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EL CAJON, Calif. -- Police in El Cajon, California, on Friday released cell phone and surveillance video that shows the controversial fatal shooting of a man who pointed a vaping device at officers.
The videos show officer Richard Gonsalves firing four shots at Alfred Olango, an unarmed man, who was pointing the cylindrical vape pen at officers earlier this week. A woman can be heard screaming in the cell phone video as the shots are fired.
Officer Josh McDaniel, like Gonsalves an officer for 21 years, deployed his Taser.
A female employee of a fast-food restaurant recorded video on her cell phone, as did a surveillance camera above a drive-through window.
No decision has been made whether to file criminal charges against one or both officers.
"Any criminal conduct being pursued will be some time much later," San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis told reporters.
Tuesday's shooting
On Tuesday afternoon, police responded to a 911 call reporting a man in his 30s was behaving "erratically" behind a restaurant.
Once they arrived, Olango kept his hands concealed in his pockets while pacing back and forth, police said.
The man "rapidly drew an object" and placed both hands on it "like you would be holding a firearm," police Chief Jeff Davis said.
One officer fired his gun at Olango, while a second officer discharged his Taser, police have said. Both are on three-day administrative leave.
The woman who called 911 claimed to be the man's sister and told the dispatcher he was mentally ill and unarmed, Davis said. Investigators have not been able to confirm whether the caller was Olango's sister, he said.
Olango's mother, Pamela Benge, said he was not mentally ill. He was mourning the loss of a friend, she said.
A psychiatric emergency response team was at another call but broke away and attempted to respond to the scene where police eventually faced off with Olango, Davis said Friday. The PERT team didn't arrive until after the shooting, the chief said.
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Earlier this week, police released a video still showing the incident. Olango appears to be in stance as if ready to shoot, police said.
Officers were not wearing body cameras.
Olango's death set off demonstrations in the San Diego suburb. Protesters stopped cars and broke windows Thursday night, El Cajon police said. Protesters have called for the investigation into the shooting to be run by the US Department of Justice.
Businesses in downtown El Cajon were advised to close early Friday.
Olango came to the United States in 1991 as a refugee from Uganda.
Vape pens, or e-cigarettes, have been around for more than a decade but have boomed in popularity recently because of marketing to nicotine users looking for a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes. Also fueling the trend is the accessibility of oil concentrates. A vape pen creates an inhalable vapor with a small inner coil that slowly heats, creating a vapor that is inhaled.
'They killed my brother'
In the aftermath of the shooting and Olango's death, Rumbie Mubaiwa began filming the scene on Facebook Live.
In the video, a distraught woman says she called 911 to get help for the man she says was her brother. She describes him as "sick."
A police officer interviews a witness, and two others put up yellow police tape. Officers can be seen congregating in the background as the sister sits on a rock wailing.
"You guys killed my brother in front of me," she cries as Mubaiwa records the scene. "Why couldn't you guys Tase him? Why? Why? Why? Why?"
Police have not confirmed whether the woman in the Facebook Live footage was Olango's sister.
Christopher Rice-Wilson, director of civic engagement for Alliance San Diego, told reporters Wednesday that family members requested privacy while they grieve and would make statements at some point.
Olango twice ordered deported
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials had twice tried to deport Olango, the law enforcement agency said in a statement Thursday.
Olango came to the United States in 1991 as a refugee. In 2002 an immigration judge ordered him deported after he was convicted of transporting and selling narcotics, the statement said.
ICE officials tried multiple times to get travel documentation needed from Uganda in order to remove Olango from the country. He eventually was released from custody in 2003 under an order of supervision requiring him to report to the agency regularly. His release complied with a Supreme Court ruling that banned the detention of foreign nationals if repatriation is not likely after six months of detention, the statement said.
In 2009, Olango was returned to ICE custody after serving a prison term for a firearms conviction in Colorado. Again officials tried unsuccessfully to get necessary travel documentation from Uganda.
Olango was re-released from ICE custody on another order of supervision. ICE said he reported to the agency as required until February 2015.


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Working It All Out
By Amy Power
April 25, 2018
Before kids I spent my free time sewing, reading, running, and I practically lived in the yoga studio. Some weeks you could even catch me going to the 6am class before work and hitting up another after. I just love it and I love how I feel when I am able to exercise. Fast forward four years and I find that I'm letting myself go.
I do not mean that I think I am getting fat, or I'm dissatisfied with my body. Quite the contrary, I am constantly amazed by what my body can do and how it has adapted over time. Bodies are magical! What I mean is amidst the joy, utter fatigue and chaos of motherhood I have lost myself. I have let MY SELF go. My former identity has been been completely consumed by my new identity: mother. I adore being a mom. I think my children are the bees knees and I wouldn't trade them for the world, but 4 years in I am coming to the realization that I need to reclaim a little of my time. I need a break. I need a pause for me. I need to invest in some self care. BUT HOW?!
Between work, a partner who works 60-80 hours a week, a 4 year old, a one year old, house priorities, and a new blog 🙂 there is literally no time in the day. I have not worked out a reasonable way to get to the yoga studio or a gym, so I've settled on home workouts. Before I became pregnant with Brendan, I tried the Beach Body 21 Day Fix. It was fun, a good work out, not a huge time commitment, and I actually had defined abs for the first time in my life (struggles of a bonafide apple shape). But here's the thing; I try really hard to limit screen time for my kids and I am genuinely concerned about the messaging. For example, my (at the time 2 year old) daughter came prancing downstairs in her undies and a (self) cut up onesie proclaiming she had on her "work out gear" and was ready to exercise… In hindsight, the women are pretty scantily clad. As adults, we're exposed to this in so many forms of media, we almost don't notice the messages they're sending until a moment like this brings it to our attention. There is also a lot of reference to working out so you "look sexy", again… that's just not a message I want my very young daughter to absorb Every. Single. Day. I want her to associate exercise with maintaining a strong and healthy body, not with "looking sexy."
Ok. So home workout with no video and women showing more clothes than skin. That shouldn't be too much to ask, right? Enter the Sweat with Kayla App. There are 4 programs you can choose from and the app guides you through 3 resistance and 3 cardio sessions a week (each at 28 minutes). It's organized in circuits, which I like, and there's no video so I don't mind doing it while the kids are awake and bopping around. There is a clear image of an exercise with the number of reps, then when you complete it, you push the arrow key and the next exercise appears. There's also places you can track water consumption, there are recipes, there's a progress tracker, and an activity log. Basically it's a pretty neat little app and my body hurts so good. I hope the variety continues and that squeezing 28 minutes of exercise into each day will help me feel a little like my old self again. It's good to have goals!
Speaking of goals, nothing gets me more in the workout groove than new gear. There's something motivating about feeling fresh and fierce when reaching for my workout clothes.We've noticed some pretty great deals on these New Balance for J.Crew pieces, so we wanted to give them a test drive and let you know how they fit and feel.
New Balance for J. Crew| Scalloped Capri Legging | $19.50
Size: medium
With warm weather (and my petite frame) in mind, we decided to try these scallop-waisted capri leggings. The scalloping is just at the waist, pretty and yet subtle enough to keep these from feeling trendy. Because of this detail, the fabric is noticeably stiffer at the waistband, but I still found them comfortable with enough stretch. I love the high-waisted cut, and the fabric through the legs felt soft with a comfortable amount of compression. They fit fairly true to size in the medium, my usual for leggings at this weight.
New Balance for J.Crew | Scalloped Performance Sports Bra | $16.50
Size: large
The scalloped bra echoes the pretty scalloping detail found in the pants, in this case the scalloping is around the band. I definitely needed the large for the bra to accommodate my nursing bust, but I also had to cinch the straps down as tight as they would go to fit my smaller frame. Over all this bra, with it's lined cups, left me feeling modestly covered, fully supported, and provided a really nice shaping and lifting for my bust (I honestly don't think I've felt this confident about my bust shape since having babies). I probably wouldn't take this bra out for a run, but I felt completely supported and contained for a yoga and or weight lifting workout. I would consider this bra to offer medium support.
New Balance for J.Crew| Free Flow Top| $9.50
Size medium
I found this top to be cute, comfortable and flattering, though not flowy on me in a size medium. If I wanted the top to "flow" I should have opted for the large. The medium just fit and did a little bit of an awkward gather around the cute back strap details. I think this problem would have corrected with either a larger size or a longer torso. Over all, I cannot get over the deal! The shirt is soft and feels high quality.
As we find ourselves a few months into the new year, how do you balance what's expected of you and still find time for self care? What are you doing to meet the goals you've set for 2018? Share your story in the comments, we'd love to cheer you on!

