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Here we are in QuickBooks Desktop get great guitars practice file we started up in a prior presentation going through the setup process we do every time maximize in the home page to the gray area view drop down we got the hide icon bar open windows list checked off open windows open on the left reports drop down company and financial looking at that P and L profit and loss I'm going to change the range just for the month of January this time oh one oh one two three to twelve thirty one two three customize in the report fonts and numbers changing them to fourteen okay yes and okay reports drop down again company and financials and we want to take a look at the balance sheet this time and we'll customize it once again for the month of January oh one oh one two three two oh one thirty one two three and then fonts and numbers changing the font bringing it up to fourteen okay yes and okay so now we're going to think about starting up that first month bank reconciliation we've entered data into our practice problem for two months and we're going to reconcile them back to back and the reason we want to do that is so we can put the reconciliations in one section and see the differences between reconciling on the first month and reconciling on the second month the first month you might have some problems with the bank reconciliation process unique unique to the first month and in the second month it should be pretty standard and be the same going forward into future months from that point so we've entered data into the system if I go to the home page we've done so using a full accounting system in other words we didn't create our data simply from the bank feeds or from the bank statements themselves you could do that in some instances that would be a more simplified accounting process but we actually enter the data using invoices sales receipts receive payments and so forth and then entering the deposits at the end of the revenue cycle and the payments at the end of the vendor cycle now of course the bank has their own transactions that they're entering on their side of things and we're going to tie out what we've entered on our side to what has been entered on their side that being the bank reconciliation so if I go back to the balance sheet then this balance right here represents where we stand in our data as of January 31st 2023 if I look at the bank statement which is we're going to be represented by this mock bank statement here we've got the summary data up top the beginning balance and notice there is a beginning balance and we're going to have to account for that and then we've got the additions we've got the subtractions and then the ending balance this ending balance then you would think would tie out to what we have on our books however if we're doing a full service accounting system it's likely that that might not be the case because of outstanding checks outstanding deposits and items possibly that we didn't pick up or possibly errors usually errors on our side but there could also be errors on the bank side as well so we want to come up with a reconciliation tying out what we have to what the bank has not simply to double check our cash but also to double check all the other transactions if I can do that I'm double checking all the detail here which will give us a double check on the other side of the transactions within the cycle so let's first start the reconciliation process so we can see what it looks like if we go to the banking drop down we can go into the reconcile item here banking and reconcile I'm going to be looking at the checking account if you have multiple checking accounts you can look at multiple accounts you may also reconcile the credit card accounts and then we're going to go down and say this is as of let's say a one thirty one two three now note here we have a problem the beginning balance is zero that doesn't tie out the idea of the bank reconciliation is going to be that we have a beginning balance of thirty thousand that must tie out for the thing to work and then we're going to say that all the additions are going to we're going to take them off and all the subtractions we're going to take them off which means we must end at the proper ending balance and anything that we didn't take off in theory will be outstanding outstanding checks outstanding deposits if I'm off on that beginning balance that's the unique thing to the first bank reconciliation that may be off depending on the process possibly because we started doing some banking before we started working in QuickBooks or we possibly had another accounting system and when we entered the data into our accounting system we did so with a beginning balance transaction which you would think might pull in to the beginning balance here but even if it did it would still be off a little bit so so I'm going to go back to that problem in a second the ending balance is going to be sixty one two forty one eighty five so we've got six one two eight one point four five as the ending balance six one two four one eight five six one six one two four one six four one okay I think I got at that time it's easier if you have a side-by-side screen of course or if you have it a paper document of the bank statement and then you've got these items for the service charge now we do have service charges and we have interest these are items that oftentimes we don't know about until we do the bank reconciliation and we can apply them out here but I like to actually go through the reconciliation and add them as needed when I do the reconciliation because I think that is easier to take and tie off so I'm not going to use those and that is it there now notice if you have an error in the last reconciliation then you're going to have to go back and undo the last reconciliation so you can get the next one right so in other words if you're beginning balance was wrong and it was not the first bank reconciliation but you've messed up on the prior bank reconciliation you might be able to undo the prior bank reconciliation right and then redo the process so sometimes that is necessary so I'm going to say continue and so here we have our normal bank reconciliation process the idea being that we're going to have the same beginning balance that's our problem right now and then we're going to be ticking off all the activity that has happened if it's on the bank statement over here then we should be able to find it on the books if it's on the bank statement and not on the books then typically we're gonna have to add it to the books unless the bank entered something in error which isn't typically the case it's usually the case like with those items on the fees as well as as as a interest that the bank is right and we have to add them to our books in order to reconcile if they're on our books but not on on the bank statement then they're going to be items that will not be checked off and we would expect items that that are towards the end of the month possibly not to be checked off because they're outstanding especially if we wrote checks we might see some checks and we will see in the practice problem that are outstanding those will be the reconciling items those will be the difference between the banks balance and the book balance during this process of reconcile lean we should be able to tie out the beginning balance if once we put the beginning balance in place and the increases and decreases and come out to the exact same checked off amounts and therefore reconcile to basically this number now that number will not then be what is on our books at the end of the day at the end of the day we're not going to end up with this number on our books although we might change our books slightly if there's something on the bank statement that's not on our books but will be able to check off everything to get to a reconciled balance up to this amount and the unchecked off things outstanding deposits and checks will be the reconciling items the difference between what's on the books and what's on the bank statement