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That's Random! A Look at Viral Self-Assembly
It should be noted that indeterminacy does not imply that God does not have foreknowledge of future events. Christians ought not to be uncomfortable with the idea of God interacting with his creation through chance.
Katharine Hayhoe: Evangelical Christian, Climate Scientist
As an Evangelical and a scientist, Katharine Hayhoe is already a member of a rare breed. As a climate change researcher who is also married to an evangelical Christian pastor, she is nearly one of a kind.
Series: Divine Action in the World
In this talk, Professor Plantinga addresses the fact that many contemporary thinkers—including many theologians—believe that God cannot perform miracles, providentially guide history, or interact in the lives of people, as these activities would be contrary to science. Plantinga, on the other hand, makes the case that this popular view is mistaken; excluding divine action in the world is not a central feature of natural science itself, but a philosophical or theological preference that has been added on to science (and can just as readily be removed). Plantinga concludes that it is completely logical to accept the miracles of the Bible and support contemporary science.
Hominids Lived Millions of Years Ago, but How Can We Tell? (Videocast)
This BioLogos videocast addresses the age of recently discovered hominid fossils and how scientists are able to obtain those dates.
Dead Bones with a Living Message
In this video, Pääbo covers a lot of ground, noting several lines of genetic evidence for the evolution of modern humans from earlier hominids in Africa, as well as for the interbreeding between early humans and Neanderthals.
From the Dust: Framing the Debate
So why are Christians nervous about evolution and why do we even use a phrase like the 'e' word? The word itself has a negative connotation in many groups.
Daniel Harrell on Embracing Science
In this video, Pastor Daniel Harrell encourages the Christian community to embrace science as an element which can harmonize and strengthen, rather than attack and undermine their understanding of theology.
Daniel Harrell on Adam and Eve
In this video, the Rev. Daniel Harrell discusses how there may be some "middle ground" in the way that Christians understand Adam and Eve. Harrell points out that the historicity of Adam and Eve does not necessarily conflict with science.
Ard Louis on Intelligent Design
In this short video, physicist Ard Louis expresses some doubts about Intelligent Design, noting that his primary resistance to the movement is based on theological grounds rather than science.
Evolution: What We Know and What We Don't
In this video conversation, Jeff Schloss makes the observation that when we use the term "evolution", it is not always exactly clear what we are actually discussing unless we denote the intended usage.
Are We Genetically Predisposed to Believe in God?
While the question of evolutionary predisposition toward religious belief may be challenging, Christians need not see it as threatening. In fact, this is actually a Pauline notion that is explored in Romans 1, where Paul claims that it is in mankind's nature to "know God".
Using Film to Catalyze Conversations on Faith and Science
What are the best ways to spark productive conversations about science and faith? Certainly there are books, articles, blogs (like this one), and podcasts. But there are particular advantages to using film.
Randomness and Evolution: Is There Room for God? (Videocast)
This BioLogos videocast addresses the idea of randomness as a part of natural selection, and whether it challenges the possibility of God using the evolutionary process as a means of creation.
Beginning with the End in Mind
In today's video, Oxford physicist Ard Louis discusses the famous debate between renowned evolutionary biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Simon Conway Morris over the idea of evolutionary convergence.
What Do You Mean When You Say "Evolution"?
In this video clip, Oxford University biophysicist, Ard Louis posits that one of the reasons Christians are hostile to evolution is that they latch onto a particular definition, which puts it in conflict with their theological convictions.
Series: It's an Old World After All
In our sixth BioLogos videocast, we take a look at the age of the Earth. We explain four methods scientists have used to determine that age: tree ring, lake varve, radiometric, and seafloor spread dating, and also offer some theological insight on how an old earth can fit with the first chapters of Genesis.
A Paradigm of Compatibility
In today's video, Brian McLaren explains his own comfort with accepting Scripture and evolution, seeing the process of evolution as a wonderful opportunity for adaptation, growth, and development and a reflection of God's glory.
Saturday Sermon: "Science vs. Faith: A False Dichotomy?"
If God has indeed created all things, pure scientific truth should never be a "problematic thing" for Christians. If anything, scientific truth enriches the faith as it reveals his majesty and provides Christians with a deeper understanding of God.
Worshiping, Growing, and Learning
Yesterday, biology professors Randy Moore and Sehoya Cotner raised the concern that workshops focused on evolution-related training do not reach not reach creationism-based biology teachers. Today, we'd like to focus on BioLogos' efforts to address that divide through our Biology by the Sea workshops.
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Games have been a mainstay of culture throughout history. Indeed, academic disciplines, simulations and even virtual worlds have been launched to understand and harness the power of games. Today, gamification moves beyond entertainment to business performance, using intuitive design, intrinsic motivation and the sense of accomplishment that comes from completing activities with clear – and personal – value.
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The Department of Engineering Technology is housed in the Kansas Technology Center on the Pitt State campus. The Engineering Technology Programs are comprised of elements of the technological spectrum requiring scientific and engineering knowledge plus the operational methods and skills devoted to achieving practical purpose in support of product producing industries.
ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY: prepares applied engineers and technologists who apply electrical and electronic theory through the solution of real-world problems in today's technological environment. It offers a broad curriculum in areas such as industrial controls, microprocessors, power, computer/digital instrumentation, local area networks and telecommunications. This program appeals to students who have an aptitude for math, physics and working with computers and electronics devices. | MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY: prepares applied engineers and technologist who plan what a product will be made of and how it will be manufactured. Manufacturing Engineering Technology appeals to students who have an aptitude for working with machines and solving production problems. Students who build, tinker, and fix mechanical devices are usually successful in Manufacturing Engineering Technology. This program involves the use of computer integratied manufacturing as well as conventional manufacturing methods and processes. |
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY: prepares applied engineers and technologists to enter employment related to engineering design and manufacturing. The Mechanical Engineering Technology program appeals to students who have an aptitude for using mathematics, physics, engineering drawing and computers to design and buld mechanical systems or consumer products. | PLASTICS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY: prepares applied engineers and technologists who manufacture and design plastic products. Plastics Engineering Technology appeals to students who have an aptitude for mathematics, chemistry, computers and working with machines. The program involves the use of plastics production machinery, computer integrated manufacturing, and materials testing processes. |
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Just 25 miles west of the capital, the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead provides a vital gateway to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as being on the doorstep of Eton Dorney Lake – the venue for the rowing, Paralympic rowing and canoe sprint events.
