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Ilamparthi AR became India’s 90th Grandmaster at the age of 16. NEW DELHI: The year was 2022. The Tamil Nadu Chess Association had organised a camp in Pollachi for the state’s strongest junior players, those who had qualified for the junior nationals. Ilamparthi, then only 13, wasn’t one of them. Yet, clutching his grandfather’s hand, he showed up anyway.“He came with his grandfather just to meet me,” recalls Grandmaster (GM) Shyam Sundar Mohanraj, one of India’s most respected chess coaches, speaking to TimesofIndia.com. “He was very shy, spoke in a respectful slang as they speak in that Pollachi-Coimbatore area.”From No…

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has hit the brakes on a wide‑reaching investigation into how public companies have been using crypto in their treasuries. The reason has nothing to do with the industry itself, but with the government shutdown that forced SEC attorneys and investigators into furlough. The agency was preparing to dig into firms that added Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Solana to their balance sheets and may have seen their stock prices spike shortly after. With most staff out, subpoenas and other enforcement tools have been temporarily shelved. Where All This Started More than 200 public companies had disclosed crypto…

Enjoyed this article? Share it with your friends! Following the shutdown of Stream Finance, researchers in decentralized finance (DeFi) have uncovered large sums tied to its lending and synthetic asset activities. The total amount at risk is estimated to be around $284.9 million, spread across various platforms and tokens.On November 4, a group called Yields and More (YAM) shared findings showing that many DeFi platforms were connected to Stream’s synthetic tokens, including xUSD, xBTC, and xETH. Did you know? Want to get smarter & wealthier with crypto? Subscribe – We publish new crypto explainer videos every week! Best Crypto Analysis…

The Psychology Behind Persisting On Learning “Dead Horses” It is often not that hard to identify a “dead horse” within an organization, whether it is an onboarding system that doesn’t set up new hires for success or a compliance course that has not eliminated workplace errors. However, the distance between recognizing a redundant or outright harmful program, system, or initiative and actually taking measures to address it is often much larger than we think. What causes this resistance to change? What is pushing businesses to continue pouring resources into ventures that are proven to be ineffective? In this article, we…

‘DWTS’ Fans Spot Awkward Moment Between Danielle Fishel & Whitney Leavitt After Shocking EliminationWarning: This story contains spoilers for the Nov. 4 episode of Dancing With the Stars. Carrie Ann Inaba didn’t mean to upset a contestant.  The Dancing With the Stars judge apologized to Danielle Fishel for making a comment about her “tiny” body on Halloween Night while praising her and pro partner Pasha Pashkov’s performance on this week’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame episode.  Before stepping into the ballroom on Nov. 4, Danielle shared that Carrie’s criticism had stuck with her following her Oct. 28 routine on…

On November 30th, on what would have been her 90th birthday, TCM is airing a double feature of two of Diane Ladd’s best performances: 1974’s “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” and 1991’s “Rambling Rose.” Oscar-nominated for both, they are wonderful examples of Ladd’s skill at sketching characters who felt like people you knew. She had a grounded realism to her acting, a performer who looked at the world around her and incorporated those she met into her craft. She was an underrated actress, too rarely mentioned among the greats, but the truth is she was as reliable as anyone in…

I have been doing a Kiss Bootleg Series for years. You get a review every time I add a new one to the collection. Well, after buying 38 Bootleg CDs from John Humphrey’s personal collection, I figured let’s jump right back in and do a whole lot of reviews on the Bootlegs. Oh, if you don’t know who John Humphrey is, you need to know he is a massive Kiss collector. And he is the drummer of the band Seether. John decided to sell off his entire collection…sort of…he kept all the vinyl (like 4,000 of them). He did it…

Daniel Flynn’s recent biography, The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer, sheds an interesting light on the origins of American conservatism. It also provides an account of the unlikely life of a communist organizer turned architect of a conservative political movement.  Flynn found boxes of hitherto unknown correspondence and files that highlight particularly colorful and revealing conversations and relationships within the nascent conservative movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Although “conservative” might be a bit of a misnomer.  Meyer famously wrote In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Credo and single-handedly developed and pushed the idea…

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