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The Canadian Soccer Association announced on Monday that Vancouver Whitecaps FC Homegrown players Bryce Alderson and Caleb Clarke, and Whitecaps FC Residency graduate Ben Fisk, are among 20 players called up to Canada's U-20 men's national team. The three selections for Whitecaps FC are tied for the most from one club, along with Toronto FC Academy.
Canada's men's U-20 team will participate in the four-team Marbella Cup during a 10-day camp in Spain from October 7 to 16. Canada will face USA on October 10, Azerbaijan on October 12 and Scotland on October 15. The Canadian camp will be based at the Marbella Football Center in Marbella, Spain.
Alderson and Clarke were last called into camp with the Canadian U-20 men's national team last month for an eight-day camp in Florida, as the Red and White played a pair of friendly matches against Trinidad and Tobago. Clarke scored three of Canada's four goals over the two matches.
Fisk, meanwhile, recently returned from Germany, where he was on trial for the past two months. Prior to departing, Fisk helped Whitecaps FC U-18 Residency to the 2011-12 United States Soccer Development Academy (USSDA) championship final. The Richmond-born midfielder led Academy Finals Week with seven goals.
The Canadian squad features players from all four professional teams in Canada plus clubs from five European nations. In fact, eight of the 20 players play for either Vancouver Whitecaps FC (Residency), FC Edmonton (Reserves), Toronto FC (Academy) or Montreal Impact (Academy) in Canada. Other players have been called in from clubs in England, Germany, Hungary, Portugal and Spain.
This marks former Whitecaps FC player and assistant coach and current Canadian U-20 men's national team head coach Nick Dasovic's third project for 1993-born players, with an eye towards next year's biennial CONCACAF & FIFA competitions. Canada will compete in the 2013 CONCACAF Men's Under-20 Championship from February 18 to March 3 in Mexico. Four teams from the 12-team tournament will qualify for the FIFA U-20 World Cup Turkey 2013.
GK- Ricky Gomes | POR / Sport Clube de Mirandela
GK- Quillan Roberts | CAN / Toronto FC
CB- Doneil Henry | CAN / Toronto FC
CB- Manjrekar James | HUN / PMFC-MATIAS
CB- Nikola Paunic | CAN / Toronto FC Academy
FB- Jon Dollery | ENG / Crawley Town FC
FB- Marco Lapenna | GER / FC Erzgebirge Aue
FB- Allan Zebie | CAN / Edmonton FC Reserve
M- Bryce Alderson | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC
M- Keven Aleman | ESP / Real Valladolid
M- Dylan Carreiro | ENG / Queens Park Rangers
M- Mauro Eustáquio | POR / Sporting Clube de Pombal
M- Ben Fisk | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency
M- Jonathan Lao | GER / FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt
M- Kevin Luarca | CAN / Académie Impact Montréal
M/F- Michael Petrasso | ENG / Queens Park Rangers
M- Samuel Piette | GER / Fortuna Düsseldorf
M- Alessandro Riggi | ESP / Celta de Vigo
F- Caleb Clarke | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC
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Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sven-Erik Behrens
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(1) Exploring the roles of TBSV P19 and TCV P38 in affecting antiviral and cellular RNA silencing
Background and significance
Small RNA-mediated RNA silencing is the primary adaptive immune response against (+)RNA viruses in higher plants. Inductors are structured elements of the viral genome or double-stranded RNAs that are generated by cellular RNA polymerases or during viral replication via (-)RNA intermediates. The RNA triggers are processed by the Dicers DCL2, 3 and 4 into 21-24 nt long vsiRNAs, which move ahead of the infection in the plant and may establish antiviral RNA silencing and immunity. As a key-feature of silencing, vsiRNAs are incorporated into RNA-induced silencing complexes (RISC) that contain ARGONAUTE (AGO) nucleases and other, yet uncharacterized components. Ten AGO proteins were identified in A. thaliana, from which AGO1, 2, 3, 5 and 7 were indicated to contribute to antiviral protection (see previous studies). In antiviral RISC the vsiRNA guide strand directs the AGO/RISC to the cognate viral RNA that is inactivated by cleavage in the siRNA–RNA duplex. Another RNA silencing pathway in plants is mediated by micro RNAs (miRs) that are processed by DCL1 from genome-encoded RNA precursors. MiRs are also incorporated into RISC and may mediate endonucleolytic cleavage or translational repression of mRNAs. During plant and virus co-evolution, most viruses developed viral suppressor proteins of RNA silencing (VSRs). VSRs are often pathogenic itself by targeting dicing, RNA amplification or RISC assembly in anti-viral but also cellular RNA silencing. Though VSRs of different viruses show little homology, they often affect similar processes. For example, the Tombusvirus P19 and the Carmovirus P38 were both reported to locally increase the amount of miR168 in the plant . MiR168 represses the expression of AGO1 mRNA , and P19 was demonstrated to inhibit antiviral silencing by decreasing the AGO1 level via mir168 induction. P19 was shown to inhibit silencing also by sequestering vsiRNAs. P38 was indicated to associate via the GW/WG 'AGO hook motif' with AGO1 and to impair sRNA loading and de novo formation of AGO1/RISC. Infections with P38-expressing virus correlate with an increase in the amount of DCL1 in the plant, and it was proposed that AGO1/P38 interactions impact the level of miR162, which is a negative regulator of the DCL1 mRNA. The unequivocal characterization of the anti-silencing activities of VSRs is hampered by their multifunctional nature. For example, P38 also acts as a virus coat protein; accordingly mutations in the protein frequently interfere with virus viability in planta. Here, we propose to apply a newly developed in vitro system that enables studies on P19 and P38 independently from the viral infection and assembly processes.


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With more than 38 Sports Game of the Year and Best Of mentions, 2013 saw the return of the NBA video game franchise from 2K Sports. NBA 2K14 raises the bar yet again, providing the best basketball gaming experience for legions of sports fans and gamers around the world.
