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"I'm just looking for a generous guy who wants to spoil me like I deserve," Rachel croons into her cell phone, leaving a not-so-subtle message with the cool, coquettish tone of a practiced phone sex worker. Her voice is high and childlike, but in reality, the black 20-year-old is all womanly curves.
Rachel pushes a button and saves the message — a voicemail profile that potential mates can listen to — before turning to a New Times reporter.
"That's how the professionals do it," she says matter-of-factly. "You've got to choose your words carefully, because to someone on the outside, it could sound like, you know, prostitution. But you've also got to sound confident to get that money."
Debt-Plagued Miami Coeds Court Wealthy Men and Great Risk Online
Two hours ago, Rachel was sitting in a university lecture hall, circling letters on a multiple-choice final exam. Now she's reclining on her unmade bed, smoking weed, and looking for suckers to pay her bills. There is no shortage: Miami is full of busy black businessmen who want sex with no strings attached, old white men who want to unleash their fantasies on her, and married men who want her to help them discreetly cheat on their wives, she says.
After updating her voice profile, Rachel browses the selection of males currently prowling for companionship. "There are six men in the live lounge," drones a robotic voice from the cell phone's speaker. Rachel pushes another button, and a husky Southern twang fills the room. "I'm a 54-year-old white male looking for a sugar baby to treat right..." begins the man's message.
"Ewww," sneers Rachel's wisp-thin friend in short shorts from the other end of the bed. "He sounds like a murderer."
Fast money, fuzzy morals, and fearsome risks. They're all in a day's work for a sugar baby. Rachel, whose name New Times agreed to change for this article, is one of thousands of young women in South Florida who share their time — and often their beds — in exchange for older men's money.
Though such relationships are nothing unusual in a city like Miami, where squat, silver-haired male millionaires wear teenaged models on their arms like designer watches, a wave of internet websites is now courting a new demographic of sugar babies: college students.
One company in particular is leading the trend. Seeking Arrangement promotes itself as the nation's biggest "sugar daddy" dating site. Its founder, a self-described "shy MIT nerd," has courted a million college coeds by offering them free memberships to the site, which he markets as a way to pay off student loans.
With even entry-level jobs requiring a college diploma in today's job market and the price of a degree skyrocketing, Florida's female students are becoming sugar babies like never before. Our universities dominate the list of schools with the fastest-growing number of Seeking Arrangement users. Forget sunshine. Florida is on its way to becoming America's "Sugar Baby State."
Meanwhile, critics claim that Seeking Arrangement and similar websites are just prostitution 2.0. "These [websites] are a way of commodifying women and their bodies," says Laurie Essig, a professor of gender, sexuality, and feminist studies at Middlebury College in Vermont. Calling them sugar baby relationships "masks what might in fact be the sex trade in the language of familial relationships."
To understand the phenomenon, New Times spent six weeks speaking to nearly a dozen student sugar babies. They were white, black, and Hispanic; pretty and plain; wild party girls and no-nonsense businesswomen. Some make as much as $7,000 a month: enough to splurge on sports cars and fancy clothes, let alone stay in school.
Yet the hidden costs are even greater. Innocence is the least these women can lose, with sugar babies occasionally beaten or raped by men they meet online. Some slip from being college students to straight-up prostitutes. Several have wound up in jail for blackmailing overeager sugar daddies.
The biggest problem for Rachel, however, may be knowing when to quit.
As pot smoke swirls around the small room and the refrain of a rap song chimes "Pull out his dick, pull out his dick" from the stereo's speakers, she says of her extracurricular activities: "I don't want to get hooked... but it's so much fun."
"I have a fetish," the man admitted sheepishly. He was dressed in a baggy white T-shirt and basketball shorts. A ring of gray hair crowned the sexagenarian's scalp. Less than a third his age, Rachel sat on the couch next to him wearing a tight black dress and high heels. A bottle of Patrón Gold glowed on the coffee table in front of them. The two had met a few months earlier on Seeking Arrangement. Now they were on a "date" at the sugar daddy's house in Kendall.
"Ooh, that's kinky," Rachel replied, tossing back a slug of tequila to wash down her fears of being tied up or pissed on. "That kind of turns me on. What is it?"
The tubby accountant eyed her stilettos. The he pulled down his shorts and said: "I want you to step on me."
Relieved it wasn't something worse, Rachel stood up and lifted her heel over his crotch like an executioner's ax. Then she lowered her shoe slowly onto the man's flaccid flesh. As she shifted her weight from his balls to his penis, her sugar daddy moaned with a mixture of pleasure and pain.
"He was paying me, so I was like, whatever," Rachel tells New Times. "Afterwards he pulled up his shorts and we talked about stuff, like my school, his job, and sports."
The compensation: $200 cash.
To many, Rachel's part-time job seems like prostitution. To her, however, it's an easy way to earn money while finishing a degree in hospitality management. She rarely has sex with her sugar daddies, she claims. And despite critics' claims that Seeking Arrangement is a digital sex dungeon, she enjoys what she's doing. "Being a student is boring," Rachel says, "but this isn't."
Seeking Arrangement and similar websites are changing Americans' ideas of dating and sexuality. Instead of true love, they promise young women and older men "mutually beneficial arrangements" that are more mercenary than meaningful. In an age of instant online gratification, these sites have streamlined the financial market for women's bodies. And by operating in plain sight using laughable legal disclaimers, they are signing up college students who would never strut a street corner.
"It's no different than what parents teach their kids since the day they turn on TV and let them watch Disney movies," says Seeking Arrangement founder Brandon Wade. "The girls are dreaming of being princesses. They hope to kiss the frog that will turn into a prince who will spoil and pamper them."
Wade's own motivations were less noble when he created the website in 2005: He just wanted to get laid. Born Lead Wey in Singapore in 1970, he grew up in a conservative Chinese household where his working father provided his mother with a weekly allowance. "The sugar daddy culture was ingrained in me by her nagging at me to provide for my future wife better than he did for her," Wade says. His tiger mom was also brutally honest with her short, bespectacled son, telling him he would have to study hard and make money to win a beautiful wife.
When Wade was 18, he moved to Boston to study engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He succeeded in school but failed miserably at dating. His real lesson, however, was in the strange double standards of his adopted country. Wade knew that some of his fellow MIT students stripped on weekends to afford tuition, yet money was a taboo subject.
"In Asia, we talk about money in a much more forward manner," he says. "American culture is a very strange one: Here we all try to [get rich], but we also tend to have this self-righteous culture. We want to be better than what we are made of."
After MIT, Wade became a business consultant before creating a lucrative internet advertising company. All the while, he struggled with women. Eventually Wade realized that his talents — namely his money — were undervalued on dating sites that focused on looks or charm. ("I even made a video for one website," he says. "It didn't help.") When his ad company died in the dot com crash of 2000, Wade directed his genius toward developing a website that would reward loaded but lonely men like him.
Seeking Arrangement launched in 2006. Today, it has more than 2 million customers, 90 percent of whom are women, according to Wade (anyone can join for free, but only premier users can send or receive messages on the site). Four of the schools with the fastest-growing number of sugar babies are located in Florida. At Florida International University, 187 women signed up for Seeking Arrangement last year alone.
Most men pay $59.95 per month to use the site. Some, however, shell out $2,159.40 a year for special "Diamond Daddy" status. Between Seeking Arrangement and several other websites — including one for single millionaires only, another in which men bid on dates with women, and a new site, Miss Travel, where wealthy men pay women to accompany them overseas — Wade's companies make more than $10 million per year.
Wade's website is one of dozens devoted to sugar babies, but Seeking Arrangement is by far the most popular. Many sugar babies say they prefer it because it has at least a basic layer of protection: Company employees screen profiles for overt solicitation and suspend harassing users. Diamond Daddies undergo tax record reviews to prove they are worth what they claim. And some men even volunteer for criminal background checks.
