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In Her Words...
Student Loan Access
High-Performing Teachers
Recognition Programs
Doing What Works
NPI: Title III
Quote to Note
Upcoming Events
In Her Words...
Over the last two weeks, Secretary Spellings has delivered remarks at a number of venues. Below are selected excerpts from those addresses.
National Academies Convocation on "Rising Above the Gathering Storm Two Years Later " (4/29, http://www.ed.gov/news/
pressreleases/2008/04/04292008a.html): "President Bush echoed many of the Gathering Storm report's recommendations in his 2006 State of the Union address. And last year, he signed into law the America COMPETES Act, which moved many of these recommendations forward.... But, in the education world, there are some fronts on which we have not acted adequately: successful math strategies, rigorous high school coursework, and promoting foreign languages.... While there's support and energy for these initiatives, we often take the 'thousand flowers blooming' approach. At the federal level, there are over 100 programs in 12 federal agencies which received over $3.1 billion in funding. The problem is, almost half of the STEM programs received $1 million or less. It's hard to implement sustainable, scalable programs in this way."
Higher Education Summit for Global Development, jointly hosted by the Departments of Education and State (4/30, http://www.ed.gov/news/
pressreleases/2008/04/04302008.html): "Knowledge has become the single most valuable currency in this changing world, and education continues to be the surest path to opportunity. It's not a panacea but a necessary foundation upon which progress is built. In the global knowledge economy, higher education, in particular, has gone from nice-to-have to a must-havefor individuals as well as societies. We must all educate more students to higher levels than ever before, and we need to do this in the context of a broader world.... Community colleges are an American invention. They combine elements of traditional universities with practical, vocational training, a model that can be adapted to meet the needs of economies around the world.... Education is not a zero sum game. The cascading benefits of a single, smart strategy, shared widely, can benefit students and communities from Boston and Birmingham to Bangkok and Bangalore."
Miami Dade College Commencement Address (5/5, http://www.ed.gov/news/
pressreleases/2008/05/05052008a.html): "I went to college at the University of Houston. I commuted from home. I worked as an office cashier at a grocery store called Handy Andy. People who hold jobs when they go to college, or have families, or attend part-time, or don't go straight out of high schoolin the academic community, we are sometimes called 'non-traditional.' Personally, I prefer to think of us as 'pioneering,' or 'pionero.' Whatever term you prefer, I believe the people who do things a little differently are often the ones who drive improvement for everybody else.... Miami Dade is all about inviting people in [with students from 150 countries].... And, it's all the more important, now that 90% of our fastest growing jobs require education beyond high school."
Massachusetts state roundtable and school visit (5/6, http://www.ed.gov/news/
pressreleases/2008/05/05062008a.html): "Massachusetts is a champion of accountability and has some of the nation's highest standards. I commend Massachusetts for already using a cohort longitudinal graduation ratein line with that of the National Governors' Association." At a Boston charter school, the Secretary also announced the distribution of 850,000 new, free books as part of the 2008 Summer Reading Initiative (see http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/
Council of the Americas Conference (5/7, http://www.ed.gov/news/
pressreleases/2008/05/05072008.html): "Computers, commerce, and media link us together, but there is still no replacement for actually being thereliving someplace new, making new friends, and learning new rhythms of life. Exchanging students and faculty means campuses are enriched with new scholarships, perspectives, and innovative approaches to learning. Most importantly, the more our governments, business leaders, higher education leaders, and students partner together, the better prepared we all will be to meet the challenges of our changing world."
Student Loan Access
On May 7, President Bush signed into law the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act (H.R. 5715), which, among other actions, increases the annual and aggregate federal loan limits, allows parents to defer payments on federal PLUS loans while their children are in school, and grants the Secretary the authority to purchase loans from lenders in the federal guaranteed loan program (to ensure lenders continue to have access to capital to originate new loans). The House initially approved a bill in April. The Senate then passed multiple amendments, including sunsetting the Secretary's authority to designate entire colleges for the "lender of last resort" program at the end of the 2008-09 academic year and directing savings derived from the legislation to increase funding for the Academic Competitiveness (AC) and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) grant programs. Congress cleared the final bill on May 1. Most provisions become effective on July 1. For more information, please go to http://www.house.gov/apps/list/
High-Performing Teachers
The next "Education News Parents Can Use" broadcast (May 20, 8:00-9:00 ET) will focus on preparing all teachers to lead students toward success by: exploring how effective teaching is at the core of America's competitiveness; highlighting progressive strategies to recruit, train, and reward effective teachers; and showcasing award-winning teachers who are dedicated to improving student achievement. Studies show teachers are the single most important factor in raising student performance. Yet, many schools, especially those in high-need areas, suffer from a lack of qualified teachers. (Indeed, half the math teachers in high-poverty middle and high schools did not major or minor in the subjects they teach.) It is becoming increasingly apparent that teacher preparation and compensations systems developed in the 20th century do not fully address the nation's 21st century challenges. In turn, to help fill teaching shortages and, ultimately, increase the number of effective educators, the President proposed key programs and initiatives, such as the Teacher Incentive Fund and student loan forgiveness. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/edtv/. (You can watch archived webcasts at http://www.connectlive.com/events/ednews/.)
Note: Educators are encouraged to register for one of the Department's free summer workshops, where teachers and researchers will share successful strategies to raise student achievement. The workshops, co-hosted by other federal agencies and programs, are being held in 12 cities. For more information, please go to http://www.t2tweb.us/Workshops/Schedule.asp.
Recognition Programs
On April 30, in a Rose Garden ceremony with President Bush and Secretary Spellings, science teacher Michael Geisen was named the 2008 National Teacher of the Year. Geisen, who just nine years ago was a forester, teaches at Crook County Middle School in Prineville, Oregon. His unique teaching style emphasizes lessons that engage both sides of the brain, combining movement and singing with analysis and logic. During his first two years as department chair, his school's science proficiency scores jumped from 55% to 72%. He is the 58th recipient of the award. The National Teacher of the Year program, sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the ING Foundation, designates an outstanding representative from among 56 State Teachers of the Year (representing all 50 states, the District of Columbia, several outlying territories, and the Department of Defense Education Activity). The winner is selected by a panel of the 15 leading national education organizations. For more information, please go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/
A day later, the President named 99 middle and high school teachers as winners of Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation's highest honor for teaching in these fields. For more information, please go to http://www.paemst.org/.
Also on May 1, the Secretary announced the selection of 2008 Presidential Scholars. The program was established by Executive Order in 1964 to honor academic achievement by graduating high school seniors. It was expanded in 1979 to honor students who demonstrate exceptional talent in the arts. Each year, 141 students are named, including at least one young man and woman from every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and American families living abroad. Another 15 students are chosen at-large, and 20 students are scholars in the arts. (This year, two students were selected in both academics and the arts, for an overall count of 139 scholars.) Over 2,700 candidates qualified on the basis of significant ACT or SAT scores or nomination through the national youngARTS competition of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. The Commission on Presidential Scholars, appointed by the President, chooses finalists. Scholars will be recognized June 21-24 in Washington, D.C. Each scholar will invite the teacher who had the greatest impact on his or her success to participate in the activities and receive a certificate of appreciation. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/programs/psp/awards.html.
Then, on May 4, the Secretary announced recipients of the 2008 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, rewarding middle and high school students for outstanding community service. For more information, please go to >http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/05/05052008b.html.
Doing What Works
The Department-funded What Works Clearinghouse (http://whatworks.ed.gov/), a central source of scientific evidence for what works in education, has released its latest practice guide, "Turning Around Chronically Low-Performing Schools." The guide offers four specific recommendations to quickly and dramatically improve student performance in such schools and indicates the quality of the evidence that supports the recommendations. It also describes how each recommendation can be implemented. For more information, please go to http://whatworks.ed.gov/pdf/Turnaround_pg_04181.pdf.
