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Updated: 10/14/2015 - 26-year-old Logan Lee is charged with vehicular homicide and operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license resulting in a death.
Updated: 10/14/2015 - The Florala Public Library rolls out the red carpet for its younger users on Tuesday mornings.
Updated: 10/08/2015 - Following voter fraud convictions of two campaign workers, Dothan City Commissioner Amos Newsome has been asked to step down by community members, fellow commissioners and even the mayor.
Posted: 10/07/2015 - The 45th annual Kolomoki Festival is this weekend. While it's a time for lots of fun and good food, park officials hope you'll also take time to explore the park's other attractions.
Updated: 10/07/2015 - A leading science journalist is questioning whether we really need to recycle so much trash.
Updated: 10/07/2015 - After first opening its doors in 1955, Beasley Pharmacy celebrates 60 years in business.
Posted: 10/06/2015 - Ever since Chief was a puppy, Deputy sheriff Josh Wasden has been training his dog to be in law enforcement.
Updated: 10/06/2015 - Little sunshine the past week is leaving farmers nervous in the middle of fall harvest.
Posted: 10/05/2015 - This week is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Opal hitting the Florida Panhandle and making its way through Alabama.
Updated: 10/05/2015 - Forever Wild opens with hundreds taking advantage of its trails. and everything nature has to offer.
Updated: 10/05/2015 - FHP officials say five people, including four young children are dead and the driver is in critical condition at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital.
Posted: 10/02/2015 - Workers were putting on the finishing touches early Thursday setting up for the 71st Annual Northwest Florida Championship Rodeo.
Updated: 10/01/2015 - Ozark police will soon let civilians help in the fight against crime.
Updated: 09/29/2015 - The inaugural Downtown Enterprise Girls' Night Out is a huge success...
Updated: 09/29/2015 - Giving blood or plasma can be a long process. Thats why Immunotek, a fairly new company in Dothan that focuses on plasma, compensates their donors.
Updated: 09/29/2015 - The unusually quiet Atlantic basin has left us with one of the most inactive Atlantic hurricane seasons on record; since June 1st, the Wiregrass has been at a deficit of over 2 inches of rainfall.
Posted: 09/28/2015 - Mark Wilson a returning cardboard boat champion from Wausau came out Saturday to attend the Cardboard Boat Regatta Fundraiser.
Updated: 09/24/2015 - A local business is getting a head start on the Halloween season. Hammack Farms is just days away from opening an amazing fall favorite in our area.
Updated: 09/24/2015 - The Ozark-Blackwell Field Airport gets recognized in the 2015 Alabama Airport Conference.
Updated: 09/23/2015 - Since opening in 2007, the Early County Museum in Blakely, Georgia, has not stopped growing. And now, the museum is expanding again.
Posted: 09/23/2015 - Over 80 Abbeville fathers showed up to school Tuesday morning to support their child's education.
Updated: 09/22/2015 - From the Peanut State to the Peanut Capital of the World, peanut harvest is kicking into full gear as the seasons begin to transition.
Updated: 09/22/2015 - Six year old Dothan-native Libby Claire has been battling cancer since November 2013.
Updated: 09/22/2015 - September is National Attendance Awareness Month
Posted: 09/21/2015 - News 4's Devon Sellers and Blake Benberry both had special announcements on today's edition of News 4 This Morning!


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Fitzgerald--Something Gorgeous
They spoke of Fitzgerald's green eyes. They "glittered," Edmund Wilson said, and were "hard and emerald." Eyes that could spook the likes of Dorothy Parker and Ernest Hemingway. I see those eyes as dragonfly green, the kind of coloration that never quite stays put. Black-and-white photos register them sometimes as dark, or sometimes very light -- never distinctive on film. Now it is 100 years this September 24 since he was born, and we only know that no one who saw F. Scott Fitzgerald's eyes ever forgot them.
The photographs don't convey Zelda either. Before her breakdown in 1930 everyone described her as one of the most beautiful women of her era, vividly present, graceful, with red-gold hair. But she stiffened in front of cameras. Even in the early photographs her features seem harsh, her expression austere. And her coloring is lost. As early as the spring of 1919, shortly before her 19th birthday and several years before their fame, she sensed that she would be inaccurately remembered. "In an hundred years," Zelda wrote to Scott, "I think I shall like having young people speculate on whether my eyes are brown or blue--of course, they are neither."
To sense their reality, we can depend only on words.
They would have liked that. Beyond everything else, they cherished words. They discovered early that the happiness they'd dreamed of was impossible, so what was left was to use words unflinchingly and beautifully.
Scott, from The Great Gatsby, in what could be a kind of epitaph: "Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something--an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever."
Zelda, from Save Me the Waltz: "Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure." And: "Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five." And: "We are certainly accountable for all the things manifest in others that we secretly share."
It's easy, when considering literary folk, for people who are not writers to make this mistake: to think, "They had their art and that gave them meaning, but I'm not an artist so that doesn't work for me." It's the other way around: they had their meaning and that gave them art.
Not a meaning that could be summed up in pithy aphorisms. Nor a meaning to be analyzed in the multi-syllabic treatise of an academic (whose typical sentence, if diagrammed, would look like a train wreck as seen from the air). Scott and Zelda's meaning, like the meaning of any worthy artist, was a stance toward life, unspecific and fierce. It has to do with those words I used before: unflinching and beautiful. If happiness and philosophy were both, by turns, impossible and unreasonable, there was still the ability to look at any particular moment unflinchingly and search for its beauty.
