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Choreography: Jan Kodet
Music: Zbyněk Matějů
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Sets: Jakub Kopecký
Costumes: Alexandra Grusková
Lighting design: Daniel Tesař
Projections: Lunchmeat , Jakub Kopecký
Animation: Erik Bartoš, Jan Kolegar
Musical preparation: Andreas Sebastian Weiser
Conductor: David Švec
Dear audiance, we would like to remind you that the performance on September, 28, 2017 will be filmed by Czech Television and Les Film Figures Libres.
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In September, Bangladesh will play two away test matches in Sri Lanka. We hope to see some exciting bowling performances from our bowlers in familiar sub-continental conditions. But what should be the bowling lineup for these two test matches? In-house statistician Syed Kamal attempts to find the answer using past records.
Bangladeshi bowling lineup for the Sri Lanka tests
by Syed Kamal
Published: 17th August, 2005
In September, Bangladesh will play two away test matches in Sri Lanka. We hope to see some exciting bowling performances from our bowlers in familiar sub-continental conditions. But what should be the bowling lineup of Bangladesh for these two test matches?
The two test venues will be the P. Saravanamuttu Stadium (PSS) and the R. Premadasa Stadium (RPS), both situated in Colombo. Weather and the condition of the pitches will play a big role in determining the exact bowling lineup of the Bangladesh team. But analyzing the bowling lineups that other test teams have employed in the past will provide us some clues.
Fourteen test matches have been played so far at these two venues - nine in PSS and five in RPS. And one of these matches was a neutral venue match played between Australia and Pakistan. Since this match does not involve
Sri Lanka, we will exclude this match from our consideration. Also, to simulate identical climate condition, we will only consider the test matches played
during the July-August-September time frame. This brings down the number of test matches under consideration to eight - five in PSS and three in
RPS. We will also ignore the occasional bowlers used in these matches.
Bowling lineups used at the P. Saravanamuttu Stadium (PSS)
In the ten squads (two teams in each test, five tests) fielded in test matches here in PSS, there was a total of 46 regular bowlers used, 28 of whom were
pacers/medium pacers and 18 were spinners. The following table summarizes the distribution of wickets taken by these two kinds of bowlers in PSS:
So, even in the later part of a match (third and fourth innings), when the pitch should favor the spinner, pacers still played the dominating role
in PSS. The pacers/medium pacers took almost 60% of the wickets that fell in the third and fourth innings of a match. On the other hand, in the early part
of a match, wickets were equally shared by pacers and spinners.
Out of the ten squads, six were formed with five regular bowlers and four had four regular bowlers. In their five test squads, Sri Lanka used the
following ratio of pacers and spinners: 3-1, 3-2, 3-2, 2-3 and 3-1. India fielded two test squads here with a 3-1 and a 3-2 pacer-spinner ratio. South Africa and Pakistan
fielded a squad each with a 4-1 and a 2-2 pacer-spinner ratio respectively.
Bangladesh also played one test here in 2002 and used four regular bowlers. The pacer-spinner ratio used was 3-1. Bangladeshi bowling attack was comprised of
Manjurul Islam, Talha Jubair, Alamgir Kabir and Enamul Haque.
On an average, five-regular-bowlers squads had a 3-2 pacer-spinner ratio. On the other hand, in an average four-regular-bowlers squad, the pacer-spinner ratio was 3-1.
The ground record of PSS shows that so far eleven bowlers have had the success of taking 5 wickets in an innings. Six times it was done by spinners whereas pacers did it five times. In fact, the majority of the wickets taken by spinners were actually taken by a few bowlers. When spinners took wickets, they did it at a ?wholesale? rate. Barring some exceptions like Wasim Akram or Shoaib Akhter,
no single pacer took a whole bunch of wickets at a time.
Pacers mostly chipped in and shared the wickets with other bowlers.
Bowling lineups used at the R. Premadasa Stadium (RPS)
Premadasa Stadium
Invariably flat, the pitches at RPS are slow in pace and low in bounce. There is turn for the spinners and the batting side can struggle to chase big scores.
Three tests played here are worth examining. Four nations used 27 regular bowlers in these tests. Among them 14 were pacers/medium pacers and 13 were
spinners, suggesting that a balance was favoured in the number of pacers and spinners.
These regular bowlers took 61 wickets. The following table shows their wicket taking performance for each innings:
Just one of the matches was extended up to the fourth innings, making the number of wickets taken in fourth innings too low. One of the matches comprised only two innings due to a mammoth run feast by Sri Lanka. In that match, India scored 537/8 and Sri Lanka replied with 952/6 ? the highest innings score ever by a team in the history of test cricket.
Of the 61 wickets taken by regular bowlers here, 32 fell to spinners and pacers/medium pacers claimed the remaining 29. The first innings of the matches were dominated by pacers and in the second innings, wickets were evenly distributed. Later stages of the RPS test matches were clearly dominated by spinners as they took two-third of the 36 wickets that fell in the third and fourth innings.
Among the six squads used in RPS, three were formed with five bowlers and the other three squads were formed with four bowlers. In these three tests, Sri Lanka used the following ratio of pacers and spinners: 3-2, 1-3, 2-2. The pacer-spinner ratio for other teams here were the following: Australia used a 3-1 combination, India, 2-3 and Zimbabwe, 3-2. Sub-continental teams always used at least two specialist spinners, and in some cases even three of them. Teams other than Australia also formed spinner-dominated squads.
The ground records for RPS show that the six times any bowler took five wickets in an innings, he was a spinner. Not only that, in the list of top six all-time wicket-takers in RPS, five are spinners. Clearly this is a spinner-dominated ground.
Formation of Bangladeshi bowling lineup
Even after the excellent performance by our spinners in the home tests against Zimbabwe, Enamul Haque Jr. did not even get chance to play a single match in England due to the pace-friendly English wickets. However, pacers could not take advantage of the seaming English conditions. So many of us are expecting a spinning-duo bowling attack in Sri Lanka.
Based on the historical analysis of bowling lineup formation in P. Saravanamuttu Stadium, we may see a pacer dominated bowling attack once again in the
first test. In the only time they played on this ground, Bangladesh used a 3-1 pacer-spinner combination. Generally in PSS, two spinners were used when the bowling lineup was formed with five bowlers. So we can expect to see the inclusion of two spinners if Bangladesh goes for a five-bowler lineup. This is very much possible with two pacers,
two spinners and medium pace support from any other batsman.
From a historical perspective, R. Premadasa Stadium appears to pose a wholly different story. RPS has always been dominated by spinners. So Bangladesh might not hesitate to include two spinners.
Deciding on the bowling formtion of a team is not just a matter of past records. Specific pitch and weather conditions, availability
of quality bowlers and their form, right-left combination of bowlers and the quality and the depth of opponent batsmen are important factors which will help the team management ultimately decide on the bowling lineup formation
for our test matches in Sri Lanka. But the bowling lineup formation used by other teams in the past on these two grounds is certainly an interesting issue. At least it could indicate what to expect if ground conditions remain the same as they were in the past.
