This is a two part post of two chapters of Caroline Corner's The Paradise of Adam The Record of Seven Years Residence in the Island published in 1908.The main reason I am posting the chapters because it references meeting Orabi Pasha. Orabi Pasha (Ahmed Orabi) was a Egyptian army general, and nationalist of fellahin ancestry (peasant class) who led a ...
This post is mainly a extraction from Wikis for Sinhala Hound and Pariah Dogs and Indian pariah dogI dont know why its Sinhala Hound and not Sri Lankan Hound.The Indian pariah dog is a purebred dog category of pariah dog. The Indian Native Dog (INDog) is an ancient autochthonous (landrace) type of dog that is found all over South Asia. ...
The Math Olympiad results seems to indicate Sri Lankans are about comparable to Bangaladeshis in Math capabilities (Approximately 70th rank). We Sri Lankans seem to be doing far worse than India and Brazil (23 and 20 respectively). Sri Lanka has a Math Olyimpiad organization too and has quite a bit of information on the site http://www.slmathsolympiad.org/ . Complete results of ...
Tessy Thomas is the first woman scientist to head a missile project in India. An expert of solid system propellants which is used in Agni missile, Dr. Tessy Thomas earlier has worked as Assistant Project Director in the successful launch of India's longest range nuclear capable Agni III Inter Ballistic missileThe tranquil backwaters of Alappuzha, advertised as the perfect setting ...
Got sticker shock when I saw the rates to Sri Lanka from the AT&T package in the US.If you use a Skype like package it USD 0.16/min (and that does not include internet data usage).If you use the World Connect package its USD 1.23/min (yes USD 1.23 min or SLR 150/min).The other standard option is to use phone cards available ...
Nice article by Michael Eddleston et al in PlosOne which says Poisoning bigger cause of Death than Road accidents in Rural (North Western Province) Sri Lanka.Here is breakdown of the numbers of the biggest causes of death. Obviously most of the poisoning cases are self inflicted and the road deaths accidental.
Ibogaine appears to be successful in treating Heroin, Cocaine and other Addiction.The drug, derived from the root of a central African plant called iboga, had been used for centuries by the Bwiti people of Gabon and Cameroon, as part of a tribal initiation ceremony. The total alkaloid extract of the Tabernanthe iboga plant, which also contains all the other iboga ...
Updated analysis of DNA admixture of Sri Lankan participants at HarappaDNA. There are 7 Sri Lankans (3 Sinhalese, 4 Tamils). I have not included the part Sri Lankans whose immediate parents are not from Sri Lanka. For comparison of Sri Lankan DNA with neighboring populations I have included seven other populations, TN Tamil(7), TN Tamil Brahmins(14), Kerala(10), Bengali(7), Punjabi(18) and ...
Robert Halfon you know the guy who has been asking for the Sri Lankan govt to "Stop persecuting Tamils and acting like a rogue nation". Guess whata) He has on his blog groups of people with LTTE flags (Lets see how fast he will remove them).b) Has been wined and dined by the British Tamil Conservatives (Thanks Arujuna Sivanathan to ...
There was a Jack Point post on CEB (Ceylon Electricity Board) losses and payments to private Power. I was skeptical that the percentage of private power was that significant. N pointed out a link to on the CEB losses were correct. I was now curious, how much of private thermal power generation was there in Sri Lank.I dont have an ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/world/europe/24oslo.html The rumor is that apparently the Sri Lankan govt is ready to provide refugee status in Sri Lanka to this oppressed group of Christian Fundamentalists . In addition the SL govt is willing to provide the the services of Dr Palitha Kohona and Dayan Jayatilleke to negotiate a separate state for these oppressed Christian Fundamentalists in Norway.OSLO — The ...
Excerpts of a article I just read.I am writing this at an airport. A slight Asian woman has checked in with, I would guess, about 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of suitcases and boxes. She pays extra for exceeding the weight allowance. A man who must weigh at least 40 kilos more than she does, but whose baggage is under the ...
ApparentlyXvideos, the largest porn site on the web with 4.4 billion page views per month, is three times the size of CNN or ESPN, and twice the size of Reddit. LiveJasmin isn’t much smaller. YouPorn, Tube8, and Pornhub — they’re all vast, vast sites that dwarf almost everything except the Googles and Facebooks of the internet.Four billion page views sure ...
This is a first article on Sri Lankan Genetics. The data and and analysis is from HarappaDNA project run by Zack Ajmal. First: a) Please read the previous blog post to understand the jargon and for a simple introduction to genetics.b) There isnt enough of Sri Lankan data. If you live in the US/Canada and specially over the age of ...
All these years watched Peter Sellers "The Party" and never knew it was a Ceylonese (He left long before it was Sri Lanka) Bill Forbes who sang "Oh to be in England". On the seaside bordering Adamaly place, along Galle Road, is a gas station that dispenses, petrol, diesel, cooking gas, vehicle servicing and washing, very popular with local residents. ...
This is a two part post of two chapters of Caroline Corner's The Paradise of Adam The Record of Seven Years Residence in the Island published in 1908.The main reason I am posting the chapters because it references meeting Orabi Pasha. Orabi Pasha (Ahmed Orabi) was a Egyptian army general, and nationalist of fellahin ancestry (peasant class) who led a ...
Got my DNA results from 23andMe, very quick in almost 3 weeks.First off, the 23andMe autosomal, Y-DNA, mtDNA and mitochondrial data can be downloaded here.So until I get Zacks analysis of ancestral groups, here are a very few of the large amount of health and trait indicators I got with my DNA results analysis. Please Note most of this type ...
The Defeated a Story/Report at Caravan. The author, whose name has been withheld for security reasons, is a journalist in India.Swarna’s hardest moment in the LTTE was the haircut. After a 10-day training at the Siruthai Puligal facility, all 20 girls of her batch were asked to form a line under the harsh sun. One by one, their heads were ...
Looks like the Americans may have been doing some torturing in UK owned Diego Garcia.Excerpts from the TelegraphThe government stands accused of seeking to conceal Britain's role in extraordinary rendition, ahead of the release of a declassified intelligence report that exposes the use of torture at US secret prisons around the world... will confirm that the US tortured terrorist suspects ...
CTB (SLTB to be exact has AC buses running from Moratuwa to Pettah. Currently only two buses and within the next few days two more to be added. By the end of the month they expect to have fleet of forty buses. Some of the buses are to be deployed on the Southern highway which apparent scheduled to be opened ...
