Military has secured the airport as you mentioned, but will you sign off on sending US troops into Kabul to evacuate Americans who haven't been able to get to the airport safely? We have no indication that they haven't been able to get in Kabul through the airport. We've made an agreement with the Taliban thus far, they've allowed them to go through, it's in their interest to go through, so we know of no circumstance where American citizens are carrying an American passport or trying to get through to the airport. We will do whatever needs to be done to see to what they get to the airport. And one more, Mr. President, last month my call- WHAT?! WHAT THE FUCK?!


Hello everyone, this is Amit Don of AmitDon.com. Just before Canada Day, Triangle Viewers Program announced that there will be changes coming to the program and your Canadian money may expire soon. Today, I'll go over these changes and all the reviews and videos on this channel. They're non-affiliated, unbiased and honest. For the rest of the video, I'll take you to the email which I received from Triangle Viewers Program and I'll go through these changes one by one. Here, you're looking at the email which I received from Triangle Viewers Program, so I'll just go over this and in the beginning they mentioned that some changes we are making to the Triangle Program effective August 1st, 2019, the terms and conditions of the program will be changed as follows. Okay, so the first change we're looking at what they're saying here is that we have added language that would allow additional payment curves issued by Canadian Tire Bank to participate in this program. This change also meant we changed the definition of program create card to program payment card and we made other related changes. So this section right here, I have a feeling that they're going to be adding more cards to the program and they're just telling us that in the future you'll be able to earn Triangle Viewers points or Canadian Tire electronic money using other create cards or could be even David cards and they haven't decided on these cards yet and that's why they're just adding this clause to the program so they will be able to issue more cards under this program. So there's not much in there. So the next one is that electronic Canadian Tire money in your Triangle Viewers account will expire if there has been a period of inactivity of 18 months or longer. To be inactive, you must not have collected Canadian Tire money or redeemed Canadian Tire money during the 18 month period. So here what they're saying that they're going to put the expiration date for these electronic Canadian Tire money and the time frame is going to be 18 months. So let's say if you haven't used your Canadian Triangle Viewers program in 18 months whether this is a redemption or purchase any sort of transaction then your points will expire. So this one actually most other viewers program they have similar clauses because you know in order to keep your points you have to be active. So they're just adding it right now. So I don't see I wouldn't say this as a devaluation or anything. It's just like you know you have to keep in mind that just to keep your account active. It's not difficult to make a transaction in 18 months. All you have to do is just go to a Canadian Tire or other Canadian Tire chain stores and just make a $1 purchase or any smaller transaction to keep the account active. So that shouldn't be that difficult. And then the third one we're looking at here is that we have updated the provisions that deal with changing the program terms and conditions. The changes only apply to Quebec residents. The changes which are specific to a Quebec residence so I believe there is this one is not does not apply to anyone else who are not in Quebec and we'll move on to the last section where it says that we'll comments the expiration of Canadian Tire money for inactive accounts as of December 1st 2019. This means that any account that neither collected nor redeemed Canadian Tire money since June 1st 2018 may be subject to expiry. So in other words if you haven't used your Canadian Tire program or triangle years program for a while then you know you're going to lose your points on December 1st 2019. So let's say if you have a transaction after June 1 2018 then you know you have to count 18 months from the date so be careful about this date. So if you think that you haven't had any transactions starting June 1st 2018 then you lose your points on December 1st this year. So do some transactions in your account to keep the validity of the Rear's program and then here to obtain a revised copy of the terms and condition you have to just visit this link. So the only thing I can see here that right here they're mentioning that the electronic Canadian Tire money in your Rear's program account will expire. I'm not sure here whether you know if you are holding a paper Canadian Tire money what happens to those are are they going to expire or not. It sounds like to me that you know if you have paper Canadian Tire money maybe they're not going to expire but they haven't made that clear in this email. So if you know something about that or if you come across any information just leave a comment in the section below so other viewers can learn from your comment or from your interpretation. So that's all I wanted to talk about so it looks like you know they're adding this clause now and the points will expire if you do not if you're not active in the past 18 months and you can be easily active just by going to a Canadian Tire or other Canadian Tire relic stores and just make a small transaction. So it's not a big deal. So that's all for today. Thank you for watching. Forget about subscribing this channel. Forget about liking this video. Thank you for watching and I'll see you shortly.


Okay, very good morning to you. It is Wednesday the 29th of July. Hope everyone is doing well I'm going to run you through some of the morning's headlines and kicking things off straight away with the general sentiment here at the European Open. It's just around 7 a.m. now here in London and We've got a little bit of a pullback in the dollar after what was the dollar index snapping a seven-day losing street yesterday Moving a little bit higher. The Dixie has actually backed down about one-tenth of one percent this morning and retesting about the lows In the Dixie of where we were trading About midday yesterday. So worth keeping an eye on any further extension Of course of that overall trend we've seen of late of dollar weakness going into of course the Fed tonight Could well help them underpinned support for these major currency pairs So Euro dollar and cable up a touch about 15 pips each respectively here in the top left-hand corner of my charts So euro just coming up and close to testing here around the high points that we were seeing from The session midday yesterday and also you can see that was a support point as well from late on Monday session So worth keeping an eye here on the euro any further extension Then you've got the R1 just above and then the weekly highs would be residing just below that 118 level In cable as well similar type of price movement the overnight Asia-Pacific high Would be the first line of potential resistance. You can see here if we continue to see an extension of some dollar weakness So 12942 in the futures and then the high that was seen yesterday evening Would be too far away about another 15 pips or so from the current price action equity index futures the US pretty flat overall minor positives in the Nasdaq and Basically unchanged in the S&P the DAX so little soft will have a look couple of earnings reports particularly BASF a Seen down Pre-market after their earnings report. We'll have a look at those in a moment Otherwise elsewhere T notes are unchanged very quiet price activity absolutely sideways in the overnight session Pretty minimal reaction seen in WTI crude to the API numbers we had last night But we'll recap those numbers in a moment and then gold will get that chart up again And look at that in a bit more detail few things to talk about obviously a big Bout of profit-taking I would say more than anything else given the momentum move that we've seen occur in gold Kind of capitulate almost on the breakthrough of those all-time highs in the last 48 hours or so But we're almost right back into that trend moving higher again this morning up another eight nine dollars Having reclaimed back to around a 1950 handle now having dropped down to around 1900 yesterday that's the general Theme of things at the moment one thing I'll say right now is do not forget to Join us later on this evening myself and a team. We're gonna be covering the FMC live So all we need to do is just like and subscribe to YouTube channel hit that bell Icon and then you'll get a notification as soon as we go live will go live about half an hour before the actual Fed Announcement in good time then that me and the team can run you through exactly how we're gonna cover it How we're gonna trade it and then we'll do the whole Announcement in real time and share everything with you so if you can join us then But let's just run through some of the headlines. What have we got now interestingly yesterday? Couple of things that were coming out. Obviously you had earnings seasons really picked up pace this week and You had a couple of big down components yesterday disappoint so worth of expected results and lots of McDonald's 3m, you know, these are sizable companies and there's more earnings reports, of course to come and the real big day Comes on Thursday after market when you get those mega cap tech names But a couple of other things as well. We've had the index of consumer confidence. We had yesterday obviously dropped Significantly on the onset of the pandemic But if you think about where we were generally with this very strong V shape recovery We've had in market prices People were kind of quite positive by what we were seeing with these big out performances and economic data You will remember about a month ago. I was commenting quite frequently on the city group surprise index and we were always Outperforming it's kind of the natural way of which human psychology tends to work is that when we're very depressed We're very depressed and so therefore the numbers come in and it was quite an easy Kind of beat almost because we were so down in the doldrums on the back of the severity of the health Pandemic situation So now those things are starting to change as the economy has Well has markets have stabilised and we've rebounded so sharply the bar has got kind of ever higher now for Expectations to be achieved and we started to see a couple of misses Accumulate and in the index of consumer confidence was no different yesterday coming in at 92.6. That's a fairly I mean, I know it. It's hard to look at it in context. It's just a sharp drop that we had With the pandemic but don't forget. We were at all-time highs here in this particular piece of data But a drop from 92.6 from 98.3 is pretty sizable and it was below, of course expectations of of 95 as well So largely a reflection, of course of obviously what's been happening in North America over the last four to six weeks Which is going to be really key for the Fed, of course is this whole development around the second phase If you like of the global Covid situation particularly in North America where if anything it's got materially worse over that period of time and that's obviously dented and fed through into Lowering of consumer confidence. The other thing then is what we had last night and there was some news out from the Fed They've almost front-run a little portion if you like of what we're going to hear probably later on tonight and they have gone ahead and Basically, they've extended most of its emergency lending programs by a period of three months That'll take it through then to the end of the year the remainder of this year. The extension applies to Seven programs The municipal liquidity facility that was already set to expire at the end of the year The commercial paper funding facility was due to end in March of 2021 But to give you some context that there's about 11 emergency facilities ongoing at the moment Here's just a kind of overview of a couple of the main ones and as you can see The blue lines here with the black line the black line actually indicates then The amount of usage that that facility has actually had so the only one that's seen any degree of significant usage Has been the paycheck protection program liquidity the PPP LF But you can see even that has only been used to a fraction of actually the amount of which it has Signed off capacity for So the idea here, it's almost like the Fed in my mind Are conscious of the fact that we're at a bit of a tipping point here where things have if anything Got materially worse on probably one of the most fundamental risks to the economy that being Covid and we're likely to hear a somewhat then reflected in a dovish tone from the Fed generally tonight more Repetition of that will do whatever it takes to support the economy type vibe But to me this extension