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Thursday, 30 September 2010
Lemon Curd and Blueberry Loaf Cake
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Smoked Salmon and Pea Pasta
Monday, 27 September 2010
Prawn Curry
I couldn't wait to put my yoghurt to use and decided on this Prawn Curry that I have adapted in order to incorporate the 0% Total Greek yoghurt, which also made it low fat to suit my needs. This curry is mild, creamy and has a hint of mango sweetness from the chutney. A thoroughly enjoyable experience, although I will probably add a stronger curry powder next time as I only had mild. Watch this space for more recipes incorporating yogurt.
Serves 2
225g king prawns, rinsed
2 small onions, finely chopped
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tsp curry powder
1 tbsp plain flour
300ml chicken stock or fish stock
1 tsp tomato puree
1 tbsp mango chutney
½ lemon, juice only
3 tbsp 0% Total Greek Yoghurt
Fry half the onion in a little vegetable oil over a low heat for 2-3 minutes until transparent.
Stir in the curry powder and fry gently for 1 minute.
Blend in the flour and cook for 2-3 minutes more.
Gradually add the stock and stir until the sauce thickens and comes to the boil (3-5 minutes).
Add the tomato purée, chutney and lemon juice. Simmer for 5 minutes, then strain the sauce through a sieve.
Heat the other tbsp of oil in a frying pan and fry the remaining onion until soft, then add the prawns.
Blend in the curry sauce and bring to the boil.
Stir in the 0% Total Greek Yoghurt and remove from the heat.
Arrange the prawns in the sauce on top of boiled rice and serve with naan or poppadums.
Friday, 24 September 2010
Chilli Con Healthy
Serves 4
450g extra lean mince beef
extra-virgin olive oil
1 large onion, peeled and finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
2 fresh red chillies, deseeded and chopped
2 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp paprika
pinch of cayenne pepper
400g can chopped tomaotes
1 level tbsp tomato puree
600ml beef stock
freshly ground black pepper
400g can red kidney beans, drained
chopped fresh coriander, to serve
low-fat natural yoghurt or crème fraiche (optional), to serve
In a large, lidded saucepan, dry-fry the minced beef until brown over a hight heat. Drain off any fat. Turn down to a medium-low heat and add a splash of olive oil and then add the onion and garlic and cook gently until softened.
Add the chillies and all the spices and continue frying, stirring occasionally, for 2-3 minutes.
Add the canned tomatoes, tomato puree and stock. Stir well and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer gently for 15 minutes, or until the liquid is slightly reduced.
Season with pepper and add the drained kidney beans. Cover and heat through gently for another 30 minutes, adding a little extra stock if required.
Serve hot, sprinkled with chopped coriander leaves and a dollop of yoghurt or crème fraiche, and accompanied by basmati rice or a fresh salad.
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Dorset Apple Cake
When we were at the lodge a few weekends back I came home with a bag full of cooking apples from the trees in the garden. There is something really satisfying about picking your own and then using your apples to make something truly delish, rather than just buying them in your local supermarket! After much thought on what to make I decided on this Apple Dorset Cake. I love Dorset and have spent some lovely camping holidays there, 2 of my favourite haunts are studland beach and durdle door. We were hoping to have gone back there this summer but with hubby away on business a lot and family over from Miami and Oz we missed out this year. This traditional apple cake can be found everywhere in Dorset and is utterly scrumptious. Hubby brought a large wedge to work and the slices did not last long on the plate. This cake has juicy apple chunks within a soft, moist, lemony almond sponge and would work equally well as a dessert with hot creamy custard.
Serves 12
225g butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
450g bramley apples
finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
225g caster sugar, plus extra for sprinkling
3 large free--range eggs
225g self-raising flour
2 tsp baking powder
25g ground almonds
1 tbsp Demerara sugar
Using an electric hand whisk, cream together the butter, caster sugar and lemon zest in a bowl until pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, 1 at a time, adding a little flour with each addition to keep the mixture smooth.
Sift the remaining flour and the baking powder into the bowl and gently fold into the butter mixture with the ground almonds. Stir in the apple pieces.
Spoon the cake mix into the prepared cake tin, level the top and sprinkle with the demerara sugar. Bake in the oven for 1 hour or until well-risen, brown and a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. If the cake starts to look a little too brown, cover with a sheet of baking paper after about 45 minutes.
Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes. Remove the cake from the tin and place on a serving plate. Dredge heavily with the extra caster sugar. Cut the cake into generous wedges and serve warm with a spoonful of clotted cream, if you like.
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Moroccan Chicken with Sweet Potato Mash
Last night hubby and I enjoyed another healthy dinner, Moroccan Chicken with Sweet Potato Mash. It is a recipe from this month's Good Food magazine, which I have had my eye on. It ticked all boxes for my healthy eating objectives. The dish delivered so much flavour for a relatively basic recipe. The caramelised onion sauce added depth of flavour to the spiced chicken seated upon the sweet potato mash. I thoroughly enjoyed creating and eating this. Another successful day in the Goddess's Kitchen!
1kg/2lb 4oz sweet potatoes, cubed
2 tsp ras el hanout, or a mix of ground cinnamon and cumin
4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
2 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, thinly sliced
1 fat garlic clove, crushed
200ml chicken stock
2 tsp clear honey
juice of ½ lemon
handful green olives, pitted or whole
20g pack coriander, leaves chopped
Boil the potatoes in salted water for 15 minutes or until tender. Mix the ras el hanout with seasoning, then sprinkle all over the chicken. Heat 1 tbsp oil in large frying pan, then brown the chicken for 3 mins on each side until golden.
Lift the chicken out of the pan. Add the onion and garlic and cook for 5 mins until softened. Add the stock, honey, lemon juice and olives, return the chicken to the pan, then simmer for 10 mins until the sauce is syrupy and the chicken cooked.
Monday, 20 September 2010
Chicken and Broccoli Noodles
I'm really proud of myself, I have stuck with my healthy eating for a whole week without falling off the wagon. I for one know how hard it can be to get back into the swing of things when you've spent the last couple of weeks indulging in not so healthy food. But I've gotten through that craving food all the time cycle, which was getting ridiculous and I'm starting to feel better again. I'm actually having fun looking for and planning new recipes to make and realising once again that cutting down on fat doesn't mean you have to miss out on delicious food. Last night for dinner we enjoyed this Chicken and Broccoli Noodles, another instalment from 101 Low-Fat Feasts. It was quick, very tasty and one more to add to my definitely will make this again list!
Serves 2-3
250g packet egg noodles
350g broccoli florets
2 tbsp olive oil
2.5cm/1inch piece fresh root ginger, grated
4 garlic cloves, finely sliced
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into strips
bunch of spring onions, trimmed and cut in half horizontally, large ones cut in half again vertically
3 tbsp soy sauce
200ml chicken or vegetable stock
Cook the noodles in a pan of salted boiling water for 5 minutes, adding the broccoli for the last 2 minutes. Drain.
Meanwhile, heat a wok or frying pan until very hot. Add the oil, then stir in the ginger and garlic. Cook for 30 seconds, stirring. Add the chicken strips and cook for 5 minutes, stirring often, until tinged brown. Add the spring onions and stir briefly to heat through.
Mix the soy sauce and stock together and stir into the pan. Tip the drained noodles and broccoli into the pan, season with black pepper and toss everything together. Serve immediately.
Sunday, 19 September 2010
National Cupcake Week ~ Vanilla Cupcakes
Makes 12
175g (6 oz) self-raising flour
1½ level tsp baking powder
175g (6 oz) butter, softened
175g (6 oz) caster (superfine) sugar
3 large eggs
2 tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
Buttercream Icing
150g (5oz) butter, softened
300g (11 oz) icing (confectioners) sugar, sifted
1 tbsp milk
¼ tsp vanilla extract
Edible food colouring(s) of choice, optional
Sprinkle(s) for decoration of choice
You will also require 12 holed muffin tin lined with 12 paper muffin cases
Preheat the oven to 180°C/Fan oven 160°C/350°F/Gas mark 4. Sift the self-raising flour and baking powder into a large bowl, and then add the butter, caster sugar, eggs, milk and vanilla extract. Beat together until well mixes, trying not to over mix the mixture. Spoon the mixture equally into the prepared paper cases and bake in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes or until the tops spring back when lightly pressed. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 minutes then turn out to completely cool on a wire rack.
