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The voice of a self-confessed mass murderer Joshua Blahyi.
During the Liberian civil war of the '90s, Blahyi's ruthless band of child soldiers was among the most feared militias in the country.
Back then he called himself General Butt Naked, which would be funny if he hadn't been such a butcher.
He admits responsibility for thousands of civilian casualties, yet Liberia won't prosecute him.
These days he's an evangelical preacher in the capitol city of Monrovia, where he goes around apologizing to his victims and asking forgiveness.
Truly contrite? Or a terrible con?
It's one of the questions raised by an award-winning new documentary entitled The Redemption Of General Butt Naked, which debuted at the recent Sundance Film Festival.
Daniele Anastasion is the film's co-director and producer, along with Eric Strauss.
Daniele's conversation with Rick, from Washington
Why Joshua Blahyi fights naked, from the movie.
The film will be featured at the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto later this month, with the first showing on April 30th.
Where most documentaries impart information and answer questions, "The Redemption of General Butt Naked" is most rewarding when it poses questions instead.
Filmmakers Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion tell the stranger-than-fiction story of a one-time tribal priest in the African country of Liberia, who first transforms himself into a notorious warlord known as "General Butt Naked," butchering thousands by his own hand or those of his mostly child soldiers, and then reinvented himself as a Christian evangelist calling himself Joshua Milton Blahyi.
The questions pile on top of one another: Do you believe him? Is justice served when the perpetrator of so many atrocities merely says he's sorry? Can anyone truly forgive such transgressions? On and on the questions flow.
Utterly fascinating with a charismatic central figure — love him or loathe him — who is made for the big screen, "The Redemption of General Butt Naked" could be a small hit in specialty venues for adventurous distributors domestically and certainly overseas.
First about that name: During Liberia's 14-year civil war, this man and his warriors — and there is photographic evidence to back this up — strode into street battles armed with little more than AK-47s and cutlasses, seemingly impervious to their enemy's bullets. Lacking clothes, many believed they wore the armor of invisibility. The Butt-Naked army was the most feared militia in all of Liberia.
The general preferred children to fight for him. They focused better and had no sense of their own futures, he admits. He explains — and this is sheer evil genius — that he screened for them Hollywood war and action movies, showing an actor being killed in one film only to re-appear in another. He tells his young soldiers that the people they kill go to live in another movie.
But that's all past, a "dream" as he puts it. Now he has found Jesus and returns from a 10-year exile to preach about redemption and forgiveness. You're allowed as much cynicism as you like over this war criminal who finds so much hope in the idea of forgiveness.
But he does seek out the families of those he killed and those victims who still live and does beg for their forgiveness. And he is the first warlord to testify before Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission where he confesses to being responsible for upwards of 20,000 deaths. Another ex-warrior, 2011 presidential candidate Senator Prince Johnson, is seen on camera refusing to appear and angrily rejecting his guilt.
A TRC report recommending amnesty for Joshua stirs death threats, so he flees — abandoning his wife and children — to live in a refugee camp in Ghana. He later returns, but you can understand why a follower now believes all his actions are for his own "self-benefit."
You might also notice his choice of words as a repentant. (English is the common language throughout this nation founded by former American slaves.) To one victim he declares: "You have to forgive me." This is still the command of a general, not a preacher.
Strauss and Anastasion have not just caught lightning in a bottle in the five years they tracked this mercurial personality. They also get just the right archival footage, interviews, staggering confessions and highly emotional moments to draw a necessarily ambiguous portrait of this complex individual. They withhold any personal judgments to let audiences draw their own conclusions.
One man who knows Joshua estimates that in the balance between good and evil, Joshua is roughly 75 percent good and 25 percent bad. That may have to do for now.
This is an extremely unsetting film that holds you tightly in its grip for its almost too short 84-minute running time.
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The Xfce edition of Snowlinux is available for download as 32-bit and 64-bit Live DVD ISO images, which must be burned onto DVD discs using any CD/DVD burning software or written on USB flash drives of 1GB or higher capacity using UNetbootin or Disks (GNOME) applications.
Minimal set of boot options
The boot menu presents you with the ability to start the live environment with default drivers or in failsafe mode (in case the first options won't recognize some of your hardware components), perform a system memory (RAM) diagnostic test, as well as to boot an existing operating system from the first drive.