is kind of like the the arm over the markets. It's like look all these facilities are here I'm just reminding you I got your back. Don't worry things might get worse As we go into the winter, you know as as things develop But it's okay because we're going to extend this out and whether there's a fiscal package We're pushing for that whether there's not we're here to support the market So I think the Fed have always you know, no one can say that the Fed have not Have under delivered they've over delivered in almost every single step that they've taken You know, they were the first to to take the emergency Intermeeting cuts of rates globally. They were the first to deploy a lot of these different programs And these programs cumulatively account for trillions of dollars worth of potential support to the economy of which I has only been used to a fraction. So I think this is quite a Yes, there's a there's a function to what they've done by extending a lot of these emergency programs But don't forget hardly any of them have really been used So this to me is more of a tactical move To deploy now in order to alleviate any forthcoming tensions, which don't it really exist right now But it's to offset it in the future Just to remind the markets that look we're here as I said, so I think a good move by the Fed and Wonder certainly We'll be looking out for more information when power speaks of course in the follow-up to the statement from the Fed later on tonight On that point, you know, what are we expecting from the FMC? Well, as I said, we're going to cover this all live So all you need to do as I said subscribe to the channel Just hit that bell icon and you'll know as soon as we go live We're going to go over things in full but to give you a general overview of generally what people are talking about I mean the markets for one Are as I said functioning relatively well at this point in time Longer dated yields remaining at such low levels The Fed has little need really to alter too much its language or stance at this time There's a lot of things that people are looking at any Tweaks to the balance sheet this idea of yield curve control this idea about their inflation Kind of monetary targeting or forward guidance But the things I've read would indicate that most people on the street are looking at that any of these types of changes If happening at all in the future are more likely to happen when we get back into September because at the moment it's one of those things isn't it where As long as everything is okay, is there much need to keep offering more and more substantial policy? Changes you really want to keep that ammunition back to deploy it later on when then Things if they materially change you've got an ability to adapt and help support the market further If you fire all of your bullets now and things do materially worsen over the period of the next two Three four months as we go into the autumn then then where do you go? So I think that the the feds Move to extend the emergency lending programs Was that to a certain degree but a soft kind of level of that remember these are more Mechanical more functional for liquidity in the system what the The monetary policy changes is different different side of things and that I don't think that they'll want to do anything more And I don't think they should do anything more just yet. So a few few points here The committee will discuss changes to its forward guidance for interest rates and asset purchases as well as framework for monetary policy decisions So they'll discuss it, but it's likelihood then any final decisions of any potential changes will not come Most people are thinking till September Powel likely to reinforce his message the usual kind of rhetoric will do whatever it takes We'll use a full range of tools repeating a call for fiscal aid from Congress Putting the pressure on the politicians particularly sensitive right now given the looming expirations of Several of those programs we've been discussing this week on Friday Since the last meeting obviously the COVID situation as I as mentioned has got worse and perhaps even more uncertain So be really interested to see what their updates are on that point and on balance then does that open up if anything? Reasons to be even a little bit more downbeat in your assessment of overall things and if so That probably explains already some of the dollar weakness and the yield movement that we've had But does that extend again when we get confirmation of that later on tonight will be interesting? the Fed has discussed linking its rate path to reaching or Importantly overshooting its 2% inflation goal goal or to an unemployment rate objective A lot they've been talking about this particularly about refining their forward guidance kind of technique The idea then that they could allow inflation to overshoot and that wouldn't then require them to what is Currently the process to start lifting rates that in itself then has been one of the reasons to be pressuring yields Even lower because the Fed might well be more open to flexibility on that inflation target Which if anything then means that there's a way higher bar then if they're to raise interest rates in the future Meaning that they are likely to do it for an incredibly long period of time so The Bloomberg survey though of economists has suggested that nothing on that is likely to materialize until September and then Fed officials are repeatedly suggested that I'm not close to Targeting rates on treasuries. So this is that framework which would come under the kind of title of yield control That we've seen adopted elsewhere and by us some of the other central banks at the Bank of Japan Pow and June said that they were studying it There was an early-stage thing, but again the latest Bloomberg Economist survey suggests now that no one expects that to happen your curve control At all to be adopted So yeah a couple things there as I said, I'll be there to kind of guide you through I'll recap a lot of these things later on tonight when we talk about it in more detail Now interestingly then as I just said yields have been declining the US five-year real yield And the gold price have have basically been Seeing a clear divergence here, and that's been one of the underlying kind of reasoning why The gold market has been you know someone fire of late and on that note. Let's just have a look at the gold charts because certainly You know for any new traders it's It's so tempting obviously to to get involved in an asset that's showing such phenomenal movement but the problem that you have then is that The an asset when it starts breaking all-time highs like what we saw in this period here Starts to trade them quite from a behavioral point of view And that being on the notion that there's no really historical technical reference point And so you get a lot of this momentum move and particularly in a product like gold You get these big flushes of price movement and yesterday then What we had was after that massive big push-up What I can just Encapsulate into nothing other than really profit-taking And at that point then I mean we already had these these are the two rectangles We had marked up from from yesterday's briefing and we were looking at really two key areas and one was that that trend line Which obviously got broken through but that was the pivot in yesterday's price session and also those respective lows here So that was a key level and you can see them how the market reacted here And this is why the technicals are so important when an asset's moving in kind of a momentum based situation Because it acts as a trigger point then for the secondary flush in price And so here then after we came back you can see we bounced very aggressively first of all off that exact technical level that we were looking at And then broke through right into those areas where we were kind of looking at these highs here, which was Then the 1900 level and it basically in the futures at least it bounced all the way Literally to the tick to 1900 and this is very common then of that again that momentum ignition kind of move Where people were targeting key technicals and key psychological levels and very evident yesterday with that 1900 being targeted then almost immediately bouncing straight back up 25 bucks and then again that pivot floor Seen late yesterday afternoon and we pushed all the way back up in the overnight Asia Pacific session north of 1950 where we trade again today so here near-term price levels of Significance obviously that overnight Asia high will be key I definitely think we should also mark up higher levels such as the all-time new high which we printed yesterday's Asia session so 1974 then Here on the downside the pivot of 1941 42 is actually quite a nice level on the downside now again you've got to be Familiar or what or just aware of the the ability though if you're nursing these trades You've got to keep it relatively tight because if you get on the wrong side obviously you can see quite a big snap lower And so you want to have the ability to just get stopped out on that trade if then it doesn't respond to that long positioning playing that Range kind of low to get that long again On the downside if we start triggering back down lower again, well, then I'd be looking Basically here and then that previous low again So the key three areas of support I would see in an intraday basis for gold would be down here 41 then that 25 again and then down at that sort of 1900 to 1904 type zone Would be quite key now on the gold front a couple of different things here I want to mention I Did put out a poll last night on Twitter. I'm always interested to To see where your guys heads are at we've got about 400 votes here. So decent amount relatively small those sample size, but I put out the question where do people think gold will be by year end Sub 1500 1500 to 2000 2000 to 2500 or above 2500 and you can see here the highest most popular call for the year-end price for gold is to be sat between 2000 and 2500 again higher than where we are today and of course breaching that psychological 2000 Level now on this point. Will and I had a conversation about gold yesterday morning I did share that on our YouTube channel So do you check that out good conversation with him because he's always You know gold's probably his most favored product to trade and he's been in it over the course of the last few years and he has got a nice interesting perspective really looking at how History has repeated itself in previous occasions We were looking back at when we initially hit the 1000 marker and then how the price activity was responding around those levels And when it breached how quickly it ran up to 1250 and then 1250 to 1500 and 1500 up to 1920 Which was the previous high So there's definitely some some lessons out of historical price movement and also his calls for why 2500 in gold Yeah, it's not an unrealistic target under these types of conditions that we're witnessing at the moment So yeah, check that out that video a good conversation Elsewhere then from an earnings perspective Some things that we do have Today pre-market the ones you need to really be aware of from the States is going to be Boeing General Electric And then aftermarket you've got Facebook. So one of the big tech names before the other big guns come out tomorrow On the European side of things Deutsche Bank you can see in pre-market here are up about 2.6 percent They're Q2 net revenues 6.3 billion above the expected 5.94 their thick trading revenues Above expectations They said they have strong capital position providing scope for growth revenues Anticipated to be essentially flat for the year versus previous view of slightly lower. So actually On the balance of things quite positive update from Deutsche And their shares are up about 2.6 percent ahead of cash open shortly BASF though one of the other big large weighted companies in the DAX They're on the right on the other end of the table They're down about an equal amount to how much Deutsche are up. So they're down about two and a half percent Their sales came in below expectations at 12.68 billion. They said negatively impacted by slightly lower price level Their adjusted EBIT came in basically in line with expectations. They said they cannot provide a full-year guidance Does not expect EBIT before special items to improve significantly versus their previous given seasonality effects as well. So a bit of a mixed bag there BASF down about two and a half But you can see Deutsche are still adding to some pre-market movement at the moment up about 3 percent Then the new oil market I don't think it's necessary for me to really get the price up There wasn't really too much reaction to this information last night But again, it acts as our reference point for the DOE's later on The crude figure in the API last night was a draw of 6.829 million Which was quite large comparative to expectations of a draw of just 1.2. Cushing though Was a build as was gasoline both to the tune of around 1.1 million distillers Was a build at about 187,000 Looking at the Canada for today It is actually quite quiet Mortgage approval data coming out the UK is not really a market move as far as Stirling is concerned Then we're going to the US afternoon. You don't have pending homes Sales you've also got the advanced goods trace balance number coming out of US And then the oil infantry numbers in the DOE and then detention though the main event will be the Fed So perhaps worth keeping that in mind if the calendar is quite light Exing out any potential kind of Trump rhetoric on China and You know barring no unsurprising comments from there It could well be that the market respects its relative near ranges And then we just kind of lead into the Fed And then the market will take its cue from what said there for later on for them to dictate Then some of the price movement through Thursday until we get those big mega cat earnings come out at the end of that day on Thursday The other final point is keep an eye on Capitol Hill They still really haven't Signed conclusively this deal yet. The latest is that the 1 trillion pandemic relief package That's been proposed by the Senate Republicans that we were talking about yesterday has been met with very intense resistance from the Democrats They're particularly unhappy with cutting the enhanced Unemployment benefits from six hundred to two hundred dollars the actual plan and itself has also Reportedly caused deep divisions within the Senate Republicans themselves about their own relief package So still quite a lot to play for here And that does carry an inherent risk to markets if they can't come to some Overall compromise and conclusion to push this thing forward Because the deadline of course is on Friday for some of these programs. So keep an eye on that as well All right, that is it from me gonna wish you a good day and hopefully I'll see you online later for the Fed Take it


