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March 17, 2012
Supporters of presidential candidate Ron Paul are complaining that other Clarke County Republicans shut out their slate of delegates at the county convention Saturday.
The libertarian-leaning Texas congressman's supporters are trying to win election as delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., in August, libertarian activist Carter Kessler said.
They claim the Clarke County GOP broke its own rules by electing a slate of delegates that excluded Paul supporters over their objections.
The tactic of contesting delegate nominations is part of Paul's longshot strategy to win the Republican nomination despite not winning a single state so far, according to ABC News. His campaign is also "accused of muddying county conventions in Colorado and Iowa last weekend," the network reported Thursday.
The dispute highlights tension between Paul supporters, many of whom are young and newcomers to politics, and veteran Republican activists. State party Chairwoman Sue Everhart referenced similar conflicts in an email to party members Wednesday. Many longtime Republicans didn't show up to county conventions, while many new activists did, she said.
Paul supporters gathered a quorum Sunday and elected a competing slate of delegates, Kessler said.
"We tried to do this the right way," he said. "Like the little tyrants they are, they said 'That's it,' and ran out the door."
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Capital Punishment is a very controversial topic. When discussing this subject we must include several topics in order to fully understand the matter. We must discuss the history, the religious aspect, the moral aspect, the types of capital punishment, the kind of people that receive capital punishment, including there childhood. We begin with the definition and a brief history. Capital punishment is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. The execution of criminals has been used for centuries in almost all societies. In most situations, capital punishment was reserved for treason, murder, and espionage. In other countries, crimes such as rape, incest or adultery were treated with the death penalty. Some historical styles of the death penalties were boiling to death, crucifixion, impalement, stoning, dismemberment, sawing, and slow slicing. In 1820 Britain, many crimes were punishable by death, including shoplifting, stealing cattle, cutting down trees, and petty theft. America was influenced by Britain's use of the death penalty more than any other country. When European settlers came to the new world, they brought their practices, which included capital punishment. The first execution on record, took place in the new colonies of Jamestown. The victim was accused of being a spy for Spain in and sentenced to death in 1612. The laws regarding the death penalty changed from colony to colony. Some colonies sentenced people to death for simply stealing fruit, while others only sentence for more significant crimes. (Sandiford, F 2012).
During Colonial times people started to debate the death penalty. Does the state have the power to take someone's life? Does anyone have that kind of power? Thomas Jefferson attempted to reduce capital punishment in Virginia by introducing a bill to revise death penalty laws. The Bill stated...


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The biologists confirmed the importance of water fluctuation using experimental ponds on UCF's main campus. Willow seedlings and saplings planted on the pond banks grew poorly when the biologists raised the water level and flooded the plants for several months. At the same time, control plants just above the waterline grew over 3 feet tall.
Combined, the two experiments show that the key to controlling willow is allowing water levels to fluctuate in early spring. Seedlings and small saplings cannot survive dry conditions and are easily drowned in wet marshes. Once plants become larger, willows can survive droughts and tolerate floods and are very difficult to eradicate, Fauth said.
Based on the conclusions of the study, the UCF biologists are helping scientists at the water district develop new ways to reduce willow cover and slow down the expansion, Fauth said.
"It's important that these trees be controlled to maintain water quality and availability, conserve wildlife and continue enjoying recreational activities in the river, " Fauth said.
The study may also aid other countries fighting the Carolina willow, including Australia and South Korea where they were introduced for erosion control.
Quintana-Ascencio joined UCF in 2003 after working at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, in San Cristbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. He has a Ph.D. in ecology and evolution from State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has been a guest scholar at institutions around the world including the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, and the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain. He also has earned several fellowships and has published more than 60 articles and book chapters.
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you should be safe. i know that with PNC(my bank) the ATMs time out. cant remember how long it is.
Sooooo since i live in a hole of a town, the water company (which is still city owned for some reason) doesn't accept anything but cash, so I had to go to an ATM today. I did the little transaction deal, got the money, put it in my wallet, and drove away. At the very beginning I selected "no receipt", so I know after giving money, the machine wasn't waiting on a response in regards to that. But anyway, what happens after that? Does the card just hang out in there (it was a debit card, so no one will have my PIN), or would it stay active and someone would be able to get all my money? Does it "time out" and spit the card out/eat it if there isn't a response within a certain amount of time?
I checked on my PC banking, and it shows my transaction as occuring (about 3:30pm), but no other transactions for the day. I first realized my card was missing at about 8pm. (anyone know how long those things lag?)
I already cancelled the card through the bank.
