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What happened to social and economic opportunity?
Molly Bloom and Emily Kaiser
ListenWhat happened to social and economic opportunity?
The class of 2010 from St. Paul's Johnson High School at graduation.
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It's getting harder to make it in America -- especially if you're starting out with less.
In Foreign Affairs last month, Lane Kenworthy wrote:
As gender and race have become less significant barriers to advancement, family background, an obstacle considered more relevant in earlier eras, has reemerged. Today, people who were born worse off tend to have fewer opportunities in life.
And it's not just in adulthood. The growing class gap in America is wider than the race gap in student test scores, said Kenworthy on The Daily Circuit Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013.
"A lot of the gap between kids from low-income homes and those from high-income homes is already there by the time they enter kindergarten," he said.
A study from the Brookings Institution looked at that childhood gap:
Children from less advantaged families tend to fall behind at every stage. They are less likely to be ready for school at age 5 (59% vs 72%), to achieve core academic and social competencies at the end of elementary school (60% vs 77%), to graduate from high school with decent grades and no involvement with crime or teen pregnancy (41% vs 70%), and to graduate from college or achieve the equivalent income in their twenties (48% vs 70%).
One of the authors of this study, Isabel Sawhill, also joined The Daily Circuit. She said the opportunity gap isn't just about the money higher income homes have.
"One of the reasons that children from more affluent or better off families have an advantage on this job ladder in life is because their parents typically know more, are better connected, have all kinds of tangible resources in addition to money that help them get ahead," she said.
Kenworthy said it's important to note the role of family structure and poverty in social mobility.
"There's been a big change for American society as a whole over the last 50 years in terms of more kids growing up with just a single parent or maybe with multiple parents but they're switching," he said. "So they may for much of their childhood have two adults in the house, but a lot more instability than their counterpart from a generation ago. And the important thing is there's a big class difference here; this change has spread much more widely among those in low income households than among those in higher income households. It too, like income itself and changes in schooling and changes in the economy, has contributed to this declining equality of opportunity."
READ MORE ABOUT SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC MOBILITY
It's Hard to Make it in America (Lane Kenworthy in Foreign Affairs)
Affluent students have an advantage and the gap is widening (New York Times)
Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins discuss "Creating an Opportunity Society":
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A: Maybe you need just another container to do that?

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Try this JSFiddle or see below code may be it can help you-

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This article contains facts and information about the life and times of the famous Native American Indian chief known as Manuelito.
Who was Manuelito and why was this Native Indian chief famous? Summary: Manuelito (c.1818 - 1893) was a famous chief and war leader of the Navajo tribe. He was a leading figure in the resistance to military intrusion, the white settlement on Navajo tribal land and the forced relocation of his people. Manuelito joined his people on the 350-mile trail of death known as the infamous "Long Walk of the Navajo" to Bosque Redondo Reservation.
The following fact sheet contains interesting facts, background history and information about the life of Manuelito and the events in history that led to his fame as a great Native American Indian leader.
Manuelito (c.1818 - 1893) was an important Navajo chief who led his people against the white encroachment on Navajo territory. The overwhelming forces of the US army led to his surrender and the forced relocation and terrible journey to the to Bosque Redondo Reservation known as the "Long Walk" .
The US army, directed by General James H. Carleton, conducted a devastating scorched-earth campaign against the Navajo. Colonel Christopher "Kit" Carson was responsible for rounding up the Navajo tribe and organizing what would become known as the "Long Walk" to the Bosque Redondo reservation. These are the facts about the "Long Walk"
The following Manuelito timeline charts the life of this famous Navajo chief and his fight to prevent the Navajo Native Indians move to the Bosque Redondo reservation.
1835: The Battle of Washington Pass. Seventeen year old Manuelito took part in the conflict led by Chief Narbona that defeated a large raiding force led by Captain Blas de Hinojos at what today is called Narbona Pass.
1855: Manuelito succeeded Sarcillos Largos as principal chief of the Navajo and initially tried to avoid conflict with the US military. On July 18, 1855 he signed the Meriwether Treaty.
For additional facts and information refer to the legend and the Story of Manuelito.
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Josh Mantellato ran in four tries as Hull KR battled past Bradford Bulls to reach the last 16 of the Challenge Cup.
The Super League side led by six at the interval with Mantellato, Kris Welham and Albert Kelly going over, and Adam O'Brien and Dale Ferguson touching down for the hosts.
Graeme Horne and Kevin Larroyer added to the Robins' tally after the break.
Danny Addy, Lee Gaskell and Lucas Walshaw put the Bulls in front before Mantellato went over three more times.
A converted last-minute try from John Boudebza gave Chris Chester's men a 20-point win as Mantellato ended with a personal haul of 30.
Elsewhere in the Challenge Cup, there were wins for League One side York City Knights and Championship outfits Featherstone Rovers, Batley Bulldogs and Dewsbury Rams.
They join Wakefield, Leigh and last season's top eight Super League sides in Monday's sixth round draw.
Bradford Bulls: Shaw, Uaisele, Walker, Henry, Ulugia, Gaskell, Addy, Clough, O'Brien, Sidlow, Olbison, Ferguson, Pitts.
Replacements: Walshaw, Mellor, Baile, Fleming.
Hull KR: Dixon, Mantellato, Welham, Salter, Sio, Campese, Kelly, Walker, Lunt, Burke, Larroyer, Horne, McCarthy.
Replacements: Cockayne, Donaldson, Ollett, Boudebza.


