Libiya of 'The Gadaffi Era'

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-884508

Happy Anniversary to Farouk Sikkander

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Anniversary dinner with our son Farzarn

Home

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Home is a destination-- the ultimate destination."Going home"has a meaning more poignant than perhaps any other phrase.
It is first spoken with true feeling by a child just turned loose from hi s playpen to explore the wide world of the next-door yards.His first crushing experience with disappointment,or anger,or physical hurt brings a rushing torrent of emotion that ends with a tiny voice piping:"I'm going home."
Home is the sanctuary where the healing is.
Nothing brings as quickly to mind the horror of natural upheaval,civil strife or war as the picture of the "homeless".The deprivation of the security of home is the worst of the mass tragedies.(Walter Cronkite)

Dr. Wetthasinghe our batch-mate settled in New-Zealand.

I met him at a mutual friend - Dr. Kotelawela's house - in Avissawella. He has retired from his practice of Psychiatry in New-Zealand. The same charming smile is there as you can see from the photos above.

Smaller plate to reduce weight

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3396051/Want-lose-weight-Use-smaller-plate-Halving-area-reduces-consumption-30.html

Dirt is good for you

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3398553/Don-t-wash-hands-bit-dirt-good-Experts-say-cleaning-protect-against-allergies-allowing-helpful-bacteria-body.html

Assessing consciousness during anaesthesia

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3399770/What-brain-looks-like-anaesthetic-Measuring-brainwaves-help-prevent-patients-waking-surgery.html

Assessing obesity

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3398443/Weight-waist-deadly-don-t-obese-s-fat-middle-s-real-killer.html

Lies told to children

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3398687/Reddit-users-reveal-lies-told-kids.html

Sleeping on your left side

This Is Why You Should Sleep on Your Left Side (Backed by Science)

We all know that duration of sleep is critical for mental and physical wellbeing, but it turns out that sleep position may be another important factor in the quest for optimum health. Specifically, a …


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The Best Places To Go In 2016

: Tips From The World's Hottest Luxury Travel Company

Since its founding in 2005, bespoke travel company Black Tomato has distinguished itself amongst a sea of competitors thanks to its knack for devising adventures that push the limits of travel for a discerning and sophisticated clientele. In 2015 alone, it sent clients, who range from young, in-t...


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Sri Lanka named top tourist destination for 2016

  http://anynews.lk/s/a1hu 

Anmol Gaadi, Noor Jehan, Surendra

email from JKS Weerasekera

Anmol Gaadi.

Musical hit 1947. Music by Naushad.

Perhaps the best song among many. Full voice of Noor Jehan and Surendra. Both were actor singers, usual at that time. Surayya too sang and acted.

Compare the thin violin E wire voices that followed in the next decades, led by Latha Manjreshkar.

Back home Rukmani with the quality voice was eased out by Latha Fernando, Angeline, south Indian Jamuna Rani, K Rani, who sang for us, and Jiki, Sushila’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p98qyx72KRs

The bacteria of cystitis

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3397922/Could-END-cystitis-Discovery-bacteria-lash-urinary-tract-tiny-tentacles-raises-hopes-new-drugs.html

Always angry

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3397452/Always-angry-small-emotional-brain-People-prone-rage-grey-matter-regions-regulate-feelings.html

Early human habitation of present Indonesia

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3397838/Mystery-Indonesia-s-inhabitants-Stone-tools-suggest-early-humans-crossed-ocean-Asia-200-000-years-ago-long-species.html

Video-games and aggressive behavior

http://discipline.about.com/od/specificbehaviorproblems/fl/Do-Violent-Video-Games-Really-Lead-to-Aggressive-Behavior.htm?utm_content=5898612&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_campaign=familysl&utm_term=

Underwater garden

email from Piyusha Atapattu

"Dakuwaga's Garden"

This may be one of the "best videos ever" of the ocean with a 3D effect.  The clarity is unbelievable.  No special glasses or anything needed.

Only the people actually living it can, most likely, see it any clearer.

This is in HD, 3D, I hope your monitor can view it that way.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/mcbHKAWIk3I

12 Things to Know About Chevrolet’s $30,000 Bolt EV

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Sacred Chants of Shiva

Relaxing music - Yoga meditation - Om Namah Shivaya

https://youtu.be/2NoE8WwiqJc

DNA of the Pharaohs of Egypt

https://youtu.be/fKAiVIJT448

Regular exercise to relieve pain

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3394064/The-best-way-banish-pain-Regular-exercise-Working-far-effective-treatments.html

Freeze-dried feces for obesity

Human trials will test freeze-dried poop pills as a weight-loss treatment

If you want to lose weight, a new diet or gym membership sounds a whole lot better than consuming someone else's poop in pill form, but that's exactly the method researchers are about to investigate …


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Cancers that melt away on their own

The future of cancer treatment is based on a medical miracle: 

Precision medicine has been sold as customizing treatments for patients, matching drugs to disease-causing genes that just a few thousand or even hundreds of patients carry. Its boosters may have been …


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$10 oil: Crazy or the real floor beneath the oil crash?

CNNMoney's 2016 Playbook: Oil & Gas It's gotten so bad in the oil world that investment banks are practically falling over themselves to predict just how low crude will go. Oil prices crashed below $30 a barrel on Tuesday for the first time since December 2003. It's also a stunning 72% plunge fro...

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Nature sounds

Rain Sounds with Tibetan Singing Bowls and Birds chirping [ Sleep Music ]

https://youtu.be/-Av9yWZJUrk

Noor Jehan, Hindi Singer.

