Save our Dogs from Fire crackers

Save our Dogs from Fire crackers

Mind you I do want to post this as a separate blog!

My warnings are

1. Please no fire crackers, we have enough pollution in this city including noise (next prime minister campaign to b precise, we have to make a new series based on BBC, NO,NO, Prime Minister, Please do not come again, We had enough of YOU!).

2. It frightens my dog and your dog too.

Mind you many dogs die during this month (family goes on a holiday, poor servant eats the dog's food, thunder storm, and fire crackers and simply negligence).

To this add petty thieves poisoning them for meat in the corner hotel masquerading as chicken.

3. Beware lightening!

4. Do not answer the telephone when there is thunder storm, it will busy your ear drum.

5. Switch off all the computers, I lost five during the last three years (I was not worried, I was pruning my 10 set computer network to two and now with my wife's one busted month age due to drop in voltage- to cut down on the 'Electricity Bill'.

The the rain that comes with the thunder storms is a blessing for me.

I was expecting it to come after mid May.

My water plants were dying including an amazon plant with a beautiful white flower.

I just resurrected it and put it in a bigger container with Guppy fish for company.

I have three or four water lillies (one never bloomed for the last ten years- the first one I started with which has a yellow flower most likely an imported variety).

Te most expensive one inside the house virtually dead (my wife changed the container without telling me. Leaves wilted away leaving behind a tiny yam).

For the last three months it spouted out few leaves and they get entangled by the algae and die before the stem was long enough for the leaf to float free.

With my perseverance and insistence on clearing the algae manually (no chemicals please), it has now three tiny leaves and I cleared the space for the fourth one yesterday.

The second of the lillie was trapped with a big water plant with a beautiful tiny purple bunch of flowers (I let it grow till it was time to uproot and save my lillie).

I did uproot two of them and found a suitable containers and they are flowering again after my forceful overthrow from the residential setting on the roof top.

They are killing Cricket-ICC

They are killing Cricket-ICC

First Time in my life I never watched a single cricket match.

It was my wife who told me that Australia had won.

She had gone out that day and heard it in someplace.

She knows how much I loved watching cricket.

Not any more.

She thought, I was gone bonkers.

None of it.

I slept through the day and woke up at 3.30 PM. 

Yes, up very late in the evening.

I was up all night making finishing touches to my last book.

I in fact, I finished three books, while the cricket was going on without fireworks.

Watching cricket was boring. 

I was actually hoping for New Zealand to make it.

I had been in New Zealand, the best people in this world live there.

They are so nice in the field unlike rowdy Australians.

Now let me say why I hate cricket now.

1. I hate the way ICC manipulating the game.

2. Players have no say.

3. They have change the colour of the ball.

4. They have made mandatory changes at 25 overs.

5. They have made mandatory field settings.

6. In all they have made cricket unplayable for ballers.

They just go through the motion and routine.

7. Worst of all they reprimanded all the spinners, before the first game was played on fancy balling actions.

8. I hate Duckworth Lewis formula.

At least in world cup they should have the option to replay the full game if the rain interrupts play, for the sake of the spectators.

9. Then the television coverage and money we have to pay the channel owners.

10. In a nutshell it is money the ICC officials want.

It is not cricket anymore.

Money rules.

11. With India, Australia and England dictating at ICC level, rest of the cricket nations can play for Kiss of Death.

I was pretty sure Sri-Lanka would be eliminated.

I had given my reasons two years ago. 

No need of repeating.

I had stop talking about cricket under Mahinda Chinthanaya ruining (people stop laughing and smiling under their regime and it is over three months, NOW still people do not crack a joke-even WITHOUT a political SLANT-most passive citizens on this planet) the day to day simple life of our people, going down a racial and HATRED precipice and with appreciably rising, cost of living (sky rocketing).

As regard to Australian cricket, I would not watch them as long as the present captain is playing.

It is painful to watch him play.

Why can't they find a better captain?

I hope the Australians, ask this question.

I certainly believed that Australia could win the cup without him.

Nowhere, compared to New Zealand captain Brendon MaCulum.

R.I.P. for cricket in Sri-Lankan context and smaller nations.

The best thing that happened to cricket was India losing and their betting machines can now be used for bonfire.

5 Slogans

5 Slogans

1. Beware, the freedom that gives you no choice.

2. Beware, not your dog but your BOSS.

3. Beware not your dog but your neighbour.

4. Eat but not beat your FAT Boss.

5. To get rich, please go through my ARC-x.

Forgot to refresh that ARC-x stands for Asking Relentless Credit at xero rating


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Open Indiana Update.

Open Indiana Update.

 

Open Indiana has just posted its latest Iso (Os) on torrent.

I downloaded and it booted on my dying old IBM.

