Good evening. This is Crime Classics. I am Thomas Highland. Listen, the man in nondescript uniform dropping stones into that well is a mercenary soldier, more recently a deserter. He's testing the depth of the well, the only way he knows since the length of rope is not immediately available, and more complicated machines are as yet undiscovered. This is the year 1778, and the deserter is named James Buchanan. Next to him is his friend, another deserter, whose name is William Brooks. These men are in the employ of Mrs. Bashiba Spooner of Brookfield, Massachusetts, whose well it is. Mrs. Spooner will pay these men, immediately they deposit the body of her murdered husband, right down there. And tonight, my report to you on the crime of Bashiba Spooner, the first woman to be tried for murder in the United States. Crime Classics, a new series of true crime stories, taken from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Highland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders. Now once again, Thomas Highland. The place is Brookfield, Massachusetts, the year 1778. Seen? The home of Joshua and Bashiba Spooner. A large and respectable dwelling, two stories in height, situated on the north side of the road from Brookfield to Worcester. In the front of it and nearly opposite on the south side of the road are stately elms, and a well. And in the living room, there's this. What manner of woman are you, Bashiba? There's no content in you and no happiness. And what happiness have you given me?  And you've not answered me. You would like to see me dead, would you not? Listen to me, Joshua. Well, when you returned this morning from Worcester, my heart sank in me. I'd hoped you wouldn't come back. That I would have an accident. That in some way I would be killed. Yes. That you would be free then. Yes. To walk the town, newly widowed with a wandering eye. Yes. I am your husband, and I am your lover, and that's the way things are. Ezra? Ezra? I've been waiting, Bashiba. Wait. No more waiting, Bashiba. The time I was away from you with your husband in Worcester. The thinking about you. And there'll be more waiting, until it's done, until you kill him. I tried, but I could not. He asked me a question my husband did. What manner of woman are you, he asked. Now I wonder. What manner of woman am I to love such as you or youth? A boy who pretends to manhood, you without the courage to... The poison you gave me, there was no opportunity, Bashiba. And a boy who lies, opportunity. When it becomes night time, my husband becomes a drunkard, you know that. To empty the poison in the cup when you were with him, a simple thing like that you couldn't do. I swear it to you, Bashiba. He'll die. When? Go to him now, to the tavern where he is. Empty the poison. I threw the poison away. With no courage. Bashiba. Speak my name and bedevil yourself with it. Just kiss me, Bashiba. No kisses, no secret whisperings, none of that, no more. Until my husband is dead. Laugh then you'll see I mean it. There's a wench, Bashiba, at the other end of town. And she watches me when I walk by. Then go to her. All right. Wait, don't leave me. You almost let me go. Boy, boy. You... Bashiba. Kill him. Kill my husband. Later. And that was Bashiba Spooner. You've come to know her pretty well. You've seen her hating. You've seen her loving. There's more you should know. She was the sixth child of an illustrious man, General Ruggles. The general was a man of great wealth and lived in a style of unusual luxury for that day. He kept 30 horses and had a park of 20 acres for deer and a pack of hounds for the amusement of numerous visitors. He was a man intensely loyal to the British crown and never hid his loyalties. And so, at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, he was forced to give up his estate and to leave the country. His married life was also pretty bad and he and his wife did not set a good example to his children in their conjugal relations. Bashiba sprang from that kind of a household. Her loyalist background in time of war and the very fact of the name she had, Bashiba, were sufficient cause for the town in which she lived to view her with alarm. But keep this in mind. Bashiba Spooner is going to murder her husband. How? Well, let's see how time and motive and circumstance conspire to get a man violently dead. The man, Joshua Spooner. Let's pick him up and see what he's doing. It's the same evening and since it's after dark he's drinking and in Brookfield there's only one public house in which to drink. Cooley's Tavern. And that's where he is. Oh, no, no, no, Doctor. Then what would you do? To trap General Burgoyne very simple. Hand me your tanker, Doctor King. Now, and here, this Spoon. The line of March of Burgoyne. And your tanker and mine, two sections of the troops of General Oshina. Now watch. And that's how we take care of General Burgoyne. Yeah, yeah. Barkeep, more real. Joshua Spooner talks of strategies and drinks his ale. But mark this. Near the bar, another table. Two men, men in nondescript uniforms. Dissertors from the Army of General Burgoyne. Their names, James Buchanan and William Brooks. They've made known the fact that they've deserted the enemy so their drinks are on the house and the appreciative customers. They're having a fine time. Drink, drink your ale well. I'll give you a toast and I'll drink with you. And a toast you shall get. Burgoyne is a scurvy... Louder will louder else we'll pay for our own ale. Aye. A toast. I'll give you a toast to that scurvy, plump, bellied Burgoyne. May he rot in the wilderness. That is, if he don't drown, come in across the St. Lawrence. Gentlemen. Good evening to you. Joshua Spooner is my name. And it would do me proud if you would permit me. Ale is what we're drinking, sir. Ale for the Patriots. And Patriots we are indeed a goodness. Oh yes, we join General Washington, sir, and his colonials, you should know that. And from here we go to Worcester, where a column of Washington's heart is a... Oh. Ale. To you, sir, and thanks to you. My pleasure. Willeba, your tanket is dry, and so is mine. If you will permit me, gentlemen, it would be my pleasure. My pleasure indeed. It would be Mr. Spooner's pleasure indeed to buy the lads more ale, as was the custom. True, it was 1778, but the etiquette was the same. Nothing too good for our boys. And the deserters in Cooley's bar were off to join our boys. As a matter of fact, it was Mr. Spooner's pleasure to direct James Buchanan and William Brooks to Worcester to become soldiers in Washington's Army. It just happened that one of the landmarks that Mr. Spooner gave the lads went something like this.  When you pass there, you will be leaving Brookfield, and you will know you're on your way. We'll have another ale before you leave. You're a gentleman if I ever met one. Oh, a true one, James, my lad. A real jet. So they touched tankards, the deserters, and Joshua Spooner, and they made tearful farewell. And the deserters left and walked the road toward where the elms were, and a house, and a well. Let's go on ahead of them. Let's get back to the lady. Bathsheba's home. Bathsheba's fixing her hair. And the youth, Ezra, he's tying into it night ribbons, a lover's tender gesture. Their talk, however, is shocking. Perhaps you're right. Perhaps the best way is not to poison him. I say shoot him. Perhaps, in such a way as to make it appear as an accident. Will you shoot him, Ezra? But tightly with the ribbon, dear. I... I have not the courage for it. But you know of guns and shooting. You were in the army for a year. I marched. I shot no one. I marched upon an ambush and was wounded. Myself, I never pulled a trigger.  Yes. Turn from your mirror, Bathsheba, and look at me. Oh, listen. Do you hear? Yes. Drunkards. Someone, go to the window. Drunkards. Two of them by the moon. British deserters, I've seen them in town. Call to them. Bathsheba. Call to them. Hello! You there! I'll talk to them. A lady wants to talk to you. Let them in, Ezra. The Bathsheba spooner who greeted the deserters must have been quite a sight. All in all, long hair and blue ribbons. There must have been a fire in the fireplace and in all probability she was standing in front of it. Her manner was gracious and she was smiling. Ezra served the liquor. All in all, it was the nicest thing that could possibly have happened to two fellows who had deserted General Burgoyne. And now, gentlemen, a question. We bow. Bow, James, my lad. Sayon, my lady. How would you, gentlemen, like five hundred pounds to see you on your long journey? Merchanult would warm the cockles, wouldn't it, Will? To word. Does that answer you, my lady? And what would you do for it? There is nothing that Will and I have not done for less handsome payment from less handsome women. Far less. Kill my husband. This lad, the one you call Ezra. Come here, lad. They make sure skinny ones don't take long for twistin'. Not him. Not Ezra. Not him, James. They know. My husband will return from his drinking. Will you wait for him? Kill him? When he returns, meet him outside at the door and greet him. Will you? Not only for the money, dear lady, but for the pleasure of your presence to two tired soldiers. Right, James? It's the truth. You'll be the master of this house. Yeah. And you are the two... That way, please. Come on, let's go. This one was a strutler, he will. Get the woman. And the one she calls Ezra. And the tidy job, if I say so, myself, Mrs. Booner. And now he's dead. What will you do with him? There's a well across the road. Ah, give us and, James, and you, Ezra. Yeah. I'll walk with you. It's a deep well. Poor little man. And that's how Joshua Spooner died. And that's how Bashiba Spooner killed him. You are listening to Crime Classics and your host, Thomas Highland. Later this evening, the Lux Summer Theater stars Fred McMurray in a full-hour adaptation of the romantic mystery comedy The Lady and the Tumblers. An odd triangle composed of a beautiful girl, a suitcase full of explosive letters, and a murdered man will make The Lady and the Tumblers most unusual dramatic fare. Listen to it on most of these same stations later this evening when CBS Radio presents the Lux Summer Theater. And now once again, Thomas Highland and the second act of Crime Classics and his report to you on the crime of Bashiba Spooner. Listen to this. It's awful and dread this tale that I tell. Joshua Spooner lies dead in a well in Brookfield Town in 78 from six stout wax across the paint. Small poem by an anonymous contributor to the Worcester Spy, the local newspaper of the day. A change of scene now across the road from a cold well into a warm living room. Tableau, four people. Mr. Spooner was such an elegant man. What would become of his clothes in his closet and his horse? You may have them. Come away from the window, Bashiba. Here, to meet close. The stars are dancing.  