rt of discussions about the use of MassApp during construction and what the implications are gonna be for public convenience, public safety and those aspects. Are there other topics that you would like to revisit at that time? Yeah, so just like we did two weeks ago, our team will debrief tomorrow morning and talk through the comments that we've heard and so the list that I've been making is that we're gonna proceed with the 135 foot wide building. We're gonna abandon the 137 foot building at this point. We will try to get feedback immediately from the deputy chief as to if, from a safety point of view, he has an opinion. If he's indifferent and unless I'm reading the board wrong, there did seem to be a consensus that even though the chair originally said split the extra two feet because of the massing on the west side, because there's no you in that portion of the building and Mr. Reardon, I have this comment as well. Let's hold the setback on the east side to comply with zoning and unless there's a reason from an emergency point of view, not to put all of the benefit of the two feet on the west side, that's what we're gonna do. If that's the answer, what we're then gonna do is say to Mike Novak, okay, Mike, you got to design your site plan with that footprint in that location. So start to get to the next iteration of site plans. We can get it to the board, get it to Tetra Tech. We are going to have Kyle Zick look at the comments about the trees in the front addressing the seating area, trying to get another tree in there what type of trees he would propose after listening to the comments of Mr. Moore and other members of the tree committee and they're written documentation. So we're going to address that. And everybody keeps their own list, so we'll consolidate them. We will present to the board in two weeks, everything that we've done in response, as well as a presentation of deliveries of materials and how the Mass Avenue access point will, we propose how the Mass Avenue access point will be used. And with that, just to sort of forecast, we'll be at the end of February, we would think we're getting to the point where we may be able to start to list what's left for us to finalize and get into the board so that the board then has the project in front of it that we are asking it to consider so that you know, okay, this is it. One of the things that I frequently do if asked by the board is, I work with the board on articulating particular conditions that the board would wanna see to ensure certain outcomes. I know there was a mention about, you gotta be careful legally about how to bind the future condominium association. For example, if there was an annual, an obligation for the first 10 years to submit an annual report with regard to the development of the urban park, I'm confident that we can legally do that in a proper way so that it is legally binding on the condominium association and it's a legal requirement to become an association that can be enforced by the board or by the zoning enforcement officer if they fail to do it. So I frequently work with boards and I know I could seek counsel from Mr. Havarty on how to articulate and prepare conditions. Our goal as the applicant need was to say, we would like to, we hope the board is gonna be favorably inclined to improve this project but our goal is not only to get it approved but to be able to have it conditioned in a manner where we're not in a position where we need to object to a condition. That there's two pieces to this, we hope it's approved so that we don't have to appeal a denial but we hope it's approved with conditions that we've worked through so that we don't have to appeal a condition. And we're prepared to work with the board and with counsel to the board to achieve both outcomes. All right, thank you very much. Are there any further questions from either the board's consultants or members of the board in terms of things they would like to make sure that are covered at the next hearing? Mr. Chairman. Mr. Hanlon. This may or may not be at the next hearing but off and on we've been talking about the area, the landscaping of the area and treatment of the Millbrook area that's offsite. And we haven't really borne down very much on that because at least as far as we know, conversations at last time had reached a sort of a breakthrough and things were about to happen. We didn't really talk much about it tonight although we did look at it in a picture. And that sort of is a shoe that ultimately needs to drop and I'm guessing that the applicant needs time to make that all work out but it should be on our task list before we're finished to understand exactly what's proposed there or at least as best we can. So that would be, I mean, obviously I think we should give the applicant all the time to nail that down that the applicant needs but eventually we need to circle back to it. Second thing is I wanted to just sort of say that we don't always send out notices to the tree committee and I think that Mr. Moore and Ms. Dampfs have both done a great job of helping us work our way through some of the issues tonight. I would like it eventually if the applicant would reply to the questions that were asked by the Clean Energy Futures Committee in the initial set of responses by the town just so that we understand where it is they're coming from on that. As far as I know, I mean, there's been conversations that have seemed to me to go in multiple directions and I'd just like to have as clearly understood as we can what the answers are to those questions and we'll take it from there. I mean, in general, there's a lot of I just spent some time rereading all of those comments. There's lots of interesting things there much of which we've discussed some of which we haven't discussed but it would be worthwhile just to make sure that we haven't overlooked anything and obviously not everything that we've been asked to do will be able to happen but it has been a useful compliment to the outstanding assistance we've had from our experts. That would it be helpful to invite a representative from that committee to attend the next hearing? I don't know whether, I mean, we could do that. I don't know whether it's really going to be completely necessary but maybe we should see what transpires what it is that once the applicant has thought about what they wanna say, we may or may not need to have somebody from the CEFC to further discuss it. I just don't want to let the issue get lost. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Anything else from members of the board? Okay. There is one other thing I had wanted to talk about and this is I had mentioned this in an email probably three, four weeks ago between myself and the applicant and some people from the town. So the board is able to request funds of the applicant to assist in the review of the project and assist in sort of the process itself and so the board has requested funds and that is covering the cost of having Tetra Tech and Davis Square associates provide their expertise to the board that the board wouldn't have otherwise. And one other thing that the board would like to request funding for is the creation of a transcript of the hearings so that we have full documentation of everything and that the board has done this on its two recent prior hearings and we feel it's important to have this record not only for the board so that the board can have a written record when the board goes to write its decision that the board can know accurately what everything that has been put forward and so that the hearings, so that all the findings that the board makes it can link back to exactly what happened in the testimony that the board isn't trying to put anything forward that was not in the record prior and obviously the documentation is also valuable to the applicants, the applicant knows exactly what happened and what was said and what was agreed to as they review the decision that the board makes and so I had spoken with in special services about what it would cost to prepare that and the response from them is that it would probably be under, I think there was a, they had thought the number would be under, would be up to but not exceed 4,000 depending on what exactly, how many hearings we have, how long the hearings are, et cetera and so I had discussed this initially with the applicant and there was some pushback as to the necessity of it but I did wanna have that question again because I do feel that it's a valuable tool for not only for the applicant and the board itself but it's valuable for the public as well and so I really would like to include this in the 53G funding but I did wanna give the applicant a chance to respond to that. Well, Paul, we'll just make, I mean, it sounds like it's something that's important to Mr. Chairman and something that was done on previous projects so I'd be willing to say if we could try to cap it, do our best to do it for less and we'll just do it and move forward. Yeah, I'll just point out two things. I get having some