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The Cosmoplanetary Economy of Lost Humanity: the Postnonclassical Version of Noospheric Ontology (Philosophical Reflection)
by Grigoriy Smirnov1 and Alena Artemyeva2
1 Ivanovo State University (Ivanovo, Russian Federation)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/26/13
Received: 6 December 2020 / Accepted: 5 January 2021 / Published: 29 January 2021
The article describes the theoretical basis of cosmoplanetary economy representations in their ontological, epistemological, axiological and praxeological dimensions that were suggested in science and philosophy in the 20th and 21st centuries. It is shown that the conceptualization of cosmoplanetary economy and economics comes from the works of Sergey Bulgakov, Sergey Podolinsky, Vladimir Vernadskiy, Nikita Moiseev, Vlail Kaznacheev, Pobisk Kuznetsov and manifests itself in various models of noospheric economy. It is concluded that in the current realities of the intensive scientific and philosophical search for some new economic and ecological theories, a complex model of "cosmoplanetary economy" is constructed as a meta-economy so as to ensure the survival of humanity in the face of the destructive force of global catastrophism of the 21st century.
Keywords: cosmoplanetary economy, noospheric economy, digital economy, market, econoomics, noospheric picture of the world
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But aside from the point about ponies, none of those elements made Marxism interesting or 'sticky.' For me the important points are:
The struggle is archetypal and mythological.
It will create heaven on earth.
If you are one of the workers, you are one of the blessed. If you are one of the bosses, you are one of the damned.
You belong to the struggle. The struggle belongs to you. You are part of the struggle. The struggle is part of you.
Therefore the struggle is worth almost any personal sacrifice.
It turns out that capitalists and aristocrats have their own mirror version, which goes something like this:
Your desires and needs are archetypal and mythological.
Creating heaven for yourself is a sacred duty.
If you are one of the chosen, you are blessed. If you are not, you are cursed, invisible, despicable and disposable.
Everything around you belongs to you.
Your desires demand everyone else's sacrifice.
These are not particularly rational frames, but I think it's impossible to understand the lasting influence of Marxism or Capitalism without them.
What's absolutely key is that both frames are something you live, rather than something you think.
(Should I leave the equivalent frame for European social democracy as an exercise for the reader?)
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Aug 27th, 2009 at 05:00:18 PM EST
Should I leave the equivalent frame for European social democracy as an exercise for the reader?
Now seriously, this is scarily postmodern.
Agreed.. I couldaahve made the capitalism one with some minor changes.. but not the marxist one .. so I guess I can not do the middle of the road Social Democaracy one :)
this is scarily postmodern.
Is it not possible to accept postmodern tools, such as deconstruction, and even to accept that values are cultural phenomena and therefore many existing vales are cultural artifacts without accepting that all values are inherently arbitrary?
Surely universal human rights are superior to rights that only pertain to a specific ethnicity and that superiority can be maintained even while allowing the perception and implementation to be critiqued on the grounds of relativism. I think much of the problem is that people look for given rather than being willing to accept responsibility for created values.
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by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sat Aug 29th, 2009 at 12:13:13 PM EST
ARGeezer:
Is it not possible to accept postmodern tools, such as deconstruction
possible? i'd say essential...
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by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun Aug 30th, 2009 at 08:47:20 AM EST
Archetypal or Christian? (4.00 / 3)
The Marxist description is Fundamentalism, and the Capitalist one is the Calvinist heresy.
Or is the Christian mythology archetypal?
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by paul spencer (spencerinthegorge AT yahoo DOT com) on Thu Aug 27th, 2009 at 08:14:34 PM EST
Re: Archetypal or Christian? (4.00 / 3)
All are competing archetypes. But I would say that Marxism is secularized judeo-christian fundamentalism.
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Thu Aug 27th, 2009 at 10:10:19 PM EST
Re: Archetypal or Christian? (none / 0)
if you've seen 'Zeitgeist- the movie', you might think so.
maybe if you boil christianity down to its essence, sans effluvia, it comes down to a bouillon of two basic ingredients:
if you're too nice to people, and stand up for the rights of the individual when they're in conflict with those rights appropriated by the power of the state, the state will kill you.
unselfishness taken to the point of total self-sacrifice is so rare that the narrative created by such acts (real or imaginary), sends a wave of novelty across the waters of history that can last millennia, and inspire people, when they are in the darkest hours of their lives, to acknowledge that not all men are brutes, and their intentions not always venal.
so as myths go, it encodes a warning about human nature at its worst and best, like a myth should!
whether it cannot be superceded... i suspect so, it's the how that is the puzzle.
but were that impulse unsuccessful, at least the old tried and true one was noble, if overchallenging for most, (therefore alienating). buddha's road is better tailored to the average human's scale and range of attainability.
the theory is fine, it's the execution that's the problem... the numbers need onside to make ahimsa effective are a quantum magnitude greater that what is muster-able now.
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun Aug 30th, 2009 at 02:09:45 PM EST
Karl Marx, meet Ayn Rand.
No argument here.
An additional point that fits in many (including these two) is that wise men once wrote big books that proved this once and for all. Thus there is really no need to actually read the books.
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The top ten cryptocurrency positions on April 24, 2018.
Looking at weekly, daily and the 4-hour charts show BCH bulls have been relentlessly charging without much exhaustion. At the time of writing bitcoin cash values are close to more powerful resistance levels in the $1,500 territories. Both the daily and 4-hour Relative Strength Index (RSI) indicator overbought conditions. MACd shows it may be heading southbound in the short term as well.
BCH prices are hovering around $1,477 at press time on the exchange Bitstamp. 4-24-18.
The two Simple Moving Averages (SMA) both short-term 100 SMA and the long-term 200 SMA have recently crossed paths. The 100 SMA is now above the 200 trend line indicating the path to resistance is on the upside. Order books show some stiff resistance for bulls between the price point now all the way up until the $1,600 region and a little more upwards past $1,700. On the backside some solid foundations have formed between the price level now and $1,400 but after that books begin to look quite thin.
Bitfinex 4-hour BCH/USD with MACd & RSI indicators.
Cryptocurrencies, in general, have done well over the last two weeks and the current momentum continues. BTC markets have seen a daily volume increase of $8.8Bn and a $157Bn market capitalization. However many other digital currencies have seen much bigger gains and BTC dominance is down to the 37 percent threshold today. Ethereum (ETH) markets are doing considerably well this week and are up 35 percent over the last seven days. One ETH is averaging around $695 per coin during the April 24 trading sessions. The third largest cryptocurrency valuation held by ripple (XRP) has seen seven-day gains around 37 percent. The market value of XRP today is $0.91 cents and markets command a $1.2Bn 24-hour trade volume. The cryptocurrency EOS has taken over the fifth top market capitalization as its markets have increased significantly this week. One EOS is hovering around $13.42 per token today with a $1.9Bn daily trade volume.
Overall cryptocurrency market participants are extremely pleased with the past week's runups in value. However, some traders are still skeptical that we are out of the bear market range as there have been a lot of false positive rallies over the last four months. So far the verdict is many traders and digital asset enthusiasts are confident 2018 will be just as spectacular as last year.
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Люсьен ван Импе (; род. , коммуна Эрпе-Мере, провинция Восточная Фландрия, Бельгия) — бельгийский профессиональный шоссейный велогонщик.

