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I have this wonderful Taste of Home Cookbook, full of great kitchen tested recipes. I decided to try the Cherry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake from pg. 514. This will also be my submission for Bookmarked Recipes this week :)
This is very good, I've kept it in the fridge and had a piece each morning for the last few days LOL.
1) The instructions say to take the crust batter and "press onto the bottom and 1 in. up the sides of an ungreased 9-in. springform pan"…. What the don't tell you is that this is a very sticky batter this will tick you off while trying to "press" (right!) it into the pan. I will most likely make this again, so next time I will use latex gloves. What a mess!
2) I had two small, half empty jars of blackberry and blueberry jam in the fridge. So I used cherry pie filling on one third, and the jams on the other two thirds. The cherry pie filling set great, the blueberry set pretty well, the blackberry soaked through the cheesecake portion. It still tasted good, but wasn't as pretty. Maybe next time I will some blueberry and other pie fillings to try :)
3) The crust is rather thick at the outer edge. It's tasty though, but I would probably try to make that a little thinner next time by "pressing" (HA!) more onto the bottom than the sides.
Well here it is, quite tasty, a definitely keeper!
adapted from Taste of Home
2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup cold butter, cubed
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg, lightly beaten
3/4 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 can (21 ounces) cherry pie filling (see note above)
1/2 cup slivered almonds (I didn't use these)
In a large bowl, combine flour and sugar. Cut in butter until crumbly. Reserve 3/4 cup crumb mixture. Add the baking powder, baking soda and salt to remaining crumb mixture. Stir in the egg, sour cream and almond extract until blended. Press onto the bottom and 1 in. up the sides of an ungreased 9-in. springform pan with removable bottom.
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This looks wonderful! I'll have to send this to my mother. She LOVES cherries.
And I haven't forgotten to send you the cinnamon roll recipe. My parents were down all day yesterday so I didn't get a chance! I'll have it sent to you after work today! :) I'll have to make them again after we get back from Shreveport–Ben's dying without them! He ate the last one from the freezer last night.
The cake looks amazing!! I love the topping!
Glad you found the cinna chips! They are so good in everything!
This looks so beautiful! The fact that it was tasty too, well, that makes it even better.
I don't believe you one bit when you say this was messy to start with, because it's freaking gorgeous! My daughter walked by and said "Can you make that, please? PLEASE??"
How can I say no?
Oh my goodness, does that ever look good! I like that you changed up the fruits… like three desserts in one.
The cake looks wonderful. A cream cheese coffee cake just sounds perfect to me right now! Thanks for adding me to your blog list, I have also added you to mine!
This looks wonderful! It would make a great dessert, but since it's a coffee cake, I won't feel a bit guilty having mine for breakfast!
oh wow.. *stares in awe* i just love the photo with the stunning red cherries oozing out from the sides.. beautiful!
HELLO! This looks absolutely decadent! So this is what you've been doing when you're not out watching the snowflakes fly! LOL!!
Oh, this is calling my name!!
I have that book and have been eyeing this recipe, it looks so delicious and your photos make it look even more so. I need an event to make it for though…hubby isn't a cream cheese fan and I'd feel too guilty making this for just the kids and myself…maybe when those holiday open houses roll around I will get to give this a try. Thanks for sharing your tips!
that looks so fantabulous. not sure i could convince myself to eat it for breakfast though…HA who am i kidding?
WOW!!! That looks delish!!!
This looks amazing Amanda! I love, love, love this recipe.
What a wonderful treat! I love that you had it for breakfast, too! You're my kind of cook!
This looks delicous! Love the idea of the 3 different berries in this.
Thanks for sending this into the bookmarked recipes round up
I have the same book, and have been eyeballing the same recipe for a long time now. I finally made it and I am glad to see that I am not the only one who found it impossibly sticky. I did use latex gloves, even smothered in shortening, it was not any easier. I'm going to try this in muffin form. It's so good though and yours looks beautiful. Mine looks like a disaster. A tasty disaster.
Amanda……Thank you….this is divine……even thou we make a lot of coffee cakes in Czech I couldn't find any good recipe on line….
So I came across yours…and it came out fabulous……instead of cherries my mom brought me czech plum filling, which I love….and I decided to use it in this cake……it turned out great…tangy, sweet and smooth with the cream cheese……ohh and so I don't get my hands all sticky while covering the bottom of the pan with batter…..I just sprayed my hand with good old Pam…..thanks again….will be making this one a lot….with many different combinations….. :)
The idea of using three flavors is wonderful. Makes for a much more interesting cake. It calls my name.
OH MY GOD! I just saw a friend post a photo of this on facebook–so I googled…and of course you came up first! I have the same Taste of Home books sitting around…and they are fun to flip through. This looks so so amazing…and I might have to make this stat–my mouth is totally watering!!!