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Includes a great selection of open source apps
Default applications include the Thunar file manager, Shotwell image viewer and organizer, Mozilla Firefox web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird email and news client, Pidgin multi-protocol instant messenger, Transmission torrent downloader, Brasero CD/DVD burning software, Rhythmbox music player, Totem video player, and AbiWord word processor.
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MacTech BootCamp III is a one day event targeted at the issues facing techs supporting small-to-medium sized businesses, small office, and home office (often referred to as SMB or SOHO markets), as well as consumers. Specifically, it is for anyone providing support services as a consultant or part of an organization. MacTech BootCamp's sessions cover a variety of topics from those in the know about the topics below, all of which are designed to make BootCamp attendees more successful in supporting these markets.
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Neil Ticktin, MacTech Magazine
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Scott M. Neal has been utilizing and programming Apple products since first getting his hands on an Apple ][+ and later NeXTcube. Scott's believes strongly in automation--getting devices to do your work the way you want to, with minimal effort and stress. Often, the real benefits of device automation are underutilized--Scott would prefer that you be empowered with how to automate (meaning script and program) devices YOURSELF to do what YOU want, not just what you may see yourself limited to by default application and service setups. With that goal specifically in mind, Scott co-created acmefoo, the Apple Technology focused training and development co-op, which offers training, courseware, and consulting on a peer level, without being tied to specific device sales or marketing.
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Michael Lynn is a Mac OS X and Windows desktop administrator in an Active Directory environment for a moderately sized government department in Washington state. His day job is spent wrangling third-party software and update deployments, workstation imaging, and utilizing commercial tools like Microsoft's SCCM and open source projects like munki and reposado. In his free time he is a writer for AFP548.com, helps with administration and service hosting for the Mac enterprise ##osx-server channel on Freenode, and is a vocal advocate for the python language and its use in the administration and automation of all things OS X. He has enjoyed using Macintosh computers for over 20 years and loves getting the most out of iOS and OS X by writing scripts and applications in any number of languages - including (but not limited to) python, Applescript, bash, ruby, and Objective-C. His code contributions are credited and can be found in such projects as CreateUserPkg, munki, and Python for iOS. His current programming obsession is writing python-based administration helpers that can be loaded into iOS without jailbreaking with the use of Pythonista. When not dealing with computers, Michael loves spending time with his wife and 2 children, reading hard science fiction, and working on his house.
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Jim has been programming computers for more than thirty years, Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX, including seven years at Apple. He has lots of experience with networking protocols and distributed systems, and has spent the last six years at Townsend Security focusing on security and encryption. When not programming, he is having fun raising his two middle-school kids.
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How Do the Key Building Blocks for Today's Consultant Fit Together
What does today's Apple consultant need to know to be effective in serving everyone from small business to Enterprise, support personnel, or even home users and networks.
PKI, encryption, certificates and you.
Secure encryption of data influences how we all use technology, and the assumptions we make about the privacy of our data both on our devices and when our data leaves our devices in email, in the cloud, when we shop, and in countless other ways that extend further into our private lives with every new technology we adopt. Learn about the technology that underlies our false sense of security, how it works and what you can do as a consultant to manage that security for your clients.
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Apple is continually changing the rules for Apple IDs, iTunes accounts, and more. Learn the latest rules, how devices are treated, migrating to new hardware, dealing with multiple IDs, and iCloud. Find out how iTunes Match works, how Mac App Store differs from iTunes, and the right way for working with deployment and imaging. Learn the restrictions for merging Apple IDs and how to combine them.
We work on Apple technology in a privileged time. We have the ability to enroll our Macs and our iOS devices into device management. We have the ability to nearly magically send instructions over the air almost instantly to enrolled devices from a server. We can send special profiles that users cannot remove from applications like Apple Configurator to devices connected over a USB connection. So many management opportunities exist today, one can hardly fit all of the options into a single 40 minute talk, but in this Profiles session, we will do our very best.
WiFi. Best practices.
Wi-Fi has rapidly become the network connection of choice. This choice means the Wi-Fi network must be reliable at all times. Wi-Fi is no longer a "nice to have" - downtime or poor performance is not an option. This session presents factors that affect Wi-Fi performance and how to use them as part of your Wi-Fi design, deployment and troubleshooting.
