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'It's not a political statement. It's just ... we had to use what heads we had lying around,' show runners explain in DVD commentary. By Gil Kaufman
The George W. Bush prop head on the set of "Game of Thrones" Photo:
A lot of heads roll on HBO's "Game of Thrones." Hardly an episode goes by without someone getting forcibly detached from their noggin. But even die-hards who study every scene of the lushly shot show might not have noticed that one of the heads on a spike in the dramatic season one finale looked a bit familiar.
In a scene in which sneery teen King Joffrey is proudly showing his captive wife-to-be Sansa Stark a row of traitors' heads on spikes, even eagle-eyed viewers may not have seen that one of those craniums belonged to former President George W. Bush.
In the DVD commentary for the first season, show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss revealed, "People may not have noticed this but back up ... the last head on the left is George Bush ... George Bush's head appears in a couple of beheading scenes." And though they said the inclusion of the former commander-in-chief's head, which sported a long, scraggly wig, was "not a political statement," and they just had to "use what heads we had lying around," that explanation didn't sit well with some fellow Republicans.
"Whether you like him or dislike him, whether you're of the same political persuasion or not, we still have to respect the office of the presidency and all of those who hold that presidency," Brooklyn Republican party chairman Craig Eaton said, according to E! Online.
"Americans of all political persuasions should stand up and demand that things like this should not continue. They should boycott watching this particular show ... It doesn't matter what their intent is. They didn't intend it to be political, but now that it is, they should remove it."
Once word of the controversy broke, HBO, which is currently airing a loving documentary about Bush's father, former President George H.W. Bush, was quick to issue an apology. "We were deeply dismayed to see this and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste," read a statement from the network posted on Deadline Hollywood. "We made this clear to the executive producers of the series who apologized immediately for this inadvertent careless mistake. We are sorry this happened and will have it removed from any future DVD production."
Benioff and Weiss also issued an apology, explaining how the Bush head ended up in the show. "We use a lot of prosthetic body parts on the show: heads, arms, etc. We can't afford to have these all made from scratch, especially in scenes where we need a lot of them, so we rent them in bulk. After the scene was already shot, someone pointed out that one of the heads looked like George W. Bush."
The pair said that they mentioned this curious fact in the DVD commentary, "though we should not have. We meant no disrespect to the former President and apologize if anything we said or did suggested otherwise."
India's coalition names Mukherjee for president in econ shakeup
Reuters | June 15, 2012 | 10:16 AM EDT
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's ruling Congress party named Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee as its nominee for president on Friday, capping a week of political turmoil that exposed the fragility of a coalition government that has lurched between crises as the economy sputters.
The political machinations over who should fill the largely ceremonial post of president have proven a major distraction for the government at a time when investors and business leaders have been demanding that it take prompt action on the economy.
Congress, which has governed India for the most of the 65 years it has been independent, struggled to win support from key allies for its candidate. Analysts saw this as evidence of the weakness of India's grand old party in the face of increasingly powerful regional parties with their own agendas.
Mukherjee, 76, is expected to step down by June 24, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, 78, could take charge of his portfolio for the next several months, a source close to the finance minister told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Singh's reputation as the architect of landmark economic reforms in 1991 that unleashed two decades of faster growth has been badly tarnished by widespread criticism of his leadership of Asia's third-largest economy. Critics say his government has failed to take concrete steps to rein in spending on subsidies and bring down stubbornly high inflation.
Mayor Setti Warren told the School Committee and School Department Monday night that the city is ?aggressively pursuing? moving up the feasibility schedule for a building project at the Cabot Elementary School after a group of parents called on city officials reprioritize Cabot in its list of pending building projects.
?We know that Cabot needs work desperately and we know how important it is to children,? Warren said. ?I personally have been in touch with the MSBA. We share your urgency in fixing things at Cabot.?
The city is already working with the Massachusetts School Building Authority on the Angier School building project. City officials have previously said they weren?t sure if the city could be engaged in multiple projects with the MSBA at the same time, but Cabot parent Lisa Adams told the School Committee that she saw a number of school district with concurrent projects on the MSBA?s website.
Cabot parent Amy Fleishman told the School Committee her son was offered an enrichment class for math but turned it down because the class was going to be in a bathroom that was converted into a closet and then converted into a bathroom.
