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DC cultural and community events calendar - Washington Post
Washington Post
Learn to play chess For all ages and experience levels.Thursdays and Tuesdays at 6 .... Look at bananas, cacao and coffee ripening on the tree or learn about the next breakthrough in medical plant research. Fridays, Mondays and Wednesdays at noon and ...
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, from ... Anyone interested in genealogy research is welcome to attend. Information: www.yvgs.org; ...
Get Out calendar for Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Zabinski will share photographs of the “photogenic” mycorrhizae she studies and discuss reasons why research about what's happening between plants, fungi and bacteria is important to Montana for agriculture, invasive species management, and remediation ...
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Webster U chess team's got game – and a grandmaster coach - St. Louis Jewish Light
St. Louis Jewish Light
St. Louis Jewish Light
Shannon Bailey, chief curator of the hall, said Polgar's presence in St. Louis adds to the city's prestige as a chess capital. “St. Louis has moved to the top of the chess world quickly, and Susan has helped make that possible,” Bailey said. “She and ...
Webster U chess team's got game – and a grandmaster coach - St. Louis Jewish Light
St. Louis Jewish Light
St. Louis Jewish Light
The World Chess Hall of Fame's inductees are names familiar even to people who are not chess fans. They include Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov. Some of Polgar's trophies have been displayed in the Hall of Fame. Shannon Bailey, chief ...
Webster U chess team's got game – and a grandmaster coach - St. Louis Jewish Light
St. Louis Jewish Light
St. Louis Jewish Light
Chess Grandmaster Susan Polgar (third from right) stands with members of the Webster University chess team after it won its fourth straight Final Four victory, making it the No. 1-ranked team in the nation. Polgar, who is Jewish, has won multiple U.S ...
Community Calendar - The Marysville Advocate
The Marysville Advocate
The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance walk-in service in Marysville will be offered in the Helvering Community Center's community room on Wednesdays through April 13. Hours are 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. Call 785-629-8300 to make an appointment at ...
Ladd Community Consolidated School - Bureau County Republican
Bureau County Republican
The Scholastic Bowl team placed third in the BVEC Tournament. • The district hosted the BVEC Speech Contest on Feb. 24. Ladd received 10 first places and four second places. • Nine Ladd students participated in the IESA State Chess Tournament at the ...
Chess players represent Hancock County at state championship - The Ellsworth American
The Ellsworth American
The Ellsworth American
ELLSWORTH — Several Hancock County chess players placed at the Maine Scholastic championships in March. More than 250 K-12 players turned out for the Maine Scholastic team championship on March 12 as well as the Maine Scholastic individual ...
What's Coming April 7 to April 20 - Lewisboro Ledger
Lewisboro Ledger
The following events are from Lewisboro and Katonah as well as the surrounding region. Admission is free and programs do not require registration unless specified. Send submissions to The Ledger at editor@lewisboroledger.com or call 763-8821, ext. 127.
How a 28-year-old turned a hobby he picked up as a teenager into a business that earns over $200000 a month - Business Insider
Business Insider
Business Insider
"I was 17 or so when I first learned Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and I really fell in love with the 'chess game' aspect of the martial art," Faggella says. When his teacher's studio closed, he used the money he'd earned from teaching private lessons and ...
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Bed Bugs Are Back, With A Vengeance - New Haven Independent
New Haven Independent
With new research, scientists are uncovering evidence that suggests two human populations overlapped living areas nearly 400,000 years ago across Europe and Asia. ... The human-bed bug relationship is like a chess game of survival. With every move we ...
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Prince George's County community calendar, April 7-13, 2016 - Washington Post
Washington Post
Chess club Learn to play or improve skills. 7 p.m. South Bowie Library, 15301 Hall Rd., Bowie. .... Maryland room open house Explore the research room to search genealogy and local history. 5:30 p.m. Hyattsville Library, 6530 Adelphi Rd., Hyattsville.
Method without Methodology: Data and the Digital Humanities - E-Flux
E-Flux
E-Flux
The researchers created their data set by selecting selfies generated by Instagram users in five cities across the globe—Bangkok, Berlin, Moscow, New York, and São Paulo—with 640 selfies from each. (A recent installation of the project this winter ...
County jail's HVAC overhaul budgeted for $1.7 million - Jacksonville Daily News
Jacksonville Daily News
Doyle said she “can't really assess the situation to say who's to blame,” but her research did not indicate the HVAC units are too small. The project anticipates $150,000 for professional services, $50,000 for professional-services financing ... The ...
Investing In Farmland: REITs, Stocks And Partnerships - Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha
The way to do so would be first to research the market and look for the regions of the country and type of land that offer the best potential investment returns. Land in the Midwest tends to be fully or even overpriced, so the bargains are found ...
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MIT Can Now 3-D Print Robots Made of Both Solids and Liquids - WIRED
WIRED
WIRED
Fortunately, the research team, led by lab director Daniela Rus and postdoctoral associate Robert MacCurdy, has one. ... Eventually, Rus says, the hope is that a process like this enables robots that can do anything from measuring radon to playing chess.
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Google's AI Beat a Go Champion by Mimicking Human Intuition - DesignNews
DesignNews
By having the system watch 150,000 games of Go, then repeatedly play itself, DeepMind researchers built a valuation system that combines search-and-optimization (used by the famous Deep Blue AI) along with a neural network capable of very accurately ...
Tooting Market trader looking for right buyer for Henry Moore chess set — if they can muster £3million - South West Londoner
South West Londoner
Ernest has carried out extensive research into the chess set, but so far has not been able to confirm that it is indeed a collaboration between Moore, Armitage and Chadwick, since no signatures appear anywhere on the pieces. However, as their proud ...
Central West End Hosts US Chess Championships - Webster Kirkwood Times
Webster Kirkwood Times
Webster Kirkwood Times
"The U.S. Championship is one of the few national championships that attract some of the top players in the world and is actually followed around the world," said Tony Rich, executive director of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis ...