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What is a Cloud Native application, anyway?
This is my first attempt at talking about what is going on with Cloud Native applications these days. Given at IndexConf in San Francisco.
This is my first attempt at talking about what is going on with Cloud Native applications these days. Given at IndexConf in San Francisco.
I will absolutely confess that it was daunting to start with, but that once I was out on the stage, everything was fine.
I will also confess to ad nauseum rehearsal. To reciting what I had to cram into two segments (one only 2 minutes long, and the other 2 minutes and 30 seconds) to every inanimate object in my hotel room: lamps, laptops, mirrors, showerheads, and I'm pretty sure my pillow while I was sleeping.
I didn't really wrap my head around what I wanted to say until the night before. Things just didn't fall into place before then. But hey, I lived! It was quite the experience.
Watch the #SpringOne mainstage lightning talks on Distributed Systems, featuring @cdavisafc, @meaghnk, @midatlantictez, @ebullientworks, and Mathangi Venkatesan. https://t.co/PVxlz1ta5V— Pivotal (@pivotal) December 13, 2017
I spent an excellent few hours recording a podcast with Adam Bien.
CORBA? OpenLiberty? Robots? The glory days of object marshaling? Such a trip down memory lane! We could easily have talked for another hour.
Can you hear my rings clinking on my favorite mug? Yes, yes you can.
Give it a listen: Java EE ebullience.
We shall see how this goes over time, but so far? Oh hell yes.
I am experimenting with a cute little app (I have, sad to say, fallen head over feet into the Apple ecosystem. Other devices might seem cool, but not worth the gymnastics. Ecosystem stickiness is a thing.) that allows me to edit. code. from. my. iPad.
Why would I want to do that?
So exciting!
The one challenge with this, in particular, is that I can't get the Jekyll preview that I could if I were running locally. The iPad Pro is quite the workhorse… but it doesn't (yet, ha!) run Docker containers.
Oh, right. The app: Working Copy. It also integrates with iOctocat.
It took me a few tries (divided attention #FTW), but I realized that after messing with blogs for over 10 years, I've seen all the things! Way back in the beginning was Movable Type (which I didn't realize was still a thing), followed by PHP-based CMS like Textpattern and Nucleus CMS, and then a brief flirtation with Blogger (someone made me do it). I have somehow avoided ever having to maintain templates for WordPress (?!). These systems all come back to some pretty basic concepts around templating.
The one snag was loathing having to do anything with ruby. I have never had anything but grief and pain installing ruby anywhere. But hey! We have docker now! Put it in a container and forget about it. WOOT!
Yes, I confess, I did .. umm.. censor my blogs over the years. When facebook arrived, blog posts about nasty headaches and reactions to the latest headlines could all go away. The exodus of content continued with the advent of Twitter. Which left this blog, which I've tended on and off for close to 14 years, in the lurch!
There is also the small matter of how much time I have to spend on blog posts between work, kids, and this mammoth garden we have going in the back yard. The mammoth garden is totally my fault, we started it as an excuse to get me outside. It worked.
However, it has become obvious that a return to blogging is overdue. To start with, Game On! needed a blog! We kept having little tidbits to share, that needed a home. I made an initial foray into creating a blog with Jekyll to build a new blog for Game On!. I kind of liked how that worked, AND it meant I could stop having to edit posts via the web, and so I've now brought that to my own blog, too.
Next post: the jekyll stuff.
Microservices: the buzz is everywhere. Given the breadth of technologies related to the term, it can be difficult to get a full picture of what a Microservices architecture should look like, or to understand why it is said that microservices architectures both remove and introduce complexity at the same time. Game On! is a throwback text-based adventure built to help you explore microservices concepts.
I've been working for the past few months on building Game On! a microservices-based application that is intended to show both what a microservices architecture looks like, and to make it easy for people to play with such a system without having to start from the ground up themselves.
We started with a best-guess set of services, and over time, it became pretty apparent that our first pass at a map building service (the Concierge) was both misleading in purpose and insufficient in function. It did serve its purpose, filling in for service discovery in a way, but we were growing beyond what the service could do.
I've run a somewhat odd little script to generate my command prompt for years now, sets some colors, adds some indicators of what kind of shell I'm in (sudo or tmux/screen or ssh or.. ).
Given I now have to work with git and submodules, I've revised that to include information provided about git generated by this script: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
The difference is worth it, in understanding at a glance what is going on without typing
git status or variant every two seconds. ;)
I've also been using some very useful aliases to make working with submodules sane, as documented here: Game On! Advanced Adventures / Git Submodules
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The Legacy Act
The Wyoming Range Legacy Act is one of Wyoming's signature achievements. Congress passed the Wyoming Range Legacy Act ("Legacy Act") in 2009, after a bipartisan effort led by Wyoming's Republican senators, the late Sen. Craig Thomas and Sen. John Barrasso.
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Former Governor Freudenthal, the Wyoming Outfitters and Guides Association, Wyoming State AFL-CIO, Wyoming Tourism Bureau, Wyoming Game Wardens Association, and local landowners, ranchers, outfitters, sportsmen, business owners and conservation groups.
The Legacy Act was about a simple idea: Some places are too special to drill. The Act allows Wyoming to continue producing more than its share of energy resources, while protecting a special place that defines our state. It's been the foundation we have built on to preserve the irreplaceable hunting and fishing lands, wildlife habitat and recreational opportunities in the Wyoming Range.
The Legacy Act and Drilling:The Legacy Act did not affect currently producing gas fields in the southern portion of the Wyoming Range. It also did not prohibit development of leases that existed prior to passage of the Act. Companies holding existing leases are still allowed to apply for drilling permits.
But the Act also did encourage companies with existing leases to donate or sell those leases for "permanent retirement", to preserve the valuable wildlife and recreational resources of the Wyoming Range for future generations. That's exactly what happened when a company recently sold their leases to safeguard the Hoback Basin, one of the most special places within the Wyoming Range.


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Dr Paul Jobling has just been awarded Outstanding Academic Title for 2014 for his new book.
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A new book by University of Brighton design history researcher and lecturer Dr Paul Jobling has just been awarded Outstanding Academic Title for 2014 by via Bloomsbury Publishing and Choice magazine.
Advertising Menswear examines a golden age of British advertising when the notion of the 'peacock male' was a strong theme in fashion promotion, reflecting a new affluence and the emergence of stylish youth cultures. Based on a detailed study of rich archival material, the book examines the production, circulation and consumption of print, television and cinema publicity for men's clothing in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century. It explores design issues and period style in advertising, the role of market research and consumer psychology in determining target audiences, the idea of the 'new man' in representing fashionable masculinities, and the various ways that menswear retailers and brands dealt with sex and gender, race, class and age.
From y-fronts to Austin Reed suits to Levi's jeans, menswear advertising epitomised the themes, stereotypes, contradictions and ambiguities of masculinity in an age of great social change.
The book is described as a "meticulously researched and detailed work of scholarship" and reviewers comments include: "a compilation of striking imagery, visual analysis, compelling discourse and chronology..." providing a "...decisive resource informing the methodology of past and contemporary global menswear brands."
Dr Jobling is course leader for MA History of Design and Material Culture in the College of Arts and Humanities, a course strucutured to stimulate innovative and interdisciplinary study in both their Western and non-Western contexts, considering the relationship between local, national and international patterns of production, circulation, consumption of designed objects and material culture.


