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Savory Goat Cheese Panna Cotta with Beluga Lentil Relish (Panna Cotta au Chevre et sa Macedoine de Legumes)
Panna cotta de chèvre frais et sa macédoine de légumes is a summery dish. It was such a sunny day today in the Bay Area, so I decided to make something refreshing and light.
In case you don't know, panna cotta is a firm jelly. It can be either be savory or sweet. Instead of using gelatin, I used agar for the vegetarians in the house. I paired the panna cottas with mixed vegetables and lentils to get a balanced meal with proteins, dairy and veggies.
I served them in little verrines. Verrine is just a fancy word for glasses but they are the latest trend in French cooking. If you host a buffet-style dinner, it's the ideal way to run a stress free party as this dish can be prepared in advance.
Yields: 12 servings4 oz goat cheese, soft at room temperature, cubed
1 1/4 cups goat milk, 12 oz
1 cup half and half
2 tsp agar agar
1 cup fromage blanc
1 lime juice, freshly squeezed
1 Tbs pickled garlic, finely minced
bean sprouts
1/2 dozen dried apricots, cubed
1/2 cup Beluga lentils, precooked
1 red bell pepper, peeled, seeded, cubed
1 orange bell pepper, peeled, seeded, cubed
2 baby Persian cucumber
2 tsp kosher salt
1/2 cup corn kernels
1/3 cup capers
1 tsp pink peppercorns, coarsely crushed
1 tsp green peppercorns, coarsely crushed
1 1/2 tsp Himalayan pink salt, to taste
1 Tbs sugar cane, or regular sugar
3 Tbs kumquat syrup
2 tsp Dijon coarse mustard
1 Tbs Honey mustard
5 Tbs champagne vinegar, to taste
1/2 cup avocado oil
4 sprigs fresh basil leaves
2 Tbs onion chive, cut with shears
1 sprig marjoram leaves
6 sprigs tarragon
1/4 cup fresh spinach leaves, packed
The panna cotta:
Remove the leaves of the basil and marjoram. Discard the stems. Blanch (dip for 15 seconds in boiling water then transfer in an ice bath) 2 sprigs of basil, the marjoram and 3 sprigs of tarragon, drain, then dry thoroughly of all water, then pat dry on a paper towel. Roughly chop the leaves.
In a small bowl, mix the agar agar with 1/2 cup of goat milk. Set aside.
In a saucepan, melt the goat cheese into the half and half and the remaining goat milk. Bring to a near boil. Add the dissolved agar goat milk mixture and whisk constantly. Remove from the heat. Add the previously blanched chopped herbs, fromage blanc and the juice of a lime.
Pour the liquid into mini glasses. Tilt the glasses if you want a curvy effect. Check my tips section for suggestions on how to do this.
When the liquid is firm, plastic-wrap each glass and chill for at least 2 hours in the refrigerator or overnight.
The beluga lentil and vegetable relish:
Snip the onion chives with kitchen shears.
Cut the cucumber into cubes. Sprinkle kosher salt on both sides and let sit for 1/2 hour. Pat dry with a kitchen towel. Set aside.
Combine the lentils, dried apricots, bell peppers, cucumbers, corn kernels and capers in a bowl. Season with Himalyan salt and the green and pink peppercorns.
The vinaigrette:
In a bowl, dissolve the sugar cane in the champagne vinegar. Add the mustards, kumquat syrup, salt and whisk in the olive oil. Add the pickled garlic. Pour the vinaigrette into the mixed vegetables and lentils mix. Plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator until you're ready to serve.
Assembly time:
Finely chop the rest of the herbs (snipped chive, marjoram, tarragon, basil) that have not been blanched. Tear the spinach leaves (do not chop with a knife, it'll prevent the leaves from darkening). Add all the green to the mixed vegetables and lentil mixture.
Remove panna cotta from the refrigerator. Depending on what presentation you'd like, dip the bottoms of the glasses into a warm water bath for a few seconds. Turn out the panna cotta forms onto serving plates or serve directly in the glasses. Place a little bit of bean sprouts, then spoon some mixed vegetables into the glasses or on the side of the panna cotta. Decorate with whole tarragon leaves.
You're all set. Dig in!
Bon appétit!
I got the precooked beluga lentils from Trader Joe's but you can subtitute with any other kind of lentils or beans.
I got fresh goat milk from Trader Joe. If you don't have any, Whole Foods carries goat milk in cans. You can also get it online. One 12 oz can yields 1 1/4 cups.
Goat milk has a different taste and is rich in folic acid which my doctor has just recommended to me.
I pick a combination of goat milk and half anf half but you can add any dairy that you prefer if you want a creamier or tart flavor like crème fraîche, buttermilk, milk or even heavy cream if the calories don't frighten you.
Blanching the herbs will help maintain that very appetizing green color when added the hot panna cotta mixture.
I get onion chives from our garden. It's so worth planting them. They are perennials so it's very low maintenance. They are also very good companion plant for other herbs if you have an herb box. The flowers are pretty for an added bonus. The other plus is I only pick the quantity I need whereas you have to get a whole bunch from the store. Snip the onion chives with kitchen shears to prevent them from bruising.
Agar agar powder is a good gelatin substitute for vegans and vegetarians. It is derived from seawood and is cooked the same way you would use gelatin powder. It is widely used in Asia.
You don't have to use champagne vinegar but for the aesthetic of the dish, a white vinegar is advised.
You can also use different shaped molds for the panna cotta, like the one for my Vietnamese jello cake.
I used pickled garlic so that it does not overpower the vinaigrette. If you don't mind the not-so-mild flavor, use fresh garlic.
Roasted bell peppers is pretty easy and inexpensive. Wash the bell pepper, pat dry, then brush with oil. Place a grill on your stove, then char all the skin of the bell pepper. Wrap in aluminum foil. Let cool for about 10 minutes. Wash the bell pepper under running tap water, the skin will come right off.
Salt draws the moisture out of things. Just sprinkle some kosher salt on any vegetable, then pat dry with a paper towel. I used this process for my eggplant rollups, check out the recipe here.
Kumquat syrup is optional, I just like the additional of a fruity strong taste to the salad dressing. I just got the syrup from my kumquat preserves.
I got Himalayan pink salt from my last trip to Paris. I just found that it is now available in Whole Foods. It's quite different from the regular salt and somehow has a less salty and much flavorful taste. I love it!
