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Recipe by Donna Leigh
"This is a wonderful tenderloin that tastes best when marinated for 24 hours."
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1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup oyster sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
4 teaspoons minced fresh ginger root
1 tablespoon ketchup
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 (12 ounce) pork tenderloins
It is funny, I made this recipe about 10 years ago and now can't find it. I was very happy to find it here. The only thing missing is that when you take the meat off the grill, you should wrap it in foil and let it rest for about 5 minutes or so. You might want to reduce the temperature from 145 to 140 to take that into consideration. The meat will have a pinkish shell because of the marinade, but the inside meat should be the white of pork. This is a great one to grill for a party. I have several times.
Loved this marinade! I was looking for a creative way to use some of the plum jam that I made last year and this looked interesting. I followed the recipe exactly for the ingredients, but used pork chops instead of a pork tenderloin. Grilled outside . . .perfect spring/summer food! We'll definitely be having this again!
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This marinade has a slightly oriental flavor that I really like. I've never grilled pork tenderloin, but it turned out well. Due to the amount of sugar in the marinade, it is important to oil the grate and use a medium heat, as the submitter stated, or use an indirect method. I think it would make a great sauce for chicken, pineapple and bell pepper skewers, too!
I prepared this before work and let it marinate for over 24 hours, We cooked it on a gas grill on semi indirect heat. We used an electric meat thermometer and cooked until it was about 150 degrees. 145 degrees is a safe temp but a little on the pink side for me. We let it sit for about 5 minutes before carving and It turned out PERFECT! Juicy on the inside and nicely grilled on the outside. Since there are only two of us we shared half with the neighbors…they loved it too! Perfect dinner for a warm fall evening!
We BBQ pork tenderloin a lot over the summer and I wanted to try something different for a dinner party so decided to try this recipe. After marinating the meat over night, I realized the next morning that I had forgotten to add the honey in the recipe. Couldn't make any changes at that point so proceeded to BBQ the pork as usual and it was a fantastic! I had reserved some of the marinate and drizzled it over the sliced pork. I will try this again with the honey added and decide which we prefer. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Very easy to make and great complementary flavor to the pork. Yum!
This was great for the grill! It had a lovely caramelized flavor. I didn't have onion powder so I used chopped shallots. I will definitely be using this recipe again. Thank you Donna!
wrap tenderloins in aluminum wrap and let meat rest for approx. 5 minutes
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Marinated Grilled Pork Tenderloin
Serving Size: 1/4 of a recipe Servings Per Recipe: 4 Amount Per Serving Calories: 313 Calories from Fat: 74
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Recipe by Campbell's Kitchen
"This light and flavorful dish features Swanson® Premium Chunk Chicken Breast and an assortment of fresh vegetables tossed with cooked spaghetti, Parmesan cheese and a sauce made special with Swanson® Chicken Broth."
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2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 3/4 cups Swanson® Chicken Broth (Regular, Natural Goodness™ or Certified Organic)
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
2 cups broccoli flowerets
2 medium carrots, sliced
1/2 cup green or red pepper, cut into 2-inch-long strips
1 small onion, chopped
2 (4.5 ounce) cans Swanson® Premium Chunk Chicken Breast in Water, drained
4 cups hot cooked spaghetti
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Overall I found this dish to be really easy quick and flavorful. I made mine with a few additions/substitutions. Instead of the canned chicken I used 2 fresh chicken breast that I bake first. I also had no broccoli so I used asparagus and I used fresh crushed garlic instead of the garlic salt and increased the parmesan cheese to 3/4 cups.
Really bland dish, will not make again...
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didn't add the cornstarch, not a fan. threw in some fresh mushrooms at the very end. It was very quick and a good way to get your vegetables.
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Joseph M. Schwartz is a leader of Democratic Socialists of America.
DSOC Youth
Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee's first youth organizer was Cynthia Ward, a former student at the University of Chicago. Other key leaders included Joe Schwartz, Mark Levinson, Jeremy Karpatkin and Penny Schantz.[1]
New American Movement 10th convention
In 1981 Abby Cassin, South Jersey NAM; Mel Pritchard, San Diego NAM; Penny Schantz and Joe Schwartz of Democratic Socialists Organizing Committee and Peg Strobel, Co-Chair, Campus Commission led a workshop entitled Campus Organizing Strategies at the 10th Convention of the New American Movement. The convention was held in a union headquarters in Chicago and ran from July 29 - August 2, 1981.[2]
Tribute to Ben Dobbs
On Sunday, June 7, 1981, the Los Angeles Chapter of the New American Movement sponsored a Tribute to Ben Dobbs for "His lifelong commitment to socialism". The event was held at the Miramar-Sheraton Hotel, Santa Monica, California. Sponsors of the event included Joseph Schwartz.[3]
DSA Conference delegate
In 1983 Joseph M Schwartz was a Boston, Massachusetts delegate to the Democratic Socialists of America conference in New York City, October 14-16, 1983[4]
DSA Feminist Commission
In 1986 Joseph Schwartz of Massachusetts was listed as a member of the Feminist Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America.[5]
Jesse Jackson campaign
Joseph Schwartz is veteran of Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign,[6]
DSA member
In 1990, Joseph Schwartz was a member of Democratic Socialists of America[7].
In 1994 Schwartz and Theresa Alt of Ithaca, New York were members of the Democratic Socialists of America Steering Committee.[8]
Schwartz, of the Ithac,a NY DSA and the Philadelphia DSA, was elected to the Democratic Socialists of America National Political Committee, at the November 1997 DSA National Convention in Columbus Ohio.[9]
DSA Racial Diversity Task Force
In 1992 Joe Schwartz was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America Racial Diversity Task Force - charged with finding ways of recruiting (and retaining) more "people of color" into the organization[10].
