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Former Herald editor remembered for devotion, skill
Longtime suburban resident and journalist Pat Adam was remembered Thursday by family members and former colleagues for her generosity, skill and passion for the work of newspapers.
Adam, a former editor at the Daily Herald, died Thursday at the age of 91. Her son, Jeff, said she passed away after experiencing several health challenges, including a recent stroke.
Adam had been living in the Sunrise Senior Living facility in Schaumburg, and before that she lived in Arlington Heights and Morton Grove.
"It's a huge loss," Jeff Adam said. "She was a generous person, and she had a great sense of humor. She meant so much to so many people."
A native of Iowa, Adam honed her journalism skills while studying at Drake University in Des Moines, where she was the editor of the university's newspaper, family members said. She held journalism jobs in Minneapolis and Milwaukee before settling in the Chicago area.
Adam joined the staff at the Daily Herald in 1963. She held a variety of jobs during her 25 years as a full-time staffer, including features editor and editor of the opinion page, former colleagues said. Adam was among those who worked at the paper while it changed from a weekly to a daily publication.
Daniel E. Baumann, chairman emeritus of Paddock Publications, the company that owns the Herald, worked with Adam for most of her full-time tenure. He credits her with the successful overhaul of the paper's former features section, which was known at the time as Suburban Living.
"She was a true professional who led the development of our Suburban Living department from the weekly Herald's focus on what had been considered women's news to broader themes of life in the suburbs, including expanded entertainment, food and lifestyles coverage," Baumann said. "It was a key element in our transition from weekly to daily and an approach welcomed by the growing readership of the Daily Herald."
Adam retired in 1987, but she continued working for the paper on a part-time basis for more than 10 years after that, primarily on election coverage. Dave Beery, a former Daily Herald editorial page editor, said Adam was instrumental in organizing and managing the paper's political endorsement process. He added that she would "agonize" over her endorsement decisions, making sure to do as much research as possible on every candidate.
"I know that some people think newspapers should not make endorsements, and reasonable people can debate that," Beery said. "But I think anyone would feel better about the endorsements if they could see how seriously Pat took that responsibility."
Adam was active in her community. She was an elder at the First Presbyterian Church in Arlington Heights and served as a Cub Scout den mother, family members said. She loved gardening and was a devoted viewer of WTTW Channel 11.
Adam is survived by her sister, Donna B. Kreisberg, her children, Jeff Adam and Lee Ann Paisley, three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Jeff Adam said that a memorial service for her will be held in the spring.


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Dark ShadowsDVD - 2012
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I thought the film was okay for about the first hour and a half, nothing great, but tolerable. The last thirty minutes cemented this as one of Tim Burton's worsts.
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As a huge fan of the show, I was apprehensive about the movie. Johnny Depp isn't a bad actor, but seems to lack the ability to play anything straight, and I was worried that he would completely comedy and camp it up. Surprisingly, I found myself really liking it, especially the first hour or so. It doesn't replace the show or anything like that for me, but I thought it was mostly respectful to the original, and good.
Not Depp's or Burton's worst but not their best either. It had some fun moments. Worth a look but not as good as The Addam's Family movie of about 25 years ago.
I like this movie probably won't see again. but I like it.
This underrated Tim Burton gem resurrects the soap opera Dark Shadows from the grave and brings it to new heights with a contemporary interpretation of a cult classic. After being buried alive for 200 years by his spurned witch paramour Angelique, vampire Barnabas Collins is released from his earthly prison, must adapt to life in the 70s, and tries to restore his family's legacy to its former glory. If you are a fan of campy, playful, macabre works, then you will adore this film that has a surprising amount of wit and plenty of fun, over-the-top moments. Dark Shadows is of my favorite movies (I think I've watched it at least 15 times) and is the perfect way to start your Halloween movie marathon.
This was a great movie. Helena Bonham Carter killed it as always. The ending was kind of really bad though
I thought the film was okay for about the first hour and a half, nothing great, but tolerable. The last thirty minutes cemented this as one of Tim Burton's worsts.
Join the 70's again in this Tim Burton film. Johnny Depp plays Barnabas Collins, with a great supporting cast including Michelle Pfeiffer. Ms. Pfeiffer seems to have lots of fun and it was good to see her again. Carpenter's music feature heavily--just warning you!!
Do not let bitsymom,jivejoe, et al sway you from watching this great, awesome movie. I admit that the first time I watched Dark Shadows, I was anticipating a mystery/horror movie and what I got was so much more. I've since watched it two more times and definitely recommend it to everyone.
Horrible, horrible horrible. Johnny Depp STUNK. He should take his money and buy up all the copies of this horrid movie and hope that no one remembers it. I hated everything about this movie. Bad acting, bad directing, bad script. Enough said.
Quite probably Johnny Depp is one of the finest comedic actors who has ever lived, but after watching this film he's got to be the only one who could have pulled it off! What a quality comedy tale filled with minimalist horror, but too lighthearted to count! Didn't realize Eva Green could be so hot! And Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloe Grace Moretz, Helena Bonham-Carter were outstanding in their roles!
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Elizabeth Collins Stoddard: What do you think of the President?
Victoria Winters: Never met him.
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard: What do you think of the war?
Victoria Winters: I don't watch television.
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard: Do you think the sexes should be equal?
Victoria Winters: Heavens, no. Men would become quite unmanageable.
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard: I think we're going to get along fine.
Barnabas: You know, there was a time long ago when I believed money makes the man. When I believed it was the answer to all that ailed us. But it is not the size of the house that makes the man great Master David. It is the people he shares it with. Money will come and go. Family is the only real wealth.
David: So we don't need money to make our family great again?
Barnabas: No, Don't be daft. We shall need an exorbitant amount of money.
Barnabas Collins (voiceover): "It is said that blood is thicker than water. It is what defines us, binds us... curses us."
Barnabas Collins (to The Carpenters on TV): "What sorcery is this? Reveal yourself, tiny songstress!"
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ABC and Marvel are pursuing an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.–related project that would focus on Adrianne Palicki's Mockingbird and Nick Blood's Lance Hunter, Variety reports. The network has ordered a pilot from the potential series, titled Marvel's Most Wanted, and hopes to fashion a story that's less a spinoff and more a stand-alone. Plot and logistical details are slim, but the trades note there's a possibility the show could bow as a backdoor pilot in the forthcoming season of S.H.I.E.L.D. just in case. That episode and (maybe) ensuing series would solely follow Mockingbird and Lance Hunter's espionage adventures. (If only Riggins could see Tyra now.) S.H.I.E.L.D. producers Jeff Bell and Paul Zbyszewski co-created Most Wanted and co-wrote the pilot; they'll also be showrunners and, along with Jeph Loeb, executive producers if the show gets picked up.


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Allison showed how unpredictable storms can be
FOR almost two weeks a tropical storm formally known as Allison wreaked havoc on the United States, causing evacuations, power failures, serious flooding and deaths. And its winds never even reached hurricane force.
In the New York region as much as 5.5 inches of rain fell over the weekend. There were delays at Newark Airport and temporary closings on the Bronx River Parkway and the Saw Mill River Parkway. In a suburb north of Philadelphia four people died in a flooded apartment building that caught fire. Some parts of Pennsylvania got hit with more than 10 inches of rain. But the Gulf states, where 39 people lost their lives, suffered worse.