"Please keep the Cabot School a priority," Fleishman.
Contact: Lee Siegel lee.siegel@utah.edu 801-581-8993 University of Utah
Plant poison turns seed-eating mouse into seed spitter
SALT LAKE CITY, June 14, 2012 In Israel's Negev Desert, a plant called sweet mignonette or taily weed uses a toxic "mustard oil bomb" to make the spiny mouse spit out the plant's seeds when eating the fruit. Thus, the plant has turned a seed-eating rodent into a seed spreader that helps the plant reproduce, says a new study by Utah and Israeli scientists.
"It's fascinating that these little mice are doing analytical chemistry, assaying the fruit for toxic compounds" and learning not to bite into the seed, says Denise Dearing, a coauthor of the study and professor of biology at the University of Utah.
"It adds a new dimension to our understanding of the ongoing battle between plants and animals," she adds. "In this case, the plants have twisted the animals to do their bidding, to spread their progeny."
The study was set for online publication June 14 in the journal Current Biology.
The study illustrates the first known case within a single species of what is known as the "directed deterrence" hypothesis, namely, "the fruit is trying have itself eaten by the right consumer one that will spread its seeds," Dearing says. "The plant produces a fruit to deter a class of consumers that would destroy its seeds."
The best known example before the new study involved chili peppers and two different classes of animals. Chili peppers deter mammals from eating their seeds because mammals can register pain from the ingredient capsaicin. Birds "don't feel the heat at all," says Dearing. "They tend not to crush the seeds while they are feeding, so they are good dispersers of chili pepper seeds."
The researchers observed two other species another spiny mouse species and a rodent named the bushy tailed jird also spitting out sweet mignonette seeds while eating the fruit. They say the new study is the first to find seed-spitting in rodents, although it has been documented previously in several primate species.
Dearing visited Israel in 2010 to help with the study. She conducted the research with first author, Ph.D. student and ecologist Michal Samuni-Blank and physiologist Zeev Arad, at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa; Ido Izhaki and Alon Lotan, ecologists at University of Haifa; Yoram Gerchman and Beny Trabelcy, biochemists at University of Haifa at Oranim; and wildlife ecology Professor William Karasov at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The research was funded by the U.S.-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation, the Israel Science Foundation and U.S. Agency for International Development's Middle East Regional Cooperation program.
Fleshy-Fruited Plant is a Hub of Activity but Holds a Toxic Bomb
The study involved a fleshy-fruited shrub Ochradenus baccatus, known in Israel as sweet mignonette but also commonly known as taily weed. (Sweet mignonette is the name also used for Reseda odorata, another member of the same family.)
Ochradenus baccatus grows 3- to 6-feet tall and lives in wadis or washes ranging from Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Israel east to Pakistan.
The plant has radiating, narrow, spiny leaves, and a central stalk containing yellow-green flowers and, ultimately, immature white berries and mature black berries less than a quarter-inch diameter. It fruits year-round, producing thousands of berries. Each berry holds up to 20 seeds. The plant or its fruits are eaten by camels, ibex, rodents, lizards and many birds.
The researchers say the plant is a key species that plays a critical role in extreme deserts because it often is a focus for animal activity providing food, water, shade and nesting sites and sometimes serves as a "nurse plant" to help other plant species become established.
The mustard oil bomb produced by Ochradenus baccatus is activated when an animal eating the plant's small berries chews the seed as well as the fruity pulp. Enzymes (myrosinases) in the seed activate toxic substances (glucosinolates, or GLSs) in the pulp, which otherwise would be harmless.
The reaction produces chemicals named thiocyanate, isothiocyanates and nitriles. Isothiocyanates are responsible for the characteristic hot flavor of mustard. This mustard bomb first was discovered in mustard plants, and it already was known to deter insects from eating leaves of certain plants.
The chemical reaction in Ochradenus baccatus "has more of a punch than Grey Poupon," Dearing says. "It must taste very strong."
A Mouse that Eats the Fruit but Spits the Seeds
Strong enough so the memory of it makes the common or Cairo spiny mouse Acomys cahirinus spit out most of the seeds while chewing the pulp. The new study documented that in photographs and video. The study also found the nocturnal mice will revert to eating the seeds if the mustard bomb is deactivated.