They believed that an unflinching eye and a search for beauty are things possible for anyone, and that art exists not so much to teach that stance as to share it.
Scott wanted and tried to be a traditionalist, but it wasn't in him. In the great story Absolution, he wrote: "There was something ineffably gorgeous somewhere that had nothing to do with God." Two thousand years of Christianity burned alive in that sentence. He was uttering what amounted to the battle cry of the 20th century, but he hadn't especially wanted to utter it. It was just that, as he said in that story, "the honesty of his imagination had betrayed him"--it had left him beyond the pale with nothing but his unflinching hard green eyes and his passion for beauty.
Most critics were dismissing Fitzgerald a decade before he died (at which time, none of his books would be in print). But when Tender Is the Night, my favorite of his works, was being condescended to in the press, Zelda wrote him from her mental hospital: "Don't worry about the critics--what sorrows have they to measure by or what lilting happiness with which to compare those ecstatic passages?"
Scott defined love as "a wild submergence of soul." It is too exacting a definition for most people to live with, but that wasn't his problem, nor Zelda's, and they knew it. Were they excessive? Of course. Drunk on booze and fame and each other... in a haze of cigarette smoke and a rush of extravagant words... hungry for the impossible... full of rages and despairs whose sources they never discovered... they reeled from day to day and crack-up to crack-up without any skill at conserving their energies, unable to spare themselves or each other or anyone else. But they never pretended to be models of behavior. They took their risks and then their risks took them.
"Don't look for comfort," Zelda wrote to Scott, "because there isn't any; and if there were, life would be a baby affair."
In fact, it was Scott who popularized the phrase "crack-up," in his 1936 essay of that title. Others idealized him, but as soon as the bloom of youth wore off, he never idealized himself. He had been the symbol of his generation, he'd cracked up, and he was letting his generation know: "In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day." He was describing it; he wasn't inviting anyone to join him.
He cracked up, but never lost his mind. In that essay, he offered a definition for the highest practical function of the mind: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
That is the best description of intellectual courage that I know.
He was a writer heart and soul, but unlike most of us, he didn't glorify writing. From The Last Tycoon: "While I like writers--because if you ask a writer anything, you usually get an answer--still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person." And in his notebook Scott added: "There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people, if he's any good."
Fitzgerald knew how dangerous it was to be "too many people," and he didn't encourage it in the young. At the same time, he wanted to be heard: "Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story." This is always what the best writers demand of us; that we listen to them not from the safety of our assumptions but from the edge of the precipice.
Often I've walked past his last address, an apartment on Laurel Avenue in West Hollywood. The building is still there, in good condition--a vintage example of the Los Angeles that Raymond Chandler (borrowing many of Fitzgerald's methods) described so poignantly. It's fronted by cedars, and then there are several steps to a walkway, and you stand looking at another era. He lived on the third floor. In the end, his heart was so bad he couldn't make it up the stairs. His last few days, he moved one street over to Sheila Graham's because she lived on the first floor. In those small apartments, he fought to finish The Last Tycoon. He didn't make it. He was only 44, but as he'd said, "I am willing to die with my boots on--I just want to be sure that they are my own boots and that they're all on."
For years, Zelda had been in mental hospitals on the East Coast. Not long before Scott died she wrote him: "I love you anyway -- even if there isn't any me or any love or even any life." Another letter: "And maybe everything is going to be all right, after all. There are so many houses I'd like to live in with you. Oh won't you be mine--again and again--and yet again--"
She died in 1948, aged 48. When she was a girl in Alabama, she became notorious for standing on the roof of her home yelling, "Fire! Fire!" When the firemen came, she laughed and did a little jig. Some would call it irony; some, prophecy; some, destiny. She died in a fire in the mental hospital. They were able to identify her body because she'd fallen on her beautiful dancing slippers. The slippers, protected by her fall, were intact.
By the time Zelda died she knew what Scott could not have known: that he'd won. She lived to see all his books in print again, his influence recognized, his image (and hers) glorified. But she couldn't know that she'd win too--win all that was left to win, since happiness and fulfillment were long gone. Her remarkable novel, dismissed in her own time, would come into print again and stay in print.
In the last year of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his daughter: "I never blame failure--there are too many complicated situations in life--but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort." Lack of effort was the one sin he never committed. He always wrote, no matter what. Let the final words be his, from one of his last stories, about a writer: "The words fell wild and unreal on [his] burdened soul. But even though he now knew at first hand what came next, he did not think that he could go on from there."
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Logging in the Era of CGM
Struggling to capture the context of my diabetes managment decisions
November 2012 — Logging my diabetes information is something I know I should do, but rarely actually do. But it all changes when I have an endocrinologist appointment coming up. That approaching appointment makes me try my best to capture data that will help him understand my diabetes management decisions and actions. How can I expect him to make any therapy suggestions if he doesn't have any information to go on?
So the exercise begins, and I work hard to log everything. I record blood sugar records, carbohydrate counts, insulin doses, and exercise sessions. But it quickly frustrates me because the tools I have to record all of that don't match living life with diabetes. There is so much context involved. And that context is hard to capture.
I fight the frustration by remembering to pull back to the basics. Maybe I don't need all of the context? How can I present all of that context to my doctor in a way that he understands anyway?
So I stick to the basics, largely in part because that is what fits the tools.
But shaping my diabetes logging to fit the tools doesn't feel right. There's so much happening behind the scenes that change the decisions I'm making about my diabetes management.
Then it hits me.