To make the buttercream, beat the butter until soft. Add the icing sugar and stir until it's just mixed in, then add the milk and vanilla and beat until light and fluffy. Divide into as many bowls as you want different colour(s) and add edible food colouring (you only require a few drops). This is purely optional should you wish to leave out the edible food colouring(s) and keep the buttercream natural. Spread the icing on thickly with a palette knife on top of each cupcake or put the icing into a piping back and make a large swirl on top of each cupcake. Decorate each cupcake with your chosen sprinkle(s).
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Prawns with Tomato and Feta
Serves 2-3
1 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, finely chopped
1 x 400g can chopped tomatoes
Pinch of sugar
350g large peeled prawns, thawed if frozen
100g feta
2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
Rice or pasta to serve
Heat the tbsp of olive oil in a frying pan, add the onions and fry gently for about 7 minutes, until softened and light brown. Add the tomatoes and a pinch of sugar and simmer for 5 minutes.
Throw in the prawns, season and cook gently for 5 minutes until the prawns are thoroughly hot.
Serve spooned over rice or pasta. Crumble over the feta and sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Friday, 17 September 2010
Autumn Damson Crunch Cake
2 eggs, plus 1 egg yolk
140g butter, softened
140g golden caster sugar
140g self-raising flour
Grated zest and juice of 1 orange
200g damsons or plums, stoned, half roughly chopped into pieces and half cut into wedges
For the topping
1 ½ tbsp fresh lemon juice
200g golden caster sugar
25g rough sugar pieces (or sugar cubes), roughly crushed
Preheat the oven to 160oC/fan oven 140oC/gas mark 3. Butter and line the base of a 900g/2lb loaf tin. Lightly beat the eggs and egg yolk with a pinch of salt.
Beat the butter and sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy. Pour in the eggs a little at a time, beating well after each addition. Fold in the flour with the orange zest and 2 tablespoons of the juice, then fold in the roughly chopped damsons. Spoon into the prepared tin and scatter the damson wedges over. Bake for 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Cool for 10 minutes, then turn out on a wire rack. Mix the remaining orange juice with the lemon juice and caster sugar. Spoon over the cooling cake and sprinkle with the crushed sugar pieces. Cool until set.
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Coconut and Cherry Banana Bread
Hubby left for Madrid on Monday and was back last night so I kept myself busy in his absence making blackberry and apple jam, damson jam and this Coconut and Cherry Banana Bread. This has been another roaring success from the book, even with the unusual combination of coconut, cherry and banana, which I would never have thought to put together. It actually works beautifully and hubby was more than happy to arrive back to a slice of this home-baked goodness!
125g soft unsalted butter
4 small-medium bananas
150g caster sugar
2 eggs
175g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
100g dried cherries
100g desiccated coconut
1 x 900g (2lb) loaf tin
Preheat the oven to 170oC/fan oven 150oC/gas mark 3. Put a loaf liner into your tin, or line the bottom of the tin with baking parchment and grease the sides.
Melt the butter in a saucepan, and take it off the heat. Peel and mash the bananas in another bowl.
Beat the sugar into the cooled, melted butter, then beat in the mashed bananas and the eggs. Fold in the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. Finally, add the dried cherries and coconut.
Fold well so that everything is incorporated, then pour and scrape into the lined loaf tin and smooth the top.
Bake for about 50 minutes, but start checking after 45. When ready, the bread will be coming away from the sides of the tin and feel quite heartily bouncy on top.
Once of the oven, leave it in the tin for 10 minutes. Then carefully slip the cake out of the tin (still in the liner) onto a wire rack to cool.
Thursday, 9 September 2010
September Plum Cake
Makes one 23cm/9 inch cake
butter, for greasing
8 plums, halved and stoned
225g/8oz butter, softened
225g/8oz soft light brown sugar
grated zest of ½ orange
4 large eggs
175g/6oz self-raising flour, sieved
½ tsp baking powder
50g/2oz ground almonds
Preheat the oven to 180oC/fan oven 160oC/gas mark 4.
Grease the line a 23cm/9 inch springform cake tin.
Place the plum halved, skin side down, on the bottom of the prepared cake tin.
Cream the butter, sugar and orange zest together in a medium mixing bowl, using a wooden spoon or free-standing mixer, until pale and fluffy.
Beat the eggs into the creamed mixture, one at a time. Add 1 tsp of flour to the mixture between each addition. This is quite a runny cake mixture so don't worry. It might even look a bit curdled, but it's absolutely fine. The large eggs make for a lovely moist eggy cake that tastes delicious.
Using a metal spoon, fold in the rest of the flour, the baking powder and the ground almonds and pour the mixture over the plums in the cake tin.
Spread the mixture evenly in the tin with the back of a metal spoon and bake for 30 minutes. Then remove, cover loosely with foil and continue to cook for another 30 minutes.
Remove the cake from the oven and leave it to cool for 5 minutes in the tin and then turn it out onto a wire rack.
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Chocolate Banana Muffins
Makes 12
3 ripe or overripe bananas
125ml vegetable oil
2 eggs
100g soft light brown sugar
225g plain flour
3 x 15ml tablespoons best-quality cocoa powder, sifted
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Preheat the oven to 200oC/fan 180oC/gas mark 6 and line a muffin tin with muffin cases. Mash the bananas by hand or with a freestanding mixer.
Still beating and mashing, add the oil followed by the eggs and sugar.
Mix the flour, cocoa powder and bicarbonate of soda together and add this mixture, beating gently, to the banana mixture, then spoon it into the prepared muffin cases.
Bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes, by which time the muffins should be dark, rounded and peeking proudly out of their cases. Allow to cool slightly in their tin before removing to a wire rack.
Friday, 3 September 2010
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes approx 14
150g soft unsalted butter
125g soft light brown sugar
100g caster sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 large egg, fridge-cold
1 large egg yolk, fridge cold
300g plain flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 x 326g packet milk chocolate chips
1 x large baking sheet
Preheat the oven to 170oC/fan 140oC/gas mark 3. Line a baking sheet with baking parchment.
Melt the butter and let it cool a bit. Put the brown and white sugars into a bowl, pour the slightly cooled, melted butter over them and beat together.
Beat in the vanilla, the cold egg and cold egg yolk until your mixture is light and creamy.
Slowly mix in the flour and bicarbonate of soda until just blended, then fold in the chocolate chips.
Scoop the cookie dough into an American quarter-cup measure or a 60ml round ice-cream scoop and drop onto the prepared baking sheet, plopping the cookies down about 8cm apart. You will need to make these in 2 batches, keeping the bowl of cookie dough in the fridge between batches.
Bake for 15-17 minutes in the prepared oven, or until the edges are lightly toasted. Cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to wire rack.
The cookies can be made up to 3 days ahead and stored in an airtight container. Will keep for a total of 5 days.
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Low-Fat Spaghetti Carbonara
Serves 4
400g dried spaghetti
2 tsp olive oil
6 rashers back bacon, rind and fat removed, chopped
1 garlic clove, lightly squashed
3 medium free-range egg yolks
5 tbsp low-fat fromage frais
50g Parmesan, grated
½ tbsp chopped fresh flatleaf parsley
Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil and cook the spaghetti according to the pack instructions.
Meanwhile, in another large frying pan, heat the oil and fry the bacon with the squashed garlic clove, until the bacon starts to brown. Remove the garlic clove from the pan with a slotted spoon and discard. Turn the heat off but keep the pan warm until the spaghetti is cooked.
While the bacon is cooking, mix together the egg yolks, fromage frais, half the Parmesan, the parsley and some seasoning in a bowl.
Using tongs, transfer the cooked, drained spaghetti to the pan with the still-warm bacon. Pour in the egg mixture, moving the spaghetti with the tongs to coat the pasta and thicken the egg mixture.
Taste and adjust the seasoning if need be, then serve the spaghetti carbonara sprinkled with the remaining Parmesan.


