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New National Study: 1 in 4 Teachers Changing Lesson Plans Due to Anti-CRT Laws
Asher Lehrer-Small
In the first national study of how the GOP's classroom censorship policies have changed the teaching profession, thousands of educators expressed confusion over what they can and can't cover in lessons. Nearly 1 in 4 said they have altered their curricula so parents and officials won't find their teachings controversial.
Teachers said they had to skip over classic texts like To Kill a Mockingbird and avoid historical figures like famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass out of concern for parental complaints and possible legal blowback. One high school science teacher who the study quoted anonymously described an atmosphere of "fear and paranoia" around simply covering the content laid out within state standards.
The report, which was published by the Rand Corporation on Wednesday, surveyed over 8,000 educators from across the country. It asked whether officials had passed policies limiting the teaching of topics related to race and gender and, if so, how those rules had impacted their instructional decisions.
Confusion was so widespread, researchers found, that roughly one-quarter of teachers said they didn't know whether they were subject to restrictions. Among teachers working in states that had enacted classroom censorship bills, less than a third actually knew that the laws were in place.
"At times there is that confusion about, 'What am I allowed to say in the classroom, what am I not allowed to say?' " lead researcher Ashley Woo explained.
In Florida, where the state's censorship bill also extends to higher education and the workplace, and where Gov. Ron DeSantis recently blocked a forthcoming Advanced Placement course on African American studies, the state Department of Education rejected the idea that their law might be unclear to teachers.
"If educators are confused about what can and cannot be taught in Florida schools, the blame lies solely on media activists and union clowns who purposefully sow confusion and mislead the public," spokesperson Alex Lanfranconi wrote in an email to The 74.
Classroom censorship bills began to proliferate in 2021 as right-wing politicians advocated that schools overstepped in the measures they enacted in the wake of George Floyd's murder. As some districts added more books written by Black, Indigenous, Hispanic and Asian authors to their curricula and educated staff about how racism operates in society, predominantly white parents in many districts pushed back on the changes, calling them critical race theory.
Critical race theory is an academic framework used to examine systematic racism and is taught mostly in graduate school rather than K-12 classrooms. The term has become a GOP catch-all for lessons related to race. Americans largely support teachings that address racism, but support wanes drastically when the critical race theory label is applied, research shows.
Since 2021, legislation has been proposed in 42 states to curtail race- and gender-related teachings. In 18 states, the measures have passed into law, according to an Education Week tracker. In at least six states, the rules include penalties for educators or schools that do not comply.
Terrance Anfield teaches English as a second language in Kennesaw, Georgia, where a state law bans teachers from covering "divisive concepts."
"The very concepts that will allow the development of our students to become well-rounded, inclusive members of society are being omitted from the classroom for fear of offending the wrong person or committee. This should not be an issue that has involved the districts of Georgia because CRT is typically taught at the collegiate level," he wrote in an email to The 74.
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In the aftermath of those changes, 1 in 4 teachers nationally said their school or district leaders told them to limit discussions of political or social issues in class, a previous Rand study found in August.
The non-partisan think tank's most recent report now shows that a similar proportion of teachers, 24%, have altered their curricular materials in response to the controversy — regardless of whether or not they live in states that have classroom censorship laws on the books. Even in states with no rules limiting teachings on race and gender, 22% of instructors said the nationwide pushback influenced their selection of books and worksheets.
"The limitations are not just originating from state policies, they're also coming from other places," said Woo, the Rand researcher, explaining that educators frequently reported re-designing their offerings because of complaints from parents or "implicit" and "unspoken" messages from district leaders directing them to sanitize lessons.
Colin Sharkey, executive director of the Association of American Educators, emphasized that parents do have a right to transparency over what their students are learning. But at the same time, districts should avoid policies that have a "chilling effect" on educators, which can make schools "not a healthy place for learning," he said.
In the face of pushback, some teachers still expressed resistance to censorship policies. The survey included a free response section completed by about 1,450 educators. Nearly 1 in 5 said they are continuing to include lessons related to race and gender, and made no mention of efforts to make the teachings less contentious.
"My students are more important than any board policy. If I get in trouble, then it would be worth it," one educator wrote.
In a profession whose stress levels are paralleled only by doctors and nurses, navigating the supercharged climate has made educators' jobs "even more difficult and less attractive," in the words of one survey respondent, who teaches elementary school.
School staff may have their hands tied, caught between what is legal and what they think is right. A middle school science teacher said the school's LGBTQ students are "knowingly suffering and there is nothing I can do about it without risking my job."
In some cases, districts now require teachers to search for new classroom materials, go through cumbersome approval processes for new curricula or even run lessons by parents before leading them in the classroom, Woo explained. All those steps represent more work for teachers at a time when staff shortages already plague many states and districts across the country, she said.
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"All of these things are potentially adding more to teachers' plates in a time when we know teachers have already experienced a lot of stress," she said.
Moms for Liberty, a national organization that supports school board candidates pushing for limitations on race- and gender-related lessons, did not respond to requests for comment on whether these policies could worsen teacher burnout.
To district leaders, Woo said, one clear takeaway from the study should be that educators need additional support to comply with a changing legal and political landscape.
"Teachers cannot and should not have to shoulder these challenges on their own."
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Mark Carey
Professor of History and Environmental Studies
Director, Environmental Studies Program
carey@uoregon.edu | 541-346-8077 | 327 Chapman Hall
Fall 2020 Office Hours:
Tuesdays: 3:00-5:00 p.m. drop-in
Wednesdays: 3:45-5:00 p.m. by appointment
Thursdays: 10:00-10:45 a.m. for advising
• Curriculum Vitae
• Glacier Lab Research Website
• Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples Initiative Website
• Glaciers and Society Online Resources and Bibliography
ACADEMIC AREAS: Glaciers, Climate Change, Natural Disasters, Water Governance, Environmental History, History of Science
Professor Carey's courses bring a critical but often overlooked historical perspective to key present-day environmental issues, from water management and climate change to natural resource extraction and indigenous knowledge. His underlying goals focus on inspiring curiosity and creativity, sharpening critical analysis of everything from historical texts to today's news, refining writing skills, and teaching students to communicate new ideas and arguments.
Professor Carey's mentoring and training also goes far beyond the classroom, such as through his Glacier Lab. He was recognized for this mentoring of Clark Honors College students by winning the UO's 2015 Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award and the 2019 Faculty Research Mentor Award.
HC 231H Science, Technology, and Environment in the Pre-Columbian Americas
HC 231H Nature and Knowledge from the Greeks to the Aztecs
HC 232H Environment and Empire in the Modern World
HC 434H/431H Climate and Culture from the Arctic to the Andes
HC 434H/431H Inside Out Prison Exchange: Water, Climate, and Environmental Justice
Professor Carey hires honors college students as Research Assistants every year in his Glacier Lab, giving them valuable research opportunities on a variety of topics - from field work on glaciers and water in Peru, to library and web research on national parks, to website design for disseminating research results. He has co-authored articles with students that have been published in journals like Nature Climate Change and Progress in Human Geography, just to give a couple examples.
Professor Carey's Glacier Lab facilitates this work, bringing together undergraduate and graduate students, along with post-doctoral fellows and faculty, to study on projects ranging from the societal effect of melting glaciers in the Andes, to the history of ice coring in Antarctica, and iceberg monitoring in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Undergraduate students interested in joining the Glacier Lab should contact Professor Carey via email. There are opportunities for undergraduate students to work as research assistants nearly every summer and often during the academic year.
