Hello and welcome to Meet the Experts, Testing the Limits of Weather Predictability. I'm Katie Wolfson with the UCAR Center for Science Education, and we are so excited to have all of you on today with us. We hope that you will have lots of questions for our expert today. This program is our bi-weekly program where we connect you students wherever you are with experts at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and we've talked to all sorts of amazing folks studying wildfires and hurricanes, working on supercomputers, and that's one of the really neat things about National Center for Atmospheric Research is there are so many different jobs you can have. You can be a scientist, you can be an engineer, you can be a pilot, a mechanic, a chef, an educator, so many different options, and so we're so excited that over this last year, we've had the opportunity to connect you with some of those experts. Today, we have a really great expert for you to talk to, but before we get there, a few quick housekeeping things. I want to invite everybody to please ask questions in the chat. Please feel free to say hello in the chat. If you haven't already, we love having all of you from Colorado and California on with us today, and thank you, Marley. I like my name's pretty cool. I like it. It's great. Your name's great too. Thank you for saying hi in the chat, and I want to ask you all to keep your microphones muted for right now. At the end, I will invite you would like to tell us in the chat, you have a question. You can unmute and ask your question to our expert then. But in the meantime, feel free to type any questions you have, any observations you make in the chat as we go. I also want to let you all know that we do have closed captioning available. You can turn that on and off and zoom down below. So you should see a little button there.  Also, at the very end of this, we are going to ask if any students who are in fifth through 12th grade would like to help us out and let us know what you liked and learned from this program. There's going to be a survey link for you. And we'd really, really appreciate you filling out that survey. So if you can kind of hang tight for the very end of the program, we will share that link with you there. So thank you so much, everybody. Without further ado, I think I'm going to turn it over to our expert today. We have someone really fun for you to talk to today. We have Falco Jupe, who is a meteorologist with the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Lab at the National Center for Abysspheric Research. And we are having some internet connection stuff today. So please bear with us and be patient with us. You can let us know in the chat if you can't hear too well and need us to repeat something. But thank you for your patience there. But without further ado, I'm going to hand it over to Falco. And Falco, do you mind telling us a little bit about who you are and how you got interested in weather in the first place? Sure. Hi, everyone. My name is Falco and I love weather. I love storms. I love snow. The crazier it gets, the more I love the weather. So today I look out of the window and it's sunny and I have to say, well, that's a little bit boring to me. I really love when the wind blows and when it rains, when it storms. So I really love the weather and that's why I became a research meteorologist here at NCAR. I also love planes, by the way. But I wanted to talk to you a little bit about, well, how did I end up where I'm now? How did I become a scientist? Because it wasn't really clear when I was in school. I just knew I love the weather and I love science and I love geeky and nerdy stuff. Yeah. And so I'm going to share some pictures of me. Hold on a second. Of me in school and maybe you can relate it to yourself a little bit. So there we go. So I hope you can see my screen. I, by the way, I grew up in Germany. So these pictures here, that's me with a red shirt in 12th grade. And at the top there, that was my focus class. In Germany, it was chemistry. I'm holding a little model of the molecule there. And I also love nature and geography. And so my second focus class, which you see a picture of in the bottom there, where I'm holding a globe, that was geography. So yeah, in 12th grade, I love chemistry, physics, and geography. I love the weather, as I said, especially when it rains, thunders, and snows. But I didn't know I could actually study the weather. So what I did after leaving school was I went into the military because I mentioned I also love planes and helicopters. I grew up right next to a hospital where there was a rescue helicopter coming pretty much every day. So I thought I want to be a helicopter pilot. So I joined the German army to train to become a helicopter pilot. That's me at age, I think 18 or 19, sitting in the cockpit of a transport helicopter. But it turns out I was actually not born to be a pilot. I was a little scared, and I didn't do too well in the simulator test. So I left the military, and I thought, well, what can I do now? I still love the weather so much. So I went to college to study the weather. I became a meteorologist. And because I love stormy weather so much, and especially hurricanes, the hurricanes don't exist in Germany. So I went to Miami in Florida, a very tropical place, beaches that gets hit by hurricanes very often. So I went to the University of Miami for college to study hurricanes. And that is me probably 10 years ago on the roof of the meteorology building at the University of Miami staring into Tropical Storm Bonnie in 2010 was this. You see my hair there, it's blowing back. That's probably 30 to 40 mile an hour winds. I have to hold on to the railing there to not get blown away. And then it started raining, and I had to take my shirt off. People said, well, Falco, you should come down. It's really bad weather outside. And I said, no, I want to stay up there. And so I took the selfie of me that shirtless in a tropical storm. And what I do when I'm in the storm, I usually measure the wind speed. So I have this little guy here that is called a handheld weather station. And it can tell you the temperature, the pressure, and especially the wind speed. I love strong winds. So I'm going to turn it on now. And hopefully, you can see it says 0 miles per hour there because there is no wind inside my office here, inside my room. But I can blow into it. And you see, oh, it was up to, I think, was 14 or 15 miles per hour. So with this little guy, I go out when it's blowing really hard. And I measured 40, 50 mile an hour winds here in Colorado. And you saw that picture of me there that was a tropical storm. And I had, I think, 30 to 40 mile an hour winds. So really cool. I go, every time I go hiking or outside, I take this little weather station with me. And I'm going to blow into it again. So I was actually up to 20 miles per hour. I can blow 20 miles per hour. Yeah, anyway, so I really love the weather. And I want to, if you like the weather, you should considering maybe when you go to university, you should start thinking until I could study the weather. I could study meteorology. And the good thing is you're not only in the classroom, but you also get to go outside. Let me share my screen again. There's some more cool pictures I want to show you. I hope this is showing up. This is me and a friend of mine at night in the Florida Keys. And we're launching weather balloons. So what's a weather balloon? Well, what we want to do is we want to make hurricane forecasts better. And so we need to gather data about the atmosphere. We need to know where the wind blows at different heights in the atmosphere here. And how do we do the next picture here? That is me, nicely tanned from pulling a Atlantic Ocean. And it gets there by hanging on this weather balloon. And that's me here with a big balloon. And we're just next to a road at night. And we're launching the balloon there at infocast there, especially when there are hurricanes. But the coolest thing of my studies was actually a trip all the way around the world into the Indian Ocean. So that trip actually took two days just to get there. I flew from Miami to Washington, DC, changed planes and flew for 14 hours to Japan. Changed planes again flew for another six hours to Singapore. And then on board of an American US Air Force transport plane, I flew into a tiny island into the Indian Ocean. And how it is to be on a military transport plane while this is a picture. We're there with the equipment. And that's me in the green shirt there, laying on the failure commercial flag that we're on there. But you're rewarded. When you're in the Indian Ocean, we were on a tiny island. And this is what the environment is there. It's a beautiful paradise in the middle of the tropical Indian Ocean.  Well, we wanted to study the weather there. There's very interesting weather there is in the wild. And we don't really know why it appears. But this island is really famous for another thing, coconut crabs. So what you're seeing here, this brown thing on the right, that's a coconut. And this little guy here, it's not little. It's actually very big as a coconut crab. I have never heard of a coconut crab before.  And they live only on these small islands in the Indian Ocean. The really cool thing what we did as scientists, this is us, the crew of scientists here, we came there with a research plane. So a big plane that measures winds, rain, the chemistry of the atmosphere, everything that you want to know about the atmosphere. There are instruments in the plane and it measures those. It's called a P3. That's the P3 we flew on and all of its beauty. Yeah, so we were in the Indian Ocean and I was a student. And I got out on the plane and then we just flew into the Indian Ocean and well, not into the ocean but over the ocean. And we just measure the winds, the clouds to understand, well, what's the situation of the weather there? Yeah, this is us on that P3 plane and we're dropping what is called an ocean buoy out of the plane while the plane is in the air. So you see a guy there who's holding a tube and in that tube is this ocean buoy. And there's a little hole in the plane and it just drops out of there as the plane is flying. And you can see here the plane that's a picture taken from a boat and there's this little piece coming out of the belly of the plane with a little parachute under the tail of the plane. And that's this buoy that we were dropping to better understand, okay, the ocean there is really warm, there must be a lot of water evaporating from the ocean to the air that's important for those storms. And we measured those ocean temperatures with these buoys. But we also have fun on the plane. So those flights are long and the pilots like to have us up there or scientists up there so we can tell them about the clouds. These are two pilots of the plane and they even let you or in that case me fly the plane for a little bit. Remember I had some experience flying helicopters but I'd never flown a plane before but there in the Indian Ocean where no other planes are around that's where I could actually try out to find a plane, fly a plane. Okay, so that was a little bit about me about how I study meteorology. So I've always been interested