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"I firmly believe that kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your binding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble."
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Happy Mothers Day to all you rocking mothers out there! It's the toughest job in the world, frightening at the worst of times, yet rewarding when you least expect it. These charming little Mini Quark Vanilla Cheesecakes with Balsamic Cherries are to celebrate what we've been doing for days, months, years!!I love Erma Brombeck, and her words hit a home run each time I read them. "I interviewed sitters for six months. It's depressing when you realize no one wants to be paid for what you've been doing for years for nothing."We are a family that lives for dessert. Dessert in every avatar, from simple stewed fruit like apples or peaches to a good baked cheesecake, it's the end of the day which brings the 'sweet teeth' together! These little cheesecakes were the perfect delicious end that day.Oh did I tell you CHERRIES are finally here? They are indeed!! Loads of them. Yay for summer. I ♥ stonefruit!!After the wonderful verdict on the Vanilla Quark Cheesecake {Vanilla Quarktorte} with Roasted Balsamic Strawberries, I knew that quark was going to appear on my menu often … and I wasn't wrong. My next batch of quark as ready and I was itching to experiment yet again.Some found it's way into a warm potato salad, and more in these North African inspired preserved lime stir fried chicken for wraps. I had a whole batch to play around with, and while it was draining in the fridge I had a brainwave. I really loved the biscuit like base of the Daring Bakers Armenian Nutmeg Walnut Cake. It was easy to make and seemed a versatile base for bakes.So these little cheesecakes were inspired from the Daring Bakers challenge of May and my recent Vanilla Quarktorte. It made sense somewhere in my head to try and bring the two together. This time around, I went with what I enjoy most – petite fours, or small individual desserts.
A petit four is a small confectionery generally eaten at the end of a meal or served as part of dessert and has an interesting history. The name is from the French petit four, meaning "small oven". Petits fours were traditionally made during the cooling process of coal-powered brick ovens in the 18th century. This was due to coal's high burning temperature, relative to wood, and its expense at the time. Wasting the heat produced was not an option.There are two different categories of petits fours. Petits fours secs that include a variety of small desserts, and Petits fours glacés are iced or decorated in some way. There are also Petits fours salés which are bite-sized salted appetizers.
I used a similar cherry sauce topping in this Bittersweet Chocolate Marquise with Crème Chantilly & Balsamic Cherry Sauce about a year ago, last Mothers Day! This morning, I got cards from the kids, and an 'errands' booklet {I can ask him to brush the dog 100 times, entry into room etc} from the pre-teen, and a little poem too. I like his poem 'Trouble' the best!
Summary: Mini baked vanilla quark cheesecakes, cooled then chilled overnight. Serve topped with a delicious balsamic cherry sauce! Makes 12
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
- Crust
- 125g plain flour
- 50g whole almonds
- 40g brown sugar
- 90g unsalted butter, chilled, cubed
- Filling
- 470g quark cheese (I used homemade full fat quark}
- 3 eggs, separated
- 30g cornflour
- 130g (90g+40g) Castor sugar
- 1/2 vanilla bean, scraped
- 1/2 tsp vanilla bean powder
- 200ml low fat cream, room temperature
- 1 tbsp kirsch
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- Balsamic Cherries
- 500g cherries
- 2-3 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 1 tbsp kirsch {optional}
- Preheat the oven to 200C. Line a baking tray with aluminum foil, and grease lightly. Grease 12 3″ dessert rings {you could use 8″ spring form tin too and make 1 big cheesecake}
- Biscuit Crust
- Place the flour and almonds in the bowl of your processor and pulse until the almonds are ground {4-5 times}.
- Add the brown sugar and pulse a couple of times to mix.
- Now add the chilled butter and process until you get a breadcrumb like mix. {You can do this by hand too, but a processor is far quicker and easier}
- Divide between the 12 tins and pat firmly to create a base.
- Place tins on the foil lined baking sheet.
- Divide filling equally over the bases {not more than 2/3 full}, and bake at 180C for 35 minutes, until firm. They will puff up towards the end of baking, and then settle back in while cooling.
- Allow to cool completely in oven, leaving the door ajar.
- Cover well and chill before serving, preferably overnight. Serve topped with balsamic cherry sauce.
- Filling
- Place the quark cheese, egg yolks, cornflour, 90g Castor sugar, scraped vanilla bean, cream, kirsch and vanilla bean powder if using into the bowl of your food processor and run on medium speed till smooth. {Thermomix: Speed 6, 10 seconds}
- Beat the whites with the remaining 40g sugar to firm peaks. Gently fold this through the quark cheese mixture.
