Komenti forest in Uganda is a designation. Until today we don't have any officially or formally gazeted Komenti forest. It's informal but people hold them in that perspective. As I've already mentioned, it takes a process to register a Komenti forest and have the minister officially gazeted and declare it as a Komenti forest. We have a couple of them named like Ongo Komenti forest, but they are not formally recognized. How are people using them? People come together after realizing a need and an upcoming scarcity of a resource. They say alright, let's come together and take charge of this. So they start as an inform arrangement. They seek audience from the district forest office to support them. So they start organizing themselves as a community based organization. They start the procedures, bring a management plan and in that they clearly streamline what they are going to do. How to use what? For example, they regulate days of collecting firewood. Water is open access. You can go any time. Habs of water are open access. Pulse, they regulate. So they have put up committees that we have a management committee usually about nine persons who are supposed to regulate how we use this particular resource. They also partner with NGOs in particular districts to do some enrichment planting. They do boundary tree planting for some of the cases that really have in Masindi and Hoima districts. This is very evident. But as the main demotivating factor is when they don't feel their own. Because when you know you're doing everything, you're planting, you're protecting, they do patrols actually, but then you actually don't have the full right of this particular resource. Not until when you have that document, a land title and a certificate gazeting it as a community forest that they can go with all their energy and efforts to see this community forest operating.


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This is stock number 10154A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters today. We are checking out this super clean 2013 Chevy Silverado 3500 Crew cab short box single rear wheel. This truck has the six liter V8 motor and from this HD video You will be able to tell that for the age and miles on this truck It is in really nice condition all the way around inside and out. Didn't see any dents or dings in that front fender We shoot all of our videos in 1080p So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device Turn them on right now because it's like you're right here looking at the truck with me And definitely your best way to check out the vehicle before seeing it in person Trying to get some shots of the rockers here and difficult with the brightness Looks pretty good Comes with the painted alloy rims. 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Well, I think it's starting that second inning again, getting behind the count to lead off hitter and then has to come into the zone.  He wasn't able to finish off hitters as well today.  I feel like sometimes that's where, you know, he'll start to nibble a little bit and then all of a sudden he finds himself behind and he'll back up, you know, maybe a hard hit ball, the walk or something. And that's, that's really been where he's struggled this year. Is it frustrating that at this point in time in the season he doesn't trust his stuff in those situations that he can't get through in anything like that? I mean, the tough part is we've seen where he has gone through stretches where he has seen to get through this, you know, like the last few starts before this one. The couple of times he's got himself into trouble. He's made a pitch. He's just continued to focus and make the next pitch and, and today it just kind of spiraled and got away from. Lance Lynn has experiences starter came in pitched very well. Would you consider him as a full-time option in the rotation or will you stick with sunny?   So those are things we'll talk about Ron and Dan during the rain delay. What was going on when Phil seemed pretty agitated talking to a bunch of guys in the dugout? You know, I think just, just frustrated at a situation, you know, at that point in the game, not playing, you know, to our standard and over the course of a season, you're going to have outbursts from guys, from coaches, from me, whatever. You know, so just the emotion of, of the season of the game. You know, not much more than that. Were they related to those in field hits where? I think, I think it's where the whole, how that game was unfolding at that point. Just, you know, some things that we should have been cleaner at doing, you know, where, where the game was getting away from us a little bit. So I think a little frustration came out. Was that primarily based on, I know, Glaber was late a couple of times. I know that the shift is, you know, a little different. Did you have a problem with anything that Glaber did defensively today? Well, yeah, in the Bunt situation, Glaber's got to be covering first there. And we were expecting a Bunt in that situation. You know, the other one is a little tricky with, with how we're positioned, but you got to be moving towards the bag. And, and a lot of that is, is youthfulness, is inexperience, you know, at the position, the nuances where you just do things all the time, second nature, which frankly, he for the most part is really good at that. And I talk about how instinctive he is all the time. So those are a couple of plays that, you know, he needed to be on top of a little bit more, but, but I also don't want him to lose the ease with which he plays the game. Wally. Aaron, when, when you say the other one, are you talking about the, the infield in play, is that what you're referring to with the bounce up the middle? Which, which way, you say the other one with Glaber? I think with the, the, the ball. No, the Bunt play, no, I, that one I got. And he said the other one. The, the Bunt, the Bunt by Joseph. That's the one I was asking about. No, no, that one I understood. Oh, there was the, then the play to Dee Dee. That's the one I'm talking about. That was the infield in and the bouncer up the middle. No, no, no, it was, it was a, it was with two outs. It was a full situation. Oh yes. But because how we're spread out, it's a little gray in, in getting there is all. Okay. Is that just an experience or? No, I mean, that's, I think, partly him thinking, because we're spread out like that, that the play is going to be first, but that's, that's one of those first moves got to be towards the bag to give that option there. Even if you're catching it on the run or something, to give Dee Dee that option. Meredith, did you have a question? Okay. Danny, I'm sorry, Randy. It seems like you're open for the first time to taking gray out of the rotation. Is it just the inconsistencies at this point in the season or are tough to live with and now you have a, a good option? Yeah.  You know, we do have some options now. So we'll all get together and, and try and come up with the best, the best solution, the best options going forward as far as that are going to help us win in the end. That's, that's what it's about. So, you know, we're not going to be emotional about it right now. We'll, we'll get together and talk through this and see what the best thing is. We'll, we'll, we'll, you know, we'll consider that kind of stuff. We haven't even gone there yet. So we'll talk about those things and do what's best for us. Now that the Red Sox series is here, you know, you down five and a half. How, how crucial are these next four games for you? Always critical, you know, and, and I would say a little added importance, obviously going up against the team you're chasing. You know, this is a chance to, to beat them and, and give us a win. So, you know, today was a bad day for us and we need to, you know, learn from it and flush it real quick though and get on that plane with the idea that we're going to go out and get after it tomorrow. And, and I know we will. And, and, you know, as tough as today was, I also like a lot of things that happened throughout that game. We just continue to compete to get back into, even with the time run, coming to the on deck circle there in the ninth, you know, we had some opportunities. We had a lot of traffic. We just couldn't get that hit to kind of get back into the game legitimately in the middle innings. So we got to flush this one and, you know, understand that there's urgency starting tomorrow again. Meredith. With Lynn going four and a third, is he not an option at all during that Red Sox series? Um, we'll say, I think he threw 60 something pitches. Certainly, you know, the next two days he would be down, but, you know, we'll see where we're at. You know, I don't know if he would become an option independent on a Sunday, but those are all things that we'll work through and, and obviously see how he's feeling and how he's able to bounce back. And those are things all convert part of the number of conversations we'll have to have in the coming days.


