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rich r May 13, 2012 - 03:12:18 (See all My Comments)
would love to be sucking his dick and licking his balls while hes talking dirty to my hot GF and she has no clue I'm servicing him!Reply
RichardF123 November 11, 2009 - 00:12:43 (See all My Comments)
FUCKING HOT.. First pic in last row... HOT AS FUCK!! love that cock sticking out of those boxers & those FEET.. Fucking sexy!Reply
Good Good January 26, 2009 - 13:29:52 (See all My Comments)
Aj is so fucking cute id ride him any day!!!Reply
JiminOrlando July 07, 2008 - 08:14:34 (See all My Comments)
AJ is on the phone calling me for a booty call!Reply
62624rd May 23, 2008 - 22:50:06 (See all My Comments)
AJ physique is the best that i have seen so farReply
TheAdster04 April 05, 2008 - 23:01:05 (See all My Comments)
He was on MTV's Real Life something about working in the adult entertainment. He says he's straight, but does gay porn for the money. He said he gets $8,000 a scene. He's fuckin' hot. He is in denial. He's gay, he acts it, looks it. I don't buy into the whole "gay for pay".Reply
cannotSAYno September 05, 2007 - 19:30:32 (See all My Comments)
i know a nice hot tight little place for that hard pole of his!Reply
cumisgood August 23, 2007 - 19:49:06 (See all My Comments)
Id Love to have him in me!!Reply
jhunsulit August 22, 2007 - 08:04:37 (See all My Comments)
I want more AJ...Reply
What a great young boy...
I like all about him...
Please I want him
kniteowl August 21, 2007 - 19:39:35 (See all My Comments)
AJ's dick is the best I'ved seen so far!!!!Reply
tropicalia27 August 21, 2007 - 00:04:17 (See all My Comments)
That spread ass picture is so fucking hot - i'd fuck him so hard he'd drop the phone.Reply
marshall M August 17, 2007 - 23:44:50 (See all My Comments)
Not all twinks are feminine, just most of themReply
marshall M August 17, 2007 - 23:37:46 (See all My Comments)
I got you alex. I stand corrected.Reply
alexdyle August 17, 2007 - 13:22:39 (See all My Comments)
marshall, I will give you this one -- I wouldn't call this guy a twink either, but twinks are NOT necessarily feminine. Don't know where you got that...Reply
redcorona August 17, 2007 - 09:40:55 (See all My Comments)
btw, aj! i think you've borrowed my shorts. can you bring 'em back today, please.Reply
redcorona August 17, 2007 - 09:39:23 (See all My Comments)
aj, put down the phone and let me wrap my naked legs around your waist as you slide that BIG BANANA POLE up my ASS.Reply
Davec23 August 17, 2007 - 06:47:17 (See all My Comments)
hmm love the vertical powerReply
bike10 August 17, 2007 - 04:34:34 (See all My Comments)
Is Aj doing phone sex?Reply
user name August 17, 2007 - 02:59:12 (See all My Comments)
Anyone else notice his eyes? They are the deepest blue/green I have ever seen. This guy is hot anyway you look at it!Reply
sageonelv August 17, 2007 - 01:50:03 (See all My Comments)
want him inside in every way possible..Reply
marshall M August 16, 2007 - 23:22:10 (See all My Comments)
such nice legs too.... I'd like to run my tongue up them.Reply
artisticcreation August 16, 2007 - 23:21:50 (See all My Comments)
hey doglover if your friend looks like this guy then you have one hot friendReply
Unregistered August 16, 2007 - 23:05:27 (See all My Comments)
Smokin' hot! Love the body, the face, and the cock!Reply
sc_jock2004 August 16, 2007 - 22:56:51 (See all My Comments)
By far, the best looking guy I've seen on here! He's unreal!Reply
marshall M August 16, 2007 - 22:34:15 (See all My Comments)
to pound me hard!!!!!!Reply
marshall M August 16, 2007 - 22:32:00 (See all My Comments)
this guys not a twink.... This guys a stud. We've been through this before on here. Twinks are dolled up with that feminin look about there face. I can tell you, I do not go for twinks! This guy need...Reply
ronboy August 16, 2007 - 22:24:10 (See all My Comments)
Twink heaven! I think he's soooo hot!Reply
redcorona August 16, 2007 - 21:47:06 (See all My Comments)
a i n ' t i t g r e a t ? ! ? ! ?Reply
doglover August 16, 2007 - 21:13:48 (See all My Comments)
Hey Red u know I love a man with a north Pole!!!!!!Reply
redcorona August 16, 2007 - 20:31:42 (See all My Comments)
this guy is awesome and my friends certainly know why ... i do LOVE the way the banana curves straight up!!! i've got a great barber who can solve the hair problem. contact me. we'll go together....Reply
marshall M August 16, 2007 - 20:07:22 (See all My Comments)
me likey, i want to ride his college boy ROD! But yeah, he needs to shoot his barber. I'd like you to call me on your little cell phone for a good timeReply
CanAlex August 16, 2007 - 16:57:28 (See all My Comments)
Sweet mother of God !!! This is one sexy dude. Totally in the mood now !!!Reply
doglover August 16, 2007 - 16:16:26 (See all My Comments)
Hey Artistic, Me and desole's friend is not actually in porn, this guy just looks a little like our friend Brandon, especially the North Pole Dick!! Hey desole who looks better AJ or Brandon, your op...Reply
akhjoon August 16, 2007 - 15:11:04 (See all My Comments)
Aj's busting my nuts too with his sexy hairy legs and eatable feet, not to mention his pole.Reply
artisticcreation August 16, 2007 - 14:57:59 (See all My Comments)
wish I knew somone in porn especially if they were as hot as this guy.Reply
doglover August 16, 2007 - 13:47:48 (See all My Comments)
Good Grief..Its Brandon...Desole did u know he was doing porn???Reply
desole August 16, 2007 - 11:22:19 (See all My Comments)
goofy hair, but hoooooooooooot body! does he remind u someone, doggie? lol.Reply


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Lateralus shall not be "benched" for any reason whatsoever. THAT IS THE LAW.
Greatest song this band ever wrote
Also, "Forty-Six & 2" is right the fuck up there as well. There will be no "benching" of either song, ever.
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The Grudge is one of the most incredible live songs my ears have ever heard.
Playing Intension for 7 minutes over that is also unfathomable.
Something tells me they probably didn't play the full album version. They often use it as a lead-in to "Right in Two" or something like that, and it's generally a shortened version. I definitely agree with your sentiments about "The Grudge", though. That song fucking rocks. I've not heard it played live, but I'm sure I would shit a squirrel if I did.
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Shit has 46 & 2 even been on the setlist the past few years?
Oh shit yes, it has been. I got it twice on their last touring cycle. Fucking awesome it was, too. Both times.
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I've actually never seen Tool before, so seeing 46&2 and Lateralus is going to be awesome.
Son, you have no fucking idea. I only wish I could go back and hear those two songs for the first time over again. Pure fucking awesome.
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I do think Jambi could be benched for 10,000 Days, though
Now you just shut your trap. "Jambi" shall not be benched, either - or at least not for "10,000 Days".