Sweet as Coco – I hope you make it, you will love it! It's been a while since I thought of this treat, I may just have to make it again!
great idea, something to make everyone happy! pics look wonderful
Everything looks delicious and I appreciate you sharing such great recipes. I have officially fallen in love with your blog! Thanks so very much!!!
ah man! This looks scrumptious too! That's it…I need to click away now. lol, I just marked a few of your recipes and you can bet that when I make them, I'll link back to you! =)
I just made this and it's PHENOMENAL! I couldn't and didn't wait for it to chill before I tried a piece. MMM! HEAVEN! Thank you for posting! LOVE YOUR BLOG!
So glad you enjoyed it Shelbi! I need to make this again, I still remember how yummy it was!
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The emerging exploration of independence from the UK and Scotland by the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland, now joined in a trinity by the Western Isles, leaves the SNP in a serious bind.
A movement founded on the right to self-determination and the political philosophy of keeping power close to home is staring blankly at a cluster of islands becoming assertive of their own rights and interests in just such a position.
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If they chose separation from Scotland, they might align to the UK and are known to be interested in, amongst other models, the 'Crown Dependency' of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
The self governing status achieved by Finland's Aland Islands and by Denmark's Faeroes has stimulated the appetite in the Northern Isles for running their own show.
The odd man out in the new trinity is the Western Isles – culturally Gaelic not Nordic and, economically speaking, a basket case, with the flattest flat-lining local economy in Scotland financed annually by substantial additional assistance from the Scottish Government's Grant Aided Expenditure [GAE] 'flooring' mechanism.
Shetland has oil, with more to come. Orkney can bring marine energy research and development potential to the table – alongside it's stunning archaeological and naval heritage. Shetland and the Western Isles have significant archaeological heritages of their own to support tourism development.
If the three island archipelagos can make a go of it, a major beneficiary would be the economically weakest of the three, the Western Isles, which would effectively be supported by Shetland rather than by Scotland, as at present.
But this threesome is definitely viable.
If they went for the Crown Dependency model, they could use the GBP, they could attract additional revenues as a tax haven – and with Norway so close to Shetland, they could be attractive in this facility eastwards as well as southwards.
Not being in the EU would be of little account as, independent of it, they would control their own fisheries. They would lose EU Common Agricultural Policy funding but their potential overall financial position would be very healthy, with their small populations and their massive assets.
The 2011 mid year population figures showed the Orkney Isles with 20,100; the Shetland Isles with 22,210; and the Western Isles with 28, 080.
The proof of being consciously between a rock and a hard place was in a television interview given by Scotland's Finance Secretary, John Swinney, at Lerwick yesterday. Mr Swinney is in Shetland to play goalkeeper at a convention of the three island groups which starts today. The independence proposition is on the agenda.
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A continuing Union is most likely to move to a de facto form of federalism after the 2014 referendum – in which case there is no reason why the Northern Isles or a Northern and Western Isles combo should not be a new element in such an arrangement.
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The oversize brown, black, and white tabby (who's believed to be about 4 years old) become an Internet sensation after his owner, who moved into a building that didn't allow cats, dropped him off at Animal Control in February and the shelter launched a search to find him a new home—no small feat with a morbidly obese cat.
Over the past few years, Biscuit bounced around between two different homes and spent his days pigging out on treats. "A male cat normally weighs between 10-15 pounds so Biscuit is obviously on the extreme end of the scale," Theresa Gilley, Lead Animal Control Officer at the City of St. Charles Animal Control told Shine.
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New Zealand again approves farm sales to Chinese
• WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand's government has for the second time approved the contentious sale of 16 dairy farms to Chinese investors, despite objections from critics who say the country's prosperity could be jeopardized by such transactions. The sale of farmland, the first to Chinese investors, has sparked vigorous debate in a country that is reliant on agriculture for much of its export earnings but which is also forging closer trade and tourism ties with China. The sale was initially approved by the government in January but was contested in court by a consortium of local farmers and businessmen who hoped to buy the land themselves. A New Zealand judge in February ordered the government to review the sale using stricter criteria. New Zealand law allows the sale of farmland to foreign investors only if it can be shown to economically benefit the country. Maurice Williamson, the land information minister, said recently that after the review he remains convinced the sale meets all its legal obligations. Williamson says it was noteworthy that land sales to investors from several Western countries had proceeded without much opposition. "We've seen in recent times people quite celebrating (Canadian film director) James Cameron buying land here, because he's "Avatar," and he's "Titanic." But Winston Peters, the leader of the anti-immigration New Zealand First party, said in a statement the sale was a "treachery and betrayal" of New Zealanders and part of a push by the center-right National Party-led government to sell off the country's assets and land. The sale is to Shanghai Pengxin, which says it will spend more than 200 million New Zealand dollars ($163 million) to buy and improve the 7,900 hectares (20,000 acres) of farmland. Alan McDonald, a spokesman for the consortium opposing the deal, says it has one more legal appeal making its way through the court system and that the group is reviewing its legal options after the latest decision.
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• Ethanol plant fined: An ethanol producer has paid $800,000 in civil penalties for wastewater violations and providing inaccurate information about the discharges. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says Bushmills Ethanol violated its discharge permit at its production plant in the Kandiyohi (kan-dee-YOH-heye) County, Minn., community of Atwater in 2008 and 2009. The agency says Bushmills' penalty was especially high because of the misleading information it provided under its wastewater discharge permit.