So the mustard bomb is "encouraging seed dispersal via seed spitting by rodents," the researchers wrote.
"It's not that these mice have poor table manners," Dearing says. "They deliberately wiggle the seed out of the pulp of the fruit like a person does when eating watermelon. This removal of the seed keeps the toxins in the pulp from being activated."
She calls it "an elegant example of the interesting adaptations and counter-adaptations in the arms-race between plants and animals. On the surface, it seems that the mouse has the upper hand by circumventing the plant's defense, yet it's the plant that benefits by having the mouse distribute its seeds."
"This spiny mouse is a member of a family of rodents that are typically thought to be seed predators," and, indeed, the researchers were surprised to find it didn't eat the seeds at the same time they ate the fruit, Dearing says.
"Some of them will eat the seeds of this fruit several hours later after the pulp has been digested," she adds. "When we do experiments in cages, some will spit out the seeds and leave them alone for several hours and then come back and ingest all the seeds." She is not sure they do so in nature.
To show if the animals would eat the seeds with the mustard bomb deactivated, the researchers presented captive mice fruits with seeds that had the bomb-triggering enzyme deactivated. The mice left less than 20 percent of the seeds intact, compared with 73 percent of the seeds that still contained the active mustard bomb ingredient.
"Thus, when faced with a 'disarmed' mustard oil bomb, Acomys behaved as a seed predator," the researchers wrote.
Another experiment showed mice lost weight when they were fed the ingredients necessary for an active mustard bomb, but not when they were fed them separately.
In another part of the study, the researchers left sweet mignonette berries in lab petri dishes in both rocky crevices and under the sweet mignonette shrubs, videotaped the mice eating them, and then counted more seeds were left intact in the crevices than under the parent plants.
"The mice are actually dispersing the seeds to a suitable habitat for germination," says Dearing. "Under the parent plant is a bad spot. A rocky crevice would be a cool, suitable location because it's not in direct sunlight."
The researchers collected seeds spit out by mice in the field and tried germinating them in the lab, which all the seeds from mature berries did successfully. They also found that seeds spit out by the mice germinated at twice the rate of seeds left inside intact fruit.
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Video of seed-spitting mice may be seen at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgKFIYffReY
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Plant poison turns seed-eating mouse into seed spitter
SALT LAKE CITY, June 14, 2012 In Israel's Negev Desert, a plant called sweet mignonette or taily weed uses a toxic "mustard oil bomb" to make the spiny mouse spit out the plant's seeds when eating the fruit. Thus, the plant has turned a seed-eating rodent into a seed spreader that helps the plant reproduce, says a new study by Utah and Israeli scientists.
"It's fascinating that these little mice are doing analytical chemistry, assaying the fruit for toxic compounds" and learning not to bite into the seed, says Denise Dearing, a coauthor of the study and professor of biology at the University of Utah.
"It adds a new dimension to our understanding of the ongoing battle between plants and animals," she adds. "In this case, the plants have twisted the animals to do their bidding, to spread their progeny."
The study was set for online publication June 14 in the journal Current Biology.
The study illustrates the first known case within a single species of what is known as the "directed deterrence" hypothesis, namely, "the fruit is trying have itself eaten by the right consumer one that will spread its seeds," Dearing says. "The plant produces a fruit to deter a class of consumers that would destroy its seeds."
The best known example before the new study involved chili peppers and two different classes of animals. Chili peppers deter mammals from eating their seeds because mammals can register pain from the ingredient capsaicin. Birds "don't feel the heat at all," says Dearing. "They tend not to crush the seeds while they are feeding, so they are good dispersers of chili pepper seeds."
The researchers observed two other species another spiny mouse species and a rodent named the bushy tailed jird also spitting out sweet mignonette seeds while eating the fruit. They say the new study is the first to find seed-spitting in rodents, although it has been documented previously in several primate species.