I mean, I like "Wings" and all (both parts, actually), but "Jambi" is
fucking better...especially live.
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Tool never play the same set twice on a tour, at least from the sets I've seen.
Not true. To be honest, variety really isn't their strong suit. That said, they do mix it up a bit from night to night, but typically only by about two or three songs on average. They are definitely are no fucking Clutch when it comes to setlists, but whatever they play generally fucking rules, so all is usually forgiven.
...and why are there not puddles of jizz all over the fucking floor in this thread for "Ticks and Leeches"?!? Holy fucking shit.
I thought for damn sure that one of the only truly iron-clad Tool rumors that I've ever heard was that Maynard would never sing that song live again as long as he lived because of the strain it puts on his vocal cords. I've heard that rumor a million times, and I actually believed it because it made sense. Not only that, but I had come to accept it as fact.
Then, they decide to actually play it on a tour that I most likely won't be able to attend. That fucking blows.
Seriously, if you got to see them play this song, you are one lucky mother fucker. That, and "Hooker" as well? Uh...fuckyespleeze.
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You mean, I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League, right? It was okay - the Sue jokes were kinda morbid since they had held of the publishing of it until after Infinate Crisis.
I liked Formerly Known as the Justice League much better - go Super Buddies!
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Paul McCartney recently premièred three music videos for his new single "My Valentine". One video stars Natalie Portman, the second Johnny Depp, and the third combines both videos into one.
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The videos feature both Portman and Depp miming along to the track using sign language, with Depp playing the guitar solo which he recorded live. You can watch both videos below.
Over the top?
The former Beatles' front man held a star studded premiere at the Stella McCartney store in Los Angeles to showcase his brand new music videos.
The event was attended by a host of Hollywood stars including the likes of Dave Grohl, Chris Martin, Orlando Bloom and Zooey Deschanel.
A little over the top for just a music video?
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The Meat Fix
'You are what you eat' so the saying goes. For UK writer and former vegan it's what you don't eat that maketh the man.
John Nicholson grew up in Yorkshire in the 1960s, where meat and three veg were the order of the day. In the early 80s he and his partner went wholegrain and more than a bit hippie, and decided to adopt a vegan diet.
For 26 years he was, as he controversially describes it now, 'killing himself to live'.
His book The Meat Fix: how a lifetime of healthy eating nearly killed me chronicles his transformation from a diet of low cholesterol, no animal fats, polyunsaturated, wholegrain, soya everything, to a full blown, fattier the better, meat diet.
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James Slaughter :
12 Sep 2012 9:29:19am
I went through a very similar experience. And then I realized what the true problem was. Way too much gluten in the diet which my body craved after not eating meat. I ended up adding meat back to my diet but still was in a very bad way. In the end I self diagnosed, removed wheat from my diet and I within weeks I felt so much better.
Ayesha :
12 Sep 2012 9:39:42am
Very interesting. I've been a vegetarian for most of my life (grew up vegan then vegetarian). I've been pondering this meat and health issue for a while now and if I could bring myself to eat meat and try the paleo diet if I probably would.When I lost weight previously, I could only do it by going low carbs. I eat healthy whole grain, fermented foods, and high raw and still don't feel great.
Corky :
12 Sep 2012 9:40:23am
Wonder if John Nicholson could have had coeliac disease?
Patricia :
12 Sep 2012 9:55:06am
Thank you for your interesting interview with John Nicholson.
I've been a vegetarian (not a vegan)for about 30 years. While I know that it is perfectly normal for humans to eat meat, I feel blessed to be able to choose not to - a choice many in the world don't have.
I think it is important to note that every one of us can have an idiosyncratic response to any substance, either ingested, inhaled or topically applied. It is not for anyone else to judge another's choices. We must follow our own conscience, and if we can make carnivores aware of the need for suffering-free animal/fish farming, so much the better.
Frank Marino :
12 Sep 2012 10:14:27am
The story is almost identical to mine!!! diagnosed with the nonsense IBS. Since eliminating carbs I have lost 10 kg, IBS has disappeared, arthritis is gone, sleep like a rock, off anti-depressants, blood profile perfect, my abs have come back. Why? the biochemistry is simple actually...the insulin response is deadly, carbs cause a leaky gut. In essence there are two types of people, carbohydrate resistant and carbohydrate tolerant. The former will eventually develop diabetes, the latter won't!
Chris :
14 Sep 2012 5:41:36pm
G'day Frank,
I'm a 63yo male who, like yourself, suffers from all those things that you used to experience. I have never been a vego or vegan and have always eaten meat (mostly lean with fat removed as is common these days) but find that bread and generally most wheat-content foods, rice, pastas, potatoes etc. play a significant role in my diet.
I am desperate to regain my health, lose all unwanted fat, regain my libido and intend to try to do so by cutting out all those things that I have felt for some time to be making me ill. Could you give me a hint about what you eat and don't eat to get me started.
hugh :
15 Sep 2013 12:54:34pm
google 'paleo diet', 'archivore diet' and maybe 'mark's daily apple'
When it comes to choosing food ask these questions?
Are carbs doing you good or harm? - listen to 'gary taubes'
Is it food or is it something that is processed into a food-like-product?
Did the process begin with a toxic product or use toxic products or processes in production of this food?
Rose :
12 Sep 2012 10:20:40am
I listened with disbelief and horror to the description of how John dealt with his egg bound chicken. Egg binding is not incurable. There are an assortment of home remedies for the poor or stingy, including giving the chook a warm bath for 15 minutes to relax the muscles. He could also have taken the bird to a vet.
I took an egg bound chicken to a vet, and have also used home remedies. I have not lost a chicken to egg binding yet.
Maybe John's health problems were karma.
15 Sep 2012 9:19:50pm
And maybe you're disturbed
12 Sep 2012 10:43:49am
One big problem with this John Nicholson's vegan experience was that he based his diet around soy, which as he found out, was never meant to be the basis of a human diet. Some people have wheat (gluten) intolerance, needs vary but meat in this day and age with the current and growing population is a luxury, not a necessity, with the amount of land and water required to produce it simply unsustainable, not to mention the karma of animal cruelty. I know vegans who are still fit and running at 60 and over. Personally I have been a vegetarian with the occasional bit of fish (pescatarian, but not all the time, for if we fish out the seas there will be nothing but jellyfish left) and I have never had a single health problem. Obesity is also largely linked to meat-eating, as are several diseases including heart disease and cancer, none of these have ever been an issue in my life. As for his libido increasing, yes eating animals exacerbates the animal instincts, not necessarily a good thing.
Claude Downunder :
12 Sep 2012 4:28:45pm
Obesity has been wrongly linked to meat-eating via oversimplification; fat=fat. What is clear, and what the science is increasingly turning up, is that the low-fat, high carbohydrate diets pushed upon us by a food industry looking to feed us cheaply and pharmaceutical companies making profits from the mess, are actually to blame for rising levels of obesity and type II diabetes. Obesity is caused by insulin driving glucose into fat storage. Insulin is driven up by carbohydrate ingestion, not fat. Obesity is being difinitively linked to carbohydrate ingestion, and sugar in particular, because of the body's response to fructose, and frutose's ability to short-circuit our leptin response (leptin signals the brain that we are full - no leptin and you can eat more than you need to). Before commenting on a topic, please check your facts and check the science!