No. Will is very weary with Spooner. We'll not go unto Worcester tonight. Then wait till morning. You can make a place for yourselves in the barn. But the money we'll have now and the clothes and the oars. Yes, all of it. Ezra, in the morning you will go to Cooley's Tavern. Inquire of Joshua. Tell them he's not been home. Tell them I'm frantic for his welfare. Yes. Good night, gentlemen. A very good night. Mr. Cooley. Aye. Cut grub and a nippy morning, Mr. Ross. I've been sent to inquire of Joshua Spooner. Who sent you? The wife of him, Bashiba. Did she now? And why? Last night he did not return home. And Mrs. Spooner is frantic for his welfare. Not home? Well, he's not here. Last night he sat right there, my lad, and discussed military strategies with the doctor. Then, to the best of my knowledge, he went home. Dr. King. Dr. Wake, wake up. Please, Dr. Wake up. It's important. What is it? Where is Joshua Spooner? Where is he? Mr. Cooley says he sat with you last night. As he did, he left me. He's not home? No. Mrs. Spooner sent me to fetch him. She's troubled that he's not returned. But where else could he have gone if not to his wife? We must find him, doctor. Yes, yes, well, we'll be in there. Ezra did that very well, with the precise shading of alarm in his voice. The concern. A man on an errand for a troubled lady. Everybody was impressed. Mr. Cooley closed his bar. Dr. King appealed to the neighborliness of the other customers, and everybody went looking for Joshua Spooner. Immediately, they called on Mrs. Spooner, whom they found in the greatest apparent distress. Upon an examination of the premises in the neighborhood of the doorstep, they observed the tracks of several persons on the snow. And on further search, they found Mr. Spooner. You know where. In the well. So far, only horror and suspicions. But now, let's pick up Willie and James. They haven't left Brookfield.  But then you've got to examine it from their point of view. Why become soldiers in Washington's army, especially in the winter, and suffer the privations of the military when they could be warm and rich as a civilian? So, imagine it. Two tattered-a-million deserters, suddenly elegant, in Mr. Spooner's clothes, which were somewhat tight-fitting. But elegance and tight-fitting are somehow akin. Now, they lived in Brookfield a certain wench whose name is lost in history. This much is known about her. She had an eye for tight elegance. This much is known about her, too, that she went riding with Willie and James on their newly-acquired horse. Go down. Now, James. Give us a bus, dearie. Ah, that's a dearie. Who is it we're riding, Mr. Spooner's horse? Why, dearie, we don't know a Mr. Spooner. Aren't these Mr. Spooner's silver buckles? No. Aren't you wearing his clothes? These are our clothes, dearie. Come, let's ride some more. It brings the pink to your pretty cheeks. But the cat was out of the bag. The girl told her mother and her mother, her father. And it so happened that her father was, at that moment, on his way to look for the murderers of Joshua Spooner. So the father told some neighbors, and they located James and Willie. Brought them all together. The two deserters, Ezra and Bashiba. And this is what happened. For the government and people of Massachusetts Bay in New England, on their oath present, that William Brooks and James Buchanan and Ezra Ross in the county of Essex, not having God before their eyes an assault did make upon Joshua Spooner, feloniously, willfully, and of their manners of forethought, on the first day of March last past. With force and arms also, by striking, beating and kicking, a force said, Joshua Spooner, so as to inflict several mortal bruises of which Joshua Spooner died. And that Bashiba Spooner, widow and late wife of Joshua Spooner being seduced by the instigation of the devil, did incite, move a vet council and procure the murder of a force said Joshua Spooner. How do you plead? Not guilty. Not guilty? Not guilty. What statement have you, Bashiba Spooner? I am the wife of the deceased. If what you accuse me of be true, what end could the death of my husband serve? Whether any reasons, persuading, hopes, inviting, or advantages arising from the death of my husband. By depriving myself of husband, I would subject myself to the burdens of a widow. If I hated my husband as such has been said, could I not have separated from him, gone to my father or to my brothers? What foolishness is this to say I've loved Ezra Ross when one of my station might have any gallant I plead? Gentlemen, if I be guilty, I was not of sound mind. To the sheriff of our county of Essex. Greetings. We command you that on Thursday, the fourth day of June next, between the hours of twelve and four of the clock in the afternoon, you cause William Brooks, James Buchanan, Ezra Ross, and Bathsheba Spooner to be conveyed from our jail where they are now in your custody to the usual place of execution and there to be hanged by the neck until their bodies be dead. The motive, the crime, and the sentence. Justice was simple. And quickly, too quickly for the four prisoners the fourth day of June. This is a copy of the Wooster Spy dated that day that I have here. I'd like to read from it. It was about half past two of the clock in the afternoon when the four criminals were brought out of prison and conducted to the place of execution under a guard of 100 men. The three men went on foot. Mrs. Spooner was carried in a shades, being then as she had been for several days exceedingly feeble. The procession was regular in Solomon. Just before they reached the place of execution one of the most terrific thunderstorms that had incurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, darkened the heavens. There followed an awful time. The loud shouts of the officers amidst a crowd of 5,000 people. The horses pressing upon those in front. The shrieks of the women in the tumult and confusion. The malefactor slowly advancing to the fatal three. Preceded by the dismal competence. The fierce coruscations of the lightning a thwart the darkened horizon. Quickly followed by loud peals of thunder and fired together and produced a dreadful scene of horror. It seemed as if the author of nature had added such terrors to the punishment of the criminals as might soften the stoutest heart of the most obdurate and abandoned. At length the place of execution having been reached, Ross, Buchanan and Brooks ascended the latter to the stage. Which art in heaven? Allo, be thy name. Ross made an audible prayer. The other two were engaged in silent devotions until they faced the noose. Mrs. Spooner, as she approached the tree, was seen to bow gracefully to many of the spectators with whom she had been acquainted. Then she crept up the ladder on her hands and knees. When the eyes of the malefactors were covered and all was ready, Mrs. Spooner took the sheriff by the hand. And for the first time, Vassiba Spooner accepted the verdict of justice. My dear sir, I am ready. In the little time I expect to be in bliss. And but a few years must elapse when I hope I shall see you and my other friends again. And that's the way the newspaper recorded it. This has been my report of the crime of Vassiba Spooner, the first woman tried and executed for murder in the United States. In just a moment, Thomas Highland will tell you about next week's crime classic. The National Blood Program has been made part of the Department of Defense. That's how vital a continuing growing stockpile is against emergencies of war or peace. In the warm weather months, donations fall off. In the first week of June alone, donations drop 20%. This must be offset immediately.  You will enjoy your vacation more for having done it. And here again is Thomas Highland. Next week, we'll be with you at the same time, although geography and year will change. The place? Pimlico, England. The year, 1879. My report on the shockingly peaceful passing of Thomas Edwin Bartlett, Greengrocer. Thank you. Good night. Vassiba Spooner, tonight's crime classic, was adapted from the original court reports and newspaper accounts by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. The music was composed and conducted by Bernard Herman, and the program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis. Thomas Highland is portrayed on radio by Lou Merrill. Vassiba Spooner was played by Mary Jane Croft. 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There is something special about having a clean and minimal dual display and now more than ever, a productive workspace is needed to not only get things done, but to stay motivated and inspired as we've spent more and more time at home. First off, I'd like to say that I'm very grateful and blessed to have the opportunity to share my setup. This has been a work in progress for a while, so by no means did I build this setup in one day. It's important to figure out what setup works best for you, otherwise you'll spend money on displays and a setup that doesn't maximize your productivity. Since I'll be working from home for the foreseeable future, I thought it'd be best to go with a dual display setup that's similar to my desk setup in office. I chose two Dell U2017D monitors for my dual display. I didn't get both monitors at the same time, but I knew that Dell's ultra-sharp series of monitors are high quality and work seamlessly together in a multi-monitor setup. I did consider getting an ultra-wide monitor and having that as my main display, but I realized that a dual display is better for someone who codes like myself on a regular basis. So if need be, I can rotate my monitor 90 degrees to portrait mode, which makes reading longer program files easier. These monitors offer a fully adjustable pivot, tilt, and swivel, so I figured it's a no-brainer to go with these ultra-sharp displays for my setup. Also at 27 inches with a resolution of 2560 by 1440, at 60 Hertz gives me more than enough screen real estate while programming and color accuracy and clarity while video editing. What stood out to me the most is the build and physical design with minimal branding reducing distraction. The infinity edge makes them practically bezel-less with a near seamless dual display experience. The top left and right borders measure at 7.3 millimeters and bottom border measuring at a little over 8 millimeters. The Dell U2017D monitors did come with a stand that is quite nice and sturdy, but I decided to replace the stand with the dual monitor desk mount made by Inlin. This mount is specially designed to free up space, which allows for greater productivity and organization, which is something I value because my desk is only 47 inches long and 23 inches wide. The black color pairs well with the white desktop and Dell ultra-sharp monitors so it seamlessly integrates into my setup. The heavy-duty C-clamp has made adjusting the monitors a lot easier. Actually I did use the vivo monitor mount for a single display and although this mount is more expensive, it's much more sturdier and is much easier to build and break down. The maximum turning rate is 180 degrees to the left and to the right. The turning rate is important if you want to maximize your monitor's swivel versatility. The arms do extend to the back so you'll want to pull your desk out so they don't scratch your wall. Overall, I'm satisfied with this dual monitor mount. It holds both monitors in place very well. The J5 Create USB 3.1 adapter is what I'm currently using to connect the displays to my Dell XPS 15. This is a 7.9 inch mill to dual HDMI female multi monitor adapter. I know there are many different ways to connect dual monitors to a computer or laptop but I found this the most simple way that's fast and portable along with being durable and compatible with Windows and Mac.  