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Sadhguru and Paul Hawken Talk Socially Conscious Business
Sadhguru, Yogi; Mystic; Founder, Isha Foundation
In conversation with Paul Hawken, Environmentalist; Entrepreneur; Author
Deb Nelson, Executive Director, Social Venture Network – Host
A guru and an ex-hippie businessman come to The Commonwealth Club for an unconventional discussion around new paradigms in business. Their innovative and transformative concepts offer pathways to discover what business with a higher purpose could look like. Come with an open mind – you'll laugh, you'll be surprised, and you'll leave empowered and inspired.
Sadhguru Vasudev is a yogi, mystic and visionary humanitarian. Named one of "India's 50 Most Powerful People" by India Today Magazine, he has spoken at the UN Millennium World Peace Summit and the World Economic Forum. With wit, wisdom and piercing logic, this modern mystic brings insights into how spirituality can translate to mindful business.
Paul Hawken is an environmental entrepreneur, author, and civil rights activist. He has written four national best-sellers, including the Ecology of Commerce, Natural Capitalism, Growing a Business and Blessed Unrest. He has questioned the nature of business and its relationship to spirituality since he was a 10-year-old paperboy.
Location: SF Club Office
Time: 6 p.m. check-in, 6:30 p.m. program, 7:30 p.m. networking reception
Cost: $25 non-members, $15 members, $7 students (with valid ID)

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Adzuki Bean & Quinoa Tabbouleh Salad with a Twist
This is my take on the delicious All Star salad at Fresh restaurant in Toronto. It's filled with red quinoa, adzuki beans, parsley, cilantro, green onion, and tomato, and paired with a simple red wine vinegar, olive oil, and garlic dressing. I will be making this again and again all summer long.
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One of my favourite salads of all time and one of the most popular salad recipes on the blog. It has so many amazing flavours and textures and it is high in protein and fibre too! I think this was my first time trying wheat berries too. They add such a great texture to salads. I will definitely be buying...
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Miley Cyrus has 'forgotten Jesus'
Miley Cyrus once confessed Jesus as her Lord and Savior. She was baptized in a Southern Baptist church, and as a young girl regularly attended church and wore a purity ring. This all occurred before she moved to Hollywood in 2005. After last night's VMA performance I think it's safe to say she has been "devoured" (1 Peter 5:8).


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The term "marketing" is often loosely thrown around not only in iGaming but also across every vertical. Companies are willing to pay exorbitant amounts to marketers for devising campaigns in hope that it would ultimately generate leads or boost sales. Brand building and brand management are not always about just marketing. Hence so many high profile iGaming marketing campaigns fail.
At Simka Consulting, we firmly believe that marketing stems from solid knowledge of the industry. Having worked for over a decade in the business puts our team in a unique position to understand the market demand and tailor our solutions precisely to serve that demand. Flexibility is the epicenter of all our iGaming marketing solutions. We understand the dynamics at work in different countries and continents especially in this business.
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This class of license is for operators who organize player to player games but they do not partake in the risk and receive only a commission. This license is suitable for betting exchange providers, pools and poker rooms.
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New GAO testimony faults HHS management of federal marketplace project
- The Department of Health and Human Services failed to properly plan and oversee development of the federal health insurance marketplace despite tight deadlines, ever-changing requirements and the complex nature of the project, according to new congressional testimony released on Wednesday.
Those management failures ultimately doomed the October 2013 rollout of the HealthCare.gov website, which was riddled by technical problems before a team of Silicon Valley tech experts finally repaired the faltering system in late November.
In testimony to be delivered Thursday, July 30 before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, William Woods, director of acquisition & sourcing management at the Government Accountability Office, outlined the findings of a GAO investigation into problems behind the launch of HealthCare.gov.
The probe found that from Sept. 2011 to February 2014, the cost of developing the marketplace went from $56 million to more than $209 million and the cost of the system's so-called "data hub" went from $30 million to nearly $85 million.
The review also revealed nearly 40 instances in which HHS staff inappropriately authorized contractors to expend funds, totaling over $30 million. "This is not to say the work was not necessary: however, the work was not approved properly," Woods written testimony said.
In spite of numerous problems with CGI Federal, the lead contractor on the marketplace project, HHS only withheld about $267,000 in fees to the company. That's about two percent of the $12.5 million in fees that CGI received.
"CMS takes its responsibility for contracting oversight seriously and has already implemented contracting reforms that are more extensive than the recommendations in the report, including ending our contract with CGI and moving to a new type of contract with Accenture that rewards performance," said Aaron Albright, spokesman for HHS' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
In January, HHS gave the $91 million marketplace development contract to Accenture Federal Services. But cost increases have pushed that contract to more than $175 million even though the financial management portion of the marketplace – which is responsible for paying premium tax credits to insurance companies – remains inoperable.
The financial management system is scheduled to be completed incrementally through December 2014, when the 2015 enrollment period will be well underway.
"Unless CMS improves contract management and adheres to a structured governance process, significant risks remain that upcoming open enrollment periods could encounter challenges," wrote Woods.
GAO issued five recommendations for HHS to better manage the federal marketplace and future projects with private contractors.
Those recommendations call for: assessing the cause of increasing marketplace costs and the inoperability of various marketplace functions and develop a plan to resolve them; ensuring that quality assurance surveillance plans and other oversight documents are collected and used to monitor contractor performance; formalizing the roles and responsibilities of contract officers and others with oversight duties; informing program and contract staff about the requirement to create acquisition strategies and make sure those strategies are completed when required; making sure information technology projects adhere to requirements for governance board approvals before proceeding with development.
Officials at HHS agreed with four of the recommendations and "partially concurred" with one, according to Woods' written testimony.