in the weather and I love the weather and so I always check my forecast. First thing in the morning, I checked the forecast for this day and for the next couple of days. And I always wondered. So I checked my forecast for this day and the next couple of days but I don't check the forecast for next month or for next Christmas. And I was thinking, well, why is that? So well, probably because we cannot forecast the weather for that fall or out, right? So I'm gonna ask you guys now to type in the chat how far out do you think can you trust the forecast or maybe even a month or a year? So if you think about it, let's say, yeah, what is the length into the future or the time into the future that you would trust the weather forecast? And I'm gonna tell you the answer later on. Let's see if you guys wanna give us an answer. Three weeks, three days, five days. Nobody's saying two months, nobody's saying a full year, probably because you know that, right? Yeah, I can tell you, I won't be able to tell you if we're gonna have a white Christmas this year or the next year because simply we're aren't that good at forecasting the weather for that far out. And there is a very, very sciencey answer there about 10 days for skillful prediction. Yes, but actually we can do a little bit better than that with the next generation of weather simulation models. And I'm gonna ask Katie now to play a movie which is from one of these super detailed weather models that we will be using in the future for weather forecasting. So if you look at this video now and you see, well, that looks like our earth, there is the US and North America there and you see all the clouds swirling about that's from a satellite, right? That's the, maybe it's current weather, it's sunny over Colorado there in the movie. Well, it turns out this is actually from a simulation. A simulation with one of those incredibly detailed next generation weather models. And Katie can, yeah, thanks for playing that. And so that's what I've been using here at NCAR to look into how far out we can actually forecast the weather in an optimal way. So this is a little bit of a thought experience. So the atmosphere is very, very complex. So we take planes and balloons to measure it, but we can only measure little, little bits of the whole atmosphere. So in order to measure everything, which we can't, we have to create our own weather in the computer. And that's where we use these super detailed models. And so my goal was to figure out how far out can we predict the weather? And in that, to do that, it gets a little bit complicated. Now we have to do a thought experiment first. Let's say we, okay, no, not with thought experiment, but what's what we call an idealized experiment. I will share with you now another graphic. So bear with me. And this is now the experiment that I did. Okay, I hope you can see my screen now. There should, you should be able to see a globe and left to the globe, it says fake reality. I just assume you guys can see that now. All right, so I'm gonna explain to you now. This is the super cool experiment that I ran with these incredibly detailed weather simulation models. So as I said, we cannot measure the atmosphere as well as we can do in the computer model because it sits in the computer. We have all the data there. So I ran a simulation. I created the weather for 20 days over the whole globe.  That, now we think that is reality, but it's not. It's just a simulation. It's like in the matrix. That weather only exists in the computer, but let's pretend it's the real weather out there. And I took a point in the Amazon brain force. There's a city called Manaus in Brazil. And I told the computer, tell me what the wind speed is in Brazil, in the rainforest when we start the simulation. And the answer is here, 10.567 miles per hour. Remember the computer knows everything. It's a simulation. We can ask, we can see what the weather is at any point in the world, anytime. And this is what it was in Manaus in Brazil when we started the simulation. Okay, so the weather evolved over 20 days. And after that simulation finished, I ran another simulation. But now I pretend that, now here comes the thought experiment in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, there's a little butterfly. And that butterfly probably flaps its wings. And as it flaps its wings, it makes the wind a little bit faster. So now we just assume in Brazil, in the rainforest, the wind speed is not 10.576 miles per hour, but 10.568 miles per hour. So a thousands of a mile per hour faster than that's something I cannot even measure with this instrument that I showed you before. And then we start the simulation again. And that is the only change. We only change the wind speed in the Amazon rainforest by a thousands of a mile. And we run the simulation again for 20 days and we see how the weather evolves. And you would probably think, well it will evolve more or less exactly the same because these two simulations are the same everywhere except for this teeny tiny change in the wind speed somewhere in Brazil where a butterfly flap its wings. But it turns out because the atmosphere is chaotic. So it's essentially unpredictable after some time that the weather situation all over the globe will be different between those two runs, the fake reality and the butterfly twin. And I'm gonna ask Katie now to show us a movie where we look at the temperature in Boulder you will see a line or two lines. So what the lines are showing is the temperature in Boulder in blue for the fake reality simulation and in red for the one where we had a little butterfly in the Amazon rainforest. Katie, it's predictability movie one. So first they are close together but then after a while, you see the number of days there on the bottom those red and blue lines are different. And that is because the atmosphere is chaotic. So that little butterfly changed the whole weather all over the globe. Not so much in the first six days, there the weather in Boulder is more or less the same that yellow there, that kind of tells you how different the weather is. And maybe Katie can run it again. So again in blue and red, that's the two simulations with the weather in Boulder and we see now 14 days. Oh, the blue line is cold and the red line is further up. So it's much warmer. And that is only because a little butterfly flap it's wings in the Amazon rainforest. So in one simulation, we get a snowstorm in Colorado and the other one we get fine weather. And that is the essence of chaos. So it means the tiny, tiny change in the beginning of an event will have huge outcomes later on. And that is the reason why we cannot make perfect weather forecasts because we cannot simulate all these little butterflies. And it's not only butterflies, it's birds too. Since we don't know when they flap their little wings we will never know if we get a snowstorm in Colorado or sunny weather two weeks or three weeks from now. And the last thing I wanna show is on average how far out we can predict the weather. Now I asked Katie to play the predictability movie number two. And what you see there is a line that starts out high. High means it's accurate, weather forecast is accurate. And then it drops down. And when it hits that red line there on the bottom that means the weather forecast lost all of its accuracy it's completely unpredictable. And if you look at the numbers there on the bottom it starts out at number zero. Oh, the weather is very accurate. Well, we know what the weather is right now we just need to look out of the window, it's sunny. And two days, four days from now the purple line is still on top there. So it's still pretty accurate that you can trust the forecast, but after eight or 10 days that purple line drops down it loses accuracy because of all the butterflies and birds that flap their wings and make tiny little changes to the winds all over the globes. And because the chaos this is like an avalanche that starts out very little but goes bigger as we go out in the forecast the accuracy is completely gone by about 16 to 18 days there. So bottom line is you cannot get accurate weather predictions more than 16 to seven days in advance but that is more than we have now. So now one of the you guys gave me the answers three days, five days somebody was more optimistic three weeks and that's what we have now. So we can make forecast out to 10 days that we can really trust. For example, I can tell you that this weekend is gonna be beautiful but we will have another rain and snow storm coming early next week. But beyond 16 to 18 days we won't have any we say scale any accuracy in the weather forecast because of all the little butterflies in Brazil and everywhere in the world that we can't measure of we don't know when they flap their little wings and change the weather on a tiny, tiny microscopic scale but because the atmosphere is a chaotic system it's unpredictable beyond let's say two to three weeks. That's in theory, we can still improve our models we can still make them more detailed we can still get better observations from satellites and aircraft. And before I close now and open this up for questions I want you to reflect on what I said about the weather maybe it also applies to yourself think about it you can predict where you will be tomorrow in a few days next month, maybe next year you have graduated or in a couple of years you have graduated and you go to college but beyond that it's hard to predict what your life will look like. So there's a similarity between the weather and your life and it's really interesting. So I often think about that when I study the weather it's as unpredictable as my own life because I told you I wanted to be a helicopter pilot that didn't work out well now I study storms and the science of weather prediction. Yeah, so that's all I wanted to tell you I hope you found it interesting if you love the weather like me the next couple of days are gonna be a little boring but Monday we'll get another storm. Oh man, I don't know what that means for my gardening plans this weekend Falco students, we can but the plants gotta make it through that snow storm. All right, students we're gonna turn it over to questions feel free to type any questions you have for Falco in the chat. Also if you would like to unmute and ask your question go ahead and just type in I have a question and we'll call on you to ask your question. While we're waiting for those questions to come in I have a question for you Falco do you feel like you have any sort of super power or special skill that makes you really good at your job or you find is really useful in your job doesn't have to be a science skill but just something that you find really useful as your superpower. Yeah, curiosity, I'm extremely curious I wanna know everything and that's kind of my superpower that, cause my work can sometimes be a little boring I always sit in my chair most of the time and stare at the computer screen but I'm curious I wanna know about things I wanna know how everything works and that makes my life really cool so because as a scientist I can actually figure out how things work but other superpowers than that not really I have a 14 months old baby and sometimes it just cries and I don't know why