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Westin Snowmass Resort - Snowmass Village
100 Elbert Lane - Snowmass Village1-877-662-6988
Located in the mountains and offering an outdoor pool, Westin Snowmass Resort is the place to choose if you're looking for ski Snowmass Village resorts.
Enjoy a spot of lunch or an evening meal at this 4 star Snowmass Village resort's restaurant where you're sure to find something to suit your taste. Westin Spa is the place to be for rest and relaxation, offering body treatments, massages and massage/treatment rooms. If you are planning on a spot of skiing during your stay, not only will you find skiing nearby, but also facilities such as ski-in/ski-out access, ski storage and ski equipment rentals. On-site winter fun includes downhill skiing. Fancy sipping an ice-cold drink by the pool? Don't miss out as there is also a poolside bar. Knowledgeable staff are available at the front desk 24 hours-a-day and can provide express check-in and express check-out. Family-friendly amenities at this resort include a children's club, babysitting and supervised childcare/activities.
Planning a meeting? This resort has 12 meeting rooms, as well as a 24-hour business center. Enjoy complimentary newspapers and a TV in front of the fire in the lobby area, as well as having a safe deposit box at the front desk. Other amenities include an area shuttle, a hair salon, gift shops/newsstands, dry cleaning/laundry, ATM/banking and an elevator (lift).
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Breakfast is served each morning for a fee.
Facilities at Westin Snowmass Resort
- Laundry service
- Lift/elevator
- Hairdresser
- Room service - 24 hour
- Gift shop
- Pets accepted
- Dogs allowed
- Entire property is non-smoking
- Laundry room
- Personal newspapers
- Newspapers
- Front desk - safety deposit box
- Front desk - 24 hour
- Concierge
- Luggage room
- Limousine service
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- Valet service
- Private parking
- Pool bar
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- Ski room
- Massages
- Meeting Room
- Conference room
- Business Center
- TV Lounge
Know before you go
- This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 72 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
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- Resort fee: USD 30 per accommodation, per night
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Book your business-friendly accommodation at Westin Snowmass Resort, offering 254 guest rooms with iPod docking stations and climate control. Guests can unwind at the end of a long day and enjoy 42-inch LCD televisions with pay movies. Business travelers will have access to desks, complimentary newspapers and phones during their Snowmass Village visit.
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Aspen Recreation Center - 9 km / 5.6 mi
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Wheeler Stallard House Museum - 10.8 km / 6.7 mi
Harris Concert Hall - 11 km / 6.8 mi
Aspen Center for Environmental Studies at Hallam Lake - 11.6 km / 7.2 mi
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LOOKING for: Cuban Recipes
Had a wonderful Cuban meal the other night and I thought...I must increase my recipe box with this fantastic food....Please share TIA
I love Cuban food too. Here are some Cuban Recipes.
Here's a good one too.
Here is a link that might be useful: Cuban Recipes Blog
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Here is a link that might be useful: Cuban Recipes
From Marlen, bless her heart.
Cuban Sandwich
Remember!...NO tomato!...NO bell pepper!...NO onion!...NO lettuce (shredded or otherwise)! This is better with Cuban Bread
Cuban bread or substitute French bread if you must,but NOT a baguette!
butter, softened
1 pound boiled ham sliced (Use a good quality ham.)
1 pound lech asado (roasted Cuban pork) sliced
½ pound Swiss cheese, sliced (Use a mild Swiss, like Baby Swiss -- it has only a few holes.)
Sliced dill pickles (dill "Sandwich Stackers" work great)
Yellow mustard
To make four generous sandwiches:
Cubans use a sandwich press, but you can also use a preheated pancake griddle or large fry pan.
1. Cut the bread into sections about 8 inches long. Cut these in half and spread butter on both halves (inside). Make each sandwich with the ingredients in this order: pickles, roasted pork, ham, and cheese. Be generous!
Place the sandwich on the hot griddle (fry pan) sprayed with a little "Pam" or lightly greased. Place a heavy iron skillet or bacon press on top of the sandwich to flatten. (You really want to smash the sandwich, compressing the bread to about 1/3 its original size!) Grill the sandwiches for two to three
minutes on each side, until the cheese is melted and the bread is golden. Make sure your griddle or fry pan is not TOO HOT! Otherwise, the crust will burn before the cheese melts. Slice the sandwich in half diagonally and serve.
Cuban Shredded Pork
1 1/2 pounds boneless pork chops
1 pint water to cover
1 lime, juiced
1 sprig fresh thyme
8 black peppercorns
1 tablespoon garlic powder, or to taste
1 tablespoon onion powder
salt to taste
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 large onion, halved and thinly sliced
3 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced
1 lime, juiced
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1 In a large saucepan, combine water, juice of one lime, thyme sprig, peppercorns, garlic powder, onion powder and salt. Bring mixture to a boil. Add pork chops, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until meat is very tender. Add more water as necessary to keep chops covered.
2 Turn off heat and let the chops rest in the broth for 30 minutes. Remove chops from broth and shred, removing excess fat; set aside.
3 In a large frying pan, heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the shredded pork and fry until it is almost crisp, about 5 minutes. Add the onion and garlic and continue to cook until the onion is just tender yet slightly crisp, about 10 minutes more. Add the juice of one lime, mix though and toss with cilantro. Serve and enjoy.
Serve with Black Beans and rice
2 lbs. black beans
2 lg. bell peppers
1 c. olive oil
1/2 c. sugar
2 lg. onions
8 oz. diced pimentos
1 c. vegetable oil
1 1/2 c. sherry
1 1/4 to 1 1/2 c. vinegar (to taste)
2 c. rice
Salt & pepper to taste
Soak black beans overnight. Cover in pressure cooker with water 2 inches over top of black beans. Cook in pressure cooker for 45 minutes. Do not drain any remaining fluid. Dice onions. Cut bell peppers into 1/2 inch by 3/4 inch slices. Add all ingredients to black beans. Simmer for 2 to 4 hours. Beans should make their own broth.
Add liquid when necessary to prevent drying out or burning, but keep broth thick. Serve over rice. Use as side dish to chicken or steak, or main dish on its own. Also, try in flour tortillas to make unique Cuban burittos.
Here's another recipe from Marlen..........
Cuban Fritas (Cuban Hamburgers)
Posted by Marlen (My Page) on Fri, Aug 15, 03 at 0:33
This is the Cuban version of the good ole American hamburger. It is made into patties and served on plain hamburger buns. A deli close to my house makes them into rectangles and serves them on Cuban bread and they are superb!
Traditional Cuban fritas are served with a bit of ketchup, a sprinkle of chopped onions and a pile of shoe string potatoes right out of the can on top of the meat, inside the bun!
The traditional version also has no lettuce or cheese, but DH sneaks it in and calls it the Cuban-American version! LOLOL
If the patties are not too firm after I form them, I return them to the refrigerator to firm up before cooking.
This is my version.
1/2 lb. lean ground beef
1/2 lb/ ground pork
2 T ketchup
1/ 2 c fresh bread crumbs
1 egg beaten
1 clove garlic, minced
1 /2 c finely minced yellow onion
1/4 tsp cumin
Salt and pepper to taste
Mix all ingredients well and form into patties. Fry in olive oil or grill.
