A commune in south-west France has begun to fine owners of dogs that are left to run wild in the streets with 18 fines already issued in the past month The commune of Montpon-Ménestérol in Dordogne first considered the measure in May The new measure issues fines to owners when their dog or cat is found untethered in the streets and needing to be taken into care but there is a minimum of €50 for any case where authorities are required to pick up an animal Added to this is €15 for each night spent in a kennel €40 for transportation to the local shelter SPA plus any veterinary and vaccination costs.  the case is handed over to public finance department la direction générale des finances publiques “I'm not in favour of repression in the first place, but it's often the same people, they are repeat offenders,” said mayor Rozenn Rouiller to France Bleu adding that the same dog had been picked up five times in the same week ‘Stray’ animals - or owned pets that are allowed to roam free - can cost local authorities considerable money and strain This is because they often need to be picked up and taken to a shelter not to mention other costs including food and any vet fees “When you're an elected official on duty and the phone rings at 2am to go and collect animals “It’s not the aim of a local authority to look after stray animals Read also: How do I register my pet with I-CAD in France? Read also: Dog thefts on rise in France: what breeds are being targeted and where  Dogs and cats kept permanently in France must be registered on the national I-CAD database The usual procedure is that during the pet’s first visit to a vet The vet then takes care of its registration with I-CAD this must be done before four months of age and stray animals to be tracked down and found in case they go missing It also makes it easier for authorities to track unregulated breeders and attribute health test results correctly Cats and dogs can be identified with a microchip Microchips are the most common form of identification to be offered by vets in France today and are the only form of ID accepted if you wish to travel with your pet (unless your pet has a tattoo that was done before July 2011) Pet identification microchips are around the size of a grain of rice and are inserted under the skin of an animal in the neck or between the shoulder blades Each microchip contains a code with 15 numbers that can be identified by an electric reader The procedure costs around €40-€70 depending on the veterinary practice owners choose to use More information on microchipping in France, and the I-CAD pet identification database, is available on the official website Identifier-mon-animal.fr Cases of poisoning from plants and caterpillars are common during spring Here is how to ensure you and your dog remain within the rules and avoid fines and there are certain rules and restrictions on certain breeds Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article notably the whizzing by of vehicles in a brief span of time who also became known for his elaborately staged photographs Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker NEW YORK - Jan Groover, whose relentlessly formal still lifes of mundane objects brought a sense of Renaissance stateliness to postmodern photography, died Jan. 1 in Montpon-Menesterol, France, where she had lived since 1991. She was 68. Her death was announced by Janet Borden, her dealer, who did not specify a cause but said Ms. Groover had been ill for some time. Ms. Groover began as a painter, and though she quickly moved on to photography, many of her preoccupations were the same as those of the painters she studied and admired: Giorgio Morandi, Cézanne, and Fra Angelico along with many other European masters of the 14th and 15th centuries. Instead of feast tables or objects of the wealthy, the still-life tableaus that first brought Ms. Groover to prominence in the late 1970s focused on the everyday implements of the kitchen, arranged in the sink: fork tines, spatulas, butter-knife blades, whorled and scalloped cake pans, shot in such a way as to confound perspective and to transform light into a kind of object itself in the reflective surfaces. The pictures resonated not only as subtle documents of feminism but also as unusually beautiful investigations of the fictions that are inseparable from facts in the conventions of photography - inquiries being similarly undertaken by other artists of the time, like Tina Barney, Laurie Simmons, Cindy Sherman, and Richard Prince. “I had some wild concept that you could change space - which you can,’’ Ms. Groover said in a 1994 documentary about her work, “Jan Groover: Tilting at Space,’’ produced by Barney and directed by Mark Trottenberg. Some of the first pictures she exhibited took heavy cues from Conceptualism: triptychs showing, for example, three cars passing the same light pole on a prosaic stretch of street, or three similar suburban houses, echoing Dan Graham’s seminal “Homes for America’’ tract-house pictures from the mid-1960s. But in pictures her painstaking attention to color and line announced that she was pursuing her own kind of concerns. “Even though it sounds stupid and it sounds cold, ‘Formalism is everything’ is not a bad thing to say,’’ she said in the documentary. John Szarkowski, the longtime director of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art, who gave Ms. Groover a midcareer retrospective in 1987, wrote that “her pictures were good to think about because they were first good to look at.’’ In this, he said, he considered her a late-20th-century heir to Edward Weston. Her carefully orchestrated large-format photographs - which came to include a wide variety of objects and, later, people - anticipated in some ways the now-prominent practice of more elaborately staged photography by artists like Jeff Wall, Thomas Demand, and Gregory Crewdson, who studied under Ms. Groover at the State University of New York, Purchase, where she taught for more than a decade. The critic Andy Grundberg, writing about the 1987 retrospective for the New York Times, credited Ms. Groover with helping to elevate photography from its second-class status in the fine-art world. When one of her kitchen still lifes appeared on the cover of Artforum magazine in the late 1970s, he wrote, “it was a signal that photography had arrived in the art world - complete with a marketplace to support it.’’ Ms. Groover grew up in Plainfield, N.J. She met her husband, the painter and critic Bruce Boice, who survives her, in high school art class, where he was impressed by her seriousness and ferocious intellect. “Generally people were afraid of her, I think, then,’’ he said in the documentary, “and they tend to be afraid of her now.’’ She briefly returned to Plainfield to work as a junior high school art teacher after graduating from Pratt Institute in New York in 1965, but then received a fellowship to study at Ohio State University in Columbus. In 1978 she won a grant of several thousand dollars from the National Endowment for the Arts and, after cashing the check, immediately bought her first large-format camera, which she used to photograph the kitchen still lifes. In 1991, demoralized by what they saw as a deeply conservative turn in US politics, Ms. Groover and Boice moved from New York to Montpon-Menesterol, France. Ms. Groover bought an even bigger camera and focused on the churches, graveyards, and landscapes, pressing even further in her exploration of photographic space and illusion. It was “like playing by myself,’’ she said, “and it’s fun.’’ Home Delivery Gift Subscriptions Log In Manage My Account Customer Service Delivery Issues Feedback News Tips Help & FAQs Staff List Advertise Newsletters View the ePaper Order Back Issues News in Education Search the Archives Privacy Policy Terms of Service Terms of Purchase Work at Boston Globe Media Internship Program Co-op Program Do Not Sell My Personal Information Multinational animal health firm Ceva Animal Health has inaugurated its newest European logistics centre Ceva says the new building represents a major opportunity for international growth and demonstrates its commitment to innovation Designed to store and ship Ceva’s products developed in Europe the building is set to enhances the company's export capabilities and boosts its international presence Ceva aims to make Montpon-Ménestérol its first European logistics site capable of serving more than 100 countries Equipped with the latest digital and automation technologies Ceva says this new centre embodies the future of distribution is equipped with a Warehouse Management System (WMS) that optimises all logistics flows (20,000 pallets stored for 2,800 listed products) and includes autonomous tri-directional carts to facilitate storage and order preparation The building occupies only 10% of the 14-hectare site with the rest dedicated to biodiversity preservation The facility aims to be energy self-sufficient in the long term thanks to a virtuous energy mix combining twenty geothermal probes with 1,500 m² of photovoltaic panels producing 50% of the energy consumed along with optimised lighting management and enhanced building insulation including the recovery of 20 m³ of rainwater These measures reduce energy consumption by half compared to a traditional platform of the same capacity stated: “We are extremely proud to inaugurate our new logistics platform in Montpon-Ménestérol which perfectly embodies our group’s ambitions "This project not only reflects our desire to strengthen our international position but also our responsibility towards the environment we are laying the foundations for the company of tomorrow." 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(@Miroir2Cyclisme) August 11, 2019 Get the digital edition of Canadian Cycling Magazine Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Law enforcement officers in the south-west of France conducted another mass roadside testing operation this week Dozens of gendarmerie officers were joined by sniffer dogs and a helicopter equipped with a thermal camera to conduct checks on drivers near Bergerac (Dordogne) on Tuesday (January 21) eight infractions were recorded: two for possession of illegal drugs two for failure to have a valid contrôle technique (roadworthiness test) and four for failing to stop at a stop sign.  Officers in the department conducted a similar operation in the Montpon-Ménestérol area last month after a report from the Interior Ministry found drug use in the department had increased 9% over a one-year period These roadside checks can be carried out at random or as part of a wider operation to target a specific issue or on specific areas of the road where more accidents happen.  If you are asked by officers at a roadside check to pull over Being asked to pull over does not mean the police are suspicious of you it may just be because they are stopping as many vehicles as possible.  The officers will ask you to show your driving licence in physical format or for those who can via the France Identité or Mes Points Permis applications as well as your vehicle registration (certificat d’immatriculation Read more: Drivers can now get proof of driving licence online in France Officers no longer need to ask for proof of vehicle insurance as this information is held in an online database police have access to.  Read more: How do I prove my car is insured now France no longer issues stickers? They may also ask to check that your vehicle complies with the rules of the Code de la route (checking your lights work If you fail to show any of the documents you may be fined and will need to go to a local police or gendarmerie office within five days to prove you have them Failure to comply with officer requests during roadside checks can lead to six points being taken off your licence and a fine of €3,750 as well as up to three months imprisonment.  A suspension of your licence is also possible Read more: Record rise in driving fines in France: what offences and how caught Understanding the criteria and their durations for non-residents Recent power cut in Spain and Portugal is warning to holidaymakers to ensure they are prepared for worst-case scenario The resort is set to remain open to the public and not only to professionals A man in southwest France has been arrested after apparently killing a woman during a drunken game in which she put on a bullet-proof vest and was shot at was found on Saturday in the village of Montpon-Menesterol in the Dordogne region the suspect has admitted using his hunting rifle on Friday night "during a game in which she (the victim) put on a bullet-proof vest before being shot at" The 55-year-old shooter turned himself into police in a "severe state of drunkenness" on Saturday The charges in the highly unusual case are set to be determined on Monday Two other men present at the dinner party on Friday night The woman is believed to have died from a stomach wound.                   please register for free or log in to your account Arson is suspected in Dordogne after four wildfires were found to have started at very similar times across a single area yesterday (August 24) The fires in the commune de Montpon-Ménestérol destroyed at least 20 hectares of forest before firefighters were able to get control of the blaze and several helicopters and plane water bombers attended the scene and several residents were required to leave their homes The fire was declared at around 12:30 and was under control by 17:00 Four new fires were reported on the same day in an area across one kilometre square An investigator told Sud Ouest: "Such a combination of cases in the same place owes nothing to chance so we know that someone is behind all this.” It is not the first time that arson has been suspected after a fire in Dordogne this month a series of fires in the same areas of La Roche-Chalais and Parcoul-Chenaud destroyed more than 90 hectares and caused the gendarmerie to launch an investigation into arson Arson has also been widely suspected in a series of fires across France in recent weeks and months including the major Landiras blaze in Gironde Arson suspected in two wildfires in southern France New wildfire in south of France: 800 hectares burnt, arson suspected Firefighters under arrest for arson Storms from the weekend will persist across some areas