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Thursday, April 30, 2009
LP Gas goes up again
The retail price of a 12.5 kg cylinder of Shell domestic LP gas has been increase by Rs. 191.00 and Laugfs gas by Rs. 238.00 per cylinder with effect from midnight today (April 30, 2009).
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Western provincial Council Election 2009
Kalutara District final results
United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA): 351,215 (69.58%) No. of seats: 14
United National Party (UNP): 124,426 (24.65) No. of seats: 05
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP): 13,106 (2.60%) No. of seats: 01
Gampaha District final results
United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA): 624,530 (69.07%) No. of seats: 27
United National Party (UNP): 236,256 (26.13) No. of seats :10
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP): 21,491 (2.38%) No. of seats :01
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) 18,014 No. of seats :01
Colombo District final results
United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA): 530,370 (57.78%) No. of seats: 25
United National Party (UNP): 327,571 (35.69%) No. of seats: 15
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP): 21,787 (2.3%) No. of seats: 01
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC): 18,978 (2.0%) No. of seats: 01
Final results for the Western provincial Council
United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA): 1506115 (64.7%) Seats 68
United National Party (UNP): 688253 (29.5) Seats 30
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP): 56384 (2.4%) Seats 03
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC): 49388 (2%) Seats 02
Democratic Unity Alliance: 11970 Seats 01.
United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA): 351,215 (69.58%) No. of seats: 14
United National Party (UNP): 124,426 (24.65) No. of seats: 05
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP): 13,106 (2.60%) No. of seats: 01
Gampaha District final results
United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA): 624,530 (69.07%) No. of seats: 27
United National Party (UNP): 236,256 (26.13) No. of seats :10
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP): 21,491 (2.38%) No. of seats :01
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) 18,014 No. of seats :01
Colombo District final results
United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA): 530,370 (57.78%) No. of seats: 25
United National Party (UNP): 327,571 (35.69%) No. of seats: 15
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP): 21,787 (2.3%) No. of seats: 01
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC): 18,978 (2.0%) No. of seats: 01
Final results for the Western provincial Council
United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA): 1506115 (64.7%) Seats 68
United National Party (UNP): 688253 (29.5) Seats 30
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP): 56384 (2.4%) Seats 03
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC): 49388 (2%) Seats 02
Democratic Unity Alliance: 11970 Seats 01.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
F-35 Lightning II
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a fifth-generation, single-seat, single-engine, stealth-capable military strike fighter, a multirole aircraft that can perform close air support, tactical bombing, and air defense missions.[4] The F-35 has three different models; one is the conventional takeoff and landing variant, the second is short takeoff and vertical-landing variant, and the third is a carrier-based variant.
The F-35 is descended from the X-35, the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. Its development is being principally funded by the United States, with the United Kingdom, and other partner governments providing additional funding.[5] It is being designed and built by an aerospace industry team led by Lockheed Martin with Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems as major partners.[5] Demonstrator aircraft flew in 2000,[6] with the first flight on 15 December 2006
For More Details:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-35_Lightning_II
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Tissa is no more
Veteran film director, actor and author Dr. Tissa Abeysekera passed away a short while ago. Funeral arrangements will be notified later. Tissa Abeysekara: His capabilities were many
The versatile and outstanding film personality, creative writer and essayist, Tissa Abeysekara passed away this evening after a brief illness. He was the Director of the Sri Lanka Television Training Institute.
Tissa Abeysekara who counts over four decades of service in the Sinhala cinema in the capacities of critic, scriptwriter, director, actor and academic, had also been an able and strong administrator with a vision when he was Chairman of the National Film Corporation from 1999 to 2001. He was honoured with the title of Deshabandu.
Proficient in English and Sinhalese, Tissa began his artistic career as a short story writer - writing in Sinhala, when he was still a schoolboy. His short stories were prominently featured in the ‘Dinamina’ and ‘Janatha’ national newspapers.
Still as a youth he published a collection of Sinhala short stories, bringing him to the notice of Professor Ediriweera Sarachchandra, who hailed him as “an outstanding original voice in Sinhala creative writing who shows promise of developing into a major talent”.