I wish I had the superpower to make him stop crying but I don't. Yeah, but that's a whole nother thing to figure out I think right there we have a question in the chat from Matt Beckett asking if future technology improves and allows us to get the initial conditions of the atmosphere right with accurate real-time data for instance, temperature, pressure, wind, et cetera at every point across the globe how far into the future do you think we'll be able to skillfully predict weather due to the chaotic nature of weather that is sensitive, dependent to initial conditions? Not more than three weeks that's about the upper limit so it always depends on the current situation of the weather all over the globe so sometimes the weather is more predictable so we can maybe forecast the weather out to three weeks sometimes it's less sometimes it's just 10 days or two weeks but three weeks seems to be an upper limit even with let's assume perfect initial conditions we know everything except the butterflies but even if we knew the butterflies it wouldn't be more than three weeks. Awesome, great question and I see Marley has a question would like to unmute and ask her question. So if a butterfly can change the weather if you're outside reading a book and you turn the page could that also change the weather? Yes, exactly so if you go out read a book change the page of the book you make a little wind there and that little whirl of wind that will move and spread through the atmosphere and change the whole weather pattern so you could actually cause a tornado in Texas by reading a book. Yeah, that's really cool if you think about it all these little tiny impacts that we do to the atmosphere will change the weather in some ways that we don't know. Cool question, I never thought about it but yes you change the weather as well it's not only butterflies and birds, it's us too. So everybody can take your hands and wave your hands around right now and we can adjust the weather a little bit and add some chaos into the system. Wonderful, let's see if anyone else has any questions please feel free to type those in the chat or let us know I have a question. I was curious Falco, are there certain times of year that it's harder to predict the weather? I feel like here in Colorado, April especially seems to be a tricky month that the weather changes a lot. Is there a reason for that? That is true, so in general it is easier to forecast the weather when it's less dynamic. So when there are extended periods of sunshine and we have that here in the summer, right?  That's very different from let's say April now where we have a fight between the winter that doesn't wanna go away, it still hangs out in the mountains and summer is already arriving, we get warm air from the south and that creates a dynamic atmosphere and the more dynamic this, the more the little butterflies or you turning the book matter in destroying the predictability. Wonderful, we got another question from Marley, follow up. Could you also change the weather inside a building or does it have to be outside? That's a very interesting question and I think you have to be outside because when you're inside the building and let's see, I blow the air stops at the wall. The weather outside doesn't feel that I blew in the building. So that little world that I created or by waving my hand, that just stays in the building. So you have to be outside. You have to be in contact with the actual weather, with the atmosphere outside. Wonderful, that is a great question and great thing that we can all be thinking about next time we're outside. Kalko, you shared some photos of you in a tropical storm before. What's for some of those students who maybe haven't been in a big storm or hurricane or tropical storm, what's that like to be inside one of those storms? Well, I love it. I think it's really cool because the wind blows so hard, it really hurts the eyes. It's tough to open your eyes when the wind is blowing that hard and there's rain. So about other people don't like it so much because, yeah, you get wet and you cannot be outside. It's a little dangerous, stuff flies around. So I showed you the pictures. That was a tropical storm. So that's just a storm, a hurricane. I wouldn't go outside because it gets really dangerous. The wind is so strong that it can tear off stuff from the houses that flies around. So generally, people don't like those storms, hurricanes and tropical storms. It's just us weather. Us weather, yes, that like the weather, that like the storm. I've never been in a real hurricane even though I lived in Miami for 10 years, but that was the hurricane drought we call it. No hurricanes hit Miami during that time. So I still want to experience one, but most people don't want to. All right, and we have another question from Marley. No need to apologize by asking questions. What about my dog's tail? Does that change the weather too? Yes, yes. So Ed, pretty much everything that can move the air, your dog's tail, maybe your dog's tail caused a rainstorm in Africa and Tui.  It just changes the course of the weather pattern and maybe that your dog maybe made it rain in a place that doesn't get much rain. So yeah, also the dog's heavy breathing too. Yeah. Breathing, breaking your dog's barbs, it also exhales air. Okay, let's take one more question. Are there any improvements like observation, data collection, computer speeds, math, physics that will make initial condition input into weather models and resulting weather predictions more accurate such that we may be able to extend that upper three-weight limit. Can we ever get past three weeks, Falco? So as we understand the science, the answer is actually no. Think about the speed of light, right? So the speed of light is a barrier and nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. It's just something that nature sets. And this three-week limit is also something that is set by nature herself. That is not something that's because of our technology and that can be lengthened by improving the technology. So the experiment that I showed you, the assumption in that experiment is that our weather model perfectly describes the atmosphere. It's called a perfect model assumption. So that's why I create this fake reality. I'm just saying like, okay, the weather model is perfect and creates the weather perfectly.  So we say the initial condition is almost perfect there. It's not something, it's futuristic, but even with this futuristic assumption that we can have a perfect weather model and a almost perfect initial condition, it's still three weeks. So you would have to make the assumption that you can measure the atmosphere perfectly to go beyond three weeks, but that is impossible because we never, even with the best technology, we can never measure the wind speeds to an accuracy of, let's say a billionth of a mile per hour or a billionth of a degree. So yeah, it's a boundary that nature sets that three week limit. So no computer, no observation technology, as far as we understand the science, there could be, maybe artificial intelligence comes up with something that we can't grasp and that could change that three week limit, but as far as we know, we can never forecast the weather more than three weeks out in advance. And I should say here that we're talking about weather, so a storm that hits at any particular time or place, that's different from climate. We can predict the climate out hundreds of years because there we talk about long-term averages. That's different from weather conditions. Awesome, well, thank you so much, Falco. Thank you so much students for all your questions. I think that is all the time we have today. I wanna invite all of you to join us in a couple of weeks for our final meet the experts of this school year. We're gonna be on Thursday, May 13th at 11 a.m. mountain time. We're gonna do Meet the Experts 3D Printed Science Labs and the Internet of Things with scientist Agbali Amiko from the Computational and Information Systems Lab at NCAR. So if you wanna learn how to make your own weather station and gather your own weather data and connect that in and maybe help go into some of these models that are predicting our weather and forecasting our weather, we would love to see you on that program. You can register for that today. Also, I would love to throw it to Tim to tell us a little bit more about the survey opportunity that we have. Thank you, Katie. Yes, some of you probably know that we're part of a collective network to understand students' experiences in online programs. Well, we wanna know what you learned and thought about this program today. So if you're a student in fifth grade or older, please copy and paste this link onto your computer. And when you leave our meeting, go there and answer some questions that will help you reflect on your learning experience and give us feedback on our program, if possible. We know everybody else's scheduled to have to keep, but we would love to have everyone who participated today in the program to answer these questions. So we'll just thank you for your help straight away. And I was just fascinated, Falco. This has been amazing. Thank you. Yeah, thank you so much, Falco. Thank you students and everybody who joined us today. We'll hope to see you next time. Bye, everybody.


Namaste. My name is Dr. Ravindra Agrawal and I am a psychiatrist at Manipal Hospital Goa. On the occasion of World Mental Health Day, I would like to greet you all. This year's Mental Health Day theme is mental health for all, greater access, greater investment.  We all in this time of COVID pandemic need more help. In many ways, the COVID pandemic has become a mental health pandemic as well. All of us are stressed. We are all carrying an amount of distress which we never did before. Be it economic uncertainty or be it loss of traditional coping mechanisms, we all are suffering a bit. But we have always bounced back. We are all fighters and humanity has seen so many disasters and has always survived and so will we. I would like to share with you some tips which would help us become resilient. So my tips are one, enjoy something everyday or do something which makes you feel good. Any pleasurable activity, it could be listening to your favorite song, eating something which you like or relaxing. Two, do something which makes you feel get a sense of achievement, makes you feel that you have spent the day doing something or an activity which is added quality to your life. It could be as good as completing a pending task, cleaning your cupboard, cleaning your desk, calling someone whom you have not called for a long time. Three, connect, connect with friends and families.  Next and the important one, point number four, avoid information overload. Too much of WhatsApp and the content which is in the news which is so distressing, you should avoid them because it adds to the anxiety. If you feel overwhelmed, if you feel that you are getting anxious, talk to someone. Don't suffer in silence, talk to your family member or a friend and let them know that you are finding things a little difficult to handle. And you can always talk to professionals, we at Manipal Hospital Goa are always here to help you. Don't suffer in silence, reach out. Namaste.


