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Taurus generated coverage- ALMOST TWO THIRD OF SMES ARE NOT INVESTING IN HR: WHY THAT IS A MISTAKE
SMEs are shunning human resource investment, with a recent survey revealing 63% of SME owners admit they are not conducting regular training or development with staff.
The finding is among those outlined in a report released at the end of July by Prosperity Advisers Group, which is based on a surveys of 2700 small business owners conducted by more than 175 accounting and financial planning practices.
The study also found more than half of small businesses are not reviewing human resources performance in terms of employee job satisfaction and only 11% have formal strategies for staff recruitment, retention and motivation.
Chief executive of Prosperity Advisers Group Allan McKeown told SmartCompany the report's findings are not surprising given small business owners are "hard at it".
"Most SMEs' business plans are about still being a business next year rather than planning strategically," McKeown says.
McKeown says small business owners have to find ways to do things "smarter rather than harder", which might mean taking time to be briefed or train themselves on the benefits of HR programs."They're not investing in it because they're not understanding the benefits," he says."We note they're not paying attention to upskilling themselves." Sitting down and having someone else look at human resources is also worthwhile.
"It's useful to have an advisor in that process… they can be a sounding board," McKeown says
McKeown says the study delved into why small businesses are failing, which he says comes down to lack of planning, management skills.
"Interestingly, when SMEs do seek professional advice, its not around the top five needs of their business," he says.
"It will engage a lawyer to review property lease, but in terms of major things keeping them awake at night, like declining sales, improving profit margins, they seem to be relying on their own gut instinct."
If SMEs take time to seek more advice in those areas, the report suggests this might alleviate some of their concerns and stress levels.
McKeown says SMEs could take advantage of a number of organisations which were starting to come into the market place offering online HR services, contract or advisory services.
"It can help keep them on track in managing staff," he says.
Founder and director of HR specialists wattsnext Sue-Ellen Watts told SmartCompanythis morning the results are not surprising but added SMEs "absolutely" need to be investing in human resources.
"I think they need to be spending time on it," she says.
"A lot of SMEs don't know what to do."
Watts says many SMEs think HR is just about compliance rather than seeing the importance of it for the culture of a business, training staff, providing regular feedback and performance reviews.
"Really what they need to be focused on is looking at people and how do we build performance and more of a return on investment," she says.
Watts says people needed to be very high on an SME's priority list.
"Two things that keep businesses awake at night are cash flow and people," she says.
"They're not investing in people, yet without them they wouldn't survive. Staff are in front of our customers… they're your front line."
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Ha'azinu | האזינו | "Give ear!/Listen" አድምጡ | 'Ad'mT'u
1.1 First reading — Deuteronomy 32:1–6
1.2 Second reading — Deuteronomy 32:7–12
1.3 Third reading — Deuteronomy 32:13–18
1.4 Fourth reading — Deuteronomy 32:19–28
1.5 Fifth reading — Deuteronomy 32:29–39
1.6 Sixth reading — Deuteronomy 32:40–43
1.7 Seventh reading — Deuteronomy 32:44–52
2 Samuel 22:1-51
Romans 10:14-11:12
Deuteronomy 31:30 | The Song of Moses
Deuteronomy 32:48 | Moses' Death Foretold
2 Samuel 22:1 | David's Song of Thanksgiving
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The word Ha'azinu (האזינו) literally means "give ear," an expression meaning "Listen to this." It is also the name of the fifty-third and second-to-last reading from the Torah. It is the first word of the Song of Moses, which begins with the words "Give ear (Ha'azinu), O heavens, and let me speak" (Deuteronomy 32:1). This Torah portion is only a single chapter long, and the majority of it consists of the Song of Moses. The Song of Moses is a prophetic oracle warning Israel about apostasy to come and the resulting wrath of God. The song looks far into the future, even envisioning the Messianic advent amid rich and frightening apocalyptic imagery. After the conclusion of the song, Moses is told to ascend Mount Nebo and overlook the Promised Land before dying.
Heaven and Earth; Rain and Dew
Rab Yehudah said, "The day when rain falls is as great as the day when the Torah was given, as it is said [in Deuteronomy 32:2], 'Let my teaching drop as the rain.' [When Moses said] "teaching", he meant Torah, as it is said of the Torah [in Proverbs 4:2] "For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my Torah." (b.Ta'anit 7a)
Moses begins his song by calling upon the heavens and the earth as witnesses to his teaching. He says, "Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth." (Deuteronomy 32:1) He follows this progression, from heaven to earth, when he says, "Let my teaching drop as the rain." (Deuteronomy 32:2) Rain is that which falls from heaven to earth, in a sense, connecting heaven and earth. In rabbinic literature, Torah is often compared to rain failing from heaven to earth.
The sages compared Torah to water, for just as water descends from a higher to a lower level, so too the Torah descended from its place of glory to the realm of men:
Rabbi Chanina ben Ida said, "Why are the words of the Torah likened unto water [in Isaiah 55:1], 'Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters.'? This is to teach you that just as water flows from a higher place to a low place, so too the words of the Torah ..." (b.Ta'anit 7a)
When water is in the heavens, though it is vapor in the form of the clouds, it is still, in its basic essence, water. As it descends in the form of rain, it is still water. When it arrives on the earth as falling rain, it is still water. It is the same in heaven and on earth, though its form might be different. Whether in the form of clouds in heaven or pooling up in streams and rivers on earth, at every stage water is water. So too with Torah in its descent from the heavens. In the heavens it is Torah, and here on earth it is Torah. Its essence remains Torah.
The Torah of Moses has descended to us in a form we can understand and comprehend. The ineffable word of God has taken on the garments of human language so that we might hear and understand. It has come in the form of laws and commandments so that we might speak it and do the Word of God. When we do it, we are allowing God's word to clothe itself in the garments of our human flesh. We are actually incarnating the word of God on earth.
That which began in the heaven as the unsearchable and unknowable word of God has descended like rain, like water, to the level of the earth where it waters the grass and plants that soak it up and incorporate it into their being. Through this connection, heaven and earth are united.
We read in the gospel of John that the Word (Logos) is God. It is not another God or something different than Him, but it is Him. And yet, through some inexplicable miracle, the Word descends to the earth and takes on the garments of human flesh—a real human being—Yeshua of Nazareth, forming a connection between heaven and earth. Yeshua spoke the words of His Father and kept His commandments. He clothed them in the garments of His body. He is the Word made flesh, the Living Torah. He is the living Word of God united with the substance of earth, but His essence remained the same on earth as it was in heaven.
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Handsome Dan to Get a Facelift
By Cara Jordan
Early in 2012, a curious textile arrived at our new studio. The hooked rug bears the proud image of a bulldog in a Yale sweater and an inscription reading "Handsome Dan II." We were hooked (no pun intended)…who was this Handsome dog?
Handsome Dan II hooked rug. Courtesy of private collector.
Handsome Dan I
Clue to Handsome Dan II's identity are his blue sweater and the football next to him. After some research, we learned that the tradition of Handsome Dan began in 1889 when Yale got its first official mascot, Handsome Dan I. Handsome Dan, a bulldog, was purchased for $5.00 from a local blacksmith's shop by Yale student Andrew Graves. Handsome Dan attended Yale's football games and was trained to "speak to Harvard," whereupon he would bark ferociously. He remained Yale's mascot until his death in 1898. Handsome Dan's body has been stuffed and can still be seen today in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium.
Handsome Dan's successor, Handsome Dan II, came to Yale in 1933. He was bought with saved pennies by the freshman class and nicknamed "Bad Dan." In 1934 he was kidnapped by Harvard students and photographed with the statue of John Harvard. Handsome Dan II passed away in 1937 due to complications from a broken leg.
Handsome Dan XVII, "Sherman"
Since then there have been a long succession of Handsome Dans at Yale. The likeness of Handsome Dan has even appeared on Christmas cards and is part of the Yale team logo. The newest Handsome Dan, Handsome Dan XVII, known as "Sherman," has been part of the Yale tradition since 2007. Yale's adoption of the bulldog as its mascot was the first officially recognized U.S. collegiate mascot. Since then many other colleges have also adopted the bulldog as their own.
Family records tell us that this hooked rug was made by Blanche Paull, the great grandmother of owner's partner Matthew Carter. Ms Paull was an accomplished artist whose son Tom attended Yale. The rug likely dates to Handsome Dan II's tenure, between 1933 and 1937.
Detail before conservation.
MTS is looking forward to conserving this historic hooked rug so that the family can display it for future generations.


