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Open distributed systems are a class of distributed systems where (i) only partial information about the environment, in which they are running, is present, (ii) new resources may become available at runtime, and (iii) a subsystem may become aware of other subsystems after some interaction. Modeling and implementing such systems correctly is a complex task due to the openness and the dynamicity aspects. One way to ensure that the resulting systems behave correctly is to utilize formal verification. Formal verification requires an adequate semantic model of the implementation, a specification of the desired behavior, and a reasoning technique. The actor model is a semantic model that captures the challenging aspects of open distributed systems by utilizing actors as universal primitives to represent system entities and allowing them to create new actors and to communicate by sending directed messages as reply to received messages. To enable compositional reasoning, where the reasoning task is reduced to independent verification of the system parts, semantic entities at a higher level of abstraction than actors are needed. This thesis proposes an automaton model and combines sound reasoning techniques to compositionally verify implementations of open actor systems. Based on I/O automata, the model allows automata to be created dynamically and captures dynamic changes in communication patterns. Each automaton represents either an actor or a group of actors. The specification of the desired behavior is given constructively as an automaton. As the basis for compositionality, we formalize a component notion based on the static structure of the implementation instead of the dynamic entities (the actors) occurring in the system execution. The reasoning proceeds in two stages. The first stage establishes the connection between the automata representing single actors and their implementation description by means of weakest liberal preconditions. The second stage employs this result as the basis for verifying whether a component specification is satisfied. The verification is done by building a simulation relation from the automaton representing the implementation to the component's automaton. Finally, we validate the compositional verification approach through a number of examples by proving correctness of their actor implementations with respect to system specifications.
Self-adaptation allows software systems to autonomously adjust their behavior during run-time by handling all possible operating states that violate the requirements of the managed system. This requires an adaptation engine that receives adaptation requests during the monitoring process of the managed system and responds with an automated and appropriate adaptation response. During the last decade, several engineering methods have been introduced to enable self-adaptation in software systems. However, these methods lack addressing (1) run-time uncertainty that hinders the adaptation process and (2) the performance impacts resulted from the complexity and the large number of the adaptation space. This paper presents CRATER, a framework that builds an external adaptation engine for self-adaptive software systems. The adaptation engine, which is built on Case-based Reasoning, handles the aforementioned challenges together. This paper is braced with an experiment illustrating the benefits of this framework. The experimental results shows the potential of CRATER in terms handling run-time uncertainty and adaptation remembrance that enhances the performance for large number of adaptation space.
Since their invention in the 1980s, behaviour-based systems have become very popular among roboticists. Their component-based nature facilitates the distributed implementation of systems, fosters reuse, and allows for early testing and integration. However, the distributed approach necessitates the interconnection of many components into a network in order to realise complex functionalities. This network is crucial to the correct operation of the robotic system. There are few sound design techniques for behaviour networks, especially if the systems shall realise task sequences. Therefore, the quality of the resulting behaviour-based systems is often highly dependant on the experience of their developers. This dissertation presents a novel integrated concept for the design and verification of behaviour-based systems that realise task sequences. Part of this concept is a technique for encoding task sequences in behaviour networks. Furthermore, the concept provides guidance to developers of such networks. Based on a thorough analysis of methods for defining sequences, Moore machines have been selected for representing complex tasks. With the help of the structured workflow proposed in this work and the developed accompanying tool support, Moore machines defining task sequences can be transferred automatically into corresponding behaviour networks, resulting in less work for the developer and a lower risk of failure. Due to the common integration of automatically and manually created behaviour-based components, a formal analysis of the final behaviour network is reasonable. For this purpose, the dissertation at hand presents two verification techniques and justifies the selection of model checking. A novel concept for applying model checking to behaviour-based systems is proposed according to which behaviour networks are modelled as synchronised automata. Based on such automata, properties of behaviour networks that realise task sequences can be verified or falsified. Extensive graphical tool support has been developed in order to assist the developer during the verification process. Several examples are provided in order to illustrate the soundness of the presented design and verification techniques. The applicability of the integrated overall concept to real-world tasks is demonstrated using the control system of an autonomous bucket excavator. It can be shown that the proposed design concept is suitable for developing complex sophisticated behaviour networks and that the presented verification technique allows for verifying real-world behaviour-based systems.
In a networked system, the communication system is indispensable but often the weakest link w.r.t. performance and reliability. This, particularly, holds for wireless communication systems, where the error- and interference-prone medium and the character of network topologies implicate special challenges. However, there are many scenarios of wireless networks, in which a certain quality-of-service has to be provided despite these conditions. In this regard, distributed real-time systems, whose realization by wireless multi-hop networks becomes increasingly popular, are a particular challenge. For such systems, it is of crucial importance that communication protocols are deterministic and come with the required amount of efficiency and predictability, while additionally considering scarce hardware resources that are a major limiting factor of wireless sensor nodes. This, in turn, does not only place demands on the behavior of a protocol but also on its implementation, which has to comply with timing and resource constraints. The first part of this thesis presents a deterministic protocol for wireless multi-hop networks with time-critical behavior. The protocol is referred to as Arbitrating and Cooperative Transfer Protocol (ACTP), and is an instance of a binary countdown protocol. It enables the reliable transfer of bit sequences of adjustable length and deterministically resolves contest among nodes based on a flexible priority assignment, with constant delays, and within configurable arbitration radii. The protocol's key requirement is the collision-resistant encoding of bits, which is achieved by the incorporation of black bursts. Besides revisiting black bursts and proposing measures to optimize their detection, robustness, and implementation on wireless sensor nodes, the first part of this thesis presents the mode of operation and time behavior of ACTP. In addition, possible applications of ACTP are illustrated, presenting solutions to well-known problems of distributed systems like leader election and data dissemination. Furthermore, results of experimental evaluations with customary wireless transceivers are outlined to provide evidence of the protocol's implementability and benefits. In the second part of this thesis, the focus is shifted from concrete deterministic protocols to their model-driven development with the Specification and Description Language (SDL). Though SDL is well-established in the domain of telecommunication and distributed systems, the predictability of its implementations is often insufficient as previous projects have shown. To increase this predictability and to improve SDL's applicability to time-critical systems, real-time tasks, an approved concept in the design of real-time systems, are transferred to SDL and extended to cover node-spanning system tasks. In this regard, a priority-based execution and suspension model is introduced in SDL, which enables task-specific priority assignments in the SDL specification that are orthogonal to the static structure of SDL systems and control transition execution orders on design as well as on implementation level. Both the formal incorporation of real-time tasks into SDL and their implementation in a novel scheduling strategy are discussed in this context. By means of evaluations on wireless sensor nodes, evidence is provided that these extensions reduce worst-case execution times substantially, and improve the predictability of SDL implementations and the language's applicability to real-time systems.
Maintaining complex software systems tends to be a costly activity where software engineers spend a significant amount of time trying to understand the system's structure and behavior. As early as the 1980s, operation and maintenance costs were already twice as expensive as the initial development costs incurred. Since then these costs have steadily increased. The focus of this thesis is to reduce these costs through novel interactive exploratory visualization concepts and to apply these modern techniques in the context of services offered by software quality analysis. Costs associated with the understanding of software are governed by specific features of the system in terms of different domains, including re-engineering, maintenance, and evolution. These features are reflected in software measurements or inner qualities such as extensibility, reusability, modifiability, testability, compatability, or adatability. The presence or absence of these qualities determines how easily a software system can conform or be customized to meet new requirements. Consequently, the need arises to monitor and evaluate the qualitative state of a software system in terms of these qualities. Using metrics-based analysis, production costs and quality defects of the software can be recorded objectively and analyzed. In practice, there exist a number of free and commercial tools that analyze the inner quality of a software system through the use of software metrics. However, most of these tools focus on software data mining and metrics (computational analysis) and only a few support visual analytical reasoning. Typically, computational analysis tools generate data and software visualization tools facilitate the exploration and explanation of this data through static or interactive visual representations. Tools that combine these two approaches focus only on well-known metrics and lack the ability to examine user defined metrics. Further, they are often confined to simple visualization methods and metaphors, including charts, histograms, scatter plots, and node-link diagrams. The goal of this thesis is to develop methodologies that combine computational analysis methods together with sophisticated visualization methods and metaphors through an interactive visual analysis approach. This approach promotes an iterative knowledge discovery process through multiple views of the data where analysts select features of interest in one of the views and inspect data items of the select subset in all of the views. On the one hand, we introduce a novel approach for the visual analysis of software measurement data that captures complete facts of the system, employs a flow-based visual paradigm for the specification of software measurement queries, and presents measurement results through integrated software visualizations. This approach facilitates the on-demand computation of desired features and supports interactive knowledge discovery - the analyst can gain more insight into the data through activities that involve: building a mental model of the system; exploring expected and unexpected features and relations; and generating, verifying, or rejecting hypothesis with visual tools. On the other hand, we have also extended existing tools with additional views of the data for the presentation and interactive exploration of system artifacts and their inter-relations. Contributions of this thesis have been integrated into two different prototype tools. First evaluations of these tools show that they can indeed improve the understanding of large and complex software systems.
Information Visualization (InfoVis) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) have strong ties with each other. Visualization supports the human cognitive system by providing interactive and meaningful images of the underlying data. On the other side, the HCI domain cares about the usability of the designed visualization from the human perspectives. Thus, designing a visualization system requires considering many factors in order to achieve the desired functionality and the system usability. Achieving these goals will help these people in understanding the inside behavior of complex data sets in less time. Graphs are widely used data structures to represent the relations between the data elements in complex applications. Due to the diversity of this data type, graphs have been applied in numerous information visualization applications (e.g., state transition diagrams, social networks, etc.). Therefore, many graph layout algorithms have been proposed in the literature to help in visualizing this rich data type. Some of these algorithms are used to visualize large graphs, while others handle the medium sized graphs. Regardless of the graph size, the resulting layout should be understandable from the users’ perspective and at the same time it should fulfill a list of aesthetic criteria to increase the representation readability. Respecting these two principles leads to produce a resulting graph visualization that helps the users in understanding and exploring the complex behavior of critical systems. In this thesis, we utilize the graph visualization techniques in modeling the structural and behavioral aspects of embedded systems. Furthermore, we focus on evaluating the resulting representations from the users’ perspectives. The core contribution of this thesis is a framework, called ESSAVis (Embedded Systems Safety Aspect Visualizer). This framework visualizes not only some of the safety aspects (e.g. CFT models) of embedded systems, but also helps the engineers and experts in analyzing the system safety critical situations. For this, the framework provides a 2Dplus3D environment in which the 2D represents the graph representation of the abstract data about the safety aspects of the underlying embedded system while the 3D represents the underlying system 3D model. Both views are integrated smoothly together in the 3D world fashion. In order to check the effectiveness and feasibility of the framework and its sub-components, we conducted many studies with real end users as well as with general users. Results of the main study that targeted the overall ESSAVis framework show high acceptance ratio and higher accuracy with better performance using the provided visual support of the framework. The ESSAVis framework has been designed to be compatible with different 3D technologies. This enabled us to use the 3D stereoscopic depth of such technologies to encode nodes attributes in node-link diagrams. In this regard, we conducted an evaluation study to measure the usability of the stereoscopic depth cue approach, called the stereoscopic highlighting technique, against other selected visual cues (i.e., color, shape, and sizes). Based on the results, the thesis proposes the Reflection Layer extension to the stereoscopic highlighting technique, which was also evaluated from the users’ perspectives. Additionally, we present a new technique, called ExpanD (Expand in Depth), that utilizes the depth cue to show the structural relations between different levels of details in node-link diagrams. Results of this part opens a promising direction of the research in which visualization designers can get benefits from the richness of the 3D technologies in visualizing abstract data in the information visualization domain. Finally, this thesis proposes the application of the ESSAVis frame- work as a visual tool in the educational training process of engineers for understanding the complex concepts. In this regard, we conducted an evaluation study with computer engineering students in which we used the visual representations produced by ESSAVis to teach the principle of the fault detection and the failure scenarios in embedded systems. Our work opens the directions to investigate many challenges about the design of visualization for educational purposes.
Large displays become more and more popular, due to dropping prices. Their size and high resolution leverages collaboration and they are capable of dis- playing even large datasets in one view. This becomes even more interesting as the number of big data applications increases. The increased screen size and other properties of large displays pose new challenges to the Human- Computer-Interaction with these screens. This includes issues such as limited scalability to the number of users, diversity of input devices in general, leading to increased learning efforts for users, and more. Using smart phones and tablets as interaction devices for large displays can solve many of these issues. Since they are almost ubiquitous today, users can bring their own device. This approach scales well with the number of users. These mobile devices are easy and intuitive to use and allow for new interaction metaphors, as they feature a wide array of input and output capabilities, such as touch screens, cameras, accelerometers, microphones, speakers, Near-Field Communication, WiFi, etc. This thesis will present a concept to solve the issues posed by large displays. We will show proofs-of-concept, with specialized approaches showing the via- bility of the concept. A generalized, eyes-free technique using smart phones or tablets to interact with any kind of large display, regardless of hardware or software then overcomes the limitations of the specialized approaches. This is implemented in a large display application that is designed to run under a multitude of environments, including both 2D and 3D display setups. A special visualization method is used to combine 2D and 3D data in a single visualization. Additionally the thesis will present several approaches to solve common is- sues with large display interaction, such as target sizes on large display getting too small, expensive tracking hardware, and eyes-free interaction through vir- tual buttons. These methods provide alternatives and context for the main contribution.
We intend to find optimal deterministic and randomized algorithms for three related problems: multivariate integration, parametric multivariate integration, and parametric initial value problems. The main interest is concentrated on the question, in how far randomization affects the precision of an approximation. We want to understand when and to which extent randomized algorithms are superior to deterministic ones. All problems are studied for Banach space valued input functions. The analysis of Banach space valued problems is motivated by the investigation of scalar parametric problems; these can be understood as particular cases of Banach space valued problems. The gain achieved by randomization depends on the underlying Banach space. For each problem, we introduce deterministic and randomized algorithms and provide the corresponding convergence analysis. Moreover, we also provide lower bounds for the general Banach space valued settings, and thus, determine the complexity of the problems. It turns out that the obtained algorithms are order optimal in the deterministic setting. In the randomized setting, they are order optimal for certain classes of Banach spaces, which includes the L_p spaces and any finite dimensional Banach space. For general Banach spaces, they are optimal up to an arbitrarily small gap in the order of convergence.


