Cafe Pasqual’s Quinoa Burger for Meatless Monday

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If you are looking for an easy, but absolutely delicious dinner idea, look no further than Pasqual’s quinoa burger. Café Pasqual is in Santa Fe, New Mexico and they have revealed their scrumptious quinoa burger recipe. The best part is that it is also simple to make. To begin, gather the ingredients: 1 cup quinoa, 2 cups water, 1 small zucchini, 1⁄2 a cup of olive oil, 1 large shallots, 1⁄2 teaspoon of crushed red pepper flakes, 2 large Portobello mushrooms, salt and pepper, 1 1⁄2 cups bread crumbs, 1⁄2 cup guacamole to garnish, thinly sliced shallot “sticks” for garnish, 6 toasted English muffins for buns, 6 tablespoons of tomato chutney, also for garnish. To make these delicious ingredients into burgers, start by cooking the quinoa in boiling water for 12 to 15 minutes. While it is cooking, grate the zucchini and start the olive oil in a sauté pan with the shallot and red pepper flakes. After the shallots are soft add mushrooms and zucchini. Mix all of these ingredients from the sauté pan and the quinoa in a large bowl. After it has cooled, add breadcrumbs and mashed yams and knead gently to bind together, and then form into patties. Then heat more olive oil in a large skillet and cook patties until golden brown on both sides. To serve, spread the Guacamole on one half of the toasted English muffin slice and place the cooked patty on top. Then put a teaspoon of tomato chutney on the top of each patty and sprinkle the top with the shallot sticks. Then choose to either serve the burger with the other muffin slice on top or present to your guests open faced. This recipe couldn’t be simpler to put together, but it looks very elegant. It is also so healthy, fresh, and delicious and is something you could cook on a summer night when you haven’t planned anything specific for dinner.

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How Logistics Firms are Powering Retail Experiences

By using the power of the SPS Commerce Retail Community Logistics firms are creating multi-channel retail experiences. SPS Commerce, Inc. is a leader in cloud services when it comes to retail. They recently announced that they are using their Universal Network to allow third party logistics providers to stay ahead of the game when offering multi or omnichannel retail. To fulfill their omnichannel business many logistics companies like DM Fulfillment and TAGG Logistics are jumping on this opportunity to integrate the SPS Universal Network through the Retail Standard XML system. This will help the logistics firms complete their duties, which include expanding their delivery that is direct to consumer.

The vice president of marketing and product at SPS, Peter Zaballos says of the action, “Suppliers and retailers are looking to their 3PL partners to meet the ever-changing expectation of today’s consumer for rapid delivery of a rapidly expanding assortment of products…By connecting one to the SPS Universal Network, 3PLs can support their omnichannel customers by seamlessly fulfilling orders originating from stores, mobile apps, e-commerce sites and other channels. 3PLs taking advantage of these agile capabilities are leading the omnichannel era.” Last year TAGG Logistics got a head start by integrating what they do with the SPS Commerce Universal Network. This allowed the logistics company to access a huge network of retail trading partners, the largest network of its kind available. SPS Commerce works by using total integration of the TAGG’s internal systems that includes a warehouse management system (WMS) and a transportation management system (TMS) to automatically deliver support and scalability to the large and growing TAGG’s customer base. This year, by adding SPS’s Universal Network to the Delivering Branded Omnichannel Fulfillment (DM Fulfillment) hundreds of retailers can be simply accessed through one single connection. This will allow the service to be used by more customers faster and with fewer internal resources.

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Argentina and the World Cup

Argentina is known for their great soccer team. They are one of the best in the world and feared opponents for many others in the game. The 2014 summer World Cup will be the 16th for the team and the 11th World Cup they have attended in a row. They are technically skilled and win many of the matches they come up against. However, for all their victory and glory they have not won a World Cup since 1986 in England when Diego Maradona scored the historic, incredible goal. Even more shocking is that they haven’t even been to the semi-finals since 1990. Perhaps their year has arrived.

Another South American country, Brazil, is hosting the games this year so they did not have to participate in the qualifying matches. With their closest rival out of the way, Argentina dominated during those qualifying rounds. After all of the games were over they had won nine and only lost two. One of the keys to Argentina’s success is there team captain, Lionel Messi. He is one of the team’s best players and he has had a great transformation from an okay player to one of the best kickers in soccer today. His ascension has a bit to do with him improving as a player, but a lot more to do with changing management and being utilized in a much more strategized manner. The new manager for the Argentina team, Alejandro Sabella, has developed tactics to use Messi, Gonzalo Higuaín, and Sergio Agüero in a coordinated effort to make a great attacking team. That is what the whole team is riding on for this World Cup. Instead of trying to field a balanced team or at least trying to give the impression that they are, Argentina is strategizing to just put as many great attack players on the field that they can and seeing where it takes them.

