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There are two dollar bills tucked into Pamela Canellas's cleavage.
A flurry of boa feathers sprouting from the base of her ponytail and floating down half the length of her five-foot, three-inch body, Canellas is working her French manicure into the sides of her red-sequined Charo getup. Here, in the privacy of the concierge's storage closet at Hollywood's swank Diplomat Hotel, she seizes the money, throws it on a rack next to tubs of economy-size Dove dishwashing soap, and peels off a long satiny glove.
"Ah, can you believe this? Some guy out there gave me money... two bucks," she says, rolling her eyes, the lids of which are dusted with gold glitter. "I mean, I never do this. I don't take money ever. I tell my dancers not to, but this guy was with his wife, and he was old... like, you know... he was just out trying to have a good time. He was smiling, and I didn't want to make him feel bad by rejecting it."
Canellas crinkles her forehead and moves the Velcroed fabric around like a jigsaw puzzle over her torso. "We call this the Britney," she says, arranging the outfit to resemble the green belly-dancing bikini Ms. Spears wore during an awards show.
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"Two dollars, though?" she adds. "If you're gonna try to give us money, I mean, c'mon."
It's hard to argue with her. Canellas deserved more than meter fare. Earlier, at about 11 p.m., she and a dancer named Maria had emerged from this concierge closet in Ay Mommy outfits, throwing attitude around the ostensibly civilized Diplomat and clicking their Lucite heels across the marble floor. You could just feel the guests' cardigans droop as Canellas and Maria sashayed past, their backsides ballooning out of two teeny red leotards.
Staring at 30-foot, scalloped ceilings inside the mouth of Satine, the hotel's swank new lounge, they paused. The bellhops were chuckling, and a lone whistle complimented them. In an "It's showtime!" way, they shimmied into the club, mounted two glass-covered ottomans, and, to a disco beat, made the best of their three square feet. They wiggled and posed like showgirls trapped in phone booths: cutesy turns, winks, hip thrusts, and Vanna White arms.
Suddenly, the place went from looking like a rich couple's wedding reception to a real party. The houselights faded, and waiters stepped up their pace. Women dressed in sensible black tops and pencil skirts leaned over the bar, waving tens and twenties, ordering Manhattans. Sucking on thin straws, they scoped suits who might buy their next round of poison. The guys -- all soft-in-the-belly, corporate climbers -- floated around, standing behind the club's high-back chairs, talking absent-mindedly while their eyeballs locked on the dancing girls. The DJ spliced some Donna Summer, which struck a familiar chord with the patrons, who were now wagging their hips on the dance floor.
"When I go out there, I have to shine," Canellas explains later. "No one cares if you're having a bad day or you're on your period. This is about 100 percent presence. I see people here, like, who probably never let go. We're here to say, 'It's OK.'"
Canellas isn't the patron saint of good times; she has made a $267,000-per-year business out of helping people get down. Her company, Hot Jam Entertainment, books about 100 dancers and performers at elite clubs from South Beach to West Palm. With a massive wardrobe, Hot Jam promises to fulfill any fantasy a club owner can conjure. If Miami Beach's Krave wants rump shakers fit for a Ja Rule video, if Pearl needs model babes, or if Club Space calls for Raggedy Ann and Andy or Han and Princess Leia, it rings Hot Jam. This is the second year Canellas has held accounts with Broward County clubs, trying to infuse some cool into its pedestrian bar scene. Named after the prostitute in Moulin Rouge, Satine is trying to hook a clientele tired of Saturday night in the suburbs.
Alain Ricci, marketing director for Penrod Enterprises, which owns Satine, is optimistic. "A lot of people say, 'Why are you opening that kind of club here, in the middle of Hollywood? Why not [South] Beach, where it's less of a risk?' But there is a market here," he insists.
Cleve Mash, owner of Boca Raton's Club Radius, has brought in Hot Jam consistently since opening two years ago. "I'm not going to hire dancers and have the same ones every week," he reasons. "If you don't have variety, patrons go elsewhere. Pamela can send dancers for a pajama party tonight and a fetish party tomorrow."
There is no definition for club dancing in Oxford Dictionary of Dance, nor can the term be found in any other tome. The closest listing is à gogo, late '50s-era American Bandstand babes doing the jerk on a pedestal. Although history is murky, VH1 -- the most reliable archival source for such digging -- maintains that à gogo went the way of blue eyeshadow as baby boomers preferred to party with mother nature rather than remain cooped up in a club.
In the early '80s, thanks to Studio 54's trapeze performers and queens on stilts, go-go dancing experienced a brief renaissance. But it was largely upstaged during much of the decade by New York City's Club Kids, androgynous rats with tubs of Manic Panic and loads of drugs that invited a law enforcement crackdown that then led to a more antiseptic club culture. In the '90s, kids reacted to that by creating a nation of ravers; this group fragmented several years ago. Some went along with a corporate drive to sponsor lame, mass dance fests and brand-name, once-anonymous DJs. But many others, joined by hip-hoppers with gads of disposable income for VIP tables and Cristal, returned to the velvet rope.
The result: the revived sacrosanctity of nightclubs.
In South Florida's mecca of sex and leisure, platform dancing is little more than wallpaper. But platform dancers are there, working every night to titillate a crowd, fool their Saturday-night subconscious into believing there's a 50-foot woman in the house, a chick larger than life with her exhibitionistic ass shaking.
Of course, club dancing -- the form -- is far from the Bolshoi -- a fact that reveals its social status. In other words, company dancers who make careers out of a lifetime of training often dismiss club dancers as mere strobe candy. They allege that clubbers are without technique the same way that Broadway dancers tee-hee cruise-ship kicklines. Meanwhile, club dancers bristle at the insinuation that they are in any way burlesque.
"The only drawback to this is that when I tell people I'm a dancer, they want to know where I strip at," Canellas says. "We are real dancers, we entertain, we put on a show. Anyone who sees us knows that. It makes me feel bad when someone asks that. I go out of my way to say, 'With clothes.'"
Yet, Hot Jam dancers are all sexy, the result of twice-a-day workouts and strict dieting for many. "I expect my girls to look very beautiful," Canellas says. "They have to be very fit, and when they show up for a job, I want the hair done and the makeup perfect. I want the people we dance for to get the whole package."
And the owner demonstrates that rule by example. The short, Chilean 34-year-old is slim and tan with large, pillowy breasts and a flat stomach punctuated by a crystal navel ring. Canellas's favorite movie is Flashdance, the story of a stripper who auditions for the Pittsburgh School of Ballet. She asks "Have you seen Flashdance?" when trying to convey the style Hot Jam emulates. So don't come with that arm-pumping, repetitive grinding that passes for dance on the floor. "No flailing," she once told two girls with J-Lo butts and wild hair they kept whipping around. "I want to see extensions, full-out turns, keep it tight. Control."
But practically speaking, there are myriad reasons why girls want to dance for Hot Jam. Some who audition -- the only way to get a spot with the company -- are driven by video-chick envy. Many have just arrived in America looking for a job that favors body language to English. But most Hot Jam dancers are trained performers who want to make extra money.
I worked for Hot Jam for a few months earlier this year and have platform-danced for money in other cities. I took the part-time job because, for me, dance is a singular experience; even symbiotic partner and company dance depend strongly on individual personality. Club dancing is a way to escape into oneself. It is tied up in the need to express myself physically without consequence. And though I'm loath to say it: gender power. Women are pushed and prodded and hit on and talked to without invite in a club, a place where, sexually, anything goes. For me, dancing alone, even while perched on some pedestal to be gawked at, was a way to feel physically protected and somewhat superior.
I too told everyone before they asked: "With clothes." My parents, who paid for 16 years of tap, ballet, and jazz lessons, little more than shrugged. "That's fine, dear. Why don't you send us some pictures or something, and we'll e-mail them to the rest of the family." Practical Midwesterners, my mother and father looked forward to my bringing in more money to supplement the lifestyle they had quietly, politely figured was mired in career poverty. To them, dancing seemed just as respectable as being a journalist.
No one survives on Miami Beach, the southernmost point of American cool, without the support of its self-proclaimed denizens. Part of Hot Jam's success is due to its partnership with Level nightclub.
