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High school offers go-kart racing classes

Class is now in session (Motor Trader Malaysia)We?ve all heard stories about colleges offering questionable courses for class credit: Frisbee golf, a sociological study of Lady Gaga and even a lecture series on surviving the zombie apocalypse.

But the Manatee School of the Arts high school is giving them a run for their money, offering a course on ?the Physics of Motorsports.?

More specifically, as local ABC affiliate WWSB reports, it?s a class that has students going out for a sessions of go kart riding. And it's reportedly the only class of its kind in the entire country.

"All our high achieving math students, 8, 9 and 10th grades have been rewarded for their achievement with a day at the track," Physics of Motorsports instructor Frederick Hillier tells the station.

The course includes weekly trips to the local Anderson Race Park, which Hillier says will help motivate the students to further their physics studies.

"The physics program launches you in a great way into science but also into the motorsports path to where if you want to be you know an auto engineer or even a go kart engineer, it gets you a great start," senior and MSA Racing Team Crew Chief Lauren Hall told the station.

But yes, crunching those numbers and successfully completing the go kart class fulfills a Florida state requirement for chemistry of physics.

?They'll collect the data, they'll go back to school in the next class, and they'll calculate what the g-force was of their deceleration," Hillier said.

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Engineers solve a biological mystery and boost artificial intelligence

Jan. 29, 2013 ? By simulating 25,000 generations of evolution within computers, Cornell University engineering and robotics researchers have discovered why biological networks tend to be organized as modules -- a finding that will lead to a deeper understanding of the evolution of complexity.

The new insight also will help evolve artificial intelligence, so robot brains can acquire the grace and cunning of animals.

From brains to gene regulatory networks, many biological entities are organized into modules -- dense clusters of interconnected parts within a complex network. For decades biologists have wanted to know why humans, bacteria and other organisms evolved in a modular fashion. Like engineers, nature builds things modularly by building and combining distinct parts, but that does not explain how such modularity evolved in the first place. Renowned biologists Richard Dawkins, G?nter P. Wagner, and the late Stephen Jay Gould identified the question of modularity as central to the debate over "the evolution of complexity."

For years, the prevailing assumption was simply that modules evolved because entities that were modular could respond to change more quickly, and therefore had an adaptive advantage over their non-modular competitors. But that may not be enough to explain the origin of the phenomena.

The team discovered that evolution produces modules not because they produce more adaptable designs, but because modular designs have fewer and shorter network connections, which are costly to build and maintain. As it turned out, it was enough to include a "cost of wiring" to make evolution favor modular architectures.

This theory is detailed in "The Evolutionary Origins of Modularity," published January 29 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society by Hod Lipson, Cornell associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; Jean-Baptiste Mouret, a robotics and computer science professor at Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris; and by Jeff Clune, a former visiting scientist at Cornell and currently an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Wyoming.

To test the theory, the researchers simulated the evolution of networks with and without a cost for network connections.

"Once you add a cost for network connections, modules immediately appear. Without a cost, modules never form. The effect is quite dramatic," says Clune.

The results may help explain the near-universal presence of modularity in biological networks as diverse as neural networks -- such as animal brains -- and vascular networks, gene regulatory networks, protein-protein interaction networks, metabolic networks and even human-constructed networks such as the Internet.

"Being able to evolve modularity will let us create more complex, sophisticated computational brains," says Clune.

Says Lipson: "We've had various attempts to try to crack the modularity question in lots of different ways. This one by far is the simplest and most elegant."

The National Science Foundation and the French National Research Agency funded this research.

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From Data to Insight & Impact: Building a Manufacturing Summary ...

In this latest edition of our From Data to Insight & Impact series, Microsoft Finance Director Marc Reguera shows you how to build powerful views and drill all the way down to the machine level in this case study detailing Microsoft manufacturing in Puerto Rico. In Building a Manufacturing Summary with Power View, you will see another example of how simple it is to use Power View out of the box as Marc reconstructs the same manufacturing dashboard that he used in his interview with Gene Purschwitz, General Manager of Microsoft Puerto Rico?s manufacturing facilities in From Data to Insight & Impact: Using Power View to Review Manufacturing Performance.

(Note: The data and geographical regions included in this video have been manipulated for demonstration purposes and do not reflect actual data.)

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Dodgers TV Deal: L.A. Club Inks $7 Billion Time Warner Pact, MLB To Determine Revenue-Sharing Impact

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Dodgers formally announced a deal with Time Warner Cable on Monday to create a new TV channel that people familiar with the situation say assures the team more than $7 billion over 25 years. That is double what Major League Baseball thought the local TV rights were worth when the team was sold out of bankruptcy just last year.

The gap will be the subject of discussions going forward as the league attempts to haggle over how much of that extra money will go into a revenue-sharing pool to help out baseball's lower-revenue franchises.

MLB calculates that 34 percent of a team's local revenue, after subtracting costs, is available for redistribution throughout the league. When the Dodgers were mired in bankruptcy last year, the league agreed to value the potential TV rights of any future deal at $84 million the first year, rising 4 percent every year thereafter. Over 25 years, that estimated TV rights revenue of $3.5 billion.

