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I don't know who came up with the term "veggies". I suspect it was a woman. I googled this dumb term for vegetables and couldn't find its source. Now I see it on packages of salad at the supermarket. "Lots of veggies" or "Veggie mix""is just a few.
I've never eaten "veggies", but I have consumed plenty of vegetables.
"Veggies" seems to be one of those names we use when trying to get children to eat their vegetables. Children, as a group, find most vegetables to be disgusting and the reason for that is the taste buds of children haven't fully developed. For most children, vegetables have a bitter, sour taste, while candy is as exhilarating to them as certain drugs are for adults. That's why children pester their parents for more candy. They're looking to get high and candy is one of those treats that satisfy that need.
Cereal used to be just flakes of grain. Parents could monitor how much sugar children used when they ate cereal for breakfast. Then, manufacturers figured out that since children love sugar, why not combine sugar and flakes all in one. The first one to do this was C.W. Post who developed Super Sugar Crisp and Super Coated Rice Krinkles. The Kellogg Company followed suit by developing Sugar Frosted Flakes and Sugar Smacks which contained 56% sugar. Catering to children's desire to get high from sugar, both Kellogg and Post advertised in the early days of Saturday morning television, which was mostly programmed for children, using cartoons, some new, and some old, to keep children entertained and watching. Networks learned that by programming for children on Saturday morning from 8am to 12 noon was a boon for advertising dollars from cereal manufacturer's .and companies that made toys for kids. .Saturday morning became one of the most profitable days of the week, both for the networks and the companies that advertised during that four hour time slot.
Go down the grocery aisle in any supermarket and see how many cereals are "coated" or "sweetened" with sugar. Only one quarter of the cereals offered are either sugar free or contain much lower amounts of sugar than the rest.
Experts contend that serving sugar coated cereals is like giving children a bowl of candy doused with milk. Just as sodas have been criticized for their high sugar content, some believe that the next target will be the cereal market. Tony the Tiger may think Sugar Frosted Flakes are great, but nutritionists don't.


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Christianity is "built upon the foundation of faith in the historical Jesus who is revealed by the historical New Testament documents. It is of utmost importance that these documents show themselves to be trustworthy and reliable since they are the primary documentary sources substantiating the object of the Christian faith, who is Jesus Christ. Unlike other religious systems which simply express a code of ethic, morality, and philosophical ideas, the Bible claims to be God's divine revelation for all of mankind and it verifies its claims through historical evidence. As New Testament scholar F.F. Bruce notes, "And this Good News is intimately bound up with the historical order, for it tells how the world's redemptive God entered into history, the Eternal came into time, the Kingdom of heaven invaded the realm of earth, in the great events of the Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus the Christ." Given the extraordinary historical events that the Bible records, it is crucial to determine two things: (1) The reliability of the New Testament documents and (2) The reliability of the New Testament witnesses. If we cannot establish the reliability of these sources, then we have no objective way to evaluate the historical sayings, deeds, and claims of Jesus and his disciples." John Rosser
- Peter Williams Debates Bart Ehrman on the Reliability of the New Testament Manuscripts (MP3)
- Do the Gospels Contradict Themselves? (Vimeo), by Michael Licona
- Why Is the Reliability of the Bible Important in the Postmodern World?, by Walter Kaiser (MP3)
- Is the New Testament canon reliable and accurate? (MP3), by Tim Keller
- Internal Evidence for the Truth of the Gospels (YouTube), by Timothy McGrew
- External Evidence for the Gospels (YouTube), by Timothy McGrew
- Who Wrote the Gospels? (YouTube), by Tim McGrew
- The Reliability of the Bible: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (MP3s), by Grant Osborne (note: very philosophical)
- The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?, by F.F. Bruce
- The Historical Reliability of the Gospels, by Craig Blomberg
- Scripture Alone: Exploring the Bible's Accuracy, Authority, and Authenticity, by James White (see pp. 136-168)
- Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, by Norman Geisler (see pp. 91-96)
See also
External links
- The Historicity of the New Testament
- Chapter 5 from J. P. Moreland's Scaling the Secular City.
- Why I Believe The New Testament Is Historically Reliable by Gary Habermas
- Does it matter?
- Chapter 1 from F. F. Bruce's The New Testament Documents
- Manuscript evidence for superior New Testament reliability, from Carm.org
- Are the New Testament Gospels Reliable?, by Mark D. Roberts
- Are the New Testament Gospels Reliable? - Further Thoughts, by Mark D. Roberts
- The Gospels: Oral History, Not Oral Tradition (Stand to Reason)

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Reese Witherspoon, Madonna, and Gwyneth Paltrow: Celebrity Kids Who Look Like Their Famous Parents (GALLERY)
Take Suri Cruise, for example, the six-year-old daughter of Katie Holmes, 33, and Tom Cruise, 50, looks just like both of her famous parents. Her coloring and features are reminiscent of a younger Holmes and she has her father's famous smile.
What other celebrity kids look just like their famous parents?
Lourdes Leon, 15, the teenage daughter of Madonna, 54, has a few key elements that remind us of her mogul mama. Leon's eyebrows and eyes are almost identical to her mothers' famous peepers. The two both have a fiery personality, Leon was caught smoking cigarettes at school just this past March.
Gwyneth Paltrow, 39, took major heat for naming her first-born Apple Martin, 8, and not something more traditional. Martin's fair skin and doe eyes are exactly like her mother's and we're certain that with time, the two will only look more and more alike.
Reese Witherspoon, 36, may have another bun in the oven but her daughter Ava, 13, is almost a carbon copy of the Water for Elephants star. Everything from the features right down to the expressions are identical.
Click through the rest of our gallery for the stars' kids that most resemble them and tell us what you think in the comments section below.


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My Obama Organizing Fellowship
I applied to be an Obama Organizing Fellow for two reasons. First, I thought it would be a great learning experience. I was also applying for grad school in January and I thought the Fellowship would help me decide if grad school was really what I wanted to do. Second, I had a bad case of cabin fever (who knew Minnesota got cold in the winter?) and the fellowship seemed like a great way to get out and be involved around Mankato.
I started in February and hit the ground running by creating lists and making calls to people I thought might be interested in volunteering with the campaign. As I was working to build a team of volunteers, I had a lot of help from a great group of staff members, but I also had a lot of freedom to build a team organically. The calls I made led to one-on-one meetings and eventually the meetings created the structure for a team. My dedication and the volume of calls I was making each week made a big difference. It was incredibly fun watching a team grow starting from just a few phone calls.