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The Colorado Confederation of Clubs has updated it’s website. We invite you to come take a look at the new site, and leave your feedback,c comments and suggestion here.
The new site is completely mobile device capable, so you can stay informed and up to date while on the move.
Members can now add their own club’s events to the calendar, directly, without sending them to the webmaster. Of course , the webmaster will still accept calendar event submissions, and add them to the calendar.
We have also updated the “Biker Friendly or NOT” list, be sure to support local businesses that are truly biker friendly. Check out he list Here.
Please check out the new site, and let us know your thoughts, and offer any suggestions you may have.
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industry_corpus2: Others


text: Same Day Banner Printing Our banners can be made of any size up to 100' length. We also have specialty services available like raised letter thermography, foil, etc and a wide variety of finishing services. You can combine most of our services on the right to create very custom products. Faster Rush Printing Services Available.

industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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alaTest zebrał i przeanalizował 8 opinii użytkowników z magazynów i stron. Ludziom podoba się bateria i rozmiar. Wygląd jest również bardzo dobra.
Eksperci oceniają ten produkt na 79/100 a użytkownicy na 100/100. Przeanalizowaliśmy te oceny, wiek produktu i inne czynniki. W porównaniu do innych produktów z kategorii Kamery wideo, YI 4K Action Camera uzyskał ogólny alaScore™ 94/100 = jakość Celująca.
GoPro might be the undisputed leader in the action cam market, but its cameras are not without weaknesses. The greatest of those at the moment is age: GoPro's top Hero4 Black camera was released nearly two years ago.
You'll need to buy accessories such as a waterproof housing. Though YI used Gorilla Glass, the touchscreen is not shatterproof. The microSD card slot is a little hard to access. Parts of the English app are still in Chinese.
An action cam with a lot of features, excellent video quality and a more affordable price, the YI 4K is undeniably a good deal.
Looking for the best GoPro alternative? Well the Yi 4K Action Camera is certainly worth a look despite a couple of flaws. Here's our full review.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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IPO Filing – Connecture Inc.
Connecture Inc., a developer of software platforms for health-insurance distribution and consumer health-insurance shopping, filed to raise $86m in an initial public offering. The Company operates in the U.S. and has booked $74m in LTM Revenue with a 97% ’12-’13 Rev CAGR.
Current Connecture investors include Great Point Partners, Chrysalis Ventures, SSM Partners, LiveOak Equity Partners. Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan have been selected as lead underwriters for the offering. Triton Research expects the deal to price on November 21, 2014.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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How did Joe rocket to hall of fame success with customised greetings cards?
During the festive season, the halls are decked with an abundance of messages. Stand out this silly season and cut through with personalised, considered communication.
Instead, keep it simple, go direct and talk to your customers; authentically and with a point.
Joe Girard went from so-so, to so-good, becoming an ultra successful car salesman. Looking endlessly for a job, his lack of experience was not opening any doors.
To convince the manager of Chevrolet to give him an opportunity, Joe took an uncommon approach and used the humble greeting card.
With his own money, Joe engaged two employees to help him send out close to 13,000 greeting cards every month. By sending these cards directly to his customers, Joe commemorated every significant day alongside them, from Halloween to Happy New Year. At the beginning of every year, Joe appointed an artist to illustrate 12 cards.
Personalising his contact with ‘I like you,’ and simply sending one card each month is all Joe did. Slowly, but surely, each customer began to think of him as a part of the family.
ultimately the thought that counted.
The proof is in the purchase; for 12 years running, Joe sold the most retail vehicles, breaking worldwide sales records. His success was so noteworthy that he became the only salesperson to be sworn into the Automotive Hall of Fame.
We all know what it’s like to receive the ‘Dear Customer’ Christmas card. Quicker than you can put it in the ‘jingle bin,’ you’ve lost interest and wasted time and money. Take a moment to create customised cards that make your recipients feel respected.
Your business may be small, but that doesn’t mean your impact can’t be significant. Even on a minimal budget, there’s always a resourceful workaround to ensure you’re remembered. Use our custom labels or personalised cards to stand out like a star at the top of the tree.
While you’re celebrating Christmas, you’re also telling your customers that you’ll champion them now, in the New Year and beyond.

industry_corpus2: Automobiles


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This Couple Planned Their Destination Wedding in Just Eight Weeks!
And they say long-distance and a short timeline made the whole process "easier."
This destination affair has all the inspo you need for a tropical celebration.
At a historic Italianate townhouse in Bed-Stuy, one duo mixed retro and modern, casual and formal, for an insanely hip party.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


text: In the Atolian News of February25, 1919 it was reported that an alarm of fire had awoken the whole camp on the 2nd of January and that the cabin of E. C. McIntyre was in flames and that when it was put out that the remains of “Mac” were found on the bed. According to the newspaper “Mac” was one of the most popular men in the camp. He was buried in San Bernardino and his friends raised enough money for a suitable headstone to place over his grave. Based on the report stating that the adjoining restaurant had been saved by the “energetic work of the volunteer fire fighters” it is believed that this building was probably in the same location as Meade’s Barber Shop.


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Risotto is one of those taboo dishes that most people reserve for special occasions because it takes so long to make. Good news! My risotto will not take you any more than 20 minutes! One of the first cooking classes I gave included this recipe and it was so rewarding to watch people succeed in making it! Just remember the better the wine the better your risotto will be, I especially like a Barolo or Valpolicella in this dish!
Place the olive oil in the pan and warm over medium heat. Add in the pancetta and cook until crisp. Add the onion and sautÃ© until translucent. Stir in the garlic and cook until golden. Stir in the rice and cook for about 2 minutes until the rice is toasted (or until you smell popcorn...yes popcorn!). Pour in the wine and deglaze, this will take about 1 minute. Once the liquid has evaporated and you can draw a line to seperate the rice without it coming back together you know you are ready to add more liquid.


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Raise awareness of the OUBS FREE Managing My Money course – aligned to a study they conducted which showed that many adults would struggle with the math’s knowledge required to do their children’s GCSE Maths homework and exams.
Highlight that finance education has now been made compulsory within national curriculum so children would be better educated around financial matters than their parents – thus reiterating the need for a course such as that provided through Managing My Money.
Communicate the benefits of the course, illustrating how it will help increase an understanding of maths in relation to personal finance matters that affect daily lives.
Our creative approach was to underpin the notion that not only would many parents struggle with the childrens’ GCSE-level maths questions, but more specifcically those applied to personal financial matters and those relating to the finances of running our daily lives and homes – and to therefore illustrate the need for them to brush up on their skills in this area.
We provided target media with the opportunity to speak to a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the Open University Business School AND Martin Upton, Director of PuFin (Public Understanding of Finance).
Secured radio coverage likes of BBC 5Live and Sky News Radio news bulletins, BBC Scotland twice (in their breakfast programme and again for mid-morning news).
Presenters enthusiastically brought the story to life opening up the discussion to listeners, challenging them to some of the questions, some conducted own vox-pops ahead of the interviews answers and some attempted the calculations themselves!

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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Delivered by Dympna Pearson and Clare Grace [authors of ‘Weight Management A Practitioners Guide’], this course delivers a succinct update on current evidence, and the challenges of its practical application.
It is conveniently delivered in one day and will include important take home messages that can be applied to everyday practice. Programme highlights include what and how to assess, evidenced based dietary treatments, reflecting on attitudes and stigma, community support for the bariatric patient and measuring service outcomes.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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When I was first contacted by the BBC in October 2003 (via the Y2K website, which they had found during an internet search), the reason for their interest wasn't immediately apparent. However, it eventually came to light that a London evacuee called Ken Fletcher had been billeted at Kettlebaston Rectory in 1943. He was currently in the process of emigrating to Australia and a portion of the proposed programme was to revolve around him and his wartime experiences within the village.
Months of protracted negotiations followed, and filming finally went ahead in December 2003 - sadly in heavy mist (which ruined the carefully planned shooting schedule)!
Ken had met his childhood sweetheart at Preston St Mary school, which they both attended, and he had recalled the long walk over unmade tracks and footpaths to get there. Arrangements were therefore made for filming in Preston too, and Georgie Mason (pictured right in the doorway), Cally & Amie Haslen, and Hamish Jenkins very kindly agreed to take part in a period reconstruction. They all excelled themselves, and should be congratulated on their remarkably professional and 'cool' approach to the whole affair.
I'm also delighted to report that the BBC donated £200 to the communities for their assistance, and £100 each has now been forwarded to Kettlebaston church and Preston St Mary Village Hall Committee.
The programme is due to air in Spring 2004 - set your videos!
It was love at first kiss when cheeky schoolboy Ken Fletcher planted a smacker on Gladys Pinnington's lips in the autumn of 1943.
From then on they were childhood sweethearts who drifted apart, and once he even feared his true love was dead.
They even married other partners and had eight children between them.
But, in a remarkable romance stretching more than half a century and half way across the globe, 72-year-old Ken, from Sheringham, has finally tracked down his former fiancee in Australia and is emigrating down under to be with her.
Fifty three years after they last saw each other, the couple will finally tie the knot following her divorce from a former naval officer 30-years-ago and the dying wish of Ken's wife that he should marry his first love.
Yesterday, the couple told the EDP of their delight at being united after so long."At one point, in a case of mistaken identity, I was told she had been fatally injured in an accident, but I eventually found her in Adelaide and we started where we left off," said Ken. "Without a doubt we have wasted our lives and we want to make up for it now," said Gladys, speaking from Australia.
He was 12, from Chiswick, and Gladys was 11, from Edmonton, London, when the second world war threw them together as young evacuees at a remote rural school in Suffolk. "I was walking home from school with a group of friends and he stood in front of me and planted a kiss on my lips," she said.
Love blossomed and, when the war finished, Gladys trained as a secretary at a college in Tottenham, while Ken joined the navy.
The young lovers kept in contact by letter, and when they were reunited in 1949, the pair got engaged. But a year later the couple drifted apart because of the young seaman's trips abroad.
The pair went their separate ways. Ken married in 1951 and had three children with his wife Grace.
Gladys tied the knot with John Birch in 1956 and had five boys. In 1970, Gladys and her husband left Britain for a new life in Australia. But the childhood sweethearts never forgot each other."It was a year after we parted I started looking for her. I knew I had made a big mistake and she seemed to have disappeared," said Ken."It was heartbreaking when you are trying to find someone. I was looking in Britain and Europe and she was in Australia all along."
Before Grace Fletcher died in 1996, she urged her husband to continue searching for his childhood sweetheart.
Eventually, he tracked down his former fiancee two months ago. He immediately flew out to Australia and rekindled their love."When he got off the plane, I could not believe it. The love was still there - it was like a spark that had turned into a flame," said Gladys."We were at a party and Ken got up in front of all these people he did not know and proposed. My heart just flipped."