Graduate students in the Glacier Lab currently come from history, geography, and environmental studies. I am always interested in working with graduate students who want to explore the societal dimensions of glaciers and icebergs. My research has focused on people and glaciers in the Andes and on the societal side of icebergs in the North Atlantic (Greenland and Newfoundland). But I am open to working with students in other world regions, too, particularly if there are strong community and/or interdisciplinary approaches.
Carey's courses also provide unique opportunities for students, such as his course on "Climate and Culture in the Americas" in which all students present their research projects at a public student conference Carey co-organizes with Kathy Lynn (UO Environmental Studies) on Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change.
Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow, Geography Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2005-2006
Ph.D., Latin American and Environmental History, University of California - Davis, 2005
M.A., Latin American and Environmental History, University of Montana - Missoula, 1998
B.A., History, State University of New York College at Potsdam, 1991
Professor Carey is currently the director of the UO Environmental Studies Program. He also served for two-and-a-half years as associate dean of the Clark Honors College. In addition to his position in the honors college, he is a core faculty member of the environmental studies program and has affiliated appointments in history, Latin American studies, and international studies.
Research Interests & Current Projects
Professor Carey's initial research was on Latin American environmental history, particularly on climate history and glacier disasters in the Peruvian Andes. This work culminated in his book, In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society, which won the Elinor Melville Prize for best book in Latin American environmental history. More recently, his work has analyzed glaciers, climate change, water, and indigenous knowledge in high-mountains globally and in the Polar Regions, particularly Greenland and Antarctica. Carey was also a contributing author for chapters of the 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fifth assessment report and the 2019 IPCC Special Report on Oceans and the Cryosphere.
Careyis currently involved in several research, teaching, and campus projects, including:
The Glacier Lab for the Study of Ice and Society: Carey's research group consisting of graduate students and undergraduates (and postdocs at times) working on various aspects of glaciers, icebergs, and societies from the Andes to the Arctic and beyond.
The Impact of Oceanic Forcing on the Melting of West Antarctic Peninsula Glaciers: A collaborative research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Glaciers and Glaciology: How Nature, Field Research, and Societal Forces Shape the Earth Sciences: A five-year research project funded by an NSF CAREER grant.
Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples Initiative: Run by Carey and co-director Kathy Lynn since 2012 to provide annual public events and to engage and involve UO students in issues of tribal sovereignty, traditional knowledges, and climate-induced change among Indigenous peoples. Teaching innovations from this initiative have recently been published in the book Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities.
Transdisciplinary Andean Research Network (TARN): Co-founded and co-directed by Carey to examine integrated physical and human dimensions of environmental change in glacierized landscapes. Read more about this project in the journal Nature and EcoAmericas.
Glaciers and Society—the Humanity Behind the Melt: Carey's online resources for detailed information about the humanity of mountain glaciers and polar icebergs. There are extensive K-12 teaching resources provided as well.
2019: Faculty Research Mentor Award, Center for Undergraduate Research and Engagement
2018: King Albert Mountain Award, King Albert I Memorial Foundation, Switzerland
2016: University of Oregon Fund for Faculty Excellence Award
2015: University of Oregon Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award
2013: University of Oregon Early Research Career Award/Research Excellence Award
2013: Faculty Excellence Award from the Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence
2011: Elinor Melville Prize for the Best Book in Latin American Environmental History
2011: SONY Scholar Award, University of Oregon
2009: "Rising Star" Outstanding Faculty Award, Virginia State Council of Higher Education
2007: Leopold-Hidy Prize for best article in the journal Environmental History
2007: Social Science Research Council Book Fellowship
Major Grants
2016 - 2019: National Science Foundation, "Collaborative Research: The Impact of Oceanic Forcing on the Melting of West Antarctic Peninsula Glaciers," Grant in Polar Programs, Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (with David Sutherland, University of Oregon; Carlos Moffat, University of California, Santa Cruz; Eugene W. Domack, University of South Florida; John M. Klinck, Old Dominion University; Michael Dinniman, Old Dominion University)
2013 - 2018: National Science Foundation, "CAREER: Glaciers and Glaciology: How Nature, Field Research, and Societal Forces Shape the Earth Sciences," Grant in Science, Technology, and Society
2010 - 2013: National Science Foundation, "Collaborative Research: Hydrologic Transformation and Human Resilience to Climate Change in the Peruvian Andes," Grant in Coupled Natural and Human Systems, (with Jeff Bury, University of California – Santa Cruz; Bryan Mark, Ohio State University; and Kenneth Young, University of Texas – Austin)
2008 - 2010: National Science Foundation, "Glacier Science and Technology in the Central Andes," Grant in Science, Technology, and Society
For a complete list of publication click here or see Professor Carey's Curriculum Vitae.
2015, The High-Mountain Cryosphere: Environmental Changes and Human Risks (edited by Christian Huggel, Mark Carey, John J. Clague, and Andreas Kääb), Cambridge University Press.
2014, Glaciares, Cambio Climático y Desastres Naturales: Ciencia y Sociedad en el Perú (Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos/Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima).
2010, In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society (Oxford University Press).
2019, Henry P. Huntington, Mark Carey, Charlene Apok, Bruce C. Forbes, Shari Fox, Lene K. Holm, Aitalina Ivanova, Jacob Jaypoody, George Noongwook, Florian Stammler, "Climate change in context: putting people first in the Arctic," Regional Environmental Change, 19: pgs. 1217–1223.
2019, Christian Huggel, Veruska Muccione, Mark Carey, Rachel James, Christine Jurt, and Reinhard Mechler, "Loss and Damage in the mountain cryosphere," Regional Environmental Change, 19, no. 5: pgs. 1387–1399.
2018, Mathias Vuille, Mark Carey, Christian Huggel, Wouter Buytaert, Antoine Rabatel, Dean Jacobsen, Alvaro Soruco, Marcos Villacis, Christian Yarleque, Oliver Elison Timm, Thomas Condom, Nadine Salzmann, Jean-Emmanuel Sicart, "Rapid decline of snow and ice in the tropical Andes — Impacts, uncertainties and challenges ahead," Earth-Science Reviews, 176: pgs. 195-213.
2017, Alessandro Antonello and Mark Carey, "Ice Cores and the Temporalities of the Global Environment," Environmental Humanities, 9, No. 2: pgs 181-203.
2017, Mark Carey, Olivia Molden, Mattias Rasmussen, M Jackson, Anne Nolin, and Bryan Mark, "Impacts of Glacier Recession and Declining Meltwater on Mountain Societies," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 107, No 2: pgs. 350-359.
Recent Book Chapters
2018, Mark Carey, "Regando el desierto, alimentando la revolución: La influencia de Velasco en las leyes del agua y la agricultura en la costa norte del Perú (Chavimochic)," trans., Fernando Purcell, in La revolución peculiar: Repensando el gobierno militar de Velasco (edited by Carlos Aguirre and Paulo Drinot), Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos: pgs. 319-352.
2017, Rodney Garrard and Mark Carey, "Beyond Images of Melting Ice: Hidden Stories of People, Place, and Time in Repeat Photography of Glaciers," Before-and-After Photography: Histories and Contexts (edited by Jordan Bear and Kate Palmer Albers), New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press.
2017, Mark Carey, "Watering the Desert, Feeding the Revolution: Velasco's Influence on Water Law and Agriculture on Peru's North-Central Coast (Chavimochic)," The Peculiar Revolution: Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment under Military Rule (edited by Carlos Aguirre and Paulo Drinot), Austin: University of Texas Press: pgs. 241-265.
2016, Mark Carey, Kathy Lynn, Kevin Hatfield, and Jennifer O'Neal, "Teaching about Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: Decolonizing Research and Broadening Knowledge," Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities (edited by Stephen Siperstein, Shane Hall, and Stephanie LeMenager), New York: Routledge: pgs. 86-93.
2016, Mark Carey, "The Trouble with Climate Change and National Parks," National Parks Beyond the Nation: Global Perspectives on "America's Best Idea" (edited by Adrian Howkins, Jared Orsi, and Mark Fiege), Norman: University of Oklahoma Press: pgs. 258-277.
2015, Mark Carey, Graham McDowell, Christian Huggel, M Jackson, César Portocarrero, John Reynolds, and Luis Vicuña, "Integrated Approaches to Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Dynamic Socio-cryospheric Systems," Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters (edited by Wilfried Haeberli and Colin Whiteman), Amsterdam: Elsevier: pgs. 339-353.
Faculty Awards and Accomplishments