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• USDA resource: The U.S. Department of Agriculture unveiled the first "Regional Food Hub Resource Guide." Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan introduced the new resource guide April 20 at the National Good Food Network Food Hub Collaboration conference. Food hubs are businesses or organizations that connect producers with buyers by offering a suite of production, distribution and marketing services. It's an innovative business model that allows farmers of all sizes to meet the growing consumer demand for fresh, local food by gaining entry into commercial and larger volume markets such as grocery stores, hospitals and schools. The guide is an extensive collection of information and resources, providing background on everything needed to develop or participate in a regional food hub. USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service developed the guide in partnership with the Wallace Center at Winrock International, the National Good Food Network, the National Association of Produce Market Managers and the Project for Public Spaces, as part of the National Food Hub Collaboration.
• North American Bison Cooperative Inc., with its slaughter plant in New Rockford, N.D., its North Dakota Natural Beef LLC meat processing subsidiary in Fargo, N.D., recently have been a service provider for custom-harvesting and fabricating beef cattle services for Lincoln Provision Inc. of Chicago. The two companies have no other business connection, contrary to an ambiguous sentence in an April 16 story in Agweek. The story identified Jim Stevens Jr., as the president and a co-owner of Lincoln Provision, a Chicago company since 1917. Stevens owns that company with brother, Mark, and their father, Jim Stevens Sr. Jim Stevens Jr. also has a separate protein distribution company based in St. Paul, called Lincoln Trading and Distributing Co. Separately, Stevens is individually one of the partners in Triple J Family Farms LLC. Triple J owns a newly re-opened, expanding beef plant in Buffalo Lake, Minn., which will do work for Lincoln Provision. Stevens
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Russell Brand is opening his own yoga studio because he has slept with too many of the ladies in the one he attends.
The 37-year-old star is hoping to buy a place in Beverly Hills, California so he can escape the lovers he has met in yoga classes earlier this year.
A source told the UK's Daily Star newspaper: "Since he split with Katy Perry, Russell has had sex or flirtations with quite a few of the women he used to meet in yoga classes.
"It's become quite awkward for him because now he has a new girlfriend and doesn't want to be running into former conquests every day."
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Cadillac teases a new concept at Pebble Beach
Could be a flagship sedan
Cadillac has shown renderings of an upcoming concept at a media event in Monterey, California.
Possibly a preview of the brand's new flagship, the concept has flowing lines and gently-curved surfaces. It could also foreshadow a new design philosophy that is known as "American glamour meets American technology."
According to Cadillac design director Clay Dean, the model will "reflect back not for nostalgia, but what made us great at the time." He also confirmed the company will launch ten new or updated models in the next three years.
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Very interesting lines that could belong to a sports car and even more interesting if this is a saloon.
Aug 20, 2012 12:11 am
Now this looks intriguing! It seems to have, once again, a classic 1960s "JFK" Lincoln Continental vibe about it, especially that cliff-like front with the headlights situated way down below the bonnet (hood) line. Cadillac seriously need to PRODUCTIONIZE these amazing concepts of theirs, not just build them as automotive forms of cock-teasing!
Aug 18, 2012 5:05 pm
I think it could be a sports car, Or maybe thats just wishful thinking.
Aug 18, 2012 12:35 am
Its wishful thinking. The Cadillac Cien was an absolute hit and GM has acted like they never heard of it. It would easily be an Audi R8 competitor even after all these years, it still looks fresh.
Aug 18, 2012 11:01 pm
The teasing pictures are awfull. Hope they can recreate a concept as beautiful as the Ciel.
Aug 17, 2012 11:36 pm
"American glamour meets American technology"? That to me doesn't seem like a philosophy at all. Art and Science made more sense..
Aug 17, 2012 10:45 pm
That swoopy front end not only evokes classic Cadillac, but Alfa Romeo.
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Lord & Taylor is returning to Crossgates Mall this fall.
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President Obama appointed a pioneer of the Taglit-Birthright Israel program, a prominent Holocaust historian and a top Jewish Democratic activist to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, which governs the national Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C.
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Nancy Brooks Gilbert, the CEO of Travels and Dialogues, an Israel tourism specialty outfit, designed the itinerary pilot trip for Taglit-Birthright, the program that brings Jewish adults aged 26 and under to Israel for the first time. Gilbert, who is active in South Florida Jewish groups, including the South Palm Beach County Jewish Federation, sponsors a village for orphans of the Rwandan genocide modeled on those Israel built for young survivors of the Holocaust.
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even global catastrophe can shake us from our spoiled sense of entitlement.
Too bad there wasn't video footage last Tuesday of some of the angry visitors
who, as a safety precaution, were evacuated from Disney's theme parks. As
news spread of the disasters in the Northeast, most park guests understood;
a vocal minority griped, deprived of one day of riding roller coasters and
buying t-shirts and taking pictures of a grown man in a mouse suit.