This transmission electron microscope image shows a graphene quantum dot with zigzag edges. The quantum dots can be created in bulk from carbon fiber through a chemical process discovered at Rice University.
A Rice University laboratory has found a way to turn common carbon fiber into graphene quantum dots, tiny specks of matter with properties expected to prove useful in electronic, optical and biomedical applications.
The Rice lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan, in collaboration with colleagues in China, India, Japan and the Texas Medical Center, discovered a one-step chemical process that is markedly simpler than established techniques for making graphene quantum dots. The results were published online this month in the American Chemical Society's journal Nano Letters.
Quantum dots, discovered in the 1980s, are semiconductors that contain a size- and shape-dependent band gap. These have been promising structures for applications that range from computers, LEDs, solar cells and lasers to medical imaging devices. The sub-5 nanometer carbon-based quantum dots produced in bulk through the wet chemical process discovered at Rice are highly soluble, and their size can be controlled via the temperature at which they're created.
Green-fluorescing graphene quantum dots created at Rice University surround a blue-stained nucleus in a human breast cancer cell. Cells were placed in a solution with the quantum dots for four hours. The dots, each smaller than 5 nanometers, easily passed through the cell membranes, showing their potential value for bio-imaging.
Gao said other techniques are expensive and take weeks to make small batches of graphene quantum dots. "Our starting material is cheap, commercially available carbon fiber. In a one-step treatment, we get a large amount of quantum dots. I think that's the biggest advantage of our work," she said.Further experimentation revealed interesting bits of information: The size of the dots, and thus their photoluminescent properties, could be controlled through processing at relatively low temperatures, from 80 to 120 degrees Celsius. "At 120, 100 and 80 degrees, we got blue, green and yellow luminescing dots," she said.
They also found the dots' edges tended to prefer the form known as zigzag. The edge of a sheet of graphene — the single-atom-thick form of carbon — determines its electrical characteristics, and zigzags are semiconducting.
Their luminescent properties give graphene quantum dots potential for imaging, protein analysis, cell tracking and other biomedical applications, Gao said. Tests at Houston's MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine on two human breast cancer lines showed the dots easily found their way into the cytoplasm and did not interfere with the cells' proliferation.
"The green quantum dots yielded a very good image," said co-author Rebeca Romero Aburto, a graduate student in the Ajayan lab who also studies at MD Anderson. "The advantage of graphene dots over fluorophores is that their fluorescence is more stable and they don't photobleach. They don't lose their fluorescence as easily. They have a depth limit, so they may be good for in vitro and in vivo (small animal) studies, but perhaps not optimal for deep tissues in humans.
Dark spots on a transmission electron microscope grid are graphene quantum dots made through a wet chemical process at Rice University. The inset is a close-up of one dot. Graphene quantum dots may find use in electronic, optical and biomedical applications.
Co-authors include Angel Martí, a professor of chemistry and bioengineering, postdoctoral research associates Zheng Liu and Liehui Ge, senior research scientist Lawrence Alemany and graduate student Xiaobo Zhan, all of Rice; Rice alumnus Li Song of Shinshu University, Japan; Bipin Kumar Gupta of the National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, who worked at the Ajayan lab on an Indo-US Science and Technology Forum fellowship; Guanhui Gao of the Ocean University of China; Sajna Antony Vithayathil, a research technician, and Benny Abraham Kaipparettu, a postdoctoral researcher, both at Baylor College of Medicine; Takuya Hayashi, an associate professor of engineering at Shinshu University, Japan; and Jun-Jie Zhu, a professor of chemistry at Nanjing University.
The research was supported by Nanoholdings, the Office of Naval Research MURI program on graphene, the Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Basic Research Program of China, the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum and the Welch Foundation.


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GRAND ISLAND, STUHR MUSEUM — Stuhr Museum is proud to announce the opening of Railroad Town for the 2014 Summer Season!
During the season, visitors are invited to visit Railroad Town, Stuhr's Living History Community, where the year is 1894. Visit the historic homes, travel down Front Street and see work being done in the blacksmith, tinsmith and millinery shops, stop by the mercantile where there's always something new or by the Platte Valley Independent office to catch up on the latest town news. Very few interpretive sites like Railroad Town exist across the United States, making a visit to Railroad Town a memorable and unique experience, no matter what sites you visit.
Stuhr's impressive collection of antique farm machinery is also available for viewing from 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and Noon – 4 p.m. on Sundays. Located on the east grounds, the 200-piece Antique Auto and Farm Machinery building includes an 1880 threshing machine, early steam engines, tractors, and numerous examples of horse-drawn and tractor-drawn farm implements, hay rakes, cultivators, plows, potato planters, and much more.
This summer, Stuhr Museum is celebrating agriculture and the role it played in pioneer life. Many of our special events are planned along that theme this year, including the "Farm Machinery Extravaganza" on May 17 and the "Harvest Festival" in September. Our summer exhibit, "Gears of the Land," opens on Saturday, May 10th. In between are dozens of special events, including our Memorial Day and Independence Day celebrations, two "Family Night" and "Hall County Appreciation Day" on May 10th, where everyone is invited to enjoy the museum free of charge.
Stuhr Museum is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and Noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. Summer admission rates are $8 for adults, $7 for seniors and $6 for children. Stuhr Museum and Hastings Museum members are admitted free. For more information on current exhibits, upcoming events and Stuhr news, log onto www.stuhrmuseum.org or call (308) 385-5316 with questions.


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Today alone, Netflights has searched over 933 flights. 13 / May / 2019 is currently the lowest priced day of the year to fly the Cardiff/Hong Kong route. There are around 201 flights on any given week from the UK to Hong Kong and the cheapest month to fly right now is May.
We've compared all 201 flights that go via Hong Kong every week, to find the best deal for you. Qatar Airways usually has the cheapest flights from Cardiff to Hong Kong, so keep an eye out for them in your search results. If they're not the cheapest option, try searching by month to compare costs throughout the week.
We scan thousands of airfares from hundreds of airlines across the globe. We've found that eight airlines operate the 9810 km flight from Cardiff to Hong Kong. Flights during peak season tend to be the most expensive – so if you want to go during that time, it's best to book early. Or you could try to get a last-minute deal.
To sort cheap flights to Hong Kong, it's best to start searching for flights by month, as this will show you when prices are at their lowest. Keep an eye on Emirates too, as they're the most popular airline for flying from Cardiff to Hong Kong.
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Satellite images show how toxic algae bloom in Lake Okeechobee has grown to cover nearly the entire surface.
As temperatures keep heating up and the period of daylight remains long, images of blue-green algae keep lighting up the social media pages of concerned Floridians.
Meanwhile, satellites circling the earth are finding the algae bloom in Lake Okeechobee to be expanding at a rapid pace. Water managers are moving the algae downstream into coastal estuaries and canals in an effort to shed some of the early rainy season's excess rainfall.
It has created a perfect storm for algae growth in Florida's lakes and waterways.
A June 24 satellite image the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration distributed indicates a widespread cyanobacteria bloom covering the majority of the lake.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection confirmed a sample, which it took June 18 in the rim canal near water control structure S169, was toxic blue-green algae (microcystis aeruginosa) at a concentration of 0.25 micrograms per liter, which is high.
The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites is gathering imagery about three days to four days a week, unless obstructed by cloud cover as it was Tuesday, according to a NOAA spokesperson.
June 21: 22 percent, but there wasn't less of it; the wind pushed it down into the water column and it resurfaced when the winds subsided. This is why NOAA cautions in interpreting the images.
June 24: Nearly the entire lake, except for a narrow stretch about 6 miles off the eastern shoreline.
The Army Corps of Engineers has been clear about its position regarding toxic algae in Lake Okeechobee and whether it will suspend discharges.
"One of the primary reasons we release water is to reduce flood risk for people living and working around the lake, in which the potential for inflows far exceeds (six times greater) our capacity for outflow," Col. Jason Kirk, commander of the agency's Jacksonville district, wrote in a guest column for TCPalm.
Because the lake elevation neared 14 feet above sea level by the end of last week, the Corps suspended discharges for two days each week. There were no discharges to the estuaries Saturday or Sunday.
Discharges resumed this week at a rate about 35 percent lower than during the period from June 1 through June 22. Water flowed from the lake into the C-44 canal at Port Mayaca Wednesday at a rate of about 1.2 billion gallons per day.
That rate will continue through Thursday, tapering down Friday until another expected break will take place Saturday and Sunday.
The lake level was 14.11 feet Wednesday. The Corps wants to keep it between 12.5 feet and 15.5 feet between June 1 and Nov. 30.
To date, about 22.6 billion gallons of water has entered the St. Lucie River from Lake Okeechobee since June 1.
The South Florida Water Management District has been working to honor the executive order Gov. Rick Scott issued last week to "send more water south" to provide some relief to the coastal estuaries.
The S-354 spillway has carried about 3.2 billion gallons of water south out of the lake through the week ending Tuesday. The S-351 structure has moved an additional 1.65 billion gallons of water. The S-352 structure has moved another 1.56 billion gallons. Another 88 million gallons of water went through the C-10A structure.
Thursday: 11 a.m.; Rivers Coalition monthly meeting; Stuart Commission Chambers, 121 S.W. Flagler Ave.; with guest speaker Lt. Col. Jennifer Reynolds of the Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville district.
Thursday: 6-8 p.m.; Army Corps of Engineers public hearing; Blake Library, 2351 S.E. Monterey Road, Stuart; to discuss and seek input on its environmental impact statement for the proposed Lake Okeechobee reservoir. Staff from the Corps and the South Florida Water Management District, which designed the reservoir, will answer questions after the meeting.
Friday: 5-8 p.m.; St. Lucie River Ambassadors of Change; informal discussion about sustaining small business during a water crisis; Flying Fish Paddle Sports, 4969 S.E. Dixie Highway, Stuart. Info at Ambassadors for Change Facebook event page.
Friday: 8:30-9 p.m.; St. Lucie River Light Vigil; Roosevelt Bridge northbound span. Info at St. Lucie River Light Vigil Facebook event page.
Saturday: 5:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Toxic Trail Run; from Port Mayaca to Stuart Beach. Run, walk or bike the 37 miles connecting Lake Okeechobee to the Atlantic Ocean to raise awareness about discharges. Info at Toxic Trail Facebook event page.