Meanwhile, the Department's Doing What Works web site (http://dww.ed.gov/) has added a feature on encouraging girls in math and science, based on the recommendations outlined in a previously released practice guide. Overall, the guide and the corresponding content online provides five recommendations, such as "exposing girls to female role models who have succeeded in math and science." The content on the site is organized into three areas: learn what works, see how it works, and do what works. For more information, please go to http://dww.ed.gov/topic/
NPI: Title III
The Department recently published in the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Interpretations (NPI) regarding Title III of the No Child Left Behind Act. In the notice, the Secretary proposes interpretations of several provisions of Title III related to the administration of English language proficiency assessments to limited English proficient (LEP) students served by Title III, the establishment and implementation of annual measurable achievement objectives for states and school districts receiving Title III funding, and state and local implementation of Title III accountability provisions. Comments are due by June 2. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/
Quote to Note
"Secretary Spellings is delighted with the judge's decision and emphasized that today's decision is a resounding victory for children and their families who seek to make a brighter future for themselves through education. The No Child Left Behind Act provides parents and educators with the tools they need to measure their children's progress and to ensure their access to the American dream."
|Press Secretary Samara Yudof (4/28/08), in a written statement after the U.S. District Court dismissed the State of Connecticut's last remaining claim in its lawsuit against No Child Left Behind
Upcoming Events
Don't forget! The agency is holding four regional meetings to receive comments on proposed regulations to clarify and strengthen Title I of No Child Left Behind: on May 14, in Boston; on May 15, in Dunwoody, GA; on May 19, in Kansas City, MO; and on May 22, in Seattle. Individuals who wish to present should register at firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/04/04292008.html.
The History Channel is awarding Save Our History grants of up to $10,000 to fund partnerships between schools or youth groups and history organizations on projects that teach students about local history and actively engage them in its preservation. Applications are due by June 6. For more information, please go to http://www.saveourhistory.com/.
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Israel Educational Television has recently shot a short educational film explaining road safety for kids. This is a new episode of the famous eighties TV series called 'The Friendly Doberman' although everyone knows it by the name of its canine protagonist, Dobby Doberman.
I thought this might be a good time to discuss a lie we have all been taught: throughout the 1980s when there was only one channel on Israeli TV, every child learned how to cross the road from the friendly neighborhood dog, Dobby. Two of the many slogans we memorize till this day are: 'Crossing the road in a straight line – is safer and shorter' (it rhymes in Hebrew), and 'Diagonally means dangerously'. Since this was a fraud on a massive scale, and since to this day any thirty year old can easily cite these erroneous slogans, I took the time to create an easy to understand diagram showing how we were fooled to believe this fallacy:
To show that crossing a road in a straight line is shorter, two kids (shown here in red) were placed in two different starting points, and crossed the road in order to reach the same finishing point. That was the basis of the perpetrated fraud: sport runners start any competition at the same spot and ends it at the same spot. If two kids are placed in the same starting point and cross the road in order to reach the same finishing point (shown here in green) it is evident that crossing diagonally is much shorter than walking in straight lines – hence your third grade math teacher was right: a straight line provides the shortest connection between two points.


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- About us
- Blogs
- Funding/Donations
- Challenges
- Chapters
- Papers
- Projects
- Code of Conduct
- Google SoC
- Recent posts
- Security Workshops
• Cecil Su: Chapter Lead, Early Warning System, Honeypots deployment, Data Analysis.
• Nicolas Collery: Development, Malware analysis and RCE, Honeypots deployment, Data analysis.
• Vicky Khan: Development, Malware analysis, Research
• Vijay Vikram: Center Manager, Research, Development, Honeypots deployment.
• Eugene Teo: Research, Malware analysis and RCE, Data analysis.
• Emil Jingwei: Research guide.
• Rong Hwa: Development, Malware analysis and RCE, Honeypots deployment, Data analysis.
Note: Additional new member, Rong Hwa (from Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore), Anti-Malware Team Lead for both the Singapore Government CERT and SingCERT.
Contributed by Emil Tan
• Housekeep and decommissioned old machines at James Cook University computer lab
• Re-assigned usable servers and reinstalled OS onto new testbed
• Redesigned SHC website
Contributed by Vicky Khan
• Deploy HoneeBox and push alerts to HoneyCloud
Nicolas Collery on GSoC 2012 #13 - Network Analyser
Vicky Khan on Malware classification using YARA:
YARA is being used to determine filetypes, compute checksums, detect packers and creation of new signatures. This has been very useful in identifying different classes of malware for further analysis. YARA has also been used to take ClamAV signatures and create YARA rules for detection.
Contributed by Rong Hwa
Sykipot (Smartcard proxy variant)
A detailed analysis of Sykipot (smartcard proxy variant) malware was performed and its internal working was fully exposed. The details would facilitate security analysts or researchers to: (1) response and remediate Sykipot infections; (2) analyze the impact of Sykipot infection; (3) decrypt Sykipot encrypted messages; or (4) even design a fake bot to communicate with the attackers for future research works.
One interesting observation was that the key logging activities and network communication would only be behaviourally active when the infected users opens the browser or outlook. By this way, it would achieve the following: (1) stealthiness as the traffic appear along side with user generated traffic; (2) Poor response to sandbox analysis due to possibly lack of specific user actions within sandbox environment; (3) key log only interesting contents such as email body.
Aside, one other important finding was that the employed cryptographic algorithm was uncovered. A customised DES was found to be used with a tweak in (only) one of its DES expansion table value. This technique is highly effective as it would impede analysis due to the difficulty to identify this tweak. Additionally, standard DES algorithm would not be able to decrypt its cipher as this tweak would result in a totally different cipher block due to the diffusion mechanism within the algorithm.
Last but not least, all of the command and control commands and artifacts for this malware were identified to facilitate future analysis.
A detailed analysis of NGRBot was performed and the following details were discussed: (1) Impact; (2) Encryption & tampering detection mechanism; (3) Functionalities, (4) Hooking technique, and the (5) Architecture Set-up for communicating with this malware.
A number of interesting observations were identified. Of which, it is interesting to see that "api.wipmania.com" was misused to get locality information for nickname generation. On top of that, the user agent that was "Mozilla/4.0" which was obviously suspicious. This could be applied to the network to identify signs of infection.
Aside, it was also observed that this malware was designed to steal web credential and perform DDoS. Its capability to "hack" the hackers by stealing the hackforum credentials was probably for intelligence gathering.
Last but not least, having all the commands found does not warrant an analyst to interact with the malware even with the IRC server set up. This malware would subtly authenticate its owner by checking the IRC message header which would include the reverse-resolved attacker's IP address against a customised DNS server. Suppose if the attacker's IP could be reverse-resolved to "gov.ba" (a recognised spoofed domain), it would imply that the command is from the registered attacker. Having said that, this domain could be easily spoofed and this does not imply that the offensive traffic is truly from gov.ba.
Zeus P2P DGA
A Zeus sample was partially reversed and its domain generation algorithm was detailed as its algorithm was often mentioned but probably not detailed except for a report by Trend Micro (File-Patching ZBOT Variants, ZeuS 2.0 Levels Up). However, it was noted that this found algorithm was changed and we felt that the community needs to be updated. Its domains are mainly generated using (1) a date-time stamp and (2) an integer (0-999) as an initial seed. This initial seed will be then hashed using MD5 to generate a final seed to further generate sub domains. The specified integer was also utilized to select the root domain to post-fix with the generated sub domain. It was believed that this discovery could be used to "predict" future malicious domains.
1) Presentation to public on "Introduction to Honeypots" under interest group Edgis Sharing Session at the Singapore Management University, September 2012 (Emil Tan)
2) Presentation to public day ready to be presented at next annual meeting (1st version ready for last meeting - cancelled to personal agenda) - "Look back at cybercrime - some tools and techniques" (Nicolas Collery)
3) Presentation of same material to OWASP/AISP/Sec-77 Group (Nicolas Collery)
4) Introductions to Honeypots: Tracking hackers and activities, 10-July-2012.
Conducted a 90 minute session on Low-Interaction Honeypots with the students of IT (Networking) taking the Advanced E security course at James Cook University (SG Campus). In this session, students learnt about Honeypots, their deployment, detecting and logging attacks. Low interaction honeypot,HoneyD was used in a virtual environment and students tested handful of services and scenarios to complete the session. (Vijay Vikram)
5) Detailed analysis of Sykipot [Smartcard proxy variant] – Rong Hwa
6) A Chat with NGRBot (paper) – Rong Hwa
7) A Chat with NGRBot (video) – Rong Hwa
8) Presentation at GovWare Day 1 Government Track - A Chat with NGRBot (Sep 2012) (Rong Hwa)
9) Conducted a one-day Malware Reverse Engineering Workshop for IDA Infocomm Security Seminar (July 2012) – Rong Hwa
Upon reflection, we have managed to increase the number of public and private presentations/talks and raise the visibility of the Honeynet Project in this part of the world.