Speaking with Obama
Barack Obama spoke at a Democratic Socialists of America organized forum at the University of Chicago in early 1996.[11]
- Over three hundred people attended the first of two Town Meetings on Economic Insecurity on February 25 in Ida Noyes Hall at the University of Chicago. Entitled "Employment and Survival in Urban America", the meeting was sponsored by the UofC DSA Youth Section, Chicago DSA and University Democrats.
The panelists were Toni Preckwinkle, Alderman of Chicago's 4th Ward, Barack Obama, candidate for the 13th Illinois Senate District, Professor William Julius Wilson, Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the University of Chicago, Professor Michael Dawson, University of Chicago and Professor Joseph Schwartz, Temple University and a member of DSA's National Political Committee[11].
Center for Democratic Values
The Center for Democratic Values, a progressive think-tank developed with Democratic Socialists of America sponsorship, made its first public appearance at the Socialist Scholars Conference in New York, April 12 - 14. 1996 . CDV cosponsored two panels at the conference and held a reception to introduce the Center to the assembled socialist scholars and activists.
The first panel dealt with rethinking the role of government. The discussion centered around a paper authored by DSA member and CDV organizer David Belkin which challenged the left to seriously reopen the issue of the role of government in a democratic society. Carol O'Cleireacain, former New York City Budget Director, another member of the panel, stressed the need for the left to pay more attention to organization and management as well as policy and structure, the traditional focuses of socialist theories. Joe Schwartz, a DSA member and professor at Temple University, also spoke.
As chair of Philadelphia DSA, Kathy Quinn participated in the second CDV sponsored panel, which was titled "The Next Left". The panel was chaired by DSA National Director Alan Charney. It featured David Sprintzen, head of the Long Island Progressive Coalition, and Quinn focusing on local organizing, and philosophy professors Steven Eric Bronner and Ron Aronson talking in broader and more theoretical terms about the prospects for progressive organizing[12].
2001 DSA leadership
Nineteen people ran for the sixteen National Political Committee positions elected at the 2001 Democratic Socialists of America Convention. The winners were:
- Theresa Alt, Ithaca
- Susan Chacin, Berkeley
- Eric Ebel, Ann Arbor
- Virginia Franco, San Diego
- David Green, Detroit
- Gabe Kramer, Columbus
- Selina Musuta, Ithaca
- Gina Neff, New York City
- Angel Picon, Stockton
- Maria Pineda, Davis
- Kathy Quinn, Philadelphia
- Jason Schulman, New York City
- Joseph Schwartz, Ithaca
- Timothy Sears, Oakland
- Jessica Shearer, New York City
- Herb Shore, San Diego
The Young Democratic Socialists representatives to the NPC (sharing the one Youth Section vote) were Joan Axthelm (Chicago) and Fabricio Rodriguez (Arizona).[13]
DSA's Cuba Letter
Joseph Schwartz signed an April 2003 Statement on Cuba, initiated and circulated[14] by prominent Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member Leo Casey, calling for the lifting of trade sanctions against Cuba.
- "a statement circulating among democratic left/socialist folks, largely by members of Democratic Socialists of America, condemning the recent trials and convictions of non-violent dissenters in Cuba".
The petition criticized Cuba's poor human rights record, but shared the blame for Cuba's problems with reactionary elements of the U.S. administration...
- The democratic left worldwide has opposed the U.S. embargo on Cuba as counterproductive, more harmful to the interests of the Cuban people than helpful to political democratization. The Cuban state's current repression of political dissidents amounts to collaboration with the most reactionary elements of the U.S. administration in their efforts to maintain sanctions and to institute even more punitive measures against Cuba.
Many of the petition's 120 odd signatories were known members of DSA.
DSA Renegotiate NAFTA petition
In 2009 Joseph Schwartz signed a petion calling on President Barack Obama to Renegotiate NAFTA. The petition was initiated and circulated by Democratic Socialists of America.[15]
Memo to Obama
For their January-February 2009 issue, Tikkun magazine asked a number of "liberal and leftist academics and activists" to draft a "Memo to President Obama". DSA's Labour movement blog Talking Union pre-published a memo drafted by Temple University politics lecturer and Democratic Socialists of America Vice-Chair Joseph Schwartz[16].
- The impressive depth and breadth of your electoral victory, combined with Democratic gains in both the House and the Senate, provides the possibility of reversing three decades of growing inequality that is the primary cause of an impending depression. But to do so you will have to act boldly and quickly. As a constitutional law scholar, you realize that the system of checks and balances and separation of powers established by our founders consciously aimed to forestall rapid change. Thus, almost all the reforms we identify with the twentieth-century Democratic Party—Social Security, the National Labor Relations Act, the Civil Rights Acts, and Medicare—occurred in the periods 1935-1938 and 1964-1966, the only times when the Democrats controlled the presidency and had strong majorities in both chambers of Congress.
- If upon taking office you lead with boldness, your administration could pass major legislation in regard to universal health care, massive investment in green technology, and labor law reform that would transform United States social relations for generations to come. But as a former community organizer you know that such reforms did not come from the top down; they arose because moderate elites made concessions to the movements of the unemployed and the CIO in the 1930s and to the Civil Rights, anti-war, women's, and welfare rights movements of the 1960s. While your office cannot conjure up mass social movements, you can call your supporters to ongoing grassroots activism.