Recently, I was offered the opportunity to work full-time for the campaign as a field organizer. I didn't take the opportunity as a fellow because I was hoping I'd eventually be offered that full-time position, I did it because it was what I wanted to be doing - to connect with my community and to do my part for President Obama. The job offer was more than I had expected, or even had hoped for. Luckily, transitioning from fellow to field organizer hasn't been difficult. My responsibilities have expanded and a bit more is expected of me, but I am still having fun and helping to build a great grassroots team around the Mankato area. I would recommend applying to be a summer fellow to anyone who is interested in learning about our political processes and grassroots organizing. It is a great way to learn.


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THE number of people employed in the borough has risen.
Figures published by the Office of National Statistics show that during 2012/13, 80 per cent of the 110,000 residents in Basingstoke and Deane were in employment, compared with 77 per cent in 2011/12.
Five per cent of residents in Basingstoke were unemployed in 2012/13, compared to 5.4 per cent during 2011/12.
The number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance in Basingstoke and Deane also fell from 2.2 per cent to two per cent during the same period.
Councillor Ranil Jayawardena, deputy leader of the borough council, said: "It's great to see that unemployment is down in north Hampshire and the number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance is down.
"There is more to do, but our long-term economic plan to fix the economy is working – it is delivering the jobs we need."
But borough councillor Paul Harvey, Labour deputy group leader, added: "Any positive news is welcome, but we've been particularly concerned about the cost of living and the growth of zero hour contracts. We've also seen major businesses like Huawei and MacMillan leave Basingstoke.
"We shouldn't forget that the majority of working age people living below the poverty line are now in working households, and two-thirds of all children living in poverty, live in working families.
"Most job growths have been in low-paid sectors such as hotels and restaurants and wholesale and retail, where more than two-thirds and 41 per cent of workers respectively are low paid.
"Tackling low wages is a key component of solving the cost-of-living crisis."


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I'm a convert: Celebrity Summit Cruise Review by stevea36
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I'm a convert
Destination: Bermuda
Embarkation: Bayonne (Cape Liberty)
We are a pair of baby boomers, married 34 years, who were taking our first cruise on Celebrity having already completed 4 on RCI and 1 on Norwegian. We are not beach people and enjoy sightseeing and local customs.
Pre Cruise:
I had started the roll call for this sailing as back when we booked (June 2013) there was none. This was really early for us to book as we normally book close to final payment. It just led to more anticipation ! On the roll call we were able to meet many of our fellow cruisers and share stories, questions, concerns, etc. What a great bunch of folks.
Our cabin selection:
We had selected an Aqua Class cabin on deck 9, just aft of the mid-ship elevators. On future sailings I would probably select something a bit more forward as there was a constant vibration in the cabin from the mechanical systems around the area (we were quite near to the main stack on the ship). We selected this location as opposed to the A1 More cabins on deck 11, aft, as the balconies provide more shade on 9. We just loved the cabin, especially the "car wash" shower. Service was, for the most part, unseen, but all of our wishes and requests were fulfilled by the attendant, Vilma, and her assistant Mathew. This class of cabin also provided us with access to the Persian Garden, a complex of steam rooms, heated loungers, and the like. This was great, especially for someone with sinus issues.
I know, a hotbed of disagreement, but please bear with me here as I am an amateur chef, I work for a food company, and do a bunch of catering for a local Church...
In a nutshell... BLU is SUPERB.... If any one thing has convinced me to sail Aqua with Celebrity in the future, it is BLU. It is cozy, intimate, a fun place, etc... People think about the tables for 2 (as most of the tables in Blu are) and feel they may be an issue, but they are far enough apart for a private, romantic, dinner for two, or close enough to meet folks and talk.... We were a bit concerned about this factor but that changed as soon as we went to the embarkation brunch (new on summit this year) and began talking to others around us, In fact we made quite a few friends during that meal! The Maitre 'd, Mazy, even set a table for the 9 of us for dinner on the last two nights.
The breakfasts were consistent, in fact the menu was the same for all 7 days. The fresh OJ is fantastic and I have been told that the Muesli cart is fantastic (not my type of thing). The only shortcoming may be that, from time to time, The food arrives warm, not hot ! Thanks to Nikola and Joby for a fantastic experience!
The dinners were amazing. Some standards, some unique dishes. Don't worry about lobster night in the MDR... they get local Caribbean lobster. The ones in Blu were Maine Lobster tails with a citrus glaze... Yum!! the lamb shanks (last night) required no knife they were so tender. Also, if you have any concerns about ingredients, or preparation due to allergies or just plain dislikes, just ask. The staff will eagerly get you the needed answers. (I have some issues with lactose and asked about a soup one evening.. Nikola went and found out that the soup had cream in it so he brought me a bowl of french onion soup which had an aged cheese on it (aged cheeses are lactose free) that was superb.
Note: If you dine in Blu there are some starter dishes that are not on the menu that are available every night: Shrimp Cocktail, Escargots, Caesar Salad, and the onion soup
We did have one breakfast at the Buffet and two lunches there as well... While there was much to select from it did, at times, cool off by the time you got to your seat. We also had 3 lunches in the MDR and found them to be acceptable, nothing really different or unique.
While it seems that there may have been some cutting down on trivia and the like, we were just fine. They held a progressive trivia competition on the sea days as well as other competitions during the others. There was plenty of Karaoke, including the Karaoke Idol finals on the last night.
The shows that we attended were great, the Late Night Sin City comedian was excellent, but we could have done without the burlesque dancer. The 54 Below entertainer, Donna Vivino, was great as well..
Kudos to Celebrity for actually checking at the door for under age attendees to the late night adults only shows. In the past, I have heard many complaints on RCI about a show not being appropriate for kids when it was advertised as such and the parents decided to bring their kids anyhow.
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The men were ministers for justice, defence and industry.
Harsh rules
One of them, one-eyed Mullah Nuruddin Turabi, is known for forcing men to grow beards and not allowing women and girls to work or go to school, as part of the Taleban's harsh rules.
General Myers says he wants them arrested and handed over because they are so senior and may have important information about the al-Qaeda network.
But Khalid Pashtoon, spokesman for Kandahar Governor Gul Agha, says that Taleban who give themselves up would not be treated as criminals until an Afghan accuses them of a crime, so the men are being kept under guard in their homes.
But he added the Taleban leader Mullah Omar would not be treated like this, although there is still no sign of him or Osama Bin Laden.


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You'll Have To Wait A While To Pick Up Kate Gosselin's Cookbook
According to Amazon, Kate Gosselin's new book Love Is In The Mix: Making Meals Into Memories was supposed to be available on October 13. But now it looks like it's going to be a little longer before anyone can snag a copy. It took seven days after Jon and Kate's "surprise" announcement for Christian publisher Zondervan to realize that a cookbook filled with pictures of the happy family and advice on how to make lasting family memories didn't quite fit the Gosselin's current public image. Which is why Zondervan has pumped the brakes on the project and will work with Kate on revising the book for a later release date. To help speed up the process, here are a few pieces of Kate's book I'd like to highlight for revision. [People]
- Kate should probably start with the back cover, which describes the Gosselins as "one of America's most close-knit families."
