Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised. I'm Darren Marlar and this is a Weird Darkness Bonus Bite. From Yahoo News, Jack the Ripper's identity revealed by newly discovered medical records by Dalia Albersia. A former police volunteer claims to have discovered the identity of the figure behind some of the most shocking crimes in British history, unmasking the 19th century murderer who terrorized the nation as Jack the Ripper. Sarah Bax Horton, whose great-great-grandfather was a policeman at the heart of the Ripper investigation, has unearthed compelling evidence that matches witness descriptions of the man seen with female victims shortly before they were stabbed to death in 1888 in the east end of London. Her detective work has led her to Hyam Hyams, who lived in an area at the center of the murders and who, as a cigar maker, knew how to use a knife. He was an epileptic and an alcoholic who was in and out of mental asylums, his condition worsening after he was injured in an accident and unable to work. He repeatedly assaulted his wife, paranoid that she was cheating on him and was eventually arrested after he attacked her and his mother with, quote, a chopper, unquote. Significantly, Miss Bax Horton gained access to his medical records and discovered dramatic details. She told the Telegraph, for the first time in history, Jack the Ripper can be identified as Hyam Hyams using distinctive physical characteristics. Witnesses described a man in his mid-30s with a stiff arm and an irregular gait with bent knees, and Miss Bax Horton discovered that the medical notes of Hyam's, who was 35 in 1888, recorded an injury that left him unable to bend or extend his left arm, as well as an irregular gait and an inability to straighten his knees with asymmetric foot dragging. He also had the most severe form of epilepsy with regular seizures. The victims were prostitutes or destitute. Their throats were cut and their bodies butchered in frenzied attacks with the authorities receiving taunting anonymous notes from someone calling himself Jack the Ripper. They are some of the most infamous unsolved crimes. At least six women, Martha Tabram, Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Kate Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly were killed in or near Whitechapel between August and November of 1888. Hyam's medical notes taken from various infirmaries and asylums reveal that his mental and physical decline coincided with the Ripper's killing period, escalating between his breaking his left arm in February 1888 and his permanent committal in September 1889. That escalation path matched the increasing violence of the murders, said Miss Bax Horton. He was particularly violent after his severe epileptic fits, which explains the periodicity of the murders. She added, in the files, it said what the eyewitnesses said, that he had a peculiar gait. He was weak at the knees and wasn't fully extending his legs. When he walked, he had a kind of shuffling gait which was probably a side effect of some brain damage as a result of his epilepsy. Witness accounts of the man's height and weight were similar to the details in Hyam's medical files, Miss Bax Horton discovered. They saw a man of medium height and build between 5'5' and 5'8', tall, stout and broad shouldered. Hyam's was 5'7' and a half inches and weighed 10 stone, 7 pounds. His photograph demonstrates that he was noticeably broad shouldered, she said. She has concluded that Hyam's physical and mental decline, exacerbated by his alcoholism, triggered him to kill. The murders stopped at the end of 1888. Around the time, Hyam's was picked up by police as a wandering lunatic. In 1889, he was incarcerated in the Colony Hatch Lunatic Asylum, North London, until his death in 1913. Jack the Ripper never struck again. Various suspects have previously been suggested as the man behind the killings, including the artist Walter Sickert, who painted gruesome pictures of a murdered prostitute. Hyam's had been on a long list of around 100 culprits, but Miss Bax Horton said he'd been discounted because he had been misidentified. When I was trying to identify the correct Hyam Hyam's, I found about 5. It took quite a lot of work to identify his correct biological data. Hyam Hyam's has never before been fully explored as a ripper suspect. To protect the confidentiality of living individuals, two of the Colony Hatch Asylum files on patients, including Hyam's, were closed to public view until 2013 and 2015. What makes her research particularly extraordinary is that it was prompted by her chance discovery in 2017 that her own great-great-grandfather, Harry Garrett, had been a metropolitan police sergeant at Lemon Street Police Station headquarters of the Ripper investigation. He was posted there from January 1888, the murder's fateful year, until 1896. Ms. Bax Horton, who read English and modern languages at Oxford University, is a retired civil servant who volunteered with the City of London Police for almost two decades until 2020. She had no idea of her ancestor's history until she began researching her family and found herself studying the Ripper case. She will now present her extensive evidence in a forthcoming book titled One Armed Jack, uncovering the real Jack the Ripper to be published by Michael O'Mara Books next month and is on pre-sale now on Amazon. I'll link to it in the show notes. It is written in tribute to her ancestor and his police colleagues. Paul Begg, a leading Ripper authority, has endorsed it. This is a well-researched, well-written and long-needed book-length examination of a likely suspect. If you have an idea of the sort of man Jack the Ripper might have been, I am Hyam's. Could be it, he said. 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Backroads is made possible by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund with money by the vote of the people November 4th 2008 My name is Tate McLean singer-songwriter kind of the Americana style. I've always appreciated songwriters and You know three-minute song man kind of thing with a story behind it So that's what I try to do. And when did you first get into music? Well, I was a drummer first as a kid. I always wanted to be a singing drummer I got a guitar when I was probably 12 and couldn't really play it and I was in bands with like older kids I was the drummer and I started picking up on a little guitar here and there and then they all graduated on me So then I just ditched the drums and started playing guitar and started writing songs after I could put chords together pretty much and then There was a luthier in my hometown was my neighbor actually and I took my guitar there to get it fixed or strong or something as a kid and Once I had some song certain I went back to him. I was probably 15 years old 16 and he would have me come to the open mic night at this little blues bar and How would I share my songs I got hooked from a young age So you were performing originals that young in front of an audience already? Yeah, I mean in the first time I went in there I was too scared to even get on the mic So I sat at the bar and there's two old Vietnam vets and I got done with my first song and they went And I was like well, I think I can do this From then on I'll get on the mic and I had you know some originals. I don't know how good they were But I mean it was always similar style to what I do now. So I got full moon fever is probably my most straightforward love song I've ever written It's one of my more recent songs and it's one of my fairs. I get a good response from that one. It's a Kind of different from some of the other things that I do but Because there's kind of some darkness. I got like only love you and I'm highs like kind of a murder ballad I mean it kind of ranges a spectrum of good times and sad and You know all the weirdness in between What are some influences on your sound like what bands did you looked up to growing up and stuff like that as a kid? My mom was really into the old country Jimmy Rodgers and left you for Zell and Johnny Cash and all the way up the line, you know So I had that at a really young age, you know She used to sing them to me at bedtime and things like that Had a little record player as a kid played 45s of it and when I was a teenager It was probably the whole like weird grunge thing in the 90s there And then I just started going back to the 70s and 60s and then Really going back into the old like pre-war blues in country. I really like that kind of stuff And there was kind of a shortage of new material like that for a long time But in the past like I'd say 15 years. There's really been an underground come out and now it's really kind of a big thing It's really exciting. There's a lot of good bands now that I really like in that whole You know American sound rock blues country kind of blue grass things like that And now with the internet like you can check out so much. It's so easy to find Other artists you like now even if they're just from some small town in Montana or Minnesota or wherever, you know and it's easy to get their music stream their music and then Follow what they're doing and go see them, you know support them or Play shows with them or get them to your town or whatever the ease of access to music I really like because when I was a kid it was You know $20 a CD, you know, and if you wanted anything that wasn't at Walmart in my town you had to Go talk to an old guy who had Records or something, you know, like or whatever that's how I found out about a lot of music too was playing those open mics in that Bar so young not only are the guys who are playing amazing, you know, Joe Price from Iowa and Eric Nodin from Chicago and things like that you learn a lot from just watching that But then, you know, they would play in between sets. They'd be oh put on this record or put on, you know, whatever So all these old-timers are playing this great music So that's how I got to pick up on that because it was really hard when I was young Song right is that kind of you have a tune in mind or did you work on lyrics first? Sometimes sometimes it's just picking around on a guitar. You get a couple You know things that sound good and then the words just kind of start bouncing off from there usually I have my Phone so I can record because I just start playing something and singing with it like whatever I just feel or whatever happens to pop out and then it's like I listen back later It's like oh, yeah, those are great lines That's a great line and I can kind of build it from there. Usually that's how it happens Sometimes the line will