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Here's why you might need to throw out your onions
Shepard Price, shepard.price@hearstnp.com
FILE - A closeup photo of onions.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 652 people in 37 states, including 37 people in Illinois and nine in Michigan, have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to imported onions. At least 129 people have been hospitalized in the outbreak, although the CDC has reported no deaths.
The Food and Drug Administration said that an investigation had identified an Idaho facility as a source of potentially contaminated whole, fresh onions imported from Chihuahua, Mexico.
The onions were last imported on Aug. 27, according to the CDC, but the onions can last up to three months in storage and may still be in homes and businesses and the CDC recommended throwing out onions if they do not have a sticker or packaging identifying their source.
In addition, businesses have been recommended not to sell or serve fresh whole red, white or yellow onions that were imported from Chihuahua, Mexico and distributed by ProSource Inc.
ProSource has agreed to voluntarily recall the onions, the FDA said.
The contaminated onions may have stickers or packaging indicating the brand (ProSource Inc.) and the country, Mexico, where they were grown.
Salmonella, a type of bacteria, causes about 1.35 million illnesses, 26,500 hospitalizations and 420 deaths in the United States every year, according to the C.D.C.
Most people with salmonellosis, the infection caused by salmonella, develop diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps. More severe cases may lead to a high fever, aches, headaches, lethargy, a rash, blood in the urine or stool and, in some cases, become fatal.
A salmonella outbreak from June to October of 2020 that was linked to onions caused more than 1,600 illnesses in the United States and Canada, the F.D.A. said. No one died as a result of that outbreak, officials said.
Shepard Price


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An Enemy of the People – Schaubühne Berlin @ Barbican (24 – 28 September 2014)
They don't make many like they make Thomas Ostermeier. That he is not on the tip of the tongue of British theatre-goers says more about the appallingly low number of productions that make it across the channel and the limited tours when if the even get here. An Enemy of the People was sold out for its five performances at the Barbican and I am certain if there was the bravery to finance a small tour then people would come. How can people learn what they like if they never get the chance to see anything different?
The glorious thing about watching an Ostermeier production is that while you may not know quite what you will get, you know it will still be a quintessentially Ostermeier affair. For, yes, we are back in the realm of the director as auteur. Cue much huffing and puffing from the comment boards and cue rapturous, and occasionally unthinking, applause from everyone else. An Enemy of the People is the latest to hit the Barbican and follows on from a radical Hamlet that tore down almost every Shakespearian convention and reinvented the play from the grave up.
Ostermeier seems to be a man who will be anything but be dull. He brings his own hyperactivity to the text and energises performances far past what audiences should find comfortable; Hamlet clocked in at 168 minutes without an interval, and An Enemy of the People doesn't fall far short at 150. Yet the quality can be seen that, despite the ridiculous running time, the audience sat in rare rapt attention, with not a rustle or toilet break to be seen disrupting the action.
An Enemy of the People is not without flaws and there is a nagging suspicion that Florian Borchmeyer commits serious logical fallacies in trying to bridge his adaptation of Ibsen's text with a modern element that draws on the anonymous 2007 paper, The Coming Insurrection. However these flaws don't destroy the integrity of the play and should be placed in the context of the vitality of the production and the creation of a theatrical experience that genuinely led to an enforced, and welcome, assessment of my own political values.
That the modern element fails is a shame due to the fact that Ibsen's own play is so strangely contemporary that it barely needs updating to maintain its resonance. The idea of the small, righteous man standing up against a society that does not want to hear his truth has never gone out of fashion and has grown in stature in recent years, with the Young Vic staging a 1970's set version last year.
The mastery of Ibsen's work lies in an apparent simplicity masking serious social complexity. The characters may occasionally present as stock archetypes but in Ibsen's hands he creates a political morality tale for any age. Each character inhabits a different part of a nuanced standpoint and ultimately we see that Dr Stockmann's great failing is that his position as a scientist means he cannot understand truth as being anything other than a binary concept. His own egocentricity does not allow him to take on the position of the other, and his great speech taking on the corrupt political elite cannot stop him moving to denigrate those who vote for them.
It is a mark of Ibsen's superlative writing that you cannot see whether, in the final reckoning, he supports Dr Stockmann's position or not. He is the god author who winds the springs of his characters and lets them go where they will. Where Ostermeier's production fails is that it aligns too clearly against the political elites. The audience are primed to support Stockmann at all costs; the grungy, setting seems very reminiscent of Berlin and its politically active squats, whilst naturally he is a cool, hipster scientist hanging out in a band with his radical journalist friends. His brother, the Mayor, is a natural square dressed constantly in an impeccably pressed suit.
It all looks wonderful, is innovatively staged with a set chalked on the walls (which must be a passing nod to Lars Von Trier's Dogville where Nicole Kidman found herself subjected at the hands of the community) and the acting is superb across the cast. It inhabits the spirit of naturalism whilst clearly embracing Brechtian alienation techniques to force the audience out of the immediate moment.
Central to the production is that it demands a response. It will not allow the audience member to sit as passive observer, it forces an intellectual engagement with the themes of the play and it is impossible to exit the play without having been made to establish your own opinions on the subject – and through that a higher understanding of your own political convictions in the modern world.
It doesn't just push at the idea of the 'fourth wall', it comprehensively obliterates it. Punchdrunk, DreamSpeakThink and similar companies may play at the idea of blurring the boundaries of the audience-actor dynamic but Ostermeier is willing to destroy the very notion of theatre. It is played entirely straight until mid-way through Stockmann's famous second-half speech. At which point the play grinds to a halt and the audience is challenged to debate Stockmann's ideology. The illusion of theatre is snapped and people in the auditorium immediately move from passive receptors to active participants.
The transition is outrageously audacious and whilst it is not without precedent it is also something that is incredibly rare to see on a British stage. To hear audience members yell out their opinions with increasing abandon was an invigorating experience. Even if the thoughts were not coherent and the arguments were often simplistic, predictably flecked with left-wing outrage, it gave a glimmer that political culture doesn't need to be dead. With voices echoing around the auditorium, people protected by the anonymity of the masses, the impression was of a pulsating wave of vocal, inchoate expression slowly growing in power and finding its shape.
The play then returns to form and runs to its, slightly tweaked, natural conclusion. The audience leaves and for once the bars surrounding the Barbican are packed. Packed with people discussing, debating, overhearing conversations, joining them, disagreeing, agreeing, compromising, explaining, defending, bonding.
If theatre ever wanted to justify its existence as a cultural medium then it could go a long way before it finds an expression of theatre's immediacy and vitality than this technically flawed but radically brilliant work.
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Iuliu Hațieganu (April 14, 1885 – September 4, 1959) was a Romanian internist doctor particularly recognized for research done in the field of tuberculosis. He founded in Cluj a valuable school of internal medicine. Today, Cluj University of Medicine and Pharmacy bears his name. He was a member of the Romanian Academy and brother of politician Emil Hațieganu. He was also an architect, and his work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Early life and studies