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Backstrom Joins Ovechkin In Moscow
With games now canceled until November 1, the time is ripe for more players to jump ship over to Europe. Players such as Nicklas Backstrom, who has joined Alex Ovechkin in the KHL on Dynamo Moscow, according to the blog Alex Ovetjkin and @plysenkov of Sovetsky Sport.
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Antepliler 46 Grand Parade
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Green Lanes
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- Transport:
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I think the reviewer really should have made more of a mention of the first place mentioned, which is certainly not a 'low-key cafe', but a wonderful and (in London) unique establishment which specialises in offal. Their kebabs of liver, hearts, sweetbread, kidneys and testicles are served beautifully with bread, spices and salad. They also serve delicious stews. They are also very friendly, and there are often women as well as men eating in there. It is a great place to stop to get a very cheap and high quality meal.
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Being a good food admirer, I can assure you this restaurant is on the top of the list of best authentic Turkish. Kebap is one of the strong branches of Turkish cuisine and antepliler is the most nearing one in London. Service needs to be improved though in terms of communication skills and meeting&greeting. My strongest criticism would be on the size of tables and esp chairs. I feel like Gulliver in Lilliput Island there.
hc Sat Jun 2 2012Rated as: 5/5 -
I have been going to this restaurant for a long time and I can undoubtedly say (due to my fussy nature) that they serve the best Lahmacun!!! Never had a bad dining experience there and the waiter though not the friendliest in the world still put up with my demands of persistantly asking for a serving of the old salad they use to give with their food :) You cant go wrong really, at £2.50 a lahmacun eating in or £1.50 for a takeaway!! Cant comment on their kebabs as never go for those but try mercimek kofte (a cold dish made from lentils) as a starter very yummy!
Nel Sun Mar 25 2012Rated as: 5/5 -
we went here tonight 6 of us. the staff were unfriendly, rude and had no manners. we were not happy with the service. the prices were very expensive for the quality of the food this was low. because of the recommendations from friends and from these reviews we thought and anticipated much better. we were very disappointed.
Disappointed Sat Feb 11 2012 -
I eat here last night as where we planned to eat could not fit us in. We had to wait for a table but hey it's Saturday night and we had not booked. It was well worth the wait as the food was top draw. My wife and I took her sister who had never eaten in a Turkish resturant so we ordered loads of different dishes and they were all great my favourite being a pride with mince lamb and spices. We will be returning agoan as I have not eaten better else where.
Neil Baynes Sun Jan 29 2012Rated as: 5/5 -
Wow, this place seems to divide opinion! I don't think service is their strong point but considering how busy they are at all times, I'm not sure what they could do about that - more staff would not be the answer! Better than Cirrik and Mangal in Dalston, I adore the bustling atmosphere, I've never had anything approaching a bad meal here, the quality of meat is superb, and funnily enough one of the things that stands out the most for me is the rice... seriously, it's a cracking dish on its own...
Greg Wed Jan 11 2012Rated as: 5/5 -
First time in a Turkish restaurant (25/11, before Spurs game). My best mate and I took the advice of the friendly waiter, ordered 2 starters to share followed by the lamb tava stew...which would feed 4 as tapas style dishes. Everything was excellent, only downside was 55 minute wait for stew, but believe me it's worth it. So my tip, order ahead or try the kebabs, but don't take the turnip(b?) juice.
Les Y. Tue Nov 22 2011Rated as: 5/5 -
This restaurant is simply amazing! Away from my (turkish) family and now living in the UK i sooo miss good turkish food, so my friend & I decided to go there last Thu. It was not overcrowded, everybody was very friendly. We had 1 sucuklu Pide, 1 Mercimek (red lentils) soup, 2 Lahmacun with side salad, 1 Ayran, 1 Coke and 2 Teas for only 17,80pounds. In contrast to the restaurants we been to in London city, I can say that this play serves quality meals and it's not as expensive as in some pubs where you have to pay 14pounds for a fish&chips. I certainly will go there on my next visit, which hopefully will be very soon!
Celsem Tue Nov 1 2011 -
What a fabulous place to eat. Hot food, well cooked with delicious sides to accompany it. I always leave completely satisfied, and if we cannot finish it all they pack it for us and we take it home. I don't visit london as often as I would like, but this restaurant I would make the 400 mile round-trip for...not kidding. Eat here, it is authenthic, great service too. (try the lamb with cheese and pistachios)
ThiDr1 Thu Sep 1 2011Rated as: 5/5 -
Vegetarians! Look out for the "Vege Plate" stashed away in the long list of mains: it's well worth visting just for this dish of mixed meze, rice, pastries, and other yummies. Vegans had better pass.
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Faculty return.
Freshman Retreat.
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WISE, Va. — The No. 11 Railsplitters fell from the ranks of the unbeaten Saturday, as the Cavaliers of the UVa.-Wise erased an 11-point halftime deficit to upend Lincoln Memorial, 81-80, in overtime. The loss dropps the Railsplitters to 6-1, while the Cavaliers improve to 5-5 with the victory.
LMU struck first in the extra frame with a jumper Vincent Bailey with 3:13 to play. A three-point play by Matt Day on the ensuing possession for the Cavaliers swung the scoreboard in UVA-Wise's favor at 78-77 with 2:23 on the clock. Bailey answered again with another jumper to give LMU the lead, however, Day drained two more free throws to give the Cavaliers an 80-79 lead with 26 seconds on the clock.