In this presentation, we will generate, analyze, print, and export to Excel the statement of activities report, which is basically like the profit and loss or income statement report. Let's get into it within two weeks. QuickBooks online. Here we are in our not for profit company or organization dashboard. Let's go on over to Excel to see what our objective will be. So we're going to be in Excel. We're going to be considering our statement of activities, which is basically like our income statement type of report. So here's our statement of activities that we created in Excel. And this is kind of like the format that we are shooting for. So remember, when we're thinking about the statement of activities, there's a lot of information we want. So we want to have all the information that's necessary for reporting purposes. And then we also may want to make it somewhat digestible in some way shape or form so that people that may not be professionals in terms of just looking at reports and even if they are, these are kind of more complex reports in some ways than normal financial statement reports due to the fact of us having multiple columns for restrictions and unrestrictions and so on and so forth. So we want to make it digestible in that way as well. So what we have then is the statement of activities where we're going to have the things that are kind of like revenue, but not exactly like revenue. Those are going to be the contributions, the money that's coming in, the cash flow that's coming in. You could think of it or the revenue or the inflows. And then we have the expenses, things that were expended in order to help and not really generate revenue. That would be a for profit type of term, but in order to help do what we want to do in order to help facilitate the activities that we want to facilitate, which would be primarily the programs for the not for profit. And therefore, when we think about the expenses, it's useful for us to group this by function in some ways too. So we want to then look at these expenses and do something a little bit different than the for profit. And that is that we want to see them by what they're used for the programs and then the admin and the fundraising. Why is this important? Because what people really want to see in a not for profit is look how much of the money that you're spending is going into the actual function, which is the programs. That's what the point is of the not for profit versus the management and the admin and the fundraising. Because if it's disproportionate to management and fundraising, it would seem that the not for profit is not streamlined enough, right? It's not efficient enough. So that's kind of what you're looking for. In order to do that, you need to in some way break the expenses out basically by function. However, we also want to see them by basically natural category, which is what we're expected or normal kind of reporting, which would be the rent expense, salaries expense, telephone and so on and so forth. So we want to have both those integrated in some way that's not going to be too overwhelming for people to basically look at. So we've got that here. And then we also need to be breaking out the items that are going to be restricted items versus the non restricted items. We want to see in the current period, the basically restricted versus non restricted items for the income statement. All right. So now let's take a look at what we generated in and of course, the income statement then would be, you know, the revenue or the money coming in the similar to revenue type of items, the expenses then, and that would bring us down to the net income, which is going to be termed here net increase in net assets. So we're not going to call it net income net increase in net assets. Why is it net increase in net assets? What does that even mean? You'll recall that the net assets is going to be the equity section for basically the balance sheet, right? The balance sheet we had the net assets, which is assets minus liabilities. The income statement is the increase in the current period of that net asset amount. So the net assets net income rolls into the equity section, which here is called net assets. And therefore it's the increase in that amount. So it's not net income that because that implies profit. And so I'm assuming that's the reason. So we have to call it something else. So we're going to call it increase in net assets. So we have increase in net assets in accordance with these two categories. And here's the total increase in the net assets. And then we have the further schedule that we broke out that's going to be breaking out our expenses that we need to be broken out by nature as well as by category, including the programs, management and fundraising. Okay, so let's see if we could see how we can format this in QuickBooks to do all that. So we're going to go back over into QuickBooks and we're going to say let's open up our reports on the left hand side. We're going to be opening up the PNL, the profit and loss, the income statement. So let's open up an income statement. And here we have it. Let's close up the old hamburger. Let's hold down control and scroll up just a bit. Get up to that one, two, five, which is where we like to be. Then I'm going to go back up top changing the dates from 01, 0120 to 013120. And that'll bring us for the month of January. That's what we want to take a look at. So here's like our normal income statement of profit and loss type of report where we have the income, which is going to be the inflows. And again, you may not want to term it income because that implies kind of profit. These are, these are going to be the inflows. There's not really a transaction that happened. Most of this is going to be from basically donations that we've got up top. But the income name here is part of the functioning of QuickBooks. It's part of kind of like the programming. Again, we can't really remove it. This dropdown is because we had to set these up as income type of accounts. And therefore they'll be in the income sub category. Also note, of course, the name is going to be called profit and loss. And the normal name for a for-profit is income statement. So it's a little different than that. And then, but here we want to call it the statement of activities possibly. So I could change that. We could say, all right, let's change this and call it the statement of activities. I could change that actually in the QuickBooks. I could change it by clicking here to update it. Or I can go into the customized reports up top. And I want to go into the header and footer. And we want to change the name of the report to the statement of activities. So that's not a problem. And we can actually save that, of course, if we memorize this report, then we don't have to change that every time we can go back in there and find it each time. So then we have the income. Again, might not be the best term, but like we say, we have to have those two, that term that way, because it's in the programming of basically QuickBooks as a category. So we have the income category, and then the expenses, and then of course, the net income. And again, we don't typically call it net income and the not-for-profit organization. It's going to be a change in net assets. Same thing, however, and again, we can't really change the net income line. It shouldn't bother us too much. We all have a good idea of what this means. It's going to be the change in net assets and net income. However, we can't adjust that. It's not an actual account for us to adjust. So then if we go into the income accounts here, we have our inflows, we have the contributions restricted, the once unrestricted, the government grants, and then we broke out the net assets released, so that the transfer from the items that are going to be released from the restricted to the unrestricted. And then of course, in the expenses, we have the expenses broken out by nature here. So now that they're broken out by nature, what we don't see in this format, and we have to basically do it this way, because this is while QuickBooks normally does it, right? And QuickBooks normally breaks this information out in a P&L by nature, not by function. How do we break it out by function then? Because we need that information as well, what we used these expenses for. We need to do that. We did that with classes. So, you know, so then we can go up top and say, okay, let's turn on the classes and go see the drop down here and turn on the classes. And then we're going to say run that report. So now, because we use the classes, now note, we added subclasses for the restricted items, which we said we could do or we could do it in another report with the job costing type of report as well. So but we added them here in both ways. So now this report's kind of a long report, right? We got the restricted items and the total restricted here. And then we've got the unrestricted. And then that includes all the programs and and everything under unrestricted the two programs, the admin and the fundraising.  What I would like to see is simply the total unrestricted and the total restricted. Now, you would think that you can customize the report and say maybe I could filter that if I go thing go down here. I'd like to go to the classes and just see the total columns, but they won't allow you to basically just see the total columns, right? So there's nothing here that'll allow you to basically restrict it down to the bare bones, just the total, we can't collapse the column. And the desktop version, you actually can do that. It's a little finicky sometimes, but you can kind of do that. So that's something that we could adjust basically in Excel. And this isn't a I know I did a lot of formatting in the balance sheet. That's not really difficult formatting. We just hide the columns. We're just going to collapse these columns. So in essence, what you want to do is I just want to collapse these columns and see the total restricted. And then collapse these columns and see the total unrestricted and the total column. So that we can do fairly, fairly quickly in Excel. So what I want to do up top is we've got this report and it's called the statement of activities. Let's go ahead and customize and save this report. So I'll customize and save it. And then I'm going to say save. Now if I wanted to go into this report again and not have to change the name, I could go into the reports down below. We can go into the customize the custom reports. So we'll go into the custom reports and we want the statement of activities. So then we go into the statement of activities and there we have it. Now I'm going to go ahead and do some formatting to this report. Now if we keep it like this, we can we can export it like this and save it as a PDF file just like we did before. So I could save it as a PDF file in this format. So I could say let's go ahead and print this. I'm going to print it as a PDF file and I'm going to say we're going to print it, print it. I'm going to print it using the Qt PDF printer. So I'm going to print it as a PDF file. So I'm printing it as a PDF file and I'm going to say print and it's going to ask me where do we want to put it. Pretty soon it's going to ask me any time now. There it is. There it is. So then I'm going to say I want to put it into the QBO and I'm going to pull this over here and so I could see the name and I'm going to call this the statement STMT of activity statement of activities and then we'll go ahead and save that. So I'll close that. Now I'm going to export it to Excel where we can do a little bit further formatting and that's typically what we would want to do with this type of report. We probably want to you know collapse those columns. So let's take a look at what that would look like. I'm going to then export it to Excel. I'm going to say Excel. Let's open this up. It opens down here if I'm using Chrome so it's going to open up in this little bar down here for Chrome. Now what I want to do is take this and put it onto the other worksheet I have so I can have another tab in the prior worksheet. So I'm going to open the prior one that we exported which was like the balance sheet. The statement of net position statement of financial position. I'm going to add the tab here and paste it into here. So I'm going to add a tab to this sheet. Then I'm going to go back to the other sheet that we just exported. I want to take the whole thing and I can do that by selecting this little triangle up top and that'll highlight the whole sheet. You don't want to highlight just part of it. You got to take the whole sheet here then or you can you can be off here someone and hit control A and it should highlight the whole sheet. I didn't do it. I won't do it that way. I'm going to hit the triangle and then I'm going to right click on it. I'm going to copy it. Now I'm copying the entire thing and therefore I have to be on cell A1 or I have to highlight the entire thing again. In other words if I'm anywhere else other than A1 and I try to paste this don't do this because it won't work. I'm trying to paste it normal paste the first one. It's going to say hey I can't do that because the entire I need every cell here because you copy the entire thing. So you got to be on cell A1 or highlight the entire worksheet right click and I want to paste normal so you can hit control V if you want. I'm going to say paste the first one. So there we have it. So I like to do that before you do any formatting and then I'm going to go to the view tab. So if I go to the page layout to view we can see it does not fit on one page. So we're going to have to deal with that. We're going to have to go back to the prior tab and say here we have it. Okay so first thing I'll do is I'll remove the the header. It's I don't like this merged cell because it might stop me from doing some of the things I want to do which is to hide some cells. So what I'm going to do is select that one go to the home tab alignment unmerge and then I'm going to go down here. I'm going to go home tab alignments get rid of the merge and one more time we'll do it here. We're going to go home tab alignment group get rid of the merge. Now all we want to do what I really want is the total columns total restricted and and the total unrestricted that's all I want at the at the first part here. So I'm just going to hide these columns all I'm going to do is put my cursor right on column B and drag over to column E B to E. Let go right click the selected area so we're going to right click on the selected area and hide it then we're going to hide from from here all the way over to the total unrestricted so that's from G to L G to L let go right click the selected area and hide that item hide those and that's basically it so now we've got actually the program total program I don't need that either I want the total unrestricted I'm going to highlight M right click on it and then hide that too and that's basically it so that it looks like kind