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It would be naive to expect that a structure, in which lies have become a common code of conduct among all the members, to tell the truth in courts today. Fortunately, judges and prosecutors quickly reveal contradictions that they spot in cross-examinations – which at least makes their dishonesty blatant.
This structure has been quite adept in portraying all the facts related to themselves and the world as they want. They have a sense of religion that legitimizes lies as an ethical code of conduct for themselves, and perhaps even renders these lies as good deeds. But in fact, in order to legitimize lies to such extent, they must see a difference in religion between themselves and those whom they lie to.
The strange part is that the members of this organization have many times deceived those who they do not consider to be of their own mind, namely religion, by collecting their donations. They have financed all their activities with the money they have collected from these people. They have always hidden their intentions, goals and objectives because they know that if they express their intentions clearly, people will never help them, never support to their activities, or they might even exclude them.
Such a profoundly furtive demeanor unavoidably leads to the emergence of an extremely different character. Today we watch and are surprised at their behavior, performances, and shows of these characters in court. No wonder, though. We expect that the group should be disarrayed as all their lies and intentions have surfaced, and no one should believe in the organization’s leadership and goals. However, we do not take into consideration this organization’s own psychology. For this reason, we are surprised that so many people act in the same harmonious way receiving orders from the same center.
It is likely that the group is still nourished by a common value. The fact that prisoners are exhibiting incredibly common and similar behavior is due to their easy communication with each other in prison conditions. Their unity makes it possible for them to launch immediate repair therapy in the face of the collapse of the common story that they relied on. Perhaps all the shortcomings of the failed story are being resolved, and, maybe they are being put into place even more firmly. Though they are diminishing to some extent in each intersection.
It may not be possible for the “service” story, which has failed for many, to recover. Immediately after Dec. 17-25, a significant mass could transform this destruction into an enlightenment and succeed in severing ties with the organization. In the past days, statements by a group of former Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) members, in a letter recently published by Ahmet Taşgetiren addressing Fetullah Gülen, showed that even the door to go back to FETÖ wasn’t completely closed.
But at this point, one thing must be underscored. Sadly, this deceptive performance of the structure and the fact that it has turned hypocrisy into a common norm discourages the confessors, the penitent and the self-critical. With decrees, nearly 200,000 people have been discharged due to their connection with FETÖ. Many of them are based on the findings of ByLock, proof of the link to the organization. Also, many of them are based on the findings of Bank Asya accounts, which are found to be actively run by the union or during certain terms.
These determinations are the actions that have been found in the system electronically, without being subjected to any personal evaluation. Even so, of course, a human error may be present. The phone on which the ByLock app has been found may belong to someone else, and bank account activities may have another reasonable explanation. An insightful interpretation and assessment into human relations must be made. Especially prosecutors and judges should be very careful in this regard.
Some of the findings are being revealed through investigations of relevant institutions or prosecutors. Here, it is important that prosecutor’s offices or related institutions act very carefully and responsibly against those FETÖ members being questioned who resort to slander under the pressure of intense confession.
The information that appears to be a confession may consist of a slander that is quite simple for FETÖ members. For them, creating more victims now has become one of the most effective ways to expand their base. Just like the PKK, the more people it could infect by victimizing them with terrorist offenses one way or another, the more it can expand it base. So, one person from every house should either be dead, in jail, or on the mountain, so that it could be possible for the organization to spread its influence over the entire region without spreading propaganda. It is clear that FETÖ received some tactics from the PKK in this style of propaganda.
Unfortunately, a significant portion of the victimization stories stem from this point.
Also, the dates of Dec. 17-25 should be applied to all, not some, as an initial criterion. Of course, not everywhere, but the stories of victimization we often hear about stem from the fact that there is no date distinguished between continuing to join lecture circles or benefaction meetings. Participation in lecture circles, attendance at their schools, or having their publications may be a sign of engagement with the organization if they were insistently repeated after Dec. 17-25, when it became completely clear that they are a criminal organization.
In this matter it does not make any sense to adopt beadledom and to go any further; it will be of no use in establishing justice nor be any more effective in the fight against FETÖ.
On the contrary, it will work to adhere those, who are in a position even to hate FETÖ, to FETÖ’s base.
Column: Will they set their sights on Hatay too?

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Individual UNITED Soccer Club (USC) teams may wish to conduct fundraising activities to help cover various costs including, but not limited to travel expenses, tournament fees, etc. All fundraising activities must first be evaluated and approved by the Board of Directors. This will help to ensure that the fundraising activity is in accordance with the Club’s guidelines. Certain fundraisers may require the Club’s Federal tax ID number or IRS non-profit status letter. The information will be provided to the team administrator, only upon the approval of the fundraiser by the Board of Directors.
Depending on the type of fundraiser, the team may also be requested to provide additional reporting of expenses incurred.
UNITED Soccer Club is classified as a public charity on IRS code section 501(c)(3) and may accept tax deductible donations. All solicitations for donations, grants, sponsorships, etc. must first be approved by the Board of Directors. All donations received must be deposited to the UNITED Soccer Club bank account. Unless specifically earmarked by the Donor as to the purpose of the donation, the Club has sole discretion as to how the funds will be disbursed. The Club will be responsible for sending the acceptance letter thanking the donor, and acknowledging the tax deductible donation.
Teams should consider selecting a Fundraising Chairperson and/or a Fundraising Committee for which the first order of business should be to establish fundraising goals that support the team’s travel plans. Fundraising goals should be as accurate as possible. To this end, it is vital that team travel plans and preparations are discussed openly, honestly and well in advance of the event(s).
Upon selection of fundraising activity(ies), the Team Administrator submits a “Team Fundraising Request Form”, Enclosure (1) herein, to the Age Group Representative (AGR) to approve team fundraising plans.
The USC Board of Directors will exclusively determine what constitutes use of the UNITED Soccer Club logo or name. The logo or name is anything that is easily recognizable as specifically referring to the UNITED Soccer Club.
The AGR forwards the Team Administrator’s Team Fundraising Request to the UNITED Board of Directors, via the Club’s Secretary, for approval. Email communication is acceptable.
At Transfer or Termination: Proceeds remain with the team to meet the travel plan expenses as budgeted.
At club’s and head coach’s discretion, player’s share can be transferred if player moves or is moved to another UNITED team.
All players on the team, including guest players, are required to help pay for the head coach and one assistant coach to travel with the team (airfare, hotel, car, per diem) to the selected tournament; as such all team members, including guest players, are required to participate in all team fundraisers.
If a player/family chooses not to participate, they will be required to pay/cover the minimum per player profit amount established for that specific fundraiser. In those isolated cases where players have announced their intentions to not travel to the selected tournament but will continue to play with the team, it is expected that these few players should participate in team fundraising efforts to the maximum extent possible to share and gain from the team bonding experience which team fundraising provides.
Funds raised through team fundraising efforts will not be distributed if a player/family leaves the team. However, at the Club’s and Team Head Coach’s discretion, a player’s share of team fundraising funds can be transferred if a player moves or is moved to another UNITED team.
Teams may also consider individual’s fundraising, provided the team agrees in advance on the policy to be used for tracking/maintain those funds. Funds raised via individual fundraising can be taken by a player/family that chooses to or is asked to leave the club.
Teams must submit the gross proceeds from the fundraising activity to the Club within 30 days. The Club will retain 5% to cover the general excise tax and will reimburse the team the balance of the gross proceeds deposited. Depending on the type of fundraiser, the team may also be requested to provide additional reporting of expenses incurred.
Fundraising Chair or Team Treasurer is expected to report team fundraiser revenues, expenses, and proceeds to the team within 30 days.
Fundraising Chair or Team Treasurer is expected to keep and track individual’s fundraising efforts.

