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Man arrested after fleeing police, then fighting
Formal charges are pending against a 21-year-old man who led Farmington police on a chase, then physically attacked an officer Saturday morning.
Douglass Alan Schell Jr. was being held in the Dakota County jail on $75,000 bail and is facing possible charges including fleeing an officer, obstructing the legal process, fourth degree assault and driving after suspension.
Police aren't sure why Schell fled in the first place. According to Farmington police chief Brian Lindquist, officer Andrew Bellows spotted an truck leaving the back side of Akin Road Elementary School at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday. Bellows started after the vehicle, but when he tried to stop the truck, the driver decided not to stop.
Bellows followed the truck through the Charleswood development. It made several circles through the development before exiting back on to 195th Street West. The vehicle turned left onto 195th and headed toward Flagstaff Avenue. At Flagstaff, the truck turned left and traveled southbound to County Road 50. From there, it turned right and headed westbound toward Lakeville, crossing Cedar Avenue, Lindquist said.
Farmington police officer Gary Rutherford was waiting near the city limits, and two Lakeville police officers were not far behind. When the truck neared Lakeville, Rutherford was able to catch up to it. According to Lindquist, Rutherford used his squad car to strike the back end of the truck and force it into a spin. The driver lost control and came to a stop.
Shell then ran, but he didn't get far, Lindquist said. Bellows, Rutherford and the two Lakeville officers were able to catch him quickly.
"It was a very short foot pursuit," Lindquist said.
According to Lindquist, Schell was not drunk or otherwise impaired. Officers also found no suspicious items in the vehicle, or anything to indicate why he may have been behind the elementary school. The only reason police could speculate Schell fled was because his license was suspended.
Bellows took Schell into custody. Before taking Schell to the jail, Bellows brought him to the emergency room at Regina Medical Center hospital in Hastings to receive care for any injuries he might have sustained. After the ER doctor looked at Schell, Schell allegedly physically attacked Bellows in an attempt to escape.
According to Lindquist, Schell lunged at Bellows with both hands, striking the officer. He then ran for the door, which would not open. Bellows attempted to stop Schell. They fought for the next eight to 10 minutes, until a Minnesota State Trooper arrived to help control Schell.
Schell was then transported to the Dakota County jail. His first court appearance was scheduled for noon Tuesday. His bail was set at $75,000.


text: 2 Back in October the Yankees made a move signing left handed reliever Naoya Okamoto that went largely unnoticed. Okamoto has still been relatively unnoticed up to this point as he was not invited to the big league camp this spring training. That doesn't mean the 27-year-old lefty should be forgotten. […] Yankees Fans Shouldn't Forget Naoya Okamoto19 Mar, 2011 in Editorial by Rob Abruzzese

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While The Hunger Games: Catching Fire isn't due out until next November, the poster is already here to get us excited! Fans hoping for a glimpse of Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen preparing for theQuarter Quell—a special, high-risk version of the Hunger Games that only takes place every 25 years—still have to wait, as the poster only shows Everdeen's symbolic Mockingjay pin aflame under the tagline, "Every rebellion begins with a spark." We can't wait to see how all the dystopian action will progress! The film is due out November 22, 2013.
In the meantime, take a look at all of the news to come from Panem so far...
• Jennifer's Hunger Games Hair
• Pin Moments on Film: The Mockingjay
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• Hunger Games Outsells Harry Potter
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BMW 7-Series Individual Pure Black Exclusive to Russia With Love
Russian BMW patrons can look forward to a very limited edition 7-Series "Individual Pure Black" provided they are among the first 50 to sign up.
The 7-Series Individual Pure Black will be based on the long-wheelbase 750Li xDrive and will be powered by a 4.4-liter, twin turbo V8 with 407 hp.
The special black exterior combined with 19-inch wheels and a black chrome package that swaps out the stock front kidney grilles, door surrounds, door handles, mirror casings, and exhaust tips combine to make this a special edition. On the inside, piano black trim is complemented by an Alcantara headliner.
Common BMW luxury amenities will include electronically-adjusted seats with driver-side memory and massage function, Bluetooth, HiFi Professional System, four-zone automatic climate control, and Internet Access through BMW ConnectedDrive.
Pricing translates to about $161,750, though that number is based on Russian pricing and not necessarily indicative of what something similar might cost in the U.S.
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The Friends of Robert Trail Library will host a book fair from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Barnes & Noble store at Fischer Marketplace in Apple Valley. A percentage of the sales from supporters will be donated to the Friends. Online support of the book fair will also be available Dec. 1-6.
The Friends have raised funds for several projects in support of programs at Robert Trail Library including the Summer Reading Kickoff, One Book, One Rosemount and providing new chairs in the Children's Department.
For further information, contact Jo Gilbertson at [email protected] or (651) 344-2074.


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SCHOOL: Archbishop Carney (Port Coquitlam)
FRESHMAN'S FUTURE: Queen's
WISE WORDS: "…a Carney graduate is spiritually, physically, and mentally developed, with a known vocation or path. But we are, and will become, much more than those words can describe. We have grown, we have grown together. We have laughed, played, and cried together. And here, today, as we celebrate together, we look forward to a future of discovery, the other side of this bridge we call graduation."
PORT COQUITLAM — Good afternoon Mrs. Paruzollo, Mr. Anderson, Mrs. Nicolato, teachers and staff, priests, family and friends, honored guests, alumni, and last but not least, my fellow graduates.
I just want to start off with saying how incredibly honored I feel to be representing such a unique and outright fantastic group of graduates.
I am so blessed to be able to call you, Archbishop Carney's Grad Class of 2012, my peers, and my friends.
Well, this is it, this is graduation.
All have us have been looking forward to this day for 12 long and grueling years.
A lot of us wished, hoped, and some of us even prayed, that this day would somehow come sooner than it did just so we could move on. But, now that we are here, sitting on this stage and reflecting on our years at Carney, It all seems to have flown by, almost too quickly.
Starting as meek and slightly intimidated grade eights entering the big world of high school for the first time, we have morphed and changed into who we are today. Along our journey of life, we have adapted to both hardships and successes, and discovered ourselves along the way. It is this journey that I think is so remarkable. Each of our own journeys is a separate entity, but yet all still part of one great body: connected by our high school years at Carney.
Let's start by addressing our purpose for being here this afternoon: the Carney graduates.
Carney graduates are so diverse; it is a hard term to define. According to our agendas, a Carney grad should be spiritually, physically, and mentally developed, and know their path or vocation.
Entering Carney as Grade 8's, we possessed none of those desired qualities. Grade 8 boys, with that overly-potent 'Stench-prevention' you called Axe, that when sprayed in the change room, that never failed to permeate its way all the way to the library.
And us little Grade 8 girls, who didn't quite understand the concept of subtle, and wore so much make-up that we slightly resembled raccoons.
My own personal awkwardness was almost unparalleled, and I know it took time to overcome that gangly clumsiness that caused me to drop my books at least once every day, without fail. Well, maybe I'm not quite over it yet, but I know I speak for all of us when I say that we are not the people we were as we entered this gym on the first day of high school. These past five years have shaped us, and regardless of where we started or where we are now, we are better people because of this school.
Although we have had many successes and great times together, hardships sometimes cause us to learn the most, and we have all faced struggles that have had to be hurdled in order for us to grow.
This ceremony would not be complete without honoring Michelle Bruneau in some way.
