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1. Heat a nonstick skillet or pan over medium /medium high heat on the stovetop.
2. Add all ingredients to blender, making sure to pour the buttermilk in first.
3. Blend on a high speed setting for approximately 20-30 seconds or just until all ingredients have combined.
4. Pour batter into heated skillet or pan using about ¼ to 1/3 cupful per pancake. When bubbles can be seen evenly across the pancake, flip to the other side.
5. Serve with syrup, jam, butter or other desired toppings.
Adding a banana makes these pancakes moist and gives subtle banana flavor. This mixture will also work very well in a waffle baker; store leftover waffles and reheat them in the toaster for a quick and easy breakfast!
Makes 24 small/medium sized pancakes.
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Play It Cool: Incorporating Reporting Mechanisms from Physical Devices
Thermal problems have been a major bane of computers since the very first computer was plugged into AC power. Despite server rooms with raised white flooring and high-end Leibert air conditioners, and over-clocked gaming rigs with water-cooling on the chipsets, heat continues to be a problem that computer administrators and technicians can't ignore.
In the first article of this series, Play It Cool: Remote Monitoring of Equipment Room Temps, a solution was presented for connecting a temperature gauge to your computer and then programmatically accessing it with a number of scripts. In this article, you'll explores how to monitor and report on this information. More importantly, you'll learn how to create a script to audibly announce the current temperature.
Note: This series of articles uses Linux as the operating system of choice, with scripts written for the shell (Bash) and in Perl. For the tasks outlined within this series, I found Linux to be ideal. If you are using a different programming platform, or if you are unable to replicate these methods on Linux, then you should still gain value from these articles. Where possible I will point out analogous possibilities in Windows and other operating systems.
Reporting Methods
At this point, I had a working sensor and script. Using a variety of methods, I could easily keep myself apprised of the current temperature of my office. The following sections discuss some of the possible reporting solutions.
Maintaining a Textual Log
At bare minimum, I wanted to keep a plain old text log of the temperature. The script shown in Listing 1 accomplishes this goal, with log entries similar to the following:
2006-07-26 15:30 73.7
Listing 1: Appending the current temperature reading to a log file
#!/bin/sh logfile="/var/log/officetemp.log" # Get the current date and time date='date -I' time='date +%H:%M' # Get the temperature temp='./get_temp.sh' # Append data to log echo -e "$datet$timet$temp" >>$logfile
With minimal effort, the same data could be stored in a MySQL database, thanks to the capabilities of the MySQL console application. The code snippet in Listing 2 shows the basics for inserting the data in a database by using the console-this snippet would be appended to the script in Listing 1.
Listing 2: Adding the data to a MySQL database
db="officetemp" table="readings" user="tempuser" pass="goat" cat <<QUERY >./query.tmp USE $db; INSERT INTO $db.$table VALUES ($date, $time,$temp); QUERY mysql -u $user -p $pass <./query.tmp rm -rf ./query.tmp
Email Readings
The output from the reading script can easily be piped into a mailer. This allows the current temperature to be sent to any off-site address-including my cell phone. For example, consider the script shown in Listing 3.
Listing 3: Piping the temperature reading to an emailer (mail_temp.sh)
#!/bin/sh # Email address to send to (my Sprint phone) mailaddr="firstname.lastname@example.com" # Get the temperature temp='./get_temp.sh' # Build the message cat <<MSG >./message.tmp The current office temperature is: $temp MSG # Send message and clean up mail -s "Current Office Temp" $mailaddr <./message.tmp rm -rf ./message.tmp
With a little extra coding only temperature readings over a certain threshold would be emailed. For example, the following if() clause could be used to decide whether a message should or should not be sent:
threshold="77" result=`echo "$temp >= $threshold" | bc' if [ "result" = "1" ] ; then # Email temperature else # Do not email temperature fi
Place Temperature Reading on Web Page
The output could also be redirected to a Web page, where I could monitor it from any terminal with an Internet-connected browser. Listing 4 shows a script to accomplish this task.
Listing 4: Placing the temperature reading on a Web page (web_temp.sh)
#!/bin/sh # Get the current date and time date='date -I' time=`date +%H:%M` # Get the temperature temp='./get_temp.sh' # Place temp on an HTML page cat <<HTML >./officetemp.tmp <html> <body>
$date $time - $temp</body> </html> HTML mv ./officetemp.tmp /var/www/officetemp.html
This script creates a simple Web page with the data in a format similar to the following example:
2006-07-28 15:25 - 73.4
The Same Old Problem
As these examples have shown, the structure for the temperature reading is very flexible-the data can be sent easily to numerous places. However, therein lies the problem-I still had to be physically located at or have access to the places where the data was sent, and had to actively monitor the temperature. What I needed was a way to monitor the temperature passively. The solution hit me while listening to a grandfather clock.
"The Current Core Temperature Is "
I decided to create an audible temperature notification. That is, at preset intervals the computer would speak the temperature-loud enough to be heard in and around the office, but not loud enough (or often enough) to be an annoyance. Then, just like the grandfather clock chimes, I could be aware of the temperature of my office without actively having to seek it out.
