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In Freetown, Sierra Leonean authorities have slated March 30 for the reopening of schools.
Early in February, the government granted permission to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology for work to start on "water and sanitation, Ebola screenings and psychosocial support" ahead of the reopening.
More than 200 miles north of the capital, the people of Magdogbo 1 and II are looking to build a new school.
KOINADUGU, SL (March 2015)-- Bala Mansaray, a parent in Folosaba Dembeleya chiefdom, said Magdogbo 1 and Magdogbo II have two to three thousand people between them, with 150 children aged 5 to 14.
An old house serves as the village school.
Demba Kamara, another parent in Magdogbo, said that the school has two volunteer teachers. During the school year, they asked parents to contribute towards a wage for the teachers every month.
"Each parent was paying 5,000 Leones per month," he explained.
But the monthly contributions stopped when a lot of parents started crying hardship, Kamara said.
Local council authorities were giving a stipend of five hundred thousand Leones to the two teachers but that too stopped because no teaching was going on as a lot of children had dropped out.
Mohamed Marrah, head teacher of the Magdogbo Primary School, said that currently he has about one hundred and five children on the roll.
There is no furniture in the school, Marrah said. Parents have to assist with chalk and other learning materials. Recently, he was visited by members of a non -governmental organization who promised to help.
One charity that has a successful track record funding schools is Shine on Sierra Leone.
Over the past four years, Shine on Sierra Leone has supported the Muddy Lotus School. Muddy Lotus primary school is located in the diamond region of Kono.
According to SOSL, in 2006, they transformed this school from a roofless three classroom building into a functioning and safe school.
It took 10 days, 150 wooden boards, 50 bags of cement, six trips of sand, six trips of marble, 25 bundles of zinc, five iron doors, 16 workmen and a willingness to work from dawn to dusk. Muddy Lotus now boasts a brand new roof, cement flooring, painted interior and exterior walls, repaired toilets, permanent desks, and new iron doors with locks.
On its website, Shine on Sierra Leone also said they are partnering with Fundacion Paraguaya and their 'Teach A Man to Fish' model to create something special.
SOSL has also partnered up with FAWE (The Forum for African Woman Educationalists).
In the past three years, SOSL has financed 5 primary and secondary schools through FAWE and 1700 students. Sponsorship includes financing teachers' salaries, providing school supplies, paying tuition, and when needed building additional schools and toilets.
Back in Koinadugu, Mansaray said some families were forced to leave their children with relatives in the chiefdom headquarter town of Musaia, about five miles from Magdogbo.
Councilor Marlia Kamara, head of the council's Education Committee, said that the council is aware.
"I assure you that by the time schools reopen, we will have given our support to ensure that the kids get qualified teachers, refurbished the school and we will also supply them with furniture," he promised.
District Officer Alfred Lahai said he will do everything to make sure a new and functional school is built in the village.
In a telephone interview, Abdul Kuyateh, a senior Inspectorate officer, said that he will also take up the issue with officials of the Ministry of Education in Freetown, the nation's capital.


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Partners announce support for Canada's first zero carbon building
News18 Feb 2019by SmartCitiesWorld news team
IoT solutions provider eleven-x, Wilfred Laurier University and the University of Waterloo will monitor and track the health and wellness relationship between the building and people
Canada's first sustainable multi-tenant building targeting net positive energy
Eleven-x, Wilfrid Laurier University, and University of Waterloo have announced a partnership to support the evolv1 initiative, Canada's first building to earn the zero carbon building design certification.
Evolv1 is located in Waterloo's Idea Quarter district. Eleven-x, a full-service low power Internet of Things (IoT) provider, will deploy a suite of intelligent office monitoring devices that will be used to track the health and wellness relationship between the building and people.
Pro-environmental practices
This initiative will bring insight in to how interactions between a sustainable office building and its inhabitants produce wellbeing, collaboration, and engagement in pro-environmental practices. It will also track how the performance relating to these outcomes can be optimised.
Evolv 1 is a new commercial multi-tenant office building and is one of 16 elite projects across Canada to be selected by the Canadian Green Building Council (CaGBC) to participate in a two-year pilot of its new zero carbon building standard.
The programme is backed by some of Canada's leading academic institutions and sustainability organisations including: Laurier, through the Viessmann Centre for Engagement and Research in Sustainability (VERiS), which is leading the project and whose focus is on culture of sustainability; and UWaterloo, through the Faculty of Environment, which is providing the environmental expertise, including access to buildings to be used in future phases.
Additionally, York University and Sustainable Waterloo Region are key partners in the project.
"This is a great opportunity to examine in a real-world environment how the inhabitants of a high-performance green building interact with the building"
Eleven-x is deploying a suite of sensors as part of a wireless intelligent building solution that enables real-time monitoring and data collection for applications including the tracking of air quality, water consumption, and sound and light levels.
The solution uses LoRaWAN-based low power connectivity to track, manage and collect data from the sensors deployed throughout the building. The data collected will then be used to track and measure results of the interactions between the evolv1 building and its inhabitants. The building data is collected and measured using eleven-x's secure wireless networking solution.
"This is a great opportunity to examine over an extended period of time in a real-world environment how the inhabitants of a high-performance green building interact with the building to produce positive outcomes such as wellbeing, productivity, and a culture of sustainability," said Dr Manuel Riemer, associate professor of community psychology and sustainability science, director of VERiS, and the principal investigator for the initiative at Laurier.
"The eleven-x team has been a critical partner in realising our living lab approach by providing the technology and the technical expertise that is needed to create such a space within a commercial building. Getting the buy-in from the tenants of the building required a wireless system of sensors that are unobtrusive but deliver high-quality real-time data."
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UN urges Ucayali government to shelve plans which would expose indigenous territory in Peruvian Amazon to further land grabs
FECONAU at the Constitutional Court
Lands, Forests & Territories
Rights to land & natural resources
Economic, social & cultural rights
The struggle of the Shipibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya against the expansion of oil palm
Federacíon de Comunidades Nativas del Ucayali y Afluentes (FECONAU)
UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
FECONAU
Español: Naciones Unidas pide al Gobierno de Ucayali derogar ordenanza que incrementará deforestación y tráfico de tierras del pueblo shipibo
Geneva, 30 October 2019
The UN has requested that the Regional Government of Ucayali cancel its plans to remove protections for a 3.5 million hectare area of Permanent Production Forest (BPP). This would facilitate the invasion of indigenous Shipibo lands in Peru, and expose at least 100,000 hectares to immediate threat from settlers and agribusiness operations.
The request came in a formal communication from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UNCERD), which stated, "The allegations reviewed by the Committee, if verified, would amount to a breach of the State party duty to recognize and protect the rights of the Santa Clara de Uchunya indigenous community to own, develop, control and use the lands and territories they have occupied traditionally…. The Committee would like to recall the Committee's General Recommendation No. 23 (1997) on the rights of indigenous peoples to ensure that no decisions directly relating to indigenous peoples' rights are taken without their free, prior and informed consent."
The letter came after civil society organisations made a request under UNCERD's Urgent Action and Early Warning procedure in July 2019. This request highlighted how the Ucayali government's plans would not only result in large scale deforestation – thus undermining Peru's stated commitments to climate and biodiversity – but would also sabotage the community's efforts over many years to secure legal recognition of their lands. The government has been given until 18 November to respond.
In addition, UNCERD called on the regional government to take special measures to protect the rights of the community of Santa Clara de Uchunya affected by an ongoing conflict in territory. The conflict is associated with the conversion of over 7000 hectares of their traditional lands to palm oil plantations. The measures recommended by UNCERD include:
Consider cancelling the Regional Ordinance No. 010- 2018-GRU-CR, recently adopted by the Regional Government of Ucayali.
Ensure a full and adequate discharge of the duty to consult with the view to obtain free, prior and informed consent.
Protect the members of the Santa Clara de Uchunya indigenous community from intimidation, harassment, threats and attacks by groups of land-traffickers present within the ancestral territory.
Miguel Guimaraes, President of FECONAU, one of the signatories of the request said, "we welcome the UN intervention and call on the media to hold our Government in Ucayali and Lima to account for its failure to respect and secure the lands of Santa Clara de Uchunya and hundreds of other indigenous communities over many years. These lands are now at the mercy of agribusiness and logging industry and a land trafficking frenzy which is endemic in our region."
UNCERD is comprised of international experts who are authorised to interpret the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, a treaty whose provisions are binding on the Peruvian government.
The letter from UNCERD is the second communiqué from the UN in recent days. Last week, the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights submitted a legal briefing to Peru's Constitutional Tribunal which is currently evaluating a lawsuit filed by the community in 2016, The lawsuit seeks the restitution and restoration of their lands unlawfully acquired by the palm oil company Ocho Sur P. The briefing highlights Peru's legal obligations to respect indigenous peoples' untitled traditional lands.
The two UN interventions come at a crucial point in the community's longstanding struggle, as the landmark case is nearing conclusion with a definitive decision of the court expected before the end of the year.
UNCERD letter to the Government of Ucayali160.7 KB
Indigenous peoples in Ucayali in the Peruvian Amazon call for actions to protect land, forest and human rights defenders
FECONAU letter to the Regional Council and Regional Government of Ucayali


