...Foundation • Projects • People • Get Involved • Support Apache • Download • ASF Blog [pic] The Apache Software Foundation Celebrating a Decade of Open Source Leadership. The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field. We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users. [pic] Latest News Начало формы [pic][pic][pic] Конец формы If you would like to keep up with news and announcements from the foundation and all its projects, you can subscribe to the Apache Announcements List or you can subscribe to our foundation blog. Latest blog entries: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache SpamAssassin Version 3.3.0 Leading Open Source Email Filtering Package Offers First Major Code Release Since 2007 FOREST HILL, MD – 26 January, 2010 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today announced the release of Apache SpamAssassin 3.3.0, the first major code release from the Apache SpamAssassin Project since May 2007. Apache SpamAssassin v3.3.0 marks the Project's 4th major (and 24th overall release) since the SpamAssassin Project joined the ASF in December 2003. Apache SpamAssassin is an award winning...
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...The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Christina Bell University of Phoenix Dr. Kevin Bottomley HSM 260 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Introduction Charities are an integral part of every community, whether it is a small non-profit or a worldwide organization. Charity is the way of helping people in need and even a small amount of donations can make a substantial impact on the community. The act of charity assists to make the community a better place to live by delivering services and goods to the group of individuals who may not otherwise have access to them (Ein-Gar & Levontin, 2013). While the funding of the government also makes a valuable contribution in fostering the charity work, many charities rely on donations from people and organizations as well. Furthermore, knowing that one has sacrificed something such as finances, property or time for the purpose to strengthen the way of living of people in need provides a sense of inner satisfaction and a purpose of life (Anheier, 2014). Many governmental entities are incapable to support certain types of charities. Therefore, these non-profit organizations depend on the funding from the common pubic. Among these charitable organizations, one organization that often comes in mind is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation due to its valuable contribution to the society. This paper will provide an overview about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and highlights the projects it currently supports. ...
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...Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Paper HSM/260 Ashley Turner August 26, 2012 Angela M. Jennings “Right now, just over 1 billion people—about 15 percent of the people in the world—live in extreme poverty. On most days, they worry about whether their family will have enough food to eat. There is irony in this, since most of them live and work on farms. The problem is that their farms, which tend to be just a couple acres in size, don’t produce enough food for a family to live on.” Bill Gates Bill and Melinda Gate believe in using their fortune and fortunate circumstances, to help others in the United States and in the world. They believe that when each person that lives in the United States, has the opportunity to develop their talents, society will thrive. They also want to help the rest of the world as well. Their Global Health Program harnesses advances in science and technology to save the lives of those in poor countries. They want to focus on the health problems that have a major impact in developing countries but are not getting enough attention and funding. Using the latest tools—seeds, vaccines, AIDS drugs, and contraceptives, for example, they have made impressive progress. “If we don’t make these success stories widely known, we won’t generate the funding commitments needed to maintain progress and save lives”, (Bill Gates Foundation, 2012). With the programs that have been funded and produced by Bill Gates and others on his developmental team, we can help...
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...Foundation Paper I have chosen The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations. We live in a world today were everyday the economy grows weaker and weaker and with the world being in such great desire it is people like Bill and Melinda Gates who makes so much possible for people like you and I to survive. Through their foundation so many lives are being save every day, so many children are being educated with technology made for this generation of children to learn. I will explore several aspects of the Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation to show just how they truly make a difference in the world today. Bill and Melinda Gates are two very high profiled people their foundation is one of the largest in the world. With the founders being some of the richest people in the world with a net worth in the billions dollars, Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation has become a source of endless fascination and discussion in the nonprofit world. This foundation is about giving everyone an equal opportunity to thrive. It helps to reduce or eliminate obstacles in people lives things like poor health and nutrition and weak educational systems. Although there are a lot of things this foundation does most of it spending goes toward three main issues improving education in American, global health, and global development. When it comes to global health in January of 2010 Bill and Melinda announced their foundation would double the amount of money being spent on vaccine within the next 10 years to a sum of...
