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Monday, March 16
My Second Vlog! 20 Facts About Me.
Finally! I actually made my second vlog. :) I'm going to try to start doing one every two weeks or so because I'd love to add Youtube into my every day life as well! I'm already on it all day (mostly watching Jenna Marbles videos...), so I might as well contribute.
If you have any ideas about future vlog ideas, I'd love to hear them in the comments! And if you have a Facts About You post, I'd also love to see yours as well so leave me a link!
Happy Monday, everyone. :) I hope it's fantastic!
Posted by Allison Leighann
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So cute!! Love it! We used to have notebooks like that in middle school too. Those were the days! I really want to make more videos too. Well, I haven't started yet so I need to do that...Great video idea though, I may steal it! ;)ReplyDelete
xo Megan, Lush to Blush
We love the VLOG!!! It's fantastic! Very well put together and its great to learn a little more about youReplyDelete
Cheers, Marian
Great VLOG! I want to start vlogging one day too!!! I am a huge Harry Potter fan and I had a notebook that I passed back and forth with my friend Lori all through 9th grade!!!ReplyDelete
This is cute Allison! Do more! :)ReplyDelete
You're adorable! I saw it yesterday when you sent me the link on FB's Girls in Night group! Def. following your blog now, I don't know how I didn't before!ReplyDelete
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Developing and promoting a site for a company in a highly regulated industry can be a challenge to a search marketer on many unforeseen levels. Here's how to avoid common gotchas or even worse consequences.
A special report from the Search Engine Strategies conference, August 6-10, 2006, San Jose, California.
Involved in retail? Pharma? Gambling? Alcohol sales? Run a medical site? Offer legal advice? Chances are, you have to deal with regulations from the government, from search engines or from your own company about what you can or cannot say on your site and in your ads, or even who you may link to and vice versa.
The "Search and Regulated Industries" panel featured search marketing professionals sharing their experience with clients in different heavily regulated industries, explaining how search marketers can manage to stay within the rules yet not compromise their search marketing campaigns.
Understanding your client's restrictions on certain search marketing activities is not just a business obligation, but a legal one as well.
"Familiarity with regulatory constraints means faster results," says Heather Frahm, co-founder of Catalyst Online, an exclusive SEM provider to the pharma, biotech, and medical equipment industries. Inversely, not knowing what they are or how do effectively deal them will greatly slow an untrained search marketer down, and can create legal problems for both the client and yourself. For these reasons, its important to know what guidelines are universal and what are specific to both your industry and your client.
Standards and practices—both lawful and ethical—are imposed by the following groups:
- Government regulatory bodies
- Industry-funded organizations
- Search engines
- Your client
A reputable client in a heavily regulated industry should already have its internal/corporate guidelines in place, with a list of both proper procedures and restrictions on certain types of marketing practices. Your PPC campaigns and organic search may be scrutinized by both a company's marketing team and an internal regulatory committee, who will specify revisions to be made to keywords and copy, all visible and non-visible site data, and even your submission content to link directories.
Search regulations in the drinks industry
"The drinks industry is especially restricted from using paid search listings," explained Martin Murray, Chief Executive for Interactive Return, whose company handles the online account for major adult beverage brands including Guinness, Baileys and Johnnie Walker.
"With Google, you can't opt for sponsored listings if you're a drinks firm," since Google restricts all alcohol advertisements for both beer and hard liquor (spirits). "So a lot more of the search marketing work we do is concentrated on the organic side, SEO."
If a product is "global media," then Murray also must deal with "code clearance." This refers to different regulations for different countries, such as the legal drinking age. Along with legal rules are ascribed ethical marketing guidelines. For example, Murray explains that his industry-recommendations (i.e., non-enforceable) on promotional activity, as established by a collaboration of the major drink companies and industry-funded advocate organizations for responsible drinking, "should not have the alcoholic strength as a dominant theme, encourage immoderate consumption; incorporate images of people under 25 years of age; or suggest any association with anti-social behavior, illicit drugs, sexual success, social success or popularity, or enhanced mental or physical capabilities."
Using the example of Smirnoff Vodka, ethnical marketing guidelines for alcoholic products may have a home page with age verification entry/login, a disclaimer encouraging "responsible drinking," and a web page showing a collaboration with other drink companies, with links on industry-funded organizations for drinking responsibly and public awareness of alcohol abuse.
Along with that are responsible drinking messages throughout the web site content, plus a separate informational site for information on a product or brand, such as http://www.knowyourdiageodrink.com/.
Search regulations in the pharma industry
Heather Frahm, co-founder of Catalyst, with major brand name clients in the pharma industry including Pfizer and Novartis, explained the specific regulations tied to the pharma industry.
One of the most important guidelines for pharma is the U.S. Fair Balance Act. "What it tells a pharmaceutical marketer is the requirement to mention the name of the drug, the condition it treats, and all of the potential side effects," says Frahm. "Obviously, you can't fit all of the side effects in the little ad listing, so you'll need a landing page to fit all of that fair balance information."
It's also important to know what marketing terms have restricted pharma advertising uses. "If a new drug comes out, and 6 months passes, you can no longer buy the word 'new.' Otherwise it would be considered misleading by FDA standards."
Content challenges can be pervasive when optimizing for pharma companies. Frahm explains that the pharma industry is trying to produce content at a 6th-8th grade reading level. "So the client may want to rank for 'schizophrenia,' but they won't want us to put it into their content," she said.
Frahm's content recommendations for this SEO obstacle include targeting misspellings and optimization for popular key phrases but incorrect circumstances. While an effective solution, this can sometimes pose an ethical clash of attracting an audience by initially misleading an audience.
Linking precautions for pharma must also be made, such as making sure that only US-based sites are linked to ads and information on US-approved drugs. All text links must be approved by the client's teams, and some common marketing terms might not be approved for linking to. "Linking from 'cure' sites could especially be seen as false claims," says Frahm.
Don't count on being able to use company press releases to link to the product site, either. Frahm explains this is often company policy to avoid FDA scrutiny and potentially misleading the general public (such as believing that a drug has already been approved when it may still be in clinical trials). Frahm says that "you're better off to leverage corporate assets, such as unbranded sites, PR campaign sites, and outside partners and organizations" for link opportunities and gaining link popularity.
