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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.

☆ This defense-tech startup bootstrapped its way to nearly $30 million in revenue. Now, it has another $35 million from Sapphire Ventures.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Now, Defense Unicorns, a startup that creates open-source software for national security systems, has announced it raised $35 million in a round of funding led by Sapphire Ventures and Ansa Capital. The world of open-source software for the military is small, making the opportunity much greater. TestifySec, a tiny startup building open-source software for the Department of Homeland Security, raised a $6 million seed round last fall. This year, Defense Unicorns says it will use the initial round of funding to go on a hiring spree. Defense Unicorns will compete for talent in artificial intelligence with tons of other startups.

Persons: —, Jai Das, Rob Slaughter, Das, siphoning, Slaughter, it's, Lockheed Martin Organizations: Service, Sapphire Ventures, Unicorns, Business, Defense Unicorns, Ansa, Department of Defense, Air Force, Lockheed, Department of Homeland Security Locations: Chicago

Why have Republicans and Democrats moved so far apart on immigration? We are publishing this as President Biden comes under extraordinary pressure to curb surging illegal immigration at the southwestern border. Republicans have held up further military aid to Ukraine, demanding more border security in exchange. And this month House Republicans opened impeachment hearings against Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, accusing him of intentionally failing to enforce immigration laws. The last big immigration reform bill passed in 1986, during the Reagan administration, and a smaller bill was signed into law four years later by George H.W.

Persons: Biden, Alejandro Mayorkas, Reagan, George H.W, George H.W . Bush Organizations: Democrats, Republicans Locations: Ukraine, George H.W .

After Hamas attacked their country this month, many Israelis fled to hotels, where they sought some version of safety. There, they’ve been processing their trauma as they move from that harrowing morning into a new world. In the Opinion video above, filmed in the days after the attack, survivors reflect on what they lost, who they blame and what’s next — for them and for Israel. Here, Israelis grapple with what can be recovered — and what is lost forever. That includes a fundamental loss of faith in a defense system that didn’t work.

Persons: they’ve, what’s, Kfar Organizations: Hamas, Israel Democracy Institute Locations: Israel, Kfar Aza

The newly launched Professional Women’s Hockey League is quickly taking shape. The head coaches are but an example of the step up in class for women’s hockey, with Ryan reunited with Gina Kingsbury, who left Hockey Canada to be Toronto’s GM. Howie Draper, who coached the University of Alberta women’s team to eight national titles, was hired by New York. The majority of the players signed had connections to their respective communities, with most national team players staying in their home countries. She attended a prep school, and played for both the now-defunct Canadian Women’s Hockey League and National Women’s Hockey League Boston-based franchises.

Persons: Hilary Knight, Philip Poulin, Kelly Pannek, Troy Ryan, Courtney Kessel, Kori, Taylor Heise, ” Heise, I’m, Natalie Darwitz, Heise, Darwitz, Lee Stecklein, Kendall Coyne Schofield, Mark Walter, Billie Jean King, Ryan, Gina Kingsbury, Carla MacLeod, Howie Draper, Charlie Burggraf, Micah Zandee, Hart, Alex Carpenter, Abby Roque, Knight, ”, “, ” Pannek, Brant Feldman, Pannek, ” Darwitz, Kelly Organizations: Women’s Hockey League, Canadian, Minnesota, Golden Gophers, Associated Press, Los Angeles Dodgers, Hockey Canada, Czech Republic national, University of Alberta, New, Bethel University, Team USA, National Women’s Hockey League Boston Locations: Boston, Marie, Quebec, Minnesota, Toronto, Montreal, ., “ Minnesota, Chicago, Boston , New York, Ottawa, New York, California, Idaho, New England, City, Plymouth , Minnesota

Kids didn’t start the war in Ukraine. In the Opinion video above, we hear from Ukrainian children who have lost a parent during the conflict. The program, called Wonder Camp, is part of a support mission in Ukraine by an international organization, Children of Heroes Charity Fund. “These kids are not part of this war, but they are casualties,” said Brice Espino, the chief executive of Children of Heroes, which provided the funding for the camp and gathered the participants. (Ahead Foundation, a Ukrainian group, supplied the camp’s personnel and ran the program.)

