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Saturday, November 22, 2014
CoMSAA letter to Dr. C.S. Nannayakkara.
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This is a response I received from Dr B.J.C. Perera the present President of CoMSAA.
The contents are self explanatory. You may be interested to read the contents.
Please share with our batch mates.
Regards
Nana
sena nanayakkara
-----Original Message-----
From: Dr B J C Perera <bjcp@ymail.com>
To: Sena Nanayakkara <csn48@aol.com>
CC: Sameera Gunawardena <ino4sam@gmail.com>; Lalitha Mendis <sirikotha@yahoo.com>; Romain Perera <romainsperera@gmail.com>
Sent: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 8:28
Subject: From BJC - CoMSAA
Dear Sena,
So very sorry to have taken so long to reply to your earlier mail , sent quite some time ago. We have NOT forgotten the observations made in your letter addressed to the President and Committee of CoMSAA.
Let me, at the outset, say a very big 'THANK YOU' for all the lovely comments you made in the body of the mail. They are of course deepy appreciated.
We have discussed your letter at the last two Executive Meetings of CoMSAA and I am now in a position to outline the thinking of the Association. I will enumerate them in the same numerical order of your letter.
1. Academic Procession. No consensus was reached on this. Tradition has it that we have Academic Gowns during Scientific Meetings of some significant importance. As we have a sort of an Academic Session, one may opt to keep it.
2. Provision of a list of attendees. This would obviously be a very nice thing BUT many of the participants come in for the day on Sunday. It would be a logistical nightmare to get all their contact details. However, we will keep it in mind and perhaps explore how we could try to do it.
3. Academic Session. We are all agreed that the main reasons for this is to try and get some sponsorship and to provide a certificate for those coming from overseas to get some tax benefits. We are not aiming to make it a state-of-the-art high powered event. In fact we are trying to make it short presentations on attractive and perhaps interesting topics. Even if the body is not willing, some enjoy presentations in topics of intrigue such as sex etc. !!!!!! We will look around and see whether we can include a couple of our alumni from overseas but this of course depends on a lot of things. The entire session would be just 2 hours.
4. Combining the Reunion with the AGM. The main problem with this is the time. The AGM will take a MINIMUM of 2 hours. Time is of the essence as we are trying hard to slot in fun and games into just a few hours as well. Many that I have spoken to are of the opinion that they come to have a good time and not to get deeply involved in administrative pursuits.
5. We have already done the list of all our activities over the last three years. Romain,our Editor is going to put it in the web site as well. There have been several donations for specific purposes. What we need is for someone from each country, say UK, USA, Australia etc, to take up the challenge of getting mor members to join and to collect some donations if possible.
6. We will look at lists of essential items. Really, from a practical point of view, what the students need are proper facilities in study areas, refurbishment of toilets etc. Although the Government is supposed to do all this, it does not happen like that. We are trying hard to take over some of the absolutely essential things.
Finally, very many thanks for the interest that you have taken. WE HAVE FIXED THE 2015 REUNION FOR 12th & 13th SEPTEMBER 2015. POlease keep that period free and do join us. WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU JOINING US.
Best and warmest of personal regards.
BJC.
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This e-mail originated from the desk of :-
Dr. B.J.C.Perera MBBS(Cey), DCH(Cey), DCH(Eng), MD(Paed), FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Lon), FRCPCH(UK), FSLCPaed, FCCP, FCGP(SL)
President, Colombo Medical School Alumni Association (CoMSAA)
Immediate Past President, Sri Lanka Medical Association.
Consultant Paediatrician and Honorary Senior Fellow, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Hilarious video of English bulldog being pushed in a playground swing
An English bulldog in Upstate
New York is pawsitively living up to his rock star name, quickly becoming the
viral video of the week after enjoying a ride in a swing set at a park in
Kingston.
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James Files claims he killed Pres. John F. Kennedy.
James Files says in the new documentary I killed JFK that he is responsible for assassinating Pres. John F. Kennedy, and it was not Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Friday, November 21, 2014
Three surgeons have poor death rates as NHS publishes mortality data.
Death rates relating to almost 5,000 surgeons across 13 specialties have today been published by the NHS, as part of a 'major transparency drive'.
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20 November 2014
It's PAPER!!!!!
email from
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Nov 20 (2 days ago)
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See
the piece that sells for $32,000
You
might not believe this, but it's PAPER!!!!!!!! IT'S PAPER!!!!! Yes,
only paper.
But
wait ‘til you see it. Absolutely amazing.
Shine your saucepans with tomato ketchup!
Amanda Cable pulls on her
Marigolds, opens her larder and tests just how dirt-busting the edible cleaners
can be...
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PS
You can imagine what tomato ketchup does to your gullet.
Israeli drone pilot admits to ‘wrong calls’ in Gaza bomb attacks.
Major Yair, 31, one of Israel's
most experienced spy plane commanders, said he has 'learnt to live' with
mistakes of the past.
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19 November 2014
PS
Have the parents, relatives and
loved ones of those killed by his actions ‘learnt to live’ with THEIR LOSS?
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Running 'can be good for your knees and prevent osteoarthritis'
A new study presented at the
American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting found regular runners were
less likely to develop osteoarthritis, a painful condition caused by damage to
the cartilage.
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19 November 2014
Freezing your chicken could slash the risk of food poisoning
Dr Frieda Jorgensen, of Public
Health England, said freezing meat kills 90 per cent of the campylobacter
cells, making it much less likely that the germs will be passed to humans.
