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E-Applier Bidding App: Freelancing is becoming more and more common as technology and digitalization are widening. Many people are bringing home the bacon staying home which is nowadays considered as the most convenient and effective way to earn money. This is why it became a new profession in the wake 21st century called freelancing which thousands of thousands of people are living on.
Every Freelancer's Struggle
Freelancers are now becoming smart to adapt to new ways to earning through freelancing even more and faster. Some try working on several top freelancing sites like guru.com, freelancer.com, upwork.com etc. However, there are very few options available for freelancing jobs for beginners. Beginners tend to spend many hours to bid jobs. When they are successful to bid on jobs online, the next problem they face is to get freelance work. Therefore, many dexterously willing freelancers quit on trying to bid on jobs online and they never get to know if they had tried just a little more smartly, they would have earned a fortune online.
Avoiding Freelancing Hurdles
It is difficult to find freelance jobs online even when there are many top freelance sites that have thousands of thousands of jobs. The online employers are usually looking for freelancers who have ongoing projects with other employers too, just to be sure that the freelancer is skilled enough. But the problem is, how to get more and more freelance job opportunities with other other clients in a short time? This is where E-applier becomes a stop solution for a freelancer's needs.
What Magic E-applier Bidding App Does
E-applier is a friendly user interface with a high-end tech software that bids on jobs online automatically, or in simpler term, it is a job bidding app to bid jobs online. That's still just the tip of the iceberg. The more you will get to know about this job bidding app, the more you will benefit from it, and eventually, the more you will yearn for it as a freelancer. So, let's dig in deeper into this amazing job bidding app.
Where and How E-applier Bidding App Works
Using E-applier as your smart tool to apply for jobs online is easy. All you do is get E-Applier installed on your PC or laptop. E-applier works on the top 5 freelance websites namely upwork.com, guru.com, fiverr.com, freelancer.com, and Shark.com. As soon as you open any or all of these accounts on these top freelancing sites, E-applier starts doing its bidding work automatically. Earlier, the information you entered on E-applier user interface is used here. The job finder looks for appropriate jobs to your interests that you mentioned on E-applier. One by one it applies for many jobs falling into your wishlist. Because you have applied for several jobs online using E-applier, you soon receive messages from employers asking for your freelance work to commence. This way, all the hassle of finding the right jobs online is avoided.
Bidding App At Your Service
Not only does the software claims to fulfill all freelancing needs, but the team of E-Applier also gives you the freedom to customize this bot. For example, if you want your bot to work with other website or to have any other feature added to the app, you can simply contact our team and the experts can simply make the bot of your dreams.
Privacy Concerns
In such services where the software has to access user information, the major concern that customers have is privacy. E-Applier hasn't really left any room for negatives. It is totally your choice to enter the details of your freelance website account or simply log in to your freelancing accounts and use this software, and voila, the software is smart enough to scan the open websites and run automatically on the websites open. All you need to do is to check what websites does the software's standardly works with and you are good to go.
In a Nutshell
E-applier is really a dream come true for any freelancers who knows what hurdles there can be in the way of getting freelance work. With many job application being sent automatically by the bot, you can easily land on the best jobs very soon.
You can anytime contact the customer care service and discuss your concerns with one of the geeks available at your service 24/7.


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2012 Giro Aeon Road Bicycle Helmet. With an ingenious structural design, incredible ventilation and a nearly weightless feel, the Aeon racing Bicycle Helmet is designed for serious competition. Structural support and long ventilation channels create more air space around your head for a cooler experience. Features Giro's new ultra-light, ultra-strong, Thermoformed SL Roll Cage - a whopping 49% lighter than the sub frame used in the Ionos Bicycle Helmet. Add on the Roc Loc 5 fit system, Tri-Locs, Slimline webbing, and logo-printed pads for even further weight savings and an unbeatable fit.
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Kubler SportPunching bags made of very durable bisonyl artificial leather are suitable for professional boxing training as well as at home. The punching bags are filled with clean textile strips to prevent mold and odor and to ensure that no hard objects get into the filling. The textile filling ensures a perfect padding of the punches and kicks. With extra sewn hanging loops, 4-point chain and swivel.


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Ortiz Ventresca Bonito Tuna - 110g
Ortiz Bonito Ventresca - the belly of this highest grade of tuna (white tuna), in olive oil. Ventresca, or belly, has long been regarded as the best and most valuable part of the tuna. It is removed and processed separately from the rest of the fish before being cooked very gently to retain its texture and flavour.
This Bonito Ventresca comes in long tender flakes the high fat content of which give the tuna a deliciously melting texture and mild but rich flavour.
Ortiz bonito is only fished in season so that the regenerative cycle is protected. It is also caught by traditional fishing boats, using rods and live bait, (pole and line), which is the most selective and ecological method, meaning there is no by-catch and the quality of the tuna meat is protected from bruising. Whole fish are cut, filleted and packed by hand on the Cantabrian coast of Spain.
Product of Spain
Ingredients: White Tuna (Bonito), Olive Oil, Salt
Code [130-000-096]
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Radioactive tuna, which are thought to have been contaminated by the severely damaged Fukushima power plant, have started quickly working their way to the California coast. Levels of radioactive cesium have been much higher in specimens than recent years, leading experts to determine the radioactive bluefin tuna originated from that location. And while the levels are 10 times higher than they used to be, they are stilled considered safe to eat according to regulations adopted by the United States and Japan.
However, Daniel Madigan, leader author of Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, said it wasn't his place to tell people what is or isn't safe to consume. He added, "It's become clear that some people feel that any amount of radioactivity, in their minds, is bad and they'd like to avoid it. But compared to what's there naturally and what's established as safety limits, it's not a large amount at all."
Five months after the tsunami wreaked havoc on Fukushima, a team of scientists began testing Pacific bluefin tuna for contamination, only to discover that those captured contained levels of ceisum-134 and cesium-137 which were higher than normal. In order to make sure this wasn't some sort of fluke, they also ran tests on yellowfin tuna, which appeared to be a-okay when compared to its brethren.
Pacific bluefin tuna, which can grow to upwards of 10 feet in length, spawn in the waters off of Japan and swim to locations near California and Mexico, where they school. During their trip across the ocean, the tuna consume contaminated food such as krill and squid along the way. Although they tend to shed some of the radiation as they travel and grow, their bodies simply cannot expel everything it contains.
How do people feel about consuming radioactive tuna? You can find a smattering of tweets from various individuals on the subject below.
http://t.co/FQGmmfug that was only a question of time. #nuclearpower is a no-go.


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About me
Who am I?
On the internet, I'm known as @youtous. I'm a passionate engineer by computer science, believing that our society can be improved by my technical field. I share my work in open source and I like participative made solutions; I'm against retention of knowledge.
IT is a great field which should remain servicing humanity and improving our quality of life without degrading our planet, social rights, and should not be used against any human. There are ethics questions about any job, and I'm believing that any conscientious engineer should think his work from a "philosophe" point of view. We should remain aware of the changes happening in our environment and work for a better place to live.
I like to participate in debates where ideas are shared and exchanged.
Working domains
Since years, I've specialized myself in learning to build good architectures for software and systems. When container technologies have emerged, I liked the idea to push at the limits the way a product can be delivered in almost any system.
I work on several projects, which can be categorized as it follows
- infrastructure: cloud providers, ansible, docker (and associated clusters), log management, quality of the data and quality of service
- web development: front and back, I can build a modern application according to the standard models and trends
- security: audit, monitoring and policies - I like to deploy and work in a secure place.