Schwartz is referring here to the communist led union/mass movements of the 1930s which pushed Roosevelt into the "New Deal" and the communist/New Left led movements of the 1960s which brought about Lyndon Johnson's "New Society". DSA sees the next few years as the next "New Deal" Schwartz wants Obama to be guided by (and no doubt to finance) this movement.
- Even before taking office, you confront the most serious breakdown in the global economy since the Great Depression. Hopefully well before you take office, you and your Treasury Secretary nominee will push the lame-duck Congress to pass a massive stimulus package of at least $500 billion or $600 billion...
- The stimulus package should include major government funding of job training in the inner cities (in green technologies, for example) and of opportunities for both GIs and displaced workers to return to university as full-time students (and for women on TANF to fulfill their "workfare" requirements through secondary and higher education pursuits). While affluent suburbs provide their residents superb public education and public services, federal cutbacks in aid to states and municipalities has worsened the life opportunities of inner city residents.
- Your election as the first African American president is of inestimable symbolic import; but its promise will be soured if your administration does nothing to address inner city poverty and the massive rise in the incarceration of young youth of color. Only federal funding of pre-K education and of after-school programs for vulnerable youth can begin to redress rampant educational inequalities.
Schwartz is urging the presient to re-distribute the wealth-especially to the areas where socialists are most influential. Fund government programs that socialists will control. The communists of the 1930s infiltrated and lived off Roosevelt's myriad make-work schemes. The socialists of the new century aim to do the same. Re-distribute the wealth-especially to socialists.
- The inefficient and inequitable United States health care system cries out for replacement by a universal and cost-efficient alternative... While the power of the insurance lobby may preclude your backing a national single-payer bill, you must back progressive Democratic amendments for opt-out provisions from your "pay or play" system of private insurance. Such opt-outs would allow states to create their own single-payer systems, and allow Medicare or the federal employees health plan to market to employers as a lower-cost alternative to private group plans.
- But how to pay for all this? You should attempt to reverse not only the Bush tax cuts, but also the Reagan-era cuts in marginal rates on high-income earners (approximately $300 billion in revenues, each). In addition, abolishing the 15 percent tax rate on hedge fund and private equity managers' earnings could garner another $100 billion in annual revenues.
- Ending the war in Iraq should save $100 billion per annum; a one-third cutback in United States military bases abroad and an end to Cold War era plans to build a next generation of fighters and an anti-ballistic missile defense could save $216 billion in federal revenue per year.
The military budget is hideously oversized for a nation that claims armaments are necessary for defense, and not defense of empire.
- When the Ponzi scheme of "securitized mortgages" collapsed with the end of the irrational run-up in housing prices, the federal government had to bail out Bear Stearns, then Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and then AIG. American capitalism has privatized gain, but socialized risk. Yet if risk is to be socialized, then so should investments. Your administration should not only demand equity shares in the banks and corporations that are bailed out by the public treasury, but should also require that consumer, worker, and government representatives be added to the board of directors of corporations receiving government aid.
- A "new New Deal" would have to restructure international economic institutions so that they raise up international labor, living, human rights, and environmental standards. In large part you owe your victory in the key battleground states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Pennsylvania to the efforts of one of the few integrated institutions in the United States—the American labor movement. Restoring the right to organize unions (which de facto no longer exists in the United States) is a key policy component in the battle against economic inequality. Given the already massive corporate and media offensive already launched against the Employee Free Choice Act, you will have to place the entire prestige of your office behind the legislation...
- Your victory by no means guarantees the bold policy initiatives necessary to restoring equity with growth to the United States economy. Your campaign did not advocate major defense cuts, progressive tax reform, and significant expansion of public provision. But FDR did not campaign on bold solutions in 1932. It was pressure from below that forced FDR's hand. Similarly your victory may provide space for social movements to agitate in favor of economic justice and a democratic foreign policy. But as a president who understands the process of social change, I trust that you will understand that those demanding the most from your administration are those who can best help you succeed in office.
Schwartz is admitting that President-elect Obama didn't campaign on socialism, but FDR didn't campaign on the "New Deal" either. He did what he did, because the communists and socialists forced him to.
Ithaca DSA forium
In February 2009 Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America held a public forum, "Advice for the New President: The Economic Crisis," featuring DSA's Joseph Schwartz as well as Shaianne Osterreich, an economist; Eric Lessinger, a doctor; and Dominic Frongillo, a town legislator and energy independence advocate..[17]
DSA vice-chair
Democratic Socialists of America Vice-Chairs in 2009 were;
Elaine Bernard, Edward Clark, Jose LaLuz, Steve Max, Harold Meyerson, Maxine Phillips, Christine Riddiough, Rosemary Ruether, Joseph Schwartz, Ruth Spitz, Motl Zelmanowicz[18].
