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Education equity, effective professional development key, says Van Roekel
WASHINGTON - December 07, 2010 -
Two international reports released within the last two weeks—the McKinsey report, How the World's Most Improved School Systems Keep Getting Better, and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)—offer perspectives on how other nations boost student learning and performance. They also underscore the importance of elevating the teaching profession. The following statement can be attributed to NEA President Dennis Van Roekel:
"We are at the brink of a brilliant new era for the profession of teaching, and it is up to us—unions, policymakers and the public—to learn from new research and find ways to strengthen teaching and learning.
"The latest McKinsey report and PISA results support our belief that collaboration and effective professional development are key factors in raising student achievement and that public education can be the ultimate equalizer. When school administrators and community members respect and support teachers and work together to address the effects of poverty on student learning, students benefit and their achievement goes up.
"The McKinsey report found that multiple factors and interventions—rather than a single silver-bullet solution—are needed to help a school move up the results ladder. In particular, the study found that teacher professionalism matters, and it recommends that requirements, practices and career paths for the teaching profession be as clearly defined as they are for medicine and law. This finding gives even more support to teacher-led initiatives like the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, and it affirms the importance of rigorous standards for entry into the profession.
"PISA tells us that if we are serious about reaching all students, we must take their circumstance into account: students have different experiences and instruction should be designed to meet students where they are. This new research shows once again that poverty and educational inequity are indisputably linked. One in five of our children lives in poverty, so if we wish to transform public education so that all students can succeed, we cannot be afraid to talk about and address the effects of poverty.
"For the United States to be a high-performing country, we need to benchmark opportunity as well as quality—this is one of PISA's most important lessons, and it's why NEA is so committed to our Priority Schools campaign. The campaign is specifically designed to challenge the status quo and foster changes in environments so that disadvantaged students can access quality education.
"I urge policymakers to review both of these reports carefully before rushing to judgment about the next steps needed to improve our schools. We want to be certain that our policies are grounded in the evidence that PISA and other well-founded research provide about effective education rather than in a political reaction to the PISA rankings.
"In both studies, high-performing countries rely on the participation of an engaged and professional teachers' union in their improvement process. To that end, NEA has been working with Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Education International and others to host a summit on the teaching profession.
"The summit is the first of its kind and will allow participants—government and teachers' union leaders from the other nations who achieved top tier PISA results—to exchange ideas and learn from each other. The summit will be held March 16-17 in New York City.
"We hope that 2011 brings a more productive, more sophisticated discussion about how to sustainably transform our schools, drawing upon the kind of rich data offered by these reports. NEA will be working with our leadership and partners nationwide to explore how to implement what really works for students and public education."
For more information about the summit on the teaching profession,
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For additional information about NEA's Priority Schools campaign, visit www.neapriorityschools.org
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Driver shot dead by police after chase, carjack attempt
A suspected car thief who assaulted bystanders, rammed vehicles – including a police car – and fired at officers in an attempt to outrun police was fatally shot Saturday morning near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Police said late Saturday night that they did not know the man's name.
His death ended a wild, 45-minute police chase that began in Chula Vista about 9:40 a.m. and snaked through San Diego surface streets and Interstates 5 and 805 in San Ysidro.
Southbound I-805 was closed near the border for several hours as authorities investigated the shooting.
The incident started when Chula Vista police officers found a stolen Dodge pickup parked in the lot of the Good Nite Inn on Bay Boulevard, said Chula Vista police Lt. Phil Collum.
After two hours of monitoring the vehicle, the officers spotted a man and a woman getting in it.
When the officers tried to stop the pickup, the male driver rammed their car and then backed into a chain-link fence, trees and gates. The driver sped backward down the street and fired five shots from a semiautomatic handgun at another patrol car that came toward him. No one in that police vehicle was hit.
At one point, the woman, identified by Chula Vista police as Salina Galindo, 34, of San Diego, was thrown from the pickup and suffered superficial injuries. She was later charged with possession of stolen property.
The driver, whom the Medical Examiner's Office said was 36 years old, jumped out of the truck and ran away after it spun out on an embankment. The man came upon an employee taking a break at Goodrich Aerostructures on H Street in Chula Vista, and beat and robbed him, police said.
Then the assailant stole the company's utility van, which had its keys in the ignition. He drove north on southbound I-5. Police called off the pursuit when it became too dangerous, but a sheriff's helicopter followed overhead.
The pursuit picked up again on surface streets and through neighborhoods before ending up on southbound I-805, where the fugitive again drove in the wrong direction, said San Diego homicide Capt. Jim Collins.
After crashing the van, the driver went car-to-car along the shoulder of the freeway trying to carjack another vehicle. He ordered a man out of a Toyota sedan and got behind the wheel, then rammed other vehicles while trying to pull into traffic, Collins said.
A San Diego K9 officer who ran up to the passenger side of the sedan ordered the assailant at gunpoint to stop, but the man refused.
He continued crashing into cars when the officer fired multiple rounds.
Collins said the officer found himself between stationary cars and the suspect's vehicle.
"Fearing for his life and the lives of the surrounding citizens, the officer shot the suspect," he said.
The Toyota crashed into a guardrail, and officers found the suspect dead inside.
The name of the officer who fired the shots has not been released.
Staff writer Mike Lee contributed to this report.
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Acision Hosts RCS in the Cloud, Enabling Operators to Introduce Rich Messaging Services Without Deploying an IMS Core
26 Feb, 2013, 05:01 GMT
READING, England, February 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Acision, the global leader in mobile messaging, today announced the availability of its leading Rich Communication Suite (RCS) services, as a hosted solution from the Acision Cloud environment. First launched in October 2011, the Acision Cloud model enables mobile operators to quickly and cost effectively respond to rapidly changing technology developments and end user preferences, by having the ability to access and offer customers new rich services while maximising their revenue-generating potential. By delivering RCS from the cloud, Acision is enabling operators to launch Rich Messaging quickly and with limited up-front cost, without the need to deploy an IMS Core. Since the beginning of 2012, RCS has been offered as a key service on Acision's consolidated messaging platform, Acision Broadband Messaging Service Centre (BMSC).