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Confocal immunofluorescent analysis of a blood vessel in mouse kidney using α-Smooth Muscle Actin (1A4) Mouse mAb (Alexa Fluor® 488 Conjugate) (green). Actin filaments were labeled with DyLight™ 554 Phalloidin #13054 (red). Blue pseudocolor = DRAQ5® #4084 (fluorescent DNA dye).
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Product Information
This Cell Signaling Technology antibody is conjugated to Alexa Fluor® 488 fluorescent dye and tested in-house for direct immuno fluorescence analysis in human cells. This antibody is expected to exhibit the same species cross-reactivity as the unconjugated α-Smooth Muscle Actin (1A4) Mouse mAb #56856.
|Immunofluorescence (Frozen)
Supplied in PBS (pH 7.2), less than 0.1% sodium azide and 2 mg/ml BSA. Store at 4°C. Do not aliquot the antibody. Protect from light. Do not freeze.
NOTE: Prepare solutions with reverse osmosis deionized (RODI) or equivalent grade water.
Cover sections with 4% formaldehyde dilute in 1X PBS.
NOTE: Formaldehyde is toxic, use only in fume hood.
NOTE: All subsequent incubations should be carried out at room temperature unless otherwise noted in a humid light-tight box or covered dish/plate to prevent drying and fluorochrome fading.
posted November 2006
revised November 2013
Protocol Id: 222
α-Smooth Muscle Actin (1A4) Mouse mAb (Alexa Fluor® 488 Conjugate) recognizes endogenous levels of total α-smooth muscle actin protein.
Human, Mouse, Rat
Monoclonal antibody is produced by immunizing animals with a synthetic peptide corresponding to residues near the amino terminus of human α-smooth muscle protein.
Actin proteins are major components of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton. At least six vertebrate actin isoforms have been identified. The cytoplasmic β- and γ-actin proteins are referred to as "non-muscle" actin proteins as they are predominantly expressed in non-muscle cells where they control cell structure and motility (1). The α-cardiac and α-skeletal actin proteins are expressed in striated cardiac and skeletal muscles, respectively. The smooth muscle α-actin and γ-actin proteins are found primarily in vascular smooth muscle and enteric smooth muscle, respectively. The α-smooth muscle actin (ACTA2) is also known as aortic smooth muscle actin. These actin isoforms regulate the contractile potential of muscle cells (1).
Explore pathways + proteins related to this product.
UniProt ID: P62736
Entrez-Gene Id: 59
Cell Signaling Technology is a trademark of Cell Signaling Technology, Inc.
Alexa Fluor is a registered trademark of Life Technologies Corporation.
DRAQ5 is a registered trademark of Biostatus Limited.
DyLight is a trademark of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
The Alexa Fluor dye conjugates in this product are sold under license from Life Technologies Corporation, for research use only excluding use in combination with DNA microarrays and high content screening (HCS).

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Two great Halloween drink recipes from the cool folks who make Root and Snap.
Click below:
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
The Root Of All Evil
Posted by Rot at 5:30 AM
Labels: artintheage.com, beer, booze, pumpkin beer, root, snap
2 comments:
- Jay's Shadow said...
After my drive home this morning, I could use a good stiff drink right about now.
- February 5, 2014 at 7:29 AM
- Amy said...
We have a bottle of this, and made ice cream floats with a keg of draught guinness for thanksgiving dessert : )
Very cool bottle and it is made in Philly!
- February 5, 2014 at 7:39 PM
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I wore my Bike to Work Day 2012 shirt today. It's lime green and it proves that I biked to work once. It also proves that I can sign up for stuff ahead of time using the internet. Those are some serious competencies.
Two protests outside of two embassies, both on Massachusetts Avenue. The first was an animal rights group and they were mad at Korea. Apparently, Korean cuisine relies on animals that around here we tend to think more of house pets. "Friends not food" was written one of the signs. And then next door, or maybe two embassies down, there were people mad about I'm not sure what outside of the embassy of Cote d'Ivoire. The one sign I was about something along the lines of "Your chocolate is made of Ivorian blood." I didn't really get that one. Probably this, which seems terrible. So, there you go.
Zip cars are "wheels when you want them" and not necessarily "wheels where you want them" especially when one is parked in a bike lane. I think it's great that you only have a car some time but it's less great that during the time you have it you put it where it shouldn't go.
I rode past a tow truck, Abe's Towing, and I noticed that it had a double tailpipe and rather than extend back directly from the rear of the truck, they kinked to the right and pointed exactly to the right of the truck. I noticed this before I passed the truck on its right rather than from a blast of hot exhaust while I passed it. This kind of thing shouldn't be legal, assuming it is.
Bike To The Beach is apparently a bike ride and the organizers have a van and this van was parked on Q Street between 12th and 11th. I guess it already happened. Had they parked it there a few weeks ago, I guess I could've given a more timely promotion. Next year maybe.
B BLESSD suggested a Virginia license plate. Blessed be the motorists, for they shall, I don't know, get to listen to NPR on the radio while going places...? I'm not really a biblical expert.
I had ordered to a pizza to pick up on the way home, but before I got to to the pizza place, I rode 11th to Penn to around the House side of the Capitol and up the hill and then down Pennsylvania on the other side. Of all the places I ride, I think the place I'm most afraid of being doored is along Pennsylvania Avenue between 3rd and 11th SE. Car traffic goes pretty quickly around there and I tend to move farther over to let it pass than is probably prudent and since the stretch has lots of bars and restaurants and parking turnover, it seems like the kind of place where I should exhibit even great caution. It'd be a great place for a separated bike lane, maybe on the sidewalk side of the parked cars. Just an idea.
I picked up the pizza on 11th before I realized that I didn't know how I would get it home. I have a rear rack but I didn't have any means to affix the pizza. I opted to rest it on my handlebars, clutch it with my right hand and use my left to steer and break. It worked, but worked better when I switched into a lower gear. I made it home ok. It wasn't especially far, but I was proud of myself nonetheless. I felt like a regular Dutchman or some other nationality that can do and transport everything by bike, like the medieval Mongols and their horses. I doubt medieval Mongol pizza was any good.


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I have been playing with 2'0" gauge railways for the last twenty years or so, indeed that is how I earn my living.
Apart from narrow gauge I am a mining enthusiast.
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Religions Wiki talk:Requested pages
Note: I removed the empty categories (arguments for/against God). If you think of any particular examples, we can add them back in.
I also removed the line that said
- "But that's the old bible (Basically the position that the stupid laws in the old testament are not applicable, because the new testament came to institute a new way. So now all the stupid laws in the new one are the way to go.)"
Obviously that's not going to be the name of the actual article, and if we do get something written then maybe it could just go under Old testament or Biblical laws.
Kazim 14:04, 21 August 2006 (MST)
Cite extension[edit]
Would it be possible to install the Cite.php MediaWiki extension? This would make it easier to cite sources inline using <ref> tags. --Arensb 13:07, 25 February 2007 (CST)
In addition to the Cite extension mentioned above, IMHO it would be useful to install the ParserFunctions extension as well. This provides conditionals that can be quite useful in templates. --Arensb 11:58, 20 December 2009 (CST)
Why science fiction?[edit]
Why is science fiction on the list of requested pages? Does it have a particular connection to atheism or (counter)apologetics? It's linked to from a few pages, but perhaps those should be redirected to Wikipedia --Arensb 20:53, 11 November 2007 (CST)
Appeal to education?[edit]
Sorry if this isn't the place, but I wasn't sure where else to ask. Does anyone know of a pre-existing name for a fallacy something along the lines of appeal to education? What I mean is that a typical route for arguments against criticism of the Bible is simply, "Oh, you don't understand it. It takes YEARS OF STUDY to properly understand it." --Zurahn 13:35, 6 September 2008 (CDT)
- Perhaps something about esoteric knowledge? Not sure. - dcljr 17:54, 9 September 2008 (CDT)
- I'd call it "Appeal to Indoctrination" Rivalarrival
- I'd call it "bullshit", personally. DarkSeraph
- Argumentum ad verecundiam with yourself as the authority. --Jaban 13:12, 29 October 2008 (CDT)
- I'd call it "bullshit", personally. DarkSeraph
- I'd call it "Appeal to Indoctrination" Rivalarrival
Collect advice to struggling atheists?[edit]
Should there be a page or category giving advice on such topics as how to deal with one's religious parents, how to come out as an atheist, and so on? This has come up any number of times on The Atheist Experience, as well as other fora. On one hand, it's obviously of great interest to a number of people. On the other hand, this wiki may not be the best place to provide advice. --Arensb 19:52, 29 December 2008 (CST)
- The wiki seems dedicated to providing arguments/counterarguments. I would think that pages dealing with the application of those arguments would be relevant... Rival 21:10, 30 December 2008 (CST)
Eight hour lunch podcast[edit]
I don't think the the eight hour lunch podcast really needs its own topic, as the podcast only ran 20 or so episodes and hasn't been active for over a year. If anyone else actually thinks the article is necessary I'd be happy to make it, but it seems a bit insignificant for such a short lived podcast. Enshoku 07:37, 6 January 2009 (CST)
Rhetorical tricks?[edit]
Does anyone else think that there should be a Category:Rhetorical tricks? There are already categories for Category:Arguments and Category:Logical fallacies, but some of what happens in arguments doesn't neatly fall into either of those.