- She should also double check to make sure that her advice on "how to feed a large family on a budget" includes: Get your own reality show.
- Will the section about "making mealtimes memorable" include those times the kids slurped their spaghetti quietly while mommy and daddy fought in front of the camera?
- Take out the photos of Jon and Kate looking happy together – might confuse readers, especially after reading Us Weekly.
- Add a disclaimer at the end explaining why Kate is fit to write a happy family advice and cookbook. I think the people want to know.
- Change the line where Kate admits she is not a chef, since "real cooks don't use recipes."
- Hire Martha Stewart to fact-check Kate's "nutritious recipes." People have already started bashing Kate for swiping her ideas off of boxes and magazines. Maybe she asked Elisabeth Hasselbeck for research tips?
This is the third book from the Gosselin parents—Kate is also the author of Eight Little Faces and Jon penned Multiple Bles8ings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets. This makes me a little worried that each kid will write at least one memoir when they grow up. Sheesh, we'll have to start a special Gosselin library.


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Feb 23, 2012 - By Steven R. PeckThe flags were flying again along many Riverton streets Monday.
It was Presidents Day, and the combined efforts of Riverton Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3628 and Riverton American Legion Post 19 meant the "Avenue of Flags" was there to greet us at sunrise.
The flags are most conspicuous in the downtown business district, but the flag project has grown steadily to include other parts of town as well.
With that expansion has come added labor and expense. There is, of course, cost involved in acquiring dozens of American flags and poles, not to mention the effort of placing them all over town early in the morning then removing them by sundown, according to the accepted rules of flag etiquette. It's a much-appreciated service that also happens to be a pretty big job. The VFW and Legion volunteers welcome help in the form of both money and muscle.
If you would be willing to assist in the effort financially, a contribution of even $5 to $10 would be appreciated (more is always welcome, of course).
You can send a contribution to Riverton Avenue of Flags, P.O. Box 1017, Riverton, WY 82501.
A particular holiday might have special significance to you, or your group might have a service project requirement to fulfill. Or, you might simply enjoy the activity. So, if helping place and remove the flags appeals to you, a couple of names to know are Jack Ratliff of the VFW and Harold York of Legion Post 19. They can help get you connected with the volunteer effort.
Next on the Avenue of Flags schedule, incidentally, is Welcome Home Day on March 30, in commemoration of the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam on that date in 1973.
The Avenue of Flags is a fine program that improves the community's appearance and elevates its pride. Your assistance can ensure the effort goes forward.
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A Child's Bill of Rights
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Washington, DC–Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today released the following statement following the Senate's passage of the emergency supplemental appropriations bill:
A bipartisan Senate today united to pass an important emergency supplemental appropriations bill that gives our troops not only the resources they need but also a strategy in Iraq worthy of their sacrifices. The American people have demanded a change of course in Iraq and this bill offers a responsible strategy to bring our troops home and spend our resources more effectively to fight the war on terror. This bill makes America more secure.
I urge the president to retire his obstructionist rhetoric and work toward a solution with the Congress as an equal branch of government. Let us turn our attention away from our differences and toward our shared commitment to providing the troops the support they need, and let us work to change the course in Iraq.


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Robotics and AI are experiencing a radical growth, fueled by innovations in data-driven learning paradigms coupled with novel device design, in applications such as healthcare, manufacturing and service robotics. The challenges of advanced robotics and intelligent decision cannot be addressed by developing new learning algorithms or designs in isolation. The aim of my research is to bridge this gap, and enable generalization in robotic systems as we move towards human skill augmentation. I am interested enabling learning from imprecise information for performing a range of tasks with independence and flexibility. I will develop new mathematical models for data-driven optimization, coupling design of physical systems with algorithms and building new formalisms for learning based autonomy.
In this talk, I will present three specific instances of my research in robotics for interventional healthcare spanning these three areas: algorithmic design, optimization and learning from demonstrations. I will first describe how algorithmic design can improve personalized delivery of radiation therapy and enable task-level autonomy in minimally invasive surgery. Then I will discuss algorithmic paradigm towards enabling complex multi-step sequential tasks. Finally, I'll discuss motivations and methods in transferring learned controllers across dynamics models from simulation to real robots. While the algorithms and techniques introduced are applicable across domains in robotics; in this talk, I will exemplify these ideas through my work on medical robotics.
Animesh Garg is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University AI lab. Animesh is interested in problems at the intersection of optimization, machine learning, and design. He studies the interaction of data-driven Learning for autonomy and Design for automation for human skill-augmentation and decision support. Animesh received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley where he was a part of the Berkeley AI Research center and the the Automation Science Lab. His research has been recognized with Best Applications Paper Award at IEEE CASE, Best Video at Hamlyn Symposium on Surgical Robotics, and Best Paper Nomination at IEEE ICRA 2015. And his work has also featured in press outlets such as New York Times, UC Health, UC CITRIS News, and BBC Click.
Software is becoming increasingly embedded into our lives, and the potential cost of a failure is greater than ever. At the same time, as systems become more complex, our ability to predict and control their behavior seems to be lagging behind. Testing alone provides a limited level of confidence, and achieving a formal proof of correctness remains too costly to be applied to an entire system. Are there ways to design systems to be safe and secure from early on, and reduce the cost of validation
In this talk, I will argue that building a secure system requires a particular mindset that is fundamentally different from how we typically construct complex software. I will then present two approaches to aid developers in designing a system with a security mindset. First, I will describe a technique called multi-representational security analysis, which can be used to anticipate and address security attacks that exploit details across multiple abstraction layers of a system. Second, I will present a framework for reasoning about the overall safety of a system when some of its components may be compromised, and demonstrate an application to an analysis of an industrial water treatment plant. Finally, I share some future directions for designing safe and secure systems that operate in an increasingly open, evolving environment.
Eunsuk Kang is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Michigan. He received his PhD in computer science from MIT. Eunsuk's research interests lie in software engineering, with applications to system safety and security. He is especially interested in leveraging software modeling, design methodologies, and automated verification to construct dependable systems. He has received two ACM Distinguished Paper Awards (FSE16, ICSE15). Previously, he completed undergraduate studies in software engineering at the University of Waterloo.
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A popular approach in data analysis is to represent a dataset in a high-dimensional feature space, and reduce a given task to a geometric computational problem. However, most of the classic geometric algorithms scale poorly as the dimension grows and are typically not applicable to the high-dimensional regime. This necessitates the development of new algorithmic approaches that overcome this "curse of dimensionality." In this talk I will give an overview of my work in this area.
- I will describe new algorithms for the high-dimensional Nearest Neighbor Search (NNS) problem, where the goal is to preprocess a dataset so that, given a query object, one can quickly retrieve one or several closest objects from the dataset. Our algorithms improve, for the first time, upon the popular Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) approach.