The first thing I needed was a voice. Being a geek and a science fiction fan, I settled on a female computer voice. I asked my wife to record the following sound files, which I converted to standard WAV format:
core.wav "The current core temperature is" degrees.wav "degrees" 60.wav, 70.wav, 80.wav "sixty," "seventy," "eighty" 1.wav, 2.wav, 3.wav, 4.wav, 5.wav, 6.wav, 7.wav, 8.wav, 9.wav "one," "two," "three," "four," "five," "six," "seven," "eight," "nine" point.wav "point"
Note: I could afford to be fairly selective in my recording, as I didn't expect the temperature to fall below 60 degrees or exceed 89.9 degrees.
Now I needed a script to break down the temperature reading into bits that could be mapped to the appropriate sound files, and a command-line WAV player to play the files in sequence.
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Event Cinema (formerly known as alternative content) could account for 3% of the worldwide box office by 2017, according to experts at an all day networking event dedicated to the sector.
While there are still issues to be overcome around the areas of technology, pricing, marketing and production costs, the future is looking bright for Event Cinema.
That was the message from the sector at the first annual Event Cinema networking event held in London yesterday (Oct 15).
Organised by the recently formed Event Cinema Assocation, the all day networking session was made up of a series of panels discussing the roles of content providers, distributors and exhibitors in bringing alternative content - including ballet, opera, sports, musicals and most recently exhibitions - to audiences.
"Event Cinema is still in the early stages of learning and understanding, but the figures suggest that this is a growing area with massive potential," said Phil Clapp, CEO of the UK Cinema Exhibitors Association, who chaired a panel discussion on the role of exhibitors in delivering Event Cinema.
However, Clapp said that it was important for the sector to "continue to innovate and remain a gold standard experience."
With 65% of all screened events in Europe made up of opera and ballet, Isabelle Fauchet, former head of cinema at the Royal Opera House, who left to set up her own company Live Digital Cinema to meet the growing demand for live digital cinema events, warned of the danger of saturation.
"We are at a crossroads now. We know opera and ballet work, we now need more product. It's about innovation. We need to keep it really vibrant and creative."
"If there is going to be growth in this sector, it has got to come from other sources," said Austin Shaw, co-founder of Event Cinema distributor Ominverse Vision, which was behind concert film Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day.
One growth area is filmed exhibitions, such as the National Gallery's Leonardo Live, which drew in strong box offie figures when it screened in cinemas in the UK.
Phil Grabsky of Exhibtion On Screen, which was behind the Leonardo film as well as more recent filmed exhibitions on Manet and Vermeer, said that exhibitions were "made for the cinema. 99% of the world's population can't get to an exhibition, so it is fantastic for audiences."
Steve Lewis, who was responsible for bringing the V&A's David Bowie exhibition to screens in the UK in August, agreed that it was a great way of reaching audiences.
"We had 500 people queuing up to get tickets and the exhibition was sold out. We saw what was going on in the industry and it felt that this was a new way for a museum to take its research and years of planning and distribute it to a new audience."
Live vs Recorded
While Lewis admitted that there was a pressure to make the film "live", Grabsky suggested that when it came to event cinema, pre recorded material worked better, arguing that "audiences would rather see a beautifully crafted film."
"Doing Leonardo on opening night was exciting, but long term I want to build a brand that audiences want. The "event" is the opportunity for international audiences to see the film, at the same time. There is something about building up to one date."
According to Emma Keith, producer at NT Live, which created a live filmed performance of NT production The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time for cinemas, "liveness depends on original art form."
"Theatre is a live performance and so we intentionally make it live to replicate that experience, with exhibition it's a more solitary experience, the live element isn't as important," said Keith.
Director Julian Napier described the process of turning the Royal Opera House's Carmen into a 3D film for cinemas, as "a conscious decision to create a new art form out of an existing one."
Napier's decision to film in 3D came out of wanting to give audiences the sense of having "priviledged access" to the performance. "The whole point of creating a film is give audiences the sense that they are there, more or less on stage with them. You don't get that in 2D."
Still Napier admitted that filming events in 3D led to extra production costs, due to the access required, and the loss of revenue for the Royal Opera House, who had to sell tickets at discounted prices for the performances being filmed.
The cost of production
Production costs continue to be an issue in general, when it comes to creating event cinema content, with Lewis arguing that a growing interest from TV channels could provide a threat to theatrical output. "Television has seen what's going on with event cinema and broadcasters will often pay whole production budget. From a museum's point of view, you can do similar things for TV."
He added: "The commercial model is really difficult for producers. If this is going to become more permanent genre, there needs to be reworking of model. "
Another issue is overcoming the technical hurdles of putting on an "event" screening, especially at a local exhibitor level.
"I would make a plea that whatever issues people have at cinema level, that they come forward with that. Within minutes we can sort out 60-70 percent of issues, which would stop a screening having to be cancelled," said Fauchet, who pointed to the need to make Event Cinema "commercially viable over longer periods of time for exhibitors."
One solution, said Fauchet, was putting on a series of events, as opposed to a one off. "People come back, bring friends, meet friends. It's abot a sharing of experience, and thinking about cross promotion and being in there for the long haul."
Tricket pricing
One area of debate was the higher ticket prices attached to Event Cinema, due to its "premium content" label.
"Audiences get added value that they might not get from being at a concert, like exclusive interviews. It's about trying to give fans value for money for a small amount of added cost," said Helen Jones of distributor CinemaLive which recently moved its headquarters to London from Sydney.
"We always roll out the red carpet, people dress up in suits, we try to make audiences feel like they are at something really special," added Elise Brandt of Finnish exhibitor Kuusan Kino Ky.