Michelle was a classmate, but even more than that, an amazing friend to all of us.
Losing her in body was a challenge that we never thought we would have to endure, but her presence here with us today is obvious in the optimism, sheer happiness, and celebration. She is here in our hearts, and Michelle's tragic passing made us all stop and think, and I know she has changed us for the better. I know I have smiled and laughed, consciously trying to embody her spirit in the rest of my life.
We have all lost, suffered, and felt pain on our journeys, but it has been these experiences that have allowed us to continue growing, to continue developing.
Along with overcoming loss, we have all had to overcome many mistakes and failures.
We have all made some stupid mistakes; some made more public than others by YouTube, and we have learned from every one of them. For example, thank you to Daniel, for teaching us all that regardless of the size of your ego, when you jump onto thin ice, it won't hold.
We discover new dedication and perseverance to bring us through tough times like these, to help us grow and to help us learn.
For a lot of us academically, Grade 12 was a year we had to take seriously, because of its consequences on the rest of our lives. It was stressful, intense, and for a lot of us, especially in biology, it was Arrudawakening.
We have had to move past failures and losses, utilizing a perseverance we didn't even know we had. We will all experience hardships, they are an unavoidable byproduct of living life, but it takes adversity for us to realize what we are truly capable of.
However, about two years ago, we were reminded of an important piece of advice from an unforgettable friend: "If you only look at the bad things that are happening, your view of the good gets a lot blurrier."
And with those words of wisdom, I think it's about time we tackle the great feat that lies before us: the challenge of recounting our successes.
I know it might sound pompous, but in complete honesty, with such a diverse group of people, every success story is unique. This task is so overwhelming because our achievements lie in basically every facet of our environment: the performing arts, athletics, and service, to name a few.
Together, we have accomplished more than even I thought possible.
We have frequently served at the door is open, run student-initiated social justice projects like the blanket drive, been actively involved in Pro-Life activities, and raised funds to build a school in Haiti.
We showcased our amazing talents in three musicals and two plays, including this year's production of Westside Story, and some of us won gold in the BC Catholic One-act Play festival.
Athletically, we won a senior boys BC Catholic gold medal in basketball for the first time, the members of the swim team collectively won four medals this year alone in the Provincial Championships, and the senior boys soccer team place fifth in provincials.
Academically, we have had the most students on the Principal's List than ever before, and one of our robotics teams was recognized with a 'BCIT 2012 Amaze Award'.
And that is just the beginning.
Most importantly, through these activities, we have discovered where we can each find joy in life: a necessary skill that will aid us in this new chapter of our lives by keeping us grounded and optimistic, even through struggles.
But I think I speak for all of us by saying that our biggest success along our journeys thus far has been growing together.
At the Grade 11 retreat, our friendships deepened, and we dared to summarize what we truly stood for as a class in our mission statement. We found inspiration in each other by working together, and learned to overcome our differences and advance ourselves as people. Furthering this experience, the grade 12 retreat impacted our whole class with an undeniable strength. We talked for hours, and through that process, we grew into knowing each other. We gained an invaluable sense of maturity that propelled us forward.
We have gained strength through discovering our unity: that we are there for each other in the tough times, and that others are here for us. We have discovered that we are a passionate and eager bunch, qualities that will enrich everything we do.
Mrs. Paruzollo, on behalf of the first grad class to start grad pranks the first week of September … our bad. But hey, you've got to admire our enthusiasm. It's the kind of energy, the kind of spirit, you only find in true happiness, a state we found though our years at Carney.
I started by stating that a Carney graduate is spiritually, physically, and mentally developed, with a known vocation or path.
But we are, and will become, much more than those words can describe. We have grown, we have grown together. We have laughed, played, and cried together.
And here, today, as we celebrate together, we look forward to a future of discovery, the other side of this bridge we call graduation.
A famous poet named e.e. cummings once said that "it takes courage to grow up and be who you really are".
We are all destined to make a positive impact on the world, and as we journey through life, we discover a new part of our true selves.
Graduation is not an ending, we are not saying goodbye.
It is not an end of our struggles, or an end to our successes.
We are moving on and moving forward. We will continue to grow, and we will continue to journey along the pathway of discovering ourselves that we started the day we were born. Grad 2012, we are not done. We are not done growing, laughing, loving, or even crying.
But most importantly, even though we are leaving this place, we are not done learning.
We will continue to learn, growing in our own individuality to become who we were each destined to be.
Thank you, from the bottom of my hearts, to everyone in the Carney community who has contributed to our successes.
You are our driving forces, our metaphorical lights that show us the path to the future. You are the reason we have had the opportunity to succeed, and for this we are truly thankful.
I have never been more proud to be a considered a part of such an amazing group of people, and I know that we are nothing, nothing compared to what we will be. Thank you
–delivered June 3, Archbishop Carney Secondary (Port Coquitlam)


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DELAFIELD, Wis. (Stockpickr) -- Professional traders running mutual funds and hedge funds don't just look at a stock's price moves; they also track big changes in volume activity. Often when above-average volume moves into an equity, it precedes a large spike in volatility.
Major moves in volume can signal unusual activity, such as insider buying or selling -- or buying or selling by "superinvestors."
Unusual volume can also be a major signal that hedge funds and momentum traders are piling into a stock ahead of a catalyst. These types of traders like to get in well before a large spike, so it's always a smart move to monitor unusual volume. That said, remember to combine trend and price action with unusual volume. Put them all together to help you decipher the next big trend for any stock.
With that in mind, let's take a look at several stocks rising on unusual volume recently.
Tower Semiconductor
Tower Semiconductor (TSEM), an independent semiconductor foundry, manufactures analog intensive mixed-signal semiconductor devices in the U.S., Asia and Europe. This stock closed up 7.2% to $11.06 in Monday's trading session.
Monday's Volume: 1.94 million
Three-Month Average Volume: 399,675
Volume % Change: 317%
From a technical perspective, TSEM ripped sharply higher here right above some near-term support at $10.01 with strong upside volume flows. This sharp move to the upside on Monday is quickly pushing shares of TSEM within range of triggering a big breakout trade. That trade will hit if TSEM manages to take out Monday's intraday high of $11.19 to its 52-week high of $11.78 with high volume.
Traders should now look for long-biased trades in TSEM as long as it's trending above Monday's intraday low of $10.17 or above its 50-day moving average at $9.77 and then once it sustains a move or close above those breakout levels with volume that hits near or above 399,675 shares. If that breakout hits soon, then TSEM will set up to enter new 52-week-high territory, which is bullish technical price action. Some possible upside targets off that breakout are $13 to $14, or even $15.


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Liberal frontbencher Christopher Pyne has pledged to increase parliamentary question time if the Coalition is elected later this year but the government says he is a serial wrecker of question time who has no credibility on the issue.
Mr Pyne, who is manager of opposition business, is calling for a backbench question time - on top of the existing question time - to give backbenchers the opportunity to ask ministers questions about their local electorates.
''One of the fair criticisms of question time is that the frontbenchers on both sides feature and often local issues that many backbenchers would like to raise never get a look-in because of border protection or economy, cost of living, job security, etc dominating frontbench questions,'' he told ABC Radio before a speech on Wednesday at the Institute of Public Affairs.
