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Transcript and video: Jim Curtin's weekly press conference
Posted by Ed Farnsworth on June 2, 2015 at 5:41 pm
Thoughts on DC. I thought we put in a strong performance, started the game really well, were able to get a goal. Had a couple of opportunities to go up 2-0, maybe lacked that killer instinct in front of goal. If you let good teams like DC hang around…Unfortunate to give up that goal right before the half, I think that hurt us a little bit. I still was happy with how we played. The message at halftime was if you fall asleep with a good team, and don't put pressure on their guys crossing the ball for one second, you can get punished, and Pontius makes a great header.
From there, second half starts and it's pretty even, back and forth game. Couple of instances where there's fouls: Seba's in goal, gets pulled down, that should be a red card; and then, obviously, the Chris Rolfe one, he's since been suspended. That was early, 63rd minute, I believe — 61st or 63rd, somewhere in there, — so it would have been good to see how the game goes up a man for the last 30 minutes. But, this is in the past now and we move on to Columbus.
'Have a good Columbus team coming in with a lot of dangerous weapons: — Kei Kamara, the leading scorer in the league — a very well coached team by Gregg Berhalter, a guy I respect a lot. They'll come to our building and they'll be a tough game like every game in the Eastern Conference is.
With the win streak ending in DC, how much momentum continues forward?
The guys are confident right now, that is for sure, here's a belief in the group. We're healthy — as healthy as we've been — so there's some continuity in practice each week, which goes a long way. I think the guys have worked hard, we've gotten a lot of good performances from some veterans. I think Brian Carroll's quietly done a very good job stabilizing midfield. Vincent Nogueira's back in the mix with Chaco; when they're both on the field you guys have written about it, how important it is to have them both on the field at the same time. Then you sprinkle in some other guys having very good performances — there's a belief in the group. Listen, we know we're not anywhere near where we want to be in the standings, in the table, but, at the same time, the last three games we've looked like what we can show: we can be a team that can play with anybody in the league. And that's kind of the way we're taking it now. Have some home games, four out of five, in June, and we have to get on a run if we want to put ourselves back in the playoff picture.
Michael Lahoud is coming along. He's kind of targeting, and I'm targeting, the US Open Cup in middle of June, June 16th, date as one where we can hope to have him back and contributing in the game, not just back and starting to think about playing. We want him to have an impact in that game.
Steven Vitoria has trained the past two days for the first time and looks good. So, we'll see, hopefully he can continue to progress. Obviously, there's a lack of fitness there with the time that he's missed.
Andre Blake is able to jog now around the field, which is positive. So, I'm starting to see some guys coming back.
Conor looks like it'll be another week, week and a half. We'll see with him. He knows his body well, he hasn't really pushed too hard just because he doesn't want to re-aggravate anything in the quad there.
So, knock on wood, but it's starting to be a fully healthy, healthy team.
Ethan White missed practice today?
Yeah, Ethan had a family emergency today — this morning — so I allowed him to go take care of that.
The loss in Columbus was one of the low points of the season so far…
For sure.
How do you sense the guys are regarding that? Is it something they're rallying around?
Yeah, I mean, if you look at the season as a whole, the Columbus game and the Vancouver game were the two where we — we got out outplayed. We got beat, and we got beat soundly.
Columbus has a way of playing that when they get on you early and you allow them to kind of dictate the rhythm and the tempo of the game there as good as anyone. They've had some unfortunate, uh, maybe calls go against them — the red card to Parkhurst, the penalty kick, and having him be sent off that early in the game this past week against Orlando — and for them to still hang on and get a 2-2 result was impressive. They've had a little bit of an unlucky run of late but they're a great team, a team we respect a great deal, and when they're clicking on all cylinders they're a handful.
We're fortunate to get them without Michael Parkhurst, who I believe is a really under-appreciated center back in the league, not just for his defending but for his ability to start their possession and start their team going forward. He passes as well as anyone in the league, so for them to be missing him is an advantage for us, which is good.
The team has three games in eight days but then has a little bit of a break. Does that alter how you manage minutes for players?
I would say three games in eight days is, it's a crowded schedule but the lack of a cross-country flight in there, I think it's very minimal travel. So we had to take a bus from DC, which is two hours. If there was a midweek game where we now have to get on a plane, and you're not sleeping in your own bed, it plays a much harder role, it's more difficult for the guys to deal with and get acclimated to. The fact that it's DC away, we get on a bus, it's two hours and we're back here [and] we have two home games in a row. So, to eliminate the travel, and the fact that the guys are sleeping in their own bed — they're pro athletes, they can handle it, we're not going to use that as an excuse. You look all over the world, in Europe they play three games a week all the time. I think a lot gets made about it, and I agree with it when there's a cross-country flight to go play Seattle or LA or Portland and then get back on the plane, that's when it really takes its toll on guys. So, this situation's a little different, and to have the ability now to play some consistent lineups is a good thing to have.
We are going to call upon guys — we don't have the luxury of resting because, you know, points are vital. So, it's Columbus is the focus now and we'll get through that game hopefully with three points. Then, we'll have to start to talk about New York and see how guys get through it. The sole focus will be three points, we're not worried about saving legs or resting guys because, to be honest, I think they've done a good job the past two days recovering — massages, they go down in these float tanks, they get themselves taken care of really well — and in talking with the guys they all seem to have recovered pretty well from a hard game against DC.
On the Columbus attack
It's a lot, it starts with their outside backs. More so than any team in the league, their outside backs get forward, often both at the same time. So, they're unique in that regard. They spread the field wide and what happens with Justin Meram and Ethan Finlay, they come inside almost into the center circle and the outside backs almost push on past them. Then you have to deal with Higuain in there as well, who's the one when they get him the ball, all four guys are then bombing forward. And then you sprinkle Kai in there — it's a lot to deal with, they're a really good attacking team, every player on their team is comfortable on the ball. What Gregg has created there, and the style of play, and sticking to it even when they do turn the ball over in bad spots, teams aren't able to punish them because they do a good job winning the ball back immediately. I haven't even mentioned Wil Trapp, who's been out, and Tony Tchani, who's also a great young player. So, they're a good team, and it's going to be a real tough task, it's going to be one that we're going to have to be up for, match their intensity from the start. We do have a plan in place to try to neutralize things for them.
On what to focus on with Columbus' attack
If you just focus on Kai, then Finlay and Meram will kill you, those are guys who can score goals as well. There's a premium for midfield players that can get goals in this league and they have a bunch. Tchani gets on the scoreboard last week. Higuain can score from anywhere; obviously, on free kicks he's dangerous as well, so you have to be smart about not fouling him around the box. Ethan Finlay has been a…has killed us, for lack of a better way to put it. He's been a guy that has a way of getting in between our center back and our left back in the blind spot, makes great runs, and has scored some goals against us, and has set up a lot of goals against us. So, he's a handful, we'll have to do a good job on him.
And, again, you can't just focus on one guy, it can't be a one-on-one individual battle. If you make it that way, they have a way of picking you apart because they do a good job of moving the ball so quickly that they put you on islands, one-on-one in a lot of space. So we have to try to eliminate that, always have at least a guy on a player and then also have someone that's helping out. So, kind of 2-v-1 defensively all over otherwise you're going to get yourself in trouble with them.
Can we expect Richie Marquez to get an extended run of games?
Absolutely, he's earned it. He's grabbed ahold of a position. As a team we've given up too many goals and he's come in and given some stability back there. The two shutouts in a row were huge for us and to have him step in even against DC, they get the penalty kick and the header in the first half but I thought he did a great job limiting their chances. I think Richie's a guy who, athletically, belongs, he can run with anybody, he's great in the air, he's done a really good job reading things early. He's a very good center back, and one that is going to be effective for us and I think can be a good partnership with Mo, I think they've shown that they can play together. I think they did a good job against DC; obviously, you'd like to get a shutout and keep that streak going but that didn't happen. So, I have a decision to make tomorrow. We'll see how it goes but I'm very happy with where Richie's at.
With how well Fabinho's been playing, and Ray Gaddis coming back, that's another decision for you to make too, right?
Yeah, it's good, difficult decisions to have, to make as a coach, you want that competition at each spot. With Ray, with ankle injuries, he attacked his rehab really, really hard. Two weeks ahead of schedule and already itching to play again; we had him on the bench even this past week which is way earlier than we thought we would. With ankle injuries there's still that last five to ten percent that it may feel good but you train and it blows up a little bit. And then you think you're good to go again…you're not quite yourself. He's in that phase right now. He's really close, and it'll be — we haven't decide a hundred percent yet but it's going to be a game-time choice. But, either way, Sheanon's playing well, Fabinho's playing well, Ray's a great defender in this league, so we'll have a tough choice to make, but one with knowing that there's a Wednesday-Saturday. I'm confident that we have a good stable of fullbacks to chose from.
But Fabinho has been excellent, that needs to be said. Two weeks, two games in a row now where he's really played well.
Do you see Marquez as a partner for Vitoria moving forward?
We'll see, it'll be to be determined. If we get on a little run here you can never…I wouldn't want to change the two if its Mo and and Richie are the guys now getting us wins, Steven would have to wait to get back into the mix. I'll say this: Richie's played against some very good forwards in the league and, to be honest, as a position I played so I watch a little closer. I was nervous when he got thrown in there in his first minutes against Toronto, kind of not how we planned with an early injury to Lahoud. I was nervous for him, we threw him in I think the third or fourth minute, or something like that, and he rose to the occasion. All players have these moments in their career where it's either sink or swim, and sometimes they come when you want them to, sometimes they come unexpected. But, you have to be ready to answer the bell and Richie was and he's been great for us in his starts for us. So, I'm happy with him, he's worked on improving his feet every day, his passing, because that's a big part of the position as well, starting the attack. But he's eager to learn, he has a great mentality, he's great in the locker room — whether he's starting, whether he's off the bench he's a pro, and he's a guy that's going to be a part of things here for a while just because he has so many intangibles that you can't, I can't coach. At 6'3″ being able to jump as high as anyone on our roster, being able to run with anyone on our roster, he has the athletic ability that convert you to being an effective MLS center back. It's the hardest position in this league and he's doing well.
On the Zach Pfeffer handball and the vague wording in the Laws of the Game
Yeah, it is a grey area. There were actually three or four handballs — or non handballs — this weekend in the box. It's a tough decision, it's a discretionary one. You'd like to think with a couple calls that didn't go our way that that's one that late in the game where it's not a game where DC had a hundred chances that…I actually think, let's put it this way: If it hits Zach's arm and it casually goes over the end line, I bet they call a corner kick, you know? But, because it hits his arm and there's an awkward pause, they decide, the linesman gets involved, and decides to point to the spot. Which it is, it is a handball. It's one of those ones though if they don't call it…I got an explanation that it was a handball in the box. And I accept that, I agree with it. But I just feel like if they don't call it and Bennie's [Olsen] the one talking to them midweek and says, "How could you not have called that," they'd have some answer as to, you know, "He's unaware of where the ball is." So, they do have some grey there when you look a the rules, so it's a tough decision that went against us. It's at a part of the field where it wasn't going to lead directly to a goal, that's the difficult part or me. But, it's something that we have to live with now and move on from. But it is, like I said, this week alone there was four calls that were — there hard calls to make, don't get me wrong, but you want one of them to go your way.
When the ball is lofted in like that do you think you could make a claim for ball to hand? Do you think the proximity of Chris Rolfe to Pfeffer entered into the referee's decision?
Yeah. I mean, I talked with Zach too. If he just attacks it himself and takes the initiative himself to go attack it and head it over the line, or put it out of danger, it's a nothing play. He's actually in a really good defensive position when you break it down on the film, he's where he's supposed to be. There's a little moment of uncertainty in that it's a high, floated ball into the box, and I think he's aware Chris is behind him, he doesn't know how close he is, and there's that moment of indecision and kind of the ball hits the hand. I don't think Zach is in any way intentionally hitting the ball or slapping the ball, it just happens to hit him. It's unfortunate but it's something you have to learn from.
You're trying to get me in trouble.
Byt the way, it sounds like something's going on with Sepp Blatter right now
Oh. No comment.
Author: Ed Farnsworth Editor-at-large at PSP. His work has also appeared at Philly.com, TheCup.us, Society for American Soccer History, The Encylopedia of Greater Philadelphia, Centro de Investigaciones de Historia y Estadística del Fútbol Español, EPYSA.org, and in the 2011 MLS All-Star Game program. Email him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at @FarnsworthPSP.
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That's Little Nicky on his right shoulder. Whispering to him.
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cszack4 says:
So forget about squad rotation. We're going to 'Philly tough' it out with three games in a week. Not the answer I hoped for.
That's what I got out of that statement, as well. We could use a manager!!
…and Pirlo is on NYCFU.
Good God!
spugger says:
we should make a play for Mix now that Pirlo is coming in. His stock is kind of low right now – might be able to get a bargain.
Dr. Union says:
Man how I would've loved to see Pirlo or Mix for that matter on this team, but never happens.
Does Jim really think Vitoria should be a pro? I know mr white was (for the most part) his partner, but Vitoria is slow, weak, and utterly unable to use his height in aerial duels (ahh maybe cause he is slow and weak). Also, I'm so confused as to how the staff concluded that White and Viroria should start at the beginning of the season over Marquez…oh well at least they figured out Marquez is better by now…funny I remember reading a lot of posts on this site asking about why Marquez wasn't exactly in the fold while the search was on for a starting caliber center back before this season….the search when we spent the little money we had paying a MLS ransom discovery fee for a player that should have been crossed off the "sign this player to help the team" list at first sight
If you ask me I agree Vitoria is slow, weak, bad in the air. When time come that his loan ends I say let him go and move on. While it was a nice thought to bring someone in he was not the right option. So don't screw it up Union leave Marquez and Edu at CB rest of the season.