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import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.ClipData;
import android.content.ClipboardManager;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.pm.PackageInfo;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Environment;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.IBinder;
import android.telephony.TelephonyManager;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager;
import android.widget.EditText;

import com.zyw.horrarndoo.sdk.global.GlobalApplication;

import java.io.File;

/**
 * Created by Horrarndoo on 2017/8/31.
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public class AppUtils {

    /**
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        return GlobalApplication.getContext();
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    /**
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            Log.e("VersionInfo", "Exception", e);
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    @SuppressLint("MissingPermission")
    public static String getIMEI(Context context) {
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                    IBinder token = view.getWindowToken();
                    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activity
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    }

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            r.run();
        } else {
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        }
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DAVID LIMBAUGH'S COLUMN ON RACISM
Syndicated columnist David Limbaugh (yes, he is Rush Limbaugh's brother) has written an absolutely excellent column on racism – specifically the feeling of so many on the left that they have free rein to engage in racism, since they're "the good guys". Here is a small excerpt, which references the disgusting comments made by Melissa Harris-Perry and her...
EZRA KLEIN'S DEPARTURE FROM THE WASHINGTON POST
Is Ezra Klein, the left-wing boy wonder of the Washington Post, leaving? Is it because he is having a hissy-fit over new owner Jeff Bezos's decision not to fund an internet domain for him to expound his wholly leftward views more exclusively than down with the peasants at his newspaper? Excerpted from Warner Todd Huston's article at breitbart.com: As new owner Jeff Bezos begins his...
OBAMACARNAGE: THE WAR ON BABIES
Apparently it is not enough that ObamaCare forces every policyholder to pay for contraception services. If you don't use those services, it also makes it difficult to add a newborn child to their coverage. Can this possibly be? Well, read the following excerpt from Ricardo Alonzo-Zalvidar's article for the Associated Press, and you tell me: There's another quirk in the...
OBAMACARNAGE: THE REALIZATION TOUR STARTS
ObamCare has commenced….with a swift kick in the labonza to the middle class. Excerpted from Jacqueline Leo's article for the Fiscal Times: ObamaCare has delivered another sucker punch to the middle class. This time it's sticker shock. Now that most people can get past the tech problems of HealthCare.gov and actually see the real cost of insurance plans available, they are...
BOB GRANT R. I. P.
Bob Grant, one of the true pioneers of talk radio, has passed away at the age of 84. Though he had been ill for some time, initial reports do not mention the specific cause of death. Grant started in radio during the late 1940's. He became a full time talk show host in 1964, when he replaced the controversial, take-no-prisoners right winger, Joe Pine, at KABC in Los Angeles. Grant...
Today's quote comes to us from John Ransom, writing for townhall.com. Here, among a lot of other worthwhile commentary, is what he has to say about ObamaCare: try to count the number of lies the White House– and the Democrat leadership– has tried to tell you to support Obamacare. Yes, the Obamacare that isn't providing more coverage; the Obamacare that isn't...
Yesterday we saw the much-heralded new Martin Scorcese film, The Wolf Of Wall Street. It was very entertaining – enough to keep me awake after a very long New Years' Eve night, then morning. And that wasn't easy, believe me. The acting? Excellent. Leonardo DiCaprio (a favorite of Scorcese's, not mine) gave the best performance I have seen from him. And the young (23...
THE OBEIDALLAH WHINE-FEST
At least Melissa Harris-Perry had the sense to apologize for the obnoxious, snarky taunting, by her and her panel on (where else?) MSNBC, about Mitt Romney's family picture, which included its latest addition – an adopted Black child – and leave it at that. But not panelist and so-called "comedian" David Obeidallah, who tastelessly used the child to insult...
THE DE BLASIO ERA STARTS…AS EXPECTED
Did you catch any of the speeches during Bill de Blasio's inaugural as Mayor of New York City – including his own? It was exactly what should have been expected, given Mr. de Blasio's politics: a feast of hard-line, far left rhetoric, complete with attack after attack on the Bloomberg administration, as outgoing three-term Mayor Mike Bloomberg sat in the audience...
RAPE AND REALITY
I just read a very interesting, very courageous article about rape, written by The Daily Mail's Sarah Vine. I call it courageous because Ms. Vine said something that. while 100% true, is attacked every time it is pointed out. Here, let me show you via the following excerpts: Sex without consent, whatever the circumstances, is always a crime. Whether a woman is drunk, sober, unconscious...
BENGHAZI: A REMINDER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Now that most people – other than the "it's a phony scandal" purveyors and their dupes- have derided the New York Times' claim that the Benghazi massacre was a spontaneous attack, largely due to anger over an obscure video, which had nothing to al-Qaeda or its terrorist pals, I thought you would like to see this excerpt, pulled from an article at politico.com...
BARACK OBAMA'S "WAR ON THE POOR"?
Everyone knows that Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats love to help people in need. The proof? They are engaged in an intense effort to give them benefits like longer periods of unemployment insurance and higher minimum wages. But are these benefits really that wonderful? Michael Tanner doesn't think so. He thinks they constitute a "war on the poor". And...
MSNBC: THE YEAR IN VIDEO
The folks at Washington Free Beacon have put together a condensed version of MSNBC's year in review, in the form of a 72 second video: Click here to see it. I'd end by saying "enjoy"… but I'm not sure that word actually fits. It's more like you won't know whether to laugh at, cry at, or just shake your head in amazement.


