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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.

Persons: Naipaul, Neil Shah, James Wood —, Zack, who’d, ”, Artemisia Gentileschi, Susanna, Elders ”, I’m, ” Gustave Flaubert, “, ” Zack, it’s, Bruce Chatwin, Paul Gauguin, Salman Rushdie, Somerset Maugham, Kathryn Bigelow, Philip Glass, Arundhati Roy, Booker, Joseph Conrad, Conrad, Jacques, ” Conrad, brimming, ’, ’ ”, Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, ” Lispector, Maugham, eludes, Jan van Kessel, Elder, — Pieter Bruegel, —, Rebecca West —, “ Black Lamb, J.R, Hammond, Wells, Rebecca West ”, sloughed, Henrik Ibsen’s, Rosmersholm ”, Karan Mahajan, Salman Toor, what’s, ” Hemingway, Anoushka Shankar, Ravi Shankar, Harold Bloom, Ravi, Uday, René Daumal, Rasa ”, ” Anoushka, Norah Jones, Norah, I’ve, “ Raphael, Rachel Cusk, Italy ”, Perugino, Raphael, Cusk, J.M, Samuel Beckett, Gabriel García Márquez, Thomas Pynchon’s, James Joyce, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Marcel Proust’s, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Read, Emma Kehlbeck, Quinton Kamara Organizations: Amherst College, Elders, Fayerweather, ”, Google, Sunday Times, Somerset, Yugoslavia, The, “, . Locations: Delhi, ”, Massachusetts, Italian, Topeka, Kan, Amherst, New York, London, Patagonia, New Delhi, Torrens, Cambridge, Polish, Ukrainian, Brazil, Flemish, Victorian England, “ H.G, Fairfield, United States, “, East, Lahore, Europe, America, Texas, Side, Manhattan, India, Italy

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.

Poli Devi, whose 11-month-old daughter Janvi was among the children who died due to kidney injury after consuming contaminated cough syrup, holds a photo of her at their house in Ramnagar on the outskirts of Jammu, India, March 28, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNEW DELHI, Oct 4 (Reuters) - India's drug regulator has found that a cough syrup and an anti-allergy syrup made by Norris Medicines (NORI.BO) are toxic, according to a government report, months after Indian-made cough syrups were linked to 141 children's deaths worldwide. Koshia said Norris used to export the cough syrup, but did not say where. "We are aware of the CDSCO report and have communicated with that agency to ascertain where the products... have been exported," said a WHO spokeswoman. The CDSCO also found three batches of COLD OUT syrup made by Fourrts (India) Laboratories contaminated with DEG and EG.

Persons: Poli Devi, Janvi, Anushree, Koshia, Norris's, Norris, Vimal Shah, S.V, Veeramani, Adani Wilmar, Krishna N, Jennifer Rigby, Andrew Heavens, Nick Macfie, William Maclean Organizations: REUTERS, Norris Medicines, Central Drugs Standard Control, EG, Drug Control Administration, Reuters, World Health Organization, WHO, Laboratories, World Health Organisation, Fourrts, Pharmaceuticals Export, of India, Thomson Locations: Ramnagar, Jammu, India, DELHI, Gambia, Uzbekistan, Cameroon, Gujarat, Fourrts, Iraq, pharmexcil

☆ Lost Truman Capote story published after discovery in notebook
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —An unknown story by Truman Capote has been published for the first time, after it was discovered hiding in plain sight in a red notebook belonging to the acclaimed author. Capote, a famous American writer and novelist, was born in New Orleans in 1924 and died in 1984. “Then in a red notebook, there was a handwritten short story from Truman Capote. “The whole work of finding these unpublished works is something which I have to say is satisfying when it comes to fruition. But generally it’s something very, very frustrating, because you’ll find that you’re always coming up with nothing,” he told CNN.

Persons: Truman Capote, Capote, ”, Andrew F, Gulli, James M, Cain, Iris Greentree, jilts, “ It’s, Ernest Hemmingway, John Steinbeck, H.G, you’re, aren’t Organizations: CNN, of Congress, Truman Locations: American, New Orleans, Washington’s, Sicily, Wells

☆ Iowa’s New Law Banning Books Hobbles Public Schools - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Bridgette Exman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The one book that especially pained me was “Friday Night Lights” by H.G. When I pulled the sole copy from its tidy place among the B’s to reread, I noticed its tattered, torn and taped cover. It gives me no joy to limit the books available to them, and I am grateful that in the end I was able to keep “Friday Night Lights” on the shelf. The law mandates that school libraries may only contain “age-appropriate” books free of any “descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act” as defined by Iowa Code. In a particularly draconian move, the law holds individual teachers and school librarians accountable for violations.