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England May Have a Shot at the World Cup

England’s “Golden Generation” has finally left the field. Although the country had some amazing players, namely, David Beckham, Jamie Carragher, Wayne Rooney, Ashley Cole, Steven Gerrard, and Frank Lampard, they played well for their clubs but didn’t really turn up for their country when it was time to compete at the World Cup. Finally, many of these players are out of the game and England can now move on and practice with a new and revitalized team. A few are still around, like team captain Gerrard, Rooney, and Lampard, but the latter should spend most of his time in Brazil vacationing rather than actually playing. Because of the changes in roster, the England team looks better than it has for many years. They have gone undefeated in the UEFA’s World cup qualifiers and so they are going into the group 6-4-0 with a 31-4 goal differential so they have automatic qualification. The whole country is earnest and hopeful about the team’s possible World Cup changes because they haven’t won the World Cup since 1966, the only trophy they took home. They came close in 1990 but lost out in the end.

Although this young team shows a lot of promise, they will still have many obstacles to overcome. First, the climate is very different in Brazil than cold, wet England. The have been training in whether that is drastically different from where they are going and their ability to adapt will make or break what they are able to win. No matter what, England has no where to go but up so any games that England is able to nab during this tournament will be a victory because it will mark that they are getting better and showing more promise. The player to really keep your eye on in this team is Wayne Rooney who plays for Manchester United. He is a forward and one of the greatest players alive today and one of the best in English history. However, even with all of these talents he has not done much for the English national team. Really, this World Cup stands as what he will leave behind as his legacy, so he also will give a boost to younger players as we works on his exit out the door. Whatever happens, it will be exciting to watch England play this year!

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Columbia is Still Going to be Fierce in the World Cup

To qualify for the World Cup, the Columbia team had to make it through the qualifiers in South Africa. They breezed through that test with the help of their superstar player, Radamel Falcao. Columbia performed so well, in fact, it looked like they were going to be the sure winners of the entire World Cup in 2014. That changed when the team lost their amazing striker, Falcao to a torn ACL at the French Cup game. He tried to recover fast enough, but just two days ago he officially pulled himself off of the Columbia team for the upcoming World Cup. For any other team, this would be the end. However, even though Columbia greatly benefitted from the outstanding skill of Falcao, they still have a lot of talent and depth in their team. Even though their captain is gone, Columbia still has about four great attack, goal scoring players ready to step in. Of course, there are other major teams with a lot of great attackers (Uruguay and Chile among them) but Columbia has the added advantage that they can defend just as well as they can attack. Therefore, even without the legendary Falcao, Columbia may still have a shot at winning the World Cup and raising the trophy on July 13.

The strategy for Columbia has to change slightly without Falcao. The team’s manager José Pékerman has moved from a 4-2-3-1 to a 4-4-2 for fluidity. Right now Pékerman is really heavily using an attack partnership with Carlos Bacca of Sevilla and River Plate’s Teófilo Gutiérrez. If that pairing doesn’t work, he has many other options with a great batch of players. If Columbia has about seven or even eight players near the penalty area of their opponent then they are golden. They have great midfielders who will step up and make this scenario a reality.

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Real Madrid Wins Champions League

Real Madrid came out top for this year’s champions league after Atlético Madrid finally lost some momentum and gave them a chance to score. Atlético Madrid was looking like they were going to be the ultimate champions. They were charging and able to out run and out fight Real Madrid at every turn. Fortunately for Real Madrid, they lost their incredible performance speed, strength, and great energy after a 70 minute push and so the final win went to Real Madrid at 4-1.

There was a real and noticeable shift at the 70 minute mark. Atlético Madrid was playing the best they ever had and it didn’t seem like Real Madrid had a chance. Then as 70 minutes clicked it’s like the energy seeped from one team and went to the other. Real Madrid had the burst of speed, and with a goal they gained confidence as it seems like they really might have a shot at winning this thing. For the opener, Atlético Madrid scored just as they had been through the Champions League this year. Gabi came around in a corner, Real headed their attempt away from the goal and then Juanfran head-butted it back so it was just inside the box. After that move Diego Godin got a big higher than Sami Khedira so that he was able to nod the ball. Then Iker Casillas was out of position, which allowed Atlético Madrid to score. It seems that they had them from that point until the seismic shift in the game and energy of the teams. The energy of Atlético Madrid after the 70 minute mark was completely drained, all of their amazing feats in game after game and La Liga match after La Liga match since the Champions League match was completely depleted so the champion league overall went to Real Madrid for a very sweet victory.

