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?Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.?
(James Anthony Froude)
?They walk amongst us.? The misguided, the anthropocentric, the insufferably insecure and therefore immeasurably cruel.? But while one of the last places one would expect to find them is in a firehouse, it has come to light that just such evil lurks inside the fire hall in Holley, New York; a tiny village located west of Rochester, not far from the cold winds and waters of Lake Ontario whose apparent pasttime during these long winter months is inbreeding.
On February 16th, these so-called lifesavers are?holding a fundraiser in which the goal is to head out into the winter woods and blast as many squirrels as possible out of existence.??Ticket purchasers may enter as many as?five squirrels for the weigh-in at the end of the day and there are prizes for?the most weight murdered, as well as other drawings, including?raffling off some pretty nice guns.? Not only is this slaughter needless and senseless, all of?it disturbingly includes and?encourages?participation by children.
An enormous outcry is now taking shape.? There is a page on Facebook against it and a petition at change.org.? The following is my own letter to the mayor of Holley, a copy of which is also going to both the governor and head of wildlife of the state of New York.
Mayor John W. Kenney Jr.
Village of Holley
72 Public Sq
Holley, NY 14470
Dear Mayor Kenney,
?I write you today as a concerned citizen.? Not of Holley, New York but simply of the United States, a country that currently finds itself in the midst of an extremely divisive political climate in which our very foundation finds itself under attack.
?It is no secret that I am a Constitutional conservative and support the 2nd Amendment as it is intended.? But this also means I am pro-life.? That means ALL life and when I was notified that your local fire department hosts a fundraiser that sends children out with guns to slaughter squirrels, well, frankly, I couldn?t quite get my head around how that puts any ?fun? in ?fundraiser?.? As a state-permitted wildlife rehabilitator who specializes in tree squirrels, while my job is saving the lives of orphaned, abandoned and injured wildlife, I also understand the need for and the role of wildlife management and have reconciled with hunting both for that purpose and for sustenance when these activities are performed cleanly and humanely.? As both a wildlife rehabilitator and president of our state wildlife rehabilitation organization I work closely with my own state?s Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Division, as well with as our Natural Resources Commission so therefore I am familiar with the delicateness often required to balance conflicting interests.? In my inner circle I count a former California Fish & Wildlife USDA large predator nuisance control expert, as well as a former City of Detroit firefighter now working down in North Carolina.
?It is from this perspective that I must state this fire department fundraiser is simply wrong ? on multiple levels.
?First of all, your own state laws clearly state that ?Minors under the age of 12 may not obtain a hunting license or hunt wildlife.?? Yet the Holley Fire Department is including a ?14 years and under? category.? While your state laws do provide for children ages 12-15 to hunt (only) small game, there are multiple requirements:
??Youth must have completed a course in Hunter Education.
?Youth must have a Junior Hunting license.
?12-13 year old youth must be accompanied by a parent, legal guardian, or a person who is 21 years or older and is designated in writing on the Mentored Youth Hunter and Trapper Permission Form (PDF) (24 KB). Adult mentor must have a license to hunt small game.
?14-15 year old youth must be accompanied by a parent, legal guardian, or a person who is 18 years or older and is designated in writing on the Mentored Youth Hunter and Trapper Permission Form (PDF) (24 KB). Adult mentor must have a license to hunt small game.
Exactly how are these requirements being met for the fundraiser?? A mere disclaimer on the website saying ?All NYS hunting and licensing rules are to be followed? means nothing without enforcement.? How are you to determine if the so-called ?winner? is a legal winner?? Frankly, you can?t.
?Second, the current political foray attempting to curb our Second Amendment right has been spurred on by so-called mass murders committed by what are essentially children.? Please take a good look at this sad list:
?This is horrible, incomplete yet still much too long.? Now ask yourself this:? exactly how many of the children being taken out to indiscriminately slaughter another sentient creature simply for the sake of so-called ?sport? in the guise of a fundraiser are taking some kind of psychotropic drug (or drugs)?? Truth is you have no way to know this due to medical privacy laws.? Then ask yourself how many of them are allowed to spend a large part of their time playing violent video games, too?? Again, you can have no idea.? The only honest answer is that another Sandy Hook incident is merely a matter of when, not if ? and it is being actively encouraged by your fire department?s fundraiser.
?Last but certainly not least, there are those oft-inconvenient moral implications.? Whether you believe in God, Buddha, Mohammed, plain old garden-variety karma or the Great Pumpkin, premeditated, deliberate cruelty is never condoned.? If we are to be truly considered ?enlightened? as a species, it behooves us to teach our children by our words and most importantly by our deeds that life is sacred and is never to be taken without very good reason.? Certainly those first responders in the Holley or any other fire department believe this and they walk the talk every time the alarm sounds.? How many photos have been circulated about a brave, kind firefighter carrying someone?s beloved animal out of a burning building?? Such is the ?picture worth a thousand words? of selfless compassion and mercy.? Why then ? and how then ? can those who willingly risk their lives to save lives even consider, let alone condone, plan and actively encourage the needless, senseless taking of lives that is your so-called ?Squirrel Slam???
?For those of us most familiar with those furry denizens of the trees, it is not merely a matter of the taking of a few squirrel lives that causes our disgust and outcry but the exponential amount of suffering that inevitably follows.? Of all the mammals, the squirrel is an amazing survivor and, notwithstanding countless bad shots that send a wounded squirrel off to suffer and eventually die a slow, painful death from infection, every single nursing mother coldly blasted into the fur-filled hereafter leaves behind babies who will, unlike their helpless human infant counterparts, do whatever they can to find her.? If they do not succumb to the cold and exhaustion from calling for their mother, even naked, blind and deaf neonates will make their way out of their nest in order to seek out their life-giver.? Inevitably they fall and the lucky ones end up in hands like mine that become their foster mother and provide them with a second chance to live as Nature intended.? The unlucky are killed by predators but the most unlucky of all die an excruciating death from exposure ? starvation, dehydration and hypothermia ? with each second of their final moments filled with fear.
?If you would not throw your own child down a well in the middle of winter and walk away to let them die a slow, painful death; if you would not throw your cat or dog down a well in the middle of winter and walk away to let them die a slow, painful death, then why in the world would you set out to cause essentially the same horror to any other living creature??