Iuliu Hațieganu was born on April 14, 1885 in the village of Magyarderzse, Kingdom of Hungary (today Dârja, Romania) in the Someș Valley, the fifth of 13 children of the Romanian Greek Catholic priest Hațieganu. He began studying at Balázsfalva (today Blaj, Romania), where he had as colleague the future bishop Iuliu Hossu, then studied at the Faculty of Medicine of Franz Joseph University. After completing his doctorate in 1910, he became assistant to professor Zsigmond Puryesz. Since 1914 he was known for performing a study on alimentary galactosury. In 1918, during the Great Union of December 1, Iuliu took part in the Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia, where he has urged his colleagues to hold a congress of Transylvanian Romanian doctors. The event was chaired by young doctor on January 29, 1919 in Sibiu.

His outstanding merits and Puryesz's vision helped Iuliu Hațieganu to become professor of medical clinic at the University of Cluj and first dean of the Faculty of Medicine between 1919 and 1920. In 1929, Professor Iuliu Hațieganu took over the Cluj branch of Transylvanian Association for Romanian Literature and Romanian People (ASTRA).

In the early '30s, he became rector of the University of Cluj, focusing his activity on the importance of a special role of physical education in institutions of higher education. His belief was so strong that in order to attract young people to embrace this bold idea, he organized thematic conferences, published a journal of education, built a sports park in Cluj, hired four physical education teachers. In 1935, Professor Hațieganu wrote: It turned out that physical education is the best method of education, that synergically contribute to strengthening of body and soul, to character building...

Hațieganu was very interested in medical research and humans, and to assist all, such that he provided patients free consultations and advice. He was so interested and experienced, that he could establish the diagnosis of a patient only if he saw how he moves and how he looks. Along with one of his students, Professor Ion Goia, Hațieganu developed pathological model theory of peasants and workers, these patients being hospitalized preferentially because they claim better teaching.

He was inspired by Hippocrates and Pasteur, and was appointed by Tudor Arghezi as "professor of the Romanian medicine".

Iuliu Hațieganu founded the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj, that exists today, and bears his name since 1993, and was a member of the Romanian Academy. He was well known for interest in the physical education, human health, the creation of the sports parks, but also because of research he has done on tuberculosis.

Basics of Transylvanian medicine
He was known since 1914 in the speciality literature through a study on alimentary galactosury, published in "Medical Journal" in Budapest. He was one of the university youth delegates to the Great National Assembly in Alba Iulia and upheld in the face of the Ruling Council of Transylvania the establishment of the University of Cluj. Subsequently, he will chair the first Congress of Physicians, where his friend, military doctor Iuliu Moldovan, appointed by the Ruling Council as secretary of public health problems, will report on the health status of the population in Transylvania, emphasizing the need to resume work at the Faculty of Medicine of Cluj.

At 34 years he held his first university lecture in Romanian language in Transylvania, "Catarrhal jaundice problem", through which he laid the foundations of medical higher education in Cluj. In the interwar period, the medicine in Cluj had the most beautiful and full-time results.

Along with Ion Goia, Iuliu Hațieganu gathered to desk outstanding specialists as Victor Papilian, Titu Vasiliu, Iacob Iacobovici, Constantin Ureche, Victor Babeș, Constantin Levaditi or Emil Racoviță. After the Second Vienna Award, Cluj clinics moved to Sibiu.

Professor Hațieganu, whose name it bears today the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, was a rare example. But, the great merit of Hațieganu is that he has managed to create an exceptional teaching staff, who went on to date the value of Romanian medicine. Strong personality, he quickly coalesced a team, which was transformed into a professional team of elite, both at desks and in clinics. From own funds, Hațieganu established between 1930-1932 in Cluj a park for youth sports. Iuliu Hațieganu Sports Park, on the shore of Someș River and with an area of 25 ha, was dedicated to the memory of his only child, dead at only 8 years. Currently, it's named after its founder.

The communist period and involvement in politics
With the establishment of communism, the new political situation affected both Hațieganu and his collaborators, many being dismissed under the pretext of so-called "popular judgments". Between April 29 and July 14, 1931, Iuliu Hațieganu was named Minister of State in Iorga Government. He was also appointed Minister of Health, but early resigned, inasmuch as it was rejected proposal to establish a portfolio of Physical Education.

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1885 births
1972 deaths
People from Cluj County
Academic staff of Franz Joseph University
Academic staff of Babeș-Bolyai University
Rectors of Babeș-Bolyai University
Titular members of the Romanian Academy
Romanian Greek-Catholics
20th-century Romanian physicians
Members of the Romanian Cabinet
20th-century Romanian architects
Olympic competitors in art competitions

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Inconvenient Truth #35: When a picture is not what it seems
Posted on June 30, 2012 by SleepNoMore
The following is from RT:
With the shock of the Houla tragedy ringing across the world, the BBC has released a story with a harrowing picture of rows and rows of children's bodies awaiting burial… But isn't that post-Saddam Iraq?
Photographer Marco di Lauro who took the shot grabbed by the BBC says he nearly "fell off his chair" after finding the picture on the network's website with a caption reading: "Photo from Activist. This image – which cannot be independently verified – is believed to show bodies of children in Houla awaiting funeral."
The picture was actually taken on March 27, 2003; it depicts an Iraqi boy jumping over dozens of white body bags containing skeletons found in a desert south of Baghdad. The image, which is published on Marco di Lauro's website, is part of his story Iraq, the Aftermath of Saddam.
Marco di Lauro takes photographs for Getty Images picture agency, his works have been published across Europe and the US. But the indication that the BBC picked his image from the internet, not from official stock worries him somewhat.
"What I am really astonished by is that a news organization like the BBC doesn't check the sources and it's willing to publish any picture sent it by anyone: activist, citizen journalist or whatever. That's all," the photographer told The Daily Telegraph.
"Someone is using someone else's picture for propaganda on purpose," he added.
A BBC spokesman says the picture, illustrating Sunday night's story "Syria Massacre in Houla Condemned as Outrage Grows," was taken down "immediately" when the source was identified.
"We were aware of this image being widely circulated on the internet in the early hours of this morning following the most recent atrocities in Syria. We used it with a clear disclaimer saying it could not be independently verified," he added.
These words about information "which cannot be independently verified" have become a trademark of media coverage of the 14-month conflict in Syria. Before UN special envoy Kofi Annan brought his peace plan to the troubled Arab country, the Syrian government had remained reluctant to open borders to most international journalists.
But even now the bulk of information comes from people calling themselves opposition activists – via amateur videos uploaded to YouTube or eyewitness reports.
But sometimes it looks that the mantra "cannot be independently verified" serves as a disclaimer to publish information which wouldn't stand a chance of ever being verified.
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Q: type object 'Questions' has no attribute 'objects' Im new in django , When im learning django from documentation .i tried to make api using serializers and Function Based views .the this shows type object 'Questions' has no attribute 'objects
models.py
class Questions:
    title = models.CharField(max_length=40)
    description = models.TextField(max_length=50)
    status = models.CharField(default='inactive', max_length=30)
    created_by = models.ForeignKey(User, null=True, blank=True, on_delete=models.CASCADE

serializers.py
from rest_framework import serializers
from demoapp.models import Questions

class QuestionSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Questions
        fields = (
            'id',
            'title',
            'description',
            'created_by',

        )

urls.py
from django.urls import path
from demoapp.views import *

urlpatterns = [
    path('poll', demoapp),
]

views.py
from django.shortcuts import render
from rest_framework import viewsets
from demoapp.models import Questions
from demoapp.serializers import QuestionSerializer
from django.http import JsonResponse

def demoapp(request):
    if request.method=="GET":
        queryset=Questions.objects.all()
        serializer=QuestionSerializer(snippets)
        return JsonResponse(serializer.data,safe=False)

A: you should inherit your model class from django models.Model:
from django.db import models

class Questions(models.Model):

and after this changes you should do and apply migration, read the docs: migrations commands(thank the @Willem Van Onsem for his comment).