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Ad blocking has become an ever-popular feature when it comes to people searching the Internet, especially on their mobile devices. In June 2015, there were just under 200 million monthly users of ad blocking technology. This can have a significant impact on your business' PPC campaigns.
What is Ad Blocking
Ad blockers, sometimes known as content blockers, are software programs that stop ads from being displayed on a website. Generally speaking, ad blockers are browser add-ons. There are different ones for each web browser.
There are dozens of ad blocking options to choose from. The most popular is AdBlock Plus, but there are others offered by both large and small companies.
The Implications of Ad Blocking for Paid Search
The problem is that ad blocking prevents a mainstream of income for many websites. If you have a PPC campaign, then it is likely that some of your potential customers will not be viewing your ad, and this can have a significant impact on your revenue.
To make matters worse, when ads do not show to your audience, according to Google and Bing, they are still considered impressions. Therefore, the first change you should make is to ensure you aren't on a pay-per-impression campaign, but rather a pay-per-click (PPC).
However, there is one advantage. Programs like AdBlocker Pro have a whitelist of ads it allows to be displayed. Getting your ads on this list means that you can be one of a select few companies shown, and this could increase your chance of a conversion.
Another consideration with ad blocking software is that ads native to the site are not affected. For instance, sites like Facebook and Twitter, where sponsored posts are used with a PPC structure, are not blocked. Also, sites that run their advertising campaigns are free to display ads.
All in all, there is a potential economic cost to Google and other PPC platforms. Research is divided on how much this is, but the figures are considered to be:
- $42 billion per year (Adobe and PageFair)
- $1 billion (Sources unquoted on WordStream)
Mobile Users
The most significant use of ad blockers is on mobile devices. This is because mobile web surfing is typically slow, and the displaying of ads on a site painfully slows down the load time for the user. When ads are blocked, the effect can be as much as a page loading four times faster. So, if you are targeting users on an iPhone or another mobile device, you are more likely to be affected than someone who just targets desktop users.
That doesn't mean that you are entirely out of luck. In 2013, there were 6.8 billion phones in the world and two billion personal computers. With only 200 million monthly ad block programs run on both mobile and personal computers, you are still looking at a 78-95% reach.
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One of the tactics you can use to improve your returns on PPC is to have a complete sales cycle. That is one that includes PPC and other marketing channels to increase the chance of qualified prospects entering your sales funnel and moving successfully down it.
Another tactic would be to make more use of Google Retargeting. This is a program where a cookie is placed on a website visitor's device that signals to Google to display your ad when they visit another site that is part of their advertising network.
This can be an easy solution that can yield significant returns in the long term.
Ad blocking is here. People want to use it, but not everyone is. It will affect your PPC campaigns, but there are also actions you can take to mitigate the impact of your brand. You just have to look at new channels to support your primary PPC campaigns.


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GOMA/ KIGALI – A Rwandan official has said his country has closed its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo because of the deadly Ebola outbreak.
The closure comes after a man died of Ebola in the DRC's major city of Goma, which is on the Rwandan border.
He was the second confirmed Ebola case in Goma.
The death increased fears the virus could take root in the densely populated city of 2 million.
Doctor Aruna Abedi, the Ebola coordinator for North Kivu province, said a person who had contact with the man is receiving treatment after showing signs of the disease.
Congo's health ministry said it is the one-year-old daughter of the man who died on Wednesday and had spent several days at home with his large family while showing symptoms.
If the case is confirmed, it would be the first transmission of Ebola in this outbreak inside Goma.
Commenting on Rwanda sealing the border, the DRC's presidency said: "The Congolese authorities deplore this decision, which runs counter to the advice of the WHO (World Health Organisation)," on fighting the virus.
The WHO, which declared this year-long Ebola outbreak a global health emergency last month, has recommended against travel restrictions.
However, it said the risk of regional spread is "very high".
The outbreak has killed more than 1,800 people so far, making it the second-deadliest Ebola emergency in history.


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Why This Stock Has Missed the Mark in 2013
The markets have delivered in a big way for investors in 2013, but not every stock out there has satisfied its investors. Even among big pharma stocks --many of which have posted superb years so far -- a few big names haven't lived up to the market's run. Take French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi : This stock boasts a diverse drug portfolio and the top blockbuster diabetes therapy Lantus, which made $5 billion last year. Still, that hasn't been enough to save Sanofi's stock from a lackluster year, as shares only have posted low single-digit percentage growth in 2013.
Sanofi's facing challenges endemic to big pharma companies, particularly in regards to the patent cliff. While Sanofi has managed to ride Lantus higher in making its name as one of the most dominant firms in treating diabetes, can this top drug get this stock back on track?
This is one stock health care investors need to watch with a close eye over the near future. In the video below, Fool contributor Dan Carroll explains what has hurt Sanofi's stock in 2013 and the hurdles that this company will have to clear to get shares back on track.
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On Thursday, 7th February, a selection of high achieving Year 11 students from Cowley International College, Haydock High School and Rainford High School visited Cowley Sixth Form College to attend an information event aimed at encouraging students to apply to some of the best universities in the country.
The inspirational and informative session was run by Sandy Mill, the Schools Liaison Officer for Magdalene College at Cambridge University. Sandy spoke about the benefits of attending university and the opportunities that attending a Russell Group university, such at Cambridge, could present.
Sandy talked at length about the common stereotype's that people associate with those who study at top universities, such being affluent or that they will have attended a private school.
However, Sandy dispelled these myths and focused on the factors that really matter to attend a top university: having a passion for your chosen subject(s) and the grades to support your application.
More than 21,500 students from all walks of life and all corners of the world attend Cambridge University and they all share this common interest: a thirst for learning and knowledge.
Many students who attended asked questions at the end of the motivational session and were keen to know more.
Thank you to Sandy for visiting Cowley and providing such an informative session. Thanks also go to Cowley's Most Able Coordinator, Mrs Hewlett, for organising.


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Be good to yourself after a season of indulgence by making Ana Sortun's pomegranate spoon salad. While it can be hard to eat healthfully in the winter months when fresh veggies are hard to come by, Sortun's dish makes good use of produce that can easily be found this time of year. Aside from being plentiful in the markets right now, the pomegranate seeds also add a special something to this everyday chopped salad that makes it beautiful and delicious enough to serve to company. But don't feel like you have to wait. Treat yourself to a bowl of this for lunch and know that all those January resolutions are safe for another day (or at least until dinner).
Pomegranate Spoon Salad
- 1 pound tomatoes, seeded and 1/2 inch diced
- 6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon pomegranate molasses
- 8 romaine lettuce leaves, torn into large pieces
- 1 small red onion, finely chopped
- 1 medium European cucumber, peeled, halved, seeded and finely diced
- 1 small green bell pepper, minced
- 1/2 cup pomegranate seeds (about half a pomegranate)
- salt and pepper
- In a bowl large enough to hold all the vegetables, combine the olive oil, lemon juice and pomegranate molasses, and whisk till combined.
- When ready to serve, combine all the ingredients in the bowl and toss to combine. Season with salt and pepper to taste.