understanding on how much transcripts cost and how many pages are created per hour of testimony and how many hours of testimony we've had. I'd be shocked if this is gonna come in at $4,000 or below but I think that needs to get nailed down. The other thing I would say is I think it's a real open question of whether or not the statute allows funds to be used for transcribing the public hearing. I think that's beyond what the statute was designed to do. Obviously, if my client agrees to it, then that issue is not an issue. You know, the Zoom hearings are recorded so I mean, if there's ever a doubt asked to, gee, what was said on that subject, we could always go back to the recordings and flush it out. It does seem wasteful to me to create an entire transcript that is gonna turn out to be 15 or 20 hours worth of meetings to write the decision. I think we've all been taking pretty good notes and we're gonna put it in conditions and we're all gonna look at the conditions and we're all gonna be able to agree and the plans are being changed to address what we're saying. Again, if the client is open to it or if the board says we'll cap it at $4,000, okay, it just doesn't seem like a good expenditure of money and I know I'm pushing back when Matt Maggiore already said it's important to the board. So... Chris, can we firm up that number? I can certainly work on getting that to be a firmer number. I did wanna invite Paul Heverty to speak on this question, especially the question as to whether or not this is something that's allowable under 53G. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I mean, I think there's two separate questions here. Whether it's allowable under chapter 53G, of course, it's allowable in the sense that this is something that 53G funds can be used to pay for. The second question is whether or not you can require it of a comprehensive permit applicants as part of the process and the regulations aren't clear. I think I will have to agree with the attorney Feldman that if you were getting feedback from an applicant saying that they're refusing to do it, then unless you have a specific local regulation that requires it, you probably wouldn't be able to impose it as a cost. But that being said, I have on multiple occasions had boards request from my clients funds to have transcripts of hearings. My clients have provided those funds that have gotten the transcripts. They have actually used the transcripts that have used transcripts from local board hearings in litigation when necessary. There is value to having it. And it's a lot quicker to read through a transcript than it is to sit through and rewatch a three-plus hour board hearing to try to get for that, that one piece of information that you're looking for. So there is value. Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir. I just want to, just from our experience of the previous hearings, we do go into this 40 days of silence at a certain point where we can't, the cardinals are never more closely cloistered when they're electing in the pope than we are when we do a comprehensive permit. And we're constantly, especially those of us of a certain age, you're trying to remember what happened. When you can do a word search through a transcript, you can get to that. And I can remember several occasions on the ones that we did two years ago where we were desperately trying to figure out what it is that somebody had said. And when they had said it, it was, by that time it was months earlier and it is not that easy to work through a lot of Zoom recordings. So, and it was basically, as Mr. Feldman pointed out earlier, one of the things the applicant would like to do is to avoid appealing conditions that we may get wrong. And as much as we try to get it fixed before we go into the conclave, there'll always be something that comes up and having a bit more certainty during that period of time and understanding exactly what people said and looking from the transcript back to the actual statement, if we have to do that, it tends to make this work just better. It avoids a conflict that doesn't have to happen. And I think that that would be in everybody's interest. We're on board just, we could cap it at the 4,000, I'll be appreciated. Mr. Chairman, I promise that when we get to 4,000, I won't say anymore. So we don't actually add them. You realize that we'll be a part of the transcript then. I get that. Okay, well, I do appreciate the applicant agreeing to this. I think it will be valuable as if everyone had a completely agree on the cap. So with that, then I would make a motion. So I would move the Designing Board of Appeals, request the applicant transfer an additional amount of $4,000 to the designated town account to retain a consultant to prepare a written transcript of the proceedings further. I move the town council and the department of planning the community development staff be authorized to manage the contract for the approved consultant and communicate needs for additional funds for the retention of such consultants consistent with section, with chapter 44, section 53G, the board reserves the right to request additional funds in the future. And I would just say as an aside to that, that does not imply that the board will be requesting additional funds, but should an additional consultant be required that the board would still have the right to request that in the future. Second. Thank you, Mr. Hanlon. So this is a vote of the board to request an additional $4,000 under 53G for the retention of a consultant to make a written transcript of the proceedings. So with that, a vote of the board, Mr. Dupont. Aye. Mr. Hanlon. Aye. Mr. Riccadelli. Aye. Ms. Hoffman. Aye. Mr. Holley. Aye. And the chair votes aye. That is approved. And again, thank you to everyone. Yes, Mr. Majore. Just we'll get that check out right away. Just would ask that in the spirit of time, if they could begin the process now so that they could catch up to where we are, so that if we need these transcripts to write the decision that we're not waiting weeks after our decision has been rendered to be able to get the transcripts, that would be absolutely. So then the proposed next meeting of the board would be two weeks from tonight, which is Thursday, February 23rd at 7.30. Just to make sure that that's still amenable for the applicant. Yes. Perfect. It is. Mr. Chair, can I just ask one clarifying question? Yes, Mr. Bellman. Because I think Mr. Havardy may, I'd be interested in his view. It's been my experience that there are many times when a draft decision is prepared, it's the applicant has a chance to review it to see if we have any suggested language changes that we would ask the board to consider. Is that the process that you guys do? Do you object to giving us a draft decision so that if there is some cleanup to language that we're suggesting that the board agrees with, we can accomplish that before the decision is rendered? Speaking on behalf of the board, I would say the board is, I don't think we have an objection to preparing a draft for review. My understanding is that if we were to do that, it would have to be done before the hearing closes. And as such, it's a time constraint for us to have to make sure that if that's the case, if the board needs additional, if there's additional time required to make that review and to make sure that everyone gets a chance to do it, that we're not, that if additional time is requested to hold the hearing open long enough to do that review, that that's not an issue for the applicant. Fair enough. I think we have six months. I don't remember where we are in the six month. Right at the moment. But I do get the sense where we're probably, maybe three and a half months into it or something like that. I don't know if Mr. Havardy has a recollection, but I think it was... I don't, but I think we should look into that because I think we're probably closer than we realize. We are. I know it's the dates in April. I'm pretty confident that Steve, the closing date, I'm just... Yeah, I think it was October 19th. Was it that the public hearing was opened or something like that? So November, December, January, February, March, April. Yeah, I think it's sometime in the third week of April. That sounds about right. So we still got, I mean, we could confirm it for sure. We still have a couple of months. If we're, hopefully we're hearing it too away, to be able to sort of complete this stage of the public hearing process, and that would give us a month to get a decision done. And that's why Matt's comment about transcripts to the extent they're needed, we should get on them because I don't know if it takes a stenographer to, I mean, to, you know, the strive version to create this transcript. The date is April 16th. April 16th, I thought it was the 19th, close enough. Mr. Chairman. Mr. Hanlon. Just wanted to point out that in the larger of the two cases that we had a year and a half ago, we did do a version of a draft of a decision. It wasn't the final draft by any means. We did a lot of work in the 