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El pilar en Mies van der Rohe. El lèxic de l'acer
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Premi extraordinari doctorat curs 2011-2012, àmbit d'Arquitectura, Urbanisme i Edificació The thesis focuses on the columns in Mies, as architectural element through which we can explain all his work. The development of a chronological table that organizes the work of Mies according to the shape of the column reveals us the existence of three distinct periods, each of which corresponds to the development of a different column. FIRST PERIOD: This period corresponds to the study of the star co...
Premi extraordinari doctorat curs 2011-2012, àmbit d'Arquitectura, Urbanisme i Edificació The thesis focuses on the columns in Mies, as architectural element through which we can explain all his work. The development of a chronological table that organizes the work of Mies according to the shape of the column reveals us the existence of three distinct periods, each of which corresponds to the development of a different column. FIRST PERIOD: This period corresponds to the study of the star column of small riveting profiles, where a parallelism between the work of Mies, the Alfred Grenander's, architect of Siemens, and Peter Behren', architect of AEG, is set up. Mies builds the same construction system of small riveting profiles published in different manuals of that time, adding small construction variations to achieve his architectural concerns. For example, he proposes an alternative to the usual gusset plates to solve the joints between the column and the beam, reducing them to a point therefore getting the absolutely flat roof of the German Pavilion. SECOND PERIOD: This period corresponds to the study of the grey column, which Mies uses at the United States, where he met the architecture of great welded steel profiles used by Albert Kahn, the Henry Ford's architect. The application of the assembly line in manufacturing automobiles requires Kahn and Ford to innovate in the structures of large size and to spread the same structural order in all the buildings of the same industrial complex. The first buildings of Mies at the IIT are almost identical to those of Albert Kahn, with small variations, starting a process that will end with the Crown Hall. THIRD PERIOD: This period corresponds to the study of the star column built with double-T profiles and the incorporation of the waffle slab structure in the work of Mies, which he develops from its relationship with Konrad Wachsmann, professor at IIT and architect of the US Air Force. Wachsmann develops three-dimensional structures in order to build large hangars for aircrafts, which can be assembled and disassembled by unskilled people in a very short time. Moreover, they don't generate any waste material. Mies will simplify constructively this structure, finally reaching the National Gallery. CONCLUSIONS. THE EFFECTS OF SCALE IN ARCHITECTURE: An overview of the technological context allows us to explore the link between Mies and those architects who lead the construction with steel structure in different industries and who are linked to the research and technological development institutions as relevant as the Werkbund, the Bauhaus and the IIT, in which Mies has taken a leading role in places of highest responsibility. The reconstruction of this technological context throughout the three periods allows us to draw a path of the development of the steel structures, which increasingly takes on new challenges of scale. Furthermore, shows us how Mies incorporates these advances in their work, and applies them to all scales in all three pillars. ARCHITECTURAL MANIFESTO: The comparative study of transitional projects reveals how Mies proposes some collage in every one of the three periods, as an architectural manifesto, which links the concept of neo-plastic space with every new structure. This is an invariant aspect in his work from the concrete house project in 1923 and the brick house project in 1924. TOWARDS THE CLARIFICATION OF THE STRUCTURE: The comparative study of the column allows us to realize its capacity to express the structure. The step from a column to another is part of a process in the work of Mies to the clarification of the structure. Thus it is becoming cleaner and he can leave it more and more visible. It is a constructive refinement process, and it is part of the same work line initiated by Viollet-le-Duc on the constructive shape that best expresses the steel structure, the one which responds to the material logic and the constrution processes.
Jiménez Gómez, E. M. "El pilar en Mies van der Rohe: el lèxic de l'acer". Tesi doctoral, UPC, Departament de Projectes Arquitectònics, 2012.
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L'Affaire Madoff, as it has become known, has raised questions why Union Bancaire Privée did not look more closely at its returns.
PARIS — For generations, the calling card of Swiss private bankers has been the promise of prudence and discretion.
Now, as the links between Bernard L. Madoff and elite private banks like Geneva-based Union Bancaire Privée emerge, this well-polished reputation has been tarnished by the $50 billion Ponzi scheme that Mr. Madoff has been arrested for and accused of running.
L'Affaire Madoff, as it has become known here and in Geneva, has cast an unwanted spotlight onto the normally shadowy world of private bankers in Switzerland and other cozy hiding places of offshore wealth, like the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg.
And while there are many Swiss victims in terms of total exposure, UBP is the best-known private bank to get hit, with $700 million of its clients' money invested with Mr. Madoff.
Founded in 1969 by Edgar de Picciotto, UBP quickly became a giant in the conservative world of Swiss banking, where partnerships like Pictet and Lombard Odier stretch back more than 200 years.
With assets of $125 billion and a client base of wealthy individuals, families and institutions that reach from Qatar to Uruguay to Russia and throughout Europe, it is one of Switzerland's biggest pipelines for channeling client money into hedge funds worldwide.
About six years ago, that business, known as a fund of funds, began to rake in larger fees when it decided to set up a vehicle called M-Invest Ltd to funnel cash to Mr. Madoff's firm.
Through this relationship, UBP claimed it was able to gain close insight into Mr. Madoff's investment operations, through copies of trade tickets and an unusual degree of access granted by Mr. Madoff himself to UBP's representatives, according to a confidential internal letter sent to investors on Dec. 17, obtained by The New York Times.
The memorandum, while seeking to reassure investors, could raise questions about why UBP, unlike others who claimed to have seen red flags, did not use its access to delve more deeply into the unusually consistent annual returns that Mr. Madoff's funds were reporting.
The UBP letter acknowledges some concerns over how Mr. Madoff's firm combined investment management and brokerage services. But the Geneva bank said it "found comfort" in the fact that the firm was subject to "routine" audits by the Securities and Exchange Commission and Finra, another securities regulator, as well as "Madoff's longstanding reputation in building Wall Street's markets infrastructure." M-Invest was regulated by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, where it was incorporated.
UBP was also closely tied to Fairfield Greenwich Group, the New York investment company that was the single biggest gatherer of money for Mr. Madoff, sending $7.3 billion his way and collecting more than $500 million in fees as a result.
Michael de Picciotto, a nephew of the founder and a top executive of UBP, is a close friend of Andrés Piedrahita, a son-in-law of Walter Noel, the founder of Fairfield Greenwich. Mr. Piedrahita played a key role in raising much of the money from Europe and South America that ended up with Mr. Madoff.
UBP was the also main investment adviser, custodian and leverage provider to Fairfield's huge fund of funds business and Mr. de Picciotto in turn was a key adviser to Fairfield, according to an internal document prepared by Fairfield last year for a potential buyer of the firm. In addition, UBP is listed as the sixth-largest investor in Fairfield's funds, for which the bank provided "qualitative and quantitative research and operational due diligence," according to the letter.
At one point, the letter boasted that Mr. de Picciotto could provide insight into UBP's investment and asset allocation strategy. Through these connections, UBP became entwined with Mr. Madoff's investments even as competitors like Société Générale, which turned up a series of red flags during routine due diligence in 2003 at Mr. Madoff's New York headquarters, steered clear.
"Ultimately, these people were blind to what was going on," said Michel Dominicé, a veteran Geneva hedge fund manager with $200 million under management.
He said the links between UBP, Fairfield Greenwich and Mr. Madoff, as well as the hundreds of millions in fees the firms earned by steering money to Madoff investments, pointed to conflicts of interests that penalize investors.
Mr. Dominicé was himself approached by a salesman for Madoff investments three years ago but declined to invest, saying he could not figure out how Mr. Madoff earned such steady returns, month after month. "It just didn't make sense," he said.
To be sure, $700 million in exposure cited by UBP is only a tiny fraction of the $125 billion under management by the bank. UBP also reported a $331 million gross profit in the first half of 2008, up 5.8 percent from a year ago.
But for UBP, the headlines have cast a shadow on a reputation that seemed to soar as high as the nearby Alps.
For all of its growth — UBP has roughly 1,300 employees worldwide — the bank remains a family affair. Edgar de Picciotto is the chairman and principal shareholder, although he has given day-to-day responsibilities to his son Guy de Picciotto, the chief executive, and several other family members.
On Tuesday, as many Swiss bankers prepared to head for the slopes for vacation until after New Year's, a Christmas tree glimmered beside the gold colored entrance to UBP, where visitors are greeted in a reception area of black marble, red leather benches and a large golden globe.
In the tight-knit world of Swiss wealth management, experts acknowledged it was a public relations disaster for UBP, but defended the bank's decision-making.
"It's not the kind of publicity you seek," said Michel Derobert, secretary general of the Swiss Private Bankers Association. Because it is a private corporation rather than a partnership, Mr. Derobert's association does not include UBP, but works with the bank from time to time.