Likewise, Hot Jam dancers are "walking mouthpieces" for his venue, says Level owner Gerry Kelly. Last month, he paid for the dancers to compete in the first American Go Go Dancing Championship at Manhattan's Webster Hall. "I am critical of people who don't know how to throw a good party, where you show up and there's only a DJ," Kelly sniffs. "What Pamela understands is what makes a party a party. I can tell her I'm having President Clinton in and she will do an amazing show with costumes... that, you know... won't embarrass me. People say to me, you know, what is it like being Gerry Kelly? Well, I can say that what I need are people like Pamela who share my vision for a fabulous event."
Kelly says he's been approached "hundreds of times" by Hot Jam competitors. A group on Miami Beach called Aura supposedly tried to compete with Canellas a few years ago, but talk of Aura inspires ghost-story tones from one club manager. "They asked me once," says one. "It was weird. I never heard from them again."
Theme parties or corporate events can cost thousands of dollars; price is typically calculated according to the number of costume changes. Cleve Mash tells New Times he usually pays $600 for three dancers, who make three costume changes on a typical night. For the dancers, a typical night means arriving at a venue at midnight, an hour before the first performance at 1 a.m. They perform 15 minutes every hour. "We just want to give a taste," Canellas says. "Besides, any longer and the makeup runs, the girls sweat."
Danny Danny, Hot Jam's costume designer, is a flaming, crazy-haired redhead with more fizz than a shaken soda can. It's a humid day in mid-June, and the designer, who does not have a last name, is sitting in the waiting room of Hot Jam's dance studio at 14th Street and Ocean Drive on South Beach. He is wearing royal-blue nylon pants, a fanny pack, and a tank top through which poke freckled skinny arms. Danny Danny is grinning because his mood meter is always tipped on the happy side.
Canellas is holding auditions this afternoon, and he's come down to see the new crop. Above Danny Danny's head on the bordello-red walls hang pictures of dancers wearing his creations. "Bianka" is dressed in a red, white, and blue half top and hot pants, flirtatiously waving the American flag. "Elsy" sports a pink, patent-leather cabby hat and rain slicker. And Canellas, curtsying like Shirley Temple, is decked out in a bust-enhancing leotard. Danny Danny has made thousands of costumes for Hot Jam; they fill Canellas's Miami-Dade County, two-car garage from floor to ceiling.
The two met about ten years ago on South Beach. The designer and Canellas are now roommates. "I knew Danny was a talent who hadn't yet been tapped," she says. "He used to get in trouble on the Beach... you know, drugs. So I said, 'Here, come with me.' He was always at my house working on his designs, so I thought, 'Just move in.'"
At first, Danny Danny talks softly, with a strong Spanish accent, then builds to a furious, giggling crescendo. I ask him what has been his most challenging design. "My favorite costume is when I design for the girls a beautiful skirt which becomes a giant serpent!" he exclaims, leaping up to mimic a skirt unfurling. "It was so beautiful! Like a big snake, er, that slither up the body. Very sexy. Very sleek." He runs his palm along his torso. "I want to enhance the girls' natural... ah hum!"
When I laugh at Danny Danny's enthusiasm, he starts laughing too. A kid with Mark McGrath good looks whom Canellas eyed dancing at South Beach's Crobar is sitting in the corner. He looks in our direction and asks what exactly is meant by "training" on the Hot Jam information sheet that all auditionees must fill out. Mark, who has never seen a dance bar, is wearing white tube socks, black shoes, and wrinkled Dockers pants. I stick around and watch him. He demonstrates a male-dance-revue hip grinding appropriate for any club's gay night.
Across the room stand two young women who are tucked, lifted, plucked, and stuffed into tiny midriff tops and hot pants that reveal a cleft in the rear. They chat busily about West Dade's Dolphin Mall, a club-wear goldmine.
But no matter how much flesh an auditionee flashes, it doesn't matter if they can't dance. Later, a dancer shows up in cargo pants and a T-shirt and mentions that she dances with the Miami women's basketball team's "Sol Patrol;" it's an old audition intimidation strategy. Soon, a vigorous debate has started on whether the Sol dance squad is more talented than the Heat cheerleaders.
Just then, Canellas bops out of her office and skips around, embracing everyone like a sorority president. She tugs on her Hot Jam T-shirt, which is tied just underneath her breasts, looks at the list of people to audition, and quickly chooses an unexpected Hall and Oates sample remix. "OK, let's see what you guys got!" she laughs, drawing red velvet curtains between the studio and waiting room.
One by one, each dances freestyle for Canellas. The Sol dancer's moves are good and make a woman named Ana, whose business cards say she is a singer-songwriter, wonder aloud if she should change her footwear (go-go boots) or hairstyle (a curious Leaning Tower of Pisa up-do). If Tracey Ullman were to impersonate a Hot Jam hopeful, she might borrow Ana's outfit: a tiny black skirt, wide-hole fishnets, and a flowery shirt buttoned up several inches above her navel.
Employed as a singer at various restaurants in Coral Gables, she describes her talent as "flamenco with pop qualities." A recent transplant from Los Angeles, Ana says that she worked off and on at various go-go joints on Sunset Strip.
"I moved here because I'm Latin and I wanted to get closer to that," she says. "But this is so insane! It's, like, so crazy, you know, because L.A. has a street with a few clubs. But Miami has a street with 20 clubs! Who ever heard of such a thing? It's like a fantasy."
Ana's cut off when her name is called.
Canellas: Thanks for coming. So you're a singer, huh?
Ana: Yes.
Canellas: Do you always wear your hair like that?
Ana: [silence]
Canellas: Well, since you're a singer, why don't you sing?
It turns out Ana has a wonderful voice, God's make-up gesture for her Mr. Roboto moves. As Canellas leads Ana to the door, she reassures her, "We sometimes get calls for cabaret singers." Ana smiles wide and runs to her car to get a demo tape.
The rest of the afternoon is rounded out with two male ballroom dancers and a woman whose bikini tan lines jut up from the rim of her low-slung Brazilian jeans. Amazingly, she moves with ease in her Lucite high-heel clogs. She says she's a regular at a Fort Lauderdale beer bar on Federal Highway. Her 11-year-old daughter shows up about halfway through and watches. At the end of mom's audition, Canellas says gently, "You need a little more training."
Back in the '80s, when the South Beach scene began taking off, Canellas's life was very different. Raised by strict parents who had emigrated from Chile in the 1970s to escape General Augusto Pinochet's reign of terror, Canellas spent much of her adolescence alone. Her mother and father worked long hours at factories to bring home half the income they earned in their homeland. "My father was an executive with a telephone company, and my mother was a housewife," she recounts. "When we came here, we couldn't afford dance lessons anymore."
Despite her honor-student status at Miami's Sunset High School, she wasn't very street-smart. Indeed, it came as a shock to her when, at 16 years old, she discovered she was five months' pregnant. "I really had no one to talk to about sex," she says. "I really did not have a clue about why I was getting so fat."
To her surprise, Canellas's parents supported her. She married her high school boyfriend, gave birth to daughter Nikki, moved into an apartment, and got her GED. At age 18, she divorced. "My ex-husband is a Cuban guy, and so, you know, he thought I should be only a mother and wife," she says, waving her hand. "I was like, 'No.' I mean, I wanted to be a star! You don't understand, like when he would go to sleep, I would put headphones on and move around a little and just groove."
A single mom, Canellas moved back into her parents' Hialeah home. A friend told her about a club called Stardom in Kendall that was looking for dancers. She auditioned, got the job, and started bringing home $50 per night five times a week while her mother baby-sat Nikki. "The sets were 20 minutes each, and I had to make my own costumes," she remembers. "I would fall asleep every night driving home because I wasn't a night person."
Canellas moved to South Beach to get better gigs. She was living hand to mouth. Court records confirm that Canellas had to sue her ex to get years' worth of unpaid child support. "The money didn't hurt me -- I was working all the time to make ends meet," she explains. "What hurts me is that he left Nikki out of his life. I've seen that child have a Father's Day gift and wait for her dad to show up, and he never does. She has birthdays, and he doesn't call. I told him I would waive the backed-up child support if he just started paying more attention to her."
Canellas's experience as a mother and a struggling dancer has made her sensitive to dealing with employees who are mothers. "I danced until I was seven months along," says Angelike Lapiere, a top Hot Jam performer in the 1990s. "I remember one night at Level: I was a flying mermaid, and everyone loved it because I had these enormous boobs and no one could tell I was pregnant!"