hit me out of the blue or whatever. I've had one of the songs. I'm gonna play is a It came to me like I was falling asleep one night and it popped in my head And it was before phones where it was easy to you know type everything down So I had a piece of paper and a pen I wrote two lines down and went to bed Just fell asleep, you know and I woke up and it wasn't there like the pen was defunct or whatever So like I had to use a pencil and like Make it come out, you know like they do and it worked it was amazing I got the two lines and then built a song from there and it's one I still play I love to play like a film or both music, right exactly. Yeah So what's it like for you as a performer, what's the experience of playing live like for you well playing lives always been The thing, you know that it's where you take your song from home And you go play it in front of people and you see what they how they react, you know I mean granted it can be hit or miss places But when you're in a room where people want to hear music and they react to your song. It's just it's amazing Because it might mean something completely different to them, but Just the fact that it made them feel something is You know what it's about and it's really gratifying to play songs that people want to listen to or that You know want to hear it again or remember at the next time you're there and say hey could you play this song again? You know, I really appreciate that and it's just that's why you keep doing it You know, I mean I write music for myself to feel good and when that happens I'm like, okay I'll introduce this to someone else. All right, and when it makes them feel good, then it kind of Validates what I'm doing for me. Anyway, you know, she never know if it's a good song or not Tell someone else hears it. You know what I mean? So thanks you guys My name is tape McLean Backroads is made possible by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund with money by the vote of the people November 4th 2008 if you enjoy watching back roads online, please consider making a tax deductible donation at lptv.org


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup with People's Dispatch where we bring you some of the top stories from across the globe. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Crackdown on students protesting against alleged police murder in Swaziland. Israeli code defers verdict on forced eviction of Palestinians from Silvan. Tribal communities protest against increased militarization in India. Five student activists from the University of Swaziland were released from a maximum security prison this week. The students were arrested after a crackdown on a memorial service for the victim of a suspected police killing. 25-year-old Thabani Nakmonye had been missing since the night of May 8. The police told his family on May 13 that his car had been found at the Sigot Veney station after allegedly being involved in an accident. However, the police claimed that they had not found his body. The family also spotted a bullet hole and a missing wheel on his car. Moreover, after visiting the site of the alleged accident, they found Thabani's body under some shrubs. When they returned to the police station on May 15, they found that the bullet hole in his car had been partially covered and the tire had been found. 3,000 students marched to the Sigot Veney police station on May 17 to demand an inquiry into what the alleged was a murder. As they were proceeding to the region headquarters in Manzini, they were attacked by tear gas and rubber bullets. Despite this, they reached the police station and handed a petition to the regional commissioner. On the day of Thabani's memorial service on May 21, hundreds of students again marched to the station in Manzini. They handed a second petition to the police regarding the violence on May 17. Shortly after, police opened fire at students, forcing them to seek cover in the nearby bus station. However, the police deployed tear gas, leading to the death of a four-month-old baby. Students then reached the site of Thabani's memorial service with the police following shortly after. They attacked the crowd with tear gas and buttocks. After escaping from the ground, some students hurled stones and damaged a nearby police post. It was then that the five students were arrested, however, they have maintained that they were not involved in any attack. Meanwhile, the police cracked down on the students' parked white-spread outage across Swaziland. Justice for Thabani has now emerged as the face of the ongoing struggle against the country's absolute monarch, King Maswati III. People are mobilizing against unemployment, poverty, corruption and the king's control over the political system. An Israeli court has postponed its verdict on the forced displacement of Palestinians from Jerusalem, Silvan, areas similar to Sheikh Jarrah. Seven families in Silvan's Batna-al-Hawa neighborhood were handed eviction orders in 2020. The Atarit Kohanim settler group had sued the area's Palestinian residents, claiming that the land belonged to Jewish people in 1948. 87 families or over 700 Palestinians in the area are currently facing eviction orders. 119 buildings housing over 1500 Palestinians are also at risk of demolition in the nearby Al-Bastan neighborhood. The Najjar and the Qayyad al-Rajabi families from Batna-al-Hawa filed an appeal in court on 26 May. During the proceedings, Palestinians gathered outside the courthouse to protest against ethnic cleansing. However, Israeli forces present at the scene started attacking and beating the protesters. As reported by Al-Kastal, 15-year-old Sultan Sirhan was then forcibly arrested. The court has postponed a decision on the two families' appeal without schedule a date. Meanwhile, the harassment and violence against Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah has continued. In a particularly brutal attack, 16-year-old Jana Kiswani was shot in the back with a rubber bullet in her courtyard. A UN special session to discuss the human rights situation in Gaza and the occupied territories was convened on May 27. Human rights chief Michelle Bachelet stated that Israel's attack on Gaza if found to be disproportionate will amount to war crimes. The impact of Israel's apartheid and occupation was also discussed by the World Health Assembly on May 26. The body adopted a draft resolution to improve health conditions in the occupied territories despite opposition by countries including Israel and the U.S. Here is people's dispatch correspondent Abdul Rahman to talk more about this issue. Ongoing 74th session of the World Health Assembly adopted a draft decision yesterday to improve the condition of health in the occupied Palestinian territories and occupied Syrian border. The decision was accepted despite the objections raised by Israel and the United States of America. Out of 136 countries present and voting, 83 countries voted in favor and 14 countries voted against the decision. The decision is based on a detailed report prepared by the director general of the World Health Organization about the condition of health in occupied Palestinian territories and Syrian border, including Israel. The report clearly mentions that the occupation, the collective punishment carried out by the Israeli occupation from time to time in Gaza and in West Bank, its discriminatory policies and its restrictions imposed on the movement within the occupied territories and between the occupied territories. All of this has created a situation where the overall health infrastructure in the occupied Palestinian territories, including Israel and Syria, has gone down massively leading to a rising gap between the illegal Jewish settlers living within the occupied territories and the Palestinians. The gap is just reflected in indicators like life expectancy. The Palestinians have nine years less life expectancy on an average than the Jewish settlers within the occupied territories. Their infant modality rate is also five times higher than the illegal settlers within the occupied territory, which clearly shows how the Israeli occupation has carried on discriminatory policies, failing in its obligation under the four Geneva Convention related to the occupied territories. Though the report does not mention the recent Gaza bombing and the recent attacks carried out in East Jerusalem and West Bank, the member countries while discussing the draft decision mentioned the effect of those bombings and its compounding effect on the overall health conditions of the Palestinians. In our next story, we go to the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, where tribal communities have been protesting. Since May 12, thousands of people from around 30 villages have opposed the setting up the security camp in the Silgar village in Sukhma. Communities have argued that the increased presence of forces leads to brutal repression, despite this, the camp was opened on May 12, leading to daily protests. During one such protest on May 17, security forces opened fire on thousands of villagers, killing three people. They claimed that those killed were affiliated with Maoist insurgents and had attacked the camp. However, the families of the victims and local residents have denied these charges. Activist Kamal Shukla has also pointed to the larger context of suppression. He stated that stones, water and tear gas had been used against the tribal protesters. Moreover, prominent tribal leaders Sonisori and lawyer Bela Bahatia were initially also prevented from reaching the site. In a press release dated May 25, the government stated that the security camps had stored, quote, normalization in the area. However, the release made no mention of the killings at the Silgar protest. People from the area also met with district and police officials on May 23 to demand an independent inquiry. They also returned 10,000 rupees, which had been given to the families of the deceased as compensation. The collector of the Shukla district announced a magistrate inquiry into the incident late that day. However, journalist Ashutosh Bhardwaj has pointed to serious issues in its terms of reference for insurgents. He argues that the inquiry presupposes that there was, in fact, an encounter. Local accounts have maintained that no insurgents were present at the site and the protesters were unarmed. That's all the time we have for this episode of The International Daily. Round up for more such videos and stories, visit our website PeopleSisgar.org, subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thank you for watching.


