100 years progress - email jksw

100 YEARS AGO!!! in the last 100 years, there have been more technological advances than in the 2000 years preceding it. Here's Some Great Comparisons. Enjoy! :) FASHION HOME APPLIANCES MEDICINE COMPUTERS CARS AVIATION Fiction SPACE PROJECTS reality TANKS \ LIBRARIES Thank God For Sweet Innovation! Share This And AWE Your Friends! :)

Jaipur foot limb-fitting, in Sri Lanka - email from Susiri Weerasekara.

To: "J. K. S. Weerasekera"
Cc:
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 22:28:27 +0530
Subject: Emailing: DSC01786
  In the picture you  see lively Subhani 24 years old, below knee amputee,
running as if she had no disability at all.
Note  the grace as  she ran for Colombo FINS 2011 sports event.
The photo is of the souvenir.

We have  now completed fitting 25,000 artificial limbs and appliances for
deformities and disabilities since 1985 with low cost Jaipur stimulated
technology.


Subhani obtained her first limb - prosthesis- a generation  ago in 1993-
when 2 years old and has kept coming  for replacements, sometimes as often
as twice a year in her teens.

She wins her events often  and has competed in Malaysia and Japan taking
silver on each occasion.

We  helped her train in computer work at Moratuwa and since then  Dilmah-
the famous tea people,  have promptly employed her to teach  at their
Rainbow Kids School for disabled.

She is socially  well adjusted and has a rosy future, the lack of limb
hardly a disability.

Ah yes, she is not short of admirers. I gather three young hopefuls hang
around, hoping. May the best man win!

Cheers to Subhani
And of course cheers to our individual donors.

Those who  wish to donate-some of you have- the address and details are in
the cover photo itself.
jksw

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CoMSAA (Colombo Medical School Alumni Association) Newsletter for May 2013 - email sent by Piyusha Atapattu.

Herewith I am attaching the August newsletter sent by our editor Dr B J C Perera.

Best regards

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Diving - email sent by Sunil Liyanage.

Sunil Liyanage	20:22 (11 hours ago)
to Sunil

I REALLY DOUBT YOU HAVE SEEN THIS BEFORE…….
Dive Right In--watch it! 

Unbelievably perfect…..can you believe your own eyes?

Ctrl + click on:
5m80

Sri Lanka, scenes and Blue Whales.

Click on each of the blue underlined links below to watch these videos.

Magnificent Sri Lanka.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBNM8025rzU&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs

Blue Whales off Sri Lanka.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5MPbZZ4xJA

9 Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifeime - email from Imelda de Sayrah

 

Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come.

 

1. The Post Office

Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.

 

2. The Check

Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018.  It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks.   Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check.  This plays right into the death of the post office.  If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.

 

3. The Newspaper

The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.

 

4. The Book

You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages. I said the same thing about downloading music from iTunes. I wanted my hard copy CD.  But I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy.  And the price is less than half that of a real book. And think of the convenience!  Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book.

 

5. The Land Line Telephone

Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore.  Most people keep it simply because they've always had it.  But you are paying double charges for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes

 

6. Music

This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem. The record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing. Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalogue items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. Older established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies."

 7. Television

Revenues to the networks are down dramatically.  Not just because of the economy.  People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV.  Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds.  I say good riddance to most of it.  It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery.  Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.

 

8. The "Things" That You Own

Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider. In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert.

 

9. Privacy

If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time anyway. There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7, "They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits. "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again.

 

All we will have left that can't be changed are "Memories". 

And then probably Alzheimers will take that away from you too! 

--

Chimpanzees and a blonde - email from Lesley Sirimanne

 

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A blonde lady motorist was about two hours from the Gold Coast  when she was flagged down by a man whose truck had broken down. The man walked up to the car and asked, 'Are you going to the Gold Coast?' 'Sure,' answered the blonde, 'do you need a lift ?' 'Not for me. I'll be spending the next three hours fixing my truck.  My problem is I've got two chimpanzees in the back which have to be taken to the Gold Coast Zoo. They're a bit stressed already so I don't want to keep  them on the road all day.. Could you possibly take them to the zoo for me ?  I'll give you $100 for your trouble...’ 'I'd be happy to,' said the blonde. So the two chimpanzees were ushered into the back seat of the blonde's car and carefully strapped into their seat belts. Off they went. Five hours later, the truck driver was driving through the heart of the Gold Coast when suddenly he was horrified!! There was  the blonde walking down the street and holding hands with the two chimps,  much to the amusement of a big crowd. With a screech of brakes he pulled off the road and ran over to the blonde. 'What the heck are you doing here ?' he demanded, 'I gave you $100 to take these chimpanzees to the zoo.' 'Yes, I know you did,' said the blonde,' but we had money left over --- So now we're going to Sea World.