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Nine-year-old Colten Wolverton's passion is stockcar racing. But he also loves Winnie the Pooh and Franklin videos, as well as throwing books down stairs because he likes the thump-thump-thump sound they make on the way down. Colten finds that plastic bowls tossed on the floor also make a pleasing noise, bouncing and spinning as they do. And VCR buttons fascinate him: On, off, on, off, on, off-again and again, until mom or dad tells him that's enough.
Colten has autism, a debilitative form that is evidenced by obsessive-compulsive disorder and may render him unable to live an independent life. But that hasn't stopped his parents, Shane and Ann, from pursuing an education for Colten. At first, he attended a Greenville, S.C., public school. But after the Wolvertons became concerned about his safety, they enrolled Colten at Hidden Treasure Christian School (HTCS), a Taylors, S.C., institution serving special-needs kids.
As it turns out, such schools are rare, not only in America, but likely on the globe. WORLD canvassed the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI), which represents more than 5,400 Christian schools in 105 countries; the American Association of Christian Schools (AACS) with more than 1,000 member institutions; and the National Institute for Learning Disabilities, a special-needs education program founded on a Christian worldview and in use in 400 schools around the world. In the end, we only found three Christian schools dedicated entirely to special-needs kids: Gateway School and Learning Center in Anchorage, Alaska; Master's Academy in Duncanville, Texas; and Hidden Treasure.
Hidden Treasure arose from the literal ashes of individual tragedy. In May 1978, a fire broke out at the home of John Vaughn, the young pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Greenville. Vaughn's wife and 2-year-old daughter, Becky, were severely burned, leaving Becky with profound physical disabilities, including the loss of all 10 fingers.
Three years later, when the Vaughns began seeking a Christian education for their daughter, they found that area parochial schools could meet Becky's academic and spiritual needs, but not her physical ones. After consultation with medical, business, and education professionals, John Vaughn founded HTCS in 1981 with an enrollment of two: Becky and a mentally handicapped young lady of 13.
Today, HTCS serves a variety of special-needs kids including those with emotional disorders and physical disabilities like spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, and visual impairments, as well as those with learning disabilities, mental disabilities, and autism.
Colten Wolverton's autism has severely limited his academic prospects, his father said. But HTCS teachers are working with him on key life skills, such as dressing himself and communicating with others: "When Colten is sick or hurt, we can't tell what's wrong because he can't tell us," Shane Wolverton said. Colten is also learning to be subordinate to the activities of a group, "to meet expectations that are not defined by him."
HTCS students, meanwhile, are not defined by clinical categories or limited by textbook prognosis for specific disabilities. Instead, the school embraces each student as a special and complete creation with a divinely ordained purpose, Wolverton said: "What a normal school system tolerates, Hidden Treasure embraces. The school teaches them, to the extent they are able to grasp it, that they were fashioned by God lovingly and tenderly. That He does not view them as outside His plan to pursue a specific purpose that He has in store."
With only 60 students and a teacher-student ratio of 7-to-1, HTCS can be more nimble than special-ed programs embedded in larger schools, particularly public ones. The school is not bound by the bureaucracy found in some programs where even minor tweaks to a child's "Individual Educational Plan (IEP)" have to be voted on by a multidisciplinary committee.
"If a parent wants a change, they call me," said HTCS administrator John McCormick. "We sit down and discuss it and if it sounds like something we should try, we try it."
On the flip side, resources are slim. McCormick said the school's biggest challenge is to meet operating expenses each year. Divide actual expenses by the number of students and the cost per pupil is about $14,000. But HTCS parents pay, on average, $7,400 each year, while a director of development works all year to raise the additional $400,000 in necessary funds. "We work to keep tuition low enough so that we don't out-price a lot of our folks." Still, new parents come in each year and want to enroll their child, but can't afford it.
"It breaks my heart," McCormick said. "I'd really like to be able to say, 'Hey, don't worry about it.' But we're financially limited as to who we can assist."
Limited resources explain in large part the low number of even mainstream Christian schools offering separate special-education programs. AACS did not have current statistics on special-education programs among its members, but staff member Randy Scallion said schools in the group's membership are small and specialized: "Special-education programs are not a common thing."
Meanwhile, only 205, or about 5 percent, of ACSI's 4,000 domestic schools offer them, according to the group's membership enrollment data. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that about 12 percent of children enrolled in K-12 public schools received some type of federally supported special-needs education during the 2001-02 school year, the most recent year tabulated.
The paucity of special-needs programs in Christian education troubles McCormick, in part because he feels it reflects poorly on the church's view of those in the church whom the Apostle Paul called "the part that lacked." The reference is to 1 Corinthians 12: 22-25, the biblical passage in which Paul compares the body of Christ to the human body: "The parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another."
Jim Johnson, an education professor at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, said complexity underlies the scarcity of Christian special-needs education. Accommodating the individual educational needs of the disabled is a "challenge for our churches and private organizations, many of whom can barely put together a basic structure for a general population," said Johnson, who specializes in education issues affecting the disabled. "When you add the complexity of what is required for children with special needs, you're adding a whole new level of infrastructure and support that goes beyond their resources."
Those issues led to the founding of Masters Academy (right). Elderine Wyrick, 57, a former Christian-school vice principal, launched Masters in her living room in 1988 after finding that neither public nor parochial schools could help her two learning-disabled sons achieve their potential.
Now located in Bread of Life Church in Duncanville, Texas, the school each year serves 38 to 40 kids of average intelligence or higher who have learning disabilities that cause them to struggle in school. Many are dyslexic or have attention-deficit conditions. Others have mild Aspberger's, a functional form of autism.
Common threads among students, Wyrick said, are social awkwardness, a resistance to change, and the need for more time to master material. "Our biggest hurdle is to help them understand that they really are intelligent and that they really do have a future. Many of them don't know because everyone has told them otherwise," said Wyrick, adding that students often come to Masters with bad school experiences.
Justin Walters, 19, is a senior at Masters. By the time he was a toddler, his parents, Lee and Leah Walters, knew he wasn't developing normally: He wasn't showing normal language progress and was strangely fascinated with things like air conditioner fans and car washes. At age 3, Justin received an Aspberger's diagnosis. After successful stints in a clinical language-intervention program and a secular special-needs prep school, Justin entered Masters in high school.
"It was perfect for him," his mother said. "It's very individualized, consistent, and nurturing." Walters appreciates Masters' biblical instruction and the emphasis on character and discipline. Justin "has just blossomed there," she said. Last year, he earned straight A's, zero detentions, and designation as "Mr. Masters Academy."
Justin works part-time at his dad's office, and his parents now entertain hope that he might someday live independently. Socially, things are still difficult for him, but he's working on it. "Justin has a couple of friends, but prefers the company of adults," Mrs. Walters said. "Now he's wanting to meet more girls."
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Gateway School and Learning Center in Anchorage, Alaska, serves dyslexic children of normal intelligence but who struggle in traditional academic settings because of difficulties with language-based skills. Dyslexia, a brain processing disorder, hampers kids in learning to read, write, and spell. But the condition wasn't understood in the 1970s when Marilyn Anderson taught in Christian schools. Then, many teachers thought dyslexic kids had poor study habits or were just plain lazy. In 1983, Anderson started Gateway in her basement with seven students ("Turned around," Sept. 21, 2002). From the beginning, she tailored a rigorous curriculum but trained teachers to "teach to the individual, not the curriculum."
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At Hampton Inn staff meetings, team members have built bicycles and playhouses for children in need in the United States, as well as prosthetic hands for children in Latin America.
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Hampton, which is a Hilton Worldwide brand, has held a number of team-building sessions led by Odyssey Teams Inc. The Chico, California-based company works to help corporations improve employees' leadership, collaboration and communication skills, and caps off the sessions with a philanthropic project, says co-founder Lain Hensley. "There's always a bonding impact."
In the process, such efforts can be a powerful tool to help organizations instill their corporate culture and retain employees, Hensley says.
