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Teacher booted from union for coaching chess - WND.com

Sun, 06/26/2016 - 17:15

WND.com

Teacher booted from union for coaching chess
WND.com
(CBS LOCAL) – He crossed the line – the CPS teachers' one-day strike – out of his love for the classroom. Joseph Ocol stuck with his kids and brought home a chess championship. Tonight, he's expelled from the union and wonders if he'll even have a job.

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Scholarship Winners Have Remarkable Records Of Community Involvement And Public Service - Los Alamos Daily Post

Sun, 06/26/2016 - 09:58

Scholarship Winners Have Remarkable Records Of Community Involvement And Public Service
Los Alamos Daily Post
The nine students chosen to receive Kiwanis scholarships this year are all scholastically outstanding—but Kiwanis looks at more than just grades. All of those chosen have remarkable and extremely varied records of community involvement and public ...

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Western Universities: The Best Indoctrination Money Can Buy - Right Side News

Sun, 06/26/2016 - 07:41

Western Universities: The Best Indoctrination Money Can Buy
Right Side News
In a 2009 study of the funding of strategically important subjects in UK universities, Robin Simcox, then a Research Fellow for the Centre for Social Cohesion, provides detailed tables and longer commentaries on the provision of funds to Arabic and ...

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Western Universities: The Best Indoctrination Money Can Buy - Gatestone Institute

Sun, 06/26/2016 - 04:01

Western Universities: The Best Indoctrination Money Can Buy
Gatestone Institute
In a 2009 study of the funding of strategically important subjects in UK universities, Robin Simcox, then a Research Fellow for the Centre for Social Cohesion, provides detailed tables and longer commentaries on the provision of funds to Arabic and ...

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Daybook: June 26-July 2 - News & Observer

Sat, 06/25/2016 - 10:03

Daybook: June 26-July 2
News & Observer
Global Environmental Health Day is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, in Research Triangle Park. Dr. Mitchell Wolfe, deputy assistant secretary for global affairs at the U.S ...

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Speaking Mirth to Power: An Interview With "Tactical Performer" LM Bogad - Truth-Out

Sat, 06/25/2016 - 08:40

Speaking Mirth to Power: An Interview With "Tactical Performer" LM Bogad
Truth-Out
All of this "serious play" is informed and inspired by constant research into the long history of creative resistance. Bogad at the G-20 .... In the game of political protest, why do progressive activists often behave like amnesiac chess players? Very ...

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Upcoming - Herald and News

Sat, 06/25/2016 - 05:33

Upcoming
Herald and News
Golden Age Club card games at 12:30 p.m. and bingo from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Klamath Basin Senior Citizens Center, 2045 Arthur St. (The new) Klamath Falls Chess Club meeting from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Klamath County Library. For more information, call ...

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Central Oregon Volunteer Search - Bend Bulletin

Sat, 06/25/2016 - 02:12

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 ...

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AI and journalism - Japan Today

Fri, 06/24/2016 - 20:41

AI and journalism
Japan Today
The Nomura Research Institute, a prominent Japanese think tank, published in collaboration with Oxford University a shocking report in December last year. ... In fact, AI has won in such games as Chess, Japanese Shogi and Chinese Go over humans.

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REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts

Fri, 06/24/2016 - 18:35

REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR
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; ...

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Four Geopolitical Consequences of Brexit - The National Interest Online

Fri, 06/24/2016 - 14:59

The National Interest Online

Four Geopolitical Consequences of Brexit
The National Interest Online
... Geography and National Security at the U.S. Naval War College. He is also a nonresidential senior fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. The views expressed here are his own. .... If you were grand strategist used ...

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See the Opening of the Long-Awaited Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center - artnet News

Fri, 06/24/2016 - 12:41

artnet News

See the Opening of the Long-Awaited Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
artnet News
It's official: Athens guidebooks are out of date. This weekend, the city is celebrating the completion of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, a Renzo Piano-designed complex that will soon be home to Greece's National Library and National ...

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Good News at Fred Hutch - Fred Hutch News Service

Fri, 06/24/2016 - 12:08

Fred Hutch News Service

Good News at Fred Hutch
Fred Hutch News Service
Colleagues, friends and family honored Dr. David Maloney as the first recipient of the Leonard and Norma Klorfine Endowed Chair for Clinical Research — created to celebrate an “unsung hero” of medicine. ... enthusiasm for the outdoors — early morning ...

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Data Mining Reveals the Crucial Factors that Determine When People Make Blunders - MIT Technology Review

Fri, 06/24/2016 - 09:26

MIT Technology Review

Data Mining Reveals the Crucial Factors that Determine When People Make Blunders
MIT Technology Review
Their research focuses on a database of 200 million chess games played online between amateurs and another database of around 1 million games played between grand masters. What's interesting about these databases is that the outcome of the game ...

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5 of the most enduring myths about video games answered - South China Morning Post

Fri, 06/24/2016 - 03:04

South China Morning Post

5 of the most enduring myths about video games answered
South China Morning Post
Hundreds of scholars signed an open letter in 2013, when the task force began its work, to protest that media-effects research has well-known methodological issues and that “responsible scholars” may conclude that violent media does not increase ...

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Española's Roybal to match wits with top coaches - Santa Fe New Mexican

Fri, 06/24/2016 - 00:08

Santa Fe New Mexican

Española's Roybal to match wits with top coaches
Santa Fe New Mexican
A little bit of research helped her realize just how prestigious an honor it was just to reach the finalists stage for the high school award. The Española Valley head coach, who took part in the Naismith Hall of Fame's induction ceremony in 2012 ...

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The promised arrival of artificial intelligence - Arkansas Online

Thu, 06/23/2016 - 23:30

The promised arrival of artificial intelligence
Arkansas Online
We have been hearing predictions for decades of a takeover of the world by artificial intelligence. In 1957, Herbert A. Simon predicted that within 10 years a digital computer would be the world's chess champion. That didn't happen until 1996. And ...

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Japanese who created the popular Othello board game dies - Observer-Reporter

Thu, 06/23/2016 - 21:50

Observer-Reporter

Japanese who created the popular Othello board game dies
Observer-Reporter
... suddenly like the magical world of Aladdin's lamp,” was the way Hasegawa described the fun of playing Othello on his blog featured by the association. One appeal of Othello is its simplicity, as many, including children, find it easier to play than ...

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Green Street » Jaylen Brown learned first-hand about NBA intensity during recent one-on-one game with Chicago Bulls ... - WEEI.com

Thu, 06/23/2016 - 21:02

WEEI.com

Green Street » Jaylen Brown learned first-hand about NBA intensity during recent one-on-one game with Chicago Bulls ...
WEEI.com
He's a chess player and very interested in the culture of Boston. “Boston has a great history of education and some great universities like Harvard, MIT,” he said. “I've done my research, so we'll see.” As for transitioning to the NBA game, there's a ...

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Othello board game inventor dies - Bangkok Post

Thu, 06/23/2016 - 20:49

Bangkok Post

Othello board game inventor dies
Bangkok Post
... suddenly like the magical world of Aladdin's lamp,'' was the way Hasegawa described the fun of playing Othello on his blog featured by the association. One appeal of Othello is its simplicity, as many, including children, find it easier to play ...

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