However, a chance meeting with Dr. Lester James Peries in the early sixties lured him to the cinema, where he remained for the next forty years. Tissa developed into the finest and most accomplished screenplay writer, before he was thirty. Among the many scripts he wrote were those for ‘Nidhanaya’ and ‘Welikatara’. And his capabilities in acting were well portrayed by the role he played in ‘Veera Puranappu’ as Ven. Kudahapola Thera.
Having joined the Government Film Unit as a documentary filmmaker, he made over forty documentaries before breaking through as a feature filmmaker with ‘Karumakkarayo’ based on Gunadasa Amarasekara’s controversial novel.
This was followed by ‘Mahagedara’ and then the highly successful ‘Viragaya’ based on Martin Wickramasinghe’s greatest novel, and which was considered ‘unfilmable’. ‘Viragaya’ is considered one of the finest Sinhala films ever made.
Tissa has won many national awards in films, for scriptwriting, directing and acting, and an equal number for his work for television.
In 1996, Tissa Abeysekara turned tables on the local English literary establishment by winning the prestigious Gratiaen Prize for the best piece of Creative Writing in English for that year by a resident Sri Lankan for a novel ‘Bringing Tony Home’.
He has since been writing mostly in English, bringing out another collection of three stories titled ‘In My Kingdom of the Sun and the Holy Peak’. He was an essayist writing on a wide range of subjects both in Sinhala and English.
In the last decade Tissa had built a reputation as a serious writer of fiction; writing in English, not only in Sri Lanka but in the South-Asian region.
He was an active member of the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature, based in Delhi, and had presented papers at a number of literary seminars held in the sub-continent.
Tissa Abeysekara has served on the Boards of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation and the Aesthetic Institute of Sri Lanka, affiliated to the University of Kelaniya.
He was also a Council Member of the University of Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo and was a Trustee of the National Heritage Trust of Sri Lanka.
Widely travelled, Tissa Abeysekara has represented his country at seminars and film festivals, and was a jury member at the International Film Festival of Kerala in 2002.
Tissa Abeysekara who counts over four decades of service in the Sinhala cinema in the capacities of critic, scriptwriter, director, actor and academic, had also been an able and strong administrator with a vision when he was Chairman of the National Film Corporation from 1999 to 2001. He was honoured with the title of Deshabandu.
Proficient in English and Sinhalese, Tissa began his artistic career as a short story writer - writing in Sinhala, when he was still a schoolboy. His short stories were prominently featured in the ‘Dinamina’ and ‘Janatha’ national newspapers.
Still as a youth he published a collection of Sinhala short stories, bringing him to the notice of Professor Ediriweera Sarachchandra, who hailed him as “an outstanding original voice in Sinhala creative writing who shows promise of developing into a major talent”.
However, a chance meeting with Dr. Lester James Peries in the early sixties lured him to the cinema, where he remained for the next forty years. Tissa developed into the finest and most accomplished screenplay writer, before he was thirty. Among the many scripts he wrote were those for ‘Nidhanaya’ and ‘Welikatara’. And his capabilities in acting were well portrayed by the role he played in ‘Veera Puranappu’ as Ven. Kudahapola Thera.
Having joined the Government Film Unit as a documentary filmmaker, he made over forty documentaries before breaking through as a feature filmmaker with ‘Karumakkarayo’ based on Gunadasa Amarasekara’s controversial novel.
This was followed by ‘Mahagedara’ and then the highly successful ‘Viragaya’ based on Martin Wickramasinghe’s greatest novel, and which was considered ‘unfilmable’. ‘Viragaya’ is considered one of the finest Sinhala films ever made.
Tissa has won many national awards in films, for scriptwriting, directing and acting, and an equal number for his work for television.
In 1996, Tissa Abeysekara turned tables on the local English literary establishment by winning the prestigious Gratiaen Prize for the best piece of Creative Writing in English for that year by a resident Sri Lankan for a novel ‘Bringing Tony Home’.
He has since been writing mostly in English, bringing out another collection of three stories titled ‘In My Kingdom of the Sun and the Holy Peak’. He was an essayist writing on a wide range of subjects both in Sinhala and English.
In the last decade Tissa had built a reputation as a serious writer of fiction; writing in English, not only in Sri Lanka but in the South-Asian region.
He was an active member of the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature, based in Delhi, and had presented papers at a number of literary seminars held in the sub-continent.