I decided to eat that half-sandwich before basketball because I saw a drop on my CGM. I added a little bit of insulin to that correction bolus because my CGM said my blood sugar was still going up. I started that temporary rate a little earlier than usual because my CGM graph showed a slow downward trend over the past couple of hours. I decided to eat lunch a half hour early because I was heading for a low, or maybe dinner was an hour late because I was running high.
So many of my decisions these days are influenced by (if not based on) what I'm seeing on my continuous glucose monitor. I have hundreds and hundreds of mostly reliable information points at my fingertips. While I'm as guilty as the next person for over-reacting to what I'm seeing, and for being reactive instead of proactive, all of this information is changing how I manage myself.
How in the world do I log that little glance at my CGM device that made me change what I was about to do?
Does it even matter?
Maybe not. But I think that times are changing in diabetes record keeping. The already-lacking tools we have for record keeping have been outpaced again by continuous glucose monitors and the stream of information they provide.
If we expect our doctors to help us with therapy suggestions, they need to have some way of seeing what's going on inside our heads. The logbooks of today can't even do that, and here comes another evolving technology that multiplies the amount of data we have by hundreds and thousands.
I don't have an answer to this problem. I don't even have the seeds of an idea that might help. But sometimes recognizing the problem (or part of the problem?) is a good first step.
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Potter County Attorney Sonya Letson stepped into an elevator a few years back, and a woman inside glanced over, reminding Letson she had once prosecuted her for drunken driving.
Letson hesitated, half-expecting a blistering tirade. But instead, she got a pleasant surprise.
"I was silent. I didn't quite know what was coming. I figured it was probably not going to be good," Letson said. "She said, 'I just want you to know that I've been sober ever since.'''
Letson, who is stepping down as county attorney this month, has prosecuted in the county attorney's office for 18 years. She's got no plans for the immediate future, but looks forward to spending time with her husband, Tad, at their Armstrong County spread, a tract surrounded by orange-red canyon walls and dotted with wild plum bushes.
"After the last election, I decided I would not run for another election," she said. "Retiring is not exactly the right word probably, I'm still going to be working somewhere. I think most people know when it's time to make a change in their life."
Letson notes her tenure has been, at times, marked by unusual and, yes, bizarre cases.
There was the case in which the county seized hundreds of dogs and cats from a woman's home north of Amarillo. And there has been a seemingly never-ending slew of eight-liner seizure cases, gambling offenses and constable suits.
"We've handled the constable lawsuits. One thing Scott (Assistant County Attorney Scott Brumley) and I are both proud of is we have never paid any money to a constable out of litigation brought against the county, in terms of a judgment," she said.
Much of the job, she said, involves defending the county from lawsuits or taking proactive stances against problems - like roadside litter and abandoned vehicles - that crop up in the county.
"The business of the county largely involves making sure that county government serves people well and that the taxpayers' money is not spent in paying claims that people make for lawsuits," she said. "What stands out to me is the caliber of people that have worked in our office, many of whom have gone on and worked for the district attorney or gone on to other higher things. It's been wonderful to work with such a great staff."
Personal contacts with victims and even defendants like the woman convicted of drunken driving also have made an impression, Letson said.
Focusing on crime victims has been a major goal. Before she became county attorney, the office did not have a victim's assistance coordinator. Letson quickly named one to help victims through trials and seek crime victim compensation.
"Even though these are misdemeanor crimes and are thought to be relatively minor to victims they are a major event," she said.
Potter County Attorney Sonya Letson:
County Attorney: 1993-2004
First Assistant County Attorney: 1989-92
Assistant County Attorney: 1986-88
Amarillo College instructor: 1983-2004. Former business school instructor. Taught business law, criminology, law for court reporters. Now instructor in Panhandle Regional Law Enforcement Academy, teaching courtroom demeanor, case management.
Private law practice: 1982-84 with Miller law firm.
Degrees: Law degree from University of Texas and bachelor's in criminology and corrections from Sam Houston State University.
She also took a new look at domestic violence cases, part of a national trend aimed at working more closely with victims and providing better services. For the last seven years, the office has secured state grant funds under the Violence Against Women Act to defray program costs.
"We were really proactive in changing the way domestic violence cases were prosecuted at the misdemeanor level and worked with police agencies and the other prosecutors in Potter and Randall counties to develop a protocol for how we deal with that," she said.
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First Assistant Dave Kemp, who has worked with Letson for years, said, "She has been a great boss to work for. She's professional. She's been a great public servant. I think the people of Potter County have been very lucky to have her because she has always struggled to do the right thing even when that wasn't easy to do."
Letson's tale about the reformed drunken driving defendant perhaps says a lot about her prosecutorial style, one she said is focused on victim and offender. It's a story she likes to tell children's groups about the justice system.
"Protecting the victim is something we put a lot of emphasis on, but there's also the concept of doing what is best for the offender," she said. "Sometimes prosecution is what is best for an offender because it's a deterrent effect and may cause somebody to straighten out their life."
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FRANCE: Valeo Q1 consolidated sales inch up to EUR3.04bn
By Simon Warburton | 25 April 2013
Valeo has reported 1.1% growth in consolidated sales on a like-for-like basis for the first quarter of 2013, despite a 9% drop in automotive production in Europe.
"Valeo's performance in the first quarter once again proved the strength of our strategy, which is based on innovations and the expansion of our business in Asia and emerging countries," said Valeo CEO, Jacques Aschenbroich.
"On the back of the ramp-up of our projects and an excellent performance in China and North America, the Group exported 1.1% growth in like-for-like sales and outpaced the market in the main automotive production regions, offsetting particularly strong economic headwinds in Europe."