All right, so let me just give you a little history and then I'll take you through what my students did because today I'm here celebrating and representing them And I graduated from Utah State with my PhD in 95 and prior to that I was I Was able to meet some of my greatest heroes one of them was James Moffitt and of course for those of you who are educators or English people, you know that cable late that that for students to learn they have to be empowered and be able to Effectively have some Some control over their learning. They don't need to just be said this is what you have to learn and that's it and so I put that away and you know, I went through and started teaching and three years ago I I came upon the idea of starting a new MA in English in our school and I said, okay, I've been studying critical literacy for the last ten years And I think I want to do it on critical literacy and this shouldn't be hard because I'm sure there's lots of programs in the United States That I can use as models there are none And I didn't know that I did find one very good certificate program at Ohio State that you know, I depended on a lot so I did begin and Right and and have a lot of help from my Partners in our department, but we got it through sacks and while I was waiting for sacks of people I wanted to learn some more about literacy So I found this particular Website that was talking about open resources, and I had no idea what that was and I got involved in a course and We had to have a project and so just like Stupidity reigns. I said, I think I'll design a book For my new class because there are no textbooks for the very first class in our masters and The person who has a charge Oh, no, it's somewhere well. Oh, there she is. She said a book. I said, yeah, yeah, we can do that It was it was so crazy I was so silly, but anyway, so the masters of course got sacks approval and we started Officially this semester, but I have been gathering resources for the first book which is Introduction to Literacy and Without really knowing it. I went right back to what James Moffitt told me all those years ago and and I said, well, I want to see what the students can do and I don't know about all of you, but our school has no money for anything and They've been pleading poverty for so long. We've forgotten what the word means So I wanted to highlight today the students work as they walked into my class and I had given them I ordered no textbook because there really wasn't one and I really wanted a book that could be changed just as fast as literacy changes and the definition changes and I wanted them to Experience the idea that literacy is not just about reading at a certain level That doesn't make you literate that there are many kinds of literacies and they are literate in things that I am not literate in and and this was Precipitated because my university is in Southwest Georgia and the state statistics say we have in a literacy rate in that area of 90 percent or 19 percent and actually it hovers between 40 and 50 percent illiteracy based on our definition as A state I guess but they don't want to advertise that so I've been really worried about that issue so when my students came to me after I presented them and we talked about a Variety of articles. I said, okay, guess what we're going to do this semester. We're going to create the textbook for the next class and They just looked at me and I said, so we're going to start with a timeline and I divided them up and there really were only five students in that class So I divided the whole history of literacy up into five parts. Oh, it was wonderful. They were so thrilled and The smallest part was 2000 until today. Why do you think I made that part a separate section? Social web The thing is everything has seemed to have happened from the 90s forward and there's so much That that needed a separate section and it really teaches us that it's not going to stop at this point So the kids did their timeline and I said, oh a timeline is so boring, isn't it? I mean who wants to sit and read a timeline and Then I started showing them some examples of what it meant to create an open piece of an open resource and I said, you know What do you like to do and I heard this in a presentation earlier about games? Well, I had just come from a national conference and one of the sessions I attended talked about how games were Evolving not not the shoot-em-up bang bang kind but but games were evolving so students had to be People playing had to have make decisions like if I decide to destroy this country What will I lose or what will we all lose? The rest of us and I was fascinated by how in depth they could be so one of the things that I'm going to do The next time is we're going to work on a game that talks about the changes in literacy Not only the definition, but the political implications of that and see how that works, but so far they've been in class since late August and They started on this about the middle of September and I brought two students Work to kind of show you how they're progressing now They start with first they have to do all the research you know for the timeline and they get so excited because they're actually learning things that they didn't know and I'm not having to lecture to them. And so then Let's see if I can get this to work. I don't have my own computer. So This may take a minute. I guess I should have yeah, I don't know how to make a run Yeah, I just want to advance it. Okay. So this my first student had the history of literacy from time from the beginning of time to I think the Gutenberg press and he One thing that I allow them to do in this is I said to them if you can't find Open resources and I basically presented a workshop on open resources that I had given to my To my faculty earlier that year, but I said if you can't find an open resource I just want to make sure that you document where you found your resource and What I will do is go back and try to find an open resource that gives us the same information Barring that I may go and talk to the authors that who hold the copyright But I haven't had to do that yet So you'll see some places where they have documented especially in this first one where they have documented where they got the sources and And they're not open resources, but I'm less worried about that I want them to experience the creativity involved in having an open textbook. So So these are just some of the pictures and you know the student obviously was looking from the very beginning And he was so excited about talking about how language spreads and and transforming the modern the modern alphabet and I thought this was really unique because I didn't tell them to do this Do you want to learn more check out this website? And I thought what a great idea I wouldn't have thought of that he thought of that and so do you want to learn or this is a different one? And he hasn't stuck with one website. He's given a variety of resources and as a member of the faculty You know, I'm lucky if I have time to find a couple of resources for the students to look at but by opening it up and allowing them to search to and become part of that process They are not only learning, but they're also helping me It's like having a teacher assistant sometimes and in a small university. You don't have one of those Okay, and so then he goes into some straight text and he was so funny. He apologized every time he just said I'm sorry. This will relax a little bit, but But I thought that you know, he brings it in and this one who's so proud of he says that's in connections That one's that one's okay. And I said that's fine. That's great And he would call me every time he found an open resources. I just can't believe it. So Okay, so this is what he this is the end of his time period and he has He He called me this weekend. I came in early and he called me this weekend. He said I found so much more Can't you integrate it? No, I'll do that when I give it So I mean I just I'm so happy to have them not just actively learning but actively being involved in the process and because they're talking about this knowledge in ways that has not happened in the past and You know, my my chair said well, that's probably because they're grad students. Well Maybe it is but when I'm able to do this in my undergraduate classes, I also get this kind of reaction So anyway, so then we go to the next one and she was very she's a very visual learner And I think that becomes pretty apparent with her slides So she uses and she loves to play with text and so she is She's really good about finding cartoons and stuff like that that illustrate what was going on in her time period So here she's you know, you can see she's talking about the spread of information And I don't I'm not sure but it seems like she doesn't have a slide that doesn't have Something on it. That's unique and and here she's trying to show you how after the press was Invented what started happening when all when the good burger press started spreading now Honestly, if I've been writing about the it or constructing some kind of information about the Gutenberg press number one I mean forever to have time to do all that research But also I probably would have never done this and yet this is such a great visual for students to kind of see You know house have one one invention has spread and shared so much for us going to Play it for you, but she actually has embedded in here a YouTube video that is Set And I can't remember where the good the actual first Gutenberg press is located, but They're in that library They have a YouTube video that shows how it printed and the text it printed and shows how you have to have two people And that's embedded in it may be on this one down here on the wiki, but It was so fascinating because all the students who were watching and some of my undergrads came in because they Wondered why everybody was having so much fun. So which was okay Okay, so she left and she left the Gutenberg and then she and I didn't tell her to do this She went and looked at women in literacy because the other graduate course is dealing with Women's literature so Which I'm not teaching but anyway She went through there and she found this person and I said I have never heard of her How many of you have heard of sore?  