- Next, I will show how to make several algorithmic ideas underlying the above theoretical results practical. This yields an implementation which is competitive with the state of the art heuristics for the NNS problem. The implementation is a part of FALCONN: a new open-source library for similarity search.
- Finally, I will talk about limits of distance-preserving sketching, i.e., compression methods that approximately preserve the distances between high-dimensional vectors. In particular, we will show that for the well-studied Earth Mover Distance (EMD) such efficient compression is impossible. The common theme that unifies these and other algorithms for high-dimensional data is the use of "efficient data representations": randomized hashing, sketching, dimensionality reduction, metric embeddings, and others. One goal of the talk is to describe a holistic view of all of these techniques.
Ilya Razenshteyn is a graduate student at the Theory of Computation group of MIT CSAIL advised by Piotr Indyk. He is broadly interested in the theory of algorithms for massive data with a bias towards algorithms which have the potential of being useful for applications. More specific interests include: similarity search, sketching, metric embeddings, high-dimensional geometry, streaming algorithms, and compressed sensing. Ilya graduated with M.Sc. in Mathematics from Moscow State University back in 2012. His awards include Akamai Presidential Fellowship and Simons Foundation Junior Fellowship.
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Building reliable, scalable and secure software systems is essential as software pervades all aspects of our life. Existing testing and static analysis approaches are not well positioned to detect subtle defects while retaining high accuracy alongside satisfactory coverage. In order to overcome these limitations, my current research is focused on exploring the design of automated, effective, scalable and usable dynamic analysis engines.
In this talk, I will discuss our recent work on addressing the challenging problem of detecting concurrency bugs in multithreaded libraries. The intricacies associated with their detection correspond to identifying the methods that need to be invoked concurrently, the inputs passed to these methods, and the thread interleavings that cause the erroneous behaviour. We observe that the success of existing dynamic analyses is critically dependent on the availability of effective multithreaded clients. Without a priori knowledge of the defects, manually constructing defect-revealing multithreaded clients is non-trivial.
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Murali Krishna Ramanathan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Automation, IISc, Bangalore since Nov 2012. Previously, he was a member of the analysis team at Coverity and helped build software bug detection tools that are widely used in the software industry. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University, USA. His research interests are in software engineering and programming languages.
He is a recipient of the ACM SIGSOFT ISSTA 2016 Distinguished Paper Award, Google Faculty Research Award in 2015, Coverity Engineering Award in 2009 and the Halstead Award for Excellence in Software Engineering Research at Purdue in 2006. He is also the winner of the Burton D Morgan Entrepreneurship Competition in 2008.
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The proliferation of datacenters, smartphones, personal sensing and tracking devices, and home automation products is fundamentally changing the applications we interact with daily. Today's popular user applications are no longer limited to a single desktop computer but now commonly span many mobile devices and cloud servers. As a result, existing systems often do not meet the needs of modern mobile/cloud applications. In this talk, I will present three systems designed to tackle the challenges of mobile/cloud applications: Sapphire, Diamond and TAPIR. These systems represent a first step towards better end-to-end support for mobile/cloud applications in runtime management, data management, and distributed transactional storage. Together, they significantly simplify the development of new mobile/cloud applications.
Irene Zhang is a fifth-year PhD student at the University of Washington. She works with Hank Levy and Arvind Krishnamurthy in the Computer Systems Lab. Her current research focuses on systems for large-scale, distributed applications, including distributed runtime systems and transactional storage systems. Before starting her PhD, Irene worked for three years at VMware in the virtual machine monitor group. Irene received her S.B. and M. Eng. in computer science from MIT, where she worked with Frans Kaashoek in the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems Lab. Irene is supported by NSF and MSR fellowships.
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Natural language processing (NLP) aims to teach computers to understand human language. NLP has enabled some of the most visible applications of artificial intelligence, including Google search, IBM Watson, and Apple's Siri. As AI is applied to increasingly complex domains such as health care, education, and government, NLP will play a crucial role in allowing computational systems to access the vast amount of human knowledge documented in the form of unstructured speech and text.
In this talk, I will discuss my work on training computers to make inferences about what is true or false based on information expressed in natural language. My approach combines machine learning with insights from formal linguistics in order to build data-driven models of semantics which are more precise and interpretable than would be possible using linguistically naive approaches. I will begin with my work on automatically adding semantic annotations to the 100 million phrase pairs in the Paraphrase Database (PPDB). These annotations provide the type of information necessary for carrying out precise inferences in natural language, transforming the database into a largest available lexical semantics resource for natural language processing. I will then turn to the problem of compositional entailment, and present an algorithm for performing inferences about long phrases which are unlikely to have been observed in data. Finally, I will discuss my current work on pragmatic reasoning: when and how humans derive meaning from a sentence beyond what is literally contained in the words. I will describe the difficulties that such "common-sense" inference poses for automatic language understanding, and present my on-going work on models for overcoming these challenges.
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Cancer is a genetic disease, where cell division, mutation and selection produce a tumor composed of different subpopulations of cells with different complements of mutations. In the final stages of cancer progression, cancerous cells from the primary tumor migrate and seed metastases at distant anatomical sites. The cell division and mutation history of an individual tumor can be represented by a phylogenetic tree, helping guide patient-specific treatments.
In this talk, I will introduce combinatorial algorithms for constructing tumor phylogenies from bulk sequencing data, where the measurements are a mixture of thousands of cells. These algorithms are based on a combinatorial characterization of phylogenetic trees as a restricted class of spanning trees in a graph, a characterization that also demonstrates the computational complexity of the problem.
In addition, I will introduce a novel theoretical framework for analyzing the history of migrations of cells between anatomical sites in metastatic cancers.
Using these methods, I analyze several cancers and identify tumor phylogenies and migration histories that are more biologically plausible than previously reported analyses.
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Agile micro aerial vehicles will have a massive societal impact over the next decades, creating novel opportunities for large-scale precision agriculture, fast delivery of medical supplies, and disaster response, and providing new perspectives on environmental monitoring and artificial pollination. This future requires the design of lightweight and robust perception algorithms, which interpret sensor data into a coherent world representation, in the face of measurement noise and outliers, and enable on-board situational awareness and decision-making.
In this talk, I present my work on lightweight and robust robot perception. I start by discussing an algorithm for fast visual-inertial navigation, which estimates the motion of the robot from visual and inertial cues, and demonstrate its use for agile flight of micro aerial vehicles. Then, I focus on robustness and show that fundamental insights from optimization and Riemannian geometry lead to the design of estimation techniques that are provably robust to large noise, providing the first certifiably correct algorithm for localization and mapping. I also discuss the challenges connected to scaling down perception to nano and pico aerial vehicles, where sensing and computation are subject to strict payload and power constraints. I argue that enabling autonomy on miniaturized platforms requires a paradigm shift in perception, sensing, and communication, and discuss how we can draw inspiration from nature in designing the next generation of flying robots.