?If your answer is you simply did not know or understand, you may be forgiven.? But with knowledge comes responsibility, so I am asking that you please shut down this fundraiser.? There are many other ways in which to raise money; there are a myriad of things to do to raise money that will also teach children a proper respect for life and the responsible use of firearms.
Thank you,
PJ. Garner
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Source: http://squirreltale.com/2013/01/27/senseless-defenseless-squirrel-slaughter-in-holley-new-york/
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Stocks rose on Wall Street Friday as the?Standard & Poor's 500 index closed above 1,500?for the first time since the start of the Great Recession in 2007.?Apple stock continued to decline, allowing Exxon Mobil to once again surpass the electronics giant as the world's most valuable publicly traded company
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The S&P 500 rose 8.14 points to 1,502.96. It was the eighth straight gain, the longest winning streak since November 2004.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 13,825.33, up 46 points. The Nasdaq composite gained 19.33 points to 3,149.71.
Procter & Gamble, world's largest consumer products maker, gained $2.83 to $73.25 after reporting that its quarterly income more than doubled. P&G also raised its profit forecast for its full fiscal year. Starbucks rose $2.24 to $56.81 after reporting a 13 percent increase in profits.
"Earnings are growing," said Joe Tanious, a global market strategist at JPMorgan. "The bottom line is that corporate America is doing exceptionally well."
Tanious expects corporate earnings to grow at about 5 percent over the "next year or two," and stock valuations to rise. Currently, the S&P 500 is trading at an average price-to-earnings ratio of 14, below an average of 15.1 for the last decade, according to FactSet data.
Apple continued to decline, allowing Exxon Mobil to once again surpass the electronics giant as the world's most valuable publicly traded company. Apple fell 2.4 percent to $439.88, following a 12 percent drop on Thursday, the biggest one-day percentage drop for the company since 2008, after Apple forecast slower sales. The stock is now 37 percent below the record high of $702.10 it reached Sept. 19.
Apple first surpassed Exxon in market value in the summer of 2011, grabbing a title Exxon had held since 2005. The two traded places through that fall, until Apple surpassed Exxon in early 2012.
Stocks have surged this month, with the S&P 500 advancing 5.4 percent. It jumped at the start of the year when lawmakers reached a last-minute deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff." Stocks built on those gains on optimism that the housing market is recovering and the labor market is healing. The Dow Jones is up 5.5 percent on the year.
Deutsche Bank analysts raised their year-end target for the index to 1,600 from 1,575.
Companies will be able to maintain their earnings even if lawmakers in Washington decide to implement wide-ranging spending cuts to narrow the budget deficit, the analysts said in a note sent to clients late Thursday.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to its price, climbed 11 basis points to 1.95 percent.
Among other stocks making big moves.
? Halliburton gained $1.91 to $39.72 after posting a loss that was smaller than analysts had expected. The oilfield services company said fourth-quarter profits declined 26 percent to $669 million on increasing pricing pressure in the North American market and one-time charges from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.Wall?Street?had expected worse.
?Hasbro fell $1.14 to $37.31 after the toy maker said its fourth-quarter revenue failed to meet expectations because of poor demand over the holidays. The company plans to cut about 10 percent of its workforce and consolidate facilities to cut expenses.
? Green Mountain Coffee Roasters rose $2.53 to $46.31 after an analyst noted that sales of a competing coffee brewer introduced by Starbucks were getting off to a weak start.
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FILE - In this Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya. Libya's upheaval the past two years helped lead to the ongoing conflict in Mali, and now Mali's war threatens to wash back and further hike Libya's instability. There is a growing fear that post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya is becoming an incubator of turmoil, with an overflow of weapons and Islamic jihadi militants operating freely, ready for battlefields at home or abroad. (AP Photo/ Abdel Magid Al Fergany, File)
FILE - In this Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya. Libya's upheaval the past two years helped lead to the ongoing conflict in Mali, and now Mali's war threatens to wash back and further hike Libya's instability. There is a growing fear that post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya is becoming an incubator of turmoil, with an overflow of weapons and Islamic jihadi militants operating freely, ready for battlefields at home or abroad. (AP Photo/ Abdel Magid Al Fergany, File)
FILE -- In this Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 file photo, a Libyan follower of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades chants as he carries the Brigades flag, with Arabic writing that reads, "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger, Ansar al-Shariah," during a protest in front of the Tibesti Hotel, in Benghazi, Libya. Libya's upheaval the past two years helped lead to the ongoing conflict in Mali, and now Mali's war threatens to wash back and further hike Libya's instability. There is a growing fear that post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya is becoming an incubator of turmoil, with an overflow of weapons and Islamic jihadi militants operating freely, ready for battlefields at home or abroad. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)
FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan military guards check one of the U.S. Consulate's burnt out buildings during a visit by Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif, not shown, to the U.S. Consulate to express sympathy for the death of the American ambassador, Chris Stevens and his colleagues in the deadly attack on the Consulate last Tuesday, September 11, in Benghazi, Libya. Libya's upheaval the past two years helped lead to the ongoing conflict in Mali, and now Mali's war threatens to wash back and further hike Libya's instability. There is a growing fear that post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya is becoming an incubator of turmoil, with an overflow of weapons and Islamic jihadi militants operating freely, ready for battlefields at home or abroad.(AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)
FILE --In this Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012 file photo, graffiti on one of the city walls calls on people to stop random firing of weapons making the point that when a bullet goes up it also comes down and can injure or kill people, in Benghazi, Libya. Libya's upheaval the past two years helped lead to the ongoing conflict in Mali, and now Mali's war threatens to wash back and further hike Libya's instability. There is a growing fear that post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya is becoming an incubator of turmoil, with an overflow of weapons and Islamic jihadi militants operating freely, ready for battlefields at home or abroad. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)
FILE -- In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 file photo, Libyan civilians watch fires in the Ansar al-Shariah Brigades compound, after hundreds of Libyans, Libyan Military, and Police raided the Brigades base, in Benghazi, Libya. Libya's upheaval the past two years helped lead to the ongoing conflict in Mali, and now Mali's war threatens to wash back and further hike Libya's instability. There is a growing fear that post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya is becoming an incubator of turmoil, with an overflow of weapons and Islamic jihadi militants operating freely, ready for battlefields at home or abroad. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)
Libya's upheaval the past two years helped lead to the ongoing conflict in Mali, and now Mali's war threatens to wash back and further hike Libya's instability. Fears are growing that post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya is becoming an incubator of turmoil, with an overflow of weapons and Islamic jihadi militants operating freely, ready for battlefields at home or abroad.