For some unknown reason it does not detect the boot loader (some error in the MBR, probably)

I boot it by a live DVD/Cd and then use the Live DVD menu Hard Disk option and boot my OS, Peppermint.

This is what I am going to do with my old horse till it packs up.

I have tested over 200 live CDs on it and the reason for packing up is partly due to that, I believe.

But the real culprit is our Electricity Supply which has done enormous damage to many equipment including computers.

It cannot provide constant voltage or reliable voltage.

Coming back to Open Indian, it has option for Live as well as booting from hard disk (I did not try with Open Indiana / Solaris but by MUKULU Linux).

I too a little time but has pleasing Gnome Desktop.

The partition Editor did not detect my partitions bout detected the SATA hard disk.

Browser was FireFox.

There was no LibreOffice or Abiword.

I could not locate the software store to add software.

It is falling behind Linux but I still have my Open Solaris Free disk in my archive which Sun posted it to me free in my early days with Linux.

I hope the developers / community is well supported (in its endeavours).

OpenSolaris was Sun's open-sourcing of most of the System V (plus much else) Unix based Solaris operating system. It's now the third major family of open-source Unix, after Linux and BSD.

OpenIndiana is a general purpose distribution with X and desktop environment. If you intend to run illumos on the desktop, you want OpenIndiana.

Escape from Dogmatism

Escape from Dogmatism
 
In this world of uncertainty, it is very easy for a dogma to creep in imperceptibly.

Religion is one of them.
It promises heaven and hell or man’s emancipation or salvation but nothing in this life and in between.
 
Politics is another.
 
It promises good governance and delivers corruption.

The science in another.
It promises the moon and mars exploration, knowing very well they are not habitable.

Education promises prosperity but at least half of them are without jobs but the half who have got jobs are doing menial jobs not what they are trained for or looking for.

The list can be endless but there is no attempt at getting rid of the dogmatism. 

In actual fact, there is no escape from dogmatism.

The Elephant Corridor, A Myth

The Elephant Corridor. A Myth
The Elephant Corridor in Sri-Lanka is a myth.
Yala, Wagamuwa, Wilpattu and Uda Walawe are not connected by a corridor for the elephants to move freely, since the rest of the land is densely populated and there is not even a hypothetical corridor.
My calculation is that not even one percent of the land is reserved for the elephants.
If I assume 10% (ten) of the land is allocated in a hypothetical space on this island  as a zoological garden and all the elephants are relocated inside it for the people to see them as exhibits, and only 0.1% of the total population come to this putative zoological garden, to see them on one go (again hypothetical), there will be one man or woman standing every 10 feet (3.3 meters) of the perimeter and no elephant can move out without touching a human being.
If we get 1% to visit this zoo, one can stand and won’t be able to stretch the hands without pushing or shoving.
Elephant will have to trample 10 of them to get out of the perimeter and see the man’s world, which is fully developed.
One may wonder, why I used 10% which is high land mass in commercial concepts.
It is very simple.
My estimate is that there should be at least 35%  of total land mass of the island to be reserved for rain forest, if we are to maintain at least 10% of our perennial rivers.
So take another 5% of for lakes, rivers and water bodies, we can assume that, we have 30% for the rain forest, the wild elephants should take major share of it, at least one third of it, which would be my target 10% of land reserve for elephants.
Please note that we have only about 1% occupying, water bodies equivalent to  870 km² of water or 400 square miles.
It is not enormous by any stretch of imagination, and can decline rapidly, if the rain fails for a prolong period.
That is another reason for elephant migration, looking for water bodies not only for foraging.
Currently, it is less than 25% may be touching 20% (we will be like Dubai in about another 50 years with the current development heist) and I say, not even 1% of the land is dedicated and left solely for our elephants.
So, the elephants have to, and they have no choice left, but to migrate through the developed land and we call it the encroachment and in actual fact it is the man who has encroached upon its habitat.
This is mainly due to our population explosion in relation to decline in elephant population.
So, by this unnatural selection, it will be only 500 elephants that will survive in the this land, and it is really an endangered species.
Stating that we have 5000 elephants in the forest is a mythical figure concocted by our Mega Media Men (M.M.M) to satisfy the politicians.
I think each elephant is counted ten (10) times in making that mythical figure, sometimes by reputed NGO's.
Development of the man’s world is also a big myth in the same stretch of imagination, since only a very few with patronage will be able to enjoy it.
I have made this calculation confusing and difficult so that politicians won’t be able to understand my logic of it but the figures are below for one to work out.
Human Population density in Sril-Lanka averaged out but in reality it is much more than that because people congregate on socio-economic reasons.
The population density in Gamphaha is more than Decca and Calcatta.
Kandy has 10 times the population density of Gaza Strip.
Beauty is that nobody talks about population control.
I have used the total population projected in another 10 to 50 years for my calculation since total square miles is roughly 25,000.
1000 in a square mile
400 in a Square Kilometer
400 x 2.4 =1000
Reserve only 10% 2500 Sq Miles (6500 Sq. Meters)
0.1 of population 250,000
Every 10 feet or 3.3 meters there is a man or woman standing.
Location   Indian Ocean     Coordinates   7°N 81°E
Area       65,610 km2 (25,332 sq miles)
Area rank     25th
Coastline   1,340 km (833 miles)
Highest elevation  2,524.13 m (8,281.27 ft)
Highest point    Pidurutalagala
Water bodies     870 km² of water = 400 square miles and that is only about 1% of the land surface.
(If Water body  is 1.5 % it equals to 1000 Km).
Population density   1000 / sq miles
Population density  400 / km
Hypothetical Elephants   population is 1000 and it is exaggerated to 5000 by local media giants.
The biggest lie in this country.

