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Suburban Symphony Orchestra: "A Family Concert" (Dec. 8)
December 16, 2019 by Peter Feher
by Peter Feher
The best children's music, like the best children's literature, has something in it for the adults. Wisely, the Suburban Symphony Orchestra put together a family concert on December 8 at the Maltz Performing Arts Center that could appeal to young and old alike. Ravel's delicate, miniature Mother Goose Suite made up the brief first half of the program, but Lemony Snicket's The Composer is Dead, with music by Nathaniel Stookey, was the real family fare for the afternoon. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Domenico Boyagian, Linn Obery, Micaela Murphy, Sara Beam, Suburban Symphony
Cleveland Opera Theater moves to Playhouse Square with La Bohème (Sept. 13)
September 17, 2019 by Daniel Hathaway
Puccini's La Bohème was produced 598 times worldwide during the 2017-2018 season, making it the fourth most-performed title in the repertoire (trailing La traviata, Carmen, and The Magic Flute). It's also the show that Cleveland Opera Theater chose for its move from venues like the Masonic Auditorium and the Maltz Performing Arts Center to the Ohio Theater, a more traditionally-outfitted house. On Friday, September 13, Scott Skiba's clever production surrounded a fine cast with memorable scenic design by Matthew D. McCarren and projections by Brittany Merenda that brought a Parisian garret, the Café Momus, and a toll gate outside the city vividly to life in Playhouse Square.
Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Angela Mortellaro, Brittany Merenda, Cleveland Burlesque, Cleveland Opera Theater, Dean Buck, Domenico Boyagian, Eleni Calenos, Glenn Avery Breed, James Eder, Jason Budd, Jennifer Call, John Tibbets, Jonathan Stuckey, Mackenzie Whitney, Matthew D. McCarren, Matthew Mueller, Ohio Theater, Playhouse Square, Scott Skiba, Shaun McGrath, Steve Shack, Young Kwang Yoo
Cleveland Opera Theater: La traviata at the Maltz (April 28)
May 14, 2019 by Daniel Hathaway
While opera often treats its audiences to spectacle on a grand scale, what really makes the art form take flight is the melding of distinguished singing with excellent acting and staging. Those elements came together beautifully in Cleveland Opera Theater's production of Verdi's La traviata on Sunday afternoon, April 28 at the Maltz Performing Arts Center. A strong cast and a fine chamber orchestra joined director Scott Skiba and conductor Domenico Boyagian in bringing the story of Violetta Valéry to vibrant life on an engagingly human scale. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Alexis Reed, Angela Mortellaro, Belia Sinm, Benjamin Werley, Brian Skoog, Bryant Bush, Cleveland Burlesque, Daewon Seo, Dean Buck, Domenico Boyagian, Elizabeth Frey, Grant Youngblood, James Eder, Kimmy Katarja, Lady Slay, Matthew D. McCarren, Scott Skiba, Steve Shack, Vanessa Cook
Cleveland Opera Theater to present La traviata at the Maltz
April 24, 2019 by Mike Telin
Violetta Valéry is among the most popular of the many sopranos who die in the last acts of operas. You can relive the story of that "fallen woman" this weekend when Cleveland Opera Theater turns the Maltz Performing Arts Center into an opera house for Verdi's La traviata.
Scott Skiba directs, Domenico Boyagian conducts, and the cast features Angela Mortellaro as Violetta, Benjamin Werley as Alfredo, and Grant Youngblood as Germont. The Act II party scene is always a highlight, but this one, featuring Cleveland Burlesque, promises to be a show-stopper. The lights go up on Friday, April 26 at 7:00 pm and on Sunday, April 28 at 3:00 pm. Tickets are available online.
"Cleveland Burlesque performs all around Cleveland," Skiba said during a telephone conversation, "and I reached out to them because we are setting the production in contemporary times. I was thinking, who would Flora hire to perform at her party, and I thought she would hire burlesque dancers."