But Seeking Arrangement's aggressive pursuit of college students also makes it seedier than its competitors. The website offers coeds free premier membership simply by using their university email accounts, and Wade openly advocates it as a way for women to avoid student loans. Worst of all, Seeking Arrangement pays for its ads to appear on search engines whenever a woman types in something like "help for tuition."
"These young women have to decide between a dead-end job with little money and a career as a sugar baby," says Essig, the college professor. "Neither is a good choice, but those are the choices they have."
Rachel wasn't desperate; she heard about the site from a friend. She says she doesn't really need the money but was tired of juggling a job and four classes. Nor is she from a broken home.
She was simply short on cash and enticed by Seeking Arrangement's free college accounts. In December, Rachel uploaded a few photos and a short profile saying she "loves being spoiled." Under the category "What I expect," she selected "amount negotiable."
Within 24 hours, she had received a handful of messages. One of them was from the accountant. For their first meeting, Rachel brought along a couple of friends. He bought them all drinks. The second time, the two of them went out to dinner alone. Afterward, he gave her $300 in cash. By the fourth meeting, things had gotten kinky.
"He likes to be tickled with this little feather thing on his ass," she says. And although she says they haven't had intercourse, he has used dildos and vibrators on her. "I'm pretty open when it comes to sex," she says.
In many ways, Rachel is a poster child for Seeking Arrangement's stated mission of empowerment. (In fact, the website put her and another sugar baby in touch with New Times. Other sugar babies were found independently.) She says she has a "weird fetish for older guys," mostly white, whom she might otherwise never meet. "It's not that I'm attracted to them," says Rachel, who spends her free time hanging out with younger black men in clubs. "But [the titillation of using the service] just turns me on."
As she talks, her phone lights up with a text message from another of her sugar daddies: a middle-aged white man she's never met. It reads: "How's my goddess?"
"He wants me to have phone sex with him until he gets caught masturbating in public," Rachel explains. "But I have yet to get him caught. He tries all the time. It's been about three weeks. It's kind of aggravating."
"I'm ready to be your jerk-off bitch," the sugar daddy texts. "Baby get me caught." With her long black fingernails, Rachel replies that she needs money for Memorial Day weekend.
"Sure, I manipulate them," she tells New Times. "But why would I feel bad about this? These guys are rich."
"If you fuck for free, why not get paid for it?" her tiny friend chimes in. "There are stupid girls out there doing shit for free when they don't even get spoiled.
"How embarrassing," the friend adds, puffing on the smoldering joint. "Don't they know that pussy ain't free no mo'?"
"Too flashy," Brittney says, pointing to the popped collar and gaudy sunglasses on a random man walking past. "Their manners, the words they use, the type of clothes they wear. You have to be careful." Her line of work has made her an expert on judging a man's character by the way he looks.
Sitting in the sun outside a Starbucks in Coco Walk, Brittney — not her real name — showed up early so she could scope out a New Times reporter, just as she does with sugar daddies. She's in her early 20s but looks like a teenager with strawberry blond hair and freckles. In her high school T-shirt, short shorts, and flip-flops, she belongs on an episode of Glee.
Instead, she is on Seeking Arrangement, where she makes more than $3,000 a month by sleeping with millionaires twice her age. If Rachel is the party girl, Brittney is the responsible one. She has paid her way through college, bought a sports car, and is saving toward buying a house. She is also Brandon Wade's fiercest critic.
"He protects himself by saying that it's not prostitution when, in reality, it is," she says. "It's just a very decorated form of it."
Like Rachel, Brittney became a sugar baby because she was broke and bored. She lost her virginity at 15 to a boy she loved but who scared her by shouting violently during arguments. The relationship didn't last. When she turned 18, her upper-middle-class parents cut her off. "I was making $8 an hour at the mall," she says, "and I had to pay for my college classes within a week."
Brittney already had a wild streak, including a shoplifting phase during high school. So a few days before the beginning of fall semester, she posted an ad on Craigslist offering to do soft porn. But when a man called her a couple of hours later, he didn't want her photos. He wanted her.
"I didn't even know escorting existed," she says. She taught herself the basics of the trade by watching online documentaries: Never use your real name. Never call from your real phone number. And never lose control of the situation. "It's amazing what you can learn on Netflix," she says with a smile.
Brittney stayed with the man she met on Craigslist for two years, dining, traveling, and sleeping together whenever he wanted to. She developed her own rules, always bringing her own condoms and making her sugar daddy shower before sex. But when she found out he was two-timing her, she cut things off as suddenly as they had begun. "I was fine with him seeing other women, but he was lying about it," she says. "And I needed to protect myself."
Brittney has been using Seeking Arrangement ever since. "There are all different levels of sugar babies on there," she says.
New Times wanted to see for ourselves, so we set up an account. We sent messages to 40 sugar babies, ranging from 18-year-old college students to middle-aged single moms. Nearly a dozen replied to our request for an interview. "What's the compensation?" one asked. A sugar baby with an Ivy League diploma suggested we meet to talk politics before realizing she was talking to a reporter. "Eeek. No thank you," she wrote. "I cannot risk exposure."
A few women were frank about exchanging sex for money. "Some men just solicit me for sex," said a buxom 25-year-old with peroxide blond hair and a criminal record. "That's OK as long as they know that they will have to support me in some way. That's what the site entitles. I make sure that they know what's up."
This woman said that of her sugar daddies, one had a taste for cocaine and threesomes. Another routinely paid her $1,200 to humiliate him. She would walk into a hotel room to find the businessman dressed in a bra, panties, high heels, and lipstick. She would lie on the bed while he covered her in honey and chicken feathers. "He would enjoy pouring honey on me and licking it off as I insulted him," she said. "I would tell him what a bitch or cunt or queer or cross-dressing freak he was.
"I use my looks and personality and charm to get what I want: cars, shoes, trips," she said. "My mom always told me: 'You're not going to be beautiful and young forever. Use it or you're going to lose it.'
"One guy said he'd pay me $1,000 if I peed in his face," she said. "But that was too much for me."
Brittney scowls when she hears about the honey and feathers. Women have to be careful what type of men they meet, she says. One friend of hers got addicted to drugs thanks to bad sugar daddies. "She went from marijuana to ecstasy to cocaine while spending time with men she met on Craigslist," Brittney claims. "She overdosed, and when they did the autopsy, they found she had all kinds of STDs."
Brittney spent four months interviewing men she met on Seeking Arrangement before settling on her current sugar daddy. "You have to weed out the ones who just want sex."
The man she sees now is a CEO in his 40s who's worth $15 million. "We fly to New Orleans for dinner or Dallas for the weekend," she says. In addition to $3,000 per month, she gets occasional bonuses. Once, when she mentioned she had a tuition payment coming up, he gave her $1,500 on the spot.
But it comes at a personal cost. A New Times reporter is the only person to whom Brittney has ever told her secrets. Not even her parents know. As a result, she is painfully unable to talk about her professional life, which is part private detective — on the lookout for cops as well as criminals — and part actress. "Our job is to get you guys and keep you," she says with a grin. "We can put on any face and you'll never know what we're thinking."
The job has gotten easier over the years, especially the sex. "At first, you have to hold your breath and get it over with. You go home and pretend it never happened," she says. "Now I like 90 percent of what my sugar daddy and I do."
Working her way up the sugar ladder has other benefits too. Her efforts have netted her nearly $100,000, with which she has bought herself a car and paid for college a year early. She has taken overseas vacations but doesn't spend lavishly because she doesn't want to "blow her cover." Her ambitions are higher than Gucci and Prada, she says. She wants to go to graduate school, buy a house, and become a businesswoman herself. "I'm really interested in learning their tactics," she says of her sugar daddies. "I want to learn from the best of the best."