I use my George Foreman grill.
It's not Cuban but this was one of Marlen's most favorite recipes & it's probably listed on the link I posted above but bears repeating:
Marlen's Cantaloupe Bread
3 eggs,beaten
1 c vegetable oil
2 c granulated sugar
3 t pure vanilla extract
2 cups of pureed cantalope
3 c all-purpose flour
1 t salt
1 t baking soda
3/4 t baking powder
2 t ground cinnamon
1/2 t ground ginger
1 c chopped walnuts
Mix eggs, oil, sugar and vanilla. Add pureed cantaloupe to mixture. Sift dry ingredients. Add to liquid. Pour into 2 greased and floured 9x5 loaf pans. Bake 325* for 1 hour or until done. Check after 50 minutes.


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Fall 2014-Summer 2015
ESE colloquia are held on Tuesdays from 11-12:00pm in Towne 337, unless otherwise noted. For all Penn Engineering events, visit the Penn Calendar.
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Spring 2015
February 3
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Abstract: Silicon electronics have revolutionized the processing and handling of information. The high temperatures required to create crystalline silicon devices, however, has limited the application of crystalline silicon to sensing systems that work in a small and mechanically rigid form factor. The development of inorganic and organic thin film electronics has launched a second revolution in electronics, granting the ability to process electronically active materials at low temperatures. This has allowed for two exciting opportunities: the ability to build electronic devices on the same size scale as the systems they interact with, and the ability to integrate electronic materials on a range of substrates including electronically active and flexible materials.
Our group has been working on the hybrid integration of organic semiconductors and SLS laser-recrystallized silicon with active substrates to implement a range of new functionalities. In this presentation, I'll show how thin film electronics and the hybrid integration enabled by new semiconductor systems and process options allows for active and spatially localized control of systems that are typically used in a single element format. These approaches unlock new applications in healthcare, sensing, displays, and communications.
John graduated with his SB, M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT. His M.Eng. thesis was performed as a co-op at the IBM TJ Watson Research Lab working on organic thin film transistors, and his Ph.D. was conducted in the Microsystems Technology Lab at MIT working on field emission displays under Tayo Akinwande. After graduation he spent three years as a post-doc in MIT's Laboratory for Organic Optics and Electronics (now the ONE Lab) working on a variety of organic electronic devices and as a consulting engineer for QDVision.
He joined the faculty of Columbia University as an assistant professor in 2006. At Columbia, John is the founding faculty director of the Columbia Maker Space, serves on the Columbia Cleanroom Committee, and serves as the undergraduate chair for EE.
He has won a number of awards for his work in thin film electronics and communications including the MIT Clean Energy Prize, The Vodaphone Americas Wireless Innovation Award, the NSF Career Award, The IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport award, the IVMC Shoulders/Spindt/Grey award, the Interdigital Innovation Challenge. He is a finalist for the 2015 Verizon Powerful Answers award.
John is an active member of SID, the Society for Information Display, and serves on the board of directors as well as the editor of the Journal of the Society for Information Display. He is also serves on the board of the Device Research Conference (and served as general chair in 2013), and is a senior member of the IEEE. He currently serves on the board of his local IEEE EDS/SSCS chapter.
March 3
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Abstract: This talk will highlight my group's development of microfabricated
permanent magnets and their application in several
functional microsystems. To set the stage, I'll first describe some
basic concepts about magnets and physical scaling laws that motivate
our efforts. I'll then discuss our advancement of two types of
permanent magnet materials--electroplated layers and bonded
powders, which overcome certain manufacturing and integration
challenges. I'll then showcase how these permanent magnet materials
are being used for electromechanical actuators, energy harvesting
devices, and generation of high-energy x-rays.
His research focuses on magnetic thin/thick films and magnetic micro/nanostructures; magnetic microsystems and electromechanical transducers; and compact (<100 W) power/energy systems. He received dual B.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering in 1999, followed by the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 2001, from the University of Florida, Gainesville. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta in 2004. During his graduate studies, he held research fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society.
Dr. Arnold is an active participant in the magnetics and MEMS communities, serving on conference committees for the MEMS, PowerMEMS, Hilton Head, Transducers, Sensors, MMM, and Intermag meetings. He was the technical program co-chair of the 2009 PowerMEMS and is currently on the editorial board of J. Micromechanics and Microengineering and Energy Harvesting and Systems. His work has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the 2008 Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) and the 2009 DARPA Young Faculty Award. Dr. Arnold is the current UF chapter faculty advisor and member of the Eta Kappa Nu ECE engineering honor society. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of Tau Beta Pi.
Beyond his passion for research and teaching, he most enjoys spending time with his wife and three children.
March 12 (CANCELLED)
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Abstract: The present day technology falls short in offering autonomous mobile robots that can function effectively and efficiently under unknown and dynamic environmental conditions. Insects and canines, on the other hand, exhibit an unmatched ability to navigate through a wide variety of environments and overcome perturbations by successfully maintaining control and stability. In this talk, Dr. Alper Bozkurt will present how neural stimulation and physiological monitoring systems can be used to wirelessly navigate cockroaches and train dogs to allow for cyber-enabled working animals. These biobots would potentially assist humans in environmental sensing and search-and-rescue applications to pinpoint hazardous material or to find earthquake victims. This is one of the on-going efforts under Integrated Bionic MicroSystems Laboratory (iBionicS Lab) which has a vision to introduce conceptually novel neural engineering methodologies and wearable devices to interface biological organisms with synthetic systems
March 17
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Abstract: My research group has investigated MEMS (micro electro
mechanical system) fabrication and microactuators since 1986. Recently, we
inserted and operated MEMS devices in the specimen chamber of the transmission
electron microscope (TEM). We conducted the tensile and shear testing, and the
heat transfer measurement of nano junctions while the junctions were in situ observed by TEM. The tensile
testing of a silicon junction of a few nm in diameter showed its extraordinary
large plastic deformation. The shear deformation of a silver nano junction exhibited
series of sub-nm steps correlated with the crystalline spacing of the material;
this is like a miniaturized version of stick-slips during frictional motion. Furthermore,
the heat transfer through a short and thin, both in a few nm, silicon junction was
much higher than the bulk value because of ballistic heat transfer. Also we
have built a MEMS liquid cell in which the growth of a gold electrode by
electroplating was observed in real time.
Prof. Fujita is currently engaged in the investigation of micro and nano electromechanical systems fabricated by IC-compatible processes and applications to bio and nano technology. Major research projects include MEMS-in-TEM experiment for simultaneous visualization and material property measurement of nano objects, and biomolecular characterization by using MEMS tools.
He received M. Hetenyi Award of Experimental Mechanics from the Society for Experimental Mechanics in 1986, Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques from Government of France in 2001, The Prize for Science and Technology in Research Category from Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Outstanding Achievement Award from The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan in 2005, and The Yamazaki-Teiichi Prize from Foundation for Promotion of Material Science and Technology of Japan in 2013.
