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In more human terms: imagine that a child born on March 19, 2003, just as Baghdad was being shock-and-awed, will be the right age to enter first grade when the sixth anniversary of Bush's war hits. He or she will have gone from babbling to talking, crawling to walking, and may be beginning to read and write. Of course, an Iraqi child born on that day, who managed to live to see his or her sixth birthday, might be among the 2 million-plus Iraqis in exile in Syria or elsewhere in the Middle East, or among the perhaps 2 million internal refugees driven from their homes in recent years and possibly not in school at all.
For those children, the real inheritors of the Bush war era, the Iraq War has essentially been the equivalent of an open-ended prison sentence with little hope of parole; for some Americans and many Iraqis, including children, it remains a death sentence without hope of pardon. All this for a country which, even by Bush standards, never presented the slightest national security threat to the United States of America. Recently, an "exhaustive, "Pentagon-sponsored study of 600,000 captured Iraqi documents confirmed, yet again, that there were no operational links between Saddam Hussein's regime and Al Qaeda.
With those children in mind, here's what's so depressing: in mainstream Washington, hardly anyone has taken a step outside the box of conventional, inside-the-Beltway thinking about Iraq, which is why it's possible to imagine March 19, 2009, with some confidence. For them, the Washington consensus, such as it is, is the only acceptable one and the disagreements within it, the only ones worth having. And here are its eight fundamentals:
• A belief that effective US power must be based on the threat of, or use of, dominant force, and so must centrally involve the US military.
• A belief that all answers are to be found in Washington among the serried ranks of officials, advisors, former officials, pundits, think-tank operators and other movers and shakers, who have been tested over the years and found never to have a surprise in them. Most of them are notable mainly for having been wrong so often. This is called "experience."
• A belief that policy critics outside Washington and its consensus are gadflies, never worth seriously consulting on anything.
• A belief that the American people, though endlessly praised in political campaigns, are know-nothings when it comes to the supposedly arcane science of foreign policy, and so would not be worth consulting on "national security" matters or issues involving the sacred "national interest," which is, in any case, the property of Washington. Like Iraqis and Afghans, Americans need good (or even not so good) shepherds in the national capital to answer that middle-of-the-night ringing phone and rescue them from impending harm. (The foolishness of Americans can be measured by opinion polls which by 2005 indicated that a majority of them had decided all American troops should be brought home from Iraq at a reasonable speed and the United States should not have permanent military bases in that country.)
• A belief that no other countries (or individuals elsewhere) have anything significant or original to offer when it comes to solving problems like that of Iraq (unless they agree with us). They are to be ignored, insists the Bush Administration, or, say leading Democrats, "talked to" and essentially corralled into signing onto, and carrying out, the solutions we consider reasonable.
• A belief that local peoples are incapable of solving their own problems without the intercession of, or the guiding hand (or Hellfire missile) of, Washington, which means, of course, of the US military.
• A belief that the United States--whatever the problem--is an essential part of the solution, not of the problem itself.
• And finally, a belief (however unspoken) that the lives of those children of George Bush's war, already of an age to be given their first lessons in global "realism," don't truly matter, not when the Great Game of geopolitics is at stake.
Of course, the most recent Washington solution, involving the endless military occupation of alien lands, can "solve" nothing. The possibility of genuine improvement in Iraq under the ministrations of the US military are probably nil. And yet, because the only solutions entertained are variations of the above, little better lurks in our future.
Who would want to speculate on just how old those children of March 19, 2003, will actually be before the Iraq War is ended? So here's my next question: What's wrong with this sentence?
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ultimate_sperminator wrote:Tim your product sellls well regarding to the charts. Do you see any chance to came back with ncda? Would be freakin awesome seeing Vicki Chase getting dped and swallowing huge mouthfuls of cum in that series.Im not sure what charts you're looking at, but we definitely don't have the #'s for an NCDA. in the current climate one needs to have strong dvd sales (which we do, JJV does sell at the top of the spectrum), affiliate/membership site revenue, consistent foreign sales(dvd), and regular broadcast/licensing sales to continue to produce content on a monthly basis. we only have 1 of those 4 every month, and sometimes 3 of the 4, but never all 4 which is why I'm financially restricted to what I can do w/the movi...