The actual TV rights contract represents a huge mark-up from that initial forecast. It could be a boon to the league, depending on how much of that revenue its internal rules committee says is subject to sharing. The contract is also a big win for the owners, including Guggenheim Partners and Magic Johnson, who bought the team out of bankruptcy last year for $2 billion from Frank McCourt.

The broad strokes of the deal terms were confirmed by three people who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about them publicly.

MLB spokesman Pat Courtney wouldn't comment on the deal, but said the league would need to approve it. "We are still awaiting further information," he said.

If approved, fans in the Los Angeles area and Hawaii would have to switch from watching Dodgers games on Fox Sports' regional sports channel Prime Ticket after the 2013 season.

The high price tag also means monthly TV bills are likely headed upward ? in the Los Angeles market and elsewhere.

"There's no question that there's a huge problem with sports rights," said Derek Baine, a senior analyst with research firm SNL Kagan, adding that one big question is "when is this going to stop?" Baine also blamed higher TV bills on the proliferation of new channels and rising fees for once-free TV station broadcasts.

Time Warner Cable Inc., which agreed to pay the fees, is now aiming to cut deals with other local TV distributors to offset the cost, which could spread any fee hikes across the TV landscape, including in other markets.

The new channel, SportsNet LA, will be launched and operated by a subsidiary of the team formed in December called American Media Productions LLC.

Along with selling the channel to other TV distributors, Time Warner Cable will have the exclusive advertising rights and certain branding and programming rights. It will also offer production and technical services outside of regular game coverage, which will be handled by the team's subsidiary.

Ownership of the network was important, according to the people familiar with the situation, because the league allows teams to reduce their revenue-sharing contributions by the cost of running their own TV networks.

The contract marks the second major sports rights deal in three years for Time Warner Cable, which bought the rights to Los Angeles Lakers games in 2011 and launched regional sports networks covering them last year.

After paying an estimated $3 billion for the Lakers rights for 20 years, Time Warner Cable eked out higher fees from other TV distributors in Los Angeles, including DirecTV. The cable operator has said it is bidding for long-term sports carriage agreements to give itself certainty about rising sports costs.

"This deal, like our Lakers' deal, furthers our efforts to attain greater certainty and control over local and regional sports programming costs," David Rone, president of Time Warner Cable Sports, said in a statement.

However, Time Warner Cable is not the only network operator looking to recoup the cost of sports rights by hiking fees on other TV distributors.

The New York Yankees' YES Network, which is part owned by News Corp.'s Fox network, is also expected to seek a fee hike from Time Warner Cable when that agreement expires early next year.

Dodgers owner Mark Walter said in a statement, "we concluded last year that the best way to give our fans what they want ? more content and more Dodger baseball ? was to launch our own network."

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Ron Blum contributed from New York.

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Soldier looks forward to driving with new arms

BALTIMORE (AP) ? A soldier who lost all four limbs in a roadside bombing in Iraq says he's looking forward to driving and swimming with new arms after undergoing a double-arm transplant.

"I just want to get the most out of these arms, and just as goals come up, knock them down and take it absolutely as far as I can," Brendan Marrocco said Tuesday.

The 26-year-old New Yorker spoke at a news conference at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was joined by surgeons who performed the operation.

After he was wounded, Marrocco said, he felt fine using prosthetic legs, but he hated not having arms.

"You talk with your hands, you do everything with your hands, basically, and when you don't have that, you're kind of lost for a while," he said.

Marrocco said his chief desire is to drive the black Dodge Charger that's been sitting in his garage for three years.

"I used to love to drive," he said. "I'm really looking forward to just getting back to that, and just becoming an athlete again."

Although he doesn't expect to excel at soccer, his favorite sport, Marrocco said he'd like to swim and compete in a marathon using a handcycle.

Marrocco joked that military service members sometimes regard themselves as poorly paid professional athletes. His good humor and optimism are among the qualities doctors cited as signs he will recover much of his arm and hand use in two to three years.

"He's a young man with a tremendous amount of hope, and he's stubborn ? stubborn in a good way," said Dr. Jaimie Shores, the hospital's clinical director of hand transplantation. "I think the sky's the limit."

Shores said Marrocco has already been trying to use his hands, although he lacks feeling in the fingers, and he's eager to do more as the slow-growing nerves and muscles mend.

"I suspect that he will be using his hands for just about everything as we let him start trying to do more and more. Right now, we're the ones really kind of holding him back at this point," Shores said.

The procedure was only the seventh double-hand or double-arm transplant ever done in the United States.

The infantryman was injured by a roadside bomb in 2009. He is the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq War.

Marrocco also received bone marrow from the same donor to minimize the medicine needed to prevent rejection. He said he didn't know much about the donor but "I'm humbled by their gift."

The 13-hour operation on Dec. 18 was led by Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, plastic surgery chief at Hopkins.

Marrocco was being released from the hospital Tuesday but will receive intensive therapy for two years at Hopkins and then at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda.