"Arguments" like "God doesn't believe in atheists" or "Why can't everyone just have their beliefs?" aren't logical arguments, flawed or otherwise. They're attempts to sway the audience through emotional manipulation, or to win the argument by means other than sound argumentation, or to try to avoid having the argument to begin with. --Arensb 23:00, 26 June 2010 (CDT)


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The Sacramento Kings hired Denver executive Pete D'Alessandro as their new general manager on Saturday.
D'Alessandro will replace the departing Geoff Petrie, a team official confirmed on condition of anonymity because there has not been a formal announcement yet. The move was first reported by Yahoo! Sports.
New owner Vivek Ranadive has already hired Mike Malone as the team's new coach and was looking to replace Petrie, who ran the basketball operations for the Kings since 1994. Petrie's contract expires at the end of the month and he is helping the new regime prepare for the draft.
D'Alessandro was executive vice president of basketball operations in Denver. The Nuggets already lost general manager Masai Ujiri to Toronto this offseason and coach George Karl was also let go despite leading the team to a franchise-record 57 wins this season before a first-round playoff loss to Golden State.
D'Alessandro has spent nearly a decade in the front offices with Golden State and Denver. His first item of business in Sacramento will be the draft on June 27. The Kings have the seventh pick in the first round.
The Kings also must decide what to do with volatile but talented center DeMarcus Cousins, who has averaged 16.3 points and 9.8 rebounds per game his first three seasons. Cousins has struggled with defense and discipline and was suspended three times last season — twice by the NBA and once by the team.
Sacramento is coming off a 28-54 season — the team's seventh straight under-.500 campaign. This recent rough run follows a stretch when Petrie built one of the league's top teams that made eight straight playoff appearances and made it to Game 7 of the 2002 Western Conference finals before losing to the Los Angeles Lakers.
Ranadive led the group that bought the team last month from the Maloof family at a total franchise valuation of more than $534 million to keep the franchise in Sacramento. That came after NBA owners blocked the Maloofs' agreement with investor Chris Hansen to buy and relocate the Kings to Seattle earlier in May.
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The crew of the Enterprise is about to face a lot of doom and gloom on their latest mission.
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3. The Gang's All Here: After Cumberbatch is done talking, an "Inception"-esque score kicks into gear and we see that all the regulars from 2009's "Star Trek" reboot are back. Among the most prominent to flash by in the trailer are John Cho's Sulu and Zachary Quinto's Spock, the latter shown brandishing his own gun and running through a city. No doubt they have their work cut out for them on this adventure, which also features some pretty high-octane CGI thrills including a fiery volcano-like landscape, a guy in a space suit flying down from the heavens, and an explosion aboard the deck of a starship.
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4. She's Beaming! Another moment features Zoe Saldana, reprising her role as Uhura and looking sexier than ever, as she and Kirk confront the enemy that awaits them. No word if she and Spock will continue their flirtation in this go-round.
5. Where Art Thou, Final Frontier? Oddly enough, there's little in the way of space involved in this teaser, nor warp speed travel, as the Enterprise appears very much grounded--or in this case surfacing from a vast ocean.
For fanboys who can't stand the wait, Paramount is beaming the first nine minutes of "Star Trek Into Darkness" into IMAX 3-D theaters ahead of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" on Dec. 14. The sequel is set to hit theaters in both 3-D and 2-D on May 17, 2013.


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"Commission has a mandate for Japan FTA negotiation," said one EU official in a text message. The agreement gives the European Commission, the EU executive, authority to negotiate with Japan on behalf of the 27 EU member states.
An EU-Japan FTA would bring together two trading partners responsible for a third of global economic output and could create 400,000 jobs in Europe alone. But the complexity of the negotiations means it could take several years to reach a deal.
France and Italy have been worried about the impact on their auto industries, and the deal was only reached after Paris was given safeguards to defend French carmakers against potentially strengthened competition from Japan, said another EU official.
The plan is part of an EU ambition to make up for stagnant European demand with potential free-trade pacts with major economies, including Canada and the United States.
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Hale contends Montana's DUI laws are "destroying a way of life that's been in Montana for years and years." Which is true; 31% of the Big Sky State's fatal accidents involve drivers with more than 0.08% of alcohol in their blood, the second-highest rate in the nation. It's a huge state with no people and lots of driving to do if you want to get plowed in the company of your contemporaries.
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> As expected, the Brewers officially cut ties with their second-longest tenured player, Manny Parra. The Brewers had five arbitration eligibles, the others being John Axford, Marco Estrada, Chris Narveson, and Carlos Gomez, and Parra was the only one to be non-tendered.
Parra, a lefty who has always had great stuff, had a very frustrating Brewers career, to say the least. He went 10-8 with a 4.39 ERA in his first full season in 2008, but has posted a 5.61 ERA in the years since. In 2009, 2010, and 2012 (he missed 2011 because of injuries), he had an ERA above 5.00. It appeared Parra was going to blossom into an ace, especially after he threw a perfect game in his first Triple-A start back in 2007, but he never panned out.
Maybe Parra just needs a change of scenery, and that's probably something he's going to get. Though a lot of Parra's career stats are alarming- his 5.12 ERA, 5.4 BB/9, and 1.645 WHIP are the highlights of them- he has a career 8.4 K/9. That, coming from a power lefty who also has a splitter, is going to draw interest from teams regardless of the other stats.
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> There have been a few mega-deals/large extensions signed over the past few days. Today, David Wright's seven-year, $122 million deal with the Mets followed Evan Longoria's six-year, $100 million extension with the Rays. Both of these are similar to the extensions Ryan Braun and Joey Votto signed in recent years.
> Minor moves:
Diamondbacks: Released Brad Bergesen.
Angels: Acquired Tommy Hanson from the Braves; claimed Scott Cousins off waivers from the Mariners.
Braves: Acquired Jordan Walden from the Angels; claimed David Carpenter off waivers from the Red Sox; non-tendered Jair Jurrjens and Peter Moylan.
Marlins: Claimed Joe Mahoney off waivers from the Orioles.
Indians: Claimed Mike McDade off waivers from the Blue Jays; designated Chris Seddon for assignment; signed Fernando Nieve to a minor league deal; non-tendered Rafael Perez and Jack Hannahan.
Blue Jays: Outrighted Cory Wade, who elected free agency; outrighted Joel Carreno and Mike McCoy to Triple-A.
Astros: Claimed Philip Humber off waivers from the White Sox.
Yankees: Claimed Jim Miller off waivers from the Athletics; designated Mickey Storey and Jayson Nix for assignment.
Orioles: Acquired Yamaico Navarro from the Pirates; designated Stuart Pomeranz for assignment; non-tendered Omar Quintanilla and Mark Reynolds; re-signed Taylor Teagarden, Steve Pearce, and Alexi Casilla to one-year deals.
Pirates: Acquired Jhondaniel Medina from the Orioles; acquired Zach Thornton from the Athletics; non-tendered Jeff Karstens.
