CONNECT Aberdeen Deena Tissera Embracing diversity Q: How would you describe your Sri Lankan roots and connection with Sri Lanka? A: My upbringing in Sri Lanka ingrained a deep connection to its rich culture, vibrant traditions and warmhearted people. It’s the place of my birth and education, and where I witnessed the beauty of its diversity, resilience of the people and challenges they face. These experiences cultivated compassion, humility and empathy in me. Though I’m now in the UK, I remain closely tied to my Sri Lankan heritage, and actively seek ways to give back to the country that shaped…
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Carving a path through cloud-swathed villages and centuries-old tea estates, the new long-distance Pekoe Trail gives hikers a chance to explore Sri Lanka’s quiet central highlands. National Geographic – September 24, 2023 When I reach Galaha in Sri Lanka’s central highlands, the sun is high in the sky and the streets are clouded with dust. Tuk-tuks rattle around women in red saris flecked with gold, narrowly missing the one-eyed dog sleeping in the road. Amid the honking and coconut selling, I hear a familiar sound — Beethoven’s Für Elise — moving closer, crackling from a tuk-tuk selling fish buns, and…
The new office will be overseen by Vice President Kamala Harris and led by Stefanie Feldman, a policy adviser to President Joe Biden on gun issues. By Zoë Richards President Joe Biden announced plans Thursday for the White House to establish a first-of-its-kind office of gun violence prevention. The new office will be overseen by Vice President Kamala Harris and led by Stefanie Feldman, a longtime policy adviser to Biden on gun issues. Its creation is a win for advocacy groups that have been pushing Biden for years to designate an office to coordinate gun violence prevention measures across the federal government. “I’ll continue to…
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An inflatable module that may one day replace the International Space Station (ISS) has blown up. For the fifth time. But don’t worry, it was intentional. All five explosions were carried out by Sierra Space, a commercial company which hopes the module will form part of the Orbital Reef space station, a venture led by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin. It has been labelled a ‘mixed-use business park in space’. In 2031, the much-loved ISS will be retired and brought crashing back to Earth, splashing into the Pacific in a region known as Point Nemo, or the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility. Sitting between New Zealand and South America,…
KEY POINTS BEIJING — U.S. chipmaker Nvidia this week soundly beat analysts’ expectations for major revenue lines — except in automotive — as Chinese demand for electric cars moderates. The automotive segment primarily sells chip systems for assisted driving. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang touted it last year as the company’s “next billion-dollar business.” But the unit’s growth has slowed this year. Huang didn’t repeat such projections in the latest earnings call. In the three months ended July 30, automotive revenue fell by 15% from the prior quarter — the first sequential decline in more than a year. The sequential decrease primarily reflects lower overall…
Featuring a look ahead to forthcoming editions of the competition where the rules are made up and the points don’t matter ESPNcricinfo – 19 September, 2023 The Asia Cup, which is the world’s premier cricketing tournament for countries that tell their friends they hate each other but constantly send each other “U up?” texts, has finally ended. As is standard for situationships of this nature, nobody is really fully happy with how it all went down. So let’s debrief. I guess. Oh god. RULES FOR THE NEXT JAYSIA* CUP For several tournament cycles, the ICC has unashamedly put India and…
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The Asia Cup final featured a display of high-intensity, wicket-seeking new-ball bowling from India, with spot-on execution to boot Fifth ball of his second over, Mohammed Siraj is flying down the field. He is racing away from the pitch, in white hot pursuit of one of the handful of shots a Sri Lanka batter middled. Dhananjaya de Silva has only check-driven a fullish ball on the stumps, without much of a backlift, so there’s limited power in the shot. In normal circumstances, this would be stopped by the fielder at mid-on, and this would have yielded one run at most. These are not normal…