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Politics/ Fall 2008
The Bay State goes to K Street
By Shawn Zeller 0 Comments Oct 21, 2008
Lobbying is a $3 billion-a-year business in the nation's capital, and Massachusetts–based corporations and nonprofits are active participants. A CommonWealth review of lobbying records filed with the House and Senate indicates that 35 Massachusetts companies, universities, and hospitals spent at least $250,000 each on Washington advocacy in 2007, for a total of more than $37 million. (See sidebar at right.)
The Massachusetts share of the national lobbying pie is 1.2 percent, but that number is somewhat misleading since much of the $3 billion total is concentrated among trade and interest groups based in Washington. Of the 30 biggest spenders on Washington lobbying, 14 were trade and interest groups; together they accounted for 54 percent of the $408 million spent by the top 30 on lobbying in 2007. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its legal reform division spent nearly $53 million on lobbying.
Jeffrey Berry, a professor of political science at Tufts University, says Bay State companies invest heavily in Washington lobbying, and for good reason.
"It's entirely rational," he says. "For these companies, especially, it can be well worth their while, and more profitable, to go to Washington to fix a regulation or to get earmarked funding than to create a new product line."
For a defense contractor like Raytheon — No. 1 on CommonWealth's list, at $6.2 million — lobbying can translate into multibillion-dollar contracts with the Defense Department. Pharmaceutical companies and medical device makers, such as Genzyme and Biogen Idec (No. 2 and No. 11, respectively, on CommonWealth's list), rely on government approval in order to sell their products, making lobbying essential to their bottom lines. Universities and hospitals can benefit enormously if Congress directs earmarked funding toward research at their institutions. And Ocean Spray, No. 25 on the list, benefits if the government provides support for its specialty crop, cranberries.
Berry says company lobbyists aren't just "playing offense" in Washington. He says firms also spend significant time and money fighting proposals by opponents, such as labor unions or environmental groups, that can hurt their bottom lines.
Holcim (US) of Waltham, one of the largest suppliers of cement in the United States, reported spending $530,000 last year in Washington, some of it lobbying on climate change legislation that has the industrial sector worried. The Senate bill, by Republican John Warner of Virginia and independent Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, would set up a cap-and-trade system, limiting the amount of greenhouse gases industrial facilities can emit but allowing them to sell those pollution rights to other companies for a fee. Senate Republicans blocked an effort to bring the bill up for a vote in June. Holcim indicated on its lobbying disclosure report that it was concerned about provisions dealing with the allocation of emissions credits, compliance obligations, cost containment, and international efforts to combat global warming.
The 35 organizations on CommonWealth's list represent a broad swath of Massachusetts industry. Ten are in the health/science sector: Genzyme, Boston Scientific, Biogen Idec, EMD Serono, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Sepracor, Partners HealthCare, UMass Memorial Health Care, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, and the Coalition of Boston Teaching Hospitals. Another seven are in finance: Massachusetts Mutual, Liberty Mutual, Fidelity, John Hancock, State Street, Bain Capital, and Beacon Capital. And five are in education: Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, and the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
Filling out the list are high-tech and electronics makers (Lilliputian, EMC, Bose, Parametric Technology), government contractors (Raytheon, American Science & Engineering), a utility (National Grid), an engineering firm (Camp, Dresser & McKee), a cement supplier (Holcim), a cranberry grower (Ocean Spray), a clothing store chain (TJX), a gun maker (Smith & Wesson), and even an American Indian tribe (the Mashpee Wampanoags).
The biggest spenders were companies that do business directly with the government or are in highly regulated industries. They were not necessarily the largest companies in the state or the most profitable. Indeed, of the top 50 Bay State companies as ranked by revenue, only nine of them spent more than $250,000 on lobbying in the capital.
Yet some companies with big revenues also topped the lobbying chart. Raytheon, the maker of missile systems and other defense-related products for the Pentagon, is No. 1 on both lists. Its D.C. lobbying office, headed by former Senate Armed Services Committee aide John Barnes, focuses mostly on government appropriations bills. The Waltham company has also hired 26 lobbying firms to assist its lobbying efforts. Among Raytheon's outside advocates in 2007 were people well versed in government spending bills, such as former House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston of Louisiana and James English, a former staff director of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Barnes did not respond to requests for comment. But the firm's $6.2 million in 2007 lobbying spending isn't out of line with other big defense contractors. Northrop Grumman of Los Angeles, for example, spent nearly $11 million on lobbying, and Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Maryland, spent $9.8 million.
The reticence of Barnes to speak about his company's work isn't unusual either. Lobbying has never been a subject that corporations have been eager to discuss, but it's an especially touchy subject now given that influence-peddling scandals have led to the indictment of four members of Congress over the last few years — including the longest-serving Republican senator in US history, Ted Stevens of Alaska.
In each of the cases, the officials were charged with taking gifts from a lobbyist and either not reporting them on required financial disclosure forms or providing official acts in return for them. Two of those charged have been convicted and are already serving jail time: former Republican Reps. Randy "Duke" Cunningham of California and Bob Ney of Ohio. The other is Democratic Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana, whom the Justice Department accuses of stowing $90,000 in bribe money in a freezer.
There is no indication any Massachusetts companies were involved in these cases.
Major companies on CommonWealth's list, such as State Street, Boston Scientific, and EMC, either declined to comment on their lobbying activities in Washington or did not respond to requests for comment. One company that did comment, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, e-mailed a statement on its advocacy activities. "We fully disclose the issues we lobby, as well as the candidates we contribute to, in reports?that we file periodically that are matters of public record," said spokesman Mark Cybulski.
What's required in the reports isn't very informative. Companies are asked to spell out "specific lobbying issues" but usually only list bills or provide generic descriptions. Rarely do they explain precisely what they lobbied for, or against.
Massachusetts Mutual, for example, reported hiring three outside firms to represent it in Washington — including former Capitol Hill staffers such as Lendell Porterfield, a one-time aide to the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, Richard Shelby of Alabama. The firm's disclosures said that it lobbied on data privacy legislation, a variety of bills affecting retirement investments, and estate tax repeal. The disclosures don't reveal precisely what Massachusetts Mutual wanted Congress to do.
The reluctance of companies to speak about their lobbying is no surprise, says Berry, considering the "horrendous image" lobbying has in the public mind. "The average person associates it with unfair practices, if not outright dishonesty. It's just wise public relations not to put it front and center."
Those companies that consented to interviews said that lobbying was essential because of the nature of their industries.
"Our business is increasingly affected by decisions in Washington," says Paul Mattera, senior vice president and chief public affairs officer for Boston–based Liberty Mutual, which came in fourth on CommonWealth's list. Mattera says that the firm lobbied Congress hard — and successfully — to reauthorize a post-9/11 law that provides a government-funded backstop to companies offering insurance against terrorist acts. The law makes it possible for insurance companies to offer terrorism insurance at commercially reasonable rates, Mattera says.
Among the outside advocates whom Liberty Mutual hired to help with the campaign: former GOP Rep. Bill Paxon of New York. Former GOP Rep. Bill Archer of Texas, once the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, also aided Liberty Mutual's lobbying efforts on tax issues related to insurance and workers compensation.
Mattera says that Liberty Mutual has also become a leading advocate of free trade agreements with foreign countries. The agreements are not specifically targeted at the insurance sector, but they can help a company like Liberty Mutual by allowing it to expand its overseas insurance offerings.
Financial services companies like Fidelity Management and Research, No. 6 on CommonWealth's list, echo Mattera in explaining their advocacy efforts in Washington. "The financial services industry operates within a complex legal and regulatory environment," says Fidelity spokesman Vin Loporchio. Most of the Boston–based company's products, from 401(k)s to 529 college savings plans and IRAs, are regulated by the government, he says, "so it's very, very important for us to communicate with lawmakers."
Among those doing the communicating for Fidelity was John Green, who had been an aide to Republican Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi when Lott was Senate majority leader. Green took a leave of absence from his lobbying work earlier this year to become GOP presidential nominee John McCain's liaison to House and Senate Republicans. In 2007, he helped Fidelity voice its concerns about a bill that would require Fidelity and other mutual fund providers to disclose more about their 401(k) retirement plan fees. The House Committee on Education and Labor approved the bill, by California Democratic Rep. George Miller, in April, but its chances of becoming law in 2008 are small.
Other highly regulated firms, such as those in Massachusetts's burgeoning medical device and pharmaceutical sector, are big lobbying spenders. Genzyme spokesman Bo Piela says his Cambridge–based firm lobbies heavily because of its need to interact with the Food and Drug Administration, the executive branch agency that approves its products.
Among the bills the company lobbied on was a major overhaul of the FDA that President Bush signed into law in September 2007. The bill requires that drug and medical device makers pay the FDA fees for expedited reviews of new products. It also permits the FDA to require studies of new drugs after they've been approved, as well as risk-reduction plans for drugs suspected to have potentially dangerous side effects.
Tony Podesta, one of Washington's most prominent lobbyists and a former aide to Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, was among Genzyme's advocates on the FDA overhaul bill.
"We are in one of the most highly regulated industries," says Piela. "We have very complicated products, and it takes a lot of work to explain what we do and the products that we make and how they benefit patients so that sensible, beneficial policies can be shaped to allow us to do that work," he said.
Notable, too, are the companies that aren't on CommonWealth's list. They include some of the biggest firms in Massachusetts, but ones that don't face significant government regulation, such as Framingham–based Staples and BJ's Wholesale Club of Natick.
Massachusetts's educational and hospital sectors make a mark lobbying, but not a huge one. Harvard and Boston Universities each spent under $1 million in 2007 seeking earmarked funding for special projects and funding for scientific research from the government. BU was second among universities in lobbying spending, trailing only Johns Hopkins University, which spent $1 million. Harvard was fourth, behind Johns Hopkins, BU, and Northwestern University. Overall, BU was 14th on CommonWealth's list, with Harvard following at 15th place.
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Well behind them were Northeastern, MIT, and the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. The flagship state college campus at Amherst reported spending $190,000, while the UMass branch in Lowell spent $140,000. UMass–Amherst, especially, is well positioned to secure the kind of earmarked funding that universities crave most in Washington since its hometown congressman, John Olver, sits on the House Appropriations Committee.
Boston's renowned medical sector got in the game as well. The parent organization of Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Partners HealthCare System Inc., spent $600,000 on the services of Kip O'Neill, the fourth child of former House Speaker Tip O'Neill, and his lobbying firm. O'Neill's disclosure reports indicate he sought federal appropriations for the hospitals.
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Energy minister still missing in action
The marked absence of Energy Minister, Mr Kofi Adda, from the Oil Conference ongoing in Accra has renewed speculation about his dismissal.
The minister has kept a relatively low profile since he started what government officials call his annual leave in November.
Although the MP for Navrongo is regular in parliament, very little has been seen of him in government.
Highly placed sources tell Joy News that Kofi Adda had been sacked.
They supported their argument with the fact that government officials are only allowed one month annual leave.
But information minister Oboshie Sai Cofie, maintains Mr. Ada is on leave.
The minister was appointed to energy sector in President Kufuor's reshuffle in April 2006.
His term in office spanned a turbulent period during which Ghana was hit by energy crises that crippled the economy for nearly a year.
But it was also during the same period that oil was discovered in commercial quantities.