But yeah basically I need to know if I'm screwed for my entire account's worth of money or what...
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you should be safe. i know that with PNC(my bank) the ATMs time out. cant remember how long it is.
Everything is explainable. The seemingly unexplainable is but a result of our insufficient knowledge.- Hans Brewer
as far as I know ATM transactions show up immediately on the online banking account. SO if u see no transactions...that means u must be fine considering that you already cancelled the card by notifying the bank. Basically u don't have to worry about anything apart from the pain of driving to the bank to pick up another one or waiting for a new one to be mailed.
yeahh boyyeeee. THings are better than I thought then. If I only had $6 total, I think I would go swallow a grenade.
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it's my understanding the machines time out and then eat the card... good luck!
I'm embarassed to say that I've done this a few times myself. Anyway the machine times out and eats the card. If the ATM is in a "secure" location, such as in part of a bank you can retrieve the card from the bank for 1 business day after you left the card. Otherwise the card is destroyed.
Once when I was in London (UK) I used an ATM there to get some local cash. Unlike the machines I'm used to in the US it pops the card out after you enter the PIN. I was wondering what was happening when it swallowed the card after about 15-30 seconds. I went ahead with the withdrawal and waited for my card to be returned. Nothing. I went into the bank and they had someone to retrieve the card for me. It was somewhat embarassing to explain to them the differences between the procedures. At least the display could have said "Please remove card" or something of the sort.
I'm confused! Do cash machines in the US give you your money and then give you your card? Over here it's the opposite - you have to take your card back before it will dispense the money.
If you walk off without taking your money though, it takes it back in in 15 seconds or so and recredits your account.
All ATM's that I've been at beep at ya really annoyingly until you retrieve your card. You can't walk away from your card unless you are truly deaf.
Only a moral and virtuous people are capable of freedom; the more corrupt and vicious a people becomes, the more it has need of masters. -- Benjamin Franklin
I have come across three different "card return" procedures for ATM's around here, (Rochester, NY)
1. The machine takes your card into itself, and spits it back out only after all transactions are done. (the most common)
2. Machine takes in card, and spits it back out after you enter pin, then you complete transactions. (fairly common)
3. swipe card, card never enters machine at all. (least common)
and the "timeout" is quick..like 10 seconds or less.
you only have seconds to grab it..
the machine will "eat" it before the car behind you can even get to the machine.


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I don't like labels, and frankly, boxes aren't that high on my list either. However, it seems that people use them all of the time. We love proclaiming what House we're in, or associating ourselves with Dumbledore's Army or SPEW. However, as useful as things like that can be, are they really necessary? Can labels be as dangerous as they are useful?
Lately, there's been a lot of fuss about girl geeks. Some people are saying that many girls are not 'real' geeks, in some ways holding them to a different standard than guys. Huh? When has there ever been a 'right' way to be a geek? I thought all it took was liking something and being passionate about it. There's the rub, though. I look at 'geek' in one way, and the person on the other end of this vast series of tubes might look at in a different way. My mother has always seen 'geek' and 'nerd' as words to be avoided at all costs. Most of my friends see them as a badge of honor. It makes things really sticky when different people can take the exact same word and use it two different ways. There are a couple labels in popular use that I'm actually offended by, that many people see as just fine or positive. I have friends who wince at the use of terms that are just fine to me.
So what's the answer, then? I have no clue. To some extent, labels are useful and necessary. When we're talking about someone, it's difficult to go through all of their characteristics. We need labels, as difficult as they are to deal with. Maybe we should just be aware of what terms we use for people, and be open-minded to learn about new words and new people as we expand our horizons. Hey, if it worked for Sirius, getting him out of the mindset of his family, it can work for us, right?!


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President Rob Schraff convened the meeting at 7:35 PM.
Rob introduced First District LA City Council Member Ed Reyes. Council Member Reyes introduced José Gardea, his chief of staff. The Council Member spoke on the Broadview Solar Array Project which the MWA had voted to support at a previous general membership meeting. Subsequent to the MWA's vote of support for the project, the Council Member introduced a motion, on the floor of the LA City Council, which would delay completion of the Broadview Project and establish parameters for Council overview of all such projects in the City of Los Angeles. The Council member explained the reasons for his introduction of the motion and entertained members' questions regarding the motion.
Rob introduced Fourteenth District LA City Council Member José Huizar. Council Member Huizar thanked MWA member Carol Jacques for her work on the preservation of the David A. Siqueiros mural, "America Tropical," on the side of the Italian Hall, on Olvera Street. He reported on the progress of the 710 Freeway Project. He stated that more work than in recent years is proceeding on the repaving of local streets and added that Elyria Drive is scheduled to be repaved soon. He answered members' questions.
The Nominating Committee reported on their choices of members to serve as officers and directors in calendar year 2011. The membership voted to accept the slate and the new officers and directors were approved on a unanimous vote.
Rob introduced MWA member Carol Jacques, artist Luis Garza, and Autry National Center Executive Director Jonathan Spalding who spoke the Siqueiros Mural on Olvera Street and "Siqueiros: Censorship Defied," the current exhibition, now showing at the Autry Center. The panel responded to members' questions.
- Natalie Seaman on the MWA Holiday Food Collection
- Suzanne Siegel on the upcoming "North by Northeast" art tour sponsored by the Arroyo Arts Collective
- Jerry Schneider regarding the Dec. 11 activity in Elyria Canyon
- Fernando Orozco introduced himself as the new president of the Friends of Mt. Washington School group
- Pilar Buelna, the president of the Mt. Washington School PTA, announced that a new principal had been appointed for the school and that she would begin work on Dec. 6.
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Explosive growth of big data is challenging researchers in genomics and life sciences around the world. Learn about some of the latest solutions, architecture and best practice to 1) acquire, store, access data in scale; 2) build a high-throughput computing infrastructure to process large genomic data set; 3) gain insights and knowledge from the data through translational research. Illustrated through real-life projects and case studies, join this session to learn of the latest approaches to tackle big data, the evolving ecosystem, success stories and lessons learned that highlight the potential for collaboration among genomic research communities. Share in a preview of the upcoming IBM genomics turn-key platform currently under development.
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Upcoming bioinformatics, and biomedical, research requires fast processing and analytic tools due to the immense growth of genomic data added to the biological knowledge base with the advent of next generation sequencing technologies. The design of these tools should adhere efficiently to homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures while supporting scalability, accuracy, and reproducibility. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) for genomics sequence searches is re-designed to scale on hybrid parallel architectures composed of Intel Xeon processors and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, denoted here as Highly Scalable Parallel Hybrid BLAST (HSPH- BLAST). Functionality enhancements, such as cross- compilation, dynamic load scheduling, master-worker model, input/output management, and database distribution are discussed. A performance evaluation of HSPH-BLAST demonstrates reduction in execution time, high scalability, and balanced processor utilization. HSPH-BLAST and similar tools integrated into scientific workflows pipelines can allow biologists to easily perform systematic studies resulting in rapid and high-impact scientific discovery.
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1:55 Comparisons of Storage Efficiencies through Hadoop
Martin Gollery, CEO, Tahoe Informatics
Hadoop is widely used in 'Big-Data' applications, so much so that most modern cluster installations are now installing some version of Hadoop rather than the old style clusters. The focus for many people is the increased speed that is obtained with Hadoop, with scalability that can easily reach into the tens of thousands of nodes. Perhaps less well known are the cost savings that may be achieved with Hadoop storage. This talk will compare and contrast the storage techniques and the costs that are associated with them.
2:25 Rapid Integration of Cancer Genomics Data Using Hadoop and Cloudera's Impala
Sittichoke Saisanit, Ph.D., Data Scientist, Informatics, Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development Informatics, Roche Innovation Center New York
We explored Cloudera Impala for analysis of cancer genomics data. Without data transformation and reformatting, Impala tables can be created quickly from files on Hadoop file system with a simple command. Such speed and flexibility enable us to interrogate data without spending much time on schema design, index creation, query tuning and data cleaning. Impala can be accessed through Spotfire allowing flexibility of data visualization.Authors: Sittichoke Saisanit, Zayed Albertyn, Xing Yang, Padmanabha Udupa
2:55 Accelerating Biomedical Research Discovery: The 100G Internet2 Network – Built and Engineered for the Most Demanding Big Data Science Collaborations
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Genomic & biomedical researchers have been forced to exchange big data via physical drives as advanced network connectivity was previously unavailable or cost prohibitive. Hear how colleagues are improving big data workflows using the 100G Internet2 Network, which provides the highest data transport rates available, along with dynamic cloud and trust applications that are interconnecting research and accelerating discovery.
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Jose L. Alvarez, Principal Engineer, WW Director, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Seagate Cloud and Systems Solutions
The explosion of Genomic data due to new instrument chemistry and more powerful analysis tool sets has created a complex and manual data management problem for high-throughput NGS centers. We will discuss how an intelligent data management solution can address this problem. iRODS (Integrated Rules-Oriented Data System) enables this intelligent data orchestration and can even help with pipeline and workflow automation.
3:25 Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing
4:00 PANEL PRESENTATION/DISCUSSION: ICTBioMed: International Consortium for Technology in Biomedicine
Moderator: Anil Srivastava, President, Open Health Systems Laboratory
Rolf A. Heckemann M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medical Imaging and Image Analysis, MedTech West, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Amit Saxena, Senior Technical Officer, Bioinformatics Group, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
Ken Buetow, Ph.D., Director, Computation & Informatics Core Program, Complex Adaptive Systems, Arizona State University Cezary Mazurek, Ph.D., Director, Network Services Department, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC)
Prof Asoke K Talukder, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, NIT Warangal; Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer, InterpretOmics, Bangalore' Ex DaimlerChrysler Chair Professor, IIIT Bangalore
Open Health Systems Laboratory has brought together several life sciences supercomputing centers to form the International Consortium for Technology in Biomedicine (ICTBioMed). ICTBioMed members have been working together for almost two years to create a shared global cyberinfrastructure as a seamless and friction-free platform for the researchers worldwide for their collaborative research in consistent with the tenets of team science. ICTBioMed leadership team will present in this session both the shared resources and the research use cases that they have been supporting to validate and further develop the value added cloud services. The panelists will speak to a narrative framework of possible science using, what NSF describes, as International Research Network Connection, pursuing the Big Data to Knowledge goals of NIH.
5:00 Beyond Parallel Filesystems: NVMe Storage for Genomics Workflows
James Reaney, Ph.D., Senior Director, Research Markets, SGI
Network-attached storage. Clustered storage. Distributed parallel filesystem storage. Storage infrastructure for genomics workflows has always been about faster, easier, and especially more scalable storage solutions to keep pace with the data tsunami in next-gen sequencing. SGI and Intel present a new concept in storage architecture for these workflows, one with disruptive potential for the marketplace. Not only faster and very scalable, but drop-dead simple to use too.
5:15 The Expanding Face of Meta Data
Steve Worth, Director of Engineering, EMC
Groups maintaining data repositories at the petabyte-scale are discovering that cataloguing associated metadata is necessary to properly access, recall and analyze data. Capturing and maintaining metadata long term is becoming as critical as the data itself. All the more when you consider the rapid cycling of underlying hardware technologies. We will discuss the evolving nature of metadata along with recent advancements and approaches.
5:30 Best of Show Awards Reception in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing
6:30 Close of Day
Thursday, April 23
7:00 am Registration Open
7:00 Breakfast Panel Presentation: Enabling Technology. Leveraging Data. Transforming Personalized Medicine
Moderator: Ketan Paranjape, General Manager Life Sciences, Intel Corp.
Panelists: Sanjay Joshi, CTO, Life Sciences, EMC2 Isilon
Johannes Karten, CTO & Founder, Genalice
Walt Gall, Vice President, Healthcare & Strategic Partnerships, Saffron Technology
Pieter van Rooyen, CEO & President, Edico Genome
Shawn Dolley, Health & Life Science Big Data Expert, Cloudera
The $1000 genome is here, and the fundamental problems have shifted... it is no longer about shrinking the cost of sequencing but the explosive growth of big data: the downstream analytics with rapidly evolving parameters, data sources and formats; the storage, movement and management of massive datasets and workloads, and the challenge of articulating the results and translating the latest findings directly into improving patient outcomes. A panel will discuss these issues and more as we work to achieve the vision of personalized medicine.
10:00 Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall and Poster Competition Winners Announced
10:30 Chairperson's Remarks
Peter Godman, Co-Founder & CEO, Qumulo
10:40 Intelligent Infrastructure Approaches for Emerging Life Sciences Data Management Issues at Scale
George Vacek, Ph.D., Global Business Director, Life Sciences, DataDirect Networks
Dr. Vacek will deliver several in-depth case studies of global leaders HPC applications in Life Science. Case studies will focus on infrastructure approaches to solve the emerging issues of data at scale, including best practices in supporting high performance local workflows, collaborative and research communities, and life sciences clouds and hybrid cloud solutions.
10:55 How Next Generation Scale-Out Storage Fuels Breakthroughs in Life Sciences
Technology advances in DNA sequencing and other research data capture instruments are creating data at an unprecedented rate. As storage footprints grow further into petabyte scale, storage teams increasingly struggle to manage the massive amount of data stored. Next-generation scale-out storage provides instant insight into data at scale, abstracts away the underlying infrastructure, and achieves breakthrough price/performance using intelligent software and commodity hardware.
11:10 Infrastructure, Architecture, and Organization: Data Engineering at Scale at the Broad
Chris Dwan, Assistant Director, Research Computing and Data Services, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
As the Broad Institute enters its second decade, we are adapting to genomic research at a global scale. Among other things, this requires adopting hybrid cloud technologies, moving to object models for data storage, and embracing federated solutions for identity and authorization. The social and organizational aspects of these transitions are at least as challenging as the technical. This talk describes the interplay between the human and technical aspects of these changes, as well as specific lessons learned along the way.
11:40 Start Small, Collaborate Often, Grow Big – Scaling NGS Compute and Storage Solutions for Personalized Medicine
James Lowey, Vice President, Technology, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)
Scaling an NGS IT solution doesn't have to be overwhelming. Collaborating with experienced Clinicians, Researchers, Vendors, and Partners, all using best practices - enables incremental success and effective development for high utilization and impactful results.
11:55 Out of the Trenches and Into the Future: Mixing File and Object Storage Architectures
Patrick Combes, Principal Solution Architect, Life Science & HPC, EMC
Managing genomics and biomedical data across file and object storage architectures currently dominate the conversation within research IT groups. We will share insights and best practices to design and implement on premise, public cloud, and hybrid architectures. These architectures mix file and object approaches to achieve an optimal balance between performance, archive, and data governance & protection requirements.
12:10 pm Session Break
12:20 Luncheon Presentation I: Breaking the $1,000 Genome Sequencing Barrier with Object Storage
Brandon Kruse, Senior Systems Engineer, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Joe Arnold, President and Chief Product Officer, SwiftStack
Peyton McNully, Technology Director, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Andrew Crouse, Ph.D., Intellectual Property and Industry Partnership Manager, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
The next generation of human genome sequencers are a revolution in rapid disease diagnostics and custom gene therapy. In this talk, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology will present how we are using OpenStack Swift as a component in our genomics-as-a-service. The recently purchased Illumnia X Ten's automatically place the institute in the petabyte-scale. OpenStack Swift enables long-term sustainable storage using commodity storage hardware and open source software. The talk will present our deployment and configuration of OpenStack Swift. Specifically, how OpenStack Swift storage policies are configured so that we can offer varying levels of storage durability and availability.
12:50 Luncheon Presentation II (Sponsorship Opportunity Available) or Lunch on Your Own
1:20 Dessert Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing
1:55 Chairperson's Remarks
John M. Conley, J.D., Ph.D., William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Counsel, Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson
Roselie A. Bright, Sc.D., MS, PMP, Program Manager, Office of Information Management and Technology, Office of Informatics Technology and Innovation, Office of Operations, Office of the Commissioner, U.S. Food And Drug Administration (FDA)
OpenFDA was the first innovation created by Taha Kass-Hout, M.D., MS, upon joining FDA as the first Chief Health Information Officer in March 2013. OpenFDA was launched on June 2, 2014, allowing software developers, researchers and the public to tap into adverse events for drugs and medical devices; recalls, for drugs, devices and foods; and labeling for products on the market.
2:30 Global Developments in Privacy and Data Security Law
The international legal climate governing privacy and data security is changing. The European Union is in the midst of a fundamental shift in its approach. The U.S. still lacks a national data law, so the states and individual federal agencies are groping toward a strategy. This presentation focuses on the impact of these ongoing changes on genomics, bioinformatics and health research.
3:00 PANEL DISCUSSION: Achieving Much-Needed Innovation while Hurdling the Barriers of Stringent Regulation
Moderator: John M. Conley, J.D., Ph.D., William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Counsel, Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson
Dana Caulder, Senior Software Engineer, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genentech
Sanjay Joshi, CTO – Life Sciences, Emerging Technologies Division, EMC
Dave Peterson, Executive Director, Vendor & Third Party Assurance, National IT Compliance, Kaiser Permanente Information Technology
Vas Vasiliadis, Director, Products, Computation Institute, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
The growth in patient healthcare and life sciences innovations can be attributed to technology enhancements like cloud computing, big data analytics and mobile applications, but may conflict with increasing regulatory compliance demands to ensure protection of healthcare life and quality as well as patient data privacy and security. This panel of esteemed technology solution providers and regulators debates real-world challenges and how regulation must also innovate at technology's pace.
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Ever since it I found the article "Be lucky – it's an easy skill to learn", courtesy of @JeffreyJDavis via Twitter, I have thought a lot about the studies described and whether real life evidence is consistent with the results. To summarize, this study found that those who self-identify as being "lucky" were far more able to take advantage of opportunities to win money or complete a task more expediently than those considering themselves "unlucky." Thus, this offers more support to the view that you can make your own luck (or fortune favors the brave, or whichever other cliché you wish).