Following a brief 80-80 tie following a made free throw from Bailey, Darius Smith and C.J. Wakeley got tangled up in the ensuing possession to send Smith to the line. Smith knocked down one of his two attempts with three seconds remaining and the Railsplitters' game-winning attempt came up short.
The opening portion of the first half belonged to UVa.-Wise, as the Cavaliers established a 12-8 lead on a jumper by Matt Day at the 15:27 mark of the period. The Railsplitters responed by cutting the deficit to one thanks to a bucket from Jake Troyli with 14:08 in the frame and took the lead two possessions later when C.J. Wakeley drained a three-pointer at the 12:41 mark to make it 16-14 in favor of LMU.
There were five ties over the next eight minutes, but the Railsplitters closed the half on a 9-0 run, highlighted by a buzzer-beating three from Cam Carden to take 46-35 lead into the break.
Coming out of the locker room, the Cavaliers quickly erased that deficit with a 16-5 run, capped with a Javon Moore trey to tie the contest at 51-51 with 17:06 left in regulation. LMU responded a short while later with an 8-0 run — consisting of four points apiece from Vincent Bailey and Dustin Craig — to assume a 62-56 lead with 11:28 in the game.
But UVa.-Wise refused to go away. A Wally Jones 3 put LMU up 73-66 with 4:02 remaining in regulation, but the Cavs got a jumper from Javon Moore, 3 from Matt Day and a jumper from Jermaine Wright to tie the game at 75 with 32 seconds on the clock. The Railsplitters had two chances to win it in regulation, but couldn't connect and the game went into overtime.
The Railsplitters finished the game with a 44.7 percent shooting clip from the field but struggled mightily from the charity stripe with a 6-15 effort from the foul line. Bailey paced LMU offensively with 19 points and also led the 'Splitters to a 44-42 advantage on the glass with 12 rebounds to notch his second-consecutive double-double. Dustin Craig came off the bench to spark the Railsplitters with 18 points as the combination of Bailey and Craig highlighted a 44-36 advantage in the paint for Lincoln Memorial.
Wally Jones and Wakeley were the headliners of the LMU back court, as the two combined for 24 points in the contest. Jones tallied 13 points and dished out five assists in 36 minutes of action, while Wakeley also paired five assists with 11 points.
Cam Carden added eight points and seven rebounds with Jake Troyli notching nine points and five boards.
UVA-Wise implemented a balanced offensive attack to take the victory. Javon Moore led all players with 20 points and reigned in a team-high 10 rebounds. Darius Smith added 16 points, while Matt Day (15), Jermaine Wright (14) and James Turner (10) also finished with double-figure scoring.
The difference came at the free throw line, as the Cavaliers made 12 more trips to the charity stripe and drained 16 of their 27 attempts on the afternoon.
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A-Rod would be a nice fit here, but at shortstop. A-Rod will want monster dollars, too. He isn't worth it unless you make postseason incentives part of the deal. Illitch has to weigh the potential increase in fan attendance (with having A-Rod) and paying that monster contract. I think Boston is the "perfect" place for A-Rod. Short, left-field porch will make it easier to break Bonds' HR "record." Seems weird to walk away from that much money. He'll be hearing the boos in Yankee Stadium next season if he stays in the A.L. I don't think A-Rod liked playing in NY at all and didn't want to say it publicly (which was smart).
Rockies had no chance. I saw that after the Sox turned the tables on the Indians who had all the MO before Beckett sucked the life out of them. Don't want A-rod, just one big stopper.
JOEL ZUMAYA TAKES AIM: 'I will prove this world wrong' I'm not sure if I would have told the interviewer that I was crying in bed because people thought I was lying. But each to his own. He's an emotional dude. It really is a shame he's had so many BS injuries. 1) guitar hero tendinitis 2) popped ligiment in throwing finger 3) box falling on shoulder??? Come on man. What's next? Maybe he'll get his throwing hand caught in a meat grinder and it will just turn into spaghetti. The only comparable injuries were Lou Whitaker's dancing injury and Willie Hernandez's gardening accident. It's like baseball's version of the Spinal Tap drummers' woes.
I thought it compares to Dave Rozema's injury when he fell and cut himself on a beer bottle. Just so happens the bottle was in his pocket at the time
In my opinion these episodes in Zumaya's life and his attitude in public make me appreciate even more the attitudes and actions of Stuckey and AJ, both of whom are at least I believe 2 years younger than Zumaya.
He also hurt his knee with his kung fu kick in a brawl in '82 between the Tigers and Twinkies. Rozema: Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Fidrych hurt his knee in spring training in '77 trying to jump over a fence.
Just curious as to what you guys would think about picking up Bonds for cheap. We'll call it investing in junk bonds. 1B- Guillen 2B- Polonco SS- Renteria 3B- Cabbrera C- Rodriguez LF- Bonds CF- Granderson RF- Ordonez DH- Sheffield Jaques Jones is our weakest link right now and Bonds' offensive #'s are still pretty good. Especially when you consider all of the walks that he gets. I know that the obvious answer is that he'll be a distraction and he might be in jail during the post season, but just wanted to throw it out there for discussion. Not sure how I'd feel about it. It would be sort of like acquiring Artest... in 13 years or so.
Nah, I don't think we need him. If Jones is the weakest link, then we're in an awesome shape. How many other teams can say that?
Whenever I think of BB, I think of those stories with him in his own section of the locker room with his big leather lazy boy.
I would also think that he'd have to DH with all of his injury issues. And we have no spot on DH with Sheff already sitting pretty.
Just stick him in LF and tell Granderson that he has to basically play 2 positions. What about Piazza for a backup catcher and then resume trying to trade Inge?
I am not sure Piazza's knees would hold. I believe he DH'ed last season. Wilson is also supposed to come back later on during the season. But Tigers do need someone to backup Pudge as you can't expect him to play 130-140 games. I wonder what's on Dombrowski's mind.