T F N N headline news update Good morning, everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien company live from T F N N headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida 10 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday morning 30 minutes into the trading day And we got a mixed market to start things off SMPs negative by two points right now trading at 3003 NASDAQ positive by 30 points trading at 81 50 Dow Jones negative by 57 points trading 26,777 we got notes and bonds a little bit of higher price and lower yield the 10 year up for ticks 130 flat the 30 year up 10 ticks at 164 gold catching a bid up $5 right at $1,500 oil Continuing its bid up six pennies right at $56 and we got the dollar index with a little strength up 93 ticks at 97 584 lots going on out there still deep into earnings season We had Microsoft last night after the bell them beating pretty much across the board We get Amazon after the bell tonight Also some big numbers from Tesla yesterday Twitter yesterday as well Twitter down dramatically this morning We'll jump over to all those charts. Let's start it off. We'll jump through the indices We'll start things off with the Dow as the charts load up. Come on, baby Here we go. Dow 30 currently trading 26,729 quite a sell-off on the opening bell from 26,860 you're talking about a hundred and twenty a hundred and thirty Dow points what you also have going on out there right now ECB decision and Mario Draghi's final press conference taking place at 830 in the morning NASDAQ 100 not quite the sell-off is the Dow 79 33 was up there at a high pre-market right at 930 actually of 79 59 S&P 500 trades from about three thousand and fourteen and the slide continuing now at three thousand and two We might be under three thousand by the time this update is done Crude oil quite a climb this backs it up all the way to yesterday morning at 9 a.m. Trading at 53 63 We're now above 56 dollars at 56 17 you speed that see that spike coming in right at about 845 There's your gold contract catching a bit as the market is pulling back a bit And there's your euro US dollar at 111 14. I'm just gonna jump through some of the charts real quick I mentioned Microsoft this morning up about 1.6 percent on their earnings Tesla Up 16 percent quite a number and Twitter Down it's gonna be a big number 19 percent Stay tuned folks coming back at 10 o'clock with Tom live programming all day at TFNN. Stay tuned. We'll be right back


Yeah, we on boss talk, one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk. With you playing all those sports, let's fast forward to high school. You had gotten scholarships for each sport. Why baseball? Because you know, I'm from Fifth Ward, I'm from, you know, my liver conditions aren't the best. You know, I wanna always get my family out. So, hey man, they offer me a million dollars when I was 17 years old. Wow. And I don't, you know. Let's stop right there. Million dollars.  Boy, I need it. I'm so glad it could have been me. The schools ain't go off of that at all. This is the first thing you bought. What was the first thing you bought? I went buy my mama a house, you know. Let's see it right there. What was the first thing you bought for yourself? I bought a car, you know. Most likely. I get bounced up there, you know. Navigated on trains, deans, you know. Okay, if you had to go back, knowing all the things you know now, go back to that age, how would you do something different? Would there be anything you would have done different even with the money spending?   So, pretty much you're 17, you know. You or your mom never had this kind of money, so you don't know what to do. It's going down. Yeah, you know. It's going down. Everybody in the hood talking, too. Everybody talking, like, they got it. They got it over there. You got, we gotta move different. Because I always feel like this. You have to move quick, like, I literally move. No, my parents, soon as I got drafted, I moved them out, you know, out of the neighborhood. Yeah, you moved them to the country. Well, kind of, like, consider to us, because we, you know, we had never, we weren't used to going though, well, so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A few X's up the freeway with my country, you know. Man. Now, because I always feel like, when you hear a million dollars, you know, everybody's jumping up and happy for a million dollars, but I feel like you can run through that money. Oh, you can. Oh, you can. I don't think, I have no doubt in that. You can run through it real quick. Because of taxes and everything. How did you deal with that? Like, when you first got it, did you have, like, somebody to educate you? Yeah, I had a financial advisor.  Sack, I just thought about Sack. Sack said he went and bought everybody a car. You're, he lost everything. When he went to the bank, he was negative. He's like, damn, what do you got to deal? You know what I mean?  They coming for you. You know, you want to try to do everything and you can to help everybody. They might have gave you a dollar or something. Yeah. You know? But after a while, you have to realize that you can't be like that with everybody. You have to make some more decisions and save your money. Yeah, because as soon as you can't give them, they're mad. Oh, the first time you tell them, no. First time you say, no. Highly upset. They forget about all them years times. That's straight out the door. That's one thing I always say. I say, if I ever won a lottery, I will put that money up and I wouldn't touch it for a whole year. No, I'm touching it. Hell no. You won't be with me doing that.  We for the advance to do something. Yeah, cause you don't know if you're gonna be here a year later. You don't do it like that. We blessed to be here now. If you think about all the friends in Fifth Ward and all the friends in Jamaica that you've lost, you'll start thinking different about that whole year cause you just never know. So you can't take life for granted. Especially friends your own age. Yeah, people that from 35 up, you start going to funerals a lot. You know what I mean? So you gotta be very, very different with your time. You know what I'm talking about? Shh. I know I ain't gonna wait no year. Me neither. Let's talk about, cause I didn't really get it. You did a second deal for a hundred and some million dollar, how did that feel that day? That wasn't a raise, the devil raise you talking about? Yeah, Boston Red Sox. Yeah, Boston Red Sox. I mean, like I said. How did you feel, man? Let's talk about that. It's just, you know, just. Yeah, I'm gonna go sign this paperwork. I've got to do this. Yeah, you know where you come from and you get to this point and you just never even, never in a million years without thought that me playing baseball would never like, would I even ever be able to mention that type of stuff. So just to get to that point from where I started for him was just amazing, you know? Man. Just to see how it's still going and stuff like that. Like I happened to just walk, well got me serious about baseball. I just happened to walk into a random corner store one day and saw that a car Everett had signed for 50 million dollars. This was in like 1996 or something. I was in about the 10th grade. I remember saying, Jesus, you know what I'm saying? Man, to talking, man. It's that serious, bro. Like when you think about, when you think about what you've done, you're a freak of nature, man. Like everybody don't do that, bro. That's the thing that you got to realize. Like being in a picture, sometimes you can't see the picture. You know what I'm telling the truth. But for you to do something like that, man, that's, that's way, for me, that's a, hey, that's way up there, man. Yeah, MVP many times. Oh man, beast mode. You broke a lot of records. I mean like, you did amazing. I was just trying to like, you know, do the best I can, leave a good legacy for my kids.   And you four time all star. Mm-hmm, yeah. So I wanted to ask, so Hall of Fame, how does that work? Cause. I think it works with like writers, the writers, you know what I'm saying? Have to vote, man. Like we just got our letters in the mail where we can all vote for our peers. When are you getting in there? When they vote for me, because I gotta get probably enough. You know, I gotta get in there, you know, so. Cause you did a lot. I thought they would look at all that you've accomplished. You know what I mean? Right, right. No, well, it's like over time. That's my first year, you know, and I'm a speed guy, you know, but I just look at it as like I play really well during the steroid area, which was tough to play in at the time. Well, I bet. So I hope they consider that. Man, come on, man. You gonna be all right, man.  