Committees of Correspondence conference
At the 6th National Convention of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS) at San Francisco's Whitcomb Hotel July 23-26 2009 a Symposium roundtable conversation on "Building the Left and the Progressive Majority." featured CCDS leader Mildred Williamson, Judith LeBlanc of the Communist Party USA, Joe Schwartz of Democratic Socialists of America, Michael Rubin of Solidarity, Jamala Rogers of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and Linda Burnham. The panelists discussed the importance of building the left within the current upsurge, working for left unity in struggle against the right, and the tactical issues that arise in uniting the progressive majority.[19]
DSA NPC member
At the Democratic Socialists of America 2009 National Convention Evanston, Illinois November 13-15, 2009, a new National Political Committee was elected;[20]
- Theresa Alt
- David Duhalde
- Stuart Elliott
- Virginia Franco
- Paul Garver
- David Green
- Seth Hutchinson
- Barbara Joye
- Simone Morgen
- Michele Rossi
- Jason Schulman
- Joseph Schwartz
- Herb Shore
- Maria Svart
- Rannfrid Thelle
DSA 2011 leadership
Elected to serve on the Democratic Socialists of America National Political Committee – the leadership body described as "the engine room of the organization", in November 2011, were;[21]
- Theresa Alt (Ithaca, NY)
- Stuart Elliott (Wichita, KS)
- Paul Garver (Boston, MA),
- Virginia Franco (San Diego, CA)
- David Green (Detroit, MI)
- Barbara Joye (Atlanta, GA)
- Frank Llewellyn (New York, NY),
- Dan Michniewicz (Pinckney, MI)
- Simone Morgen (Columbus, OH),
- Joseph Schwartz (Philadelphia, PA)
- Peg Strobel (Chicago, IL)
Plus the two YDS co-chairs, Sean Monahan (Philadelphia, PA) and Jackie Sewell (Lawrence, KS).
US Social Forum
In June 2010, groups from all over the country in Detroit for the U.S. Social Forum. They presented over 1000 workshops on topics as diverse as American foreign policy, the economic crisis, global warming, and trade unionism. Democratic Socialists of America presented five workshops, including "Socialism is the Alternative" — DSA members Joseph Schwartz and David Schweickart, Communist Party USA representative Libero Della Piana, Committees of Correspondence representative Carl Davidson, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization representative Eric See discussed a vision for 21st century socialism, why it is still relevant, and how we can promote unity among socialist organizations. The room for this workshop had to be expanded to accommodate the large audience.[22]
Socialist International
At the Meeting of the Council of the Socialist International, United Nations, New York, 21-22 June 2010, delegates included Puerto Rican Independence Party members Ruben Berrios Martinez and Fernando Martin Garcia and from Democratic Socialists of America, Frank Llewellyn, Joseph Schwartz, David Sasha Duhalde-Wine, George D. Roberts, Luis Alejandro Duhalde.
Participants included representatives of the Socialist Party of Albania, MPLA (Angola), Bulgarian Socialist Party, Socialist Party of Chile, Sandinista National Liberation Front (Nicaragua), Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, Democratic Left Alliance (Poland), African National Congress (South Africa), Movement for Socialism (Venezuela) Observer parties included Polisario (Western Sahara) Consultative parties present included Fatah (Palestine), All-Nation Social Democratic Party (Kazakhstan).[23]
2011 YDS Winter Conference
On the weekend of March 18th-20th, 2011, the Young Democratic Socialists held their annual Winter outreach conference "Their Crisis, Our Pain: The Democratic Socialist Response to the Great Recession". Cornel West "will be the featured speaker on Saturday the 19th, and we will also host John Nichols, Bertha Lewis, Mark Engler, and Dan Cantor from the Working Families Party.
Other listed speakers included Komozi Woodard, Corey Walker, Fabricio Rodriguez, Christian Parenti, Stephanie Fairyington, Christine Kelly, Sheila Collins, Billy Wharton, Liz Shuler, Martin Weinstein, Michelle O'Brien, Skip Roberts, Joseph Schwartz.
Panels on race, the environment, organizing, and other topics will allow participants to learn from and communicate with fellow activists on some of the most important domestic and international issues. The event is perfect for both newcomers to Democratic Socialism/YDS, as well as activist veterans.
Add your name to the list here and you'll be notified when online registration goes live. Invite all your friends!
Location, Bayard Rustin High School 351 W 18th St New York, NY 10011.[24]
Occupy movement
Occupy Wall Street has been heating up in New York and around the country. DSA honorary chair Cornel West was arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court as part of an Occupy DC protest against the Supreme Court's "complicity in unfettered corporate financing of politicians".
The New York Times quoted DSA vice-chair and National Political Committee member Joseph Schwartz and Young Democratic Socialists (YDS) Northeast Regional Organizer Cecily McMillan about Occupy Philadelphia and #Occupy Wall Street respectively.[25]
- ↑ Michael Harrington, "The Left Wing of Realism," Democratic Left, vol. 1, no. 1 (March 1973), pg. 5.
- ↑ NAM 10th Convention Agenda, July 29, 1981
- ↑ Tribute to Ben Dobbs program, June 7, 1981
- ↑ DSA Conference delegate list Oct. 12 1983 update
- ↑ 1986 DSA Feminist Commission Directory
- ↑ Democratic Left, Summer 2009
- ↑ 8th Socialist Scholars Conference, April 6-8 1990, conference program
- ↑ email from C Riddiough to S Tarzynski Dec 9 1994
- ↑ http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng56.html#anchor1041945
- ↑ Memorandum, Steve Tarzynski-May 26, 1992
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 New Ground 45, March - April, 1996
- ↑ http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng47.html
- ↑ [1] Democratic Left, Winter 2002, page 5
- ↑ http://www.nathannewman.org/log/archives/000912.shtml
- ↑ Renegotiate NAFTA website: Signatories to the petition to President Barack Obama, April 16, 2008
- ↑ http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/memo-to-president-obama/
- ↑ Democratic Left, Summer 2009
- ↑ http://www.dsausa.org/about/structure.html
- ↑ http://www.cc-ds.org/convention_2009/Socialism_and_the_Emerging_Progressive_Majority.pdf
- ↑ [2] DSA 2009 National Convention Evanston, Illinois November 13-15, 2009 report, DSA website, accessed June 11, 2010
- ↑ Dem. left. Winter 2012
- ↑ [3] Over 15,000 attend US Social Forum, David Green, Talking union Blog, July 3, 2010
- ↑ [4] List of participants, SI website, accessed July 13, 2010
- ↑ YDS website, Spring Conference, Their Crisis, Our Pain: The Democratic Socialist Response to the Great Recession, accessed Feb. 23, 2011
- ↑ , Sacramento DSA website, accessed Nov. 2, 2011


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Teemu RoosPh.D., Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Computer Science and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT Exactum building, A322 PO Box 68 FI-00014 University of Helsinki Finland teemu.roos at cs.helsinki.fi |
What's up?