Still, the combination of premium ticket prices and content such as opera and ballet, continues to attract, primarily, an older, wealthier type of audience member, with the sector agreeing that more needs to be done to attract youth audiences, in the form of concert films such as JLS 3D.
Generating public awareness as a whole is one area where more clearly needs to be done, with social media being described as a key tool for most distributors and exhibitors.
"You have to create a story for every event," said Atena Balint, head of alternative content at Grand Cinema Digiplex Romania, which has created its own Event Cinema facebook page. "And that needs to be communicated at least a month before."
Penny Nagle of UK distributor More2Screen said it was about creating a shift change in people's minds, so that they see "cinema as no longer just a place to see films, but as a local arts centre."
Meanwhile, Shaw suggested that the key to bringing in audiences was about having a recognisable brand. "It's about finding an inbuilt audience. Where is the fanbase, and how do we get to it," said Shaw, who argued that content providers, distributors and exhibitors all had a "collective responsibility to shift tickets".
Thinking local
Marketing at a local level was also described as a key driver for bringing in audiences, whilst exhibitors called for the need for distributors and content providers to provide them with more "additional materials" such as handouts, well written programme notes, access to talent and educational materials.
When it comes to delivering an "event", Mark Allenby of Pictuehouse Cinemas said it was vital to have knowledgeable people on the ground at cinemas. "It is important that staff are trained because then when there are problems, you have people who can resolve them."
The future
Looking ahead to the next five years, all the signs point to growth in the sector, with David Hancock of IHS Screen Digest predicting a "growth curve."
He added that Event Cinema was on target to make $380m worldwide next year, and by 2017, nearly a billion dollars, accounting for 3% of the box office.


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Download the Gene Screen app free from the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch App Store (Education Category) or through Apple iTunes.
Gene Screen is a fun way to learn how recessive genetic traits and diseases are inherited and how certain diseases are more prevalent in different populations. Gene Screen also provides information on some recessive genetic diseases and genetic screening programs.
The app includes four animations introducing the concepts of genetics and inheritance, population genetics, recessive genetic diseases*, and genetic screening. There are Punnett Square inheritance calculators to work out patterns of recessive inheritance and a prevalence calculator to highlight the different carrier frequencies of 19 genetic diseases in Jewish populations versus the general population. An interactive ancestry map highlights some genetic diseases that are more prevalent in certain regions of the world.
The primers, inheritance calculators and map of genetic diseases will be useful to educators, students, health professionals, clergy and the public.
Gene Screen was produced by the DNA Learning Center, and was developed in partnership with the Victor Center for the Prevention of Jewish Genetic Diseases, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, USA.
Gene Screen was named the National Human Genome Research Institute's and Smithsonian Institution's August 2015 "Resource of the Month" on Unlocking Life's Code!
*Diseases include: Alpha-thalassemia, Beta-thalassemia, Bloom Syndrome, Canavan Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase Deficiency, Familial Dysautonomia, Familial Hyperinsulinism, Fanconi Anemia Type C, Friedreich Ataxia, Galactosemia, Gaucher Disease Type 1, Glycogen Storage Disease Type 1a, Hemochromatosis, Joubert Syndrome, Maple Syrup Urine Disease, Mucolipidosis Type IV, Nemaline Myopathy, Niemann-Pick Disease Type A, Phenylketonuria, Sickle Cell Disease, Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Tay-Sachs Disease, Usher Syndrome Type 1F, Usher Syndrome Type 3, Walker-Warburg Syndrome, Werner Syndrome, and Wilson Disease.)


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Battle of the bump style!
Jessica Simpson, Snooki, Vanessa Lachey and Reese Witherspoon are only four of the more than 65 stars who welcomed babies in 2012 — but they made a lot of headlines for their maternity clothes. Rather than let their growing baby bumps cramp their style, these ladies embraced their new curves.
Simpson became a mom for the first time on May 1. Before welcoming daughter Maxwell with fiance Eric Johnson, the Fashion Star mentor rocked form-fitting maternity dresses and sky-high heels. Simpson, 32, who is already pregnant with her second child, is set to launch a Jessica Simpson Maternity line in the fall.
"I'm so excited to partner with Destination Maternity to design a collection of fashionable styles that make you look and feel great!" she said in a statement released in May. "You want to wear clothes that are flattering to your baby bump; you want to show your bump off."
Snooki welcomed her first child with fiance Jionni LaValle, son Lorenzo, on Aug. 26. The pint-size Jersey Shore star, 25, consulted Jeni Elizabeth for tips on creating fun maternity outfits. Snooki continued to wear her famous platform pumps, mini dresses and lots of animal print while pregnant.
Throughout her pregnancy, Lachey tried to switch up her maternity style. From long maxi dresses to tight jeans and tops, the Wipeout host, 32, wore chic mom-to-be designs. Lachey welcomed son Camden, her first child with husband Nick Lachey, on Sept. 12.
Nearly nine years after the birth of her second child, Witherspoon, 36, welcomed son Tennessee on Sept. 27 with her second husband Jim Toth. But the third-time mom-to-be styled modern maternity clothes through her pregnancy, and proudly showed off her baby bump. Witherspoon wore short, tight dresses and long red carpet gowns that accentuated her curves. The actress even wore a one-piece swimsuit while on vacation with her family in Costa Rica in April.