Hampton brought in Odyssey Teams for training sessions both with its Memphis, Tennessee-based corporate team members, and with top general managers of its hotels, which are all franchisees. Working on these projects helped forge strong ties between team members, Valenti says.
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Citigroup, the third-biggest U.S. bank, said Wednesday it plans to cut more than 11,000 jobs, about 4% of its global workforce, in an effort to reduce costs and enhance profitability.
Citi shares were up nearly 5% to $35.99 in late Wednesday morning trading.
"These actions are logical next steps in Citi's transformation," CEO Michael Corbat said in Citi's statement. "While we are committed to -- and our strategy continues to leverage -- our unparalleled global network and footprint, we have identified areas and products where our scale does not provide for meaningful returns.
The bank, which employs 262,000 worldwide, did not detail how many of the jobs cuts will be in the United States, although it plans to close 44 branches.
Corbat was elevated to CEO in October after the abrupt resignation of Victor Pandit. "Today's announcement shows that there's a new sheriff in town and nothing is sacred,'' says RBC Capital Market analyst Gerard Cassidy.
Most of the job cuts Citi cited today, about 6,200, will come from Citi's consumer banking unit, which handles everyday functions in bank branches and online.
Citi said that it will sell or scale back consumer operations in Pakistan, Paraguay, Romania, Turkey and Uruguay and focus on 150 cities around the world "that have the highest growth potential in consumer banking."
The bank says about 1,900 jobs will be cut in its institutional clients group, an effort to "improve overall productivity in our markets business, especially in areas experiencing continued low profitability, such as cash equities.'' And another 2,600 jobs will disappear in the bank's operations and technology group and global functions.
Citi says it plans to cut 15 branches in Korea, 14 in Brazil, seven in Hong Kong and four in Hungary.
"This is just the beginning, '' says Raymond James Financial analyst Anthony Polini, who rates Citigroup a "strong buy.
"In a slow growth environment, low interest rates are eating away at profit margins. One would think there are more opportunities to cut, especially overseas," Polini says.
The CEO promised the bank would reduce "excess capacity and expenses, whether they center on technology, real estate or simplifying our operations."
Pandit abruptly resigned in mid-October, just one day after the bank said its underlying third-quarter profits were strong and that the bank's outlook was improving.
In November, a regulatory filing disclosed that Citi paid Pandit a $6.7 million bonus and paid a $6.8 million bonus to John Havens, the former chief operating officer who resigned when Pandit did.
Pandit had reportedly clashed with the board over the company's strategy and its relationship with the government. He had been at the helm of the bank for five years, before and after the 2008 financial collapse.
Citi nearly collapsed during the financial crisis and had to take two taxpayer bailout loans. It has been shrinking since, shedding units and trying to find a business model that's more streamlined and efficient.
The streamlining hasn't gone as smoothly as Citi hoped. This fall, for example, when Citi negotiated the sale of its stake in the retail brokerage Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, it got far less than it wanted from the buyer, Morgan Stanley.
In Wednesday's statement, Corbat said Citi "has come a long way over the past several years."
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ROSEAU, Dominica (WUSA/AP) -- The mother of a University of Virginia student who was killed during a visit to the Caribbean island of Dominica, made a statement on Monday.
Margo Schulman said that Casey Schulman of Falls Church, Va. was a "shining light and the kindest, most caring person. She and her sister were best friends; they were equally kind to each other. We are the luckiest and most blessed family to have had them both."
Twenty-year-old Casey Schulman of Falls Church, Virginia was struck by a dive boat's propeller on Saturday afternoon as she and more than 50 other students visited the island as part of "Semester at Sea."
Police spokesman Richmond Valentine said Sunday that Schulman and fellow students went snorkeling on a boat owned by a local dive shop. He says the captain was apparently reversing the boat when its propeller hit Schulman, who was swimming.
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From reading the single and multi node clustering documents, I am a little unsure if it's possible to do the following:
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3.. future added nodes to cope with load.
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Video: 11pm / Hazing Investigation: FAMU - DeKalb Connections
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. -- Within 24 hours of announcing a district-wide band suspension, a DeKalb County Schools spokesperson says a number of parents have requested the district look into other incidents as well.
Walter Woods, spokesman for DeKalb County Schools, told 11Alive News that district officials have taken calls from parents since Wednesday's announcement, some upset over the suspension, others bringing forth new incidents to investigate.
Woods did not know exactly how many parents called, or how many of those were new complaints.
Wednesday afternoon, DeKalb County Schools announced that all marching band activities would be suspended until further notice while the district looks into "possible inappropriate activities."
The move means at least two DeKalb County students will miss out on a possible $21,000 scholarship.
Southwest DeKalb High School and Stephenson High School were both invited to participate in this Sunday's drumline competition during the Georgia High School Senior All-Star Bowl, to be held at the Georgia Dome. During the event, Alabama State University band director Dr. James Oliver will offer $21,000 to a student from each participating drumline, to cover four years room and board at Alabama State.
Though nominated by their own band director, students must participate in this Sunday's competition to receive the scholarship. Event organizer LaToya Benford said both schools confirmed their attendance and were listed in the program.
Wednesday afternoon, Oliver received an email from Stephenson band director Quentin Goins, informing him the school's drumline would have to pull out of the competition due to "circumstances beyond our control."
"It's a pretty bad situation that they won't have the opportunity to receive this money," Oliver said.
He noted January through April is prime recruiting season for college band directors.
After watching scandal unfold at Florida A&M, DeKalb County's School Superintendent has shut down all 21 high school marching bands while investigators try to find out if hazing exists in any of DeKalb's high school marching band programs, and, if it does, how deep it goes.
Thursday morning, the district began the arduous task of interviewing every director, assistant director, student, teacher, parent and principal associated with any of DeKalb's 21 bands.
"We've documented at least one incident that happened over the summer," at one school, and it just came to light, Woods said. But he said that the incident was "inappropriate behavior," not hazing. The investigation is underway, he said, to find out if anything worse is going on.
"We don't know if anything inappropriate has happened here [at any other schools], but we need to ensure that our students are safe," Woods said.
Woods said the district would look at performance suspensions on a case-by-case basis. Four schools have been allowed to participate in next month's Martin Luther King Day parade, an appearance scheduled before the suspension.
As news of the suspension spread Wednesday, parents and students had mixed reactions.
"[Hazing's] not going on here, I'm very close to the band, I love the program here," said a band parent at Southwest DeKalb, Billy Jones, who is certain the program is free of hazing.
"Things that don't belong here are not here" at the school, Jones said.
A former Southwest DeKalb band member who is now a Senior attending a different DeKalb County high school, who asked that his name not be used, said Wednesday evening that once, two older students with Southwest DeKalb's band repeatedly punched him in the chest for a minor infraction.
"I have had complications of breathing from this particular hazing incident," he said. "The section leader, he proceeded, he punched me in the chest. And they were saying this is how you get your fraternity letters in this band, you go through stuff like this."
He said other times he was threatened with a mace and a paddle. He did not report any of it to anyone, he said, out of fear that no one would believe him.
Back at Southwest DeKalb High School, another former band member, Karissa Mitchell, said, "No, not at all," when asked if there's been hazing. "I love the band. Just because one parent complained I don't think they should shut down all [band programs at] DeKalb County schools. It's not fair."
"I think that in light of what happened at FAMU, if they think that there are any kind of connections, that it's a good idea" to suspend band activities and investigate, said Rodney Ragin, a band parent and member of the PTSA Executive Board at Southwest DeKalb. "The only thing that they're doing is investigating. Since I've been here I haven't seen any indication of hazing, at all."
Robert Champion, the FAMU drum major who died last month due to suspected hazing, was an alumni of Southwest DeKalb High School. Another Southwest DeKalb alum is suing over alleged hazing in FAMU's Marching 100 band. At least one of three FAMU band members arrested for hazing this week also went to the same high school.
Woods said the investigation will last at least 30 days, but could take longer than two months.