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S&P faces suit over loan ratings
WASHINGTON -- The government is expected to file civil charges against Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, alleging that it improperly gave high ratings to mortgage debt that later plunged in value and helped fuel the 2008 financial crisis.
The charges would mark the first enforcement action the government has taken against a major rating agency involving the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
S&P said Monday the Justice Department had informed it that it intends to file a civil lawsuit focusing on S&P's ratings of mortgage debt in 2007. The action does not involve any criminal allegations.
S&P denies any wrongdoing and says any lawsuit would be without merit.
A lawsuit would "disregard" the fact that S&P reviewed the same data on risky mortgages as U.S. government officials, who said publicly in 2007 that the problems in the subprime mortgage market appeared to be limited, the company said in a statement.
In the statement, S&P said it "deeply regrets" that its ratings on some securities "failed to fully anticipate the rapidly deteriorating conditions in the U.S. mortgage market during that tumultuous time."
Justice Department spokeswoman Nanda Chitre declined to comment.
S&P is a unit of New York-based McGraw-Hill Cos. McGraw-Hill's stock plunged nearly 14 percent Monday after reports surfaced about the government's expected lawsuit.
Moody's Corp., the parent of Moody's Investors Service, another rating agency, closed down nearly 11 percent. The two companies' stocks suffered the biggest percentage drops in the S&P 500 index, which finished down slightly more than 1 percent.
S&P, Moody's, and Fitch Ratings, the third major rating agency, have been blamed for helping fuel the financial crisis by assigning AAA ratings to trillions of dollars in risky securities backed by subprime mortgages. The securities collapsed once the housing bubble burst and home-loan delinquencies soared. Major U.S. banks absorbed tens of billions in losses.
The rating agencies are important arbiters of the creditworthiness of securities traded around the world. The grades they assign can affect a company's ability to raise or borrow money and how much investors will pay for securities it issues.
The securities in the anticipated federal lawsuit are collateralized debt offerings. CDOs are investment vehicles that contain many underlying mortgage loans.
A CDO generally gains in value if borrowers repay. But a wave of defaults can cause them to tumble in value. Soured CDOs contributed to, and intensified, the financial crisis.
Critics have long argued that rating agencies have an inherent conflict of interest: They're paid by the same companies whose products and credit they rate. The agencies have been accused of issuing unduly high ratings before the crisis, in part because of pressure from banks they desired as clients.


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Why Did Jesus Die? (10) Substitutionary Themes in the Atonement
A certain theme of substitution runs throughout all the ways of thinking about the Cross. That is, since Christ has died for us, we no longer have to die. "I am the resurrection and the life," Jesus said. "He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die". (John 11:25-26) He means souls and bodies that have become separated will one day be reunited, having first been perfected and glorified. He also means, by saying "shall never die," that neither our souls nor our bodies will ever be separated from God.
He died to rescue us from death, as a fireman might die to rescue a child from a burning house. This is how we read such verses as:
4 He bears our sins, and is pained for us: yet we accounted him to be in trouble, and in suffering, and in affliction. 5 But he was wounded on account of our sins, and was bruised because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and by his bruises we were healed. 6 All we as sheep have gone astray; every one has gone astray in his way; and the Lord gave him up for our sins. 7 And he, because of his affliction, opens not his mouth: he was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth. 8 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken away from the earth: because of the iniquities of my people he was led to death. (Isaiah 53:4-8, Septuagint)
Another place in the Bible where we can discern an element of substitution – or at least role reversal – is 2 Corinthians 5:21, "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."
Christ remained righteous at all times, else we could not become "the righteousness of God in Him." That is why St. Paul is careful to add, "who knew no sin." We do not imagine that a person, especially a divine person, could literally morph into a thing, especially into sin. Rather, St. Paul means that in Jesus' dying, sin died. He and sin died together on the Cross. (See Part 04 of this series.) St. Peter means the same thing when he writes of Him "who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness--by whose stripes you were healed." (I Peter 2:24)
If we are circumspect about it (circumspection being necessitated by heterodox teaching), we can also describe this same thing, the necessity of dying to destroy death, metaphorically and say Christ bore the penalty of our sin upon the Cross. We do not mean the Father was literally punishing the world through the Son; for this is not the kind of unmerciful God we worship.
We do mean that what happened, like what happened to a sacrificial animal, had the same effect as if it had been for punishment; this, together with the fact that we indeed deserved punishment, is why the metaphor is apt. God allowed His sinless One to suffer and die exactly as a sinner would; in fact, the same way a criminal in those days did die. (Indeed, He was crucified with two other men who really were criminals.) This, although we were the ones who deserved to suffer and die, while He did not.
Christ assumed our nature; He voluntarily submitted to all the consequences of sin. He took on Himself the responsibility for our error, while remaining a stranger to sin, in order to resolve the tragedy of human liberty and in order to bridge the gulf between God and man by leading him into the heart of His person where there is no room for any division or interior conflict. (Vladimir Lossky, The Mystical Theology of the Orthodox Church, p. 153)
Another verse whose irony gives us at least a hint of substitution is, "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree')." (Galatians 3:13, quoting Deuteronomy 21:23)
The curses here are prescribed by the Law of Moses. Again, they do not have to do with God the Father blaming His all-righteous Son for our sins. St John Chrysostom explains:
In reality, the people were subject to another curse, which says, 'Cursed is every one that continues not in the things that are written in the book of the Law.'" (Deut. xxvii. 26.) To this curse, I say, people were subject, for no man had continued in, or was a keeper of, the whole Law; but Christ exchanged this curse for the other, 'Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree.' … It was like an innocent man's undertaking to die for another sentenced to death, and so rescuing him from punishment. For Christ took upon Him not the curse of transgression, but the other curse, in order to remove that of others. (St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on Galatians, Chapter 3, emphasis mine.)