Lapiere says Canellas understands that club dancing is a job that caters to a woman's sexuality: "There is this side that's sexy and wants to show off and the other side that needs to feel safe. I suppose it's like wanting to feel in control in an atmosphere that is not always under control."
By the time she was 22 years old, Canellas stood out among South Beach dancers, who were often zonked out on drugs or liquor. (Hot Jam dancers are forbidden to drink or do drugs while working.) Despite being a clearly focused hustler, she wound up in massive credit-card debt from buying new costumes. "Some of the promoters would say, 'Bring one of your friends to dance,' so I would stupidly bring someone and pay them out of my own pocket. That all ended and I got wise about how this should be a business when a club manager didn't pay me. I lost a lot of money and decided that that wasn't gonna happen again."
Over the next ten years, Canellas tried to become a star. The closest she came was singing with the Merenbooty Girls, Sony Latin's answer to the Spice Girls. The group sang "Venus" and "It's Raining Men" at state fairs and managed to sell records in Latin America. But fame was elusive. The label dropped them at the end of 1997, the same year they were signed. In 1998, she incorporated Hot Jam. "I went to Barnes and Noble and read every book on how to start your own business and followed [them] point by point." Her experience as a legal secretary -- a day job she kept for several years -- also helped.
Starting with six employees -- all dancers -- Canellas sewed and washed costumes. She didn't make a profit until 2001, when she began regularly booking 30 dancers and hired Danny Danny and an assistant for herself. She advertised her business for the first time this year.
"I never needed to advertise," she says, "because word of mouth took care of me."
At South Beach's Level on a late March night, I sit with three girls in the nightclub's dank bowels. It's 1:30 a.m., and we've been waiting almost two hours for Canellas to deliver costumes so we can dance the required three sets and get out of there by 4 a.m.
Thirty-one-year-old Elsy Barrios is lying asleep on a ratty coach. Her black mane is swung across her face to block whatever sliver strobe of light makes it through the door. A lithe pixie named Mary, just off a plane from her hometown of Paris, is chatting in French on her cell phone with her boyfriend. A woman dressed in ripped jeans and a knit tube top bursts through the door with the fierceness of Grace Jones. "Where are the costumes?" she asks, lighting a cigarette. "We're going to go really soon, right?"
Elsy swings her legs over the edge of the couch, flips open her cell phone, and calls Canellas. Her sunglasses hang on the edge of her nose as she talks lickety-quick español. She hangs up. "They are on their way," she says, rolling her eyes. "I tell you," the former Venezuelan ballet dancer says in broken English, "this happen all the time. It is frustrated. Very, like, annoying."
A member of Miami's New Century Dance Company, Elsy has little patience for the lowbrow world of club dancing. "I like Pamela. She helps the girls, and she helps me," Elsy says. "But to me, she is -- how should I say? -- a baby. In the ballet, it is a military, very strict. Here is it too loose for me. It seems unprofessional. She is trying, but to me, she is still a child."
A suitcase filled with tiny plastic bags that contain costumes is thrown into this makeshift dressing room. The girls devour the case. Elsy and Mary wiggle into bright yellow and green skirts with hems held straight out by wire-like hula hoops. They pin giant butterflies in their hair and grab glittery wands. They quickly make their way through Level's packed crowd to dance atop a stage balcony.
Up next: me and Ms. Jones. We are wearing J-Lo-like body suits with black, fingerless gloves, which I guess make it easier to grip the checkered racing flags I'm handed. I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to be, perhaps a sexy NASCAR babe. Grace lowers the zipper that runs down the front of the bodysuit and lifts her breasts into her black, push-up bra. She pulls a black wig over her cropped white afro and brushes it out. I lacquer my lips, smooth my blond hair, and sprinkle some glitter between my breasts (a trick that is supposed to make me appear a cup size bigger).
Grace takes another drag on her cig and motions for us to go. We push through the crowd, and she helps me climb a dilapidated wooden ladder to a stage platform. Careful not to trip on thick cable wire snaking across the platform, I dance.
Grace is snarling. She's holding onto a thin metal pipe, which is supposed to keep us from falling off the edge of the platform and into the swarm below. She's thrusting her pelvis and whipping her checkered flag. I notice that she is consciously not looking at me. So I don't look at her. I stare into the strobe lights, and they blind me. I occasionally break my aloofness and fixate on some guy in the audience who is staring at me. My next 15-minute set is spent wrestling a two-and-a-half-foot-tall, feathered headpiece that catches a strong blast of air from a vent and nearly knocks me over. I am wearing a sequin skirt and a matching bikini top.
The DJ is spinning house, a genre of music I don't like much. But I hear from other dancers that I should be thankful for these four-to-the-floor beats because I'm more likely to get groped in a hip-hop club.
As required, I have purchased the things Canellas requires of new dancers: short black dance pants, black-and-flesh-colored fishnets, one black/one white padded push-up bra, a wig cap, and two pairs of go-go boots: one white, one black. For everything, the cost is about $300.
That night, I earn $100 and decide not to quit my day job. Most dancers keep their daylight gigs because Hot Jam rarely provides a dependable schedule; they are usually on-call as promoters make last-minute party decisions. For a dancer to earn anything resembling a decent living, they must be in demand at several clubs and work more than one place per night each week.
Dilcia Muñoz is a regular at Club Space and Level. The 20-year-old began dancing two years ago to pay her way through Miami-Dade Community College. Trained by her uncle and aunt at their Salsa Lovers dance studios in Miami, she was a natural fit at Hot Jam. She often performs in more than one club a night, making ends meet by also appearing on a Spanish-language television show called Wet and Wild twice a month. Recently, Muñoz beat out hundreds of other women for a spot in a Lenny Kravitz video, a job for which Canellas acted as her agent. "I got paid $300 for the video and Pamela, I think, took $60," Muñoz says. "But I really don't honestly know what the numbers are. There are some dancers who are curious about that."
Like most dancers, Hot Jam performers are generally just happy to be employed. Muñoz, like all Hot Jam dancers I spoke with, have a loyalty to their boss that bleeds into an assumption that they are paid fairly. "Of course we'd like to get paid more, but Pamela pays us what she can, I'm sure," Muñoz reasons.
Canellas says she takes a minimal share of what her dancers make. Percentages vary according to the job. "I charge based on costume changes," Canellas says. "If Level wants three costume changes, then I charge a percentage cut of that. But the girls always get $100 per night. If we have rehearsals, then I pay them a little more, like 50 bucks or something. If there is some money left over, I try to give it to them. My girls are my family, and I try to take care of them."
Of the approximately $270,000 Hot Jam grossed last year, Canellas says she took home only about $20,000.
"It's hard enough trying to get booked by someone as a performer without wondering about the specifics of that," says Eric Davis, one of a small group of male dancers Canellas employs. "We are a family, and I believe we love each other as a family."
Although Davis sounds a bit sugarcoated when he says "family," he's hit on a basic principle of Hot Jam: security. Just as ravers created their own safe space, so do club dancers. Literally, they dance in a space that is protected from the crowd. Unlike strippers, they don't have to engage anyone for money. And, with rare exceptions, they are never supposed to touch or be touched. Figuratively, they've gained some kind of special acceptance in an often-finicky, snotty subculture. They get inside clubs through the back door, never mind that velvet rope. And that, to many, is a desirable privilege.
Thomas Frank's 1960s counterculture opus The Conquest of Cool reasons that "consumer society" relies upon "unrestraint," which he defines as freedom in spending time and money to achieve and take pleasure without shame. So when someone raises an eyebrow after I say "club dancing," I don't use that tired argument that we're turning a sexist society on its head by getting paid to bump and grind on a pedestal. I always think of the Riot Grrls, the grunge-era feminist ideology that proposed the wild idea that women should support one another no matter what they do.
The night I danced at Level, I walked back to my car about five blocks from the club at 4:30 a.m. Anyone who's ever been on South Beach at that hour understands that false sense of safety there on a weekend night. I wasn't thinking about anything; I was tired and just wanted to go home. It was spring break, and the air was unusually breezy. To curb the chill I felt from my sweat-soaked neck, I wore a sweatshirt that fell over my shorts. I was still wearing layers of makeup, tan fishnets, and sneakers.
