Girl found with parents' bodies in French car killings

CHEVALINE, France (Reuters) - Two girls, apparently on a camping holiday from Britain with their parents, were under police protection in France on Thursday after three adults thought to be their mother, father and grandmother, were shot dead in a car on a road in the Alps.

A source close to the investigation told Reuters the owner of the car, who was found dead at the wheel, was an Iraqi-born Briton called Saad al-Hilli from Surrey in southern England.

A girl of about four was found alive and unhurt on the floor of the BMW car and rushed to hospital in the nearby city of Grenoble, where a second girl of about eight, thought to be her sister, had been rushed from the scene eight hours earlier with serious head injuries.

The English-speaking girl was discovered around midnight on Wednesday, huddled between the front and back seats of the British-registered BMW, under the legs of two dead women thought to be her mother and grandmother, a public prosecutor said.

A man who appeared to be a local cyclist was also found shot dead at the scene, near the village of Chevaline, close to the picturesque Annecy lake and the Swiss border.

Apparently too scared to move, the little girl went unnoticed by police for some eight hours until investigators finally opened the doors of the car, standing on a forest road near Lake Annecy, to begin a close forensic inspection.

"She's clearly shocked but she's doing okay. She's not injured," Annecy prosecutor Eric Maillaud told reporters in a late-night briefing. He was due to give an update at 2 p.m. (0800 EDT).

"She started smiling and speaking English as soon as a gendarme from the Chambery search brigade took her in his arms and got her out of the car," Maillaud said.

The girl of around eight had been beaten on the head.

"She was struck very violently and apparently has skull fractures," said Maillaud, who said her condition was stable.

Around 15 bullet casings from an automatic weapon were found at the scene, local media reported.

Police who arrived at the crime scene at about 4 p.m. (1000 EDT) on Wednesday did not spot the little girl at first because they were awaiting the arrival of forensic experts from Paris before opening the car doors.

(Additional reporting by Catherine Lagrange in Lyon; Writing by Brian Love; Editing by Louise Ireland and Kevin Liffey)

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An opinion about the "affair fog"

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Member ? Join Date: May 2012 Location: Near Chicago, USA Posts: 1,163	Quote: I always interpretted the fog to be the fantasy. You know the your great, I'm great, destiny, soul mates etc. The fog relates to many relationships besides affairs. Think back to when you first met your SO. Before all the flaws and day to day life. Exactly. That's why I agree with Complexity's post. Okay so we all know about dopamine and phenethylamine and oxytocin and all the love chemicals. So that just proves they were falling in love. They chose to date while married and then fell in love. Maybe with another liar and deceiver, but maybe they like looking in that mirror and seeing themselves reflected back. The fog is Bulldokey. After Dday I asked my husband if he would be okay with us having an open relationship so I can have some new love feelings too. He went ballistic. So they know dating while married is treading on treacherous turf.
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Member ? Join Date: May 2012 Location: Near Chicago, USA Posts: 1,163	Quote: .. I saw a quote on another forum that has really stuck with me, it was in regards to a WS who declared their undying love to their online AP.....and this posters response was...... "that is one elastic definition of love, one stretched so thin as to become meaningless"........ How do we feel important to them when at one time we were considered "throw away" for the AP. I stuggled with feeling less than and used and all manner of other issues. The fact is if the affair was meaningless. (my OW tried that bulldokey on me too) Than that is very insulting. They risked a good relationship for one that is meaningless. As far as being thrown away, the cheater also throws the affair partner away once outed. IMO, cheaters are the type that throw people away when they no longer meet their every need. A high percentage of cheaters have personality disorders. Most of these are not curable. One book I read likened an affair to a car crash. The author said, in the aftermath everyone crawls out bloody, or dying or scarred for life. Adult minds realize that and choose not to bring a third party into a marriage.
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Tracking fish through a coral reef seascape: Ear-bone 'tree rings' provide evidence of connectivity

ScienceDaily (Sep. 3, 2012) ? Ocean scientists have long known that juvenile coral reef fishes use coastal seagrass and mangrove habitats as nurseries, later moving as adults onto coral reefs. But the fishes' movements, and the connections between different tropical habitats, are much more complex than previously realized, according to a study published Sept. 3 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The findings have important implications for management and protection of coral reefs and other marine environments.

A number of studies have demonstrated a strong relationship between the presence of coastal wetlands and offshore fish abundance and fisheries yield, but it has proved difficult to develop quantitative assessment of habitat use by fish or their movement among different habitats. "The rationale for this study,"says Simon Thorrold, a biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), "was to determine the relative importance of different nursery habitats to reef fishes that spend their adult lives on coral reefs but may spend at least part of their juvenile residency elsewhere."

The study also advances understanding of the functional connectivity of coral reef fish in a tropical seascape, says WHOI biologist and study lead author Kelton McMahon. "Traditional methods of assessing nursery habitats -- visual surveys of abundance and size of fish in different locations -- provide important but indirect evidence of connectivity among essential habitats. We developed a quantitative method that identifies essential nursery habitat, and allows reconstruction of migration within the seascape."