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Swimming Pool Blog
by Rob Cox, October 10, 2011
Swimming Pool Leaf Removal
I have always thought that trees have no business being planted around a swimming pool. Deciduous trees specifically, those that lose their leaves annually. Evergreen trees, even Pine trees are preferable.
No trees around the pool makes for a stark landscape however, and little privacy. Trees also provide nice shade on a hot summer day, and a place for birds to perch and sing.
If you have large trees around the pool, you likely share my view regarding trees around the pool. Pretty to look at, but a bit of a chore.
Keeping the Leaves out of the Pool
1. Trimming the trees. A little pruning spring and fall will reduce your workload considerably. And occasionally, you may need to call out a tree service to make larger cuts. If the branches are within 10 feet of power lines, you may be able to call in your electric utility to do the job for you. Using a pole pruner, attached to your pool pole, can help reach branches that are higher up. For less than $100, you can buy a small electric chainsaw on an 8 ft pole that can handle branches up to 4" in diameter. Pruning the trees around your pool can also help shape your trees, and prevent branches from becoming so heavy that they break suddenly.
2. Pool Covers. A mesh safety cover, stretched tight across the pool can really keep a pool clean. Some folks I know put on their winter cover early, attaching it at the corners only, to help keep the pool clean. When they want to use the pool, they simply fold it on one side of the deck. Automatic pool covers definately keep the pool clean, but like solar blankets, require that you clean the cover as you open or remove it. Not much less work than cleaning the pool. Using a Leaf Net, not a Leaf Rake, or skimmer net, but a loose mesh cover stretched tightly over the pool - catches leaves as they fall. Leaf Nets are typically used on top of solid winter pool covers, but can be used by themselves. If you have a mesh cover, a Leaf Net can be held in place tightly by attaching the edges to existing brass cover anchors in the deck.
3. Leaf blocks. Small raised walls, or fences or hedges, positioned strategically around the pool, can be very effective in stopping the wind blown leaves from blowing in the pool. Ornamental and useful, decorative walls, bushes or low fencing can add a layer of protection to the pool in addition to blocking the leaves from being swept into the pool during a wind gust.
Skimming the Leaves from the surface quickly
1. Increase skimmer suction. If you have a separate main drain line, reducing the suction from the drain, by closing the valve partially or fully, will increase suction to the skimmer(s). If you don't have a separate main drain valve in front of the pump, you probably have a combination skimmer. Beneath the basket, you can make an adjustment to the diverter to reduce the (bottom up) main drain suction and increase the (top down) skimmer suction. Also make sure that your skimmer weirs (that flapper door thingy) is in place and moving freely. Skimmer weirs increase the flow into the skimmer, and when the pump shuts off, help to prevent leaves from floating out of the skimmer. Vinyl liner pools can use a product called Skim-It! - a long arm that attaches to your skimmer faceplate and helps direct leaves into the skimmer basket.
2. Create a Circular Flow Pattern. Adjust your return fittings so that they both point in the same direction - clockwise or counter-clockwise. This not only helps overall circulation, but will keep floating leaves moving around the pool. If you notice an area of the pool where leaves are getting stuck, an adjustment of your return fittings, or eyeballs, will likely solve the problem. Aiming the eyeball fittings at the surface, just enough to create a small ripple - is best practice to keep the leaves moving, so that they pass in front of the skimmer frequently. Too much of a ripple, and the leaves may blow right by the skimmer. When the return jets are too close to the skimmer, point the eyeballs in the opposite direction.
3. Maintain the water level mid-tile. It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway. When the water level is too high, leaves just butt up against the top of the skimmer and don't enter the skimmer very well. With spring and fall rains, it may be necessary to lower the water level once in a while. If you have problems with skimmer baskets becoming so full that the skimmer baskets break, consider the Skim-Pro skimmer baskets. This type of skimmer basket has a tower in the middle which keeps the water flowing to the pump, even when the basket is full. The tower also acts as a nice handle to remove the basket, without reaching into the unknown of your full skimmer basket.
Removing leaves from the floor of the pool
1. Leaf Rake. The bag type of skimmer net, as opposed to the flat type of net, is a valuable tool to scoop leaves off of the floor. Moving slowly across the floor so as to not disturb the leaves too much, and perfecting a flip and pull-back when you reach the other side of the pool will make quick work of deep layers of leaves on the pool floor. Vacuuming a deep carpet of leaves just cannot be done quickly, leaf rakes become necessary to get most of the volume, before vacuuming the pool.
2. Leaf Master. This device, connected to a garden hose and your pool pole, can handle large volumes of leaves in a short time. The better your garden hose flow, the better a leaf master will perform. If you have a pressure side pool cleaner, like a polaris, you can attach your garden hose to the pool cleaner line for some really powerful water flow, and make quick work of leaves with your leaf master. Leaf master type vacuums are also effective on pools which have small pumps and filters; not powerful enough to handle large leaf volumes.
3. In Line Leaf Trap. Who has time to stop vacuuming every 5 minutes to empty the pump basket? Attaching a large debris trap to your vacuum hose, and then connecting the leaf trap hose into your skimmer can be a real time saver. Most leaf traps are clear, so you can see when it is becoming full. Another option for vacuuming leaves can be a skim-vac plate. Most skimmer manufacturers offer this plate, and Hayward makes quite a few sizes. Instead of removing the skimmer basket and attaching your vacuum hose directly to the skimmer pipe at the bottom of the skimmer, a vac plate allows you to vacuum into the skimmer basket. The Skim vac plate seals snug to the top of the skimmer basket, and you connect your vac hose to the plate. Since skimmer baskets are usually larger than pump baskets, this means you can vacuum more leaves for a longer period of time, without stopping to empty the basket.