After a major surgery, human nerves regenerate at a rate of an inch per month, Lee said.

"The progress will be slow, but the outcome will be rewarding," he added.

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Associated Press Writer David Dishneau contributed to this story from Hagerstown, Md.

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Iran launches monkey into space: state news agency

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has successfully launched a live monkey into space, the state news agency IRNA said on Monday, touting it as an advance in a missile and space program that has alarmed the West and Israel.

There was no independent confirmation of the report, which quoted a defense ministry statement. It said the launch coincided "with the days of" the Prophet Mohammad's birthday last week but gave no date.

IRNA said the monkey was sent into space on a Kavoshgar rocket. The rocket reached a height of more than 120 km (75 miles) and "returned its shipment intact", IRNA reported.

The Islamic Republic's state-run, English-language Press TV said the monkey was retrieved alive.

Iran announced plans in 2011 to send a monkey into space, but that attempt was reported to have failed.

Western powers are concerned that the long-range ballistic technology used to propel Iranian satellites into orbit could be used to launch nuclear warheads. Tehran denies such suggestions and says its nuclear activity is for peaceful energy only.

(Reporting by Yeganeh Torbati; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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Cow smuggling ... it's how Bangladesh gets its beef

Beef is a delicacy in Bangladesh, but Hindu-majority India refuses to sell their sacred cows. The demand is so high, however, that a dangerous $920 million cow smuggling trade has popped up. ?

By Shaikh Azizur Rahman,?Contributor / January 26, 2013

An Indian Hindu man stands with a cow as he waits for alms at Sangam, the confluence of the holy rivers Ganges and Yamuna and mythical Saraswati at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, last week. Cows are everywhere in India, but the cow is considered holy in the Hindu-majority country. There are 26 breeds of cow in India. The hump, long ears, and bushy tail distinguish the Indian cow.

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More than 90 percent of the 160 million people who live there are Muslims and for them beef is a delicacy.?

The country's meat producers estimate that slaughterhouses need up to 3 million cows every year to feed Bangladeshi appetites, and to help meet demand, Bangladesh is eyeing neighboring India. Cows are everywhere in India, but the cow is considered holy in the Hindu-majority country. In fact, slaughtering cows is banned in many Indian states, and New Delhi refuses to export?them.

That refusal hasn't done much to deter the demand for beef in Bangladesh, however.? In fact, say officials in Dhaka, beef has become so valuable it's spurred a dangerous cow smuggling trade across the India-Bangladesh border.?

More than 2 million cows are smuggled from India to Bangladesh every year and most of the illegal trade takes place through the Indian border state of West Bengal, says Bimal Pramanik, an independent researcher in Calcutta, India.

?Bangladeshi slaughterhouses cannot source even 1 million cows from within the country. If Indian cows do not reach the Bangladeshi slaughterhouses, there will be a big crisis there,? says Mr. Pramanik, adding that 3 out of every 4 cows slaughtered in the country are from India.?

?In this thriving trade, [herds of] cows worth 50 billion rupees [$920 million] are sent across to Bangladesh every year. It?s the sheer economics of the trade that drives the smuggling,??says Pramanik.

Cattle smugglers say they routinely bribe the police, customs, Border Security Force guards, and even some politicians in India to look the other way.

However, locals call this part of the border the ?Wall of Death,? for the smuggling-related tensions that?sometimes?turn into violence. In 2012, security forces killed 48 Bangladeshis along the border, according to the Bangladeshi human rights group Ain o Salish Kendra.?

But Bangladeshis say there is a simple way to end violence along the border.

"If India begins exporting cows to Bangladesh, such untoward incidents will stop," said the Bangladeshi Commerce Minister Golam Mohammad Quader.? "We are really keen to import cows from India, and want all illegal activities involving cow trade across the border to end," he said.

The former head of India's Border Security Forces Utthan Kumar Bansal recently agreed:?

?The menace of smuggling might be best controlled if the trade across the border is made legal. The legalization of export of cows could also help curb tension on the volatile border,? Mr. Bansal said.

Although Bansal?s comment did not trigger any government reaction in India, some right wing Hindu groups said they would never let India export cows to any country.?

Radhakanta Saha, who is a World Hindu Organization leader and heads a volunteer group that aims to prevent cow smuggling in West Bengal, said: ?The cow is our mother. We shall begin country-wide agitation if India decides to export cows to a country where they are likely to be slaughtered for ... meat.?

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9 Pets That Love Baths

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UN humanitarian chief in Syria for talks

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? The United Nations humanitarian chief was in Damascus on Sunday for talks with Syrian officials about the nation's conflict, which has forced millions of people from their homes, destroyed the country's cities and created food and fuel shortages.

Valerie Amos did not make any public remarks upon her arrival in Damascus on Sunday for a two-day visit, but at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, she said world powers had not done enough to lessen Syrian suffering.

"The humanitarian situation in Syria is already catastrophic and it's clearly getting worse," she said. "What we are seeing now are the consequences of the failure of the international community to unite to resolve the crisis."

