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☆ An Exhibition Proposes Alternatives to Removing Contentious Statues
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Siddhartha Mitter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This article is part of our Museums special section about how art institutions are reaching out to new artists and attracting new audiences. A year earlier, while visiting the museum, Mr. Biggers had encountered a statue by Thomas Ball that depicted Abraham Lincoln standing tall, his outstretched arm hovering above a freed slave who crouches seminude at his feet. Ms. Gilman had expressed her discomfort about continuing to show it without context. “The museum was almost ashamed, it seemed, of the piece being in their collection,” Mr. Biggers said in a recent interview in his studio in the Bronx in New York City. And I was like: This is actually an opportunity to open things up.”

☆ Instant View: Here’s what experts think of India's surprise rate decision
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +16 min

The monetary policy committee (MPC) retained the key lending rate or the repo rate (INREPO=ECI) at 6.50% in a unanimous decision. With the likely softening of CPI to the low- to mid-5% levels in the coming month, the current repo rate of 6.5% implies that India’s real policy rate will hover around 1% during 2023-24, while maintaining a policy rate differential of about 1.5% with the US. Room for additional rate hikes has been retained with MPC’s policy stance continuing to remain unchanged at ‘withdrawal of accommodation’. We believe the bar for future rate hikes has increased, especially since near-term prints of CPI will be sub 6%. Scope for further hikes is limited given our growth-inflation outlook and impact of the past rate hikes on the same.

☆ Inside Nike: Sources share claims of sexism, cheating, abuse at the world's wokest brand
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Joshua Hunt | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +51 min

The conservative blowback came as no surprise to Parker, who told Nike's board of directors to expect some short-term backlash. In late 2014, the BBC sent a film crew to Portland to interview several former Oregon Project employees. "He would be at the side of the track calling out runners' splits but wouldn't call Kara's out," Adam Goucher told me. When people asked why she left the Oregon Project, she said it was a "personal decision." "I don't think it has anything to do with who the CEO is," Goucher told me.

☆ Indian shares fall on rate-hike worries ahead of Fed, RBI minutes
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Bharath Rajeswaran | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The Nifty 50 index (.NSEI) was down 0.86% at 17,674.50, while the S&P BSE Sensex (.BSESN) fell 0.85% at 60,150.93 as of 10:34 a.m. IST. Both the Fed and the Reserve Bank of India were due to release minutes of their latest policy meetings, giving investors a glimpse of their thinking on future rate-hike trajectories. "Fear of a hawkish Fed has gripped markets and kept investors on tenterhooks." Global markets fell after an unexpectedly strong reading of S&P Global's composite purchasing managers' index (PMI) showed that the U.S. economy was not cooling. ($1 = 82.8330 Indian rupees)Reporting by Bharath Rajeswaran in Bengaluru; Editing by Janane Venkatraman, Nivedita BhattacharjeeOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

[1/5] Indian billionaire Gautam Adani speaks during an inauguration ceremony after the Adani Group completed the purchase of Haifa Port in Haifa port, Israel January 31, 2023. "The kind of fall that we are seeing in Adani stocks is scary," said Avinash Gorakshakar, head of research at Mumbai-based Profitmart Securities. After losing $86 billion in recent days, the seven listed Adani Group entities now have a combined market capitalisation of about $131 billion. LIC owned a 4.23% stake in Adani Enterprises as of end-December and more than 9% in Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone. Siddhartha Mohanty, one of LIC's managing directors, said in interviews on Monday that the insurer was engaging with the Adani Group but was positive on its investments.

☆ Siddhartha Mukherjee on How Cellular Medicine Could Fight Cancer, Diabetes
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Alex Ossola | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

It took centuries for scientists to get a complete picture of the cell, the tiny units of life that make up every living thing. Flash forward, and doctors are increasingly working at the cellular level, transplanting or altering individual cells to find treatments for diseases like cancer and diabetes. Siddhartha Mukherjee, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and cancer physician, believes this new understanding of cellular medicine could lead to medical breakthroughs—ways to repair our cells, or someday even enhance them. In his latest book, “The Song of the Cell,” Dr. Mukherjee also warns of ethical gray areas that could result from cellular medicine’s potential to augment human cells.