Zebra Experiment

This is a chapter in my next book, Reflection, will be out soon.

Zebra Fish and Black Guppy
I have reason to believe there is unhealthy practices of Fish Breeding.
I may have briefly mentioned this sometime in the past. I cannot trace the piece of writing.
In any case there seems to be new developments.
There is a guy who breeds albino zebras.
He has now introduced a pink strain.
I have an obsession on the topic of pigmentation, especially in regard to Guppy fish.
I wished as a kid, I could see a Guppy black like a black molly.
A guy in Thibirigasya, actually accomplished it.
He deserves a Nobel Prize.
I do not know how he accomplished it but to see a Guppy with band of black is common now.
These Guppies are robust, healthy and of reasonable size.
But all the variants of Zebras are tiny.
They do not grow to adult size in spite of proper feeding.
They do not mix in the shoal with normally colored zebras.
In other words thy are unhealthy.
Toady, I received a batch of albino tetras free of charge from a dealer, whom I knew for two decades.
The idea was for me to look after them (confirmed disabled) sympathetically until they die.
One of them died on transit due to shock.
Rest went into panic state the moment, I introduced them to my main tank.
I sat there and watched their agony for half an hour.
Only two recovered in half an hour.
Most of them were partially blind or an eye was totally missing.
One was totally blind and took the longest to recover.
After one hour all of them could balance and swim in a comical manner.
They had two problems.
One was blindness.
The other was balancing.
I believe these strains are poisoned in their breeding.
They must be using very toxic material.
There is unsupervised breeding programs in this country.
These chemical are hazardous to humans and other animals and are slowly percolating into our ground water.
Who is allowing these materials to be imported?
That is my big question.

Zebra Experiment

I bought the zebra fish with an intention of crossbreeding them. They are easy to breed but one need an elaborate tanks to separate the eggs from the parents and also have adequate quantity of infusoria.

Infusoria

Infusoria grows naturally in most tanks, particularly those with live plants. However, there may not be sufficient quantities to sustain a full hatching of fry.
The term infusoria is an old one that has changed in meaning over the years. At one time it referred to just about any microscopic, or nearly microscopic, organism that lived in fresh water. That use of that word long ago became outdated in the scientific community.
However, the term infusoria is still used by many within the aquarium community, even by younger fish enthusiasts. To aquarium enthusiasts infusoria refers to many small organisms in water that tiny fry can feed up upon.
Although it's not feasible to name every organism that could be in an infusoria culture, some of the primary ones include, algae (volvox), amoebae, euglena, paramecium, rotifers, stentor and vorticella.
Therefore, it is helpful to culture your own infusoria to ensure having an adequate amount.

Knoppix-7.5-Booting With A Flash Drive

The latest 7.5.2 was out few days ago.

Knoppix-7.5
I just booted (Old IBM)Knoppix 7.5that came with the Linux Magazine.
Currently preparing a bootable USB with overlay facility.
It needs about 4.5 GiB for the distribution and the rest for my data.
I am using  8 GiB Flash Drive. 
It gives the option of encrypting the data, which I declined.
I am not paranoid,yet.
It has a small image of 12 MiB for bootable CD but I could not find it.
That is for a computer that cannot be booted by a Flash Drive.
One boots with the CD and then write the image to the Flash Drive.
If you have an old computer with a BIOS that does not support USB booting,
With two combination, Mini CD and Flash Drive now you can boot from a Flash Drive.
It is currently available with Linux Magazine ONLY.
It has IceWeasle, Fire Fox and Chrome as browsers.
I use Iceweasle since it has security options built in.
Please excuse if there are typos.

My old computer's audio is not configured with almost all the current Linux Distributions that I have tried BUT Knoppix configures it very well.
So if I need to Listen to something on the Web, I am going to boot with the Flash Drive.
Why use Flash Drive? 
It is faster than the DVD.
Thanks guys/Girls of Knopix.
Yes it is the best Live DVD.
But hope you will continue to have the CD version, too.
I finally found the small iso in th Knoppix folder, but I could not get the K3B to burn the image booted with the USB stick with DVD writer available for writing.
I copied the image to my Linux download folder and currently writing it to a CD.
There is something I always do.
Copy the DVD image to another DVD and place the original DVD in my archive and only use the second copy for my demonstrations.