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Профессионал в 1969—1987 годах. Горовосходитель.

Проехал пятнадцать велогонок Тур де Франс, завершив их все на финише, при этом десять раз занимал места в первой десятке генеральной классификации. Победитель Тур де Франс 1976, четырежды был призёром (1971, 1975, 1977, 1981). Шесть раз выигрывал горную классификацию Тур де Франс (1971, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1983). Первый обладатель гороховой майки, введённой в 1975 году. Также выиграл 9 индивидуальных этапов.

Среди достижений также две победы в горной классификации Джиро д'Италия (1982,1983), победы на этапах Джиро д'Италия и Вуэльта Испании.

Чемпион Бельгии по шоссейному велоспорту в групповой гонке (1983).

После окончания карьеры велогонщика, работал спортивным директором велокоманд: в 2005—2007 — бельгийской, а затем шведской профессиональной шоссейной велокоманды MrBookmaker.com (с 2006 года — Unibet.com), имевшей в 2007 году лицензию UCI ProTour; в 2008—2014 годах бельгийской велокоманды Verandas Willems, имевшей статус UCI Professional Continental team.

Брат Люсьена — Франк (р.1955) и племянник Кевин ван Импе (р.1981), также являлись профессиональными велогонщиками.

Достижения

 1968
 Тур де л'Авенир
 1-й — Горная классификация
 1-й — Этап 8
 1969
 1-й Вуэльта Наварры — Генеральная классификация
 3-й Circuit des frontières
 1970
 1-й Grand Prix du Midi Libre — Горная классификация
 1-й — Этап 8
 2-й Manx Trophy
 6-й Тур де Франс — Генеральная классификация
 7-й Тур Романдии — Генеральная классификация
 10-й Вуэльта Каталонии — Генеральная классификация
 10-й Льеж — Бастонь — Льеж
 1971
 Тур де Франс
 3-й — Генеральная классификация
 1-й — Горная классификация
 1-й Тур Романдии — Горная классификация
 5-й Grand Prix du Midi Libre — Генеральная классификация
 7-й Критериум Дофине — Генеральная классификация
 9-й Тур Люксембурга— Генеральная классификация
 1-й — Горная классификация
 9-й Эшборн — Франкфурт
 1972
 4-й Тур де Франс — Генеральная классификация
 1-й — Горная классификация
 1-й — Этап 12
 2-й Тур Романдии — Генеральная классификация
 1-й — Очковая классификация
 3-й Критериум Дофине — Генеральная классификация
 5-й Grand Prix du Midi Libre — Генеральная классификация
 1973
 1-й — Этап 3 Grand Prix du Midi Libre
 2-й Тур Романдии — Генеральная классификация
 1-й — Этап 3
 5-й Тур де Франс — Генеральная классификация
 1-й — Этап 12b
 7-й Trophée des Grimpeurs
 1974
 1-й Тур Романдии — Горная классификация
 1975
 1-й Tour de l'Aude — Генеральная классификация
 1-й — Этапы 1 и 3
 Тур де Франс
 3-й — Генеральная классификация
 1-й  — Горная классификация
 1-й — Этапы 14 и 18 (ИГ)
 1-й — Индивидуальная гонка с раздельным стартом Восхождение на Монжуик (вместе с Эдди Мерксом)
 2-й Гран-при Исберга
 5-й Критериум Дофине — Генеральная классификация
 Grand Prix du Midi Libre — Генеральная классификация
 6-й — Генеральная классификация
 1-й — Горная классификация
 6-й Париж — Бурж
 9-й Чемпионат мира — Групповая гонка (проф.)
 1976
 Тур де Франс
 1-й  — Генеральная классификация
 1-й — Этап 14
 1-й Challenge Sedis
 1-й Trophée des grimpeurs
 1-й — Этап 2b Tour de l'Aude
 Grand Prix du Midi Libre
 2-й — Генеральная классификация
 1-й — Этап 4b (ИГ)
 5-й Супер Престиж Перно
 9-й Флеш Валонь
 1977
 Тур де Франс
 3-й — Генеральная классификация
 1-й  — Горная классификация
 1-й — Этап 15b (ИГ)
 2-й Тур Швейцарии — Генеральная классификация
 1-й — Этапы 7 и 8
 3-й Критериум Дофине — Генеральная классификация
 1-й — Этап 6
 6-й Trophée des grimpeurs
 8-й Тур Романдии — Генеральная классификация
 1978
 9-й Тур де Франс — Генеральная классификация
 1979
 1-й — Этап 16 Тур де Франс
 5-й Вуэльта Испании — Генеральная классификация
 1-й — Этап 15
 6-й Вуэльта Каталонии — Генеральная классификация
 1-й — Этап 7а
 6-й Льеж — Бастонь — Льеж
 6-й Тур Бельгии — Генеральная классификация
 8-й Амстел Голд Рейс
 1980
 4-й Тур Швейцарии — Генеральная классификация
 1-й  — Горная классификация
 8-й Де Кюстпейл
 1981
 Тур де Франс
 2-й — Генеральная классификация
 1-й  — Горная классификация
 1-й — Этап 5
 1-й Схал Селс
 1982
 Джиро д'Италия
 4-й — Генеральная классификация
 1-й  — Горная классификация
 3-й Тур Швеции — Генеральная классификация
 5-й Gran Premio Industria & Commercio di Prato
 6-й Гран-при Эдди Меркса
 10-й Дрёйвенкурс Оверейсе
 1983
 1-й  Чемпион Бельгии — Групповая гонка
 Джиро д'Италия
 9-й — Генеральная классификация
 1-й  — Горная классификация
 1-й — Этап 11
 Тур де Франс
 4-й — Генеральная классификация
 1-й  — Горная классификация
 1-й — Этап 19 (ИГ)
 4-й Polynormande
 8-й Джиро дель Аппеннино
 1984
 6-й Натионале Слёйтингспрейс
 7-й Джиро д'Италия — Генеральная классификация
 1985
 10-й Джиро дель Аппеннино
 1986
 1-й Vuelta a los Valles Mineros — Генеральная классификация
 1-й — Этап 1
 8-й Вуэльта Астурии — Генеральная классификация