You got that favor, man. I can tell, man. Yeah, so popularity, doing stuff like, like, you know, with the record label and just being popular outside of baseball, I hope that helps. I think it will. You know, so I just wanna keep doing positive stuff outside of the community so they can like just see.  I'm debating whether I wanna like go coach when he gets drafted or something like that. I like it. How many kids you have? I have five kids. Five, how many boys? Three boys. Got another boy that's coming right after my oldest son. How's he, how's he in sports? All of them, really? Yeah, he, he might be the number one pick in the whole draft, you know. Really? Wow. They just come out, man. I see them when they like two, two years old and I'll just be amazed cause you don't have to teach them that, you know. They already, they get it naturally. Are you doing the same thing for the girls?  I got the girl, she, my girls are athletic. They just don't know it yet. They just don't know what they can do yet. But I see them around the house. They play with the boys. They got a lot of energy. I'm just waiting to kind of see what they gravitate to. So you're not going to treat them differently? You going to still? I don't know. They're going to be aggressive too. I'm going to make them dominate the girls. Okay, okay. Of course I would like for my girls to play tennis, but they look like I might have a couple hoopers on my back. They're nothing wrong with that. You got two girls. Huh? Yeah, I got two girls. That's dope, man.  That's what I see. Yeah, I want to go where they can get paid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean... You play golf? Nah, so I don't think you know what I mean. I don't know. I like to, I'm telling me the track, basketball, I mean a track or a volleyball, I mean a tennis. Tennis. Yeah, they can make good money. And they might want to play softball, you know. Yeah. I don't know. You know, it's hard, man. It's hard on the girls, man. But we definitely, we know y'all in the building and we know y'all run things. We just, we just here. Exactly.  That would be better. I think it's going to take like a girl to just come down the lane and just smash one day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it'll take. You know what I'm saying?


Give someone the gift of your time and attention or To do something that gives them more time and attention for themselves Does someone in your world need you to? Take some pressure off them so that they can go to the gym or go for a walk or have a night off or have a Lion or go for a massage or go for a pedicure or a manicure or all of the above I wonder if a gift of giving someone Some space some room that makes them feel seen the gift of feeling seen is what that would be I Wonder how many of us could do things like that It would cost you nothing or it may cost you something. I don't know. Maybe you're gonna pay for the Manicure or the massage. I don't know. Maybe it will cost you something But the bigger gift is that you see that they need that from you and The sacrificial cost of that to you is your gift to them Perhaps will be a great Christmas gift idea for some of you and they'll thank you forever Be the best Christmas gift some people have ever had from you Love you guys. Have a great Christmas. I'll speak to you before then But this is one of my Christmas musings. I thought I'll pass on to you. All right. Cheers


Tiger Lightning 2023, we're focusing on a platoon-level exchange where we have brought one infantry platoon and the Bangladesh has an infantry platoon and we focused on certain tasks, counter ambush, react to IED, convoy security and traffic control checkpoints. In the mission area, in the deployment area, our fast mandate is protection of civilian. So to protect the civilian in the deployment area, we established checkpoint in the roads or in nearby any kind of like market or somewhere where we can check the personnel or vehicles so that human trafficking or drug trafficking or arms trafficking those can be like taken care of and local civilians they are protected. This is particularly aimed at developing interoperability and mutual understanding between the forces in a peacekeeping environment. So this year we have particularly focused at platoon-level tactics, techniques and procedures. One of the most powerful things I've witnessed here was just the casual interaction between our soldiers and the Bangladesh soldiers. So even when there's no tasks going on, there's some downtime, it's nice to see if some of our soldiers interact with them, laugh, joke, share patches. That right there, that's our foundation of our friendship with Bangladesh and if we can continue to foster that at the tactical, operational, strategic level, at the end of the day those are the goals we want to accomplish with Bangladesh as our state partner.


Andre Jordan tonight, nine points, 12 rebounds, two blocks. He has certainly seen a lot in his NBA career. Let's hear from the net center. Hey, DJ, obviously there's reaction from the public on the big news today. But what's the communication like in the locker room as you guys get the news, but you're also trying to lock in for a game on the second half or back to back? I think that's just the thing. We were just trying to focus in on getting the win, coming out and competing, extending the way that we're playing and getting everybody involved and incorporated. But it was good to come out here today and compete and get a win.  It's tough, especially for some guys who this is their first time dealing with that experience. And they got drafted here, had a lot of great time here, grew a lot as players, as young men here. But this is the tough part of the business that nobody ever wants to experience. But it is a reality. And I wish those guys the best. I had a lot of fun with those guys and learning with them, from them, grinding with those guys the past season and a half. It's been a great ride. I wish them nothing but success. Greg Logan with Newsday. And DeAndre, I don't know if you care to share anything personal, but did you have any conversation with Karris and Jarrett in particular? I talk to all of those guys. I'll keep those conversations private. So hopefully you guys can respect that. Christian Winfield with the New York Daily News. Hey, DeAndre, you played for the Knicks not too long ago, so you know what it's like when Mads Square Garden has a full arena. First, how would you characterize where the Knicks-Nets rivalry is right now, having just been on the other side not too long ago and now being on the Nets? And two, just what's it like playing at an empty Mads Square Garden given what you experienced in the past? It's definitely weird playing in an empty garden. It's so much energy and excitement. The crowd is electrifying regardless of who they're playing and regardless of what their record is. It doesn't matter. It's one of the mechas of basketball as far as an arena is concerned and just the history of the Knicks. But I don't think that we're trying to look too much into rivalries. If we're just trying to win New York within where our goals are very low, no disrespect to those guys at all. But every team has championship aspirations. And I think that's where our head is at. But we just have to take one game at a time. And this is a very important game, just like the game last night was that we had. But I think that the fans get a lot more play out of it than the players actually do. Malika Andrews with ESPN. Hey, DeAndre. I have two for you. First, you've played so many roles in your short time on this team.  Sometimes you said you felt a little bit old. Where do you see your role in this next iteration of the Nets? I never said that I felt old, Malika. Let's just start there. You said that. I never said you were old. This is a feeling versus what you are. I don't think I feel old. But my role is always the same. Come out, compete, try to give us everything that I have on the defensive end, get my teammates open as much as possible, finish anything and everything. And I get at the rim, communicate defensively. And just try to lead as much as I can. That's my job on this team, whether I start coming off the bench, play 35 minutes or 13 minutes. That's just my goal. I mean, that's my job. And that's what I'm going to continue to do. Secondly, you talked about the one side of this trade. The other side is James Harden. What are your thoughts on that acquisition that is impending right now? We all know the kind of player James is. His game speaks for itself. But I think I'm going to wait until the trade is finalized to come in more.