March 26
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Abstract: Data analytics on massive and often sensitive contents regularly arise in various contemporary settings ranging from cloud computing and social networking to online services, mobile applications, and distributed processing. In this talk, I present novel computer engineering-based solutions that enable efficient and scalable explorations of the underlying patterns and dependencies present across a dense, structured datasets, with a focus on sensitive privacy-preserving applications. The first part of the talk addresses the challenge of minimizing the computing, storage, and communication overhead of a broad class of iterative data analysis algorithms, down to the limits of data subspaces and the underlying heterogeneous platform. Our new methods enable optimizing for hardware acceleration as well as real-time stream processing, while simultaneously benefiting privacy-preserving computing by pushing the limits of costly data analytics to the theoretical bounds. The second portion of the talk presents innovative solutions for privacy preserving computing by Yao's Garbled Circuits (GC). In contrast with the existing (software based) GC methods, I illustrate how scalable and efficient GC computation can be achieved by leveraging a new folded function description and logic synthesis methods along with our created custom libraries and constraints. Evaluation results of our methodologies show significant improvements in memory footprint, network bandwidth, and overall computing cost in terms of time and energy (power) compared with the prior art, often by orders of magnitude. Our scalable privacy-preserving approach enables us to implement functions that have not been reported before, small enough that they befit mobile/embedded devices. To facilitate automated end-to-end implementation, we provide a number of user-friendly APIs supported by our custom libraries. I discuss how our findings will enable practically addressing several known classical challenges as well as exciting applications such as scalable privacy-preserving classification of visual content, secure data mining, and search.
Bio: Farinaz Koushanfar is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, where she directs the Adaptive Computing and Embedded Systems (ACES) Lab. She also serves as the: principal director of the TI DSP Leadership University program; and, as the associate partner of the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Secure Computing. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California Berkeley. Her research interests include embedded/cyber-physical systems (CPS) security, hardware trust, adaptive and customizable embedded systems design, and secure function evaluation. Professor Koushanfar received a number of awards and honors for her research, mentorship, and teaching including the PECASE from president Obama, ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award, NAS Kavli fellowship, Cisco IoT Security Grand Challenge Award, Young faculty/CAREER awards from NSF, DARPA, ONR, ARO, MIT Technology Review TR-35, and a Best Student Paper Award at ACM SIGMOBILE (Mobicom).
|March 31
Olgica Milenkovic
University of Illinois
"Community detection via correlation clustering"
11:00-12:00 pm
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Abstract: Data analytics on massive and often sensitive contents regularly arise in various contemporary settings ranging from cloud computing and social networking to online services, mobile applications, and distributed processing. In this talk, I present novel computer engineering-based solutions that enable efficient and scalable explorations of the underlying patterns and dependencies present across a dense, structured datasets, with a focus on sensitive privacy-preserving applications. The first part of the talk addresses the challenge of minimizing the computing, storage, and communication overhead of a broad class of iterative data analysis algorithms, down to the limits of data subspaces and the underlying heterogeneous platform. Our new methods enable optimizing for hardware acceleration as well as real-time stream processing, while simultaneously benefiting privacy-preserving computing by pushing the limits of costly data analytics to the theoretical bounds. The second portion of the talk presents innovative solutions for privacy preserving computing by Yao's Garbled Circuits (GC). In contrast with the existing (software based) GC methods, I illustrate how scalable and efficient GC computation can be achieved by leveraging a new folded function description and logic synthesis methods along with our created custom libraries and constraints. Evaluation results of our methodologies show significant improvements in memory footprint, network bandwidth, and overall computing cost in terms of time and energy (power) compared with the prior art, often by orders of magnitude. Our scalable privacy-preserving approach enables us to implement functions that have not been reported before, small enough that they befit mobile/embedded devices. To facilitate automated end-to-end implementation, we provide a number of user-friendly APIs supported by our custom libraries. I discuss how our findings will enable practically addressing several known classical challenges as well as exciting applications such as scalable privacy-preserving classification of visual content, secure data mining, and search.
Bio: Farinaz Koushanfar is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, where she directs the Adaptive Computing and Embedded Systems (ACES) Lab. She also serves as the: principal director of the TI DSP Leadership University program; and, as the associate partner of the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Secure Computing. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California Berkeley. Her research interests include embedded/cyber-physical systems (CPS) security, hardware trust, adaptive and customizable embedded systems design, and secure function evaluation. Professor Koushanfar received a number of awards and honors for her research, mentorship, and teaching including the PECASE from president Obama, ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award, NAS Kavli fellowship, Cisco IoT Security Grand Challenge Award, Young faculty/CAREER awards from NSF, DARPA, ONR, ARO, MIT Technology Review TR-35, and a Best Student Paper Award at ACM SIGMOBILE (Mobicom).
April 14
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Abstract: The goal in networked control of multiagent systems is to derive desirable collective behavior through the design of local control algorithms. The information available to the individual agents, either through sensing or communication, invariably defines the space of admissible control laws. Hence, informational restrictions impose constraints on achievable performance guarantees. The first part of this talk will provide one such constraint with regards to the efficiency of the resulting stable solutions for a class of networked resource allocation problems with submodular objective functions. When the agents have full information regarding the resources, the efficiency of the resulting stable solutions is guaranteed to be within 50% of optimal. However, when the agents have only localized information about the resources, which is a common feature of many well-studied control designs, the efficiency of the resulting stable solutions can be 1/n of optimal, where n is the number of agents. Consequently, such schemes in general cannot guarantee that systems comprised of n agents can perform better than a system comprised of just a single agent. The second part of this talk will focus on identifying how augmenting the information to the agents can impact achievable performance guarantees. While providing the agents with additional information can lead to control designs with improved efficiency guarantees, it turns out that such gains frequently come at the expense of the underlying convergence rates. Hence, there is an apparent tradeoff between short-term and long-term performance guarantees in multiagent systems and we will characterize this tradeoff in a simple distributed graph coloring problem. The last part of this talk will present some preliminary results on robust mechanisms for social coordination.
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Gary May
Georgia Tech
"New Directions in Engineering Research and Education"
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Abstract: Engineering has never been more relevant to societal progress than it is today. This talk will explore current trends in engineering research and education, with particular emphasis on grand challenges in engineering research, new paradigms for active learning in engineering curricula, and making engineering career broadly accessible to diverse segments of the U.S. population. The talk will also touch on the evolving missions of public and private universities in the higher education enterprise and take a peek into what the future holds.
Prior to his current appointment, Dr. May was the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. At the conclusion of his leadership in 2011, graduate programs in electrical engineering and computer engineering each ranked sixth, the computer engineering undergraduate program also ranked sixth, and the electrical engineering undergraduate program ranked fifth. All of these rankings represented the highest in the history of the School up to that point.
Dr. Mays field of research is computer-aided manufacturing of integrated circuits. He has authored over 200 technical publications, contributed to 15 books, and holds a patent on that topic. He has also participated in the acquisition of over $49 million in research funding, and he has graduated 19 Ph.D. students. In 1993, Dr. May was named Georgia Techs Outstanding Young Alumnus, and in 1999, he received Georgia Techs Outstanding Service Award. Dr. May has won two international Best Paper awards from IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing (1998 and 2000). In 2004, Dr. May received Georgia Techs Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, as well as the Outstanding Minority Engineer Award from the American Society of Engineering Education. In 2006, he received the Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2010, he was named the Outstanding Electrical Engineering Alumnus of the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. May is a Fellow of the AAAS and the IEEE.