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Jasmine Byrne did an awesome scene in Young Tight Latinas #7 w/Everhard.... lates, von S.
Avoiding Mindgeek
Mister Fahrenheit wrote:Does anyone else think it's kind of strange for performers to tweet #PayForYourPorn #Pay4YourPorn and never mention the pernicious role of MindGeek? The onus is put on fans not to consume stuff posted on tubesites and nary a word is said about the company that's responsible for stealing content and putting it on the tubesites in the first place. I agree of course that people shouldn't browse tubesites but it seems a little hypocritical to rally around the hashtag and then cash a check from the company that profits the most from piracy. Are there any performers who have taken a principled stand against MindGeek for their piracy?in porno there are no principles. there are paychecks however and the family of MG sites cu...
Mister Fahrenheit wrote:Seriously, thanks for the reply and going to all that trouble. Very cool of you.I have a related question that you might not be able to answer: Was the scene from Teen Fuck Holes Keri's first DP scene ever? I've always heard that you were the one who shot her debut DP, but recently I was looking at the IAFD page for Jules Jordan's Take No Prisoners and it also has a DOP of 12/1/04. Keri gets double-penetrated in that scene too. Do you know if she shot that scene before or after the one from Teen Fuck Holes? Like I said, I've always heard and have believed for a long time that your stuff came first, but now I'm not entirely sure.at the time I was told that Keri had done an anal scene for Jules but nothing about it bei...
Mister Fahrenheit wrote:Hey Tim, I have another question about Keri Sable's scenes from Teen Fuck Holes and O Ring Blowout. Do you recall which of those scenes you shot first? Was it the one with Manuel and Stefano from Fuck Holes, or the one with Everhard and Stefano from Blowout? I'm just curious about which was Keri's first DP scene. She was a natural in both so it's hard to tell.hey bub, sorry it took forever to answer this but I had to go back through my shoot logs to see what day and which scene was shot first. the TFH scene was the first of the two DP's for Keri and was shot on 12/1/04. her 2nd DP was on 12/13/04 and was for O-Ring Blowout... after that she went on a torrid pace of anal scenes that ultimately burned her out and saw h...
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jakejd4949 wrote:Any ID on these two girls with Eliza Allure , its from "Eliza Allure : My favorite BBW " from CX WOW , Christian's company . Scene one and two . The second is so familiar and I just can't remember her name . the blonde girl is Jade Rose. she was my red carpet date to AVN this year and is a super babe/sweetheart. lates, von S.
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Malandro wrote:quote]It seems to me that if I pay for a membership at JJV, then I shouldn't have to dish out more money to a third party in order to view material that should be available on the site to which I paid my membership fee. I don't think I'm completely wrong to think that way.Malandro; I don't think you're wrong either, but that's not a option, so it would be a shame for you to punish yourself by not watching AJ's scene thru a different avenue. she's gets off one of the best timed squirts I've ever seen and it barely misses my camera and lens as I was about to push in for a closer look when she let it fly. hope you find a happy solution to this AJ/stroking dilemma.. lates, von S.
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GapeLoverForever wrote:It's a waste that we member of JJ website can't watch/download this?why is it a waste?..just get the dvd or DL it from adult dvd empire or one of the other v.o.d. spots. lates, von S.
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Dan wrote:I'd say that the most important requirement for making a good DP scene is making the sex as comfortable and pleasant for the lady as possible. This should be the first priority every time. Because nothing else will look good, if you focus on something else and make the lady feel uncomfortable. you know what Dan, I never thought of that. -von S.
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Mister Fahrenheit wrote:Swine, you seem like the man to answer my question about standing DPs. I remember they were pretty common in the early to mid-2000s, yet I don't see them as often today. Is that because female performers charge extra for it and now that the industry is so cash strapped we see it less? You used to have it in movie like O Ring Blowout quite a bit.standing DP's were just a hybrid of the top male performers taking the position to a new area to help make the scene and themselves stand out, since such a small % of dudes could pull it off. it was sometimes almost impossible to capture correctly if the guys didn't 'stand' in the perfect spot since you could get light stands, or the makeup table, or a window that would bl...