The possibility of a Mali backlash was underlined the past week when several European governments evacuated their citizens from Libya's second largest city, Benghazi, fearing attacks in retaliation for the French-led military assault against al-Qaida-linked extremists in northern Mali.
More worrisome is the possibility that Islamic militants inspired by ? or linked to ? al-Qaida can establish a strong enough foothold in Libya to spread instability across a swath of North Africa where long, porous desert borders have little meaning, governments are weak, and tribal and ethnic networks stretch from country to country. The Associated Press examined the dangers in recent interviews with officials, tribal leaders and jihadis in various parts of Libya.
Already, Libya's turmoil echoes around the region and in the Middle East. The large numbers of weapons brought into Libya or seized from government caches during the 2011 civil war against Gadhafi are now smuggled freely to Mali, Egypt and its Sinai Peninsula, the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad. Jihadis in Libya are believed to have operational links with fellow militant groups in the same swath, Libyan fighters have joined rebels in Syria and are believed to operate in other countries as well.
Libyan officials, activists and experts are increasingly raising alarm over how Islamic militants have taken advantage of the oil-rich country's weakness to grow in strength. During his more than four-decade rule Gadhafi stripped the country of national institutions, and after his fall the central government has little authority beyond the capital, Tripoli. Militias established to fight Gadhafi remain dominant, and tribes and regions are sharply divided.
In the eastern city of Benghazi, birthplace of the revolt that led to the ouster and killing of Gadhafi, militias espousing an al-Qaida ideology and including veteran fighters are prevalent, even ostensibly serving as security forces on behalf of the government since the police and military are so weak and poorly armed. One such militia, Ansar al-Shariah, is believed to have been behind the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in the city that killed four Americans, including the ambassador. Since then, militants have been blamed for a wave of assassinations of security officers and government officials.
Earlier this month, former Libyan leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil warned the militant threat extends to efforts to establish a state that can enforce rule of law.
"Libya will not see stability except by facing them," he told a gathering videotaped by activists and aired on Libyan TV. "It is time to either hold dialogue or confront them." He listed 30 officials and police officers assassinated in Benghazi the past year.
The Mali drama illustrates how the threat bounces back and forth across the borders drawn in the Sahel, the region stretching across the Sahara Desert. Libya and Mali are separated by Algeria, but the two countries had deep ties under Gadhafi. Thousands of Tuaregs moved from Mali to Libya beginning in the 1970s, and many joined special divisions of Gadhafi's military where they earned higher salaries than they would have at home.
As Gadhafi was falling in 2011, thousands of heavily armed Tuareg fighters in southern Libya fled to northern Mali. The Tuareg are an indigenous ethnic group living throughout the Sahel, from Mali to Chad and into Libya and Algeria.
The fighters, led by commander Mohammed Ag Najem, broke the Mali government's hold over the north and declared their long-held dream of a Tuareg homeland, Azawad. But they in turn were defeated by Islamic militants, some linked to al-Qaida's branch in North Africa, who took over the territory and imposed rule under an extreme version of Shariah, or Islamic law. This month, as militants moved south, France launched its military intervention to rescue the Mali government, conducting airstrikes against militants.
In retaliation, militants seized an oil complex in eastern Algeria, prompting a siege by Algerian forces that killed dozens of Western hostages and militants.
The militant group that carried out the Algeria hostage taking, in turn, had help from Libyan extremists in the form of smuggled weapons and "organizational ties," the group's leader, Moktar Belmoktar said.
"Their ideological and organizational connection to us is not an accusation against a Muslim but a source of pride and honor to us and to them," Belmoktar, the one-eyed Algerian founder of the Masked Brigade, said of the Libyans in an interview with The Mauritanian newspaper in mid-December. "Jihadists in al-Qaida and in general were the biggest beneficiaries of the Arab world uprisings, because these uprisings have broken the chains of fear ... that the agent regimes of the West imposed."
He urged Libyan militants not to submit to calls by the Tripoli government to hand over their weapons, saying their arms are "the source of their dignity and their guarantee of security."
With pressure building on Mali's Islamists, Libya provides a possible alternative haven for jihadis, said Scott Stewart of the global intelligence group Stratfor.
"It is a very good place to operate if you are an extremist," he said. "There are fault lines and divisions ... The central government has very little authority outside Tripoli. This is very conducive environment for Jihad to thrive."
They already have a free rein in Benghazi.
"Libya became a heaven for them," Col. Salah Bouhalqa, a leading military commander in Benghazi, said of al-Qaida. "The Westerners are fearful that what happened in Algeria will take place in Libya. And here, just like Mali and Egypt and Iraq, these groups have extensions."
Some extremists say they are determined to shape the new Libya. Youssef Jihani, a member of Ansar Shariah in Benghazi, vowed that he and other jihadis would not accept a return to the days when they were jailed and executed under Gadhafi's rule. He told the AP in Benghazi late last year that the toppling of Gadhafi would not have been possible without the strength of jihadi fighters who he said joined the uprising to ensure an "Islamic state of Libya, where Shariah rule is implemented."
The bearded young man said he lay down his weapons last year. But he said he would take arms up again if Libya's next constitution doesn't make a clear reference to rule by Islamic law or if secular politicians hold power and try to rein in jihadis.
Jihani proudly said he believes in al-Qaida and supports its slain leader Osama bin Laden and Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar. He said that during Libya's civil war in 2011, he killed a captured soldier from Gadhafi's army after discovering 11 video clips on his mobile phone showing soldiers raping women and men. Jihani said he ordered the soldier to dig his own grave, then severed his head with a knife.
"I wish I could behead him 11 times," he said. His story could not be independently confirmed.
Stewart, of Stratfor, also pointed to a concern that al-Qaida could make inroads among Libya's impoverished and alienated Tuareg.