okay so let's go back on over and we're going to say that beginning balance problem you can see here that even if it put the beginning balance in place it would be for that 25,000 and you'll recall if I go into my let's go into the lists chart of accounts and when we set up the checking account if I right click and edit the checking account right click and edit the account then we we entered an opening balance when we started up the checking account remind me later of the 25,000 so so that so you would think possibly that within the reconciliation would have 25,000 but even if it did that's still not correct is not the 30,000 we need it to be 30,000 so the beginning balance would still be wrong so where it is now what we're going to do is we could say well I can always even if it's not in the beginning balance when it's the first bank reconciliation I can go into the reconciliation and just check it off right there and I could still be okay and I can note to myself okay I'll still be able to reconcile because I could still check it off I can't check it off as the beginning balance but I'll add it as part of the additions and I'll note that as my beginning reconciliation and I should be fine so I can take care of that problem but now I still have the problem that it's 25,000 and not 30,000 how did that happen that happened because when I took my prior bank accounting system I took that the balance that was in my prior accounting system on the trial balance and just entered that into quick books I couldn't enter the 30,000 because I wouldn't be in balance meaning this was my trial balance that I entered into the system as my beginning balances it had 25,000 on it that's why we entered it into the quick book system so my beginning balance was awful why is the beginning balance off the beginning balances off for the same reason that our ending balances is always going to be off there's could be outstanding deposits there could be outstanding checks that that we have to deal with so that's going to be kind of an issue with the first bank reconciliation if you had you know prior outstanding checks and deposits from the prior accounting system or something like that you're gonna have to basically pull those in and account for them within the current system when you start to reconcile so that's going to be the beginning or first bank reconciliation problem that often will be encountered now if I go back on over to the to the first item here I think we'll note we'll be able to see once we tick and tie all this stuff out that there's a difference 30,000 versus what's in our books and we should see some checks if it was outstanding checks that didn't clear last month that will clear this month so you can see this this right here you would expect that that might be the difference right there from checks that clear so the the problem will actually work itself out and there's a couple ways that you could still be able to reconcile with it in there but we'll talk more about that in the future in essence I'm going to suggest that what we would want to do to fix that is enter these checks into the system because they cleared in the current period even though they weren't entered in the current period they were entered in the prior period which is typically done with the prior bank reconciliation but I would like to enter the prior checks into the current system so that I can account for when they cleared and so we'll talk more about that when we when we when we get to the end of the first month bank reconciliation but that's going to be one of the major kind of things that we want to consider so once we have that if I have this beginning balance tied out then if I get this beginning balance tied out and then account for that other 5,000 then I could say okay that beginning balance is correct and then I can check off all of the deposits hopefully these deposits will be clearing the the bank statement in the right grouping and also note I can hide if I hide up here I could see some trans I could see just the transactions that go up through January I shouldn't need any transactions in February because if I enter the transaction in February there's no possible way that it could have cleared the bank in January so that so we can basically usually cut that off and just see the detail up in the month that we're basically working in it is possible however to have something on the bank statement that that that didn't clear so in other words it's possible for us to have entered something in January that didn't clear the bank until February so in any case if I looked so notice a grouping of this of deposit over here there's the deposit right here so we're just going to tick and tie everything off and if I look at the check side of things then we're going to have the checks here or the decreases 16 and we can take and tie those off to here as we start to check these off you'll see the balances down below changing so let's just kind of recap this whole screen we've got we've got the periods we've got the checks and payments on the left these are the decreases we've got the deposits on the right we've got the the highlight marked items we could mark all of them so this works quite well if you are using the bank feeds to basically create your books then you still want to do the bank reconciliation and you can essence in essence just mark everything off and it should tie out if it doesn't you got to go through and check it all off but it might tie out because you created your books from the bank statement however if that's not the case then that's usually not going to work I can unmark them all in this way as well down below I have the beginning balance once again that should be you would think 30,000 if it was a normal non first month transaction but here I'm going to check off the 25,000 as the beginning balance which will be included in the increases or deposits and I'll have to figure out what happens with that other 5,000 which was the outstanding items for the beginning of the month we'll talk about later and then we've got the checks and payments so these are going to be if I tick and tie these out we'll see the activity here at the end of the day if this was perfectly tying out we would have then the beginning balance of 30,000 the additions 143 after I check them all off and then the 111892 should be basically mirrored down here and if that's the case this difference over here will be zero and it has to work so you want to make sure that when you're going through this process you're going to say well it has to work if my beginning balance ties out and I checked everything off then the ending balance has to reconcile if it doesn't then I got to fix something right and then I'll go in and fixed it then we've got the the ending balance here and this is the cleared balance now these two are going to be the same which will reconcile to zero note that the cleared balance is does not represent what's on the balance sheet the cleared balance does not represent this balance the cleared balance will be then the ending balance of the 61 241 to reconcile it will still be different than what's on our balance sheet because the items that we did not check off in here we're going to assume are outstanding outstanding checks outstanding deposits checks deposits that we made that have not yet cleared the bank those are going to be the reconciling items quick books will then make the reconciliation report which will show those items as the difference between what's on our books and what's on the banks books if we get that amount exact meaning this to be exactly zero then we have a very good internal control if this is anything other than zero even if it's like a dollar or two dollars you're like you know I'm not worried about that in terms of my bank balance I don't care if I'm missing five dollars or whatever a thousand dollars whatever but it's not about the bank balance if you're missing a thousand dollars or five hundred or two dollars even that could be because you're not accounting for multiple checks and multiple deposits so it's not about the ending bank balance it's the fact that if you haven't entered those multiple checks and deposits not only is your cash balance not reflecting that detail but also if I go to the homepage the other side of the transactions the vendor cycle the customer cycle the employee cycle is not reflecting that because the double entry accounting system has two accounts affected so so if you have anything other than zero on the bank reconciliation your level of of internal control the use the need the requirement of the reconciliation goes way down and you you should be able to get it to zero because it has to work right it has I mean you at the beginning if the beginning balance is right and you take everything off the exact numbers here to what's on your books it has to work and if there's a difference then you figure out what it is and you fix it okay so that's the general outline the general overview we'll go into it step-by-step in future presentations