I will be a member of the organizing committee of the 11th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS). The conference will be held in Helsinki on Oct 10-Nov 1, 2014. CFP (pdf)
From October 18 until December 28, 2013, I will be a Visiting Fellow at the Finnish Institute in Rome (Villa Lante).
Starting in November 2013, I will follow Prof Juho Rousu as the host of the Helsinki Distinguished Lecture Series on Future Information Technology.
I was a co-chair of WITMSE-2013 in Tokyo, Japan, August 26–29.
Associated with our recent CHI-2013 paper, we are lauching a web server for computing the information capacity from your own motion capture data: infocapacity.hiit.fi. Please ask for a beta testing account.
I have been appointed from 4/2013 onwards as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki.
My traveling/conference schedule in 2013:
- University of Cambridge, UK, January 10–12.
- ITA-2013, San Diego, February 10–15.
- CHI-2013, Paris, April 27–May 2.
- WITMSE-2013, Tokyo, August 26–29.
- Villa Lante, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, October 18–December 28.
In January–April 2012, I was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
Conference and workshop involvement (program committee or equivalent): AISTATS-2011/2014, ECAI-2008, ECML/PKDD-2009/2012, ICDM-2014, IJCAI-2013, PGM-2008/2012, S85MC-2011, UAI-2008/2009/2010/2011/2012/2013/2014, WITMSE-2008/2009.
In 2013 (period I), I will teach the course Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Johdatus tekoälyyn). The language of the course is Finnish.
The 5th Brazilian Conference on Statistical Modelling in Insurance and Finance was held in Maresias, Brazil, on April 10–15, 2011. I gave a two-day short course on MDL. lecture notes | slides (day1) | slides (day2)
I am the instructor of the Undergraduate Research Track (tutkijalinja).
I am currently supervising:
- Yuan Zou (PhD student)
- Jussi Määttä (PhD student)
- Simo Linkola (MSc student)
- Olli Orajärvi (MSc student)
- Arttu Modig (MSc student)
- Quan Nguyen (intern)
Past students:
- Henning Lübbers (MSc, co-supervised with Prof Jyrki Kivinen)
- Anupam Arohi (MSc)
- Yuan Zou (MSc)
- Teemu Pulkkinen (MSc)
- Toni Merivuori (MSc)
- Lari Latvala (Msc, co-supervised with Prof Jouko Laasasenaho)
Students interested in MSc/PhD thesis topics related to information theory, statistical modeling, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and digital humanities are welcome to contact me by e-mail (but see disclaimer below).
Disclaimer: If you currently not enrolled at the University of Helsinki, please do not send me e-mail, but contact the Department of Computer Science for information about the application process. Unfortunately I cannot reply to all e-mail inquiries.
``Your act was unwise,'' I exclaimed ``as you see by the
He solemnly eyed me. ``When choosing the course of my action,''
said he,
``I had not the outcome to guide me.''
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I am the leader of the Information, Complexity and Learning (ICL) research group, which is a part of the CoSCo research group lead by Prof Petri Myllymäki. I'm also affiliated with the Academy of Finland funded Centre of Excellence COIN.
Topics of my interest include
- machine learning,
- data analysis (MDL principle, Bayes),
- information theory.
Recent and ongoing work:
- A. Barron, T. Roos, and K. Watanabe, (2014).
Bayesian properties of normalized
maximum likelihood and its fast computation, arXiv:1401.7116.
- M. Sherman, G. Clark, Y. Yang, S. Sugrim, A. Modig, J. Lindqvist,
A. Oulasvirta, and T. Roos, (2014).
User-generated free-form gestures for authentication: security and memorability,
- R. Eggeling, T. Roos, P. Myllymäki, and I. Grosse, (2014).
Robust learning of inhomogeneous PMMs,
to appear in Proc. 17th Conference
on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
- K. Watanabe, T. Roos, and P. Myllymäki, (2013). Achievability of asymptotic minimax regret in online and batch prediction, in Proc. 5th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML-2013), JMLR W&CP 29, pp. 181–196.
Selected publications (full list, Google Scholar, DBLP):
- A. Oulasvirta, T. Roos, A. Modig, and L. Leppänen, (2013).
Information capacity of full-body movements, in
Proc. 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems (CHI-2013), ACM.
Best paper honorable mention award.
- T. Roos and Y. Zou, (2013). Keep it simple
stupid—On the effect of lower-order terms in BIC-like
criteria, invited paper in Proc. 2013 Information Theory
and Applications Workshop,
- T. Roos and Y. Zou, (2011).
Analysis of textual variation by latent
tree structures,
in Proc. 2011 International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-2011),
IEEE Press, pp. 567–576.
- A. Carvalho, T. Roos, A. Oliveira, and
P. Myllymäki, (2011). Discriminative learning of Bayesian
networks via factorized conditional log-likelihood,
- T. Pulkkinen, T. Roos, and P. Myllymäki, (2011).
Semi-supervised learning for WLAN positioning,
in Proc. ICANN 2011,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6791–6792, Springer,
pp. 355–362.