Search marketing regulations in the retail industry
Liana Evans, SEM Manager for Commmerce360, whose clients include many large online retailers, pointed out that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulates most kinds of merchandise, which also includes all of the merchandise for sale on retailer web sites and their advertisements.
"If you sell a silver plated watch, you have to say exactly that; you cannot say 'silver watch,'" Evans said. "It has to be clearly defined, or FTC can come down on you and say you're doing false advertisement."
Evans warns online retailers that the FTC does impose fines for false advertisements, "and not just on the retailer, but on the web developer and marketer as well, should they have knowingly perpetuated the fraud," or have been complicit to the fraudulent activity. Evans advises search marketers to take their own precautions. "If something reads funny, consult legal counsel."
Some niches of retail are being very closely monitored. "The FTC has really been focusing on the diet and vitamin industry," says Evans, since so many scams are prevalent in that market. To help educate consumers, the FTC has created a "red flags" web site, which Evans explains "its there to educate searchers on how to identify blatantly false advertising on diets, diet pills and nutritional supplements, and how to report them to the FTC."
The future of industry guidelines for search marketing
Overall, government and corporate regulatory industries are still very new to understanding how the search marketing industry works and how to regulate for balancing access to information with consumer safety. Search marketers with clients in regulated fields agree that even non-binding recommendation lists can provide some starter guidance, but that much more needs to be implemented and standardized to give a clear understanding of what legal protections they are entitled to.
"It will definitely take some education, but I think [regulatory agencies" are open to listening," says Frahm. "If they get the right people who understand search, I think they'll incorporate policies that are fair to the consumer as well as the companies."
Tips for search marketing with regulated industries
- Know all of the guidelines and regulatory commissions your client is bound by, not just for your general industry but for your specific industry. If you don't know them, have the client provide them for you.
- Project and relationship management plays a key role, so work closely with client's marketing and legal teams. Be prepared to deal with them, and educate them all the time.
- Know industry terminologies and what special usage they may have on search marketing activities.
- Marketing review and approval will follow your SEM work, which will then be followed by regulatory review approval, with revisions and re-approval of your campaigns sometimes required. Murray recommends to have your SEO person or team be a part of the site's edit/review cycle. "Become partners with other teams, and have written checklists or guidelines for site team and team members."
- Understand which industry guidelines are recommended and which ones are mandatory (and enforceable).
- Find out what other types of advertising your client is engaging in, and what messages they are making in them. Companies that run infomercials can draw the biggest scrutiny onto themselves from the FTC.
- If something looks funny, question it. if you don't get a satisfactory answer, discuss it with the department head and keep a record of your discussion.
- Know your industry spam cop sites, and where to report fraud activity.
- If your client doesn't have these policies in place, have them implement them into corporate policy, corporate-wide.
Grant Crowell is the CEO and Creative Director of Grantastic Designs, Inc., a full-service search engine marketing, web site design, and usability firm.
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When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to biuld an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.
What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the engine and propeller? That's what you do, you engineer of the human soul. Just that. You're a coward. You want the raisins out of my cake but you don't want the thorns of my roses. Haven't you too, little psychiatrist, been cracking silly jokes about me? Haven't you ridiculed me as "the prophet of bigger and better orgasms"? Have you never heard the whimpering of a young wife whose body has been desecrated by an impotent husband? Or the anguished cry of an adolescent bursting with unfulfilled love? Does your security still mean more to you than your patient? How long will you go on valuing your respectability above your medical mission? How long will you refuse to see that your pussyfooting procrastination is costing millions their lives?
It is a mistake," he said, " to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century. Once it was well known that cigarettes increased the incidence of lung cancer, the obvious remedy was to stop smoking, but the desired remedy was a cigarette that did not cause cancer. When it became clear that the internal-combustion engine was polluting the atmosphere dangerously, the obvious remedy was to abandon such engines, and the desired remedy was to develop non-polluting engines.


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Whoever thought I would swell with pride when watching a kid grab a rattle? But my son has been working on his hand-eye coordination now, at 4 whole months, and the way his face lights up when he manages to actually touch what he wants is beyond amazing. I love that kid.
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It is now five years since animation artist Don Hertzfeldt released his tragicomedy feature
It's Such a Beautiful Day
(2012), which brings together his three short films
Everything Will Be OK
I Am So Proud of You
(2008) and the 2011 short after which the trilogy is titled. The work thus exists (and has been a success) as serial shorts
as a feature-length film made using the same footage. Yet, it is a different experience, I argue, to view the work as serial episodes—whether years apart or 'binged'—than to treat it as a movie. Normally, storytelling that spans over separate installments/episodes is structured differently from one-off films. Taking the understanding of 'seriality' from Television Studies in the sense of how a narrative arc is organized into subsequent episodes,
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I want to look at this trilogy's storytelling, and ask: what occurs to the way and the intensity with which this work conveys its narrative through animation when the seriality of the three episodes is seamlessly edited together into one film? Indeed, in light of Hertzfeldt's recent release of an 'episode two' to his 2016 Oscar-nominated short World of Tomorrow , it is now apt to consider the question of seriality in his work. [ii]
Don Hertzfeldt is known for creating ostensibly simple, stick-figure style animated shorts that convey existentialist undercurrents – and outbursts thereof. The three installments of
It's Such a Beautiful Day
were shot on 35mm and made combining his iconic pencil-drawn animation with photographed and live-action material, manipulated with in-camera techniques, and direct (drawn-on-film) animation. The trilogy traces the deteriorating psyche of the troubled stick-figure man Bill, who suffers from an obscure mental condition and ruminates on the mundanity of his life and existence.
The Guardian
's reviewer David Jenkins notes that it has been compared to Terrence Malick's
The Tree of Life
(2011) because 'it is similarly structured as a catalogue of apparently banal vignettes and observations that, when stitched together, form an exhilarating tapestry of life's unnoticed but vital minutiae'.
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It is this stitching together that warrants a closer look.
Short-form films—especially animated ones—tend to fall in the gap between film and other media studies.
It's Such a Beautiful Day
is particularly odd, as it is not a one-off film nor simply a series of episodes. It is a trilogy of shorts made into a feature film. At a 2013 screening I co-organized, the audience's response developed from bursts of laughter during parts one and two to increasingly muffled snickering as it progresses through to part three – as if unsure whether it is still ethical to be laughing at the gradually unfolding fate of this stick-figure man for whom we have come to feel dearly within the hour.