"Misfortune follows misfortune. Madame, I have murdered your chauffeur. My humblest apologies."
Another lost film recently unearthed by Arrow Films, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (aka Docteur Jekyll et les femmes) is, as the title states, strange. I was unfamiliar with the film before reading about its new release, however I was familiar with director Walerian Borowczyk, probably best known for his films The Beast and Immoral Women. I had watched one of his films, Behind Convent Walls, about five years ago (on September 23rd, 2010 to be pointlessly exact) and based on that film's strange blend of artful sleaze, I knew what I was getting into.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (damn that's a long title) stars Udo Kier (who I love) as Dr. Henry Jekyll. Jekyll is having a get together announcing his engagement to Miss Fanny Osbourne (the lovely Marina Pierro). Some of the guests include a General, his daughter, a fellow doctor (Jess Franco's buddy Howard Vernon) and a reverend. Shortly after the guests arrive, they start getting knocked off one by one, though not by ordinary means. The inhuman killer seems to have a giant pointed wang which he uses to penetrate his victims to death with. Ouch! I'm sure you can guess who the killer is by the title of the film...or can you?


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Q: Using custom DataFlow unbounded source on DirectPipelineRunner I'm writing a custom DataFlow unbounded data source that reads from Kafka 0.8. I'd like to run it locally using the DirectPipelineRunner. However, I'm getting the following stackstrace:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: no evaluator registered for Read(KafkaDataflowSource)
        at com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.runners.DirectPipelineRunner$Evaluator.visitTransform(DirectPipelineRunner.java:700)
        at com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.runners.TransformTreeNode.visit(TransformTreeNode.java:219)
        at com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.runners.TransformTreeNode.visit(TransformTreeNode.java:215)
        at com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.runners.TransformHierarchy.visit(TransformHierarchy.java:102)
        at com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.Pipeline.traverseTopologically(Pipeline.java:252)
        at com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.runners.DirectPipelineRunner$Evaluator.run(DirectPipelineRunner.java:662)
        at com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.runners.DirectPipelineRunner.run(DirectPipelineRunner.java:374)
        at com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.runners.DirectPipelineRunner.run(DirectPipelineRunner.java:87)
        at com.google.cloud.dataflow.sdk.Pipeline.run(Pipeline.java:174)

Which makes some sense, as I haven't registered an evaluator for my custom source at any time.
Reading https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowJavaSDK, it seems like only evaluators for bounded sources are registered. What's the recommended way to define and register an evaluator for an custom unbounded source?

A: DirectPipelineRunner currently runs over bounded input only. We are actively working on removing this restriction, and expect to release it shortly.
In the meanwhile, you can trivially turn any UnboundedSource into a BoundedSource, for testing purposes, by using withMaxNumRecords, as in the following example:
UnboundedSource<String> unboundedSource  = ...; // make a Kafka source
PCollection<String> boundedKafkaCollection =
    p.apply(Read.from(unboundedSource).withMaxNumRecords(10));

See this issue on GitHub for more details.

Separately, there are several efforts on contributing the Kafka connector.  You may want to engage with us and other contributors about that via our GitHub repository.

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We were so excited to be a part of the 2nd Annual Masquerade Ball benefiting Arts Education Programming in Arkansas hosted by the Walton Arts Center this past February.
Enjoy a small glimpse from the party!
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Q: Value Error: invalid literalfor int() with base 10: ' ' Ok guys, I am using python to try to complete a task.  In short, I need to read in a number from a text file that can be thousands of digits long.  I'm getting this error as I try to take the digits from the string and cast them to integers so I can do some math with them.
of = open("input.txt","r")
counter = 0
big=0
of.seek(0,0)

while True:
    temp = of.read(5)
    if temp=="":
        break
    else:
        a=int(temp[0])
        b=int(temp[1])
        c=int(temp[2])
        d=int(temp[3])
        e=int(temp[4])
        if a*b*c*d*e>big:
            big = a*b*c*d*e
        counter+=1
        of.seek(counter,0)

print big
of.close()

I'm really stuck on this one so any help much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT==============================================================
After tinkering around a bit I finally got the code to run correctly.  Here's what I ended with:
x = int(open("input.txt","r").read())
y = str(x)
big = 0
for i in range(0,len(y)-5):
    a = int(y[i])
    b = int(y[i+1])
    c = int(y[i+2])
    d = int(y[i+3])
    e = int(y[i+4])
    if a*b*c*d*e>big:
        big = a*b*c*d*e
print big

thanks for the help

A: Python supports long integers so if the file is just one big integer you can read it like this:
bignum=int(open("input.txt","r").read())

A: Your indentation is wrong; if-else should be nested inside the while loop.