Elephants (The Good Governance)

Elephants (The Good Governance)
 
The elephant the biggest mammal is threatened. 
The big mammoth went into extinction due to two reasons. One is it was considered to be food for the prehistoric man. They were hunted down to extinction. The second more probable reason is they acquired a variant of human disease, the killer tuberculosis. It was not due to deforestation.
The story about the Sri-Lankan elephant is no different.
They were hunted for ivory.
They were domesticated by kings for the war machines.
Then it was the symbol of a party.
It was the prized possession of the wealthy and was their hired heavy labour.
Latest was the merchandise of ill repute.
Politicians with power started dealing with illegal capture and transfer of baby elephants.
By selective genetic extermination by the Sri-Lankan hunters, the percentage of tusked animals went below five percent.
So they went in for the real kill.
Kill the mother (she) elephant and hunt the baby elephant as a merchandise. This went on in broad day light after the war.
Even, LTTE never mixed up their politics with elephant trade.
The end of the war came and the political masters without the terrorist threat went for the bounty.
Sri-Lankan media it was ‘moms the word’ since rulers and the political henchmen were in this big business.
Then added to this deforestation and location of sugar cane and banana plantation in their migration path way.
From 1960s (CP. De Silvas time) for politicians elephant was a merchandise and they used the bogus claim of damage to poor farmers plots. They were not poor farmer but hashish (ganja) growers and some politicians were involved in this hashish trade. They in fact come to the parliament to protect their illegal trading interests.
Parallel with these development their is a ‘Flora and Fauna Act’ with a director to oversee the enactment of these laws.
But he becomes part of the problem and the elephant register disappears and duplicate registers are introduced.
He is paid a salary and a pension for all of his inaction.
None of these were elephant friendly actions.
Their population has gone down to 2000 and the official figured are ‘cooked up’ figures.
Who believes their statistics when our children’s malnutrition is reported as 20% percent when actual ground level malnutrition is double of it nearing 40%, especially in the war torn areas.
Would you expect our forest officers to go to the forest and count them every day.
Most of them are in their homes and go to the base to collect the monthly salary.
Pure nonsense.
They are only targeting which one is their next prized kill.
This is how we achieved our miracle progress.

Toutuo.Wolx Linux in French

Toutuo.Wolx Linux in French

Puppy Linux derivative TouTuo Linux is beautiful.

It is only 142 MiB and retains all the good features of Puppy Linux.

It is in French and I had no difficulty in booting and quitting in French.
Thanks Guys and Girls.

Swiss bank accounts

I was surprised to see New Zealand and Singapore topping Sri-Lanka.

It is interesting to know the time period of these deposits.

Then an average citizen can make a decision to select the worst government in power and vote them back into power again.

I guess the last regime must be on the top with a clear margin of victory.

Of course these individuals should use that money for the election campaign without using the public coffers (money).

Sri Lanka is ranked 112 among the countries with the largest dollar amounts in the leaked Swiss files. According to its data, ninety two Sri Lankan clients had 129 bank accounts worth approximately US $ 58.3 million.

The maximum amount of money associated with a client connected to Sri Lanka was $10.7M.

2. United Kingdom $21.7B
16. India $4.1B
50. Singapore $758M
63. Seychelles $506.4M
90. New Zealand $151.6M
112. Sri Lanka $58.3M
113. Thailand $57.3M

Another Elephant Story

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Another Elephant Story 

It looks like the the good governance or law and order does not apply to politicians and their relations.


බැලූ බැල්මට නීති විරෝධීයැ’යි පෙනෙන අලි පැටවකු ලියාපදිංචි කිරීම සඳහා ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශ හිටපු ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ජනාධිපතිවරණයෙන් පසුව වනජීවී සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට අයදුම්පත‍්‍රයක් යොමු කර ඇත.

දැනගන්නට තිබෙන ලෙස ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට මෙම අලි පැටවා හිමිවී ඇත්තේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂගේ සන්නසකට අනුවය. එම සන්නසට අනුව දෙනියාය කල්දිල්පාන රණසිංආරාමයේ භාරකරු වන එන්.ජී. රාජපක්ෂ යන අයට සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු සඳහා යොදවා ගැනීම සඳහායැ’යි කියමින් මෙම අලි පැටවා පිරිනමා ඇත.