As of late last year, we have started collaborating with more IHLs, government agencies and private institutions.
Revamped our website, and continually trying to improve the contents.
Next year's plans are to identify upcoming malware threats and provide detailed analysis to:
(1) share interesting techniques found;
(2) apply remedies; and
(3) promote user awareness.
1) The Singapore Honeynet Chapter members are mentors to the Singapore Polytechnic final-year students in their honeynet-related projects.
2) Rong Hwa is currently a part-time lecturer at Nanyang Polytechnic lecturing on the subject of malware analysis.


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On behalf of all of the interested Disney Infinity Fans we asked some questions.
What is your real name? Country?
Jacob Koeppe (United States). My friends call me Jake.
What is the origin story of your Toy Box submission username?
My Toy Box submission username is DizExplorer03. Diz is short for Disney, which I love, obviously, and Explorer because my philosophy in life is to explore the world and discover all its secrets, and 3 is for the three magic circles that make Mickey's head!
What made you decide to buy Disney Infinity?
Let's be honest--I'm a huge Disney fan and both Epic Mickey and Kingdom Hearts have been formative experiences in my life. When I learned that Disney Infinity provided me with the opportunity to play as different characters and to create worlds as part of a community, I knew that this was going to be something special and I had to be a part of it.
What is your favorite play set and why?
I have to say my favorite playset is Pirates of the Caribbean. I enjoy investigating the islands and fighting the Flying Dutchman's crew. Yo Ho!
Who is your favorite Disney Infinity character?
Sorcerer's Apprentice Mickey is hands down my favorite character. I'm a huge Mickey fan and grew up watching Fantasmic! every chance I got growing up as a Passholder at Disneyland. Beyond the nostalgia, his magic based attacks are amazing and his smash attack is deeply satisfying to perform.
Which character would you like to see included that hasn't already been and why?
I would love to see Dr. Facilier from The Princess Frog come to Disney Infinity. Voodoo magic attacks and shadow powers would be awesome. In fact, I think an entire Princess and the Frog playset would be incredible. I hope Disney is listening and 2.0 brings with it a French Quarter complete with bayou.
What is your favorite power disc and why?
Power discs are so much fun and I think too many players don't take advantage of them . Alice in Wonderland's Terrain disc is my personal favorite. I mean who hasn't dreamed of going through the looking glass?
When you hear of a new challenge, what steps do you take to make your idea for a Toy Box a reality?
Ahhh, what is my process? I brainstorm in my sketchbook first, and write and draw as many ideas as I can. When I feel like I have a good understanding of my answer to the challenge, I start contemplating the limitations within my Toy Box. What discs and characters do I have? Do I need to get some new gear to make this idea become a playable world? When I make my terrain, I start with the size of the world, then I layout a path. I add special features (like enemies and fans) and then I complete the world by including the architectural flourishes that make it an immersive experience. If I need inspiration, I turn to my collection of Disney DVDs and art books.
How long did each of your featured Toy Boxes take to build?
To be honest, my Toy Boxes take several days to complete, and when I am working on one, I'm totally committed to it. The brainstorm is the easiest--I have more ideas than I have time to build. The special features take the longest. I try to balance them out and use them to their full potential so it takes me multiple placements before I feel like the special features are just right. When one Toy Box is finished, I immediately jump into the next Toy Box. No rest for the wicked!
What do you consider to be your specialty when building Toy Boxes?
I think my specialty is my dedication to the source materiel. I use photo references in order to best create worlds that Disney fans already know and love. For my latest Toy Box, I rebuilt aspects of Victorian London so that visitors to my Toy Box would feel transported to Cherry Tree Lane, and would feel the excitement of dancing with chimney sweeps on the rooftops of London. I love the challenge of using elements from different films to create something new and yet familiar.
Your Fantasia Curling toy box was selected as a featured toy box in the Disney Cup Challenge. Please give us some Inside the Toy Box details on your Fantasia Curling toy box.
My Fantasia Curling Toy Box was my first featured Toy Box and I wanted to create a new spin on a familiar sport. I did some research and when I saw that curling required brooms I knew exactly what I was going to do. I enjoyed including details from Fantasia, such as the snowy forest from the "Nutcracker Suite," Chernabog's smoky mountain from "Night on Bald Mountain" and Mickey's Spellbound Skydome from the Sorcerer's Apprentice. The problem for me on this challenge was having so many possibilities to include but having to make smart choices that joined the sport with the film.
What is your favorite Toy Box that someone else has built?
There are so many amazing Toy Boxes it is almost impossible to pick just one as a favorite, but I am a huge fan of the Indian Jones Toy Box by crazybynick. The Toy Box Artist created a spot on recreation of the Indian Jones ride at Disneyland. The attention to detail was spectacular, and it evokes the fun and excitement of the real ride.
What are some of your classic Toy Boxes that have not been a featured top 5 Toy Box?
Building Toy Boxes has a learning curve to it. Every time I build one I learn new things. I recently submitted two Toy Boxes for the Snow White challenge. One was called 7DwarfsMineTrain and the other was Scary Adventures. The MineTrain placed, but I personally enjoyed the Scary Adventures Toy Box more. I put alot of detail into it,including an effect where the Evil Queen looks down menacingly from her castle. I also enjoyed my Disney Parks Challenge entry called Magical Map. In it, players shoot at targets with a paintball gun. I think it was a really fun idea.
What is your dream Toy Box challenge?
My dream Toy Box Challenge would be an Imagineering Challenge where I could stretch my creative muscles and create a ride never before scene at a Disney Park. There are so many rides I have dreamed of over the years and this would be my opportunity to bring some of them to life and share them.
Your 7DwarfsMineTrain toy box was selected as a featured toy box in the Snow White Challenge. Please give us some Inside the Toy Box details on your 7DwarfsMineTrain toy box.
7DwarfsMineTrain is the first racing world I created that placed. Interestingly enough, this Toy Box was a special request by a follower of mine who asked me to make a homage to the Disney World Seven Dwarfs Mine Train ride. I think I finally got down the mechanics of a good racing world and I'm excited to try another one soon.
Do you place any hidden tributes in your winning Toy Boxes?
I like my Toy Boxes to be accessible to all players, regardless of their knowledge of the source material, but I also like to reward true fans with little details that only speak to those that know the movies. In my 7DwarfsMineTrain I hid a tribute to the "Silly Song" in the cottage. At the end of Jolly Holiday, the sky is filled with Admiral Boom's fireworks. If you don't know the movies well, you might not catch the reference but that is ok because the tributes are fun additions anyways.
Your Kingdom Heart toy box was selected as a featured toy box in the Disney Movie Mash-up Challenge. Please give us some Inside the Toy Box details on your Kingdom Heart toy box.
My Kingdom Heart's Toy Box is my favorite Toy Box creation so far. Surprisingly, Kingdom Hearts wasn't my first choice for this challenge. I started with a House of Mouse theme but abandoned it when I realized that Kingdom Hearts would be a better fit. Kingdom Hearts is a popular game series and I knew that I had to get it right because fans feel very strongly about it. I tried to include a good variety of worlds for the players and I was honored at the positive response to my work! When I tell people I am a Toy Box artist, I send them to my Kingdom Hearts Toy Box first and it remains my favorite world to play through.
Share a story of adversity from when you were building one of your Toy Boxes that you had to overcome.
Good question, I was really excited about the Neverland Challenge because Peter Pan is a personal favorite of mine. Unfortunately, I just couldn't fulfill the vision of the Peter Pan's Flight that I had in my heart because I didn't have access to the tools I needed to be true to the source material. Rather than compromise on my vision, I sat out that Toy Box Challenge. It was a hard choice but in the end I strongly believe a Toy Box is an artistic endeavor and its important for an artist to have integrity. I used the time wisely and got a head start on the next challenge and now I make sure I have all the tools I need to complete my Toy Box and I have a budget set aside for extra tools as needed!
Share a funny story from when you were building one of your Toy Boxes.
One of my earlier Toy Boxes was a race for the Wild West Challenge. I have a large family (6 siblings total) and before I was even finished designing my track, my brothers and sisters were lining up to race me! I knew the track from the inside so it wasn't exactly a fair competition, but we had a lot of fun as a family. It was one of those moments everyone is always talking about that is unique to Disney Infinity--its more than a game. Its a community and my Wild West Toy Box helped to open up that community to more fans because now all of my brothers and sisters have started playing the game, too.
