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Punta Cana and Bavaro are adjacent and can confuse but not the scuba diving. One great long reef system waiting for your dive and the next, whether you call it Punta Cana, Bavaro or both. The diving makes the difference not the name.
In Punta Cana, as in all our diving destinations, our scuba diving trips are top quality and very good value especially if you sign up for one of our dive offers or package deals!
DRESSEL DIVERS has a wide range of diving options, from recently certified diver to very advanced on the very best reefs in Punta Cana.
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Dive in Punta Cana while diving in Bavaro?
In front of the splendid Bavaro beach lies the longest reef in the country, offering variety of scuba dive sites to pick from. You can visit Punta Cana's best dive sites along 30 kms of reef stretching all the way from Bavaro to Punta Cana. Our dive center's prime location gives you diving on the best sites with minimum boat travel.
While resting comfortably on your beach chair, you will be able to see the silhouette of the Astron wreck partly above the surface. It will be a constant reminder of the amazing wreck dive that awaits you. Its bow points at a long stretch of dive sites with corral gardens, impressive swim troughs and canyons.
We offer local boat dives leaving from the beach of the
(Adress: Carretera Arena Gorda, Bavaro-Punta Cana, Higuey, DR.)
(Adress: Boulevard Turístico del Este Km.28No.74, Macao, DR.)
These wonderful Iberostar hotels offers a fully equipped DRESSEL DIVERS dive centre right on their premises but even if you are not an Iberostar guest in Punta Cana you are also very welcome to enjoy our services. Many of our divers come over from other resorts to dive especially with us.
Punta Cana Scuba Diving Excursions
Punta Cana is a fantastic place and it is tempting just to stay on the longest beach and wonderful nearby reefs. But let us tempt you away from here for a day to go on a scuba excursions that ensure you do not miss out on some very good diving well worth enjoying before leaving the country.
SAONA ISLAND DIVING EXCURSION A day trip perfectly combinable with the SAONA SNORKEL EXCURSION for non scuba divers that want to come along with you.
CATALINA EXCURSION a perfect trip to share for those interested in snorkeling as well as diving
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Punta Cana Dive Offers
We offer all certified scuba divers the possibility to obtain a FREE ADVANCED diving certification by simply purchasing the book and paying the PADI registrations fee. The course instruction itself is free using scuba dives already purchases. In this manner DRESSEL DIVERS aims to motivate its divers to progres to the next certification level beyond entry level.
DRESSEL DIVERS can also offer very convenient COMBINED HOTEL & DIVING DEALS. As dive operator for Iberostar hotels in Punta Cana we can not only help you with your dive planning but also the booking of you hotel. Prices are a function of the hotel you choose and time of the year. So please contact us for more information if interested in this possibility.
Our 20% PREPAYMENT DISCOUNT is available on all recreational scuba diving services paid before arrival in Punta Cana. To be eligible all you need to do is prepay the dives and excursions of your choice via our central office reservations staff. Just contact them. They are on standby to help you select among our services the ones that suit you most and will send you a full price list.
Punta Cana Diving Packages
DRESSEL DIVERS compensates scuba divers that dive often with complementary dives for free. Like airline miles our PACKAGES WITH FREE DIVES allow you to benefit from diving often during you vacation.
If you are interested in just one scuba dive or a few dives, you can buy single dives. For the scuba diver who wants to see it all, DRESSEL DIVERS has designed a package that covers all of the best diving in Punta Cana.
In addition, we offer different size diving packages:
- the Family Package is the only one that can be shared by more divers
- if you pay your booking before arriving in Punta Cana to dive, you can get a 20% discount for doing this.
- You can purchases addtional scuba dives to add to any of the packages at the same average rate of the package.
You can choose from the following Punta Cana diving Packages:
PUNTA CANA SHRIMP: Buy five tanks and we give one tank free. In total 6 dives.
PUNTA CANA DOLPHIN: Buy nine tanks and we give three tanks free. In total 12 dives.
PUNTA CANA WHALE: Buy twelve tanks and we give six tanks free. In total 18 dives.
PUNTA CANA FAMILY: Buy ten tanks and we give two tanks free. In total 12 dives. This is the only diving package where different divers can consume from the same package; the others are STRICTLY PERSONAL
PUNTA CANA GORILLA: This package includes eleven tanks and three excursions. This is a special scuba diving package designed for the diver who wants to see the best of the best of Punta Cana & surrounding area.
For information, prices or reservations PLEASE FILL OUT OUR FORM
Punta Cana Diving Courses
- FOR YOUR CHILDREN that will love to blow bubbles underwater!
- FOR BEGINNERS, that want to learn diving in warm tropical waters!
- FOR REFERRALS that started back home but want to the openwater diving part on vacation.
Punta Cana is a outstanding place to learn diving. It simply is a privilege to become a scuba diver on tropical reefs with great visibility and views. Learn now! Dive on every vacation after!
Heated pools are everywhere but not heated dive sites! So if you started your openwater program in a pool back home why not do the required dives during your vacation in the warm open water of Punta Cana with very colourfull reefs and fish.
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Trips In Punta Cana With Snorkeling
- For your kids and their friends to enjoy a great vacation sport.
- For non-divers to get some relaxing excercise finning and watching the reefs of Punta Cana
- To go on excursion with those in your group that are going diving.
If scuba diving it not your thing this is by far the next best way to observe under water life with no special requirement but the ability to swim.
If you are traveling to Punta Cana with non-diving friends or family this is the best way for them to join you on our excursions and visit the reefs.
Punta Cana Dive Center, Equipment & Fleet
Punta Cana is where we opened our very first diving center. Dressel Divers was born in Punta Cana more than a decade ago and from here we were the very first to organize scuba diving excursions to Saona Island, the most reputed national park in the country.
In Punta Cana we are located very centrally with respect to the best reefs and so our dive trips take no more than about 15 minutes by boat to reach them. The boat trip itself is great as you get fantastic views of the lagoons and coastline.
We have about 15 dive sites for you to choose from and vary diving destination every day to make sure you can scuba dive all those you want without repeating a site unless you are keen to do so, such as for example our great wreck dive.
We never have a closing day because it is always summer in Punta Cana and every day is a great day for diving. Whatever day or days you want to go diving, morning, afternoon or both we are ready to take you.
Some Punta Cana Reef Descriptions
Coral Reef (12-14 Mts.): Precious reef as the name implies, with original color due to the influences of the Mona channel. At about 5 minutes by boat the reef is composed of beautiful sponges, fan, brain and leafy corral that create a perfect habitat for its inhabitants. mall wall of about 4 meters height. This is a reef in the form of ¨fingers¨. Butterfly fish, yellow tails, surgeonfish, trumpet fish, parrot fish, squirrel fish, flounder and many more are the owners of this impressive reef. We cross from one strip of reef to the next keeping the sand on one side. An encounter with barracudas is very common and some nurse shark resting.
Rondana Reef (12-14 Mts.): Impressive reef, very original in style only 5 minutes away by boat. The dive is a beautiful passage between tall rocks with variety of corrals and surprise passages or swim through that create spectacular light effects. Pilar corral and elk horn corral with schools of parrot fish or yellow tails around them characterize Rondana Reef. A lot of hidden creatures are found in crevices with high possibility of encountering moray eels, lobster, crabs and octopus. This is the preferred site of the manatees at some times of the year and it is common also to encounter an eagle ray in flight.
Anstron Wreck (12-14 Mts.): Popular shipwreck dive in Punta Cana. Russian owned, 120 meters long and weighing 27,990 tons, she was built in France in 1957. On her way to bring 60 tons of corn to Cuba surprised by a storm on 7 April 1978 she ran into the reefs of Punta Cana and broke into two. Her bow is still above the water and the stern submerged offering divers a great photo opportunity with its massive propeller. The depth of the dive to visit her is 16 meters, perfect for all levels of experience. Having gone down over 30 year ago the wreck is now fully integrated with marine life. There is a reason this is the number one scuba diving attraction on the Punta Cana coast.
Unbeatable Service & Safety Record
We offer very safe diving and cut no corners to do so. At DRESSEL DIVERS we know that safety comes first. That it is a precondition to great scuba diving. Therefore since the time of our first dive center opening (over 20 years ago) we have an impeccably safety record. Our clients are attended by professional staff trained to give excellent diving services at the shop, on the boats and in the water. They know there efforts must make the difference between a normal dive experience in Punta Cana and a fantastic dive experience.