God the Father, then, is not transferring our curse onto Christ. Christ is taking upon Himself a different curse. He subjects Himself to one curse in the course of freeing us from another.
It was indeed "like an innocent man's undertaking to die for another sentenced to death, and so rescuing him from punishment" – one readily sees the simile – but this is a simile, a figure of speech, for besides such a substitution being legally unacceptable, punishment is not in question where there is forgiveness. To forgive is to rescind the punishment, to overrule the penalty, to cancel the debt, to give up ones claim against another. Forgiveness and punishment are opposites and mutually exclusive. Where punishment is exacted (except in the case of chastisement), there is no forgiveness. And no loving either, but only self-serving, which is something in which our God never indulges. "God is love," and "love seeketh not her own."
Let the Pharisees grumble if they think it unfair, or let the elder brother of the Prodigal Son howl for "justice"; the unkindness is theirs. (And so is the error regarding the nature of justice.) As for us, let us simply fall before Christ's cross in tears of overwhelming, grateful, joyous repentance.
"For scarcely in behalf of a just man does one die; yet perhaps one might bring himself to die for a good man. But God demonstrates His love towards us, because when we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:6-9)
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Why Did Jesus Die? (11) Jesus Didn't Have to Die to be our Scapegoat
Ever wondered where the term "scapegoat" came from? No? Well, please allow me to tell you anyway.
In the Old Testament, we read of Aaron, Moses' brother, being commanded to
take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle…Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat. And Aaron shall bring the goat on which the LORD's lot fell, and offer it as a sin offering. But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement upon it, and to let it go as the scapegoat into the wilderness. (Leviticus 16:7-10)
Then Aaron was to sacrifice the goat upon which the Lord's lot had fallen, according to specific instructions that occupy the next ten verses of this story, and after that was done,
Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man. The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to an uninhabited land; and he shall release the goat in the wilderness. (Leviticus 16:21-22)
As a model for Penal Substitutionary Atonement, the scapegoat has its pros and cons.
One of the cons is that this passage, running through verse 26, is the only mention of the scapegoat in the whole Bible (that I have found, at least). The scapegoat simply isn't a very big deal. He provides a minor type of Christ, in that he carries away sins. But there is no major prefiguring going on here, no big billing given the scapegoat, as you would expect if it were to be a central way of thinking about Christ. Nobody says, "Behold, the Goat of God, that takes away the sins of the world!" even though the scapegoat did. This is very little here to make into Pen-Sub Atonement.
Here indeed is a clear instance, unique as far as I know, of symbolic transfer of guilt to the goat. (Does anyone know whether the meaning of the priest laying his hand on the head of sin offerings is anywhere specified?) But the scapegoat wasn't ritually slaughtered for that guilt! His flesh was not offered up on the altar and he gave no blood. He was released alive. Granted the goat's life-expectancy in the desert was short; still, the point obviously wasn't whether he lived or died. The point was to get rid of the nation's sins by taking them off into never-never-land (as it were).
Death has to be combated by death, specifically by the death of the God-Man, who alone can destroy it; but guilt is something God simply takes away. He is the Scapegoat. He is the King in the parable, who forgave his servant's great debt. He is the Owner of the vineyard, who paid his late-coming workers more than their bargain called for; in fact, there wasn't actually any bargain at all! He only said, "You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you will receive." (Matthew 20:7) He is the Father of the Prodigal Son, who required no payback or punishment, but immediately ordered up a feast and said, "Let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!'
And they began to be merry. (Luke 15:23-24)
Shall we?
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Why Did Jesus Die? (12) To be our Immanuel
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (Isaiah 53:3)
"Immanuel," in Hebrew, means "God with us." The Lord was not only with us, but was and is one of us. Born as one of us, He lived as one of us, accepting even hunger and thirst, fatigue and temptation. Now He also accepts torture and death, both to experience and to display complete solidarity with the human race. In fact, He accepts even to die as a criminal, between two real criminals.
He even, as a Man, shares the feeling sinners have of being lost and alone, which they interpret as being godforsaken. Quoting Psalm 22:1, He cries, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46, Mark 15:34)
We may rightly interpret this in several ways, for instance:
* that Jesus was praying the first words of the Psalm (which ultimately becomes a Psalm of victory)
* and/or that He was reminding the onlookers of that prophetic Psalm
* and/or that, humanly speaking, He was referring to God's having let this happen
* and/or that He was sharing sinners' experience of feeling lost and godforsaken
What we must not do, however, is suppose God the Father could ever in truth reject God the Son. That same Psalm 22, the one that begins with, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" later on (v. 24) tells us explicitly that from the Father's point of view, this did not actually happen.
For He has not despised nor abhorred
the affliction of the afflicted;
Nor has He hidden His face from Him;
But when He cried to Him, He heard.
When He cried to God (not later), God heard Him. Nor is it even possible that the Father should have abandoned the Son in the sense of turning away from Him in anger or disgust and separating Himself, for Father and Son share a single essence. Moreover they share a single, divine will, meaning if the Father had turned away from Him, the Son would also have had to turn away from Himself. Nor could the Father and the Son together be abandoning the human Christ only, for in Christ, humanity and divinity are united inseparably and without partition. Whatever is done to Christ is done to the Person, the Bearer of both natures.
So from God the Father's point of view this forsaking did not happen. God, in His infinite love - infinite! knowing no limits - never forsakes anyone. He is sometimes said to give sinners up to uncleanness, as in Romans 1:24, or to give them over to reprobate minds, Romans 1:28; but in none of these cases is God abandoning anyone. He is allowing them to go their own way, abandoning Him. St. Paul also writes that God "delivered Him [Christ] up for us all…" (Romans 8:32) but again, this means He allowed wicked men to crucify Him. It emphatically does not mean, cannot mean, God somehow withdrew from His own, incarnate Self!