40 days, but we did do something that both the applicant and the public got to see. And if you remember, we got a fair amount of comment. On that from, from everyone. So it was a pretty public process. And we had, there were lots of drafts that were going around and material from experts and so forth, right up until the time that the hearing closed. There wasn't the final draft though, we were still have lots of work to do. Okay. Well, maybe with that in mind, and I was having to you in the past has sort of provided us a basic outline to start from. So if that's something you could put together for us again, that would be great. Are there any further questions? If not, I move to continue the public hearing for the residences at Millbrook to Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 at 7.30 p.m. Second. Thank you, Mr. Hanlon. Are there any questions from the board as to what we're voting on? Voting to continued. This hearing to Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 at 7.30 p.m. Vote of the board, Mr. Dupont. Aye. Mr. Hanlon. Aye. Mr. Rickardelli. Aye. Ms. Hoffman. Aye. Mr. Holley. Aye. And the chair votes aye. So we are continued on residences at Millbrook until Thursday, February 23rd, 2023. Thank you all very much. I really appreciate everyone's... Likewise. Thank you so much. Good night, everybody. Good night. Thank you very much. Good night. Good night. Absolutely. So for the board itself, the next meeting of the board is Monday, February 13th at 4 p.m. This is our practice hybrid session. Pat and I had a little bit of a preview of that. We've already lost that. And so it looks like it'll work well. I just had a quick question as to who thinks they would want to be in person at Town Hall Annex for this and who would like to do it remotely? I know Pat Hanlon is going to do it remote. I will be in person. I will be remote. They will be remote. I'd prefer remote as well, Christian. Okay. I'm happy to go in person. That'd be great. And then get gone as well. Okay. All right, I will let Jim Fini know that. Excuse me. Make that work. And then we do not have a hearing on the 14th. There was a case that was actually scheduled for the 14th, but the application was vastly complete. So that's been rescheduled now to the 28th. So that will be the next one for that. But before the 28th, on Thursday, February 23rd as we just voted is the continuation of this hearing. So that will take place the 23rd to 730. So with all this, I would thank everyone for their participation in tonight's meeting of the Arlington Zoning Board of Appeals. They appreciate everyone's patience throughout the meeting and especially would like to thank Rick Valerelli, Vincent Lee, especially Colleen Ralston for joining us and welcome to the board again. We appreciate all their assistance in preparing for and hosting our online meeting tonight. Please note the purpose of the board's recording of the meeting is to ensure the creation of an accurate record of the proceedings. It is our understanding that the reporting made by ACMI will be available on demand at acmi.tv within the coming days. And if anyone has comments or recommendations, please send them via email to zbaatown.arlington.ma.us. That email address is also listed on the Zoning Board of Appeals website. So to conclude tonight's meeting, I would ask for a motion to adjourn. So moved. Thank you, Mr. Dupont. Second? Second. Thank you, Mr. Rickadelli. So vote of the board to adjourn, Mr. Dupont. Aye. Mr. Handlin, I will take it as an abstention. Ms. Hoffman? Aye. Mr. Holley, I'll take it as an abstention. Mr. Rickadelli? Aye. And the chair votes aye. The board is adjourned. Thank you also very, very much. Appreciate it once time and look forward to seeing folks on Monday. Good night, everyone. Good night.


talking about what what Twitter is doing and and what is going on and I was you know I guess I wasn't shocked I'm not shocked anymore by anything that happens on Twitter but but surprised a little bit surprised by the extent by the passion by the extent of those that would want to nationalize Twitter you know so people are talking about ooh Twitter is colluding with the government you know so what what's the solution the solution is we should have the government take them over well it's just bizarre thinking like that I you know I saw all over the place anarchists who want more government intervention and in big tech and and more controls over big tech and what big tech can do I saw conservatives libertarians anarchists all arguing anarchists slash libertarians all arguing for for more government controls yeah somebody somebody says in the chat Tim Paul who's got a huge following on YouTube wants to nationalize Twitter I wonder if if Tim Paul will have a platform if if the government nationalizes YouTube where he has millions of followers I wonder how long he says something that pisses off the authorities before he gets slammed so it truly is shocking to me you can be against what Twitter did you can oppose it you can even think it's so bad that you're never gonna use you can boycott Twitter it's completely within your right and and it makes sense for many people to a boycott Twitter to switch the different platform or to get off social media completely I mean you know life did exist and many if you don't remember this and some of you were too young to remember it but life did exist before social media so you could just leave social media you know it's not like you have to have an alternative you don't have to have an alternative the alternative could be to actually socialize with people live maybe in the post COVID ever because now it's illegal it's stunning to me the the degree to which people have principles until the principle is tested private property is fine until it's inconvenient or until you don't want those people to have private property until you don't get what you want so here's the bottom line I mean I said this yesterday on the show and I really mean this I think this is an important point I am so happy to live in a country where a private company can ban the president that's freedom my ability not to have to listen not to have to give the president a platform on my platform that's freedom you couldn't do this in China because in China all social media is monitored by the government so that all that is said in social media has to be okayed with the authorities and if the president of China wants to release something by social media God nobody's gonna stop him she's stopping to go to jail in Iran you can't do that I suspect that in Russia if let me Putin wants to say something you give him a platform you clear it out you make it possible for him so if you want 1984 1984 is what many of you want what many of you are asking by forcing Twitter to do the government's bidding to do your bidding to you to do your arbitrary bidding to deny private people the ability to control what appears on their private platforms that's 1984 China's 1984 Twitter banning Trump is the opposite of 1984 it's exactly the opposite it's exactly the ability of individuals to say no I don't want to deal with the president of the United States I don't want to deal with powerful politicians politician could call up any TV station and they will take his take his call and he can talk to them he can I'm sure even CNN would answer the phone let Donald Trump talk he can put out a press release and every news wire will carry it the idea that somehow this is silencing anybody is absurd the idea that competition constitutes you know only other I mean such a narrow view of competition it's a typical status view of competition that competition it constitutes something you know narrower that other all it is is other social media platform no competition is any means of communication and there's tons of competition so I will get to Paula we'll talk about Paula so the idea that and I saw this a lot on Twitter yesterday the idea that Twitter banning the president of the United States and banning certain conservative voices and again I'm not even talking about are they just a far is it good business for them to do Twitter's a business I don't know if it's good business I know if it's the right decision I mean in the case of banning Trump I think it probably is but in the case of banning a lot of other people in the case of not being consistent Twitter is not consistent Twitter is biased Twitter is politically culturally motivated but Twitter is a private company and has every right every right to be biased the media is biased Fox is biased CNN is biased they're all biased so Twitter is a biased and I you know I wish that if they were going to banned Donald Trump they should also ban the the that to look at a tool of harmony in Iran who calls for for death and destruction they should be banning other dictators and autocrats and they should be banning Antifa and some people and BLM and anybody who is advocating and inciting violence left or right but they don't they're not consistent which is sad and unfortunate it doesn't deny them the right