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Martin, Lawrence, Woodrow Wilson, U.S.. Topographic Branch Geological Survey, and United States Department Of State. Boundary between Turkey and Armenia: as determined by Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States of America . [Washington? D.C.: s.n, 1920] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/80695244/.
Martin, L., Wilson, W., Geological Survey, U. S. T. B. & United States Department Of State. (1920) Boundary between Turkey and Armenia: as determined by Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States of America . [Washington? D.C.: s.n] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/80695244/.
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Left to right: Dr. Robert George, Speaker Paul Ryan, Immaculee Ilibagiza,
Fr. Michael Gaitley, George Weigel
The Gregorian is a free speech digest published by The Gregorian Institute at Benedictine College, Kansas. Each issue of the publication brings you speeches by noted speakers from events hosted by The Gregorian Institute. Subscriptions to The Gregorian speech digest are free. Why not take a moment to order now by contacting us at the email address on the right?
The crisis of our day is the separation of faith from public life. We bring you crucial speeches from the world's most inspiring figures, who bring Faith and Reason to bear on the critical issues that confront our country and our world. Faith, politics, business, social policy, science, technology, the environment – you'll find the entire range of human experience reflected in The Gregorian. And it is brought to you FREE by Benedictine College.
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Jim Towey, President, Ave Maria University
What Can Mother Teresa Teach the Academy?
Mr. Towey came to Ave Maria after serving as president of Saint Vincent College from 2006-2010. Prior to leading Saint Vincent, Mr. Towey served as an Assistant to the President of the United States. He was a member of President George W. Bush's senior staff and attended meetings of his Cabinet. As director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives from 2002 to 2006, Mr. Towey oversaw billions of dollars in federal grants that were awarded annually to faith-based charities serving the poor. He and his wife Mary have five children.
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna
Pope Benedict, Regensburg, and the Controversy of Creation and Evolution
Cardinal Schonborn is a highly regarded author, teacher, and theologian. He was a student of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) and with him was co-editor of the monumental Catechism of the Catholic Church. He studied theology and philosophy in Bornheim-Walberberg, Vienna, and Paris. He was ordained a Dominican priest by Cardinal Franz König in December 1970 in Vienna, and later studied in Regensburg. From 1975 he was professor at Freiburg im Uechtland.
In 1980, he became a member of the international theological commission of the Holy See, and in 1987 he became editorial secretary for the Catechism. He speaks six languages and has written numerous books.
Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J.,
Evidence of Creation and Supernatural Intelligence in Big-Bang Cosmology
Fr. Spitzer is the newly-appointed auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, and the president of the Spitzer Center on Catholic Organizations and Chief Educational Officer for the Ethics and Performance Institute. He has published five books, published articles in the International Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy in Science, the Business and Professional Ethics Journal, the Journal of Ultimate Reality and Meaning, and the Journal of Jesuit Business Education. He has founded seven major national institutes.
Bishop Spitzer has produced several series on cable's EWTN including: Healing the Culture; The Spirit of Catholic Leadership; Suffering and the Love of God; Finding God Through Faith and Reason; Five Pillars of the Spiritual life; and Jesus-Emmanuel.
Dr. Robert George, Ph.D., McCormick Chair in Jurisprudence at Princeton University
The Life of Faith and the Moral Life
George is the founding director of the James Madison Program. He served on President George W. Bush's Council on Bioethics, and is also a member of the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology. He previously served as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. He is the author of several books.
His scholarly articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, and the Review of Politics. Professor George is a recipient of many honors and awards, including the Presidential Citizens Medal awarded December 10, 2008.
Dr. Kimberly Shankman, Dean of the College, Benedictine College
Reason, Truth, and Democracy: The Enlightenment and its Alternatives
Kimberly Shankman received her PhD in Political Science from Northern Illinois University. Subsequently she taught in the Politics and Government Department at Ripon College from 1985-2001, when she left to take her current position at Benedictine College.
Her research interests are American political thought and constitutional law. She is the author of Compromise and the Constitution: The Political Thought of Henry Clay. Additionally, she has published articles relating to the privileges or immunities clause of the 14th amendment and other aspects of constitutional law. She spoke recently on "Truth and Democracy" at the University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy, and on "Human Capital in Caritas in Veritate" at Columbia University in New York.
Immaculée Ilibagiza, Author, Speaker
A Witness to Mercy
Ilibagiza is a survivor of the Rwandan Genocide in 1992 that killed most of her family members when she was an engineering student in Rwanda. She recorded her memoirs of the events in her New York bestseller Left to Tell. Now a highly sought-after speaker, Ilibagiza visited Benedictine College in 2012, when she spoke of her experiences during the Genocide and described how her faith helped her through the horrors of those days and the emotional healing that came after. In the summer of 2013, she inspired the college again when she led a group of Benedictine students on a mission trip to Rwanda.
Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House
Free Enterprise, Faith, and the Common Good
Ryan is the Speaker of the House after serving as Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means and as Chairman of the House Committee on the Budget. He has been the Representative of Wisconsin's 1st district since 1999, and ran for Vice President with Mitt Romney in 2012. A runner-up for Time magazine's 2011 Man of the Year, Ryan came to Benedictine College in 2013 as the Commencement speaker, addressing graduates on the relationship between free enterprise, faith and the common good. Ryan lives in Wisconsin with his wife and three children.
George Weigel, Papal Biographer, Political and Social Commentator
Defending Religious Freedom in Full: A Generation's Challenge
Weigel was Assistant Professor of Theology and Assistant Dean of Studies at St. Thomas the Apostle Seminary School of Theology in Kenmore, Washington, and Scholar-in-Residence at the World Without War Council of Greater Seattle before becoming a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is also the founding president of the James Madison Foundation. Weigel is the author of the Pope St. John Paul II biographies Witness to Hope and The End and the Beginning. In 2012 he came to Benedictine College as the Commencement speaker and presented a speech on the Millennial generation's challenges in defending religious freedom. Weigel lives in Maryland with his wife and three children.
Fr. Michael Gaitley, M.I.C., Author, Director of the Association of Marian Helpers
Consecration to Mary: Key to the Future
Fr. Gaitely is a priest of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. As director of the Association of Marian Helpers, he leads over 1 million people in devotion to Mary. Since his appointment as director, he has launched Hearts Afire: Parish-Based Programs for the New Evangelization (HAPP), a new pastoral initiative to spread the Good News. His book, 33 Days to Morning Glory, is a bestselling retreat for preparation for consecration to Mary, used by hundreds of Benedictine students before their own consecration.
Sister Veronica Daniels, O.S.B., St. Martin's Ministries in Ridgely, M.D.; Nurse to Mother Teresa
As Mother Lay Dying
A Benedictine College alumna who graduated from Mount St. Scholastica College, one of our founding institutions, Sister Roni, as she is called, served as a nurse to Blessed Mother Teresa in Washington, D.C., and in Calcutta in the last year of her life at Mother Teresa's request. Sister Roni, along with three Missionaries of Charity sisters, unveiled the "Mother Teresa Nursing Center" sign on Benedictine College's campus on the 100th anniversary of the future saint's birth, Aug. 26, 2010.
A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Sister Roni entered the Benedictines in 1962. She has worked as a pediatric nurse, a family practice nurse, and a nurse educator. Currently, Sister works at Saint Martin's House, serving the poor in Ridgely, Md. She also works two days a week in Washington, D.C., where she provides health care to the homeless and serves as a clinical instructor.
Sam Brownback, Governor of Kansas
The Wisdom of Mother Teresa
Brownback is a former U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kansas. A former administrator, broadcaster, teacher, attorney and author he also served as Kansas' Secretary of Agriculture. Brownback and his wife, Mary, have five children, two of them adopted. Raised a Methodist, Brownback converted to Catholicism in 2002 and is currently a member of Christ the King Parish in Topeka. He has spoken on issues of faith and politics at Benedictine College many times, including during the 2010 dedication of the Mother Teresa Center for Nursing & Health Education.