Living in mud-brick slums or camps in the deserts of southwestern Libya, most Tuaregs were never given citizenship under Gadhafi's rule, though he used their fighters as mercenaries, and now they suffer not only from poverty but from the disdain of Libyans who see them as Gadhafi loyalists.
For centuries, Tuareg ran caravan routes across the Sahara, carrying gold and other valuables. Now they're known for smuggling weapons and drugs. In slums around the towns of Sabha and Owbari, they sleep next to livestock in shacks with corrugated metal roofs, with webs of electric cables dangling from poles overhead and garbage-filled streets.
Libya's new leadership has largely shunned them. The Tuareg's four members in parliament were removed because of ties to Gadhafi's regime, leaving them without a political voice. The Tuareg contend they were exploited by Gadhafi, along with all other Libyans.
"Gadhafi's rule left behind a breeding ground for terrorism by depriving people of their rights and education .... After all the promises, we thought we will live in heaven, but kids here die from scorpion bites," said Suleiman Naaim, a Tuareg rights activist, told the AP in Owbari.
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Invasive species are winning in the battle for survival against some native plants in a California reserve, according to a new study.
The research has troubling implications for plant hardiness, the scientists studying the plants said. While some researchers have believed the invaders merely supplement the native ecosystem, the new findings, published online earlier this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that a few of the original plants could die out in a few hundred years.
"What we see is a serious invasion, meaning that as one or more invasive species start to become abundant, the native plants shrink down in their habitat," said ecologist Benjamin Gilbert, who did field research during a temporary appointment at the University of California. He is currently with the University of Toronto.
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Among other experiments, Gilbert and co-author Jonathan Levine planted plots of several native species, including the native flower Lasthenia californica, at the Sedgwick Reserve in the Santa Ynez Valley near Santa Barbara. Researchers then observed the plants' growth and modelled the long-term trend for the plants' survival based on the experimental results.
Researchers ran several experiments looking at plant survival rates, planting seeds among exotic and native grasses. In this example, they added the native annual flower Lastenia californica to native bunchgrass, Stipa pulchra.
In general, Levine and Gilbert noted that the seedlings did not do very well in areas dominated by "exotic" grasses, such as Avena fatua, and that the population sizes of the native species are shrinking to critical levels.
Researchers have found that the number of total species in an area increases as exotics take hold and natives cling on to life. However, the native species are restricted to small "refugia," or isolated populations, located far apart from each other, which could hurt their long-term survival, Gilbert said.
Such isolated patches make the plants are more susceptible to damage frombeing hurt by disease or fire; plus, it's harder for them to disperse seeds.
"The native species are pushed out of the best habitat," Gilbert told OurAmazingPlanet. "The analogy for people is being taken off a really good diet ? it's getting them by, [but] it's not optimal."
Native species that have adapted to more challenging environments, such as rocky conditions, tend to fare better. "In this case, the only reason the natives seem to do well in these patches is it is so crappy for the invasives," Gilbert said.
As for protecting the native species, pesticides sometimes do more harm than good. It might be more effective, Gilbert suggested, to create a "corridor" of suitable habitat between patches of native species, which would help them again colonize larger areas.
One challenge, though, is that most of the native species develop naturally in small areas, although the invasives push them to sites that are much smaller than usual. This makes it difficult to study the impact of invasive species or to encourage the natural grasses and flowers to expand their habitats.
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With its self-titled sophomore release, Montreal?s Elephant Stone neatly sidestep the ?difficult second album? syndrome and deliver instead what is more like a mission statement.
Not that the group?s debut, The Seven Seas, released in 2009, was tentative. Stylistically varied, smartly arranged and melodically arresting, it grabbed enough acclaim to become a Polaris Prize nominee.
By comparison, the new disc is darker and denser, inviting attentive listens at serious volume to crack the surface. and once you really hear the harsh beauty at this album?s heart, it becomes clear that this is a stone-cold psychedelic marvel.
As usual, the group?s leader and songwriter, Rishi Dhir, walks the parallel paths of jangly pop and lava-lamp anarchy ? aided, in no small way, by guitarist Gabriel Lambert, who sometimes goes all Jorma Kaukonen with howling solos and peals of sonic texture, notably on the assertive opener Setting Sun, which could fit on a neo-psych Nuggets anthology.
Lambert?s greatest moment, and the album?s, comes on the almost nine-minute explosion The Sea of Your Mind, which tosses in everything but the kitchen sink: phased vocals, a sitar break by Dhir, a no-nonsense riff and swelling walls of roaring guitar. In your imagination, you can see the liquid lightshow projections behind the band asthey keep it going live past the half-hour mark.
A Silent Moment is the disc?s other standout track, with the vocals of classical singer Pandit Vinay Bhide sharing space with Dhir?s bass line time-traveling from somewhere around Revolver.
When psychedelic music first became part of the rock landscape, artists generally tempered their experimental ambitions with a nod to the Top 40 charts, and this album follows that time-worn pattern. The Be My Baby backbeat in Hold Onto Your Soul and the chiming catchiness of Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin are as representative of this strobe-light voyage as the backwards guitar that creates Heavy Moon?s hypnotic drone.
The spirit of `67 lives on in these tracks. But then, it never really went away, did it?
Rating: **** and 1/2
Podworthy: The Sea of Your Mind
Elephant Stone will be available Feb. 5. Elephant Stone performs Feb. 15 at 9:30 p.m. at Divan Orange, 4234 St. Laurent Blvd. Tickets cost $10, plus a $2 charge if purchased in advance. Go to http://indiemontreal.ca/elephant-stone-w-guests.
Here?s the video for Heavy Moon:
For something on the poppier side of the band?s repertoire, this is Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin:
Click here to check out the band?s Web site.
Elephant Stone performs Feb. 15 at 9:30 p.m. at Divan Orange, 4234 St. Laurent Blvd. Tickets cost $10, plus a $2 charge if purchased in advance. Go to http://indiemontreal.ca/elephant-stone-w-guests.
And last, but far from least, watch for our feature interview with Rishi Dhir on Jan. 29 in the Gazette?s print edition and at montrealgazette.com.
Bernard Perusse
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Source: http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2013/01/26/new-music-review-elephant-stone-hidden-pony/
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Only humans, birds, and seals are known to navigate using stars. But the dung beetle does use the Milky Way to chart its path, say scientists.