Dps positions and directors
has anyone in this thread ever done a DP w/a chick? if you had then I think the 'replies' & feedback here would be a bit more telling/introspective. dp's are intense, fun, and LOADED w/pressure to pull off even remotely steady & lengthy unless it's something you've been doing off and on for 5-10 years. even then, if you get a chick who won't settle down or runs from the dicks you're not gonna get anything cohesive.the pros make it look easy, but it's ALWAYS about the chick and how much she's enjoying it, or not. if she is, then finding your angles ain't that tough unless the dudes are struggling, then it's basically pulling teeth til you have enough runtime to warrant the money you're paying everyone for the scene. and I get all of ...
NotMyRealName wrote:Hi TVS, Speaking of web income -- I wonder if there isn't a deal (from either JJV or Videobox or whomever) that could get you the money to create some true HD releases from your catalog of "Shot in HD" titles that are only offered in SD right now. It seems like the fans truly want this type of content but not that many studios are making this stuff (or at least with the same frequency or quality). It seems like a true HD version of Insatiable Voyage would be very popular. How much of your catalog is shot on HD but is only available as SD right now? Thanks for chatting on here.as far as our movies in true HD; all of the recent stuff should be available in that format at Adultdvdempire & AEBN, or even throug...
AKperv wrote:Von Swine, Why don't you have any web income?we don't have a 'deal' with anyone. there's no offers to speak of at the present time, and until Mike has time to come back and hammer one out I have to do what I can w/what I have. we'll have one at some point, but it's not something I can change as I just shoot/make the movies. lates, von S.
^ I haven't bitten any dust yet,..in fact I shot a POV today for Jerkoff Material #12....and you know what, ..there might even be some BJ segments w/SWALLOWING!!! (OMG) I'm not gonna hire 10 guys because that isn't cost effective (for us) anymore. our revenue is STRICTLY dvd & occasional broadcast sales,..NO web/affiliate $$$....that is the extra $$$ that makes it work, and we don't have it so I have to keep casting within certain (financial) parameters.yeah, you're unhappy, I see that. you're unhappy w/Darkko, and Mason, and prolly Jules too....so what does that tell you? PORNO HAS CHANGED!!!! 03'-06' style gonzo is GONE..... so please, just deal with it.you're not the only who has seen (and is unhappy with) the departure of hard, ...
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Harri Patel wrote:You should take a stab at a James Ellroy-style novel about this stuff, Tim. Stake your claim to the late 20th century before he gets around to it.I do plan on doin a blog post about my friend Jaime who got murdered when he was 16 and I was 12 by a rival gang that was a payback/hit for something his older brothers supposedly did. we had just went up the street to one market and noticed some dudes following us, (kind of, real loosely tailing us), on a moped, and they looked REALLY spun. we shrugged it off and made our trip up and back. but Jaime came back 10 minutes later needing to go to the other market and my Moms said I had to stay home. me not riding w/Jaime he took the alleys and that's were they trapped him & sta...
ultimate_sperminator wrote:Hi Tim,I was just chatting with a sexy german performer named bonita de sax. She would be interested in a trip to the states for shooting. A really funny girl :)She worked already for GGG and she is really great at fetish stuff. Just look at her face!check out her facebook profile if you are interested - she would be pleased if you would contact her!FB Bonita de SaxI'm not part of facebook,...so she'd have to reach out to my twitter page @Tvonswine.... lates, von S.
^ Rafaga; I'm about to get started on one of these lines TBD next week so I can try and have it out in March. our next title will either be POV Pervert, Jerkoff Material, or Racially Motivated. I really want to get another PTL out this year, but I'm waiting for some things to line up talent-wise before I start it. the blowbang genre is a weird place thesedays, it's alive, but it isn't. girls and guys you hire nowadays can be so hit and miss, and I'm not a guy who's just going to throw money and bodies at a project and think that will make it turn out to my standards. it's funny how there's MORE scrutiny even though there's fewer titles being shot. as a shooter/director, there's things that 'I' want out of the entire process, and maybe that'...