The bean sprouts add a crunchy texture to the dish. It's optional. You can substitute with any other roasted nuts if you like.
Fromage blanc, literally white cheese in French is a thick yogurt that has a cremier and tangy taste. If you don't have any, you can subtitue with sour cream, cream cheese or any other thick yogurt product.
I slightly tilted the glasses to get the pretty curvy effect, then filled up the glass with the mixed vegetables and salad dressing. I used my 4-year-old sister-in-law's legos to tilt and hold the glasses.
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As a freelance developer, a few times I tried to find some testers to be able to let them test my software/web applications. If I try to find them, it's because most of the customers are not intended to hire external testers and don't see why this can benefit to them, so products are UI-untested and buggy. I tried lots of things. Discussion boards for IT people, specific websites for people who search for a job. Every time I clearly precise that I'm looking for product testers. I completely failed to find anybody for this job. I found instead two types of people: Non IT people who try to qualify as testers, but don't have enough skills for that, and don't really know what testing is and how to do it, Programmers, who are skilled as programmers, but not as testers, and who mostly don't understand neither what testing is about (or think it's the same thing as code review, or it consists in writing unit tests). Of course, they submit general programmers resumes, where they describe their high experience in Assembler and C++, but don't tell anything about anything related to the job of a tester. What I'm doing wrong? Isn't it called "tester"? Is there at least a tester job, different from general programming job? Is there any precise requirement to require from each candidate which can eliminate non IT people and general programmers?

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A North Fair Oaks jewelry store owner said three masked men — one armed with a gun and two with hammers — tried to rob his shop Wednesday afternoon but fled seconds later after he pulled out his handgun.
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The video shows one large man pointing a gun at an employee sitting behind a counter at the front entrance. The store's owners are behind a counter near the back of the room, along with a customer.
"He says, 'Give me your money,'" said Victoria Velasquez, the adult daughter of one of the store's owners, Rosalba Velasquez.
The other owner, Alfonso Angela, said he spotted the men from the store's window and grabbed his gun, hidden behind the counter, before they entered.
The two men with hammers, one carrying a bag, were approaching the glass cases with jewelry inside when they saw Angela preparing to fire.
"They had hammers like they were going to smash the cases," Victoria Velasquez said. "Then they heard the (gun) cocking noise and they ran out really fast."
The video shows the men making a hasty exit within seconds.
Shaking, Rosalba Velasquez called 911. San Mateo County sheriff's deputies immediately spotted the suspects in a white, four-door sedan and took after it, according to sheriff's office spokeswoman Rebecca Rosenblatt.
Minutes later, the car crashed at Bay and Marsh roads in Menlo Park, hitting a utility pole and a white SUV waiting at the intersection for the light to turn. The driver of that vehicle was unharmed, Rosenblatt said.
Four men jumped out of the vehicle and fled on foot, she said. A manhunt of the vicinity that also involved the Atherton, Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Redwood City police departments, search dogs and a California Highway Patrol plane ensued.
By approximately 4:15 p.m. the area was deemed clear, and two adult male suspects were in custody, according to a sheriff's office statement released Wednesday night.
The names of the suspects have not yet been released. Two suspects remain at large, according to the sheriff's office.
A handgun thought to be associated with the attempted robbery was located by deputies within a block of the crashed suspect vehicle, according to the sheriff's office.
Although neighboring North Fair Oaks businesses have been robbed, this was the first time Plaza Jewelers was targeted, Victoria Velasquez said. "We're just really grateful that nothing happened," she said.
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Followers of this blog know of my fondness for Smithland, Kentucky. This old, old town was founded because of its location at the confluence of two rivers - the Ohio and Cumberland. Smithland is built high on a bluff and it would seem that the town is too high to be worried about floods. Not so. Through the years, there have been disasters when the rivers flooded the entire town. The most devastating flood was that of 1937, when thousands of people were forced from their homes.
Today Smithland is facing a similar event. Sandbagging has been going on for days. Families, businesses and churches are removing furniture and belongings. Smithland is being evacuated. No one knows how high the river will get or how much damage will be suffered, but it is certain there will be damage. Smithland can not escape.
Please keep Smithland and its residents in your thoughts and prayers as they deal with this disaster.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Flood of 2011
Posted by Brenda Joyce Jerome at 8:32 AM
Labels: Smithland
3 comments:
- GStaples said...
Thanks for posting! Will be sending prayers their way.
- April 27, 2011 at 9:28 AM
- Susan (Nolichucky Roots) said...
Praying for Smithland and all the communities threatened this flood season. It will be a long spring.
- April 27, 2011 at 5:00 PM
- Brenda Joyce Jerome, CG said...
Thank you so much for your concern, thoughts and prayers. Things look a bit more promising this evening, but we will have to see how it goes tomorrow. The rain is not over.
- April 27, 2011 at 7:22 PM
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Opinion: Bill de Blasio's Bait-and-Switch
Political Diary editor Jason Riley on the New York City mayoral frontrunner's plans to raise taxes to pay for labor union contracts. Photos: Associated Press
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[Null Space Labs] = Juki 360 Rebuild, Part IV. Yes we're in LA.
So it been a while since my last update, my lil' dog of 16 years had to be put down and I wasn't feeling it, then family visited from so we stalled abit.
So quick updates for the tl;dr people :-
- Head rotation works, but have to add an encoder wheel since we 'forgot' about the tool home position inside the head tool pickup…
- Y axis is all upgraded, new stepper motor drivers are in 1/2 step is on.
- Switched to GRBL and StepDir, instead of, uhh, not stepdir.. Though using the
- OpenPNP base firmware revision, i didn't realise it was different til after porting it.
- GUI is almost done, it can place one full board from feeders and trays
- Replaced hoses as the old ones burst, which only happens when you say right lets video this.
- Trapezoidal for the servos courtesy of Grbl.
- Still having some issues with the vacuum sensor, might be bad or low pressure or something else, turned it off for the moment.
Pickobear uncut.