As Opposition Leader Tony Abbott continues his "mini-campaign" this week, Mr Pyne will outline ''practical changes'' that he says would make the Parliament a ''better place'', among them greater independence for the Parliamentary speaker.
''I think that we do need a little ''i'' independent speaker, one that stays outside the party room in the way that [former speaker] Harry Jenkins did and tries to exercise a genuine independence,'' he said.
''What's happened with the speakership over the last two years has been a farce under Julia Gillard where it's been used as a shiny bauble in order to attract support as it was with Peter Slipper. This has been wrong. It's reduced the role of speaker and also damaged the Parliament and it's time to put an end to that.''
In his speech, Mr Pyne also says that he would strengthen standing orders to stop the government using question time to "sledge the opposition". A Coalition government would also allow for a 30 minute "take note session" after question time to consider the answers provided by the government.
Mr Pyne was kicked out of parliament four times in the second half of last year for offences such as "continual abuse of standing orders" and "persistent interjection".
He has also been pulled up by Speaker Anna Burke for interrupting, using a prop, not resuming his seat and ignoring her calls
Labor frontbencher and current Leader of the House Anthony Albanese said the Coalition was not serious about parliamentary reform.
He said they had tried to ''wreck parliament to bring down the government'', and accused Mr Pyne of being an ''imposter''.
''What people will do is look at what they say should happen in Parliament and then look at how they behave on the floor of the House of Representatives,'' he told ABC radio.
He said the opposition disrupted the operation of Parliament at every opportunity.
''They suspended standing orders on 72 occasions, which led to a loss of some 409 questions in question time,'' Mr Albanese said.
Mr Albanese recalled how Mr Pyne and Mr Abbott had run out of the chamber to avoid accepting Craig Thomson's ''tainted'' vote last year, which showed ''their contempt for proper processes''.
Mr Abbott told reporters in Melbourne on Wednesday that it was important that Australians could ''once more watch their Parliament without embarrassment.''
''It is important that Christopher be given his chance today to talk about the kind of reforms that we would like to see made in the Parliament,'' the Opposition Leader said. ''In the end though, it is the Prime Minister who sets the tone of the Parliament who determines whether people can watch the Parliament and feel proud of our country.''
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A beautifully restored village house on three floors within the ancient ramparts on a quiet corner of the fortified village of Domme.
Equipped to a luxury standard with a private garden across the narrow lane. Perfectly situated for visiting the countless, well know sightseeing features and taking river trips down the Dordogne.
Living/dining room w/ satellite tv and wifi. Table seating for four. Hearth with electric insert. Antique (1700's) bread makers table.
Fitted kitchen fully equipped with a wide assortment of cookware, high end knives and utensils. Electric oven/cooktop, microwave and dishwasher.
Utility room w/ separate washer & dryer.
Sun streams through the french door which overlooks the lovely garden. The sitting room is furnished with a very comfortable divan, high back chair and a small table/desk.
Queen bedroom has a built in wardrobe and good sized window also overlooking the garden.
Large bathroom in crisp, blue and white tile with shower over the tub.
Enchanting, romantic space, with warm western light, 20' high ceilings above a super king size bed. Small separate w/c and feature claw-foot tub. Large closet, two dormer windows and one skylight window all of which overlook the village houses.
Also furnished with a vanity table, small antique desk and walk-in closet.
I am a Bostonian by birth and a Francophile from childhood.
I live between Domme and the Big Island of Hawaii and am a retired business owner.
For ten years I owned a home with my partner in the Alpes Maritime above Cannes. After exploring nearly all regions of France, it was not until visiting the Dordogne Valley in 2011, that it was clear 'that was the spot'. We sold the Riviera house and never looked back.
It is simply a magical place and Domme a most extraordinary village.
Lynn Mallard purchased this house in 2014
The cottage is 700 years old but the renovations are fresh and in keeping with the flavor of those times.
I did not want another large, high maintenance property and La Petite Chouette (the little owl) was perfect with the added bonus of having it's own private garden. The scale of the building and garden are perfect.
I chose Domme because of it's vista, history, ramparts and enough commercial enterprises (restaurants, shops) to meet ones needs without making it a crowded, overly touristic town. It is the best of both worlds.
Majestic sunset views of the Dordogne river from the village square.
Perfectly located within the 'golden triangle'.
Proximity to the Sarlat market and commerce.
Excellent butcher/grocery and bio-dynamic shop in Cenac-5 mins. away.
Wonderfully friendly neighbors and villagers.
Domme is a picturesque walled village overlooking the Dordogne river. It is voted one of the '100 Most Beautiful Villages of France' with a fine assortment of restaurants.
The cottage is ideally located 12 km from the historic market town of Sarlat-la-Caneda (Wed. & Sat.) and is very close to many areas of historic interest including caves, castles, gardens and natural wonders.
Ten minutes from the house you can rent a canoe and float down the Dordogne river passing historic sites along the way. Stop at your leisure for a picnic.
Hot air ballooning is twenty minutes away and you
may find yourself flying directly over the village.
A visit to the pre-historic sites of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man in the Vezere Valley is a must. Less than an hour away, in Les Eyzies, you may wish to start with a visit to the Pre-History museum then continue on to the many sites, minutes away.
Your days will be full as there is no end to the things to do and places to visit in the Perigord Noir.
You've made an excellent choice!
The house was much more than the charming holiday rental we expected. The house felt like a comfortable and much loved home. The decoration, furniture and facilities were of a very good standard/quality. Domme itself is one of the loveliest in France and the house itself in a quiet corner of the village no more than 5 minutes walk to the shops or restaurants. We very much enjoyed strolling around the village in the evening, enjoying a meal or drink at one of the many restaurants. The view across tha valley and river from the top of the village was stunning and a magical place to watch the sun go down. The house also boasts a lovely private garden where you can enjoy your lunch or evening meal. Our stay was perfect and I would not hesitate to return when we next visit the Dordogne.
La Petite Chouette is located towards the southern side of Domme, close to the Porte de la Combe: as such, this is a quieter part of this wonderful village yet only a short uphill walk to it's busting square and main attractions. With this cottage you can enjoy the best of both worlds, whether a quiet snooze/read/meal in your garden or to browse the shops, explore the labyrinth of streets or marvel at the views of the Dordogne from the bluffs of the Belvedere.
This property has a large master suite on the top floor and it felt indulgent to have a roll top bath as well as the super-king bed. On the middle floor is a second, smaller double bedroom, a large bathroom with shower and a fabulous sitting area with a full length door allowing both the sun to come in and you to see the garden, equally good to sit in on a balmy late afternoon or even a wet morning. Downstairs is one big room with kitchen, dining area and lounge although there is a separate handy utility room. What impresses is the quality and range of equipment - everything you need in the cooking and white goods arena along with Global knives, thick towels, a remote controlled electric fan (great gadget) and a TV you can actually watch (i.e with BBC TV channels) plus a quick wi-fi service. Lynn, the lucky owner, was friendly and easy to deal with.
The garden is across a narrow alley road but don't be put off, we never saw a car use it, and the garden itself has sun loungers, a dining area and a little coffee table and chairs, lights plus you can pick sun or shade. It is pretty private.
We loved this, our first stay here and our seventh overall in Domme. Thoroughly recommended.