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Matt Carthy MEP challenges EIB on Forestry Investment Fund
Sinn Féin MEP for the Midlands North West, Matt Carthy, has criticised the lack of transparency in the workings of a large-scale private forestry fund operated by the European Investment Bank (EIB). Carthy this week questioned the Vice-President of the EIB, Andrew McDowell, during a hearing in the European Parliament's Agriculture and Rural Development Committee.
"Last year, the EIB announced that it was backing an initiative with the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund to push for new investment in privately owned forests across Ireland. The fund is worth €112m and is managed by Dasos, a Finnish Capital Investment firm. The loans are only open to large scale capital investors, to the exclusion of local farmers.
"I have attempted on several occasions to secure answers from the EIB on the inner-workings of this fund, which has so far been operating away from public scrutiny, including previously meeting privately with Mr. McDowell.
"The loans are affecting local land prices, local land availability, biodiversity in terms of the species of trees planted, and local flora and fauna due to blanket forestry blocking out light. Furthermore, the presence of these unknown capital investors is having a negative impact on local communities who are suddenly witnessing the mass purchasing of land by unknown speculators.
"This week in the European Parliament I asked Mr McDowell specifically how many low-cost loans have been approved, how much money has already been disbursed, and what regions were being targeted by investors. This is information the European Commission and the Irish Government have already refused to furnish.
"Again though, Mr McDowell refused to disclose any information on this fund.
"I find it extremely concerning that while the private sector now owns almost half of the forests in Ireland there is absolutely no transparency on who owns these forests or how much of the state funded forest premium fund is going into the pockets of these so-called investors.
"It is not uncommon for EU Member State Governments to put in place rules to protect agricultural land from threats such as excessive price speculation and ownership concentration. In fact the European Commission issued guidelines late last year on exactly how to do this.
"Why then is our Government not only facilitating the large scale buy up of farmland in Ireland by foreign investors, but also hiding information from the public on the outworkings of that fund?
"I am now calling on the Minister to immediately impose restrictions to control sales of farmland in order to protect agricultural communities. These must include, where foreign investors are concerned, prior authorisation from local authorities for the acquisition of land, limits on the size of land to be acquired and pre-emption rights for local farmers.
"This is particularly necessary in counties such as Leitrim where the difficulties caused by these activities are especially acute".
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In this frame grab from video provided by WAFB-TV 9, Glenn Ford, 64, talks to the media as he leaves a maximum security prison, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Angola, La., after having spent nearly 26 years on death row. Ford walked free Tuesday evening hours after a judge approved the state's motion to vacate his murder conviction in the 1983 killing of a jeweler. State District Judge Ramona Emanuel on Monday took the step of voiding Ford's conviction and sentence based on new information that corroborated his claim that he was not present or involved in the murder. (AP Photo/WAFB-TV 9) (AP)
Redford, Gibney, Sarandon: Why conservatives should oppose the flawed death penalty, too
We know the death penalty is expensive, not a deterrent and applied unevenly. Conservatives should oppose it, too
Alex Gibney - Susan Sarandon - Robert Redford
This week, Glenn Ford, one of the nation's longest serving death-row prisoners, was released from a Louisiana prison. In reviewing the stunning exoneration, the New Orleans Times-Picayune noted that Ford "was ill-served at nearly every point in his laborious and terrifying trip through the Louisiana criminal justice system" and that prosecutors "chose to go after someone who they had a pretty good idea didn't" commit the crime in question. If old evidence hadn't been suppressed and if new evidence hadn't come to light, an innocent man might have been executed.
Such a harrowing fact is a reminder that, in an era defined by institutional crises, few of those involve the life-and-death consequences as the crisis now plaguing the institution of capital punishment.
For the last two decades, each of us has examined the criminal justice system in our own work. And so with the political debate over capital punishment once again intensifying, we came together this past year to explore the human dramas inside this institution - from cases resulting in exonerations to those still in limbo to those involving indisputable guilt. In the process, we discovered disturbing patterns that reveal systemic problems. These include:
Arbitrariness: A convict's chances of ending up on death row today depend as much on the crime as on the convict's race and geographic location. This was most recently documented by a University of Maryland study of Harris County, Texas. This one area in greater Houston has executed more people than any other state in the country. County data showed African American defendants were three times more likely to face the death penalty than similarly situated white defendants. Additionally, African Americans were more than twice as likely as similarly situated whites to receive death sentences from juries.
Similar data have been compiled in other states. A case in Colorado brought to our attention that all three death row inmates in that state hail from the same county and, in fact, attended the same high school. As a landmark legal study there showed, the system is so arbitrary it is likely unconstitutional.
Law enforcement misconduct: Cases of suppressed evidence often exemplify how the quest for death penalty convictions can foster a culture of unaccountable lawlessness inside the justice system. And as we discovered in our investigation of the John Thompson case in New Orleans, such a culture can become almost impossible to curtail.
In that saga, Thompson's conviction was overturned when private investigators working on his appeal discovered that prosecutors had intentionally withheld exculpatory evidence. While Thompson was freed, the U.S. Supreme Court later ruled that law enforcement officials could not be held liable for such deliberate misconduct, thus giving prosecutors a license to execute innocent people without fear of consequence. That's not only immoral, it harms victims' families who need to trust that the system is focused on apprehending the real perpetrators, and not looking to execute someone so that bureaucrats can claim, with grim finality, that justice was served.
Cost: When accounting for pretrial hearings, trials, appeals, security and prison expenses, the death penalty costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Spending that much money on capital punishment costs lives. Why? Because those resources are being diverted from potentially lifesaving programs that could put more police officers on the street, investigate cold cases and prevent recidivist crime.
Failure to deter crime: If the death penalty was deterring crime, perhaps its costs could be justified. But there is far more evidence that it is failing to deter crime. For example, the aggregate homicide rate in death penalty states has been consistently higher than the rate in non-death-penalty states.Likewise, a survey of the nation's criminologists found 88 percent saying that capital punishment does not deter crime.
Of course, it is tempting to cite exonerations as proof that for all its faults, the system is working. But those exonerations came in spite of the system, not because of it. It is a system that seeks execution first, and rarely asks questions of itself later -- if at all. As Joe D'Ambrosio, one of the exonerated death row inmates we examined, said, he could have been wrongly executed and the state "wouldn't have batted an eye."
That suggests for every exoneree who was able to force the system to recognize a mistake, there may be wrongfully convicted people who are on death row -- or worse, already executed.
That doesn't mean most death row inmates are innocent, nor does it mean criminals should be permitted to avoid serious punishment, like life in prison without parole. But it does mean that the institution of capital punishment is failing.
Depressing as that reality is, it shouldn't be particularly surprising. As most recently evidenced by the Obamacare websites, the most straightforward government tasks often involve errors and imperfections. Even the most ardent law-and-order conservatives should be able to admit the same truism applies to the government-administered death penalty. If we cannot blindly trust the government to safeguard health, can we trust it to administer death?
Whether Democratic or Republican, legislators can no longer ignore the fatal flaw in the justice system. At a minimum, we must insist that they find a way to hold prosecutors accountable for misconduct that can – if intentional -- amount to premeditated murder. More broadly, we should insist that lawmakers face the most harrowing question from all of our death row stories: if the institution of capital punishment – with consequences so final and irreversible -- can never be a perfect instrument of criminal justice, is the institution itself a criminal injustice?
Susan Sarandon is the narrator and Robert Redford and Alex Gibney are the executive producers of the CNN original series "Death Row Stories," which airs Sundays at 9 p.m. eastern.
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Please join us for some, or all, of the following series of lectures entitled "Archaelogies of People, Things, and Protected Places."
Lectures will be held at the Fort Vancouver Visitor Center, 1501 E. Evergreen Boulevard, Vancouver, WA 98661 and begin at 7pm.
For almost two decades Indigenous archaeologies have developed approaches to archaeology that recognize the rights of indigenous communities in relation to their cultural heritage. This has resulted in a multitude of collaborative field and collections-based projects that integrate indigenous values and perspectives into the study and representation of tribal heritage. Using the community-based Field Methods in Indigenous Archaeology (FMIA) training program as a case-study this lecture evaluates how collaborative practice with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde's Tribal Historic Preservation Office transforms the approach FMIA uses to document Grand Ronde heritage and to train the next generation of archaeologists and tribal heritage managers.
With about half the world's active geysers in one of the largest, nearly intact temperate-zone ecosystems on Earth, Yellowstone National Park has a rich human history that spans more than 11,000 years. Over 1,800 archaeological sites help tell the stories of people and their connections to the park, as their home, hunting grounds, gathering places, transportation routes, and for recreation, from Paleo-Indian Clovis Culture through the 20th century. Dr. Horton will explore the many dimensions of archaeological research and discuss recent findings at the world's first national park, established in 1872. She will highlight some of the important ties between Yellowstone and the Pacific Northwest, giving special focus to links with Vancouver Barracks.
The Fort Apache and Theodore Roosevelt School National Historic Landmark is both the physical site at the confluence of the East and North Forks of Arizona's White River and the symbolic nexus for complex and dynamic relations among Native Americans, soldiers, bureaucrats, and advocates for cultural perpetuation, economic development, and historic preservation. Owned by the White Mountain Apache Tribe and managed by the tribally-chartered nonprofit Fort Apache Heritage Foundation, Fort Apache is an apt setting for numerous experiments in site interpretation, social entrepreneurship, tribal sovereignty enhancement, and intercultural reconciliation.
The core of archaeology is the relationship between people and things. Archaeologists strive to discover how people lived in the past using things made, used, and modified by individuals. Dr. Skibo will describe these relationships using his award-winning approaches to the science of archaeology, by exploring clay cooking pots, ball courts from the American southwest, and fur-trade era smudge pits in Michigan. This presentation will reveal the theories and method behind archaeology in a thoughtful, engaging manner, exploring examples of relevance to the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere.