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JB为摄影集《Men Before 10 a.m.》写的序(英文原文)
注:名人肖像摄影师Veronique Vial拍过一本著名的写真集Men before 10 a.m(《清晨十点前的男人》),纪录了很多名人(包括成龙, Keanu Reeves, Patrick Dempsey, Billy Zane, Edward Burns, Brendan Fraser 等)在清晨醒来第一时刻的样子。Jennifer Beals为这本书写了序。另外,她自己也作为拍摄对象被纪录在Vial的另一本写真集《Women before 10 a.m》里,出版于2001年。耶鲁大学文学系毕业的Jennifer文字淡雅清新,与她那低调的性格相融,字里行间透露出新婚燕尔的喜悦、和对人生的品味。向写真集想要表达的一样,看完这个序,就像打开重重封闭的大门,你将要踏入一个被银幕掩埋的真实内心世界。
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Forword for Men Before 10 a.m.
By Jennifer Beals
[dropcap style="square" title="It"]is not that easy to be photographed because it is not always that easy to allow oneself to be seen. Interestingly, what we wish for above all else is to be seen clearly, with the hope that what is there is somehow beautiful simply by virtue of its sheer existence. We hope that someone else's vision of us will be commensurate to our experience of ourselves. Surely this possibility is most precarious in the early hours of the morning when we are passing through dream's gate back into the world of "reality." When we are coming back from that place – sleep – a place that is so intimate, second only to death or perhaps birth, who could presume to see us in all our subtle, unguarded complexity? Would we even want a stranger to greet us at dream's door when we are so thoroughly ourselves? How do we emerge into the world? Though the gate of ivory or through the gate of horn? What rituals or happenstance take us into the day's embrace? And who is there to greet us…and would we want them to have a camera?
When Veronique asked to photograph me for her book Women Before 10 a.m. I was undoubtedly the happiest I had ever been. I had just been married the week before in a small town in Michigan, and my husband and I decided to extend our honeymoon at a hotel not far from our house in Los Angeles. I was told Veronique wanted to photograph women before ten in the morning, without assistants, without hair and makeup, and without the usual armaments which guard the public persona like the Great Wall of China. How exciting. How utterly terrifying. Did I even want people to see me? I then thought about how important it was to circumvent the fantasies created by magazines and I agreed.
The night before Veronique arrived, I could hardly sleep. I felt like it was the night before the first day of school. I do not love being photographed, but I do love photography. I love the truth within the fiction. Sometimes when I see a fine photograph, it is so palpably sweet I can taste it in my mouth. By fine I don't mean it is necessarily hanging in a museum, ordained by the latest curator. I mean fine as in true – as in it has life and God and a sound to it, a vibration all its own. That thing is indescribably delicious. And so, knowing I was embarking on a journey with someone who sought the truth of the thing rather that the publicist's fiction, I was excited. And unable to sleep. What would she be like? Would she be an insatiable hunter, like so may of the photographers I had met? Or would she be impenetrably silent, like so many others? I knew she was French, and I thought she must be an intrepid soul.
I don't remember what time she said she would arrive, but I was up by 6a.m. I am an early riser, but not that early. So I waited. And waited. I felt like I was on a first date. I remember my cat Pushkin was with me. My husband lay on the hotel bed sleeping. I took out my own camera and photographed them, and did a few self portraits in my wedding veil. Still no Veronique. I pulled on my sweat pants and went to the hotel gym and ran. And ran some more. And kept running. I like to run, but not that much.
I left the gym sweaty and only slightly wired, and there in front of me appeared a beautiful woman with long dark hair, a camera, and an exquisite sense of calm usually reserved for Persian cats. I felt such relief. Trust was born in an instant, because in that instant I realized she wasn't a voyeur, but an explorer.
The "session" took less than half an hour. I took a shower, put on my robe, and filled with the exhaustion of relief got back into bed. Veronique saw my veil hanging on the chair and asked if I minded being photographed in it again. No, not at all. That was my life at that moment, and though re-donning the veil was a fiction, it was a fiction filled with truth. My marriage and my joy was how I was emerging from dream's gate into life – and maybe Veronique sensed that. The only thing missing from the beautiful photograph she took is how wonderful my love smells in the morning.
What follows in this book is how these groups of men emerge from that intimate place of darkness into the day on the particular morning Veronique came to photograph them. Some, still sleeping, gaze at death's amorous side; unencumbered by manhood, they look like boys. Some you see playing with Veronique; delighted she is there, delighted they are being regarded. Others are shy; some are deeply grounded, confident that they need not present themselves to the camera, knowing it will find them. They are all beautiful.
One of the questions the photographs seem to answer is, how do we prepare for the day? How do we prepare for life? In the smallest actions we create who we are. I love looking at the smallest detail, the smallest action – an old balloon lying on the couch, the way someone washes his hair or holds his cup. It reminds me of what the director Carl Franklin once said to me: The camera is lovingly interested in it all; the camera is interested in you. Veronique Vial is lovingly interested in it all, and she finds the truth in the fiction time and time again, like a seeker who knows where the grail is hidden.


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Defense lawyers for William Balfour, the man charged with murdering Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and nephew in 2008, want her to provide testimony.
According to local reports, defense attorney Amy Thompson made a request to speak with Hudson in Cook County Tuesday, hoping to discuss a text message she exchanged with her mother the day she was fatally shot.
Thompson is reportedly seeking to have Balfour's arrest thrown out, claiming he was not doing anything illegal when officers arrested him after tracing his cellphone to a girlfriend's apartment following the murders.
State Attorney James McKay however claims Balfour constantly threatened to kill Hudson's sister, Julia, in the days leading up to the murders. Julia allegedly let him use the family's bathroom hours before he allegedly returned and killed her mother, brother and son.
The judge is expected to rule on whether Balfour's arrest should be thrown out Tuesday, February 14. As previously reported, a trial has been set for April.


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Bishops (First Century)
Their story
+ According to the New Testament Timothy was the child of a Greek father and a Jewish mother, Eunice, who eventually became a Christian. Saint Paul tells us that Timothy's grandmother, Lois, was also instrumental in Timothy's growth in the Christian Faith.
+ Timothy became a Christian during Paul's first missionary journey and was highly recommended to Paul by the Christian community at Lystra.
+ Timothy later traveled to Macedonia, Thessalonica, and Corinth. On two occasions when Paul was imprisoned, Timothy was sent to give him support. According to ancient tradition, Timothy became the bishop of Ephesus.
+ Titus was born to a pagan family and, like Saint Timothy, was a convert of Saint Paul.
+ He accompanied Paul and Barnabas to the Council of Jerusalem, where Paul received official approbation to proclaim the Gospel among the Gentiles.
+ Paul later expressed great trust in Titus as an intermediary in working for peace in the church at Corinth. Tradition relates that Titus later served as bishop of the Christian community in Crete.
For prayer and reflection
"For this reason, I remind you to stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control."—2 Timothy 1:6-7
Spiritual bonus
Today we also remember Saint Conan of Iona. A monk and spiritual teacher of Saint Fiacre (the patron of gardeners), he later served as a missionary and bishop of the Southern Hebrides and the Isle of Man. Saint Conan died around the year 648.
O God, who adorned Saints Timothy and Titus
with apostolic virtues,
grant, through the intercession of them both,
that, living justly and devoutly in this present age,
we may merit to reach our heavenly homeland.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
(from The Roman Missal)
Saint profiles prepared by Brother Silas Henderson, S.D.S.


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Title: Fight of the Bird and the Turtle
Size: 21.5 x 21.5 x 0.75 inch - 55 x 55 x 2 cm
Medium: Oil on Canvas
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The piece is painted on a canvas stretched on a wooden frame.
Ready to be hanged and signed by the artist at the front and back.
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Report: Dominik Hasek considering NHL return at 47 years old
Considered one of the NHL's greatest-ever goalkeepers, 47-year-old Dominik Hasek is considering another return to the ice. (Bill Wippert, Getty Images)
At 47 years old, Dominik Hasek is considering coming out of retirement according to a report from NHL.com.
The future hall of fame goalkeeper first retired in 2003 with the Detroit Red Wings, but has resurfaced several times since then in the NHL and overseas. Hasek came back to play for the Red Wings and the Ottawa Senators after a one season break before retiring again and making another comeback in his native Czech Republic.