The method analyzes isotopic signatures recorded in fish tissue. These signatures, unique to each environment in which a fish lives and feeds, are laid down in its otoliths, or ear bones, creating a record similar to that of tree rings.

"Otoliths are constantly and permanently recording the conditions a fish is experiencing at any time," explains Thorrold. What a fish eats can be traced back to a particular food web, which makes it possible to track where a fish went throughout its life.

Thorrold, McMahon, and Michael Berument of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia first analyzed food webs in five specific habitats in the Red Sea off the northern coast of Saudi Arabia: coastal wetlands, coastal reefs near the shoreline, reefs on the continental shelf less than 60 meters deep, patch reefs around a continental offshore island, and oceanic reefs surrounded by deep open water. They used those data to create an isoscape, or map of the unique isotope signature of each location.

They then collected adult Ehrenberg's snapper (Lutjanus ehrenbergii), a commercially important snapper widespread throughout tropical and subtropical waters. With gas chromatography, the researchers measured compounds in otoliths of individual fish, working their way back to layers created when each was a juvenile. They matched each fish's signature to one on the isoscape, identifying with a high degree of accuracy the habitat an individual fish occupied as a juvenile.

This made it possible to look at movement of juvenile fish within the seascape at a level never before possible, revealing a few surprises. "We found that a number of juveniles had settled directly onto reefs, despite the fact that in several years of regular work in this area, we'd never visually observed them there," says Thorrold. "If you just observed distribution of juveniles, you would say the only important nursery habitat is coastal wetlands. But that's not true. Some fish settle right on the reefs, and the continental island proved to be very important habitat as well."

In other words, coastal wetlands are important juvenile nursery habitat for snapper in the Red Sea, but snapper are not obligated to use them, as was previously thought. Instead, the fish showed surprising plasticity, using a wide variety of habitats. "Our results showed remarkable complexity in the use of different habitats and movement patterns among them," McMahon says. Fish movements, the study makes clear, are more complex than a linear model of coastal fish moving out onto reefs.

The analysis also showed that seascape configuration plays an important and perhaps underappreciated role in determining the connectivity among essential habitats. "We found that coral reef fish made remarkable long-distance migrations from coastal wetlands across deep open water -- long considered a hard migration barrier for coral reef fish -- to offshore reefs," McMahon says. "That was, for me, the most surprising finding. Migration capability was far greater than we originally appreciated. It underscores the potential of significant connectivity within a large and complex tropical seascape." These results are particularly timely, given the increasing use of spatial management approaches in coral reef ecosystems, including networked marine protected areas.

The implication is that it isn't enough to protect adult habitat on coral reefs. Habitats that supply those reefs and the migration corridors that connect them also need protection. "As human activity continues to degrade and fragment tropical seascape habitats, quantitative understanding of the connectivity among them becomes increasingly important," says McMahon.

"Protecting the reef protects the adult fishes, but not an important component of their life history, as juveniles," says Thorrold. "It won't work to protect the reef but, for example, allow a hotel to be built on the seagrass beds and mangroves."

The study's quantitative method also provides a way to estimate ecosystem services that specific habitats provide to fisheries yields within a seascape, allowing for a more accurate accounting of these services and potentially providing a way to determine suitable value for mitigation and remediation purposes.

"We haven't known the value of those habitats to the reefs themselves when considering development," says Thorrold. "This technique allows us to quantify the importance of different habitats, and that makes it possible to come up with reasonable biological valuations for them. It hasn't been done yet, but is an important implication of the work going forward."

An important next step, the researchers say, is to analyze other globally important coral reef or tropical seascapes to see how general these patterns are.

This research was based on work supported by awards from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, with additional funding provided by WHOI, an International Society for Reef Studies-Conservancy Coral Reef Fellowship, and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Dream Divers, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia provided boat and dive operation assistance.

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A CUP OF JO: Motherhood Mondays: Sculpture

Many people are probably off their computers for Labor Day, but I can't help sharing a couple things with you. First up, isn't this sculpture gorgeous? The sculpture, called Survival of Serena by Carole A. Feuerman, is in downtown Manhattan for the summer. It portrays a swimmer taking a break, and passersby have been wowed by its hyper-realism?so much so that one day when it rained, people didn't know which drops were real.

But, to me, this sculpture looks strikingly similar to a woman having a home birth and laboring in a tub. (Like this photo of my friend Leigh!) The same concentration, the same athleticism, the same inward focus. It's almost hard to believe that the artist didn't intent that; at first glance, I thought that's exactly what the sculpture was meant to be.

I'm curious: Would you (or did you) consider having a home birth? Or would you prefer a hospital birth? I loved this recent post by Elizabeth, encouraging every woman to do what she thinks is best for her and her baby.