I say "no" to Bonds, too, although I think it would be cool if the Stinkees picked him up. That would liven up things in the Big Apple. I would like to see him playing next season because things are more interesting when he's around. Just not in a Tigers' uni. Too steep a price to pay on the PR front.
It would be an interesting idea if we wanted to play Shef in left field and DH Bonds. Having said that, I don't think it will happen.
Tigers love Cabrera's glove Nice little feel-good piece about Cabrera's fielding. Woo-hoo, he might be better than average! Great news.
Leyland announced his intended lineup against Right handed pitchers today. So, here it is + ave + slg against RIGHTIES ONLY Granderson/.337/.621 Polanco/ .345/.460 Sheffield/ .271/.461 Ordonez/ .351/.564 Cabrera/ .309/.534 Guillen/ .295/ .489 Renteria/ .323/ .451 Rodriguez/ .274/.412 Jones/ .283/ .397 Combined, the lineup hits .310 with a .488 slg%. Sweet Jesus! Leyland also said that he doesn't know what the lineup will be against lefties, and that he may not set it in stone. Just to set your mind at ease, the above lineup against LEFTIES ONLY hits .305 with a .499 slg%. That is spectacular and it includes Granderson's .160 ave. Here are the players with the biggest differences in their performance against R or L hand pitchers. 1) Granderson hits .160 against LH and .337 against RH. 2) Ordonez hits .410 against LH and ONLY .351 against RH. 3) Cabrera hits .364 against LH and .309 against RH. 4) Sheffield hits .245 against LH and .271 against RH (but he loses power). The rest of the players are within a reasonable range between the two.


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The DTF agents work mainly with narcotics, he said, adding that 98 percent of the drugs confiscated by agents over the past year were actually prescription medications.
Once DTF agents get a tip, it sometimes takes awhile for the public to see the results they might be looking for. Don't give up and don't stop calling in tips, he said.
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The biggest problem the DTF has is a lack of funding, he said, adding that they receive $60,000 to run the task force. The remainder needed comes from the seizure of drug property.
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Forsyth Park, in Savanahh, Georgia, is victim to countless cigarette butts littering playground flooring. Rubber mulch is excellent for children, but the dirty cigarette butts get mixed in with the mulch, contaminating it with smoke and germs. Different cities have varying laws in regards to smoking in playgrounds. Smoking is allowed in Forsyth Park, but smokers may not light up within ten feet of an outdoor playground. There are obviously many people breaking the law because the mulch is littered with cigarette butts. It is possible that some cigarettes are blown in with leaf blowers and wind.
In order to rectify the situation the city must completely remulch the park. Rubber mulch flooring is the safest playground flooring available, and Playsafer mulch has been approved by the ASPCA. However, remulching requires tax dollars that would otherwise be put to good use. Those who shop rubber mulch can find great deals when purchasing bulk rubber mulch, but the expense is still one that can easily be prevented by smokers abiding by the rules.
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Back in September 2012, I wrote about the ready-made infographics that can be found in library databases like Mintel. Since the time I posted that blog entry, both Hoovers and Business Insights Essentials have added some nice new data visualizations and interactives to their services. Clearly, the database companies that serve industry are getting the message that effective visual communication is highly important in today's business environment.
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{CHOcolate Cherry Greek Frozen Yogurt}
Growing up, I never liked cherries. No actual cherries, no cherry pie, no cherry flavored drinks. ICKOLA. I think because it always seemed to remind me of nasty cough syrup that my parents made me down (in the most loving way of course). But Dear Hubby loves them, so I've slowly but surely opened myself up to try them again. It's that whole compromise thing. I told you I was a PRO at marriage! Maybe the other reason I never bought cherries because they seemed soooooo dang expensive! But this weekend they were on sale, so I bought my first bag of actual cherries at the grocery store. It only took me 31 years to do it! What better way to use them than to incorporate them into a Chobani recipe :)
Introducing CHOcolate Cherry Greek Frozen Yogurt:
I was inspired to make FroYo by this recipe posted on Chobani's Pinterest board (I love that place!). I gathered my main ingredients: Vanilla Chobani, Organic Cherry Applesauce, & Chocolate Protein powder.
The only frozen "Greek" yogurt I've seen at the grocery store is made by Ben & Jerry's... and I don't know... I just don't trust it... that it's ACTUAL "Greek" yogurt. It doesn't have enough protein!! Maybe the Chobani peeps can email me their take on it (please Lindsay & Emily!) So, I packed mine FULL of protein.
Stir until it's a creamy consistency. Then, freeze for 2 - 3 hours.
Mine came out a bit "too" frozen, so I let it thaw for about 10 minutes on the counter before I used a fork to break it up into little chunks. Then I added 1/2 cup of milk (I only had whole in the house) and 1 Tbsp of Hershey's chocolate sauce. I used my good friend "Mr. Immersion Stick Blender" until creamy:
Scoop into your favorite pretty bowl and adorn with additional fresh cherries.
And enjoy before it melts :) This has 155 calories and 17g of sugar per half cup serving, versus Ben & Jerry's 180 calories and 23g of sugar. But it has more than DOUBLE the protein (!) 15g vs. Ben & Jerry's 6g!
PS. I suggest chopping the cherries up before putting them on top of the FroYo, I just kept them whole for the pictures :)
- 2 cups Vanilla Greek Yogurt (I used Chobani of course!)
- 1/2 cup of organic Cherry Applesauce
- 2 scoops of Chocolate Protein Powder
- 1/2 cup of whole milk
- 1 Tbsp of Hershey's chocolate sauce
- 1 cup of fresh cherries
- Mix Greek Yogurt, applesauce, and protein powder in a metal mixing bowl until creamy.
- Cover with foil and freeze for 2 hours.
- Take out of freezer, and break it up into smaller chunks with a fork.
- Add 1/2 cup of whole milk and 1 Tbsp of chocolate sauce
- Blend with an immersion blender until creamy.
- Top with additional diced cherries & enjoy!