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WILD Connect celebrates first anniversary under new management
Exactly one year ago, and one day after the first Corona Lockdown, the company WILD Connect was taken over by Thomas Spitzer and Daniel L. Zimmermann.
The anniversary was celebrated, of course Corona-compliant(!), with drinks, burgers and all members of the WILD team in the company's outdoor area.
The FoodTruck "Six-o-eight" was commissioned for this purpose. The burgers from "Six-o-eight" are prepared from 100% fresh beef from the regional butcher. Furthermore, the "Six-o-eight" FoodTruck works mainly with local partners who guarantee the highest quality. This is also 100% in line with the philosophy, regional solidarity, at WILD Connect!
The management would like to thank all employees for their commitment during the last 12 months and is looking forward to further successful and beautiful years together!


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Anthonys announced , Halloween is coming
Dear ones,
The Anthonys were announced @ Bouchercon 2009
Best Novel: The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
Best First Novel: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Best Paperback Original: State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy
Best Short Story: "A Sleep Not Unlike Death" by Sean Chercover
Special Service Award: Jon and Ruth Jordan (CrimeSpree Magazine)
Best Critical Non-Fiction: Anthony Boucher: A Biography by Jeffrey Marks
Best Young Adult Novel: The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein
Best Cover Art: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Congrats to all the winners and nominees.
Halloween is coming and we are celebrating here in Oxford. We are one of the only towns in our area to have crowds of folks small and large trick and treat down our leafy streets. Our party starts at 5:30pm on October 31. Costumes are almost a requirement, so don your best and join us for some Halloween hot drinks and goodies sure to make you smile.
Happy Halloween,


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Fr: Pie-grièche écorcheur
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BIRDS OF THE MIDDLE EAST by R.F. Porter, S. Christensen, P Schiermacker-Ansen C.Helm - ISBN: 0713670169
ENCYCLOPEDIE DES OISEAUX DE FRANCE ET D'EUROPE – de Peter Hayman et Rob Hume - Flammarion – ISBN : 2082009920
L'ENCYCLOPEDIE MONDIALE DES OISEAUX - Dr Christopher M. Perrins - BORDAS - ISBN: 2040185607
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS – Written by "Royal Society for the Protection of Birds" experts - Préface de Magnus Magnusson - Michael Cady- Rob Hume Editors - ISBN: 0749509112
THE HANDBOOK OF BIRD IDENTIFICATION FOR EUROPE AND THE WESTERN PALEARCTIC by Mark Beaman, Steve Madge - C. Helm - ISBN: 0713639601
Birds of Britain - The Web Magazine for Birdwatchers
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Red-backed Shrike
Lanius collurio
Passeriformes Order – Laniidae Family
The Red-backed Shrike was formerly called « butcher bird », and this name comes from the feeding behaviour of this bird which stores and spikes the recently caught preys on thorny plants or even on barbed wires.
This bird has hooked, hawk-like bill, and like a hawk, it sometimes carries preys in its feet.
The Red-backed Shrike breeds in open woodland with dense thorny cover providing hunting posts and thorny branches for impaling the food items (larders).
This species is migratory and winters in South Africa.
Length: 17 cm
Weight: 23-24 g
The adult male has pale grey crown, nape, rump and uppertail-coverts, and chestnut mantle, back and scapulars. The upperwing is blackish with chestnut-edged feathers. There is sometimes a small, white wing patch at primaries' bases.
The tail is black but the central pair of rectrices has white base, whereas the outer pairs show white outer webs. The black terminal bands on other tail feathers form an inverted T visible in flight.
On the underparts, chin and throat are white. Rest of underparts is pale salmon-pink. The undertail-coverts are white.
On the pale grey head, the lower forehead is black. We can see a conspicuous black eye mask from lores to rear of ear-coverts.
The hooked bill is black, with paler or bluish base outside the breeding season. The eyes are dark brown. Legs and feet are dark brown to black.
The female resembles male but she is paler and duller. On the head, lower forehead and supercilium are creamy-white, whereas ear-coverts are brown. Crown and upperparts are brown to greyish-brown. The nape is greyish but variable. Rump and uppertail-coverts are greyish. The tail is dark brown or slightly rufous with whitish edges and tip. On the upperwing, the fringes are paler and duller than in male.
The underparts are creamy-white with pale pinkish-buff wash on breast sides and flanks, vermiculated with blackish except on throat and undertail-coverts. Bill and legs are slightly paler than in male.
The juvenile resembles female with duller entire upperparts which are mostly rufous-brown to buffish-brown with heavy dark barring. The underparts are more heavily vermiculated. The bill has yellow base.
The Red-backed Shrike has three subspecies.
L.c. collurio (described above) breeds in Europe (except N, NW and SW) E to W Siberia, S to N Iberia, Sardinia, S Italy, Sicily, Balkans (S to Croatia), C Romania, Ukraine and plains of N Caucasus. It winters in S and E Africa.
L.c. kobylini breeds in Balkans (S from Bosnia) E to Crimea and Caucasus, S to Asia Minor, Cyprus and NW Iran. It winters in S and E Africa.
This race is duller than nominate, with greyer upper mantle.
L.c. pallidifrons breeds in W and WC Siberia (E to NW Altai). It winters in S and E Africa.
This race has paler crown and hindneck than nominate.
The Red-backed Shrike breeds in a variety of habitats including woodland edges and clearings, open country with scattered trees and bushes, scrubby habitat and heathland, bushy areas with thorny scrub, orchards and olive groves.
It needs hunting posts allowing good view over areas of short grass, heath or bare ground where small preys are abundant.
The species can be seen in mountainous areas in some parts of the range, up to 1000/2000 metres of elevation.
On the South African wintering grounds, the Red-backed Shrike frequents fairly similar habitat types. It can be seen in savanna, grassland and Karoo (semi-desert natural region).
The Red-backed Shrike's call is a hard, slurred "shack" or "shak-shak", and harsh "churruk churruk". The contact call is a shorter "tek-tek" becoming a series of hoarse hard notes in alarm "keck-keck-keck".
The warbling song is quiet and musical, and includes mimicry of other small birds' songs and calls.
The Red-backed Shrike forages in habitats where large insects, small reptiles and rodents are abundant. Its diet includes mainly insects (Coleoptera, Orthoptera and Hymenoptera), and various other invertebrates. Small mammals (voles), birds and reptiles are taken too. According to the season, it also feeds on berries in late summer and autumn.
The Red-backed Shrike hunts from prominent perches to spot easily the passing preys. It swiftly drops onto the prey on the ground, but it also chases flying insects on the wing. The larger preys such as small birds, mammals, lizards and frogs are killed with a sharp peck to the back of the head.
Then, the prey items are usually impaled on thorns at traditional sites (larders) within the territory. It is easier for the bird to eat the larger preys as they are impaled, but it may also hold them in one foot.
This behaviour could play a role in mate attraction, as females may choose males able to bring abundant food to the chicks. A well-stored larder allows the pair to have better breeding success.
The Red-backed Shrike is usually monogamous, although some cases of polygyny have been recorded in Poland and Sweden. However, the male may become aggressive during the fertile period of the female, and another male approaching a mated female can be weakly or fiercely attacked. Interactions are usually stronger during both nest-building and laying periods.
In order to drive away other males and to attract females, the male may perform a peculiar display in which it mimics the action of impaling a prey. Another display follows, in which the male feeds the female while performing a bowing dance. The female accepts a prey from the male when she is ready for the copulation. She holds the prey while lowering her upper body.
The boundaries of the territory are established mainly by songs from perches. Some fights may occur with loud rasping calls, foot-grappling and sometimes pecking.
The pair formation occurs mostly in breeding territories, or occasionally during spring stopovers.
The Red-backed Shrike is migratory and is a nocturnal migrant. It leaves the breeding grounds between late July and second half August/early September. The birds move SE or SSE towards E Mediterranean. The first arrivals in extreme S of the wintering areas occur in late October.
The return to the breeding grounds starts in second half March until mid-April.
The Red-backed Shrikes are heavily preyed upon during their migration, due to their straight, slow flight. While foraging, the birds glide and hover along hedges.
The Red-backed Shrike breeds in spring, with the laying between May and July according to the range. This species usually produces a single brood per year, rarely two.
It nests in dense bush or small tree. The nest is cup-shaped with loose foundation of green plant stems, roots, grass, lichen and other plant material. The inner cup is lined with grass, moss and fur. It is usually placed low down in dense thorny bushes.
The female lays 4-6 very variable eggs, usually pale with brown markings. The clutch is replaced if lost. The female incubates alone during about two weeks. The male rarely assists. The chicks are naked at hatching. They are brooded by the female for the first week and fed by the male. Then, both parents feed them. The young fledge 14-16 days after hatching but in bad weather, mostly up to 18-20 days.
The young are able to catch insects about two weeks after leaving the nest, but they are independent only 20 days later.
The Red-backed Shrike has wide range in which it is locally common, uncommon or rare. This species is more or less extinct in UK where it was formerly locally common. However, it recently bred in N Scotland (Shetland).
Most eastern populations remained stable while declines occurred in 1990/2000 in several countries. The European population has a moderate decline between 1970 and 1990.
Declines are mainly due to habitat loss and fragmentation of this habitat after afforestation and agriculture expansion, involving the use of pesticides and loss of food resources.
The European breeding population was estimated to number 6,300,000/13,000,000 breeding pairs or 18,900,000/39,000,000 individuals. As Europe forms 25-49% of the global range, a preliminary estimate of the global population size is 38,600,000/156,000,000 individuals.
But currently, the Red-backed Shrike is evaluated as least Concern.