Deployment was once a question of how to get the same software and configuration on a bunch of computers. Today it can mean so much more to you and your customers. Does it mean handing out iPads that are already configured and ready to go? Does it mean building a "perfect" computer and replicating it to dozens, hundreds or thousands of others? Does it mean building a clever array of installers, scripts and preference files to install in sequence to create a lightweight and flexible computer customization system? Today deployment means all of the above, and the well prepared consultant needs to understand them all.
Backups and Storage
Let's face it people don't back up their stuff. The fact is that is probably not your fault. The problem is if you don't find a way to make it your problem eventually someone is going to blame you when they lose their stuff. This session is all about you saving the day. You will learn the tools, the techniques, and the tricks to make sure your customers are backing up their data, and that you can get their data back when disaster strikes.
Office for Mac: Collaboration Tools
You have options for collaboration productivity tools. What are the pros and cons of each? Do you know how to use web apps vs. applications effectively? Microsoft Office is at the core of how people work, yet many people don't know what Office for Mac can do, let alone take advantage of it. Did you know that Office includes collaborative editing features both through the web and the cloud? Learn from Microsoft experts how you can not only make the most of Office for yourself, but those that you support.
Security. Keeping them out.
With the significant increase in cyber threats - particularly in the SMB and mid-market size companies, an understanding of systems security as well as the relevant threat is becoming increasingly essential in the marketplace. With the belief that "OS X is inherently secure," it is our responsibility to ensure that our network and operations are as secure as anticipated. With a selection of core technologies, we can radically decrease the asymmetric threat.
Security. Letting them in.
So you've locked down your business - secured your data and network to eliminate any possible threat. Now the hard part - how do we let in specific users on specific devices to access our data. We must differentiate authorization and authentication to ensure access to specific resources and maintain our data integrity. By identifying the gap between user's needs and our security requirements, we can ensure the data security while allowing real work to get done.
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No, not that Pollard (well, free him too). I'm talking about this one, Charles Pollard, who is quoted in that remarkable Washington Post story: "U.S. officials need to get our [expletive] out here. I say that seriously. We have no business being here. We will not change the culture they have in Iraq, in Baghdad. Baghdad is so corrupted. All we are here is potential people to be killed and sitting ducks."
A correspondent writes me: "It would be interesting to see what happens to the this reservist, Pollard, who is quoted in the articles. I spent two years in the Navy on board a lowly LST. Even at such a lowly level, the military didn't put up with much dissension. If this fellow would have been on board my ship, he would have been sent shoreside, by helicopter, no less, in a matter of hours. Pollard will not be back in Pittsburgh in six months or two years. He will languish in some sort of Army bureaucratic limbo for quite a while."7:31 am on July 2, 2003 Email Jeffrey Tucker


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Talking with Erin last week got me in the mood to some quilting, but I wasn't sure where to start. (By the way, there is still time to enter the QuiltEssential book giveaway!) Inspiration is always in my head, but too much and I'm frozen. So I decided to get back to basics. The disappearing nine patch block has been around for a while, but I wanted to document my process here. So many who claim to not have the skills to make a quilt could easily create this block, and its a very satisfying sew. I used a charm pack of Denyse Schmidt's newest line, Florence, 1/2 yard or so of one of the prints in this range that reminded me of boxer shorts (actually, the whole range reminds me of boxer shorts!). I wanted dark centers in each of the nine patch blocks, so I used another Denyse Schmidt print (coincidence, but all her prints do work together well) in dark blue for each of the centers. Making the center of each block darker valued will create some continuity later on, but this is not a hard and fast rule. You could make every single square in your nine patch blocks a different fabric. Play with low and high volume prints. Experiment! That's what this block is all about. Here's how to do it.
1. Create a basic nine patch block. Each of my squares are 5". Sew them together across, then sew the rows together. I made the stripe fabric happen four times within each block, in the same positions, with stripes always going vertical. If another stripe showed up beside it, like below top left, I turned the strips to go horizontal. There's a reason for this, which will make sense later on.
(Note: I press all my seams allowances open. All the time. It works for me and I get much better seam matching using this method.)
Sew up all your nine patch blocks this way before moving on.
2. Once these are done, you will cut them 2 times. (I know!) Cut them through the center, both vertically and horizontally, as below.
You will now have a very satisfying stack that looks something like this.