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Ah, an afternoon post – I was very sidetracked as my Style and Substance: The Best of Elle Decor arrived today. I got so into it I haven't even read David Rohde's daily installment of "Held by the Taliban" in the Times yet, and that is a seriously riveting serialized read. I thought most of it would look familiar because I flip through my Elle Decor issues again and again and save and make tear sheets galore, but actually, a lot of it was new to me, and the familiar shots were all tear-sheet worthy. The book is set up by space – bedrooms, bathrooms, etc. They range from rustic Martha's Vineyard bathrooms to opulent "Marrakesh retreats".
Best of all, Margaret Russell, author and Elle Decor E.I.C. spares the reader from the usual flowery writing for the sake of having X amount of text on the page copy that is so common in such lovely, glossy design books. I mean really, how often do we actually read these books? 85% of the time, I buy interior design books just for the pictures, as they are usually worth a thousand words. Russell sticks to giving a nice introduction to each section, and "Style Guides" at the end of each section. In the guides, she pulls together what we can learn from the spaces and gives easy-to-follow, pragmatic advice about how to glean style skills from the images. This book is one I will pore over many times, and it also makes a great gift.
Who are your favorite interior design writers? Mine include Russell, Celerie Kemble, Jonathan Adler, Billy Baldwin and Dorothy Draper. Please share yours in the comments section.
images via amazon.com, from Elle Decor: Style and Substance, by Michael Mundy and Henry Bourne, respectively.
Hi, I'm Becky. I live in Atlanta. Besides acting as the Editorial Director here on Hatch, you can find me talking design over at Houzz. Make me happy — leave a comment!


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Conpoto, a Holland-based community currency company, is the recipient of services totaling $23,650 to help expand its business through the statewide Business Accelerator Fund.
The new funding enables Conpoto to enhance its online offerings for local currency programs such as West Coast Cash, which was launched by the West Coast Chamber of Commerce recently.
It was announced Tuesday by officials of Lakeshore Advantage, Ottawa County�s nonprofit economic development agency and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.
�It�s going to go toward improving their website and marketing efforts,� said Angela Huesman, Lakeshore Advantage�s director of new venture services. �Part of this award will help them extend their services to other communities (beyond the West Coast Chamber).
�This award will help them with that next step toward commercialization.�
Conpoto helps facilitate local spending and serves as the foundation for buy-local campaigns in communities across the U.S. It offers online gift certificates that can be spent at participating merchants in communities, making sure the money stays at home.
Lakeshore Advantage has helped Conpoto secure more than $38,000 in funding so far.
�The support of the state is so critical in the entrepreneurial and technology space in Michigan,� Conpoto COO Matt Ahearn said of BAF and other funding sources. �These types of funds really help us find our space.�
The BAF award will help Conpoto create content to promote buy-local campaigns.
�We want to make this a turnkey solution where the technology is very easy to implement,� Ahearn said. �The accelerator program is about helping us create content we can distribute to the chambers, so they can rebrand it and push it out into the community to help fuel the program.
�It helps educate people on buying local and the impact it can have on the community.�
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Holland's Conpoto company awarded $23,650 in state funding
Conpoto, a Holland-based community currency company, is the recipient of services totaling $23,650 to help expand its business through the statewide Business Accelerator Fund.


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Progress is being made on a followup film to 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction and among the discoveries that will be detailed in the sequel is the fact that July 7th 2005 was not the first time London had suffered a suicide bombing. To many people familiar with the 7/7 issues this may seem like it is a point that has already been made. As we know, within days of the explosions the police had already identified the supposed culprits and were describing the attacks as suicide bombings. This BBC report from the 12th July 2005 sums it up:
Police knowing whodunnit? Check. Suicide bombers? Check. Encouraging of Racial/Cultural/Religious disharmony? Check. Tedious Muslim analyst cowing to the media, being all apologetic, and failing to talk about the real questions? Check. The piece even says that this was the first suicide bombing in Western Europe, thus making the attacks a categorical game-changer or paradigm-shifter, and of course presuming the West vs Islam Clash of Civilisations idea. Indeed, if you're looking for a 4 minute summary of everything that's wrong about how the conversation on 7/7 progressed, this little video has it all.
But hang on a minute. A little over a year before 7/7 we had the Atocha bombings in Madrid, carried out by a bunch of crackpot Islaminformantists, killing nearly 200 people. On the 11th of March 2004 they attacked the Madrid public transport system early in the morning - in many ways identical to the 7/7 bombings. A few weeks later, so we're told, several of the suspects blew themselves up when cornered by the authorities, killing themselves and one special forces agent and wounding about a dozen other police. So, presuming that time didn't go backwards between April 2004 and July 2005, then the April 2004 incident was Western Europe's first suicide bombing? Right?
Wrong. The first suicide bombing took place over a century earlier, in 1894. In the period 1870-1930 the Western world fought a 'war on terror' against the first red menace - the radical and/or militant aspects of the labour movement, communism and anarchism. The anarchists in particular seemed to like bombing stuff - indeed, the first fatal bombing on the London underground was the work of anarchists, though it seems at the time they blamed the Irish. But their violence was in many ways the product of infiltrators and provocateurs. The head of the Russian secret police in Paris, Peter Rachkovsky, and senior members of the British Special Branch ran numerous double agents.
As with so many other stories of this kind throughout history, this process did not only produce violence including the death of random citizens, it also produced some woeful miscarriages of justice. The way justice systems deal with the fallout from covert operations will be the main underlying topic of the sequel to 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction but the best example from the Victorian period is that of the Walsall Anarchists. They were six men arrested in 1892 who were accused of manufacturing bombs and running a bomb factory. Four were convicted and received sentences of up to ten years in prison.