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Modern programming languages safeguard developers from many typical errors, yet more subtle errors—such as violations of security policies—still plague software. Program synthesis has the potential to eliminate such errors, by generating executable code from concise and intuitive high-level specifications. Traditionally, program synthesis failed to scale to specifications that encode complex behavioral properties of software: these properties are notoriously hard to check even for a given program, and so it's not surprising that finding the right program within a large space of candidates has been considered very challenging. My work tackles this challenge through the design of synthesis-friendly program verification mechanisms, which are able to check a large set of candidate programs against a complex specification at once, whereby efficiently pruning the search space.
Based on this principle, I developed Synquid, a program synthesizer that accepts specifications in the form of expressive types and uses a specialized type checkeras its underlying verification mechanism. Synquid is the first synthesizer powerful enough to automatically discover provably correct implementations of complex data structure manipulations, such as insertion into Red-Black Trees and AVL Trees, and normal-form transformations on propositional formulas. Each of these programs is synthesized in under a minute. Going beyond textbook algorithms, I created a language called Lifty, which uses type-driven synthesis to automatically rewrite programs that violate information flow policies. In our case study, Lifty was able to enforce all required policies in a prototype conference management system.
Nadia Polikarpova is a postdoctoral researcher at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, interested in helping programmers build secure and reliable software. She completed her PhD at ETH Zurich. For her dissertation she developed tools and techniques for automated formal verification of object-oriented libraries, and created the first fully verified general-purpose container library, receiving the Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Formal Methods. During her doctoral studies, Nadia was an intern at MSR Redmond, where she worked on verifying real-world implementations of security protocols. At MIT, Nadia has been applying formal verification to automate various critical and error-prone programming tasks.
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Web applications are affected by a wide array of security vulnerabilities. Of these, logical flaws in particular are good candidates for detection via model checking. However, approaches to analyze potential attacks often rely on manually constructed models. This limits the wider practical applicability of existing formal methods tools.
In this talk, I will present a step to bridge this gap by analyzing web application code (specifically, Java servlets) and extracting state machine models for use by model checkers which target security properties. I will discuss suitable abstractions which are essential to limit the complexity of the generated models. These include user-specified abstractions depending on the provided specifications. We have used this tool within the SPaCIoS EU research project to find vulnerabilities using an approach that can be combined with security testing and model inference. A promising future step is to leverage these models to detect more complex chained attacks.
Marius Minea is an associate professor at the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania. He received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon with a thesis on model checking for timed systems, advised by Ed Clarke and was then a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are at the intersection of software analysis, testing and security, where he has led several research projects.
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Hi Martin, some hints about self-unfolding / selbstentfaltung: On Saturday 21 February 2004 09:43, Martin Hardie wrote:
I want to follow through on something I mentioned last year but really didnt pursue ... no don't groan it's OK.... its not the gpl (I know I am correct about that!!!) but the relationship between: self-unfolding - Selbstenftaltung AND self valorisation Has anyone thought any more about this? Anyone read any more Ngri derived stuff about self valorisation????
I read the Empire-book, and I found that the term "self valorisation" (german: selbstverwertung) is completely misleading. In Empire it is the source of human power to create and the opposite of "controled valorisation" (my term). Hardt/Negri do not have an economic theory. Therefore "self-anything" coming from the productive power of the multitude is good, whereas "controled-anything" coming from the empire/sovereign is bad. They don't understand, that "valorisation" in general is the problem. In this narrow economic sense self-unfolding has nothing to do with self-valorisation. In a wider more descriptive sense one can say, that Hardt/Negri use it in the same way as we do in ox. Taking this wider view into account, you'll find the same sketch in two more sources: - John Holloway having "creative vs. instrumental power" - Klaus Holzkamp having "generalized vs. restrictive action potence" Klaus Holzkamp is the founder of german critical psychology basing on (traditional) marxism: http://www.kritische-psychologie.de (german only)
Where is the best place to find a definition of what Stefam Merten calls self-unfolding ("Selbstenftaltung")???
We discussed this topic and the problems about the term "self-unfolding" about two years ago. Here is the thread, please check: http://www.oekonux.org/list-en/archive/msg00144.html
Does "Selbstenftaltung" come from Marx and if so where??
Not directly. Marx/Engels used "free development of each is the condition for the free development of all" in communist manifesto which is similar to "individual self-unfolding is the precondition of the self-unfolding of all and vice versa" we find in free software and use in ox.
Can Selbstenftaltung be translated as self valorisation???
Not really. Roughly you can translate "Selbstentfaltung" with "individual free development".
I have this: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0104/msg00127.htm
Yes, the nice interview with StefanMn.
SM: With GPL society we describe a society beyond capitalism. The main difference is, that this society is no longer based on exchange and exchange value and thus the term labor doesn't make much sense any longer. Instead the basis of this new society will be the individual self-unfolding ("Selbstenftaltung") combined with self-organization and global cooperation. Goods in this society are not sold but simply available and taken by those who need them. Of course such a society is difficult to imagine for people who grew up with only money on their mind.
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admiration for their grace under pressure
and indomitable spirits. Survivalists invite a
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With the fodder of fired Apprentice candidates a distant memory for most of us, all of a sudden the weeks of comedy mistakes, fall outs and driving around London aimlessly seem an enternity away as the interview stage has cunningly arrived one week early.
The line up for Lord Sugar's firing squad this year include the man that makes Shugs look like Mary Poppins, Claude Littner, straight-talking curve ball throwing publisher Mike Soutar, trusted confidante Margaret Mountford and thank the good Lord Sugar himself that Matthew 'dull as dishwater' Riley has been replaced with keen as mustard media mogul Claudine Collins.
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You can quite easily duck, dive, hide and even fluke your way to the final as I saw happen with two of the finalists from my year.
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Jordan struggled to grasp that his business plan is like him, meaningless and makes no sense. After weeks of doing nothing at last Jordan has nowhere to hide and quickly falls apart at every question to prove that he is indeed useless and it becomes clear that he has NEVER even set up his own business!
The fact he took a place that could have gone to a better candidate like Myles is a disgrace.
Jordan then goes on to make an even smaller fool of himself by claiming he can solve a Rubik's Cube in under three minutes, which of course turns out to be b*******.
Branded a parasite, it is no surprise to see Jordan fired first. For me this guy discredited the process and credibility of the show. I hear he wants to do 52 jobs in 52 weeks? Why not join the real world and just try to get one job?
Neil has grown on me a lot. I always say that if you don't believe in yourself then no one else will and Neil certainly does believe in himself and backs himself up with what he has achieved throughout the process.
