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Summary of the Novel
Lord of the Flies is set during an unspecified war. A planeload of British schoolchildren is shot down and marooned on a deserted island. There are no adults present.
As the story opens, the jungle on the island is severely scarred from the wreckage of the plane. Two boys—the fair-haired, charismatic Ralph, and the fat, asthmatic, thickly bespectacled Piggy—emerge from the jungle. While they are swimming in a shallow pool inside a lagoon, Ralph discovers a beautiful conch shell. Piggy suggests he blow it as a signal for other survivors.
One by one, boys of ages six to twelve appear from the jungle. Among them are several older boys, identical twins Sam and Eric (sometimes referred to as Samneric due to their lack of individual identity), the quiet but strange Roger, the thoughtful Simon, and the charismatic Jack Merridew, leader of the choir.
While absorbing the view, the boys come upon a wild piglet caught in some creeper vines. Jack takes out a large knife and prepares to kill the pig. He hesitates, and the pig escapes. Jack is upset by what he perceives to be Ralph's condemnation of his hesitation. He silently vows to himself, "Next time there would be no mercy."
Later, Ralph uses the conch to call another meeting. It is decided that whoever holds the conch shell will have the right to speak at the meetings. A small boy with a mulberry-colored birthmark obscuring half of his face receives the conch. He tells the others of a "beastie" that comes in the dark and wants to eat him. Some deny its existence, but Jack vows to hunt it when he and his hunters hunt pig for meat.
Next, the boys decide that they must make a signal fire on the mountain to attract ships to rescue them. They gather wood and use Piggy's glasses to start the fire. In their exuberance and inexperience, they allow the fire to rage out of control and it consumes a large portion of the jungle. The small boy with the mulberry-colored birthmark disappears and is never seen again. It is implied he was killed in the fire.
Jack quickly learns the art of hunting, but still hasn't gotten a pig. While he hunts, Ralph and Simon build poorly constructed shelters on the beach from palm trunks and fronds. Jack returns from his unsuccessful hunt, and he and Ralph clash over the decision to hunt or build the shelters.
Simon discovers a secret place in the jungle. It is a hollow completely obscured by creeper vines. He sits here, away from the others, and contemplates the beauty of the jungle.
As time passes, the boys begin to resemble less and less the civilized British schoolchildren they used to be. Their uniforms deteriorate and their hair grows long and ragged. A marked boundary begins to grow between the younger children (littluns) who play all day, and the older children (biguns) who seem to be growing divided as to their responsibilities.
Ralph, Piggy, Simon, Sam and Eric see the need for order and civilization, while Jack and his hunters become obsessed with the ideas of finding meat and protecting the littluns from the beast. Jack introduces his hunters to the notion of camouflaging their features with red and white clay and black charcoal for hunting. This gradual masking of their identities allows them to become more ruthless and effective hunters.
Presently, the smoke from a ship passing the island is discovered, but Jack and the hunters, preoccupied with hunting, have let the signal fire they were tending go out. Jack returns from the hunt, triumphant over killing a pig and slitting its throat himself, only to be rebuffed by Ralph for neglecting the fire.
The boys clash on the matter, but eventually all share in consuming the meat. Ralph calls another meeting to deal with the situation involving the signal fire. Another littlun, Phil, speaks of his dreams of the beast. This again inspires Jack to lobby for the necessity of his hunters. He and Ralph argue again over the importance of the signal fire versus the meat. Jack declares his disgust and he and his hunters leave the meeting.
Ralph considers giving up being chief. Piggy, who fears Jack, tries to convince him not to. That night, unseen by the castaways, there is a fight between aircraft ten miles in the sky over the island. A dead parachutist lands on the side of the mountain in a sitting position. The wind, catching in the parachute, makes the figure rock back and forth.
The boys, thinking it is the beast, argue over whether or not to approach it. The boys, led by Ralph with an angry Jack in tow, travel to the mountainside to see the beast. Jack sees the natural bridge to the island's outcropping. He decides that the separate island, joined to the main island by a rock ledge, would make a great fort. It contains many rocks that could be rolled onto the approach path to kill enemies. He and Ralph argue again, and Jack verbally denies any further loyalty to the conch and its power.
The boys' continued expedition to the figure on the mountain is interrupted when the boys flush a boar. Ralph wounds it when it charges him. The boar escapes, but they celebrate the encounter with another primitive blood lust dance in which Robert, pretending to be the pig, is beaten by the hunters who are overly excited by the dance. Ralph's bravery in the face of the boar's charge is forgotten.