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This filmic experience is less seamless and likely different when watching the shorts apart from each other.
The emblematic New Zealand kaka , an endangered native forest-dependant parrot reintroduced into Wellington city. Photo: Keith Payne.
The emblematic New Zealand kaka , an endangered native forest-dependant parrot reintroduced into Wellington city. Photo: Keith Payne.
As for other parrot species, such as the rainbow lorikeet Trichoglossus haematodus , musk lorikeet Glossopsitta concinna , and red-rumped parrots Psephotus haematonotus that have successfully colonized city parklands in Australia ( Lill 2009 ), the kaka has recently been reintroduced to sites in or near the NZ capital, Wellington city ( Miskelly et al. 2005 ; Kerry and Linklater 2013). Recent management objectives for the city identify a need to improve functional connectivity for wildlife species, and recognize the importance of understanding animal movements within patches to guide management strategies (Wellington City Council 2013). The success of the re-establishment of a kaka population and expansion also depends on the control of introduced mammalian predators. The main introduced predators of kaka (and other native birds) are stoats Mustela erminea , which kill adults (in particular females incubating eggs), brush-tailed possums Trichosurus Vulpecula , which rob nests and compete for high-energy foods and nest-sites, and rats ( Rattus sp.), which prey on eggs and nestlings ( Moorhouse et al. 2003 ; Heather and Robertson 2005 ). Pest control programs based on poisoning, trapping, and artificial physical barriers (e.g., to protect kaka nest cavities) have been applied to mitigate the impact caused by introduced mammals ( Dilks et al. 2003 ; Greene and Jones 2003 ; Moorhouse et al. 2003 ; Veltman and Westbrook 2011 ).
In Wellington city, the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary (now known as Zealandia) is a predator-free fenced area containing abundant native forest and connected to a green-belt surrounding the city (
King 2005
). The expectation was that species such as the kaka can find the necessary resources for breeding and feeding within the sanctuary, which is considered a population base supporting expansion of kaka along the city green-belt and green spaces toward other native habitat patches within the urban matrix. Kaka were first reintroduced into Zealandia in 2002 and more than 300 individuals have been banded there since then (
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, retrieved 12-3-2015). The current kaka population in Wellington is estimated to be between 180 and 250 birds (Karori Sanctuary Trust 1 , 2013, Wellington, New Zealand, Unpublished data, unpublished data). Supplementary food in artificial feeders is provided year-round for kaka in the sanctuary (Kerry and Linklater 2013). However, reintroduced individuals are free to move over the exclusion fence and into city suburbs. The frequent presence of kaka in inner suburbs has been reported in previous research on sap feeding behavior (Kerry and Linklater 2013).
The article highlights the promising ways of providing access to the cloud-based learning and research software in higher educational institutions. It is emphasized that the cloud computing services implementation is the actual trend of modern ICT pedagogical systems development. The analysis and evaluation of existing experience and educational research of different types of software packages use are proposed. The general model of formation and development of the cloud-based learning and research environment of educational personnel training is substantiated. The reasonable ways of methods selection on the basis of the proposed model are considered and the prospects for their use in educational systems of higher education are described. The analysis and assessment of the prospects of the cloud-based educational and research environment development is fulfilled.
Contextual multi-armed bandit problems arise frequently in important industrial applications. Existing solutions model the context either linearly, which enables uncertainty driven (principled) exploration, or non-linearly, by using epsilon-greedy exploration policies. Here we present a deep learning framework for contextual multi-armed bandits that is both non-linear and enables principled exploration at the same time. We tackle the exploration vs. exploitation trade-off through Thompson sampling by exploiting the connection between inference time dropout and sampling from the posterior over the weights of a Bayesian neural network. In order to adjust the level of exploration automatically as more data is made available to the model, the dropout rate is learned rather than considered a hyperparameter. We demonstrate that our approach substantially reduces regret on two tasks (the UCI Mushroom task and the Casino Parity task) when compared to 1) non-contextual bandits, 2) epsilon-greedy deep contextual bandits, and 3) fixed dropout rate deep contextual bandits. Our approach is currently being applied to marketing optimization problems at HubSpot.
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On Tuesday, March 15, Ohioans cast ballots in the 2016 primary election. While the 2016 presidential election has been capturing most of the media spotlight, several other races of significance were contested. Below, we have compiled results of some races of particular note and will continue to closely watch these races and others as we move toward the general election in November. (A full list of results from the Ohio House of Representative and Ohio Senate races with primary contests is also included below.)
As results continue to come in, please be advised that some of the information below may be incomplete. We will continue to update this publication over the next few days as the boards of elections finalize results. We hope this overview is helpful as we move into the next phase of the campaign season.
U.S. President
Governor John Kasich won the Ohio Republican primary race for president with 46 percent of the vote, beating out Donald Trump (36 percent), Ted Cruz (13 percent) and Marco Rubio (2 percent).
In May 2015, the Ohio General Assembly moved Ohio's primary to allow Ohio to become a "winner takes all" state in the Republican primary race. Under party rules, if Ohio held its primary before March 15 (as it would have under previous law), delegates would be elected by congressional district and could go to multiple Republican presidential hopefuls. In September 2015, the Ohio Republican Party formally designated the primary election as a winner takes all contest to allow the top statewide vote-getter to take all 66 of Ohio's Republican presidential delegates.
While polls tightened in the final few days before the primary, Hillary Clinton emerged as the victor in Ohio's Democratic hybrid delegate selection primary where the former Secretary of State will win a proportional majority of the Buckeye State's delegates. Clinton came away with 56 percent of the vote to Bernie Sanders'43 percent and Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente's 1 percent.
U.S. Senate
Ohio Senator Rob Portman (R) successfully won his primary bid with 82 percent of the vote and will be on the November ballot as he seeks reelection in 2016. He faced a primary challenge from Republican Donald Eckhart. Eckhart previously ran for a state Senate seat in 2004 and for Congress in 2008 — both times as an independent candidate.
In a hotly contested Democratic primary, former Governor Ted Strickland beat Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld, winning 65 percent of the vote to Sittenfeld's 22 percent. The former governor is endorsed by the Ohio Democratic Party while Sittenfeld ran as a "fresh face" and person to watch within the party. A third Democrat, Kelli Prather, was also unsuccessful in her challenge to Strickland, winning 12 percent of the vote.