However, every one of us should learn and take advice every day and there was never a better person to take advice from or a better time than Claude Littner, one of the great heavyweights of the business world who told Neil his business plan was going nowhere.
The advice fell on deaf ears, Neil banged on about his hopeless plan of an online estate agent and promoted himself as "top salesman" based on the fact that that it took him two years to sell a house... and now he wants to take on the likes of Rightmove? Really?
Neil if that fails why don't you start a car sales business to take on Autotrader? Or an airline to take on Virgin?
So many people talk about taking on and competing with big businesses on the basis that they are doing big numbers so it must be a great industry to be in. No doubt it is but that doesn't mean you can compete overnight.
Neil's plan had about as much legs as Jordan and as much chance of working as Jason and I don't think that Neil is anywhere near ready to go into business - although I do think that he would make a great employee.
He got a great sending off from Lord Sugar. Also on a personal basis, sort the beard and lose the Gok Wan glasses or God forbid people might mistake you for Jordan.
Francesca, for me has been a standout candidate from day one, a true grafter, experienced traveller and she went into a business that she was passionate about.
To do something you love and turn it into a job is amazing and inspirational. I can actually say that she hasn't put a foot wrong, until now.
Her lack of business knowledge, not knowing the difference between turnover and profit and getting her numbers wrong put her on shaky ground, this along with the fact she plucked the figure of 5 million out of the air didn't put in good stead with the board.
Despite all of this, she has some very endearing qualities about her that came out as she let her personality shine through in the interviews and came across as being kind and honest.
I would have loved to have seen her and Leah in the final but unfortunately it was not my decision.
I loved her business plan too and do think she will go on to be a big success although I think she might be missing a trick in not expanding the lookalike business as she is a dead ringer for Stella English.
I'm sure that if she hooked with Alex Mills as Dracula these guys could make a fortune together at Halloween and funerals.
So we have ended up with a well-deserved all girl final this year.
Dr Leah has proved that she is not all pout and no clout and left Lord Sugar lost for words a couple of weeks ago going off with the speed of an AK47 and the acuuracy of a sniper rifle in the board room.
The same tatics were used and surprisingly worked on the mighty Claude too - she knows her figures although got pulled by Claudine Collins for fibbing about hers. Bit unnecessary that, really brought back up thoughts of bosses trying to sex up the format.
I have never seen such precision from any candidate at this stage although has she lacked the personal touch and come across as too cold?
Luisa, for me is the biggest underdog since Rocky. She's quite the manipulator although you have to admire her passion, determination and proven track record.
I'm sure Luisa would like to bill this final as brains vs beauty although for me its more like brains and beauty vs well, her.
Roll on next week and please do let me know your thoughts via @theadamcorbally - I will say that if Luisa wins this thing I will eat my own very big hat!


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Earlier this week we posted a rather nice list of games that had gone on sale on Google Play. While sales don't usually happen to that extent in the beginning of the week, it seems to be a new trend that is starting. However, since that post some more games have gone on sale, making the past list even bigger and better.
Aside from all the games on the list earlier this week there are five additional games on sale right now for a limited time, all of which are pretty big titles. We already mentioned that a few of EA games are on sale right now to celebrate the release of Samsung's Galaxy S4 phone but Rockstar Games and some other developers have decided to put their games on sale as well.
Here is an updated list of all the current Android games on sale including the games we posted earlier this week. Just click on their names to head on over to their listing on Google Play.
– Grand Theft Auto: Vice City by Rockstar Games on sale for $1.99
– Neuroshima Hex by Big Daddy Creations on sale for $0.99
– Expendable Rearmed by Retrobomb on sale for $1.49
– Need for Speed: Most Wanted by on sale for $0.99 (International edition)
– The Games of Life by EA on sale for $0.99 (International edition)
– Star Wars Pinball by Zen Studios on sale for $0.99
– Repulze by Pixelbite on sale for $1.00
– Metal Slug, Metal Slug 2, Metal Slug 3, Metal Slug X by SNK Playmore on sale for $1.99
– Real Boxing by Vivd Games on sale for $0.99
– Anomaly Warzone: Earth, Anomaly Korea by 11 Bit Studio on sale for $1.99
– Gamebook Adventure Series by Tin Man Games on sale for $3.07 (continued from last week)
– Flashout 3D by Jujubee on sale for $0.99 (continued from last week)
– Doodle Pool, International Snooker HD by My Interactive on sale for $0.99 and $1.91 (continued from last week)
– Trainz Driver by N3V Games on sale for $0.99 (continued from last week)
If you spot any other sales going on that are not on this list, let us know in the comments below so everyone can take advantage of it.


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Style Sheets
Style Sheets?
What are Cascading Style Sheets?
The code—What CSS looks like
Applying CSS to a page through Dreamweaver
Linking the CSS to Multiple Pages
Why Style Sheets?
Anytime you create multiple copies of something, it is smart to have a template as a blueprint. A style sheet is the template for web pages. You define the common characteristics of the pages and link each page to the master style sheet. If you want to make changes to the common characteristics, you only have to make the change once in the master file.
What is Cascading Style Sheets?
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language for specifying various aspects of the style of HTML elements. Font, color, background, and links can be defined using CSS either as inline, embedded, or linked.
· Inline: Applies the style to the object at the beginning of the object, used to define something that is not reoccurring
· Embedded: Applies the style to the page in the  tag, used only if the page is one of a kind
· Linked: Applies a link to an external style sheet in the  tag, enabling the style to be applied to all pages within the site. This method is the best.
To control this document's font, font color, heading, and links I have linked the same style sheet to this page and all the pages in this seminar. The style for this box looks like this:
#special {
border:1px solid #000;
MARGIN-left: 250px;
MARGIN-right: 100px;
The Code--What CSS looks like
When you create a CSS to be linked, you create a blank page without any HTML. You place only the CSS code in the page and save it with a name in all lower case letters without any spaces with a .css extension.
Below is an example of what the contents of a linked style sheet might look like:
TD { FONT-SIZE: 11px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans serif }
.special:TD { FONT-SIZE: 11px; COLOR: #ffffff; FONT_STYLE:oblique; FONT-FAMILY: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif}
A:link { FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 11px; COLOR: #4A5B94; FONT-FAMILY: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; TEXT-DECORATION: underline}
You can specify multiple scenarios of an attribute by putting a dot then the name, colon attribute. Like this--> .thename:TD, where TD is the conventional attribute abbreviation for a table cell.
Applying CSS to a page through Dreamweaver
This image was taken from another tutorial, ITEC 745
I will demonstrate the creation of a CSS by applying styles to a page design.
1. Download this page called, Sample1.htm by clicking on the link and choosing File/Save As from the browser menu. You will want to create a folder to house this file and several others.
2. Open the page in Dreamweaver. Go to Window / CSS Styles to open the CSS Styles interface.
Styles on one page can be applied to just this page or all subsequent pages.
