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6 Best Cybersecurity Holiday Gift Ideas
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Women's History Month: Zoom Manager on Her Cyber Career
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Our first session will involve understanding my office policies, addressing any concerns/questions you may have, and gathering relevant background information so that a dialogue can be initiated about the goodness of fit between patient and therapist and the expectations, length, and goals of therapy.
If a child or an adolescent will be the patient, then it is expected that all parents join in the initial session, so that a cohesive story can emerge at the outset of treatment. The initial session is 90 minutes long and $300.
Should you wish for me to consult other members of your treatment team (psychiatrist, dietitian, cardiologist, prior therapist), I would be happy to do so with a signed release of information. Brief consultations (less than 10 minutes) are included in your fee and will not be charged. However, if extensive consultation is required, then you will be charged a pro-rated amount based on my individual therapy fee.
I have been trained in both psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral modes of intervention. I also utilize couples, family, and group-based therapies. How I will work with you, specifically, depends on a number of factors (prior treatment history, diagnosis, length of desired treatment, age, etc). If you have more extensive questions about how I will individualize your treatment and tailor it specifically to you, please address this with me at any time in your therapy.
What are the risks associated with therapy?
Psychotherapy can have benefits and risks. Since therapy often involves discussing unpleasant aspects of your life, you may experience uncomfortable feelings like sadness, guilt, anger, frustration, loneliness, and helplessness. On the other hand, psychotherapy has also been shown to have many benefits. Therapy often leads to better relationships, solutions to specific problems, and significant reductions in feelings of distress. But, there are no guarantees of what you will experience.
No, I do not take insurance at this time. However, I will provide you with a monthly billing statement that provides the required documentation if you wish to submit a claim to utilize your out-of-network benefits. Thus, treatment is not part of your permanent medical record unless you choose to notify your insurance carrier.
Payment will be made directly to "Worth Therapy" at the conclusion of your session.
I do not charge for missed sessions if you cancel within 48 hours of your scheduled appointment time OR if I am able to fill your appointment space OR if you are able to reschedule into an available slot before the end of the week . However, you are charged fully for a missed session if there was not an emergent reason for canceling less than 48 hours ahead of time. I follow the Fort Worth ISD calendar in terms of weather cancellation policies (i.e. if it is icy and FWISD cancels classes, then our session will also be canceled). You will not be charged for sessions canceled due to weather in these circumstances.
I schedule appointments Monday-Friday during regular business hours. School excuses can be provided if a child needs to be taken out of school in order to make an appointment.
As this is an outpatient practice, I do not provide emergency services. In a crisis situation, please call 911 or go to your nearest hospital emergency room. However, I monitor my phone messages daily and will make every effort to return your call within 24 hours and/or schedule an additional session as soon as is feasible. If I will be unavailable for an extended period of time, then I will provide you with the name of a colleague to contact if necessary.


Teams headed in opposite directions meet Saturday when struggling Minnesota United plays at Sporting Kansas City at 7:30 p.m. CT.
SKC (12-6-6, 42 points) has won three straight, all by shutouts, to climb into a second-place tie in the Western Conference with Los Angeles FC, four points behind FC Dallas.
"We've got to finish in the best spot we can to give us the best opportunity with making the playoffs and hopefully getting home advantage at some point," Sporting KC coach Peter Vermes said.
Minnesota (9-14-2, 29 points) has three losses and tie in its last four matches to put the second-year club ninth in the West.
The Loons are eight points behind Portland and the Los Angeles Galaxy for a postseason berth with nine matches left but should get a boost with the returns from suspensions of defender Francisco Calvo and midfielder Collen Warner.
Minnesota announced Tuesday the signing of Brazilian defensive midfielder Fernando Bob. He is unlikely to be available Saturday as he awaits his international transfer clearance.
Also, injured midfielder Darwin Quintero (calf), who leads Minnesota with 10 goals, will not play, adding to the challenge of winning at Children's Mercy Park where SKC is 7-2-3.
SKC's current shutout streak follows a five-game winless stretch in which it allowed 14 goals.


In Limit Hold'em, it is not uncommon to see pots that are contested by four, five, or even six players. This happens with some frequency at lower limits, especially when playing with those who haven�t learned the virtues of a tight-aggressive style of play.
In multi-way pots, draws become especially powerful, and playing big draws aggressively against multiple opponents can create very profitable situations. For example, say that you�re dealt As-8s on the button. Three players limp before the action gets to you, and you decide to limp as well. Both blinds call, so a total of six players see the flop of 4s-7s-Jc. You have no hand at the moment, but you do have the nut flush draw.
On the flop, the small blind bets and three players call. What�s your best action? Clearly, folding would be wrong. With two cards to come and nine outs, you�ll make the nut flush roughly 35 percent of the time, making you only a 2:1 dog. With six small bets going in the pot pre-flop and four going in on the flop, you�re getting pot odds of 10:1.
You might be tempted to just call and see what the turn brings but, in fact, raising in this situation gives you better value. The pot is getting large and it�s likely that all your opponents are going to call. Even those who have nothing more than second pair or a gutshot straight draw may feel that their pot odds are favorable enough to justify calling the second bet. If your raise gets called by four people, you�ll be getting great value. You�d be getting 4:1 on your money when you�re only a 2:1 underdog � a clear win for you.
The raise might also work well for you on the turn and river. By acting after the flop, there�s a chance that the other players will check to you on the turn. This gives you the option of checking and taking a free card if you don�t make your flush.
The level of aggression that you show with a draw will largely depend on your position. To show how your play might change with position, imagine you�re in a hand with the same hole cards (As-8s), the same number of players (six), and the same flop (4s-7s-Jc). This time, however, you�re not on the button but are in the big blind instead when the small blind bets out. Here, you want to encourage the other players in the hand to put as much money in the pot as possible. If you raise, you�re probably going to force players with second pair or a gutshot to fold, so your best option is to call. Give your opponents every opportunity to throw money in the pot.
Finally, let�s look at how you might play the same cards when you�re the first to act. If you have a nut flush draw in the small blind and there are six players in the pot, go ahead and bet. It�s a favorable situation for you, so you want to make sure that some money goes in the pot. When out of position, I�ll usually follow-up my flop bet with another bet on the turn no matter what card hits. Then, if I miss again on the river, I can decide whether or not I want to bluff at the pot. If I�m against only one or two players on the river, I�ll usually bluff. If there are five players left in the hand, I won�t bother. It�s too likely that someone will call.
You can make a lot of money playing draws in low-limit Hold 'em. Just remember that you want as many people contributing to the pot as is possible, which means that in different positions, you�ll need to do different things to get the most out of your draws.