- Balsamic Cherry Sauce
- Place ingredients other than kirsch in a non reactive pan and simmer until the cherries release their juices and begin to get soft and hold their shape, about 4-5 minutes. {Don't overcook or the cherries will break down and lose shape}
- Remove the cherries to a bowl. Place pan with the liquid on medium high heat and reduce the juices to about a third, nice and thick. Stir in the kirsch if using. Cool completely and chill until required {Can be made 2-3 days before}.
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u are already getting cherries?!?! envy you!! love the pic of the bowl of cherries on the back of a cycle!! so cool!!
A fabulous Mother's Day dessert! So refined.
Have a great day!
These individual serving cheesecakes look divine! Happy Mother's Day!
yum looking cheesecakes…….absolutely LOVE your pics!!!!!!!!hope you had an amazing ..pampered day…..put you feet up and not do a thing kinda day:)
Cherry cheesecakes! They look so devine! Hope you had a lovely Mother's day! Yes, it is the hardest job in the world but one I'd never give up!
Ah, the cheesecake looks wonderful. Hope you had a great day!
I do agree on the quote you have shared above. Kids doesn't need attention with their parent, they just need simple understanding that every parents forgot to do. Since today is mother's day I also want to make something special for my mother and the recipe you have share is good. Thanks for sharing this i think that my mom will love it.
Deeba ,I was so intutive about this post that you are going to play with stonefruits in the recipe. just perfect for the Mothers Day.
Let me congratulate you ,your kids are very very creative.After seeing your daughter's sketches now it's Rohan's poems ! boy is vey expressive.
Love ya .
Happy Mothers Day Deeba! I hope you got that card, breakfast in bed…whatever you wanted.
Lol about Erma's words about finding willing paid sitters for kids! But we would not give up our kids for all the money in the world, would we?
Your little desserts look very inviting, almond crust, umm! Cherries there? That means I can bake a BFC sometime! Happy mothers day!!!
They look wonderful Deeba!! one question: are those dessert rings you've used?
Mindblowing cute looking mini cheesecakes,loving that almond crust.
Happy Motherday too, Der deeba. I am not a fan of cheese cake but this looks so good with the cerries.
Oh! I love cheesecake particularly the blueberry cheesecake. We always have that home because of me. I never get tired of eating this. I actually bake one when I have extra money because the ingredients are a little expensive so I really need to allot money if I want to bake a cheesecake.
Love all the rustic antique props you have Deeba! Ver very beautiful collection!!! If I ever visit Delhi you have to take me to that shop 🙂 :)….
I actually bake one when I have extra money because the ingredients are a little expensive so I really need to allot money if I want to bake a cheesecake. Thanks for sharing..
How wonderful to have fresh cherries in season. We have another month or more until they're here. I'll have to remember this luscious dessert when they arrive. Lots of sweet teeth at our house too. Happy Mother's Day!
These charming little Mini Quark Vanilla Cheesecakes with Balsamic Cherries are to celebrate what we've been doing for days, months, years!!
I love cheesecakes and this one is one delicious little gift for mothers this Mothers Day. Happy Mother's Day to all Mom's out there.
what a great recipe, love the quotes too 🙂 Happy mother's day!
I love cheesecake particularly the blueberry cheesecake. We always have that home because of me. Thanks for sharing this recipe..
We always have that home because of me. Thanks for sharing this recipe. Looking forward for more awesome post.
I cangt wait try this cheesecake..Sounds like good to eat..
As always, Deeba – beautiful. 🙂
keep coming across quark on your blog. must try it one of these days!
I live for dessert as well! This looks outstanding!
ah Dear for me this is absolutely amazing!!
Gorgeous photos, as always! Love those cherry shots…
Ohh yeah, my kind of dessert 😉
Those mini cheesecakes are fabulous and the cherries on top are fundamental!
Hope you've had a Wonderful & Happy Mother Day 🙂
Love, love these little cheesecakes! So cute and beautiful at the same time. Enjoyed your Erma Brombeck quotes. Looking fwd to cherry season out this way – you've inspired me to make mini cheesecakes too now! 🙂
Gorgeous cake. I love that you are using quark cheese so often. I make my own all the time and am looking for ways to use it. This recipe is perfect. Only we don't have cherries yet. I bet strawberries will work too, and there would not be a dilemma of "what am I doing in the pits" 🙂 Happy Mother's Day! (better later, right?)
Wow! this mini cheesecakes looks delicious! makes me want to dive in for a bite. I guess i need to give this try. Thanks for sharing your recipe!
Awww what a beautiful post
These looks fantastic.. mmm yummy!
