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HYDERABAD: Telangana chess prodigy Raja Rithvik secured the silver medal at the Laplagne International Chess Championship held in France on Saturday with a score of seven points out of nine rounds.

Hailing from Manthani, Peddapalli, the 20-year-old remained undefeated throughout the tournament, winning in five games and drawing four against 184 players representing 22 countries. With a live FIDE rating of 2,511, Rithvik stands globally in the 778th position and 41st in India. He is Indias 70th Grandmaster.

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GM Moussard Jules of France claimed the championship title with 7.5 points, exceeding Rithviks score by half a point. Another Indian player, GM Iniyan Panneerselvam, secured the bronze medal with seven points. The final round game between Jules and Rithvik concluded in a draw after 28 moves.

Currently pursuing engineering at KL University in Hyderabad, Rithvik trains under the guidance of renowned coach N Rama Raju at the RACE Chess Academy. Coach Raju has played a significant role in the development of world no. 4 Arjun Erigaisi and Grandmaster Dronavalli Harika from 2016 to 2019.

Additionally, Rithvik is also receiving online coaching from Ukraines Alexander Goloshchapov, a renowned coach credited with helping 10 Indians achieve Grandmaster status.

President of the Telangana State Chess Association KS Prasad extended his congratulations to Rithvik for his outstanding achievement.

Earlier this year in March, Rithvik had already showcased his talent by winning a silver medal in the National Blitz Championship and a bronze medal in the National Rapid Championship.

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Chennai: Indian chess Grandmaster (GM) and the challenger for the world title D Gukesh will be part of the countrys team that will compete in the upcoming Olympiad to be held in Budapest, Hungary, said the official of All India Chess Federation (AICF).

In the womens section, GM Koneru Humpy will not be playing for the country this time around owing to some personal reasons, a senior official added.

The players for two teams Open and Women- have been selected for the chess Olympiad. The teams have been registered on the FIDE portal, AICF president Nitin Narang told IANS.

Discussions are on with a foreign coach to hold a pre-event camp, GM Abhijit Kunte, chief coach and chairman, selection committee, AICF told IANS.

According to Narang, the camp is scheduled for August end and coaches and exact date will be finalised soon.

Interestingly, the Indian Open team consists of three players who are in the top 10 clubs in the chess world in terms of ratings.

Kunte said, The team for the Open category would comprise of GMs Arjun Erigaisi (World No.4 Rating 2778), Gukesh (Rank 7, Rating 2763), R Praggnanandhaa (Rank 8, Rating 2757), Vidit Santhosh Gujrathi (Rank 22, Rating 2720) and the reserve P Harikrishna (Rank 37, Rating 2695).

Former World Champion GM V Anand (Rank 11, Rating 2751) will not be playing for the country.

The Indian Womens team for the chess Olympiad will be GM D.Harika (Rank 11, Rating 2491), GM R Vaishali (Rank 14, Rating 2488), International Master (IM) and Woman GM (WGM) Divya Deshmukh (Rank 20, Rating 2464), IM and WGM Vantika Agarwal (Rank 63, Rating 2390) and the reserve player IM and WGM Tania Sachdev (Rank 66, Rating 2386), Kunte added.

According to Kunte, each team will have a non-playing captain, two coaches and their names are to be finalised.

The AICF will also permit a players personal coach as part of the contingent on no cost basis.

Interestingly, Gukeshs games will be keenly watched by the world champion Chinas GM Ding Liren as the both will be fighting for the world title this year in Singapore.

Narang said necessary steps for getting the Indian governments permission and the grants are initiated.

We are hopeful that in continuation with last years performances, the Indian team will perform well and win medals. AICF will provide all possible support to the teams, including three member coaching teams including non playing captain for each men and women team, who will assist the team, Narang added. IANS

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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has come under fire over a new controversial subject he waded into recently. As an outspoken nerd, one of the commenters on his post about COVID-19 has advised him to stick to core blockchain subjects.