Hindi nightingale, Noor Jehan 1940s. 50 years later she sings as well, unfortunately minus the male voice of ? Mukesh.

My favourite. From ‘Anmol Gadi”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3OUmz7Rqr8

Chevrolet Bolt

How GM Beat Tesla to the First True Mass-Market Electric Car | WIRED

http://www.wired.com/2016/01/gm-electric-car-chevy-bolt-mary-barra/

What’s Really Behind the Saudi-Iran Clash?

A provocative beheading in Saudi Arabia and a choreographed sacking of the embassy in Iran are the latest symptoms of a pathology with potential global consequences. Once more Saudi Arabia is executing prisoners en masse; once more Iranians are storming foreign embassies. Both countries are regre...


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Proton pump inhibitors and kidney disease

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3394705/Common-heartburn-drugs-taken-tens-millions-increase-risk-chronic-kidney-disease.html

Rare pictures of the last 10 years of Gandhi's life

Here's an anxious-looking Mahatma Gandhi making a telephone call from his office in Sevagram village in the western state of Maharashtra in 1938. India's greatest leader had moved to a village called Segaon two years ago. He had renamed it Sevagram or a village of service. He built an ashram, a c...

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Scientists May Have Just Discovered The Key To Halting Alzheimer's

Brain inflammation plays a big role in the disease's progression. | Updated 2 hours ago Inflammation in the brain may play an important role in the development of Alzheimer's. Curbing brain inflammation may help people treat and prevent Alzheimer's disease, according to a landmark new study. Rese...

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A trip to the empty beaches of Venice by quadcopter drone.

http://www.redsharknews.com/production/item/3163-stunning-drone-tour-of-a-near-deserted-venice-beach?utm_source=www.lwks.com+subscribers&utm_campaign=c82529fe0f-RSN_Jan12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_079aaa3026-c82529fe0f-78036349

‘ apple malak wage’, song.

Amarasiri Peiris sings prize winning  love song

‘ apple malak wage’’

jksw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM4ANyev2G4

56 places to go in 2016 – Look at 41

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/07/travel/places-to-visit.html?emc=eta1

Death and dying

http://theconversation.com/five-surprising-findings-about-death-and-dying-51923

His 'veshti' slipped down at his own wedding.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3392708/Moment-Indian-groom-left-scrambling-cover-modesty-bride-steps-clothes-ripping-body-wedding.html

Healthier living saves money.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3393133/Healthier-living-save-NHS-claims-former-boss-Comments-come-doctors-say-getting-people-look-important-increased-funding.html

Return of 'The Flying Scotsman', UK.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3390233/Flying-Scotsman-returns-tracks-time-decade-4-2m-refit.html

Valuing your time over money may be linked to happiness

(CNN)Would you prefer a more expensive apartment with a shorter commute or a less expensive apartment with a long commute? That's one of the many real world questions researchers at the University of British Columbia asked more than 4,600 participants in the latest study on happiness. The questio...

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Little Johnny and Donald Trump

email from DBRDES

  Teacher trumped by DT definition! 

Subject: Donald Trump Fan

A teacher asked her 6th grade class how many of them were Donald Trump fans.

Not really knowing what a Donald Trump fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands except for smart Little Johnny.

The teacher asked Little Johnny why he has decided to be different... 

Little Johnny said, "Because I'm not a Donald Trump fan." 

The teacher asked, "Why aren't you a fan of Donald Trump?"

Johnny said, "Because I'm a Democrat." 

The teacher asked him why he's a Democrat.

Little Johnny answered, "Well, my Mom's a Democrat and my Dad's a Democrat, so I'm a Democrat."

Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked, "If your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot, what would that make you?"

With a big smile, Little Johnny replied, "That would make me a Donald Trump fan."

Railway museum, Kadugannawe, Sri Lanka.

https://youtu.be/m2odbMB7v7s

Movement and music

FOLI (there is no movement without rhythm) original version by Thomas Roebers and Floris Leeuwenberg

https://youtu.be/lVPLIuBy9CY

World's largest Sapphire found in Sri Lanka.

http://theconversation.com/what-science-can-tell-us-about-the-worlds-largest-sapphire-52788

“Parai” – The percussion instrument nurtured by Ancient Tamil Nation

“Parai” – The percussion instrument nurtured by Ancient Tamil Nation |

The most terrifying warnings that Stephen Hawking has given mankind

Astrophysicist Professor Stephen Hawking has turned 74, celebrating his birthday on 8 January. His has been a life of miracles and stunning discoveries — as well as terrifying warnings. While he is …

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10 signs your child has a high IQ

EVERY parent thinks their child is a genius but there’s a way to be sure from an early age.


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New company claims they’ll be able to RESURRECT THE DEAD by 2045

Entrepreneur Josh Bocanegra attracted a lot of attention when he announced his new artificial intelligence company Humai. Why? Because he claims that by 2045, they’ll be able to resurrect the dead. The …

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Acupuncture and bacterial infection

http://www.livescience.com/53271-acupuncture-causes-bacterial-infection.html

Want to gain trust? Act silly

http://timesofindia.feedsportal.com/c/33039/f/533922/s/4cc0b7a3/sc/24/l/0Ltimesofindia0Bindiatimes0N0Chome0Cscience0CWant0Eto0Egain0Etrust0EAct0Esilly0Carticleshow0C50A51580A90Bcms/story01.htm