Left Channel is St. Xavier Audio. Right Channel is Colerain Audio. Watch the entire game (pick an audio track) on www.waycross.tv. Coverage of the OHSAA D1 Regional Semifinal game played on November 11, 2011 at University of Cincinnati Nippert Stadium. All programs done by Waycross Community Media are done by area volunteers. To help out on a future production please visit www.waycross.tv or call 513-825-2429. Help support Waycross Community Media – www.waycross.tv/donate Video Rating: 5 / 5
Question by : Looking for honest opinions on my story synopsis for my story called "DARK TEMPTATION." Its a romance?
Ever since birth, Mika has been known as the quiet, shy sister between her and her twin sister Mecca. Quiet Mika spends her day working as the head librarian in the public library, hides her big beautiful brown eyes behind plastic framed eyeglasses, and prefers to dress in bohemian or casual jeans attire. Mecca on the other hand, has always been the wild one of the two. She has no problem flaunting her sexy hourglass figure in the kind of tight attire Kim Kardashian is known for wearing. She’s outspoken, bold, flirtatious, outgoing, and everything Mika is not. Mecca also has an array of men for her choosing. Never one to have just one man, Mecca has a man for every night of the month. Her job as a lingerie model insures Mecca much male attention. Mika has always been envious of her twin sister, so when Mecca tells Mika that she and her friend is going on a long vacation to Italy and needs Mika to house sit, Mika jumps at the chance. The modest three bedroom Los Angeles home that the twins grew up in, and where Mika currently lives is nothing compared to the posh Malibu beach home Mecca owns. Mika intends on making the most of the three months stay at her sister’s house, she just isn’t sure exactly how yet. But when she opens the door to tall, dark and handsome pro basketball player Xavier McKnight, who mistakes Mika as Mecca, she suddenly knows exactly how she plans on spending her three months. When Xavier first arrived at Mecca’s house he had every intention of telling her how he felt. He’s grown sick of the games she’s been playing with his heart, putting him on the back burner, and not wanting to commit to only him. But when he lays eyes on Mecca, looking all innocently adorable everything he planned on saying to her flies right out of his mind. Especially when he sees how excited she is to see him.Its then that Mika decides to have a little fun and take on Mecca’s fabulous life. What harm could it do, right? So pretending to be Mecca, Mika decides to make it up to him by agreeing to escort him to the ESPN awards show. That means getting all glamed out. Luckily being a famous model has its perks, and all the top designers want Mecca Michaels to wear their newest clothes on the red carpet. Going to the award show with Xavier, Mika didn’t expect to have so much fun, or that she would gain so much media attention by walking hand in hand with the basketball player. Luckily, Mecca is on a secluded Italian vacation, or she would have been dead meat. Something strange happens while Mika is going out to fancy restaurants, chillin’ at his house, enjoying long walks in the park, sitting courtside at his basketball games, beach picnics, and trips to the amusement park. Mika finds herself falling in love with Xavier. For Xavier, the feeling is mutual. He’s never got a chance to know the sweet innocent side of Mecca before. Neither has the photographers who take Mecca’s picture on a daily basis, as Mika soon learns when Xavier surprises her with a photo shoot for one of sports top magazines.
The pictures Mecca takes wind up being a mix of sexy & innocent, nerdy & tantalizing, and all around hot. The public is quickly eating up the new shy girl act that “Mecca” is putting on these days.