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Snowmass Ski Getaways
Just mention the word "Aspen" and you'll conjure up images of glamour, celebrity, and stardom. The pampered and privileged add certain panache to the scene, but people visit Aspen first and foremost because of the world-class skiing and riding.
Start right in town with Aspen Mountain (also known as Ajax), and ride the Silver Queen Gondola to the top, more than 3200 feet above the base. Aspen caters to solid intermediates or better, with about half the terrain suitable for advanced or expert skiers and riders. Riders? Yes, Aspen now allows snowboarders, leaving just four resorts left in the U.S. that do not. Riders can expect great terrain but no terrain park. That they can find over at Buttermilk, where the two-mile long Crazy T'rain Park-which ought to be enough to satisfy even the most rabid park rat-along with a big halfpipe helps explain while this erstwhile "beginners" mountain is hosting the ESPN Winter X Games for the next couple of years.
Buttermilk, it's true, has an excellent reputation as a teaching mountain, where just over a third of the terrain is suited for beginners. That leaves two-thirds for intermediates and advanced, who have more 2030 vertical feet on which to play.
Aspen Highlands attracts the locals and the hardcore visitors with arguably the most challenging terrain overall. But the Highlands has a softer side, too. Fully half of the trails are rated green or blue. Of course, it's the backcountry-style terrain that proves the biggest draw and none more so than Highland Bowl, a huge, steep arena of avalanche-prone snow that's now within the ski area boundary.
Taken together, Aspen, Buttermilk, and Aspen Highlands add up to about 60% of Snowmass, the largest of the four and one of only three resorts in the U.S. and four in North America that can boast a vertical of more than 4000 feet-4406 feet to be exact. That puts Snowmass in some pretty lofty company. And although it-s part of the Aspen scene, as one of the ten largest resorts in the U.S. it can easily stand alone as a winter destination.
Twenty-one lifts are required to get you around the expanse of Snowmass. Seven of them are high-speed quads. The lifts provide access to a vast intermediate playground, with miles of groomed cruising terrain on which families can play. But Snowmass has a tough side, too, much of it up very high. Hanging Valley and The Cirque are home to a collection of double diamond chutes, cornices, steeps, and tree shots. Lower down, bump fans head to Sam's Knob, where Fast Draw, Promenade, and Wildcat are allowed to bump up most of the season. As noted, though, Snowmass is best known for its cruising terrain. The Big Burn may be its signature blue square area, but there's plenty of blue all over the map.
Snowmass has a halfpipe and three terrain parks, including an intermediate-level park on Velvet Falls, so park and pipe fans need not go to Buttermilk to play. And there's tubing to had, too, over at Tube Town on Assay Hill.
If deciding which mountain to visit-Aspen, Buttermilk, Aspen Highlands, or Snowmass-is difficult, visit them all if you're staying for a week or more. Aspen (Ajax) isn't suitable for beginners and experts will soon get bored on Buttermilk, but aside from these minor exceptions each mountain provides a wide range of choices for all abilities.
Other popular getaway locations in Colorado
Colorado Ski Getaways
- Arapahoe Basin
- Aspen Highlands
- Aspen Mountain
- Avon
- Beaver Creek
- Breckenridge
- Buttermilk
- Copper Mountain
- Crested Butte
- Echo Mountain
- Eldora Mountain
- Frisco
- Howelsen Hill
- Keystone
- Loveland
- Powderhorn
- Purgatory at Durango
- Silvercreek
- Silverthorne
- Silverton Mountain
- Ski Cooper
- Snowmass
- SolVista Basin
- Steamboat
- Sunlight Mountain
- Telluride
- Vail
- Winter Park
- Wolf Creek


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North Central College's team of athletic training seniors takes second place at Illinois Athletic Trainers Association College Bowl.
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Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops questions SEC's 'propaganda,' reputation; does he make a fair argument?
TULSA — During an interview session before Monday's OU Caravan event, Bob Stoops was asked about the Southeastern Conference's recent dominance, and how he thinks other schools might close the gap.
The last seven major college football national champions have come from the SEC, and the conference just had a record 63 players selected in the NFL Draft.
"It depends on what gap you are talking about," Stoops responded. "What are the bottom six doing? The bottom of the SEC, what did they do? They fired their coaches, got new .. I don't know, I'm just asking you. The whole league isn't that way."
The bottom six 2012 SEC football programs finished as follows:
Ole Miss: 7-6 overall, 3-5 SEC
Missouri: 5-7 overall, 2-6 SEC
Arkansas: 4-8 overall, 2-6 SEC
Tennessee: 5-7 overall, 1-7 SEC
Auburn: 3-9 overall, 0-8 SEC
Kentucky: 2-10 overall, 0-8 SEC
Four of those six schools fired their coaches. Still, the question remains: Is Stoops' analysis fair? It's pretty tough to say.
There's reason to believe many of those bottom six schools could make improvements in the near future. Ole Miss reached its first bowl game since 2009 last year, and is bringing in an outstanding 2013 recruiting class.
Tennessee and Arkansas aren't likely to stay down forever; each has strong tradition and hired good coaches this offseason. Auburn won the 2010 national championship.
Kentucky, coincidentally, begins a new era in 2013 under new head coach Mark Stoops, Bob's brother.
"They've had the best team in college football," Stoops said. "They haven't had the whole best conference."
It isn't like one school is doing all the dominating, either. Alabama has won three of the last four titles, of course, but during the SEC's seven-year run, four different programs have won it (Florida in 2006 and 2008, LSU in 2007 and Auburn in 2010).
Stoops said much of the SEC's mystique and reputation is the result of "propaganda that gets fed to you."
"You are more than smart enough to figure it out," Stoops said. "You can look at the top 2-3-4-5-6 teams and you can look at the bottom 6-7-8 and how well are they all doing."
It should be noted that the SEC's national-title streak has been sustained with some luck and assistance from human poll voters. For example, if Baylor and Stanford hadn't upset Kansas State and Oregon, respectively, last season, Alabama wouldn't have reached the title game.
'Bama lost at home to LSU in 2011, but was still rewarded with a title-game rematch that it won. Oklahoma State, with its 12-1 record and Big 12 championship, was left out in the cold.
Interestingly, poll voters in 2006 chose to elevate Florida over No. 2 Michigan to avoid a Big 10, Michigan-Ohio State rematch in the national championship game. So there's absolutely no question that the SEC's reputation has afforded it some breaks.
(In fairness, undefeated Auburn finished third in the final 2004 BCS standings and watched Stoops' Sooners get shellacked by USC in the Orange Bowl).
Still, if Alabama hadn't benefited from upsets last season; or OSU had rightfully played for the 2011 title; or Ohio State and Michigan had played a second time for the 2006 title, would the SEC's reputation be much less sterling than it is today? I doubt it.
Stoops makes some good points that definitely merit discussion and debate. And, honestly, what's he supposed to say? He's trying to recruit against SEC powers, and acknowledging a wide gap between his program and those wouldn't do much good.
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Meet Team Romney
Campaign 2012 | Mitt Romney doesn't appear to have any breakout stars among his closest advisers, but together they form an aggressive group of loyalists who will not back down from political brawls
"Meet Team Romney" Continued...
On the last day of May, David Axelrod, the journalist-turned-strategist for Barack Obama, ventured into enemy territory. Standing on the steps of the Massachusetts State House in Boston surrounded by state Democrats, Axelrod tried to rip into Mitt Romney's record of job creation as governor.
But Axelrod ran into a noisy roadblock set up by operatives at Romney's campaign headquarters located in the city's nearby North End neighborhood.
When word of the event leaked the day before, Romney's staff plotted its own counterattack, sending an army of supporters to engage Axelrod in a war of words. The Romney staffers and volunteers chanted:
"Broken Record!"
"We want Mitt!"
Axelrod pressed forward, pointing toward the crowd. "These may be his only voters right here," Axelrod said, referring to Romney.
