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I am writing this article to protect the members of the Iphone Dev Team whose hours and hours of hard work and dedication to the iPhone are being stolen and sold for profit by an evil online company called AutomaticIphoneUnlocker.com. If you have ever searched anything related to the iPhone, chances are you have seen an ad from this company (posted by Google Ads) claiming they have software to jailbreak and/or unlock your iPhone.
If you go to the website, the company claims that they have "software" that you can access for a one time fee of $29.99 for a lifetime membership. However, that is where the truth ends. If you fall for the trap like I did, you will discover (once you have parted with your $29.99 from your PayPal account) that the members area is filled with links to the software put out by Geohot and The iPhone Dev Team, as well as instructions based on the instructions provided by them.
Being an iPhonephile, I have become very adept at using the iPhone and love the possibilities that have opened up with the limitations by Apple being lifted. I for one really appreciate the work of the iPhone Dev Team and the fact they have chosen to give their software out for free.
At the time I bought my 3GS, the Dev Team had chosen not to publish the new exploit found in OS 3.0 to avoid further cat and mouse games knowing a 3.01 was well underway. I kept seeing the ads for the proprietary jailbreak software for sale, and decided I would try it since they claimed to be able to jailbreak the 3GS. That's when I shockingly discovered the truth about automaticiphoneunlocker.com.
They lied outright on their webpage by saying it was "their" software, and mislead me by publishing images of a software box. What's worse is they even lied about having a solution for the 3GS which was something they so clearly documented on their webpage.
When I tried to get a refund, I was told the software would be available soon. I wrote a few times insisting on a refund due to the fraudulent statements on the website. I never heard back once I had called them out on the lies. I asked for my money back through PayPal explaining to them exactly what was going on, and they actually ruled for the company in their mediation process. It makes me think that PayPal may be tied in with the scam given that a Paypal ID is required to access the membership area. The site even has the audacity to publish the number of new memberships sold daily.
It boggles my mind this company still exists and has not been shut down for their fraudulent advertising and product. I am writing this article in the hopes that people who google iPhone jailbreak or unlock will see this and read it. I want to save other people their money, and really hope Geohot and the iPhone Dev Team find out and slap these criminals with a fat lawsuit! If you love your Jailbroken iPhone as much as I do, spread the word and let's keep these creeps from banking off the work done by those who gave it to you.
I purchased an 8 GB 3g iPhone and am a T-Mobile user. I knew I had to unlock the phone but didn't know where to start. I thought that I would try AutoIphoneUnlocker.com because they offered 24/7 support and a full refund if I was unable to unlock my phone using their program.
After reading all the 5 star reviews that stated users were able to unlock their phone within minutes, I made the purchase and sat down with my computer and phone to start the process. The process actually took me several hours to download the software (I have a new Dell Inspiron 1720 and 16 meg high speed cable internet so I know it wasn't from my end) and get through the process.
I did send 2 email to technical support in the process and did receive responses fairly quickly (within the 4 hour window they promise). However, when all was said and done, I still have a locked iPhone that I cannot use another provider's sim card in. I restored all factory settings and tried again. A total of 4 times later, nothing has changed. So I decided to get my "no hassle" refund.
The only way to contact them is via a "contact us" form on their site. I filled this out and never received a response. I just sent my 5th refund request to them since within the past 3 weeks and still have not received a single email back. I tried to escalate it through PayPal but there was nothing they could do. So I am out 29.99 and unable to use my phone and am getting no help from AutoIphoneUnlocker.com. Please find another more reliable provider for your iPhone assistance so you can save yourself the time and money.


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While convenience and safe storage are the primary and secondary selling points for the Honeywell SecuraDrive FM-HWS80U2, many users are also insist on high-speed performance. In our tests we have already confirmed that the SecuraDrive fits perfectly into small pockets, and the software offers excellent first-line security. Now it's time for Benchmark Reviews to compare this miniature hard disk drive to it's rival: the USB flash drive.
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Since consumers have the decision to choose either an external hard disk drive or USB flash drive, sometimes the decision rests on performance more than anything else. Benchmark Reviews has compared the Honeywell SecuraDrive against the largest USB flash drive we could find.
Tested all on its own, the 80GB Honeywell SecuraDrive sustains a relatively solid 28 MBps for the first 63 GB of disk. After that point, the sustained read and write speed tapers to around 21 MBps. This isn't all too bad, and the 29.4 MBps burst speed is respectable as well.
Next up was the OCZ Rally2 USB flash drive. The read speed was a steady 30.8 MBps, but the write speed was a miserable 13.4 MBps despite a few intermittent performance spikes. The 32.9 MBps burst isn't a great as I would have expected from a dual-channel flash-based device, especially since it is the latest and greatest technology available.
Compared side by side, the average read speed on the Honeywell SecuraDrive is 27.2 MBps against the Rally2's 30.8 MBps; almost no perceivable difference in real-world performance there. The read burst speed was also similar, with the SecuraDrive performing at 29.4 to the Rally2's 32.9 MBps; again, these results are relatively identical. The biggest difference is also the most important, and that comes with the write speed performance. With a pathetic 13.4 MBos read speed recorded by the 32GB OCZ Rally2 USB flash drive, the Honeywell FM-HWS80U2 dominates write-to performance with 27.0 MBps. With all things being otherwise equal, the SecuraDrive proves to hold a distinct performance advantage over the very best USB flash drives available.

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Dwayne Johnson's Hercules Gets an August 2014 Release Date
When it comes to iconic, buff characters who spend a good deal of their time wearing loincloths and going on epic journeys, you can't get much more old-school than Hercules. And when it comes to portraying them on the big screen, perhaps nobody's better suited than Dwayne Johnson. Now, those who have been eager to see the WWE champion turned action hero bring the demi-god to life have a specific date to circle on their calendars.
Paramount Pictures and MGM have set Aug. 8, 2014 for the release of Brett Ratner's Hercules, based on the 2008 Radical Publishing miniseries by Steve Moore and Admira Wijaya. The story follows the Greek hero and his six battle-worn companions as they're called upon by the Thracian king to train his army. But in Thrace Hercules and his band of lost souls discover how far they've fallen and what it will take to travel the path to redemption. The comic has a different tone than, say, Clash of the Titans, as it's set in a world where the supernatural doesn't exist.