Delightful week spent in this well appointed house in a very quiet corner of the beautiful bastide village of Domme. The house offered everything that we required including a private garden where we relaxed in the evenings after busy days sightseeing in the wonderful surrounding area. The house was beautifully decorated and furnished to a high standard with geraniums and hanging baskets framing the house. The owner Lynn was very helpful with all our enquiries and we would love to return to walk in the gorgeous countryside around.
La Chouette is a stone-built, old cottage in a quiet part of the historic walled 'Bastide' town of Domme, five minutes walk from the town square. The house is very well-equipped with new or good-as-new fittings, furnishings and equipment - nothing omitted and all spotlessly clean. The small (private) garden across the lane is a suntrap, ideal for relaxing and barbecuing. The first- floor sitting area gets full sun in the afternoon and is another good place to relax. In this ancient town with narrow one-way streets parking is bound to be tricky but there are two spaces immediately beside the property, and a permit for parking in the public areas. We were three - couple with adult daughter - and used Domme as the base for exploring the Dordogne, for which it is was absolutely ideal; Sarlat, Lascaux, Rocamadour and Bergerac are all within easy reach. So much to see and do. Would have no hesitation in renting La Chouette again if we were to return to the area.
What an amazing place! We loved it. We stayed for 8 nights in Oct and didn't want to leave- the facilities included everything we needed. With just two of us we could spread out- the middle floor became my dressing room, reading room and yoga studio! The large bathroom was one of the nicest we have seen in a vacation rental, and it was very convenient to have the small w/c on the top floor. We also made extensive use of the washer/dryer- very helpful when traveling from the US with luggage restrictions! At this time of year weather was variable so did not get to make use of the garden unfortunately.
We cooked at home several evenings, as it was off season some of the restaurants were closed (we definitely missed the pizza place) and agree that Auberge de Rode is a must do dinner out. Also highly recommend La Belle Etoile in La Roque Gageau and Cabanoix et Chataignes in Domme- although even in Oct we needed reservations at those. Saturday market in Sarlat is amazing. Climbing up to the castle in Beynac, the boat ride in La Roque, visiting Rocamadour, seeing prehistoric cave paintings, all were wonderful but the best was coming "home" to our temporary house in Domme.
One thing we definitely noted and appreciated was the quiet. Walking up to the main part of town was always interesting with the shops, tourists etc, and the views from the belvedere are magical. But at night, before bed, I'd open the door, look up the street, see no one and hear nothing. No people, TVs, radios, planes, electrical appliances, nothing. It truly felt like we were in medieval times. We slept late in the mornings as it was so quiet, nothing to wake us up except for the morning coffee, croissants and baguettes. Luckily, sightseeing in this area will work all that off- venturing through the medieval gate and down the hill to the artisan boulangerie , then back up, more than covered the calories in that chocolate croissant! I loved the walks around town, my husband enjoyed his runs through the woods and along the river.
Definitely recommend this- you won't go wrong. Great scenery, great food and wine, wonderful facilities, hospitable owner and helpful property manger, and gorgeous town all made for a fabulous vacation!
We had a really great time at Le Petite Chouette. Lynn (the owner) was extremely helpful throughout the booking process. The property is exactly as described in a wonderful location in the picturesque village of Domme. There is so much room throughout and it was spotlessly clean and very comfortable. We ate out 3 nights and cooked in 3 - the kitchen equipment is as you would expect if you were at home. Pizzeria des Templiers offer extremely tasty pizza's - the best meal was at Auberge de la Rode
where we had a superb meal.
Places worth visiting are Sarlat market, Chateaux de Puymartin, Losse, Biron , Castelnaud are good as is the Bastide of Montpazier and the Rouffignac cave.
After a day out it was so good to enjoy a cocktail in the garden late afternoon - a real sun trap and so peaceful.
We had a fabulous time at Lynn's beautiful cottage in all respects and have no hesitation in recommending it as a special place to enjoy a break in wonderful countryside. Brilliant.
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Re: "The more things change — Works of DMN cartoonist who charted first half of 20th century are still relevant, says Will Pry," Sunday Points.
Thanks for this excellent article on The News' legendary political cartoonist, John Knott.
Pry points out that Knott studied art for a time in Munich. In fact, Knott was a student there at the Royal Academy where a fellow classmate was a young Austrian named Adolf Hitler.
As with most other greats in his profession, Knott had a worldview and a deep understanding of human nature. This led to his uncanny "gift of prophecy" that Pry wrote about.
I have a rare copy of the collection of Knott's World War I work named simply, War Cartoons by Knott. The final drawing in the book — published 21 years before World War II began with Hitler's invasion of Poland — shows German Field Marshal Hindenburg and another general riding off together after the Armistice on Nov. 11, 1918. One rider says, "Vell, it didn't pay." Hindenburg replies, "Not this time."
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I help with Melbourne Perl Mongers.
I spend an awful lot of time talking about Perl, and have had my picture in the Australian newspapers with a camel. That's rather scary.
Hurrah! Advogato is back! If you were caring about what I'd been up to before it went down, you can now read about them on my advogato page.
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I have been running a cheap bsa shotgun scope on my mini- thirty for several years. Rapid fire or whatever it hasnt failed me.
I lost a bushnell once on a mini 25 years ago, but I also lost a simmons varmint scope just a few years ago from shooting a 17hmr rimfire.
So that certianly isn't enough information to confirm a hypothesis that they are hard on scopes. I suggest a call to ruger to ask them if they are aware of this issue.
The mini has been used successfully in the roles it was designed for.
No one wants to hear that their gun is worse or better. Right now you have a lot of people owning ARs and they surely wouldn't want to be told that their gun is inferior to something that on average is less expensive.
I suggest owning all of them like I have at one time or another or all at once.
One thing is for sure is that it took a lot of time before anything was done about bringing optical sights down to a reasonable elevation for a target shooter to use effectively in an ar15.
This was never a problem with the mini 14 ranch rifle. It was the main reasons why I disliked owning an ar15. If you could not double the gun as a short range plinker or groundhog killer at close distances using a scope than what good was it in my opinion.
Also in combat the mini14 shares the same advantage as the m14 when using open sights. about 1 and a half inches more of your head is hidden behind cover when using a rifle where the open sights are just off the barrel.
So basically it took until this century before the AR could catch up to the versatility and affordablity of the mini14.
The only time the platform (mini14, ac556) was a horror story was when it was in the wrong hands such as during the platt-mattox gunfight. its reliablity made it very horrible than and I am sure a lot of people would have hoped Ruger had not built such an effective gun at the time.
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Maroon 5 continues to ride its current wave of success with this winter's North American tour dates. The opening acts for the tour, which picks up on December 29 at the Mandalay Bay Resort Event Center in Las Vegas, are pop rockers Neon Trees and Canadian indie artist Owl City.
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After playing two shows in Vegas to close out the end of the year, the bands will take a break until February 13 and stay on the road until July 3. The show will spend the first half of 2013 traveling across the continent. The Overexposed Tour takes its name from Maroon 5's latest album. The title is a winking reference to singer Adam Levine's recent burst of mainstream recognition. Not only is he arguably the most popular judge on NBC's singing competition The Voice, but he is also starring in this season of FX's American Horror Story. "Moves Like Jagger," his band's collaboration with fellow The Voice Judge Christina Aguilera, was one of the biggest hits of the year. Maroon 5 rode this wave of success with follow-up single "Payphone." "One More Night," the second single from Overexposed, is the most successful single of the band's career and shows no sign of falling off the charts any time soon.