For sugar daddies, the benefits of Seeking Arrangement are obvious. "It's like being a kid in a candy store," says Ricardo Calderon, a 43-year-old businessman who flies women from South Beach to his hometown of Chicago for "dates." He makes around $300,000 a year from his lingerie and computer repair companies.
"Dude, I'm a single guy," he says. "I don't have any time to hit the clubs, and that's the wrong place to find women anyway. I got on Seeking Arrangement out of curiosity. Simple as that. To my surprise, there are all kinds of women on there: There are gold diggers and materialistic chicks, but there are also other women who just want a man to open doors for them, buy them roses, take them out to a nice dinner."
Calderon, who allowed New Times to publish his real name, has no guilt about striking up arrangements with women he meets online. "If a woman just wants my money, I tell her not to waste my time," he says. "So don't give me that 'It's prostitution' crap. It's not true."
Occasionally, sugar daddies don't even want sex, says one pre-med whom we'll call Jenny. She joined Seeking Arrangement when she was just 18 and quickly started seeing a 43-year-old who helped her get into college. But things got weird when he told her he was seeing another sugar baby too. "If I couldn't show up for dinner, she would take my spot," Jenny says. But she needed the money for tuition. "The three of us agreed to get screened [for STDs] every three weeks," she says. "I was really paranoid. I trusted him, but I didn't know what she was doing outside the relationship."
It was a strange relief, therefore, when her second sugar daddy said he didn't want to get physical. "I thought it was odd," Jenny says. "Eventually he admitted that he had a daughter that I reminded him of. They didn't have a good relationship, so he treated me like his daughter. I was rewarded for my good grades. I was spoiled. He would take me out shopping. That was a proper sugar daddy. I wish they were all like that."
But they're not. Many men on Seeking Arrangement send messages setting prices for particular sex acts. Jenny calls these men "salties," compared to "sugar daddies" who dote on women or "Splendas" who are sweet but don't spend much money. "A salty will say: 'It's going to be $500 or $1,000 a month, but I expect sex in return,'" she says. "I tell them, if you want sex in return for money, you should find yourself a prostitute."
Brittney, however, says it's all semantics. She is under no illusions that she's selling anything other than her body. And she's as much on guard against cops as she is abusive sugar daddies. "In order to have a successful business, you have to take chances," she says.
Sugar babying has been good to her, but she would never recommend it to anyone else.
"It's just too dangerous for your own good," Brittney says. "It's basically like jumping into a shark's nest. The odds are against you."
Rachel knew something was wrong as soon as the tall, sweaty sugar daddy started sprinting. They had met before in public, but this time she and a friend had driven to his place in Hollywood. He greeted the two women outside. "C'mon, guys!" he yelled, wiping his nose like a child. Then he started running toward his house.
"Oh my God, he's under a crack spell," whispered Rachel's friend as they followed him through the door. Inside, he confirmed that he was on his "party drug." Did they want some? Then he switched on the club light in the corner, stepped behind a turntable, and started spinning house music.
"That was weird," Rachel tells New Times, before admitting that she and her friend hung around the crackhead's house for nearly two hours so they could collect $300.
Despite security measures and public reassurances, the fact remains that sugar baby sites can be extremely dangerous. By encouraging female students to meet strange, older men for money, the websites put young women at serious risk of rape or assault. Sometimes it's the sugar babies themselves who aren't so sweet. Women have used Seeking Arrangement to blackmail wealthy men out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Either way, what was supposed to be a no-strings-attached agreement can quickly get messy, maybe even deadly.
Two years ago, Manhattan real-estate broker Lakhinder Vohra was quoted in a New York Post article as saying that Seeking Arrangement "changed my f—king life."
"When does a guy like me — aging, losing hair, big belly — meet a girl like this?" he told the paper as he licked a lovely lady standing next to him.
Before long, though, the website banned him for harassing women. But the millionaire divorcé simply created another account under the screen name "Daddy Loves Arm Candy" in late 2012.
Then, on January 23 of this year, the 46-year-old was arrested on charges that he sexually assaulted a woman he had met through the site. Vohra met the woman for the first time at his swanky Wall Street apartment, where he allegedly threw her "face-down on the bed... placed his hand on the [woman's] back" and raped her, according to the police report. (In court, Vohra claimed the woman was trying to extort him. The case goes to trial July 31.)
"Yes, he used the site even after we originally kicked him off," Wade admits. "What that points to is that online dating websites or even Craigslist can be a very dangerous place to be if you aren't careful." Wade says his company cooperates with cops on "several" such cases every year but declines to give numbers or details. And instead of accepting responsibility for founding a website built on anonymous sexual arrangements, he blamed the woman for poor judgment.
"[Vohra] never went through the background verification," Wade says, adding that women can choose to talk only to verified sugar daddies. "At the end of the day, you are an adult. If you want to take a risk, what can we do?"
Wade similarly faults male customers for falling into blackmail schemes. DuPont heir Stephen Dent used Seeking Arrangement to find women he called "slaves" and paid $15,000 for hotel sex sessions. Three women blackmailed him in 2008 and 2009, threatening to send photos and emails to his wife and employees unless he forked over some of his $100 million fortune. Dent eventually went to the police, and the women were caught.
"He was asking for it," Wade says. "At the end of the day, you tend to attract what you are looking for."
Wade points out that these problems aren't limited to Seeking Arrangement. Indeed, earlier this year, a Las Vegas man met what he thought was a hot, blond, Florida coed on sugardaddyforme.com. They exchanged nude photos, and the man sent her $7,000 to help pay for school.
In reality, however, Stephanie Starling was neither hot nor blond. Instead, she had sent photos of a porn star she found online. And when the sugar daddy stopped sending her money, Starling threatened to send his dick pics — which were real — to his wife and boss. The man sent another $1,200, but Starling demanded even more. "I will never fucking stop until I get my money or you die," she texted him.
The sugar daddy finally went to the FBI, who tracked Starling's emails to her house in Jacksonville and arrested her. Her trial has yet to begin, but in a four-page, handwritten confession, Starling explained that she had taken to catfishing men because she was "struggling to pay bills and feed" her child. "I'm in college aspiring to become a dentist," she wrote.
Rachel has had a few close calls, often when hard drugs are involved. "One older white guy asked me if I wanted to do crack with him," she says. "When I didn't, he called on the phone and told me I was a 'nappy-haired bitch' and the n-word.
"If you are really playing with people, there can be a good ending or a bad ending," she says. "If you don't cut it off before it gets too serious, you're in trouble."
Now, she carries a bottle of Mace with her on dates and always texts the address to a friend. "I have homeboys," she says. "Let's just say, if anything happened to me, that person would be paid a visit."
Florida law defines prostitution as "the giving or receiving of the body for sexual activity for hire." Courts have ruled, however, that as long as the women on sites like Seeking Arrangement are providing services other than sex — even something as ambiguous as "companionship" — then Brandon Wade has nothing to worry about. His quickly expanding internet empire may be ethically questionable, but it's legally legit. Wade is simply matching supply and demand, he argues. And what could be more American than that?
But sugar babies say Wade's website takes a subtle toll. Sooner or later, the sweet life turns bitter.
Becoming a sugar baby is "probably financially a much better decision than taking on huge student loans," says Laurie Essig, the Middlebury professor. "Although emotionally, the costs may be too high."
Brittney, for instance, recently met a man outside of the website whom she adores. But she has to hide her secret life.
"The worst part is that I'm actually in love with him, but I can't tell him the truth," she says. "It's like this big ball of fire in my life. He still hasn't found out about it. I don't know if it's him not paying attention or if he just trusts me completely."
And yet, Brittney still won't give up the game. "I keep on doing it and doing it," she says. "This is how I am working my way toward a house or ice cream or dinner.
"Being a sugar baby does make you feel like you can select whatever millionaire you want," she admits. "But I don't feel like it's the type of power someone should have. It's an immoral power."