Your Astro Blasters toy box was selected as a featured toy box in the Galactic Challenge. Please give us some Inside the Toy Box details on your Astro Blasters toy box.
When coming up with an idea for this challenge, I knew I had to make a toy box dedicated to an attraction at Disneyland that's fun for the whole family. Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters to me, was the perfect choice! So, right away, I was sketching layouts, gathering references, and coming up with ways to make gamers feel like they are actually in the attraction at Disneyland. Once I have completed the toy box, I submitted it to Disney and started to come up with more ideas just in case. Other ideas I had planned for this challenge was to make toy box missions themed around one of new favorite Disney Channel shows; Wander Over Yonder. Unfortunately, those plans would stay in "blue sky"....for now, because while I was working on my next toy box, I accidentally saved over my Astro Blasters toy box. So, I thought to myself, if I do turn in another one to Disney and have it better than my last one, I might lose my opportunity to have that toy box featured and lose that toy box forever. Remarkably, a couple of weeks later, I recently found out from you that my toy box placed first in the Galactic challenge. That, to me, was very surprising to me. I would have never thought my toy box would place first. Also, the best part is that I get to download my toy box and keep it safe from now on. That's one mistake I won't be making again.
Do you have any advice for aspiring Toy Box Artists?
My advice to aspiring artists is simple. Dream big. Don't be afraid of big ideas. Don't dismiss a great idea because the execution will be hard. In fact, those big ideas are the best ones to pursue!


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The iconic house: architectural masterworks since 1900
Thames & Hudson, Nov 30, 2009 - Architecture - 351 pages
From the first stirrings of modernity in the early twentieth century to the present, the house has served as a test bed of design experimentation, the place where architects have sought to create new forms and to offer new domestic lifestyles. Alvar Aalto, Buckminster Fuller, Rudolph Schindler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry, Eileen Gray, Charles and Ray Eames, Charles Gwathmey, Carlo Scarpa, Herzog & de Meuron: most great architects of the past hundred years have begun or catalyzed their careers with an iconic house.
The introduction looks at the historical and social motivations behind epoch-making residential architecture, showing in sidebars twenty of the most important early examples. Then eighty houses--sixty of which have been specially photographed--are presented chronologically. The text describes the all-important relationship between architecture and client, the physical context in which the house is set, and the pivotal role the house played in the development of the architect's career and architecture in general.
Concise architect biographies and a list of key buildings accompany each house, while photographs and easy-to-read plans bring the words to life.
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The Baltimore Ravens continued to look at big names for their vacant offensive coordinator position.
Scott Linehan interviewed for the job Monday at the Senior Bowl, the Baltimore Sun first reported. Ravens coach John Harbaugh later confirmed the news, also announcing that Linehan was one of four men being considered for the job thus far. Ravens wide receivers coach Jim Hostler and former Redskins offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan have already interviewed. Pittsburgh Steelers running backs coach Kirby Wilson will interview later this week.
Harbaugh has also interviewed some college coaches that apparently don't want their name put out publicly.
Linehan looks like the strangest fit despite his experience. The former St. Louis Rams head coach and Detroit Lions offensive coordinator just coached some of the most pass-heavy teams in NFL history. Matthew Stafford broke the NFL's record for pass attempts in 2012.
It would be interesting to see Joe Flacco throw the ball that much, but it doesn't match up with coach John Harbaugh's stated preferences. The one thing in Linehan's favor: He loves the vertical passing game, and that should be one of Flacco's strengths.
The "Around The League Podcast" recapped all the Conference Championship week action.


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Four New Pages from Forthcoming Harry Potter Film Wizardry Book
Oct 12, 2010
Harper Collins have sent along four new pages from the forthcoming book Harry Potter Film Wizardry, which follows the ten-year process of making the Harry Potter films. The pages feature concept art and new quotations from many people behind the scenes and include: a page about the process of transforming the Great Hall into the Yule Ball for the "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" film; a page about Severus Snape and the creation of Spinner's End; a page devoted to the village of Hogsmeade; and lastly, a page about Luna Lovegood and the Thestrals.
You can find the book's trailer at this link and can find more pages and images from the book here in the Leaky image galleries.
Harry Potter Film Wizardry will be released on the 19th of October, 2010 and was written by Brian Sibley. Find links to purchase the book here on the Harper Collins website.


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The search for the world's biggest Jay Cutler fan is over. His teammate, Earl Bennett, has taken the prize. Bennett's loyalty to Cutler knows no bounds.
"We have the top running back arguably in the league, top quarterback, the receiving corp is deep," Bennett told Adam Schein and Rich Gannon of SiriusXM NFL Radio on Monday.
"So you think Cutler is better than Aaron Rodgers?" Schien asked.
"Of course," Bennett responded.
(Bennett goes back all the way to Vanderbilt with Cutler, so we'll excuse his bias.)
I'm a pretty big Cutler fan. Like Ron Jaworski, I put Cutler solidly in the top 10 of NFL quarterbacks. It's hard to come up with many categories in which Cutler is better than Aaron Rodgers.
We'd give arm strength to Cutler. And ... that's about it.
Cutler, 29, remains squarely in his football prime. He has more weapons around him this season. He's one great playoff run away from crashing the top-five quarterback conversation, and he has the skills to pull it off. He just won't ever have the skills to pass Rodgers.


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'A dream come true'
Alumnus is proof positive there is life after spinal cord injury
January 19, 2012
By Diane Hageman
Broken necks and paralysis have made major headlines in Minnesota and national media recently due to the life-altering injuries of Jack Jablonski and Jenna Privette, two high school students injured this season in hockey games.
Sympathetic cries have echoed across the state, with care and concern about what the future of these two players will be.
Switch gears to the campuses of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University and you'll find Bob Bell, assistant professor of accounting and finance, IS proof positive that there is life after a spinal cord injury.
Bell, who hails from Pensacola, Fla., initially came to SJU as a student in the fall of 1989. Tragedy struck early in his college career. Two days before Thanksgiving, Bell was goofing around in the hallway of his dorm with one of his classmates. The other student put Bell in a full-Nelson wrestling hold which broke his neck and damaged his spinal cord at the C-5/C-6 level. In that instant, Bell became a quadriplegic.
Bell returned to Florida but re-enrolled at SJU in the spring 1992 and graduated in 1994, just one year behind his classmates.
Following graduation, Bell became a certified public accountant, worked in Arthur Andersen's Minneapolis office in its tax department and obtained a law degree from the University of Minnesota. He then moved to Washington, D.C. to work at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Next came New York where he fulfilled his dream of working on Wall Street as a securities lawyer.
The 10-year plan
But returning to CSB and SJU was always on his mind. Bell felt a desire to give back to the CSB/SJU community which he says gave so much to him, and "to do something with my life that I feel good about." So during his second summer of law school, "when I was working on 'the Hill' for Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.), I hatched a 10-year plan to be back here teaching," he said with a smile.
During the long cross-country road trip from Minneapolis to Washington, D.C. that summer of 2000, Bell talked through his idea with his caregiver/driving companion. The 10-year plan would begin when he graduated from law school in 2001.
"I figured it would take me 10 years to accomplish what I wanted to accomplish," Bell explained. "I wanted to have ample experience to bring to the classroom. I decided to do public service, government work first with the SEC, and then gained Wall Street experience in New York."
Sure enough, Bell reached his goal in just under 10 years. In the fall of 2010, he began his teaching career at CSB and SJU. He teaches corporate finance, corporate financial analysis, financial accounting, and business writing. During the fall 2011, he also taught a first-year seminar (FYS) course, a class designed to help incoming students develop their skills in critical thinking, speaking and writing.
Teaching first-year seminar
Bell looked forward to teaching the FYS class.
"I enjoyed the spirited discussions we were able to have and felt like I really got to know the students better," he said. "It was amazing to teach this class. I put a lot of myself into it." Bell wrote about one of his FYS experiences which was posted on the Christian blog Mockingbird.
"He's so genuine and was willing to share his experiences and his story," said Sarah Ober, a first-year CSB student from Burnsville, Minn., who was in Bell's FYS class.