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^^ Harri; El Segundo has no gangs because it's a mix of well-to-do's and commerce that was mostly owned by Hughes Aircraft until the late 70's,..there's no H.U.D. or Section 8 housing there which is a big ingredient in a LOT of L.A. based gang territories. That map left out a few of the gangs from the '4 Corners' neighborhoods on the West-Side like Venice 13/Latino, SM 17th Street/Latino, & Venice Suicidal/Mixed ethnicities. They moved the SYC/School Yard Crips turf exclusively East from where I remember them having a stake in West L.A. back in the late 70's-mid 80's, but whatevs...they still made the map!..lolOverall, that's still a very comprehensive breakdown, even if they didn't include any of the punk rock & skinhead gangs like...
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I understand, thanks anyway, Tim. I love PTL series.You said: "it's just hard for me to find guys I WANT to use in blowbangs nowadays"Why?Edited by - rafaga85 on 1/14/2015 8:37:21 AMshooters/directors like to get into grooves w/the talent they hire over the months/years, and since I started shooting a lot of blowbangs from early in my career, it gave me the chance to start 'stacking' my 1st & 2nd choice lists. as time went on, and most of those guys became unavailable, the number of male performers that I knew from shooting dwindled, and is now down to almost nothing. sure, Mason, Darkko, & Jules still have blowbangs with 6-10 guys, but I only know 2-5 of those performers. the other half I have no rapport with and have no ...
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Egyptian jackal
|Egyptian jackal
African wolf
|Scientific classification
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|C. a. lupaster
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|Canis aureus lupaster
(Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1833)
C. lupaster
The Egyptian jackal is a canid of unresolved taxonomic identity native to northern, eastern and western Africa. Throughout much of the 20th century, the animal was classed as a subspecies of golden jackal, Canis aureus lupaster. Notice was however taken by numerous zoologists of the animal's morphology, which corresponds more to that of the grey wolf. This was corroborated through mtDNA studies, which showed that the animal is a subspecies of grey wolf, and should be renamed African wolf (Canis lupus lupaster). Nevertheless, it has not been formally recognised as such by MSW3 which, as of 2005,[1] still classifies it as a subspecies of golden jackal.
Lupaster differs from the Senegalese jackal by its heavier build, wider head, thicker fur, longer legs, more rounded ears, and shorter tail. The fur is darker than the golden jackal's, and has a broader white patch on the chest. Field observations in Senegal's Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary indicate that it is a solitary animal that lives on the periphery of golden jackal territories, and dominates the latter species in disputes over carcasses. According to local shepherds, while the golden jackal preys primarily on lambs, lupaster attacks larger prey, such as sheep, goats and cattle. Lupaster inhabits a number of different habitats; in Algeria it lives in Mediterranean, coastal and hilly areas (including hedged farmlands, scrublands, pinewoods and oak forests), while populations in Senegal inhabit tropical, semi-arid climate zones including Sahelian savannahs. Lupaster populations in Mali have been documented in arid Sahelian massifs.[2]
Taxonomic history[edit]
Aristotle was the first European to write of wolves in Egypt, mentioning that they were smaller than the Greek kind. Georg Ebers wrote of the wolf being among the sacred animals of Egypt, describing it as a "smaller variety" of wolf to those of Europe, and noting how the name Lykopolis, the Ancient Egyptian city dedicated to Anubis, means "city of the wolf". Hemprich and Ehrenberg, upon seeing similarities between North African jackals and wolves in 1832, gave the animal the binomial name Canis lupaster. Likewise, Thomas Henry Huxley, upon noting the similarities between the skulls of lupaster and Indian wolves, classed the animal as a subspecies of grey wolf. However, the animal was classed as a golden jackal by Ernst Schwarz in 1926. This classification remained unquestioned until 1981, when zoologist Walter Ferguson of the Tel Aviv University argued in favour of lupaster being a subspecies of grey wolf based on cranial measurements, stating that the classing of the animal as a jackal was based solely on the animal's small size, and predated the discovery of C. l. arabs, which is intermediate in size between C. l. lupus and lupaster.[3]