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I like the auto tuning function on rotating equipment that has high inertia, it is a good starting point when putting together a coordinated VFD system, such as a paper machine drive. The auto tune for the magnetic components is already available and quite adequate, the autotune is helpful when tuning the mechanical response, including the effects of stiction, inertia, noisy mechanical loads such as water crashing around in drying cylinders, sudden application of pure friction loads at the outer diameter of a drying cylinder, and acceleration & deceleration speed regulation.
I need your brilliant idea in helping me on my requirements. I have an existing pump to be controlled by a variable speed drive, a pressure switch to be installed at the suction line of the pump and pressure transducer at the discharge side of the pump. The mode of operation of this pump is to manually start/stop through the local panel but still with PID control for the constant discharge pressure. The problem is I don't want to use an extra smart relays or expensive PLC for this since this will be just temporary while the construction of the new pumps is on-going. Still permissive for the low suction will apply to protect the pump.
1. Is it possible to wired directly the pressure transducer in the VFD DP/DT inputs?
2. If yes, can you give me a schematic/wiring diagram on how the pressure transmitter, VFD and pressure switch be integrated to each other?
3. Or any solution to my requirement (without using PLC/smart relays)?
Yes, many VFDs do have the ability to perform PID control, like GoHz. This is a normal configuration for my company. We use the HMI on the VFD to enter a setpoint in this case a pressure setpoint. The VFD should have an analog input for the pressure transducer to be wired to. The VFD also should have a digital input that the low suction pressure switch should be wired to. In the configuration of the VFD that digital input will be programmed to be a permissive.
For pressure control with a centrifugal pump, I transform the linear PID pressure output to the VFD to square root, to make the tuning more stable over a higher flow range.
this is really good, thanks Nancy and Zhu Ge, I just want to make sure, can I use this VFD with PID to control the flow rate of the pump? my application is to control the density of liquid and my manipulated input is the flowrate, so is it possible to replace the PLC with the VFD and set my set point (density transducer (4-20 mA)) to VFD and control the flow?
Thank you very much and I am looking forward to hear from you.


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I recently started making my own coconut milk, but there’s always at least 2 cups of shredded coconut leftover from making the milk. What to do with all dem shreds? I abhor the thought of throwing them away. So I decided to make some macaroons.
I had some dark chocolate macaroons at a Paleo cafe in Denver once, and they were cleverly dubbed crackaroons, which I guess means I can’t call my recipe the same thing. However, I did invent my own variety and gave them as Christmas gifts, and any photo of my mother from that day will clearly indicate she enjoyed them as much as the crackaroons.
I used unsweetened baking chocolate paired with vanilla, coconut oil and maple syrup for this recipe, rather than melting a regular chocolate bar (which may contain soy lecithin or other weird ingredients—though I guess you could use a chocolate bar in a pinch). If you’ve never used a double boiler before, just fill 1/3 of a saucepan with water, then bring it to a boil. Place a bowl on top so that the steam can heat the bowl, then add chocolate and oil and stir.
These macaroons aren’t difficult to make, but they do require a little patience with the double boiler and the sticky dough. Your hands will probably be covered in sticky chocolate by the time you’re done. The macaroons keep well in the fridge for about a week…if you can make them last that long.
Melt 2 oz. baking chocolate and 2 Tbsp. coconut oil in a double boiler.
Transfer to food processor, then add all ingredients for macaroons and blend until a sticky dough forms.
Roll dough into balls, then place on a baking sheet.
Bake for 15 minutes, then remove from oven and let cool completely.
Melt remaining 2 oz. baking chocolate and 2 Tbsp. coconut oil in double boiler.
Once chocolate has melted, add syrup and vanilla. Mix well.
Dip cooled macaroons in melted chocolate, then place on a baking sheet.
Place baking sheet in refrigerator for a few hours to allow chocolate coating to harden.
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Islamic extremism in Gaza appears to be behind the Wednesday murder of a 62-year-old woman. The woman, Jabriyeh Abu Kanas, had been accused by neighbors of practicing witchcraft.
The accusations against her were reported to Hamas authorities, but were never proven. However, someone apparently decided to take the law into their own hands, gunning Kanas down at home in front of her husband.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights condemned the murder in an interview with Palestinian Authority media. The Center blamed the attack on “security chaos”.
Hamas has imposed several restrictions on Gaza residents aimed at increasing observance of its strict interpretation of Islamic law. The terrorist group recently barred women from smoking in public, and said that women's clothing stores may not have dressing rooms and must dress their mannequins modestly.
Hamas leaders have also brought back the death penalty for offenses such as drug use. In many Islamic countries, witchcraft is punishable by death as well.
Army of Islam members and recruits to other Salafi Muslim groups have carried out a series of attacks in Gaza, targeting music stores, Internet cafes, summer camps at which boys and girls are allowed to mingle, and pharmacies accused of selling drugs that can be used for recreational purposes.
Salafi group Jund Ansar Allah has openly battled Hamas, as has the pan-Islamic group Hizb Ut-Tahrir. Both organizations support the establishment of a global Islamic Caliphate, and have accused Hamas of failing to sufficiently enforce Islamic law.
Hamas leaders are committed to a systematic "witch hunt" and 150 women were arrested in 2010 in Gaza for having made recourse to witchcraft of some sort. During a symposium held in recent days in Gaza, it was stated that in the eyes of Hamas, the activities of these women represent a real social danger, also because they risk "breaking up families," causing divorce and frittering away of money. Sometimes their activities also have criminal repercussions. One awareness campaign against "the witches" was launched using large posters in mosques, universities and public offices frequented by women. The issue emerged again in August last year when a 62-year-old woman, Jabryieh Abu Ghanas, considered to be active in the field of "witchcraft" and the production of "voodoo dolls", was shot dead in a street in the centre of Gaza. This murder caused great alarm in the Palestinian human rights defence organisations al-Mezan and Pchr-Gaza. It seems however that for now Hamas are not using an iron hand in regard to the women suspected of witchcraft. They are forced to sign an undertaking to abandon their practices, consider incompatible with Islam, for good. It seems this measure has been sufficient and to date there is no news of any "witch" being imprisoned by Hamas.
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Vicki and I spent a beautiful Autumn day climbing Oakzanita Peak in Rancho Cuyamaca State Park, while hiking a nine mile loop to the East Mesa via the Descanso Creek and Harvey Moore Trails.
Vicki and I took a drive to Julian for a fun dayhike to the summit of Volcan Mountain, which lies within the Volcan Mountain Wilderness Preserve. Along the way there were plenty of excellent views, large old oak trees, and breezy grassy meadows. It was a beautiful park and a fun climb.
Vicki and I day-hiked the El Cajon Mountain Trail in the El Capitan Preserve (a San Diego County Park) on December 21st 2013. Although the mountain is only 3675 feet in elevation, the 5.5 mile trail to get there (which we had to hike back) never stays flat for long, and the total elevation that we climbed that day was over 4000 feet! Whew! Needless to say, it was a long but satisfying day, and we were glad to take advantage of December’s cooler weather.
This is yet another simple dayhike, a part of our plan to get out hiking nearly every weekend that we can this summer. We’d prefer to backpack and stay overnight (thus getting TWO days in the mountains) but life doesn’t always allow us such luxury. A dayhike would have to do.
Cuyamaca Peak, at 6512 feet elevation, is the second highest mountain in San Diego County. Its summit overlooks all of San Diego, and on a clear winter day one can see the ocean to the west, the higher peaks of Los Angeles to the north, the desert to the east, and off into Mexico to the south.
Vicki and I decided to get in a bit of extra “elevation acclimatization” for the following weekend’s multi-day backpacking trip by heading up into the local San Diego mountains for a day hike. We drove up to the Laguna Mountain area, arriving at dawn, and parked at a pullout on highway S1 (Sunrise Highway) just west of the Laguna Mountain Campground (National Forest Pass required to park there).
We bought a new tent and a pair of matched sleeping bags and wanted to test them out, so we headed to the Laguna Mountains on Memorial Day Weekend, on a Friday night, and had to stealth-camp in the woods near the PCT. The next day we packed up and took a day-hike along the PCT and climbed Garnet Peak, which had great views out over the Anza-Borrego Desert.

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Get loose every morning with these simple movement patterns.
Stretching can ease pain and stiffness, especially in the morning, when symptoms tend to be worse.
Approximately 2.7 million Americans have ankylosing spondylitis, a form of arthritis that primarily affects the spine, according to the Spondylitis Association of America. Ankylosing spondylitis symptoms like joint pain and stiffness are often worst in the morning. That’s because, unlike other types of back pain that improve after rest, back pain due to ankylosing spondylitis worsens after periods of inactivity.
Range of motion and stretching exercises can reduce stiffness in your joints and help you maintain flexibility and preserve good posture.
“In general, any movement activities that don’t worsen your symptoms and keep you moving are good,” says Zachary Long, a physical therapist with Carolina Sports Clinic in Charlotte, North Carolina. Both Kollmann and Long utilize controlled articular rotations (CARs) in people with ankylosing spondylitis. CARs are active rotational movements of joints, which use the whole range of motion of a single joint in a controlled manner.
Keeping the 30 to 40 percent tension in your body, stand tall and place your left arm down by your side. Keeping your arm straight, slowly move your arm up in front of you in an arc-like fashion until your arm is outstretched and your hand is in the air. With the arm in the upright position, start rotating the arm back as if you were doing the backstroke. The finished position is with the thumb pointing towards the wall and the backside of the hand on your back pocket. Repeat on your right side.
Stand tall and cross your arms over your chest. Bend slightly forward using only the spine, not the hips. Move the chest bone down toward the belly button. While in the forward bend, gently rotate and lateral bend the spine to one side. Perform the flexion, rotation, and lateral bend to the other side in order to complete one repetition. Maintain 30 to 40 percent tension in your body throughout this stretch.
While standing, raise your right knee up into a 90-degree angle. Once in position, maintain the 90-degree position of the knee and move the knee away from your body. From there, bring the foot up towards the ceiling. This is creating internal rotation at the hip joint. As the hip is being internally rotated, bring the leg behind your body and back to the finishing position. A full circle of the hip will be created with each repetition. Remember to maintain full body tension while moving the hip through its full range of motion. Repeat with your left leg. Hold onto the wall or a chair for balance if needed.
To make these stretches even more effective, try doing them after your morning shower or bath. According to the National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society, warm water can help relax tight muscles and ease stiffness in joints.


