkurkum that when you mention me, I will mention you That when we mention Allah, Allah mentions us and what a beautiful blessing it is to be mentioned By Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the company that he is in but look For the one that mentions Nabi Kareem sallallahu alaihi wasallam He gives them tenfold that mention ten times that mention This is the honor that he has placed in Allahumma salli ala Muhammad And so what should we do? How do we go about this? I leave you with two things how to increase in Our salawat upon Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam One is to attach the salawat to a number That every morning and every evening I'm going to send ten salawat on the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam That when I wake up in the morning sallallahu alaihi wasallam and before I close my eyes at night Sallallahu alaihi wasallam ten times or a hundred times or two however much you can be consistent with One is to attach it with number and The second one is to attach it without a number That you attach your salawat To a place or an action that you do That every time I walk by the kitchen I will send salawat on the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam or every time I drive to work I will send throughout the ride Salawat on the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam or at the time when I'm on my way home from school I will send salawat on the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam without a number But you dedicate that act that this is for Nabi Kareem sallallahu alaihi wasallam So we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give us This deep understanding of what it means to send salawat on the best of creation Habibullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us people who love him Sallallahu alaihi wasallam and who love Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who can understand and act upon what has been said Saufir Allah li walakum walisa'il al muslimin fa astaghfiruh innahu hu al ghafoor al raheem


Welcome to another live video. In this one we're going to be doing a discussion on one of my recent videos when you run into the narcissist after no contact. So I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences if any of you have contact. Does anyone have something that they would like to share? What often happens is when we see these, these narcissists after no contact, what we find is they want to display this image as though they're so much happier without you. So they never needed you around. They wouldn't act like it was so easy for them to just leave you and as though their lives are so much better now. So there's so much happier. That's what they want you to think. Let's see what we got here. Sunshine State says, I am avoiding to go out alone because of him. BJ says they act brand new. Nothing ever happened. That's so true. Aaron Goodie, I'm just about to move out and separate but our child is involved. Yeah, it can be difficult with children. But even then they'll still try and portray this image as though they're so much happier without you. Even if they're the ones who have custody of the children.  So they're free and life is so much better now without you. That's what they want you to think.  These people, they could never be happy. Just remember when you were with them. You did everything you possibly could to make them happy. But nothing was ever good enough. You had to do, you did it. You did whatever they wanted whenever they wanted. And they were still miserable. So there's no way that they're just going to move on. I think we just got cut off there. I don't know, can everyone hear me now? Yeah, the narcissist would love for you to think that they're so much happier without you. It gives them supply. It makes them feel better about themselves. Just reading the comments here. J says ex narc drives by my house. I confronted him about his criminal background. I slammed the phone. He lives out of town. They will try any way they can to get back in. If they know you're not going to answer the phone, they'll just call from a different number. They can't just move on because they were dependent on you. All they can really do is just portray this illusion as though they've moved on. Almost 11 years after my escape, says Heather. And he still needs to see how harass and stalk me along with his girlfriend and fly monkeys. I crave the day I have complete freedom. See, that's the thing, you know, they want to make you think that they've moved on with someone else and they're so much happier now without you. That's just a really good example, Heather, because it says, you know, if that narc was so happy with his new girlfriend, why would he still be harassing and stalking you? Why would he need to see you 11 years after your escape? That just shows that you cannot be happy at all because a person who is happy, they're just going to forget about you. They're not going to be talking to other people about you. They're not going to be trying to look at you or see you in any way. They're not going to try and pop up in your life again. When people do these things, it's because they're miserable and they're hoping that they can make you miserable too. They're comforted by other people suffering. It's like misery loves company. So what you have to do in these situations is you just have to focus on yourself. Just move on with your own life. Don't let them steal your attention. When these people come around you, when they try to get you to think about them, it's because they just want you to be miserable just like them.  