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Society's Boggy Grounds
Semperoper Ballet opened the season with a final run of Kenneth MacMillan's "Manon." In most performances since the Dresden premiere in fall 2015 Melissa Hamilton danced the title role. Hamilton returned to her home company, the Royal Ballet London, in May this year. The gap she left was filled by two guest ballerinas familiar with the role – Anna Ol (Principal of Dutch National Ballet) and Dorothée Gilbert (Étoile of Paris Opera Ballet). Both dance twice. The Semperoper Ballet's Gina Scott is cast for the final two performances in mid-October. I saw the opening night with Ol alongside Julian Amir Lacey as Des Grieux. (more…)
Two Farewells at the Semperoper Ballet
"Theme and Variations" (Triple bill: "Theme and Variations", New Suite", "She Was Black")
Semperoper Ballet bid a double farewell on April 1st. True to his announcement last year, Mats Ek withdrew his works from the stage forever as he heads into retirement. "She Was Black", originally choreographed in 1995, is among those that will retire with him. It has been part of the repertoire of the Dresden company for six years. When I learned about the 2nd goodbye, I thought it might be a premature April Fools' joke – but it wasn't. Fabien Voranger, the 36-year old principal of the company, ended his active dancing career with a final pas de deux in "She Was Black" in the middle of the season.
Born in Aix-en-Provence in Southern France, Voranger was trained at the Opéra National de Paris and the Studio Ballet Colette Armand in Marseille. A Prix de Lausanne scholarship led him to The Royal Ballet School before signing his first contract with Roland Petit's troupe in Marseille. Engagements at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Vienna State Ballet soon followed. As Voranger stated in an interview in 2015, he tended to move on to another company whenever he felt stuck in his artistic growth: "There will be always someone who can do more pirouettes than you, who is technically superior. So the most important thing in a career is to find someone who makes something of you." (more…)
Welcome Innovations
With the new year quickly approaching, the art of prophecy is in great demand in Dresden. One clairvoyant resides in a cozy, tiny hut on a beautiful, rustic Christmas market in the old stable yard next to the Dresden Castle. An expert in palm reading, cartomancy and runes magic, the white-haired lady offers glances into what next year will bring.
Not far from her stall, in the former opera restaurant just recently altered into the studio stage "Semper Two," another soothsayer, a quite prominent lady, is at work. Or, to be precise, is fed up with work. Alas, there is currently no chance to receive advice from her. Joseph Hernandez, coryphée of Semperoper Ballet and a fledgling choreographer, attended to the matter in the dance theater "Oracle", his first piece for Semperoper Ballet. Accompanied by a musical mix consisting of vintage jazz as well as cello and violin sounds of various atmospheres, it unveils the Oracle of Delphi's problem. Exhausted from putting herself into a trance to answer the never-ending questions, the woman priest, simply called Oracle (Aidan Gibson) by Hernandez, wants to get off the hot seat. But how? (more…)
Straightforward Towards Mediocrity
One wishes for better program coordination given the fact that three German companies, Stuttgart Ballet, the Aalto Ballet Essen and Semperoper Ballet are offering "Don Quixote" almost at the same time. Premieres in Essen and Dresden were even scheduled for the same day, November 5th. The versions in Stuttgart and Essen are traditional adaptions; in Dresden, artistic director Aaron S.Watkin came up with his own creation. The idea sprang from set and costume designer Patrick Kinmonth to strip the adventurous story of Alonso Quixano alias Don Quixote down to a mere framework on which a new, "more real and convincing story" was hung. (more…)
Creating an Image
Ballet Companies in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland
Semperoper Ballet, Bavarian State Ballet, State Ballet Berlin, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballett am Rhein,
Dutch National Ballet, Zurich Ballet
What kind of image distinguishes Stuttgart Ballet from Dutch National Ballet? Or the Bavarian State Ballet from the State Ballet Berlin? What is it the dancers – and their audience – identify with as their company? How do companies present themselves to the public? Such were my thoughts when seeing the Semperoper Ballet's new image campaign, #WHYWEDANCE. I asked several major companies to send me images of their choice representing their respective company's image.
Semperoper Ballet chose four of the sixty-one dancer portraits of #WHYWEDANCE. The new ensemble brochure presents each in full-page size. In addition they are spread via social media and on billboards and advertising pillars in Dresden. Aaron S.Watkin, in his eleventh year as artistic director, put the spotlight on his company this season whose face has changed since his beginning in 2006. Next to the dancers, Ian Whalen, the troupe's photographer and multimedia expert, also shot Watkin and staff members. Names, places of birth, ranks within the company and the year when joining the ensemble come along with each portrait. In addition, every dancer sums up their motivation for the profession, the why and wherefore of choosing a career with dance in a single word. (more…)
"COW" is the Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman's new creation for the Semperoper Ballet Dresden. As the title suggests, cows – sculptures, not living cattle – are the common thread of this otherwise plotless piece, albeit not dancing but sometimes merely watching what is going on.
The piece is a result of intense teamwork by four artists: composer Mikael Karlsson, costume designer Henrik Vibskov, and multimedia expert T.M.Rives working with Ekman who kept things firmly in hand. Karlsson, who has collaborated with Ekman for several years, contributed the music. He first recorded the basic sounds with Germany's National Youth Orchestra; then the material was electronically alienated and remixed. It involves a sequence of cowlike "mooing" lasting several minutes. Ekman used the music to generate atmosphere and as a signal for the dancers when to start or which rhythm to keep. One pas de deux, "Silence", except for single tones, is done without music. The dancers add to the acoustics by speaking, shouting and screaming. One of them, Skyler Maxey-Wert, even sings a song "Nothing Moves a Cow" at the end. (more…)
Giving Oneself to the Love
"Tristan + Isolde"
How many performances exist in which the energy already rises with the first tunes of the prelude? Which make one feel that something substantial is about to happen? David Dawson's "Tristan + Isolde" danced by the Semperoper Ballet Dresden is such a ballet. About one year after its premiere the company revived the piece for three performances in January. Two more are scheduled for June. The car trip to Dresden is long and no fun on wintery highways, yet watching the piece again compensated for the effort. Having ripened during the last year it now is unfolding its whole power. (more…)
A Sweeping Goodbye
One could make things easier when it comes to the end of a dance career. A favorite piece which the audience likes should make for a decent leave-taking. Jiří Bubeníček is of another caliber. After nine years with Semperoper Ballet Dresden he tackled a debut for his farewell, Des Grieux in Kenneth MacMillan's "Manon". Moreover, he asked a ballerina, with whom he had never danced before, to be his Manon: Royal Ballet's principal Melissa Hamilton, who will stay with the Semperoper company for the whole season.
"Go for it!" is one of Bubeníček's principles. Exactly this is what he did. In fact, what the whole company did. Aaron S.Watkin, the company's artistic director, aimed to use "Manon" to explore yet another style with his already versatile company. It was enthusiastically received. No wonder. All ingredients merged splendidly presenting "Manon" as a gripping narrative. (more…)
A Star Enters Another Orbit
November 3, 2015 1 Comment
Jiří Bubeníček
In about one week Semperoper Ballet Dresden will lose one of its mainstays, a formative figure of the company, the idol of the Saxon audience, Principal Jiří Bubeníček, who will bid farewell to the Semperoper stage on November 11th as Des Grieux in Kenneth MacMillan's "Manon". In 2009, already a longtime internationally recognized choreographer, he mentioned in an interview on the occasion of a new creation for New York City Ballet that he would have to decide soon whether to focus on dancing or on choreographing. Since then he has managed the balancing act between giving top-notch performances and creating even more ballets.
Jiří's twin brother Otto had already bid goodby to Hamburg Ballet's stage at the end of last season. Both are a perfectly attuned team. Jiří choreographs, Otto is in charge of set and costumes; sometimes he also composes the music. Now, shortly after turning forty-one, the time has also come for Jiří to finally stop dancing full-time. His schedule book is packed with commissions for the next two years. So there won't be time to put up his feet after the final bow. But that would not suit Bubeníček's nature anyway. A man of action he loves to be busy. Running several projects at the same time isn't unusual for him. (more…)
"I am always in love."
Fabien Voranger
Love guided and catalyzed Fabien Voranger's career in several decisive situations. Just aged ten, being infatuated with a young girl fueled his interest in ballet and led to his audition for the Ballet School of the Paris Opera; and, as it happens, he was accepted. Later, while he was in a scholarship study program at the Royal Ballet School in London his girlfriend was his major support during a reorientation forced by injury. Love almost made him follow a ballerina to Australia. His desire to express his art led to many moves but ultimately to success.
Now, at the age of thirty-four, his love is rooted in Dresden, where Voranger, meanwhile principal of Semperoper Ballet, lives with his wife, opera singer Antigone Papoulkas, and two sons. In early October we met there in a French bistro to talk about his career, his life and his vision of the art of ballet.
Voranger started to take ballet lessons around the age of six together with two of his his three sisters in his home village close to Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. (more…)
Go All Out Again!
Earlier this year, Courtney Richardson and Fabien Voranger enthralled Semperoper Dresden's audience in the leading roles of David Dawson's "Tristan + Isolde". In April both had their debut in Dawson's "Giselle". I was curious as to how the two would tackle this quite different love story. The performance on April 18 – the second for Richardson and Voranger – was the last of this season's run of "Giselle".
For the specifics of Dawson's version I would like to refer to what I wrote almost exactly one year ago (Landgraf on Dance: Last Dance). In short, Dawson's reading of the classic is timeless yet modern. The roles of Berthe (Giselle's mother) and the Duke of Courland are dropped; the first act's hunting party is replaced by a wedding party; the miming scene foreboding disaster takes place in the course of the wedding festivities. The second act depicts Abrecht's memories, his mental state, his process in coping with what had happened. Neither Hilarion appears again nor is there a grave. Nor are the Wilis avenging spirits. Rather, they remind one of impartial beings. (more…)
Stunning Emotions
Reportedly a few of the audience had expected to see the opera, while others, having had a slightly closer look at Semperoper Dresden's program, were anticipating hearing Richard Wagner's famous music. Both parties must have been surprised. "Tristan + Isolde" is a ballet by David Dawson to new music by Szymon Brzóska.
Dawson wisely abstained from using Wagner's well-known opera music. Instead Brzóska, a Pole, composed a tailor-made score for the Dresden company. Both had already collaborated on Dawson's ballet "Overture" for Dutch National Ballet in 2013. Generally speaking, his music, Brzóska told in an interview, would range between contemporary avant garde and extended tonality that inclined towards minimalism. The new composition reminds one of film music. It's emotional music, conveying love's bliss but also dramatic, fragile and threatening moments. Though expressive, Dawson never left it to the music to bring forth the action but always backed it with choreographic substance. Paul Connelly and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden highly focused playing captivated one from the first tone on. Laurels to them! (more…)
Marzipan and Sweetmeats
While Dresden is just starting to build up the numerous stalls for its famous Christmas markets, Semperoper Ballet has already begun to put audiences in a festive mood with the first of a series of sixteen "Nutcrackers".
Rather restrained in choreographing, Semperoper Ballet's artistic director Aaron S. Watkin replaced John Neumeier's version of the "Nutcracker" which had been in the company's repertory until 2010 by his own new creation in 2011. As with "Coppélia" which also premiered in 2011, Watkin collaborated with Jason Beechey, rector of Dresden's Palucca School for Dance. Putting aside historical records they created completely new choreography yet firmly grounded on classical movement vocabulary. Both two acts of the ballet involve a great number of students of the Palucca School of Dance giving the Christmasy goings-on and the festivities at the Land of Sweets a natural and vivid atmosphere. Almost the whole school participates, around thirty students of different age per cast complemented by eight little children as Polichinelles. (more…)