I don't want a Lot, I'm sorry. I don't want a lot of dead white men Nor do I just want a mix of dead white men and dead white women and so and here she is and She was excited because she is Hispanic and she said now I've represented my culture and I didn't you know, so I was That was kind of a double learning experience for all of us Okay, so that's just I think another picture, but she was actually She actually I think Was so ostracized for wanting to be wanting to read and wanting to write and wanting to learn that you know, she went through some very Very interesting. I'm not going to tell you, but it's a very interesting Loops to try to have that opportunity Okay, and so then of course she here's one without a picture. Wow the goal of the age of libraries and how that increased and we kind of know that But let's see. Okay, and then on this The impact of literacy and this is where the kids are the most interested. They hadn't ever tied Who the power structure of wherever you were to Who defined literacy the very first article or the very first piece? I had them read was a chapter out of Paulo Freire's work and they had heard of him and So they were amazed that this man In South America had done all this in the efforts of literacy So then they have tried to tie they're finding many political connections and I didn't give them that information I gave them some Good, I think articles that led them in that direction But it was very exciting for them to see how things change and how politics and power pay Play a big part in how literate we are and then she found a copy of You know that when we had coffee houses and people got together and that explains that one And then that's the end. So I guess what I want you to see is that I was able Because I was interested I was able to open up Even though I didn't know I still feel like I know about this much maybe not even that much of How effective using open resources can be However, I think my students are going to walk away from this course and go into their next course With so much knowledge that I would have never had had they not abroad to me and so one of and this is kind of a Consequence of open resources When we can go out and find everything for them We get excited about it, but we will sometimes wonder why aren't they as excited about it? Well, because they didn't have anything to do with finding the information So I'm really Looking forward. We've got we'll have another three chapters done before the end of this semester And then we're going to continue to work on it and to add to it because five students Keeps they and they told me they said we can't cover everything that's happened So they're going to keep adding information to that and this is the very beginning of the master's program. It's our first course and so I think that will provide a foundation for years to come as more students add their knowledge and to our work So that's what I wanted to share with you to give the kids a chance And I will say that they will all be listed as In the you know when we get the whole thing together their names are all going to show up they're going to get credit for everything they do and I think that this is it, you know in an age when there's not a lot of money for Education They will have already got some credit For the work that they did on this very initial book in their first program So are their first class in a master's program. So I'm excited about it. And I think that as I start Showing this to my administration that then I can lobby For money to send them out and let them present them themselves And then I can sit in the background maybe and just clap really loud So, okay, so I guess I can open for questions. I hope that yes, sir I just want to be clear. You said you used the wiki to construct this So what we were looking at is I guess two chapters of the book the same web web space, right? Actually, I put them on our learning management system right now. We haven't even loaded it to the wiki yet How do you assess this type of work? Do you start with a rubric of your own to try and see if they're complying with what you want from them? And they have that Yes, yes, and this isn't all they do in that class they have to they are Going to present when I get back They're going to present to a group of teachers that I've been working with in the national writing project and show them about Open resources and then you know and I'll help them, but I want them to be the ones on stage and They also have to do a seminar paper on their particular period and present that to the To the University and that's all they have a lot to do But yes, I did I give that I always give my students a rubric before they ever have an assignment so that they understand That their audience is so yes, sir You know my students asked me that and I said to them I said, you know It's more than reading and writing and it's changing every day. It's reading writing speaking and It's texting is all those media and that's why it's very easy Well, yes right now it is but we're going to expand in every area that's already up there and Because I asked them to do this part but I don't I'm not suggesting that I'm going to let this go without Adding to it. So yes, I was curious about the questions at the end of the one chapter the first one Well, these questions that the student was positive. Yes And they're all doing that they're all saying they're all saying well, I've got to learn more about this What about this is this connection that you know, they're all doing that in class and which is Partying because I usually have to post the questions and then wait for the silence You know, so I think that you're right about what they have done but really in a very few weeks and not knowing anything that they haven't That they've done a lot that they've created a lot and I don't know any other questions I am but you know, it's a funny thing because when I took the class with Luna We were talking about the end and she was asking me about my resources and I kept saying Well, this is a wiki book and this is the way and you know, she said didn't anything surprise you and I said because I have just said do not use Wikipedia at all under any circumstances don't use it and then I found You know, these great play these great books and they have been Paraviewed and that's the other thing. I'm not going to do anything with this until I have peer reviews because it's really to me not valid unless people who do Deal in my in my area have a chance to look at it and say just exactly what he said Well, it looks like a gun-paced activity and it does right now Yes, sir. I'm Jacques from the University of Wisconsin First of all, I want to commend you on taking this step and moving in this direction And I can see that you know, it's still a project. That's fairly young It is the occasion and so forth and I think we all recognize that in this field that it is that way And so to come with a high bar immediately You know, it's not very practical But I think all of us involved in this realize our shortcomings and we need still need to get I want to say the challenge for you for down the road not for now because I had to preface it with the comments I just made I see a lot of people doing just what you're doing and I think the next step is to see how we can how you can find out Who else is doing something similar to you and to be on a platform where you can Connect with each other and collectively Right and get more just like Wikipedia Do that thing in fact Something interesting that I know there is this thing against Wikipedia with many faculty.  You know what? It's true For every four errors in Wikipedia, there are three Where's the big bang, you know, well and I'm finding more and more I Do tell my students especially in my core classes and my undergraduate courses you need to go find I'm done What you may have done that But I I do believe that you know this the resources are out there and that's why I'm not I want to be able to kind of Expand on their search and that's going to give me more information to show them how to go deeper as well Thank you so much


As you likely know, Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott have just welcomed their latest bundle of joy into the world. Their son, Wolf, was introduced on February 6, 2022, on Kylie's Instagram. Prior to his arrival, Kylie had shown pics of the nursery that was in the works for their son, likely located at her stunning Homeby Hills mansion. When they aren't living in Kylie's mean residence, Travis owns his own properties in Brentwood, while they co-own a $13.5 million Beverly Hills house together too. In these videos, we don't reveal any addresses, and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Kylie Jenner is a media personality, model, businesswoman, and more who rose to fame on the reality series, keeping up with the Kardashians alongside her family. Not to mention that she's the founder of cosmetic company Kylie Cosmetics and has expanded her brand since. Despite selling the majority of Kylie Cosmetics, she's still behind product development and marketing and her net worth is now estimated around $700 million. Her partner Travis Scott is a rapper and he's amassed an estimated $50 million himself. The couple owns a stunning property portfolio with plenty of home options to raise their newborn son, Wolfin, alongside their daughter, Stormi. Hey guys, it's Kara the Vampire Slayer back with another exclusive house tour here on Famous Entertainment, this one looking at where Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott call home. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and follow me on Instagram to chat. Now let's get into this video. Of course, Kylie spends most of her time at her $36.5 million compound in Holmby Hills, which is likely where Stormi and Baby Wolf now pass most of their days too. We know the girl loves her real estate, but this resort-style spot is the largest property in Kylie's portfolio thus far, spanning over 15,300 square feet of space along with four separate guest houses and a 24-hour guardhouse with full bath and full kitchen. The mansion is located in the exclusive neighborhood of Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, which is in the western area of LA. It's bordered by Beverly Hills on the eastern Bel Air to the north, with Sunset Boulevard being the main strip nearby. In fact, Holmby Hills is home to the iconic Playboy Mansion and is, of course, home to many other celebrities too. The main mansion boasts seven beds and 14 baths over a single level, with an open-plan layout, soaring ceilings, and massive walls of attractable glass to connect the indoors and outdoors. The amenities at Kylie's Pad are endless, with multiple bars and games rooms as well as a massive indoor home theater and an outdoor projection screen. The main courtyard and infinity pool are located at the center of the property and most of the common rooms open right up to the space as well. Elsewhere, there's a gym, a spa, modern fire pit, basketball court, and multiple terraces. Kylie gave fans a behind-the-scenes look at the nursery she had in the works for her son Wolf at the end of 2021. She teased what the new playroom would look like over on her Instagram stories, which is most likely located in her main Holmby Hills abode. The nursery was unfinished at the time, but Kylie was proud to show off the work in progress, which displayed a beige-colored room that was still bare and being constructed. The star looked around the room and showed carved-out shapes in the walls, seeing the supplies and workbench in the background. There were also shelves being built, most likely to display toys or other things for Wolf, while on the left side of the room, there was a cutout on a raised platform, perhaps for the crib or bed. Either way, the room was large and will give Kylie and Travis' son plenty of space. Over in the Brentwood neighborhood of LA, Travis has his own oasis, yet another option for the young family to spend their days at. Just last year, the wrapper dropped over $23 million in this unique home that looks like a yacht and is wrapped in smooth sheet metal. The mansion is huge, clocking in at 16,700 square feet of ultra-modern house, with seven beds and 11 baths, and a generous outdoor area spanning an acre of land. Some of the many features that Travis' home include a lounge deck, a 75-foot-long glass-towel infinity pool, a Japanese zen garden, and 300 tree fruit orchard. Inside, the home is full of open spaces with high ceilings and luxury add-ons, like a live green wall that acts as a natural air purifier, and a single great room with full bar, fireplace, and multiple seating and dining areas. The mega-estete is at the end of a remote street below street level, and the driveway actually slopes down the mansion's roof, while the roof has parking spaces for 15 cars on its own. Definitely a one-of-a-kind type of design. Other amenities that Travis' home include a home theater, three custom design bars, a glass elevator, and an impressive master retreat with dedicated lounge areas. Back in 2018, Kylie and Travis also split the bill for a property in Beverly Hills, which they continue to comb together. This modern abode costs the couple $13.5 million, and it's located within the Beverly Hills Post Office neighborhood of LA, an area that values seclusion and upscale living. Listing materials claim this 1.1-acre property is one of the most private compounds you could find, and only minutes from the prestigious Beverly Hills Hotel. The gated residence is contemporary yet warm and offers a separate guest house on their grounds with its own kitchen, living room, bedroom, and bath. Inside the main mansion, the home spends over 9,600 square feet of space with seven bedrooms, 10 baths, and a handful of perfectly decorated living spaces. Built back in the 1970s, the property was once upon a time owned by actress Louise Currie, but received a huge renovation quite recently, making the house fit for modern time. It also gave the Beverly Hills spread more of a contemporary aesthetic. The boxy exterior opens into a double-height foyer, which leads into the open-plan living spaces. The living room, dining room, family room, and kitchen all open via glass walls to outdoor spaces with the ideal indoor-outdoor flow. The living room is cozy and chic with European oak floors and a fireplace, while the chef's kitchen offers top-of-the-line appliances, oversized center island, and attached breakfast room with lounge seating area. Not to mention, there's a bonus outdoor breakfast area. The luxurious master suite is definitely a selling point, spending about 2,300 square feet alone with both city and ocean views. There are his and hers baths for Travis and Kylie, as well as oversized dressing rooms for each. Other features on this level of the mansion include a separate gym and massage room, sitting room, and a private office. Elsewhere, there's a movie theater, wine room, library, and an extra den. And out back, there are even more amenities. The large sleek pool and spa seems to cover most of the yard space while the surrounding patio makes for a great area to lounge or entertain. The landscaping is also second to none at this crib, not only offering beautiful gardens, but thick walls of trees and greenery that make for a ton of extra privacy. So now we've looked at the homes of Kylie Jenner and Travis Scottles, the nursery that Kylie had in the works for their newborn son, Wolf. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before we see more of the newly designed space. After checking out a few of the young couple's homes, which was your favorite? Be sure to let me know your pick down in the comments as well as what you liked or didn't like about their properties. Thanks for tuning in. Follow me on Instagram to chat and I'll see you all in the next video. Bye.


This many lecture will just go over some of the key points that were made in the narrative that preceded it, as well as the example on the preceding spreadsheet. We're talking about financial energy derivatives, and one of those derivatives is known as a swap. A swap is merely an exchange of payments between two parties. It can be a form of hedging, or it can be outright trading. Speculative traders will trade in swaps all the time, again just buying and selling with the hopes of making some money. These are referred to as over-the-counter. They are not traded on a legal exchange such as the New York Mercantile Exchange or the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. They can be traded over electronic platforms such as the Intercontinental Exchange or the International Petroleum Exchange in London. Or we can obtain swaps agreements with voice brokers, the declaring type of brokers that you call up over the phone, and they arrange for a swap counterparty and merely extract a fee for putting the two counterparties together. They are definitely strictly financial. This is an important aspect of swaps. There's no physical commodity exchanged. So unlike the NIMEX contracts for energy commodities, there's no potential obligation to either make or take delivery of the commodity itself. The term that we use is fixed for floating. In an energy financial derivative swap, one party is going to pay a fixed price. What is the fixed price? The fixed price is the market price today. It's a known price. It's the agreed upon price, which is the starting point for the ultimate exchange of payments. The other party then pays the floating price. What is the floating price? The floating price is what is the unknown price at the time that the swap agreement is agreed to. The floating price is going to be the settlement price for the corresponding NIMEX energy commodity. So the market price of that commodity is going to float up and down between the time that the swaps agreement was executed and the actual settlement of the corresponding energy commodity. When we're using New York Mercantile Exchange contracts as the derivative under a swaps agreement, we refer to them as NIMEX look-alike. So in the case of natural gas, the Henry Hub financial swap, one part of your buys and sells at the current market price for natural gas and the other buys or sells at the actual NIMEX settlement. The difference between those two prices is settled every month and again there's no physical receipt or deliveries. There's another special type of swap that is strictly related to natural gas contracts. It's known as the basis swap. A basis swap represents the financial difference between the Henry Hub in Louisiana as the physical delivery point for NIMEX contracts for natural gas and any other market pricing point in the country. If you recall in cash pricing lesson I talked about the inside FERC publication and the gas daily publications and those are the prices that are posted for various market points in the cash market for natural gas. So as you can see if you were to review those, you'll find that those prices differ from the NIMEX because the NIMEX price is in essence situated in southern Louisiana. So a basis swap is a financial derivative instrument that can help offset that price. It represents the price difference between the Henry Hub and a different cash market location price. We use the inside FERC first of the month posting versus the final NIMEX settlement for the proper month contract. In other words, on the inside FERC we look at the cash price when it comes out and we compare that to the NIMEX settlement price and that represents the value of the basis swap itself. That represents the settlement price. A swing swap is just another form of swap that occurs within the month. So let's just say for instance you might be a producer of natural gas, you're bringing on a new well but you're not bringing it on until the fifth of the month. Well at that point in time you can't get an inside FERC index for it. You could sell it at the gas daily daily postings that come out or if you choose to get a fixed price, if you would like a fixed price for your gas for the remaining part of that month, the buyer of the gas is going to have to go out and hedge it and they're going to have to hedge it using some type of fixed price financial derivative. In the case of natural gas we use swing swaps. These are tied to the gas daily postings. In other words, the fixed price that is offered to the producer in this case is settled every day with the actual cash price as posted in the gas daily daily newsletters.


Hi again, in this lesson we're going to talk about that how to install Selenium module in Python programming language. If we try to use our Selenium module in Python to import WebDriver, for example from Selenium import WebDriver, we will get an error because we don't have installed Selenium module on our computer. So let's install it, let's open command prompt and inside command prompt we will type pip install minus U Selenium and now Selenium has been installed on our machine. Let's try same command, let's say from Selenium import WebDriver and now we have successfully installed Selenium module on our computer. That's all in this lesson, see you in some next lesson, thanks for watching, bye bye.