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Work on Doodle Maths for 15 minutes.
Watch the video for today's lesson: Unit fractions.
Spelling: Practise your spellings (look-say-cover-write-check) for 10 minutes.
If you had a go at the History session last week, you will know that our History key question this term is: "What happened to the Titanic?"
In today's session we are going to learn more about Delia and why she bought a new hat. Use the session plan and resources to investigate!


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Who is Lawrence Mooney? Bio: Partner, Wife, Family, Net Worth, Dating
Who is Lawrence Mooney?
Host and an famous Television, author, celebrity and radio personality, he's famous as a comedian. Yes, he's none other than Lawrence Mooney, who had been born at Melbourne, Australia on April. He had been born to his parents grew up with siblings and his pal. He attended to receive his education certification, so the Nationality is held by him. He was employed as a custodian cleaner, and salesperson before getting the standup comedian and individual. He thinks in hard work and the battle, therefore that he gets achievement in livelihood and his profession. As bunch of drive time series on Macquarie Radio Networks at Melbourne, his radio career began.
He renowned because of his stand-up comic show at 2012 as Lawrence of Suburbia. When he appeared on the daytime show his broadcasting career started from 1998. Afterwards he combined from the comic sketch string "Issues" at 2012. A Australian multitalented funny person Lawrence Mooney hasn't opened about his net worth and salary. In addition, he hasn't revealed how much cash earns through profession and his livelihood. But we introduce personally about his resources and property to you. He hasn't revealed his salary and net worth, but he is media person at the Australia, so media covered him. He has lived himself and his family through his salary he purchased home and cars. Yes, his wages not just survives him himself, but he lives luxuriously and very happily. He well and has a home in Melbourne. In accordance with his twitter, he's a bicycle and two cars. He said which his family and he spent cash that was greatest.
That is the greatest piece of Sub Editing ever. Who is responsible for that? Terrific Fun. #goodonyou
— RealMalcolmTurnbull (@BigMalTurnbull) May 20, 2018
So we assume he has high net worth and wages, which he lived himself. Lawrence is a guy that is married. The Health Consultancy is worked in by his spouse Lou. The couple is living happily with family and their friends so there's no prospect of the own divorce. They supposes regarding the rumors although media covered rumors that the couple went to divorce. Typical and height of weight is standing. He's got body and a body with fine and healthy. He actives about the networks websites like Instagram and Twitter, which helps to discover regarding him about information and his bio.


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Date of Award
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Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences
First Advisor
Steven Lazarus
Second Advisor
Robert Weaver
Third Advisor
Pallav Ray
Fourth Advisor
Michael Splitt
The understanding of the momentum exchange across the air-sea interface is critical to accurately model and forecast wind speed, wave properties, setup, and circulation. This is particularly true for a restricted estuary, such as the Indian River Lagoon (IRL), where wind is the driving force behind water movement due to the limited number of direct ocean connections. Current atmospheric and hydrodynamic models use formulations of the drag coefficient and/or roughness length based on open ocean studies in which wave properties are not considered. This dissertation develops two parameterizations – one for wind setup and one for the drag coefficient – both based on wind speed, fetch, and mean water depth. Various methods of generating an hourly time series to force three wind setup parameterizations are explored using a combination of in-situ water level gauges and local wind observations. Each parameterization and forcing is tuned to IRL water level observations using a least squares fit. The best performing pair consists of a modified version of the well-known Zuiderzee formula forced by a 12-hour wind run based hourly time series. This optimized parameterization is currently being used operationally to generate ensemble setup forecasts, designed to guide the National Weather Service (NWS) in identifying potentially significant setup events that warrant high resolution hydrodynamic simulations. Wind-driven waves have been shown to play a role in determining wind stress in coastal areas and over lakes, but research is lacking on water bodies with short fetches (<10 km) like those found on the IRL. The approach here is to parameterize surface roughness based on wave age and wave steepness. Non-dimensional approaches to calculate wave energy and peak frequency, from which the needed wave properties could be determined, were evaluated for the IRL. The non-dimensional roughness was then related to wave age and wave steepness using power laws. Drag coefficients were calculated from the parameterized roughness values, with no significant difference between the wave age and wave steepness predictions for the IRL. However, the wave-based data show a slightly decreasing drag coefficient with increasing wind speed, unlike current model parameterizations. The work presented here indicates that the drag coefficient over the IRL is more dependent on fetch than water depth. Therefore, a new drag coefficient formulation, dependent on both wind speed and fetch, is proposed and evaluated for the IRL. The lack of wave instrumentation to provide the necessary observations for the wind stress research led to the development of a method to extract wave properties from video. The technique proposed here does not rely on a series of ground control points – objects with a known physical location in relation to the camera – as used in previous studies. By not requiring ground control points, the system is inexpensive, portable, and easy to deploy, allowing the collection of wave data from various locations along the estuary. Significant wave heights and peak frequencies were validated with a wave gauge located in the camera's field of view. The proposed method is robust and the errors are consistent with other video-based methods that use multiple cameras and ground control points.
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Colvin, Jeffrey Allen, "Wind-Driven Setup, Roughness, and Drag over a Depth- and Fetch-Limited Coastal Estuary" (2018). Theses and Dissertations. 1143.


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International Bikram Yoga Week!
8 April 2020Celebrating the International Practice of Bikram Yoga
Join Us for Classes in 7 Languages!
The world is currently immersed in an experience that transcends boundaries, connecting us all in a way and at a speed that few could have imagined.
Perhaps now, more than ever is the time to celebrate the ideals of diversity, peace, and working together as an international community with one common purpose. Due in no small part to the technology that has brought us together, many across the globe are finding an ability to connect with the shared passion of our yoga practice.
To honor these ideals, we felt it an opportune time to celebrate how international a practice Bikram Yoga has truly become! From 13-19 April, seven BYL teachers will be offering superb Bikram Yoga classes taught in a mix of English and their native languages!
All of this will be hosted on BYL's Interactive LiveStream platform to help you connect with your friends, family, teacher, and other yogis to get fit, energized, and mentally stronger, as you join in with other members of our wonderful BYL community from around the globe!
BIKRAM YOGA (90) in Farsi
Monday 13th at 10:00am (GMT)
Banking tech whiz and Bikram teacher, Max Rezania, returns to our schedule by popular demand!
Max leads a solid and caring Bikram class at a great pace, perfect for our current times. Technically as precise as anyone having a Masters degree in Artificial Intelligence might be expected to be, yet approaching his teaching with a relaxed enthusiasm, Max will be leading a class taught in a mix of Farsi (aka Persian) and English.
For those who have never heard this ancient language of the Achaemenid empire (550-330BC), get ready to be enchanted!
BIKRAM YOGA (90) in Swahili
Tuesday 14th at 5:30pm (GMT)
International Week means you get treated to a class taught in both English and Swahili, a language that represents a mix of Bantu and Arabic.
Jackie Githinji, gracing us with her beautiful presence from vibrant, historic Nairobi, Kenya, will lead this rare experience.
Come join us for what's going to be a Bikram class definitely worth remembering!
Jackie loves the discipline of the practice, the individual yet communal journey and the marriage of stillness, breath and movement in each asana. Book your spot and join us, wherever in the world you happen to be!
BIKRAM YOGA (90) in Japanese
Wednesday 15th at 5:00pm (GMT)
Japan is home to a vibrant culture, amazing history, and the one and only Kaya Shirota, Bikram yogini extraordinaire! We are honoured to announce that Kaya, who recently returned to the U.K. (and is in isolation in Somerset), will be teaching a class laced with elements in Japanese!