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A GeoBrowser application, built by the University of Southern California (USC) GIS Research Laboratory for the USC Collection Information Systems Digital Information Management team, provides the existing archive Web site with advanced spatial search capabilities. The application uses El Segundo, California, as a demonstration area. Three new spatial search services were added to the existing Web site—a GeoBrowser (i.e., ArcIMS map), an address geocoder, and a gazetteer. These services act as filters that guide users in identifying and selecting library content in an area of interest. Currently, these spatial search tools can be used independently to search for library holdings.
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The GeoBrowser is a custom-built Esri ArcIMS map coded using Java, JavaServer Pages, and JavaServer Faces (JSF). This application was developed and tested with Tomcat 4.1.29. The JSF API is used to render HTML pages, and the Esri ArcIMS Java Connector API is used to communicate with an Esri ArcIMS image service. The application also uses JavaScript and cascading style sheets (CSS) to provide the Web site with interactive GIS functionalities.
The GeoBrowser user interface provides standard navigation tool buttons (zoom in, zoom out, zoom global, fixed zoom in and out, and pan). The user draws a box on the map using the Search Box button to retrieve all the georeferenced records in the digital library database (Oracle Database Server) within the geographic boundaries of the box. The bounding coordinates of the search box (latitude and longitude of the northwest and southeast corners of the rectangle drawn on the map) can be viewed in text boxes below the map. A user may display the results of a search box search as points using the View USC Digital Archive Holdings tool. Selections often appear in clusters that may be better viewed by zooming in on the map. A user may also use the Clear Map View and Web Page tool to clear the search box and digital archive holdings from the map view and refresh the text-based search options. A Help tool is also available to view GeoBrowser tool button descriptions.
Map layers can be controlled by clicking the check boxes adjacent to each layer name. This displays or hides the layers in the map view. The list of layers shown beneath the map are point, line, and polygon shapefiles.
The geocoder feature was initially built to test the feasibility and scalability of new address matching procedures and algorithms developed by Rahul Bakshi and others at USC. The algorithm's main innovation is the ability to consult multiple sources to discover the actual number of addresses, their layout, and their actual geometry (i.e., features) occurring on a street, rather than using the address range associated with the segment for linear interpolation as traditional geocoders do. This additional knowledge allows for interpolation of locations along street segments with improved accuracy. These algorithms have been implemented into a scalable and reliable geocoding Web service, which is integrated into the GeoBrowser application.
The geocoder can be used to search the USC Digital Library for selections without requiring that the user know the spatial coordinates of an area of interest. A simple search based on address may be easier for a user who is unfamiliar with the geography of a region and cannot readily locate and draw a region of interest on a map.
Blue boxes are drawn using the Search Box button. Selected library records can be displayed using the View Library Holdings button. Search Box coordinates and visible map layers may be specified using the options below the map.
For the geocoder application to work efficiently, the user must enter both the street address and ZIP Code. An address and ZIP Code search can be defined by entering any address in the United States to search for selections within a given radius of the address. The radius has been predefined in the application by the Digital Library staff. The ZIP Code may narrow the geocoding search to a smaller area than a search on a street name. The search has the greatest chance of success if the user can also provide the ZIP Code in those instances in which there are many street segments with the same name. The search is executed by clicking the red Search button beneath the text-based Advanced Search options. All entries and selections in the text-based search tools can be cleared by clicking the red Reset button.
The gazetteer database and service are restricted to the city of El Segundo in Los Angeles County. The gazetteer was built to demonstrate how newly developed Web harvesting tools could be deployed to build gazetteer databases quickly and cheaply. The gazetteer provides a highly detailed location filter that the user employs to identify a specific location, such as a business, and retrieve all of the Digital Library selections within a specified geographic buffer around the chosen location. The buffer radius is currently predefined in the application by the Digital Library staff.
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Ojinaga is een stad in de Mexicaanse deelstaat Chihuahua. De plaats heeft ongeveer 20.000 inwoners (schatting 2007) en is de hoofdplaats van de gemeente Ojinaga.