Perhaps it's no surprise that in a city with 10 percent unemployment, where college graduates need 20 years to pay off their student loans, Brittney has chosen practicality over principles. She says she'd be stupid to stop sugar babying, but she still longs for an era in which she never had to start. "I wish it was the '70s, when you could still meet someone in normal places," she says, "like the library."
Jenny, the pre-med student, has also given up on romance. "I feel like a boyfriend wouldn't understand that I needed space and time," she says. "I'm just too busy with school and work. I kind of don't give anyone a chance."
Instead, she sticks to her sugar daddies, even when she has to share them with other women. "I just want to finish school," Jenny says. "They are the only ones who could help me do that.
"I wouldn't be doing this if school weren't so expensive," she adds. "But I have this future planned out for myself. If anything comes between me and that, all hell will break loose."
"Obviously, if these women had access to higher education at reasonable rates and livable wage jobs, they might not be sugar babies," argues Essig. "Just as obviously, if we didn't live in a culture where women are considered commodities to be bought and sold, there wouldn't be such a website. So yes, [it's] patriarchy. But also a society where the American Dream has disappeared to anyone who is not born wealthy."
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And that, ultimately, is Brandon Wade's legacy. Seeking Arrangement is his American Dream, just as it was Lakhinder Vohra's: a male fantasy made real with the click of a button. But for most women on the site, it's nothing more than a shot of tequila, some dirty dollar bills, and a dose of regret.
Even Rachel, the party girl who juggles monied men for fun, laughs at Wade's claim that Seeking Arrangement empowers sugar babies. "It's more like a joke on women," she says. "Stupid women think that they are in control, but really the man still has the power. You give the man everything, only to get played and left for the next girl.
"I read the Bible," she says over the rap music filling her hazy room."I believe in sin. I believe in Heaven and Hell. And what it speaks of is coming to pass. If you read Revelation, everything in there" — rampant greed, men acting like beasts, civilization crumbling — "is coming to pass.
"Society," she says sadly, exhaling a stream of dirty white smoke, "is not going in a good direction."


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The Verdict Is In On iTunes 4.9
Gear Live downloaded Apples updated new version of iTunes with its much lauded support for podcasts and is impressed (to a point) so far. The install went smoothly (as most installs and upgrades do on OSX) and in minutes I was up and running with iTunes 4.9. Immediately upon opening the updated application of course we went to check out the preferences panel for the configuration options of the new podcast features. The preferences panel lets a user select how often to check for new podcasts, and how long to keep each episode for.
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Ghost Recon 3's Official Name: Advanced Warfighter
Posted by Oscar M. Cantu Categories: Action, First Person Shooters, Internet, Nintendo Gamecube, PC, PlayStation 2, Strategy, Xbox, Xbox 360,
Tom Clancy's latest creation finally has an official name – Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. The game will feature a new way to lead your team and will have advanced technology in all aspects of the equipment used. The game will be released this holiday season for every major console including the PC – sorry, no Mac version. Each version will offer something exclusive to that console – reminds me of Soul Calibur. Here's a little snip of the background to the game:
The game is set in the year 2013 in Mexico City, which has been overthrown by an insurgence of rebels. The famed Ghosts must head into the capital to squash a rebellion and retake control of the metropolis. Gamers will lead their squad on missions to "save the president of the United States, recover stolen nuclear codes, and eliminate a vicious band of renegade soldiers hell-bent on unleashing catastrophe."
Read More | Gamespot
Could This Be The Mysterious iTunes Phone?
Posted by Devin Categories: Smartphones, Music, Portable Audio / Video,
AppleInsider is reporting that the phone pictured could be the Motorola iTunes phone that we told you about here. While it hasn't been confirmed to be the phone in question, reliable sources have confirmed the mostly-unedited image did originate from Motorola company documents dated this month. Black is the last color in the world I would have expected for something bearing the Apple name, and it does seem a bit bulky, but it may just be a mock up and not resemble the final product at all. Only time will tell, and hopefully July 7th will give us a better picture, if not sooner.
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MediaREADY 5000 Now Ready To Ship
Posted by Devin Categories: Home Entertainment,
The MediaREADY 5000, an advanced digital media center, is ready to ship according to a recent announcement by Video Without Boundaries, Inc. The TiVo-like recorder also features the ability to burn CD's and DVD's, and is capable of playing Real Media, DVD/CD, WAV, MP3, MPEG's 1, 2 and 4, not to mention storage and retrieval of audio, video and picture files from its onboard hard drive(120 GB to be specific), MP3 players, digital cameras, and personal computers on the same network. Oh, and let us not forget its' ability allow users to surf the 'net, check email, stream video and audio, games, karaoke, and even a media jukebox. Wow! The unit retails for $699.
The MediaREADY 5000 is the digital home entertainment product millions of consumers have been waiting for," said Jeffrey Harrell, CEO and President of VWB. "With this unit, consumers will finally be able to connect all of their digital entertainment products and accessories into one unit for easy living room functionality and use." The company also commented that media and industry reviews of this product are extremely favorable, validating its sales and marketing efforts.
Read More | eHomeUpgrade via engadget
Cablevision Rolling Out 50Mbps Cable in New York
Posted by Rob Stevens Categories: Internet,
This has got to be making the leeches on P2P networks salivating right now. Cablevision has teamed up with Narad Networks to launch a 100Mbps cable service in Metropolitan New York. Since the connection is symmetrical, this amounts to 50Mbps both upstream and downstream, and uses the existing cabling. Better yet, this is only the initial deployment; further architecture developments will allow up to a 10Gbps over the last mile. Cablevision services 4.4 million homes in New York. I've never wanted to live in Manhattan so bad.
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Gnomedex 5.0: Denise Howell, Buzz Bruggeman, Jason Calacanis on Today's Digital Legalities
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As it turns out, Supreme Court has already cited a blog in a major decision. This should give you an idea of the power you have nowadays as an independent content publisher.
Jason talked about getting a legal letter from posting a Windows Mobile 5 screenshot. His advice was to pick up the phone and call the lawyer directly. He called and was told it is a trade secret, with his response being that he took a shot of a message board. He had no NDA with Microsoft, so the shot shouldn't need to come down. We are journalists and we write about stuff. If someone walked across the street with a new iPod and someone snapped an image, would that be a trade secret infringement? The lawyer said no, and Jason rests his case. Internet entrepreneurs need to know that they shouldn't be easily scared by the power that be. A legal letter can be scary, but Jason forces the lawyer to file the papers. Lawyers don't want to discuss it, they just want you to do what they say. Stick to your guns.
One way to protect yourself is to say how you know something if you don't know that it is true. For example, you can use words like "claimed" or "allegedly" if you want to report on a rumor. If you make a mistake, update the page. They also made mention of the EFF Legal Guide that we told you about a few weeks ago. Another great tool is Wikipedia's Fair Use page.
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360 Electrical's Rotating Outlet
Posted by Edwin Soto Categories: Misc. Tech,
Finally somebody did it. Now you can fit any two plugs into one outlet, not matter the size. 360 Electrical brings us an awesome power oulet. Never thought I would say that. Looks as if they will come out with some power strips in the near future. I'll be there.
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Dr. Paul DeYoung of the Hope College physics faculty has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
He is one of 250 Fellows elected for 2012, and one of only four nominated through the society's Forum on Education, chosen "For his strong and sustained leadership of facilitating research opportunities to enhance undergraduate education." This year's Fellows are from around the world and work in higher education, major research laboratories and industry.
The recognition is a second major national honor to DeYoung from the society, which in 2001 presented him with its "Prize to a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution."
"Professor DeYoung is an esteemed colleague and an outstanding teacher-scholar, and we are proud of his accomplishments," said Dr. Moses Lee, who is dean for the natural and applied sciences at Hope. "Being elected an APS Fellow is a major recognition of his decades-long contribution to cutting-edge physics research while enhancing undergraduate physics and science education through research."