Obama supporters cheered, "Forward." The Romney crowd replied, "Off a cliff." When a rattled Axelrod asked if anyone in the media had any questions, the Romney crowd shouted, "Where are the jobs?"
The statehouse sparring had an intensity unusual for this early in the campaign, but it signaled that Romney's team, after surviving a feisty primary season, is not going to back down from any Chicago-style politics unleashed by the Obama campaign.
Romney's top advisers, responsible for the quick reaction force sent out against Axelrod, are an eclectic mix that includes a Karl Rove protégé, a former state house reporter, a film executive, a chad counter, and a writer of travel books. This inner core, mostly gathered at Romney's three-story headquarters on Boston's Commercial Street, are loyalists who worked for Romney when he was governor, those who share Romney's Mormon faith, and a surprising number whose resumés include stints with former President George W. Bush.
Romney's team does not seem to contain anybody like Karl Rove, a star in his own right who formed his own political brand. Underscoring this, none of Romney's advisors accepted my repeated requests for interviews.
"We stay in the background," senior adviser Beth Myers told the Belmont Citizen Herald in January 2011. Top strategist Eric Fehrnstrom even claimed, in a March email to the Boston Globe, "People don't care about the hired help."
Myers and Fehrnstrom form part of the tight-knit group of Romney devotees who date back nearly 10 years ago to his days as governor. "Loyalty and being a team player are two of the most important requirements of being a part of Romney World," said Al Cardenas, the chairman of the American Conservative Union. "If you look at the top six or seven confidantes of the governor, the one common thread is that they have been together for a long time, and the governor feels equally comfortable reaching out to any one of them at any given time."
Raised in Upstate New York, Myers, 55, cut her political teeth campaigning in Texas for Ronald Reagan in 1980. There she served under up-and-coming strategist Rove. Myers earned a law degree from Southern Methodist University and relocated to Massachusetts where she worked in state politics. In 1998, she chose to stay at home and raise her two children. She began as a volunteer in Romney's 2002 campaign for governor. The lawyer-turned-mom made an impression with her research skills while playing the Democratic opponent against Romney in debate rehearsals.
After his victory, Romney tapped Myers to be his chief of staff, a role she filled for his entire term. She now heads Romney's search for a running mate. Romney mentioned Myers by name on the campaign trail in Michigan earlier this year. "When you find people like that who stick with you for a long time you say, 'OK. People who know him best who are close to him on a day-to-day basis stay with him and are loyal to him and I'm loyal to them,'" Romney said.
The Boston-born Fehrnstrom, 50, the campaign's chief media strategist, could be considered Romney's Axelrod. While Axelrod covered politics for the Chicago Tribune, Fehrnstrom spent nearly a decade as a journalist with the Boston Herald, rising to become the paper's State House bureau chief. He left a job at an advertising agency to join Romney, serving as communications director during Romney's four years as governor from 2003 to 2007.
These long ties helped Fehrnstrom survive what has been one of the campaign's signature gaffes. During a CNN interview on March 21, Fehrnstrom, talking about the positions Romney took during the primaries and how they could impact general election voters, said, "It's almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again."
With Romney already defending questions about the sincerity of his conservative views, political rivals like Rick Santorum seized on the comment and began appearing on stage with the toy that erases words and drawings with a shake. But, in an example of Romney's loyalty, Fehrnstrom faced no public repercussion and remains Romney's attack dog on television.
Peter Flaherty, 46, took a more circuitous route to Romney's inner circle: The murder of Flaherty's aunt in Boston when he was 7 years old planted the seeds that led Flaherty to prosecute homicide cases as a former assistant district attorney for Suffolk County, Mass. He left the prosecutor's office to take an executive position at Walden Media, a studio devoted to family films like The Chronicles of Narnia series that includes The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian.
Flaherty jumped from entertainment to politics, serving as deputy chief of staff for Gov. Romney. An Irish Catholic, Flaherty has long been Romney's main liaison to social conservatives. He made sure Romney met with pro-life bioethicists and medical experts during the debate over embryonic stem-cell research in the Massachusetts legislature in 2004. Romney credits the meetings, where he learned about embryos created for experimentation and then destruction, with helping him convert to a pro-life position.
During the primary, Flaherty convinced five former ambassadors to the Vatican to back Romney publicly over his Catholic rivals. Flaherty met with and arranged for Romney to meet with social conservative leaders in Washington this spring.
This trio of Romney staffers from his governor's office banded together after his term ended to start The Shawmut Group, a Boston-based public-affairs consulting firm. The Shawmut group's highest-profile client not named Romney? A barely known state senator named Scott Brown, who surprised the political world by winning the 2010 special election for the U.S. Senate seat long held by late liberal icon Ted Kennedy.
While Romney aides from his governorship have yet to play leading roles in a presidential campaign's general election, more than two dozen veterans of George W. Bush's administration work or consult for the Romney campaign. These include Kevin Madden, the spokesman for Bush-Cheney 2004; Michael Chertoff, the former homeland security director; Margaret Spellings, Bush's secretary of education; Glenn Hubbard, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under Bush; and several veterans of Bush's Justice Department.
Many of those are surrogates and policy consultants, but some Bush aides are now top Romney insiders. Matt Rhoades, Romney's campaign manager, joined the Bush White House as an associate director in the personnel office and then led the rapid-response team as research director for Bush's reelection efforts.
Rhoades, 37, is often described as the top strategy decision maker inside Romney's Boston headquarters. But don't expect him to become a television talking head like Rove or Democratic mastermind James Carville. Rhoades rarely travels with Romney and by all accounts enjoys life in the shadows. He almost lost his job at the Republican National Committee for being too quiet.
A 1997 Syracuse University graduate, Rhoades got his political start in Washington as an opposition researcher digging up dirt for the Republican National Committee. Dispatched to Florida for the 2000 recount, Rhoades, then 25, publicly accused a Democratic counter of eating a chad, the punch-card ballot piece designed to fall out when a voter makes a selection.
Stuart Stevens, Romney's main speechwriter and chief political strategist, is another veteran of the Bush-Cheney campaign. A Jackson, Miss., native who helped former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour win two elections, Stevens, 58, wrote about his time on Bush's 2000 campaign in The Big Enchilada, a book published in 2001.
"I still reveled in the sheer combat of campaigns, the smell of napalm in the morning and all that," wrote Stevens, who joined Romney during the 2008 primary after defecting from John McCain's campaign.
Politics is not Stevens' only writing subject: He has authored screenplays for television shows like Northern Exposure and books on China, Africa, and eating his way through Michelin three-star restaurants in Europe. He biked 450 miles along the Pyrenees Mountains and cross-country skied in the North Pole.
This spring the Romney campaign added to its inner circle another Bush alum: Ed Gillespie, the former Bush strategist and Republican National Committee chairman who is helping Romney deepen his ties with Washington insiders.
The Mormons on Romney's senior staff include fundraising head Spencer Zwick, 32, and a business partner with Romney's son Tagg, and former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, tapped in early June to lead Romney's presidential transition team. Leavitt, who also served as Health and Human Services secretary under George W. Bush, a decade ago selected Romney to oversee the troubled 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Conservatives have criticized Leavitt for positive comments he made earlier this year about Obamacare.
Romney also has a key business connection: Robert F. White, a longtime friend who worked with Romney at Bain Capital. White, 56, has been beside Romney from Bain Capital to the Olympics to the governor's office and presidential campaigns in 2008 and this year.
Political surrogates, such as former Missouri Sen. Jim Talent and former Minnesota governor and presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, also surround Romney. He has named about two dozen special advisors on national security and foreign policy and another four advisors on the economy.
This is a team that will face off against an Obama operation that in the early spring had five times more employees than Romney. In its downtown Chicago headquarters, the Obama camp has a unit of more than 100 statisticians, mathematicians, software engineers, advertising experts, and bloggers working exclusively on digital media techniques.