A: In your models You didn't end bracket:
created_by = models.ForeignKey(User, null=True, blank=True, on_delete=models.CASCADE

It should look like this:
created_by = models.ForeignKey(User, null=True, blank=True, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

And you probably did not import User
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

And you can try to make migrations

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Q: javafx tableview update checkbox in column programmatically I am working in a desktop application with javafx.
In my screen, I have a tableview and in the first column, i have a checkbox, defined:
    markedColumn.setCellValueFactory(cellData -> cellData.getValue().markedProperty());
    markedColumn.setCellFactory(CheckBoxTableCell.forTableColumn(new Callback<Integer, ObservableValue<Boolean>>() {
        @Override
        public ObservableValue<Boolean> call(Integer param) {
            return data.get(param).markedProperty();
        }

    }));

Then, i filtered the tableview, for other field name:
    table.setItems(table.getItems().filtered(p -> p.getName().equals(name)));

but the marked column doesn't modify.
How can i modify the checkbox's state?
Thank you very much for your attention.
Regards.


"Newhouse" sits beside a quiet, unclassified lane, one mile north of the village of LLanfihangel Talyllyn. The name can be seen set into the wall to the right of the timber entrance gate. (See photo above). The house and cottage share the entrance, but the cottage is entirely separate and private.
Take the A40 dual-carriageway from the roundabout just west of Brecon and after a few minutes turn first left at the B4558, signed for Llangorse. At the "T" junction turn right and take the first right, signed for Llanfihangel and Llangorse. Travel for 2.5 miles to Llanfihangel Talyllyn and at the end of the main village street continue north on an unclassified single-track road for a further one mile (do not take the right hand turn to Llangorse). This will bring you to "Newhouse", a stone cottage on the left hand side of the road. Turn into the second timber gateway, immediately past the house and "Crab Apple Cottage" is at the top end of the drive.
From Abergavenny, take the A40 towards Brecon. In the village of Bwlch turn right onto the B4560, signed "Llangorse", "Lake and Activity Centre". Follow the road through Llangorse village and turn first left after the Red Lion Inn, sign-posted "Llanfihangel Tal-y-Llyn" and "Brecon". Travel just over 1 mile to reach the village of Llanfihangel Talyllyn. Do not take the sharp left hand bend over the bridge at the start of the village; instead turn sharp right onto the unclassified road. Take this road for exactly one mile and this will bring you to "Newhouse", a stone cottage on the left hand side of the road. Turn into the second timber gateway, immediately past the house and "Crab Apple Cottage" is at the top end of the drive.
From Talgarth, take the B4560 to Llangorse and take the first right hand road within the village, signed for Llanfihangel Talyllyn and Brecon, then follow the directions for "Approaching from the East" above. There is a shorter route from Talgarth, but this is on very narrow lanes with few passing bays and is not recommended for a first visit.
There is lock-up storage for bicycles (at owner's risk) and bike washing facilities are available.
Please be cautious when using Satellite Navigation systems to find "Newhouse" – Our postcode LD3 7TW covers a wide area and you may end up on the farm track to Gwndwnwal Farm, which is 200 metres behind us and to the west.
Please ignore the farm entrance (on the left coming from the village) and keep to the tarmac lane. You will find us just downhill beyond the farm entrance.


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Q: How to get specific part of JSON text I have a PHP file that creates a JSON text of my MySQL data.
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <title>Sample Page</title>
  <script>
     var settings = {
       "async": true,
       "crossDomain": true,
       "url": "http://www.hotel1.com/Experiment/Api/Json1.php?ID=1",
       "method": "GET"
     }

     $.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
       console.log(response);
       console.log(response.something.something)
     });
  </script>

Above you can see my code
      [
 {
      "Worker1": {
          "ID :": "1",
         "Username": "Tony"
       }
 }
]

Above you can see my JSON text that is being printed. My problem is I want to know how to select ID from the JSON text in JavaScript. As shown above. When I try to say response.Worker1.ID it give me an error saying ID is undefined.
Can someone help me fix my mistake?

A: It looks like you are not referencing the json object attribute 'ID' properly. So close! Try the below code and LMK how that works:
[ { "Worker1": { "ID :": "1", "Username": "Tony" } } ]
console.log(response[Worker1].ID)

A: You need to parse the JSON into a javascript object. Use JSON.parse(), as follows:
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <title>Sample Page</title>
  <script>
     var settings = {
       "async": true,
       "crossDomain": true,
       "url": "http://www.hotel1.com/Experiment/Api/Json1.php?ID=1",
       "method": "GET"
     }

     $.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
       response = JSON.parse(response); // the change is here
       console.log(response);
       console.log(response.something.something)
     });
  </script>

Also bear in mind that your "sample json" returns an array, hence the square brackets []. So to access, you would do response[0].something.


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package org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.ver15;

import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.action.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.actionid.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.bsntlv.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.errormsg.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.meterband.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.instruction.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.instructionid.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.match.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.stat.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.oxm.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.oxs.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.queueprop.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.types.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.util.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.exceptions.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.OFAsyncConfigPropType;
import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
import com.google.common.hash.PrimitiveSink;

public class OFAsyncConfigPropTypeSerializerVer15 {

    public final static short PACKET_IN_SLAVE_VAL = (short) 0x0;
    public final static short PACKET_IN_MASTER_VAL = (short) 0x1;
    public final static short PORT_STATUS_SLAVE_VAL = (short) 0x2;
    public final static short PORT_STATUS_MASTER_VAL = (short) 0x3;
    public final static short FLOW_REMOVED_SLAVE_VAL = (short) 0x4;
    public final static short FLOW_REMOVED_MASTER_VAL = (short) 0x5;
    public final static short ROLE_STATUS_SLAVE_VAL = (short) 0x6;
    public final static short ROLE_STATUS_MASTER_VAL = (short) 0x7;
    public final static short TABLE_STATUS_SLAVE_VAL = (short) 0x8;
    public final static short TABLE_STATUS_MASTER_VAL = (short) 0x9;
    public final static short REQUESTFORWARD_SLAVE_VAL = (short) 0xa;
    public final static short REQUESTFORWARD_MASTER_VAL = (short) 0xb;
    public final static short FLOW_STATS_SLAVE_VAL = (short) 0xc;
    public final static short FLOW_STATS_MASTER_VAL = (short) 0xd;
    public final static short CONT_STATUS_SLAVE_VAL = (short) 0xe;
    public final static short CONT_STATUS_MASTER_VAL = (short) 0xf;
    public final static short EXPERIMENTER_SLAVE_VAL = (short) 0xfffe;
    public final static short EXPERIMENTER_MASTER_VAL = (short) 0xffff;

    public static OFAsyncConfigPropType readFrom(ByteBuf bb) throws OFParseError {
        try {
            return ofWireValue(U8.f(bb.readByte()));
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            throw new OFParseError(e);
        }
    }

    public static void writeTo(ByteBuf bb, OFAsyncConfigPropType e) {
        bb.writeByte(U8.t(toWireValue(e)));
    }

    public static void putTo(OFAsyncConfigPropType e, PrimitiveSink sink) {
        sink.putShort(toWireValue(e));
    }

