contributes to preserving and enlivening the local economic and social fabric of rural areas by maintaining or recreating local, multi-service, village cafés.Thus a Bistrot de Pays ® must:

Be located in a rural town with a population of less than 2,000 inhabitants.

Be the last – or one of the last – village commerce(s).

Be open year ‘round.

Offer, to the greatest extent possible, basic services that are not available elsewhere in the village (such as bread, newspapers, and grocery items).

Have the local area’s main tourism documents available for visitors.

Organize festive and cultural activities.

Promote local products.

When complete food service is provided, offer meals or dishes in which local products are prominently featured.

Offer at least minimal food service featuring local products, such as snacks, around the clock.By Joseph J. Kolb

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Reuters) - An Albuquerque police officer who shot and killed a 19-year-old woman in April was fired from the police force on Monday for failing to follow an order to turn on his uniform camera during all citizen contacts, police said.

The officer, Jeremy Dear, had been under scrutiny because his uniform camera was not turned on during the April 21 incident in which he shot a woman who was stopped on suspicion of vehicle theft after he said she pointed a gun at him.

Police Chief Gorden Eden said in a statement the officer was fired for "insubordination and untruthfulness" over the uniform camera issue after an internal probe, but stopped short of linking the firing to the circumstances of the shooting itself.

Dear has