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Mission Majnu is real, no answer for those who compare with Raazi: Shantanu Bagchi | Bollywood
Mission Majnu Director Shantanu Bagchi feels ecstatic about the Sidharth Malhotrastarrer, who rules Netflix's top 10 movies in India. While some may think this is the film debut of the award-winning advertiser, his first film as a child artist was Satyajit Ray's Sonar Kella. Speaking to Hindustan Times, Shantanu recalled his fond memories of Ray, which sparked his interest in filmmaking, and his last experience with Mission Majnu.
Several fans were hoping for a theatrical release of Mission Majnu and many repeated it on Twitter even after it landed on Netflix on Jan. 20. Shantanu reasoned their decision: "A lot of people say that, but in today's day and age, the reach that Netflix can bring is absolutely amazing. For example, even though I knew it was released in 190 countries, I had my doubts that anyone other than Indians would watch it. I was thinking maybe people in India will watch it but I never thought it would rank 5th in UK or 6th in Canada in the best watch list.
Though the reception of the spy thriller came as a surprise to the director, many people compared the film to Alia Bhatt's spy drama, Raazi. What does Shantanu think? He replied: "At the time of the trailer's release, everyone was talking about the elements that should be in a spy story. First of all, I've never understood what it means to review a trailer. You can review a movie, but I haven't gotten around to how to review a trailer yet. But people watch and do that, there must be a good reason for that."
"By watching the trailer, you are commenting on a movie you haven't seen. Maybe you should wait, watch the movie and then you might be in the right position to comment. But people say it's the same, there's a spy going to Pakistan, but that's elements. If you watch the film, you will see that it is completely different. It is based on a true story that actually happened. In this story, the spy is an intelligent man who thinks laterally, he is not snooping for someone to find out. He's trying to find something and it's an interesting story about a spy with a clear mind, sticking to some sort of realistic situation, rather than many other spy movies you've seen. They are glorified, almost like superheroes. Sure, there are some action sequences (in Mission Majnu) that aren't quite as realistic, but… I think they'll add to the suspense. There are some people, even after looking at it, who say you know it's just like Raazi. I have no answer for them."
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The movie is also missing Rashmika Mandana's voice. When Shantanu was asked about it, he revealed why they chose dubbing. "Rashmika tried it in one of the Hindi workshops, but it was a Pakistani dialect with some Urdu nuqta (the way of pronouncing and expressing the words). Those things didn't happen because she was born and raised with a certain language. We dubbed the voice with someone who is good at it."
But did Rashmika feel comfortable? "No actor is comfortable with you dubbing their voice. That's a given. But we tried to dub the voice very close to their inflection. Shantanu added that about 10-15 voice actors were tested over multiple rounds to find the perfect match while focusing only on pronunciations.
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Shantanu's film was the first Hindi film shot by Rashmika, but her debut title went to Vikas Bahl's Goodbye. But the director has no problem with it. "There are certain things in life that are beyond your control. If a movie's release isn't in your hand, I wouldn't worry about it at all. I would be concerned about the role of the actor in my film. I wasn't worried at all because I knew she did a great job. If the audience sees something good, they will record it, which they did. I never worried about what that other movie is and how people will react to it.
Shantanu spearheaded several popular advertisements and eventually navigated his way into movies. But was it an easy journey or was the stakes even higher than for a rookie? "When you do something new in your life, there is a lot at stake. It's true for everyone. But one has to take the plunge and approach it with honesty, integrity, positivity and trying. I think advertisements are a great training ground."
"Now you've come to a place where the size is big, the risk is bigger and you have to tell a different story. How to adapt it to entertain the audience is the real task. Chances are you'll fail because you've never done it before. But if one is aware, one can try to reduce errors,' he said from experience.
It was Satyajit's 1969 hit film Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne that made Shantanu his fan. He shared, "Watched Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne with grandfather. I asked him who is Satyajit Ray. What role does he play? My grandfather told me that he is not in the movie, but everything happens on the screen thanks to him. I was intrigued by the idea that there was a guy for whom everything happens in the movie, but you can't see him. Maybe that sparked my curiosity and interest (in movies)."
Sneha Biswas is an entertainment journalist at Hindustan Times. She writes about Bollywood, K-Drama, K-Pop, OTT shows, exclusive interviews and everything else about your favorite celebrities.
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Navigating the Distributed Data Pipelines: An Overview and Guide for Your Performance Management Strategy
An overview a modern big data stack, the requirements at both the individual application level of these stacks, and architectures for these complex environments.
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There are more than 10,000 enterprises across the globe that rely on a data stack that is made up of multiple distributed systems. While these enterprises, which span a wide range of verticals — finance, healthcare, technology, and more — build applications on a distributed big data stack, some are not fully aware of the performance management challenges that often arise. This piece will provide an overview of what a modern big data stack looks like, then address the requirements at both the individual application level of these stacks (as well as holistic clusters and workloads), and explore what type of architecture can provide automated solutions for these complex environments.
The Big Data Stack and Operational Performance Requirements
Areas like health care, genomics, financial services, self-driving technology, government, and media are building mission-critical applications in what's known as the big data stack. The big data stack is unique in that it is composed of multiple distributed systems. While every organization varies in how they deploy the technology, the big data stack in most enterprises goes through the following evolution:
ETL: Storage systems, such as HDFS, S3, and Azure Blob Store (ABS), house the large volumes of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Distributed processing engines, like MapReduce, come in for the extraction, cleaning, and transformation of the data.
BI: SQL systems like Impala, Presto, LLAP, Drill, BigQuery, RedShift, or Azure SQL DW are added to the stack; sometimes alongside incumbent MPP SQL systems like Teradata and Vertica. Compared to the traditional MPP systems, the newer ones have been built to deal with data stored in a different distributed storage system like HDFS, S3, or ABS. These systems power the interactive SQL queries that are common in BI workloads.
Data science: With the continued maturation of the big data stack, it starts bringing in more data science workloads that leverage machine learning and AI. This stage is usually when the Spark distributed system starts to be used more and more.
Data streaming: Over time, enterprises begin to understand the importance of making data-driven decisions in near real-time, as well as how to overcome the challenges in implementing them. Usually, at this point in the evolution, systems like Kafka, Cassandra, and HBase are added to the big data stack to support applications that ingest and process data in a continuous streaming fashion.
Evolution of the big data stack in an enterprise.