In fact, paradoxically, the fact that God never abandons anyone is the very point of Jesus' cry -- for if, in His humanity, God shares even this, the existential loneliness of sinners, worse than death, then it is certain that God is with us forever in all things. Even in this, we are never abandoned. Christ died to share our human lot to the last, bitter dregs, and to redeem it. "Whatever is not assumed," say the Fathers, "is not healed." But Christ shares every single thing it means for us to be fallen human beings, except blame. (Hebrews 4:15)
He is with us always and in every way, as our beloved, our hope, our joy and consolation, in all sorrows, in all trials, even in death, even in our feelings of godforsakenness. In life and in death and beyond, He is our Immanuel, our God-with-us.
Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, "Surely the darkness shall fall on me,"
Even the night shall be light about me;
Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the day;
The darkness and the light are both alike to You.
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Just requoting Paul Kedrosky's post today:
What people don't get about sovereign debt is that countries are sharks when it comes to debt and default. That is the real lesson of research and writing and history in this area – that countries have been messing around, defaulting and restructuring in debt markets for hundreds and hundreds of years. Defaults, busted banks and the like is what happens when you lend to countries that have much more experience and cynicism about their use of debt than you think they do.
This blogger through firsthand experience in a commercial bank's risk and asset division, is witness to the financial wizardry the modern financial system employs to build the mountain of debt on which our capitalist societies exist on. In the news we are also witness to the horrors that mismanagement of debt and currency can create.
Kedrosky is not a lone voice here. We've captured the sentiments of others
like Gerald Celente, Max Kaiser, and Peter Schiff all of whom have put up credible arguments about how tentative and fragile a system based on debt is.
Not all who understand the system are speaking up vehemently against it. Our favorite speculator George Soros certainly understands the goings-on but is content to "game" the system for profit (and successfully too).
What this blogger finds interesting is despite all these critiques, the system continues unabated–notwithstanding the ever increasing magnitude of crises that recur. The arguments put forth by the pundits are actually dated–these sentiments have been around for as long as a monetary system has been around. Our favorite skeptical empiricist, Nassim Taleb, blames moral hazards for perpetuating the flawed system, but even the question of moral hazards isn't new.
After all isn't rewarding someone for "bad" behaviour the crux and aspiration of prosperity and decadence? The whole system is rigged to feed on itself! So far the common alternatives to the flawed system, barring a return to primitive times, propounded by the pundits range from a form of "modified capitalism" (shades of the Austrian School) to more "radical socialism" (e.g. Zeitgeist, Venus Project).
Which is why it far from surprises this blogger that "experience and cynicism" are the placeholders that Kedrosky chose to describe what underpins the motive of governments regarding debt. There are those who complain and those who game, but the last bucket are those who still choose to participate in the system–maybe in a fit of realism, maybe fatalism.
Meanwhile someone please buzz this blogger when and if we decide to let go of this monetary system and its sydstem of debt.
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Five New Cinematographers and One Still Photographer Added to the Program
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., April 12, 2010 – Canon U.S.A. Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today announced the addition of five cinematographers and one photographer to the Company's Explorers of Light program which is an illustrious group of influential, imaging professionals who serve as ambassadors for Canon products. The addition of these cinematographers further solidifies the importance that Canon's EOS HD video products have played in the industry. From being used on set for hard-to-get shots for motion pictures to filming full-length television commercials, Canon's EOS HD video products are beginning to revolutionize the film and television industry.
The use of Canon EOS HD video products has increased exponentially and these five new members have been on the frontlines leading the charge. Based upon their outstanding work in cinematography, Alex Buono, director of photography for Saturday Night Live; Rodney Charters, director of photography for 24; Crescenzo Notarile, director of photography for Ghost Whisperer; Russell Carpenter, director of photography for films such as Titanic, True Lies and Charlie's Angels; and Shane Hurlbut, director of photography for Terminator: Salvation, have been added to Canon's group of Explorers of Light.
In addition, photographer Damian Strohmeyer of Sports Illustrated has been added to the Explorers of Light program based upon his excellence in still photography. While the use of the video capabilities in EOS products has increased, Canon remains an industry leader with still photography and continues to be the choice of respected professionals out in the field.
"Explorers of Light members have always represented the very best still photographers throughout the world," said Yuichi Ishizuka, executive vice president and general manager, Consumer Imaging Group, Canon U.S.A. "With Canon's EOS HD video being used more and more, it is only natural that we recognize the tremendous work by the professionals who are the best in their trade using our products on a regular basis."
Alex Buono For the past ten seasons, Alex Buono has been the director of photography for Saturday Night Live, for which he recently used one of Canon's EOS HD video cameras to shoot the opening montage. In 2003, Alex received an Oscar nomination for his work on the short film "Johnny Flynton", which he produced and photographed. In the past, he has also been a part of the camera crews for films such as Twister, Conspiracy Theory and Armageddon. Buono is a member of the Writer's Guild of America, International Cinematographer's Guild and International Documentary Association.
Russell Carpenter, ASC With credits in films such as Titanic, True Lies, Indian in the Cupboard and Monster-in-Law, Russell Carpenter is a household name in the cinematography industry. The Oscar award-winning Carpenter, who recently used a Canon EOS HD product for scenes in an upcoming film, has also shot a blend of small independent films and commercials when taking a break from larger projects. Carpenter is a proud and long-standing member of the American Society of Cinematographers.
Rodney Charters, ASC Some would say New Zealand-native Rodney Charters was born to be a cinematographer. Inspired by his father's love for movies, Charters took up the art of filmmaking very early. As the current director of photography for the award-winning FOX series 24, Charters has used Canon's EOS HD video cameras to shoot a number of scenes. While the show is on hiatus, the American Society of Cinematographers member spends the bulk of him time behind the lens of small features and television movies.