So we're able to pick up and place with the new Grbl firmware and the updated GUI, its all GCODE now. I've moved more of the functions into the GCODE vs individual move, drop , vacuum, since the communication is just serial rx/tx and serial is a PITA for this sort of thing, since its all ACK/re-ACK. With an M command its just e.g. M21 pickup part, M22 putdown part and the machine reports yes/no. FTDI's are decent chips but they will break down comms after long datastreams, I've had a lot of problem with them and high speed streaming, as well as overlapped IO support is meh, events don't work that well so multithreaded serial comms based on events is in theory great, but the practise doesn't always work well. so its all software handshakery.
We've done a lot of changes since the last update.
Grbl's great, its easy to use and easy to add on too, we were already using the AtMega2560 anyway so lots of space, even with all the stuff I've added to it, we're at maybe 17%of the flash space. I had looked at it when we first started out, but it needed StepDIR and were using – + , our original drivers didn't support StepDIR. Even luckier I'd put all the stepper controls on the same ports.
Changes for the 2560 are minor, just an interrupt rename and i don't the sleep mode is working as it ought too, i assumed it was and then wondered how to handle the panel switches but turned out when i added the head movement ACK that it was, I was going to use timer3 to handle switches but then i noticed the main loop was executing constantly, some of the AVR's have different sleep rules.
One thing i did do though is since the mega ICSP is under the shield and its on the machine, which is 3 metres away from desktop. I left the Arduino serial boot loader on the chip, this way i can just script AVR Dude to load the firmware built in AVR Studio 4 to the mega over serial. so its a lot easier, the downside is that if you press a key too soon the boot loader seems to kick in, i haven't checked this to be the reason for sure, but it seems like its that. Not a huge deal.
Running a test of the GUI
Head rotation
Head motor, luckily we used a double ended shaft motor in case we needed an encoder, which it turns out we do. Look closely at the top of that shaft, see some thread? yeah we didn't…. We CAD'd up a mount and fitted the motor.
The motor is 1,000 steps for a full 360 degree rotation, should be able to place the craziest of our boards, we like some gangsta lean in our part placements.
As a side note the magnetic sensor on top of the head, really don't like the way they're made or mounted, that wire takes a beating and it'll fail again so we have to fix that too. You can see all our temporary fixes for the hoses that keep cracking, they've lasted 20 years though. The red line is the new one we're using, which is way more high tech than what was available in those days, it should last longer than the tech is needed.
The rotation head needed a larger power supply, so that is now installed. Its the 24V power supply previously mentioned from all electronics.
Since we made the shield with the extended pins its easy to add things on to it. And now we're on StepDir its just one wire to control the head ( Though we make a semi-fatal error at this step in choosing which direction the motor runs )
Setting up a test
After the rotation head was added to the software, i test placed two parts, they're off, at this point i think its the solder paste or tape missing, so we add some. As you can see though the parts are rotated as they should be. We were uStreaming with the second camera so its all hanging off in space at the moment.
Krs adds some paste to the test pads. She's the one who wants this thing finished the most as she builds most of our boards
I'm remotely moving the head with the camera view. First home, then moving to the PCB to register the location of the part, then going through the steps of the part placement.
So the mistake in the choice of direction for the head rotation is that the head can unscrew itself and drop down the tool, the sensor doesn't know the head is down and the tool is now below the PCB holder and auto changer, so the head will gleefully zip around and bang it into whatever it can find, which bends the head, which is not good at all. So we'll reverse the direction of the motor and use lots of Loctite. This is why the test videos show the parts poorly placed.
Pity these lessons learnt cost us a head each time.. But we move on..
A trial run through all the parts ( using 1206 resistors since they're like .00004 each) as you can see they placed perfectly.
Ok, maybe not what you'd call perfect but they did place in the right spots, the head down motion was a little too strong and there's no paste to hold the parts in place so they'll wander around every time a part is placed. Still the software is working.
The vacuum sensor needs to be set quite accurately or it'll do things like this :-
The tool is sitting perfectly on the vacuum test pad, the head brought it down to see if was there, blocks the air coming through the tool, but since it wasn't picked up correctly ( head wrong orientation ) it just left it there.
The head moves to the pad, goes down, the air comes on, there is a settle time, then the machine reads the vacuum sensor, if its not blocked there is no tool, if it is, then there is a tool. That is how it decides if the tool needs to be picked up or put back.
Finally we place a board with paste and all !
So last night(this morning) we finally managed to run a real board. For some reason i decided to go through each of the components and rotate them 90 deg rather than change the rotation in the feeder…. derp… As we did this the vacuum test failed, so you can see me going in change the code ( incorrectly!) and re running, it the bit you might not see is the machine doing a loop of picking up a part… i fix that and we move on.. First run we do a step by step. I noticed a few bugs as we go along so there are some pauses as we fix those.
Stencil pasted a board, you can read about this in our Arduino Mega build blog entry. Its a CNC'd brass sheet.
I taped the board down to stop it moving around, probably not needed.
Some of our feeders need some love and i wasn't super careful about where i was picking up the parts from so it was a little sloppy, however it was 2AM and i ended up having to leave and come back after one of the alarms at work went off
MMCA used one of his awesome swiss files to 'fix' one of the feeders that was catching
Here are some more GUI videos, they're probably only interesting to those of thats like watching these things over and over..
Annotated some of the steps in the GUI.
One of the feeder pickups i didn't setup properly, so it was placing them off!
Onto the hotplate, i wanted to see just how bad we could place parts and if they'd fix on the plate, all but one pulled onto the pads, the other worked but was right on the edge of a pad, it'd work fine. All we have to do is take more care when tell it where to pickup
Krs also has a bunch of videos of the machine placing that first board.
Anyway that is mostly it, we're down to the tuning and bug fix stage so its been pretty fun.
But if you've got minerals help out the OpenPNP guys they're doing good work, our stuff is available to everyone, but its reasonably specific to the Juki though it is GCODE.
Small update: Last night, I started adding the second USB port of the ADK to Grbl as well, its almost finished. I based it on the usb.cpp from ADK but i converted it to C since the c++ generated a larger firmware and there is only one USB port, I want to keep the firmware tight.
BTW If you're reading this and are on the yahoo zevatech list the moderator who's apparently building a commercial retrofit for this machine is blocking our posts sharing this open source project. He said he wants credit for a CPU suggestion neither his or our project uses, a fix that wasn't broken, and a camera solution we didn't ask for advice on, or use.