These undoubtedly are the same people who a week before cursed at and physically abused an information hostess at Disney's California Adventure because she couldn't help them find a prematurely released "mystery pin." They're the people who a week before that slapped a Space Mountain line attendant for letting through other guests who had FastPass tickets. And, they're the same people who will gripe the loudest this week, as security checks slow down lines to get into the parks.
As for me, my whole trip to Orlando this week has been canceled. Big deal. So many more have lost so much more than a trip to Disney World.
Disney's parks lost one day of operation. Last Tuesday, Disney World evacuated its four parks at about noon. One worker recounted, "We used Plan A with means an Accelerated move to the normal exit turnstiles. It's strange, but European guests were quite understanding of the reasons for our evacuation. Of course, they have dealt with terrorist attacks within their own countries from time to time. It was the Americans that complained the loudest, wanting compensation for their loss of touring time."
In Anaheim, a cast member said, "The resort closed after opening for Magic Morning. Disneyland and DCA were shut down and locked pretty tight. Cast members who remained in the park included security, custodial, facilities, characters, and management. Some of the words to describe the park from those who were there: eerie, surreal, quiet, sad, depressing, lonely."
The parks reopened the next morning, with changes extending beyond flags at half-mast. At the Magic Kingdom, TimeKeeper, which had reopened a few weeks earlier after a lengthy closure, did not reopen. The film features a brief flight over New York City, prominently featuring the World Trade Center towers. Some employees speculate the ride may never reopen.
Disney World's Jungle Cruise skippers have had to adjust their spiels. According to one captain, "In between Schweitzer Falls and the Hippo Pool, we have a plane crash show scene. It was placed there when we were no longer allowed to 'shoot' at the hippos after Animal Kingdom opened, so the joke became that hippos were responsible for bringing a plane down out of the sky. And besides, Disney had the prop laying around collecting dust, since it's the back half of the plane that is seen in the Great Movie Ride's Casablanca scene. At this time, skippers are just completely ignoring the plane crash show scene and not making any references to it at all."
Cast members have tried to keep smiling. As one Magic Kingdom employee explained: "Since Tuesday, we have continued to be open and present ourselves 'business as usual,' but the attendance figures have been very low. We also had to deal with a tropical storm on Friday, but the winds weren't as powerful as originally expected. A lot of rain fell, and over half of the park was closed. Jungle and Riverboat were down due to flooding concerns. Splash, Thunder, Aladdin, Dumbo, Treehouse, Speedway, and TTA (Tomorrowland Transportation Authority) were down, since they are attractions that were exposed to the elements. Astro (Orbiter) was down anyway due to their rehab."
"We're all stressed out right now with all of the events of the past week," a co-worker agreed. "Attendance is down to only 5,000 or 6,000 a day."
He said cast member also have begun worrying about job security. Most travel-related companies expect lower consumer spending, reduced tourism and unprecedented losses. Several have already announced thousands of layoffs. Rumors of major layoffs have hit Disney, which saw its stock price plummet nearly 20% Monday to $19.25 a share.
Immediate closure of Disney's theme parks made sense. Like New York's World Trade Center, Disney's parks are both highly populated and indelible symbols of America. They've also been targets in the past.
To be sure, most of the bomb threats received by Disneyland and Disney World over the years turn out to be hoaxes. Threats are, nonetheless, taken very seriously. Park security officers are specially trained in bomb detection and use bomb-sniffing dogs to scour the properties. On more than one occasion, Disneyland has evacuated attractions suspected of harboring explosives, including the Matterhorn, It's a Small World and Tom Sawyer Island.
The threats not from pranksters have been from extortionists who have demandedbut never collectedsums from thousands to millions of dollars. For instance, in February 1972, just four months after its opening, Disney World's Magic Kingdom received demands for $90,000. Hours later, security discovered an explosive device in a utility shed in Frontierland.
A terrorist threat would be a different matter. An extortionist wants money; the terrorist's goal is to inflict damage. Consequently, a terrorist may not issue a warning. A terrorist also is less likely to think twice about harming innocent peopleor even himself.
Usually, however, terrorist acts require more participants and longer planning, giving authorities a better chance of foiling their plans. That worked to the advantage of authorities in the spring of 1995.
Remember the sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway system in 1995? At about 8 a.m. on March 20, 1995, a terrorist from the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult released a canister of the highly toxic nerve gas sarin in the Tokyo subways. Twelve people were killed and more than 5,500 injured.
The group's next intended target was Disneyland. Their plan was that four weeks later, on Easter Sunday, two men would release sarin into the park during the fireworks show, when the crowd would be at its largest and most congested.
Fortunately, authorities got wind of the plot and warned the park. A former Disneyland ride operator recalled, "As a cast member, I remember security checking our bags as we entered work on that particular dayinstead of the normal exit check. Rumor was that there was a bomb threat. In fact, our leads on Roger Rabbit were required to make periodic walk-thru 'bomb checks' throughout the day."
