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ISLAMABAD (AP) ? Gunmen killed Pakistan's lead prosecutor investigating the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto as he was driving to court Friday, throwing a case that also involves the country's former ruler Pervez Musharraf into disarray.
The killing in the capital, Islamabad, comes at a sensitive time in Pakistan, as the country prepares for nationwide elections on May 11 amid a spate of Taliban attacks on candidates. In the southern city of Karachi, gunmen on motorcycles killed an anti-Taliban election candidate and his son, and a political activist in two other attacks Friday.
The government prosecutor who was gunned down, Chaudhry Zulfikar Ali, was at the helm of a number of highly controversial cases, including the 2007 Bhutto assassination in which Musharraf is accused of involvement. He was also prosecuting militants linked to the 2008 terror attack in the Indian city of Mumbai.
Ali was on his way to a court in Rawalpindi, next to Islamabad, when gunmen fired at him, hitting him in the head, shoulder and chest, and then fled in a taxi and on a motorcycle, said police officer Arshad Ali. The prosecutor was shot at least 13 times and his car was pockmarked with bullets and the windshield shattered.
He then lost control of his car, which hit a woman passer-by and killed her, said another police officer, Mohammed Rafiq.
Ali's guard returned fire and is believed to have wounded at least one of the attackers, Rafiq said. The guard also was injured in the attack. Police have launched a search to find and apprehend the gunmen.
Though Pakistan has experienced rampant violence in recent years, it's rare for such an attack to happen in the capital, which is home to high-ranking government and military officials, diplomats and international aid workers.
Bhutto's husband, President Asif Ali Zardari, strongly condemned the prosecutor's slaying and called for a thorough investigation.
A motive for the killing was unclear, but Ali's involvement in the two particularly high-profile cases will likely be scrutinized closely.
Government prosecutors have accused Musharraf of being involved in the Bhutto assassination and not providing enough security to Pakistan's first female prime minister. Musharraf, who was in power when Bhutto was killed, has denied the allegations. At the time of the attack, he blamed the assassination on the Pakistani Taliban.
The Bhutto case has lingered for years in the Pakistani court system. A number of alleged assailants are on trial but no one has been convicted. The case burst into the headlines when Musharraf returned in March after four years in exile.
The prosecutor told reporters that he had received death threats recently in connection with the case but would not say who from or what they said.
Ali was also the government's lead prosecutor in a case related to the 2008 terrorist attack on the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people. The attack was blamed on the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Pakistan has put seven men on trial on charges they assisted in the Mumbai siege, but the trial has made little progress. India has criticized Pakistan for not doing more to crack down on the militants blamed for the attack. Hafiz Saeed, the head of a group believed to be a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, remains free, and many believe he enjoys the protection of the government. Lashkar-e-Taiba was founded years ago with the help of Pakistani intelligence to put pressure on India over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
Musharraf returned to Pakistan to make a political comeback despite Taliban death threats and a raft of legal cases against him. But his fortunes have gone from bad to worse since he arrived.
Judges barred him from running in the May 11 parliamentary election not long after he arrived because of his actions while in power. A court in the northwestern city of Peshawar went further this week and banned Musharraf from running for public office for the rest of his life ? a ruling the former military strongman plans to appeal.
Musharraf is currently under house arrest on the outskirts of Islamabad in connection with several cases against him, including the Bhutto case. He also faces allegations of treason before the Supreme Court.
Ali was headed to a hearing related to Musharraf and the Bhutto case at a court in Rawalpindi when he was killed.
Musharraf seized power in a military coup in 1999 when he was serving as army chief and ruled for nearly a decade until he was forced to step down in 2008 because of growing discontent with his rule.
In Karachi, gunmen riding a motorcycle shot to death Sadiq Zaman Khattak, who was running for parliament from the Awami National Party, and his six year-old son, said police officer Mohammad Ali.
The attack occurred as Khattak was leaving a mosque after Friday prayers. Four people were wounded, said Ali, the police officer.
The Awami National Party has been repeatedly targeted by the Taliban in the run-up to the election because of its opposition to the militants. The Taliban have threatened two other secular parties as well, including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, which controls Karachi.
In the second attack in Karachi, gunmen riding on a motorcycle killed a prominent activist from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Mohammad Adil, outside a different mosque, said police officer Mohsin Khan.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
The May 11 election is historic because it will mark the first time in Pakistan that a civilian government has finished its term and handed over power in democratic elections. Pakistan has experienced three coups, including the one led by Musharraf in 1999.