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by Matt Dalby, sports information graduate assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Coming off an impressive fourth-place finish this past weekend at the RunFit Invitational in Macon, Ga., the Georgia College men's cross country team finds themselves No. 10 in the most recent USTFCCCA Division II Southeast Region Poll released Tuesday.
Senior Tyler Mattix (Snellville, Ga.) led the way for the Bobcats, taking 12th place after covering the 8K course in 26:38.
Fellow classmates Daniel Horseman (Cohutta, Ga.) and Colin Conroy (Dacula, Ga.) also ran solid races, placing 15th and 20th, respectively for GC.
Georgia College is one of three Peach Belt Conference (PBC) teams ranked in this week's poll, sitting six spots behind No. 4 UNC Pembroke and three spots behind No. 7 Columbus State University.
The Bobcats will look to move up the rankings as they head to Boston to compete in the Cod Fish Bowl Sept. 24.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visitwww.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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"The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets"
A Novel
By Diana Wagman
Ig Publishing: 240 pp., $15.95
A giant iguana isn't something we've come to expect as a key component in an L.A. novel, but that's what local writer Diana Wagman has done with "The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets." A brisk and vividly drawn kidnapping tale, Wagman's fourth novel hinges on the 7-foot long lizard of its title, but its core lies somewhere far more familiar to those who call Los Angeles home.
At the center of Wagman's story is Winnie Parker, a 38-year-old single mother who split from her wealthy game show host husband some years ago. During a morning of wrestling with the moods of her 16-year-old daughter and the sort of mundane errands that generally consume adult life, Parker is abducted by Oren, the roommate and caretaker of the exotic pet in question (known as Cookie to his friends).
Though at its root a hostage thriller — and a pretty tense one at that — the power of Wagman's book lies in the details. Winnie's kidnapping comes early, with an unsettling banality that's too easy to imagine for anyone who has been too caught up in their day-to-day to be careful, and Wagman does a terrific job in tracking Winnie's shift from confusion to terror as she understands the gravity of her situation. The tension moves closer to a boil as she's pulled into Oren's overheated Altadena house, which is kept at a sauna-like temperature in deference to Cookie's needs.
At first, the iguana seems to be what drives Oren's crime — a black-market reptile trade is introduced — but as Wagman shifts into Oren's twisted point of view, she reveals that his motivation is even more unsettling. An abused child of carnies, Oren's back story is a bit over-the-top, but the bookcaptures his disturbed state with a variety of on-a-dime mood swings and a habitual desire to ask "Why me?" while deflecting any blame for his actions as he slowly unravels.
Winnie is one of the biggest contributors to that unraveling as she shrewdly works every possibility for escape, acting just as any other wild animal in captivity might. The anonymous sprawl of L.A. becomes a player as she and her captor take a pivotal trip across town, ducking traffic to navigate through the warehouses near downtown as Winnie futilely tries to draw attention from her fellow drivers.
As much as that chilling urban invisibility rings true — ask yourself how often you've really looked inside the car next to you — the idea gets stretched too far in an overlong public fight scene between Winnie, Oren and a reptile smuggler, who may be even more disturbed than Winnie's kidnapper. Still, the occasional false note is easy to overlook given the overall depth of Wagman's narration as she follows characters around Winnie's orbit.
First is Winnie's wealthy but dimly insecure ex, Jonathan, who is midway through a uniquely Hollywood sort of midlife crisis. Alternately regretting and celebrating his decision to take up with a young yoga instructor, he affectionately lingers at the Echo Park home that he and Winnie once shared just as her captivity is beginning. He later drifts into a tearful panic attack at his own mortality, shortly after learning that his successful game show gig isn't as temporary as he'd hoped. "Sorry," his agent says while breaking the news about another disappointing audition, "You're just so damn recognizable — as yourself."
Another key figure, Winnie's daughter Lacy, is a pleasure to follow as she begins coming of age. She at first appears as a fairly typical teen trying on different identities, one of which has chillingly unexpected consequences. While Winnie struggles for her survival, her daughter is coming alive as a romance with a childhood friend develops. Wagman frames the flirtation in lovingly intimate details, such as the awkward dance of eye contact as a crush becomes something more.
But "The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets" tilts on Winnie's strength. In her, Wagman has constructed a magnetic figure who is easy to root for whether she is fighting to escape or bitterly recalling her ex-husband's honeymoon, wondering, "Was there really a place called Bora Bora, or was it just a euphemism for ecstatic sex?" The book also benefits from breathless pace and a dialogue-heavy structure that hints at Wagman's screenwriting experience and keeps the pages turning.
Of course, to paraphrase Chekhov, if you introduce a big iguana in Act 1, it had better go off at some point, and Cookie is a pivotal player in Winnie's struggle. As is Los Angeles — whether reflected in the raw-nerved struggles of a famous ex or Winnie's wreck of an ex-actress mother, the city and its proximity to celebrity remain within frame.
"Every idiot with a cat on YouTube is famous," Oren spits when Winnie attempts to bargain for her release with a promise of a shot at fame. Eventually that same promise gets turned back toward Winnie, and while doors may open for people (and their pets) to escape from captivity, ultimately they can only be who they are. And sometimes that's enough.