The debate was rekindled in December 2002, when a canid was sighted in Eritrea's Danakil Desert, whose appearance didn't correspond to that of the golden jackal or the six other recognised species of the area, but strongly resembled that of the grey wolf. The area had previously been largely unexplored, due to its harsh climate and embroilment in the Eritrean War of Independence and subsequent Eritrean–Ethiopian War, though local Afar tribesmen knew of the animal, and referred to it as wucharia (wolf).[4] In 2011, 2,055 base pairs from the mtDNA of "Egyptian jackal" samples taken from the Ethiopian Highlands were analyzed and compared with those of grey wolves and other wolf-like canids. The results showed, with 100% bootstrap support, that the canid was indeed a grey wolf. The results also revealed that the animal's range was much more extensive than previously thought, as the Ethiopian samples taken from two localities were located approximately 2,500 km southeast of Egypt.[5] A further study confirmed the taxon's presence in Algeria, Mali and Senegal, thus expanding its range around 6,000 km west of the original study. Genetic analyses indicated that the African wolf is, alongside the Indian and Himalayan wolf, an ancient subspecies originating from before the radiation of Holarctic wolves (which gave rise to dogs, North American and most Eurasian grey wolf subspecies). However, unlike the Indian and Himalayan populations, the African wolf shows much more nucleotide and haplotype diversity, indicating a larger ancestral population, and an effective extant population of around 80,000 females.[2]
- ^ Wozencraft, W.C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 532–628. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b Gaubert P, Bloch C, Benyacoub S, Abdelhamid A, Pagani P et al. (2012). "Reviving the African Wolf Canis lupus lupaster in North and West Africa: A Mitochondrial Lineage Ranging More than 6,000 km Wide". PLoS ONE 7 (8): e42740. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042740. PMC 3416759. PMID 22900047.
- ^ Ferguson, W.W. (1981). "The systematic of Canis aureus lupaster (Carnivora : Canidae) and the occurrence of Canis lupus in North Africa, Egypt and Sinai". Mammalia 4: 459–465.
- ^ Tiwari, J. K.; Sillero-Zubiri, C. (2004). "Unidentified Canid in Horn of Africa" (PDF). Canid News 7: 5.
- ^ Rueness, E. K.; Asmyhr, M. G.; Sillero-Zubiri, C.; MacDonald, D. W.; Bekele, A.; Atickem, A.; Stenseth, N. C. (2011). Gilbert, Thomas M, ed. "The Cryptic African Wolf: Canis aureus lupaster is Not a Golden Jackal and is Not Endemic to Egypt". PLoS ONE 6 (1): e16385. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016385. PMC 3027653. PMID 21298107.
Further reading[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Canis aureus (lupus) lupaster.
- Osborn, D. J. & Helmy, I. (1980), The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai), Fieldiana Zoology new series, no.5, pp. 361-71


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| EPuppy chapter 10 . 10/1/2013
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| Afan chapter 10 . 2/7/2013
That was really sweet and a nice read, you are a good writer.
| Anonymous chapter 10 . 12/22/2012
You're a good writer and this story was cute. While I'm not a cross-dresser or trans, but I found this story a bit offensive, honestly. You all but flat out say that being trans is wrong. Even though Jesse dressed as a female and wanted to be female from the time he was a child, he just woke up one day and realized he was wrong all along because "if he had been meant to be a woman, he would have been born a woman!" Then there was this statement that he made, when he refused to to wear a dress on his wedding day, because "I'm a guy, I'm not supposed to wear dresses!" Furthermore, Jesse said more than once that his parents were right all these years, the same parents who were embarrassed and disgusted with him for not being "normal" and for shaming them in front of their friends.
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I'm really sorry, but I found this story rather disappointing. Firstly because being a transvestite and a cross-dresser is the same thing. Trans loosely meaning cross, transform, etc, vestite as a root word for clothes. I think you might have meant transgendered, which is a bit more complicated. If your going to use it as a plot point, I honestly think you could have used it better, the story line reads to me as though you're almost criticizing gender confusion, or at least stating that being born a gender is automatically what you're meant to be. You probably didn't mean it that way, but that's what the story felt like from my POV. I just think there could have been a bit more LGBIT support. The alienated lesbian especially annoyed me. She should have been treated as more than the best friend fag hag that so many lesbian women are used as. I'm sorry, it's not fair of me to demolish your story but it made me feel like the only way you can be happy is if your a perfectly adjusted, masculine gay man.