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How to Eat More Chocolate and be Healthy!

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Many people cannot resist chocolate, which makes things tricky when you are trying eat healthier or prescribe to a weight loss plan. Thankfully, there is a way to keep chocolate in your diet and be healthy. Dark chocolate reduces blood pressure, helping your brain and heart and eating a little bit every day will help you curb cravings for other non-healthy sweet and salty foods. The key is having a bit of dark chocolate everyday, but not overdoing it by binging and eating too much. If it is too hard to only have a handful of dark chocolate chips or one or two squares of chocolate, use the following suggestions to limit how much chocolate you are consuming.

Try melting your daily allowance of dark chocolate and drizzling it on something yummy. You can add it to fresh fruit or popcorn or something more exotic. Some have tried pairing dark chocolate with unexpected foods and loved the results. Maybe put your chocolate on asparagus or roasted cauliflower. You could also try making chocolate covered olives, garlic, or sundried tomatoes. Get creative and see if you like the result. To get a boost of protein and a great chocolate flavor, you can fold your daily dose of chocolate into nut butter. You can buy butter made from pecans, walnuts, macadamia nuts, cashews, almonds, sunflower sees, hemp seeds, and coconut. Add chocolate to each and see what you like best. You can use your newly chocolate laced butter to fill celery stalks or for a dip.

The options are endless for including a bit of chocolate into dishes. Try it in some spicy dishes or something savory. Whatever you do, enjoy your bit of chocolate everyday and let your friends know that chocolate can be healthy!

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Square Order Food App

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If you thought you didn’t have enough options with Tapingo, Seamless, Delivery.com, Foursqaure, Groupon, or Breadcrumb, there is a new food-ordering app in town. The popular company, Square, has now launched their app, Square Order, that allows you to order, pay for, and provides notification of delivery of many restaurant, delis, and cafes near you. It was clear that Square was hoping to break into the restaurant business when they were competing with Google to acquire a restaurant website building platform. The platform they were both vying for, Appetas, ultimately went with Google “mainly due to the close alignment of direction for the technology and the space.” Although they were not successful there, Square continued to push on to create Square Order independently and they are excited about the outcome, despite the competition.

A spokesperson from Square said the “restaurant tech space is heating up and I think having a strong SMB sales presence is huge.” The sales of food are vertical, unlike clothing or other products you don’t shop for everyday, you need to eat. Therefore those who need to purchase lunch at the office everyday or like to grab takeout for dinner may flock to an app like this one to do shopping regularly. There is also a great potential for business in restaurants, as the spokesperson noted, because they are heating up. The National Restaurant Association released data that indicated $683.4 billion in estimated sales this year over 990,000 restaurants. That means that restaurants will bring in 47 percent of all of the money spent on food in the United States. These numbers are staggering and indicate a good omen for the future of Square Order. The key to the success of the app will be building relationships with companies and food establishments for a natural transition into a possibly wider venue. Square has already had great success with local merchants with their smartphone sales, it’s time to keep the momentum going into the restaurant and perishable food industry.

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Iraqis Continue to Vote, Despite Violence

Without the aid of foreign troops, like the U.S. Army, Iraq conducted their first democratic vote this week. The current Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ran as the incumbent against a few other contenders. He is running for his third term, but it may be time for a change in Iraq because the country is still very dangerous and constantly experiencing a sectarian conflict filled with bloodshed.

The last of the American soldiers pulled out of the country in 2011 and there has been a constant stream of violence ever since. The U.S. topped Saddam Hussein in 2003, which may have ended his misdeeds, but cause the entire country to erupt in violence. The sectarian conflict is between the al Qaeda Sunni’s, who have been killing hundreds of civilians each month, and the Shi’ite militia who are enacting revenge for the killings of the civilians.

The vote that took place gave the people of Iraq a choice from almost 10,000 candidates of who to put in the 328-seat parliament. The political parties that have formed include very firm Islamists as well as liberals and communists. So far, the electoral commission has stated that about 60 percent of all the voters have cast ballots. The votes will probably take about three weeks to count and the results are expected by the end of May. As can be expected, it was very difficult for some in the outer suburbs to vote. Some even noted that Maliki may have been deliberately making things difficult so that they wouldn’t have a lot of representation in the next parliament. This sort of corruption is unfortunately commonplace in the newly established, sort of democracy. Muhannad Hussam is a candidate who supports Sunni deputy prime minister Saleh Mutlaq. Hussam says, “It was all to be expected…They didn’t want the Sunnis to move for the election.” He adds that, “From our view it is not a fair election.” Sunnis pointed out irregularities all over, like broken voting machines and armed groups outside of polling stations. The sectarian divide has gotten worse for this election as Maliki clings to power and violence deepens throughout the region.