Everyone with a website wants to eventually make money online, but they might not know the power of combining off page optimization with on page optimization. If you don't know what these are, I will tell you!
On page optimization is the act of optimizing your website so the search engines can evaluate your pages and know exactly what you're all about. Off page optimization is the act of building backlinks and buzz for your website across the internet in hopes of increasing your rankings within the search engines results pages. If you're doing on page optimization, and not off page optimization, you won't be ranking anytime soon because Google and the other search engines won't be able to gauge your popularity. Yes, Google basically has a popularity contest and to win it you need to have the best backlinks paired up with proper on-page optimization and high authority.
To increase your popularity, also known as your authority, within the search engines you will need to get high authority backlinks from 3rd party websites. These backlinks will help you gain authority because they will pass a bit of their own to you if you are getting do follow backlinks from them. If they are giving you a nofollow backlink, it won't help you out too much because it's basically telling the search engine spiders to stop at that link and go no further, so the search engines won't be able to see that your website is given a vote of confidence by the 3rd party website.
Why do I need on page optimization exactly?
You actually don't need on page optimization at all, unless you want to rank well in the search engines. Some of you may be saying "My competition isn't doing it, why should I be doing it?" and that's simply because you never know when you're going to have a new competitor on the horizon who comes out of nowhere and takes all the traffic from the search engines. This traffic could have all been yours if you just did the on-page optimization in the beginning.
On page optimization isn't actually that difficult after you get the hang of it. I would say that it'll take you a few pages before you realize what to do as you set the page up, so you don't have to come back and edit anything. Top SEO's will do their on-page optimization as they build the page because it means they don't have to back peddle in order to fix something or add additional information.
My competition isn't doing it, why should I be doing it?
Why do I need off page optimization?
Having off page optimization is pretty much how you build buzz about your website. If you're posting to blogs, forums, social media platforms and various other platforms, you're doing off page optimization. This of it this way, if you drop a link on a website that is not yours in hopes of getting a sale from it, you're doing off page optimization!
There are plenty of ways to actually mess this up, so if you aren't familiar with all the techniques to build backlinks and create buzz for your website, I would highly suggest you outsource the work to a credible company who will avoid any sort of penalty that you might get if you did everything yourself.
Why do I need both in order to get top rankings?
Doing just on page optimization or off page optimization might help you get ranked for a few keywords if you're in a low competition niche, but it doesn't work that way too often. By pairing both on page and off page optimization you are doing a 1-2 punch to your SEO, which is a good thing. You are optimizing your pages so the search engines know what you're all about and you're building up your authority and popularity which won't go unnoticed by the search engines, and they will rank you higher and higher within the SERPs (search engine results pages) over time.
You won't get ranked #1 right away, you'll still need to be trusted by the search engines before you see first page rankings. The time it takes to get ranked on the first page is unknown because the algorithms that do this are highly protected, and also because no niche is created equal, meaning that each niche will be either more difficult or less difficult to rank a website in when you're doing SEO.
You will need to be doing both on page optimization as well as off page optimization for your website in order to gain top rankings and funnel all the traffic you possibly can to your website. The more traffic you get to your website, the more chances you get to capture a sale or a sign up. Doing just one of these won't do much, you definitely need to be doing both on page optimization and off page optimization in order to overtake your competition.
If you're worried about messing something up and getting penalized by the search engines, you can always outsource this work to a credible company and not worry about anything.


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Monday 30 January. Maximum daytime temperature: 32 degrees Celsius; Minimum nighttime temperature: 25 degrees Celsius. Cloudy changing to light rain by lunchtime. Sunrise: 07:36; Sunset: 19:29. UV: Very high;
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Thurrock graduate to perform dissertation piece at National Student Drama Festival
THURROCK university graduate to perform dissertation piece at National Student Drama Festival
A Buckinghamshire New University Performing Arts graduate from Chafford Hundred, Thurrock, will take to the stage at the National Student Drama Festival in Scarborough next week (19-25 March) after her dissertation piece was selected to take part.
Modupe Salu, 21,of Grenville Road, Chafford Hundred, will perform I Can't Breathe, a personal reflection on issues of race-related violence and cultural prejudice, to audiences at the week-long festival.
The graduate, who completed a degree in BA (Hons) Performing Arts (Film, TV and Stage) at Bucks New University, in High Wycombe, will perform the piece four times and also take part in workshops with visitors. The Festival is a celebration of young talent and an introduction to the industry, organised with The Sunday Times.
Modupe, who attended Harris Academy Chafford Hundred and Havering Sixth Form College, said: "I put so much hard work into my dissertation piece and this is a massive opportunity to showcase myself to audiences including lots of influential people in the industry.
"I never thought my dissertation would take me to where it has and now I am extremely excited about what the future may hold, starting with the National Student Drama Festival.
"My time at Bucks New University allowed me to explore a range of new skills and I made a lot of contacts, as well as some life-long friends, so now I am looking to progress my career."
During her time at Bucks New University Modupe performed also I Can't Breathe at The Courtyard Theatre in London. She will be joined by Dr Nic Fryer, Course Leader for BA (Hons) Performing Arts (Film, TV and Stage), and fellow graduates Jenny Wade and Adam Zaman, who are attending and supporting her at the Festival. Modupe is also now attending Identity School of Acting in London.
Dr Fryer said: "We are all very proud of Modupe, who is an amazing performer and has worked extremely hard for this opportunity. It is great to think that her dissertation piece has already created such a great impression."
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Over the centuries, naval kinfolk among Japan and Korea seem to have alternated among peaceable exchange and outright hostility. even though, this influence should be deceptive, as a lot of what handed for mercantile task was once in truth carried out via eastern pirate fleets, who pillaged the coasts of Korea and China in an enduring culture that culminated within the maximum pirate raid of all: Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea in 1592. This was once the clash that concerned Ming China and virtually dragged in Siam. It additionally ended in Korea constructing East Asia's most famed warship: the mythical turtle send, that is defined for the 1st time in complete technical aspect during this publication.
There have been many parts to British Napoleonic naval luck yet one of many key elements used to be gunnery. different nations built diversified naval guns to slot their maritime innovations. The French and Spanish structures built on related traces, whereas these of the Baltic navies tended to depend upon smaller craft and guns. Holland, in this interval, used to be a part of the French sphere of impression and this had an impact at the improvement of its naval guns. This identify describes the platforms of these kind of international locations in addition to the fledgling army of the USA, whose gunnery talents embarrassed the Royal army on the peak in their dominance.
Even though the interval among the top of the Napoleonic Wars and the Crimean warfare has been known as 'the lengthy peace', so far as the British military (and the Honourable East India corporation) have been involved, it was once to determine a nearly continuous sequence of campaigns and expeditions the world over. such a lot have been fought within the defence, or extra enlargement, of the British Empire. this primary of 4 volumes by way of Michael Barthorp detailing the British military on crusade from 1815-1902, centres at the campaigns within the eventful interval from 1816-53: the regiments which took half; the strategies hired; and the altering nature of uniforms and equipment.
Having fought his method from slave hard work on a manufacturing unit global to commander of the everlasting Emperor's bodyguard, the main harmful guns Sten has encountered in major international are the lies of court docket politicians. whilst a bomb is going off, in spite of the fact that, he discovers the chance and corruption in the back of courtroom intrigue.
Osprey's examine of the 1st Persian invasion of Greece in 490 BC. the tale of the Marathon crusade is an epic of the traditional global. whilst the Ionian Greeks revolted opposed to their Persian overlords in 499 BC, the towns of Athens and Eretria got here to their relief. The Persian King Darius swore vengeance and in 490BC a fleet of six hundred ships choked with troops was once despatched to take revenge at the Athenians. At Marathon the Greeks met the Persians in conflict and drove them in rout again to their ships. the ethical impact of this victory was once huge, immense – for the 1st time a Greek military had defeated the Persians and tested the prevalence of hoplite strategies.
From 1941 to 1943 it was once the Germans. Then it was once the flip of the British. Come the chilly conflict, he is conning McCarthy. Now he is going nose to nose with the L.A. mob. For high-stakes con artist Luis Cabrillo, as soon as often called Eldorado, the million-dollar secret agent, difficulty is rarely distant. And while he and his corker-of-a-New-Yorker squeeze, Julie Conroy, run into the cream of l. a.' shady part, the result's a heady brew of disorganised crime, scorching funds, triple virgins and lifeless our bodies within the begonias. The fourth and ultimate Luis Cabrillo novel is yet one more fiendishly plotted rollercoaster experience of wit and wisecracking, because the moment international War's so much bold and audacious secret agent reveals that outdated behavior die challenging, even in peacetime.
This is the autobiography of a great fighter pilot in the course of his twenty yr occupation with the Royal Air strength. Tony Doyle first flew whilst within the CCF the place he complted a glider direction after which a highly-prized Flying Scholarship. This opened how to becoming a member of the RAF and changing into an all-weather tactical fighter pilot flying de Havilland Vampires and Gloster Meteors. At this he excelled and used to be published as a flying teacher after which employees teacher. This was once the age while the Jet Provost was once the normal education plane. in the course of 1962 he used to be chosen to fly with the newly shaped crimson Pelicans aerobatic reveal group and honed his abilities as a demonstrate pilot. Tony moved to RAF Valley because the new Folland Gnat was once being brought within the education function. This diminutive plane was once a bit of of a leap forward and after ironing out numerous layout difficulties it proved a great plane, being quick and agile. most people have been desirous to see this new RAF addition and Tony grew to become its show pilot, flying at open days during the united kingdom and Europe. In 1964 Tony switched over to the English electrical Lightning, Britain's one and basically supersonic fighter, with a best pace in way over Mach 2 and a ceiling of 50,000 toes. He used to be published to Treble One Squadron at Wattisham in October 1964 as a part of the fast response Alert strength opposed to power Russian bomber assaults. once more he grew to become the Lightning's selected low-level demonstrate pilot and established it on the 1965 Paris Air convey. presently after this he used to be pressured to eject over the North Cornish coast after an engine explosion reason the lack of elevator keep watch over.
This interesting account of front-line and show flying is going into massive element of the aerodynamic characteristics of the categories flown, their hazards and merits. there are lots of life-threatening incidents and successes that would train someone who's drawn to flying on the very edge.
#1 ny instances bestselling phenomenon Tom Clancy delivers an all-new, unique novel, Op middle: Divide and Conquer.Shadowy parts in the kingdom division secretly reason tensions to flare among Iran and the previous Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. They wish to begin a capturing struggle to extend their very own energy and profit.At an analogous time, the conspirators choose to up the ante - through deposing the president of the us. In a treacherous scheme, they persuade the president that he's mentally risky, and a silent coup d'etat is inside of their reach.Now, Paul Hood and the individuals of Op-Center needs to race opposed to the clock to avoid the outbreak of battle, keep the consideration of the president - and disclose the traitors.
On sixteen may perhaps 1943, nineteen Lancaster bomber crews accrued at a distant RAF station in Lincolnshire for a venture of outstanding bold and excessive probability - an evening raid on 3 the most important and seriously defended dams deep within the German business heartland. The raiders must fly throughout occupied Europe at a perilously low point and drop their bombs at an insignificant 60 ft above the water to smash the dam partitions. 8 planes by no means back. Bestselling writer Max Arthur has amassed jointly first-hand money owed of the education, guidance, experimentation and the raid itself, and the feel of vacancy and loss at RAF Scampton while fifty six males did not go back. From RAF group of workers to German civilians who witnessed the raid, this landmark oral heritage assortment paints a relocating and private photograph of 1 of the main recognized operations of the second one global struggle.
At the winning of entirety of the warfare of Independence, the yankee military was once disbanded, and it was once now not till the overdue 1790s normal naval strength was once reconstituted. Provoked via the necessity to safeguard American service provider delivery from the belligerent ecu countries and the piratical Barbary powers, Congress selected a programme of frigate development, which integrated the 32-gun frigate Essex. Designed through William Hackett, Essex used to be a customary medium frigate of her time. operating from either US and British assets, the writer has reconstructed many formerly undetermined information of the send and in passing has rehabilitated the acceptance of the fashion designer as one that was once chargeable for the best balanced of that generation's frigates.