First-quarter 2013 consolidated sales remained stable at EUR3.04bn, up 1.1% on a like-for-like basis, with original equipment sales coming in at EUR2.56bn, stable on a like-for-like basis.
The impact of the marked downturn in the European market was offset by above-market growth in the main automotive production regions: up five percentage points in Europe, up eight percentage points in North America and up seven percentage points in China.
Aftermarket sales totalled EUR382m, up 3.5% on a reported basis and 4.2% like-for-like.
Valeo reports 1.1% growth in consolidated sales on a like-for-like basis1 for
first-quarter 2013 despite a 9% drop in automotive production in Europe
Jacques Aschenbroich, Valeo's Chief Executive Officer, stated:
"Valeo's performance in the first quarter once again proved the strength of our strategy, which is
based on innovations and the expansion of our business in Asia and emerging countries. On the back
of the ramp-up of our projects and an excellent performance in China and North America, the Group
reported 1.1% growth in like-for-like sales and outpaced the market in the main automotive
production regions, offsetting particularly strong economic headwinds in Europe."
First-quarter 2013
Consolidated sales remained stable at 3,039 million euros, up 1.1% on a like-for-like
Original equipment sales came in at 2,575 million euros, stable on a like-for-like basis.
The impact of the marked downturn in the European market was offset by abovemarket
growth in the main automotive production regions:
- up 5 percentage points in Europe
- up 8 percentage points in North America
- up 7 percentage points in China
Aftermarket sales totaled 382 million euros, up 3.5% on a reported basis and 4.2% likefor-
2013 outlook confirmed
At this time, Valeo confirms its guidance for 2013 as published last February
1 Constant Group structure and exchange rates.
Paris, France, April 24, 2013 – Following the meeting of its Board of Directors today, Valeo released
its sales figures for the first quarter of 2013:
Global automotive production down 1%
In the first quarter of 2013, global automotive production fell 1%, reflecting widely contrasting
results across the various regions:
in Q1 2013*
Asia and Middle East +1%
Europe & Africa -9%
North America +1%
South America +9%
Total -1%
* LMC estimates
- European automotive production (down 9%) was impacted by the economic crisis and the
resulting fall in new vehicle registrations.
- Global automotive production declined slightly despite a strong performance in Asian and
American markets.
Sales up 1.1% on a like-for-like basis despite economic headwinds in Europe
Sales increased 1.1% on a like-for-like basis: changes in exchange rates had a negative impact of
1.4% while changes in Group structure had a positive 0.5% impact.
The Group's consolidated sales came to 3,039 million euros, in line with first-quarter 2012.
In millions of
Q1 2012* Q1 2013* Change Change**
Total 3,033 3,039 +0.2% +1.1%
of which:
2,602 2,575 -1.0% 0.0%
Aftermarket 369 382 +3.5% +4.2%
Miscellaneous 62 82 +32.3% +34.2%
* Unaudited
** Like-for-like
Original equipment sales (86% of total sales) remained stable on a like-for-like basis, with the
Group's above-market performance in the main automotive production regions offsetting
particularly strong economic headwinds in Europe.
Aftermarket sales (12% of total sales) advanced 4.2% like-for-like on the back of the performance of
the Group's businesses in Asia and emerging countries as well as in Europe.
Miscellaneous sales (2% of total sales) benefited from significant increases in tooling revenues
resulting from the launch of new production lines, climbing 34.2% like-for-like.
Foreign customers represented 82% of original equipment sales, with German and
Asian customers combined accounting for 55%
The share of German customers during the first quarter remained stable at 29% of original
equipment sales, while the share of Asian customers declined to 26% (versus 29% in first-quarter
2012), reflecting Japanese customers' high level of activity in first-quarter 2012. American customers
represented 20% of original equipment sales (versus 17% in the same year-ago period), in the
process overtaking French customers who accounted for 18% of original equipment sales.
Above-market growth in original equipment sales in the main production regions
enabled Valeo to offset the marked economic downturn in Europe
Valeo's original equipment sales remained stable on a like-for-like basis, standing at one percentage
point higher than global automotive production (down 1%).
In millions of euros Q1 2012* Q1 2013*
Change OE
Total 2,602 2,575 +0% -1%
of which:
Europe 1,404 1,348 -4% -9%
Asia 624 628 +2% +1%
of which China 229 282 +20% +13%
of which Japan 202 140 -22% -12%
North America 422 460 +9% +1%
South America 152 139 +3% +9%
* Unaudited
** Like-for-like
*** LMC estimates
Valeo's performance in each of its production regions over the first three months of the year was as
- In Europe, Valeo's like-for-like original equipment sales slipped 4% whereas automotive
production retreated 9%. The Group therefore reported an excellent performance,
outpacing the market by 5 percentage points, driven by the appeal of its portfolio of
high-tech products and a favorable customer mix.
- In Asia, original equipment sales were up 2% on a like-for-like basis, beating the market by
1 percentage point. This performance is attributable to a sharp increase in original
equipment sales in South Korea, China and India (with growth outpacing automotive
production by 6, 7 and 15 percentage points, respectively) and an unfavorable customer mix
in Japan.
- In North America, like-for-like original equipment sales climbed 9%, once again outpacing
automotive production (up 1%) thanks to a favorable customer mix, reflecting a strong
performance by American customers.
- In South America, like-for-like original equipment sales advanced 3%, versus a 9% increase
in automotive production, standing at 6 percentage points lower than the market on the
back of a low order intake in 2006 and 2007 and an unfavorable customer mix.
