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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Twenty-five people were killed in northern Myanmar when a derailed tanker train burst into flames as they were trying to skim fuel from its overturned carriages, state television reported Friday
The report said 62 other people were injured Friday morning after the train hauling seven carriages of gasoline and two of diesel derailed near Kantbalu about 800 kilometers (500 miles) north of Yangon. It was travelling from Yangon to the Kachin state capital of Myitkyina.
The cause of the accident was not given.
The report said the injured were being treated at two nearby hospitals.
A witness, Myint Kyi, told the U.S.-funded broadcaster Radio Free Asia that the dead included 16 men, seven women and two bodies so badly burned their gender was not immediately apparent. He gave the number of injured as 74.


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Skip to comments.(Exempt) Pelosi on Obamacare: It Will Cost More to Repeal It
Posted on 05/18/2013 4:22:53 AM PDT by Libloather
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JUST LIKE MOSLEMS as she promised them.
This provides a wonderful justification for spending more money every year on government projects that don't work and never will work.
This is our "brave new world"...
Pelosi told a half-truth, which is a whole lot more honest than she usually gets.
Repeal would "cost" the federal government money in the first year because they would not collect the ObamaCare taxes. It would save the American people a huge amount because we would not have to pay for the extra layers of bureaucracy to have IRS-quality service from our doctor's office. Since she sees things from the government perspective rather than from the perspective of free individuals, she sees any cut in the fraction of our money that she gets to spend as a cost.
Yes. Because when you spend less, you actually spend more.
Similarly, with unemployment payments, which actually generate revenue.
It makes perfect sense, if you have a screw loose.
Lying whore... and I get to call her that in two threads in a row!
How does it cost more to stop overspending? This must be very nuanced. I take a product, decrease it's value, raise it's price and suddenly you are saving money? Hell I need to go back and study economics again. Something must have changed.
It will cost more if I stop smoking crack.
People have died in wars to regain lost freedom.
What's a few dollars to get rid of this?
In other words, now that we read what's in it we can't afford it and our premiums will increase, we can't keep the doctor's we like, but hey if we undoe it then the dem party will look like the biggest bunch of tyrants ever. So in the name of protecting the party, let's bankrupt America and unleash the death panels.
That would be money well spent. If they recycled all the paper used to print the law and associated regulations we might break even. /s
Just out curiosity, where does is say that muslims are exempt? No one believes when I bring it up.
repealed for the 37th time
In practical terms, the only real success of Obamacare is that it had to destroy both Medicare and Medicaid. This being said, the Republicans had better be weaving together a serious federal health care bill as a stopgap measure, because when Obamacare dies, its festering remains are going to be catastrophic.
The best bet would be to start by turning Medicaid into block grants to the states, with the provision that if states use that money for other things, trying to drive the poor out of their state, then they will get their Medicaid money slashed the following year.
(The block grant idea should be applied to many other federal programs as well, as a baseline agreement that can only be altered with the approval of both each state and the feds.)
Medicare is the harder nut to crack, so the best bet is to offer big tax cuts for those who don't use either Social Security or Medicare *or* routine care health insurance.
That is, if you pay your own way, you get a serious tax cut, worth more than SS and Medicare. On the plus side, doctors that refuse Medicare, Medicaid and insurance have discovered they can charge 50% less because their expenses are so much less.
This woman's vacuousness never ceases to amaze the honest and reasonably intelligent. Try to magine the intellectual capacity of her supporters!
Could she actually be as stupid as she appears to be? or is this a shtick she has affected to hoodwink stupid voters?
I don't care what it might cost......defund it now! Get rid of all those IRS employees!!
This is good. That she even mentioned the word "repeal" means the possibility is real and the libs are afraid.
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Until the mid-nineteenth century, the state's role in matters of social welfare was mainly regulatory and statutory. Responsibility for the implementation and provision of social services resided largely with the state's cities and towns. With the establishment of a Board of State Charities and Corrections in 1869, the state became more directly involved in several areas of social and correctional services. The state's network of social service programs and institutions steadily expanded and became ever more centralized in state government as Rhode Island's population grew, as the state became increasingly urban and industrialized, and also as it became internally unified and regionally connected, thanks to dramatic improvements in communication and transportation.
By the time of the New Deal era and the establishment of the Department of Social Welfare (1939), the state had taken over from local jurisdictions many responsibilities for addressing the needs of the poor, the sick, and the mentally ill, and for dealing with those who had broken the law. In 1951, the department was once again reorganized so that its many social programs each fell under one of three new entities: a Division of Curative Services, a Division of Corrective Services, and a Division of Community Services. The act also established an administrative Division of Business Services.Public Law 1951, ch. 2724
By the late 1960s the state began the process of dismantling the Department of Social Welfare and parceling out its many programs and functions to a number of newly established departments: Its "correctional" and "community service" functions (as well as vocational rehabilitation from the Department of Education) went to a new Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services, shortly after which its prison role went to a Department of Corrections (1972). The programs concerning "mental retardation", "curative services," and "mental health law" went to the new Department of Mental Health, Retardation, and Hospitals (Rhode Island. Supplement to Public Laws, 1970. January Session, 1970, "Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1970.") The Department of Social and Rehabilitative Services' remaining responsibilities still encompassed a broad range of functions, which would eventually be distributed among several future departments, including Children, Youth and Families; Labor and Training; Probation and Parole; Elderly Affairs, Veterans Affairs, and Human Services
The records in this record group span the period from the late eighteenth century to the late twentieth century, when the Department of Social Welfare ceased to exist. Included are records from the state's Department of Social Welfare and its predecessor agencies, the Board of State Charities and Corrections and the Public Welfare Commission, as well as records inherited from those bodies antedating the Board of State Charities and Corrections. It should be noted that most of the records are comprised of various logs and registers of patients and inmates for various purposes. Very little documentary evidence of the work of the commissioners or the managerial personnel, whether in the form of correspondence, policy documents, or minutes of meetings, is available


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SUMTER, S.C. – Naomi Reyes was the only member of the King University women's tennis team to compete in the ITA Southeast Regional this weekend. The sophomore dropped her first match of the weekend, but followed that with back-to-back wins to reach the quarterfinals of the consolation bracket in the B Draw.
Reyes fell to Newberry College's Vanessa Ortiz 6-2, 6-1 to open the weekend, and drop her to the consolation bracket. She then topped Coker College's Kyria Borelli 6-0, 6-0 and outlasted Natalie Stirewalt of Francis Marion University 3-6, 6-3, 10-5 to advance to the quarterfinals. However, that is where her weekend came to an end on Sunday as she fell to Lindsay Gregory of Anderson College 6-3, 6-1.