At the time, Page Six reported: Model turned media mogul Tyra Banks swung the ax at her longtime America's Next Top Model co-stars J.
Alexander as "runway coach and diva extraordinaire." Since the fifth season of the show, Miss J. He was no-nonsense when it came to coaching the models on their runway walks, but there was always something outsize about his personality.
He could add one layer of frill for every eliminated model to a ruffled collar he wore to judging sessions, and it would simultaneously look outrageous and serious.
Miss J.'s presence has been missed since the 19th season of the show, which premiered back in 2012.
As he returns for the 21st season, one question remains: Why did Miss J.
Alexander leave America's Next Top Model in the first place? He was kicked out during a house-cleaning that eliminated some of the most famous faces regularly on the show.
We will continue to actively work with each of them on future projects." As of this writing, Miss J.
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Rome, "the eternal city" is filled with over 2500 years of history, magnificent buildings, and amazing gelato! It is no wonder that it is one of the top destinations in the world. If you want to experience Italian culture, Rome is where you want to be!
From Galileo to Gucci, Italians have shaped the world. However, few see past their amazing history and culture to recognize that today, there is huge need for the Gospel. While 90% of Italy claims to be Catholic, fewer than 10% attend church more than once a year. Protestant churches are split, weak, and independent in the post-Christian, humanistic culture.
To the average Italian college student, Christianity is irrelevant and churches are for tourists and old people. Cru is bringing the light of Jesus to future world-shapers on university campuses in Rome.
You will learn how to share your faith cross-culturally and build relationships with local Italian students. The training and experience you'll receive this summer will equip you for a lifetime of ministry.
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Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government will hold the much-awaited panchayat elections in the next few months, with the State Cabinet clearing the proposal on Wednesday. The last panchayat elections were held in October 2000. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah chaired the Cabinet meeting here on Wednesday and accepted a report given by a Cabinet sub-committee constituted to look into various issues, including the 73rd amendment to the Constitution. An official spokesman said it was agreed to hold three-tier panchayat polls in accordance with the existing law. However, a senior Minister said the decision was taken within the spirit of the 73rd amendment. Poll process "It [Cabinet] also approved holding of panchayat polls on a non-party basis and said the election process should be completed by May 2011. It was also decided that the schedule for these polls will be worked out in consultation with the Chief Electoral Officer of the State," the spokesman said.


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Q: is possible work with 2 schedule with the same Timer Can I do this ? is possible work with 2 schedule with the same Timer ?
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any help is appreciated!
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A: Yes you can. But keep in mind that Timer object is a single background thread that is used to execute all of the timer's tasks, sequentially. Timer tasks should complete quickly. If a timer task takes excessive time to complete, it "hogs" the timer's task execution thread. This can, in turn, delay the execution of subsequent tasks, which may "bunch up" and execute in rapid succession when (and if) the offending task finally completes.
Note that since Java 1.5 there is no reason to use Timer, use java.util.concurrent package schedulers instead. From ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor API:
This class is preferable to Timer when multiple worker threads are needed...

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Question: People have differing sensitivity. Is there a chance that someone will not be able to integrate into unity that emerges during the workshops?
Answer: It is almost impossible because people who are sitting in a circle together become infected by each other. And that is why the most insensitive of them gets gentleness, tenderness, and sensitivity from the others, and the most sensitive one becomes balanced by others. Everything reaches a common denominator.
They do not have anything personal because everything changes into the collective. You say that some of them feel in this way and someone else in a different way. There is no longer "someone"—each of them includes all the others into himself.


