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Sri Lanka-current 27th May 2022 – By Dr Harold Gunatillake *Sri Lanka PM to take over as finance minister too. Ali Sabry, previous finance minister, resigns *Wickremesinghe will present an interim budget within six weeks that will slash government expenditure ‘to the bone’. *The PM is seeking $4bn from the IMF, China and Japan to pay for food and fuel even as he slashes the budget to ‘bare bones’. *Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa Appeals for Bridging Finance in TokyoLanka has run out of money to pay for food, fuel, medicines and other daily need. *Sri Lanka hikes fuel prices, hires financial and legal advisers *Sri Lanka’s inflation increased by 20-24 per cent Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will take charge as finance minister, the president’s office has announced. It will lead talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the crisis-hit nation seeks a bailout. “Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn ...

May 27, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged Ali Sabry, Central Bank, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, IMF, Kanchana Wijesekera, Nandalal Weerasinghe, Ranil Wickremesinghe, TokyoLanka

Elvis Presley A All Star Tribute 2019 – by Patrick Ranasinghe Yolanda Adams, Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Alessia Cara, Mac Davis, John Fogerty, Josh Groban, Adam Lambert, John Legend, Little Big Town, Jennifer Lopez, Post Malone, Shawn Mendes, Pistol Annies, Darius Rucker, Ed Sheeran, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban Are Set to Perform To Accompany the Telecast, Sony Music Entertainment Will Release “The Best of the ’68 Comeback Special,” Featuring Original Elvis Performances, and “If I Can Dream” by Elvis with New Vocal Performances from Carrie Underwood, Shawn Mendes, Post Malone, Darius Rucker and Blake Shelton The music industry’s biggest stars, including Yolanda Adams, Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Alessia Cara, Mac Davis, John Fogerty, Josh Groban, Adam Lambert, John Legend, Little Big Town, Jennifer Lopez, Post Malone, Shawn Mendes, Pistol Annies, Darius Rucker, Ed Sheeran, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban, will take the stage for NBC’s ...

May 27, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Patrick Ranasinghe Tagged Adam Lambert, Alessia Cara, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Darius Rucker, Dierks Bentley, Ed Sheeran, Elvis Performances, Jennifer Lopez, John Fogerty, John Legend, Josh Groban, Kelsea Ballerini, Little Big Town, Mac Davis, Pistol Annies, Post Malone, Shawn Mendes, Sony Music Entertainment, Yolanda Adams

FOR OLD TIME’S SAKE” – by Des Kelly Think I’ve worked his name out to be Ivor de Novello (hopefully) aa the Author of this fascinating throwback that we frequently refer to, as the good old days. As usual, thank you also, Keith Bennett, for sending this story in for e’Lanka members in general. Certainly, they will enjoy reading about the past, when Sri Lanka was still Ceylon, and,as a matter of fact, many other Countries were also known by different names to the ones they are now. Enough said, so here it is folks. Please read & reminisce. Desmond Kelly. (Editor-in-Chief) e’Lanka. That is so true and we sure have seen a lot in our life time… recycled but some great memories Always nice to reflect THIS is FASCINATING! – The 1% Age Group This special group was born between 1930 & 1947. In 2022, the age range ...

May 27, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged Age Group, good old days, GOOGLE, past

Kaleidoscope with Savithri Rodrigo 107 27 05 2022 We promised you a packed Friday. Well….here it is – packed to the brim. Are we going to get the money? The new Finance Minister’s priorities, art that looks at trauma, Bharathanatyam & hip hop, literary swoops and celebrating turtles is on today’s Prime Group Kaleidoscope. DON’T FORGET – Enjoy, ...

May 27, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Savithri Rodrigo Tagged Prime Group Kaleidoscope., Savithri Rodrigo

Why humans get less sleep than other primates – By Elizabeth Preston Source:bbc.com The amount of time we spend awake and asleep compared to our relatives among the apes, monkeys and lemurs may have played a key role in our evolution. On dry nights, the San hunter-gatherers of Namibia often sleep under the stars. They have no electric lights or new Netflix releases keeping them awake. Yet when they rise in the morning, they haven’t gotten any more hours of sleep than a typical city-dweller in North America or Europe who stayed up doom-scrolling on their smartphone. Research has shown that people in non-industrial societies – the closest thing to the kind of setting our species evolved in – average less than seven hours a night, says evolutionary anthropologist David Samson at the University of Toronto Mississauga. That’s surprising when you consider our closest animal relatives. Humans sleep less than any ape, ...