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The Assassination Of James J. Lee
His gun was a fake. A starter pistol, usually used to start a race; in this case a race to the body bag. His bombs little more than Hollywood props. In fact he told a "hostage" that he got the idea from watching the movie "Speed". That's what he modeled the look of the "bomb" on.
In February 2008, James J. Lee organized a protest in front of the Discovery Channel building. He paid homeless Americans to picket in front of the building. Busy, overworked Americans walking past typing on their Blackberries ignored the protest, unconcerned with what was being protested as they had been trained to do by the "news" media who also ignore such demonstrations unless organized by their super-rich friends who own the world.
With the protest fully underway James J. Lee began to throw money into the air. $20,000 in cash he scattered to the wind. The well dressed Americans did not care about James J. Lee's cause just as they do not care about their fellow Americans who are left on the sidewalk, but they sure do like free cash. Those well dressed Americans put their Blackberries away and rubbed elbows with the homeless Americans as they all grabbed madly for the free money. This gave the Police their cause and James J. Lee was arrested for "disorderly conduct".
Where did James J. Lee find the homeless Americans? Probably the homeless shelter he lived at. And where did James J. Lee get $20,000? He inherited property in Hawaii that he sold for $90,000. I wasn't aware that property could be bought for $90,000 in Hawaii. Perhaps James J. Lee was ripped off too. He said that he threw the money into the air to show that "Money means nothing. Money is trash".
James J. Lee also attempted to do things like those who own everything do. He took out a full page ad in a free newspaper owned by the Washington Post called "The Express", which advertised the protest ahead of time. This was a brilliant piece of street theater that was extremely costly for someone like James J. Lee. It was a large part of his net worth. Yet it received no attention from the Washington Post, who profited from selling James J. Lee ad space. Donald Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post, did not mind taking James J. Lee's money, but Donald Graham would rather die than see an interview with James J. Lee published in his "news" paper.
James J. Lee also organized an essay contest, paying $20 for each submission and periodically awarding $1,000- for the best essay.
So who was James J. Lee? That is all that mattered to the Washington Post and Donald Graham, or The Discovery Channel and it's CEO David Zaslav. Clearly James J. Lee was intelligent, creative and extremely concerned about the state of the world. But that meant nothing to the Washington Post or Discovery Channel. Just as the death of James J. Lee meant nothing to MSNBC, CNN, FOX News, ABC News, CBS News, or NBC News.
The New York Times wrote a short piece about the murder of James J. Lee, which they -as the rest of the media did- went to great lengths to justify. I watched live as the mascara wearing male anchor on FOX News, Shepard Smith, openly discussed with a former member of one of the police death squads in this country how he thought James J. Lee was "a whole lot of nuts" and speculated that the gun and bombs might be "fake". The retired death squad member agreed with this.
Everyone knew it. Yet the fascists shot James J. Lee as if he were no more than an insect. Not a dog, an insect. America treats dogs far, far better than America ever treated James J. Lee. Dog shelters are far cleaner and more humane than the shelters provided for homeless people (never referred to as Americans by the fascist "news" media). Dogs are adopted by the thousands from those animal shelters everyday in America. People are left to rot on a cot in the cockroach invested shelter, or out on the sidewalk.
What were James J. Lee's demands? Surely he had demands. Why else take hostages? Well, the media had no interest in that. The New York Times little piece served as a simple obituary for James J. Lee. No reason to ever inquire further as to why James J. Lee did what he did.
Probably out of guilt and effort to pat themselves on the back the Washington Post finally got around to doing a short follow up over two weeks later and informed us finally that James J. Lee wanted to go on the air live on The Discovery Channel and air his grievances, which he had put on his Web site savetheplanetprotest.com (see below, site has been taken down) This is what you may have read scathing "quotes" from in your paper. Far from being some monster as portrayed, savetheplanetprotest.com strongly advocates for peace. James J. Lee advocated an end to the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction. An end to the manufacture of all weapons of war, and an end to conflict between people. An end to capitalism, as in his view the war machine and economic expansion is destroying the planet. Clearly there are hundreds of millions of people on this planet who agree with James J. Lee on this. There was certainly plenty of room to begin a discussion with James J. Lee, but he was not connected to the system, not even connected to any established peace groups who he denounced as "FAKE!". James J. Lee was not friends with Arianna Huffington or Arianna's fawning booster Christopher Matthews. The New York Times would rather go bankrupt than talk to an American like James J. Lee.
James J. Lee denounced immigration to America and to all industrialized nations, as this allows populations to expand as those who leave create room for the births of more people, and the immigrants swell the populations of the lands they emigrate to. This is factually correct. Immigration is straight up exploitation of the poor.
The immigrants not only do not get paid decently, but their arrival creates and maintains a surplus of labor so no one at the bottom gets paid. The rich get richer and the poor become poorer. The New York Times denounces anyone who opposes the third world invasion of America. Arthur Sulzberger JR, publisher of the New York Times has even published outright lies in front page stories of his "news" paper. I recall reading one back in I believe 2006 that claimed that the owner of an orchard had offered $15 an hour to Americans to pick his fruit with no takers. Imagine that, Americans who were unemployed, Americans who worked at Wal-Mart or Burger King's drive in window at 1:00AM for minimum wage had no interest in being paid more than twice as much to pick fruit. Arthur Sulzberger JR must think we are all really dumb to print such an outrageous lie.
And the world becomes ever more populated and polluted.
"11. You're also going to find solutions for unemployment and housing. All these unemployed people makes me think the US is headed toward more war."
That is the last numbered point on James J. Lee's Web site. Find a solution for the unemployed? Build housing for those who need it?
No wonder the fascist death squad shot him!
And with the approval of the Beijing style propaganda organs -like David Zaslav's Discovery Channel- who deliver to us fake news every day of the week. Fox "News" talks about MSNBC, while MSNBC talks about FOX "News". And CNN and Anderson Cooper cover the weather. There's always a storm somewhere on the planet, and CNN is there to bring it to you.
Poverty? Homeless Americans? Americans dying for lack of health care? CNN will bring news of this from Haiti or some other third world bomb crater, but you'll never see Anderson Cooper in Camden New Jersey. No Anderson Cooper at a tent city in Sacramento, California. No telethons for Americans with no apartment to live in. No one from a think tank to air the grievance of those left on the sidewalk in the world's richest country. No celebrity moved to demand that Washington do something about the legions of Americans rotting on our streets (Martin Sheen exempted).