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NBC Sports presents the first-ever primetime game featuring opponents with records of 6-0 or better, as Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers (6-0) visit Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos (6-0) at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver on NBC's "Sunday Night Football." Coverage begins with "Football Night In America" - the most-watched weekly studio show in sports - at 7 p.m. ET this Sunday, Nov. 1.
Rodgers and Manning are the only two quarterbacks in NFL history to average at least two touchdown passes per game, with Rodgers leading (2.08; 241 touchdowns in 116 games) and Manning second (2.05; 537 touchdowns in 262 games). Defensively, the Packers have allowed a league-low 16.8 points per game, while the Broncos defense ranks second at 17 points per game. The teams also rank first and second in quarterback sacks, with the Broncos racking up 26 and the Packers close behind with 23.
Manning and Rodgers have faced each other just once before in their careers, with Green Bay winning 24-14 against the Manning-led Indianapolis Colts at Lambeau Field in 2008. The two quarterbacks have combined to win five of the past seven NFL MVP awards.
Packers-Broncos concludes a stretch of three consecutive "SNF" matchups featuring at least one undefeated team - a first this late in the season in the 10 years of NBC's coverage. The 6-0 Patriots defeated the Colts 34-27 Oct. 18, and the 6-0 Panthers defeated the Eagles 27-16 Sunday.
Calling Packers-Broncos are seven-time Emmy Award-winner Al Michaels (play-by-play), in his record 30th season as the voice of the NFL's premier primetime package; 16-time Emmy Award-winner Cris Collinsworth, who has won the Emmy for Outstanding Event Analyst in each of his six seasons in the "SNF" booth; and two-time Emmy Award-winning sideline reporter Michele Tafoya.


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Everyone needs to have a good sleep. Cause good sleep will lead you to a better health and more productive as human. But there are some people out there, who don't have a good sleep, because maybe, they sleep on uncomfortable bed yet still not do anything about that. They complain about backache or stiff body in the morning and still sleep on the flat beds and mattresses.
There are so many adjustable beds on the market out there. There is no point in keeping your old mattresses, it's not that worth it especially if that continues to worsen your health. In line with so many complain about sleeping problems, the experts made a research and create electric adjustable beds. The question is, will it really work as they promised?
Let's see how the adjustable beds are different with the flat beds. It said when you sleep in flat beds, your body is in tension. Our body has curve, so sleep in flat position in fact make our body is in tension. With adjustable beds, you can adjust the incline angle. Your neck will be in a proper position. Then, if you use memory foam mattresses, then you wont need to adjust your bed cause it will adjust to your body so your body will lie in natural position. This can reduce your back pain , shoulder tension, neck pain or pelvic aches significantly.
Also adjustable beds help you to overcome the swollen legs and feet. You can slightly elevate the part of adjustable bed under your legs then your blood circulation will increase. Besides, asthma patients reported breathing much easier since they can adjust the incline angle of their upper body.
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Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus has remained silent on the ongoing controversy surrounding the Mississippi Republican primary for U.S. Senate. Several RNC committee members, Tea Party leaders, and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz are calling for an investigation into the race baiting tactics that took place during the primary. Indeed, Missouri GOP state chairman Ed […]Read Story


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About 25 demonstrators took a protest of U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf to downtown's evening rush hour yesterday.
The demonstrators, part of the newly formed Baltimore Area Coalition to Stop U.S. Intervention in the Middle East, gathered on the corner of Baltimore and St. Paul streets at 5:30 p.m.
Chanting "Bush, Bush, we won't go, we won't fight for Texaco," they held up signs for rush-hour traffic and handed out a brochure promoting another demonstration at Lexington Mall on Oct. 6.
Most pedestrians avoided the group. Several who stopped to chat with demonstrators said they still supported U.S. intervention in the Middle East. "But for the U.S. presence, I think Saudi Arabia might have been invaded," said Kenneth X. Warren, a Baltimore lawyer.


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April is National Garden Month, and for the fifth year in a row, National Gardening Association is asking every gardener to participate in and celebrate gardening during this month. We're particularly interested in having more kids learn the joys of gardening.
To celebrate National Garden Month this year NGA has teamed up with Keep America Beautiful and Scotts Miracle-Gro Company to produce the 30 Days of Green calendar and contest. This colorful poster highlights daily gardening activities you can do with kids in your classroom and at home. The activities range from tree planting to growing your state flower to packing a litter-free lunch at school.
There is also a Learning Garden Contest where schools can win an outdoor learning garden, indoor garden, or garden kits. Teachers submit students' essays describing what green space means to them and how they would use a learning garden at their school. One grand-prize-winning classroom will receive an outdoor garden valued at $10,000. Fifteen first-prize-winning classrooms will receive an indoor garden valued at $400. Thirty second-prize-winning classrooms will receive gardening kits valued at $200. The deadline is April 23rd.
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Does it really matter what a woman chooses to wear?
In our post-sexual-revolution world, skimpy dresses, mini-skirts, tiny bikinis, low-rise pants, and lowcut shirts have become part of the mainstream attire for women today. And anyone who might raise questions about the appropriateness of such dress is viewed as "rigid," "old fashioned," or "out of touch" with modern style. Modesty is no longer a part of our culture's vocabulary. Though most people sense they wouldn't want their own daughters dressing like Madonna and Britney Spears, few have the courage to bring up the topic of modesty, and even fewer know what to say if they did.
John Paul II-then Karol Wojtyla- in his book Love and Responsibility, offers much needed wisdom on the nature of modesty and how dressing modestly is crucial for strengthening our relationships with the opposite sex.
This helps us understand one of the most powerful experiences of shame: sexual shame. Why do human persons tend to conceal body parts associated with sexuality? Why do men and women instinctively cover themselves quickly if someone of the opposite sex accidentally walks in on them while they are changing their clothes or going to the bathroom? Wojtyla explains that this tendency to conceal those parts of the body that make it male or female is itself not the essence of shame, but a manifestation of a deeper tendency to conceal the sexual values themselves, "particularly in so far as they constitute in the mind of a particular person 'a potential object of enjoyment' for persons of the other sex" (p. 176).
For example, a woman may instinctively sense that if certain parts of her body are exposed, a man might view her merely for her sexual values as an object of pleasure. Indeed, those particular parts of her body reveal her sexual values so perfully that a man can be drawn primarily not to her true value as a person, but to her sexual values which give him sensual pleasure in his glances and imagination.
That is why we tend to veil the sexual values connected with particular parts of the body-not because they are bad, but because they can overshadow the greater value of the person. Wojtyla thus says sexual shame is "a natural form of selfdefense for the person" (p. 182). It helps prevent the person from being treated as an object of enjoyment. Thus, the concealing of sexual values through modesty of dress is meant to provide the arena in which something much more than a mere sensual reaction might take place. Modesty of dress helps protect interactions between the sexes from falling into utilitarianism, and thus creates the possibility of authentic love for the person to develop.
The need for shame has been absorbed by mature love for a person: it is no longer necessary for a lover to conceal from the beloved or from himself a disposition to enjoy, since this has been absorbed by true love ruled by the will. Affirmation of the value of the person so thoroughly permeates all the sensual and emotional reactions connected with the sexual values that the will is not threatened by a utilitarian outlook. (p. 184)
This kind of trust, however, can only be found fully in betrothed love. Only in a healthy, thriving marriage is shame absorbed by love in this way. That's why we want to dress modestly when we are with members of the opposite sex to whom we are not married. Outside the context of betrothed love, we must be careful with the unveiling of sexual values or else we will set ourselves up to be used by the opposite sex.
But here some women may object: "Why is it my responsibility to dress modestly? If a man struggles with lustful thoughts, that's his problem, not mine." But this objection misses Wojtyla's point. The purpose of modesty is not merely to help prevent men from stumbling into impure thoughts. Modesty of dress is primarily meant to protect the woman herself. It helps keep the woman from being treated as an object for sexual pleasure.
Wojtyla offers two important insights that help make sense of this. On one hand, we must remember that human beings are fallen. Thus, it is not easy for us to avoid a utilitarian attitude when we see the body of the opposite sex. The attitude of "I shouldn't have to worry about how I dress-that's the man's problem" naively fails to take original sin seriously. As Wojtyla explains, "Man, alas, is not such a perfect being that the sight of the body of another person . . . can arouse in him merely a disinterested liking which develops into an innocent affection. In practice it also arouses concupiscence, or a wish to enjoy concentrated on sexual values with no regard for the value of the person" (p. 190). As a result of original sin, the human will "too readily accepts the sensual reaction and reduces another person . . . to the role of an object for enjoyment" (p. 191). And when this happens, Wojtyla calls it "depersonalization by sexualization." The woman is not viewed for who she is as a person. She is reduced to a potential object for sexual pleasure. Modesty of dress helps women to avoid being depersonalized in this way.
On the other hand, Wojtyla goes on to remind us that men struggle with sensuality a lot more than women. Therefore, it is not surprising that women may have difficulty understanding what really constitutes modest dress, for sensuality is not as strong in them as it is in men. "Since a woman does not find in herself the sensuality of which a man as a rule cannot but be aware in himself she does not feel so great a need to conceal 'the body as a potential object of enjoyment'" (p. 177). Consequently, women often don't realize that a certain way of acting or dressing may actually be immodest. And they may have absolutely no idea that the way they are dressing may be setting themselves up to be viewed by a man as a mere object for sexual pleasure. "Very often, a woman does not regard a particular way of dressing as shameless . . . although some man, or indeed many men, may find it so" (p. 189).
Consider what often happens when a man is staring at a woman lustfully and she notices it. As soon as he is caught, he quickly turns his eyes away because he feels ashamed of what he was doing. He does not want his utilitarian attitude toward her to be exposed. He knows he shouldn't treat a woman that way and he immediately looks away.
But dressing immodestly hinders the possibilities for true love to develop, for it draws attention to her sexual values to such an extent that it overshadows her value as a person. In other words, a woman dressing immodestly may deliberately elicit a sexual reaction to her body. And she may attract men to view her body as an object of enjoyment. But she doesn't inspire men to love her as a person.
Here we see that modesty of dress is about so much more than helping men avoid falling into sin. And it is not simply a "defensive reflex" protecting women from being used. In the end, modesty is about inspiring a reaction to the value of the person-not just to the sexual values. As Wojtyla explains, "sexual modesty is not a flight from love, but on the contrary the opening of a way towards it. The spontaneous need to conceal mere sexual values bound up with the person is the natural way to the discovery of the value of the person as such" (p. 179).
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Looking at the CA Death Index 1940-1997 at www.vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search there is a Elpida Vardas b. Nov. 15, 1893-Other Country d. March 30, 1975 in Santa Cruz Co. no father's or mother's surnames.
SSA Death Index has Elpinda Vardas b. Nov 1889 d. March 1975 Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co. CA
1930 CA Census Santa Cruz Co. Santa Cruz:
Vardas, Antone E. b. 1882 in Greece parents Greece
wife, Elpida K. b. 1898 in Greece parents Greece
dau, Katherine A. b. 1918 in CA parents Greece
dau, Maria A. b. 1923 b. CA, parents Greece
Antone listed immigrated to US 1905 Naturaized Alien (NA)occupation Waiter for Resturant
Elpida listed immigrated to US 1916 NA
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dau Katherine age 2 yrs 4 mos b. CA/Greece/Greece.
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Pop star Justin Bieber was left nursing a neck injury on Sunday (23Jun13) after falling down a flight of stairs.
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This K99/R00 career development award proposal (Intersection of Pain and Ethanol-Seeking Mechanisms in Ethanol Dependence) incorporates themes related to neuronal mechanisms I have investigated in the past, including the regulation of in vivo intracellular signaling and compulsive drug taking and drug-seeking behaviors, using models of drug dependence in rats. These studies were conducted with the support of individual NRSA awards at both pre- and postdoctoral levels.