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19 November 2014
Sleep: Why the words look blurred when you read in bed
Plenty of bodily processes are
active under the cover of darkness. One reason for this is that every cell in
the body has its own circadian rhythm, or ‘clock’. We reveal what happens to
the body at night and why.
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18 November 2014
Was US hostage killed in American airstrike BEFORE beheading video?
Peter Kassig's execution may
have been faked by Jihadi John after the US hostage was killed in an US-led
airstrike, according to extraordinary claims from the leader of a Syrian
underground group.
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18 November 2014
A boob-job for those holiday snaps! Doctor developing vacation breasts.
US doctor Dr Norman Rowe is researching a temporary breast augmentation which would last for a two to three-week holiday, but there are fears over potential safety risks.
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18 November 2014
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Couple gets up close and personal with cheetah in the Serengeti
Newlyweds Stacie and Edgar
Cobos, from Washington DC, got more than they bargained for during a game drive
in Tanzania when they came face-to-face with the big cats.
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18 November 2014
The woman who suffers up to 180 orgasms in just two HOURS
Cara Anaya-Carlis, 30, from
Arizona said the incurable condition which causes spontaneous orgasms is
'ruining her life' as she is house-bound and cannot work or do the school-run.
Read the full story:
18 November 2014
Meet the young woman with anorgasmia - the inability to orgasm.
Megan Ward, 19, from Birmingham
has never had an orgasm. The university student ended up seeking help from a
sex therapist. The rare condition has put immense pressure on her relationship.
Read the full story:
18 November 2014
Study suggests genetic link for male homosexuality.
Chicago Researchers studied
nearly 800 gay brothers, and say their results bolster previous evidence
pointing to genes on the X chromosome as controlling sexual orientation.
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18 November 2014
Van Gogh was MURDERED, says forensic expert
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18 November 2014
Monday, November 17, 2014
Medical Batch 1960 entrants – Day outing – Thirteenth June 2015.
At ‘The Jetwing Blue’, Negombo, Sri
Lanka.
Registration – 10 am 13/6/2015.
Payment – Rs. 3500/- Includes Welcome drink, Lunch, Afternoon Tea.
Programme for the day –
Fellowship.
Lunch
DJ
Music – Two-piece band – Music of the 1950s/1960s
Sing-along
Concert
items in between (with the consent of parties mentioned):-
Geri
Jayasekera
Sunil
Liyanage
Dayasiri
Fernando
Buddy
Reid
Lucian
Wijethunge
Anula
& Vijitha Nikapota
Travis
Perera
Philip
G Veerasingam
Dinner
Close at 10 pm
For those Wanting to stay at the hotel –
Includes Registration fee of Rs. 3500/-, Lunch, Dinner and Breakfast the
following day.
Single room
– Rs. 16,000/-
Double room
– Rs. 22,000/-
Triple room – Rs. 28,280/-
How to get to the Jetwing Hotel:-
Click on the following web-sites
To see the map click ‘Show
on map’ on the above web-site.
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Credit
cards accepted. Cheques in favour of ‘Blue
Ocean Beach Hotel (Pvt) Ltd,’
Book your
rooms if requested early – Deadline date for early bookings – 31st
December 2014.
Bookings and
clarifications re booking rooms to:-
Ashan Ranasinghe,Senior Sales Executive
– Corporate Sales
JETWING HOTELS LTD.
46/26, Jetwing House, Nawam Mawatha, Colombo – 02, Sri Lanka.
T: +94 11 2345700 Ext 1329
F: +94 11 2345729 M: +94
774750908
www.jetwinghotels.com
Queen Victoria's scandalous letters.
Usually thought of as the
small, dumpy, perpetually weeping Widow of Windsor, Victoria, through her
prodigious written output, proves to be nothing of the kind.
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The remarkable story of how people power created Remembrance Day
King George V's plan for a
two-minute silence a year after the end of the First World War was criticised
by some politicians, but the British public observed it to a degree that few
dreamed possible.
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Schoolboy, 11, is shot in the HEAD with pellet gun.
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PS.
In the year 1973 I was working in the Accident/Emergency Department as Registrar at the Becket Hospital, Barnsley, UK. A young girl around 10 years was brought in saying she had suddenly gone blind in one eye while playing in a public park on a sunny day. There was blood seen through the iris. There was also a small puncture mark in the white of the eye. There was very little pain. The child had seen a boy playing around with an air-gun in the park. I ordered an Xray of the head and there was an air-gun pellet seen inside the maxillary sinus of the affected side.
The Registrar in Ophthalmology saw the child and said that the affected eye was a write-off.
A child's air-gun is as dangerous as a rifle.
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GPs 'should prescribe gardening' to prevent dementia.
Dr William Bird, who advises
Public Health England, says the NHS should acknowledge the power of the great
outdoors as a medical treatment.
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13 November 2014
Listen to Rosetta's comet 'sing'
The mysterious sound has baffled scientists at mission control in Darmstadt, who recorded it using a Rosetta instrument originally designed to analyse the comet's magnetic field.
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12 November 2014
'Mallikaippoo jadhi Roja' an old Tamil POP and a Tamil version of 'Que sera sera'
Email
from Edwin Kirubakaran.
An old Tamil POP song.
Click on the web-links
below with the speakers on :-
below with the speakers on :-
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Philae successfully lands on its comet!.
Rosetta's probe, Philae,
successfully landed on comet 67P/Churyumov-
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13 November 2014
Bletchley Park codebreakers dried their damp pants on Enigma machine.
Elizabeth 'Betty' Balfour, 88, joined the Wrens when she was 17 - she has now revealed she and her co-workers used to dry their bras and pants on Hitler's Enigma machine during chilly, damp nights.
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13 November 2014
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