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Q: Send just the model PK (or any other field) for nested model in Angular Having the following sample models:
interface User {
  id: string
  organization: Organization
}

interface Organization {
  id: string
}

When I send a request, for example:
const user = new User("abc", new Organization("xyz"))
httpClient.post<User>(url, user)

Understandably, it looks like this:
{
  "id": "abc",
  "organization": {
    "id": "xyz"
  }
}

How can I send a request that looks like the following, instead?
{
  "id": "abc",
  "organization": "xyz"
}

I was hoping there would be some kind of mechanism to transform a request in HttpClient, but I can't find anything.
Another approach was to convert the User to a plain JS object and manipulate it, but I can't figure out how to do it:
const user = new User("abc", new Organization("xyz"))
const data = Object.assign({}, user);

data.organization = data.organization.id; // error, can't assign string to Organization

So data is still a User, not a plain JS object.
What's the best way to achieve it?

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So data is still a User, not a plain JS object.

You are creating an instance of User to send the data and the object data is type of User always.
If you want to send plain object, de-structure the objects and create one object literal:
const org = new Organization("xyz"),
      user = new User("abc", {organization: org.organization.id}),
      {id, organization} = user,
      payload = {id, organization};

// why do you need to create org or user if you can directly assign and create an object like this

// const payload = {id: "abc" , organization: "xyz" };
httpClient.post<User>(url, payload)

A: I found one solution but I'm not 100% happy with it. I won't accept it for now, in case someone can offer a better one.
Edit: marked as accepted answer.
const user = new User("abc", new Organization("xyz"));

// clone the `user` object as I don't want to modify the original
// (this step is optional)
const data = Object.assign({}, user);

// overwrite the `organization` property on the object
// with the value of `organization.id`
Object.assign(data, { organization: data.organization.id });

httpClient.post<User>(url, data)

To keep it clean, I added it as a method on the User class:
class User
{
    constructor(
        id: string,
        organization: Organization
    ) { }

    asRequestData()
    {
        const data = Object.assign({}, this);
        Object.assign(data, { organization: data.organization?.name });

        return data;
    }
}

httpClient.post<User>(url, user.asRequestData())


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The Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) (October 2004 - October 2013) was created as the successor to the Coalition Provisional Authority Office of Inspector General (CPA-IG). SIGIR was an independent government agency created by the Congress to provide oversight of the use (or misuse) of the $52 billion U.S. reconstruction program in Iraq. Stuart W. Bowen Jr. was appointed to the position of CPA-IG on January 20, 2004 and served until its closure in October 2013. SIGIR reported directly to Congress, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense.

SIGIR's mission was to provide independent and objective oversight of U.S.-funded Iraq reconstruction policies, programs, and operations through comprehensive audits, inspections, and investigations. As of July 2009, SIGIR has issued 22 Quarterly Reports to Congress, 303 audits and inspections, 386 recommendations, and four Lessons Learned reports. SIGIR representatives have also testified before Congress on 27 separate occasions. Moreover, SIGIR's investigative and oversight work has resulted in 29 criminal indictments, more than $81 million in U.S. taxpayer funds saved or recovered, and $224 million being put to better use.

In February 2009, SIGIR issued its fourth Lessons Learned report, Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience. Hard Lessons provides the first comprehensive account of the U.S. reconstruction effort in Iraq, chronicling the myriad challenges that confronted the rebuilding program, and concludes with 13 lessons drawn from the reconstruction experience.

Influence on Law and Policy
SIGIR reports have led to several important changes in U.S. reconstruction policy. These changes to the law and to key agencies' policies and procedures have increased management efficiencies and influenced the development of more effective approaches to overseas contingency operations.

Some examples of how SIGIR's oversight work has affected U.S. policy include: (1) the reorganization of the Department of State's anticorruption programs in Iraq; (2) the imposition by Congress of stricter limitations on the amount of Commander's Emergency Response Program funds that can be used on any one project; (3) the establishment of improved processes for transferring U.S.-funded assets to the government of Iraq; (4) the issuance by the Office of Management and Budget of updated procurement guidance, including a number of management and operational best practices that should be considered in planning contingency operations and responding to national emergencies; and (5) the establishment by the Congress of two new special inspectors general modeled on SIGIR – SIGAR, to oversee U.S.-funded reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, and SIGTARP, to oversee the Department of Treasury's $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). SIGIR has provided resources and expertise to both SIGAR and SIGTARP during their establishment and development.

Recognition
SIGIR's work has been recognized in three awards from the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency. SIGIR's findings and analyses have also contributed to key policy papers produced by Congressional Committees, think tanks, and policy review bodies, such as the Gansler Commission, the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Iraq Study Group.

While an Army War College fellow at The Institute of World Politics, Brigadier General (Army) Brian Mennes criticized UC national security by pointing at the failures of the SIGIR in his paper "Security Reform beyond the Project on National Security Reform."

References

External links
Official websites
U.S. Public Law 108-106, November 6, 2003—legislation that created the position of Coalition Provisional Authority Inspector General
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction website
Other websites
Audit of Iraq Spending Spurs Criminal Probe, Washington Post, May 5, 2005
So, Mr Bremer, where did all the money go?, The Guardian, July 7, 2005
Millions go missing on Iraqi gravy train, Baltimore Sun, July 30, 2005
The man charged with auditing the Iraq reconstruction finds he's fighting his own kind of war, Esquire, November 30, 2006
Report cites reconstruction progress, but also problems, USA Today, October 30, 2007
In Ramadi, Real Rebuilding, With Fresh Paint, New York Times, November 22, 2008
Iraq Auditor Warns of Waste, Fraud In Afghanistan, Washington Post, February 2, 2009
Over $8B of the Money You Spent Rebuilding Iraq Was Wasted Outright Wired , March 6, 2012
Security Reform beyond the Project on National Security Reform, "The Institute of World Politics", April, 2013

Coalition Provisional Authority
Iraq
Government agencies established in 2004
Independent agencies of the United States government

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Stefan Vladar (born in Vienna, 1965) is an Austrian pianist and conductor.

Biography
Stefan began piano lessons at the age of six, and in 1973 he began studies at the Vienna University for Music and Arts; Renate Kramer-Preisenhammer and Hans Petermandl were two of his teachers.

In 1985 Vladar won Vienna's VII Ludwig van Beethoven piano competition. In 1992 he participated in My War Years, a Canadian docudrama about Arnold Schoenberg and this composer's way to atonality. Vladar was awarded the Mozartinterpretationspreis of the Mozartgemeinde Wien in 1994. In addition to his concert career he's been the Grosses Orchester Graz principal conductor since 2002 and since 2008 principal conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra.

