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Bulletin board July 28, 2015 - The Keene Sentinel
The Keene Sentinel
Chess Club, learn the basics of chess or enjoy a challenging game, all levels welcome, 2-4 p.m., Rockingham Free Public Library, Bellows Falls. 802-463-4270, anne@rockinghamlibrary.org. Click Clack ... Author Sy Mongomery, delivering a PowerPoint ...
Persian fantasies and the path to war - Asia Times
Asia Times
Asia Times
It already has sufficient radioactive material for numerous radiological weapons, or “dirty bombs,” that can be delivered by its existing missile force, as John R. Haines of the Foreign Policy Research Institute noted in a July 4 report. Dirty bombs ...
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We can improve our performance in Rio: Anand - Deccan Herald
Deccan Herald
Deccan Herald
Chess ace Viswanathan Anand is one of the very few active sportsperson on board Olympic Gold Quest, powered by legends Prakash Padukone and Geet Sethi. Associated with ... Viren and his team does a lot of research and then take them in. If an athlete ...
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Putin Hurts a Think Tank by Not Banning It - Bloomberg View
Bloomberg View
Bloomberg View
On Monday, the first organization -- the National Endowment for Democracy, which has funded human rights groups and research programs in Russia -- was banned under the "undesirables" law. Former chess champion Garry Kasparov, a fierce anti-Putin ...
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Playing with Words as a Celebration of the Natural World - WCAI
WCAI
WCAI
In fact the urge to play is universal in children – and, as recent scientific research is showing us, it's universal in many other species as well. I always loved playing games, making things up, juggling, playing music, play-acting, and so on. I think ...
Booker Prize winners list: a history of winning authors - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
In the Acknowledgments she credits a squad of three researchers. To have enlisted .... Vernon and Clive have intimations of mortality and make a euthanasia pact; the maestro frets over his Millennial Symphony, which must set the seal on his genius ...
Antiquities Found on Shipwreck That Carried Elgin Marbles - Discovery News
Discovery News
Discovery News
Carried out with the support of the Kytherian Research Group, an Australian foundation, and under the direction of archaeologist Dimitrios Kourkoumelis, the excavation concentrated on a 17 by 17-foot area. Poorly preserved wood fragments, possibly ...
Inside Rand Paul's downward spiral - Politico
Politico
Politico
Those tasked with crafting Paul's schedule say the process is like playing a game of three-dimensional chess. Rather than ... At one point, Stafford talked to Danny Diaz, a hard-charging operative with a knack for digging up opposition research. (Diaz ...
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How to memorise an entire foreign dictionary (and become a Scrabble world ... - Scroll.in
Scroll.in
Scroll.in
In one study in the 1970s, William Chase and Herbert Simon at Carnegie Mellon University had world chess experts recall the configuration of chess pieces on a chessboard. When the chess experts were shown an actual chess positioned board, their recall ...
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Shigeko Kubota, a Creator of Video Sculptures, Dies at 77 - The New York Times - New York Times
New York Times
When the show attracted little attention, she headed off to New York, where she studied at the New School for Social Research and at the art school of the Brooklyn Museum. She was briefly married to the experimental composer David Behrman. In 1968 she ...
REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts
Redlands Daily Facts
Chess club: Redlands Chess Club meets 2 to 5 p.m. every Friday at Redlands Community Senior Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave. Players of all ages are welcome, ..... Anyone interested in genealogy research is welcome to attend. Information: www.yvgs.org; ...
Today's Highlights (July 27) - Corvallis Gazette-Times - Corvallis Gazette Times
Corvallis Gazette Times
Chess night, 7 p.m., Old World Deli, 341 S.W. Second St. Information: 541-753-1005. Five Stones Sangha, 5:30 p.m., Friends Meeting House, ... Fermented foods class, 6 p.m., 4077 S.W. Research Way. Learn how to ferment your favorite foods and beverages ...
Finding Unexpected Joy in Turkey | We Said Go Travel | Jewish Journal - Jewish Journal
Jewish Journal
I have travel with disabilities down to a science - I do my research, rent a car (or drive our own), figure it out, adjust my day. So how could I travel to Turkey, where the buildings are so ancient that accessibility isn't really an option? I saw ...
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Asheville family activities, week of July 27 - Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville Citizen-Times
Asheville Citizen-Times
Asheville Citizen-Times
Pisgah Field School partners with Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute for a night of star gazing. With children's ..... SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHESS CLUB: Meets 2-4 p.m. Thursdays at Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. Players of all levels ...
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Is the AI dream finally becoming a business reality? - Computer Business Review - Computer Business Review
Computer Business Review
In fact a lot of what used to be thought of as AI has left the research lab and is available on various consumer technologies - from the game console to the smartphone and desktop. Skype can translate natural language (NL) conversations ... IBM has ...
Yoko Ono's Auction Market Is Surprisingly Thin - artnet News - artnet News
artnet News
artnet News
A similar white chess set, but on a much larger scale, was featured on the lawn outside the Serpentine Gallery during its 2012 show. The auction record for a work by Yoko ... They also worked with a team of scholars, including Midori Yoshimoto, Clive ...
Zacks: Analysts Give Average Rating of “” to Shanda Interactive Entertainment ... - Dakota Financial News
Dakota Financial News
Shanda Interactive Entertainment (NASDAQ:SNDA) has received an average broker rating score of 0.00 () from the zero analysts that cover the stock, Zacks Investment Research reports. .... online (Internet and wireless value added services (WVAS)) and ...
The Statesman: Going under the knife - The Statesman (press release)
The Statesman (press release)
The Statesman (press release)
Jin learnt the hard way that she should have done more extensive research. She had applied to be part of a ... "I felt like a laboratory test subject that the doctors were practising on, like a chess piece being manipulated," she said. Beijing-based ...
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20 Twitter Feeds for Online Merchants | Practical Ecommerce - Practical Ecommerce
Practical Ecommerce
Practical Ecommerce
Linda Bustos is director of ecommerce research at Elastic Path, an ecommerce platform. Bustos also writes the popular GetElastic blog. Prior to joining Elastic Path, she worked agency-side, specializing in usability and search engine optimization. Her ...
How a U.S. Think Tank Fell for Putin - The Daily Beast - Daily Beast
Daily Beast
Daily Beast
According to Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster, human rights activist, and Daily Beast contributor, Carnegie functions in a role not unfamiliar to students of the Cold War: as a tribune to the West through which Russian intelligence ...
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