"This recognition is a direct reflection of the Natural and Applied Sciences Division's Vision 20/20 strategic plan, and that is to raise the academic excellence to a higher and uncharted level," Lee said. "I am thankful to the physics community for highlighting the importance of undergraduate research and its centrality to effective teaching in physics."
DeYoung, who is the Kenneth G. Herrick Professor of Physics at Hope, noted that he's grateful to have been recognized by his peers for doing well something that he loves doing: teaching students—at Hope and elsewhere—about physics through involvement in original research.
"It's been great fun to do this," said DeYoung, who has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1985 and conducts research in nuclear physics. "I think I would do this no matter what, but it is nice that you can come in every day and you do what you do, and then recognition comes along as a result of that."
He co-leads the college's "nuclear group," through which students and faculty conduct research collaboratively in nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, with Dr. Graham Peaslee, who is the Elmer E. Hartgerink Professor of Chemistry and professor of geology/environmental science at Hope. In addition to working with Hope students, they have connected with undergraduate students from several other institutions through the college's participation in a multi-school consortium collaborating to build and use a pair of neutron detectors, dubbed "MoNA-LISA," housed at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University.
DeYoung joined the faculty as an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and to professor in 1997, and was appointed to the Kenneth G. Herrick professorship in 2005. Among other service to Hope, he was chairperson of the department of physics from 1995 to 2004.
In February 2011, the college's division for the natural and applied sciences recognized him and Peaslee for their work with that year's "James N. Boelkins Natural and Applied Sciences Division Research Award."
More than 60 Hope students have worked with DeYoung on research projects over the years. They have gone on to careers in a variety of scientific areas. Former students are now researchers, college and university teachers, doctors, engineers and high school teachers, and several are employed at high-tech companies.
His research has received continuous support, totaling more than $2 million, since 1985 from agencies including the National Science Foundation, Research Corporation and the Michigan Space Grant Consortium. His work has resulted in more than 80 journal articles and more than 80 presentations at professional conferences.
He graduated from Hope summa cum laude in 1977. He completed his doctorate at the University of Notre Dame in 1982, and subsequently conducted research at the Nuclear Structure Laboratory, SUNY-Stony Brook, before returning to Hope to teach.
The American Physical Society is a non-profit membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy and international activities. Founded in 1899, APA represents more than 50,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories and industry in the United States and throughout the world.


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Olympic skating legend Scott Hamilton underwent brain surgery, after a benign tumor that was removed in 2004 came back.
The 51-year-old figure skating gold medalist from the 1984 games is expected to make a full recovery, his representative told People magazine.
"They're happy with the progress of the entry process and now [doctors] can begin to get rid of the tumor, spokeswoman Michelle Thornbury said Wednesday, midway through the operation.
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What happens after "happily ever after"? Fractured fairy tales of a darker hue provide the context for Into the Woods, which deconstructs the Brothers Grimm by way of The Twilight Zone. While the faces and names are familiar, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack in the Beanstalk and company inhabit a sylvan neighborhood in which witches and bakers are next-door neighbors, handsome princes from once-parallel fables are competitive (and equally vain) brothers and all the stories intersect through unexpected new plot twists. Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's beloved musical intertwines classic fairy tales with a contemporary edge to tell stories of wishes granted and the price paid.Tickets and info: (415) 677-9596; sfplayhouse.org
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HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: Being the President of the United States has perks. Sure, there's a floundering economy, two wars, and an oil spill, but you do cool things for your birthday.
For instance, this weekend President Obama turned 49. He's a hoops fan, so naturally the Commander in Chief invited LeBron James, Magic Johnson, Dwyane Wade, Bill Russell, and others to Washington for a pick-up run to entertain wounded soldiers.
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When it comes to getting passing grades in the Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) as part of the Leave No Child Behind Act, the McKenzie County Public School District No. 1 didn't do very well. But then again, neither did the majority of other school districts in North Dakota.
That was the bad news that Steve Holen, district superintendent, shared with the McKenzie County Public School District No. 1 School Board during its regular meeting last Tuesday.
According to Holen, the elementary school did not meet AYP for the first time, while the high school failed to reach the standards for the third year. As a result, the district, as a whole, failed to meet the standards.
"The elementary school failed to reach AYP standards in the reading areas for the subgroups of composite reading, economically-disadvantaged reading and white subgroup reading," stated Holen. "The high school failed to meet AYP in all 10 categories."
While Holen wasn't pleased with the AYP results, he noted that it is a problem statewide. In the last assessment, only 189 schools in the state made AYP, while 267 schools failed to meet the standards.
"The fundamental problem with AYP is that the same students aren't being followed," stated Holen. "Because the testing only follows a class, we aren't comparing apples to apples."
The rapid growth in student numbers, according to Holen, is also attributing to the district's problems in meeting AYP.
"We're seeing so many students with so many backgrounds enrolling in our district," stated Holen. "It's hard to get them up to speed with our district. But we can do it better and we are trying to meet the needs of the kids."
As a result of its failure to meet AYP standards, the district will remain in the school improvement process for the 2013-14 school year, which will require the district to formalize an improvement plan.
During Tuesday night's meeting, the board also got its first look at a new $11.15 million review budget for the 2013-14 school year.
"The biggest change that we are seeing in the new budget is an increase in state funds but also a big increase in salaries," stated Holen.
During the 2012-13 school year, the district had revenues of $9.7 million and spent $6.8 million in salaries. During the upcoming school year, the district is expecting to receive $11.15 million in revenues and will spend $7.5 million in salaries.
"We fared better with the new state funding formula," stated Holen. "The formula, which provides $8,900 per student favors growing districts."
But according to Holen, the district will be receiving less funds from the oil production tax.
"We're going to get less oil production tax revenue," stated Holen. "But we can live with that because we can now spend that money wherever we choose. In the past, the money was restricted."
Holen also noted that because of increasing enrollment, the district has also been hiring additional teachers, which is driving up the salaries line item of the budget.
"Five years ago, the district had 45 full-time equivalents (FTEs) in our professional staff," stated Holen. "This year, we will have 66½ FTEs."
During their regular meeting, the board also approved spending $70,000 to reseal the high school track.
"We were surprised to learn that the track was supposed to have been sealed after it was installed," stated Holen. "We had seen some deterioration. But we weren't informed that the track had to be sealed."
While resealing the track will not put the track back into its original state, according to Holen, it will extend the track's life by seven to eight years.
"If we don't seal the track, there will be enough damage that we will have to replace it," stated Holen. "It's money we had to spend."


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This course covers the concepts of fracture modeling in relation to how it is used in Petrel and the oil industry in general. It focuses on which input data are available (like image log interpretations) and how they can be used in Petrel. Various processes will be used to view, quality check and manipulate the input fracture data (logs, stereonets, etc.)
In Petrel, fracture modeling is split into two processes; generation of a Fracture Network model and Upscaling fracture attributes to generate fracture porosity, permeability and Sigma (connection) factor. The Fracture network model consists of a Discrete fracture network (DFN) and Implicit fracture properties (IFM). Various geological, structural and seismic fracture drivers will be used for Fracture intensity description, and ultimately combined using artificial neural networks. The fracture modeling course will briefly cover how the output fracture properties can be used for simulation.
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So our bachelors are all pretty dashing, right? But one lovely Mr Mike McGuire has proven himself especially eligible. Not only has he recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin (where he passed Stellar Point on the way to the top BTW) but he's also running two, yep two, marathons in the coming weeks for the charity. Oh yeah and he ran this itty bitty 65km Adventure Race while he was at it.
Mike says he's more than just a bit petrified about the double marathon leg of his journey, (Chicago on October 8th and Dublin, October 25th) having never run a marathon before, so why the bejaysus is he doing all this? "I was kindly taken around Crumlin Children's Hospital to see where the money is needed. While walking through, I met a 2 year old girl called Lucy who was undergoing her first chemotherapy session that day. Since then, I have been in touch with her parents through the hospital and they have agreed to let her be my little motivator through my last few challenges. The way I see it, if she (and her parents) have the bravery to go into a hospital every few days to go through the hell that is chemo, I should have the balls to go out running (I hate running, it's the devils work) when I don't want to."