Persons: Iowa’s, ” Organizations: Iowa Locations: Iowa

☆ Fact Check-UFO-themed Spanish ad falsely shared as real footage
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Staged footage of a UFO plunging into the ocean, which was created for a Spanish advertising campaign in 2009, is being shared on social media, wrongly labelled as a real sighting. Películas Pendelton founder Luis Manso confirmed to Reuters in an email in February that the video was part of an advertising campaign for Terra. A video titled “Making of ‘El Ovni Gallego’” was uploaded to YouTube in October 2009 (youtu.be/fmxsZbssmDE). Media reports about the advertising campaign can be seen (here), (here), (here). Video shows a Spanish advertisement released in 2009, not a real UFO sighting.

Persons: El Ovni Gallego ”, Pendelton, Doyle Dane, Películas Pendelton, Luis Manso, El Ovni Gallego ’ ”, Edgar Lledó, Orson Wells, Wells, Read Organizations: Outmanoeuvring Fighter Jets, Helicopter, YouTube, Reuters, Terra, Hollywood, Media Locations: Spanish

☆ A New Arrival in ‘The Country of the Blind’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Alexandra Jacobs | More About Alexandra Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND: A Memoir at the End of Sight, by Andrew LelandAfter reading Andrew Leland’s memoir, “The Country of the Blind,” you will look at the English language differently. You will even look at the word “look” differently. While posing considerable challenges, this has given him what most authors of nonfiction crave: a definitive Big Topic. For now, Leland is mostly a visitor to the “country of the blind,” a title borrowed from an H.G. He’s studied its customs and concerns, and his liminal state lets him act as tour guide to an oblivious sighted citizenry.

Persons: Andrew Leland, Andrew Leland’s, Leland, Charlie, “ Flowers, Algernon, ”, he’s, Wells, He’s

☆ The Dark Magic Wrought by a Nazi Occultist and a Doomed Horror Film
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Miguel Salazar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

SILVER NITRATE, by Silvia Moreno-GarciaSilvia Moreno-Garcia’s dexterity with genre — oscillating between horror, thriller, crime and gothic — is well known by now, as is her penchant for mashing them with historical Mexican settings. Her stories have ranged from a quest narrative and romance in an alternate 1920s Mexico to a reimagining of H.G. She has three loves: horror movies, her white Volkswagen and her childhood friend Tristán Abascal, a tall, handsome, washed-up actor. When he reaches out to reconnect, it means he’s between relationships; this time he also needs to borrow her car. The plot is set into motion only after a long conversation between the two friends and Abel Urueta, Tristán’s neighbor and a once-famous Mexican horror film director.

Persons: Silvia Moreno, Garcia Silvia Moreno, Wells’s, Doctor Moreau ”, ”, Tristán Abascal, James Bond, Abel Urueta, Wilhelm Ewers, Ewers, “ Organizations: Volkswagen Locations: Mexico, Mexico City, Montserrat, Nazi

☆ Science Fiction From Latin America, With Zombie Dissidents and Aliens in the Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Emily Hart | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A spaceship lands near a small town in the Amazon, leaving the local government to manage an alien invasion. Across Latin America, shelves labeled “ciencia ficción,” or science fiction, have long been filled with translations of H.P. Now they might have to compete with a new wave of Latin American writers who are making the genre their own, rerooting it in their homelands and histories. Shrugging off rolling cornfields and New York skylines, they set their stories against the dense Amazon, craggy Andean mountainscapes and unmistakably Latin American urban sprawl. The avalanche of original science fiction is timely, arriving as many readers and writers in Latin America feel choked by the folksy tropes of magical realism and desensitized by realist depictions of the region’s struggles with violence.

Persons: Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, New York skylines Locations: America, Wells, New York

☆ Trump's White House blocked government websites aimed at helping Americans vote, fighting human trafficking, easing homelessness, and stopping fraud, federal records show
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Federal agencies asked the Trump White House to approve dozens of new ".gov" websites. Such custom ".gov" website domains enhance government agencies' ability to effectively provide and market services to an American public that's all but universally connected to the internet. On December 23, 2019, the CIA asked Trump's White House to approve the website domain DataTransport.gov. Chiu/APBlock and delayIn at least one case, Trump's White House denied a website request — the United States Agency for International Development-sponsored ProsperAfrica.gov — that Biden's White House later approved. In March 2021, Office Management and Budget officials denied Insider's FOIA request, stating that "no responsive records were located."