U.S. House of Representatives
Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-West Chester) vacated his seat on October 31, 2015, and 17 candidates filed to fill his seat in Ohio's 8th Congressional District. After a 15-way election for the special and primary, Warren Davison walked away the winner in both with 32 percent of the vote. Mr. Davidson is an Army veteran and works for his family's manufacturing business. Other candidates included current Ohio Representative Tim Derickson (R-Oxford), who represents the 53rd District in the Ohio General Assembly, and Ohio Senator Bill Beagle (R-Tipp City), who represents 5th Ohio Senate District.
Former State Representative Steve Kraus lost his bid in Ohio's 9th Congressional District. He hoped to challenge incumbent Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, a Democrat, in November. Kraus, a Republican who represented the 89th General Assembly district, was removed from his post in the Ohio House of Representatives in July after he was convicted of a fifth-degree felony theft charge. Kraus faced a primary challenge from Republicans Donald Larson and Joel Lieske. Mr. Larson won the primary with 44 percent of the vote.
Ohio Supreme Court
Two Republican judges ran for the Ohio Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Judith Ann Lanzinger, who will step down at the end of the year due to mandatory judicial retirement at age 70. Judge Pat Fischer, who serves on the 1st District Court of Appeals in Hamilton County and Judge Colleen O'Toole of the 11thDistrict Court of Appeals faced off in the primary, with Judge Fischer winning with 54 percent of the vote.
Judge Fischer will face Judge John P. O'Donnell, a Democrat, in November. Judge O'Donnell is a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judge and unsuccessfully ran for the Ohio Supreme Court in 2014 against Justice Judith French.
Ohio Courts of Appeals
In the 3rd District, three Republicans ran for the seat being vacated by Judge Richard M. Rogers. Amy Ikerd is an assistant prosecutor in Mercer County, Richard Henry Palau is the city prosecutor for Tiffin, Ohio, and William R. Zimmerman sits on the Shelby County Court of Common Pleas. Judge Zimmerman won with 66 percent of the vote and will face Democrat Randall L. Basinger, a judge on the Putnam County Court of Common Pleas, in November.
Two Democrats filed to challenge incumbent Judge Matthew W. McFarland on the 4th District bench. Paul Price is a judge on the Pike County Court of Common Pleas and Valerie K. Gerlach works as an attorney in Portsmouth, Ohio. Ms. Gerlach won with 56 percent of the vote.
Ohio Senate
In Senate District 12, two former Republican state representatives filed to replace term limited Senate President Keith Faber (R-Celina). Representatives Matt Huffman (R-Lima) and John Adams (R-Sidney) faced off in the March primary election with Representative Huffman prevailing with 64 percent of the vote.
Incumbent Senator Larry Obhof (R-Medina) successfully withstood a challenge from fellow Republican Janet Folger Porter, winning the primary for the 22nd Ohio Senate district with 65 percent of the vote. Ms. Porter is the president of Faith2Action, an organization that has supported efforts to pass the "Heartbeat Bill" in Ohio. Senator Obhof was recently elected to serve as the Ohio Senate pro tempore, the second highest leadership position in the Senate. Prior to that, he served as the majority whip, also a key leadership position.
In the 24th Senate District, former Representative Matt Dolan won the Republican primary to replace term-limited Senator Tom Patton (R-Strongsville) in the Cuyahoga County district. With 44 percent of the vote, he looks to beat out Representatives Mike Dovilla (R-Berea) and Nan Baker (R-Westlake). He will face Democrat Emily Hagan in the general election. Hagan is the niece of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Tim Hagan, former Representative Bob Hagan and current Representative Michele Lapore-Hagan of the 58th House District.
Ohio House of Representatives
Representative Tom Brinkman (R-Cincinnati) faced a challenge from Heidi Huber in the 27th House District. Representative Brinkman secured a very narrow lead over Ms. Huber with 51 percent of the vote. Ms. Huber is a vocal opponent of the Common Core State Standards.
In the 51st House District, incumbent Representative Wes Retherford (R-Hamilton) won his primary challenge from former Representative Courtney Combs. Representative Retherford did not receive the endorsement of the Butler County Republican Party, which instead backed Representative Combs for the seat. The Ohio House Republican Organizational Committee, which works to elect Republicans to the Ohio House, assisted the incumbent in his race.
Larry Householder (R), former Speaker of the Ohio House, won the 72nd House District primary against Coshocton City Council President Cliff Biggers, securing 64 percent of the vote. Both sought to replace Representative Bill Hayes (R-Granville), who is running for Licking County prosecutor. Representative Hayes was successful in his primary race, beating Christopher Reame, a current assistant prosecutor.
Representative Tony Burkley (R-Payne) faced a primary challenge in the 82nd House District from Craig Riedel, a retired businessman from Defiance. Mr. Reidel won the primary with 53 percent of the vote. There is no Democrat running for the seat, so he will be unopposed in November.
State Representative Kevin Boyce (D-Columbus) and incumbent Paula Brooks faced off in the primary election for Franklin County commissioner. Representative Boyce won the context with 58 percent of the vote and will face Republican Terry Boyd in the general election in November.
Ohio House of Representatives Candidates *Primary election winners in bold
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There are so many health benefits of corriander leaves. Ther are very rich in Calcium, Vitamin C. This chutney recipe prepared with fresh corriander leaves is very tasty and healthy too.
Fresh Coriander leaves
Tomato : 2 (Cut into small pieces)
Green Chilli : 4
Garlic Cloves : 6
Black Gram dal
Curry Leaves
Cumin seeds : 1 tsp
Oil - 3 tsp
Sugar - 1tspSalt to taste
Method :-
Heat oil in a frying Pan.
Add Green Chilly,Garlic.Curry leaves Cumin seeds and Black Gram Dal fry till light brown.
Add Tomatoes and fry for 5 minutes. Remove from the Pan and keep aside.
Now add 2 tsp of oil in a Pan and fry Corriander leaves for 2 minutes.
Add fried tomato,green chilly,curry leaves, cumin seeds and black gram dal to the semi fried corriander leaves and add salt and sugar.
Grind them in a Kitchen Grinder to make a paste.