Shane Hurlbut, ASC As the director of photography for the feature film Terminator: Salvation, Shane Hurlbut put the Canon EOS 5D Mark II to the test filming various scenes where larger cameras would have had difficulty. Hurlbut calls the camera a "game changer" since the cinematography capabilities are endless. Working together with his "Elite Team", Hurlbut has shot a total of 14 films of various genres while always maintaining the highest of professional standards. The American Society of Cinematographers member has also shot commercials for high-profile companies and is working on a currently untitled feature about Navy Seals.
Crescenzo Notarile, ASC Since 2006, Crescenzo Notarile has been the director of photography for the television show, The Ghost Whisperer. Recently, with the use of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, he has shot webisodes for the show which are available on CBS.com. For over 18 years, Notarile has been a member of the International Cinematographer's Guild and was awarded with a National Emmy Award in 1997 for "Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography."
Damien Strohmeyer Having photographed major sporting events such as the World Series, NBA Finals, Indy 500, World Cup and over 20 Super Bowls, Damian Strohmeyer is one of Sports Illustrated's most important assets to have on the sidelines for a big game. For his outstanding achievement capturing those memorable sporting event moments, Strohmeyer has been the recipient of awards from the National Press Photographers Association, Pictures of the Year, The National Headliners Awards and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In addition to his work as a Sports Illustrated staff photographer for over a decade, Strohmeyer is a frequent speaker at educational events where he offers tips and techniques to aspiring professionals like himself.
Explorers of Light The Explorers of Light concept came out of Canon U.S.A. in the mid 1990s as a broad-ranging initiative for photographic education and inspiration. Today, the group is comprised of more than 60 of the most influential photographers and cinematographers in the world, each a master of their own creative specialty. The Explorers share their photographic passions and technical expertise with eager audiences of photo professionals, hobbyists and enthusiasts in a variety of personal appearances, seminars and gallery showings throughout the United States. Examples of the Explorers' work may be found online at the Explorers of Light Gallery as well as numerous museums, galleries and publications. Explorers of Light use Canon EOS photographic equipment, and many print with Canon iPF wide format printers. Most recently, many of their public presentations have been enhanced with their use of high-resolution Canon REALiS projectors. For more information, please visit the Canon Digital Learning Center:
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When I choose an URL, from the Favorites(Bookmarks) in a browser, to be
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City Councilwoman Lorie Zapf provided the money from her council office budget to help with traffic management for the Oct. 4-5 event, according to Todd Gloria, interim mayor.
Zapf had been a driving force to keep the show going when it was threatened by federal budget cuts. The site of annual the show, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, is in her district.
Gloria was joined Zapf and former Mayor Jerry Sanders at a downtown news conference to urge San Diegans to attend the show.
Gloria called it "a tradition in our community something we all look forward to every year."
Sanders, who is now head of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, said "keeping this tradition alive is extremely important for our region."
This year's event was in limbo after the Defense Department declined to grant a waiver to its no-fly policy for military aircraft to perform at air shows because of sequestration and other budget cuts.
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Sacajawea was born in 1790 and was the wife of Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian trapper. The pair were hired by Lewis and Clark in 1804 for their epic expedition, largely because of her skills as an explorer and interpreter.
Sacajawea was a Shoshone Indian who had been kidnapped by another tribe, the Hidatsa Indians, around 1802. The Hidatsa later sold her to the Mandans. Two years later, Charbonneau bought her from her captors and took her as his wife, despite the fact that he was already married. She gave birth to her first child, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (nicknamed "Pomp"), in February 1805. Lewis and Clark regarded this as an advantage to their position, and felt that other Indian tribes would see her as an indication of their intent to be peaceful.
As well as her guiding duties, Sacajawea shared her knowledge of the culinary and medicinal properties of roots and berries, and helped save documents and supplies when a canoe capsized in May 1805. She was particularly helpful in the Shoshone Indian territory in August 1805, because of her knowledge of the area, and when she discovered that a group they encountered was led by her brother Cameahwait. She was able to persuade the Shoshones to sell the travelers horses so they could travel over the Rocky Mountains toward the Pacific.
On the return trip, Sacajawea proved a valuable guide when she remembered trails from her childhood. The most important of these was a pass, known today as Bozeman Pass, Montana, which led through a mountain gap to the Yellowstone River.
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Sacagawea's contribution to the Lewis and Clark expedition was invaluable.[1][2]
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We practically begged for this yesterday and Reid Forgrave over at Fox Sports happily obliged because the "Royal Gods of Wimbledon" (always capitalized, I checked) made the American flag fall down. Or something.
This thing is dripping with crotchety-old-man-juice and sprinkled with some...let's call it poorly-chosen imagery.
Then the 30-year-old who will end her career as one of the greatest tennis players of all time did something that could be interpreted two ways: As a stupid and insensitive celebration that dampened the crowning moment, or as a joy-filled nod to her roots.
Guess which way we're headed on this one.
The woman who grew up in Compton did the Crip Walk.
For the uninitiated, the Crip Walk is a funky little hip-hop dance move made famous by Crip gang members in Compton in the 1970s.
And there was Serena - the tennis legend, the winner of 14 individual Grand Slams, the best player of her generation, the American girl being crowned at the All-England Club as the queen of tennis - Crip-Walking all over the most lily-white place in the world.
For the uninitiated, "lily-white," while often times used as a descriptor meaning "pure" almost to the point of prudishness, also was used to describe clubs that discriminated against and excluded black people. Quite the image, no? So, for the uninitiated, consider yourselves caught up to speed on that little bit of usage.
She was pleading ignorance. She knew that even associating the word "Crip" with a gold-medal performance could be toxic to her image, even if the dance itself is now distanced from those gang roots.
"Even though this is not a big deal—like, at all—I am making it a big, toxic, deal." And making it into a big deal in the most chickenshit way imaginable. Hell, he makes excuses for Serena throughout the article, only ever saying she ruined her moment because of a "moment of innocent, though unfortunate, American celebration." Reid Forgrave doesn't say this was a terrible act—that's just how it's going to play, you see.