to make those irrational decisions it doesn't deny them the right to be biased because again it's their platform and it's not about charity objective is give less charity than leftists or conservatives I don't know what oh that's charity charity all right I thought charitable here sorry I was confused so you know this is not these are private companies private platforms you know they created what they have they you know somebody worked really hard somebody hired programmers raised capital took the company public Twitter has not done great public because it's particularly without Trump because it's not clear how Twitter makes money it's advertising platform it's not as robust anyone years robust as a Facebook others it's got lots of users but it doesn't make a lot of money it struggled to try to figure out how to make money I think banning Trump is probably is going to be problematic for Twitter from a money-making perspective because a lot of people on Twitter because of Trump he brought a lot of people to the platform but but that's again their decision but think about the fact that this is private property par excellence in a sense that somebody made the investment somebody did the work somebody created the software somebody created the platform it's not a public square now I don't believe in public squares I don't believe anything's a public square but okay you can imagine a public park where the government has planted the trees and planted the lawn and so it's public supposedly we all own it or something and therefore anybody should be able to say anything they want there but even that's not true right if I stand up and start telling pornographic stories guess what the police are gonna come and take me away you can't just say whatever you want even in a public square but Twitter is the exact opposite of a public scale square private individuals private capital private investors private workers private entrepreneurs built created made Twitter it's I don't know what private property would be what your definition how you would define private property if Twitter doesn't qualify as private property just because a lot of people use something does not make it public which basically means you know I ran said public means that nobody owns it just because a lot of people use something does not make it that nobody owns something it's it's truly horrific once you inject the idea that Twitter is a private company the Twitter is private property that the platform is private property then you reject all private property you eject the whole idea now then people tell me but it's a monopoly no it's not so by my definition of monopoly there is no such thing as a private economy it's you know a monopoly is something protected by government like the post office that's a monopoly try try distributing first class mail in the United States and you'll get arrested by the government who protects the monopoly the post office has and FedEx and UPS have found ways around it that have been legalized but basically it's a monopoly but Twitter is not a monopoly Twitter has no government protection if you start a competitor to Twitter it's not the government that is gonna decide whether you survive or not it's the marketplace and part of that marketplace are your suppliers and your vendors and the other people with which you deal what we need today what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason by the intellect not by feelings wishes women's or mystic revelations any man or woman who values his life and who does 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From the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, it's theCUBE covering UiPath. Forward 4, brought to you by UiPath. Good afternoon, welcome back to theCUBE's live coverage of UiPath Forward 4. Lisa Martin here with Dave Vellante. We're on day two of our coverage. We've been talking a lot about automation, all of the opportunities that it's uncovering across industries. We're now going to be talking about a big company undergoing its own automation-led digital transformation. Joining us next, Marisa Kokenauer, head of Automation Advisory Services at Cognizant. Marisa, welcome to the program. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here today. So let's talk. So Cognizant is both a partner and a customer of UiPath. We're going to talk about you in the customer realm today. Cognizant is undergoing its own automation-led digital transformation. Let's talk about that. Talk to me about some of the business outcomes that you're expecting. How it's going to transform the employee experience, the customer experience. Sure, absolutely. We actually started working with automation ourselves back in 2018, where we just put in a COE. We said we want to drive it into our business operations. But about a year ago, we said, let's go further. I really wanted to play with all of our employees. We wanted to empower them. We talk about citizen development, a robot for every person. And we know that that's really the future. That's where we're going. We're digitally transforming our organizations. And so what we did is we sat down. We worked really closely with UiPath on how we do this. What kind of training do we need? We're going to need some process, some governance in there. And so we put that in place. And we said, let's get this going this year. So we went out. We did our first hackathon. Went really well was bring your own bots, so BYOB, so fun themes. And we got some good savings. We actually drove over 10,000, close to 20,000 hours back into the organization. And we said after that, let's go a bit bigger though. And we did what's called Game of Bots. So obviously we know where that came from, right? And we said, we're going to go a little bit longer and we want to go bigger. So we went and had 2,500 people participate over eight weeks. We built over 1,000 bots. And guess what? We drove over 200,000 hours back into the organization in just eight weeks. So super big success story. People loved it. Our teams were excited. We recognized over 200 people out of that with team awards, who submitted the most ideas. And even our top leadership said, let's do a presentation. So the guys and gals who had the top, biggest impact automations got to meet with our top senior leaders and present out to them. It's been awesome. And now we're starting to move that forward because we're scaling bigger. We're actually going pretty big in Cognizant. We have some big goals right now. That's a gob of hours game of bots. Get it? Come on, with me. It is a gob of hours. How do you measure the hours? Is it a back of napkin kind of thing? We ask people, hey, how much? How do you actually measure? No, we actually track it. We could see how many hours people were doing certain tasks and things that they do every day, whether they're running reports, submitting claims for a customer. And so we're able to see that that time is actually going down. We're faster, we get better quality. People are also able to get hours back in their day so they could do more value added work in the organization. So we actually do track it, and we're able to really measure those tangible outcomes for the teams. Sounds like you guys have been moving pretty quickly on this. So the appetite at Cognizant was there. The culture was there to embrace it. Those are probably, I imagine, two big facilitators of being able to move at the speed and the scale with what you're doing. Culture was there. We're really digitally savvy. I would say we're digital at heart in Cognizant. We're really a tech company and we really focus on how to be at the forefront of all things when it comes to technology. But we said, we also want to transform how we work. So starting to shift the conversation from, you know, do you want to automate to why not? How do we actually start talking about, you know, I have this to-do list, but you know what, actually we can improve if we did some of this other stuff instead. So let's free up that time, let's use automation there, and we can actually grow things. We can add more value. We do all that stuff on your to-do list that I think everybody has and they want to get to, but you get caught up in your day to day job all the time. So we're actually getting people to be more excited about and have a real voice. And I actually think that's important is that it's not just about giving people the tool, it's about shifting our culture to really embrace digital, embrace this technology, because we're trying to transform how we all work. And we want to lead by example. So we're talking about BPO, business process optimization, right? It was kind of the buzzword in the 90s and early 2000s. A lot of times it meant putting an SAP, right? So that's evolved. And there are some companies that would say, hey, we specialize in that technology companies, obviously, you know, SIs as well. How do you think about the difference between end-to-end enterprise automation and sort of traditional BPO? I think it has to come together a bit is one thing. So when you