Filed Under: Previews Tagged With: Angela Mortellaro, Benjamin Werley, Cleveland Burlesque, Cleveland Opera Theater, Domenico Boyagian, Grant Youngblood, Maltz Performing Arts Center, Scott Skiba
CIM/CWRU, Oberlin, and Baldwin Wallace produce impressive operas during March
March 25, 2019 by Daniel Hathaway
CIM/CWRU: Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie
If you were able to shut down your peripheral vision in Kulas Hall at the Cleveland Institute of Music on March 1 and focus only on the stage, you could imagine yourself sitting in the stalls at the Paris Opéra in 1757, watching the revival of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Baldwin Wallace Opera Theater, Christopher Larkin, CWRU/CIM Joint Music Program, Domenico Boyagian, Ellen Hargis, Harry Davidson, Jonathon Field, Julie Andrijeski, Oberlin Opera Theater, Scott Skiba
Baldwin Wallace Opera presents Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
March 19, 2019 by Jarrett Hoffman
by Daniel Hathaway and Mike Telin
Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress is based on a series of 18th-century engravings of the same name by William Hogarth and boasts a libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman. The opera chronicles the moral and physical demise of Tom Rakewell, who deserts Anne Trulove for London's decadent delights. After many adventures initiated by Nick Shadow, a.k.a. the Devil, Tom ends up in a hospital for the insane. The moral of the story: the Devil will find work for idle hands. Click here to read a short synopsis.
On Thursday, March 21 at 7:30 pm at the Klais Drama Center, Baldwin Wallace Opera Theater takes on this entertaining tale of Tom and his pact with the Devil. The double cast includes Ethan Burck and Benjamin Krumreig as Tom Rakewell, faculty members Benjamin Czarnota and Marc Weagraff as Nick Shadow, DeLaine Crutchfield and Giuliana Bozza as Anne Trulove, and Nan Golz and Sarah Antell as Baba the Turk. Scott Skiba directs and Domenico Boyagian conducts the Baldwin Wallace Orchestra. Performances continue on March 22 and 23 at 7:30 pm and March 24 at 2:00 pm. Tickets are available online.
We spoke with Marc Weagraff by telephone and began by asking him how it feels to play the Devil?
Filed Under: Previews Tagged With: Baldwin Wallace Opera Theater, Baldwin Wallace Orchestra, Benjamin Czarnota, Benjamin Krumreig, DeLaine Crutchfield, Domenico Boyagian, Ethan Burck, Giuliana Bozza, Klais Drama Center, Marc Weagraff, Nan Golz, Sarah Antell, Scott Skiba
Margaret Brouwer's Voice of the Lake, revised version at CIM (Oct. 19)
November 10, 2018 by Daniel Hathaway
On October 19, almost a year after its debut, Margaret Brouwer's ambitious oratorio Voice of the Lake, chronicling the most recent environmental assaults on Lake Erie, was revived in an updated version in Kulas Hall at the Cleveland Institute of Music. The affecting and nearly flawless performance conducted by Domenico Boyagian, involved soloists (Angela Mortellaro, soprano, Sarah Beaty, mezzo-soprano, Brian Skoog, tenor, and Bryant Bush, bass), the 15-member Blue Streak Ensemble and 12 voices of the Blue Streak Ensemble Chamber Singers, and the 21-voice Cleveland Institute of Music Children's Choir. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Angela Mortellaro, Blue Streak Ensemble and Chamber Singers, Brian Skoog, Bryant Bush, CIM Children's Choir, Devin Hinzo, Domenico Boyagian, Luke Rinderknecht, Margaret Brouwer, Sarah Beaty, Voice of the Lake
Voice of the Lake — a conversation with composer Margaret Brouwer
October 16, 2018 by Mike Telin
Growing up, composer Margaret Brouwer spent many wonderful summers enjoying the beauty of Lake Erie at her family's cottage in Huron, Ohio. But when dangerous levels of algae blooms in the Lake's western basin caused a water crisis in Toledo in 2014, the ensuing national conversation about environmental pollution and the state of the country's drinking water became the source of inspiration for her Voice of the Lake. We spoke with the composer before the work's premiere in November of 2017.