The conversation started when the Ethereum innovator posted a photo of him on X with a special face mask. He said while the world needs to do more to clean up indoor air, he gave a thumbs up to a face mask innovator Zhou Liangs Mask.

The face mask essentially measures C02 in the immediate surroundings. It is also designed to protect the user from inhaling the bad air in the environment. It also helps detect the COVID-19 variants in atmosphere which to Buterin has continued to evolve. Despite the positive intention from Vitalik Buterin, he got canceled out by the community.

One user asked how this conversation will help the industry as a whole. This statement possibly stemmed from the global disparity and reception of COVID-19 vaccines. However, Vitalik Buterin has a deep interest in COVID-19 amelioration.

As reported by Coingape, the Ethereum founder once donated up to $1.2 billion in Shiba Inu and other tokens to COVID-19 non-profit in India. This donation comes off as one of the many attempts to find solution to real world problem by Buterin.

He is known to withdraw funds from some of his public addresses to fund research ventures. In the controversial thread on X, he hinted that researchers working to keep COVID-19 strains under do not get enough support. This suggests he might likely consider funding some of these startups or founders.

Besides his core support for cryptocurrencies, Vitalik Buterin is also interested in innovations that better human life in general. Beside public health, he is also known to publicly advocate for privacy, especially on general-use social media platforms.

He has also joined the call on developers to properly anchor the use cases for memecoins for the greater good.

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In our exceedingly fast-paced society, it can be challenging to exist in any state other than doing mode. Even when we think were resting, are we really?

Think about it when did you last create some space in your day to put down your to-do list, your phone or turn off the television and simply be with yourself in the present moment?

Its not easy, but it seems more of us are trying to do this by practicing techniques, such as meditation. According to Statista, the global meditation apps market is estimated to reach $7.09 billion by 2028. A 2017 survey conducted in the United States found that the percentage of adults practicing some form of meditation tripled between 20122017.

There are many different ways to meditate, which can make defining what meditation is a challenge. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health says that the term meditation refers to a variety of practices that focus on mind and body integration and are used to calm the mind and enhance overall well-being. Meditation has inspired many scientific studies over recent decades, with researchers increasingly eager to pinpoint if and how these ancient techniques can deliver such benefits in modern-day life.

In this article, we explore some of the latest research on meditation, the brain and well-being.

Our global population is aging in a society that presents a myriad of challenges and complexities, all of which carry the potential to adversely impact our physical and psychological well-being. Could practicing long-term meditation help?

That was the question fueling a recent randomized, controlled clinical study co-led by University College London (UCL) scientists. This trial, lasting 18 months, is the longest randomized meditation training study conducted to date.

It is increasingly crucial to understand how we can support older adults in maintaining and deepening their psychological well-being, said Dr. Marco Schlosser, honorary research fellow at UCLs Division of Psychiatry and the studys lead author. We tested whether long-term meditation training can enhance important dimensions of well-being. Our findings suggest that meditation is a promising non-pharmacological approach to support human flourishing in late life.

One hundred and thirty-seven healthy individuals aged 6584 years in Caen, France, were assigned to either an 18-month meditation training program, an English language training program of the same duration or a passive control group with no training.

The meditation program consisted of a nine-month mindfulness module followed by a nine-month loving kindness and compassion module. Often used interchangeably, mindfulness meditation refers to a type of meditation that encourages the practitioner to experience a state of mindfulness, which is the presence of the current moment without judgment.

These modules were delivered in various formats: weekly group sessions that were two hours long, a retreat day and daily home practice sessions that were 20 minutes in length. All participants were assessed at a baseline visit, mid-intervention at 9 months and post-intervention at 18 months.

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Schlosser and colleagues collected self-report data on several measures of well-being in the study, including the Psychological Well-Being Scale and the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL)-BREF Assessment. They also collected data on participants experiences of awareness, connection and insight.

In the context of this study, awareness refers to undistracted attention to our thoughts, feelings and surroundings, while connection denotes feelings of respect, gratitude and kinship. Insight describes self-knowledge and understanding how our thoughts or feelings can contribute and shape our perception.