The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. In the mounting fury of world conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on ever greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and the millions of people who live around this greatest sea. The drama of the people whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War. Here is another public service. This is the tale of the war in the Pacific. And it's meaning to us and to the generations to come. The Anderman Islands. My home here. I stay. But that wound of yours is attention. Wound alright. You go, Mr. Twightman. The Japanese are likely to be here any time. We cannot hold out against them now, but we shall be back. Then you can come back here with us. Come with us, me. Wait. Acabir. We've known each other nearly thirty years. Whatever I know about these islands, you have taught me. Now I want you to trust me. The Japanese will soon be here. They have bombed us twice. We haven't the strength to resist the Japanese. Oh, I'm Mr. Twightman. The boat's ready. We're waiting for you, sir. Yes, thank you. Acabir. Come along with me. May it stay. Goodbye, Mr. Twightman. I won't say goodbye, Acabir. I shall be back. Right over this way, Mr. Twightman. My last impression of the Andermans was Acabir standing there on the waterfront of Port Blair. There was only a matter of weeks after that until the Japanese took the islands. They immediately started using the airfield. They brought in heavy naval craft, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, and based them at Port Blair and in many of the other harbors up and down the length of the islands. They made the Andermans a strategic stronghold. Before you see, the Andermans are almost the same distance from Singapore, Rangoon, Ceylon, and Calcutta. And that makes them important. For nearly three years now from here in Calcutta, we've kept our eyes on the Japanese and the Andermans. I wonder what has happened to Acabir. He was the first Andermanese I saw when I landed in the islands before World War I. May I carry your bags, Mr? Oh, yes, thank you. I'm going to the office of the Governor. May I take you there? I watched him as he walked ahead of me with my two bags. Scarcely five feet tall, powerfully built and black as ebony. He took me to Government House there on Ross Island in Blair Harbour. He waited outside while I went in to report my arrival. Glad to have you here with us, Trining. You'll find these Anderman islands extraordinary. Yes, sir. This is jungle country, of course. There are some dangers. Yes, sir. There are no dangerous wild animals on the islands, but there are some poisonous snakes, cobras, blue carites, and some vipers. And the people, all some of them, are friendly. They're like that fellow who carried up your beds. But many of them are dangerous, like the Dhrarva tribe. But you'll learn to get along. I hope so, sir. We have the penal settlement here, as you know. And although we have many murders among the convicts, everything is fairly well organized and pretty much reduced to booty. So, welcome to the Andermans, Trining, and the best to you. All these things were impressions, glimpses of the things I was to learn. I thought about them as I left Government House. When I got outside, Acabea was still there waiting for me. Hey, thank you. To House? Yes, thank you. This way. He picked up my bags and he led me down to the bungalow in which I was to live. It was built of teak with a wide veranda and a red roof. Like the pictures I've seen of houses in Burma. This, your house. Excellent. Here, this is for you. No. He stood there shaking his head and smiling. Then he turned and pointed to a building some little distance. That is clubhouse for you. Oh, all the clubhouse. Good. That is church. Church. A church, too. I could see that he was enjoying pointing out the places of importance. And to encourage him, I pointed to an imposing building on the mainland and asked, What's that? That is jail. His face was grim, as he said it. Before I could say anything further, he turned and walked away. I had a lot to learn about these people and their islands. These islands, with their many ragged inlets and harbours, had been visited by explorers for hundreds of years. Marco Polo had talked about them and had written about the people that were no better than wild beasts. Italian navigators had visited them. And in 1789, the British came. People I worked with in government house knew the whole story of the Andermans. It was Captain Blair who came here first. That was back in 1789. Came here, right here to Port Blair, and set up a penal settlement. Only he called it Port Cornwallis. Yes. But three years later, they moved the whole blooming business up to North Anderman. And they called a new site, Port Cornwallis. Had two Port Cornwallises, did they? No. After they moved the penal settlement north, they called this Old Harbor. Then when did they start calling this Port Blair? That was, well, along about the middle 1800s. Yes, yes. A doctor named Merritt came out here. Head of a sort of commission of some kind. Came out to select a site for a new penal settlement. And he chose Old Harbor here, which he then named Port Blair. All this deepened my understanding of Port Blair and the Andermans. These islands had been selected for a penal settlement because they were so isolated, so primitive. The convicts were brought from India, Burma and Malaya. And many of them were from the islands themselves. There were convicts around everywhere. Yet as time passed, I could see that the Andermans were more than a God-persaken group of islands. I could see that with the passing years, they were becoming more and more important strategically. The weather observatory at Port Blair, for example, was important. And was to be still more important later. It's only really hot like this when the sun is nodding. Doesn't it ever cool off? The heat is tempered by the sea breezes. Haven't you noticed? To me, it's always warm. What is it, rain? Well, the rain is irregular. But the rainy season's from May to November. I could do with some rain. And some of those sea breezes, too. It's the sea breezes that are dangerous. That is when they get bad. The path of the Hurricanes is just a few miles offshore. Don't they ever hit here?  Back in 1844, two British troops, the Runny Mead and the Briton, came out there one black night, and both of them were thrown up over the reef and into the jungles. And funny thing, none of the crews knew the other ship was thrown into the jungle until daylight the next day. Yes, the Hurricanes out there can get very severe. It seemed that everything, every place in the island had some story about it. People would say, this is where some so happened. And because I was new in the island, they never missed a chance to pass it on to me. Here in the year 1872, Lord Mayo, the vice-roy of India, had just visited Mount Harriet here on the North Shore of Roth Island and was returning to his last place. There would be some problems. Mount Harriet might be a suitable place for the sanatorium. Yes, sir. The launch is waiting right over here, Lord Mayo. Seven bells. Time to get back to the ship. I say it's very dark. It seems as though the jungle comes right down to the water. So dark. If you went to those torch bears, you've got their head there. We shouldn't be able to see a thing. Oh, yes, sir. The boat crews are all ready to take us out to the ship. Very good. Look out for that man. Look out, Lord Mayo. Look out for that man. Look out, Lord Mayo. Look out for that man. Look out, Lord Mayo. Lord Mayo and stabs here. You give me a hand. Quick, help me. He's falling. I'll give you a hand. I've got him. I've got him. I'll help you with it. I'll pull him up. Can all of you help? Let it up, up. Careful there. A little more. There. Lord Mayo. Lord Mayo. I'm all right. I'm not much hurt. Look at this blood. Lord Mayo. The black man, the one that did it, he... He'll never try this with anyone else. Never. Who was it? One of the ticket-of-leave convicts. First I learned that Acabea was an ex-convict, a self-supporter, and very uncertain about him. He was friendly, but I was uneasy. Everyone in Port Blair knew him. Before he was 20, he'd killed his rival for killing the Andamanese woman they both loved. And for this he'd been sent to prison. He never talked to it. And neither did I. At first I was afraid ever to be alone with him. Gradually I grew to trust him and we often took John together. This is Padak. Very good trade. What is it called, Acabea? Padak. Sometime called Redwood. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Padak, of course. That's Andaman Redwood. Yes, Redwood. Very good. I've heard about it. Many trees got down. Send away. Yes. I know it's exported, Acabea. There's certainly a lot of it out here. Listen. You listen. What, Acabea? Hear that sound? Sounds like the wind and trees. That poluga. Oh, yes. Poluga. Poluga make all trees. All birds. All water. Make you. Make me, of course, the creator. Yes. From Acabea, I learned about the spirit of the wood and the spirit of the sea and the devils of which one must beware. He led me into the mountain, the highest of which I think was about 2,400 feet. And he led me down through the dry beds of the stream. He showed me where coconuts and rubber were cultivated and where rice and maize, tea and hemp are grown. And he guided me up to Phoenix Bay to the shipyard. He stood by silently and we built most of the sea craft. You see around these islands. You seem to have an excellent shop here. It's not as big as the ones on the Clyde. But we can build anything up to a vessel of 250 to 400 tons. You see, there's one on the way right over there. Smart craft, it is so. The best. You see, we have here our own blacksmith shop and we build our craft mostly from the timber out of the forest. Oh, to turn out vessels of this kind, these workers of yours must be skilled indeed. They are. We've made copies of some good carvers out of them and some of them can even handle the maize and porcelain. Will, if you'll excuse me, I'll be getting back to my work. Sure thing. Goodbye. Thank you. When I looked around, Acabere was still standing there silently watching the workers. Would you like to work here, Miss Shipyard? No. Wouldn't you like to help build these boats? No. Make what needs. That is all. I found that that was characteristic of nearly all the natives of the Andermans. There's valuable timber of many kinds around them, not only paddock but banyan and marble wood sat in wooden ironwood, which is so tough that it is impervious to almost the sharpest axe. Yet they use almost none of it. As Acabere said, they make what they themselves need. Utensils, implements, some weapons, and some personal ornaments. You've got a lot to learn about these people, Triney. I heard that again and again. These abedonies learn up to a certain point. Then they cannot seem to learn beyond that. For example, they're probably the only people in the world who don't know how to make a fire. If you use fire, I've seen them, of course. They keep them going day and night. They say fire is a gift from the gods, so they can't let it go out. They are nomads. What do they do when they travel? They carry their fires with them. Another thing, you can hardly influence them one way or another. If they like you, very good. If they don't, you can scarcely do anything that will make them like you. They simply don't respond to it. I wondered about that when I was out in a boat alone with Triney. He seemed friendly, and he killed a man.   He handed me the bow and an arrow. I tried to figure out what he had in mind. I watched him. As I put the arrow and the bow, I set myself to droid. Pull, pull arrow back. I... I... I... Droid. I tried to droid. It was too powerful. Gives to me. Although I was nearly a foot taller than he, I couldn't budge it. He drew it back almost without effort. And shot the arrows so far I lost sight of it. Then, looking at me, he put down the bow and picked up the sharp harpoon. You know me once, prisoner? Yes, Acabia. I believe I heard something about that. I wonder what he was getting at. He was holding the harpoon in his hands, looking at me. First six months me locked up in big jail. But... Yes, I can well imagine that. Acabia. Next year on Harp, hard work with other prisoners. I'd heard about that 18-month period when the convicts were under severe discipline of hard labor. Next three years me work outside settlement, sleep in barracks, work outside. Well, that was better, wasn't it? A little better.  That meant, for all practical purposes, he was free. I was to learn that this was the usual 10-year routine for the convicts who could be trusted at all. The prisoners who showed themselves unfitted to human society were kept under closer supervision. Now me, self-supporter, may earn all living. With this, we held up the sharp harpoon. I kept paddling the native boat, feasting in the barrel, and suddenly it turned for me. It looked straight ahead in the direction in which we were moving. Portis! Portis! Directly ahead of us on the surface of the harpoon and flying itself from the boat. With his full weight behind it, the harpoon bedded itself into the turtle. The next instance, both Acabir and the huge hawksbill turtle were flungering about in the water. Me get him! Me get him! And he laughed for joy as he pulled the struggling dying turtle back to the boat. Acabir's principle means of livelihood was harpooning turtles. He was an expert at hunting both the hawksbill and the turtle. The green turtle was used for food and the tortoise shell of the hawksbill was exported to Calcutta. In occupations such as this, many of the ticketably prisoners supported themselves. But some, the incorrigible ones, declined to make any effort to support themselves. They thought only of escape. What a hit of us! You think they are, Acabir? Not far now. Then we'd better keep going till we overtake them, Hawkins. I think they escaped. We've been trading the two Jarava tribesmen for three days. After they'd escaped from the penal settlement, they'd killed the shipyard worker at Phoenix and then had gone into the jungle. You lead the way, Acabir. Keep us on their trail. Yes. Pygmies in these jungles are so clever that you can go for days without seeing one of them. I can't see how a human being of any kind could live in these jungles. The caping of the jungles are killed by the poisoned arrows of the pygmies. This way, getting close now. Watch yourself well now, Twining. There, ahead. Gunfire by George. That's it. Easy now. Creep up on them. Both of them are there. See them, the lights of that campfire? Yes, I see them. Acabir, you come with me. We'll go around this way. And Bolton, you and Twining go around the other way. When you see me rushing, you two rush them from the other side. They've crept around on their left flank and then moved in toward them. We could see them plainly in the flickering light of their campfire. Powerful little black men with sooty hair growing in wings. Look, Twining, they're well armed. See those knives and those bows and arrows? As I looked at them, suddenly, just opposite us, Hawkins and Acabir came charging out of the jungle straight to the tribesmen. Come on, Twining. Let's go in and get them. Yes, sir. One of the tribesmen ran almost directly to our arms. Here, I'll help you. Just as that instant I saw Hawkins in the campfire, he paused a moment there. The other tribesmen had run off to the side, stopped suddenly and whirled around for the poison arrow in his bow. He let it fly. It crashed through Hawkins' chest and he dropped in his tracks. He was dead within the hour. We got the other tribesmen back to jail at last, but he gave the three of us enough trouble to interest me greatly in all the Andamanese. Scientists came to the island and studied them for years. You see, Twining, these Andamanese have been isolated here since, well, perhaps the Stone Age. Well, that probably accounts for the fact that they are all so much alike. Yes. There is perhaps no pure race on earth. There are twelve different tribes in the island here, and while each of these has its own habits, in the broad sense, some of them are about the same, physically and mentally. You see, people are changed by coming in contact with other peoples. But with the Andamanese, since the Stone Age, they have come in contact with very few people, and therefore their strain is almost pure. They are the same today as they were perhaps millions of years ago. Yes, they are the most primitive of all humans. I used to think of this as I watched back a beer. I watched them sing songs, accompanying himself by beating with his foot on a very crude sounding board. This came as close to a musical instrument as anything I ever saw amongst the Andamanese. And watching Acabia, it seemed to me it was the Stone Age man who, by some magic, was living in the modern world of today. After those first years, thirty years ago, Acabia used to go with me everywhere. We came to understand each other. He was very much interested in the lands of the white men and the kinds of lives they lived. He went with me on my trips from one end of the Andaman to the other. We visited Port Campbell and Port Mert and Quantum Harbour and Port Andaman. And by the time the Japanese are on the move in the Pacific, he realized the danger that we faced. Gentlemen, I want you together to tell you of the seriousness of our situation here in the Andaman. As you know, the Royal Navy suffered a heavy blow in the loss of our battle cruises, Prince of Wales and repulse. Two days after Pearl Harbour, today I have to report a still more unhappy matter. Singapore has fallen. Singapore has fallen? I can't believe it. We are complete. I'm moving into the harbour of Singapore this very moment. We are only a thousand miles from Singapore. Our strategic location would be of great value to the Japanese. We command the weapon approaches to the straits of Malacca and we are within striking distance of Rangoon, Calcutta and Ceylon. We may expect the Japanese here any time. I could be understood the meaning of this. The Japanese? They will come here with guns? Quite possibly, Acabia. Acabia fight. We all worked feverishly for the Japanese attack which we knew would come. Acabia helped us at the airport loading planes of the things that must be saved. Three Japanese planes approaching! Fight the bombers! The anti-aircraft batteries opened up. The bombers came straight over the field.  Yes, if they can, Acabia.  