All right, we are back with philosopher Glick Salamieri, we're talking about self-interest. And one more thing I wanted to, before we move on, I want to talk about with regards to altruism. And that is the way people use it to sacrifice. And the reason this keeps coming back is, I mean, it's obvious because people use it in all kinds of mixed ways. But I've noticed Jordan Peterson is promoting the confusion about the term by using sacrifice to denote any delayed gratification. So for him, any delayed gratification equals the sacrifice, but also what Jesus did is the sacrifice, right? So he is creating this package deal of both of those things. And I see it all over the place.  Talk a little bit about that, and again, about the kind of the cognitive confusion that creates about one's ability to think properly about self-interest, for example, about investing in the future. Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, Jesus is a little bit of a hard case because he's magic, and it's not clear to me whether he's supposed to know what's going to happen, that he's going to not really die, but fly away. But if we take Jesus at face value. I always say, you know, he's suffering and all this, and people say, no, no, he's God. I said, but if he's God, then it doesn't mean anything. And he can't get out of that loop of it's a very confusing example. But if you take Jesus as a guy who's on the cross thinking, you know, why have you forsaken me, God? And you take someone like Mother Teresa as a kind of this worldly example of something like Jesus, right? Then this is just a very different thing from somebody who, you know, buys Bitcoin because he rightly or wrongly thinks it's going to go up or buy something that he's got more reasons. Gives up nice dinners for a year to start a business or, you know, or to raise his child or whatever it is. Or just buys the iPhone, right? Gives a thousand dollars and, you know, gets the iPhone 10. I've got a 10. No, I'm jealous. You don't have the 10. You're the big Apple fan. So puts down a thousand dollars to buy the iPhone 10, right? Nobody calls that a sacrifice. Or if someone does, right, it's because they're using it as a gateway to get to really that's like what Jesus did. But if you really believe in sacrifice, if you believe in what Christianity preaches under the heading of sacrifice, at least what most Christian preachers do, certainly if you believe in what modern ethicists believe when they say, you know, there's some conflict between self-interest and being really moral. Then you have to make a distinction between doing what's a simple case of making a choice of something you want more rather than something you want less, where there's some time element involved often. And a case of giving up something you want more because of something that you don't personally want, that doesn't feel like it's for you, but which you think trumps you, trumps what's important for you. And it's that concept that I think is the concept of a sacrifice. And if you don't have that concept, then I don't think you have the concept of a sacrifice. I don't think you could understand what's meant to be noble about what Jesus did or what Mother Teresa did to people who really think it's noble. And if you're somebody who does claim that those things are noble and not just that they're noble, but they're the kind of epitome of nobility, right? Not just here's one nice thing. Then I think what you're doing is dishonest. You're trying to make that thing like standard cases of having integrity or even simpler than having integrity because maybe someone thinks integrity is a sacrifice because they think it's like what Jesus did. But simple cases of just, you know, having delaying, having the one marshmallow now so you could have two later in that test they give to the little kids to test whether they can, you know, hold off a media gratification. If you're thinking of that as a sacrifice, you're running things together. And I don't think it's what even you really mean by sacrifice. When you're talking about other cases. But it makes it so difficult because it's so ingrained in our language and on our concepts. I mean, think about sacrifice, fly in baseball, right? Or he sacrificed the shot to pass it. Or, you know, it's so part of the way people use the term that most people don't think, who don't think about morality are going to be confused by it because it's just used in all these different ways that that can't really integrate, but people hold somehow in their in their minds. I mean, if somebody wants to rob the term of any meaning and use it in a very loose metaphorical sense and say those things are sacrifices, I don't think it's good because I think we need a term for real sacrifices. And I think moralists who are serious about sacrifice would agree with that. But if they want to do that, then they need some other term for those things. And you could say there are two meanings to sacrifice. And in some senses, we use it this way and some kids to use it that way.  And the thing that everybody does all the time, who that all thoughtful, which is thinking of two things that are appealing, which one is more appealing, especially long term, especially if you think in terms of not just what appeals to you in the instant, but you think causally about what will result in what and then decide that when I see this thing in context of its causes and effects, this one is the one that I find more appealing, even though if I drop or lose that context, the other one might seem more appealing. Yeah, no, it surprises me that people who seem to be semi-good thinkers cannot make these differentiations. And again, there's a certain fuzziness at the end of the day about their thinking when it comes to, particularly when it comes to moral issues. You know, this is harder with religious religious people because part of what religion does is and I think intentionally does is distort this. So it makes the long term heaven. And it makes religion is an anti-causal way of thinking, right? Things happen because God wants them to not because they have actual causes. And if they have actual causes in this world, they're the way God does what he does, even though that's incoherent because you only have ways to do things if you have a limit to your power. If you were omnipotent, you wouldn't need a way to do something. It would just happen when you wanted it. But religion is a kind of anti-causal way of thinking and that substitutes for thinking causally. And so on the one hand, it it gets you against thinking of the actual causes and effects of your actions. And on the other hand, it substitutes for that thinking of some fantasy effects that will have in the distant, non-real future after your death or whatever. And if you buy into that, then you can think of or counterfeit to yourself, thinking that what you're doing is getting for yourself a good life in the afterlife or contributing to some unintelligible purpose that God has or whatever other thing you might be doing, in which case none of these causal notions, you can't say what's good or bad long term.