The revised version will be presented on Friday, October 19 at 7:00 pm at Kulas Hall at the Cleveland Institute of Music (above, rehearsal photo). The performance features soprano Angela Mortellaro, mezzo-soprano Sarah Beaty, tenor Brian Skoog, bass Bryant Bush, the Blue Streak Ensemble and Chamber Singers, and the Cleveland Institute of Music Children's Choir, all under the direction of Domenico Boyagian. The performance will be video-recorded for future broadcast. Tickets are available online.
Written in four parts, the oratorio is a musical description of Lake Erie during the first quarter of the 21st century. While the work portrays the Lake's magical side — waves splashing on the rocks, walks on the beach, children playing in the water, and the pleasure of a fisherman in his boat — it also highlights the Lake's many environmental problems as well as the innovative attempts that are being made to combat those problems.
Filed Under: Previews Tagged With: Angela Mortellaro, Blue Streak Ensemble and Chamber Singers, Brian Skoog, Bryant Bush, Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music Children's Choir, Domenico Boyagian, Margaret Brouwer, Sarah Beaty
Cleveland Opera Theatre's The Barber of Seville (Oct. 6)
October 16, 2018 by Jarrett Hoffman
It's hard to say whether the main character in Rossini's The Barber of Seville is the scheming barber himself, or a member of the love triangle that drives the plot. It's even more difficult when the four central roles are portrayed as memorably as they were on Saturday, October 6 in the performance by Cleveland Opera Theatre at the Maltz Performing Arts Center. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Cleveland Opera Theatre, Corrie Stallings, David Margulis, Domenico Boyagian, Frank Ward, Gillian Hollis, Jason Budd, Scott Skiba, Young Kwang Yoo
Cleveland Opera Theater opens season with The Barber of Seville
October 2, 2018 by Jarrett Hoffman
It's difficult to say whether Mozart's or Rossini's opera based on Pierre Beaumarchais' tale of the resourceful character of Figaro is more popular. In April of 2017, Cleveland Opera Theater staged a brilliant production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and this weekend, the company will take on Rossini's hilarious prequel, The Barber of Seville. Dr. Bartolo plans to marry the young Rosina, although Count Almaviva has other plans and enlists the help of the enterprising barber to win her for himself. The two-act comic opera is filled with forbidden love and amusing disguises, as well as a gossipy music teacher, and a crafty bride-to-be.
You can hear Rossini's Barber at the Maltz Performing Arts Center this Saturday, October 6 at 7:00 pm and Sunday, October 7 at 3:00 pm. The cast includes Young Kwang Yoo in the title role of Figaro, Corrie Stallings as love interest Rosina, David Margulis as the conniving Count Almaviva, Jason Budd as Rosina's guardian Dr. Bartolo, Frank Ward as the music teacher Don Basilio, and Gillian Hollis as the governess Berta. Stage direction is by Scott Skiba, and Domenico Boyagian conducts the Cleveland Opera Theater orchestra. The production is sung in Italian, with English supertitles. A Pre-Show, Opera-101 lecture will be held 60 minutes prior to each performance. Tickets are available online.
"Barber is a wonderful first opera for people to see," Boyagian said by telephone this past weekend. "It's clean humor and the music does a wonderful job of explaining what is going on. It's light and bubbly, which is what the bel canto style is all about."
Filed Under: Previews Tagged With: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Opera Theater, Corrie Stallings, David Margulis, Domenico Boyagian, Frank Ward, Gillian Hollis, Jason Budd, Maltz Performing Arts Center, Scott Skiba, Young Kyang Yoo