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The applicants are six Turkish nationals: Fırat Dink, who was known under the pen name of Hrant Dink, his wife (Rahil Dink), his brother (Hasrof Dink) and Fırat and Rahil Dink's three children (Delal Dink, Arat Dink and Sera Dink). Fırat Dink was born in 1954 and was assassinated on 19 January 2007. The remaining applicants were born in 1959, 1957, 1978, 1979 and 1986 respectively and live in Istanbul. Fırat Dink, a Turkish journalist of Armenian origin, was publication director and editor-in-chief of Agos, a bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly newspaper published in Istanbul since 1996.
Between November 2003 and February 2004 Fırat Dink published eight articles in Agos in which he expressed his views on the identity of Turkish citizens of Armenian origin. In particular, in the sixth and seventh articles of the series, he wrote that Armenians' obsession with having their status as victims of genocide recognised had become their raison d'être, that this need on their part was treated with indifference by Turkish people and that this explained why the traumas suffered by the Armenians remained a live issue. In his view, the Turkish element in Armenian identity was both a poison and an antidote. He added that Armenian identity could come to terms with its Turkish component in one of two ways. Either Turkish people could display empathy towards Armenians -- something that would be difficult to achieve in the short term -- or the Armenians could come to terms with the Turkish element by characterising the events of 1915 in a manner independent of the characterisation accepted by the world at large and by Turkish people. In the eighth article Mr Dink, pursuing the line of argument begun in the rest of the series, wrote that "the purified blood that will replace the blood poisoned by the 'Turk' can be found in the noble vein linking Armenians to Armenia, provided that the former are aware of it." Mr Dink was of the view that the Armenian authorities should make more active efforts to strengthen ties with the country's diaspora, as a basis for a healthier national identity. He published a further article in which he referred to the Armenian origins of Atatürk's adoptive daughter. Extreme nationalist groups responded to the articles by staging demonstrations and writing threatening letters.
In February 2004 a nationalist extremist lodged a criminal complaint against Fırat Dink, alleging that the latter had insulted Turkish people with his use of the phrase "the purified blood that will replace the blood poisoned by the 'Turk' can be found in the noble vein linking Armenians to Armenia". In April 2004 the Şişli (Istanbul) public prosecutor's office instituted criminal proceedings against Fırat Dink under the article of the Turkish Criminal Code which made it an offence to denigrate "Turkishness" (Türklük) (Turkish identity). In May 2005 an expert report concluded that Fırat Dink's remarks had not insulted or denigrated anyone, since what he had described as "poison" was not Turkish blood, but rather Armenians' obsession with securing recognition that the events of 1915 amounted to genocide. In October 2005 the Şişli Criminal Court found Mr Dink guilty of denigrating Turkish identity and sentenced him to six months' imprisonment, suspended. The court held that the public could not be expected to read the whole series of articles in order to grasp the real meaning of his remarks. On 1 May 2006 the Court of Cassation (Ninth Criminal Division) upheld the guilty verdict. On 6 June 2006 Principal State Counsel at the Court of Cassation lodged an extraordinary appeal on points of law, arguing that Mr Dink's remarks had been incorrectly construed and that his freedom of expression should be protected. On 11 July 2006 the appeal was dismissed by the Court of Cassation sitting as a full criminal court. On 12 March 2007 the Criminal Court to which the case had been remitted discontinued the proceedings on account of the death of Fırat Dink.
On 19 January 2007 Fırat Dink was killed by three bullets to the head. The suspected perpetrator was arrested in Samsun (Turkey). In April 2007 the Istanbul public prosecutor's office instituted criminal proceedings against 18 accused. The proceedings are still pending.
In February 2007 investigators from the Ministry of the Interior and the gendarmerie opened an investigation in order to ascertain whether the Trabzon gendarmerie had been negligent or had failed in their duty to prevent the killing, given that an informant claimed to have warned two non-commissioned officers (NCOs) of the gendarmerie about the intended crime. The gendarmes denied having been informed about the preparations for the killing. The Trabzon provincial governor's office authorised the institution of criminal proceedings against the two NCOs but not against their superior officers. The NCOs eventually admitted that an informant had warned them of a possible killing; they claimed to have passed on all the details to their superior officers, who had been responsible for acting on the information received. The NCOs further stated that they had been ordered by their superior officers during the investigation to deny having received the information. The proceedings in question are still in progress.
The Istanbul public prosecutor's office also requested the Trabzon public prosecutor to start proceedings against the police authorities in Trabzon, on the ground that one of the accused, who was an informant of the Trabzon police, had also provided the latter with information on the preparations for the killing. The Trabzon police authorities had made no attempt to thwart these plans but had confined themselves to officially informing the Istanbul police of the likelihood of an assassination attempt. The Istanbul public prosecutor added that one of the Trabzon police chiefs had openly voiced extreme nationalist views and supported the accused. On 10 January 2008 the Trabzon prosecuting authorities decided to take no further action against the Trabzon police, noting in particular that the accusations made by the Istanbul public prosecutor had been based on a statement by one of the accused which had later been retracted. The prosecuting authorities were persuaded by the argument that the Trabzon police had not judged the information received to be credible. Finally, they stressed that the police chief suspected of supporting the defendants' actions had denied the accusations against him. An objection lodged by the applicants against the decision to take no further action was dismissed.
The investigation by the Istanbul public prosecutor's office confirmed that on 17 February 2006 the Trabzon police had officially informed the Istanbul police of the likelihood that Fırat Dink would be assassinated and had identified the suspects. The Istanbul police had not acted upon this information. Following the conclusions of three investigations into this failure to act, the management board of the Istanbul provincial governor's office decided to bring criminal proceedings for negligence against certain members of the Istanbul police authorities. However, the Istanbul Regional Administrative Court of Appeal set aside the corresponding orders on the ground that the investigation had been inadequate.
Finally, following a complaint by the applicants, a criminal investigation was opened concerning members of the Samsun police and gendarmerie on charges of defending the crime. While the suspected perpetrator was in police custody the persons concerned had had their photograph taken with the suspect, who was seen holding a Turkish flag: on the wall behind them were the words "Our country is sacred -- its future cannot be left to chance". In June 2007 the Samsun public prosecutor's office decided to discontinue the proceedings against the officers in question, taking the view that defending a crime was only an offence if it was done in public. However, disciplinary action was taken against the officers.
Relying in particular on Article 2, the applicants other than Fırat Dink complained that the State had failed in its obligation to protect the life of Fırat Dink. Under the same provision, they alleged that the criminal proceedings brought against the State agents concerned for failing to protect the journalist's life had been ineffective. On the latter point they also relied on Article 13. Under Article 10 in particular, they further alleged that the fact that Fırat Dink had been found guilty of denigrating Turkish identity had infringed his freedom of expression and made him a target for nationalist extremists.
The first application was lodged with the European Court of Human Rights on 11 January 2007 by Fırat Dink. The remaining applications were lodged on 18 December 2007 and 21 May, 27 November and 22 December 2008 respectively by Rahil, Delal, Arat and Sera Dink following the first applicant's death. In application no. 7072/09, Hasrof Dink is also an applicant.
and also Stan Naismith, Section Registrar.
The Court took the view that the Turkish security forces could reasonably be considered to have been aware of the intense hostility towards Fırat Dink in nationalist circles. The investigations carried out by the Istanbul public prosecutor's office and the Interior Ministry investigators had highlighted the fact that the police in both Trabzon and Istanbul, and the Trabzon gendarmerie, had been informed of the likelihood of an assassination attempt and even of the identity of the suspected instigators. In view of the circumstances, the threat of an assassination could be said to have been real and imminent.
The Court next considered whether the authorities had done everything that could reasonably have been expected of them to prevent Fırat Dink's assassination. None of the three authorities informed of the planned assassination and its imminent realisation had taken action to prevent it. Admittedly, as stressed by the Turkish Government, Fırat Dink had not requested police protection. However, he could not possibly have known about the plan to assassinate him. It had been for the Turkish authorities, who were informed of the plan, to take action to safeguard Fırat Dink's life.