Athletics: Acquired Chris Resop from the Pirates; re-signed Daric Barton and Adam Rosales to one-year deals; designated Sandy Rosario for assignment; non-tendered Jermaine Mitchell.
Cubs: Non-tendered Ian Stewart, Jaye Chapman, and Zach Putnam; outrighted Casey Coleman to Triple-A. Padres: Non-tendered Juan Oramas.
Mets: Non-tendered Mike Pelfrey, Andres Torres, and Manny Acosta.
Phillies: Non-tendered Nate Schierholtz.
Royals: Outrighted Ryan Verdugo and Adam Moore to Triple-A; re-signed Chris Getz to a one-year deal; non-tendered Derrick Robinson.
Twins: Outrighted Deolis Guerra to Triple-A.
Red Sox: Non-tendered Rich Hill, Ryan Sweeney, and Scott Atchison.
White Sox: Non-tendered Anthony Carter and Dan Johnson.
Tigers: Non-tendered Daniel Schlereth.
Nationals: Non-tendered John Lannan, Tom Gorzelanny, and Jesus Flores.


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US 'wouldn't be surprised' if North Korea launched attack
Warning comes after regime places missiles on mobile launchers on east coast in range of Japan and US bases
Army reservists salute the flag during a Foundation Day ceremony of the local reserve forces in Seoul today. North Korea has placed two of its intermediate range missiles on mobile launchers and hidden them on the east coast of the country in a move that could threaten Japan or US Pacific bases, South Korean media has reported. Photograph: Lim Hun-jung/Reuters
US army Patriot missile air defence artillery batteries stand ready for operations at the Osan air base south of the South Korean capital Seoul. Photograph: Lee Jae-Won/Reuters
The United States would not be surprised if North Korea were to conduct a new missile test, White House spokesman Jay Carney has told reporters.
Asked about indications that North Korea might be preparing to launch a test missile amid rising tensions in the region, Mr Carney said White House officials had seen the reports.
"We would not be surprised to see them take such an action," Mr Carney said. "We have seen them launch missiles in the past."
His comments come after North Korea placed two of its intermediate range missiles on mobile launchers and hid them on the east coast of the country in a move that could threaten Japan or US Pacific bases, South Korean media reported today.
The report could not be confirmed. But any such movement may be intended to demonstrate that the North, angry about joint US-South Korean military exercises and the imposition of UN sanctions, is prepared to demonstrate its ability to mount an attack.
The UN said today that its staff are continuing to work in North Korea while Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon studies a message from North Korea saying the world body should consider evacuating UN personnel from the country.
UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said a UN representative joined diplomats at a meeting in Pyongyang this afternoon where the North's foreign ministry delivered the message.
"The Secretary-General is studying the message and the United Nations will respond as appropriate," Mr Nesirky said.
He said UN staff "remain engaged in their humanitarian and developmental work throughout the country".
The has 36 international staff and 21 national staff working for seven UN agencies and programmes, plus family members.
Mr Nesirky reiterated Mr Ban's concern at escalating tensions spurred by North Korea's recent nuclear threats.
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British officials in North Korea have been warned that the authorities there would be unable to guarantee their safety in the event of conflict.
It is understood the British Foreign Office has no intention of evacuating the mission in the capital Pyongyang despite the North Korean regime saying it could not protect embassies and international missions if war broke out after April 10th.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "The British Embassy in Pyongyang received a communication from the North Korean government this morning saying that the North Korean government would be unable to guarantee the safety of embassies and international organisations in the country in the event of conflict from April 10th."
The North has said nuclear conflict could break out at any time on the Korean peninsula in a month-long war of words that has prompted the United States to move military assets into the region. The tension with North Korea has roiled South Korean financial markets and senior finance officials in Seoul warned they could have a long-term impact on markets.
In North Korea itself, there was no intensification of the strident rhetoric about impending war as the country marked a national holiday. And some analysts said the tone of recent statements, however bitter, was most probably aimed at securing concessions and was unlikely to lead to armed conflict.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency, quoting a senior military official said: "Early this week, the North moved two Musudan missiles on the train and placed them on mobile launchers."
South Korea's defence ministry declined to comment. Speculation centred on two kinds of missiles neither of which is known to have been tested.
The Musudan missile is estimated by South Korea's defence ministry to have a range of up to 3,000 km (1,865 miles) and the KN-08, believed to be an inter-continental ballistic missile, is untested.
In Seoul, officials from economic ministries, the central bank and regulatory agencies held emergency talks and promised swift and strong action should the markets lose stability. News of the talks and the central bank involvement boosted investors' expectations of an interest rate cut next week.
South Korean shares slid, with foreign investors selling their biggest daily amount in nearly 20 months, hurt after aggressive easing from the Bank of Japan sent the yen reeling, as well as by the tension over North Korea.
"In the past, (markets) recovered quickly from the impact from any North Korea-related event, but recent threats from North Korea are stronger and the impact may therefore not disappear quickly," vice finance minister Choo Kyung-ho told a meeting.
North Korea threatened to strike US military bases, including those on the American mainland, and to shut down a joint industrial complex with the South while denying entry to the complex by South Korean workers this week.
The South's new unification minister said the government was willing to pull out workers from the Kaesong industrial complex if it became dangerous, though he said the situation was not that serious for the moment.
The threats from North Korea's 30-year-old leader Kim Jong-un, though not unusual from the reclusive state, have followed the imposition of new UN sanctions in response to North Korea's third nuclear test in February. Reaction to the threats in markets has until now been muted.
The increasingly tense standoff with North Korea could not happen at a worse time for the government of the South's new president, Park Geun-hye, whose first steps in office included a sharp cut in growth forecasts.
Mrs Park, in office for just over a month, has ordered her cabinet to draw up what is likely to be a large supplementary budget to lower budget revenue projections and add new spending plans aimed at jump-starting faltering domestic demand.
"The market usually doesn't get jittery over North Korea threats. But this time is different, because they look willing to sacrifice Kaesong, which has never happened before," said Park Hyung-joon, macroeconomics team leader at Meritz Securities.
Some US analysts expressed a degree of alarm over the intensification of the threats.
"The rhetoric is off the charts," said Victor Cha, former director for Asian affairs at the White House National Security Council and now senior adviser at the Centre for Strategic Studies in Washington.
"We don't understand this new guy at all. And if the North Koreans move to provoke the South, the South is going to retaliate in a way we haven't seen before."
Other analysts said a degeneration into conflict was unlikely.
"We do not believe that North Korea intends to attack South Korea, pre-emptively or otherwise, in the current cycle of threat projection," the US-based Nautilus think-tank said in a study published yesterday.
"Rather, these statements are opportunistic, and express its authentic strategy which is extortionate. The North's nuclear forces are intended to compel their adversaries to change their policies towards (North Korea), not to deter unprovoked external attack-except when such an attack might actually be in motion."


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A new snack about to hit convenience store shelves in Japan might possibly make waves, it could start a buzz, but it will definitely generate . . . fizz. FritoLay's Shuwa Shuwa is, according to the promotional copy, "a snack that allows you to enjoy the fizziness of a carbonated drink via the pairing of long-seller Cheetos and Pepsi Cola seasoning."
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Reformed sugar-holic Mark: "The first crunch packed plenty of joy and wonder, taking me back to the first time I had Pop Rocks, but by the third or fourth bite, the sugar rush was too much and they just ending up tasted like sickly sweet Cheetos. It was a bit like this."
Mio, who has been known to hoard imported sweets: "It smells like cola, tastes like cola and even fizzes like flat cola, but when it comes to texture it's wrong in absolutely every single way. Oh and there's this weird corn aftertaste. My verdict: It's awesome . . . but then you could put fizzy powder on a dog biscuit and I'd probably have said the same thing."
Shaun, an expert on flavor mechanics: "It tasted like corn chips with — you know cola gummies? They might be coated in kind of cola sugar? It tastes like corn chips coated in cola sugar. The cola flavor wasn't inside the chips, but it was more like a dressing. It was really sweet, but that didn't stop me."