Glenda Saville :
12 Sep 2012 10:49:28am
Great interview. Brought up vegetarian with a father who was a nutritional scientist. I believe the whole issue surrounds grains and the old pyramid that was foisted on us all those years - major part of the diet being grains: bread, breakfast cereals, pasta.
Now I would eat meat but find it hard to digest so stick with chicken and fish and whey protein: no grains: heaps of fat in the form of olives, coconut oil and cream, nuts, small amount of full-fat white cheeses, juicing daily and skipping meals. Have stripped all body fat, built lean muscle and feel 100%. Reference Dr Mercola, Ori Hofmekler (The Warrior Diet). Our hunter/gatherer ancestors would have only eaten what was in season, only gorged on meat when there was a kill, would never have had three meals a day. The other interesting emerging info lately is regarding fermented foods, esp in conjunction with behavioural problems such as autism. The only way to eat soy is fermented. Fermented foods have huge amounts of the right bacteria, much more than yoghurt, but with the advent of the refrigerator people don't use fermentation any more as a means of preserving vegetables. Since I've been adding sauerkraut to my diet, I have found my system works so much better.
Sue :
12 Sep 2012 11:11:05am
To me, this was an example of a food zealot who has gone from one extreme to the other. What specialists in nutrition generally recommend is balance - not extremism. We seem to like simplistic answers, and so we buy books from untrained individuals who have a simplistic view of how the body works, of diagnosis, and of nutrition. It must be frustrating for the nutrition professionals and researchers to be asked to provide "balance" in the argument against a lay person with a fixed view. True balance in the discussion occurs when two people of equal training and experience in a profession or field disagree on a clinical approach or what the evidence shows. I thought Natasha did well in challenging the man's assertions based on his untrained observation of his own single case. It left me to wonder, though, why we give these people air time.
Claude Downunder :
12 Sep 2012 4:41:47pm
What you call balance can also be seen as extremism. What is 'balanced' when it comes to diet? Why is a so called 'balanced' diet the best diet for humans? Let take a look at the Inuit of northern Canada who, on a traditional diet of 90% animal fat and protein, had virtually zero incidences of diabetes, colorectal or breast cancer, gout and various other illnesses of western civilzation. As soon as they came into contact with Europeans, and consequently adopted a 'balanced' European diet, incidents of all of those diseases increased. The same general pattern holds true for all aboriginal peoples, including Australian aboriginals. A zealot is someone who refuses to see another opinion and consider it as a possiblity. As far as I can tell, he was a very genuine person describing his experience. You come across as more of a zealot; a 'balanced diet' zealot. Furthermore, the simplistic argument here seems to be that a 'balanced diet' is best; that is, one size fits all! If that's not simplistic, then I don't know what is!
Sue :
13 Sep 2012 6:29:01pm
Claude - you misunderstand my use of the term "balanced" - I meant the opposite to extremism. What this man did was to take sensible dietary advice to have whole grains, fresh fruit and vegetables and took it to the extreme - he had vast quantities of all these things, and got bloated and obese. He has now swung in the opposite direction and eliminated carbohydrates, and added meat. He is convinced (despite misunderstanding the science of nutrition) that what he did before was "healthy". It was not.
The example you give of the Innuit diet is a good illustration that there is no "natural" human diet - it all depends on where you live and what you can access. The Innuit diet is different from the Masai, the tropical Pacific Islands and the Northern European climes.
The other important point is that health is not only dependent on diet - but also heredity and a range of other factors.
It is the approach that needs to be balanced, not just the food groups.
Axelle :
12 Sep 2012 11:17:15am
Wild game has been a substantial part of the diet of Aboriginal people; poachers throughout the ages as well. Tibetan Buddhists kill and eat yaks; otherwise they would starve for lack of arable land to grow alternatives. Poachers have been mostly the landless poor who catch game for food to live and I don't blame them for that kind of killing. Not that people can go back to catching wild game; the planet is far too over populated and toxically despoiled for that now.
But herd animals, kept for food , have eaten antibiotics in their feed which are passed onto humans, and these antibiotics have to be affecting human health. Also, it depends on your age as to how much and what kind of meat you eat. I don't think that older people need to eat red meat,at least. The mass slaughter to feed the millions on the planet has become an obscenity in terms of animal cruelty and suffering. It's linked to over-population and the concept of wealth; i.e. if you can afford to eat meat every day, you must be wealthy.
Lentils are a good alternative to meat.
Bec Turner :
13 Sep 2012 11:45:25am
I don't agree with your assertion that all farmed/herd animals are fed anti-biotics. It is possible to eat meat that is free from anti-biotics and from animals that have been raised humanely and lived good lives.
I am a recovering vegetarian. Like John Nicholson, my health was in dramatic decline and my weight began to balloon. My body shape changed as my own body, deprived of first-class protein, began to canabalise my muscles. My thyroid also shut down. I attributed this to too much soy in my diet.
I figured that my health and subsequent early death, caused by my vegetarian diet, would not help to save the life of a single animal. That maybe refusing to buy factory farmed meat might make a bigger difference. The rules of supply and demand.
I now eat organic, locally farmed meat. Expensive? It can be, I just buy a little less.
The belief that lentils, beans, grains etc are grown and eaten without loss of life is a myth. Growing mono-crops leads to wholesale land clearing and with it loss of plant diversity and loss of the animal life that depends on a bio-diverse environment. The soil is also home to hundreds of thousands of life forms that depend on input from vegetation and animals. Soil is a living organism that is killed by growing mono-crops. Enter artificial fertiliser.
It is a truism that something has to die for something else to live. Animals die to feed us. We die and feed the soil. The soil grows the plants and grass that feed the animals that feed us. The circle of life.
Axelle :
13 Sep 2012 8:15:22pm
I didn't say that all farmed/herd animals eat antbiotics but most of them do,raised as they are by conglomerates that sell meat containing traces of antibiotics to the main supermarket chains.
I live in a rural area where people can buy country killed meat of animals not raised on anti-biotic feed, but this is a very small percentage of the market. My point is that this antibiotic free meat is not available to many people buying from the mass market.
And the availability of animal feed from world crops that is free of substances harmful to humans such as antibiotics, passed on through consumption of the meat of animals, is becoming less and less possible because of the diminishment of available land on which to keep and feed the animals. Encroachment of overburgeoning human populations have created this situation.
On your point about lentils - lentils are not a soy product so I fail to see how they are a problem.
Bec Turner :
16 Sep 2012 12:14:15pm
I accept your point that meat free of anti-biotic contamination is not widely available to everyone.
I fail however to see your point about lentils. I did not say lentils were soy products. I was talking about mono-crops. Lentils are a mono-crop as are soybeans, beans, chickpeas etc and therefore affect environmental biodiversity.
Marc :
12 Sep 2012 1:35:20pm
My experience is the exact opposite to the meat-eating evangelist. I have not eaten meat since 1973 and I have never been on any medications, nor do I have any chronic health problems. I am very fit and active.