And oh the celebrities! They're always in court! They're always forgetting to wear their panties under their micro mini skirts! What's up with that, are they auditioning for an anchor position on FOX "News"?
We're drowning in celebrities, but poverty? Only on our sidewalks, never on the "news".
Every "news" channel has a "panel" of what they call experts. But none of those panels ever had James J. Lee on as a guest. Bill Maher may have helped launch the witch's political career, but Bill Maher never talked to James J. Lee. Talking about witchcraft and goblins is OK, but there will be no talk about ending the War on Islam, ending the War on Drugs, housing for Americans left on the sidewalk, and providing government paid healthcare for any citizen who needs it.
James J. Lee did not graduate from Harvard. James J. Lee did not have a "fellowship" at a think tank that was sponsored by billionaire bloodsuckers who run America. James J. Lee was not employed by Goldman Sacks. James J. Lee was not a billionaire bloodsucker now running a fraudulent tax write-off called a "charity". David Remnick never invited James J. Lee to any New Yorker seminar. David Remnick wouldn't be caught dead rubbing elbows with an American like James J. Lee. David Remnick is too busy promoting a war against innocent Muslims and preserving what David Remnick sees as the right of Israelis to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from Palestine.
James J. Lee was just one of us. One of the 90% of Americans who have no economic prosperity in our future. James J. Lee was nothing more than an American, a concerned citizen with passion and ideas. And he took his position to the next logical step actually. He decided that "Money is trash."
Indeed it is. Housing is not trash though, and James J. Lee recognized this and demanded that housing be provided for those who need it. Health care is not trash either, but those who control the "news" media tell us it is. The fascist "news" media pounds into the viewers head the slogan "support the police!", while defining doctors and nurses as some form of parasite. In other words, those who wear uniforms that give them permission to beat, arrest and murder the American people are to be supported, while those who would heal us when we are sick are to be shunned as some sort of criminal conspiracy.
James J. Lee demanded an end to the production of war, but the "news" media continue to tell us big lies about the fictional terrorist group they call Al Qaeda, when anyone who actually reads the news stories deeply knows that Al Qaeda does not exist, but few read deeply.
James J. Lee advocated an end to war, but the "news" media continue to advocate the "War on Drugs", which is nothing more than a bloodsucking fascist scam designed to imprison the poor and ambitious, while creating a trillion dollar slush fund for crooked cops, CIA agents, and well connected Pentagon operatives and their corporate buddies and bankers.
The War on Drugs has destroyed Mexico, Columbia and is threatening to destroy many other nations in Latin America. It has certainly contributed to the destruction of America as well, and if this criminal war is not ended entirely -meaning the legalization and controlled sale of all drugs including crack and heroin- America will descend into the same abyss as Mexico and Columbia. Prohibition never worked here.
400,000 Americans drink themselves to death every year. It is completely legal to do so. Guns and automobiles do not kill half as many Americans as alcohol does. All the so-called evil drugs kill a small fraction of this number, yet you can buy crack, heroin, PCP, ecstasy and pot within a half mile of any state or Federal courthouse in the USA.
The "War on Drugs" is a trillion dollar fascist criminal enterprise.
On Wednesday September 1st, 2010, the fascists murdered a good American who cared about this country and the rest of those who live on this planet. The fascists murdered this man who cared nothing for money, who called money "trash", and demonstrated his commitment to that belief by spending at least a quarter of his net worth to stage a protest and try to start a movement to save the planet from environmental destruction outside David Zaslav's Discovery Channel headquarters. The fascists murdered James J. Lee because he cared about people and animals, and hated war, pollution and capitalist bloodsuckers. The fascists murdered James J. Lee because he was one of us, the American people, and the fascist bloodsuckers and their fake, murderous "news" media hate us.
On the first Monday in September the fascist bloodsuckers tell us to celebrate Labor Day by patronizing the "White Sale" at Wal-Mart, where tens of thousands of Americans work, but do not get paid. From now on this holiday will be canceled, and instead we will celebrate James J. Lee day on the 1st day of September, no matter what day of the week the 1st of September happens to be. We will celebrate James J. Lee not by buying cheap crap made in China, but by engaging in political activism, by taking action which will infuriate the fascist bloodsuckers. We will not blog; we will leave our residence and take action.
Start planning for James J. Lee day, the first such day is less than one year away on September 1st, 2011.
UPDATE: January 12, 2011
Over four months have passed since the assassination of James J. Lee at the Discovery Channel headquarters. What new stories have been written about Mr. Lee during this period following his assassination?
What action have members of the Bar taken on behalf of Mr. Lee who was unarmed?
James J. Lee was ignored during his life, and he has been shoved down the Orwellian memory hole in death. One of America's most caring and creative political protestors was assassinated and slandered by a "news" media that would never acknowledge him. And in the intervening months following his death no one in this fascist corporate mouth piece of capitalism has shown the least regret in how they treated Mr. Lee. No one has revisited what was done and more importantly what was not done while Mr. Lee was alive to prevent this tragedy.
Why is that?
Well, there is one important facet of the capitalist fascist system that Mr. Lee never came to terms with.
You are who you kill.
Who are the most recognized political protestors in American history?
John Wilkes Booth? Lee Harvey Oswald? James Earl Ray?
OK, only Booth assuredly did the deed. He led a conspiracy to try to decapitate Lincoln's government (though most Americans have actually been led to believe that he acted alone! Conspiracy is the official story and four co-conspirators including the first woman were hanged). Still, Oswald and Ray are the official assassins, and they have both outlived their deaths in the public's mind.
There are no political protestors in America who are remembered who have not killed and killed someone important, or otherwise violently struck out against the system in some large event as Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirators (many unnamed, unprosecuted Federal agents in the FBI and ATF), the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, or the now largely forgotten Eric Robert Rudolph who set off a pipe bomb during the Olympic games in Atlanta among other targets, targets which would not have given him the notoriety he did achieve. Indeed, both Rudolph and Kaczynski are better known as the Olympic Park Bomber and the Unabomber than they are by their actual names.
A recent event in the headlines from Arizona is another case in point. Jared Lee Loughner was not a political protestor at all. He is in fact a psychotic schizophrenic. Within a few days the media grasped this fact, but let us examine the striking, actually astonishing and outrageous difference between the amount of press coverage afforded to Jared Lee Loughner as opposed to what was afforded to James J. Lee.