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Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez was born in 1954 and is a former Army Lieutenant Colonel.
A populist, Hugo Chávez has instituted what he calls a "Bolivarian Revolution" in Venezuela, where key industries have been nationalized and oil revenues are used in social programs for the poor. Hugo Chávez is a vocal critic of the United States of America, in particular former President George W. Bush, who he once famously and publicly called a "donkey." He is very popular with poor Venezuelans, who in February of 2009 voted to abolish term limits, allowing him to run for re-election indefinitely.
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was born on July 28, 1954, to a poor family in the town of Sabaneta in the province of Barinas. His father was a schoolteacher and opportunities for young Hugo were limited: he joined the military at the age of seventeen. He graduated from the Venezuelan Academy of Military Sciences when he was 21 and was commissioned as an officer. He attended college while in the military but did not get a degree. After his studies, he was assigned to a counter-insurgency unit, the start of a long and noteworthy military career. He also served as head of a paratrooper unit.
Hugo Chávez in the military:
Hugo Chávez was a skilled officer, moving up in the ranks quickly and earning several commendations. He eventually reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He spent some time as an instructor in his old school, the Venezuelan Academy of Military Sciences. During his time in the military, he came up with "Bolivarianism," named for the liberator of northern South America, Venezuelan Simón Bolívar. Hugo Chávez even went so far as to form a secret society within the army, the Movimiento Bolivariano Revolucionario 200, or the Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement 200. Hugo Chávez has long been an admirer of Simón Bolívar.
The coup of 1992:
Hugo Chávez was only one of many Venezuelans and army officers who were disgusted by corrupt Venezuelan politics, exemplified by President Carlos Pérez. Along with some fellow officers, Hugo Chávez decided to forcibly oust Carlos Pérez. In the morning of February 4, 1992, Hugo Chávez led five squads of loyal soldiers into Caracas, where they were to seize control of important targets including the Presidential Palace, the airport, the Defense Ministry and the military museum. All around the country, sympathetic officers seized control of other cities. Hugo Chávez and his men failed to secure Caracas, however and the coup was quickly put down.
Prison and entry into politics:
Chávez was allowed to go on television to explain his actions, and the poor people of Venezuela identified with him. He was sent to prison but vindicated the following year when President Pérez was convicted in a massive corruption scandal. Chávez was pardoned by President Rafael Caldera in 1994 and soon entered politics. He turned his MBR 200 society into a legitimate political party, the Fifth Republic Movement (abbreviated as MVR) and in 1998 ran for president.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez was born in 1954 and is a former Army Lieutenant Colonel
Chávez was elected in a landslide at the end of 1998, racking up 56% of the vote. Taking office in February 1999, he quickly began implementing aspects of his "Bolivarian" brand of socialism. Clinics were set up for the poor, construction projects were approved and social programs were added. Chávez wanted a new constitution and the people approved first the assembly and then the constitution itself. Among other things, the new constitution officially changed the name of the country to the "Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela." With a new constitution in place, Chávez had to run for re-election: he won easily.
Coup:
Venezuela's poor loved Hugo Chávez, but the middle and upper classed despised him. On April 11, 2002, a demonstration in support of the national oil company's management (recently fired by Hugo Chávez) turned into a riot when the demonstrators marched on the presidential palace, where they clashed with pro-Chavez forces and supporters. Hugo Chávez briefly resigned and the United States was quick to recognize the replacement government. When pro-Chavez demonstrations broke out all over the country, he returned and resumed his presidency on April 13. Hugo Chávez has always believed that the United States was behind the attempted coup.
Political survivor:
Hugo Chávez has proven to be a tough and charismatic leader. His administration survived a recall vote in 2004, and used the results as a mandate to expand social programs. He has emerged as a leader in the new Latin American leftist movement and has close ties with leaders such as Bolivia's Evo Morales, Ecuador's Rafael Correa, Cuba's Fidel Castro and Paraguay's Fernando Lugo. His administration even survived a 2008 incident when laptops seized from Colombian Marxist rebels seemed to indicate that Hugo Chávez was funding them in their struggle against the Colombian government.
Hugo Chávez and the US:
Much like his mentor Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez has gained much politically from his open antagonism with the United States. Many Latin Americans see the United States as an economic and political bully who dictates trade terms to weaker nations: this was particularly true during the George W. Bush administration. Ever since the coup, Hugo Chávez has gone out of his way to defy the United States, establishing close ties to Iran, Cuba, Nicaragua and other nations recently unfriendly towards the US. He has often gone out of his way to rail against US imperialism, even once famously calling George Bush a "donkey."
Administration and legacy:
Hugo Chávez is a complicated political figure who has done much for Venezuela, both good and bad. Venezuela's oil reserves are among the largest in the world, and he has used much of the profits to benefit the poorest Venezuelans. He has improved infrastructure, education, health, literacy and other social ills from which his people suffered. Under his guidance, Venezuela has emerged as a leader in Latin America for those who do not necessarily think that the United States is always the best model to follow.
Hugo Chávez's concern for Venezuela's poor is genuine. The lower socioeconomic classes have rewarded Hugo Chávez with their unwavering support: they supported the new constitution and in early 2009 approved a referendum to abolish term limits on elected officials, essentially allowing him to run indefinitely.
Not everyone thinks the world of Hugo Chávez, however. Middle and upper-class Venezuelans despise him for nationalizing some of their lands and industries and have been behind the numerous attempts to oust him. Many of them fear that Hugo Chávez is building dictatorial powers, and it is true that he has a dictatorial streak in him: he has temporarily suspended Congress more than once and his 2009 referendum victory essentially allows him to be President as long as the people keep electing him.
Venezuelan elections are rarely squeaky-clean and Hugo Chávez certainly has the power to pull off any number of crooked elections, even if the people decide to stop re-electing him. He has cracked down on the press, greatly increasing restrictions as well as punishments for slander. He drove through a change in how the Supreme Court is structured, which allowed him to stack it with loyalists.
Hugo Chávez is widely reviled in the United States for his willingness to deal with rogue nations such as Iran: conservative televangelist Pat Robertson once famously called for his assassination in 2005. His hatred for the United States government occasionally seems to approach the paranoid: he has accused them of being behind any number of plots to remove or assassinate him. This irrational hatred has driven him to pursue counter-productive strategies, such as supporting Colombian rebels, publicly denouncing Israel (resulting in hate crimes against Venezuelan Jews) and spending enormous sums on Russian-built weapons and aircraft.
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So you're here because your lovely, pregnant wife/partner/girlfriend sent you to this page. She's mentioned that she wants to do something called HypnoBirthing and you have some doubts.
I totally get this! Firstly, what a weird name – HypnoBirthing! We certainly didn't make life easy for ourselves when we chose a strange name like HypnoBirthing. I think it makes people think of losing control, doing things you don't want to do, being laughed at, but mostly that's it's a load of sh!t that doesn't work. The hypnosis we use is very, very different to stage hypnosis. I explain it in great detail during the course and we never do anything that you're not comfortable with.
When you are experiencing hypnosis, you are sitting comfortably in a chair, listening to me talk. You can choose to accept my suggestions or not, it's all totally up to you.
The other thing you are probably thinking of is the cash. I get that it's a lot of money for most people, especially at a very expensive time when generally mum-to-be is not going to be working for some time. For me, an amazing birth is priceless. But there is a huge price to pay for a traumatic one. A traumatic birth often means counselling sessions, more GP visits and sometimes anti-depressants. It's just a matter of spending the money now, or later as I see it.
Apart from having my own two babies, being a support person to someone I love is the hardest thing I've ever done. The knowledge you need of the maternity system is massive, the confidence you need to advocate for the labouring mum is huge and the list of techniques and skills you require is long.
How you feel and act during this birth, can make or break the experience for both yourself and your partner. Why not do absolutely everything you can to prepare for this life-changing event.
Lastly, maybe you're worried that it's just same weird hippy sh!t and I'm going to try and make you have a home birth or something. I am your total, average mum living in the suburbs. No dreadlocks or tie-dye to be seen! I don't care if you birth in a hospital, birth centre or at home – as long you are are informed and confident.
My classes are relaxed and fun and there is very little double up from hospital classes. I'm giving you the missing piece of this crazy birth puzzle that you never even knew was missing!
And remember, happy wife, happy life!!
I just want to say I think you're amazing at what you do. I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to teachers or trainers of any sort and I was telling my wife yesterday how great I think you are. Your honesty, passion, genuineness and ability to understand questions and answers them so directly and efficiently is just the total package of what a great teacher should be. I look forward to the next session. Thank you very much for your support.
I have to admit I was skeptical about attending HypnoBirthing classes. My wife had told me its what she wanted to do and it didn't seem like I had a choice. We were already going to four hospital classes so it seemed like overkill to me. But it was her body after all so I agreed to go.
I was actually surprised at how much I learnt. I found these classes much more informative and practical than the hospital classes. The physiology of what happens during the birth is quite interesting and I can see how being relaxed helps with the pain. I also understood what my role was when the time came and felt much more confident that I would know what to do. Likewise, it was a really good way to spend time with my wife before the baby came. We would often do the relaxation exercises at home together just after dinner.
I'm really glad we did HypnoBirthing and would recommend it to anyone.