In today's IP-centric world, where time to market and enriching user experience is everything, mobile operators around the globe are investing in rich and superior services to enhance the user experience, based on platforms such as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) - which can be a costly and complex infrastructure implementation. By offering mobile operators easy access to Acision's hosted RCS solution, operators can bring richer services to market faster with easy connectivity, flexibility and delivery models, including:
- RCS5, including SMS and MMS interworking
- Social Networks integration
- Triggering for consumer services
- Open APIs for enterprise content and services
All this is the basis for new revenue streams through new value added consumer services and enterprise applications.
"Acision offers a high level of flexibility in its delivery options and business models for RCS. For operators that require in-network delivery, we can deploy our hardware independent RCS solution either on their dedicated hardware or in the operator's private cloud environment. For operators that are looking to minimise time to market and investments, and launch RCS without having to deploy an IMS Core, we can deliver RCS as a service from the Acision cloud environment. A quick, easy and cost effective option to RCS delivery without the added complexity of IMS," said Jorgen Nilsson, Chief Executive Officer at Acision. "By virtualising our solutions operators can access and deploy the latest rich services, and scale these easily without the hefty costs traditionally associated with deployment, which also enables greater economies of scale across operator groups and alliances. RCS from the cloud enhances our proposition to rapidly deliver IP-based, rich messaging services in 2013, and builds on our 20 years of messaging expertise in evolving the messaging ecosystem."
Now available in Acision's cloud or as a virtualised offering, mobile operators can access Acision's RCS solutions from virtually any location in the world. Acision's data centres will deliver scalable, reliable connectivity to multiple domestic and international sites underpinned by fibre backbone networks and undersea cabling. This will ensure that operators can take advantage of easily monetised rich messaging services with cost effective expenditure and investment in bandwidth costs. Furthermore, the data centres will be backed up by 24/7 support, complimented with Acision's complete KPI and service intelligence reporting, to test and gauge usage results of the services delivered in the cloud.
About Acision
As the global leader in mobile messaging, Acision connects the world by powering relevant, seamless messaging services, which enrich the mobile communications experience and create new opportunities for carriers and enterprises across the world. For more information, visit Acision at http://www.acision.com
About Acision Broadband Messaging Service Centre
As Acision's enabler of RCS, Acision Broadband Messaging Service Centre (BMSC) is a consolidated messaging platform, providing the full set of messaging services, including SMS, MMS, voicemail and the GSMA's Rich Communication Suite (RCS) of services such as instant messaging, group chat, file transfer and video sharing.
As a unique value add to operators, Acision BMSC goes beyond RCS standards by enabling a consistent user experience across all messaging services:
- 3rd parties and enterprises benefit from richer messaging services using RCS capabilities as enhancements to the popular SMS / MMS services we know today.
- Value added personalized services (auto-reply, copy forward, parental control) applied across SMS, MMS and RCS.
- Seamless interworking across mobile and internet messaging communities and social networks.
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David Ferrer has been coming to Auckland every January since 2006. It's what he does.
The world No 5 will return in January to chase a third-straight Heineken Open title and a fourth overall. Only the great Roy Emerson won three in a row (1965-67) and four in total.
It wouldn't surprise if Ferrer achieved that, and it would be a popular victory. The diminutive Spaniard is a favourite in Auckland and fans don't tire of seeing him, even though it will be his ninth appearance in New Zealand's premier tennis tournament.
"I will go there, I like a lot that tournament," Ferrer told Radio Sport. "I won three times and I enjoy it. I like to play there.
"(It's) very difficult to win again [in] Auckland. I will try to do my best.
"I like the city, I like the people and ... I am very happy to come back again."
Ferrer was announced yesterday as the headline act for the Heineken Open. Also confirmed are former world No 7 Mardy Fish and Belgium up-and-comer David Goffin, who has risen more than 120 places in 2012 to sit 43rd in the world.
Fish played in Auckland in 2007, when he was beaten by Ferrer in the semifinals, and is a six-time winner on the ATP Tour and Athens Olympics silver medallist.
He's presently ranked 26 but last year peaked at No 7 after making the quarter-finals at Wimbledon.
"He's an all-court player with a strong net game, which will certainly add variety to an event normally dominated by the baseliners," tournament director Karl Budge said.
Further announcements will be made in the coming weeks. Regulars Nicolas Almagro (11), Juan Monaco (12) and Philipp Kohlschreiber (19) are likely to be among them but Budge was hoping a surprise was on the cards.
"There are a few more irons in the fire," he said. "I think you will see some top-20, top-30 players coming out.
"I'm pretty excited about bringing someone who hasn't been here in the last couple of years."
They will all come hoping to tip Ferrer from his perch. The 30-year-old is some way behind the Big Four (Djokovic, Federer, Murray and Nadal) but he's easily the next best on tour with a considerable gap between him and Tomas Berdych in sixth on the rankings.
He enjoyed his best season on tour in 2012, winning six tournaments (three more than any other year) and reaching the quarter-finals or semifinals in all four grand slams. He was also the first player to win 50 matches this year.
It's easy to see why he comes back year after year because, as top seed, he receives a first-round bye before usually three more matches against middling opposition. It's a perfect buildup for the Australian Open and a formula that is clearly working for him.
It would, however, be easy for him to pick up more money playing somewhere else.
"David's loyalty to this tournament is outstanding," Budge said. "What he could potentially get across the Tasman is certainly more than I can offer so his loyalty should be valued.
"He's really happy. It's a relaxed environment and he feels really comfortable starting his year in Auckland."
Auckland appears to feel comfortable with him, too.


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I just got a Starmate 7 and universal boombox combo from The Source. I have read the install guide for my vehicle type, Dodge Ram 1500. It states to not install the antenna on the dashboard of the vehicle. I have the ant just sitting on my dashboard, as it is too cold for me to install the ant on the roof of the truck.