of tedious but really that's that's the core of what you would need to do because now you have something that's basically you know presentable it looks similar to what we have over here so if we go back over here to our this excel worksheet we've got the with restriction without restriction and we've got our total columns here and that lines up to the 44 244 and the 234 656 so if I line this up down that's the 44 244 and the 234 656 and then if we were to add those up add those up they add up to the 278 900 so that's that's really the essence of of what you want to do then you can further clean things up or make any further adjustments at that point in time I'm also going to rename this tab down here I'm going to double click on this tab I'm going to say that this is going to be a let's just call statement of activities and there we have it and then we might want to like I like I say in here I might want to just say I don't need the total so I'm going to double click here and I'm going to say restricted and then I'll double click here and say unrestricted then the total makes sense over here and then and then we've got income we might want to call it revenue or something like that but that's fine contributions restricted contributions unrestricted note that you could put this into one line item and just call it contributions if we wanted to at you know at this point because then we'll break it out between restricted and unrestricted up here I like having those two lines because it's it's kind of helps me to to visualize it the other way you can deal with that if you didn't want to make the an adjustment obviously in excel is you could set those two items up as in QuickBooks you could have a parents account which was called which would be called contributions and then underneath it contributions restricted and unrestricted and then you could collapse them as you can similar to this this income collapsing line so that's one way that uh that you can you can deal with that but if you if you brought this into here as as well you could say oh maybe I want to bring the contributions up top here and then just call this two three seven zero zero zero and then I wouldn't need this line at all so we can just break the contributions out that way and then delete this line and hopefully I don't think that should should change anything I'm going to say that this then is going to be equal to the sum of these and this is going to be equal to the sum of these and this is going to be that so that looks good now the gross profit line is basically irrelevant because we don't have any cost to get sold so I could just delete this line altogether we don't really need the gross profit line and then the net income is going to be equal to this item minus this so it would be equal to the this minus that and there we have it so we have the contributions and then the contributions we wouldn't need to say restricted and unrestricted I would just say this is contributions contributions and then it would be broken out restricted and unrestricted in that format and then the total so then the government grants the the net assets and then you could do you could do the similar kind of thing here and break it out between the net assets have one account that would go and then break it out between the two if you if you wanted to and then I won't do it again here and then we have the expenses down below so here's going to be the expenses notice against their broken out by by their nature here not by what they're used for not by the function so that's just the way QuickBooks generally will put this so we're going to have to have this information there and then again we can provide the other detailed report which will provide this information by both function and nature so we'll do that in another presentation so we've got it broken out here so this isn't too overwhelming to see there's the total expenses and this is going to be the what are we going to call this if we go back to the other sheet it's like increase in net assets make sure i get it right here we're going to say this is going to be in the statement of activities the increase in net assets let's call it so i'll put that over here say that's going to be the increase in net assets so i'll put that there and that's going to be the format of that again we might want to change the format in here i'm going to highlight the whole thing right click on it and and uh let's say we we edit format these sales and i put the negative numbers in brackets i like to make it like currency negative numbers in brackets let's remove the decimals we can remove the decimals by the way and do some of this formatting uh in in QuickBooks if you so choose as well and then i'm going to go ahead and say okay so then uh kind of make that a little bit more customized so there we have that and that lines up to to some degree again to to this report the format of this report so it lines up pretty much similar to this however it's grouping not by by function but by nature because again that's how QuickBooks basically uh sets it up now this one is by is by function and then it breaks it out by function and nature with this other report which we can do too and so we'll we'll use the classes to do that so now we can use the classes to break out the the you know the expenses and what they're used for so we'll do that in a future presentation so let's go back on over here and so this is where we're at right now we've got the two uh reports i'm going to go ahead and save this now note that as you as you do this if you were to provide this to somebody else now uh you could do this a couple different ways i'm going to minimize minimize minimize if i was to open up our files that we have at this point we're gonna say all right let's open these up we've got our two reports now you could give them to someone in pdf format again but again this statement of activities isn't formatted as well as it could be in excel if we had to print them out and you had to print them out individually like this then you'd have to collate the reports so that's kind of that's not fun and then in excel we can do some added formatting as we've seen and we can also print it from excel so that they're already collated so that would be nicer and we can make it we can make a pdf file that we can give to someone with these two reports attached to it so let's take a look at that now if i go back over here and i want to send these two reports to somebody i could use this and the pdf printer to make it a little bit easier so i can go to the file tab i can go to let's print the report and then if you were to print it to a printer to give to like the board of directors or something the key is that you want to make sure that you print all the entire workbook so i got the entire workbook so it has the statement of financial position and uh the the not-for-profit the statement of activities and then if then i can print this and it'll it'll print all collated for us and then if i want to print it as a pdf file i'll use the cute pdf file which is a free program so you could get the cute pdf file printer and use that and that'll allow me to print this as a pdf file with both reports on one pdf file which i could give to somebody so i'm going to say print and then um and then we'll see where we want to put it so it's going to ask me what do we want to put it i'm going to put it here and i'm just going to call it financial statements again i'm going to say financial statements save that then i'll close this and now we've got this one financial statements pdf that if i wanted to to attach to an email or send out to the board of directors by email or something like that then it's all on on one pdf i don't have to attach multiple reports and if you have like you know five or ten reports this is this is nicer than even a zip file uh it's easier for someone to just pick up and and um and work with typically so in a case that's going to be it for now let's get out of here


Hello, in this lecture we're going to be talking about the last and first out inventory method. We will once again be selling our coffee mugs here. We will not be specifically identifying the coffee mugs that we sell, but rather using a cost flow method. That method being the last and first out this time. Whenever doing a cost flow method, I do recommend setting up a worksheet such as this with three parts to it, having the purchases, the cost of the merchandise and the ending inventory and then calculating the units that we're going to sell, the unit cost and the total cost for those particular categories. As we will do here, this will answer the most amount of questions in any format that those questions could be asked. What we are trying to do here is of course say that the inventory that is reported on the trial balance needs to be backed up in terms of a worksheet. Why? Because on the trial balance it's reported in terms of dollars and of course when we think about inventory, we often think about it in terms of units. We then need to back up this dollar amount with a unit amount and the cost per unit. That's what we're doing with the cost flow assumptions. We're going to start off with 100 units. We're going to say those 100 units started with a cost of $50, meaning that the total cost will be $5,000 and that's the only layer we have so far. So the total is $5,000. That $5,000 now matches what is on our trial balance. That will be the purpose of this worksheet. Next we're going to say that a purchase happened. We purchased 400 units at $55, therefore in terms of units, we have the 100 units. Now we purchase 400, we have 500 units. The purchase price, the journal entry for the purchase, straightforward. It's the same for FIFO or LIFO or AVERAGE. It is what it is. We bought 400 units at $55. We're going to have to pay that either now or sometime in the future. There's no estimate going on in terms of the journal entry. We're going to put it on the books, we're going to say the $55 times the $4,000, 22,000 inventory increasing from $5,000 in the debit direction of $22,000 to $27,000. Then the other side, we're going to say we bought it on account. We'll then go to accounts payable, increasingly payable by the $22,234.150. No change with that journal entry. However, we now have this $27,000 on the books in terms of inventory. We need to put that into our worksheet and be able to back that up with the amount of units that we then have. At this point in time, we have the 100 units at $50. We're going to say that we bought another 400 units. So we're going to go into the purchases column and say that we have 400 more units at the $55 for a total of $22,000. We're going to have two layers. We're going to put all the layers under this red line. This red line represented the last transaction. We want to have everything in Indian inventory under this red line as of the end of this process. Therefore, we're going to bring that 100 units at $50 down, and we're going to pull this $455 over. Therefore we have 100 units that cost $50, 400 units that cost $55 for a total of $5,000 plus the $22,000 given us that $27,000. That of course is the amount that we have on our trial balance, so we have now backed up the dollar amount using our worksheet. Now the question will be, when we make a sale, which ones did we sell? The older ones have had 100 units at $50, or the newer ones at $55. Under LIFE, we will be selling the newer units. You would think we'd want to sell the older ones first, but it's just an inventory assumption, and if we don't know which ones were actually sold, we can make whatever assumption we want. In this case, we're making the assumption that we sold the newer ones. But once again, we're getting ahead of ourselves. Let's take a look at a sales transaction in which we sell 420 units at $85. So we had 500 units minus the 420 units. In terms of units, we are then going to have the 80 units left after this process. The sales journal entry often is overlooked when we focus on the costs of goods sold because we're looking at the cost, not the sales price. So when we see this $85 in a problem, when we spent so much time working on the cost sheet, we may try to figure out how that 85 ties into the cost sheet. It doesn't. So when we do this first journal entry of the two sales journal entries, there's really no difference that happens. We're going to say the sales price that's going to be on the sticker price times the number of units 420 means that we're going to have accounts receivable, assuming we sold it on account of the 35.7, the 420 times the 85, that will increase the receivable. And the revenue will then be the same amount for the 420 crediting revenue, increasing revenue for the amount that we sold. How much did the inventory go down by in terms of dollars? And how much of the cost of goods sold should we report? We know the number of units that we sold. We don't know the cost of those units without our worksheet. So let's go to our worksheet. We're going to say another red line here. We have these two layers. We've got the 100 units at 50, the 400 at 55. Which one of those are we going to take pull from first, assuming we use a last and first out assumption. If we sold 420 of them, answer is the last ones we purchase. So the 400, the newer ones, we're going to say in our cost of goods sold column, we're going to say we sold the entire 400 units and those cost $55. 400 times 55 will give us the 22,000. We sold 420 total. So if we sold 400 and wiped out that layer, we're going to have to sell the rest for 20 minus 400 or 20 to give us the total of 420. And that's going to be of the $50 units. And that will give us 20 times 50 of 1,000. So this is the calculation of the cost of goods sold, of 22 plus the 100, 1,000. And now we're going to have to figure out what is going to be left. What's going to be left? Well, of that 400 units, we sold all of them. So that second layer, I'm going to take that off first. That's gone. Of the first layer, we had 100 units. We sold 20 of them. 100 minus 20 gives us that 80 that are left at the $50. 80 times 50 is that 4,000. And then of course, the 4,000 plus the 100 gives us that 4,000. After we do this journal entry, the cost of goods sold journal entry, 23,000, we will then be left with an Indian inventory on the trial bounce, a dollar amount of 4,000. Let's see that process. So we're going to do the second half of the journal entry, reducing inventory, recording cost of goods sold for the amount we just discussed, inventory going down by 23,000, crediting 23,000, bringing inventory from 27,000 down by 23,000 to that 4,000. And then we're going to debit the cost of goods sold, second half of that journal entry, and that will increase the cost of goods sold, bringing down net income. Now of course, the point being is that after we've recorded that cost of goods sold half and the reduction in the inventory, we are then left with $4,000 worth of inventory, the amount that matches our inventory worksheet.