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Romans 14:15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.
We should not flaunt our Liberty and, therefore, frustrate other believers. Help us, Lord, to be wise and kind in how we live.


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Southeast – California – Northeast – Texas - Background - 2005
Regional Cloud Family Gathering Summary:
NE: Lancaster, PA -- (Thanks,
Jamee Cloud!) -- 19 July 2003
TX: Dallas – (contact Don Salter or Al Cloud) – being studied
Jamee Cloud reports by email:
The 2003 Southeast Regional Cloud Family Association research meeting was held at Athens, Ga. on July 25th and 26th. This site was chosen because of the University of Georgia Library contains the GA room and the Hargett Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, along with the largest collection of microfilmed GA newspapers available anywhere compiled by the GA newspaper project. The GA room has one of the largest collections of GA books anywhere. There is also the Draper Collection (early frontier American records) and the Telamon Cuyler Collection (over 5000 loose Georgia state and county records arranged by Governor, county and subject) and the LeConte Genealogical Collection which is thousands of files and cards on family genealogies. Between the newspaper archives and the other collections we hope to make some discoveries that have not been available elsewhere.
Unfortunately, this library was struck by an arsonist (a non-student later arrested) on Wednesday evening (7/23/03) and was occupied by clean-up personnel from Disaster Services Co. instead of students and Cloud Researchers during the weekend of 7/26/03. This discouraged some, but the CFA Board members came, conducted the planned business, did some research in the Clark-Athens County Library, and enjoyed the weekend. Fortunately, the rare documents section of the library suffered only smoke damage, and we can schedule a trip here another time.
Arrangements were made at the Holiday Inn at Broad and Lumpkin streets, in Athens, GA for a special room rate of $69.00 per night for members of our group. We met in the Ginko Tree, the Holiday Inn restaurant and lounge. We walked from there to the campus and looked at the U. GA. Library.
There are also a number of attractions in the area of Athens, GA. The nearby Kettle Creek Revolutionary War battlefield was visited by some. (Kris's direct ancestor, Ezekiel Cloud, is said by the family to have fought in this battle.) And, others visited historic Madison, GA. And, the group enjoyed a visit to historic Madison, GA.
It sounds to as though "de-Clouding" the library will be a consuming activity on another day, and it is intriguing because there appear to be some resources there that are not available elsewhere.
Marion was again the organizer and his address is: Marion Cloud, P.O. Box 1433, Perry, GA, 31069. His email address is: email@example.com . Working with him were: Kris Moore and Glenda Manis.
California – 16 August 2003 -- photos
CFA Director Hal Cloud and CFA Historian Jan Cloud hosted the first ever meeting of the Cloud Family Association on the west coast on 16 August 2003 at Hal's Playa del Ray (LAX area) complex. [Still too early for a report.]
Hal said he was anxious to make this meeting a good opportunity for folks interested in various Cloud families to get acquainted and share information. With Hal working it we could be sure it will be well planned and worthwhile. With Jan involved we could be sure it will be highly informative for anyone interested in genealogy and family history. Jan, of course, is a professional genealogist with world-class credentials and is the long-time editor of the Cloud Family Journal.
You can contact Hal at firstname.lastname@example.com .
Prospects for Regional Cloud Family Gatherings have brightened considerably. Don Salter and Al Cloud met with CFA President Cecil Stokes at the DFW Airport Hyatt on 8/14/03 to get acquainted and discuss prospects for a CFA gathering in this area this Fall and/or in 2005. The three reported enjoying the occasion, and Historian Jan Cloud says this qualifies as a Regional CFG; but, we still hope to involve more Clouds in this area this year. If interested, for either 2003 or 2005, contact Don Salter or Al Cloud.
The big 2002 Cloud Family Gathering was in Austin, and attempts to promote a smaller one in Texas this year hit several snags. For starters, several of our most active Texas members hosted the 2002 national "Gathering" in Austin and were not ready to host another so soon. Some with strong research interests in Georgia participated in the Southeastern Regional meeting. And, others encounterred family health problems or business conflicts. We badly needed one or two of our Texas members to step forward and take charge. Don and Al have now done that, and we hope there is still time and interest to do something in 2003. If not, they are ready to develop plans for 2005. (They plan to meet with Clouds of other regions in Knoxville in 2004.)
The Cloud Family Association departed from its regional roots in 1997 to have its annual meetings at diverse locations across the continent. This opened new opportunities for participation of more Clouds and broader group research, but it also presented greater challenges of travel distance. There were different views: 1. Annual meetings are great for maintaining contact and momentum, and annual meetings offer opportunities for researchers to gather at different locations. 2. Annual meetings are too close together to justify extensive travel for a limited amount of new material available for presentation.
A compromise approach appeared to provide the best of both positions. Large national gatherings in alternate years provide the opportunity for member presentations and guest speakers that justify significant preparation and travel, and regional gatherings in the other years provide the continuity in social contact on a regional basis and group research in even more locations. 2001 was the first year for "regional" gatherings and only one is known to have taken place, but it was considered to have been quite successful and a good model for regional gatherings in the future. There have been three Regional Gatherings in 2003 and there is still a possibility of a fourth. These promise to provide a variety of models for future regional meetings. It has also been suggested that "regional gatherings" might focus on a particular Cloud ancestor or group of possibly related Cloud ancestors.
Regional meetings require the host or host committee to merely identify the meeting place and time and let folks know about it. The host should designate the general location (the city), a general time (a particular weekend or day), a place for visitors to stay (a hotel/motel with good value/prices), some attractions in the area (historical, data sources, scenic, and/or entertaining), suggested times and places to get together (hotel, library, restaurant, home, etc.), and a local point of contact (home phone, cell phone, hotel room, or other). Letting folks know about it can include the Cloud Family Journal, personal email, email lists, CFA web sites, etc. The host need not make any reservations for attendees, but negotiating a group hotel rate is helpful, as will other information gathering to the extent practical. Invitations are typically mailed to non-member Clouds in the area as well as all CFA members, but neither is obligatory.
National meetings typically involve having the host committee do these things plus making arrangements for a luncheon, a program (with meeting rooms and member/non-member presenters), a tour, and a block of hotel rooms to be booked by attendees. Invitations are typically mailed to non-member Clouds in the area as well as all CFA members, which may or may not be done for regional meetings.
Please plan to get involved
C. Stokes 11/29/2002 updated 9/6/2003