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Austrian classical pianists
Male classical pianists
1965 births
Living people
21st-century classical pianists
21st-century male musicians


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District Home Magazine: What's it like to head your own firm now? How does that compare to past experiences?
Thomson & Cooke Architect : Last year was a really exciting year. We decided to take the leap and start Thomson & Cooke Architects fulfilling a long-time goal for both of us. As owners, we feel a greater responsibility to our clients as trusted advisors and we're personally invested in the success of each of our projects in a way we never were before.
We've always worked for full service architecture firms—those that provide feasibility and concept design through construction documents, interiors and move-in. It is important to us that our own firm offers that same level of service. It helps us maintain our design standards and allows us to remain involved from start to finish.
DHM: What are the benefits of working with a boutique firm, from a client's perspective?
TCA: For us, as a newer firm we bring a lot of energy and spirit to our projects, and it's important that we're accessible to our clients. We prefer the small scale of our office so that we can both be directly involved day to day in the project work. That provides our clients with a lot of comfort and trust.
We emphasize quality and craftsmanship and create custom designs for each of our clients. Getting the clients involved in our process is critical in our design development; we don't dust off old drawings and reuse them, rather we take the time to listen to our clients needs and design a home that works for them.
DHM: What are some upcoming projects for Thomson & Cooke Architects?
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The recently created painting "Stars and Coffee" from the series "Dinner for One" gives a picturesque account of a wintry coffee table. The work evokes a variety of associations: one wonders who the guests are and what they look like. However, the artist is the only protagonist; she drinks and eats entirely for herself and translates the table arrangement with oil paints onto a canvas.
Oil on canvas, 2021. Signed. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 50 x 70 cm.
Where the states of matter merge, at the seam between sea and sky, Anne Böddeker (born in 1966) invites the viewer to stop for a moment.
The view of the sea, a person on the beach, the play with light, the longing for the perfection of nature - these are just some of the themes to which the artist devotes herself with her oil paintings. She deals with the theme of the sea in all its facets, from the German North Sea to the Pacific Ocean. The paintings show agitated water as well as quiet moments of contemplation in the misty German Wadden Sea, always a mirror of human existence, silence and emotions.
"In my paintings, I always take a close look at the sea in its intensity and contradictoriness, the moment between beauty and threat, the transience of the moment and how we humans find ourselves in it."
For her new series, the artist visited the Nevada desert for the Burning Man Festival. The art event draws 70,000 people each year into a surreal, "Mad Max"-like world. In the dust storm of the desert, Böddeker found new motifs, which she captured back in her studio.
Anne Böddeker lives and works in Hamburg. She has been exhibiting regularly in solo exhibitions in Germany and Finland for 20 years.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art that has been personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolours, drawing, etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there exist the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a type of modern art, that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
In the history of arts, the starting point of this trend was the work "Les Meules" (1890/1891) by Claude Monet, in which for the first time a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.
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I was born and grew up in Hirosaki. After finishing high school, I left my hometown and returned three years ago, when I found the gaps of the volume variety of information and the level of awareness between Tokyo and the provincial city. I hate to mention like this way, but Aomori is a backward country in fields such as public services, business, education and sports. Competent young people move out to big cities seeking more opportunities, most of whom would never return. It often makes me feel mortified and powerless.
What would be needed to make my hometown and the whole Aomori Prefecture attractive, interesting and richer? Aren't youngsters wasting their time and energy though they are the ones who have the power? I kept asking myself. More jobs would be generated by starting up a venture company or promoting local companies to expand their businesses nationwide. It is easy to say but would need time and cost. Eventually I reached at this idea that entertainment and music business would be an influencing factor to energize this declining region as soon as possible with minimum investment.
Modern network and communication technologies have enabled it easier to access to physical and intellectual information wherever we are – urban or rural. But we can enjoy a nature-rich, more humane life only in rural regions. Nature including clean water, soil, air and bright rays of sun are essential to our life, and I believe that each of them works as the most essential element to promote creativity and sensitivity of art and music.
We keep providing our music and entertainments as long as we receive participation and cooperation from young people as well as supports from adults.
I predict that someday rural values would exceed urban ones if we continue to act positively. I cannot wait for the day when our hometown Aomori would be admired and praised by people nationwide.
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The city of Bangkok is a truly abundant travel experience, scoping attractions from the most unique entertainment to luxurious urban living and delightful cuisine. The food in Bangkok and in particular its vivid street food culture is arguably among the most fascinating aspects of life in the city and ranks Bangkok among the must visit lists of every Yuppie.
1. The rich experience that is the Thai street food scene often brings you to face with characteristic local delicacies like these grilled snails. While not all the food is quite so uncustomary, a fair portion of the food is of the creepy-crawlie variety.
2. Street food is delivered in any number of ways across Bangkok and the whole of Thailand, but this enterprising lady partakes in what seems to be a slightly more traditional mode of delivery. Most of today's street food is delivered in roadside stalls or trucks unlike these egg pancakes.
3. The sheer amount of meat served up on the streets of Bangkok border an obsession for the Thai people and it's common sight to find meats skewered and ready to be grilled stalled in almost every turn you make throughout the city.
4. This corn stall tucked away at an awkward turn off the Bangkok city centre is a breakfast delicacy from what the woman at the stall told me. Many workers and passers-by would stop and indulge in the corn breakfast, no doubt going through their usual morning ritual.
5. If meats are an obsession in Thailand, pork is perhaps the face of that obsession. It isn't uncharacteristic to find pork introduced to even the most unassuming dishes and served up by itself without starch or accompaniments. The Thai surely do love their pork, almost to a fault.
6. Night markets like this one, I'm convinced are the best source of street food and certainly the most widely varied in terms of selection. A pure gastronomical experience, the night markets whip up a full range of enticing delights for its patrons and makes for a trying indulgence!


I have a guest post today over at Cherishing Everyday Beauty today as part of her Our Friends, the Saints series. She has a TON of guest posts on different saints that you should all go read.
When I first saw this series I LOVED the premise of it. People wrote guest posts about how different saints and how they influenced their lives. My favorite saint, St. Therese of Lisiuex, was already written about so I wrote about St. Francis.
When I went to Italy we traveled to Assisi and I was able to incorporate our visit to Assisi into my post along with my devotion to St. Francis. It was such a wonderful experience to visit the city a saint we all talk about and feel the spiritualness in the city along with the other pilgrams there and I was even able to connect with my father and his former students in a really unique way. Head over to Cherishing Everyday Beauty to read more about it.