Dr. May created the Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering/Science (SURE) program, for which he has been granted $3M from the National Science Foundation (NSF). SURE annually hosts minority students to perform research at Georgia Tech in the hopes that they will pursue a graduate degree. More than 73% of SURE participants enroll in graduate school. Dr. May was also the co-creator/co-director of the Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science (FACES) and University Center of Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) programs, for which he has been granted over $17M from NSF and the Sloan Foundation to increase the number of underrepresented Ph.D. recipients produced by Georgia Tech.
Over the duration of FACES, 433 minority students have received Ph.D. degrees in science or engineering at Georgia Tech the most in such fields in the nation. Dr. May is Executive Vice President of the National GEM Consortium and a member of the National Advisory Board of the National Society of Black Engineers.
Dr. May received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1985 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988 and 1991, respectively.
Dr. May, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, is married to LeShelle R. May. They have two daughters, Simone and Jordan (ages 19 and 17, respectively).
April 28
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Abstract: During high school, I was fascinated by science. I used to read stories about Nobel Prize laureates and dream about their discoveries. Despite this, I became an engineer and, over the years, got to appreciate the power and transformative nature of computing in all human endeavors. In recent years, due to the cyber-physical systems (CPS) advent, I have found renewed interest and (somehow unexpected) opportunities to revisit some long forgotten topics in math and physics realizing that they can actually offer a much deeper understanding of CPS modeling and optimization. Truth being told, designing cyber-physical systems still feels more like an art rather than science but, in order to harness their huge potential, we need to reach beyond the established confines of computer systems design and (re)define a new science of CPS design. Starting from these overarching ideas, I discuss the theoretical foundations and practical implications of using a network approach to developing new mathematical models and tools needed to guide the CPS optimization ranging from hardware, all the way up to software, and (user-aware) application development. In other words, this talk is precisely about the subtle interplay between science and engineering and the joy of seeing things come full circle.
Bio: Radu Marculescu is a Full Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Southern California in 1998. He has received several best paper awards in the area
of design automation and embedded systems design. He has been involved in organizing
several international symposia, conferences, workshops, as well as guest editor of special issues
in archival journals and magazines. His research focuses on modeling and optimization of
embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, social and biological systems. Radu Marculescu is a
Fellow of IEEE.
Fall 2014
December 9
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Abstract: Whereas traditional image sensors map the intensity of light at a particular plane, significantly more information is present in a field of light rays. In particular, by mapping the distribution of incident angle in a scene, light-field imaging permits passive extraction of 3-D
An appropriately chosen mosaic of ASPs provides a much richer description of incoming light and does so in a computationally compact format, similar to the Gabor filters used in many image-processing applications. I will discuss several applications for arrays of ASPs, including digital light-field photography, lensless far-field imaging, and near-field lensless 3-D imaging of fluorescent microscale sources.
December 2
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Abstract: One of the grand challenges in neural engineering is the lack of reliable low-power miniaturized wireless telemetry. Wires affect behavior and fundamentally alter measurements. Wireless capability doesn't broadly exist today for wide neuroscience community, at rates and channel counts needed, compromising scientific discovery and therapeutic outcomes. Biosignal transducer systems require not just sensing, but also actuation, and closed-loop control.
This talk will address the above challenges, starting with devices for translational animal studies, including wireless neural activity monitoring of brain-injured rats and initial work towards body-powered devices. Findings from animal studies provide key insights into the design of heavily size/energy-constrained wireless neuromodulation technology for human memory restoration.
Bio: Dejan Markovic is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also affiliated with UCLA Bioengineering Department as a co-chair of the Neuroengineering field. He completed the Ph.D. degree in 2006 at the University of California, Berkeley, for which he was awarded 2007 David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize. His current research is focused on low-power embedded systems for basic neuroscience and clinical neurophysiology, with emphasis on memory and learning. Dr. Markovic co-founded Flex Logix Technologies, a semiconductor IP startup. He received an NSF CAREER Award in 2009. In 2010, he was a co-recipient of ISSCC Jack Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions.
November 20
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Abstract: In recent years, the focus in biological sciences has shifted from understanding single parts of larger systems, sort of vertical approach, to understanding complex systems at the cellular and molecular levels, horizontal approach. Thus the revolution of "omics" projects, genomics and now proteomics. Understanding complexity of biological systems is a task that requires acquisition, analysis and sharing of huge databases, and in particular, high-dimensional databases. Processing such huge amount of bioimages visually by biologists is inefficient, time-consuming and error-prone. Therefore, we would like to move towards automated, efficient and robust processing of such bioimage data sets. Moreover, some information hidden in the images may not be readily visually available. Thus, we do not only help humans by using sophisticated algorithms for faster and more efficient processing but also because new knowledge is generated through use of such algorithms. The ultimate dream is to have distributed yet integrated large bioimage databases which would allow researchers to upload their data, have it processed, share the data, download data as well as platform-optimized code, etc, and all this in a common format. To achieve this goal, we must draw upon a whole host of sophisticated tools from signal processing, machine learning and scientific computing. I will address some of these issues in this presentation, especially those where signal processing expertise can play a significant role.
Bio: Jelena Kovacevic received a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University. She then joined Bell Labs, followed by Carnegie Mellon University in 2003, where she is currently the Edward David Schramm Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and the Director of the Center for Bioimage Informatics. She received the Belgrade October Prize and the E.I. Jury Award at Columbia University. She is a coauthor on an SP Society award-winning paper and is a coauthor of the books "Wavelets and Subband Coding" and "Foundations of Signal Processing". Dr. Kovacevic is the Fellow of the IEEE and EURASIP and was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. She was a keynote speaker at several meetings and has been involved in organizing numerous conferences. Her research interests include multi-resolution techniques and biomedical applications.
November 19
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Abstract: Mobile computing is the largest technology platform ever deployed in human history. It is transforming our everyday life in unforeseen and unprecedented ways. What are the opportunities and challenges for mobile computing in the next decade? In this talk, I will explore the some of the key technology drivers needed to sustain the mobile computing market growth. This includes: energy management, heterogeneous computing, novel brain inspired computer architectures, semiconductor process technology innovations, and new memory technology.
Bio: Rudy Beraha is the Sr. Director of Engineering at Qualcomm. Rudy has been with Qualcomm R&D since 2005. Before leading the SoC architecture team, he worked on Qualcomm's first generation OFDMA cellular system, Network-on-Chip architectures, and heterogeneous computing research. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Rudy held various ASIC design and management positions at Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. Rudy obtained his MS in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 1992 and Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Penn in 1991.
November 7
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|October 28
John Long
Electronics Research Laboratory/DIMES, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
"Future Directions for Silicon Radio Frequency Electronics"
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Abstract: Growth in mobile communication and computing technologies over the past two decades has been driven by innovations in system architectures, software technology, and silicon integration. Analog/RF circuit innovations relevant to developing more efficient infrastructure, conserving energy, and delivering better health care are described in this talk.
Advanced CMOS is the enabling technology for radio frequency circuits designed into almost all low-cost electronic products sold today. The feat of doubling the number of transistors on a silicon IC every 18 months is projected to continue until we reach a gate length approaching 5nm (projected in ~ 2020-2030 by the ITRS). However, continued scaling presents the designer with different transistor behavior with each generation, as the transistor's electrical characteristics are affected by evolutionary changes in fabrication. Circuit and systems designers must therefore develop scalable designs that can adapt to a dynamic technology platform.