As the day wanes, most of the boys have returned to the shelters, but Ralph, Jack, and Roger have pressed on and apprehensively approach the figure. The wind causes it to move and the boys see its decaying face in the darkness. They all flee. At the next meeting, Jack and Ralph question each other's bravery on the mountain. Jack convinces his hunters to separate themselves from the rest.
Following Piggy's suggestion Ralph, Simon, and Samneric try to maintain a signal fire down off the mountain, away from Jack and his hunters. Jack orders his hunters to kill a pig for a feast, hoping that the roasting meat will draw the others' loyalty away from Ralph. They kill a pig and he orders them to mount its head on a stick as a sacrifice for the beast.
Simon, who had been in his hiding place, contemplates the head of the boar that the hunters had unknowingly impaled near him. He imagines a conversation with the head, and begins to see in it the source of evil on the island. He has an epileptic seizure. He awakens, and the head again reveals itself to him as the symbol of anarchy on the island. Simon has a second seizure.
Simon awakens again and climbs the mountain to view the figure of the dead parachutist that the boys believe is the beast. He discovers that it is harmless, and that the true nature of what the boys should fear, the real beast, is symbolized by the pig's head. He returns to tell the others.
Meanwhile, Jack and his hunters roast the pig, and the others, including Ralph and Piggy, join the feast. Ralph and Jack argue again and most of the boys side with Jack this time. Ralph tries to convince them that they need shelters, but Jack distracts them by commanding another blood lust dance. The boys become so swept up in the dance that Simon, emerging from the forest, is mistaken for the beast. All the boys, marginally including Ralph and Piggy, beat him to death. The tide sweeps his body out to sea.
Back at the shelters, Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric contemplate their roles in Simon's death. That night, Jack and his hunters attack them and steal Piggy's glasses for a fire. The next day, Ralph, Samneric, and Piggy approach Castle Rock, where Jack's tribe has gathered, to demand the return of Piggy's glasses. Ralph wants to reestablish the power of the conch.
He and Samneric approach the hunters while Piggy and the conch stay on the stone bridge. Jack and Ralph argue again while the hunters take Samneric prisoner. Roger releases a rock they had rigged to guard the bridge. It falls on Piggy, smashes the conch, and plunges Piggy over the edge to his death.
Ralph escapes and the hunters hunt him. He hides near Castle Rock but only manages to learn that Roger has tortured Samneric into joining the hunt. Samneric now fear Roger, the sadist, more than Jack. Eventually, the hunters corner Ralph in Simon's old hiding place. They flush him from concealment with a fire. Ralph manages to escape to the beach with the hunters right behind.
He comes face to face with a shocked naval officer. A battle cruiser has docked in the lagoon, drawn by the smoke from Jack's fire. The officer is appalled at the savage condition of the children. Ralph assumes responsibility for what appears to be poor leadership. Ralph begins to weep for the three dead children and the castaways' loss of innocence.
Jack emerges onto the beach without his hunting camouflage or weapons. Only Piggy's broken glasses on his belt give any indication of his previous savagery. One of the littluns cannot remember his own name. The officer, embarrassed by what he mistakenly perceives to be Ralph's undignified relief at rescue, turns away and stares at his warship in the lagoon.
Estimated Reading Time
Lord of the Flies contains 12 chapters ranging in length from nine to 23 pages, with an average length of 15 pages. Each chapter can probably be read in 45 to 60 minutes. A range of 10 to 15 hours should be allowed for reading time of the novel.


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This is an old revision of PuppySIP made by CrustyLobster on 2009-07-27 14:56:44.
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Psip is a very simple Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) application. It is based on Benny Prijono's PJSUA, the engine which has made this project possible. This project is a work in progress and is likely to be continually improved over time. This help file has been written to help get you up and running quickly. The main benefit of this application is it small size, round 600k.
This package was developed specifically for Puppy Linux, the small distro with the huge functionality.
There are a number of other VIOP programs that will run on Puppy Linux, Skype and Gismo to name two. Both are very good applications and have more bells and whistles than Psip however you will find Psip voice quality is excellent and the lag time is barely noticeable.
Ok, let's take it for a spin, what can it do?
* Make free voice calls from PC to PC
* Make voice calls from PC to landlines or mobiles (You need an account at a SIP provider such as proxy01.sipphone.com)
* Instant messaging
* Leave and retrieve free voice mail messages (using proxy01.sipphone.com)
* Conference calls
* Listen to news and sports services
* Make voice calls from PC to landlines or mobiles (You need an account at a SIP provider such as proxy01.sipphone.com)
* Instant messaging
* Leave and retrieve free voice mail messages (using proxy01.sipphone.com)
* Conference calls
* Listen to news and sports services
There is no video functionality in Psip and there are no plans to include it. Psip was designed to be small and efficient so it would be viable to include in future releases of Puppy Linux.