Hey guys, MC2 Broleson here, and this week, I have the opportunity to visit Child Development Center 3 on joint-based Anacostia Bowling during the month of the military child to show how CDCs enable the Navy's war-fighting efforts by providing support to sailors and their families. April is designated as the month of the military child, underscoring the important role military children play in the armed forces community. The month of the military child is a time to applaud military families and their children for the daily sacrifices they make and the challenges they overcome. CDCs provide full and part-day early care and education services for children ages six weeks through preschool in a center-based learning environment. They also provide military families a safe and secure location for their children during working hours. In all, there are over 130 CDCs worldwide. All centers use teaching strategies that help develop children socially, emotionally, physically and intellectually to reach child development milestones and school readiness skills. In line with Sailor 2025, CDCs have extended their hours of operation at many locations throughout the world. The extension was created to better support Sailors and their families during difficult work schedules, educational pursuits, deployments, and other family needs. J-Bab currently has three CDCs on his base. Here at CDC 3, they have extended their working hours from 0500 through 1900, money through Friday to support military families and mission readiness. I spoke with Julie Hamilton, who talked about the benefits of CDCs. We provide them an environment where they can learn and be creative and just be themselves, interact with other children, and so just so they learn how to grow on their own. So what do you enjoy most about working with children? I think what I enjoy most about working with children is just watching them grow, like seeing that when they learn new things and then putting those new things to use, that's like the best feeling ever. So how do you help contribute to the military's overall readiness? By being very supportive for the parents and the children, and just being a positive, bigger, stable, you know, so somebody they see every day and just being there for them. Absolutely. So what should a parent expect whenever they bring their kid to a CDC?  Military families seeking child care can make a request online at militarychildcare.com. This is a DOD centralized website which allows families to search for and request care, manage their requests, and update their profile online. Simply create an account, then search the system for the child care option that best fits your needs, and submit your request. The program will contact you when the space becomes available. Thanks to CDC 3 for allowing me to visit the center for answering the questions and thank you all for watching. For CDC info at your location, visit mywfr.com and click the Child and Youth tab. For the latest personal news and the fleet, be sure to follow the rundown.


Next up on FunSport Friday, we got Buzkashi. Central Asian game, very popular. You play with a dead goat carcass. They say it can weigh up to 99 pounds. If you're wondering if that was a drone flying in the air, it was. If you're wondering if they have drones flying but they're still using dead goats as the ball, they are. They very much are.  This is a very formal game. There's informal games where there's no boundaries. Uh-oh, let's just gonna need to get that one in the hole. Oh my God. I'm dead. I just died and we didn't score. What a bummer. Here we go. Nice and easy. Red person puts it in the hole. Opponent falls in the hole with the goat carcass.  Number five is going to come up here and get a good block. Let number six take the goat, put it in the hole, score a goal. They're excited.  What a wild sport.  All this goat stealing we do. Let's turn it into a game. This dude's got an open lane. He's got to turn this guy. Nice little move turns that guy around, gets the goat right in that giant hole, goes for a fun ride himself. Fist pump. I love how universal the fist pump is. Okay, let's pick up this goat.  Now we're just trampling the goat.  But here we go. Oh, did I mention the goat's headless?  Not sure how that makes the game play any different, but they do it. Bam, one point for that team. All right, this guy on the left here, he's got nice and easy, nice and easy. Just put this in. No way. I think I'll just die instead of scoring. Goat in, horse backs out. Not interested. All right, number four in blue. Nice, easy target. Bummer, dude. Terrible goat fall. Oh my God, this guy's getting his red Pollard on, getting dragged around. That's pretty scary. Oh, I see you're interested in picking that up. You interested in dying? Boom. Crushed. Next up, nice and easy in the hole. Buzkashi. What a sport.


I want teachers to think for themselves so they can help students to think for themselves. And I want them, you know, I take teaching very serious. I personally feel as though I have a moral obligation to teachers. I think that that is one of the most important things you can do is to teach. Because you have an ethical responsibility to help prepare people to engage in life. Think about it. How many hours do teachers spend with young people, with learners? You know, they help them develop as persons. They help them learn social norms and practices. They help people, you know, learn future occupations. I mean, they help people learn how to live in the world, basically. Helping to run a girls mentorship organization in St. Louis and African American communities. So I see my thinking, I see mentorship as helping develop capabilities in learners. Helping them think differently so they can access opportunities so they can do and be and flourish as they choose. Because I think a lot of poverty and a lot of not having access to education or not, it's about having exposure to somebody doing something different and showing you that there are other options in the world.


Hi everyone, I'm Zoe. I'm the Product Experience Lead. I'm going to quickly walk you through our sprint goals and then hand over to some of the team to give a little bit more. So if you could go next slide, Adrienne, please. So we had four main sprint goals this sprint. One of them was a big piece of discovery work with hierarchy that we're helping the educational solution teams with. So all of their interviews have been completed and the co-design workshop, which rents really well. Thank you to all of the teams that got involved in that. I'm sure you all found it really valuable and it's so interesting to hear directly from our users. So I hope that you will continue to do that. And then our .org user testing. So the analysis and reporting is still coming along. We should have that wrapped up in the next little while. I know that Sitara is working with Feddy on getting that completed over the coming days. Then the grade book support in terms of analysis from Helen and UX writing from Julia is continuing as well as the experience lab. So we have managed to decide on a tool that we're going to be using to help us manage our panel which is really, really exciting. And we'll have that beginning the new year. So we're just sorting out all of the contracts, etc. with that and we're really excited to be able to go out to all of the people that have signed up for the lab and let them know that we're ready to go and also help you guys be able to access all of the users a bit more seamlessly. And then Julia has also been helping to draft all of the initial comms that will help us get up and running a bit more quickly because it's a lot of workflows that we need to consider when we're dealing with a lot of people in a panel. And so we've been working on drafting all of those. We can get up and running in the new year as quick as possible. I'm going to hand over to Julia first, I think. You're ready? Yes. Hi, my name is Julia and I'm a UX writer at Model HQ. Adrienne, can you move to the next slide, please? Thank you. So during this sprint, besides supporting some of the product teams with our projects, we have also revealed over 100 new and changed language strings to get them ready for the release of Model 4.1. Those are strings from projects developed by the community. I want to give a big shout out to Helen because she did a great job with this. So thanks, Helen. We also shared the process of how to work with the UX writing label in Tracker internally for now because we want to test how that works with the Model HQ staff. And we're working on how to share this with the community and be able to support the community as well with UX writing. You can check out the post, by the way, in the Model Products course in the HQ site and please reach out to us if you have any questions about this. And the next slide, please. Yeah. While working with the Alpha Team on Great Book, we noticed some inconsistencies in how we use surname and last name in Model, which are used interchangeably. So we did some research and we found that last name is much more common in software. It is much more used in Model plugins. It is consistent with the placeholder in the code and offers more flexibility when we're designing experiences. So we have updated all surname instances in Amos to last name. And that's it from me. Thank you. That's all from us, Adrian, unless there's any questions.