Wu Xiaohui, the former car insurance salesman who turned Anbang Group into one of China's biggest insurers and largest asset buyers, has been put on trial in Shanghai, the first of the nation's major entrepreneurs to be prosecuted in a government crackdown on freewheeling deal makers.
Wu, who was removed from his post as Anbang chairman by the Chinese insurance regulator on February 23, appeared at the No. 1 Intermediate People's Court in Shanghai, according to a live telecast of the proceedings via China's Weibo social network.
He has been charged with illegal fundraising, fraud valued at US$10.4 billion, and embezzling US$1.6 billion from Anbang's insurance premium income, which severely damaged "the safety of investors' capital," and "crushed national financial security," according to the prosecutor.
Wu has contested all the charges and is defending himself. The one-day trial, which started at 10am and ended at 7pm, could take up to three months before delivering a verdict, according to the norms of China's public trials.
Wu appeared in court in a suit, with more than 50 people in attendance, including his family members, delegates from the legislature the National People's Congress and the media, according to the Weibo report.
Outside the courthouse in the city's Changning district, security was lax, with overseas and local reporters gathering to await the trial's verdict.
The court case closes a chapter in a series of investigations that have been mounted on Anbang and a handful of China's biggest overseas asset buyers – known in China as "crocodiles" – since June 2017, in a government programme to pare back leveraged buyouts and rein in financial malfeasance.
Besides Wu, other tycoons including Xiao Jianhua, the founder and chairman of the sprawling financial conglomerate Tomorrow Holdings, are also waiting for Beijing to determine their destiny.
Under Wu's orders, Anbang had raised capital through selling wealth management insurance policies to 10.56 million policy holders, exceeding the regulator's approved quota by 723.87 billion yuan (US$115.04 billion), according to the court.
An estimated 65.25 billion yuan of funds were diverted to Wu's personal accounts for paying debt and for spending, the court heard, while another 10 billion yuan worth of insurance premium income was transferred to his personal company under Wu's instructions in 2007 and 2011, according to prosecutors.
In his own defence, Wu objected to the facts cited in his charges, saying he did not understand Chinese law, and that he did not know whether his actions constituted crimes that could be punishable, according to the Weibo report. He acknowledged receiving the regulator's notice, but disputed that Anbang had breached the regulatory quota.
A crime involving such financial magnitude could result in life imprisonment, said Benben Law Firm's Liu Guohua in Guangzhou, who isn't involved in the case, making a comment based on case law and precedents.
Regulators in banking, securities and insurance have worked together in cracking down on insurance policies with guaranteed returns – or wealth management products, of which Anbang is among the biggest sellers – that were used as war chests to finance hostile takeovers and acquisitions.
Anbang itself has been put under the ward of the state for at least a year since Wu's downfall, with a team led by the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) taking over the company's daily operations. The regulator has the option to extend its supervision by another year, and will seek new investors to take it over.
Anbang, founded in 2004, had grown from a seller of car insurance into one of China's largest insurance providers, creating a giant with more than 800 billion yuan in assets in a little over a decade.
That explosion in assets was fuelled by fraudulent financial statements, and breaches of the insurance regulator's risk management benchmarks, according to a charge sheet on the Shanghai court's website.
It leapt into the global limelight in 2014 with a US$2 billion acquisition of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York from the Blackstone Group. Two years later, it made an unsolicited US$14 billion bid to buy Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, mounting a takeover battle against the Marriott Group, which the Chinese company eventually conceded.
Between 2012 and 2016, Anbang had been involved in 14 acquisitions valued at US$25.22 billion. The shopping spree stopped in June when Wu was placed under investigation.


A woman in Donegal whose house was burgled had to collect a member of the gardaí and bring him to the crime scene last week, it has emerged.
TAOISEACH ENDA KENNY has said that he will raise the issue of a woman who drove a member of the gardaí to a crime scene because he did not have a patrol car to drive himself with the Minister for Justice Alan Shatter.
Kenny was speaking in the Dáil this morning after Sinn Féin TD Pádraig Mac Lochlainn raised the issue of the woman in his constituency of Donegal North East whose home had been burgled.
The woman contacted gardaí at her local station in Newtowncunningham but was told that the garda officer on duty had no mode of transport. She offered to collect the officer and bring him to her home which he agreed to.
She then drove the mile from her house to the station and brought the officer back to the scene to investigate the burglary.
The story is carried in today's Irish Times and Irish Examiner and was raised by Mac Lochlainn during Leaders' Questions in the Dáil who cited wider concerns about cutbacks in An Garda Siochana.
He called for an urgent review by the Minister for Justice of these cutbacks and called for the implementation of a plan to "reassure rural communities in particular".
"This is a matter that the Minister for Justice is obviously in contact with the Garda Commissioner about," Kenny told the Dáil.
Kenny asked the Sinn Féin deputy to send him details of the particular case which happened last week and promised to take it up with the Justice Minister and the Garda Commissioner.
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Q 1. Let's start with a simple one. Which Hogwarts House does Harry belong to?
Q 2. Can you remember on which street the Dursleys live?
Q 3. Which of the following is NOT a Quidditch term?
Q 4. Which of the following is the name of the fourth Harry Potter book?
Q 5. What is the name of the magical room in Hogwarts that transforms into the place you need the most?
Q 6. What position does Harry play on the Gryffindor Quidditch team?
Q 7. What is special about the Weasley clock?
There is nothing special about it.
It tells you where the Weasleys are.
It can predict the future.
It allows you to read people's minds.
Q 8. There are heaps of ghouls and ghosts throughout Hogwarts. Which of the following is a poltergeist and is NOT a ghost?
Q 9. What is Arthur Weasley's nickname for Molly?
Q 10. ________________ is the title of Chapter Five in the book, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'.
Q 11. Where are the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix?
Q 12. Who competes for Hogwarts alongside Harry in the Triwizard Tournament?
Q 13. Which character's Patronus takes this form?
Q 14. _____________________ was second to open the Chamber of Secrets.
Q 15. Let's jog your brain a little bit. 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' contains how many chapters?
Q 16. J.K. Rowling has a pseudonym that she goes by when writing other books. Which of the following is it?
Q 17. Platform 9 ¾ can be found at which London station?
Q 18. Boggarts turn into the thing you are most afraid of. What does Ron's boggart become?
Q 19. "Come seek us where our voices sound, we cannot sing above the ground." Harry unveiled this message underwater, which was sent by which group?
Q 20. __________________ is the UK Publisher that initially published 'Harry Potter'.
Q 21. 'Tom Marvolo Riddle' is a clever anagram of which character name?
Q 22. What did Sirius give Harry for his first birthday?
Q 23. Who does Tom Riddle possess in order to open the Chamber of Secrets?
Q 24. Ron's rat Scabbers is an Animagus! Who is he really?
Q 25. Can you finish the Sorting Hat's line about Gryffindor?
Q 26. What are the three Deathly Hallows?
Q 27. What name does Hagrid give to his pet dragon?
Q 28. Harry and Voldemort's wands share twin cores. What is the core of their wands?
Q 29. Which witch or wizard did Harry meet in the Leaky Cauldron that he pretended not to remember after seeing him in Hagrid's Hut the previous year?
Q 30. Which of these is NOT an unforgiveable curse?
Q 31. Whose Patronus was a hare?
Q 32. What does Albus Dumbledore leave to Hermione in his will?
Q 33. How are Bellatrix Lestrange and Nymphadora Tonks related?
Q 34. What does the 'Langlock' spell do?
Q 36. Do you know which witch Snape has been in love with since childhood?
Q 37. This is a tough one. There are how many words in the fourth 'Harry Potter' book?
Q 38. Which of the following was the least successful of the 'Harry Potter' films?
Q 39. Which of the following is the motto of Gringotts Wizarding Bank?
Q 40. And finally! Do you know which lovesick Hogwarts pupil spikes Harry's chocolates with love potion?