සන්නසේ සඳහන් දිනය 2014/01/10 වන අතර ලංකාවේ කිසිදු බෞද්ධ විහාරයකට ගිහි භාරකරුවකු නොමැති බව බෞද්ධ හිමිවරුන් සනාථ කරන තත්ත්වය තුළ ඉහත සන්නසෙන් කර තිබෙන ප‍්‍රදානය සැකසහිතය. එමෙන්ම සන්නස ලැබී වසරක කාලයකට පසුව එම අලි පැටවා ලියාපදිංචියට ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමද සැකසහිතය.

 
වනජීවී සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට යොමු කර ඇති උක්ත අයදුම්පත‍්‍රය පිළිබඳව රාවය අදාළ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් එච්.ඞී. රත්නායක මහතාගෙන් කළ කරුණු විමසීමේදී නුගේගොඩ, මිරිහාන, පැඟිරිවත්ත මාවත, 26ඒ යන ලිපිනයේ පදිංචි එන්.ජී. රාජපක්ෂ යන අය විසින් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ යන අත්සනින් අලිපැටවකු ලියාපදිංචිය සඳහා අයදුමක් යොමුකර ඇති බව සනාථ කළේය.

මෙම අයදුම්පත‍්‍රයට අමතරව තවත් සන්නස් පත‍්‍ර දෙකකට අදාළ අලි පැටවුන් දෙදෙනකු සඳහාද අයදුම් තමන් වෙත ලැබී ඇතැ’යි ඔහු ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේය. එම අයදුම්පත‍්‍ර දෙක උපුල් දිසානායක සහ එන්. වන්නිආරච්චි යන අය විසින් යොමුකර ඇතැ’යි ද ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ අයදුමට අදාළ අලි පැටවාගේ වයස අවුරුදු 4යි මාස 10ක් බවද ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේය.

පසුගිය අවුරුදු 20ක කාලය තුළ ලංකාවේ කිසිදු හීලෑ ඇතින්නියකට හෝ කෙනෙකට අලි හෝ ඇත් පැටවෙක් නොලැබී තිබෙන තත්ත්වය තුළ මෙම අලි පැටවා නීති විරෝධීව කැලයෙන් අල්ලාගෙන එන ලද එකකු නොවන්නේදැ’යි රාවය ඒ මහතාගෙන් විමසීමේදී ඔහු ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේ මෙම අයදුම්පත‍්‍රවලට සම්බන්ධ සියලූ අලි පැටවුන් පිළිබඳව මේ වනවිට විමර්ශන කටයුතු ආරම්භ වී ඇති බවය.

පසුගිය රජය සමයේ නොයෙක් බලපෑම් නිසා නීති විරෝධී අලි පැටවුන් පිළිබඳව පරීක්ෂණ අඩාල වූ බව ප‍්‍රකාශ කරන ඒ මහතා නව රජය යටතේ ඉදිරියේදී සියලූ නීති විරෝධී අලි පැටවුන් පිළිබඳව විමර්ශන සිදුකරන බව ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේය.

මෙම අලි අයදුම සහ අලි ගනුදෙනුව පිළිබඳව රාවය නීතිඥ ජගත් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගෙන් කරුණු විමසීමේදී ඒ මහතා ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේ ජනාධිපතිවරයකුට සන්නස් පත‍්‍රයක් මගින් මෙවැනි අලි පැටවුන් ප‍්‍රදානය කිරීමක් කිරීම සඳහා ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන් හෝ 2009 අංක 22 වනජීවී ආරක්ෂණ පනතේ කිසිදු ප‍්‍රතිපාදනයක් සලසා නොමැති බවය. ඒ නිසා මෙම ක‍්‍රියාවලිය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම නීතියට පටහැනි බව ඒ මහතා වැඩිදුරටත් ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේය.

බැලූ බැල්මට නීති විරෝධීයැ’යි පෙනෙන අලි පැටවකු ලියාපදිංචි කිරීම සඳහා ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශ හිටපු ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ජනාධිපතිවරණයෙන් පසුව වනජීවී සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට අයදුම්පත‍්‍රයක් යොමු කර ඇත.

දැනගන්නට තිබෙන ලෙස ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට මෙම අලි පැටවා හිමිවී ඇත්තේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂගේ සන්නසකට අනුවය. එම සන්නසට අනුව දෙනියාය කල්දිල්පාන රණසිංආරාමයේ භාරකරු වන එන්.ජී. රාජපක්ෂ යන අයට සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු සඳහා යොදවා ගැනීම සඳහායැ’යි කියමින් මෙම අලි පැටවා පිරිනමා ඇත.