In the week after Allison sprang to life off Galveston on June 5, the storm dumped 3 feet of rain in parts of Houston, then -- stripped of its tropical designation -- moseyed across the deep South leaving 10 inches of rain in Florida, 7 inches in Georgia, and, filling a 12-inch rain gauge in 14 hours at a South Carolina fire department.
The National Hydrometeorological Prediction Center in Maryland estimates that during that week Allison poured 100 million acre-feet of water on the United States, a year's supply for the entire country. To date, destruction tops $2 billion and counting.
Weather professionals who worked Allison were struck with awe both by the storm's persistent power and their own ignorance about these extreme events. For those stationed along America's eastern coastlines, Allison is also a jangling wake-up call that another hurricane season is upon us. Roughly 10 more storms -- each a rolling crap game of death and destruction -- are coming.
When I began writing this, the storm was dumping its 33 trillionth gallon of water on the South and threatening resurrection as a full-blown tropical depression off North Carolina. Amid the radar blob of red and green convection with its lightning and torrential downpours a telltale counterclockwise curling had resumed. It was not difficult to imagine this beast crawling toward the warm, regenerative energy of the Gulf Stream.
Though a bona fide "tropical storm" for only a day, Allison revealed two underappreciated facts about cyclones: the deadly consequences of rain, and the uncertainty of storm forecasts.
After years of measuring hurricanes by wind power -- Category 1 through 5 -- researchers now realize that the real killer is flooding. A new study by Ed Rappaport of the Tropical Prediction Center shows that since 1970 in the United States, 59 percent of deaths were caused by freshwater flooding. Twelve percent were killed by the wind and 11 percent died at sea. Only 1 percent lost their lives in coastal storm surge.
Recent memorable storms bear that out. Hurricane Floyd's heavy rains in 1999 drowned 50 people on the East Coast. Agnes, which struck New York in 1972, killed 122. Overseas, Hurricane Mitch, a 1998 Category 5 storm that smothered Central America and sprang back to life to kill in Florida, did far more damage as a lingering rain event, drowning or burying in mud an estimated 18,000 people.
In heavily paved Houston this month, most people drowned in their cars, said Bill Proenza, the National Weather Service's southern regional director. "We're very macho with our cars," he said. "People think their SUVs can get through a lake, like they are advertised on TV. They underestimate the buoyancy."
After 50 years of suburbanization around New York, with all its paving and housing, one shudders to think of another "Long Island Express," the 1938 hurricane that flooded New York and Connecticut and killed 600.
As for accuracy, live TV and satellite shots of hurricanes give the impression that forecasters know precisely what's happening. Storm tracks drawn on maps take on a certainty of a road cut through trees.
In fact, the average 24-hour hurricane track forecast is wrong by 100 miles. The average error two days out is 200 miles, a daunting gap for sailors, emergency crews and families trying to decide to flee or stay.
Hurricane Mitch demonstrated that without good data and strong steering currents, computer models can even mislead forecasters into plotting a storm nearly 180 degrees in the wrong direction. Their erroneous forecasts persuaded the captain of a Windjammer Barefoot cruise ship to risk an escape at sea. The ship and 31 men disappeared in the eye wall of the hurricane.
No one is more honest about these errors than the forecasters themselves, who did a pretty good job with Allison's track but again underestimated the inland effects. "No one expected this much rain," said Max Mayfield, the director of the National Hurricane Center.
Local forecasters say their warnings of 10 to 20 inches of rain did alert emergency crews who saved thousands of people. And Doppler radar provided quick readings of where flooding was likely. Still, no one knows precisely where rain will fall until it falls.
When it comes to storms like Allison, the best weather map ever drawn is an obscure government publication showing the combined tracks of more than 900 cyclones since 1886. From Texas on east, the United States is obliterated under a dark scrawl of lines. It's plain to see that sometime, everywhere, a hurricane will strike.
Carrier is the author of The Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome.


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You wonder why? Let me break it down for you:
- Greed: The holidays are now all about 'Black Friday Deals' and stores trying to lure you in to spend money you don't have. Every year, you hear about people getting trampled when the doors open for Black Friday. People get mugged, robbed. People become violent when someone else takes the last 'Tickle-Me Elmo'. All the while, the companies are laughing their way to the bank. If their toy is the top toy, they makes bundles. If someone gets hurt trying to get a limited edition toy, the companies cheer - it just means demand is so high that it outweighs supply. They STILL make bundles. Now, they are doing their damnedest to lure you out of your home on Thanksgiving.
- It's About Sales, Not Family: When was the last time you remember someone saying they ate breakfast with their family on Christmas morning - and then opened presents. Families don't get together anymore. What makes it worse for me working in retail is that the odds are good I will be working on Thanksgiving...And Christmas Eve...And New Year's Eve...And New Years...All in the name of making money. I mean for crying out loud, it's not even the end of October and everyone is selling Christmas decorations. Seriously?!?
- It's the Angriest and Most Stressful Time of the Year: Working in retail, I get to see the ugliest behavior that customers have to offer every day for almost two months. Everyone is so stressed about getting everything they need for their parties. They get pissed when they are shopping at 9PM the night before Thanksgiving and we have the audacity to run out of whole berry cranberry relish. Then Christmas season hits and everyone is tired, angry and stressed - then they come shopping and take it out on retail workers everywhere. Have you heard the expression 'Shit Rolls Downhill'? Well, when managers get their asses handed to them by an enraged customer...the shit never stops rolling.
- Add PTSD to the Mix and What Do You Have?: Anger, Stress, Extreme Anxiety, Insomnia, Nightmares, Hypervigilance, Intrusive Recollections, Angry Spouses, Angry Parents, Depression. A veritable picnic - an emotional shitstorm of epic proportions.
That's what I have to face every year. I fight really hard to keep an even keel and to be there for my family and this is what I have to look forward to.
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text: 02 May 2012Women preparing to see their daughters get married are going to ever greater lengths to ensure they too look fabulous on the big day. Commentators have dubbed the desire to achieve a picture-perfect look the 'Carole Middleton effect', in reference to the mother of Prince William's wife Kate.According to a report by Hello! magazine, cosmetic surgery is something that 10 per cent of mothers would consider trying before their daughters walk down the aisle. The magazine said brides' mothers it spoke to were willing to consider a range of procedures, from Botox injections and breast augmentations to tummy tucks. According to Julie Donnelly, head of buying at online and catalogue shopping firm isme, mothers should always remember that they are not meant to be the centre of attention on the day. She said: "Aim to be the second most fabulous lady there � never try to outshine the bride." In addition, Ms Donnelly said women shouldn't try out anything too radical for the wedding day. "To be confident you need to be comfortable," she said. It's also been suggested that Kate Middleton's wedding has encouraged brides to think even more carefully about their appearance before the big day, with 'bridalplasty' becoming more popular than ever.


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Ali Fedotowsky's got a new gig.
The former "Bachelorette" will co-host a new series on The Style Network alongside Vivica A. Fox and fellow reality vet Adrianne Curry, the network announced on Tuesday.
The as-of-yet untitled half-hour show — currently in development — will tackle "anything and everything that's of interest to Style viewers," the network told Access Hollywood in a statement. "From exciting in-studio guests, to product demos, makeover segments, field segments and a studio audience, this new daily show will be just as Style-ish as it is informative and fun."