While Ober appreciated the fact that Bell taught her how to construct a more effective argument in a paper or speech, she appreciated even more how "he taught me about expectations in college and how to challenge myself now and for the next four years."
"He really offered us insights no other professor could offer, with all the personal and professional experiences he's had," Ober concluded.
Professional background beneficial
Kevin Abbas, a senior accounting and finance major from Eagan, Minn. who took Bell's corporate financial analysis class in fall 2011, enjoyed Bell's "pearls of wisdom," where he shares a personal story or event from his life.
"His class wasn't just focused on the nuts and bolts, analytical stuff. He provided more real-life applications and wisdom. He tells us stories of what he did wrong and right-and how to learn from mistakes," Abbas said.
Abbas remarked that he really no longer "sees" the wheelchair. "Yeah, the wheelchair is there but it doesn't inhibit him or hold him back but it must present challenges to him every day," he said.
Making the most of it
Bell, who is a believer of the Biblical phrase "thy will be done," hasn't looked back since making the decision to leave the corporate world and return to the schools where he was educated.
"In my mind, the CSB/SJU model provides the best of both worlds. The students definitely receive the full coeducational experience. But the separate campuses provide ample time and opportunity for men to be men and for women to be women," he said. "Coming back here to teach only solidifies my view that this is a unique environment that truly brings out the best in men and women."
"I'm very happy with my decision and proud of what I'm doing," Bell said. "I have a strong faith and believe that this is the life I've been given, and I intend to make the most of it."
As for the two high school hockey players, Bell certainly empathizes with them and their families. In fact, Bell shared a letter he recently wrote to Mike and Leslie Jablonski. In an effort to offer them hope and support, Bell describes to them some of what he's accomplished since his injury.
In part, it reads, "I detail all of this for you so that you know there is much possibility left for Jabby. I have traveled to over 40 countries since my injury. I have amazing family and friends. .... And finally, a year and a half ago, I returned to Saint Ben's/Saint John's as a professor; a dream come true for me and a job I absolutely love."


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And don't tek nuh talk from nobody
Just do weh mi tell yuh fi do seen star
And mek sure everyting work according to how man seh everyting fi work seen
Take back yourself and bring back yourself inna one piece
Mek sure say you reach, hear me?
Lord have mercy, hey, lord have his mercy, lord have mercy
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I've now had two days to recover from the Copa Oro games we went to on Sunday, pero todavia estoy completamente rendida.
The night before, I couldn't sleep, half from excitement and half from anxiety about the tickets. Following the wise advice of a friend, we arrived hours early at the stadium. (Gracias to Rudy, who we actually got to meet briefly at the game.)
We went straight to the "Will Call" window and I gave them my I.D. I watched them shuffle around and come up empty-handed. I watched them check and re-check. I knew this would happen. They apologized that they didn't have tickets for me under my name. I called the number of the on-site manager that State Farm had given me in case I ran into problems – he assured me he had the tickets on him. When we met him in the parking lot where State Farm had set up, true to his word, he had the tickets. I resisted kissing him and instead let him tell me about some of the fun things they were doing there.
I talked with someone about the sOccket ball and she showed me how it worked. I also got to check out the State Farm iPhone app, Kick4ACause which allows you to donate electricity just by playing the game. [See video of me playing]
As Carlos and I decided what to do next, a mini-Salvadoran pride parade broke out. Of course we joined in.
The parade went around the parking lot making all kinds of noise. At one point we clashed with a group of panameños, but after dancing with them for awhile, the parade continued on, much to the bewilderment of gringos trying to tailgate in peace.
When gringos tried to interact with Salvadorans though, the Salvadoran response always made me smile. When gringos shouted "U.S.A.!" – the Salvadorans didn't feel threatened – they joined them in chants for the red, white and blue. I wonder if this made an impression on anyone in that parking lot who had expected a different reaction – to realize that it's possible to have enough love for the place of your birth, language or culture – but feel equally proud of the country you now live in.
After the mini-parade we sought shade and a late [very expensive] lunch inside the stadium. We found our seats and waited.
While waiting, I observed a lot of Salvadorans who came prepared to not only cheer on El Salvador, but the United States as well. Many wore La Selecta T-shirts, but carried American flags. The "U.S.A.!" chant was alive and well in sections full of Salvadorans during the U.S. vs. Jamaica game.
The game itself was great, but the sky was so cloudy that I wasn't able to access Twitter on my phone which was frustrating.
After the United States won, we were all full of happiness and hope for El Salvador.
Hearing the crowd sing the Himno Nacional de El Salvador made me tear up a little. To look around and know that all these Salvadorans were here together even though many, like Carlos, were far from their homeland… It's difficult for me to put in words.
Being at the actual game instead of watching it on television is a unique experience. I've watched a lot of Salvadoran fútbol games on T.V. but never heard the crowd whistling in unison. Salvadorans have a unique way of whistling, (I wish I had caught it on video), but when you have thousands of people doing this, it sounds sort of like a forest full of parrots.
Speaking of whistling, at one point in the game, a Salvadoran player fell on top of a Panamanian player in a position that looked somewhat compromising. This got some funny responses from the crowd which I won't repeat, but you definitely don't get that on T.V. either.
As for the game – La Selecta missed a lot of opportunities on the field, but they did get this penalty shot which was very exciting.
Another highlight for me was seeing a guy run across the field with the Salvadoran flag. I know that's frowned upon but it amused me, (and he was really fast. Maybe La Selecta should draft him?)
(You can't see on my video, but you can see in others that the Panamanian goalie threw the U.S. flag out of the goal. That's what the booing was about at the end of the video.)
El Salvador was ready to win… and then Panama scored a goal in the last minute… at least they say they scored a goal. I've watched the replay two dozen times and can't decide if it was good or not. If only there was video of it from the other side – pero ni modo, what's done is done. There's no use being bitter about it.
Okay…maybe a little.
Here are some of my favorite photos I took during the game:
As you see, some guys had a banner that proclaimed Zelaya to be better than Chicharito. While I was there to support La Selecta with all my heart, I'm not so sure I agree. My Pitbull didn't do much better. The game was full of excitement, tense moments, joy, disappointment – the poor Salvadorans around me went from elated to crushed over and over again. One guy often took his frustration out on the empty stadium seat in front of him. By the end of the game I was kind of surprised he hadn't managed to rip it out as he repeatedly pounded on it screaming "P*TA! P*TA! P*TA! HIJUEP*TA!"
Carlos was calmer than that though I heard him say a few choice words under his breath after the final penalty shot shoot-out decided our fate.
Win or lose, it was an amazing experience. I know it was particularly special for Carlos. I asked him what it felt like being in the stadium surrounded by so many Salvadorans. He said it reminded him of home and the games he used to go to with his friends. The good thing about Salvadorans is that even though Carlos didn't have his old friends with him, the guys seated around us were more than willing to fill-in for the day. I know Carlos to be a mostly quiet guy, but when he's with other salvadoreños he opens up and is actually quite talkative. I love to see him uninhibited like that. [ Read Carlos's post about the day here.]
The game came to an end, but the brotherly love was far from over. On the way out of the stadium I was nearly crushed, (this panicked me for a minute but I knew Carlos would throw people left and right if I were in any danger.) … Then we missed the first Metro train because it was impossible to fit anymore people on it. We waited twenty more minutes for the pleasure of being crushed on the next train. Besides myself, I think there was only one other woman on the train – it was packed with young men wearing blue, and all of us, (myself included), were in serious need of some deodorant after a long day in the sun.
Despite the heat, lack of personal space, exhaustion and loss of the game, the group on the train remained in good spirits.
"Yo soy salvadoreño!" shouted one man still full of pride and warrior spirit, "Soy guerilla!"
A man from the other side of the train answered him back,
"Guerilla mi c*lo!"
(Don't ask me to translate it to English. Somehow, it's not as funny like that.)
Disclosure: I attended the Gold Cup games at the invitation of State Farm. All opinions are my own.


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The Wired Child Series: Q and A with Media Psychologist main content.
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The wired world is a new frontier for psychologists and neuroscientists, who are starting to discover interesting impacts persistent technology use has on the brain. Navigating the latest science on the subject will be the focus of the Museum's first fall adult course, The Wired Child: How 21st Century Technology Affects the Brain, which kicks off on Thursday, September 15, in the Sackler Educational Laboratory. Guest lecturers include Dr. Pamela Rutledge, media psychologist and expert blogger for Psychology Today, who will be leading the course on Thursday, October 6.