With so many enterprises worldwide running applications in production on a distributed big data stack (comprised of three or more distributed systems), performance challenges are no surprise. The stacks have many moving parts, which makes it very hard to get any answers in the event that something goes wrong. When there's a breakdown, organizations often find themselves scrambling to understand the following:
Failure: What caused this application to fail, and how can I fix it?
Stuck: This application seems to have made little progress in the last hour. Where is it stuck?
Runaway: Will this application ever finish, or will it finish in a reasonable amount of time?
SLA: Will this application meet its SLA?
Change: Is the behavior (e.g., performance, resource usage) of this application very different from the past? If so, in what way and why?
Rogue/victim: Is this application causing problems on my cluster or is the performance of this application being affected by one or more other applications?
Many operational performance requirements are needed at the "macro" level compared to the level of individual applications. These include:
Configuring resource allocation policies to meet SLAs in multi-tenant clusters.
Detecting rogue applications that can affect the performance of SLA-bound applications through a variety of low-level resource interactions.
Configuring the hundreds of configuration settings that distributed systems are notoriously known for having to get the desired performance.
Tuning data partitioning and storage layout.
Optimizing dollar costs on the cloud.
Capacity planning using predictive analysis to account for workload growth proactively.
Overview of a Performance Management Strategy
Architecture of a performance management platform for the big data stack.
Suffice to say, distributed big data stacks come with many inherent challenges. To address these challenges and tame highly distributed big data deployments, organizations need an approach to application performance management that delivers all of the following:
Full data stack collection: To answer questions — such as, "what caused this application to fail?" or "will this application ever meet its SLA?" — monitoring data from every level of the stack will be necessary. This includes data from SQL queries, execution plans, data pipeline dependency graphs, and logs from the application level; resource allocation and wait-time metrics from the resource management and scheduling level; and actual CPU, memory, and network usage metrics from the infrastructure level, among other sources. Collecting such data in a non-intrusive or low-overhead manner from production clusters remains a major technical challenge, but this challenge is being addressed by the database and systems community.
Event-driven data processing: Large big data stacks can include over 500 nodes and run hundreds of thousands of applications every day across ETL, BI, data science, and streaming systems. These deployments generate tens of terabytes of logs and metrics every day. This data introduces two unique challenges — variety and consistency — which are further outlined below. To solve these two problems, the data processing layer has to be based on event-driven processing algorithms whose outputs converge to the same final state, irrespective of the timeliness and order in which the monitoring data arrives. The end user should get the same insights irrespective of the timeliness and order in which the monitoring data arrives.
The variety challenge: The monitoring data collected from the big data stack covers the full spectrum from unstructured logs to semi-structured data pipeline dependency DAGs to structured time-series metrics. Stitching this data together to create meaningful and useable representations of application performance is a nontrivial challenge.
The consistency challenge: Monitoring data has to be collected independently and in real-time from various moving parts of the multiple distributed systems that comprise the big data stack. Thus, no prior assumptions can be made about the timeliness or order in which the monitoring data arrives at the processing layer.
Machine learning-driven insights and policy-driven actions: Enabling all of the monitoring data to be collected and stored in a single place opens up interesting opportunities to apply statistical analysis and learning algorithms to this data. These algorithms can generate insights that, in turn, can be applied manually by the user or automatically based on configured policies to address the performance requirements identified earlier.
The modern big data stack faces many unique performance management challenges. These challenges exist at the individual application level, as well as at the workload and cluster levels. To solve these problems at every level, a performance management strategy needs to offer full stack data collection, event-driven data processing, and AI-driven insights and policy-driven actions. As organizations look to get more and more out of their big data stack — including the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning — it's imperative that they adopt a performance management approach that provides these key pillars.
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Money in Medieval England and France
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Like everything else about the Middle Ages, styles of money varied from place to place, and understanding the relationship between denominations can therefore be confusing. In fact, in the thirteenth century [C.E.], there was only one type of coin in existence: a small, silver piece known in England as a penny and in France as a denier. In England, twelve pennies equaled a shilling (although there were no shillings minted, you simply counted out twelve pennies into someone's hand); in France twelve deniers equaled a sous (although, likewise, there were no sous in existence). There were, in England, 20 shillings or 240 pennies to a pound sterling; in France there were 20 sous or 240 deniers to a livre. Once again, there was no actual coin struck representing a pound or a livre; to payoff the debt of a pound the debtor handed the creditor a sack containing 240 pennies; in France, to pay off the debt of a livre, the sack would contain 240 deniers. In England, just to make the concept as complicated as possible, they also measured silver by a weight measure called the mark. A mark was two-thirds the weight of a pound sterling, so a mark of silver was the same as 160 pennies. But if the debt was in marks, you didn't have to supply pennies, a person could use any silver he or she happened to have lying around the house, like a silver plate, just so long as it weighed the right number of marks. When [King Henry III of England] and [Queen] Eleanor promised to pay the pope 135,541 marks to fund [their son] Edmund's campaign for the kingship of Sicily, they were promising to pay approximately £90,812, or nearly three years' income, some of which, presumably, could have come in the form of the royal dining service.…
Just like today, French money and English money differed sufficiently so as to require a rate of exchange. In France, the quality and fineness of a denier (and therefore of a livre composed of those deniers) varied so much that the coins were labeled by location, which is why some of the French sums mentioned in [this book] were specified as livres toumois (minted in Tours, of high quality) and others as livres parisis (minted in Paris, of much lower quality).… The exchange rate in 1265 [C.E.] between livres parisis and the pound sterling was 90 sous (or 1,080 deniers) to the pound. To make it easier, there were 4½ livres parisis to a pound sterling, and 3 livres parisis to a mark. The annual French royal income of 250,000 livres (most likely livres parisis) was therefore the equivalent of about £55,556, a much larger sum than was available to their English counterparts. Henry and Eleanor only had an average annual income of about £36,000.
Anyone who wants to go deeper into this subject should definitely read Peter Spufford's authoritative and comprehensive work, Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1988), and its complement, The Handbook of Medieval Exchange.
— Nancy Goldstone, Four Queens , pp. 309-10
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." — Thomas Jefferson