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Home » Blog » CONDITIONAL ORDERS OF DISMISSAL PURSUANT TO CPLR 3216
CONDITIONAL ORDERS OF DISMISSAL PURSUANT TO CPLR 3216
If a plaintiff fails to prosecute an action dismissal for "want of prosecution" may be obtained pursuant to CPLR 3216, which provides, in pertinent part:
(a) Where a party unreasonably neglects to proceed generally in an action or otherwise delays in the prosecution thereof against any party who may be liable to a separate judgment, or unreasonably fails to serve and file a note of issue, the court, on its own initiative or upon motion, with notice to the parties, may dismiss the party's pleading on terms. Unless the order specifies otherwise, the dismissal is not on the merits.
(b) No dismissal shall be directed under any portion of subdivision (a) of this rule and no court initiative shall be taken or motion made thereunder unless the following conditions precedent have been complied with:
(1) Issue must have been joined in the action;
(2) One year must have elapsed since the joinder of issue or six months must have elapsed since the issuance of the preliminary court conference order where such an order has been issued, whichever is later;
(3) The court or party seeking such relief, as the case may be, shall have served a written demand by registered or certified mail requiring the party against whom such relief is sought to resume prosecution of the action and to serve and file a note of issue within ninety days after receipt of such demand, and further stating that the default by the party upon whom such notice is served in complying with such demand within said ninety day period will serve as a basis for a motion by the party serving said demand for dismissal as against him or her for unreasonably neglecting to proceed. Where the written demand is served by the court, the demand shall set forth the specific conduct constituting the neglect, which conduct shall demonstrate a general pattern of delay in proceeding with the litigation.
Thus, if a party seeks a dismissal pursuant to CPLR 3216, compliance with three conditions precedent must be satisfied, but if it is the Court seeking dismissal, there is a fourth requirement found in the last sentence of subsection (b)(3) thereof. Before dismissal is granted, all statutory requirements must be met. Ramirez v. Reyes, 171 A.D.3d 1114, 1116 (2nd Dep't 2019). In order to avoid dismissal if all required conditions are met, "the plaintiff was required to demonstrate a justifiable excuse for the failure to timely abide by the 90-day demand, as well as the existence of a potentially meritorious cause of action." Ramirez, 171 A.D.3d at 1116.
In actions where there are multiple defendants, a CPLR 3216 dismissal may only be obtained by the defendant(s) that served a 90-day demand. Fichera v. City of New York, 79 A.D.597, 598 (2nd Dep't 1980); Yunga v. Yonkers Contracting Co., Inc., 134 A.D.3d 1031, 1033 (2nd Dep't 2015).
In Rhodehouse v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc., 151 A.D.3d 771 (2nd Dep't 2017), supreme court dismissed plaintiff's action on its own motion. In finding that the statutory conditions were not satisfied and in reversing supreme court, the Second Department stated that : (1) "the certification order did not set forth any specific conduct constituting neglect by the plaintiff" as required by CPLR 3216(b)(3); and, (2) "Supreme Court failed to give the parties notice and an opportunity to be heard prior to considering whether to dismiss the action pursuant to CPLR 3216" as required by CPLR 3216 (a). Rhodehouse, 151 A.D.3d at 773.
On December 23, 2020, in Deutsche Bank Nat. Trust Co. v. Henry, the Second Department reversed the administrative dismissal of the action pursuant to CPLR 3216. Henry, a mortgage foreclosure action,was commenced in 2007. At a status conference held in March of 2017, the court issued a conditional order of dismissal (1) "in which it stated that more than one year had passed since joinder of issue, and that the plaintiff had unreasonably neglected to prosecute the action"; and, (2) in which it stated that "'this action is dismissed pursuant to CPLR 3216 and the County Clerk is directed to cancel the Notice of Pendency unless Plaintiff files a note of issue or otherwise proceeds by motion for entry of judgment within 90 days of the date hereof.'" When the plaintiff failed to comply with the conditional order, the case was administratively dismissed and plaintiff's motion to restore was denied.
In reversing supreme court, the Henry Court stated:
CPLR 3216 permits a court, on its own initiative, to dismiss an action for want of prosecution where certain conditions precedent have been complied with. As relevant here, an action cannot be dismissed pursuant to CPLR 3216(a) unless a written demand is served upon the party against whom such relief is sought in accordance with the statutory requirements, along with a statement that the default by the party upon whom such notice is served in complying with such demand within said ninety day period will serve as a basis for a motion by the party serving said demand for dismissal as against him or her for unreasonably neglecting to proceed. While a conditional order of dismissal may have the same effect as a valid 90-day notice pursuant to CPLR 3216, the conditional order of dismissal here was defective in that it failed to state that the plaintiff's failure to comply with the notice "will serve as a basis for a motion" by the court to dismiss the action for failure to prosecute. The Supreme Court should not have administratively dismissed the action without further notice to the parties and without benefit of further judicial review.
(Citations and some internal quotation marks omitted; emphasis in original.)
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WEBTAKES: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Reviewed by Robert Sklar
Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander
Produced by Sören Staermose; directed by Niels Arden Oplev; screenplay by Rasmus Heisterberg and Nikolaj Arcel, based on the novel by Stieg Larsson; cinematography by Eric Kress; production design by Niels Sejer; costumes by Cilla Rörby; editing by Anne Østerud and Jannus Billeskov Jansen; music by Jacob Groth; starring Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, and Sven-Bertil Taube. Color, 152 mins., Swedish with English subtitles. A Music Box Films release, www.musicboxfilms.com.
If your picture of Sweden, formed perhaps by Ingmar Bergman, is of romping blondes and anguished Lutherans—or anguished blondes and romping Lutherans—The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will introduce you to some other Swedish types: Nazis, sex perverts, and serial killers, to name a few.
The film's backstory is as tragically thrilling as its narrative. In 2004 a left-wing Swedish journalist, Stieg Larsson, died suddenly, at age 50, leaving on his desk the manuscripts of three linked crime novels. When published, this so-called "Millennium Trilogy" (so named after a magazine the editors of which are centrally featured) became a stunning worldwide success story, a top bestseller in multiple languages, with millions of copies in print. As of February 2010, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoohad been on The New York Times paperback fiction bestseller list for over thirty weeks, with its successor, The Girl Who Played with Fire, on the hardcover fiction list for fifteen. The trilogy's U.S. publisher was frustrating readers by holding off issuing the third book, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, available in the U.K. since fall 2009 (I got my copy in Stockholm, although that wasn't the reason for my trip).
Film versions of all three books were released in Sweden in 2009 and were the prime reason that Sweden's box-office take rose 22% over the previous year and that Swedish films' share of the total was a record-high 33%, as reported by Variety. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo topped the list, The Girl Who Played with Fire came in second, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest sixth. All these numbers must warm the cockles of the U.S. distributor, Music Box Films. It's planning an extraordinarily wide opening for a subtitled foreign-language film, 39 screens in 33 cities, as of this writing. All those readers who bought Larsson's books must be pining to see his characters made flesh.
One character, for sure. The Girl. You may have noticed that all three volumes begin with the same two words in English. Credit an unknown publishing genius: only the second Swedish book has a similar title (the original title of the first book translates as "Men Who Hate Women," which seems an unlikely candidate for the U.S. pop charts). The Girl is the selling point: Larsson's creation, Lisbeth Salander, who moves the books from the pulp racks to the front table. The Times bestseller descriptions, requiring brevity, call her a "hacker," but that hardly begins to tell the tale. She's a fantasy, to be sure, but perhaps of an original kind: punk, surly, secretive, a genius of sorts (though treated as mentally deficient by authorities), a computer whiz with a photographic memory, physically fearless, ruthless, a victim of state repression, harboring deep resentments and longings for revenge that will be explained and played out over the three texts. She is tattooed, pierced, dressed in black, wearing black lipstick, with dark hair cut short and straight and falling over one eye, slight, tomboyish, sleeps with men and women. In Noomi Rapace, an Icelandic-Swedish performer whose father was Spanish, the filmmakers have found an actor capable of bringing this dream figure convincingly to life.
Lisbeth shares the story's agency with journalist Mikael Blomqvist (Michael Nyqvist, in a quiet, stoic performance), Millennium magazine's publisher, who has suffered disgrace and a prison sentence after being convicted of libeling a controversial businessman. Some still believe in his rectitude however, and are convinced that he was set up for a fall, as shown when an elderly industrialist hires him, on the pretext of writing his biography, to reopen the decades-old case of a niece who disappeared. This sets off the events that lead to confrontations with the Nazis, perverts, and killers mentioned above.
Larsson's books are lengthy and repetitive (but who can quarrel with success), and Danish director Niels Arden Oplev and scriptwriters Rasmus Heisterberg and Nikolaj Arcel have been challenged to condense the novel's details even into a film running more than two and a half hours. The distinguished Swedish performer Lena Endre, third-billed as Erika Berger, Millennium's editor and a key figure in the book, seems to have ended up almost entirely on the cutting room floor, briefly visible in only a few scenes and entirely inconsequential to the story. Other characters and plot complications are also sharply curtailed. Some brief scenes, meanwhile, are imported from later books, as foretastes or to clarify Lisbeth's behavior earlier than Larsson chose to. (A different director and writer worked on the second and third films.)
Readers of the novels, such as this reviewer, may not fully appreciate the filmmakers' skill in building the tension and suspense of a narrative the outcome of which they already know. All one can say is that director Oplev, along with cinematographer Eric Kress and the editors and designers, have made a convincing visualization of Larsson's tale and coped effectively with the demands of detailed exposition. Keep your eyes open for films two and three, which, assuming that they follow the books as closely as this one, will treat Swedish society and politics in more complex and compelling fashion. And hope for a speedy rather than a delayed rollout.
To buy the novel, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, click here.
Robert Sklar is author of Movie-Made America and many other books on film.