Rutledge recently answered a few questions about the field.
Is our current technology shift all that different from major media advances in the past?
Every major shift causes a commotion because it's new. Socrates didn't like the idea of writing because he didn't think people would be able to remember anything anymore. The Catholic Church wasn't comfortable with Gutenberg printing Bibles since they were no longer the middleman between the scriptures and common man. The brain really likes certainty. That's why it's great at identifying patterns, a feature that was fundamental to our survival. When we don't have certainty about our environment, it triggers a danger response in the brain and can make us anxious.
Many parents are anxious about the effects of new media on children and adolescents. What is the biggest misconception adults have about these technologies?
Parents often assume that the world of their kids is the world they grew up in and know. But when we look at new technology, we have to ask not just what world our kids are living in now, but what world we need to prepare them for so they can succeed. For example, there's a lot of research about how children don't have time to concentrate on a single thing. But in a world where information is everywhere—and where analysis and synthesis are the skills needed for success—we want to teach them to quickly recognize quality information. We tend to villainize technology because it's new and challenges our assumptions without looking for fundamental positives.
Media psychology is a field that is rapidly evolving. How do you handle those changes?
I try not to worry about whether a specific technology is better or worse than the last. I look for the human goals that are attached to its use. Human goals haven't changed nearly as fast as technology. The fundamental drivers of human behavior, such as social connection, are just part of our brain's operating system.
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Oneida County Notebook for week of Feb. 11
-Oneida County's 911 Emergency Operations Center has been accredited by the New York State Sheriff's Association.
Accreditation by the NYS Sheriff's Association requires that 70 standards be met.
Only twelve 911 Centers in New York State have been able to achieve this standard.
"The Oneida County 911 Center is an outstanding operation that serves the public with tremendous efficiency and effectiveness day in and day out, and I am very proud of the work of every member of the team that makes the 911 Center a success," Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr said. "There were some very high expectations placed upon the personnel at the Center when we consolidated operations and began routing every community's emergency calls into this one center. This accreditation is proof that the team at the Center has risen to the challenge of protecting the people of Oneida County, and that the investments we have made in technology and equipment are being recognized for their value in helping to keep the public safe."
Oneida County Emergency Services Director Kevin Revere, who was presented with the accreditation by NYS Sheriff's Association Counsel Thomas Mitchell during a meeting of the Oneida County Board of Legislators, said that the accreditation was the result of teamwork and dedication. "The people who work at the center know the responsibility we have, and we take each and every call with the utmost professionalism, knowing that the people of Oneida County, as well as the Board here and the County Executive, have entrusted us with the responsibility to be the first line of assistance when someone calls for help. This is a proud day for all of us at the Center, and for all of our partners.
In 2012, the Center received 354,490 calls (including both 911 and 7 digit calls). Of those, 128,314 were placed using the 911 emergency number.
-Last week, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr., attended the annual New York State Association of Counties (NYSAC) Legislative Conference, and noted that the conference resulted in a strong show of unity in favor of reforms that can help property taxpayers.
"For all that you hear about difference between regions of the state, when we meet as a group there are a tremendous number of issues that unite county governments from Long Island to the North Country to the Niagara Frontier," Picente said. "In a time when social service and human service programs are only the major part of all counties but are also areas of tremendous cost as well as growing need, it is important for all of the property taxpayers across New York State that county governments have a solid, supportive, two-way partnership with the state that allows us to deliver the critical programs New York State requires us to operate and the equally important programs the people of our counties want and need."
Picente, who is Vice President of NYSAC, presided over the Legislative Conference in the absence of NYSAC President Ed Diana, the County Executive of Orange County. Members deliberated and passed a series of resolutions regarding the NY SAFE Act, funding for county 9-1-1 communications, public health article 6 reforms, early voting, IDA reforms, Medicaid costs, and home rule authority.
"I think that it is fair to say we are all encouraged by the approach Gov. Cuomo has taken to address the substantive issues that face county governments. Achieving state fiscal stability is an essential foundation for everything all of us hope to accomplish. Our message to the Governor, and to all of our state legislators, is that the steps taken so far cannot become the end of our work together to reform a system that piles costs on counties. The flow of mandates and costs from Albany to counties has gone one way for so long that we understand it cannot be reversed in a day. This conference is a valuable way we can continue our dialogue with our state leaders, so that we all can be justly proud of our service of the people of our counties."


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The Buzz Killers necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 21 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
The Buzz Killers
The Buzz Killers sell the Buzz Killer cards, affordable 3.5"x5.5" plastic cards on which you place your cell phone. The patent-pending technology of the card virtually eliminates the cell phone buzzing interference you hear on conference call lines, desktop speakers, baby monitors, VOIP headsets, and land-line handsets. The cards are sold to consumers online. More importantly, our product can be (and is) branded with a company's logo or message for distribution at seminars, conferences, as give-aways, gifts, etc.
The promotional products industry is a nearly $20 billion one featuring tens of thousands of products. The Buzz Killer cards are the only one of their kind (patent-pending). No other product like it exists.
The current website (http://www.thebuzzkillers.com/) is viewed as being somewhat outdated in appearance, structure, and in the presentation of the content. Given that, we feel the opportunity exists for a redesign and modernization of the website. We want to aim more towards distributors and wholesalers, and not so much directed at consumers.
The files attached are for your reference and use. You do NOT have to use all the copy. We want to give you as much as you need. Please ask questions!!! There will be four of us watching the contest and providing feedback.
There are three target audiences of the website.
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(2) Companies or other organizations: who wish to customize the shape, size, and message on the cards for corporate identity, marketing, and promotions.
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(4) Consumer (B2C) Page where they can see all designs and buy.
(5) Communications page: Contact us, tweets, blogs, news, ads, Press, News, Events, Contact Us, Customer Help/Support etc.
(6) A generic page that could be used in the creation of, or foundation for, the other pages that we will edit.
Final deliverables in layered Photoshop (PSD) format.
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The Buzz Killers will take responsibility for implementing your web design, and so, needs to make some restrictions: Designs that are envisaged to be implemented primarily in Flash, Silverlight or other such technologies, will not be considered. (Suggesting the use of Flash-based video or audio players, etc… is totally acceptable.) If you are recommending the use of Ajax-based components or features, such as lightboxes, Coda sliders, etc… please provide the necessary details.


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Prenatal testing is a term that describes many tests that are done during pregnancy. The tests provide information about your health and the health of your developing baby. Prenatal testing includes blood and urine tests and ultrasounds. In some cases, more invasive procedures may be recommended. Invasive tests may include sampling placental tissue, drawing fluid from the amniotic sac, or drawing fetal blood from the umbilical cord.
Prenatal tests can be used to identify many different things, including:
- Treatable health problems in the mother that can affect the health of the fetus
- Characteristics of the fetus, including size, age, placement in the uterus, and sex
- Genetic, or chromosomal problems
In the mother, prenatal tests are used to identify things that could possibly affect the developing fetus, including:
- Antibodies that can cross the placenta and affect the health of the fetus
- Gestational diabetes
- Immunity to certain diseases, such as chickenpox and German measles
- Iron-deficiency anemia
- Sexually transmitted diseases
Prenatal tests can screen for many different congenital defects in the fetus, including:
- Chromosomal disorders such as Down syndrome (trisomy 21), trisomy 18, and trisomy 13. The risk of having of child with a chromosomal disorder increases with the age of the parents.
- Dominant gene disorders such as Huntington disease and achondroplasia
- Recessive gene disorders such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, Tay-Sachs disease, and beta thalassemia
- Neural tube defects such as spina bifida and anencephaly
- Congenital heart defects
Some birth defects can be diagnosed through prenatal testing. Some of these can be treated in utero (before birth) or immediately after birth, but the majority cannot. Prenatal testing can be quite complicated. However, prenatal tests do not test for everything, and no prenatal test guarantees the birth of a healthy baby.Why is prenatal testing performed?What are the different types of prenatal tests?What questions should I ask my doctor about prenatal testing?Where can I get more information about prenatal testing?
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – The No. 16 Georgia College women's tennis squad (5-4) came away with a solid non-conference victory over No. 29 Indiana (Pa.) University (7-5) Friday afternoon, defeating the Crimson Hawks 7-2 at a neutral site in Augusta, Ga.