"What song is this" – How many times it happens that after listening to music for a song, you get curious to know the lyrics and name of that song? Almost every one of us loves music, but when it comes to streaming music online, downloading free Mp3 music online or buying new music DVD, we frequently depend on the lyrics and name of the music album. However, it becomes tough to ask for particular song collection in DVD shop when you have no clue of song name or lyrics.
Even if you are looking to download Mp3 music via the internet, neither Google nor any other search engines are of any help to you without knowing the lyrics or name of the song. Because Google and other search engines need keywords related to your desired song but when you are completely unknown of what is the name of this song then how will you come to know what keyword is this song in?
Well, to overcome this difficulty of song recognition, I have a complete guide for you dealing how to identify a song without knowing the song lyrics and how to use various song identifier apps to find song name with the hum of a song.
Learn How to Identify Song Using Google Search App on Android with the Help of Google Now?
Know How to Know What Song is This on iPhone Using Apple's Siri?
Find out How to Recognize What Song is This on Windows Phone Using Zune Music Search?
And apart from this, you'll know that why all these music recognition methods fail in identifying the song. And finally, you'll come to know what song identification methods work effectively in telling you the name of the particular song.
1. How to Identify Song Using Google Search App on Android with the Help of Google Now?
Why this song identification method fails?
2. How to Know What Song is This on iPhone Using Apple's Siri Command?
Why this song recognition method fails?
3. How to Recognise What Song is This on Windows Phone Using Zune Music Search?
Why song identification process by Windows Music Search fails?
The latest Google search app for Android has got smarter with music search and recognition feature. There is a neat trick to know the song name, song lyrics, album name, artist name as well as music download link for that song track.
All you have to do is, while the music is playing around your surrounding, hit the microphone icon on your Google search app, and Google will listen and automatically find the song name and all the details as mentioned above about the song.
Remember: you primarily need not command "Okay Google, what song is this ?" before Google Now feature will listen music playing around your surrounding.
Google Now music search feature is available in the US only. So the rest part of the world suffer.
Your Android device needs to be 4.4 KitKat or above. No support for lower Android OS versions like Jelly Bean, Gingerbread, etc.
During the initial beta release of iOS 8, Apple announced that Siri in iOS 8 would be able to identify what song is playing with music recognition search engine powered by Shazam as Siri would automatically start listening music playing around and will also automatically try to find information related to that song.
But the final public beta of iOS 8 showed that Apple developers removed the automatic listening of music by Siri, and you need to manually command Siri to identify the song by asking, "Hey Siri," "What Song is This" or "What Song is Playing" etc. similar questions.
Though this music recognition method is somewhat effective as it finds the music ID from iTunes and shows various information about song lyrics, artist name, album name including the link to download that particular song. Despite being effective, this identification method fails.
When you ask, "Hey Siri, What Song Is Playing" it shows the information related to the song that is playing in your device's music library.
When you try to know what that song is, by asking "Hey Siri, What Song is This" while turning off the music on your iOS device to help Siri listen what music is playing in your surrounding in better way, Siri starts identifying the song being played but fails to categorize the sound of air conditioner, sound of your breathing, sneeze, etc. in the background also. Obviously, you'll not get the desired result with perfection.
Windows allows you to find song playing on your Windows Phone as well as other information about it, such as the song title, artist, album, and ways to listen to or buy it. To search for music that is playing, you just have to press the search icon on your phone and tap on music while the music is playing.
After scanning the song music, your Windows phone will answer the song title, artist, album name, and album art will appear for songs that are recognized. But this song recognition method also fails.
The Music search can only recognize recorded music, which means it isn't able to know music from live performances or humming.
You need to help Windows in listening to the song by playing a louder song or taking your phone closer to music otherwise it won't be able to recognize the song and hence, you'll get "no matching songs" error message again and again.
There are many ways to find song name either using song identifier apps on smartphone mobiles and desktop, using various sites to tell what song this is or using a method to identify music with the help of humans.
Shazam is one of the best music identifier apps that makes discovering music easy. It allows you to identify music, get song lyrics and discover new music also. Using Shazam, you may instantly know what song is this. Simply install the app and let Shazam app listen to music by holding your phone near to music source and Shazam automatically does the work. It completes the process of identifying music and provides you with the various information needed for the song.
With the free version of Shazam, you may identify only five songs each month considering if the tune is not recognized, it doesn't count in tracking limits. However, for unlimited tracking of songs you may take into account buying a paid subscription. Though Shazam works with only pre-recorded music and it can't recognize song with live performances like humming song etc. It is a great song recognition app worth trying.
Musixmatch is the world's largest lyrics catalog where you may listen to the songs in your music library with synced lyrics. It allows you to identify lyrics of the song that you love as well as search for the lyrics of the song while music is playing around you.
By searching for the lyrics of the song, you'll instantly get the lyrics you're looking for and play the song from YouTube or Spotify. However, if you can't remember the song title or any part of the song lyrics, only take your phone near to audio source and with a simple tap you can identify the song and the lyrics from the Radio, TV or any other audio source.
SoundHound is yet another powerful song identifier app that lets you search, discover and identify music playing around you. To identify any song playing around you, you just have to install the app and tap on the orange button while the music is apparently playing. It automatically searches and finds the song name, lyrics of the song and other information like artist and album name, etc.
SoundHound is a free music search engine that enables you to find song name after performing music search by singing or humming into SoundHound. As it works on sing/hum search technology, it is perfect song identifier app to find the song name with hum without knowing lyrics.
MusicID is the ultimate music companion for music recognition and songs lyrics identification. It allows you to identify music using your mobile phone. With over 28 million songs in its database, MusicID has a very powerful music search and recognition feature that lets you find song name easily.
You may download MusicID iOS app to identify music on iPhone, Android app to find music name on your smartphone as well as other mobile phones like Blackberry, Java, and many others. However, if you want to find the name of the song without downloading any software or apps, you may also get music identification by dialing #43 on AT &T and Virgin mobile and holding your mobile near music source. No download is required.
Musipedia is the open music Encyclopedia that lets you search for and identify song even if you know nothing other than the melody of song. It uses MelodyHound music search engine to empower music search functionality.
You may search and identify music by entering flash based piano's keyboard, Java-Script-based virtual piano keyboard, by dragging the mouse or using a microphone. Musipedia is a very powerful song name finder as it allows you to find the melody of the song by tapping the rhythms of the song on computer keyboards.
MelodyCatcher is yet another useful online music search engine that lets you find the song name by entering melody of the song with the help of a virtual keyboard Piano. It allows you to play the wanted melody by clicking the keys on Piano, listen to the melody and correct it if there is correction required before searching the tune name.
Finally, as you click the search button or press enter key on your keyboard, MelodyCatcher searches the name of melody and provides you various song names as well as other information with a download link to that song name.
FolkTune Finder is a search engine for finding folk tunes. Using FolkTune Finder music search engines, you may find traditional tunes as well as folk tunes quickly. It offers two types of tune search functionality – Title search to search and find tunes using the title of the tunes while Melody search to search and find a tune using the melody of the tune.
Using the melody search functionality of FolkTune Finder, you may enter any key as the notes on the keyboard, and the FolkTune Finder will automatically find the tunes for you. You may also navigate through other options to find song name and tune like the search for tunes, browse all tunes, random tune, etc.
It often happens that when you fail to know what that song is called as neither the song identifier apps/websites nor song recognition software for Mac, Linux or Windows PC etc. may answer the name of song. So how will you come to know "what song is this ?" when digital devices fail to identify ?
The best way is to ask the creator of these digital devices – Human beings, who have all the answers. Just record a short Mp3 audio of the song or your own humming of the song and upload it to a song identifier community site – WatZatSong (pronounced, "What's That Song). You'll quickly be able to find the name of the song as soon as someone listen to your music sample and answer with the song name.
Name My Tune is yet another web-based song recognition app that lets you find the name of any song by humming. When you need the name of a song, just allow Name My Tune to access your camera and microphone. You hum the song, Name My Tune listens your humming sound using the microphone and automatically searches and finds the name of that song you were humming.
Midomi is the ultimate music search engine that offers instant music search and discovery powered by SoundHound for iPhone or Android. The web-based app of Midomi lets you search and find the name of the song using your own voice.
If you have an unknown tune whose title or song name is not known to you, only use your microphone to sing or hum the song in your own voice and know the song name by searching it through Midomi music search.
Tunatic is a free software to find name of the song on Windows PC or Mac OS X. It is basically a free music identification software that allows you to search music name. Simply download it for free and install on your PC. Though it works offline but to find the song name from its database, it does require internet connection. Tunatic is one of the best song finder software that works smoothly in finding a song name on your PC.
Now that I have provided the complete information about song recognition methods including various song identifier apps, you need not to ask "what's this song is called ?" as you yourself will be able to know what song is this even without knowing lyrics of the song.
Do you know any other song identification method? Do let me know how do you find what is the name of this song?