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Microsoft new technology labs are hard at work looking at new ways to help us interact with our devices. The latest of which is a new transparent, flexible (like a sheet of paper) thin cover for the surface; which allows users a number of new ways to interact with their device.
The cover responds to bending, flipping and folding by allowing the user different options such as "peeking behind the scenes", or "flipping back and forth", as well as a number of other input methods.
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Idi-Araba, emerging abode for 'able bodied' beggars
Despite repeated clampdowns on the street begging by Lagos State Government, the practice is growing by the day in various parts of the metropolis.
LUTH confirms death of COVID-19 patient
The Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, on Saturday confirmed the death of a COVID-19 patient in the hospital. Prof. Chris Bode, LUTH Chief Medical Director, made this known in a statement issued by Prof. Wasiu Adeyemo
Stakeholders advocate lasting solutions to address cardiac arrest
Burdened by the rising cases of cardiac arrest in Nigeria, the Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Idi-Araba, Prof. Chris Bode, has called for more enlightenment of the public on immediate resuscitation of a patient suffering from cardiac arrest.
Manipulating genetic variations in Africans to solve healthcare problems
With 50 per cent of the world's genetic variations in Africa, a recent study has shown that only two percent of researches carried out on genomics are done on Africans. Although, Africans make up about half of the world genetic diversity, the continent has not produced genomics for people to study and personalise treatment. According…
'25m Nigerians living with chronic kidney disease'
No fewer than 25 million Nigerians are living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) with over 80 per cent of the patients on dialysis dying due to high cost of treatment.
Malnourishment can cause malaria, measles, pneumonia in children- Paediatrician
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Patients groan as resident doctors begin strike in LUTH
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Idi Araba suspected serial scammer lands in RRS net
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Lassa Fever: LUTH increases surveillance
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'Lovecraft Country' Episode 8 Recap: American Horror Story
By Sean T. Collins Twitter @theseantcollins Oct 5, 2020 at 12:00pm
Stream It Or Skip It: 'The Harder They Fall' on Netflix, a Spirited Neo-Western Starring a Fired-Up Jonathan Majors
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I don't know. I just don't know. Lovecraft Country used Emmett Till's murder as an in-story plot motivator and I…I just don't know.
I mean, what do you even say about a CGI-heavy horror/fantasy/action/adventure serial that decides one of its main characters, Diana Freeman, was best friends with the victim of one of the most infamous lynchings in American history—he even appeared in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo a few episodes back—and makes that a driver for her and her friends' actions? The friends who are traveling through the spacetime continuum and summoning giant monsters with a thousand eyes and hunting for buried treasure in a Goonies-esque cave system beneath Boston—those friends? Is this the kind of grab the third rail and let the electricity fuel you move any politically minded drama should be willing to make, or is it a crass exploitation of a real-life atrocity just to give your ghost story instant gravitas?
What about the way in which Till's death is handled, specifically? Is it okay for the show to soundtrack the line of onlookers awaiting admission into his funeral with Bananarama's "Cruel Summer"—yes, the song from The Karate Kid? Is it okay for the show to literally reenact Till's lynching on a white woman in the form of Christina Braithwhite, a sorceress who allows herself to be murdered just so she can be resurrected seconds later? What is that? Allegory, or exploitation?