The aim of this proposal is to incorporate new training in neurochemistry (in vivo microdialysis) and nociceptive behavioral techniques, and to integrate the use of a comparative species (mice), to complement and enrich this background. I feel that this combination of new techniques (learned during the K99 phase) applied to the investigation of pain and ethanol-seeking behaviors will provide valuable insight into alcohol dependence, and, when combined with the personalized mentoring provided by Drs. Parsons and Koob within an environment as rich as The Scripps Research Institute, will greatly facilitate my transition to an independent research career during the R00 phase. The research development plan is conducted in accordance with the TSRI postdoctoral office's Individual Development Plan (IDP) program, and includes specialized training elements serving both immediate and long-term goals related to such topics as grantsmanship, effective scientific communication, and ethics. The main research objective of the current proposal is to investigate the convergence of central nociceptive and ethanol-seeking biobehavioral mechanisms in promoting and/or maintaining the ethanol-dependent state. Based on previous data from both pain- and ethanol-related fields, I hypothesize a specific role for increased endogenous cannabinoid activity and associated MAP kinase signaling potentiation in the anterior cingulate cortex in mediating this intersection, and further hypothesize that chronic pain states facilitate the transition from ethanol use to dependence via this mechanism. I propose an innovative experimental strategy that combines highly relevant behavioral techniques with comparative in vivo measures of neurotransmitter levels and intracellular signaling spanning from the extracellular space to the nucleus, including measures of both pre- and postsynaptic protein phosphorylation. Experiments conducted during the R00 phase will build on K99 phase work, and should provide a substantial base for my future investigations into the biobehavioral mechanisms of alcohol dependence. A better understanding of the relationship between chronic ethanol exposure, altered nociception, and compulsive ethanol seeking will provide further insight into mechanisms underlying the transition from recreational alcohol use to alcoholism, as well as reveal new treatment opportunities.
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|Park, Paula E; Schlosburg, Joel E; Vendruscolo, Leandro F et al. (2015) Chronic CRF1 receptor blockade reduces heroin intake escalation and dependence-induced hyperalgesia. Addict Biol 20:275-84
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|Vendruscolo, Leandro F; Estey, David; Goodell, Vivian et al. (2015) Glucocorticoid receptor antagonism decreases alcohol seeking in alcohol-dependent individuals. J Clin Invest 125:3193-7
|Whitaker, Annie M; Gilpin, Nicholas W; Edwards, Scott (2014) Animal models of post-traumatic stress disorder and recent neurobiological insights. Behav Pharmacol 25:398-409
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ROME — Pope Benedict XVI had a surprise guest at the Easter Vigil: A prominent Italian Muslim who had spent a year preparing to enter the Catholic Church.
Magdi Allam, 56, was baptized March 22 in the globally televised Easter Vigil at St. Peter's Basilica.
In the tense dialogue between Christians and Muslims, his personal statement of faith was misinterpreted by some as a provocative political maneuver.
But Allam told the Register that he, not the co-religionists he left behind, knows best why he converted to the Catholic faith.
Allam was born in Cairo and attended Catholic schools. He says he remembers being interested in the Catholic faith as early in his life as age 4. Though they didn't try to convert him, he said, the formation by the Salesians and Comboni sisters helped him "become aware of the reality of religion, it allowed me to share in the lives of Catholic religious and lay figures, to read the Bible and the Gospels, to attend Mass."
He moved to Italy in 1972 at age 20 and has lived there since. In recent years, he said, "two experiences accelerated my path" to conversion.
"The first was five years ago when I found myself escorted under armed guard because of threats from extremists and Islamic terrorists," said Allam. "This situation forced me to reflect not only on the reality of Islamic extremism, but also Islam as a religion."
The second experience was the opportunity to encounter ordinary Catholics — and one extraordinary one, Pope Benedict XVI himself.
"I am proud to have been one of the few Muslims in Italy working for a national newspaper who stood firm in defending the Pope after his discourse in Regensburg on Sept. 12, 2006," said Allam. "I didn't only defend him in the name of freedom of expression, I also defended the content of what he said, believing that it corresponded to the truth on a historical and scientific level."
The Holy Father's speech stressed the importance of reason and opposed violence in religion. He said his plans to be baptized by the Pope coalesced about a year ago when he began a preparation course with Bishop Rino Fisichella, rector of Rome's Pontifical Lateran University.
Aref Ali Nayed is a spokesman for the 138 Muslim scholars who initiated the Common Word dialogue project in October and who established the Catholic-Muslim Forum for dialogue with the Vatican in early March.
Nayed questioned Pope Benedict XVI's decision to baptize Allam in such a public way.
"It is sad that the intimate and personal act of a religious conversion is made into a triumphalist tool for scoring points," Nayed said. "It is sad that the particular person chosen for such a highly public gesture has a history of generating, and continues to generate, hateful discourse."
Allam says that this is far from the truth.
"I wasn't sought out," he said, "that wouldn't have been possible. No, and I never thought for a moment when I decided to become a Catholic that such a positive thing could happen. "
To Allam, the controversy about his conversion reveals a deadly double standard.
"I am really baffled that they consider the baptism of a Muslim to Christianity a provocation, and that the image of the Pope baptizing a Muslim should make this fact even more serious," he said. "It's as if some think the baptism of a Muslim is something shameful, so much so that they'd have preferred it if I was baptized in a distant parish, away from the people, because it's better that people don't know about it. I am proud to be a convert to Catholicism and to have publicly affirmed it in a solemn way."
He said in Europe, there are thousands who have converted to Islam and "no one says anything. No one is allowed to criticize them, or threaten them, but if just one Muslim converts to Christianity, immediately he is sentenced to death for apostasy. That's happening now in Europe — not in Saudi Arabia. If we in Europe are not at the stage of defending religious liberty, including the right of a Muslim to convert to the Christian religion or any other faith, then I'd say we have lost our battle for civilization and liberty."
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Allam is in a unique position to see the Muslim-Christian conflict. On the one hand, he was until recently known as a voice within Islam calling for moderation. On the other, he now must take security precautions because he feels threatened by Muslims angry at him for converting.
