Shopping in London - jksw

SHOPPING IN LONDON WAS NOT WHAT I EXPECTED  Went to Boots they don't sell boots........ Went to Selfridges they don't sell fridges........ Went to Curry's they don't sell curry........... Went to the Apple store they don't sell apples.......... Even at Blackberry they don't sell any kinda berries........ As for Virgin Megastore,  what a huge disappointment !!!!!! ;-) And guess what they sell here?

How to Prevent Yourself from a Fall, Trip, or Slip - Susiri Weerasekara

 Forwarded with my additions below it.

jksw

Increased Risk of Fall Accident Begins at Age 40  by: Junji Takano   People begin to have balance problems starting at the age of 40 years. The older you get, the weaker your physical body and sensory abilities will be, which are all factors in having poor balance. In Japan, more than 7,000 people a year die from falling accidents ## Test Your Balance by Standing on One Leg You can determine how good your balance is by measuring the length of time that you can stand on one leg. The following table shows the average balance time by age group in a study conducted at a Japanese health institute. Average time with eyes open 20-39 years old: 110 seconds 40-49: 64 seconds50-59: 36 seconds 60-69: 25 seconds Average time with eyes closed 20-39 years old: 12 seconds 40-49: 7 seconds50-59: 5 seconds 60-69: less than 3 seconds women tend to lose their balance more than men but only by a small margin (1-2%). From this study, it is also evident that there's a sudden significant decrease in the ability to maintain balance among middle-aged people (40 years and above). ## The Soles of Your Feet Have Sensors The skins all throughout your body have significant amount of tiny pressure sensors or mechanoreceptors. Some areas have few pressure sensors, while other areas have thousands, like on the soles of your feet. The pressure sensors on the foot soles provide information to your brain to help balance your body.  As you get older, the sensors will get weaker and your foot sole lose sensitivity. But there are also other factors that can lead to weaker pressure sensors. ## Poor Blood Circulation Can Disrupt the Pressure Sensors In our study, people are almost twice as likely to be in a fall accident caused by poor blood circulation. This can be simulated by soaking your feet into ice cold water for about 3 minutes. Because of the cold temperature, the pressure sensors on the foot sole begin to lose sensitivity. ## Pay Attention to Your Forward-Moving Foot If your forward-moving foot hit something, your body will be off-balance causing you to fall or trip. Well, it's a matter of common sense to always have your eyes on path and watch where you are going. But that's not the only problem. Here are the other two major reasons why you stumble while walking. 1. Your forward-moving foot is pointed down. If your foot is pointed down while making a step, then you are more prone to falling. To avoid this, your forefoot or toes should be flexed upwards as shown on the image below. 2. You walk like a pendulum. The height of your step can greatly increase your risk of falling. To prevent this, your forward-moving foot must be higher off the ground (at least 5 cm) while the knee is raised high as shown on the image below. A bit highstepping is good. ## How to Prevent Yourself from a Fall, Trip, or Slip 1. Keep Your House Clean . Always make sure to put away or store properly all personal belongings and other unnecessary things even if it is only a newspaper, remote control, and laundries scattered on the floor or carpet. 2. Stretch Your Feet and Ankles Foot exercising is good. in reality, feet stretching exercise can really help your feet maintain balance. 3. Keep Your House Warm and Ensure Adequate Lighting Cold muscles and pressure sensors work less well and are less responsive to signals. A decreased temperature will also cause your muscles to have less strength and less flexible, which can lead to accidents. Always try to keep your house warm or wear proper clothes and footwear, especially during winter. Since most falls occur indoors, make sure your house has adequate lighting. Free newsletter: http://www.pyroenergen.com/newsletter.htm ------------------------------------------------------------  And now for senior Sri Lankans, counting ladies in their 50s. Walk often, often on grass, barefoot is preferred. Toning up your balance and foot senses. Wearing glasses decrease range of vision, especially down below near your feet, and stepping downstairs. Note down your ‘blind’ areas. Watch out for wet floors, especially toilets and bathrooms. Older people need non slip floors- not tiles- and a few hand rails around help. In humid climes, water dries up slowly. Try to have both hands free walking stairs. One hand on railing. Beware slipping, crumply carpets. If in doubt, sit on bed as you pull your underwear, socks on. Sooner or later you will need to. Beware cats and dogs and  animals like children who may bash into you. Think of having taller chair seating, avoiding deep low suites. Getting off a low car seat could be tricky. When on unfamiliar ground or house floor, take care. Beware varying floor levels in the same house, or as you walk on roads. At night in the dark, a quick first step off the bed  can cause a fall, the mosquito net may trip you too. Keep a small torch. Walking on roads without pavements can be tricky. Potholes are common. A sudden beach wave you could tackle when young at the beach may be a disaster. Be aware, that your muscle/bone strength is far less than at say 30 years. Be aware that as you age the muscles around bones thin down, reducing your muscle padding effect, making even mild bone/floor contact prone to more factures, like falling to a side. And lastly, don’t ever sleep walk or get chased by a leopard. jksw

Sayings - email from Dawood

[1]

Regular naps prevent old age,

especially if you take them while driving.