The 18-month meditation training was superior to English training on changes in awareness, connection, insight and global scores (comprising awareness, connection and insight) and superior to no-intervention only on changes in awareness and global scores, the authors said.

While long-term meditation training induced changes in awareness, connection and insight, it was not associated with higher scores on the Psychological Well-Being Scale, nor the WHOQOL-BREF Assessment compared to the English language training or control groups. The researchers question whether these measures accurately capture the depth of human flourishing that long-term meditation training could bring.

As with many studies in the realm of psychological well-being, the study is limited by its reliance on self-report data, which is sensitive to biases. The research team also highlighted that the sample, being well-educated, healthy participants that were recruited from one geographical location, is not necessarily representative of the general population.

Mindfulness has been linked to improved sleep, but how and why remains unclear.

Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) sought to explore this further, focusing on employee well-being specifically and drawing from a theory known as emotion regulation. A simple definition of emotional regulation is that it describes an individuals ability to influence which emotions they have and when. The study is published in Health Psychology.

Led by Dr. Claire Smith, assistant professor of psychology at USF, the research group followed two independent cohorts of nurses (144 in total) over two weeks in the United States. Nurses were selected as the study population because they typically experience disrupted sleep patterns and are subjected to high-stress environments.

We know that good sleep restores us physically and psychologically, and it keeps us happier, safer and even more ethical at work. We wanted to explore which aspects of sleep are influenced by mindfulness and why, Smith said.

Participants were required to complete a survey three times a day which explored their state and trait mindfulness, and how much time they spent fixated on negative thoughts. Quality of sleep data was recorded through self-report methods and actigraphy data the following morning.

The study findings suggest that being mindful helped nurses reduce negative emotions and the amount of time spent ruminating. For instance, if you got a negative performance review at work, you might choose to shift your focus from negative thoughts of how you have failed and are incompetent to positive thoughts of what you did right and how you can grow, Smith said.

This, in turn, is associated with better sleep quality. Our research suggests that day-to-day mindful attention may help people regulate their emotions in a way that promotes their sleep quality. Particularly for those in high-stress occupations, like health care workers examined here, mindfulness may be helpful in daily maintenance of emotional well-being and sleep health, the authors said.

Smith and colleagues hope that future research on mindfulness confronts not only big picture results like sleep or productivity, but also how we handle emotions.

Research shows that mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) can be effective at helping individuals manage symptoms of anxiety and depression. However, a key barrier to the study of MBIs and their clinical implementation is time they typically require several weeks of commitment from participants to complete.

Professor Michael J Telch and colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin recently devised a mindfulness-based single-session intervention (SSI), which is designed to overcome this barrier and improve the accessibility of MBIs. Telch and colleagues recently conducted a randomized clinical trial, recruiting 91 participants, which evaluated the effects of this intervention on self-perceptions of loneliness, stress, depression and anxiety.

Preliminary research suggests SSIs may reduce anxiety, stress and improve mental well-being in nonclinical samples, the authors said. Further, research suggests single-session mindfulness-based interventions may reduce negative affectivity (e.g., depression, rumination, anxiety, stress).

To date, only one clinical trial has evaluated the effectiveness of an SSI on loneliness, which became increasingly prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic when the study was conducted.

The 91 participants (60.44% female) were randomized to receive either a one-hour mindfulness-only telephone intervention, a one-hour randomized mindfulness and compassion intervention, or were placed on a one-week waitlist to form a control group.

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Those assigned to the mindfulness and compassion intervention were taught a third skill related to compassion [] Participants were instructed to think of a person, place, object, or spiritual or religious figure that consistently evokes feelings of warmth, love, kindness or whatever compassion feels like to them. They were encouraged to focus their attention on any sensations that arose after evoking this feeling, the authors said.

A variety of scales were used to evaluate perceived levels of loneliness, stress, anxiety and depression at one-week follow-ups. Data analysis revealed that, compared to the waitlist control group, the inclusion of a compassionate element in the SSI led to meaningful reductions in perceived levels of stress, anxiety and depression after one week, as described by the authors.