The radio works great and I plan to install the ant properly in the spring. There should be no danger of my leaving the radio ant on the dashboard for now is there? I tried it first with the ant from the boombox, thinking if it works in the house it should work in the truck as well. I then used the ant for the radio itself and it works great, like I mentioned.
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In a land in the middle of the South Pacific sits a nation of just 4.5 million people. A land of sublime forests, snow-capped mountains, crystal clear lakes and golden beaches. A rugged, pristine environment where welcoming New Zealanders live, work and play.
Welcome to our island paradise, home of the famous Blue Spring.
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Water from the famous Blue Spring is known to be some of the purest in New Zealand. With 70% of New Zealanders drinking bottled water from the Blue Spring, you can be sure you are drinking from our trusted source. The Blue Spring is revered for its properties of exceptional clarity and exquisite blue hues. These are known to be due to the high purity of the water.
Why blue spring water?
Rainfall from the surrounding bush clad Mamaku ranges moves rapidly through surface sandy soils. It then flows deep into aquifers formed by the ancient eruptions that created Lake Rotorua. Eventually, some 80-100 years later, our water arrives naturally filtered at the Blue Spring.
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have a correct start render on a seconde page
I want to automate tests on a page I cant be sure about the URL. My take was to navigate on a homepage then click on one of the link to get the page, something like this :
logData 0
So I tried to cheat WPT agent by having a white screen for the first page
logData 0
that works on Chrome : http://www.webpagetest.org/results.php?t...24e9bb644f
my start render is around 1 s, and the filmstrip view is correct
but not on IE8 : http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130214...1/details/
Bug #1 : My start render is near 0
Bug #2 : the filmstrip view displays the wrong image (looks like the final screenshot of the previous page) instead of the 2nd page loading like on Chrome.
Note that both tests have been made from a private instance (WPT 2.9, I guess agents are up to date too) and exported.
Bug #3 : When I try the same script on public WPT (Dulles and ireland), even Chrome has the stripview bug and the near 0 start render : http://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare...end=visual
Anything you can do to fix this ? or have a workaround ?
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Fork of WPT monitor private instance : https://github.com/jpvincent/WPT-server
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
Instagram Weekend's recap
Hi guys,
I know these are some bad pics, but I wanted to share my weekend's recap with you guys...
Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
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Easy Denim
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Summer Days
Dazing away
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Hello lovelies,
Its been such a hectic week, all I have to say is I cannot wait for the weekend. Hope you guys are having a better week.
Talk to you guys later,
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Stripes, Floral, Leopard and a splash of Neon
H&M Neon Necklace, a mixture of two different Necklaces
Bandolino: Leopard shoes
Old Navy: Stripe shirt
Ny&Co: Skirt
Monday, July 30, 2012
First Fashion Showcase!
Hello lovelies,
My first ever Fashion showcase, I had the pleasure to work with this amazing guy over the weekend. Even though this was his showcase and I was his assistant he allowed me to express my creativity. I had a chance to snap a few shot with my iPhone during fitting to share with you guys. It was a really great first time experience for me, and hope to learn more from him. I am so grateful for meeting him.
Hope you guys enjoy the pictures :)
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Instant DYI recap
The outcome of my deconstruction denim vest
Before & after
I got caught in the rain on Saturday after leaving the hair salon
Hope everyone had a great weekend, mine was awesome. I was giving a chance to assist at a showcase Friday night. I had a really nice time and learned a lot, even from the little mistakes I made. After all it was a great experience. I will post some of the pics tomorrow that was taken with my iPhone.
Friday, July 27, 2012
Flower Print Jeans
Wearing: Random Boutique in NY: jeans, Zara: Heels, H&M: Tees and Purse
Hello lovelies,
Happy friday guys, what are your plans for the weekend? I want to hear all about it. I have a party to go to tomorrow night, rain or not I must be there. It's work related but I plan on enjoying myself while socialize and networking.
To some of you this jeans looks very familiar, it's because Zara had a pair of trouser with the same exact print and of course they sold out before I can even snatch one. Last week I stopped at this boutique in New York and there it was waiting for me. I will be wearing it again today, I cant wait to share the pictures with you guys.. well I have to go now, Hope everyone have a nice weekend.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Summer butterflies
Hello my lovelies,
These pics were taken yesterday during my lunch break. One of the great advantage about my job is the beautiful view, everyday my friend Shari and I picked an area to take pictures. She has a blog also check her out here
What I wore: Blouse from a random boutique, H&M/gifted: Skirt and watch link bracelet Zara: Heels
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United Launch Alliance launch of a Atlas V 401 Rocket
United Launch Alliance was scheduled to launch a Atlas V 401 rocket as part of the GPS IIF-8 mission. The launch window for the Navigation mission was on Wed, Oct 29th, 2014, 1:21 PM EDT from Space Launch Complex 41 Cape Canaveral, FL, USA. Don't miss this exciting rocket launch! Watch the launch video of the Atlas V 401 and experience the excitement for yourself.
Space Launch Complex 41
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An Atlas V with a 4 meter diameter fairing, no boosters and a single centaur upper stage engine.United Launch Alliance
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defense, Space & Security. ULA was formed in December 2006 by combining the teams at these companies which provide spacecraft launch services to the government of the United States. ULA launches from both coasts of the US. They launch their Atlas V vehicle from LC-41 in Cape Canaveral and LC-3E at Vandeberg. Their Delta IV launches from LC-37 at Cape Canaveral and LC-6 at Vandenberg.


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Market Validates Panasas ActiveStor 14 With Unprecedented Rate Of Customer Adoption; Nearly 15 Petabytes Deployed
26 Feb, 2013, 11:00 GMT
- Independent Lab Report Confirms Unmatched Performance for Mixed Workloads, Recognizes Scale-out NAS Solution for Versatility and Ease-of-Use
SUNNYVALE, California, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasas, Inc., the leader in high performance scale-out storage for technical computing applications and big data workloads, announced it has recorded unprecedented adoption of its newly launched flagship product, the Panasas® ActiveStor® 14 parallel storage system. Nearly 15 petabytes of total capacity have been deployed to support a wide variety of performance-hungry applications in the big data market since the hybrid scale-out storage solution began shipping late last year.