Peripherals of choice are the Logitech MX Master 3 and Logitech MX Keys. This mouse and keyboard pair perfectly together, well they were designed that way. According to my palms and wrists is the MX palm rest which has made a huge difference in comfortability and performance. So that's my dual monitor desk setup. I know it's a bit minimal in bare bones but it's easily customizable to whatever my liking is at the time and I plan on making upgrades to the desktop along with adding some drawers and speakers. As always thank you for watching this video, comment down below some of your thoughts. Give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it at all or if you want to see more content like this. Subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. I hope you and your families are staying safe and healthy and have a blessed rest of your week. I'll see you all soon. Peace.


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Our mode of development is so much based on growth, but what we know now scientifically and what is confirmed by the IPCC is that economic growth is simply not compatible with a flourishing human society nor a flourishing natural world. And I think a step for every board leader, for every member, for every social entrepreneur is to ask what does it actually mean to develop my sector, my industry, my enterprise where the growth imperative is actually taken away, where we instead focus on a well-being economy, we instead focus on well-being strategies, where the core and purpose of why exist, what do we do, really is to serve human flourishing and a growth society is I think eventually what a sustainable society would look like on a global scale. There's economic growth and there's uneconomic growth. Of course there's growth within limits, there's growth to an extent where there's certain industries that need to grow, that support human flourishing, you're talking about education, you're talking about healthcare, you're talking about those that contribute to human well-being. But actually the question we need to be asking is what are the other aspects of the economy that maybe are not serving us any longer to really be out of control and its growth? Places like fast fashion, when it comes to military emissions, when it comes to planned obsolescence of psychology, these are the things that we know we can no longer keep growing exponentially and we think about GDP growth and global GDP growth even at 2% a year, you scale that exponentially for the next 100 years, there are simply not enough rocks, materials on this planet, not enough human communities are able to sustain that level of growth for the next century. What our economic models would look like will actually be quite diverse depending on if you're in a desert or in a forest area, depending which industries you have access to, what your skills are and I think what the future holds for us is that there's not going to be just this one economic paradigm and that's partly what got us to where we are today. The metrics are no longer what's GDP growth in a particular sector and how are we contributing to that.  What does it mean for us to be focusing on growth and what is the type of growth that we need and actually what is the type of degrowth we need in this world?


Who are you how did you enter her life? How'd you enter her life from birth? How many generations were you in her in this family six generations? What was the open door? How'd you enter this this family? How did you enter her family what's the cause? Six six generations ago. How did you why'd you enter her family her grandmother was given to you? Okay, this is how you enter their life and they give her my name. They gave her your name. Yes, what have you done in her life? Destroy her.    She has no job. She will not work. She prays a lot.  She wants to serve God She prays now the whole family's praying why she was praying for everybody now. Why everybody's praying why? Why why don't you like prayer and certain Jesus name? Why don't you like prayer? You can't do what you need to do How does prayer limits you You're hot.  What do you plan for her life? How do you plan to destroy her life? We pay with pain. What else? What have you done in her family Destroyed our whole family. You destroyed her family. How did you destroy the family? I? Make them to be fruitless Fruitless all her siblings. They're all educated. They have masters degree even her She has them but there will not work. Nobody will work who's responsible for it. You are What have you done in our health? I?    How are you feeling? Do you feel light?   Say, thank you, Jesus We welcome you to the anointing water prayer line in the USA. Tell us your name and where you are from My name is deep a bonga matinee. I'm from Columbus, Ohio And can you please tell us what's the problem that brought you here to receive prayer with the anointing water? Stagnation Disappointment failure at the verge of every breakthrough and can you please tell us how was it affecting your everyday life? It's affecting me in every way I Couldn't get a job. No matter how qualified. I am no matter how good my credentials were and I wouldn't just be rejected at the first interview I will literally have to go through and then at the end of tell me all we like you, but we can't hire you and My health I'm constantly sneezing anybody that knows me. I didn't bring a doctor's report word Anybody that knows me from the day I was born till now. They know that I'm always carrying a tissue I'm constantly sneezing. I'm constantly clocked all the time And can you tell us what happened today when you received prayer with the anointing water at the prayer line today? I can't really say but Just before It was my turn. I was praying in my heart and I said whatever Thing that isn't me. You will not hide. You will not run today. You must come out That's what I was saying and I said well, you cannot go far. I don't want you to go and wait for me outside You would stay in here and leave me today So when the evangelist where he said open your mouth and he sprayed the morning water in my mouth I Felt like a turning in my stomach kind of my stomach my lower part like some turning something happened And then I realized that I was you know talking I couldn't control it Like it's like I was hearing myself speak Can you tell us was this you that was saying that You pray too much you entered through birth six generations That you have no job. I Can't do what I need to do because of prayer That you have pain you destroyed the whole family. Can you tell us was that you that was speaking those things? That was definitely not me because I want to work and I definitely love to pray and I don't want anything to hold me back That was not me. That was the demon speaking. That was not me Can you confirm to tell us are those things actually happening in your life those things that the demon Confessed through you. Yes. Yes, because in my family I was the first person that actually got saved And I prayed and I saw see that I said Lord my family is gonna be saved my siblings my mom and now they are It is true Can you tell us? How do you feel after the prayer? I felt like I Felt really light like something. I don't know something left. I felt like and And do you believe you have been set free and delivered? Oh, yes, I do I do I believe I believe that I'm excited Amen now we encourage you to stay close to God and far from sin that this miracle you received will be permanent in Your life in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Thank you Jesus


I'm so excited to talk about my experience for Oasis World here. In this session, I would like to show my experience to help you to find a way to contribute to Oasis World as your way. Let me introduce myself first. I'm Kazuhaki Matsuo from Japan. Please call me Kazu. My social media accounts are almost Kazukokoa. The code is come from the iOS framework. I work in Haspin as a senior software engineer, devised automation. I also heavily commit to contribute to Appian project. It takes almost five years after my first commitment to the GitHub repositories. Nowadays, I work as a senior software engineer, but previously, I worked as a test or a quality engineer. So maybe my experience is actually recently worked for a software engineer, but my best experience is, I believe, almost close to you. And today's topic is here. I want to talk about my experience, how to start contributing to Oasis project. First, and I hope you find an example to contribute to Oasis, especially Appian. Now, second topic is about the Oasis community. In here, I want to show the community roughly and where you are. This should be interesting if you want to find a good opportunity to contribute to Appian project. So, in the end, I hope you will get an insight or motivation to work for Oasis communities. If you can find such good points for Appian project, my talk should be a very good success. Let's start. The first topic is my experience in Westworld. Listener, I'd like to show my career, and my career starts as a software engineer. I experienced a couple of years for automation, testing stuff, a managed project or a product. I also did software testing as well. In work, I definitely used Oasis tools, but I was just a user. I was not so aggressively to commit Oasis project. So, my mind