According to the Baltimore Sun, federal authorities apprehended the two Japanese cult members at the Los Angeles International Airport. Reportedly, the men were carrying instructions on how to make sarin and a videotape detailing the attack.
The next day, the Justice Department claimed the whole thing was a false alarm. The Pentagon and FBI refused to comment, and the Japanese National Police chose "neither to confirm nor deny."
Hopefully, the next time we're preparing for a trip to a Disney theme park, we'll remember to pack a little more patience. The longer wait to drive into the parking structure. The slower lines at the front gates. The officers rifling through our purses and fanny packs.
They may seem like hassles but, trust me, security is doing us all a great service.
David Koenig is the senior editor of the 80-year-old business journal, The Merchant Magazine.
After receiving his degree in journalism from California State University, Fullerton (aka Cal State Disneyland), he began years of research for his first book, Mouse Tales: A Behind-the-Ears Look at Disneyland (1994), which he followed with Mouse Under Glass: Secrets of Disney Animation & Theme Parks (1997, revised 2001) and More Mouse Tales: A Closer Peek Backstage at Disneyland (1999); all titles published by Bonaventure Press.
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Speaker Aminu Waziri Tam-buwal had on November 15 constituted a 23-man adhoc panel on the bill.
However, less than one month after the committee was set up, foreign powers have commenced moves to lobby the lawmakers not to pass the bill as sent in by the president, Daily Trust was told by an impeccable source in Abuja.
Last week, US Ambassador Terence McCulley, his Canadian counterpart Ambassador Chris Cooter and that of the Netherlands Bert J. Ronhaar under the auspices of a group tagged: "Ambassadors Forum" visited the committee where they expressed serious reservations to the passage of the bill.
The three envoys presented a position paper to the committee in which they said the bill as drafted by the executive would reduce crude oil production in Nigeria as many companies would divest their investment since doing business would not be profitable for them.
A copy of the position paper seen by Daily Trust indicates that Nigeria will lose 240,000 jobs in the oil and gas sector if PIB is passed.
A top government official who does not want to be mentioned because he was not authorised to speak on the matter told Daily Trust that the major issue of contention for the ICOS were clauses in the bill which will increase government's revenue generation from Join Venture (JVs) and Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs).
This, according to the source, is a follow up to new conditions attached to both JVs and PSCs that enable the government to raise its share to rates at par with what obtains in other oil producing countries as well as introduces royalties that will allow marginal field producers to grow and compete in line with the Nigerian Content Act signed into law by Jonathan in April 22, 2010.
Reacting, the US mission in Nigeria said US was not against the bill.
"The United States is not against a Petroleum Industry Bill that is fair and equitable to all stakeholders. Approval of a sound PIB would attract investment in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria," the US embassy said in an emailed response to Daily Trust.
For its part, the Canadian High Commission said: "Canada said has not taken any position on the PIB."


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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has expressed its willingness to collaborate with the Kaduna State Government in order to flush out armed bandits that have continued to terrorise people in Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of the state and communities in three neighbouring states.
It would be recalled that recently, armed robbers invaded Birnin - Gwrai town where five policemen were killed after they burnt down the police station. The bandits also robbed two commercial banks in the area.
Speaking when he paid a courtesy call on Governor Mukhtar Yero, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, said the NAF was prepared to collaborate with the state government to comb the forest around Birnin Gwari and environs to flush out the bandits.
Badeh, who described Kaduna as a home to the military, assured that by the time the state government concludes it plans to rid the area of criminals, the Air Force would ensure that the area becomes peaceful and safe for all to go about their normal business without any hindrance.
The Air Force Chief also urged the state government to take advantage of the Air Force Institute of Technology by sponsoring more of its indigenes for training in the institute to meet its manpower demand in the area of science and technology.
In his response, Governor Yero said the activities of armed bandits in Birnin -Gwari has been very disturbing, adding that the issue was being discussed with heads of security agencies in the state.
He said the state government was doing everything possible to collaborate with all security agencies to map out strategies to dislodge the bandits, stressing that he will reach out to NAF as soon as plans were concluded.
The governor expressed his determination to amicably resolve the land dispute between the NAF Base in Kaduna and the Barakalahu community in the state.


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July has certainly cranked up the heat, which makes it less than appealing to create oven-like temperatures in my kitchen for our weekly dinner tradition, pizza Friday. If you've ever made pizza at home, you know that the oven has to be set well into the upper 400°'s to achieve a crispy crust. I don't mind this high temperature warming up our kitchen in the middle of winter, but not so much during the hottest days of summer. So, to keep the heat outdoors, we use our BBQ grill to cook pizza. Read More »
This Feta Bulgur Wheat Salad with Lemon Sirloin Steak is one of our latest grilled meals. Lean cuts of sirloin steak are grilled and then finished with a drizzle of grilled lemon juice. The steaks are thinly sliced and served over a salad made from Hodgson Mill Bulgur Wheat with Soy, tomatoes, cucumbers and feta cheese. Bulgur wheat is whole wheat that's been precooked (steamed) then dried and cracked. Hodgson Mill's version helps give these whole grains a hearty 10 grams of protein per serving which means that a little bit of meat in this meal will go a long way since there's plenty of additional protein in the salad. Read More »
Grilled pizza is one of our favorite summer meals and this Caramelized Onion and Blue Cheese Grilled Pizza was a big hit. The sweet caramelized onions, toasted walnuts and blue cheese went perfectly together on top of a whole wheat crust that became crispy and smoky-flavored from our barbeque grill. We enjoyed this pizza as a light dinner, but it would also make a great appetizer if you have a crowd to feed. Read More »
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Credit the BBC for doing its best to dispel the notion that electric-powered vehicles are – as it puts it – "dull and boring." The UK broadcaster posted a two-minute video that profiles Paul Drayson and his racing team, which is building racing EVs that can go as fast as 200 miles per hour, and really quietly at that.