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Associated Press writers Sebastian Abbot and Rebecca Santana in Islamabad and Atif Raza in Karachi, Pakistan, contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pakistans-lead-prosecutor-bhutto-case-killed-070558046.html
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A new camera was modeled on the compound eyes of insects. As such, it has a curved rather than flat lens. This enables a 160-degree field of view, making it well-suited for security cameras or drones.?
Image of a digital camera with a hemispherical, compound design inspired by eyes found in the insect world.
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So why do all man-made cameras use flat lenses and inflexible silicon chips?
Taking nature as their guide, several scientists have developed a "bug's eye" digital camera directly modeled after those of insects, such as flies, ants and beetles.
The compound eyes found in most insects consist of long, cylindrical units called omatidia: a cornea connected to a photosensitive organ and surrounded with a dark pigment to prevent light from one lens leaking into neighboring lenses. These omatidia are clustered together in a dome shape with the lenses facing outward, and collectively, they form the compound eye of the insect.
"If you look at the design of the compound eye in the insect world and look at our device, there are really strict and explicit analogies between all the component parts," said John Rogers, a professor at the University of Illinois, explaining the process he and his fellow researchers used to creating their "bio-inspired" camera.
The finished camera's "omatidia" consist of a tiny microlens connected to a photoreceptive computer chip by an elastomer, or molecular compound with elastic properties.
Between 200 and 500 of these artificial omatidia are embedded in a sheet of curved and flexible rubber. "That corresponds to the number [of omatidia] you find in an ant or a common bark beetle," Rogers explained. "That's the low end of what you find in insects. The high end would be something like a praying mantis or a dragonfly, where the range [of omatidia per compound eye] is 10,000 to 20,000."
Producing a bug's eye camera of that resolution is possible, Rogers says, but it would require a finesse that the team simply couldn't achieve from their academic lab. Creating cameras with resolutions of "dragonfly and beyond," as Rogers puts it, would require the type of specialization available at state of the art manufacturing facilities.
The team's insect-inspired camera has multiple advantages over its flat-lens man-made counterparts, particularly when it comes to photographing multiple subjects simultaneously. With a field of view of 160 degrees, the camera can also capture landscape views without the peripheral distance and light distortion that are common in traditional wide-capture lenses.
Another of the camera's advantages is that the plastic sheet in which the omatidia are embedded is flexible, meaning it can be placed on both flat and curved surfaces or even blown up like a balloon to adjust its range of capture.
These features make the bug's eye camera well-suited to surveillance purposes such as security cameras or drones, Rogers suggested.
There's also room in the commercial camera market for cameras that eschew the traditional flat lens design. "One size does not fit all [when it comes to cameras], and the same thing will be true for man-made cameras ? There may be opportunities for applications that require extremely wide field of view, which the insect world has mastered," Rogers told TechNewsDaily.
It'll probably be a couple of years before something like the bug's eye camera is available in commercial outlets. Meanwhile, Rogers hopes find new ways to apply nature's optical imaging systems to man-made technology. Lobsters and shrimp, for example, have eyes made of box-shaped receptors that help them gather visual information even in extremely low-light conditions.
You can read the research team's full report on their bug's eye camera?in Nature scientific journal, published May 2.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is seeking to refocus economic relations between the U.S. and Mexico, even as fresh questions about security cooperation threaten to cast a shadow over the president's visit to the southern neighbor.
Obama also will use his three-day trip, which begins Thursday and includes a stop in Costa Rica, to highlight the immigration overhaul moving through Capitol Hill, both for an audience in Latin America and for those back home in the U.S.
The president is scheduled to arrive Thursday afternoon in Mexico City for meetings with President Enrique Pena Nieto.
Since taking office in December, Pena Nieto has moved to end Mexico's widespread access it gave U.S. security agencies helping fight drug trafficking and organized crime. The changes mark a dramatic shift from the policies of Pena Nieto's predecessor, Felipe Calderon, who was lauded by the U.S. for boosting cooperation between the two countries as he led an aggressive attack on Mexico's drug cartels. Calderon's war on the cartels was unpopular in Mexico and left much of the country's north close to a state of war.
The White House has tried to downplay a potential rift, with officials emphasizing Mexico has kept the U.S. informed about the changes. Obama on Tuesday said he would wait to hear directly from his Mexican counterpart before assessing the changes.