[2]

Having one child makes you a parent;

having two makes you  a referee.

[3]

Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right;

and the other is the husband!

[4]

I believe we should all pay our tax with a smile.

I tried - but they wanted cash.

[5]

Marriage is give and take. 

You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

[6]

My wife and I always compromise.

I admit I'm wrong and she agrees with me.

[7]

It doesn't matter how often a married man changes his job,

he still ends up with the same boss.

[8]

Saving is the best thing.

Especially when your parents have done it for you.

[9]

Wise men talk because they have something to say;

fools talk because they feel they have to say something.

[10]

They call our language the mother tongue because the 

father seldom 

gets to speak!

[11]

Man : Is there any way for long life ?

Dr. : Get married.

Man : Will it help 

Dr : No , but then the thought of long life will never occur.

[12]

Why do couples hold hands during their wedding ?

It's a formality just like two boxers shaking hands  

before the fight begins !

[13]

Wife: Darling today is our anniversary, what should we do ?

 Husband: Let us stand in silence for 2 minutes.

[14]

It's funny when people discuss: Love Marriage vs Arranged marriage.

It's like asking someone, if suicide is better or being murdered.

[15]

There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has it.

WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - email from Gallege De Silva.

  Take sometime to ponder on what is stated below, especially with all the hype about the end of the world.  Let's start now to get ready, so that when the time comes, we will have no fear in facing our GOD.

  




























  

Reminds me of what we memorized in the JSC at school:-

Lives of great men all remind us,

We can make our lives sublime

And departing leave behind us,

FOOT-PRINTS IN THE SANDS OF TIME. 

  

Talent Contest India, Dance - Emaill sent by Kamalini Kanapathippillai.

Talent contest dance sequence - India. Click on web-link below:-

http://www.tubetamil.com/entertainment-videos/awesome-video/world-record-dance-in-audition-performance-on-indias-got-talent.html

Golf on Christmas Day - email sent by Susiri Weerasekara

Four old timers playing their weekly game of golf, one remarked How nice it would be to wake up on Christmas morning, roll out of bed And without an argument go directly to the golf course, meet his Buddies and play a round. His buddies all chimed in said, "Let's do it! We'll make it a Priority; figure out a way to meet here early, Christmas morning." On that special morning there they are on the Golf course. The first guy says, "Boy this game cost me a fortune! I Bought my wife a diamond ring that she can't take her eyes off it." Second guy "I spent a ton too. My wife is at home planning The cruise I gave her. She was up to her eyeballs in brochures." The third "Well my wife is at home admiring her new car, Reading the manual." The last guy in the group who is staring at them Like they have lost their minds. "I can't believe you all went to such expense for this one golf game. I Slapped my wife on the butt and said, ‘Wow, Merry Christmas babe ! It's a great morning -- intercourse or golf course --' " She said, “Don’t forget your sweater.”

Green Memorial, Manipay, Sri Lanka.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nihal. Gooneratne <nihalgee@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:29 AM
Subject: FW: Interesting stuff to read
To: philipv203@gmail.com
Cc: senaratnedc@optusnet.com.au

Philip/Chandrasiri:

                                    Philip more information from Bala about the medical school.

Nihal

From: Bala Balakrishnan [mailto:bala2012@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:59 AM
To: nihalgee@gmail.com
Subject: RE: Interesting stuff to read

Nihal ,thanks ,very intereting article ,
first establishment of medical school was stared by american missioneries even before a medical school was established in Colombo .
a book written by Mr Thiru Arumugamabout Green memorial hospital [which is still in existance and fuctioning ] 
The title of the book NineteenthCentuaryAmerican Medical Missionaries in Jaffna,Ceylon With special referance to Samuel Frisk Green.published in 2009
MV Publicatuions South asian Studies centre .Sydney.Thiru Arumugam is brother of our batch mate vimala Arumgan .lives in Sydney Enginner by Profession
incidently Dr. William  Paul[ was among the graduates of that medical college his son Samuel C Paul was the first ceylonese Doctor to obtain FRCS london.
Professor Milroy Pauls dad.   
 How are you keeping .finally i am hoping to retire by may or june this your
Best of wishes
Bala 

Kapuwaththe's mother's funeral.

Lakshman Karalliedde	7:50 PM (22 hours ago)
to me, Buddy

 Dear Phillipo and Buddy, Kapu's mother died peacefully around 1030 today. The funeral would be on Wednesday morning. His telephone number is 081 2224983,

 Karals

Rev.Fr. Peter Pillai.