    public static OFAsyncConfigPropType ofWireValue(short val) {
        switch(val) {
            case PACKET_IN_SLAVE_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.PACKET_IN_SLAVE;
            case PACKET_IN_MASTER_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.PACKET_IN_MASTER;
            case PORT_STATUS_SLAVE_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.PORT_STATUS_SLAVE;
            case PORT_STATUS_MASTER_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.PORT_STATUS_MASTER;
            case FLOW_REMOVED_SLAVE_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.FLOW_REMOVED_SLAVE;
            case FLOW_REMOVED_MASTER_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.FLOW_REMOVED_MASTER;
            case ROLE_STATUS_SLAVE_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.ROLE_STATUS_SLAVE;
            case ROLE_STATUS_MASTER_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.ROLE_STATUS_MASTER;
            case TABLE_STATUS_SLAVE_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.TABLE_STATUS_SLAVE;
            case TABLE_STATUS_MASTER_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.TABLE_STATUS_MASTER;
            case REQUESTFORWARD_SLAVE_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.REQUESTFORWARD_SLAVE;
            case REQUESTFORWARD_MASTER_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.REQUESTFORWARD_MASTER;
            case FLOW_STATS_SLAVE_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.FLOW_STATS_SLAVE;
            case FLOW_STATS_MASTER_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.FLOW_STATS_MASTER;
            case CONT_STATUS_SLAVE_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.CONT_STATUS_SLAVE;
            case CONT_STATUS_MASTER_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.CONT_STATUS_MASTER;
            case EXPERIMENTER_SLAVE_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.EXPERIMENTER_SLAVE;
            case EXPERIMENTER_MASTER_VAL:
                return OFAsyncConfigPropType.EXPERIMENTER_MASTER;
            default:
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal wire value for type OFAsyncConfigPropType in version 1.5: " + val);
        }
    }

    public static short toWireValue(OFAsyncConfigPropType e) {
        switch(e) {
            case PACKET_IN_SLAVE:
                return PACKET_IN_SLAVE_VAL;
            case PACKET_IN_MASTER:
                return PACKET_IN_MASTER_VAL;
            case PORT_STATUS_SLAVE:
                return PORT_STATUS_SLAVE_VAL;
            case PORT_STATUS_MASTER:
                return PORT_STATUS_MASTER_VAL;
            case FLOW_REMOVED_SLAVE:
                return FLOW_REMOVED_SLAVE_VAL;
            case FLOW_REMOVED_MASTER:
                return FLOW_REMOVED_MASTER_VAL;
            case ROLE_STATUS_SLAVE:
                return ROLE_STATUS_SLAVE_VAL;
            case ROLE_STATUS_MASTER:
                return ROLE_STATUS_MASTER_VAL;
            case TABLE_STATUS_SLAVE:
                return TABLE_STATUS_SLAVE_VAL;
            case TABLE_STATUS_MASTER:
                return TABLE_STATUS_MASTER_VAL;
            case REQUESTFORWARD_SLAVE:
                return REQUESTFORWARD_SLAVE_VAL;
            case REQUESTFORWARD_MASTER:
                return REQUESTFORWARD_MASTER_VAL;
            case FLOW_STATS_SLAVE:
                return FLOW_STATS_SLAVE_VAL;
            case FLOW_STATS_MASTER:
                return FLOW_STATS_MASTER_VAL;
            case CONT_STATUS_SLAVE:
                return CONT_STATUS_SLAVE_VAL;
            case CONT_STATUS_MASTER:
                return CONT_STATUS_MASTER_VAL;
            case EXPERIMENTER_SLAVE:
                return EXPERIMENTER_SLAVE_VAL;
            case EXPERIMENTER_MASTER:
                return EXPERIMENTER_MASTER_VAL;
            default:
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal enum value for type OFAsyncConfigPropType in version 1.5: " + e);
        }
    }

}

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Games2Win is a leading casual game studio based in India. While there, I developed and helped design several iOS and Android games, such as:
Airport Cargo Parking
Power Cricket T20
As a Unity3D Developer at Games2Win, I helped introduce several quality of life features for mobile games, including haptic feedback, interactive menus with transitions and real-world physics systems.
It was at Games2Win that I discovered and decided to pursue my passion for user experience design.
Fashion Diva is a game about dressing up models in the perfect outfit to earn points. Players earn more points for each matching piece of clothing they equip.
I contributed to the dress-up flow and created a feature allowing you to change the color of clothing using an RGB color slider. One of the new features we designed and added was special effects and animations for clothes and high scores.
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Q: Integral cohomology operations related to Landweber-Novikov Let $U^* \rightarrow H^* $ be the homomorphism describing the complex orientation of $H^* $ from complex cobordism. Let $t_1, t_2, ...$ be indeterminates.
My question is: Does there exist an integral cohomology operation $H^* (X) \rightarrow H^*(X)[\mathbf{t}]$ that makes the following diagram commute for any $X$? If so can we describe it in a way that doesn't involve complex cobordism?

Here $s_{\mathbf{t}}$ is the total Landweber-Novikov operation.
In particular, since the Landweber-Novikov operation satisfies the Riemann-Roch type formula for proper, complex-oriented maps $$ s_{\mathbf{t}} f_{*}x = f_{*}(c_{\mathbf{t}}(\nu_{f}) \cdot s_{\mathbf{t}}x)$$
(where $\nu_{f}$ is the virtual class $1-\nu_i$ and $\nu_i$ is the stable normal bundle of the proper, complex-oriented map $f: Z \rightarrow X$) we would expect ths operations to satisfy something similar.
EDIT: Whoops, original title didn't have to do with the question :) But it did have to do with the motivation behind asking it! Maybe another time...

A: This is more of a comment than an answer. I just wanted to point out that such an operation, if it were to exist, cannot be stable.
This follows from the answer to Integral cohomology (stable) operations, which asserts that the set of stable cohomology operations in integral cohomology of a given degree $2k>0$ is finite, and the observation that $s_{(k)}(cf_1) = cf_1^{k+1}$, where $cf_1\in U^2(BU)$ is the first universal Conner-Floyd-Chern class.
To see this, suppose that there is a stable operation $\sigma_{(k)}:H^\ast(-)\to H^{\ast+2k}(-)$ which extends the stable operation $s_{(k)}:U^\ast(-)\to U^{\ast+2k}(-)$. Then we would have
$$
\sigma_{(k)}(c_1)= c_1^{k+1},
$$ where $c_1\in H^2(BU)$ is the first universal Chern class. But since the sum of stable operations is stable, we would have
$$
n\sigma_{(k)}(c_1)=0
$$
for $n$ sufficiently large, contradicting the fact that $nc_1^{k+1}\neq 0$.