Can we find the answer in the events and incidents and plot points that surround this central device? I'm not sure there, either. One one hand, this episode (directed by series creator Misha Green from a script she co-wrote with Ihuoma Ofordire) is all over the map. Ji-ah, Atticus Freeman's lover from Korea, shows up for a single scene and is promptly forgotten about. Atticus tells his father Montrose that Leti is pregnant with his son, who will go on to write a book called Lovecraft Country (he even references differences between the events and characters in the series and those in the book, differences that actually exist in the real-life novel from which the show is adapted), which he knows because he traveled to the future when he fell through the portal in the observatory last week. Why are we told this instead of being shown?
On another level, however, this is the best-made episode of the series by a considerable margin. For one thing, it's actually scary. Yes, it's a first! Diana Freeman, devastated by the murder of her friend and the disappearance of her mother Hippolyta (NB: In the DC Comics universe, Hippolyta is the mother of Diana, aka Wonder Woman), is cursed by the evil racist Chicago cop Captain Lancaster and is relentlessly pursued by Topsy and Bopsy (Kaelynn Gobert-Harris and Bianca Brewton, both memorable in these extremely demanding roles), a pair of living, dancing, monstrous incarnations of the character from Uncle Tom's Cabin whose racist caricature appears on the cover of a copy of the book Dee comes across. They're a little bit a little bit The Shining, a little bit The Ring, a little bit Us, a little bit It, a little bit It Follows, and very, very frightening.
The episode also boasts some of the show's strongest shot compositions. Atticus and Montrose on the street at dusk, as a rolling blackout puts out the lights. Leti in church, praying for Atticus's safety amid a sea of empty pews. Leti and Christina in that same church, silhouetted against an inferno of candles.
There's also another sex scene between Ruby (as a white woman) and Christina (as a white man) that tops anything the series has done with this kind of material so far. Ruby's white body tears apart mid-coitus in huge crimson strips, even as Christina's William-body stays intact. This is the kind of thing you serve up when you stop worrying about getting things right and just thrust your hands into race, gender, and sexuality right up to the elbows, not worrying about how wet you get.
And the intensity of Dee's storyline is such that it stands on its own. The gruesome way in which Captain Lancaster and one of his minions corner her in an alley, using spit to seal a curse on her forehead, is white-hot with racist animus. Her ferocious retort to them later on, when she spits on Lancaster and says "Fuck you, pig," is equally incandescent.
And then there's the climax, where Lancaster and his men open fire on Leti's pioneering house on the North Side and nearly murder Atticus in the street, only for one of those eyeball monsters to emerge from beneath the asphalt and tear through the cops like a fist through a wet paper bag. It's cathartic, it's gruesome, and it says more of value about the relationship between American policing and the enforcement of racial hierarchies in 30 seconds than Watchmen said in an entire season.
So. Does all of that justify the use of a murdered child, killed for the crime of being Black in white America? Has a show like Lovecraft Country, with its often goofy visual effects and shaky episodic structure, earned that right? Or is it not a matter of right, but of obligation? Would the show be a worse one were it not to drive home the real-life horrors that inspired the fictional ones?
Sean T. Collins (@theseantcollins) writes about TV for Rolling Stone, Vulture, The New York Times, and anyplace that will have him, really. He and his family live on Long Island.
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Just a reminder to stop and smell the roses. And silently watch and enjoy butterflies as they go about their brief but brilliant lives. In both instances, we are given the gifts of sight and scent that, in part, we may feed our souls. It is in refreshing ourselves with such seemingly simple gifts from God that we can move a bit more easily through life.
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Q: How to update a components state from outside after ReactDOM.render I'm rendering a react component like this
export class MyClass {
    render(state) {
        ReactDOM.render(<Dashboard {...state} />, document.getElementById("root"));
   }
}