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EA is shutting down several PC F2P because they're not as successful as they once were...
by Charly Mottet
If the names Battlefield Heroes, Battlefield Play4Free, Need for Speed World and FIFA World ring a bell, you can quickly forget them. Electronic Arts has announced on the company blog, as well as an announcement on the Battlefield Heroes website, that these games are to be shut down on July 14th, 2015.
"The war is over! You have fought long and hard but the time for peace awaits us. The Nationals and Royals have finally been able to put the past behind and call a truce. With peace comes an end to a great story, and thus it is with a heavy heart that we must inform you, that on Tuesday July 14th 2015 we will be closing Battlefield Heroes for good and stopping the service in its entirety."
Patrick Söderlund, executive vice president for EA Studios, announced that the games "are not as popular as they once were", and therefore, they must be shut down. Any sign-ups for Battlefield Heroes have already ended, and there will be no more purchasing any Play4Free Funds, the in-game currency that allows gamers to buy boosts or in-game equipment.
As far as refunds go, EA has put up a big "NOPE" sign. Play4Free Funds are created using real-world money, and users are "encouraged" to use them all up before the game shuts down.
No refund details have been announced for Battlefield Play4Free, Need for Speed World and FIFA World, yet.
Not the end for EA F2P games
On the other hand, after the big shut down of these games, EA will still have two major free-to-play games on PC: Star Wars: The Old Republic and Command and Conquer: Tiberium Alliance. Beyond that platform, EA also has several free-to-play games on mobile, like The Simpsons: Tapped Out or The Sims: FreePlay, among others.
The MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic is EA's biggest PC free-to-play, and they are currently very happy with it...
"Star Wars: The Old Republic is a game that continues to have a very enthusiastic and growing player community, and we have plans to introduce more new story-driven game updates to our Star Wars: The Old Republic players this year."
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Amazon just announced their list of the most well read cities in America. Miami is number six. And for those with a need to know, Alexandria, VA is number one. Amazon determined the rankings, based on per capita of cities with more than 100,000 residents, after compiling sales data of all book, magazine and newspaper sales in print and via Kindle.
However as Huffington Post noted, the list does not take into consideration sales made at brick and mortar locations. Stores like our very own Books & Books, South Florida's pre-eminent independent book store and newsstand with locations around town, including Coral Gables, Bal Harbor, Miami Beach, Miami International Airport and downtown Miami.
For those who haven't visited the very intimate Books & Books in the Gables, one realizes how ideal the space is for author readings, a space that affords a perfect opportunity for readers to meet, speak and ask questions of authors directly, as well as an optimal occasion to request a person inscription in one's books.
Miami Art Guide wants to know what you're reading, what's on your nightstand. Share your reading list with us via FACEBOOK and win an opportunity to receive a copy of one of the books written by one of the authors visiting Books & Books in the Gables this June.
Mark your calendar for these upcoming June readings at Books & Books in the Gables, 265 Aragon, all of which are free & open to the community:
Thursday, June 7, 8:00 p.m.
North Miami Beach resident Rochelle Weinstein, author of What We Leave Behind asks the question, "What if we had the chance to go back and live what could have been." The book chronicles the powerful grip of love- both young and mature- and one woman's journey through her first romantic relationship, its betrayal and how a single choice instantly and profoundly alters the trajectory of her life. In What We Leave Behind, Jessica Parker, a clever mischievous 15 year old with a wit too quick for her own good, is torn between a desire for solitude and a deep need to be at the center of a perfect family. While volunteering at the local hospital Jessica meets medical student Jonas Levy and is introduced to a world she has unknowingly longed for- a loving family and the affection of a boy whom she thought was her true love. But all of that changes abruptly changes, and her newfound hope instantly disappears. Years later an unexpected phone call uncovers a secret from Jessica's past. As the rippling effects of her betrayal emerge, she finds herself caught in the firestorm of long hidden emotional trauma. Thrust into a contemporary moral and ethical dilemma, Jessica must face the pain of her past or lose everything she holds dear.
Friday, June 8, 8:00 p.m.
Richard Ford, the only writer to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel (independence Day). After a five-year hiatus, this undisputed American master delivers Cananda, a haunting and graceful novel about how a cataclysmic event affects a boy and his family. Richard Ford's Canada will resonate long after the last page is turned, and for readers of stark and sweeping tales of American life, including the works of Cheever and Carver, Philip Roth, Charles Frazier, Richard Russo and Jonathan Franzen.
Saturday, June 9, 8:00 p.m.
Leonard Pitts, Miami's own Pulitzer Prize columnist reads and discusses his novel Freeman, which takes place in the first few months after the Confederate surrender and Abraham Lincoln's assassination. The evocative novel follows the paths of three unforgettable characters as they grapple with the realities of a post-slavery Southern society. Upon hearing the news of Lee's surrender, escaped slave Sam Freeman decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia and travel on foot through the war-torn South searching for his wife, the mother of his only child, whom he left behind 15 years earlier on the Mississippi farm to which they belonged. .
Tuesday, June 12, 8:00 p.m.
Robert Goolrick, author of very popular novel The Unreliable Wife, will be visiting Miami with his new book Heading Out to Wonderful.
Wednesday, June 13, 8:00 p.m.
Mark Shriver, son of Sargent Shriver (founder of the Peace Corps) and Eunice Kennedy (founder of Special Olympics and sister of the late president John F. Kennedy), has written a biography about his father: A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sarge Shriver. After a lifetime searching for the path to his father's success in the public arena, Mark instead turns to a search for the secret of his father's joy, his devotion to others, and his sense of purpose. Mark discovers notes and letters from Sarge; hears personal stories from friends and family that zero in on the three guiding principles of Sarge's life – faith, hope, and love – and recounts moments with Sarge that now take on new value and poignancy.
Thursday, June 14, 8:00 p.m.
Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, sociologist, professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and chair of the MacArthur Foundation, is visiting Miami to share her 10th book, Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free. In Endings Ms. Lawrence Lightfoot interviews a variety of people- a 16 ear old boy forced to leave Iran in the midst of the violent civil war, a Catholic priest who leaves the Church and a gay man who finds peace after coming out- in the midst of change to explore the ways we leave one thing and move on to the next.
Sunday, June 24, 7:00 p.m.
Steven Raichlen, journalist, PBS TV host and multi-award winning author of 29 books, including the international blockbusters The Barbeque Bible, How to Grill, and the "New York Times "best-selling Planet Barbeque, and now novelist. In Island Apart, Claire Doheney, recovering from a serious illness, agrees to house-sit in an oceanfront mansion on Chappaquiddick Island in Martha's Vineyard. The New York book editor hopes to find solace, strength, and calm to meet a commitment to finish her own book. The last thing she expects to find is love.
Books & Books has a packed schedule of readings this summer. Keep in touch by signing up for the store's weekly newsletter or visit www.booksandbooks.com for additional information on the above authors, as well as who will be visiting South Florida this summer, and beyond. Parking available at municipal garage across the street.
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 27 September 2019
Farewell, September --we're wrapping up the month with another great week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's activities:
Success at Apache – the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".
- "Why you'd want to become an Apache Committer" by Dmitriy Pavlov https://s.apache.org/iflt2
- "Mentor Your Mentor" by Patricia Shanahan https://s.apache.org/orco1
ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 16 October 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
- *T-26 days* to ApacheCon Europe --register TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
- The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Program Highlights for ApacheCon™ Europe https://s.apache.org/0ovfn
- ApacheCon/Las Vegas presentations now available, exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/
ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.99%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 803 Apache contributors changed 9,613,292 lines of code over 3,213 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Till Rohrmann, Andrea Cosentino, Stephen Mallette, Tellier Benoit, and Mark Thomas.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Big Data --
- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Rya™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/0xc4g
- Apache Ignite 2.7.6 released http://ignite.apache.org/
Content --
- Apache JSPWiki 2.11.0.M5 released https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/
- Apache PDFBox 2.0.17 released http://pdfbox.apache.org/
- Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7 released http://openoffice.apache.org/
Database --
- Apache Druid (Incubating) 0.16.0 released http://druid.incubator.apache.org
- Apache Geode 1.10.0 released http://geode.apache.org/
Libraries --
- Apache Tuweni (Incubating) 0.8.2 released http://tuweni.incubator.apache.org/
- Apache Juneau 8.1.1 released http://juneau.apache.org
- Apache Commons BCEL 6.4.0 released http://commons.apache.org/
- Apache Qpid Dispatch 1.9.0 released http://qpid.apache.org/
Servers --
- Apache Tomcat 8.5.46 and 9.0.26 released http://tomcat.apache.org
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- Did you know that during ApacheCon North America, we shot "Community Over Code. Code Over Community", a special project in collaboration with technologist/photographer Peter Adams in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of The ASF? https://s.apache.org/fo9n2
- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI
- Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary
- ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on
- Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html
- ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon
- ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport
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- "Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
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- Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 15-17 October in Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/
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Posted at 09:16AM Sep 27, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter | |
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Rya® as a Top-Level Project
Scalable Open Source Big Data database processes queries in milliseconds; used in autonomous drones, federated situation-aware access control systems, and petabyte-scale graphs modeling, among many other applications.
Wakefield, MA —24 September 2019— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® Rya® as a Top-Level Project (TLP).
Apache Rya (pronounced "ree-uh") is a Cloud-based Big Data triple store (subject-predicate-object) database used to process queries in milliseconds. The project was originally developed at the Laboratory for Telecommunication Sciences, and was submitted to the Apache Incubator in September 2015.
"We are very excited to reach this important milestone showing the maturity of the project and of the community around it," said Dr. Adina Crainiceanu, Vice President of Apache Rya and Associate Professor of Computer Science at the U.S. Naval Academy. "RDF (Resource Description Framework) triple data format is simple and flexible, making it easy to express diverse datasets such as connections between users on social media, financial data and transactions, medical data, and many others. Rya provides a scalable solution to store and query such data. The publication of the first research article about Rya garnered interest from industry, academia, and several government agencies. Bringing the project to ASF allowed collaboration and increased pace of development."
With its ability to store billions of linked information sets and return answers to most computer-based questions in under a second, Rya's scalable RDF data management system is built on top of Apache Accumulo® to support SPARQL queries for RDF data. A MongoDB back-end is also implemented. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and query processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across multiple nodes.
Rya is in use at organizations such as Enlighten IT Consulting, Modus Operandi, Parsons Corporation, Semantic Arts, Semantic Web Company, Sierra Nevada Corporation, and U.S. Department of Defense agencies. Apache Rya is recognized as one of the most advanced database projects in the United States Department of the Navy, powering a new generation of drones, advanced tactical communications through manned-unmanned teaming, and supporting autonomous swarms of smaller robots, among numerous other applications. In addition, Apache Rya is being used for artificial intelligence projects involving semi-autonomous content production operations.
"I would like to thank our mentors for their guidance and recognize the Apache Rya founders for making their project available for all to use and further extend," said Jennifer Brown, Project Manager for Semantic Technologies at Parsons Corporation, and member of the Apache Rya Project Management Committee. "In 2012 the founders introduced an RDF store backed by Apache Accumulo that was capable of basic inferencing, scaling to billions of triples, and providing millisecond query times. Our Semantic Technologies team at Parsons Corporation has enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with the Apache Rya community to contribute new indexing strategies, query planner optimizations, additional inference capabilities, alerting extensions, native support for popular graph processing frameworks, and more."
"It's great to see Apache Rya has matured into a Top-Level Project. Rya is a very innovative and Open Source RDF data management system based on Big Data technology," said Dr. Zhiyuan Chen, Associate Professor, Information Systems Department, University of Maryland Baltimore County. "We have used Apache Rya in a variety of research projects ranging from more efficient query processing techniques over geographically distributed RDF data to situation-aware access control in federated systems. We found Rya very easy to use, easy to extend, and extremely efficient."
"Apache Rya has the potential to become one of the most scalable RDF data management systems on the market," said Andreas Blumauer, Founder and CEO, Semantic Web Company GmbH and Director, PoolParty Software Ltd.
"Our technology helps organizations discover the rare and hidden patterns with applied semantics enhancements and AI/ML analytics, to develop Living Intelligence in a data domain," said Kim Ziehlke, Principal Software Engineer at Modus Operandi. "Patterns are used to predict potential opportunities and threats and as a result, our clients can take preventative action, or take leading-edge advantage in complex decisions. Modus Operandi has achieved 2+ BILLION triples, sub-second queries, thousands of unstructured docs processed per second all backed by the Apache Rya triple store."
"Apache Rya is a foundational piece of technology on our projects," said Roshan Punnose, Technical Director at Enlighten IT Consulting and member of the Apache Rya Project Management Committee. "We use Rya to model graphs and entities at petabyte scale. It is the only technology that we have found to scale this type of information with field level visibilities, which allow data protections required on our projects. We have worked with Rya for 7 years and have benefitted from the work the Apache Rya team has done to help increase performance. We would like to thank all the contributors for their diligence and hard work in making Rya a first class citizen of the Apache community."
"Apache Rya is a very exciting project at The Apache Software Foundation that combines the world of 'Semantic Data' with that of 'Big Data'," said Christopher Tubbs, ASF Member and Project Management Committee (PMC) member of Apache Accumulo and Apache Fluo. "Implementing anything at scale can pose a challenge, but making semantic data searchable using familiar standards, such as SPARQL, and optimizing it at scale is really quite an amazing feat. Yet, that's precisely what the Rya community has done. Building on highly scalable platforms such as Apache Accumulo, the Rya community has produced an impressive platform for storing and querying very large semantic data sets. Apache Rya is something that every data scientist should get to know, because it's pretty cool."