So is Xavier, who decides its time to take their relationship to the next level. Mika is fully aware that the romantic dinner Xavier has laid out in his home means he’s ready to make love, but Mika isn’t sure. She knows she’d feel bad for making love to him with him thinking she’s Mecca. But after one too many glasses of champagne, Mika find’s herself giving into his advances. The next morning brings on a flood of guilty feelings. When Xavier’s morning breakfast comes with a marriage proposal attached, Mika realizes its time to end her charade. She doesn’t tell him the truth, rather she just breaks things off with him. Just in time to, because Mecca has just returned home from her trip with a tone of stories to tell Mika. Little does she know that Mika has a few of her own too. Mecca jumps right back into work, and is a little confused when the photographers don’t like her usual sexy pictures she always takes. She tells Mika about it, who just says that maybe she needs to warm up to it again. They both end up with a surprise when Xavier shows up at Mecca’s house begging for her to give him another chance. He receives the shock of his life when he spots the two of them together. He never knew Mecca was a twin. When Mecca demands an explanation for what Xavier is talking about, Mika finally decides to come clean and confess everything. Xavier is furious when he realizes he’s been used so Mika can have a little thrill in her life for once. He doesn’t even give Mika a chance to defend herself before he goes storming out. Mecca goes a little easier on her twin sister because she realizes that Mika really fell in love with Xavier. Instead she decides to help her sister get Xavier back.
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So Mecca uses her charm to convince Xavier’s best friend to find a way to get Xavier to the posh “Garden City” restaurant under the disguise of a reporter wanting to do an interview.
he’s angered when no one is there but Mika in her usual attire. He’s ready to leave, but she begs for him to hear her out. Reluctantly, he does.
Mika goes on to say that she pretended to be Mecca because he wouldn’t have noticed her before. And that although she was pretending to be someone else, everything that she shared with him, and her feeling are all real.
Mika even admits to wanting to accept his marriage proposal, but knew she couldn’t. she assures him that the girl he’s gotten to know was all her.
Xavier’s heart tells him she’s being honest, so he forgives her. He doesn’t have a ring with him, but that doesn’t stop him from proposing to Mika right then and there, or Mika accepting.
They have their wedding at the riverside amusement park right in front of the Farris whee
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Answer by Tim Anders Is this a synopsis of the story?
Longtime wine and spirits executive and entrepreneur Mike Kenton has announced the formation of OFFbeat Brands, a new beverage company that develops, sources and markets high quality, eclectic and highly differentiated wine and spirit brands from around the globe. With plans to introduce several new products in 2012, Petaluma, California-based OFFbeat is poised to quickly penetrate the U.S. market with wines and spirits specifically targeted to Millennial and Generation X consumers looking for beverage brands to enhance and complement their modern lifestyles.
?Our motto is Drink Different,? says Kenton, a 36-year industry veteran whose career has included senior management positions at Artesa Winery and Aveniu Brands (Codorniu USA), E&J Gallo Winery, Chateau St. Jean Winery, Buckingham-Wile Company, and Joseph E. Seagram prior to forming OFFbeat. ?Each OFFbeat brand is based on a solid understanding of the target market, and is grounded in creativity and innovation as well as the highest quality product sourcing.?
The majority of OFFbeat?s brands will be created and wholly-owned by the company, with the first product launch scheduled for April 2012. As the company name suggests, each brand will be what Kenton describes as ?a little edgy and somewhat unpredictable,? with graphics and accompanying promotions that convey a bold, youthful sensibility along with a sense of fun and adventure.
In addition to its own brands OFFbeat will represent a small number of hand-selected international wine properties under its Luxury Estates & Domains division. Chosen for their quality, authenticity and brand recognition, OFFbeat?s Luxury Estates & Domains wines will include selections from Italy, Spain, Australia, Argentina and New Zealand.
Partnering with Kenton in OFFbeat is Xavier Batlle, a European wine executive with over twenty years of experience in the global wine industry, including positions as Managing Director at United Wineries International S.A. in London and International Director at Codorniu S.A. in Barcelona. Batlle is responsible for OFFbeat Brands? global supply relationships, management and procurement, and international sales. He is also the key liaison with the European suppliers in OFFbeat?s Luxury Estates & Domains division.
Kenton has also announced the appointment of two industry professionals to key executive positions at OFFbeat Brands. Craig Moore has been named Vice President, Sales and Brenda Peterman has been appointed Vice President, Operations. Moore, who has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience in the U.S. wine industry with positions at Billington Imports, Parducci Winery, Chateau St. Jean as well as his own Vine Hill Consulting, was most recently National Sales Manager for Langtry Estate/Guenoc. A 20 year wine industry veteran, Peterman gained sales, marketing, purchasing, promotions and strategic business planning experience at Artesa Winery and Aveniu Brands, Vinstar Imports, Parducci Winery and Chateau St. Jean.