The render function is called externally by the environment my class is injected in. Although this works fine, the problem is that the environment can call that render method again with an other state object. How can I pass that data to that rendered Dashboard component?
I tried to run ReactDOM.render again, but then nothing happens. The only solution I found was to remove that root element, insert it again and then run ReactDOM.render again, but that doesn't really sound like a solid solution to this trivial problem. Any suggestions how to do this?

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Galassi, et al v. A.W. Chesterton Company, et al
60-year-old Peter Galassi served as a civilian marine machinist and maintenance manager for the U.S. Navy from 1963-1980s. During his time aboard many U.S. Navy ships he was exposed daily for long hours to asbestos particles and dust resulting from his work on various asbestos-containing pumps, valves, flanges, gaskets, packing, and insulation in tight, unventilated areas. Mr. Galassi, a youthful looking man who enjoyed running, began experiencing symptoms of mesothelioma more than 20 years after leaving his work with the U.S. Navy. He died in July 2005, six months after diagnosis with pleural malignant mesothelioma.
$2,325,872 total award:
$261,372 economic damages;
$64,500 lost household services;
$2.0M non-economic damages
2% liability assigned to John Crane Inc.
Plaintiffs' verdict in U.S. Navy case.
Despite the Taylor decision, which relieves manufacturers of duty to warn of asbestos hazard in subcomponent parts manufactured and supplied by third parties, jury ruled in Plaintiffs' favor.
Plaintiffs' were also able to overcome the sophisticated user doctrine in which the equipment manfuacturers argued the U.S. Navy's sophistication and knowledge of asbestos hazards eliminated the defendants' duties to warn about the dangerous condition of their products.
Case No. CGC-04-436144
Galassi, et al v. A.W. Chesterton Company, et al.
Trial Length: Two Weeks Deliberation Length: 2.25 days
San Francisco County, Calif, Superior Court, Dept. 306
Hon. Gail Dekreon, presiding
Plaintiff's Experts
Arnold Brody, Ph.D., cell biologist
Barry Horn, M.D., occupational medicine
Samuel Hammar, M.D., Pathologist
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Cdr. James Delaney (U.S. Navy, ret.), Navy expert
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Brent Zadorozny (lead trial counsel) (LA)
Ingrid Evans (trial counsel) (San Fran.)
Benno Ashrafi (LA)
Defense Counsel
Defendant John Crane, Inc., Hassard Bonnington, LLP (San Fran.)
Robert Nelder (lead trial counsel), Barry Endick
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Oxford Gene Technology (OGT) has introduced three new CytoSure™ ISCA aCGH arrays to meet all resolution, multiplexing and budget requirements.
Designed in collaboration with the International Standard Cytogenomic Array (ISCA) Consortium, the 8 x 60k, 4 x 180k and 4 x 44k CytoSure ISCA formats, provide powerful arrays focusing on disease and syndrome-associated genome regions, in addition to offering whole genome coverage.
Using a proprietary 60-mer probe design and multiple rounds of optimization, the CytoSure ISCA aCGH arrays ensure reliability and confident detection of genetic aberrations with high signal-to-noise ratios.
Each CytoSure array is accompanied with the user-centric CytoSure Interpret analysis software. This easy-to-use tool ensures translation of data into meaningful results. The features include the "Accelerate" workflow, for customizable automation of routine data analysis, and full integration with existing data and publicly available cytogenetics databases including the Database of Genomic Variants (DGV, Canada) and DECIPHER (Sanger Institute, UK).
In addition to CytoSure ISCA arrays and Interpret software, the CytoSure aCGH product line includes a range of high quality arrays covering single disorders through to entire syndrome spreads, as well as SciGene automation instrumentation (now distributed in Europe by OGT). As a result, OGT's comprehensive products and services are the ideal solution for running oligo aCGH in the laboratory.


