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He was a model to me of artistic labor and discipline, even if those early paintings were painfully amateurish. The painting followed me from Amherst to my first job in New York, and on to London and Delhi. IT WASN’T MY intention to start an essay about artistic beginnings with a story of artistic death. I’m especially moved by those first moments of validation by which an artist comes out to himself, as it were. It’s this, the inexorability of the correspondence between an artist and the world, that gives those first steps their magical quality.

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He was a model to me of artistic labor and discipline, even if those early paintings were painfully amateurish. IT WASN’T MY intention to start an essay about artistic beginnings with a story of artistic death. No one captured the massive cultural and economic disparities of my life in Delhi (and his in Lahore) like Toor. But quite unbeknown to me, Toor’s life in New York had opened up a new vein of material. Not everyone who sees a Michelangelo can go off and paint a Michelangelo.”THERE ARE SO many ways to begin.

☆ Opinion: My 12-year-old son is cutting school… and I couldn’t be prouder
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Opinion Paul Hockenos | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Berlin CNN —My 12-year-old son is cutting school on September 15 — an act of non-violent civil disobedience that his mother and I approve of entirely. Then-15-year-old Swedish student Greta Thunberg leads a school strike in Stockholm, 2018. Irish schools students demand immediate action on climate change during the "Global School Strike for Climate Action" march from St Stephen's Green to Leinster House in 2019. An array of climate activist groups surged in the slipstream of the global climate strikes, and now campaign on their own and together with it. The majority must mobilize and the global climate marches are one, high-profile, legitimate way to do it.

Persons: Paul Hockenos, ”, Paul Hockenos Hayyan, Greta Thunberg, Michael Campanella, Essien, ” They’ve, Stephen's Green, Artur Widak, — Organizations: CNN, Berlin CNN, Leinster House, Deal, Biden, Future, Entrepreneurs for Future, Twitter, Facebook Locations: Berlin, Europe, New Berlin, Stockholm, Sweden, Montana, Stephen's, Germany, California, Greece

☆ 16 Adults on the Virtues and Pleasures of Being Bad - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

They’re almost enough to make you forget the pleasures of being a little bit bad. We asked 16 writers — most of them respectable adults — about the irresponsible, immoral, indulgent things they do. Years later, we bumped into each other in public, resulting in a humiliating exposition that left everyone questioning my sanity. Can’t stop won’t stop ShopliftingWhenever I’m at the airport, I like to do a little shopping at the Free Store. Yes yes yes.

Persons: —, it’s, I’ve, Kennedy, Dan Cathy, Burger King, Jack, they’re, Chick, I’m, ”, Tell, Wranchers, pant, Henry Hill, Bob Hughes, — let’s, Kelly I, It’s, Saint Augustine, “, It’s icky, Jamieson Webster, Rinee Shah Organizations: Harvard, New York Times Locations: British, New York, “, YOLO, San Francisco

☆ Tackling the threat of mudslides in soaked California
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Matt Udkow / Santa Barbara County Fire Department via AP fileWhy is California prone to mudslides? Since New Year’s Eve, the California Department of Conservation’s landslide mapping team has documented more than 300 landslides. Lancaster said California has dramatically increased its efforts to identify hotspots since the Montecito mudslides. After the 2018 mudslides hit Montecito, the Los Angeles Times reported that debris basins above the community were undersized and hadn’t been sufficiently emptied. The organization hired an engineering company to map the canyons and installed debris nets.

The benchmark S&P 500 index (.SPX) has since relinquished the last of its gains made in a summer rally. ET, Dow e-minis were up 333 points, or 1.13%, S&P 500 e-minis were up 52.25 points, or 1.42%, and Nasdaq 100 e-minis were up 189.25 points, or 1.67%. Concerns about corporate profits coming under pressure from soaring prices, an economic downturn and higher interest rates have roiled Wall Street in the past two weeks. Analysts have cut their S&P 500 earnings estimates for the third and fourth quarters, and for all of 2022. For the third quarter, overall S&P 500 earnings are seen rising just 4.6% year-over-year, compared with the 11.1% growth expected at the start of July.

☆ Futures bounce off Wall Street's 2022 lows
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterTraders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., September 26, 2022. ET, Dow e-minis were up 261 points, or 0.89%, S&P 500 e-minis were up 41 points, or 1.12%, and Nasdaq 100 e-minis were up 145 points, or 1.28%. Oil stocks rose on the back of a sharp recovery in crude prices, with Exxon (XOM.N) and Chevron (CVX.N) up nearly 2% each. Later in the day, investors will be watching for August durable goods orders as well as consumer confidence for the month. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Susan Mathew in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'SilvaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Gold firms on dollar pullback, rate-hike jitters cap gains
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A display of gold ornaments at a gold shop in Chinatown, Bangkok, Thailand, 10 March 2022. Gold prices rose on Tuesday as the dollar's rally paused, but prices held close to a 2½-year low on expectations of further policy tightening by the U.S. Federal Reserve in its efforts to quell soaring inflation. Prices hit their lowest level since April 2020 at $1,620.20 on Monday. Holdings of SPDR Gold Trust, the world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, fell 0.40% to 943.47 tons on Monday from 947.23 tons on Friday. Spot silver was up 1% at $18.52 per ounce, platinum rose 0.5% to $855.91 and palladium was steady at $2,046.84.

☆ Fed's Evans sees interest rates at 4.25-4.5% by year end
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Earlier this month Evans was still advocating for interest rates to peak at 4%. That called for the Fed to be "watchful" and adjust policy "if changes in economic circumstances dictate," Evans said. Fed Chair Jerome Powell last week warned of "pain" ahead for the economy as the central bank cools demand, with interest rates set to be held at their peak for some time, a sentiment echoed by his colleagues. Investors currently see a 70% probability of another 75-basis-point hike at the Fed's next policy meeting on Nov. 1-2, according to an analysis of Fed funds futures contracts compiled by the CME Group. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Lindsay Dunsmuir; Editing by Catherine EvansOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

The exterior of the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building is seen in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 14, 2022. Asked at a Washington Post event whether he felt U.S. investors had taken an overly optimistic view of Fed policy until a recent sharp sell-off begin, Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic said that was beside the point. "Until that happens we're going to see I think a lot of volatility in the marketplace in all directions." "At the moment, inflation remains too high," Collins said in her first policy remarks since becoming head of the bank. The Fed maintains a 2% inflation target, as measured by the personal consumptions expenditures price index.

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