do the BPO or you do shared services or you outsource some of the work, we actually put into those contracts because we do a lot of that for our customers and we put in automation. The step we took further was we actually started to empower people to actually build the automations themselves, which meant we actually had to work with customers too, so they knew we were doing this. We wanted to make sure they understood, they were comfortable. We put any controls in place that they also needed to make sure that, you know, we didn't impact any other services. We want to make it better. We want them to feel nothing but bigger, better results and outcomes. And then as you think about the enterprise side, we have to compliment because a lot of those processes do feedback into how you run a business. And so we focus on how do you bring both of those stories together so that you're driving synergies across the board. And actually some good lessons learned along the way because some of this stuff becomes reusable, you know, best practices you could share across the board and we want to make sure that we are connecting the dots from the shared services BPO work back into the enterprise because really a process is end-to-end and organization and we want to help people think that way and also get the results that way too. Is that end-to-end automation, that enterprise automation more tech heavy or maybe it's tech light in a way whereas BPO was maybe a lot more sort of lean thinking, a lot more chalkboard, going deep into the, so sometimes you're saying they have to come together. They do, yeah. From where, I guess is what I'm trying to better understand. So I would think about it this way. When you think about a process, right? From when you even place an order the whole way through when you fulfill it for a customer. There's work that we do outsource all the time, right? So maybe it's the PO process, some of the order transactions, some of the payment. But you also have the pieces is actually touching the customer too. You have the pieces that are fulfilling the order. So we say end-to-end, that is really thinking about that beginning from a conversation with the customer the whole way to when we're delivering. And I do think there's a lot of technology. That is something I think everyone gravitates to because there is a lot, especially if you're going to go end-to-end. You have to be able to take in documents, you have automation. You're not going to know all the rules. No matter how many times you ask, you're going to need machine learning to be able to help figure it out and get smarter as you go along the way. But as you're putting this into place, what's important is as you're thinking about kind of transforming that business so that they're feeling the results the whole way through. Because if you just focus on one, you might create a bottleneck, right? You might have got super fast, but the guy who's going to get the work from you, they're going to feel like, oh my goodness, there's all this work on my plate. So we really want to make sure that we create that seamless experience for everyone across the board as we put it in. And how does UiPath help facilitate that? On that, across the board. I mean, we're sitting down, we were laying out our program because we're actually trying to get to 60,000 strong. So we have 7,000 trained today. We're going to get to 60,000, that's our plan. So we're working very closely with UiPath. What is that training that you need to have in place? What's that model? How do we get people comfortable? Cause one thing you'll find is not everyone's in the same spot. Some are going to jump in, dive right in, give me the tool I want to build. I love this. Others might need a little bit more confidence boost. They might need more hand holding. And I think that's really important. And it's probably the one thing I would add too, as you do talk a lot about the technology as we put it in, but it's the people at the end of the day. And it's how you help them adopt, feel comfortable with this technology and really embrace it. That's really going to be the difference on whether, how fast you get down that line for transformation. Is it a classic bell curve?  It kind of is. And I think what's important is that middle is all up in how you do it. Because 10% are always going to love it.  But in the middle, if you really think about it and you're able to put in that culture, you're able to put in, your leadership is engaged. You're putting in some gamification. Make it fun. That's what we found is if we got people really having fun up front with it, it gave people a reason to be a part of it.  We can give them the technology, but if someone's not as comfortable, let us do teams. Let's meet people where they're at and then move them along this journey. And let's try to accelerate the best we can. How did you gamify it? Crypto? No. No, no crypto. But I will say we have some really cool prizes and people were super excited to get to do the presentations because they got to show their bots live, their creations to the team. And I think that was important. Not everyone always is able to capture all the results, but we wanted to actually talk about what were the ideas, share it across the board, because it also generated ideas. Because what you'll find is when you hear something like, you know what, that's kind of what I do. Wonder if I can do some automation too. I'll at least submit an idea and then maybe they're moving down the line, they're getting their hands on the technology and I think that's how we all push the needle forward and move this along faster. Well, one of the most important things about automation is letting people be able to move away from the mundane, the repetitive tasks that they probably don't enjoy and being able to focus more on their core competencies or more strategic initiatives that really make them more relevant to themselves and to their company. It sounds like you guys have achieved that pretty quickly and you have an aggressive plan to go from 7,000 to 60,000. Yes, that's really the power of automation if you think about it. We all have things in our job we don't like to do. I don't know about you guys but there's things that I'm like, oh man, like can we please automate this? Expense reports, for example. All about automated expense reports. But it's really about freeing people up. Think about it, these people went to school, they often have degrees and things and they do get caught in a lot of the manual things, downloading reports, consolidating data, submitting spreadsheets and forms. Imagine if we're able to make that easier for people. We give them what they need to do their job so that all that stuff you would like to do that you know would improve things. You know would make the company better, the culture better. Heck, maybe it's a new product that people know would be really awesome to go build but everyone just feels like they're so busy they don't have the time to do it. I mean that's one of the big values of automation is this value creation conversation that you get to have with people and you get to start asking why not? A little bit more. You mentioned a couple of times the IDC presentation this morning and we were talking about it earlier and the pie chart of value benefits was cost savings which was very large, new revenue which was very large and I think 15% was quality improvements and I think that's an underappreciated slice of the pie. Somebody I think years ago at a UI path forward said to me, I can very inexpensively apply Six Sigma to business process and I could never afford to do that before RPA and so I wonder if you could talk to the quality impacts that you're seeing. Absolutely, I actually spent a lot of time in lean Six Sigma at my early career days and one of the things about it too is when you're doing automation when we actually ask that question up front, can we just simplify, can we just stop doing this? Because you don't want to automate a bad process either so you want to ask some of those questions but you're spot on, there's a ton of quality benefits that you get from automation and one of the things I've actually seen is if you focus on some of the quality up front, process gets better, gets better impact that's what you get faster. If you have better quality and get faster you also get your cost out targets and that really matters because quality also beyond being able to drive the cost out it also helps a lot with the experience that people face. Customers are frustrated if they have poor quality, something doesn't work the way it's supposed to, a site's not working the way it should and also even employees, think of how many times if you try to do something and you try to follow a process and something's hung up or who knows what happened, right? It's frustrating so if you're able to improve the quality and the process, not only do you get the cost savings but you get these softer, they're still tangible experiences that get better and actually it motivates people to want