They're coming back! They're going to strafe us! Look out! Look out when the machine gun! Look out! Acabia, get down! Let me see, Acabia. Let me see where they got you. Here. On back. Acabia never complained. He lay there, trying to understand what had happened and why. Five days later, the Japanese came back. It was plain now that the Japanese would soon come in for landing force. We are unable to descend the long indented coast of the Andermans. We will put out of commission everything that can be of use to the enemy. The naval dockyards, the airships, and then we shall evacuate the island. The Japanese took port Blair on March the 23rd, 1942. Intelligence reports came into Calcutta for what was happening. Japanese already operating from the airfield at Port Blair. Full Japanese battle fleet of battle ships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and escorts is approaching Port Blair and probably will use the tarpaulin. That's the first time in history, Twining, that a Japanese tarp force is steamed into the Bay of Bengal. All of us knew the gravity of the situation, the great danger of a possible invasion of India and perhaps even of South Africa. This report has just come in, sir. Thank you. The heavy cruises Zorsuch and Cornwall have been sunk by Japanese torpedo planes and bombers. Good heavens. Here's a message, sir, from Trincomalee Ceylon. Yes, thank you. The British naval base at Trincomalee on the island of Ceylon is under attack by carrier-based aircraft. Twining, these attacks are being made from carriers based on Port Blair. The Japanese were already using the Andamans against us with deadly effect. They may try to strike across the Indian ocean, take Madagascar. Then they would be in a position to invade Africa and cut our supply line to Egypt. The danger to the Allies was great. The Andamans, virtually ignored since the Stone Ages, suddenly spang into importance. The enemy held them and was converting into a strategic stronghold. Now there would be the scene of a struggle for control. And soon, heavy Allied bombers were taking off from India to blast them. The shore installations, the harbor and the airfield became our target. It's been three years now. And now as Britain's naval strength is growing in the Bay of Bengal and as the possibility grows of our return to the Andamans, I can't help but wonder about Akhabeer. I wonder if he has lived through what's happened in the Andamans. And I think to the last thing that he said to me, we stay here, Mr. Twining. Goodbye. And to make understandable the crosscurrents of life in the Pacific Basin. For a reprint of this Pacific Story program, send 10 cents in Stamph-Sacoin to University of California Press, Berkeley, California, to repeat. For a reprint of this Pacific Story program, send 10 cents in Stamph-Sacoin to University of California Press, Berkeley, California. It is written and directed by Arnold Marquess. The original musical score was composed and conducted by Thomas Paluso. The principal voice was that of Ramsey Hill. This program came to you from Hollywood. This is the National Broadcasting Company.


So today I am going to talk about breaking down your silos using metrics. So a bit about me. I have been in tech for over 25 years now. I am currently partnering up with Detertia and their senior facility for East Asia. I am also the acting vice president of the Open Tech Association of Thailand. We are trying to promote the open source culture in society and organizations. And because I love open source so much, I have decided to home so much. Kids visit actually applying open source culture to really chat with Detertia, tech talk, and this lovely open source. Nothing like real things. We turn here. Again, 50 years of expertise, very smart folks there. They go under the Code Chaos Project in 2017, which is about using metrics for software development. And communities, we will talk a little bit about that later, maintains the open source framework lab metrics tools, and is the official metric part of Open APRA and non-focused foundations. There's a suite of services from Detertia, from the analytics part as well as doing customizations, consultants, etc., etc., around all of this. And so a lot of companies have trusted Detertia with our output.  Most organizations are silos. What this means is that when you work in your company, you work within your own silo. Who here works in a large operation? Like let's say over 100 or above. So you would understand that reaching out to someone across your organization is extremely difficult. Basically, for the most part, you have very little interaction with them if you're working a silo. The only interface with the rest of your organization is your boss, and it is up to your boss to coordinate and communicate, no matter what you need. If it's anything that's outside your team, talk to your boss. So this is a feature, none of us, it has been developed in the pre-internet base, and it's often a very easy way of managing people and teams. Use your boss as an interface. We write modular code with loose coupling. This is a loosely coupled organization, sort of. So let's say you work in your silo, and you have developed a tool. Let's say that the tool is a hammer and a spanner, and you build or acquire or buy a hammer and a spanner for use within your department. Cool. Another silo, a continental way maybe, also uses a hammer and a silo, uses a hammer and a spanner. But you guys don't know, you guys don't know that you've built your hammers and spanners. So they start building the hammer and the spanner from scratch. A third only happens to be the hammer, so they build their own hammer. So in the end you have your silos, each with the variations of hammers, which you made and maintained by themselves. So and they are there because they are there to solve a problem, right? But you have to go back, really go back and ask yourself, do your customers pay you for your hammers? Because you have been spending a lot of time and effort and resources making hammers. So unless you are a hardware company making hammers, your customers are not paying you for your hammers. They are a tool that you need in order to get your done, but they're not paying you for your hammers. They are, however, paying you for the end product of what your hammer is. So if we were really physical hammers, this is justified, right? Every silo needs its own hammers. But we're talking about digital artifacts, oh, the hammers are only metaphors. So back to our hammers, in order to remove waste here, let's break down these silos. We put all your tools in a central place, because it's in the sky conveniently, there are clouds, so we put them in the clouds, right? So the difference when you're sharing physical hammers, physical items such as hammers, is that physical items are a zero sum game. You give someone a hammer, you don't have a hammer. However, when you give away code, both of you end up retaining the code. So the tool benefits everyone who participates in the sharing, and because it's been improved together, it's been tested, then it's improved, the tools get better because it has been tested under diverse conditions and improved under conditions. So rather than each silo maintaining the entire tool chain from the beginning, all that's really from the beginning, everyone shares it. So you can have your silo, right? One can do butt fixes, another one supports, another education, security, so on and so forth. So the resources available to improve your hammers is multi-focusing. At the same time, the resources required to maintain it becomes a fraction of its original resource, which is why breaking down your silos increases efficiencies, right? And with Innersource, it helps you to free up resources to pursue more challenging things that your customers value. Now that we have goals, let's talk about metrics. What are metrics? Metrics are tools that help us to measure how well something is doing. They give us information to evaluate a purpose that makes smart decisions. However, it is only useful if you know what you're going to do with the metrics. So in Innersource, good metrics are easy to understand. They are representative of the question or expected outcomes. And they are useful, if they are most useful, if they are actionable. But if not, they should be informative. It doesn't have to be too precise, but it should be informative enough. And so, because remember, we are managing a product, we are not scientists. So ultimately, the position doesn't matter that much. So we have here, and these are pretty good goals, enhancement, buffets of support, etc. Now, when you have your metrics, it is good to be strategic about that. So there's a couple of techniques that we can use, which I'll cover. But first, there's a story. So a police officer stumbles across a drunk man, coming around on their street light. The policeman asks, what are you doing? The drunk man says, I'm looking for my keys. The policeman says, where'd you leave them? Where'd you last see them? The drunk man says, over there in the alley. The policeman says, why are you looking over here? The drunk man says, this is where the light is. So this story illustrates the danger of many types of scientific and data projects. Because if you measure productivity, for example, you can't stick an MRI machine on the heads of all your employees to see how motivated they are. You have to measure secondary information, and sometimes it's just the best that you have. You can only derive information by looking at the street lights and try to figure it out from there. So we have goals, question metrics. That is why it's important to start with what you're looking for, not what you're looking at. So with this strategy, it was developed by Victor Vasili in the 1980s, I believe. We can have more meaningful conversations about what we're trying to measure. So we start with the goal, what we're trying to achieve, then we