As I rounded a corner, two frat boys hung out of their red pickup truck. They shouted to me something like "Wooh... ass... yeah... fuck!" They did the same thing to another woman who was also walking to her car. On my last block, a guy on a bicycle leered at me and slobbered a Spanish catcall. I flinched and found my keys.
I started the ignition and drove, feeling safe inside my car. Once I got to MacArthur Causeway, I rolled the window down to breathe in the last few hours of darkness and let the wind cool me.
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I am so proud that you are taking a proactive approach to waste in our community. Just today, the Contra Costa Times issued an article on the "Vortex of Trash" that floats about 1000 miles off the coast of California and is estimated to be roughly twice the size of Texas. This is unacceptable!
In your admirable efforts, I urge you to consider construction costs to homeowners and small construction businesses as they pursue work. These people only strive improve the value of their homes and to meet customer satisfaction and keep overheads low. As councilwoman Andersen has stated, give these people incentive to do the right thing.
We can not continue to accumulate waste as we have always done in the past. This is just one of the transitions as a local, national, and global community that we face in order to live in accordance with mother nature. There are plenty of ways to incorporate sustainable development in our community.
Thank you Danville leaders for moving us in the right direction!
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I recently upgraded my SCVMM 2008 R2 system to SCVMM 2012 and things are working nicely. I have been loving the self-service portal and allowing teams to provision their own systems. Honestly its great.
In reguards to the Networking Diagram feature though I find it to be somewhat "inconsistant" in representing the current configuration of all the VMs and logical networks. For example I have several logical networks provisioned "servers, public, vlan30
and computers". When I click one of there logical network its suposedly highlights all the VM links connected to that logical network. The issue is that sometimes it displays the wrong VMs as being a members of the selected logical network.
By reversing the order and selecting the VM rather than the logical network it does highlight the correct link back to the correct logical network.
This would make my security team very "uneasy" if I were to show them this and while I can verify the things are in the correct VLANs with other tools it IMHO like a pretty big "yah its not a major issue but should probably make
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I seem to be quote happy tonight. Its late.
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I love so much about this wedding, its hard not to smile! His suit, her hair, the slightly creepy but lovable dolls….perfection!
[images from James Carson Photography]
I love so much about this wedding, its hard not to smile! His suit, her hair, the slightly creepy but lovable dolls….perfection!
[images from James Carson Photography]
I got this wedding yesterday from Crystal and loved every single detail! Don't worry, many more pictures to come later today….
Madrilejos – Towne Wedding
Medina, Ohio
Invitations: Being a graphic designer by trade, I couldn't help but take on this challenge. The invitations have a grass theme that was kind of a foreshadowing of the actual event. The invitations were printed by a local printer in Medina.
Ceremony: Andrew's parent's house sits on 50 acres of land just outside the Medina city limits. Finding the perfect spot for the ceremony wasn't hard because the location is so beautiful. We decided to have the ceremony in an area just within the forest line with the trees towering over us. Up until we decided to exchange our vows in this spot, it was just a lot of grass and weeds that Andrew's parents let grow wild. So we, and Andrew's parents, mowed the ceremony spot and an aisle for a whole year before the wedding date as the rest of the vegetation around it grew tall.
Reception: The reception was at the same place as the ceremony, in Andrew's parent's yard. We had three large tents to seat about 250 guests (we both have large extended families) and the food and drinks were catered by a local restaurant, Medina Steakhouse & Saloon.
Decorations and Flowers: We didn't want to have traditional flowers so we decided to go with just greenery (other than my bouquet which were peonies cut from bushes in our yard). Each centerpiece was unique and consisted of 3-4 individual planters in either green, white or clear vintage glass. Ohio being the mecca of thrift stores, we were able to buy all these containers for around $100. Me and my sisters put together every one of the planters, which were a mix of everything from moss to succulents. While we were planting, the guys went in search of fallen trees in the woods to cut into slices that were used to raise the planters to different levels. Underneath the centerpieces we had different patterned squares of vintage fabric. The table numbers were xerox transfers on balsa wood that we set into Y-shaped tree branches that we gathered. We also made lanterns from old jars and hung them from the big sycamore tree that is the focal point of the backyard.
Dress + Shoes: My dress was made by a Brooklyn-based fashion designer, Laura Budde. She is a great friend and an amazing designer. The dress turned out perfect. I wanted something very simple and feminine with color incorporated into it. And flowing! The shoes were Anna Sui from Anthropologie. They were leather, almost like running shoes, with leather flower accents all over them. Weird sounding, i know, but they were so cool.
Photography: Lauren Crew (www.crewscontrl.com) took our photos. Lauren was my Photo Editor at a magazine that I was Art Director for in NYC so I already knew that she was an amazing photographer. She isn't a traditional wedding photographer, which is exactly what we were looking for. She shot both film and digital and we are extremely happy with how they turned out.
Desserts: I am a huge dessert person with the biggest sweet tooth! I wanted an elaborate spread with cakes and candy and cookies as far as the eye could see. And that's pretty much what we got! A good friend of the family, Amy Ash, made the majority of the baked good. Her family is known for their magic touch in the kitchen and they did not disappoint with their Red Velvet Cupcakes, Carrot Cake, Lemon Cake, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes, Chocolate Marshmallow Cupcakes, Classic White Cupcakes, Italian Creme Cupcakes!
Favors: One of the very first decisions that we made was to get a photo booth (a "real" black and white, film kind). We used Photobooth Scrapbooks (www.photoboothscrapbooks.com) and were very happy with them.
Extra Touches: For a guest book we used a vintage typewriter that we got from Andrew's grandparents with a long roll of paper. The best thing about it were the drunk messages people left for us by the end of the night. The most popular message: Don't go to bed angry. Thanks, we'll remember that.
[images by Lauren Crew Photography]
I saw this pixel-inspired wedding over at Mocoloco and was instantly enamored! From the invitations, to the cake, even down to the ring, everything was wonderfully pixelated…read more about it here.
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From the beginning, Terrell and I knew we wanted a laid back, relaxed
wedding, so most of the decisions we made revolved around that. We
were going for a warm and whimsical feel and knew we wanted a fall
wedding outside. We both come from large extended families and so we
planned for 250, which turned out to be about right.
VENUE: We wanted the ceremony and reception at the same place, and it
was pretty important to us that we be able to do our own decorating
and have time to spend with our people. So we were really happy to
find a barn-styled retreat center near our home that we could rent for
the whole weekend. The Barn at Valhalla had a pond and rolling lawn
for the outdoor wedding and beautiful mahogany floors for dancing
later on. There was an outdoor fireplace that made a great hangout
spot away from the dance floor, and the site was casual enough that 20
or so kids could run around and explore. We spent the day before
decorating with the wedding party, our family and helpful friends and
were able to have a larger (40+) rehearsal dinner there Friday night.
Bonus: the barn had an upstairs which slept 18 and had two full
bathrooms, which made it a great place to get ready, too.
THEME: I know most people plan these out, but ours sort of happened by
accident, evolving from our save the dates (baby pictures using moo
cards) and invitations (little fabric pouches). We're both known for
taking lots of pictures, so incorporating family photos made sense.
Sewing also ended up being a common thread, as my family has long ties
to the garment industry and his is full of quilters (In fact, all of
the fabric used in our invites came from our parents' various
DECORATIONS: The one drawback to our venue was the art lining the
walls. We got around this by incorporating lots and lots of family
quilts. Terrell's mother and uncle spent a good bit of time on Friday
using tobacco sticks from his grandparent's farm to hang almost 20
quilts inside and outside of the barn over the art. It really made the
whole place feel comfortable and homey. There was also a wonderful
quilted tablecloth on the cake table. On the cocktail tables, we had
centerpieces made out of three wooden frames, assembled around a
candle. These held family shots printed on vellum so they could be lit
from behind. We used leftover moo cards from our save the dates as
accents on the flower arrangements. And perhaps one of our most fun
ideas was to line the tables with brown kraft paper and set out small
tin buckets of crayons. We had no idea the guests would enjoy this as
much as they did, but we ended up with lots of wonderful drawings and
personal notes.