Everyone, Basel Chapman here on this first trading day of 2022, we're looking at Monday, January the 3rd, Tiger Financial News Network market update, down to 43, well earlier on it was up 100 something, then it slipped down quite sharply and now it's back to up 53, we're anticipating at least a leg D above 36,679 to unfold this week and then we have to make some decisions, so so far not bad action, actually it's quite good action when you consider what's going on with the different variants of the Omicron. Let's go on to the S&P, S&P is up 7 at 47.74, 48.93 was the all-time high, three sessions ago and I suspect that that's what we've got to monitor really closely, I will see if there's a new high, if the DAW does it by itself, does it with the S&P, the QQQ NDX100 trading up 71 cents, 72 cents at 398.59, it's kind of stuck in close to the all-time high, 48.71, but it's got a lot to do, 20 points is a lot to do in the QQQs of this particular stage, back at the ranch what we're looking at is kind of a mini trading band this week between certain levels, I'd say it's probably the 405 level, 403 level and key support must hold the 395, what we're looking at is the IWM, the Russell 2000, having a really good date that is up 3.22 at 225.55, if it makes a leg B I have to consider there's a chance that we start to see the small caps start to outperform somewhat, we're going to be watching this very closely, what we are looking at here is that gold has given back some of the gains that have made last week, it's down 24 at 1804, what I'd say is gold is kind of stuck in a range, I said to subscribers, you're not going to chase it, we're just going to watch it closely and now we've been called, subscribers are looking at this as what happens with gold and so far it's just stuck in a range and not doing very much, dollar itself, holding okay at the lower level support, a nice session today so far, Crudo is what we're watching, Crudo so far is holding steady in the 75, 76 area and it's a TLT that really we want to monitor this week because plunging today down to $1.87 means that yields are moving up, there's a lot to discuss in my Tiger technicians hour coming up in the next few minutes, hope you can stay and also my opening call my daily


Let's see, we're going to start with an intro here and we'll introduce the people on the panel. We're going to talk about the MSNBC.com project and sort of how it came together and kind of a top level overview and maybe get into some of the technical details of it, but mostly we're kind of talking about the sort of business end of things and the decision-making and sort of the high level sort of how stuff came together, but we're happy to talk about whatever aspects of it you'd like and we'll have a big question and answer period at the end, but I suppose if people have questions during, you could raise your hand and we'll try and accommodate them, but we are mostly sort of focusing on. Questions have to go to the mic, this is all being recorded and posted on YouTube and so if you don't speak into the microphone, you don't exist. People will not know who you are if you don't talk into the microphone. So I'm Jeff Robbins. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Lollabot. Lollabot sort of took a tech lead position on this project and mostly I'm here sort of as the Rube representing the everyman and going to ask questions as if I don't know the answers because I don't know the answers to most of the questions anyways, but I'll let people here introduce themselves on the panel. I'm Richard Wolff. I'm executive editor of MSNBC.com. So my role was to put impossible demands on all of the developers and run for cover. My name is Karen Stevenson. I'm with Lollabot, I'm the architect for the site and my role was to run for cover. Hi, I'm John Keegan. My title is VP of technology strategy at NBC News Technology Group and I herded the cats of technology for MSNBC.com and continue to manage the technology for that site in our highly matrixed organization. So Karen, do you want to explain sort of how the title of this presentation came together? Yeah, we decided we wanted to do a presentation about the MSNBC project. It's a great project and we had a lot of fun doing it and that was really exciting and we're trying to figure out what to title it and one of the things that came up as we were going through the project, we had all these kind of impossible things to do. We had a kind of a crazy deadline. We had a huge team of people. We had a lot of things that were going to be very difficult and that were quote impossible and Richard always had this quote. We would talk to him. He talked about the fact, well, he'd say, well, you know, we do live TV. He said, we do the impossible every day and so that everybody just sort of picked up on that and every time we had something come up that we had to do, everybody say, oh yes, we do the impossible every day and there just sort of became a mantra for the project. So that's where the impossible came from for the title of the program. So we created a sort of a case study video kind of thing that I'm going to show now. MSNBC. Sorry about that, folks. MSNBC started life about 17 years ago and it was in the mid-90s a vision where TV and digital would all converge and it would all be great. MSNBC on TV had come to mean something very different, a place where, as we like to say, we lean forward. On digital, this thing called MSNBC.com had continued to trundle along with the original intent, which was to be a sort of 24-hour version of NBC News. And there was this disparity between the two. So we unwound what was left of the joint venture that created MSNBC.com. We renamed that NBCNews.com. And then we were left as MSNBC to create something wholly new. Here at NBC News, we talk a lot about the newsroom of the future. The concept of a story has really involved. We all knew what a story was. It was how to headline, how to lead. Maybe there was a related image. Today, we're creating new content types that allow us to tell these stories that we weren't able to do five years ago, let's say. We know that our audience is consuming us in multiple spaces at a time and place of their choosing on any device that they own. We know what MSNBC represents. We have a clear sense of mission. We know how to create the content. As a publisher, I think you have to not say, how do we do what we do? It's how do we translate what we do into this new medium? The scope of this project was very large. There's this company out there that you might have heard of called Facebook. We tried to build Facebook and a brand new news site all within the space of nine months. We had a lot of discussion with you guys at Lullabot and with our designers right from the beginning about responsive design, about mobile first. We are creating all this content and it should be in a form that can be distributed anywhere. I think what we ended up with, it's immersive. It feels great in all of these different spaces. And it allows this organic path for you, whether you want to stay just on the content side, whether you want to move into this more of a community space. We felt that it was important to make the social network part of our news. That's not just sticking a button on a piece of content and saying tweet from here. It was really embedding every piece of the community. Users had profile pages, group functionality. It's not the journalist organization that matters. It's how the user organizes all of the stuff that we're producing and they do it on their own. We have a very large editorial team. We have a separate team for video. We also have a design team. There's a kind of level of complexity and increasing sophistication that's required on the back end to allow editorial teams to build these new types of content in a way that won't slow them down. And that works. They're happy with it? Oh, they love it. When you really get to the crunch, you want a team of developers that say, set us the highest challenge we have. We want to reach for that extra piece of what we can do rather than just repackaging what we've done before. Very early on in the project, I could see that the Lullabot team had said, you know what? I think we're working on something unique. They really opened their mind to the fact that we were building something brand new. It was a monumental undertaking and to do that in nine months on the kind of budget we had was really extraordinary. We knew that there might be multiple points of failure across the board, but Lullabot would not be one of them. The most amazing thing about this launch was that it was so anticlimactic. The very first day when we went live, there was some excitement and some clapping, but it worked because really there's only one thing that's supposed to happen. It's just supposed to work and people are supposed to go and create the news now. I'm not just saying this. It's been the most fulfilling. It's not just my comment. My senior team has told me it's been the most fulfilling professional experience of their entire careers. It's not often you can say that. Richard, why don't you talk to us about the history of MSNBC and the past 10 to 12 years that led up to the business decisions that came about to making this site? Sure. You had a little brief version of the story just on that video, but back in 1996, 1997, Microsoft and NBC, that's the MS and the NBC for those of you who don't know, they got together and they did a... You'd have to take my word for it. They did an extraordinary thing, which was to sign a 99-year deal. A 99-year deal because that's how committed they were to this idea of what they called convergence back in the 90s and it was a 50-50 joint venture. So in addition to having this very, very long-term marriage, they also decided that there would be no casting vote, which was all wonderful in the 90s bubble, but convergence took a little bit longer than they thought. And then finally, when we got to the point of convergence, the two sides didn't exactly get on. We had bought out, we, NBC, had bought out Microsoft on the TV side about eight years ago now, and the digital side was still trumbling along in this 50-50 joint venture. And as MS and NBC grew to have a bigger profile and a bigger voice, everyone realized on all sides within the joint venture at Microsoft and certainly NBC that the website had become detached from the bigger brand, the TV brand. There was a dispute about which was the bigger brand and not, but we ended up saying this isn't working. Let's go our separate ways on the digital side. So we reshuffled things around, took the old portal site, handed that over to NBC News so that they could carry on with that mission, that sort of 24-hour news mission, and we could build this thing from scratch. And that really was the mission impossible, which was to create something out of nothing in a very, very short space of time. You all are familiar with obviously creating things from scratch, but when you've got a big media brand that has a tremendously high profile, you've got very, very impatient journalists who are suffering from ADD every single second of the day. They don't understand why you can't just flip a switch and create this spectacular thing that does everything and pleases every stakeholder and there are a lot of stakeholders in a big media