Within three days a search of the New York Times returns seven pages and 78 total results, and this is just the beginning. Jared Lee Loughner has not yet made a court appearance with his appointed Public Defender Judy Clarke.
Four months after James J. Lee was shot dead as if he were an insect, a search of the New York Times archives returns one result.
Seventy-eight to one.
You are who you kill.
In America those who kill get the attention. Those who do not, or who are the victims of the police, are ignored.
That's not democracy, that's fascism, a culture of death.
Update: March 29, 2011
James J. Lee's Web page – http://savetheplanetprotest.com -has been taken down. Fortunately this was not taken down immediately like his Myspace page (FOX, imagine that!). The page was all text, black on a white background, and this is a cut and paste of it, spacing as James J. Lee had it.
My Demands
The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY:
1. The Discovery Channel and it's affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn's "My Ishmael" pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other's inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!
2. All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs' places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.
3. All programs promoting War and the technology behind those must cease. There is no sense in advertising weapons of mass-destruction anymore. Instead, talk about ways to disassemble civilization and concentrate the message in finding SOLUTIONS to solving global military mechanized conflict. Again, solutions solutions instead of just repeating the same old wars with newer weapons. Also, keep out the fraudulent peace movements. They are liars and fakes and had no real intention of ending the wars. ALL OF THEM ARE FAKE! On one hand, they claim they want the wars to end, on the other, they are demanding the human population increase. World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!
4. Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed. Broadcast this message until the pollution in the planet is reversed and the human population goes down! This is your obligation. If you think it isn't, then get hell off the planet! Breathe Oil! It is the moral obligation of everyone living otherwise what good are they??
5. Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and permanently. Find solutions FOR these countries so they stop sending their breeding populations to the US and the world to seek jobs and therefore breed more unwanted pollution babies. FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM TO STOP THEIR HUMAN GROWTH AND THE EXPORTATION OF THAT DISGUSTING FILTH! (The first world is feeding the population growth of the Third World and those human families are going to where the food is! They must stop procreating new humans looking for nonexistant jobs!)
6. Find solutions for Global Warming, Automotive pollution, International Trade, factory pollution, and the whole blasted human economy. Find ways so that people don't build more housing pollution which destroys the environment to make way for more human filth! Find solutions so that people stop breeding as well as stopping using Oil in order to REVERSE Global warming and the destruction of the planet!
7. Develop shows that mention the Malthusian sciences about how food production leads to the overpopulation of the Human race. Talk about Evolution. Talk about Malthus and Darwin until it sinks into the stupid people's brains until they get it!!
8. Saving the Planet means saving what's left of the non-human Wildlife by decreasing the Human population. That means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies! You're the media, you can reach enough people. It's your resposibility because you reach so many minds!!!
9. Develop shows that will correct and dismantle the dangerous US world economy. Find solutions for their disasterous Ponzi-Casino economy before they take the world to another nuclear war.
10. Stop all shows glorifying human birthing on all your channels and on TLC. Stop Future Weapons shows or replace the dialogue condemning the people behind these developments so that the shows become exposes rather than advertisements of Arms sales and development!
11. You're also going to find solutions for unemployment and housing. All these unemployed people makes me think the US is headed toward more war.
Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what's left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture.
For every human born, ACRES of wildlife forests must be turned into farmland in order to feed that new addition over the course of 60 to 100 YEARS of that new human's lifespan! THIS IS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FOREST CREATURES!!!! All human procreation and farming must cease!
It is the responsiblity of everyone to preserve the planet they live on by not breeding any more children who will continue their filthy practices. Children represent FUTURE catastrophic pollution whereas their parents are current pollution. NO MORE BABIES! Population growth is a real crisis. Even one child born in the US will use 30 to a thousand times more resources than a Third World child. It's like a couple are having 30 babies even though it's just one! If the US goes in this direction maybe other countries will too!
Also, war must be halted. Not because it's morally wrong, but because of the catastrophic environmental damage modern weapons cause to other creatures. FIND SOLUTIONS JUST LIKE THE BOOK SAYS! Humans are supposed to be inventive. INVENT, DAMN YOU!!
The world needs TV shows that DEVELOP solutions to the problems that humans are causing, not stupify the people into destroying the world. Not encouraging them to breed more environmentally harmful humans.
Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.
The humans? The planet does not need humans.
You MUST KNOW the human population is behind all the pollution and problems in the world, and YET you encourage the exact opposite instead of discouraging human growth and procreation. Surely you MUST ALREADY KNOW this!
I want Discovery Communications to broadcast on their channels to the world their new program lineup and I want proof they are doing so. I want the new shows started by asking the public for inventive solution ideas to save the planet and the remaining wildlife on it.
These are the demands and sayings of Lee.


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Note that members and the Atlanta Area Aquarium Association benefit financially when they submit HAP plants for the auction. Members receive 70% of any auction proceeds while the association garners 30% to offset club expenses. It is important to note that there is one other way that members can earn points towards their horticulturist awards. An additional five points can be earned when an article is written on a ten, fifteen, or twenty point plant submitted to the HAP Program. These articles will be kept in our reference library and will also be published in our Association Newsletter. While these guidelines dont have to be strictly followed, an essay of approximately 250 to 400 words discussing the plant characteristics, the propagating environment, water parameters, and the growth cycle of the plants would be appreciated. In other words, what would someone need to know in order to successfully propagate a particular species of aquatic plant?


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February 8, 2019 - February is Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month - a public awareness campaign taking place across the country to celebrate the value of CTE in preparing students for high-wage, high-demand careers.
Career and Technical Education covers many different fields, including healthcare, information technology, advanced manufacturing, and many more. It also encompasses different types of education, from classroom learning to certification programs to work-based learning opportunities outside the classroom. All of these experiences serve to prepare and strengthen our students' readiness for transitioning to careers and/or college after graduation.
In HSD, we have 31 Career and Technical Education programs in our high schools and we are continuing to grow program offerings. This year, we began new programs of study in construction technology, sustainable agriculture, and sustainable design. We also have after-school CTE exploration opportunities offered to students at all four middle schools.
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Order up another round for California Assemblyman Jim Beall.