FLOWERS: We wanted simple arrangements in mason jars and had been
planning to go with our local farmer's market for flowers, but our
wedding date ended up being at the end of the growing season. We were
able to get lilies from a local greenhouse and supplement the rest
through Whole Foods (who was fantastic to work with). If you feel
comfortable doing your own flowers (and have the time and some
helpers) I would recommend it to anyone on a budget. Since it was a
fall wedding, my dad also brought in a ton of mums, and we decorated
the arbor with ivy from my parent's yard. My friends and I made the
guy's simple boutonnieres out of daisies and bittersweet (which we
also used on the arbor).
FOOD: Keeping it laid back, we had a buffet line catered by our
favorite BBQ joint and used our favorite Mediterranean place for the
vegetarian options and appetizers. We weren't sure if this was a weird
combination, but all of the food was devoured and one friend told us a
highlight of our wedding for him was being able to combine his two
loves: hushpuppies and hummus.
CAKES: Oh my god, the cakes. We have the most amazing friend Kim who
offered to do our wedding cake as our present. As we talked about what
we were thinking (cupcakes), she suggested multiple wedding cakes in
several flavors instead (apparently, she has strong opinions about
cupcakes). I was so glad we listened because the cakes (9 total) were
amazing. Not only were they gorgeous, but easily the best I have ever
eaten. People are still talking about them. In fact, we had to move up
the cake cutting time because lines began forming right after dinner.
Most people went back to try multiple kinds. And Kim took care of
everything, even the flowers for decorating them — she made it as
stress-free as it gets.
FAVORS: We rented an old timey photo booth (the-photobooth.com) for
five hours and used it as both our guestbook and our favors. We asked
everyone to leave us one strip and sign our book and the rest were
theirs to keep. This was a huge hit with guests and the book is one of
my favorite things from the wedding. The company also brought a
scanner and scanned each strip for us, so it was awesome having these
images to look at right after the wedding. (online at
kellyink/sets/) We also ended 72157608188917552
up getting some fun personalized koozies, since for some of the
refreshments, we had sodas in large galvanized tubs. These turned out
to be in demand.
ART: Both of us really appreciate art and well made craft, so we
incorporated these into our wedding wherever possible. I'm a huge fan
of outsider art and have tried to visit some of these artists around
our home state. We had visited artist Vollis Simpson a couple of times
before we were married and owned a few of his whirligigs. So we
decided to ask him to create a larger piece for our wedding day. We
also had him make many smaller whirligigs which we gave to our wedding
party and families. Other wedding items (ring bowl, wooden guest book)
came from artists on Etsy.com and I made our caketopper using a basic
kit from another Etsy vendor, The Small Object (she now sells
caketoppers, too). We also invested in great photographers, Whitebox
Weddings, who have really made our memories of the day come to life.
[images from Whitebox Weddings]
Ever since discovering the blog jinsoojung…I've been waiting in anticipation for her wedding photos to be posted! I know you're going to understand why once you see these pictures…
my husband and i met in high school when we were just 16 years old and we've been together ever since. after having been together for so long, our idea of the "perfect" weddind shifted to an event where we could just enjoy ourselves.
the wedding was held at the mills gallery, in boston's south end. we included a mix of traditional, non-traditional, korean and american elements, and even a trolley tour of the city. in general, if something didn't feel like "us", we didn't incorporate it into the wedding. in the end, we had a fun day surrounded by our family members.
in the 6 months leading up to the wedding, not only were chris and i planning the wedding, but we were also applying to law and graduate schools, apartment hunting, and maintaining full-time jobs. it was a chaotic blur in our lives. and we often look back and wonder how we were able to do everything at once.
You can see more photos at jinsoojung…unfortunately Christine has stopped blogging, but you can catch up with all her past inspirations.
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In a brand new Developer Diary, Jessie "Vastin" King talks about the Reputation system in Lord of the Rings Online and the overall goals of the system. He also takes time to answer some burning questions on the topic, so it's definitely worth taking a look if you're a fan of building up reputation with NPC factions.
The amount of effort required to pursue reputation rewards tends to be fairly high, but we try to keep it as accessible as possible. Most of the reputations can be pursued by solo players fighting non-elite monsters on the landscape - indeed, they can even be pursued by crafters or simply by buying faction trophies from the auction house and turning them in. Call it the "slow but steady" approach to end-game rewards, if you will.
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This volume is a highly topical contribution to climate policy debates that offers options, based on cutting-edge social-science research, for an international climate change regime to succeed the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012. It distils key findings from the Harvard Project into an easy reference for policymakers, journalists, and stakeholders.
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Former champion Jim Furyk, who lost in a playoff last year, is even par through 13 holes while Sergio Garcia and Martin Kaymer are also at that number.


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Michael Schumacher
Looking more like his old self with every passing race. Schumacher out-qualified Rosberg despite spinning off on his final lap.
Took advantage of starting on the clean side of the track to pass Jenson Button at turn one, but lost the position on the run down to turn 12 later on in the lap.
Held position at the pit stops and pulled away from Rosberg at the beginning of the second stint. Rosberg caught him in later in the stint but wasn't able to get close enough to pass.
Compare Michael Schumacher's form against his team mate in 2010
Nico Rosberg
Out-qualified by Schumacher for only the second time this year by a narrow margin of less than a tenth of a second.
Running behind Schumacher at the start of the race with Robert Kubica and Felipe Massa close behind, Mercedes faced a challenge to pit both their drivers without losing track position.
Schumacher, leading, had the advantage of pitting first which left Rosberg vulnerable. But his crew performed the quickest pit stop of the race and got him back out ahead of Kubica.
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A Brief History of Karate - Part I of III
Posted on Jul 14 2011 at 01:43:49 PM in Other Sports
Karate-do, in all its various forms, finds its origins in one place - the Ryukyu islands off the coast of Japan. What we know as one of the most widely practiced systems of self defense and discipline in the world is the result of centuries of development. While Karate-do was introduced as a code of ethics to a peacetime America only a few decades ago, it began through the need of Ryukyu natives for better methods of fighting.
There are a few theories about the origins of the fighting arts that later became collectively known as Karate-do. However, it is certain that many notable Chinese kung fu practitioners settled in Okinawa, the capital of the Ryukyu kingdom.
The origins of the Chinese arts themselves are also shrouded in the mists of time. A widely accepted theory is that Bodhidharma, the founder of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism created what would later evolve into Shaolin kung-fu. The original exercises were used to strengthen his monks' bodies, minds, and spirits, to help them better fulfill their duties. This level of personal cultivation carried across to many Chinese martial arts. By way of transmission to other countries, this carried across to other martial arts, Karate-do being one of them.
In the year 1429, a weapons ban was passed by King Shohashi. This led to the rapid development of native unarmed fighting arts. These arts were primarily influenced by various forms of Chinese kung fu, which Okinawans began learning in the 14th century.
Okinawans learned forms of Shaolin kung fu from Shaolin masters who fled China as a result of the oppressive Qing dynasty. Okinawans also learned various forms of kung fu from Chinese merchants, Chinese officials on diplomatic missions, and young members of wealthy Okinawan families who went to China to learn 'Quan Fa' / kung fu to further their education and martial arts studies. The general name given to the fighting arts learned and further refined by the Okinawan martial artists was tode-jutsu (alternately spelled tou-di), the Okinawan name given to Chinese martial arts.
In February 1609, invasion of Okinawa by the Satsuma clan (of Kyushu, Japan) triggered another period of rapid development of native Okinawan fighting arts. Satsuma control lasted until 1879, when the King of Ryukyu finally abdicated and the country became part of Japan.
During this period, kobudo (often translated 'classical fighting method'; commonly used to represent Okinawan weapon fighting) evolved. Farm implements were used as weapons, as traditional weapons were not allowed. However, some of the native Ryukyu warrior class traveled up to the Satsuma clan in the later part of the 19th century and learned their samurai fighting art Jigen-ryu kenjutsu. It was not long after this that Sokon Matsumura, 'Toudi' Sakugawa, and Tsuken Koura, among the many who had made the trip, introduced their contributions to kobudo.
Ultimately, three major strains were developed from Ryukyu kenpo karate-jutsu (as tode-jutsu eventually came to be called). These strains were named Shuri-te, Naha-te, and Tomari-te, for the regions in which they were developed. All three regions are based in the southern part of Okinawa. The differences of the three styles may be traced back to the socio-economic status of those who practiced them. The lowest rung on the ladder was the worker class studying Tomari-Te. The middle section was the merchant class studying Naha-Te. The upper class noblemen were taking up practice of Shuri-te in and around the capital.