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Pregnant women receive a lot of advice: stand far away from the microwave, avoid tuna fish and alcohol, take prenatal vitamins…but what if doctors told your spouse to get a new job?
According to a report from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, certain careers of fathers appear to increase the risk of birth defects in future offspring.
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Research was conducted on a sample of 5,000 fathers with children either possessing birth defects or not. The jobs that increased risk were determined by assessing the type of defect along with the type of job that the father held within the three months preceding conception, the time when sperm has the highest potential to pass on abnormalities.
The jobs that did not seem linked to increased risk of defect include architecture, design, healthcare, and firefighting, while occupations in mathematics, physics, computer science, landscaping, hair styling, and crane operation increased risk. The researchers were able to support their findings by linking each type of defect with a specific category of occupation.
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The study also linked congenital heart defects with exposure to organic solvents, which are chemical compounds often used in commercial workplaces, upping risk by about 60 to 70 percent.
Lead researcher, Tania Desrosiers stated that people should not drastically alter their lives solely based on these findings because most of the diseases are not very common and much of the research methods relied on self-report. She advised potential fathers-to-be to not switch jobs but merely to take extra precaution.
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Paul Robert Tesoro, longtime morning show host of Central Hudson's "Almanac" radio program, died Sunday after a long illness surrounded by his family and closest friends. He was 66.
Born in Mount Vernon, on Feb. 7, 1951, Tesoro was predeceased by his parents, Robert and Grace Tesoro, in-laws William and Teresa Scotti, and son, Andrew Tesoro.
Tesoro attended Saint Ursula Grammar School, Mount Saint Michael Academy, and Marist College, where he later earned a master's degree in Public Administration.
A passionate patron of the local art scene, lifelong Yankee fan, music aficionado, writer, reader, and proud Marist Red Fox, Tesoro served the local community nearly as devotedly as he served his family.
"We mourn the passing Dutchess County icon Paul Tesoro, whose warm voice greeted so many of us each morning as the host of Central Hudson's 'Almanac' radio program from April 1987 to April 2016," said Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro. "Paul worked tirelessly for nearly three decades at Central Hudson, leading corporate communications and serving his neighbors in Dutchess County and the surrounding region.
"He dedicated his spare time to his community by volunteering and giving of himself to the causes he held dear. Dutchess County is a better place because of Paul Tesoro's active role in it. Our thoughts and prayers are with Paul's family and friends, and the countless lives he touched. "
He served on the board of the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley; the Regional Food Bank Board of Directors; and the Dutchess County Arts Council (now known as Arts Mid-Hudson). He also volunteered on behalf of the Heart Association of America; Literacy Volunteers of America, the Italian Center, Mount Carmel Church, and Poughkeepsie City schools. He served on the Mount Carmel Church Parish Council, was inducted into the Marist College Theater Hall of Fame, and served as a board member of the Valley Theater Company, where he met his wife in 1974.
Tesoro joined Central Hudson in 1981 as its director of advertising. In 2004, he was promoted to director of corporate communications, the position from which he retired after 29 years of service.
For nearly 30 years, Paul was the voice and creative inspiration behind Central Hudson's popular "Almanac radio program." His thousands of fans will forever cherish memories of his observations on natural phenomena, local history, and weather insights. In his final days, Paul spoke often of the show he would have created for the solar eclipse.
He is survived by his wife of 41 years, Celeste; his daughters Carla Tesoro and her husband Brian Rudner, and Julie Shook and her husband, Nathan Shook; grandchildren Gabriel Paul, Emilia, Theodore, William, and Daniel; sister Janet Tesoro; brothers and sisters in law Ronald and Marianna Peek, and Frank and Ann Scotti; nieces and nephews, Stephanie and Sabrina Scotti, Gregory and Kayla Chenoweth, and Ryan, Dana, Adam and Billy Peek; great nieces and nephews, Alice Scotti, Sam, Hayden and Kate Peek, and Elizabeth, Brody and Charlotte Peek. He is also survived by many cousins, his godfather, Robert DiLorenzo, and countless friends.
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Waldwick-based Pascack Community Bank has announced the appointment of Nancy E. Graves as president and chief executive. Graves took the role in May.
According to the announcement, Graves, former assistant director of the N.J. Department of Banking and Insurance, will also sit on Pascack's board. Graves oversaw the supervision and regulations of over 80 State chartered financial institutions while at the Department of Banking and Finance.
Prior to her appointment, Ms. Graves held executive level management positions at several community banks in New Jersey and Missouri, the company said in its statement.


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FRANKFORT, Ky. —
Stephanie Decker was honored at the Kentucky state Capitol in Frankfort, where the Henryville, Ind. native urged house lawmakers to introduce a bill to help amputees.
It would require insurance companies to pay for prosthetic devices that include micro-chip technology.
"I love the state of Kentucky, but I was very fortunate to live in Indiana. And the reason being is because of the promise of the prosthetic parity law. Indiana has that law, and it allows amputees to have the technology needed to get their life back," said Decker.
Decker lost parts of both legs while shielding her two children during last March's deadly tornado outbreak.


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Tool Test: Philadelphia Furniture Workshop Moxon Vise
From the April 2012 issue, #196
While Moxon-style twin-screw vises seem to be breeding like rabbits these days (see our November 2011 issue, #193 and our December 2010 issue, #187), this version, developed by Alan Turner and Mario Rodriguez at Philadelphia Furniture Workshop (and available through Tools for Working Wood) has some interesting features.
Perhaps most useful (for those who prefer to build furniture rather than shop fixtures) is that for just $30 more than the cost of the Benchcrafted twin-screw vise hardware alone, this vise arrives ready to use.
The screw handles on this version are also worth noting; they're adjustable. After you've tightened the front jaw, the handles are easily moved out of your way.
One significant difference between this vise, the Benchcrafted version and the one we featured in the December 2010 issue, is the thickness of the movable front jaw (though of course if you make your own, you can make it any thickness you wish). Turner says this thinner front jaw allows you to get closer to your work for better control, and, because it's cambered along its length, it grips the work tightly with less effort than a flat chop (and less risk of marring your work).
One last difference is the shelf behind the fixed rear jaw, which allows tails-first dovetailers to clamp the tail board in position when transferring the layout to the pin board. (Price: $169.95)
Web site: Tools for Working Wood
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Recently, several interesting moms-to-be have been making news.
First, there is Nancy Salguiero, a chiropractor, childbirth educator, and owner of YourBirthCoach.com. Mom to 2, she is planning a home birth with her third child (due yesterday!) and planning to stream it live on the internet.