The language is beautiful, the teacher hugely passionate, and admit it, yogis, it's not like we ever really listen to everyword in the yoga room! OK, enough said, reserve your spot fast as you know it's going to book fast and come join us! ようこそ
BIKRAM MUSIC BEATS (90) in Spanish
Thursday 16th at 5:30pm (GMT)
Alessandro Mauro Vanegas joined BYL from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Having competed in yoga championships, he contributes his energy and love of teaching to his full-on classes in Bikram Yoga and Inferno Pilates.
Bringing a natural Latin flair to our Bikram Music Beats and Inferno classes at the Canary Wharf studio on Thursdays, his classes are now in full gear on our interactive LiveStream platform.
Alessandro will be treating us all to a powerful Bikram Yoga session taught in both Argentinian Spanish and English. Get ready to Tango!
BIKRAM YOGA (90) in Italian
Friday 17th at 5:00pm (GMT)
BYL teacher and two-time World Yoga Champion, Almania Colombo, will be leading a special Bikram yoga class in English and Italian!
Her classes are hugely popular for good reason – Almania brings a level of precision that yogis of all levels have used to transform their practice.
Almania first tried Bikram yoga in NYC, sporting baggy sweatpants and a long-sleeved shirt. She left that class early, vowing never to return.
Years later, she ventured back in, and after only two weeks, enrolled in the 30 Day Challenge, which she extended to 60 straight days. She attended Bikram's teacher training in 2011, and, upon graduation, traveled the world teaching and practicing.
BIKRAM YOGA (90) in German
Saturday 18th at 10:00am (GMT)
Austrian native and BYL teacher Martin Wieser, who also leads our monthly Beginners Basics Clinic, will be leading us through a pure 90 minute Bikram Yoga session partially in German!
Martin teaches a detail-oriented class, focused on breathing awareness with lots of personal attention. A qualified Ashtanga, Yin and Inferno Pilates teacher who spends a month every year in India to work with his guru, the former makeup artist is studying Hindi, holds a colony of Arabian spiny mice as pets and is a trained Bazooka marksman!
"After years of failed attempts at 'getting fit' and kicking bad habits, the strict routine, breathing exercises, and a mix of tension and release had me hooked. A class practicing yoga creates special energy and never have I found myself in a more supportive and non-judgmental environment than a yoga school. I feel blessed to be part of a great community striving for health and self-awareness." – Martin Wieser
BIKRAM YOGA (90) in Hindi
Sunday 19th at 12:00pm (GMT)
Many of our yogis have been expressing to us how deeply they have connected to the energy in BYL teacher Divya Malhotra's classes.
Divya is currently leading classes on our interactive LiveStream platform from her ocean-view apartment overlooking the Arabia Sea! If you haven't yet experienced a class with Divya, you definitely must come to try!
She is well-versed in "old school", high energy Bikram, with a challenging yet spiritually-nurturing approach. She has a unique ability to connect with her students and motivate them to achieve new breakthroughs while ensuring that no one is left behind. Come experience a groundbreaking Bikram class, at a special point in our history, led by this inspiring and uplifting teacher!


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The global Plant-Based Food Market is valued at USD 20.23 Billion in 2018 And Expected to Reach USD 36.36 Billion by 2025 with the CAGR of 8.74% over the forecast period.
Global Plant-Based Food Trends Scope:
A plant based diet is referred to foods obtain from plant sources. This way of eating plant based food has benefits for both a person's health and the planet. A plant based food is a diet that involves consuming mostly foods that come from plants. People who eat primarily plant based food tend to have a lower body mass index (BMI) and prone to lesser rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease than those who eat meat based food. Plant based diets contains high fiber, carbohydrates, and water content. This may help to keep people feeling fuller for longer and increase energy use when resting. Plant-based food provides all the necessary protein, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals for improving health conditions and is higher in fiber and phytonutrients.
Global Plant-Based Food Market Dynamics:
Changing consumers eating habits, increasing health consciousness about chronic diseases and rise in plant based food retail sales are some major factors contributed to an increasing demand of the global plant-based food market. A 2018 study found that a plant based diet was effective for treating obesity. In the study, researchers reported around 80 people who were overweight or had obesity to either a vegan diet or a continuation of their regular diet, which contained meat. For example; according to the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA), the U.S. market for plant-based foods reached at around USD 5.34 billion in 2019 increased by yearly sales growth of 11.4%. In addition, plant-based milk sales accounted for nearly 14% of the entire milk category. Plant based foods will continue to expand rapidly across the store to serve demand of consumers who are increasingly switch to vegan foods that meet their changing needs and want for more healthier options.
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New Opportunities for Food Companies:
Recently, Tyson Foods company is partnering with EDF on its Land Stewardship initiative to help farmers in its better supply chain management to make the smooth sustainability transition in response to satisfy changing consumer demand by investing in the piloting and scaling of agricultural practices that are beneficial for the environment and also profitable for farmers.
Moreover, Smithfield Foods also partnered with EDF to help grain farmers in its supply chain by adopting good sustainable practices like cover crops and lower-impact crops such as winter wheat. In this way, food companies help in meeting the increasing consumer demand for sustainable food by collaborating with partners.
According to the recent data, more shoppers prefer for plant-based foods during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the past couple years environmental, health and animal welfare concerns shift consumers to occasionally replace the meat on their plates which is one of the new plant-based products in the market. The trend of plant based food has gained traction in COVID-19 pandemic, due to meat processing plants temporarily closed due to worker illness and a connection between viruses and animal consumption.
Top Plant-Based Food Trends 2020:
- Growing Sustainable Food Production:
Sustainability has become one of the huge plant based food trends. Today, the world is more concerned with sustainability issues than ever before. According to the specialists, consumer interest in food and environmental sustainability is expected to continue grow with people preferring to know more about the environmental impact of the manufacturing and production methods of their favorite brands. It is predicted that farmers, producers, government agencies and companies would be take a closer look at how they can use agriculture land and animal management practices to enhance soil condition and disused carbon by heading towards more sustainable agriculture practices. The adoption of plant based food products rising on account of environmental, ethical and health concerns. With around 80% of US and UK consumers expecting companies to invest in sustainability in 2019 up from 64% in 2018.
- Food as a Medicine Option:
Food as a medicine is another modern plant-based food trend. The main reason behind adoption of plant-based alternatives is that consumers considered plant based food as healthier options and food companies are noticing consumers attempting to take control of their health with food choices. For example; nearly one quarter of U.S. adults reported they have initiated nutrition plan with the objective of promoting long-term health. It seems that consumers have dramatically shifted their perspective in a way that they approach food and beverage choices change in response to improve specific health issue. In addition to above plant-based food trends, with the rising health issues, people are turning to plant based alternatives. For example; 1 in 5 adults manages a health condition with having better food and beverages. It doesn't mean they are not using medicines, but they find food and beverage consumption first choice before accepting medications.
- Plant Based Dairy Food:
Plant-based dairy categories experienced rapid growth, which is the most popular plant-based food trends trend in 2020. The plant-based sales are primarily driven by increasing availability of meat and dairy alternatives including milks, cheese, yogurts and ice cream. Sales of plant-based milks increased by around 6% and now make up 13% of the whole milk category. In plant-based food trends, plant-based cheese grew 18% while conventional cheese declined. Also, plant-based ice cream and frozen novelty increased by 27%. In addition, dairy products are a core component of several nutrient rich eating patterns reported in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). Dairy foods provides vital nutrients and adding them to a plant focused meal can add an additional taste and nutrition. All these plant based food trends will spur the growth of non dairy alternatives.
