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ORLANDO, Fla. – Police arrested a man who worked at Universal Orlando as "Captain America" after sending nude pictures to a 16-year-old, according to authorities.
Court documents show James Alton, 29, of Maitland, was arrested Thursday on charges of transmission of harmful materials to a minor by a computer, a third-degree felony.
According to the report, Alton met the teen in April while working at the theme park.
He posed for a picture with the teen and then reached out to her when he found the picture posted on a social media site. The two started exchanging inappropriate text messages and were planning on meeting up on Friday, officials said.
Police said Alton sent nearly a dozen nude pictures of himself to the girl.
The victim's parents discovered the text messages on the 16-year-old's phone and contacted authorities.
Alton told investigators it was a bad decision and that he knew she was 16, according to police.
Friday afternoon, Universal Orlando said Alton had been fired.
Alton also worked at Disney and is on unpaid leave pending the outcome of the investigation, according to a Disney spokesperson.
Police said they are currently investigating to determine if the alleged relationship warrants any additional charges.
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When Willem Dafoe played the Green Goblin back in 2002's 'Spider-Man,' hardcore Spidey fans were none too happy with his costume. The iconic villain is making a return in 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' (and will now be played by 'Chronicle' star Dane DeHaan) and the new design couldn't be more different. Our best look yet at DeHaan in costume and make-up has arrived online, giving us a taste of what to expect from Spider-Man's arch nemesis.
Gone is the bulky, 'Power Rangers' villain suit! The Green Goblin now looks like, uh, an elf with a skin condition. If you hoped DeHaan would actually resemble like his comic book counterpart, this new look will probably be a disappointment. He doesn't look like a Goblin and there's not a lot of green. But we'll give director Marc Webb this much: he has managed to make DeHaan look truly creepy and that's more important than sticking close to comic book canon.
It's not like 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' isn't already diverging from its source material in a huge way. In the Marvel comic book world, the Green Goblin is the villainous alter-ego of Norman Osborn, but in this film, it's his son, Harry Osborn, who undergoes the transformation. In other words, they've gone ahead and jumped straight to aping 'Spider-Man 3' instead of 'Spider-Man.' Take from that what you will.
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There's a major hurdle to the U.S. economy's recovery: The mismatch between the skills held by the millions of people who are losing jobs and the expertise needed for the few jobs that are being created.
The nation lost 53,000 construction jobs during December, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, the lion's share of the net 85,000 jobs lost last month. It also shed 27,000 manufacturing jobs. Taken together, those two sectors have shed about 3.7 million jobs since the recession began in December of 2007.
By contrast, the areas that saw job growth during the month included health services, which added around 22,000 jobs in December, and professional sectors such as architecture and engineering services, computer systems design and administrative and support services.
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"The mismatch is there. People with certain kinds of skills that may not be readily transferable to other parts of the economy … continue to be hit really hard in this downturn," said Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic Advisors.
The job losses are so extreme in sectors such as construction that many believe it could take several years for employment to return to its pre-recession levels.
In the meantime, millions of construction workers are unemployed and lack the training to get a job in one of the few fields that are hiring.
They also may simply not be a good fit.
"Do construction workers really want to go into an office?" Naroff said. "Those are really skilled workers, and a lot of them choose a lifestyle because they like it."
Jobs in areas such as auto manufacturing may never return, leaving those workers with no choice but to find a job in a new field.
"It's pretty clear there's going to be a lot of structural unemployment, which means there's a lot of people who have been laid off from jobs that just don't exist anymore," said Marisa Di Natale, a director at Moody's Economy.com.
That could lead to higher levels of unemployment even after the economy has recovered more fully. Also, even if manufacturing workers eventually find new work, growing global competition may force them into jobs that pay less than the ones they lost.
"They have skills that might be transferable, but the question is, are they going to be able to match the kinds of salaries and benefits they were making in those companies?" Naroff said. "A lot of people could be looking at a fairly permanent reduction in (salary)."
In total, the nation lost more jobs than many experts had expected in December, and the unemployment rate stayed steady at 10 percent.
One bright spot: Manufacturing job losses were not as bad as in the early months of the recession. Although that could be a sign that sector is stabilizing, it doesn't mean that jobs will return in that sector anytime soon.
Another potential positive is the continued increase in temporary help services. Employers added 47,000 temporary jobs in December, marking the fifth straight month of growth. That is often an indicator that employers are growing more confident about adding workers.