Custom Made Diving Boats
Our boats are not only faster than others getting you to the Punta Cana dive site squicker they are also more stable reducing seasickness. All our boats are catamarans or trimarans designed for stability and comfort by DRESSEL for Divers. We offer very spacious boats on which to move around with plenty of room for your scuba equipment. Entry and exit are very easy and staff is always attending in every aspect of the trip. Our boats comply with USA coast guard regulations. We have lifejackets, GPS and radio on board, as well as plenty of drinking water and a sun roof to shade the scuba divers.
State Of The Art Scuba Gear
Our cylinders are filled at air stations and from compressors that comply with the most stringent safety standards. We only use electrical compressors and change filters more often than recommended by the manufacturer.
Scuba tanks and weights are included on every dive but other scuba gear is personal or can be rented fully or per item. Our rentals are top of the line brands with a strictly set maintenance programs by qualified staff. We purchase all scuba equipment new and replace it for new very often. We have a selection of sizes in masks, fins, wetsuits, BCD´s and weight belts to fit most everyone.
Punta Cana Travel Info
Depending on the time of the year, diving in Punta Cana you will also be privileged to see humpback whales splash their massive tails farther out at sea and during your dives enjoy their underwater song.
Humpback whales! Whale-watching season starts mid-January and usually goes to the end of March. Over a thousand Humpback whales migrate from the North Atlantic to the Dominican Republic during their mating season, diving and splashing their tails. They gather mainly on the Silver Bank quite a distance to the north of Bavaro, but some whales excursion out from there along the coast to the hotel zone. The World Wildlife Fund rates Samana bay as one of the top places on the planet to watch these whales. The coastline at Samana bay simply becomes one big humpback nursery. The male humpback whales are logically very eager to impress the females at this time of the year with splashing tails and many newborn calves can be seen diving alongside their mothers. They have been coming to this coastline for centuries, and even appear in Taino cave drawings. Columbus too enjoyed their spectacle, as recorded in his 1493 travel log.
Practical info:
- No decompression dives!
- Maximum Depth: 99 feet (30 meters)
- Aluminum Tanks & Size: 80 Cubic feet (12 Liters).
- Full tank: +/- 3000 PSI (200 BAR).
- INT Connection but DIN Adapters available.
- Average visibility in Punta Cana: +66 feet (20 meters).
- Coldest water temperature: 78.8 ºF (26 ºC ).
- Warmest water temperature: 86ºF (30 ºC ).
- Diving season: all year round.
In order to dive with us you have to be a certified scuba diver or a student of one of our courses. Please bring your certification card and logbook, and if you have or have had any medical problems, a statement from your doctor that you are fit to go scuba diving during your vacation in Punta Cana.


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Bharti Airtel, the country's largest telco by subscribers, launched free roaming for its prepaid customers in Delhi that would travel to Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand and West Bengal (barring Kolkata). Customers will have to pay Rs 21 for a month to access this service.

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Rachel needs your help! The evil porings are planning to dominate the world with their squishy blobbyness!
Her kitten Rupert got beaten up by an angry poring while they were walking in the Sograt Desert. She is concerned that some of them have gone mischevious. The Pernicious Poring, the one who attacked Rupert demanded bribe in exchange of some useful information. One of the most powerful Earlings begun plans to take over the Kingdom of Rune-Midgard and has taken control over an army of porings. Rachel and her cat were close to discovering the evil plans of the Earlings so the Pernicious Poring attacked her.
Help Rachel fight the evil Earling and get a free blobby hat to go on top of your head.
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Published September 23, 2011
| Bankrate.com
You didn't imagine it: Food prices have steadily risen through the first half of 2011, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. So have prices for just about everything else.
What's a consumer to do? Find coupons and use them everywhere, say the experts.
Stephanie Nelson, creator of CouponMom.com, says you can find coupons everywhere you turn now, but you have to be open to using them.
"Brands and retailers are spending more money than ever to show you how to save money at their stores, so take advantage," she says.
"If you don't use the savings and coupons that are literally all around you, you're simply paying more than those who do," says Andrea Woroch, consumer savings expert for Kinoli Inc. and creator of CouponSherpa.com. Woroch says coupons save consumers an average of 12 percent per transaction at the grocery store.
Just 10 percent of all coupons are redeemed, according to the NCH 2011 Coupon Trends Report. Yet it's been estimated that every hour spent couponing is worth $100, according to the 2010 Free Standing Insert Distribution Trends booklet by Kantar Media. Who wouldn't like a return on investment like that?
To learn how to find coupons, read on.
Not Just Grocery and Drugstore Coupons
Collect coupons from every place they are offered because no matter where you shop, you want to use coupons to save more money.
"We're not just talking about grocery store manufacturer coupons," says Woroch. She says you can save even more than that average 12 percent at just about every other type of national retailer.
For example, many retailers, including Sears, Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle Outfitters and Payless ShoeSource all recently offered 20 percent-off coupons. Macy's, Kohl's, Sports Authority, Lowe's and Office Depot offered $10 off of a $50 purchase. Even grocery stores regularly offer "dollars-off" coupons such as a recent $5 off of a $35 purchase at Winn-Dixie and $10 off of a $75 grocery purchase at Target. When coupled with the use of the manufacturer coupons, you can save even more.
Find Coupons in Unconventional Places
Open your eyes to less-common places to find coupons.
Coupons on The Go
Take a proactive approach to use coupons and save money with your smartphone.
Social Media Savings and Coupons Rule
Never leave the house to go shopping for anything without checking your favorite retailers' Facebook and Twitter pages for special savings, say both Nelson and Woroch. Those who checked American Eagle Outfitters' Facebook page and "Liked" it got an easy 20 percent off of their purchases recently.
Two Types of Mail ... Totally Different Coupons
It's not spam or junk mail if you asked for it and it saves you money.
Email: Just sign up and savings pop into your inbox every day. "I recommend creating a separate email account for all your couponing," says Woroch.
Snail mail: Always enter your snail mail address if prompted because they'll just send you more coupons. A recent one from Walgreens offered a free Schick Hydro Razor. JCPenney routinely sends out $10 off of a $10 purchase; Victoria's Secret regularly mails out $10 off of a bra, a free pair of panties and other coupon cards. And Target sends out many regular mailers you'd miss otherwise. The local grocery stores send out their circulars every week with all of their coupons through the mail, too.
Don't Ignore In-Store Coupons
Woroch says to keep an eye out for "blinkies," which are blinking coupon dispensers attached to shelves, and "peelies," or coupons stuck to the product. Nelson says, "Always find the coupon display or kiosk. The kiosk at CVS electronically dispenses savings and even free-product coupons. If you walk past it without scanning your reward card, you're just paying more at CVS."
Surf Online for Coupons
Take advantage of coupon and promotional aggregators such as CouponMom.com, RetailMeNot.com, PromotionalCodes.com and CouponSherpa.com, which are among the many free websites that will show you deals and savings available at local stores where you like to shop. "Don't pay for coupons, rewards or coupon codes because coupons are meant to save you money, not cost you money," says consumer savings expert Regina Novickis.
You may not have considered these less obvious places to find coupons.
Most Popular Places to Find Coupons
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5 Tips on How to Hold Your Camera
This may be a topic that seems basic and easy to gloss over, but have you ever thought about to properly hold your camera? Sure, DSLRs have been designed to give you better and better ergonomics and grip, but when you start shooting with slow shutter speeds or telephoto lenses with no vibration compensation, having the right technique can be the difference between a photo that looks sharp and a photo that has shaky motion blurs.
Some of these technique may feel weird, but think of it like learning to play golf. It doesn't always feel right, but the results will speak for themselves.
INCORRECT: One of the most common mistakes in holding a camera is to have the elbows out to the side, which makes it easier for your arm to sway around. This also makes your left hand hold the lens from the side, which provide less support for the camera, especially when you have larger and longer lenses attached.
CORRECT: Tuck in your elbow to your body so that your arms are anchored to your torso's center of gravity. This helps keep your arms from swaying and also allows you to move your left hand under the lens to give it more support. It does feel weird at first to hold it like this, but you will be able to shoot at much slower shutter speeds without noticing camera shake. As for your posture, be sure to stand up straight without leaning forward or backwards with your legs apart in a comfortable, but stable stance. All of this applies when you're shooting in portrait mode.
If you are using a really slow shutter and you are still getting some shakiness in the image, try to find a wall (or something else that is stable) to support and stabilize your upper body.