Ojinaga is gelegen aan de Rio Grande (Río Bravo), de grens met de Verenigde Staten. Aan de overzijde van de rivier ligt de Texaanse stad Presidio. Ojinaga is in de 18e eeuw gesticht als Presidio del Norte als militaire buitenpost om invallen van de Apachen tegen te gaan. In 1865 werd de stad hernoemd tot Ojinaga, ter ere van Manuel Ojinaga, een held uit de Franse interventie in Mexico die door de imperialistische troepen om het leven is gebracht. In 1914 werd hij de slag bij Ojinaga gevochten, waarbij de troepen van Pancho Villa het Federale Leger wisten te verslaan. De stad was het oorspronkelijke eindpunt van de Chihuahua al Pacificospoorlijn. De belangrijkste bron van inkomsten is de maquiladora-industrie.

Plaats in Chihuahua
Stad in Mexico

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"Denzel in fine form."
Public payphones have faded from the national landscape to such a degree that it brings us up short when we're reminded they still exist.
The titular hero of Roman J. Israel, Esq. (Denzel Washington) is a walking anachronism — he seems to exist in several different decades other than this one. His fro, his mashing up an iPod with nerdily large earphones, his very soul and rhetoric speak of a man who refuses to be tied down to anything so fleeting as time. He'll plant his own roots on his own land. So in one scene you'll see Roman checking several payphones for change, and in another there'll be a reference to Uber. Like its namesake, Roman is ambitious and wonky and all over the place.
It's a vibe that owes a lot to the seventies, to whose gritty, inward-directed aesthetic the writer-director, Dan Gilroy, genuflects in this movie and his previous Nightcrawler. You can say a lot about these movies, but you can't say they're safe or stale. Actors like Washington or Jake Gyllenhaal rove through Gilroy's tales, white-hot and solipsistic. Washington's Roman doesn't really seem able to relate to whoever's in front of him. He's an idealist in the general sense, and he has a radical streak, but it's wedded to his identity as an in-the-rear-with-the-gear lawyer — not a trial lawyer — with a possibly neuroatypical facility for recalling legal data. In his head, he's a moral crusader, but in reality he's just been dotting the i's and crossing the t's for a failing, even corrupt, two-person law firm. Then the other person dies, and Roman's story begins.
Roman's firm and cases are subsumed into a larger firm headed by slickster George Pierce (Colin Farrell), Roman's partner's former student. In truth, Pierce has a more gratifying character arc than Roman does, or maybe a more movie-ish one. Pierce seems to exist in a more hopeful reality capable of redemption, a reality that Roman thought he lived in for decades and now rejects. Roman J. Israel, Esq. turns out to be about nothing less than a man's mind breaking a bit when confronted with its own possible irrelevance, his values akilter, his moral compass magnetized into chaos. He loses himself, indulges in childish appetites.
Washington has been doing some hard work in the realm of idiosyncrasy lately, and in this movie he finds a kind of lyricism in a complex computer who stops computing. In opposition to the slicker but morally chaotic Roman we have Pierce, who gathers layers of compassion — he's been looking for a Don Quixote to replace what his teacher once was to him, and almost seems to see Roman as a father figure. That's obvious from the way Pierce responds to a breach of protocol on Roman's part that may have cost a young client his life. Instead of firing him, Pierce comes to see Roman's virtues and actually restructures his firm to reflect what he thinks Roman's values are. Or were.
A motif through all of this is the major brick-like thing Roman has been toiling on for years, the legal brief that calls out the entire system itself. With help from a Farrell performance that starts icy but warms up, Pierce seems poised to help Roman carry the weight. The movie ends up saying that ideals will survive the cracked human containers who cart them around. On a thematic level, this resounds and makes intellectual sense to us. On a basic plot level, it seems pointlessly downbeat, even nihilistic. The movie seems to be in conflict with itself, in harmony with its hero.
Like many of those '70s films cherished by film nerds, 'Roman' is more beautiful for its flaws; it's cantankerous and possibly insufferable and the sort of shot in the dark that grows in memory.
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Graham Ford: Surrey head coach leaves The Oval for Sri Lanka
Posted By: tahiron: January 29, 2016 In: SportsNo Comments
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Surrey head coach Graham Ford is leaving the county to return to the Sri Lanka national team.
The 55-year-old South African left his role as Sri Lanka coach in 2014 to take charge at The Oval.
In 2015, he led Surrey to promotion from County Championship Division Two and to the final of the One-Day Cup, where they lost to Gloucestershire.
"He has played an integral role in the progress that we have achieved," said director of cricket Alec Stewart.
"He has worked tirelessly with the players and his efforts can be seen in their individual performances and the team's results, culminating in promotion back to the First Division.
"It was a very tough decision for Graham to leave Surrey but we understand that the opportunity to go back and coach at international level with Sri Lanka was too good to turn down.
"Despite the timing of his decision, we wish Graham all the best and we will immediately start our search for a new head coach."
Ford, who has also worked for Kent and South Africa, was shortlisted for the England coach's job in 2009, with that role eventually going to Andy Flower.
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Даду:

 Даду — китайское название столицы империи Юань Ханбалыка.
 Даду — город в Пакистане.
 Даду, Сергей Михайлович (1981) — молдавский футболист.
 Даду, Юсуф (1909—1983) — южноафриканский политик.
 Даду — река в Китае.

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Alstonia congensis, is a tree within the Apocynaceae family and one of two African species within the Alstonia genus, the other being the Alstonia boonei De Wild. Both have similar morphological characteristics.

The root and stem bark contains the alkaloids echitamine and echitamidine.