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The Web is the biggest open source success of all
January 10, 2011 in Tech Musings
The open source movement is a popular one, and it's certainly made its mark on the software landscape. But where has it made its biggest mark? What is the most successful open source endeavor of all time?
Actually, when you see it as a whole, isn't the Web the biggest open source success of them all?
Perhaps the most famous example is the LAMP stack that lies behind so many websites, i.e. Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. But there's so much more when you think about it.
Here are some of the open source projects that make the Web tick.
While Microsoft's closed source Internet Explorer still has a big share of the web browser market, open source alternatives are just as common these days, and they are growing. We have Mozilla's Firefox, which is open source, and then there's the rapid rise of Webkit-based browsers such as Safari, but most notably Chrome.
Add to this the mobile Web, where Webkit powers the browsers on iPhone, Android and Blackberry.
Web server software
The most-used web server software by far is Apache, which is open source, and a lightweight alternative called nginx has become quite popular in recent years. In fact, two out of the three top web servers are open source (the exception being Microsoft's IIS at a distant number two).
Then there's plenty of other server-side plumbing that is open source. For example, many high-traffic websites use Varnish as a caching layer towards website visitors, and Memcached as a caching layer against the website's database. And these are just two examples of many.
Scripting languages and web frameworks
Most of the programming and scripting languages used on the Web, like PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, are open source projects.
But few sites start completely from scratch. There are literally hundreds of open source content management systems and web frameworks out there to help developers, for example WordPress, Drupal, Ruby on Rails, Django, Joomla! and more.
The open source software MySQL is by far the most popular database choice for websites. There are also other open source alternatives, for example PostgreSQL, not to mention a host of open source "NoSQL" options that are cropping up lately.
Oh, and while we're talking about plumbing, we must not forget one of the very basics we rely on every single time we use anything on the Web or the Internet:
The Web (and the whole Internet for that matter) would be pretty useless without the Domain Name System. You know, that thing that makes it possible for you to use names like example.com instead of IP addresses. BIND is pretty much the de facto standard software for DNS servers (a.k.a. name servers), and is, as you might guess by now, open source.
All those websites have to run on servers, and open source dominates here as well. While Windows dominates on the desktop, the servers our websites run on mostly use Linux, which is open source. Other popular options are freeBSD and OpenBSD.
The open source appeal
It's not so strange that open source software has become so popular when in many cases it can provide quality alternatives to commercial, closed source software, but for free. Free is a hard price to beat.
The Web would most likely have had a much harder time becoming widely accepted without all this freely available software to run it all on.
Please note that we're not saying that there isn't any closed source on the Web. There obviously is. But the only real exception from the open source domination of the Web, statistically speaking, is Microsoft's stack of Windows-based alternatives.
Other than that, you usually need to go really deep to get into more proprietary closed source technology, like the operating systems on routers and such. But that's the Internet, not the Web.
Thanks to the rise of the Internet in the 80s, facilitating communication, collaboration and sharing, the open source movement blossomed. When the Web was born on top of the infrastructure of the Internet in the 90s, the open source movement was already in place to help.
No one can deny that open source powers the majority of the Web. Open source and the Web live in a symbiotic relationship, feeding off each other, nurturing each other.
That's why we think that the Web is arguably the greatest open source success to date. (Not to take anything away from Tim Berners-Lee.)
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Any open-source software can be succeful when you have AOL-Mozilla, Google or Apple behind it…
Apache comes out way ahead in Netcraft's survey because they include parked domain names. I don't think these are very indicative of what developers and active sites are doing. Port 80's survey of Fortune 1000 companies web sites shows MS IIS 6 as the most used (http://www.port80software.com/surveys/top1000webservers/). I have also seen a survey of the top 1000 traffic site, which also showed MS IIS as the most popular, but I cannot find a reference now.
Apache and LAMP stack are great, we would have a much poorer web without it. However Netcraft's findings need to be qualified.
Pingdom says:
@Matt: Port 80's survey of the the websites of Fortune 1000 companies shows that IIS is more popular than Apache on CORPORATE home pages. That Microsoft has a strong presence there is not strange. If you can find the other survey you're talking about, please let us know.
You have a point that the Netcraft stats are affected by parked domain names, but not necessarily how you think. Even their filtered "active" list (which tries to remove things like parked domain pages) shows Apache in the lead by a good margin. In fact, the "active" list shows an even HIGHER market share for Apache. See for yourself: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/12/01/december-2010-web-server-survey.html
franz enzenhofer says:
you are forgetting the biggest open source project of them all… the web itself. the possibility to view the source of each and any webpage has lead to better websites all over the internet. we come across a page with a nice effect, we appreciate, we look at the code, we learn, we implement an even better version on our site – we fork & deploy.
the web itself is open source, and it's awesome.
That's a very good observation, Franz. 🙂
Awais Irshad says:
Thanks to all open source and the developers behind it who made it possible for all the internet and web development users.
Ven Francis | Web Ninja Wannabe says:
if there's a way i can like and score a comment i would give a hit on Franz comment. That's really true…
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Cape Cod Times: Music to the Ears?
Over the years, a variety of groups have pursued the elusive idea of creating a world-class performance center here on Cape Cod that could serve as a home for the Cape Cod Symphony while also functioning as something of a cultural magnet for other groups that may otherwise bypass the region. Plans have sometimes come tantalizingly close to moving from concept to reality, but something seems to always arise at the 11th hour to derail the effort.
Oceanside Performing Arts Center, or OSPAC, represents the latest organization to chase the dream. The group envisions a world-class auditorium that can seat up to 1,400 patrons, with a mixture of convention and classroom spaces to accommodate additional private and public events. OSPAC also hopes that the space would serve as an economic engine, as performing arts centers have done for other communities, helping to drive commerce and consumerism in the region, while also providing good-paying year-round jobs and another venue for local artists to showcase their talents.
For example, the positive impact of arts and culture in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, region topped $41 million in 2011 and $58 million in 2016. The Tanglewood summer music festival in Lenox brings more than $103 million in economic activity to the Berkshires each year – up about 70 percent from 2008 estimates.
OSPAC also knows exactly where it hopes to transform its dream into reality: a 46-acre parcel adjacent to the Hyannis Resort and Conference Center, currently serving as the Twin Brooks Golf Course, putting it roughly in the same neighborhood as the Sturgis Charter Public School West Campus and the Cape Cod Melody Tent.
Organizers must know that they are treading on well-worn ground in terms of the dream, but that does not seem to be any deterrent. The group has announced a five-year plan that anticipates a 2023 opening date. The work between now and then, however, will be considerable. Knowing that a project of this size and scope will have a dramatic impact on the area, the group has wisely pledged to work with all stakeholders, including abutters and neighbors, as part of a coordinated effort to assuage any concerns before they become possible stumbling blocks. Obviously, trying to anticipate every potential objection before it emerges is something of a wild guessing game, but keeping the lines of communication open throughout the process will doubtlessly help diffuse a lot of the friction before it starts to heat up.
To pay for this grand effort, OSPAC sees a two-tiered fundraising effort. The group has begun phase one of a capital campaign, seeking to raise $5 million to fund the purchase of the property and help cover the costs of contracting with an architect to transform concepts into actual designs as well as hire consultants and fund necessary feasibility and impact studies. It has also secured $200,000 worth of funding through a recent state economic development bill. The price tag for phase two remains unknown at this point, as organizers note that absent architectural plans, it is difficult to anticipate final building costs.
And, in a move that could be considered as bold from a financial perspective as the entire project is from an artistic one, the group also wants to create an endowment fund so that the center can operate with zero debt. If successful, such an endowment fund would likely be the envy of just about every nonprofit organization in the Western hemisphere, including more than a few here on Cape Cod.
Without question, the OSPAC vision for the artistic future of the region is an expansive one. With a combination of indoor and outdoor events, the performing arts center would offer a premium location that would rival the seating capacity of the Cape's largest existing spaces, with only the nearby seasonal Melody Tent edging it out in any significant way.
It is difficult to say at this stage whether organizers will be any more successful in bringing their dream to fruition than previous dreamers, but those questions should not deter them from pursuing a vision that could build on the Cape's already impressive artistic community.
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Cape Cod Times: Cape Art Groups Prepare to Share Stage
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Marijuana growing outdoors is not complicated or difficult. In fact it is the easiest way for a new cannabis gardener to give cultivation a try. All you need is a little space and good sunlight. You can even grow in a container on a sunny balcony.
But as easy as outdoor gardening can be, things can go wrong. Pay attention to these eleven common outdoor marijuana gardening mistakes, to help insure you have a robust healthy harvest at the end of your labors.
1. Growing marijuana in too small a container – Yes you can plant directly into the ground, but many people prefer to keep their marijuana plants in a container for various reasons. If the container you are growing in is too small, the plant's roots will get root bound and it will never have a chance to reach its potential. If you're not planting in the ground, for the average outdoor plant you will want at least a 5 gallon container. In this case the bigger the better.