company. And so everyone wanted it immediately. We had nothing, we had no website, we had no digital presence, and the digital presence that existed didn't really reflect us. So it was wildly ambitious, still is, on a ridiculously short time frame. We had people who, senior people who to this day don't understand why you can't just create something like this in three weeks, four weeks. So there was a long educational journey we all had to take. Does that answer the question? I think so, yeah. And for those of you who don't know MSNBC, for a start I don't know what you're doing, but we say we lean forward. We obviously cover a lot of politics, we cover it from a broadly progressive perspective. Our audience, super engaged, are very passionate about the brand. They identify themselves as MSNBC people. I mean, that's a, we wanted to make a statement with us, not just that we could build this thing from nothing, but that it would look different, it would operate differently. It would really embed with a community because the community already existed. We weren't trying to create that out of nothing. It existed on lots of different platforms and lots of different spaces. So I will stop there. So let's talk a little bit about MSNBC.com and sort of the decisions that were made about that. John, do you wanna sort of chime in and talk about things like the decision to use Drupal and sort of how that sort of trajectory started for MSNBC? Sure, sure. I'll start with that one. That's a great question. Our friends here at a group at NBCU called ONTS are here. The great thing about our company about NBCU as a whole is that there's a lot of support behind Drupal across the organization. We have a strong team, a central kind of technology team that is dedicated to Drupal and has a couple years, three years maybe behind the program. And so there is kind of an infrastructure and a support system around Drupal, both in terms of development as well as the hosting of it. So it was kind of a no-brainer as far as choosing Drupal. The company already had the support behind that. So really at that point we had a content management system but the site as you can see really is not just about the content management system. We kind of thought of the three legs of our platform were the content management system in terms of Drupal. Also our video and our video experience and of course the technology required to create that. And then the technology required to create the community and social services which I guess as a technology architect I was very lucky that we happened to have this group that was part of the original MSNBC.com and that was a company called Newsvine. And I don't know how many Newsvine users are in here but they were kind of pursuing this kind of community news space since around the mid 2000s I think they were acquired by the MSNBC.com joint venture in I wanna say 2007-ish and a group of really talented developers that we chose to partner with in building the community and social tools. So those were the three kind of technology stacks that we had to integrate to create this platform. What was your plan around mobile and what ended up being responsive and stuff? Was that your trajectory originally or how did that end up coming up? Well we had a lot of discussions about it. There's obviously the whole concept of responsive design was preeminent in everyone's minds. There's also a school of thought that I think for sophisticated publishers CNBC is an example that uses an approach where they build very customized templates and serve content based on user agents. So their philosophy was that if you can build these separate experiences, you should. And we chose that for I guess really for our not only for the technology and the user experience but also for the timeline. It would be a smarter decision to go with a responsive approach. Part of that for us as well was starting from absolutely zero. We had no apps. We had no presence anywhere and we just couldn't roll out everything together. So responsive was a neat solution. I will say, and we touched on this in the video, there were some interesting and long and passionate discussions with the Lullabot team about where our designers really mobile first. Was it just, was it mobile optimized? What was this thing? And I'll be honest with you, we fudged it. And I actually think fudging it was the right choice to make in terms of the design because I see sites today, new sites that are really perfectly mobile first and in the desktop experience which still accounts for the bulk of our audience, it's unreadable.  So, yeah, you can break things down to have great mobile experiences and that's really, really important. So I'm not trying to minimize the importance of the mobile audience at all. That's clearly where all the growth is and where all of our audiences migrating to at a fairly rapid pace. But right now, whatever it is, middle of the day East Coast, about 80% of our traffic is coming through desktop laptop. And if we had taken the approach that some other publishers had had with this, you know, strictly ideologically pure mobile first approach, I think we'd have really been in trouble because there's no hierarchy. The hierarchy is all resolved by the break points. So I think from a design point of view, we flipped it around. Some pages we went desktop first, some of them we went mobile first and I'd prefer to think of our design being mobile optimized rather than mobile first. I think this was really interesting because this was kind of one of the early big areas of discussion in this project was how are we going to handle this? What does this really mean? And I think what was important was that we kept bringing back to everybody's mind that what we cared about is whatever we do, it has to work across everything. And that is the end of the day was whatever we do has to work across everything. So let's get into the stack. We have a slide here that, funny enough, people on the panel won't be able to see. So I'll describe it for people on the panel while people in the audience are able to see it and those of you on YouTube are cozying up with it. So let's talk sort of about the stack. I'll just sort of list off kind of what's part of it here. Maybe I'll sort of turn it towards, no, John can't see it. He's got a slide. You're playing along at home, great. So do you want to run through it, John, maybe for us then if you can see it there? Yes, sure. I think we just talked briefly about it. We host via Acquia on their cloud platform. We, again, we're partners of this internal NBCU team and they actually manage that relationship for us. So physical infrastructure is there. And I have to say I came from a previous role at another media company where we managed our own infrastructure and got very used to, on an engineering level, being able to get in, make certain kind of changes to your stack. When you move to kind of having this managed infrastructure, it can be kind of jarring, right? You have to kind of give up some responsibility, some, I would say you have to give up some customizability, but you give that up and you gain scalability, you gain, basically you get the ability to walk away from issues like running out of CPU and RAM and whatever and it just becomes someone else's problem. And that's really nice. You get used to that pretty quick. Then obviously we talked about the choice of Drupal. The really neat thing about NBCU is that we have this Publisher 7 team here. Shout out to the Publisher 7 team. What they're doing is really they're taking Drupal and building essentially a kind of core distribution that all the brands at NBCU can then take advantage of. So they've got a development team, they produce this Drupal distribution and we get to kind of gain the advantage of, kind of getting to offload some of the development that we otherwise would have to do ourselves. So that's really neat and then we expect that kind of partnership to grow over time as all these NBCU brands start sharing more code and sharing development cycles with each other. So that's neat. We layer our own customizations on top of that. Again, we talked about Newsvine as a technology stack. We do some neat integrations where we're sharing data back and forth between the Drupal stack and the Newsvine stack. If you look at the site and see how it's managed, you'll see groups pages and user pages, they reside on the MSNBC.com subdomains and the experience is very uniform because we share the same, we share the headers and footers out to their system but it's all hosted on a completely separate stack. And then we have our video which we use the platform for video which is a Seattle-based company that a lot of our NBCU partner brands use and we have our own kind of user experience built around the platform's player development kit. So UGC here stands for User Generated Content for anybody that's curious about that. And just to sort of expand on that a bit, so Newsvine is being used for all of the user-contributed content, comments, anything along those lines. So user registration, all that is handled by Newsvine. So although Drupal has that functionality, we're not using that for MSNBC.com. Just wanted to be clear about that with everyone. Karen, you wanna talk a little bit about Publisher 7 and how it was used? Yeah, so again, as John said, we, the ONTS team, which stands for Operations and Technical Services, I knew that. But the ONTS team had already started on this Publisher 7 which is a distribution. So it's a package of modules and features and functionality that they had already put together for NBCU, they were in the process of building out the Drupal 7 version of that when we started on this project and it wasn't completely ready. So we started with what they had and built on that. And so we kind of built on, we built first on Drupal and then on top of Drupal we've got the Publisher 7 functionality and then on top of that we have our own customizations. And in some cases we have things that can be contributed back. In some cases we've got things that are just pretty specific to MSNBC that don't make any sense, but we've got all that flexibility. And as the project, as we got into the project we could identify that we had a need that was likely to be a need that other units at NBC would also have. And that would be something where maybe this is something that needs to go into the Publisher 7 stack or an improvement for that or whatever. And then we had other needs that were, again, very specific to the particular way that we were rolling this particular project out and it didn't make any sense. So we tried to work with the Publisher 7 team a lot back and forth on that and they actually got involved in some kind of sub projects because they were things that had applicability across the rest of the network. All right, I'm aware that we wanted to leave a good amount of time for questions. So I'm gonna kind of keep buzzing through. So this slide has the sort of explanation of the different teams that worked on things and stuff like that. This is not even beginning to be complete because there were so many players in this project and in this process. I just tried to sort of call out some of the key ones. Obviously we had MSNBC and their internal resources. We had ONTS, a company called Sapient Nitro that was working on the design aspect, building out the designs for the project. We were doing development and some of the design work. We had Newsvine for the user-generated content. We had the platform for video content and then we also had the video team that was available on top of the platform. We had several other Drupal shops were involved. Phase two got involved. We had a group from ThinkDrop that was on the project for a while. We had at least one team member from Chromatic. So we had a number of Drupal shops that were involved in that process. And actually what I'd like to do, we've got a lot of these people in the audience. Could everybody who had anything to do with the MSNBC project that's sitting in the audience right now stand? Because I know we've got questions. Yeah, if you're listed on this slide or you're feeling like you should have been listed on this slide, stand up. And this is not everybody, obviously. This is just the ones that made it to DrupalCon. So it was a big group. All right, so one of the things that was interesting about this project as is the case with a lot of these large scale projects that we work on, is sort of the communication mechanisms, especially when you're coordinating so many different teams and groups and stuff like that. So we've got a slide here that sort of talks a little bit about the different technologies that we used. I guess that there's sort of a larger discussion to be had sort of in the, not so much the technology, but sort of the methodology and sort of techniques. But let me just sort of list off here. We used a lot of teleconference phone lines. That's sort of a Lullabot thing that we do. We like telephone lines a lot. IRC, Internet Relay Chat, Online Chat System. If you're at DrupalCon and not familiar with IRC, by the time you leave here, you will be. Email, good