"ActiveStor 14 is the first scale-out storage solution to deliver high performance for mixed data workloads, allowing customers to achieve timely and actionable results from their big data applications," said Barbara Murphy, chief marketing officer of Panasas. "The fast rate of customer adoption resoundingly affirms that customers are seeing significant improvements over their legacy storage systems in both small and large file performance with this hybrid platform."
Customers in finance, life sciences, manufacturing, media and university research have rapidly adopted ActiveStor 14, which employs solid state drive (SSD) technology for metadata and small-file storage to support their performance-focused big data applications. Intelligent tiering ensures that bandwidth-intensive large files are seamlessly stored on cost-effective SATA, delivering an excellent price/performance solution compared to competitive offerings.
The University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) recently announced its ActiveStor 14 acquisition aimed at driving big data discovery for one of the largest university storage systems in the country. According to MSI, ActiveStor 14 will serve as a centralized, high performance storage resource which will eliminate data flow bottlenecks. MSI noted:
"The Panasas ActiveStor 14 solution will give MSI researchers a significant edge in research and establish MSI as a leader in big data science. In addition to being one of the largest storage systems among U.S. universities, MSI's system will also be one of the fastest with respect to storage bandwidth."
In SPEC SFS benchmark testing, ActiveStor 14 demonstrated its leadership in mixed-workload NFS performance among SATA-based systems, recording 20,745 SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 operations per second (ops/s) on a single ActiveStor 14T shelf. This is significant because the ActiveStor system only contained 27 data drives, for an outstanding result of 768 ops/s per drive, more than doubling EMC Isilon's best published result and at one third EMC's list price per gigabyte.
Researchers at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Lab independently validated ActiveStor 14 performance and scalability, citing large-file throughput performance of 1.63GB/s on a single shelf which scaled in "near-linear fashion" to 150GB/s as shelves were added within the single file system; ESG recorded small-file random read performance at 14,424 4KB file operations per second. The report states: "In ESG's experience, scale-out NAS systems are usually optimized for either large file throughput or small file IOPS; ActiveStor 14 showed strong performance for both types of workloads, making it a particularly versatile scale-out NAS solution." Download the full report here.
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Black cod is steeped in sweet miso before being baked in the oven. The sweetness of Nobu-style Saikyo Miso is an excellent match with the plumpness of the fish.
- Yield
- Makes 4 servings
- For Nobu-style Saikyo Miso
- saké
- 3/4 cup (150 ml) mirin
- 2 cups (450 g) white miso paste
- 1 1/4 cups (225 g) granulated sugar
- For cod
- 4 black cod fillets, about 1/2 pound (230 g) each
- 3 cups (800 g) Nobu-style Saikyo Miso
- 1 stalk hajikami per serving
- Make Nobu-style Saikyo Miso:
- 1.Bring the saké and the mirin to a boil in a medium saucepan over high heat. Boil for 20 seconds to evaporate the alcohol.
- 2. Turn the heat down to low and add the miso paste, mixing with a wooden spoon. When the miso has dissolved completely, turn the heat up to high again and add the sugar, stirring constantly with the wooden spoon to ensure that the bottom of the pan doesn't burn. Remove from heat once the sugar is fully dissolved. Cool to room temperature.
- Yield:
- 3 cups (800 g).
- Make cod:
- 1. Pat fillets thoroughly dry with paper towels. Slather the fish with Nobu-style Saikyo Miso and place in a non-reactive dish or bowl and cover tightly with plastic wrap. Leave to steep in refrigerator for 2 to 3 days.
- 2 Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C, gas 6). Preheat a grill or broiler. Lightly wipe off any excess miso clinging to the fillets but don't rinse it off. Place the fish on the grill, or in a broiler pan, and grill or broil until the surface of the fish turns brown. Then bake for 10 to 15 minutes.
- 3. Arrange the black cod fillets on individual plates and garnish with hajikami. Add a few extra drops of Nobu-style Saikyo Miso to each plate.
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Organizing Framework
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excerpts from: Stenstrom, D. M., & Iyer, R. (Manuscript in preparation). An organizing framework for psychological research.
A jigsaw puzzle analogy
Psychological research measures and/or manipulates situational and person-related variables. Given the precise manner in which research must accurately assess the particular constructs of interest while simultaneously avoiding related constructs that may serve as unwanted potential confounds, an almost infinite set of variations results amongst the multitude of situations and individual differences composing the human experience. In this sense, psychological research can be seen as a discovery process to identify the unique set of circumstances under which the predicted relationships emerge or fail to emerge (see McGuire's contextualist approach; McGuire, 1983). A useful way to understand and describe psychological research, therefore, is by using a jigsaw puzzle analogy.
Each individual research study can be conceptualized as turning over a jigsaw puzzle piece. Each researcher is standing on a particular section of the puzzle, and every time data is collected, the puzzle piece is turned over to reveal the description of that particular context. If the research is not disseminated, the puzzle piece is effectively turned back down. If the research is published, the introduction to the manuscript attempts to fit that individual piece within the larger framework. Qualitative and quantitative synthesis, such as literature reviews and meta-analyses, seek to "fit" different puzzle pieces together to encapsulate and describe a section of the jigsaw puzzle. Similar to the mechanisms of assembling an actual jigsaw puzzle, psychologists try to assemble coherent groupings of similar pieces into stand-alone complexes, which form the basis for contemporary theories, topic areas, and disciplines within psychology.
A framework for psychological research
The question, therefore, is what is the picture underneath the jigsaw puzzle? The ultimate purpose of research is to perceive the picture underneath the puzzle and understand, explain, and predict human nature. Many psychology books and textbooks are devoted to describing the current state of psychological research and the accumulating answer to that question. Below, I describe a more concise depiction that also serves as a research tool for integrating psychological research.
In psychology, what is the most fundamental way to explain the underlying processes and mechanisms that influence human nature? The literature on "Person x Situation" interactions emphasizes how human nature is best conceptualized as the result of an interaction between aspects of the person and aspects of the situation (see Funder, 2001, 2005; Mischel, 2004; Shoda, 2004). A logical extension of the theorizing behind the "Person x Situation" interaction is to articulate the components composing both situational and person-related variables.