Hello everybody and welcome to Jurassic World Alive Where the hedges keeps growing and someday we'll reach the sky, I think I'll get my fringe all the way up there Oh my god, I look like one of those I can have a man bun Would you like that? Would you like- no So we're just jumping in Because this week's a little bit different We don't know Oh my god, look at that wow It's like a flame What even? Am I that greasy?  No, no, no blue DNA here No, no, no We'll do this one as well Because why not? Maybe we'll get some blue DNA in here But you know, it's a slight chance It's still there The leg of a facial hair Is now like coming into my mouth I have to twiddle it up There you go I still get no hair here though This isn't Jurassic World alive You realize that This is Beaver's facial hair update So I will admit Right guys One point this week I was tempted To not even record this video I was so Angry and frustrated With the battles That I was like, you know what I'm not gonna record a video Nah, this game doesn't deserve it It wastes my time I I don't know whether it's the battle System that is, you know Messed up whatever But sometimes it's just Loss after loss and I'm facing I don't know, it just seems within the last week I'm facing opponents where It doesn't matter what I have I just can't take them on Like maxed tricosaurus Max health Thordos with max attack 160 speeds Some things There's nothing I can do And I actually had somebody Message me on discord I think it was head of killer raptors Or someone like that I thank you for reaching out Saying, hey look, we do the tournaments We check our teams and stuff And blah blah blah I was just like, that's fine But that's not the problem The problem is The battles I'm getting matched up with I can't I can't defeat It doesn't matter how well my team is If my team can't take on the other team And I don't know, I just feel like Recently it's just gotten to A whole other level of stuff But we do have some news We do have some news, so Here, up there somewhere We have two new families We have the tall legged crocodylia Which is stuff like orgasuchus Megalosaurus, I think there's a megalosuchus Capasuchus and Postersuchus So their special team ability Is give damage, increasing Ferocious buffs to whole team Perform defense shattering attacks So That seems alright, these ravenous creatures Will have no issue giving damage Increasing buffs to your entire team Your opponent's best efforts Will have nothing on the tail Like a crocodyliens defense shattering attacks I'm wondering whether you need Just one, like Is ferocious strike on Those, erm I don't say dinosaurs, but not all of them are dinosaurs On those creatures, while again still distracted I apologise Erm, does that mean is, even if you have One, and it does that attack Basically that ferocious strike is switched out for this Like team ferocious strike, I think The other one we've got Is the Ankylosauridia Armoured taunting Tanks, generate shields For the whole team So I'm assuming you could switch in And still have a shield I'm wondering how we're going to keep an eye on that Like how can we keep track Erm, whether When you go to switch, like the dinosaurs at the bottom Have a timer, like two turns left on the shield Or whatever These low to the ground creatures Will tease your opponents with armoured taunting tanks In battle, your opponents will not have much Look with their attacks Because this strong family Generates shields to protect the entire team Erm, dinosaurs that have it Don't see Too much top level competitive play Erm Like maybe the, er, the one at the bottom left I'll come up with a target justice Maybe? I've seen a few level 30s Very rare that I see those though But maybe they'll get more play The thing is though, in the top level The top level arena I'll bring my mic a little bit closer In the top level arena There is just a lot of dinosaurs That have nullifying That have shattering That are immune to a lot of things So, and they're the ones that make it Into the top lists, so I mean, there it is Who knows? Maybe, er, maybe These guys will see some, I mean With everything getting new switch ups We're definitely gonna see the competitive Er, arena change completely So, it'll be interesting to see what happens Another thing, like even If this game wants to survive, hold on Let's see, maybe we'll get some blue in here I don't know, fingers crossed Er, ooo, dimension 1, well I've already maxed out Oh, that's good, that's good I'll show you why that's good Sticky Molek, fantastic, so this is my team So far, yes Indoraptor's in there, has it got any boosts? No, I think you can just click and hold it Right, and it'll tell you, no? Do we have to click on it? Okay, we'll click on it Yeah, no boosts, no boosts Er, now I'm wondering when you get refunded All your boost back, whether you get the 100 Or whether you get the 50 So, I'm kind of hesitant to add anything now I'm going to get reset and get the stuff back So I'm 10 away on level 25 Gemma Titan, and I'm 10 away It was just before this video started I was like, let's fuse, let's see If I can just start the video and be like, hey look, level 30 Nope, each one just became 10 away Er, Erledominus, 10 away From level 30, so I have a level 27 Indoraptor Gen 2 That's really good Still, even though it has no boosts Because with these legendary creatures You need to fuse out a lot And it's blue, and you can't get blue So, we're going to do a 20 fuse I mean, if we get 10 on each one That's only 200 If we get 20 Let's say average, let's say we get 20 20 average, that is What, oh my god Terrible math, 400 So, if we just get a few You know, maybe like a few tens And then a few forties Fingers crossed, we can max this guy up But then we start up 5 We can max this up, but let's see Oh, we're 70 and 110 Wow, okay That's still average to 400 though I got like 110, or at least it showed 110, but anyway So, we can't do that, so we are now 100 and odd away Oh god, I need to fuse this guy Alright, let's fuse you 20 times Let's do 20 times Oh, 410 for you Didn't get down the blue Indoraptor Alright, and there wasn't a 70 in there So I must have got loads of tens on the Indoraptor Gen 2 Alright, let's go Fusing, we could fuse this 2 sets of, oh that's 40, that's good 120 What am I saying, of course it'd be 200, wouldn't it My bad, I did really good there Cause if I got 10 fuses That could just be 100, so yeah, okay And it looks like we're gonna do it Fingers crossed Yeah, we didn't need it, 110 There we go, a level 28 Indoraptor Gen 2 Oh, I hate it so much But, we may as well fuse it 450,000 That's like all my coin Fine, whatever, take it I need it For an extra 75 attack, I'll take it Yeah, that's fine So, how about we have a look At the tournament, now for all intents and purposes I should be like, yes This is great, this is great We're all level 26, there's no mods But, well, for a start Oh god, hola, castle, castle Right, here we go I should be enjoying this, but I haven't had time For a start Which, it's, I wish there was more hours In the day, cause I would love to just sit down And play this constantly And be like, yeah, come on, let's see how high we can get Cause I haven't really had enough time To Like test out my team and see what works So I mean, the best thing we can really do I mean, is go for the Superiority strike, he could probably go for a cloak On the next one But, yeah, the great Rendering counter And He got his evasive on that, that would have done loads more damage Did he get his evasive on this? He didn't Okay, so I mean, worst case scenario I mean, can I kill him? I can't kill him And he might go for evasive Oh, should we just do it? Should we just do it?  We could slow him down Um, but you know what? I'm happy, I think we could probably go through And hopefully just do a big hit I'm hoping He's got evasive, we've increased our attack Yeah, I thought so Even with the dodge and the 50% nerf With our buff, yeah, I thought that would kill him Okay, we're in a good position We're in a good position here, let's see There's a lot of things you could probably put in to survive Ooh, Carnot Trunk is being one of them Cause he could instant distract me Um So with that in mind, I think he might Go for an instant destruction knowing that I could kill him In one hit, so I'm gonna go for Bellow first Cause I don't wanna get a counter off He's definitely gonna get one counter off Did he go for it? Oh he didn't Oh, interesting Oh, okay Let's go for Diggin now Because now I think he'll go for instant destruction Um, however that doesn't make too much Sense does it, cause then he's still gonna instant Distract me I think he'll go for it now No he didn't! Oh my god, okay Okay, fair enough Fair enough, um Sod it, sod it Drake correct, now Mammoth Theory or this Mammoth Hybrid is really good I'm probably playing this all wrong, I have, like I said I haven't had enough time To just try this out, see what works Or we can get the greater rendering Ooh Did he get a crit or precise? Yeah, precise one Okay, fair enough Fair enough, he's completely outplaying me I thought he would be smart With the, um, with the Mammoth But he's Well, yeah, I guess He's being smart I suppose Cause he's outplaying me, but I thought If I was him, I would just go for the instant distraction Is he gonna go for it now? So I swear down sometimes It's like they just know exactly what I'm gonna go for So there's the rendering counter It's like I'm gonna do a lot of damage Yeah, we've definitely lost this How come when I used it, it died instantly Cause he had Indoraptor in the team Oh, okay, so we're slower now Um, we're may as well Just stunning Should we just go for the immobilize And just lose that, yeah, I guess Worst case scenario, he goes for an instant distraction I suppose Um, so we might as well go for a stun, right?   Yes, I do Okay, well, is he immune?   Let's see if we can Push our luck and win one more Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh There you go, that's a speed Burp sped up, there you go Right, so My prize has been answered, I have mono stag tops and indirect Well, let's start with Indoraptor, shall we? Let's see how that goes Has he got his own Indoraptor? And welcome To the tournament Ha, ha, ha It's a partless speed, who has the fastest fingertips Um, I was gonna say Mutual Fury work? Maybe, no Cause speed boost is still the same Does Mutual Fury give more speed? 50% and 50% Is it speed boost? Increase speed by 50% Increase damage Increase speed by 10% It's the same, 10% each Oh, he gets the crit He gets the crit Come on, I want my crit I deserve a crit now Yeah, there we go, that's fair enough But don't you go- Okay, he's lost now What, why though? What, why? What, why? I, I swear, a lot of people don't realize that Indoraptor, like his hit can just go through block Oh, oh Oh, you cheeky bug are you? Wait, I don't think I can be stunned, can I? Or did I get lucky? Lucky there, I'm really not sure Um, well I mean, what can he go for? Am I made to stuns?      