Tissa Abeysekara has served on the Boards of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation and the Aesthetic Institute of Sri Lanka, affiliated to the University of Kelaniya.
He was also a Council Member of the University of Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo and was a Trustee of the National Heritage Trust of Sri Lanka.
Widely travelled, Tissa Abeysekara has represented his country at seminars and film festivals, and was a jury member at the International Film Festival of Kerala in 2002.
source:- www.adaderana.lk
Friday, April 17, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Russian surgeons remove branch from man's lung
Russian surgeons removed a two-inch Fir tree branch from a man's lung.
At first, doctors believed it was a tumor but when they started cutting they found the green needles.
Did the tree grow in the man's lung?
A botanist says no, because the plant needs light to grow.
The 28-year-old patient came to the hospital complaining of pain in his chest and coughing up blood.
He believes he may have accidentally inhaled the fir tree branch.
At first, doctors believed it was a tumor but when they started cutting they found the green needles.
Did the tree grow in the man's lung?
A botanist says no, because the plant needs light to grow.
The 28-year-old patient came to the hospital complaining of pain in his chest and coughing up blood.
He believes he may have accidentally inhaled the fir tree branch.
Source:-http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=46240
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
New syllabus O/L results out
Ordinary Level examinations results of the new syllabus have released yesterday (April 4) of schools in the Colombo and Jayawardenapura Zones, says Examinations Commissioner Anura Edirisinghe.
The G.C.E. (Ordinary Level) new syllabus results are now available on SMS. Type exams (index number) and send to 7777. E.g. Exams 80000000 and send to 7777.
Results are now available on Web
http://www.doenets.lk/
The G.C.E. (Ordinary Level) new syllabus results are now available on SMS. Type exams (index number) and send to 7777. E.g. Exams 80000000 and send to 7777.
Results are now available on Web
http://www.doenets.lk/
Friday, April 3, 2009
Top 10 Hubble Pictures
Astronomers Select Top Ten Most Amazing Pictures Taken by Hubble Space Telescope in Last 16 Years '
...they illustrate that our universe is not only deeply strange, but also almost impossibly beautiful .'
Michael Hanlon/AH (Nov 25th, 2006)
After correcting an initial problem with the lens, when the Hubble Space Telescope was first launched in 1990, the floating astro-observatory began to relay back to Earth, incredible snapshots of the 'final frontier' it was perusing. Recently, astronauts voted on the top photographs taken by Hubble, in its 16-year journey so far. Remarking in the article from the Daily Mail, reporter Michael Hanlon says the photos 'illustrate that our universe is not only deeply strange, but also almost impossibly beautiful.
Hubble Telescope's top ten greatest space photographs.
The Sombrero Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth - was voted best picture taken by the Hubble telescope. The dimensions of the galaxy, officially called M104, are as spectacular as its appearance. It has 800 billion suns and is 50,000 light years across.
The Ant Nebula, a cloud of dust and gas whose technical name is Mz3, resembles an ant when observed using ground-based telescopes... The nebula lies within our galaxy between 3,000 and 6,000 light years from Earth.
In third pla ce is Nebula NGC 2392, called 'Eskimo' because it looks like a face surrounded by a furry hood. The hood is, in fact, a ring of comet-shaped objects flying away from a dying star. Eskimo is 5,000 light years from Earth.
At four is the Cat's Eye Nebula.
The Hourglass Nebula, 8,000 light years away, has a 'pinched-in-the-middle' look because the winds that shape it are weaker at the centre.
In sixth place is the Cone Nebula. The part pictured here is 2.5 light years in length (the equivalent of 23 million return trips to the Moon).
The Perfect Storm, a small region in the Swan Nebula, 5,500 light years away, described as 'a bubbly ocean of hydrogen and small amounts of oxygen, sulphur and other elements'.
Starry Night, so named because it reminded astronom ers of the Van Gogh painting. It is a halo of light around a star in the Milky Way.
The glowering eyes from 114 million light years away are the swirling cores of two merging galaxies called NGC 2207 and IC 2163 in the distant Canis Major constellation. 
The Trifid Nebula. A 'stellar nursery', 9,000 light years from here, it is where new stars are being born. ............................
The end....you have just seen the Top 10 Hubbel Pictures!!!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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