The interface was written in the GTKdialog3 scripting language. Although the language has limitation a very functional interfaces has been developed. You may notice the look will change from time to time and additional functionality will be added. We will try and keep this help file current but as you can imagine it takes a lot of work.
It is difficult to meet the requirements and personal taste of every one however suggestions are welcomed. Please use the Psip forum thread to do this. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31061
Below is an example of one of many interfaces.
At the time of writing, this interface had not been released however; the functions are the same for all current versions. The above interface was designed to run on the EEEPC.
You will notice four colorful buttons, Call, Answer, Text Chat and Hang up. I don't expect these need further explanation.
There is a dial pad. You will need to use this occasionally to enter numbers when required just like a telephone.
Underneath the dial pad is a button that says Reload Buddies. The purpose of this button is to refresh the online status of your buddies. The buddies list is automatically refreshed every few minutes but if you are impatient you can manually force it to update.
You will also notice a status line that runs across the bottom of the interface/menu. This will display the last status change of your buddies list and other system information.
On the right of the buttons you will notice your buddies list. Initially this will be blank until you add buddies. It might also be blank when you first login, if so press the reload buddies button. If you know you have buddies and the list is not populated PJSUA is probably not running. There will be more about this later.
The "?" indicates your buddy is Offline or not logged into a SIP server. This status defaults to Online When online or On The Phone when making or receiving calls. Other statuses can be selected from the configure menu.
How to make a Call
Click on the address of the person you wish to call then click the green call button. To make a call, the person you are calling must be online. If they are not online and you are logged into the proxy01.sipphone.com sip server you should get the opportunity to leave a voice mail message. You need to set up an account on the server to use it.
How to answer a Call
You will hear some incoming beeps and a little box will pop up on your screen. The box has two buttons; answer and hang up. You may also answer the call from pressing the button on the main interface. Wait about a second and start your voice conversation.
You can close the popup window if you like with the x in the top right hand corner of the box. The reason this function is duplicated is to allow you to have Psip minimized while working on something else. If a call comes in you simply press the answer button. It saves you having to maximize Psip to answer the call.
How to Hang up
Press the red Hang up button.
How to Text Chat
This button allows you to send instant messages to anyone in your buddies list. They have to be online to receive them.
To send an IM or text message, click on the person in the buddies list then click on the Text Chat button. You will notice two windows will pop up. One to type into and the other to receive information in. This will also pop up the same windows on your buddy's computer. You may chat to more than one person at a time but all chats are private. You only have one receiving window and all of the information will be displayed in that window. It does identify who the message is coming from at the start of each message.
Only 128 characters can be typed into each message.
Drop Down Menus
At the top of the interface you will see four drop down menus. They are Phone, Presets, Configure, and Help.
The first drop down is Phone, and the first option is; Call SIP URL, this allows you to manually make calls when the number or address is not in your buddy list.
You can also answer and hang-up calls from here if you wish with options two and three.
Restart in Command Line Interface (CLI) mode, this allows you some additional freedom. The interface will not respond to PJSUA and all commands need to me entered via the CLI. This can be a little tricky if you are not use to working this way that's why the interface was developed to make life easier.
The next four commands may disappear in future releases but they are very useful.
I guess this would be a good time to explain the relationship between PJSUA and Psip. As I said earlier in the document, PJSUA is the engine and can be run from the CLI. Psip is the graphical interface that makes it easier to drive PJSUA. As you can see from the above menu it is possible to run PJSUA and Psip independently.
The main command to remember here is the last command, Quit and shut down pjsua. This command closes both PJSUA and Psip. If you close the Psip interface with the x in the top right corner only Psip will be closed and PJSUA will continue to run. Apparently this is a limitation of GTKdialog3. The simplest way to close PJSUA if you have already closed Psip is to start Psip again from the start menu and this time select Phone> Quit and shut down pjsua. It will report that PJSUA is already running but it won't start a second session.
The next menu item is Presets.
The Gizmo Voicemail option allows you to leave and retrieve voicemails. This is where you will need to use you dial/key pad.
The second option is conference. This option will allow you to initiate or join a conference call on the Gizmo SIP server. As stated earlier you need an account to do this.
Click on conference and follow the directions.