3. Now its time to play! There are numerous ways to orient these new blocks. Here are a few.
In the one below, the dark small square is positioned in the same spot in each vertical column-
Below, the individual blocks have been positioned to make a new, larger square of 4 different prints, with a darker block at each corner-
In the version below, the darker squares make the eye go in kind of a "step down" effect, almost like the mini-quilt I made a few weeks ago-
In this one, the darker squares are creating a vertical bar/rectangle effect-
Right now, I have the "step down" placement up on my design wall, I'm going to leave it there and see if I still like it tomorrow. (That's the great thing about a big design wall. Put something up, leave it there for a day or two, and see if it really makes your heart sing before you sew it all together.)
For me, right now, this one is in need of something, but I can't put my finger on it.
The striped areas are kind of doing what I wanted them to do, which is create a basketweave type effect.
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Well, you have a whole collection of cubes and we're going to paint the outside that's visible once we've put them together.
A few simple rules:
the cubes must be together;
they must not be toppling over.
We'll need to look at how much paint is needed. One Brush Load (a kind of unit that we'll use) will paint one square face.
Well here are $5$ cubes:
Counting the faces to be painted comes to $15$, so $15$ Brush Loads (remember we're only counting visible faces, so not those that are touching the surface where the cubes are placed).
But of course we could have placed the $5$ cubes differently:
Counting the faces to be painted we now have $17$, so $17$ Brush Loads.
And, how about:
Now we'll need $21$ Brush Loads.
O.K. Now let's explore different numbers of cubes, say $6, 7, 8, 9,$ etc. Each time we count the number of square faces showing and so find the number of Brush Loads (BLs).
The cubes - as in the case of $5$ - can be arranged in different ways, sometimes giving different BLs.
So I'm setting the challenge of finding ways of arranging cubes so that first of all there are the least number of BLs needed and then the biggest number of BLs needed.
Try first with $5$ cubes.
How about $6, 7, 8$ and $9$ cubes?
If you wish to go further, then increase the number of cubes. See if you can get all the numbers between the largest and the smallest e.g. if $15$ is the smallest number for $5$ cubes and $21$ is the largest, can you get arrangements that'll give $16, 17, 18, 19,$ and $20$ BLs?


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InTiceTM Granular Bait is a mold and moisture resistant bait for control of a range of crawling insects. The newly expanded label now includes earwigs, sowbugs, pillbugs, centipedes and millipedes, and some additional ant and roach species, such as Asian roaches and rove ants, in addition to cockroaches, ants, crickets, mole crickets and silverfish.
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With two of his men facing execution for disobeying orders, Captain Rex is forced to confront his overly aggressive commander, General Krell, in the conclusion to the action-packed battle for Umbara. Risking charges of mutiny, Rex must make a dark choice as the true face of the enemy emerges.
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Memorial Sloan Kettering is home to a multidisciplinary team of neurosurgeons and other experts who specialize in caring for people with a low-grade glioma – one of the most common types of primary brain tumor. These slow-growing tumors develop in the glial cells that provide support and protection for nerve cells in the brain and other parts of the nervous system.
Our new informational guide describes how we combine state-of-the-art diagnosis and treatment technologies with comprehensive follow-up care and rehabilitation to manage common side effects of this type of brain tumor, such as seizures and thinking and memory problems.
New technologies have made brain surgery — the optimal treatment for most people with low-grade glioma — safer and more effective than ever before. Our neurosurgeons use advanced technologies including functional MRI brain mapping to plan surgeries and to map tissues during procedures. In addition, MRI scanners are used in the operating room to protect important areas of the brain related to vision, movement, and other functions, and to preserve your quality of life as much as possible.
For some patients whose tumors are close to delicate areas of the brain, our surgeons may perform awake surgery.
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Shabana can be focused or distracted, serious or game-playing. The risks for Shabana were especially elevated as he was facing the bulldozing Australian, Anthony Ricketts. Ricketts, who doesn't give an inch, is the type of intense competitor who can pry loose Shabana's mental focus.
Not today.
It started in the warmup — really.
The assigned referee for the match was Mohammed Abbas, the loser of the preceding contest on the same court. The complication was that Abbas is also Egyptian, and Ricketts objected to Abbas taking the referee's chair. So the match was delayed while the tournament desk struggled to find another referee.
Over 40's player, and qualified referee Paul Ansdell (a regular referee at the PSAs US Open and TOC in NY) volunteered to fill the void.
Ricketts still wasn't happy, but the match proceeded. Shabana was all business, as he has promised us ever since the British Open in October. The conventional ASB court also suited Shabana's game. His shots sat down, his drives hugged the walls. And his deception gave Ricketts complete fits.