was just a user. I know GitHub activity is not the only thing to indicate my Oasis activities, but let me show my GitHub to show my change. The first commitment was to practice mobile automation stuff using Appian. This is just for me. I think this is a very common thing when you learn new things or investigate something and try to use something, and you change some code, writing a code, and push their GitHub to remain some of your activities. But this is just for me. But after 2014, the number of commitments increased. The target was not only for Appian, but also other Oasis projects. Why I changed so? The first thing was previous companies culture. I joined Cookpart as my second career as a test or quality engineer. Since I wanted to express software testing and software quality more, I worked like an Azure testers such as automation, manual testing, improving software development processes, and more other quality-related activities there to build such quality culture in the company. Then I got a responsibility for mobile application with Appian. So I bet through Appian for mobile automation for both Android and iOS because I was only one test engineer in there, so I must cover Android and iOS by only me. The decision was my first reason why I got interested in Appian. The most significant impact for me to contribute to the Oasis commitment was the company encouraged the employees to contribute to Oasis. The Cookpart heavily used Ruby. Ruby is the programming language. The Ruby is an Oasis product, and Cookpart had committed to the language itself as a company. The company's performance review had a commitment to Oasis project product as an engineer. Thus, I started contributing to Oasis project steadily. The number of commitments had increased after joining the Cookpart, and surprisingly, I noticed that my first commitment to the Appian project was 2014. I just searched when I created this talk. It was almost five years ago, very surprised. I can remember the first issue even now, since the commitment was my first time to known individual Oasis project. I was very nervous then, so I tested very carefully even it was a very, very small fix. The motivation was I wanted to fix the issue as a user. I fixed the issue when I run tests on my environment. One good thing for Oasis product is we can fix it if we find some issues in the repositories. This is a very good thing. This commit is much very quickly. The process was definitely easier than expected. The experience was my first commitment to Appian repositories. That was really amazing. After a while, I continued to work for Appian project and other Oasis project as well. GitHub activity also became being grown. In 2017, I finally became a technical committer in Appian project. The green color does not contain the private repositories ever since public one. This is just a public one and nowadays the activity is kind of became my routine work. And finally, I moved to Head Spin to current job to focus on evolving mobile performance automation environment and grow the environment further. The commitment for Appian project is continuing. I talked about my first commit and that was very small. But after the commit, I felt my commitment was very not so difficult. So the commitment itself is not so hard if you down once. And for a while, I fix some issues which I faced when I use Appian in my project. I use Ruby client mainly since as I showed you, Ruby was a primary language in the cook path. Almost engineer were able to implement Ruby code and we had many helpful Ruby related libraries internally. We could use them to make handling test easy. After a while, unfortunately, the Ruby Appian binding changed to the status as a call for maintainers. And then I decided to work for Ruby as a primary main Ruby binding as a primary maintainer. The motivation was easy. I use it very heavily in the company work. After that, I changed something, for example, adapting the W3C spec support in Ruby binding and separate some complicated features into core part and the decorated part. And I also worked with Selenium guys. For example, Selenium guys have their project called Waiter. And we collaborated with code name top Waiter, which is our Waiter for mobile. I also started to commit to Appian server side as well as client side, developing Appian further. I have sold experience for Android and iOS. So my experience on my work also very helpful to me to enhance the Appian and the commitment. So nowadays, I currently commit to the client, not only Ruby, but also Python and sometimes .NET. I'm not familiar with .NET, so we need maintainers for .NET, by the way. And server side as well. And currently I'm working at Hatspin, but not full time Appian committer, just a part time. And my commitment to the Appian project become routine work in my private time as well. I talked about my experience, how to leverage my commitment in OSS project, especially Appian case. My first step was find a small issue and fix that issue. And after that, I could leverage their commitment to the more widely. If you are not familiar with OSS world, I think maybe your commitment, you are trying to commit, then you feel very scared, because some negative review or something will get. But once you can work for it, I believe your feel become better. And then you will get more opportunities to make your experience deep for OSS world. And maybe you can find more experience in the software world. From now, I want to show the OSS communities. I talked about my experience, but the only important thing in my talking about my experience was, you will find an example in the OSS world activities. My experience was mainly committed to the code base. I heard similar questions by many people, such as friends and colleagues. Exactly the commitment to the code base is very important to evolve the product and project. But this is not the only way to evolve communities. Let me decorate a graph. This green color is a kind of feature and documentation stuff, so it shows the core members develop and fix some issues. We also investigate some course and issues and fix them or write a documentation, how some features work or some practices. It includes not only Appian developers, but also implementing Appian binding libraries or other related libraries. But time is limited. No one can work everything. And around the development members, we need the blue color is kind of supporters in the community. For example, this means they guide some beginners or answer against the questions in somewhere. And hopefully there are some users who get answered by the supporters or developers. Then the guy will be the next supporters for the other guys. This cycle is very important in the OSS communities. Of course, the most people is just a user. So the yellow color is just a user. And in the community, there is a user just asking and maybe mainly using. But not to feedback to their core team or supporters, but they are supported by blue colors one. But the important thing is they are not hierarchy. They are very flat and the difference is just a role. So we should support each other to evolve the communities. This is the OSS world. Nowadays, Appian is one of the just foundation members. So the tools have been developed by committee base. So we need more power by committee. For interesting, in Japan, we have a local committee for people living in Japan. Nozomi, who will be one of the speaker tomorrow, is a leader and I sometimes help Appian users in these communities. This activity is kind of blue or green color in the previous page. And if you are interested in commit, from now I will talk about some projects in Appian If you are interested in trying to create new issues in Appian or try to help Appian project at the first place, we started one localization project. On Appian desktop, we already provide maybe three or four, five, six languages. They are translated in this project. No one can speak all natural languages in the world. So this project is very important by help you because I'm really not sure the Indian languages, of course. So many people, for example, in Japan, also almost 100% finished into translating in Japanese and Chinese also in some place are very active to translating from English to their languages. And this is very easy thing to commit to the project. And documentation also very important but very easy to commit. The commitment to documentation is, I know, actually need a kind of special skills because documentation should be help understanding the project product. For developer, sometimes we describe technically and very deeply. It sometimes make understanding difficult for beginner or for some users. So hopefully as a user improving documentation and creating a PR is a very appreciate. Improving documentation for users as a user is very important to support users as a one of the committee. We also have a forum. Maybe if you, I hope someone already used this or noticed. If you have any questions or something you want to get answered, this may be not a bug. Then you can post your questions in this forum. Then someone apply for your question. And in our project, we have a level, good first issue, and help wanted. For example, in Python case, we have this kind of good first issue. And if you are interesting in committing the code base, then this, and if you know Python and you can implement some easy script for Python, then this there should be very good for first place. For example, yesterday I did a workshop to become a committer, find a bug. Then only maybe seven hours in that, we already got our two PRs. And they are very small and very easy. But there is another PR already done, similar thing. So very easy to create a PR and commit to the code base. We also have some levels in there. This is a few main repository. There is an enhancement or good first issue. And in some issue is just an improving error message. This change also happened yesterday. Very small, just a log debug message. But this is also a very good first issue to contribute to our code base. This is our final page. I talked about my experience and start contribute to OSS world from small change and leverage to the more repositories. And my activities for OSS became the routine work. And I also told you the OSS committee needs more help, your work. For example, commit to the documentation, question and answer. Or if you are interested in the commit to the code base, then fixing issue or a new feature or something is also very good place. Hopefully, some of listeners get our motivation to or interesting in contributing a hope free app in project or OSS project around you. Thank you very much.