Persons: ”, Brice Espino Organizations: Heroes Locations: Ukraine, Ukrainian

☆ Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Honest(ish) Russian Warlord - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Kirk Semple | Jonah M. Kessel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Opinion Video above is about Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian warlord who led a short-lived rebellion in Russia last week. For months, Mr. Prigozhin, who commanded a totally ruthless mercenary force and is himself a product of the Russian kleptocracy, had been an unrestrained critic of the Russian military command, unleashing raw and candid critiques via his Telegram account. For reasons that are still not entirely clear, Russia’s leader, President Vladimir Putin, had allowed Mr. Prigozhin to hammer away at the Kremlin, which is particularly astonishing given how many of the government’s critics have wound up either imprisoned or dead. Here’s a selection of Mr. Prigozhin’s sharpest criticisms of Russia’s military leadership and the nation’s faltering war in Ukraine. The mercenary chief is a thug, and the brutal militia under his command has been accused of committing numerous atrocities.

Persons: Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin Locations: Russian, Russia, Ukraine

Around the world we talk a good game about the importance of education, but we rarely act as if we mean it. Here’s an unlikely exception: Sierra Leone, one of the world’s most impoverished countries. If Sierra Leone can do this, other countries can — and surely the United States can emulate that same determination to help every child learn. This education revolution in Sierra Leone is the brainchild of President Julius Maada Bio and his youthful minister of education, David Sengeh. A Harvard graduate, Sengeh was working for IBM when President Bio asked him to come home and help his country — but now they face a test.

Persons: Julius Maada, David Sengeh, Sengeh, Bio Organizations: Harvard, IBM, Nationwide Locations: Sierra Leone, —, United States

☆ Scientists say they have found a chapter of the Bible hidden under a section of text for more than a thousand years
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A scientist said he found a chapter of the Bible hidden for more than 1,500 years. Researchers used ultraviolet photography to spot the text, which was hidden beneath multiple edits. Researchers said the manuscript was a "gateway" to understanding phases of the Bible's evolution. Words would be written on the material repeatedly until several layers covered the hidden words underneath. Kessel said in a news release that the text was an extended, unseen version of Chapter 12 in the Book of Matthew that was originally a part of the Old Syriac translations of the Bible some 1,500 years ago.

☆ NHL roundup: Avs erase 2-goal deficit, edge Kraken
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Alexandar Georgiev turned away 27 shots for the Avalanche, who overcame a two-goal deficit and evened the Western Conference series at 1-1. Justin Schultz and Brandon Tanev scored for the Kraken, Yanni Gourde assisted on both goals and Philipp Grubauer made 38 saves. Chandler Stephenson and William Karlsson each finished with a goal and assist and Jack Eichel scored his first career playoff goal for Vegas, which evened the best-of-seven series 1-1. Mitchell Marner added two goals and an assist for the Maple Leafs, who evened the best-of-seven series at one win apiece. William Nylander contributed a goal and an assist and Zach Aston-Reese scored a goal for Toronto.

☆ NHL roundup: Alex Ovechkin hits 40 goals for record 13th time
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +10 min

Mandatory Credit: Brad Mills-USA TODAY SportsMarch 22 - On a night he was honored for passing one NHL legend, Washington's Alex Ovechkin made history by eclipsing another. Before the game, Ovechkin was honored in a 20-minute on-ice ceremony for passing Gordie Howe for second place on the all-time NHL goals list on Dec. 23. On Tuesday, Ovechkin scored his 40th goal of the season, passing Wayne Gretzky for the most 40-goal seasons in NHL history with his 13th. Barrett Hayton scored the lone goal for Arizona (27-33-11, 65 points), which saw its four-game winning streak come to an end. Alex Chiasson and Filip Zadina scored regulation goals for the Red Wings, who earned just their third victory in their last 13 games.