Share of original equipment sales produced in Asia and emerging countries
remained stable at 53%
In the first quarter of 2013, Valeo continued to rebalance its businesses:
- the share of original equipment sales produced in Western Europe decreased to 38% (versus
40% in the same year-ago period);
- the share of original equipment sales produced in Asia and emerging countries (including
Eastern Europe) remained stable at 53%.
Strong growth for the Visibility Systems Business Group
As was the case for the consolidated Group, the sales performance for each Business Group
reflected the specific geographic and customer mix and the relative weighting of the aftermarket in
their activity as a whole.
Business Group sales
In millions of euros
Change OE
Comfort & Driving Assistance
Systems 657 629 -4% -3%
Powertrain Systems 855 833 -3% -2%
Thermal Systems 864 824 -5% -3%
Visibility Systems 685 782 +14% +10%
* Unaudited
** Like-for-like
Thanks to the success of the Visibility Systems Business Group's innovative Lighting Systems and the
ramp-up of new projects, sales for the Business Group grew 14% to 782 million euros.
2013 outlook confirmed
Given that business levels observed during first-quarter 2013 are consistent with the scenario
outlined at the start of the year, i.e.:
- decline in automotive production in Europe in the region of 4%,
- growth in global automotive production in the region of 1%,
- raw material prices in line with 2012 levels;
At this time, Valeo confirms its objectives for 2013:
- sales growth higher than the market in the main production regions,
- assuming an upturn in the European market in the second half of 2013, operating margin in
line with 2012 (in millions of euros) despite a decline in the first half of the year as a result of
market conditions.
On April 2, 2013, Valeo announced that, for technical reasons, the closing regarding the sale of the
Access Mechanisms business to Japan-based U-Shin did not occur as initially expected at the end of
March, but should take place within a short period of time.
On January 29, 2013, Moody's Rating Services confirmed its "Baa3/P3" long- and short-term
corporate credit ratings for Valeo with a stable outlook.
Upcoming event
Annual Shareholders' Meeting: June 6, 2013.
First-half 2013 results: July 30, 2013.
Valeo is an independent industrial Group fully focused on the design, production and sale of
components, integrated systems and modules for the automotive industry, mainly for CO2 emissions
reduction. Valeo ranks among the world's top automotive suppliers. The Group has 128 plants,
21 research centers, 40 development centers, 12 distribution platforms and employs 75,800 people in
29 countries worldwide.
For more information, please contact:
Media relations Thierry Lacorre
Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 55 21 75/+33 (0)1 40 55 37 18 Investor Relations Director
Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 55 37 93
For more information about the Valeo Group and its activities, please visit our website
Original source: http://www.valeo.com/medias/upload/2013/04/8260/valeo-reports-1-1-growth-in-consolidated-sales-on-a-like-for-like-basis-for-first-quarter-2013.pdf
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I definitely recommend going to different ranges and firing as many pistols as you can. What people tell suggest and what even you think may be quite different after actually firing the pistols. It was for me, anyway. A lightweight, snubby .38 revolver was suggested for me and after trying several different ones, I found that I really disliked it. Not to say that you won't, just saying that you should really find out for yourself before you spend a bunch of money.
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I definitely recommend going to different ranges and firing as many pistols as you can. What people tell suggest and what even you think may be quite different after actually firing the pistols. It was for me, anyway. A lightweight, snubby .38 revolver was suggested for me and after trying several different ones, I found that I really disliked it. Not to say that you won't, just saying that you should really find out for yourself before you spend a bunch of money.
As a female, here is a general rule that is worth at least considering: The lighter the gun, the more perceived recoil. The shorter the barrel length, the more perceived recoil.
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I'm a female in my mid-20s and am from a long line of sportman-type/farmer men in my family. Only thing is, I've never owned my own gun.
So, for a defense-type handgun, any suggestions on a small, quick, relatively safe, and relatively easy to use handgun. I would prefer a relatively light gun, but weight doesn't bother me. I would like to be able to carry it on my person from time to time for defence, as I am intending to get a permit to carry.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
Revolvers vs. Semi-Automatics (self-loaders).
The purpose of this article is to help guide those new to handguns.
I like most handguns, both revolvers and self-loaders. There is something to be said for the comforting weight of the dense, quality steel found in many revolvers.
Pros & Cons
Revolvers are simple. For both single action and double action, just load the cylinders and shoot. No safeties or slide stops to confuse you in the dead of night. You don't have to worry if the chamber is loaded when a narcotic addicted social problem breaks your home's window and tries to climb through. Cleaning is generally a snap, with an small exception for those 10 shot .22 caliber models.
Revolver reliability is almost as good as the sun coming up. Many revolvers can fire several different types of rounds, the difference being how much gun powder they hold. (The .357 Magnum can also fire the .38 Special. The .38s generating less recoil for practice, and possibly less expensive.) Similar can be said of the .44 Magnum / 44 Smith & Wesson Special and the .32 Federal Magnum. If one wants to load their own ammo on the light side to save on recoil or budget, no problem, the revolver doesn't need a certain amount of recoil to make it work. Bullet styles that cut precise round holes in paper such as 'wad cutters' will not induce feeding problems like they might in some self-loaders.
The large caliber Revolvers used for hunting are known to be rifle like accurate. And who didn't admire 'Dirty Harry' when he pulled out his .44 Magnum and challenge a punk to "Make my day?" (Although these days, beasts like the .500 Smith & Wesson (.50 caliber) can sledge down elephants and make a .44 Magnum run home to its momma.) Most center-fire self-loaders are not suitable for hunting. There are some exceptions out there, and when my eyes were younger, I used a self-loading .22 to harvest wild squirrels on occasion.