The maximum number of people we have tetsed in a conference is 4. This may be a limitation of the server.
The third option is a news service. It allows you to hear daily news and sports results ETC.
The commands are voice activated and it can sometimes be difficult for the system to recognize you voice commands. It's pretty cool nevertheless.
The next menu item is Configure.
Edit Account allows you to edit your account. This is the account you use to log into your sip server.
Add Buddy allows you to add Buddy's to your Buddy list. The results of both of these functions are saved in you config file.
Set Online Status allows you to display how you would like to be seen.
Click on your choice the one you would like to display.
Debug is really designed to help us solve problems.
The menu has a number of items that are useful but the Build Crash Report is the most useful to the developers.
The Edit Config File allows you to make amendments to you configuration file. The file will be preserved when upgrading to later versions of Psip. You need to close PJSUA and restart it again before the changes will take effect.
The final menu item is Help. You need to be connected to the internet to use Help which is not really a problem as you also need to be connected to use Psip.
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The Psip Wiki is another useful link to gather information.
The Pjsua Manual option will take you to another web site. It's worth a look if you would like to learn more about Pjsua.
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Saint James Infimary from Oakland California play a unique blend of
music. They have received some of the most bizzare reviews, victims
of their brand of rock and roll. -And yes -it is rock and roll.
It's driving, and it get's people dancing. Their music comes through
a mix of styles. Many sides of their sound are totally raw and loud,
but they are dynamic. A real blend of harshness and catchiness.
Don't try to pigeon hole them, don't try and stop them.
Saint James Infrimary have been around since August 1996. Not a long
time at, but the first time I saw them, I knew things would happen
quikly. It's been a rocky road for this band. Stealing their name
frOm Uriah Heep's bassist's solo band. They played their first show
in October in Eureka California, choosing an place far far aWay from
their home, Oakland California. Next it was Holloween in Oakland. So
far so good. You see, they were'nt sure about their sound at first,
and needed to test the waters. Luckily, the water was great. Saint
James Infirmary played as many shows as possible for months,
venturing North and even through infamous L.A. territory, where
things went great too. The band was formed by guitarist Jason
Rosenberg of Engage and Glass Babble Radio. He moved from Santa
Rosa, Ca. to Richmond Va. in search of this band. It wasn't until he
got back to the bay area in January 1996 that he would be able to
find the other membershe was looking for. He hooked up with Paul Lee
formaly of Monsula to do the vocals. Together they tried various
rythm sections to no avail. Then they were tipped of to a drummer
from Seattle who was down here looking to get a band going. They met
Eric Alexander from Demspey, Balance Of The World and Ten-O-Seven.
They arranged a practice and needed a bass player right away. Andrew
of Screw 32 fame recommended his roomate Omen Starr, from New Red
Archives' Accustomed To Nothing. The first practice was in Pauls
room, a basement in the house where he and Jason lived. It didn't go
well apparently. The material was strange and new, and Eric felt it
lacked anything resembling music. Eric only practiced a second time
because he did'nt want to bring his drums home that day and was
obligated. For some reason the second pracice went okay. Thus became
the begining of a crazy ride. Two months later found the band
working on a sound that was unique. Something powerfull and loud, it
was straight ahead rock and roll while being completely anti-rock
and roll. Chaos and melody were crashing together. They put out a
four song demo, which later became the 7" EP on Allied Recordings.
hadn't seen a band work so hard, playing as many shows as possible
without getting tired, writing new material, putting out a demo and
record and moving and moving. Then it got rough. Eric ripped a
muscle while they were in L.A. for one of their many trips. Eight
shows were canceled, which totally fucked up all the momentum and
threw a wrench in everything. And when it couldn't get worse, about
a month later while getting back in shape, after a quite normal
practice Paul got his finger slammed in the van door, felt light
headed went for fresh air and passed out on the way out of the van.
He fell on his face. Cement is not the thing you want to slam your
face on. Eight hours later and a long night in the emergency room,
it was realized that the Nothwest/Canadain tour would have to be
cancelled. That night cancelled 17 shows... That hurt the band, and
everyone's motivation. Three months later Paul didn't want a band
anymore. He left the band. It was a rough decision for everyone. It
was a rough decision to keep going. But alas, well worth it. A call
was made by Jason to Baltimore Md. to a Scott Carter. Scott and
Jason had played together in Glass Babble Radio years before.
