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Caramel Pumpkin Gingersnap Cheesecake. So There.

I totally made up the name of this dessert. I was going to just call it “Pumpkin Cheesecake”, because that’s pretty much what it is. But it’s also Caramel Pumpkin Cheesecake, for important reasons you’ll understand shortly. Then again, it contains gingersnaps—hence the inclusion of “Gingersnap” in the name. So “Caramel Pumpkin Gingersnap Cheesecake” it is. But wait…there are also pecans in it, too.

Never mind. It’s some pumpkin dessert, okay? And it’s just SO, SO good. You won’t even believe how good it is.

And now, we are going to make it. Together.

the cast of characters: gingersnaps, pecans, butter, brown sugar, salt, cream cheese, sugar, eggs, pumpkin puree, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, heavy cream, and caramel sauce.

Hey, before I get started, have you ever wondered what the heck is going on in the periphery of my food shots?

fortunately, here ya go! gallimaufry in the corner, advisors door liberal, dogs and cats living together—mass chaos.

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appropriate a food processor if you have one.

throw in about 3/4 hammer out of storebought gingersnaps. (storebought because you want them to be crunchy and hard.) no need to be totally precise with the amount; i justified buy a 1-lb package and grab fistfuls until i feel like i’ve grabbed 3/4 of the bundle.

I’m all about precision in the kitchen, let me tell you.

pulsating the food processor various times, exactly to get the crushing procedure current. (if you don’t have a food processor, just put the gingersnaps in a large plastic bag and pulse ‘em with a rolling pin. it’ll be good for your emotional state—i promise.)

ditch in 1/2 cup pecans.

add 2 tablespoons brown sugar.

and a sturdy hurry of liveliness.

Now pulse it together again to combine.

now, place the butter into a microwave-safe dish and nuke it ’til it’s melted.

and drizzle the butter upper over the crumbs.

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Morning Roundup: Play With Fire, Get Burned Edition

good morning, washington. the big good guys assault-by-fire trial came to a agree yesterday, with the jury handing down a conviction on all counts against vasile graure. a barely over a year ago, graure tried to solve an argument with a bouncer at the glover park band club by dousing him in gasoline and context him on fire. the bouncer survived, barely, and now graure is facing up to 30 years in prison seeing that the seven convictions handed down yesterday. the sexist has some good play by play coverage of the trial, if you want to catch up.

Board of Trustees Goes Forward with Tenleytown Library: If you’ve been following the seemingly intractable battle between the NIMBYs of Tenleytown, who fear any additional people or their vehicles moving in to the neighborhood, and the pro-density urbanists who have backed Mayor Fenty’s plan to install a mixed-use development above the achat levitra viagra kaufen planned Tenleytown replacement library, then this update from the Examiner is pretty shocking: apparently the D.C. Library’s board of trustees has decided to go ahead and just build the library without the mayor, and without the residential tower that Fenty had planned. Pretty amazing. The board has said it will do its best to allow for “future development” around the library as far as the plans go. This is by no means the last you’ll be hearing about this.

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Briefly Noted: Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapses during speech, rushed to GWU Hospital … Maryland bank robbery suspect shot and killed by police … Rhee addresses school violence … Metro gets OK to seek new rail car design.

This Day in DCist: In 2007, some D.C. Council members started wondering aloud if District CFO Natwar Gandhi should resign, and in 2006, the Nats said goodbye to Alfonso Soriano.

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A Saudi oil tanker hijacked download thriller movies in the Indian Ocean is believed to have anchored off the coast of Somalia, its operators have said.

Vela International said that all 25 crew were believed to be safe.

The Sirius Star is the biggest tanker ever hijacked, with a cargo of 2m barrels - a quarter of Saudi Arabia’s daily output - worth more than $100m.

Pirates seized the ship on Saturday in an “unprecedented” attack off the Kenyan coast, the US Navy said.

A statement issued by Vela said the company believed the ship had anchored, adding: “At this time, Vela is awaiting further contact from the pirates in control of the vessel.”