In this video, I'm going to run through a couple of interesting AR, UX jobs that I found, AR, UI jobs that I found that you might find interesting. And also just to show you what's there on the market, what these companies are looking for. I'm going to show you a job from Apple. I'm going to show you what Facebook's looking for and a couple of others like Amazon, eBay, et cetera. So recently I put out a video where I talked about the fact that I think that for UX and UI designers over the next five years, there's going to be a massive opportunity to those designers who have a good understanding of how to design for augmented reality platforms. What I didn't do in that previous video is present or show you the types of jobs that are actually out there right now today for designers, for UX designers specializing in AR. And yeah, that's what I'm going to do in this video. I'm going to show you a couple of jobs, a couple of job descriptions. We're going to run through them. All right. Let's just jump straight into it. I want to show you this job from Apple UX prototyper for AR applications. First of all, that sounds really, really fun. And I want to do that job immediately. I think a job a lot of people would like. The interesting thing is that this job is still open, like this job can still be applied for. So obviously they have a lot of positions for this. And the first time it was posted was back in 2019, right? So even my AR video was late. So let's read through this. Let's have a look at what the key kind of things that they're looking for and what this job is actually about. So in the role of the UX prototyper, you'll wear many hats. You'll have the opportunity to chip in or lead the design work of initiatives at many different stages of the product. Trying to look here. This team is working with some of Apple's most advanced technologies, including augmented reality, virtual reality, machine learning and computer vision as a member of our blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. OK, so it's not really going into a lot. We need a designer who loves to leverage both engineering and creative skills and will collaborate with senior 3D artists. That's one of the things about AR design is, you know, we've had to learn things like unity, we've had to learn 3D tools, which we've never had to look at before. And, you know, if you're interested, we can show you how we do that on our channel. Just let me know in the comments if you want to know like how to design AR interfaces. But it's something interesting that a lot of UX designers haven't had to had to do before. You need to be great at zooming from the big picture thinking to detail design and love doing both. You'll be involved in initial project kickoffs. Good to know workshops for this. General look, this is pretty general. This is just saying like you'll be doing stuff at Apple. Now, here are the key qualifications and these are the things you might want to actually read up on. So I'm going to go through the ones that I think are the most interesting. So you have excellent, OK, you've excellent interpersonal and inspiration skills. That's an interesting one. Experience with any of the following is a plus. And when they say it's a plus, it means you better learn that before you go into the interview. NUY, VR, AR, game design, interesting art direction, video and storytelling. And if I'm looking at a job that's called UX Prototyper for AR applications, I sure as hell I'm going to read up about AR and how to create interfaces and prototypes for AR applications. And especially in this case, if I'm going to Apple, I'm going to know my when it comes to AR kit, right? I'm not going to I'm not going to go in there not knowing about AR kit. In design, Photoshop Illustrator. And again, like I mentioned, unity or unreal. And like I would if I was reading this job ad, I would be like, OK, OK, OK, these are the things I'm going to make sure I really read up on. Now, this is the bit. This is the bit which is kind of new for a UX Prototyper. It's interesting because I actually had to learn a couple of these in college. Now, strong 3D design. This is the difference between just straight up UX and when it comes to something like UX or AR prototyping, UX and AR require some knowledge of 3D design tools. And I, for example, took a class, I think, you know, maybe probably 12 years ago where I learned how to use Maya. Final cuts, pretty easy to pick up. But yes, Cinema 4D, all of these things, like you don't have to know exactly how to use all of them. But, you know, this is a time where there's also something called Blender. This is a time where I think UX designers coming into the AR world are going to be expected to know this kind of software. Motion graphics, 3D graphics, special effects or animation. These, again, are things that, you know, I didn't have to learn as a UX designer just to make apps, but this different world of AR requires these things. So you can see here, this is where these are where the big differences are between just a straight up, you know, making an app job and applying for something in AR. I'm going to show you here as well. They talk about unity on real. Again, this is really, really interesting because this is something we just haven't seen so much. And then it's just telling you what you're actually going to do. Producing, engaging, engaging experiences using sketches, storyboards, information, architecture, blueprints, prototypes. Every company does this in a different way. So it's difficult to actually prepare yourself for this because every company has their own way of doing storyboards, their own way of doing sketching, their own way of doing information, architecture, blueprints. So it's obviously good to know, like, how these things are done in general. On our channel, we show you a lot of these. But don't worry about knowing the exact thing before going into an interview like this. Really exciting. I would love to apply for for this job. So another job in this space. And now Facebook, I mentioned in the previous video, Facebook are really one of the companies leading the drive when it comes to AR and VR. And you know, they bought Oculus. They're also working on a secret AR headset, which, you know, Facebook and Apple are sort of competing on creating the kind of platform for that. Product Design Manager, AR, VR, Input Explorations. So this is more of a managerial position. Let me just go straight down to the actual responsibilities. So lead design team in the research, design and prototyping in Unity. There we go again. So Unity and Unreal are kind of the de facto software programs or software platforms right now where I mean, we've basically only been using Unity for any of this. Like we haven't used Unreal yet, but Unity and Unreal are right now the places where I see the majority of these AR programs being created. We've only worked on a for a client on a VR project. We had also did that in Unity. So yeah, that that's immediately being made very clear. Unity is going to be something you want to learn.  So you'll have to really know how to use Unity in this case. But I'm just showing you the types of jobs that are out there. This is in Seattle. So yeah, I think that's one of the biggest things. That's one of the most clear bullet points when it comes to the actual specific technical skills, you're going to need everything else is something that you're going to be able to build up with experience like collaboration skills, all of that kind of stuff. Here we go again. Unity or Unreal, you know, how many more times? I mean, I'm I'm I'm going to just keep repeating that when these AR UX jobs come out, Unity and Unreal, just, you know, you can learn these things using YouTube, not on our channel right now, but on a lot of other channels. Maybe we'll even put some links down below and let me know down below if there's any like free courses or anything on Unity that you found interesting. Yeah, at least one VR product in your portfolio, which is which is kind of interesting. That's a chicken and egg problem, right? It's difficult to it's difficult to actually by the way, I have a friend working in the VR department of Facebook. And, you know, he also did some personal projects like buying the VR headset and making his own stuff. So you don't necessarily have to have done that for a client. Yeah. So anyway, whatever gamer interest, it's interesting how much game development and game design is coming into this whole AR thing, but it makes total sense. OK, so let's have a look at eBay. So the reason I pulled this one up is because it's just saying visual designer. But if you actually read into the description, you really quickly see that. So visual designer, I mean, this is one of those, you know, ads where it basically tells you you have to be everything. But, you know, that's also people of high expectations of designers these days. So your key responsibilities are to craft compelling design, vocabulary, mood and visual style for eBay. Visual designers are specialists with a passion for a title, AR and VR. So they're already they're just piling all of this stuff up, but they're already making it clear that they're going to be expecting people to have an understanding of how AR and VR design works. And especially for a company like this. Now, they don't go into it as clearly