The U.N. says more than 60,000 people have been killed since the start of the conflict in March 2011.

Living conditions have deteriorated across Syria during the 22-month conflict, which began with political protests that escalated into a civil war with scores of rebel groups battling President Bashar Assad's forces. Entire towns and neighborhoods have been damaged in the fighting, and more than 2 million people are internally displaced, with another 650,000 seeking refuge in neighboring countries.

Some areas face food shortages, and even areas that have been spared large-scale violence like Damascus lack sufficient quantities of gasoline, heating oil and cooking gas.

On Friday, the U.N. announced it was preparing to send $10 million in new U.S. aid to help alleviate hunger in northern Syria.

World powers remain divided on how to solve the crisis. The U.S. and many Arab and European countries have called on Assad to step down, while Russia, China and Iran refuse any pressure from outside that seeks to hasten the regime's fall.

On Saturday, Iran made its strongest warning to date that it could intervene militarily to help Assad's regime.

As quoted by the semiofficial Mehr news agency, an aide to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Syria held a key position among a group of Middle Eastern powers opposed to U.S. and Israeli influence in the region.

"Syria plays a very key role in supporting or, God forbid, destabilizing the resistance front," said Ali Akbar Velayati. "For this same reason, (an) attack on Syria is considered (an) attack on Iran and Iran's allies."

Iran is Syria's strongest ally in the Middle East, and has provided Assad's government with military and political backing for years. In September, the top commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, said the elite unit had high-level advisers in Syria. Iran also is believed to be sending weapons and money to Syria.

A senior Israeli Cabinet minister warned on Sunday that Israeli could attack sites in Syria if Assad's regime transferred chemical weapons to the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon.

Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom confirmed to Israel's Army Radio that top security officials held a special meeting last week to discuss Syria's chemical weapons arsenal.

"It would be crossing a line that would demand a different approach, including even action," he said. Asked whether this might mean a pre-emptive attack, he said: "We will have to make the decisions."

Also on Sunday, Syria announced that it would drop legal proceedings against opposition figures who returned to the country to participate in a "national dialogue" called for by Assad during a recent speech.

Syria's Higher Judicial Council announced the decision in a statement carried by the state news agency. The report gave no further details.

Assad proposed the national dialogue as part of his plan to end the country's crisis as laid out in a high-profile speech this month at the Damascus Opera House.

In the same speech, however, he vowed to keep fighting and referred the opposition as criminals and terrorists ? making it unlikely anyone will take their chances on the amnesty offer.

Tens of thousands of activists, their family members and opposition supporters remain jailed by the regime, according to international rights groups.

Opposition leaders have repeatedly rejected any talks that include Assad, insisting he must step down.

Violence continued around Syria on Sunday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported clashes and government airstrikes in neighborhoods east and south of Damascus as well as elsewhere. At least seven people died in attacks in the suburbs, and three others died after a shell landed in the city's southern Yarmouk district.

The group, which relies on contacts throughout Syria, also reported clashes near a train station in southwestern Qadam neighborhood where four rebel fighters and one woman were killed.

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Hubbard reported from Beirut. AP writer Joseph Federman contributed reporting from Jerusalem.

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Israel's comatose Sharon showing brain activity

JERUSALEM (AP) ? A team of Israeli and U.S. scientists say new tests on comatose former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon show significant brain activity.

Ben-Gurion University on Sunday said Sharon responded to external stimuli at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba.

He was shown pictures of his family and listened to recordings of his son's voice while undergoing a special brain imaging scan. The university said "significant brain activity was observed ... indicating appropriate processing of these stimulations."

However, Sharon remains in a deep coma.

Sharon, 84, led Israel from 2001 until suffering a stroke in 2006. Since then, he has been in a vegetative state, connected to a respirator.

Sharon was a storied military officer who fought in three wars before entering politics. He unilaterally withdrew Israeli troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005.

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DC Ranch Tennis Lessons | North Scottsdale Real Estate

Ever wonder why you don?t hear a lot about tennis in Scottsdale, Az? Scottsdale, being so famous for golf and the Phoenix Open, is not often thought of as the perfect place to live if your passion is tennis.

An all-year sport, tennis has really gained popularity with not only the country club set, but also a recreation and club sport for kids and teens.

In fact, it?s the ?country club sports? that have gained popularity in general as very competitive year-round sports. We still have plenty of football, baseball, soccer and basketball. But swimming, golf, tennis have gained huge momentum as competitive club sports seem to trump recreational these days. I?ll also put Lacrosse in this category, although not a country club sport, it definitely doesn?t have a generations old history in the West.

I?m ecstatic that my football loving son, has turned tennis into his new sport of choice. People who have played tennis as kids have such an advantage over me, who played softball/soccer as a kid, and is just now learning tennis as a 40-year-old creaker. Even if they have not played since they were a teenager, their muscle memory may have faded but not gone away. I?m reminded of this also when I pull out the old bike to head out for a ride with the kids.