Needless to say, Scott quit his job, left his apartment and his home
to drive 3,000 miles with his dog and a P.A. in the back of his
truck. Scott had done him time as well on the East Coast playing in
the ingfamous Freak Beans and Glaze Ride. The first practice with
Scott was amazing, things were once again looking up. Many shows
were booked, a Nothwest/Canadian tour, and yet another
L.A./Southwest tour. A record was already scheduled to be released
on Allied Recordings and Frenetic Records. The momentum was without
doubt back again. Scott was thrust into a totally insane time. One
month to practice to learn all the songs. Then leave for Canada.
Come back a record an albumn in a week in San Fransico, while
playing a few local shows. Finish up and get on the road again, to
come back a do another strech of local shows. In fact in October of
1997 Saint James Infirmary plyed 20 shows and recorded for eight
days in a 37 day period. And as you see it's been going quite well.
Moist Magazine
Yes, dear reader, you too will be slapping yourself
silly for intially dismissiing this band, but you'll come to your
senses when you realize the apparent "toughness" of this albumn is
just spastic genuis in disguise. Very jagged and abrassive inn a
Circus Lupus traditionn, yet occupying it's own creative spac. When,
oh when willI get to experience these sweetly disurbing time
signatures live?
Shredding Material Magazine
Fucking yes! -amazing noisy indie rawk
that truly shines. Damn I cant' wait to heaar more from this band.
This leves me floored.
Flipside Magazine
Saint james infirmary perform such a lighning-fast
invasion upon the unsuspecting audial senses, it reminds me of
German troops during their blietzkrieg advances across the
soon-to-be tattered European landscape in the early stages of WWII.
This is fast, furios, fericiuos and unrelenting like the
swift-as-sound punches of Muhhammad Ali when he was at his
wham-bam-fuck-you, Uncle Sam prime... a dandy of a disc that packs a
throbbing wallop of knock-out, down-for-the-count proportions.
Metalish punk rocketing throught the sound barrier, fueled by
seething anger and tortured torment...infuriated energy boils forth
from this CD like the fiery frenzy of the Tasmanian Devil doin'
Henry Rollins doogy-stye!.. Boy howdy, this is a brain rattler, and
I reccomend it for those of you who relish speedy sonic sounds that
bulge the veins in your neck and pop your eyes right out of their
Suburban Voice Magazine
Saint James Infirmary got their name from a
pre-Uriah Heep band they saw on the back of that group's "Best Of"
albumn. And that like the Heep, they're mighty rockin' but you won't
find any organs here. Just gutar, bass and drums that lash out with
virtolic forcefulness and craved vocals. Using similar tools as
Jesus Lizard or Rye Coalition. Jagged slashing passageways that
convey a dexteruos, as well as fiery musical command. Ispirational
Jersey Beat Magazine
I loved this from the very opening of the first
track "Bullshit Artist" until the final seconds of "Losing Race".
Saint James Infirmary leap out at you with a proggesive raging
records that remains furiosly intense and passionate without
becoming predictable.
Eventide Magazine
With ex-members of a wide variety of bands, I had
no idea what to expect from this. What I got was a noisy, heavy band
with screamy vocals that probobly wouldn't be out of place on Touch
& Go if they slowed down their pace a little. This band is tight as
hell, and I would really like to check them out live; it's not easy
to explain, but I mean that in a good way.
Held Like Sounds Magazine
A very surprising 7". really good melodic
hardcore/punk with a definate '80s Dischord influence, and that's
always a good thing. I think these guys are one of those
"ex-members" kind of bands, but I never listened to any of their old
bands so this only excites me because it rocks, and I'd certainly
prefer it that way. Four very good songs. I look forward to more
Freedom Of Expression Magazine
Loud, distorted (even the vocals),
angst ridden, Touch and Go influenced as of the late '80s early
'90s. Tension music.
Fracture Magazine
No, not the place that mends Leeds people, the
band. And a trip into this Saint James Infirmary is surely way more
enjoyable (though probobly less comfortable) than a trip to St.
James Infirmary in Leeds. I say unconfortable because the sound is
akin to a cross between edgy hardcore of say, Sparkmarker but with a
deranged side to it, like a lot of Alternative Tentacles band
possess, Dead And Gone to name one. In listening to this record I've
bitten my nails down to the flesh, it's got an uneasiness to it,
it's noisy and scatty and tuneful all at once.
Spank Magazine
Do you love Jawbox? Now that they're gone, do you
find yourself scratching that burning itch -not with similar,
melodic, East Coast gyrations -but instead with the meatier weight
of hardcore? Me either, but if I did I'd throw myself at the mercy
of Saint James Infirmary. This band is over-the-top power with
jagged rhythms and vocals that sound a little like Scott Weiland...