- Plant Based Food Innovation:
An incredible technological innovation in the plant-based food industry will continue to expand during the forecast period. Many food companies have found a way to use plant-based options which gives meat its taste by fermenting genetically engineered yeast and using it to make patties resemble meat. This process generates nearly 85 % fewer greenhouse gases and 75 % less water than burgers from cows. For example; The U.S. plant-based meat industry was valued at around 801 million and is the third fastest growing segment of plant-based foods, behind milk and other dairy substitutes. All these plant-based food trends will spur the growth of meaty plant based diet.
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The match goes on……. The Middle Stump project organized by the Sports and Entertainment Avenue of the Rotaract Club of University of Kelaniya was successfully launched last week, the19th Of October, 2021. The project was chaired by Rtr. Shaikh Dawood and Rtr. Duleetha Sandaruwan.
A session filled with moments that made you nostalgic and gave you goosebumps, captioned: "A power play with a boundary rider" was thus held with a player who is immortal in the hearts of cricket fans, Mr. Kumara Dharmasena. Despite experiencing the event in a virtual space where some might think the interest is less and less, Middle Stump was successful in holding 300+ enthusiastic cricket lovers for an unfelt amount of time especially with the huge cooperation and clear enthusiasm of the moderator, Rtr. Osura Vindula throughout the session.
The event was packed with iconic photos and videos of Mr. Dharmasena's cricketing career. As guided by our fellow moderator, we were taken to a flashback of Mr. Dharmasena's childhood which was the threshold of his entrance to cricket. He had been a player in the prestigious Nalanda College, Colombo for the teams of under 14, under 17, under 19 categories and had even been the Captain for his under 19 team in 1990. We were subsequently driven to the most awaited moment by the audience, the story of his participation and contribution to the 1996 World Cup won by Sri Lanka. It included the stress that the Sri Lankan team had faced after the bomb in '96 when countries such as Australia and West Indies even refused to visit Sri Lanka for matches. Among such difficulties with time, Sri Lanka secured the World Cup proudly to herself. The feelings behind the procuring of the World Cup to Sri Lanka were expressed thus by Mr. Dharmasena:
"We did not understand the value of the victory we had brought to Sri Lanka until we got off from the plane and saw the enormous crowd waiting for us at the Bandaranaike Airport. It took almost four hours for us to get back to the Cricket Board. We had to stop at every junction and street to see the crowds waiting with garlands and crackers to welcome us. It almost seemed like a May day rally"
With these warm conversations regarding unforgettable memories of the national cricket team of Sri Lanka, we also got the opportunity to learn and gather knowledge about a very important but not very known topic which is "umpiring". Currently being an umpire himself Mr. Kumara Dharmasena further narrated a beautiful and exemplary journey he had in achieving his dream of being an umpire and how he managed to enter the Elite Panel of ICC in 2010, bringing a great fame to our country. We also had the golden opportunity to know the exquisite stories behind umpiring and the immense hard work and responsibility behind becoming an umpire. One of the most crucial lessons Mr. Dharmasena reminded us was to trust yourself, to be honest to yourself in order to become a successful person and maintain your self-esteem and pride by always doing an honest and truthful job.
When knowledge about cricket flowed into our hearts, we were also fed with the most beautiful moments under a separate segment titled "Fun Segment" where we got to know the story behind Mr. Kumar Dharmasena's nickname "Unanduwa". And the truth behind some of his viral social media posts. Thereafter, there was a Fan Moment where the questions of the cricket fanatics were unveiled to Mr. Kumar Dharmasena.
The final moments of the virtual discussion with the star cricket personality, Mr. Kumar Dharmasena ended with his blessings to the Rotaract Club of University Kelaniya for organizing an event in such a way that it brought about tranquility and a break from the entrapped & monotonous lives that everyone was spending at home due to the current pandemic situation. The Middle Stump session for the day was thus concluded with memories of happiness and the promise of meeting again for another session with yet another legend of the sport on the 27th of September!
~Rtr. Dehemi Marasinghe~


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Today we are celebrating the release of TOO TEMPTING by Bethany Lopez. Too Tempting is the first in an all-new small town romance series and it is a contemporary romance title. Check out the teasers and buy links for the book below.
Too Tempting
Lewis Cousins #1
Bethany Lopez
Contemporary Romance - Now LIVE!
Zoey Zahn is a quirky, introverted writer and self-proclaimed geek. When she's asked if she'll accompany her nephew, Christopher, to camp, Zoey agrees, envisioning quiet evenings of writing in the great outdoors. After she stumbles upon Gabe, however, quiet evenings alone are the last thing on her mind.
The chemistry between Gabe and Zoey is undeniable, but as camp ends, a brewing storm causes their blooming relationship to fumble. All Gabe knows is that Zoey is Too Tempting to deny, and he's determined to overcome the obstacles between them to be the man she deserves.
Too Tempting is the first in an all-new small town romance series by Bethany Lopez. Follow the Lewis cousins of Cherry Springs, the kind of place where there are festivals for every occasion and everyone knows your business, as they learn about love and loss.
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Crude oil futures are gaining on Tuesday as crude pegged an 11-month high as tighter supply and projections for a decline in U.S. inventories offset fears over surging coronavirus cases.
Crude oil climbed to above $53 a barrel on Tuesday, for a gain of 1.63%, as the commodity approached the early March highs of near $57. Meanwhile, Brent crude was 80 cents, or 1.4%, higher at $56.44 a barrel and earlier hit $56.75, its highest level since last February.
Crude ETFs gained amid the news, with the United States Oil Fund (USO) adding 1.73% and the ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Crude Oil (UCO) gaining more than 3.38%.
Saudi Arabia is set to slash output by an extra 1 million barrels per day (bpd) in February and March to curb inventories. The latest U.S. supply reports are predicted to reveal that crude stocks dropped for more than a month in a row.
"Saudi Arabia in particular is ensuring through its additional voluntary production cuts that the market is undersupplied if anything," said Eugen Weinberg of Commerzbank.
With record cuts now occurring in crude, now some analysts see further gains as likely, and are warning investors to avoid short significant risk.
"We advise investors with a high risk tolerance to be long Brent or to sell its downside price risks," said Giovanni Staunovo of UBS in a report on Tuesday.
Analyzing Future Oil Prices
Technical analysts are also suggesting a bullish increase.
"The price of oil may exhibit a bullish trend throughout the first quarter of 2021 as both the 50-Day SMA ($44.77) and 200-Day SMA( $37.43) start to track a positive slope, while the Relative Strength Index (RSI) registers another extreme reading in January to mimic the extreme behavior last seen in 2019," writes David Song, a strategist from dailyfx.com.
The analyst did warn that a sell could result however, if certain technical conditions are met.
"With that said, the technical outlook for crude remains constructive as the price of oil trades above pre-pandemic, but the RSI may indicate a textbook sell signal over the coming days if the oscillator slips below 70," Song added.
Crude also rallied on the expectation of a fall in U.S. crude stockpiles. Analysts anticipate that black gold inventories could drop by 2.7 million barrels for a fifth straight week of declines.
For investors looking for crude ETFs to play the run-up in oil, which has been fairly steady since November, the United States 12 Month Oil Fund (USL) and the iPath Pure Beta Crude Oil ETN (OIL) are two funds to consider.
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Southern Africa – Day 44 – Klein-Aus Vista, Namibia
Due to the expected wind, today, we abandoned plans to go to the ghost town, Kolmanskop. Couldn't bear another sand blown day! We thought about going to see if we could find the wild horses of Aus, at sunrise, but decided to have a much needed sleep-in instead.