to do more. And those motivated people are probably dealing with customers much, much better. I mean, I always think the employee experience is a critical component of the customer experience so how has the customer experience improved at Cognizant as a result of building in automation and enabling all these people? They're loving the results because we're giving them back efficiencies in their process immediately by putting this automation in. These are quick impacts or feeling and we're able to do more for them as well so we're actually having conversations now on how do we drive more efficiencies for you and also how can we do more? Is there more volume of work? Is there more we could be doing to add value back to your organization? And that's what you want to talk about with customers is we're able to give you this value and by the way we actually did X for you now as well because we knew you needed it and we have the capacity to do this for you so it's a really positive conversation but we did have to upfront talk to them about to make sure that we, everyone was on board, they're comfortable and we're continuing to have those conversations because sometimes you're in a regulated business and we need to put a little extra control in. Absolutely okay. But we want to be able to drive these efficiencies back for them so they feel it in their own operations internally too and it hits their bottom line and oftentimes helps their employees too because we interact with them so those downstream benefits and sometimes even upstream get some nice returns there as well. We've heard from, well, we're going to have Daniel on soon, the CEO. We of course heard from CFOs, that's kind of one of the main springs of RPA in the early days. We've heard a lot more CIOs at this event and we have a CTO coming on later. Are these C-suite executives totally aligned in their objectives? Do they have different agendas? What are you seeing in terms of serving the C-suite? Yeah, they're all going to have a little bit different agendas because their roles have different objectives but they all align back to the strategy obviously for their company but they're going to have portions of it that they're trying to drive and deliver. What we do see is that there's still some merging that needs to happen between the operations, the more business focused side and the more technical side but we're starting to see that convergence happen because what happens is that you have these technologists who really are going to have to help move you forward. We're applying AI, ML, very technical technologies and we want to make sure we do it right though we put the right governance in. We think about the security that we have to have in place for this too and we also have the business outcomes and coming together is where you really see the results. If you look at all those that have reached true maturity it's where you see these agendas aligning a bit more because you also have to shift the culture too and it's a collaboration point. You need to be able to have the tech savvy folks that helps bring them along this journey but you also have to have the business depth because you're looking at a process and you're going really deep into it to apply the technology so it's when people partner is when we really see the results become more exponential. So digital transformation, we hear that term a lot and automation led digital transformation. I hear a lot of data led digital transformations. Are those parallel tracks? Are they talking a lot about convergence? Are they, I mean they're not competing. They're obviously very much related.  Yeah they have to because you really need good quality data to be able to enable your automation at the end of the day but they actually play nicely together. You can actually use automation to help go back and improve your master data management too which is the core of your information because that's actually where a lot of the struggle sometimes comes is in the quality of the data that everyone has to work with. So you see the data agenda working on how do I clean this, how do I get more insightful, predictable information and then from an automation standpoint how do I then use that to go take action? So what we see is you bring it together to be able to identify where do you need to get in the process, how do I get the right information so the automation also is proven data behind it that we drove the outcomes because that's where you take it to the bank at the end of the day, is that you see it in the data itself but I think one of the things I've seen with automation that helps drive the digital transformation conversation is the business and IT teams are coming together and having a joint conversation now. People are excited, they're understanding it. I think that's why people jumped on with RPA so quickly was because they're like, I get this, this is rule-based, this is my business process, I just tell it what to do, I'll take that, I want to do that. And so people got excited about that and then they said let's do more. How do I make it more intelligent? How do I help it do things in my process that it's harder for me to explain because there's just so much information here, there's so many nuances. Well, we have the technology that can help make it more intelligent, smarter and learn so that we're able to drive that back into the business itself to transform. You mentioned master data management. Is the data agenda, as it relates to automation, primarily reporting, is it moving, is it transcending reporting into the building of data products, for example, and data services that can be monetized either within Cognizant or in your customer base? So it's really evolving. I would say some start with reports, that's easy, that's where we all start. But I'll just kind of give you maybe a little example. So we have a customer and we work with them so they have customers where they need to, when they call in the sales folks and the contact centers, they have to upsell. So they work with a lot of different restaurants and different maybe bars and different companies that have different type of beverages and things like that. So we worked with them to show how are they performing today with all their sales reps? And then we started to use some automation to be able to get them more helpful information the moment the customer is calling in. And we also did some semantic analysis on how people were, how are they sounding? How was their tone? Were they happy? Were they upset? Were they sad during the call? And we fed that information back to those teams, back to those managers and went back even to their training programs. What they actually saw was a ton of top line growth. They saw all of their metrics starting to get better and they also started to get more predictive on ways that they can use more data to drive the support for those teams and their customers. Like for example, if you know holidays are coming up or a certain time of year with weather, we're able to actually put that type of information in and helps those sales reps better serve their customers. Last question, some of the announcements that came out yesterday and some of the news today about UiPath. What excites you about the technology and how it's going to continue to enable you to foster this new culture that you've shifted? I think, so one thing about UiPath that we've always loved to be able to partner with them is we're so customer centric. And you see that in every announcement that they're doing. And also their focus on this true process transformation intelligent end-to-end thinking because I think a lot of times when we've had conversations most get stuck at kind of point solutions. And that's just because people are trying to solve today's problems. But where UiPath is moving and where we want to move to is how do we help you to really transform how people work? We know automation is a part of our future. We know it's going to be how we work in the future. And we love about UiPath is to really think about how do we integrate it? How do we make those connections? So we can drive the bigger results. We can make it easier for people to adopt and really embrace it because we need to bring the people along this journey and we need to be able to actually impact our processes too so we could transform them. So I think that's one thing that's been really exciting is just watching them in general involved but with the announcements the last couple of days we really see them continue to push that needle. Excellent. Well, Marisa, thanks for joining us talking to us about the automation led digital transformation at Cognizant. Good luck raising your trained individuals from 7K to 60K. It sounds like the momentum is there, the culture is there. We can't wait to hear what happens next. Awesome, thanks again for having me today. Our pleasure. Thank you. For Dave Vellante, I'm Lisa Martin live in Las Vegas at the Bellagio. UiPath Forward 4 is the event we're covering. We'll be right back with our next guest.


Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny and welcome back already to FNAF AR. I mean, Illumix just released their huge new gameplay update for the game and that was met with some very positive responses, yes of course. And so of course they listened to the community and now I'm here to tell you boys what they fixed in the gameplay update. Just kidding, they released a freaking skin. To be fair, the skin was probably already being made before they even released the update but still like, just address it at the very least, just talk about what went wrong with your gameplay update. Now I don't want to spend too much time on the gameplay update because I do plan on playing it some time later in the next couple of days to actually talk about my thoughts on it. Now that everybody knows what's going on with the update and now we fully have a full understanding of what exactly it did to the game. But for this video, we want to bring our attention to the brand new skin because of course they keep pumping out skins. When are we seeing our new character? I don't know. Yeah, they released another skin that's called Dark Water Bear Endo. It looks like it's themed after the Angler Fish and I don't know why they didn't call it the Angler Endo because that sounds pretty, pretty fishpawg. But yeah, I actually like its design. I think it looks creepy, I think it looks very, you know, visually interesting. I don't think it really fits well into FNAF Hero itself and the whole FNAF franchise. But it does look cool. I hope it looks good in-game. But yeah, let's not waste any more time. If you're brand new, make sure you're subbed because we're nearly at 19k. Yup, and there is the Dark Water Bear Endo. Again, probably should have been named the Angler Endo because I think that sounds better. But whatever. I believe this is called like the Wicked Tides event. I don't know. Yeah, the Wicked Tides. I don't know. But oh my gosh dude, that icon looks amazing. I love that icon. How much is he? Yo! Okay. All right. 12 bucks. Why? What? Why is Magma Chica- What? Scorching Chica. Sorry. I always call her Magma Chica. Okay. You can buy it individually. It looks like, okay. Ooh. Oh, I actually do really love the design. I'm not joking. I really like the design. Also, a lot of people want to know what I have, so I'm going to quickly scroll through it. I don't have normal plus trap, but yeah, these are all of the characters I have. I have no spring traps. Oh my God. No chicas? No balloon boys? I'm so bad at this game. And then the CPUs that don't have spring trap, plus trap, brospera, and Jack O'Bonnie. So there you go boys. And I also have these guys out here. That's my friend code. And also, I know a lot of people have told me that apparently the higher level you are, the easier it is to defeat characters with high health powers. So I nearly got to level nine. I'm level eight. I apparently have a streak of two. I didn't know that. Yeah. Normally I would buy this guy, but honestly I really don't want to support a Lumix with what they did with the gameplay update. I just, dude, it really ruined the game and allowed people to feel that way. And the fact that they didn't address it is, oh, it's so, it's so frustrating. All right. Here he is. Dork, water, bear, endo. Since it is a bear endo, it really should not be that bad of a fight. Hopefully his health bar is not too high because I don't want to fight him for like 15 minutes. Okay. Ooh. Interesting animation. Oh my gosh. I love his animation. It looks like he doesn't use the new UI. Makes sense. Yeah. Totally. How does that make sense? Ooh. He had a good sound there. Yeah. So you were telling me the skin of bear endo doesn't use the new UI even though normal bear endo does? That makes perfect sense, a Lumix. Hell yeah. Okay. I love his sounds though. I really like the skin. I really like the skin. The sounds, the animation, the design. I actually do enjoy it. I think it looks a Pico Pog. Pretty good. Oh. Hello. His sounds are so good. Hey. Ooh. Hey. Okay then. Oh. He's still over here. Okay. I wonder if they're going to do more skins for the event. Because recently, that was a great sound. So recently, they've only been doing like one or two skins in event, okay? He's doing a lot of haywires, which is kind of concerning. He's over here. Okay. Oh wait. I had a fishpog I wanted to pull up. There we go. Wait. Can I get a dual monitor? Hold up boys. Hold up. Uh oh. Uh oh. Uh oh. Hey. Right on the fishpog. Oh wait. Oh. I was like whoa, are we doing another fight? Okay. Still delayed with the prizes of course. 4-2 Remnant XP. Ooh. 31 XP. That's a lot of XP. And a Street Bonus. We're doing good. Um. So I guess. Okay. I guess I'll fight him again. And I am going to buy- I'm not going to buy his 3D icon. I really want to buy it. But Olimax, you got to sort yourself out. There we go. Oh. I really like this event so far.  But I really like this event so far. Alright. Let's use all three of them. And let's get fighting once more. Look at that animation. Oh I love this skin. It might be one of my top favorite skins. Also what is it with Bear Endo and getting just the best skins? Alright. He's got Flamethrower Bear Endo. And he's also got um. This guy. Darkwater. Again, should have been called the Angler Endo. Would have been such a great name. Whatcha doing out here buddy? But yeah. Like why doesn't he use the new UI? You make a gameplay update. You change the UI. And your next skin, right? Your next addition to the game after the big gameplay update doesn't even use the new update? Why?  I love his, oh my gosh I love his sounds. I love this guy. He's awesome. Man, I guess I just love the Bear Endo. He is by far the best skins of any character in this game. And he's only got two and they're both amazing. What's not to love about this guy? I've said it since Flamethrower. There he is. Bear Endo has the best skins. Here we go. Never mind I was joking. Oh he's over here. Oh wait. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Hello. Where are you? I might, after these fights with him, I might go into a normal fight with a spring trap. Got my hair. And I might see how many shocks it takes to defeat them. Cause I saw on Twitter apparently it only does like 1% of 100. Which is so dumb. So yeah, we beat him again. Pretty easy again. It is only a Bear Endo skeleton. So it can't be that bad. Yo, two mods? Oh, two mods? Okay. Alright, next fight. Fight number three of four. We're going through this pretty fast. You see Illumix? You see how much more fun it is when the fights only last like a couple of minutes instead of like fifteen? I'm so curious. I want to know who would Illumix thought, hmm yeah, spending fifteen minutes on a spring trap would be fun. Anyways, so how are we doing chat?  Okay, he's over here. He's chillin' with the pops. Cool. Cool. But yeah, I wonder if they're going to do more skins. A lot of people were guessing that this was going to be a Toy Chica or Balor or Foxy skin. And I think even I in my last video thought it was a Foxy skin because we saw his hand and Foxy has a Endo hand because he's all like torn up and stuff. But it turns out it was just a normal Endo. Parker's fish. Come on. I want to see if I can get a suit because again, I do really like this skin and I would buy it but Illumix is just, oh my God. I know a lot of people think that the gameplay update's fine but like again, forcing people to like constantly play and play and play and play and play and play and play and play to get XP to level up so then the fights can get shorter.  I think that's such a dumb idea. It really should be the other way around when you think about it. Right? The further you get into the game the harder the characters are. I don't know. Anyways, we're moving on to a final fight with this guy. Let's see how we do. Still holding out for that plush suit of this guy. Yeah, like also the loot boxes like, oh my gosh, why are there loot boxes in the game? And I've seen a lot of people say, oh they don't affect the gameplay, just ignore them. That's not the point. The point is that they're in the game in the first place, you know? Anyways, he really likes this fish pog. He's just chilling with the fishies. And if I don't pay attention I will be swimming with them. Oh, you did. Here we go. Ah, simpler times. Those were the days. Those were the days, boys. And now we're stuck here with the fish pog. Again, I like the skin actually. Ooh, that was a quick little fight. Awesome. Suit place. I would love to get your plush suit, my good friend. Let's have a look. Ports, remnant, XP. I'm nearly level 9. I'm almost there. But yeah, I do want to hop into a fight with, do you have? You do not have it. Oh, also apparently if you close out of a fight, it'll give you the XP. Hold on, let me see if I can do it. That's how I've gone to level 8 so fast. Oh no, I don't want remnant. Here we go.  It is only 1? Yo, what? I used to get like 7, 8, 9, maybe even 10. I got 1? Are you kidding me, bro? I wonder if it's because I'm going up against bare endos. Hold on. I want to check this because this is interesting. Here we go, if you're ready. Get out. And we get 2. Yeah, so it was because I was going up against an endo. But that's weird though. Let me lure a spring trap. Oh, I only have 1. So here's baby. And I'm pretty sure, yeah. Wait, let me put on some of these things. Block shield for 10 seconds. 