old email, nice sort of fallback. Good place for asynchronous discussions and stuff like that. Join me as a screen sharing system. Google Hangouts is popular, but more difficult when you have larger teams or people that are on the road, stuff like that. And then calendaring stuff just to make sure everybody's in the same place at the same time, despite different time zones and stuff like that. Did any of you have anything to sort of add to this communication stuff? Richard's shaking his head here. Yeah, look, the only way we pulled this off was kick-ass project managers. And I mean that. And nobody likes project managers. I'm not even sure project managers like project managers. You know, from a business point of view, they're the ones telling you you're not gonna get what you want. Obviously the developers are all being whipped. And so they're always the people that get zeroed out of any discussion budgets and everything else. We could not have done any of this, even with all the tools and all the talent and all the smart ideas without the best project managers on each team, but also centrally pulling the whole thing together. So I had no idea what they did before. Before I joined this whole thing and now I'll set up a tabernacle to praise them because I don't know how you get through a complex project like this or anything like it without having you're actually the best people doing project managers as opposed to someone who was an intern six months ago. Especially at this rate, the feeling I had on this project and you guys can chime in, but in sort of watching it progress was that basically at any given time there were project managers talking to each other, monitoring what was going on and just a constant discussion of how the development was gonna happen, how the process was going to happen that was happening always, constantly, planning out even what to filter down to the developers, when to filter it down to the developers, and that really helped the speed and efficiency and ultimately sort of the success and happiness of the project. Yeah, there were, and I thought of even more things after I put this slide together that weren't on there, but I mean we did Google Docs and Hackpads, share documentation back and forth and email lists. We ended up doing a really simple thing that just helped tremendously. Lullabot had one email list that would be copied to everybody at Lullabot that was working on the project and MSNBC had an email list that would be copied to everybody at MSNBC that was working on the project and so you didn't have to constantly try to figure out who do I send an email to to hit everybody? You could just hit that list and everybody got copied but that was a huge issue.  It's just so important. Let's run through this next slide pretty quick but some of the tools that we used in particularly in the development process of this project, do you wanna hit those quick Karen? Yeah, the original idea was we were gonna kind of do discussions in Basecamp and figure out what we were gonna do and then once we figured out what we were gonna do we were gonna document it in confluence as that was a wiki that was gonna be where all the documentation would go and then GitHub is what we were using for the code repository and then Jira for the ticketing system. For the most part this worked out okay, I think using Basecamp for discussions was a fail. We had a million discussions and things kept getting lost in there and all that kind of thing but the rest of it, it worked out pretty well and Jira was enormously flexible and which was really important because we had thousands and thousands of tickets and we needed a good, really complex, really sophisticated ticketing system. Cool. This slide just says goals. Again, let's try to sort of hurry along here but let's talk about sort of the general goals for the project. I mean, we're gonna talk a little bit about the timeline but kind of what were the business requirements and ultimately sort of creative goals of the project that needed to be hit? Well, apart from the obvious one which was to launch on time and on budget and that wasn't a small one at all. The goal was to translate this spirit of MSNBC into the digital space and to a large degree reinvent MSNBC. There was no template, although obviously we were working with templates but there was no path, there was no map, there was nothing we could copy and that's why the integrations were really important. It wasn't just that we wanted to have some video there. We were already streaming a lot of video and we currently do. We stream pretty close to about a million videos, streams a day and people stay with our video for a very long time. So it had to be robust. It had to, these integrations, we couldn't just pull out video and say, well that's the MSNBC experience. We had to have this connective tissue between the video, the text, graphics, photos. We wanted a very strong visual identity because we were growing out of a TV brand so you'll see that right from the homepage and then we wanted to give this room to the community space. So, and not just as an add-on but as the infrastructure all the way through. So you would see community at all points and one of the best ways to understand that is to go to an individual article page where all of those elements come together. The community aspect, the strong visuals, embedded video, it's all there and something that actually is shareable. About 20, 30% of our traffic comes from social media, third-party social media platforms, obviously mostly Facebook but we know that people are sharing, we're going to share the individual stories and pieces of video. So business goals were super ambitious. That's all just on the editorial side. We didn't even talk about the integration on the pesky ad side which is not a small thing as well. Our business taskmasters want a path to viability. The days, although we were sort of in a startup mode for a big media brand which was a bit like the 1990s, it certainly wasn't a business mentality from the 1990s where we could say, you know what, we'll just get eyeballs and figure out the money later. That there's a strict business plan. The great thing is we actually beat our traffic goals for 2017 in January, three months after launch. So this slide shows the original timeline which encompasses four months. What happened? Oh, is that one for me? I thought you were going to explain how... So what happened?  That's the technical way to explain it. So we didn't really have the project defined, designs done, completed, not even substantially never mind actually completed until the May timeframe. And part of that was, which was I think initially when we were supposed to launch. So part of that was, although we had a clear sense of our identity and the various elements that we would develop within this digital space, it took us an inordinate amount of time to figure out the decision-making structure. Getting to a system of decision-making at the editorial brand business level, the real, the key stakeholders was a challenge. And what we ended up having to do was have a very extensive consultation system. So each layer of UX went to, I'm gonna say three dozen stakeholders. In the first round, every single one of those three dozen had about 30 comments. I'm happy to say that about the seventh or eighth round, there were only six people who were still in the conversation. So there was a certain winnowing out but there was all that expectation built up or there was no website, there was we were creating it from scratch. It had to be ideal, it had to be the best thing ever. And what we had to do at the sort of senior level was obviously involve people, get the requirements, the key stakeholders involved, but try to narrow down the decision-making, the actual driving force behind the project down to something much more manageable, which really ends up being two, three, four people. So that really, that's the sort of high level of why we blew through those initial deadlines. They weren't feasible. Again, this was a group of people who said, don't have a website, how can it take so long? What is a website anyway? They seem to be, I can click on these things, so how hard can it be? I'm really not exaggerating a great deal. Even today, there's still members of my team who think that the system we use is gerbil, not Drupal and know that it's actually true. And we just had to do a bunch of presentations to the broader MSNBC audience and explain what CMS is and all of these various points of integration, how video gets played and how it's integrated and what this community space is. So the education thing is really still ongoing and that's among people who are sophisticated users of the technology, but they have no clue. I guess it's like driving a car. They have no clue what's going on to the hood and no real interest either. So we talked about sort of what it took to keep the project on track. I mean, we're talking a little bit about the timelines here, but a big part of it was around the decision-making process and sort of the weighing constantly, this process that was going on with the project managers of sort of weighing the level of effort of a given task versus the importance. On Lullabot side, we've found that we've had the greatest success in hiring technical project managers, people who are familiar with the inner workings of Drupal and are able to make estimates based on experience. And I think that having, being able to have those discussions with the more, well, less technical, they have other talents, project managers on the, MSNBC side with more focus on the understanding the business needs of the project and stuff like that was really helpful and important and ultimately pretty efficient. Yeah, this whole process, this was a long process. The process of going through the designs, you remember Richard talked about what was going on in the business side and then once these things would filter down to us, then we had to go through the iterative process of trying to figure out, okay, what does that mean for us? How can we do that? Can we do these things? Do we need to suggest that they change some of this stuff to make it into something that's more feasibly done within a tight deadline? But it was a constant process of balancing those things, of trying to say, okay, this is a really important feature. Yes, it's hard, but this one's really, really important to the business. We gotta figure something out, or not, or this is really hard. We're gonna have to figure out a way to de-scope it because it's just not gonna happen. Yeah. And that really was the critical point of management. These very fluid discussions, very intensive decision-making, and the creative thinking among the developer team about, well, you want this, but if we tweaked it this way, we could get you to where you wanna be much quicker. And I would classify that whole thing as a sort of de-scoping or re-scoping discussion, and that really gained strength as we got into the final month or two, where we were just throwing things over the side of the air balloon to keep it afloat. I think we're going to the side of the road really fast in that last couple of months. But that was a really critical point of the conversation that had to go on between the business, the brand, and the developer team, really through the project management team. So the timeline got modified, a little bit more realistic, but still being able to meet most of the business goals of MSNBC. We decided a fair amount of sort of key dates for things. Did anybody wanna sort of chime in on these? One thing I wanted to mention that I think is really important is we had an original timeline that wasn't realistic, and everybody recognized that it wasn't realistic. And then we had a lot of discussions about how to make a realistic deadline. What could be realistic? And the business went back and they came back and there was a decision made, okay, we're gonna move that deadline from May to October. So I think it's really critically important to say, what didn't happen is we didn't just keep missing the deadline, missing the deadline, missing the deadline. That's not what happened. We reset the deadline once. Everybody understood that wasn't gonna happen again. That was a one-time thing. We were all committed to make sure that whatever we did, something was gonna get delivered in October and it was gonna be good. Yeah, and our calculation on that, our calculation on that was to say, if we extended the timeline, how much more would we achieve? At a certain point, you gain momentum and you're heading towards a fixed point and an extra month might not actually achieve a whole lot more. There's a quality argument, so you don't wanna push things to breaking point, but having an impossible deadline can encourage people to do really creative, amazing, productive work. So it's a really fine balance there and the one thing that we did, which was really important, was not to share the ultimate launch date and not even internally. We had an idea, a window, but we didn't say internally, nevermind externally, we will go public with this thing at