The whole thing was a set up. The key evidence at the trial were letters from members of the group to an police provocateur called Auguste Coulon. Coulon was an unemployed dreamer who was obsessed with dynamite and explosions who was recruited by Special Branch man William Melville. Melville went on to head up the forerunner to MI5. The letter included diagrams of possible bomb cases that Coulon provided advice on and encouraged the group to make. They never actually made any cases, though that didn't stop the police making some to be used as evidence at the trial. The judge supported the detectives who testified at the trial when they refused to answer any questions about Coulon, who of course was never arrested and got paid a large sum of money for his role in the plot. A nice summary of the case can be downloaded here, in the form of a fact sheet provided by the museum of Walsall.
A couple of years later, in February 1894, a young French anarchist called Martial Bourdin blew himself up in Greenwich Park, not far from the Royal Observatory. The explosion blasted off one of his hands and caused a large injury to his stomach but he was found moments after, still alive. He was taken to hospital and died about half an hour later. So what the hell was Bourdin doing? Various theories have been put forward. One is that the anarchists were targeting the Observatory, which the global meridian line runs through. As a symbol of modernity and global organisation, two things anarchists didn't like very much, it isn't a bad target. This became the basis for Joseph Conrad's fictional adaptation of the Bourdin story in his book The Secret Agent.
According to this version, Bourdin's brother-in-law HB Samuels, who was then-editor of the anarchist journal The Commonweal, gave the bomb to Bourdin so that he could go and throw it at the Observatory. Bourdin presumably tripped up or had some other accident and so the bomb went off prematurely, killing him. Another similar intepretation is that Bourdin was supposed to be delivering the bomb to other anarchists who were to use it overseas, perhaps in France or Russia, and again that Bourdin died in an accident. This account was put forward by Patrick McIntyre, another Special Branch officer who had fallen out with Melville over his role in setting up the Walsall Anarchists. McIntyre found himself demoted for his protests, so he quit the police and published his memoirs in the newspaper, blowing the whistle on the infiltration operations.
When writing about Auguste Coulon he commented:This same description could of course be applied to numerous such provocateurs. On the basis of what informants had told him, McIntyre offered this summary of the Bourdin plot:
A yet further version is that Samuels set up Bourdin in a sting operation and that police were waiting nearby to arrest Bourdin in possession of a bomb. This is suggested by a contemporary NY Times article that details how police had seen Bourdin and another man leaving a house near the Autonomie Club (the London anarchist hub) earlier in the day.
So, what happened? For even more on the problems with the Bourdin story I recommend this paper, but there is some key information largely overlooked by the existing discussion. For one, confirming suspicion at the time, Bourdin's brother-in-law HB Samuels was an associate of Auguste Coulon and a police agent of some kind. Author Alex Butterworth used the FOIA to obtain a copy of a police ledger of informants that substantiates not only McIntyre's claims but many more.
Perhaps more importantly, there was political pressure for Bourdin's death to be ruled a suicide. From Hansard, the only mention of Bourdin is from Charles Darling (the 1st Baron Darling) who said:
MR DARLING: I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department a question of which I have given him private notice. It is whether his attention has been called to the statement that the coroner for Greenwich has been asked to deliver up the body of Martial Bourdin, and that the Anarchists of London propose to make it the occasion of a public funeral; whether there is not reason to suppose that Martial Bourdin came by his death in the course of a felonious act; and whether his own death, resulting from this, would not properly be found to be felo de se? In that case, does not the law provide for the disposal of the body? I wish further to ask whether the right hon. Gentleman will interfere in this matter, having regard to the action which the French Government found it necessary to take in the case of the Anarchist Vaillant?
The reason was that at the time suicide was still a crime (felo de se, to be a felon against oneself, a self-murderer). If Bourdin's death were ruled a suicide then the State could confiscate his possessions and decide how to dispose of his body. Darling was concerned that a public funeral for Bourdin would provide a means for public demonstration by anarchists, hence he wanted the Home Secretary to 'interfere in this matter'. In the event, the Home Secretary refused the request, saying:
MR. ASQUITH: That would certainly be a most extraordinary proceeding, considering that the jury have not yet found a verdict of felo de se. I do not know whether the hon. Member proposes that either I or the coroner should keep the body above ground until the jury has found a verdict.The funeral took place a few days later, and there was a large demonstration by anarchists who clashed with police. The New York Times reported that when one senior anarchist tried to deliver an oration when Bourdin's coffin was being lowered, he was seized by police and removed from the cemetery.
MR. DARLING: Yes.
MR. ASQUITH: I certainly decline to do anything of the kind.
So what was the inquest verdict? From The Mercury:
Despite virtually no evidence showing that Bourdin had any intention of dying (and large amounts of money in his pockets suggesting he actively intended to live), the verdict was suicide. That's right, over a hundred years ago Britain suffered its first suicide bombing. Bizarrely, historian David Rooney denied this, saying in a 2009 podcast that 'It wasn't a suicide bomb, it had gone off by mistake'. One wonders if he would have said that before 7/7, or whether he is actually aware of the inquest verdict in Bourdin's case.
So, we have a supposedly radical movement heavily infiltrated by provocateurs and spies. We have a man in London blown to pieces by a bomb, who never explained what had happened and died shortly after the explosion. We have political pressure for a verdict of suicide that is born out at the inquest, and we have widespread ignorance/denial from both academics and the mainstream media. Even though Bourdin almost certainly did not intend to kill himself, by the official record he was Europe's first terrorist suicide bomber.
There is one other possibility, not explored above. Bourdin could have been what the IRA called a 'human bomb' or 'proxy bomb'. Typically, a man's family would be kidnapped and he would be threated with their torture or death and be forced to drive a car-bomb into a military checkpoint or other installation. Along with the 'real' suicide bomber there is the 'unwitting' suicide bomber and the 'unintentional' suicide bomber and the 'unwilling' suicide bomber. To the naked eye, after the explosion, it is virtually impossible to tell the difference which has occurred. Yet, as the video at the top of this article shows, it was only a matter of days before the police had decided not only who was responsible for 7/7, but that it was Britain's 'first' (to the very forgetful/ignorant) suicide bombing. We have to wonder: did they even consider any other possibility?