Opening act Neon Trees is touring in support of its second album Picture Show, which was released in April. Like the tour's headliner, Neon Trees originally emerged as a pop band that released catchy singles but was not expected to forge a long-lasting career. Current single "Everybody Talks" has been building momentum for over a year, proving that the band is more than a one-hit wonder.
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Philippines stock market has room to rise
Dubai: The latest deluge that brought life to a standstill in the Philippines seems not to have dampened its financial market.
On Wednesday, August 8, when the Philippines stock exchange resumed trading after it was suspended the day before due to inclement weather, PSEi, its 30-company benchmark index, closed the day higher at 5,308.38, up 0.46 per cent.
Aided by funds from foreign investors, trying to get away from the debt crisis of Europe, the Philippines stock market this year has climbed 22 per cent, hitting record highs more than 20 times.
Much of the surging foreign interest in the Philippines market since last year is credited to the government's proactive efforts to reign in fiscal deficit, tackle rampant corruption and create a business-friendly environment. This has contributed to a ratings upgrade from all three major credit agencies: Standard & Poors, Moody's and Fitch.
While the Philippines stock market has emerged as the year's top performer in Southeast Asia, it has also become the most expensive, currently trading at 17 times expected earnings compared to Thailand's 10.5 times and Indonesia's 12.1 times.
In their July 16 report, Nomura Asset Management wrote that while the Philippines market, like Thailand and Indonesia, remain insulated from the global woes, these markets are no longer cheap and it was going to keep its current, overweight positions.
Asean Investment Management currently has limited exposure to the Philippines market. "We are underweight due to valuation issues," said David O'Neil, its Singapore-based chief investment officer, "Currently value is lacking in the market."
Sound fundamentals
But, despite steep valuations, some investors still see the index continuing to climb due to the country's strong economic outlook for the coming years.
"Over a two to three-year horizon, we believe the Philippine market has strong legs to sustain its uptrend given its sound economic fundamentals — five to six per cent annual GDP growth and strong corporate earnings expansion in the range of 10 per cent to 15 per cent," said Maria Theresa M. Javier, senior vice-president and group head, BPI Asset Management, the biggest unit trust company in the Philippines.
It has investments worth 130 billion pesos (Dh11.4 billion) under management. Gregg Adrian R. Ilag, equity analyst at AB Capital Securities Inc., agreed. "Even though valuations are high, they are not at illogical levels. I expect earnings to catch up, eventually easing valuations to decent levels."
BPI's Asset Management's outlook is at least a double-digit CAGR [compounded annual growth rate] for market returns, sustained until 2014, said Javier.
O'Neil of Asean Investment Management expects an upside of more than 30 per cent over the next two to three years.
In their July report, asset management firm Maybank ATR Kim Eng said that there are several factors that give the index room to rise.
"One is sustained growth in government spending that can offset weakness coming from developed economies and major emerging markets," writes Luz Lorenzo, market strategist and head of research at Maybank, in the report. And that is the reason for the bank to upgrade the 2012 GDP forecast to 5.4 per cent from 5 per cent previously.
Attracting capital
He also cites that keeping interest rates low, because of low inflation of 3 per cent year on year for the first half of 2012, is likely to positively impact the market.
Next year's outlook for inflation remains benign and it is likely that low interest rates will continue to attract capital flows into the Philippines. His optimism is also based on robust private consumption, which accounts for 70 per cent of the GDP, and which has shown no signs of flagging.
"We see the risks as mostly coming from a prolonged and protracted global economic slowdown given the financial volatility in the Eurozone, the fiscal problem in the US, and China's own growth concerns," said Javier. "Politically, the risk may come from a possible escalation of tension with China, pertaining to the Scarborough Island."
Ilag is also wary about inflation. "In terms of risk, we think that significant risk comes from inflation over the long term," he said. "The current easing measures will cause higher inflation in the years to come."
Where to invest?
In the first half of 2012 all sectoral indices were positive, led by real estate and banking stocks. The financial index surged 34.6 per cent making it the best performer at the end of June.
BPI Asset Management favours Philippine conglomerates which are well-positioned to benefit from the administration's infrastructure spending and consumer's rising disposable income, which should be further buoyed by election spending in 2013, said Maria Theresa M. Javier, senior vice- president and group head, BPI Asset Management.
She believes property and banking stocks will be at the forefront of the market's upswing. "Property [stocks] remains one of the best proxies for the Philippine economy and we expect their net income growth to be steady as they recognise completion of previous year's sales. Philippine banks, on the other hand, are expected to exhibit double-digit loan growth moving forward as well. This will be supported by the expected rise in financing requirements by local companies' participating in the public-private partnership (PPP) projects which are in the administration's pipeline."
Maybank has focused on utility and consumer companies, which have continued to provide stable returns, since the beginning of the year. In the July market report, Luz Lorenzo, market strategist and head of research at Maybank, said they were sticking to their current allocations of Universal Robina Corp. Pepsi Cola Products Philippines, First Gen Corp., Manila Water and First Philippines Holding Corp.
Gregg Adrian R. Ilag, equity analyst at AB Capital Securities Inc., said the sectors they like include power, gaming, construction and media.
"We remain bullish on power companies due to the capacity shortages expected to occur in the Philippine regions," said Illag. "Required additional capacity is approximately 16,550MW over the next 18 years. Out of these only 1,354MW is committed by investors.
"We also like the gaming industry which is going to get a boost from tourist influx in our country. Meanwhile, construction companies are a direct play on the government's plan to increase spending by releasing more PPP projects. We also favour the media sector as they will be prime beneficiaries on the upcoming election spending."
Currently he favours: First Philippine Holdings Corp., a conglomerate focused on the power sector and trading at large discount to NAV (net asset value). In media, his pick is GMA Networks Inc. due to its impressive profitability and high dividend payouts.
In the construction sector, he likes EEI Corporation. "EEI's liquidity, large size and cheap valuations (7x 2012 P/E) makes it attractive," he explained.
"In gaming, we're currently looking at Bloomberry Resorts Corporation (Bloom) and Alliance Global Inc. AGI is a conglomerate with a diversified portfolio (food and real estate, among others). It is very attractive in terms of valuations: 10.1x 2011 P/E against the mean of 16x for conglomerates."


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The senior center in tiny Eagle Bend, Minnesota, delivered 10,000 meals last year to Todd County residents who needed them, the same number as the year before.
Verna Toenyan, who wrangles people and businesses into helping with that effort, worries that soon that won't be enough.
That's just one reason she got 60 or 70 people in a room for lunch in Browerville yesterday to start talking about how people in Todd County can figure out, with the help of the Initiative Foundation, how to deal with an aging population. There was a lot of gray hair in the room.
Todd County is on the front of the aging curve. About 16 percent of its 25,000 residents are over 65 and, as is true just about everywhere else in the United States, that percentage will rise in coming years.
As for the meals program, "We are dealing with the neediest of the needy," Toenyan says.
The Initiative Foundation's goal is to help residents come up with a strategy, and IF's Dan Frank made two interesting points in Browerville. One is that the issues involved with an aging population aren't simply those of health care. Recreation, the business climate, arts and culture, education and more are all part of the equation, too. And second, it's useful to think about people who are aging (i.e. all of us) as, not simply a suck on the system, but as assets that can be brought to bear to find solutions.