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Relationships How do you know if your girlfriend is chatting to or texting another guy on their cell phone? Well, the obvious way is to catch them in the act simply by listening sneakly nearby. But, of course, if they're taking steps to cover their secret, they're not going to be doing that anywhere near you when you're around. It's only something they're going to do when your not with them. Maybe late at night or when they think they're alone. It might be that the texting or whatever is going on is just some stupid crush that doesn't mean a lot – just like a game that excites them a little. After all, why would they still be with you? Why not simply break up with you to be with whoever it is at the end of that phone? Well, seeing into the minds of women is tricky. If you suspect that she's chatting with other guys it might just be innocent – a friendship..or it could be something more..or something waiting to develop. If you need to find out for sure who she's talking to on her mobile phone, and you can't find out by conventional means – then there is an option you could take. You could try one of the many spyware programs on the market. Of course, you'll have to pay for it and get it installed on her phone sometimes. (And you need to check the legality of doing that in your area!). The spyware itself is legal to buy, but it's use is where you need to be careful. What this software does is allows you to spy on all the phone's data such as sms, texts, emails and all phone call data such as time duration and number called. It works both ways, so you also see all in.ing data of this nature that .es in to the phone. In this way you could quite easily see who she's texting and what she's saying as well as all the texts .ing in to her phone from outside sources. There is another function that some users find useful and that is the gps locater that will show you where she is whenever her phone is switched on. This is especially useful if you think she's going someplace that she shouldn't be under the guise of saying she's out elsewhere. As I said you would need to get this app installed on her phone by downloading it using the phone's web browser. Once you have paid for it (around $50 for the one I'd re.mend) and installed it, then it is a simple matter of logging into an online account that you are provided with to spy on all of the phone's data – even those text messages that she is instantly deleting after reading or sending. It's quite a simple system and .patible with most modern smart phones. All of the products out there charge a fair amount for this app – understandably, it's powerful and very much in demand for the kind of reasons that I've talked about here. The one I re.mend is probably the most trusted brand online and .es at an affordable price – it's actually the best value for money for a spyware app that actually works. Beware all the scams out there – you won't get a refund once you've downloaded their costly junk to a phone and it doesn't work. At least, if you go with my re.mendation you have the option of a full refund – and they'll honor this, no questions asked. They know their cell phone spying program works and so they can offer this guarantee because they process so few refunds and have customers that actually thank them for helping them to find out the truth about what their loved ones are getting up to. So – if you want to find out if your girlfriend is talking to another guy using her cell phone, this is the most surefire way of doing so – find out the truth today!! About the Author: 相关的主题文章:
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The Spokeo Search Angel Awards program will be a way to finally say 'Thank you' and the establishment of the Spokeo Search Angel Fund will be a way to help expand and continue the work that Search Angels do for adoptees every day for generations to come
Pasadena, Calif. and San Francisco, Calif. (PRWEB) November 16, 2012
The leading people search engine, Spokeo, and strategic partner Mixed Roots Foundation, proudly announce a call for nominations during National Adoption Awareness Month in November, for the Spokeo Search Angel Awards. The newly launched program will recognize, honor and support volunteers who donate their time to help adult adoptees and others separated from family, search for and reunite with their birth families.
Individuals who have been touched by the work of Search Angels are encouraged to visit http://www.spokeoangels.com to submit a nomination. Winners of the awards will receive a cash grant provided by the Mixed Roots Foundation's Spokeo Search Angel Fund, a one-year account to Spokeo, and the opportunity to have reunion costs covered for a limited amount of matches made during their year as a "Spokeo Search Angel."
"Spokeo is committed to helping families reunite, and Search Angels play a crucial role in helping adult adoptees and others with the logistical and emotional support needed to reconnect with their biological family members," said Spokeo's chief strategy officer, Emanuel Pleitez. "Our commitment to honoring and helping Search Angels is for the long term. We take great pride in having the opportunity to work with so many leaders and organizations within the adoption community to launch this effort."
"As an adoptee who has searched for birth family and knowing countless others who share a similar experience – it is time that we recognize those who have helped us not only through the search process but honor those who have been there from the very beginning to the end," said Holly Choon Hyang Bachman, adoptee, founder and president of the Mixed Roots Foundation. "The Spokeo Search Angel Awards program will be a way to finally say 'Thank you' and the establishment of the Spokeo Search Angel Fund will be a way to help expand and continue the work that Search Angels do for adoptees and their families every day for generations to come."
Spokeo has formed an advisory committee to provide program guidance and review of the nominations. The committee will help promote the awards as well as select the angels to be honored with the Spokeo Search Angel Awards.
The Advisory Committee is currently comprised of various individuals that are representative of the adoption and foster care communities. Committee members include:
- Holly Choon Hyang Bachman – founder, president and CEO, Mixed Roots Foundation
- Lynne Banks - mom through adoption, American Adoption Congress SD state rep,
co-founder of Adoptionscams.net and search angel
- Carrie Craft - adoption writer, About.com
- Donnie Davis - president, American Adoption Congress
- Vanessa Flores - director of public relations, Spokeo
- Johnny Madrid - board director, A Home Within, California Court Appointed Special
Advocates, and National Foster Youth Action Network
- Emanuel Pleitez - chief strategy officer, Spokeo
- Angela Saverice-Rohan – adoptive mother and general counsel, Spokeo
- Priscilla Sharp – mother of adoptee, search angel, adoptee rights advocate
- Aaron Sheinbein - co-founder, Findmyfamily.org
- Rita Soronen - president & CEO, Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
- Marilyn Waugh - past president and current state representative, American Adoption
Spokeo will accept nominations beginning Thursday, November 15 through Friday, November 30. Only those volunteers who donate their searching services are eligible for the awards. The advisory committee will review all eligible nominations and select the finalists who will be contacted to provide additional information. The winners of the Spokeo Search Angel Awards will be notified and announced in early January 2013.