If you cannot find a wall, this is another standing technique can give you that extra stability. What you do is bring your left arm around the right arm and hold on tight to your right shoulder. This restricts motion in your right hand. Next, by placing your camera on the upper part of your left arm, you now have a more stable base. Time your breathing as well by holding your breath while taking your shot.
Of course, the disadvantage of this technique is that you can't zoom or focus with the lens, so be sure to set that up first or use your camera's focus points.
INCORRECT: If you have to crouch to get a low perspective, there is a big difference in stability between the two popular ways of crouching. The first one, where you are on the ball of your feet, is inherently unstable and will transfer motion to your camera.
CORRECT: Plant your feet so you are crouching flat footed, then tuck the elbows in either on or between your knees.
INCORRECT: Sitting down is generally the better choice when you have to shoot from a low perspective. But even while sitting, there still methods we can use to improve stability. If you are just sitting with your legs out or legs crossed, your torso and your arms are essentially still free-standing with minimal support.
CORRECT: While sitting, place your feet on the ground with your knees propped up. Place each elbow on each side of the knee using your knees as a brace. If you think about it, you are essentially acting like a human tripod. When Post Production Pye does this move, I like to call him the Pye-Pod =)
That's it folks! If you have any other tips in shooting with slow shutter speeds or long telephoto lenses without a handy tripod or monopod, post it in the comments below!
Info on these photos: Shot by Joe at 1pm in the afternoon under the shade with Panasonic GH2 at f/8 and 1/160 shutter speed with a variable ND filter at 2 stops under, and lit with an Einstein with gridded 22″ beauty dish.
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29 Comments
Amanda 1
Is this article suppose to say 'how to properly hold your camera'?
Jeff Gelzinis 1
It is improper to ever split an infinitive. #grammarhumor
Bronwyn Arnold-Briggs 1
Awesome ideas – what about holding the camera in "portrait" orientation? Should you turn the camera clock wise with the shutter button at the bottom (toward the ground) or anti-clock wise with the shutter button to the top (toward the sky) Is one better than the other? (doesn't help when I'm a lefty!!)
Daniel Sloan 2
I'd go with the shutter button at the bottom, as it allows you to tuck your elbow against your torso for more stability.
jean 0
Great tips!!!
Jake 0
Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately I have hand trimmers that make it really difficult to take sharp photos without a tripod. I'll give these tips a try and see if I can get better shots while hand holding my camera.
Marc 0
Me too, Jake. One thing I learned was similar to the first one, but sticking right against the ribcage. But, admittedly, some of these are tough when using a long lens. I shoot Olympus, and was having a tough time with a 50-200, trying to balance standing on a handrail, and getting in tight on my model's eyes…
Anthony 2
Good article, one think you might want to note though, which is a tip I transferred from my days in the Marines; holding your breath is actually a bad idea to stabilize yourself. Lack of oxygen can increase shakiness, instead you want to take a deep breath, slowly exhale, and press the button when you have fully exhaled, this is your bodies natural point of rest and it is when you are most stable. Food for thought.
Jay Lessard 0
Former Army guy here, I do the same thing. Good call.
Ben Reeve 0
To Anthony and Jay – Thank you for Serving!
lucia 2
…just don't use the last one if you are wearing a skirt/dress, though, ladies!
hannah 0
Oh! You are so right. It just won't work! =)
Jess Oei 0
great tips!! thanks!
Dave 0
Good ideas but if you add the technique of turning your body sideways from the waist, you can brace your lens hand on your shoulder. This takes the weight off your arm muscles which can be helpful with heavy lenses.
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Kevin Wilton 0
If you choose the marksman technique, you breathe deeply and quickly for three breaths and then inhale a fourth time but on this occasion let out very slowly. The first three breaths oxygenate the tissues and prevent the muscles shaking and the slow letting out of the fourth breath helps prevent the heart's beating from affecting the shot with a regular up and down thump-thump.
The other one is, wherever you can, squeeze the butt cheeks together as well, as hard as you can. Try it, you become much more solid.
Nienke Nijenhuis 0
Nice article; but next time you might want to pay attention to what the model is wearing.. the super wide sleeves don't exactly show how she's holding her arms. It's not hard to imagine, but that's just what I'd have done..
Lorelai Mounro 0
I could use those tricks ..thanx
Andry R. 0
Thanks for these very useful tips.
For tip 4 I might suggest that one puts the right knee on the ground and use the left one as support by putting your left elbow on it. This is of course if the situation allows it.
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John Singer Sargent (American, 18561925)
Oil on canvas; 81 x 45 1/2 in. (205.7 x 115.6 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Campbell, in memory of Mrs. Richard E. Danielson, 1998 (1998.365)
Mrs. Hammersley (born Mary Frances Grant), the twenty-nine-year-old banker's wife and fashionable London hostess, is lightly poised on an elegant French sofa. Her willowy form and candid expression suggest Sargent's ability to characterize and flatter her simultaneously. Her gold-trimmed silk-velvet dress and the sumptuous setting announce his mastery of varied textures.
This portrait confirmed Sargent's skills among potential (but reluctant) English patrons when it appeared at the New Gallery in London in 1893. The positive reviews it received there and in an exhibition in 1894 finally quashed misgivings that his Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) (16.53) had aroused in 1884. The canvas is among the first in a series of ravishing portraits by Sargent of glamorous English women that culminated in The Wyndham Sisters (1899, 27.67).
Financial reverses compelled Mrs. Hammersley's widower to sell the painting in 1923. At Sargent's suggestion, it was purchased by Charles Deering, an American friend, in whose family it descended.


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"We are blessed to have grown up here in Nantahala, Land of the Noonday Sun," said Nantahala School's valedictorian, Lauren Gearhart, when she addressed her class at the school's commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 4. "The haven we have here is like a well-kept secret in our lush, green mountains."
Indeed, the small school in the mountains seems to grow talent like a greenhouse, year after year, turning out more outstanding citizens than it has a right to. The Class of 2011, with nine graduates, has been no exception.
"One thing that is unique about our school is that it is truly like an extended family," said guidance counselor Leslie Mason, known to everyone at the school as Ms. Leslie. "It is a nurturing environment where the students know the teachers genuinely care about them."
Having achieved awards in math, science, and social studies, Gearhart, who in the fall will attend the University of Alabama at Huntsville in the Honors College of Engineering, is just one example of how a nurturing environment works. Among many scholarships that will support Gearhart's academic pursuits at UAH, she was the recipient of the university's highly competitive Academic Excellence Scholarship as well as the North Carolina Veteran's Scholarship.
Salutatorian Jessica Shoelzel, who has also set her sights high, will be attending Young Harris College in the fall, where she plans to major in biology and continue her college work to become a physician's assistant. Notably, Shoelzel attended the National Youth Leadership Forum in Boston this year. She was also the recipient of numerous scholarships, including the Young Harris Academic Merit Scholarship and the National Society of High School Scholars Award.
While each of the nine graduates distinguished themselves among their classmates in various ways, Victoria Waters took the class award for English. Waters, who plans to major in biology/ pre-med at Converse College, is also an avid reader and the author of a 160-page novel in progress.
"This has been a remarkable class as they have accomplished many academic achievements outside of the regular school setting," said Macon. She added that regardless of the students' intended careers – which include welding, automotive mechanics, law enforcement, medicine and engineering – it is the wish of the teachers and staff at Nantahala School that they all rise to the top. "It has been our goal to provide them with an atmosphere that fostered a great sense of belonging and stable emotional relationships with peers and adults so they have the intrinsic motivation needed to succeed as productive members of society. We hope they continue to form meaningful relationships within their professional and personal lives."


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Risk Bites is back for another week!
In this week's episode Andrew Maynard talks about the challenges and importance of scientists listening to members of the public as they plan and conduct their research.
Listening to people who aren't experts can be difficult – especially when they don't know what you know. But when science and technology affect people's lives – and their perceptions affect how science is and isn't used – listening to them could be important. Andrew makes the point that scientists need to be socially aware if their work is to have a positive impact in society.
This video was filmed to kick of a session on public engagement at the First Annual Conference on Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy and Ethics, held on May 20 – 22 in Phoenix, Arizona. The conference was co-sponsored by the Risk Science Center.