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image:: Screenshot of Nimalan Yoganathan's Inukjuak Sound Map {click on image to navigate to site in a new window}
This is the second instalment of an occasional series on the North and circumpolar issues
I've been researching applications of social media and the web in the North this week and came across this sound map that georeferences sounds recorded in Inukjuak, in the Nunavik region of northern Québec. Nimlan Yoganathan, a sound artist, activist, and composer based in Montréal, created the Inukjuak Sound Map as a result of a residency. Here's an apt description of the project from the site::
"[Nimlan] was studying and recording the sonic environment to gain insight into the richness of Inuit culture. This included natural sounds such as the wind, Hudson Bay, mosquitoes, and huskies, as well as cultural sounds including carvers at work, youths building kayaks, and throat singing. The Inukjuak Sound Map aims to create an archival database of these recordings."
The recorded files are tagged and georeferenced with locations, ranging from throat singing to sounds of nature {his original concept was to record the sounds of wildlife}, as well as the sounds of everyday life—elders carving soapstone to sports championship parades.
This Nunatsiaq Online article details some of his experiences on the project and what he wants to do in the future, which involves creating audio archives of the North. It might be also interesting to see if there is interest in crowdsourcing georeferences sounds by those living in the North. Here's a Capital News Online podcast that features an interview of Nimlan, his experiences recording in Inukjuak, why he feels sound is important to document sound, and the process of creating a sound map. I think he's absolutely right when he says that urban developers and planners use sound maps to factor in the soundscape when building urban environments.
This reminds me of the film Il Postino {1994}, where Mario Ruoppolo uses Pablo Neruda's tape recorder to capture the sounds of island where the exiled poet was staying.
Twitterversion:: [blog] Nimlan Yoganathan's sound map of Inukjuak in Nunavik region, Quebéc documents culture & environment through audio. @Prof_K


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Saturday, September 4, 2010
Beautiful Wedding Dresses
Are you looking for a beautiful wedding dress? There are some things that you can do to find the best and most beautiful wedding dresses! Take time to read these tips, and look stunning on your wedding day!
The best wedding dresses are essential, because you are beautiful. When it comes to your big day, you need to make sure that you have the right kind of dress for the occasion. One of the first things that you want to do, is to look at the theme of your wedding, season, etc. Considering these points will allow you to find the best options, and you can do a lot.
There are many ways to find dresses, and you will discover here, how to find the most beautiful dresses, in the most shortest period of time! When you consider the theme for your big day, then you can better match the dress for the occasion. It gives more room to actually be able to find the most beautiful wedding dresses.
Taking the time to research is essential, and if you have visited a local store that sells dresses, you may have found that the selection was very limited. You need more options! After all, who doesn't like window shopping! Luckily there are more options, if you like traveling!
The first place to look, is a wedding magazine. In the magazine, you will often find that they actually have a few advertisements for stores that have dresses. This is great, and can provide you with the options to find the most beautiful wedding dresses.
Another option is to go online. I have found that online you can find many stores, and the selection is often bigger. The only problem is that you can't actually see the dress in front of you, and that doesn't represent the dress the most.
However, making sure that they have a return policy in place, you can have some assurances. When you consider that the prices at these online stores is often much cheaper than if you went to a local store, especially with research, you can rest assured that you can find the best and most beautiful wedding dresses, and create a day of bliss!
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[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-956?page=comments#action_12329340 ] David Jencks commented on GERONIMO-956: --------------------------------------- I'm going to remove the tag later today unless someone objects. > Remove "global JNDI space" > -------------------------- > > Key: GERONIMO-956 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-956 > Project: Geronimo > Type: Improvement > Components: connector, naming > Versions: 1.0-M4 > Reporter: Aaron Mulder > Assignee: David Jencks > Fix For: 1.0 > > Geronimo has a "global" JNDI space under "geronimo:". However: > - it's only used by connectors, not EJBs > - it's not visible outside the current VM > It doesn't seem like this is really benefitting anyone. The effort necessary to make it behave like JNDI behaves in other popular app servers seems to be significant. After talking on IRC, David J and I are soliciting feedback on removing this feature entirely for now. > Note: this is different than the JNDI space that OpenEJB uses to expose EJBs to remote clients, which takes EJBs only and is obviously accessible to remote clients. We are not proposing to change that at this time. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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Egypt and Israel ended two days of talks on Palestinian autonomy by announcing a timetable for future negotiations and pledging to explore all avenues to find an agreement.
A joint statement made clear that the talks, the first in 16 months, had not solved any of the major disagreements on a system of self-rule for the 1.2 million Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territory.
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Greek-Style Pasta with Shrimp
If the pasta salad seems a bit dry, stir in a little more yogurt just before serving.Source: Everyday Food, June 2004
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MS124308311 MAY, 2016To make it more Greek...I would use dill instead of mint with the yogurt. And I would add grape tomatoes cut in half, cucumber, onion, and feta cheese.Reply
Sheryll_Rufus7 JAN, 2011Used Radiatore this time, but I usually use Penne Regate because it is easier to find. Also used entire bunch of clilantro instead of mint (could not find fresh mint) and an entire can of regular pitted black olives, sliced and drained of course. Try Dannon's Plain Nonfat Yogurt instead. I am trying to cut my fat intake in halfReply
MexiPoff16 DEC, 2007This pasta was very easy to prepare and make. I made it for a friend's farewell. We all had to bring in a side dish and this is what I brought. The taste is not one I would recommend to just anyone. I prefer sour over sweet, spicy over bland... so this was more suited for someone with similar taste buds as mine. Most people preferred the same old sweetish pasta salad at this function. Also, I found out this is MUCH better served warm and with extra yogurt mixed in. 5 stars for me!!!Reply
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Muscled Hunk JJ Masters Fucks Vadim Black's Tight Ass Hard & Raw
by Ben Daniels (Admin) on Apr.05, 2014, under Broke Straight Boys
JJ Masters is a muscled hunk of a straight man and today he will fuck young Vadim Black's very tight ass. JJ Masters has already made several fuck scenes, but by his own admission, he is always nervous. Vadim wasn't in much better spirits, quite nervous too, until our director told them to relax a bit.
Vadim has already bottomed, his scene with Romeo James was especially painful, but he says he did enjoy it towards the end. As the saying goes, "Money talks and bullshit walks" and since Romeo needed more money really badly, I guess he had to come to terms with the fact that his straight ass was going to get drilled again, and again.