The increasing amount of job opportunities is envisaged today. These available opportunities in every stream have to be filled by the right candidate. This is the reason that the job portals have come up with splendid features and provides an insight of the several jobs that are available these days. It is easier to filter the jobs using the features that are provided in these job portals. There are thousands of vacancies pertaining to the various industries. The crucial point here is that a person has to filter the jobs and find what would best fit their profile. Based on the education that a person possesses, they can choose one of the jobs that fit them. You can get complete idea About Career and Jobs from the online sites. There are wide ranges of information that are provided to the users in the job portals. The different kinds of industries can exist it be ascertained with the help of the job portal. Moreover, you can also get an idea on the different kinds of positions that these industries offer. Expert Answers will respond to all questions for law advice quickly.
To choose a good lawyer, recommendation is always a way, after all, advocacy is a profession that depends on the trust of the client. Talk to others who have experienced the same situation as you and hired a particular professional. Ask, especially, about the service offered and the amounts charged at each stage of the process. This will help you choose the right defender such as James Lyle New Mexico.
The Law counts on several branches of action that are regulated by specific laws and have certain courts for the demand of processes. Each area of the direct has a dynamic of its own, so it is necessary to have a professional that is constantly updated in its field of activity. To choose a good lawyer for your case, do not hesitate to hire a professional expert, who acts directly in the branch of law to which your question falls.
Before hiring the professional, evaluate the fees charged for the fees. Also, check the way collections are made. Most professionals usually charge by the hour, however, there are those who only cover the work done. Expenses such as trips to the forum, phone calls and even copies are usually charged separately. It pays to check so you do not be scared by the bill later.
Before going directly to the office, schedule a telephone call. It is important to outline your problem, not to mention the names of the parties, to check if the lawyer in question is qualified to serve you. Once the first contact is made, make sure the professional charges for the visit and also checks if there is no conflict of interest. If the lawyer works in the banking area, for example, and you have a problem with the institution, this is not the ideal professional to hire.
To choose a good lawyer, it is important that you evaluate your own impressions about the professional. See if he seems up to date with legal issues and has enthusiasm for his acting. In large offices, it is common that the work is sectorized. Ask to know the entire team of professionals involved.
It is very common to find professionals in the market who speak the so-called "legal", that is, they use complicated words and have a little accessible and didactic communication with the client. It is important not to be intimidated by this type of posture and to question any doubts about your problem. If the professional is not clear, perhaps it is better to rethink. Never ever hide anything from your lawyer.
It goes without saying that each exchange program, internship and job opening requires the form of your candidacy and the letter about your desire to take part in. In some cases, the latest one is short, in others – long and detailed. But the main purpose of it is anyway to clarify why you want to become a participant. If to speak about the form, there are some fields with questions concerning your expertise.
But how can organizers know about your achievements, if there isn't such field in the form? Or where can you portray them your proficiency and send credentials? Here appears a cover letter – a text, where you can add all necessary data which wasn't mentioned in other documents. What is this type of test and which are the rules of writing it? WeDoEssay gathered the main items about it in this article!
Before starting of creating a cover letter, you need to understand the essence of it. This text is created in cases if you have some extra points about your practice and abilities and you need to share it. Here you are able to sell yourself as a competent specialist and tell all the details. But there is a big disparity between an application form, a letter of motivation and a cover document. In the last one, you shouldn't repeat the information added earlier. Sure, you may itemize your relevant experience, but don't just copy the text.
Cover letter may be described as kind of bridge between your applying and getting the position – here you can sell yourself, show your best sides and also elaborate on credentials. Sometimes a cover letter is looked at before analyzing of the candidates, and sometimes – after. In the first case, the board looks at the person's way of expressing an opinion. In the second – they want to choose the best candidates among the selected ones according to the application forms.
What Can You Include in It?
The crucial tip you should pay attention to is that a covering letter has to complement and detail your request form. If you don't have what to add to it, there is no need to write this type of document. Its purpose is to interpret your statements in other files and to expand the description of your qualities. The covering letter is a way to contact the board which will analyze your form – so you may not only shortly name your skills in the application form and tell about your motivation, but write about your individuality (but don't mess it with the cover letter for a job opening, where you must not describe your personal features).
There are also some significant taboo topics. These issues shouldn't be mentioned in the cover letter because they will lead to the repetition of other documents. Firstly, don't write about your attitude to the program. Even if you didn't announce it in the letter of motivation literally, the explanation of your desire to participate has the same meaning. Secondly, don't praise other programs you participated. Sure, it's important to describe your experience, but your story about the organizers' work may be a little offensive for the board of this program. Then, don't write too much. Determine the information not included in the letter of motivation and the application form and tell about it.
Now let's focus on the points of writing a cover letter closely. There are some simple tips which may be useful for everyone!
It means that you'd better adapt your text to the features of a program you're applying. There isn't any need to tell about your experience in other fields (such as ecology in the song contest). Create the story in your letter close to the theme of a program, because it gives you more opportunities to succeed. Besides, if you're applying for some internship at the same time, be certain that your letters are different and are unique for each of programs. You are advised to emphasize your skills according to the demands and instructions.
Sometimes students tell everything about their experience – it's wrong. Even if you describe the relevant topics, you have to emphasize the most important aspects. For example, if you're applying for the academic program concerning Math, there is no need to tell about your school projects in this subject. Sure, it seems like it is relevant experience, but the level isn't appropriate. At the same time, if you had extracurricular experience on the academic level, it deserves to be described. And also it's important to give specific examples for your assertions – the list of your skills isn't enough, as you need to illustrate it with samples from your experience.
It's also significant to follow the rules of creating a formal letter. Use business format only, as some styles may just not open on the devices of the members of the board. But it's not only about the type of document; it's about structure as well. Don't forget to mention the name of receivers, their contacts in the beginning and your name, birth date, contact details and the date of sending in the end. The beginning of your letter needs to include a short story about the purpose of this text. After that you can add everything you wanted to talk about, including experience, details of it, credentials etc. The closings of the letter or conclusions have to emphasize the main data of the letter. You may also add a couple of words about your expectations. In the end, don't neglect to write the gratitude and your name. And don't forget to check everything, because simple grammar mistakes may have a bad influence.
Now you see that a good covering letter requires a lot of efforts to work on. But if you really wish to participate in a program you're filing for, it's important to have it. Good luck!
Currently, minimalist web design has become a trend in the design of various sites on the Internet of different themes.Also known as Flat Design, this style of drawing is characterized by leaving aside gradients, shadows, textures, and reliefs, to have a cleaner and more elegant design, solid colors and sharp typography.
The flat design is easy to develop and is a clean and straightforward way to promote your products or services or communicate the message you want to convey to your potential customers.In this sense, here you can learn what minimalist web design is and how to find out one of my favorite minimalist websites.
What is the minimalist design?
Nowadays, minimalism is a trend in the world of fashion, music, and architecture and web design. However, you must be clear about the characteristics that define a minimalist design and what differentiates it from another that is not.
In principle, minimalism was born in the 60s and focuses on simple and geometric shapes. Also, it is characterized by using pure colors, especially the white color. Within minimalism, it is fundamental that all the elements are combined to create a unit so that it should not be excessive or precarious.Precisely, the flat design consists of a design style based on the use of a few decorative elements and flat or solid colors to give the website a clean, pleasant and entirely aesthetic.
The number of colors used in this type of design is small. In general, the same tone with different saturation is used, to create a contrast between the text, the images, and the background. In general, shades such as white, black or gray are used.
Generally, the Sans Serif font is used, with the aim of combining the typography with the style of the site. Also, sources such as Arial, Tahoma, among others, are commonly used, known as "unfinished" typefaces.
It is easy to execute. While the execution of this style of design may be simple, you should bear in mind that defining the concept of the model may be more complicated to use.
Improve the user experience. It is necessary to emphasize that the simplicity of the minimalist design facilitates the navigation of the users on the site since the web is more straightforward and intuitive. By reducing the number of visual, interactive elements, etc., you avoid the excess of information, improving the browsing experience of your users.
These are the main reasons why you should use a minimalist web design on your site, so we invite you to consider them and encourage you to apply it on your page.
Search engine optimization backlinks should come from diverse domain sizes and the sources which are trustworthy and loyal. They also come from domains which are popular and huge sized. A number of visitors can be converted into clients when the webpage or the website is connected to a greater number of popular domains and this is what is said by SEO experts and this is what they always conclude. But this philosophy will not be helpful unfortunately because only enterprises or initiatives which are established will get benefitted from this which will leave behind your business. Unrelated links which are connected are the best search engine optimization backlinks to your business and self-vested interest and importance won't be demonstrated and this opinion is the honest and the pure one. LinkHelpers Phoenix SEO will help you for the better understanding about the search engine optimization and the backlinks.