About Spokeo
Spokeo is a search engine with a mission to organize the world's public information around people. Our technology aggregates and organizes people-related information from phone and address directories, social networks, celebrity photo libraries and other public sources, allowing users to search for friends, family, celebrities, public figures, and business contacts. We are committed to helping people find and connect with others more easily than ever. For more information about Spokeo, visit http://www.spokeo.com.
About Mixed Roots Foundation
Mixed Roots Foundation is the first and only national /global multicultural adoptee led foundation for adoptees and their families that cross sect the international, domestic, and foster care adoption experience. Mixed Roots aims to streamline funding and more post adoption resources for adoptees and their families through collaboration with likeminded individuals, businesses, and other organizations in the greater community. For more information about Mixed Roots, visit http://www.mixedrootsfoundation.org.


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Continued from Part 2
Interview by Sean Mortimer
You both have really original tricks. What one garnered the most enthusiastic response?
Haslam: The front blunt on the board from the almost video got as much response as the kickflip back smith on the 12-stair Hollywood High rail. I was shitting my pants on the 12-stair. I wasn't even going to put the front blunt in the video. I thought the line sucked but that trick seemed to get people psyched on the part.
Why do you think the blunt gets so much attention?
Haslam: Maybe because it's in the grasp of everybody if you know how to ollie? It's something you do for fun.
And it was a complete surprise. When I saw the board come into frame, I don't expect you to use it. You don't get ambushed like that in skate videos often. Even if an upcoming trick is gnar, just by the way it's framed, you have a general idea of what to expect.
Harris: That's what it is about Chris—you expect him to do something but he'll bust something unexpected.
Kevin, what one of your tricks did people really respond to?
Harris: Maybe when I broke the world record for two-board 360s.
Can you break down what 360s meant in the 1979?
Harris: In the '70s, it wasn't how high can you ollie or how many stairs. It was "How many 360s can you do?" How you were judged as a skater was down to how many spins you could do. This was before airs on ramps. I read in the magazine how Steve Cathey spun 65 two-board 360s, one on each foot. I was trying to keep up in my garage in Richmond with my friends counting. Then the next magazine would come out and announced that he'd spun 155, but by then I had spun 200.
Somehow the organizer at the Canadian National contest heard about it and he invited me to try and break the world record at the contest. I went into the Vancouver Coliseum with 5,000 plus people in the crowd thinking it was going to be a sideshow, but the lights dimmed and two spotlights came on me. I was super nervous but I started to spin. Monty [Little], the organizer, announced how the record was 155 and after I beat that, I thought I should stop so they could get on with the contest—I was taking up the whole friggin' floor. At around 200 spins the crowd started stomping their feet and chanting "One thousand! One thousand!"
In my mind, I thought, Are you friggin' kidding me? But the crowd kept pushing me. I wore full safety equipment and was sweating like a sprinkler. I could see the circle of sprayed sweat on the ground. It took fifteen minutes and I finally stopped after 1,032 spins. I could barely walk—all the moisture was gone from my body. That was talked about a lot until skating changed and 360s didn't mean the same thing.
I imagined I'd get a full page color shot in SkateBoarder, but it was just a little black and white picture. If I was in California, it might have gotten more coverage. It emphasized the second-class identity of Canadian skaters.
How many 360s can you do, Chris?
Haslam: I think seven. That's insane—1,032. I've got some work to do.
Harris: Fifteen minutes—it could be your whole video part.
Looking back, are you glad you started skating away from a strong scene?
Harris: Yes. But I didn't think that way back then.
Haslam: I'm glad I grew up the way I did, but when I was in Singapore, I wanted to be in Vancouver.
Do you think location matters in skating regarding influence?
Harris: If I grew up in California in the '70s and dealt with that peer pressure all the time, maybe I would have completely changed my style of skating. But in Richmond, I wasn't aware of that pressure until I came down for contests.
A strong skate city like L.A. can freeze a skater's creativity. There are so many gnar skaters doing crazy things at the spots.
Haslam: Yeah, for some people, L.A. can mold you. It's like Kevin was saying—you can lose your hometown originality. Now, if you go anywhere in the world, there's going to be skaters there and they're going to have different outlooks.
Are you interested in those different outlooks?
Haslam: Oh yeah, obviously. They're going to skate stuff that nobody else will and have tricks from their area. I'll learn a version of it and people will react like it's new but some guy has been doing it for fifteen years and I just kind of stole it from him. I give credit where credit's due, though.
I had to move to get where I am. You won't be able to skate for a living in Malaysia—the resources aren't there. But you have to work with what you have because it'll influence your skating at a later date for sure.
Let's end with a reversal—you guys ever see some random kid do something weird and original on a skateboard and go tell him how rad it is?
Harris: If I see a kid at a skatepark doing something totally different, I'll be the first to go up to him and tell him it's awesome and to keep doing it.