I suspect that soya products caused the health problems the speaker supposedly experienced.
Robert Henderson :
12 Sep 2012 2:57:57pm
By his own admission John Nicholson entered the vegan diet from ignorance and naive squeamishness. If you are vegan, rather than just vegetarian, you must be very careful to get the full range of nutrients. This may include needing to have nutritional yeast, multi-vitamins and a wide range of vegetables, nuts, and proteins. I have several vegan friends who are perfectly healthy. As an omnivore, I eat meat but I also eat vegetables, whole grains etc... I support people having a vegetarian or vegan diet if it works for them. The sort of soya burgers and the like that he lived on are rubbish and hardly the basic for a well balanced diet. I would have liked Natasha to challenge him a bit more about what he was eating or not eating. I too was horrified by how long it took for him to kill the chook. Try chopping its head off if chocking was too horrific. If he didn't know to quickly and humanly kill a chook, he should have found out first. Very cruel. Like Sue said, why do we give them air time, except to laugh at them?
Ms Chickpea :
12 Sep 2012 3:17:43pm
Interesting that the main problems were mental health issues and Irritable Bowel Sydrome.
Bipolar conditions aren't caused by lack of meat, and most people get IBS from either gluten or lack of fibre.
Donna :
13 Sep 2012 9:31:08am
Ms Chickpea
Self-hypnosis has had some remarkable results in treating IBS, because IBS is also strongly correlated with stress and anxiety. I treated my own with oregano oil.
This rules out the "gluten" and "lack of fibre" as the only causes.
Elayne :
12 Sep 2012 9:21:57pm
I listened to the 'meat fix' this morning. I have been a vegetarian for over 40 years and vegan for the past few months. I have always been very healthy and fit and my husband and all our children are also life long vegos. Three years ago, following the loss of our daughter, I had all the same symptoms of feeling very sick and chronically tired etc. I was diagnosed with Coeliac Disease and since cutting out all gluten I have felt better than ever. I am vegan for ethical, environmental, health and spiritual reasons and could never support the meat and dairy industry. I found myself wondering if the man had been tested for Coeliac Disease? He is feeling better since he cut out all the wheat etc, so it would fit.
Lotus Cavagnino :
13 Sep 2012 8:56:53am
As a frustrated health educator, it was joy to hear John Nicholsons account of what vegetarian and Vegan diets can do. I too was a vegetarian for 10 years and had low energy levels, headaches etc. Unfortunately the "health" industry is a sick industry, where the medical profession and Dietitions work hand in glove with 'Big Pharma" and the so called "food" industry. Humans were made to eat food that is real. Fresh, grown, & slaughtered, the less processing the better. I am hypoglycemic and if I had not began managing my diet with real food, I would be one of those 'obese, diabetic' statistics that we hear the media banging on about. Foundations such as the "Weston Price Foundation"
and efforts of charities such as the "Hypoglycemic Health Association" are rare and important voices amongst the "noise" that surrounds what is viewed as a "healthy lifestyle". Health means yes, cooking your own food, sourced from products that don't come out of cardboard or plastic boxes, and cooking does not mean going from a frozen dinner to the microwave. Eliminate sugar and refined carbohydrates from your diet rather than saturated fats and see what impact this has on your body. You may be surprised. Health means looking at realistic, and committed ways of changing your lifestyle and questioning the direction that societies obsession with "fast food" is taking us.What we eat is an important first step in having healthy bodies. And pleease don't equate "slimness" with wellbeing. This has been half the problem but that's another story. As my mother always said "If you have your health you are the richest person on earth."
Sue :
13 Sep 2012 6:33:54pm
"Unfortunately the "health" industry is a sick industry, where the medical profession and Dietitions work hand in glove with 'Big Pharma" and the so called "food" industry."
I agree with you about eating good quality fresh food - which is exactly what dieticians and the medical profession recommend. How do you figure blaming health care providers for your diet?
Audrey :
13 Sep 2012 9:35:12am
Thank you for an interesting interview.
My history is very similar to John Nicholson's experience. I too eventually gave up a vegetarian diet for the same reasons and have restored my health by eating meat/fish/eggs and predominately green vegetables. By eliminating all grains, dairy, legumes, nuts and high sugar fruits I am more emotionally stable and have much improved health. Perhaps it is a case of 'one person's food is another's poison'
Olive :
13 Sep 2012 10:58:59am
My husband as a strict vegan for about 25 years
He experienced chronic headaches and was severely fatigued - always. He slept daily at the office at lunch time to make it through the day.
He reluctantly began eating eggs, cheese and now fish and no longer experiences any of these problems.
Jen :
13 Sep 2012 2:29:18pm
Dr Clifton discounted soy as part of Nicholson's problem, but high consumption of processed soy is suspected of interfering with thyroid function. Some of J Nicholson's symptoms: high cholesterol, overweight, derpression and lethargy, can be the result of an underactive thyroid. We don't know enough about processed soy products to be consuming so many of them.
Isaac :
13 Sep 2012 2:53:05pm
Veganism is not a diet. It simply deliniates the exclusion of animals as food for cultural reasons. The diet is made up of plant and fungal foods. This person did not find a plant/fungi diet that suited him from the thousands of options out there. Veganism just tells you not to eat certain foods it does not tell you to give up your own options to mix and match what works for you. There are cultures such as in the Americas where gastric issues are simply too common due to the love of beans and corn for instance - don't think Mexicans will give up their diet because of a bit of gas, they just make it work. It is a fallacy for John to call the Vegan sub culture a diet and then post it openly as a failure when it is dit not work for him.
Hilton :
14 Sep 2012 10:38:54pm
Haven't things changed since I was a boy! In those innocent days we were taught that you could tell a carnivore (eg tiger) by its mouthful of incisors, or a herbivore (eg cow) by its mouthful of molars. Looking into the human mouth led us to be labelled omnivores, capable of eating almost anything which, somewhere in the world, we do. Forget the fads - bring back meat and three vegs
Michael :
15 Sep 2012 11:20:55am
Been a vegetarian for 30 years and i feel great. But unlike this guy i don't fill myself up with soy and grains. His whole problem was that he shouldn't have been eating so much soy and grains, he probably had a wheat allergy. Anyway it's a shame that he can write a book based on so few facts. vegetarianism is a great diet just stay away from the carbs especially wheat. Soy in small amounts is ok - but why bother, leave it out.
If you want to eat meat go for hormone free / free range / organic.
Ron :
12 Oct 2012 5:57:07pm
For some science read:
"The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living: An Expert Guide to Making the Life-Saving Benefits of Carbohydrate Restriction Sustainable and Enjoyable"
Stephen D. Phinney PhD, RD, and Jeff S. Volek M.D. PhD.
This book explains why John had the problems he did, why his solution worked, and why just over 50% of the western population share similar problems with weight control, high cholesterol etc. Interestingly, the majority of commentators had similar problems. Frank Marino sums it up well.
Of course there are hundreds of other low carb books out their, many written by medical doctors (e.g. Dr Atkins - a cardiologist), but this books targets nutritionists and doctors as well as the interested public.