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Bangladesh is located at the northeastern tip of India and borders on Burma (Myanmar). Towards the south it faces the Bay of Bengal. The landscape of Bangladesh is largely defined by the enormous river delta formed by the confluence of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and more than 50 other rivers emptying into the Bay of Bengal. As a result Bangladesh is mostly low, flat and frequently flooded due to rainfall, tidal waves and tropical cyclones.
The only truly higher ground is in the southeast of Bangladesh, in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, a series of roughly 4 parallel narrow hill ranges, with ravines and cliffs covered in dense jungle. Which mountain is Bangladesh's highest is a matter of some dispute. In any case, peaks like Keokradong, Tahjingdong, Mowdok Mual and Sippi Arsuang are all in the 800-1100 m range, and all part of the Chittogarh Hill Tracts. There are several trails and treks in the area, but to enter you need a special permit.
South of Chittagong on the coast lies Cox's Bazar with its 122 km long uninterrupted beach. You can do a 85 km beach hike from Cox's Bazar to Teknaf. There are also several islands off the coast of Chittagong and Cox's Bazar, which offer day-hike opportunities.
Hiking in Bangladesh is possible all year round, but to avoid the humid heat, go between November and March.
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Cool website about trekking in Bangladesh, with user generated info, maps and reports.
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Interesting report with lots of pictures of a trek up Mount Keokradong in 2006.
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KANSAS CITY — Brandie Mavrich loves to make cash registers go in reverse.
On a recent trip to SuperTarget, her total topped $260. Then the discount diva pulled out her coupons and started working her markdown magic.
Three dollars off. Five. Seven. Her total dropped to $200, then $150. It was like going backward in time, only with money.
The 34-year-old south Kansas City woman was just getting started. The digital readout blinked $125, then went under $100. The register began to smoke, or at least it should have.
Seventy. Sixty. Fifty. Finally, the dumbfounded checker read the total: $32.62.
Let others save 30 cents on corn flakes or canned peaches. Mavrich has discovered a better way to turn coupons — a fixture in groceries for more than 100 years — into mountains of money.
It's called extreme couponing, and it's unlike anything you've ever seen. Fueled by the recession and made possible by the Internet, the practice is spreading across the country. Numbers suggest it could be huge. Bargain hunters used 3.2 billion coupons in 2009. That's not only a 23 percent increase from 2008, it was the largest one-year jump ever recorded, according to NCH Marketing Services Inc. of Deerfield, Ill.
How does Mavrich do it?
"The goal is to take what the store has on sale, mix it with a manufacturer's coupon and a store's loyalty program, then stack all those deals together and come out on the other side free, or near free,"
The heart of couponing is still the Sunday newspaper. Mavrich has two subscriptions to The Kansas City Star, and sometimes she buys 10 more copies at a convenience store.
Much of the increase is thanks to technology. Today's discount devotees connect through cell phones, Facebook, Twitter and online coupon communities. Popular sites include SlickDeals.net, TheKrazyCouponLady.com, CouponForum.com and AFullCup. com.
Some couponers hoard their bargain booty, while others sell it or give it to friends, but the goal is the same: Save tons of money.
Mavrich, who is considering teaching a class on extreme couponing, can save with the best of them.
Her best efforts? She saved $316 at SuperTarget, and $327 at Walgreens, and she has the receipts to prove it.
Mavrich keeps many of the products for her family, but she doesn't approve of hoarding. She recently donated her record-setting Walgreens purchase to the Kansas City Rescue Mission.
"They really needed nonalcoholic cold medicine," Mavrich said. "So I said, 'What will it take for me to multiply it (my donation) on a loaves-and-fishes level?' "
Juliann Hansen, a volunteer coordinator for the mission, soon found out.
"She donated 28 large boxes of DayQuil, eight large boxes of Ester-C and 14 boxes of Puffs tissues," Hansen said of Mavrich. "She managed to get $365 worth of products for $38. Pretty impressive. I want to take a class."
Mavrich said there are many ways to save big.
"For instance, Olay offered a rebate. You buy three moisturizers, body washes or bars of soap, and they give you $15 back. That's a pretty nice deal by itself. So I go to Target and buy three."
Did she get them free?
"Nope," Mavrich said. "I actually made money."
"Let me lay it out for you," she said. "There was a coupon in the newspaper for Venus Embrace women's razors that I got on a buy-one-get-one-free deal. If I bought the razor, I got the Olay body wash for free. And they were having a sale at Target where if I bought three Olay body washes I got a $5 Target gift card. So I got three coupons, bought the three razors and got the three body washes for free. Plus I got $2 off of each razor by using three other coupons. That brought my total down to $8.97. Then you subtract the $5 Target gift card for buying the three body washes, and that's $3.97. Then you mail in the $15 manufacturer's rebate for buying the three Olay body washes, and . . . "
She turned an $11 profit.
Her husband, Bret Mavrich, is blown away. "It's phenomenal," he said. "We've had to rewrite our budget for all the good reasons. And I'm really excited for her to start teaching. What took her many months … we've seen her friends pick it up in half the time."
Mavrich taught herself extreme couponing after a back injury forced her to stop working. Instead of shopping for products, she shops for deals. And the result of the deals is what she and her husband use.
"I let them dictate what I buy, within reason," she said.
Sometimes it seems too good to be true.
"When I first started couponing I used to kind of feel a little bit guilty, like I was stealing something. But finally I learned that everyone's got an incentive in this whole thing. The manufacturer wants you to have the product. They want you to love the product. (The retailer) wants to move it so they can get the incentive from the manufacturer. And I make money! It's a win-win-win situation! So why not?"
Mike Gatti of the National Retail Federation in Washington, D.C, said Mavrich is right.
"Retailers put out the coupons, and they like to see people use them," he said. "It really isn't going to hurt if more people start to do this. Retailers want people to use coupons. That's how they plan their promotions. … It means more people are trying their products."
Isn't Gatti concerned that too many people could overwhelm the system?
"No," he said. "This is still relatively rare. If you've got a job, you don't have time to do this."
Locally, Price Chopper supports couponing of any kind.
"Price Chopper has seen a 40 to 50 percent increase in coupon redemption over the past year," said Pete Ciacco, the grocery chain's senior director of sales and marketing. "Later this year we plan to make coupon usage even easier when we introduce electronic 'clipless' coupons, which shoppers will be able to load directly onto their loyalty cards."
Mavrich recently taught her magic to some friends.
"It was very simple," said Micah Gilbert of Grandview, who used a variety of coupons to buy 30 high-end Gillette razors for $2. "When she explained it, my mind-set on how to shop completely shifted."
If there is a downside, it may be the perception of coupon users.
"There's a stigma that only poor people use coupons," Mavrich said. "There's a little bit of that rolling of the eyes — 'Oh, you're one of those?' It's like you're this dirt-poor person. But I read that the average couponer is a 39-year-old college-educated woman with a $70,000-a-year income."
Besides, Mavrich said, it's just smart to save.
"Why buy something for full price when you can get it for free?" she said. "That's just downright good math."
Even better, Mavrich said, it's a ton of fun.
"That's my corner on the market," she said. "It's kitschy. It's new. It's urban. It's hip. It's young. It's wise. And it's fun."


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Will be cruising the British Isles with friends, as well as spending some time in London and we are told our US cell phones will not work in the UK. We're thinking of getting "throw away" phones once we arrive so that we can keep in touch while on excursions and with family, but also see a couple of companies where you can purchase global phones online. Anyone with experience of one or both? online are Mobal dot com and telestial dot com.