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Ali is quite the busy bride-to-be.
In addition to her new Style show, the former reality star is planning her wedding with her fiancé (and "Bachelorette" winner) Roberto Martinez.
While the date for their big day has been chosen, the charming couple's guest list is a bit unsettled as Ali and her beau are facing criticism for the exclusivity of their invites.
"We sat down and we made a list [for the bridal party]," Ali told Access last week at SVEDKA's Night of a Billion Reality Stars Gala in Los Angeles. "A lot of people in the last couple days have been like, 'Oh my gosh – I read that you're not letting plus ones come to your wedding! Oh my gosh!' And I'm like, 'Well, I don't want to meet people for the first time at my wedding unless it's [Roberto's] family or something.
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Las Vegas CBS KXNT – The Clark County Commission will introduce an ordinance this week to eliminate the controversial newsracks that line the Strip, and feature adult publications.
The news racks are a public safety hazard because they impede pedestrian traffic, Commissioner Steve Sisolak told KXNT, citing a study from last year that recommended their removal.
The ACLU of Nevada has been an outspoken defender of the racks on First
Amendment grounds. Previous attempts to ban them as an inhibitor of a quality experience for tourists have been unsuccessful.
The county lost a legal challenge to a past ban because it was determined to free speech, said Tod Story of the ACLU.
The measure before the commission tomorrow has nothing to do with the materials inside the news racks, Sisolak said.


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Somerset Outdoor Learning Centre has been offering outdoor experiences to school students and participants of The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award (Duke of Ed) since the early 1980's. As an industry leader with over 30 years of experience, Somerset offers a unique blend of learning experiences and outdoor facilities delivered in a professionally managed outdoor education program.
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New Store Room
Our new store is a perfect addition to our busy Base camp area contributing space, efficient distribution of equipment and more hot showers for students to refresh as they pass through.
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We welcome our newest members to the farm. Daisy, Dani and Curly Helga. Students can stop and visit and feed the cows when they are staying at one of our Campsites or on the way to an activity.
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Teams of 3 prepare, cook and enjoy a variety of different cuisines. Each Team receives a pack of food with meat, veggies, herbs, instructions, etc and must plan, cook and serve. Can you taste Butter Chicken with rice and coriander, Gnocchi Primavera with basil or Honey Soy Chicken with noodles?


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For the best possible display, this portrait should be professionally framed.
A frame is not included with this artwork!
Approximate Measurements
Artwork Panel: 43.3cm x 48.8cm ≈ 17" x 19¼"
Silk/Brocade Border: 53.3cm x 58.8cm ≈ 21" x 23"Information about how this Asian painting is mounted
The Chinese title is "Qian Li Yun Ti" which means "1000 Miles [in the] Clouds [on] Hoof". The title is really talking about a wish for your career to go far, and your future to be bright.
Note that a "Li" is an ancient Chinese mile - not quite as long as a British/American mile.
The title and meaning I gave above also has a lot to do with what horses represent in China. It is a common Chinese cultural belief that horses are a symbol of success. In ancient times, your worth was measured by how many horses you owned. Obviously, only successful people owned horses - thus the phrase above was born.
In modern times, Chinese people are often known to hang horse paintings in their businesses and homes to "bring success"
After the title, the rest of the Chinese characters are the year painted and the artist's signature.
This is a very traditional and famous style of horse painting that is strictly Chinese. It's done on high-quality xuan paper (rice paper) with only black Chinese ink is used (no white or gray paint at all).
Different shades of gray are obtained when the artist mixes water or alcohol in various amounts to his ink block.
In Beijing, I had this painting carefully mounted with a white silk border so that it is ready-to-frame.
First meeting at Chen Zheng-Long's
Asian art studio in Chengdu 2003
Ready to leave Chengdu in the Sichuan Province of China. I walk down the hall toward the exit of a building that is home for many antique dealers and artist's studios.
On my way out, I see some nice art in a studio, but keep walking several steps past the door. I feel that I'm finished buying art, and am almost dizzy from the array of art that I'd viewed over the past week in Chengdu City.
But I have to go back and look. I peer in the studio to see an unassuming man holding his paint brush nearly vertical as he slowly works on a landscape painting.
I wait until he is ready to dip his brush into more paint before saying, "hello".
As in most cases, he's a bit startled to see a foreigner, and he mumbles something about how he seldom sees "white people" in the building. Although I doubt the comment is meant for me, I reply, "I look more like a pink person than white don't you think?" He is even more surprised that he can understand me when I speak Chinese to him than the fact that I could reply to his comment.
We both have a good laugh, and exchange pleasantries that are typical in Chinese culture. He hands me his name card (they don't call them business cards in China because the relationship between people is more important - business comes later). I try to read his card back to him, "Chen Zheng-Long", but I am better at oral Chinese than reading, so he corrected me on the pronunciation of his name. (I got the tones wrong - there are 4 possible tones that can go with a sound in Mandarin Chinese - if you use the wrong tone, it completely changes the meaning).
Mandarin Chinese has 370 different sounds and an extended lexicon of over 30,000 characters. That's a lot compared to our 26 Roman letters used in English which have just a little over 26 sounds (in that some English letters can be pronounced with more than one sound - especially vowels).
But wait, there's more. Most of these 370 sounds have up to 4 different tones that can be associated with them, as well as a non-tone or zero-tone. These tones completely change the meaning of the sound just like vowels do in English.
The consonant sound of "n" and "t" can be:
"not, Nate, note, neat, net, gnat, knit or nut"
...just by changing the vowel sound.
When you change the tone in Chinese, the same thing happens (foreigners, like me, have a lot of trouble with these tones).
Here's an example using the "ma" sound with various tones:
horse eats hemp suffers mother's swearing
This sentence means
"The horse ate the hemp so it suffers mother's swearing"
...or a more proper translation and better English grammar,
"Mother is swearing at the horse because it ate the hemp".
If you heard this sentence in real life, you probably would not be able to figure out which "ma" is which, unless you'd studied a lot of Chinese. That's what makes this language one of the most difficult to learn on earth.
After he teaches me how to correctly say his name, he shows me several of his latest paintings.
They are all very good, and I know this art is just the kind that a lot of people are looking for from my customers around the world.
He tells me that he really likes to paint black ink horses, and koi fish, but everybody wants his landscape paintings more, so that is what he'd been painting lately.
I tell him that I would like to buy some koi fish and horses too, and he gets very excited, but apologizes that he has very few to show me now. After we talk about the price, I tell him that I'll just pay him in full for several more that he can mail to me in Beijing when he finishes them.
He looks at me with a puzzled face, and I can tell that he is wondering why I want to pay him in full rather than give him deposit. This is when I remind him of an old Chinese Idiom, "If you drain the water from the pond, you will get all the fish in one day, but if you leave the water in the pond, you can catch fish forever". He clearly understood that I was trying to build a long-term relationship with him in a short time that I had left in Chengdu, by extending some trust.
He wraps up the paintings I bought on the spot, and actually paints me a receipt on a piece of rice paper for the money that I hand to him.
Before I leave, he tells me a little about himself in that he was once trained in civil engineering, but wanted to express more of his creative side. So he left that career behind and became a full time artist after studying at an art academy for a few years. I see some parallels in our lives, as I'd left a similar engineering career behind in the states to come to China originally.