Dung beetles have been shown to use the Milky Way to navigate.Researchers have known for several years that the inch-long insects use the sun or moon as fixed points to ensure they keep rolling dung balls in a straight line - the quickest way of getting away from other beetles at the dung heap. Pictured here, a South African dung beetle.
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EnlargeDespite having tiny brains, dung beetles are surprisingly decent navigators, able to follow straight paths as they roll poo balls they've collected away from a dung source. But it seems the insects' abilities are more remarkable than previously believed. Like ancient seafarers, dung beetles can navigate using the starry sky and the glow from the Milky Way, new research shows.
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"This is the first time where we see animals using the Milky Way for orientation," said lead researcher Marie Dacke, a biologist at Lund University in Sweden. "It's also the first time we see that insects can use the stars."
After locating a fresh pile of feces, dung beetles will often collect and roll away a large piece of spherical dung. Last year, Dacke and her colleagues discovered the beetles climb on their dung balls and dance around in circles before taking off. This dance is not one of joy, however; the insects are checking out the sky to get their bearings.
"The dorsal (upper) parts of the dung beetles' eyes are specialized to be able to analyze the direction of light polarization ? the direction that light vibrates in," Dacke told LiveScience. So when a beetle looks up, it's taking in the sun, the moon and the pattern of ambient polarized light. These celestial cues help the beetle avoid accidentally circling back to the poo pile, where other beetles may try to steal its food, Dacke said. [Photos of Dung Beetles Dancing on Poop Balls]
In addition to these cues, Dacke and her team wondered if dung beetles can use stars for navigation, just as birds, seals and humans do. After all, they reasoned, dung beetles can somehow keep straight on clear, moonless nights.
To find out, the researchers timed how long dung beetles of the species Scarabaeus satyrus took to cross a circular arena with high walls blocking views of treetops and other landmarks. They tested the insects in South Africa under a moonlit sky, a moonless sky and an overcast sky. In some trials, the beetles were fitted with cardboard caps, which kept their eyes to the ground. Overall, the beetles had a difficult time traveling straight and took significantly longer to cross the arena if caps or clouds obstructed their view of the sky.
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Two people familiar with the decision says the Maloof family has agreed to sell the Sacramento Kings to a Seattle group led by investor Chris Hansen.
The people spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press on Sunday night because the deal is still pending approval from the NBA Board of Governors.
One person said the Maloofs are selling all 65 percent of their share for $525 million to Hansen, who will move the team to Seattle and restore the SuperSonics name.
The Maloofs will still be allowed to look at other bids until the league approves the sale.
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson said last week he had received permission from NBA Commissioner David Stern to present a counteroffer to league owners from buyers who would keep the Kings in Sacramento.
The deadline for teams to apply for a move for the next season is March 1.
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AP Sports Writer Bernie Wilson contributed to this story.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ap-sources-maloofs-agree-sell-kings-051521075--spt.html
BEIRUT (AP) ? Syria's foreign minister invited the country's rebels on Saturday to lay down their weapons and take part in a national dialogue, saying everyone who participates will be included in a new Cabinet with wide executive powers.
Walid al-Moallem said in a live interview on state TV late Saturday that any opposition parties could join the Cabinet as long as they reject foreign intervention in Syria. The Syrian government has started contacting "representatives of the Syrian people," he added.
Earlier this month, President Bashar Assad dismissed calls that he step down, vowing to keep fighting the rebels. Assad also proposed a national reconciliation conference, elections and a new constitution ? concessions offered previously over the course of the uprising that began in March 2011. The opposition says that Assad can play no role in a resolution to the conflict.
"I tell the young men who carried arms to change and reform, take part in the dialogue for a new Syria and you will be a partner in building it. Why carry arms," al-Moallem said in the hour-long interview. "Those who want foreign intervention will not be among us."
He accused Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey of arming and financing the rebels in Syria. He said that Jabhat al-Nusra, an al-Qaida-linked group which the U.S. has declared a terrorist organization but which fights alongside Syrian rebels, had brought fighters from 27 countries to fight in Syria.
Last month, the international envoy tasked with Syria's crisis, Lakhdar Brahimi, proposed a plan to end Syria's war with a cease-fire followed by the formation of a transitional government to run the country until new elections can be held.
Brahimi did not mention Assad by name, but said the transitional government would have "full executive powers" and would replace the Syrian leader. The plan was unveiled by world powers at an international conference in Geneva in June. Al-Moallem said that the Geneva conference does not require Assad to leave power.
The interview came as activists reported violence in different areas of Syria.
In the northern province of Idlib, Syrian troops fought intense battles Saturday against rebels who are trying to capture two military bases in the northwest and step up their attacks on army compounds elsewhere in the country, activists said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees said the rebels destroyed at least one tank near the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province. The rebels, who have been battling for weeks to take control of bases in Wadi Deif and Hamdiyeh, are working to cut off supply routes to the compounds, the Observatory said.
Attacks on government bases are a recent focus of fighting in Syria's civil war, which according to the United Nations has left more than 60,000 people dead since the conflict began in March 2011.
Last week, rebels captured the nearby air base of Taftanaz in a significant blow to President Bashar Assad's forces, who increasingly rely on airpower.
The rebels also have been trying to capture other air bases in the northern province of Aleppo, and, according to activists, were attacking the air base of Mannagh near the Turkish border.
In Turkey, state-run Anadolu news agency said Syria's air force targeted a mosque and a school building that was apparently sheltering displaced Syrians in the town of Salqin, some four miles (six kilometers) from the border with Turkey in Idlib province. Dozens of people were killed and wounded.
At least 30 people wounded in the attack were taken across the border to Turkey for treatment, and two died in Turkish hospitals, the news agency said.
The displaced Syrians were eating when the school was attacked, according to Anadolu, who interviewed witnesses who has crossed into the Turkish border province of Hatay. The wounded included women and children, the agency said.
Syria's official news agency SANA said troops had targeted rebel hideouts in Salqin, killing and wounding some of them.
Also in Turkey on Saturday, members of the newly-restructured Syrian opposition held a conference in Istanbul aiming to nominate representatives for a transitional government.