For example, what are the most basic components of the Person? The definition of psychology is the science of behavior and the mind, with the "mind" referred to in one textbook as "an individual's sensations, perceptions, memories, thoughts, motives, emotional feelings and other subjective experiences" (see Peter Gray's Introduction to Psychology textbook, page 3). In the most basic sense, psychology is the study of people's affect, behavior, and cognitions from a psychological and/or physiological perspective. As depicted in Figure 1, these basic units can be roughly organized into a framework of the Person (see also Figure 3 below for another way to articulate the "Person" side of the framework more closely suited to Personality and Social Psychology).
What are the most basic ways to categorize Situations? Considering the central role of situations in determining human nature, there is a surprising lack of research behind the basic components or taxonomic structure of situations (see Yang, Read & Miller, 2006). From a theoretical perspective, the principal distinction I see within the literature is between the social environment (e.g., presence of others) and the physical environment (e.g., environmental psychology). Social Psychology, in fact, is rooted in the premise that social factors are a principle determinant of an individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. A further rudimentary distinction within the Social psychology is the presence of individuals or groups. Figure 1 only depicts the first few levels of the framework, but each of the basic units within both the Person and Situation can be subdivided even further into increasingly more specific and restricted classifications, such as in the Situation side of the framework where applied settings like Occupational and School psychology are more narrow contexts within the larger overall taxonomic structure.
Figure 1
How is this framework helpful?
How is this framework helpful? I describe below a few key benefits generated by the framework to both the lay person and psychological researchers. For example, in the first few chapters of textbooks for a Psychology course, there is customarily a definition of psychology, an introductory explanation of the field, descriptions of the various disciplines and sub-disciplines within psychology, and discussions of the relationship of psychology to related fields such as sociology and anthropology. The framework is a useful visual explanatory tool to illustrate these same concepts, to show the central topics in psychology, and to show the interrelationships amongst the various disciplines within psychology. As a brief illustration: (a) Cognitive psychology is represented as the study of the mind and mental processes within the "cognitive" component of the framework, (b) Social psychology can be seen as the branch of psychology concerned with assessing thoughts, feelings and behaviors (from the "Person" side) within all the situations falling under the "social" component of the situation side of the framework, (c) Social Cognition can be seen as Cognitive psychology (from the "Person" side) as applied to "social" situations, (d) Clinical psychology investigates the "Person" side components when those thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are non-normal, abnormal, or dysfunctional, and etc. The framework can even help explain the connections between basic and applied branches of psychology because applied disciplines like Forensic psychology, Occupational psychology, and School psychology are investigations of the mind (from the "Person" side) as applied to specific situations, such as the legal field, business environment, and school settings, respectively. All disciplines and sub-disciplines within psychology fall within the framework. In the same way, the framework is also an explanatory tool to illustrate the connections between psychology and related fields like sociology and anthropology because all three fields investigate the same components in the Person side and Situation side of the framework, but Anthropology focuses on the "Person" at the individual ethnographic level, Psychology focuses on the "Person" at the aggregate individual and group level, and Sociology focuses on the "Person" at the group or societal level.
Imagine a textbook which uses the framework as an organizing principle to display and discuss the major subject areas in psychology. The first chapter would explain the emergent literature on Person x Situation interactions, and how psychological and physiological processes within the individual are activated by, and interact with, situations to influence human behavior. Each subsequent chapter is then devoted to a separate component of the diagram, with the conclusion of each chapter tying the material within that chapter to the larger framework. There would also be discussions of the interrelationships amongst the various components represented in the framework. Within the chapter on Affect, for example, would be a discussion of how stimuli (situations, such as a car driving towards you) can activate affective states (fear, surprise), accompanying neurochemical activity (e.g., Cognitive component of the framework) physiological arousal (e.g., pounding heart, faster breathing, etc), and behavioral responses (e.g., nonverbal and automatic facial expression of fear, movement away from the car, etc). By creating a common structure throughout the textbook, the framework is a useful learning tool to provide integration between topics within psychology. In this sense, the framework can be seen as organizing principle similar to Chemistry's Periodic Table of Elements that creates an identifiable symbolic embodiment or "branding" of psychology that highlights the basic topics in psychology.
Benefits to those who conduct research
How is this framework helpful to psychological researchers? I describe below the benefits of the fully articulated framework, but it's important to point out that simply filling in an uncompleted diagram can assist researchers. Figure 1 is by no means complete and only represents how I would organize the content. As each researcher, or the field as a whole, starts to fill in the diagram, you are forced to ask yourself tough questions about what concepts and subject areas are the most fundamental and have the farthest reaching impact. As each new subject area is added to the diagram, you are also forced to ask yourself questions about the relationship between those variables, similar to the jigsaw puzzle analogy in which turning over puzzle pieces is followed by decisions about how to fit the pieces together. For example, where would attitudes and stereotyping fall within the framework? Plus, the logical next step in this process is to articulate the structure within each topic area as the taxonomic structure is broken down into successively more finely grained distinctions. As an illustration, Figure 2 shows some of the possible components of the Intergroup situation, so the question is what are the important topics in the intergroup literature, and how do these variable interrelate? A central topic within the Intergroup component, for example, is the nature of the identification or attachment with your ingroup. With the recent finding by Lickel et al (2000) about four distinct types of groups (e.g., intimacy, task, social categories, loose associations), we can now ask whether other group-based variables such as social identification differ depending up the type of group under investigation (Stenstrom & Curtis, 2006). Social identity with a social category (such as gender or ethnicity) may be conceptually and operationally distinct from identification with a task group (such as coworkers) or intimacy group (such as family and friends). In other words, revealed from this process of filling in the diagram are those fundamental questions we have yet to explore. In this sense, the framework is a road map for researchers to travel that highlights important topics, new relationships, and unanswered research questions.