My wife, Ling Hua (aka Cat) and
Artist Chen Zheng-Long in Chengdu, 2006.
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Gary's random little things about China:
You can search long and hard, in every drugstore and sundries market in China, and you will not find underarm deodorant for sale anywhere.
After traveling all over China, I know this to be true everywhere in China except Hong Kong.
If you ask a Chinese person why there is no deodorant for sale, they will tell you plainly, "Chinese people do not smell bad".
My reply is, "Have you never been on a crowded bus in the summer?"


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All I know is that probably since the dawn of man, every generation has thought at one time that they were "it" and something awful was going to happen in their life times, ending the world as we know it.....
1096 - 1291 Crusades
1337 - 1453 Hundred Years' War
1420 - 1436 Hussite Wars
1455 - 1485 Wars of the Roses
1454 - 1466 Thirteen Years' War. Between Poland and Teutonic Knights, which finally broke the power of the latter.
Pike and Shot
1568 - 1648 Eighty Years' War (war of Dutch independence)
1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1618 - 1648 Thirty Years' War across Europe, ends with the Peace of Westphalia.
1639 - 1652 English Civil War
1648 - 1660 The Deluge/Northern War, A series of wars involving Poland, Sweden, Prussia, Russia and Transylvania and Denmark
1652 - 1654 First Anglo-Dutch War
1664 - 1667 Second Anglo-Dutch War including the capture of New Amsterdam, renamed New York City
1672 - 1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War
1672 - 1678 Franco-Dutch War
1680 - 1684 Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
1689 - 1698 War of the Grand Alliance
1700 - 1721 Great Northern War between a coalition of Denmark/Norway, Russia and Saxony/Poland on one side and Sweden on the other side
1710 - 1711 Russo-Turkish War, 1710-11, a part of the Great Northern War
1702 - 1713 Queen Anne's War The North American part of the War of Spanish Succession
1701 - 1714 War of Spanish Succession
1736 - 1739 Russo-Turkish War, 1736-39
1739 - 1742 War of Jenkins' Ear
1740 - 1742 1st Silesian War
1744 - 1748 King George's War The North American part of the War of Austrian Succession
1740 - 1748 War of the Austrian Succession
1744 - 1745 2nd Silesian War
1756 - 1763 Seven Years' War, known as the French and Indian War in the United States, and also 3rd Silesian War
1754 - 1763 French and Indian War or the Seven Years' War
1768 - 1774 Russo-Turkish War, 1768-74
1775 - 1781 American Revolutionary War
1787 - 1792 Russo-Turkish War, 1787-92
1792 War in defence of the constitution
1789 - 1815 French Revolutionary Wars / Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Trafalgar 1805
Battle of Waterloo 1815
Age of Rifles
1806 - 1812 Russo-Turkish War, 1806-12
1808 - 1809 The Finnish War between Russia and Sweden wherein Sweden cedes Finland to Russia
1812 - 1814 War of 1812 fought between the United States and Great Britain, and part of the greater war between Great Britain and France
1821 - 1829 Greek War of Independence
1828 - 1829 Russo-Turkish War, 1828-29
1830 - 1831 Polish-Russian war following November Uprising
1835 Toledo War between US territory of Michigan and the US state of Ohio
1839 - 1842 First Anglo-Afghan War
1843 - 1872 Several Maori Land Wars in New Zealand
1846 - 1848 Mexican War between the United States and Mexico
1848 - 1849 Hungarian Revolt of 1848 waged by Hungary against Austria and later Russia
1848 - 1851 First war of Schleswig
1850 - 1865 Taiping Rebellion
1854 - 1856 Crimean War.
1857 - 1901 Caste War of Yucatán
1859 - 1860 Italian Independence War
1861 - 1865 American Civil War in the United States
1864 Second war of Schleswig
1866 Austro-Prussian War (aka Seven Weeks War)
1866 - 1868 Red Cloud's War between the Lakota and the United States
1870 - 1871 Franco-Prussian War
1872 - 1873 Modoc War between the Modoc and the United States
1876 - 1877 Black Hills War between the Lakota and the United States
1877 - 1878 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78
1839 - 1842 Second Anglo-Afghan War
1887 - 1889 Italo-Abyssinian War
1895 - 1896 First Italo-Abyssinian War
1894 - 1895 First Sino-Japanese War
1898 Spanish-American War
1899 - 1902 Boer War in South Africa
World War era
1905 Russo-Japanese War
1912 - 1913 Two Balkan Wars are fought for control of European territories of Ottoman Empire 1914 - 1918 World War I, initially in Europe, then worldwide
1917 - 1918 Russian Revolution
1918 Finnish Civil War, fought between "the reds" (rebellious Socialists) and "the whites" (anti-Socialists) in the aftermath of the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Germany intervened on the side of the Whites.
1918 - 1922 Russian Civil War, fought between "the reds" (Communists) and "the whites" (tsarists) directly after the Bolshevist Revolution. US, France and Great Britain also intervened to "kill communism in the crib."
1918 - 1920 Estonian Liberation War, Estonia against Soviet Russia and the Germans.
1918 Polish-Czech war in Teschen Silesia
1918 - 1919 Poland and Lwow against Westukrainian Republic
1918 - 1919 Great Poland Uprising, Provinz Posen against Germany
1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War
1919 First Silesian Uprising
1919 - 1921 Polish-Soviet war Poland and Ukrainian Peoples Republic against Soviets
1920 Second Silesian Uprising Silesian Poles against Germany
1921 Third Silesian Uprising Silesian Poles against Germany
1934 - 1936 Northern Expedition by Kuomintang
1935 - 1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War
1936 - 1939 Spanish Civil War
1937 - 1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
1939 - 1941 World War II: Poland,British Empire, France against Germany, Italy, Soviet Union
1941 - 1945 World War II: (British Empire, United States, Soviet Union and others against fascist Germany, Italy, and Japan).
Cold War era
1945 - 1949 Chinese Civil War
1946 - 1954 First Indochina War
1947 - 1949 First Kashmir War between India and Pakistan
1948 - 1949 First Arab-Israeli War
1950 - 1953 Korean War (UN-led coalition Vs. North Korea)
1956 Suez Crisis (Second Arab-Israeli War)
1962 - 1963 Sino-Indian War
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War between US-led coalition including government of South Vietnam and coalition including Viet Cong and North Vietnam
1965 Second Kashmir War (Second Indo-Pakistani War)
1967 Six-Day War (Third Arab-Israeli War)
1969 Football War between Honduras and El Salvador.
1971 Bangladesh War of Independence (Third Indo-Pakistani War)
1973 Yom Kippur War (Fourth Arab-Israeli War)
1974 - 1991 Ethiopian Civil War
1975 - 1991 Lebanese Civil War
1979 - 1989 Soviet-Afghan War
1980 - 1988 Iran-Iraq War
1982 Falklands War between United Kingdom and Argentina
Post-Cold War era
1989 - 1990 Operation Just Cause, United States invades Panama
1991 Gulf War between Iraq and UN-led coalition
1991 Slovene War of Independence
1991 - 1995 Croatian War of Independence
1992 - 1995 Bosnian Civil War
1994 - 1996 First Chechen War
1998 - 1999 Kosovo War (NATO Vs. Yugoslavia)
1999 Second Chechen War
2001 Invasion of Afghanistan
2003 Invasion of Iraq
My belief is that those who fear the reaper, think of a world where everyone has already died and they are fighting for survival, going out with a fight knowing they are one of the few standing, it's puts more perspective on their life because of their doubts of God. They want to fight and crawl it's almost like DNA in some of us have a '' doomsday longing ''. I think that is where all the inspiration comes from the movies and from some of the posts. We all want the world to do with as we want and use what we when we want, the only way that is accomplished is by being the last one standing.