Many of the smaller five shot pocket models pack plenty of .38 punch, and conceal nicely. (Who wants to scare the little ole lady standing behind you in line at the grocery store by letting her see an eight shot .357 Magnum revolver bulge under your clothing?)
If the revolver doesn't go bang (very rare, and usually because of bad ammo or a need to reload) just pull the trigger again. With a self-loader you have to lock the slide back remove the magazine, clear out any jammed rounds, then reload. Also, with revolvers you don't have to worry about a magazine spring getting weak on you. You don't have to rotate the magazines or change springs once in a while like you do with self-loaders.
So why
anyone want a revolver? After all, they've been around since before the civil war.
It boils down to something called trigger pull, which is the pressure needed to release the sear that holds back the hammer that will strike the firing pin which strikes the primer thus detonating the cartridge. Choices also revolve around reloading time, and to a lesser extent, ammunition capacity.
Trigger pull is crucial to both accurate and rapid shooting. Most double action revolvers need between 8 to 14 pounds of pressure to make the cylinder revolve and the hammer cock. Even a very smooth average 10 pound trigger pull can easily make a two pound revolver wiggle off target. It takes a lot of quality practice to shoot a revolver quickly and accurately. It takes nerves of steel to make that revolver work adequately under pressure. Like when someone is closing in on you with a knife, or Heaven forbid, actually throwing lead at you! I'm not saying it cannot be done, and freely acknowledge that your nerves might well be stouter than mine.
I once saw a video on America's Most Wanted that showed a robber and a store owner empty both of their revolvers at each other from no more than three feet apart and NO ONE got hit!
I don't remember the details of the study exactly, but when the Illinois State Highway patrol went from revolvers to self-loaders, their ability to hit the bad guy the first time increased markedly. It would have increased more except that the first shot through the Smith & Wesson model 39 was double action (it cocked the hammer), but it took less muscle, probably about seven pounds to pull the trigger.
Interestingly enough, studies showed that it was the second shot, fired single action at about four pounds of pull that increased hits in shootouts from about 31% of the time for double action to 68% for the self-loaded, or single action shot!
Trigger pull can make a huge difference.
The fact is that many self-loaders hold at least eight shots, and often many more. Let's face it, when evil is too close, you want all the friends you can get, and every cartridge in that gun is your BFF, at least until you shoot it.
But what about just cocking the revolver and fighting single action? Not a bad question, after all, your best revolver scores will occur after you have cocked the gun manually, which usually sets the trigger to a 'hair' two pound pull. IF you have cover, defined as you are behind something that will definitely stop a bullet, and are trying to shoot the top off your adversaries' head who has also found cover, then yes, go ahead and cock it and put all of your marksmanship to work. You don't want to be investigating those strange sounds in the basement with a cocked revolver and accidently bump your elbow on a wall and accidently shoot a drunken neighbor who thought they were breaking into their own home. You certainly don't want to be holding some creep at gun point, them laying on the floor arms stretched out, you on the phone with 911 when the you put a tiny extra bit of weight on that cocked revolver and the gun accidently blasts a slug through the back of your possibly unarmed prisoner.
The press, not to mention prosecutors, tend to roast people who do that.
The problem is that most violent encounters happen very quickly and within just a few feet, so you need to be able to shoot fast and accurate. Whoever lands the first potentially lethal blow usually wins. A self-loader gives you a decided advantage in doing just that.
Another point is speed of reloading. As a general rule, most of us can reload a self-loader much quicker than a revolver, even if we use revolver speed loaders.
(I know there are some people out there who practice reloading revolvers relentlessly and have become super-fast.)
The good news is that criminals rarely slug it out for extended periods of time with armed civilians. Apparently they are stupid enough to get into trouble, yet smart enough to heed the self-preservation instinct.
As an NRA Certified Firearm Instructor, I am often tempted to tell my female clients to get revolvers. It would save me a lot of headaches because many women have a hard time pulling back the slides of many load self-loaders, and find cleaning them to be as bad or worse than changing baby diapers. (As a matter of record, I can change a baby's dirty diaper much quicker than cleaning a self-loader.) But NRA instructors must be honest. The truth is that as much as I like revolvers, it's a self-loader that many civilians, most police, and all U.S. military use for self-defense. Mine will put more holes through a bad guy than the tax code. With proper training,
preferably starting with a .22
and sufficient practice, so will you with either type of handgun you choose.
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Orient Overseas (International) Ltd., Hong Kong's biggest container line, returned to profit in the first half after a $1 billion gain from selling property and a rebound in shipping demand.
Net income of $1.28 billion compared with a restated loss of $231.8 million a year earlier, the company said in a statement today. Hanjin Shipping Co., South Korea's largest liner, posted a 174.1 billion won ($149 million) profit in the second quarter as it charged more to move cargo.
Orient Overseas's container-shipping sales rose 39 percent as it carried more clothes, toys and furniture to the U.S. and almost doubled rates on Asia-Europe routes. Shipping volumes are rising after a trade slump during the global recession caused industrywide losses of more than $15 billion last year.
"Profitability is improving with better rates," said Geoffrey Cheng, an analyst at Daiwa Institute of Research in Hong Kong. "Export orders to the U.S. have been increasing, and this can help sustain demand for the rest of the year."
In January, Orient Overseas agreed to sell its Chinese property assets to CapitaLand Ltd., Southeast Asia's biggest developer, for $2.2 billion.
Orient Overseas posted an operating profit of $309.9 million rebounding from a year-earlier loss of $191.7 million. Sales jumped 32 percent to $2.7 billion. Hanjin's operating profit was 169.7 billion won and sales at 2.37 trillion won.