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Isaiah Whitehead
Isaiah Whitehead Signs With BC Astana
October 10th, 2019 at 1:06pm CST by Luke Adams
1:06pm: Whitehead has officially joined Astana, the team announced today on its website.
10:11am: After finishing the 2018/19 season on a two-way contract with the Pistons, free agent guard Isaiah Whitehead has signed with BC Astana, a source tells Adam Zagoria of Forbes (Twitter link). The club is based on Kazakhstan plays in Russia's VTB United League.
Playing in the VTB United League won't be a new experience for Whitehead, who signed with Lokomotiv Kuban in August of 2018 and spent the first half of the season with the club. He parted with the Russian squad in January and caught on with the Pistons about a week later.
Whitehead, the 42nd overall pick in the 2016 draft, has appeared in a total of 89 regular season NBA games for the Nets, but didn't see the floor at all for Detroit last season. Instead, he played for the Grand Rapids Drive, the Pistons' G League affiliate, averaging 18.4 PPG, 3.9 RPG, and 3.8 APG in 25 games (29.2 MPG).
Several other players who spent the '18/19 season in the NBA have signed with Russian teams this offseason. Whitehead will join players like Timofey Mozgov (Khimki), Kosta Koufos (CSKA Moscow), Jonas Jerebko (Khimki), and Sam Dekker (Lokomotiv Kuban) in the Russian league this season, as our list of overseas signings shows.
International Notes: Hachimura, Delaney, Whitehead
September 6th, 2019 at 3:04pm CST by Luke Adams
Wizards rookie Rui Hachimura won't play in the final two games of the 2019 World Cup for Team Japan, according to a statement issued by the Wizards and Japan Basketball. After going 0-3 in round-one play, Japan has been eliminated from medal contention, but will continue playing in the classification round. They'll do so without Hachimura, however.
"Rui experienced knee discomfort and general fatigue during the World Cup, which we have jointly monitored with the Wizards," Japan Basketball said in a statement. "While everyone had hoped for Rui to finish the World Cup with Team Japan, the Wizards and Japan Basketball believe it is best for Rui to not play the final two games and have a short period of rest before he must start NBA training camp with the Wizards which begins only three weeks from now."
Despite Japan's lack of success in the 2019 World Cup, they've already secured a berth in the 2020 Olympics as the host nation. Hachimura is expected to suit up again for his home country in Tokyo next summer following his rookie season with the Wizards.
Here are a few more international basketball notes from around the globe:
Veteran guard Malcolm Delaney, who spent two seasons with the Hawks from 2016-18, is in negotiations with Barcelona, sources tell Nikos Varlas of Eurohoops (Twitter link). While a deal isn't done yet, it sounds like Delaney will continue his career in Spain unless he gets an NBA offer.
Former Nets point guard Isaiah Whitehead, a second-round pick in 2016, is working out with China's Jiangsu Dragons, according to Chinese basketball journalist Zhang Duo (Twitter link). Whitehead spent the second half of 2018/19 on a two-way deal with the Pistons, but didn't appear in a game for Detroit.
Dan Devine of The Ringer takes a look at some of the World Cup subplots that don't involve Team USA, including the dominance of the Serbians, who have won their four games so far by an average margin of nearly 41 points per contest.
Former NBA forward Malcolm Thomas, who suited up for five teams from 2012-15, has signed with the Shanxi Loongs of the Chinese Basketball Association after spending the last two seasons in Russia, a source tells Emiliano Carchia of Sportando.
Malcolm Delaney
Rui Hachimura
And-Ones: Trades, Antetokounmpo, World Cup
June 29th, 2019 at 1:27pm CST by Chris Crouse
Jae Crowder would be a nice contingency plan for the Warriors should they lose Kevin Durant in free agency, Kevin Pelton contends in a piece for ESPN+. Pelton argues a deal that sends Crowder, who has one year left on his contract, to Golden State for Shaun Livingston and a future first-rounder makes sense for both sides.
Other ESPN insiders write about the trade they'd like to see this summer, with Bobby Marks breaking down a Jimmy Butler sign-and-trade that sends Eric Gordon to Philadelphia and Clint Capela to Sacramento. The whole piece is worth checking out.
As we brace for an offseason of change, let's take a look at some notes from around the league:
Giannis Antetokounmpo will play for Greece in the Basketball World Cup, according to Demetris Nellas of the Associated Press. "Whether I play the 1 [point guard] or the 5 [center], I don't care," the NBA MVP said. "I'm a basketball player. I want to help the team any way I can."
The NBA has announced that the Academy Games will be in the United States for the first time in history. Jonathan Givony of ESPN.com provides a detailed look at the games in Atlanta, relaying that the camp will feature eight teams and approximately 90 players from around the world.
Isaiah Whitehead will play for the Trail Blazers' Summer League team, The Athletic's Michael Scotto relays (Twitter link).
The Mavericks have announced their Summer League roster and former first-rounder Cameron Payne is among the notable players. Kostas Antetokounmpo, the brother of Giannis, is also playing for the team in Las Vegas.
Semaj Christon will play for the Kings' Summer League team, Sportando's Emiliano Carchia tweets.
Kings point guard De'Aaron Fox has been invited to join Team USA's Select Team, which will hold training camp in Las Vegas this summer, Chris Haynes of Yahoo! Sports passes along (Twitter links). Nets center Jarrett Allen has also been invited.
[In case you missed it: Team USA Announces 20-Player Roster For World Cup]
Cameron Payne
De'Aaron Fox
Jarrett Allen
Kostas Antetokounmpo
Semaj Christon
Pistons, Isaiah Whitehead Agree To Two-Way Deal
January 15th, 2019 at 12:17pm CST by Luke Adams
12:17pm: The Pistons will be removing Evans' two-way deal from their roster to make room for Whitehead, tweets Vince Ellis of The Detroit Free Press.
11:18am: The Pistons have reached an agreement with free agent guard Isaiah Whitehead on a two-way contract, league sources tell Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link). Detroit will have to waive one of its current two-way players – Keenan Evans or Zach Lofton – in order to make the deal official.
Whitehead, 23, was selected by the Nets with the 42nd overall pick in the 2016 draft and spent two seasons with the team, appearing in 89 overall games. The former Seton Hall standout was a regular part of Brooklyn's rotation in his rookie season, but saw his playing time cut back in 2017/18 as he spent more time with the Long Island Nets in the G League. Whitehead averaged 22.3 PPG, 3.8 RPG, and 3.5 APG in 30 games for the Nets' NBAGL affiliate last season.
The Brooklyn native was was sent to Denver in an offerson trade and was waived a few days later, making him an unrestricted free agent. Whitehead quickly caught on overseas with Lokomotiv Kuban, but parted ways with the Russian club last week. Now, he'll return to the NBA on a two-way deal.
Today is the deadline for NBA teams to sign players to two-way contracts for the 2018/19 season, so Whitehead's deal should be finalized within the next several hours.
Keenan Evans
Isaiah Whitehead Leaves Russian Team
January 7th, 2019 at 3:03pm CST by Arthur Hill
Former Nets guard Isaiah Whitehead is a free agent again after parting ways with his team in Russia, according to Orazio Cauchi of Sportando. Whitehead, who joined Lokomotiv Kuban in August, averaged 11.6 points and 3.3 assists during his time with the club.
The 42nd pick in the 2016 draft, Whitehead played two seasons in Brooklyn. He had a promising rookie year, posting a 7.4/2.5/2.6 line in 73 games, but fell out of the rotation last season and spent most of his time in the G League.
Whitehead was sent to Denver in a July 13 deal that brought Kenneth Faried, Darrell Arthur and a pair of draft picks to Brooklyn, but the Nuggets only wanted Whitehead for his non-guaranteed contract. He was waived four days later.
NBA teams were permitted to start handing out 10-day contracts over the weekend, so it's possible that will be Whitehead's route back to the league.
Isaiah Whitehead Signs With Russian Team
August 6th, 2018 at 8:08am CST by Luke Adams
AUGUST 6: Whitehead's deal is now official, according to Emiliano Carchia of Sportando.
AUGUST 3: Former Nets point guard Isaiah Whitehead will spend the 2018/19 season in Russia, according to Alex Kennedy of HoopsHype (Twitter link), who hears from sources that Whitehead has signed a one-year, $1.1MM contract with Lokomotiv Kuban.
As Kennedy details, Whitehead – released by the Nuggets last month – hopes to have a strong season as a lead guard for the Russian club and show he's fully healthy in 2018/19 before attempting to return to the NBA a year from now.
Whitehead, 23, was selected by the Nets with the 42nd overall pick in the 2016 draft and spent two seasons with the team, appearing in 89 overall games. The former Seton Hall standout was a regular part of Brooklyn's rotation in his rookie season, but saw his playing time cut back in 2017/18 as he spent more time with the Long Island Nets in the G League. Whitehead averaged 22.3 PPG, 3.8 RPG, and 3.5 APG in 30 games for the Nets' NBAGL affiliate.
The Brooklyn native was included in the trade last month that saw Kenneth Faried, Darrell Arthur, and a pair of draft picks head from the Nuggets to the Nets. Whitehead was sent to Denver as part of that swap, but only because his non-guaranteed contract allowed the Nuggets to avoid taking on any salary — Denver waived him a few days later, making him an unrestricted free agent.
As our 2018 free agent tracker shows, Whitehead is far from the first NBA free agent to take his talents overseas this summer. Al Jefferson, Shane Larkin, Marreese Speights, and Joffrey Lauvergne are among the others moving to international leagues.
International Moves: Bass, Webb III, Clavell
August 4th, 2018 at 11:58am CST by Dana Gauruder
Veteran NBA power forward Brandon Bass has re-signed with Liaoning in the Chinese Basketball Association, according to a Sportando report. Bass averaged 21 PPG and 9.5 RPG last season after going overseas. Bass, 33, played 12 seasons in the NBA with stops in New Orleans, Dallas, Orlando, Boston and both Los Angeles teams. In his most recent NBA season, Bass appeared in 52 games with the Clippers in 2016/17, averaging 5.6 PPG and 2.5 RPG in 11.1 MPG. In 758 career games, Bass averaged 8.7 PPG and 4.5 RPG.
We have more news from overseas:
Forward James Webb III is expected to sign with Italy's Pallacanestro Cantù, according to another Sportando post. Webb played 10 games with the Nets last season after signing a two-way contract in January. The 6'9" Webb, 24, averaged 1.6 PPG and 2.4 RPG in 12.0 MPG with the Nets.
Former Mavericks shooting guard Gian Clavell has joined Argentina's Estudiantes de La Plata, according to an ACB.com post. Clavell, 24, appeared in seven games with Dallas on a two-way contract last season, averaging 2.9 PPG in 9.1 MPG. Clavell played in Turkey after the Mavericks released him in mid-November.
Former Nets guard Isaiah Whitehead will play in Russia next season. Get the details here.
Gian Clavell
James Webb III
Nuggets Waive Isaiah Whitehead
July 18th, 2018 at 9:09am CST by Luke Adams
As expected, the Nuggets have waived recently-acquired guard Isaiah Whitehead, per the NBA's official transactions log. Whitehead had been included in the trade between Denver and Brooklyn, which sent Kenneth Faried, Darrell Arthur, and draft picks to the Nets.
Whitehead, 23, was selected by the Nets with the 42nd overall pick in the 2016 draft and spent two seasons with the club, appearing in 89 overall games. The former Seton Hall standout was a regular part of Brooklyn's rotation in his rookie season, but saw his playing time cut back in 2017/18 as he spent more time with the Long Island Nets in the G League. Whitehead averaged 22.3 PPG, 3.8 RPG, and 3.5 APG in 30 games for the Nets' NBAGL affiliate.
A Brooklyn native, Whitehead was disappointed to be included in last week's trade, but there was no room for him in a Nets point guard rotation that will include D'Angelo Russell, Spencer Dinwiddie, and Shabazz Napier. Similarly, the Nuggets had no need for another point guard with Jamal Murray, Isaiah Thomas, and Monte Morris in the mix.
Whitehead's $1.54MM salary for 2018/19 was non-guaranteed, so Denver won't be on the hook for his cap charge. He'll become a free agent later this week, assuming he's not claimed on waivers.
Nets Notes: Russell, Napier, Faried, Whitehead
July 17th, 2018 at 7:59pm CST by Dana Gauruder
Nets GM Sean Marks won't rule out the possibility of giving guard D'Angelo Russell an extension but it seems unlikely, according to Brian Lewis of the New York Post (Twitter links). "For now, we're going to see how this group plays together, how it all unfolds…I'm not going to rule out anything," Marks said in a news conference, adding, "As we stand now, this is the group and we have no plans to make any crazy changes, whether that's an extension or signing or trade anyone else. But things happen quickly." Russell will make a little over $7MM this season and the team would have to decide whether to extend a qualifying offer of $9.16MM next summer if they don't sign him to an extension.
In other news regarding the Brooklyn franchise:
The Nets will have to figure out how Shabazz Napier will fit into their backcourt but he's not worried about it, Tom Dowd of the team's website reports. The team already has Russell and Spencer Dinwiddie to play the point and Caris LeVert can also fill in at that spot. Napier was Damian Lillard's primary backup with the Trail Blazers last season. Napier signed a two-year contract on Tuesday. "That's something I'm going to figure out when training camp starts," Napier told Dowd about his role. "Right now, I'll just continue to be who I am and come into training camp with an attitude of competing at the end of the day."
Brooklyn took on Kenneth Faried's contract in a Nuggets salary dump but Marks feels Faried can be a major contributor next season, Dowd relays in a separate story. Faried has an expiring $13.76MM contract. "I think he fits with that Brooklyn grit that we talk about in terms of how he plays; he plays with high intensity, obviously at a fast pace," Marks said. "His game will transition well to Brooklyn and what [coach] Kenny's [Atkinson] wanting to do here."
No one was more disappointed about the trade with the Nuggets than guard Isaiah Whitehead, the player shipped to Denver in the deal, as Bryan Fonseca of Nets Daily relays. Whitehead appeared in 89 games for his hometown team over the past two seasons. A source close to Whitehead sent a text to Fonseca after the trade that stated, "Being in Brooklyn meant everything to him."
Sean Marks
Shabazz Napier
Nuggets Trade Faried, Arthur, Picks To Nets
July 13th, 2018 at 8:42pm CST by Luke Adams
JULY 13, 8:42pm: The trade is official, according to a Nets press release.
JULY 12, 5:18pm: The Nuggets have found a team willing to take on their unwanted contracts, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, who reports that Denver is sending Kenneth Faried, Darrell Arthur, a protected 2019 first-round pick, and a 2020 second-round pick to the Nets in exchange for Isaiah Whitehead.
It's a salary-dump deal for the Nuggets, who intend to waive Whitehead after acquiring him, Wojnarowski adds. Whitehead's salary guarantee deadline was recently pushed back, so his $1.54MM salary for 2018/19 remains non-guaranteed — Denver won't be on the hook for it.
Having reached a deal with Isaiah Thomas earlier in the night, the Nuggets were poised to have 16 players on guaranteed NBA contracts and were well into luxury-tax territory. Their deal with the Nets will solve both issues, reducing their roster count to 14 players after Whitehead's release and getting their total team salary below the tax threshold.
Bobby Marks of ESPN.com has the full details, noting that the Nuggets should be about $8.7MM below the tax line after the trade, giving the team room to use the rest of its mid-level exception to fill the last spot on its roster, if it so chooses. So far, Denver has committed $2MM of its MLE to Torrey Craig and is believed to have used about another $1MM on Jarred Vanderbilt.
As Marks observes, trading Faried, Darrell Arthur, and Wilson Chandler (to Philadelphia) projects to save the Nuggets approximately $90MM in salary and tax payments. The team gave up a first-round pick and two second-rounders in those two deals.
The Nuggets have also created three sizable traded player exceptions to work with — those TPEs are equivalent to the salaries for Faried ($13.76MM), Chandler ($12.8MM), and Arthur minus Whitehead ($5.92MM)
Meanwhile, from the Nets' perspective, they'll rent their cap room in order to add a pair of draft assets. The big prize is the 2019 first-rounder, which is top-12 protected, according to Wojnarowski (via Twitter).
Coming into the day, Brooklyn didn't have the cap room necessary to absorb both Faried and Arthur, but the club created that space by trading Jeremy Lin to the Hawks in another deal. It's not clear whether Faried and/or Arthur are in the Nets' plans for 2018/19 or if they'll become buyout candidates.
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12.When AI goes distributed ... When datasets get bigger and bigger, we see more and more distributed training scenarios and open-source offerings, e.g., distributed TensorFlow, Horovod, and distributed MXNet. This is where we see Spark and AI efforts overlap more.
13.The status quo: two simple stories As a data scientist, I can: ● build a pipeline that fetches training events from a production data warehouse and trains a DL model in parallel; ● apply a trained DL model to a distributed stream of events and enrich it with predicted labels.