Drayson Racing Technologies shows off the car via an explanation of its layout and an extremely fast lap around a racing track. Mr. Drayson points out that the car has four electric motors built by Oxford University, giving the car's technology a top-notch pedigree.
Earlier this year, Formula E Holdings signed up Drayson Racing as its first team for an EV racing circuit slated to begin next year, with the premier race set for Rome. No word on whether Drayson will try to set any speed records through the Chunnel. Check out the BBC video of this electrifying EV (sorry) below.
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Flash point is working on a 68 camaro promod i wanna pick that up next.
I will hold off, the Camaro is nice, but I want the other two he is working on. 68 Mustang and 63 Corvette.
I have pictures of the 68 Mustang, and it looks really nice. It is in primer now, but needs a few tweaks based on what Terry is saying. As for the 63, my understanding it is a ways off from being added to the site for purchase. I guess, I will either wait for Flashpoint to finish his 63 or I will be working on my own Pro Mod using an original 63 1/16 model. Just have to figure how much time I want to spend on body work.


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there seems to be a serious issue with many installs of Exchange 2013 were the RPC Client Access Service is crashing sporadically. System Event ID shows:
The Microsoft Exchange RPC Client Access service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 5000 milliseconds: Restart the service.
This stops Outlook clients connecting and mail being delivered.
There are also multiple ASP.net errors in the Application logs.
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REDD+ should finance corridors between protected areas, argues studyDyna Rochmyaningsih, special to mongabay.com
February 14, 2014
Corridors passing through the densest VCS between protected areas. a–d, Central Africa (a), western Africa (b), southeast Asia (c) and the Guiana Shield (d). Corridors are shown in white, protected areas in semi-transparent grey and VCS as a gradient from low density in red to high density in green. Courtesy of Nature Climate Change.
Patrick Jantz and colleagues from the Woods Hole Research Center created a map showing potential corridors in Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia. They calculated these corridors cover about 15% of total unprotected aboveground carbon in the tropics and, in some cases, store larger amounts of carbon than the protected areas they connect.
These connecting areas, known as habitat corridors, provide safe routes for species to migrate in response to food availability, climate change and other factors, increasing the ecological connectivity between protected areas. But these high carbon-connecting areas are often overlapped by human activities and thus vulnerable to degradation.
"Some of the corridors are touched with human activities and economic interest so we did an analysis to determine which areas are the most important ones to be protected," says Jantz.
This analysis is based on three criteria for defining corridors: (1) high carbon stocks, (2) high biodiversity, and (3) low economic opportunity costs. According to the authors, the areas that meet these criteria should then be prioritized in REDD+, a UN-program to cut greenhouse gas emissions from forest loss and degradation while supporting biodiversity and sustainable development in developing countries.
"The beauty of what we've done is not only identifying the optimal corridors for connectivity, but also identifying where to focus and get the most for a given investment," said Scott Goetz. "We're making the data sets publicly accessible via Google & ESRI."
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Louis Verchot, Research Director and Forest and Environment from Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) says that this research is timely because countries are still developing strategies for REDD+ itself and there is a good chance that corridors can be included in REDD+ design.
"This research alerts countries to the possibility of integrating wildlife corridor maintenance and enhancement into their plans as a means of achieving multiple objectives through these efforts," said Verchort.
According to Verchort, in many places in the world, corridors are not well protected. For example, the human population density has increased sharply in Kenya's Rift Valley, a traditional migration pathways of elephants between the Aberdaires Mountains and Mt. Kenya. As a result, the pathways have been cut off and there are increasing incidences of conflicts between elephants and subsistence farmers.
"If REDD+ funds could be channeled to establishing, enhancing and protecting corridors and managing the human tradeoffs, these conflicts could be reduced," he added.
In Indonesia, Iwan Wibisono, Forestry and REDD+ Specialist in Indonesia's REDD Task Force, welcomed the corridor approach.
"There is no specific focus on corridors in our REDD+ design but it is very possible to include them in our projects," said Wibisono, adding that the Heart of Borneo, an intergovernmental project between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei that protects rainforest in Borneo, could provide an example of the feasibility of maintaining habitat connectivity.