- *Note - I found this particular recipe didn't "refreeze" well, so I would make a half-batch if you don't think you and your guests would finish it in one sitting.
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I made Babycakes a creative breakfast this morning with the leftover cherries. I used a cute heart-shaped Jello mold (that I bought at Ikea), filling each heart with a couple cherrios and a slice of cherry. She thought it was the best thing ever!!
Though she normally might not have given cherries a chance, she couldn't pass them up with this cute presentation!
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I love cherries, I love early summer when they are at the store. I can eat them all day long.
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Well I am from the Cherry capital of the U.S. Traverse City Michigan! So I love love cherries and in T.C. you can find just about any Cherry- flavored, they even put them in burgers. Although I find I love cherries best in wine :) And Kelly you should know next to banana's, cherries are a great post work-out snack because of their anti-inflammatory properties! We are heading back to Michigan in three weeks I will have to send you some Traverse City Cherry Wine for you to try!
Icecream...fudge...microbrew beer...are mostly our favorites! That is crazy you spent the summer there, I miss the bay and water so much. Did you get a chance to visit the vineyards, there are serveral? How about the offical Cherry Fest...I am so excited to be going back home. It truely is a small world~
OH how yummy does that look??
OH how yummy does that look??? I was the same way with cherries, never really liked them much. Very mushy...
i LOVE cherries! this frozen
i LOVE cherries! this frozen yogurt looks great! i agree about the ben & jerry's frozen yogurt... it hasn't sold me. at least yet. ;) where did you find that cherry applesauce?
I've been eyeing the cherries
I've been eyeing the cherries lately at the grocery store! I think I have a very similar ice cream/fro yo maker. Love it!
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What a wonderful recipe! I love it! I'm going to have to give this one a try!!
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I had Greek Frozen Yogurt when I was in Greece and it was AMAZING! I'm a big fan of chobani and would love to try this recipe
I'm a big fan of cherries. We
I'm a big fan of cherries. We got the best ones ever in Washington State last summer during our honeymoon! TRUE Rainier cherries!
When I got my ice cream maker last year, I made Greek fro-yo all the time. I'll have to bust it out again! I don't like flavored though, so I'll try to make this version using plain.
I've also heard that if you add a little vodka (or other alcohol) it will keep it from getting rock hard...
This is kind of genius in
This is kind of genius in that "ömg, how did I not think of this" kind of way! I've always wished for greek frozen yogurt so this is perfect. I feel like it can even be used as a post workout snack with all that protein. :)
I put fruit "kabobs" in my
I put fruit "kabobs" in my boys lunches using a plastic straw as the stick. Cherries, melons, kiwi and low fat string cheese cut up. Perfect:)
Its in the freezer now!
I made it last night but couldnt wait up until it froze so it tonight dessert. I hope it ok...I only had 1 package of chocolate & one package of banana protein powder, so it tasted a "little" weird (I sampled it this morning...LOL)
But I will add the Hershey and milk...with the cherries, hopefully cover the banana taste.
I let you know what hubby thinks.
Betty Lynn
Oh, ps...for your other WW fans, I plan to get 4 servings out of this, and it is only 4 points/serving. I WILL be sharing this at our meeting :)


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TEMPE, Ariz.—New Angels reliever Ryan Madson experienced soreness in his surgically repaired elbow after a Feb. 1 bullpen session and hasn't thrown since, the right-hander said Monday, the day before the team's first spring-training workout for pitchers and catchers.
Madson, the former Philadelphia Phillies closer who missed the entire 2012 season because of Tommy John surgery, considers the setback a normal part of the 12-month recovery process but admitted to being discouraged by it.
"I'm a little disappointed right now," said Madson, who signed a one-year, $3.5-million deal with the Angels in November and is expected to be the team's closer. "I didn't want there to be any hang-ups."
Madson still held out hope that he would be ready by the April 1 season opener in Cincinnati, but the chances of that appear slim. Even before this setback, the team had mapped out a conservative schedule that had Madson pitching in exhibition games by mid-March and being regular-season ready in mid-April.
If Madson can regain his 2011 form, when he went 4-2 with a 2.37 earned run average and 32 saves in 34 chances, he will fortify a bullpen that includes hard-throwing right-handers Ernesto Frieri and Kevin Jepsen and veteran lefties Scott Downs and Sean Burnett.
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Electric car enthusiasts will get yet another driving option when Toyota releases the plug-in version of its popular Prius hybrid, expected by 2012.
It's a logical evolutionary step for those who may not be quite ready to go solo on electrical power, yet would like to do the majority of their driving on emissions-free electrical power.
The Prius PHV (plug-in hybrid vehicle) has a driving range while only using electrical power of about 21 kilometres. "In Canada, the average daily commute is about 16 kilometres," said Stephen Beatty, Toyota Canada managing director.
This means the Prius could theoretically operate as a pure electric vehicle and never use its backup gasoline engine.
The big difference between Prius PHV and the current the third-generation Prius is a Lithium Ion battery pack that can be recharged from an external source.
"Lithium-Ion gives better packaging efficiency compared to any other battery pack," said Beatty. So, even though it's a much larger capacity battery, there's only a small sacrifice in cargo space.
The Li-Ion battery fills the space under the cargo area where the spare wheel is located in the current Prius and an emergency kit is provided instead of a spare wheel. The cargo floor also had to be raised about 1.5 inches in order to fit the new battery in.
The drive system is essentially the same as the current Prius, which allows both series and parallel operation. In other words, the gas engine can directly drive the wheels or the electric motor can directly drive the wheels, or it can use a combination of both.
The Chevrolet Volt, also due to arrive next year, is a series hybrid. An electric motor drives the wheels and the gas engine is used as an onboard generator to charge the battery pack. Not that any of this really matters too much to the average car owner, as long as the end result is the same.