Dearing visited Israel in 2010 to help with the study. She conducted the research with first author, Ph.D. student and ecologist Michal Samuni-Blank and physiologist Zeev Arad, at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa; Ido Izhaki and Alon Lotan, ecologists at University of Haifa; Yoram Gerchman and Beny Trabelcy, biochemists at University of Haifa at Oranim; and wildlife ecology Professor William Karasov at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The research was funded by the U.S.-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation, the Israel Science Foundation and U.S. Agency for International Development's Middle East Regional Cooperation program.
Fleshy-Fruited Plant is a Hub of Activity but Holds a Toxic Bomb
The study involved a fleshy-fruited shrub Ochradenus baccatus, known in Israel as sweet mignonette but also commonly known as taily weed. (Sweet mignonette is the name also used for Reseda odorata, another member of the same family.)
Ochradenus baccatus grows 3- to 6-feet tall and lives in wadis or washes ranging from Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Israel east to Pakistan.
The plant has radiating, narrow, spiny leaves, and a central stalk containing yellow-green flowers and, ultimately, immature white berries and mature black berries less than a quarter-inch diameter. It fruits year-round, producing thousands of berries. Each berry holds up to 20 seeds. The plant or its fruits are eaten by camels, ibex, rodents, lizards and many birds.
The researchers say the plant is a key species that plays a critical role in extreme deserts because it often is a focus for animal activity providing food, water, shade and nesting sites and sometimes serves as a "nurse plant" to help other plant species become established.
The mustard oil bomb produced by Ochradenus baccatus is activated when an animal eating the plant's small berries chews the seed as well as the fruity pulp. Enzymes (myrosinases) in the seed activate toxic substances (glucosinolates, or GLSs) in the pulp, which otherwise would be harmless.
The reaction produces chemicals named thiocyanate, isothiocyanates and nitriles. Isothiocyanates are responsible for the characteristic hot flavor of mustard. This mustard bomb first was discovered in mustard plants, and it already was known to deter insects from eating leaves of certain plants.
The chemical reaction in Ochradenus baccatus "has more of a punch than Grey Poupon," Dearing says. "It must taste very strong."
A Mouse that Eats the Fruit but Spits the Seeds
Strong enough so the memory of it makes the common or Cairo spiny mouse Acomys cahirinus spit out most of the seeds while chewing the pulp. The new study documented that in photographs and video. The study also found the nocturnal mice will revert to eating the seeds if the mustard bomb is deactivated.
So the mustard bomb is "encouraging seed dispersal via seed spitting by rodents," the researchers wrote.
"It's not that these mice have poor table manners," Dearing says. "They deliberately wiggle the seed out of the pulp of the fruit like a person does when eating watermelon. This removal of the seed keeps the toxins in the pulp from being activated."
She calls it "an elegant example of the interesting adaptations and counter-adaptations in the arms-race between plants and animals. On the surface, it seems that the mouse has the upper hand by circumventing the plant's defense, yet it's the plant that benefits by having the mouse distribute its seeds."
"This spiny mouse is a member of a family of rodents that are typically thought to be seed predators," and, indeed, the researchers were surprised to find it didn't eat the seeds at the same time they ate the fruit, Dearing says.
"Some of them will eat the seeds of this fruit several hours later after the pulp has been digested," she adds. "When we do experiments in cages, some will spit out the seeds and leave them alone for several hours and then come back and ingest all the seeds." She is not sure they do so in nature.
To show if the animals would eat the seeds with the mustard bomb deactivated, the researchers presented captive mice fruits with seeds that had the bomb-triggering enzyme deactivated. The mice left less than 20 percent of the seeds intact, compared with 73 percent of the seeds that still contained the active mustard bomb ingredient.
"Thus, when faced with a 'disarmed' mustard oil bomb, Acomys behaved as a seed predator," the researchers wrote.
Another experiment showed mice lost weight when they were fed the ingredients necessary for an active mustard bomb, but not when they were fed them separately.
In another part of the study, the researchers left sweet mignonette berries in lab petri dishes in both rocky crevices and under the sweet mignonette shrubs, videotaped the mice eating them, and then counted more seeds were left intact in the crevices than under the parent plants.
"The mice are actually dispersing the seeds to a suitable habitat for germination," says Dearing. "Under the parent plant is a bad spot. A rocky crevice would be a cool, suitable location because it's not in direct sunlight."