Welcome to WRC 19, the World Radio Communication Conference here in Shamashach in Egypt. We're very pleased to be joining the studio today by Tom Hickey, who is the Chief Legal Officer for Iridium Satellite. Tom, welcome to the studio. Great to be here, Max. Thanks for having me. Now, I'd like to start off by asking you a little bit about Iridium Satellite. Perhaps you could tell us a little bit about its origins and where it's going. Iridium is the only true global commercial satellite system in the world. It has a constellation of 66 satellites as well as a number of asperes on orbit. And we provide voice data communications from low earth orbit, about 760 kilometers from the earth. And we connect people who are outside terrestrial coverage. Terrestrial coverage is maybe only about 25% of the earth's surface, so we would cover the rest of it as well as providing one system where you could get coverage everywhere. Now, you're here at WRC 19. You're obviously taking the time to be here. It's an important event for you. For what reason? Absolutely, it's important. I mean, I think this is the one meeting every four years where the International Treaty on the law of using radio spectrum has changed. So I think it's really important for senior folks from companies that are impacted to be here. And this is really, there's so many people who have spent so much time from delegations all throughout the world on study groups, regional meetings, preparatory gatherings. And so this is really where all the work gets done. Folks are here for a long time away from their families and we appreciate everything that everyone's done so far. What are you hoping to be some of the outcomes from this conference? Well, we're following the particular item on GMDSS modernization and as most of the folks here will know, GMDSS is Global Maritime Distress Safety Service. So it's the, if you think of the response to the Titanic catastrophe a century ago, this is in response to that is a Maritime Safety Service, eventually for satellite. There's currently a provider today. We would be a second provider, but we would be able to extend the current coverage for satellite to the entire earth. So right now there's not coverage in high latitudes and there's not coverage if you have a bad look angle toward the equator. So we would be able to provide that. So for us it's really important. We're doing a lot of work at our company to enable this system to work. And I always tell folks that there's a lot of work getting the network ready. There's a lot of work through the ITU process getting it ready, but if you think about that first call from a ship in distress, obviously it's worth it because it is really a matter of life or death. Talking about the process in ITU, I wanted to ask you with regards to ITU study groups, how important is the work of ITU study groups in terms of the reports, the studies, et cetera, to industry? I think really important. You couldn't get the work that needs to be done at the WRC to update the international treaties without the literally tireless work of many of those study groups over the past four years. So to go through, since the ITU works through consensus to be able to establish a consensus issue by issue, hopefully coming up to the WRC, it's critical. Finally, have you got a message here for participants at WRC 19? Well, I hope that they have a good and productive meeting. This is my second WRC, so I look back to the WRC 15 meeting where Iridium was interested in a matter of global flight tracking. And so I would just say to the delegates here who are spending a lot of time away from their families that what they're doing here can really have a huge impact. Four years ago, a spectrum was protected for global flight tracking. Iridium is involved with a joint venture called Arian. And since the last WRC, there is a new worldwide global flight tracking system in place based on the good work that WRC 15 did. For the first time now, there are air traffic controllers across the Atlantic and Canada and the UK who can see planes they never saw before. There's a 24-hour, 24-7 emergency system set up in Ireland for missing any ships in distress to provide that information. So hopefully the work of WRC 15 has prevented another Malaysia Air accident from ever happening again, borrowing someone affecting the equipment on the plane. So that's just a small example, but it's an example of how in a short time from WRC to another WRC, what's done here can impact the future. And I'd love to come back in four years to talk about how those new maritime safety calls have happened and what's being done here this month will make a difference four years from now. Well, thank you so much for joining us in the studio. And hopefully we'll catch up with you again soon, if not in 2023. Great. I look forward to that. Thank you, Max. Thanks, Tom.


The purpose of this luncheon is to really encourage young ladies to persist in science, technology, engineering, mathematics. The fact that you're here at the championship of first tells me that you should be seriously considering a career in a STEM field. There's lots of statistics we could share with you. One of them that I find most interesting is that do men and women make the same in the same job statistically? That's right. And on average, for most occupations out there, same jobs women make about 77% of what a gentleman makes, what a man makes. But it's a little different in the STEM fields, and this is where you should feel very encouraged. Statistically speaking, U.S., women make about 92% of what a man makes in a STEM field. And for this reason, wealth brings power, power brings change. This is how we make the world a better place. So you have a unique opportunity as women entering in STEM careers to make a difference in this world. So I really encourage you to continue following the path that you've already started and look for those opportunities. Many of you at your tables or everybody should have a mentor at the table. Can our mentors just raise your hands around the room? Look at this. We've got about 50 technology professionals in the room today sharing with you different entry points into careers, answering questions that you may have. Feel free to answer or ask them any question you can think of.  They're all good questions and we're here to give you some insight. By the way, I'm Jules Webb. I'm the Associate Director for the Pre-Freshman Engineering Program at the University of Texas here in San Antonio. Are there any PrEP students in the room or former PrEP students? All right. See one of those. So we're a summer program for students to want to kind of get a jump ahead and be prepared for careers in STEM. We are across the state of Texas. We are across the country. So you have questions on that. You ask me and my background is I have a bachelor's degree in chemistry and I worked as an analytical chemist for quality control in a pharmaceutical company for some years and then I moved into education which is something that a lot of women do but it's been a very rewarding career on both sides in academia and in industry. Well, without further ado, I would like to bring up someone who's helped put on the event today as well.  Come on up. So Sharon and I about a month ago, Patrick Felte, our regional director for first said, there he is in the back of the room. Hey, Patrick said, hey, would you all like to coordinate the woman in technology luncheon for first? And we said, yes, absolutely. And then I realized it was happening a whole month earlier than the year before. Last year we were at the end of March, this year we're at the end of February. So I'm very pleased to say that our community stepped up and our lead sponsors, Hallmark College and Precision Group, Precision Molden Tool came in and made this possible along with 12 table sponsors and you'll see their names displayed on the tables as well as in our program. I do want to recognize and honor all of those that made it possible with their financial support. There's a few individuals in the room that made some personal donations as well.  