I have noticed in this day and age when a natural disaster happens, it is discussed and posted about soo much that it becomes magnified and actually twists weak minds into thinking the end is near.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
I don't believe nature or God has instilled these things in us, but society and religions ruled and used by men to manipulate us with these things.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
These things weren't embraced willingly by the masses when they were first introduced, rather they were for the most part instilled by the sword and those millions of first nations people who wouldn't subscribe to them put to the sword and eliminated, as these constructs were gradually made fixtures of familiar and state society over centuries of repitition and powerful and wealthy institutions that simply would not go away and not stop spinning the yarns.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
I don't feel I have over annalyzed because the reality is these are the things that are at the base of doom and gloom prophecies, religion, overly militant and authoritarian tyranical states, fear and a love of high drama.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
When something as familiar as our present religious constructs become so ingrained in a society, it does get very hard to see beyond them, especially when they offer that vague promise of heavenly rewards or infernal punishments for not subscribing to them as well as the peer pressure of the masses.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
I think we should revere and respect the planet, that which is real and lives around us, and most of all one another.
The Judaen concepts of religion as put forth by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is slavery to the belief of an unseen force that is not interactive in human terms and ways, that books written thousands of years ago are used to enslave the masses to these ideas.
Why would I place an imagined unseen entity over my friends, loved ones, family, and nature and the earth itself.
Why would I try harder to serve it than those who I love.
It really is a slavery based system that is based on an authoritarian state, excessive laws, heavy punishments, slavery war and taxation.
Read the original ten commandments objectively and that's what it is, it describes such a system.
A system you are extolled to take on faith, not evidence, a system where the greatest rewards don't come in this lifetime but the next.
You might as well as raise your hand and say, slavery it's for me!
Its irrational to believe that the cause of our tendency to fixate on dangers, fear, and doom, has been caused by groups of people. Its much more likely that this feature already existed in people, and that this feature actually caused religion, etc.
You have absolutely no evidence of what things people were and were not willing to embrace when religion was first introduced, and it for CERTAIN was not shoved down the throats of the masses at sword point. Because religion predates metal work. You are mistaking the forcing of people to convert from one religion to another with the advent of religion itself, apparently.
The big three middle eastern religions are not the be all and end all of religion. And in one example, the Hawaiian pre-Christian religion, you can clearly see that their "Gods" are related to their fears, not vice versa. Volcanoes were not created to deal with Pele, Pele was created to deal with the fear of Volcanoes, and to provide an illusion of control over the uncontrollable by anthropomorphizing them into a "Goddess" whom one could then hope to appeal to, with bribes, obedience, etc.
All roads really DONT lead to Rome. Or even the middle eastern religions. Humanity is a lot more than the last 2000 odd years.
Exploring "apocalyptic" theories is also not a "negative" as you seem to want to claim. You seem to be pretending that this ability/tendency offers us no benefit. Which is clearly ridiculous. Everything from trying to stay a step ahead of viruses, to planning to climate change, to early tribes fortifying their camps to prevent night time raids are examples of this tendency being used in ways most people do not think of as dysfunctional. Your mindset is conspiratorial perhaps, and you think all these scientists and leaders are doing this just to control the people. What you arent willing apparently to recognize, is that our leaders are driven by the same fears, the same preoccupation with doom, and prevention of it.
Studies of dreams also indicate that at least one type of dream seems dedicated to rehearsing "fight or flight" which in your waking life, you may only get one real chance at. I see this even with my cat, who often dreams he is fighting, (he vocalizes in his sleep) and he hasnt been in more than one little tiff in his life.
You are mistaking cause and effect.
And when something as familiar as religious constructs are part of someones personal cultural experience, it CAN get hard to see past them. And the "fear the enemy" tendency of humans can be applied TO them, by those who dont accept them as dogma. I suppose its also hard for those who grew up in such a way that these were powerful dominating forces to understand that not everyone is that enamored or influenced by them. And that they are relatively young powers, and certainly not responsible for traits that are universal in normal humans.
My personal take on all the gloom and doom of late is "I know things are bad and getting worse. I'm doing what I can about it and enjoying the moments of my life while they're still enjoyable." More than that, I can not do.
An interesting aspect is the fight or flight mechanism.
Sometimes when it comes to the apathetical, lazy, or timid, the only time they will actually take part in resolute action is when cornered and they have to fight versus flee....
October 9th, 2010 (UK financial times)
Fears of a global food crisis swept the world's commodity markets as prices for staples such as corn, rice and wheat spiralled after the US government warned of "dramatically" lower supplies.
An especially hot summer in the US, droughts in countries including Russia and Brazil and heavy rain in Canada and Europe have hit many grain and oilseed crops this year. This has raising concern of a severe squeeze in food supplies and a repeat of the 2007-08 food crisis.
The US Department of Agriculture, in a closely watched report, predicted that the country's stocks of corn would halve to their lowest levels in 14 years....
"I think we have a food crisis right now," said Hussein Allidina, head of commodities research at Morgan Stanley....
The USDA shocked traders by forecasting in its monthly report that the country's corn farmers would harvest about 12.7bn bushels in the 2010-11 crop year that started in September. This is down 4 per cent from the USDA's previous estimate.
The drop would slash the country's stocks to 900m bushels, the lowest level since 1996-97. The USDA also cut wheat and soya production estimates.... patdollard.com...
The Strategic Grain Reserve
February 5, 2011
....Now let's look at the present situation. Prices are on the rise and the following article really grabbed my interest again on the topic of wheat and reserves (or lack thereof):
Global food prices hit new record high [Feb 3, 2011]
Algeria last week said it had bought almost a million tonnes of wheat, bringing its bread wheat purchases to at least 1.75 million since the start of January, and ordered an urgent speeding up of grain imports, a move aimed at building stocks....
Severe drought in the Black Sea last year, heavy rains in Australia and dry weather in Argentina and anticipation of a spike in demand after unrest in north Africa and the Middle East has also helped drive grain prices even higher.
China Puts More Grain Reserve on Market [Dec 9, 2010]
The reserve included 1.8 million tonnes of corn, 4.5 million tonnes of wheat, 2.1 million tonnes of rice and 296,000 tonnes of soybean, the NDRC said.
Previous figures showed a total of 25.5 million tonnes of stockpiled grain and cooking oil had been released on to the market since the end of October.
Time, causation and free will:
Not only are persons spread out through worlds, but they, like everything else, are quantized through time in any given world. Time is a series of moments, and a person who exists at a moment exists there forever in four-dimensional spacetime, rather than being transformed continuously through the flow of time. Such change and flow are mythical, Deutsch argues.
The argument doesn't strictly require the multiverse hypothesis, because deterministic physics since Newton has implied that the openness of the future is an illusion, and consequently that free will is an illusion. (This conclusion could be avoided by adopting compatibilism. Also, collapse interpretations of quantum mechanics imply both indeterminism and an open future).