About the author(s): When one looks up the term "Renaissance Man" in a Bangla obhidhan, our own Syed Kamal's face will grace the description. In his productive life - and it isn't over yet - Syed Kamal has managed to serve as a BCB umpire aspiring to attain ICC certification, earn a living as an Intelligence agent for an "unnamed" US agency, write a romantic/erotic dictionary in Bangla (that somehow ended up on the National Museum's official display of "Bangla Obhidhan er Biborton") and, in his golden years, become a resident in Dubya's home country - Texas. Somehow, between all this, he has also managed to pen this piece.
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I honestly don't know a lot about firewire -- perhaps somebody on the list could summarize experiences with a firewire connected network. > i'm using a star topology to my 16 nodes cluster, i > heard something about using a 4x4 grid instead 1x16, > is it better? why? And i also would like to know a way > to calculate(predict) the performance of a cluster, > for example, i have a 16 nodes(using fast ethernet) It is "in principle" possible to predict parallel performance, but it isn't easy and to have a good shot at getting it right requires extensive study of your hardware resources, your operating system and libraries, and your application. By "study" I mean both learning all you can about it (and about parallel task scaling in general) from real textbooks, manuals, and informational resources and making real world measurements. 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My fashion advice to every single woman (and many men, too; don't judge me) is simple. Stop with the crotches already.
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Pants don't get parties thrown by reputable art galleries.
Evans, of Boulder, is my new favorite artist. Her custom dresses (which run around $3,500 each) are like nothing you have ever seen before, with hand-stitching, raw edges and surprising earthy influences. She dyed one corset using rose petals. She stitched a bride's self-written poem down the length of another. She reworks "vintage castaways," or can alter your grandma's dress to also express your unique personality.
Evans made her own wedding gown, with a ruffle bottom she could detach to turn the dress into a short reception party dress.
"I created my own dream dress. But I do it all the time. If I got married the year before, I would probably create something totally different," Evans says.
Although her exhibit featured a picture of her at age 3 playing on her grandma's sewing machine, and she has dreamed about her own wedding since she was a little girl, Evans did not attend fashion design school. Her background is in graphic design, textiles and psychology. She got a master's degree in art therapy in 2010. Like her dresses, Maggie Evans is nontraditional. And like her dresses, that's what makes her so darn good.
At her exhibit, she asked passersby to jot down their feelings about love, commitment and marriage on pieces of white fabric, which she later turned into a wedding dress for the fashion show -- a piece of wearable art comprised of wishes, hopes, fears and advice.
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"I wanted to have more of a deeper relationship with these brides and ask these big questions," Evans says. "I don't expect them to come to my studio and be happy and giddy all the time. It's a big deal. It can be messy and scary and emotional and doubtful and exhilarating. In my work, I try to embody that."
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My second guest blogger during my semi-hiatus is KD Sarge, a science fiction and fantasy writer and fellow Turtleduck Press member. KD is a working single mother who somehow finds time to write — a lot — because it keeps her sane. She's also a dear friend. I knew she'd been through a lot, but I didn't know what she's about to share today…
Twenty years ago I was on my own for the first time, living in a tiny ugly studio apartment where most of my neighbors spoke a language I didn't. I was working forty hours a week, and I was going to school full time—more than full time. I was taking eighteen credit hours. I was working nights, getting home at one in the morning and three days a week my first class was at 7:30 a.m.
What can I say? I was young. Not only did I want to know everything, I wanted to know everything right now. And working my butt off unnecessarily was romantic! As my high school English teacher used to say, not "kissy-face huggy romantic" but adventure! Excitement! I would look back on that time, I thought, and laugh about it. It'd look great in my author bio when I got published.
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America Today Thursday, July 19, 2012
July 19, 2012
Hosted by Mckenzie Urias
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Thursday at 4 PM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Kids Channel
America Today is all about National issues making the news and discussed from a kid's point of view. McKenzie is already into politics and world news. She's ready to discuss the issues with you, and maybe a few extra points as well. Tune in to America Today on the VoiceAmerica Kids Channel.
Mckenzie Urias
Having my own talk radio show has been a dream of mine. Having a voice in our society is special, but it is also our right as Americans. My favorite things in life are music and philosophy and I think pretty much everything that is politics. I grew up in Mesa, Arizona with my parents. Both of them love music and reading, so naturally I grew up with a passion for both. I started playing music at 6 years old, such as guitar and piano. But the political world grasped me early in high school. This is why I'm happy to host "America Today."


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Tallian reappointed to State Budget Committee
State Senator Karen Tallian, D-Portage, has been reappointed to serve as an
advisor on the State Budget Committee, a bipartisan and bicameral body
charged with hearing initial budget requests and making a budget
recommendation to the General Assembly.
The Budget Committee's budget recommendation will become the basis for
lawmakers work in crafting a new two-year state budget in 2013.
This committee meets throughout the year and provides continuing legislative
oversight of budget implementation, including major state-funded capital
projects. The next meeting is scheduled for July 25.
This year, Tallian will also serve on the Public Officers Compensation
Advisory Commission, Child Custody and Support Advisory Committee,
Environmental Quality Service Council, Indiana Heritage Trust Committee,
Pension Management Oversight Commission, Illiana Expressway Proposal Review
Committee and Unemployment Insurance Oversight Committee.
The Indiana General Assembly annually convenes interim study committees and
permanent commissions to conduct in-depth research and analysis of issues
affecting the state. Recommendations from these committees are often the
basis for future legislation. More information about committee topics,
schedules and agendas is available online at www.IN.gov/legislative/interim.
Tallian represents Senate District 4 which encompasses portions of northern
Porter County and Michigan, Coolspring and New Durham townships in LaPorte
For more information on Tallian, her legislative agenda or other State
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About 7,500 civil servants, government and party officials involved in more than 200 cases of possible abuse of special allowance funds will avoid prosecution after the legislature yesterday voted to decriminalize special fund abuses.
Under the revised Accounting Act (會計法), potential civil, administrative and criminal liability over disbursement, handlings, reimbursement and the use of special allowance funds granted to government chiefs and deputy chiefs before Dec. 31, 2006, as well as the financial responsibility of related personnel, will be forgiven.
Administrative and civil sanctions for officials under suspicion will no longer be pursued and those with criminal liabilities will not be disciplined, the amendment said.
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) supported the passage of the amendment, which will clear the names of some of their parties most prominent members, such as former vice president Lien Chan (連戰), Vice President Vincent Siew (蕭萬長), Premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義), former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮), former foreign minister Mark Chen (陳唐山) and former premier Yu Shyi-kun .
The two caucuses managed to talk down the Non-Partisan Solidarity Union (NPSU) caucus after it proposed on Friday that local elected representatives, such as city or county councilors and borough or village wardens, be included in the bill in relation to abuse of discretionary funds given to them.
The NPSU's initiative would have absolved independent Legislator Yen Chin-piao (顏清標) of charges of embezzlement and fraudulent acquisition of public money. Yen has been indicted on charges of spending public funds in nightclubs when he served as Taichung Council speaker from October 1998 to December 2000. Yen denied the initiative had been tailor-made for him.