So after a slow start, to the day, I decided to catch up on some laundry. Unfortunately, we set up the clothesline next to the wooden windbreak, which was very dirty from the dust. So I had to redo half the laundry again!
After lunch we went up to the bar, which is 2 km from the campsite, to use the wifi, and have some refreshments.
This turned out to be quite entertaining, as our Namibian bar tender, Eve, has never flown before, or had much concept of the distances to be traveled from Australia to Namibia. Eve thought there would be sign posts to help the pilots fly from country to country. It's amazing how some of the things, and concepts, that we take for granted, are so alien to them even now.
Four and half hours of entertaining conversation, 7 stein glasses of Hanus Beer, 2 Rum & cokes, a coke and a Fanta. All for the grand total of $26. A good afternoon.
We then, decided, to try and find the wild horses. There is supposed to be a herd of, between 80 & 200, wild horses, that have been in the Aus area for a hundred years or so. Eve had mentioned that they can usually be seen, at sunset, near a waterhole at Garub, as it's the only permanent water they can access in the region. We drove the 20 km's or so, and cooked our dinner on a rise above the waterhole. We waited until nearly an hour after sunset, but unfortunately, they didn't show. We had a lovely sunset, though!


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Philips—Sterilizable Internal Defibrillator Paddles: Insulation between Conductors in Switched Paddles May Break Down over Multiple Use Cycles; Manufacturer Issues Reminder to Perform Required Checks
September 30, 2020 | Strategic Insights for Health System
ECRI's complete weekly summary of medical device hazard and recall information is available in ECRI's Health Device Alerts. For more information contact us at email@example.com.
In a September 4, 2020, Urgent Medical Device Correction letter submitted by an ECRI member hospital and posted by he U.K. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Philips states that the insulation between conductors in the above switched internal paddles may break down over multiple use cycles. Philips also states that this problem may not be detected by the existing tests identified in the Paddle Checks section of the instructions for use (IFU). A damaged paddle may not be able to deliver a shock to the patient with the intended energy. Early signs of insulation breakdown can be detected by performing an insulation resistance test. Philips further states that this problem affects only the above switched paddles; however, Philips uses a common IFU with all models of sterilizable internal paddles (switched and switchless), and many users have both types of paddles. Therefore, Philips determined that all recipients of the common IFU should be notified to update their copies, even though the additional test is recommended only for switched internal paddles. All internal paddles wear out over time and may no longer perform as intended. The manufacturer has not confirmed the...


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The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
"The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself."
— Karl Marx
Dec 7, 2015
The media gushed all over Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, for promising to give away 99 percent of his wealth. But that's not what happened.
Zuckerberg created a "Limited Liability Corporation" that he controls. And these corporations can invest in regular, for-profit companies. So all Zuckerberg did was shift wealth from one pocket to another.
On top of that, Zuckerberg can use this new corporation to avoid taxes. So after amassing one of the biggest fortunes in the history of the world, 45 BILLION dollars, he will probably wind up paying almost NO taxes on it.
Worst of all, Zuckeberg, like Bill Gates, George Soros, the Koch brothers, and other billionaires who donate a lot to "charity," will use his wealth to control society. The Gates Foundation is one of the biggest backers of school "reform"–the word they use for all the attacks we've seen on the public schools in recent years. Soros and the Koch brothers donate enormous sums to politicians. Other charities like the Ford Foundation use their money to influence politics in the direction THEY want, all over the world.
"Charity" from billionaires like Zuckerberg is no solution to the problems we face. Instead, workers will have to take that wealth back, control it ourselves, and use it to meet our needs.


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Three immersive shows present various experiences of light, narrative, and geometric form
The Nasher Sculpture Center announces three exhibitions for spring 2016: the first US museum exhibition of Brussels-based artist Ann Veronica Janssens, whose work employs the use of light and its effects; Swiss artist Mai-Thu Perret in a Sightings exhibition; and renowned sculptor Joel Shapiro in a show featuring recent sculptural installations and drawings.
The spring exhibition schedule runs from January 23, 2016 to August 21, 2016.
Ann Veronica Janssens, January 23 - April 17, 2016
Known primarily as a light artist, Ann Veronica Janssens is interested in "situations of dazzlement… the persistence of vision, vertigo, saturation, speed, and exhaustion"—in other words, how the body responds to certain scientific phenomena and conditions put upon it. Her ability to create these sensations in the body is contingent on the way light acts upon and within architecture and the sculptural objects that Janssens makes. Often, to further extend the desired effects of light's various qualities, she creates environments in which she can test the science of the eye with the manipulation of light within the space, sometimes deploying fog to act in giving shape, as it were, to light. In her Nasher exhibition, the first one person museum exhibition in the United States for the Brussels-based artist, Janssens will install several sculptural works that will allow viewers to encounter shifts in surface, depth, and color, challenging perception and destabilizing their sense of sight and space.
Sightings: Mai-Thu Perret, March 12 - July 17, 2016
Swiss-born Mai-Thu Perret has spent the last 16 years making work born from a fictional feminist art commune she created called The Crystal Frontier. Set in New Mexico, the imaginary women of the commune make work that runs the visual gamut, from the painterly to the sculptural, often employing the aesthetic tropes of Modernism and aligning the women with utopian art historical movements. Her work at the Nasher will build off of a performance Perret recently staged in Geneva, which drew on the ancient Japanese puppetry form bunraku and elaborated a narrative involving a journalist, an Indian mystic, a 19th-century American Shaker, a 1950s computer programmer and an artificial intelligence.
Joel Shapiro, May 7 - August 21, 2016
One of the most prominent and influential sculptors of the era, Joel Shapiro has long explored geometric form through structural compositions of rectangular elements that visually and physically challenge the possibilities of balance and weight. On view in his Nasher exhibition will be a series of recent, brightly painted, suspended forms that hover in space at different heights and angles, creating "a jungle gym for vision," as Los Angeles Times critic Davis Pagel puts it. A series of recent drawings will also be on view, as well as key works by Shapiro from the Nasher's permanent collection.


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Review: 2013-10-26, nice shots between John Lineker and Phil Harris: it gets three stars. John Lineker (22-6-0, 59% finishing rate) entered as the No.13 flyweight in the world while Phil Harris (22-10-0, 77% finishing rate) entered as the No.39. Lineker vs Harris is on the undercard of Lyoto Machida vs Mark Munoz – UFC Ufn 30. Watch the video!
Event: UFC Fight Night 30: Machida vs Munoz
Date: 2013-10-26
Where: Phones 4u Arena, Manchester, UK
Division: flyweight (125 lbs, 57 kg)
UFN 30 fight card (main fights):
Lyoto Machida vs Mark Munoz
Melvin Guillard vs Ross Pearson
Jimi Manuwa vs Ryan Jimmo
Alessio Sakara vs Nicholas Musoke
John Lineker vs Phil Harris
Lineker's previous fight: John Lineker vs Jose Maria Tome
Lineker's next fight: John Lineker vs Ali Bagautinov
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The Forum > Article Comments > Some thoughts on the Bali bombing > Comments
Some thoughts on the Bali bombing : Comments
By Irfan Yusuf, published 5/10/2005Irfan Yusuf argues the Bali bombing was an attack on Indonesian Islam.
Irfun as usual your piece is timely and thought provoking. As usual it will trigger the usual string of ant-Muslim comments which frustrate balanced debate.