Good afternoon and welcome back to the touchline on Y2F5. My name is Maxwell Waseke. Right now we speak about the state of boxing in the canton and we are glad to be joined by Public Relations Officer for Boxing Association of Kenya Dan Kankura, who is also a former international boxer, also known as Suga Re. Suga Re, good to join us and good afternoon. How have you been? Good afternoon Maxwell, I'm good. The last time I saw you, it was before you went to Morocco or Abat for all Afrika games. How was the experience being there? It was a very good experience. We had a very short time to prepare our team for the Afrika games, but then we went and participated very effectively. We competed again as very competent teams and we were able to get five medals. Apart from the games themselves, we also had an interaction with the Aiba president, so we were able to correct a few things with the administration of Aiba, which also helps in our relationship with Aiba, so I'm thinking so far so good. Do you think that was the best performance from Kenyan team because going by the 2015 brother wild results, it was three medals overall? No, in Kongo brother we only got two bronze. Yes, it was Niko Kote in Lightweight and Helia Joy. So they both got bronze and they were both in the team that went to Morocco for Afrika games. I think the team performed much better. I think the guys were motivated. The morale in the team was very high. The president of the federation, Mr Jamal, really motivated the guys because he was always there training with the boxers and he was able now even to motivate them in terms of giving them allowances here and there, sorting small problems within the camp. So we were not really dependent on the allowances that are paid by the government. So I'm thinking that aspect of management is what now enables the boxers to perform much better this time because like I've already said, it's the same boxers that were there before, but this time the performance by the same boxers is much improved. So I'm thinking the management aspect of it was very positive and it cascaded down to the boxing unit, which was very good and we are thinking going forward with more time to prepare especially for the Olympic qualifiers. I'm thinking we are going to perform much much better in future. Osora Robert, while we were speaking about Adela Amruch and the courts of arbitration for sports ruling on FKF paying him his dues, there is also another pronouncement. From what boxing, Kansu, if I'm not wrong, on Fatuma Zarika's rematch, she was supposed to confirm her rematch against Mercado by yesterday evening. I don't know whether this goes a long way in trying to ensure that, you know, sanity prevails in boxing as a sport. I think for Fatuma Zarika she is in a very tough situation because for us she is in the professional boxing category. That's what is making her tough and then you realize that her promoter and most of activities have been sponsored by the betting company, SportPesa. Now the problem is the moment SportPesa pulls out of that sponsorship, she remains alone. She doesn't have any money that she is going to use for the training. Remember the company was helping her pitch come in England, get most of a professional training in England, good equipment that she is going to use. But now she will be alone with no professional coaches, no backup plan on how she is going to do for that much. And the title if she confirms that she is going to fight, she might not be able to hold the fight here in Nairobi. She has to hold it outside the country and that probability is the title might go away. When we are speaking about promotional activities and sponsorship for boxing as a sport, I have seen several boxers, even Judy Waguthi, I know you know her, trying to appeal to good sponsors and Samaritans to come on board and ensure that she fights so that she remains active in boxing. And that has been a challenge. Do you think the sponsorship and promotional aspect of the game has been main and doing of the sport to grow? I think it's one of the biggest challenges that we have in the sport, boxing especially and I think across, even the other sporting discipline has issues with sponsorship. But now for the first time we had seen a lot of improvement in terms of staging big games in the country, courtesy of the sponsorship that we are getting through SportPesa. You remember the fights that Zarika had at KICC, they were funded by SportPesa. And the logistics of organizing a major title fight like WBC, they are massive. And the risk that we stand is that both Judy and Fatuma Zarika, they can lose their titles because of not being able to organize the defense here in the country especially. And you remember when Zarika won her title, it was against Jamaica and in America. And it was a surprise, they didn't expect she can win it. And even after she won it, she was not paid her money. So it's always advantageous when you have such a major fight, you hold it at home. Where the crowd is with you, all the preparation logistics are much much easier when you are doing a match at home than when you are away. But then now when it comes to even funding the preparation part of it, it becomes a serious challenge because you need a proper diet to be able to prepare well for about. You need movement, you need publicity, there are a lot of things that need to be done. Just hold your mic from the middle, yes. There is a lot of logistics that is involved in organizing such major fights. And without sponsorship like what SportPesa was giving, it will be at all order. You see now the challenge I find with our government is now you do away with a betting company like SportPesa which is spending so much money in helping the youths who are involved in sports. But then nothing comes in to fill the gap that has been left. There is a serious void that has been left in terms of sports promotion across the country. Not just in boxing, even in football. I still hope that we will suffer the community clubs. And you see now if we are talking about sports fund, it has its challenges in terms of how it is administered like now. Our national women's boxing team is supposed to be in Russia for world championship. They are not able to travel because of funding issues. So I think the government is really to consider the issue of sports sponsorship and the sport betting company because there is a serious void which they had come and had to fill. And the future was very bright. But now when they are not there, I am thinking it is going to be very tough for the youths of this country. I think the government is at fault, yes, but I think the major problem is also with the sports federation because the sports federation, one thing that they need to do is they need to come together. Past being boxing, past being football, past being valuable and everything. They need to come together and come up with calendars. They come up with their own sports calendars, come up with budgets that in before financial year starts, they need to petition the government and tell them this is what we are going to do. If you realize that with all the government bureaucracy that is going on, if you come midway through the financial year and tell the government that we need 60 million for this and this, it will be very hectic for the minister and also the government to give you that money. So these sports federation, they need to know that in a year we have let's say five events, prepare for the five events and present that budget early enough the government can consider. Because now the government at the moment the government is in a situation where even the sports fund itself was to be funded by this company. The money that was coming from this betting companies and all the other companies for CSR activities now it is not going to be there. So the government is actually has put itself in a situation where they need to also get into the budget level and make sure that they inject money into the sports activities. Now it will be very hard for sports activities to be funded which do not bring glory to Kenya. I know corporate confidence is attracted by accountability and transparency of those who are at the helm of various sporting federation. Jamal Otien Omboku now is in charge of BAK as the president after the elections and a few changes have been witnessed at the helm. Do you think what is happening right now BAK can attract a close association with other stakeholders who won't sponsor and finance your activities? Yes I think how we are managing our affairs can give confidence to the corporate world first because whatever small resources you have you must show how you are utilizing the resources and accounting for every coin that you have. I like the way he is speaking as if he is speaking for the government because you know there are rules, there are regulations which are supposed to guide how you apply for the funds. And every federation actually gives a calendar of activities and before for every financial year. Yes you have planned a whole year and you have provided budgetary allocation for each event that you are supposed to participate in. But you see now it's a problem when that pot every sport discipline is supposed to fetch from that pot. So it's very difficult when... So it gets drained. Yes and it's not just federation even individuals. Yes. You know now with the sports act you can register as a professional athlete. Even as an individual. There is a system for that. So there is no discrimination that this sport does not bring glory to the country so it can't be funded. There is nothing like smaller federation. No there is nothing like that. All of them are supposed to be given some treatment. Because all sporting discipline are supposed to be funded from that kitty. Regardless of if you are bringing glory or not because glory is not part of the criteria for accessing the funds. So I am thinking the way he said there is a component where the federation is supposed to be accountable. The problem in this country is that a lot of federation are bad rangals. Yes. And rangals are not productive to the sports at all because if anything they are... That's what keeps away the corporate world and potential sponsors from coming to support the sports. So we think the... Like a box federation the way we are handling ourselves is attractive to potential sponsors. But we need to keep you know step up our game. We need to venture into marketing activities. We need to professionalize how we operate. Ideally federation and even sporting clubs are supposed to be professional such that they are able to generate some income to sustain themselves. At the moment I think most of our clubs and even federation they entirely depend on funding from the government. Which is a major undoing also. Which is a major undoing. So I think going forward people we need to come up with a model of how we can fund sports and we professionalize our clubs. So that clubs are able to fund their activities and I think that is a model which will be sustainable because now this one where everybody is looking at the government and the government has got so many other responsibilities to handle because it's not just sports that the government is handling. They are more challenging areas with their emergencies, their disasters and the government. Everybody is looking at the government. So we need to see how as probably the ministry of sports can come up with a model of how respective federation and sports clubs within the federation can be able to professionalize their activities. So that they are able to be sustainable, they can be income generating, they have different activities that they can be able to do. Like what I have seen with football they are trying with club licensing to professionalize how clubs operate. You know you don't have to be depending entirely on getting donations to be able to maybe honor your fixtures. But you see now like even in boxing sometimes it becomes very difficult for clubs to attend