What a wonderful treat, hope you had a great mother's day. xx
Sweet looking cheesecakes, i'm sure they taste really good. craving for some! yum! 🙂
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Turns out that my end of fiscal year went pretty well, and I'm about to get a big chunk of change in my next pay packet. As a result I'm going to be able to do the three big projects across the course of the summer - wheels, lift and front bumper - but I'm not going to be able to do them all at once. What's the best order in which to do them? I want to do what seems to be the fairly standard combination - 35s with 2.5" lift. If I do the lift before I have the wheels, it will look a bit silly with the stock rims. If I do the wheels first, they'll rub. If I do the bumper first, I'm concerned that the extra weight will cause problems with the ride.
Get your wheels/tires and lift and do them at the same time. If you can't afford to do that and the money is burning a hole in your pocket, go ahead and get the front bumper. If not then save until you can do the lift and tires at the same time. You can put the 35's on without the lift as long as you have correct back spacing, but I don't recommend doing any wheeling. It will be fine for normal on-road driving.
If you put on 35's with no lift, you better drive like grandma. I have 2.5" in lift (Actually 3" but with heavy bumper winch it like a 2.5") and I hit a big pot hole and it busted my front fenders loose. I had to add flat fenders even with 2.5" lift. So I wouldn't ever recommend putting 35's on a stock Jeep.
Lift, tires, bumper.
I bought my tires and wheels first (285/70r17) and then bought my 2.5 lift about a month later. Really would have wished I would have waited to get some 35'. If I could do it again, I wouldn't mind dipping my stock wheels and buying the 35' along with the lift. Then I purchased my bumper. Just depends on whether you can save your money
Thanks all. Pretty sure I'll be able to do wheels/tires simultaneously - the challenge might be persuading Mrs Peg of the importance of doing it......
If you get the wheels and tires first, just leave 'em in the garage till you get the lift installed. They will be motivation for making the lift happen faster. Would seriously considering bumping that lift up and inch if you want to wheel the jeep in the rocks and stuff. I have a RK 3.5" X factor and routinely put my wheels into my fenders on all four corners while rock crawling. This was solved by installing genright's. Keep in mind that by going 35's your acceleration on the street is going to be hampered till you change your gear ratio.
For the guys that are burying their 35s in the fenders, two questions:
What shocks are you running? What's their collapsed length/extension?
Did you change/add bump stops for the new shocks/tires?
To the OP: I don't mind looking ridiculous. I got the lift first because I knew that would be the single biggest improvement to my performance...although the timing on the lift and bumpers was pretty close - that's more a judgement call.
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You can do 35's on the stock setup but as I said before, I would not recommend wheeling it. I did not have any rubbing on my flares but I did have a little bit of rubbing on the front plastic airdam at full steer. I also trimmed my pinch seam to give me a little more clearance for the rear. That was an easy fix and took all of 5 minutes to remove it. When I was running mine, I did not have aftermarket bumpers or rock rails. I ran it this way for about 2 weeks while I waited on my Metalcloak lift to arrive.
I'm doing the lift on mine first and driving it around for a few days. Sure, it will look goofy but I want to make sure the lift itself doesn't throw any wobble or weird behavior at me before I add larger tires to the mix.
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Skip to comments.King Tut exhibition 'racist' [no mention of Africa & suggests ancient Egyptian king was white]
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Judging by the drawings, they look like dark brown blacks. The Bible rebukes the idea Mizraim is a white.
There's a wide variation in Africa, just as there is in Asia. You have the Israelis, the Saudis, etc occupying southwest Asia, and the Vietnamese, Chinese, Koreans, etc occupying eastern Asia, and they look fairly different as humans go.
But realistically, the people who live on the shores of the Mediterranean have much more in common with each other, culturally and genetically, than they do with people far removed from the Mediterranean
So, does this mean he's a right wing monarchist?
If you look at the drawings of the Egyptian women, they are much lighter than the men. The men are tanned from being in the sun more than the women
American blacks are various shades of brown because most American blacks have various percentages of European ancestry in their genetic lines
Molefi Asante, a professor of African-American studies at Temple University...At least a couple of things wrong in that sentence...
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Time to call for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the 'Justice Brothers".
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"According to the drawings they made of themselves, they were White."
Well, they must have been drawn by racist artists.
I don't know.
That mummy sure looks black to me!
Not all African blacks have extreme dark skin, flat broad noses and full lips. Anyway, didn't King David call Egypt the land of Ham in Psalms?
Egyptian art wasn't concerned with accurate depiction of racial subtypes, they were meant to illustrate the glory and significant achievements of the pharaohs and their relationship to the gods.