☆ ‘Jacob’s Room’: A Young Man Etched in Absence
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Micah Mattix | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

James Joyce ’s “Ulysses” was published in Paris, and T.S. Because of this, Virginia Woolf’s novel “Jacob’s Room,” which was also published in 1922, hasn’t always received the attention it deserves. That some of her later novels—“To the Lighthouse” (1927) and “The Waves” (1931)—are perhaps even more accomplished hasn’t helped. Yet, it was in “Jacob’s Room” that Woolf first experimented with the episodic narrative she would use in “To the Lighthouse.” The novel also contains some of Woolf’s most startling sentences. One character observes that “each word” fell from Jacob’s mouth “like a disc new cut.” That may not always be true of Jacob, but it is of Woolf’s novel, which is full of such coins.

☆ OMS cere ţărilor să asigure un acces egalitar la vaccinurile anti-COVID-19 şi măsuri împotriva noilor tulpini
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-07 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

„Nu putem lăsa nicio ţară şi nicio comunitate în urmă”, a spus Kluge, care a considerat „vital” ca lucrătorii sanitari şi cei din categoriile de risc să aibă acces prioritar la vaccin. Responsabilul OMS a calificat drept „promiţătoare” lansarea campaniei de vaccinare în Europa şi a subliniat importanţa ca ţările membre să contribuie la asigurarea unui acces egalitar la vaccinuri. „Nimic nu arată deocamdată că vaccinul nu va funcţiona împotriva noilor mutaţii, dimpotrivă există evidenţe că va fi eficient”, a declarat la o videoconferinţă expertul OMS, Siddhartha Datta. El a evidenţiat totuşi necesitatea de a realiza mai multe cercetări şi de a supraveghea îndeaproape evoluţia mutaţiei detectate în Marea Britanie şi a celorlalte variante. La rândul său, Hans Kluge a cerut ţărilor să facă „tot posibilul” pentru a reduce transmiterea şi a spori controlul pentru a identifica noile variate ale coronavirusului.

Persons: Hans Kluge, OMS, Kluge, Siddhartha Datta ., Europa Organizations: OMS Locations: Europa, Copenhaga, mutaţie, Europei, incidenţa

☆ OMS ia în calcul posibile "certificate electronice de vaccinare" pentru călătorii
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-04 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

El a avertizat că orice iniţiativă tehnologică nu trebuie să copleşească ţările în mijlocul măsurilor luate pentru combaterea pandemiei de coronavirus, trebuie să respecte diferite legi şi să asigure trecerea frontierelor fără probleme. De exemplu, unele aplicaţii naţionale de urmărire a cazurilor de Covid-19 nu funcţionează în străinătate. Estonia şi OMS au demarat în octombrie un proiect pilot privind un certificat digital de vaccinare - „un card galben inteligent” - pentru o eventuală utilizare în urmărirea datelor medicale şi pentru consolidarea programului internaţional COVAX, lansat de Organizaţia Mondială a Sănătăţii pentru a asigura accesul echitabil la viitoarele vaccinuri.„Analizăm cu multă atenţie posibilitatea utilizării tehnologiei în combaterea crizei Covid-19, inclusiv modul în care putem colabora cu statele membre în vederea obţinerii unui certificat electronic de vaccinare”, a declarat Siddhartha Datta, un expert OMS în materie de vaccinuri, în cadrul unei videoconferinţe de la Copenhaga.Un alt oficial OMS, Catherine Smallwood, a declarat că Organizaţia Mondială a Sănătăţii nu recomandă utilizarea „paşapoartelor de imunitate” ca parte a măsurilor privind revenirea la o anumită normalitate în ceea ce priveşte călătoriile transfrontaliere.„Nu recomandăm paşapoartele de imunitate şi nici testarea ca mijloc de prevenire a transmiterii transfrontaliere” a Covid-19, a mai spus Smallwood, care a cerut în schimb ca fiecare stat să studieze datele privind transmiterea virusului şi să elaboreze ghiduri de călătorie.Ea a afirmat totodată că OMS nu recomandă testele rapide antigen folosite de unele companii aeriene pe aeroporturi, în condiţiile în care testele antigen sunt mai puţin precise decât testele PCR moleculare şi astfel unele cazuri de infectare ar putea rămâne nedetectate.