"Apache Rya is an amazing project that enables users to execute SPARQL against large RDF data sets," said Keith Turner, Principal Software Engineer at Peterson Technologies, Vice President of Apache Fluo, member of the Apache Accumulo Project Management Committee, and ASF Member. "I had the pleasure to work with the Rya community when they asked for advice on using Apache Fluo for pre-computed joins. During our discussions, I found the folks working on Rya didn't need much assistance because they already had a thorough understanding of the complex issues surrounding distributed consistency. When considering using a piece of software that solves a hard problem for you, it's comforting to know great minds stand behind it. With great software and wonderful community, what are you waiting for? Give Rya a try. Also, as an extra bonus Rya is an Apache community and all are welcome to participate in shaping the future of Rya."
"We are grateful for the mentorship provided by the Apache Incubator in building a diverse and open community and learning the Apache Way," added Crainiceanu. "We are looking forward to continuing our journey as a Top-Level Project."
Availability and Oversight
Apache Rya software is released under the Apache License v2.0 and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache Rya, visit http://rya.apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/apacherya
About the Apache Incubator
The Apache Incubator is the entry path for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. All code donations from external organizations and existing external projects enter the ASF through the Incubator to: 1) ensure all donations are in accordance with the ASF legal standards; and 2) develop new communities that adhere to our guiding principles. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. For more information, visit http://incubator.apache.org/
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 760 individual Members and 7,300 Committers across six continents successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Anonymous, ARM, Baidu, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Handshake, Huawei, IBM, Indeed, Inspur, Leaseweb, Microsoft, ODPi, Pineapple Fund, Pivotal, Private Internet Access, Red Hat, Target, Tencent, Union Investment, Workday, and Verizon Media. For more information, visit http://apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF
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Posted at 12:59PM Sep 24, 2019 by Sally in General | |
Monday September 23, 2019
Success At Apache: "Mentor Your Mentor"
By Patricia Shanahan
After retiring, I wanted to continue programming but without the pressure and constraints of a job, so I started contributing to Apache. Open software development the Apache way is a great retirement hobby, offering social contacts, intellectual challenge, continuous learning, and the pleasant feeling of making a contribution.
I just got back from having a wonderful time at ApacheCon NA 2019 in Las Vegas. While there, I met relatively young people, and older people who had been involved in Apache for up to 20 years, but joining as a retiree seemed to be unusual.
Encouraging retirees could benefit Apache in many ways.
Often, a retiree has a range of experience and skills that take time to accumulate. I have worked, for several years each, on applications, operating systems, compilers, system performance, and architecture of servers with dozens of processors. People like me who were programming in the 1970's have experience surmounting memory limitations, a skill that may be useful again for Internet of Things projects. I can imagine several reasons for a lack of retiree recruits. The most basic is that the computing profession was relatively small when a 2019 retiree would have started their career. That is a good reason to develop ways of helping retirees join Apache, so we will benefit from increasing numbers over the next few decades.
Some retirees already have plans that will take all their time and energy, and have zero interest in another hobby. Among those who might choose Apache as a hobby, there are several possible blocks, such as just not thinking of it, lack of confidence in returning to doing after a period of managing, outdated skills, and skills that may have atrophied through disuse.
The concept behind "Mentor your Mentor" is that someone who is active in Apache should watch for opportunities to bring the idea of open source as a retirement hobby to the attention of a retiring colleague, even if the retiree has been their mentor, and no matter how senior the retiree.
If the retiree is interested, the Apache contributor can offer various forms of help and support such as:
• Introduction to how Apache operates
• Encouragement
• Help selecting a project
• Help identifying resources for technical learning and relearning
In summary, the Apache contributor would do for the retiree the things a good mentor would do for someone new to IT.
If you are an Apache contributor reading this blog, ask yourself: who in your network has retired from the computing profession? Reach out to them! Apache projects are a great opportunity for retirees to reconnect with innovation in computing. If you are a retiree and do not have an Apache mentor, don't let that stop you. Begin at http://community.apache.org/newcomers/.
Patricia Shanahan worked from 1970 to 2002 in various programming and computer architecture roles for NCR, Celerity Computing, FPS, Cray Research, and Sun Microsystems. She then went to UCSD as a graduate student, receiving a PhD in computer science in 2009, after which she retired.
"Success at Apache" is a monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works" https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
Posted at 05:47PM Sep 23, 2019 by Sally in SuccessAtApache | |
Success at Apache: Why you'd want to become an Apache Committer
by Dmitriy Pavlov
All newbies in Open Source communities may sometimes think that they'll never be able to become Committers. Many treat this role as a prestigious one, granted only for special feats, and after having written a ton of code. But not all things are so simple, and I hope my story will help you.
Election as Apache Committer
My journey with The Apache Software Foundation began relatively recently, in 2015. I was working for Openway Group, and was enthusiastic about in-memory computing. I got to know about Apache Ignite at a local developers conference. I implemented the POC of a backend system based on Apache Ignite. I was so impressed with the clear API and documentation, and it was also very convenient that I could start prototyping without passing through the approval process. I suggested using the Apache product instead of a source-available solution. I met Konstantin Boudnik (cos), who helped me to understand the difference between Apache projects and source-available/closely-governed products.
Luckily for me, GridGain, the company that initially donated Ignite to the Apache Incubator, has a development center in my city (Saint Petersburg, Russia). I joined the GridGain team in 2017.
As part of my day job, I provide patches to the product. I actively joined the dev.list discussions (some fellows sometimes say "too actively"). I've created a number of wiki pages - 'Apache Ignite-Under the hood' to help developers understand product internals. Also, I developed 'Direct IO' plugin. I was elected as a Committer.
In 2018 I was concerned about reviews of patches from members of the community not affiliated with GridGain. Since I had a commit-bit now, I've started to review patches and ask others to review them, too. I don't know for sure, but I suppose - these social achievements in the community development were a basis for me being elected as Project Management Committee (PMC) member.
I asked several questions about The Apache Way on the Community Development ("ComDev") dev list. I was very impressed by how friendly and welcoming they are. I very much like such a positive atmosphere, and feel it influences the success of Apache projects. Now I've also joined Apache Training (incubating) community as Committer and PPMC (Podling Project Management Committee) member.
Quite funny for a software developer with 17 years of experience… being elected as a Committer, that is to say, because of the social aspects and documentation.
Who is a typical Committer and where does his or her strength lie?
When creating an Open Source product, we always let the users explore it in action -- as well as allow them to modify it and distribute modified copies. But when such modified copies are replicated in an unsupervised manner, we don't get contributions into the main codebase and the project stalls. It's here where we need exactly such a person – the Committer – someone who is authorized to merge user contributions into the project.
Why should you become a Committer?
First of all, being assigned to a Committer role is extremely motivating. The professional community acknowledges you and your work, and you clearly see the results of your work in action.