In the coming weeks, MPR News will start a more organized reporting effort in Todd County to start painting the contours of the issue. I hope we can provide some insight to residents there, but I also think it will be helpful to others around the state. It's a place we're all going to get to someday.


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CINCINNATI (RNS)—A German family seeking asylum in the United States so they can home-school their children lost their appeal in federal court, but their lawyers say they're prepared to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case.
Home School Legal Defense Association, a religious organization representing the family.The German government persecuted the Romeike family for their faith, said Mike Donnelly, a lawyer with the
"It is treating people who home-school for religious or philosophical reasons differently," he added.
The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagrees. The United States grants safe haven to people who have a well-founded fear of persecution, but not necessarily to those under governments with laws that simply differ from those in the United States, Judge Jeffrey Sutton wrote in the court's decision.
"The German authorities have not singled out the Romeikes in particular or home-schoolers in general for persecution," he wrote for the three-judge panel in the case, Uwe Romeike v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Uwe Romeike said in an email his family began home schooling to protect their children from bullying and teachings they didn't agree with.
"As we were confronted with opposition to our choice, we began to feel more and more that our faith required us to home-school our children," he said.
Uwe and Hannelore Romeike moved their five children to Tennessee (a sixth child has since been born) in 2008 to escape thousands of dollars in fines and increasing pressure from local police and education officials to enroll their children in school. All German parents are required by law to send their children to a state-recognized school, whether public or private.
The Romeikes are evangelical Christians. They say they should be allowed to keep their children home to teach them Christian values. Before they left Germany, the police forcibly escorted the older Romeike children to school one day. Other German families have lost custody of their children because they persist in home-schooling.
An immigration judge in Tennessee granted the Romeikes' bid in 2010, but the Board of Immigration Appeals tossed that ruling in 2012, arguing religious home-schoolers don't face any special consequences not applied to other families whose children don't attend school.
The 2012 decision sparked an outpouring of support for the Romeike family among conservative U.S. Christians. More than 120,000 people signed an online petition urging President Obama to let the family stay. Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck described the case as evidence of crumbling religious freedom.
The Romeikes' legal team plans to request a hearing before the 6th Circuit's entire 15-judge panel. Approval for such a hearing is unlikely, Donnelly said, adding the Romeikes already are preparing to fight in the U.S. Supreme Court for asylum.
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"The right to vote ... is the primary right by which other rights are protected." — Thomas Paine
In keeping with the GOP's war on voting, the Republican-led Supreme Court has just voted to put part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act on the shelf. Their justification for this seems to be that, in some states, willing black voters outnumber the willing white voters.
This unaccountable and unelected governing body's explanation for this hold on voting rights is complete with tables that show higher participation of black voters than white and completely ignores 5 million unfortunate citizens who had their voting rights compromised in our last election.
In short, these five wealthy Republican autocrats are claiming that too many blacks are voting and a rollback of our voting rights protections is urgently needed to remedy what they see as a problem. So now we'll pass voter restriction, Jim Crow laws, in all Republican majority states while waiting for the most do-nothing U.S. Congress in history to remedy this Supreme Court regulation of our voting rights.
According to Article 1 Sections 4 and 5, only Congress has the power to regulate elections ... not the Supreme Court. Here in Missouri and many other Republican majority Legislatures, lawmakers have given up on convincing the electorate of the wisdom of their proposals; instead the GOP has decided to simply restrict when, where, how and who votes by placing legal and financial obstacles (poll taxes and fees) in our citizens' path to democracy.
Patriotism is in very short supply.


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Vienna, VA, United States, 2009/04/13 - Pace-Setting Small Business MicroTech focuses new High-Tech development Center on growing Audio-Visual Telecommunications market - MicroTech.net.
Information Technology provider MicroTech celebrated the opening of a North Carolina-based manufacturing facility last week with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the building in Greensboro. The new high-tech 14,500 sq. ft. headquarters for MicroTechs Audio-Visual Telecommunications division will be home to nearly 40 local workers and 10 remote employees at client sites. The specially designed building includes corporate offices, conference rooms, testing laboratories, and installation space for an array of IP-based corporate Audio-Visual solutions.
One of the nations fastest-growing small businesses, as well as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned organization, MicroTech provides Information Technology Systems and Services, Strategic Solutions, Product Solutions and Consulting Services along with Audio-Visual Telecommunications Design and Installation primarily to the U.S. Federal Government, and city, state, and local agencies managing over 400,000 users daily.
With the launch of our Greensboro manufacturing facility, we have entered a new and exciting phase of our corporate path, said Tony Jimenez, President and CEO of MicroTech. Our target customer base is turning more and more towards the use of Video Teleconferencing to slash travel expenses, reach underserved markets, and connect with mobile workers. The new facility dedicated to the development of IP-based Audio-Visual solutions will help us expand and enhance our product line in this growing-in-demand field.
There are many factors contributing to the growth of IP-based Audio-Visual Communications. Healthcare costs are driving the acceptance of Telemedicine. Enrollment in Distance Learning has grown dramatically. Remote Video Arraignment is speeding up the backlog of cases and fighting crime. And Telework alternatives are leading to less-crowded roads and fuel savings.
Along with Tony Jimenez and MicroTech Sr. Vice President of Visual Communications Robert Otto heading the Greensboro office, local dignitaries in attendance who spoke at the ribbon-cutting event included North Carolina Congressman Howard Coble (R - NC, 6th District), Greensboro Mayor Pro Tem Sandra Anderson Groat, and Greensboro Chamber of Commerce President Rob Clapper. The new facility is located at 6909 International Drive, Suite 103, in Greensboro, North Carolina.
In the midst of a nationwide economic downturn that has severely impacted communities like Greensboro, MicroTech has made a firm commitment to the North Carolina area economy. MicroTech is proud to become an important part of the Greensboro business community, said Jimenez. And we will continue to make a strong commitment to our Audio-Visual Telecommunications service line, recognizing its growing value and importance in what we have to offer to our customers.
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The Group acquires Vidreira do Mondego's production facilities at Figueira da Foz, Portugal.
- 1989
The Group acquires a 73% stake in the Italian company Vetri (which becomes SG Vetri), eventually increasing its stake to 75% in 1990.
- 1991
The Group acquires a controlling 60% stake in Oberland Glas AG of Germany (which becomes SG Oberland).
- 1995
The Group obtains a foothold in the US with a 58% stake in Ball Foster Glass, a company created from the merger of the glass packaging divisions of Ball Glass Corp, Foster Forbes, and Pechiney International.
The Group increases its stakes in Vetri and SG Oberland to 99% and 88%, respectively.
- 1996
The Group increases its stake in Ball Foster Glass.
- 1998
The Group acquires a 60% stake in Rayen Cura, an Argentinean wine bottle maker located in Mendoza.
The Group acquires the 90% of the French company VOA-Verrerie d'Albi that it does not already own, and increases its stake in SG Oberland to 96.6%. The Group's Spanish subsidiary Vicasa starts up a new plant in Montblanc, Spain.
- 2001
The Group acquires a majority stake in Saga Décor and a 75% stake in French company Thierry Bergeon Embouteillage.
- 2005
The Group acquires majority stakes of 79.7% in Zorya, a Ukrainian company, and 99.8% in Euroverlux, a Polish glass packaging decoration business.
The Group acquires a 60.6% stake in KMS of Russia through a capital increase and a 7.32% stake in its holding company, STI.