In explaining why she is doing this, Nancy says:
"In our culture, we've created this idea of fear and this visual image of what birth is, with t.v., with sitcoms, with the stories that we've heard in the last few generations of birth and have really created just this culture of fear, of secrecy and privacy. We don't know what to expect as women going into labor ourselves and I really believe in support and for women to see what a normal, natural birth is like. It used to be something that we were exposed to all the time growing up. Women and girls were at births and it was part of normal life and normal culture, but we've had that taken away so we don't have an idea in our heads of what birth can be, other than these images that we've seen on t.v."
Salguiero certainly won't be the first mom to broadcast a play-by-play of her birth online. Moms regularly use the Twitter hashtag #twitterbirth to document their journeys through labor. Gina Crosley-Corcoran, the blogger behind The Feminist Breeder, live-blogged her daughter's birth back in April, and Talina Norris-Ryder from Harvest of Daily Life streamed her birth at The Farm over the internet in August (although they faced some technical difficulties with the stream along the way, making it tough for many folks to stay tuned in). And those are just a few examples.
Although I don't think I would ever feel comfortable streaming my own labor and birth live for the masses, I am grateful to these women for being willing to share their own. Is it narcissistic? Perhaps. But Salguiero's comments on why she's doing it really resonate with me.
We are, as a culture, disconnected from normal birth. Our cesarean rate is out of control, our rates of epidural use and "routine" interventions are ever increasing, the media loves to horrify us with tales of emergencies and near-misses, and most of us have little direct exposure to labor and birth until we arrive in the delivery room ourselves. Being exposed to normal physiological birth is rare for women of reproductive age in the U.S. today, and although seeing it through a camera lens is still a degree away from reality, these women's willingness to share their experience with others is, I believe, still immensely valuable.
That being said, there was one more mama-to-be brought to my attention this morning and her headline definitely made me do a double take:
Marni Kotak, Artist, Will Give Birth at Microscope Gallery, for Real
That basically sums it all up. Kotak, a performance artist living in NYC, plans to give birth in an art gallery. Kotak explains:
"In 'The Birth of Baby X,' I will be completely engrossed in the act of giving birth before a live audience. I will be focused on delivering my child into the world in the healthiest manner possible, rather than on how I look or what the audience may think. Everything I have learned about the birth process is that the more you surrender your mind and don't try to control the event, but let your body do what it naturally knows how to do, the better your labor progresses. This, to me, provides for the most authentic performance art situation. And the ultimate creation of this life performance will be a living being!"
As I read about this particular live birth, I'm left wondering what about it makes me so uncomfortable. Is it any more narcissistic or any less valuable to share this intimate experience for the sake of advancing your profession, rather than because you hope to make a difference for the women watching? And aren't the women who document their births live via Twitter or blog essentially doing the same thing (it's a great traffic-driver, no?)?
Is it the truly live nature of the event that makes it sit funny with me? I've already expressed disappointment that more women today aren't exposed to births in the real world more often, so what's my problem? Here's an artist, putting herself out there, inviting others to attend her birth in the flesh. I should be glad, right?
Instead, I sit here conflicted. I try my hardest not to judge other women for their birth choices. After all, I want to be free to birth in the way that I feel most safe and am most comfortable, so it's only right to extend that support to others as well. Yet there's this little nagging voice in the back of my head that's trying to yell, "That is just wrong!"
I'm so conflicted… yet intrigued.
What do you think?
Follow Jo on Twitter at @outtajo or visit her personal blog, Outta Jo, Onto You.


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Thanks to a recent twitt of David Vonderhaar the design director for Call of Duty: Black Ops, it has been confirmed that there wont be any regional matchmaking or regional search on the PS3 even though Treyarch and Activision confirmed this feature, and this feature will be exclusive to XBOX 360. All of this has even caused some raged over at the Call of Duty Boards.
Thanks to the confirmation of the same person who iniciated all the trouble David Vonderhaar it has been confirmed that REGIONAL MATCHMAKING for the PS3 is AVAILABLE in BLACK OPS.
Not to sound like a Fanboy. BUT...who cares buy Killzone 3. It`ll be the better game regardless of hype level or marketing and you won`t be supporting Activision which will only benefit the future of gaming.
You might like it more, but that doesn't make it better. They are both good franchises, and both will most likely be good games.
To say "who cares I'll buy a different game" doesn't discount the fact that this is a disappointment for ps3 owners who want lag free games.
If you want the best version of Black Ops, at this point, I'd say pick it up for PC. Dedicated servers + server admins + kick/ban features.
and full mod support. Wish I had a Gaming PC lol.
I personally like meeting ppl from other regions online.
Those COD guys are just MS fanboys that can't help but not ignore the gigantic and still growing install base of the ps3.
But who can realy blame them, lots of pro-XBOX devs have gone multiplat due to the massive PS3 install base.
Anyways, PS3 owners realy shouldn't get all bent up over this, there are way too many great multiplats and kickass exclusives coming to the ps3 for ppl get all riled up for another yearly rehashed COD game.
I'm still getting the game though.
how activision conducts business
complete sellouts
even though they have the ability and the knowledge to bring the ps3 a version with all the features
they fall to the pressure of microsoft and the mighty dollar
its one thing bring exclusive dlc to a platform
but a whole other beast when you purposely gimp one version because youve been payed off my microsoft
Yeah it might sound like an excuse but it is nice meeting people faraway just for the experience. I met my best friend because a lack of regional matchmaking. Seriously, my life turned for the better cause R6 Vegas allowed two people from across the country to play with each other.
But still, a lot of the features that were really kinda cool aren't in the PS3 version, the version I'm getting. I can't really find myself to care personally but somewhere out there, someone does. Sucks for them.
I'm happy with this feature cos I live in Asia so there's more chances of me getting into a game quickly. For example, if you live in Asia and you own an Xbox 360, the majority of players which lives in North America and Europe will try to block you from joining their game. I actually feel sorry for the Xbox 360 users in Asia now. Buy a PS3 guys. Faster for you to join a game!
There has to be a reason why this was cut, it could be something to do with the different way the PS3 matchmakes, or something internal at Sony that prevented it from going through.
At this point, who knows, but they are giving literally everything else to PS3 that the 360 gets. It seems odd to exclude such a feature for no reason.
I honestly dont car eof microsoft gives a dozen cookies and a prostitute to the crapbox owners..or even if they give it to the ps3 people..i still wouldnt buy the game..you buy one cod game youve bought them all....
no dual PSNID login - it's not about the money
no regional matchmaking - it's not about the money
who are you kidding Treyarch?
It doesn't matter if regional matchmaking is available or not: the real issue is whether the PS3 will have laggy games or not. IF the PS3 doesn't have laggy games, then all that means is that the PS3 can handle worldwide games without sacrificing quality. If not, THEN you will have to question the dev's reason as to why they did that.
lets be honest here... if your in the USA you are very unlikely to ever come across a foreign hosted game. Europe chances are still slim...since the PS3 has a massive install base there i doubt it will be a problem.