CITATION: Patrick Jantz, Scott Goetz and Nadine Laporte. Carbon stock corridors to mitigate climate change and promote biodiversity in the tropics. Nature Climate Change. PUBLISHED ONLINE: | DOI: 26 JANUARY 2014 10.1038/NCLIMATE2105


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Also known as Yautja and Hish, these brutish sentients exhibit physical features common to human beings, arachnids, and reptiles. A massive head crowned with hair-like tendrils is supported by a powerful, hulking frame, clawed fingers and toes provide natural fighting tools.
Predators are more advanced than the human race. Their weapons, body armour, and spacecraft reflect technological developments thousands of year's superior to ours.
They hunt species that provide them with an honourable challenge. Armed humans and Xenomorphs are considered great adversaries. A Predator won't hunt infants, unarmed humans, or people suffering from diseases as these would be considered dishonourable kills.
In the game, Predators make use of stealth and tactics, stalking their prey before making the killing blow.
The Predator story begins in an eerie jungle where he embarks on a rite of passage.
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A shoulder mounted plasma cannon capable of blasting through a Xenomorph carapace or human armour.
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The preferred melee weapon of the Predator race. These double bladed weapons are attached to the wrist and can slice clean through carapace and bone.
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The active camo worn by Predators on the hunt. Xenomorphs are able to "sense" the invisible Predators but humans won't realise they're being stalked before it's too late.
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The Aliens, also known as Xenomorphs or Intervacius Raptus, are vicious monsters capable of breeding fast and killing faster. Thick, black carapace armour protects their vital organs, and their blood is acidic – burning through the strongest metal.
Xenomorphs are aberrations, combining the worst of all our natural fears. Their tongues are tipped with an extra set of jaws. Black armour covers their almost reptilian bodies, and long, barbed tails are used to impale their victims.
This species functions on the whim of a hive-mind led by an Alien Queen.
Tails, claws, and jaws are the Aliens weapons. He's also able to sense his victims through walls and can blend into the shadows to perform stealth kills.
Gameplay with the Xenomorph is fast and melee based. The Alien character is born as a Chestburster in a human lab but starts as a full grown Warrior.
Aliens use their razor sharp claws to slash and tear through their enemies. Using their natural speed to circle their targets turns this attack into a whirlwind of terror.
A mouth within a mouth. All Aliens have an extending tongue tipped with another set of jaws. While the jaws damage foes, it also regenerates the Aliens health, draining vital life from its enemies.
The Aliens tail is a powerful, prehensile weapon, capable of tearing through sheet metal and walls. Tail assaults are swift and unexpected. Used in combination with their claws, Aliens are able to take out a Marine in a matter of seconds with this attack.
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The Colonial Marines are hardcore, battle-trained spacefaring soldiers, prepped for war. Marines are equipped with shoulder mounted torches, navigation maps, and motion trackers to help them gain the advantage over the technologically superior Predators and physically superior Xenomorphs.
The human Marine starts out above planet preparing for a combat drop. The mission is compromised when a Predator ship appears out of nowhere and attacks one of the fleet. The player, called "the Rookie", awakens amidst the chaos. The Marine campaign is most like a classic first person shooter.
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Bachelorette 2013: Desiree's Season "Set the Record for Most" WHAT?
The Bachelor/The Bachelorette producer Robert Mills certainly knows his audience. Fresh off the heels of perhaps the most shirtless season of The Bachelor yet, Millsy made a pretty bold boast on the Twitter machine April 11. "This season of The Bachelorette has set the record for most nipples." *record screech* Say what?!
First off... most nipples ever? He can't possibly mean in franchise history. We're pretty sure Sean Lowe only wore three shirts for his entire season of The Bachelor. And who can forget two seasons of Brad Womack's washboard abs? We certainly haven't.
We're thinking Robert's claims must be limited to The Bachelorette. Nevertheless, a claim this brazen warrants a little investigation. If we absolutely have to, we'll go through every episode in the eight prior seasons to see what the current record is. You know... for science. (Hey, do you know if we can we get a grant for this kind of in-depth, groundbreaking research?)
Well, it's not like ABC would just cut off our supply of hot, bare-chested single dudes, right? After all those scenes of Sean swimming without a shirt — plus the weird, soft-porny outtakes of him in the shower — audiences are going to expect a to see some nipples. Plus, after Dez's heartbreaking dumping by ol' Twinkle Toes, she deserves a wide selection of hot, shirtless dudes to help her ease the pain.
Might we suggest a tagline for this upcoming season? "The Bachelorette: Now with even more roses... and more nipples than ever before!"