Haslam: There are so many skaters doing the same thing now that those kids doing their own thing are easy to spot. I want to see creative skating. I don't want to see people doing the same tricks over and over again. When I see somebody putting their brain into what they're doing, I get psyched. I skate with kids at the park and they each have their own little flavor. I tell them all the time that they can frontside flip a twenty stair and it'll take two seconds to go by in a video and people will forget about it. You've got to have something unique that people will think is sick.
For more on Sean Mortimer, he wrote some books with Hawk, Mullen, Daewon, Olson, Vallely, Haslam, etc.
Hawk: Occupation Skateboarder
Mullen: The Mutt
Daewon, Olson, Haslam: Stalefish
Photos: Blair


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As the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted 12-10 this week in support of the Canadian-based Keystone XL Pipeline that would cut through the country on its way to the Gulf of Mexico, groups in the western province of British Columbia are preparing to fight another pipeline, called the Northern Gateway, from the same tar sands region of Alberta to the BC Pacific coast.
RIPTON — Bill McKibben had reason to celebrate last week after President Obama rejected a proposed massive pipeline that would have shipped oil from Canada to Texas. He was a prominent force in opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline.
But the Ripton-based environmental activist isn't taking a rest. McKibben and 500 protesters plan to march on Capital Hill Tuesday adorned in referee outfits.
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May 12, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Ivy League announced the 2009 All-Ivy honorees for the outdoor track and field season Tuesday following the Heptagonals Championships at Penn this past weekend. The selections are based solely on first or second place performances at the meet - athletes who win their events earn first-team recognition, while athletes who place second become second-team honorees.
Sophomore Kate Grace earned first-team All-Ivy honors for her win in the 800-meter run. She finished in 2:09.01, beating her nearest competitor by just .17 seconds. Grace was also honored with first-team All-Ivy status for her performance in the 800-meter run at the indoor Heptagonals in March, and was second-team All-Ivy outdoors in 2008. Grace is also an All-American in the event, and has qualified for NCAA regional championships, which will be May 29-30 in Greensboro, N.C.
A complete list of All-Ivy selections can be found here.
Grace will compete this weekend (May 15-17) at Princeton in the ECAC Championships along with several of her teammates.
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Lava might not be a fun novelty in places like Hawaii or Iceland, where residents have to occasionally deal with rivers of molten rock. But in the relatively geologically inactive planes of New York, it's a cool DIY project being used to investigate the properties of lava flows while also getting kids interested in science.
A trough of super-hot lava might be among the last things you'd expect to see when strolling around the campus at Syracuse University, but that's just what you'd find a few times a year. The Lava Project is a collaboration between professor Bob Wysocki (an artist), and professor Jeff Karson (a geologist). The experiments are pitched as a unique blend of science and art, as researchers observe the properties of molten rock while younger onlookers toast marshmallows.
The lava flows are created in much the same way all lava is; with lots of heat. Piles of basaltic rock are tossed into an outdoor furnace and heated to around 2200°F. The homemade lava is poured out on a variety of surfaces. These are not amounts likely to be dangerous, but still much more molten rock than most researchers work with.
While this is a good opportunity for informal education of kids, the primary purpose of the Syracuse University Lava Project is scientific. Active flows are rarely witnessed up close, so there are still many unanswered questions about how basaltic lava behaves. The undulating structures left after lava cools are often informative, but by working with larger quantities in these experiments researchers are more able to test theories. See? Science can be fun.
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Army Pfc. Luis J. Amill Martinez has graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga.
During the nine weeks of training, the soldier received training in drill and ceremonies, weapons, map reading, tactics, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, first aid, and Army history, core values and traditions. Additional training included development of basic combat skills and battlefield operations and tactics, and experiencing use of various weapons and weapons defenses available to the infantry crewman.
Martinez is the son of Emily Ortiz, of Lehigh Acres.
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NEW YORK - Ronald Reagan called the 1964 election "a time for choosing." Tuesday's election yielded a time for bewilderment.
Given his record, it is astonishing that President Barack Obama won re-election. He should have lost, big time. Despite an $833 billion stimulus and $5.6 trillion in fresh national debt, the economy crawls forward with 2 percent growth. Shovel-ready projects were not shovel ready. The Department of Energy has generated some 60,000 "green" jobs -- at $578,333 each. When Obama arrived, the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent. It's now 7.9 percent. Nonetheless, Obama is the first president to get re-elected with joblessness above 7.2 percent since FDR in 1936.
Serious analysts like Michael Barone, co-author of "The Almanac of American Politics," forecast 315 electoral votes for Mitt Romney. Accurate since 1980, the University of Colorado Boulder's model predicted 330 electoral votes for Romney. In fact, Romney secured 206 electoral votes, with Florida still too close to call.
Reputed uber-genius Karl Rove reconfirmed that he is the most overrated living participant in American public life. As "the architect" of profligate "compassionate conservatism," Rove helped smash the GOP's reputation for fiscal discipline. This still hurts Republicans. As Reuters' Tim Reid wrote: "Early national exit polls revealed that about 50 percent of U.S. voters still blamed former Republican President George W. Bush for the country's economic problems rather than Obama." The allegedly brilliant Rove foresaw 279 electoral votes for Romney. Oops! Rove should retire to a Texas ranch, where he can raise and sell actual bull.