සන්නසේ සඳහන් දිනය 2014/01/10 වන අතර ලංකාවේ කිසිදු බෞද්ධ විහාරයකට ගිහි භාරකරුවකු නොමැති බව බෞද්ධ හිමිවරුන් සනාථ කරන තත්ත්වය තුළ ඉහත සන්නසෙන් කර තිබෙන ප‍්‍රදානය සැකසහිතය. එමෙන්ම සන්නස ලැබී වසරක කාලයකට පසුව එම අලි පැටවා ලියාපදිංචියට ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමද සැකසහිතය.
වනජීවී සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට යොමු කර ඇති උක්ත අයදුම්පත‍්‍රය පිළිබඳව රාවය අදාළ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් එච්.ඞී. රත්නායක මහතාගෙන් කළ කරුණු විමසීමේදී නුගේගොඩ, මිරිහාන, පැඟිරිවත්ත මාවත, 26ඒ යන ලිපිනයේ පදිංචි එන්.ජී. රාජපක්ෂ යන අය විසින් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ යන අත්සනින් අලිපැටවකු ලියාපදිංචිය සඳහා අයදුමක් යොමුකර ඇති බව සනාථ කළේය.

මෙම අයදුම්පත‍්‍රයට අමතරව තවත් සන්නස් පත‍්‍ර දෙකකට අදාළ අලි පැටවුන් දෙදෙනකු සඳහාද අයදුම් තමන් වෙත ලැබී ඇතැ’යි ඔහු ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේය. එම අයදුම්පත‍්‍ර දෙක උපුල් දිසානායක සහ එන්. වන්නිආරච්චි යන අය විසින් යොමුකර ඇතැ’යි ද ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ අයදුමට අදාළ අලි පැටවාගේ වයස අවුරුදු 4යි මාස 10ක් බවද ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේය.

පසුගිය අවුරුදු 20ක කාලය තුළ ලංකාවේ කිසිදු හීලෑ ඇතින්නියකට හෝ කෙනෙකට අලි හෝ ඇත් පැටවෙක් නොලැබී තිබෙන තත්ත්වය තුළ මෙම අලි පැටවා නීති විරෝධීව කැලයෙන් අල්ලාගෙන එන ලද එකකු නොවන්නේදැ’යි රාවය ඒ මහතාගෙන් විමසීමේදී ඔහු ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේ මෙම අයදුම්පත‍්‍රවලට සම්බන්ධ සියලූ අලි පැටවුන් පිළිබඳව මේ වනවිට විමර්ශන කටයුතු ආරම්භ වී ඇති බවය.

පසුගිය රජය සමයේ නොයෙක් බලපෑම් නිසා නීති විරෝධී අලි පැටවුන් පිළිබඳව පරීක්ෂණ අඩාල වූ බව ප‍්‍රකාශ කරන ඒ මහතා නව රජය යටතේ ඉදිරියේදී සියලූ නීති විරෝධී අලි පැටවුන් පිළිබඳව විමර්ශන සිදුකරන බව ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේය.

මෙම අලි අයදුම සහ අලි ගනුදෙනුව පිළිබඳව රාවය නීතිඥ ජගත් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගෙන් කරුණු විමසීමේදී ඒ මහතා ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේ ජනාධිපතිවරයකුට සන්නස් පත‍්‍රයක් මගින් මෙවැනි අලි පැටවුන් ප‍්‍රදානය කිරීමක් කිරීම සඳහා ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන් හෝ 2009 අංක 22 වනජීවී ආරක්ෂණ පනතේ කිසිදු ප‍්‍රතිපාදනයක් සලසා නොමැති බවය. ඒ නිසා මෙම ක‍්‍රියාවලිය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම නීතියට පටහැනි බව ඒ මහතා වැඩිදුරටත් ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේය.

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බැලූ බැල්මට නීති විරෝධීයැ’යි පෙනෙන අලි පැටවකු ලියාපදිංචි කිරීම සඳහා ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශ හිටපු ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ජනාධිපතිවරණයෙන් පසුව වනජීවී සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට අයදුම්පත‍්‍රයක් යොමු කර ඇත.

දැනගන්නට තිබෙන ලෙස ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට මෙම අලි පැටවා හිමිවී ඇත්තේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂගේ සන්නසකට අනුවය. එම සන්නසට අනුව දෙනියාය කල්දිල්පාන රණසිංආරාමයේ භාරකරු වන එන්.ජී. රාජපක්ෂ යන අයට සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු සඳහා යොදවා ගැනීම සඳහායැ’යි කියමින් මෙම අලි පැටවා පිරිනමා ඇත.