With that, I'm going to turn the mic over to Sharon who will introduce our keynote speaker for the event. And to give you an idea of what will take place, we will have our keynote speaker, a couple of closing words and then you'll be back off to competition and for all you FTC, you can go back and find out what happened in those Alliance determinations. Thank you. And really we all need to thank Jules because she is a person, if you're around San Antonio, STEM related activities inevitably you will see Jules involved and she also is a mother. She's very active in her profession but she chooses to give of herself so that we can all celebrate as women develop great career paths in STEM related fields. So could we please give a hand to Jules Webb for all her hard work? Okay, show of hands. How many people have read the book Lean In by Cheryl Sandberg? Okay, so you remember in that book there was a reference to a study that was done by Harvard that showed that when men were successful their peers were happy for them. They liked them a little bit more because they were successful but that when women were successful their peers whether they were men or women didn't like them as much. Okay, so I'm going to tell you something. Maybe we're just defying the odds but look around this room. They're in a single person who is in celebrating your success whether it was a man or a woman. So the first thing you need to know is we love you. We are so excited you're here and we're so excited about what you're doing. Thank you. So I have the pleasure of introducing our keynote speaker today and I wish I could say I have this bio-memorized but I have to be honest with you I'm going to struggle with some of the words. They're pretty big. She's a very, very accomplished leader in technology. Susan Pope is the Assistant Director of the Department of Space Science at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. She has a master's in engineering management from UT Austin and she also has a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from UT Austin. If that wasn't enough she's also done many interesting things with Southwest Research and she will tell you about some but I'm going to highlight a few. She has served as a Southwest Research Institute in various roles including the lead mechanical engineer for a variety of sounding rocket science space instruments. She was part of the engineering team to work on the medium energy neutral atom MENA. How many know about that? Okay she might tell you about it later. Imager a part of the image for magnetopause to Aurora mission which is an acronym image. Now my children would love to be in the audience right now laughing at me but I'm doing the best I can. Mrs. Pope was the lead mechanical engineer for the design fabrication assembly and testing for Alice which is also an acronym she'll tell you about that but it's a UV spectometer. Aren't you excited that I knew how because I actually have a guy who in my in our friends we have someone who actually works in that area that is part of the Rosetta mission. Mrs. Pope was the systems engineer for the SWAP which is the solar wind around Pluto and the lead mechanical engineer for the Alice both part of the science payload on New Horizons mission. She was the mechanical systems engineer for the twins which is another acronym which stands for two wide-angle imaging neutral atom spectometers instruments. Mrs. Pope served as the mission systems engineer for the IBX mission and she has overall responsibility for the technical aspects of that mission. Mrs. Pope was recently recognized as a 40 under 40 accomplisher in San Antonio so she's involved in many aspects. I did cut her bio a little short it's much longer we'll make it available online but if any of you were questioning whether we were going to have a high quality speaker today I think you should rest assured you're going to learn something very interesting so please join me as we welcome Susan Pope to the to the podium. Thank you very much Sharon. Okay so I'm going to have to consult notes too because I'm going to talk about launch dates and I don't remember where when everything was launched so um so as Sharon mentioned my name is Susan Pope. I am um I work at Southwest Research Institute which is um about 20 minutes from here in San Antonio and I'm going to start out with just a couple of things about myself and then I'll move into the really fun stuff about rockets and instruments and things so um so about me I was um you can I need to switch the slide see let go all right we're good okay so um I'm not I'm not under 40 anymore so I just turned 40 this year so I can't claim that anymore but um but I was born in England we moved here um I grew up in Houston so we moved here when I was five and I don't have a British accent because I went to kindergarten in Houston and they didn't really like the British accent so um so my mom does though and my dad does and in 92 I graduated from Jersey Village High School I um also went to an engineering camp in between my junior and senior year at University of Houston and to me that was one of the most one of the important things for me to understand you know what did I want to do I always liked science and engineering or science and math and you know I broke the curves on the calculus test and things like that but I was like well what do I want to do and so I it really helped me sort of focus in on what kind of engineering do I want to do you know how how do I want my career to go and so I focused on mechanical engineering pretty much because again I didn't know what I wanted to do and mechanical engineering is very broad um so I graduated in 96 from UT Austin and right after that I started working at Southwest Research Institute and I fell into the job um I wasn't a space junkie I am now um some people that work there in our space science and engineering division have always loved space and I mean I've always loved space it's cool rockets are cool right but um I ended up sort of fell into the job and I love it I've done so many different things and I'm a apologize in advance I tend to talk a little fast whenever I talk about what I do because I love it so much so I try to slow down to the point where I don't think I'm talking fast at all and then it's a normal speed so just as maybe something that you might think of in the back of your head next time you give a talk um but anyway so I've worked there ever since 97 so I've been there a little over 17 years served many different roles as Sharon said and um while working there I decided that I wanted to go into management so instead of just focusing on the technical side I decided I wanted to go into management so I got a I that's when I got my um my engineering management degree from me also from UT Austin and um I have been a manager for a while I was recently promoted to assistant director and then of course the 40 under 40 and then I just recently passed my project management professional exam so I don't know if there's any other PMPs in the room but it was a very challenging exam and I'm really glad I did it um it's interesting how you can pick little snippets out of things that you that you sort of go to a trading class for and apply those snippets in the different parts of your life so so that's about me and when I'm not let's see make sure that flips they got pictures on it okay cute boys pictures so um so it's just a little about me I didn't realize this would be live streamed I didn't tell my husband that his picture is going to be live streamed but um so the picture on the left is me and triathlon so that's what I do whenever I'm not um with my family or working and I have a five year old so we just we stopped at one I was a little decided how we are he starts kindergarten I can't believe he's going to start kindergarten he's this tall um and we travel a lot so I'm very fortunate that I travel for work in sort of unfortunate unfortunate because you stay away from your family but I get a lot of frequent flyer miles so I get to fly my family to different places so Casey's already been to Colorado I think four times in Florida and since I was born in England I have family there so he's been to England and so we're very fortunate that we're able to do it and I exercise not just to stay in shape but to stay sane um when you're really busy I find that you have to find something to relieve your stress and to me exercise is what I do so some people like like to focus it down do yoga stuff like that I'd rather go out and run so um so that's what I do pretty much six days a week um and I have to force myself to fit it in because I don't I really I really do feel it um okay so now the fun stuff so this is I mentioned earlier I work at um Southwest Research and um I work with really really great scientists and engineers we are about 300 in our division and most of them are scientists and engineers although we would never be able to do our job without our technicians and our administrative staff they're amazing and um they the thing that I always think of whenever I'm talking about my career is how important it is to focus on the non that it switched didn't it okay good um is to focus on the non technical side you get an engineering degree and they don't teach you how to write but you got to write a lot in an engineering thing and you have to present um I never took a speech class and when you present technical it's it's easy because you know your technical stuff but um whenever you do something like this or I've been in and I was in the planetarium show that they had out at scoby and I had to stand in front of a green screen and like read what was going in front of me and it was hard it was very hard much harder than designing instruments because I did that every day so it you know and then reading you of course have to read a lot and then of course there's the math and science technical side that you got to know of course um and then the other thing I didn't put up here actually I did it's the very top one I just forgot to talk about it is interpersonal skills um being able to work with different types of people um in in the in the world out there and in school and wherever you are you'll notice that people have different personalities so you realize that in order to work with somebody you have to treat one person different than another person and that's one thing that they really hammer into you in management um but it's something that's very good from a perspective of living in the world um you can't treat everybody the same you have to approach somebody differently um as a woman um as Sharon mentioned as a woman you have to realize that some people don't necessarily