Egyptian hierarchical art functions on the order /concept of group, not race or skin color.
In some cases, persons or gods / goddesses may be shown as green, blue, or yellow, indicating associations with the nile river, or the sun, respectively.
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MOST blacks who are Egyptian in todays Egypt will tell you the same thing. King Tut was a black boy. Plus there is still an Upper and Lower Egypt. Upper is Sudan and lower is the Macedonian/Arabic Egypt. The Bible says Mizraim is the son of Ham. Mizraim in Hebrew means two nations.
I realize all that Black Athena business is plumes of Osiris -— i.e., bullfeathers.
Nevertheless, most scholars are satisfied that the great royal wife of Amenhotep III, Tiyi, was the grandmother of Tut.
And if you search for her image you will find she was obviously of Nubian, or Negro, or African, ancestry.
Wow, you mean these idiots do not understand that Egypt is part of AFRICA?
This is college?
King Tut was pre-Alexander
Yes, but Cleopatra wasn't.........
Good catch... however, he may have called it that after one of Noah's sons (Shem, Ham, and Japheth).
If I remember my Bible, Ham was the one whose decendants build the tower of babel... and was cursed with some sort of sign by God for building it)
King Tut looked like (a very young) Barbra Streisand?..........
No wonder they had to get out of Egypt! It wasn't kosher!......
His nose is too small (someone had to say it... might as well be me).
Well, he was only 19 or 20 years old. Hadn't had time to fully ripen yet.........
Now I have to clean my monitor... coffee all over it!!! Great line... wished I'd thought of it (I'm sure I'll use it in the future)
Believe me - there is nothing on earth like a fat white Italian communist telling you what it truly means to be black. Nothing.
P.S.: I saw this Philadelphia show. It's fabulous and I recommend it to everyone. Not as good as the Met's show back in the 1970's (the "mask" that the event is using in its publicity is not in the exhibition, but it's very good, anyway.)
That's as likely a possibility as the other. After all, there are pyramids in Mexico. ;-)
any chance it'll come to Boise, Idaho? or anything will come to Boise, Idaho...
well teh Boise State Broncos beat the Oklahoma Sooners in the Fiesta Bowl... one of the best college bowl games ever... according to John Madden.
Sorry got sidetracked... what is the show you saw and where can a person see it?
Protest marching is their job. The question is who pays them?
Why not? Teh-ray-zah is African.
Thinking the same thing here. Most likely, like many countries on the continent of Africa and in the Middle East, natives came in every color from pale to blue-black.
And if there is no mention of Africa, that's a little odd but not terribly significant, IMO. Guess they figured everyone already knew that..? I saw an exhibition at the Smithsonian years ago on Indian/Mayan/Aztec civilization and the Spanish conquest. They didn't *SAY* the soldiers were from Spain..lol.
Come to think of it, they didn't tell me the Mayans or Spaniard were black or brown or red either....
I guess facts just irritate some people.
An Egyptian display with *no mention of Africa*? Where'd this guy get his education?
Look closely at the Tut mask.Are you telling me that by modern defintion that that looks like a WHITE man.Tut's mom,Tiy,was very defintely Negroid.Look at any busts of her.
The problem with the Afrocentrists is that they get the Egyptians often mixed up with"pure"Negroid types such as Nigerians or Liberians.By this defintion,Egypt can not be called"Black".
Yet it certainly was not a "white"nation either but a polyglot of Caucasina,Negroid and Asiatic peoples who mingled for thousands of years.
Some Arabs ARE black,or at least have lots of black or Negroid blood.
Example-the current rulung military clique in The Sudan.Lighter than the darker skinned Southerners but still"black"as defined by American standards.
Wonderful line, Steve. And so true of liberals I've known. That kind seems to be drawn especially to the educational and "news" trades.
Shame on you!
Hey, if you're still online, FReepmail me please?
I think he's actually American born Arabic;
>>If a person doesnt know that Egypt is in Africa, then they need to go back to grade school.
Besides, who really cares what color they were?<<
Obviously, Prof. Asante cares - indeed, very much so.
It seems he and others are desperate to legitimize their own race. At least that is how I see it.
Just updating the GGG info, not sending a general distribution.
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well duh.....Tut was Caucasoid.
guess they should thrown in some Nubes to soothe the brother's beast
I damn sure do when they lie incessantly and work overtime in psuedoscience to try to disprove anything substantive that ever happened in the course of human history was White or European when in fact the opposite is more true than not.