For a slightly different point of view, google Dr Robert Lustig, or "Pure White and Deadly" or (Prof) John Yudkin. Search for Lustig in Nature or on the good old ABC Health Report.
John Nicholson :
13 Nov 2012 6:37:56am
I have just finished reading "The Meat Fix", what a fantastic book. I wholeheartedly agree with everything John says about processed foods. I am not and have never been a vegetarian but am extremely interested in nutrition and keeping myself and my family healthy.
Mark D :
09 Mar 2013 4:03:54am
The most frustrating thing to read in these comments is the blind faith devotion some people have to a "one size fits all" diet. Listen as the Vegans/vegetarians contradict Nicholson's health results, either disregarding that HE FINALLY FEELS WELL for the first time in years, or else attributing his recovered health to something OTHER THAN the animal protein he re-introduced to his diet. ("Perhaps when he was eating Vegan, he also had Celiac Disease.") God forbid the Pro-Plant People just admit that what's worked so well for them (a vegetarian/Vegan lifestyle) may not suit everyone.
You've been vegetarian for thirty years and you feel great? Good for you! But that doesn't mean the rest of us should eat exactly as you do. The more I research, the more I discover that cases like Nicholson's are not unique; for health reasons, many people have switched from vegetarianism back to being omnivores, and now feel great again for the first time in years.
And while I'm ranting: eating meat is NOT "strongly linked to heart disease and cancer." That's a myth forwarded by the Pro-Plant People to support their eat-as-I-do Vegan agenda; it's something they read in the fallible book "The China Study" or heard repeated in the (equally fallible) documentary film "Forks Over Knives." Junk Science leads to this conclusion, unsupported by the data.


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Alec Stewart column: International sport about pride, not money
The subject of nationality and sport was back in the headlines last week after Jack Wilshere's comment that only English people should play for England and Kevin Pietersen's immediate reaction on Twitter.
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In my view, if you were born outside England but have an English parent then you should still be eligible.
Stewart on Ford
Graham Ford was always top of our list to take over as head coach at Surrey. He has bags of experience both internationally and domestically and understands the county system from his time at Kent. He has a reputation of improving people's games regardless of their age and can help realise the full potential of our talented and hard-working squad.
Another criteria I can accept as "being English" is if your parents moved here for humanitarian or work-related reasons and you were still at an age where you were then schooled in England.
But if you don't qualify on any of those grounds, then the door should remain firmly shut.
Qualifying on residency grounds alone as a matter of convenience and financial gain should not be permitted.
The pride in representing the country and wearing the England shirt or vest should come from within and not be influenced by your bank balance.
The England cricket team has a long history of selecting players who were born overseas, but in the vast majority of cases they have a bond to the country that would qualify them under my criteria.
In the current squad Pietersen, Jonathan Trott and Matt Prior all have an English parent, while Ben Stokes moved to the country from New Zealand at the age of 12.
Gary Ballance did play for Zimbabwe in the Under-19 World Cup at the age of 16, but after moving to England he took up a sports scholarship at Harrow and even attended the first year of a university degree course at Leeds Metropolitan University after joining Yorkshire in 2007.
Boyd Rankin is the only player I have slight difficulty with given the fact that he had played 37 one-day internationals for Ireland before qualifying for England. But he was born in Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, and had no other route into Test cricket because Ireland are not a full member of the ICC.
In my day, you had Allan Lamb and Robin Smith, who were both born in South Africa to British parents and others such as Devon Malcolm and Gladstone Small, who moved over from the Caribbean in their early teens. Never once did I question their commitment to the country that they had come to regard as their home.
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Sachin Tendulkar will be remembered as a cricketing god who was worshipped in his native India and hugely admired in the rest of the world. The Little Master's appetite for success over nearly quarter of a century is incredible and I'd be surprised if anyone comes close to matching his achievements. Despite his megastar status, he remained just as humble as the day he first picked up a bat.
Adnan Januzaj, the Manchester United midfielder who sparked this whole debate, had finished his education by the time he moved to England, and has no connection to the country whatsoever other than it being his place of work. He may go on to live here for five or 10 years, but that does not make him English.
In cricket, you have the case of Pakistan-born Fawad Ahmed, who did not move to Australia until he was 28 years old in 2010 but was granted citizenship in August and played against England in the one-day and Twenty20 series this year.
Fawad had entirely understandable reasons for emigrating, claiming he was being persecuted by religious extremists, and he has every right to seek to pursue his career in a new country.
But should he really be allowed to represent that country in international sport? Does he really feel Australian? Do the Australian public see him as an Australian?
I spent eight consecutive winters playing grade cricket down under, and thoroughly enjoyed everything the country had to offer, but at no stage did I ever contemplate playing for Australia!
My worry is that it is becoming too easy to switch nationalities out of pure convenience as a route into international sport. National teams are in danger of losing their identity as a result.
I would like to see specific qualification criteria applied across every sport in every country, so that everyone is playing by the same rules, and once you've represented a country at under-19 level or above there is then no switching of allegiance.
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I am looking for a recipe for the real Olde World style Pumpernickel Bread.
The closest I have found so far is from Jeff Hamelman's book, BREAD, page 222.
I am looking for a recipe for the real Olde World style Pumpernickel Bread.
The closest I have found so far is from Jeff Hamelman's book, BREAD, page 222.
Does anyone have a GOOD recipe for pumpernickel bread? I made a loaf yesterday that tasted like cardboard. It was made with cocoa, molasses, rye flour, etc...... HELP!! Even the dog wouldn't eat it!!
=== Does anyone have a GOOD recipe for pumpernickel bread? ===
The problem is that there are about 10 different types of bread sold in North America under the name "pumpernickel", and they range from the very dense and flavorful German-type breads to a very light variation on New York Jewish Rye. If you can describe the bread you are seeking one of the Fresh Loavers can probably point you in the right direction.
Just for starters, good recipes for the dense German type are found in Hamelman's _Bread_ and (a less traditional recipe) Reinhart's _Whole Grain Breads_, although both require a sourdough starter for good flavor. A recipe for the very light type is found in Rose Levy Bernbaum's _The Bread Bible_, and can be made with either yeast or sourdough.
I'm not sure you can get any more 'olde world' and authentic than Hamelman's Horst Bandel Black Pumpernickel. The bread is dark and delicious, with more flavour than than you would imagine from reading the relatively simple formula. It's all in the long low heat bake that bring the various rye components to a harmony of sweet and sour, with some hints of fruit ...somehow. The HB pumpernickel is easily the most full bodied, flavorful rye bread I've ever baked. It slices almost like a piece of firm cheese, and fills the house with a marvelous caramel like scent as it's baking. Honestly, I don't think you'll find a better recipe for Pumpernickel, but please let me know if you do.
go to Ananda blog on TFL. He is a baker teacher in North England and had posted several different recipes on this site, always with details and photos.
You can also type pumpernickel on the search box and you find a lot of recipes it's just take sometime to find the right articles amoung so many published !
Pumpernickel is a bread that can go from the kind of cake very moist and friable to a dryer result that is more like bread, all depend of the purcentage of rye you are mixing as well as the purcentage of the water. Molasses and cocoa are there only to color the bread which is already darker than a white one due to the use of rye that should be cracked grains, not flour.