like that you're ahead um but you you just have to you know deal with it and go on so okay so fun stuff I have built instruments that are orbiting Mars I don't have pictures of those orbiting the earth um orbiting and going on their way to Jupiter on their way to Pluto and on the way to a comet so um I don't know the count of the instruments that I've designed but I spent the first pretty much six years or maybe eight years of my career um specifically designing instruments so you know scientists have an idea they tell the engineer the idea the engineer goes off and designs it and tells the scientists what you can't do all of that just doesn't work you can't build it um and so so these are pictures that switch to a bunch of pictures all right so these are some of the pictures of the projects that that Sharon mentioned earlier so ibex is the interstellar boundary explorer and everybody should have stickers and um there's some hopefully they're on all the tables there's not enough for everybody I apologize but I'm also procrastinated and so I just ran around this morning at 9 30 trying to get as many stickers and giveaways as I could find so I think there's enough of ibex stickers and if you turn them on the back they have information on the mission there's a little um a paper model that you can make of the magnetospheric multi-scale um spacecraft and so those are again I think there's only five of those on the table so those are just fun things to do you can go on the web and you can print a lot of the stuff out it as it does a very good job at education and public outreach um so where things are so ibex is is one of the I worked on the mission I worked on a couple of the instruments on ibex too um twins is the two wide-angle imaging neutral spectrometer um that was launched there were two spacecraft that were launched um and that um I didn't actually didn't ride down when that was launched I think it was launched in 2002 and ibex was I was eight months pregnant when ibex launched so I won't forget that launch that was October of 2008 um and then IES and Alice and Alice is actually not an acronym so that's okay the scientist that um that was our lead scientist for out for Alice um he just liked it he's like the name he thought was pretty so next to Alice on New Horizons is an instrument called Ralph so some of you may get it some may not um but anyway so we didn't actually work on Ralph we worked on Alice um Ralph was it an in an imager and swap is solar wind around Pluto and I don't have any pictures of the spacecraft but my next slide goes through and tells you sort of where everything is which I thought as I this morning as I was looking at up I thought it was pretty cool but Mina is the first instrument I ever worked on so Mina on the bottom right is a medium energy neutral atom instrument and I started working on that in 97 when I didn't know what the magnetosphere was um now I don't really know what the magnetosphere is but I can at least say it and spell it um but um I mean I can sort of explain what it is but I think if a real magnetospheric scientist heard me explain it they would probably tell me you know what are you talking about but other people it you understand it it's the it's the um the area around the earth that protects us from the solar wind it's pretty much what it is it's how our magnetosphere magnetic magnetic fields interact with the solar wind I do have a little picture of it on the next slide so we'll go to the next slide and this tells you where some of them are so I'll start with the one so the top right picture is showing the magnetosphere so you can see the the lines that are on that picture are the earth's magnetic field and everybody's heard of the aurora I'm sure and so um on the top and bottom of that we see where the lines come together that's called the cusp and that's pretty much where the aurora is and what the aurora is is ions and electrons that are flowing down those magnetic field lines interacting with the with the atmosphere of earth and that's one of the things that we do a lot of studying um the scientists that I work with we we studied that magnetosphere and um the image mission which is the one the MENA was on that was the first one that um that there was a really groundbreaking mission it actually wrote a lot rewrote textbooks on the magnetosphere because they were able to discover a lot of a lot of things um and by the way that's the probably the most rewarding thing about doing what I do is hearing about the missions in the news turning on Discovery Channel and seeing one of the scientists that I work with talk about how the image mission which I built one of the instruments on is discovering things about our magnetosphere it's very rewarding to hear that and know that you designed that little bitty part of it I mean it may just be a little part but at least you helped with it so um the next one that was launched I think it was New Horizons let me check my checklist here no Rosetta was launched first so Rosetta is actually a european space agency mission and that's the one that Alice was on and um Alice was the first sort of my first experience with realizing that I was working designed things for space um I remember I got a call on a saturday night after Rosetta launched that the door didn't open and I'm thinking what do you want me to do about that it's out there in space um but luckily NASA and ESA requires that you do it a lot of redundancy so we tried to fire the door once and this is in order to actually get light into the instrument we had to cover it up because of the contamination and you have mirrors in there you can imagine mirrors don't like particles falling on them and that sort of messes with the optical properties a little but um so I got a call and they fired the as I was on the phone we could hear the mission you could hear the mission um operation center getting the call that um you know they had sent the command to the because they have to send the command out there to open the door which is with our second signal so our first signal didn't work first command didn't work the second command went out and then you gotta wait a few minutes because the signal's gotta go out to the spacecraft and then it's gonna come back to the mission center so I knew it came back when the big roar went up in the room that was excited because the door opened and they were able to see counts so um that was sort of my first wow that's really weird because what I built is way out there and you can tell it what to do um so the other cool thing and you see this in the rosetta um the screen here and you can't read that but I have some links to some websites that you can look at but rosetta is actually um I think it's got a gravity assist from earth mars another one from earth and so it looks like two earth gravity assist three earth gravity assists and one mars gravity assist um to help it get where it wanted to go so that's physics you know once you go out there you got nothing else pushing on you other than gravity from all the different planets and so that's how we get our rock our spacecraft to where they want to go so you can see the rosetta if you look at those numbers um I'm sure you can't read them because they're they're pretty small I just screenshotted it from the website but rosetta is currently 731 million miles away so it's launched I said in 2004 and let's see new horizons was next launched in january of 2006 and new horizons is on its way to pluto um so one of the fun things to looking at this is um I'm going to step down can I step down try not to fall is you can see I don't know does that actually work you can see so the earth's in the center here and jupiter's in there somewhere sort of really close to the earth and that's where pluto is right so the green line is actually where we've already traveled and then the the rest of it is where we are getting to pluto so pluto is two points or new horizons is 2.7 billion miles away from the earth right now and I actually worked on two of the instruments on new horizons try to fall again that's why I work out so I can step up and down on the podium um and so so new horizons was again one of the first instruments I worked on but it hasn't even completed its prime mission yet so it's actually going to get to um to pluto it's just going to fly by it's not even going to orbit pluto it's just going to sort of fly by and we're going to cross our fingers and hope that everything works the way it's supposed to they're doing a lot of tests you know trying to make sure that new horizons is actually going to work they did a fly by of jupiter a really good science there um a lot of understanding about the the area around jupiter so it's going to get there next year so a little over a little over a year from now in july I forgot to actually tell you about rosetta so rosetta was a european space agency mission the other missions that I have on here are through nasa they actually put rosetta to sleep because they didn't have the money to fund all the mission operations and I don't know how long it was asleep but it actually woke up on january 20th of this year and they literally the only thing running was just a little bit of power and they had an alarm clock that went off so I guess the alarm clock told everybody to wake up well all the computers to wake up on the end so they're and everything woke up and