Despite the intense focus on security issues, Obama advisers say the president will try to show that the ties between the two countries are broader than the drug wars that defined the relationship in recent years.
"Security has been so front-and-center in the public discussion of the U.S.-Mexico relationship that lost in that is the enormous commercial relationship between the two countries," said Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser.
Obama is expected to call for the U.S. and Mexico to deepen trade ties to promote job creation on both sides of the border. However, he is not expected to announce any major new economic initiatives.
Mexico was the second-largest export market for U.S. goods in 2011, according to the office of the U.S. trade representative. U.S. trade with Mexico totaled $500 billion in 2011.
White House aides say they also see strengthening Mexico's economy as a way to address one of the root causes of much of the illegal immigration to the U.S.
Rhodes said the U.S. expects Pena Nieto and other regional leaders to be largely supportive of the immigration overhaul being debated on Capitol Hill, which includes provisions to strengthen security at the 2,000-mile long border with Mexico.
However, Carl Meacham, a former senior Latin America adviser on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the U.S. immigration effort is viewed with "skepticism and confusion" in the region.
"They've been brought to the altar so many times by different American administrations that there's a bit of a lack of trust," said Meacham, who now works at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Getting Mexico's buy-in, particularly on border security, could help Obama sell the immigration overhaul in the U.S., particularly to wary Republicans. GOP lawmakers have long insisted the U.S. must focus its efforts on securing the border before addressing the legal status of the more than 11 million immigrants in the country illegally.
The immigration bill being debated in the Senate would strengthen border security, allow tens of thousands of new high- and low-skilled workers into the country, require all employers to check their workers' legal status and provide an eventual path to citizenship for most of the immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
More than half of the immigrants in the U.S. illegally are from Mexico, according to the Pew Research Center.
Following a speech Friday to Mexican entrepreneurs, Obama will travel to Costa Rica, his first visit as president to the Central American nation. In addition to meetings with Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla, Obama will attend a gathering of leaders from the Central American Integration system. The regional network also includes the leaders of Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
On Saturday, Obama will attend a business conference aimed at fostering economic cooperation between the U.S. and Central American nations. The president is due back in Washington Saturday night.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/security-casts-shadow-over-obamas-211650126.html
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Cruise Holidays ? the world?s most far-reaching cruise franchise network ? showed off a new look for its consumer-facing marketing materials, updated franchise owners on the success of their recent Facebook sweepstakes, and rolled out or announced the expansion of several programs designed to attract and retain clients, all during Cruise Holidays? 2013 Mid-Year Meeting, held on April 12-14, 2013.
Updated Website & Marketing Materials
Cruise Holidays? website, http://www.cruiseholidays.com, is receiving a makeover, along with the franchise network?s consumer-facing email communications and printed brochures. Cruise Holidays is adding new written content areas ? including professionally-written cruise reviews ? designed to attract and retain site visitors? attention. Printed brochures that Cruise Holidays sends to clients on behalf of franchise owners will also evolve to better attract clients? attention.
Facebook Sweepstakes
Cruise Holidays continues to train a base of franchise owners with diverse skill sets on Facebook marketing techniques, and recently wrapped up its second franchise-wide Facebook sweepstakes. This March, more than 40 franchise owners participated in the sweepstakes, giving consumers the chance to win a free AmaWaterways European river cruise for two. The sweepstakes was available via desktop as well as through mobile devices ? important because daily usage of Facebook via mobile now exceeds desktop usage.
Cruise Holidays provided comprehensive training for the participating franchise owners, including how to install the sweepstakes app on each of their pages, a complete graphics package and one-on-one coaching throughout the month so franchise owners could maximize their marketing efforts. More than 20,000 people registered for the sweepstakes, with 97% of those entries coming from Facebook.
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On the operations front, Cruise Holidays unveiled a new hosted cruise program that provides its clients with three distinct advantages. Each sailing comes with the services of a concierge host, a private cocktail reception and an exclusive shore event at no additional cost. Cruise Holidays is currently partnering with eight cruise lines in this new program: two contemporary, and three premium and three luxury cruise lines.
?At the heart of it, we are a cruise franchise network, and that remains our core business,? said Tom Baumann , President of Travel Leaders Leisure Group, which Cruise Holidays is a part of. ?But to increase our competitive edge, we are increasing our portfolio of programs that more easily enable our cruise experts to serve as full-service, end-to-end travel professionals. The programs we?re providing are turnkey, allowing them to spend less time researching and more time selling,? added Baumann.
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