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Under the spell of Nina Simone - Jewish Journal
Jewish Journal
Under the spell of Nina Simone
Jewish Journal
Her camera has tracked inmates living on a former slave plantation turned prison farm, a Jewish fugitive who married a Nazi, the eccentric chess master Bobby Fischer, mothers with mental impairment and, most recently, chanteuse and civil rights ...
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Her camera has tracked inmates living on a former slave plantation turned prison farm, a Jewish fugitive who married a Nazi, the eccentric chess master Bobby Fischer, mothers with mental impairment and, most recently, chanteuse and civil rights ...
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Army awards $5B ITES-3H contract to 17 vendors - C4ISR & Networks
C4ISR & Networks
Army awards $5B ITES-3H contract to 17 vendors
C4ISR & Networks
Thomas Neff, project director for Army Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS), which oversees the ITES programs, last year characterized ITES-3H as "a journey and not a destination" amid the legal wrangling. But in an interview ...
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C4ISR & Networks
Thomas Neff, project director for Army Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS), which oversees the ITES programs, last year characterized ITES-3H as "a journey and not a destination" amid the legal wrangling. But in an interview ...
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Prince George's County community calendar, Feb. 25-March 2, 2016 - Washington Post
Prince George's County community calendar, Feb. 25-March 2, 2016
Washington Post
8:15-10:15 a.m. Patuxent Research Refuge, North Tract, Route 198 between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Route 32, Laurel. ... Chess/checkers club Learn to play or improve skills. at 1 p.m. Hyattsville Library, 6530 Adelphi Rd., Hyattsville.
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Washington Post
8:15-10:15 a.m. Patuxent Research Refuge, North Tract, Route 198 between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Route 32, Laurel. ... Chess/checkers club Learn to play or improve skills. at 1 p.m. Hyattsville Library, 6530 Adelphi Rd., Hyattsville.
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Does Zapping The Brain With Electricity Boost Creativity? KU Researcher Wants To Know - KCUR
KCUR
Does Zapping The Brain With Electricity Boost Creativity? KU Researcher Wants To Know
KCUR
Many boast about improvements in language learning, chess ability or even video game performance. Dr. Lila Chrysikou, an assistant professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Kansas, ... Chrysikou, who was a postdoctoral research fellow at ...
KCUR
Many boast about improvements in language learning, chess ability or even video game performance. Dr. Lila Chrysikou, an assistant professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Kansas, ... Chrysikou, who was a postdoctoral research fellow at ...
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LAH substandard lot debate sent to Planning Commission - Los Altos Town Crier
LAH substandard lot debate sent to Planning Commission
Los Altos Town Crier
Responding to concerns, the council in May directed the Planning Commission and city staff to research potential municipal code amendments. ... “I think Linebarger uses this as a chess game,” said Gary Bultman, a neighbor residing on Kenbar Road.
Los Altos Town Crier
Responding to concerns, the council in May directed the Planning Commission and city staff to research potential municipal code amendments. ... “I think Linebarger uses this as a chess game,” said Gary Bultman, a neighbor residing on Kenbar Road.
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US forces to stay longer in Afghanistan - Asia Times
Asia Times
US forces to stay longer in Afghanistan
Asia Times
Retaining an effective, if not large, military presence in Afghanistan has, therefore, become all the more important for the U.S. since the emergence of Russia as a major player, alongside the U.S., in the Mid-Eastern geo-political chess board. While a ...
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Asia Times
Retaining an effective, if not large, military presence in Afghanistan has, therefore, become all the more important for the U.S. since the emergence of Russia as a major player, alongside the U.S., in the Mid-Eastern geo-political chess board. While a ...
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What's Going On: Feb. 24, 2016 - Terre Haute Tribune Star
What's Going On: Feb. 24, 2016
Terre Haute Tribune Star
Wabash Activity Center events, 300 S. Fifth St.; horse race game, free, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; beading class, 1 to 2 p.m.; pinochle, 6 to 9 p.m.; mah-jongg, $3, $2 members, 6 to 9 p.m.; chess, $2, 6:45 to 9 p.m.; information, 812-232-3245. ... p.m ...