The system gets upgraded each other always by the Google algorithms and an efficient system is already been developed which will detect the backlinks overuse and the keyword of search engine optimization. The website developers who employed multiple or many sources of the backlinks within the same model or the same industry are now penalized by Google which is the worst part. Search engine optimization backlinks should not come from directly related sources to your industry and they should come from variant sources and from the people who would be very much interested in your services and products. Clients will be in full satisfaction if you are going to use reliable SEO strategies and own philosophy.
For every subject matter or the industry, a domain which is the trusted one will define the level of the backlinks quality. If you are running an apparel store and sports shoes, then you are likely or possibly depending on suppliers, athlete insights and the fellow owners of the business. Trusting people is the beneficial part those who are enjoying sports playing or fitness gym attendance regularly. Neighbours who are the ordinary people can share their insights which are the personal ones and information which is the valuable one about a particular sport. Because of this, as a result, natural distribution of quality backlinks can be created which will help your website to reach a reputed standing on the search engines. These backlinks are very much important in attaining the aims of the strategy of SEO if you are going to build a new website.
Burglary is an unlawful entry in any structure, such as business or home, with the idea to commit a crime inside such us larceny and theft. It doesn't require physical entering and breaking, but the offender can trespass through an open door on at the restricted area.
Unlike robbery, which usually involves the use of fear and force to obtain property or another person, in a burglary, there are no victims present. For instance, if you want to enter a boathouse with the intention to steal a boat. You trespass the area you are restricted to, and even if you find out that boat is not on its place, you will commit burglary.
Check this website to learn tips on how to hire a criminal defense lawyer for burglary attempt.
This particular type of crime has been around us from the very beginning of human existence. However, it became a universal law and most states around the USA have incorporated the idea of burglary through penal codes. The definition of theft under common law is a crime that took place in the restricted area.
Due to the ability to manipulate with this particular regulation, states have decided to broaden the definition to include illegal entries during the day and night. Burglary law exists with the idea to protect interests of the damaged party and to prevent further violence and theft that could happen.
Other laws tend to criminalize taking valuable property, but burglary is different because it requires entering the personal or business area without prior warrant and consent.
We have mentioned to you the primary definition of burglary, and it derives out of state law. Therefore, the components and elements of the crime may be different based on state and specific situation. According to federal criminal law, burglary has the particular meaning and states regulate the crime that happens.
The best way to understand the definition of burglary is by checking here.
The first and most important factor that will determine burglary involves breaking and entering into the restricted structure. The breaking can happen in two different ways: constructive and actual.
Actual breaking involves using physical force to enter somewhere. For example, it comprises kicking a door in, picking a lock or many more physical attempts. At the same time, it could mean using a slight amount of force such as pushing the door without breaking them.
On the other hand, constructive breaking means getting inside without using physical force but blackmail, threats, fraud and many more factors. You should have in mind that when a burglar decided to break into the structure, they have to enter inside to satisfy this particular element.
Of course, entering can be minimal, and burglar doesn't have to walk inside the building to commit a burglary crime. It is enough to stick a hand through a window, and that will prove sufficient to get burglary charges.
You should also note that entry must happen without the consent of the owner or person who occupies the property. Check this website: https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/what-is-breaking-and-entering.html to learn more on breaking and entering.
It is important to state that under the common law crime of burglary, the accused has to break into a home of someone else without prior consent and permission. On the other hand, the modern definition of theft is different because it involves a person who enters any structure or building, but it has to meet specific requirements.
It is one of the most usual things that states require that structure is capable of housing animals, people, or some sheltering property. Of course, residential houses qualify as well as other outlying structures such as sheds and garages, office buildings and stores.
You should have in mind that breaking into the area without fence doesn't qualify as burglary per se. However, since these areas are not sheltered for animals, people or property, it could be disqualified for robbery.
For instance, if you decide to break into an amusement park after hours, you won't meet the factors needed for the burglary charge. On the other hand, if you choose to break into the building of an amusement park, that would be considered a burglary.
Apart from everything you've read above, the structure also must be closed during the time for burglary to happen. If you enter the store during regular hours and steal something, then you will not commit burglary but a shoplifting crime. Of course, if you wait for the owner to close the store, and then you pick a lock and steel the same item, it is a burglary and not shoplifting crime.
In general, abandoned buildings won't qualify as structures or buildings that could provide you with burglary charges. If you decide to break and enter an abandoned building, that will result in other criminal charges.
The best way to constitute a burglary is by proving that a person had an intent to commit a crime while in the building. In general aspects, this particular crime is theft, but it could be burglary too depending on circumstances.
The intention of a crime must exist separately from breaking and entering. At the same time, timing is essential for determining a degree of the burglary charge. So if you want to reduce the possibility of charges, you should find an appropriate lawyer that will help you create a solid defense that will minimize sentence time and fines that you have to pay to damaged party.
Understanding what burglary is could also help you sue someone who broke and entered your home or store. That way, you will be able to reduce the hassle and find loopholes that will prevent that from ever happening again.
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Are you dreaming of learning Chinese easily? Then this article is for you! Tips for remembering Chinese characters at your service!
So, people often ask: is it difficult to learn Chinese?
Yes, it is difficult! But if you take admission in a best Chinese language school in Singapore then the efficient teachers will make it much easier for you. But you must have patience and eagerness to learn.
Many say it is one of the most difficult languages to study on the planet! In order to be able to read Chinese literature, you need to know at least 1000 characters! If you know at least 200 characters – you will begin to understand 40% of the literature: magazines, menu in restaurants, and their sites. The Chinese language does not have an alphabet.
Look for a partner in the Chinese language! It's very easy to find!
You may go to our favorite Internet and write a request: "free sites for the exchange of language experience" – and you will open a number of useful sites – register and practice! Also you can find in your city an evening club (or weekend club) for learning Chinese – it would be just a wish!
Often listen to Chinese radio or watch movies in Chinese. To date, you can find anything you like: radio stations in Chinese, and various TV shows, movies (for beginners – with translation) – allocate 1 hour per day for listening – and in the future your work will thank you!
Learning foreign languages is easy!
If speaking Chinese is perceived and remembered simply, then what to do with the written language of this language? All not by hearsay know that the Chinese language is famous for its complex and heavy hieroglyphs. This problem is faced by all those who study them. Everyone has to find and invent ways to easily memorize and store in memory a whole lot of hieroglyphics.
This exercise will not only remember them, but also learn how to write beautifully and correctly.
If you cannot remember once a whole hieroglyph, the muscle memory will allow you to finish it, because your hand will remember for yourself what exactly follows this grapheme.
And do not forget that if you want to learn how to write in Chinese, you need to remember not only a single hieroglyph, but words consisting of it, along with other hieroglyphs that you know.
Systematize them by key, it will not get confused and remember which word is written in this or that grapheme.
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Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) is implemented in South Africa as a means of promoting the economic participation of all South Africans. This is done with the hopes of creating equitable wealth distribution within South Africa.
Ownership–the black ownership of entities.
Management–the participation of black individuals in management and control sectors.
Skills Development–the amount spent on providing learnerships, training, apprenticeships and internships to black and unemployed South Africans.
Enterprise and Supplier Development–the procurement spent from empowering suppliers.
Socio–Economic Development–contributions to socio-economic development.
A business's compliance with these elements is checked by a BEE verification agency.
Fronting is the undermining of the objectives set by B-BBEE. Legally, this is defined by the Income Tax Act, the Companies Act and the Labour Relations Act as anti-avoidance, circumvention and non-genuine operations. In a nutshell, fronting is claiming to be B-BBEE compliant when you are, in fact, not.
Lying about the position or job title a black employee truly holds. This may be claiming a garden worker actually holds a senior position in the company.
Listing black employees as shareholders without their agreement or even their knowledge.
Giving a black employee an executive position but giving unequal pay than that of others.
Leaving black managers out of decision-making processes and not allowing them to participate in the capacity their title dictates.
Fronting is recognised as a criminal offence in South Africa. If found guilty of being dishonest about B-BBEE compliancy, whole businesses can face fines of up to ten per cent of their annual turnover and up to ten years in prison. Businesses may also be prohibited from doing business with the government for up to ten years. The B-BBEE Commission was established in 2016 to investigate fronting practices.
To ensure you are compliant with the codes in place, refer to BEE consultants who can help you become fully compliant.