How different is that from some enterprise project -- where you have no idea why you must continually keep shuffling various XML fields?
The second pure advantage of being a Committer is an opportunity to connect with top professionals and also pull some cool ideas from Open Source into your own project. But, if you aren't one of the top professionals, certainly don't be afraid to join -- the community has various tasks for different folks.
Besides, being a Committer is a jewel in your CV --and even a greater plus for junior programmers, because at interviews you are often asked to show code samples. If you know an Open Source project well, a company supporting or using it will be happy to hire you. There are some people who will tell you that great positions are unreachable without first committing in Open Source.
There are some bonus goodies, too! For example, Apache Committers get an IntelliJ Idea Ultimate license for free (albeit with some limitations).
How do you become a Committer?
You should be committed to the project --it's just that simple. Development, writing tests and documentation, and simply answering questions on lists are also good ways to start working towards committership.
Yeah, the contributions of QA engineers and technical writers in the community are valued no less than the developers' contributions.
If you think there are no tasks for you on some project, you are wrong. Just join the community you are interested in and start working on its tasks.
The Apache Software Foundation has this dedicated page that lists what contributions are needed.
Committer — to be or not to be?
Committer activity is a good and useful endeavor, but one shouldn't strive to become a committer per se. This status can be granted not only for code and it doesn't justify your proficiency.
Find a project you may be interested in: it will probably be a project whose software you already use. Dive into its code and say hi to the community; offer help, improve docs, complete a newbie ticket or answer to a user. You may just be surprised how welcoming and open folks are there.
Strive to gain the expertise (knowledge and experience) while researching the project, tweaking it and helping others to solve their problems, and, hopefully, enjoying collaborative development in an Open Source project.
Getting started at http://community.apache.org/ will help you on your way.
Dmitriy Pavlov is a Java developer enthusiastic about Open Source and in-memory computing. He is interested in system performance, information security, and cryptography. He created and donated utility for monitoring tests for Apache Ignite, and is a former Community Manager for Apache Ignite at GridGain. Dmitriy represents the Apache Ignite Project Management Committee (PMC) at local meetups in Russia. He runs workshops and training for Apache Ignite developers and users, and is a frequent speaker at meetups and conferences.
Happy Friday, everyone. Let's take a look at how the past week has progressed:
- Countdown to ApacheCon Europe --REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
- NEW! The latest presentations from ApacheCon/Las Vegas exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/
Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 825 Apache contributors changed 2,115,070 lines of code over 2,959 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Robert Miller, Andrea Cosentino, Stephen Mallette, Mark Thomas, and Daniel Keir Haywood.
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.14.8 and Oak 1.8.17, 1.10.5 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org
Identity Management --
- Apache Syncope 2.0.14 and 2.1.5 released http://syncope.apache.org
- Apache Commons Configuration 2.6 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration
Web Frameworks --
- Apache Wicket 8.6.1 and 9.0.0-M3 released http://wicket.apache.org
- Did you know that the Open Source Design community (ApacheCon Europe Community Partners) are holding a FREE workshop on October 25th (immediately following ApacheCon)? Register today, as space is limited! https://aceu19.apachecon.com/open-source-design-workshop
- Did you know the four things "Father of Java" James Gosling loves about Apache? Learn more in "My personal journey to Open Source", James's keynote at ApacheCon North America https://s.apache.org/0q20b
- Did you know that the ASF exceeded 7,000 code Committers https://s.apache.org/w7bw1
Happy Friday! We're wrapping up another great week with the following activities:
- Next Board Meeting: 18 September 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
- Countdown to ApacheCon Europe -- we look forward to seeing you in Berlin -- REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
- NEW! Catch the latest presentations from ApacheCon/Las Vegas exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 100.00%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/
Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 857 Apache contributors changed 4,388,161 lines of code over 3,161 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Thomas, Gary Gregory, Stephen Mallette, Andrea Cosentino, and Michael Stack.
- Apache Calcite 1.21.0 released http://calcite.apache.org/
Build Management --
- Apache Maven 3.6.2 released http://maven.apache.org
- Apache Traffic Control 3.0.2 released http://trafficcontrol.apache.org
Data Management Platform --
- Apache Geode 1.9.1 released http://geode.apache.org
Enterprise Processes Automation
- Apache OFBiz 16.11.06 released http://ofbiz.apache.org
- Apache Flagon UserALE.js 2.0.2 (Incubating) released http://flagon.incubator.apache.org
- Apache HttpComponents Client 4.5.10 GA released http://hc.apache.org
- Apache Commons Daemon 1.2.1 released http://commons.apache.org
- Apache Milagro Crypto C & JS Libraries (Incubating) 1.0.0 released http://milagro.apache.org
Messaging Platform --
- Apache Pulsar 2.4.1 released http://pulsar.apache.org
- Apache Wicket 7.15.0 and 8.6.0 released http://wicket.apache.org
- Did you know that Apple have been successfully using Apache CloudStack for the past 6 years to power their virtual machine service for hundreds of mission-critical internal and external applications? http://cloudstack.apache.org/
- Did you know that during this week's ApacheCon, Apache projects added 406 new committers, and Apache Calcite, Camel, Flink, Maven, SkyWalking, Syncope, Tapestry, and Wicket issued new releases? https://projects.apache.org/
- Did you know that 35 new individual ASF Members elected, totaling 766 https://s.apache.org/w7bw1
- Registration is open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/
Posted at 03:43PM Sep 13, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter | |
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 6 September 2019
Happy September! Let's take a look at the activities from the Apache community over the past week:
- Countdown to ApacheCon North America and Europe -- we look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas and Berlin -- REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
- Catch the latest on ApacheCon™, Q&A With Community Track Leader, Sharan Foga, ASF'S VP of Apache Community Development exclusively on https://feathercast.apache.org/
Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 800 Apache contributors changed 1,666,694 lines of code over 3,132 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Stephen Mallette, Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, and Chesnay Schepler.
- Apache Myriad 0.4.0 (Incubating) released http://myriad.apache.org
- Apache Ant 1.10.7 released http://ant.apache.org
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.16.5 and 2.18.3 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org
Databases --
- Apache HBase 2.1.6 released http://hbase.apache.org
- Apache Commons Text 1.8 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text
- Apache HttpComponents Core 4.4.12 released http://hc.apache.org
- Did you know that the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses are offset by the generous donations of our Sponsors? The ASF is supported by 10 Platinum Sponsors, 9 Gold Sponsors, 11 Silver Sponsors, 25 Bronze Sponsors, and 6 Platinum Targeted Sponsors, 5 Gold Targeted Sponsors, 3 Silver Targeted Sponsors, and 10 Bronze Targeted Sponsors https://s.apache.org/w7bw1
- Did you know the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Many Happy Returns to Apache ServiceMix (12 years); Hive, Pig, and Shiro (9 years); Airavata, Bigtop, SIS, and Stanbol (7 years); Curator (6 years); Storm (5 years); Yetus (4 years); DRAT, RocketMQ, and Royale (2 years); and Pulsar (1 year). https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date
- Did you know that ApacheCon sponsors and community partners include Aiven, AWS, Comcast. CrowdStrike, DataStax, Google Cloud, IBM, HotWax Systems, Instaclustr, Linode, LinuxMagic, Manning Publications, Red Hat, PCCC, ShapeBlue, SK Telecom, StreamNative, The Last Pickle, and more? Learn more at https://www.apachecon.com/