The Bobcats started well, picking up two victories in the doubles portion of the match from Kayla Barksdale (Augusta, Ga.) and Lisa Setyon-Ortenzio (Paris), as well as Ivana Marevic (Rottweil, Germany) and Leah Pridgeon (Lawrenceville, Ga.).
Barksdale and Setyon-Ortenzio defeated Tanya Timko and Emilia Osborne 8-2 at the second doubles spot, while the tandem of Marevic and Pridegon took down Erika Schnass and Ranvita Mahto 9-8 at third. Setyon-Ortenzio and Barksdale now have a team-best seven doubles victories.
GC dropped the first doubles match as May Johnson (Sydney, Australia) and Michelle Lingner (Dunwoody, Ga.) fell to Tabtip Louhabanjong and Katie Eaton by a score of 8-6.
The Bobcats continued their stellar play nearly sweeping the singles portion of the match.
Setyon-Ortenzio won at the top slot over Louhabanjong in straight-sets 6-1, 6-3, as did Johnson 6-1, 6-1 against Eaton at the second.
Marevic went the distance against Timko, eventually winning the match 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in third singles.
The 'Cats split a pair of tiebreakers, as Pridgeon won over Osborne 6-4, 2-6, 10-6 while Lingner dropped her match with Schnass 2-6, 6-3, 10-4.
Rounding out the scoring for the Bobcats was Barskdale with a 6-2, 7-5 win against McCormick at the fourth slot. Barksdale still shares the team lead in victories with Setyon-Ortenzio at 7-2 each.
The Georgia College women will travel to No. 9 Clayton State University Sunday, March 18 for a Peach Belt Conference (PBC) matchup.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Due to deep state cuts to public higher education, local community colleges will have to cut back on courses, turn away students and lay off part-time faculty in the coming school year, officials from the Foothill-De Anza Community College District said.
Though it is unclear how much state funding will be cut from the district's budget in the 2011-12 school year, Linda Thor, Foothill-De Anza's chancellor, expects to lose at least $8.5 million.
The state has informed community colleges throughout California that cuts are definitely coming, Thor said. Further reductions could be in the works halfway through the school year, if the state fails to come up with its goal of $4 billion in revenue.
If at least $3 billion in the hoped-for state revenue materializes, there will be no further cuts to Foothill-De Anza beyond the $8.5 million, Thor said. However, in a worst-case scenario, the district will need to compensate for a reduction of about $10.5 million.
Because about 95 percent of the district's revenue comes from the state, all cuts handed down from Sacramento are significant.
According to Kevin McElroy, the district's vice chancellor, Foothill-De Anza is bracing for a total deficit of $22.8 million, which they hope to make up for through class and staffing reductions, borrowing from the individual colleges and through a $10.7 million "rainy day fund."
In the best case scenario, the district is planning to reduce its capacity for full-time students by 6.15 percent, which means about 3,935 fewer students -- full-time and part-time -- would be served in total, said Thor.
In the worst-case scenario, the district would have to pare back its full-time student load by more than 7.5 percent, or about 4,834 full- and part-time students.
Further complicating matters, the district will not know if the worst case scenario will come to pass until December 15, after many students have already enrolled in classes, which could mean that fees would be raised retroactively at Foothill and De Anza colleges, Thor and McElroy said. Any increase would come on top of a $7-per-unit bump that is already built into the governor's budget, starting this fall; the cost for a typical four-unit class will rise from $68 to $92.
Thor estimated that as many as 200 part-time faculty and staff might not be hired back next year; open administrative positions will not be filled whenever possible; and benefits will remain at last year's levels.
If there is any bright side to the gloomy news, Thor said, it is that the Foothill-De Anza board of trustees previously overestimated the severity of future cuts and managed to set aside about $10.7 million to help minimize reductions in 2011-12.
"The district is very fortunate in that our board of trustees had been anticipating more bad times and had established what we called the stability fund, what others might call a rainy day fund," Thor said.
Thor estimates that Foothill-De Anza would use up the majority of the "rainy day fund" next year making up for its deficit.
McElroy, who was appointed vice chancellor of the district last August, has been working in California public schools since 1985.
"In the 26 years that I've been here, I've never seen it this bad," McElroy said of the state's budget situation. He noted that recessions hit state community colleges in 1993 and 2003, but neither caused as much damage as the current recession.
Neither of the previous economic downturns he saw as vice president of administrative services at Coastline Community College in Fountain Valley, Calif., lasted as long as the current slump, McElroy said. The Foothill-De Anza district has been losing state funding since 2008.
"We have cycles," McElroy said. "This is just a really bad cycle."
"The thing that is most troubling for us," Thor said, "is that California had the best higher education system in the country and it's being decimated. Who knows if we'll ever be able to recover from that?"
Thor and McElroy tried to balance optimism with a realistic outlook about the future of their schools and the state's community college system overall.
"I want to stress, we don't want to be discouraging people from coming to our colleges," Thor said. "We are managing the cuts the best we can. We are doing everything we can to be able to serve the community at a level close to what they've been used to."


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Hamas' Useful Idiots
Sound bites are usually meant to obfuscate as much as clarify. Rarely is one so incisive as the line uttered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the other day about the difference between Israel and Hamas: "We're using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles."
This is the ground truth of the latest Gaza war that gets obscured by the relentlessly repeated stark disparity in casualties between the Gazans, hundreds of whom have died in the conflict, and the Israelis.
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Each civilian death in Gaza is a tragedy, but who is ultimately responsible? The moral calculus here is simple. Hamas precipitated the war and persisted in waging it even when Israel was willing to accept an Egyptian offer of a cease-fire. Hamas hides its rockets in schools and places its command bunkers under hospitals. It wants war, and it wants civilian casualties.
Stalin infamously said that one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic. Hamas is happy with either a tragedy (the four kids killed on the beach by Israeli shells last week) or a statistic (the climbing civilian toll), so long as it is death and so long as it can be used in the propaganda war against Israel.
This isn't hard to understand. Yet even supporters of Israel give in to the twisted logic that the Gaza conflict is somehow an indictment of the Jewish state. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said on CNN "that this is hurting Israel's moral authority." Which is exactly the conclusion Hamas wants "the international community" to draw from its depraved indifference to the safety of Gazans.
Jon Stewart did a controversial bit last week about how Israel has all the advantages in the conflict, what with its warnings via app to its civilians about incoming rockets and its ability to neutralize those rockets with its missile defenses.
Yes, how unfair. Israel invested in systems entirely devoted to protecting its civilian population from unprovoked attack. What dastardliness is the Zionist Entity capable of next?
Dean Obeidallah of The Daily Beast lauds Stewart for this in a piece headlined, "How Jon Stewart Made It Okay to Care About Palestinian Suffering." It's more like making it cool to be obtuse about the Gaza war.
Of course there is an asymmetry between Hamas and Israel. There will always be a technological gap between a ramshackle terror force with medieval religious views and a dynamic, liberal society. On Sept. 11, 2001, Al Qaeda had box cutters. We had B-52s. Did that make us the unsympathetic Goliath to Al Qaeda's David?
Israel might well undertake an indiscriminate, scorched earth campaign in Gaza — if it were run by, say, the Assad regime in Syria, with its taste for chemical weapons and barrel bombs. Jeffrey Goldberg pointed out in The Atlantic that 700 people were killed in Syria last weekend alone, outpacing the total death toll in Gaza so far, but the deaths received almost no media coverage.


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In our founding documents it states that the United States of America is a nation built by the people and for the people. Unfortunately most of the laws in our society and civilization have been reshaped by lawyers and sometimes in a self-serving way. One cynical person in our online think tank stated; "America; By the People, For the Lawyers!"
Of course immediately one of the lawyers in the group labeled him a cynical person, which he immediately admitted freely. But he said; "just because I'm a cynic does not mean I am not correct." So the question is what do you think? This is an article of pure opinion as you can tell.
Are we still a nation built by the people and for the people or are we a modified hybred; being built by the lawyers and for lawyers. If lawyers make our laws and we have to hire a lawyer to tell us what those laws are and then hire another lawyer if those laws are inadvertently or accidentally broken then who are we truly serving; ourselves "The People" or the lawyers to whom we have to pay money to for advice on how to live or run our businesses.