What the multiverse adds to a block time theory is an attenuated account of common sense's ideas of causation and free will. Although an effect can't be changed by its cause, the counterfactuals that causal statements support are true. If the cause hadn't occurred, the effect would not have occurred.
For the multiverse, which is "to a first approximation" a very large number of co-existing and slightly interacting spacetimes, includes universes in which the cause doesn't occur and its effect doesn't occur. And although the "me-copy" in this spacetime could not have done otherwise, there are me-copies in other worlds that actually do otherwise (thus, the common-sense idea that, in choosing one course of action, one refrains from another, is not retained). There is a branching of these me-copies that validates my sense that my future is open, in contrast to spacetime physics.
However, the open future of common sense is a myth. As defined by the Darwinist framework, there is no flow of time dividing the actualities of the past from the unactualized potentialities of the future.


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About Connswater Community Greenway
The Connswater Community Greenway is a £40 million investment in East Belfast. The project has been developed by the EastSide Partnership and is being delivered by Belfast City Council. It is funded by the Big Lottery Fund, Belfast City Council, the Department for Communities and Department for Infrastructure. An £11 million flood alleviation scheme incorporated into the project has helped to reduce flooding to 1700 properties.
The Connswater Community Greenway has created a 9km linear park through east Belfast, following the course of the Connswater, Knock and Loop Rivers, connecting the open and green spaces. The Greenway has created vibrant, attractive, safe and accessible parkland for leisure, recreation, community events and activities.
The project will improve the quality of life for the people of east Belfast. These include; the 40,000 residents, pupils and students attending the 23 schools and colleges, visitors and tourists to east Belfast and those who chose to work and invest in east Belfast.
A whole new greener environment has emerged to link local residents to parks, leisure facilities, businesses, shopping centre, schools and colleges.
Key facts:
- A 9km linear park for walking and cycling
- 16km of foot and cycle paths
- 26 new or improved bridges and crossings
- Serve 23 schools and colleges
- Up to 5 km of rivers cleaned
- Hubs for education, interpretation points and tourism and heritage trails
- Wildlife corridor from Belfast Lough to the Castlereagh Hills
The Connswater Community Greenway is a living landmark for east Belfast and a fantastic legacy for our children.


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4 best Nexus 6P & 5X features according to the Google team that made them
4 participants of the team behind the refreshing Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X took side within an AMA (Ask Me Some thing) on Reddit. They spilled the products on why the machinery don't have wireless charging, and what the heck "P" and "X" stand for. The particular subsequent query they answered was concerning their favourite features of the two mobile phones. Granted, those men are slightly biased, however their favourite features say any whole lot.
Nexus Imprint
That will be rapid (it truly is!) and very correct. You received'k even understand the lockscreen anymore. And the area of the sensor is such that an individual may acquire correct within your homescreen by the era telephone is inside top of you. Examine away four palms-on films close to here is.
Nexus Imprint is the software program that movements with the fingerprint sensor on the back again of each mobile phones. Google says it takes 700 milliseconds to identify a fingerprint, and it becomes closer the additional an individual make use of it. Imprint can easily end up being applied for unlocking your telephone, Android Pay, and even confirmation within third celebration programs.
The digicam on all those machinery is fantastic – the photograph top quality is amazing – particularly for disadvantaged lightweight photos. Sloooo–mo on all those machinery is the great deal associated with enjoyable.
It's no present they interest the cameras on those machinery. Google talked them up any whole lot throughout the occurrence. Each are prepared with thirteen.3MP cameras. They facet the exact same Sony sensor with f/2.zero optics, yet the 6P could do a few extra things. Because it plays further horsepower, that can easily do 240fps slower-movement and smartburst. Check out our sample photos to perceive how the cameras function.
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Establish Top quality
I feel the "premiumness" of each cell phones is my fav factor. Especially loving the all-steel aluminium – I imply alum-inside-um – and the jewellery sprawling edges of the 6P 🙂
The Nexus collection performs not constantly been lucky with the best components. The actual initial Nexus 5 was ornamental generic-searching, and it was made regarding gentle-tap cosmetic. The Nexus 4 appeared fantastic, yet the glass back again was simple to break. Ultimate yr's Nexus 6 started out a tendency of excellent set up top quality that the 6P and 5X plays adopted. The 5X is actually nevertheless generic, however this feels closer The 6P is all aluminum, and it basically screams fabulous.
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The Mets' season hadn't gotten off to the start they wanted, but with Johan Santana on the mound yesterday against a pitcher they released last year, they felt pretty confident their first homestand would end well.
That optimism didn't last long.
Santana loaded the bases in the first and then Washington's Josh Willingham jumped on a changeup and blasted it to left-center. After a short umpire review, it was ruled a grand slam and, just like that, it would be another long day at Citi Field, ending in a 5-2 Mets loss.
"It definitely takes the air out of your tires," Jason Bay said of the early deficit. "You can't believe that happens with your No. 1 guy going. You know there's a lot of game left, but we never really got over it."
To make matters worse, manager Jerry Manuel said his team "appeared unprepared" yesterday.
"I have to take full responsibility for that," Manuel said. "We have to put a bigger emphasis on it."
And fast — since the Mets, in greater need than most of a good start, head to Colorado for their first trip after going 2-4 at home, losing series to Florida and the lowly Nationals.
"It's six games, but you never want to say that," Jeff Francoeur said. "Before long, it's just 20 games, the first month. We better get it going quick because we have some teams coming up that are really, really good."
They'll certainly have to be better than yesterday.
"I was trying to throw my fastball and I didn't have it in the first inning," said Santana, who allowed five runs in five innings. It was his shortest outing since getting shelled for nine runs in three innings against the Yankees last June 14. "It was all over the place for some reason. I wasn't able to command it . . . and they jumped right ahead, scored some runs and that was the whole ballgame."
Not exactly.
The Mets had trouble scoring runs again, this time off the ancient Livan Hernandez, who tossed seven shutout innings before being removed.
"He had everything working," Rod Barajas said.
It wasn't until Mike Jacobs' homered in the eighth off former Yankees reliever Brian Bruney that the Mets finally showed some life — and then again in the ninth, when Francisco Rodriguez hit Willie Harris with a pitch in the forearm and the two players jawed at each other, leading both benches to empty.
"All I was trying to do was pitch inside, and he said a couple of things I didn't like," Rodriguez said. "I took it in a bad way, and reacted."
Which was fine with his teammates.
"It's good to see some fire out of him," Jacobs said of Rodriguez. "He's our closer."
Barajas didn't expect there to be any carryover to when the teams meet again at Citi Field on May 10.
"I don't think so," said the catcher, who reported no problems from the huge hit he took from Adam Dunn at the plate on Willingham's blast before it was ruled a homer.
There wasn't much positive to say about this game, or the rest of the homestand. The Mets went 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position in the loss, something that has been an issue during the early part of the season.
"We've got to sack up and get the job done," Jacobs said.
That goes for the trip, as well.


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StorONE's TRUTM (Total Resource Utilization) Storage is the result of investing six years in deep R&D, rewriting the storage software architecture to make it resource efficient while maintaining all of the required Enterprise class services, including unlimited snapshots. While other vendors achieve their storage solution by adding more hardware, StorONE is first storage vendor to tell the customer to reduce the amount of the hardware in order to get more performance.