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Hendrik Meurkens, a virtuoso on both the chromatic harmonica and the vibraphone, is the most important jazz harmonica player since Toots Thielemans. German-born but now based in New York, Meurkens' recordings and performances garner worldwide acclaim because the transcendent beauty of his music has universal appeal.A two-mallet player in the tradition of Milt Jackson and Bobby Hutcherson, Hendrik Meurkens was en-route to being an instantly recognizable vibraphonist when he heard Toots Thielemans. Inspired by the sound of Thielemans' harmonica, he taught himself the difficult-to-master instrument. Hendrik is an amazing Harmonica player. You'll enjoy this interview. recorded 6/2/14, for more information on him www.hendrikmeurens.com
Songs in Order 1, Bittersweet "New York Nights 2, Have You Met Miss Jones "Slidin" 3, Frenzelosa "Celebrando" 4, My Foolish Heart "New York Nights" 5, I Didn't Know What Time it Was "New York Nights"
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11.007. How is an agent or common representative appointed? The appointment of an agent or common representative may be effected in the request and or the demand (see paragraphs 5.041 to 5.049, and 10.019 to 10.023) in a separate power of attorney (see paragraph 11.008) or in a general power of attorney (see paragraph 11.009). Where there are two or more applicants, a common agent or common representative, representing all of them, may be appointed by a combination of those methods, provided that each applicant signs either the request, the demand or a power of attorney.
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Nancy has been practicing law for more than 25 years, focusing on alternative dispute resolution, labor and employment litigation, and general commercial litigation. She has represented union and non-union manufacturing companies, construction and transportation companies, architectural firms, a national advertising agency, international businesses, private schools, banking institutions, a national magazine company, and a pharmaceutical company. She is a member of the Labor and Employment and Litigation Groups.
Nancy previously worked as a law clerk for Joseph F. Weis Jr. and Carol Los Mansmann in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and for Maurice B. Cohill Jr. and Alan Bloch in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Today, she focuses on alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and early neutral evaluation. She is a Federal Bar Association mediation training coach, and serves as a mediator and early neutral evaluator by appointment for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. She has also served as an adjunct settlement judge for the District Court.
She defends employers in all aspects of employment litigation, including race, age, disability, and sex discrimination, sexual harassment and wrongful discharge.
She represented and obtained a favorable settlement for German clients in a national multi-party antitrust litigation, and has represented major national corporations in obtaining multimillion-dollar insurance coverage for environmental contamination.
In addition, she obtained a favorable settlement for public television entities in entertainment contract litigation; represented an Ohio manufacturer in the Ohio Supreme Court in a wrongful discharge in a violation of public policy case; and obtained a judgment as a matter of law at the close of plaintiff's FMLA case in favor of the manufacturing client.
Nancy also litigated and successfully settled ERISA class action lawsuits brought by a union against a manufacturer.
Nancy is a Fellow of the Allegheny County Bar Foundation and a Law Fellow for the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Judicial Evaluation Commission.
In addition, she is President Emeritus of the W. Edward Sell American Inn of Court and she was president of the University of Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Inns of Court from 2002-2004. She also serves in many capacities for the Allegheny County Bar Association, currently as president. Former roles include chair of the Judiciary Committee and member of the Labor and Employment Law Section Council and the Federal Court Section Council. She is currently a member of the Women in the Law Division, the Homer S. Brown Division, and numerous ACBA committees. She is a member of the Women in the Profession Committee for the Pennsylvania Bar Association and a member of the Mediation Council of Western Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Women's Bar Association.
Her community activities have included involvement with Career Literacy for African American Youth, the Celebration of Women at Magee Women's Hospital, the Cultural Awards Celebration for the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, and the Freeport Area Schools Advisory Committee.
Until recently, Nancy was a director of the Western Pennsylvania Diversity Initiative, a director and secretary of the Corporation for the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and a director of the Pittsburgh New Church/New Church School. She is a former director of the Alt-Med Medical Group and the Pittsburgh Savoyards.
In February 2010, Nancy was presented with the inaugural Eric W. Springer Professionalism Award by the W. Edward Sell American Inn of Court, an award for "a lawyer or judge whose life and practice display sterling character and unquestioned integrity, coupled with ongoing dedication to the highest standards of the legal profession and the rule of law."
As a fourth-degree Moo Doe Martial Arts practitioner, Nancy was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Showin February 2008. She demonstrated movement and discussed the value of an individual's physical, mental, and spiritual regeneration.
In 2007, she was featured in an article entitled "Action Figures" in More magazine, and in Women Partners, a publication of the Women in the Law Division, in 2006.
She has written several articles for the Cohen & Grigsby Review, including "Things Not to Say: What?! She's Pregnant Again?;" "The Price of Retaliation Just Increased;" "If the Employee Walks, the Employer Could Take a Hit;" "Draws Against Sales Commissions: Employee Salary or Loan?;" and "Anti-Union Videos: Can Employers Make Movies?"
She has given presentations for the Cohen & Grigsby Annual Labor & Employment Law Update, the W. Edward Sell American Inns of Court, the University of Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Inns of Court and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Employment Law Institute.


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This is for all the science folk out there who get aroused by science stuff.
Choose a scientist in round 1 and the debate is on!
Good luck!
I hope that my opponent uses credible, reliable evidence to back up his claims and that grammar, conduct, and professionalism are all superb.
First of all I thank my opponent for accepting this debate. The reason I created this debate is because I believe anything can be compared if proper and justifiable parameters for comparisons are specified. The main objective of this debate is is to put across palatable information that might have been previously unknown to the public about these two legends who have changed the world and how we perceive it. I encourage my opponent to take this perspective when he makes his case.
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination," (Albert Einstein).
Sheer number of contribution
The number of contributions Einstein made by itself exceeds that of newton. Einstein in his entire lifetime formulated 11 powerful independent theories/concepts that revolutionized the world.
Einstein's major contributions: Photoelectric effect, E=mc2, General relativity and special relativity, Theory of Brownian motion, Einstein field equations, Bose–Einstein statistics, Bose–Einstein condensate, Gravitational wave, Cosmological constant, Unified field theory, EPR paradox.
Newton of course wasn't any much inferior, having formulated 8 independent theories which have had wide array of applications.
Newton's major Contributions: Newtonian mechanics, Calculus, Universal gravitation, Newton's laws of motion, Optics, Binomial series, Newton's method.
But Einstein's contributions outweigh Newton's contribution in sheer numbers!
Einstein established new pathways for space exploration and interplanetary travel through his theories of general and special relativity, created new opportunities for power production, photomultipliers and image sensing with his discovery of the photoelectric effect[1] and much more. The year 1905 was a magical year for Einstein. He published four papers during this year, representing Quantum theory, Brownian motion (existence of atoms), Electrodynamics of moving bodies and the most famous equation in the world – the E=MC2 equation – establishing the relationship between mass and energy.[2] At this time, he was just 26 years old and worked during the day at a patent office!
However, it should be understood that I'm not trying to demean Newton's contributions to the world nor am I trying to make it any inferior. The point I'm trying to make is that Einstein had a larger impact on a variety of fields in physics/science than Newton.
Breaking barriers: Einstein's audacity
Albert Einstein stood for what he believed in, even if it meant standing alone. This was one of the admirable qualities he had. He literally set the stage for all of modern physics today. His theories were way ahead of his time and many of them were very difficult to experimentally verify at the period of his discovery.
In a 1905 paper,[3] Einstein postulated that light itself consists of localized particles (quanta). This was the equivalent of saying that the moon had another hidden face coloured green in today's world. It was simply laughed at and dismissed. Einstein's light quanta were nearly universally rejected by all physicists, including Max Planck and Niels Bohr. This idea only became universally accepted 14 years later in 1919 when the physicist Robert Millikan's practically conducted detailed experiments on the photoelectric effect, with the measurement of Compton scattering.[4] Isaac Newton on the other hand largely had little opposition to his theories and it was almost always backed up by experimental evidences. Einstein didn't have such a cushion as the theories he postulated didn't have credible experimental setups to rely on and the whole world looked at them as mere ridiculous predictions which he had to over come. Thus, Einstein was more audacious than Newton.