league fixtures because they are not able to fund even movement through the tournaments. The question I love because traditionally the major part between boxing and making money has been TV all over the world. You look at the way TV and boxing associations work to try and get together and try to get promotions and get a big company behind them. So I think the fight between Floyd Mayweather and Pacquiao, the days even from the Titans and everything. For boxing association of Kenya, what are you doing considering that so that you can get, let's say you start small so that people can start knowing that you guys are back and you are doing things differently. So what are the things that you are doing to try and bring that on board? I like that question. Yes we actually I think for the short period I think at the moment we are just about 93 days in office. And within this short time I think we've been visible enough. People in the country get to know exactly what is it that you are doing. The performance that we got from Africa Games is a testament to the improvement and the changes that we have implemented within the federation. And probably I need to correct you, nowadays we don't call boxing association of Kenya, we are boxing federation of Kenya in compliance with the sports act. So things have changed even the name of the federation is BFK, not BAK like it was before. But I agree with you, the component of marketing and visibility through TV is one of the key areas that we need to work on. But at the moment in amateur boxing it has not been very vibrant. So we've not had a scenario where even league matches are being shown live on TV. But in professional it has worked very well. There is a model that the international boxing federation has tried to introduce which was trying to bring a component of professional boxing within amateur boxing. It was called WPB, the one oku or Kenokiru playing WPB. So it didn't work very well. At the moment it's not work, it has failed. But the thing is because how the whole concept was thought about was not the best. And the funding of the activities also had challenges. It made the international federation to incur a lot of debts in terms of how they were to fund the activities and some agreement that were entered into between some company from China and a former director of the international boxing federation. But locally we have not tried yet but we are making our effort to be seen, to be vibrant. So that the country gets to know what is it that within boxing we are trying to do. We have come up with the concept of boxing machinani. We want to take boxing to the grassroot in the county level. We believe we are trying to implement the… That's also partnering with the counties. Yes, Sports Act because sports is a devolved function. And we are thinking at the grassroot level is where we need to be felt most because that is where we are generating the talent. So what had happened is from around 1990 up to maybe 2000… Where we are now? Boxing started going down when we came up… The government came up with the program of structural adjustment programs where boxers who had been recruited into state corporations were basically employed because of their talent, not because of their education credentials. And when now issues of structural adjustment program came in, they started retrenching officers who were employed by different corporations who didn't have proper academic papers and sportsmen were the first ones to be kicked out with retrenchments. So what happened is that those clubs which were at the grassroot level most of them ended up dying out. So we are not generating enough talent at the grassroot level but the ones who are at the top level… Normally what happens is that the local clubs produce the talent, then the top clubs like Kenya Prison, Kenya Police, KDF, they recruit them into employment in their respective jobs. So what happens is that we never invest back into nurturing this talent at the grassroot level. So we need to reactivate those sales where this talent is produced at the grassroot level so that we are able to have depth at the national level where we make the league to be very competitive through having as many clubs participating within the county first because we need to organize a tournament to select a county team to participate in the league. So you have a championship at the county level, then when you are organizing a Kenya Open, you have different counties. For instance, within the Boxing Federation of Kenya we have 19 counties and that is inclusive of KDF, Kenya Prison and Kenya Police. So if we have those 19, they all have a team which they have selected competitively. Then you have a championship involving all those teams and we are assuming all the teams have full team. A full team in Boxing has 10 members, 10 boxes. It should be 10 for men and 10 for women. At the moment when it comes to the women's side we have few but it's much better than it was 3-5 years back. Most women are coming out now to join Boxing which is very good I think for the moment because we need to invest back in the women Boxing because even at the international level we are seeing they are trying to introduce what you call gender parity in Boxing and for the first time in these Olympic Games we are going to have 100 women participating in Boxing. I can educate the members of the public that women Boxing was introduced at the Olympic level in 2012, Land and Olympics. We had only three weight categories, fly weight, lightweight and middle weight. The same applies in the Rio Olympic Games where we still had the three weight categories and 36 female Boxers. But now going forward what has happened at the international level is that they have killed 2 weight categories in men where 64 slots which were for men now have gone to women so we are going to have a total of 286 slots for Boxers and 100 among those are going to be women. We are seeing it's an area that we also need to pick upon. We have brought in the issue of women and gender and everything is going well and we have discussed the challenges from the federation level from the international level. What I think people want to understand Golbi, what is that challenge a Boxer faces personally because I think that is one of the major challenges that we have for Boxers because this club that I grew up in Nakuru and Nakuru Railway was one of the biggest clubs that we had for Boxing. And they used to go to Madison Square. One of the biggest things that we had we had also Nairobi Railway Club was one of the big Mombasa and also Nyanyuki. Those were some of the biggest clubs that we had for Boxing and right now what was that challenge that a Boxer faces that sometimes they give up they don't want actually to go back and play the game. Thank you very much for that question. The biggest problem that the Boxers have is to earn a source of livelihood through their sport. Somebody will come because I believe Boxing is the toughest sport in the world. Its training is very tough. So a Boxer somebody will come to the gym each and every day first they also have challenges with equipments. You come to the gym you don't have boxing gloves there are no bugs. We just train maybe running around doing shadow boxing but you require to have the boxing equipments. Basically you need gloves for sparing then you have pads and the punching gloves to punch the pads we need a punching bag and gloves to punch the bag. Then you need a bit of skipping rope so that you are able to jump the ropes maybe it's part of the exercise regime in Boxing. So once you have those equipments and you train now the biggest challenge is now what do you get out of this sport? After you come you are spending so much time in training but then at the end of it you don't earn anything back and that's why you see now the Boxers who are employed maybe in the forces KDF and Kenya Police are the ones who are doing so well because they are assured of an income at the end of the month they have a salary at the end of the month to sustain themselves so it's become much easier for them to Box. These are the ones where we have maybe these self-sponsored clubs there's nothing you will get you just come for training you spend so much time preparing for a tournament sometimes you don't even go for those tournaments because your club cannot be able to fund travelling to a championship when you go maybe when you have a league we have a league tournament there is also some participation fee that is paid of 2000 shillings per club sometimes some clubs cannot afford that amount so those are the small challenges that a Boxer will encounter and sometimes it is discouraging because everybody wants to improve their livelihood you want to live a better life than those who are there maybe before you and sometimes you see now sometimes even you are here at the national team level you are representing your country sometimes you come back without having paid those allowances so when you go back somebody thinks because they saw you on TV you have a lot of money and your pockets are empty so those are some of the discouraging things that are in the sporting fraternity because I only say those are just things that are encountered in Boxing alone but even in this other sporting discipline you encounter the same before Zoro asks you another question for the first time in the history of the sport locally there are two men who are at the helm of the leadership of that particular discipline of course Kenya Professional Boxing Commission now Ruben Dolo former member of parliament and he has also been actively involved in the management of the sport at international level and Jamal which also former Boxer being in charge of Amacha how are you working together how is the partnership for the growth of the sport ideally we need to have a very good working relationship because in the Amacha ranks that's where somebody gets experience of Boxing and there's a provision even in the statutes in the Boxing world where when you get to 40 years you are not able to continue Boxing at the Amacha level you need to maybe retire or go to professional ranks but in an ideal setup I believe once somebody has represented Kenya at the Olympic level I don't see why you should continue being in Amacha ranks trying to go for three or four Olympic games when you can be able to go to professional and be able to earn some money out of your talent so in the past we've had a very bad working relationship between the Amacha ranks and professional because those who were in the leadership helm at that time they were seeing it as if it's a crime for an Amacha Boxer to associate with a professional Boxer so you find now because of that hostility in terms of the leadership most Boxers who are not standing professional at the right edge in fact given up to now most of our Boxers overstay in the Amacha ranks in my opinion because you find somebody who is more than 30 years old that's when you want to turn professional Did Boxers like Gisharu play pro? No he didn't but he participated in the the one that is organized by Aiba for about 2 to 3 years that's part of professional but Okuri is now in professional ranks but you see now when you look at their age they are not in their 20s they are all in their 30s but you go out there you find Boxers who are young enough I'll give you an example of a Boxer from Cuba he is called Ramirez he is 24 years old he has won two Olympic golds and he has turned professional you have a bit of years to be able to make money in the professional ranks participating at that level at highest level the problem is when you turn professional when you are more than 30 years old you know the mileage that's late get a younger Boxers from abroad it will be a tall order for you just like you look you follow football so much it's not very easy for a top club to sign a player who is over 30 years old such a player unless you are exceptionally talented and you are also not going to get many years in your