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paul on the new 1190
the other kurt (have to take care of bdc) wishing he could ride with us
our saturday group is much mellower than the day before
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paul krause in the ktm adv outfit facing camera
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these ladies taking a break from their big KTMs
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ron lawson (dirtbike editor) helping a rider down. i think he was hurt but able to ride back to town.
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I know, I know..it's been done to death and you can't beat Mary Berry's.
Ah, you see that's where I beg to differ. Being a big fan of the Great British Bake Off (GBBO) I have dutifully bought Paul Hollywood's book 'How to Bake' which, I have to say, is bloody marvellous! And in it is a Lemon Drizzle recipe that produced the best I've ever baked. Sorry Mary, but there it is.
So, being of generous spirit I thought I would share this marvel with you and let you judge for yourselves.
To make this tablet of lemony gorgeousness you need to preheat your oven to 180ºC (160 fan). Butter and line a 2lb loaf tin with baking parchment. Then beat together 75g soft unsalnted butter and 125g caster sugar until light and fluffy. This can take a long time, so keep going with it. Mixing all the time, add 150g self-rasing flour, 1tsp baking powder, 2 medium eggs, 1 tbsp lemon curd and 2½ tbsp full-fat milk.
Pour the mixture into the tin and bake for about 40 mins or until a skewer comes out cleanly from the mixture.
For the drizzle, mix the juice and fine zest of one unwaxed lemon with 2tbsp granulated sugar. Pour this over the hot cake when it comes out of the oven and leave to cool completely before removing from the tin. Sometimes I skewer a few holes over the cake top to help the drizzle sink in. Other times I just leave it to get even more topping the cake. I'll leave that conundrum to you.
Another addendum: use icing sugar instead of granulated. Same amount or judge it by gloopiness…you know what I mean…
Jackie's suggestion from the comments to this post and my son's demand for smaller cakes, called me to try this recipe as muffins. The mixture made 10 muffins (1 ice cream scoop per case) and I baked them for 18-20 mins. I let them cool before I poured on the lemon glaze. To make this I warmed the juice and zest before adding 3 tbsp icing sugar. They turned out pretty well and, if you're interested, come in at 192 calories per muffin. Not too bad for the cake world! Now, I have to say my personal preference is a slice of the loaf cake, but these are great for taking to village fetes and the like and still taste just as wonderful. Oh, and my kids preferred them but that's because I let them squirrel them off to the playroom with a bowl rather than make them sit up to the table. So fickle…..
Addendum 3 (yes, three!) Try orange curd and orange drizzle….
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I love this cake too but for some reason it always sinks in the middle, any tips or thoughts? :)
Hmm…oven too hot? I have a fan oven and mine was fine but a lot of people say fan ovens can be the culprit…also sometimes over mixing can knock the air out too much.
Different recipes can get different results too…it seems to be a bit of a lottery.
Not much help, am I?! X
My first attempt sunk too! I then used a food processor and put all the ingredients(wet & dry) pulsed for 5 seconds scraped around the bowl and pulsed for a further five seconds. Then into the lined loaf tin and forty five mins later gorgeously risen and golden………so easy……no beating for ages. I think the sinking was due to overbeating when the flour was added maybe knocking the air out.
I have made
a few Lemon Drizzles lately and this one is easily the winner so tasty. I also added a lemon drizzle topping to it ( Icing sugar, Lemon juice and rind)
Ooh – I am going to try that next time, great suggestion! I have had loads of compliments about this cake, it really is a great recipe. Thanks for commenting!
[…] tried a few recipes and in the end, fell back on my lemon drizzle cake recipe for the sponge. Then, for the icing, I mixed 200g sifted icing sugar with the juice of one lemon […]
Lidl are great for unwaxed lemons and often have them on offer, and they are very good quality!
