"It is easier to look for a friend's face in a sports stadium filled with 100, 000 people than to search for a Higgs-like event among trillions of collisions, " said Luciano Ristori, a physicist at the U.S. facility.
Mild-mannered and self-effacing, Mr. Liodice transformed the annual conference from a cocktail-and-golf boondoggle cliche into a marketing TED-like event, with an inspiring and energetically relevant agenda, where the focus is on learning and useful dialogue (laced with networking, entertainment, and of course, a bit of cocktails and golf).
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It trolls the Web for content that looks like an event and plucks data about goings-on from Ticketmaster, Opentable and other databases.
You will hear some freaking out but I think this game will wind up being like every event that's preceded by a public freakout: It will be more relaxed than everyone expects.
One of the big paradigm shifts is that the IOC and world golf community would like the event to be played on a public course, something Brazil has very few of, and none are very good, meaning they would have to build a new one.
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Nearly a century later, the list of residents of the enclave, comprised of postage stamp-sized lots packed with large houses, still reads like a red carpet event, with celebs like Tom Hanks and Jason Statham shelling out millions to live there.
There are a lot of things that come together in an event like this.
Thirteen percent delayed a life event like buying a house, and 7% delayed retirement.
Whenever there is a major live event like the Oscars, Internet traffic goes up.
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"It is unfortunate it's taken an event like this for it to change", he said.
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Many beginning investors see an event like the 2008 credit crisis and get spooked.
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"There are multiple systems to protect against a battery event like this, " she said.
Guildford Borough Council said it hoped the new festival would remain a "family focused" event like Guilfest.
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According to Meiser-Stedman, it's important to stress that an event like this is out of the ordinary.
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He did not read the standard canned speech that is so common at an event like this.
Jewelry in the Space Age, looked human but you can never be sure with an event like this.
This begs the question of the value that countries get for hosting a global event like the Olympics?
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The Iron Bowl between the University of Alabama and Auburn ignites passion in Alabama like no other event.
That makes the energy network a lot more susceptible to clogging and disruption when an event like Sandy hits.
At the same time, it seems like something that never happened, like a distant event borrowed from someone else.
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There was a camaraderie, it was like a social event with a purpose.
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If anything, an event like Sandy should help us to have a more realistic understanding of the threats we face.
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It could be easy to dismiss an event like this as mere competition, but these games are more important than that.
An event like this is where she will gain that all-important experience that will help her step up to greater things.
"An event like this means giving back to the community, " Brown said.
To respond to an event like this requires an abstraction of the application from the power and cooling infrastructure and the building itself.
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