JJ Masters turned out to be a great top, and treated Romeo's ass with care and quite carefully (Romeo asked him to have mercy on his ass before the fuck scene started). It seems that Vadim was somewhat in pain, again, and his moaning and groaning made JJ Masters even more horny and eager to thoroughly drill that ass. I think we haven't seen all from these guys, and they will be back for more!
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Lancome Makes The Best Facial Cleanser Ever
I've used a million variations of facial cleanser over the years. When I was a teenager, I used pHisoderm, because my mother had perfect skin and claimed that was why. Maybe it was – but it surely didn't do anything for me. I have normal to combination skin, which meant I usually had one or two zits during puberty, but nothing out of the ordinary. I tried the teenage cleansers like Oxy and Clearisil, which truly dried my skin out and left me with red, taut skin.
I tried Revlon's line, which resulted in my skin drying out so badly, it peeled. In fact, I spent the years between 13 and 25 convinced I had naturally blotchy skin – particularly in the creases on either side of my nose. I had to use concealer just to tone it down to pink. In my late 20's I discovered Clinique's cream face wash, which they insist is also for use on the eye area. Um, no, I think not. Yes, my cheeks took on a more human skin color, but my under-eye area dried out to the point I looked like I had wrinkles where I really didn't. Fortunately, I'd just discovered Lancome's fantastic eye creams, and decided to look into their facial cleansers, which led me to:
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This is a lovely smelling gel that lathers up quite nicely. Squeeze a tiny drop out and that's plenty to wash your face. One bottle typically lasts me about 1.5 months. Note: Do NOT apply it to your eye area, as it's not intended for use there. Personally, I prefer something which lathers up, else I don't feel truly clean. This product gets nice and sudsy, and is very gentle on your skin. Within a week or two, all that pinkness was gone. Suddenly I had the peach tone I'd hoped was lurking in my genes.
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Ah, poor Eliot Spitzer. I'll save you all my personal thoughts, because I'm sure most of you are uninterested in what I think about this situation. So instead, this is an open letter to Eliot:
Good sir, this is what you should have done instead. Strike a deal with your wife to trade sex for cash, food, clothing, housing, gifts, flowers and kind words. In return, she must provide you with periodic sexual intercourse...possibly even "non-standard" intercourse depending on the volume of kind words included in your payments. According to law enforcement officials, these sorts of schemes usually begin with the woman asking for and receiving a large diamond ring followed approximately twelve months later with a large party attended by friends and family. It's a crime that so few law enforcement officers can ever catch -- Eliot, I bet not even you could have brought somebody down for this one.
The Onion uncovered the only known case of this kind ever being prosecuted. Read the whole article below.


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Emotions in Motion – Come join a different danceclass every thursday at 8.15 pm
Emotions In Motion is a class of guided dance improvisation, where we through cues of vivid, verbal imagery will experience freedom, joy and pleasure. We never stop, the movements are continuous, there a no mirrors and no individual corrections. We will dance to all kinds of music and find our individual groove through that. Everything is allowed and nothing is right or wrong.
We will delve into the exploration of our bodies, gaining a body that is stronger, more flexible and more versatile through a playful approach.
The class is taught in English… Og snakker du dansk er du selvfølgelig stadig hjertelig vekommen;)
About the teacher
Thais Hvid started his movement journey with Capoeira and Parkour – which he still practices. Did his B.A. in Performing Arts at Amsterdamse Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten, and has since worked in The Cullberg Ballet and with different freelance choreographers. He loves dancing and exploring movement.
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Please note: On thursdays there are Banko in Absalon at 8pm, which means sometimes a long que at the main door and at the bar!
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A selection of interviews conducted with early Indian immigrants to Canada, almost all of them British Columbians, in 53 audio files.
In the mid to late 1980s, two groups of researchers conducted detailed interviews with early Indo-Canadian settlers in Canada, almost all of them British Columbians. The interviews cover reasons for immigration to Canada and conditions and regulation of their entry into Canada. Interviewees also discuss work and living experiences once in Canada; labour, legal and political issues that affected the immigrants; relations with other racial and ethnic groups; family life and adjustment to Canadian society; and ongoing links to their country of origin. Almost all interviews are in Punjabi, with a few in English and Hindi.
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On the outskirts of
The building off Datong Road, surrounded by restaurants, massage parlors and a wine importer, is the headquarters of P.L.A. Unit 61398. A growing body of digital forensic evidence — confirmed by American intelligence officials who say they have tapped into the activity of the army unit for years — leaves little doubt that an overwhelming percentage of the attacks on American corporations, organizations and government agencies originate in and around the white tower.
An unusually detailed 60-page study, to be released Tuesday by Mandiant, an American computer security firm, tracks for the first time individual members of the most sophisticated of the Chinese hacking groups — known to many of its victims in the United States as "Comment Crew" or "Shanghai Group" — to the doorstep of the military unit's headquarters. The firm was not able to place the hackers inside the 12-story building, but makes a case there is no other plausible explanation for why so many attacks come out of one comparatively small area.
"Either they are coming from inside Unit 61398," said Kevin Mandia, the founder and chief executive of Mandiant, in an interview last week, "or the people who run the most-controlled, most-monitored Internet networks in the world are clueless about thousands of people generating attacks from this one neighborhood."
Other security firms that have tracked "Comment Crew" say they also believe the group is state-sponsored, and a recent classified
Mandiant provided an advance copy of its report to
While Comment Crew has drained terabytes of data from companies like
Contacted Monday, officials at the Chinese embassy in Washington again insisted that their government does not engage in computer hacking, and that such activity is illegal. They describe China itself as a victim of computer hacking, and point out, accurately, that there are many hacking groups inside the United States. But in recent years the Chinese attacks have grown significantly, security researchers say. Mandiant has detected more than 140 Comment Crew intrusions since 2006. American intelligence agencies and private security firms that track many of the 20 or so other Chinese groups every day say those groups appear to be contractors with links to the unit.
And the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday that the allegations were ''unprofessional.''
''Making unfounded accusations based on preliminary results is both irresponsible and unprofessional, and is not helpful for the resolution of the relevant problem,'' said Hong Lei, a ministry spokesman. ''China resolutely opposes hacking actions and has established relevant laws and regulations and taken strict law enforcement measures to defend against online hacking activities.''