The feature is really only useful if your Aussie or Kiwi. Our internet due to latency issues is at the best dog shit compared to the rest of the world. I personally have a 100mbps down and 2.5mbps upload connection (which i do pull host with 90% of the time) but even with speeds like that i can hardly get a good connection from Japan... it says its in the green but really its more a light yellow.
However i have once gotten a light green connection to a San Fransisco based host... was tolerable until he quit then i got host.
I'm taking the OP's advice and getting Killzone whilst swerving the COD franchise.
first of all Vahn confirmed in his twitter that no one said PS3 does not have regional matchmaking
his own words:
"PS3 fans mixing up split-screen with regional matchmaking conversations. Who said PS3 doesn't have regional matchmaking? Original source."
here is your evidence. when Vahn said, "Platform considerations always a tough issue never explained well in 140 characters. People make mistakes. They don't lie." he was replying to the question "So what exactly did the that special PS3 dev team do for us other than Port a title? Havent seen any PS3 perks to the title"
no where was regional matchmaking mentioned or even remotely talked about. the person who asked the question was referring to dual psn logins.
you can go on his twitter and see for youself
also on Josh Olin's twitter he further confirms regional matchmaking is on the ps3. quote: "Not true. PS3 has regional matchmaking just like the 360."
proof: http://twitter.com/jd_2020
just laughing while reading all these posts. especially Longrod_Von_Hugendon who cancelled his preorder. but seriously who approved this site?
why should activision have to add dual log in to the game??? psn doesnt have dual log in and xbox live does. i would say its more about what psn lacks than microsoft paying them. i would say treyarch and activision support the xbox more because the community for CoD on live is almost double psn.
and the people who agreed with you.
please know what you are talking about before writing. the laws of physics dictate that you WILL GET LAG AND LATENCY if you live in the US for instance, and play against people in the EU or asia!!
nothing, not even dedicated servers, or the almighty PS3 can make it otherwise. people on here talk about the lag free dedicated servers on the pe3, yet i have experienced lag on them. nothing cheats einstein!!
or perhaps it's my 18meg down 1meg up connection that is at fault.
on topic. it's a shame, coz i think this should be a feature of EVERY on-line game. i have nothing against playing against people from other regions, i just prefer to game with people in my own region. for the reasons i mentioned above
im always playing with eu or asian players on mw2 and it never lag ..
As soon as PS3 closes this sales gap on Xbox, we better start getting the extra love and attention the Xbox has been getting all these years. It's bloody ridiculous that you still can't get a game that's the same on both consoles
You should begin all of your posts with "Not to sound like a Fanboy..."
Yeah, Killzone 3 is going to be epic, but so what? It's not the be-all, end-all game.
If Call of Duty fans like COD, then why would they buy a different shooter?
Because gamers have this knack with actually playing OTHER GAMES! Do COD fans play ONLY COD games, or do they decide to play other things in the downtime?
And why should being a COD fan keep anyone from playing KZ3 or any other shooter> And how do you know that KZ3 WON'T be the be all end all game (not saying it will or won't, but you seem pretty sure of yourself)?
Did you also say this to MariaHelFutura? Because it seems to me your post would be better suited as a response to him than as a response to me.
All I said was that COD lovers shouldn't just forget about Black Ops just because KZ3 is coming out next year.
Call of Duty is not the be all end all game either.
So your point is?
BTW, If you like COD by all means buy COD. IMO, for alot of reasons that wouldn`t be wise. **IMO**
I've had MOH for about a week and a half and the next shooter I buy is going to be Killzone 3. Call of Duty is an Activision franchise, I don't f*ck with Activision.
@below: I believe it's when your connected to people closer to you so that the game runs better.
EDIT: Also it doesn't seem like too many people care. Here's the thread: http://www.callofduty.com/b...
EDIT 2: Shit I forgot about Socom. OK the next shooter I buy is either Socom 4 or Killzone 3, which ever comes first.
Get both Socom 4 and KZ3. Ones a TPS and the other is a FPS.
I agree, I've been passing on Call of Duty since after COD4. It just shows how quick people are to follow the masses so they won't be labeled as an outcast. Sorry but I won't be one of the millions picking this one up. I have a feeling this is going to end up like Guitar Hero or Tony Hawk.
It matches you up with the person/people closest to you geographically. MW2 X360 already had this and it kept matching me up with people in my town. It was awesome, I'm glad it's back.
MW2 didn't always have it and us Aussie's hated playing the game as it would ALWAYS choose an American host and it always lagged.. Back when MW2 launched, if you were lucky enough to get a lobby with an Aussie host, you never left cos you knew your chances of finding another one were pretty low.
Of course it added the feature a few months later so now its a non-issue.
BS. I got MW2 a week before it was officially released and the game had it already (on the X360).
Ahhhh...no it didn't have a setting which you could set to only search for local lobbies, you are wrong. Here's a link confirming it if you need it:
In this interview they say 'There is nothing in there that allows you to say, 'I don't want to play with anyone but people from my area''
They did not add the feature until the update which came out with the first map pack.
If you think it didn't have host issue's when it came out you are clearly from the US....
Can they just make this franchise 360 exclusive, there are better shooters on the PS3
Ha ha yeah I tend to think of it as a 360 exclusive anyway.
is it we can't play with your friends anymore?
or playing for free with 2mil others?
you have my undying recognition for such a worthy comment.
Josh's twitter says otherwise. Dude, N4G is tabloid status. I'm new to the site and find this shit ridiculous. Don't they fact check the info?
N4G does not create articles of their own, its a "community" run site, that submit articles from other sites. its upto the approvers to fact check
No there really isn't any official checks and balance system here, except for the community disapproving articles and what not (but there's usually an agenda there anyway).
No doubt MS asked for this as part of the exclusive deal to make PSN look worse off than XBL so it looks in theory like you are getting better servers when in reality your not. Its a devious underhanded tactic and hats off to MS to not caring about anything but money as usual. As really it wouldn't cost them anything to add it to PS3 version.
It's false. Vahn and Olin both confirmed that PS3 IS getting Regional Matchmaking. They said it was split screen that wont.
BS article.
If you have a good internet connection you will most likely get host.
As long as the matchmaking is not the same as MW2 it should be pretty good, When I had MW2 on ps3 I got host most of the time and gave most people in Eurpoe and USA a 3 bar easily. (Im in England UK).
Its not the biggest thing, most people wont even notice about the connection. Many are casuals playing with friends for fun.