KMT Legislator Lai Shyh-bao (賴士葆) said passage of the amendment met the public's expectations, adding it was the fact that the funds were so loosely regulated in the past that had caused the problems.
However, its passage angered city and county councilors, township representatives and borough and village wardens, Yen said, because it showed the KMT cares about only top government officials and their deputies, while ignoring lower-level officials. The move could hurt the KMT's chances in next year's legislative and presidential elections, he said.
A political furore erupted in 2006 and 2007 when President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), then KMT chairman, was accused of misusing special allowance funds during two terms as Taipei mayor from 1998 to 2006. The DPP and the KMT ended up filing legal complaints against each other in connection with Ma's case.
Ma was found not guilty in 2008, but Yu Wen (余文), a former Taipei City Government staffer, was jailed for nine months after being convicted of forgery in handling Ma's expense account.
The DPP first proposed amending the act in 2008, suggesting the use of the state affairs fund granted to presidents be decriminalized so former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) could avoid charges. It later agreed with the KMT to confine the scope to the special allowance funds of government chiefs and deputy chiefs.
Both DPP officials and party lawmakers reacted positively to the passage of the amendment — for the most part.
"The KMT agreed to decriminalize special allowance funds only. We respected its views because we also wanted this historical glitch to be resolved as soon as possible," DPP Legislator Wong Chin-chu (翁金珠) said.


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The Cincinnati Bengals play host to the Dallas Cowboys this weekend in a match up that could determine the playoff fate for both teams.
But to Bengals cornerback Adam Jones, there's even a little bit more on the line as well.
Jones gets to play against his former team for the first time since being released by the Cowboys in 2009. According to Geoff Hobson of the Bengals official website, Jones is looking forward to the opportunity.
"Sunday I'll have a double chip on my shoulder. I'll let the game come to me and play hard," Jones said.
Jones tenure with the Cowboys was marred by a myriad of off-field issues before he was ultimately released. He spoke highly of Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones but said that won't be a factor in this week's match up.
"I love Jerry with all my heart," Jones said. "I'm not going to get into what I don't like about him, but Jerry has done a lot for me. I don't care about that (now). I'm a Bengal and I'd like to stay a Bengal for the rest of my career."
Jones has played well in a reserve role for the Bengals this season. He's played in 12 games with four starts and has recorded 25 tackles with a sack and a forced fumble.


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Dog Treks Two Miles to Find Hospitalized Owner
This guy's dog likes him more than most of our friends like us. When he was in the hospital with skin ulcers, the dog followed his nose a little over two miles to visit him in the hospital.
That time we had pneumonia ... nothing. Nothing happened at all. It might be time for a pet. This dog was a shelter dog, and the owners are hoping the story helps people realize that a rescued dog can be a great dog too.


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This: https://twitter.com/#!/FNLoudBUF… is a great idea.
It's a new Twitter account that popped up yesterday with the tagline:
Our city's passion for the Sabres is unquestioned. We're just trying to add a bit of leadership and coordination. #CloseTheLibrary Get F'n LOUD!
Anyone that's gone to the FN Centre knows it's a relatively quiet place. (And yes, I know it's FN Center, but I swap the letters to pay a bit of homage to hockey's heritage. It's sort of like the feeling I have that EVERY arena should sing the Canadian anthem.)
It's a standard-size arena and we as Buffalonians like to get loud rowdy. We love to drink and drinking exacerbates cheering, no? Then why does it seem like people sit on their hands at Sabres games when the Sabres have a shot at making the playoffs and are playing pretty good hockey overall?
I'm not throwing blame out at people – hey, I'm as guilty of it as well. A few years back I happened upon tickets just 10 or 15 rows up from the blue line. Before that I had only sat in the upper sections and it was a huge difference in atmosphere. The people around me were less… well, less drunk I guess. They had a more white-collar vibe all around and were less apt to make noise, start a cheer, what have you. This affected me too ad I didn't cheer nearly as much.
It can be tough to break the ice and be the only one in your section cheering. There's a certain social element to it: a lot of people might want to start a cheer but don't want to be the first one. You may not want to be rude and somehow "upset" other people's enjoyment of the game. Maybe part of it is that in the upper deck people view the game as more of a party and are therefore more apt to cheer. (Those are my people, by the way.)
What I'm saying is be brave and start a cheer and others will follow. Be just a tiny bit rude but still respectful of others. Maybe have one more beer than usual. Most importantly, have fun and #BeBuffalo.
We can make the FN Center (ok, I'll switch back to the
propre proper spelling) an extremely fun place that opponents hate playing in. We can make it an energizing atmosphere – both for the Sabres themselves and us.
If you agree, please do what you can to promote https://twitter.com/#!/FNLoudBUF – on Twitter, Facebook, etc. BRING THE NOISE!
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Eyes could kill
me each time I walked about the streets with
my handset," says Siri Nchise, a 29-year-old customer
service representative for an Internet service provider
in the African city of Douala, in the Littoral province
of Cameroon. In the past five years, she's had three
cellphones stolen. She keeps buying new ones, because
they are the only practical way to connect to friends,
family, and business associates.
On a continent where rolling blackouts, undrinkable
water, and fetid mounds of refuse remain the stuff of
everyday existence, wireless telecommunications services
stand out as a rare, perhaps unique, technological
success story. Tens of millions of ordinary Africans
like Nchise carry cellphones today, something not even
the richest of them could have possessed barely a decade
ago. And every month, millions more dial in to the 21st
century, with profound implications for African
economies and societies.
It might come as a surprise that sub-Saharan
Africa—with 34 of the 50 poorest countries on Earth,
according to the United Nations—is now the world's
fastest-growing wireless market. But there's no arguing
with the statistics: the number of mobile subscribers in
30 sub-Saharan African countries, not including South
Africa, rose from zero in 1994 to more than 82 million
in late 2004, according to the latest figures from the
International Telecommunication Union, in Geneva. The
rate of growth for the entire continent has been more
than 58 percent per year, compared with the almost 22
percent annual growth rate in the Americas; in Cameroon,
Kenya, Senegal, and Tanzania, growth rates are running
in excess of 300 percent. Nigeria, Africa's largest
country, with 140 million inhabitants, has only about
500 000 landlines, or approximately 1 for every 280
people. In that country 19 million mobile phone
subscribers have signed on since 2000, and the Nigerian
Communications Commission projects the total number of
subscribers to grow to 50 million by 2010.
Africa is going wireless for a very simple reason: its
national telecommunications monopolies are poorly
managed and corrupt, and they can't afford to lay new
lines or maintain old ones. So in most sub-Saharan
countries not even 1 percent of the population have
landline-connected telephones. That compares with more
than 10 lines per 100 people in Latin America and more
than 64 per 100 in the United States. Indeed, Tokyo and
New York City each have more fixed-line telephones than
the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. These numbers are even
more daunting when you consider that fixed lines
tend to be concentrated in capital cities, leaving rural
communities totally bereft. For instance, while the
country of Senegal has about 140 000 lines, 65 percent,
or 91 000, of those lines are in the capital city, Dakar.