this point because that would have led to a really distorted view of what was a very fine judgment call about how hard could we push the team, how fast could we do this. We knew we wanted to hit this calendar year of 13 and ideally the joint venture deal had been unwound in July, so we were trying to be closer to July than to December and so it wasn't that much more sophisticated than finding a midpoint between the two, but keeping it out of the public eye and keeping internal expectations to a relatively low level was really important. And it launched. Ta-da. I'm gonna switch over to questions. If anybody has any, there's a microphone up here. If anybody has any questions, we're happy to answer them or we'll just continue to talk amongst ourselves. I skipped over a whole bunch of slides so I can go back and cover various things but I'm sure we've left you with some questions. I have a lot. Go right ahead. There's no one behind you. I'll just do two. Thank you so much for your presentation but how much user testing do you guys do with your editorial team? I'm sorry, how much testing? User testing. Oh, user testing. With the editorial team. With the editorial team. Not enough. How much user testing did we do? There was extensive discussion about what they wanted, what they needed, Karen in particular was leading that so she can talk through some of that. We didn't have a whole lot of time built in to do the kind of testing everyone wanted to do because it was so rushed. This was final designs in May and launch in October. That gives you a sense of, we tried to get some feedback going but I'll be honest with you, that all got compressed. That's user testing in terms of actual users as well as editorial. Yeah, the whole process of dealing with the editorial process, obviously you can't create an editorial process until everything's in place. Everything's built. You can't say how are the editors going to create these things until the things are created. So by definition that has to come really late in the process and that means we don't have a lot of time, there's nothing you can do about it. We had a lot of conversations with the editorial team about what was good enough for launch. Okay, what was really horrible about the experience? We tried to fix the really horrible things. We tried to get as good as we could get on the rest of it. And that led to my second question. How much of the editorial workflow is actually integrated with CMS? Do they start with a lead and it's all in the CMS or is it taken from Word or some other platform? So writers don't trust any CMS, they just don't. So they will still cut and paste things and then have all sorts of horrible formatting questions, at least for the copying homepage editors. Once it's in the editor's hands, it all stays there. So there are a couple of brave writers who do trust the CMS to not erase all their work. Video is a whole different workflow, so that's vastly more complicated. I will say that we, just to pick up on the last question as well, it's been very iterative. We keep improving the editorial tools. Even as we speak, there are people working on improvements to the editorial tools. The editorial team really wants to be able to track content much better than we currently do. That's still a challenge for us and that's something we're working on, but there's pretty much every week discussions about how we can simplify workflow, streamline it, improve it. Photos in particular, we are a heavy consumer of photos and that's a challenge with all the breakpoints and the re-cropping and everything else. Maybe it's a different discussion or an offline thing, but for photos, how much control is that given to the editor or the person who posts the stories online? Is it separate? We have photo editor team. We don't let the writers do anything but write. And that's hard enough, believe me. So the photo editors really control this and they're very precise about what crops they want and where as photo editors should be. From a technology standpoint, that kind of division of labor presents some issues which we're trying to figure out. How do we solve a photo team that has the rights to do certain things and make changes, let's say, to a homepage independent of the story editor and how do you kind of keep that, create a good workflow where those editors aren't colliding with each other. So that's something we're trying to figure out and I see our developer team over there going. Yeah, we're gonna get it. It's a really interesting workflow.  This is a whole different kind of workflow where you have multiple people on different teams working on it. We've got a few people lined up for questions now, so let's... Thank you. You're welcome. Hi, two quick questions. First one is what discussions if any took place identify functionality differences between your native app and your mobile website and then the second one is I saw a date up there for design freeze. Did you approach the project methodology here using waterfall as opposed to agile and why? Thanks. The project manager is actually sitting right there, so she could talk about the philosophy that we used. First question was... Oh, app, the app question, yes. So the app we have currently, the MSNBC app, which is the first ever MSNBC app, was really courtesy of the NBC Universal Partnership. It's a sort of placeholder for us. It's a really elegant placeholder, but it's really driven by the video experience. We'll be launching our own native app in iOS and Android later this year, fingers crossed. So what was the discussion around that? Part of the idea of having a really responsive site was so that you could have the full experience in the mobile browser. That was absolutely central to the strategy. I think that we, looking back, believe that the mobile browsing consumption patterns would grow more strongly across the board for all publishers than they have. In fact, all the data I've seen shows app consumption growing, so that really does push us into having a much more robust app strategy in our... Our guiding principle at this early stage is really that you can do everything in the browser, so actually, apps shouldn't be that. You shouldn't be doing everything in an app. It needs to have a different prioritization structure and different features and functions. And I think the mistake of a lot of publishers in the app space is to just repeat everything they can do in the browser, in which case, what's the point? Jen, did you want to deal with the waterfall question? So I actually came on to the project in June after the design freeze. So I was kind of in an interesting position because we had designs and then a tech team that didn't know quite what to do with the design and a lot of folks were kind of frustrated that they felt that a waterfall approach had been taken. And actually, my mentor was the one who came in and helped define the decision-making structure and I don't like putting labels on it, but the first thing, kind of the methodology we went with is first define the who, define the team. That decision-making structure had been set up when I came in, so that was fantastic. And then there's really just the three, what we call cogs of project management, right? Scope, schedule, budget. And that's it. Whatever way works, we had really, really great technical PMs who were familiar with the Agile methodology and they knew how to run their technical teams, so I relied on them for their technical expertise to run their teams. The problem is we had 10 development teams. So it really was about kind of, I guess you could call it Agile because it was self-managing teams, but that's really what we had, but it was, I'm not gonna say we used Waterfall or Agile, but what we did was set up a roadmap from June to October and every two weeks Sprint had a theme and it was, we're gonna get as much done as we can on this specific area and if it doesn't get done, then it needs to be good enough and we're gonna move on because if we don't move on, we won't get to launch. So it was very, I think what led to the success from a PM perspective was also that we had complete support from our senior management team in terms of that de-scoping, re-scoping, letting the teams kind of take full ownership of what they had to deliver and not tying them to a very specific design, but does that answer the question? Sorry, okay. I think we're only gonna have time for one more question so that we'll, you guys can fight it out. Oh, look at that, wow. That's an interesting move there, right on. Did you pay him money to get a cut in line? I like it. I don't know. I mean, I heard you earlier, John, talk about Drupal being a solution where you could customize the content types for kind of the future of news and the way stories evolve. That being said, there've been a lot of new kind of new sites like Vox Media, Buzzfeed, very social heavy as you talked about the social integrations. So it's interesting to hear you guys talk about Drupal being able to meet that when we see sites like Buzzfeed and Vox Media saying we have to build our own system to handle this. So the question is, what sites are in your, that you would find SMEC comparative to? And do you feel like you're with Drupal abreast of kind of the trends that these other companies are trying to tackle? Do you see yourself in that kind of echelon of those sites? That's a great one to finish with. I mean, that's a super broad question. I think Richard could probably better talk about what sites he thinks we compete with. I guess if in a general sense you think, and that's a great question about, there was a whole series of discussions happening on the internet recently about CMS as competitive advantage that some of these sites were talking about, oh well the reason Business Insider or the reason that Buzzfeed is successful is that they developed their own technology. And I think we could have a session about that question entirely. I think I fall on the side of that, if we were a VC backed, funded organization that had the kind of money that Buzzfeed was backed with then creating a custom built from scratch, CMS might be an option. But you know, honestly for our organization and budget wise, it's an impossibility. It's unrealistic to think that we could have gone out and created a custom CMS from scratch. I would say that Drupal is probably the next best thing to that, right? It's a framework for building a relatively custom application and I think, in our case, really kind of a no-brainer. The comparison set is huge.  I mean, it's a giant area and pretty much every place you can watch video, including YouTube. So the competitive set is enormous. I have to say, we've looked very closely at all of the claims people are making about their custom built CMSs. We actually just met with Vox Media. I'm a huge fan of what they and Buzzfeed do. I do not believe, however, in spite of their press releases and their press coverage, that their CMSs are, in fact, the secret source, no matter what they believe. I think the culture of development and very close alignment of editorial and the developer teams, I think that is the secret source. So they may express that culture by saying they've got this kick-ass CMS. At what point is your CMS the advantage or is it your listicle of cat videos? I mean, you know, it could be that the cat videos are actually really popular and the CMS is a marginal influence at best. So I do think the culture of innovation, of design that really has a purpose of knowing your audience and knowing your brand and having technology that can serve that, that is what matters. And I, like I said, we sat down with the Vox folks, they made those claims, we pressed them up. Like, what exactly is it that makes you so happy with this thing? And it turns out it's having the editorial leader sitting at the same desk with a project manager who can then pass on the editorial needs and desires directly to a small, fast-moving, design development team that can get things done in a very compressed timeframe. That could happen for us if we were set up like that. Sometimes it does, sometimes our projects are more ambitious. It doesn't always happen like that for Vox. I just, I still don't believe that it's really their custom-built CMS. I think it's a philosophy. Great. So just the tag on here, Lullabot is hiring. We work on awesome projects like this and have others and are looking for great people. MSNBC is also hiring. Lullabot.com slash jobs, or find John. Find me, we're always looking for great developers, especially if you're a front-end architect and you're looking for, please speak to us immediately. Also, I put about 30 pounds of weight in my suitcase that has. Oh, we've got swag. MSNBC.com bags, I have Rachel Maddow, cocktail shakers, which are really, really enjoy yourself at home. If you ask the question, be sure to come up and then we'll have stuff left over after we give stuff to those people. Also, Lullabot has a booth in the Expo, the exhibit hall. Stop by if you've got more questions about the project or would like to find out more about what we're hiring for. Thanks, everybody. Enjoy your DrupalCon.