There had therefore been a violation of Article 2 (in its "substantive aspect").
The Court examined the criminal proceedings instituted following the careful and detailed investigation into the way in which the Trabzon and Istanbul security forces had managed the information received on the planned assassination.
It noted first of all that the provincial governor's office had refused to authorise criminal proceedings against the Trabzon gendarmerie officers, with the exception of two NCOs. No judicial ruling had been given on the reasons why the officers competent to take the appropriate steps following transmission of the information by the NCOs had failed to take action. In addition, the NCOs had been forced to give false statements to the investigators. This was a case of a manifest breach of the duty to take steps to gather evidence concerning the events in question and of concerted action to hamper the capacity of the investigation to establish who was responsible.
As to the failures imputed to the Trabzon police, the Court observed that the Trabzon prosecuting authorities' decision to take no further action had been based on arguments which were contradicted by other evidence in the case file. In particular, the public prosecutor had taken the view that the police officers had not judged the information received on the planned assassination to be credible, whereas in fact they had informed the Istanbul police that an assassination attempt was imminent. Furthermore, the decision not to proceed with the charges against the chief of police had not been based on any investigation. Taken overall, the prosecuting authorities' investigation had amounted to little more than a defence of the police officers concerned, without providing any answers to the question of their failure to take action vis-à-vis the suspected assassins.
With regard to the failures imputed to the Istanbul police, the Court noted that no criminal proceedings had been started against them either, despite the findings of the Interior Ministry investigators to the effect that the police authorities had not taken the measures which the situation required. No explanation had been provided as to why the Istanbul police had not responded to the threat.
The Court acknowledged that criminal proceedings were still in progress against the suspected perpetrators of the attack. However, it could not but note that all the proceedings in which the authorities were implicated had been discontinued (with the exception of the proceedings against two NCOs in Trabzon, although this did nothing to alter the Court's conclusion).
Lastly, the Court observed that the investigations concerning the Trabzon gendarmerie and the Istanbul police had been conducted by officials belonging to the executive, and that the dead man's relatives had not been involved in the proceedings, a fact which served to undermine the investigations. The suspicion that one of the police chiefs had supported the accused's actions did not appear to have been the subject of detailed investigation either.
There had therefore been a breach of Article 2 (in its "procedural aspect"), as no effective investigation had been carried out into the failures which occurred in protecting the life of Fırat Dink.
The Turkish Government contended that there had been no breach of Fırat Dink's right to freedom of expression since at the time of his death he had not been finally convicted. The Court stressed, however, that at the time Fırat Dink died, the highest criminal court had upheld the finding that he was guilty of denigrating Turkish identity. Moreover, this finding had made him a target for extreme nationalists, and the Turkish authorities, who had been informed of the plot to kill him, had not taken steps to protect him. There had therefore been interference with the exercise of Fırat Dink's right to freedom of expression. According to the Court's case-law, such interference was acceptable if it was prescribed by law, pursued a "legitimate aim" and could be regarded as "necessary in a democratic society". The Court doubted whether it had satisfied the first two criteria, but concentrated its reasoning on the third criterion.
The Court shared the view of Principal State Counsel at the Court of Cassation that an analysis of the full series of articles in which Fırat Dink used the impugned expression showed clearly that what he described as "poison" had not been "Turkish blood", as held by the Court of Cassation, but the "perception of Turkish people" by Armenians and the obsessive nature of the Armenian diaspora's campaign to have Turkey recognise the events of 1915 as genocide. After analysing the manner in which the Court of Cassation had interpreted and given practical expression to the notion of Turkish identity, the Court concluded that, in reality, it had indirectly punished Fırat Dink for criticising the State institutions' denial of the view that the events of 1915 amounted to genocide. The Court reiterated that Article 10 of the Convention prohibited restrictions on freedom of expression in the sphere of political debate and issues of public interest, and that the limits of acceptable criticism were wider for the Government than for a private individual. It further observed that the author had been writing in his capacity as a journalist on an issue of public concern. Lastly, it reiterated that it was an integral part of freedom of expression to seek historical truth. The Court therefore concluded that Fırat Dink's conviction for denigrating Turkish identity had not answered any "pressing social need".
The Court also stressed that States were required to create a favourable environment for participation in public debate by all the persons concerned, enabling them to express their opinions and ideas without fear. In a case like the present one, the State must not just refrain from any interference with the individual's freedom of expression, but was also under a "positive obligation" to protect his or her right to freedom of expression against attack, including by private individuals. In view of its findings concerning the authorities' failure to protect Fırat Dink against the attack by members of an extreme nationalist group and concerning the guilty verdict handed down in the absence of a "pressing social need", the Court concluded that Turkey's "positive obligations" with regard to Fırat Dink's freedom of expression had not been complied with.
There had therefore been a violation of Article 10.
In cases concerning the right to life, Article 13 required not only the payment of compensation where appropriate, but also an in-depth and effective investigation capable of leading to the identification and punishment of those responsible and encompassing effective access for the family to the investigation (this went beyond the obligation to conduct an effective investigation imposed by Article 2). The lack of an effective criminal investigation in this case therefore led the Court to find that there had also been a violation of Article 13 of the Convention taken in conjunction with Article 2, as the applicants had thereby been denied access to other remedies available in theory, such as a claim for damages.
The Court held, in respect of non-pecuniary damage, that Turkey was to pay 100,000 euros (EUR) jointly to Fırat Dink's wife and children and EUR 5,000 to his brother. It was also to pay EUR 28,595 to the applicants jointly for costs and expenses.
Judge Sajó, joined by Judge Tsotsoria, expressed a separate opinion which is appended to the judgment.
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The curtain came down on Great Britain women's Olympic handball dream after their preliminary stage ended in a 37-14 defeat to Croatia on Sunday afternoon, bringing to a close an amazing six-year journey.
Losses in their opening four matches meant they came into the game knowing they had no chance of progressing to the knock-out phase and while the loss ensured they were whitewashed in the tournament, they can still leave the Copper Box for the last time with their heads held high.
Having only formed in 2006, to be even taking part in the Games was an achievement in itself. And as their involvement in London 2012 comes to an end, they know they have more than played their part in introducing handball to the British public for the first time and are certain to leave a lasting legacy long after the Olympic flame departs the capital.
Some of the players who were in tears were probably induced from the fact that they will not be able to experience the superb Copper Box atmosphere again, and in the wake of Saturday night's incredible scenes at the Olympic Stadium the women were desperate to spread the feelgood factor in front of a buoyant crowd.
But they came up against a tough Croatia side who had won three of their opening four games, though they were not out-played in the opening five minutes with goals from Louise Jukes and birthday girl Kelsi Fairbrother keeping it to 3-2.
Another Jukes effort and a Marie Gerbron penalty kept that deficit to one approaching the midway point of the first half as Team GB were enjoying their most competitive spell of the Games and Gerbron, Fairbrother and Britt Goodwin all missed other chances.
However, Croatia asserted their authority and threw in six successive goals to lead 20-15 after 20 minutes, though the partisan crowd in the Copper Box did not care too much as they raised the roof when they were informed of Andy Murray's gold medal in the tennis.
That became 12 unanswered strikes, but that run was ended by Holly Lam-Moore's goal which left them trailing 17-6 at the half-time interval.
The host nation were able to come out and soak up the atmosphere for the last time after the break and got to play in front of royalty as the Duchess of Cambridge took her seat for the second half. The Duchess was able to cheer efforts from Gerbron and a delightful lob from Zoe van der Weel, while retiring skipper Lynn McCafferty opened her account.
Croatia laid down their marker for the next phase of the competition with a strong finish, though Ewa Palies and Fairbrother strikes raised the roof in the final 10 minutes. Team GB left the court to a reception worthy of gold medal winners, which somehow seemed a fitting reward for their efforts getting here.