Good luck, Bee
I guess the only genuine pumpernickel recipe published in web sites is Samartha's
Don't be fooled by the color of the picture, after at least 16 hours of baking it will look like the real one.
Mine came out like this after 18 hours. The smell of malt was intoxicating, addictive:)
Is there's something else than rye, water and sourdough it's not pumpernickel but something else, maybe good but not the real thing.
Yours is beautiful!! You know, the sad part is that I really like the pumpernickel out of the grocery store because thats all that I know. Yours looks really RICH and beautiful, but what I'm looking for is I guess a recipe for probably rye and pumpernickel swirl. I KNOW, I KNOW, its not the real thing, but its what I want!!!! Thank you so much for your time, its not everyday that someone is so kind.... Susan
=== You know, the sad part is that I really like the pumpernickel out of the grocery store because thats all that I know.===
Nothing sad about it; there are many different kinds of bread and you should start out by making what you like and want.
It sounds as if you want something similar to the light American pumpernickel in Rose Levy Beranbaum's _The Bread Bible_. See if your library has a copy and check it out (both the book and the recipe). You could get a swirl by making 1/2 batch each of the pumpernickel and of Rose's Real Jewish Rye and rolling the two doughs together at shaping as with any swirl bread.
Good luck!
KAF, www.kingarthurflour.com has several, more US grocery store style pumpernickel ryes you might also find appealing.
Here's a link to a discussion of different rye flours, which also has links to other similar discussions on TFL.
King Arthur's "pumpernickel flour" is a very coarse ground whole rye flour, at least one step coarser than Hodgson Mills' whole rye. It works well for many darker, heavier rye recipes.
Do you think I can make some decent authentic pumpernickel with Hodgson Mill's Rye Flour and say some soaked berries and chopped berries added? I imagine I can get the berries from Whole Foods Market and chop them myself with my spice grinder--then add them into the mix.
It would sure be a lot more affordable as I can buy a 5lb bag of Hodgson Mill Rye Flour at the local market for $5.25.
French knife or herb chopper, just like nuts. They soften up nicely. :) Go for it!
=== Do you think I can make some decent authentic pumpernickel with Hodgson Mill's Rye Flour and [...] ===
Yes, it works great for that purpose. I use a lot of Hodgson Mill Rye and it is an excellent flour.
Here's a recipe for traditional German Pumpernickel bread. It's been tried and tested many times and it's 100% the real thing.
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Fortunately, the way the show chose to kill her off was pretty creative. It was kick-ass, if you ask me. Instead of wasting away from a disease that was never identified -- but would have resulted in severe pain and loss of motor skills according to Ducky -- she went out guns blazing. And kind of like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, you don't see her getting riddled with bullets.
As the episode began, Jenny was in L.A. attending the funeral of a former NCIS agent named Decker. The cause of death was a heart attack, but Jenny knew better when she overheard a code word -- Oshimida -- which was key to an op she, Jethro and Decker had worked nine years before in Paris. She knew Decker's death was connected to a loose end and she would be the next agent targeted. She reached out to Jethro's mentor, Mike Franks, to track down Decker's "insurance" -- a McGuffin to the very end of the show -- and in some ways, to make sure he would help her achieve her ultimate goal. That goal was not self-preservation; it was protecting Jethro.
Franks, wonderfully played by Muse Watson, was a welcomed return for this two-parter. In a show last season, Jethro helped him to clear his son's name and get away to Mexico with his grandchild. His loyalty to Gibbs and knowledge of the spy game comes in handy. As a plot point, he's also one of the only characters with whom you could imagine Jenny sharing her real feelings about Jethro. She told Mike that she gave up Gibbs and regretted it. He wasn't part of her five-point plan. When Mike responds, "You're still young," the look in her eyes revealed that she knew she'd never live long enough to fix the mistake she'd made by losing Gibbs. Franks knew it, too, because he'd found her pills.
The first hour was mainly Jenny's case, culminating with the shootout at the diner and her death. Ziva and Tony had blown it big time by allowing her to get away from their detail; they were assigned to protect her. It seemed throughout the show, they were always a step behind -- and in the end, Tony was beating himself up for his failures. It reminded him too much of his failures with Jean and the Frog.
Back at NCIS headquarters, Abby and McGee were doing the procedural stuff, analyzing the data as they usually do. Abby, in her Abby way, sensed something was wrong. When Ducky received Gibbs' call about Jenny's death, it was up to him to break the news to them. When he turned to McGee and Abby, they looked like two kids about to hear the worst news ever -- it played that emotionally.
Gibbs went to the diner where he crossed swords with Vance, the acting director. With Gibbs pulling the strings, meeting with Franks behind the scenes, getting Ziva, Tony, Abby, McGee and Ducky to do the work without consulting Vance, breaking all the rules to tie up the loose end responsible for Jenny's death, he smokes out the killer. Jenny's legacy is protected when the killer (Natasha) is killed -- by Franks -- and her body burns up in the director's Georgetown home. The news reports that Jenny died in the fire. Everything would seem to be tied up in a neat bow.
Not so fast. Gibbs, Ziva, Tony and McGee are called on the carpet before the new (no longer acting) director -- Vance. He lets them all have it for "going off the reservation" to solve the case. Ziva is told that the liaison with NCIS is being terminated; she's going back to Israel. McGee is reassigned to cyber crimes unit. Tony is being sent to sea, agent afloat the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan. And Gibbs? Vance handed three confidential folders and told him, "Meet your new team."
Whoa! What the hell? Didn't see that one coming. What will this mean for next season, if you want to know, check out the spoiler at the end. If you don't want to know, stop reading after the other points of interest.
Overall, this was a good finale. Lauren Holly was a good foil for Mark Harmon, and the sexual tension between their characters and the allusions to their past, brought something extra to the show. She'll be missed. There will be no sexual tension between Vance and Gibbs, I promise you that. But Jenny's exit does create a lot of conflict and that's good for drama. So, I'm not happy Shephard's dead, but I see why they did it.
Other points of interest
-- The best one-liner was Abby's. After seeing the cellphone pictures sent by Jenny for identifying, she shows McGee the five bad photos and says of Shephard, "A great director. Annie Leibovitz she's not."
-- As if Jethro wasn't already torn up about Jenny's death, Mike tells him, "Her last stand was protecting you."
-- Before giving Ziva, Tony, McGee and Gibbs the new assignments, Vance takes from Shephard's locked files his own jacket. He removes one page and shreds it. Was the contents of the page something Jenny had over on Vance? Was he destroying something incriminating?
-- Decker's insurance is absconded by Franks from the annexed NCIS files. When Vance later asks Mike about the file, Franks tells him, "You can read it. I'll leave it for you in my will." I wouldn't be surprised if Mike uses this to help Gibbs down the line.
-- Working with Tony and Ziva, Jenny was no-nonsense. Even more no nonsense then Gibbs is. When Tony calls her fearless leader, she says, "Don't call me fearless leader" -- and she means it.