Three examples from recent research into the design of adaptive, wideband, and scalable high-frequency electronics aimed at emerging applications are described in this talk. Wireless silicon sensors capable of measuring position and velocity accurately are needed for intelligent traffic managment schemes. A recently developed mm-wave FMCW radar transmitter IC incorporates the phase-locked loop, digitally controlled oscillator, PA, and calibration circuits in 65nm CMOS. The ADPLL performs autonomous calibration and closed-loop DCO gain linearization in order to output a GHz-speed triangular chirp with high sweep linearity. The transmitter achieves excellent in-band/ out-of-band phase noise performance, ultra-low reference spur levels (-74 dBc), and is scalable to future technology nodes. Scenarios for improving health care often require low-power radios to monitor patients remotely. In the second example, a low-power, autonomous FM ultrawideband transceiver and power management unit that transfers data reliably at 100kbit/s and includes full on-chip digital calibration of the transceiver is described. Finally, fiber-optic technologies in the internet backbone are migrating towards coherent modulation schemes to increase data throughput. A silicon electronic driver capable of producing the 6Vp-p output required to drive a Mach-Zehnder optical modulator is presented. Based on a distributed amplifier architecture, the novel input interface enables performance competitive with III-V semiconductor technologies (i.e., 15ps rise-fall times at 10Gb/s) but on a silicon IC platform capable of full transceiver integration.
Bio: John R. Long received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary in 1984, and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. He was employed for 10 years by Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa involved in the design of ASICs for Gbit/s fibre-optic transmission systems, and from 1996 to 2001 as an Assistant and then Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. Since January 2002 he has been chair of the Electronics Research Laboratory at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. His current research interests include low-power and broadband/mm-wave transceiver circuitry for highly-integrated wireless applications, and electronics design for high-speed data communication systems.
Professor Long is a recipient of the NSERC Doctoral Prize, Douglas R. Colton and Governor General's Medals for research excellence, and Best Paper Awards, including: ISSCC in 2000 and 2007, IEEE-BCTM 2003, and the IEEE-RFIC Symposium in 2006 and 2011. He is a member of the ESSCIRC technical program committee and has served on the technical program committees for the ISSCC (RF subcommittee chair), BCTM, EuMW, and ICUWB conferences. He was co-chair of the European microwave IC conference in 2008 and 2012. Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, and General Chair of the IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and Editor-in-Chief of the new IEEE virtual journal on RFICs.
October 17
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Abstract: In the 1980s Model Predictive Control (MPC) became the algorithm of choice in the process industries for demanding multi-variable applications involving constraints. Today's vastly more powerful computational resources and a series of new algorithms have made these tools suitable for problems of essentially any size and time scale. I will describe the road taken and illustrate the effectiveness with industrial examples from the automotive and power electronics domains and the industrial energy sector. In the final part of the lecture I will suggest topics of future research.
Bio: Manfred Morari was head of the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich from 2009 to 2012 and head of the Automatic Control Laboratory from 1994 to 2008. Before that he was the McCollum-Corcoran Professor of Chemical Engineering and Executive Officer for Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. He obtained the diploma from ETH Zurich and the Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, both in chemical engineering. After that he was on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin for six years. His interests are in hybrid systems and the control of biomedical systems. In recognition of his research contributions he received numerous awards, among them the Eckman Award, Ragazzini Award and Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council; the Colburn Award, Professional Progress Award and CAST Division Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; the Control Systems Technical Field Award and the Bode Lecture Prize from IEEE; the High Impact Paper Award of IFAC. He is a Fellow of IEEE, AIChE and IFAC. In 1993 he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
|October 14
Herman Schmit
Managing Architect, Altera
"Subversive Innovation"
11:00-12:00 pm, Towne 337
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Abstract: Being effective in an engineering organization is not easy. In this talk, I will share my observations on why it is hard and offer my advice on how to be effective without losing your mind, your enthusiasm, or your job. I call this "subversive innovation" because the machinery of a technology enterprise is frequently and almost specifically constructed to prevent innovation. If you don't get permission to do something innovative, sometimes those innovations have to be subtle, hidden or disguised.
I put this talk together as part of a technical leadership series at Altera in 2013 and have adapted it for a broader audience. I may offer some vague examples from my experience in Field Programmable Gate Arrays, but most of the discussion is applicable to any large technology enterprise. I have tried to make the talk entertaining and applicable, and would love to collect more specific ways to be subversive innovator.
Bio: Herman Schmit received his undergraduate degree from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in 1987. For 4 years, he resisted the temptation to swipe a tube from the ENIAC, which was left like junk in the hall of the Moore building. He received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon in 1995. From 1995 to 2003 he was an Assistant and Associate Professor at CMU. Since 2003 he has worked in Silicon Valley, first at two semiconductor startups, and most recently as the FPGA fabric architect at Altera Corporation. He has 45 publications and 98 issued US patents.
|October 7
Marius Vassiliou
Institute for Defense Analyses
"How Complex Endeavors go Wrong"
1:30pm-2:30pm, Berger Auditorium
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Abstract:Why was Admiral Nelson able to win at Trafalgar, while, almost two hundred years later, the United States was unable to rescue its hostages from Iran? An important part of the answer to this question lies in the management, or "Command and Control," of complex endeavors. We examine 20 situations, from the First World War to the present time, including military operations and responses to natural disasters and terrorist attacks. All have been characterized as experiencing 'Command and Control failures.' We identify three categories of failures: (1) failures attributable to a priori structural defects in enterprise approach, or a mismatch between the enterprise approach and the mission; (2) failures attributable to an inability to communicate, because of shortfalls in technology and system design, or because of physical impossibility; and, (3) behavioral failures to communicate or interact. Different enterprise approaches, of varying degrees of centralization, have different failure propensities. For example, a collective that is distributed, but not properly integrated, may sometimes be more adversely affected by communication failures than a traditional hierarchy. Traditional hierarchies, on the other hand, may be stymied by overly constrained information flows and patterns of interaction. Enterprise agility, meaning the ability to reconfigure the enterprise and its approach to meet the needs of the problem at hand, is paramount.
|October 6
Mike Hutton
IC Design Architect and Principal Investigator, Altera
"FPGA Architecture and Design"
2:00-3:00 pm, Towne 337
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Abstract: Field-Programmable Gate Arrays are flexible hardware devices that fall between dedicated hardware devices such as an ASIC and software programmable devices like a CPU or GPU. FPGAs are used by a wide range of end applications in communications and networking, radar, industrial control devices, and high-performance compute acceleration. In this talk I will overview the architecture of an FPGA - the logic, memory and I/O blocks, programmable routing for joining them together, and some of the interesting software algorithms used for programming FPGAs. I will show some of the more interesting recent changes and trends in FPGAs and some of the challenges going forward for FPGAs and all forms of integrated circuits. Finally, I will spend some time describing the role of industrial research and development for those who are interested in careers in FPGAs or related fields of hardware and software design.