If you get into a laggy game theres not much that can be done.
first of all Vahn confirmed in his twitter that no one said PS3 does not have regional matchmaking
his own words:
"PS3 fans mixing up split-screen with regional matchmaking conversations. Who said PS3 doesn't have regional matchmaking? Original source."
here is your evidence. when Vahn said, "Platform considerations always a tough issue never explained well in 140 characters. People make mistakes. They don't lie." he was replying to the question "So what exactly did the that special PS3 dev team do for us other than Port a title? Havent seen any PS3 perks to the title"
no where was regional matchmaking mentioned or even remotely talked about. the person who asked the question was referring to dual psn logins.
you can go on his twitter and see for youself
also on Josh Olin's twitter he further confirms regional matchmaking is on the ps3. quote: "Not true. PS3 has regional matchmaking just like the 360."
proof: http://twitter.com/jd_2020
just laughing while reading all these posts. especially Longrod_Von_Hugendon who cancelled his preorder. but seriously who approved this site?
I wasn't buying this game anyway. Still not buying it. Activision can screw over my PS3 all it wants. Their loss.
This is false, the only thing the PS3 wont get that say the 360 gets is timed exclusive DLC
im with you bro fuck cod!
KILLZONE 3 gonna rape all
that the treyarch guys never actually elaborate too much as to WHY now I am of curse referring to the dual login thing. WHY is that feature exclusive to Xbox? did MS pay for it? was it too difficult for the developer? did ACtivision have a say? there are a lot of unanswered questions about this and being less than a week away from launch they should be answered.
PS3 fanboys are crazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
they are all a bunch of whiny babies. they are supposed to be "mature gamers", but if you look at almost any article on this site, they will prove the exact opposite. anyone who says anything pro xbox will be stealth disagreed by all the herding anti micro sheep.
you morons saying that xbox payed for dual log-ins are out of your mind. xbox live has that built in and psn doesnt. they didnt add anything to the xbox game. what is so hard to understand about that???? im not saying they dont pay to get some things, but this seems to be a stretch.
Why bring up Killzone then? Love Killzone but this is about Black ops. Don't get why you want to start sh!t.
Think about why he brought it up.You might actually get the answere on your own or just maybe you will have to search online for it.Activision only cares about the money not there fans while devs like GG are all about what makes there fans happy not by screwing them over.OOOPs did I slip out the answere for you.
I could care less about Black Ops.Im playing the Killzone3 beta and I will continue to play it until it ends.You think that Activision has learned there lesson along with the idiots who say there not going to buy it but still end up with it.I play quality games not the quantity of what sells.GG has shown me the kind of passion you need to make high end game with real skills to play it while Activision just pops COD games out every year.Its always going to be the same with activision and EA has joined the slimeball society as well.
I for one don't care if there is regional match making or not, as long as the multiplayer works and it doesn't take forever to get into matches then no big deal. I sorta like knowing that I'm playing games with people from all over the world.
no wonder they said 360 is the best console to play CoD BO on. makes you wonder...
Wow...Whats next microsoft? Your gonna make the online exclusive on xbox too? ANSWEAR ME! You know what? Bye bye Black ops pre-order...IM BUYING GT5!!!GO TO HELL M$ AND YOUR AMBISSION FOR MONEY!!!!
Killzone 3 over COD any day
Go to link for my reaction:
Order cancelled.
You DO realize that this story is FALSE, right? It's been confirmed that everything but the timed exclusive DLC is all the same.
thats what he gets for this childish act. you couldn't care less about the great single player or the addicting zombies?
typical multiplayer dope who never touches other modes of the game.
Yeah, let's pay $60 for two zombie maps and a short single player you'll play once.
... Not such a big deal, really
*shrugs* I'm picking it up for my 360 anyways
lol @ the disagrees. I think some of the people in here who prefer the PS3 are mad.
nope we just do it for fun or to watch 360 fan boys cry
if they blocked the sites just use (HotSpot) to get in ..


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Great Gardening / By Sally Cunningham
Even though we have weeks more time in the garden - with wonderful September weather and kids-free time for some - the passing of Labor Day has a benchmark feeling.
So let's not resist; let's ask ourselves what could have gone better, what has satisfied us and what has not, and what we might do now to make 2013 a better year in our gardens and landscapes.
Heat, freezes, drought
No doubt weather dominated the gardening saga for 2012 - specifically, our early, extreme warmth in spring, followed by severe freezing and then many weeks of drought. We have talked about drought and watering all summer ad nauseam, and yet I am compelled to warn one more time (truthfully, several more times are likely) that we cannot let one good rainfall make us complacent.
That soil - where the tree and flower roots are - is desert-dry, and even 2 inches isn't going to saturate it. While looking out at a lovely downpour, I fully expected to go out with a shovel in the morning and find white, compacted clay 3 inches down in several spots around the landscape and flower beds.
For our plants' winter survival and our future gardens, we must measure rainfall week by week until the ground is thoroughly frozen (November?) and we must water our permanent plants deeply once a week, in every week that there is not a long and heavy soaking.
Double the effort for anything planted during the last two or three years - especially conifers. That's because conifers dry out worse than deciduous plants during the winter; they continue to lose moisture through their leaves (needles), while plants that have dropped their leaves will simply go dormant.
Starring plants
This week, I'm delivering a new talk called "Best of Show" - the winning annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees, as seen during the 2012 bus tours, open gardens, walks and tours of the National Garden Festival. Preparing it forced me to look at several hundred pictures to see what jumped out from all those great gardens. Certain plants clearly emerged as superior performers, at least during midsummer when the festival touring took place. Among the standouts:
Perennials: Rudbeckia "Herbstonne"; Echinacea "Hot Papaya" and "Coconut Lime"; Crocosmia "Lucifer"; Acanthus mollis (Bears Breeches), and many specific, amazing daylilies.
Annuals: Dragonwing Begonias; Acalypha "Bourbon Street" and "Beyond Paradise"; Musa (Bananas); Mandevillas, and Perilla Magilla.
Trees and shrubs: Japanese maples; Smokebush; Clethra alnifolia (Summersweet); Katsuratree and hydrangeas - including H. arborescens (smooth-leaf), H. quercifolia (oak leaf), H. paniculata (panicle) and H. macrophylla (big-leaf), with so many great cultivars.
For some, the "best in show" of their gardening summer is a spectacular moment in the garden, however brief. We remember certain plants for the huge flowers, tall spikes or bright fruit, even if their glory is short-lived. Delphiniums, tea roses or the wisteria vine may be that for you.
For others, what counts is a long performance from plants that earn their space in the garden week after week. Coreopsis verticillata "Moonbeam" (and even longer flowering new cultivars). Geranium "Rozanne" and Sedum spectabile are in that category. My choice is skewed by my reviewing and photography effort from late June through July, so my "best" list is missing some June and August beauties.