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Julia Boenisch geb. Schramm (* 7. September 1962 in Bonn; † 7. Mai 2004 in München) war eine deutsche Journalistin und Autorin.

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1998 heiratete Julia Schramm den ehemaligen Regierungssprecher Peter Boenisch, mit dem sie zwei Töchter (* 1998 und 2000) hatte.

Julia Boenisch erlag nach einer einfachen Mandeloperation im Münchener Klinikum Großhadern einer Streptokokken-Infektion.

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Q+A: Dinky
Potentially life-changing pregnancy complications have resulted in Dinky's most affecting album yet
Words: Ian McQuaid | Photo: Uli Weber
'Valor', Dinky's sixth album, is probably the most accomplished – and definitely the most personal – record the DJ has made in her 15-year career. She had already set the bar high, having released numerous tracks of melodic, wonky techno for labels including Cocoon, Ostgut Ton and Visionquest, as well as holding down a residency in Berlin's seminal Panorama Bar for over a decade. But the creation of 'Valor' was a challenge beyond any she had previously faced.
While pregnant with her second child, Dinky was told by doctors that she was at extreme risk of losing the baby, and confined to her bed for months. Rather than allowing herself to cave in to depression, she decided to channel her turbulent emotions into writing an album, setting up a studio in her bedroom and pouring her energy into creating a body of work that was both cathartic and hopeful. The resultant project turned out to be a passionate and beautiful work; lyrically she addressed her situation over rhythms that yearned for release on the dancefloor – 'Valor' is an album of house music with a beating, exposed heart. Crosstown Rebels jumped in to release the album, and now Dinky – who thankfully ended up having her son with no complications – is preparing for the release of what may well be the album of her career.
The new album had a particularly intense genesis. What happened to you?
I was expecting my second child and the doctor told me I had to stay home in bed, and not move for seven or eight months, because if I did my son could be born early and I might lose him. So I had to do that, even though towards the end we realised that what they'd told me was just a preventative measure, it wasn't actually going to happen; that I wasn't high risk, although they'd thought I was. I had to stay in bed for two and a half months, only getting up to go to the bathroom. And so I decided to make an album and channel that energy. I had a studio in the corner of the room, so I'd be sitting down at it to record ideas. The main ideas were recorded in my bedroom while I was waiting to be released from this prison! I replayed some of it afterwards in a proper studio, but it was mostly written in the house. I drew inspiration from this time of my life, even though it was quite depressing.
How hard did you find it to translate this extreme emotional situation into music?
Lyrically it's very different from anything I've done before. You're told that pregnancy is supposed to be the most beautiful time in a woman's life, but for me it was the most stressful and frustrating time! I was dealing with two opposing energies: I was so happy to be pregnant, and that I was having a second son, and then I was thinking that maybe he wasn't going to survive. They tried to send me to hospital and told me that if I went to hospital everyone would do everything for me, but I rejected that. The doctor said, 'It's up to you, it's your responsibility now'. It was difficult to decide what to do, but I knew at the back of my mind that it was going to be alright. I took the two energies, the beautiful pregnancy and the fear of losing him because I hadn't gone to the hospital, and put both of them into the songs. My husband helped take care of me. It was quite a thing.
It must have been so satisfying to start DJing again once you got out of the house.
Yeah it was, although I even played at Panorama when they released me from my house while I was eight months pregnant! There were only two months when they told me to really not work. I also did a UK gig in a wheelchair. And at Panorama I was sitting down, I was out in the Garden so there wasn't too much pressure – it was a nice set.