Bio: Mike Hutton is an IC Design Architect and Principal Investigator in the Altera Technology Office. He works on FPGA architecture and CAD, FPGA applications and in particular applying the needs of end-applications to architecture evaluation. His most recent projects for Stratix 10 include designer implications of HyperFlex, memory architecture, power modeling, SEU modeling and support for ASIC prototyping. He received a BMath and MMath in Computer Science from Waterloo and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Trans CAD, past Program and General Chair of the Int'l Symposium on FPGAs, and has served on the Technical Program Committees for many research conferences including DAC, DATE, FPGA, FPL and FPT. Outside Altera he has worked at IBM, Northern Telecom, and as Director of Architecture at Tabula. Mike has published 35 academic papers and has 75 issued patents.
|September 30
Rob Nowak
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Active Crowdsourcing"
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Abstract: Human experts are crucial to data analysis, but may often be the information bottleneck in data analysis tasks. I will discuss new theory and algorithms that enable machines to learn efficiently from human experts, using a minimal amount of human interaction. The models so learned then inform the understanding of human cognition and the design of better algorithms for data processing. I will focus on active learning from human experts based on adaptively crowdsourcing training data o a pool of people. Rather than randomly selecting training examples for labeling, active crowdsourcing sequentially and adaptively selects the most informative examples for human evaluation, based on information gleaned from previous human feedback. By making optimal use of human expert judgment, these active learning method can speed up the training of a variety of machine learning algorithms. TBD
Bio: Rob is the McFarland-Bascom Professor in Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his research focuses on signal processing, machine learning, optimization, and statistics. He is a professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as being affiliated with the departments of Computer Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. He is also a Fellow of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and co-organizer of the SILO seminar series.
September 11
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Abstract: In this Colloquium the 150th birthday anniversary of Maxwell Equations is celebrated, and their accomplishments over these 150 years commented. The presentation has been designed for a scientific audience, but not necessarily familiar with electromagnetic phenomena.
In the late seventeenth and eighteenth century, mysterious electric and magnetic different phenomena were exciting curiosity of people, and also interest of some scientists. Their investigation, essentially performed in France and UK, was formalised by two laws, Biot & Savart and Faraday equations.
And then James Clerk Maxwell entered in the arena: a dark penumbra suddenly changed to brilliant light, theoretical results from his new equations were experimentally confirmed, and successive applications implemented.
This Colloquium presents the romance of Maxwell equations, created and not derived from preliminary experiments, and the successive steps of their usage for a number of applications that changed, and are still changing our physical and social life. At the end of the Colloquium, a just one minute additional comment is added: no detail is given here, to hide a thrilling conclusion!
He got the Mountbatten premium for the best published paper (1995/1996 session) on the Proc. IEE (London), and the IEEE Schelkunoff Prize (1999 and 2008) for the best published paper in the two years on IEEE Antennas Propagation Transactions. In addition, he received the prestigious 2007 IEEE GRS-S Distinguished Achievement Award "For outstanding research in Electromagnetics, Propagation, Remote Sensing and Information Data Processing;" and the 2010 IEEE AP-S Distinguished Achievement Award "For outstanding contributions to fundamental electromagnetic theory, including pulsed antennas and arrays, innovative propagation and scattering models, and exploration of new emerging application areas." He was also included in the 2009 NASA Group Achievement Award, Cassini Radar Team, for "Outstanding accomplishment in the acquisition and analysis of Cassini Radar data, contributing to a better understanding of Titan and the Saturn system."


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I finished the first phase working on a new steel sculpture commission for a family in the Bay Area which was getting my sketches approved and then making a small scale maquette and then getting familiar with fabrication technology that I had very little experience with other than working in machine shops out of High School.
I took a full month off after getting my design work approved while I finished my show for TEW Galleries which opened a few weeks ago. It was really difficult stopping a project that I had invested so much energy and design into but looking back it was a smart approach because it gave me a little distance to think about how I would approach the second phase of the project.
During the second phase which was enlarging my drawing to a full scale model I started meeting with fabricators and other sculptors to figure out how this was all going to come together and that I could possibly contract out certain fabricated parts. What I thought would be an easy process of working with a huge pool of options turned out to be a small group. It was sad to see that the craft of steel working has been somewhat removed from society today, when I was a kid we took metal shop, families had tools, kids learned hard skills and were interested in building things. I thought that I could tap into a market of inspired artisans but only found industrial fabricators.
So the second phase is all approved and I know how the parts are going to be built. My next phase is looking at plasma cutters and tig welders and learning how to make a lot of it myself. The 4th and final stage will be engineering the concrete pedestal and pouring it on site and then transporting all of the parts to the Bay Area for a June 2015 installation.
I have to admit that after I wrote this and read it I got a little freaked out about how far I still have to go but then I remember that I have wanted to do this piece for 30 years, this is what I want to do and it isn't going to intimidate me, I am completely inspired and who says you can't teach an old dog, new tricks.
My maquette. This stage was so crucial and I realized something that I harp on my students all the time about. I tell them to put everything into the sketch, design every square inch before you go to the painting so nothing is left to chance. I never designed the face on the left side, I just winged an indicated head shape and it became a huge problem when I scaled up the model. I didn't really know how to solve it because it wasn't part of my original vision and inspiration if you get what I mean and this created a lot of extra thinking that should have been done on the sketch and not the cardboard stage. I will not be using Corten Steel because this will increase the materials by 70%. The piece will be made from different thicknesses of mild plate steel.
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Support for Marriage Equality in New Jersey at All-Time High
April 16, 2013 by HRC staff
Post submited by Dan Rafter, Former HRC Associate Director of Communications
A new Rutgers-Eagleton poll shows support for marriage equality in New Jersey at a historic high – 62 percent of Garden State voters surveyed said they would vote for marriage equality should it come to a ballot referendum. The poll also found that a decisive supermajority of voters – 75 percent – who favor the issue going to a ballot vote support marriage equality.
The poll found support for marriage equality high in key demographics, and illustrated some marked increases from polling last year, shortly after Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a historic marriage bill passed by the state legislature. In particular, support has spiked among men and Catholics.
According to the Rutgers poll, those supporting marriage equality include:
- 63 percent of Catholics
- 63 percent of Independents
- 60 percent of men
- 64 percent of women
- 72 percent of Democrats
- 51 percent of African Americans
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FDEP Stormwater, Erosion, & Sedimentation Control Inspector Training
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FDEP Stormwater, Erosion, & Sedimentation Control Inspector Training
Cheryl L. Moore Consulting, LLC
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 9:00 AM - Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 2:00 PM (EST)
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I worked at Ferguson Enterprises full-time (more than 5 years)
biggest in industry
pays well
large geographic footprint
could handle almost any product line, stock options, good retirement plan for the most part
almost too big
too much middle management
sometimes too centralized of decision making
sometimes too much of a career depended on who you know and where buddies with
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"Ferguson Enterprises (A Good Ol' Boy Company). "
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I worked at Ferguson Enterprises full-time (more than 3 years)Pros
It can be a great opportunity...depending on the person.Cons
Poorly managed, If you come from better,Ferguson will make you long for the good ol' days. If your a recent college grad, then ferguson is a good place for college kids to learn "hard work" and "customer loyalty" (butt kissing). I came to Ferguson after retiring from the Navy, now I'm Navy Civil Service and I can honestly say ...Ferguson represented the lowest point in my life. Good luck on your job search!Advice to ManagementAdvice
My advice to management...make sure those that are promoted to management are actually qualified and not just sporting the title.Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEO
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I have been working at Ferguson Enterprises full-time (more than 10 years)Pros
great opportunity for success if your willing to be open minded great associates great customers product line vast nice facilitiesCons
young managers clawing their way to the top leaving mass body count no remorse on who the use to get thereAdvice to ManagementAdvice
get back to business concentrate on customers and not p&l sell product and gain market shareRecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEO


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Fertilizing Peonies
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After just sitting there for a couple of years, maybe 3, after moving them 225 miles north, my peonies decided to explode last year! Looks like the same thing this year. My question is this, not they need any, but when's the best time to fertilize and what kind of fertilizer to use?