May 27, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Chimpanzees sleep, electric lights, Humans sleep, less sleep, night, sleep, University of Toronto Mississauga

Crossing The Jordan – by Lakshman Navaratne Dust Divine Scripture is only for those who trust in a sovereign Creator. It has no value to anyone who remotely trusts in human logic, rooting our beginning to the Apes, and blindly branding humans as mammals who originally were Apes. Thus, believing our ancestry stemming to the Apes. Science has defined human life as “the evolved Intelligent Apes” We humans, born in the last 200 years, who are still breathing oxygen on earth, are led to believe all science is intelligence acquired knowledge, which has become the snare put before the unsuspecting humans by the academia, stemming to Intelligence of the Phylum Mammalian. Scripture vehemently documents; we did not originate from the Apes. We were made from “Dust “and made Divine by the Creator of the universe. [A] An Apostolic Christian living today on earth, who has received the Baptism of Pentecost, ...

May 27, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Lakshman Navaratne Tagged Apostles of Christ, breathing, Christ, Dust, human logic, life, Light of Christ, Living, oxygen

Applications for the 2022 Avant Foundation Early Career Research Program are now open – by Dinesh Palipana OAM Source: Dinesh Palipana Linked In From Dinesh Palipana – I have been lucky enough to be an Avant Foundation scholarship holder. Are you an early career doctor looking to build your research capabilities? Applications for the 2022 Avant Foundation Early Career Research Program are now open. The new 2022 program offers up to $450,000 in funding across 29 research grants for full-time, part-time, short-term, and microgrant research projects, with microgrants supported by research coaching. A research skills development program is also on offer. The program builds on 10 years of the Doctor in Training Research Scholarship Program that has funded nearly $3.5 million in support of over 127 projects. It has supported life-changing research to promote better patient outcomes and helped advance the careers of some of Australia’s promising medical researchers. In 2022 there are also ...

May 27, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged 2022 Avant Foundation, Avant Foundation scholarship, Career Research, Dinesh Palipana, Makeadifference, MedicalResearch, medicine, Research grants

‘The Great Resignation’; In search of work-life balance by Amil Prema The Great Resignation – also known as the ‘Big Quit’ or ‘The Great Reshuffle’ – was a term coined by Professor Anthony Klotz from Texas University in early 2021, used to describe the large trend of employees deciding to voluntarily quit their jobs. Propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, a need for more flexible hours, a greater work-life balance, and a desire for more holistic benefits are some of the reasons for the mass resignations over the past two years. In 2021, the US alone saw a staggering 47 million people leave their jobs, with quit rates reaching a 20-year high. Whilst this has created certain headaches for employers, it has also opened up a host of opportunities for remote work – those who have developed the right skills and who are not afraid to take on new challenges, are ...

May 27, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Amil Prema, Articles Tagged Amil Prema, Anthony Klotz, Big Quit, Consulting, Economic benefits, Financial services, Great Resignation, Mental wellbeing, Social Media, work-life balance

A “KELLY-KLASSIC” – by Des Kelly – “Merle Haggard – I Forget You Everyday” He died on his 79th birthday, always has been, in my opinion, on the “top” rung of the Country Music ladder, Astronauts heading for the moon chose his music to accompany them on their long trip, and today, some Merle Haggard songs & “the man in the moon” are in close proximity of one another. Listen to this song, people. Every word, as clear as crystal, lyrics & music written by Merle, who is also a superb guitarist and “Country Fiddler”. He will never be forgotten. ...

May 26, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, DESMOND KELLY Tagged KELLY KLASSIC

Joe Frazier talking to Dinesh Palipana in 2010 not long after a spinal cord injury changed his life forever Source: Dinesh Palipana Linked in This was Joe Frazier talking to me sometime in 2010, not long after a spinal cord injury changed life forever. I was still in the hospital. Moments like that made a big difference. Because, I hated being a patient. In the chaos of the trauma that was ablaze around me, it was disempowering, scary and confronting. Those memories give cause for reflection every day at work today as a #doctor, a lengthy journey from that time in the hospital. Apart from the memories themself, it’s not hard to remember why the patient is the centre of our activity. Mahatma Ghandi is quoted to have said, “A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is ...

May 26, 2022 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Joe Frazier