Note that since you wrote the piece JI's spiritual head, Abu Bakar Bashir, has issued a defacto Press Release from his prison cell. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16813119-23109,00.html He said "I really disapprove of bombings in non-conflict areas for whatever reason, including in Bali, because it can be almost certain that innocent and unknowing victims would fall," however he said he was particularly saddened if such attacks claimed the lives of "people whose religion is Islam". Bashir also advised the Indonesian Government to "approach closer to Allah" by practising God's law as best as it can. Irfun. This backs up your Islamic infighting thesis. Perhaps JI and Co's message to the Indonesian Government is 'don't suppress radical Islam (as a religion and political movement) in Indonesia or we'll make it much much worse' On calls to ban JI. JI, unfortunately, is not just a terrorist organisation. It is at the sharp end of a radical Muslim religious and political movement in Indonesia. For many, as yet moderate young Indonesians, it must seem like a type of "Robin Hood" to the "infidel" West's "Sheriff". The Indonesian Government fears that if it banned JI it would just be glorifying it - thus giving JI and radical Islam generally a wider following. If the calls come from the West to ban JI it would also antaganise natioanlist sentiment ("Australia and US don't tell us what to do") in addition to the religeous backlash. Reluctance to ban JI is not appeasement. Indonesia is always keeping back the forces of religious, ethnic and geographical fragmentation. Also sending the JI organisation underground would remove the current ability of Indonesian security agencies to keep tabs on many "legal" JI members. Being able to keep an eye on the "devils you know" while swatting the illegal terrorists (who occasionally come up to meet them) is a seemingly contradictory but effective art. Posted by plantagenet, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:17:46 PM
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good post plantagenet and thanks for the insight Irfan.
Posted by Kenny, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 1:40:25 PM
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Three posts in plantagenet and your prediction about anti muslim diatribe has yet to be proven corret - and I am amazed; I have always enjoyed Irfans commentaries for their style as well as their content. This piece is no exception.
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Have to make it four posts without anti-muslim sentiment. V/interesting angle about sufis, Irfan, really appreciate your insight on this latest horror.
Did anyone watch Insight on SBS last night? V/impressed by Indonesian speakers - the sincerity, the passion, the desire for friendship w/Australia. All this before the latest bombings. My condolences to all who have suffered. Would love to hear some stories about individual Balanese and how they are coping. Cheers Posted by Scout, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 3:23:26 PM
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Irfan, I've not read the other posts, just your article.
I'm writing from Singapore, and on 2 things in your piece I totally agree. 1/ It is an attack on "Indonesian" Islam (in the popular cultural sense) and 2/ The Yemeni traders were "Sufi's" Those to facts are very indicative of 'which' source the attacks are coming from. They are clearly Islamic, but which 'brand'.... one can only presume that it is Wahabi or Salafi, of which there are a-plenty in Indonesia. I've been travelling on the MRT here in Sg, and I tell you, I almost packed death when I saw a 'dubious' looking character with a back pack and playing with his mobile. Then, even more so when 2 very determined looking Indonesians were walking along in the MRT with a Back Pack and the other using a mobile.... sends shudders up on'es spine. I don't suppose they showed the severed heads of the bombers on the front page of the Age or Herald, but they sure did here. The point I'd like to make in this post is that as I've been saying all along, its the 'agenda drivers' who we are at war with. Not the Irfans or Fellow Humans. So, don't take it personally when we attack what we perceive to be the scriptural justifications for those who wish to harm us. (and many other 'collateral's' along the way) Posted by BOAZ_David, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 4:10:00 PM
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If it were an attack on Indonesian sufist-style Islam, why didn't they just blow up an NU office and blame it on the Christians? That should have served their purpose well enough. I still think Westerners were a target as were the non-Muslim majority of Bali.
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Weekly News Roundup 12/20 to 12/26
Tinsel-eating German shepherd needs emergency operation
It was a nightmare before Christmas for Benji the German shepherd, who swallowed his body length in festive tinsel and ended up needing surgery. The unlucky pooch wolfed down the shiny material before owner Olivia Mullen could decorate her tree. The 31-inch piece of tinsel became tangled in the pet's stomach, and veterinarians said it could have proved fatal. Mullen said Benji was recovering well: "This is the first time he's ever done anything like this. He doesn't even go after shoes or toys, so it was a total surprise." The tree wasn't up yet, and he had actually gone rooting through a box. . . . more
Veterinary school's mobile surgery unit gets $150,000 boost
Purdue University's College of Veterinary Medicine's mobile surgery unit, Priority 4 Paws (P4P), is a shelter medicine program that combines community service with education for fourth-year veterinary students. Now the program is getting a significant boost in the form of a $150,000 grant from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust. Since P4P's founding in 2012, the mobile surgery unit has logged more than 100,000 miles traveling across the state to help animal shelters by spaying and neutering shelter animals while also greatly increasing opportunities for veterinary students to gain hands-on surgical experience. In 2019, the unit served about 2,000 animals, bringing the total served since the unit's inception to about 16,000. . . . more
Police therapy dog busted for stealing donated toys
A police department's therapy dog sparked a hilarious internal investigation after officers noticed donated toys for the holidays seemed to be disappearing from the room they had carefully placed them in. An officer working the night shift noticed Ben Franklin—a friendly golden retriever who has free rein of the building—seemed to be on a mission. He was walking back and forth between his office (he has a bed under an officer's desk) and a classroom housing a bunch of donated toys slated to be Christmas gifts. The officer pulled out his phone and started recording as the dog walked out of the room with a baby doll in a basket. . . . more
Dog chases cat up tree and gets stuck, too. Firefighters have to rescue both
As the dog days of 2019 near an end, one dog is feeling the worst of it. A classic tale of dog-cat rivalry took a turn toward the ridiculous in Lathrop, California, when a German shepherd sent a fuzzy black cat skittering up a tree. Then, the dog shot up the trunk in hot pursuit. The shepherd's enthusiasm immediately came back to bite him as he quickly found himself trapped in the tree just a few feet from his feline foe, who was unable to make a move. Arriving firefighters soon discovered they were rescuing not only a cat, but a dog, too. Even as the helpful humans prepared the ladder, the dog seemed to be shimmying his way closer to the disgruntled cat. . . . more
A shelter dog had a stick stuck in his mouth for years
He was playing a permanent—and painful—game of fetch. Florida dog Buddy, eight, was getting a teeth-cleaning last week at a shelter in St. Petersburg, Florida, when the veterinarian observed something odd: a stick was lodged between two of the dog's teeth. "Our veterinarian had noticed some rotting. She estimated that it had been stuck between two of Buddy's molars for three or four years," said Holly Clare, the shelter's communications manager. "It completely embedded its way into the roof of his mouth, sort of creating a bridge," says Clare. Living with the twig for nearly half his life seriously damaged two of Buddy's teeth. "It caused both of his teeth to rot on either side—so our veterinary team had to extract both of them," Clare said. Despite his dental woes, Buddy's life has been on the upswing. . . . more


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Traditional property in Almeria area.
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New Delhi: Honda will stop offering the diesel option in its Indian lineup from early next year. Honda currently has four diesel models on sale in India; these include the City, Amaze, Jazz and WR-V.
Honda says goodbye to diesel engines in India
Ahead of the implementation of Real Driving Emissions (RDE) norms in India from April 2023, the Japanese automaker will stop production of its 1.5-litre i-DTEC diesel engine, which is currently offered in the Amaze, City (fifth generation) as well as the WR-V crossover.