Bye! Gonna go He's immune to stuns though So now we might as well just go for a big hit, right? Um Should we just go for a big, oh, speed up What's a speed? Should we go for speed? Should we go for speed up? Yeah, solid Oh, I forgot I'm an idiot! No!  I'm happy losing to Evil Fluffy, let's go for bellow Let's go for bellow I mean, everything he does is like Everything except for definitive I think you can just constantly cycle through those I'm pretty sure, yeah, you can just constantly do this Um So, he's slowed down Um Hmm, what's the best here? If I go for this, it still doesn't do much And he'll probably go for instant distraction If I, yeah, let's play him Oh, he didn't, he didn't Okay Right, that's fine That's fine, he's doing a lot A lot of damage, like A lot of damage Ridiculous amounts here Um Now if I do this again Yeah, he's definitely gonna He's definitely gonna instant distract me, isn't he? He's definitely gonna do it Um There's nothing I can really do here Yeah, that's instant distraction Like, all I can do is just keep on Trying to buff myself, but now he's gonna be quicker And There's really not much I can do Yeah He's gonna instant distract me now I think Um Should I go for digging? And even then Wow, this is the perfect counter His Flavio was a perfect counter Oh, nullifying Ooh Ooh What is, is he got, he's got a thousand attack And then he can do two times attack Right off the bat Though, um Ooh, interesting Swapping nullification, that's all it has going for Is it? Alright, alright Alright, I'll take it, I'll take it Let's see what you got son 2840 Nullifying, that's a thousand Right off the bat, fair enough Now we can slow him down And get a Speed reduce Let's do that, let's do that Oh, hold on, is that, is that The good thing to do, yeah, because we definitely survived Unless he's got a crate, he's only got 5% He has 30% armor though Okay, that's fine Uh, right Now he can't slow us down Let's go for the, he could nullify us though If he went for just like a regular nullifying He could go for rampage though He might go for rampage Just thinking, oh let's finish him Let's see, let's see This is like, oh Oh, it was a nullifying, well played Is he still slower though He's still slower Um, let's go for this Oh my god, the plays The plays The plays that are going on here I thought that was done Is that a thousand Oh, oh, he's What's going on here That was your win I'm pretty sure he's got his Indoraptor right Mate, don't you switch an Indoraptor Don't do it, dude Okay, okay Do I have my Oh my god If he gets a crate though If he gets a crate, I might be dead Should I just, ah, okay, okay, let's do it Let's do it, let's just, he was like No, at that point when he sees that mono He's like, if I get a stun I don't get this stun How about that Okay Let's slow him down I mean, that's good, two times damage But half attack I think he might be dead Oh, he's not dead, he's not dead So, all he's got now is Indoraptor Indoraptor does not have much health So I might as well just go for instance stun Oh, not instance stun The greatest stunning Yeah, in comes Indoraptor I really don't think it has too much health Um, greater Oh, and the crate, oh the crate Oh, he did it I think what I would have done Is maybe have gone for a dig in Oh, he was angry Oh, I forgot to mention, oh you must have to turn it off for tournaments I've turned off emotes I've censored everybody in the game There's two types, right, there's the yarn If they just yarn constantly That's annoying Also, the most annoying one is The thumbs up, when he's winning Every time he beats a creature Oh my god So, yeah, I've muted everybody in the game, but Should we do one more? I want to do one more I want to see if I can do it, can we get three wins in a row? Is it possible? Each one of those battles was tooth and nail I could have lost any of those Oh my god, okay Ooh, we're on a drake over to a switch in, um How quick is this guy, the Entilum 120 speed You know, we've got to start with Interruptor, Interruptor is the best and I was going to say three games in a row, they all start with Interruptor, that would be hilarious Okay, Mutual Fury Is that the best to go for here? Hmm No, no it's not because I can get my speed boost I was going to say if he went for Mutual Fury and then he did a big hit, would that be better for him?  I mean chances are it does 1,600 I'm not going to, yeah, I might as well just go for a big hit, maybe get a crit oh no, oh you hate to see it, I'm so sorry oh yeah, yeah, I'd rather take that okay, most things are quicker than him Pierce, so that goes through a cloak and I'm going to be quicker anyway yeah and even if he switches out, I'm getting health back so he has to switch out now and I don't get any health, or I take the KO and I take another one, oh I'm pretty sure dude, even with your cloak, I'm going to kill you with two persistent ferocious strikes and it went through anyway so I'm getting so lucky, I got a crit with a 30% chance is it, and a 66% or 44% chance hit through that, right, so can he nullify me, oh sorry, take my attack down, he can okay, so Mutual Fury is the best thing for me to go for here, so let's do it, let's do it yeah, let's go, we'll be oh we won't be quicker oh we won't be quicker, ooh ooh, oh this wasn't a good idea this was not a good idea whoops, I forgot, bad play play bad was made very bad, so now he's got like a super big hit coming to me, so should we just, should we just fodder off Draco, we'll just fodder off Draco, so yeah, he's going to do a big hit right, yeah we only need one more KO that's all we need, so I'll take that, he's going to do a huge hit how much did he get a crit as well or he didn't, 4200 but he's also lost his biggest hit here, so Carnotrarchus is actually the best thing for taking him on right now, so I mean, what's the best scenario he could have went for here, maybe an invasive cloak um and then he's guaranteed like his invasive, yeah probably an invasive stance is the best one and then do a big hit so now I'm going to get rid of this and I can do my precise and kill him in fact you know what I'm going to do is I'm just going to go for a superior strike because worst case scenario, if something comes in and I slow it down and I still get to do my precise, so I'm going to do that I'm going to do that, okay what's the swap what's the swap ooh, ooh, ooh it would have been better to have gone for that but, oh, oh okay so what's he going to do oh no, oh it would have been so much better to have gone for my big hit here um ooh see he's got, I think I've lost I think I've lost, oh yeah I've definitely lost I forgot about that oh dear oh, that well played well played that was good I'm trying to think how else could I play that it was, the swap was the worst play um I could have went for like long protection and survive that and then do the counter and I might have killed him I think I might have killed him that way aww, dam dam dam, okay let's do one more I want to see, can I just get three wins two wins, one loss, let's see if we can make it three wins, one loss, that's about average for me when recording, I think every video has been three wins, one loss, let's see I just, I just like, I like I like this, I just wish I had more time I don't have time, right um I mean we have to kind of just go for the Sarko, Sarko Sarko Rixies, Sarko Rixies um, I think we're quicker yes, we're quicker um, I mean if I was him I'm just going to go for cloak and then a big hit, so um, yep, that's the best thing he can do okay, this needs to go through this needs to go through it didn't go through flippin' didn't go through right, Draco in you go my son sacrificial lamb do a big hit go through the cloak and he didn't fantastic, and that's a big hit 6400 you know in double strikes does have its uses it honestly does um, now what do I go for what do I go for, Sarko Rix or enterlamoth let's go for enterlamoth, I think I'm just going to get the the attack boosts, yeah go for the attack boosts it's not the quickest thing, it is 120 speeds so it's not too bad um, but because I'm going first mutual fury is no point I've learnt, like my misplay in that last one was to go through mutual fury and get hit with that Indoraptor that was my bad play okay, so now are you going to switch in something it's the play like monostegatops or Draco that's the, I mean I would probably fudder off in domus rex and then when something else comes in then switch out to monostegatops or something but it depends what else he's got I like this I do, because it's it's fair Indoraptor, well we know what to do here guys and it is to just go for I think another persisted or maybe a rampage should we go for rampage and just take another half damage I don't know which one's better to do um, should I just go for a big hit let's just go for ohhhh oh no, if this goes through he's definitely dead oh he's definitely dead, please come on please some luck, some luck oh look oh that's perfect I'll take it, okay so what else has he got oh everyone I've faced has had an Indoraptor Gen 2 I haven't in a lot of cases, okay okay, um I guess just I mean what could we go for here um I'm probably going to die in one hit so yeah, I mean, yeah I may as well I may as well just like do some damage I'm probably going to yeah I definitely died here, no matter what I did I was dead, yeah, okay right, so Sarko ummm I'm just thinking here he's got his 1.5 damage he went for it he has a cooldown of 1 so he's probably going to go for he could go for an instance stun yeah, that's the play just to whittle down my health just a little bit uh oh and there it is, there's the game there's the game, he didn't get it didn't get it, and he can't switch out so that's it, done, he lost well, he might even try to switch out forgetting, yeah he forgot he forgot hey it's like facing me well there you go an average 3 wins 1 loss, I swear to god every Jurassic World live video is you can look through it, 3 wins 1 loss every time, still down didn't get the crossbar, but anyway guys why is this game at the moment it's a love hate relationship I think everybody else has it who hasn't got boosted creatures, you know who you are you know who you are with your level 30 pure team, all uniques and you've got like a rare, then you've got level 30 and it's got boosts on it which people can't afford to do yeah, yeah, bug as you guys if you enjoyed the video leave a like until next time, I'll see you later oh bye bye