Possession of other talents: The inner musician
Einstein developed an appreciation of music at an early age. According to conductor Leon Botstein, Einstein is said to have begun playing when he was 5.[9] At age 17, he was heard by a examiner in Aarau as he played Beethoven's violin sonatas, who described his music as "remarkable and revealing of 'great insight'." What struck the examiner, writes Botstein, was that Einstein "displayed a deep love of the music, a quality that was and remains in short supply."[5] Einstein even played chamber music with a few professionals, and he performed for private audiences and friends. He personally has said that, "If I were not a scientist, I would be a musician." We see that there are no signs of Isaac Newton having possessed such talents.
Superiority in philanthropy: Einstein's Benevolence
Einstein was a passionate, committed anti-racist and joined National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Princeton, where he campaigned for the civil rights of African Americans. He considered racism America's "worst disease," seeing it as "handed down from one generation to the next." As part of his involvement, he corresponded with a civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois and was even prepared to testify on his behalf during his trial in 1951. When Einstein offered to be a character witness for Du Bois, the judge decided to drop the case.
In 1946 Einstein visited Lincoln University in Pennsylvania where Einstein gave a speech about racism in America, adding, "I do not intend to be quiet about it." A resident of Princeton recalls that Einstein had once paid the college tuition for a black student, and black physicist Sylvester James Gates states that Einstein had been one of his early science heroes, later finding out about Einstein's support for civil rights.[7] Newton wasn't involved in philanthropic activities as such.
Humbleness: He never let his greatness get to his head
Albert Einstein could be considered as the epitome of humbleness. Usually when people get greeted by good fortune and success as he was, they naturally become bombastic and egotistic but this was not the case for Einstein. He used to often say, and I quote "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
Einstein never let the laurels he received faze him and when he was about to be bestowed the greatest honor in the physics world 'The Nobel Prize' he wasn't even present because he was away on travel to the far east to resolve a dispute between two communities in 1922. In his place, the banquet speech was held by a German diplomat, who praised Einstein not only as a scientist but also as an international peacemaker and activist.[7]
Einstein was a figurehead leader in helping establish the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which opened in 1925, and was among its first Board of Governors. Earlier, in 1921, he was asked by the biochemist and president of the World Zionist Organization, Chaim Weizmann, to help raise funds for the planned university which he gladly did.
Chaim Weizmann later became Israel's first president and upon his death while in office in November 1952 and at the urging of Ezriel Carlebach, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion offered Einstein the position of President of Israel which he politely refused.[8]
I have provided four concrete evidences, some of them, irrefutable, on why Albert Einstein can be considered better than Newton. I now leave the stage to my adversary.
Fun fact : Albert Einstein is an anagram of Ten elite brains.
1: http://web2.uwindsor.ca...
2: https://www.loc.gov...
3: http://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu...
4: https://en.wikipedia.org...
5: https://en.wikipedia.org...
6: http://press.princeton.edu...
7: http://www.nobelprize.org...
8: http://english4success.ru...
9: http://press.princeton.edu...
Good morning. I appreciate my opponent's contentions, however I would like to clarify something. For the remainder of this round, the voter should decide only on which of the two men, Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton, had a GREATER IMPACT ON SOCIETY. I specified this framework in Round 1, and my opponent neglected to refute it, so this is how the voter should determine the round. My opponent says that Einstein was "better" than Newton, but this is vague, informal, and unspecific. It would be more intriguing to compare which of the two men had a stronger influence on the world (and on current knowledge). So, I would politely ask the voter to disregard the contention regarding Einstein's musical interests; this is not relevant for the debate.
I proceed to refute my opponent's contentions and show how they do NOT show that Einstein had a greater influence on society. First, my opponent claims that Albert Einstein disovered the photoelectric effect. This is blantantly untrue. It was Heinrich Hertz who observed that light can be thought of as an electromagnetic wave but also that it carries energy. Albert Einstein simply elaborated this principle and then constructed an essay about it. It is a stretch to grant photoelectric effect to Einstein.
With regard to the contention about audacity, again this is not relevant to the framework of the debate: which man had a larger impact on society. Just because Einstein's ideas were laughed at but then reconsidered does not mean that he was more influential on society. Please disregard the section that starts with "Breaking barriers".
The section regarding philanthropy is only tangentially related to the debate, but I will let it stand for now. I proceed to my contentions to discuss why Newton is much more influential than Einstein. If my opponent is unable to show that Einstein's impacts on society overwhelmingly outweigh Newton's, the Con (Newton) should win this round. (I also recommend that the Pro change the name of the debate to "Resolved: Albert Einstein had a larger impact on society than did Isaac Newton."
My opponent facilitates my contentions by listing the primary discoveries and developments of Isaac Newton: mechanics, calculus, gravitaiton, and so many others. I will briefly describe each of these discoveries and why each of them are so much more valuable and intriguing than anything that Einstein was able to derive.
When Isaac Newton was asleep under an apple tree one afternoon, an apple fell on his head unexpectedly. This led him to believe (and publicize) the notion that there exists a force of attraction between two bodies of mass: in this case, the apple and planet Earth. This makes Newton's law of gravitation extremely interesting and relevant to today's society. Children of all ages and hobbies will ask why things tend to "go down" or why the sun appears to rise each morning and set each evening. All of these groundbreaking phenomena cannot be taken for granted; they are the conclusions of Isaac Newton. Albert Einstein might have paved the way for special relativity and general relativity, but these topics are extremely esoteric; they apply only to those who are scientifically inclined and not to the average American who wants to know more about how the foundational world works.
Calculus is defined as the mathematical study of change, in the same way that algebra is the mathematical study of relationships. It is a very essential field in a wide variety of disciplines, some of which are not as technical as one might expect: mathematics, physics, engineering, economics, psychology, chemistry, and a wide variety of other topics. Due to Isaac Newton, we are able to explain what it means to differentiate a function with respect to a variable, or how to find the area of a region that is enclosed by two curves. These fundamentals might seem mathematically advanced, but in truth they are the underlying methods by which we understand and interpret statistics, rates of changes, areas, sums, and everything else that anybody might use in his life. Again, Einstein's work in relativity and light is somewhat relevant, but it just fails to bear the same impact that gravitation and calculus do. Already, Newton is seen as more influential than Einstein.
A voter might be concerned that Albert Einstein is a much more recent scient (1900's as opposed to the 1600's) than Isaac Newton. However, if anything, this means that Newton was indeed more influential. The several-hundred-year-old work of Isaac Newton has provided an intellectual basis for much more mathematical and scientific theory that has been discovered and utilitized by other scientists, such as Einstein himself. In other words, Isaac Newton's theories are older and have been part of the reason why Albert Einstein is so undeservingly prominent.
Isaac Newton also built the first reflecting telescope, allowing us to understand and apply crucial principles of ray optics, lenses, and mirrors. Newoon also developed a theory of color based on a prism that decomposed white light into all of the colors of the visible spectrum. This is one of Pink Floyd's most famous graphics and is rooted in science that is attributable only to Isaac Newton. He also formulated a law of cooling (known as Newton's law of cooling, which is a differential equation that relies not only on physics/chemistry but also on mathematics), determined a quantity for the speed of sound, and introduced a Newtonian fluid.