Travelogue of an Unknown City (2007/09) takes its starting point in a compilation of material from a wide range of different geographies. The material consists of video, audio, photos and narratives about the respective places derived from a variety of sources. The exact identity of location is not in focus. Dispersed are short excerpts from guidebooks taken out of context, a type of literature aimed at the tourist, the other. Fragmented narratives are communicated in the form of subtitles, leaving the voice of the narrator open. The piece becomes a continuous search for the memory and identity of a place- an imaginary geography.
The audio, which does not necessarily correspond to the image, is recorded with binaural microphones making this a piece specifically for headphones.


Two weeks ago, a team led by scientists from Northeastern University published a study describing a new class of antibiotics called teixobactin, which they found in the soil of a field in Maine. The Internet subsequently lit up with both excitement and criticism (mostly excitement, though). It's the first new antibiotic in a long time, though just how long depends on how you define various antibiotics classes. Details on the timing of the lag in antibiotic discovery aside, that lag is real and is definitely a problem. The new findings are great news, particularly as we face a global antibiotic resistance crisis that could kill 10 million people each year by 2050. Teixobactin will have to go through years of testing to be proven safe and effective, of course, but it's still a start.
Most media coverage of the new study has focused on the unique characteristics of teixobactin that make it a particularly intriguing drug candidate, including the claim that it may be unusually apt at thwarting bacterial resistance (this is where some of the criticism comes in, since bacteria usually do eventually find a way).
But what I found even more interesting than the teixobactin discovery—which other writers have also pointed out—was how the researchers were able to find it. They developed a device called an iChip, which allows scientists to explore the virtually untapped wilds of bacteria for potential antibiotics and other interesting unknown chemicals. And the iChip may be a boon not just for antibiotics discovery, but for finding other types of drugs as well as potential energy sources. Really, any industry that looks to microbes for novel chemicals and inspiration may benefit from the technology.
Let's back up a little bit. For the past century or so, the technique to grow bacteria in the lab has remained pretty much the same: take a sample from, say, soil, marsh water, or some other potential source; mix in water; detach the bacteria from the other particles, perhaps by spinning it in a centrifuge; and smear the isolated bacteria on a nutrient-laced agar plate, usually contained in a petri dish. Then let the bacteria multiple.
The trouble is, an estimated 99 percent of bacterial species refuse to grow under these conditions. This is called the Great Plate Count Anomaly, and it refers to the number of bacterial colonies in an environmental sample compared to those that survive on an agar plate. The inability to grow most microbes in the lab means researchers haven't been able to study them, which in turn means we're missing out on all the chemicals that these tiny critters use to navigate their environment. Some of these chemicals have antimicrobial properties, which the bacteria may use to kill competitors or other threatening microbes, and they could potentially be synthesized to make antibiotics for people and animals.
Around 15 years ago, Epstein and his colleague at Northeastern, microbiologist Kim Lewis, starting toying with a new approach to this problem. The natural environment teems with bacteria, which suggested to the researchers that this environment holds key ingredients that hadn't yet been discovered, let alone replicated in the lab. Maybe these molecules are nutrients or growth factors, or maybe they provide signals that trigger bacteria to grow at just the right moment. Maybe they are something else entirely. But the researchers didn't need to know exactly what those components were in order to put them to work. Rather than pull bacteria from their natural setting and coax them to grow in a coarse approximation in the lab, why not simply bring the whole environment to the lab, mystery molecules an all?
Next, the team, along with a graduate student named Tammi Kaeberlein, developed a diffusion chamber, which sandwiched bacterial samples between a breathable material with pores that were big enough to let nutrients in and waste out, but small enough to contain the bacteria. The scientists collected some of the bacteria's natural environment—in this case, marine sediment—and set the chamber in that environment in the lab.
It worked. The device allowed them to grow 30,000% more bacterial colonies compared to an agar plate, and the team published the findings in 2002. The only problem was that the chamber didn't isolate a specific bacterial strain, but included many species at once (it's worth noting that other scientists have come up with similar approaches.
The next step was to build a device that could isolate individual bacterial cells and allow them to grow. With help from Dominica Nichols, who was both a PhD student and post-doc in Epstein's lab, Emil Trakhtenberg, an engineer at Argonne National Lab, and a team of technicians, Epstein ultimately figured out a way to cultivate dozens of samples simultaneously—a high-throughput method to identify and grow new-to-science microbial species. This ultimately became the iChip, a hard piece of plastic with 192 tiny wells. A researcher simply has to dip the chip in a bacterial sample mixed with agar to trap cells in each well, secure diffusion membranes to lock the sample inside, then put the entire thing into a larger sample from its natural environment. Each cell becomes a miniature diffusion chamber.
According to Nichols, the team successfully grew microbes from a wide range of sources, including saliva, salt marsh, wastewater bioreactors, and mud collected from a temperate California rainforest. The team published the proof-of-concept of the iChip in 2010.