Learning tennis here, however has been a very easy process. Lessons through Scottsdale Parks and Recreation are offered through many community and public parks. For tennis in DC Ranch, The Country Club at DC Ranch offers a tennis club, or Click Here for private instruction in DC Ranch and Windgate Ranch.

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1 officer fatally shot, 2 wounded near La. casino

CHARENTON, La. (AP) ? Police on Saturday arrested a man suspected of fatally shooting a police officer and critically wounding two sheriff's deputies who were responding to a mobile home fire near a south Louisiana casino, authorities said.

A Chitimacha tribal officer was pronounced dead at the scene of the shootings near Charenton, while two St. Mary Parish sheriff's deputies were critically wounded and taken to local hospitals, said Louisiana State Police Trooper Stephen Hammons.

Hammons said the officers were responding to a fire at a mobile home near the Cypress Bayou Casino when the unidentified man allegedly shot them.

The casino is run by the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana and is less than a quarter-mile from the scene of the shootings. Hammons said the shootings occurred near but not on tribal land.

"Everybody is just in shock. It's small-town America," said Jacqueline Junca, the tribe's secretary and treasurer.

Police didn't immediately release the names of the suspect and the officers.

Tribe councilman Toby Darden said the slain officer was married and had two grown children, but he declined to give his name.

"He's a real great guy. Extremely dedicated to his job. Very brave," Darden said.

He was one of seven full-time officers who patrol a 260-acre reservation that has roughly 150 homes, a grocery store, a small school and government offices.

"Everybody knows the officers personally," Darden said. "It's devastating."

Darden and Junca said they didn't know the identity of the suspect, but Junca doubted he was one of the tribe's 1,200 members, roughly half of whom live on the reservation.

"We're a small tribe," she said. "If it was somebody from here, we would know that already."

Access to and from the casino was restricted for roughly 90 minutes as a precautionary measure while police responded to the shooting, said casino spokeswoman Nancy Herrington. Charenton is located about 45 miles southeast of Lafayette.

"We are very much in business and have been," Herrington said later Saturday. "We have events tonight. All of those are taking place."

A spokeswoman for the sheriff's office and a tribal police dispatcher referred questions about the shootings to the State Police.

"We've got a lot of unanswered questions," State Police Capt. Doug Cain said.

According to Hammons, one of the injured deputies was taken to a hospital in New Orleans and the other was taken to a Lafayette hospital.

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Pokemon: The Darker Days Return

Although Pokemon tends to be a nostalgic memory from when we were kids, I'd like to bring a darker edge to it in this roleplay

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Pokemon: The Darker Days Return

In the year 2033, Pokemon are now rarely kept as pets, or used in competitive challenges.
In this age, Pokemon are used as weapons. Extremely valuable, powerful weapons.

A team of controversial researchers began experimenting on Pokemon a few years ago. This team called themselves "Omega." They believed that they could harness the power of Electric Pokemon, and use it to generate power. And so they tried to do just that.
This dangerous experimentation caused an outcry from the members of the public. But Omega simply ignored the direct instructions that they should cease this cruelty immediately.
When they realised that they had no way of harnessing this power, or storing it, they gave up on that train of thought, and disappeared for a while. Everyone thought they had gone for good.

Omega emerged some years later, and they had discovered that they could use Pokemon in order to get what they wanted. They began to capture Pokemon from the wild, and torture them until they obeyed orders.
It started off on a small scale, they would use Pokemon to rob corner stores, and mug people on the street.

But things got worse.
It didn't take long for them to start staging bank heist's, and murdering influential political figureheads.

This behaviour caused a war to break out.
People began to train their Pokemon to fight. They formed their own group, calling themselves the "Crusaders".
The Crusaders grew rapidly in size, and eventually waged war against Omega.
The war started in Saffron City, But soon it was brutally occurring all across Kanto.
In this war, the Pokemon do not compete in a friendly battle until one of them "throws in the towel". These battles are to the death.

Currently, The Crusaders train new individuals in a huge camp, situated where Indigo Plateau once sat, in the Johto league.
It is unknown where Omega train their new individuals, But some are beginning to suspect it is around the ruins of Cinnibar.

This war is one of the most disastrous ones humanity has ever faced. A lot of lives have been lost, both human, and Pokemon. The body count is astronomical, the bloodshed unthinkable...

How will it end?

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In this roleplay, You will begin you story as a new member of even the Crusaders or Team Omega. This is up to you. (There are two special places on each team, of a higher rank.)
You will start with ONE low-level pokemon, chosen from the list below. During your training, you will have the chance to catch more, before you are thrown into the war, to fight your own battles.

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For more info, click the link at the top. Please come and join! :)
This RP is intended to be like real life, if pokemon were real. Please don't apply if you're uncomfortable with Pikachu bleeding out. >_<

Cadounus

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Oh? This looks nice. Hm... One Omega Commander on reserve please?

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Child of the Winged

Member for 1 years

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Alright! This RP is back! Mind if I reserve my Scientist spot for when I get access to a computer?

Lloyd999

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Reserved for you both. :)

Cadounus

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Ah this rolepla- FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I believe I deleted Gray literally just yesterday.