☆ Cancelaria de Stat vine cu precizări referitor la majorarea tarifelor pentru închirierea spațiilor din incinta Casei Presei
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-07 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: Foto: Nadejda RoscovanuCancelaria de Stat vine cu precizări referitor la majorarea tarifelor pentru închirierea spațiilor din incinta Casei PreseiÎn contextul lansării Apelului public din 6 aprilie 2021 al organizațiilor neguvernamentale din domeniul mass-media privind majorarea plății pentru locațiune, Cancelaria de Stat vine cu unele precizări privind raționamentul acțiunilor inițiate în acest sens. Potrivit Contractului-model de locațiune, Anexă la Regulamentul cu privire la modul de dare în locaţiune a activelor neutilizate, și anume pct. Direcția generală pentru administrarea clădirilor Guvernului, fiind gestionar al bunului imobil proprietate de stat Casa Presei (mun. Totodată, Regulamentul cu privire la modul de dare în locaţiune a activelor neutilizate, aprobat prin H.G. Prin urmare, Cancelaria de Stat, în calitate de Fondator/autoritate abilitată, urmează să verifice corectitudinea modificărilor operate doar după negocierea acestora de către părțile contractante.

Persons: Nadejda, Pușkin, Locatorul Organizations: Casei Presei Locations: lit, Chișinău, H.G

☆ România a suspendat zborurile din și către Regatul Unit. Cei care intră în țară stau în carantină
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-20 | by ( Milena Onisim | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +3 min

Potrivit sursei citate, decizia vine ca urmare a creșterii alarmante a numărului de noi cazuri de coronavirus care a dus la impunerea carantinei generale în sud-estul Angliei și a capitalei, Londra. Londra și sud-estul Angliei intră în a patra etapă de măsuri de carantină generală, în contextul creșterii numărului de infecții Covid-19 datorate unui nou tip de coronavirus. Organizaţia Mondială a Sănătăţii (OMS) a anunţat că studiază împreună cu oficialii britanici noua tulpină a virusului, despre care se crede că este cu 70% mai contagioasă. Numărul țărilor europene care au luat decizia de a interzice zborurile din Regatul Unit este în creștere. Olanda, Belgia și Italia au impus deja sau vor impune restricția de a călători cu avionul și trenul iar Austria, Franța și Germania plănuiesc să adopte această măsură.

Persons: Urgenţă, francez Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Ursula von der, Charles Michel Organizations: Art, Management, OMS Locations: Regatul Unit, România, Angliei, Londra, Unit al Marii Britanii, Irlandei de Nord, Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii, H.G, României, Olanda, Belgia, Italia, Austria, Franța, Germania, UE

☆ Abandon universitar, cariere de succes şi antreprenoriat
▼ + stars: | 2020-09-30 | by ( Ciprian Iftimoaei | ) adevarul.ro time to read: +12 min

Proporţia părăsirii timpurii a educaţiei şi formării în UE în 2019 a variat de la 3,0% în Croaţia la 17,3% în Spania. Despre abandonul universitar/ părăsirea studiilor superioare nu avem prea multe informaţii, deşi acest fenomen este studiat în alte spaţii academice. Până prin anul 1999, când admiterea în învăţământul superior se realiza pe baza unui examen, cazurile de abandon universitar erau puţine. Astăzi, deşi învăţământul universitar din România este organizat după sistemul Bologna (3 ani studiile licenţă, 2 ani masterul, 3 ani studiile de doctorat), abandonul universitar ia amploare. În antreprenoriat, sunt foarte importante atmosfera şi atitudinea; cunoştinţele şi formarea de competenţe în antreprenoriat vin pe parcursul formării elevilor şi studenţilor.

Persons: îşi, Sergiu Voicu, . coord, Vlad Mocanu Organizations: Banca Mondială, UE, universitari, Cuza, Uniunea Europeană, Universitatea de Vest, Impact, Oficiul, Oradea Locations: Spania, România, Malta, Bologna, judeţul Iaşi, Iaşi, Belgia, Timişoara, antreprenoriatul

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