- T. Silander, T. Roos, and P. Myllymäki, (2010).
Learning locally minimax optimal Bayesian networks,
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 51(5):544–557.
- J. Rissanen, T. Roos, and P. Myllymäki, (2010).
Model selection by sequentially normalized least squares,
of Multivariate Analysis 101:4, 839–849.
| R code
- T. Roos, P. Myllymäki, and J. Rissanen, (2009).
MDL denoising revisited,
Transactions on Signal Processing, 57:9, 3347–3360.
| supplementary material
| C code
- T. Roos and T. Heikkilä, (2009).
Evaluating methods for
computer-assisted stemmatology using artificial benchmark
data sets,
Literary and
Linguistic Computing, 24:4, 417–433, doi:10.1093/llc/fqp002.
abstract | data-sets
- T. Roos and B. Yu, (2009). Sparse Markov
source estimation via transformed Lasso, in Proc. 2009 IEEE
Information Theory Workshop
(ITW-2009), IEEE Press, pp. 241–245.
Past Events
Our paper "Information capacity of full-body movements" gets a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at CHI-2013. If you are planning to attend the conference, please visit our fun interactive Kinect-based demo!
Special issue on selected papers from PGM-2010 in the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (editors Roos, Myllymäki, Jaakkola): link to editorial and articles.
I served as a member of the Senior Program Committee of UAI-2012 and an Area Chair at ECML-PKDD 2012.
I was an external evaluator at the PhD thesis defense of Thomas Toftkjær at Aarhus University on January 10, 2012.
My traveling/conference schedule in 2012:
- University of Aarhus, Denmark, January 10.
- University of Cambridge, UK, January 16–April 30.
- ITA-2012, San Diego, February 6–10.
- University of Oxford, UK, March 7–8.
- University of East Anglia, UK, March 22–23.
- Durham University, UK, April 2–5.
- WITMSE 2012, Amsterdam, August 26—30.
- University of Bern, Switzerland, November 22–24.
The Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence COIN starts in 1/2012.
We organized the 4th Workshop on Information Theoretic Methods in Science and Engineering in Helsinki, on August 7–10, 2011, right after ISIT 2011. web pages
Tuomas Heikkilä, Petri Myllymäki and I organize a series of stemmatology workshops in Helsinki and elsewhere in 2010–2012. web pages
- Studia Stemmatologica IV, University of Cambridge and Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, March 21–26.
- BCSMIF-2011 and University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 9–17.
- ICANN-2011, Helsinki, June 14–17.
- ISIT-2011, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 31–August 5.
- WITMSE-2011, Helsinki, August 7–10.
- Studia Stemmatologica V, Rome, October 5–8, 2011.
- Nonlinear physics (!), Stockholm, October 18–20, 2011.
- ICDM-2011, Vancouver, December 11–14, 2011.
4/2011: I was conferred the title Adjunct Professor (in Finnish, dosentti) by the Faculty of Science, and appointed as a senior reseacher at HIIT.
I was invited to the senior program committee of UAI-2011.
The Academy of Finland has graciously decided to fund me under a postdoctoral researcher's project.
Petri Myllymäki, Tommi Jaakkola, and I were the program committee co-chairs of the 5th European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM-2010) in Helsinki, September 13–15, 2010. web pages
In February–April 2010, I visited Prof. Tommi Jaakkola's group at MIT, Boston.
My traveling schedule in 2010:
- MIT, Boston, February 8–April 30.
- Columbia University, New York, February 22–23.
- Yale, New Haven, April 1–2.
- Washington University, St. Louis, April 22–23.
- SCAS, Uppsala, Sweden, June 21–23.
- UCLA & UAI-2010, Los Angeles, July 8–11.
- WITMSE-2010, Tampere, Finland, August 16–18.
- Studia Stemmatologica, Pisa, Italy, November 21–24.
I got the ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) 2009 Cor Baayen Award.
- ITA-2009, San Diego & HP Labs, Palo Alto, February 8–13.
- ITW-2009, Volos, Greece, June 10–12.
- ISIT-2009, Seoul, Korea, June 28–July 3.
- WITMSE-2009, Tampere, Finland, August 17–19.
- ISTI/CNR & Univ. Pisa, Pisa, Italy, November 5–6.
In Fall 2009, I lectured the new course Information-Theoretic Modeling (4 cr) and Information-Theoretic Modeling Project (2 cr).
The University of Helsinki has granted funding to project STAM (Algorithmic Methods in Stemmatology) for the years 2009–2011. project website | "Computer programs can do wonders"
The Finnish Cultural Foundation has awarded a Science Workshop grant (EUR 200,000) on stemmatology for the years 2009–2010. announcement (w/ fanfares) (in Finnish)
As of August 2008, I have been appointed as post-doctoral researcher at HIIT for three years.
During the Fall term 2007 I lectured the Three Concepts: Information course.
I defended my Ph.D. thesis "Statistical and Information-Theoretic Methods for Data Analysis" on June 9, 2007. The opponent was Prof. Alon Orlitsky (UCSD). Pre-examiners were Prof. Ioan Tabus (Tampere UT) and Prof. Tommi Jaakkola (MIT). electronic version (summary part).
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U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), the broadest measure of the economy, contracted at a revised 1.1 percent annual rate in the third quarter, the Commerce Department
. It was the worst quarter for GDP since it shrank 2.0 percent in the first quarter of 1991.
In its initial estimate of third-quarter GDP, the department said the economy shrank at a 0.4 percent rate after expanding 0.3 percent in the second quarter. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com expected third-quarter GDP to have shrunk by 0.8 percent.