By beating these odds, Obama demonstrated that a majority of the U.S. electorate supports democratic socialism. Three bumper stickers on a California automobile recently illustrated this sad truth. They said, "Obama" "Tax the Rich," and "Live Better -- Work Union." Rather than being rejected as un-American, class warfare proved to be a winning formula. Look for Obama and the left to sow further seeds of discord. Let's see how many prosperous people, entrepreneurs and job creators grow sick of being blamed for America's woes. Many will retire. Others will exile themselves to countries where they will be appreciated.
Romney's general-election campaign had its flaws, but it was energetic, issue-based and optimistic. Nonetheless, he was excoriated for remarking that 47 percent of Americans essentially were beyond his reach because they "believe that they are victims" and "that government has a responsibility to care for them." Actually, Romney tried to sell limited government to the 49.5 percent of Americans who pay no income tax. Obama offered them health care, school loans and other free "investments" financed by the 51.5 percent of Americans who pay income taxes.
Tuesday may have tipped this seesaw. Once a largely untaxed majority of Americans vote themselves free benefits funded by a taxed minority, Washington, D.C., will descend into Athens on the Potomac.
Amid the debris, there are a few reasons for free marketers not to stick our heads in our ovens.
Republican Sen.-elect Jeff Flake of Arizona is one of Capitol Hill's most stalwart soldiers for small government, tight budgets and terminating pork-barrel excess. He will serve Arizona and America splendidly. Republican Ted Cruz also is Senate-bound. Texas' former solicitor general is scary smart, well-spoken to a fault and Hispanic. Perhaps he and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., can remind the GOP how to appeal to this large and growing demographic group.
Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana. These states soon may collide with Obama, who is a battering-ram-wielding drug warrior, despite belonging to the Choom Gang, his high school posse of Hawaiian potheads. Perhaps federalism and Obama's abandonment of his weed-laced hypocrisy will merge like smoke rings and end marijuana prohibition.
Voters in Maryland, Maine, Minnesota and Washington embraced gay marriage. Social conservatives cannot complain that unelected judges imposed this policy. Conservatives and libertarians jointly should pry government's nose from something in which it has no bloody business.
A majority of Americans voted for big government. Now, we all must share the bed that they made. Unfortunately, as Reagan once said, "If you get in bed with the government, you'll get more than a good night's sleep."
Deroy Murdock writes a column for Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.
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Author Notes: I went to Charleston a few years ago with my cousin Toni, to write a piece about the restaurants down there. At almost every restaurant we visited, it seemed, Toni ordered the Shrimp and Grits and declared them the best Shrimp and Grits she'd ever had. And we did have some really great versions. Rather than gloppy and too rich and downright soul-annihilating, like a lot of Yankee takes on the dish I've had, these were comforting with distinctive personalities from restaurant to restaurant.I decided to try to capture those flavors in a risotto. And my soul is still intact. —EmilyNunn
Food52 Review: WHO: ENunn is a writer living in Charleston and working on her book, The Comfort Food Diaries.
WHAT: All of the porky, shrimp-y, hot sauced goodness of the South -- in risotto form.
HOW: Marinate your shrimp, then cook them in a tomato-wine mixture. Take the shrimp out, and add stock, then cook your risotto with that tomato-wine-stock. Add your shrimp and bacon at the end. Toast yourself.
WHY WE LOVE IT: When drbabs tested this recipe, she called it "restaurant quality" -- and we have to agree. ENunn's dish has an intensity and balance that's hard to match at home; we were blown away by the amount of flavor in every single component. Don't let the amount of prep scare you away -- this is 100% worth it. —The Editors
Serves: 4
large shrimp, about 3/4 pound, peeled and deveined
lemons, juiced, several slices of peel reserved
sprigs fresh thyme
tablespoons olive oil, divided
teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
strips thick cut bacon, chopped
cloves garlic, finely chopped
cup chopped flat-leaf parsley leaves
cup dry white wine
small onion, finely chopped, about 1 cup
1 1/2
cups chopped plum tomato, about 3 medium
cups fish stock
cup half and half, warmed
1 1/2
cups sliced mushrooms
cup long grain arborio superfino
dashes or more of tabasco, more at table
scallions, sliced with some green tops
- Place shrimp in a bowl with lemon juice, a few strips of lemon peel, thyme, 3 tablespoons of the olive oil, crushed red pepper flakes and toss to coat. Let marinate for at least 30 minutes.
- In a medium skillet, cook bacon over medium low heat to render fat; remove with a slotted spoon once bacon has cooked to golden but not crisped and drain on paper towel lined plate.
- Add remaining olive oil to bacon fat in pan; cook garlic and parsley together until very fragrant. Add tomatoes to pan and cook 2 to 3 minutes over medium heat. Add shrimp (with its marinade) and cook one minute per side. Add wine, bring to a simmer, removing shrimp after 1 minute. Set aside in a covered bowl. Add fish stock to remaining liquid and keep at a low simmer.
- In a dutch oven, heat butter and saute onion until golden over medium high heat. Add mushrooms, and cook until golden. Stir in rice and cook until translucent.
- Over a period of 20 minutes, add stock mixture 1/2 cup or so at a time, stirring until all the liquid is absorbed with each addition. When all but a half a cup or so of liquid remains to be added and the rice is al dente stir in bacon and shrimp, and a few dashes of tabasco. Finish the dish with the warm half and half and a squeeze of lemon. Put the lid on the dutch oven and let the risotto rest for 5 minutes before serving topped with scallions and more Tabasco at table if desired.
- This recipe is a Wildcard Contest Winner!
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Risotto (Savory)
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