සන්නසේ සඳහන් දිනය 2014/01/10 වන අතර ලංකාවේ කිසිදු බෞද්ධ විහාරයකට ගිහි භාරකරුවකු නොමැති බව බෞද්ධ හිමිවරුන් සනාථ කරන තත්ත්වය තුළ ඉහත සන්නසෙන් කර තිබෙන ප‍්‍රදානය සැකසහිතය. එමෙන්ම සන්නස ලැබී වසරක කාලයකට පසුව එම අලි පැටවා ලියාපදිංචියට ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමද සැකසහිතය.
වනජීවී සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට යොමු කර ඇති උක්ත අයදුම්පත‍්‍රය පිළිබඳව රාවය අදාළ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ අධ්‍යක්ෂ ජනරාල් එච්.ඞී. රත්නායක මහතාගෙන් කළ කරුණු විමසීමේදී නුගේගොඩ, මිරිහාන, පැඟිරිවත්ත මාවත, 26ඒ යන ලිපිනයේ පදිංචි එන්.ජී. රාජපක්ෂ යන අය විසින් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ යන අත්සනින් අලිපැටවකු ලියාපදිංචිය සඳහා අයදුමක් යොමුකර ඇති බව සනාථ කළේය.

මෙම අයදුම්පත‍්‍රයට අමතරව තවත් සන්නස් පත‍්‍ර දෙකකට අදාළ අලි පැටවුන් දෙදෙනකු සඳහාද අයදුම් තමන් වෙත ලැබී ඇතැ’යි ඔහු ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේය. එම අයදුම්පත‍්‍ර දෙක උපුල් දිසානායක සහ එන්. වන්නිආරච්චි යන අය විසින් යොමුකර ඇතැ’යි ද ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ අයදුමට අදාළ අලි පැටවාගේ වයස අවුරුදු 4යි මාස 10ක් බවද ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේය.

පසුගිය අවුරුදු 20ක කාලය තුළ ලංකාවේ කිසිදු හීලෑ ඇතින්නියකට හෝ කෙනෙකට අලි හෝ ඇත් පැටවෙක් නොලැබී තිබෙන තත්ත්වය තුළ මෙම අලි පැටවා නීති විරෝධීව කැලයෙන් අල්ලාගෙන එන ලද එකකු නොවන්නේදැ’යි රාවය ඒ මහතාගෙන් විමසීමේදී ඔහු ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේ මෙම අයදුම්පත‍්‍රවලට සම්බන්ධ සියලූ අලි පැටවුන් පිළිබඳව මේ වනවිට විමර්ශන කටයුතු ආරම්භ වී ඇති බවය.

පසුගිය රජය සමයේ නොයෙක් බලපෑම් නිසා නීති විරෝධී අලි පැටවුන් පිළිබඳව පරීක්ෂණ අඩාල වූ බව ප‍්‍රකාශ කරන ඒ මහතා නව රජය යටතේ ඉදිරියේදී සියලූ නීති විරෝධී අලි පැටවුන් පිළිබඳව විමර්ශන සිදුකරන බව ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේය.

මෙම අලි අයදුම සහ අලි ගනුදෙනුව පිළිබඳව රාවය නීතිඥ ජගත් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාගෙන් කරුණු විමසීමේදී ඒ මහතා ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේ ජනාධිපතිවරයකුට සන්නස් පත‍්‍රයක් මගින් මෙවැනි අලි පැටවුන් ප‍්‍රදානය කිරීමක් කිරීම සඳහා ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන් හෝ 2009 අංක 22 වනජීවී ආරක්ෂණ පනතේ කිසිදු ප‍්‍රතිපාදනයක් සලසා නොමැති බවය. ඒ නිසා මෙම ක‍්‍රියාවලිය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම නීතියට පටහැනි බව ඒ මහතා වැඩිදුරටත් ප‍්‍රකාශ කළේය.

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Sisira Senaratne is no more

Sisira Senaratne is no more.

Little Black ants saved my Eyes

Little Black ants saved my Eyes

This is dedicated to the tiny animals (plants included) that we barely see with the naked eye. 

 

Unfortunately, to see the microbes we need a satisfactory microscope. 

 

That alone is not enough we need to kill them, fix them and stain them.

All important cells are white and transparent to light to protect them from light and energy rays.

Only few cells carry pigments that protect cells and confine them to important energy transfer systems.

Reason being we cannot see cells unless they contain a pigment that our eyes can see (light is a spectrum of many energy forms, unfortunately human eye can see only a tiny part of the spectrum; this is true for hearing and smell too) or we do deliberately use at least (Blue and Red) two pigments which our eyes can distinguish.

The computer can distinguish millions of colour shades but our eyes can contrast 16 colour shades for sure and 256 with some difficulty.

This is to express the man's visual limitations.

The black ant means that it takes all the colours in with its pigments and leave us nothing to see inside it except its outline in tiny visual forms.

That is for its protection to indicate there are other form of life not only humans on this planet.

This tiny article is to highlight the danger of plastics and fire.

Fire is a universal hazard, I need not elaborate.

Plastic is a bigger hazard than fire.

Fire is useful in converting the things that are not bio-degradable to elements and oxides.