Description
The species can grow as high as 30 meters tall, trunk is cylindrical; bark, smooth or scaly, brown - yellow. Leaves, between 4 and 8 together in verticillate arrangement, petiole, 0-0.5 cm long; leaf-blade, obovate to narrowly obovate in outline, glaucous or coriaceous upper surface, duller beneath, acuminate at apex and decurrent into the base. Flower: sepals, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, pale green.

Distribution
Occurs in West Tropical Africa and parts of Central Africa, particularly the Democratic Republic of Congo, grows in high forest and freshwater swamp forest.

Uses
Leaf and root bark extracts used in the topical treatment of rheumatic pains, root extracts used in decoction to treat mild malaria fever.

References

Flora of West Tropical Africa
Flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Flora of Angola
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BBC guidelines provide insight into accessibility thinking and how (and why) to design usable experiences for everyone.
To deliver an inclusive experience, accessibility must be an integral part of the user experience design. It must also be integral to development and testing. Assistive technology (software or equipment such as screen readers or switch devices) can improve capabilities and bridge the gap for those with more severe impairments.
Consider what someone new to English or unable to hear audio will understand; how someone with arthritis or unable to see will interact with things; and what impact a visual design may have on meaning or the underlying code structure. Or consider trying to use what you create on a mobile device after a good night out.


Messier 16 (M16) - Open star cluster Eagle.
Die Sternhaufen M16 or Eagle Open star cluster is in the constellation Serpens (Ser).
External dimensions the star clusters M16 are about 35 light years.
Discoverer: Jean-Philippe Loys de Chéseaux, 1745-1746 year.
Optimum magnification for a telescope with observations of M16, depending on the aperture of the telescope (D), is about D/6-D/4. Higher magnifications of course add details, but lead to a strong drop in the brightness of the image, making it difficult to observe.
The best month for observing M16 is July. At this time, the object is at midnight near its highest point in the sky, that is, it is less affected by light from the lanterns and atmospheric distortions.
For observers in the northern latitudes:The nights in July are still quite light, so it makes sense to try to observe M16 also in August.


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Q: How to re-insert selected nodes as "last siblings" I have a collection of SVG groups g1, g2, ..., gn, each having m paths as children.  The paths in each group have distinct classes "C1", "C2", ..., "Cm".  Only these paths have these classes.  Therefore, a selection such as d3.selectAll(".C1") (or, alternatively, $(".C1")) will consist of exactly n paths, one from each of the groups g1,...,gn.
The paths in each group can overlap visually, but there is no overlap between paths in different groups.
Initially all the paths are colored black, and I would like to implement the ability to highlight (with a different color) all the paths belonging to a particular class.
An expression like
d3.selectAll("." + cx).attr("style", "stroke: #0f0")

or
$("." + cx).attr("style", "stroke: #0f0")

will set to green (#0f0) the color of all the paths having class cx (where cx holds one of the strings "C1", ..., "Cm"), but unfortunately it often fails to produce the desired highlighting effect, namely, when the selected paths are visually obscured by the other paths.  (IOW, these not-highlighted paths get to be drawn "on top" of the highlighted ones, thereby obscuring the latter, at least partially.)
One solution would be to, before changing their color, first re-insert the selected paths into the DOM so that they are the last ones among their (by-design-unselected) siblings.
Of course, one could imagine writing some elaborate DOM-manipulation code to achieve this, but it occurs to me that this is precisely the type of code that d3 and jQuery are meant to make unnecessary.
What would be the right incantation for doing this?  And also, would there be any reason to prefer one of d3 or jQuery for this task?

A: selection.sort(comparator) will reorder the DOM.

A: OK, I found one way to do this, at least with jQuery:
$("." + cx).each(function(){
                   var n = $(this);
                   var p = n.parent();
                   n.detach().appendTo(p);
                 }).attr("style", "stroke: #0f0");

(This seems to work, although I can't vouch for its correctness, or for its superiority over other methods, especially those using d3 instead of jQuery.)


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Q: Vue composition api - pass a variable to my component data() option? If I set a var in setup
 setup(props, context) {

        let name = "Tommy";
    }

Is it possible to set this so it can be used in the component?
data() {
    return {
      myName: name
    }
  },

I can access it in the template but not in any of the component methods. Even if I put it in the onMounted hook.
setup(props, context) {

    onMounted(() => {
    let name = "Tommy";
    }
}

A: The option api behaves differently than composition api, and exchanging properties/methods between the two api is a bad practice, in your case you could define a property in the setup hook and expose it to the template :
import {ref} from 'vue'

 setup(props, context) {
      const name = ref("Tommy");

  return{
    myName:name
   }

}

A: It's possible to use it in the component, and even in the data option:
data() {
    return {
      myname: this.name
    }
}

Though myname won't react to changes in name

A: Also remember that, if you want to modify the value of your variable within the setup method, if the variable was initialized as a "ref", you have to explicitely access to the .value member
import {ref} from 'vue'

 setup(props, context) {
      const name = ref("Tommy");
      const fullName = name.value + " Hanks"

  return{
    myName:name,
    fullName
   }

}

In the template, you don't need to access to the value of the ref returned by the setup method. You just use the ref element, since .value is accessed implicitly in the template.


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Q: How to disable account registration on login page? There was a need to disable account registration on the login page.
After small search i found an issue on github and when this option has been added:
https://github.com/kiwitcms/Kiwi/issues/2500
I found required parameter at /tcms/settings/common.py and official documentation show me to change value of REGISTRATION_ENABLED to False:
https://kiwitcms.readthedocs.io/en/stable/configuration.html
I changed value and restart docker container from directory with it:
docker-compose restart
But account registration field still appear. Clearly, further action is required. But I can't find the answer in the official documentation and I don't have enough experience with docker. Thanks.

A: When I carefully read the documentation again, i'm realized that any customization requires remake the docker image:
https://kiwitcms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing_docker.html#customized-docker-image
I updated repository under kiwi directory:
git fetch
git checkout v11.7 //latest kiwi release at this moment
had made necessary changes at tcms/settings/common.py
built new docker image:
make docker-image
and started services:
docker-compose up -d


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Disney announced plans Wednesday to build a $6 million health facility on its property for the use of its cast members and their dependents who participate in the company's health plans.
I always thought it would be cool to go to a Disney Park - not now.
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// Copyright 2019 The Noda Time Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by the Apache License 2.0,
// as found in the LICENSE.txt file.