The visible change to Prius PHV is, of course, that little door in the side of the front fender. Behind it is a standard SAE plug that allows the owner to hook up to either a (120-volt) electrical outlet or a fast-charge (240-volt) outlet. A warning light appears on the dash to indicate that the charger is hooked up and it cannot be driven while this plug is attached.
With a fully discharged battery, the Prius PHV will recharge in less than three hours when hooked up to a standard 120-volt outlet. Hooked up to a 240-volt outlet, it will recharge in less than 1.5 hours.
My short drive in a pre-production Prius PHV started in Vancouver's downtown rush hour, went out around Stanley Park and then back by a roundabout route along English Bay and through Yaletown. My Prius PHV wasn't fully charged and showed an EV driving range of just over 16 km at the start of the trip.
"A full charge equates to about 18 cents worth of electricity, based on current BC Hydro rates," said Beatty. So the savings are substantial in the EV mode, which is the default-mode of the Prius PHV.
It starts and runs for as long as the battery allows purely on electrical power. Top speed in EV mode, however, is about 100 km/hour and above that it becomes a conventional hybrid.
While stopped or crawling along in traffic headed for the Lions Gate Bridge, the range loss was minimal, as it only draws power while moving. Had it been cold, wet and dark, consumption would of course been up -- such is the life in an EV.
By the time I reached Prospect Point its range had dropped to seven kilometres, but I picked up some range on deceleration (to about eight kilometres) on that downhill run towards Second Beach.
In electric mode, Prius PHV is an extremely quiet vehicle.
And it certainly surprised a young cyclist who had decided to ride on the road (instead of the bike lane) and go in the opposite direction of traffic.
I encountered him on a corner and luckily enough (for him) we were able to avoid each other.
It did highlight for me, however, the noise (or lack of it) issue for EVs in general.
At the end of the drive I still had 4.3 kilometres of range remaining and I only used the gas engine once, just to make sure that it was actually functioning. While only a short run, it was still an impressive and memorable performance.
Hybrids continue to pave a path for a pure electric car. Advanced battery systems, advanced electric motors and advanced control systems simply didn't exist until the hybrid come on the scene. My test Prius PHV is one of 600 pre-production Prius PHV's in demo fleets around the world.
These cars are fitted with mobile data devices that monitor use, so that data can be uploaded and shared with partners during the trial period. You can get more information on the Prius PHEV demonstration program and the latest Prius news at www.toyota.ca.
Bob McHugh is a freelance automotive journalist, writing on behalf of BCAA.


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I imagine YouTube worked its staff overtime during the holiday season hours out in San Bruno, having figured out an algorithm (or whatever—this isn't Wired) that can detect fraudulent views. Despite that view bots utilize temporary fake IP addresses to send multiple views to SEO clients' videos, YouTube explained they had discovered some videos had more views "in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce." Beginning in mid-December, millions of videos discovered to be boosting view counts were deleted and banned, and over 2 billion fake views were purged from mainstream music videos.
Sony/BMG, Universal Music Group, and RCA (to make a long story short, they own everything you've ever heard of) thus far lost a combined total of 2 billion fraudulent views. Popular artists like Michael Jackson lost 283 million views, and Avril Lavigne lost 124 million. According to a view seller, even Barack Obama purchases artificial views, likes, and Twitter followers.
Many people have good reason to believe purchasing bots to accumulate fake views is cheating at success. Like payola, we know it happens on regularly scheduled radio airtime, but most of us (impoverished music columnists—as impressive a title as that sounds, it's not), well, we have completely run out of fucks to give. I've asked around. No one has any.
Views are, according to YouTube, supposed to indicate a willful act by the viewer. But is it wrong to buy YouTube views when you're a pathetic but awesome artist, competing against the impenetrable hip hop monoliths of Vevo?
My unpopular opinion is that there is nothing wrong with a little moderate boosting, even putting a little in the pockets of black hat SEO artists. The practice itself isn't anything new—and as of 2012 was no longer a secret. View botting is the employment of simple consumer psychology. I can dig that.
Unless you're using black hat SEO to redirect me to spammy ad-based content—then fuck you.
Before anyone had heard of the Lord and Savior who shall be known as "YouTube," your average stringy-haired fedora-clad guitarist playing for tips in the Bedford Avenue Station, with his guitar case open on the subway floor, boosted on the regular. Street musicians (as I'm sure you already know) since the dawn of time have thrown a bunch of their own pre-crumpled bills into the guitar case to increase the likelihood of donations from passersby—an empty guitar case hardly ever receives a few quarters.
When I worked as a counter waitress, customers generally didn't put money into an empty tip jar. So I stuffed it with a few dollars in the morning, and suddenly, I collected more tips. I was boosting, but I genuinely deserved and had earned the tips I received by grinding away at making fancy Italian beverages for caffeine-addicted yuppies. Using group-think and consumer psychology to your advantage isn't immoral. It's simply pragmatic, and it works on yuppies excellently.
Payola, due to the limited amount of airtime on radio, should be held to a different ethical standard—radio stations should abide by the law and openly state that this is "sponsored airtime" when playing the top hits of bribery. But YouTube is a vast open expanse of lawless land; you claim your field and sometimes you buy some milk cows at a discount from your neighbor. Or whatever. You do what you have to do to get people to listen to your alt-blues music.
One particular (unnamed) indie band purchased 100k views on their latest single, and the video eventually attracted a total of 350,000 views, resulting in an increase in website traffic and album purchases. Would that band have ever received such success—and 250,000 real views—if they hadn't bought the first 100,000? Maybe not. I'm not sure if I would hold it against them, especially if the music is tight.
Pushing your video up to the "most popular" links section on YouTube isn't going to force anyone to buy your album. As music consumers, I hope we are smarter than that—we purchase music that we love, not because we think it's well-known. I hope for a lot of things, but mostly just that my generation is going to turn out okay.
If you can get people to dig your music using the black hat SEO method, you're just undermining the advertising industry. And undermining the advertising industry is a worthy endeavor.