Tertiary education is more than the capstone of the traditional education pyramid; it is a critical pillar of human development and capacity building. However, many developing countries continue to wrestle with difficulties in overcoming the long standing challenges faced by their tertiary education system. Among these unresolved challenges are the sustainable expansion of tertiary education coverage, the reduction of inequalities of access and outcomes, the improvement of educational quality and relevance, and the introduction of more effective governance structures and management practices.
The donor community has not always recognised the importance of tertiary education for development and capacity building. For a long time, most multilateral and bilateral aid agencies focused their support on basic education at the expense of tertiary education.
This seminar will focus on the recent evolution of donor support for education and tertiary education, experience with external aid to transform tertiary education, and recommendations for increasing the effectiveness of donor interventions in tertiary education.
In the past 20 years, Dr Salmi has provided policy advice to governments and university leaders in more than 70 countries in all parts of the world. As World Bank Tertiary Education Coordinator from 2006 to 2012, he was responsible for policy work on world-class universities, equity in tertiary education, rankings and league tables, financing mechanisms, and benchmarking of the performance of tertiary education systems.


The other day I read that the median number of years people stay at a job is 4 ½. Assuming this is true, any one of us could have as many as 10 jobs or more in our working lifetime. For me, I've had roughly 10 already and I'm only 30…ish! In my defense, I worked four of those simultaneously while getting out of consumer debt in my 20s. Here's the question: what happens to your old 401(k), Simple IRA, or SEP account when you leave that job or those last three jobs? What are your options? What's the smartest thing to do?
Let's start with what happens if you leave your account alone. If the balance is small – typically under $5,000 – and you don't do anything with the account, after six months or a year that account could be automatically transferred into a Traditional IRA. You will not want this to happen - it becomes a complete hassle to track it down. It's especially difficult because you don't know which company holds it or how to contact them. They will auto enroll your investments for you, leaving you with no control over what's happening. Sometimes, if the account value is under $1,000, the company might just cash it out and send you a check. This comes with a penalty (if you're under 59 ½ years old) as well as the funds being taxed as ordinary income. Obviously, this is not a good option. If the balance is large enough, the account can continue to sit where it's at. But, is anyone paying attention to it? If you're not, then nobody is.
Combine it with your new 401(k): You can combine it with your new 401(k), but you have to be sure that your new 401(k) accepts rollovers. One downfall is that sometimes you have to wait a certain period of time before you can utilize your new 401(k). Another downfall is that within your new 401(k) you're limited in your investment options. But the good news is at least you're keeping track of it and paying attention to how it's invested.
Move it into an IRA: In my opinion, the best option is rolling it into a Traditional IRA account (or a Traditional IRA and a Roth IRA if your previous 401(k) had a Roth option in it). Choosing this option allows you to maintain control over your investment dollars while also having a much larger selection of funds to invest. Doing a direct transfer into the new IRA account avoids taxes and penalties. You'll need to open the new IRA account first, then complete direct transfer paperwork from your 401(k) custodian to push the funds into the new IRA account.
When it comes to your 401(k) and other retirement accounts, being intentional is crucial to success . Have a plan, work with a professional who can guide you and keep you accountable to that plan, and follow through with the execution. Without that, you'll end up with the hassle of dealing with multiple 401(k) companies in retirement when you really just want to be sitting on a beach somewhere reading a good book and enjoying a cold drink. Oh wait, that's my retirement plan!
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Tawna Hermanson is a Financial Advisor and has been a part of Financial Strategies Group since 2008.
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In this issue of the California Bar Journal, the State Bar publishes the newest acquisition in its public education series, When You Become 18: A Survival Guide for Teenagers. First published by the California Law Advocates in 1991 and revised seven times over the past decade, When You Become 18 is the second in a trilogy of consumer guides to be issued by the State Bar's Office of Media & Information Services.
The first, Kids and the Law: An A-to-Z Guide for Parents, appeared for Law Day last May in the Bar Journal, and within a few months all 500,000 copies had been distributed to schools, services and youth programs throughout California. In 2003, the trilogy will be completed with publication of a new Seniors and the Law guide specifically designed for older Californians.
The publications in the series are funded by annual generous grants from the Foundation of the State Bar of California. This past year, the foundation board, an independent body from the State Bar which awards grants and scholarships, voted to provide a minimum of $50,000 per year over the next three years to sponsor the public education trilogy.
"The State Bar is extremely grateful for the foundation support to provide these excellent publications for communities around the state," said Maria Villa, chair of the board committee which oversees the bar's public education efforts. "Kids and the Law provides a great resource for parents and teachers to begin talking with young people about right and wrong and laws which affect them. When You Become 18 is a great resource for teenagers as they embark on young adulthood."
To order When You Become 18: A Survival Guide for Teenagers, please send an e-mail to barcomm@calsb.org or call 415/538-2283. School orders may be placed directly through the California PTA at 213/620-1100. Please pass on the copy in your Bar Journal to teenagers or others who may benefit from this information.
An attempt by an Arizona-based lawyer to win the right to vote in the current board of governors election was decisively rejected by a federal judge last month.
Louis J. Hoffman, a member of the California bar who sometimes practices here but whose primary office is in Phoenix, had asked for a preliminary injunction permitting him to vote in the current election.
U.S. District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong denied the request and shot down every argument his lawyer, Boalt Hall professor Stephen Barnett, offered. Ruling from the bench, Armstrong said Hoffman "failed to prove a reasonable likelihood of prevailing on the merits."
Saying she found no evidence of discrimination against out-of-state practitioners who are members of the California bar, Armstrong said Hoffman has neither a fundamental right to vote in the bar election nor a fundamental right to run for the board, which he wishes to do next year. The goal of State Bar elections, she added, "is to guarantee local representation. . . .Those with their principal offices in California are more interested" and affected by the State Bar's activities than those who practice outside the state, she said.
In what is shaping up as the most hotly contested race for the State Bar Board of Governors in recent years, 15 candidates are vying for five open seats. The issues are wide-ranging and include some old standbys - what do the members get for their dues, does the bar spend its money wisely and are its activities relevant? - as well as a couple of newer concerns, such as the widespread practice of law by non- lawyers who prey on immigrant communities and the bar's new diversion program for alcohol- and drug-addicted members.
A State Bar task force unanimously recommended last month that the board of governors authorize the conference of delegates to reconstitute itself as a separate, nonprofit entity.
Both bar and conference representatives pronounced themselves pleased with a step that will almost certainly lead to a divorce between the two organizations by next fall.
At its meeting early this month, the board also will be asked to authorize a statutory change to permit the bar to collect fees for an independent conference through the annual dues bill sent to all members.