In contrast, the number of people who have been unemployed for six months or more reached 6.1 million in December, and now account for about 40 percent of the total number of unemployed Americans. Also, some people have dropped out of the labor market completely because they are so discouraged about their job prospects.
The unemployment report follows a week of economic news that some believe offers evidence the U.S. recovery is plodding along, although in fits and starts.
The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing executives, reported stronger-than-expected manufacturing activity in December, and similar reports from other areas of the world also were encouraging.
The ISM also reported this week that the service sector showed marginal growth in the month, though it was less than many had hoped.
Many of the nation's retailers reported slight gains for the holiday season, despite high unemployment and worries that consumers would be extremely frugal. The International Council of Shopping Centers said sales rose 1.8 percent for the November-December period, an improvement over the steep drop in the same period last year.
On Thursday, the government said the number of new claims for unemployment benefits barely rose last week, another sign that the worst recession since the Great Depression may be easing. Oil prices also have rallied sharply in recent weeks.
There also are plenty of signs that any economic recovery will not be smooth.
Construction spending dipped slightly in November, and the number of people preparing to buy a home in November fell sharply. That's leading some to fear a double-dip in the housing market, which could hinder any recovery.
For most people, however, it will not feel like the nation is in an economy recovery until more Americans are back at work. That could take months, or even years.
"Unfortunately, the labor market is one of the last parts of the economy turn around in a recovery," Di Natale said.


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You and your children are unique. How you respond to the change that cancer may bring will depend on different factors, including the way your family normally deals with feelings.
Some parents worry about showing their feelings or crying in front of their children. However, there are good reasons to show how you feel. Hiding or bottling up your feelings also takes up energy and can make you feel even more anxious.
Showing your feelings can make it easier for your child to show theirs – it's like giving them permission to do the same. We have more information on the emotional effects of cancer.
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The way children cope is often closely linked to how their parents cope. Children may need to be shielded from strong outbursts of emotion, such as arguments and rows between adults. But it's okay to cry in front of them sometimes, or to tell them you're fed-up or angry about your illness.
Let them know that crying helps you feel better and there may be times when they'll need to do the same. They shouldn't think crying is babyish or that they have to be strong. Explain that feelings like sadness and anger are normal and it's okay to show these. This helps your children accept these feelings as normal, rather than be frightened of them or feel that it's wrong to have them.
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I purchased a Roomba recently with high hopes that I too could have a cat shark riding a Roomba around in my kitchen. Also, with two cats, it gets gross and having a robot in my house to suck up cat hair is pretty cool. The things that are not so cool is that I have somehow managed to program the Roomba to start a cleaning cycle at 3 in the morning on Sundays. At first I thought my cat magically stepped on the cleaning button, but he did not. I've tried to figure it out how to un program it, watched the dvd that comes with it and I just can't. So basically my fix is to box the Roomba in at it's charging station on Sunday night and then it can't move. HA. Teri: 1 Roomba: 0.
I've been trying to think of a way to tie in my random Roomba story and there isn't a way. So let's just talk about these Butternut Squash Cranberry & Goat Cheese Crostini. This is basically fall bruschetta which I freaking love, because I loooovvveeeeee butternut squash so much. These simple little crostini are so pretty and colorful and look like leaves when they change for fall (I felt so pinterest inspirational quote-y when I typed that for some reason). You can add hazelnuts if you want a crunch factor too.
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Butternut Squash, Cranberry and Goat Cheese Crostini
Serves 8 to 10
2 1/2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 (12") sourdough baguette, thinly sliced (1/4" pieces)
3 to 4 ounces goat cheese, softened
1 1/2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 shallot, minced
1 1/2 cups peeled and diced butternut squash
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 cup dried cranberries, roughly chopped
2 1/2 tablespoons minced thyme
salt and pepper to taste
1. Preheat oven to 375˚F.
2. Brush each side of sliced baguette pieces with oil and lightly season with salt and pepper.
3. Bake for 5 minutes, flip each crostini, and continue to bake for an additional 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from oven and set aside.
4. For topping: Pour oil into a heavy bottom skillet and place over medium-high heat. Add shallots and sauté for 2 minutes.
5. Add squash and continue to sauté for 4 minutes. Reduce heat to medium, add garlic and 2 tablespoons thyme and stir together. Season with salt and pepper.