contract it will be maybe one year to be extended at the end of it so there is a serious challenge in terms of our Boxers transiting from professional ranks to professional ranks but now with the new leadership I think we can improve that Dolo has been in Boxing for a very long time Jamal has been in Boxing for a long time somebody like me have been in Boxing for a very long time and we are working together with them we are able to advise them how we need to arrange the whole transition phase where a Boxer who has participated at the national team level we don't need to keep them so much within the amateur ranks we make them transit easily to professional again I think there is something that has been worked on with the professional Boxing commission office that I don't know whether I would say they were not elected back they had an election which had issues so the office that was there tried to organize with the defense forces to allow their Boxers also to turn professional because that was another challenge that was there is it not about an individual decision it has to be negotiations yes it is an individual decision but you also have to respect that these people are employed by those respective organizations and the reason why they employed you is to participate for them in the national league so for if you want to go professional you need to get approval from your work so that was a challenge but which I believe the head of the Boxing team in Kenya defense forces was able to work with the leadership of our military our military KDF and they have come up with an agreement that the Boxers in KDF can be able to transit to professional ranks and I think that is a very good step towards enabling our Boxers to be able to participate in the professional ranks easily because if somebody now if somebody tells you that because you are employed within this organization then you are not able to participate in professional boxing somehow they are curtailing your career progression I don't know how because now when you are military again now you have a different career in the military but now this is a talent that you use to get that employment and that's what actually they do most of the time because our Boxers who are in the forces most of the time they are on release doing boxing that's what they know best so before we wrap I know Zoro Robert had some question before I let you go for me I just wanted to say if you can is there hope for the future because you are young in office at the moment you are young you are trying to put your things in order is there hope for the future is tremendous hope very high hopes because the new leadership has come up with a lot of ideas on how to improve the livelihood of the Boxers themselves we need to prepare them also for life after boxing that is something that has never been done before so you will find most of our Boxers they don't live very decent lives especially after they have participated in boxing for a long time and brought a lot of glory to the country sometimes you meet them out there and you feel like running away so we need to see how we can also be able to take care of them after somebody has done a lot of service for the country for very many years when they have retired I think we can find a way of helping them also to give back we have like I've told you we are doing boxing don't be machinani boxing back to the grass roots we think it's an opportunity to be able to use the former international Boxers who have retired to be able to go and nurture talent within those clubs so we second them to different clubs within the counties so that they are able to tap the role talent that is available at the grass root level and that way I think they will be able to help them because if we keep you in a club and we have a stipend for you at the end of the month at least it keeps you going other than being loitering around waiting for hand out somewhere I think that's a way in which you can be able to help our former international who are retired to be able to give back to the sport and also improve the quality that is being produced at the local level but on top of that we also need to organize a lot of coaching courses we have a serious challenge in terms of the level of certified coaches available in the country like most of the clubs that we are talking about in the counties they don't have coaches who have attained like Aiba star 1 ranking and you need to understand that the national level team national team level is only star 3 that is able to handle national team and at star 3 level I think we only have about 7 in the country and then in terms of also officials the referee and judges we have another big problem because we only have one star 2 and a few star 1 the one who is star 2 is the one who is in charge of the referee and judges and you see now like for instance the african games that we participated in we participated in Morocco the minimum requirement for an official to share in such a games was star 3 which we don't have in the whole country so we have a serious challenge that I'm thinking to be able to use some of those former boxers to be able also to do these courses for referee and judges so that we have adequate resources within our counties when you organize a tournament maybe if it's kisumu you are able to have officials within kisumu officiating such a tournament rather than having to use funds to transport officials from Nairobi to come and officiate a small tournament in kisumu it's not very helpful considering that you are saying most of our clubs don't have adequate resources to be able to fund the activities throughout the season always a pleasure speaking to you Dan Kankuria public relations officer and communications manager for boxing federation of Kenya is also a former international boxer joining us to tell us the state of boxing in the country and the progress of the current regime led by Jamal always a pleasure speaking to you probably next time we shall create a whole show so that we can talk about boxing in our bid to restore the glory of the sport thank you for coming through and all the best thank you very much of course that has been state of boxing we take a short break and of course the guru joins us on the set in a few minutes time that is Paul Bitok the acting coach for Malkia Strikas and former national team coach for Rwanda don't go away stay tuned


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Britain could produce weapons in Ukraine. Senior British defence industry officials are discussing the possibility of manufacturing weapons and armoured vehicles in Ukraine under a local licence, the Telegraph reported. Some executives have already visited Kiev to explore options for setting up joint ventures, the newspaper wrote. According to the report, British manufacturers are concerned that their French and German rivals could be the first to seal a deal with Kiev. One executive was quoted as describing the negotiations as a race to put London at the front of the queue. It was also said that such a licensing deal would likely require the approval of the British government. The news comes as Ukraine's Western supporters step up their military aid to Kiev amid its armed conflict with Russia. Britain pledged last month to deliver a squadron of Challenger 2 tanks for the first time. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who hosted Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky during this unannounced visit to the UK, instructed the Ministry of Defence to study the issue of supplying Kiev with further jets. We take these decisions carefully and we do it thoughtfully. We are aware of potential exploratory risks, Sunak's spokesperson said. Moscow has repeatedly warned that flooding Ukraine with foreign weapons would only lead to further escalation and that Western arms would be treated as legitimate targets. These actions will not substantially change the outcome of the conflict, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters. He added that military aid to Kiev would only make the conflict more painful for Ukraine. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine nearly a year ago, citing Kiev's failure to implement the 2014-2015 Minsk peace accords.


Hello, I am here with my dear friend Lacey Johnson. What sport do you play? Basketball and track and field. Alright Lacey, I'm going to give you some quick questions and I want some quick answers. What's your favorite food? Tacos. What's your pregame song? My Dog by Little Baby. What's your favorite professional team? The Warriors. What's your favorite vacation spot? Hawaii. Nice. Well, thank you Lacey and I hope you enjoy the rest of your night. Thanks man.


stop smothering men and this is actually something that really goes deeper into this space of like feeling like you're not worthy feeling like you have to do something in order to make him love you right which is the exact opposite of what you want to do if you want a guy to love you is if you want to go to love you you need to give him some room and give him some air to breathe and some space so that his the fire of his desire can grow and grow and grow until it's you know until he's like really in love with you and he really likes you a lot and the only way you can do that is by backing off and giving him some space men appreciate and value women when that woman's not around him all the time right we appreciate and value things when we experience what it's like to not have them and so if you want him to value you more instantly and immediately one of the fastest ways to do that is to pull your presence away which is the opposite of smothering him and so I get women all the time in our community that are just constantly smothering dudes and you don't want to do that he won't love you more if you're on top of him and smothering him all the time


Hello, my name is Khalid, I'm a frontier developer in LibreOffice and I work mostly in text layout. This year we have a Google Summer of course for in fine low-level text layout in LibreOffice. Supposed to be a co-presentation with Akash but he didn't make it to the presentation. So how does LibreOffice do text layout? So we have a VCL module where all the work happens. There's a bot device class that provides the interface for other parts of LibreOffice. Trotex, Trotex.reg, it takes layout, stuff like that. Out device in itself does not do text layout. It uses another class called cell layout. I have no idea what cell is. Softer abstraction something. And cell layout itself does not do text layout either. It uses subclasses for each platform, for each font technology, even for each writing system. So that is the current structure. We have like 10 sub-alimentations of cell layout. I don't even know what many of them do. So we have graphite layout for graphite fontus. We have generic cell layout, not so generic actually. It's used only in Unix. And we have server font layout. And we don't do server fontus for like several decades or something. And we have PSB for boss scripted printing. And we also have PSB server layout for boss scripted printing. I don't know what is the difference between the two of them. And we have graphite layout, graphite server font layout. That is for graphite fontus on Unix as well. So like five classes on Unix just to do text layout. On Windows we have symbol layout. That is for so-called symbol scripts. English, Greek, really stuff like that. And we have Unix script in scribe. That is for complex scripts. Arabic, dictionary, Thai. And we also have graphite for Windows. On macOS we have only one layout class that uses course tickets that does not do graphite fonts. So only on... Graphite is not supported on Mac support. Only on Windows and Unix. And we have multi-cell layout. It took me actually like five years to understand multi-cell layout. It does font fallback. It's... Only verb is doing font fallback. And it is used only on Unix. Not used on Windows or on course tickets. Course tickets does its