Where do ideas come from? Where do your research ideas come from? Philosophers like John Locke and Henri Poincare say that new ideas are an association or combination between two or more simpler ideas. So we combine simpler parts into the formation of a new complex whole. Every time you add something new to the diagram, you can ask yourself how it relates to everything else in the diagram, and thus research ideas are borne as the new combination of two or more topics. For example, a basic question under the Cognitions component is "What occurs when two thoughts are incompatible?", which is explained by cognitive dissonance theory and the literature on coherence. What if we ask the same question about the Affective component -- "What happens when two emotions are incompatible, such as the mixture of emotions following separation or divorce? Do the same principles apply? As new questions are asked and answered, the full articulation of the framework will contain the full combination of all concepts. In this sense, the framework reduces idea generation to a more objective discovery process.
To be clear, I am not suggesting that the framework provides theoretical synthesis to the field. Rather, the framework is a way to integrate psychological research because every research study involves some component from the person side and/or situation side of the framework, and thus every research study can be located within the fully articulated framework. The diagram is a common structure for researchers in all disciplines which allows unification, not at the theoretical level, but at the level of research projects.
Figure 2
The framework can similarly provide a type of unification for the fields of Personality and Social Psychology. Another way to depict the framework, for example, is by using established meta-theories of Personality psychology as the articulated components of the "Person", and viewing human output -- Affect, Behavior, and Cognition -- as the joint product of personality theory and situational constraints (see Figure 3). This new framework more closely resembles the original conceptualization of Person x Situation interactions as jointly producing the "variations in the thoughts, feelings, and actions that occur across contexts and over time" (Mischel, 2004). Another unique change to Figure 3 is the list of moderating variables on the right-hand side of the framework. Common concepts and variables underlie our research projects and are applicable across different situational contexts. Status differences, for example, can be found in interpersonal contexts, intergroup contexts, applied contexts like the legal field, business settings, and so forth. Given the commonality and prevalence of these same variables, our field would greatly benefit from a comprehensive listing of potential moderators, and analysis of the circumstances under which the variables do or do not apply, and why.
At a more macro level, it is the natural evolution of any field to start creating an organizing framework for the voluminous amount of material continuously streaming in book chapters, journals articles, and conference proceedings. Anyone who has searched through PsycINFO or attended a conference can attest to the unrelenting array of jigsaw puzzle pieces being turned over by our ever-expanding discipline. Imagine the overwhelming density in 30 years or 50 years from now. The theme behind person x situation interactions arose from Kurt Lewin, who has been called the father of social psychology, and this next iteration of the person x situation theme may be helpful to the future of our field as well.


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The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing General Motors Co. employees whose pension plans lost money to pursue their case against a State Street Corp. unit over its management of their retirement savings plans before the automaker went bankrupt.
Without comment, the court refused on Monday to review the case and let stand a February ruling from a lower court that allowed the workers to sue State Street Bank and Trust Co.
The 2009 lawsuit said the bank should have acted faster to sell a 401(k) investment fund's shares in GM stock after the automaker's business troubles came to light.
GM filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors in June 2009, two months after State Street began to sell the GM shares.
But the employees said the selling should have started by mid-2008, when GM's bleak outlook had become obvious. They accused State Street of violating its duties under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
State Street said ERISA had shielded it from liability since it did not cause the losses and the employees themselves had decided to invest in the GM fund.
A district court in Michigan agreed, but the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived the case in February.
"State Street had a fiduciary duty to select and maintain only prudent investment options in the plans," even if employees chose which investments to make, Circuit Judge Thomas Anderson wrote for the 6th Circuit panel.
GM emerged from bankruptcy in July 2009.
In their appeal to the Supreme Court, lawyers for State Street said the ruling had added to a split among federal courts of appeal over whether plan managers are liable for investment decisions made by employees.
State Street, in an emailed statement, said it was disappointed the court refused to hear the case, but that the company would continue to defend itself in the litigation.
The lawsuit is one of numerous "stock drop" class actions arising out of the 2008 financial crisis.
In October, the high court refused to review a pair of similar cases against Citigroup Inc. and McGraw-Hill Cos. by thousands of employees who invested in those companies' stocks through their retirement plans.
These workers said problems with subprime mortgage exposure at Citigroup and with the Standard & Poor's rating agency unit of McGraw-Hill made investments in the companies' stocks inappropriate.
The case is State Street Bank and Trust Co. v. Pfeil et al, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 12-256.
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Cataclysmic collisions between space rocks have helped explain some of the solar system's biggest mysteries, from how the moon formed to how Uranus got its lopsided rotation. But convincing evidence for such events happening outside of the solar system is scant.
Now scientists think that they have found the first known example of a near head-on collision between two massive worlds in another planetary system, roughly 2,000 light-years away from Earth.
The chance discovery came while researchers were observing Kepler 107, a sunlike star with four orbiting planets first described in 2014, to determine each planet's mass. Surprisingly, the star's two innermost planets, each roughly 1.5 times the size of Earth, have dramatically different masses, the team reports February 4 in Nature Astronomy. Analysis of each planet's mass and size revealed that Kepler 107c is roughly twice as dense as Kepler 107b. That finding suggests that Kepler 107c has a large iron-rich core, similar to the solar system's innermost planet, Mercury, the scientists say.


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Gossip Girl Review: Back in the SaddleSteve Marsi at .
Gossip Girl returned from its hurricane-related hiatus this evening with an episode that ... well let's just say that if Hurricane Sandy had prevented you from seeing it last week, you wouldn't have missed all that much.
The hour continued the separate, intertwining storylines of Dan, Serena, Nate, Chuck and Blair, bringing us slightly closer to the grand finale (now pushed back to December 17) but without too many big developments.
There were some memorable lines and scenes, at least compared to the previous two episodes, yet the continued presence of Steven and Sage, plus Chuck's convoluted quest to take down Bart, still dragged at times.
In "Portrait of a Lady Alexander," Chuck's continued investigation into his dad's dealings led him to an unlikely high society event - a horse show where he hoped to find the person who can help him uncover the truth.