-- Mike asks Jenny why she called him. "I need someone I can trust and you're on the short list." He answers, "I didn't know you were a fan." Jenny explains, it's Gibbs' short list. "He trusts you with his life and that's good enough for me."
-- Abby showed her emotions more than usual considering the circumstances. When she said she regreted not telling the director that she was a snappy dresser, she managed to get a smile from Gibbs.
Spoiler Alert!
According to our spoiler diva, Isabelle, Tony, Abby, Ziva, McGee and Gibbs are in the new season premiere. No word on Ducky or Palmer yet. Also, it's still to be determined if the team is somehow back together in the premiere or if they'll be separated for a while. What do you think? Comments welcome!


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One trend in modern government web design which has been creeping in over the years has been to convey information in the form of FAQs, or Frequently Asked Questions. And as it has increasingly crept in, so it has increasingly irritated me.
The internet origin of the FAQ concept dates back to the olden days of Usenet – that place where we used to rant and ramble on to one another before there was Facebook, before there was Twitter, blogs, web forums, whatever. Most newsgroups – places to discuss grouped together by broad themes, such as uk.politics.misc, rec.music.compose, or alt.destroy.the.earth – would maintain a document, posted on a monthly basic, containing basic information about the newsgroup, such as what it's for, when it was set up, what the advertising policy is, etc. It would also have the FAQ section. This was the genuinely curated selection of questions genuinely frequently asked by newcomers to the newsgroup – so if it was, say, a newsgroup about website production, one frequently asked question might have been 'what is the best wysiwyg html authoring tool?'. Newsgroup regulars, tired of frequently answering the same questions asked by newcomers, would instead politely (or usually, rudely) refer the questioner to the newsgroup FAQ. Thus it was actually a tool born of geekery's continual need to passive-aggressively slap down the ingenue.
Fast-forward to the modern era, and government websites become riddled with FAQs; whilst some of the questions are obvious ones – how do I pay my council tax? – more often than not I frankly don't believe the organisation's contact centre has been overrun with members of the public asking this or that question about this or that arcane matter of policy. Thus, more often than not, the FAQ page does not represent the collective memory of the service, rather it becomes a way by which a service area – too lazy to be bothered to write proper, engaging yet concise prose – conveys information which it decides is important for the customer to know. It may well be important for the customer to know this – if it's so important, take the time to write it properly, because if the customer doesn't know it's important, if it's not actually the question the customer is asking, the customer will think it doesn't apply to them, so they'll ignore it. And where does that leave you?
The other problem with the FAQ format is even when it is a question customers genuinely ask frequently, it assumes everybody asks the same question using the same words. If the FAQ is written 'how do I pay my council tax?', that excludes the questions 'where can I pay my council tax?', and 'when do I need to pay my council tax?'. The busy website customer, scanning down the page, is being distracted and misdirected from the focus of their actual problem – paying their council tax – by having to second-guess the question the page author is second-guessing they're asking. Most people are trained to expect to see lists in alphabetical order, so if the customer is focused on paying their council tax, then the letter in the list they will be drawn to will either be 'c' or 'p', not 'h' or 'w'. So rather than ask and answer the question the customer may or may not be asking, instead the better way is to simply have a heading 'Council tax – payment' or 'Paying your council tax' (depending on what the overall topic of the whole page is), and include all the information the customer needs to know about it, written properly and engagingly.
Allied to the problem of the FAQ trend in government websites is the Top Task trend. Whilst it's true many government websites in the past were more about serving the organisation than serving the customer, and Top Tasks as a methodology are a step in the right direction in reframing the architecture of the website in the direction of serving customer needs in order to encourage them to use the 15p-per-query website rather than make a £2.83-per-query phone call, too often an obsession with top tasks can lead to a similar problem that the FAQ style has above; whilst – hopefully – the choice of top tasks listed will at least have been informed by statistical analysis, if the customer is thinking of different wording for the task than the one chosen, the customer is then misdirected and what was intended to be easy for them to find becomes harder, and even sometimes impossible for them to.
It's a common feature on many government websites to have a section on the home page with a series of headings 'Report', 'Pay', 'Request', 'Apply', 'Book'. Now, paying your council tax (again) is an obvious one, but does one report the presence of graffiti, or does one request a graffiti remocal? Does the customer want to request a bulky waste collection, or book a bulky waste collection? Might you need to be booking library computer time, or requesting library computer time? And finally, will a housing tenant be requesting a housing repair, as correct English dictates, or might they be reporting a housing repair, as the anecdotal evidence of the language used by the majority of housing tenants suggests. Remove the verbs from the headings, and just having the links labelled bulky waste collections, council tax, housing repairs, graffiti, and library computer time (note again the alphabetical order – statistics might have more people asking about housing repairs than bulky waste, but the people interested in either of those things don't know that, do they?) and believe it or not, even the least computer-savvy person is intelligent enough to see the subject of the task and apply their own verb to the problem they need to solve.
The other area in which an unhealthy obsession with top tasks shares the same problem as the FAQ format is that the chosen task needlessly excludes those who are choosing a different, related task. Your statistics might show the task of renewing a library book appears in the top ten list of things people want to do – so naturally, in the Top Tasks box on the home page of your website you put a link 'Renew a library book'. But what about the people who want to search the library catalogue? Reserve a book? Check the opening hours of their local library? Report the fact that they've lost their library card (or is that request a new library card)? If any one of those tasks doesn't quite make the top ten – say, one of them when the page visitor count was done actually rolled in at 12, another at 17, and the next at 25 – then why have you made renewing a library book one click from the home page, but searching the library catalogue at least two clicks after forcing the customer to look in the navigation structure to see where the library catalogue might be, just because a few hundred more people during the period the statistics were gathered for happened to be requesting (or applying for, or booking) dropped kerbs? Renewing a library book might have been logged at number eight in the statistical league table, but the whole collection of library-related tasks a customer is wanting to do on the website almost certainly charts at number two (after looking for jobs).
So whilst the blunt top tasks implementation indeed has the link 'Renew a library book', the intelligent implementation groups those library tasks together into a single link 'Libraries', which then takes all those library customers to a single library landing page, again crediting them with the intelligence to know their own verbs, making it easier for the library customers to carry out all their tasks, and has the bonus giving the free information to the person wanting to reserve their library book of what the opening times of their library are so they can go and get it when it arrives!
If you want to discuss this issue further, you can use the self-service channel in the comments box, or the face-to-face channel at LocalGovCamp in Birmingham on 14 July, when I might pitch a session on it.


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SyriaGulfsands is the Operator of the Block 26 Production Sharing Contract ("PSC") and holds a 50% working interest in the PSC along with Sinochem. The Group is not presently involved in any production or exploration activities on Block 26 as force majeure has been declared in respect of the contract following the introduction of EU sanctions against Syria.
The Group has ensured that it remains compliant with all applicable sanctions in relation to Syria and intends to return to production and exploration activities as soon as permitted.