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11/16/12 [JUVENILE 1 and JUVENILE 2] were cited for public intoxication at 101 Herrmann Dr. Garcia
11/16/12 Party turned in ammunition for destruction. Zook
11/16/12 MPD located a currency in the parking lot of the Monterey Police Department. Oelfke
11/16/12 Business in the 400 block of Cannery Row reports known suspect to have failed to pay an outstanding balance. Gentry
11/16/12 Hit and run collision, vehicle versus a parked, gold 2008 Toyota Sequoia SUV while parked in the Del Monte Center parking lot. Oelfke
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11/16/12 NAVES, LYNN was arrested for battery, domestic violence in the 900 block of Casanova Ave. Welch\
11/16/12 MPD documented a drug overdose in the 300 block of Park Ave. Calvert
11/16/12 Non-injury traffic collision at North Fremont and Del Rosa. Welch
11/16/12 Non-injury traffic collision at Drake and Wave. Brogdon
11/16/12 TANGELBAD, CELESTINE was arrested for public intoxication in the Portola Plaza parking garage. Brogdon
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Early in August, FEG organized the second stage of HERO'S Gps (under 70kg and under 85kgs) at Ariake Colosseum, Tokyo - JAPAN. In that show, 11.900 eyewitnesses checked out fighters' performance of the caliber of Kazushi Sakuraba, Don Frye, Semmy Schilt, Caol Uno, Alexandre "Pequeno" França Nogueira and many others. Furthermore they had a benefit of seeing the tenacity of ATT member Gesias "JZ" Cavalcanti. JZ knocked-out one of Japan's hopes in Hiroyuki Takaya in less than 1 minute. A flying knee followed by hammer fists landed by JZ made Takaya sleep in the ring and flaunted JZ such as one of the favorites to win the GP in 10/9.
DENIS MARTINS: You had a long ring entrance at your last HERO'S' fight(8/5). Was the reason for it because you knew you'd have a quick fight?
GESIAS "JZ" CAVALCANTI: (Laughs) No way, maybe unconsciously, but not at my head. I expected a long tough fight. Hiroyuki Takaya has proved he's dangerous and had an iron chin when he beat the Lithuanian fighter Remigjius Morkevius(at HERO'S 3), who's a K-1 Max competitor too. They traded strikes frankly and Takaya displayed his bravery by eating bombs and not going down. Another good tool of Takaya is the sprawl, so I expected a war against him.
DM: Well, but is there anything to comment about a 30 second fight?
JZ: The fight was quick, but I liked several movements I got to do in that short time. I was tactical early on that match. I waited for his initiative on the contest. I liked the way I walked on that opportunity, he tried to close the distance and he didn't find me out for the first seconds. I kept all the fight's control of that fight with jabs. So I reached the correct distance, faked another movement and I flew with my knee. Bang, I got him!
DM: You had two very different performances at HERO'S.
While in the first one (HERO'S 5) you used your ground£, at this one against Takaya you dictated a quick pace on the feet and knock him out. Is this your intention in Japan, to surpass any expectation?
JZ: I hope so. Not only in Japan, but in all fights of my career I'll always be working to develop and make performances to surpass all at each fight.
DM: You've a bit different game than the rest of the ATTers- who prefer to take the fight down and submit. Do you believe that this is because of your natural talent or is it because your roots are inside Luta-Livre?
JZ: Not just from Luta-Livre, but from Team Sensei too. Since my early days in this fightworld I already "brawled" in the academy, our trainings were pure rock. I was a kid who already had cuts at my face and nose after the trainings(laughs). Of course we had responsibility too, and we'd not go ahead if those small injuries were serious. But I loaded all that experience and I'll never forget that culture acquired in the early days I started my trainings until my last days. Nearly all fighters from ATT came from BJJ and they only started MMA here, so you can realize our development at our last fights. Jorge Santiago knocked out Justin Levens out at UFN 5; Denis Kang did the same to Murilo "Ninja" Rua at Bushido 11, Rafael Diaz did it too at ACF-"Exodus" and Wilson Gouveia schooled, on the feet, Keith Jardine at R1 of TUF 3 Finale, however Gouveia didn't win. But he lost by decision and had an injury on his leg, if it hadn't happened, Jardine would not take that pace imposed by Gouveia.
DM: Do you believe the HERO'S fans already identify themselves with your style?
JZ: The Japanese audience is always friendly, so I don't know if they already identified to me or if they do it because they're real fight lovers. At the day after my fight against Takaya, I went to the hotel's lobby and a lot of fans already had the picture of the fight impressed to give me like a gift, I don't know how they do that. Anyway this is good to see our work being recognized by the fans; they respect me like a fighter and not like a winner. I meant, if I lose or win, it doesn't matter at all, the Japanese fans are always at your side, be sure of that. I hope to answer them at this same level with my fights.
DM: Takaya is a ShootBoxing athlete, and the competitors of this Association are huge strikers. So, didn't you believe on his tools on the feet or did you just take advantage of a perfect moment?
JZ: My intention was to trade punches against him, to feel him and to see how the fight would develop. I had trained a lot of muay thai and boxing, so I didn't duke him, I just wanted to test my striking ability. The trainings I had at Alkmaar GYM with DRAGO(K-1 Max semifinalist), Kass Yakut, Charron, Edwin Van-Os and with our muay thai and boxing coaches Ouali Mohamed and Howard Davis are really sharpening my knees, hands and legs. Of course I can't let to mention the conditioner, BENKEI, who does his special formula over us, and we go to the ring in excellent cardio condition. I dedicated my victory at HERO'S 6 for him, who celebrated his birthday one day after that fight.
DM: I know you since your beginning at Martial Arts in ground competitions, and know you're playing with flying-knees, this is really surprising for me. But, how does this idea come and how was this developed?
JZ: (Laughs) You're old, you saw me at Luta-Livre and
submission competitions around year of 2000.
DM: (Laughs) Okay, okay, not too old- but getting old.
So answer my question.
JZ: I've trained this during long time. I've tried to learn everything I can, so with good instructors I'm developing more than anyone can think about. Charron, a Thai citizen who coaches the squad of Alkmaar GYM is one of the guys that polished my knees and kicks. He tries to teach the perfection of each technique. Ouali, other guy I mentioned above, watched one of the Takaya's matches and worked a huge knee from the clinch. But at the backstage of HERO'S 6 I had a chat with Melvin Manhoef (winner of quarter-final of HERO'S
6 at lightheavyweight division GP) and I showed him the knee from the clinch, and he told me about the possibility of a flying-knee, and I replied him that I had the same idea and that was popping at my mind. Thanks to God I was focused enough and took advantage of the gap that Takaya made.
DM: About the other competitors of your division; tell us your impressions.
JZ: All of them can be very dangerous, each one of them have the strong points. But I do prefer to see all the future good opponents I can have such as an opportunity of showing what I've trained, what I'm and what I can develop. So we can fit our pace and to do the best possible. Rani Yahya has a superb ground-game, Caol Uno is the most experienced, and Ivan Menjivar is a complete fighter. I'm here to show what I can do.
DM: HERO'S booked you against Yahya at the semifinals.
Tell us your thoughts.
JZ: Unfortunately they booked us at the semifinals. This would be very good if we battle at the finals, but this is part of the sport and we can't avoid this.
DM: Do you think HERO'S did this to avoid two Brazilians in the grand final?
JZ: I don't know, but they guaranteed a Brazilian at the finals. And this fact motivates me to win the whole tournament and put the Brazilian flag on the top of the World.
DM: How do you see Yahya such as your semifinalist opponent?
JZ: Yahya is a nice guy and the two times we were at HERO'S we stayed in the same room on the backstage, the environment was superb. Like a fighter he's an excellent grappler and displayed a very competitive ground for MMA. I don't like to let the fans only with the expectative, because of this I'm training hard and when the showtime begins, I'll give my best possible and God will act…
DM: Next stage of HERO'S Middleweight GP will be at 10/9 and the formula will be two fights in same night. What will you change into your preparation and how do you face this kind of event for the first time ever into your career?
JZ: I don't change anything at the trainings, only my psychological side has to be in perfect condition to advance at the tournament. I'm ready to advance and I'm glad with this first opportunity of fighting a tournament in my career. This is a new challenge in my life and this does stimulate me and makes to train with more will-power.
DM: You left Brazil named Gesias Cavalcanti, so the Americans inserted the nickname JZ, and the Japanese fans re-named you like JZ Calvan. What's the main reason of this?
JZ: The troubles of pronouncing my name, my full name isn't an easy task to be spelled outside Brazil. Din Thomas nicknamed me JZ because once the rapper Jay-Z was playing a song on the radio and I started on dancing, so Thomas inserted it between my first and last name(laughs), so here in America they already had cut my name to JZ CAV. But when I arrived in Japan they "assassinated" it, I don't know the reason of CALVAN. I hope with more time they can use more correct name.