as Apple and Facebook. And the next one I'm going to show you. But they do, you know, point out that they do want you to know. And by the way, they want in this job title, they're just focusing on the things you probably already know. If you follow this channel, like Figma sketch, keynote, etc. The basics of UI design. Here's an interesting one. So over at Amazon, they are very specifically talking about the fact that they're looking for people to help on the AR team. When it and again, look, you know, the things. So design technologists, visual search and augmented reality. The visual search team is, you know, a team that's basically, you know, pointing the camera at something and then giving you some results. And also visual search can also be seen as something like you see in Pinterest, where it's like you tap on an object. It figures out what that object is and shows you other things related to it. Once again, they're talking about unity. I mean, I'm just trying to show you very clearly that these AR VR jobs in the UX world need you to understand the basics of unity because unity is where a lot of this stuff is being built. And as I said last time, you know, if you're going to apply to these jobs, it's also good to know some of the key platforms, especially the mobile platforms for AR, like AR kit for Apple and core for Google. Yeah, so this is just another one. I mean, this was a really quick search for AR jobs. And I thought these four were kind of interesting and just like, hey, let's show you what's out there. So yeah, there's a lot of these. This is just a very this was like my first. Let's have a quick look. And I was just I was focusing on in California, somehow it showed a Seattle one. But there are a ton, a ton of AR jobs out there. And the cool thing and the thing I mentioned before, and I've no I mean, I get nothing out of this. I'm not trying to sell anything here. There's very little competition for jobs that involve things that people don't really know about yet.  If you're going for something that's a bit more bespoke, a bit more specific, like this AR slash UX slash UI role, then you're just in a space where it's kind of new. I think it's going to get very popular over the next three to five years. Watch the previous video. I'll put it up here if you didn't see it already, where I just lay out why I think it's going to be so important. Yeah, but I just find these. I think these jobs are super interesting. These AR VR UX. I know it's a lot of acronyms, AR VR UX. But I think there's a lot of really interesting things in there. For people to learn and for, you know, people to nerd out about. And let me know if you're working in the VR AR space. Let me know in the comments. Let me know if you're excited about it. Let me know if you like this new YouTube setup. Let me know if this kind of lo-fi, just me talking to the camera approach is something you also like. And yeah, thanks a lot for watching. We hopefully by the time this video comes out, we've already hit 100 K subscribers, but we always like a lot of people watching this channel haven't subscribed yet. It really does help us. It helps other people discover us. If you hit the subscribe button, you know, hit the like button. It really helps the algorithm and helps other people find us. So thanks a lot for watching. I hope I just wanted to do another one of these quick AR VR videos and goodbye. Oh, I should maybe turn off my slack when I'm maybe I won't turn off my slack. I'll just see who I got a message from. All right, Callum, sending me a message about setting up the YouTube thing. You and goodbye. I hope you like my new setup, by the way.


All right. Charity monster, spawned from the jaws of defeat. Hi, I'm David Yanovsky. As mentioned, I'm a reporter at Quartz. I'm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. But I'm originally around here, which makes presenting to you all the more special for me. When I was younger, I used to come here, to the aquarium with my dad. It was before this theater existed, and actually a lot of the aquarium existed. And I would go around, and my dad showed me things like I showed some people yesterday, where if you go over the penguin tank, I recommend all of this, and you wave your hand, and you make a shadow, the penguins will follow around, because I think it's a fish.  It's like, well, you don't have to torment them, but you can like, you can appreciate the wonder of penguins. Anyway, another thing my dad would point out was that the giant ocean tank, or the great ocean tank, that big tank in the middle, used to have these sand tiger sharks in them, and they'd get fed twice a day. And they started developing these, like, humps and curves in their spine. They're actually not in the tank anymore. But my dad would tell me how that was a symptom of their captivity. Anyway, we're here to talk about a different beast. It's a tool I made called Charp Builder. It's a tool that we use at courts to make thousands of charts a year all across the editorial staff. And here's what it looks like. Great. So this is inside of our charting platform. Sorry, the contrast isn't so great on this. But so we have a preview of your chart here. We have some input area over here. And you can do all sorts of changes of stuff at live updates. You can drag your labels. If you want a more directly label set, you can see that there's a mobile preview down below. If you really wanted to, if your access was, you can change add, make sure that you're adding. Make sure you add your units. You can adjust the access either by doing that. Or you can just type in numbers. You can even use your arrow keys. You get these things to be nicer values. What else can you do? And then also say you wanted to have a different access on mobile. You can do that too. Typically, you're doing something like that. But anyway, that's Chart Builder. So it's a pretty simple amount of data that we're working with that you can't see. A chart in Chart Builder has some data, has a title, has a source, has a credit, has some scales, has some annotations. We track all of this stuff using React, JavaScript library that is just, I mean, I would say essential to handling the complexity of any sort of user interface that has constantly changing data like this. And I think I'm about to show you. So it varies from chart to chart type to chart type. But you can see there's some basic stuff about its sizing and then some basic stuff about its scales. This would be populated with computer or understandable data objects. And this is just a string of whatever you put into that box. And then whether you've dragged those latables, there's not much to it. But it's all made possible by React, which you've already heard three times, I think, I counted at this conference. How great it is. If you change one little thing in React, or not even React, if you change someone edits one of those little fields, all you have to do is tell React that that value has changed and it will repopulate the whole app as appropriate. And it does that very efficiently. It does that super quickly. And it does it in a way that doesn't melt my brain. Or it melts my brain if I actually had to think about how I did it. But in actually making it work, it doesn't melt my brain. And so we're actually, as we continue to develop chart we're actually planning on utilizing React more and more and D3 less and less for manipulating browser elements. I'm sorry if this is a little small, but all this is showing is basically what you would do in D3 to make a line chart line. You'd use the D3 path generator and you would select some paths. You would, oh, never appended path on there. You're supposed to append path after that. Anyway, so this code wouldn't work, but a code that looks very similar to it would. Anyway, this is what we're moving towards in React. We're a same line generator, but instead of using D3 to manipulate the DOM, we would let React. We would directly create path elements using the path generator to make the D attribute, which is what you would do anyway in D3, and then put that inside of any sort of SVG group. So chart builder started very slowly, despite it being pretty successful, or it's very successful internally now and it's been adopted by a whole slew of newsrooms and some non-news companies around the world. It really just started as trying to solve my personal frustration with the visual quality of digital publications and not just at Quartz. I've been at Quartz at the beginning. Since the beginning, before that picture on the left is our one-year anniversary, the picture in the middle is our two-year anniversary, and the picture on the right is our third anniversary. And it's also kind of this incidental visualization of our growth over time. And it was only when we were, even before that picture all the way on the left, we were just like a dozen people, maybe a little more in this office in Soho. And only me and my colleague at the time, Richie King, were able to make charts that met the style requirements of our site. We also had the same shoes at the time. Anyway, back then, neither Richie nor I wanted to make other people's charts. They took a lot of time. But nonetheless, we didn't want to see charts like this showing up on the site, and they were. Especially when we're focused on mobile-sized screens, this looks great on an IMAX, I guess.  