Reserve me a crusader ;p

Finalhazard3

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May Tash reserve the Crusader Leader please? I'll have her up later today.

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It's the most remarkable movie Steven Spielberg has made in quite a spell, and one of the things that makes it remarkable is how it fulfills those expectations by simultaneously ignoring and transcending them.

Lincoln paints a powerful and compelling portrait of the man who has become an icon. We don't need to see more of his life to understand how rare a figure he was - this window is more than sufficient.

Lincoln offers proof of what magic can happen when an actor falls in love with his character. Because as great as Day-Lewis has been in his many parts, he has never seemed quite so smitten.

The film masterfully captures the dual dilemmas facing the president in the final months of his life: how to bring the war between the states to an end, and how to eradicate slavery, once and for all.

Lincoln is a stirring reminder that politics can be noble. Might there be a lesson here for today's shrill D.C. discourse? 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.

Day-Lewis' voice is thin and reedy, which jibes with historical accounts but subverts our expectations. His attitude makes listeners lean in, and so do we, magnetized by his kindly reserve.

Against the odds, Spielberg makes something genuinely exciting of the backstage wheedling.

A historic epic from Steven Spielberg carries a lot of baggage, but he surprises us with a remarkably contained approach to an iconic figure. What's most unexpected is that this is a political drama, not a biopic.

[Spielberg is] a man on a mission. And his not so secret weapon is Day-Lewis, an actor so charismatic it's hard to think clearly while he's on screen.

Perhaps this is a rose-tinted view of Lincoln - he comes across as more living saint than man - but as cinema, it is powerful, gripping and thoroughly entertaining.

Spielberg is always a professional, and the film is never less than well-crafted.

By stepping into history without fear, favour or any overfamiliar biopic folly, Lincoln, handsome, often thrilling, and movingly human, goes into history as a major movie achievement.

A rousing, rigorous and morally complex legal procedural more than a trad biopic. And all the better for it.

his is a warm, celebratory film, handsomely shot, with a subtle, sympathetic central performance from Day-Lewis, and tremendous support from Tommy Lee Jones ...

Spielberg's plodding camera endlessly tracks and circles Day-Lewis in complete reverence, while veteran composer John Williams delivers yet another repetitive Jurassic Extra-Terrestrial score.

What a feat from Day-Lewis: the nearest thing a 21st-century biopic can get to a seance.

It's tiresome to describe Day-Lewis as brilliant, so let's push the boat out: his Lincoln is absolutely wonderful.

A thoughtful and thought-proving picture.

Lincoln reminds you how little has actually changed in one-and-a-half centuries - presidents still have to worry about the war dead while trying to create a better life for the fractured living.

Impressively directed and superbly written, this is an absorbing and enjoyable political drama with an Oscar-worthy central performance from Daniel Day-Lewis.

Daniel Day-Lewis gives yet another performance for the ages in Steven Spielberg's admirably literate, thoroughly charming biopic.

Lincoln has been dismissed by some as merely 'people in rooms talking'. That may be true, but what people. And what talking.

Fans of great writing, superb acting, beautiful photography and the rousing scores of John Williams are going to lap this one up.

While Lincoln is high-minded and classy, it plays like a dry history lesson, despite a typically immaculate turn from Daniel Day-Lewis. In short, we have the definitive performance of Abraham Lincoln, but not the definitive movie.

'Lincoln' works as a snapshot of a great man without ever slipping into a portrait of sainthood.

This is the quietest of [Spielberg's] recent films, with an equally unobtrusive, delicately-crafted, totally absorbing performance from Daniel Day-Lewis.

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Genetic landscape of common brain tumors holds key to personalized treatment

Jan. 24, 2013 ? Nearly the entire genetic landscape of the most common form of brain tumor can be explained by abnormalities in just five genes, an international team of researchers led by Yale School of Medicine scientists report online in the Jan. 24 edition of the journal Science. Knowledge of the genomic profile of the tumors and their location in the brain make it possible for the first time to develop personalized medical therapies for meningiomas, which currently are only managed surgically.

Meningioma tumors affect about 170,000 patients in the United States. They are usually benign but can turn malignant in about 10 percent of cases. Even non-cancerous tumors can require surgery if they affect the surrounding brain tissue and disrupt neurological functions.

Approximately half of the tumors have already been linked to a mutation or deletion of a gene called neurofibromin 2, or NF2. The origins of the rest of the meningiomas had remained a mystery.

The Yale team conducted genomic analyses of 300 meningiomas and found four new genetic suspects, each of which yields clues to the origins and treatment of the condition. Tumors mutated with each of these genes tend to be located in different areas of the brain, which can indicate how likely they are to become malignant.

"Combining knowledge of these mutations with the location of tumor growth has direct clinical relevance and opens the door for personalized therapies," said Dr. Murat Gunel, the Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery, professor of genetics and of neurobiology, and senior author of the study. Gunel is also a member of Yale Cancer Center's Genetics and Genomics Research Program.