Romney's team is ballooning from 80 to about 400 full-timers. But even as the campaign absorbs new political professionals and dishes out new responsibilities, the top of Romney's pyramid will remain the mix of loyalists from Romney's governorship and the assimilated Bush veterans. It's a team that matured during Romney's Jan. 21 defeat in South Carolina, rebounding to win 10 days later in the key state of Florida.
On the same day Axelrod ventured into Romney's backyard, across the country in California Romney visited the shuttered plant once run by Solyndra, the bankrupt solar panel company whose millions in taxpayer-backed loans from the Obama administration sparked a congressional investigation.
As Romney stood in front of the building that now has a red "For Sale" sign hanging from the roof, reporters asked him about the Boston heckling of Axelrod.
"At some point you say, 'You know what, sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander,'" Romney said, pointing out that he is often heckled at events by Obama supporters. "If they're going to be heckling us, why we're not going to sit back and play by very different rules."


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1943: 25-year-old Leonard Bernstein made his public debut as conductor of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Bernstein filled in at the last minute for Bruno Walter, who became sick prior to a nationally broadcast concert.
1960: Elvis Presley's "It's Now Or Never" became the fastest-selling single in British history, selling 780,000 copies in its first week.
1991: The Fox network debuted Michael Jackson's "Black Or White" video. Callers to network affiliates complained about the video's sexual nature and violent content. Jackson later said he didn't mean to offend anyone.
1998: Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman were married at a chapel in Las Vegas. They divorced after less than five months of marriage.
Today's Birthdays: Actress Kathleen Hughes ("Babe") is 86. Jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis is 80. Writer P.J. O'Rourke is 67. Zydeco singer-accordionist Buckwheat Zydeco is 67. Guitarist James Young of Styx is 65. Singer Stephen Bishop is 63. Pianist Yanni is 60. Actor D.B. Sweeney is 53. Actress Laura San Giacomo ("Just Shoot Me") is 53. Rapper Reverend Run of Run-DMC is 50. Actor Patrick Warburton ("The Tick," "Seinfeld") is 50. Singer Jeanette Jurado of Expose' is 49. Bassist Brian Yale of Matchbox Twenty is 46. Singer Butch Walker (Marvelous 3) is 45. Actor Josh Duhamel ("Las Vegas") is 42. Drummer Travis Barker of Plus-44 and of Blink-182 is 39. Drummer Robby Shaffer of MercyMe is 39. Actor Brian Dietzen ("NCIS") is 37. Rapper Shyheim is 37. Bassist Tobin Esperance of Papa Roach is 35.


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1 Museum of Fine Arts
Museums and art
465 Huntington Ave. USA - Boston, MA 02115
One of the country's leading museums, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) contains a comprehensive collection of more than 350,000 artworks organized in eight departments-Art of the Americas; Art of Europe; Contemporary Art; Art of Asia, Oceania an..
2 Old North Church
Religious buildings
193 Salem St. USA - Boston, MA 02113
Built in 1723, "Old North" earned its place in history during the Revolution. Here, on the evening of April 18, 1775, the sexton displayed two lanterns in the steeple to signal the departure of the British from Boston to Lexington by boat, ..
3 Freedom Trail
Archaeological and historical sites
USA - Boston, MA
The popular 2.5mi walk, beginning at the 50-acre park, Boston Common, and ending at Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown, includes most of the urban sites related to Boston's 18C and 19C history, particularly those that played major roles in the Revol..
4 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Museums and art
280 The Fenway USA - Boston, MA 02115
When you step inside this treasure trove of art, you'll see a wealth of furnishings, textiles, paintings and sculpture collected by a woman who truly relished beauty, creativity and life. Isabella Stewart Gardner built Fenway Court, which resembles a..
5 New England Aquarium
Industrial tourism and theme park
Central Wharf USA - Boston, MA 02110
The dimmed light gives the illusion of an underwater world. Fish, invertebrates, amphibians and other aquatic animals are divided up according to their different natural habitats, which are represented over four floors and set out around a 700 000-li..
6 Old South Meeting House
Religious buildings
310 Washington St. USA - Boston, MA 02108
Built in 1729, plain brick "Old South" remains a cherished Boston landmark. It was from the pulpit here that noted orators Samuel Adams and James Otis inspired the colonists to take arms against the British. Sparse decoration, compass windo..
7 Old State House
Architecture, castles and historic districts
206 Washington St. USA - Boston, MA 02109
Boston's oldest public building (1713), this stately brick edifice headquartered British officials until the Revolution. The Boston Massacre took place outside the building in 1770, and on July 18, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read from ..
8 Trinity Church
Religious buildings
Copley Square USA - Boston, MA 02116
Recognized as the masterpiece of architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86), this imposing granite and sandstone pile (1877) initiated the popular style known as Richardsonian Romanesque. A massive central tower dominates the church, but it is the w..
9 Quincy Market
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Faneuil Hall USA - Boston, MA 02298
Behind Faneuil Hall stands a trio of long, two-story buildings. Officially called Faneuil Hall Marketplace, it is often referred to as Quincy Market, the name of its 1826 Greek Revival centerpiece. This complex of restaurants, outdoor cafes and shops..
10 Public Garden
Nature and gardens
USA - Boston, MA 02298
This stunning 24-acre rectangular park, bounded by a handsome cast-iron fence, was reclaimed from the swampy Back Bay in the 1830s to create a botanical garden. Today it's a popular retreat, charming visitors with lush plantings, footpaths, statuary ..
11 Beacon Hill
Architecture, castles and historic districts
USA - Boston, MA
Beacon Hill started off as the province of Boston's high society, known as the Boston Brahmins, as well as the first community of African Americans. Virtually undisturbed by the passage of nearly two centuries, the "Hill" today remains one ..
12 Copley Square
Architecture, castles and historic districts
USA - Boston, MA
Named for painter John Singleton Copley, this is Back Bay's main public square; it shows off some of Boston's most celebrated architectural treasures, like Trinity Church, the John Hancock Tower and the Public Library.
13 Faneuil Hall
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Dock Square USA - Boston, MA 02109
Built and donated to the city of Boston in 1742 by the merchant Peter Faneuil (pronounced FAN-yul), this revered landmark was enlarged by preeminent Boston architect Charles Bulfinch in 1806. It was called "the cradle of liberty" because of..
14 Boston Public Library
Architecture, castles and historic districts
700 Boylston St. USA - Boston, MA 02116
Founded in 1848, the Boston Public Library (BPL) was the first in the country to lend books. The handsome Renaissance Revival-style building became the BPL's home in 1895. Before you enter, admire the granite facade's wrought-iron lanterns, relief pa..
15 Children's Museum
Museums and art
300 Congress St. at Museum Wharf USA - Boston, MA 02210
Conceived exclusively for children, the museum is a wonderland of learning and play, recently upgraded and expanded to include exhibit areas with a multicultural twist, such as the Japanese House, where visitors can kick off their shoes and visitt a ..
16 Christian Science Center
Museums and art
175 Huntington Ave USA - Boston, MA 02115
This stunning ensemble of three bold concrete structures, surrounding an enormous reflecting pool (670 feet by 100 feet), houses the world headquarters of the Christian Science church. The grand Mother Church Extension (1906), facing Massachusetts Av..
17 Boston Museum of Science
Museums and art
1 Science Park USA - Boston, MA 02114
A kaleidoscopic array of exhibits in this mammoth structure overlooking the Charles River features cutting-edge, interactive displays that encourage kids and adults to think through thorny scientific problems. More than 600 interactive exhibits inclu..
18 Louisburg Square
Architecture, castles and historic districts
À l'angle de Mount Vernon St. et Willow St. USA - Boston, MA
The square was named in honor of the victorious siege of the French fortress at Louisbourg (Nova Scotia, Canada) led by the Massachusetts militia in 1745, this enclave epitomizes Beacon Hill's refined lifestyle. The appearance of the elegant Greek Re..