The researchers collected seeds spit out by mice in the field and tried germinating them in the lab, which all the seeds from mature berries did successfully. They also found that seeds spit out by the mice germinated at twice the rate of seeds left inside intact fruit.
###
Video of seed-spitting mice may be seen at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgKFIYffReY
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www.unews.utah.edu
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Redmond?s ?major announcement? may be just around the corner, but mum?s the word on Microsoft?s lips. Still, that hasn?t kept the rumor mill from churning, and the latest is just in: Microsoft?s next slate may be built in-house. According to sources from The Wrap and AllThingsD, the firm is planning to introduce a Microsoft-built tablet, undercutting the efforts of third-party builders to more directly compete with the iPad. Rumors flit back and forth between the slate running the ARM optimized Windows RT, the full on x86 version of Windows 8 or both, separated by different models. Is Microsoft building its own army of tablets to go toe-to-toe with the iPad? We?ll find out Monday ? hopefully, whatever the firm announces will last longer than the Zune.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The battleship USS Iowa, a storied vessel that served during World War Two and the Cold War, made a brief final voyage on Saturday to its permanent berth at the Port of Los Angeles, where it will open as a naval museum next month. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and U.S. Navy veterans who??
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When I got to medical school, a physician uncle suggested that I call his friend Bernie if I wanted to work in a lab. Bernie had just joined the microbiology department. I did, was thrown into Bernie?s lab the next day, and began (badly, I might add) to experiment. These were the first real experiments I had done since coming up from the basement at home in my early teens. All through medical school and during a year off supported by a Post-Sophomore Fellowship of the United States Public Health Service, I worked in Bernie?s lab at the school or at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Except for a pause of a couple of years during internship and residency, I continued doing research at the National Institutes of Health for the next 45 years, until I retired in 2011. That marvelous institution has its home base and its great research hospital, the Clinical Center, in Bethesda, Md., with outposts in other parts of the country, but almost 90 percent of its budget takes the form of grants and contracts to support biomedical and clinical research at universities and research institutes in the United States and abroad. Its mission is ?to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce the burdens of illness and disability.? The research supported by NIH, by the National Science Foundation, by the Veterans Administration, by the Department of Defense, and by a number of other parts of government is responsible for a great deal of the basic knowledge that underpins the development of new therapies. Furthermore, it supports the education of vast numbers of scientists from other parts of the world who come here to train and then return to their home countries or remain here in our scientific and medical communities.
Scientists have marveled at how the mantis shrimp breaks open its prey, but only now are engineers learning how the shrimp's club is built ? and how that could help humans.?
By Pete Spotts,?Staff writer / June 8, 2012
Study of how the mantis shrimp attacks its prey could lead to human applications.
Tread lightly around the mantis peacock shrimp. Up to 7 inches long, this crustacean sports gregarious colors ? and an extraordinarily powerful, resilient club for whacking its prey.
Now, a team of scientists has uncovered the secrets of the club's construction, unrolling a blueprint that holds the promise of a new generation of lightweight, impact- and shock-resistant materials for products ranging from body armor and electric cars to football helmets that better shield players from head injuries.
Indeed, the researchers already have designed composite materials based on the club's natural design that have successfully withstood several types of high-velocity munitions, says David Kisailus, an assistant professor of engineering at the University of California at Riverside, who along with colleagues from six other institutions conducted the study.
The peacock mantis shrimp feeds on some of the hardest nuts to crack in the ocean ? snails, other crustaceans, as well as other forms of shellfish.?It does so by unleashing its club repeatedly at unusually high speeds until the shells of its prey crack open enough to expose the shrimp's meal.
How it does this is crucial to understanding the enormous stresses it is able sustain.
Like a praying mantis, the shrimp have a folded appendage near their heads. The appendage resembles a football punter's tightly draw leg just before he unleashes the kick. The appendage has a latch that locks the joint until a muscle in the upper portion of the appendage has fully contracted. When the shrimp releases the latch, it unleashes the pent-up energy in the muscle, flinging the appendage outward, explains Shelia Patek, a biologist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, who?uncovered a spring-like material at the joint that further energizes the strike.