using System;
using System.Text.Json;
using System.Text.Json.Serialization;

namespace NodaTime.Serialization.SystemTextJson
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Converter which does nothing but delegate to another one for all operations.
    /// </summary>
    /// <remarks>
    /// Nothing in this class is specific to Noda Time. Its purpose is to make it easy
    /// to reuse other converter instances with <see cref="LocalDate"/>,
    /// which can only identify a converter by type.
    /// </remarks>
    /// <example>
    /// <para>
    /// If you had some <see cref="JsonConverterAttribute"/> properties which needed one converter,
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Hoggard, James
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Stolen Verses and Other Poems
by Oscar Hahn
introduction by James Hoggard
translated by James Hoggard
Northwestern University Press, 2000
eISBN: 978-0-8101-2065-5 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-1778-5
Library of Congress Classification PQ8097.H26A24 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification 861
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Oscar Hahn has been hailed by postmodernist master Enrique Lihn as "the premier poet of his generation." Pablo Neruda has praised Hahn's "great originality and intensity," and Mario Vargas Llosa has called Hahn's work "magnificent and truly original. . . . the most personal I've read in the poetry of our language in a long time." Stolen Verses and Other Poems, translated by Poet Laureate of Texas James Hoggard, affirms Hahn's reputation as a master of his craft.
Oscar Hahn has been hailed by postmodernist master Enrique Lihn as "the premier poet of his generation." Pablo Neruda has praised Hahn's "great originality and intensity," and Mario Vargas Llosa has called Hahn's work "magnificent and truly original. . . . the most personal I've read in the poetry of our language in a long time."
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Aviation History Remembered
Captain Long with his Piper Navajo
This December 2016 marked the 45th anniversary of a most remarkable flight and a record-breaking achievement: Elgen Long's solo flight around the world over the poles.
Elgen began his career in flight while still in his teens as a seaplane radioman and navigator for combat missions during World War II. Later during his 40-year career as captain in the Flying Tiger Line, he flew many cargo missions in the Arctic, supplying remote Air Force stations. When he retired from the Flying Tigers, Elgen had a dream – to fly around the world crossing the equator at the Prime Meridian and over both poles.
The journey would be arduous. Even after installing four additional fuel tanks in his twin engine Piper Navajo to give the plane a 4,000-mile range, Elgen knew that he would have to make major alterations of his speed and altitude to achieve the long distances required for some of the longer legs of his voyage. He used his knowledge of celestial navigation extensively throughout the trip with a back-up inertial navigation system designed for 747s installed in his considerably smaller plane.
As he began the round-the-world flight with a leg from San Francisco to Fairbanks, Alaska on November 5th 1971, Elgen experienced his first problem of the month long adventure: severe icing conditions clogged the cockpit heater, and the cabin temperature plummeted. Elgen's down-filled jumpsuit, gloves and boots prevented him from suffering from anything worse than chattering teeth!
After only five hours sleep, he began the frigid flight to Stockholm, passing directly over the North Pole on November 7th. Because of extremely low temperatures, he chose to make a precautionary fuel stop in Norway, and so when he landed in Sweden after a trip of 3,906 miles he realized that he'd been awake for 34 hours. After a brief rest, it was on to London, where he bought additional long underwear, and took off for Accra, Ghana. After leaving Accra, Elgen crossed the Prime Meridian at the equator then went on to Recife, Brazil. The most dangerous and demanding leg of his flight, across Antarctica to McMurdo Sound, began with perfect weather, but it deteriorated when a storm blanketed the continent. His view of the South Pole was to be nothing but clouds, but Elgen was fortunate to land safely at McMurdo since a blizzard closed the airfield a short time later!
Elgen wears the FAI Gold Air Medal
The flight to Sydney and then Fiji passed pleasantly and Elgen passed the 180th meridian or antimeridian at the equator. He flew on to Tokyo then to Honolulu and finally headed back to his home. On December 3rd 1971 Captain Elgen Long brought his Piper Navajo to a stop in the rain at the San Francisco International Airport, and a welcoming crowd waved a banner reading, "You've Come a Long Way Baby." By completing a 36,000-mile record-breaking flight around both poles, he indeed had flown a very long way.
Elgen Long's dream flight set three Federation Aeronautique Internationale records and many firsts. His was the first flight around the world with landings on all seven continents, the first solo flight around the world across both poles, the first solo flight across Antarctica, the first flight crossing the equator at both the prime and 180th meridians to name just a few. Elgen was the 13th American awarded the Gold Air Medal. Previous winners of this prestigious award include James Doolittle, Igor Sikorsky and Charles Lindbergh.
Nauticos began working with Elgen Long because he had another dream, to solve the mystery of the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. His book, Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved, is a culmination of 25 years of research and interviews. Elgen believes that the most credible evidence concludes that upon fuel exhaustion, Earhart was forced to ditch her plane into the sea near Howland Island.
Nauticos is poised for the search to make Elgen's latest dream come true.
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T20 World Cup: BCCI to seek Rahul Dravid, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli's views before deciding future course of action
T20 World Cup: BCCI to seek Rahul Dravid, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli's views before deciding future course of action
Despite a growing clamour to reboot the T20 side, cricket board says it will not act in haste and will hear out the coach as well as the players before taking any decision.
Written by Devendra Pandey
Adelaide | Updated: November 12, 2022 06:59 IST
After India's embarrassing exit from the tournament, the arguments in favour of rebooting the team's T20 ideology along with an overhaul of the squad have gathered momentum. (Photos: AP & Reuters)
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will hold a meeting with coach Rahul Dravid, captain Rohit Sharma and ex-skipper Virat Kohli before deciding the future course of action vis-à-vis the T20 side following the 10-wicket defeat to England in the semifinal of the T20 World Cup on Thursday.
A board official said the next step will be taken only after hearing Dravid and the two players once they return from Australia. "We will call a meeting and discuss the roadmap for our T20 team," the official told The Indian Express. "We don't want to take any decision in haste. Let team management and players present their point of view first; the board will decide how to go about it later."
After India's embarrassing exit from the tournament, the arguments in favour of rebooting the team's T20 ideology along with an overhaul of the squad have gathered momentum. The average age of the Indian team in the T20 World Cup was 30.6, making them one of the oldest squads in the tournament. At 37, wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik was the oldest player in the Indian team while Rohit Sharma (35), Virat Kohli (33), R Ashwin (36), Suryakumar Yadav (32) and Bhuvaneshwar Kumar (32) were all above 30 as well.
By the time the next T20 World Cup takes place in the West Indies and the USA in 2024, it is unlikely that some of these players will continue being a part of the side. And so, the challenge for the team management as well as the selectors will be to ensure a smooth transition.
Hardik Pandya, who will lead the team in the three-match T20I series in New Zealand next week, is likely to be groomed as the next India captain in the shortest format. Pandya was the only player who looked up for a fight against England in the semifinals, where India – despite a star-studded line-up – did not have any response to the assault unleashed by Jos Buttler and Alex Hales.
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After the match on Thursday, Dravid was asked about the ageing Indian players and if they will remain a part of the plan for the next T20 World Cup cycle. "Well, it's too early to talk about it right now just after a semifinal game," Dravid replied. "These guys have been terrific performers for us. We have a couple of years to reflect on it. There are some really good quality players here, so absolutely not the right time to talk about this stuff or think about this stuff right now. We'll have enough games, enough matches as we go on ahead, and India will try and build and prepare for the next World Cup."
However, it is learnt that the selection committee might include a few new faces in the line-up. The committee is currently headed by former India international Chetan Sharma and has Sunil Joshi, Harvinder Singh and Debashish Mohanty as its members. The BCCI is yet to appoint a West Zone selector, despite the post being vacant for the last 10 months.
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Love is a basic human need. We want to do anything we can to help this festive season, and 100% of proceeds of this 'Love, love, love' print will be donated to Crisis UK. Crisis at Christmas gives homeless children and families good food, friendly company, healthcare and clean clothes, and help families and children facing homelessness.
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They are an EEA company that is providing services to a Netherlands company. If you fall into this category, you must outsource the administration of the candidate's remuneration to a Netherlands accountant. Unfortunately, you cannot normally apply for a Netherlands work permit if you are a Staff Agency / Recruitment company. You will have to provide a copy of the contract to provide services between the EEA company and the Dutch client.
The candidate must be paid more than the agreed minimum wage for the type of work being performed. Companies who fail to comply with this legislation are unlikely to be granted work permits for a further five years.