Beall, D-San Jose, is planning a return trip to the state Assembly for a third time after his second try at a tax on alcoholic drinks failed this week. Beall's nickel-per-drink fee on beer, wine and liquor didn't pass California's Assembly Health Committee during a vote Tuesday.
The bill, which Beall said would raise $750 million for dealing with the consequences of irresponsible imbibing -- such as alcohol-related crashes, illnesses, deaths and arrests.
It's not the first time Beall has tried to "nickel and dime" drinkers. Earlier this month, he proposed a 10-cent fee on alcoholic beverages, but that measure was also rejected in the Health Committee.
The measure would exempt small breweries and distilleries.
Beall said he'd ask the committee to reconsider the nickel fee on April 6.
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Corey Haim, who became a teen idol when he starred in "The Lost Boys," then turned into a cautionary tale about early stardom, died of an apparent overdose in Los Angeles.
Haim, who was 38 and had long battled drugs, was found by his mother, unconscious in her apartment, according to People magazine. The L.A. coroner's office said Haim died at 2:15 a.m. at Providence St. Joseph Medical center in Burbank.
"It was an apparent overdose," LAPD Sgt. Frank Albarren said. "Unknown what type of medication."
L.A. Coroner Ed Winter said four bottles of prescription pills were found in the home, in the Oakwood Apartments, and there were no "illicit drugs" or signs of suicide. Winter also said Haim had suffered flu-like symptoms for several days, but declined to speculate on the exact cause of Haim's death. He said Haim's mother found him unresponsive after he got out of bed and collapsed.
Haim, who was born in 1971 in Ontario, Canada, broke into acting with a role on a TV series in his native country in 1982. From there, he went on to film work, appearing in 1984's "Firstborn," with Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey Jr. Throughout the 1980s, he was seen in several major movies, including "The Lost Boys," with Kiefer Sutherland.
But the adult success that came to so many of Haim's co-stars eluded him and his life spiraled to the point he was paired in 2007 with another troubled child actor, Corey Feldman, in an A&E reality show called "The Two Coreys." The show was somewhat successful, though it drew heavily on the depressing status of two onetime stars unable to recapture their past glory.
Haim continued to make movies in the 1990s, but most were direct-to-video flops and ill-conceived sequels of earlier hits. He filed for bankruptcy in 1997, and in the ensuing years, became addicted to crack, suffered a stroke and tried drug rehab 15 times by his own count.
"I was working on The Lost Boys (1987) when I smoked my first joint. But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986). I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be. I did cocaine for about a year and a half, then it led to crack.
"I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck," Haim told The Sun in 2004. "But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day — the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the Valium — I'm not talking about the other pills I went through."
The fascination with Haim's tragic, three-decade plunge, which was punctuated by failed comebacks, was summed up by The Thrills" 2004 hit song, "Whatever Happened to Corey Haim?"
In an interview shortly after the song came out, Haim attempted to answer the question. "I want people to listen to the song and know I'm clean, sober, humble and happy."
But the show he starred on with Feldman years later collapsed in part because Feldman refused to speak to him until he got sober.
"I don't feel that he's a safe person to have around my wife and child at the moment, for a multitude of reasons," Feldman told People in 2008.
Today, Feldman expressed his grief over Haim's death, whom he called his "brother."
"I was awakened at 8:30 this morning by my brother and sister knocking on my bedroom door," Feldman said in a statement to Access Hollywood. "They informed me of the loss of my brother Corey Haim. My eyes weren't even open all the way when the tears started streaming down my face.
"I am so sorry for Corey, his mother Judy, his family, my family, all of our fans, and of course my son who I will have to find a way to explain this to when he gets home from school," he continued. "This is a tragic loss of a wonderful, beautiful, tormented soul, who will always be my brother, family, and best friend. We must all take this as a lesson in how we treat the people we share this world with while they are still here to make a difference. Please respect our families as we struggle and grieve through this difficult time. I hope the art Corey has left behind will be remembered as the passion of that for which he truly lived."


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There are things that my husband claims to not like. Some, he refuses to eat at all. Some, he doesn't know that he eats on a regular basis. No, I am not that evil, I just don't always feel like catering to every one of his whims. (Tomatoes won't kill him, and in fact, have been proven to be very healthful in a man's diet.) It isn't that I don't want to create meals centered on his preferences. I want those who sample my cooking to enjoy it. But, I have my own likes and dislikes, and sometimes, I just want what I want.
So is the case with pesto. I love it. I hover over my basil plantings and eagerly await the time that they are full enough for a harvest. Fresh pesto is so fragrant, flavorful, and just plain good. Picky pants Hubby isn't sold. However, his point of reference is some nasty bottled stuff that I had once purchased many years ago while still learning and exploring food options. It was nasty. I don't blame him for not liking it, but basing all pesto on that first foul taste couldn't be more wrong.
Still, Hubby stood steadfast with his claim of not liking pesto until one Sunday afternoon of snacking. It was that twilight zone of time when it was too late for lunch and too early for dinner, but I was starving. A partial loaf of crusty, artisan-style Asiago Garlic Bread was resting in the kitchen and my basil plants were flourishing. A quick whirl in the food processor produced some Fresh Pesto while I sliced a ripe tomato (not yet from my garden...they are all still green) and grated a bit of Parmesan. Smeared it all together, threw it under the broiler to toast the slices of dense bread, and mmmmmmm.
Even Hubby couldn't resist this decadent treat. In an attempt to assert his anti-pesto stance, he called it "Fancy Garlic Bread," but we all know it was the smear of Pesto that made it great On My Plate.
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sliced French bread (or similar artisan-style bread)Slice bread thinly or thickly to your own liking.
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Toast in oven until crispy, but not crunchy (unless you like crunchy).
Spread one side of each slice with Pesto. Top with slices of ripe tomatoes.
Grate a bit of Parmesan over the tomatoes.
Place on a foil covered baking sheet and slide under the broiler just until cheese melts and bread is toasted. (Will be hot upon removal from the oven...take care not to burn the roof of your mouth with broiled tomato.)
Fresh Basil Pesto
2 cups fresh basilCombine all ingredients in food processor.
1 cup Italian parsley
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
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1 tablespoon lemon juice (fresh is best)
1/2 cup olive oil
1 cup Italian parsley
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup toasted pine nuts
4 cloves garlic, chopped
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1 tablespoon lemon juice (fresh is best)
1/2 cup olive oil
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Today's homebuyers are a younger generation who are extremely tech savvy. Growing up with smartphones, tablets, apps, and Google, they want to use technology both to find their dream home and then to integrate the home itself.
