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Russia's "Nudge" Propaganda - New Eastern Europe
New Eastern Europe
And, to undermine the metaphor of how chess is actually played, it also policed the edge of the board and determined who could actually play. Thus .... Research in the Baltic states has shown how Russia has moved from a "modern" to a "post-modern" phase.
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OPINION: If jobs are replaced by technology, what replaces jobs? - Eyewitness News
Eyewitness News
Eyewitness News
These words come from Craig Mundie, former head of research at Microsoft, speaking at the Ambrosetti Forum in the palatial surroundings of the Villa d'Este Hotel on Italy's Lake Garda last weekend. It's an artful phrase, the geopolitics of technology ...
Clubs & Meetings: Week of Sept. 14 - The Daily Courier
The Daily Courier
Drop-in Chess 2 p.m. Saturday at Prescott Public Library, 215 E. Goodwin St. 928-777-1526. Drumming Circle, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays on the square, downtown Prescott. Dawn Gilbreath Whitehawk, 928-830-9482 ... Marty, 928-227-2069 or Helen, 928-710 ...
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How expectations and stereotypes determine outcomes - Daily News & Analysis
Daily News & Analysis
Daily News & Analysis
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. —Michael Jordan. The other day there was a rather interesting debate on labels and how we human beings began to label everything and everyone ...
Fuhu unveils giant Big Tab tablets for kids, family game playing - Daily Democrat
Daily Democrat
The tablet will come with about a dozen board-style games, including Candyland, for "family game night" as well as about 20 games, such as chess and air hockey, that are designed for two players. Videos and books drive "family movie night" and "story ...
Social Engineering 101, How to Make a Refugee Crisis: Destruction of All ... - Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
While the social engineers are engaged in a game of three-dimensional chess, the Western public appears to be infantilely eating their checkers. Considering this unfortunate reality, whatever justifications the West is able to predicate upon the ...
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Steven Knight Talks 'Pawn Sacrifice', 'World War Z 2', 'Taboo' and More - Collider.com
Collider.com
Tobey Maguire stars as the gifted, yet troubled chess- prodigy Bobby Fischer who takes part in “The Match of the Century,” the 1972 World Chess Championship match between Fisher and the USSR champ, Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber). While it's hard to ...
Big Data and Market Research Myths and Missteps - Data Informed
Data Informed
Data Informed
In theory and in practice, market research and big data have been handled as separate commodities that address different sales and marketing needs. But as technology evolves, market research and big data are at a turning point that, ultimately, will ...
Enice spurns Chinese market volatility for ASX listing - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
Dr Yu is travelling to Melbourne and Sydney to complete a roadshow in a bid to secure a minimum of $25 million in CHESS Depositary Interests (CDIs). The CDIs are being offered at 40¢ each. Upon listing, slated for October 12, the company expects to ...
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Chess notes - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
19, Boylston Chess Club, 40 Norris St., Cambridge, www.BoylstonChessClub.org; Spiegel Cup (Scholastic) Series Waltham Papa Gino's Chess Tournament, Sept. 20, Papa Gino's Waltham, 1018 Lexington St., contact: MatthewGosselin24@yahoo.com or ...
The Neuroscience of Immortality - New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
To avoid missing any of the densely packed pathways that may encode a memory of, say, how your grandmother's chocolate cake smelled emerging from the oven, researchers must carve a single cubic millimeter of brain into some 30,000 slices — and a human ...
The Interview: Jane McGonigal on how video games can heal - Macleans.ca
Macleans.ca
Macleans.ca
Her game of “power-ups,” quests and bad guys proved so effective, she created the digital version, SuperBetter, a therapeutic and research tool played by almost 500,000 people. Her new book of the same name explains the science behind the health, ...
Is Playing Billiards Halal? - Onislam.net
Onislam.net
Onislam.net
Yes, for those great men, the hours of the day were not enough for research, study and serious work; they used to sleep and eat less so that they would not be wasting time. Now, we see the youth, unfortunately, wasting the best years of their life with ...
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China spending heavily to stir economic growth - Arkansas Online
Arkansas Online
Arkansas Online
“Beijing has turned on the taps, lifting spending on everything from infrastructure to public services,” said Frederic Neumann, co-head of Asian economic research at HSBC Holdings in Hong Kong. The nation's authorities “cannot be accused of sitting ...
Full Text: Li Keqiang's speech at Summer Davos opening ceremonyXinhua
China's 'new normal' growth model is starting to get expensiveMoneyweb.co.za
Li Keqiang's speech at Summer Davos opening ceremony -- full text (2)GlobalPost
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China spending heavily to stir economic growth - Arkansas Online
Arkansas Online
Arkansas Online
“Beijing has turned on the taps, lifting spending on everything from infrastructure to public services,” said Frederic Neumann, co-head of Asian economic research at HSBC Holdings in Hong Kong. The nation's authorities “cannot be accused of sitting ...
Full Text: Li Keqiang's speech at Summer Davos opening ceremonyXinhua
China's 'new normal' growth model is starting to get expensiveMoneyweb.co.za
Li Keqiang's speech at Summer Davos opening ceremony -- full text (2)GlobalPost
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Survival guide to a weekend of sport: Acrobatics, wine and doggies bring life ... - Irish Independent
Irish Independent
Irish Independent
A screening of Disney classic 'Lady and the Tramp' will be shown later in the evening. Back in Waterford, guitarist with The National Bryce Dessner launched Canadian artist Marcel Dzama's latest exhibition Une Danse Des Bouffons in Lismore's St ...
A Game of Pawns During the Time of the Cold War - The New Indian Express
The New Indian Express
The New Indian Express
Vishwanathan Anand, India's first ever grandmaster, hosted a screening of Pawn Sacrifice on Thursday. Close to 100 chess enthusiasts, including children and grandmasters, attended the screening of the biographical movie on the legendary American ...
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REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts
Redlands Daily Facts
At today's meeting, John Gascoligne will talk about how and where to research early California pioneers. ..... 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 ...
Does the Broken Windows Theory Justify Heavy Policing of Minor Crimes? - Pacific Standard
Pacific Standard
Pacific Standard
Before Eric Garner's death, I had never heard of Tompkinsville, the Staten Island neighborhood where Garner regularly hung out, near the busy intersection of Victory Boulevard and Bay Street. This was Garner's spot. He played checkers and chess there, ...
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The Cold War and the soul of Soviet hockey - Acton Institute (blog)
Acton Institute (blog)
He looked to things like chess and ballet for inspiration and applied the lessons learned in these other contexts to hockey. Hockey, for .... Jordan J. Ballor is a research fellow at the Acton Institute and executive editor of the Journal of Markets ...