The study probably leaves itself open for challenge. For example, were those identified as "unlucky" maybe just in a bad mood, or did they not bring their "A" game to the study? Nonetheless, the message is clear and consistent with real-life experience. There is little doubt that optimists tend to be luckier than pessimists. I'm fortunate to be way out on the "naïve" end of the optimism spectrum; I'd definitely fall in the "lucky" category.
There have certainly been plenty of positive events in life that have come as a result of taking advantage of opportunities. Take, for instance, meeting my wife, Robyn. We were set up on a blind date for her sorority date party our sophomore year in college. Now, our natural tendencies, as cautious people, would be to say "sorry, too risky." However, neither of us had a particularly stellar dating record to that point. We both, independently, saw it as an opportunity to try something different, with much lower risk given the context of our past failures, and it has been pretty smooth sailing ever since.
Yes, that's just one anecdote, but every time I think about a good job change, for example, I can trace it back to keeping a mind open to opportunities, or putting myself in the right place at the right time. At a minimum, there can be no harm in having an open mind and breaking out of routines and comfort zones, as the article suggests. Certainly, everyone has setbacks in life. Allowing your energy and outlook to be dictated by setbacks rather than opportunities, however, limits your potential for growth and happiness. I, for one, will choose optimism, even if it is, at times, naïve.
As the lyrics from Secret Agent 23 Skidoo's song "Luck" suggest (and yes, I'm referencing a children's hip-hop music artist):
Luck is kind of a funny thing, if you believe it you can have it.
There's no telling what luck can bring, there's no rules, everything is magic.
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Several of the coaches' wives from ASU as well as Kent State attended a painting party Thursday afternoon. The event was held in order to give the women an opportunity to socialize while their husbands were consumed with practice and other bowl prep.
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In his final column as Public Editor of the New York Times, Arthur S. Brisbane concluded that "the paper's many departments … share a kind of political and cultural progressivism … that virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times." But it's certainly not because of any conspiracy, just a meeting of like minds in promoting a worldview that editors and writers share: urbane, worldly, and flexible. Wrote Brisbane:
I … noted two years ago that I had taken up the public editor duties believing "there is no conspiracy" and that The Times' output was too vast and complex to be dictated by any Wizard of Oz-like individual or cabal.
I still believe that, but also see that the hive on Eighth Avenue is powerfully shaped by a culture of like minds — a phenomenon, I believe, that is more easily recognized from without than from within…
As a result, developments like the Occupy movement and gay marriage seem almost to erupt in The Times, over loved and undermanaged, more like causes than news subjects.
Brisbane was the fourth public editor to take on the task of handling complaints about the Times' reporting on various issues and then writing about them every couple of weeks. He is a self-proclaimed Democrat with all the proper liberal credentials: stints at the Kansas City Star and the Washington Post, and the requisite degree from Harvard.
When he arrived on the scene he viewed his role as that of coroner, called in to do autopsies on "flawed new articles that drew complaints." And there were plenty. So many, in fact, that The Times' "believability rating" at Pew Research Center continues to decline, in contrast to that of Fox News. Asked Brisbane: "Can that be good?"
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Baldwinsville I would like to again remind voters of the 13th Legislative District about the accomplishments of Derek Shepard, the endorsed Republican Candidate, and winner of the Republican Primary for county legislator.
Derek has a B.A. from Syracuse University where he is currently a law student with a near perfect GPA. Derek was employed by Park Rose Estates as the executive director, before leaving to pursue his law degree. While Derek was director of this assisted living facility in Onondaga County he oversaw a multi-million dollar budget. Under his leadership Park Rose grew and flourished. It also gave him the ability to understand private industry and work with budgets in a for profit environment.
Derek is a Van Buren Town Councilor and has brought his knowledge of trimming budgets to the town. Derek doesn't just talk about lowering taxes. In his role as town councilor, as well as a fellow property owner and taxpayer, he did just that in 2011 when Van Buren residents saw their taxes decrease by 7 percent. This was in the same year when the town taxpayers had to learn to live with a new sales tax distribution that gave millions of dollars spent by those in Camillus, Elbridge and Van Buren to the City of Syracuse.
Derek understands our issues as property owners, residents and constituents.
Please join me in giving Derek a chance to represent the 13th Legislative District and vote for him on Nov. 8.
Lynn Precourt is a resident of Baldwinsville.