In a couple of weeks we will have the verdict from the inquests into the 52 certain victims of the 7/7 bombings, at which point Lady Justice Hallett will decide whether to hold inquests in the deaths of the four alleged bombers. The J7 group posted a lengthy explanation of the reason why inquests into the four should take place, indeed, must take place. They submitted the same to Hallett, who now has no excuses for deciding against holding them. If the last few months are anything to go by then what we'll get is more gameshow-style inquests where everyone in the audience knows what the answer is but for some reason none of the contestants, I mean witnesses and evidence, seem to be able to remember it.
To finish this time, another little extract from McIntyre's memoirs. He was a very early whistleblower into this sort of police/security service corruption, and therefore is of far more historical significance than he is recognised as being. This is his impression of the actual spirit of the anarchists and the danger they posed (or rather, didn't pose):


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Slow Cooker Parmesan-Mushroom Risotto
Hi! Glad you decided to read this post, despite the name. Most risottos require you to stand there and feed the broth, a little at a time, until all of it is completely added and absorbed. This
Until now. I was going to add cheater or lazy to the title because, unlike a normal risotto, most of the broth is added at once. Due to the long cooking time, the arborio rice magically swells and become creamy yet retaining the tiniest of bite that risotto is famous for.
I used wild mushrooms because a package of pre-sliced almost literally fell into my cart while I was slaloming through the crowded veggie section of the market. The mushrooms were so fresh and cute that I decided to take them home and figure out what to do with them later. White button mushrooms can be substituted. They won't be quite as pretty, but they are much cheaper.
White wine gives additional flavor, and it is 5 o'clock somewhere, but more broth can be substituted. Don't substitute regular long-grain rice for the Arborio, however. Regular rice will become very mushy, and not in a good way.
Slow Cooker Parmesan-Mushroom Risotto
Yield: 8 servings
1 teaspoon olive oil
1/2 cup finely diced onion
2 garlic cloves, minced
8 ounces sliced mushrooms, any variety
2 cups vegetable or vegetarian chicken broth
2 cups Arborio rice
2 cups water
1/2 cup white wine
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese, plus another 1/4 cup for garnish
1 tablespoon butter, softened
2 tablespoons minced parsley leaves (for garnish)
Heat the oil in a nonstick pan. Sauté the onion, garlic, and mushrooms until soft, about 4–5 minutes.
Stir in the 1/2 cup broth and the rice and cook until the liquid is fully absorbed, about 5 minutes.
Transfer the rice mixture into a 4-quart slow cooker. Submerge the mixture with the water, wine, salt and remaining broth.
Cover and cook on high for 1½ - 2 hours or until all the liquid has been absorbed. Stir in parmesan cheese and butter.
Sprinkle with parsley and/or additional Parmesan cheese, if desired, before serving.


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The J DLL can be called by any program that can call DLLs.
Since J.DLL is itself used by the J session, you need to make a copy of J.DLL first before calling it from J; for example, copy it to file JJ.DLL.
File system\examples\data\jdll.h. gives C prototypes for J procedures.
Script system\examples\dll\jdll.ijs. gives examples of calling the J DLL from J.
Use procedure JDo to execute a sentence. For example, the following writes text
abc to file t1.txt:
load 'dll files' cmd=: '''abc'' 1!:2 <''t1.txt''' NB. example sentence 'jj.dll JDo i *c' cd <cmd NB. send to J DLL +-+--------------------+ |0|'abc' 1!:2 <'t1.txt'| +-+--------------------+ fread 't1.txt' NB. check file was written abc
Use procedure JGetM to retrieve a J variable. The
cd right argument is a name, followed by 4 pointers, which will correspond to the result datatype, rank, pointer to shape, and pointer to values. For example:
'jj.dll JDo i *c' cd <'ABC=: i.5' NB. define ABC +-+---------+ |0|ABC=: i.5| +-+---------+ 'jj.dll JGetM i *c *i *i *i *i' cd 'ABC';4#<,0 +-+---+-+-+--------+--------+ |0|ABC|4|1|13496196|13496500| +-+---+-+-+--------+--------+
The 6 items in the result are: error code (
0=success), name, datatype (
4=integer), rank(
1), pointer to shape, and pointer to values.
The pointers refer to memory addresses within the J DLL. You should reference their values before calling the J DLL again, as further calls may invalidate the memory addresses. Use function
memr to read memory and and
ic to convert to J integers. For example, the shape is:
_2 ic memr 13496196 0 4 5
Once the result datatype and shape are known, you can read the values, again using
memr, and convert to a J variable.
File system\examples\dll\jdll.ijs defines functions that perform the necessary conversions. For example:
load 'system\examples\dll\jdll.ijs' jdo 'ABC=: i.3 4' +-+-----------+ |0|ABC=: i.3 4| +-+-----------+ jget 'ABC' 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 jcmd 'q: 123456' 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 643


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Sold as a set of three sprayer heads with colored triggers to allow easy identification, helpful if you fill them with different solutions (not suitable for use with acidic solutions, including dilute vinegar). Of course, they are also excellent for water fights – another good reason for the set of three!
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Jason vs Zombies
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The First-Jason-3D-Action Game
Supported devices: iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 4, iPhone 4, iPad 1, iPad 2
***OUT NOW - The Mac App Version 1.2 of the game!*** FREE Download link:
Coming 2012:
- New mobile version 1.4 with better grafics, new level and much better performance
You need a internet connection for playing this game! On the iPhone 3GS the game runs a little bit slow and jerky and sometimes it crashes! Tip: Switch of fog and sky in the options for better performance.