For instance, two of the mutations identified -- SMO and AKT1 -- have been linked to various cancers. SMO mutations had previously been found in basal cell carcinoma and are the target of an already approved drug for that form of skin cancer. Another, KLF4, activates a suite of genes and is known for its role in inducing stem cell formation, even in cells that have fully differentiated into a specific tissue type. Mutations in a TRAF7, a gene not previously associated with cancer, were found in approximately one-fourth of tumors. Meningiomas with these mutations are found in the skull base and are unlikely to become cancerous. In contrast, NF2 mutant tumors that flank the brain's hemispheres are more likely to progress to malignancy, especially in males.

Doctors may be able to use targeted chemotherapy on patients with non-NF2 mutations, especially those with recurrent or invasive meningiomas and those who are surgically at high risk. Individualized chemotherapies could also spare patients irradiation treatment, a risk factor for progression of these generally benign tumors. Gunel said it may also be possible to extend these approaches to more malignant tumors.

Funding for the study was provided by Gregory M. Kiez and Mehmet Kutman Foundation.

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Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified ...

Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by Boyoorisha: 10:55pm On Jan 24[Shafay Thobani, 8, youngest IT prodigy]

KARACHI: Shafay Thobani, an eight-year-old child has won the honour of being the world?s youngest Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, Geo News reported.

Born on March 13, 2004, Shafay grew interested in computers ever since he was a baby.

On April 9, 2012, Shafay appeared in the Prometric test and secured 91 per cent marks, thus making him the world?s youngest Microsoft Certified Training Specialist (MCTS) at the age of eight years and 24 days.

The young man is certified professional in Microsoft Windows 7 Configuration and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. Before appearing in the exam, he remained under training of Microsoft certified trainers for 13 months.

His trainer Faisal Durrani said it was a challenge for him to teach complicated concepts such as Domain Name System (DNS) and Internet Protocol (IP) address to a child as young as Shafay. ?So we split the 40-hour course designed for grown-up IT specialists into 13 months for the child. We taught him by giving him easy examples in order to grasp the concepts. Teaching him for three to four hours everyday, we would also allow him breaks to let him be the normal kid that he is, swimming, playing football or rollerblading,? said Mr Durrani.

Speaking of the boy?s main areas of interest, Shafay?s father Dr. Shah Thobani said he liked network and communication programming. ?He has already completed 65 per cent of Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization, too,? he added.

?Shafay was born in 2004, the same year Arfa was declared the world?s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at the age of nine. Arfa was an inspiration for us and I hope that Shafay, too, would be a role model for more children to show their tremendous achievements,? Dr Thobani said.

Shafay said, ?I am proud of myself and I will work for Pakistan in any

In 2008, a 9-year-old girl from India achieved certification and reports surfaced that she was the youngest. Another girl who was from Pakistan -- and sadly passed away in January at the age of 16 -- had been certified in 2005 when she was 9 years old.

New record or not, Shafay notes on his website that his life dreams include helping the poor people of his country, and meeting Bill Gates. He is also open to being hired as a consultant.

Shafay said, ?I am proud of myself and I will work for Pakistan in any way possible.?

http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-58305-Shafay-Thobani-IT-prodigy

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Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by Wizee(m): 7:59amRe: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by musKeeto(m): 8:00amNigerian own na
- young girl speaks in tongues and preaches

Other countries dey arrange their future well.. Our govt still dey hustle to fix power..

E go beta, congrats to the young fella..

EDIT: his claim to being the youngest might be bogus..

Shafay Thobani, an
eight-year-old Pakistani, claimed to
be the world?s youngest Microsoft
Certified Technology Specialist
(MCTS) during a press conference
on Tuesday. However, ProPakistani
reported on Wednesday that the
title is nothing but a self-
proclamation.

During the press conference at the
Marriot Hotel, Shafay, wearing a two-
piece suit was flanked by his family
members and a trainer, and was
seated at the centre of the stage with
his feet dangling from his chair.

But when ProPakistani contacted
Microsoft regarding the claim, it was
confirmed that Shafay?s certification
is legitimate, but surprisingly the
claim of being the world?s youngest
MCTS could not be verified as
Microsoft does not count the age of its
professionals.

On the one hand, ProPakistani
claimed that Shafay?s guardians went
a ?step ahead? to hire a PR agency to
organise the press conference to
?push their son to the media? rather
than pulling the media, while on the
other hand, Shafay?s father said that
the family was hiding this from the
media that Shafay is attempting to
become the world?s youngest MCTS.
?But now when he has finally got
through the certification successfully,
this is worth celebrating,? said Dr
Shah Thobani. ?Today I stand here
not as a father, but as a proud
Pakistani.?

According to ProPakistani, Microsoft
is worried about these self-
proclaimed child prodigies, who have
been surfacing very often now ?
some of them even being fake.

When contacted by ProPakistani, a
Microsoft official said that the
company has already ?disowned?
Shafay for his claim of being the
?world?s youngest MCTS? and also
announced that Microsoft does not
keep track of ages of its certified
professionals.