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Bride stealing custom all the rage in Bucharest

In this Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 photo shot under iodine street lighting, a Romanian bride holds toy weapons in the air at the Triumph Arch in Bucharest, Romania. The arch, a replica of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the French capital, is a rendezvous place for brides on the wedding night for the bride stealing ritual. The ancient Romanian tradition of bride stealing is getting bigger, brasher and an increasingly common sight in the Romanian capital, the region's undisputed party town. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

In this Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 photo shot under iodine street lighting, a Romanian bride holds toy weapons in the air at the Triumph Arch in Bucharest, Romania. The arch, a replica of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the French capital, is a rendezvous place for brides on the wedding night for the bride stealing ritual. The ancient Romanian tradition of bride stealing is getting bigger, brasher and an increasingly common sight in the Romanian capital, the region's undisputed party town. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

In this Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 photo shot under iodine street lighting, Romanian brides pose for pictures under the Triumph Arch in Bucharest, Romania. The arch, a replica of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the French capital, is a rendezvous place for brides on the wedding night for the bride stealing ritual. The ancient Romanian tradition of bride stealing is getting bigger, brasher and an increasingly common sight in the Romanian capital, the region's undisputed party town. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

In this Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 photo shot under iodine street lighting, a Romanian bride dances on a car at the Triumph Arch in Bucharest, Romania. The arch, a replica of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the French capital, is a rendezvous place for brides on the wedding night for the bride stealing ritual. The ancient Romanian tradition of bride stealing is getting bigger, brasher and an increasingly common sight in the Romanian capital, the region's undisputed party town. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

In this Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 picture, a Romanian bride poses with mock kidnappers holding a toy weapons at the Triumph Arch in Bucharest, Romania. The arch, a replica of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the French capital, is a rendezvous place for brides on the wedding night for the bride stealing ritual. The ancient Romanian tradition of bride stealing is getting bigger, brasher and an increasingly common sight in the Romanian capital, the region's undisputed party town. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

In this Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012 photo shot under iodine street lighting, a guest struggles to help a Romanian bride off his shoulders after posing at the Triumph Arch in Bucharest, Romania. The arch, a replica of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the French capital, is a rendezvous place for brides on the wedding night for the bride stealing ritual. The ancient Romanian tradition of bride stealing is getting bigger, brasher and an increasingly common sight in the Romanian capital, the region's undisputed party town. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) ? A white limousine screeches to a halt and a bride, resplendent in frothy gown and veil, is hauled outside by her abductors.

It's one of Romania's more colorful customs: bride-napping. And the tradition of snatching the bride from under the nose of groom and guests with the wedding party in full swing is getting bigger, brasher and an increasingly common sight in the Romanian capital, the Balkans' undisputed party town.

Every Saturday night, brides from Bucharest and beyond are dragged away in a mock abduction by friends and driven to a top tourist spot where they are "held hostage" ? all the while pouting, dancing and striking provocative poses for the cameras.

The ransom: a few bottles of whisky or perhaps something more romantic, like a public declaration of love from the abandoned groom. The kidnappers negotiate by phone, working out the details of the payoff. It's all harmless theatrics meant to add a whiff of risque fun to the nuptials.

Mock abductions of brides are part of marriage ceremonies across the former Soviet Union. In some countries, guests lock up a bride or have her hide in a backroom during celebrations, demanding that the bridegroom delivers a "ransom" ? like singing a song, dancing or sometimes paying real money.

In Romania, the custom took off a few years ago when a top football player rented Bucharest's Arch of Triumph, a major monument modeled after its iconic namesake in Paris, and proposed there to his girlfriend. There was no kidnapping involved but the scene stuck in the popular imagination as a symbol of marriage ? and soon the monument became a sort of midnight mecca for bride-napping.

This past Saturday, about 20 brides were held hostage at the Arch of Triumph, which was built in 1922 to honor Romanian soldiers who died during World War I and to celebrate the reunification of Transylvania with the rest of Romania.

One bride was driven in from her wedding in a town an hour east of Bucharest with a gaggle of guests in tow. Another grabbed the toy machine gun of her kidnappers, dressed up as Taliban, and pretending to use it in front of the monument.

Authorities turn a blind eye to the partying under the monument, technically illegal because it's a historic landmark. Motorists cruise around the square honking, waving and cheering. The outdoor party is one way for Romanians, frustrated with austerity measures and feuding politicians, to let off steam.

One bride, 25-year-old Alisar Dragne, says her abduction was scripted from start to finish.

"Everything was staged and ready in my case. The limousine was waiting for me in front of the restaurant, I was given the 'leave' signal by my friends and together we came here to have some fun," she said. "Now everyone's thinking what ransom to ask the groom."

George Neascu, a Roma musician, who plays at the monument every week for small change, said the bride-stealing custom is as old as living memory.

"All sorts of people come here," said Neascu, "both those who have lots of money and those who have less."

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