The researchers believe that SSIs offer an approach that could be easily adopted in a wide range of contexts, but further research is required to evaluate whether changes in self-reported symptoms are maintained for long durations of time.

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Many CEOs feel the pressure to be constantly available and connected. How do you set boundaries? What routines or habits do you have that help you disconnect from work?

I used to feel the pressure to be constantly connected and had the urge to reply to every single message or email as soon as possible. Over the years, I have learned to take a break from external stimulation and enjoy the present with myself. It can be a short break to read a book or do my daily meditation practice. For me, I have daily gym routines and I set time aside to read and meditate to seek clarity about life.

I also plan to make time every year for a ten-day silent meditation camp, which I attended in January 2024. It was my first silent meditation camp experience with no phone, no talking (not even eye contact) and no reading/journaling. I had the 10 days just to be with myself and look inwards to feel and observe. Though still amateur, it made me realise how important it is to be present and be mindful about your emotions and feelings without reaction. My mind became sharper and I became calmer after the whole experience.

What other aspects are important for sustainable leadership?

Personally, I find it very important to have fellow entrepreneur friends who can support one another in life. It makes you realise that you are not alone and things will be fine even when the current situation does not meet our expectations. I am also very grateful for people who voluntarily offer help to me as mentors or advisors. I have learnt from them enormously on both a personal and professional front.

Besides friendship and mentorship, having hobbies or passions outside of work is very important for me. I occasionally coach people as a personal trainer. The experience is very fulfilling and offers a good distraction from work stress.

Continuous learning and personal growth are vital for sustainable leadership. What are some ways you invest in your own development amidst your busy schedule?

Personally, I take continuous learning and personal growth very seriously and they are key sources of happiness to me. I invest time in holistic growth, meaning in mind, body and soul. A well-balanced personal growth keeps your ego in check and makes you a humble human being.

I have a daily gym routine, where I will try to improve my power lifting performance or enhance functionality of various parts of my body. I also try to allocate time for reading and meditation daily. These practices have become habits over the years.

Besides my routines, I occasionally register for courses to achieve certifications in my serious hobbies such as the ACE Personal Trainer certification and Precision Nutrition: Nutrition Coaching certification. The knowledge I have learned has been beneficial to myself and people around me. I have also made friends in the fitness community for sharing and learning.

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Weekly Vipassana mediation sessions are 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Sundays at Art at the Cave, 108 E. Evergreen Blvd., Vancouver. This type of meditation encourages self-observation by focusing on the inner self in a non-judgmental way. Theres a $1 to $10 suggested donation to participate but no one will be turned away.

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Director of cult favorites The Favorite and Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimoss Kinds of Kindness is a cruel contemplation on the painful sacrifices we make to get what we want. The film asks: Are we controlled by our desires? And how much control do we give to those who hold the key?

Fittingly, the film opens with the high-synth Eurythmics Sweet Dreams Are Made of These, in which Annie Lenoxs voice calls, Some of them want to use you / Some of them want to get used by you. Kinds of Kindness concludes with Emma Stone dancing feverishly to COBRAHs Brand New Bitch.

In the nearly three hours which connect these two blithely-spirited moments, Lanthimos offers a triptych of stories each with different plots that all use the same set of actors. The cast includes Lanthimoss long-time favorite Emma Stone protagonist of Poor Things Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Plemons and Margaret Qualley, among others.

The first parable, dubbed The Death of R.M.F., follows businessman Robert, played by Plemons, as he grows consumed by the commands of his boss Raymond, played by Defoe. Raymond determines when Robert eats, sleeps and has sex. The audience never quite learns why Robert is so intent on pleasing his boss. Perhaps that is the point: Lanthimos critiques the all-too-common fiending after wealth and status.