Reid Forgrave is an issue spotter. He spots the issues, helpfully pointing out pertinent information. "It's innocent! But totally unfortunate that people who are not me will think it was a terrible thing and, oh yeah, Serena Williams is from Compton, where they have gangs who dance like she danced at Wimbledon."
Do I think Reid Forgrave is a malignant racist? No, of course not. It's just, people are going to react to it. Even if the phrase is not really associated with this country's sad and disgusting history of segregation anymore, people will whisper. He just messed up his column with a moment of innocent, though unfortunate, American Jim Crow-connotation.
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Serena flubs crowning moment [Fox]
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Good Morning,
Equity futures are lower this morning, below is a 60 minute view of the DOW on the left and a 5 minute view of the S&P on the right showing the overnight action:
The dollar is higher, mainly at the expense of the Euro which is taking another leg down, bonds are flat, and both oil and gold are sharply lower. Watch the commodities, they look like they are correcting here.
There is no economic data released today. Tomorrow will be Existing Home Sales, later in the week come New Home Sales, Durable Goods, Jobless Claims, and on Friday will come 4th quarter GDP.
Of course the Healthcare Bill/ Insurance Industry Bail Out act passed the House last night and is now headed to Obama for his signature. This will be the first Federal law in history that mandates you buy something from a private company. It adds at least $1 Trillion onto our deficits over the next ten years, it draws funding away from Medicare, away from Social Security, and people on Tricare are going to have to switch. This bill was written and sponsored by the insurance industry. Once again your government and special interests have become the pushers of debt. Even Dennis Kucinich who has railed against such insanity was bought off. Very few adults are left, they have almost all been co-opted.
Within the context of a debt backed dollar system, this is yet another accelerating event placing us deeper into insolvency. It adds the burden of more taxes onto an economy that is already debt and tax saturated. The markets will get this eventually, and I note the lack of a Monday morning ramp job so far today. So far.
Meanwhile, the impossible math of debt backed money continues to express itself in Europe and with Greece. That's because the money has to come from somewhere. Are the European banks going to provide loans? How do loans solve a debt problem anyway? Who do they come from, the IMF? Regardless of who issues any loans, the people of Greece, and the world, are facing a future of debt servitude should they agree to any such loans. Again, finding solutions within the box that work for anyone besides a central banker is simply impossible.
The markets are very much rhyming with the top that occurred in late '07. The 1,150 SPX area is support, if prices get below there then you'll know a correction of some magnitude is underway. Oil is down nearly 2.5% on the open, gold is beneath $1,100 an ounce, and it's not uncommon for the commodities to lead the start of a correction.
Below is a 3 month view of the SPX daily, you can see that there's quite a bit of support near the 1,150 area, and thus I would not be surprised by a bounce off that area (run up occuring as I post this). Last Friday's down stroke came on much higher volume and the internals are again showing great stress.
The number of new 52 week highs reached that historic 601 figure and collapsed. That is typical of major tops, but it's also typical that they take a long time to form as the dip buying mentality is certainly firmly entrenched after a year of nonstop run-up's based upon accounting fraud and government debt.
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Dir: Shawn Levy. US. 2013. 119mins
Eight years after their US smash Wedding Crashers, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson re-team for The Internship, a softer and less effective comedy that plays - with some corporate help from Google - on the digital divide between gens X and Y. While the setup promises cross-generational appeal, the execution may make it hard for this amiable but pretty bland outing to draw any demographic in really big numbers.
The comedy comes when Vaughn and Wilson get chances to launch into the kind of fast-talking schtick they honed in Wedding Crashers.
Worldwide distributor Fox will be looking to leverage the Vaughn-Wilson pairing when it opens the Regency Enterprises production in North America on June 7. The star pairing and the genre might prove less sellable during the film's international rollout later this summer.
Vaughn (who also co-wrote the script and produces) and Wilson play a couple of salesmen whose careers have been derailed by the advent of the digital age. After talking their way into coveted summer internships at Google, the guys have to pit their wits against a horde of brilliant and tech-savvy college kids competing, in what one describes as "a mental Hunger Games," for a handful of job slots at the internet search giant (whose real life campus provided the film with its settings).
Other characters in the mix include a stern supervisor played by Aasif Mandvi (from Margin Call), a youthful villain played by Brit Max Minghella (The Social Network) and a driven executive played by Australia's Rose Byrne (Bridesmaids). John Goodman and Will Ferrell do fun cameos.
As directed by Shawn Levy (who previously steered Night At The Museum and its sequel), the film meanders agreeably enough through its predictable plot but takes a bit too much time out for facile life lessons and admiring depictions of Google's corporate culture.
The comedy - producing mostly chuckles rather than big laughs - comes when Vaughn and Wilson get chances to launch into the kind of fast-talking schtick they honed in Wedding Crashers.
Production companies: 20th Century Fox, Regency Enterprises, Wild West Picture Show, 21 Laps
Worldwide distribution: 20th Century Fox
Producers: Vince Vaughn, Shawn Levy
Executive producers: Arnon Milchan, Dan Levine, Josh McLaglen, Mary McLaglen, Sandra J Smith, Scott Stuber
Screenplay: Vince Vaughn, Jared Stern
Director of photography: Jonathan Brown
Production designer: Tom Meyer
Editor: Dean Zimmerman
Music: Christopher Beck
Website: www.theinternshipmovie.com/
Main cast: Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rose Byrne, Max Minghella, John Goodman


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Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 4:44 pm
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This isn't really a "while learning" experience, because I had been sailing for 10 years when it happened. It relates to being trapped under the sail while hooked into the harness. This happened in the gorge on a typical 30 MPH day of B&J sailing. I did a standard 5-10' jump and landed more or less nose first and sailed out of the jump off the wind. My momentum was still going forward a bit too much and essentially, while hooked in my body forward looped and my rig did not, and the harness lines twisted around the bar hook.