While the unit's existence and operations are considered a Chinese state secret, Representative Mike Rogers of
The White House said it was "aware" of the Mandiant report, and Tommy Vietor, the spokesman for the
The United States government is planning to begin a more aggressive defense against Chinese hacking groups, starting on Tuesday. Under a directive signed by
But the government warnings will not explicitly link those groups, or the giant computer servers they use, to the Chinese army. The question of whether to publicly name the unit and accuse it of widespread theft is the subject of ongoing debate.
"There are huge diplomatic sensitivities here," said one intelligence official, with frustration in his voice.
But Obama administration officials say they are planning to tell China's new leaders in coming weeks that the volume and sophistication of the attacks have become so intense that they threaten the fundamental relationship between Washington and
The United States government also has cyberwarriors. Working with
The United States finds itself in something of an asymmetrical digital war with China. "In the cold war, we were focused every day on the nuclear command centers around
A Shadowy Unit
Unit 61398 — formally, the 2nd Bureau of the People's Liberation Army's General Staff Department's 3rd Department — exists almost nowhere in official Chinese military descriptions. Yet intelligence analysts who have studied the group say it is the central element of Chinese computer espionage. The unit was described in 2011 as the "premier entity targeting the United States and
While the Obama administration has never publicly discussed the Chinese unit's activities, a secret State Department cable written the day before Barack Obama was elected president in November 2008 described at length American concerns about the group's attacks on government sites. (At the time American intelligence agencies called the unit "Byzantine Candor," a code word dropped after the cable was published by
The Defense Department and the State Department were particular targets, the cable said, describing how the group's intruders send e-mails, called "spearphishing" attacks, that placed malware on target computers once the recipient clicked on them. From there, they were inside the systems.
American officials say that a combination of diplomatic concerns and the desire to follow the unit's activities have kept the government from going public. But Mandiant's report is forcing the issue into public view.
For more than six years, Mandiant tracked the actions of Comment Crew, so named for the attackers' penchant for embedding hidden code or comments into Web pages. Based on the digital crumbs the group left behind — its attackers have been known to use the same malware, Web domains, Internet protocol addresses, hacking tools and techniques across attacks — Mandiant followed 141 attacks by the group, which it called "A.P.T. 1" for Advanced Persistent Threat 1.
"But those are only the ones we could easily identify," said Mr. Mandia. Other security experts estimate that the group is responsible for thousands of attacks.
As Mandiant mapped the Internet protocol addresses and other bits of digital evidence, it all led back to the edges of Pudong district of Shanghai, right around the Unit 61398 headquarters. The group's report, along with 3,000 addresses and other indicators that can be used to identify the source of attacks, concludes "the totality of the evidence" leads to the conclusion that "A.P.T. 1 is Unit 61398."
Mandiant discovered that two sets of I.P. addresses used in the attacks were registered in the same neighborhood as Unit 61398's building.
"It's where more than 90 percent of the attacks we followed come from," said Mr. Mandia.
The only other possibility, the report concludes with a touch of sarcasm, is that "a secret, resourced organization full of mainland Chinese speakers with direct access to Shanghai-based telecommunications infrastructure is engaged in a multiyear enterprise-scale computer espionage campaign right outside of Unit 61398's gates."
The most fascinating elements of the Mandiant report follow the keystroke-by-keystroke actions of several of the hackers who the firm believes work for the P.L.A. Mandiant tracked their activities from inside the computer systems of American companies they were invading. The companies had given Mandiant investigators full access to rid them of the Chinese spies.
One of the most visible hackers it followed is UglyGorilla, who first appeared on a Chinese military forum in January 2004, asking whether China has a "similar force" to the "cyber army" being set up by the American military.
By 2007 UglyGorilla was turning out a suite of malware with what the report called a "clearly identifiable signature." Another hacker, called "DOTA" by Mandiant, created e-mail accounts that were used to plant malware. That hacker was tracked frequently using a password that appeared to be based on his military unit's designation. DOTA and UglyGorilla both used the same I.P. addresses linked back to Unit 61398's neighborhood.
Mandiant discovered several cases in which attackers logged into their
Mandiant also discovered an internal China Telecom memo discussing the state-owned telecom company's decision to install high-speed fiber-optic lines for Unit 61398's headquarters.
China's defense ministry has denied that it is responsible for initiating attacks. "It is unprofessional and groundless to accuse the Chinese military of launching cyberattacks without any conclusive evidence," it said last month, one of the statements that prompted Mandiant to make public its evidence.
Escalating Attacks
Mandiant believes Unit 61398 conducted sporadic attacks on American corporate and government computer networks; the earliest it found was in 2006. Two years ago the numbers spiked. Mandiant discovered some of the intrusions were long-running. On average the group would stay inside a network, stealing data and passwords, for a year; in one case it had access for four years and 10 months.
Mandiant has watched the group as it has stolen technology blueprints, manufacturing processes, clinical trial results, pricing documents, negotiation strategies and other proprietary information from more than 100 of its clients, mostly in the United States. Mandiant identified attacks on 20 industries, from military contractors to chemical plants, mining companies and satellite and telecommunications corporations.
Mandiant's report does not name the victims, who usually insist on anonymity. A 2009 attack on Coca-Cola coincided with the beverage giant's failed attempt to acquire the China Huiyuan Juice Group for $2.4 billion, according to people with knowledge of the results of the company's investigation.
As Coca-Cola executives were negotiating what would have been the largest foreign purchase of a Chinese company, Comment Crew was busy rummaging through their computers in an apparent effort to learn more about Coca-Cola's negotiation strategy.
The attack on Coca-Cola began, like hundreds before it, with a seemingly innocuous e-mail to an executive that was, in fact, a spearphishing attack. When the executive clicked on a malicious link in the e-mail, it gave the attackers a foothold inside Coca-Cola's network. From inside, they sent confidential company files through a maze of computers back to Shanghai, on a weekly basis, unnoticed.
Two years later, Comment Crew was one of at least three Chinese-based groups to mount a similar attack on RSA, the computer security company owned by
As in the Coca-Cola case, the attack began with a targeted, cleverly fashioned poisoned e-mail to an RSA employee. Two months later, hackers breached
Mandiant is not the only private firm tracking Comment Crew. In 2011, Joe Stewart, a
When he reverse-engineered the tool, he found that the vast majority of stolen data had been transferred to the same range of I.P. addresses that Mandiant later identified in Shanghai.