More than just inadequate landline networks and
institutions are fueling Africa's wireless boom. Growing
political stability has helped to attract foreign
investors to a region decimated by civil wars over the
past 50 years. And the far simpler logistics of getting
a wireless network up and running are also an enormous
factor in sub-Saharan Africa, where even the seemingly
straightforward can turn out to be anything but.
During our recent travels in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda,
and our home country of Cameroon, we've seen why
wireless networks have succeeded so spectacularly where
landlines failed so miserably. Landlines can take years
to install even after the right palms have been greased,
while you have only to buy a handset and prepaid
cellphone calling card to get a wireless line. In
addition, companies can erect base stations that cover a
radius of 35 kilometers for much less than it would cost
to run copper cables from central exchanges to every
customer's phone.
But that's only part of the story. The African
cellphone revolution thrives on a combination of a novel
business model introduced a decade ago in South Africa
and some clever calling tactics that have made cellphone
usage affordable for a large segment of the population.
As a result, growing numbers of Africans at the top,
middle, and even bottom rungs of the economic ladder
depend on the wireless sector for their livelihoods. But
can the region sustain the wireless sector's phenomenal
growth rates and accompanying prosperity? And does the
capital flowing in and out of these countries via
transnational wireless corporations represent a
sustainable infusion of desperately needed foreign
investment, or neocolonialism dressed up as a
free-market bonanza?
The sparks that
ignited the African cellphone explosion
occurred in South Africa in 1993, when the government
granted national cellphone licenses to MTN South Africa
Ltd., Johannesburg, and Vodacom Group (Pty.) Ltd.,
Sandton. These companies, each partially owned by the
South African government, quickly built large customer
bases in South Africa, and eventually other African
nations, by offering prepaid cellphone cards. These
cards draw customers who can't afford monthly phone
bills, don't have postal addresses, or don't maintain
checking accounts. People pay as they go, and only as
much as they can afford.
These cards brought telecommunications to the masses.
The East African country of Uganda is a prime example.
Most Ugandans do not meet the financial criteria for
subscription-based service. Nevertheless, in the three
years following Kampala-based MTN Uganda's introduction
of a prepaid option, Uganda's overall mobile telephone
density quadrupled, rising from 0.41 subscribers per 100
people to 1.72. Today, more than 50 percent of the
population has mobile cellular coverage. More than 98
percent of Uganda's mobile subscribers use prepaid
cards. By the end of 2001, over half of Africa's
countries—28 nations—had more mobile than landline
subscribers, a higher percentage than on any other
continent [see figure, " Mobile Subscriptions Skyrocket"].
As instrumental as these cellphone cards have been,
they weren't the only factor that set the stage for
Africa's wireless boom. Africa's national
telecommunications monopolies created business
opportunities for multinational carriers by not
servicing their citizens with landlines. Telkom Kenya
Ltd., in Nairobi, for example, which has only 313 000
landline subscribers in a country of 30 million people,
won't invest in new lines. Instead, Telkom has met
demand for phone service by partnering with foreign
companies that are putting in new wireless
infrastructure. In 1999, it formed Safaricom Ltd.,
Nairobi, which it owns in partnership with Newbury,
England-based Vodafone Group PLC (which also owns part
of South Africa's Vodacom). The next year, the
Communications Commission of Kenya licensed KenCell
Communications Ltd., now Celtel Kenya, Nairobi, to
provide service based on the GSM 900 standard used
throughout Africa.
These companies have succeeded far beyond their
expectations. According to London-based TeleGeography
Research, on launching its service in 1999, Safaricom
expected to have 3 million subscribers by 2020. By the
end of 2005, there were more than 4.6 million wireless
subscribers in Kenya, split between the two carriers.
Safaricom projects that it alone will have 5.5 million
subscribers by the end of 2007 [see graph, "Mobile vs. Fixed Lines in Africa"].
Countries that liberalize their telecommunications
markets often create feeding frenzies among
multinational and local wireless companies alike. For
example, though MTN was first to provide cellphone
services in Nigeria, the company now finds itself in
heated competition with South Africa\0x2013based Econet
Wireless International and Nigeria-based Globacom, as
well as about 10 smaller carriers. Wireless enterprises
have been so successful that the Nigerian government is
now trying to privatize its own hapless monopoly,
Nigerian Telecommunications Ltd., based in the capital,
Abuja, and its wireless division, Mtel. But with such a
competitive wireless market, the Nigerian government has
had a hard time finding a suitor for Nitel Ltd.
TeleGeography reports that the monopoly, which currently
has 10 000 employees, had not paid workers for more than
two months as of March, and that it plans to slash 6000
jobs by the end of May.


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Gnome and KDE Wrestle With Menus
Classic Menus, Newfangled Fancy Thingies
If you believe that desktop features can be intuitive, then a survey of the available menus in free and open source (FOSS) desktops should disabuse you of the notion.
But KDE also offers two more advanced choices, Kickoff and Lancelot. In addition, both GNOME and KDE include minimalist menu tools best suited for advanced users. A survey of these choices makes for an interesting study in interface design and user preference.
Classic Menus
For years, the classic menu was the standard on all computer desktops. It has gone through several variations, including Windows' dynamic menus that only display the items you use most often until you expand them, and GNOME's division into a menu bar with top level menus for applications, places, and system configuration. But the basic idea does not vary much.
The main challenge of the classic menu is to decide what to include in it. Although Debian has for years maintained a menu that is three or four layers deep, in general FOSS desktops seem to have rejected complete listings of applications, largely on the grounds that they make finding a specific program hard to find. Complete listing menus can spill out over a considerable amount of the desktop when you open the lowest level sub-menu.
For these reasons, classic menus in FOSS have often favored providing only a partial list of applications -- and, in the last few years, a menu editor for customization. This solution has the advantage of not overwhelming new users with too many choices. But the disadvantage that some applications are effectively hidden and may never be learned.
Another potential weakness of classic menus is that users are often searching, not for a program, but for a hardware device or file, which may require using another tool than the menu to find.
With its Places menu, the GNOME menu bar is one partial solution to this problem. GNOME also includes the Drawer applet, which is essentially a custom menu or toolbar that can include favorites or applications for a particular task.
The classic menu remains a popular choice, and all major operating systems, free or proprietary, offer it as a choice -- although, as in KDE, the choice may be hidden in the main menu's right-click context menu. However, because of the classic menu's shortcomings, desktop designers are increasingly looking for alternatives.
KDE: Kickoff vs. Lancelot
Since the 4.0 release, KDE has defaulted to the Kickoff menu. Inspired by the Windows Vista menu, Kickoff divides the menu into five separate views: Favorites; Applications; Computer, which includes system settings and common destinations in the directory structure; Recently Used, which includes both applications and documents, and Leave, which includes a number of options for what to do when you have finished your work.
In each view, only one menu level is visible at the time, which means that you must use the arrows at each side to move through the menus. In addition, a search menu with tab completion helps you to find items quickly.
Kickoff solves the most pressing problems of classic menus by using views to reduce the number of items visible at one time, and by keeping the menu within a single window. But the trouble is, this solution has problems of its own.