When everything stopped, I was pinned under sail pretty tight to the boom with no means of unhooking, because the line were wrapped tightly around the harness bar hook. I pushed up on the sail to get a pocket of air, took a big breath, then swam around in a circle underwater opposite the direction which the lines had twisted to get free.
I immediately bought a roller type bar and have never had this happen since. I will never use a standard hook bar again. This occurred maybe 10 or so years ago.
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Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 10:13 pm
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When I started I thought wearing sneakers would be a good idea.
First time I went barefoot I was like hey!
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Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 8:07 pm
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Sailing the Gorge when I did not REALLY know how to waterstart.
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Location: SE Michigan
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:38 am
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I'm a lifelong beginner who's probably made every mistake, but here's a few:
Trying to self-teach on a rough, wavey day in Lake Michigan - sure, I can do that! Couldn't even figure out the tie-on boom. Got so frustrated thought I'd never try it again.
Going out in off-shore winds. Winds got stronger the farther offshore I got. Friend called the Coast Guard (didn't know that of course). Watched the cutter go back and forth from the shore where I eventually ended up.
Crash and Burn:
Jumping up on to friend's board to try WS'ing, and split my big toe wide open (Y-shape split) on a clip on the mast track. I wear booties now.
First day of a Hatteras trip, hit a sand bar with my fin, fully lit. Went over the handlebars hooked-in. Broke my boom and a rib. Landed in a channel and had to swim my gear though the deep water.
Bought my first short board, and drove to a new spot to sail - so pumped. Rigged too big, and sailed for about 30 sec, straight offshore, way overpowered. Hit something submerged (maybe a log?), crashed and burned. Took the fin right off. Tried to sail with the harness strapped under the board - no luck. Derigged, and paddled back to shore. Took probably 1.5 hours to get back in the strong side-shore conditions.
What a great sport!
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Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 10:07 am
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I think I have y'all beat - I swear that the following really happened in 2004:
Sailing Stevenson late in the day, already a bad idea! Rigged up, schlogged out to the wind line, just got up on a plane but converging on this medium-sized sailboat on nearly the same tack - I remember the kind of ugly brown color of its hull. As I said, I had just caught a puff and got up on my plane, thought I had speed enough to cross in front of the sailboat, NOT! I think what happened was that the sailboat ran over the back of my board, and the next thing I knew I am under the boat being dragged along, still hooked in. I remember feeling the slime on the underside of the hull with my hand but I was making my way aft, so the rig had not stayed hung up for long. Luckily it spit me out before too long and I surfaced as the boat continued past - you should have seen the looks on the boaters' faces - very ashen. I hollered that I was all right, but my boom was broken so I swam everything back. I still have that board, and it still hs some indelible slime marks embedded in the graphics.
Funny thing, there had been some paramedics at the beach when I put out, I think they were tending to someone's having been gashed by a fin - I told them not to run off 'cause I'm going out now!
Safe to say I had made a really stupid misjudgement, you can bet I keep a wary eye out for all watercraft when sailing today. I was pretty damned lucky.
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Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 4:16 pm
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Seeing the Berkeley sensor showing 20 kts and believing that it would still be blowing when I got there 30 minutes later.
Or, for that matter, seeing the Berkeley sensor showing 20 kts and believing it.
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Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 10:00 am
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Sailing Berkeley.
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Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 11:10 am
Post subject: Great thread ! ;)
Hey guys, great thread, fun to read.
To me, all those misadventures are fun stuff to go through, great stories to talk about later.
I have done a lot of teaching to newbies, ever since the early 80s. Boy, has the game changed. Used to be that people would persevere for 3-4-5 outings on a crappy board, and end up getting the hang of it.
Now people give up after 5 minutes, on much much better gear - "too difficult, too much work". I saw it again just 2 weeks ago at a school in Cuba.
Anyways, since I have only good memories from learning, including getting stuck under the sail, I'll pitch in with my best memory. That is, the guys around me showed me really early a few freestyle tricks, a.k.a. as fun sailing.
I thought at the time doing that and falling was soooo much fun that I had to do it right away. I've never stopped since - mostly falling, but whatever.
Best sport in the world !
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Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 2:03 pm
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Was sailing towards the pier, daydreaming, and didn't notice the fishing lines until too late.
Dropped down in the water to avoid sailing through the lines and got immediately hooked in my wetsuit by a 5 hook lure. Started trying to get the hooks out of my wetsuit by pulling on the line and was rewarded with a nice deep cut as the nylon lines cut right through my fingers like butter.
At that point I heard a kid on the pier say "I got it!" and looked up to see another 5 hook lure drop onto my brand new Neil Pryde World Cup Race sail with the 18" deep draft, which was floating offshore while I struggled with the embedded hooks in my wetsuit.
I swam over to my rig and pulled the 2nd lure out of the dacron luff. I waterstarted and caught a great puff. As I sailed off I felt a brief tug as the hooks in my wetsuit gave way, taking a little skin too. I didn't look back but I like to think nobody lost their pole.
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Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 5:19 pm
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I have had my share of accidents and mishaps - but most of them weren't while I was learning.
The worst part back in the day was the old tie-on booms that would always come loose.
But, like several of you, my mom fell in, the mast hit her in the head, and she never tried windsurfing again.
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Scissor Sisters' 'I Don't Feel Like Dancin'' does well to break the top five at four – in our opinion (well, this writer's individual opinion) it's not a patch on the slew of singles from their debut album – while indie-rockers-of-the-moment The Fratellis climb to five with 'Chelsea Dagger' The Goonies was on BBC 2 at the weekend. Watching it for the millionth time is about a billion times better for you than listening to 'Chelsea Dagger' even once. Seriously.
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All-Star allows seven runs in two innings; Werth goes deep twice
WASHINGTON -- Over the course of the Nationals' up-and-down season, right-hander Jordan Zimmermann has been one of the few constants.