Twice in the first game, Shabana had Ricketts so twisted around that on the first occasion, Ricketts hit himself with the racquet, on the second Ricketts stood riveted while the ball hit him in the stomach.
It was all over except for the score keeping. Shabana kept his focus and Ricketts didn't have any. It was an excellent performance for Shabana.
Karim Darwish and Mo Abbas were drawn to meet each other in the quarters. There wasn't much to choose between these two players. They each move gracefully, vary the pace, introduce deception, and attack.
And know each other's game.
The match went back and forth. It was the most interesting and entertaining of the men's quarters, though drew a diminished crowd, because everyone wanted to watch Parke and Nicol who played concurrently on the adjoining court.
The match see-sawed and neither player really held an advantage. Darwish just had that smallest of marginal edges that gave him each game, barely. Mo Abbbas played very well.
From the first point of the match, it was pretty clear that Simon Parke wasn't going to beat Peter Nicol tonight. It was hard to put your finger on exactly what was the telltale sign, but Parke was just weary enough from his five game contest the prior evening that his movement was just a bit slow and his usually completely reliable length was falling short.
The courts at the Dayton Squash Center play quite slow. It is a challenge even for the pros to generate the pace to ensure consistent length. Compared to the glass show court in use in Chicago, we're talking night and day.
Consequently, both Nicol and Parke were leaving openings. This was more dangerous for Parke than for Nicol, since Parke's short game was just slightly off.
All the same,
the end of the first, third and fourth games were film clips from vintage
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Parke, and the fourth, won by Nicol, could have been copied from the end
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the Superseries 2000.
Then, at 6PM they took the court. Jonathon was moving well and was also all business. No funny business or gamesmanship. It was all high quality squash. As Jonathon himself has been saying, he looks like he did in 1999 and 2000.
Though he's a bit lighter than he was then, which makes him a very dangerous opponent. There was nothing wrong with Laurens Jan's game plan for today. It's only that his game play depending on Jonathon making some mistakes, and Jonathon didn't make any. If Laurens Jan wanted to play a long point, Jonathon showed him he could too. If Laurens Jan wanted to attack, Jonathon attacked.
In the end, Jonathon's strength — the ability to wait for that tiny crack that gives him the counter-punch opportunity — gave him the clear advantage, and he wasn't really threatened today.
With both Shabana and Power at ease, focused, and playing well, and with the court suiting both of their games, it should be a terrific contest. My money is on Jonathon for tomorrow.
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Actor and musician Jamie Foxx just spat, figuratively, on the faith of all believers, committing blasphemy by replacing Jesus with Barack Obama. Foxx made the offensive remarks during an awards ceremony on Sunday in Las Vegas, Nevada. Continue Reading
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2 years ago
Obama isn't the 'messiah' as the article questions...
I'm thinking...Anti-Christ?
God Bless.
2 years ago
In response to Byron Smith14 - I am a devout practing and believing Roman Catholic Christian and I hear you out and respect your opinion.
First there was no mention of anyone wanting to implement laws of committing blasphemy by replacing Jesus the Christ with whomever. Don't play on the fears most Westerns have since Islam has laws and extreme punishment for those who go against the "prophet" and call to mind that which the Christian church went through before and during the era of Reformation.
Yes I do concur it is his [Jamie Foxx] "FIrst Admendment Right" as an American to free speech. But in public forum he should know better to exercise restraint -- freedom doesn't say whatever I want but what I ought! As a vowed Atheist "belief" you can only address the psychological (commendatory claims) - since you have chose (right or wrong) to only be one demensional and cannot by definition go beyond that. As for Christians, Jews, Moselms, et al... it covers a multi-demensional range from psycholigical, spiritual, religious (both commendatory and existential claims) and is being address on one or more levels (according to their/our faith belief system).
Therefore your understanding of this is thus lacking and because of your "belief", so to speak, cannot go beyond the sciencific/psychological emotions. Outsiders looking in on a banquet or feast can only speak on what they see not what they experience since they either by choice or force have not been invited to the fullness of the experience.
We must all remember that all of us are intitaled to our OPINION(S) but opinions are meaningless if they do not lead us towards the truth! And what is the truth you might ask? That good ole Pontius Pilot question. Truth is that which is and will be regardless of what I think, feel, experience or chose to define it according my my perception(s) i.e. regardless of my opinion of it.
In this case - on your level it is not a crime or sin or blasphemy... on the level of a believer it is and it is disrespectful especially from one well known in the public arena! Even a comedian especially since we are living in a Country where Political Correctness runs abound and accepted by the Left!
2 years ago
To all the non-believers out there:
Think about it!
As for me, I love the Lord with all my heart and soul !!!
Never forget, if you do not seek HIM, you will not find HIM.
HE is waiting for you, PATIENTLY,
GOD BLESS YOU, in your search for HIM !!!
2 years ago
This is utilitarianism at its best!
2 years ago
Surely no one could take anything Jamie Foxx says about religion seriously. And if there are those that do - why, what can you say.
And there is no evidence to indicate that President Obama is a Christain.
2 years ago
OK, first off, let me begin with the standard disclaimer. I am an atheist, so some people will automatically ignore what I have to say for that fact alone. Blasphemy aside (and I agree that Foxx blasphemed, but I believe even that should be covered under First Amendment rights), I believe this is a simple case of hero worship, nothing more, nothing less, and harmless as such, according to perceived intent and targeted audience (perhaps those who are non-religious or liberal in their religious perspectives).
I am an ex-Christian, but even when I was a Christian, I would not have agreed with the idea that Foxx " just spat, figuratively, on the faith of all believers," even if I did agree with the wording that follows, "committing blasphemy by replacing Jesus with Barack Obama." I do not know this for sure, I admit, since I cannot get inside of Foxx's head to verify. But I believe this is (perhaps an ill-advised, though certainly forgivable, in my opinion) exercise of hero worship using verbal superlatives of religious imagery. In fact, unless Foxx claims devout belief in the Christian religion, then I would expect language like this from someone less religious (if I am correct in my perception). My atheistic bias overlooks a lot of religious offense, but seriously, if I did believe in Christianity, God, and God's honor, I would believe that He is able to take care of this and bring offenders to a divine reckoning. But I was never Catholic, being Baptist, so I am not sure how much of my theology is shared. One thing I am certain of, however, is that I will never need, want, or support blasphemy laws or any lesser variation thereof (and I would have said the same as a believer, because I have always believed that Church and State must remain separate).
2 years ago
This guy is sick. The problem is that he "Believes it". There are so many Obamabots that believe that. This is what happens when God was removed from the public square and Booed three times at the Marxist Dem Convention.
2 years ago
Once again I wish to thank Catholic democrats for what they have done to us. The dollar signs must have been very big in front of their eyes. In exchange for their 30 pieces of silver (which is leading us to a Greek-like collapse), catholic democrats voted for someone who is waging war against the Church, threatening her institutions with closure under the guise of "health care". The Church cannot abandon God and His laws in order to operate under the laws of this morally corrupt executive branch. Catholic democrats also voted for someone who advocates killing of children who survive the attempt to kill them in their mom's womb. And they voted for someone who thinks that he, not God, knows what constitutes marriage. We must also question African-American Catholics who apparently made an idol of race when they cast their votes for this anti-life candidate.
2 years ago
This a genuine indication as to just how far the Obama cult has taken hold in the black communities around the country. However, there are many black Americans who take exception to this perception of Obama. One the most outspoken of these can be found at mychal-massie.com which I highly recommend in order to balance your impressions of his popularity among black Americans. Mychal is a very accomplished and outanding black conservitive journalist who ii unafraid to tell the bitter truth about the couple in the White House.
2 years ago
Pravda reported in an article that Obama was re-elected by an "illiterate society." How sadly true.
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It's now obvious to everyone that – even though criminal fraud dominates Wall Street – the Obama administration refuses to prosecute white collar crime.
Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton each prosecuted financial crime more aggressively than Barack Obama.
Of course, the lack of a fair and even-handed legal system destroys prosperity and leads to the breakdown of society.
National security claims are also used to keep financial fraud secret (and people who protest runaway criminality by the big banks are targeted as terrorists). And when those in the private sector blow the whistle on potential crimes, they are targeted also.
But it's not like the government isn't aggressively using the legal system … it's just using it to silence the truth.
Specifically, the Obama administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other presidents combined.
Government employees also goes out of their way to smear whistleblowers, threaten reporters who discuss whistleblower information and harass honest analysts.