As the technology advances, there may be a chance to collect microbes remotely—maybe even from other planets, or deep ocean trenches, says Epstein. His lab is working on a new chip that cuts out the middle steps required to isolate the bacteria, as well as teasing out the environmental mystery molecules that allow unculturable species to flourish.
This is all exciting, but it probably doesn't mean the end of the antibiotics crises. Any new antibiotic will need to go through strenuous testing. Some will prove too toxic for humans to handle, and others won't work against our most serious infections. Even the best candidates will take a long time to make it through clinical trials, which doesn't help people who currently suffer from untreatable infections. And those compounds that make it through testing will still require careful stewardship, lest we squander those like we have our current antibiotic stock (while Lewis argues that the teixobactin is impervious to resistance, it is still a possibility).


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Q: Is it provable in ZF that there is no nontrivial elementary embedding $\pi: V\to V$? Is it open whether it can be proved in $ZF$ alone that if $\pi:V\to M$ is a nontrivial elementary embedding, then $M\not=V$?

A: The short version is that you're asking whether Reinhardt cardinals are consistent with $\mathsf{ZF}$, and this is totally open right now. Indeed, even stronger large cardinal hypotheses are currently not known to be inconsistent with $\mathsf{ZF}$ (e.g. super-Reinhardt, Berkeley, etc.).

The longer version is that what you've written doesn't actually make sense in the rather restricted language of $\mathsf{ZF}$, since we can't refer to (let alone quantify over) class functions from the universe to itself. We can handle this in one of a few different ways:

*

*Work in an appropriate class theory which is a  conservative extension of $\mathsf{ZF}$, as $\mathsf{NBG}$ is to $\mathsf{ZFC}$. This is in some ways the most natural approach, and matches if I recall correctly how the argument was originally phrased ("$\mathsf{NBG}$ proves that there is no nontrivial elementary embedding from $V$ to $V$").

*Look at the "set-sized" version of Reinhardt cardinals, namely critical points of nontrivial elementary embeddings of the form $V_{\lambda+2}\rightarrow V_{\lambda + 2}$. (Note that the "combinatorial core" of the Kunen inconsistency argument is in fact a $\mathsf{ZFC}$-proof that there is no nontrivial elementary embedding from $V_{\lambda+2}$ into $V_{\lambda+2}$ for any $\lambda$.) While this shift may seem unnatural, note that it's actually quite useful in that it reveals new concepts as being of potential interest: e.g. in my opinion it's really only in light of the $V_{\lambda+2}$-analysis that the rank-into-rank cardinals emerge as natural objects.

*Work in a version "$\mathsf{ZF(j)}$" of $\mathsf{ZF}$ which has a new constant naming a putative nontrivial elementary embedding from $V$ into itself and try to derive a contradiction. The key subtlety here is to get the axioms of this theory right - it's crucial that we extend the Separation and Replacement schemes to formulas involving $j$. (Specifically, the non-extended version of $\mathsf{ZFC}(j)$ is consistent relative to $\mathsf{ZFC}$ + "$0^\sharp$ exists," which can look like a $\mathsf{ZFC}$-proof of the nonexistence of $0^\sharp$.)
Whichever approach we choose, though, the answer is: it's currently open.

A: This is more of a comment since Noah already gave a good answer, but it is a positive result which might be of interest nonetheless and it doesn't fit into a comment.
Another approach not mentioned (for good reasons, as you'll see below) in his answer is that of only working with definable elementary embeddings $j\colon V\prec V$, that is $j$ such that there is a formula $\varphi(x,y,z)$ and parameter $p$ such that $\varphi(x,y,p)$ holds if and only if $j(x)=y$ (in other words $\varphi(-,-,p)$ defines the graph of $j$). Given such a formula it is clear that domain and range of $j$ are also definable, it is less clear that the notions "$\varphi(-,-,p)$ is an elementary embedding" and "its range is an inner model" are definable, but it can be done, and if $\varphi(-,-,p)$ defines an elementary embedding the notions of the embedding being nontrivial and its critical point being $\kappa$ are also expressible.
Theorem (Suzuki, ZF): There is no definable nontrivial $j\colon V\prec V$. (and the proof is much easier than the full proof of Kunen's inconsistency for $\mathsf{ZFC}$).
Note that this theorem is really a schema of theorems, one for each formula $\varphi$, saying that there is no parameter $p$ such that $\varphi(-,-,p)$ defines an elementary embedding.
Proof: Suppose that $\varphi(x,y,z)$ defines an elementary embedding for some parameter $p$. Assuming the definability of the notions expressed above the class $$\{\lambda\in\sf{Ord}\mid \lambda\text{ is the critical point of $\varphi(-,-,\bar{p})$ for some parameter $\bar{p}$}\}$$
is also definable, and so is its minimum, call it $\kappa$. But then the property of $\kappa$ that "$\kappa$ is the least possible critical point of an elementary embedding defined by $\varphi$" is expressible by a first order formula, and so by elementarity $j(\kappa)$ has the same property, contradicting $j(k)>\kappa$. $\square$
Also note that pretty much the same argument really shows that the property of being Reinhardt is not a first-order property, in contrast to other large cardinal notions which have second order definitions that are equivalent to first order ones (a cardinal $\kappa$ is measurable iff it is the critical point of an embedding $j\colon V\prec M$ (second order) iff it has a $\kappa$ complete nonprincipal ultrafilter (first order) and so on)

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Healthcare – it"s arguably the most important issue of the day. Whether you"re a patient or a caregiver, a healthcare provider or employer, a student or an educator, healthcare is the topic that both drives both news cycles and our lifecycle. In our annual healthcare issue, Gwinnett Magazine features news and information from every perspective. Below you"ll find updates from many of our major healthcare providers.