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...Volunteering – The personal benefits Prewriting – For Prewriting this essay, I chose to use brainstorming. I wrote a list of what I felt the benefits of volunteering were as well as different things about volunteering and then used them to create my essay. Draft Are you bored with your life? Do you feel that you want to do something new or more for your community? Volunteering can be a great way for you to meet new people, get involved with your community and feel good. When you volunteer, whether it’s helping others or volunteering on a project or program, what you are doing will benefit an individual person or many people. Volunteering can be a short or long term situation, but whichever you choose, you should make sure that you are able to commit to the time involved. I volunteer at my church. The program that I volunteer in is called Friendship Ministry. With volunteering for the Friendship Ministry, I share God’s love with people who have impairments and help them become an active member of God’s family. Each mentor is assigned a “friend” that they will develop a relationship with. We sit with our friends and have lunch with them and play activities and sing with them while teaching them that we were all made special and are God’s family. We do this the third Sunday of each month. Each mentor interacts with their friends differently, but makes them feel special. I developed a special relationship with my friend Susan. She lives in a group home run by the state...
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...This was my first footstep of starting my degree life. First day of attending the Foundation of Business course, the feeling of tension filled me up. The main reason was because I have to adapt the new course and environment. This course is taught by Ms. Khor Siu Gek, an approachable and friendly lecturer. When I first glance over the module guide, this is quite a different course since it contains 100% coursework mark. In the first lecture class, Ms. Khor explained about what we are going to do throughout this course. The 100% coursework mark is divided into four categories which are portfolio, group project, essay on a given assignment and attendance. We need to provide evidence such as draft, notes and pictures as a proof to show the accomplishment of learning process. Some activities will be carried out in every tutorial class to ensure that students are participating in classes. Then, we need to express our feeling and provide relevant theories learnt in the reflective report weekly. This is to improve our learning skills, communication skills, time management skills and critical thinking skills. I can still remember clearly that Ms. Khor had made the introduction part became very interesting. She gave us a roll of toilet paper and asked us to take how many pieces we wanted to take. I felt nervous because I did not know what activities would be carried out. Finally, I took a piece of toilet paper. After that, she asked us to tell our secret according to the number of...
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...Foundations Paper Holly Regan HSM/260 May 9, 2014 Greg O'Donnell Foundations Paper The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation was established in 1972 with a mission that focused on making basic healthcare available and affordable to everyone. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is this nation’s largest health care related charitable organization with clear objectives which are directly focused on only health care issues and ways to transform and improve the overall health of every American. This foundation supports Universities, public agencies and charities which fall under the tax exempt sec. 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code . The type of projects the foundation supports are related to higher education, hospitals and institutes specific to certain research. The foundation gives support by giving out around 1,000 grants annually that range in total from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. The foundation provides a list of all the grants which applicants can apply on an annual basis. The applicants can also apply for multiple grants at one time, but only if they are specific to separate and entirely different projects. The amount of time you must wait before getting any word on a grant being awarded could be as long as four to seven months. Clinical Scholars is one of the most successful of the foundations programs. The program provides young physicians an opportunity to study non-clinical topics such as management or economics. This program gives each...
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...I choose to write my foundations paper on an organization that is based in my area that I live in, and although it is in my area it is not just a local organization but one that actually has the ability to span across the nation with support from local companies, as well as government agencies. The organization with which I am speaking is the Freestore Foodbank. I will go into the details of the non-profit organization in further detail in this paper. The Freestore began in 1971 by a man named Frank Gerson who worked in Cincinnati’s incinerator. He saw that there was too many household items that were being wasted when there were so many in his community that needed help. So this man quit his job, and started the non-profit business out of his apartment. By 1979 it had grown too big for his little apartment to handle, so he decided to get a warehouse to handle the sorting, and distribution of the food items for his community. Also at this time the Freestore became a founding member of Feeding America, which helped the organization evolve into the Freestore Foodbank. Today the Freestore is one of over 200 foodbanks within the Feeding America networks, which helps serve communities across the whole nation, not just in the Cincinnati area. They distribute over 19 million meals through a network of 275 community agencies. www.fsfb.org. This is an astonishing number of meals that are handed out to those that are going hungry, which is the organizations main mission. No one should...