Prior to forming OFFbeat Brands, Mike Kenton was CEO at Artesa Winery and Aveniu Brands in Napa, California and Baltimore, MD from 1996 to 2011. Before that he served as National Sales Director-Fine Wines at E&J Gallo Winery in Modesto, and also held successive sales and marketing positions at Chateau St. Jean Winery, Buckingham-Wile Company, Joseph E. Seagram and Sterling Vineyards.
OFFBeat Brands is based in Petaluma, California with offices at 1304 Southpoint Boulevard, Ste., 240, Petaluma, CA 94954. Phone: (707) 897-3001. The company website can be found at http://www.offbeatbrands.com.
Contacts:
Mora Cronin, Cronin Communications, moracronin@comcast.net , (707) 227-2641
Brenda Peterman, OFFbeat Brands, Brendap@offbeatbrands.com; (707) 200-2216
Storify is the amazing social media storytelling tool that won the 2011 Accelerator Award here at SXSWi. I talked with CEO Xavier Damman about his company's growth and what's next for Storify. Video Rating: 0 / 5
Media Monster Movie… Created by Xavier Fuhrer This is a website used to promote the movie "Media Monster" as created by myself by giving exposure to the short trailer. It is a visual representation of the power that the media wields and how it can be used to distort meaning through misrepresentation. Consumers of media are forced to believe what they are fed and, blinded by corporate motives and 'strong-arm' tactics of the media, the truths that the consumer believes in, as presented to them by the media, are often gross distortions of actual events and situations. The media, more often than not, fails when trying to 'tell the truth'. The Media Monster… An embodiment of media shortcomings The media monster… • Is two-faced in his dealing with the public and his representation of 'the truth' • Wears Glasses to help him find a story where there is none • Never Talks but Shouts from the Rooftops • Vainly attempts to uphold Values of 'Truth' and 'Integrity' • Is a Sensationalist, and thrives on Conjuring up Headlines by Exaggerating Facts • Is not Afraid to use 'Strong-arm' tactics where necessary to get a Story • Thinks he can bring about Justice because he has people's Lives Hanging in the Balance • Is Always Skating on Thin Ice, however • Is Always ready with a Censorship Sticker to slap on anything that may Offend those who Write his Cheques If allowed to run loose, the Media Monster can cause havoc with the lives of innocent people who have been misrepresented. It … Video Rating: 5 / 5
The restaurants at Grand Velas Riviera Maya and Grand Velas Riviera Nayarit compete with the best restaurants in Mexico, if not the world. Not willing to be categorized with other all-inclusive resorts (where cuisine is so often an afterthought), Grand Velas has created individualistic restaurants with the goal of each becoming the best in its respective genre, able to compete head-to-head with top luxury resorts' and independent world-class restaurants.
?Our restaurants are comparable to the finest free-standing restaurants in any of the world?s leading culinary capitals,? assures Patrick Louis, corporate executive chef and F&B director at Grand Velas. (FYI: During his culinary apprenticeship at three-star Michelin restaurant Le Gavroche in London, Louis manned the kitchen with a young Marco Pierre White? now one of England?s most revered chefs ? as well as Gordon Ramsay before they all moved their own way.)
Each of the fine-dining restaurants at the AAA five-diamond resort in Playa del Carmen, for example, cost between $ 1 million and $ 3 million to design and build, and each is staffed with talented and acclaimed chefs with experiences in some of the finest kitchens around the world. For resort guests, meals and beverages (always top shelf) at any and all of these restaurants are always included in the daily rate. The exceptional lineup includes Piaf (French haute cuisine), Cocina de Autor (modernist/molecular), Frida (contemporary Mexican), Lucca (Northern Italian), Chak? (Mexican regional cuisine), Sen Lin (Asian), Bistro (casual French) and Azul (classical Mexican and international). Grand Velas Riviera Nayarit operates slightly different versions of Piaf, Frida and Lucca, but the concepts are the same.