Matsumura is commonly considered the great grandfather of the karate movement in and around Shuri. He learned native Okinawan fighting from Sakugawa (who in turn learned from Kusankun and other masters). He later studied in Fujian and Satsuma. He learned Shaolin Boxing (Shorin-ryu) under the tutelage of master Iwah. As a result of the efforts of Matsumura, the fighting arts that surfaced around the noble / castle district of Shuri came to be known as Shuri-te (Shuri hand).
The Chinese master Ason taught Zhao Ling Liu (Shorei-ryu) to Sakiyama, Gushi, Nagahama, and Tomoyori of Naha. This led to the development of Naha-te. Naha, a coastal city, was a large trade center at the time. Xie Zhongxiang (nicknamed Ryuru Ko) of Fuzhou founded Whooping Crane kung fu (hakutsuru) and taught it to a number of notable karate masters in the Fuzhou province. Wai Xinxian, it is said, was a Qing dynasty officer, and taught Xingyi kung fu as well as Monk Fist Boxing. It is also said he assisted Master Iwah's instruction in Fuzhou province.
This article is a part of the author's concise guide to karate. Be sure to visit Johnston Karate Home Page to view the guide as well as many other free resources.


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Sirius Resources to raise equity funding for project financing
Western Australian mineral resource company Sirius Resources plans to raise A$44m ($46.4m) through a share placement to domestic and international investors, with assistance from its corporate advisor Hartleys.
The placement of 22 million shares amounts to a total of 11.5% of the issued capital of the company at a cost of A$2 ($2.1) a share.
The share price represents a 7.8% discount to the last closing price of A$2.17 ($2.28) a share, with minimal dilution to shareholders.
Following the placement, the company will have a strong debt-free balance sheet of over A$60m ($63.26), Sirius said.
Proceeds from the funds will advance various projects of Sirius including drilling the Nova nickel-copper deposit to establish an indicated resource, advancing other targets in the Fraser Range region, initiating drilling of gold targets at the Polar Bear project and concluding a definitive feasibility study.
Funds, besides serving general working capital purposes, will also fast track the drilling of other targets at the Eye prospect, such as conductor 3, the Tethys prospect, the IP corridor and the prospective basal contact.
Sirius managing director Mark Bennett noted that the company now has a balance sheet that enables further exploration of the Nova nickel-copper deposit.
"We are now fully funded for the entire resource definition and feasibility process through to a potential future project financing decision.
"It is greatly satisfying to have positioned the company in this way in just four months from discovery and, importantly, with only two relatively modest placements totalling 32 million new shares," Bennett said.
Image: With funding, Sirius will commence drilling at Polar Bear project. Photo: Sirius Resources.


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Salmon sign pro terms
Carlisle youngster Alex Salmon has penned a maiden professional contract at Brunton Park.
Last Updated: 15/05/13 12:29pm
Carlisle youngster Alex Salmon has penned a maiden professional contract at Brunton Park.
The 18-year-old has committed himself to the Cumbrians until the summer of 2014 following the successful completion of his two-year YTS programme.
Salmon enjoyed a taste of first-team action with late-season substitute appearances against Bournemouth and Colchester for Greg Abbott's men.
"Even though I've signed, it still hasn't really sunk in," he told Carlisle's official website. "I think that will only happen when I come back.
"It is nice to have it done. It's what you want to achieve when you first come to the club and it's a great feeling when it actually happens. I just want to get this break over with and get back to work.
"I've had to put a lot into my two years to try to get to this stage but I know that the really hard work starts now. I have to prove that I'm good enough to perform for the first team. Getting my debut, home and away, has been massive for me."


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I have this on my computer, and it seems to be pretty new under microsoft network inspection. Why would they have to inspect my network other than the regular MS Security Suite?
How-To Geek Forums / Windows Vista
What is Nissrv.exe? It's a newly installed update.(5 posts)
bigionseternal, hi and welcome
It's this, please read it to fully understand....for starters
It's part of Microsoft Security Essentials v2.0 that protects against network vulnerabilities.
If it's causing errors or issues, open MSE and go to:
Settings / Real-time protection / and UNCHECK "Enable network protection against exploits..."
Hi bigionseternal
Nissrv.exe is to do with norton internet security its your norton personal firewall if you dont have norton you should have no need for this process.
Hi Bigionseternal,
This file has nothing to do with Norton Internet security or the Notification Services Event logging as previously posted, It's part of MSE Network Inspection System...this was a new feature added into MSE V.2. It is functional on Vista and Win 7 - not on Win XP. http://www.techspot.com/news/4.....ction.html
Source: http://answers.microsoft.com/e.....495c59f327 (You will note this information is coming from Microsoft as well)
I know you will see the CORRECT information for this file here. Doctordeere had it correct, however, this add to that to give you a complete answer to your question, and to let you know you should not turn if off, if at all possible, except for temporary periods of troubleshooting.
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text: Spring Newsletter September 28, 2016 Spring is such a beautiful and vibrant season and the ideal time to cleanse and renew. It's time when plants turn green, flowers start to bloom and when foods that help to rejuvenate and re-energise the body are bountiful. I love doing a proper cleanse at this time of year to help wake up a sluggish system after the more sedentary winter months, so to assist those who'd like to do the same, we've introduced CLEANSE Kickstart, a special pack that consists of CLEANSE Inner Beauty Powder, ANTIOXIDANT Inner Beauty Boost and our 14-DAY INTENSIVE CLEANSING PROGRAM, to help you get back on track, naturally. When it comes to detoxifying your body externally, I recommend dry body brushing; a very easy and effective way to help kickstart the lymphatic system as well as slough off dead skin cells, for smoother, healthier skin. Exciting news! We are launching our brand new GLOW Advanced formula next month in celebration of GLOW's five-year birthday and also releasing our wonderful new Beauty Chef Cookbook that's full of nutritious, tasty recipes for a happy gut and healthy skin, which can be pre-ordered below. We also talk you through why probiotics and prebiotics are good for you, how going organic can benefit your health and wellbeing plus we give you an easy-to-make recipe for gut and skin boosting Sweet and Sour Fermented Vegetables. Enjoy! NEWS Exciting news! It's been a long time in the making and now it's finally here, The Beauty Chef Cookbook! With more than 150 delicious gluten and dairy-free recipes to help you glow from the inside-out, tips on how to eat right for radiant skin and good gut health, advice on healthy living and wellbeing and much more, this 350-page book will quickly become your recipe go-to. Pre-order your copy here so you don't miss out! And get in quick as the first 50 orders will be lucky enough to receive a signed copy by Carla * In other exciting news, it's hard to believe it has been five years since we launched GLOW and since then, we've seen our Inner Beauty Powder go from cult favourite here in Australia to an international success, with women all over the world experiencing the skin and gut benefits from this special formula. To celebrate, we are launching a brand new GLOW formula called GLOW ADVANCED, which contains more prebiotics, more probiotics, more super foods and more goodness than the original. GLOW ADVANCED is backed by a clinical trial and will be on sale from October 17th. Stay tuned for further information. * September is Organic Awareness Month and once again, The Beauty Chef founder Carla Oates is a spokesperson and ambassador for the Australian Certified Organic Association. Head here to learn more about the importance of choosing Certified Organic and how you can get involved. * If you missed our last newsletter, you might not have realised that international customers can now order The Beauty Chef Inner Beauty Powders and Inner Beauty Boosts online at netaporter.com. Fashion and beauty in the one place? We're thrilled to be part of a website that combines two of our favourite things! * We are so excited that Gwyneth Paltrow's cult website will soon be stocking The Beauty Chef products! Stay tuned for more details. * It's been a brilliant few months of press for The Beauty Chef, with UK Vogue mentioning hilariously and accurately how GLOW "doesn't taste like s**t" plus a quote from Carla in their September issue. Australian ELLE featured GLOW in their July and September issues in the My Weekend In Products section; The Sunday Telegraph Style supplement in July and the August edition of Mind Food both featured our wonderful Probiotic Skin Refiner; and our HYDRATION Inner Beauty Boost got a mention in a facial yoga story in the July edition of Women's Fitness – to see these stories and more, click here. ASK CARLA Q: Everyone always goes on about eating organic food and using organic skincare – does it really make a difference? And is it worth the extra cost? A: Yes! I'm a Goodwill Ambassador for Australian Organic (the organisation responsible for enforcing regulations and certifying products that meet those regulations so that when you buy an organic product, it really is organic) and I truly believe that consuming Certified Organic products and produce makes a huge difference to your overall health – the way you feel and the health of your skin. Whenever I see a Certified Organic logo on food, skincare or personal care products, I am confident that the chemicals and pesticides you'd usually find in non-organic versions just aren't there. More than that, it's a guarantee that every stage, from seed to plant to manufacturer to final product, has been checked and the final organic product you put on your plate or rub into your skin is as close to the way nature intended