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...Joshua Lecour 15 October 2015 Essay #2 The majority of adults today have a stable home life, which helps to build a stable foundation by the time they reach grade school. That’s all in thanks to having loving and caring parents, grandparents and caretakers to guide kids so that they can preform at the highest levels in life, especially scholastically. In a perfect world having a solid system like this to build on would be the perfect catapult for success in America’s school systems. Unfortunately, most children in the inner cities aren’t blessed to have a stable home because of the absence of consistent parental figures in the house. Sometimes these households have one parent within them because of divorce or other more saddening circumstance like the death of a parent. Death leads to an absence within a child life that will persist into their adult life. Despite the timing or reason behind these situations they greatly affect a child’s confidence, self-esteem and self worth. Instability within the household causes a child to suffer anxiety disorders and self-confidence issues, depending on the situations that occur like physical or substance abuse by the parent, which is taken with them into the classroom. This kind of conditioning at home also shapes the ability to interact with other students in a positive or negative way, which also leads to poor academic and social standing within a school setting. The easiest way to remedy the issues of poor performance in school due...
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...Letter to Stockholders To Our Stockholders: The year 2021 proved to be another successful year with significant progress for MESCK, Inc. It was the most profitable year for our company. We not only continued to stay ahead of our competitors by anticipating and accommodating changing customer trends, but also increased our market share of the sensor industry by 6.67% during the past year. Our company has historically held the majority share of the low-tech market, and with the recent release of Acorn and current innovations underway, MESCK, Inc. is well on its way to controlling the high-tech industry. The past year brought a 36.89% increase in net profit, moving our figure from $28,680,000 in 2020 to an impressive $45,923,000 in 2021. MESCK, Inc. also experienced a 29.7% jump in sales from the previous year, putting sales at a total of $199,054,000. Our earnings before interest (EBIT) of $83,493,000 and the company’s overall profit sharing figure of $937,000 exceeded all previous years. In an effort to stay on top of the market, our competitive strategy leads us to reinvest in our company, which has caused retained earnings to reach $149,276,000. Recent financial reports show MESCK, Inc. is in a healthy position for a fairly young company. While liabilities remained constant during 2021, current assets almost doubled, greatly increasing working capital. With the release of our newest product, Acorn, we experienced a high cash inflow from operations of $60,533,000...
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...Table of Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………….…………….3 Background……………………………………………………………………………….……….4 Recommendation………………………………………………………………………….………5 Counter Measures to Wireless Insecurity……………………………………………………….6-7 Discussion…………………………………………………………………………..……………..7 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………..………..8-9 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………………..10 Abstract End of the twentieth century and the beginning of twenty-first century has marked a great advancing period in technological world, especially Internet. Internet has allowed users around the world to communicate with each other very quick and fast. And with the development of Wi-Fi, these communication methods have been even more available. But Wi-Fi also brings its disadvantages with it since potential hackers can access the network faster than wired networks. In this research paper, our team has put forward a goal to observe and find information about the communications ways through the internet and how to improve the security of a wireless network. During our research our team members carefully researched and practiced all those communication methods. Our goal was to evaluate the best ways of communication. Our team members have also learned the threats that could affect Wi-Fi. Our next goal was to prevent all of those threats, to find security measures and evaluate which security measure would work the best. In order to experiment the Wi-Fi and its security...