With current drive technology having such high performance and density, it is no longer a challenge to implement any high performance or high capacity storage solution. Any integration project can achieve this with high performance drives or with a large amount of JBODs. Hardware has eliminated the bottlenecks of the past and continues to get faster and denser.
StorONE gives the user, for the first time, the full value of the resources they purchased. With StorONE's enterprise-class TRUTM Storage software, a customer's hardware investment will match the rated IOPS, throughput and capacity of the drive regardless of whether it is SSD, NVMe or HDD. More than that, TRUTM Storage software includes enterprise storage features such as unlimited snapshots, support for all storage protocols (block, file and object) on the same drives, and support for all drive types in the same server. There is no need to integrate multiple storage solutions when users can get a single solution, multi-purpose software that runs at wire speed.
Henry Ford once said that if he asked his customers what they needed, they would say faster horses. In the same way, StorONE believes if today's storage customers were asked what they need in order to get better performance, they would say faster hardware. Vendors have convinced users that they need multiple copies, a multitude of drives and huge investments in hardware.
But at what cost?
Your organization needs better storage and you've already researched all available solutions. But something is amiss. Regardless of which solution you're considering, you still find yourself worrying about the following issues:
Why can't you simply upgrade to new innovative technologies like faster, higher capacity drives without migrating and replacing your existing system? And why aren't storage systems able to fully exploit the benefits of moving to such technologies? Why can't you get the actual full performance offered by an SSD manufacturer when replacing your legacy HDD's rather than a 10 to 20% improvement?
Why is managing a physical storage infrastructure so difficult? And what can be done about environmental limitations, such as space, power and cooling, that prevent easy expansion?
Why is the price per TB of the overall storage system still so expensive when using low-cost, off-the-shelf HDD or SSD media?
Why do you need to deploy a complex combination of disparate solutions in order to meet your overall storage requirements? A separate solution just to reliably manage large amounts of snapshots? How do you manage to mix a hyper-converged infrastructure with a traditional infrastructure?
StorONE believes that these should never be issues for our customers.
StorONE's vision is to focus on delivering the best possible overall results. We've achieved this by using a series of innovations that revolutionize the entire storage stack. It's in our DNA to challenge conventional technology and ask "How can we do this better?"
We think results and believe that you do too.
It's no longer a challenge to simply meet certain storage requirements such as high performance or high capacity. This can be readily achieved if you are willing to sacrifice other factors. The real challenge is to deliver a solution that not only meets the standard requirements of capacity and performance but delivers the best results across all other factors as well – Hardware, Complexity, Cost and Completeness.
This is what StorONE is all about.
Using StorONE's technology, it's now possible to deliver virtually any performance/capacity ratio while dramatically lowering hardware requirements, cost and complexity.
The result is an unmatched combination of small form factor, lower TCO, minimized environmental impact, ease of use and long life span without compromising your traditional storage requirements.
TRUTM storage can be installed as a physical server – any white appliance without any special hardware requirement OR as a virtual appliance without the need to change your existing virtualization infrastructure. A single virtual appliance with low resources can achieve performance comparable to a mid-range storage solution with only 4 SSD. 4 NVMe drives can achieve the performance and latency of a high end solution and a single HDD JBOD can provide 5GBps with high capacity utilization.
TRUTM storage can be installed as a physical server – any white appliance without any special hardware requirement OR as a virtual appliance without the need to change your existing virtualization infrastructure. A single virtual appliance with low resources can achieve performance comparable to a mid-range storage solution with only 4 SSD. 4 NVMe drives can achieve the performance and latency of a high end solution and a single HDD JBOD can provide 5GBps with high capacity utilization.
StorONE provides full competence for performance, capacity and data protection for both structured and unstructured data through a single software solution installed on the commodity hardware of your choice. StorONE significantly improves raw capacity utilization and reduces footprint by giving you the ability to mix and match drive types without performance or capacity restrictions. This results in significant improvements in hard and soft costs associated with your storage environment while better aligning overall storage performance with aggregate drive performance.
This is StorONE. This is our philosophy. This is our DNA.
With more than 50 patents awarded in our first six years of deep technical development, StorONE has completed our revolutionary new technology that reimagines the fundamental nature of traditional storage software.
Our founders are pioneers in technology revolutions. Gal Naor, CEO, was the first to deliver real-time storage compression technology with no performance penalty with StorWIZE (acquired by IBM in 2010 and now IBM's key embedded storage technology). Raz Gordon, CTO, is the inventor of the Ethernet switching algorithms of Galileo Technology (acquired 2001 by Marvell for $2.7B) that enabled the creation of the world's first single-chip Ethernet switch by dramatically reducing hardware complexity and pushing performance to its theoretical maximum.
StorONE is well funded by institutional and private investors, including Microsoft's Chairman John Thompson and former CEO of Motorola and President of Sun Microsystems Edward Zander, and technology companies such as Seagate; and venture capital firms Giza, Vaizra and JGV.
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I'm a large black man living in Toronto, Ontario. My relationship with the police has been well documented via social media over the past 10 years. From rants written on message boards, to blog entries on Live Journal, it hasn't been easy dealing with the cops.
Four years ago during Caribana weekend in the city, I had the unwanted privilege of being pulled over five times in a single night while driving my 1978 Chevrolet El Camino. Now I can't express enough how humiliating it feels being pulled over in a very busy part of the city during a very busy weekend. I've been pulled over for DWB (Driving While Black) so I know how it goes, the cops flash their lights, present a false reason for stopping you, only to attempt to find out who you are and what you do. I try not to lose my cool, I smile, let them know I'm not one of the bad guys they're looking for and usually it ends with a warning or tip from the boys in blue. But after being stopped for the fifth time, I was beyond furious. "Don't you guys share information? I thought you job was to serve and protect, not profile and harass. Yes, this is my car. Yes, I have insurance. I'm just trying to drive around with my brothers and enjoy to fruits of my labour."
Since that outburst, I haven't been pulled over again while driving my classic car. I guess after they collected all the cards from their carding program and saw my information numerous times, they might have realized that I wasn't a threat. I know how it can be for young black men in Toronto, I can't imagine what it's like to be black in America. Some police officers are shooting black men for some of the most unjust reasons of all time. If raising your voice results in getting a bullet, I would have been dead a long time ago.
I haven't been sleeping very well lately. For the past few days, it seems like we can't even go 24 hours without something crazy happening or seeing another tragic headline in the media. We as a society are being confronted with the ugly reality of discrimination and something has to be done about it.
About a year ago I was exchanging messages via Whatsapp with a buddy of mine, discussing the current state of race relations in Canada. South of the border our American neighbours were dealing with the deaths of two unarmed black youth (Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown) who were killed with little real consequences for their shooters. Ironically enough, he was in my El Camino for three of the five times I got pulled over during Caribana.
A strong, proud and opinionated Black man, he is one of the few black faces in his workplace and has often offered an opinion not commonly heard in his Bay Street office. "Miller, I can feel it coming. This new era of hate is upon us."
His words of foreshadowing discrimination and hatred at the time seemed laughable and exaggerated, but sadly he turned out to be right.
Since that conversation, our society has been subject to countless shootings of unarmed black men. Their deaths have been caught on body cameras of police officers who pulled the trigger, while some of the footage has been caught on cellphone by witnesses and shared millions of times across the globe.