"We have some ideas, some proposals," said one opposition member, Abdul Ahad Astephoa, without mentioning any specifics.
The group, known as the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, was formed in Qatar in November amid international pressure to unite factions within the opposition.
Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Observatory, said the government was sending reinforcements to the central city of Homs where rebels have controlled some neighborhoods for more than a year. Residents of Homs, Syria's third largest city, were one of the first to rise up against Assad and many refer to it as "the capital of the revolution."
"It seems they are preparing for a big attack on Homs," Abdul-Rahman said by telephone.
The Observatory and the LCC said troops attacked several suburbs of the capital, Damascus, as well as Homs and the southern rebel-held town of Busra al-Harir. The shelling and air raids targeted the Damascus suburbs of Douma, Daraya and Moadamiyeh where regime forces have been on the offensive for weeks, they said.
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Associated Press writer Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-fm-calls-rebels-disarm-negotiate-203324096.html
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About a year ago, I decided enough was enough. I had a tiny rash on my right thumb for years and it itched like crazy?I couldn?t take it anymore. My doctor recommended an anti-itch cream, but I didn?t want to fight the symptoms, I wanted it to disappear?for good.
I took it upon myself to start researching possible sources. After scouring many books, articles, and websites, I made the decision to start eliminating foods.
It seemed like when I drank beer on the weekends my little rash intensified, so brewsky was the first thing to go. After a few days of passing on the suds, my rash got a little better but it didn?t go away.
Next I took out wheat (bascially all bread), and after two days my rash completely disappeared! I couldn?t believe it. I found sweet relief from simply skipping wheat. Did this mean I was allergic to wheat?
During my first meeting with my registered dietitian, Lauren, she asked about food allergies. I told her the story above and mentioned that I thought I had been allergic to eggs years ago, but now I eat them every day.
Lauren said pinpointing allergies is important during weight loss because foods can actually prevent our bodies from losing weight. Since I was showing signs of possible allergies, Lauren said taking a food sensitivity panel would offer insight.
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I learned that some food allergies can cause inflammation, the growth of unhealthy bacteria, and even weight gain.?
My test results came back and I was stunned: I had 28 food sensitivities. The most severe were eggs, pineapple, and yeast (my rash was triggered by yeast, not wheat after all!). Next came cow?s milk and banana, and on the mild side of the spectrum were soy, yogurt, chicken, peanuts, cashews, garlic, and, most surprisingly, green beans and peas.
Immediately I stopped eating or drinking anything with yeast. I eliminated all baked goods, pretzels, and bagels and replaced them with whole foods like meat and veggies and snacked on celery and cream cheese or pork rinds (they?re high in protein).
I also replaced my daily eggs (which I was not thrilled about since I ate them every day) with a few strips of bacon and avocado or my leftovers from dinner. A few days after making these changes, I noticed my stomach wasn?t bloated?at all. While the scale only moved down a smidge, I felt like I had dropped five pounds overnight.
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I?m doing my best to eliminate the other foods on my list, although Lauren says that I can rotate the mild sensitivities every four days.
At this point, I ?feel? thinner from these little changes and I?m thrilled to finally know what was triggering that annoying little rash. Sometimes it?s the little changes that lead to a better quality of life.?
Source: http://www.shape.com/blogs/weight-loss-diary/are-food-allergies-making-you-fat
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The tip that led to the revelation that one of the most widely recounted U.S. sports narratives of the past year was a hoax came to the editors of an online sports blog as many of their news tips do: an unsolicited email.
That email led Deadspin.com assignment editor Timothy Burke on the hunt of a story that exposed the heart-wrenching tale of standout Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend as a fabrication, Burke said on CNN on Thursday.
Te'o sprang to national prominence last fall when the senior co-captain was seen heroically leading the Fighting Irish to an underdog victory against the Michigan State Spartans within days of learning his grandmother had died. Moreover, it was widely reported, Te'o's girlfriend had died of leukemia just hours after his grandmother's death.
From that point, Te'o's narrative was a prominent feature in coverage of the team, which has a dedicated following and whose games are televised nationally each week.
Notre Dame went on to an undefeated regular season, culminating in a berth in the national championship game, which the Fighting Irish lost to the Alabama Crimson Tide on January 7.
"We got an email last week at Deadspin.com that said 'Hey, there's something real weird about Lennay Kekua, Manti Te'o's allegedly dead girlfriend. You guys should check it out,'" Burke said.
The email prompted Burke and co-author Jack Dickey to begin searching online for background on Kekua. "So we start Googling the name Lennay Kekua. We can't find any evidence of this person that wasn't attached to stories about her being Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend."
Their investigation led about a week later to a 4,000-word expose, published Wednesday under the headline "Blarney," that painstakingly debunked the story of Kekua's existence. The story went viral online.
Within hours of its publication, officials at Notre Dame, one of the most powerful institutions in college football and U.S. collegiate athletics overall, held a hastily organized press conference to assert that Te'o had been duped in a hoax perpetrated by a friend of his.
The girlfriend, who called herself Kekua and claimed to be a Stanford University graduate, was merely an online persona who "ingratiated herself with Manti and then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had tragically died of leukemia," university spokesman Dennis Brown said in a statement.
Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick said the university learned of the hoax from Te'o on December 26. Te'o answered questions forthrightly and private investigators uncovered several things that pointed to Te'o being a victim in the case, Swarbrick said.
Deadspin's Burke said he remains skeptical of this being a hoax perpetrated on Te'o rather than by Te'o.
"Ask yourself why and what incentive a person would have to execute such a lengthy, time-consuming and expensive con that would involve multiple people and essentially consume his entire life just to screw around with a guy that he knows?" Burke said on CNN.
Deadspin.com said the woman whose photograph was frequently shown on TV and in news reports about Kekua was actually a young California woman who had never met or communicated with Te'o. The website declined to identify her by name.
On Thursday, TV newsmagazine "Inside Edition" said the woman in the photograph was a 23-year-old marketing professional in Los Angeles named Diane O'Meara. Inside Edition, which is syndicated by CBS Television Distribution, said O'Meara was a former classmate of one of Te'o's friends. It Aredid not give the friend's name.
In the expose published Wednesday, Deadspin.com said a friend of Te'o's named Ronaiah Tuiasosopo was "the man behind" the hoax.