Dell SecureWorks says it believed Comment Crew includes the same group of attackers behind Operation Shady RAT, an extensive computer espionage campaign uncovered in 2011 in which more than 70 organizations over a five-year period, including the
Infrastructure at Risk
What most worries American investigators is that the latest set of attacks believed coming from Unit 61398 focus not just on stealing information, but obtaining the ability to manipulate American critical infrastructure: the power grids and other utilities.
Staff at Digital Bond, a small security firm that specializes in those industrial-control computers, said that last June Comment Crew unsuccessfully attacked it. A part-time employee at Digital Bond received an e-mail that appeared to come from his boss, Dale Peterson. The e-mail, in perfect English, discussed security weaknesses in critical infrastructure systems, and asked the employee to click a link to a document for more information. Mr. Peterson caught the e-mail and shared it with other researchers, who found the link contained a remote-access tool that would have given the attackers control over the employee's computer and potentially given them a front-row seat to confidential information about Digital Bond's clients, which include a major water project, a power plant and a mining company.
Jaime Blasco, a security researcher at AlienVault, analyzed the computer servers used in the attack, which led him to other victims, including the Chertoff Group. That firm, headed by the former secretary of the
Mr. Blasco said that, based on the forensics, all the victims had been hit by Comment Crew. But the most troubling attack to date, security experts say, was a successful invasion of the Canadian arm of Telvent. The company, now owned by Schneider Electric, designs software that gives oil and gas pipeline companies and power grid operators remote access to valves, switches and security systems.
Telvent keeps detailed blueprints on more than half of all the oil and gas pipelines in North and
Martin Hanna, a Schneider Electric spokesman, did not return requests for comment, but security researchers who studied the malware used in the attack, including Mr. Stewart at Dell SecureWorks and Mr. Blasco at AlienVault, confirmed that the perpetrators were the Comment Crew.
"This is terrifying because — forget about the country — if someone hired me and told me they wanted to have the offensive capability to take out as many critical systems as possible, I would be going after the vendors and do things like what happened to Telvent," Mr. Peterson of Digital Bond said. "It's the holy grail."
Mr. Obama alluded to this concern in the State of the Union speech, without mentioning China or any other nation. "We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets," he said. "Now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air-traffic control systems. We cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing."
Mr. Obama faces a vexing choice: In a sprawling, vital relationship with China, is it worth a major confrontation between the world's largest and second largest economy over computer hacking?
A few years ago, administration officials say, the theft of intellectual property was an annoyance, resulting in the loss of billions of dollars of revenue. But clearly something has changed. The mounting evidence of state sponsorship, the increasing boldness of Unit 61398, and the growing threat to American infrastructure are leading officials to conclude that a far stronger response is necessary.
"Right now there is no incentive for the Chinese to stop doing this," said Mr. Rogers, the House intelligence chairman. "If we don't create a high price, it's only going to keep accelerating."Continue reading the main story


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Last Friday, Taco Maria hosted the first of its three mega-dinners featuring Mexico's most chingón chefs in honor of the restaurant's three-year anniversary. Game respects game, so those people are going to pay their respects in Costa Mesa to the man who's showing the world that Mexican food can be as refined as any French thing yet maintain its paisa essence. First up to swing was Javier Plascencia, the king of Baja California. It was as delicious as advertised, and bodes well for the next dinners, which'll happen on the first Friday of November and December.
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Next was the night's most unconventional dish. The menu only identified it as "sweet potato," which is kinda like labeling Tom Brady as "QB." A Oaxacan cold coffee nectar served as a chilled broth of sorts to wonderfully chewy cured beef, the aforementioned potatoes, and delightful herbs. But the most revealing part of this second course was that big ol' twig at the center. It was licorice, and Plascencia encouraged everyone to chew on it after every bite of the meal. Doing so markedly changed the taste of everything, from awesome to refreshingly stupendous.
Número tres was the main course: a gigantic slab of sea bass from Baja. Anchoring it was a bright tomato jam, roasted mushrooms, beans, tart Sicilian capers, and a sharp fennel jus. The skin alone on the bass is worth three figures, but the meat? Chingao! Buttery AF.
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Tucked into the corner of Midway's E3 booth was a PS2 title called The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. For those who aren't in the know, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is a show created by Maxwell Atoms that currently airs on Cartoon Network. The two main characters, Billy and Mandy, have obliged the Grim Reaper, usually called Grim, to be their best friend forever after having won a bet over a sick hamster.
The franchise has spawned a game for the PS2, which is markedly different from your usual TV licenses. This game, in fact, is a free-for-all fighting game in the same vein as Capcom's Powerstone series. Four players can duke it out in several arenas, using weapons and their fists to beat each other to a pulp.
Controlling characters is a simple task. You have a jump button, two attack buttons, a pick-up button (for weapons), and the triggers are used for dashing and your Mojoattack, a super combo attack that deals massive damage. Using your attacks you can chain together long combos that will send your foes reeling. That's not the only way to off someone though; by opening treasure chests that periodically appear in the arena, you can pick up weapons such as axes, bats and blades to turn the rest of the crowd into a quivering pile of meat. Finally, your Mojoattack is a super combo that's available when you press on your attack. Hitting with a Mojoattack cuts to a brief cutscene that you can control by hitting the buttons indicated on the screen.
Those who are familiar with Powerstone will no doubt have a ton of fun with this game, as the design is similar. Arenas even change periodially depending on the situation. For example, we were first fighting in an underground dungeon, complete with spiked floors that shot up every so often. After a lot of destruction and chaos the whole dungeon caved in and everyone died, only to be reincarnated in another arena. Very cool.
Fans of the series will be pleased to know that the game keeps the same visual style as the cartoon, and features voice acting from the show. There will be a lot of characters available for play, but the demo limited us to only a few of them, including Billy, Mandy, Grim and Mandy's dog, Saliva.
We had a blast playing the game with a bunch of random E3 showgoers, even though their BO left a lot to be desired. The action was fast and frentic, and the game showed no signs of slowdown or framerate issues. It's clear that the game does require a little bit of polish though, since it appears that a lot of user-friendly icons and graphics are missing. In any event, the game look to be really cool, especially for younger gamers who are into the show and have a bunch of friends they can play with. Look for the game to ship later this year.


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