Ya know, peonies aren't really fussy plants. You're better off leaving them alone to do their thing and not worry about them. You will end up killing them with kindness. Quite a few of my peonies are under black walnut trees and they do fine. Just enjoy their blooms and relax. ;)
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"Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine" By Pocket watch Games for the Xbox 360, PC and Mac. Rated T for teen. Grade: A-
"Thomas Was Alone" By Mike Bithell for PC, Mac, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. Rated E for everyone. Grade: A
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Missed drug side effect turns toxic
One clinician misdiagnoses an adverse effect of a drug prescribed by another.
Mammogram referral results not conveyed
A patient was referred for a mammogram, but clinicians fail to follow up on the report.
Rectal exam tried as assault
Informed consent becomes muddled during an emergency to check for spinal injury.
Misdiagnosis leads to fatal emergency
A young man dies when an emergent condition is mistaken for a nonemergent one.
Untreated ischemia in limb leads to negligence lawsuit
Clinicians missed several opportunities to advocate for their patient, leading to the loss of a leg.
Exam brings trouble for school nurse
A visual check of a student was deemed an "unreasonable search" under the Fourth Amendment.
Medical error arises from lack of awareness
A clinician who did not know a certain policy causes a chemotherapy problem.
Miscommunication delays breast cancer test results
Following up on test findings is a key part of delivering quality patient care and minimizing liability.
Know your Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act policies
Emergency department staff was unaware of special guidelines for chest pain.
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Apache and Tomcat Class on Jul 9 in San Francisco, CA
Thank you for your interest in Apache HTTPD and Tomcat Administration Bootcamp Training Course.
[top] Who is teaching this class?
Gordon Force leads NewCircle as CEO, and brings 25 years of experience as a developer, architect, director and instructor.
Gordon has taught over 50 training courses on technologies like Java, JBoss, JavaEE, Apache, and Spring and Hibernate.
Previously, Gordon led development and application support for ConnectPay and Encompass products at First Data Corporation. He is also a Certified Scrum Master, and holds a B.A. in Business Administration with Area of Concentration in Quantitative Economics.
[top] When is this training taking place?
This training is comprised of the following classes:
|Apache Web Server
Monday, July 9, 2012 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
|Apache Tomcat Administration
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
Thursday, July 12, 2012 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
Friday, July 13, 2012 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
[top] Where is this training taking place?
This training is taking place at NewCircle's NewCircle HQ training location.
This training location offers the following features:
- WiFi LAN
- Internet Access
For nearby hotels please see NewCircle HQ training location page.
[top] What is the price for this training?
This training is priced at $ 2375.00 USD per participant.
We accept payments by credit card (VISA, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover Card) or by purchase order.
We will not charge your card until the training is confirmed.
[top] Who is providing this training?
This class is delivered by NewCircle.
[top] How is this training usually structured?
Typically we divide the training days into four sessions. Two sessions before lunch, and two sessions after lunch. Between any two sessions, we take a break. Short 15-minute breaks in the morning and the afternoon, and usually an hour-long lunch-break.
The last hour is usually reserved for questions and answers.
Attendees are encouraged to arrive at least 20 minutes early on the first day of the class and 15 minutes early for the remainder of the training.
[top] What is provided for this training?
For this training, NewCircle provides::
- A take-home copy of the training materials.
- All equipment required to perform the hands-on parts of this class. This usually means a personal computer.
- Refreshments. This usually includes coffee, tea, juices, soft drinks, and water to keep you hydrated.
- Snacks. This usually includes danishes, breakfast bars and chips.
- Food. Lunch WILL NOT be provided. A list of restaurants will be given prior to the lunch break. This usually includes burgers, sandwiches, wraps, salads, pizzas, etc.
[top] What am I responsible for?
You are responsible for:
- Transportation to and from the classroom
- Arriving to class on time (including from the breaks)
- Meeting the class prerequisites. See the course page for more info.
- Bringing your own laptop and ensuring it is setup correctly.
[top] What is the maximum class size?
This class allows up to 20 participants.
In general, we strive to have an optimal class size, such that:
- Instructor(s) can provide adequate attention to participants' questions and concerns as well as assist with the lab-work.
- There are enough participants in the class to create an engaging group-dynamic, which facilitates learning.
[top] What happens when I register?
Once you register, we will send you a confirmation email that includes the information you will need to attend this training.


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Inspired by the complex character of the world's most iconic flower, perfumer Jerome Epinette set out to create an unconventional rose fragrance. The result is this brand new blend, which features rich floral notes undercut by a spicy, smoky trail. Romantic and bold, it avoids the cloying sweetness of most rose-based scents, with a concentrated formula that lends a single spritz some serious staying power.
Sort of a musky scent, not super sweet or flowery like most rose perfumes. It's also very long-lasting. I bought the full size but I'm actually still using the sample size. It's also a little on the strong side so a little dab goes a long way which is nice considering the price.5
Fell for it, HARD! I am soooo not into rose scents. Just find them to be overpowering and cloying but this was different. The rose is there as the main heroine but she is so not in your face! She's quiet but present and her castmates spice things up! Wore this to a family dinner-my Dad hugged me and immediately said, "GIRL, you smell so GOOD!"5
Atelier Rose Anonyme really did knock my socks off, in a delightful way. I love, love, love it! It's probabaly my favorite Birchbox sample so far. Instead of a straight rose scent, you get the lovely rose plus complex, spicy undertones and the dry-down is fabulous. I smell my wrists all day long when I wear it! It is destined to be one of my signature fragrances if I can fit it into the budget or ask for it as a gift. That is the sad part for me--I wish they offered a rollerball or other smaller, more economically priced package of the cologne.5
When I say that I took advantage of very single drop in this perfume bottle BirchBox sent me, you have to believe me I loved it. I wore it to this birthday party and everyone kept asking me what perfume was I using. It's great for special events, I wouldn't wear it to go to work or class because its just to strong, but a night out you can never go wrong with this cologne I loved it loved it !!!!!!5
I really wanted to like this. It is an interesting smell, but I guess not one I want to associate with myself. I put a little on when I got the sample and sort of liked it, but when I saw my husband later in the evening, the first thing he asked me was if I'd been smoking. I was so confused by the question, until I remembered putting this on. Ah well!2


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LOLL!!! retail will panic now
I think MSFT may be on to somethng with Windows 8 and the Surface tablet. I just dumped my trusty iPad for a Surface because I can actually so some work with it since it comes with MS Office. Nifty keyboard, USB port, SD card slot, etc. Figured out the tile interface in about 30 minutes.