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Why do I keep bumping into Andre Dubus?
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He was sitting at one of those little two-seater tables, chatting with a friend in the lounge area of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center when I spotted him the other day—novelist and short story writer Andre Dubus, finalist for the National Book Award for House of Sand and Fog, which was later adapted for film and nominated for an Academy Award, Guggenheim Fellow, Oprah Book Club pick, and National Book Award finalist.
I instantly new it was him as I saw him out of the corner of my eye as I was passing by because of the hair. It's distinctive: dark, soft waves with a swirl of grey at the center near the hairline that looked as if it could have been applied with a painter's brush. He was sporting that rustic, Ralph Lauren look—the pointy cowboy boots, boot-cut jeans, open-collared shirt, dark, fitted blazer.
He stood up as I approached his table. I started to introduce myself, but I didn't have to. "I know who you are." He sounded ebullient. "You're the novelist."
"Yes, I am," I replied, relieved that I didn't have to explain myself.
He shook my hand. "Do I owe you an email?" he continued.
My mind raced back to the times I tried to get in touch with him, when I sent him updates about my manuscript. "Yes," I said. "You probably do owe me a few emails, but that's okay."
I had been hanging around the convention center, waiting for a friend who was in the exhibit hall at the American Library Association mid-winter meeting. I had no idea that Dubus was one of the speakers. Before we parted, I handed him a copy of the Christmas Moments anthology that features one of my stories.
The first time I met him was about eight years ago when the nonprofit I work for invited him in for our organization-wide book club meeting. He read from House of Sand and Fog. At the time, I'd been writing short stories and hoped to write a novel. I told him so when he signed my copy of his book. He wished me luck and inscribed the book with "Good luck with your writing."
Then, a few years later, I attended an author event at Newton Free Library to listen to him read from his memoir, Townie. Afterward, he seemed delighted when I told him that I'd completed my MFA in creative writing at Southern New Hampshire University and mentioned that he knew novelist Diane Les Bequets, one of my mentors who was running the program. He encouraged me to keep writing.
A couple of years later, not long after I'd gotten married and finished revising my novel, I showed up at Newtonville Books with my husband. I could feel the energy in the bookstore as Dubus's fans awaited his arrival. They filled most of the seats but left a few up front. My husband and I didn't have much choice but to sit there, front and center, with the lectern not much more than a foot away.
Dubus walked in and after he was introduced, opened a page in his story collection, Dirty Love. He adjusted his glasses, and as he was about to open his mouth to read the first line, he looked up at me and said, "I know you. We met before."
Later, he signed my book and we had a nice chat.
Why do I keep bumping into Andre Dubus? Sometimes it's by accident. A couple of times it was planned. When I've been around him I've wished that his stature as a novelist and memoirist could somehow rub off on me, opening doors for me in the world of publishing. But, the more realistic part of me simply enjoys the delightful and inspirational moments I've had with one of my favorite authors.
Enhance your public readings with THE MOTH
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When my friend, Sue, asked me to join her buddies Rudy and Amy at THE MOTH story slam, held at Laugh Boston comedy venue this week, I didn't hesitate. As a writer who tells stories, both fictional and true on the printed page, I was curious to see how stories are told in a story slam. Moth events are held in major cities around the country. There's also THE MOTH radio hour at a station near you.
Here's how it works. THE MOTH provides a theme for the evening's event. When I attended, the theme was "dedication." People sign up after they arrive to tell their stories. Only 10 are chosen per event. They are given 5 minutes to tell their story. If they go beyond 6 minutes, they must leave the stage. One of the organizers goes table-to-table asking people to volunteer as judges.
After we got our seats and ordered drinks, and the storytelling began, it didn't take long for me to recognize the difference between telling a story and giving a reading. Storytelling is done without notes or pages of text so that we audience members could better connect with the speaker. The storytellers were animated, gesturing with their hands and arms, physically acting out portions of their stories. They changed pitch as they spoke, paused to let the audience laugh, and got emotional as they talked. They truly connected with the audience.
Participating in a story slam may not make for better writers, but could make writers, better speakers. So many writers just aren't that comfortable in front of a microphone.
I picked up a few other tips. Wes Hazard, a local standup comedian, was picked to tell
a story. His was about gastrointestinal problems that left him flat on his back in both a men's and women's bathroom in a comedy club venue. At the close of THE MOTH, there were clusters of people wanting to meet him and talk to him about his horrible experience. Wes was smart. He was armed with postcards with details of his upcoming comedy performances listed and his website. There's no doubt that he used telling his story at THE MOTH to market his standup. Writers can use events like THE MOTH to increase their fan base and readership.
Sue, Amy, and I did our best to cheer on Rudy when he got on stage and told his story, which, in fact, captivated the audience. However, he didn't get the top score from the judges. We couldn't believe it. Some of THE MOTH staff told him as he left the stage that his story was the best. They didn't agree with the judges. It reminds me of the responses I get from publications I send my stories to. I can get a bunch of rejections and then a publication will come along and the editor will say it's just what she was looking for. It's all so subjective.


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Q: Create a List with varied length in the for loop I would like to create a List that is going to vary everytimes for loop runs. Actually, the new list length is depend on the length of the existing List. Following is small part of my large code:
for (i in 1:length(df1$x)) {
   for (j in 1:length(df2$y[[i]])) {

     if (df1$x[i] == df2$y[[i]][j]) {

     }

   }
}

In the code, df2$y is my list and my second for loop length is based on length of my df2$y list. Basically, I am accessing an element in df2$y list and comparing with df1$x. So, If condition met then I would like to save that list element into the newly created list. Length of the list is large. So, many list elements are going to meet the condition. Hence, I need to create a new list in the for loop.