In addition to discovering and developing basic differential and integral calculus, the mathematician in Newton developed the poewr series, the binomial theorem, a root-finding method studied in numerical analysis (known as Newton's method), and cubic plane curves. These are all incredible feats for someone who lived so long ago.
Isaac Newton also approximated partial sums of the harmonic series by using logarithms and was the first to use power series with confidence. This type of mathematics might not be learned until high school or college, but for anyone with the least bit of a quantitative career (all careers except perhaps religion or history), Newton's discoveries and conclusions are crucially important.
Isaac Newton developed three laws of motion, which can be summarized in two sentences: a net force that is applied in a certain direction to a mass causes the mass to accelerate in that direction. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. These are essential properties that explain why it is hard to push a heavy crate forward, why we rush forward when we are driving a car and quickly come to a stop, why a block of ice has a hard time decelerating when it is moving on another block of ice. These are crucial theories that are conveniently summed up in Newton's laws of motion.
Isaac Newton also publicized his heliocentric view of the Solar System. His insights on this verified the validity of this view and allowed Albert Einstein (and everyone else falling after Newton) to know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
What ultimately makes Isaac Newotn much more influential than Albert Einstein is that he was not only a physicist but also a mathematician. My opponent briefly mentions Bose-Einstein statistics; this might be misconstrued as mathematical, but in truth it relates only to complicated physics theory that only 1% of people would argue "is influential". The mathematics that Isaac Newton grew to understand, publish, and spread has led many generations to understand mathematics better and to use it to their intellectual advantage. Einstein is simply a physicist, so anyone who does not like physics is neither impacted nor influenced by Einstein's theories.
Isaac Newton is overwhelmingly more influential than Albert Einstein. Please vote Con!
Before beginning I would like to thank my opponent for fabulously, spectacularly and splendidly ruining this debate. -_-
But nevertheless I'll clear up any misconceptions and set things straight.
Primarily, the resolution for this debate says 'Newton vs Einstein' which translates to Newton AGAINST Einstein and nothing more. There is not really anything vague about the resolution. For a contender who choses a scientist, he/she has to simply prove that their scientist is BETTER in ways they seem fit, that is quite all. If CON found this vague he could have either
a) Not chosen to accept this debate.
b) Could have asked and clarified about it in a PM or in the comments section.
He did neither. So his ranting in round 2 is quite unjustified.
Secondly, he claims I did not refute what he has said in round 1.
But all he has said is
'since the topic does not specify science (let alone physics), we will extend our arguments to which man had a bigger influence ALTOGETHER.'
Yes CON is right about one thing here the topic DOES NOT specify science alone and that exactly was the intention.
Next he wants to extend arguments to who had a bigger influence. But never said that the debate should ONLY be about that. There was no constraints imposed here and thus, there was no need for me to refute what CON said because simply because 'influence' too was a small subset of the whole debate.
My adversary wants the debate title to be changed to 'Resolved: Albert Einstein had a larger impact on society than did Isaac Newton'
I encourage him to instigate a debate of his own if he wants to debate the topics he desires but this debate is remaining the way it is meant to be.
With that cleared up I will now justify my contentions on why it makes Einstein BETTER than Newton.
better: more desirable, superior, or higher in quality.
C1) Audacity
The confidence in one's own discoveries is without argument something essential and desirable for a scientist.
C2) Possesion of other talents
Both Albert Einstein and Newton were talented in their own field. They both had the necessary curiosity to become great scientists and contribute a lot to the world. But apart from their ability to find answers to the mysteries of the universe what other abilities do they have? Einstein's talent in music takes him one step furthur than Newton because he clearly has something MORE than what they both had in common and thus that makes him better.
C3) Philathropy
This is self explanatory. Going out of one's selfish interests to help another human being is definitely a desirable quality that makes a person better than his counterparts.
C4) Humbleness
Humblesness is a virtue. Being humble after having had the success Einstein did is no ordinary feat. Thus it's a desirable quality in an individual as well and Einstein is more humble than Newton.
Now since my adversary insists on comparing influences I'll concur with him and show that Einstein too had equal if not more influence on the society. I do this simply because it's a part of the debate as well.[1,2]
i) Global Positioning System and Navigation
In order for your car's GPS navigation to function as accurately as it does, satellites have to take relativistic effects into account. This is because even though satellites aren't moving at anything close to the speed of light, they are still going pretty fast. The satellites are also sending signals to ground stations on Earth. These stations (and the GPS unit in your car) are all experiencing higher accelerations due to gravity than the satellites in orbit.
If no relativistic effects were accounted for, a GPS unit that tells you it's a half mile (0.8 km) to the next gas station would be 5 miles (8 km) off after only one day.
ii) Light
If Isaac Newton had been right in assuming that there is an absolute rest frame, we would have to come up with a different explanation for light, because it wouldn't HAPPEN AT ALL. "Not only would magnetism not exist but light would also not exist, because relativity requires that changes in an electromagnetic field move at a finite speed instead of instantaneously," Moore, of Pomona College, said. "If relativity did not enforce this requirement … changes in electric fields would be communicated instantaneously … instead of through electromagnetic waves, and both magnetism and light would be unnecessary."
iii) Nuclear Plants
Relativity is one reason that mass and energy can be converted into each other, which is how nuclear power plants work, and why the sun shines. Another important effect is in supernova explosions, which signal the death of massive stars.
iv) Television
It is thanks to his Special Theory of Relativity that we are able to receive such sharp images today. Electrons are accelerated in a television and, according to the Theory of Relativity, the mass of electrons thereby increases measurably. If one did not take this increase in mass into account, the electrons on the screen would show divergences in the millimetre range. All the images would be blurred.
v) Digital Cameras
Digital cameras can only take pictures because they contain a small sensor which converts light into electricity. The principle can be traced directly back to Einstein, who explained the Photoelectric Effect in 1905. Not only does this work form the basis for the development of all equipment which converts light into electricity – from digital cameras to solar cells – it also earned him the Nobel Prize in November 1921 (awarded 1922).
vi) Laser
All technologies which involve the use of laser beams are based on Einsteins theories. In 1924, Einstein was the first person to recognise the principles of monochrome, bundled laser light.
So you see Einstein's theories are all around us in the form of practical applications.
Now I'll move on to examine my opponent's case.
He claims, It is a stretch to grant photoelectric effect to Einstein.
To this I have only one thing to say, 'If we were to accept Einstein never created the theory of Photoelectric effect then Newton never created calculus as well'. I mean Einstein was given the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect! Heinrich Hertz merely observed it happening and never gave a cogent explanation for it. If we were to follow my adversary's logic then Newton shouldn't be credited with calculus either because there is undeniable proof that it was created 250 years ago in India before Newton. Furthermore, Leibniz too had independently contributed a lot to the fundamentals of calculus so in effect my opponents arguments should fail as well.[4]
Einstein's Contribution to Mathematics
My adversary makes it look like Einstein had nothing to do with mathematics but the truth is even though Einstein was remembered for his contributions to physics, he also made contributions in mathematics. He contributed several equations to calculus and geometry, ten of which are called the Einstein Field Equations. He first published these equations in 1915. [5]
I have made a cogent case and have firmly established that Einstein is much better than Newton. Five of my contentions are still unrefuted and I've provided enough evidence that upholds my stance in this debate. I request voters to not get distracted by CON's derailment of this debate and vote according to who has done a better job at making a convincing case in accordance with the resolution of this debate.
Thank You!
1: http://www.livescience.com...
2: http://www.einsteinjahr.de...