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" Author: Michael Frayn / Format: Paperback / Date of publication: 04 April 2013 / Genre: Modern & Contemporary Fiction / Publisher: Faber & Faber / Title: Skios / ISBN 13: 9780571281459 / ISBN 10: 0571281459 / Alternative EAN: 9780571281411 "
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If you've ever flown to a travel destination, you'll know the people standing at the exit gate holding up placards with the names of the passengers they're to meet and take to their respective resorts. Have you ever felt the urge to approach one of them and claim to be the person whose name they've got on their placard? Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn confesses in an interview that the idea has struck him. "It had been in my mind for a while," says Frayn. "Every time I arrived at an airport and saw the line of people holding up cards, I thought: what would happen if I went up to one of them? How far would I get?" He hasn't done it, however, but used it as the core of a plot for a novel. "I haven't got the courage to do it myself but the nice thing about writing fiction is you've got a lot of assistants who are braver than I am." One of the characteristics of literature is that it allows us to live imaginary parallel lives different from our actual ones.
Oliver Fox, a young Brit - thick blond hair falling into his eye, soft brown eyes that make women melt - has come to the Greek island of Skios to spend a week in a cottage with a woman he's chatted up in a bar in England. The cottage belongs to friends of his on-and-off girlfriend. He and his new conquest are to meet at the airport in Skios. While waiting for his luggage he gets a message from her that she's delayed. He realises that he's forgotten the address of the cottage and sees himself camping in the airport for God knows how long. He's suddenly overcome by nausea. Why is he like this? Why does he always behave like an idiot? Will he ever change? More nausea because he knows that he'll never change. He's sick of himself and yearns for a different life.
Then he sees an attractive young woman holding up a placard with the name of Dr. Norman Wilfred. On the spur of the moment he decides to be this man. He assumes that he's a physician but decides to tread carefully until he's sure of his new identity. By mistake he has grabbed Dr. Wilfred's suitcase at the luggage carousel which has the same kind of name tag as the one he got from his on-and-off girlfriend at home. The waiting woman's behaviour makes it clear that he's someone important.
The real Dr. Norman Wilfred is a renowned scientist, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He's been invited by the Fred Toppler Foundation on Skios to deliver a lecture to a group of people who've gathered there to be enlightened. The aim of the foundation is the advancement of civilisation. Only the best luminaries are invited to lecture, money is no problem. The guests come from all over the world, for the final lecture some even arrive by helicopter (the Greek Orthodox archbishop) and by yacht (a Russian oligarch). Dr. Norman Wilfred has delivered his lecture on many occasions in many countries to many rich people and is quite fed up with the whole circus. What keeps him going is the fact that he's well paid and pampered by whoever invites him and the occasional female guest who wants to know more about the topic.
The story is one of misunderstandings on all fronts as you can imagine. Suspense is created by the question what will happen when the real and the fake Dr. Norman Wilfred will meet. Even more by the question what Oliver Fox will talk about when the great lecture is due on the last night of the annual meeting. After all he knows zilch about the topic. No, that's not correct. He doesn't even know what the topic is! Up to now he's always been able to come up with something when it was required. He often starts talking not knowing where it will lead him and surprises himself with what he does talk about in the end. With this adventure, however, he may have bitten off more than he can chew.
The novel didn't catch my eye in a book shop or on Amazon. It caught my ear when I was listening to Saturday Review on BBC Radio 4 in April 2012. I like listening to this programme and the lively discussions on works of art. Often the opinions are divided. In the case of Skios they were not. There was a lot of giggling and laughing, the participants had obviously all enjoyed the book immensely. I decided at once to read it, and checked it on Amazon. Unfortunately I had forgotten that such groups get hard cover editions for their discussions. I wasn't willing to spend so much money on the book and then also pay overseas postage for it. Although I was convinced of the sincerity of the hilarity of the Saturday Reviewers, a grain of doubt remained if I'd have the same feelings. The idea of spending my hard earned Amazon vouchers on a book I wouldn't enjoy much troubled me. I decided to wait until the paperback edition was out and the price had gone down. When it had reached 87p I struck.
I was happy to read the book at last and I fully agree with the enthusiastic panel of BBC's Saturday Review. The story is a farce. Michael Frayn, a famous playwright of farcical plays, wanted to see if the genre also worked in written form for individual readers. Laughter in a theatre is infectious. Would they also see the fun and be amused when reading alone at home? Obviously, yes. A farce is a comedy characterized by improbable situations and broad satire. In Skios you've got improbable situations galore due to the mix-up of the two characters. As if this weren't enough, Oliver Fox's chat-up girlfriend and the on-and-off one also arrive soon afterwards. Satire is produced by describing the silly behaviour of the guests of the Fred Toppler Foundation who consider themselves an intellectual elite mainly because of the size of their bank account. A shady criminal transaction is thrown in as an extra.