19 City Hall
Architecture, castles and historic districts
1 City Hall Square USA - Boston, MA 02201
This top-heavy concrete structure with a brick base has been one of Boston's controversial architectural statements since its completion in 1968. The building recalls the works of architect Le Corbusier and helped to bring the so-called Brutalist sty..
20 Commonwealth Avenue
Architecture, castles and historic districts
1 Commonwealth Avenue USA - Boston, MA
It's easy to imagine yourself in late-19C Paris when you see this 200-foot-wide thoroughfare. "Comm Ave.," as the locals call it, recalls the grand boulevards laid out during Napoleon III's reign; it remains a coveted address today. Lined w..


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The biggest and only difference, is that meshes are automatically loaded into Messiah from 3DC with no extra steps. Just send back to original app from 3DC and it will load. Attached are the download links. Enjoy!
Thank you Greg for having the foresight to develop v4.5 and v5 of the plugin at the same time, very cool!
Details for the plugin are in this thread. http://www.3d-coat.c...?showtopic=7022


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Over the past few years, the MIT150 Infinite History project team has captured the first-person recollections of more than one hundred people who have shaped — or been shaped by — MIT. These individuals have made extraordinary contributions to their fields and to MIT and they include Institute leadership, faculty, alumni, staff, and friends.
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I am looking for a way to switch from google apps to Zimbra. I found 2 classes of options:
- VPS-based. Ordering VPS, installing and maintaining Zimbra software myself
- SaaS. Everything is maintained by hosting company and I need to pay for mailboxes. Similiar model to google apps.
However, I want something in the middle. I do not want to deploy and maintain Zimbra on top of VPS myself and want the hosting company to be responsible for this. However, I want to have the full administartive access. E.g., I do not want to be limited by number of users and do not want to pay per user. I want to pay for the RAM, disk space, CPU etc. But not for the mailboxes and features activated. And I do want to be able to activate all the features of Zimbra which I need. Including LDAP.
The closest example of such service is wush.net - you pay for the hosting. Backup, updates, operation system layer (ssh upgrades, ftp upgrades etc) is on wush.net's shoulders. They even upgrade bugzilla per user request. But the user has full admin access, cpanel and ssh. The benefit for the user: no need to follow security vulerability reports about all the the public interfaces. no need to upgrade the system by him/herself etc. In brief: cutting the maint. costs.
Is anybody aware of the similiar service for Zimbra?
Thanks in advance, Vitaly


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Swagbucks Toolbar virus is an unwanted and potentially harmful adware application, which is comes together with other free downloads but it can also be installed from swagbucks.com too. once installed, this application will add the Swagbucks Toolbar malware to your Firefox, Chrome, Internet explorer or Safari browser. Then it changes homepage to http://Swagbucks.com and also sets that domain as your default search engine. All these settings and modifications are usually performed in a background process to keep the victims unaware of the infection. As soon as Swagbucks virus creates its components and makes changes onto your computer, it starts to interrupt your Internet surfing experience with a variety of malicious tricks. Usually it displays pop-up ads that show advertisements and clicking them will take you to commercial websites. Moreover, Swagbucks malware toolbar will cause your system to run slower then normal. it also steals sensitive information and details of yours. You are advised to uninstall Swagbucks toolbar virus and terminate its components to secure your machine.
What are symptoms and possible risks of adware like Swagbucks toolbar:
Computer infected with Browser hijack Swagbucks toolbar?
Need not to worry if your PC is infected. An efficient anti-malware program can fix your PC. If you want to remove it manually, please keep in your mind that manual removal is a complicated thing. Moreover this method dose not ensure 100% removal of malware. The best, easy and simple way to get rid of this virus is to install a proper anti-malware tool.
Ordinary uninstall method to Block Pop-ups, Remove Plugin & add-ons:
Here are instructions on how to manually uninstall an unwanted toolbar, add-on, plugin or popup malware from your browser. The ordinary process dose not get you rid of malware programs but it might be helpful in fixing a toolbar application which is annoying but not a virus.
Step 1:
Go to "Control Panel"
Open ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS or PROGRAMS AND FEATURES
In the list of installed program, find the software you are trying to get rid of, Once found, click UNINSTALL. (Some malicious browser applications may appear as UNKNOWN in this list)
Step 2:
Internet Explorer
Go to INTERNET OPTIONS (Internet Explorer)
click CONNECTIONS tab
Click LAN SETTINGS and make sure no proxy is being used. (All the 3 options should be unchecked as default)
Now click on TOOLS and then click "MANAGE ADD-ONS"
In this window, disable any suspicious TOOLBAR & EXTENSION and also disable any SEARCH PROVIDER you do not trust like Swagbucks toolbar
Now again click on TOOLS and click on POP-UP BLOCKER, then click TURN ON POP-UP BLOCKER. and then go to POP-UP BLOCKER SETTINGS. There you may add any website you wish to block popups from.
Mozilla Firefox:
Click on the TOOLS and then ADD-ONS. From this list, disable/uninstall any suspicious PLUGIN or EXTENSION.
Now click on the drop down arrow just beside the SEARCH BOX which is placed top right corner of Firefox. Then select MANAGE SEARCH ENGINES. And then disable/remove any bad application like Swagbucks toolbar if listed.
Google Chrome:
Click on the drop down arrow just beside the SEARCH BOX which is placed top right corner of Firefox. Then select MANAGE SEARCH ENGINES. And then disable/remove any bad application like Swagbucks toolbar if listed.
Spyware Swagbucks toolbar Manual removal instruction:
Please make sure to create backup before getting started.
Stop malicious processes:
Open windows task manager, go to "Processes" tab and stop any Swagbucks toolbar process which is running. It can be stopped by Right click on it and select "End process".
Remove Swagbucks toolbar corrupt registry settings:
Open Windows Registry editor by typing REGEDIT into RUN. Find and delete any keys and values related with this malware. (Please use the name of Malware to search for keys related to it)
Below is a list of possibly infected registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\internet explorer\toolbar\webbrowser
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ".exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "CertificateRevocation" = '0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "WarnonBadCertRecving" = '0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ActiveDesktop "NoChangingWallPaper" = '1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations "LowRiskFileTypes" = '/{hq:/s`s:/ogn:/uyu:/dyd:/c`u:/bnl:/ble:/sdf:/lrh:/iul:/iulm:/fhg:/clq:/kqf:/`wh:/lqf:/lqdf:/lnw:/lq2:/l2t:/v`w:/rbs:'
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments "SaveZoneInformation" = '1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System "DisableTaskMgr" = '1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system "DisableTaskMgr" = '1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download "CheckExeSignatures" = 'no'
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Use FormSuggest" = 'yes'
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced "Hidden" = '0
Delete Swagbucks toolbar infected files & folders
Go to My Computer, search for malware files. Delete all the files and folders found. (Please use the name of Malware to search for keys related to it).
Possible locations:
%UserProfile%\Application Data\
Swagbucks toolbar virus removal tools
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Malware Bytes Anti-Malwar
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LONG BEACH, Calif. —
A year ago, Jorge Sanchez was struggling to support his family on $9.75 an hour after a decade as a dishwasher at the Hilton hotel.
So Sanchez, 56, threw his support behind hiking the minimum wage to $13 an hour for hotel workers in this port city just south of Los Angeles. A campaign flier featuring Sanchez in his white work uniform urged Latino voters to go to the polls last Nov. 6 and check "Yes" on Measure N.
But the Colombia native soon experienced what he believes was an unintended consequence: The same month he got a $3.25-an-hour bump in pay, Sanchez's employer cut his workweek from 40 to 30 hours.
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"Measure N was good because it raised our wages. But in reality, what the hotel did was cut our hours, so it hasn't made a change," he said.
Unlike Sanchez, Hilton bellman Donald Blackwood still works a 40-hour week and pulls in an extra $800 a month thanks to the city's "living wage" law.
"Now, I have enough money saved up to buy a car," he said. "I'm not going to say it's a lot of money. But you could live on that."