After a few dead ends, some surprising twists and a big assist from Blair, who played sidekick to her once-and-future love tonight, the younger Bass finally learned what the resurrected patriarch has been hiding.
Bart apparently bought foreign oil from Sudanese nationals in violation of an international trade embargo. It would take a lot to drive Bart Bass to such great lengths; a potential federal prison term probably qualifies.
Chuck's going to need hard evidence of this, of course, in order to make his move ... and who knows what that will even be. This storyline is a slow burner, but at least we now have a plausible explanation for Bart's "death."
Blair and Chuck sure do make a great scheme team. Drawn out as the together-but-apart arrangement may be, they've managed to share some quality moments these last two weeks as the other's respective sidekick.
Speaking of right hand women, has there ever been a more ridiculous and awesome literary agent than Georgina Sparks? Pimping out celebutantes for Dan to have sex with? Amazing. Hijacking S' sex tape? Masterful.
Sure, she's certifiably insane and devoid of any discernible human emotion, but someone's gotta keep the show interesting. Especially with Dan at last dismounting from his high horse (pun intended) at the end.
Rediscovering his moral compass somewhat after an epic verbal trashing of Serena, Lonely Boy realized that being a player isn't all it's cracked up to be, and that he longed for some genuine human companionship.
Crazy thought. Who did he seek out? None other than Blair Waldorf. Classy move on B's part to let him crash with her, and perhaps a long overdue, albeit minor consolation to Dair fans. Hey, at least they can be friends?
Maybe next week he can bring up the green headband thing. Yikes, B.
Despite burning bridges with reckless abandon, it looks like we'll see how well Dan can repair them. That SVDW sex tape is potentially the Hurricane Sandy of gossip bombshells, though. How and when will G leak it?
Whenever that happens, one can only imagine how Serena van der Woodsen will react. Ditto Sage and Steven Spence, who continued to occupy major screen time tonight and apparently will next week as well.
It's not that they're terrible characters, per se, it's just that with a limited, 10-episode final season run, every scene is potentially critical, and a lot of theirs come at the expense of others' and aren't particularly interesting.
S and S' decision to share their pasts was fairly predictable in that neither actually did so, and changed nothing as they're still together. Even the Lily revelation didn't feel all that significant - or surprising at all.
Heck, it was more shocking that he's seen the Kate Upton Cat Daddy video.
That's Season 6 in a nutshell. There are good lines and there's potential beneath the surface, with a chance we'll be rewarded with a terrific series finale, but at certain points, we're sort of limping our way to the glue factory.
Nate also knows a thing or two about being screwed over by Dan, and the truth hurt; his paper is going under and he was willing to take extreme measures to save it. Just not taking money from Bartholomew Bass.
Of course, it appears the Bass Industries chief is underwriting the line of credit Nate got anyway, but he's not aware of that at this time. Golden Boy believes he saved the Spectator on the strength of content alone.
Thanks to boxes of Rufus' old stuff sent over by Lily - one included his waffle iron, which has to bring back the memories of the good old days - Ivy had all the ammo she needed to stir up trouble for reasons unknown.
Why does she exist on the show? To seduce people with her hot, raspy voice and serve as a plot device for sending blasts and seeking vengeance on whomever she's upset with that day. That about sums it up.
In any case, Golden Boy can't catch a break at work, and his bad luck is set to continue if Bart controls the cash flow. If this helps align Nate with Chair in the master plan to vanquish King Bass, then so be it.
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Batman (Volume 3) #1
Written by Tom King
Art by David Finch
In the first issue of this new Batman solo series, Batman prepares to give his life to save a plane full of people that almost crashes into Gotham. Spoiler Alert…he ends up not dying although he prepares to say goodbye to Alfred in a touching scene. The plane is actually saved by two Superheroes calling themselves Gotham and Gotham Girl. The idea of heroes showing up in Gotham with actual powers is an interesting thing. Would this make Batman feel useless? I guess we will see. I enjoyed the art in this. Finch knows how to draw Gotham City and its world well. Also, who is this new Batman protege Duke Thomas? I don't know anything about
Batman (Volume 3) #2
Written by Tom King
Art by David Finch
I love how Duke asks Batman if he trusts these new heroes of Gotham and Gotham Girl, and he says "I don't even trust Alfred." That made me smile. I thought this would make Batman jealous to have super powered heroes but I should have known better – Batman is a true hero and wants what is best for Gotham City. These heroes could stop things he cannot stop and he knows that. I loved how the Gotham Man is confused when Batman dissapears when talking to Commissioner Gordon. But who are these two heroes and how do they have powers that are almost Kryptonian in nature? I do not like how skinny Finch draws Amanda Waller. She is way too thin in this. But that is my only complaint about this issue.


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North Bethesda, MD, July 31, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that Rocky View School District, located in Alberta, Canada, has finished migrating the final libraries to LibLime Koha 4.14. With the last group of school libraries to join and go live on LibLime Koha, the entire school district is now live in the LibLime Koha 4.14 union catalog.
Rocky View School District has been working with LibLime's project management staff on data migration, system configuration, and training for the past year and a half. With the completion of the latest group of libraries, the full union catalog now contains 48 locations, nearly 210,000 bibliographic records, over 588,000 items, and over 27,000 patrons.
About The Rocky View School District
Rocky View Schools serves residents to the west, north, and east of the City of Calgary. The jurisdiction provides educational services to over 18,000 public students from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Rocky View Schools is the fifth-largest school board in Alberta, employing more than 2,000 staff.
About LibLime - PTFS
LibLime – PTFS is the global leader in providing support for the Koha open source ILS. Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, the PTFS LibLime Division educates libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. The PTFS LibLime Division then facilitates deployment of Koha in libraries by providing outstanding consulting, development, implementation, and support/hosting for libraries of all types and sizes. PTFS is also the developer of the world's leading content management software, ArchivalWare, and specializes in meeting library personnel staffing requirements, digitization, and metadata keying services. For more information, see http://liblime.com or http://ptfs.com or http://archivalware.net.


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Complaining about your underwhelming number of bars is something of a national sport at this point. We're all paying through the nose for these data plans; how come there's that one patch of zero coverage in the living room?