Dr. Patek and fellow researchers have clocked the shrimp's punt at more than 45 miles an hour ? underwater. That makes it the new world champ for so-called feeding strikes ? the movement animals make to nail their prey. It's nearly twice as fast as a punch a boxer typically throws in open air and delivers a force of more than 200 pounds, with the club accelerating with a force of some 10,000 Gs ? 500 times more acceleration force than humans can endure.
And that isn't all. Patek's team also found that the strike imparted a second rattling impulse to a creature's shell that came quickly on the heels of the first strike. When the researchers examined high-speed video, they saw a brief flash of light at the point of contact ? the telltale signs of cavitation.
Broncos linebackerD.J. Williams posted six defensive plays from the Broncos' playbook on Twitter, according to The Denver Post.
The team gave each player an iPad this year with the playbook loaded on it. Coach John Fox said the ability to get information in the hands of players remotely was valuable, but all NFL teams are highly protective of their play designs.
According to the paper, a team official quickly contacted Williams and had him remove the plays from his account.
It's the latest in a string of issues for Williams, who is suing the NFL in an attempt to get a six-game suspension for violating the performance-enhancing drug policy overturned and also has an August trial scheduled for a DUI charge.
MEXICO CITY?? A Mexican man whose arms were severely burned by electricity became the first patient in Latin America to receive a double arm transplant, doctors said Thursday.
Gabriel Granados, a 52-year-old father of two whose arms were amputated just below the elbow, received the arms of a 34-year-old shooting victim, said Dr. Martin Iglesias, head of the surgical team that performed the operation.
Granados told a news conference that the transplant was "terrific" and that he has begun to feel his new hands.
"This is wonderful that after being without hands for some time, all of a sudden I see new hands," said Granados, who is an agent in the financial unit of Mexico City's prosecutors' office.
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The surgery was in early May, but Granados was discharged from the hospital on Thursday. Doctors said he has recovered well.
Granados' arms were amputated after they were badly burned in January 2011, when he received an electrical shock while giving instructions to a group of construction workers building a fence.
Before the surgery, doctors say they practiced the procedure on corpses.
"This is a very special day for Mexico from a scientific point of view," said Dr. Fernando Gabilondo, director of Mexico City's National Institute of Medical Science and Nutrition Salvador Zubiran, where the surgery was performed.
Mexican doctors say there are other 23 patients waiting for arms transplant although only six could be successfully done.
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FILE - This March 25, 2007, file image, made from video posted on a website frequented by Islamist militants and provided via the IntelCenter, shows al-Qaida militant Abu Yahia al-Libi. A CIA drone strike Monday, June 4, 2012, targeted al-Qaida's second in command, Abu Yahia al-Libi, in Pakistan, but it was unclear whether he was among those hit, U.S. officials said. U.S. officials say fewer than five people were hit, although Pakistani officials say more than a dozen people were killed in two days of strikes in Pakistan. (AP Photo/IntelCenter, File) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS VIDEO
FILE - This March 25, 2007, file image, made from video posted on a website frequented by Islamist militants and provided via the IntelCenter, shows al-Qaida militant Abu Yahia al-Libi. A CIA drone strike Monday, June 4, 2012, targeted al-Qaida's second in command, Abu Yahia al-Libi, in Pakistan, but it was unclear whether he was among those hit, U.S. officials said. U.S. officials say fewer than five people were hit, although Pakistani officials say more than a dozen people were killed in two days of strikes in Pakistan. (AP Photo/IntelCenter, File) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS VIDEO
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) ? A U.S. drone strike in northwest Pakistan has killed al-Qaida's second-in-command, officials from both countries have confirmed, the most significant victory so far in the controversial bombing campaign and the biggest setback to the terror network since the death of Osama bin Laden.
Abu Yahya al-Libi was considered a media-savvy, charismatic leader with religious credentials who was helping preside over the transformation of a secretive group based in Pakistan and Afghanistan into a global movement aimed at winning converts ? and potential attackers ? from Somalia to the Philippines.
This was not the first time the U.S. had al-Libi in its sights: He was originally captured a decade ago and held by American forces at the Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan until he escaped in 2005 in an embarrassing security breach. Soon thereafter, he began appearing in videos in which he talked about the lessons he learned while watching his captors, whom he described as cowardly, lost and alienated.