4: https://www.researchgate.net...
5: http://famous-mathematicians.org...
My opponent's conduct is very poor, and the voters need to be extremely aware of this. He gets carried away with ad hominem attacks and insults. I have not "ruined" the debate; I have merely challenged the framework of it and will proceed to return to the framework debate.
Please, do not weigh contentions on "who was better than the other person". This is a silly framework that is ambiguous. What does better mean? My opponent tries to define it, but it's just too broad and too vague. I suggested at the very beginning of the debate that we consider which man was more influential, and we are sticking to that framework, especially since my opponent agreed to it in the previous round and yet for some reason wants to take it back now. The arguments about piano playing and all this other nonsense are non-topical, so voters should ignore these arguments without me even needing to refute them.
I just asked to change the name of the debate, because "Newton v. Einstein" is very vague and unprofessional. Furthermore, with that title, it seems as though the Pro is arguing to Newton while Con is promoting Einstein, but it is the opposite of this. I am just trying to make sure that this debate is professional and objective and clear, but my opponent is having a very hard time trying to keep it that way.
Ok, now with all of the technical and semantic details cleared out, I can finally re-refute my opponent's contentions. He did not refute ANY of my contentions. For example, he did not counter my impacts of Newton's laws, Newton's numerical method of root-finding, Newtonian solids, or anything in between. He will have one more chance (round) to refute these impacts, but so far I have demonstrated why these impacts collectively go much further (i.e. were much more influential) than just special and general relativity, which are really the only things that Einstein can claim to fame.
So, my opponent chooses to bring up audacity again. I already explained why Newton is more audacious than Einstein. So, this argument no longer holds, especially since the one sentence that my opponent provided this round does nothing to support this argument. Even if Einstein were more audacious than Newton, this does not explain why Einstein had a greater influence than Newton and therefore should not be considered by voters.
For the "possession of other talents" section, again my opponent fails to interpret the framework. Even if Einstein was able to play the piano or whatever, this has absolutely no impact on society today and therefore does not tie back to the framework. It is therefore an irrelevant argument. My opponent must remember to be topical and provide reasons only why Einstein was more influential. He is failed to do this so far and is quickly running out of chances to do so.
Same for philanthropy. It is non-topical.
It seems as though this debate has become less of a content debate and more of a framework debate, which is the unfortunate truth. Voters can ask themselves: "Does the fact that Einstein played piano but Newton didn't, make Einstein a more influential man? Is piano-playing what I should remember Einstein by?" No, this has nothing to do with which man had a greater influence on society. Hopefully, the rest of the debate can be more about content, because the framework for the rest of the debate is "which man had a greater influence on [present-day] society?"
The rest of my opponent's case is simply a condescending science lessno about how the GPS and light work. Albert Einstein was not responsible for any of these impacts. The first global positioning system on the economic market was released decades after the publication of Einstein's essays in 1905. Nuclear plants have nothing to do with Einstein's arguments, so it is bafflilng to me why the opponent thinks that he can attribute scientific discoveries to Einsteni. Television agian has nothing to do with Einstein. If you are not convinced by this, I have posted some articles that underline the history of these developments. Rarely do they even mention Albert Einstein. I will also show in the evidence section how Isaac Newton was directly responsible for much of the mathematical and scientific knowledge that we have available today: GRAVITY, FORCE, CALCULUS, ALGEBRA, and everything in between. Newton's impacts are much more tangible, relevant, and most importantly much more influential to present-day society than Einstein's were.
My opponent tires to describe Einstein Field Equations as finally one mathematical influence that Albert Einstein had. While these equations are technically mathematical, they are not really rooted in mathematics; they didn't help mathematics go any further or become any deeper, they simply were an algebraic way to describe the theory of general relativity. Then, my opponent can argue that these equations demonstrate Einstein's discovery of general relativity. Yes, they do, but this is a narrow and esoteric field of knowledge that simply does not demonstrate anywhere near the amount of impact that Isaac Newton's laws of motion, for example, have had.
Contrary to what my opponent whats voters to believe, I did counter all of my opponent's contentions, not only in this round but also in the round before. I will spend the rest of this round highlighting Newton's achievements and then substantiating them with irrefutable evidence.
We proceed to return to the topical arguments I made in the previous round. Remember that evidence is provided for all of them at the bottom of this section:
1. Albert Einstein did not discover the photoelectric effect; Heinrich Hertz did.
2. Isaac Newton developed laws of motion that are taught to almost every middle school and high school student. They are influential because they explain why an apple can fall on a man's head, or why a heavy box barely moves when one applies a force to it. These are tangible and extremely relevant impacts that should be considered by the voters.
3. Newton's theory of gravitation explain why the planets orbit the Sun, rather than vice versa. This is important for astronomy, physics, and space exploration, wide fields which in turn lend themselves to a huge number of other applications.
4. Gottfried Leibniz assisted Isaac Newton in paving the way for differential and integral calculus that economists, engineers, physicists, chemists, and everyone in between takes advantage of each day. Without calculus, we would not be able to mathematically interpret the notion of "change".
5. Isaac Newton lived and discovered hundreds of years before Albert Einstein did. This means that a huge number of scientists after Newton used Newton's work to facilitate their own discoveries. Furthermore, this should not be a handicap. Even if Einstein developed "deeper" science than Newton, this is only because Einstein had more knowledge available to him.
6. Newton is responsible for the theory of color, the law of cooling, ray optics, the speed of sound, and Newtonian fluids. Each of these impacts are hugely influential and must individually be refuted by my opponent in the next round.
7. Newton is responsible for a huge amount of mathematics, not just physics. This includes Newton's method, the binomial theorem, and a wide variety of other, useful mathematical techniques.
My opponent now has the burden of justifying his own contentions, tying them back to the framework (greater inflience), and successfully refuting my contentions, none of which he has done this far. If he is unable to achieve all three of these burdens within the next 72 hours, you should immediately vote Con.
Pro Newton:
Anti Einstein:
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There has been a discrepancy regarding what the resolution of this debate should be and both sides have argued for different resolution with CON having argued a narrower more defined version of the resolution. But I've given the benifit of doubt to PRO in deciding who's stance in this conflict supercedes the other because he is the instigator and as he claims CON had the choice of not accepting this debate if he hadn't felt comfortable with the resolution.
Furthermore, CON only has his vague statement in R1 saying ' we will extend our arguments to which man had a bigger influence ALTOGETHER' to support his stance which doesn't necessarily restrict the debate to it. Anyhow, evaluating the debate on the grounds of the original resolution it's blatant that both sides have ignored major chunks of the opposite's arguments. Standard rules of debating dictates that ignored arguments be considered as concessions and I'm afraid both sides have taken a heavy hit. However, CON has failed to address entire sections of PRO's argument stating that it fails to have the necessary correlation with influence on the society. While this might be true weighing both the arguments on the grounds of the original resolution I award the points for arguments to PRO.
Source: I'm inclined to give PRO points for this as he has used more sources to substantiate his arguments but I'm tying this for now.
S&G: Tied
Comments: Even though there were hassles that could have been precluded in this debate I found the cases made by both parties to be quite decent. But for all future purposes I should ask the contestents to address every argument of your opponents case entirely as this might play a crucial role in deciding your victory.
Happy to clarify this RFD :)
I've given the freedom to create one's own criteria in evaluating who is better. The possibilities are limitless so I'm sure that's appealing enough :)
More accurate with their frameworks?
See, the problem here is the people to whom you are appealing are not EVER satisfied with terms like better when left undefined...but yeah this is a cool debate either way.