The company I work for (14,000 PCs) was going to upgrade from XP to Win 7 this year. Decided to go with Win 8.
Wrong - Pete Najarian said MSFT has further to run and he is holding most of his shares that he bought some time ago.
A lot of things have changed the stock is at the same price when msft had 30bil cash now has 60bil and many of the employess at my company are getting msft phones which is interesting and have considered investing in NOK due to the fact.
It's an absolute sell. Nothing about Softy has changed. So what some fund manager load the boat. Just another bag holder though with a 2 billion dollar bag. Nothings changed actually things at Softy are getting worse.
A fool & his money are soon parted, hope you shorted a boat load.............
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Jovetic back for Fiorentina
Stevan Jovetic and Valon Behrami have recovered from injury and are in the Fiorentina squad to face Genoa on Sunday.
Guidolin's Palermo memories
Francesco Guidolin admits it is a special game, but the Udinese Coach puts "personal" issues to one side when facing his former club Palermo.
Guardiola analyses Milan-Roma
Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola confirmed he'll be keeping a close eye on Milan-Roma to "analyse" his upcoming Champions League opponents.
De Ceglie: Motivation is easy
Paolo De Ceglie says Juventus need little to motivate them for this weekend's clash with Inter or for the season run-in.
De La won't cash in on Tenors
Aurelio De Laurentiis has revealed that he is reluctant to sell any one from Edinson Cavani, Marek Hamsik and Ezequiel Lavezzi this year.
Heinze in, Greco out
Despite uncertainty all week, Roma have confirmed that Gabriel Heinze will be fit to face Milan this weekend.
Klose out for a month
Lazio have received the news they most dreaded, as Miroslav Klose injury is confirmed as serious enough to rule him out of the team's next five games.
Rossi 'readiest yet' to move
Giuseppe Rossi's agent has hinted that this summer could be the transfer window that the player makes a move from Villarreal.
Forlan's Olympic dream
Diego Forlan is keen to represent Uruguay at the London 2012 Olympics, should he be called up by Oscar Tabarez.
Denis back for Napoli
German Denis is targeting a return to the Atalanta attack ahead of schedule in order to face former side Napoli in Week 32.
'Asamoah would fit in at Napoli'
Kwadwo Asamoah's agent has failed in his attempts to resist discussing the possibility of his client joining Napoli this summer.
Marchetti on 'difficult' Cagliari past
Federico Marchetti has recalled his 'difficult' spell with former side Cagliari, ahead of facing them in Lazio's goal on Sunday.
Allegri thinking of only Roma
Massimiliano Allegri insists that his Milan players cannot afford to be anything other than 100 per cent focused on Roma this weekend.
De Rossi: Torment without football
Daniele De Rossi has revealed his growing desire to play every game possible for Roma and of the ambition to perhaps stay in the game after retirement.
Enrique: Beating Milan possible
Luis Enrique believes his Roma side are capable of beating League leaders Milan, but that it would take 'a perfect game' to do so.
Berlusconi hopes for Roma
Milan director Barbara Berlusconi has wished Roma good luck for their project, describing Milan's weekend opponents as this season's 'breath of fresh air'.
Paris-SG ponder Chivu offer
French giants Paris Saint-Germain are one of the many clubs interested in Inter defender Cristian Chivu.
Juve show Barzagli caution
Andrea Barzagli should be declared fit to face Inter this weekend, but Juventus boss Antonio Conte may not risk him.
Milito would take out Pirlo
Inter's Diego Milito has respect for the Juventus forward line, but he's worried by the creativity of Andrea Pirlo.
Stekelenburg fears Ibrahimovic
Roma 'keeper Maarten Stekelenburg is in no doubt as to who will be his biggest threat in the game against Milan – Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Previews: Crucial tests for Milan, Juve
Milan host Roma and Juventus welcome Inter as the big two face big tests in a fascinating Week 29 double-header.
Napoli receive Maggio boost
There is some good news for Napoli after it was revealed that Christian Maggio's injury is not as serious as first thought.
Pressure on Juve, says Stankovic
Dejan Stankovic insists Juventus will be feeling the pressure when his Inter side travel to Turin on Sunday evening.
De Sanctis set for Napoli extension
Morgan De Sanctis will sign a new contract at Napoli before the start of next season, his agent has suggested.
Milan-Juve clash over unbeaten record
Did Milan end Juventus' unbeaten record this season on Tuesday night? The two Italian giants, perhaps inevitably, disagree.
Today's headlines:
What the papers say...
Today's front-page headlines from La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Corriere dello Sport and Tuttosport.
'Lazio in Champions League if...'
Alvaro Gonzalez warns the other sides chasing third place that Lazio "are practically in the Champions League" with three wins.
Piacenza declared bankrupt
Piacenza Calcio has officially gone bankrupt, ending a 93-year history in Italian football that included long Serie A spells.
Lazio: 'Klose injury not minor'
Bad news for Lazio, as medical staff warn the injury Miroslav Klose picked up today "unfortunately does not seem to be minor."
Forlan: 'I respect Inter fans'
Diego Forlan reiterates he did not refuse to come off the bench. "I have respect for the fans, for Inter and for the shirt I wear."
Borini dreams of Euro 2012
Fabio Borini admits he's looking for a place in Italy's Euro 2012 squad, "but I must be consistent" for Roma first.
Bonucci: 'Juve on par with Milan'
Leonardo Bonucci feels Juventus are now joint Scudetto favourites with Milan, but first have to beat Inter "at all costs."
Cellino, legal action and a 4kg fish!
Cagliari President Massimo Cellino is adamant he's right to terminate Davide Ballardini's, while Nedo Sonetti reveals legal action over "eating a 4kg fish."
Rossi 'likes Roma philosophy'
Giuseppe Rossi's agent has confirmed he'd be glad to join "great side" Roma, but the €20m price-tag could be a big stumbling block.
Gilardino ignores Fiorentina feelings
Alberto Gilardino comes face to face with his former Fiorentina teammates on Sunday, but the Genoa hitman insists he'll "leave sentiments at home."
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HAVE: recipe for oatmeal cookie bars brought
These are what I brought to the swap with mini choc. chips + butterscotch firmed in on top.
Oatmeal Raisin Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
(Like chewy granola bars, but more cookie like, this is the lower fat version my kids created while in 4-H. I made the full 1 cup oil version at the swap with 1 cup water because it bakes in 15-20 minutes & thought you all might prefer the full version. Either way, it always gets eaten.)
½ cup oil
1 ½ cups water
2 cups brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
2 T. vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ tsp salt
1 ts soda
1 tsp baking powder (or just use ½ tsp soda + ½ tsp cream of tartar)
2 tsp cinnamon
2 cups raisins
1 cup chocolate chips
6 cups rolled oats
Preheat oven to 325. Combine oil, sugars, water, & vanilla. Beat well. Add flour salt, soda, baking powder, and cinnamon to the first mixture & mix well. Stir in oats, raisins, then chocolate chips. Spread in a well-greased 9x13" pan and bake for 40-45 minutes until dough firms up and is brown around edges. Will firm up more when cooled, so don't overbake. **Wait to cut into bars when cooled. Bars remain soft & chewy.
Makes 32. Store in airtight container up to a week. Refrigerate up to 2 weeks or freeze up to 3 months.