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NEW YORK, NY -The 44th edition of the Greater NY Scholastic Championships was held on the weekend of January 30th - 31st, drawing over 900 entries. The tournament was hosted and sponsored by Kasparov Chess Foundation in association with the Chess Center of New York.
The event was held at the New Yorker Hotel in midtown Manhattan, the venue for the past six years. The Greater NY Scholastics is divided into 13 sections, featuring players K - 12.
A highlight of this year's tournament was an appearance by legendary champion Garry Kasparov, who observed games and provided plenty of encouragement to the young players. Mr. Kasparov also took part in his book signing and to answer students questions.
Special thanks go to Steve Immit and Sophia Rohde for directing the tournament. A complete review of individual and team results can be found at www.chesscenter.cc <http://www.chesscenter.cc/>.
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2. IS318, Junior High Champions (from left to right, Justus Williams, Jehron Bryant, Azeeze Alade, and Nigel Bryant)
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Founded by World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, KCF's mission is to bring the many educational benefits of chess to children throughout the United States by providing a complete chess curriculum and enrichment programs. The Foundation promotes the study of chess as a cognitive learning tool in curricular classes and after-school programs for elementary, middle and high schools, both in the public and private school sectors. The not-for-profit educational organization also organizes tournaments and competitions on a local and national basis. For more information, please visit http://www.kasparovchessfoundation.org/


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Central Florida animal shelter euthanizes cat before contacting family
Family says missing cat had microchip, shouldn't have been put down
ORLANDO, Fla. – A Central Florida family is heartbroken after their missing pet was put down by a local animal services shelter even though the cat had a microchip.
Melissa Vargas said her family's beloved 7-year-old cat, Max, went outside in mid August, but never came back to their Palm Bay home.
Vargas said she scoured her neighborhood, posted Max's picture on missing pet websites and contacted the maker of his microchip, but he never turned up.
On Tuesday, Brevard County Animal Services called Vargas to notify her that they had picked up Max earlier in the day and euthanized him.
Vargas said it's been devastating for her three young children.
"I just (tell them) that he's gone," said a tearful Vargas. "And I just want justice."
"It was in incredibly bad shape," said Brevard County Animal Services Captain Bob Brown.
Brown admits his agency made a mistake and is promising to do a better job of scanning animals for microchips. He also admits in the past 12 years, the same thing has happened three or four other times, but said part of the problem is the animals are injured and in pain and don't want people touching them, scanning them for microchips.
In Max's case, Brown said he was found in such horrible condition that even with veterinary treatment, he may not have survived.
The cat was found less than a mile from his home, covered in scabies, a parasite that can lead to rapid weight loss and a painful rash.
Max was down from 30 pounds to just eight pounds. He was missing hair, had an eye infection and wounds all over his ears.
Animal services said they scanned for a microchip, but missed it and felt it was only humane to euthanize the cat.
Brown said, "And unfortunately, after the cat was euthanized, then just as a precaution, we do one more sweep and we picked up the chip."
Brown said chips are normally found behind the neck, but some migrate, and Max's was found in his lower abdomen.
Vargas admits she did not want Max to suffer, but said she would have paid for veterinary care to get Max treatment.
"I could have tried to save him," said Vargas.
Brown said typically after finding an animal, the agency waits five days for owners to come forward. If no one comes forward to claim the animal, all healthy, non-aggressive animals are then put up for adoption.
Brown said they only euthanize when the animal is ill, aggressive, the owner requests it or the agency runs out of space.
There are steps pet owners can take to prevent their animal from getting accidentally euthanized.
Brevard County dog and cat owners are required to license their pet. By doing so, owners will get an ID tag for the pet's collar.
The shelter also offers free microchips. If a pet goes missing, owners are advised to contact animal services immediately.
Brown said each day they return five to 10 lost pets, either through ID tags, microchips or people calling to report missing animals.
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The walkout staged by Chicago Public Schools teachers this week had a ripple effect on thousands of children throughout the city. Among them are the high school students who work for The Mash, the Chicago Tribune's teen publication and journalism program.
You can see photos and videos taken by the students at TheMash.com.
Several of The Mash's teen reporters were at schools, at home, and even on picket lines Tuesday, the second day of the strike, and they shared some of their views and observations.
-- Phillip Thompson, Editor, The Mash
The students:
During this strike we are encouraged to be productive. We are encouraged, as students, to take initiative and go to school sites. We're encouraged to get ahead in our classes. But I've done quite the opposite.
I've been sleeping in, watching movies, bowling, babysitting my little sister -- and just taking time to relax.
The first week we were in school, I'd been pushing myself, keeping organized in case the teachers did strike. Just in case the strike didn't happen, I got all my homework taken care of this past weekend. I've been checking online to see if the school website has been updated. And, most importantly, I've been relaxing. With a 7:45 a.m. to 3:55 p.m. school day, the week becomes draining and monotonous. A break can rejuvenate an organized or overachieving student so they come back to school more motivated and recharged.
So perhaps the most productive thing to do during the strike is to be unproductive. Does that strike you as surprising?
-- Emma Seslowsky, Lincoln Park High School
I stand with the Chicago Teachers Union for better teaching conditions as they'll make for a better learning environment.
But I'm not so enthused about this time off.
I realize what the CPS teachers are doing is important, but it's just such an odd way to start of the school year. It's pretty surreal. I saw a video of some teachers picketing out in front of my school and it looked like something straight out of a movie. It's creepy -- all of a sudden the teachers aren't in charge, it's the strangest flip-flop.
I've taken this "fall break" time to get going on my college essays. And this extra time, I must admit, has been nice -- I've gotten a lot of work done. But I'm hoping this gets sorted out soon.
Quick prediction, though: When we get back, at least one teacher will tell us, "Well, this has been a great learning experience!"
-- Marisa Spiegel, Walter Payton College Prep
On Sunday night, while waiting for the final verdict on the decision for the strike, I was reading through my news feed on Facebook. I was so angry at the many posts that my classmates were making. All they could do was think about themselves and whether or not they would be able to pass their AP exams. I'm not dismissing the importance of our education and test scores, but do they not realize that if our teachers are not treated fairly, they cannot pass on their knowledge to us?
It's not just about the money. They are fighting for us to have better materials, smaller class sizes and a better curriculum—not just a longer school day.
The Board of Education and Mayor Emanuel are depriving us from funds and resources by using this money on a contingency plan when they could have used it to pay our teachers.
Monday morning at 6:30, I spent my day supporting Chicago Public Schools teachers at Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez Elementary School. My mother would bring me there every summer to volunteer and help the teachers out. The teachers were chanting, singing and making lots of noise to get the attention of parents.
Then in the afternoon, we arrived downtown about an hour before a rally at the Board of Education building was officially going to start at 3:30 p.m. There were already tons of teachers blocking Clark and other streets to make sure they caused a scene.
On Tuesday, I also attended the rally downtown with my mom and plan to join the union protests again. I support the Chicago Teachers Union and I'm so appreciative to have them and many other people caring about public school students.
-- Andrea Limon, Kenwood Academy
Being on strike isn't really as fun as most CPS students make it sound. Getting back into the swing of school is hard once, but having to do it twice will be even more difficult. While many kids are celebrating the strike as another vacation, I'm still trying to do as many school-related things as possible.
I don't want the strike to derail my senior year, so I'm still applying to schools and looking up scholarships all from home. I'm not attending one of the open schools, nor are any of my friends.
I agree with the reasons for striking, I just hope it is resolved soon so I can continue with my senior year and get back to school.