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Oprah Teaming with Starbucks for Tea

Starbucks has changed the coffee industry and now they may be doing the same thing they did with coffee, for tea, with Oprah’s help. Teavana Oprah Chai Tea is now available in Starbucks stores as well as the Teavana chain. This move could reinvigorate the ancient tradition of drinking tea. This is in part to Oprah Winfrey’s magnificent and powerful influence. Oprah has been able to make or break the career of an author’s career with her book club. Anything she recommends either skyrockets a new writer or significantly boosts sales of an old classic. Additionally, products she mentioned on her former talk show in the “Favorite Things” segment would fly off shelves and be snatched up online. Oprah has power, and Starbuck is happy to have her influence in their stores.

The reason for Oprah’s following transcends just recommended products to buy. She acts like a therapist for America. Some see her as a spiritual guide or a life coach. Oprah is the first of her kind as a “mother” and mentor to many in the form of a TV personality. She is unprecedented and this makes her power immense. Oprah encourages all of us to “live your best life” she started a movement towards socially “conscious capitalism” and the CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schulz is using that mantra to help sell tea. Every Oprah tea product purchased with benefit the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation.

Starbucks bought the Teavana tea chain in 2012 when they had 300 stores. They are hoping to expand and bring the teashop to every corner, as they have done with Starbucks. So far they have plans laid out to open 1,000 more Teavana chain stores in North America and many more stores internationally. Schulz is working hard to make sure that the legacy of tea in the Starbucks empire is from his influence. The CEO of Belus Capital Advisors, Brian Sozzi said, “Howard Schultz has two acts left as CEO of Starbucks: to truly unleash the power of mobile, and make folks care about premium tea as much as they care about premium coffee.”

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Europe Supports Harsh Consequences for Sterling

While the U.S. is buzzing about the lifetime ban of Clippers owner Donald Sterling, Europe is also weighing in. European citizens supported the ban and are calling the NBA to force him to sell the team. They are also encouraging the well loved sport, football (or soccer in America) to take similar measures against racism.

The leaders in football, Sepp Blatter, who is the president of international governing body FIFA and the European counterpart, Michel Latini both condemned Sterling’s comments and applauded the NBA for taking swift, decisive, and harsh action. Blatter wrote a tweet that read, “Sport says no to racism. I fully support @NBA’s decision to ban @LACLippers owner for life after his racist words.” Platini told the Associated Press, “It is a great decision and I support it completely.” A French player for the 1998 World Cup winning team, Partick Vieira tweeted, “Well done to @NBA, another organization dealing with racism in exactly the right way. I say again- zero tolerance.” There have been some racism issues in European football for a few decades. Just a week ago, a season ticket holder was at a Villarreal game threw a banana at black Barcelona defender, Dani Alves. The Spanish police arrested the man and banned him from the stadium for life. Alves defiantly picked up the banana and took a bite. His actions swirled around social media as a campaign against racism, in support of the Brazilian player.

Even though Villarreal acted quickly against the actions of the fan, others have been critical of the ability of football leadership to deal with racism quickly. Some have looked at the NBA and Silver quickly condemning and banning Sterling and thought, why can’t football do that? Retired British NBA player, John Amaechi said of the NBA, “if they can do that to respond to a hateful private utterance, why the hell can’t football do that to respond to repeated instances of hate-mongering?”

Credit Suisse and BNP Paribas Tax Charges

Two companies, Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN) and BNP Paribas SA (BNP) may be charged, criminally for having business dealing with banned nations. The major banks are being pursued by U.S. and state prosecutors and may be facing tax charges.

Credit Suisse has been a target since 2011 when they were investigated for possibly aiding Americans with evading their taxes. The federal probe against BNP Paribas is for violating the ban of doing business with prohibited countries. Usually in these types of cases, banks are considered too important to the legal system to prosecute and therefore the government usually brokers settlements with large financial institutions. Things may be different this time around because of comments like “a significant financial institution” will soon be charged from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. The former chairman of Citigroup thinks that the government is bluffing. Sanfod Weill said, “Maybe the U.S. attorney’s office is saying these things to get a resolution of the problem without it going to court and without having to do that. How does a bank stay in business if they’re charged criminally?”