6. Cook mixture for 5 minutes, add cranberries and season with salt and pepper.
7. Continue to cook for 4 to 5 minutes or until squash is fork tender. Stir in remaining thyme and adjust seasonings.
8. To assemble: Spread a small amount of goat cheese onto each crostini and top with a spoonful or two of the squash mixture. Serve.


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Your ability to install patches on your Windows® Virtual Private Server (VPS) depends on which version of Windows your server runs.
- Windows 2003 — You cannot patch your server because of the virtualization software we use. Your server receives patches when we upgrade the server hosting it.
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New York City's prosecutors and judges are failing to inform non-citizens of the implications of guilty plea agreements.
This is the view of Brooklyn lawmaker, Councilmember Dr. Kendall Stewart. He noted that these agreements allow a defendant to plead guilty to a charge in exchange for a lesser penalty are encouraged by an over-burdened court system because they help to speed up trials, avoid protracted legal battles, and help free up the clogged system.
"This is a tool used by our court system that has had negative effects on non-citizen immigrant communities in the city," Stewart said. "A guilty plea, even in response to a mere violation or misdemeanor, can effectively become a sentence of deportation, mandatory detention or ineligibility for future citizenship. I believe that prosecutors and judges should be mandated by law to inform these defendants of these implications before they enter a guilty plea."
Councilmember Stewart has asked his colleagues at the New York City Council to support his Resolution 1984 that urges the New York State legislature to pass a law that would require New York State courts, prior to accepting a plea to a felony, misdemeanor or violation, to advise defendants of immigration consequences. This law would also provide substantive remedies for defendants who plead guilty without knowledge of such consequences.
"This is about due process that is a fundamental human and civil right set forth in our Constitution. It calls for our courts to ensure that people are well informed of the consequences of their decisions and actions when appearing as a defendant. The laws that we now have in place are insufficient and only require notifications in felony cases. There is also no mechanism for enforcement or remedies if courts, judges and prosecutors fail to notify defendants about the consequences of a guilty plea on their immigration status, citizenship and personal records," Councilmember Stewart noted.
As a result of the 1996 changes to federal immigration laws non-citizens who enter a guilty plea are at greater risk for deportation or removal from the United States – even for guilty pleas that involve relatively minor violations or misdemeanors.
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Revoke My Black Card: I've Never Seen "Roots" (Until This Weekend)
"I'm sorry… what?"
I'm in an editorial meeting at ESSENCE. In my recollection, the room falls silent, and all the editors train their eyes on me. We'd been discussing how we should cover the 30th anniversary of Roots: The Saga of an American Family, a momentous TV event. Each editor had thrown out an idea, except me. My Editor-in-Chief put me on the spot, and I told the truth: I never saw Roots.
I knew the highlights, or I thought I did. Based on Alex Haley's bestselling book about his ancestry, it's the tale of an African man sold into slavery and the many horrors that come to him and generations to come.
"Nope, I confirm to my EIC. "I've never seen it."
I had a somewhat valid excuse, I thought: Roots originally aired before I was born. But then there were editors in the room with children younger than me, and they'd sat there brood down for an American history moment. I am sufficiently shamed.
"Demetria," a senior editor says sternly, "you must watch Roots."
Five years later, I've finally fulfilled that duty. The Christmas release of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, a movie about slavery is here and it coincides — no coincidence, I'm sure — with the 35th anniversary of Roots. Over the weekend, BET began airing the entireRoots franchise. I had nothing better to do, so I bunkered down with delivered Thai food and watched.
Um … yeah. I couldn't turn away from the start, not with Cicely Tyson screaming in agony as she birthed a baby, not thru the coming-of-age story of that baby, a boy, Kunta Kinte, turning into a man in 18th century Gambia. Riveting is an understatement.
But from the moment Kunta Kinte is captured by the white man, the "WTF?" moments never stopped coming. I now totally understand why my mother wouldn't, or maybe couldn't, watch it again.
After that ESSENCE meeting, I'd rushed back to my desk to call my mother at work. I had to know why she (and my father) had set me loose into the world without showing me Roots, a seeming African-American rite of passage.
She sighed heavy. "I probably should have, but …" she began. "I just couldn't."
Mum explains that, for me to watch as a child, she would have had to as well in order to explain it. And she just couldn't do that to herself. Or me.