Block 26 covers an area of 5,414 km² in north east Syria and the PSC grants rights to explore, develop and produce hydrocarbons from all depths outside the pre‑existing fields within the area and from the deeper stratigraphic levels below the pre‑existing discovered fields. The final exploration period of the PSC was set to expire in August 2012 when force majeure was declared in December 2011. It is anticipated that an extension in the exploration period can be negotiated with the Syrian authorities to at least replace that period of time which was lost when force majeure was declared.
Under the Group's operatorship, two oil fields of Cretaceous age have been discovered and developed within the PSC area, Khurbet East and Yousefieh.
In addition, two further oil and gas discoveries of Triassic age have been identified beneath the Cretaceous oil producing reservoir in the Khurbet East field and within the Butmah and Kurrachine Dolomite formations. Development approvals for these discoveries were granted in 2011 and 2008 respectively.
Approval for the development of the Khurbet East Triassic age Butmah oil and gas field was granted in December 2011 but as a consequence of compliance with applicable sanctions, the Group is presently unable to progress any activity in respect of this development. However, oil from the Triassic Formations in Khurbet East has already been sampled and found to be lighter than that produced from the Cretaceous Formation, with an API gravity of 34--35°, and it contains a higher gas content. In addition, small amounts of condensate have been recovered from the gas cap in the Butmah Formation. The construction of sour gas sweetening and export facilities at Khurbet East is planned, subject to the lifting of sanctions, to enable commercial production of hydrocarbons both from the Butmah and also from the Triassic Kurrachine Dolomite Formations. Until force majeure was declared, it was expected that the development and production period for operations on the Khurbet East Triassic Butmah Formation would expire in December 2036 although production could, at the Contractor's option, be extended for a further ten years.
Once applicable sanctions permit, it is expected that the force majeure will be withdrawn and these periods of entitlement to undertake development and production activities will be extended by a further period reflective of the period of force majeure.
The development and operation of these fields is being undertaken by Dijla Petroleum Corporation ("DPC"), a joint operating company formed between Gulfsands, Sinochem and the General Petroleum Corporation ("GPC") for this purpose, to which staff of both Gulfsands and GPC have previously been seconded. Since the introduction of EU sanctions on 1 December 2011 that identified GPC as a designated entity and the subsequent declaration of force majeure under the PSC, Gulfsands has had no involvement with the operations of DPC, and Gulfsands staff seconded to DPC have been withdrawn, leaving DPC under the management of GPC secondees.
Sanction complianceGulfsands has at all relevant times taken legal advice with respect to its obligations under the sanctions then in place and has liaised regularly with relevant regulators and generally acted cautiously to ensure it remains compliant with all relevant sanctions.
The listing of GPC as a designated entity on 1 December 2011 triggered a review of the Group's relationship with GPC and with DPC and following this review and with effect from 1 December 2011, Gulfsands has:
- ceased to provide assistance to DPC in the form of seconded staff or indeed have any involvement with the day to day operations of DPC;
- recused itself from decisions taken by the DPC board;
- not submitted invoices for the Joint Venture's entitlement share of oil production;
- exercised strict control over the payment of outstanding supplier invoices to ensure that (a) no payments were made to persons or entities who are included on the list of those subject to the asset freeze, (b) no payment is made for goods or services subject to restrictive measures except after the giving of required notification to the Competent Authority and (c) no payment was made which would constitute a transfer of economic resources to GPC or DPC;
- ceased (with effect from 18 January 2012, being the date of adoption of EU Regulation 36 / 2012) to enter into new contracts for the procurement of oil and gas related goods or services into Syria, or for associated technical assistance; and
- also ceased all exploration, as well as production, activity in Syria.
The Board is determined to ensure that the Group's activities remain compliant with all relevant sanctions and Management will continue to liaise closely with the relevant regulatory authorities to ensure this objective is achieved while continuing to keep GPC fully informed of the breadth and scope of restrictions on our activities as a result of continuing compliance with applicable sanctions.
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- Maintained an office presence in Damascus.
- Block 26 facilities remain safe and secure.
- Retained technical capabilities through staff redeployment.
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If you're looking for a good Mexican chocolate, I highly recommend Taza Chocolate -- a small, socially and environmentally responsible business located in Somerville, MA. They make organic, minimally processed (stone ground) chocolate using traditional Oaxacan methodologies, and it is delicious! Here's their website: http://www.tazachocolate.com/flag if inappropriate
Amazing! I love the complexity of mole! I used 4 1/3 cups broth to 2/3 cup orange juice, and half the amount of orange peel, which made the flavour less bitter and helped the other flavours shine through. I made a second time with vegetable broth for a vegetarian friend and it was just as good! served over rice and grilled veggies.flag if inappropriate
I really enjoyed this and it turned out great. It was a bit of work but I knew that going into it. I cut down on the citrus slightly and, while yes it was a little sweet, actually was quite delicious. It may have been better with cinnamon and dark chocolate instead of the mexican chocolate to cut out a little of the sugar but the sweetness was not overpowering. I will make it again someday!flag if inappropriate
I found this mole to be a bit too much on the sweet side, I think I'll try it with less orange juice next time (I couldn't get a fresh orange- go figure -for the rind). I can't get Mexican dried chilis here in Africa, so I used a few different fresh ones I could find in a market, roasted in a cast-iron pan prior to adding to the mix. I made a big pot of chicken stock this afternoon, and so used the shredded chicken from that rather than cooking more chicken, which worked really nicely.flag if inappropriate
My first mole! I've eaten many a mole, but have always been intimidated by the labor intensive preparation. Had some friends over to help me (I put them on chile duty) with plenty of margaritas to go round. It was fantastic! I made it with chicken breasts which got a little dry but the sauce was excellent and even better the next day. It had more of a citrus taste than I had expected but it worked. I used more OJ and less peel. I will definitely make this again and I no longer feel intimidated!flag if inappropriate
This is an easy recipe to screw up. Several of these ingredients are going to do what they can to sneak through and knock out the others. The other reviews have talked about the peppers and the chocolate both shoving everything else out of the way. I managed to keep that under control but must've been dealing with a particularly bitter orange peel. I followed the instructions as to quantity and found the result good but having a distinct and unpleasant orange peel aftertaste. The bitterness doesn't play nice with the other flavors. Next time - more OJ, less peel.flag if inappropriate
Love this recipe! Made it for a party and though it is a little time consuming to make, I made it the day before the party and simply reheated prior to serving. I did not shred the chicken and just cut it into serving sized pieces instead and poured the mole sauce over. There was plenty of sauce left over and it was even better today! I served it with Mexican rice and a jicama slaw with a spicy orange dressing that went beautifully with the richness of the mole. A real crowd pleaser. By the way, pasilla chiles and chiles negros are not the same thing, as a previous poster stated. I found both types at Mexican market near my home and they look totally different (the chiles negros are black and the pasillas are more of a brick red).flag if inappropriate
This is certainly good but it is a fair amount of work. This makes a lot of leftovers and it reheats great.flag if inappropriate
I am going to try this tonight with the addition of plantain tamales and rice. Wish me luck!flag if inappropriate
Haven't tried this yet, but planning on it. Several of you have asked what to serve with this besides tortillas. My husband suggested Fideo. A pasta style dish. I think am going to try that. My grandmother used to serve her mole with Fideo.flag if inappropriate