Plastics is a polymer without an enzyme to break it bonds.

We can break it by burning only at the expense producing toxic elements and reactive toxic elements that deplete ozone layer.

Now coming back to another risk of burning plastics and many plastic containers, they can explode without any warning.

That is what happened to me.

I wanted to get rid of the one week collection of perishables.

I took all the normal precautions.

Dog was safely away and iron fence locked.

All the papers sorted out.

All the plastic bottles washed and dry and tops removed.

All the yogurt and ice cream cartoons washed and no ants.

Then I set fire to the first set and came back to the pantry to add few more remaining items.

That set was from my wife with lot of ants in them.

I took it to the fire place and was six feet (my risk taking distance) away from the burning fire.

I started separating food containing items with ants and items without ants to be put to the the fire.

There was impending rain.

I was in a bit of a rush and not paying attention.

Moment Meditation not taken care!

All of a sudden there was an explosion.

My body not facing front on, but the left side of the body got a shower of burning plastic projectiles and the biggest one landed on my right forehand.

I did not have a bucket of water near me.

I usually keep a tiny bucket full of water for an emergency. 

 

With the rain impending that was not considered necessary.

by the time I reached the water tap, the tiny explosive was firmly glued to my skin and the skin burned to full depth.

There was a shower of tiny plastic pellets on my head, hair, and the left side of the neck.

I stop counting.

I usually wear a short for outdoor work.

With some luck I was wearing a sarong.

Lot of tiny pellets had taken shelter of my sarong and making tiny holes of forensic importance imprinted for posterity, in case of an unexpected fire and I succumbed to it.

For my luck the rain was coming down.

I let the rain drops fall on me with meditative attention.

If I was not focusing on the tiny black ants, the shower of plastic pellets would ave been directly on my eyes and I would not be writing this piece.

Who says 'Bit of Metta' has no pace in this world of ours.

Even, the mother nature is with you (rain in this case) if one is in harmony with the nature.

Half a our later when I was brushing my hair, I noticed partially burned hair.

How fickle is the life on earth for tiny beings, just like my partially burnt hair.

I would like to reflect on it, now and in the future.

4M Linux and Web Convergence Linux

4M Linux and Web Convergence

4M Linux was a Tiny Linux that was pretty good for its size.
The latest version (all in one) nearly 400 MiB has made mess of its functions.
It does not recognize my keyboard (US) and USB mouse.

The Web Kiosk that come from UK also has no path for exit (Alt + Ctrl  plus F1  to F6).
Additionally it does force YOU to register with them.
Please Don't.

If you want access the web without registering on a live session please remove the link and type www.google.com and you are linked to world wide web without any assistance.

Read my comments here there are over 200 live Linux CD / DVDs that gives more option than the miserly web convergence Linux.

Elephant Myths-04-How the Sri-Lankan Mafia Killed our Wild Elephants?

 Elephant Myths-04
How the Sri-Lankan Mafia Killed our Wild Elephants?

There is a hive of activity as regard to the elephant trade.

There was a mafia that operated with the connivance of the politicians.

There are thugs hiding behind saffron cloth that made the outer circle of this mafia.

My third book on elephants (elephant myths) was deferred with a valid reason.

I could not bear to reveal the 10 cruel ways of killing elephants since these methods once revealed would be used for further cruelty to even other animals.

Like aiding and abetting in criminal law not revealing the operational methods is also a crime.

Let me list them for investigation by proper officials of the present corrupt Department of Forestry.

1. When elephants venture into huts of Ganja growers (in the name of vegetable farming), they cut the tip of the elephant trunk with a Kattha or a sword.

That is the end of the majesty.

2. They cut 2 by 2 inches square hole in a pumpkin and introduce a poison inside and seal the hole with cut the piece. 
Within hours the poor elephant who partake the poison is dead.

3. They used what is called the 'Hakka Pattas', an incendiary device packed with explosives similar to the hand bomb.

4. Shooting or trap guns.

5. Use one and a half feet square wooden plank driven with 5 inch nails. Once a foot / feet stuck in it there is no way to rescue the giant.

6. 'Waga Lin' or the pits made to trap (8x10x8) the elephants. 

Once trapped, no escape and they die a slow death of starvation.

7. Wanton Poisoning the vegetation where the gentle giants feed.

8. Baby elephants when separated from mother die of starvation.

9. Infected 'Madhu' - trap wounds and sepsis.

10. Electric currents.

11. Use chillies and other petrochemicals to bring unpleasantness.

12. Fire traps.

The lost of their habitat and traps laid in their migration pathway with the help of the government officials is the biggest crime.

There was an organized crime syndicate and the connivance of the print media moguls (heading this crime syndicate) was evident.

That is why none of the elephants thieves who operate with impunity were not captured under Mahinda Chinthanaya.

They go scot free during the 100 day program.