Now, before the winter amnesia sets in, make notes about what plants worked and what didn't.
The work you do
While it's fresh in your mind, how did you enjoy caring for your yard this year? Personally, I enjoyed the hours of watering by hand and feel satisfied that I kept everything alive. Weeding wasn't as difficult as usual (even they were drought-stressed) and I used the scuffle-hoe while watering with the other hand. I'm also comfortable with how many beds I have, the square footage that is planted, and have come to terms with my plan for upkeep - what I can do and when I need professional help.
But if your experience isn't so happy, this is the time to re-evaluate. Consider:
. Irrigation choices: At minimum, think about where your hoses are connected and stored, and how that influences your watering decisions. Extra hoses, placed nearer your landscape areas, could make a difference. However, if you're losing your investment in landscape plants, and if you just can't do the watering you know you should, look into professional irrigation systems. You may be surprised at the DIY choices and the affordability of professional jobs.
. How much garden?: As our lives change, so does the size of the garden we want. Some retirees are cutting back just when others finally have time for the large garden of their dreams. Look at what you have and whether it serves you now. Also think about the lawn. Are you mowing weekly when you'd rather have a meadow? Would an island of ground covers around the trees be easier, prettier and more nature-friendly than the grass that struggles to grow in the shade?
. How does it look to you?: Were you proud of your garden this season, when you had guests for a key event? Does the garden please you when you need it to do so? Consider when you're there, when you travel and when you entertain. Perhaps a simpler planting, focused on June blooms, the Fourth of July or September color, would serve you better. Once you know what you want, work with a CNLP (Certified Nursery & Landscape Professional) or horticulture professional to choose plants and a design that will suit your actual lifestyle.
Whether it's Labor Day, today or Halloween, it's a good time to think about your garden - past, present and future.
Sally Cunningham is a garden writer, lecturer and consultant.


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Schafer made the announcement at the White House Conference on North American Wildlife Policy in Reno, Nev., on Oct. 3.
"The president is committed to enhancing support of habitat conservation by offering public access to CRP land," Schafer said. "The Conservation Reserve Program is the largest public-private partnership for conservation and wildlife habitat in the nation and we expect robust participation in this initiative. It will provide better access and allow more efficient management of game populations while allowing CRP participants to continue to provide vital environmental benefits such as improving air and water quality, enhancing wildlife habitat and reducing erosion."
The goal of this incentive, Schafer said, is to double public access by providing up to seven million acres of CRP land for public access in the next five years in participating states. The CRP public access incentive permits partnerships with existing state public access programs to identify and mark tracts of land as publicly accessible and publish maps for hunters and recreation enthusiasts. The incentive is consistent with current state public access incentives and will enhance the ability of state game departments to use hunting seasons as a wildlife management tool.
The CRP public access incentive will be limited to CRP participants in the 21 states that already have public access programs. These 21 states are: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming.
The public access incentive will pay $3 per acre, per year, for the life of the CRP contract, provided the contract acres remain enrolled in the state public access program. CRP contracts are between 10 and 15 years. This incentive will be available to CRP participants with new or existing CRP contracts. This public access incentive is available to CRP participants that voluntarily agree to open CRP land to public hunting, recreation, wildlife viewing and other recreational activities.
CRP is a voluntary program that helps agricultural producers enhance environmentally sensitive land. Producers enroll in CRP and plant long-term, resource-conserving covers to improve water quality, control soil erosion and enhance habitats for waterfowl and wildlife. In return, USDA provides producers with rental payments.
After environmental compliance requirements are complete, USDA will announce a sign up date when farmers and ranchers can begin to enroll at their local county FSA office.
Information on CRP: (http://www.fsa.usda.gov/conservation).


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I have never since my childhood supported a shooting war in which the United States was involved, although in retrospect I think the NATO war in Kosovo achieved beneficial results. The war in Afghanistan against apocalyptic terrorism qualifies in my understanding as the first truly just war since World War II. But the justice of the cause and of the limited ends is in danger of being negated by the injustice of improper means and excessive ends. Unlike World War II and prior just wars, this one can be won only if tactics adhere to legal and moral constraints on the means used to conduct it, and to limited ends.
The perpetrators of the September 11 attack cannot be reliably neutralized by nonviolent or diplomatic means; a response that includes military action is essential to diminish the threat of repetition, to inflict punishment and to restore a sense of security at home and abroad. The extremist political vision held by Osama bin Laden, which can usefully be labeled "apocalyptic terrorism," places this persisting threat well outside any framework of potential reconciliation or even negotiation for several reasons: Its genocidal intent is directed generically against Americans and Jews; its proclaimed goal is waging an unconditional civilizational war–Islam against the West–without drawing any distinction between civilian and military targets; it has demonstrated a capacity and willingness to inflict massive and traumatizing damage on our country and a tactical ingenuity and ability to carry out its missions of destruction by reliance on the suicidal devotion of its adherents.
There are three types of responses to the attack, each of which contains some merit and enjoys some support. None of them are adequate, however.
I. ANTIWAR/PACIFIST APPROACH The pacifist position opposing even limited military action overlooks the nature of the threat and is thus irrelevant to meeting the central challenge of restoring some sense of security among our citizenry and in the world generally.
Also, in the current setting, unlike in the civil rights movement and the interventionist conflicts of the cold war era (especially Vietnam), antiwar and pacifist stands possess little or no cultural resonance with the overwhelming majority of Americans. It may be that at later stages of the war this assessment will prove to have been premature, and even now Quaker, Christian, Gandhian and Buddhist forms of pacifism offer a profound critique of wars. These critiques should be seriously heeded, since they lend weight to the the view that the use of force should be marginal and kept to an absolute minimum. Certainly the spiritually motivated pacifist witness can be both inspirational and instructive, and help to mitigate and interrogate militarist postures.
Another form of antiwar advocacy rests on a critique of the United States as an imperialist superpower or empire. This view also seems dangerously inappropriate in addressing the challenge posed by the massive crime against humanity committed on September 11. Whatever the global role of the United States–and it is certainly responsible for much global suffering and injustice, giving rise to widespread resentment that at its inner core fuels the terrorist impulse–it cannot be addressed so long as this movement of global terrorism is at large and prepared to carry on with its demonic work. These longer-term concerns–which include finding ways to promote Palestinian self-determination, the internationalization of Jerusalem and a more equitable distribution of the benefits of global economic growth and development–must be addressed. Of course, much of the responsibility for the failure to do so lies with the corruption and repressive policies of governments, especially in the Middle East, outside the orbit of US influence. A distinction needs to be drawn as persuasively as possible between inherently desirable lines of foreign policy reform and retreating in the face of terrorism.