"I am convinced there are moderate Muslims, that there are Muslims who share rules that allow for coexistence," he said. "People are not automatic products of the dogmas of their faith; they're not like fruits of a tree. In reality, people are more complex. Each person is different, has his own particular relationship with his religion that can be more or less intense."
"We have to distinguish between persons and religions" he said.
"Islam is a religion that has always been plural because it's had within it a myriad of souls. But as a religion it's never been pluralistic, it's not been democratic."
He said "war is internal to Islam. … It's enough to think that three of the four successors of Muhammad were assassinated by Muslims because they were contrary to the way they considered Islam, their way of exercising power."
But is Islam doomed to repeat that future? Can it change?
"I don't want to put limits on Providence, but as a Muslim of 56 years, I couldn't be sure of the possibility of internal reform in Islam, that it could fully render itself compatible with the values and principles that I consider inalienable and inviolable."
The best hope, he said, is for coexistence.
Allam must now deal with one consequence of his action: Anger by people who share his concerns about Islamic extremism but nonetheless fear that by being baptized in the way he was, he will provoke attacks on Christians.
But Allam said that this attitude is based in part on a misunderstanding.
"We should free ourselves from the common assumption that the violence of extremism and Islamic terrorism is reactive, that is to say, it's due to provocation and is incited," he said.
He cited the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 to characterize Islamic terrorism as "aggressive" rather than defensive. Osama Bin Laden acted without provocation.
"It was an act of war, an act of aggression against the United States," he said. "Today, Christians in the Middle East, Muslim countries, in Iraq, are being slaughtered. They're being persecuted in Egypt, Algeria, Sudan and Lebanon. All of these things haven't happened because they were provoked by the Pope. They kill them because they consider the use of violence to be legitimate against all those who do not resemble them."
Rather than reacting to events, terrorists strike where they will and make up reasons as they wish, he said.
"They manipulate events to say: 'It's the fault of the Pope, it's the fault of Magdi Allam,' and because of that, we can behave in a certain way. But they're already doing it: Since 1945, around 10 million Christians abandoned the Middle East. In the countries on the southern shores of the eastern Mediterranean, there were 1 million Jews; today there are about 1,000. All this happened because of the reality of intolerance and violence towards those who are not Muslim."
Osama Bin Laden released a threatening message that mentioned the Pope a few days before Easter. Will the coincidence make his conversion look like part of a crusade?
Allam refused to even consider the question.
"Bin Laden is the ideological head of a globalized Islamic terrorist network," he said. "We are talking about a criminal, the most hunted man on earth, who has massacred thousands of people, a man who legitimized the indiscriminate killing of all people who do not submit to his power. We cannot in any way legitimize such a person and consider him in negotiations. The Pope hasn't launched a crusade."
To Allam, the baptism says something quite different about Pope Benedict.
"He has put faith and reason before other diplomatic and political considerations," said Allam. "I believe the Pope in this circumstance has shown himself to be a great Pope because he has set himself above the fray."
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He and his fiancee backward in the aforementioned accommodation as Grütter, at the Watermark Seaport in Boston, in which an Ori arrangement is installed. Ori, the company, rents this accommodation through Airbnb as a pilot to accumulate acknowledgment about the arrangement from users.
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Today's adolescent ancestors appetite to alive downtown, but that comes with a banking challenge. Either they accept a lot of money or they alive in a bastille cell, he said.
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Larrea, 29, was a Massachusetts Institute of Technology apprentice from San Sebastian, in Basque Country, Spain, from 2011 to 2015, belief automated engineering and design. While there, he led a apprentice analysis activity with abettor Kent Larson in the MIT Media Lab, a artistic hub of engineers, architects, magicians, doctors and artists whose synergy inspires them to dream up new account about hot capacity in today's society.
Robotic appliance was his team's idea. "In 2015, my aggregation of four and I absitively we'd done abundant research, and it was time to circuit out our abstraction and accompany it into the bazaar with the advice of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center," Larrea said.
He looked for developers with an artistic mind-set and alertness to booty a risk. Added than 10 beyond the country and one in Canada active on. "They absolutely got it. They saw the abeyant and absitively to accompany the pilot program," Larrea said.
Next year, the aggregation will install 500 to 1,000 units beyond the United States and Canada. "They won't be prototypes but the absolute thing," he said. Bodies will be able to hire or buy apartments with the Ori system. The aggregation isn't yet affairs anon to consumers.
Valor Development in the District was one of the aboriginal to install Ori in one apartment. It's in the Vintage, an 85-unit rental architecture on 16th Street NW in Mount Pleasant.
When you airing into an Ori studio, you see a absolutely outfitted kitchen on one wall, table and chairs, couch and an affected copse credenza with shelves, drawers and TV screen. So there's a active allowance and dining area. But, you ask, breadth is the bedroom?
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Press a button on the blow pad adhered to the credenza, and you'll acquaintance the magic.
Walls alpha moving. A bed glides out of one ancillary of the credenza accessible for you to bang bottomward for a nap or night's sleep. You're now in bedchamber mode. The active room, on the added ancillary of the credenza, has become smaller, although still adequate for a couch-sleeping guest.
Next morning, you advance addition button or acquaint Alexa, Amazon's articulation assistant, to ask Ori to abutting the bed and move into closet mode. The bed slides partially aback into the credenza, and a applicant closet emerges.
The credenza transforms into several appliance pieces, with altered functions alms assorted uses of the space.
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● Beef is the atramentous clue forth the baseboard that's acquainted into a accepted electric outlet. It admiral the furniture's movement.
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● Skin is the copse or coat acclimated to accomplish the credenza.
The credenza looks like an accustomed allotment of furniture, yet it provides solutions to the best accepted complaints of flat renters — not actuality able to bisect the amplitude or adumbrate the bed, and abridgement of storage.
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The aggregation installed Ori in one assemblage of the Eugene, an 844-unit, 62-floor rental architecture on West 31st Street. "People can get a faculty of how they would use it and how they could transform the space," she said. The assemblage is accessible for accessible examination through the building's leasing office, or you can set up an arrangement through theeugenenyc.com.