The marketing game is consistently evolving and changing, and has only continued to do so over time. Fliers and newspaper ads have been replaced by YouTube videos and the internet. In order to have a company that has even a remote chance of thriving, they must have a web presence. Cold calls themselves looked completely different 30 years ago, and remarkably enough, a hundred years ago they didn't even exist. There are countless obstacles that stand in your way as a salesperson, but as with any course, there are ways to get around and get through.
At Dialexis, we are committed to providing life-changing corporate training programs that can help you continue to grow your business and increase your revenue. Our cold call training has continued to show success for salespeople, and we would be honored to help you and your business. Take a look at some tips to make a difference in your cold call technique, and contact Dialexis to get the best sales training on the market.
Most people would agree that one of the most crucial things you can do to improve in any area is to practice. Yet there are parts of practicing that are often not included in the description, but are crucial to turning the concept into something great. For practice to be meaningful, it needs to be deliberate, performed consistently, and done with intention.
We know what deliberate practice looks like, and even more so, we know what it doesn't look like. As much as we wish we always looked like a Beethoven playing furiously at a piano or a LeBron diligently hitting lay-up after lay-up, we've all had those days where our practice is characteristically lackluster. While this is normal, this is without intention, and is not making a difference in our overall talents. The same can be said with practicing our cold call techniques, but fortunately, there are ways to get back into making our time deliberate.
Embrace the difficulty. We have a tendency to try to make things as enjoyable as possible, which is undoubtedly a skill in its own regard. Conversely, we sometimes find ourselves avoiding things that are challenging and not nearly as fun, forgetting that growth and learning are pretty difficult. It's important to understand that the purpose of practicing your cold call technique is not to have fun, it's a time for you to hone your skills and continue to grow. Having fun while you practice is a great bonus! But ultimately, the joy should come from the satisfaction in making your technique better, and helping your sales success in the long run.
Be receptive to feedback. At the basic level, you should find someone to listen to your cold call technique. In a more ideal situation, you would practice your technique with an experienced salesperson, someone who's in charge of a company, and someone in your life who you know can give you some solid honesty. The eternal metaphor for practice, sports is the perfect example of what it would be like if players did not receive any feedback. A coach's job is to help their players improve, and this cannot be accomplished without telling the athletes exactly what they need to do. In the same regard, in order to really become great, you need to always be ready to hear how you could get better.
Plan ahead. Play around with your sales pitch, write it up, rewrite it, and practice again and again until it feels natural. Have more than one version if necessary. In addition to having a sales pitch of what to say to clients, plan ahead by researching who you're talking to. If you're selling a product specific to food trucks, you wouldn't call an HVAC specialist (unless you wanted to waste your time). Figure out who you'll be talking to, prepare how you're going to approach them, and practice doing this again and again for each potential client until it feels natural.
Ultimately with your practicing, however, you want to come across as organic and natural-sounding as possible. When you practice your cold calling, practice with others in a way that's more of a formal conversation. Get comfortable with speaking authentically and succinctly, and your cold calling will only be set up for success from there.
Work on your warm call approach.
Use resources like LinkedIn or other business/social media platforms to make a connection before selling your pitch. As Forbes points out, one strategy involves sending "a brief email to introduce yourself and your company, which also mentions that you'll be calling in a couple of days." Through warm calling, you're building a connection first before trying to immediately make a sale—which will likely make a prospective client much more receptive to what you're trying to sell.
Provide limited choices to clients.
In an attempt to be polite, we often phrase things as an open-ended question, complete with the option to say "no." Instead of saying things like "Do you have a few minutes to talk?" or "Is there a time I can come in?" provide two options for the person to choose from. Try saying "Would now or this afternoon work to briefly chat?" or asking if the person would prefer you coming in on Monday or Tuesday. By presenting a limited number of choices, you are limiting the chance that the potential client will say no.
The Forbes article referenced earlier reports that "80% of sales happen AFTER the fifth contact attempt." People need to trust you as a salesperson, they work much better if a relationship has been established, and the truest and best connections take time. This could be the beginning of a highly beneficial partnership, which is why you should try your hardest to not get discouraged after the first attempt (or the second, or the third). Humans are kind of wonderful in this sense, in that our interactions with each other are meaningful in life and work, and pretty much everywhere in between. Keep this in mind with every cold call—focus on building a partnership, and recognize that this process is hardly immediate.
In order to improve, we must continue to learn and grow. The best way to keep getting better is to work with a corporate training program that is designed to help your cold calling and overall sales technique. Dialexis is known for its sales seminars, and our trainers will help you with live calls, and provide in-the-moment coaching and feedback. Keeping up on the cutting edge of sales trends, we remain at the forefront of the ever-evolving marketing and sales game. There's a reason we are known for having the best sales training when it comes to generating leads, and we would be honored to work with you.
Contact us to get started, and see the difference that Dialexis can make for your sales success and the growth of your business as a whole. And don't feel the need to take our word for it—see for yourself what our cold call training participants have to say about their experience with Dialexis. We look forward to working with you!


As part of its Mobility Management programme, Poste Italiane will in 2016 launch the Eco-Driving Pills project: an awareness raising initiative designed to encourage the postal operator's workforce to utilise more sustainable transport options and adopt eco-driving techniques.
Delivered via video, the training will be made available to all Poste Italiane personnel through the company's intranet portal. Participation in this programme will provide employees with a better awareness of environmental protection and sustainable mobility solutions in urban areas and the associated financial savings.
Based upon an internal analysis of employee commuting, eco-driving techniques may be applicable to 65% of Poste Italiane's workforce. This suggests that the initiative holds the potential to significantly reduce both air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions.
The Italian postal operator estimates that educating its employees on eco-driving techniques can achieve reductions in fuel consumption by up to 15%, as well as trimming associated emissions of CO2, NOX and PM10.
Furthermore, research has demonstrated that greater awareness of eco-driving positively impacts on long term behaviour. Initial results from Poste Italiane's Eco-Driving Pills training programme indicate that fuel consumption and associated carbon emissions decreased by an average of 6% over 30 days.