Straight quotes, nothing to addThe head of Saudi Arabia’s religious police has warned citizens against using Twitter, which is rising in popularity among Saudis. Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said anyone using social media sites – and especially Twitter – “has lost this world and his afterlife”. Twitter was the platform for those who did not have any ...
Two US blogger, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have been banned from entering the UK. The Sri Lankan aspect is that Pam Geller and her Atlas Shrugs website were at the forefront in preventing Rifqua Bary, a Sri Lankan girl in the US being re-united with her parents. Pamela Geller paid and fueled the controversy to headlines by insisting Rifqua ...
Wild boar in New York. Hopefully some enterprising Sri Lankan will start supplying the NY Metro and New Jersey Sri Lankan population with Wild Boar.Anyway here are excerpts from the article.First the most important statement:In New York, the state’s ordinarily strict hunting rules have b..een relaxed for feral swine. The Department of Environmental Conservation’s Web site advises those with small ...
Saw this article today about video of a dog being attacked by a leopard in Mumbai. I was just curious as to how Mumbai of all places have leopards in their backyard while Sri Lankans have to spend hours running around in National Parks to get a glimpse of a leopard. So did a little googling and found this gem ...
Who would have thought this would happen in Sweden. Generous cradle to grave benefits, you name immigrant problems. There is a lot of chatter on the Finance forums that I read that expect similar riots to occur in Europe during the summer . Specially, Greece, Spain, Italy where there are increasing economic crisis and youth unemployment is over 25%.it they ...
This was a photo caught by Phil McGrew from his office window in San Francisco. The camera lens was was set up to a long exposure and as he says "I shot this from my office window because I was too chicken to get mynew camera wet (or worse)".Phil says on Flickr, "This shot has been on my list since ...
Abstract: Is Sri Lanka (and similar small states) going to be the frontline between Islamic Caliphate versus Human Rights/Evangelical Christian Empire. Like Vietnam a proxy War between the goal of a Communist vs Capitalist World Empire.Post WW2, Evangelical Christianity (thru the US) and "Human Rights" (thru US and Europe) have been terrorizing the Mid East for over half a ...
Review by my uni batch mate, Sunil Koswatta Charles Allen has written two books onThe Buddha and the Sahibs and Ashoka—The Search for India’s Lost Emperor. The second book, written about a decade after the first one, is largely an expansion of the first. Both are the stories of the “Orientalists” who discovered India’s lost history, the lost Emperor ...
from the BBC via finance blog Naked CapitalismOnly in Sri LankaA Sri Lanka hen has given birth to a chick without an egg, in a new twist on the age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first. Instead of passing out of the hen's body and being incubated outside, the egg was incubated in the hen for ...
Best wishes for the Sri Lankan New Year, Not Sinhala/Tamil New Year. Like Chinese New Year, not Hakka or Cantonese New Year.The YouTube below is from Sunil Shantha singing in Sinhalese and beautiful art work. Wish I knew enough Tamil to pick an equivalent.My young years from age 5 to 12 were growing up in Koralaewella (98 Vinitha), Moratuwa. My ...
People of South Asian ancestry are up to four times more likely than Europeans to develop type 2 diabetes. The risk of type 2 diabetes is approximately 2-fold higher in African Americans than in European Americans. Type 2 diabetes could be reversed by following a daily 800-calorie diet for eight weeks. When our bodies are deprived of normal amounts of ...
Archaeologists have found in Lumbini, Nepal a 600 BC temple with tree roots in the middle. This tree may possibly validate the claim that Queen Maya Devi gave birth to Buddha under a tree.Excerpts from NY TimesIn traditional narratives, Queen Maya Devi, the mother of Buddha, gave birth to him while holding on to a branch of a tree in ...
These are the kinds of studies I like. People who regularly smoke marijuana may have better control of their blood sugar and may be skinnier than non-marijuana users, according to a new study. The research, published in the American Journal of Medicine, shows that people who reported regularly using marijuana had a lower risk of insulin resistance and had lower ...
These were a set of comments on blog post by Jack Point titled Then they came for the Christians. I gave some lengthy comments. My initial reply was based on the implied assertion of the article that it was only Buddhists who were attacking churches. Given the discussion issues on religion thought the comments should be put on a post. ...
The 2,800 km Sino-Myanmar pipeline is about to be operational. The gas lines are scheduled to be opened in July 2013. The parallel oil line is scheduled to open at the end of the year (2013).The gas is to be pumped from offshore wells near Kyauk Phyu. The oil arriving from the Mid-East will be pumped into the pipeline from ...
This blog post is long reply to a good friends questions.First: Productivity, Growth. That is a concept that is used by the rentier classes to maximize profits. Pay the least and and get the most. How, does that benefit the avg joe. Standard answer is cheaper goods, and you know that does not happen. Maybe the Chinese.(See Box Below)"in 1973 ...
And so, while many New Yorkers may be surprised to hear that Staten Island has one of the highest concentrations of Sri Lankans outside Sri Lanka, connoisseurs of ethnic food began mapping that population, or at least its food, years ago. They wrote lyrically of the lampries and string hopper kothus, the fried lentil cakes and pithus, and the godamba ...
See here for 2004 Trip to Jaffna thru then LTTE territory: Part 1 Day 3: Invitation to LTTE exhibition. Locate place to stay in JaffnaHotel Jaffna TownDay 4: Kayts to Pungutivu: Nagadipa (Nainathivu), Kobbekaduwa Memorial. Beer Dinner, Day 5: Dry Fish at Check Point: LTTE exhibition. A9 Restaurant. Day 3:We get the invitation to the LTTE exhibition Say we will ...
Norval Sinclair Marley was Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley's father. Norval Marley was born in Jamaica to Albert Thomas Marley, an English man from Sussex, and Ellen Broomfield a coloured Jamaican. The Marleys considered themselves as descendants of Syrian Jews who had emigrated to England and from there to Jamaica.Norval Marley in his later life was an overseer in Jamaican plantations. ...