it as possible. But why is organic important? First of all, eating organic equals eating clean, which reduces potential health risks. Most conventionally farmed produce contains a cocktail of industrial pesticides, insecticides, fertilisers and chemicals, which you're ingesting every day. Studies have shown that the effects of chemical combinations can be more harmful than single chemicals, so the potential health risks are worrisome. Amplify this concern when it comes to putting non-organic products on your skin – your largest organ – as these chemicals can be absorbed into your bloodstream. Secondly, organic food is full of natural nutrients and studies have shown that just by eating organic, you can boost your levels of vitamins and minerals by up to 30%. Thirdly, organic produce has not been genetically modified, so you're not eating a science experiment! Fourthly, organic food tastes better and organic skincare is rich in active, skin rejuvenating plant compounds. Lastly, going organic supports sustainable, beneficial ecological practices, so not only are you helping your skin and health, you're helping the planet, too. INGREDIENT OF THE MONTH At The Beauty Chef we believe, "Beauty Begins In The Belly" and the key to a happy gut and radiant skin is good bacteria. But sometimes knowing exactly what good bacteria is, what it does and how to get more of it into our diets isn't as straightforward as consuming a probiotic supplement. There are more than 400 species of bacteria (tens of trillions of bacteria) that call the gut home, all of which let in the good nutrients and slam the door on dangerous bugs and viruses. When these strains are all in harmony, good health, easy digestion and radiant skin follow, but the trouble starts when stress, medication or a poor diet kills off some of this good gut flora. This then allows some of the bad strains to take hold, leading in the short term to gas and bloating or long term to conditions like leaky gut or irritable bowel syndrome. To tip back the scales, good bacteria, like probiotics and prebiotics, are used to help repopulate the gut with friendly bacteria. Not sure if your gut is out of whack? If you suffer from any kind of digestion issue or skin problem, it's more than likely that your gut is out of balance. That's why eating fermented foods daily, which are naturally high in prebiotics and probiotics, is important to keeping your gut happy. Kefir, sauerkraut, natto, fermented vegetables and yoghurt are excellent sources of natural probiotics and are great ways to keep your gut happy. "Lacto-fermented foods also have immune-modulating benefits, which is why fermented foods are so much more powerful that standard probiotics," says Carla, who worked closely with a team of microbiologists to boost the amount of probiotics in the new GLOW Advanced formula. In fact, studies have shown that eating probiotic foods can be up to 100 times more effective than taking unfermented supplements, because stomach acid will kill the delicate probiotics before it gets to the small intestine and gut – and before your body has a chance to use them. That's why GLOW Advanced uses a newly improved powerful bio-fermentation process to ferment the algae, super foods, fruits, veggies, grains and grasses in the formula to ensure a minimum of 500 million bacteria per serve gets all the way to the gut for maximum health benefits. INSPIRED BY Professional stylist, TV presenter, charity ambassador and mum of 2 boys, Jules Sebastian is one busy woman. We ask her how she maintains work life balance and looks after her health and wellness. It does sound like a lot! I think over the years I have learned how to manage my professional and personal life a lot better than I used to. I have learned to say no to some work offers and social offers too – that can be hard but it gives me head space and family time which is the most important thing to me. I usually base my career decisions around my family and because I am a freelancer, I have the option to choose my own hours. I'm very lucky in that way. It's just about prioritising the most important things first, and filtering out from there. I am not fanatical about exercise but I am pretty consistent with it and now that my kids are a little bit older, I am getting better nights sleep and finding moments in the day to take a breath. I don't know if I have it all right, but it seems to be working so far. Tell us about your work with the Sebastian Foundation. The Sebastian Foundation is a foundation that my husband Guy and I started about 3 years ago. We focus on families in need and have been really focused on domestic violence against women this year. As the girl part of the team, I feel very passionate about women and believe that they are, for the most part, the backbone of a family. We have worked on so many amazing projects and helped lots of families over the time we have been open. Our most recent project was with a girls shelter in Sydney where, with Freedom Kitchens, we put in a new kitchen and gave their dining room and living space a facelift. I was in tears when I saw how much the girls loved the new space. For most of the girls that go to the shelter, it is the last resort for them. They literally have nowhere else to go. We wanted to make their space feel like a home and for them to feel special, like their last resort was a beautiful place to come. It was such a special moment when they saw the renovation for the first time. They (and me) were in tears! Recently we redid a Women's Shelter's garden. The concept was the same. This garden provided the women with a space to relax, grow herbs, sit in beautiful outdoor furniture and have an oasis to enjoy. It may seem like small things, but seeing the girls, I know first hand that it means the world to them. They see that someone cared enough to give them the best of something and a space they can be proud of and relax in. The foundation has given me so much purpose and we hope to do so much more for other women and families who need a helping hand. What's the best piece of beauty advice you have been given? Wash my face every night, drink lots of water and work on being beautiful on the inside first. What always puts a smile on your face? My family, tea, helping my clients and people I work with feel beautiful and….oh and sleeping puts the biggest smile on my face! What is your beauty regime? I cleanse my face every morning then use a hydration mist followed by a serum and moisturiser. I like to wear makeup but I am super minimal with time and effort when it comes to the everyday! I wear a foundation, concealer (my best friend!), light powder, blush, a mixture of neutral eyeshadows, some pencil eyeliner smudged around and loads of mascara. I'm obsessed with mascara! During the day I will apply a gloss or papaw to my lips. At night, I cleanse again and apply a Vitamin A cream. And I take The Beauty Chef GLOW powder. That's about it! Who inspires you? Anyone who gets off their butt and does something with themselves inspires me! They don't have to be the CEO or boss of the company, just people who are giving their chosen thing a go and doing a good job of it. I'm inspired by hard workers, skilled humans and people who are passionate about what they do. RECIPE Sweet and Sour Fermented Vegetables Fermented vegetables are perfect on a mezze platter or added to a salad, whole or thinly sliced and tossed through. This recipe will work for any root vegetable, so if you have a favourite one or two you can alter quantities accordingly for your next batch. Ingredients 1 teaspoon mustard seeds 1⁄2 cauliflower, broken into small florets 1 carrot, washed and cut into sticks 8 radishes, washed and halved, quartered or sliced (depending on size) 6 cloves garlic, peeled 3 bay leaves 2 cups (500ml) filtered water 1⁄2 cup (125ml) apple cider vinegar (unpasteurised) 2 tablespoons himalayan salt 1 tablespoon raw honey outer cabbage leaf Method Dry-roast the mustard seeds in a small frying pan over low heat for 30 seconds, or until they begin to pop. Tightly pack the vegetables, mustard seeds and bay leaves into a sterilised 1.5-litre glass jar* or specialised fermentation jar with an airlock lid. Combine the water, vinegar, salt and honey in a jug and stir to dissolve the salt. Pour the liquid over the vegetables, to just cover. Pour in a little filtered water to cover completely, if required. Firmly press down the vegetables to submerge in liquid. Cover the vegetables with a piece of cabbage leaf. If using an ordinary jar, weigh down with a specialised ceramic weight or smaller jar filled with water. Ensure there is a 5cm gap between the vegetables and the top of the jar to allow for extra liquid released during the fermentation process. Set the jar on a large plate to catch any over overflow. Cover the jar with a double layer of muslin cloth and secure with a rubber band. If using a mason, preserving or specialised fermenting jar, secure the lid. Let stand at room temperature, out of direct sunlight and in a well-ventilated place for 5-7 days**, or until the mixture becomes pleasantly tangy. During this time, if using a jar covered with a muslin cloth, check daily to ensure the vegetables are completely submerged in brine, to prevent mould from forming. press down with a wooden spoon if necessary. If using a mason or preserving jar, open ever so slightly every day to release gases (a process known as burping) to prevent pressure build-up which could result in an explosion. Once fermented, seal with a lid. Fermented vegetables can be used immediately or stored in the refrigerator for a week or so to age before use, and up to 3 months. Note:You can store this pickle in the refrigerator for up to 3 months. the flavours will continue to develop over time. If you've got some fresh vine leaves on hand add one to your vegetables – the tannins released will help to achieve a crunchier outcome. Fermented garlic can discolour to a green/blue colour but it is still perfectly safe to eat. To help prevent this, ensure you use chlorine-free water and non-iodised salt. Introducing The Beauty Chef Cookbook – delicious food for radiant skin, gut health and wellbeing. This comprehensive cookbook containing over 150 recipes is available to pre-order* right now at www.thebeautychef.com. Be one of the first 50 people to order and you will receive a copy personally signed by Carla.* Please note orders will be shipped on Monday the 10th of October.Stocks limited, while stocks last.Available to Australian residents only, shipping within Australia only. Signed copies, limited to one per customer.