Link: tribune.com.pk/story/406713/shafay-thobani-worlds-youngest-mcts-or-self-proclaimed-child-prodigy/

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Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by Goldenheart(m): 8:03amnice to meet you... kid

btw...............32C. (3rd to comment)

Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by DJDOLA(m): 8:04am

Mtchhewwww...make una come nigeria come see as talent dey waste..a 5 years old nigeria boy can repair radio and tv...without learning it oooo

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Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by Collins Roy: 8:05am

Congrats Kid, let's hope Bill doesn't use u 4 sumtin else

Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by Ile-Ife(m): 8:07am

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Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by Brand_new(m): 8:07am

Indians/Pakistani's are really going hard at ICT. We Nigerians have a very long way to go.
Internet accessibility and penetration is still poor. Computer literacy rate is still very low.
We are generally backward. Not even enough power supply to power computers and other tech gadgets.
***sighs***

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Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by lalaosky: 8:09amwoooooooooww!!...congrats to the young lad.

It aint easy.i wish this could be the kinda of news that will be trending on NL's front page rather than evils perpertuated by boko haram, murders and all other societal ills that has eaten deep into the fabrics of our society

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Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by e-herbal(m): 8:10am

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Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by VellyG(m): 8:14am

To pass MCTS at this age shows he's really a guru

Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by OmolodMilkman93(m): 8:15amI was a child prodigy in my sec skul days too, until uniport pharmacy killed me,

he is cute BTW,

Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by DJDOLA(m): 8:16am

Brand_new: Indians/Pakistani's are really going hard at ICT. We Nigerians have a very long way to go.
Internet accessibility and penetration is still poor. Computer literacy rate is still very low.
We are generally backward. Not even enough power supply to power computers and other tech machines.
***sighs***

but I thout they said one nigeria guy is among people dat creat computerm.niger got talent oooRe: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by adeaugustus(m): 8:17amRe: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by HNosegbe(m): 8:21amImagine.... The article even called him a "young man".

Very impressive.

Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by Don Tim: 8:23am

dont underestimate d power of dumps too. those concept win7 n ws08r2 are not for 8yrars old, even peeps with years of experience still dont grasp it all. congrats to d kid though

Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by neksummi(m): 8:23am

That's great!

Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by binger(m): 8:25am

What was i doing at 8?...*muses*ermm...i was 'chasing' my neighbour's daughter then

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Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by Symphony007: 8:26am

Meanwhile in nigeria most teens want to be musicians...an educational career is taking a back seat to ghastly music!! We really need to address this perception "some" teens are learning and are actually seeing of "some" artiste droping out from school to do music and make money. It makes "some" teens ask themeselves why they have to go to school..i'm not saying this is rampant but it's there and creeping futher.

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Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by chidexy(m): 8:28am

Brand_new: Indians/Pakistani's are really going hard at ICT. We Nigerians have a very long way to go.
Internet accessibility and penetration is still poor. Computer literacy rate is still very low.
We are generally backward. Not even enough power supply to power computers and other tech machines.
***sighs***

You blame the parents. An average Nigerian parent would probably prefer to buy one or more cars before (if at all they do consider it) thinking of owning a computer. And when they do purchase one, the kids are forbidden to use it. In most of these countries, parents buy their kids computers at a very young age and they grow up exploring its functionalities.

How many Nigerian Students (at all levels) own their own computer? But most would likely have phones that cost as much as a scaled down computer

Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by wellmax(m): 8:36amAn eight year old just made records in Nigeria too.....

She is pregnant.

Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by Onlinebiz2012: 8:41amRe: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by KINGwax(m): 8:47am

Jes help them bring down america's defence network in 2minutes. U shld be groomed for a purpose.
Congrats though

Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by Bolt2011(m): 8:48amWork for Pakistan, hmmm? I hope it won't be in the area of terrorism

Anyway congrats Shafay; a challenge to Africa

Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by alala dakosta(f): 9:03am

at that age i play suwe non stop till nigth before settling down to watch willi willi don die.nice one though.happy for him.

Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by DWJOBS.com(m): 9:03am

Trust me naija IT gurus exist!!! They are silently working on something big and will soon pop up. Most of them are tugged in somewhere slaving and working for one firm or the other to survive but slowly doing their thing.....patiently wait for and believe in Nigeria

Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by Bolt2011(m): 9:05amRe: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by horlatunde: 9:14am

VellyG: To pass MCTS at this age shows he's really a guru

Every body can learn in his area of interest only if d teachers are Good in making academics Easy. Nigeria teachers are Dull.Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by ge-ne(m): 9:15am

nice one

Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by nuorlah: 9:18amThese are what the ministry gor youths and sports should look into abi.

Give enabling environments for Nigerian minds to grow

God help us

Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by knorkle2: 9:35am

nuorlah: These are what the ministry gor youths and sports should look into abi.

Give enabling environments for Nigerian minds to grow

God help us

very horrible Re: Eight-year-old Shafay Is The Youngest Microsoft Tech Certified Specialist by tellwisdom(m): 9:35am

Source: http://www.nairaland.com/1174104/eight-year-old-shafay-youngest-microsoft-tech

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