Other, jailbroken and older generation devices as written above are not tested and supported.
If you have any technical problems with this game, please send a email to me: email@example.com
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Watch the release video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpcQnXkQ6rg
You play a guy named Jason. There exists no humanity on this world. The world is full of zombies and you (Jason) are the only man who can save the world if you find and kill all zombies. You have to be a very good Zombie Killer for surviving 5 amazing Levels and Missions. It's a long way to the last level called "Zombie City". So you need many Kill-Points to unlock new weapons for free. You can also earn Bonus-Kill-Points if you cut the arms and heads of aggressively zombies with your different weapons. Your Level-Kill-Points will always be saved and you can play every level for new if it's unlocked once.
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Casio G-Shock Watch GA-100GD-9A
- Product SKU: CAS-GA-100GD-9A
Casio G-Shock Watch GA-100GD-9A features an improved design that looks elegant and stylish. Built with premium quality material, the lightweight watch sits comfortably wraps around your wrist. The rugged yet beautiful watch features sporty look with a touch of fashionable elegance. The watch is also 200m resistant enabling you to keep it on even when swimmer or in the shower. The display is protected with mineral glass that is fully capable of resisting water, shocks and vibration. Other features of the watch include: LED light, 29 time zones, Countdown timer, 5 daily alarms, Hourly time signal, Full auto-calendar (to year 2099), 12/24-hour format and Regular timekeeping.
- Mineral Glass
- Magnetic Resistant
- Shock Resistant
- 200-meter water resistance
- Case / bezel material: Resin
- Resin Band
- LED light
- Auto light switch, selectable illumination duration, afterglow
- World time
- 29 time zones (48 cities + coordinated universal time), daylight saving on/off,
- Home city / World time city swapping
- 1/1000-second stopwatch
- Measuring capacity: 99:59'59.999''
- Measuring modes: Elapsed time, lap time, split time
- Others: Speed (0 to 1998 units / hour), Distance input (0.0 to 99.9)
- Mach indicator (speed exceeding 1225 units / hour)
- Countdown timer
- Measuring unit: 1 second
- Countdown range: 24 hours
- Countdown start time setting range: 1 minute to 24 hours (1-minute increments
- and 1-hour increments)
- Other: Auto-repeat
- 5 daily alarms (with 1 snooze alarm)
- Hourly time signal
- Full auto-calendar (to year 2099)
- 12/24-hour format
- Regular timekeeping
- Analog: 2 hands (hour, minute (hand moves every 20 seconds))
- Digital: Hour, minute, second, pm, month, date, day
- Accuracy: ±15 seconds per month
- Approx. battery life: 2 years on CR1220
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It's been a long road, but we are in the final stretch to ship our next-gen content protection product, Adobe Flash Access 2.0, next month. We are seeing a lot of interest in the product from partners and customers waiting for Flash Access to fill a need for stronger content protection in Flash Player and enable new monetization strategies.
We have been in private beta for some time now and have received great feedback from partners who have helped us improve the product. We look forward to continue working with them as they deploy Flash Access, whether internally for their own use or as the technology for enhanced content distribution and monetization services.
Some of you may be familiar with the work we are doing around HTTP Dynamic Streaming (aka "Project Zeri"). What you may not know is that this technology is designed to work in conjunction with Flash Access to enable protected HTTP streaming for both Live and Video-on-Demand online video distribution.
You'll be hearing more about Flash Access and HTTP Dynamic Streaming in the weeks and months to come. I'll be at NAB next week, with presentations at the Adobe booth scheduled for Monday and Wednesday at 9:30 AM. Then it's off to Streaming Media East in NYC next month.
I'll be back in New York in June for the Copyright and Technology Conference, which Adobe is sponsoring. I'll be moderating a panel on Best Practices for Monetizing Premium Video Content, where we are planning on having some great speakers; more on this later. There are other panels that also promise to be very interesting.
If you are planning on attending any of these events, feel free to stop by to say hi.
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Lululemon recalls yoga pants - too revealing
NEW YORK (AP) — Lululemon, one of the world's most successful retailers, has pulled its popular Luon black yoga pants from stores after it found that the sheer material used was revealing too much of its loyal customers.
Lululemon is offering full refunds or exchanges.
The company insists it had not changed specifications for the clothing, but is warning of a shortage of the extraordinarily popular items.
The company's stock (LULU) plunged more than 5% Tuesday, to $62.38. At least one analyst that follows the company stripped it of its "buy" rating.
Sam Poser of Sterne, Agee & Leach advised clients to take a wait-and-see approach until the problem is resolved, downgrading the company's shares to "neutral."
There appears to be a "major quality control problem" in Asia where the "Luon" pants are made, Poser said. While Lululemon has used the same factories to make its fabrics since 2004, he said it doesn't seem as though the company has the proper oversight in place.
STORY: Lululemon lovers buy into healthy lifestyle
The Luon pants are one of the retailer's product staples and Cowen analyst Faye Landes said if there is any comfort to be found, it is that Lululemon is not facing a demand problem. Lululemon has been a star for investors, as well as yoga devotees, with shares rocketing from less than $3 in 2009 to around $65 this year.
But the announcement comes just before the company posts earnings for the final quarter and full year on Thursday.
Lululemon Athletica, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, cut its first-quarter revenue forecast as a result of the recall. The company now expects first-quarter revenue between $333 million and $343 million. Its prior guidance was for $350 million to $355 million. Analysts polled by FactSet expect revenue of $352.1 million.
It also lowered its first-quarter outlook for comparable store revenue, from 11%, to 5% and 8%.
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The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't
do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
~ Mark Twain, Hartford, Conn.