The U.S. State Department has approved the sale to Taiwan of spare parts for F-16 fighter planes and other military aircraft worth up to $330 million, prompting China to warn on Tuesday that the move jeopardized Sino-U.S. cooperation.
U.S. military sales to self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, is an irritant in the relations between the world's two largest economies. Taiwan would still need to finalize details of the sale with U.S. companies.
"This proposed sale will contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security and defensive capability of the recipient, which has been and continues to be an important force for political stability, military balance, and economic progress in the region," the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement issued on Monday.
China strongly opposes the planned arms sales and has already lodged "stern representations" with the United States, he told a daily news briefing in Beijing.
China's Defense Ministry, in a separate statement, also condemned the planned sale, adding that the Chinese military had a "firm and unshakable" resolve to protect the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
In a statement on Tuesday, Taiwan's Presidential Office thanked the United States for its support and said the island would continue to "stay in close communication and cooperation" with Washington for issues including security.
The $330 million request covers spare parts for "F-16, C-130, F-5, Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF), all other aircraft systems and subsystems, and other related elements of logistics and program support," the Pentagon said, adding that it notified Congress of the possible sale. Lockheed Martin Corp makes the F-16.
The Pentagon said the proposed sale is required to maintain Taiwan's "defensive and aerial fleet," and would not alter the military balance in the region.
Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis during a visit to Beijing in June that Beijing was committed to peace, but could not give up "even one inch" of territory that the country's ancestors had left behind.


S Badrinath smashed a brilliant unbeaten 59 and shared a crucial 89-run partnership with Matthew Hayden (48) to fashion Chennai Super Kings' impressive seven-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals in their Indian Premier League match in Kimberley on Saturday.
Chennai not only recorded their fifth win in a row but also beat the defending champions for the second time in the second edition of the event to remain atop the points table.
Chasing 141 to win, last year's finalists, overhauled the target with 10 balls to spare.
Earlier, riding on a disciplined bowling attack, Chennai had restricted Rajasthan to a modest 140 for seven.
The slow nature of the wicket at the De Beers Diamond Oval made the contest between the ball and the bat interesting and set up an exciting finish.
Hayden and Badrinath batted intelligently as stroke-making was quite difficult on the 22-yard-strip here.
Badrinath supported Hayden well after losing two early wickets as the duo knit together 89 runs for the third wicket.
The Tamil Nadu batsman hit Shane Harwood for one six and three fours in the 16th over to take the pressure off Hayden, who batted with determination from the start.
Hayden departed when he danced down to the wicket on one off rival skipper Shane Warne in the 17th over but was foxed by the big turn and stumper Naman Ojha uprooted his stumps.
Chennai needed 15 runs from 19 balls at that stage but Badrinath held his nerves and not only completed his third IPL fifty but also steered Chennai to victory.
Badrinath hit nine fours and one six in his 41-ball knock while Hayden hit four fours and one six in his 44-ball essay.
Though Chennai did not lose too many wickets, the slow run-rate had made the job tough.
Like Royals, Chennai too struggled to make a quick start as the bowlers, especially the spinners were getting purchase from the wicket.
Yusuf Pathan, who started the proceedings for Rajasthan, and Warne bowled some unplayable deliveries.
Siddharth Trivedi drew the first blood for the defending champions by trapping opener M Vijay (10) and then Amit Singh got rid of Suresh Raina (13).
Raina had hit Amit for a six and a four in that over and when the diminutive left-hander went for another big shot in the last ball, the miscued shot landed in the hands of Lee Carseldine at point.
Hayden, careful in his shot selection, did bulk of the scoring in the first 10 overs and took Chennai to 67 for two at the strategic break.
Earlier, Chennai bowlers used the slow track brilliantly as skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni shuffled them intelligently throughout the Royals innings, ending at 140 for seven.
Graeme Smith (30), Swapnil Asnodkar (26) and Ravinder Jadeja (27) were the main contributors for the defending champions.
Sri Lankan spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan (2/22) and Shadab Jakati (2/35) took two wickets apiece, capitalising on a brilliant start provided by their pacers.
Naman Ojha, who anchored Royals' last two wins, looked in a hurry and paid the price. He went for a drive and was castled by Albie Morkel in the very first over of the match.
The Chennai pacers bowled a tight line and gave away just 25 runs in the first five overs. Dhoni shuffled his bowlers quickly and by the eighth over six different bowlers had come into the attack.
Smith and Asnodkar slowly took their side to the fifty-run mark, mostly scoring through ones and twos.
Muralitharan broke the 53-run partnership when he trapped Asnodkar and sent back Smith when the South African captain dragged his feet out of the crease while attempting a sweep shot and Dhoni stumped him.
Ravinder Jadeja hit Shadab Jakati for consecutive fours and Yusuf Pathan finished off the over with a massive six to begin the firework.
However, both the batsmen departed while trying to press the accelerator button. First to go was Jadeja (27 off 19) who slashed one hard off Laxmipati Balaji but Suresh Raina took a brilliant low catch at point to send him back.
Pathan (7) started his walk back after finding Jacob Oram on the edge of the boundary while trying to hit Jakati out of the park. Captain Shane Warne hit an unbeaten 11-ball 21 late in the end to take the team score to 140.


*Yes, she's on the "phone" with Caroline.......via a sea shell.
*Please disregard the salad on her face. Didn't look before I started filming. She launched into her monologue before I was ready.
Love it. Needed this today. Under the weather. Again. Feeling better now though!
Ha. Poor Pa and Caroline are always involved in something with Laine.
Were you asking Carter where he learned the word "addicting?" I imagine he's known that word for a while.
What a sweet & pretty girl! I love listening to my 2 y/o talk. Your daughter looks about 3? She's adorable!
Roooaaarrrr! I love Jack. And Lainey. And your whole family.
Poor Pa! I hope he was saved from the shark. How cute!
Pa and Carowine...always in trouble together. What's with all the shark scaring? If I were a shark, I'd be very scared of Lainey and Jack's RAWR!!!!!! If I had little shark ears.
Love when you post videos of the fam!!
So precious! Love LC's voice and seeing the fam.
Love this. "Hers gonna be here in a minute."
Carter is looking so much older, Casey. You are so going to be in trouble.
BTW, tell Blake that I asked Ryan about the night he referenced over the phone. Even more of a reason we should be scared for our children. If they do anything remotely like we did. The world is not ready.
She is such a sweetie pie....even roaring. Love Jack's roar, too. Also, love the video ending with Carter talking about being "addicted".....what is going on in the Starnes house??
Okay, that is so cute and funny! :) I love the ending with Carter:) Precious overalls on Lainey too!
Things you never thought you would say to your kids "Put the eye back in the spider..."
Carrie! I was totally laughing about that too. Blake was so calm as he was saying it too.
Lainey girl - love her!
Nice glass of wine you got there too. Which brings us to Carter's word of the day. Addiction.