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Past ASUU Administration Members Say Student Government Needs Restructuring on Every Level
By Kayleigh Silverstein, Special Projects Managing Editor, News Writer • October 21, 2022
When Jess Wojciechowski, the 2021-22 University of Utah student body president, met with the board of trustees to vote on the U's proposed tuition increase on March 24, she said it was clear...
Guest Opinion: Jess Wojciechowski, 2021-22 ASUU Student Body President
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In Feb. of 2021, I was elected as the University of Utah Student Body President in the first all-female presidency, also openly identifying as queer. At first, everyone seemed to be incredibly...
Taylor R. Randall Named Next President of the U
By Kayleigh Silverstein, Special Projects Managing Editor, News Writer • August 5, 2021
On Aug. 5, 2021 — eight months after former President Ruth Watkins announced her intended resignation from her position — the Utah System of Higher Education announced the University of Utah's...
After Student Pressure, U Takes New Steps Toward Divestment
By Kayleigh Silverstein, Special Projects Managing Editor, News Writer • May 20, 2021
The University of Utah academic senate voted in favor of the divestment recommendations made by the Senate Ad Hoc Committee for Divestment and Strategic Reinvestment Investigation. 70 members...
Kindness and a Love of Learning: Meet the 2019 Commencement Speakers
By Amy Loret • April 23, 2019
May 2019 Commencement Attendees at the University of Utah's 150th commencement ceremony can look forward to hearing speeches from two incredible individuals: Reverend France A. Davis and...
Tuition increase prices students out of education
It has happened yet again. It seems as though every spring comes with a rise in tuition at the U. The past three years have seen an increase, and this latest one is a whopping 5.9 percent. The times when...