The new RDE standards, which require major investment in diesel engines to be retrofitted to meet new stringent emissions regulations, have resulted in several diesel models across brands being grouped together. For example, the Hyundai Grand i10 Nios and compact sedan Aura quietly ditched the diesel offering earlier this year, while the premium hatchback i20 is lined up next door to lose the option.
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Customers in India can still buy diesel Hondas until the end of March 2023, but the company plans to deplete its diesel stock in showrooms across the country before stricter emission norms come into effect, exactly three years after BS VI emission norms were mandated. from April 1, 2020.
Honda Cars India has already discontinued the diesel Jazz, WR-V and also select variants of the Amaze compact sedan. In addition, the automaker is phasing out the current generation Jazz, WR-V and City (fourth generation) as these three models are nearing the end of their life cycle. The rest of the portfolio will see end-of-life diesel variants between December 2022 and February 2023.
Autocar Professional reports that after the implementation of BS VI emission norms in April 2020, 21 percent of Honda's total car sales came from the 1.5-litre diesel engine. However, this share further declined to just 7 percent of total sales due to a shift in customer preference towards gasoline-powered cars. HCIL has registered sales of about 30,000 to 35,000 units of diesel vehicles between CY2020 and CY2022.
Honda introduced the 1.5-litre diesel engine – christened 'i-DTEC' – in India in 2013 with the launch of the first generation Amaze compact sedan. The company says that the BS VI compliant engine has a certified fuel consumption of 24.7 kpl in the manual variant of the Amaze, while it delivers 24.1 kpl in the larger City sedan. In the WR-V crossover, this 1.5 diesel power unit provides a certified fuel consumption of 23.7 kpl.
Complete stoppage of Honda diesel engines made in India
Apart from stopping production of the 1.5-litre diesel, sources revealed that HCIL will stop manufacturing and exporting the 1.6-litre diesel engine from March 2023. India currently exports this 1.6-litre power unit to Thailand for use in the Honda CR-V in overseas markets, including Thailand and the Philippines.
It is learned that HCIL's suppliers have been informed well in advance of this planned phasing out of these diesel engines and the company will stop manufacturing them at its Tapukara plant in Rajasthan.
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Abandoning diesel in line with the global trend
Honda's decision to eliminate diesel from its portfolio can be understood as being in line with overall market trends. Over the past few years, leading automakers in India and overseas have already exited or outlined plans to exit the diesel segment, especially in the small displacement (sub-2 liter) category, where the technology cost of meeting even stricter emission norms is relatively high.
Over the past ten years, the share of diesel vehicles in India has fallen sharply from a peak of 54 percent to 20 percent, and the shift accelerated after the implementation of BS VI Phase-I emission norms. Diesel's contribution to hatchbacks and sedans has all but disappeared, with SUVs now accounting for the lion's share of demand.
While the likes of Hyundai, Kia, Mahindra & Mahindra and Tata Motors continue to offer a diesel alternative in the compact and mid-size SUV segment, the Japanese OEM brigade has given up on diesel and is instead focusing on hybrid drive technology.
More stringent criteria with RDE standards
The upcoming RDE norms will mandate OEMs to meet emission targets, particularly those set for particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) in the BS VI guidelines, now in a real-life scenario rather than just an engine test. bench. This would in effect require a near-optimal emission performance in different geographical scenarios across India.
Industry experts say this would require the implementation of technologies such as Selective Catalytic Reduction or SCR (Additional NOx Reduction), which is currently used in high-displacement engines and will prove to be extremely cost-prohibitive, especially for diesel engines up to 1500cc.
However, Honda will continue to focus on its renowned i-VTEC petrol engine technology with the 1.2L and 1.5L naturally aspirated petrol engines powering the Amaze and City models in India. It will also focus on the newly introduced powerful hybrid drive in the City e:HEV.
Honda, meanwhile, is working to launch an all-new SUV in the Indian market around mid-2023 to regain its market share, which has seen a significant decline in the past few years due to lack of a strong SUV product portfolio.
diesel engines productionThe new mid-size SUV will come with both petrol and powerful hybrid powertrains. Honda is hoping hybrid technology will make up for its departure from diesel, although it remains to be seen how competitive the 1.5-litre hybrid can be priced (which is expensive in the city).
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Stephen Greenblatt On How The Story Of Adam And Eve Shaped History
Has there been a more consequential story to the history of humanity than that of Adam and Eve?
In the assessment of Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare scholar and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Swerve," probably not. But for Greenblatt, the significance of the origin story of Abrahamic religions ranges past its tangibly profound impact on the course of western society, presenting an unmatched opportunity to explore the elusive yet absolute power of stories.
"This is fiction at its most fictional, a story that revels in the delights of make-believe," Greenblatt writes in the introduction to his new book "The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve."
"Yet millions of people, including some of the subtlest and most brilliant minds that have ever existed, have accepted the Bible's narrative of Adam and Eve as the unvarnished truth."
Greenblatt and I met to discuss the book. Read excerpts of that conversation, below.
Talya Zax: What drew you to the subject of Adam and Eve?
Stephen Greenblatt: In general I'm drawn to the question of why stories are so powerful, why they haunt people, why they stay in people's minds, why they, in extreme cases, become real. I'm a Shakespearean by vocation for whom characters like Hamlet, King Lear and Falstaff seem to have come alive, so I'm interested in that phenomenon. Adam and Eve is the extreme example of that in all of Western culture, for Jews, Muslims and Christians alike. I became interested in this as the paradigmatic story of our culture for its origin and for its meaning.
How would you summarize the story told by "The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve?"
The shortest possible account would be that an ancient myth, or ancient story, began to take on a life of its own and then took a remarkable turn: It gradually, for millions of people, became real. The story, in that sense, is a Pinocchio story: How does the puppet with the obvious strings start dancing, without the strings, and actually come alive? The twist of the story is that it turns out that the danger of coming alive is that you also die; the story, as a claim on reality, begins to crumble. It returns, in effect, to where it came, which is to say to myth. My story is about a myth that becomes real and then returns to myth.
What do you think the future of the story of Adam and Eve might look like?
As part of this whole project I've been trying to think about why it is that when they do polls, not just in the United States – which is an extreme case – but even elsewhere in the world, so many people don't seem to believe the Darwinian account, which sits at the route of much modern science. The same people who go and have CAT scans and all kinds of things that depend upon a set of research assumptions about the world nonetheless believe in a completely different theory of the world. Why is that?
Darwin published "The Descent of Man" in 1870, that's just really yesterday. 150 years ago; it's nothing. We don't know when the Adam and Eve story originated, but if we try to imagine the Adam and Eve story 150 years after it began to circulate, that's before hundreds, even thousands of people – artists, writers, profound intellectuals, ordinary people – invested their imagination and energy in it. I'm curious as to what will happen to the evolutionary story when the evolutionary story gets its Augustine, gets its Durrer, gets its Milton.
What will happen to the Adam and Eve story, if I would speculate, would be that it would be like Sophocles's "Oedipus." Everyone gets that Sophocles's "Oedipus" is an incredible imaginative achievement, but no one believes that there was a man named Oedipus who killed his father and married his mother. They think the story is beautiful in itself, and it says something quite important about deep structures in human life. But the idea that you would have to sign on to thinking that it's true, that seems to me to be fated to disappear – true in a naturalistic sense; true in a scientific sense; not true in the way we say literature is true or art is true.
The trope is that we live in a secularizing world, but there are scores of people who still have deeply-felt religious beliefs that are tied specifically to this story.
I have them. I'm not, as you say, the village atheist in this regard, and I'm not interested in waging a campaign against believing it. The continued power of the story, or the continued spiritual feelings of human beings doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I think, actually, it's the notion that we'd be in a completely evacuated secular world that strikes me as an increasingly implausible hypothesis, given the anthropological evidence of what human beings have been like for the last 50,000 years.