Well, carriers have actually been working to fix that. There were 5,000 cell sites around the country in 1990; there are now 280,000. But it seems the rush has a dark side. ProPublica and Frontline have teamed up for an investigation into fatalities among the climbers (often subcontractors) who work on these towers, and sobering is really the only word to describe to describe their findings. Between 2003 and 2011, half of the hundred people who died on communications towers were climbers working on cell sites.
From the article:
Since 2003, an analysis of OSHA records show, tower climbing has had a death rate roughly 10 times that of construction. In 2008, the agency's top administrator, Edwin Foulke, called tower climbing "the most dangerous job in America" at an industry conference.
AT&T in particular comes in for criticism, with the report alleging the carrier "had more fatalities on its jobs than its three closest competitors combined…Fifteen climbers died on jobs for AT&T since 2003. Over the same period, five climbers died on T-Mobile jobs, two died on Verizon jobs and one died on a job for Sprint."
The company provided a statement saying that contractors are obligated to adhere to safety regulations, deaths have decreased, and last year there were zero deaths on AT&T jobs.


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Jonathan Plaid Queen Quilt 90Wx90L
A traditional deep red and olive green with tan gives the Jonathan Plaid Queen Quilt its signature holiday look. Hand quilted in a diamond pattern to capture the enduring nature of this tradition laden look. 100% cotton.
- PREMIUM CONSTRUCTION: with over two decades experience crafting goods for American homes, our item are built to last for years to come.
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- QUALITY MATERIAL: made with durable 100% cotton shell for a proper look and feel.
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- Colors: Natural, Deep Red, Olive Green
- Manufacturer Country: India
- Care: Hand Wash, Lay Flat to Dry
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There is a 15% Restocking Fee on all orders! This is the manufacturers policy upon which we must all abide. No exceptions.
Our policy lasts 14 days. Within 14 days of purchase you can return your goods, no questions asked. If 14 days have gone by since your purchase, unfortunately we can't offer you a refund or exchange.
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To be eligible for a return, Items must be unopened, unused, be in the same condition that you received it, unlaundered, in their original packaging with law required tags still attached, in a resell-able condition, and if sold in sets, must be returned in sets. THE RA NUMBER MUST BE MARKED ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE PACKAGE, or package will not be received.
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Lekool Games has announced the new patch update to Dragons Call 2. The new patch version 1.92 will feature New NPC, New Maps, New Instances and the ever so demanded level cap increase.
Dragon's Call II is a side-scrolling turn-based MMORPG published by lekool games, a sequel to Dragon's Call. The game has 3 races Warrior, Assassin, or Mage. This new release improves vastly on gameplay compared to the last release. Beautiful graphics, simple, easy and fast game play, allow the players to get immersed in the action. With the last patch update adding new features like Pets, Super Lottery, Championship, etc, the game has evolved drastically.
New features at a glance:
- New map(lvl110-lvl120): City of Dissan
- On the new courier station, you will meet more friends. Their ancient and experienced vicissitudes in history remain, just like their true power. Let me introduce two new NPCs:
New Instances
- Ancient Ruins
- Ancient Forest
- Crime Scene Investigation
- Some of New Monsters
The new monsters are more powerful, do you want to get the new equipment to arm your role and pals? Just try to beat them. By the way, please do not provoke them without good mentality and fighting force.
- Explorer of Black cliff
- Hunter from Magda
- Spirit of Tree in Jungle


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Total Amount Raised: $6,829.95
It was the ultimate win-win-win situation. You got to bid on top-of-the-line wake gear, donating companies got love and adoration for helping out a great cause and thousands of kids got their holidays brightened with gifts that they otherwise would not have received!2011 Marks the seventh year of our Toys For Tots Holiday Fundraiser. We're proud to have raised over $48,800 toward the cause during our first seven years! Our phenomenal results are thanks to some very generous sponsors and a lot of bidders that have grabbed some outstanding deals on wakeboarding equipment while helping a good cause. Your efforts have made a lot of underprivileged children's holidays a lot brighter.This year's auctions have already concluded, but, as you can see from the sponsor list below, it was another great year. We had over $65,000 worth of wake gear to bid on with all proceeds going towards the U.S. Marine Corps Toys For Tots program. Below are the sponsors that donated product for our 2010 auction. Pay special attention to the grip of gear donated by CWB Board Co. and the Tige R20 wakeboard boat made available by Tige!!
The fun part comes when we take the money raised and see how much we can spend with one trip to the toy store. As you can see from the video below from last year's shopping spree, five shopping carts, a long bed truck and the spirit of competition to see who can leave the store with the most toys in their cart makes it a great WakeWorld tradition. Once the purchases were made, we headed down to our local NBC affiliate's toy drive to drop off the toys and present the Marine Corps with a check for the balance.Thanks to everyone that donated and bid on items for our 2011 Toys For Tots Holiday Fundraiser!!
Toys For Tots collects new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year and distributes those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community. The primary goal of Toys for Tots is to deliver, through a shiny new toy at Christmas, a message of hope to needy youngsters that will motivate them to grow into responsible, productive, patriotic citizens and community leaders.
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Under the title Pentagon bulks up 'bunker buster' bomb to combat Iran: U.S. Upgrades Weapon to Penetrate Key Nuclear Site; Push to Persuade Israelis, The Wall Street Journal reports that the US military is planning to use its "biggest" conventional bunker buster bombs against Iran:
The Pentagon has redesigned its biggest "bunker buster" bomb with more advanced features intended to enable it to destroy Iran's most heavily fortified and defended nuclear site.
The newest version of what is the Pentagon's largest conventional bomb, the 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, has adjusted fuses to maximize its burrowing power, upgraded guidance systems to improve its precision and high-tech equipment intended to allow it to evade Iranian air defenses in order to reach and destroy the Fordow nuclear enrichment complex, which is buried under a mountain near the Iranian city of Qom. […]
Read more here: http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-mother-of-all-bombs-moab-slated-to-be-used-against-iran/5333811