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Beef Egg Rolls
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READY IN:1hr 20mins
YIELD:40 egg rolls
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 lb lean ground beef
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 head green cabbage, shredded
- 2 medium carrots, grated
- 4 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon sambal oelek chili paste
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, grated
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 3 green onions, sliced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil or 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 (14 ounce) package spring roll wrappers
- 1⁄2 cup frying oil
- water or beaten egg, to seal the egg rolls
- Heat oil in pan.
- Add chopped onion, cook until translucent.
- Add ground beef, let brown for 1-2 minutes.
- Add salt, pepper, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, sambal and allow to cook for 10-15 minutes.
- Add cabbage and cook for another 5-10 minutes.
- Add carrots and keep cooking until all liquid dries up.
- Add green onions and lemon juice. Stir in and turn off heat after a minute.
- Allow the filling to cool a little bit and use a little more than a tablespoon of filling for each spring roll.
- Follow the package directions on rolling the egg rolls.
- "Seal" the wrapper by brushing with water or beaten egg.
- Fry until golden brown.
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The Harris County Sheriff's Office was called to a home in the 14600 block of Waldine near Marwood, in the Cloverleaf area, at about 11:30am.
Deputies learned that a man had been kidnapped from a horse ranch on W. Cedar Bayou Lynchburg where he works. Authorities say he was taken at gunpoint by four Hispanic suspects.
The suspects drove the victim to his house on Waldine. There, the suspects tied up the victim's wife and his 23-year-old son and demanded money. When the family was not able to give them money, the suspects beat the victim and his son. They also used a hand held Taser on all the victims, including a four-year-old child.
Two of the suspects then fled with victim in his truck. The two other suspects fled on foot.
Moments later, deputies learned that the victim had been able to escape from the suspects and was on his way back home with a family member.
All four suspects remain at large. The victim's truck is described as a Ford F-350, maroon in color.
Anyone with information about the suspects' whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
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nice concept, challenging, yet not impossibly so. and for some reason i find the soundtrack hauntingly beautiful.
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Nice game
nice concept, challenging, yet not impossibly so. and for some reason i find the soundtrack hauntingly beautiful.
game is a waste of time
game isn't fun one single bit
this game is unnecessarily difficult!
first of all, the puzzles get tough enough to figure out near the end... but then you have to throw TONS of useless crap on screen like countless explosions and smoke that fills the screen and makes it lag like hell... i literally cannot even tap my arrow keys without the cloud moving halfway across the screen when it lags like that.
i know it isnt my keyboard, because it doesnt do that when things ARENT lagging...
next, im on stage 14 and... i literally cannot do anything, not so much lag being the problem, but its EVERYTHING ELSE!
i can not touch even ONE thing on screen without my cloud vanishing... hell, one time I DIDNT TOUCH ANYTHING AT ALL! and my clouds just POOFED away!
what the hell is with that? i didnt see ANYTHING touch me, and i wasnt moving... my cloud just died...
you need to go back and fix this BS... its impossible to complete because of the AIR ITSELF being deadly to you!
Yet strangely addicting.
Nice work, love the concept and artwork.
Another "Art" game with no gaming interest whatsoever on NG...


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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Parks and Trails Division is amending the master plan for the Matthew Lourey State Trail to add all-terrain vehicle (ATV) and off-highway motorcycle (OHM) use to four separate segments of the trail located within the Nemadji and St. Croix state forests.
DNR staff will discuss the plan amendment, answer questions and accept comments at an informal open house Thursday, March 8, between 6 and 8 p.m. at the Rutledge Community Center, 7369 Highway 61, Rutledge (about 95 miles north of the Twin Cities and about 60 miles south of Duluth).
The Matthew Lourey State Trail Master Plan Amendment proposes to:
- Add Class I and Class II ATV and OHM use to four separate segments of the trail (approximately 23 miles) in the Nemadji and St. Croix state forests to connect with other segments already open for such uses, resulting in a combined total of approximately 47 miles of continuous ATV/OHM trail.
- Allow winter ATV use on the trail, which would involve ATVs sharing the groomed trail corridor with snowmobiles in the Nemadji and St. Croix state forests; there is potential to create an 80-mile winter ATV loop trail by connecting with the Gandy Dancer Trail to the east, where winter ATV and snowmobile use is allowed.
"The proposed changes will provide sustainable, high-quality motorized recreational opportunities along the existing trail corridor, and provide additional connectivity to other motorized trails within the Nemadji and St. Croix state forests," said Joe Alberio, district supervisor, DNR Parks and Trails Division.
No ATV or OHM use is proposed for Matthew Lourey State Trail segments within St. Croix State Park, and no new trail segments are proposed for development as part of this amendment.
The Matthew Lourey State Trail (formerly known as the Willard Munger State Trail – East and Boundary Trail segment) is a multi-use trail with natural and gravel surfaces. It is developed for approximately 80 miles, from Holyoke Township in southern Carlton County to Chengwatana Township in southern Pine County. It is located primarily on DNR lands, with a few county and township segments. At its northern end, the trail enters Nemadji State Forest just east of Holyoke, and passes through St. Croix State Forest and St. Croix State Park en route to Chengwatana State Forest at its southern end. The entire trail is open to snowmobiling, with some short segments open for ATVs and OHMs.
The Matthew Lourey State Trail Amendment Draft is available online.
Comments will be accepted through March 30.
For more information or to comment on the proposed plan amendment, contact: Diane Anderson, principal planner, DNR Parks and Trails Division, 651-259-5614, email@example.com or Joe Alberio, district supervisor, DNR Parks and Trails Division, 218-485-5410, email@example.com. Written comments may also be mailed to Diane Anderson, DNR Parks and Trails, 500 Lafayette Road, St. Paul, MN 55155-4039.


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Have you got extremely bored with your over-hectic schedule? Are you planning for a sea-side recreation? The mesmeric beach in Digha will enthrall you to the fullest. Have a weekend blast with your nearest ones at the amazing beach in Digha and trust me, you will not repent the idea!