The Group sells SG Oberland's glass brick making business to Solaris GmbH.
- 2006
The Group buys out Saga Décor's minority shareholders.
- 2006
The Group acquires a 51% stake in BO Glass Containers SA in Chile (which becomes SG Envases SA).
The Group sells SG Calmar Incorporated (the Group's plastic pumps business) to MeadWestvaco.
The Group sells Futronic GmBH, a German manufacturer of IS machine parts, to Jetter AG.
- 2007
The Group sells Gijon-Fabril, a mould manufacturer, to Buxanti.
The Group becomes the full owner of STI and buys minority interests in KMS.
The Group sells its stake in Saint-Gobain Desjonquères and its subsidiaries (the Group's small bottle making business) to Cougard Investissement and acquires a 20% stake in Cougard Investissement. The Group later sells some of its Cougard Investissement shares to an operating partner in July 2007, scaling back its stake in Cougard to 19.9%.
The Group sells a 30.98% stake in Samin, a sand supplier and household glass collection and recycling services provider, to a Saint-Gobain subsidiary, reducing the Group's stake in Samin to 20%.
The Group increases its stake in Zorya to 93.4% through a capital increase.
The Group buys out Euroverlux's minority shareholders
- 2008
The Group sells its stake in Cougard Investissement to a Compagnie de Saint-Gobain subsidiary in March 2008.
The Group acquires a 95.51% stake in Russian company Kamyshinsky (KSZ) and buys minority interests in KMS
The Group increases its stake in Zorya to 96.68% through a capital increase.
The Group sets up Black Sea Packaging Glass in Russia in order to acquire the occupancy rights to land slated for industrial purposes in the Krasnodar wine making region.
- 2009
The Group sets up Accuramech Industrial Engineering in India, which acquired a business specialised in the sourcing and inspection of IS machine parts.
- 2010
The Group sets up Vetreco, an Italian glass recycling company 40%-owned by SG Vetri, 30%-owned by Ardagh, and 30%-owned by Zignano Vetro (ownerships in terms of shares and voting rights).
- 2011
The Group acquires in June 100% of the Algerian public company Alver.
In September, the Group announces its departure from the tableware business in Brazil.
Photos : Jean-Roch Mialet


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MONTREAL (Sep. 21)
The Financial Times of Montreal and the Israelite Free Press of Winnipeg have exposed Nazi and anti-Semitic propaganda being published in the German-language Der Kurier of Regina. Both newspapers pointed out that the publisher of Der Kurier is Otto Strasser, a former close colleague of Hitler who fell out with the Nazi leader. Both stated that the newspaper sounded like the leading Nazi propaganda sheet of the Hitler era, Goebbels' Angriff.


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Chinese uni signs deal with NMIT
Trade links between Nelson and China have strengthened with a third education partnership deal signed between the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology and a top-ranked university in China.
Nelson Regional Economic Development Agency (EDA) chief executive Bill Findlater said an education exchange arrangement has been made with Hubei Polytechnic University in Nelson's sister city Huangshi.
Mr Findlater has just returned from China with Nelson Mayor Aldo Miccio to follow up business development opportunities forged over the past year. The Nelson delegation met with NMIT's representative in China to help with the discussion.
Chief executive Tony Gray confirmed a partnership deal had been signed, adding to NMIT's existing partnership arrangements with the Hunan University of Technology and Zhejiang Water Conservancy and Hydropower College.
The latest partnership was yet to be signed off by the local education authority, but it was hoped it would be up and running by the start of the 2013 academic year, Mr Gray said.
He said NMIT had for the past seven or eight years offered students in China the opportunity to study papers provided by NMIT's commerce, information technology and arts and media degrees.
"The relationship is designed to provide an opportunity for students studying NMIT papers in China to progress a degree or cross-credit study towards one. Students can then come to New Zealand to finish their degree."
Mr Gray said the programme to run with Hubei university would be similar, but the added attraction was its link to Nelson's sister city, Huangshi in Hubei province.
The university has 15 schools, a fulltime student body of more than 20,000 and around 6000 long-distance education students.
Mr Gray said income for both in-China delivery of NMIT programmes and students coming to NMIT was around $1.2 million last year.
NMIT's wider international student programme was worth around $4m annually to the institute.
Mr Gray said revenue was one way to measure its success, but the important role for NMIT was in forging internationalism and in particular relations with China.
He said the latest arrangement was a good example of NMIT, Nelson city and the EDA working together to achieve progress.
The city council recently approved estimated travel costs of $5200 plus disbursements for Mr Miccio's trip to China and Japan.
Mr Findlater yesterday reiterated his view that the potential for the Nelson region by developing closer trade links with China was "enormous".
Mr Miccio said in a note on his Facebook page that China was also "very keen" on Nelson's reputation as a leader in producing nutraceutical products (natural health supplements).
"There is a big market in China when it comes to natural food and health products, which is good news for Nelson given our strength in these areas," he said.
Mr Findlater said green technology, the wine industry, investment in Nelson, tourism, plus research and development were also key areas of interest with the Chinese.
"Nelson has the highest number of people per capita employed in research and development than anywhere in New Zealand, helped by the Cawthron Institute, Plant & Food Research, Niwa and the natural products sector."
Mr Findlater said the emerging middle class in China would potentially translate to large numbers of visitors to Nelson, because there was a high degree of interest from Chinese in the region and its natural features. He was also keen to support the setting up of a distribution company in Huangshi to help get Nelson goods to markets.
"Within a radius of a four-hour drive from the city you can reach 400 million people, and a 12-hour drive you reach one billion people."
Mr Findlater said a Chinese distributor would handle the intricacies of dealing with markets which were big on protocol.
Mr Miccio said after his last visit that among the deals they planned to progress was a potentially lucrative online trading opportunity for Nelson businesses with China.
Mr Miccio told the Nelson Mail this week that a New Zealand-based company was facilitating the deal.
Mr Findlater said an Auckland-based company now had an agreement with e-commerce firm Alibaba.com and progress was under way with that, and it would not be only about Nelson, but the rest of New Zealand as well.
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McDaniel kept plugging at school even as mom
Updated 8:44 pm, Friday, May 17, 2013
When Elizabeth Logan "Liz" McDaniel wanted something, she didn't stand back and wait for it to happen. While her young husband was in navigator school during World War II, she took flying lessons because she planned to become a WASP — a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots — and hoped to work close to him. "She was just a determined person," longtime friend Bill Moore said. "She never wasted her time, she was determined ... in anything she took on."
McDaniel died April 19 at an undisclosed age. She made her son promise not to reveal her birth date.
Although McDaniel did learn to fly, her husband came home before she joined the service and she settled into the life of an Air Force wife, always focused on getting an education.
"I'm sure it was on her mind from the day she graduated from high school," Moore said. Although her marriage and then the war delayed her, they didn't stop her from attaining her goal.
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As the couple moved from base to base, "she'd get into school and get as many credits as she could," her son David McDaniel said. "She attended maybe 10 colleges and universities."
As their growing family moved from Los Angles back to San Antonio, then to Germany, Japan and Spain, she worked on her education while organizing each move, settling the older children in their new schools, home-schooling the younger ones and doing all the other tasks of a wife and mother of five.
Through the years she earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angles, a master's from the University of Illinois and eventually a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin, all in psychology.