1) Use the photo and five random words in your story.
2) Keep your work count 500 or less.
The year had flown past and Dora and Terry patted themselves, figuratively speaking, and were triumphant to have confirmed the venue at this busy Christmas period. The background of green fir trees with sparkling white lights was just the enhancement that Dora wanted, she knew that the December days could be a bit murky outside and it would brighten up their special day no end.
Terry was looking forward to this day, he couldn't believe he had such powers of persuasion, he was very proud of his lingual skills, oratory had never really been a passion of his, he called a spade a spade and didn't use flowery language but his Dora was a cut above him, he had practised his proposal speech so much, felt so worried he would make a hash of it that he had felt sick for nearly a week before he popped the all important question. When she said 'yes' he was ecstatic and knew he was so very lucky to be married to her on this very special day.
The only near disaster had been all the planning. You wouldn't believe how many people considered they had to be sat near the top table at the reception. If they hadn't got the seating arrangements fairly arranged there would have such squabbles over territory, who was going to be seated next to whom. Aunty Ingrid had made her wishes very plain, so had Uncle Bert, let alone Dora's grandmother, who at 92, still wielded the matriarchal rod.
Dora was her usual diplomatic self and somehow managed concoct a seating plan that everyone would be more than happy with. Terry had breathed a huge sigh of relief as they got over that hurdle only to find out that the food for the reception was another bone of contention with their guests.
Terry was near to saying to Dora, let me whisk you away, we could go to Las Vegas or how about that place in Scotland, you know, Gretna something. Dora though was insistent that this time, this marriage was going to be the last one they both had and therefore everybody in their families were going to made to feel as though they were as special as themselves, the bride and groom.
Of course Terry went along with all Dora's plans and why wouldn't he as he still couldn't believe that she loved him. He knew he wasn't the world's most handsome man and he could be a tad taller and maybe slightly thinner but he did love Dora with all his heart and she saw in to his soul and blended with him in a way he had never experienced before.
It was just the food left to organise. Dora again came up with a brilliant idea, although Terry had never heard of the dish before, she said they would serve hasenpfeffer as a main course followed by delicious profiteroles. Terry didn't really care, whatever made Dora happy made him happy.
Aw. Sweet story, Sally! Classic wedding plans and in the end, whatever makes the bride happy then so it shall be. Nice job!
I wonder what other writers did with "hasenpfeffer."
A lovely story to describe a lovely couple. I hope they enjoy their happy ever after.
Couldn't cope with the main course myself, but Dora knows how to reel the right man in. Loved how you pulled everything in Sally.
Wielding the matriarchal rod - I especially like that bit.
Hah ! You drew me into their story and I am feeling the need to wish the happy couple well. It is going to be an interesting wedding meal for sure.


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Abbas Qoli Khan Kangarli (Persian: عباس قلی خان کنگرلی, Azerbaijani: Abbasqulu xan Kəngərli, died 1810) was one of the rulers of the Nakhichevan Khanate  in Afsharid Iran.

History

First reign
In 1779, Karim Khan Zand died, and anarchy again reigned in the Persian state. In the early 1780s, with the support of Huseyn-Ali Khan of Erivan, Heraclius II of Georgia and Ibrahim Khalil Khan of Karabakh, Abbas Qoli Khan was declared the ruler of the Nakhichevan khanate. In 1783, military happiness leaned on the side of others: Imam Qoli Khan of Urumi was killed, and Abbas Qoli Khan of Nakhichevan, despite the patronage of Ibrahim Khan of Karabakh, was forced to give way to his cousin Jafar Qoli Khan. The overthrown Abbas Qoli retired to Georgia where he was sheltered by Heraclius II.

In January 1792, with a memorable "visit" to the walls of Nakhichevan of the 11.000 army of Ibrahim Khalil Khan of Karabakh and his brother-in-law Umma Khan V of Avar, the people of Nakhichevan withstood a 6 day siege. About seven hundred highlanders fell on one of the squares of Nakhichevan. Area of the city in front of the Nakhichevan railway station until the middle of the 20th century bore the name "Lezgi Gyrylan" ("Place of destruction of Lezgins"). The final result of the fight
brought down the troops of the Khoy and Erivan khans who intervened in it, who came to assistance to Kalb-Ali Khan. Ibrahim Khan and Omar Khan, who each lost about thousands of warriors hastily retreated. People of Nakhchivan buried with honor about a hundred of his people.

Second reign
Kalb-Ali Khan sent his brother Abbas Qoli Khan as a hostage to Agha Mohammed Khan, thereby killing two birds with one stone: preserving the Nakhichevan khanate and getting rid of his eternal rival. Kalb-Ali Khan himself went to meet the shah in Ardabil. Nevertheless, Agha Mohammed seized him. Kalb-Ali Khan was subjected to execution, used in Persia to punish recalcitrant vassals. His eyes were gouged out. The blinded Kalb-Ali Khan was imprisoned, the Nakhichevan Khanate was devastated and the population was partially driven to Persia. Abbas Quli Khan obedient to the Shah was put in the place of the ruler.

In 1801, Kalb-Ali Khan achieves his cherished goal — he regains power in Nakhichevan deposing his brother. The indignant Fath-Ali Shah immediately sends a serdar to Tabriz with an order to gather a militia and restore Abbas Qoli Khan in Nakhichevan.

Relations with Russians
At the same time, the commander-in-chief in the Caucasus general of the Russian army Pavel Tsitsianov established contact with Abbas Qoli Khan, through whom he expected to receive assistance during a new expedition planned for the spring of 1805. The main rival of Kalb-Ali Khan immediately went for rapprochement and promised to bring the Russians to Nakhichevan. Throughout the spring and summer of 1805, secret relations between the Russian general and Abbas Qoli Khan did not stop as the expedition to the Erivan and Nakhichevan khanates was being prepared.

The Russian military hero Pyotr Kotlyarevsky and Mehdigulu Khan Javanshir wrote to Abbas Qoli Khan asking him to come to Shusha under the pretext of his own safety. Abbas Qoli Khan did not refuse, but feeling that something was wrong he delayed the visit. To the second message of Mehdigulu Khan he did not give an answer at all. Abbas Qoli-khan took the intention to go abroad and for this he asked Abbas Mirza for troops, "with which he could transfer the inhabitants of the Sisian mahal to the other side (beyond Aras)." Without delay, Kotlyarevsky sent a captain with a hundred soldiers to Sisian with instructions to bring the khan to Karabakh, but on February 2, 1807, Abbas Qoli Khan fled to Persia.

