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Farm tractors used to play massive game of chess | WPXI - WPXI Pittsburgh
WPXI Pittsburgh
WPXI Pittsburgh
HINOJOSA, SPAIN - A small town in Spain was the scene of a chess game played in a farm field, using tractors as chess pieces. 32 tractors took their positions ...
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St. Louis Fashion Fund To Announce Inaugural Design Class - CBS Local
CBS Local
CBS Local
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – The St. Louis Fashion Fund, a nonprofit working to revive the city's fashion scene, will announce the six winners of their inaugural class of designers for their fashion incubator this Wednesday. St. Louis Fashion Fund's board chair ...
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Mirror Trades and Tax Tricks - Bloomberg
Bloomberg
(Amazon "said that the IP was perishable given the high failure rate of tech companies," and argued that U.S. authorities "had drastically underestimated the amount of research and development costs that should be attributed to" its Luxembourg ...
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The Dismal State Of The World Economy In 4 Charts And A Table - Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha
Some of you will remember when Deep Blue beat the world's best chess player, Gary Kasparov, in 1997. (Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) AlphaGo beat the world's ... Monsanto also produces vegetable seeds and spends over USD181 million per year in ...
Moving from primary to secondary school: a parent's survival guide - Irish Times
Irish Times
Irish Times
Research shows that, in the hiatus caused by the move from primary to secondary school, “a high proportion of kids suffer educational progress deficit – something about the transfer from one set of educational parameters to another causes them to dip ...
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Why Do We Judge Parents For Putting Kids At Perceived — But Unreal — Risk? - NPR
NPR
NPR
In a conversation by e-mail, the paper's authors (developmental psychologists Ashley Thomas and Barbara Sarnecka, and philosopher Kyle Stanford, all of the University of California-Irvine) were kind enough to answer a few questions about their research ...
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Community calendar from August 22 - Troy Record
Troy Record
This is a workshop/presentation on how to us the “FAN” (Friends-Associates-Neighbors) and alternative resources to get to the next stage in your family history research. Pamela Vittorio demos strategies and tips for using major websites but also ...
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At the Library: Summer at the library is research time - The Westerly Sun
The Westerly Sun
THURSDAY — 2-4:30 p.m., Teen Anime – we'll be watching anime, sketching characters, and eating Ramen and Pocky; 6 p.m., Chess Club—open to all ages and experience levels. We provide chess sets and roll up boards. SATURDAY — 10-11:30 a.m., ...
How IBM Is Building A Business Around Watson - Forbes
Forbes
Forbes
Paul Horn, then director of IBM Research, had been bugging Lickel to come up with an idea for the company's next “grand challenge,” Big Blue's tradition of tackling incredibly tough problems just to see if they can be solved. The last one drew wide ...
I Am Setsuna - Daily Star
Daily Star
Daily Star
Well, this isn't chess after all. When a characters ATB gauge is filled, you'll be able to choose their next attack. Hold fire and wait for a second companion to be ready to go and you can combine attacks for extra damage. I Am Setsuna has an extra ...
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Jeffery Xiong: World Junior Champion - Chessbase News
It was a dominating performance from the American, as he secured his tournament win with a round to spare. Jeffery Xiong (pictured with his father) becomes the ...
11 things to do over the Bank Holiday weekend - Grimsby Telegraph
Grimsby Telegraph
All in aid of Cancer Research UK, the event is being organised by Zoe Metcalfe of Fairs and Events. The two-day event of laughter and fun is on Saturday evening August ... The Charity Fun Day on Sunday, August 28, starts at 11am. Tickets are £8 pre ...
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Community calendar from August 21 - Troy Record
Troy Record
This is a workshop/presentation on how to us the “FAN” (Friends-Associates-Neighbors) and alternative resources to get to the next stage in your family history research. Pamela Vittorio demos strategies and tips for using major websites but also ...
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'MMA is more of a game of chess than a sport for brutes - and regulated properly, it's extremely safe' - thejournal.ie
thejournal.ie
thejournal.ie
I don't expect many other people to progress to the level that I did to educate themselves on MMA, but I would recommend some form of research before they write MMA off as 'barbaric'. The incredible men and women who make it their lives deserve that, ...
Chess notes - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
I was very fortunate to finally be able to finally make my pilgrimage to the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis to see what all the fuss was about in person. I was able to watch the fifth round of the Sinquefield Cup, and I was given a ...
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Chess notes - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
I was able to watch the fifth round of the Sinquefield Cup, and I was given a tour of the facility and also the World Chess Hall of Fame right across the street. I can honestly say that I have never been in such a nice place to play chess. There is ...
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Chess notes - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
I was very fortunate to finally be able to finally make my pilgrimage to the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis to see what all the fuss was about in person. I was able to watch the fifth round of the Sinquefield Cup, and I was given a ...
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Tuxedo junction at Detroit Zoo: Dazzling penguin habitat delights visitors - Kankakee Daily Journal
Kankakee Daily Journal
Kankakee Daily Journal
He visited Antarctica several times with teams of animal specialists, exhibit designers and architects to research penguins and plan the 33,000-square-foot facility. The naturalistic habitat facilitates penguin-in-the-wild ... to global climate change ...
After fire, Horse and Hunt Club bigger, better - TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
There have been more injuries in the chess club than there has been in high school trap,” Travalia said. In addition to trap leagues, the Horse and Hunt Club hosts approximately 150 fundraisers or corporate events for causes such cancer research ...
Rajiv Gandhi University zonal chess tournament held at Fr Muller College - Daijiworld.com
Daijiworld.com
Derik was chess arbiter for the tournament. Dean Dr Jayaprakash Alva and Dharmendra the convener for Mysuru zone were present during the function. In boys section, A J Institute of Medical Science and Research bagged the first prize while Father Muller ...