The Power of Scrum tells the inspiring story of Mark Resting, CTO of a software company struggling with a major client and a project with more problems than solutions and a marriage in crisis. But, when he meets Jerry, a West-coast expert in Scrum, light at the end of the tunnel begins to appear, Mark begins to reluctantly hope things will work out. The road is bumpy, but Jerry skillfully brings Mark's developers from a world of project crisis into a revolutionary approach that can save the day. Authors Jeff Sutherland, Rini van Solingen, and Eelco Rustenburg have written a fictional narrative that masterfully weaves a compelling human story around the teaching moments of a software, project management how-to, and in the process tell an engaging story of personal growth and triumph, while demonstrating the power of a revolutionary and mission-critical approach to project management. The Power of Scrum is a must read for project managers, software developers, and product developers, as well as for anyone who loves a great story well told.
Order The Power of Scrum at Amazon of bestel The Power of Scrum bij Bol.com.


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Blue Cross NC Board of Trustees Elects Dr. Patrick Conway as New President, CEO
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Durham, NC – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina's (Blue Cross NC) Board of Trustees has elected Patrick Conway, MD, MSc as its new President and CEO. Dr. Conway currently serves as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality, and Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).
He will join Blue Cross NC as President and CEO-elect on October 1. Current President and CEO Brad Wilson will remain CEO for an appropriate period to ensure an effective transition.
"Dr. Conway is a national and international leader in health system transformation, quality, and innovation," said Blue Cross NC Board of Trustees Chair Frank Holding, Jr. "His unique experiences as a health care provider and as a leader of the world's largest health care payor will help Blue Cross NC fulfill its mission to improve the health and well-being of our customers and communities."
"Blue Cross NC's role in transforming the health care system in North Carolina is a model that other plans aspire to and that I want to work with the Blue Cross NC team to further improve," said Dr. Conway. "I look forward to collaborating with Blue Cross NC employees, health care providers and employers to deliver the best health outcomes and best service experience at the lowest cost for our customers."
Dr. Conway currently serves as the most senior, non-political executive at CMS. He has worked in both Republican and Democratic administrations and is respected in a bipartisan manner. He is one of the driving forces behind the national movement to value based care, with health care payments tied to quality and innovation.
Dr. Conway joined CMS in 2011 as the agency's Chief Medical Officer. A respected leader, innovator and clinician, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2014. Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine, recognizing individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement.
He is a practicing pediatric hospitalist and was selected as a Master of Hospital Medicine from the Society of Hospital Medicine. He has received the President's Distinguished Senior Executive Rank and HHS Secretary's Distinguished Service awards. These are the President's and Secretary's highest distinctions for senior executive excellence. He is a former White House Fellow and Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.
Prior to joining CMS, Dr. Conway oversaw clinical operations and research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center as Director of Hospital Medicine, with a focus on improving patient outcomes across the entire multi-billion dollar health system. He also served at McKinsey & Company as a private sector consultant for health care clients early in his career.
Dr. Conway completed pediatrics residency at Harvard Medical School's Children's Hospital Boston, graduated with High Honors from Baylor College of Medicine, and graduated summa cum laude from Texas A&M University.
Over his career, Dr. Conway has published more than 80 articles in journals such as JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, and Pediatrics.
"At this important time in health care and health insurance transformation, Dr. Conway brings a unique background and perspective to our company and state," said Brad Wilson, Blue Cross NC President and CEO. "I look forward to working with him, and introducing him and his family to the great state of North Carolina".
About Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina improves the health and well-being of our customers and communities by providing innovative health care products, services and information to more than 3.89 million members, including approximately 1 million served on behalf of other Blue Plans. Since 1933, we have worked to make North Carolina a better place to live through our support of community organizations, programs and events that promote good health. We have been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Institute multiple times since 2012. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Visit Blue Cross NC online at bcbsnc.com. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.


Something I have noticed since I started working for the Centre of Entrepreneurship is that, any time someone in the office is good at something, someone else will immediately try to find a way to monetize it.
Take my baking, for example. I made some cupcakes and brought them in on Halloween. Brian, upon taking a bite of one of the chocolate ones exclaimed, 'Wow! These are so good! Have you thought about starting a business selling them?' (I'll admit, they were pretty delicious).
While I don't think my boss is actually trying to get me to quit my job and start my own business (at least, I hope not), I'm not even sure that I would want to make starting a business my full-time occupation.
I think a lot of us have an idea for something that we think might be able to make money, but we're not willing to give up the stability of regular employment, or risk a lot of money on something that might fail.
In fact, a 2018 study from the University of Reading found that almost two-fifths of adults in the UK have a 'side hustle,' or a secondary income, and that number is projected to grow to fifty percent by 2030. Half of all employees with a secondary income, the study found, do so to develop and monetise a passion or hobby. Of those that have a business as well as a traditional job, that business generates on average a fifth of their income.
I don't think that the steps to starting a side hustle or a side project are that different than if you were making plans to launch a venture as your full-time occupation. First, evaluate your skill set: Do you make fabulous cupcakes? Can you code? Are you a great photographer? Second, consider your passions—if you're going to be pursuing this project on top of your regular work, you should make sure that it's something you really enjoy doing. Otherwise, you'll quickly burn out on your project. Third, be sure you can manage your time well—you want to make sure that you are able to succeed at both your regular job and your side hustle.
I like the idea of a side hustle, because it means that entrepreneurship is something that anyone can pursue, even if they aren't that keen on the risk that's often associated with being an entrepreneur. So, stay tuned to see if I start selling cupcakes on the side!
 Chapman , Ben. "40% Of UK Workers Now Have a 'Side Hustle' as Day Jobs Become Less Secure." The Independent, Independent Digital News and Media, 4 July 2018, www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/side-hustle-grows-uk-jobs-insecure-work-henley-business-school-a8431486.html.
 Haden, Jeff. "21 Side Projects That Became Million-Dollar Startups (and How Yours Can, Too)." Inc.com, Inc., 16 Nov. 2017, www.inc.com/jeff-haden/21-side-projects-that-became-million-dollar-startups-and-how-yours-can-too.html.