-- Josh Kalamotousakis, John F. Kennedy High School
The strike was looming on my conscious since the beginning of summer and though there was always talk about it, I never really expected it to happen. Fortunately, when it did happen, the football team I'm on and our school made plans. During the strike the football team moved practices to another location and my teachers gave us assignments to work on. Though the strike has left our team and our school in limbo, I believe it's right to do whatever is necessary for the teachers to be treated fairly.
-- Andres Luz, Whitney Young
Chicago Public Schools has a contingency plan for students whose parents can't stay home with them during the strike, made available to students from elementary through high school. However, I don't know any students my age who are attending the opened schools. The majority of my friends are treating the strike days merely as days off, and I am too.
Being that the most of us had odd sleep schedules during the summer, a lot of us are using this time off to recuperate from being awake early every day for school. Others are out taking advantage of the nice weather to play sports or explore the city, to experience downtown in a time when they would normally be in school.
A good amount of my friends are also out supporting their teachers as they strike. Azucena C., a senior at Curie and a good friend of mine, has been actively explaining to other students why the teachers are striking, as well as supporting the teachers in their downtown rallies.
We students have to deal with the majority of these teachers on a daily basis, so we know how much they struggle. Out of all my CPS friends, very few have been unsupportive of the strike. While students like Azucena may be supporting teachers with picket signs and screams, many of us are also supporting our teachers in spirit and heart from home.
-- Barbara Cruz, John Hancock High School
Last week I discussed the possibility of a strike with many of my teachers, one of whom became a physics teacher after being an engineer and who gave me some new perspective. As a father, he would not want his son's teachers to become teachers for the money but because they, like he, want the opportunity to shape the minds of the future. Yet at the same time, he said he fears that under current conditions our school systems will no longer be able to attract the best of the best, putting CPS students at a disadvantage.
As a senior, much of my summer vacation revolved around college preparation, and despite my complaints of how my summer felt like an extension of school, two days of staring at the walls and studying for the SATs have just about cured my cravings for freedom.
Never in my life have these words been more true: I want to go to school. I want homework. I want tests. I want pop quizzes on stuff I can't remember so that when I fail I never forget. I want school lunch on a plastic tray. I want face time with my counselor and my teachers and most of all: I want to be able to go to college.
While I completely support my teachers and counselors in their efforts to ensure that they are able to support themselves and their families, my applications for an admissions forum at the University of Illinois-Chicago are due by Thursday, which puts me and my peers at a disadvantage.
I consider my counselor and teachers to be people who know me in a way that I might not even know myself. I look to them for advice, knowing they will not try to change the meaning behind my words, but ensure that my work is the best it can be. Now, as I scramble to find peers and other adults to edit my college essay, I'm unsure it'll be my best work.
-- Shantae Howell, Walter Payton College Prep


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Curried Chicken with Apples
I got this recipe from an Indian neighbor who shared her recipe with me and would even show me how to prepare them.—Janice Fakhoury, Raleigh, North Carolina
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Cook: 30 min.
Makes4 servings
- 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1 large sweet onion, halved and sliced
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 medium tart apples, peeled and sliced
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh gingerroot
- 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, drained
- 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro
- Hot cooked rice
- In a large skillet or wok, stir-fry chicken and onion in oil until onion is tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in the apples, water and seasonings.
- Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 12-15 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink, stirring occasionally. Stir in the tomatoes, jalapeno and cilantro; heat through. Serve with rice.
Editor's NoteWear disposable gloves when cutting hot peppers; the oils can burn skin. Avoid touching your face.
Nutrition Facts1-1/2 cups (calculated without rice): 272 calories, 10g fat (2g saturated fat), 63mg cholesterol, 779mg sodium, 22g carbohydrate (13g sugars, 4g fiber), 25g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 1-1/2 fat, 1 starch, 1/2 fruit.
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Oct 3, 2011
I thought this recipe was just okay. My husband thought it was good. Not sure I will make again. I made again but substituted curry for the spices. Liked much more
Mar 18, 2009
How odd. We LOVED it! It had tons of flavor, and tasted like authentic Indian curry. Maybe you didn't add enough jalepenos or something? We'll definitely make this again.
Feb 1, 2009
This was terrible! It had no flavor. The apples did not go well with this dish.


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I got me a factory refurbished Gamo Bone Hunter air rifle to keep in practice during the sub-zero months. (10 yd range in basement) Looked brand new in the box. Already having fun with that! The Budget got me a pair of new sneakers with the wide lasts for my wide feet, 4) CarHartt tee shirts with the pocket and 3) pair of sweats. I wear a uniform 5 days a week. After hours and on weekends I look like the guy at the top of the freeway exit. My Daughter and her Husband got me a tin of H&N "Crow Magnum" pellets, 2) 40-count packs of Duracell AA batteries, so that I don't have to keep stealing them from work. Thank goodness they are rated for 10 years in storage. They also got me a pair of Bluetooth wireless ear buds for my daily, evening walk. No more waiving at a passing neighbor and yanking one of my corded ones out. Lastly, my wife surprised me with a $100 Harbor Freight gift card. Quite a fruitful Christmas.
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Boy Wonder precisava de um novo design de página da web e criou um concurso na 99designs.
Um vencedor foi selecionado entre 17 designs enviados por 13 designers freelancers.
We are looking for a reskinning of a webpage where design elements/style can be replicated across the entire site. Please see full description for more info.
Worth Getting Married For!
Desired Color Scheme:
Logo Colors + Grey and White - see full description
Desired Style:
The design should reflect the products we sell, which are "cool and exciting" activities - Think of snowboarding sites and the image snowboarding companies try to get across and you will not go far wrong. The design should get across a fun and cool yet pr
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Hi we are looking for a reskinning of a webpage where design elements/style can be replicated across the entire site.
First of all I have done a complete layout and "rough" design myself (I am not a designer though!). This layout is done in HTML and includes the functionality we require. Here is my effort at the page redesign: (DESIGN 1) http://www.footballforums.net/zeb_t…_new_3.htm PLEASE CLICK ON THE "CONTINUE" BUTTONS TO SEE WHAT THEY DO.
Also please look at this other example of a redesign (DESIGN 2)http://www.whiteflame.eu/clients/chillisauce/ (This is a straight image)
We quite like the vibrancy of DESIGN 1, and it also has charactor and a unique feel, but you can tell it has not been done by a professional designer and it does not look polished. There also seems to be to much seperation into different elements of the Larger curved block areas, in particlular the top nav area, bread crumb and "Contact US image" with the child on the phone. The curved layout is appealing but it seems to be a bit "overdone" - but it looks better than the completely blocky design of DESIGN 2.
DESIGN 2 - has been done by a designer ( who was given DESIGN 1 to improve). It does look more polished, however it is terribly boring and to us it shows no imagination and could have been done by anyone with some basic editor skills. Essentially it just looks like any other website out there and could simply be a template out of the box.
1/. The page must be designed to incorporate all the elements shown in DESIGN 1. IE Top nav, breadcrumb, main text, main image, side elements, sub links with images etc etc
2/. For the element boxes which show "Sky Diving" you should design with the point in mind that it should still look good if you have varying length texts. The boxes with images are designed to show our most important products and then when you hit the more/continue button you see a series of boxes without images and just text, which are less important products. So your design will still look good if the text of these elements vary! ( DESIGN 2 would not as there is nothing containing the text and associated image ).
3/. The page should be designed to be 960 pixels wide.
4/. The DESIGN 1 was designed to keep the important user information in front of the user without much/any scrolling - hence the inclusion of the continue buttons which show more information with leaving the page. This should be incorporated in the design.
5/. The design does not have to have a background image ( or orangy background ) as shown in DESIGN 1 and DESIGN 2. I am totally open to ideas without a background if you can make it work without looking plain.
6/. Don't include a search area ( as in DESIGN 2 ) in your design as we have not got a satisfactory search function at the moment!