PLEASE NOTE: The Chase Blu-ray is now only available from our friends at Twilight Time, is limited to only 3,000 copies and can be ordered while supplies last, from the links below.
Though most feature films are being shot on and in HD of some higher definition or another, it has not brought on the 'democratization' of filmmaking (save documentaries, fortunately) that was oddly assumed as automatic and if anything, HD combined with increasingly phony-looking CGI visual effects have actually driven ticker sales and audience excitement down. The majors all still save all their films on photochemical safely film prints just in case the HD fades, degrades or is otherwise erased.
Yet, many films are being filmed on film, even partially, because it is a different look and feel than HD and the idea that 'digital will 'eventually' look like film' missed the point and overgeneralizes about both formats to the point of ignorance. The idea is to increase the visual palette, not narrow it and even the box office is paying for that worldwide.
This is why I waited a while to feature several different films shot big in several different big screen formats to make a point of why film never was is or will be irrelevant to filmmaking as an artform or should be disregarded because somebody wants to be 'hip' with the latest technology, no matter how fleeting or soon obsolete so much of it will become. The idea is to take what you shot with and really do something different, smart, unique and compelling with it, have some inspiration and aspiration in visual storytelling. Talk is cheap and wishes about technology 'catch up' with other technology is silly, tired, bad science fiction and a shallow waste of time.
The Best Of Cinerama (1962) and Cinerama's Russian Adventure (1966) continue the remarkable saving and resurrecting of the original films in the three-projector format that melded the three synced images as one very wide image, thee 35mm film strips where each frame I just a little taller than the regular square of 35mm film (6 perforations versus 4). The first film combined footage from all the previous hit films, while the latter takes a film shot in the large frame format in the former Soviet Union and (I guess to de-communize it?) has Bing Crosby narrate it, taking footage from six Kinopanarama films and making them into a second compilation feature. They both are fun and worth checking out, though some might find them slightly choppy, they still have the travelogue sense of the earlier Cinerama and like films that started popping up in its wake.
Running over two hours each (143 and 127 minutes respectively), they are remarkable records of people and places captured in unprecedented depth, detail, color and realism and like any other big screen films, are meant to be not just mere movies, but experiences to really enjoy and become engrossed in. For those who have not seen the earlier Cinerama films (like the many we have reviewed elsewhere on this site), they are both great crash courses that will surprise and even stun those too used to the boring 'selfie/surveillance camera' mentality of repetitive digital images.
Next we have Arthur Penn's The Chase (1966), shot in regular 35mm film, but with anamorphic Panavision widescreen lenses to be as big as possible and as was the case back in the day, the big event films like this were also often considered for 70mm blow-up, shooting larger than they would today in most cases. This remarkable drama did not do well in its time, Producer Sam Spiegel took it out of the hands of up and coming director Penn (on his way to becoming one of the most important filmmakers in Hollywood; the late, great Robin Wood sites this film as the beginning of the New Wave of U.S. filmmaking in his brilliant book Hollywood: From Vietnam To Reagan (...and Beyond) reviewed elsewhere on this site) who disowned it after Spiegel had the film reedited, changed the ending to be commercial and even had new music added to it without telling anyone.
Yet, it was and is enough of a landmark to show that a new period was upon us and maybe the greatest in U.S. film history. Considering the cast, it is amazing more people have not heard of it. Marlon Brando is a local Sheriff in a small, corrupt town in the South, when a jailbreak (one of the 'breakers' is Robert Redford!) shakes up the isolated, angry, racist, sexist, troubled town that is too quiet for its own good. Redford's character is being blamed for things he did not do, but he's already been stigmatized by his criminality, but this is a town (reflective of elsewhere) that makes anyone who does not fit into a certain money and power elite expendable. Then there is a wedding ahead, so you know all hell is going to break loose.
Lillian Hellman adapted from a Horton Foote book (working closely with Penn) and so you can see the high level of talent that was working all around here. When you read the following, you to will scratch your head as to why this film got 'lost' in some shuffle. Angle Dickinson is Brando's wife, Jane Fonda knows the Redford character well, being his sister. The great E.G. Marshall is the evil head of power in the town, with the rest of the cast including Robert Duvall (!!!), James Fox, Janice Rule, Diana Hyland, Jocelyn Brando, Richard Bradford, Miriam Hopkins and Martha Hyer. So how does something that would instantly generate very strong curio interest alone get forgotten? It was apparently to honest, even reedited badly.
Fortunately, finally, Sony has released this Columbia Pictures gem as a Twilight Time Limited Edition Blu-ray well restored in the final version that actually hit theaters and even here, you can see, feel and watch something important, different, smart and great starting to happen. Spiegel would also drive David Lean away, losing two of the greatest directors any producer could ask for in the space of a few years. Too bad the studio was not spending more money and shooting it in 70mm, as they might have stopped Spiegel from what he did and whether we'll ever see anything close to Penn's original vision is unlikely at this time.
This is why seeing even this version of The Chase is so important. It is a great film more people should know about and I hope this will inspire you to find out more about it.
Circling back to Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk (2017) Nolan has shot Panavision and other regular 35mm in big ways too, then started trying out regular 70mm, real 70mm IMAX and VistaVision (horizontally shot 35mm with a huge 8-perforation frame) with each film (like his Batman Trilogy) moving more and more to larger frame footage. This take on the amazing tale on how hundreds of thousands of British soldiers were saved by secretly, simply taking them back home through non-military seagoing means has been bashed for excluding other countries who struggled there, other side stories or forgetting some key points as if Nolan would forget or not care.
I understand some of the concerns, but the point is not revisionist history or bashing any of the great Allied forces who obviously did help. One film is not going to be able to tell the whole story of what happened there (and I doubt a TV mini-series would suffice either), yet this was a hit and at a time when so many 'safer commercial' films rightly bombed. Because it is what Nolan and associates actually do here that is impressive, even if they sacrifice some key history and even have a few missed opportunities cinematically (which I cannot get into without spoiling the film or going off into a long, deep essay) to make this all work. Despite those few things missed, this film is actually a lover letter to the spirit of the real Britain, the Britain after the Empire falls, after WWII, after this incident which Nolan very wisely realizes is their Vietnam moment and how they recovered quickly from it because they had to.
By pairing it down only to British soldiers and citizens away from home, it becomes a character study of those great people who barely accomplished what the Empire and Royalty really could not: save the country from early, total annihilation from the Nazis and other Axis associates. It becomes an adventure in an all-too-real world and they make it so enveloping (especially with the larger-frame film format) that it is isolating in its own way, echoing the pain and situation England was uniquely alone in without dismissing anyone else. By additionally avoiding all the cliches of all the great British war films of the past, for which there are many (The Battle Of Britain a prime later example) it becomes all the more natural and best of all, a new, fresh take on events that only adds to the classic cannon in the best way possible.
The young mostly unknown cast is remarkable (even the singer Harry Styles gets for real in unexpected ways) backed by Tom Hardy, James D'Arcy, Mark Rylance, Cillian Murphy and Kenneth Branagh (whose own 70mm remake of Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express was released later the same year) shows that you have to almost reinvent the War genre to do it well. Nolan succeeds just enough in this and that is why this is one of 2017's best films, even with a few reservations on my part.
Warner has instantly issued it as one of their 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray w/Blu-ray set and for the 4K picture alone, it is the set to own, but more on that below.
Finally, speaking of genres that now need reinventing to work, Marlon Brando's One-Eyed Jacks (1961) was the great actor's only directing work, bold like The Chase and big as some other big screen (Sayonara) and large frame format films (the Mutiny On The Bounty remake) so he was still in demand and an actor in his early prime when he took on this Western tale where he plays one of the bank robbers in a heist that goes wrong for him. A Revenge Western on the surface, it becomes a character study of masculinity and a side of the West that had rarely been considered in the genre to that time.
Joining John Ford's classic The Searchers (1956, reviewed elsewhere on this site) as the other great Western shot in the VistaVision format, the film was originally issued by Paramount and is apparently the last ever fully shot in the format to this day. After dropping into home video public domain for way too long, Universal gained the rights and this restored version is arriving from no less than Criterion in another one of their great Blu-ray releases that makes nothing less than a real event.
Response to this one has been great and Brando handles directing chores better than you might think, having learned from his classic work before. The great supporting cast includes the great Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens, Timothy Carey, Pina Pellicker and Elisha Cook, Jr., so you can see Brando wanted to be further challenged and after seeing this restored and as great as it was meant to be, I can say that it really is one of the great Westerns and its rediscovery is long overdue. An excellent example of large frame format epic filmmaking, it can finally be appreciated as intended and will impress more than just Western fans.
The 2160p HEVC/H.265, HDR (10; Ultra HD Premium)-enhanced Ultra High Definition image on the 4K version of Dunkirk switches between 2.20 X 1 for the Panavision Super 70mm footage and 1.78 X 1 for the 70mm IMAX footage and after seeing literally thousands of video discs in my lifetime, I can say with great confidence that this is one of the best image-performing releases I have ever seen in my life with stunning, demonstration quality sharpness, color, depth, detail, range and fidelity that can be jaw-dropping and puts it up there with the greatest cinematic classics of all time visually. Having seen the film in 70mm, I can further confirm that this is extremely close to that print and will be a demo for many, many, many years to come. The 1080p Blu-ray included is also impressive and will not disappoint for what it is, but the 4K 2160p disc will sell Ultra HDTV sets.
The 1080p 2.58 X 1 Smilebox digital High Definition image in the two Cinerama Blu-rays look good for compilations and color, detail and depth are fine considering the limited budget and how hard it was to fix these films. Best Of actually updates the This Is Cinerama footage by getting to use (and afford to use) the full three 35mm strips transferred for the first time to digital HD. I can see improved detail, depth and clarity, yet I still like the older Blu-ray of the whole original film (see the link above) as it is still from a three-strip Technicolor reduction to 70mm print, so you have to own both to appreciate the film. Russian is from footage originally produced in the Sovcolor format, derived from older Agfacolor (via the AGFA Wolfen plant, their first, that landed up in Soviet territory/East Germany just after WWII and was used to make color film for the USSR, including the building of a factory within Russia) and fortunately, this is Sovcolor holding up when developed and stored properly.
Of course, final prints for this U.S. release were not Sovcolor (reportedly, they are Kodak), but it impresses enough just the same, making it a unique entry in both Cinerama and all large frame format releases in the U.S. and beyond. The anamorphically enhanced image of both DVDs of the Cinerama films look soft and are passable, but no match for the Blu-rays overall.
The 1080p 2.35 X 1 digital High Definition image transfer on The Chase can sometimes show the age of the materials used, but this is far superior a transfer to all previous releases of the film on home video and though Penn was expecting someone else, Director of Photography Joseph LaShelle, A.S.C., gets the big shots in. this film was originally issued ion 35mm dye-transfer, three-strip Technicolor prints and you can often see how good that would look here. Nice!
That leaves the 1080p 1.85 X 1 digital High Definition image transfer on Jacks fully restored, far, dar superior to all the awful 'public domain' prints of the film and also more than living up to its original release in dye-transfer, three-strip Technicolor lensed by Director of Photography Charles Lang, Jr. (Charade) was scanned at 6K before the finishing touches delivered this amazing presentation from the original VistaVision materials. It is truly like never having seen the film before and yet another excellent example of that format on Blu-ray.
As for sound, though Dunkirk has a 12-track master, Nolan has decided that the 4K and regular Blu-rays of the film only offer a DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 5.1 lossless mixdown that is guaranteed to disappoint some fans, but it is at least well done and as good as any soundmix here. We'll find out why he did this in detail at a later date, we surmise, but it is from a true state-of-the-art recording and you can even hear that here.
The two Cinerama Blu-rays also have DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 5.1 lossless mixes, but they tend to show their age and the limits of the recordings. Since we also get narration and the film footage is a series of revisits, we can assume some of the audio might be a generation down, but its not bad for its age, especially considering it goes back to the first film in the series introducing stereo surround to movie audiences worldwide and who knows what the Russian film sound was originally like. A PCM 2.0 Stereo version is also added to the Blu-rays and sound fine, while the DVDs have lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 mixes that are even weaker and lose some of the good sound from the DTS-MA.
The last two films are presented in monophonic sound from whatever their soundmasters were, with The Chase offering a DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 2.0 Mono lossless mix that sounds like a stereo mixdown of some kind, while the PCM 2.0 Mono on Jacks comes from its original three-track magnetic soundmaster and is honestly some of the best monophonic sound I have ever heard on home video. Except for Chase and Dunkirk, I cannot imagine these Blu-rays sounding any better than they do here.
and it also has Digital HD Ultraviolet Copy for PC, PC portable and other cyber capable devices.
and we get Slideshows: Ads and publicity materials, sample script pages, and "Russian Adventure Study Guide"
The Chase adds an Original Theatrical Trailer, an Isolated Score Track of John Barry's fine music, and a full length Audio Commentary with Film Historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo (who also supplies an excellent essay on the film in the included booklet), and Nick Redman.
Finally, One-Eyed Jacks includes a new introduction by Martin Scorsese who helped to get the film restored, excerpts from voice-recordings director and star Marlon Brando made during the film's production, a new video essays on the film's production history and its potent combination of the stage and screen icon Brando with the classic Hollywood western, Trailer and the booklet included has an essay by film critic Howard Hampton.
Nice that all these films are loaded with great extras!
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It's a 2-Way Traffic Signal Controller using 8051 microcontroller. It controls 6 lights (2 red, 2 yellow and 2 green) for 2-Way Traffic. It is an interesting and another basic learning project for student and hobbies.
1- Initially microcontroller will switche on both red LED lights of both ways and switches off all other LED lights of both ways.
2- Then wait for time defined by RESET_DELAY.
3- Now start servicing way 0 by switching yellow LED light of that way. Give delay of defined by YELLOW_DELAY.
4- Now switch off red and yellow LED lights of way 0 and switch on green of that way. Wait for green way 0 as defined by GREEN0_DELAY.
5- Switch off green and switch on yellow LED light for way 0. Give delay of defined by YELLOW_DELAY.
6- Switch off yellow and switch on red LED lights for way 0. Give delay of defined by RED_DELAY.
7- Now servicing of way 0 is complete and it is the time to service 2nd way that is way 1. Similarly we repeat steps from 2 to 6 for way 1 also.
8- After servicing of way 1 we once again start from way 0 as discussed earlier.
// Header file for AT89x051 microcontrollers regiter definitions.
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It's expected a program of shows, music, traditional dances that will open at 18.30 with the First Lady of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Mme Mehriban Aliyeva,official welcome speech, and it will continue at 18.45 with the Chamber Orchestra of the Azerbaijan State concert in the great Hall of the Auditorium.
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Q: Cocoa Touch - Moving an UIImageView around on screen What's a simple way to let users drag an UIImageView around to position it in the place of their choice. It's for a photography app.
Thanks!