About Fr. Peter Pillai, Rector St Joseph College, 

Darley Rd Colombo, and creator of Aquinas 

College, Borella.

The Josephian swimming pool too was 

constructed with his efforts. The rest that 

as students we did not quite know is given 

below.

As students in the 1950s, what we 

experienced with him was quite as in 

this article.

Short and dark, with deep set eyes, 

he was known as the wise man in the east.

Looking back, his foresight was unparalleled.

Never talked politics.

His lectures on religious knowledge at 1 pm 

had some students sleeping,  but he would 

just say ‘Wake up, Wake up….’  and carry 

on, though at other times he was a strict 

disciplinarian.

Susiri Weerasekera

A great Sri Lankan.

Subject: Rev Dr Fr Peter A Pillai

:

Rev. Fr. Dr. Peter A Pillai

Apostle of Social Justice

 Peter Alcantara Pillai was born on 19th 

October, 1904 at Wennappuwa.

His parents Jacob and Anna Pillai, school 

teachers hailed from Kayts, Jaffna.

His schooling began in his mother tongue 

Tamil in the school where his parents 

were teachers. Later he joined St. Benedict’s 

College, Kotahena, Colombo at the age of 

nine years. In 1918 he passed the Cambridge 

Junior with eight distinctions. He was then 

only 14 years.

He passed the Cambridge Senior at the 

age of 16 years in 1920 also with eight 

distinctions becoming the first in the 

whole of the British Empire. Subsequently 

he became an undergraduate of the then 

University College of Colombo and 

obtained the BSc degree with a first 

class in 1923. In the next year, 1924, 

he also got through the BSc Hons 

Mathematics in the first division.

Peter Pillai was most deservingly 

fortunate to win the annual government 

scholarship in science awarded to the 

best student and proceeded to the 

University of Cambridge where he 

obtained his BA and MA (Cantab). 

Thereafter he passed the MSc (London) 

quite easily. He would have entered 

the much lucrative CCS (Ceylon Civil 

Service) – the plum of government 

service got an academic part in the 

University.

However, he opted to become a 

Catholic priest to serve his God 

and man. His elder brother 

Fr. Cadjetan Pillai, a teacher at 

St. Joseph’s died of plague whilst 

administering to the sick.

His two other brothers too had 

already joined the clergy. Armed 

with PhD and DD (Doctorate in Divinity)

 – Rome he was ordained in 1934. On 

his return to the motherland, he was 

appointed to the staff of St. Peter’s 

College, Bambalapitiyaand warden 

of Aquinas Hall, the University 

Student’s Catholic Hall.

No other Sri Lankan educationist 

had such high qualifications.

To fight against the twin evils of the day

 – 1930s – namely, injustice and 

exploitation, he created two journals,

‘Social Justice’ (English) and ‘Samaja 

Samaya’ (Sinhala).

His campaigns and untiring efforts 

resulted in the enacting of the Shop 

and Office Workers’ Ordinance, 

Wages Boards Ordinance, Employees

 Provident Fund Act, Industrial 

Disputes Act etc. all in the field 

of Labour or Industrial Law.

He also advocated and expounded 

the theories of worker participation 

in management, profit-sharing, better 

housing and living conditions for the 

working class.

In 1940 Rev. Fr. Dr. Pillai was appointed 

as the first Sri Lankan Rector of St. 

Joseph’s College, Colombo, the premier, 

Catholic Collegiate school in the island 

which post he held with great acceptance 

and distinction for 21 years till 1961.

Highly concerned with moulding the 

character of youth besides serving in some 

government commissions, he was the 

president of the Headmasters’ Union, 

member of the University of Ceylon 

Senate, founder of the Catholic 

Students’ Federation, the Graduate 

Federation, the Catechetical Institute, 

the Xaverian Movement – and the 

Aquinas College of Higher Studies.

Further, as a result of his championing 

social reforms, it resulted in bringing 

to statute books such welfare legislation 

as the National Housing Act, Debt 

Conciliation Board Ordinance and Land 

Redemption Act.

An extrovert, a great trait of his character 

was that he was not at all a racist or 

communal minded – in that he 

treated Sinhala, Tamil, Moor, 

Malay, Burgher students alike. 

He was not only a tower of 

strength to Catholic students, 

specially Josephians but also 

equally to Buddhist, Hindu 

and Islamic (Muslim) students 

aspiring for higher studies.

When he passed away untimely 

on September 27th 1964, he was 

only 60 years of age, 10 years 

short of the psalmists span of life 

– three score and ten, which 

means 70 years. He lived exactly

 like three score years – 60 years 

due to ceaseless, unfatigable 

exertion of his strength in the 

service of humanity. His excellent 

services to the country are immemorial.

May he rest in peace!

 written by :

Stanley E. Abeynayake

14 October 2006

Ceylon Daily News