I saw what the Falcon Heights Police department did to 32-year-old Philando Castile in Falcon, Minnesota. Castile's dying moments were live-streamed on Facebook by his girlfriend, causing outrage, protests and harsh comments from the state's governor.
Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot and killed by Baton Rouge police on July 5. Sterling was selling CDs outside the store, as he had done for years, when he was murdered by police responding to a call of a man threatening someone with a gun.
Charles Kinsey, an unarmed black man was shot by North Miami police as he was trying to help a man with autism, even though he had his hands in the air and was laying on the ground, he still took a bullet in the leg. Cell phone footage captured the incident and luckily he lived to tell his story.
I know some people aren't too supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement and are quick to say "All Lives Matter" but let's be clear, not all lives are being murdered by police officers whose job is to "serve and protect". You might not agree with the tactics used by the supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement but instead of criticizing their antics, but try to understand their perspective and applauding their efforts to shed some much needed light on these issues with policing. We as Canadians have a reputation of being polite and passive, but when issues of injustice and arise, are you still willing to remain silent?
If all lives matter, we should all be standing with the black lives matter movement.


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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About AtheismQuotes about: Atheism
Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God.
It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?
Here I swear, and as I break my oath may ... eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge... Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again - I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.
I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met around the pile; The multitude was gazing silently; And as the culprit passed with dauntless mien, Tempered disdain in his unaltering eye, Mixed with a quiet smile, shone calmly forth; The thirsty fire crept round his manly limbs; His resolute eyes were scorched to blindness soon; His death-pang rent my heart! the insensate mob Uttered a cry of triumph, and I wept. Weep not, child! cried my mother, for that man Has said, 'There is no God.'
It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies.
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I'm afraid to do interviews with Salman: Katrina
Pretty woman? Yup, sure. Mrs Salman Khan some day? Not sure. Actress of calibre? Umm, let's see, it's possible. Cool conversationalist? Yes, yes. So, here's Katrina Kaif in conversation with Nikhil Taneja whose dil went dhak dhak dhak. Special: Yuvvraajentertainment Updated: Nov 20, 2008 15:25 IST
Pretty woman? Yup, sure. Mrs Salman Khan some day? Not sure. Actress of calibre? Umm, let's see, it's possible. Cool conversationalist? Yes, yes. So, here's Katrina Kaif in conversation with Nikhil Taneja whose dil went dhak dhak dhak.
Salman Khan has mellowed down. Are you responsible for that?
I don't think so. If he has mellowed down, that's wonderful. On occasion, the media can be (struggles to find the apt word) aggressive and write something hurtful. But at the end of the day, there's no need to be upset. I'm glad that he's more comfortable with the media.. because I think no one is against him.
How would you describe your chemistry with him?
(Pause) What do you mean?
I'm talking on screen, of course.
See, it's being said that Yuvvraaj is the first film in which we've been teamed romantically. But I would like to point out that I'm in the film 100 per cent because of Subhash Ghai.. and not because of the pairing, which is secondary. And yeah, I think the chemistry between us is very spontaneous. It doesn't look forced.
Has the off-screen chemistry helped in achieving that?
(Smiles) Since we've known each other for many years now, there's an equation. He's a very, very special person, you have to give him a lot of leeway, space and understanding. And that's exactly what I do when we work together as well.
He's even signed on Zarine Khan in Veer who looks like you.
(Laughs) Isn't that flattering? I think that's so sweet. I even helped her with her make-up during her screen test. She's a lovely girl and I hope she does very well.. though I don't think she looks like me. But if Salman misses me and wants to work with girls who look like me, that's so sweet.
You've said he is very unromantic.
I was speaking as someone who knows him, and not in an intimate way.
You were supposed to do all your interviews together, but now you are..
(Cuts in) No that wasn't the promotional strategy at all. I've always given interviews on my own. But yeah, we are doing a few interviews together for news channels in Delhi. Having said that, Salman's too unpredictable. (Laughs) I'm afraid to do interviews with him.. you never know what he'll end up saying.
Subhash Ghai has said that there's not much of a role for the female lead in Yuvvraaj.
Now, where did you get that? He's a legendary director and has a reputation for showcasing his heroines. I wanted that experience, even though I knew I wasn't the central character. (Laughs) Salman has pointed out too that Yuvraaj can't obviously be about me.
The critics had written you off as just a pretty face.. did that hurt?
I don't think I've faced an unreasonable amount of criticism. My initial goal was to do many commercial movies, so I could be well known in the interiors of India. I'll be experimenting with performance-based roles in 2009. I don't want the audience to just think that she dances well and looks pretty.
Priyanka Chopra has alluded to you.. without taking your name.. when she said she would rather be known for her performances than for giving seven hits.
(Smiles) I see everything in life with the glass half-full, not half-empty. If you think everyone wants to attack you personally, you'll be a very lonely and unhappy person. So I would like to think she wasn't talking about me.
Have you come to terms with catfights?
Most of these are egged on by the media. I didn't come in with a big launch film which shot me to the top immediately. I had to take baby steps, and now I'm being offered good work..so I'm very happy.
You did the Temptations tour with Shah Rukh Khan. Did you discuss the Salman Khan fight with him?
No, of course not. He's a thorough professional…we did a great show together. In fact, it was the first time I went on stage without getting the jitters.
Have you tried to resolve the issue between them?
I don't know, baba. This isn't about me.. it's about Salman and Shah Rukh. I know Salman for many years but I don't control him. (Smiles) I don't even have control over him. It's a matter he has to sort out on his own.
Has the recession affected your price?
No, not yet. I don't think it will either, since I didn't over-inflate my price.
Are you aware that Bipasha Basu will be paid a higher fee that you for performing at a hotel on New Year's eve?
To be honest, this game is very silly and childish. Very, very childish. I don't like it. I have six sisters and several responsibilities. I have to make decisions which secure my future. If someone gets less money, more money or the same money, good for her. It's not a game. I don't care who is getting paid what. I don't care who is doing what.
Is it possible to sustain yourself in Bollywood with such an enclosed attitude?
Why not? I'm not Mother Teresa. I have my insecurities and problems like any normal person. I won't sustain myself anywhere by pulling others down.
Arbaaz Khan is producing a movie in which he wanted to cast you opposite Salman Khan. It's rumoured that Malaika Arora-Khan wasn't happy about this.
That's probably the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I can't think of one reason why she'd have a problem with me.
You seem to know how to discourage controversies.
Why would I want to encourage controverises? A lot of people have asked me how I manage to stay out of drama in my personal life. It's because I want to avoid drama at any cost.
Okay, you've sent your sister Isabel for an acting course to New York. Has she expressed interest in Bollywood?
I haven't sent her.. she wanted to go, I just helped her to get admission. It's a wonderful opportunity for her. She doesn't know what she wants to do.. she may try her luck in Hollywood as well.
Do any of your other five sisters want to act too?
(Laughs) No, they are all very settled in their respective fields. They have absolutely no interest in all this. Isabel is the only one who likes being around here.
It's rumoured that you want to marry after you finish your current assignments.
That's ridiculous. That's people talking nonsense, as they usually do. I have six films on hand. I've agreed to do four more movies.. so it will take me a while to finish them.
Will you ever talk openly about your relationship with Salman Khan?
(Smiles) Never.
First Published: Nov 19, 2008 12:09 IST