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Unexpectedly long hospital stays as an indicator of risk of unsafe care: an exploratory study
- Ine Borghans1,2,
- Karin D Hekkert3,
- Lya den Ouden2,
- Sezgin Cihangir3,
- Jan Vesseur2,
- Rudolf B Kool1,
- Gert P Westert1
- 1Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare (IQ Healthcare), Radboud university medical centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2Dutch Health Care Inspectorate (IGZ), Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 3Dutch Hospital Data (DHD), Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Correspondence to Dr Ine Borghans; hj.borghans1{at}igz.nl
- Received 30 December 2013
- Revised 15 April 2014
- Accepted 16 May 2014
- Published 5 June 2014
Objectives We developed an outcome indicator based on the finding that complications often prolong the patient's hospital stay. A higher percentage of patients with an unexpectedly long length of stay (UL-LOS) compared to the national average may indicate shortcomings in patient safety. We explored the utility of the UL-LOS indicator.
Setting We used data of 61 Dutch hospitals. In total these hospitals had 1 400 000 clinical discharges in 2011.
Participants The indicator is based on the percentage of patients with a prolonged length of stay of more than 50% of the expected length of stay and calculated among survivors.
Interventions No interventions were made.
Outcome measures The outcome measures were the variability of the indicator across hospitals, the stability over time, the correlation between the UL-LOS and standardised mortality and the influence on the indicator of hospitals that did have problems discharging their patients to other health services such as nursing homes.
Results In order to compare hospitals properly the expected length of stay was computed based on comparison with benchmark populations. The standardisation was based on patients' age, primary diagnosis and main procedure. The UL-LOS indicator showed considerable variability between the Dutch hospitals: from 8.6% to 20.1% in 2011. The outcomes had relatively small CIs since they were based on large numbers of patients. The stability of the indicator over time was quite high. The indicator had a significant positive correlation with the standardised mortality (r=0.44 (p<0.001)), and no significant correlation with the percentage of patients that was discharged to other facilities than other hospitals and home (r=−0.15 (p>0.05)).
Conclusions The UL-LOS indicator is a useful addition to other patient safety indicators by revealing variation between hospitals and areas of possible patient safety improvement.
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Restore: State of the Everglades - Summer 2011
What's new for the Everglades 2011?
It has been an exciting year thus far for the Everglades. Restoration projects and project agreements are moving forward. Audubon's Everglades team has been hard at work requesting increased protections for Lake Okeechobee's water quality and the quantity of water available for wildlife such as the endangered Everglade Snail Kite. As we continue to keep a close eye on restoration progress, including moving forward the discussion of operating structures and completed projects to provide maximum benefit for the ecosystem, we hope you will join us in our efforts by continuing to take action on important decisions. Please also consider making a contribution so our team can maintain its diligent efforts to protect and restore America's Everglades. We appreciate your continued support!
Help Audubon protect the four corners of the Everglades.
Our Everglades team of science and policy professionals works tirelessly throughout the year in the four corners of the Everglades. In the Northern Everglades, Charles Lee advocates for water quality improvements through partnerships involving landowners to store water to filter pollutants on their lands. Julie Hill-Gabriel, Megan Tinsley and Jane Graham work toward restoring the Water Conservation Areas, Southern Everglades and Florida Bay as Brian Moore works to get Everglades projects funded from Washington D.C. Brad Cornell leads the fight for issues impacting the health of the Western Everglades, while Eric Draper, Julie Wraithmell, and Mary Jean Yon head up our efforts in Tallahassee. Audubon's science experts are stationed in various locations to inform us about the needs for the health of the Everglades: Dr. Paul Gray near Lake Okeechobee, Dr. Jerry Lorenz and Peter Frezza based in Tavernier, and Ed Carlson and Jason Lauritsen at Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary.
Our State of the Everglades Report provides updates and highlights on the progress toward restoring the Everglades.
Northern Everglades
Ranchers and other landowners will be compensated to leave portions of their land innatural conditions. Photo by Mac Stone.
Audubon applauds the announcement by U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack that $100
million will be utilized to fund land conservation in Florida through the Wetlands Reserve Program
(WRP). The goal is to compensate
ranchers and other landowners who leave portions of their land in natural
conditions and retain water on those lands while continuing their agricultural
activities. Interested landowners are
still in the midst of the application process, and the focus is on
approximately 24,000 acres in the Northern Everglades.
This will complement the WRP
allocation of $89 million last year in the Fisheating Creek watershed, as well
as the proposed conservation easements pursued by the Department of the
Interior in the Everglades Headwaters Conservation Area, and efforts to expand
and conserve land near the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge. Audubon has been advocating for funding
dispersed water management, and promoting conservation through easements by contacting
landowners and urging them to investigate and consider participating. This
comprehensive approach to utilizing wildlife corridors and cost-effectively
providing water management and water quality improvements can show demonstrable
near-term benefits.