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Common Business Leadership MistakesAugust 10, 2016 8:00 am
We all know the "bad boss" types: the "micro-manager, the "know-it-all", or perhaps the "missing-in-action" boss. These nicknames are great for water cooler talk but in the long run these business leadership mistakes can be disastrous for your company. If you find yourself in a leadership position at your company, it may be time to do some self evaluation to examine if you are making the most common mistakes. Here is a list to help you get your act together.
- Too Involved? or Not Involved Enough? – Finding a balance between managing every step of a project and stepping back until the completion is a difficult task for even the most seasoned leaders. Many leaders want to avoid micromanagement but in doing so become too hands off. The problem is that if your team misunderstood the specifications of the project it may be too late once it is completed. Leaders and managers must find the right balance between being a Laissez Faire leader and a micro-manager.
- Communication Nightmares – Team members need prompt and helpful feedback. According to 1,400 executives polled by The Ken Blanchard Companies, failing to provide feedback is the most common mistake that leaders make. When you don't provide prompt feedback to your people, you're depriving them of the opportunity to improve their performance.
- Being a Role Model – Leading by example is the best way to show your team members how to be professional and the work ethic that you desire. When it comes to achieving results, there is no substitute for leadership by example instead of the "Do as I say, not as I do." Double standards have no place in business leadership.
- Lack of Delegation – According to Inc. Online the key to leadership success is to learn to effectively delegate both the responsibility for completing assignments and the authority required to get things done. Whenever you prepare to take on a new task or assignment, make a point to ask yourself whether one of your employees can do it instead.
- Being Boring – Your employees spend anywhere from 8-12 hours of their day in your office or working for the "good of the company". Not having any fun during those hours is a huge mistake. Fun doesn't mean that employees are losing efficiency or productivity. The best leaders make their organizations fun places to be. Your people spend about one-third of their lives at work. Make it a pleasant place for them.
- Not Recognizing Excellence – There are many things that leaders can do to recognize employees that cost little or no money, are easy to implement, and take only a few minutes to accomplish. When you take the time to recognize employees' achievements, the result is improved morale, performance, and loyalty.
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Opportunity Zones
COVID-19 Update
The federal government recently made some changes to Opportunity Zone rules, including extended deadlines, in response to COVID-19. More Info
Opportunity Zones in Cass and Clay Counties
Established by Congress in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Opportunity Zones encourage long-term, private investments into low income urban and rural communities across the country. The Fargo, ND-Minn MSA has six designated Opportunity Zones, one on the Minnesota side and five in North Dakota.
To learn more about the overall Opportunity Zone initiative, take a look at the IRS's website for a set of FAQ's
Interactive Map of Opportunity Zones
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Or check out the specific Opportunity Zones in our region:
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Additional Information:
Kilbourne Group – Great Plains Opportunity Zone Fund
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I am a cook, not a baker. But I love baked savories like Wild Mushroom Tart especially, and not-too-sweet pastries, squares, and biscuits too. So I keep on going with the baking efforts in hopes that I will improve.
But as you likely know, cooking is a more forgiving art than baking. Baking, well it requires precision, solid recipes, and clear instructions.
So to mitigate potential DIY disasters, I brought on as much help as possible in the form of the Tartine cookbook. With its timeless collection of classics, I figured we cannot go wrong.
This recipe for Wild Mushroom Tart comes from the cookbook. I've made it successfully three times now, and enjoyed it immensely each time. I would be so happy if someone else tried it and loved it nearly as much!
Let me tell you about Tartine for a moment.
Tartine is a neighborhood bakery in San Francisco's Mission District, owned by husband and wife team Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson.
The couple met at the Culinary Institute in Hyde Park, New York, then went on to train in France at old world bakeries and beyond.
Together, they have created what is arguably the most famous bakery in the United States. (Well, Bon Appétit just said it in April.) But the evidence bears that out.
Robertson continues to travel the world to learn how he can improve his bread even further. These days, according to Bon Appétit, he is focused on figuring out how to bring an "artisanal industrial bread" to the mass market.
While this might sound self serving to some, the complete dearth of quality bread in the world makes this a truly laudable goal.
For those of you who are still wondering why I am continuing to praise Tartine, maybe this will help you envision it: It's one of those places where simple ingredients come together perfectly, where butter, milk, flour, salt, minimal unrefined sugar, fruit, and a bit of savory magically transform into sublime eats, and you wonder how they did it.
It is a place where traditional breads are leavened with airborne yeast and sourdough starter—there's no commercial yeast in sight—and the resultant breads are dark and crusty; shapes are round, long, and oblong, with cuts across their tops. It is the kind of bread you savor with good, cold butter.This Wild Mushroom Tart brings the beautiful bakery experience to your home.Click To Tweet
I have not been to Tartine yet, but I have loved similar bakeries. Terra Breads in Vancouver, Canada, is where I first discovered a bakery of this caliber. Now Breads Bakery in NYC is my new place.
I hope your city has a bakery where things look rustic and beautiful. I'd love to hear about your favorites in the comments, and what you love about yours.
It is unfortunate, but bakeries like this are few and far between. Perhaps this contributes to the enjoyment of eating when you finally get to one. They say rarity makes it precious.
My view is, if I am going to indulge in sweets, or any rich baked foods, it ought to be pure and good. The wait makes the experience all the more special.
This Wild Mushroom Tart brings the beautiful bakery experience to your home.
Aside from its simple, buttery pastry, you have mushrooms and shallots cooked in butter, salt, pepper, fresh lemon juice, nutmeg, fresh thyme, egg yolks, and crème fraîche or heavy cream.
To me this is a beautiful ingredient list. Everything flows together so well. Everything smells so good when it's cooking.
And get this tart seasoned just right, and it tastes like the beautiful harmonious section of a classical symphony. It is also perfect for a vegetarian main on a festive occasion such as Thanksgiving.
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Tartine's Wild Mushroom Tart
- One partially baked and cooled 9-inch savory tart shell, purchase pre-made, or make from scratch. See my post on Tartine's Flaky Tart Dough for instructions on how to make the dough from scratch, and also how to partially bake a tart shell.
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 cup shallots, halved and thinly sliced
- 1 pound assorted fresh mushrooms, see notes
- ½ teaspoon Himalayan pink salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 cup crème fraîche or heavy cream, see notes
- 3 large egg yolks
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg, freshly ground
- 1 tablespoon fresh thyme, coarsely minced, for garnish
- Equipment neededIf you have a 9-inch tart pan with fluted edges, use it, but if you don't, a 9-inch pie pan still works. Since a tart pan has a lower edge, the filling does not come completely to the top of the pie dish. To compensate, and make a larger tart, you can increase the recipe by a half to bring the filling to the top, and increase the cooking time. I have tried this, and it works.
Make the mushroom tart
- Prepare the mushrooms by removing any stems you do not want to use, and slice or halve them. I like the pieces to be no more than a ½-inch thickness.
- Melt the butter in a heavy saucepan (enameled cast iron if you have it), over medium-high heat. Add the shallots and sauté until they just start to brown. Add the prepared mushrooms, salt, and pepper. Sauté until the mushrooms are soft and starting to caramelize, about 10 minutes.
- Add the lemon juice and water and use it to remove any caramelization (a.k.a. flavor) from the bottom of the pan. Remove from heat and set aside until needed. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together the crème fraîche, egg yolks, and nutmeg until smooth. Add the mushrooms and stir to combine. Turn the mixture into the partially baked tart shell.
- Bake until the tart custard is barely firm to touch in the center. Although Tartine says it cooks in 20 minutes, it took 45 minutes to reach this stage in my oven. Remove from oven and allow to cool. The custard continues to set as it cools.
To serve
- Serve warm, or at room temperature, sprinkled with fresh thyme. Use a serrated knife to cut pieces of tart with the crispy shell. Enjoy for lunch or dinner with a fresh green salad garnished with roasted beets, apples, goat cheese, and something like a red wine vinaigrette.