7/. Include an area for a tag line approximately 5 words long near/in the page header.
8/. Colors - You should use the logo colors + grey and white for the design - NOTE that the exact colours of the logo can look to "garish" when used heavily and particluarly in large blocks, so it may be an idea to use slightly duller tones of these as done in DESIGN 1.


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Songstress Mariah Carey dropped by the Late Night "Music Room" on Wednesday and shared what she wanted for Christmas.
Accompanied by host Jimmy Fallon and The Roots, Carey took a different spin on her self-penned holiday classic, "All I Want For Christmas Is You," with the bunch using plastic instruments normally found in an elementary school classroom.
Fallon played the wood block, tambourine, bass drum and kazoo, while Questlove rocked a wooden clacker with an afro pick. Other unorthodox instruments included: a Fisher Price xylophone, recorder, melodica, ukulele, bongos and sleigh bells.
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Pete, those CVA's are also a good sturdy machine. I've spent many hours turning on one very similar to this,and one of the features I always liked was the cross slide micrometer dial reads diametrically,so if you dial in 5 thou on the wheel then that is the amount the component dia is reduced by......OZ.
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flirtcatalog necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 181 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
Sins Of Skin
We are an online clothing retailer specializing in sexy apparel. We plan on launching a new ecommerce website under the brand name Sins Of Skin. We are going to be selling very erotic clothing targeted at the swinger "lifestyle", sexy club goers and stripping industries. Our largest competitor will be wickedtemptations.com (we do not particularly like their design) if you want to get an idea of what we are going to sell.
Women ages 18-35 who strip, swing or just dress super sexy when they go to the club or parties. We want to attract people who walk on the wild side and dress very risque and provocative. The majority of our customers will be women who dress in very revealing clothes so while we do want to keep it somewhat dark, it needs to appeal to women as well.
The logo should portray what we are about, very sexy and risque clothing that is so hot it is sinful! Must work in the header of the website so it should be wider rather than taller. Stay away from light bright colors. No pastels and no pinks please. We are thinking that darker shades will work better for the provocative look we are shooting for. Maybe black and dark reds but cannot say for sure. Please keep in mind that we are targeting women so it must appeal to them and not guys, which is a bit of a tall order for a darker logo. The only text in the logo should be the brand name, Sins of Skin. There should be spaces and no .com. Creativity with colors, fonts and graphics is welcome! If you are going to incorporate a graphic, please put it before the text. We do not want it to be in front of or behind the text as it could cause readability issues or above the text as it will make the logo taller than we want.
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I do alot of editing in xlobby regarding playlists, and sometimes i wish i could extract that playlist instead of hunting and pecking for each song
so i can play them on my mp3 player, or ipod, or whatever.
I think it would be a good idea to be able to take a playlist and extract those mp3's to a directory of my choosing?
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f3jk3r wrote:I found hash 88 characters long. This can't be right. The mission instructs us to brute force hashes we find in each step. I haven't heard for algorithm that creates hashes 88 characters long (except for cold fusion according to google, which seems incorrect btw). Am I on the right track?
dwmead03 wrote:There is something you can do with those 88 characters. Also, ensure you have the correct data, at first I was misleaded by what I thought was the data. BTW, I'm at the part just after where you are and still stuck.
f3jk3r wrote:I guess I can repeat whole procedure a couple of times, which will in the end give me hash with 22 characters. Then what? Or maybe there is some other thing I can do with what I found? BTW, how can I be sure I have correct data? It is a hash made of hexadecimal numbers with length of 88 characters. I tried with several images and this is what I get every time.
What makes me wonder is the line in the mission text: "In order to get this data you must brute-force the encrypted hashes you get in each step. To do this within the time limit you must write a smart brute forcing method, good luck."
I must brute-force every hash I get? Sure, I can try, but first I have to find hashing algorithm that outputs 88 characters as a result..
f3jk3r wrote:Yey! I had typo in my code. Again. Anyway, if last to characters shoud be something that would identify this as B***XX encoding, I don't get last two characters as such. Tried LSB method, tried some other approaches, all I get is jiberish. Back to work..
acskurucz wrote:yeah, it should identify as ****XX, so you messed up something. check what is the x coordinate of the first pixel in a line. i can imagine that as the problem, but i don't know which chars have you got.
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The Columbus Crew's first trip to Montreal is one they won't soon forget, unfortunately for all the wrong reasons.
With all the statistics pointing in their favor, especially after Milovan Mirosevic put the Crew ahead in the 64th minute, they managed to defy the odds and lose 2-1 on Sunday to the expansion Impact.
Montreal hadn't earned as much as a single point in six attempts when allowing the first goal in a game while the Crew were a stellar 5-0-1 after scoring first, yet history was thrown out the window as the home side outplayed and outworked Columbus to get a score from Zarek Valentin in the 78th minute and a winning penalty kick from Patrice Bernier 11 minutes later.
"That's frustrating," Crew defender Josh Williams said. "We got the goal and we started to settle down a little bit, knock the ball around. [Then] we got a little impatient."
Columbus head coach Robert Warzycha was not happy about the penalty call that resulted from Chris Birchall clattering into Justin Mapp.
"The second goal probably was a gift by the referee," Warzycha said. "I don't know. It's too bad it happened in the 88th minute. You're always going to question that."
The Impact outshot the Crew 24-9 and more importantly, had five of the six shots on goal.
"Montreal was the better team," Warzycha said. "The better team won. We led 1-0 but we didn't create much. They were pushing. They wanted it more."
That the Crew (6-6-4) could muster no more offense than a corner kick from Nemanja Vukovic that Mirosevic headed past goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts from six yards was telling: Montreal (6-11-3) had allowed three goals in each of their prior three matches.
And there was little cohesion in the attack even with the return of Mirosevic from an adductor strain, and he and forward Emilio Rentería never clicked.
"We kept them very controlled in the first half, but while the minutes were going on, we starting defending more close to our goal," Mirosevic said.
There were also problems defensively with major gaps even though captain Chad Marshall played for the first time in nine games after being sidelined by concussion symptoms.
"It was nice to get back out there, go the 90 minutes," he said. "Obviously it was frustrating the way it turned out."
However, his center back partner, Julius James, sat because of a hip flexor, and Williams took his place. The third-year defender played his usual solid game, but the Crew were further undone by the absence of Danny O'Rourke's steady influence in midfield, with his troublesome left ankle proving another thorn in the team's side.


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From this...
To this...Overnight.
Photos from January 20th and January 25th. And it continued to snow all day; I shoveled the two-vehicle uphill driveway and half way into the street twice - not the side street or alley shown above, the other semi-paved street above the rock wall.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Change in the Weather
Posted by Silver Fox at 2:52 PM
2 comments:
- Amanda@Lady Scientist said...
Wow! Amazing what a difference a day makes, huh?
- Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 7:06:00 PM PST
- Silver Fox said...
Good to hear from you Amanda - and now it's all turning back into ice and rapidly into mud!
- Friday, January 30, 2009 at 2:36:00 PM PST
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Webinar will identify treatment technologies and equipment needed to mitigate recontamination
The Water Quality Assn. (WQA) will host its Mitigating Recontamination webinar on Feb. 5, 2014, at 2 p.m. EST. The webinar will explain where recontamination may occur and identify treatment technologies and equipment needed to mitigate recontamination. In order for your registration to be processed, it much be purchased no later than 5 p.m. EST on Feb. 4. After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing information about joining the webinar.
Title: Mitigating Recontamination
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014
Time: 2 to 3 p.m. EST
Cost: $60 for WQA members, $90 for non-members
Presenter: Peter Cartwright, CWS-VI, PE, Cartwright Consulting Co.
System Requirements for PC-based attendees are Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP or 2003 server. For Mac-based attendees, the requirements are Mac OS X 10.6 or newer. Mobile requirements are iPhone, iPad, Android phone or Android tablet.