A: First, make a container view that would take care of touch events.
Then, you need a UIIMageView subclass that will make sure, that when you set a center of the object, it doesn't go off-the-screen.
I made a class like that some time ago, here's the code (it can also be animatable).
.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface ObjectView : UIImageView
{
}

-(void) setCenter: (CGPoint) center inBounds: (CGRect) bounds withAnimation: (BOOL) animate;

@end

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#import "ObjectView.h"

@implementation ObjectView

#define MOVE_TO_CENTER_DURATION 0.1
-(void) setCenter: (CGPoint) center inBounds: (CGRect) bounds withAnimation: (BOOL) animate
{
    CGRect frame = self.frame;

    if(center.x + frame.size.width/2 > bounds.origin.x + bounds.size.width)
        center.x -= ((center.x + frame.size.width/2) - (bounds.origin.x + bounds.size.width));
    else if(center.x - frame.size.width/2 < bounds.origin.x)
        center.x += bounds.origin.x - (center.x - frame.size.width/2);

    if(center.y + frame.size.height/2 > bounds.origin.y + bounds.size.height)
        center.y -= (center.y + frame.size.height/2) - (bounds.origin.y + bounds.size.height);
    else if(center.y - frame.size.height/2 < bounds.origin.y)
        center.y += bounds.origin.y - (center.y - frame.size.height/2);

    if(animate) {
        [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
        [UIView setAnimationDuration: MOVE_TO_CENTER_DURATION];
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Hope it helps a bit!