But you shrink that down into the palm of your hand and you can't read anything on it other than seeing some bars. This is from a financial terminal that we use at Quartz. Similarly, our reporters would just screenshot that, or they would go to a government website and take a thing, or they would use try-and-style, something that looked like our intended style of the time, or people didn't have, they had no tools. This is all they could do. This was the best that they could do. They wanted to make charts, and this is what they had to settle for, really. But as much as I hated them, I didn't want to have to spend my whole day turning these charts into charts that matched our style. I went to Quartz because it wasn't a newspaper that, and many newspapers have whole desks that just kind of do that kind of work. They are a service to other people to make prettier versions of the things that they want to make. But the biggest impediment towards me or Richie or other people who've joined our team in the future making this stuff was the terrible workflow we had at the time. This is how you would make a chart in Quartz's style, which is just like, it would take like an hour.  After the editor saw that, and I had to go back and change some stuff, and by the time we actually got this out the door, it took me an hour to make a single line chart. It was insane, and the ideal workflow being this. So I started making a tool that would make a chart in our house style that I could make these charts all the time without feeling like I was wasting it. The first version was pretty basic. It's all built in web browser, and it was using D3 as much as I could. And I would paste some data into the field, not dissimilar to what was up there, but much uglier. And the only way to export it was you would view source on the page, and you would copy the SVG node. I would paste that into a text document, and then I would open that up in Illustrator, which saves a tremendous amount of time, because I didn't have to restyle anything. I just had to save that as an image from there. But kept on trying to improve it. Eventually, the tool was able to create those images on its own, was able to export that SVG on its own, if we wanted to use that as a starting point for something more complex. And it was stable enough to give to some of our reporters who are kind of most dependent on making charts. There are people that would come to me all the time and ask, can I make charts? Or can I make them a chart? And we were able to give it to them as a test. We were also able to give it to people in our foreign offices so that they could make charts when we were asleep. Courts at the time had offices in London, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, and Bangkok. Now we have many of those places and more, which is really cool. And it caught on really quick. The tool was direct enough. And it was easy enough to train someone on that people were willing to use it. And they saw the value in that they didn't have to wait. If it was taking me an hour to make a chart, it was taking them, from their point of view, it was probably taking three hours for them to get a chart, four hours, because they sent me an email. I don't see it for an hour. I have to be doing other things for another hour. It takes me an hour to make it. And then there's some back and forth with them until they can publish their story. So them being able to directly make their charts saved a whole bunch of time, not just in chart creation, but also just in administration. So we roll this out to the whole newsroom and leveraging the people who had been using it and giving other trainings internally. And we were making like 100 charts a month. And the vast majority of our stories started having charts in them. And most importantly, our reporters started to be enabled to making a chart the story and not just a sidebar to a story. But of course, there are unintended consequences. We tried to make this tool. I built this tool for me originally. So it had all sorts of flexibility built into it that I knew how to not abuse. But my colleagues did not. We had charts that had irrational and disparate colors, trying to show too much data, and it lacked any clear sense of point. I mean, I think they're mostly typified in this, which if you know anything about Quartz's color scheme, we have never really ever had an orange in it. If you're good at criticizing charts, like I am, you'll notice that this is a column chart that doesn't start at zero on the y-axis. We also have this issue with how we do the labeling, where it says Microsoft Sales and then in Perenn's millions. And the axis is in tens of thousands. So instead of just saying billions and reducing your data, it was bad. But one of the biggest issues that we actually saw was that we were giving a color palette like this in the first version of the tool, and this was the Quartz color palette. This is what I was making like real custom graphics. This is the bucket that I would pull from. So I thought, oh, yeah, just give it to everyone and say, only use the top three rows. And then I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when people started using the other stuff. But it was nonetheless surprising and frustrating. We moved the palette to that. And even that turned out to be too much, because now our palette is just that. And this is more than enough. This is 11 colors. This is 11 colors. And these actually work much better together than any of the other stuff. And I don't get any complaints that there aren't enough colors, which might be surprising to you. So there's been a couple other things that have been more trouble than there were. We used to have animations in the editor that just like where this turned out to be some massive technical debt to have to continually maintain like every new chart type should be animating from state to state when we were, as long as the chart is changing really quickly, it turns out that the animations weren't as helpful as we thought in helping users understand what they were actually manipulating. At the start, we had lots of options in the code base for other people, for you guys, for other news organizations. If they wanted to implement this at their organizations, we tried to guess what our clients wanted instead of having our clients tell us what they want as much as you can have a client in an open source project. But at this point, we've taken a lot of them out, and we suggest people do those modifications to the code base on their own because they are so organizationally specific. Those mobile overrides that I'm showing you, they sound great. And hopefully, some of you, when you saw them, you're like, oh, yeah, that's a great idea, but no one uses them. And the reality is, is that now that we're rendering our charts, or I mean, didn't matter. We've changed our code so that our mobile charts can deal with the most common issues of being squeezed to a small screen, namely text wrapping. But there have been other things that should be really valuable. Simple export, the open source version of Chart Builder. The default export is saving as an image. You click a button, and you get a ping, which is something that I think most people in most organizations are comfortable slinging around. How do I get this chart into my PowerPoint? Just put this image in there. How do I get this chart on my website? Just upload this image. There's no fumbling with embed codes. There's no missing half an embed code.  And in the way that Quartz is using it now, we still don't have embed codes. Every chart has a unique URL that our reporters and editors can just put in a story as plain text. And when that story gets rendered on our website, the chart is embedded by our website. The embed code is created by our website instead of by our user. So automatic tick access, or access tick value logic, it's, I mean, we've done some things that we think are, that handle stuff a little better for D3 than D3 does just because of the way in which we want our axes to look. More importantly, on this point is being able to tell people when they have bad values on their ticks in their access. If their increment is like 2.75, it can happen because we're defining axes by a max and a min and a number of steps. You can end up with weird gaps between them. And that allows for us to give clear error messages, helps with the access ticks because we can warn people that things don't look good. And we're in the original versions of Sharp Builder. It would just kind of freeze if you did something wrong. And the official support line on when something breaks in Sharp Builder back then was just reload the page. And now we can actually tell you on an element by element basis on each component that you can edit. We can put a message to tell you what appears to be wrong with what you're doing and why that's breaking. So the future, we're still adding features to try and make it easier to add new chart types, even maps. We're working on being able to have more free text annotations on top of charts. But it's an open source project. It's used sporadically and consistently, depending by news organizations around the world from local public radio to national magazines, newspapers. But not all of them. There's plenty of other publications that aren't using Sharp