Audubon is
succeeding in its efforts to champion Dispersed Water Management, the cost
saving program that promotes private landowners in the Northern
Everglades to store and clean water on their land for payment. Despite
the unprecedented $128 million cut to their FY 2012 budget due to Senate Bill
2142, the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) continued to
encourage this innovative program by increasing funding by $5.7 million,
totaling $14.5 million for FY 2012. This is in addition to our victory last
year when funds for these projects were doubled. For the next few years, funds
have been reserved for this program to continue the exciting momentum. Audubon
plans to continue our work with landowners to advocate further enlargement of
this popular program.
Check back with Audubon in the coming weeks for ways you can help the proposed Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge.Photo by RJ Wiley
The U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service is nearing an announcement (likely in September) of the
proposed plan for establishment of the Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife
Refuge and Conservation Area. Conceptually proposed to consist of 100,000 acres
of conservation easements and 50,000 acres of full acquisition, this proposal
has become extremely attractive to landowners in the Kissimmee River basin.
Several major landowners, including one of the largest- the Latt Maxcy
Corporation- have indicated an interest in selling easements or land. We
anticipate that the proposal will concentrate on several large ranch tracts
from known willing sellers and contain specific assurances that the Florida
Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will manage any lands open to public
hunting and fishing. Watch for future Restore
announcements of public meetings and the opportunity to comment. A strong positive response from Audubon
members and chapters will be needed!
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Audubon's critical Everglades research depends on your support - Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to the Tavernier Science Center so we can continue the research that is absolutely vital to understanding the effects of Everglades restoration projects. Help Roseate Spoonbills, Wood Storks and the Everglade Snail Kite return in abundance to their native habitats!
Protect the Everglades' Liquid Heart!
The Audubon Everglades team has been vigorously advocating for
improved water quality protections in the Lake Okeechobee
watershed. Over the past six months, Audubon actively worked with the SFWMD,
Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and the Florida Department of
Agriculture and Consumer Services throughout the Lake Okeechobee Protection Plan
2011 update process.
Our team has advocated for a more in-depth and robustly funded
dispersed water management program, improved agricultural and urban nutrient
source controls north of Lake Okeechobee, and cost effective water treatment in
the Northern Everglades. In addition, Audubon presented our recommendations at
the SFWMD February Governing Board meeting, along with a letter signed by hundreds of citizens
across the state regarding the need for increased protections for our great
lake. Thank you for your support!
Okeechobee's wildlife needs greater protections during the dry
season. We continue to advocate for the US Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE)
and SFWMD to make lake management decisions that conserve water in the lake to
protect critical habitat for the Everglade Snail Kite. The lake's Minimum Flows and Levels rule,
intended to protect the lake from significant harm, was in violation for
the first time in July 2011. Audubon has requested that recovery measures be
implemented quickly to emphasize further water conservation. Audubon's
leadership on this issue has gained attention from the agencies and the public,
and we continue to vigorously campaign for solutions.
Everglade Snail Kites are known as an indicator speciesfor the health of the Everglades.Photo by RJ Wiley.
Audubon was saddened to report that the extremely low water levels in Lake Okeechobee caused endangered Everglade Snail Kites on Lake Okeechobee to leave their nests stranded. The Kite's success is one of three system-wide indicators for the health of the Everglades. Baby Kites were abandoned in the nests by parents in search of food, and those that did fledge had little suitable habitat remaining. We await final reports on young Kite survival this year but the projections are bleak. Lake Okeechobee remains perilously low and without sufficient tropical weather, the severe drought will extend until next summer.
Because the Everglades
is divided by canals, roads and levees into different compartments, managing water
levels in these areas is a challenge. Inflows are often limited by competing water uses, leaving areas such as
Water Conservation Area 3A (WCA-3A) parched in extremely dry years, such as
this. More water storage and treatment
options, as well as improved water management upstream, are needed for water
releases to the environment in dry years. And until restoration projects such as Tamiami Trail bridging and the essential project to remove dams and levees called Decompartmentalization come online, outflows from WCA-3A will continue to be
limited, leaving water in wet years to pond at the southern edge and degrade
nesting habitat for the endangered Everglade Snail Kite.
Audubon supports efforts by the
ACOE and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through the Everglades Restoration
Transition Plan to approach managing water levels in WCA-3A to benefit multiple
species of wildlife until we have more capability for true restoration. In addition to providing critical habitat for
Snail Kites, WCA-3A is also utilized extensively by nesting wading birds,
including Wood Storks, and it is important Everglades
habitat that needs improved management.