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SAP NEWSBYTE — SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) announced that the Washington Redskins football team started using the SAP® Scouting solution during the 2013 NFL season to manage team roster and performance as well as to assess the current draft class. The announcement was made at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, being held February 28 – March 1 in Boston.
SAP Scouting was co-designed with the San Francisco 49ers in preparation for their 2013 NFL Draft to help their executives and scouts identify and acquire talent, compare draftees in real time and ultimately put the best product on the field. Powered by the SAP HANA® platform, the solution captures data and does analytics for both college and professional scouting.
"SAP Scouting provides both a comprehensive profile of a prospect, player or team as well as breakthrough analytics capabilities to assess their true and projected value at a level that was previously unavailable to us," said Eric Schaeffer, vice president of Football Administration, Washington Redskins. "We have an exciting relationship with SAP to advance the system that pushes the boundaries yet takes into consideration our approach and user needs."
SAP Scouting provides powerful search and analytics in a simple way so that all users — from executives to coaches to scouts — can personally assess and compare players to get new insights without dependence on complex spreadsheets or personnel bottlenecks. The solution enables all of a team's college and professional scouting activities and generates key insights along the way.
SAP solutions continue to support sports franchises with exciting new tools to help them engage fans and players to improve on-field performance. This year, the SAP Scouting solution won the prestigious '2014 People's Choice Award' at the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).
"The award is a validation of our design approach to democratize the use of analytics and to enable users to leverage the capabilities in a very simple and intuitive way," said Sami Muneer, vice president of Product Management, SAP, who has worked closely with the SF 49ers and Washington Redskins in developing the system.
For more information, visit the SAP Newsroom. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.
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8/23/2012 1:32pm, #1
A knee injury forced Dan Henderson to pull out of the main event at UFC 151 just nine days before he was to challenge for Jon Jones' title in Las Vegas, thus causing the UFC to cancel the entire card.
Jones refused a challenge from Chael Sonnon, citing having received only eight days notice. No main event, no card!
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The first PGA Tour event of 2014 beckons and Boo Weekley, reigning champion of the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, admits he is glad the golf season does not begin with a major championship. Or a title defense in Fort Worth.
"No. I've been doing too much deer hunting," Weekley said on the eve of today's opening round at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. "I killed two on Sunday before we flew out here."
By his own count, Weekley – an avid hunter – has stocked the refrigerator with venison meat from "12 or 13" deer taken during the fall season. But his wife, Karyn, has gotten him by a 2-1 margin in trophy kills that wound up at the taxidermist.
The bottom line, said Weekley, is that his favorite hobby has left minimal time for golf. He said he heads into today's opening round at the Plantation Course at Kapalua having played just six rounds of golf since mid-November.
"It's always exciting to be here. But I'm just trying to get back into the swing of things," said Weekley, who has posted three top 33 finishes in three starts on the 2013-14 PGA Tour calendar, which offers a wraparound approach to official earnings and FedEx points for the first time this season. "But so far, I'm still a little shaky. I've gained about 15 pounds since hunting season started. It's rained a lot so I haven't been able to walk around as much."
Weekley said he expects to have his game grooved long before the season's first major championship, at the Masters Tournament (April 7-13), or before his title defense at Colonial, May 19-25 in Fort Worth.
"I'm looking forward to this year," Weekley said in a phone interview. "I just need to lose a little weight and get things rolling with the putter. Then, just let it happen. Like last year."
Joining Weekley among the 30 players in today's opening round at Kapalua is Sang-Moon Bae, winner of the 2013 HP Byron Nelson Championship, and Jordan Spieth, a Dallas native and second-year pro making his debut at the Tournament of Champions. Spieth, 20, is a rising star on tour who was a contender for last year's Colonial title.


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POL480 Government Internship
Provides students with an integrated academic work experience in a government or administrative agency for a semester. Possible positions include state legislature, United States Congress, police agencies, planning units, newspapers, and radio stations. Students work a minimum of 40 hours per week in close cooperation with political leaders and officials and participate in a weekly academic seminar. Interns are required to do a large amount of assigned reading, maintain a comprehensive journal, and submit weekly reaction papers. Instructors hold frequent individual conversations with interns as well as the agency supervisors. Students are allowed to register for no more than 15 academic credits while participating in the program.
- Liberal Arts
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By admin | October 15, 2011
This site is about my work as a music specialist. I can't post pictures of the people I work with, even though their images can be beautifully represented, because the Internet won't protect people's dignity, as you know.
So. What a way to make a living, eh? I pull up to a place. Unpack my trunk. Stack my stuff on a cart and wheel it in while people watch. Then I start strumming and singing and maybe I'll say, "C'mon, everybody, clap you hands!" or "Janet, what a beautiful smile," or "Brian, you know what I mean?"
Engaging everyone in the room, that's what I shoot for.
People love songs; songs about people, places and things. Songs that start somewhere and go somewhere… or go nowhere, but create feelings, inspire ideas and understanding. Or songs that just make the body want to move or make a person want to express something.
I work with songs. I travel with them, learn them, write them, and share them with love. Groups of us have great fun making up songs about our lives and feelings, or songs that teach us something new, songs that become part of our lives.
In an average year, I work with about twenty-five groups of people, in weekly or twice monthly intervals. They've all come to call me "Sam 'na-music-man." I didn't grow up thinking that's who I would be someday, but it happened, and if you want to call me that I'm perfectly okay with it.


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search engine
On the Internet, a search engine is a coordinated set of programs that includes:
- A spider (also called a "crawler" or a "bot") that goes to every page or representative pages on every Web site that wants to be searchable and reads it, using hypertext links on each page to discover and read a site's other pages
- A program that creates a huge index (sometimes called a "catalog") from the pages that have been read
- A program that receives your search request, compares it to the entries in the index, and returns results to you
An alternative to using a search engine is to explore a structured directory of topics. Yahoo, which also lets you use its search engine, is the most widely-used directory on the Web. A number of Web portal sites offer both the search engine and directory approaches to finding information.
Different Search Engine Approaches
- Major search engines such as Google, Yahoo (which uses Google), AltaVista, and Lycos index the content of a large portion of the Web and provide results that can run for pages - and consequently overwhelm the user.
- Specialized content search engines are selective about what part of the Web is crawled and indexed. For example, TechTarget sites for products such as the AS/400 (http://www.search400.com) and CRM applications (http://www.searchCRM.com) selectively index only the best sites about these products and provide a shorter but more focused list of results.
- Ask Jeeves (http://www.ask.com) provides a general search of the Web but allows you to enter a search request in natural language, such as "What's the weather in Seattle today?"
- Special tools and some major Web sites such as Yahoo let you use a number of search engines at the same time and compile results for you in a single list.