Digha is one of the oldest beaches in the country and is located in the East Midnapore district of West Bengal. So, if you so want to take an ideal escape from the daily humdrums of your city life, or in Thomas Hardy's words '….from the Madding Crowd', Digha can be the best place to opt for.
Few tips to remember while you are out on a relaxing trip to Digha:
- Plan on packing the luggage
- List all the items to be packed
- Take all the essential medicines
- Carry a good amount of shampoo and bathing bar
- Visit any local tour operator
- Use roll technique. Keeping your clothes in roll format will give you more space.
- Carry some snacks
- Also don't forget to carry a separate beach bag
- Take flashlights or torches
Now, if you are looking for Digha hotels, here is a list of few things that you should consider before you opt for a particular hotel:,
- Meal arrangement: No matter whether it's a very big hotel or a motel of medium size, your stay-up can never be comfortable unless it's accompanied by some good dining arrangements. Also, it's very tiresome to go outside every time you feel hungry. An attached restaurant is always a preferred option. You should also make sure that the food quality is good enough to appease your appetite to the fullest.
- Air-conditioning facility: Especially, if you are planning your trip on the summer days, booking an air-conditioned hotel truly makes enough sense. It will not only make you feel comfortable, but will also enable you to relish your stay to the fullest.
- Wi-fi connection: Now when we cannot even think of a single minute without internet, a hotel without wi-fi connection will surely not add to your interest. To look for best sea foods, and best sight seeing options, there can be no alternative other than a good internet connection.
- Sanitation: This is perhaps one of the main things you should be concerned with. No matter for how long you are going to stay in the hotel, cleanliness is something you should never compromise on.
So, if you are all set to spend your weekend at the riveting sea-side in Digha, waste no time of yours to give a swift call to your nearby tour operator, so that they can arrange a mesmeric trip for you or you can directly visit http://www.hotelsantiniketandigha.com


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It's not the bully. It's not the victim.
It's you.
Don't be a bystander.
Step up, step in, speak out, and get caught doing the right thing.
The movement promotes awareness about peer mistreatment, empowers advocacy for and from all youth, by engaging community, professional, and celebrity partners to celebrate diversity in brave youth who everyday are standing for courage. Our goal is to change the world, one celebrated youth at a time.
The Stand for Courage Foundation was founded in 2011 by Nicole Jon Sievers and is made up of an Executive Board, Advisors, a Youth Leadership (Youth Advisory Board, Youth Mentors), and Staff. In addition, the Stand for Courage Foundation is supported by community, professional, and private Partners. All individuals in the SFC foundation are working together to make the vision and symbol of Stand for Courage a household name and change agent.
It's not the bully.
It's not the victim.
It's you.
Don't be a bystander.
Stand up, step in, and speak out.
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Horrifying statistics draw attention to gender-based violence
- The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign
November 13, 2012
violence is a sensitive, harrowing community issue that affects
1 in 3 women in Zimbabwe. It is a crime, and although legislation
has been enacted to try and prevent it, many women find themselves
in a position where they are vulnerable to physical, psychological,
sexual and emotional abuse.
Statistics show
that despite active campaigns from women's groups, government ministries
and NGO's, domestic violence continues to be a major problem in
Zimbabwe. From January to May 2012, a total of 3,141 domestic violence
cases were reported to police, not taking into account all those
victims too scared to make an official report and instead bear their
wounds in silence. Most shockingly, 60% of the murder cases brought
before the High Court are a direct result of domestic violence.
According to
the World Health Organisation (WHO), domestic violence is defined
as: "the intentional use of physical force or power, (threatened
or actual) against oneself, another person or against a group or
community that either results in (or has a high likelihood of resulting
in), injury, death, psychological harm, reduced development or deprivation".
The most common
perpetrator of domestic violence against women is a current or former
husband or sex-partner. According to the 2010-11 Zimbabwe Demographic
Health Survey released by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency,
30 percent of women have experienced physical violence at some point
since the age of 15. The passing of the Domestic Violence Bill in
2007 and the subsequent setting up of the Anti-Domestic Violence
Council to enforce this law, has had limited results. It has become
important, now more than ever with the rising statistics, to raise
awareness of the scourge of domestic and other forms of violence
against women in Zimbabwean communities.
The 16 Days
of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign is a global initiative,
founded by the Centre for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) in New
York in 1991 to raise awareness of the issue and help change behaviors.
Known as 'The 16 Days Campaign', it begins annually
on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Gender-Based
Violence, and ends on 10 December, International Human Rights Day,
dates chosen to emphasize that gender-based violence is a violation
of human rights. The 16 Days Campaign is critical because it brings
the human rights framework to the fore and uses it to make sure
that both state and non-state actors around the world are aware
and accountable. The Campaign is successful because of the activism
of millions of women and tens of thousands of organizations worldwide,
who are committed to ending gender-based violence.
This year the 16 Days Campaign continues with the theme: "From
Peace in the Home to Peace in the World: Let's Challenge Militarism
and End Violence Against Women!"
Women Artists Join the Campaign
Since 2008,
Harare arts development organisation Pamberi Trust has been a part
of this global call to action, providing a platform at the Book
Cafe through the FLAME project (Female Literary, Arts and Music
Enterprise) to raise awareness of and join in the protest against
gender-based violence, through music, poetry and spoken-word; films,
discussions and workshops.
Last year in
the lead up to the 16 Days, FLAME coordinated women artists for
the launch of the "Non-violence Toolkit" developed by
the Women's Action
Group (WAG) for women in high density areas of Harare. This
toolkit included a booklet with information and guidance to help
women understand their rights and how to seek help should they find
themselves in an abusive situation. As part of this effort and to
mark the launch of this booklet, FLAME coordinated and managed two
major concerts in Chitungwiza and Highfield featuring over thirty
women artists in September 2011.
This year FLAME
is once again proud to be actively involved in the 16 Days Against
Gender Violence awareness campaign to stimulate action and discussion
on this issue, with a powerful programme of activities lined up
at The Book Cafe from 24 November to 8 December. These include music
and poetry performances from some of Zimbabwe's most talented women
artists; discussions, film-screenings, and 'A Workshop for
Women Artists by Women Artists'. FLAME's special guest
for the 16 Days programme is acclaimed international US hip-hop
artist, Akua Naru.