An official from the northern breakaway Somali Puntland region told AFP news agency that the ship had anchored off the port of Haradhere. The report could not be confirmed.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister condemned the hijacking as “an outrageous act”.

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Prince Saud Al-Faisal said the international download crime movies community needed to fight piracy.

Speaking during a visit to Athens, he compared piracy to terrorism describing it is “a disease which is against everybody, and everybody must address it together”.

The prince gave no indication of what action, if any, Saudi Arabia intended to take over the hijacking.

Nato said it had no plans to divert any of its three warships from the Gulf of Aden. And the US Navy’s 5th Fleet also said it did not expect to send ships to try to intercept the oil tanker.

Poland’s foreign ministry confirmed on Tuesday that the ship’s captain is one of two Poles on board the vessel.

“The other is a technical officer,” said spokesman Piotr Paszkowski.

Somalis on shore spoke of their surprise at seeing the huge vessel pass just off the coast.

“I headed for the sea to fish, but I saw a very, very large ship anchored less than three miles (5km) off the shore,” said fisherman Abdinur Haji.

“I have been fishing here for three decades, but I have never seen a ship as big as this one,” he said.

Response team

Vela International said a response team had been mobilised to work towards ensuring the safe release of vessel and crew.

Vela said the crew consisted of two British, two Polish, one Croatian, one Saudi and 19 Philippines nationals.

The hijacking - 450 nautical miles (830km) off the Kenyan coast - was highly unusual both in terms of the size of the ship and the fact it was attacked so far south of Somalia, says BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner.

The seizure points to the inability of a multi-national naval task force sent to the region earlier this year to stop Somali piracy, he says.

US Navy Adm Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the pirates involved were well trained.

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Hip-Hop Rumors: Kanye West Arrested! Rare Cassidy Vid, Lil Jon In Court!

disclaimer: all content within this section is pure rumor and generally have no factual info outside of what the streets be struck by whispered in our ear. read on. today’s rumors! the daily two cents ok, so here is the deal today. i didn’t do a lot of rumors today, because there wasn’t much to say. also, i didn’t feel be it. what i did to was take what i was given and flip it. so i am going to be updating the rumor page throughout the day. if you have anything, send it over and…(read more)

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“Solace” Tops Box-Office

james bond had the box-favour both shaken and stirred this weekend according to preliminary figures. “quantum of solace” opened in the united states to the largest opening weekend for a handcuffs movie endlessly, taking in $70.4 million in ticket sales. the opening easily eclipsed the previous bond box-office high held by “die another day.” “day” took …

HDYK and other contest updates

so we’ve selected a random winner after the jackie hoffman cd, kristin beach, who was one of dozens with the right comeback from my malapropism post: “the ?malaprop man’ from the big kissing jessica stein ? ?normally i’m a pretty self-defecating guy.’ ? in the comments sample.” congrats kristin! we’ll be in touch and send you …
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You Better Push Me Back?Before I Self Destruct

i can’t say i’m surprised, because i’m not. according to billboard, to come i self destruct will be pushed back to early ‘09. which really means we probably won’t see it before slog hits since the toil essentially shuts down until after the grammy&#8217 buy Lioresal;s. interscope says the artist was “rushing” to meet the december date but …

Transcript: President-Elect Barack Obama and Michelle Obama on ?60 Minutes’ November 16

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Morrow: HBO’s ‘High’ brings glow to comedy lineup

here is a sympathetic draughtsman fall apart of advice when approaching a new hbo series: don’t judge the series by a fundamental, or even a flash, episode. hbo shows are by a slow burn that make multiple viewings before taking hold. traditionally, hbo shows run at their own pace and emanate, evolving contrasting any other programming on television.