R.M.F. is Flying, the second story, trails along as police officer Daniel, also played by Plemons, investigates whether his wife Liz just recently back from being lost at sea has been replaced by an imposter. As a test of her identity, Daniel asks Liz, played by Stone, to complete brutish tasks. In one scene, she chops off her finger to serve as dinner. In another, she cuts out her liver. Chilling, I know.

In the final story, R.M.F. Eats a Sandwich, Andrew, played by Plemons, is a member of a purity-obsessed cult in the bayou. Guided by a prophecy, Andrew along with Emily, played by Stone searches for a girl with the power to bring the dead back to life. The subsequent tale includes bizarre sauna ceremonies, a set of twins played by Qualley and a resurrection.

If these stories packed with rituals, sacrifice and prophetic dreams sound a bit sacramental, thats no accident. Not only does Kinds of Kindness include biblical references, including to the Parable of the Prodigal Son, but the entire film is also a rumination of gods and their followers. Several characters become god-like to those around them: the boss, Raymond or the policeman, Daniel. Those in their lives Raymonds employee, Daniels wife are driven mad by a feverishness to satisfy. What will we do to please the people we worship?

In addition to the films religious allegory, there are both visual and conceptual sinews which bind the film together: games of power and control, moments of dark humor. And in each narrative, the surreal is mapped against the ordinary. In the last story, for instance, Stone drives a purple Dodge Challenger to find a veterinarian who has the power to resurrect the dead into the living. Cloaked in everyday clothes, the characters embark on medieval-esque endeavors against the backdrop of New Orleans.

Of course, violence serves as a persistent throughline of the film. The characters treat both sex and violence with a subversive flippancy, while operating in a world that looks remarkably like our own. The absurdity of Kinds of Kindness mirrors our own existence: while the real world may appear more buttoned-up on the outside, it is just as rotten as that of Lanthimoss sick fables. Or so the film posits.

Especially as a fan of Poor Things, it feels tempting to chalk off the films gore and debauchery to some high-brow genius spilled from Lanthimoss imagination. Theres brutal rape, a myriad of naked female bodies notably, very few male ones orgies and faint-inducing violence. But ultimately, its perversion masked as intellectualism. Strip away the biblical references and avant-garde air, and the film is mere bone-chilling depravity.

Perhaps, I told myself, Im approaching Kinds of Kindness all wrong. Maybe Im too uptight. But Lanthimos never properly develops any part of the film. The entire spectacle seems to operate on the surface of a surrealist dream with no real center. The film never pushes past the rather incoherent first unravelings of each story. Its a strange, lurid world not simply without rules or logic, but without depth.

Lanthimos-fans might declare the film as representing a sort of nihilism that resonates with our time. Its a tired story. As our world teeters toward ruin, nothing means anything. We are all savage animals of flesh and bone. Frankly, Im bored of it. I just cant help but feel Kinds of Kindness is ultimately empty.

There are echoes of life, just barely audible, between the borders of Kinds of Kindness. Push deep enough, and you will detect something in the film about love about how desperately and wholly we are committed to being loved that we will do anything to receive it. Stone offers poignant acting throughout, giving a glimpse at what Kinds of Kindness might have been if Lanthimos was able to excavate a bit more of that humanness.

Instead, the film chokes up a dark conclusion. Taken from the Eurythmics Sweet Dreams: everyone is looking for something. Lanthimos makes clear that we never quite find it.

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On day one of the ESSENCE Festival of Culture, at 8:45 a.m., as I walked into the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans and watched the lines of people form, I could hear the commotion beginning. People were ready. But as I entered inside and walked to the Wellness House activation and inside a curtained space with elevated stages, poufy orange cushions to sit on, sound bowls placed around, and sage being spread, it was a completely different scene and vibe. The practitioners, beautiful Black women from New Orleans who were preparing to teach guided meditation and utilize sound therapy, were dressed in ethereal white ensembles, greeting people with warmth and in a calm voice. They were ready, too. They were there and would be there every morning throughout ESSENCE Fest weekend to help guests heal.