go on to the questions that support those goals. And then ultimately, we come up with the metrics that will support the questions. So for example, the question is how often do customers encounter our issues with our software? A metric that you can use is the number of customer reported issues. The question can be how easy is our software to use? The metric usability ratings, for example. So you see goal, question metrics, question metrics. So all of the question and the metrics support the goal. However, if you have, with the metric start, with the metric customer reported issues, you might have difficulty figuring out why you're doing this. It's much, much more productive to start with your goals. Another strategy to use is the can-do-check-act cycle. So you start with, you can start with a plan. For example, identify a high rate of customer reported bugs and set a goal to reduce the number of bugs by 15%. That's a plan. Do implement a new testing process and collect data on bug rates. You check, you analyze the data and you find that the number of bugs has increased by 40%. Then you add, which means that you make adjustments to the testing process and continue monitoring the bug rates. Because you are most likely not going to get the metrics right to begin with. You need to be open to the idea of iterating this through and constantly re-evaluating whether you are on the right path or not. And improving. You may never finally find those keys, but you would have gathered enough information to know which part of the dark alley it's in. Which may be enough. So here's a lovely example. I'm here, Watson. These slides are from the top. It's originally given by Jeffrey Bore. And he talks about their transformation to inner source. So here. So you see that in this part, we have the, it just stood up into the contribution. Where you contribute to the inner source part. And then you have the adoption phase. Which makes it very clear the roles about who is doing what in this ecosystem. Now, the metrics are interesting. Because in maps, you have the contribution numbers. 50 contributors. These are part of the contributors. And then we also have numbers regarding adoption. So you see that over here, there are 15 products. Product used in the first 18 months. And with 75% less time to gather delivered. And $10 million saved through reuse alone. Which are significant numbers and very, very good metrics. This is probably the kind of things that your managers would love to hear. So let's look at one such approach. For our silo breaking effort. We want to see which contribution, which units, which business units contribute. Interact with each other the most. So we use the network analysis metrics. Let me break it down. So we have, we had, we started with a project. This can be code, documentation, anything really. The project has a contribution. In this case, we'll say it's a developer. We draw a line to show that the developer has contributed to the project. Or has committed to the project. And we can keep drawing those lines to show each interaction. And ultimately, these are the meaningful products that we can come up with. To show the layout of the patterns of interactions within your organization. So then you can start seeing where the silos are, right? You can see the items. You can see these guys are working in the by themselves on the periphery, right? You can see two major projects are over here, three major projects. And there are, there is some cross interaction. And then you can see that these are all continents. So not so much silos, but they are, they're, they're continents. So that kind of thing. So with, so with visualization like this, with metrics like this, then you can start having an idea on how to make changes. And to assess the health of the, of collaboration within your organization. So this is all generated by the free open source, free portal app. So these are continents, communities versus archive particles, right? This is one project developer versus many, many, many project developers. You can see that they're contributing to many projects. This is, you can see collaboration. These, you can see the lines in collaboration while these are isolated projects on the periphery. Now let's silence and understand communities. So you can see that there's a clear dividing line. So there's a line dividing that part and that part and up and down. So this is a tool. It's open source at the Linus Foundation. It collects and displays data, displays data. It supports 30 plus collaboration platforms.  And with the inner source community, there is a pattern. So if you choose to take this approach and you start implementing metrics in your organization, please don't do it alone. We have a community, the inner source community come and talk to us about the metrics that you choose to implement and let's share some of your knowledge, right? Because that way it is more likely, as I said, that the more street lights out there, the more likely we'll find our keys together, right? So here also, metrics in the inner source, this is an example. So you can see that these are patterns for contribution and collaboration. Darker numbers means more contributions. And then you can see here, for example, the number of top PRs open and commit-made. So you can see that these are probably some good candidates to come and be your trusted committers in a source that is sort of like a maintainer. So you can invite them to come and be a maintainer or a trusted committer for your internal projects, right? Policy metrics measure their application of... Sorry. So let me start that again. So the goal in here is to increase coding collaboration, right? When you are making that metric, you want to increase the collaboration. So one of the things that you can do is to use a root cause analysis to see the factors that use this collaboration. So after a root cause collaboration, root cause analysis, you might come to the conclusion that the commits are too big and that they are difficult to review and fix. They are difficult to review and fix and it's just ignored. And the person making the contribution is then quite sad and upset. So one way to fix it is to start reducing the size of the commits, for example. So another thing is to continue with the analysis. So we have questions, right? How far, well, are we applying our policy? So we have policy metrics. See the evolution of lines per commit. We can track the lines of commit and see whether they're going down or not. Then we can see if the policy is succeeding. So we can see the median review time. Then are we being misled by circumstances? Are we causing unwanted side effects? So we can track the other metrics for the context. So the number of PRs issued per timeframe as a stress metric, for example. So with metrics, great power bears great responsibility, right? There are, because you're looking only where the lights are, it's a slippery slope with a lot of issues. So we just want to stress again, seek help from the community. And share what you're trying to do. And let us build up a database of metrics together. So we are standing on this shoulder of giants here. There's been a lot of work done both by the inner source comments as well as the chaos community. And we can see... Let me get this moved. So this is the Chaos Community website. C-H-A-O-S-S dot community. You can go in there and you can look through the metrics that they have. So let us look through, for example, contribution metrics. So you can see we have metrics, types of contribution, activity, dates, and time. Time to first response versus us. So let's see time to first response, for example. So we have descriptions. The first response is activity. And sometimes we need the most important response. We have objectives. Time to first response is important. It's an important consideration for new and long-time contributors to a project along with overall project health. We have implementation guidelines, etc., etc., which is visualization. A lot of information about metrics is available. So please look through the website. These work for open source projects as well as inner source projects. So please look through it and see what you can find helpful. And subsequently, if you find that you can contribute an improvement, please open a full request. And so back to our slides. In summary, suggest that you implement your metrics. You implement them early on. So if you're a startup, you suggest that you do it early on in your journey. Please don't roll your own metrics, a bit like crypto. Don't roll your own because you are very, very likely going to make mistakes. Please seek help from the community while you're doing this. And so before I go, I just want to acknowledge these entities for their contributions to these slides. And thank you very much. Thank you. Yes. Okay, so I have a similar question. Basically, I believe that those are combinations. So we can extract data from GitHub and GitHub as well as other platforms. I'm from the operational side. So I'm coming from like 17 years old stuff. The reason I'm here is that technology is available to do integration. To do the integration with incident tickets? Yes. Yes, yes, yes. So it integrates with over 30 platforms. And it has a plug-in architecture so it can support even more. But most of the popular platforms are supported by DreamWorks. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay, well, thank you very much.


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