Mayumi, who probably is the only person in the office with fully functioning taste buds: "It was like I had chips and Pepsi at the same time. They were really fizzy though. They smelled sweet and didn't taste like any chips I've had before."
New kid on the block Eric: "My first taste was surprisingly Pepsi-like. It had that cola flavor and, even more noticeably, the bubbly fizz of a soft drink. After a bit of munching, however, the flavor turned much more corn-like. If I'm looking for refreshment on a hot summer day, I'd prefer an ice-cold soda pop to the chips. Besides, I'm a Coke fan."
Note that these are not to be confused with China's Pepsi chicken-flavored chips. No chicken in evidence here, just sweet, sparkling cola corn snacks.
Unfortunately, I was no longer in the office by the time these surfaced, so I'll have to wait like the rest of Japan until July 1. After conquering convenience stores, Shuwa Shuwa will appear more widely starting July 15. Exchange a cool ¥125 for 414 calories of fizzy sugar high, and then you, too, can say, "Yes, they really do taste like Pepsi."


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Albert Cyril Offord
Quick Info
London, England
Oxford, England
BiographyCyril Offord's parents were Hester Louise and Albert Edwin Offord. Albert was a master printer with the publishing firm Eyre and Spottiswoode. Hester trained as an opera singer but after marrying Albert she gave up her plans to become a professional singer. Cyril was the eldest of his parents' three children, having two younger brothers Horace and Frank who both made careers in medicine. The family were Plymouth Brethrens, members of a Christian church with no distinction between clergy and laity. The family took part in the regular Sunday morning meetings and, later in life, Cyril recalled his unhappy memories of these meetings [1] (or [2]):-
... he was so bitter about his narrow Plymouth Brethren upbringing that he did not like to talk about his early years.When he became older he renounced all religion, a position he held for most of his life, but we will mention his religious conversion towards the end of this biography. Offord was brought up in London where he attended Hackney Downs Grammar School.
After graduating from the Grammar School, Offord entered University College, London, where he studied mathematics. After the award of his first degree, he went to St John's College, Cambridge to undertake research. At Cambridge he came under the influence of J E Littlewood, who had been appointed as Rouse Ball Professor at Cambridge in 1928, and G H Hardy who had held the Sadleirian chair at Cambridge from 1931. He began publishing papers in 1932 with On the summability of power series and On the summability of trigonometric series appearing in that year and the paper Fourier and Hankel transforms in the following year. During his early years at Cambridge he collaborated with several mathematicians: Stephen Bosanquet, Einar Hille and Jacob David Tamarkin. In July 1936 he attended the International Congress of Mathematicians in Oslo and gave the lecture The uniqueness of the representation of a function by a trigonometric integral which was published in the Proceeding of the conference in the following year.
Offord had strong left-wing views and he had [3]:-
... a strong sense of social justice. In the 1930s, he belonged to Science For Peace and was in at the early stages of the Academic Assistance Council, now the Council for the Aid of Refugee Academics ...He was elected a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge in 1937 and remained in Cambridge for three further years, leaving in 1940 to take up a temporary assistant lectureship at University College, Bangor. It was during these last three years at Cambridge that he worked with J E Littlewood on the topic for which he is best known today, and they published a series of important joint papers beginning with On the number of real roots of a random algebraic equation in 1938. In the following year they published a second paper with this title and in it they give estimates of the expected number of real roots for an equation of degree when the coefficients are identically distributed random variables.
After spending two years in Bangor, Offord was appointed as a lecturer at King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1942. The University of Newcastle had been founded in 1937 as King's College, created from two Colleges of the University of Durham, namely Armstrong College and the College of Medicine, which were in Newcastle. Only in 1963 did King's College become the University of Newcastle with a charter making it independent of the University of Durham [1]:-
In Newcastle, Cyril met Margaret Yvonne Pickard, known as Rita, and they were married in 1945. Rita had been in the English Department at Newcastle, teaching and doing research on Early English texts. She gave up teaching upon marriage but continued with research, publishing two texts in the Early English Text Society. Their daughter, Margaret, was born in 1949 and has had a career in publishing, distance learning and educational technology.In 1945, the year he was married, Offord was appointed as Professor of Pure Mathematics at Newcastle. On 4 March 1946 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was proposed by Sir Edmund T Whittaker, John W Heslop Harrison, Alexander C Aitken, and Alfred D Hobson.
Werner Rogosinski was appointed as a lecturer in Newcastle in 1945 and promoted to reader in 1947. In January of the same year Offord appointed Walter Hayman who describes in [1] (or [2]) how he was treated with great kindness by Offord:-
To me Cyril and Rita could not have been kinder. They took me to live with them in their house in Whitley Bay until they had helped me to find suitable lodgings. Cyril gave me a very light teaching load, which left me plenty of time for research. On one day in the week I had just one lecture and asked Cyril whether it was really worth travelling down from the coast for that. He might reasonably have bitten my head off, but just replied that it was necessary. Offord told me about his collaboration with Littlewood. At that stage they were just writing their big paper ('On the distribution of zeros and a-values of a random integral function'). Littlewood made him change the draft several times, until finally it came back nearly to what it had been in the first instance. He advised me to do my research with a pencil having a rubber at the end, and I have stuck to this method of working ever since.We should say a little more about the 'big paper' referred to by Hayman in this quotation. In it Offord and Littlewood considered the family of entire functions of finite order obtained by introducing independent plus or minus signs, each with probability , in the Taylor series of a given function. R P Boas writes:-
They showed, roughly speaking, that the general behaviour of these entire functions, and in particular the distribution of their values, is almost always the same, being in fact determined by the modulus of the maximum term.Offord produced a remarkable generalisation of the results of this paper in The distribution of the values of an entire function whose coefficients are independent random variables (1965).
Returning to our account of Offord's career, he left Newcastle in 1948 when appointed to a chair at Birkbeck College, London. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1952. In different circumstances, he may have remained at Birkbeck College for the rest of his career, but he had a disagreement with the university authorities over the mathematics degree and left Birkbeck in 1966 to take up a newly created mathematics chair at the London School of Economics. This had been established in response to the increasing demand for more sophisticated mathematics in the Social Sciences where expertise in statistics and computing were becoming necessary. In 1973 he retired from the London School of Economics but remained in London as a senior research fellow at Imperial College. The London School of Economics paid this tribute to him in [4]:-
Within the School he is perhaps better known for his kindness, his humanity and the care and effort that he has put into establishing Mathematics as a subject of serious study at the London School of Economics. ... The School has been fortunate in attracting such a humane and gifted man as its first Professor of Mathematics.However, he did not remain in London, but returned to Oxford to spend the rest of his retirement [1] (or [2]):-
In 1980 the Offords moved to Oxford, where Rita had done her degree in English literature at Lady Margaret Hall. Cyril attended meetings and continued publishing until the 1990s. Although Cyril was in frail health and poor sight owing to the loss of an eye because of a tumour in the 1970s, he and Rita greatly enjoyed their retirement, receiving guests in their small north Oxford house, while Cyril indulged in his passions for early music (of which there are many concerts in Oxford), gardening and French literature, benefiting from the proximity of the Maison Française. He created a beautiful walled garden, making a particular feature of the high walls with climbing plants such as clematis and roses. In summer the area was a feast of crimson and purple. Although musical, Cyril had never learned to play an instrument. He took up the lute in his retirement, receiving lessons from Diana Poulton. The somewhat doleful strains of the lute seemed to fit in with the world-weariness that beset him in his later years.In September 1994 he wrote to one of his former Ph.D. students who had just retired:-
... the first few years of retirement can be very pleasant and I hope your wife and yourself enjoy them fully. I have now reached 88 and things are not so pleasant when you get to that age. However, I have managed to re-write some of the work I did with Littlewood. It is now a bit more concise and I think easier to read.Near the beginning of this biography we mentioned that for most of his life Offord had rejected religion but had a conversion late in life. The conversion was, in fact, very late in his life, occurring shortly before his death when confirmed into the Church of England by the Bishop of Oxford. However, Offord's wife had been a member of the Church of England and for many years they had attended services together.