Directing website traffic by purchasing views and likes from view-selling operations like youlikehits or addmefast is just that—directing traffic. The system doesn't favor the bands with better funding, nor is anyone buying success at the expense of poor starving artists. The cost of purchasing views from hackers is so low ($1,500 can buy you 1 million hits) that the practice has the potential to level the playing field. If your garage band called "The Only Hopes" bought $5 worth the views, cool, you do you.
But why would the biggest record companies in the world need to boost Rihanna videos? United Music Group had a total of 7 billion views before it lost 1 billion to the YouTube view purge police. And why did the music videos boosted and owned by the big three record companies merely lose view counts, while videos with fake views by independent music artists were deleted entirely?
Here's one reason from Captain Obvious: YouTube is not going to punch itself in the face, nor will it get rid all the Top 40 hits that have been purchasing fake views. Google and YouTube make some decent money from bad popular music. The other reason? Someone like Justin Bieber has enough real views, real comments, and real likes, unfortunately, that his video success is not an obvious case of having purchased an entirely fraudulent viewership.
According to the black hat community, some of those banned indie musicians are pretty bummed out, losing the only copies of their music videos (we tend to think if we own the rights to a video, it is secure on social networking sites, so oops, no back ups). Some musicians lost a couple hundred bucks, some lost a couple thousand. Some music videos had gone viral, and now may only exist in the purgatory state known as Vimeo.
Eventually someone will invent new bots that can circumvent the new filter. It's not the end of the era of the not-so-clandestine black hat market for fake views, likes, and comments. Every few months, YouTube gets hip, rolls out updates, new filters are developed, and some hackers trying to make a couple bucks on the Internet go back to the drawing board.
Currently, you can still purchase views at youlikehits or fiverr and a plethora of running sites. Just be smart about it, indie kids. Bulk up your videos with likes, don't bombard your video with 2 million hits in one day (ask about drip feeds), and buy views with long or slow retention speed rather than those that only click on the video for less than 30 seconds. If you think Google and YouTube, other than being the new web imperialists, are also stupid, you're not on the right page, man.
Keep up on the back end of Google. Take a lesson from the case of BAKER, a musician with over 4 million views on his videos who, at his live concert, could not draw a crowd of more than 30 people. Don't create a scene like that asshole. If it looks suspiciously bot-viewed, it probably is, and you're not working hard enough to plug your holes and keep shit tidy on the front end, too (sorry).
Back in October, YouTube indicated a change in how "most popular" videos would be ranked by "engagement," otherwise known as the length of time a video has been watched. Total number of views would be secondary in determining popularity. High-retention views will thus become the new boosting commodity. Get on it, hackers.
According to YouTube TOS, the video owner is responsible for knowing whether or not their views are legit, and "may" have the account banned or terminated if found using bot views. However, this does not mean we can stage an Alinsky-like revolution. Because it's jamming cash in the pockets of YouTube and Google, don't bother purchasing a thousand fake hits for "Gangnam Style" (or Seether and Rise Against, if you're inclined to hate that stuff) in order to shut them down. The videos promoted by major record labels aren't removed, the extraneous phony views are erased, and you'll just waste your money. I'm so sorry that no revolution is unfolding.
But in the event of a civil war among competing indie musicians (probably won't happen, but we can dream), competitors could obliterate each other by view botting the shit out of other indie bands with atomic quick views. YouTube can assure mutual destruction with this sort of doomsday machine. You could get your revenge on that asshole folk artist from Fort Greene who is upping his game—just send him a nice little holiday gift package of 100k fraudulent views and watch his shitty videos go tumbling into the abyss.
If nothing else is important about this story, and if it doesn't seem I have a point, the truth is no machine runs as smoothly as the for-profit pop music market. Thrust forward the dictators of the Big Three music corporations to march in front of the pack, and it sounds like a million people goosestepping in the sidewalks to Beyonce's "I Can't Take No More."
The saddest trombone in the world is womp-womping for you, big record companies.
It's the 70th anniversary of the Stovall Plantation Recordings (aka The Complete Plantation Recordings) by Muddy Waters and accompanying artists. When I was 16, I was such a music snob, this was the kind of superior hip history-buff album I would buy and blast in my car stereo on my way to school. This was Muddy Waters before he was famous, way back when he played harmonica and guitar on a dilapidated porch in the Delta fields.
Most vividly I remember dangling out of the four-story window of my small apartment on the Danube River in Vienna (I was subletting for the summer) and blaring "Burr Clover Farm Blues" so that everyone passing on the street could hear the jangling old-timey guitars and the rough slide of Muddy Water's fretboard, his fingertips squeaking as they caught the strings between chord changes.
I watched the sun set over the Danube and listened to the most depressing music that has ever been recorded. This creaky album rambled and rooted like maggots through my heart. Young men called up to me, "Hey baby!" from the cobblestone streets below and I, hanging barefoot from my window, yelled mature things down at them like, "Fuck you!"
When you're missing someone, when you're down and out, when you're low on love and money, this is the only record that seems appropriate as the soundtrack for your life.
I was in possession of a piece of blues history, a single CD with 22 tracks for which I had forked over a good $20 that went straight to David fucking Geffen's bank account. And then I used the CD case as a candle holder and it is currently covered in old white wax stains.
A long time ago, there was a man named Henry "Son" Simms who worked as a corn shucker on a sharecrop in Mississippi in the 30's. He played fiddle and mandolin, and joined Louis Ford, Percy Thomas, and some other unknown guy in a fiddle band called the Son Simms Four. Nothing would be particularly noteworthy about this band—there are no full length records, just blips and short jam pieces—had they not accompanied Muddy Waters on his earliest recordings at the Stovall Plantation in Mississippi in 1942.
Alan Lomax came down to the deep South in 1941 to record some music at Muddy Water's juke joint on the plantation, a wooden structure in which (black) artists and music lovers gambled, drank whiskey and ate fried fish, and listened to Robert Johnson recordings on the juke box.