Less than a week after he skipped the All-Star Game to rest his ailing neck, Zimmermann took the field on Sunday afternoon with a chance to pick up his National League-leading 13th win of the year. Washington had won 15 of his 19 starts this season, and he hadn't lost at Nationals Park since May 17, 2012.
But with one ugly inning, all of that went out the window.
Zimmermann surrendered seven runs in the second inning, and what was expected to be a pitchers' duel quickly got out of hand. Zimmermann had the shortest start of his career, while fellow All-Star Clayton Kershaw was dominant in the Nationals' 9-2 loss to the Dodgers. Washington fell to 48-50 after being swept in a three-game series for the first time since late April.
"Some games you get away with a few mistakes, and some games whatever you throw up there is getting hit hard," Zimmermann said. "Today was one of those days."
After the first half of the season didn't go as planned, the Nationals saw the All-Star break as an opportunity to start their season anew. Their lineup finally seemed healthy, and 20 of their next 25 games were at home. Surely, the slumping offense would find its footing.
But not on Sunday. The Nationals mustered only four hits, including two against Kershaw. Jayson Werth accounted for both of those with homers in the second and seventh innings, capping an atrocious series in which the Nationals scored just five runs and went 2-for-26 (.077) with runners in scoring position.
"I think at any moment this team could take off," Werth said. "I'm really not going to get into the doom-and-gloom stuff, because we've got too many games to play. I believe in this team. I said it from the beginning. We've got a long way to go. We'll be fine."
Manager Davey Johnson was upset with the loss, but not with his team's effort.
"I look at each individual and see their work habits and the way they go about their business, and it's awfully professional. I have no complaints," Johnson said. "It's just the frustrating part [is] that it's not all coming together in wins. Nobody hates losing worse than me. Those guys feel it in there, too. Maybe it's pressing, I don't know. But I think the confidence is there."
One shred of optimism for the Nationals was Zimmermann's health. The right-hander has dealt with soreness in his neck for much of this season, but he said after the game that he felt "the best I've felt in a long time" on Sunday. However, he allowed seven earned runs on eight hits, including two home runs, and also walked two batters.
While catcher Kurt Suzuki didn't notice any mechanical problems with Zimmermann's delivery, the righty said that he struggled all afternoon with his command. His breaking pitches weren't breaking, and he left several sliders over the middle of the plate.
"Things are funny after the break. You get four days off. Those things happen," Werth said. "He's been good since I've been here. He's allowed to have one bad game."
Zimmermann stranded two baserunners in the first inning before losing control in the second. Matt Kemp, who was activated off the disabled list before the game, clobbered a hanging slider for a homer to lead off the inning. Kershaw knocked in one run with a groundout, and Carl Crawford brought home another. Then Hanley Ramirez turned another slider from Zimmermann into a three-run shot.
"We have a really deep lineup, guys that give really good at-bats, one after the next," Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez said. "If you get one guy out, the next guy might hurt you."
After the Nationals endured a pair of close, late losses in the first two games of the series, Sunday's game wasn't close. Long reliever Ross Ohlendorf replaced Zimmermann in the third inning and saved the Nationals' bullpen with six solid innings. He allowed two runs on six hits, striking out six and walking one.
Zimmermann, meanwhile, allowed seven earned runs or more for just the third time in 101 career starts.
"You can be on the top of the world and then have a bad start, but what Jordan's so good at is kind of putting it in the past and coming out the next time and doing his job," third baseman Ryan Zimmerman said. "I don't see why the next time he wouldn't go back to what he's been all year."
The Nationals didn't lose any ground in the National League East on Sunday, as both the Braves and Phillies also lost. But besides that fact, it was hard to draw many positives from another tough day at Nationals Park.
"Bottom line is we just need to go out and win games," Zimmerman said. "Everyone can talk about whatever they want to talk about, but we got to go out and win."


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CHARLOTTE, NC - With public participation at an all-time high after four prior events in two years, on Saturday, September 29, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., North Carolinians will be able to drop off their expired, unused, and unwanted pills at sites across the state, free of charge, no questions asked. By doing so, they will help prevent drug abuse and theft. This one-day event will make it convenient for the public to rid their homes of potentially dangerous prescription drugs. This initiative addresses a vital public safety and public health issue. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse.
Americans participating in DEA's four previous Take-Back Days turned in nearly 1.6 million pounds-almost 774 tons-of prescription drugs, most recently at almost 5,700 sites operated by nearly 4,300 of the DEA's s local law enforcement partners. DEA's last event collected more than double the pills as their first event two years ago, with almost 50% more participating agencies and sites this past April than in September of 2010.
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TRENTON – Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Joseph Doria issued the following statement regarding the Appellate Division of the Superior Court's ruling that denied a request that a special master be charged with facilitating affordable housing in New Jersey.
"The Court's decision is a positive step forward in our efforts to provide New Jersey residents with the affordable housing opportunities they need," said Commissioner Doria. "More importantly, it averts the possibility that a Special Master be appointed to enforce the Fair Housing Act irrespective of the work the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) has invested to ensure that the process is effective. I sincerely hope that all of the interested stakeholders, including the municipalities, the housing advocates, the developers and the state agencies, can now come together and work towards accomplishing both our moral and Constitutional obligation to provide affordable housing for the citizens of our state."
The Appellate Court also denied a request by the Fair Share Housing Center to permit builders' remedy litigation to continue against municipalities even while COAH's rules were pending. This decision validates the open and transparent process that COAH developed as a result of a January 2007 Appellate Court ruling that overturned COAH's first set of third round regulations.
COAH, an affiliate of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, facilitates the production of sound, affordable housing for low and moderate income households by providing the most effective process to municipalities, housing providers, nonprofit and for profit developers to address a constitutional obligation within the framework of sound, comprehensive planning.
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