Features former bassist of Accustomed To Nothing.
Status Magazine
This is one of the best releases out of the bay area
scene in a long fucking time. I am truly amazed by the beauty, and
intensity of this four song seven inch. Saint James Infirmary play a
hard edged, pretty basic, Quicksand/Fugazi-ish style. That is a
basic explanation of their style, but I highly recommend hearing
this for yourself. Excitment pours out of me when I hear this. Saint
James seem to be leading the way for a new style of the post
hardcore genre. Ex-members of Monsula and Dempsay rock the house on
this one. An amazing seven inch, and there is a CD coming out soon.


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As the dust settles on the EuroLeague Women Final Eight, it's time to review a super week of action in Ekaterinburg.
There was no bigger story in Ekaterinburg than the sensational accomplishment of playmaker Silvia Dominguez securing an incredible third straight title in three years, with a third different club. I am not even sure this kind of success at continental club championship level has ever been accomplished by any athlete in any sport.
She may even have become the first Spanish player to win EuroLeague Women playing for a non-Spanish team, (or at least one of the first) and grabbed her third title on the same floor she won her first with Halacon Avenida a couple of years ago.
|Silvia Dominguez has now won three EuroLeague Women titles in three years with three different clubs.
It really is astonishing, so it was a real delight when the confetti had stopped falling inside the Arena, to see Silvia, on the shoulders of Sandrine Gruda, cutting down the net.
Now I just hope Silvia gets the respect she deserves, since I don't think it has been until this season and in this special moment that her talent and beautifully simple and effective approach to point-guard play has been fully recognised. The fact that UMMC didn't miss the presence of the wonderful Sue Bird, speaks absolute volumes.
'Felicidades' Silvia and we can't wait to see you orchestrating the play for the Spanish national team once again when you step out at EuroBasket Women this summer. It's no wonder that Spanish coach Lucas Mondelo had a smile on his face after the game.
The overriding memory for me will be all four semi-final coaches excelling. I can't ever remember this happening previously at any tournament. In this case, not only because of the job they did with their respective teams, but also how they spoke about each other and their players.
There's no more pertinent place to start than with Olaf Lange. People will inevitably try to dilute the achievement because he had the most expensive team, the best players in the world and 'home' advantage. But, as history shows, this is no guarantee and I thought he did an amazing job in ensuring his players were well prepared and focused. Defensively, they were majestic and I think they could have played for a number of weeks without losing a single game on that form.
Lange was absolutely correct after the Final when he said whatever the format of the tournament, be it Final Eight or Final Four, his team would have won. I also liked the way he pointed to the fact that even the best teams need a big dose of luck and he had been given this due to the fact he had not had to deal with any major injuries.
Roberto Iniguez has barely coached in the competition for 18 months, but has already called the plays in two title games. He did a fine job in getting Fenerbahce to the Final and whilst arguably outclassed on the night, there's no shame in finishing second to possibly the best ever team assembled in EuroLeague Women. It was a great achievement for Fener to make history by becoming the first Turkish club to contest the Final and they should be very proud.
Valerie Garnier didn't get as much credit as she deserved whilst in Ekaterinburg. For Bourges to get third place with a full-strength team would have been amazing. To do it during a season when her team was decimated by injuries was just superb. She rarely complained about it and just got her team playing hard-nosed defence and utilising the amazing leadership of Celine Dumerc. It was another fine achievement.
Good Angels Kosice head coach Maros Kovacik has already received plenty of praise, not only from me, but also his from his peers, with the general consensus suggesting he is Coach of the Year. Even though he didn't get his team onto the podium, the scale of disappointment in not grabbing third spot underlines everything you need to know about what a fantastic season this has been for him and his team.
Finally, I also believe Jacek Winnicki of CCC Polkowice deserves particular praise for getting the Polish club to Final Eight and for coming within 40 minutes of making the last four. CCC Polkowice doesn't have huge depth, but they played really well and have had a great campaign which could see more domestic success before the end of the season.
|Without Lindsay Whalen Galatasaray failed to make an impact in Ekaterinburg.
When Lindsay Whalen departed Istanbul over an alleged salary payment dispute, the prospects of EuroLeague Women success for Galatasaray left with her. It was always going to be a challenge for Lindsey Harding and Eshaya Murphy to make any kind of an impact having arrived so late in the season. The consequences of losing your primary playmaker mid-season and especially at the elite level, should never be under-estimated.