Terre Haute Tribune Star
Wabash Activity Center events, 300 S. Fifth St.; horse race game, free, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; beading class, 1 to 2 p.m.; pinochle, 6 to 9 p.m.; mah-jongg, $3, $2 members, 6 to 9 p.m.; chess, $2, 6:45 to 9 p.m.; information, 812-232-3245. ... p.m ...
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Harvey and McCombs are Bulloch's STARs - Statesboro Herald
Statesboro Herald
Harvey and McCombs are Bulloch's STARs
Statesboro Herald
McCombs taught Harvey in his 11th-grade Advanced Placement environmental science and scientific research class, but is a friend of his parents and first met the young Harvey when he was in elementary school and joined the chess team with McCombs' ...
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Statesboro Herald
McCombs taught Harvey in his 11th-grade Advanced Placement environmental science and scientific research class, but is a friend of his parents and first met the young Harvey when he was in elementary school and joined the chess team with McCombs' ...
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KC schools' fight to win over urban millennials touches questions of equity, race - Kansas City Star
Kansas City Star
KC schools' fight to win over urban millennials touches questions of equity, race
Kansas City Star
“And this millennials group are very research-oriented,” she said. “They go do their homework.” The rising perception of the public ... I see kids enrolling in after-school programs, joining chess clubs. The schools “don't get the positive attention ...
Kansas City Star
“And this millennials group are very research-oriented,” she said. “They go do their homework.” The rising perception of the public ... I see kids enrolling in after-school programs, joining chess clubs. The schools “don't get the positive attention ...
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Athens area events for Wednesday, Feb. 24 - Online Athens
Athens area events for Wednesday, Feb. 24
Online Athens
Chess club: 4 to 5 p.m., Oconee County Library, 1080 Experiment Station Road, Watkinsville. All experience levels (including ... Author visit with Will Harlan: 7 p.m., Athens-Clarke County Library, 2025 Baxter St. Harlan will talk about his book ...
Online Athens
Chess club: 4 to 5 p.m., Oconee County Library, 1080 Experiment Station Road, Watkinsville. All experience levels (including ... Author visit with Will Harlan: 7 p.m., Athens-Clarke County Library, 2025 Baxter St. Harlan will talk about his book ...
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Chiwetel Ejiofor on learning how to shoot a gun for 'Triple 9' - Metro.us
Metro.us
Chiwetel Ejiofor on learning how to shoot a gun for 'Triple 9'
Metro.us
It seems every actor had an interesting research period. The ones playing cops went on wild ride alongs. What was your prep? ... The language of that physicality is like chess. The characters are informed by that physicality, and in a way I think that ...
Metro.us
It seems every actor had an interesting research period. The ones playing cops went on wild ride alongs. What was your prep? ... The language of that physicality is like chess. The characters are informed by that physicality, and in a way I think that ...
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Adam Grant: Want your child to change the world? Then back off. - Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News
Adam Grant: Want your child to change the world? Then back off.
Dallas Morning News
But as they perform in Carnegie Hall and become chess champions, something unexpected happens: Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new. The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies, but rarely compose their own original scores ...
Dallas Morning News
But as they perform in Carnegie Hall and become chess champions, something unexpected happens: Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new. The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies, but rarely compose their own original scores ...
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13 AI researchers reveal the amazing facts that blow their minds - Tech Insider (blog)
Tech Insider (blog)
13 AI researchers reveal the amazing facts that blow their minds
Tech Insider (blog)
There's games like backgammon, poker, and chess. Now computers are [beating humans at] the game of Go. "The game of Go is something that people for a while thought that computers would never be able to do well in. Now computers are able to play.".
Tech Insider (blog)
There's games like backgammon, poker, and chess. Now computers are [beating humans at] the game of Go. "The game of Go is something that people for a while thought that computers would never be able to do well in. Now computers are able to play.".