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Shark Tank Keto: Here's what You Should Know
a year ago
Shark Tank is one of the most influential shows that is watched by millions of people across the US and the world.
With innovative products and amazing ideas being presented on the show, it's no surprise that revolutionary products come out of that show. One of them is Shark Tank Keto.
But how is it different from all other keto supplements that claim to make you slim like a model? The major difference is that Shark Tank Keto works! Yes, that's what the supplement claims: it will make you lose weight without any additional effort from your side.
In this review, we'll discuss the working of Shark Tank Keto and how it shows results in your body. Does it even work or are the manufacturers scamming the users? Find it all in this review.
Introduction to Shark Tank Keto: What Is It?
Shark Tank Keto is a weight loss supplement that comes with the promise of helping you shed off the extra pounds that you may have put on due to sitting on an office chair for too long or not doing any physical exercise.
Regardless of the reason, Shark Tank Keto aims to help you.
In fact, the product that's actually in question here is Keto Tone, which was presented in one of the Shark Tank Keto episodes. However, we'll refer to it as a Shark Tank Keto product so that you're aware of its credibility.
Coming back to the supplement, it has amazed many people so far and the manufacturers are raving about it endlessly.
According to them, it's the most revolutionary formula to have ever graced the market and every user will benefit from it, irrespective of how heavy they are.
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Burnout is one of the most common problems in the modern world, especially in large cities and metropolises.
Often people do not understand what is happening to them, why they have lost the desire to do their favorite job, why colleagues and customers have become so annoying.
Psychologists define burnout as a syndrome that develops against the accumulation of negative emotions, stress, and leads to exhaustion of employee resources. In simple words, professional burnout is a state when an employee feels overwhelmed.
American psychologist Cary Cherniss explained burnout in the following way:
"Burnout is a kind of withdrawal, if you like, a psychological disagreement between a person and work in response to prolonged stress, frustration or disappointment. At the same time, a person has the feeling that he can no longer live as before. This is not just a mental state but a disease that affects the entire body."
Nearly 45% of workers in the United States admit that they experience emotional burnout from time to time, while 23% frequently suffer. Burnout treatment costs in the United States make from $ 125 billion to $ 190 billion annually.
Who is in the risk group?
These are mainly employees who closely interact with customers - teachers, doctors, salespeople, bankers, and social workers.
Ann Kelly, a French tutor, says: "Recently I started to work remotely, using new communication tools, having more virtual classes and a lot of urgent projects. All this blurred the lines between home and work, and my productivity started to decline."
Cholerics and melancholics, who absorb all the negative emotions associated with work, are especially prone to burnout. In this case, burnout can be a protective response to the stresses that other people bring to them. This negative trend is quickly spreading to other spheres and businesses.
The IT industry did not escape it either. In 2018, the social network Blind even ranked Silicon Valley companies with the highest percentage of employees in a state of burnout.
How to distinguish burnout from ordinary stress?
Everyone faces problems and stresses from time to time. The clinical signs of burnout and depression are very similar; that's why they are often viewed as related problems.
But professional burnout is difficult to deal with. It is a long and protracted process that matures and accumulates over a long time, then removes the employee from working conditions for a long time.
If the chronic stress associated with work lasts more than 3-6 months, it indicates emotional burnout. Signs of an overworked employee are manifested in increased fatigue and drowsiness, decreased concentration, memory impairment. At first, it leads to small mistakes and inattention.
During the second stage, psychosomatic symptoms appear in the form of insomnia, chronic headaches, gastritis, pressure problems, etc. A person is almost always irritated, becomes closed and withdrawn, can be rude to customers, and conflicts with colleagues. He loses motivation and interest in work.
In the third and last stage, an overwhelmed employee becomes apathetic, falls into a deep depression, completely loses interest in work and life in general, has no goals for the future, and does not see the meaning and value of life.
It is important to notice and eliminate the causes of burnout in advance; otherwise, an overworked employee will need at least a year to return to his normal state. You can take an online test to evaluate your current state.
Reasons for burnout
The main reason is the level of stress that has become unbearable, and various factors can trigger it. Some of them are obvious, and others are hidden but very powerful.
The obvious reasons for burnout are:
- Monotonous work;
- Constant deadlines;
- Work in close contact with people;
- A permanent increase in mental stress;
- Suppression of labor initiatives;
- Lack of professional growth and self-expression;
- Misunderstanding and pressure inside the team.
Further reading: Why is employee training and development important and how to create an employee development program?
Indirect factors of emotional burnout:
- Absence of planning and self-organization;
- Non-observance of the work and rest regime;
- Motivational problems (lack of goals);
- Perfectionist syndrome;
- Work in a psychologically ill mode (unfriendly atmosphere within the team, difficult customer relationships).
Burnout prevention
The main thing is not to ignore the problem. If you have noticed the above signs in your everyday routine, start taking the following actions:
- Rate your options. Discuss specific issues with your manager to change expectations, reach compromises, or make some decisions. Try to set goals for your priorities and define what is not urgent in your to-do list.
- Seek support. Whether it is help from colleagues, friends, or loved ones, cooperation can help you cope with the situation. If you have access to a dedicated corporate psychological support program, use it.
- Choose a relaxing activity for yourself. Explore programs that help with stress: yoga, meditation, etc.
- Go in for sports. Regular physical activity helps manage stress and distracts from work.
- Sleep more. Sleep restores the body, improves well-being, and protects your health, so it's important to get a perfect night's sleep.
Dealing with an overwhelmed employee
Each employer should remember that burnout is easier to prevent than to deal with its consequences. Analyze if you are not overloading employees with work, and is you see the above-described signs, implement the following practice:
- Evenly distribute the load so that it is approximately the same for all workers;
- Switch staff attention between different activities - give them diverse tasks, for example, alternate tasks that require creativity and routine ones;
- Let people rest - keep track of the vacation schedule, introduce a normal lunch break, try not to delay employees after a working day. In the case of overtime, compensate for the time spent;
- Create a comfortable atmosphere in the office or in production - install air conditioners, install coolers and a coffee machine, buy comfortable chairs and tables, make repairs in a timely manner;
- Interested in something get employees new: introduce some teambuilding activities. It will add a healthy atmosphere to the team;
- Find out how to motivate an overwhelmed employee. It is a good approach to offer rewards for high efficiency. Avoid fines in case of failure, but figure out why it happened and help the employee overcome the backlog;
- Conduct surveys to identify staff issues and help solve them.
It is widely believed that emotional burnout is unknown to those who do what they love. Unfortunately, it happens, even if you love your job. After all, a high level of involvement is a dangerous catalyst for burnout.
So, the key to your professional well-being is the ability to listen to your feelings, recognize your needs, and seek help from professionals in a timely manner.


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Waynesboro entrepreneur offers free commercial space
WAYNESBORO—When E-N Computers owner Ian MacRae was a Robert E. Lee High School student, he started a business between classes, solving peoples' hardware and software problems.
Encouraged by his teachers, MacRae hung out his first shingle in a cheap rental space on Staunton's West Beverley Street, graduated to a full-fledged information technology business in Fishersville, and has now come full circle – as a business incubator.
"Having affordable rent as a start-up gave me access to professional opportunities I wouldn't have had working from home," MacRae remembers. "Now I'm ready to pass on the success that I was able to achieve to the next generation."
MacRae is offering a year's free rent for all or part of an industrial-zoned 10,500-square-foot building he owns in East Waynesboro at 215 Fifth Street, a few blocks from E-N Computers on North Commerce Avenue.
The area known a century ago as Basic City was an industrial powerhouse that merged with Waynesboro, fading to a ghost town as its mighty manufacturers closed their doors. Now there's a buzz in the air as E-N and other recent enterprises move in. You'll find them featured in "Back to Basic," an upcoming News Leader series launching online Sept. 15.
Maybe yours will be next.
MacRae is offering the $0 one-year lease for all or part of the historic 1960s-era Basic-Witz Furniture Industries executive headquarters.
Founded in 1889, Basic-Witz rose to world dominance as America did in the post-World War II boom years. The company spared no expense with the headquarters, finishing the all-concrete-and-steel structure with a glazed-tile exterior, a terrazzo-floored lobby and light wood paneling in the private offices, conjuring images of Mad Men's Don Draper lounging by the secretarial pool in a smoking jacket.
Zoned heavy industrial, the space can accommodate light manufacturing — a former occupant assembled printed circuit boards here — or a call center, federal contractor, or other knowledge-worker enterprise.
Businesses can apply to use the entire 10,500-square-foot space, or in 1,000-square-foot increments. Among the unique features are a large bull-pen area, where 40 people used to work, surrounded by private offices — a total of 16 in the building — as well as two conference rooms, a small cafeteria room and a walk-in safe. A store room with large external doors supports shipping and receiving. The parking lot holds 40 cars.
The Fifth Street location is a seven-minute drive from I-64 and 18 minutes from I-81.
"A space of this size is prohibitive in larger urban centers, so it would be ideal for a Charlottesville or D.C. business that wants to move or expand," MacRae said. "I would also be interested in someone looking to start a new business."
The $0 lease is for use of the space and doesn't include remodeling or insurance of the occupant's possessions or liability. Dealing with the city of Waynesboro on business-specific permits is up to the occupant.
MacRae is accepting applications through Oct. 22 from businesses requiring anywhere from 1,000 to 10,500 square feet. To apply, send applications to firstname.lastname@example.com, explaining your business and why you think you should qualify for free rent.
E-N Computers reserves the right to award rent-free space only to those businesses it chooses. Winning applications will be announced within 21 days of the Oct 22nd. application deadline.


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(NNPA) – Does it surprise you that ultra-weird super-freak Dennis Rodman, whose face looks like a hardware shop with all the piercings, would offer to go out on a date with Caitlyn Jenner?
The NBA Hall of Fame rebounding genius, who once dated Madonna and won championships with Michael Jordan and wore a wedding dress in public — all in the same era — said that the world has come a long way in just a few short decades since he unsuccessfully tried to convince Sports Illustrated to let him pose in a dress on the cover of their magazine in 1995.
So he told TMZ that he is proud of the response that the former Bruce Jenner has received from the public at large. But check out how he offered to go out with Jenner.


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Yandex is to start self-driving taxi service in Russia
Russia's Yandex has taken its self-driving endeavors above and beyond, propelling a self-driving ride-hailing service in the college city of Innopolis, Russia. The organization guarantees it's the first such service to dispatch in Europe. For the present, there will be two self-driving vehicles in activity and they'll give rides to particular areas, for example, the college, the stadium and private squares, for nothing. A security specialist will ride in the passenger seat and around 100 individuals have consented to test the administration.
Yandex divulged a model of its self-driving Prius a year ago. The organization says that later on, it intends to extend its driverless ride-hailing administration, including more goals and vehicles and expelling the safety rider.
A little information about the company, Yandex N.V. is a multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related products and services, including search and information services, eCommerce, transportation, navigation, mobile applications, and online advertising.
Yandex said in a statement Tuesday that the tests in Innopolis are the first in Europe where people can order a driverless car for their routine needs.
Yandex in February posted footage of its taxi unit's autonomous Toyota Prius navigating several kilometers in central Moscow during light rain and -6 Celsius (21 Fahrenheit) temperatures. The Russian company's ultimate goal is to achieve functionality such that no steering wheel, brake pedal or human is required in order for a car to reach a destination.
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A 16-foot hand-face statue overlooking Christchurch, New Zealand is impossible to ignore
There's a giant hand-face sculpture looming over the city of Christchurch, New Zealand and it's provoking some passionate responses from local residents.
According to art critic Warren Feeney, people have been calling it "puzzling," "provoking," "funny," "lewd," "terrible," and "awesome." However, regardless of how they feel, it's going to be up there for another three years.
The 16-foot sculpture of a hand standing on its fingers with a face smack-dab in the center is an abstract self-portrait by Christchurch native son Ronnie van Hout. According to CityGallery Wellington, where the piece currently resides on its roof, van Hout's work explores the "freak, the outsider," and "the reject."
Gallery chief curator Robert Leonard says Quasi is "about being a freak, being an outsider, being deformed and being misunderstood".
The sculpture is called Quasi after Quisaimoto, the literary bell-ringer os Notre Dame, as well as the word quasi meaning "seemingly; apparently but not really."
Quasi was created to grace the grace the roof of Christchurch Art Gallery following a 2011 earthquake and has been moved to the City Gallery's roof, presiding over the civic center below.
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The statue is currently four months into a planned three-year residence atop the building. So the people of Christchurch either have to learn to love Quasi or block the horrific sculpture from their view because it'll be there for the foreseeable future.
But not if Feeney has his way. The art critic recently wrote an article "Ten Reasons Why Christchurch Art Gallery's Quasi Must Go."
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In the op-ed, Feeny says the piece is a "one-line joke" and that it's in the wrong place. "Positioned high above the pavement and out of reach to the more immediate attention and curiosity of the public, a modest and human scale at ground level would have made Quasi a more informal and personal experience," Feeny writes.
While Feeny's viewpoint as an art critic should be respected, who in the world wants a more "personal experience" with a 16-foot tall nightmare?
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The fast-paced get to know a stranger concept of 'Married at First Sight' has been entertaining us fans since the series first premiered in 2014, but, more importantly, it has been making single individuals' dreams come true. It enables them to get married and kick-start a domestic life, one that they have been dreaming about for quite some time, with someone who has been handpicked for them by relationship experts.
Season 11, just like its predecessors, has followed the same concept, couples meeting for the first time on their wedding day, going on their honeymoon, and then living together for a while before finally deciding whether or not they want to stay together for good. However, this time it is set in New Orleans and featured five couples. One of whom is Amani and Woody.
Amani and Woody: Married at First Sight Journey
Born and raised in New Orleans, Woody is confident in who he is and what he has to offer to his wife and partner. As a teacher and coach, the 30-year-old has been looking for someone special with whom he can share all his love and kindness. So, when he got paired up with Amani, the 29-year-old passionate non-profit sector worker, it seemed like they were a match made in heaven. After all, she does dream of starting a non-profit organization of her own one day soon, where she can work with the youth, so, it can't get kinder than that.
Amani had been looking for a partner who shares and supports her career and ambitions, someone with whom she can travel the world and one day start a family, therefore, considering Woody's nature and career, he fit her type perfectly. Of course, no couple's journey on the show has ever been smooth sailing, and from the previews, it became evident that their's was no different. Yes, Woody's humor about their differences in sexual experiences did make her laugh, but how that would affect their relationship itself, only time will tell.
Being on the same page when it comes to the little things, like how they want to distribute their chores, their sex life, their way of balancing their professional career, family, and relationships, is just as important as their initial connection and bond, and, if Amani and Woody are able to properly communicate with each other regarding these matters, we don't see why they can't go all the way in the series, and finally get the happily ever afters that they had been looking for.
Are Amani and Woody Still Together?
MAFS has been really sly in keeping all the information about this couple under wraps and we couldn't even find their social media accounts from where we could dig up any information. It's like the reality stars either don't have any sort of social media presence whatsoever or they do not want anyone to find them right now. Whatever the case, we have been left in the dark about them.
However, considering how there has been no major newsbreak about the couple, we are assuming that they were able to be amicable throughout the series, and are still that way now, irrespective of their relationship status. But, if we had to guess, we think Amani and Woody were able to work through all their issues and are still together. At least, we're rooting for them to do so.
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