Charging a bank not only puts their business in flux, but may also threaten national or global economies. This is because banks, countries, and economies are so interconnected. Even the Attorney General, Eric Holder told Congress early last year that “the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for use to prosecute them.” However, this time things might be different as prosecutors seem to mean business. They have already approached the New York Fed to discuss what measures to take to take to contain a fall out, should they apply criminal charges. One option that was discussed for BNP Paribas is suspending the firm’s ability to get transfer any money through New York for their foreign clients. Whispers of such actions have already made the stock fall abroad. Things are looking grim for both bank and they should be prepared for some major changes in the near future. These kind of dealings are not tolerable and it looks as if prosecutors are finally taking real action.

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Repercussions of Donald Sterling Remarks

Los Angeles Clippers owner Don Sterling is at it again with racist remarks that have now been made public. TMZ released audio of a conversation where Sterling makes gross racist comments to his extramarital girlfriend, Ms. Stiviano. It was known that Sterling was blatantly racist, but he has kept a low profile in that regard after some high profile cases. In 2009 Sterling had to pay a $2.725 settlement for discriminating against Black and Hispanic families in apartment buildings that he owned in and around Los Angeles. Additionally, during the Clippers winning streak he had to pay $17.3 million to a woman in another apartment building who lost belongings in a fire. The case was more about Sterling acting as a slumlord, but there were racist overtones in the trial.

The repercussions of the audio released by TMZ has been keenly felt by the players because fans are outraged. However, no one is more upset than the team and Coach Doc Rivers. Rivers held a meeting for the players so they could vent their feelings and frustrations before getting back on the court. During the meeting the players decided on a plan of how to protest. Rivers was against such action, wanting the team to focus on the game, while he handled all public questions about Sterling. However, the players decided they needed to do something, so during Sunday’s game they wore their shirts inside out for their warm-up in order to hide the Clippers logo. They also chose to wear black socks, arm bands and wrist bands during the game to subtly voice their frustration. The Clippers are not sure of what to expect when they return home for the next game. Both the players and Coach Rivers are a little concerned that the fans may not show up in light of the remarks from team owner, Sterling.

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Men’s Clothing that Will Never Go Out of Style

There are twelve distinctive male clothing staples that will never go out of style and never wear out. If you want a great, long-lasting wardrobe, chose these and you will not be disappointed. Some items may be luxurious, but they are worth the investment for the length of time they will be yours.

First is the IWC Portofino Automatic. Coming in at $4,500-$11,700, it may seem steep, but this classic piece was worn by all the 60’s film stars and is still in vogue today. The stainless-steel watch has Swiss engineering with and an Italian touch. It’s named after the portside town of Portofino.

For a much more manageable price of $61 you can have Birdwell 301s. These swim trunks were rumored to be invented by the Southern California surfer Dale Velzy and friends at the Manhattan Beach Surf Club after they cut their white sailor pants just above the knee. The length of these shorts was practical so that their skin wouldn’t chafe on their surfboards. They have been handmade since 1961 and come in 26 different colors.

When you’re not having fun in the sun, it may be worth it to spend $275 on a Worth & Worth Aria Felt Hat. They are constructed with a handsome brim and are quite durable because they are made of rabbit hair. This piece goes perfectly with a tailored suit or a long winter overcoat.

For the hardworking man, consider the next two items, Filson Original Goatskin Gloves for $80 and Shockoe Denim’s Drugstore Cowboy Selvedge Jeans for $235. The gloves are made of flexible leather that doesn’t add bulk but are extremely tough. The jeans will last many years and can handle being worn daily. They provide a classic look with extreme durability. The denim is sourced in the United States and comes from one of the oldest manufacturer of the classic fabric in North Carolina.

If denim isn’t your thing, check out Earl’s Apparel Gung Ho Camp Trousers for $39. These pants are American made and able to take quite a bit of wear and tear. The company operates out of Texas, but has been popping up in little boutiques across the country. They are a great piece to wear wen you are out of the office and having an outdoor adventure.

For an old classic company turn to Grenson and their G-Two Jacob Boot for $435. Grenson brand has made boots since 1866 and the years of experience shows. These boots last decades. The G-Two design combines British styles with the wing-tip brogue and the Chelsea boot, like what was worn by the Beatles.

For Classic Comfort try the American Giant Heavyweight Full-Zip Hooded Sweatshirt for $79. When it gets chilly layer on top a Golden Bear Jacket from Golden Bear Sportswear. For other accessories try Wigwam’s El Pine Socks ($15), Randolph Engineering Anniversary Aviators ($450), and the Red Wing Pioneer Belt ($115). All of these pieces are durable and will have you riding in style for many years to come.

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