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Monday, 11 February 2019, 6:42a.m.
A bride who advertised for a student to take her wedding photos for free says a man who objects to her approach has urged people to assault her.
The story of her post, covered by The Herald on Thursday, had "gone viral all over the world".
The Christchurch woman, who asked not to be named, said she had received many negative comments in response to her ad on a Facebook buy/sell/trade page - and some positive ones, as well as private messages from people "wanting to take up the opportunity" to take her wedding photos.
Among the negative comments, the responses from a Christchurch photographer "stood out horribly ... he was really saying nasty things".
"At one stage he even posted saying people must wack [sic - whack] me if they see me," the woman said in an email to the Herald.
The man - whom she did not ask to take her wedding photos - followed up with threatening notes via Facebook private messages.
She told her fiance about the disturbing posts by the photographer, whose phone number was on his listing. He called the photographer, who didn't answer but responded with "very abusive messages".
"There were over 50 messages on my partner's phone and they just kept coming."
He didn't block the photographer's messages as they "could be evidence if anything happens to me".
The photographer started sending messages to the woman's Facebook friends, tried to hack her Facebook page, and threatened to turn up at the wedding.
"I guess what bothers me most is, if this fella has done this, how far will he go? When will I need to start fearing for my safety or my kids' safety."
The couple are to wed at the Sign of the Takahe, a neo-Gothic castle-like venue on the city's Port Hills, and the theme is Game of Thrones/Medieval.
They have been together for two years and have a blended family of seven children, two of whom have left home. "It's been a very long and hard road for us ..."
When they decided to marry, a fortnight ago, they planned to complete the formalities in a registry office.
"But then an opportunity came up to have a wedding ceremony at the Sign of the Takahe, a very close friend is a celebrant and agreed to marry us so we thought it would be a great way to celebrate our very special day with most of our friends."
Another friend offered to do the cake, a third offered to help with catering, and others agreed to pitch in.
"I will be honest - I do not have $3000 for a wedding photographer, and that's at the lower end of the scale."
But despite the backlash from her post, the bride-to-be received a number of private messages who were interested because they wanted to build up their portfolio or did it as a hobby.
She has selected two students who want to take photos as part of their portfolio and has agreed to let them take whatever shots they wanted.
"They are mates and I agreed for both of them just to come along and have fun. Enjoy."
The woman, who has been married twice before, will also pay for their fuel and expenses.
She only wants photos of the reception which she expected would take less than two hours and hoped to get a couple of nice photos from it.
"I'm not really fussed whether they turn out horrible or good as long as someone gets a bit of an experience from it.
"I also mentioned to the students that I would like them to be creative and be different. It's a way for them to gain confidence as well as a bit of experience in my opinion."
"I had no intention of exploiting students. I was a student once and no-one will give you the 'gap' to do anything risky."