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...Foundations of Psychology Dorothy Forrest June 8, 2012 Sarah Bihms Foundations of Psychology The miscellaneous condition of psychology is a scientific investigation of humankind mind, body, and behavior. Psychology includes different departments of psychology to apprehend and supervise observations on the mental technique of a person mind and behavior. Psychology is regularly used to establish the secrecy of the human behavior. Observation was the way to study a person mind to become aware of the mental conscious and unconscious states. As time went by psychology was established, alone with some major schools of thoughts. The paper below will examine the foundation of psychology, identify the major schools of thought in psychology, and examine their major underlying assumptions such as, behaviorism, psychoanalytic/psychodynamic, humanistic, and cognitive. In addition, it will identify the primary biological foundations of psychology linked to behavior such as, brain, central nervous system, peripheral nervous System, and genetics/evolution. Behavioral Theory Behavioral psychology, also known as behaviorism, is a learning theory established on the notion that behaviors are gathered by conditioning. Conditioning develops from influenced of the environment. There are two major types of conditioning classical and operant. Classical conditioning is a procedure used in behavioral training where a naturally stimulus is paired with a response. Operant conditioning...
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...Foundations of Psychology John Stafford University of Phoenix PSY/300 Abstract There are several major approaches to psychological study with several other disciplines falling under these primary approaches. Ranging from psychodynamic to evolutionary perspectives, and rarely sharing a unified paradigm, psychology has advanced since the late 1800s to be a wide-ranging field of human study. Foundations of Psychology The study of psychology found roots in philosophy. However, Wilhelm Wundt, who founded the first psychological laboratory, led the recognition of psychology as a science in 1879. In the mid-to-late 1940s standards were put into place for the doctoral programs designed to place emphasis on a general knowledge of psychology. This knowledge included the history of psychology, and modern disciplines of physiological, comparative, developmental, and social psychology. Students were also required to gain an understanding of research methods, advanced statistics, and psychological scaling (Zlotlow, Peterson, & Nelson, 2011). Behavioral Foundations of Psychology The major topics covered in behavioral psychology include evolution, heredity, and adaptation and learning, mating habits, parenting behaviors, and primate study. Behavioral psychology primarily focuses on the study of animal behavior to obtain a deeper understanding of human behavior. Studies like Ivan Pavlov’s (1849-1936) research on classical conditioning, also referred to as “Pavlov’s Dogs,” he...
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...Foundations of Research Kevin Jackson UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX April 22, 2013 Dr. Linda Crawford University of Phoenix Material Foundations of Research Template * Complete the following University of Phoenix Foundations of Research template. * Base your responses on at least four current scholarly sources, of which two are articles from peer-reviewed journals. * Cite references used according to APA 6th edition. Include an APA-formatted reference list. * Insert your reference list at the end of the document. * Demonstrate your understanding of the nature of the three major research methods by describing and comparing the foundations of quantitative and qualitative research for each of the following elements, using this template. Limit your response of each item to 100 words. * Nature of research: scientific and philosophical underpinnings The scientific and philosophical underpinnings need a foundation for inquiry to conduct research. Quantitative and qualitative research methodologies consist of three philosophical underpinnings, which is identified as: objectivism, subjectivism, and constructivism. The different philosophical foundations and scientific of quantitative and qualitative methodologies have different ontology and epistemology. In quantitative paradigms have an ontology and epistemology of, where the observer and the observed are considered separate and independent. Whereas, qualitative the ontology and...
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...The Foundations of Psychology Psychology is the scientific investigation of mental processes and behavior. Mental processes include how a person thinks, feels, remembers as well as a person’s behavior. When a doctor needs to understand a person they need to know the person’s biology, psychological experience, and cultural context. People’s experiences during their life from birth to adulthood are what shape how they feel and think. Early psychologists established several approaches and schools of thoughts of psychology. These schools of thought are known as the psychodynamic, behaviorist, cognitive and evolutionary perspectives. They came up with these by research and study which will be discussed throughout this paper. In many respects, these perceptions have progressed independently, and at the center of each are singularities the others tend to ignore (Kowalski & Westen, 2011). Despite their differences, each school of thought sought evolution for psychology as well as advancement of human understanding while remaining focused on the unique characteristics of contemporary psychology. Psychodynamic Perspective. The psychodynamic perspective belief is that most of the mental processes and emotions happen at the unconscious or subconscious levels, meaning below conscious awareness. Sigmund Freud was one of the most influential thinkers in the early twentieth century whose work in the psychodynamic...
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