- Individual Web sites, especially larger corporate sites, may use a search engine to index and retrieve the content of just their own site. Some of the major search engine companies license or sell their search engines for use on individual sites.
Where to Search First
The last time we looked, the Open Directory Project listed 370 search engines available for Internet users. There are about ten major search engines, each with its own anchor Web site (although some have an arrangement to use another site's search engine or license their own search engine for use by other Web sites). Some sites, such as Yahoo, search not only using their search engine but also give you the results from simultaneous searches of other search indexes. Sites that let you search multiple indexes simultaneously include:
- Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com)
- search.com (http://search.com)
- EasySearcher (http://www.easysearcher.com)
Yahoo first searches its own hierarchically-structured subject directory and gives you those entries. Then, it provides a few entries from the AltaVista search engine. It also launches a concurrent search for entries matching your search argument with six or seven other major search engines. You can link to each of them from Yahoo (at the bottom of the search result page) to see what the results were from each of these search engines.
A significant advantage of a Yahoo search is that if you locate an entry in Yahoo, it's likely to lead you to a Web site or entire categories of sites related to your search argument.
A search.com search primarily searches the Infoseek index first but also lets you search the other major search engines as well.
EasySearcher lets you choose from either the popular search engines or a very comprehensive list of specialized search engine/databases in a number of fields.
Yahoo, search.com, and EasySearcher all provide help with entering your search phrase. Most Web portal sites offer a quickly-located search entry box that connects you to the major search engines.
How to Search
For "tips" on entering your search argument, see each search engine, including Yahoo's . It's good to read the information at least once.
By "How to Search," we mean a general approach to searching: what to try first, how many search engines to try, whether to search USENET newsgroups, when to quit. It's difficult to generalize, but this is the general approach we use at whatis.com:
- If you know of a specialized search engine such as SearchNetworking that matches your subject (for example, Networking), you'll save time by using that search engine. You'll find some specialized databases accessible from Easy Searcher 2.
- If there isn't a specialized search engine, try Yahoo. Sometimes you'll find a matching subject category or two and that's all you'll need.
- If Yahoo doesn't turn up anything, try AltaVista, Google, Hotbot, Lycos, and perhaps other search engines for their results. Depending on how important the search is, you usually don't need to go below the first 20 entries on each.
- For efficiency, consider using a ferret that will use a number of search engines simultaneously for you.
- At this point, if you haven't found what you need, consider using the subject directory approach to searching. Look at Yahoo or someone else's structured organization of subject categories and see if you can narrow down a category your term or phrase is likely to be in. If nothing else, this may give you ideas for new search phrases.
- If you feel it's necessary, also search the Usenet newsgroups as well as the Web.
- As you continue to search, keep rethinking your search arguments. What new approaches could you use? What are some related subjects to search for that might lead you to the one you really want?
- Finally, consider whether your subject is so new that not much is available on it yet. If so, you may want to go out and check the very latest computer and Internet magazines or locate companies that you think may be involved in research or development related to the subject.


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The complexity and interconnectedness of Earth's systems become evident through these visualizations created by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. Each entry in this collection is designed to encourage student questioning and conversation... (View More) – especially related to the cross-cutting topics commonly found in middle and high school curricula (cause and effect; systems and system models; scale, proportion and quantity; patterns; similarities and differences; stability and change; energy and matter). Video interviews with mission scientists and a NASA visualizer as well as links to sample K-12 lessons are included. (View Less)
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Emphasizing the synergies between science and engineering, these video clips highlight the research of professional ocean scientists and engineers in various disciplines. The clips are accompanied by additional relevant content including images,... (View More) data visualizations, graphs, animations, and other information. Content has been organized into more than a dozen thematic areas such as Solving Old Problems with New Technology and Small Scale Observations and Large Scale Ideas. All content has been aligned with science and engineering practices from the Next Generation Science Standards, including "asking questions and solving problems" and "planning and carrying out investigations," providing applicable resources for teachers who want to provide role models of effective practice for their students. (View Less)
This two-sided poster presents images and information about ozone. The front features a series of color Earth images; each image reflects total ozone readings taken every October from 1979 to 2012. The poster back contains information about ozone... (View More) under the following headings: What is Ozone?, Chemistry of the Ozone Layer, Measuring Ozone in the Earth's Atmosphere, Timeline of Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Observations, How the Ozone Hole Forms, and A World Avoided. In addition, the back contains two activities: Visualizing the Ozone Hole and a Color by Number worksheet. (View Less)
Materials Cost: Free per group of students
Using the 5E instructional model, students discover the value of using color maps to visualize data. The activity requires students to create a color map of the ozone hole from Dobson data values derived from the Aura satellite. Students then... (View More) interpret that map and compare and evaluate different color scales. Note that this is the Spanish version of Exploring Color Maps: Using Stratospheric Ozone Data. (View Less)
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Through the use of the 5E instructional model, students discover the value of using color maps to visualize data. The activity requires students to create a color map of the ozone hole from Dobson data values derived from the Aura satellite.... (View More) Students then interpret that map and compare and evaluate different color scales. (View Less)
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This worksheet introduces students to the Aura satellite and its Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI). Students are asked to visit the Aura website and examine OMI data visualizations to learn about emissions of atmospheric gases such as sulfur... (View More) dioxide, nitrogen oxide and nitrogen dioxide. Students gain experience interpreting OMI data visualizations and are asked to consider implications for climate and human health. (View Less)
This 16-page booklet illustrates multiple NASA sources that allow educators to incorporate real Earth science data and images in their teaching and programs. Sample resources as well as firsthand accounts of how these are being used in the classroom... (View More) or informal education setting are included. (View Less)
This is a poster about the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), an instrument onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Learners can find out what it does and how it works, then go online and start exploring the Red Planet... (View More) with real Mars data. (View Less)
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Learners create art inspired by authentic NASA planetary image data while learning to recognize the geology on planetary surfaces, uniquely inspiring learner engagement. This presentation and accompanying activity use the elements of art - shape,... (View More) line, color, texture, value - to make sense of features in NASA images, honing observation skills and inspiring questions. It aligns with the NGSS cross-cutting concept of Patterns. Videos, images, and an interactive poster that breaks down activity elements deepen user access. (View Less)
This activity uses an episode of poor air quality over the Midwest and Eastern seaboard to engage students in an exploration of the collection, comparison, analysis and utilization of air quality data. With the aid of a camera, the EPA website and... (View More) Google Earth, students will determine local visibility. Students will also interpret images taken with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard both the Terra and Aqua satellites to distinguish between three aerosols-smoke, dust and haze. Then students will then find online satellite images of the local area to determine aerosol types and possible sources. Four lesson extensions are included. This lesson uses the 5E instructional model. (View Less)