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Torquay United captain Luke Young is likely to miss the whole of this season after injuring knee ligaments last month, says manager Paul Cox.
Young, who got seven goals last season, was injured during training and had initially been ruled out of a return to action until February at the earliest.
"For me, it's the season," Cox told BBC Radio Devon when asked how long Young would be out.
"The best case scenario is six months, worst case scenario it'll be a year."
Young joined Torquay on a two-year deal last summer following his release by the club's League Two neighbours Plymouth Argyle.
"I had a chat with Luke and as a person I'm totally gutted for the lad because he's been a shining example of what I want in a footballer at this football club," added Cox.
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Forum user edoc has request DjVu file format support as well as there's a problem with the petget installer where I've some how deleted a file preventing installing of new Pets from Barry K's site that I want to fix.
Also I want to add some more small plugins for Konqueror to add more usability.
I thinking of adding Wengophone (older smaller version) to TEENpup as well.
I think it would be easier to create an new iso than post all these changes on the forum.
Any suggestions for Apps you'd like to see added to TEENpup please post them now and I will see what I can do.
If it's not too big and I can get it working properly in TEENpup I see if I can include it in this update/bug fix, now's the time to make your requests.
i've just downloaded version 2.12 of wengophone, and i wonder whether you need to include it with teenpup, as it seems to be an app that you can extract pretty much anywhere, click on the wengophone.sh file, and it works. the only thing missing is that it perhaps needs a .desktop file for the menu. what do you think?
worked 12 hours today, so will install it and have a play tomorrow.
The desktop file is no problem at all to create, do it all the time.
In the expected update, you can look forward to KDE's Kaffeine MediaPlayer. It's basically KDE's Gxine Player and offers a few more options.
What I like about this install is that all require codec dependencies are met.
Even with Ubuntu, Mepis etc, this is something I've never seen.
This bug fix/update is going well at the moment, just one problem I'm having with Kaffeine is that it crashes upon exiting of the program, while it appears to all work fine during normal use, this problem to me lets TEENpup down, what do you think.
It's been a journey testing different versions of Kaffeine to find one that doesn't crash in TEENpup 2.14 and I found that version 0.4.3b works perfectly.
I don't know about other user's of Gxine Player, But I've found when playing DVD's in full screen mode that there was the odd flicker and line here and there.
Now with Kaffeine 0.4.3b there's only a perfect clear image.
Another bonus is that this version of Kaffeine is only half the size of the later versions.
I've been enjoying TeenPUP because of the large amount of applications it has. I've had issues with wireless connectivity, which, thanks to jonyo and others has come to a solution.
First, on the second boot of Teen, I'm stuck at the line where it tries to dicover the network using Rausb0. It says I can hit return to go on, but I haven't had any luck with that. I've had to unplug the wireless USB device to get PUP to boot.
The second issue is related.
I tried unsuccessfully for days to get the Network Wizard to work with my network and wireless router. a lot of different things were thrown at it to make it happen.
jonyo suggested I use RutilT. I did, with no connectivity until I changed from auto DHCP to Static with the router's own settings.
The Wizard wouldn't allow connectivity with that alteration, but the utility did.
be made to works as the RutilT did?
Think you can, think you can't. Either way your right!
Great work on this derivative. I was about to install it on some old laptops but noticed this update thread which sounds great.
Do you think it will be available soon, as I'd prefer to wait a week or two, if it is.
Taking Puppy Linux to the limit of perfection. meanwhile try "puppy pfix=duct_tape" kernel parem eater.
Can you please supply any links to the apps you want in TEENpup and what you got working in your remaster.
Thanks John, for inviting community input - its another example of why Puppy's special! TeenPup is so near my ideal Puppy it hurts.
I've tried about a dozen Puppy varient live CDs so far, and each has its own virtues. Yet none I've seen lets me do four important (to me) things in a browser: view sites with Flash/Java, watching & listening to streaming multimedia and reading PDF docs. It seems many have one or two, and TP has three out of four if the Java install covers the browser (or must one still manually copy .so-and-.so files to .such-and-.such directories? ).
Or will it only work with Acrobat Reader itself? There used to be a Firefox Foxit extension but it appears to have dis-appeared. A 'PDF Download' FF ext. exists that might do the job instead, (i.e. call KPDF or Foxit). Can these two functions (i.e. multimedia & PDF) be more simply handled by configuring the 'helper applications' in Seamonkey? If so can Seamonkey or Firefox be pre-configured to do this, 'cause I haven't figured out how that works (i.e. associating file types with applications in SM/FF)? As for Ghostview I suspect it just can't handle the latest PDF standards, its never worked right in any Puppy I've tried.
I really appreciate inclusion of some VoIP softphones - its the 'next big thing'. Would you consider updating Gizmo1beta to the latest Gizmo3? (Debian pkg. which could be dot.pup'd here: http://www.gizmoproject.com/download-linux.html).
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I had a play around with trying to get Jabbin to run in TEENpup without luck, I believe it's possible but outside my abilities at the moment.
Also Gizmo 3 dependancies might cause it not to work in TEENpup, I'll have to play with that one as well.
As for JAVA just click on the desktop icon install the dotpup (takes a while to install) and wait for Seamonkey to open. It will open JAVA's test page to confirm that JAVA was installed correctly.
If you have problems do this.
In Seamonkey click on "edit" then "preferences" then "Advanced" and enable JAVA. JAVA should now work.
As for Kpdf and Adobe Acrobat plugin, I haven't tried it. Basically if you go to a website that has a PDF file on it, just click on that PDF and Kpdf should open after a few seconds.
If you really need Adobe Acrobat, Then version 7 from Mandrake, Mandriva will work after unrpming it with the undeb/unrpm dotpup.
At one stage I did have it in TEENpup 2.14 but at about 85mb's in size, I felt as I already had Kpdf in TEENpup 2.14, I could have more apps and still allow the iso to be smaller.
It's just over 2M dload, and needs QT libraries and speex installed. Both these are available as .pet packages on puppy's ibiblio site. Oddly it also needs libGL.so.1, which is available by installing the openGl .pup from Mu's site, at dotpups.de/dotpups.