Veanne Cox and Doug Wamble led a musical tribute to lyricist Dorothy Fields.
Also on hand for the evening were presenters David Hyde Pierce and Stanley Zareff.
Sawyer, Donna Karan, Susan Sarandon, Katie Couric, Lauren Bacall, Maya Angelous, Twyla Tharp and Kerry Washington, among many others.
and only male recipient of the award.


The geoip_db_get_all_info() function will return detailed information as a multi-dimensional array about all the GeoIP database types.
This function is available even if no databases are installed. It will simply list them as non-available.
This will print the array containing all the information.
string(25) "GeoIP Domain Name Edition"
You can use the various constants as keys to get only parts of the information.


One of the most common complaints I get about recruiters is that candidates don't hear from them after applying for a job. In most cases, this is because their application has been unsuccessful. They've been rejected.
We expect (or at least I expect) that anyone applying for a role will take time to research the company, adapt their CV to suit the role, and spend time writing a good covering letter. Yet most recruiters (internal and external) don't include sending a rejection email in their recruitment process, but instead add a bland sentence to the end of their job adverts "due to the extremely high volume of applications, we can't possibly respond to all of you individually so, if you haven't heard from us within 5 days, your application has not been successful".
In my experience, at least half of recruiters do not bother to let candidates know their application won't be going any further. Why? I've heard various excuses, but the main one being something along the lines of "we get so many applications; it would take too long to go back to all of them".
This simply isn't true. The time it takes to send a message to all rejected candidates is minimal. Job boards and ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems) all have built in bulk email options, and even if the recruiter is tracking applications on an Excel spreadsheet it adds almost no time to the process to add in an "email address" column and then send a bulk email.
Moreover, I've recently had 2 good examples of how adding some common courtesy to one's recruitment process also has commercial benefit.
A service delivery client I recruited for recently has just won some work with a new customer. My client asked why they had been awarded this contract, and it turns out the office manager had previously applied for a job with my client and this was one of only 2 applications that she heard back from (the other being the company where she now works) out of "over 20 applications". She said "if you treat rejected applicants well, I assume you will treat your clients well too". The recruitment process should be an extension of your client services policy.
I was recently asked to do a piece of recruitment for a new client. The person who asked me to do the work was someone I had rejected for a role this time last year – now in a new job. She told me that she'd been impressed by my approach, which included giving her additional feedback when she asked for it. She would like her company's applicants to be treated with the same level of decency with which she was.
So, I'd argue that as well as being the "nice" thing to do, it is also a commercially smart use of your time.
Someone who is a candidate now could be a client in the future. Certainly they might be a candidate again, and next time they may be perfect for the role. They may also be an advocate of your company now. If they're not right for the role, they may know someone who is. But at the very least, they've taken the time to try and help you do your job. I suggest that we recruiters return that courtesy.


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Q: Databricks Spark Reference Applications: State maintenance using static variables in Spark Streaming 1.1.3.2 Cumulative Calculations section mentions usage of static variables for maintaining:

*

*runningCount

*runningSum

*runningMin

*runningMax

My Understanding: In Distributed Mode, the DStream: contentSizeDStream (an infinite series of RDDs) would be partitioned and distributed amongst multiple Workers for processing, and each Worker will have its own copy of static variables (runningCount...runningMax).
Q: How would static variables help in maintaining an SSOT state?
Code snippet:
JavaDStream<Long> contentSizeDStream =
accessLogDStream.map(ApacheAccessLog::getContentSize).cache();
contentSizeDStream.foreachRDD(rdd -> {
if (rdd.count() > 0) {
runningSum.getAndAdd(rdd.reduce(SUM_REDUCER));
runningCount.getAndAdd(rdd.count());
runningMin.set(Math.min(runningMin.get(), rdd.min(Comparator.naturalOrder())));
runningMax.set(Math.max(runningMax.get(), rdd.max(Comparator.naturalOrder())));
System.out.print("Content Size Avg: " + runningSum.get() / runningCount.get());
System.out.print(", Min: " + runningMin.get());
System.out.println(", Max: " + runningMax.get());
}
return null;
});

A: While the DStream represents a distributed stream data, the operations reveal a multi-level abstraction: Operations that apply to elements, such as map, filter, and their classical friends all operate distributed in the cluster.
In the code above, accessLogDStream.map(ApacheAccessLog::getContentSize) is an example of that. contentSize will apply distributed over the elements of the accessLogDStream.
Then, we have operations that apply to RDDs, such as transform and foreachRDD. They operate on the underlying RDD abstraction. The code in the closures of these operations gets attached to the SparkStreaming scheduler and execute on the driver, not distributed. Yet, as they provide access to an RDD, we can still apply distributed operations to the RDD and get the results to the single driver context.
Going back to the example code, runningCount is a variable local to the context of the driver. When we do runningCount.getAndAdd(rdd.count()); we are effectively applying a distributed count operation over the rdd, collecting the totalized count over all partitions and executors to the driver and then adding that number to the value of runningCount in the local context.
That way, the streaming program we can keep a centralized summary of the data distributed in the cluster, which can be further consumed by other applications that are interested in the results of the streaming job.