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AboutEdgar Modern is pleased to announce that our next landmark exhibition will feature paintings from the internationally acclaimed Paul Wright. The show, entitled âPortrait of an Icon', will include exclusively new work that has been created in response to the gallery space. Wright said he has been focused on creating a ânew set of strong, focused, punchy and explosive pieces'. The results are a highly ambitious exploration of colour, shape and form with Wright pushing his skilful techniques to the limit. Wright was born in 1973 in Leicester, and originally trained as an Illustrator at Falmouth School of Art, a profession that he rejected immediately in favour of fine art. He has spent the last 14 years developing his distinct painterly style, one that has seen him exhibit all over the world. âPortrait of an Icon' will see Wright's three core distinctive subjects working together to create a dialogue within the gallery space. These strands can clearly be identified as what he describes as his âheads', or portraits, which have been a constant concern throughout his career alongside âobjects' and his newest obsession âinteriors'. Although his subjects can be recognised as strongly traditional Wright seeks to transgress the unwritten rules that underlie them by using challenging colour in unexpected ways. Wright's work is full of a captivating vitality that draws the viewer into the relationship between the painter and his subject. For Wright, for painting to be relevant today the artist must seek to push their representation beyond creating merely a likeness of their subject. The work must go deeper revealing experience, emotions and capturing a moment in time. He says âfor me a work is successful if, however flawed it is, the artist has exposed something of themselves.' His paintings seek to be purposefully open-ended creating a space for the audience to discover meaning in their compelling implied narratives. This is an unmissable exhibition at a key moment in the career of a significant British painter. Paul Wright's âPortrait of an Icon' is sure to be an exceptional collection, which Edgar Modern is excited to present.
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By: Christian Bebis (@CBebis)
As Blue jays fans we know that we need to get where we once were, and that is a World Series championship. But before we can reach that goal we must look at the bigger picture, and the bigger picture is at least trying to make the playoffs.
We have all seen this team progress under the rule of Alex Anthopolous, and this off-season was no different. This off-season Alex's main focus was to revamp the bullpen, which he has done.
The Blue Jays look like a much more balanced and effective team on paper now than they looked last year at this same time, but does that mean we can make the playoffs?
Yes, but it will be tough. There are too many "what if's" going into the season to tell if the Blue Jays can make a serious run at the playoffs. If they Jays are able to answer all these what ifs with positive answers there is no reason that the Blue Jays can't make the playoffs this year.
This is a solid young team with a lot of upside and very small downside and if they can remain healthy throughout the season it seems the team can and will be able to make a playoff run.


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January 15, 2006 7:45 AM PST
Cisco Systems to target consumer market
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- This is another company following the Ipod movement. Dell has done it, as have other PC vendors. Now we are seeing companies further from the market coming to play too.
I doubt this will see a net gain any time soon for Cisco. This is just a "me too" type statement that might bring in some support from share holders anticipating Ipod type results. Reality will be a lot of investment, and that means an initial loss before arriving at the market.
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- This is so typical of former high-growth companies that wind up crowding all of their competition out of their market (either by acquisition, which is Cisco's normal modus operandi, or bludgeoning out of existence, which is Microsloth's) and then start flopping around just as you would expect a gigantic fish out of water to do. The closest thing Cisco has to consumer products are the Linksys SOHO networking products, and they are nowhere near being easy enough for Joe Six-Pack (my brother-in-law) to set up correctly, much less Josephine the Plumber (my Aunt). John Chambers recently appeared on Charlie Rose, and he didn't even understand the difference between Moore's Law (microelectronics _density_ doubles about every 18 months) and microelectronics _performance_ increases (it's only been about three orders of magnitude, vs. about six orders of magnitude for density, over the last few decades). The only way that there's going to be any significant growth in networking performance for Joe Six-Pack is if the bandwidth over the infamous Last Mile undergoes another three-plus orders of magnitude increase (it's only gone up about three orders of magnitude in the last 30 years, and most of that during the last five years). Since the fiber-optics layers all went and wasted all of the available capital for the next few decades on burying cables parallel to each other (95% of which are still dark/unused), it will be a cold day in a very warm place before fiber makes it into your living/family room/den (does anyone even have a den anymore, other than foxes?).
It's possible that one of the coming wireless broadband schemes might solve the Last Mile conundrum, but not at the prices the FCC has become accustomed to collecting for RF spectrum, what with the buying orgies the cell phone services companies had been having until the capital well ran dry. We were supposed to have self-configuring 100 MBps mesh network bricks on our roofs/balconies by now that would be available at WarMart for under $100, with no additional service cost, and all schools, libraries, police, and fire departments were supposed to get them for free, subsidized by sales of the retail products. Basically, you put up a brick, it finds the closest ones to it, and it establishes network connections (yes, multiple, parallel streams) automagically. As additional bricks are put up around the periphery of a given area, they can provide connectivity to those that are added in the next outer layer. Master access points at WarMarts and other businesses with direct fiber access would provide the connection of the mesh networks to the fiber backbone (basically, any business with more than 100 phone lines (or equivalent video bandwidth) gets direct fiber access installed to their premises, now).
Forget trying to wade into netPhone handsets and digital media center hubs, Chambers. Where the hell are our $100 autoconfiguring wireless broadband mesh network bricks, not to mention our free Hovercars with mobile mesh-net brickettes, 70-inch plasma displays, and iBlobs with cradles? How does it all get paid for? You have enough to buy your very own oil company, by now. Do I have to do _all_ of your work for you, and still get nothing from your paycheck?
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