A recent survey by Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate showed that 77 percent of Generation X and Generation Y homebuyers want their home equipped with the technological capabilities they have grown accustomed to.
The new generation of homebuyers "are rewriting the rules to home ownership and reinterpreting traditional norms to better fit their values", said Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate.
In the past, first time homebuyers were young married couples but, today; single women make up a large percentage of first time buyers along with the always-connected mobile professional. As the homebuyer evolves so does the home.
Here are 5 major things you can expect to see in today's homes and in the years to come: 1. Man Caves and Smart Homes
The 'man cave' or media room is where buyers prefer to have high tech equipment to enjoy and entertain their guests. This room typically has a large screen television with surround sound, the most up-to-date A/V equipment, large comfy lazy boy chairs, and theatre lighting.
2. Amazing luxury walk-in Closets
The walk-in closet is a must-have on many buyers' wish lists. Some homeowners are paring down a four-bedroom home to a three bedroom by transforming one bedroom into an oversized walk-in closet. Since 2008 this has become a huge trend and is here to stay.
3. Home Offices
A home office usually tops a buyers' wish list. Depending on the number of bedrooms, some will create an office out of a spare bedroom. Adding a desk, shelving, and cabinets is a quick and inexpensive remodel, and keep in mind that this space can easily be transformed back into a bedroom if needed.
4. Hardwood Floors
Although wall-to-wall carpeting was very popular in the 50's and 60's, these days most buyers prefer hardwood floors. Carpet was used in most homes because it reduced the heating bill. But today, along with the preference for hardwood flooring, radiant heating has become a favorite addition to new or recently remodeled homes. Radiant heat can be installed underneath the hardwood floors and has also been shown to reduce monthly heating bills. Heat radiating up from the floor warms the people in the room rather than the air making it more efficient than forced air heating.
5. Urban Homes with Amenities
While opting for city living from big cities, like Chicago and New York, to smaller urban areas, like Baltimore or San Jose, buyers are looking for active lifestyles and opportunities to socialize. They want places that offer amenities such as a full-time concierge, full-service exercise room, an in-house spa, or business center.
Although the world continues to evolve and change dramatically, as it has over the past 30 years, some things will never change. People will always need a place to lay their heads and rest at night. Now that place is even more a reflection of the buyers' lifestyle choices.
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The only official Chamber of Commerce representing the interests of Azerbaijan and Britain.
Capitalising on the already strong bond that exists between the two countries, the Chamber facilitates and promotes the business interests of its members in the UK and Azerbaijan.
The BAZCCI creates opportunities and connects people to assist members in promoting and developing their activity within the British-Azerbaijani business community. The Chamber has developed a strong network of public and private partners both in Azerbaijan and in Britain. We are proud members of COBCOE (Council of British Chambers of Commerce in Europe), which significantly increases the network of potential business partners to any Chamber member. Founded in 1973, COBCOE is an independent non-profit organisation representing 40 British Chambers of Commerce in 37 countries across Europe, giving a voice to about 10,000 businesses for all sectors of trade and industry.
The BAZCCI has a close working relationship with the State Chamber of Commerce & Industry in the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as with other European and UK based Chambers. The BAZCCI has also forged strong relationships with UKTI and the British Chambers of Commerce.
The goal of a Chamber of Commerce is to promote the business interests of its members in the local or national area. In general, this promotion may be done through networking events, seminars, member-to-member offers and advertising - among other things. Members join a Chamber for several reasons, in order to promote their business (or themselves) to an area they otherwise would not have a foothold in, to strengthen their current market position through contacts, to expand into an area of business they know very little about. And for many other reasons.
A multilateral (or in the case of the BAZCCI a bilateral) Chamber is different in that it promotes companies (and individuals) from different countries with specific interests in a specific country. In the case of a bilateral Chamber the promotion is focused solely between the businesses (and individuals) of two countries.


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Good tempo in the golf swing is extremely important. The first few feet of your take-away should be the slowest part of your swing.
Initially, many golfers quickly jerk the club back, resulting in poor tempo through the backswing and ultimately back to the ball. To give yourself an idea as to proper pace for a good take-away, set up to a golf ball with a long iron (preferably 6-4 iron). Then place another golf ball directly behind the club head. Take your normal backswing and notice how far back that second ball rolls. It should only roll a few feet. If the ball catches air or catapults back more than a mere few feet, you have started your backswing too quickly.
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For Seniors: Play Checkers on a Windows Computer
Windows Checkers is easy to play, and a great stress reliever. The Windows version of checkers is an online game where you match your checker-playing skill with another player.
If you're nervous about your grandchildren playing games on your computer, you can set up Parental Controls from the Games window. You can control which games are played, and for how long. For example, you might block Internet games, and set a limit of an hour for other games.
1Choose Start→Games, then double-click Internet Checkers.
The Internet Checkers window appears, and the pieces are placed in their opening positions. The game indicates which color you are to play (red or white).
If you've never played the game before, a warning dialog box appears, telling you that you're about to be connected to anonymous player through the Internet. Click Play to continue.
2When it's your turn, click on a checker and drag it where you want to go.
Normally, you move diagonally, one space to the right or left, forward of your current position. If an opponent's piece occupies one of these diagonal spaces, you can jump over it, capturing the piece (removing it from the board).
You can jump over multiple pieces if they are positioned diagonally from where you land; just move your piece once and release the mouse, then move it again and release the mouse.
Your goal is to get your checkers to the farthest row on the opposite side of the board, at which point the checker is kinged (it can move diagonally, forward or back).
3If you wish to chat during the game, click the arrow on the Select a Message to Send and choose a phrase.
Continue to select phrases to continue to chat. Your back-and-forth chat is displayed in the bottom window of the game.
Chat in online games like this one is pretty safe because you can only use predefined phrases such as Good luck and It's your turn. That way, there's no way an opponent can harass or embarrass you. However, if the chat feature isn't your cup of tea, just click the button in the bottom-right corner of the Checkers window to turn chat off.
4To end the game, play till somebody wins — or click the Resign button.
If you have to leave before the game is over, it's polite to send a message such as Sorry, I have to go now through chat.


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