3. Press the plus sign inside the CSS Interface. A helper box displays, New CSS.
4. A pop up box appears like the one below. You will be using the Redefine HTML Tag most of the time and applying it to the most common tags. Let's define the links in this document by selecting Tag: a
Body is for the entire document
Font is the font
H1 - H6 is for Headings such as the headings that appear in orange in this document
Link - Use A for hyperlinks. The link you see in the style sheet is for something else.
Paragraph controls each paragraph or text between the
tags

Since this is all links we want to define, we will choose Redefine HTML Tag. The Tag selector provides us with all the tags we can redefine.
Define In provides us with two options. We can either apply these styles to just this document, or since we intend on linking to other documents from this document, we can apply the styles to all the documents we are going to create.
5. Choose Define In New Style Sheet File. You will be prompted to Save Style Sheet As. You want to name the style sheet something like style and save it in the same location that you saved the file sample1.htm
6. After you save the CSS file, another pop up window appears asking for the definitions for our  tag. You will see that you have a variety of options for your text appearance. Select your preferences. Click Apply, OK.
7. Dreamweaver applies the styles to the page when you click Apply. This
changes all my links to the defined style. But, I don't want all my
links to be the same. I want to establish a hierarchy within my navigation
bar. I will need to create a separate definition for the links I want to be
larger and bolder. I will need to create what a Class.
a. Click the New CSS Style Button again (the plus sign).
b. Select the radio button, Make Custom Style
c. Title this class something intuitive for special links, all lower case with no spacing
d. Define the style as bold, or larger than our original  link. I changed the font size and weight. Click OK.
e. Apply this Class to the selected links by highlighting the desired link, pressing the Apply Styles radio button in the CSS Interface, Select the name of the Class you just defined.
f. You will see your changes take effect immediately. If the results are not what you want, go back to Edit Styles by selecting the Edit Styles radio button and clicking on the class. You will then be able to change your font settings.
6. Do the same for text within the TD tag, create a class for special TD
7. Locate and Open the CSS page in Dreamweaver and look at the code. When you get familiar with the syntax, you will be able to easily edit and add to your cascading style sheet without having to use the Dreamweaver interface every time.
8. If you want to add rollovers to your links, you're standard link looks like the following:
a {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal
Linking the CSS to Multiple Pages
Through Dreamweaver
1. Start a new HTML document. File/New
2. Save the document in the site root folder
3. In the Design panel, under CSS Styles, select the button Attach Style Sheet next to New CSS Style
4. Choose Link to the Style Sheet and Browse to the style sheet.
5. Click OK.
View the Linked code below to see what Dreamweaver adds to the new document linked to the style sheet.
By Hand
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Manny has amazingly rejected the Dodgers' latest offer, and now it seems that the Dodgers have had it with Boras:
At 8:30 p.m. tonight, the Dodgers made the rather unusual move of issuing a statement that shows their exasperation with Manny Ramirez's agent, Scott Boras:
LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers today received a letter from Scott Boras, the agent for Manny Ramirez, rejecting the offer that the club made yesterday. This rejection is the fourth by the agent in the club's attempts to sign Manny.
"We love Manny Ramirez," said Dodgers Owner Frank McCourt, "And we want Manny back, but we feel we are negotiating against ourselves. When his agent finds those 'serious offers' from other clubs, we'll be happy to re-start the negotiations.
"Even with an economy that has substantially eroded since last November, out of respect for Manny and his talents, we actually improved our offer.
"So now, we start from scratch."
Every time I've doubted Boras he has proven me wrong to do so. This time? Man, I'm having trouble picturing this turning out well for Manny.


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Hello there. My name isXXXXX and I am sorry to hear about Audrey. That is great that you are keeping her hydrated with small amounts of water and a syringe that is very important. You can give pepto at a dose of 1 teaspoon per 15 lbs of body weight every 8 hours to help settle her tummy down. If she is still nauseated by Monday request some "cerenia" from your vet which is a much stronger anti nausea medication to settle her tummy down. Also offer her boiled chicken and rice or boiled beef and rice to try and get some nutrition in her. You can use low sodium chicken broth to mix in to get even more hydration in her until she starts to feel better. Even though her blood work was normal she may need a short course of anti biotics to knock out an infection that may be present and not showing up on blood work. Keeping cold compresses on her pads and belly is the best way to cool her off. That is where she will release the most heat. So I would give this a try for the next 24 hours and see how she does and if not big improvements then monday talk to your vet about the anti biotics and the stronger nausea medications to settle her tummy down. Keep up the good work with keeping her hydrated that is the most important part until she gets over the hump and feels better. I hope this helps. please let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns. I would be happy to help. Please do not forget to rate my response so I receive credit for my time. Thank you!


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Talisman Energy Inc. has made room on its board for an activist investor without putting up a public fight.
The company is giving Carl Icahn his first win in his attempt to make the company more valuable for shareholders – although the oil-and-gas outfit remains vague on how it expects the outsider to spruce up its fortunes.
Talisman has agreed to give two board seats to Mr. Icahn's representatives, the energy company said Monday. Mr. Icahn is a well-known shakeup artist based in New York, and has accumulated a 7.37-per-cent stake in Talisman. His firm expressed interest in joining the board in October, which launched Mr. Icahn's campaign to remake Talisman.
The seemingly friendly concession comes as Talisman is in the midst of overhauling its operations. But even though Talisman is selling assets and reorganizing, Mr. Icahn's public pushing demonstrates that not everyone is pleased with Talisman's progress. Talisman argues the announcement, which comes with restrictions on what Mr. Icahn can do, means it can focus its plans without the distraction of a messy proxy war.
"We have avoided what would be a resource-consuming back-and-forth between us and Icahn," Talisman spokesman Brent Anderson said. "It is a reasonable outcome that ensures some stability for the company."
Samuel Merksamer and Jonathan Christodoro, managing directors of Icahn Capital LP, a subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises LP, will join Talisman's board this month, the energy company said.
How they intend to strengthen Talisman, however, remains unclear.
"I strongly believe in the potential of Talisman and I'm pleased to have reached this constructive outcome," Mr. Icahn said in Talisman's statement. "We look forward to working with the board of directors and management with a common objective of creating sustainable value for all shareholders."
One of Mr. Icahn's board nominees will sit on the committee focusing on who will succeed Hal Kvisle, Talisman's chief executive. Mr. Kvisle said he wants to step aside when he finishes reorganizing and strengthening the company, something he hopes will wrap up in 2014.
Mr. Icahn did not respond to a request for an interview.
Investors will have to remain patient despite having representatives from a vocal firm join the board.
"Although there is significant value to be under-covered here, we continue to believe that the [Talisman] dynamic is a complex one (i.e. it will likely take some time to surface this value)," Menno Hulshof, an analyst at TD Securities Inc. said in a note.