Can you tell me a bit about your own religious life?
I grew up in a conservative household, I kept kosher, when I was young I wasn't allowed to cut paper or write on Shabbat. My parents made various accommodations to the world, my father loved baseball and would leave the television on before dark on Fridays so he could have a look at it on the channel he wanted. At a certain point I had a kind of skeptical dissilusionment. I would say if I had a single a watershed moment in my life – like everyone's life, it's more complicated than this – but if I had a single watershed moment, I was in England, I had a Fulbright after I graduated from college, and Yom Kippur came around. I'd never lived very far from the orbit of my parents, my world, and Yom Kippur came around and I decided – do I believe in any of this? And the answer: No. So why am I doing this, why am I fasting, why am I going to shul?
So I thought, alright, I won't. I treated the day like any other day. At the end of the day I was fine, no lightning bolt came out of the sky to knock me down, my parents didn't have to know. But I had a kind of reckoning at the end of the day: I had succeeded in making the day like any other day, so nu? What kind of achievement was that? And I felt that I had actually flattened my life out in a way that was actually not what I wanted.
I'm not a deeply observant person, but I'm observant enough. It makes the rhythms of life interesting to me.
In your book, you explore how the story of Adam and Eve emerged in response to external influences, specifically the Babylonian origin story encountered by the Hebrews during the Babylonian Exile. How did that story impact your own concept of what it means to be Jewish?
I was familiar with it in some sense. People have known since the 19th century, for example, that the Noah story has an antecedent and it is, I think, reasonably well-understood that it's naïve to think that the antecedent means that "ah yes, the Hebrew story is true," it just means that this is a story that was circulating in Mesopotamia for a very long time.
If I had had a commitment to the idea that Jews invented every bit of this, as it were, from nowhere, then maybe I would have been surprised or shocked, but I already understood, again, talking about Shakespeare, things always come from somewhere else. Things never actually originate where you think that they originate. So I wasn't actually taken aback by that. What I did think when I thought more about the Hebrew exile in Babylon, I did think that miserable anti-Semite Nietzsche – anti-Semite is not quite right, he's more complicated than that – that miserable Jew-and-Christian-hater Nietzsche had this critical error. His account that the ancient Hebrews must have been motivated by tremendous rage at the people who oppressed them, to my uneasiness, I sort of got it.
The other thing to say is that it's really interesting that the Tanach doesn't begin with Abraham. It begins with Adam and Eve, who aren't Jewish, and, as you know aren't Hebrews. The origin story is not the origin of our tribal people and our tribal god; the origin story is the origin story of humanity, in which we are a part. It's kind of wonderful that the story begins that way, and not with Abraham, because it is an acknowledgment that we are just one piece of a very big part of humanity. It's not an accident that people speak now of the Mitochondrial Eve, because Eve is that kind of metaphorical representation of species destiny, not simply a tribal destiny.
This book demonstrates the ways in which no culture or tradition is really independent. How you see this particular story, and the way that you've chosen to tell it, in the context of current debates about cultural appropriation?
I hadn't thought about that in this context at all. My instinct is that this is actually quite a good story for cultural mobility, not for rootedness or exclusivity, in terms of this particular history of its uses in the West. It's not an accident that it's appropriated by Jews, Christians, Muslims; the sharing of the same story doesn't mean that we're all friends. But it does mean that cultural materials can't be boxed in and strictly owned.
I can imagine people saying this is a story that's caused more death than we can comprehend. Wouldn't it be better if the Hebrews hadn't felt the need to write something in response to the Babylonians? If it hadn't crossed borders, would there be more peace?
I don't know about the death part, but suffering, yes. The Augustinian idea of original sin, and then the misogynistic uses of the story, I think caused a lot of suffering. But your hypothetical person who says this seems to me to actually understand surprisingly little about how virtually all culture works, which is that it doesn't come in a neat, clean and perfectly safe package. What is the alternative that's being proposed? What are the models of an absolutely perfect set of beliefs that don't hurt anybody?
Cultures are complicated. It's a constant negotiation and struggle, including the Adam and Eve story. There are parts of the story that are extraordinarily wonderful and important, and there are parts of the story that are horrible, that can be used for horrible purposes. You don't have to roll over and play dead; you actually have to be much more active in relation to all of the things that you receive.
You're a Shakespeare scholar by training. What initially brought you to expand from Shakespeare to these greater looks at intellectual history?
I've always danced around in other areas. When you think about Shakespeare himself, his mind was all over the place. Though I'm no Shakespeare, one of the things that appeals to me about Shakespeare is the odd way in which his mind flits from Ancient Rome to Bohemia to prehistoric Britain, and so forth. Why should one define the world narrowly?


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I run Hatha, Vinyassa, Yin, Iyengar-style yoga and Yoga Nidra classes and Sound Baths at locations in the Cotswolds, retreats in the Cotswolds and abroad, and also work with clients seeking private yoga classes at their choice of location.
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My retreats are a great way to re-connect with yourself in beautiful natural surroundings. I run retreats both in the UK and abroad. All are suitable for those new to yoga, and experienced yogis alike. The retreat experience is designed to heal you, inspire, awaken your inner self, give you a new purpose, rejuvenate and awaken the love within you, however flexible you are!
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I am one of just two graduate teachers in the UK for the International House of Reiki (see more here) and am a board member of the UK Reiki Federation (see more here).
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Reiki Level 1 (Shoden) course
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Thick slices of pineapple, brushed with honey, are the basis for this tropical dessert off the grill. Chef Jean Joho adds a tropical sauce which combines honey, pickled ginger, aged rum, and pineapple juice, and a scoop of coconut ice cream. If you've been using the grill to prepare your meal, toss a few more briquettes into the hot grill when your main course comes out. The coals will be ready when it's time for dessert. Chef Joho says he particularly loves the hot and cold contrast in this dessert.
- Pineapple - 1 Large, Golden-ripe
- Chestnut Honey - 3 teaspoons (alt. other flavorful honey)
- Pickled Ginger - 1/4 teaspoon, minced
- Aged Dark Rum - 2 tablespoons
- Pineapple Juice - 2/3 cup, fresh
- Unsalted Butter - 1 tablespoon
- Quenelles - 6 scoops (alt. coconut ice cream)
- Pistachio nuts - 1/2 cup, roughly chopped
Prepare a grill for direct heat cooking: Light a charcoal grill and let the coals burn until covered with light grey ash. Or, light a gas grill according to manufacturer's directions. Place the cooking grate on top, brush with a little vegetable oil, and let heat for a minute or two until hot.
Prepare the pineapple: Cut off the top with its stiff leaves, then cut away the hard skin. Reserve 18 of the smallest leaves for garnish. Trim out the eyes. Remove the core. Cut the pineapple crosswise into 3/4-inch to 1-inch-thick slices. Place the slices on the prepared grill and cook 45 seconds to 1 minute, until marked by the grill. Lift the slices, turn 45 degrees, and grill again to create crossing grill marks. Brush the slices with a little of the honey. Turn and grill 30 seconds on the second side. Remove when the pineapple slices just begin to soften; set aside on a plate, grill marks up.
Heat a skillet over the coals and add the remaining honey. Cook until the honey begins to caramelize and turn a deeper color. Add the ginger and cook 30 secoonds. Pour in the rum and pineapple juice and stir up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan. Cook until slightly thickened and reduced by about one third in volume. Remove from heat; set aside.
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