"These numbers show the economy is indeed in recession, and they leave the door open for the Fed to cut rates again," Gary Thayer, chief economist at A.G. Edwards & Sons, told Reuters.
In a separate report, Chicago's purchasing managers said the region's manufacturing activity shrank at a faster pace in November, with its index tumbling to 41.1 from 46.2 in October, its 14
straight decline. The reading was much weaker than economists' forecasts for a slight decline.
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Though the economy has apparently recovered somewhat from after Sept. 11, when commerce nearly ground to a halt for a few days, early data in the fourth quarter indicate that underlying weakness continues, and this is what most concerns the Fed, the nation's central bank.
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The major contributors to the drop in GDP were exports, which fell a whopping 17.7 percent, and business spending, which fell 10.7 percent. Imports also fell in the quarter, by 12.9 percent, boosting GDP.
The drop in exports in part reflects how other economies around the world are suffering along with the United States. Japan, the world's second-largest economy, is likely in recession, and the euro-zone economy grew at a paltry 0.1-percent rate in the third quarter.
There were some promising signs in the GDP report, including the fact that inventories were cut at a $60.1 billion rate during the third quarter, the sharpest drop for any quarter on record, meaning companies may have done much to get rid of their backlog of unsold goods.
Once inventories are cleared out, production - and hiring of new workers - can accelerate again and end a recession in manufacturing that has� lasted more than a year, as reflected in the Chicago manufacturing report. An index below 50 signals a contracting manufacturing economy, while a reading above 50 suggests expansion.
"Inventories really being run down to ground, but that means that any increase in demand in the future will be translated into more production and jobs," Sohn said. "We're feeling the pain right now, but it means we're more likely to get economic growth starting early next year."
In its report, the Commerce Department said consumer spending rose 1.1 percent after rising 2.5 percent in the second quarter. But economists worry that rising
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The Fed also is watching confidence closely, and Fed governors this week talked about continuing to be aggressive to ease the cost of borrowing and make spending easier.
"We still don't really know how the consumer feels," said Robert Brusca, chief economist at Ecobest Consulting. "I don't think inventories are so much the problem any more. The key is to get some turnaround in [spending]."
When cutting rates, the Fed has to take care not to pump so much money into the economy to cause inflation, but that risk has been very distant this year. An inflation gauge tied to the GDP, which is watched closely by the Fed, fell at an annual rate of 0.3 percent in the third quarter, compared with a 1.3 percent rise in the second quarter.
Friday's report also showed that after-tax profits of U.S. companies fell at a rate of 7.1 percent in the third quarter, reflecting the impact of the attacks and the sluggish economy. Profits fell at a 1.7-percent rate in the second quarter, and they were weak for several quarters before that.
"The mystery is why this prolonged profit slump has not led to a larger cutback in consumer spending," Wachovia Securities economist Mark Vitner said in a research note. "The longer the profit drought persists the greater the risk is that this recession will broaden and deepen."
Business investment in new plants and equipment, which has been severely depressed for a year, fell at a rate of 9.3 percent in the third quarter, on top of a 14.6 percent rate of decline in the second quarter.
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HAZARD — Arch Coal, a mining company that employs around 6,400 employees in 10 different states, announced on Thursday the immediate layoff of roughly 100 of those employees from its two mines in Kentucky.
Kim Link, spokeswoman for Arch Coal, said the reduction will be in coal production and personnel "due to weak coal market conditions."
"The Hazard Mining complex in Perry County, Ky., will idle one loader spread, resulting in the reduction of 35 direct positions," Link said.
Link added that the 100 jobs include approximately 45 contractors that will be affected at the Cumberland River site.
"As a result, approximately 30 employee support positions at the Cumberland River mining complex (in Letcher and Wise Counties) will be affected," Link said.
According to Arch's website, for every one direct job in the mining industry, seven indirect jobs are created, more than doubling the potential total job loss numbers.
"We regret the need for this action, and appreciate the efforts of those employees whose positions are affected," Link added. "There's no question that coal from Kentucky has faced the most challenging market conditions. This decision was tough but necessary due to ongoing coal market weakness."
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To Be Young, HIV+ and Black
As Dec. 1 marks World AIDS Day, examining how we can fight the epidemic claiming our youth.
After then 19-year-old LaQwanna Finkley complained about a headache for the umpteenth time, her mother sent her to the clinic. It was a visit that would change everything.
"The doctor gave me a full physical and blood work, and she asked if I wanted to take an HIV test," the Bronx, New York, native says. "I said, 'Sure, no problem.' A week later, she told me that everything came back negative, except for my HIV test."
Finkley's response to the news doesn't at all surprise those who know the upbeat, pragmatic young woman: "Okay. What do I have to do next?"
Finkley, born legally blind and often bullied as a child, viewed the diagnosis as just another challenge to overcome. "I knew that this was a task that God had for me; that He needed me to do something for Him. Even if I am scared, I'm still gonna use this situation to glorify God," she explains.
She believes she contracted the disease from unprotected sex with a philandering ex-boyfriend, but her diagnosis hasn't stopped her from living her life. Five years later, the relatively healthy 24-year-old is in a loving relationship with the man she was dating when she found out her status (he's HIV-negative and gets tested every six months). Finkley spends her days working with at-risk teens in New York City's Young Adult Internship Program, where her straight-talking tendencies are put to great use educating a rotating class of teens to the realities of the disease. "I tell them that some people don't get a second chance; my second chance is for you not to become positive," she says.
