TGI Friday., MoscowMany New Jersey bars were found selling adulterated alcohol in sting named Operation Swill. In one bar, a mixture that included rubbing alcohol and caramel coloring was sold as scotch.These were not run of the mill dilapidated ghetto bars. They included 13 restaurants of the well known world wide chain TGI Fridays (Thank God its Friday). Thats a ...
Fantastic set of photos of Gemunu (a elephant) stealing food from visitors vehicles.'First Gemunu pushed our driver, Janaka, off his seat and then he poked his head inside the car looking for food,' he said'He checked each one of us with his trunk and then poked his trunk all around our Landcruiser looking for food but we didn't have any.'All ...
Inequality of income, with predominantly low wage jobs for those who are lucky to have a job and Vegas_Blondie 32 • Las Vegas, Nevada, United States high rents and exorbitant college fees are forcing women to augment their income by finding a sugar daddy to pay the bill.Enter SeekingArrangement.com a website catering to men and women who exchange sex for ...
Ex-LTTE cadres, carrying placards went in the procession, chanting slogans demanding that their livelihood not be hampered by handing over the agricultural farms, managed by the Army, to the Northern Provincial Council.The participants at the demonstration pointed out that more than 10,000 ex-LTTE cadres would be jobless if the farms run by the Army are taken over by the NPC ...
Coconut Palm leaves broken by ElephantWe (Wilpattu House) had an elephant coming into the property on 8th May 2014. This was regardless of the Elephant deterrent 6 foot deep ditch around the place. This smart elephant broke the earth on the ditch to make it less steep and managed to climb over to the property. Luckily not much harm was ...
Approaching PalugasthuraiPalugasthurai (Palugahaturai) is a fishing outpost (wadiya) on the coast within Wilpattu National Park, a few km south of Kudiramalai and Pookulam. Kudiramalai is considered to be where Vijaya landed. Pookulam is another fishing outpost (wadiya) on the coast within Wilpattu National Park.Interestingly all these fishing wadiyas are referred to as "Dupath" (Islands). Apparently till the Navy camps were ...
Yes, Harley Davidson motor bikes, the all American Icon is now produced in India.From Company WebsiteHarley-Davidson India commenced operations in August 2009 and appointed the first dealership in July 2010. Since early 2011, Harley-Davidson has been assembling motorcycles in India at its CKD (Completely-Knocked-Down) assembly unit at Bawal in Haryana. India is the second country where Harley-Davidson has CKD assembly ...
Is the push for more education pushing down birth rates in East Asia ?. So far Sri Lanka fertility rate has not fallen below the replacement rate of 2.1ExcerptsThere is a body of scholarship showing that the collapse of the fertility rate to dangerously low levels across east Asia is the direct consequence of school cramming and "education fever".In this ...
Sivalingam Sivanathan, Professor of Physics and Director, Microphysics Laboratory at UIC has been named a White House Champion of Change . He is a graduate of the University of Peradeniya (1980) and also Faculty Adviser of the Sri Lankan Graduate Student Association at University of Illinois at Chicago (SLGSA).University of Illinois Press ReleaseSivalingam Sivananthan, Professor of Physics at the University ...
From ZeroHedge A few days when reporting that the Russian Pacific fleet had crossed the Suez canal for the first time in decades in order to form a Mediterranean task force parked in Cyprus for obvious symbolic reasons (in close proximity to Syria and the Israel-parked Kearsarge), some observed that while the submarine support was adequate, the actual warship ...
Enrique of Malacca was Ferdinand Magellan's slave and friend from Malacca. Enrique traveled to Portugal with Magellan from Malacca in 1512. He then accompanied Magellan on the 1519 expedition to find the "Indies" by sailing toward the West from Spain. After passing through the southern most tip of South America Magellan arrived in Cebu (now part of Phillpines) . Magellan ...
Apparently news.lk reports that Subaskaran Allirajah is the one who is funding the British Conservative Party and points out that the Subaskaran gave 420,000 Sterling Pounds to the Conservative Party as one time donation. It says that he has given over 20 million to Prince Charles Foundation as well.David Cameroon’s visit to Jaffna and his statements against the Sri Lankan ...
One wonders why the places like Pakistan are violently resistant to having vaccinations done. The normal arguments trotted out are that of Islamic fundamentalism. Maybe there is a different fire to that smoke.In 2011 the US organized a vaccination program in Abbottabad to find the DNA of Osama bin Laden's family and confirm that he was hiding in the compound.The ...
In Sri Lanka about 1,250 cases of cervical cancer are detected each year. Nearly 50 percent of the patients die each year and is the second most dangerous cancer amongst women after breast cancer (LBO). Testing for cervical cancer in its initial stages is done by a Pap smear which requires laboratory work.Now there is a simple visual test for ...
See http://peoplemov.in/If you click on the Right side for Sri Lanka we getImmigrants: 339,915 % of population: 1.61%INDIA 336,352AUSTRALIA 436FRANCE 425UNITED KINGDOM 412CHINA 316SWEDEN 253MALAYSIA 190GERMANY 185USA 159PAKISTAN 133If you click on the Right side for Sri Lanka we getEmigrants: 1,847,829 % of population: 8.76%Migrant destinations SAUDI ARABIA 391,173KUWAIT 208,893INDIA 161,472UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 161,068CANADA 123,012UNITED KINGDOM 113,448JORDAN 102,709QATAR 87,727ITALY 79,400AUSTRALIA ...
And you thought Sri Lanka's economy was bad. So come Monday morning people who have deposits in Cyprus Banks are going to find outa) 9.9 % deduction for Deposits over 100,000 EURb) 6.75% deduction for deposits less 100,000 EURc) Not being able make large withdrawalsd) Corporate Tax raised from 10% to 12.5% Nothing new under the sun. In Sri Lanka ...
Naureen Shah of Amnesty International explained that Amnesty International cannot oppose all drone strikes in an illegal war, because Amnesty International has never opposed a war, because doing so would make it look biased, and A.I. wants to appear to be an unbiased enforcer of the law.However, now the U.N. special rapporteur finds that drones are making war the norm ...
Of late there have been many articles that have been lamenting on the dire state of Sri Lanka's finances. One such author is Arjunan Sivanathan who has written a couple of article on DBS Jeyarajs blog and websites. The articles are Downgrade and Foreign Exchange Controls in Sri Lanka : A Probability or an Inevitable Certainty?, Sri Lanka Engaged in ...
Moonstone Polonarwa period. Moonstone (SandaKada Pahana) "taken" from Sri Lanka by a British Planter in the 1950's is sold GBP 500,000. The Moonstone had been given to Bronwen Hickmotts parents by the Tea Planter from Sri Lanka. Mrs Hickmott used the 1300 year old moonstone as doorstep at her home in Exeter, Devon - affectionately calling it 'the pebble'. This ...
Arsenic and alternative explanation to Nalin de Silvas unscientific views. The Red River and its surrounding aquifer is a source of organic carbon that encourages release of arsenic into groundwater further inland. (Credit: Benjamin Bostick/LDEO)Now, scientists working in Vietnam have shown that massive pumping of groundwater from a clean aquifer is slowly but surely drawing the poison into the water. ...