The Riviera Maya?s Cocina de Autor showcases the cutting-edge cuisine of celebrity chefs Bruno Oteiza and Mikel Alonso, owners of the famed restaurant Biko in Mexico City. The two Spanish-born chefs trained under Spain?s legendary Juan Mari Arzak, and along with their own rising-star chef de cuisine, Mexico-native Xavier P?rez Stone, the team has created one of the most avant-garde restaurants in the country, blending the renegade spirit of the Spanish Basque Country with the flavors and finest local products from the Riviera Maya and elsewhere in Mexico. An amuse-bouche, say, might arrive as a spherification of gazpacho or perhaps a pickled Riviera Maya sardine balanced atop a fried tortilla chip.
Frida, the resort?s destination Mexican restaurant, serves modern Mexican fare in an elegant indoor/outdoor setting with a bougainvillea-covered terrace overlooking the beach. A roving mixologist visits every table with a top-shelf tequila trolley, concocting a variety of seasonal margaritas, from the classic Cadillac to a more avant-garde coconut version served straight-up in a chilled flute, rimmed with toasted coconut.
And at Piaf, native Frenchman Michel Mustiere serves foie gras, escargot, black truffles, duck confit, and pillowy souffl?s in a cabaret-inspired dining room awash with Swarovsky crystals and red velvet?a lavish ode to the great, late singer/actress from whom the restaurant borrows its name.
Additionally, Velas Resorts has teamed with Tres Generaciones Tequila and luxury spa brand Natura Biss? offering a series of sensory culinary experiences that combine haute cuisine, the finest tequila, ambient music and the aromas of natural essences. Lead by the resort?s sommelier and spa staff, along with highly regarded guest chefs, guests will participate in four-course dinners that deliver full-sensory experiences encompassing the unique flavors, aromas, music and visuals of Mexico.
About Grand Velas Riviera Maya:
The AAA Five Diamond Grand Velas Riviera Maya, an all-suites and spa resort located five minutes from Playa del Carmen, is the latest and most sophisticated iteration of the ultra-luxury, all-inclusive resort experience. This Leading Hotels of the World designated resort is the preeminent one of its class boasting 491 suites, each more than 1,000 square-feet, in three separate ambiances– premium ocean-front Grand Class Suites with terrace plunge pools for families with children 12 and up, family-friendly ocean-view Ambassador Suites and Zen Grand Suites embraced by the flora and fauna of the Yucatan Peninsula?s jungle. The resort presents a gastronomic tour of the Yucatan, Europe and Asia offering seven restaurants with world-class chefs from France, Spain and Mexico; dedicated butler service for each guest, and the region?s largest spa sanctuary at over 89,000 square-feet specializing in signature treatments inspired by ancient cultures from around the world. The spa was named ?Best Spa" in the world by Virtuoso and also earned a SpaFinder Readers? Choice Award. The resort was designed by lauded Mexican architecture firm Elias and Elias and features the sleek and modish interiors that fuse the serenity of the Caribbean with the vibrancy of Yucatan cultures.
About Grand Velas Riviera Nayarit:
Grand Velas Riviera Nayarit, an all-suites and spa resort located just 15 minutes north of Puerto Vallarta on Banderas Bay, is a member of The Leading Hotels of the World and a recipient of the AAA Five-Diamond Award. The resort features 267 spacious ocean-view suites. The crown jewel of the resort and a member of Leading Spas of the World, the Spa at Grand Velas features 20 treatment rooms, over 60 spa treatments, gym and exercise room, spa boutique and beauty salon. The family-friendly resort also offers tiered three-temperature infinity pools, tennis court, 25,321 total sq feet of meeting space and a Kids Club. Nearby are championship golf courses, numerous options for soft adventure, and the charming town of Puerto Vallarta with its many shops, art galleries and nightlife.
