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In Ferguson, Using Chess to Empower Youth - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Ascension has partnered with The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis to provide every elementary school and middle school in the Ferguson-Florissant School District - 20 in total - with a 10-week chess club for its students after school. Each ...
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Village 'renaissance' to begin with better crosswalks - The Chronicle
The Chronicle
The village hired the Turner Miller Group and Lanc and Tully Engineering to research the area. The planner for the project, Kristen O'Donnell, presented the Downtown Streetscape Improvement Plan, which aims to create a pedestrian-oriented area to ...
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Village 'renaissance' to begin with better crosswalks - The Chronicle
The Chronicle
The village hired the Turner Miller Group and Lanc and Tully Engineering to research the area. The planner for the project, Kristen O'Donnell, presented the Downtown Streetscape Improvement Plan, which aims to create a pedestrian-oriented area to ...
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Whatcom View: Closing opportunity gap with unique partnership - The Bellingham Herald
The Bellingham Herald
Students at the school did not have after-school programming opportunities in many areas such as, the arts (music and dance), sports and other team building activities such as, chess and tech clubs. Furthermore, many of the parents could not ...
Indie filmmaker Carmen Marron captures real-life chess triumph of Latino school - NBC2 News
NBC2 News
It is an inspirational film loosely based on a real story of a Latino schoolteacher in Brownsville, Texas, who uses the game of chess to transform Rodriguez's character and his Latino classmates into state champions against enormous hardship ...
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Middle School students play in chess tournament - Garden City News
Garden City News
Kealan Mullally and Alexander Mejía (right), two Garden City Middle School students who played in the Nassau Scholastic Chess Tournament in Mineola on September 21st. This was the first night of the two night tournament that will conclude Sept 28 at ...
'99 Homes' Hits Market As Big Names Do Smaller Films: Specialty Preview - Deadline
Deadline
Deadline
“Andrew Garfield embedded himself with a family for two weeks ahead of the shoot, which was both for support and research [for the role],” said Reid. “[Ahead of the release] he's been doing a number of talk shows including Jimmy Kimmel, Good Morning ...
'Dr. Mütter's Marvels' author returns to Brooklyn for book talk - Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Illustrated with numerous original artwork and portraits of the women by such luminaries as Marcel Dzama, Marilyn Manson, David Lynch and Tamblyn's own father, actor Russ Tamblyn, The Guardian called “Dark Sparkler” “a haunting and extraordinarily ...
Naikon APT Group Tied to China's PLA Unit 78020 - Threatpost
Threatpost
Threatpost
The report is just the latest chess piece hovering over Jinping's U.S. visit this week, which began in earnest yesterday with a visit to Seattle and meetings with giant technology firms such as Microsoft, Apple and Google, among others. ... The ...
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Putin's Chess Game in Syria Again Forces Obama to Recalculate - Bloomberg
Bloomberg
Bloomberg
“This is chess, this is calculated” to make the U.S. and Europe take notice, said Matthew Rojansky, director of the Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, a research center that focuses on Russia and other former Soviet states. “This is ...
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The only child: Perceptions don't have much to do with reality - The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times
The Pew Research Center reports that the average size of an American family has been shrinking, from 3.7 children in 1960 to 1.9 today. Seattle is ahead of that curve: the average size of a Seattle family, including parents, is 2.87 people, one of the ...
Indian American Chess Whiz Akshat Chandra from NJ wins the US Junior Chess ... - The Indian Panorama
The Indian Panorama
The Indian Panorama
The nine-round tournament was held at the prestigious Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis from July 6 to July 15. The tense race for first place remained undecided until the final round when International Master Akshat Chandra emerged ...
Village 'renaissance' to begin with better crosswalks - The Chronicle
The Chronicle
The village hired the Turner Miller Group and Lanc and Tully Engineering to research the area. The planner for the project, Kristen O'Donnell, presented the Downtown Streetscape Improvement Plan, which aims to create a pedestrian-oriented area to ...
Cuts, Delays And Propaganda: China's Media Reverts To Old Ways To Cover Xi ... - International Business Times
International Business Times
International Business Times
CCTV's other main report in its bulletin was not about Xi's other meetings, but focused on his wife Peng Liyuan -- who is popular among ordinary people in China, and is seen as softening Xi's austere image -- showing her visiting a cancer and HIV ...
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A Craven Diary - Craven Herald
Craven Herald
ONE of my colleague's lamentable knowledge of the United States was exposed recently when he wrote a piece about the Appletreewick-Skyreholme International Chess Tournament. Victorious for the second year running was USA resident Jon Crumiller.
America's Most Admired Lawbreaker - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
On February 21, 2012, five weeks after Johnson & Johnson paid $158 million to Texas and made Allen Jones a multimillionaire, the company announced that the board had appointed Alex Gorsky to succeed William Weldon as the new chief executive officer.
E-sports come 'out of the basement' - Chicago Daily Herald
Chicago Daily Herald
The total gaming market is expected to grow to $74.2 billion this year, according to SuperData Research. One piece of that market,e-sport ... It's like chess but much faster and much more interesting to watch," Yu said. The players are beginning their ...
The seven wonders of the Cleveland Public Library - freshwatercleveland
freshwatercleveland
freshwatercleveland
On your way to the chess collection, you might pass the display of a decade's worth of playbills from the Cleveland Play House, currently celebrating its 100th anniversary. The library is also celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of ...
IBM needs new Watson to be more than a marketing stunt - San Francisco Chronicle (subscription)
San Francisco Chronicle (subscription)
San Francisco Chronicle (subscription)
Those numbers don't bode well, especially at a company that likes to brag about spending $6 billion a year on research and development. But there is a bright spot: Revenue from business analytics — finding insights by crunching large amounts of data ...
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On Chess: St. Louis players raise money for ALS research - St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis held its annual ALS Benefit Tournament last weekend to commemorate the life of Waldo Odak, a well-known member of the Chess Club. The entry fee and donations went to the St. Louis Regional Chapter ...