To start with, the views remain unconfigurable, and many people have complained that Leave does not really belong in it. More importantly, Applications remains the most heavily populated view, so in some ways Kickoff is simply embedding a classic menu in a more complex view.
Even more importantly, by displaying only one menu level at a time, Kickoff can actually make navigation cumbersome. You cannot see other levels in Kickoff, and moving to another sub-level in particular requires several more mouse clicks than in a classic menu.
Not everyone sees Kickoff as having these problems. Yet enough do that in most distributions KDE is now shipping with Lancelot, a complete replacement for Kickoff.
Looking even more like a Vista clone, Lancelot seems designed to address many of the criticisms of Kickoff. The views are reduced to four -- Applications, Computer, Contacts, and Documents -- and exiting options are available by clicking an icon in a toolbar that also includes options for locking the desktop and switching users.
Similarly, Lancelot displays several menu sub-levels at once. If the view gets cramped, you can expand drag on the corners to expand the size of the menu window, something that you are supposed to be able to do with Kickoff, but is disabled in some distributions.
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Utah County Treasurer
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PrePay coupons are provided as a convenient means of prepaying property taxes. This is not a requirement nor are there any penalties attached for missed or late prepayments. Coupons can be printed from the link provided below. Coupons are not required if you choose to make prepayments throughout the year. Your payment can be processed as long as it is for a minimum of $10.00 and you have provided us with a valid property serial number. This serial number can be located on Valuation Notices (mailed July of each year) or on the Property Tax Notice (mailed October of each year). You may also wish to visit the Utah County Land Information page to obtain basic property, owner, tax, appraisal and recorded information.
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Wow, how time flies…
These games are still old, and getting older! And there are probably so many more which need to be shared. Don't worry, I still keep them safe. If you need to find an old game you can contact me any time.
So what's been happening? This site has been around for about 13 years now. I'm 13 years older. One daughter in school, one husband who is the greatest (and loves gaming) and a son due to be born any day now. Life is busy, but I still visit this site every week, check the comments, check the emails – I still get heaps of requests for games and help. So a lack of posts doesn't necessarily mean this is a derelict hole on the internet. 🙂
If you're looking for games to run nicely on your new spanky machines then definitely get on Steam or check out GOG.com (which is probably better, DRM free)
Remember to contact me via the contact us page if you need anything!
P.S. What do you all think of Diablo III? Just went past the first anniversary, still hooked. Sheesh 😉


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|Antoinne Hester, cousin of the Bears' Devin Hester, is wanted in connection with a fatal July 4 shooting. (Broward Sheriff's Office/Special to NFL.com)
The Broward County Sheriff's Office in Florida was searching for the cousin of Chicago Bears wide receiver Devin Hester on Tuesday in connection with a fatal shooting that took place on the Fourth of July.
Antoinne Robert Hester was wanted in connection with the shooting of Bevins Bennett. Hester, 22, is suspected of shooting Bennett while both of them were in an automobile together. Bennett died on Saturday.
There were conflicting reports initially as to whether Antoinne was Devin Hester's brother, but NFL.com and NFL Network confirmed Tuesday that they are cousins. The Broward County Sheriff's Office confirmed separately to ESPNChicago that officials have been in contact with the family of Antoinne Hester, including Devin. The family has cooperated fully with the investigation.


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I happened to find this in one of the Indian websites while looking around for embroidery books . The cost seemed to be reasonable (approx 500 Rs with discount) and so I ordered it online. The list price on the book says $17.95. Affordable, me thinks.
Let us see what's inside...
First and foremost - this is a small book - only about 64 pages. The pages are glossy and the photographs are all in color. I assume that the author and the publishers have tried to balance between the price and the quality of the contents.
Like in majority of embroidery books, Pat also starts off by giving a description of the materials needed for the projects in the books. She suggests a variety of threads to bring in texture and dimension to the embroidery. Additionally, she advocates usage of various elements for padding and fabric colors for depth.
Next comes the stitches. Seventeen stitches have been explained with step by step photographs.
The font in these pages are large enough for comfortable reading and each step is explained well.
Then comes the floral sampler. Using the dimensional stitches 13 different flowers have been presented. Those who are well versed with dimensional embroidery may find some of the flowers familiar.
The author also tries to explain the usage of fabric paints for added dimension. I am not sure if it is as simple as it sounds.May be if I attempt one of the projects in the book, I'll get to know where I stand :)
Coming to the projects, what do you think about this one?
or the one below?
Well, the pics above are two of the projects in the book. Good one's aren't they? Along with the seventeen stitches, the author also teaches us how to create dimensional pebbles,rocks and textured tree trunks required for these projects. It is my wish to attempt one of these sometime in future.
Overall, I am quite happy with this purchase of mine and feel that it is worth every penny I paid for it. What do you think?
Love,luck and sunshine,


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text: I'll just tell you that for a well written, local basis, DFT, that's not the case (that the limit is the two-electron integrals and the Fockian). It surely is not for SEQQUEST, and I'd bet it's not for SIESTA, as it is based on similar methods. Art Edwards On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 06:46:32PM +0400, Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote: > In message from Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics.com> (Wed, 27 > Apr 2005 15:51:49 -0400): > >Hi Art: > > > > Any particular codes you have in mind? I used to play around with > >lots of DFT (LDA) codes. Back then, large systems were 256 x 256, > >with periodic BC's. > Most (practically all) DFT codes are not limited by eigenvalues > problem. The limiting stage is computation of 2-electron integrals and > fockian. > > Yours > Mikhail Kuzminsky > Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry > Moscow > > >We used a number of eigensolvers, and eventually > >settled on LAPACK's zheev. Modeling supercells of much larger than > >64 atoms with 4 electronic basis states was a challenge using that > >code. > > > > Do you have a particular model system in mind as well? A nice > >GAMESS > >model (or similar) might work out nicely. I would like to include > >some electronic structure codes in our (evolving) BBS system. > > > >Joe > > > >Art Edwards wrote: > >>This subject is pretty important to us. We run codes where the > >>bottleneck is eigensolving for matrices with a few thousand > >>elements. > >>Parallel eigen solvers are not impressive at this scale. In the dark > >>past, I did a benchmark on a Cray Y-MP using a vector eigen solve > >>and > >>got over 100x speedup. What I don't know is how this would compare > >>to > >>current compilers and CPU's. However the vector pipes are not very > >>deep > >>on any of the current processors except, possibly the PPC. So, I > >>would > >>like to see benchmarks of electronic structure codes that are bound > >>by > >>eigensolvers on a "true vector" machine. > >> > >>Art Edwards > >> > >>On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 01:15:42PM -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Ben Mayer wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>>However, most code doesn't vectorize too well (even, as you say, with > >>>>>directives), so people would end up getting 25 MFLOPs out of 300 > >>>>>MFLOPs > >>>>>possible -- faster than a desktop, sure, but using a multimillion > >>>>>dollar > >>>>>machine to get a factor of MAYBE 10 in speedup compared to (at the > >>>>>time) > >>>>>$5-10K machines. > >>>> > >>>>What the people who run these centers have told me that a > >>>>supercomputer is worth the cost if you can get a speed up of 30x over > >>>>serial. What do others think of this? > >>> > >>>I personally think that there is no global answer to this question. > >>>There is only cost-benefit analysis. It is trivially simple to > >>>reduce > >>>this assertion (by the people who run the centers, who are not > >>>exactly > >>>unbiased here:-) to absurdity for many, many cases. In either > >>>direction > >>>-- for some it might be worth it for a factor of 2 in speedup, for > >>>others it might NEVER be worth it at ANY speedup. > >>> > >>>For example, nearly all common and commercial software isn't worth it > >>>at > >>>any cost. If your word processor ran 30x faster, could you tell? > >>>Would > >>>you care? Would it be "worth" the considerable expense of rewriting > >>>it > >>>for a supercomputer architecture to get a speedup that you could > >>>never > >>>notice (presuming that one could actually speed it up)? > >>>Sure it's an obvious exception, but the problem with global answers > >>>is > >>>they brook no exceptions even when there are obvious ones. If you > >>>don't > >>>like word processor, pick a suitable rendered computer game (zero > >>>productive value, but all sorts of speedup opportunities). Pick any > >>>software with no particular VALUE in the return or with a low > >>>OPPORTUNITY COST of the runtime required to run it. > >>> > >>>A large number of HP computations are in the latter category. If I > >>>want > >>>to run a simple simulation that takes eight hours on a serial machine > >>>and that I plan to run a single time, is it worth it for me to spend > >>>a > >>>month recoding it to run in parallel in five minutes? Obviously not. > >>>If you argue that I should include the porting time in the > >>>computation > >>>of "speedup" then I'd argue that if I have a program that takes two > >>>years to run without porting and that takes a six months to port into > >>>a > >>>form that runs on a supercomputer in six months more, well, a year of > >>>MY > >>>life is worth it, depending on the actual COST of the "supercomputer" > >>>time compared to the serial computer time. Even in raw dollars, my > >>>salary for the extra year is nontrivial compared to the cost of > >>>purchasing and installing a brand-new cluster just to speed up the > >>>computation by a measley factor of two or four, depending on how you > >>>count. > >>> > >>>So pay no attention to your supercomputer people's pronouncement. > >>>That > >>>number (or any other) is pulled out of, uh, their nether regions and > >>>is > >>>unjustifiable. Instead, do the cost-benefit analysis, problem by > >>>problem, using the best possible estimates you can come up with for > >>>the > >>>actual costs and benefits. > >>> > >>>That very few people EVER actually DO this does not mean that it > >>>isn't > >>>the way it should be done;-) > >>> > >>> > >>>>:) I needed to do some CHARMM runs this summer. The X1 did not like > >>>>it > >>>>much (neither did I, but when the code is making references to punch > >>>>cards and you are trying to run it on a vector super, I think most > >>>>would feel that way), I ended up running it in parallel by a similar > >>>>method as yours. Worked great! > >>> > >>>The easy way into cluster (or nowadays, "grid") computing, for sure. > >>>If > >>>your task is or can be run embarrassingly parallel, well, parallel > >>>scaling doesn't generally get much better than a straight line of > >>>slope > >>>one barring the VERY few problems that exhibit superlinear scaling > >>>for > >>>some regime....;-) > >>> > >>> > >>>>>If it IS a vector (or nontrivial parallel, or both) task, then the > >>>>>problem almost by definition will EITHER require extensive "computer > >>>>>science" level study -- work done with Ian Foster's book, Amalsi and > >>>>>Gottlieb for parallel and I don't know what for vector as it isn't my > >>>>>area of need or expertise and Amazon isn't terribly helpful (most > >>>>>books > >>>>>on vector processing deal with obsolete systems or are out of print, > >>>>>it > >>>>>seems). > >>>> > >>>>So what we should really be trying to do is matching code to the > >>>>machine. One of the problems that I have run into is that unless one > >>>>is at a large center there are only one or two machines that provide > >>>>computing power. Where I am from we have a X1 and T3E. Not a very > >>>>good > >>>>choice between the two. There should be a cluster coming up soon, > >>>>which will give us the options that we need. ie Vector or Cluster. > >>> > >>>No, what you SHOULD be doing is matching YOUR code to the cluster you > >>>design and build just for that code. With any luck, the cluster > >>>design > >>>will be a generic and inexpensive one that can be reused (possibly > >>>with > >>>minor reconfigurations) for a wide range of parallel problems. If > >>>your > >>>problem DOES trivially parallelize, nearly any grid/cluster of OTS > >>>computers capable of holding it in memory on (even) sneakernet will > >>>give > >>>you linear speedup. > >>>Given Cluster World's Really Cheap Cluster as an example, you could > >>>conceivably end up with a cluster design containing nodes that cost > >>>between $250 and $1000 each, including switches and network and > >>>shelving > >>>and everything, that can yield linear speedup on your code. Then you > >>>do > >>>your cost-benefit analysis, trade off your time, the value of the > >>>computation, the value of owning your own hardware and being able to > >>>run > >>>on it 24x7 without competition, the value of being able to redirect > >>>your > >>>hardware into other tasks when your main task is idle, any additional > >>>costs (power and AC, maybe some systems administration, maintenance). > >>>This will usually tell you fairly accurately both whether you should > >>>build your own local cluster vs run on a single desktop workstation > >>>vs > >>>run on a supercomputer at some center and will even tell you how many > >>>nodes you can/should buy and in what configuration to get the > >>>greatest > >>>net benefit. > >>> > >>>Note that this process is still correct for people who have code that > >>>WON'T run efficiently on really cheap node or network hardware; they > >>>just have to work harder. Either way, the most important work is > >>>prototyping and benchmarking. Know your hardware (possibilities) and > >>>know your application. Match up the two, paying attention to how > >>>much > >>>everything costs and using real world numbers everywhere you can. > >>>AVOID > >>>vendor provided numbers, and look upon published benchmark numbers > >>>for > >>>specific micro or macro benchmarks with deep suspicion unless you > >>>really > >>>understand the benchmark and trust the source. For example, you can > >>>trust anything >>I<< tell you, of course...;-) > >>> > >>> > >>>>The manual for the X1 provides some information and examples. Are the > >>>>Apple G{3,4,5} the only processors who have real vector units? I have > >>>>not really looked at SSE(2), but remember that they were not full > >>>>precision. > >>> > >>>What's a "real vector unit"? On chip? Off chip? Add-on board? > >>>Integrated with the memory and general purpose CPU (and hence > >>>bottlenecked) how? > >>> > >>>Nearly all CPUs have some degree of vectorization and parallelization > >>>available on chip these days; they just tend to hide a lot of it from > >>>you. Compilers work hard to get that benefit out for you in general > >>>purpose code, where you don't need to worry about whether or not the > >>>unit is "real", only about how long it takes the system to do a > >>>stream > >>>triad on a vector 10 MB long. Code portability is a "benefit" vs > >>>code > >>>specialization is a "cost" when you work out the cost-benefit of > >>>making > >>>things run on a "real vector unit". I'd worry more about the times > >>>returned by e.g. stream with nothing fancy done to tune it than how > >>>"real" the underlying vector architecture is. > >>> > >>>Also, if your problem DOES trivially parallelize, remember that you > >>>have > >>>to compare the costs and benefits of complete solutions, in place. > >>>You > >>>really have to benchmark the computation, fully optimized for the > >>>architecture, on each possible architecture (including systems with > >>>"just" SSE but perhaps with 64 bit memory architectures and ATLAS for > >>>linear algebra that end up still being competitive) and then compare > >>>the > >>>COST of those systems to see which one ends up being cheaper. > >>>Remember > >>>that bleeding edge systems often charge you a factor of two or more > >>>in > >>>cost for a stinkin' 20% more performance, so that you're better off > >>>buying two cheap systems rather than one really expensive one IF your > >>>problem will scale linearly with number of nodes. > >>> > >>>I personally really like the opteron, and would commend it to people > >>>looking for a very good general purpose floating point engine. I > >>>would > >>>mistrust vendor benchmarks that claim extreme speedups on vector > >>>operations for any code big running out of memory unless the MEMORY > >>>is > >>>somehow really special. A Ferrari runs as fast as a Geo on a crowded > >>>city street. > >>> > >>>As always, your best benchmark is your own application, in all its > >>>dirty > >>>and possibly inefficiently coded state. The vendor specs may show 30 > >>>GFLOPS (for just the right code running out of L1 cache or out of > >>>on-chip registers) but when you hook that chip up to main memory with > >>>a > >>>40 ns latency and some fixed bandwidth, it may slow right down to > >>>bandwidth limited rates indistinguishable from those of a much slower > >>>chip. > >>> > >>> > >>>>>For me, I just revel in the Computer Age. A decade ago, people were > >>>>>predicting all sorts of problems breaking the GHz barrier. Today > >>>>>CPUs > >>>>>are routinely clocked at 3+ GHz, reaching for 4 and beyond. A decade > >>>> > >>>>I just picked up a Semptron 3000+, 1.5GB RAM, 120GB HD, CD-ROM, > >>>>video, > >>>>10/100 + intel 1000 Pro for $540 shipped. I was amazed. > >>> > >>>The Opterons tend to go for about twice that per CPU, but they are > >>>FAST, > >>>especially for their actual clock. The AMD-64's can be picked up for > >>>about the same and they too are fast. I haven't really done a > >>>complete > >>>benchmark run on the one I own so far, but they look intermediate > >>>between Opteron and everything else, at a much lower price. > >>> > >>> rgb > >>> > >>>-- > >>>Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ > >>>Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 > >>>Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 > >>>Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu > >>> > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > >>>To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > >>>http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >> > >> > > > >-- > >Joseph Landman, Ph.D > >Founder and CEO > >Scalable Informatics LLC, > >email: landman at scalableinformatics.com > >web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com > >phone: +1 734 786 8423 > >fax : +1 734 786 8452 > >cell : +1 734 612 4615 > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > >http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Art Edwards Senior Research Physicist Air Force Research Laboratory Electronics Foundations Branch KAFB, New Mexico (505) 853-6042 (v) (505) 846-2290 (f)


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Got this for $2.50 in July 2012. Got the second one, Lady Red Papya which is in the back garden area from Lowes for $2 or so.
Seem to be growing.
The Papya to the side of the house was planted in July and when I got here in November it was nearly dead from drought but with some water it appears to be growing. The more mature plant is in the back and has only been in the ground for a few days.
Just planted it.


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ERIN AND DEVIN CONDRON LOVED city living. Once their twin sons started walking, however, they realized their days in their Beacon Hill condominium were numbered. They needed more space: A comfortable house in the suburbs with an open flow that was conducive to "kids constantly running around" seemed like the right move, says Erin.
When a lot became available in a Wellesley neighborhood filled with young families, the Condrons were thrilled. While the couple — whose brood includes not only their now 3-year-old twins but also Devin's 8-year-old daughter and their 3-month-old son — wanted a newly built home that was geared toward a contemporary lifestyle, they were drawn to the look and quality of historic architecture.
"We like the integrity and feel of older homes: the heavier doors, the fixtures and details," says Erin. The couple turned to Wellesley-based architect Jan Gleysteen to develop a house for them in the Shingle Style popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With a cedar-shingled roof and a finely curved copper-topped front portico, their new house was designed "to be elegant but cozy in scale," says Gleysteen. "It isn't huge, but it has lots of rooms, and the Condrons wanted it to be light and airy."
Abundant windows help accomplish that goal. "We were lucky because the house is sited to the sun; the bow-front windows face east, so the living and dining rooms are filled with morning sunlight. The kitchen, family room, and back patio face south and west for afternoon sun," says Gleysteen. "The house is like a solar collector — it gets sun all the time."
Essentially, the house was designed around the kitchen, a common practice for Gleysteen's firm. "The kitchen is the true heart of the home — it's where people spend most of their time, so that's why it's literally located in the middle of the house," he says. The Condrons' kitchen is built for both cooking and socializing. An expansive island separates the food preparation area from the main traffic flow. White cabinets are paired with 2-inch-thick Vermont Danby marble counters, which, combined with the island's 2¼-inch mahogany top, make the room feel solid and substantial, says Gleysteen. At the Condrons' request, the kitchen is open to the family room so that they can watch the kids play; square columns help visually define the two areas.
There's more play space for the children in the finished basement, another one of the Condrons' requirements. "Living in Beacon Hill, we know how confining winters can be. I wanted the house to have space for energetic kids to play when it's too cold to be outside," says Erin. The basement's arts and crafts room and toy-packed recreation room fill the bill nicely, with space left over for a gym and a guest bedroom.
Though rich traditional architectural details are everywhere in the home — thick, carved moldings and trim, coffered and tray ceilings, and a handsome floor in the entry hall (oak inlaid with walnut to create a diamond pattern) — Gleysteen made sure the interior would never feel overly formal or fussy.
"There's a lot of fun in this house," he says. "We added lots of playful curves to create a rhythm of shapes." Curves show up above the range hood in the kitchen and above the master bathroom sink and in rounded interior archways and a large rounded window on the second floor. Gleysteen designed the fanciful curved roof on the front portico to recall a turtle's back.
"We wanted the house to feel warm and welcoming," says Erin. "When people walk into the house, they say they feel comfortable. To us, that's the biggest compliment."
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Words by Mr Dan Cairns
Each time I meet Mr Bryan Ferry, I itch to ask him a certain question. Not about his music - which he has been bewitching and beguiling us with for 40 years now, a milestone the singer is celebrating with the release of The Jazz Age, an album of new versions of his songs, both Roxy Music and solo, retooled as lost classics from the roaring 1920s. No, the question I always intend - and, hopelessly fail - to ask Mr Ferry is about a particular colour, and its key, but infinitesimally subtle, variations. For this is a man whose everyday wear will, more often than not, feature a navy suit, a matching tie, and a shirt of the palest blue. But not any old navy, or any old pale blue. That's the point. And I want that suit, that tie, and I want that shirt, too - and want to ask Mr Ferry where I can find them. You see, his suits and ties are in a navy that is never merely dark blue yet isn't quite black, either. Similarly, his shirts are neither precisely white, nor verging on grey: they contain a passing hint of blue - barely there, but sartorially just so. The combination is, on Mr Ferry, always, always, a maddeningly immaculate one.