In 1969, McDaniel's husband died from complications of rheumatic fever, which he'd developed as a helicopter pilot during the Korean War. The family had just joined him in Hawaii, where he had a teaching position. "That was one of the real tragedies of her life," David McDaniel said. "She never really got over his death."
Liz McDaniel immediately took her children, ages 16, 14, 12, 10 and 8, back to San Antonio and got a job as an assistant professor at what was then Southwest Texas State University. She later became a full professor and eventually developed and managed the psychology department's graduate program.
She stayed at the university until 2000, even though she ended up suing it for discrimination. "She never put up with anybody disrespecting her for her sex," David McDaniel said. So when she found out she was being paid less than men who did less, she sued the university, and won.
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Elizabeth Logan "Liz" McDaniel
Born: Dec. 10 in Youngstown, Ohio
Died: April 19, 2013, San Antonio
Preceded by: Husband David Cotter McDaniel; son William Edward McDaniel; daughter Susan Eileen McDaniel Clinger; fiancé John Campbell; parents Lawrence Adair and Henrietta Logan, and brother Charles Logan.
Survived by: Daughter Donna Elizabeth McDaniel Ketterle and son-in-law Michael; sons David Cotter McDaniel Jr. and daughter-in-law Libby, and Steven Lawrence McDaniel; nine grandchildren.
Services: Memorial service at 3 p.m. Saturday at Porter Loring Chapel, 1101 McCullough Ave.
"She didn't enjoy it, but it was necessary," her son said. "She was a strong woman."


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New business offers home care
August 24, 2012
A Hand at Home, Lake Tahoe Personal Assistance offers non medical in home senior assistance or help while recovering from surgery, illness or injury.
Services the business can provide includes helping elderly family members with tasks such as preparing meals, taking a shower or being present when no one else is available. Staff can also help new moms around the house during the first weeks after a baby is born. Other services including assisting those recovering from surgery or illness.
"We are proud to be the only locally owned and operated, non franchised personal care agency in South Lake Tahoe," a press release from the business stated. "It has been a dream of ours for many years to open a business that serves our neighbors when they need help the most."
A Hand at Home is a fully licensed, bonded, and insured care-giving agency. Its team can provide care a few hours per week or every day. Its caregivers go through a comprehensive training program, are drug and background screened, and demonstrate a genuine desire to help others.
For more information, call 530-545-0780.


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God as Potter and Father
Arthur at "the voice of one crying out in suburbia" has written a very good article called "The Potter and His right over the clay." The entire article is good, but I especially liked the end of the post where he begins talking about God as Father, and the view of modern fathers:
Perhaps we misunderstand the idea of God as Father and ourselves as adopted children. Perhaps we see the parent-child relationship more like modern Western culture and less like the relationship that the original Biblical audience would have understood. We see our parents as something we strive to outgrow. We turn 18 and become "independent†of our parents, striking out on our own to make a name for ourselves. I don't think of myself as the son of Robert, I am a man in my own right. While I am not an expert on ancient culture by any means, I do understand that the relationship between fathers and sons (and husbands and wives) in ancient times was vastly different from how it is today. Family was far more important and honoring your father and mother didn't mean a card on their birthday. The leveling of the parent-child relationship in Western civilization makes fathers into peers as we grow into adulthood and that is perhaps why when we speak of God as Father we see Him as far less than He is or conversely we see ourselves as far more than we are. We diminish God and elevate ourselves and that has been the problem with mankind since way back to a certain dispute over fruit from one particular tree.
God is God and we are not. That seems so simple and yet so hard to live with. It may be hard but it is so vital because the more we submit to God as the Creator, as the sovereign Potter and likewise recognize ourselves as merely clay in His hands, the closer we will walk with Him.
Yes, God is God and we are not. God is Father, and not like us or our fathers. He will always be our father. We will always be his children. We will never outgrow him.


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Addressing The Staffing Challenges Of A Global Market
Kathy | August 1, 2007
Ninety percent of manufacturers are experiencing a shortage of qualified production employees—from machinists to technicians— according to a recent survey by the Manufacturing Institute. In fact, a National Association of Manufacturers report predicts that by 2020, U.S. manufacturing will need up to 10 million new skilled workers to meet needs. Rapid global expansion of manufacturing centers, experienced engineers retiring in droves and declining enrollment in U.S. engineering programs are fueling this trend. Because of the enormity of these issues, automation suppliers have to step in to help companies bridge the gap.
In light of the pressure to consistently produce more quality products with a globally shrinking pool of time and resources, automation suppliers offer companies services and solutions that can be leveraged to increase employee expertise and ramp up productivity and profitability with fewer resources than ever before. These services offer specialized expertise across a wide range of technical domains, such as process production, safety, networks and security. The knowledge, tools and experience that suppliers offer can be the difference between struggling to make on-time delivery of orders and fully optimizing overall equipment effectiveness and return on net assets.
The keys to global success
Technology-enabled services provide options that help manufacturers achieve consistent quality and production levels across the globe. Remote monitoring allows companies to allocate their limited worker resources where they're needed. This bolsters the bottom line because of decreases in downtime. Quality is impacted as well—problems that can go unnoticed by busy operators are caught by remote engineers that monitor for any deviation from normal operating parameters. An online knowledge base including application notes, error messages, problems/solutions, release notes and downloads with an easy to use and flexible search engine is also key to putting all locations on an equal footing.
Despite technology allowing 24/7 service from anywhere, it's still important for automation providers to offer local engineers delivering technical services and training, in local languages. Local service locations, remanufacturing hubs and training facilities are one way to ensure quick response and service times—key in a world that demands on-time delivery of products and services. A global account manager who can speak to what a customer is doing anywhere in the world is also a vital part of global consistency and effectiveness.
The diminishing expertise in the workforce makes it even more important for service vendors to be ready to help customers accomplish larger tasks, like migrating from legacy systems or maintenance programs. Companies can't spare the manpower or keep up with the rapidly changing technology of today's automated systems. Often the only way to get these efforts accomplished with little to no disruption to plant operation is to turn to a third-party service provider.
Bridging the gap
This shortage of skilled manufacturing workers is daunting. At Rockwell Automation, we view it as quite possibly the single largest issue the industry faces. Reputations are built on delivering quality goods on time to a global network of customers. An unskilled or understaffed workforce makes that extremely difficult.
Options exist to address these issues. Engaging a service partner that can provide technologyenabled services, skilled resources and training on a consistent global basis to bridge the gap between manufacturers' global needs for staffing and the existing labor force is extremely effective.


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The Genealogy of the Winchester Family from Wayne County, Kentucky
Person Page 998
Rebecca Shepherd
b. 1819, d. 26 June 1866
Last Edited=22 Dec 2004
|Rebecca Shepherd was born in 1819 in Whitley County, Kentucky.1 She was the daughter of Nimrod Shepherd and Gemima Smith.1 She may have been enumerated on the 1830 census for Whitley County, Kentucky in the household of her father as a female aged ten to fifteen years old.2 Follow the link to see the census image. Rebecca married William Perkins, son of Jabez Perkins and Nancy Anne Creekmore.1 Rebecca and William had 7 children. These children are Solomon, Elijah, Jesse, Lewis, James B., Jemimah and Sallie. William died in February 1864, leaving Rebecca a widow.1 Rebecca died on 26 June 1866 in Kentucky.1 She was about 47 years old.
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