20 seconds, 30 seconds. What? Wait, that's dumb. It kicks me out. Why? I don't get time to customize my thingies. Yeah, let's see. Because apparently the higher level you are, the more damage you do, I think, I don't know, it's so weird. So she's out this way. And apparently you can't look down at the ground. I feel like I saw that somewhere. I don't know, overall just a very strange update, man. Jesus, that lag. Hello. Do you like the fishpog, baby? Yeah, I hope they do more for the event. Because it's after a great start, in my opinion. But who knows? Maybe later tonight, it'll be revealed that the new skin was very controversial. I don't know. I hope not, because I do like it. Ooh, hey. Why did you get super small? What? Also, I guess I did a bit more damage, but still, that's so many shocks. I don't want to fight her. Why did she get so small? Yeah, I guess you do a lot more damage. But still, like that's so many hits, man. I'm gonna test it. I could beat her, but I'd rather not. Just because I don't want to be here for a couple more minutes.  I think it should be the other way around. With a higher level you are. No, you can still look down. Oh, also, apparently something I should point out is that the blue boar at the bottom, I thought that was your energy. It's not. Apparently that's your health. And apparently it's not one shot anymore. They slap you across the face. And then you lose health. I guess not, oh that's right, not baby. But apparently like her and Bloom Boy and all the toys have animations for that so I don't know why they just won? Yeah, like if I fight Chica, I'm sorry, I'm dragging out this outro for a long time. If I fight Chica apparently they don't one-shot you. I don't know how much health you lose.  I thought the blue boar was like the energy for the shocker, I was incorrect. I also don't know if they need to run up to me or if just the normal haywire will do the trick. So I guess we're gonna find out. Yeah we'll find out, oh I guess not. So I guess the haywire kills you instantly. Also like they go invisible for a bit. I feel like that shouldn't happen. Here we go. Like what is that? Okay so it looks like for 30 he did about 50. I'm guessing it's either a one or two-shot death, I don't know. In my opinion I don't know how I feel about it. I guess it's beneficial, but at the same time it's like I don't know about it. I hope that Oh he's one-shot, hog. Yeah I hope that the higher level you go the more damage they do so it's more difficult. I just feel like the difficulties is so all over the place and it's so unbalanced that you have to like you have to change it. Ooh I got a new mod, Pog. Yeah that's the new skin the dark water bear Endo and also a bit more on the gameplay update. Again I do plan on doing another dedicated video to the gameplay update to talk about it. Overall I like the new event. I really like the skin, I love his sound so his animation I think the design is fantastic. Definitely a refresher after the gameplay update. I hope they do more skins but at the same time I don't want them to ruin the event so I don't know what they're gonna do. I also don't know when we're getting a new character I don't know if they're gonna keep going back to like three or four skins in an event. I don't know. I'm hoping and praying for a new character soon because it's coming up to like half a year since Golden Freddy our last character and even then he had some reused mechanics so like we need something new.  It's like we need something. But yeah that's gonna be it hopefully I'll be back soon. Well I don't know if I should say hopefully. I'll probably be back soon for more FNAF AR I know since they were pumping out more content videos to come on back so hopefully you guys enjoy FNAF AR but yeah thanks for watching and I'll see you all on the flip side. Goodbye


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Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning, Wednesday, March 31st. We're at the end of another month. I'm Chief Meteorologist John Inseroth for Longmont Public Media. Sunday, April 4th, we will have our third quarter moon, last quarter moon, rising in the early morning pre-dawn sky and setting just about noon. Well, let's take a look at the good news and drought. We've had so much water hit the state that some places are two to three inches, even up to five inches near Fort Collins. And some of this is still melting, some of it's still yet to be registered on their devices that measure the soil moisture at different depths. But this is last week and you can see a huge amount of the more severe drought conditions that are eliminated from the central part of the state all the way out east. Looking nationally, you can see that big bite taken out of the drought conditions. We already have lessening in the northern Rockies and the piece goes away right there on the east side of the Rockies. So this is just great. We're bringing in the water and we're getting some improvement. Now, I found a new product. This is a prediction of drought conditions going forward. And this is seasonal. So this takes us up to June 30th. And Noah is expecting drought conditions in the west to pretty much still hang around. We'll see if that happens. This was one big storm that gave us the precipitation, something like that could happen again. Overall, though, they think it's going to be kind of dry. So over the last week, we have had very little precipitation out on the eastern plains. We had up to half inch to an inch in the mountains. Keep it coming. For Wednesday noon, we see the beginning of a lot of niceness. This is now spring coming on the way you are used to feeling it. The entire west, high pressure, every place. And looking aloft by the end of the week, now much changes there with a ridge that switches from over in the western states to kind of curving across the great plains in the northern states. But we're still right under the ridge axis from maximum heating and great weather. So this little green bar here at the beginning is our departing storm on Tuesday. Just put a little bit of snow trace to quarter inch or so on grassy surfaces on your car, trash cans, and the roads are just kind of damp. The warm up from that is very rapid. By Thursday and Friday, we're reaching above normal temperatures. You'll know that normal is now reaching 60 and the normal low at night is hitting freezing. So we're saying goodbye to winter. Could we get a really good cold shot? It's possible, but you can see this forecast map takes us all the way into the end of the first week of April. So it's really hard to get super cold anymore. You can see complete dryness until about Monday, Tuesday next week. It starts to see some little systems affecting the state. We'll look at those in the animation in just a moment. So over the next 10 days, there's a departing Tuesday storm quickly replaced by this big ridge. And even though a little bit of low, the weakness in the pattern drifts by. It's not enough to change anything. The big dominant ridge. So it's going to warm up the west and most of the nation in the week to come. As we get to the middle of next week, we do start seeing trough coming in the west that heads down our direction.  It's a nice big open wave and off it goes. Another one is following in on its heels, but we'll see what they do. So there's our cold temperatures that we have now being pushed off to the east. You can see that the southeast, east coast, even Florida, are going to get some real abnormally cold weather while we reach up into very abnormally hot weather. So sea salt and the sea salt is tilting now. Looking at precipitation, there isn't much to show here because a Tuesday storm is out of here kind of merging with that. And then it's just boring, high pressure weather off into there's Friday, there's the weekend. There's just not much to show here. Alright, so over the next 10 days, for precipitation, we might get some of those showers middle late next week. This is 10th of an inch, less than a quarter inch, definitely. And looking at snow for a long amount itself, nothing there for the next 10 days. Stuff in the nearby foothills, stuff in the higher mountains, but this is going to be a very quiet 10 days ahead. So looking in the next seven, we see 50s on Wednesday, climbing to the 70s on Thursday and Friday. Some of the model data is even showing mid to lower 80s for Saturday and Sunday and almost 80 on Monday and a little bit of cool down starting Tuesday with one of those next little ripples coming in. We'll end with a look forward into this next month, see what the Weather Service is expecting and they're expecting a pattern that very much mirrors what we're starting the month with is a big ridge. So we have a big dome of abnormally warm air and we have below normal precipitation from the west and down into the southeastern part of the nation for frequent weather updates and local news, check out Longmont Leader. I've been Chief Meteorologist John Insworth. Keep looking up.