"It's a hard movie. Like …" She pauses to search for the right words. "I watched it. It was hard to get up and go to work the next morning and deal with … people. But you should probably watch it anyway."
Her calling it "hard" was an understatement. I'll spare you the long list of scenes that made me pause the movie and sigh heavy just like my mother had at recalling it. Instead, I'll give you the top three thoughts that ran through my head:
1. This. Is. F%^#ed. Up.
2. Ohhhh, so that's where "that" came from. *light bulb goes off*
3. The entire African-American race has got to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (… which turns out not to be a far-fetched thought. I looked it up and I'm late on that. All the people who arrived at that conclusion earlier probably saw Roots.)
As horrifying as Roots is, it's still slavery-lite. But let's go with Roots' depiction. A human is captured by weird-looking people who separate the person from their family and tribe. Forever. This person is caged like an animal, then taken on a months-long journey across the Atlantic, in which the person is chained below deck for most of it. People are dying, and vomiting and pissing and defecating and they are living, literally, in it, for who knows how long. The person is poked and prodded like an animal on the auction block, then sold off to the highest bidder, separated from anyone they might have known from home or connected with on the God forsaken journey over.
Any one of these experiences alone would screw up the average person. But we're still not done.
This person lands on a plantation, and is introduced to a "home" of horrors where the threat of violence looms and folk that look like them have adopted the White Man's version of what Africans are, and are in equal measure friends and enemies. As a means of survival, the Black people the person encounters have adapted to a f@#$ed up reality where submission, fear, silence, and you know, delivering your daughter to be raped by the overseer are par for the course.
This goes on for generations. People who have lived under tyranny, have adapted to bizarre modes, and been taught off-klter perceptions of the world and themselves. Overseers have been paid good money to break them so they "know their place." Stories about Africa, a far off place where Black folk strut free are a distant memory or sound like a fantasy and ain't nobody got time for that. Live. Die. Get your reward in the After Life. You cling to that either because you really believe it or it's the only thing that keeps you from going crazier. Maybe both.
Freedom doesn't suddenly make everything "Kumbaya." All the trauma and screwy ways you've been taught to see and adapt to the world like putting white folks on pedestals (and walls in Black churches), fearing white folk, seeing yourself and people who look like you as less than, eating the sh!t white folk won't touch, and placing a premium on light-skinned Negroes or Negroes of any color with white folks' features, remain along with a whole lot of anger, depression, and bitterness.
In 19th Century America there's no time (or money) for the masses of Black folk to work out all that with a therapist or have long conversations about feelings and collective Black self-esteem. Emotionally shot and physically damaged folk need to focus on survival for themselves and their brood. A hefty chunk of Black folk's core dysfunctions that the world blames them for having don't get treated. So their kids watch and do as they do, not as they say. Someone beat them, and they beat their kids, and then they beat their kids and the cycle doesn't get broken because everyone it happened to says, "Hey, I turned out okay." And there's no end in sight for any of this to stop when 165 years after the abolition of slavery, in general, Black folks fear therapy more than they fear God.
A few weeks ago, I went home to my parents' house for Thanksgiving and stayed for a week, perhaps the longest I've been home consecutively since I moved to New York at 23. I'm sitting at the kitchen table where the wi-fi signal is strongest watching Season 2 of The Walking Dead. My father wanders into the kitchen to forage for leftovers and engages me in conversation.
"What are you watching?" he asks.
"The Walking Dead."
He opens the fridge.
He's still tinkering around nearby by the time the show ends and I ask him out of genuine concern, "Hey, do we have guns in the house?"
There's a shotgun "probably from the late 1800s, I would guess," he says. "Doesn't work. Why?"
"Just wanted to know if we were covered in case there's ever a zombie apocalypse," I say.
He decides to entertain me. "The shotgun was my father's, father's. He was born in 1862. You want to see it?"
Wayament. What?
"My great-grandfather was a slave?!" I shout. I'm just now finding this out that just three-generations ago, my blood, literally mine as Type passes down on the Daddy's side, was owned. People talk about slavery like it was so long ago, but when people still living can talk about people they met that were enslaved, it ain't that far back.
"He's where we get our eyes from, I think," my Dad says. "My Dad had them, his dad had them. We have them."
That's DNA passed down since slavery for sure, and I wonder how much else.