I made double quantity of Paul's lemon drizzle cake and it has been the best I have baked! Lovely and light, not 'eggy' which I have had with another recipe, so this is the ONE in future.
I love that Lemon drizzle cake recipe, every time I make it it goes so quickly.
I really like the how to bake book, we actually have 2 copies but 1 is signed x


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As we have noted several times before, Bryan Fischer is a lot of things, but self-aware is not one of them and he continues to demonstrate this fact regularly on his radio program, as he did once again today.
Fischer spent part of a segment discussing the fact that Dan Haseltine, lead singer of the Christian rock band Jars of Clay, had announced his support for gay marriage. In response to this announcement, Fischer said, some Christian radio stations have begun boycotting the band and refusing to play their songs while some fans have deleted their albums from the music libraries.
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Of course, it is usually the Religious Right that loudly screams "persecution" anytime someone that they agree with actually suffers consequences for making foolish declarations ... like when Bryan Fischer said that A&E's decision to suspend Phil Robertson for making anti-gay comments was proof that Christians were being persecuted for refusing to accept the Mark of the Beast:
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Clinica Verde is a new model of care for families in need.
In 2012, we served nearly 14,000 patients. We continue to serve ~1,200 patients per month, providing clinical care as well as health and nutrition education
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Clinica Verde shows how dedicated, good people can make a real difference in people's lives.
I am a proud supporter of CV because I know that this clinic is having a lasting impact on those who, as a Christian, I am called to love and support. It is inspiring how much Clinica Verde has accomplished in a relatively short period of time.
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Clinica Verde is a true success story. Starting as most do, with a clear idea, passionate and capable leadership and constant, realistic positive communication, a small community effort has expanded into a global group that has manifested and is delivering high quality health care to a poor community in northern Nicaragua. This was done in a relatively short period of time (less than 3 years) and it continues to grow today. I cannot imagine a better use of time and resources. Bravo to Susan Dix Lyons and her group of professionals, contributors and supporters as well as the staff in Nicaragua at Clinica Verde. Adelante y Ascendente!
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Clinica Verde is a leading example of a well run, great non-profit that is doing what it set out to do. As the visions of this group grow and expand, so do their accomplishments. Death, deformity and severe illness were frequent visitors in the homes of this very rural spot in Nicaragua. With great vision, the founders of Clinica Verde built their clinic and, in a very short span, have given sick patients hope and life and are giving the community vitality. The hospital has opened doors to maternal and infant care where nothing was available before. Word has spread quickly among the villagers and patients find their way to the open doors and caring hearts of the well qualified doctors and nurses. Ah that many of the non-profits I have worked on could acclaim such success and look forward with the same outreach as Clinica Verde.
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I have served as a board member on several nonprofit organization. All of those organizations are doing great work for the community, but I have never been involved in an organization as effective as Clinica Verde. In a relative short time, Clinica Verde has been able to directly and significantly impact the lives of hundreds of women and children in a relatively short period of time. Clinica Verde's success is due in most part to its executive director and founding board member, Susan Dix Lyons, whose vision and heart know no bounds.
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Most non-profits start with a wonderful idea. Few, unfortunately, are able to convert that idea to reality. Sometimes, it's a lack of funding. Sometimes, it's a lack of follow-through. Sometimes, they build it but nobody cares, and nobody comes.
Clinica Verde is the trifecta of nonprofits, putting it into very rarefied air. It was started as a dream, as a vision, of what was needed and what might help, in one of the poorest countries on this planet. It was developed by a not so small group of some highly experienced, highly gifted, and very caring people, who all believed that it could be done, and that it should be done. They were able to attract the right people, at the right time, and get just enough support and momentum moving in their favor that it crossed Malcolm Gladwell's "tipping point" and became a reality.
And, to our third point: did they come? Oh, my, yes they did. More than 14,000 patient visits in their first full year of operation. Does that provide any readers with any greater appreciation of just how badly such a clinic was needed, and just how much assistance it's providing? 14,000 patients, in one year!! Incredible!!!
Well done, Clinica Verde. Well done, Board of Directors. Well done, to all the donors out there who get the vision, see how the needs are being met, and want to continue to find ways to really make a difference in the lives of others on this planet Earth. Together, we all can make a difference, and we are, 14,000+++ patients (and growing) at a time!