Persons: Siddhartha Datta, Catherine Smallwood, călătorie.Ea, OMS Organizations: OMS Locations: străinătate, Estonia

☆ The definitive story of how a controversial Florida businessman blew up MoviePass and burned hundreds of millions
▼ + stars: | 2019-09-13 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +28 min

In 2017, he became the CEO of data company Helios & Matheson Analytics. At that price MoviePass would start losing money when a subscriber used the service more than once a month. MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe and Helios & Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth after the company hit 1 million subscribers. The same day MoviePass reached 1 million subscribers, a milestone it hit faster than Netflix and Hulu. Related storiesTo draw a crowd, MoviePass blasted out an invitation to the Big Boi show to its then 2 million subscribers.

Persons: John Travolta, He'd, " Gotti, John Gotti, Travolta, Ted Farnsworth, Mitch Lowe, who'd, he'd, Farnsworth, Lowe, Gotti, Dave Kotinsky, Samantha Lee, Stacy Spikes, Spikes, Spikes wasn't, MoviePass, —, Ava DuVernay, Malcolm D, Lee, Hulu, Hamet Watt, Chance Yeh, He's balding, He's, Ted I, La Toya Jackson, couldn't, Matheson, Watt, Helios, Mitch, Ted, MoviePass swag, Dennis Rodman, Jerry Media, hite, Boi, ann u, abi l, tim e, red tha, ord, ul, hal, ove, flo, ann o, bec, lon, Jen, liv, dre Organizations: HBO, Manhattan's SVA, Helios, Matheson Analytics, Netflix, Matheson, MoviePass, SEC, Sony, Miramax, Loews Cineplex, Spotify, Pandora, AOL, True Ventures, Business, Ventures, AMC, Federal Communications Commission, Matheson's, Reuters, Hulu, Coachella Valley Music, Arts Festival, Jerry, acc, pla Locations: Manhattan's, MoviePass, Houston , Texas, San Francisco, America, New York, Florida, India, New, Palm Springs , California, Coachella, fes, ord, pla, Mo

Câte cărți din această listă de 130 din literatura română și universală ai citit? Mircea Eliade – Maitreyi#5. Liviu Rebreanu – Ciuleandra#21. Liviu Rebreanu – Adam și Eva#22. JRR Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings#102.