Demetria L. Lucas is the author of "A Belle in Brooklyn: The Go-to Girl for Advice on Living Your Best Single Life" (Atria) in stores now. Follow her on Twitter @abelleinbk
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The best time to visit Primark is first thing or last thing. If you go about 15 mins before closing time, just watch the usually s-l-o-o-w-w-w staff suddenly become madly efficient. You also avoid the crowds of slack jawed people, usually entire families in tow, skin greying from the lack of vitamins, filling their baskets with clothes three sizes too small. And all the time I am thinking – Don't you people have to work?!
(My excuse? Lunch break!).
Still I recently cleared out my wardrobe for charity and a huge proportion of it was throwaway worn-once-or-not-at-all Primark stuff, so I am being very controlled when it comes to buying odd bits and bobs that will end up in a landfill somewhere.
But as usual I am digressing. Primark have a cosmetic range now and a huge one it is – lip sticks, eyeshadows, glosses, tools. Out of interest I picked up a bright £1 eyeshadow:
The colours look very bold and colourful in the picture – a hot orange and yellow. The split pan is very similar to something else – but I can't think of it at the moment:
I KNOW it's only £1 and it performs ok for a £1 eyeshadow but I wouldn't buy it again. They are fairly chalky and a bit – what's the word? bitty? a bit crumbly? Like I said, they certainly aren't rubbish for £1 but I wouldn't bother getting anymore unless it was for say…a kids party? I have to many excellent eyeshadows already and this would never really get a look in:


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But for the residents of Joplin, it's all too familiar.
Monday's massive EF5 tornado that tore through 17 miles of Moore, Oklahoma, brought back dark memories for those who survived the similarly powerful twister in Joplin almost two years earlier.
Seeing footage of Moore, Oklahoma, takes Jennifer Parr right back to May 22, 2011, the day an EF5 tornado ravaged Joplin and killed more than 150 people.
"I can still feel the shock, the awe, the sadness," she said. "I can still remember the smell too. It smelled like freshly cut wood."
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'Let others help you'
Processing emotions has been difficult since Parr lost her entire home in the tornado. Two years later, the 32-year-old continues to work with a therapist.
Talking out her struggles has helped her "move forward and not stay stuck in the past," she said. "There are some days it is still hard to comprehend what I went through."
Shock and adrenaline carried her through the first days after the tornado. But after that, she said she didn't know what to do.
Parr empathizes with what the people of Moore are going through this week, remembering her own difficult experience. "Right now it feels impossible to start picking up the pieces, not knowing where to even start," she recalled.
Leaning on friends and family in the area helped as she started to piece her life back together. Her advice to Moore residents is simple: "Let others help you, even when you think you don't need the help."
'With patience we always get it right'
Fernando Martinez hails from a Navy family and spent most of his life moving around. But when his grandparents retired, Joplin became home.
The day of the tornado, Martinez, his parents, grandparents and niece were all home together. Everyone survived, but the tornado tore their lives apart.
His mother was drained "emotionally" from the experience, so she and his father uprooted and moved to California. The rest of the family stayed in Joplin.
"I could never leave this town, and I have tried," said the 25-year-old. "I just keep coming back."
It was Martinez's close-knit family and his friends that helped him get through the months of wrangling with insurance companies and repairing the damage to the house.
"I think that when you experience something so traumatic and difficult to understand, you become stronger willed and it hardens your emotions a bit, making you a bit braver," he said.
Moving on though requires living on, Martinez said. "Life sucks sometimes, and we are sometimes given the worst hands when playing, but with patience, we always get it right and we always win."
'It helps prevent panic'
Ben Callihan may have returned to his day-to-day life quickly after repairing the $2,000 worth of damage to his Joplin home, but the storm affected him psychologically.
He and his roommate called their mothers as the twister barreled through their neighborhood. "The calls lost connection, and when the tornado was next to us it sounded like a clothes dryer, with footballs being kicked at my house every couple of seconds," he recalled.
These days, the 32-year-old lifelong Joplin resident is a lot more wary about inclement weather.
"Twice in the last month during tornado sirens I have sped to the temporary FEMA shelters in another town," he said, even though he knows that he should hunker down in the nearest available shelter, as FEMA recommends.
Callihan, who survived by hiding in his bathtub, has found it comforting to make his way to a shelter even when the weather is less dangerous than a tornado. "It helps prevent panic," he explained.
He encouraged tornado survivors to take advantage of free counseling and therapy that may be provided in Moore.