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SANRAA MEDIA LIMITED ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011 DIRECTOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS The Directors are pleased to present their Fifteenth Annual Report on the working of your company along with the audited Profit and Loss Account for the year ended 31st March 2011 and the Balance Sheet as at that date. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS The financial highlights are set out below: (Rs. 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SHARE CAPITAL During the year under review there is no change in the Share Capital of the Company. DIVIDEND Considering the aggressive expansion plan of your company ahead, and the successful 5:4 bonus issue during the previous year, your board, has not recommended any dividend. TERM DEPOSITS During the year under review, the company has not accepted any deposits from the public within the meaning of Section 58 A of the Companies Act, 1956. ENERGY CONSERVATION, TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE EARNINGS AND OUT GO The particulars required under Sec.217 (1) (e) of the Companies Act, 1956, read with the Companies (Disclosure of Particulars in the Report of Board of Directors) Rules, 1988 are furnished in the Annexure's to this Report. 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They have furnished to the Company a certificate of their eligibility for appointment as auditors, pursuant to section 224 (1 B) of the Companies Act, 1956, if appointed. The Board of Directors recommend to the members to appoint them as auditors and authorize the Board to fix their remuneration. COMPANY SECRETARY The Company has a whole time company Secretary as required under Section 383A of the Companies Act. DIRECTORS' RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT Pursuant to requirement under Section 217(2AA) of the companies Amendment Act, 1956, with respect to directors' responsibility statement and subject to the Disclosures in the Annual Accounts, the Board of Directors hereby confirms that: 1. In the preparation of the Annual Accounts, the applicable accounting standards had been followed along with proper explanation relating to the material departure, if any; 2. 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Your Directors also wish to place on record their deep sense of appreciation for the contribution made by the employees of the Company for their unstinted efforts in the progress of the company at all levels. On behalf of the board For Sanraa Media Limited Sd/- Place: Chennai G Sundaresan Date : 30th May 2011 Chairman Annexure - A Particulars required under the Companies (Disclosure of Particulars in the Report of Board of Directors) Rules, 1988 A. Conservation of Energy The Company takes all steps and ensures optimum utilization of the sources of energy and avoids wastage. B. Technology Absorption The Information required to be disclosed under Rule 2 of the aforesaid rules is given hereunder in Form -B; FORM -B 1. Specific Areas in which R&D Not Applicable is Carried Out by the Company 2. Benefits derived as a Results Not Applicable of the Above R&D Work 3. 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Bill Kristol is asking an important question. Kristol wants to know if Obama has a spine. Obama said that "nobody is above the law', but if that were true, than why is Obama trying to hide Bush and Cheney's act of torture in a commission?
Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty?
Obama has no more of a spine than Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have one, and the truth is that Obama barely won the election, as Obama was in the act of full scale begging from McCain not to be to rough on him before Bush came out and announced that the US banks were insolvent, thus giving Obama a boost at the end of an election cycle. It is the ONLY reason Obama is President now. Obama is a coward by every stand in today's liberal coward book. Liberty doesn't beat in his veins, only fear and self serving political survival tricks. The Democrats have no warhorses like they did long ago, merely fear and double talk much like George W. Bush himself used, only Bush used lies unapologetically to commit crimes, Obama lies out of fear of the criminal right. Fear is not now, nor ever has it been a remedy for past criminal behavior. Thus it is business as usual in Washington today. Nothing has changed and nothing will change.


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The Green Party leader was rewarded for her vaguely coherent interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme by being mistakenly called Caroline Lucas by presenter John Humphrys.
Ms Bennett, whose previous interview on LBC was described as 'car crash' and 'cringe worthy' when she appeared to forget the main party policies, was speaking on the flagship news programme ahead of the general election where she said people had the chance to cause a "peaceful political revolution."
Claiming her party, which only has one MP and three Members of the European Parliament, is the third party in British politics, Bennett tried to position the Green's as a key player in British politics, although she occasionally seemed at odds with her own party's manifesto pledges.
Saying that she thought membership of terrorist groups such as Isis and Al Qaeda and other "hideous" groups should be a criminal offence, Ms Bennett was challenged by Humphrys over a party policy statement. The policy said: "it should not be a crime simply to belong to an organisation or have sympathy with its aims, though it should be a crime to aid and abet criminal acts or deliberately fund such acts."
Backtracking on the policy, which was widely condemned when the details of the party's manifesto were examined by the media, she said "I'm not sure where you're drawing that from" before being told once again it was on the party's website.
In an interview on the BBC's Sunday Politics in January, Ms Bennett was asked by presenter Andrew Neil whether this meant people would be allowed to be a member of al-Qaeda or Islamic State,
"Exactly," she replied. "What we want to do is make sure we are not punishing people for what they think or what they believe.
"Obviously actions of inciting violence, supporting violence, those are absolutely unacceptable, illegal and should be pursued to the full extent of the law."
"What we are talking about is a principle that you shouldn't be punished for what you think. And we need to balance, we do not protect freedom by destroying it."
She also admitted that the Citizens' Income of £72 a week for every person in the country was in their manifesto, even though they would not plan to get it on the statute books during the next Parliament. "Austerity has failed. Society has to provide for everyone's basic needs and we have to do that within the limits of our one planet," Bennett said, before denying that the party's most well known figure, the MP for Brighton Pavilion, had herself pointed out the policy would hit the poorest hardest.
The veteran presenter told the Australian-born journalist turned politician; "I'm struggling a bit between long term plans and what you want to happen in this country!"
"We're saying the minimum wage should be a living wage," she replied, saying that as an MP Ms Lucas had made "a huge impact" in British politics and with more MPs they planned to "influence the direction of the next government."
"We need to think about how we get a more secure and stable world which means things like increasing our international aid budget to one per cent of GDP," she added, refusing to rule out another 'long term plan' of the party would be to turn military bases into nature reserves.
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This past Tuesday, Rockstar Games damn near broke the Internet with the announcement of Grand Theft Auto V. Well, actually an announcement of an announcement, as the trailer for GTA V will go live on November 2nd. This predictably whipped all of the video game media into a frenzy, and we here at KGB have decided to get in on the fun. Part of the hype with any game announcement is the wild speculation made before there are any solid details. Because without shaky secondhand "facts" the Internet would cease to exist. So we're jumping aboard the crazy speculation train, and have come up with this week's Top 5 list. The 5 things we want to see in GTA V.
5. Bombastic, Over-the-top Missions
|More of this!
4. A Protagonist Whom You Can Like
|Less of this!
Two of my favorite games this generation are from Rockstar: Red Dead Redemption and L.A. Noire. While I enjoyed GTA IV, I don't think I can truly call it one of my favorites. And do you know why? Niko Bellic. The Eastern European transplant/ former freedom fighter with a heart of gold thing never clicked for me. I don't think I'm the only one. How many Niko cosplayers have you seen? Between the thick accent, the dirty clothes, and his annoying ass family, it was a chore to play as Niko by the end of the game. I much preferred Johhny Klebitz and Luis Lopez from the GTA IV expansions. Hell, I even preferred the silent Claude from GTA III, at least he wasn't constantly talking about "Big American Teetees." GTA V needs someone whom players can identify with, and get lost in over 50-75 hours of gameplay. John Marston from RDR was an amazing character, one I really connected with. I also enjoyed Aaron Staton's performance as Cole Phelps in L.A. Noire. Hopefully, Rockstar can lean more in that direction than Niko. After a while, I just felt like I was playing as Borat.