Indian River Lagoon is one of the mostproductive estuaries in the nation.
The contract awarded in July to
build part of the Indian River Lagoon Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan
(CERP) project marks the newest rung to be cleared on the Everglades
progress ladder. The ACOE awarded the $32,420,192 contract to Phillips &
Jordan, Inc., to build the C-44 Reservoir and Stormwater Treatment Area (RSTA)
component of the project, which will begin reducing nutrient loads and improving
salinities downstream. The project is expected to break ground in October and
this phase of construction is scheduled for completion in 2013.
The St. Lucie Estuary and Indian River Lagoon are two
of the most productive estuaries in the nation. Achieving the most ecologically sound balance of fresh and salt water in
the estuary and lagoon, while improving water quality, will bring ecological
and economic benefits to the region. Moving this project forward is the newest success in restoration, which
also demonstrates the need for continued commitment while we are on the brink
of demonstrable results.
The C-111 Spreader Canal is expected to beginoperations in the second half of 2011. Photo by Mac Stone.
Everglades Restoration
Projects Move Forward
Two CERP projects are moving forward,
with the promise of delivering increased freshwater flows to parched southern
estuaries. The C-111 Spreader Canal
project construction is virtually complete and is set to begin baseline
operations later this year. Along with
the C-111, the SFWMD also expedited the Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands project
and construction on two of the three project components has begun.
Audubon celebrated the beginnings
of both projects and maintains that their operations are critical to their
success. Raising water levels at
appropriate structures is how the C-111 project will be able to deliver the
volumes of freshwater flow to Taylor Slough and Florida Bay
necessary to begin to reverse current degradation. Adjusting current water management practices
that lower groundwater levels in the south Dade region annually will allow for
Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands project features to deliver increased
benefits. As Everglades
restoration projects move from planning to construction and finally completion
phases, progress on appropriate operations is critical to ensure projects
deliver their full ecological benefits.
Visit RestoreFloridaBay.org
Photo by Mac Stone.
This spring, Audubon launched a virtual laboratory website- RestoreFloridaBay.org -where visitors can uncover the interaction between the components of a healthy Florida Bay. Four visually stunning videos introduce the Florida Bay ecosystem and the data collection efforts of Tavernier Science Center research biologists.
Analysis of water quality, aquatic vegetation, and fish community data that Audubon has collected in the southern Everglades for decades will more conclusively identify specific restoration targets for Florida Bay. It is a critical time to provide feedback to decision-makers as the C-111 Spreader Canal project is close to completion and must be operated appropriately to deliver ecological benefits to Florida Bay.
Visit RestoreFloridaBay.org today to pledge your support for restoring this incredible estuary and to share stories of your experiences visiting this special place!
Audubon was thrilled to hear the recent news that the Florida Supreme Court agreed with Audubon's position and overturned Governor Scott's executive order that suspended all state rulemaking. Audubon filed a "friend of the court" brief in a case brought by Rosalie Whiley, a blind woman whose application for food stamps was put on hold by Scott's rule suspension. Audubon's brief argued that Governor Scott acted contrary to Florida's laws on rulemaking and the effect of his actions included halting an important rule proposed to protect freshwater flows in Biscayne Bay. The court's ruling puts the public back in the rulemaking process. Progress can now resume on vital protections for the precious water resources of Biscayne Bay, the Caloosahatchee Estuary and the Kissimmee River.
Everglades advocates make adifference for our one-of-a-kindwetlands!
The enduring push to remove portions of Tamiami
Trail to restore more natural water flows into Everglades National Park
continues to be an example of how when Everglades advocates speak with a
persistent, united voice, the rewards of restoration progress are bound to
follow. The wave of progress that has
accompanied these efforts continues.
First, after twenty years of setbacks, interested
parties came together to support construction of a one-mile bridge, set to be completed in 2013, to begin reconnecting the habitat so critical for
the endangered species that need these improvements for population
Then, with the help of many
Audubon activists, the National Park Service developed and approved plans for
the additional bridging of 5.5 miles that will increase habitat connectivity by
500% while providing economic benefits to Everglades
National Park and Florida Bay.
The next step is to achieve approval from
Congress, and important victories have already occurred. When the Appropriations Committee of the
House of Representatives passed a bill that funds the Department of the
Interior and Environmental Protection Agency, approval of the 5.5-mile
bridge project was included. Keep a
close eye on upcoming Restore action
alerts to help make sure this language is included by the full House of
Representatives and the US Senate.