Outside Tuiasosopo's home in Palmdale, California on Thursday, a member of his family who did not identify himself told reporters, "Please, we have no comment. Please respect that."
The Te'o hoax is the latest black eye Notre Dame's legendary football program has suffered in recent years.
In 2011, the school was fined $42,000 by an Indiana agency over the death of football videographer Declan Sullivan, 20, who died in October 2010 after a hydraulic lift he was using to record practice toppled over in high winds.
In 2010, Elizabeth "Lizzy" Seeberg, a freshman at nearby St. Mary's College, killed herself ten days after accusing a Notre Dame football player of sexual battery. Her family began questioning the campus police department's reluctance to gather evidence and a 15-day delay in interviewing the accused.
After a federal investigation into the matter, the school agreed to revise its policies on sexual misconduct.
(Additional reporting by Dan Burns, Dana Feldman, David Bailey and Mary Wisniewski.; Editing by Vicki Allen, Greg McCune and Andrew Hay)
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) ? Matthew Macfadyen is perfectly presentable in jeans and a crewneck sweater that coordinates nicely with the blue of his eyes.
But the look is far from the elegant attire he wore as Mr. Darcy opposite Keira Knightley's Elizabeth in the 2005 film "Pride & Prejudice." And his posture is just as casual, which he acknowledges might offend the aristocratic character's diehard fans.
"You're slouching! What are you doing? Stand up straight, man!" Macfadyen says, teasing himself.
He looks back fondly on what he calls the "iconic" role drawn from Jane Austen's novel. But the British actor who's also known to audiences for his part as an intelligence officer in the series "MI-5" ("Spooks" in the U.K.) welcomes the chance to switch gears.
"I, as most actors, want to mix it up and do different things. Otherwise it gets boring and tiresome, not only for yourself but for everyone else seeing you do the same kind of thing," he said. "The joy of being an actor is to play different parts, do something different."
Macfadyen's latest chance for diversity comes in "Ripper Street," an 1880s police drama set on the gritty and untamed streets of London's East End around the period that serial killer Jack the Ripper terrorized the area.
The series, starring Macfadyen as Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, debuts Saturday (9 p.m. EST) on BBC America after starting its British run this month. BBC America is home to another rough-and-tumble, 18th-century police drama, "Copper," set in 1860s New York City and the channel's first original scripted series.
The mysterious and brutal Jack the Ripper has been recycled throughout pop culture in films including 1979's "Time After Time" and 2001's "From Hell" with Johnny Depp. But series creator Richard Warlow said the killer is a backdrop and invisible character for "Ripper Street."
"What we wanted to do really was to tell stories about the streets down which he walked and committed his crimes in the wake of those terrible murders," Warlow said, "and how it affected the community and, most importantly, the police that tried and failed to catch him."
Each episode will include what he called a "stand-alone crime" as well as pull at the thread of Reid's life, including those surrounding him at work and at home.
Macfadyen said he was reluctant to take on another series after two plus-seasons on "MI-5" because of TV's demanding production schedules. Then the "Ripper Street" pilot script came his way last year.
"I thought the Jack the Ripper thing had been done before ... but I loved it. The thing that was most attractive was the language and the way he (Warlow) constructs the sentences ... they feel very muscular without feeling sort of wanky and silly. ... They feel very muscular."
There is an antiquated eloquence to the dialogue that contrasts with the drama's mean streets and violent sexuality of the first case tackled by Reid and his cohorts, police Sgt. Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn, "Game of Thrones") and American forensics whiz Capt. Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg, "The Ex List").
Macfadyen said he was drawn to his character's modern sensibility.
Reid isn't "a sort of stock detective character. He's a very free thinking, forward-looking kind of man, not a sort of jaded 'seen it all' copper. So I was intrigued by that," he said.
The detective's viewpoint is so expansive that he can't resist admiring the potential of an early version of a motion picture camera ? even when he's just thwarted its use in making a 19th-century snuff film.
The scene had slipped Macfadyen's mind when he watched the episode at home in London and his wife, actress Keeley Hawes ("Upstairs Downstairs"), suddenly took alarmed note of what was unfolding on the screen.
"My 12-year-old stepson was watching and we said, 'OK, bedtime!" said Macfadyen, who has two children with Hawes.
But he considers the show "punchy and brave" for a mature audience and would like to see it go at least another season, in part for selfish reasons.
"Jerome, Adam and I get on so well, very happily. I know actors always say they love each other," he said, then smiled. "That's not always the case."
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The power grid in China is undergoing a fundamental upgrade, focusing on the development of a smart grid. A primary element of this transformation is the deployment of interactive technologies, including smart meters for residences and businesses. According to a new report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant?s Energy Practice, the installed base of smart meters in China will reach 377 million by 2020, growing from 139 million in 2012. The penetration rate for smart meters will reach 74 percent in the same year, the report concludes.
?China?s smart grid development is on a fast track,? says senior research analyst Andy Bae. ?The State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the government-owned electric utility that leads the market by a large margin, is the main force behind efforts to construct the country?s smart grid. Moreover, building a smart grid is a key goal for many provinces and cities under the country?s current Five-Year Plan, which continues through 2015.?
According to the report, the greatest smart grid growth in China will occur in transmission system upgrades, with transmission investment reaching a cumulative total of more than $72 billion by 2020. The Chinese government and SGCC have emphasized their intention to invest in high-voltage direct current and transmission upgrades in order to solve the country?s power imbalance issues. China aims to provide electricity to urban and rural areas by delivering generated power sources from developable hydropower located in the mountainous southwestern region, as well as wind and solar resources concentrated in the northwest.
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Brave Alice Pyne attracted global help as she tried to tick off her list of things she wanted to experience after being diagnosed with Hodgkin?s Lymphoma.
She achieved her ambition in August, crossing off whale watching after travelling to Canada.
But Alice?s parents announced late on Saturday night that the 17-year-old had died after fighting the illness for more than four years.
Smiles ... Alice after whale-watching experience
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Her mother, Vicky, wrote on Twitter: ?Our darling girl, Alice, gained her angel wings today.
?She passed away peacefully with Simon, Milly and myself by her side. We are devastated and know that our lives will never again be the same. #NightNightAlice?