I like it that Frayn doesn't use superfluous descriptions and paddings. He's thought up a crazy plot, crazy characters and describes them matter-of-factly. Seemingly positive remarks are repeated several times until they become silly and turn into the opposite. We're led onto a high intellectual level only to realise that there isn't much below it. Oliver Fox carries the story. He's able to do so because he's got the kind of charm that attracts both men and women. They move him along when he himself doesn't know where he's going. He's a blagger, a show-off, a charmer, a smooth operator, a swindler blessed with the gift of the gab. He could sell ice to the Eskimos. He never gets qualms of conscience because he has no conscience. He wouldn't know how to spell the word. What he does for a living, where the money comes from he needs for his escapades is something we never learn, but it doesn't really matter. There'll always be someone willing to pay for him.
Dr. Norman Wilfred, the elderly, unattractive, cynical scientist, who's lived for years on his one (boring) lecture also understands that something is wrong with him and is also too self-content and lazy to do anything about it. In his outward appearance, education and way of life he's a stark contrast to Oliver Fox. Deep down however, they have something in common.
The guest and the staff as well as two recurring taxi-drivers are flat characters which isn't a bad thing if their flatness is funny.
I'd say that I was at the edge of my seat waiting for the denouement but I read the book in bed. I didn't fall off the mattress when it came, but it was certainly surprising and unforeseen for me. It's a grandiose finale worthy of the Greek setting. I'm sure the Gods responsible for the arts have applauded.


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1) Be friendly. If you don't communicate, people in the room may think you don't have a mic and may be a hinderance.
2) Don't team kill. If you do... apologize. First, to the players that are still alive. Then to the guy/girl you took out.
3)Ask if it is an open room. Sometimes there are clan matches taking place and the teams need to get only their players in the room.
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i think the most important thing is to be friendly.
ppl hate it when you act like a robot.
The key to this game (like any other) is a great friend list.
I would suggest that you do NOT try ranked rooms. If you are a new player you are going to find little tolerance, experienced opponents, team stacking, and the like.
Otherwise join rooms and be respectful like these guys say.
Again, the key is building a great friend list......not random strangers.
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I am new to the online play and do not understand how to choose a game I am welcome in. I have tried to play and have yet to fire a shot before I am kicked out. How do you find a pick up game? Do you have to pre-organize a team to play. Is their a place where solo players can just hook up with a team on the fly? I am a playstation2 console user.. I would really appreciate any help..
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Joe, this is a hard game to start out in, mainly because there are only about 30 players in the world that still play online on the PS2, and we are all very familiar with each other. First, you will need a mic, no one wants mutes on their team. Second, you have to get familiar with people who play (again, you will need a mic). They will say, "Oh he's cool don't kick him" Third, don't be annoying, or scream or play music, they will all get you kicked. If you host, always make sure to put the talk code in during the title screen. (R1 R1 L1 L1 R1 L1) Have fun man, if you see me on, come into my room and say wasup!
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Salvadoran politicians Gerson Martinez and Oscar Santamaria visited Suffolk University in October to discuss the events that brought El Salvador to war in the 1980s.
While the two men belong to opposing political groups, both began their stories with the 1932 government massacre of tens of thousands of anti-government protesters that ushered in four decades of repressive military regimes.
Martinez, a member of the Salvadoran Assembly, belongs to the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), which began as a guerrilla group and continues as an opposition party today. As one of the eight founding members of FMLN, Martinez changed his name to Manuel Orlando Quinteros Aguilar for security purposes.
Santamaría is a member of the incumbent Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party.
They spoke with students, faculty, staff and members of the Boston-area Salvadoran community, describing their experiences during the civil war and their efforts to forge the peace agreement that ended the war in 1992.
The visit was sponsored by the Moakley Institute at Suffolk University. The late Congressman John Joseph "Joe" Moakley led a U.S. investigation into the murders of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter in El Salvador in 1989, uncovering government involvement. The Institute maintains ties with the people and issues of El Salvador in its efforts to preserve his legacy.
Among those attending the discussion were students and faculty who will travel to El Salvador during the spring semester as part of a course on Latin American history.
"The stories touched the students deeply and allowed them to connect faces to the events they are reading about in preparation for our January trip," said Assistant Professor Christopher Rodriguez of the History Department.
Martinez and Santamaria were visiting Boston as part a Salvadoran delegation to the three-day international conference "Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Do They Do Justice to Justice?" at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies at UMass-Boston, co-sponsored by the Moakley Institute.


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