Orient Overseas's container-shipping revenue rose to $2.5 billion from $1.8 billion. Asia-Europe sales more than doubled to $603.6 million. Transpacific revenue increased 19 percent with average revenue per box rising 14 percent.
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Orient Overseas line proposed dividends of 51.5 cents a share, including the interim dividend and a special payout following the China property sale.
Shares of the company, controlled by the family of former Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, rose 1.5 percent to close at HK$63.65. The stock has risen 75 percent this year, compared with a 1.5 percent drop for the benchmark Hang Seng Index. Hanjin fell 1.2 percent to close at 33,500 won in Seoul.
Orient Overseas is giving preliminary consideration to a number of possible acquisitions, focusing on opportunities to "significantly grow" the container transportation business, Chief Finance Officer Ken Cambie told reporters in Hong Kong.
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"Further opportunities may arise over the next six to 12 months," Cambie said today. The company will expand the terminal and logistics businesses "organically," he said.
Orient Overseas had avoided a container squeeze that plagued some companies in the first-half, and has adequate cargo-boxes to meet its requirement, Cambie said.
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During Convergence 2009, I got an opportunity to sit down with Steve Brown from SmartCatalog (formerly known as Endeavor Commerce). SmartCatalog is a guided selling and sales configuration solution for Microsoft Dynamics CRM and helps manufacturing, telecommunications, healthcare, retail and service companies around the world increase revenue, profit and customer loyalty by empowering their sale channels with intelligence and guidance needed to process valid quotes and orders. To learn more see the demo and webinar.
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NEW YORK -- A federal agency found probable cause to believe
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a former Knicks executive claims she was sexually harassed by New
York coach Isiah Thomas.
The treatment of senior Knicks executive Anucha Browne Sanders
was not an isolated incident, and included "severe and pervasive
verbal sexual harassment," according to the findings released
Tuesday by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Sanders, the Knicks' former senior vice president of marketing
and business operations before her dismissal in January, contends
she was fired "for telling the truth" while going through
internal channels to stop the harassment.
The EEOC determined there was enough evidence to believe the
Garden violated the Civil Rights Act, and that senior management
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MSG downplayed the EEOC's findings in a statement: "We
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impact because it comes from an outside agency.
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Thomas' defense attorney, Peter Parcher, stressed that the EEOC
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evidence to demonstrate the allegations are without merit,"
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Thomas filed court papers last month denying he sexually
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shoulder, and may have even tried to kiss her on the cheek, but did
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Ettrich was awarded the medal by state secretary Almuth Nehring-Venus, who noted that not only is Ettrich one of the youngest recipients of the prestigious award, but it was the first ceremony where the award-winner's young children were also present.
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Venezuela's Globovision, the last major television broadcaster openly critical of the government, may be sold after a costly battle with former President Hugo Chavez over its coverage of prison riots.
News anchor Leopoldo Castillo said yesterday that Juan Domingo Cordero, majority shareholder of Caracas-based insurance company Seguros La Vitalicia, is in negotiations with Globovision's owners to purchase the channel. The sale will probably go ahead after elections next month to elect a new president following Chavez's death March 5, Castillo said.
"Juan Domingo Cordero is involved in negotiations to buy Globovision," Castillo said in televised remarks yesterday. "There is a willingness to sell."
Chavez in 2007 shut down RCTV by revoking its broadcast license after he said the channel supported an attempted coup against him in 2002. Two other channels, Venevision and Televen, toned down their criticism of the government to remain on air.
Globovision clashed frequently with Chavez's government. The station's owners, Guillermo Zuloaga and Nelson Mezerhane in 2010 sought asylum in the U.S. after saying they would be subject to discrimination if they returned. Zuloaga was charged by authorities with hoarding vehicles at one of his homes in Caracas.
Globovision in 2011 was fined $2.2 million for its coverage of prison riots. The channel exaggerated the riots by only broadcasting the opinions of mothers and wives outside the prison who feared their relatives were being massacred by the National Guard, the telecommunications regulator said. Globovision denied the charges.
Castillo said the channel will continue with its editorial line until after the elections.
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Bucking awesome is bucking broken
At least it appears that way for me.
Ive broken all those horses and still no achievement. Ive even double checked the stores and sure enough, the deeds for all 3 are available(hence ive broken all 3 and it should have popped). Do i have to own all 3 deeds as well? Id really hate to have to start a brand new game just to get this again.
Did you break one, go to dashboard/turn off xbox, then return to the game and break the others and so on? I've heard the achievement glitches unless you do them all in one session.
What I would do is go around breaking all 3 again. If that doesn't work try clearing your cache.
I did do this over the course of the whole game, so yes the xbox was off between breaks. Ill just go and try to brteak all 3 again in one session.
Ya its definitely broken. I had to get this in my second playthrough because in the first one it glitched for me.
It is my understanding you need all 3 deeds as well.
Re-broke the three horses again and it clicked. Did not have the deeds, though this was my next step if that didnt work.
Of course NOW the 5 rare guns achievement wont unlock...and that i see no workaround for. I cant get rid of the ones i have already bought to buy them again...
I hear after you break the horse, you have to hitch it in order for it to save. That's what I did for one of the horses. I watched a youtube video about this. I believe the achievement popped up for me before I bought the deeds. Just buy the deeds just in case.
Just buy the horses that's what I did.
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Any idea what's going on? I just updated to version 3, lost all of my classes and instructors in the process, and now I can't add classes.