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Q: Python eval() fails to regonize numpy and math symbols if used together with a dictionary I have the following formula that I would like to evaluate:
import math
import numpy as np
formula  = 'np.e**x + math.erf(x) + np.pi  +  math.erf(u)'

I can easily then evaluate the formula for given float values of x and u and eval() recognizes math.erf, np.pi and np.e. For example:
x=1.0; u=0.3; eval(formula)

yields 7.03. But,  I want x and u to be arrays. I tried to use eval with a dictionary following this post.:
var = {'x':np.array([1,1]),'u':np.array([0.1,0.2])}
eval(formula, var)

which yields error messages, 'np' and 'math' are not defined, which was not the case above when eval was used without a dict. The same error messages are also obtained when 'x' and 'u' are set to floats instead of array with the var dictionary. Also, there are no problems if the dictionary is used with a 'formula' without np. and math., e.g. "
formula = 'x + u'.

Does anybody have an idea how can I evaluate formula containing np.e, math.erf, etc., when x and u are arrays?
P.S. I am using Python 3.8.

A: Passing var as globals to eval() means the global names np and math are not available to the expression (formula). Simply pass var as locals instead.
var = {'x': 1.0, 'u': 0.3}
eval(formula, None, var)  # -> 7.031202034457681

Note that this code doesn't work with arrays since the math module only works on scalars.


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