Indeed, even high-level government employees are in danger. For example, after the head of the NSA's spying program – William Binney – disclosed the fact that the U.S. was spying on everyone in the U.S. and storing the data forever, and that the U.S. was quickly becoming a totalitarian state, the Feds tried to scare him into shutting up:
[Numerous] FBI officers held a gun to Binney's head as he stepped naked from the shower. He watched with his wife and youngest son as the FBI ransacked their home. Later Binney was separated from the rest of his family, and FBI officials pressured him to implicate one of the other complainants in criminal activity. During the raid, Binney attempted to report to FBI officials the crimes he had witnessed at NSA, in particular the NSA's violation of the constitutional rights of all Americans. However, the FBI wasn't interested in these disclosures. Instead, FBI officials seized Binney's private computer, which to this day has not been returned despite the fact that he has not been charged with a crime.
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Fellas, you will pay for drinks. If you have a date, you will pay for her admission to said club/bar/party. Potentially the same club you typically pay no cover to $5 to get into on a regular night, but OH NO. Not tonight! You'll be paying $20 - $100 to get into that same club, wit them same dingy, ratchety patrons from the past 51weeks.
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I am having some issues with panning dark chocolate and would really appreciate some help please.
I am using Sicao 62% (I blend 70% and 53% as that is all that my supplier can supply me). I have no real issue when I do coffee beans but when I pan razz cherries, raspberry jellies or freeze dried strawberries it's a different matter.
I can do any of these with milk or white chocolate simply by leaving the pan to run and bringing the atmospheric temperature up a bit towards the end of the panning process (to around 19 degrees C). This makes the chocolate plastic and it smooths beautifully so I can polish it.
But the dark gets hard and with products that "give" a bit, the chocolate tends to crack and/or the final shellac seal (Capol 425M) cracks and chips as the chocolate in the pan and the chocolate on the product are simply too hard. As I say, milk (36%) and white are no problem. Coffee beans, being hard themselves are OK too as the chocolate and seal does not need to flex. At least I THINK this is what is happening. (The strawberries are brittle so they can't "flex" either).
So, is there a way to make the dark chocolate more flexible and "plastic"? Or do I need a better technique? (Very possible!)
Forgot to mention that I am using the same stainless steel pan for both panning and polishing as it's all that I have. Many people have two pans but that's for another lifetime I think.
Thanks in advance if anyone can help!
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are you sure you pan is not overloaded? Just a thought.
I don't think so Jeremy. I have loaded it up to 15Kg but it IS a thought in that some things are lighter than others.
With the freeze dried strawberries I had to reduce substantially. But these are heavier things - raspberry jellies, razzcherries etc.
I'll put this in mind. Am trying to do it now and I have ripped out so much hair that the room looks as though the dog has been fighting :-)
Thanks for your message :-)
I tried your thought Jeremy, and reduced the amount in the pan - re-did in two batches. I got a far better result.
So maybe over-filling is the problem. I was careful to stay within the 15Kg limit but maybe it needs to be 12Kg (or so) for this line.
Thanks for your insight!
Colin :-)
Can you tell me the temp and relative humidity of your environment? Are you using ribs during polishing?
Thanks so much for your interest Paul. The RH is around 43% and the temp around 17-18 Celsius. I am not using ribs as I have one pan that has to both build and polish with. I line the pan with chocolate. I did manage to get a batch reasonably polished but as soon as I introduced the shellac it all went to pieces - from a reasonable polish to many milky dots. I don't believe it is water related as I am really careful about that.
The rep from Capol was here on Friday and is as perplexed as I am. I think I am going to have to trash a whole load of chocolate covered raspberry jellies - lots of money and lots of time. It's very worrying and I don't seem to be winning at all.
Hi Colin,
That's cool that the rep from Capol stopped by to have a look. Dissapointing not to have an answer. I was going to guess that the RH might be off. 43% seems pretty good.
Are the dots kiss marks or does it look like something migrating from the under layer?
Hi Paul,
If I rub the product it polishes up reasonably. It SEEMS that the dark chocolate is so hard that there is pretty much no flexibility and as such the shellac powders but does not really create "stars" or kiss marks.
It's seemingly not coming up from below - that could have indicated water seeping through and interacting with the shellac but I don't think so. Have looked at this.
I don't have the problem to the same degree with choclate covered coffee beans but then they are much smaller and don't hit the side of the pan with the same velocity. The Capol rep experimented with speeding up the pan substantially (I run it at around 20rpm - he took it to about 40rpm) but the product started to break up and then the debris went through the batch making it worse. So he put more gum arabic on and we started again.