DM: Do you think people think these names are from different fighters?
JZ: I agree, and this is bad for the popularization of my trademark (laughs). In Brazil, for example, a lot of fans saw these names "JZ CAV" or "JZ CALVAN" and don't have any idea that I'm Brazilian fighter. But like I said, I hope they can change it correctly and associate my good fights with my right name (laughs). To tell you the truth, the name doesn't change what I have to display fighting.
DM: Thanks you very much for your time JZ Cav, JZ Calvan or whatever you're named now(laughs). Would you like to add anything else?
JZ: Thanks to God, my family, at the friends, the ATT's family, to all fans who're following me and rooting for me and to the Sinister Brand (www.sinisterbrand.com) which is supporting me.
To dream is so important how to have a heart in our lives. To dream is what we're. Because of this I talk, to fight is not only what I do, it's what I'm. Money, applauses and awards are important; however we only reach it with hard work and love. I never step on a ring alone, because, there, with me, it's the presence of all who believe in a dream. And this is what gives us strength to proceed.


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Pastor Kevin Goza, Senior Pastor
Pastor Kevin is a native of Pensacola, Florida and has served as Pastor of churches in Florida and Tennessee.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Science from the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida, and a Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; Ft. Worth, Texas. He began serving in pastoral ministry in 1981.
Pastor Goza has been actively involved in local, North American and international missions. He has served in various leadership capacities, including roles in evangelism and mission leadership. Recently, Pastor Kevin served as a member of the State Board of Missions for the Florida Baptist Convention, and on the Committee of Nominations for the Southern Baptist Convention. At present, he is the Treasurer for the Greater Orlando Baptist Association. He also serves as the Chaplain for the Apopka Police Department. Kevin enjoys a broad range of activities, including reading and most things outdoors.
Pastor Kevin has been married to Karen since 1980. She is actively involved in several areas of ministry and outreach. She is the consummate "people-person" who enjoys knowing and getting to know folks from all walks of life.
The Goza's have two children, Keith and Kimberly. Keith, and his wife Samantha have two beautiful daughters and live in Mississippi. Kimberly , and her husband Cole live in Tennessee.
You can follow Pastor Goza on Twitter (@kevingoza).
Pastor Fred Touchton, Adult Education and Senior Adult Pastor
Pastor Fred received the Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida and the Master of Religious Education degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
Pastor Touchton has served as an Associate Pastor at Trinity Baptist for 14 years and as a teacher in Trinity Christian School for the 6 years prior. Pastor Fred served for 15 years in various Florida churches as Minister of Education, Minister of Youth and Minister of Children and Senior Adults, as well as Pastor.
Pastor Fred is married to Peggy Bush Touchton, an educational therapist and Director of the Discovery Program at Trinity Christian School. They have two grown children, Kristen and Joshua, as well as a grandson, Colt.
Pastor Mike Ballard, Student Pastor
Pastor Mike considers himself a blessed man. He grew up living on a lake in the Ocala National Forest. Mike studied Business Management at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee on a baseball scholarship. He is currently working on-line at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Pastor Mike met his wife, Barbara at a softball tournament. They were married in 1995 and have 3 children, Justice, Faith, and Liberty.
Mike has worked as a Student Pastor, a Large Group Leader at Super Summer, has been a featured speaker at the Marion County Victims Impact Panel in Ocala, Florida and has held management positions in RV sales, sporting goods and general retail.
Pastor Mike loves softball, hunting, fishing, reading inspirational books, and speaking truth of life to teens and young adults. Mike can be heard saying to the young people; "The choices you make today, can and will affect each and every one of your tomorrows."
Raeann Johnson, Director of Childhood Ministries
Raeann Johnson serves a Director of Childhood Ministries at Trinity. Raeann works with children through Christian education and models spiritual development and growth. She has a passion for school age children and is excited to assist parents in leading their children to know Christ as their personal Savior.
Raeann comes to Trinity with 10 years of experience as a public school teacher. She graduated from University of Central Florida in 2000 with a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education and from National Louis University with a Master's degree in Educational Leadership in 2007.
Raeann is married to Greg and they have 3 children.
Chad Potter, Worship Pastor
Cammie Evans, Director of Finance
Cammie Evans joined the Trinity Baptist Church family with her husband, Neill in 1983. She began working in the Accounting and Finance Department for Trinity Baptist Church and Trinity Christian School in 1985.
Mrs Evans has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Cammie and Neill have 3 sons, Bradley, Zachary, and Hayden.
Beverly Smith, Trinity Christian School Administrator
Beverly Smith moved with her husband and children from Tampa to the central Florida area in 1983. In August of 1983, Mrs Smith and her husband, Randy, joined Trinity Baptist Church. Mrs Smith began teaching at Trinity Christian School the same year. After two years in the classroom she became the Academic Principal and has served as Administrator since 2000.
Mrs Smith holds a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education from The University of South Florida and a Master's degree in School Administration/Supervision from Nova Southeastern University.
Mrs Smith and her husband have 3 grown children and 6 grandchildren.
Beth Vance is responsible for the Accounts Payable for both the Church and School, as well as, the Ministry Assistant to the Director of Childhood Ministries. She has been part of the ministry office team since 1994.
Beth, and her husband, Doug have been involved at Trinity since 1991. Beth and Doug have one son, Ryan.
Teresa Stewart, a Florida native, has been working at Trinity since 2007. She is the Ministry Assistant for our Senior Pastor, Minister of Education and Senior Adults, and the Student Minister.
Teresa is married to Bryan and they have a daughter, Taylor.
Lissy Parzon is the "face and voice" of Trinity Baptist Church. She greets our visitors and callers with a cheerful attitude and Christ-like heart.
Lissy, and her husband, Andrés are from Puerto Rico. She has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Puerto Rico in Social Work and a Master's degree in Supervision and Administration.
Lissy and Andrés have two children, Paulette and Nathaniel.
Marilynn Beale serves as our Preschool Coordinator. She maintains our nursery – K5 childcare for worship services, Sunday school and all church wide events.
Marilynn and Leroy, her husband have two children, Adrienne and Derrick and two granddaughters.


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My successors have trained for close to twenty years or more before transmission. What takes so long? What's important to me, more important than all the sutras, more important than koan study or anything else, is kyogai—the nurturing of the sacred fetus. Once you reach a certain point in your training and realization, it needs to be fully embodied. It needs to be a natural manifestation of your life. That can't be rushed. It's like cooking something in the oven. You can't keep opening the door and checking on it. You've got to let it cook and let it cook slowly and completely. It's at the end of that period of complete maturation of the sacred fetus that the transmission of the dharma takes place. What's a fetus symbolic of? Conception has happened. There's life, but it's not a person yet. It's got to be nurtured before it can be born. That's what the process is. That's what the sixteen years was about. People who do all the training and don't receive transmission usually have not manifested or embodied that sacred fetus.
S: The Dharma Ending Age always provokes my anxiety. Maybe that's the right idea. Can you say anything about what that means? Is it relevant to my practice?
D: As alluded to in the sutra, we're currently living in the Dharma Ending Age, and have been for quite a while. This decline was predicted by the Buddha. He said there will be a time when the buddhadharma will completely disappear from the face of the earth. There will be no teachers and no teachings, no enlightened beings, no monks and no sutras. They will all be gone. The sages and saints will seldom appear, if at all, and the heretical teachings will increase and flourish. The Sutra of Complete Enlightenment raises the question of whom to follow during such a time.
It's relevant to us because it is happening. I think the West is going to play a pivotal role in it. We're a consumer society, and it's already affecting Buddhism—the way Buddhism is taught, the way it's understood, the way it's transmitted—it's all consumerism. A lot of the characteristics of this 2,500-year-old religious philosophy is being transmitted to a country that's very intellectual, analytical, computerized, with a great deal of misinformation being passed around. We don't know what's real and what's not. Everybody sounds like an expert on the internet.
