email from Buddy.

Hello Duru,
Not very well.
I have to undergo  an internal fixation of the lower end of the left radius and the ulnar styloid and repositioning of the triangular fibrocartilage on Friday 20th March. If there are no complications, healing and consolidation will take to mid June. I am running on a knife edge.
 I'll still go ahead with the concert preparations and at the least, will prepare a CD accompaniment for  Travis and Lucien for a vocal duet. 
I'll speak to you again after the operation. 
( To those whom I have not been able to write to up to now, I had a fall last week and sustained a comminuted Colles fracture of the left wrist involving the joint )
Buddy

The Pompei disaster.

email from Chellah Pathmanathan

This is (was) one of the biggest natural disasters of our time.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/dY_3ggKg0Bc

Hand-shake greeting.

http://theconversation.com/warning-the-truth-behind-handshake-sniffing-may-bum-you-out-38449

PS

This does not apply to the worldwide cultures which have not got a 'Hand-shake Greeting'.

Yala National Park, Sri Lanka.

email from Gunsie

Yala National Park in Sri Lanka - 

  

http://vimeo.com:80/98413356 

A Sri Lankan journalist speaks.

email from Chellah Pathmanathan

I have attached a Youtube link below and the Speaker is Bashana Abeyawardene. He belongs to Hiru Group. It is only 4 mins.

https://vimeo.com/121718885

Batadomba Lena, Kuruwita, Sri Lanka.

Three pre-historic cave dwellings in the centre of Sri Lanka namely, Belli Lena in Deraniyagala, Batadomba Lena in Kuruwita and Fa Hien Gala Lena near Horana, have had their period of occupancy by humans dated around 30,000 years before the present era. This dating was done using carbon dating techniques.

The following is a new report:-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2991972/Humans-invaded-rainforests-20-000-years-ago-Teeth-Sri-Lanka-reveal-tropical-diet-ancestors.html

'Butt implants' popularity.

http://www.livescience.com/50076-butt-implants-grow-popularity.html