References (show)
- W K Hayman, Albert Cyril Offord. 9 June 1906 - 4 June 2000, Biogr. Mems Fell. R. Soc. 48 (2002), 341-355.
- W K Hayman, Albert Cyril Offord, FRS, 1906-2000, Bull. London Math. Soc. 37 (2005), 933-946.
- W K Hayman, Cyril Offord, The Guardian (Wednesday 5 July 2000).
- Retirements: A C Offord, LSE Magazine No 46 (November 1973), 8.
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Honours (show)
Honours awarded to Cyril Offord
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Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
Last Update July 2011
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I know that you specialize in helping scientists and medical professionals. I'd like to know what you see as the differences between scientific presentations to scientists and other "normal" presentations. I sometimes get push-back from such clients along the lines "You just can't do that" or "that's not the way it's done." I did a biology degree many, many years ago, but haven't been to any scientific conferences and so I would find your views really valuable.I've pointed many a scientist to Olivia's excellent post on how to simplify a presentation without dumbing it down -- and "dumbing it down" is one of the push-back terms scientists use when they're talking about explaining complexities to public audiences. They often say that the skills I'm teaching them are "completely counterintuitive" to the way they normally present--their comfort zone is the reverse of what you and I would teach as good presentation skills. And the dirty little secret: Despite all their training, it's rare that they actually receive good training in presentation skills. In effect, it's an intellectual area of vulnerability for many of them.
Once you get past all the derisive put-downs about presenting, it turns out that many scientists are very keen to learn good presentation skills, but it helps to make the counterintuitive parts transparent to them.
Opposing presentation styles
In the Communicating Science workshops I've been facilitating, Tiffany Lohwater, the public engagement manager for the American Association for the Advancement of Science--the program's creator--shows this slide to make clear to the scientist participants just how different the two approaches are:
|Slide courtesy of AAAS
Where the scientist normally presents all the background material first, followed by supporting material and leaving the results and conclusions till the end, public or non-scientist audiences want the bottom line early. They expect the results first, the "what's in it for me?" or "so what?" connection to their real lives, and then (maybe) the supporting details.
What's behind scientists' presentation styles
In a sense, the scientist's presentation style is a traditional narrative: Start at the beginning with the research question, assemble the background, share the supporting details, then come to a conclusion. The narrative moves in chronological order, from "we wanted to find out" to "this is what we concluded." (The format mimics the standard form for a journal article, which no doubt saves time later.) Showing this slide has helped many of our scientist audiences to understand the difference between the two styles, and therefore, why it feels so awkward to present in a different (to them) way.
At scientific conferences, researchers present their data so that their peers may poke holes in it, question methodologies and suggest other options, all with an eye to making the research better. It is a specific phase of the scientific process, considered to be the first phase of needed peer review that makes research more reliable. In other words, you present your research at meetings first, and only after revising it appropriately do you submit it for formal peer review and publication in a journal.
Perhaps because they know they're likely to be grilled, and certainly because the alternative's way out of their comfort zone, the idea of presenting in a different way can be easily dismissed, as it has with you, as wrong, granstanding or (horrors) just too novel. Only the most senior scientists generally deviate from this norm--another factor that makes it seem pushy for junior scientists to attempt "Presentation Zen" or unusual techniques.
Should scientists try better presentation skills, anyway?
I say yes. Every scientist I know can attest to sitting through horrific presentations with too many slides and acronyms, monotone delivery, and other poor presentation methods. When they sit through a dynamic, skilled, thoughtful and focused presentation, they're as delighted as anyone else would be.
Witness how they make fun of their own presentations, charts and citations in this video, from a humor session at the AAAS meeting. It is not a bad example of what passes for a "good" meeting presentation, including the, er, buzz word that's overused:
Another issue: Scientists are used to assuming that their audience understands them when they speak to a group of colleagues within their discipline. As a result, they're not used to taking the audience into account--there are lots of assumptions made--and it allows them to use acronyms and shorthand rather than work for clarity. That doesn't work, however, when they are presenting to scientists from many disciplines. While other specialists can usually follow along well, there are many overlapping terms, theories and methods that just don't translate from one branch of science to the next. For a non-scientist, there's a nice feeling to be had when you hear one scientist say to another, "I'm a Ph.D. physicist, and I didn't understand a word you just said."
For all those reasons, I still encourage scientists to learn good presentation skills--and have had many companies, universities, professional societies and labs hire me to help them advance in this area. Every audience, even the most technical, deserves clarity, engagement and a well-planned presentation.
Related post: How do we balance technical and non-technical in a presentation for a mixed audience?
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The Central Connecticut swimming & diving team fell to St. Francis (P.A.) (748) by one point at the 2012 Northeast Conference Championship. The Blue Devils, who topped the rankings on days one and two, posted a score of 747. Wagner placed third with 552, Bryant fourth with 547, and Mount St. Mary's rounded out the top five scoring 348 points.
Senior Madison Vesteraard defended her 3m diving title winning the event with a score of 234.90. Vestergaard took home the NEC Diver of the Meet award for the second consecutive year.
Three Blue Devils collected silver medals for Central on the third and final day. Junior Taylor Friedmann in the 1650 yard freestyle (17:10.66), senior Alex Czaplicki in the 200 yard backstroke (2:01.95), and sophomore Helene Neuhaus in the 100 yard freestyle.
The Blue Devil pair of sophomore Kristina Gulia and senior Kristen Malski claimed the third and fourth spots in the 200 yard breaststroke, respectively. Gulia touched the wall at 2:21.96 followed by Malski at 2:23.60. Junior Katie Lang finished fourth in the 200 yard butterfly turning in a 2:07.17 mark.
Central will be back in the pool on February 26th at the Harvard Last Chance Qualifier.
Both senior Alex Czaplicki and junior Taylor Friedmann earned gold medals for the Blue Devils. Czaplicki swam to victory in the 400 IM with a time of 4:24.70. Friedmann captured the 200 yard freestyle with her 1:50.20 mark.
A pair of Blue Devils secured the second and third place spots in the 100 yard breaststroke. Sophomore Kristina Gulia turned in a time of 1:04.83 claiming the runner up position in the event. Seconds behind Gulia was senior Kristen Malski who touched the wall at 1:06.07, good for third place.
Sophomore Helene Neuhaus registered a third place finish in the 100 yard backstroke at 56.83. Neuhaus along with Gulia, Friedmann, and junior Katie Lang highlighted the 400 yard medley relay event. The team finished second with a time of 3:52.19.
Junior Taylor Friedmann claimed the 500 yard freestyle event with a time of 4:53.71, 3.58 seconds ahead of second place teammate junior Allison Rasile (4:57.29).
Another back-to-back Blue Devil duo came in the 200 yard IM event. Senior Alex Czaplicki swam to a second place finish in the event (2:04.29) just a fraction of a second ahead of junior Katie Lang who rounded out the top three with a time of 2:05.77.
Senior Madison Vestergaard continued her dominance on the boards earning gold in the 1m diving event with a score of 250.10.
Day one of the 2012 NEC Championship opened with two relay events.
First was the 200 yard medley relay. Seniors Alex Czaplicki and Kristen Malski, junior Katie Lang, and sophomore Helene Neuhaus made up Central's 'A' relay team. The team swam to a third place finish touching the wall at 1:45.89.
The second and final event of day one was the 800 yard freestyle relay. Czaplicki and Lang also headed this relay team along with juniors Allison Rasile and Taylor Friedmann. Finishing second, the squad posted a time of 7:25.80, just .05 seconds behind first place St. Francis (P.A.) (7:25.75).


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With the emergence of the new AM2 platform, AMD has updated its entire desktop processor portfolio to be AM2 compliant, albeit AMD will continue to support the existing Socket-939 and Socket-754 platform as long as there's a sizeable demand in those segments. To start off with a bang, AMD also launched faster processor versions in the guise of the Athlon 64 X2 5000+ and the Athlon 64 FX-62 processors; both of which we had the pleasure of testing them thoroughly. As it turned out, their higher clock speed configurations easily earned them top-dog status and the performance advantage they held against their predecessors and the competitors pleased us too.