The teachers who originally came here from Japan were unable to pass on many of the teachings to Westerners. First of all, there were limitations of language. Secondly, they were accustomed to teaching beginners who were already sophisticated in Buddhism. For instance, when new practitioners walked into Eiheiji Monastery, they already knew liturgy, they knew the history of Buddhism, and they understood Buddhist studies. They were ready because they already had some training. When the same teachers came to America, they came to a non-Buddhist culture. Everything they said was translated and immediately seen within the Judeo-Christian context. Buddhism began to crystallize around those concepts, such as compassion instead of karuna, wisdom instead of prajna, and that began to define Buddhism in the West. So those original teachers decided to keep it uncomplicated. They stuck to zazen. They made the liturgy very sparse. A lot of the teachings simply didn't take place here. That's part of the demise of Buddhism. It's a very different kind of Buddhism than what the Buddha taught, than what Zhaozhou taught.
There are nearly two thousand teachers of Zen in America, and only a small number are recognized internationally by the International Soto School, for example. Only a handful have received dharma transmission from a recognized teacher. Most of them have not trained rigorously. It's not the dharma of Linji or Dogen. It's evening zazen, or living room Zen or storefront Zen. Most teachers work within centers, rather than training monasteries. They don't have rigorous requirements for entry or training. This is all part of the demise of the teachings. And as time goes on, it's going to get worse. Fifty years from now training in an authentic setting will be very rare. It'll be there, it'll always be there I think, but it will be the exception rather than the rule. The major thrust of Buddhism in America is going to be barely recognizable to most of us.
S: In terms of the International Soto School and the importance of having them recognize teachers, I've always been curious how you understand the importance of that recognition while at the same time you speak openly about the lack of vitality in their practice and training.
D: It's essentially better than nothing. That's what it boils down to. They do require training. When a Soto priest walks through the door here I know they have a master's degree in Buddhist studies, that they've spent two or three years in a monastery like Eiheiji, sitting every morning and studying and learning the sutras and so on. They have some training, in contrast to someone that's simply set up a zendo in his living room, and started expounding the dharma.
I also want to convince the Soto School that if it wants to establish itself here in America, and they expect ZMM to be involved, then it's going to need to be on our terms, within our training. I don't want Japanese monks to try to teach the dharma to American students when they don't understand the problems that Americans face. The American Soto School needs to be American, not Japanese. I would be very happy to be a training monastery for American, as well as Japanese, students if they followed our training schedule, with a monthly week-long sesshin, two angos a year, fusatsu, academic study, art practice, all the things that we do. As far as I'm concerned, if there's no sitting, there's no Zen.


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The mood last year was cautious, restrained, but still optimistic.
You become aware of the complexion of colors and "the restrained luxury of the surfaces."
Funny how being nude and restrained amplifies your nerve endings.
He is in his late forties; intelligent, people say, but stiff and restrained, an eternal bachelor.
Lauren Ashburn on why the restrained style of TV journalists is inappropriate when dozens of schoolchildren are gunned down.
He looked, Rainey thought, like a blind Berserker, restrained only by his affliction.
But his curiosity was too strong to be restrained by mere compassion.
She dressed modestly in a taste that was quiet and restrained.
He felt her eye was upon him, and restrained his emotions as he proceeded.
restrained from open vice by educational views and the fear of man, how much ungodliness has reigned within me!
mid-14c., from stem of Old French restreindre "press, push together; curb, bridle; bandage" (12c.), from Latin restringere "draw back tightly, confine, check" (see restriction). Related: Restrained; restraining.
That which we restrain we keep within limits; that which we restrict we keep within certain definite limits; that which we repress we try to put out of existence. [Century Dictionary, 1902]


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COVINGTON -- After losing their last three games, two in overtime, the Newton boys have hopefully turned it around with a 71-55 win over Walnut Grove on Saturday.
"Saturday night was a great shooting night for us, as we took care of the ball and played well in all facets of the game. We ended the game with only nine turnovers, shot 60 percent for the game and outrebounded the home team 40-31," Newton head coach Rick Rasmussen said.
"This should give us some momentum going into Tuesday night when we take on Stephenson, who is coming off their first win of the season with a 57-55 home win over East Coweta."
The Rams (2-3 overall, 0-2 in Region 2-AAAAA) look to get their first region win of the season against a Jaguars team they have beaten six straight times, including last year's region championship game victory.
Helping the Rams keep their momentum going was their 50 percent shooting from 3-point range as they were 4-for-8.
The Rams were able to spread the ball well as they had three players in double-digit scoring. Stephen Croone led the Rams with a game-high 24 points followed by Justin Thompson with 16 points and Shane Henry with 12 points. Henry's 12 points, along with his 15 rebounds, gave the senior his third straight double-double.
"It felt good to still be able to help our team win, when a few hours earlier I wasn't sure if I could even go to the game. Coach (Rasmussen) made sure I got hydrated before the game and I just went out there and played as hard as I could," Henry said, who turned 18 on game day. "Even though I was weak and didn't even get to have any of my own birthday cake, it still ended up being a great birthday since we got a convincing win on the road."
Newton out-shot its opponent making 60 percent of its shots compared to a mere 33 percent for Walnut Grove.
Newton ended the first quarter with an 18-15 lead and barely held on to the lead at the half winning by a single point, 31-30.
The Rams turned up the heat in the third frame before exploding with 27 points in the final quarter, including 20 points from Croone, for the 16-point win.
"We know we are six points away from being 5-0, as we have lost three games that could have gone either way," Rasmussen said. "We believe these close games will serve us well in the long run. We have a tough schedule and we play a lot of teams with length and athleticism, so we have to play with fundamentals and discipline to give ourselves a chance to succeed. We had been struggling to take care of the ball and run an offense and I feel like we got back on track in those two areas (Saturday)night."
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- Newton boys hoops dominant in summer ( June 27, 2011 )


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It was one of the most talked about films at this year's Sundance Film Festival—provocative, daring, and incredibly enlightening. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry introduced the audience to an artist who has become an iconic figure for his outspoken personality and defiant stance against the Chinese government. The film, created and directed by journalist Alison Klayman, chronicles the creative process and agenda of Ai Weiwei, documenting some of the most politically sensitive and emotionally charged moments of his life to date.
Ai Weiwei, now 54, is depicted as an almost heroic individual who has risked everything for his beliefs. He has battled Chinese authorities, fallen victim to police brutality, been humiliated by public denouncement, and eventually incarcerated for 81 days. But despite such seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Ai Weiwei has remained steadfast in his mission for universal human rights and democracy.
Klayman has a surprising amount of access to Weiwei—offering an intimate look at the man behind the controversial art. Klayman spends time with him as he designs the Bird's Nest stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and subsequently disparages the structure in light of the Chinese government's policy of displacement. She also highlights the creative process behind, and social implications of, his politically charged work—such as the Tate Modern show. During that show, millions of porcelain sunflower seed replicas were spread across the floor, each representing a life that could bloom into a flower, but is fated to remain forever frozen as a seed. But the focal point of the documentary is Weiwei's installation that featured the Sichuan province earthquake victims' names. After authorities refused to release the death toll from the natural disaster, Ai Weiwei began collecting data about the missing, and filming documentaries that detailed the damage. He wanted to expose the government's blatant disregard for safety and the shoddy construction of public schools that he and many other critics believe led to the death of thousands of children. Eventually, Ai Weiwei published a spreadsheet of roughly 5,000 children who had been killed. His actions led to a fierce confrontation with the Sichuan police, in which he was beaten in the head and given a serious brain injury. While the documentary does not visually capture the incident, sound bites are included.
Social media has proven to be an invaluable tool to Ai Weiwei, who said: "If you don't publicize it, it's like it never happened." In fact, some of his most important projects (like the Sichuan earthquake installation) rely on public participation. Weiwei views Twitter as an indispensable device for exposing the truth to the world. With a constant online presence, he has come to be known as "Teach Ai," accumulating a devoted legion of followers who have helped promote his message.
"Weiwei's whole life is his creative practice," says Klayman. "While he knows the difference between a museum piece and a tweet, he also understands that the artist is the message."
In the final fifteen minutes of the documentary, Ai Weiwei vanishes. His grieving mother files a missing persons report. His distraught wife is left alone with his two-year old son. The world soon learns that Weiwei was whisked away by authorities as part of a dissident crackdown. During Weiwei's 81 days of being interrogated at an undisclosed location, people around the world came out to show their support. Thousands of protesters flooded the streets, and even more individuals led online campaigns. "They silence him but his voice grows louder and louder," read one tweet. At the time, Klayman was back in America working on post-production, but went back to China to chronicle the events. When Weiwei was finally released, he seemed like a different man—quiet, dejected, broken down. Under a strict gag order, Weiwei cannot offer any details about his incarceration, or even make a comment about the nature of the ban. It is an unsettling turn of events. Weiwei even refused to do a Skype interview regarding the documentary.