Meditation is not necessarily doing anything, says Dirieal Perkins of Stretch Galore Yoga about the practice, which shes done for about five years. As we talk, her two-and-a-half-month-old son Yiannis, also in white, sleeps on her chest in a carrier. It is more so becoming, not necessarily one with your thoughts, but really just entertaining those thoughts and not so much dwelling on it, but just allowing it to flow and just let it pass. It is not, we have to sit down and only think about good things. Thats literally not what it is. Its kind of impossible in a sense. Your mind works; its all over the place. Its allowed to be that, but just also allow yourself to come back to center at some point. Like I said, entertain it. Then let it pass. Let it fly. But dont dwell on or hold on to those thoughts.

One way to entertain and release those thoughts is through breathwork, which Aries D, one of the practitioners who works at NOLAs Divine Essential Magic, says is essential.

We take breath for granted. Thats something that were born with. Thats the last thing we do when we leave this earth. But at the same token, its the main way that you can allow yourself to release not only oxygen, but different endorphins to help yourself relax, she shares. As challenging as it sounds, we have the ability to tell our minds next. So if its a thought that you dont want to have, say next, push it to the next spot. You have so many things that you encounter on a daily basis, let alone that you endure throughout your whole life. So even though its some unwanted memories or thoughts that pop up, you have a plethora of other ones that you could bring forth to manifest different beautiful realities for yourself.

Practicing meditation and learning the ability to acknowledge and then move on from thoughts that fill our minds has changed the life of lead instructor Shan-coa Burke. She has been doing it since 2016 and guided ESSENCE Fest guests through a stirring experience.

I needed to heal. I needed to do some real healing, the Stretch Galore leader recalls. I was ready to grow, and I saw how the power of manifestation changed my life, and I wanted to bring it to our people because it wasnt big in our community. And I was just this Black girl from New Orleans and thought, I need to bring this to our people. Because our people really need some healing. And one thing I know about God, he aligned it, and he aligned me with every one of these women.

Not only does the practice provide mental clarity, but it can also have physical benefits. This was clear from looking at the very youthful Burke, who one might confuse with a young college student but is actually a soon-to-be 30-year-old mother of three.

Even by me looking so young, thats because Im not letting the stress take me. The meditation is the detachment, Burke says. I envision myself detaching from these situations and pushing the negativity out. Pushing it out, inhaling that light, and exhaling that darkness.

The setting for the guided meditation service was quiet, and they even asked vendors across the way to turn down their music to maintain the sanctity of the space. However, the ladies made clear that such introspection doesnt have to be done only in hushed rooms.

The best way is to just do it no matter what youre doing. Most people feel that they have to be in a certain area or a certain spot, and it has to be quiet. I read a book once where it talks about different meditations. So Ive learned a whole lot. But you can literally sit down and eat and do food meditation, focus on the foods that youre eating. You can meditate while youre walking. You can meditate literally while youre working out, in the tub, sitting at your desk, and working. You can literally meditate anywhere. So this whole ideology that it needs to be peace, quiet, certain surroundings only, its not true. So its about just implementing it in everyday life, no matter what youre doing, just knowing you can do it anywhere, Perkins says.

While the guided meditation started with just a few participants, by the time I opened my eyes at the end, the room was full. People were sitting wherever they could find a spot, whether there was an orange cushion to rest on or the hard floor. But they were centered and at peace, ready to take on the Festival experience in a good headspace. That impact is the purpose behind all of the womens work.

Its how you start your day. You control your day because you can meditate and say, Im going to have this kind of day. I just believe in the power of manifestation and positive thoughts, Burke says. I learned this trick and I want to share it with you so you can see how it transforms your life. If you want balance, ask yourself every day, Why is my life balancing out the way I need it to? Ask yourself that because the why reveals itself. The why reveals answers.

She adds, Anytime you question why, your brain starts to work. It helps you cultivate the answer. It starts to find answers, and it starts to reveal things, too. So I want you to get there. I want everybody to be there. I want, especially our people, to be there because we really, really need this. We do this for our people.

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