The M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Southern Connecticut State University is a full-residency, terminal-degree program, preparing students for careers as publishing writers, teachers, editors, and professionals in the publishing world. While our curriculum focuses heavily on the writing workshop and the creative thesis, the M.F.A. also requires students to study literature at the graduate level and provides opportunities for students to train for teaching collegiate-level writing, and in some cases to teach their own courses.
Mainly, to learn how to write better and to be part of a strong, supportive, aesthetically and regionally diverse community of writers and readers (students from 17 states have joined our program). Ours is a group of students and teachers who not only read one anothers' work, but who also invest deeply in each other's writing and efforts to publish, who hold informal reading groups during the summer months, who regularly socialize with one another and with visiting writers, and who forge relationships as friends and writing peers, even after completing the program. We are a supportive community. What drives our community is the writing and the unified work, helping one another to become better writers. For most writers, the time spent getting an M.F.A. provides the closest attention and most concentrated writing time they'll ever have. There is no better place to spend that time and live a full life as a writer than in Southern's program.
For every incoming class, we are able to offer a limited number of Graduate Assistantships that waive all fees and provide $9600 for the year. However, we work hard to find other means of financial support, including administrative graduate assistantships (20 hours of work each week in an administrative or support office), competitive graduate assistantships, fellowships (available during the second year, with fees waived and an award of $12,000), and adjunct teaching positions. At times, as many as 20 of our students at once have held funding. So, although we are unable right now to offer conventional tuition-waiver-plus-stipend GTAs to all incoming students, we are able to offer significant opportunities for funding and are dedicated to helping our students.


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Andrew Bacevich's cover article for the new issue of the magazine is worth reading in its entirety. Not surprisingly, I endorse the priorities he proposes. Here Prof. Bacevich identifies what conservatives can and should do in the foreign policy debate:
Exposing the excesses of American militarism and the futility of the neo-imperialist impulses to which Washington has succumbed since the end of the Cold War. When it comes to foreign policy, the conservative position should promote modesty, realism, and self-sufficiency. To the maximum extent possible, Americans should "live within," abandoning the conceit that the United States is called upon to exercise "global leadership," which has become a euphemism for making mischief and for demanding prerogatives allowed to no other nation. Here the potential exists for conservatives to make common cause with members of the impassioned antiwar left.
In practical terms, it should go without saying that this rules out preventive war. Few things better reflect the belief that the U.S. should enjoy "prerogatives allowed to no other nation" than the idea that the U.S. has the right to attack other countries for what they might do in the future. The U.S. should also be less involved in supporting other states' internal political opposition, which is often the very definition of "making mischief" and meddling where we aren't wanted by most of the people in these countries. The U.S. should be reducing how much it spends to subsidize the defense of countries that can readily provide for their own defense, and it should be cutting back on the overseas commitments it already has instead of adding to them. Specifically, that would mean no more NATO expansion, no new security guarantees to other states elsewhere in the world, and a review of the existing guarantees that the U.S. has made to determine whether or not they are outdated and irrelevant to American security today. Conservatives in the U.S. should be interested in trying as much as possible to get the United States back to the position of being at least a normal major power that has no special obligations and assumes no special authority or rights.


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Preparing a recent project mission to Angola, I came across the country's latest accomplishment: a gigantic new refinery to consolidate its national oil industry. Looking at that massive structure, I was hit with a sudden thought: if they can pull off such an enormous and complex feat of engineering, what do they need me for?
Angola buzzes exactly as you imagine a booming frontier economy would. The capital, Luanda, rings with the clang of construction and expensive cars line the beachside restaurants. Hotels are smart, meals sophisticated - and eye-wateringly expensive. By most counts Angola's is the fastest growing economy in the world.
But there is also the 'other' Angola. 60% of the rural population lives under the poverty line, eking a living from subsistence agriculture. Cholera still lurks in the vast slums that surround the city. Inequality is among the top five in the world.
This was the Angola I was concerned with. But where did I, and development aid more generally, fit into the picture when the national government is so wealthy and capable in its own right?
My task over the following weeks was to work with the Fundo de Apoio Social (FAS), one of the oldest programs supported by the World Bank in Africa. This was a lucky break, as the people there showed me firsthand just how useful development aid can still be.
Established in 1994, well before the end of the civil war (2002), FAS started out rebuilding the devastation of war. In the two decades (and four generations of projects) that have followed, FAS has built thousands of schools and clinics across the country, often in areas with still active conflict or peppered with landmines. The first buildings were basic structures of adobe walls and simple roofs, and improved as the country moved forward: schools added more classrooms, toilet facilities for girls, and clinics added proper maternity wards.
By working with the same institution continuously over two decades, the World Bank supported a space for technical and institutional expertize to accrue and mature. Over time, this expertise has translated into policies that did not reflect government policy, but rather anticipated it.
For example, in its second generation, FAS added and civil society capacity building to increase community participation and ownership in reconstruction. The third generation continued to develop the Community-Driven Development (CDD) approach and began to reinforce decentralized capacity.
Today, fourth generation FAS (while still building schools and health posts by the hundred), works to hand over responsibility to decentralized government itself. Municipalities receive planning and management training, and are taught to structure their vision through local development plans. And because jobs are a key part of local development, FAS provides analysis of economic opportunities and local value chains, and offers small grants for local entrepreneurs to kick-start their businesses.
This may seem straightforward in hindsight, but it was anything but at the time. Why build schools in a country still at war? Is civic participation really the priority in the immediate aftermath of conflict? Is decentralization relevant in a highly centralized state?
With the benefit of outside support, FAS had the capacity to take these bets on the country's future needs. And once the evidence was on the ground, the Government quickly took ownership: community participation is now enshrined in the constitution, there is a national strategy for municipal training, and FAS itself has grown into a sought-after resource pool for committed and technically skilled administrators.
So, in a very practical way, FAS showed how development aid (and by humble association, I) still has a role to play in a country such as Angola after all. Yet I was left hungry. Seeing this good work made me want more. How much could be done with even more resources and commitment?
Angola may be growing and its social indicators are improving, but average lifespan still only barely edges past 50. Development aid has helped Angola build thousands of schools and clinics, but only a national government has the resources and legitimacy to invest in the teachers and curriculums, the doctors and nurses that are necessary to really make the system work.
Angola is doing very well these days, and a refinery is a smart move to reinforce an important industry. But more than oil or refineries, what really drives long-term economic growth and development is people.
My bet is that the day it turns its attention to building human capital, as it surely will, that's when Angola will really take off.
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Angola is doing well..what Angola and for whom? Nigeria is also doing well - for a few that is. FAS certainly seems to deserve financial support - but from whom? Shouldn't the answer be from the government rather than the Bank - since there seems to be little of a capital shortage in Angola? Technical support is a whole different issue of course - there we should certainly continue. I keep on having a hard time justifying the allocation of scarce WB financial resources to countries that are aflush with capital........and yes, I also work in Nigeria......but do wrestle with the ethics of that.
Absolutely,and I suspect that it's not just the two of us wrestling with this. With the high commodity prices of the past few years, we have this whole group of countries who are in great fiscal shape, GDP shooting up, but whose indicators (and capacity to improve them) remain really very weak.
Sowhat to do? As you say, technical assistance remains essential. But I think financing is still an important part of the package, particularly to develop instruments and as a key to unlock national commitments. From a client perspective, Bank financing provides justification to commit resources for a program (and can also serve as handy insurance against political capture).
Bearingthat in mind, I'm happy to provide a 'wealthy' country with technical assistance and the funds necessary to show proof of concept… as long as national financing kicks in after that.
This page truly has all the information I wanted about this subject and didn't know
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Through MIGA, the Bank Group is also helping Angola unlock access to commercial bank financing for its infrastructure needs: http://www.miga.org/news/index.cfm?aid=3555
Well said, Tom. Human resources are the most valuable Natural Resources, and once the authorities feel they have built enough infrastructure I hope they will arrive at that conclusion as well.
Thomas, thanks for your bright insight on this issue and for the exceptinal social job "FAS" has been doing for the past years in Africa and particularly in Angola, congratulations.
Firstly, based on your perspectives on this review, I would not say The "Angola paradox: Development aid in a "wealthy" country", as a country is not rebuilt in terms of infrastructure,economically eather socially etc, in twelve years of peace.I would indeed say, Angola challenges:Development aid in a "wealthy" country,as we both agree that huge steps have been taken on this issue and is also a concern under the National Plan of Development.
On the Public finance management perspective, you will also agree with me that if a economy is not at least 75% diversified and petrol constitutes the only source of income Oil Wealth is effectivily a paradox.


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To meet up with Yusuf to undertake this late mission, you'll need to head to what's become a rather familiar locale for you in this DLC pack -- Flatfish Place, off of the southern end of Algonquin. When you arrive, you'll find Yusuf hanging out at a construction site his dad's company is working on. After throwing around his usual collection of completely inappropriate slang and wrongly-used verbiage, Yusuf asks Luis for a favor. Just as Luis is about to leave the construction site, Yusuf convinces him to bring him to his helicopter. He also tells Luis that he has more to tell him, and Luis reluctantly agrees to go along.
Drive with Yusuf, and he'll quickly spill the beans on what he wants you to do. Shockingly (or not), Yusuf wants you to steal another ridiculous toy for him. This time, the toy in question is a subway car. Why he wants a subway car is anyone's guess, but nonetheless, that is what he wants. Your destination will be a highway off-ramp placed directly over some train tracks below. When you arrive, get out of your car and approach the side of the off-ramp. Keep an eye on your HUD (and keep your ears perked for the sound of an incoming train), and when the time is right, jump over the side of the off-ramp so that you land on the train below. Once you manage to successfully do that, all you have to do is fight your way to the very front of the train.
Of course, doing this is much easier said than done, because as soon as you make your leap off of the off-ramp and onto the train, you'll have a considerable four star wanted level, and will have to deal with myriad police helicopters that are going to attempt to ruthlessly do away with your train-bound antics. Your shotgun-like weapon will do well here, since it won't only allow you to do away with police infantry, but several shots from that weapon will also destroy any helicopter that encroaches on your space. This mission is all about patience and willingness to quickly do away with aerial threats. As long as you minimize your exposure to police choppers as they show up, they'll nary be able to get a shot off on you. Safe and sound, you'll eventually reach the front end of the train, where Luis will detach it automatically, and Yusuf will take it away. You'll be deposited in a field at the northern end of Dukes, and the mission will end thereafter.
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Discover the tranquility of one of Toowoomba's most peaceful and beautiful parks - the four and a half hectare Japanese Garden at the University of Southern Queensland. Located on the northern side of the campus, it's Australia's largest and most traditionally designed Japanese stroll garden.
Its elements of mountain stream and waterfall, Dry Garden, central lake, Azalea Hill, three kilometres of paths, 230 species of Japanese and Australian native trees and plants, and lawns combine in a seamless and restful harmony.
Japanese gardens emphasise the use of rocks to create three dimensional pictures. All of the large rocks in Ju Raku En were placed by the garden's designer, Professor Kinsaku Nakane of Kyoto, to appear naturally dispersed in a random way.
Visitors stroll through the garden or relax on the seat near the Dry Garden; it's not uncommon to see artists quietly painting a scene or children feeding bread to the fish or birds, which include swans, ducks, geese and smaller natives. Japanese maples provide a riot of autumn colour, while in spring masses of lilac blossoms hang from the Wisteria Pergola - the perfect backdrop for a wedding.