To say it's necessary work is an understatement; young black men and women are contracting HIV at an unprecedented rate. According to the Centers for Disease, Control and Prevention, 26 percent of all new HIV infections occur in youth ages 13 to 24. But while blacks ages 13 to 19 make up just 15 percent of the teen population, they represent 60 percent of new teenage HIV infections. And because the risk of contracting the disease is increased in communities where a higher percentage of people already have it, black teens are more likely to join the ranks of the infected.
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Why are the numbers so heartbreakingly high? Poverty, for one. A 2010 CDC study found that "poverty is the single most important demographic factor associated with HIV infection among inner-city heterosexuals." Nationwide, 35 percent of African Americans are living at or below the poverty threshold, which the Census Bureau defines as $22,811 for a family of four. Accordingly, the president's National HIV/AIDS Strategy focuses resources in socioeconomically depressed areas.
"As a nation, we must work to eradicate poverty. Housing insecurity, homelessness, high unemployment, violence, illiteracy, high rates of incarceration—all by-products of poverty—contribute to higher rates of HIV/AIDS and other epidemics in our communities," says C. Virginia Fields, president and CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBLCA). "Women and children are especially vulnerable to poverty in America. A renewed war on poverty will greatly enhance the nation's disease prevention and health promotion efforts."
Education is another important factor, says Angel Brown, senior program manager for GLBTQ health and rights at Advocates for Youth. "There is often a lack of information and resources given to our youth. We all know racism and its impact on the African American community is real," she says. "Black teens, like all teens, need education and resources within their communities; supportive families and communities; and skills-building to help them make responsible decisions regarding their sexual and reproductive health. They also need comprehensive sex education within their schools."
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Prevailing attitudes in the often socially conservative black community also play a role. "HIV stigma and homophobia continue to plague communities of color and are the driving forces for youth not getting tested for HIV, or testing late," says Lissette Marrero, deputy director of the Adolescent AIDS Program. "They also contribute to the lack of condom use. If you can't say you are gay in your community, you will not be able to negotiate condom use."
The fallout of that stigma isn't lost on Lawrence Stallworth II, who contracted HIV from unprotected sex when he was just 17. As the community education and outreach coordinator at the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland, he's well aware of the barriers facing black men who have sex with men (MSM), a group who represent 54 percent of new HIV infections among all young MSM.
"The black community doesn't talk about homosexuality. But it needs to be something we're able to have a conversation about, so we can make smart, adult decisions and not rash, emotional ones," says Stallworth, now 21. "If we don't do something now, we're pretty much being the harbinger of our own genocide. Ignorance is death in this case."
Stallworth found out about his status after he spent two weeks on the couch, too sick to keep down food. When he went to the hospital, he was rehydrated and sent home. It was at his follow-up appointment that his pediatrician broke the news to him. "I was shocked, and I was scared and I was hurt, all at once," he remembers. "But then I decided that I could either let this beat me, or I could overcome it and help other people."
An activist with Advocates for Youth, Stallworth has appeared before the President's Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS, and he spoke on the floor of the United Nations during a briefing on World AIDS Day last year. "I get to go to work and say every day that I'm helping people," he says. "It's a wonderful thing to be able to take your own tragedy and turn it into something that educates people, and it's a fantastic feeling to be so young and doing my part to help society."
[ALSO READ: Young Gay Black Men Most at Risk for HIV]
His is an attitude that can go a long way toward addressing the issues that lie behind the statistics. It will take both personal and community responsibility to lower infection rates. The first step is to educate yourself on the disease and its transmission. Then get tested. The CDC recommends routine screening, and testing any time you get tested for other sexually transmitted infections; many sites offer free, confidential testing. Those at higher risk, including MSM and anyone having sex with more than one person (or whose partner is not monogamous) should be tested annually. If you are positive, seek immediate care—when you have your viral load under control, it's better for the entire community, because it can reduce the chances of transmission.
Then take responsibility for at least one young person. Whether it's your child, little brother, niece or mentee. Have the hard conversation about his or her risk for this disease. Share the numbers, answer any questions about having safer sex, encourage him or her to get tested, and support him or her if help is needed.
Then look to the greater community. On the policy side, the NBLCA is advocating for the National Black Clergy for the Elimination of HIV/AIDS Act, which U.S. Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) and U.S. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY) plan to reintroduce in January. If passed, the legislation could go a long way toward improving the situation. It would authorize the Office of Minority Health of the Department of Health and Human Services to make grants to public health agencies and faith-based organizations with the specific purpose of providing HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, treatment and care for African Americans; provide services to at-risk and HIV+ black youth, particularly those who are homeless or in detention centers or foster care; and require the CDC to dedicate more resources to risk-prevention education for black youth, women and MSM. Tell your members of Congress that you support this act.
"Your voice can and will make a difference in how policies and funds affect your community. As a former elected official, I cannot stress the importance of this enough!" Fields says.
NBLCA is also holding community town hall meetings around the country to develop national and local strategies to address the health disparities surrounding black infection rates. Attend one in your neighborhood.
Advocates for Youth is pushing the federal government to make April 10 National Youth HIV & Awareness Day; the hope is to call more attention (and resources) to how this epidemic is affecting our youth. Sign the petition to ask President Barack Obama, Congress and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to make it so.
In the end, like so many of the issues that loom large in the black community, this epidemic comes down to taking personal responsibility.
Perhaps Brown says it best: "You don't have to be a doctor or public health official to make a difference. As a community, we have a responsibility to our young people. If every adult committed themselves to ensuring young people's right to lead healthy lives and worked to promote their overall well being, we would see a drastic decrease in negative sexual health outcomes."