A: I am a little confused but I think you are trying to create a new list of every element in df2$y that is in df1$x. If that is the case you can take of advantage of vectorized code:
df1 <- list(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
df2 <- list(5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 5, 5, 7, 8, 10, 22, 23, 4, 5, 3, 10)

#Create a list with 15 elements
df3 <- y[y %in% x]

A: Thanks for all your comments. So, I solved my problem by myself which I realized was trivial. In my answer, I created a new list newList initially with fixed which I know is important as a preallocation of memory to reduce the computation time. Then I saved the new element into the newList using [[]][] when if condition met. Following is my approach which worked well for me:
newList <- vector("list", N)
for (i in 1:length(df1$x)) {
   for (j in 1:length(df2$y[[i]])) {

     if (df1$x[i] == df2$y[[i]][j]) {

        newList[[i]][j] <- df2$z[j]

     }

  }
}

Note: I answered my question by myself because I would like to inform that my problem is solved. I really appreciate all your opinion and help.

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The following is an incomplete list of current and defunct print (or online) magazines published in Greece. They may be published in Greek language or in other languages.

A
 ΑΕΛΛΩ (published by Yacht Club of Greece)
 Avaton
 Athens Voice
  (Archeology)

  (Airplane History; defunct)

  (Anti; defunct)
  (Anexigito; defunct)

B
 Βαβέλ (Vavel; defunct)
 Biscotto
 Billboard Greece
 Big (defunct)

C
 Crash (defunct)
 Cook Book (defunct; published by Ethnos newspaper)
 Close Up (defunct; published by Αγγελιοφόρος newspaper)
 Cosmopolitan (defunct)
 Cockpit
 Cogito

D
 Dapper Dan
 Defence Net
  (Difono; defunct)
  (Diotima)
 Disabled.GR

 Down Town

E

  (Elliniki Agogi)
 Esquire (defunct)
 Economistas
  (Elliniko Panorama; defunct)

  (defunct; published by Makedonia newspaper)
  (Epta Imeres; published by Kathimerini newspaper)
  (Efoplistis)

F
 Focus (defunct)

G
  (published by Kathimerini)
   (Glykes Alximies)
 Golden Dawn
   (Gynaika Magazine)
  (published by Eleftherotypia)

H
  (Sound and Picture; defunct)

I
  (Illustrated History; defunct)
  (History Subjects; defunct)
  (published by Eleftherotypia)
  (I lexi)
  (Ιxor; defunct)

K
 Κ (published by Kathimerini newspaper)
 Klik

L
  (defunct)
 Lifo

M
 Mancode
  Madame Figaro
  (Mastoremata)
 Mauve - life in art (defunct)
 Max
 Maxim (defunct)

 Men (defunct)
 Men's Health (defunct)
 Modelling (defunct; Scale model magazine)
  (Montelistis; defunct; Scale model magazine)
 01 (zero one; defunct)
  (Mistiki Ellada; defunct)
 Miky Maous

N
 National Geographic
  (New Sciensist; defunct)
 Νέμεciς (defunct)
 Nitro
 Nomas Magazine

O
  (Oikonomikos Taxidromos)
 One Man
 Olive
 Out (defunct; by )
  (Odos Panos; defunct)

P
 Parallaxi
 Playboy
 PCMag

  (defunct)
  (Photographos)
  (Planodion)

  (Porfiras)

  (Ptisi & Diastima)

R
 Ραδιοτηλεόραση (Radiotileorasi)
 Pop & Rock magazine

S
  (Cinema; defunct)
 Strange (defunct)
 Status (defunct)

  (Army History; defunct)

T

 4Τροχοί (4 troxoi)
  (Trito Mati; defunct)
 Τρόφιμα & Ποτά (Food & Beverange; published by Triaina Publishing SA)

V
 ΒΗΜΑgazino (published by To Vima)
 Vogue Greece''

See also
 List of newspapers in Greece

References

Greece
Magazines


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In the thick of the Reagan '80s, the daughter of two happily married Communists struggles between fitting in at a new high school and upholding her family's idealistic beliefs.
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43 Percent of Kashmiri Schools Receive Unsafe Water
Feb 7th, 2013 | Category: Kashmir News
Over 40 percent of schools and 30 percent of the villages in Indian-administered Kashmir rely on unsafe drinking water, according to a new study.
The study, which was carried out by the National Level Monitoring Agency, under India's rural development ministry, found that 60 percent of village residents do not get sufficient potable water in their homes and only 21 percent get good quality drinking water at all.
The monitoring agency visited 12 of the state's 22 districts to cover 120 villages, including those in the capital city, Srinagar.
During April-May 2012, around 390 schools and 376 aganwadi centers (government-sponsored childcare centers) in these districts were also assessed under the National Rural Drinking Water Program.
According to the study, 43.3 percent of schools are being supplied with contaminated water, which threatens the health of the children.
The study found that in 12 districts, only one-fifth (21 percent) of villagers were getting quality drinking water.
The districts covered included Anantnag, Kupwara,Srinagar, Budgam, Baramulla, Pulwama, Kargil, Leh, Doda, Rajouri, Poonch and Kathua. A sample of 10 villages was chosen for the study from every district.
More than half of the villages (60 percent) lacked sufficient water supply, the study found.
During their visit to the daycare centers, officials found that only 25 percent of them had access to safe drinking water.
The centrally located Budgam district fared worst — all of its 21 schools and 21 aganwadi centers were found to have contaminated drinking water.
The study also revealed the absence of any mechanism to test water quality in a large majority of villages. "Water treatment facilities exist in only 5 percent of villages visited by NLM," it said.
It criticized the government's approach of providing untreated water from rivers and lakes in order to fulfill aim of National Rural Drinking Program (NRDP).
"The scheme aims to achieve universal access of rural population to safe and sustainable drinking water facilities rather than a mere coverage of habitations," according to the study.
The federally sponsored NRDP was launched in 2009, with the goal of providing financial and technical assistance to states for implementing clean drinking water supply programs.
Sham Lal Sharma, Jammu & Kashmir's minister for public health engineering, told the Hindustan Times newspaper: "It is a fact that our schools and villages don't have access to safe drinking water. Moreover, there is a large chunk of schools and villages where water connectivity has not reached."
The government claims that its target is to ensure all villages get quality round-the-clock water supply. Jammu & Kashmir has a population of around 13 million and number of habitations have yet to be connected to clean piped water systems.
Kashmiri civil society groups have been critical of the government for its inability to provide safe drinking water to every citizen.
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Home Latest News Japan's incoming PM to retain defense, education ministers — report
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Japan's Education Minister Koichi Hagiuda (R) and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi (L) speak during their turns at a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, September 16, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
TOKYO — Japan's incoming prime minister, Fumio Kishida, is set to keep current Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi and current Education Minister Koichi Hagiuda in his cabinet, the Mainichi newspaper reported.
Kishi, 62, and Hagiuda, 58, are both in the Hosoda faction of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which is closely related to former premier Shinzo Abe.
Kishida, a former foreign minister and leader of the Kishida faction, clinched victory in the LDP's leadership election on Wednesday and is expected to be officially voted in as prime minister when parliament sits on Monday, announcing a cabinet reshuffle the same day.
Among other significant appointments, current finance minister Taro Aso's brother-in-law Shunichi Suzuki is set to replace him in the post, according to the daily Yomiuri. Little-known Suzuki is a former Olympics minister and son of former premier Zenko Suzuki, and belongs to Aso's LDP faction.
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi is set to retain his post, while Hirokazu Matsuno, who served as education minister under former prime minister Shinzo Abe, is likely to become chief cabinet secretary, media have reported. Matsuno is also a member of the Hosoda faction.
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