Klayman says "He's visited by the cops after every public and media appearance. I get the sense he's trying to wait it out until his bail conditions are released. But that's only my guess. With so little transparency in China, figuring out what's next is like reading tea leaves."
Though despite all that has transpired, Weiwei's voice, message, and art live on. He has inspired activist gatherings around the world and called for individuals everywhere to stand up for democratic rights. Weiwei insists that "the civilized world cannot see China as a civilized country if it doesn't change its own behavior…I don't believe that these are western values. These are universal values."
The documentary opened to critical acclaim, receiving a standing ovation and sparking a fervor within its audience, many of whom expressed a willingness to get involved after watching the documentary. The documentary has served as just one more tool for exposing the truth, spreading the message, and hopefully creating a better future for generations to come.


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Cox, 55, executive vice president and chief operating officer, is being named president and chief operating officer. Williams, 62, is retaining the CEO title.
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(Easthampton, MA) — Two Democratic candidates for senate in the Second Hampden and Hampshire District will square off tonight in a debate. The showdown between Michael Tautznik and David Bartley begins at seven at the Easthampton High School. Tautznik is mayor of Easthampton and Bartley is a lawyer and Easthampton city councilor. The primary is October 8th in the race to fill Mike Knapik's former senate seat.
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On Saturday, President Obama's first weekly address of April 2011 was presented to the American public. The president continued to focus on the theme of the week – energy security and gas prices – during the address.
While energy security and reducing the nation's dependence on foreign oil may not be a pressing concern for many, when gas prices rise everyone takes notice. The nation is still trying to recover from the Great Recession and when gas prices jump like they have been over the past few months, tight budgets get even tighter. It is unfortunate that rising gas prices are needed to draw mass attention to the importance of energy security but the Obama administration is doing what it can to capitalize on this attention.
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Mutilator - Immortal Force - May, 1987
Hailing from the same place as Sepultura, it comes as no surprise that Mutilator play a very similar style as those legendary thrashers did in 1986-87. Front man Alexander was even asked to join Sepultura when Jairo left the band in 1987 but turned the offer down. Fast, raw and verging on death metal, Mutilator certainly don't lack for enthusiasm or energy. What separates Sepultura from a band like Mutilator though is true songwriting skill. Even on Morbid Visions, Sepultura displayed a clear ability to build drama and suspense in their songwriting, and most of the songs flowed very well with lots of varied parts. When listening to Mutilator's first album, this is not the case. The band's end game is always the same: blinding speed -- which is all fine and good, but it gets a little predictable as the album goes on. It's a shame too, because there are a lot of cool mid-paced and even epic sounding passages thrown in that seem like they should lead to something even cooler -- but they don't. Just speed. I like speed -- this is a thrash retrospective after all, but sometimes there's just too much of a good thing.
Standouts: War Dogs, Brigade of Hate, Immortal Force
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Thanks for the acknowledgement of editorial cartoonist Lisa De Paul-Snyder's weekly jab at Mission Viejo's municipal mess. She puts the fun back into politics.
Best Political Cartoons Orange County 2009 - Mission Viejo Watchdogs Editorial Cartoons
Founded in the late '90s and apparently avoiding a web redesign ever since, Mission Viejo Watchdogs serves as a dissent dispensary for the city's clique of citizen political agitators (the crowd whose most ambitious project to date is the attempted recall of Councilman Lance MacLean). But the uninitiated should skip the site's gossip roundups and go straight to each week's "Editorial Cartoon." As far as political art goes, the cartoons aren't the "best" quality in either craftsmanship (they appear to have been done in MS Paint) or commentary (there are fewer actual jokes than even the average Mallard Fillmore strip). But they're hilarious like the Burn Book in Mean Girls: That city council members are portrayed either as coneheads or as having devil horns tells you all you need to know about the nature of political discourse in Mission Viejo.


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The luxury market is coming back, but its recovery is being driven by its wealthier customers. The "aspirational" shopper -- the working woman who adds one designer jacket or purse per season to her wardrobe, for example -- is staying away: Members of that market segment cannot yet afford to spend that kind of money again, say retailers.%%DynaPub-Enhancement class="enhancement contentType-HTML Content fragmentId-1 payloadId-61603 alignment-right size-small"%% The luxury merchants at the National Retail Federation's annual conference are looking forward to a better 2010, thanks to the end of the recession -- at least among the wealthy -- and booming times on Wall Street. But the effects of weak job market and the hangover from the credit and housing market bust linger among the middle class, and that will take some of the growth margins off the luxury market.
"There is that aspirational customer that's not going to come back for a while," said Kimberly Grabel, senior vice president of marketing and advertising at Saks (SKS). The chain's core customer, who can spend up to $80,000 a year shopping there, is back, she said. For the short term, the luxury market will have to focus on getting the most out of that smaller segment of wealthy customers, she said: "This will be a market-share game, a share-of-wallet game."
As the NRF meeting got under way, Tiffany & Co. (TIF) announced it racked up a 17% increase in sales over November and December compared to the same period the year before, and a 12% increase in comparable-store sales. Due to that spike, the jeweler raised its forecast for net earnings to $2.07 to $2.12 per share for the fiscal year ending Jan. 31, up from its previous estimate of $1.88 to $1.98.
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But just days earlier, the U.S. employment report had disappointed observers, who had expected improvement in job creation during the month of December. Retailers remained optimistic, but the weak jobs report tempered a lot of their enthusiasm for the longer term.
"I'm not sure the spending will go back to where it was," said designer Tory Burch. "It's not cool to be excessive anymore."
And shoppers are also changing what they call luxury, focusing less on status symbols and more on exclusivity and lifestyle, said retailers.
"People want to go to a Saks or a Neiman [Marcus] and get something they can't get elsewhere," said Saks' CEO, Stephen Sadove. He noted the store aims to have 20% to 25% of its stock be exclusive items, and it's working with designers to create that merchandise at the right prices for its audience.
The nature of luxury items is changing as well, said Marc Gobe, president of consultancy Emotional Branding. For example, designer jeans are not as big a status symbol among teens now as a new iPhone, he said. "Technology is the new luxury," he said.
Sadove said he expects the first half of 2010 will remain difficult, and the second half will be better. But he cautioned things are different after the recession, so even the wealthy are shopping carefully now.
"The consumer has changed," said Sadove. "Anybody who thinks we're going back up that V [curve] is kidding themselves."
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The U.S. Border Patrol agent who shot across the Rio Grande into Mexico in June and killed a 15-year-old Mexican boy has been on regular duty for the past two months, officials said this week.
The agent's name is not being released. Neither are the details of his current assignment.
Michael Przybyl, assistant chief patrol agent for the El Paso sector of U.S. Border Patrol, said the agent is 31 and has been with the agency seven years. The agent was placed on administrative duty for a couple of days after the June 7 shooting before returning to patrol, Przybyl said.
Killed in the shooting was Sergio Adrían Hernández Güereca. The Border Patrol said the agent fired after coming under attack by people throwing rocks near the Paso del Norte Bridge. Hernández died on the Mexican side of the river from a bullet wound to the head
The agent has not been charged with wrongdoing, but the U.S. Justice Department launched a civil-rights investigation. The FBI is also investigating a case of assault on the agent.
According to a telephone recording of the incident, a Border Patrol agent is seen arriving on a bicycle. As the agent attempts to detain a man on the U.S. side of the river, someone on the Mexican side of the river begins throwing rocks at him. On the video, the agent is seen pointing his handgun, and then three gunshots are heard.
Hernández can then be seen lying on the ground on the Mexican side.
The videotape does not show who was throwing rocks.
The shooting drew international attention.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder described Hernández's death as "extremely regrettable," and Mexican President Felipe Calderón pledged to "use all resources available to protect the rights of Mexican migrants."
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The Factory: Warhol and His Circle by David McCabe @ Proud Galleries, LondonJuxtapoz // Thursday, 27 Oct 2011
On view at Proud Chelsea in London is The Factory: Warhol and His Circle by David McCabe. The show reveals the year between 1964 and 1965 during which Warhol approached David McCabe to document life at the Factory. During this critical point in Warhol's career (and essentially art history) McCabe was given two conditions under which he must work: "that he didn't use a flash and that he was someone who would fit in" (quoting the press release).