Persons: Facebook, Mihail Bulgakov, Maestrul, Margareta, 2, George Orwell, Nicolae Dabija, Mircea Eliade, Maitreyi, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marin Preda, Feodor Dostoievski, Liviu Rebreanu, Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Antoine, Saint, Margaret Mitchell, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Ernest Hemingway, Ion Druță, Jane Austen, Adam, Eva, Frédéric, Hector, Lev Tolstoi, Anna Karenina, Victor Hugo, Emily Bronte, J.K . Rowling, Harry Potter, Ion, Mihail, Dan Brown, Erich Maria, Irvin D ., Nietzsche, Anne Rice, Alexandre Dumas, Monte, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Bram Stoker, F . Scott Fitzgerald, Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra, George Călinescu, Haruki, Henri Charriere, Mario Vargas Llosa, Milan Kundera, Stendhal, Roșu, Sisif, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chuck Palahniuk, Elisabeth Gilbert, Harper Lee, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo, Herman Hesse, E.B . White, J.D . Salinger, Jose Saramago, Marcel Proust, Stieg Larsson, Patrick, Paulo Coelho, William Shakespeare – Romeo, Adolf Hitler, Mein, Aldous Huxley, Aureliu Busuioc, Boris Pasternak, Camil Petrescu, Procust, Cela, Charles Dickens, Dante, George R.R, Martin, Guy de Maupassant, Haruki Murakami, Kafka, Siddhartha, Ioan Slavici, Johann Goethe, Jules Verne, Kurt Vonnegut, Mircea Cărtărescu, Napoleon Hill, Octavian Paler, Ray Bradbury, Simone de Beauvoir, Somerset, Sun, Umberto Eco, JRR Tolkien, Douglas Adams, Suzanne Collins, Audrey Niffenegger, C.S . Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, Stephen King, Amin, Madeleine L’Engle, Margaret Atwood, Khaled, Orson Scott Card, Markus Zusak, William Shakespeare, Anne Frank, Frank Herbert, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tatiata, Milan, Joseph Heller, Stephen Chbosky, Arthur Golden Locations: Pădurea spânzuraților, Eat, Notre Dame, Paris

(doc) Top 100 cărți recomandate de către cititorii din Moldova în cadrul Book ChallengeVineri, 29 august, pe Facebook-ul din Moldova, prin intermediul lui Alexandru Vakulovski, a apărut o nouă provocare: utilizatorii de Facebook trebuie să numească Top 10 cărți care i-au marcat sau Top 10 cărți preferate. Echipa #diez, a încercat să colecteze cât mai multe liste ale utilizatorilor și să facă un Top 100 a cărților care i-au marcat pe cititorii din Moldova. Din aceste liste, iată care este Top 100 cărți care ne-au marcat:Top 100 cărți care au marcat cititorii din Moldova#1. Mircea Eliade – Maitreyi#5. Victor Hugo – Notre Dame de ParisÎntreaga listă cu peste 600 de cărți o puteți vedea aici: Lista cu Top 10 cărție care au marcat cititorii din Moldova.

Persons: Alexandru Vakulovski, Mihail Bulgakov, Maestrul, Margareta, 2, George Orwell, Nicolae Dabija, Mircea Eliade, Maitreyi, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marin Preda, Feodor Dostoievski, Liviu Rebreanu, Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Antoine, Saint, Margaret Mitchell, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Ernest Hemingway, Ion Druță, Jane Austen, Adam, Eva, Frédéric, Hector, Lev Tolstoi, Anna Karenina, Victor Hugo, Emily Bronte, J.K . Rowling, Harry Potter, Ion, Mihail, Dan Brown, Erich Maria, Irvin D ., Nietzsche, Robert, Alexandre Dumas, Monte, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Bram Stoker, F . Scott Fitzgerald, Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra, George Călinescu, Haruki, Henri Charriere, Mario Vargas Llosa, Milan Kundera, Stendhal, Roșu, Sisif, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chuck Palahniuk, Elisabeth Gilbert, Harper Lee, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo, Herman Hesse, Irina Binder, J.D . Salinger, Jose Saramago, Marcel Proust, Mihaela Rădulescu, Patrick, Paulo Coelho, William Shakespeare – Romeo, Adolf Hitler, Mein, Aldous Huxley, Aureliu Busuioc, Boris Pasternak, Camil Petrescu, Procust, Cela, Charles Dickens, Dante, George R.R, Martin, Guy de Maupassant, Haruki Murakami, Kafka, Siddhartha, Ioan Slavici, Johann Goethe, Jules Verne, Kurt Vonnegut, Mircea Cărtărescu, Napoleon Hill, Octavian Paler, Ray Bradbury, Simone de Beauvoir, Somerset, Sun, Umberto Eco Organizations: Challenge Vineri, Facebook Locations: Moldova, Pădurea spânzuraților, Eat, Notre Dame, Paris

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