Talisman's Mr. Anderson said Mr. Icahn "appears to be aligned with Talisman in wanting to unlock value and the potential of the company." Mr. Anderson, however, is not aware of any specific ideas the New York-based investor plans to bring to the board in order to jack up Talisman's value.
"The primary objective was to get board representation and he seems confident and comfortable in that he's obtained that," Mr. Anderson said. "He can lend his expertise and knowledge to our existing strategy and help us deliver on sustainable shareholder value."
Mr. Icahn also made concessions in exchange for his firm getting two seats on Talisman's board. He agreed to support Talisman's proposed slate of directors at the company's annual meeting in May. He also agreed not to conduct a proxy contest, make shareholder proposals, chase after more board seats, buy more than 20 per cent of company or make comments that "disparages" the company.
These and other so-called "standstill restrictions" are in effect until the later of the conclusion of the 2014 annual meeting or when both of Mr. Icahn's nominees are off the board.
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How best to help my friend.(15 Posts)
I know this board is great and I really need so e quick advice about supporting my friend who has just kicked out her partner. She has been with him for a year and I have always suspected that he is controlling. She has severe mental health problems and requires support from her friends on a regular basis. Her last massive breakdown was two days ago and I ended up phoning the Crisis Team and her psychotherapist. They were all fabulous and the Crisis Team came out to see her. Fuckwit boyfriend was conspicuous by his absence because he "can't fucking stand it".
My friend spent two days with her Mum and then came back with her Mum to home last night. Fuckwit boyfriend was tere and kicked off immediately, wanted the name of "a supplier" as he wanted "some Charlie". My friend said that if he wanted drugs he had to go to his Mums as she didn't want them in the house. He raged about how he had a hard week and wanted to relax. My friend said that was fine but not in her house and he grabbed his keys, said "I'm leaving" and called her an "arsehole" before storming off.
She came over to see me for a talk, it transpires that in the past six months he has hit her three times and there have been some other incidents of hair pulling etc. this is a violent man and I have begged my friend not to take him back this time.
Trouble is that my friend has real issues with being alone and she has already said that she knows if she feels very lonely that she will ring him.
I have advised her so far to
Ring Women's Aid (sadly my friend has been in a Refuge before) she knows WA is there to support her
Contact police to discuss the violence (she is reluctant to do this)
Arrange for someone else to collect her house keys from him
Change her mobile number
Warned her about escalation and got her to think about the when the incidents occurred....the last two physical incidents were a few weeks apart.
Have also offered to put her up here at weekends until she is feeling stronger about things. Weekends are hard for her because then her DD stays with her Dad. That is when she is most likely to weaken and ring him.
Se says her DD has not seen any of this physical violence as it has always been at weekends (and probably when he is drugged up)
Anything else?
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Reality are you always so intolerant of other peoples' views? Do you think that is helpful?
Eeeek!! (At previous responses) Jake, you're being a fantastic friend by trying to anticipate her needs. How did she have a massive breakdown, in what way?
Sorry Kate.
I'll rephrase without the fuck off.
HommedeLamer, you will find that Mumsnet is not the place to air your horrible victim blaming agenda.
Jake, you are a lovely friend and doing everything right. I hope your friend manages to keep away from him. Just know that if she does go back to him, it won't be because of anything you have or haven't done.
Thanks you, didn't see the other response but just as well by the sounds of it.
Plan is that a friend is taking all his stuff to his mothers house today and will collect the key at the same time so he has no access to her home.
The mental health issues are long term and due to a very abusive childhood. My friend has survived so much and got through it but still suffers.
I am just so angry, I guessed he was controlling but didn't realise he was hitting her.
Have reiterated that it isn't good for her DD to be around that kind of environment and my friend loves her DD to distraction so wants to ensure she never sees her Mum in that situation.
I know that realistically I can't stop her ringing him but feel that if I can be around in the lonely times (when her DD is at her Dads places) then it is less likely to occur. She told me last night that not a single bit of her loves him anymore, it's about familiarity, comfort and companionship.
Ironically she had a great relationship after leaving the refuge with a lovely man.....who collapsed and died two years ago very suddenly. Things have been very hard for her, she has not sought out this violent relationship.
You sound like a really great friend.
I think the best thing you can practically do is to rally round her other friends. Ensure she has lots of low-key weekend plans: DVDs and dinner with small groups.
Try to avoid suggesting parks or places where you will be surrounded by children, reminding her that DD is not there.
These things were lovely for me when my friends were looking after me, following a necessary break up.
Keep her busy and smiling. I wish her all the best in healing.
It's really sad to hear that she's been through so much. Yes, it's best that you hadn't seen one of the responses because it wasn't kind. Not sure why Reality got deleted (the foxtrot bit, I guess )
Why did you call the crisis team for her, was she detached from reality? It's hard to see from your post why she needed them. I really hope she can make long term change though, and not contact that man. You are being a very good friend.
I called the Crisis team because I didn't know what else to do, she was just incoherent and had her DD in the house who is only 10. Honest to god this kid was a little star, made her Mum loads of cups of tea and was with her.
The psychotherapist my friend sees was brilliant and the Crisis team came to see her and are gong to give some support at home. Have discussed with my friend that it might be a good idea to ring the local Young Carers team for her DD as she definitely does a lot f support.
Am hoping she has her keys back now...going to phone her n a bit.
I just looked up the deleted poster.....an apologist for violent men it seems. Obviously has an agenda....still, a matter of time before he over steps the mark and is banned I hope.
Actually I saw a post by Homme on another thread and it wasn't pleasant. I think they may be being deliberately inflammatory.
It's brilliant about her DD. Really hope she sees the light and doesn't let this man back into her life. It's a lot for a young daughter to take in though. Really hope you have a nice chat with your friend and things are better for her, you can't do anything more as you are doing so much already.
Agh.....she is considering giving him "a second chance" (or should that be a third chance). He has been over and apologised, lots of talking etc.
Have told her that whatever she decides I will always be here for her.
Might suggest too that she talks to WA about a "Breaking the Cycle" course they do.
This man has real issues ...all tied up with his mother who controls him and had a pretty crappy childhood himself. I can appreciate that and feel sympathy for him....but he has to tackle that for himself just as my friend has to tackle her issues.
Her DD is fortunate enough to have a supportive Dad and sees him every weekend and in the week at times too. I am relieved that there is a stage influence there where she won't be exposed to the cycle of tension and violence etc.
So guessing we are back to the "honeymoon" stage <sigh>.
She hasn't totally agreed to take him back but from her txt to me just now I suspect it is just a matter of time.
I'm sorry, Jake.
It takes, on average, seven tries to successfully leave an abusive partner, according to Womens Aid.
Hang on in there with her.
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