Beachgoers in Bal Harbour now can feel safer hitting the surf.
The village has installed 10 life preservers on poles along the nearly mile-long stretch of beach.
Village councilman Martin Packer suggested the idea to Village Manager Alfred Treppeda about two months ago after hearing from residents concerned about safety and a newspaper article about Lauderdale-by-the-Sea's use of the life-saving equipment.
"I had a couple of phone calls from my constituents that we had children in the area, and that why we didn't have lifeguards," said Packer, who said the cost of hiring lifeguards was too expensive.
Each numbered pole is spaced about 250 feet apart, with a life preserver behind every building on the shore.
The numbered poles allow for rescue crews to locate an emergency easier, officials said. If someone needs to call police or fire rescue, but can't give an exact location on the beach, they can just give the pole's number.
"The police dispatcher has a map of all the poles, and we will send help to the area," Bal Harbour Lt. Charles R. Merrill said.
Merrill said Bal Harbour has had several drownings over the years and that rip currents add to safety concerns.
The police department tries to keep a close eye on beachgoers, he said.
The life rings cost a total of $1,600 and is funded by tourism money.
Packer said installing the life preserver is an asset to the beach.
"If someone is in trouble, someone can just throw a life preserver," he said.


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Dmitry Korchak was born in Russia and studied voice and conducting there. Today, he is one of the most exciting and popular tenors of his generation and is regularly praised by the international press, particularly for his interpretation of the bel canto repertoire. Since winning the Francisco Viñas Singing Contest in 2004 and two other prizes (4th place and Zarzuela Prize) in Plácido Domingo's Operalia in Los Angeles, Dmitry Korchak has quickly become a regular guest at leading opera houses and concert halls worldwide, including the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Metropolitan Opera New York, Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Bavarian, Berlin and Hamburg State Operas, the Liceu in Barcelona, Chicago Lyric Opera, Semperoper, Théâtre La Monnaie in Brussels, Opéra National de Paris, Lyon, Zurich, Valencia, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Palermo, Madrid, Pesaro and Los Angeles. Recently, he has appeared in several of his showcase roles, such as the title roles in »Tales of Hoffmann« and »Werther«, and as Lensky (»Eugene Onegin«) and Ernesto (»Don Pasquale«) at the Wiener Staatsoper, in John Neumeier's successful production of Gluck's »Orphée et Eurydice« in the autumn festival at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and at Hamburg State Opera; he debuted at Teatro Real Madrid as Gaultiero in »Il pirata«, sang Tamino at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía Valencia in a new production of »The Magic Flute«; he also appeared at La Monnaie in Meyerbeer's »Robert le Diable« and at Liceu in Bizet's »Les pêcheurs de perles« and debuted at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo as Arnauld in Rossini's »Guillaume Tell«. He debuted in 2008 at the Wiener Staatsoper as Nemorino, going on to sing the roles listed above and others, including Don Ramiro (»La cenerentola«), Count Almaviva (»Il barbiere di Siviglia«), Arturo (»I puritani«) and Don Ottavio (»Don Giovanni«). Dmitry Korchak's busy schedule as a conductor has included several symphonic programmes at Moscow concert halls. Since 2017 he has also been first guest conductor at the theatre in Novosibirsk, where he launched his own festival. Dmitry Korchak has made numerous audio and video recordings.
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There's much more to Tuscany than its beautiful beaches and the sea: in the winter, the region becomes an ideal destination for snow lovers of every kind. Pistoia's Abetone ski area boasts 80 km of slopes and peaks that reach a height of almost 2,000 m, making the large ski resort a winter paradise for snow enthusiasts. Here, skiers and snowboarders reign over 26 slopes located in some of Tuscany's most panoramic valleys: the Val di Luce, Valle dello Scoltenna, Val di Sestaione and Val di Lima. Numerous ski schools offer both children and adults classes for alpine skiing, cross-country skiing and snowboarding.
Yet a Tuscan winter holiday goes beyond snow-capped mountains and ski slopes: visitors can also spend a few days at the thermal springs, shop in luxurious shopping centers, follow taste tours and embark on nature or history-based excursions in Abetone, Cutigliano and the Pistoia lowlands, in towns like San Marcello Pistoiese, Gavinana and Maresca.
A modern ski resort that guarantees safety, top-notch ski lifts and a wealth of slopes to explore. The resort boasts over 50 km of slopes for both novice skiers and the more experienced. Options range from more difficult (black diamond) slopes on Monte Gomito, the Regine woods and Salletta to bunny slopes for kids. You'll also find areas reserved for ski students, children and the disabled. Skiers can take a break from the slopes and go shopping in luxury shops and top-quality food stores to taste a range of local specialities. What to visit: the two pyramids, the San Leopoldo Church and the Forest Botanical Gardens.
If you're hoping to ski like a real champion, then the Doganaccia slopes in Cutigliano are the place for you. Here, skiers will find slopes for both beginners and experts as well as related children's activities, such as ski tubing and cross-country skiing. Stop in a mountain refuge for a traditional Tuscan lunch - or maybe just to rest for a while in places like the Rifugio del Viandante or the Refugio del Bicocca. Remember that you can also ski without real snow: artificial snow allows ski buffs to hit the slopes all season long. What to visit: Museum of the Pistoia Apennine People and the Eco Museum of the Mountains of Pistoia.
Visit some of the area's most charming hamlets during a ski holiday in the area. Check out San Marcello Pistoiese, the 'queen of the Apennines,' Gavinana or the Ferrucciano Museum, not to mention Popiglio, a town famous for its medieval towers. You can also visit a number of museums in the area, such as the Museum of Rural Culture in Marliana, the Dioceses Museum of Sacred Art in Piteglio and the Astronomical Observatory in San Marcello Pistoiese.
It won't be hard to find mouth-watering dishes in this winter wonderland. Among the many desserts, try chocolate Panforte, Necci and Lamporecchio cookies. And if you're craving a savory treat, then try some cured meats like finocchiona, pork and 'cinta Senese' salami. For a real tour of local flavors, check out the 'Taste Tour of the Apennines.' Finally, don't forget to try the restaurants involved in the Vetrina Toscana project in the province of Pistoia.
For those seeking a culture and art-based break from the slopes, the monumental art cities of Pistoia, Florence, Lucca and Pisa are just a few kilometers away.