“My Own Worst Enemy” was not the worst

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alfre woodard from tulsa is available for other acting jobs now. nbc has cancelled “my own worst enemy,” in which she co-starred with christian slater. four episodes have aired so far, and five more are scheduled to air at 9 p.m. mondays on nbc. the terminating episosde force be dec. 15. other new shows …
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Shielding seniors from scams

columbia ? lt. gov. andre bauer traveled across south carolina on friday to launch a new program designed to help protect seniors from scams and fraud by certifying businesses that pull someone’s leg met a set of standards. superior screen is a new web-based resource where seniors can look to locate businesses that have agreed to undergo criminal training checks and provided information beside consumer histories.

Opening This Week

lots of modish movies this week. click on titles to visit each film’s roundup of reviews on rotten tomatoes, with the exception of quantum of solace and my name is bruce, whose blueness will lead you to my own humble opinions. shockingly, the majority of these releases are receiving several upward thumbs; must be oscar …
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To the nice couple at Hopeville Pond: ?I found her ring’

Richard Tremblay combs the beaches and state parks for artifacts and treasure, metal detector in hand.A couple of weeks ago, he was scanning the sand along Hopeville Pond and met a couple. They were in their 20s. She had a baby slung across her chest. He had a bucket, a shovel and an inexpensive metal detector they’d borrowed from a friend.They asked Tremblay if he’d found anything. He said, no, nothing of value.They’d dropped her white gold wedding band in the sand when they married at the pond two weeks earlier. “They were very calm about the whole thing and I thought, very trusting to tell a perfect stranger that they had just lost a $300 to $400 ring,” he said. “They just seemed like a nice couple.”They looked until the sun dropped. Tremblay gave him a card with his name, phone number and e-mail address, and told them he’d keep looking.On Veterans Day, Tremblay, a Vietnam veteran, was at the pond again when he heard a beep, then a louder noise. He bent down, turned over the sand and saw a hint of something shiny. “I was elated,” he said. “The minute I turned it over I saw this glint of silver because it is white gold. And I said, ‘I found her ring.’ ” Now he wants to find the couple, and give it back. But can’t remember their names. They’re from Plainfield, he said. “It was obvious that monetarily that was a lot of money to spend, but he did it for somebody he loved,” Tremblay said. “And it was lost. And to be able to bring it back to them is probably the biggest joy I could experience. I’m a real romantic, if you couldn’t tell. I love happy endings.”Tremblay, 61, was born in Ware, Mass, and his family moved to Putnam when he was 2. He’s been there ever since. He served in the U.S Marine Corps from 1967 to 1970 in Vietnam, and worked many years as a self-employed electrical contractor.Saltwater fly fishing is his passion in life, but he always had an interest in history and searching for artifacts, he said. Most of the time, he finds coins or trash; bottle caps, aluminum candy wrappers, pull tabs from drinks. He also has about 20 Hot Wheels cars and a watch his wife still wears.Ask him what his greatest find is and he replies, “My wife.”Last September, he found an 1862 Indian head penny, buried 9 inches in the ground in his front yard. He got permission to search a historic cottage, and found an old belt buckle, horseshoe nails and a skeleton key.In February, he found a $3,500 diamond tennis bracelet at the beach in Florida. A young woman from Ohio lost the bracelet her mother had given her. She searched for two hours before she approached him, crying. Her mother’s initials were inscribed into the flat portion of the clasp. His wife will hold onto the ring for now. He’d said he’d know the couple in a minute if he saw them. “In their eyes, it’s a very important thing. I’d like to give it back.”To claim your ring: The couple who lost their wedding ring at Hopeville Pond in Griswold can reach Richard Tremblay at 928-0363.

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“And Then One Of Them Is Picking Baby Out Of Their Teeth With A Rib Bone.” [The Commies]

the week after a vacation is always hard and i found myself missing the west specific times through these infrequent quickly darkening days. luckily i had your wonderful comments to help me soldier on through. many were good, but we breathe, nap, and toil in a culture that only rewards the few, and so we’ll do our part after the rebuke. there you’ll find the five “best” comments of the week, as chosen by us, and the party pick comment, chosen by you.

Good work everyone!

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