White House spokesman Jay Carney on Tuesday called al-Libi's death a "major blow" to the group. Carney described al-Libi as an operational leader and a "general manager" of al-Qaida. He said al-Libi had a range of experience that will be hard for al-Qaida to replicate and brings the terror network closer to its ultimate demise than ever before.
"His death is part of the degradation that has been taking place to core al-Qaida during the past several years and that degradation has depleted the ranks to such an extent that there's no clear successor," Carney said.
A U.S. official familiar with the case, who confirmed that al-Libi was killed in a drone strike, said no one left in al-Qaida comes close to replacing the expertise the group has just lost. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
The Libyan-born al-Libi, who was thought to be in his late 40s, was killed Monday morning in a village in northwestern Pakistan, a tribal area bordering Afghanistan that is home to many al-Qaida and Taliban members and their support networks.
A Pakistani intelligence official said late Tuesday that al-Libi was dead but declined to say how authorities knew this or whether they had seen his body. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the classified nature of the drone program.
Al-Libi, who was considered a hero in militant circles because of his escape from the American military prison, was elevated to al-Qaida's No. 2 spot when Ayman al-Zawahri replaced bin Laden. As al-Qaida's de facto general manager, he was responsible for running the group's day-to-day operations in Pakistan's tribal areas and managed outreach to al-Qaida's regional affiliates.
Al-Libi was influential and popular within al-Qaida because of his "scholarly credentials, street cred from having escaped from Bagram, charisma and his easygoing, tribal speaking style," said Jarret Brachman, a counterterrorism expert who has studied al-Libi for the past seven years.
"People may have revered Zawahri, but they loved Abu Yahya," said Brachman.
Al-Libi was the latest in the dozen-plus senior commanders removed in the clandestine U.S. war against al-Qaida since Navy SEALs killed bin Laden in a raid on May 2, 2011 on his compound in the Pakistani military town of Abbottabad ? nearly a decade after 9/11.
Perhaps the most well-known al-Qaida figure killed in a drone strike before al-Libi was Anwar al-Awlaki, a prominent member of the Yemen al-Qaida offshoot who died last September.
Al-Libi's death will likely fuel arguments in favor of the U.S. drone campaign despite Pakistani objections. Coming in an election year, it may also boost the tough-on-terrorists image President Barack Obama has tried to cultivate.
"The killing of al-Libi demonstrates the increasing proficiency and skill ? plus good intelligence ? at work in the decade-long American war to crush al-Qaida. It makes Barack Obama the counter-terrorist in chief in leading that war," said Aaron David Miller, a former adviser to six U.S. secretaries of state and currently a senior scholar at the Wilson Center.
The use of drones has skyrocketed under the Obama administration but has dropped off recently in Pakistan, which views the program as a violation of its sovereignty. Among the Pakistani public, the drone campaign is vilified because of its perceived civilian casualties, an allegation disputed by the U.S.
An on-the-ground investigation by The Associated Press this year found that the drone strikes were killing far fewer civilians than many Pakistanis are led to believe, and that a significant majority of the dead were combatants.
Pakistan's foreign ministry spokesman Moazzam Ahmad Khan said Islamabad had not been notified about the killing of al-Libi, and declined further comment.
Even while speculation was swirling as to whether al-Libi was alive or dead, Pakistan called Deputy U.S. Ambassador Richard Hoagland to the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday to protest the drone strikes.
Members of the Pakistani government and military have supported such strikes in the past, but that cooperation has come under strain as the relationship between the two countries has deteriorated. Last November, American airstrikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers along the border with Afghanistan.
Pakistan responded by cutting off supply lines to NATO and American forces in Afghanistan and demanding that the U.S. end the drone attacks on its territory.
But the U.S. shows no such inclination. The White House maintains a list of terrorist targets to be killed or captured, compiled by the military and the CIA and ultimately approved by the president.
A recent uptick in drone strikes in the tribal areas indicates the U.S. was tracking al-Libi or had some idea that a top al-Qaida official was in the area. U.S. drones have struck seven times in recent weeks after a relative lull earlier this year.
Pakistani and Taliban officials said al-Libi was wounded in the days leading up to Monday's drone strike, although there were conflicting accounts as to where and when.