☆ NHL roundup: Streaking Rangers blow by Predators
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

They have scored 15 unanswered goals in their last three games, the longest streak in the NHL this season. Goalie Jaroslav Halak stopped all 22 shots he faced one night after Igor Shesterkin recorded the shutout with 33 saves. Kirill Marchenko and Liam Foudy scored goals and Patrik Laine had two assists for Columbus, which suffered its seventh loss in eight games. Daniil Tarasov made 24 saves on 29 shots before being pulled with 3:03 left in the second period. Hofer made 33 saves in his second game filling in for Jordan Binnington, who completed his two-game NHL suspension Sunday.

☆ NHL roundup: Bruins edge Kraken on Jake DeBrusk's late tip-in
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Brandon Carlo scored the first of the Bruins' two third-period goals, while McAvoy and Hampus Lindholm had two assists apiece. The winning goal was DeBrusk's third goal in three games since returning from injuries. Minnesota killed off its 22nd straight penalty in the win and has not given up a power-play goal in nine straight games. Oilers 7, Penguins 2Connor McDavid had two goals and two assists as Edmonton scored seven straight goals to defeat host Pittsburgh. Vincent Trocheck scored the only goal for the Rangers, who have lost three straight following a seven-game winning streak.

☆ NHL roundup: Golden Knights score five in third to rout Ducks
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/5] Feb 12, 2023; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Vegas Golden Knights left wing William Carrier (28) controls the puck in front of Anaheim Ducks defenseman Dmitry Kulikov (29) during the second period at T-Mobile Arena. Paul Cotter and Brett Howden also scored goals for Vegas, which increased its Pacific Division lead to three points with its third consecutive victory. Adin Hill made 23 saves for the Golden Knights to improve to 5-0-1 all-time against the Ducks. Isac Lundestrom had a goal and an assist and Frank Vatrano also scored for Anaheim. Jordan Eberle had one goal and one assist and Eeli Tolvanen added a goal for the Kraken, who snapped a three-game losing streak.

☆ NHL roundup: Sharks end Lightning's record home win streak
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The Sharks controlled play for most of the three-on-three session, and Karlsson helped the visitors post their second straight win with a slick diagonal pass that Meier easily netted at 2:19. Meier finished with two goals and an assist while Karlsson notched a goal and two helpers. The Penguins killed off a penalty in overtime, then scored during a delayed penalty call. Adin Hill didn't work too hard in stopping 16 shots to record his career-high 11th win. Vatrano scored with a backhand off a feed from Isac Lundestrom to end Anaheim's eight-game losing streak against the Blackhawks.

☆ NHL roundup: Martin Necas, Hurricanes tie Sharks late, win in OT
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

[1/8] Jan 27, 2023; Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; Carolina Hurricanes center Martin Necas (88) celebrates his overtime goal against the San Jose Sharks at PNC Arena. San Jose's Michael Eyssimont scored a go-ahead goal with 8:45 remaining in what was a wild third period. Eyssimont's second goal of the season combined with an assist earlier in the third period had the Sharks on the verge of snapping a three-game losing streak. Kings 4, Panthers 3Adrian Kempe and Viktor Arvidsson scored short-handed goals, leading Los Angeles to a win over Florida in Sunrise, Fla. Devils 3, Stars 2 (OT)Jack Hughes scored his second goal of the game 20 seconds into overtime to give New Jersey a road victory over Dallas.

☆ NHL roundup: Connor McDavid hits milestone in Oilers' win
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Barzal is on a career-best, five-game goal streak, and he has six goals and two assists during that span. Vancouver goaltender Collin Delia made 30 saves, while Elias Pettersson, Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Ilya Mikheyev each collected two assists. Ty Smith also scored for Pittsburgh, which lost its sixth straight game, just one off matching its longest losing streak of the season. Nicolas Aube-Kubel, Martin Fehervary and Garnet Hathaway also scored, Dylan Strome had three assists, and Darcy Kuemper made 25 saves. Washington has won a franchise-record seven straight road games and is 7-0-2 in its past nine games overall and 12-2-3 in its past 17.