so everybody was very excited there and the so the instruments they'll start being what we call commissioned which is pretty much making sure they work the way they're supposed to work okay so next is let's see ibex launch next I told you I wouldn't forget that launch I was here during the launch ibex launched from a small island in the pacific called quadrillion quadrillion is about halfway between hawaii and australia it's definitely the smallest place I've ever been and the only place I've had to rent a bike because they don't have automotive they don't they have like emergency vehicles on the island so when I put my expense account in that was a little funny call from the expense account personnel why did you have to rent a bike because that's what I got from my hotel to the meeting right I mean it's only if the island is only I did ran around the island and you know I got a four mile run in so it's pretty small anyway but um but it was fun to ride the little they were like the old banana seat bikes so they were fun um so ibex launched in 2008 and in October and our prime mission was two years so in at the beginning when we won ibex which is we started working on ibex in 2005 so you're looking at about a three to four year turn on most of these spacecraft and from and that's from nothing to having a spacecraft so just ideas in people's heads sometimes the ideas are more formed than other other times but um generally that's what you're think you're here you think of whenever you think of the um how long it takes but ibex launched into a an orbit and ibex orbits the earth and it launched in October 2008 the prime mission was done in um about two and a half years from there and now we're in what's called extended mission so one of the things they did and again this is cool physics is they fired their thrusters they knew exactly how much delta v to fire their thrusters to put them in an orbit that was not as impacted by the moon's gravitational pull so the initial orbit for ibex was um if you notice did i switch that by the way okay yeah still good um so the blue is the orbit for ibex and so you can see that where the moon is in relationship to the earth we're trying to stay away from the moon because if you get close to the moon we're so we're five six of the way out to the moon so we're at 50 re and it the moon literally pushes our orbit and um it works to get the science we want but then you have to re you have to use fuel to move your orbit around and get it back to where you want it to go and so the orbit dynamics folks who are working on ibex figured out a way to change the orbit so we um rotated like the way it's shown there on the screen where where you avoid the moon um and they did that during extended mission so that way they don't have to use as much fuel so they can last longer so they can get more data um ibex is actually looking at the um the the solar system's helio heliosphere and so the magnetosphere is our sort of protection from the sun our heliosphere is our solar system's protection from interstellar space so it protects us from radiation not of course all radiation because radiation still gets through um but and so ibex actually looks out i consider it like a fish in a bowl so ibex orbits the earth but there's two really big sensors one on either side and it and it is a spinner and so it spins around and it literally looks at a bowl at at at our at our bowl and looks at um neutral atoms that are coming in from the from outer you know past our solar system um again i'm an engineer not a scientist so but i think that is what actually they do um i don't just don't know exactly how they get that data that's i don't know if you guys have ever seen science data before it's like all a lot of times when you see a plotted it's like this rainbow plot and you're like oh that's pretty but to a scientist it actually means something um and so so that's what the scientists that i do that i work for so i put on here distance away from the earth which i thought was really cool the other thing i did for juno's um velocity is so juno is currently moving at 15 miles per second so pretty fast and i think new horizons is moving faster but i couldn't find that very quickly and you can see the juno spacecraft has also had a gravity assist it actually flew by the earth to get to juno um but new horizons if we didn't launch the year that we launched i think if we would have waited six months it would have taken us two more years to get there just because of the way the gravity assists work because new horizons used a lot of gravity assist from the different they when they passed by jupiter they were actually getting it in its grab gravitational field so it would push it around faster so they could get more so that is where they are so now these are just some pretty pictures so this is the magnetospheric multi-scale spacecraft that i um you have that's what the little paper is this is the i started working on mms in 2008 and that's when we started doing our preliminary design for the for the mission and the paper you have there is it's just a little paper model of mms and so you can take the little side part off i can see somebody's already done it um you take the side part off and you have a bookmark and then you can unclick everything that's you need to sort of fold everything back and forth and then you can make a little model all you need is tape i bring it to whenever i talk sometimes at elementary school i've brought it to there and they have fun time putting it together um and on the back of it there's information on you know what is what are the instruments on the spacecraft um and so what you see here did i switch it nope there we go there's the pretty picture it's it is on my screen though because i had to have this screen so what you see here is in the background that's a thermal vacuum chamber so what we have to do with our spacecraft is because we can't go fix it we have to test it as much as we can on the ground so in a sense you sort of want it to fail so you can fix it but you don't want it to fail because then it fails and you got to fix it so but you'd rather it fail here when you're on the earth when you can fix it then up at the up in space so that's why we do a lot of testing and one of the tests we do is make sure that it's going to survive um and so this is mms in the thermal back chamber and then mms there's actually two of them so there's total of four and i'm afraid i'm not going to be able to show my videos you want to see a solid rocket motor launch and you want to see a rocket launch rocket motor fire really loud rocket launch okay we're gonna we're gonna see the solid rocket motor fire so that is solid rocket motor firing that's actually a test that we do so we we didn't do it this was actually done by atk so there's the firing of the solid rocket motor and then i'm just going to switch this is the um and i'm just going to let this this video run while i'm finishing up so this is the websites so the best way to find out about um missions is to go at least on the web so if you're interested in any of these missions you can look on the back of those stickers or you can um look and look here and just do a search for nasa new horizons or nasa juno or um and and then you'll find more informations about the missions and so that's all i had to say sorry i ran a little long so so i don't know about you but i think i have to find a way to use gravity assist somewhere in the next 24 hours


My name is Mark Cage, and I'm an associate professor of orthopedics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and I am an orthopedic surgeon at the R. Adams-Cowley-Shuck Trauma Center. My specialty is orthopedic trauma, so I take care of patients that have had fractures. I take care of patients that have extremely injuries to their arms, legs, and pelvis. The spectrum of injuries I take care of are everything as maybe simple as an ankle sprain to really bad fractures from bad car accidents or motorcycle accidents. In addition to taking care of patients that have acute injuries where I work at shock trauma, I also take care of patients that have had injuries in the past. So fractures that have taken place in the past that maybe didn't heal or healed incorrectly. Patients sometimes can develop things like leg length discrepancies, or they develop arthritis from trauma, or they can develop infections after their fractures, and so I take care of a variety of different problems as it relates to fracture down the line. There is something really disabling about musculoskeletal injuries, and there's something really gratifying of the restorative function for patients. Much of my academic interest and research interest is actually centered around what's important to the patient and how patients' goals can sometimes differ from clinicians' goals. There should be shared decision-making with patients, and so my goal is to make sure that I'm giving the patient the best option to have the best outcome, but also one that they feel like is going to give them the best chance for success in their individually and for their family. The best part of what I do is that patients come to us, particularly when in acute trauma, on their worst day, and we're able to help them immediately and oftentimes get them back to right where they were before their injury, and for me that's probably a pretty gratifying thing.