No matter who they are with, they lost their grade A and their misery is compounded by that. That's right. See, I would even go as far to say that if you weren't anything important, if you weren't the narcissist grade A source of supply, you're not going to see them after no contact. Once they discard you or you discard them, that's it. You're not going to see them again. If you do see them again after that, it's because they wanted you to see them again. Narcissists are masters of illusions and manipulations. They've practiced this for years. So whatever you see, whatever you hear when you're around a narcissist, nine out of ten times it's probably being planned in advance. So if you see them after no contact, after the discard, it's because they wanted you to. And just as Angela said, they're obsessed and that's why they're popping up in your life again. They're miserable. Whether they're with someone or not, they can never be satisfied. Just remember when they were with you, when you first met them, it was all a lie. It was all fake. They never really loved you. They never really cared about you. And it wasn't long until they began mistreating you. And that's not going to change. The trick of the narcissist is they want you to think that they can just change overnight, that they can just be different. But it's just a lie. If they can get you to believe in it, it makes it more believable for them. It's how they get their supply. Can you hear me now? Yes, you can hear me? I'm really sorry about that. I'm not sure what happened there. I just turned off the blue tooth. So maybe that did it. Okay, so where were we? Okay, so I'm not sure how far you're here. I was saying about if you do see the narcissist after no contact, after the discard, it's probably because they wanted you to see them. They are masters of manipulation. When they're around you, they have to control everything you see, everything you hear from them. So if you see them after no contact, after the discard, it's probably because they wanted you to. And they'll have some script planned for you. They'll have something they can use to try and hurt you. And whether they're with someone or not. If they're still popping up in your life after no contact, that suggests that they haven't really moved on. And they're not happy whether they're with someone or not. Yes, Angela, that's very true. They are masters of manipulating themselves. When they try and manipulate you or anyone else, they're really just trying to manipulate themselves. All they care about is how they feel about themselves. And they will use other people as pawns in their game so that they can improve how they feel about themselves. Because that's all that really matters to them. How they feel. We are just objects that they use so that they can feel better. Yes, Sunshine State, it's sad. But yes, they are believing what they're saying a lot of the times. They have to believe their own lies to function. If they didn't believe their own lies, that would mean that they've made mistakes. They flawed. They would just end up causing injury after injury to themselves. They would drive themselves insane. But when they are suspending enough time alone, they do drive themselves insane. Because deep down, they know they're lying. Joe Victor says, your channel helped me to get through the last days. I'm slowly trying to understand because I love having people around me. Although I am shy and all luckily people around me have not left. I'm really happy to hear that, Joe. I'm glad to hear that the channel has helped you. That's why I make these videos is to make people understand what these narcissists really are. It's to make people more aware about it. And also so you know the differences. So you're not just afraid of everyone you come into contact with. So you know when you're dealing with a narcissist. And when you're not, because especially when you've been through this, it can feel like everyone's a narcissist. It makes you hyper vigilant. It makes you untrustworthy. So it's definitely good to know the differences as well. But yeah, I don't want to stay up too long on this. We'll be up early tomorrow. Working on the next videos for later on in the week. We've got a lot of big videos coming up this week. So stay tuned for them. Thank you all for joining this live. And I hope to see you all in the premiers tomorrow.


The coordinator, a dual internally displaced persons camp, also known as the home of the Nidine dual-state pastor, Fallorusha Solomon, has called on the federal states and the well-mini Nigerians to help inmate with food items to cushion the adverse effects of the few subsidiary removal on them. Fallorusha made this statement while speaking with our Asaba correspondent of Plumber Jarrah Friday at the camp in Huguay of the not-est lurking of majority of the states. It's really, I mean, they are wonderful people but the challenge of feeding them and funding the education is the main issue that we are battling at the moment. Some of them will not be allowed to write the exam because they didn't tell their students. In one of the universities, West Standard High University, they have overfitted the last exam they wrote. They were all denied entering into their classes because they didn't tell their students. And the children cried and cried. But I only just have to give them hope that things would get better. You see, there are some delays, some challenges because of hardship, especially in the aspect of food. And we also need things like food, we need food, we need rice, we need different food items because as you see, we are just living God. We need the government to provide food, oil, rice, all food items for us because you see us right now, we are not eating morning food since morning. We are not eating morning food, we are still living. So we need the government to help us, to support us in the aspect of food fuel because sometimes you see we just stay without water.  Get notified about fresh news updates.