Waters, at the time in his late 20's, didn't really think he was such a great musician. After hearing these first recordings played back to him, and receiving a $20 bill from Lomax, he put his records on the juke box and played them over and over again, saying to himself, "I can do it! I can do it!" (as Waters explained in a Rolling Stone interview).
At the juke joint, he invited other musicians to play live and accompanied in early songs like "Rosalie" and "I's Be Troubled" with no idea in his quivering young mind that in 6 years, he would be a famed Chicago artist.
During these two recording sessions (the Complete Plantation Recordings issue by MCA/Geffen in 1993 includes three original interviews with the young Waters, who sounds modest and almost shy) Lomax recorded a song called "Pearlie May Blues." The song features the fiddle band Son Simms Four.
The haunting, syrupy Southern wailing vocals on that heavy blues tune are provided by one of the band's rhythm guitarists, Percy Thomas. And no one knows, not even on the big wide Googling Internet, who the hell Percy Thomas really was, or where he died, or what he did with his musical abilities beyond recording this one lone unpopular vocal track in 1942 in a plantation juke joint.
This is exactly what keeps me up until late into the night to engage on a four hour amateur sleuth Internet search session, and I've still got nothing on this guy. Apparently he died in the 50's. If anyone can help me find out more, I'd be ever so grateful and, of course, be your best friend for life.
Other accompanists on this unique little song: Steel rhythm guitar by Muddy Waters, fiddle by Henry "Son" Simms, and another anonymous Simm's band member on mandolin.
Percy Thomas only sang one recorded song seventy years ago and he was erased, obliterated, does not have any fan pages or websites in his honor—but that song happens to be on one of the most important albums in the history of American Delta blues.
Here's my theory, after 15 years of listening to "Pearlie May Blues." It's a love song from a black man to a slave (or sharecropper) woman, who is sleeping with her (probably white) master. The lyrics are simply not available—at all. Try as you might, you'll find very little about this song on the big ol' Internets.
Because of the inclusion of the line, "I sleep with the catfish, baby, deep down in the sea," one might think that this song must have been written after the 1941 release of Robert Petway's song "Catfish Blues." However, since this song was recorded in a poor juke joint in 1942, unless Robert Petway and Percy Thomas were acquaintances (Petway was from Yazoo City, Mississippi and is was an influence on Water's later work, so there's a possibility) it's more likely that the catfish deep sea lyrics were taken from the original "Deep Sea Blues" written by Tommy McClennan. But really this is nothing more than speculation.
The lyrics become incomprehensible in the middle of the song, no matter who I've asked to help me translate. Everyone puts on the same dubious squint and headshake that means, simply, "You're out of your mind to try and transcribe this."
I've done my best to reconstruct those lyrics for the first time ever on the Internet. History is made. You're welcome.
(Lyrics written in italics are those that are indecipherable.)
Pearlie May Blues (Vocals: Percy Thomas) by Muddy Waters: 1942
Oh Pearlie May, Pearlie May
Oh where you been so long?
I said now Pearlie May, Pearlie May
Oh where you been so long?
And you didn't come home pretty mama
until the sun was shining bright.
I sleep by with the catfish baby
Lord, deep down in the sea
I sleep by with the catfish baby
Lord, now deep down in the sea
I want to have your brown skin by me
Lord, now fishing after me
I've got something to tell you woman,
(sounds like: not a high rise is on your hair?)
I've got something to tell you baby
(Not a hair is on your head?)
(sounds like: I go say bye go to ug-ly wah day wah maaah,
now I goin' fro da ho?)
I say bye bye bye baby
Lord I'll see you some sweet day
I say now bye bye bye baby
Lord I'll see you some sweet day
I may come home some old day mama
into your master's bed [?]
Oh, baby I ain't going to be too long
Baby now I ain't going to be long
'cause you brought me here pretty mama
Lord, now you treat me like your dog
I said Lord I've been your dog
Lord ever since I been your man
I said I've been your dog
Lord, ever since I been your man
Because I ain't going to be your
rolling stone no more.
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SUNNYVALE -- Breaking silence in a controversy over its failure to meet federal wage requirements for 14 Mexican workers, clean-tech startup Bloom Energy on Thursday blamed the episode on "a breakdown in our internal processes" and called it "inconsistent with our culture and values."
Bloom, which has won national acclaim for its innovative fuel-cell technology, said it cooperated with a U.S. Department of Labor investigation that found the company brought the Mexican workers to its Sunnyvale plant and paid them the equivalent of $2.66 an hour in pesos, wired to accounts in Mexico, while they worked alongside U.S. employees.
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Bloom was required to pay $70,000 in back wages, damages and fines in the case, under a court order signed last week by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh. The order also bars Bloom from violating federal wage and overtime rules in the future.
In a brief statement, the company said: "Bloom Energy cooperated and participated fully with the Department of Labor's investigation during which it was found that 14 workers in our Sunnyvale plant were not paid properly. This is inconsistent with
The statement added: "We take full responsibility for this and have paid back wages, damages and fines ... Furthermore, we are correcting and strengthening our internal processes to ensure that this does not occur again."
Bloom's statement didn't address the workers' immigration status, although a Labor Department spokesman said the 14 workers came to the United States on visitors' visas, which generally don't allow holders to work while they are here. The department has no jurisdiction on visa issues, and U.S. immigration officials said they couldn't comment on the case.
A spokeswoman for a Silicon Valley immigrant-rights group said she was pleased the government had interceded on the Mexican workers' behalf.
"It can be very difficult for workers to fight for their rights or for basic labor standards that are supposed to be provided regardless of their immigration status," said Jazmin Segura, a policy advocate with the Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network, or SIREN. "A lot of times, immigrant workers are too afraid to confront their employers."
A former Bloom contractor said the Mexicans had worked for Bloom
Bloom's CEO and principal founder, K.R. Sridhar, is an Indian immigrant who taught aerospace engineering at the University of Arizona and advised NASA on Mars exploration before moving into the green technology field.
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