The early exit really hurt Galatasaray. Saziye Ivegin was on the verge of tears after the final game and admired the way head coach Ekrem Memnun spoke at that moment. When a journalist asked what he thought about the people who said they would make the semi-finals, he bluntly replied, "They were wrong." His subsequent analogy about Whalen leaving being not like a minor repair to a car, but more like having the engine removed summarised where the problems lay.
I had described the decision UMMC Ekaterinburg had to make between Candace Parker and Sue Bird as the most expensive in the history of women's basketball - due to the high stakes and financial sums involved.
The decision was emphatically proved to be the right one and I loved seeing Parker playing with such a smile on her face and really dominating like I have never really seen before.
It was also nice to see Sue Bird joining in with the celebrations too. It must have been tough having to balance mixed emotions when watching.
Finally, huge credit to UMMC Ekaterinburg for being such wonderful hosts and especially to a relieved General Manager Maxim Ryabkov, who finally got his hands on that much-coveted silverware. We now wait with baited breath to see if this heralds the start of a glittering period of dominance by UMMC, or a one-off.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Alameda County Sheriff's Department is hoping to become one of the handful of local law enforcement agencies that have received federal clearance to use unmanned aerial drones to fight crime, a goal that already is arousing concerns among privacy advocates.
Civil liberties and privacy groups revealed Thursday that Sheriff Greg Ahern is seeking Department of Homeland Security funding to buy a small remote-controlled drone called a Dragon Fly. If the money comes through and the Federal Aviation Administration permits the department to test the device, Alameda would be the first public safety agency in California to deploy technology first developed for spying on U.S. enemies overseas.
A memo that one of Ahern's captains prepared over the summer, obtained by the Freedom of Information Act web site MuckRock, says the drone would be equipped with a long-distance camera, live video downlink and infrared sensors that could be used for monitoring bomb threats, fires, unruly crowds, search and rescue operations, and marijuana grows. Read More


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Symbolic is an enterprise platform designed to build, configure, and manage your huge and globally distributed data centers. It features cloud computing, Web manager virtual environments (Xen, KVM, and libvirt), clustering support, custom operations and scripts support, and user and role definitions.
slkvm is an application to provide some system tools to work with clustering and virtualization. It focuses on depending on as few external tools as possible but to also support as many virtualization technologies as possible. It works in a cluster environment where heartbeat runs virtual machines of nodes that have failed. It builds an "unheaded" cluster to avoid having a clear point of failure. It is able to build a two node cluster with everything redundant. It avoids compiling a new kernel or newer version of applications, so you can benefit from Debian security updates.
wsrep-enabled MySQL (previously MySQL/Galera cluster) can use wsrep replication providers, such as Galera, to form a cluster. wsrep API is an abstract replication interface that supports global transaction ID, true multi-master capability, conflict detection and resolution, and parallel applying and is transparent to triggers, stored procedures, and functions by replicating only final transaction results. Only the InnoDB storage engine and DDL commands are supported by this patch.
OpenSVC is a 'service' manager, as in clustered service manager. Services are described as collections of resources (IP, disk groups, filesystems, file synchronizations, and application launchers). Services can be started, stopped and queried for status, providing a consistent command set for wildly different service integrations. Services can be administered using a stand-alone free software stack deployed on the nodes (nodeware). Service configurations, status, and logs are pushed to a central database coupled to a Web front-end (collector).
Lingua Server is a fast multi-protocol application service server in Java. Its main features are very fast response times, a pluggable protocol and transport architecture, very easy application service development (MVC), built-in cluster support using multicast, auto-discovery, and distributed shared objects.
Makeflow is a workflow engine for executing large complex applications on clusters, clouds, and grids. It can be used to drive several different distributed computing systems, including Condor, SGE, and the included Work Queue system. It does not require a distributed filesystem, so you can use it to harness whatever collection of machines you have available. It is typically used for scaling up data-intensive scientific applications to hundreds or thousands of cores.
Gossimon is a gossip-based distributed monitoring system for a cluster of Linux nodes. Each node in the cluster periodically send information about itself and others to a randomly selected node. This way, each node constantly receives information about cluster nodes. This information is locally maintained (constantly updated) by each node and can be used by various clients for monitoring and resource allocation. The gossip protocols used by gossimon are very robust to node failure, and the information quality is hardly degraded even when large parts of the cluster are taken down. The package contains: infod (the daemon responsible for collecting and sending information for other nodes); mmon (a curses-based monitoring client displaying information about cluster nodes); and infod-client (a command-line client that retrieves cluster information in XML format).