During this crucial 12 month period, McCabe captured over 2,500 images ranging from work in the Factory, parties, or meetings with collectors who would buy Warhol's work or introduce him to other artists. At the time when Warhol was running this project, many of the images were rejected and deemed as unsatisfactory in creating and sustaining Warhol's image. These images remained unseen and mostly unprinted for forty years (marking the 40th anniversary of Edie Sedgwick's death). Now the images are up at Proud Chelsea, allowing an insider's perspective on these formative moments in the career of the prolific pop artist. Go see the show in person before December 4th.


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Atop a hill on Barlows Landing Road in Pocasset, there's an old wood-shingled house surrounded by what the poet Amy Lowell described as "great puffs of flowers ... everywhere in this my New England."
In her poem "Lilacs," Lowell sings the praises of this "very decent flower, a reticent flower, a curiously clear-cut, candid flower" that has roots going back to the nation's founders.
But, for Wendie and Howie Howland, freely sharing the sweet-smelling shrubbery on their nearly 2-acre property — with its flowers that resonated deeply with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — has more practical purposes than poetic or patriotic.
"When we bought this old house 25 years ago I said, 'This house has to have lilacs,'" Wendie told me as we stood on the freshly cut grass in the backyard Monday afternoon.
She bought the seeds at a Barnstable County plant sale a quarter-century ago and spread the seeds around the yard. And every May since then, they've blossomed.
"We have some outside our bedroom window," she said. "And when a breeze comes in, it's really sweet."
Longtime members of the Cape Cod Freecycle online network, the Howlands have offered their purple and white lilacs free to anyone with "stout loppers or pruners" for a couple of years.
"When they bloom, we thought, instead of us trimming them, why not have people come over and do it? It's a nice New England thing to do," Howie explained.
"If you prune them right after they flower in the spring, new growth comes in. We're taking the Tom Sawyer approach. You can have what you prune," Wendie said.
According to the Freecycle Network website (www.freecycle.org), the Howlands are part of a consortium "made up of 5,122 groups with 7,379,253 members around the world."
"It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns," the site says. "It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by local volunteers (them's good people). Membership is free."
The lilacs are just one of many ways Howlands "freecycle." The paving stones under the carport, for instance. They got those through freecycling.
But when I asked them about the green sign on the side of their house with gold-stenciled letters that reads "The Friendly Confines," Wendie said it was a reference to another passion of theirs — baseball.
"That's what they call Fenway Park — 'The Friendly Confines.' And our home is a pretty friendly place," she said.
Howie, a retired Massachusetts Maritime Academy professor and former marine insurance salesman, is also the former general manager of the Cape Cod Baseball League's Bourne Braves. Wendie is a certified nurse consultant and life-care planner.
A look around their well-kept, tree-lined yard screams good old-fashioned New England pragmatism — the solar panels on the roof to heat their water; the shed where they store the wood to heat their home; the Prius with an Eagle Scout bumper sticker under the carport.
Though Wendie planted the lilacs, Howie is the one with the green thumb. "Me? If it can't live with whatever falls from the sky, it shouldn't be in my care," Wendie said.
Howie, on the other hand, is a real gardener — yellow squash, blueberries, onions, asparagus, pumpkins, rhubarb, peas, carrots, beets and tomatoes.
"We try to be as self-contained and self-sustaining as we can," Howie said, as one of their four cats meandered into the garden and scratched at the soil.
"Go ahead and fertilize," he said. Wendie chuckled.
Then, as if Lowell's "Lilac" poem had descended on us ("Cape Cod starts you along the beaches to Rhode Island ... May is lilac here in New England, May is a thrush singing 'Sun up!' on a tip-top ash tree"), Wendie pointed to the sky above us.
"Oh look, a great blue heron!"
A hawk also nests in the neighborhood. We didn't see it, but it must have flown overhead a time or two because, as Wendie noted, when that happens the chorus of birds goes silent.
Lilacs, baseball, living off the bounty of nature, freecycling? When I got back to the office I looked up Lowell's poem.
"Roots of lilac under all the soil of New England/Lilac in me because I am New England/Because my roots are in it/Because my leaves are of it/Because my flowers are for it/Because it is my country/And I speak to it of itself/And sing of it with my own voice/Since certainly it is mine."
And yet the Howlands' lilacs also belong to anyone who wants them. When a wedding planner who saw the lilac offering on Freecycle came and asked how much she could take, Wendie said, "How much can you carry?"
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In part one of this research we looked at how, as a consequence of their fundamental importance to the enterprise, mission-critical applications have tended to remain stubbornly attached to bare metal.
Applications such as ERP, financial suites and HR systems represent a sticking point to consolidation because, to those responsible for them, the risk of failure or dropping off of performance outweighs any benefits that might accrue by virtualising and then consolidating them.
As well as cost, space and management savings, the advantages of virtualisation include the ability to integrate heterogeneous enterprise data onto unified virtual infrastructure, allowing for high-performance interoperability and rapid data access. Such integration over high-speed connections, accompanied by low-latency memory paging and input/output (I/O) access, allows the rapid creation of high-performance analytics, business intelligence, data mining and compliance solutions.
So, a simplified, agile, high-performance infrastructure is the promise. However, worries over performance and scalability are the main technical barriers to consolidating enterprise applications, according to a Computing survey of 150 IT decision makers (see figure 1).
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Performance problems
The premise of the virtual environment is that a hypervisor assumes control of the physical machine, allowing multiple operating systems to be run on a single physical infrastructure. Memory paging, network communications and storage I/O access are controlled by the hypervisor, but appear as virtually native to each guest operating system (OS).
Early software-based hypervisors had to cope with a previous generation of CPU chips without virtualisation support, meaning that precious processing power was spent in fooling the OS that it was running on hardware rather than a virtual machine (VM). Processor-hungry applications often ran slowly or unreliably on these early platforms, leading many IT directors to conclude that VMs were completely incompatible with enterprise applications.
The reticence to virtualise mission-critical applications may be, in part, a hangover from that era. Times have changed. Modern Type 1 hypervisors (see below) take full advantage of the virtualisation technologies that chip makers such as Intel and AMD have built into their latest processors, minimising the overhead on processing power.
Nevertheless, there will always be some difference in performance between a dedicated box and a virtualised platform, however slight, and the few specialised applications for which millisecond latency is a major issue, such as trading systems, may always be better on specialised hardware.
For the remainder, though, there a signs that things are changing. The Computing survey found that even applications such as financial suites have been virtualised – at least partially – in about half of the organisations questioned.
Is it safe?
Security of virtualised platforms is also a hurdle for many. Again the technical fears are largely historical.
In early systems, there was concern that with software-based (Type 2) virtualisation approaches, the machine kernel could be breached through a weak spot in one guest OS. With hardware-based virtualisation and self-standing Type 1 hypervisors, that route is closed off.
Moreover, modern hardware-enhanced virtual servers have additional security features designed for large-scale virtualised environments.


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Very nice, sensuous missionary sex. I love it!
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Just like it used to be. This is fantastic.
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This is exactly how I am, I go crazy during foreplay, love my neck being kissed and sucked and my breasts as well. I think I might even moan more than her...
i thougt this was shit tbh :) no action, she could have shaved an hes a movementphobe
that was a great young couple recording of good sex! hope it was a viv of her getting knocked up from her boyfriends beautiful cock and ass ;)
Great video. Would love to see the rest of this fuck. Her pussy is really hairy though..
Nice sex, nice O (hers), love that hairy pussy.
The real folks having real sex...awesome. More videos like this should be on the web. P
Seems legit. I like it! Wish there was more of this on here.
así se folla, más vídeos de estos; olé.
I've seen a video with these same two people sleeping, just sleeping together. Even that's hot.
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i love it when boys insert their cocks on my tits. i hope ill have the chance to try yours on mine :)
Really nice orgasm. How refreshing - old fashion sex, fun and enjoyable.
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When timmel.com was up, Julie Culshaw was generous enough to post the Australian Stitches article on Sewing with a Plan, INCLUDING a COMPOSITE PHOTO of the 48 outfits you could put together using the 11 basic garments. I am MIZZABLE that I didn't print that photo!
I can�t seen to reach Julie through her blog
If you can, could you ask her to post these materials if she still has them?
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hi there,
do you know which issue number it was, I may have it and could email you the photo.
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Oh my gosh, Linda, you are so kind to offer this.
It's either in
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It's a composite shot of 48 outfits you can put together with just 11 garments. There's a lot of gold/yellow color and I remember she made navy pants.
Honest, thanks just for offering! Do you need my home email?
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