The Obama Administration makes the messageclear: Everglades restoration is a top priority.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
made the message crystal clear: restoring the Everglades
remains a top priority. The groundbreaking
held February 18 for the Faka-Union Canal Pump Station and Spreader Canal,
along with road removal and plugging of canals, make the Picayune Strand
restoration project a big Everglades success
story. When complete, the project will
reclaim 55,000 acres of over drained subdivision and recreate cypress sloughs,
marshes, tropical hammocks and wet prairies, while re-establishing sheetflow to
the Ten Thousand Islands estuaries. "We
cannot stop now," said Salazar. Audubon
and its allies are working to secure funding for the final phase of restoration
for the Miller Canal.
Invasive exotic species pose some of the biggest challenges to protection and restoration of South Florida's unique environment. This spring, a huge victory took place in the battle to control threats from exotic plants including melaleuca, lygodium and Brazilian pepper, which is a goal of CERP and an important part of the equation for restoration efforts. Audubon of Florida and local chapters celebrated as construction began on a facility that will raise insects to control the populations of these exotic plants.
This cooperative project, made possible through a joint effort of the ACOE, SFWMD, University of Florida, US Department of the Interior and US Department of Agriculture, will raise, release and monitor these "biocontrol" agents which can decrease plant size, flower and seed production and increase leaf mortality. The insects will be cultivated to specifically impact the targeted plant species and tested to ensure they are safe for release with no unintended adverse impact on the ecosystem. This joint effort is the biggest such effort to advance in the Everglades.
Audubon expects public hearingson the expansion of the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by RJ Wiley.
Audubon of Florida and its panther
conservation allies applauded Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's bold
announcement in January, of a Greater Everglades
Partnership Initiative or GEPI, including expansion of the Florida
Panther National Wildlife Refuge in the Western Everglades
by at least 50,000 acres.
Like the
parallel GEPI refuge proposals in the Northern Everglades
and Fisheating Creek watersheds, the Panther Refuge expansion would feature
collaborative work with ranchers, predominantly using easements.
The Florida Panther is an
indicator species for progress on Everglades
restoration – success should be reflected in recovery for panthers and the host
of wildlife sharing its expansive habitat. Audubon expects public hearings on
this in the fall. Stay tuned to the Audubon of Florida News blog for the latest information.
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ROBBINSVILLE — Township officials hope the proposed 2013-14 municipal budget will be the first of many with a stable tax rate.
Mayor Dave Fried presented a $21.9 million budget to the council last night that calls for a 2-cent tax-rate decrease, to 52.2 cents per $100 of assessed value. A taxpayer with a home assessed at the average value of $381,000 can expect to pay $1,992 in municipal taxes this year, a reduction of $76.
"If we can keep the tax rate stable for everyone, that's the most important thing," Fried said.
The proposed budget includes a $650,000 payment from online retailer Amazon, the first in a 20-year tax incentive plan that enticed the company to open a 1 million-square-foot warehouse in town.
"This is one budget," Council President Ron Witt said. "But if we're smart and cost-conscious at the government level — and we don't have any big swings in costs — with the additional money coming in, we can achieve tax stabilization."
The budget is down nearly $400,000 from last year, which Fried attributed to a number of small cuts in different township departments.
Included in the budget is an $809,000 debt payoff on the Kushner property, an open space tract purchased by the township in 2007. Original plans called for a $300,000 payment, Fried said.
"The more we wean ourselves off of debt, the less interest we're paying, which would allow us to provide further tax relief or continue to provide services," Fried said.
Fried said the budget had enough surplus funds to provide further tax relief, but it would be a one-time payment, leading to a tax increase next year.
Resident Rich Cruser said the tax decrease was welcome, but paled in comparison to tax increases over the years.
"In the past few years, my taxes have gone up $550 and you're giving me back $75," Cruser said. "I don't know what to do with that extra $75: get a big box of cereal or fill my truck up with gas."
Councilwoman Sheree McGowan was quick to point out that municipal taxes only made up 22 percent of the 2012 tax bill, with the school district accounting for 55 percent and the county making up 23 percent of the taxes paid by residents.
"When they see a budget, everyone has the same thought, to cut expenses," Witt said. "What do we cut? You get to a critical mass. You can't cut out life services. You can't cut trash collection."
The council also heard from Barbara Paskewicz, the widow of 40-year-old William Paskewicz, who was killed in a Jan. 27 hit-and-run crash on Robbinsville-Allentown Road.
In tears, Paskewicz requested the council look into constructing sidewalks on the road, in honor of her husband.
"We need sidewalks on that road so this doesn't happen to anyone else," she said. "If we can get sidewalks put in there so he did some good in his life, maybe another life can be saved."
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