☆ NHL roundup: Kasperi Kapanen's hat trick sends Pens past Blues
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

Oskar Sundqvist scored the only goal of the game for Detroit, which lost its third straight game. Toronto's Mitch Marner scored twice to set a club record with 19th straight games with a point. Bruins 5, Avalanche 1David Pastrnak and Trent Frederic each scored twice as the host Bruins cruised past the Avalanche. Tomas Hertl scored twice for the Sharks, who have lost five of six (1-4-1). Panthers 5, Kraken 1Carter Verhaeghe scored twice and Sam Bennett had three assists as Florida defeated host Seattle, ending the Kraken's franchise-record seven-game winning streak.

☆ NHL roundup: Alex Ovechkin nets NHL-record 787th goal with one team
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +10 min

Ovechkin's power-play goal at 8:55 of the second period came in his 1,287th game with Washington, snapping a tie with Hockey Hall of Famer Gordie Howe. Anthony Mantha set up that goal and scored one of his own before the Coyotes stormed back. Ritchie's first goal of the game sailed just under the crossbar and over the goal line to forge a tie at 9:45. Zetterlund's second goal of the game also snapped New Jersey's eight-game losing streak to Calgary. Gourde finished with a goal and two assists, Tanev added an assist, and Vince Dunn also scored for the Kraken.

Snapchat has reduced the size of its creator fund for its short-video feature Spotlight. Snapchat has once again lowered the total amount it's paying to creators who use its short-video feature Spotlight. Two other Snapchat creators similarly told Insider they saw drops in their Spotlight payments in this year and that Spotlight is less lucrative than it was when it first launched in November 2020. Snapchat doesn't say exactly how it decides which creators get paid from the Spotlight fund. Snapchat's move to reduce its Spotlight fund comes at a perilous moment for Snap.

☆ Phil Kessel: Vegas Golden Knights star breaks NHL record after not missing a game for almost 13 years
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Vegas Golden Knights star Phil Kessel has broken the National Hockey League (NHL) ‘ironman’ record after he played his 990th consecutive game on Tuesday. Kessel, 35, started his impressive streak on November 3, 2009, when he made his debut for the Toronto Maple Leafs. It’s neat,” an understated Kessel told reporters when he initially tied the record on Monday. “I’ve been fortunate.”Kessel poses with the pucks from his 990th consecutive NHL game. Ten more and Kessel will become the first player to feature in 1000 consecutive games, but he’s certainly not getting carried away.

☆ NHL roundup: Phil Kessel breaks ironman mark, scores 400th goal
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Kessel, 35, skated in his 990th consecutive NHL contest, eclipsing Keith Yandle's mark to become the league's new ironman. Colorado's Valeri Nichushkin scored a power-play goal in the first period and Logan O'Connor netted a short-handed goal in the opening minute of the third. Dominik Kubalik recorded a goal and an assist for Detroit, and Dylan Larkin scored the other goal (the first of the game). Brandon Duhaime added a goal and an assist for the Wild, who improved to 2-0-1 in the past three games. Kings 4, Lightning 2Gabriel Vilardi tallied a goal and assist for Los Angeles in a win against visiting Tampa Bay.

☆ FOTO/ Cozi în Germania, înainte de deschidere secțiilor de votare
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-15 | by ( Aliona Ciurca | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +1 min

La unele secții de votare din Germania s-au format cozi încă înainte de deschiderea secțiilor. Este vorba de orașe precum Frankfurt, Kessel și Berlin, unde s-au format aglomerații și în primul tur. Germania, BerlinGermania, FrankfurtDuminică, 15 noiembrie, are loc al doilea tur al scrutinului prezidențial. Votarea începe la ora 7:00 și se încheie la ora 21:00. Pentru scrutinul prezidențial din 15 noiembrie 2020, au fost constituite, în total, 2 143 de secții de votare.

Persons: Maia Sandu, Igor Dodon Organizations: Partidului, Partidul Socialiștilor Locations: Germania, Frankfurt, Kessel, Berlin, Berlin Germania, Moldova

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