The cynic in the group suggested that in his business, which is a successful construction firm, he had to call his lawyer every time he wanted to use the company restroom to make sure it was okay? Indeed, it has not got that bad yet, but it surely could at the present rate in my humble opinion.
I certainly hope this article is of interest and that is has propelled thought. The goal is simple; to help you in your quest to be the best in 2007. I thank you for reading my many articles on diverse subjects, which interest you.


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NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Westminster College senior Kevin Winner, a philosophy major and economics minor, presented his credit analysis of a major defense contracting firm to an alumni panel on Sept. 8.
Winner is a son of Kevin and Cherie Winner of Hermitage and a graduate of Hickory High School. He completed an independent study with Dr. Daniel Fischmar, professor of economics and business; with assistance from Westminster alumnus Ben Nelson '06, a lead credit analyst at Moody's Corporation.
"Kevin wanted to do some original research on a topic that would give him exposure to the financial industry," Fischmar said. "Through contacts with Ben Nelson, he became interested in a project that would require him to assign a credit rating for a defense company."
"This demonstrates how faculty and alumni can work together to coordinate very meaningful experiences for the students that link academic course material with the world outside of campus," Nelson said.
During his research Winner had the opportunity to talk with credit analysts about the defense industry, analyze the consequences for defense contractors of the potential sequestration of the federal budget, study financial reports from the SEC, forecast the financial position of the company and assign a credit rating to the debt of the company. He presented the results to the panel made up of three faculty members and six alumni.
"It was a real treat seeing one of our students perform at a level that was truly impressive," said Dr. Russ Martin, professor of history and panel participant. "His presentation was knowledgeable, mature, and thoroughly professional. I give enormous credit to Dr. Fischmar, to the alumni that assisted Kevin, and most of all, to Kevin."
Additional alumni, faculty and friends of the college who served on the panel included: Russ Mills '05, political science professor Bowling Green University; Jordan Hinds '06, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Christie Nelson '06, Rutgers University; Lee Scott '07, Coalition for Christian Outreach; Jesse Ligo, Westminster professor of accounting; Mark Drabick '10 from the Bank of New York Mellon; and Tom Nelson from Ameriprise.
The Westminster College Alumni Association was established in 1884. All graduates of Westminster are Association members. The events and activities of the Association are guided by the leadership of the Alumni Council. Past events included: "Networking 101," an alumni panel discussion focusing on proper networking techniques; "For Seniors Only" dinner, where seniors learn how to create and manage a budget; mock interviews for students to learn how to better highlight their attributes during interviews and how to develop a resume that stands out.
The next Alumni Council meeting is Saturday, Jan. 26, at 9 a.m. in the McKelvey Campus Center.
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Maracanã: Rebirth of Brazil's Temple of Soccer
Despite the passage of more than 60 years, the demons of the 1950 World Cup still linger over Maracanã, Brazil's grand dame of soccer arenas.
When Maracanã was built — specifically to host the 1950 World Cup — it was considered the greatest soccer stadium in the world, and Brazilians thought a triumph was such a foregone conclusion that a victory song, Brasil os vencedores, (Brazil the Victors) had already been composed.
In the post-World War II years, soccer and the grand stadium were considered powerful forces in unifying the country and bringing the poor into the national fold.
But with 11 minutes remaining in the final match of the 1950 World Cup, Uruguay's Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia brushed a shot past the Brazilian goalkeeper and little Uruguay was up 2-1, which ended up as its margin of victory.
"The goal was so great, its impact so violent, that the one goal, seemed to divide Brazilian life into two phases, before and after," journalist Joao Maximo wrote at the time.
Shell-shocked Brazilians who had packed the stadium to the rafters could scarcely believe the result. For some, the pain has never receded.
Zico, the legendary Brazilian soccer player of the 1970s and early 1980s, said his father, Jose Antunes Coimbra, was in the stands that day in 1950. After the loss, he never returned to Maracanã — not even to watch his famous son play.
"He was a Portuguese man who had fallen in love with Brazil, and he was heartbroken like most of the 200,000 people in the stands that day," said Zico (Arthur Antunes Coimbra), now a coach.
"If he came to Maracanã to watch me play, then I never saw him," said Zico, who is still the highest scorer in Maracanã history, with 333 goals in 435 matches.
This year's FIFA World Cup final also will be held in Maracanã, and Brazilian fans are hoping for a day of redemption.
The national team is well aware of its responsibility, said Zico. "We are not really prepared to be the second one but only the winner — the champions," he said. "All the soccer players know this."
Brazil was the surprise winner in last year's Confederations Cup, raising hopes for a World Cup victory.
"The Confederations Cup was very important," said Zico. "It brought the fans together around this team. I think the Brazilian people do believe in this team " — even though so many of its members play outside Brazil.
Maracanã, whose formal name is Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, will be the scene of six other World Cup games, and it has undergone a head-to-toe renovation. While Maracanã is ready, last-minute work on at least three of the 12 World Cup stadiums continues. "We are getting there,'' FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valck said Friday.
Because Maracanã occupies such a vaunted place in the national psyche, some purists debate whether it should have been tampered with at all. But Zico isn't one of them.
For him, the heart and soul of this temple of soccer remain. "For me, it's only Maracanã. There's no old and no new Maracanã. Maracanã is just magic."
In a land of soccer fanatics, just about every futebol fan, it seems, has an indelible memory of the old Maracanã.
Taking in a game there was a rite of passage, an experience that kids would recall with their dads, and granddads and cousins for generations to come.
They talk of sitting chock-a-block with fellow Brazilians, even sideways on retired bench seating when the stadium was especially packed, and such tumult when Brazil scored an important goal that the arena literally shook.
They remember games that made them sing and games that made them weep.
The game that Raul Melo, a Rio historian, will never forget is the 1982 World Cup when Zico was on the team and Brazil faced Italy. Although the Brazilian team was the pre-Cup favorite, it lost 3-2 and was eliminated from the tournament. Italy went on to take the title.
"I still can't stand to see replays of that game," Melo said. "I cry."
Zico himself is philosophical about the loss. "We really didn't play very well. It happens," he said. "We were very sad, but it wasn't as if the world ended."
During the nearly three-year renovation, the historic facade — it was named a cultural heritage site by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage — remained the same. But the interior got a complete remodeling and a new roof made of fiberglass and Teflon that protects 95 percent of the stadium's seats was added. A snazzy LED-lighting system can project 110 colors on the roof.
In the old days when there were bench seats, Maracanã could easily accommodate more than 100,000 fans. And during the 1950 World Cup, nearly 174,000 paying fans and others who pushed their way into the stadium for free sent the attendance soaring to around 200,000.
The bench seats were eliminated when Maracanã was spiffed up for the 2007 Pan American Games and that brought the capacity down to 87,000, meaning there were no longer those resounding goals when the stadium seemed to sway like a ship at sea.
In the most recent renovation, capacity was taken down to 78,000 and more exits were added to comply with FIFA requirements. There's a new operations center where images generated by 360 cameras placed around the arena are monitored on a video wall.
Under new security protocols, the entire stadium should be able to be evacuated in eight minutes — four minutes less than FIFA's regulations.
If the pre-renovation stadium was a dumpy but beloved grand dame, the new Maracanã is a hipper sophisticate with 60 bars and snack areas, an air-conditioned VIP area with box seats, food and drink included in the ticket price in the Maracanã Mais section, and green technology.
Rainfall captured by the new roof has reduced the amount of potable water needed to irrigate the Bermuda Celebration grass on the pitch by 50 percent and the rain water also is used in the restrooms. Solar panels supply 3 percent of the stadium's power needs.
The thinner blades of the new grass are supposed to help the ball roll more quickly down the field. The grass was imported from the United States and grown on a turf farm in Saquarema in the state of Rio de Janeiro until it was ready to be transplanted on the pitch.
Most of the items that were on display in the Maracanã museum are in storage, but the ball used when Pelé scored his 1,000th goal on Nov. 19, 1969 is still on a pedestal.
Stadium operators plan to bring back the other historical items, such as the velvet chair where Pope John Paul II celebrated mass in 1980, after they figure out where to put the new museum.
Maracanã is one of Rio de Janeiro's top tourist attractions, and on a recent day international visitors were busy snapping pictures of each other on the perimeter of the pitch and lounging on the new seats.
Zico's assessment of the changes at Maracanã?
"Marvelous — for those who see it, for those who play in it."


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