When I'm writing a song, I'm very much on my own. That first stage is a kind of lonely one, where you're wrestling with your demons
Predictably, when we meet again - amid the aptly restrained and nonchalant elegance of the Home House private members club in central London - I again fail to ask Mr Ferry about the colour blue. (I suspect I remain tongue-tied because I cannot bear the thought of him gazing down from those lazy eyelids, an expression of pity on his face, as if to say: "You mean you don't know?") I ask him, instead, about The Jazz Age, and the period in the 20th century after which his new album is named. A man whose attention to detail borders on the obsessive - "Oh, it does," Mr Ferry chuckles, "but it's an approved obsession, if you like" - was always going to pay attention to an album sleeve. The cover images and artwork for all of his releases seem to have gone through some sort of rigorous taste test before passing muster, and so it proves with The Jazz Age. Featuring a detail from the Tumulte Noir series by the renowned French poster artist, and lover of singer, dancer and actress Ms Josephine Baker, Mr Paul Colin, it encases a sequence of songs that slip gracefully and evocatively into their new, big-band jazz settings: "Love is the Drug" becomes an even woozier and more louche affair than the original recording; "Do the Strand" a sort of narcotised Charleston; while dovetailing woodwind makes "Avalon" somehow even more forlorn than before. Crucially, if surprisingly, Mr Ferry has elected not to sing on the album, which is entirely instrumental. Was he never tempted to amble up to the vocal booth?
THE Career
London, 1972
From left: Roxy Music's Messrs Paul Thompson, Ferry, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno
london, 1972
From left: Messrs Thompson, Mackay (kneeling), Ferry, Kenton, Manzanera (kneeling) and Eno
London, 1974
Mr Ferry poses during a portrait session for his album Another Place, Another Time
London, 1982
Mr Ferry performing at Wembley Arena
"Well, there was a bit of pressure to do so," he replies, with a wry laugh," or insinuations, at least. You know, 'Couldn't you sing on, maybe, one of them?' But the whole point of the project was to see how well the songs could stand up without words, and to put the spotlight, as it were, on the part of me that is a songwriter, rather than the guy who stands on stage with a microphone." The decision to locate the new album in the 1920s was not one, Mr Ferry admits, that he could have imagined making before. "If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd be doing this, I'd have laughed. Although I was a big jazz fan as a young lad, once rock'n'roll came into my life and took it over, I pretty much stopped listening to it. I'd been seduced, carried off by wah-wah pedals and the sound of the electric guitar." He was drawn back to the 1920s, he says, because "it's such a fascinating period - the beginning of modernism. Eliot wrote The Waste Land, Scott Fitzgerald celebrated the period in The Great Gatsby. Reading that novel was my first introduction to that age, and he was the first writer I took to as a fan of literature. I mean, I'd been forced to read Milton and Shakespeare and everything else at school, but to read for pleasure was like, 'Whoa - this is the beginning of something.' I had this amazing sense of discovery." Does he ever feel as if he was born at the wrong time? "Well, Paris, Berlin, New York in the 1920s, there was so much going on. However, we don't live then, we live now. People say to me, 'Don't you wish you lived in the 1920s?', and I always go, 'No, not really.' I like the fact that I can get on a train to Paris, or fly to Berlin, and be there in two hours. It must have been fabulous to be around then, though. For a start, everyone wore hats. I don't tend to wear a hat in London, because I don't like being recognised, and people tend to [notice you] here if you wear one. I can get away with one in Paris, because it's more flamboyant there."
The artwork for The Jazz Age, comprised of illustrations by the renowned French poster artist Mr Paul Colin
Mr Ferry was in at the beginning of something himself, of course: it is impossible not to now view the period at the dawn of the 1970s - when acts such as Roxy Music and Mr David Bowie bade adieu to the previous decade and strode forth in a blaze of eyeliner, bombastic art-pop, outrageous but sharply design-savvy stage outfits and bold album imagery - as anything other than revolutionary (and, yes, liberatingly flamboyant). In Mr Ferry's case, however, there was always, alongside the restless trailblazing, a contrasting languor that was almost ennui, and a keening for more old-fashioned notions of elegance and sophistication: witness his tuxedo on the sleeve of his second solo album, 1974's Another Time, Another Place; his definitive and ineffably languid 1973 cover version of "These Foolish Things"; Mr Nicky Haslam's acute, long-ago remark that the singer would be more likely to redecorate a hotel room than wreck it; and Mr Ferry's film-star poise every time he looked at the camera, a cigarette curled between his fingers. The cigs may have gone now, but that look is still there. And, if the pace of change has slowed for Mr Ferry in the ensuing years, as it has for many of his contemporaries, he remains a man of boundless curiosity, still a "taste tarantula" (in the words of his old friend, the designer Mr Antony Price), still collecting, dissecting, sifting and, yes, redecorating - for what else is The Jazz Age but an exercise in immaculate rearrangement?
"When I'm writing a song," Mr Ferry says, as we conclude the interview, "I'm very much on my own. That first stage is a kind of lonely one, where you're wrestling with your demons, or however you care to phrase it, or looking for something new to say. Most of the time you're just thinking, 'Is this any good? Is this any different to what I've done before?'" Well, The Jazz Age is better than good, and it's certainly different.
Mr Ferry gets up to leave. Did I forget to mention what he's wearing? Oh, only a suit and tie of the most unimpeachable navy blue. And that pale, pale shirt. Damn the man.
The Jazz Age by The Bryan Ferry Orchestra is out now


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This Tachyon III model has a partially serrated, bead blasted Elmax steel clip point blade and durable type III black anodized handles.
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Anyway, I reluctantly decided to purchase this knife with the thought that I would just return it and get a Ti handled version if I didn't like this one. To be honest, I was pleasantly surprised with this knife. This one flips extremely "fast" should you choose to do so. Balance is extremely good IMO (however flippers vary on what the balance of a knife should be for their flipping style). There is almost zero blade wiggle or handle play. I have many different bali's in a wide range of price points and they all have there own unique quality and this one is definitely a home run in a wide variety of characteristics that a bali should have (price not considered). This knife is a tad light however, heavier than a 51 and larger. This knife will be staying in my collection, the more I flip it, the more I like it.
If you are on a budget and were planning on buying a 51, I would say wait and save up an extra $55 for this one. This flips, hands down, 10 times better than a 51. You won't be disappointed.
I've only been flipping this knife for about 2 hours now so I can't speak of the durability. I really don't know how the aluminium handles and the black anodizing will hold up over time. I really don't care about the ano not holding up because I'm planning on changing the color scheme anyway. I mod every knife I own to "make them mine". I just hope that the aluminium handles hold up, time will tell.