Old travel movies of Ceylon.

Please click on each of the video-links in blue.

Ceylon 1927

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZy2O4cPV1U

Ceylon 1931

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptn8Jt5u4g8&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs

Ceylon 1940

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LQeGjk3joE

An Indian ochestra email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai

 Subject: 1200 Sitars and flute Beautiful music
>
> " B R A M H A - N A D " , never before.
> This one is a B A N S U R I - PLAYER, a flutist, accompanied by 1200
> Sitarists !!
> Click the Link
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> http://youtu.be/Ih4pv180BdQ
>

Tsunami email from jksw

Inside a car during the Japan Tsunami Truly incredible footage.... You are unlikely to get see another in your lifetime... This is absolutely incredible footage if you have a few minutes. Yu Muroga was doing his job making deliveries when the 11 March 2011 earthquake hit in Japan . Unaware, like many people in the area, of how far inland the Tsunami would travel, he continued to drive and do his job. The HD camera mounted on his dashboard captured not only the earthquake, but also the moment he and several other drivers were suddenly engulfed in the Tsunami. He escaped from the vehicle seconds before it was crushed by other debris and sunk underwater. His car and the camera have only recently been recovered by the police. The camera was heavily damaged but a video expert was able to retrieve this footage. http://www.flixxy.com/japanese-tsunami-viewed-from-a-car.htm....CLICK

Rare Collection of Historical Photos - email from jksw

Photos/descriptions that tell us what it was like to be there and, surprise us with something we didn't know and hadn't seen. Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880. A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941 The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct. The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940. Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945. A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868. The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906. A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944. British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943. Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961. California lumberjacks work on Redwoods. Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914, an event that helped spark World War I. Elvis in the Army. The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912. Child laborers in 1880. Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907. Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909. The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali. Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He's second from the right. Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884.

Elephant at play at the Yala beach, Sri Lanka - email from jksw.

Two videos by Philip G Veerasingam uploaded to Youtube.

Two videos made by Philip G Veerasingam. Please visit my channel 'philipveera' on You tube to see more than 600 video clips on life in present Sri Lanka.

1.Bird song - What I hear in the mornings at our home in Avissawella, Sri Lanka. Try identifying the individual call of each bird. Click on link below:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjqrsJX4Vns&list=UU1dqepitfAJwrQWLD-gZ3NA&index=2

2,The daily walk of an Iguana - in my daughters garden at Avissawella, Sri Lanka. Click on the link below:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om1D-iTj0Rg&list=UU1dqepitfAJwrQWLD-gZ3NA&index=1

Ginger and gastric cancer - email sent by Gallege De Silva.

Ziziphora may be effective in treatment of gastric cancer

Published on February 13, 2013 at 4:12 AM 

A recent publication in the journal Food and Agricultural Immunology investigating the effects of aloe vera, ginger, saffron and ziziphora extracts as herbal remedies for gastric cancer suggests that the latter may be effective in the treatment of the fourth most common form of the disease.

Already applied in the treatment of various other diseases, the study now shows that this traditional Uygur medicinal plant to have the highest cytotoxic effect on AGS cell line of those under investigation.

Professor C. J. Smith, Editor of the journal and Director of the Manchester Food Research Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University, commented "Hippocrates declared "Let your food be your medicine and let your medicine be your food." The modern world is increasingly beginning to appreciate the wisdom of this simple statement. As we have developed modern medicines over the last couple of centuries we have neglected the role which diet plays in the maintenance of good health. However, recent years have shown the importance of understanding both the role of diet and the role of the gut flora in maintaining good health."

"The understanding of the significance of the gut microflora in good health and in disease has taken major strides in the past three decades and much has been made of the importance of herbs and spices as modulators of health and as being useful in preventing various disorders including gastric ulcers and obesity. 'Cytotoxic effect of four herbal medicines on gastric cancer (AGS) cell line' is an excellent example of these developments. The authors tested four spices for their cytotoxic effect on a gastric cancer cell line and show that three of these have varying cytotoxic properties which may be of clinical relevance. This paper therefore fits in a general theme of scientific evaluations of the control and treatment of diseases by food ingredients and components which leads one readily back to the hypothesis proposed by Hippocrates."

Source: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540105.2011.637549