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Claudication refers to limping because of pain in the thigh, calf, and/or buttocks that occurs when walking. Claudication may be a symptom of peripheral arterial disease (PAD). PAD is caused by a narrowing or blockage of arteries in the legs and/or aorta (the largest artery in the body and the primary blood vessel leading from the heart to the body), which may cause decreased blood flow to the muscles of the calf, thigh, or buttocks. This decreased blood flow may cause claudication. The pain associated with claudication occurs with walking but disappears at rest.
Claudication may be a symptom of underlying systemic artery disease and is seen more often in persons who have blockages in other arteries, including the heart and brain. Because claudication is associated with an increased risk for heart attack or stroke, its presence signals the need for assessment and possible treatment.
According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, about 8 to 12 million Americans have peripheral arterial disease (PAD, particularly people age 50 and older. The Vascular Disease Foundation states men (5 percent) and women (2.5 percent) 60 years of age and older have symptoms of intermittent claudication.
Claudication generally occurs when walking the same distance. With progressive vessel disease, the initial claudication distance (that distance at which a person first experiences pain when walking) may decrease or the person may no longer be able to walk.
Blockage of an artery in the legs may cause intermittent claudication. Atherosclerosis (a build-up of plaque, which is a deposit of fatty substances, cholesterol, cellular waste products, calcium, and fibrin in the inner lining of an artery) is the most common cause of blockage of arteries.
Blockages in the leg are most common in the thigh and behind the knee but may also occur at other sites in the body including the aorta, groin, or abdomen. A person may have more than one blockage.
As stated above, atherosclerosis is the most common cause of arterial blockage which can cause claudication. Risk factors for claudication are the same as those for atherosclerosis, and may include:
A risk factor is anything that may increase a person's chance of developing a disease. It may be an activity, such as smoking, diet, family history, or many other things. Different diseases have different risk factors.
Although these risk factors increase a person's risk, they do not necessarily cause the disease. Some people with one or more risk factors never develop the disease, while others develop disease and have no known risk factors. Knowing your risk factors to any disease can help to guide you into the appropriate actions, including changing behaviors and being clinically monitored for the disease.
Claudication itself is a symptom of a narrowing or blockage of an artery. Pain, a burning feeling, or a tired sensation in the legs and buttocks while walking are symptoms of claudication. In some cases, the sound of blood moving through a blockage (a whooshing sound called a bruit), can be heard through a stethoscope.
The skin of the foot or leg may become shiny, hairless, mottled (blotchy) in appearance, or may ulcerate. The affected leg may become pale when elevated and reddened (rubor) when lowered. Additional symptoms that may be present in persons with claudication include cold feet, impotence in men, and leg pain that occurs at night when in bed. Pain that occurs at rest may be a sign of increasing severity of arterial disease in the leg(s).
The symptoms related to claudication may resemble other medical conditions or problems. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis.
In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for claudication may include any, or a combination, of the following:
Specific treatment will be determined by your doctor based on:
Claudication is usually treated conservatively, with the primary goal of treatment being modification of risk factors. Treatment for claudication may include one or more of the following:
For advanced cases in which pain is severe and/or blood flow has been completely or almost completely blocked, an invasive procedure such as angioplasty (a catheter is used to create a larger opening in the vessel to increase blood flow), stent placement (a tiny coil is expanded inside the blocked artery to open the blocked area and is left in place to keep the artery open), or surgery may be needed to open the blocked artery.
In a small percentage of cases where all other treatments have not been effective, amputation of the affected limb may be necessary. Patients who smoke or who have diabetes are at increased risk for poor outcomes in treating claudication.
Because many persons who have claudication also have atherosclerotic disease such as peripheral arterial disease, coronary artery disease, and/or blockages of the carotid artery (carotid stenosis), aggressively modifying risk factors for atherosclerosis can help prevent claudication.
A prevention plan for claudication may also be used to prevent or lessen the progress of PAD associated with claudication once it has been diagnosed. Consult your doctor for diagnosis and treatment.
Preventative measures may include:
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I'm using QCAD2 quite a while now and after moving from FreeBSD-i386 to FreeBSD-amd64 there are some libraries missing in the 32 bit version (libXi and some more).
I'd strongly suggest making a 64 bit compilation of the pro version. The community edition does compile and run on FBSD-amd64 very well.
Maybe ths would better be posted to the suggestion list of the upcoming version 3 ...
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Friday, 21 June 2013, 13:03 GMT+2
Reason for closing: Fixed
64bit PRO version of 3.1 works for me flawlessly so far. fixed? close?