In a document dated 1810, he is mentioned as deceased. In another document, information slips through that he was executed.

See also

 Nakhichevan khanate
 Kalb-Ali Khan Kangarlu

References

Sources
Anvar Chingizoglu (2013), Abbasqulu xan Kəngərli (in Azerbaijani). Baku. "Mütərcim". p. 68.

18th-century rulers in Asia
19th-century rulers in Asia
18th-century rulers
19th-century rulers
Nakhichevan khans
Azerbaijani noble families
Kangarlis

18th-century births
1810 deaths

Year of birth unknown

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Characterization of hybrid incompatibilities between caenorhabditis briggsae and C. sp. 9
Yu Bi
Hybrid incompatibility (HI) refers to lethality, sterility and other reduction in fitness of hybrid progeny between related species which has been frequently observed in different taxa. Its mechanism has been generalized as the consequence of conflicts between genomes of the related species that have been subject to independent evolution. HI plays a critical role in speciation by reducing or preventing exchange of the genetic materials between related species, gradually leading to reproductive isolation. According to the widely accepted Dobzhansky-Muller model, HI is produced by incompatible epistatic interactions between multiple genes that are independently diverged between the parental species. HI has been intensively studied especially in Drosophila species. A number of HI loci have been mapped in various species, several of which have been molecularly cloned. However, HI remains poorly understood in other taxa. My thesis focuses on systematic characterization of HI between two sequenced nematode species, C. briggsae and C. nigoni (C. sp. 9). The former has long been established as a companion species of C. elegans for comparative study while the latter is a recently identified species that can mate with the former and produce viable and fertile hybrids in spite of their different reproduction modes, allowing one to genetically and molecularly characterize HI between nematode species for the first time. Such a study is impossible with model organism C. elegans as it cannot produce viable hybrids with any other nematode species. To facilitate genome-wide mapping of HI loci between the two nematode species, over 90 dominant visible GFP markers have been randomly integrated into C. briggsae chromosomes, permitting repeated backcrossing the marker-associated C. briggsae genomic fragments into an otherwise C. nigoni background and definitive mapping of HI loci. Genotyping of the introgressions has been achieved by C. briggsae specific PCR, with primers as close as about half a million base pairs away from each other on average. Using the cost-effective protocol for introgression and genotyping, a genome-wide HI map between the two species has been obtained based on characterization of approximately 100 independent introgression lines. A remarkable proportion of C. nigoni genome was found to be replaceable by that from C. briggsae as judged by the fact that these introgressions are viable as a homozygote. A few HI loci critical to male inviability and sterility have been narrowed down to small intervals on the X chromosome by contrasting genotypes and HI phenotypes of independent introgression strains. Strains containing these introgressions have been examined for their gonadal structures using fluorescence microscopy. Our study provides genome-wide landscape of HI between nematodes for the first time, allowing comparative studies of HI between nematode and other species.
Zhongying ZHAO (Supervisor)
Caenorhabditis elegans
Bi, Y. (Author). 7 Aug 2014
Embargo End Date: 25 Nov 2015
Abstract & TOC
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what do you do when the main artirial road suddenly turns to mud and stone and traffic is directed at each other? laugh it off and enjoy Russia? not me, I fled. am now in latvia and am amazed the Ninja is still running. it is one hell of a bike. another ten hour day on the road, and I use the word road sparingly. time to relax.