Visit the Pamberi Trust
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SEATTLE Marine Corps Security Force Battalion-Bangor passed the 12th Man flag to Navy Region Northwest as Sailors and Marines participated in the 5th annual USAA change of command ceremony at CenturyLink Field in Seattle Oct. 11.
The 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was the first military organization to carry the 12-Man honor in 2012. The unit inactivated in 2014. In 2013, the 4th Bde., 2nd Inf. Div. transferred the 12th Man flag to the 446th Airlift Wing at McChord Field.
Navy Region Northwest succeeded the Marines as the fifth command to carry the Seahawks 12th Man flag into the coming year. The change-of-command occurred during a day of fanfare when service members were given the opportunity to spend time with players and display various aspects of their missions, ranging from explosive ordinance and disposal to military working dog security.
During the main event, a ceremony resembling a classic military change-of-command ceremony, Marine Lt. Col. Scott M. Reed, MCSFBn-Bangor commanding officer, turned over the 12th Man flag to Rear Adm. Gary Mayes, commander, NRNW.
"I look forward to working with the Seahawks as the year progresses," Mayes said before receiving the flag. "We plan to take the flag all over the region, which makes up 11 states. We're going to get it on carriers, we're going to get it in the air, and we're going to get it on subs and get it below the surface of the sea. On behalf of the 37,000 Sailors and civilians that make up Navy Region Northwest, I accept the 12th Man flag."
Through NRNW, the 12th Man flag will have the opportunity to be displayed on various platforms of the Navy's mission in the Pacific Northwest.
Along with displaying the flag, the sponsored command is given a leading role in Seahawks military outreach.
"We had the opportunity to hang out with another pro organization," said MCSFBn Command Sgt. Maj. David M. McKinley. "To see how they methodically come up with their plans to execute games is not much different (than) what we do; it's just to a different degree. We had the chance to sit and watch their practices, go to their training facility and be invited to the NFL stadium, walk out on the field, hold the flag tight and allow all the fans to see us in uniform. It gives us appreciation for all the work the Marines are doing and the Sailors as well; just the recognition is great."
Programs such as the 12th Man change-of-command sponsorship are designed to highlight the contributions service members make in their communities.
"Outreach programs like this allow the community to see our Navy and Marine Corps (and) to interact with them," Mayes said. "We look for these kinds of opportunities so people can better understand what it is that we do on a day-to-day basis. The more events we do like this, the more they gain an understanding of their Sailors and Marines. It's a great honor to have an organization like the Seahawks do these events."


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A MAN who tried to kill his ex-girlfriend and her family by setting fire to a tower block escaped from an open prison - and then returned hours later.
Police Scotland issued an appeal on Tuesday to trace Darren Clark, 26, after he fled Castle Huntly in Dundee.
Clark, 26, was described as dangerous and the public were warned not to approach him.
But by the time police launched a huge publicity drive to try and find him, Clark had returned to the prison of his own accord.
Clark was convicted of attempted murder and jailed for 10 years in January 2010.
The High Court in Falkirk heard the thug, who had been jilted by his girlfriend, poured petrol on the door of her ground-floor flat and set it alight while she, her mother and sister were inside.
The entrance to the flat was set ablaze in the incident in July 2009 but the fire was put out before it took hold of the rest of Fort House in Leith.
At the time of the fire Clark was on bail for another offence.


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Categories: General Date: Mar 29, 2012 Title: The CS Department Celebrates Its 6th Current NSF CAREER Award Winner, Clint Whaley
Clint Whaley, an assistant professor in UTSA's Department of Computer Science has recently become a recipient of a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) award. The five-year, $583,145 grant will support Dr. Whaley's research on "Empirical Tuning for Extreme Scale". Including this award, Dr. Whaley has brought $3,302,311 in total research funding to UTSA since joining the department in 2005. For more information about Dr. Whaley's research grants, see http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~whaley/research/grants.html.
The topic of the funded research is empirical tuning of computational kernels. Today, simulation and scientific computation are fundamental building blocks for most areas of science and engineering. For many of these areas, there is no such thing as enough computer power: as computer power is increased, the scientist is free to increase the complexity, and thus accuracy, of the simulation or computation. It is therefore critical that scientific computing software extract the maximal level of performance on all the various hardware used by researchers. Dr. Whaley's ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) autotuning framework was one of the pioneering projects that showed that empirical auto-tuning could address this vital need. Dr. Whaley's career plan calls for performing the cutting-edge systems research necessary to extend ATLAS to address today's need for extreme-scale computation, and to extend this research for the benefit for all computational scientists by developing an empirical compilation framework capable of tuning arbitrary kernels to (almost) arbitrary hardware.
The CAREER is the NSF's most prestigious award for junior faculty and is awarded to faculty members who embody the role of teacher-scholar by integrating outstanding research with excellence as an educator within the context of their institution. CAREER awards support integrated research and educational activities that serve as foundation for a lifelong career of teaching and scholarship.
Dr. Whaley is now one of six recipients of current NSF CAREER awards at UTSA in the Department of Computer Science. In 2010, Dakai Zhu received a CAREER award to study scheduling in multicore based real-time embedded systems. In 2009, Jeffery von Ronne received a CAREER award to study the analysis of dynamically extensible software. Qing Yi received a CAREER award in 2008 to develop a multilayer code synthesis framework. In 2007, Carola Wenk received a CAREER award to study geometric shape handling. Daniel Jiménez received a CAREER award to support his research on branch prediction in 2006.
Our high number of CAREER recipients has helped the department to grow and led to more success in funding, research, and teaching. Student enrollment has increased from 600 in 2006 to 827 in 2011. Papers published per year have increased from 75 in 2006 to 134 in 2011. The CS department's expired grants come to approximately 11 million dollars, whereas active grants total approximately 32 million dollars (for details see: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/research/grants). Thus, the CS department grows stronger each year and continues to make significant contributions towards UTSA's tier one goal.


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