Vicky and Alice?s father Simon again celebrated Christmas with Alice a month early last year with relatives, a tradition started in 2010.
Alice?s bucket list, which also included the hope that everyone in the UK signs up to the bone marrow register and charity work, attracted celebrity backing.
Gleefully announcing ?done? when she managed to achieve one of the items on the list, she managed to complete:
DONE - To buy a static caravan for my charity
DONE - To actually receive my BEM medal
DONE - To go whale watching
DONE - Visit Cadbury World
DONE - To go to my school leavers? prom
DONE - To stay in the Chocolate room at Alton Towers
DONE - To swim with sharks
DONE ?ish - To go to Kenya (got to go to Kent-ya)!
DONE - To enter Mabel in a Labrador show
DONE - Photo shoot with Milly, Clarissa, Sammie and Megs
DONE - To have a private cinema party for me and my BFFs
DONE - To design a Emma Bridgewater Mug to sell for charity
DONE- To stay in a caravan
DONE - To have a purple Apple iPad
DONE - To meet Take That
DONE - To have a nice picture taken with Mabel
DONE - To have my hair done
DONE - To have a back massage
Complete ... Alice ticked off her whole list
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Alice was awarded a British Empire Medal for her services to charity in the Queen?s Birthday Honours List last year, along with her sister Milly, 14.
Together they raised more than ?100,000 for charity and she set up the charity Alice?s Escapes, which would help parents with a seriously-ill child to go on holiday.
Alice regularly posted on her internet blog, keeping people updated on her condition.
In her poignant last post on New Year?s Day, she wrote: ?Can?t believe that I?m really saying ?Happy New Year? to you all.
?I don?t think that there is a single doctor that would have expected me to be here when they sent me home over two years ago (although I have had a fair bit of help in keeping going LOL).
?This month (that sounds good) my charity caravan will be arriving and I hope that I?m going to be well enough to go and spend the first night in it and pretend that I?m on an Alice?s Escape LOL.
Family ... Sister Milly and mum Vicky supported Alice
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?I?m so excited about this happening because every time I plan something, I always think that I won?t be here to see it happen and then I am!
?So I?ll try really hard not to pop off in the next few weeks and then I can be at the open day we?re planning!
?Other than the fact that I?m really tired and funny lights still bother me, I feel a whole lot better and the lumps in my neck have actually gone down again.
?So, my New Year mission is to get a bit fatter which will hopefully give me more energy! ?
Alice, of Ulverston, Cumbria, admitted she was taken aback by how her bucket list had spread around the world.
Speaking after her whale-watching trip she said: ?When I made my bucket list I never expected it to be published to the whole world - so I didn?t expect to tick off the last item - I didn?t even expect to get the majority of my wishes fulfilled.
?Words can?t really explain it but I?m so happy it is done.
?There was a point where I was on the back of the boat and a whale came up two metres away from me. It was about 25 foot long and just amazing.
?I always said you should take a few risks and there is no part of me that thinks this was a bit of a risk. What was the worst that could happen? More people should feel the same way.?
News of Alice?s death attracted many tributes to her blog and social media sites.
Among the kind messages was one from comedian David Walliams, who wrote on Twitter: ?I am so sad about the passing of Alice Pyne, who I met through the Pride of Britain Awards.
?What a beautiful and courageous girl. X?
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LONDON (AP) ? The new year rally in global markets showed few signs of abating Monday ahead of a speech on monetary policy from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.
A number of stock indexes around the world have hit multi-year highs as a key measure of volatility, the so-called VIX index, has fallen to a five-year low. The main reasons have been relief that U.S. lawmakers agreed a last-minute package of measures to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" of automatic spending cuts and tax increases and renewed hopes over the debt crisis in the 17 European Union countries that use the euro.
"After the uncertainties of 2012, ranging from the eurozone crisis to the 'fiscal cliff,' which understandably, created a degree of defensiveness on the part of real money investors, the mood is now bullish," said Neil MacKinnon, global macro strategist at VTB Capital.
European markets started the new week the way their left the last one ? on the up ? despite figures showing that industrial output surprisingly fell by 0.3 percent in November.
Germany's DAX rose 0.6 percent to 7,759 while the CAC-40 in France was 0.4 percent higher at 3,722. Britain's FTSE 100 index was up 0.1 percent at 6,129.
Wall Street was poised for modest gains too, with both Dow futures and the broader S&P 500 futures up 0.1 percent.
Much of the focus this week will likely center on the next round of U.S. corporate earnings, particularly from banks, such as Bank of America and Citigroup.
"Expectations are extremely low around fourth quarter earnings, despite stock indices trading at multi-year highs, which suggests there's plenty of room for the rally to continue in the short term," said Craig Erlam, market analyst at Alpari.
After the markets close in the U.S., Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is due to speak and investors will be interested to hear if he sounds more confident about the U.S. economy and provides hints on future monetary policy.
"Given how much Bernanke's comments have a knack of creating volatility in the markets, this may be one to watch very closely," said Erlam.
Any market response to Bernanke's comments will initially likely be felt in the currency markets. Ahead of his speech, the dollar was fairly flat, with the euro up 0.1 percent at $1.3361.
Markets have also been helped by expectations that figures on Friday will show China's economy gaining traction following a period of relative weakness. China reported last week a rise in exports and imports, a sign of higher demand both inside and outside the country. More signs of improvement are expected when China releases a slew of data on Friday, including factory output, investment and retail sales.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 0.6 percent to 23,413.26. South Korea's Kospi added 0.3 percent to 2,002.77 and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 advanced 0.2 percent to 4,719.70. Japan's financial markets were closed for a public holiday.
Mainland Chinese stock markets were boosted when Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China's securities regulator, said at a conference in Hong Kong that there was room to raise by "at least" tenfold the quota of foreign institutions allowed to invest in China's domestic stock markets, which are largely off-limits to outsiders because of capital controls.
Mainland China's Shanghai Composite Index soared 3.1 percent to 2,311.74 while the Shenzhen Composite Index for China's second, smaller stock market jumped 3.6 percent to 918.23.
Oil prices tracked equities higher, with the benchmark New York rate up 65 cents to $94.21 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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Pamela Sampson in Bangkok contributed to this report.
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