Next month, people in SeaTac will vote on a similar yet broader ballot initiative:
Proposition 1 would lift the minimum wage to $15 an hour for workers at the airport and its nearby hotels, parking lots and car-rental agencies. That's a 63 percent increase over Washington's current minimum wage of $9.19 an hour, the highest of any state.
Both the SeaTac and Long Beach measures are part of a stepped-up effort by labor and community activists nationwide to end what they call poverty-wage jobs.
Workers at fast-food chains conducted walkouts and strikes last summer, hoping to boost their hourly pay to $15. California lawmakers agreed last month to raise the state's minimum wage from $8 to $10 an hour by 2016. And in Seattle, both mayoral candidates are plugging an hourly minimum standard of $15 or more.
Prop. 1 proponents say it would lift low-wage workers out of poverty and give them more money to spend at local businesses, pumping an additional $54 million into the economy. Opponents say it would drive up labor costs and force employers to lay off workers, reducing jobs by 5 percent.
But if Long Beach is any indication, the short-term effects of a living-wage ordinance in SeaTac would be neither as good as supporters hope, nor as bad as critics warn.
Hotels make changes
Measure N won the backing of 64 percent of Long Beach voters last November, affecting about 2,000 workers at 16 large, nonunionized hotels. Its requirements apply to hotels with 100 or more rooms and can be waived in union contracts.
The Hyatt chain recently began contract negotiations with Unite Here Local 11, making its two Long Beach hotels eligible for exemption. (That means there now are four large, unionized hotels in Long Beach.)
Two other hotels had a different response: They mothballed rooms to bring them just below Measure N's 100-room threshold.
At Hotel Current, a 143-room independent property off Pacific Coast Highway, 44 rooms sit empty amid tentative plans to convert them to a fitness center. The 173-room Best Western Golden Sails closed even more rooms.
Hotel Current's downsizing was in the works before Measure N, but the "anti-business regulations" accelerated its decision, management said in a statement, adding that the ordinance "financially cripples the hotel's operations."
Management at nearly all of the other affected hotels, including the Hilton, did not respond to requests for comment.
"They don't want to say they're having to lay off people, that sort of thing," said Randy Gordon, president and CEO of the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.
Modest price increases
Gordon, a vocal critic of Measure N, said hotels probably are using cost cuts and price increases to maintain profits. He said he worries that Long Beach no longer will be seen as an affordable business-travel destination.
"How many conventions do we lose because of higher room rates?" he said. "We compete with Anaheim, San Diego and Sacramento. They don't have a living-wage ordinance like we do."
But recent data suggest Long Beach hotels are doing about as well as their Los Angeles County rivals, with strong demand and only modest price increases.
Long Beach's hotel-occupancy rate from January through July was 76.1 percent, up 3.4 percent from the same period in 2012, according to PKF Consulting. Countywide, occupancy ticked up 2.3 percent to 80.5 percent.
The average daily room rate in Long Beach rose 2.9 percent to $137.01 for the first seven months of 2013, while countywide it increased 4.2 percent to $172.33.
The minimum-wage increase also does not appear to have hurt jobs in Long Beach. The city's unemployment rate declined to 11.2 percent in August from 12.4 percent a year ago — in line with a countywide drop to 10.2 percent from 11.3 percent. (Sector-specific jobs data for Long Beach is not available, according to the California Employment Development Department.)
Nusrat Mirza, general manager of the Renaissance Long Beach, said he has raised prices a little bit because of Measure N but has not laid off workers or cut their hours. He said the biggest change is that he no longer can afford to offer discounts to prospective customers.
"It's a very expensive measure," said Mirza, who oversees about 250 employees. "Discounted prices don't match with the new hourly wage increase."
"It's not helping me"
Measure N guarantees Long Beach's hotel workers a raise of at least 2 percent each July, putting the current minimum at $13.26 an hour.
SeaTac's Prop. 1, which covers about 6,300 workers at an estimated 72 airport-related businesses, calls for annual increases tied to inflation.
Both measures also require hotels to provide paid sick leave and give all the proceeds of any mandatory service charges to their employees.
Sanchez said he and his co-workers were replaced in part by less-expensive temporary employees.
Workers at some hotels say that to hold down wage and benefits costs in the wake of Measure N, managers also are covering more shifts and requiring that only sold rooms be cleaned.
Sanchez, who shares a tiny, rent-controlled apartment in Long Beach with his wife and 29-year-old daughter, now is considering a second part-time job to get ahead. The apartment's entry includes a sofa, flat-screen TV, small dining table and single bed. A green chile hangs above the front door to ward off bad luck.
Ironically, the Hilton recognized Sanchez as "Associate of the Month" in January, awarding him a plaque that he displays in his one-bedroom apartment along with a framed portrait of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Measure N has been very beneficial for people working full-time," he said. "But it's not helping me because I'm not full-time."
Effects of cost cutting
Maria Bautista also hoped to fare better under Measure N. Her hourly wage at the Residence Inn Downtown, where she has cleaned rooms for five years, shot up 30 percent in January. That, she said, enabled her to treat herself to new sandals at Ross and eat out more often at her favorite Chinese restaurant.
But a month ago, a new manager came in and cut her workweek to 32 hours from 40, blaming the offseason, she said.
Bautista, who describes her age as 58 or 59, shares an apartment in Santa Ana with her sister and 30-year-old nephew. They get by, but money is tight, and Bautista feels more pressure at work to make up for lost time.
"Sometimes, rooms don't get done," she said. "There's not enough time to do everything."
Bruce Baltin, senior vice president of PKF Consulting in Los Angeles, said cost cuts also could mean renovation delays and canceled projects — things that might not be apparent right away. PKF estimates that hotels spent about 45 percent of their operating budgets on labor last year.
"People are our biggest asset, and sometimes we forget that," said John Self, a professor at the Collins College of Hospitality Management at California State Polytechnic University. "But sometimes unions forget that we have to be profitable. It's almost a lose-lose situation."
He suggested the hospitality industry could have prevented Measure N by paying its workers more to begin with — say, a minimum of $11 an hour.
"Sometimes, by being so cautious," he said, "you shoot yourself in the foot and create an opening for the unions to come in."
Life is better for some
Blackwood, the Hilton bellman, recalls trying to live for years on $8 an hour. He and his mother share a small Long Beach apartment, making do with her Social Security checks and his minimum-wage job.
"Before Measure N, I couldn't afford a car. I had to ride the bus. And sometimes, I didn't have enough money for the bus," said Blackwood, 43. "If I didn't make enough tips, I'd have to buy a bag of potatoes and eat that with butter."
After their Long Beach victory, advocates for low-wage workers are turning their attention to other hotel markets. In Los Angeles, Unite Here aims to establish a $15-an-hour minimum wage for hospitality workers citywide, expanding a 2007 ordinance covering airport hotels.
Labor activists also have used ballot initiatives to establish living wages at the Oakland airport and nearby Emeryville hotels. Similar requirements at the Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Jose airports were enacted by local city councils.
"Long Beach really demonstrated the popularity of raising the minimum wage," said Unite Here Local 11 spokeswoman Leigh Shelton, citing Measure N's 64 percent majority. "Other cities are taking note."
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(Sports Network) - The Chicago Bulls have endured some awful shooting nights,
but nothing was worse their last time out.
The Bulls hope to make some shots fall when they open a three-game homestand
Monday versus the Cleveland Cavaliers at the United Center. In a 102-72 road
loss to Oklahoma City on Sunday, the Bulls never scored more than 20 points in
a quarter and shot 29.1 percent -- the worst in the NBA this season.
Luol Deng and Nate Robinson were the only Chicago players to score in double
digits and both ended with 13 points. The Bulls made only 25-of-86 shots and
had 18 turnovers for 25 OKC points.
"It was bad tonight," said Bulls All-Star forward Joakim Noah, who had eight
points and nine rebounds. "We took steps backward. That's what's frustrating.
There's really no excuse. We've just got to bounce back ASAP. The way we
competed was embarrassing. It's not the time to feel sorry for ourselves.