3. A Meaningful Multiplayer Experience
|A Known Griefer Playground
With a little bit of effort, GTA V could become the biggest MMO since World of Warcraft. The large city, the huge install base, and the do-what-you-please gameplay of your typical GTA game makes it seem like a no-brainer. There were flashes of brilliance in the Red Dead Redemption multiplayer, although it was somewhat hobbled by the 16 player limit, and awkward game types. If Rockstar can up the player limit to 32 or 64 players per lobby, the craziness will be unimaginable. Hell, I'd even be okay with them scrapping the game types completely. Did you really ever play Team Deathmatch? Exactly. Free Roam is all it needs, with perhaps a few Race types and Demolition Challenges. Lord knows, I'd waste entire days running around a GTA game with my friends, laying waste to all we see. Also, about some damn co-op? It's really only a matter of time before Rockstar nails a multiplayer experience, and I hope it's in GTA V.
2. A Kick-Your-Ass Soundtrack
|The same records' ya makin' are payin' me.
Starting in GTA III, you could be sure that each GTA game would make sweet love to your ear holes. From the Lazlow hosted talk shows on public radio stations, to the county station spinning Hank Williams deep cuts, every genre of music was well represented. In Vice City, the radio took on an era-appropriate 80s spin, with Flock of Seagulls providing the perfect soundtrack to Tommy Vercetti's crime spree. My personal favorite is still San Andreas. Being able to switch the station from grunge-era alt. rock to West Coast hip-hop from Death Row Records was a dream. In GTA V, it's almost a given that the satirical radio ads will take on such current hot button issues such as the Tea Party, the War on Terror, and the Occupy Movement. Pair this with some hot new radio stations, maybe going so far as to have an all dubstep station, and you'll be blowing your speakers out. Or reaching for the channel skip button. Either way, discovering something new is half the fun of GTA radio.
1. A New City
|Ok, maybe not this.
The logo for GTA V presents some interesting questions. Clearly the "V" logo is meant to look like U.S. currency, suggesting that money, and the acquisition of, is to be a big part of the story. But isn't that the case with all the GTA games? Some people are speculating that the logo points towards Washington, D.C. as being a possible setting. Even wilder speculations points towards this game taking place at the turn-of-the-century. The 20th century. See, that "V" logo with the "FIVE" banner wrapped around it is very similar to a 5 dollar bill that was printed in 1899. That's right. GTA V could end up looking more like Red Dead Redemption than GTA IV. And if there's one publisher who could pull such a crazy twist, it'd be Rockstar. However, basing the game in 1899 seems like a great way to cannibalize the market for the next Red Dead game, and we all know how well choices like that worked out for Activison and Guitar Hero. Chances are, Rockstar will save the Old West setting for Red Dead, and the similarities between the logo and the antique bill are cosmetic only. If I were a betting man, I'd put my rubles on GTA V heading back to San Andreas, or perhaps real-world L.A. And if they kept the early 90s gangsta rap trappings, I'll pre-order my copy today. All you had to do was follow the damn train, CJ!
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Governor James Florio is a Founding Partner of Florio Perrucci Steinhardt & Cappelli and is based in the Cherry Hill, New Jersey office. Mr. Florio is Chairman of the firm's energy, environmental law, government and regulatory affairs and the healthcare law groups.
Mr. Florio is a Senior Fellow for Public Policy and Administration at the Edward J. Bloustein Graduate School of Public Policy at Rutgers University. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank New York, as Chairman of The Pinelands Commission in New Jersey, and on the Board of Directors of NJ Future. Mr. Florio was the founder and CEO of XSPAND, an asset management company based in Morristown, New Jersey.
Currently, Mr. Florio serves on the Board of Directors of the NJ Health Care Quality Institute, is Co-Chairman of the Regional Plan Association's New Jersey Committee, and a member of the Board of Trustees Fund for New Jersey.
Mr. Florio entered public service in 1969 serving three terms in the New Jersey General Assembly. He served as the 49th Governor of the State of New Jersey from 1990 through 1994 and in the United States House of Representatives from the 1st Congressional District from 1974 - 1990.
As Governor of New Jersey, Mr. Florio's accomplishments included, among others, the following:
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- The Clean Water Enforcement Act (1990) which was one of the strongest environmental laws of its type in the United States
- The Quality Education Act which provided greater equity in New Jersey's school finance system
- A landmark welfare reform package
- A health care cost reduction program
- The nation's toughest assault weapons ban
- Sponsored the Access to the Regions Core Program for mass transit
- Expanded the scope of activity for New Jersey Transit
As a Member of Congress, Mr. Florio's accomplishments included, among others, the following:
- Authored the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, known as the "Superfund" law, our nation's primary program for cleaning up hazardous waste sites
- As Chairman of the House Subcommittee with jurisdiction over environmental matters, was involved in the drafting or passage of virtually every major piece of federal environmental legislation
- Cosponsored the Exxon-Florio Amendment, which created the Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and effectively removed Congress from the approval process on foreign takeovers of US industrial concerns (this legislation was a factor in the Dubai Ports World controversy in 2006)
- Served as Chairman of the House Sub-committee on Commerce, Transportation and Tourism of the Energy and Commerce Committee
- Was involved with every piece of railroad legislation passed during his tenure
- Was the prime sponsor of The Staggers Act (railroad deregulation)
- Sponsored all AMTRAK Reauthorization Bills
- Drafted the legislation which privatized Conrail and deregulated US freight railroads
- Served on the U. S. Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board
In addition, Mr. Florio has a number of other professional, civic, and political accolades. He is an authority on international trade, energy, environment, health care and transportation issues. He served on the Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board during the Clinton administration. Mr. Florio was a member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee (TEPAC) to the U.S. Trade Representative. Mr. Florio also served as a member of The Bretton Woods Committee which is a private bipartisan group committed to international economic leadership.
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Mr. Florio is a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He served four years of active duty and 18 years in the Active Naval Reserve and retired with the rank of Lieutenant Commander in 1975.


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Discussion in 'User Submitted News' started by DarkCrudus, Nov 30, 2010.
Exciting news! =D
can't wait, especially since there are 3.42+systems being spotted out there in the wild!
edit: corrected spelling/punctuation.
sony is losing the war I love it!
yea, and now Demonhades is said to have leaked the 3.50 debug f/w.. nice!
Well, since PS3 is the last console to be hacked, I'll say Sony has already made enough money with it.
Poor Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft.
the post you linked to says 1.50....
The file is a downgrade for ps3 test owners.
It's still not worth jailbreaking because there is no region free PS2 support yet. This is what pretty much will make or break these devices since slim owners can't play PS2 games on their PS3s.
sorry, I mis read it, wont happen again.
They don't have the hardware for playing PS3 games, only the original models do and they're quite scarce. Any newer consoles will need an emulator coded.
Jamstruth is correct. PS2 emulation in the past was hardware based, but was cut due to production costs.
cool story bro
because absolutely everybody is interested in playing last gen games on their ps3
so the ps3's can't actually play ps3 games huh?
Then why do people buy DSTWO's? not to play GBA and SNES games I guess.
Some people =/= absolutely everybody.
According to your argument, people waited for the DSTWO to start playing DS games because now it was worth it since it can emulate the GBA and SNES?
The PS3 is worth jailbreaking, even if it never supports ps2 backups.
there's also the iplayer plugin (which was promised on release), n-game stuff like free cheat and guide, far better compatibility (didin't need a patch for stuff like golden sun and works on shitty sd cards which akaio has some troubles with)
and the chance for epic homebrew such as ds2x86 which is currently being worked on...
haha my jailbreak device showed up but my ps3 is on 3.50 v.v hopefully this guy will figure it all our soon =D