own fallback. We don't control it. I think it's obvious how much complexity do we have to just do the very low-level text layout. Taking some tickets, font file, and determining graph indices and positions. That is nothing fancy at all. We have all these classes to just do this. So we have complexity supporting all of this. Three classes on Windows, four classes on Unix. To just do post-script printing, which we do not actually use by default. We use BDF printing by default. And one class on Mac, but we don't do graphite fonts on Mac. I think the complexity is obvious. If you just do something same like adding user-controllable features. Something very basic. Should be 10 lines of code or something. But we need to modify all these eight classes, at least. But the biggest problem is the inconsistency. We use different engines on Windows, on Unix, on macOS. Different platforms have different levels of support. Windows XP supports some script, some version. Funicode, Windows Vesta supports new R1. Windows 8 supports even new R1. Windows 10 supports much newer R1. So a leper office user in Windows XP will not get the same supported language and writing system as the user on Windows 10. And the same between Windows and macOS. Open-type support in macOS have been historical very weak. Newer versions of macOS does better open-type support, but older versions was much weaker. We also don't have graphite fonts on Mac, so if someone uses a minority language and needs graphite fonts, graphites are mainly for minor to complex scripts that cannot be done as open-type. No luck on Mac. You can't use it. And also, different platform APIs give us different levels of flexibility. So for example, core-texture on macOS is very high-level. Then we need does bi-directional-texture, does font-fold-pack, and all stuff we don't need. We need to coerce it into a low-level library to do what we need. And this is not very successful integration. We do not control font-fold-pack on macOS, unlike other platformers. When does Unixcribe and Direct Drive provide low-level APIs that we can use? Unix is a fair game. So the solution. We just need one more class. So we had this year a whole summer of good project to unify the low-level text layout. We based our... Okay, so Akash, Jane did the work, and he did a very great job. We wish you would hear. It was my idea, and it is also part of a tender project by TDF to support cross-platform reliable text layout testing, because we currently cannot do reliable layout testing across platforms, because you might get different line breaks, different breaks even between different platforms for the same text and same font. So it is one class. It uses half-bars for everything, even for graphite fonts, because half-bars can do graphite fonts and even 8080 is an Apple-advanced text layout technology specific for Apple. There is no open source implementation for it, and half-bars can call core text ABI for 80 font max. We don't even need to care about it. We will just use half-bars ABI for all our layout. Font loading, like locating, which mapping font names to font files and loading files in memory is still done by platform APIs because it provides better compatibility with font installation and font loading across platforms. So half-bars does only shaping. Shaping is taking a string of text and font files are returning which glyphs at which positions should be shown. Half-bars is a well-tested cross-platform library actively maintained used by many big projects like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Android, and even on some other small projects. It tracks the latest versions of OpenType and Unicoot, so if Unicoot 10, Unicoot, what's the current version, Unicoot 6 or 7, supported a new language, a new writing system, half-bars will support it very quickly. We do not need to wait for Windows 11 or Windows 17 or whatever because it's very limited or macOS. OpenType introduced a new thing called Universal Shaping Engine last year and half-bars supported it a few weeks after the specification was published, which is only supported in Windows ABI Windows 10. So with using half-bars, we get the latest and greatest versions of OpenType and Unicoot support in whatever platform we use, whatever the native support by the platform is. So the current distance, we have a new common SLE outclass. We have a generic SLE out and a commenter. Anything that is hard. Good is integrated on Windows, mac and Unix platforms and we can do layout and rendering all these platforms using single class. We have still some issues to be solved with. There's some performance regressions, but I think we nailed most of it. FontFallback does not work currently on macOS because we never did FontFallback on macOS. We relayed on Cortex to do it. There's some small pieces missing to do font layout. Some complex Graphite Fonts are currently broken in our implementation because we based our code on the NX implementation which was never used for Graphite Fonts. Graphite had its own layout engine, so we have some smaller bugs we need to fix and apply it, et cetera. Yes, slight performance regression in the new code. I think we nailed most of it. We just need to do some filing and see if the new class itself is slightly slower than the older implementation. All the formats like Type 1 Fonts or Bitmap Fonts are not currently supported. They can be supported, but I think LibreOffice should drop Type 1 Fonts because Type 1 is very ancient format, like it was killed 15 years ago or something, and we have lots of arcane code to support Type 1 Fonts, so we are better off just killing it. But it can be supported, but it would not be too much of a change to support Type 1 Fonts. We still do not use user-control features that should be done at some point in the future. We had to use DirectWrite API for loading Fonts because GDI API is very printed, and so we currently do not support NXP, but it shouldn't be too hard for someone to understand this when there's GDI plus API to fix this because it's just a very small function that needs DirectWrite. Not so much would depend on it. Code is currently in a feature branch, but we should lend it a master soon. So soon on our master, we will have a few members or one we had this. Now we just made it even more complicated. We just added one more comment to say that. But if things went right and no big regressions and no one complained very loudly, we would start killing old classes and just have common Sally out which inherits from generic Sally out and turns inherits from Sally out. So we can just fold common Sally out into generic Sally out or even more the dreaming just have one Sally out class. So that is our, hopefully, the goal. So at this point we will just have one single class so we can start actual refactoring of the code. So the plan is to lend the code and master and have it off by default. We can currently switch between the old implementation and new one at runtime using environment variable. So after lending in master and making sure it builds on all platforms and there is no build problems, we can switch the new code on by default. Allow for some testing, even at least for the next release, keep the two versions. And if no one complains very loudly, we can start killing the code for 5.4 release. So thank you.


This is the last video in this week's collection of videos. We are going to talk about polysaccharides. That's the third type of carbohydrate. Polysaccharides are basically made by taking a bunch of monosaccharides and connecting them to each other in more or less the same way over and over again. This is my cartoon for a polysaccharide. All of these things are largely made of polysaccharides, so cotton. The money that US paper bills are printed on is cotton, although I think they're probably going to go to plastic at some point. Stuff in potatoes is mostly polysaccharide. There's not a whole lot that I'm going to expect you to know about polysaccharides, just a couple of things. There are many different kinds of polysaccharides. Some are made of glucose, which is a monosaccharide. A bunch of glucose is connected to each other over and over again. Some are made of fructose connected to each other over and over again, et cetera, et cetera. Some have one long chain. Other polysaccharides have branches, and I will show you an example of a branch in a little bit. For the most part, the job of polysaccharides is to store energy. In other words, you can get energy from sugar molecules like glucose and fructose, but if you don't need the energy from them, but you've eaten a lot of sugar, one of the things that your body can do is just connect them to each other, make a polysaccharide, and save that. Just save it as stored energy that might be able to be used later. A lot of times, polysaccharides are just used for energy storage. This is just what's shown in this bullet point. When you eat more than enough monosaccharides, in other words, if you eat a lot of sugar and you don't need the extra energy, your body will basically connect a bunch of those monosaccharides together, make a polysaccharide, and shove the polysaccharide in a closet somewhere in the cell and say, maybe I'll need you later. Like I said, there are many different kinds of polysaccharides. I'm just going to show you a parade of polysaccharides. Nothing too crazy going on here. I don't expect you to know a lot of these. There's only one I expect you to know. This is a polysaccharide called amylose. It is connected. It's a bunch of glucose is connected to each other over and over again. This is largely the polysaccharide that's found in things like crackers and potatoes. You don't need to know that one. This is a polysaccharide called amylopectin. This is also glucose is stuck to each other over and over again, but you can see there's a branch here. Amylopectin is commonly found in a lot of fruits.  The way that you connect them is by what? Everybody? That's right, dehydration synthesis. I'm glad you all got that right. This is the one I want you to know. There's a polysaccharide called glycogen. It is the one that humans make and use to store monosaccharides that they might need for later. Because this is the one that humans use, I want you to know that glycogen is a polysaccharide and we humans make it. You don't need to know any of this other stuff. You should know that glycogen is made of glucose monosaccharides, but this you don't need to know. Cellulose, this is the stuff that's in plants, it's in grass and things like that. Glucose is all connected to each other as well, but they're connected in a different way. Because they are connected in a different way, we can eat this stuff, but we can't use it for food. We can't get energy from it because we can't break the attachments. But again, I don't care that you know cellulose. This is just another example. Also made by dehydration synthesis. You can ignore that and ignore all of this. One other thing that I should point out, I said that polysaccharides are often used for energy storage. That's one of the uses. Sometimes polysaccharides can be used to give a hard structure to living things. So for example, you're probably familiar with lobsters and crabs. The shells of lobsters and crabs are made from a special type of polysaccharide that is very tough. Same thing with leaves. Cellulose is one of the things in leaves that makes them relatively stiff and not floppy. That's kind of important if the leaf wants to capture as much sunlight as it can. It needs to kind of be stretched out so that it can catch a lot of sunlight. And cellulose is a polysaccharide that makes the leaf relatively rigid. And that's all I really want you to know. Polysaccharides can be used for energy storage. They can be used as kind of tough structures in living things as well. You should know that there are different kinds of polysaccharides. You should know that we, humans, use glycogen as a polysaccharide. And that's it. So that's it for this week's videos. Bye-bye.