We've got a home stretch coming up and things move fast in this league. We've
got to bounce back fast."
In three of their last five games, the Bulls have scored 67, 69 and 72 points.
The franchise record for inept shooting for Chicago is 23.4 percent, which was
established back in 1999 against Miami.
The Bulls have lost six of nine games and will also welcome Philadelphia and
Brooklyn to town on the homestand. They are 15-13 at the United Center this
season. For how poorly the Bulls are offensively (92.5 ppg), they are one of
the top defensive teams, allowing just 91.3 ppg. Chicago is three games behind
Indiana for the Central lead. The Pacers will host Golden State Tuesday.
On the injury landscape for the Bulls, guard Kirk Hinrich (elbow) has missed
three straight and 10 of 11 games, and is doubtful for Tuesday. Hinrich is
averaging 7.0 points and 5.3 assists this season. Forward Taj Gibson suffered
left the Thunder game with a knee strain in the fourth quarter and is also
listed as doubtful versus the Cavs.
Chicago had the best shooting percentage by a team this season with a 63.8
percent clip against Cleveland back in November.
The Cavs shot 50 percent against the Heat on Sunday, but dropped a close
109-105 decision. Miami, which made 52 percent from the floor, almost blew a
22-point lead and rallied from eight points down in the fourth quarter. Shane
Battier's 3-pointer made it 103-101 and Miami held on for the win. Dwyane Wade
scored 15 of his 24 points in the final stanza.
Cavs rookie Dion Waiters led the team with 26 points, Kyrie Irving added 17
and five assists and C.J. Miles came off the bench to score 19 points for the
Cavaliers, who are 1-1 on a three-game road trip that concludes Tuesday. The
Cavs also fell to 8-22 away from home.
"We had an opportunity against the NBA world champions and we lost the game
because of mental mistakes," Cavs coach Byron Scott said.
The Cavs were without Daniel Gibson (personal) and Omri Casspi, who remained
hospitalized in Orlando after surgery to remove his appendix. Gibson is
doubtful against the Bulls and Casspi is out indefinitely.
After visiting the Windy City, Cleveland will return home for five straight
games, starting with Wednesday's tilt versus Toronto.
Chicago is aiming for its third straight series sweep of Cleveland after
taking the first three meetings of the season. The Bulls have won 11 in a row
and 13 of the past 15 games with the Cavs, losers in five straight matchups at
the United Center.
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Edit 10.1.2013:
Thank you everyone for participating in this point giveaway!!! It was tremenduos how many people took part!!
SOOOOOOOO.... The 10 winners of 100 points each areeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......
*drum roll*
Pls dont be disappointed if you didnt win! Stay tuned for the next event I am going to host anytime soon!! Thank you so much for your support!!
*Edit over*
Let's PARTY HARD, cause as I am close to reach incredible 30,000 watchers I thought I should give something back to this awesome community by doing a point giveaway again!!
Just +FAV this journal
And you need to be a watcher of mine to be able to win!
---> 10 winners will be chosen totally randomly, each of them receiving 100 points!
---> The giveaway will be over three days after this journal is submitted!
Have fun! And if you want you can tell your friends/watchers about this!
Thank you for your support!
This doesnt belong to the giveaway/contest, but still it may be interesting for you to read!
My personal dA 3 1/2 years flashback:
My first submission:
With this picture it all started... My style was much much different back then and I was not really advanced in using Photoshop and my tablet, but I thought it was the first picture worth posting here on dA. I was mostly inspired by sandara by then, who is still one of my biggest rolemodels.
My first popular deviation:
This picture is the one, which started all the popularity and the overwhelming support I gained over the years. Avatar became the most popular movie of all time and I had much luck and kinda chose the perfect moment to draw and submit my Neytiri piece. Over night I got more than 1500 favourites and over 100 comments, which was the most exciting thing ever! My other pieces never got more than 50 favs back then. Till today the picture was downloaded more than 40,000 times, which is my most downloaded picture. This was really the starting point, because I also gained many more watchers and interest in my art. I still didn't really find my own style, I was still experimenting.
Fotolia Contest.. best decision ever:
I would call this the first picture, that really developed my own personal style. And it is one of my favourite pieces, even today! I submitted it to the Fotolia contest here on dA and it got the most popular of all entries over night. It was so exciting and overwhelming to read all the supportive comments and the picture is still among my most popular (most seen, most commented) pieces. It has also been my icon ever since! Even though I didn't win the contest, it still was the best decision to participate!
First Pokemon inspired piece:
Pokemon has always been my favourite game. It influenced my childhood and youth in a manner, that no other game or show could ever do. Till then I mostly drew fantasy pictures, dragons and stuff like that. I wasn't sure if my watchers would also appreciate Pokemon fanart, but when I submitted this painting I was tought differently! In no more than 3 days it had over 8000 favourites and 500 comments and was my first deviation to be the most popular of 1 week and even 1 month. Since then Pokemon became a major inspiration for me, not just because it was a popular topic, but because I always enjoyed drawing it and now saw, that people actually wanted to see more!
Simplicity makes the picture:
This piece is one of my personal favourites. It is also one of the pictures, I spent no more than 5 hours on, so it is rather simple compared to many other pictures by me. But I learned, that a picture is much more about the atmosphere and idea than a massive amount of detail. This piece is also my most sold print, as it was featured by the staff of dA on the dA print shop. I am so happy to be able to even earn money with my hobby, it is still unbelievable for me!!
My first Daily Deviation:
This piece by me was the first one to be featured as a Daily Deviation. It was the greatest honour for me, when I logged in and saw my piece down between all the awesome pictures, which were chosen to be featured. Till today I have received 4 DD's, of which each one is more than appreciated!
Princess Mononoke:
This is my all time favourite picture of mine. The movie "Princess Mononoke" had a great impact on my childhood and I loved that movie ever since I can remember. When I finally got to draw a fanart, I was really satisfied with it and had so much fun drawing it! It also hugely developed my style and I improved in drawing humans! And it is my most popular deviation, with nearly 18,000 favourites as of this moment. I can't believe that many people decided to fav it! It is just incredible!!
This is the first traditional picture I was really really satisfied with! After all the years of drawing digitally I was not used to traditional art anymore, but my sister PixieCold kinda got me into it again! This picture means a lot to me and it also proves, that simple things often are better than the hyper complex ones! ^^
That was it about my little "flashback".. ^^ I really hope you enjoyed reading it! I am so happy about all the exposure, feedback and awesome opportunities this site has given me as an artist! Every one of my watchers contributes highly to my success and improvement and you all inspire me to keep going!! Thank you so much for everything! Without you I would be nothing!


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I have made this recipe about 4 or 5 times. I discovered after the 1st time I really needed to double it. They were eaten fast. They are moist, tender, had lots of favor. I've changed up different bbq sauces to change the taste. Nobody ever complains. Company always asks, "Are there anymore?"My question is has anyone cooked these in the crock pot? If you have, for how long?
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New Mexican Restaurant in Le Mars
(LE MARS) -- Mexican food fast and at a fair price with the warmth of family ownership,
that's the new Monterrey on business highway 75 in LeMars. Jesus Aguilar is the co-owner
of the restaurant along with his brother Javier and brother-in-law, Marcelino Iggardo.
The brothers just opened their doors on Saturday, but they have experience as the group
is also in charge of the Monterrey in Cherokee. Jesus' family has been in the
restaurant business his entire life. His immediate family, including his wife and 3
sons, are excited to not only be a part of the business, but also be a part of the
All recipes on the menu are family recipes, Jesus says there are a couple of house
Monterrey salad includes beef chicken and shrimp in a taco shell over a bed of rice and
lettuce, with other veggies. The Monterrey Pollo is Jesus' favorite.
And cheese sauce, don't foget the cheese sauce.
The diverse menu also includes chicken wings and burgers as well as beer and margaritas.
Monterrey is located in the former Pizza Hut building on 75 across from Mr. P's.
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