I've got a few interesting things I want to show you here. I was walking down the street and somebody turned this bike lane into a purple rain tribute. I stopped to take a picture and a construction worker who was standing there said, yeah, everybody stops and takes a picture. And then on the sidewalk in front of the store, this caught my eye, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, an album by Tammy Wynette. I couldn't help but stop and look at that. And then right next to it was this vintage board game, Trap the Rat. It was a tiny little resale shop, and I walked inside and I asked the guy, do you have any other board games? And he said, yeah, we have a couple over here. And one of them was this Tennessee Tuxedo game. And there was also this Hoppy the Hoparoo game, the Flintstones tie-in. And next to them was the obligatory Bozo Sings album. And on the shelf below that was this Spider-Man telephone. It was behind something, so I couldn't tell exactly what it was supposed to be. But then next to it was the Fall Guy lunchbox. This is not a $6 million Man lunchbox. This is a Fall Guy lunchbox. Okay, I want to make that distinction. But then I turned around and looked up and on the shelf above the clothes, I cast that loud and stood there in shock because there are the Shogun Warriors toys. Look at the size of these toys in comparison to the hangers on the shelf just below them. If you've never seen these toys before, they came out in the late 70s. They're like 30 inches tall. Each one of them is almost a yard tall. They're the greatest toys ever made. Of course, they're giant robots from Japan. I had this one, the black and blue one called Mazinga, and the red one called Dregun. I saw the yellow one on the shelves is called Gaya King. I didn't need to look these up. I know the names of these toys. And this one is called Dangard Ace. I never saw that one. I also never saw the one on the left called Ray Dean, but I always wanted that one. All of that great stuff aside, this is the thing I wanted to tell you about. It was just sitting by itself in a little basket on the floor with some other random stuff. As you can see, it is the posable Ricardo action figure from Peewee's Playhouse. Ricardo was called the world's greatest athlete. He was a recurring character on Peewee's Playhouse along with Miss Yvonne and Cowboy Curtis and the King of Cartoons and all the rest. This is in the late 80s when Peewee's Playhouse was on Saturday morning and there was a series of Peewee toys made by Matchbox, among them being the talking Peewee and the non-talking Peewee. The box doesn't tell you anything else about Ricardo. It just says, posable Ricardo is seen on TV. But here's why that's caught my eye and why I paid $24 for it. I went to college with this guy. The 1984-85 school year, I studied drama with him and when he showed up on Peewee's Playhouse a couple of years later, I was like, no way. Let's take a good look at the posable Ricardo here. Mr. World's greatest athlete. But this guy went on to have a successful career in Hollywood. I hadn't followed his career, but the last time I saw him in something, the last time I spotted him was Machete.


Yeah, so I feel really fortunate to be here at the Stebbin Clinic. I mean, it's kind of everybody, it's famous in orthopedic circles, you know, for definitely well worth its reputation and felt really fortunate when I matched here and it's kind of lived up to all my expectations and more. Working with all the attendings is really just eye-opening and learn a ton from them. Everybody's been so welcoming here and living in Vale for a year has been awesome, too. It's definitely not something that if you would have asked me, you know, five, ten years ago, whether I would have been in Vale and, you know, doing orthopedics, doing sports medicine, having a great year, it's not something I could have imagined. So I feel definitely really, really, really fortunate to be here in the clinic this year. I'm having a baby soon, we don't know, boy or girl yet, but well, I guess by the time, yeah, I had a kid by the time this happened. Get a little Vale baby hat, so bonus, yeah. You know, the ambition here is so high to get back to the field, to get better individually and as a team for everyone. That's been really, you know, a nice thing to be a part of and see and really work with the research side of things and also the clinic side of things here at the Stem and Clinic. I mean, it's kind of unbelievable sometimes. We talk about this with the other fellows sometimes, but when you really think about it, these guys are all the, you know, the top people in their field. And it's kind of like, I mean, I kind of view it like if Tom Brady asked you to come down from the stands and throw you passes. So it's kind of like, I'm like, sometimes I'm like, what am I doing here? You know, they're really patient with us and are great teachers. And I think that if we can just take as much as we can from them in this year, that's all we can really strive for. And we're really appreciative for all the work and time that they commit to us because I know that they're really invested in the teaching program as well. I guess I'd just like to say thank you to everybody in the clinic and, you know, the teams and the attendings and everybody at all aspects of the Stem and Clinic just really sincere thank you for me because this year has been one of the best years of my life and I've learned a ton and thank you so much. I want to be friends.