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Montgomery Co., VA - Two juveniles have been rescued from an underground sex trade by the Montgomery County and Henry County Sheriff's Office.
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office says the two were rescued on August 22 after an online investigation found they were being exploited into sex trafficking.
Investigators say that led them to Collinsville where they rescued one of the juveniles.
The second juvenile was found the next day in Christiansburg.
The case has been sent to the FBI.
Mecca S. Gravely, 37, of Christiansburg was arrested on unrelated charges at the time of the recovery. She is currently being held in the Western Virginia Regional Jail.


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Congressional Delegation Praises Fisker's Commitment to the First State as Company Announces It Is Ready to Hire
U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, and U.S. Representative John Carney (all D-DE) today praised Fisker Automotive's commitment to doing business in the First State after the company's announcement that it will begin advertising locally this weekend for its Newport facility. Fisker has said it expects 40 electro-mechanical technicians to be hired by August and an additional 80 production employees to be hired between October 2011 and February 2012.
"Fisker Automotive represents a new era for automotive manufacturing in Delaware," said Sen. Carper. "Today Fisker took another strong step forward by announcing the company will soon begin hiring, creating a significant number of jobs just when we need them most. We congratulate Fisker Automotive on the progress it is making at the former Boxwood Road Assembly plant. This partnership between federal and state government and Fisker Automotive is a good example of how collaboration can bolster our economy. I look forward to seeing Fisker Automotive thrive in Delaware as it creates a unique product that will thrill consumers and lead the way with the next generation of fuel efficient and low emission vehicles."
"Fisker Automotive's announcement today is a big step forward in our effort to once again make Delaware a manufacturing hub," Senator Coons said. "Delaware's highly skilled, experienced workforce is a perfect fit for the types of jobs Fisker will soon be offering. It is exciting to see that not only is the former General Motors plant being put back into use, but that it will be manufacturing environmentally friendly electric plug-in hybrids. I appreciate Fisker's commitment to Delaware and its confidence in our quality workforce."
"Today is an exciting milestone for both Fisker Automotive and Delaware workers," said Congressman Carney. "We need to make things in America again and this announcement shows that emerging opportunities in green energy technology can help revive U.S. manufacturing and put Americans back to work. Fisker has already made tremendous progress on a new type of luxury, fuel efficient vehicle, and I'm confident that Delaware's knowledgeable and well-trained workforce will contribute greatly to the company's long-term success."
Fisker Automotive purchased the former General Motors Boxwood Road Plant in 2010, and has spent several months rehabilitating the plant for mass-production of its "Project Nina" line of vehicles. The first mid-size premium sedan models are expected to roll off the production line at the end of 2012.
Founded in 2007, Fisker Automotive is an American car company that produces environmentally conscious electric vehicles with extended range.
Source: http://carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=9532ae08-bd73-4713-9696-889719c8e737


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Who's Advocating Counter Offensive and Why?
Recently there has been a flurry of activity and discussion related to the concept of counter offensive measures being launched by private sector organizations in response to some form of targeted attack (criminal, industrial espionage-driven, state sponsored etc.). Counter Offensive (CO) operations are not new; however, in the context that they have been discussed lately, one may ask oneself if there isn't a blurring of lines occurring within the private sector in particular that is new.
Here's one approach: One start-up organization recommends that corporations — upon detecting that they have been compromised by an adversarial third party, work to monitor and ultimately "waste" the aggressor's time and resources through a number of tactics such as internal honey clienting (feigning the appearance of access to sensitive material and data that proves difficult at best, to exfiltrate) rather than immediately seeking to expel them. The goal is to learn the tactics and gather intelligence on the aggressor.
Some within the security industry advocate that companies create bogus files or 'beacons' (again not new) that can be used to monitor and harvest intelligence scraped from the offender's machines. This also, is not new or unique in terms of vision and / or counsel in events where an organization has become aware that they've been breached. The question becomes whether or not the endorsement of active defense in the private sector could set the stage for unforeseen consequences and results on the part of those who initiate aspects (such as those mentioned above) of varying degrees of aggression.
In the private sector, all of these methods are used more today against advanced cyber threats then they were just 2-3 years ago, but there's still some questions about how effective these types of approaches can be.
Challenges Associated with Counter Offensive Response
There are many problems and pitfalls associated with taking these particular approaches in counter cyber adversaries.
First, there is the question of attribution (which is daunting at best). Who is actually behind the compromise? Can we prove with certainty (and what is the metric used in assuring certainty) the origin and identify of the adversary? Who owns the machine(s) that are being used by the adversary to launch the attack? Attribution, as mentioned earlier, is not trivial. There are academic models and treatises that wax ecstatically on how an organization might be able to clean and calm the malicious behavior associated with a given machine or incursion ranging from the more traditional to the more non-traditional and arguably speaking aggressive. However, one must ask as to whether or not it is advisable for a commercial entity to endeavor into potentially hazardous activity that in extreme cases advocates counter offensive strikes or 'hack backs'. We live in an era where technology and death of distance have circumnavigated and lapped conventional legislation related to Internet and computer crimes. We are squarely in the midst of an evolutionary period that cannot be ignored. Organizations cannot afford to gamble with their livelihoods and brands therefore it is imperative that they understand whether or not the actions they are taking are legal and their evidentiary chain pure. For example, what might the outcome be if an organization that had been compromised and in their determination to root out and address said compromise, looked toward more aggressive solutions throwing caution to the wind resulting in an escalation of force by their adversaries?
What is the Best Way To Approach Conversations Related to CO Approaches In the Event It is Being Considered and Advocated By Third Parties
So what is the right approach to take when an organization has discovered they have been compromised? I personally believe that the best approach is the one that does not throw caution to the wind. Exhaustive data collection and analysis of lateral movement within the organization in question attributed to the unauthorized aggressor is key. Comprehensive data collection and analysis culminating in an intelligence brief that can be delivered to executive stakeholders will lay the foundation for further discussions related to what an organization needs to do right now to amend the conditions that have allowed them to be compromised (e.g., attack surface minimization including human beings), how they would be best served through means at their disposal today or through the engagement of third party resources and solutions, why they need to take such actions and when they should begin.
Until there is a legitimate legal precedent that offers a position of defense from behind which a private sector organization can shield itself, it is too risky to advocate and pursue any form of kinetic response tied to CO means.


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LONDON (ICIS)--Europe methyl methacrylate (MMA) spot prices have firmed on the high end of the range on slightly improved demand, in the first increase spot prices have seen since the end of February, sources said on Thursday.
Spot prices for end of April delivery are at €1,620-1,680/tonne FD (free delivered) NWE (northwest Europe), showing a €30/tonne rise on the top end of the range.
Traders said that May delivery prices are being offered higher, but there was no confirmation on the buy side.
"The market seems to be moving up," one trader said. "The producers are moving prices up because it's been too long that prices have not moved up. Producers are saying, 'We can't afford to do this any longer at these prices.'"
Buyers this week said that there is little to no reason for prices to rise, as demand is not particularly healthy and there is sufficient material on the market.
Nearly all MMA is polymerised to make homopolymers and copolymers, with the largest application being the casting, moulding or extrusion of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) or modified polymers.
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