Any idea what's going on? I just updated to version 3, lost all of my classes and instructors in the process, and now I can't add classes.
Same thing happened here.
All that was in the menu after update was Schedule and Class. No Classroom, Instructors or Options.
I had to uninstall 3.0 and go back to previous version here : http://wordpress.org/plugins/weekly-class-schedule/developers/ I panicked and thought I lost everything. Luckily all the info is still in the database!
The plugin creates new tabs (menu items) for Classes, Instructors, and Locations. The schedule is preserved.
I see but why is my schedule gone after update?
'classroom' is now 'location' when using shortcodes. Possibly, you should change the [wcs classroom="Some Classroom"] to [wcs location="Some Classroom"].
The schedule data is there.
Ahh, I see so I would have to make changes in the shortcodes then? My schedule is for a gym and everything takes place in one location according to the schedule. I guess I'll have to read up on whatever changes were made. I'm sorry this plugin is great and I love the way it looks on the site but this update just threw a lot of people into confusion.
Thanks agan
Interesting. But here's the thing—on my schedule page I simply had [wcs] as the code...nothing else. And my schedule was just gone. I'll revert back to the old version.
Can anyone assist me, as to why my schedule is not loading on this site?
Left tab, under Todays Schedule
Like katebussell I had the [wcs] shortcode as well and my schedule was gone. I went back to old version and the schedule came back. So I renamed the old version and reinstalled 3.0 again and for some reason the schedule was there this time but the style (colors, etc.) was gone. I tried to see if I can stick with it and update the wcs.css to modify the style back to like it was in the last version but noticed that 3.0 doesn't even have wcs.css- so I just went back to old version again. I can't play around with this new update. It doesn't work for me. I'll stick with the old version.
Ok, there's a problem with the updating procedure not called automatically when updating the plugin from the main repo.
Temporary solution:
Uninstall the plugin and delete it (the data from the old version should stay in the database but it's never a bad idea to run a quick backup).
Re-installing the plugin should import all the data to the new system.
We're working on a permanent solution.
A permanent fix for this issue has been checked in to the repo (version 3.01).
Just updated to 3.0.6.
Also had problem where data seemed to be gone.
Uninstalled plugin, deleted plugin, re-installed plugin as recommended above.
Still not seeing data there under 'Schedule' tab.
Trying to add schedule back again, but getting error "Failed to add schedule entry."
Not too worried about getting data back - I had only 5 items in the schedule.
Would like to be able to get it working again.
Just installed 3.0.6 for the first time on a clean WordPress 3.8.1 installation. Add classes, instructors and location. Also created a blank page with [wcs]. Also tried [wcs layout=list] and [wcs location="my location"] on this page. In Schedule Management I keep getting "Failed to add schedule entry" ... whatever I try. I also removed and re-installed the plugin as suggested. Am I missing something?
Having the same problem as houseofhands... Keeps saying "failed to add schedule entry"
Try the import/update button. This should sort everything out.
There's been an issue with the update procedure with version prior to 3.06. The import/update button should address any remaining issues.
The import/update button worked. I lost all my entries I made so far though ... but it worked. So, even a clean install requires an import/update before you get started. Thanks!
Import/update button worked for me, too!
running 3.8.1 installed WCS 3.08 for the first time, hit the import/update button, created some classes. instructors, locations. When I try to schedule a class I get the "failed to add schedule entry error" Any more ideas?
What should happen whenI fit import/update? I just go to a blank page: wp-admin/admin.php and thereafter the data I previously created still exists.
Thanks Much
problem was import/update did not occur properly. using Avada theme. Disabled and reenabled all plugins, removed and reinstalled all custom CSS, then it worked.
I'm getting this error on a brand new installation of the plugin. I created a class, location and instructor and it won't let me add a schedule entry. Just says "Failed to add schedule entry" and nothing else. Any ideas?
New install 3.08, unable to add events.
It only says "Failed to add scheduled entry"
Please advise.
Hit the import/update button.
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Individuals with Alzheimer's disease should remain physically, mentally, and socially active as long as they are able. It is believed that mental activity can slow the progression of the disease. Puzzles, games, reading, and safe hobbies and crafts are good choices. These activities should ideally be interactive. They should be of an appropriate level of difficulty so that the person does not become overly frustrated.
Behavior disorders such as agitation and aggression may improve with various interventions. Some interventions focus on helping the individual adjust or control his or her behavior. Others focus on helping caregivers and other family members change the person's behavior. These approaches sometimes work better when combined with drug treatment for depression, mood stabilization, or psychosis.
Alzheimer's disease symptoms can sometimes be relieved, at least temporarily, by medication. Many different types of medications have been or are being studied in the treatment of dementia. Currently, the drugs used for Alzheimer's disease are not a cure, but they help slow down the rate of decline in some people. In many people, the effect is modest, and in others, the effect is not noticeable.
Certain drugs, such as anti-inflammatory drugs (ibuprofen), vitamin E, and hormone therapy (estrogen) have been used on a trial basis in people with Alzheimer's disease. Experts think these drugs might help based on what we know from research about Alzheimer's disease. None of these drugs have yet achieved widespread acceptance as treatment for the disease.
The following sections discuss cholinesterase inhibitors and NMDA inhibitors, which have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease.
Medications for Alzheimer's Disease
There is no cure for Alzheimer's, but number of different drugs are in use to treat the disease's symptoms. They target a couple different mechanisms in the brain and nervous system that lead to Alzheimer's-related dementia. Some drugs reduce the amount of enzyme that breaks down a crucial neurotransmitter chemical, while other drugs target the nerve cell receptors themselves.
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