As you know, our founding fathers built the Electoral College to safeguard the American people from the dangers of a demagogue and to ensure that the presidency only goes to someone who is to an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. An eminent degree, someone who is highly qualified for the job. The Electoral College was created specifically to prevent an unfit candidate from becoming president. I am very willing to let the American public judge my physical mental field, my physical as well as my mental fitness. There are 538 members of the Electoral College. You and just 36 other conscientious Republican electors can make a difference by voting your conscience on December 19th and thereby shaping the future of our nation. What is evident is that Joe Byn is not only a compromised puppet of the CCP, but he's also a corrupt, plagiarizing, rambling, reanimated corpse that's this little girl's. Any eligible person, no matter which party they belong to, but it should certainly be someone you consider especially competent. Especially competent to serve as president of the United States of America. By voting your conscience, you and other brave Republican electors can give the House of Representatives the option to select a qualified candidate for the presidency. I stand with you. I stand with you. I stand with you. I stand with you in support and solidarity with conservatives, independents and liberals. Unite for America. Hey, welcome back everyone. And if you're watching YouTube Sensors, this was clearly satire. It's not manipulated video or Russian disinformation or whatever excuse you'll use to further shadow ban this channel. The purpose of this satire is to demonstrate just how utterly ridiculous and hypocritical Hollywood and the DNC media are being in their condemnation of Trump supporters for continuing to fight for this election. 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So as you may remember both before and immediately after the election of Donald Trump, the media began pushing the impeachment narrative, the Russia stole the election narrative and then blasting all these protests that began during the inauguration and then never ended. One last gas but desperate last-ditch effort to deny Donald Trump the presidency as the electoral college meets across the country today. Protesters encouraging members to change their vote. Protests plan to persuade electors around the country not to cast votes for the president elect. The Electoral College expected to make it official for Donald Trump today. A last-ditch effort from celebrities and protesters to keep him from office and an online petition with nearly 5 million signatures. This morning an unprecedented push for the Electoral College not to pick Donald Trump when they cast their vote today. For red in Kansas, protesters turning their backs. From Washington to Arkansas to North Carolina, one last attempt to get electors to change their votes. And a handful did. Among them, three in Washington who were supposed to vote for Hillary Clinton, instead voting for Republican Colin Powell, hoping to block Trump's victory. In Texas, two Trump defectors instead voting for John Kasich and Ron Paul. And just a side note, they did the exact same thing after the election of George W. Bush and tried to get the electors to call the election for Al Gore. That's just what they do. Tens of thousands of Americans poured into the streets of DC in one last attempt to reclaim what had been taken from them. They pelted Bush's limo with eggs and brought the inauguration parade to a halt. The point is the media didn't attack or demonize these people, but rather protected and promoted them as democracy in action. Unlike now where they're literally calling us the enemy, promoting imprisonment and even reeducation of Trump supporters. Which I'm sure makes people more trusting and less conspiratorial minded about this entire process.    This from the same people who for the last four years have been resisting. Including Republican officials either uncharitably acknowledge the existence of the Electoral College or still find ways to avoid actually acknowledging that Joe Biden is a legitimate president elect. Well, that reminds me of an article that Ann Applebaum wrote in The Atlantic, which says that history will judge the complicit. Why is it that so many members of the GOP have become quizzling enablers of the undermining of democracy?  That's it for this one. Make sure to hit that like button on your way out and share this video with all your socialist, Marxist and communist friends. You can find all the links for supporting this channel and the description and pinned comment. Thanks for watching. Keep coming back.


My name is Gina. I come from Indonesia. I've been in Denmark for three years now. I studied in Ohus University. I took a study program called Strategy, Organization and Leadership. I think in Denmark you have a lot of very unique and specific study program where it's research-based where you get to know a lot about theoretical perspective and not only from the academic side that you study a lot but then it's also from your professor that your lecturer, that you got to build a dialogue and you can ask so many questions and what I like about this system here is that there's no stupid questions. My position in Grunfost is I'm working within HR, Human Resources, specifically in the talent management area. I really like my job. I think that's also the first reason why I ended up in Denmark, not in some of the countries I think is that the chance of you having a close relationship with your colleagues and your managers and your boss is just something that I probably couldn't get in in many different places. In order for you to survive in Denmark you have to be able to bike and that's my first learning experience in Denmark where I learned how to bike and a lot of my Danish friends during my study they actually helped me a lot to go through the biking society and the biking life and I find it very very interesting but now I really like it. One of my favorite places is Tivoli, especially during Christmas time the lights are on and you can play basically anything that your childhood dream was. There are three words that I think characterize oh who's the most for me personally is smile, small and big. The reason is that I think the first time I noticed that people know who smile a lot and then I noticed that it's called smile city. I think it's the way people saying hello to you and then it's also easy to say hi to strangers I think personally and I feel like it's very nice for you as a foreigner to be here that people are so welcoming. Small and big because oh who's this a small city but you can find anything almost everything in here. When people ask me why do I come to Denmark I would say why not. I thought it was only like you know branding you know things that you find in the airport where you come to Denmark you say this is the happiest nation in the world but I think being here for now three years I think it's actually true that being here knowing that how calm the society is and the country is and how things are in order in here how great is the education system here I think that's the reason why it is the happiest nation in the world. It's not only from social life but also from the working life and also for the educational life you know there's so many reasons for you to to come to Denmark.