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Q: Running Activex control and Maintaining security In my a web application, I have a part to invoke an activex control .The Activex control is available in all the client PCs who are accessing my web application from web server. But When trying to run this ActiveX control from the browser in client machine (using Wshell), It was not getting invoked since "Run Activex Controls and Pluggins" are disabled in my browser. So I changed the browser settings to enable mode and Then the Activex control gave me the expected output. I afraid that this change in browser settings would allow any other website to harm my system. How could I get rid of this problem? Any thoughts? Thanks in advance

A: There had been a lotta secutiry changes introduced from Vista + IE7 onwards. Where in the IE starts in the procted mode, which helps protect users from attack by running the Internet Explorer process with greatly restricted privileges. Protected Mode significantly reduces the ability of an attack to write, alter or destroy data on the user's machine or to install malicious code.
More details : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250462.aspx#wpm_aarwm
So developers have to modify the applications to confirm to the new standards like starting the process from the plugin - sending widows messages from LI(Low Intergirty) to HI process etc.

A: You can digitally sign your ActiveX so that users do not have to compromise the security of their browser too much in order to allow it to run. But, essentially, ActiveX isn't very secure and these problems always pop up when you choose ActiveX...


The Sunday Summary is back! I didn't post one last week. I ended up publishing four posts on Sunday, and when I finished the fourth one at 9:30 PM, I decided that was enough for both me and you. So, you get two weeks of reviews and giveaways.
Ain't No Sunshine: Men Reveal the Pain of Heartbreak, The Virgin Diaries, The Only Way to Paradise, A Sound Among the Trees, and Eyes Like Stars.
Nancy M. won Redeeming Love.
Shannon B. won The Leftovers: A Novel.
Congratulations to Nancy & Shannon and thanks to everyone who entered!
I'll be reviewing Surviving Emily as part of a blog tour for author Laurie Bellesheim. November is "Adopt An Indie" month, and while most of my reviews are from indie authors, I'll be featuring at least one this month. Maybe more if we have more authors in need of adoption. (Hint, hint) I'm reviewing The Unwilling Bride.
The Spooktacular Giveaway Hop is still open. Enter to win Waking Hours by Lis Weihl.
Tomorrow's "Make It Mine" Monday book will be Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev. There is still time to vote for a different book, but Eyes Like Stars has a pretty strong lead. No dangling chads here.
I saw this on Leeswammes' Blog this morning, and thought I'd give a shot. My first response was, "I write like a deranged lunatic," but apparently that wasn't one of the choices. Judith writes like James Joyce. The blogger friend she swiped this from writes like J.D. Salinger. I write like people I've never heard of.
Actually, I've seen this before, but I don't think I've ever tried it. So I put one blog post in, and got Cory Doctorow. I've never heard of him, but apparently, he's a sci-fi guru. Color me clueless.
Tried another blog post just because I can't just stop with one and assume everything's hunky-dory, and got David Foster Wallace. Never heard of him, either, but it seems he was big on irony. I can relate to that. Except I call it being a smarta$$. Whatever works.


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Q: Cards and JButtons I am trying to write a code to make a card turn every time I press it.
Is the problem in createGUI in JCardDemo applet? How to correct it then?
here's my code.thx
JCardbutton class
    import java.applet.;
    import java.awt.;
    import java.awt.event.;
    import javax.swing.;
    import javax.swing.event.*;
    import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
public class JCardButton extends JButton {
private ImageIcon myFace;
private ImageIcon myBack;
private boolean myFaceUp;
private Rank myRank;
private Suit mySuit;

public Rank getRank() {
    return myRank;
}

public Suit getSuit() {
    return mySuit;
}

public JCardButton(Suit s, Rank r, ImageIcon face, ImageIcon back) {
    super();

    mySuit = s;
    myRank = r;
    setFace(face);
    setBack(back);

    this.setSize(face.getIconWidth(), face.getIconHeight());
    showBack();
}

public ImageIcon getFaceImage() {
    return myFace;
}

public boolean isFaceUp() {
    return true;//isFaceUp
}

public boolean isFaceDown() {
    return false;//
}

public ImageIcon getBackImage() {
    return myBack;
}

public void setFace(ImageIcon image) {
    image = myFace;
}

public void setBack(ImageIcon image) {
    image = myBack;
}

public void showBack() {
    setIcon(myBack);
    myFaceUp = false;
}

public void showFace() {
    setIcon(myFace);
    myFaceUp = true;
}

public void turnOver() {
    if(isFaceUp()) {
        showBack();
    }
    else {
        showFace();
    }
}

public int compareTo (JCardButton other) {
    if(this.getSuit().compareTo(other.getSuit()) ==0) {
        return this.getRank().compareTo(other.getRank());
    }
    else {
        return this.getSuit().compareTo(other.getSuit());
    }
}

public String toString() {
    return myRank.toString() + mySuit.toString();
}

}
JCardDemo
    import java.awt.event.;
    import java.awt.;
    import javax.swing.*;
public class JCardDemo extends JApplet implements ActionListener
{
private    static final long serialVersionUID = 2005L;
private    Container    window;
private    JCardButton  jcbCard;

public    void init() {
    window = new DoubleBufferedPanel();
    setContentPane(window);

    createAppearance();
    createGUI();

}

public void createAppearance(){
    window.setLayout(null);
}

public void createGUI()
{
    ImageIcon front = new ImageIcon(getImage(getCodeBase(), "images/2c.gif"));
    ImageIcon back = new ImageIcon(getImage(getCodeBase(), "images/b.gif"));

    jcbCard = new JCardButton(Suit.clubs, Rank.two, front, back);
    jcbCard.setLocation(50, 50);
    jcbCard.addActionListener(this);
    window.add(jcbCard);
}

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
    if(e.getSource() instanceof JCardButton)
    {
        JCardButton c = (JCardButton) e.getSource();
        c.turnOver();
    }
    repaint();
}

class DoubleBufferedPanel extends JPanel {
    private static final long    serialVersionUID = 44L;

    public void paint(Graphics g){
        super.paint(g);
    }
}

}
Rank enum
public enum Rank
{
ace,
two,
three,
four,
five,
six,
seven,
eight,
nine,
ten,
jack,
queen,
king;

public String toString()
{
    switch(this)
    {
        case ace: return "A";
        case two: return "2";
        case three: return "3";
        case four: return "4";
        case five: return "5";
        case six: return "6";
        case seven: return "7";
        case eight: return "8";
        case nine: return "9";
        case ten: return "T";
        case jack: return "J";
        case queen: return "Q";
        case king: return "K";
        default: return "??";
    }
}

}
Suit enum
public enum Suit
{
clubs, hearts, spades, diamonds;

public String toString()
{
    return this.name().substring(0, 1).toUpperCase();
}
}

A: There are 2 reasons why the image switch functionality is not working here.
The first is that the image assignment is the wrong way round in JCardButton
public void setFace(ImageIcon image) {
   image = myFace; // local variable image assigned to myFace still null
}

it should be
public void setFace(ImageIcon image) {
   myFace = image;
}

This applys to setBack also.
Secondly, isFaceUp always returns true
public boolean isFaceUp() {
    return true; //??
}

Replace with
public boolean isFaceUp() {
    return myFaceUp;
}