And, just one more thing: we should not forget that one of the founding premises of this clinic was to devise a plan that could be repeated again and again, in other parts of the world, where the need for medical care is just as acute.
Bravo. Let's keep it going!! The need will never end. Nor should our support.
Ken Moll and Dr. Nancy L. Carteron
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I have seldom, if ever, encountered a vision of caring and a desire to help those so much less fortunate than us come to life with such enthusiasm, vigor, and ongoing success. Driven by the passion of its vision, with careful and considerate oversight by its Board of Directors, Clinica Verde is on its way to becoming a reality. And beyond its locale in a deeply impoverished setting where is getting ready to serve the under-served in an environmentally sensitive and sustainable manner, it is also focused on creating a replicable model that can be used over and over in other parts of the world - as the need is just as great elsewhere as it is in this one place. Clinica Verde deserves our prayers, our praise, and our support.
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Clinica Verde is a beautiful organization that is not only providing medical care but is also making a long term impact in the community that it serves. I was given an amazing opportunity to travel to Nicaragua and visit Clinica Verde. As a healthcare provider, I was so impressed with the treatment they provided, along with preventative care with outcome based monitoring to insure they are truly making an impact with the services they provide. I was so inspired and in awe with how caring and compassionate the medical staff was in providing healing and education for their patients. I saw families smiling and joyfully waiting to be seen in this place of refuge. You could tell that they just felt loved and cared for which gave them hope and that is a beautiful thing to witness. For these reasons, I support Clinica Verde and I know my donation is being used to make a positive difference to easy suffering in the world.
Not only was I fortunate enough to make the trip to Nicaragua to see Clinica Verde with my own eyes - I was fortunate enough to see the clinic open and operating and serving numerous local women, men and children - the families who are so in need of Clinica Verde. I could not only see, but feel the sincere love and gratitude from both the people being served and the people serving at the clinic.
I was overwhelmed by the commitment of both the local staff and the CV board members . The level of commitment and dedication to Clinica Verde was truly inspirational . .. And I see CV as a model project with much growth and success in the years to come.
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I was on a project in Nicaragua and Central America primarily tasked with assessing the operating structures of various health clinics, that varied in services, structure and size. After visiting around 30 such clinics, Clinica Verde was the last one on my stop and while I had lofty expectations, they were easily exceeded. An environmentally sustainable health clinic serving the poor of Boaco while recovering 20% of their costs with aims to increase revenue through other socially sustainable means is mind-boggling. They're continually refining their operations and operations manual, and the clinic is efficiently run and incredibly organized. I hope to see Clinica Verdes across both developing countries and developed countries some day.
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I have worked throughout the developing world, and felt drawn to Clinica Verde by the culture it has developed though honoring the essential humanity in each of us. The culture is one that welcomes all, and cares not only for people's physical health but also for that of their Spirit, offering hope that things can be better.
It specializes in caring for women and children in one of the poorest regions in one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, and I feel especially proud of the way it helps empower women to plan their families in a way that can help lift them out of poverty.
The clinic also helps provide families with eco-stoves that help prevent deforestation while improving families' physical and financial health. Community partnerships include a bio-intensive garden which raises consciousness as well as health. There's just so much to love!
My wife and I were in the process of starting a small clinic in Nicaragua. We were fortunate enough to meet the staff of Clínica Verde just as we needed to answer dozens of questions about sources of medicine, finding doctors, working with the ministry of health, finding equipment, setting up information systems and typical patterns of illness in Nicaragua. The generous help from everyone at Clínica Verde made all of this so much easier for us and now our clinic is up and running. The example set by these good people has encouraged us to "pay this forward" and we've been able to help other clinics as they get off the ground. Thank you!
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Re: HELP - What type of Castable for Vent?
I used KS-4, cast in place, and cured in place. KS-4 is very solid and easy to work with. No problems. I would not only use it again, but would proabably cast my entry and event in one piece if I were to do another one.
Don't forget the stainless needles.
I posted a couple of picts a while ago. Search vent casting and you should find them.
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