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Posted By Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) On February 20, 2015 @ 7:30 am In Digital,REAL WORLD,Writing life | Comments Disabled
Following a retreat with some author-colleagues, Pooler has decided to cut her exposure to social media [3] way back for Lent. She writes:
Aside from the fact that Pooler turns out to be really good at benedictions (who knew?), this has reminded me of the February 3 post here from Therese Walsh [5], author and Writer Unboxed's co-founder. She wrote about a search for "mono-tasking," meaning, in essence, the ability to hunker down on one sustained project or task without feeling pulled apart by competing thoughts and stimuli. So many of us know what she's talking about, all too well.
Walsh and I have been in touch a bit since that post ran, comparing notes. I've offered a few technical responses that I find helpful to the relentless blitz — RescueTime (which I find invaluable — you're welcome to explore it free with my link [6]); "frequency following" sound recordings, which I find helpful while focusing on work; meditation.
Sins of Transmission
Provocations graphic by Liam Walsh
You're good on Lent, right? In case you need a refresher, for 40 days and 40 nights, Jesus of Nazareth is said in Christian mythology to have fasted in the desert, sometimes with Satan tempting him to use his godly powers as a workaround to the rigors of his ordeal.
This is where an obnoxious minister's son (who might be me) always points out that Noah's flood also lasted "40 days and 40 nights." What is it with this fondness for "40 days and 40 nights" in both the Old and New Testaments? It's like biblical Expedia bookings, see 40 stations of the cross and enjoy one free drink on the Riviera.
As a preacher's kid, I always thought that the Second Temptation was especially lame, anyway. The Prince of Darkness proposed that lamb of God throw himself off a mountain because if he really was the Messiah, then the angels would swoop in and rescue him. It's the sin of pride, of course. Brag-tweeting in high places. Jesus told Satan to shove off. And this was the right call. What if the angels were off doing something and not paying attention, right?
[pullquote]For me the worst temptation is the walkaway. To duck out into the desert now would be, somehow, to give up a certain amount of flexibility that I think I've managed to put together by "keeping my soul in the room." Working the time zones. Juggling the Samsungian dings![/pullquote]
Today, there are many traditions, with lots of variants, on how one's "40 days and 40 nights" might be observed, but almost all formal treatments of Lent involve some degree of self-denial, one or more abstentions. One of my favorite author-friends in London gives up drinking for Lent in some years, enduring the agony of sobriety for the full term — a level of sacrifice that passeth all understanding.
But at the Vatican this year, Pope Francis — who keeps getting more interesting, doesn't he? — has made an Ash Wednesday appeal this week, calling on the faithful to reject what he terms the "globalization of indifference." TIME's Christopher J. Hale quotes the papal Lenten message [8] as saying:
Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.
Don't worry, we can break away here from the papal reforms troubling the consciences of the Roman Curia these days (Lent 2015 is no party at St. Peter's). But there's something in what Francis is saying that bears on what many of us are experiencing in the digital diaspora of our tech-leveraged lives — the nerve that Walsh hit in her post here on the third of the month.
How Elastic Is Your Mind?
Paola Antonelli [10] is an author and the gifted Senior Curator in Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art [11] in New York, and also MoMA's Director of R&D. Antonelli is the person who decides when something like the original iPod [12] is to be entered into the permanent collection of the museum. She's also the person who hung a Ferrari [13] on the wall of the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building lobby.
I was moving to Rome in 2008 when she told me about her exhibition, Design and the Elastic Mind [14].
Here's an excerpt of how the show's intro [15] finally captured what she was telling me in our conversation:
Over the past twenty-five years, people have weathered dramatic changes in their experience of time, space, matter, and identity. Individuals cope daily with a multitude of changes in scale and pace—working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, and being inundated with information. Adaptability is an ancestral distinction of intelligence, but today's instant variations in rhythm call for something stronger: elasticity, the product of adaptability plus acceleration.
Plainly put, Antonelli was thinking about how much and how fast we can take on new infusions of information; how well we can withstand new blasts of data; how successfully we can keep performing new stunts of mental athleticism.
Is our adaptability, that "ancestral distinction of intelligence," up to it?
Or when Walsh comes to the Writer Unboxed community with her research into multitasking and mono-tasking, understandably alarmed about a frazzled attention span for long-text reading — and we all chime in, "Me, too!" — has a line been crossed? Are the ancestors rolling in their grave mounds?
[pullquote]I want to join with Walsh in trying to sort out what we can do in the creative community to come to terms with these unprecedented tools of communication, which are our hope of sales and comradeship, of course, as much as they also seem the dire wolves of a cyber-threat we don't yet understand.[/pullquote]
In my tweets today, you'll see me announcing our #FutureChat on women in publishing [16] — and you're most welcome to join us — at 4 p.m. GMT (London), 5 p.m. CET (Paris), 11 a.m. ET (New York), 8 a.m. PT (Los Angeles). I translate time zones all the time this way, as I work on events with The Bookseller and The FutureBook [17], based in London, and with colleagues in other parts of Europe on a daily basis.
How ready are our minds to cope with such concepts as chatting live from an early-morning laptop in Palo Alto with a late-afternoon tablet in Madrid? How well do we really grasp how far-flung in time and space we are in these events? Can we handle it? Or do we get by in a kind of "globalized indifference" to how amazing this is?
As mentioned before, I also produce a weekly series of columns (you might enjoy these) called Music for Writers [18] at ThoughtCatalog.com, and in those articles, we embed Q2 Music's Album of the Week SoundCloud [19] so you can listen to the music of a composer as you read his or her comments.
How good are we at listening to the Credo in Gregory W. Brown's Missa Charles Darwin [20]while reading him tell us about visiting the Galapagos in 1993 — and using the amino acids of Darwin finches to generate a melody? How easily do we remember that the great composers of the past never even heard their music recorded? Are we good at taking advantage of coupling sound and text this way? Or do we deploy more "globalized indifference" to shield ourselves from having to think too much about it?
When electric lighting became a widespread reality, you know, people for the first time could work at night. So what happened? 'Round-the-clock shifts happened. Once we could work all night, we did work all night.
And the effects of our tech on us is a lot like that. A tablet makes it possible to (try to) read a book while sending and receiving email, watching a video, tweeting, pinning, and texting in a kind of itchy nest of connectivity. So we do all those things. Or we think we do. We try to. We end up with splintered focus, unfinished tasks, to-do lists that stretch from here to Seattle, and Kindles groaning with books we'll never have time to read.
I've written before here about how research like that reported by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney in their book Willpower [21] shows us that rest, physical rest, seems to be the engine of what we think of as the cerebral or emotional strength called "willpower." The more tired we are, the less willpower we have.
[pullquote]My team will need to keep advancing, trying to spread our arms wider, take on more and more, not duck it, to find out about that elasticity. Where do we break? How will it feel when we do? How will we know if we don't go there? (Watch our backs, will you?)[/pullquote]
And nobody, surely, would say that the contemporary collisions of our digitally engaged life don't tire us. I feel it, you feel it — we all feel it when it comes time to write and the energy has been leeched right out, one tweet and text and email and Instagram shot at a time.
But you know what else is tiring? Resistance.
Availability becomes inevitability. These "modern conveniences" — "labor-saving devices" was another marvelous euphemism, wasn't it? — aren't going away. And at the risk of sounding crazy to your yoga neighbors, maybe the sabbatical for Lent is right for Pooler (she has my vote), but not for me. Or for you?
I'm finding that while rest, yes, is crucially important in the up-rush of digital demands, evading those challenges is not helpful.
I'm perfectly willing to speak only for myself here, don't try any of this at home (except the Campari).
But for me the worst temptation is the walkaway. To duck out into the desert now would be, somehow, to give up a certain amount of flexibility that I think I've managed to put together by "keeing my soul in the room." Working the time zones. Juggling the Samsungian dings! that tell me an email, a text, a tweet is incoming — while on a conference call with an offshore office and trying to get the image into this story…a few minutes late. Yeah, I'm not fully on top of this yet, I get that. But I think trying is right. For some of us. Not all of us, it's okay, stay with me.
The "troublesome cries of the prophets" are not wrong. Nor are we to ignore the nags at our consciences that might tell us we've dashed past something important for a digital dab of nonsense we could have let slide.
But I want to join with Walsh in trying to sort out what we can do in the creative community to come to terms with these unprecedented tools of communication, which are our hope of sales and comradeship, of course, as much as they also seem the dire wolves of a cyber-threat we don't yet understand…we're too distracted…so distracted…oh, my God (and yours, too), the distractions.
[pullquote]I'm perfectly willing to speak only for myself here, don't try any of this at home (except the Campari).[/pullquote]
And I think we may need two forward teams here.
One looks for the safe haven of the sabbatical, yes, to find the quiet meditative blessing of creative space unchallenged. I kid you not, I do see the beauty in that glade, and wish I could come along.
But my team, I think, will need to keep advancing, trying to spread our arms wider, take on more and more, not duck it, to find out about that elasticity. Where do we break? How will it feel when we do? How will we know if we don't go there? (Watch our backs, will you?)
What's your sense of this? Is it better to try to step back from the beeping, flashing fray of digital? Or are you up for trying to take it all onboard and keep writing? No judgments here. You're right, whichever way you go. I'm waving to Pooler. She's doing the best thing for herself. And I'm pressing on. You have another tweet for me? While I'm trying to write? Bring it.
About Porter Anderson [22]
@Porter_Anderson [23] is the 2019 recipient of London Book Fair's International Excellence Award for Trade Press Journalist of the Year. He is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives [24], the international news medium of Frankfurt Book Fair New York. He co-founded The Hot Sheet, a newsletter for trade and indie authors, which now is owned and operated by Jane Friedman. Anderson previously was The Bookseller's Associate Editor for The FutureBook [17] in London. Priors: CNN, CNN.com and CNN International–as well as the Village Voice, the Dallas Times Herald, and other media including #MusicForWriters [18] series. More:PorterAndersonMedia.com [25] | Google+ [26]
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[5] the February 3 post here from Therese Walsh: http://writerunboxed.com/2015/02/03/monotasking-the-forgotten-skill-you-and-i-need-to-re-claim-asap/
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[12] iPod: http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=89465
[13] Ferrari: http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=3732
[14] Design and the Elastic Mind: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/
[15] the show's intro: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0870707329/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0870707329&linkCode=as2&tag=porterandcom-20&linkId=6L42GR5KU43WW5CY
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[18] Music for Writers: http://thoughtcatalog.com/tag/musicforwriters/
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[20] Gregory W. Brown's Missa Charles Darwin : http://thoughtcatalog.com/porter-anderson/2015/02/music-for-writers-gregory-browns-natural-selections/
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The American Society of Genealogists is the scholarly honorary society of the genealogical field. Founded by John Insley Coddington, Arthur Adams, and Meredith B. Colket, Jr., in December 1940, its membership is limited to 50 living fellows. ASG publishes The Genealogist, a scholarly journal of genealogical research semi-annually since 1980.