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Movie Review: Inception
July 24, 2010 / BlueInkAlchemist / 12 Comments
I've been a fan of writer/director Christopher Nolan's work since his shatteringly brilliant Memento. He's breathed new life into Batman with two equally stunning films, and his somewhat underrated adaptation of the novel The Prestige is every bit as haunting and cerebral as his other work. This year, he brings us Inception. Not only is it probably the best film you'll see all summer, if not all year, it's also the best film of Nolan's career to date.
Yep. Better than The Dark Knight, better than Memento.
The tag line for the film is "Your mind is the scene of the crime." The concept is that technology originally developed to allow military recruits to train against each other in a consequence-free dreamscape is now being used by professional thieves to steal information from others' minds in their dreams. This requires the participation of an architect to build the world of the dream, a chemist to balance the drugs required to keep the mark and the team under, a forger who creates cyphers to assist or distract the mark, a point man to keep the mental defenses of the mark's subconscious at bay, and an extractor to get their hands on the information. Everybody involved needs to remained focused and calm, which is a problem for the extractor, Cobb, whose own subconscious is breaking into the dream worlds his team have built. He needs to go home, and to do so, industrialist Saito offers him one last job – not to steal an idea, but to implant one, a process considered to be impossible and known as inception.
If he hadn't become a filmmaker, Christopher Nolan may have become a renowned illusionist, the sort of stage practitioner that leaves the crowd breathless and wondering how exactly he pulled off his trick. What's particularly amazing about Nolan's work is, not only are we aware that he's manipulating events like a master puppeteer, he goes out of his way to show us the strings before he leads down a labyrinth of ideas and environments, daring us to keep up. We caught glimpses of this in Memento and The Prestige, but Inception takes this to a whole new level. The rules of the dream, the logic behind the flow of time within the subconscious and the ways in which the mind moves to protect itself are explained in great detail, Nolan shows us how these constructs work, and then takes us on a journey that has us questioning what rules, if any, were broken, and how the story arrives at its conclusion, to say nothing of what that conclusion actually is.
Inception would not work anywhere near as well as it does if it didn't have such an excellent, top-caliber cast. Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb the extractor continues to shine in the sort of edgy, mature, hard-bitten roles that have caused me to embrace him as a fantastic actor. He gives Cobb a great deal of haunted depth, and has the burden of carrying the bulk of the film's emotional and philosophical weight. He does so with grace and not a hint of exertion, drawing us deeper and deeper into the realm of Cobb's mind.
But that doesn't mean the rest of the cast is just phoning it in. Everybody's in top form here. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who apparently can totally rock a suit no matter what film he's in, seems dedicated to keeping Cobb grounded to keep his job as point man from being to difficult, while Tom Hardy (who thankfully has put that Shinzon debacle far behind him) encourages everyone around him to use their imaginations while he forges the tools they need to pull off their heist. Ken Watanabe shows us many dimensions as Saito, a man who is both the cause for Cobb's predicament on this last job and the apparent key to his freedom. Cillian Murphy as the mark is more that just a dupe, but to say more would be giving away plot information. And Ellen Page, who's quickly become one of my favorite young actresses, conveys Ariadne as both the eager young architect recruited by Cobb and the voice of reason inside his head. If Saito has the key to Cobb's freedom, Ariadne has the key to preventing the interference caused by Mal, played with sublime menace by Marion Cotillard.
Yes, her name is 'Ariadne', as in 'mistress of the labyrinth'. There's a lot of symbolism in Inception. Since we're dealing almost entirely in the realm of dreams for the running time of this film, and dreams are populated by people, places and things that hold special meaning for the dreamer, quite a few things that happen between the first shot and the last seem to invite us to interpret them. Christopher Nolan is a skilled storyteller, so the film never verges into completely obscurantist territory like 2001 does, and even as symbols come and go, the plot remains taut and the characters clearly motivated. As I said, Nolan's confident enough in his skill to show us the strings. That doesn't mean that those very strings we're shown can't be used to mess with our heads.
I admit I had a squeal of delight when Ariadne asks the question, "What happens when you start messing with the physics?" It's something I never quite got about The Matrix. If you were in complete control of the world around you, why not start messing with things the way she does? The way the real world interacts with the dream world leads to some very interesting situations, from a quick laugh at the beginning of the heist to one of the most inventive and breathtaking fight sequences I have seen in a very, very long time. Not only does Joseph Gorden-Levitt rock that suit, he does what was probably a rather complicated stunt without seeming to break a sweat. The guy's a pro.
This is a film I will be watching many more times for many years to come. It's Christopher Nolan's best film to date, and it will be damn hard to top. I'd love to go see it again right now, in theaters, as the big screen perfectly captures the scope, power and danger of the worlds built within our dreams. However, it'll also be great on DVD, so that the film can be paused, rewound and analysed with friends over drinks to try and figure out what exactly it all means. I for one can't wait for those evenings.
A lot's been said about the ending of Inception. I've tried very hard not to give away any spoilers, but let me voice my opinion to the best of my ability. Christopher Nolan is not a bad storyteller. He gives us all the clues we need to figure out exactly what Inception is and means, to him and to us. He doesn't take the Kubrick & Clark route, of trying to raise many more questions than he answers. He wants us to understand. He encourages us to figure it out. And he provides everything we need to solve the puzzle. The challenge is… can we?
I'd like to think I can. I just need to see it again. A few times. It's an amazing film, one of the best I've seen in a long time, and if ever there was an excuse for me to sell a major organ to afford a high-def television and a PlayStation 3 in anticipation of a film coming out on Blu-ray, Inception would be it. This one's going to be in my head and in my heart for a long, long time.
Stuff I Liked: Beautifully shot, written and executed. The various dreams are distinctive and gorgeous. The touches of humor are brilliantly timed and delivered. It's subtle, cerebral and packed with action.
Stuff I Didn't Like: I am going to miss that kidney I have to sell.
Stuff I Loved: Very strong characters portrayed by skilled, damn good-looking actors. A totally immersive storytelling experience I won't soon forget. It made me think. It still does.
Bottom Line: You owe it to yourself to see Inception in the cinema. Find where it's playing and go see it. It might be the best way you'll spend money on entertainment all year, and it'll stay with you long after the credits roll. Go. See. This. Film.
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It was great but no Dark night. And similar themes about the nature of reality have been explored better. (namely Memento in which: the nature of ones own reality is explored, the protagonist is the main source of the reality. There is even a dead wife motivating the protagonist, whos death he feels responsible for. In the end the protagonist has to choose between a reality.)
Its good but no real plot. The characters were only made interesting because of the actors and I thought Leo and Juno were the worst actors. Chow Young Fat stole the show.
Basically visually interesting, but went too long. A bunch of good looking people running around in a fantasy world trying not to get killed. Sound familiar?
Um. That wasn't Chow Yun Fat.
Yep my bad.
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Got my vote! I'm dirt poor, but I'll scrabble out the cash today…
Plus I've had a HOPELESS crush on Cillian Murphy forever, and that alone is worth the $. Nolan seems to bring out his acting ability; I like to take him home in my head and have my way with him. 🙂
Cillian Murphy was great with out much material to work with. I'm a fan. Such a strange and interesting actor. I think he would have made a much better lead than Leo.
The only thing I'd really disagree with is the depth of the characters. Cobb and what's-his-name, the mark, are the only ones with real depth. It's all about Cobb's story and it tells it very well, though.
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The 2015–16 American Athletic Conference men's basketball season took place between November 2015 and March 2016. Practices began in October 2015, with conference play beginning in December, and the season ended with the 2016 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament at the Amway Center in Orlando, FL. The season was the third since the split of the original Big East Conference into two separate leagues.  The tournament had only 10 teams, as SMU is serving a postseason ban due to academic fraud and unethical conduct

Preseason
At the 2015 American Athletic Conference media day on October 27, the conference released announced coaches predictions for standings and All-Conference teams

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2015-16 Preseason Coaches' Poll
 SMU (8) 98
 Connecticut (2) 87
 Cincinnati (1) 84
 Tulsa 76
 Memphis 59
 Temple 54
 Houston 48
 East Carolina 31
 UCF  30
 USF 20
 Tulane 11

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 American Athletic Preseason Player of the Year: Nic Moore, G, SMU
 American Athletic Preseason Rookie of the Year: Jalen Adams, G, CONN

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  March 10–13, 2016 at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida

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