Evan Kohlmann, a senior partner a Flashpoint Global Partners which tracks radical Muslim propaganda, said the U.S. could have tracked al-Libi the same way it tracked bin Laden, through the use of couriers used to carry messages or in the case of al-Libi, carrying the video recordings that were his calling card.
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Dozier reported from Washington. Rasool Dawar in Peshawar, Ishtiaq Mahsud in Dera Ismail Khan, Munir Ahmed in Islamabad, Sebastian Abbot in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Steven R. Hurst in Washington contributed to this report.
This innovative new MA, based in the University?s cutting edge research Culture Lab, is a practice-based, transdisciplinary programme that focuses on emerging creative practice and creative entrepreneurship in the digital age. It is designed for artists, designers, musicians, writers, computer scientists and practitioners who are interested in exploring novel disciplines in relation to transdisciplinary practice in order to expand their current work portfolio and to learn new technologies and skills.
Candidate will have the opportunity to study a broad range of disciplines including film, music, creative writing, theatre, fine art, digital media and creative computing. The aim of the programme is to train young professionals by means of critical thinking and cutting edge skills, in order to respond to the requirements of the rapidly growing sectors of the culture and creative industries.
The MA is an alternate programme to the University?s MRes in Digital Media which is currently not being offered.
Throughout the programme there is a great emphasis on exploratory practice, innovation and transferable knowledge to prepare candidate for the ever-changing creative and economicenvironment. The programme will allow them to focus on one principal area of interest, combine two or opt for an even greater level of mix. Candidate take 40 credits of compulsory modules, 80 credits of optional modules and complete a creative practice project (60 credits).
Compulsory modules include: technologies and digital theories; and enterprise and research methods. Optional modules will be offered in the subject areas listed below and you select four 20-credit modules, of which 40 credits must be from a single stream.
The optional streams and modules are as follows:
Architecture: architecture in the information age; interactive space design; emergent digital design methods; modelling and visualisation.
Creative Enterprise: understanding and managing creative enterprises: business enterprise for postgraduate students; entrepreneurship in a social context; entrepreneurship in an independent context.
Digital Film: the art and practice of digital film; the art and practice of advanced digital film; digital storytelling: film practice and interactive media.
Digital Media: digital media: theory and practice; creative web and interactive narrative; live electronic performance.
Fine Art: beyond discipline; making things happen as a creative practitioner 1; making things happen as a creative practitioner 2.
Multimedia Communication: multimedia journalism principles and practice; professional sub-editing and design; PR in the digital age.
Museum and Art Curatorship: art curatorship 1; interpretation and exhibitions; arts as enterprise ? freelancing in arts and cultures.
Music: improvisation for creative practice; radio art and broadcast media; environmental sound art.
Eligibility-
Normally an upper-second-class Honours degree or international equivalent in one of the following subject areas: digital media,? film, music,? fine art,? multimedia communication, visual communication and design, creative writing, architecture, museum and art curatorship, and computer science.
If candidate hold a non-standard qualification, and/or have relevant work experience, please contact the School and speak to the Degree Programme Director before you apply.
Applicants whose first language is not English require IELTS 6.5 or equivalent, with no less than 6.0 in any element.
Our INTO Newcastle University Centre can provide extra tuition to help you meet the University?s English language requirements.
Sharp's heavily customized NERV Edition SH-06D phone finally has preorder and release date info on Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo, and Neon Genesis Evangelion fanboys will want to get there early. It appears there will only be 10,000 of the phones available, with 3,000 sold via NTT DoCoMo's online store starting June 29th over three days, with 1,000 of them going on sale each day at noon. The rest will be sold at other retailers with preorders kicking off June 16th and although there's no price specified, we're expecting it to be around 25,000 - 30,000 yen with a two year contract. As we saw when the phone was announced in March, it features a heavily customized case, hardware buttons and 3D Android 2.3 skin designed to reflect its heritage. Getting one may require some camping out either in front of a store or on the carrier's website (in Japan of course, we don't expect ot see any of these overseas), but at least it's got to be easier than life in Tokyo-3. Check out an in-universe video look at how NERV and NTT DoCoMo supposedly came together to develop the collectible's unique features after the break and our impressions of an unskinned SH-06D here.
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