In a time when genealogy was frequently viewed as the realm of eccentric dilettantes, the founders of ASG were leaders advocating more rigorous research standards. This included using original sources whenever possible and documenting the source of information. Donald Lines Jacobus, founder of The American Genealogist, noted in 1960 that a new school had developed in American genealogy circles about 1930. That movement, according to the late Milton Rubincam, "wrote accounts of specific families, documented and referenced: they showed by example how problems should be solved, what sources should be used, and how records should be interpreted."

Fellows of the American Society of Genealogists, who bear the postnominal acronym FASG, have written some of the most notable genealogical materials of the last half-century. In particular, current Fellow Robert Charles Anderson is director of The Great Migration Study Project, an effort to catalogue the earliest European immigrants to New England. John Frederick Dorman completed in 2007 the fourth edition of Adventurers of Purse and Person, chronicling the earliest settlers in colonial Virginia.

Presidents
1940–58: Arthur Adams
1958–61: Walter Goodwin Davis
1961–64: Milton Rubincam
1964–67: H. Minot Pitman
1967–70: Kenn Stryker-Rodda
1970–73: Walter Lee Sheppard Jr.
1973–76: Virginia Pope Livingston
1976–79: Malcolm H. Stern
1979–82: Mary E. McCollam Harter
1982–85: John Frederick Dorman
1985–86: Noel C. Stevenson
1986–89: Henry B. Hoff
1989–92: Robert Charles Anderson
1992–95: Neil D. Thompson
1995–98: Cameron H. Allen
1998–2001: Elizabeth Shown Mills
2001–04: Roger D. Joslyn
2004–07: Marsha Hoffman Rising
2007–10: David L. Greene
2010–13: Melinde Lutz Byrne
2013–16: William Bart Saxbe Jr.
2016–19: Henry Z Jones, Jr.
2019–   : Joseph C. Anderson II

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Damián J. Fernández is an American academic administrator and political scientist who served as the fifth president of Eckerd College. Fernández assumed office on July 1, 2020, succeeding Donald R. Eastman III and resigned on August 1, 2022.

Early life and education
Fernández was born in Cuba and immigrated to Puerto Rico as a child. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in international relations with a minor in Latin American studies from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He later earned a Master of Arts in Latin American studies from the University of Florida and PhD in international relations from the University of Miami.

Career
Fernández began his career as a high school educator at Phillips Academy. He later worked as an instructor at Colorado College and associate dean at St. Thomas University. Fernández served as vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York at Purchase and vice provost at Florida International University. Fernández served as CEO and head of school of Ethical Culture Fieldston School. From 2016 to 2020, Fernández served as chancellor of the Penn State Abington. He assumed office as president of Eckerd College on July 1, 2020, succeeding Donald R. Eastman III.

As an academic, Fernández's research focuses on international relations and Cuban politics.

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Jul-23-14 MountainMatt: Every time I see the Grunfeld, I grow a bit more incredulous as to why one would want to play it. Does black really get anything out of it? It seems like white just gets a super-strong position handed to him after 10 moves and from there "all" he has to do is not blunder (easier said than done!). That's just how it looks to me.
Jul-24-14 1d410: The opening hands white the center, which white cleverly exploited this game.
Jul-24-14 shintaro go: Is harikrishna a grunfeld player? Doesnt seem he knew how to handle it.
Jul-25-14 Ulhumbrus: 13 e5?! may be too optimistic.
Instead of 13...Qd7 13...g5 undermines White's centre without delay eg 14 Bg3 f5.
al wazir: I admit I didn't see 37...Rgf8, but I would have continued 38. Qe5, as Wozzeck did in the game.
patzer2: The combination <36. Bxc6 Qxc6 37. Rxe6 Rgf8> solves today's Friday puzzle, since 37... fxe6 38. f7+ Rg7 39. d7 h5 40. Qf6 Qa8 41. Qe7 Rxf7 42. Qxf7 Qb8 43. Qxe6 hxg4 44. Qf6+ Kh7 45. Rd6 is decisive as Deep Fritz 14 @ 23 depth announces mate-in-20.
For a Black improvement, I prefer the popular move 7...c6 as in D Naroditsky vs Robson, 2015.
agb2002: White has a bishop for a knight.
Black threatens Nd4 and Rxd6 or Nf3+.
A.1) 39... Rf8 40.d7 Qa8 41.d8=Q wins.
A.2) 39... Qa8 40.d7 looks winning. For example, 40... h6 41.f8=Q+ Rxf8 42.d8=Q wins.
A.3) 39... Qc8 40.d7 as in A.2 (40... Rxd7 41.Rxd7 Qxd7 42.f8=Q(R)#).
B) 37... Rge8 38.Re7 wins a pawn with an overwhelming position (38... Rxd6 39.Rxd6 Qxd6 40.Rxe8+ Qf8 41.Rxf8#).
C) 37... Rgf8 38.Re7 Rxd6 39.Rxd6 Qxd6 40.Rxa7 with a similar conclusion as in B.
Equal but White has a bishop for a Knight.
42.Rxf7 and mate next move.
agb2002: I missed the defense A.5) 39... Qd7 40.f8=Q+ Rxf8 41.Qxf8+ Rg8 42.Qf6+ Rg7, although according to Stockfish 43.Re2, intending Rxe6 and Re8+, wins.
Also 38.Re7, after 37... Rgf8, is not near as strong as it is after 37... Rge8 and loses most of the advantage compared with 38.Qe5, controlling everything and preparing Re7 under better conditions.
Oct-23-15 Caissas Clown: saw the Rxe6 idea easily enough,but realised that it could not be played at once due to Nd4. So I went for 36.Qf3 , anticipating 36.. Rc8 to defend the N and following up with 37.d7.
Yet I overlooked(instead of 36..Rc8) 36..Na5. After 37. Qxb7 ..Nxb7,it still seems good for White,despite the LSB not controlling the queening square.
I'm sure the 2700 GM looked at that - and even surer that his solution was far better than mine !
wins due to the threat 43. f8(Q) .
patzer2: In the final position, Black resigns in lieu of 41. Qh6 Rg8 42. Re8 with mate-in-two to follow.
as play might continue 44...Qg6 45. Qxg6 hxg6 46. Ree7 with mate-in-four to follow.
kevin86: White enter with a vengeance with the rook!
Oct-23-15 Marmot PFL: Thought is was fairly easy, giving up the rook to set up the discovered check and advance the passed pawns. The knight is a defender so 36 Bxc6 Qxc6 37 Rxe6 fe6 38 f7+ Rg7 39 d7 followed by f8(Q) and d8(Q).
I arrived here successfully but then I went 39 d7 Qxh3 40 Qe4 ... I guess it wins too since the BQ is not very effective there.
A.1 38... Qa8 39.f7+ Rg7 40.Qf6 h5 41.Qe7 Kh7 42.Qe8 Rxf7 (otherwise 43.f8=Q) 43.Qxf7+ Kh6 (Kh8 44.Re2 wins) 44.Qxe6 and the d7-pawn decides.
A.2 38... Rf8 39.d8=Q forces mate soon.
CHESSTTCAMPS: In B, I overlooked the specific game defense, which allows white to utilize the Qg7 mate threat.


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