It's business as usual that's the utopian fantasy, while creating something very new and different is the pragmatic way forward.
Cross-posted from YES! Magazine, where it was originally posted on July 6, 2011.
Today, the reigning policy orientation holds that the path to greater well-being is to grow and expand the economy. Productivity, profits, the stock market, and consumption: all must go continually up. This growth imperative trumps all else. It is widely believed that growth is always worth the price that must be paid for it—even when it undermines families, jobs, communities, the environment, and our sense of place and continuity.
But an expanding body of evidence is now telling us to think again. Economic growth may be the world's secular religion, but for much of the world it is a god that is failing—underperforming for billions of the world's people and, for those in affluent societies, now creating more problems than it is solving. The never-ending drive to grow the overall U.S. economy hollows out communities and the environment; it fuels a ruthless international search for energy and other resources; it fails at generating jobs; and it rests on a manufactured consumerism that is not meeting the deepest human needs. Americans are substituting growth and consumption for dealing with the real issues—for doing things that would truly make us and the country better off. Psychologists have pointed out, for example, that while economic output per person in the United States has risen sharply in recent decades, there has been no increase in life satisfaction and levels of distrust and depression have increased substantially.
We need to reinvent the economy, not merely restore it. The roots of our environmental and social problems are systemic and thus require transformational change. Sustaining people, communities, and nature must henceforth be seen as the core goals of economic activity, not hoped for byproducts of an economy based on market success, growth for its own sake, and modest regulation. That is the paradigm shift we seek.


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You start the car, pull out of the parking lot and hit the road. So far — a routine trip. Now, select flight mode. A pair of wings comes out of the sides of your vehicle and you take off for your destination.
Like the cars in Ridley Scott's masterpiece "Blade Runner" flying over a dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, the prototype of the vehicle being developed by Silicon Valley-based New Future Transportation (NFT) is theoretically set to sail the skies of the Bay Area in October next year.
"Our mission is not transportation, but better quality of life," said NFT chairman Guy Kaplinsky, an Israeli who, with his wife Maki Kaplinsky, designed the car.
The two entrepreneurs live near Palo Alto, about 50 miles from San Francisco, because "houses are more beautiful and cheaper" than in the metropolis, they said. However, for people who need to get to work near the Golden Gate Bridge, it takes as much as two and a half hours by car, because of traffic congestion.
According to a study by inrix.com, people in the San Francisco area spent on average 79 peak hours stuck in traffic in 2017, ranking the city the third out of 297 cities in the US and fifth out of 1,360 urban centers around the world in driving time spent in congestion.
Kaplinsky said their competitively priced flying vehicle will allow users to save time and money.
The flying car prototype will be a zero-emission multimodal vehicle — that can both drive and fly — the size of a sport utility vehicle (SUV), with two or four seats. It will take off and land vertically, and its wings will retractable, not fixed, the two entrepreneurs explained.
"We made our design flexible" by creating a sort of hybrid system, CEO Maki Kaplinsky said.
The aim is to use just batteries in the future, the entrepreneurs explained, without a generator. However, they said, batteries allowing for such ranges are yet to be developed and it is difficult to predict when this breakthrough will take place.
The vehicle will be able to be either piloted or fly autonomously, said Maki Kaplinsky, adding that US regulations allow flight at a height of 300 to 5,000 feet, even if in practice it is able to fly above and below this range.
User-friendliness is the main feature of NFT's projected flying car, which makes it stand out among other kinds of flying vehicles, the husband and wife said.
Maki Kaplinsky underlined that while drones and other electric aircraft require specific spots for parking and charging, NFT's flying car can be parked in a garage or in the street. More importantly, she added, the vehicle's "drive and fly" ability will allow users to reach their final destination using just one vehicle.
Asked about technical issues that may arise with flying cars in an urban environment, the two entrepreneurs said that of course "people don't like having cars flying above their heads," but that the vehicles would be taking off from designated areas near shopping centers or highways. The two entrepreneurs believe that at low altitudes, the vehicles could fly over roads, open water or green areas so as to avoid the problem, while for higher altitudes there will be no issue because flying cars would be "just like today's aircraft flying above us," Maki Kaplinsky said.
In terms of air traffic control management, Guy Kaplinsky said that each country has different regulations, and that in the US the Federal Aviation Administration would be the monitoring authority regulating traffic. With the introduction of flying cars, he said, the vehicles would be given a specific space slot according to their route.
"Our mission and advantage is door-to-door [commuting]," said Maki Kaplinsky, adding that their car won't be "a toy for rich guys" and will be "accessible for regular people," with a target price of $50,000.
Maki Kaplinsky said that they began thinking of the project about three years ago and when in July 2017 they sold their previous company — US-based IoT software startup IQP Corp. — to General Electric, they decided to fully embrace this challenge. At the beginning this year they opened an office in California and hired 15 — to become soon 35 — engineers in Israel.
The first step in their vision will be to start flying cargo, and only then people, said Maki Kaplinsky.
The company aims to launch the drive-and-fly cargo vehicle by the end of 2022 and a flying car for human transportation by 2025.
The manufacturing of parts, such as motors and windows, will be carried out by partners, "most probably automotive Tier 1" companies, Maki Kaplinsky said.
She added that in January 2019 the company will open an Israeli assembly line so as to produce full-size demonstrators to be tested not only in the US, but also in Israel.
"We are investing $2 million by ourselves at this stage (seed founding), but we are contacting VCs in the Silicon Valley and Japan, aimed at rising $15 million for the A series," Maki Kaplinsky said.


Conditions that favor one type of soybean stem disease often favor many. This is one reason we tend to see increased reports of sudden death syndrome (SDS), brown stem rot (BSR), stem canker, and others all at the same time. These diseases can also be very challenging to distinguish from one another.
Since in-season fungicides are not effective controls for these diseases, why should we care which one we have? Well, knowing your enemy means knowing your control options, and this can make financial sense. Resistant soybean varieties, planting site selection, rotation plans may all be available to help you manage your problem, but only if you know what pathogen you are facing.
Both SDS and BSR are caused by fungi that infect the plant when conditions soon after planting are cool and persistently wet. They both cause identical leaf discoloration that can be very visually striking (Figure 1), and in both cases, symptoms tend to start showing up long after infection, late in the reproductive stages of the plant.
There are some key differences between SDS and BSR that will help you determine which disease your soybeans suffer from.
Scan the affected areas of the field. When they die, do the leaves remain on the plant or fall off? In the case of SDS, leaves will fall off and your plants will look like they were browsed by deer (Figure 2). Plants that hold on to dead, droopy leaves indicate BSR.
Cut open the stems lengthwise. Is there browning of the tissue inside? If browning is found only in the very center of the stem (pith), this indicates BSR. If the browning is not in the center, and instead on either side of the interior of the stem (cortex), you are dealing with SDS (Figure 3).
Pull up some plants and take a look at the exterior of the roots. The pathogen that causes BSR does not affect the roots, only the aboveground plant parts. If you see fuzzy or powdery white or blue growth on the upper portions of the roots, this is indicative of SDS (Figure 4).
The blue color fades with exposure to air, so you will have to look soon after pulling. Opening this root may also reveal brown discoloration.
Figure 4: Blue to white fungal growth on the tap root indicates sudden death syndrome.
Additional resources with images that may help you further identify and manage these diseases include Soybean Stem Diseases: What are the Different Symptoms and Signs?Visit the Crop Protection Network Factsheet Library and download "Scouting for Stem Diseases" and "Sudden Death Syndrome" to learn more about these and other soybean stem diseases.


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