Kwa? To the right, yo maendwa ni nei peye ni J-Fo. Ah, right. Nene, nene kamawekia, nene me bebo ni peye ayudia, apa. Korasi mi hata. Nene, they left. To the right, nene, nene ka chukwa. Nene. Nene kaka sasku mu yu biya sasidi ya kusemani ni limu yu biya ni ni wo. Na nene, shasi ma like wa ne. Kredits zake a ko dazo. Yes ma. Eyo ni poa to sana. Tampata han ni poa. And FYI, only at JC Circle Show, you get to have insight of, you know, behind the scenes what took place when isong yote me kuza mpake mefika. So one thing we've noticed ni manze, this time round kuna grafidi, you know, like, and it's a different touch. Sika wa hida wajona kwanga. Yes, when I was in Radical Mara, tumenda suju umesha kwa kange, keshokeshwata koko nili fundisha lasandili kwa ni, wale kamagera, eh, you know, sasa leo umu kokotu ni ni just kala. So what inspired you? Eh, nili kuwanta ka video colorful, kuwanta ka video nga graffiti. And then napa ni uruma, where I come from, eh. So, apatu, kandro ya ke, nili kuwanta, nili kuwanta suma high school. High school leitu, nili kuwa moja ya jabu brusana. Na sika ya, tokatru, tokanimali ze foam fo, apu kumekwana shule, nene different. So na wajana zikienda. So, nika oni e-place, nika zema e-place nia zafanya na video. This house, this is my bedroom. Oh wow. No, my former bedroom. Okay, so. Okay. Yes. Wow. So, kusema former bedroom meaning any email is that. Nili kuwana ishiya apu, nika ama. Eh. So, nika wiya, nika payasleta. Eh, kwa tu ni set up sasai kuwe. Eh, wei, aki. You know, sali, kuwanta kutimoja mesema about kukuwana msi ali changi ya, saenye, uli kuwana compozi yongoma. Buona ikakuwa si collabo. Buona ikakuwa si collabo, isikuwe collabo ikamua badu irushe. Eh, ono jwa collabo ni kitu yukamu naturali. Mm-hmm. You get. Mm-hmm. And I believe collabo ni God yufanya. Mm-hmm. Ya. So, collabo iko. Kuna maono. Siya kuna maono. Oh, shakua. Oh, shakua. Oh, Sam. So, I think ni paya God's time to tie her up kutua. Ita, ita kua release. Ah, usi jali tuta ndelia kusmama nanini. Haya. So, any challenges zene uli pitiya besides kungangana upta after chorus, kable patkane, you know, throw to kimekisong? Eh... Desu zema challenge kubo ilikuwa ni ilikuwa kwa audio of which nili tumiwa audio. Ii ingoma ikwa one day old. Yes. Nili, niki release, nili tumiwa audio, like 30 minutes before ni release. So, nili kwa under pressure ya, ineza kwa aiko ready ni... Not in sync. Ya. So, that's why, mutua kia engalia vizuri, siku weka poster tenda toa, wimbo keshosa angabi. Ya, uku chao chao. Nili eka tu video ni kase ma link in my bio. So, ya, but na believe everything in our work for good. All right. So, EMB family, tu na-expecting kutoka Mr. Sid. Tungi anza, tungi anza kuhuli za. Ii audio niya lini. Oh, kwanza? Audio e. Ii audio niya... Ii audio, the audio has been there. Oh. So, ebu tu ambiyo Mr. Sissabu. Of course, kuna, ii yo news zime kusai, audio uli fanya ukiwa under EMB. So, I guess upon you. Yes. I think. Okay. And how is it now, sa iwen umiha mwaku? What should we expect, Mr. Sid, from EMB? From sister after EMB? That different entities, yes. So, say, I'm an artist on my own. So, I manage na any record label. But I have my own managers and my own team. So, this year, this India, the first project, eme fanya. Yes. As Mr. Sid.  Starborn. Yeah. Empire. Fafanua. Yeah. So, that is like my, my brand, my, my label, mmhmm. Nevision dwe na anza, mmhmm. So, nezawamba, kilam tu munya na newach everybody, just to support what I do, kusupia mimia Ima kuangana' yaw desire ku support other new artist. Yes. Kutoka kitambo, mmhmm. Yeah. So, I believe India, they start here, they are a great thing. Absolutely. Wone shikho zito? Si raha isi. Yi oste pume Tek bru. Si raha isi kwanza. Yes. As J.C. Circle show, we definitely are standing with you. It's not easy. Thank you. I don't know how it feels to you, but for me, wei, sasa umetoka, umetoka home, nambu aere. Enda kwa mani, ujue apa ni nyumbani lakini. Enda any like, please enda kwa mani. So how am I supposed to start na kilakitu, but grace is sufficient. Before I took any step, Induiktuwara na isadvise anyone, apa inje. Before I took any step, nili spend time sana na God. And trust you me, elifka puwint baka apreshiana Nairobi kakwa too much. Nika tokana Nairobi nika enda ushago. Just to have a long time na God. Kujwa what God anata kani do, kujwa the plans, anata ya. And in many take times sana. Do you ni kama mbaka kwa hi decision. Palini fika. So if in everything you do, just put God first. Kasa. Na utawaii anda wrong. Amen. Aya. So una josiz kukuwa chiya, lazima tugusei topicen ina trend. Gospel fraternity too me shekiva sana sana sana sana. But the good thing is we are still standing strong. No matter what. Lazima tu ina to ni kukuwa shekana. And you know, at least to God adjuwe, butto tunam tegemea.  Kunawale ambo tuta sema, they look up to us. I need you to talk to those guys. Most of them could be gospel or secular. But you know, Manze, ya ni, sasa wako api aondone geta kwa unge leshe today? Meneza sema, you see, jana nilgwa nongia nilgwa from Uganda. Then limikso alini mbea kitu enye nili ona ina mixen sana. Alini mbea, alini mbea like God is going to do something or God is about to do something big in Kenyan gospel industry. And shetani kuna pointe nafkanga, aki ona like God is going to do something enye ta mwa sheme, lazimanga alete confusio, enye ta shek faithia, watu ona trust in God na faithia, wale wfollowers wa awase. You get.  But tuki kipiyo hope alive una patanga God na enza kubile select the next day or two days after or one week, un understand. So me na believe visini challenges na anything enye na hape na hapa, kila mtu anenza fanyi kiwa na eyo nini. So to see, to see lose hope enye una get. Kamu eni fan, kamu na to support, kamu na support the gospel eni, to see judge, stand ko yu gap, yaku prayer. Yes. Kila mtu. Prayer, klam to pretty much. Yoni power. Sasa wa so dunda kabla udrop e. Yes. I want to speak a blessing to you. Yani, we need to talk home. If there is one thing I am humbled and I appreciate is the fact that with our small platform God amekutumia.   As long as umeshka flagia Jesus Evie. Imagine to kuna wewa side by side.  You know, So on that same note, um, one thing is certain, God is definitely taking you to higher heights. As Mr. Sid, in the sense that he has seen it possible and he has seen it right, right now to Odenyu. Look at the story of, you know, like David Ali Odeniwa 13 years later and the same thing for Joseph. So yes, you have been there, but then it was preparation ground. So what I can say is God is actually taking you to higher, higher, higher realms. And in this particular case, not just as Mr. Sid, the gospel artist, but also soon to be the priesthood of your own family.  Singia man. Sasao usyogope. Kwa yo story? My little cub is coming soon. Namu leta apa excursive. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Tuna lounge muziki. Mupiya na apia tuki. Tuki anupe wu. Yes, yes.  And thank you so much for for always standing with the gospel artist for kutuches apia sikitu rahisi. So on behalf of the gospel artist around kwa sabfu and the love and the good work kumunafanya yaku push the gospel. At the end of the day, tuki fai tata kuku wana fai to social media, wherever, wherever tuna preach the same God, tuna preach the same message. Nekilamutu wana fai kujwa that gospel music is always full of life. Amen. Amen. All right. Dunda, right here, Jaycee Sakushu dropping main media stream for the first time. Yeah. Yeah.


Okay, so I'm going to keep these closing remarks as brief as we can because I know that you're all itching to get to the wine reception. But first and foremost, we do need to say some thank yous. Most obviously, of course, thank you to all of our speakers who have delivered such a wonderful range of papers today. Secondly, of course, thanks to all of the team here at the Society of Antiquaries who have made this event possible, particularly to those of us who are actually present today. And of course to, to Dr. John Cooper to Danielle and Rebecca who have been diligently working to keep the it running and pass the microphones round for our speakers to Rebecca, Stephen, Matthew, Becky, who have all been working behind the scenes to provide the refreshments to to look after the front door to put on the exhibition upstairs which I know we've we've all very much enjoyed. And of course thank you to you, our audience, both here in person at Burlington House, and those of you joining us online as well. I gather we've had quite a good turnout online and you know it's obviously so sad for us as you know as organizers and speakers that we can't actually see your faces, but it's lovely to know that you are out there. And we've really appreciate appreciated your engagement in asking questions and so forth. So we do hope that you've enjoyed this event as much as we have. Of course, on a personal level I'd like to thank my co organizers, Laura and Jen, without whom, of course, none of this would have been possible. As I say I'm not going to to give a long speech about the content of the papers because, frankly, I'm not really sure it's necessary, you know you all saw what a what a wonderful range of of papers and what a range of topics we've dealt with today. So just by way of a closing thought I'm going to come back to those three words that John opened this this event with today. The idea of political culture extending, decentering and broadening our understanding of political culture within these islands. You know, we have certainly seen that in terms of extending to people outside the sphere of the court. In all kinds of different people. It's been particularly noticeable how many of the papers dealt with the role of women in politics, whether that's Royal women or hostesses, or even just as consumers of ceramics. So at all levels of society engaging with politics in so many different ways. And again that idea of decented politics whether that's the, the Gaelic Lords in Ireland, sort of struggling to to assert themselves against the English domination of Ireland at that time. Whether that's the role of local officials like sheriffs. Again, I'm not going to try and cover the complete list of papers but we've we've seen so many different examples. And really, I think it's hardly necessary for me to elaborate on how we've, you know, broadened research materials. I think that was particularly apparent in that last panel. And that idea of bringing in different kinds of sources whether that's dance, ceramics pamphlets, all kinds of things that that maybe haven't been as prominent in historical discourse, as they should have been. And hopefully events like this today will bring those kind of materials front and center. Jen Laura, do you have any anything to add at this stage. No, I think you've covered it all Murray so thanks to you as well and everyone's enjoyed the day and thanks to the Society for advocating for these sort of early career events because we've definitely missed them over the last few years. There is a survey on the back of your program so if you wouldn't mind maybe just taking a minute or two to very quickly fill it out. I know that feedback is always very useful moving forwards. While the closing comments have been cut short anyway you've got all this extra time. Yes, thank you everyone. I really enjoyed it. Yes, thank you very much indeed.