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Why immigrants are to thank for raising standards in schools - Spectator.co.uk (blog)
Spectator.co.uk (blog)
Why immigrants are to thank for raising standards in schools
Spectator.co.uk (blog)
I used to attend large chess events in London 30 years ago, there was always a disproportionate number of Asian children at the top, naturally higher intellect and pushy parents. ... I think not - a view sustained by the research into selective LEAs ...
Spectator.co.uk (blog)
I used to attend large chess events in London 30 years ago, there was always a disproportionate number of Asian children at the top, naturally higher intellect and pushy parents. ... I think not - a view sustained by the research into selective LEAs ...
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Central Oregon Volunteer Search - Bend Bulletin
Central Oregon Volunteer Search
Bend Bulletin
CHESS FOR SUCCESS seeks volunteers to assist in classroom chess clubs throughout the Bend and Redmond area. Chess experience is not necessary. Volunteers will help take attendance and assist the coach with lessons. Chess clubs meet twice a week ...
Bend Bulletin
CHESS FOR SUCCESS seeks volunteers to assist in classroom chess clubs throughout the Bend and Redmond area. Chess experience is not necessary. Volunteers will help take attendance and assist the coach with lessons. Chess clubs meet twice a week ...
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Kishan S Rana: Shedding old beliefs on Pakistan, China - Business Standard
Kishan S Rana: Shedding old beliefs on Pakistan, China
Business Standard
That means a dispassionate, calculated and continual analysis of own interest, in a dynamic, heterogeneous community of states (mandala), where each action creates counter-currents and cross-eddies. Plan several moves ahead, like a chess grand master, ...
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Google News Business Standard
That means a dispassionate, calculated and continual analysis of own interest, in a dynamic, heterogeneous community of states (mandala), where each action creates counter-currents and cross-eddies. Plan several moves ahead, like a chess grand master, ...
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China Seems To Be Entering Zugzwang: Barclays - ValueWalk
China Seems To Be Entering Zugzwang: Barclays
ValueWalk
22 report titled “Cross Currency Research” that the concept of zugzwang as used in chess effectively highlights Chinese policy makers' choices as they have to make a decision about the country's currency and monetary policy in the next few quarters.
ValueWalk
22 report titled “Cross Currency Research” that the concept of zugzwang as used in chess effectively highlights Chinese policy makers' choices as they have to make a decision about the country's currency and monetary policy in the next few quarters.
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Hedge fund poker game gets tougher - Irish Times
Irish Times
Hedge fund poker game gets tougher
Irish Times
Billionaire investor George Soros once noted that access to European company information was “extremely rudimentary” during his early investing career, so much so that his own “amateurish” research made him a “one-eyed king among the blind”. ... In The ...
Irish Times
Billionaire investor George Soros once noted that access to European company information was “extremely rudimentary” during his early investing career, so much so that his own “amateurish” research made him a “one-eyed king among the blind”. ... In The ...
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China is about to face a tough decision - Daily News
China is about to face a tough decision
Daily News
“In chess, the concept of zugzwang refers to a point in the game where any change in the status quo weakens a player's position,” wrote the pair in a research note released overnight. “The ideal choice would be to not make a move, except that 'pass' is ...
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Daily News
“In chess, the concept of zugzwang refers to a point in the game where any change in the status quo weakens a player's position,” wrote the pair in a research note released overnight. “The ideal choice would be to not make a move, except that 'pass' is ...
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Summary of Michio Kaku's, Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Summary of Michio Kaku's, Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
We are like aliens from outer space who land and view a chess game. It takes a long time to unravel ... calling for synergy of the three. Now computers decipher genes, while DNA research makes possible new computer architecture using organic molecules.
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
We are like aliens from outer space who land and view a chess game. It takes a long time to unravel ... calling for synergy of the three. Now computers decipher genes, while DNA research makes possible new computer architecture using organic molecules.
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