Builder, which kind of shows. In recent years, there's been this development. Since Sharp Builder has come out, there's been this development of other organizations building their own charting tools. New York Times built one. The Washington Post built one. The Guardian is in the middle of building one. The Boston Globe is in the middle of building one. 538 used to be using Sharp Builder. They're just switching to the ones that they custom built. And I'm pretty sure it's because the theory of Sharp Builder works. Because we have colleagues who are wasting their time on skill-intensive and time-intensive tasks, making charts for other people. It seems like it should be simple, but it's not. And if we can give them a tool to free up their time, they'll be able to have more time to make the more complex and more interesting work that they're better suited for. We have people who went to four years of school. They got some interactive whatever degree. And now we have them in some agency as some low-level person. And our client needs charts for their PowerPoint. So we have them make it. Seems like a waste. Where if we could build a tool for that client to help them be able to make their own charts, we now have this resource, this really green, ambitious person who's going to spend all day in the office coding this crazy visualization that now doesn't have to be making the charts. At the same time, we're democratizing the process of making charts. And we're raising the quality of all of our charts at the same time, because we have more people that can make better charts. And like I mentioned, now we also have more people that can make more complex charts. Of course, I mean, this can happen in one of the newsroom. Of course, there's one thing that does end up happening. And this medium complexity chart kind of disappears, which I'm totally fine with. You start, what we found is that if a chart now is going to take like two to three hours to make, some something just, I don't know, needs a little extra love, we try and just shoehorn it into a chart builder chart. Just make it simpler. Make it two charts instead of one fancy chart. And then if you want, or make it super complex. And for better or for worse, that's what happens. And that brings us back to the sharks. As I mentioned, the sand tiger sharks that used to be out in the tank have some crooked spines. And some had humps, kind of like this one. This is from a study that looked into the phenomenon. There have been a couple of studies that looked into the phenomenon. And some say it's because of the curve of the tank. Some say it's the tank being too small. Some say that it's a result of vitamin deficiencies. But all experts agree that sharks in the wild don't regularly develop these symptoms. And sharks in captivity do, which is not dissimilar to these charts. Out in the wild, anything goes. This is my colleague here.  So much so that he's been on Japanese television to special on his brutality. In my colleague's natural habitat, they make charts using the defaults in Excel in screenshotting PDFs, reprinting something supplied from a third party. Yet, like how a shark eats in the wild, they would only do this sporadically. Because they were only thinking that charting was done occasionally. And still, like the charts, the sharks here eating frozen fish off the stick, we had to train our reporters to think differently and change their habits. And this is really important. If you take a wild shark and you throw them in the tank with the rest of the fish, there are going to be a lot of problems. When it comes to charting, we do our best to help our new colleagues get acclimated to the new lifestyle. Some are more willing than others, but in the end, they're already captive. We also have this massive institutional support behind our tool. If you can gin that up, it's invaluable. But all this means that our ecosystem is healthier, our reporters are less vicious, and in an environment where they can thrive sustainably. Of course, we have the side effect of my colleagues and I contorting ourselves, sometimes due to the limited options that we have in our tank of chart builder. But I'm better for it. And I think everyone else on the outside looking in, interested in looking more with things like that too. Thank you. Happy to take any questions? Yeah. It has a lot to do with letting. If we're letting React manipulate the DOM in one way, why have two things that are manipulating the DOM? And we've gone back and forth on this issue of whether we should be trying to build our own charting libraries or leveraging someone else's. And our pendulum is swinging towards building our own. But because React is so good at managing data in the way that we need it to be managed, using React to build these things seems like the right way to go. Sure. I mean, if I can find my mouse, let's just look at Quartz's most recent charts and make fun of my colleagues in real time. What is there to say? I'm sure these text labels are really long. Leaves not a lot of space for this chart. If I was making this in Illustrator, I would have done that differently. I can think of a chart that I actually made that is kind of a contortion where I can't find it. You know, actually something like this is, no, never mind. I was trying to find this chart that I made about foliage in main right here. Yeah, I don't know. This could use a lot of annotation on it to explain what's actually going on here. It relies on the text in the story that it lived in, text above and below it, to describe really what was going on, but to have to custom code some annotation that would live on some of these just didn't, that's not worth two hours of time. It's not worth half an hour of time when I can just do this and put a paragraph above it and below it. What was the chart? Sure, so we knew line charts, bar charts, we can do column charts, we can do scatter plots. You can kind of see them here with a scatter plot. There's ordinal scale. This might break it, but we can change that like that. Now it's on an ordinal scale. Or this might also break it too, and you can use it. You can use a linear scale now along the bottom if you wanted to do scatter, like a true scatter. Yeah. So quality control is that scroll that I just showed you as I go through the site and I look at things, or I just read the site. There's also great quality control in training editors in giving them the tools and the tips on what to look for. Enabling people to ask questions before you need quality control or upstream quality control, making sure that people are educated enough to be able to make the right decisions or are willing enough and creating a culture that people will ask for help if they are unsure of something. Internally we actually have two different Slack channels to ask for advice about charts, one more technical about using the tool, the other about charts themselves. We're probably going to come out into one, but that doesn't matter. And then, yeah, I used to worry about the people making bad charts thing when I first gave this tool to the newsroom. And then, just over time, I just realized that we've done a good job training these people and there hasn't been anything. There's been some crop bar charts like that, but there hasn't been anything really terrible. And I ran a session at a conference a year or two ago that basically put up in front of people, graphics people in the news industry.  And we played this game called Run, Fix, Kill. And it was like, if this chart came across your desk, would you run it as is? Would you fix it? Or would you say, get this out of my face right now. How could you ever consider it to have ever done that, which really in the news industry means like we really got to fix this. And the ones that I had made this discussion, I knew the ones that I had run. I knew the ones that I thought, I told them they have to fix it. I knew the ones that I was like, get this out of my face. And these graphics people in the room disagreed with me. They couldn't tell the difference. Some of the things that they wanted to fix, they would have run and some of the things that I would have run, they wanted to fix. So there is a lot of gray area anyway in terms of what is good and what is bad. Yeah, we do that. I mean, it's a separate thing. But yeah, we try and educate people in all sorts of ways. All right. I think that's all the time we have for questions. Thank you so much, David. Thank you.


Welcome to Momenet Cafe, beautiful artistic people and this is a quick little video. I had some footage from a painting I did as an experiment on some wet dry waterproof sandpaper that I got from Lowe's. It's a 400 grit sandpaper and the size is, oh it's like a 4 by 9, something like that. And I just tried it because it's wet dry, it allows for wet mediums and this painting I don't use any wet materials to apply to this but I thought it would be neat for you guys to watch how this works. This is not archival meaning that I wouldn't enter this in an art show but it's great to practice on. It's $7 for a pack of tin so that comes up to be about 70 cents a piece. So it's pretty affordable to practice on and have fun, I found the surface was great so enjoy this quick little painting and I have sped it up because it's just kind of a little experiment. Alright guys, happy painting, enjoy.