There was however one key question that had to be answered: Just how useful or pivotal had the adoption of DDR2 memory been to their top AM2 processors? There was no one processor in AMD's current lineup to pit the flagship AM2 processor against. To answer this interesting question, we overclocked the Athlon 64 FX-60 (Socket-939 using DDR memory) to 2.8GHz and then set it against the Athlon 64 FX-62 processor. Remember, at a clock speed of 2.8GHz, the FX-60 is almost identical to the new FX-62 processor, with the exception that the former uses DDR memory while the FX-62 obviously uses DDR2 memory. In essence, this is an FX-62 on Socket-939 versus an FX-62 on Socket AM2. Since the upper echelon of AM2 processors support memory frequencies as high as DDR2-800, we used low latency Corsair XMS memory of this speed grade whereas the Socket-939 based FX-60 was paired with low latency DDR-400 memory. Basically, we used the best speed grade available for both Socket platforms to keep the comparison objective. Below then are the complete test bed setups for both systems; do have them in mind as we proceed to the benchmarks segment immediately after:-
The components used in the AMD Socket AM2 testbed include:-
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- AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 and Athlon 64 X2 5000+ processor
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When comparing Zynewave Podium vs Reaper, the Slant community recommends Reaper for most people. In the question"What are the best DAWs? " Reaper is ranked 1st while Zynewave Podium is ranked 20th. The most important reason people chose Reaper is:
Reaper lets users change to different themes, supports the use of a wealth of (free) extensions and has a lot of options when it comes to rendering.
Ranked in these QuestionsQuestion Ranking
Pro Uncluttered
Most DAWs suffer from software bloat, with constant updates adding unnecessary features. Not Podium. This makes it easier to focus on making music.
Pro MIDI editing
The piano roll is excellent.
Pro Excellent navigation
Using the navigator at the top of the screen, Podium users can click and zoom, adjust the edges of the viewed area, or click a programmable button to the left of the navigator that jumps to a selected view.
Pro Works with advanced mice
Mice with 4-way scroll wheels are compatible with Podium.
Pro Embedded editor
Zynewave plugins use custom editors that are built in to the inspector's rack panel, allowing users to adjust settings without having to open a new window.
Pro Highly customizable
Reaper lets users change to different themes, supports the use of a wealth of (free) extensions and has a lot of options when it comes to rendering.
Pro Rarely crashes
Most DAWs have a tendency to crash constantly, reaper crashes very rarely.
Pro Supports unlimited number of tracks with unlimited number of effects
There are no limits on amount of tracks and effects that those tracks can be equipped with.
Pro Constantly updated
Alongside generally quick pace of updates, Reaper developers pay very close attention to user feedback and are constantly adding features based on their requests so much so that some even consider it somewhat of a crowdsourced DAW.
Pro Auto-bridges 32-bit plugins in a 64-bit environment
When using a 64-bit installation of Reaper, all 32-bit plugins will still work alongside 64-bit plugins. On computers with an x86-64 CPU and an OS that supports multi-architecture, you can also run bridged 64-bit plugins on 32-bit Reaper.
Pro Very low cpu usage
Reaper's will tailor itself to fit your computer's processing power by automatically using the "anticipative FX processing" feature.
Pro Easy to install
No complex activation shenanigans. No dongle and such.
Pro Multiple recording and playback formats
Records in WAV, AIFF, FLAC, WAVPACK, OGG and MP3.
Pro Portable
Reaper is lightweight enough to be run off of a flash drive; the installer weights less than 20 MB and the portable installation option is included in it.
Pro Multi-level freezing
A freeze can be applied to a group, and then picked apart track by track.
Pro Comes with ~300 free plugins
Pro Huge community support
Pro Free Reaplugs VST/VSTi bundle allows usage of the basic bundled like EQ's and comp plugins in any DAW
Pro Highly affordable
The Reaper DAW offers 2 licenses. A commercial license at $225 and a discounted one at $60. Both licenses give access to the complete DAW. The discounted license is for non profits, educational programs and personal use as long as yearly gross revenue does not exceed USD $20,000. There's even an indefinite free trial with no limitations for evaluation purposes.
Pro Editing audio can be done on track
You don't have to go to a separate editor to edit audio files. You can work directly on the track, and drop/drag pieces to other tracks, sew them together. It's a fun sandbox and easy peasy.
Pro DRM-free
Essentially shareware. After your 60-day free trial runs out, the program does not enforce the end of the trial period, and you may continue using the software for further evaluation or non-revenue generating purposes indefinitely. The only "DRM" is your conscience, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and the fact the program is awesome.
Pro Application is extendable
The Application itself has no limitations. Once you understand it you can progress onto the better mastering and editing qualities then all other DAW applications.
Pro Very full featured but basic recording and production can be learned and done in a few hours
Without prior experience with DAW, you can install Reaper, set up ASIO drivers, connect to your amp and mikes, get the hang of recording/re-recording tracks, and render an mp3 in just a few hours. You can accomplish the basics very fast.
Pro Simplified workflow
In Reaper, a track is a track is a track. There is no distinction among MIDI, stereo, mono, surround or any other tracks, and that means it's possible to put clips of all kinds on the same track. This approach makes the Reaper DAW seem a lot more intuitive than other DAWs.
Pro Many time-saving features
Thought has been given to many time-saving features and shortcuts which speed up workflow considerably.
Pro Supports ReWire
Pro Tool-less interface
Set the cursor, press a key, done. No need to switch cursor editing modes or work around "smart" cursors.
Pro Tabbed projects
You can have open multiple projects via tabs at the top left and easily drag and drop clips, instruments and ideas between each project at ease.
Pro Notation editor added recently
Pro Lua scripting can be done in the DAW with a built-in IDE
Pro Clean, easy-to-read GUI
The GUI is simple and easily gets information across to the user
Pro OSC-Support
You can control nearly everything via OSC (and Midi, too).
Pro The software advances with you
If you want to use it as a glorified tape machine and nothing else, you'll still be able to get work done. If you want to learn all the shortcuts, scripts, custom actions and macros and really unlock what Reaper can do, you can do that as well. Either way, you'll still be able to make music.
Pro Runs well on Wine in Linux
Pro arguably the most beautiful DAW
Just a little digging in and you'll find there's more than hundreds of themes you can choose from. If that's not enough, you can customize those themes or even make your own.
Pro Native Linux support
No need to install Wine, Reaper supports Linux natively!
Pro Can edit while you're recording
If you want to save time mixing
Con non-free software
Con No VST3
No VST3 support.
Con Low compatibility
Podium is for Windows only.
Con Long drop down menus
There are many features that you'll find nested deep in the menu system, but it's really clunky. Everything is there but it's difficult to find. It's also really easy to accidentally click an option that you didn't intend.
Con Non-free software
Does not respect your freedom, does not provide source code
Con Midi Latency is still an issue
Con Lacks VSTis
Doesn't come with a wealth of VSTis. Plugins for things like piano, cello, guitar have to be found elsewhere. But is highly compatible with other providers of those products.
Con Lacks LV2 support
Does not support the LV2 plugin standard
Con No native groove quantize feature
Straight quantization is available, but the Reaper 4 DAW is still missing groove integration. This feature can be made available with the free SWS extension.
Con Sometimes feels like a Program rather than a DAW
Tweaking features can be a steep learning curve. Sometimes feels like a programmable interface rather than a DAW.
Con The MIDI editor is not intuitive and feels very clumsy and inconsistent
It costs time and extra clicks to control the MIDI velocities. If you use the MIDI editor a lot, Reaper is just not for you.
Con Midi drum editing not so fast or easy
Cubase has more features for creating and editing midi drum tracks.
Con No PFL metering
If you want to meter your input levels before your FX and volume fader, you'll need to insert a metering plugin as the first part of the chain, since there is no option for PFL metering.
Con Midi dropout or inconsistent when render a track
When rendering a track with multiple vst, the midi note either having drop out issue, or not playing on time in render. Tried all render method such as offline full speed, offline 1x and online render, with both case of enabling or disabling the "allow anticipative FX processing", even tried to change the performance options on individual track, the problem still occurs. However, it is still nice to do mixing and recording with all these handful of tools.
The producer or composer need a good feeling when they work with their DAW.