I THINK that part of the issue now may be that I already did a batch so there is a thin coating shellac in the pan and when the product hits that shellac coating the two surfaces together fracture.
I just feel that it's to do with the hardness and bittleness of the dark chocolate and then the shellac being harder again (isn't it??) exacerbating the problem until it simply won't work.
That said, I cannot believe that I am unique in the world with this silly problem!
Thanks again Paul
Hi Colin,
I like your theory that there is a thin coat of shellac in the pan. The two surfaces collide. I've always panned with dark chocolate then reset and used ribs for polishing and shellac. It never occurred to me to shellac back to back. The weight and velocity impact with residual shellac theory feels right.
I'm not the best at polishing. Mostly due to limits in RH and environmental temp. I get breaking from over polishing a rather heavy center. I have not used a shellac powder.
What percent is the dark chocolate?
Hi Paul,
I have just posted that I think that part of the problem may be over filling too. I very much apprecviate your confirmation of the shellac back-to-back possibility too. I changed both of those variables (filling & shellac residue) and have a far improved result.
I don't use a shellac powder - I use a liquid (Capol 425M). I didn't know there was a powder and I'll keep that in mind. If you don't use shellac how do you seal the surfaces?
The chocolate is 62%. I use Sicao (sometime Barry Callebaut) 70% and also 55% and combine them to get it "just right" for the balance for coffee beans, which is what I mostly do. For simplicity I tend to stay with the same mix for all dark chcolare work. I had wondered if the mixture was a problem too but for now it remains a "possibility" to ponder next time.
You mention your environment. I have been over your various pictures and saved them for inspiration as I need to re-do my room. You have a very similar set-up to me as far as I can see but your wall surfaces and some of your equipment is better. Your pan seems about the same as mine - a bit smaller I think. You look really well organized! You have two pans?
In one of the pics you have two pipes leading into your pan - one will be cold air. What is the other one please (the flexible pipe).
Thanks again!
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Autograph Blush by Marks and Spencer is a Floral Fruity fragrance for women. Top notes are bergamot, cassis and violet; middle notes are raspberry and rose; base notes are vanilla, amber and musk.
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All the main accords that are in this would normally have me running for the hills. I hate fruity and sweet! But I tried it anyway and it's really lovely, especially on the dry down. A light, clean, powdery scent.
Find it very floral. Not my fave, but will do...
Very pretty, raspberry and rose make a lovely combination. It didn't last very long on my skin unfortunately but while it was there, it was delightful.
It's not close to the original scent. It's much lighter, more floral.
I'd classify it as floral even it has a slight melony touch at heart notes...
A safe floral for women aged 15 to 45 I think...
Good for all occasions except business dates...It could be a li'l girly there...
And it's longevity is o.k too, lasts about4-5 hours on me.
It smells sweet, floral and girly. This is a nice perfume for daily use, nothing special about it. However, it doesn't last long. I have to keep applying it every 2-3 hrs. Honestly, it fades away so quickly that I have never observed how its base notes smell. A light mixture of Rasberry and rose can be felt which keeps getting light and then needs to be reapplied. Just because of this factor, I won't buy it again.
This perfume is still safe and I think it can't smell wrong on anyone.
My brother gifted this perfume to me and initially i did not like it much but after some time, i started loving it and i am still looking for a place where i can find it... its got a very feminine, floral, yet sporty, fruity fragrance.. its perfect for any girl...
I tried this in a store ... Its for 13oo indian ruppess .. I quite like the smell.. Its warm as it has floral scent and flirty as it has noticable fruity notes.. The only thing which i doubt is that how long would it last .. but not bad for daily ear ..
The price for the perfumes are £6.00 for 30ml and i think £12.00 for 100ml.
I tried this yesterday and i have to say it really surprised me , as the bottle suggests a floral. But what i got was very lively fruity fresh fruit punch. I could really detect the black currant and raspsberry notes. Then the dry down really warmed on my skin and reminded me of silky smooth vanilla. It had a bit in the middle between these notes and i'm not sure what it was, but somewhere in between floral and spice. I thought i would really dislike it at this point, but to my surprise hours later came this creamy warm lovely smell that had me wanting more. I will get this one as for such a complex perfume it is really a good price. very cheap! but in no way does the perfume represent this.
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