‘English as a Life Skill’

Sunimal Fernando - Presidential Advisor and Coordinator of the Presidential Initiative on English as a Life Skill

The third phase of the Presidential Initiative ‘English as a Life Skill’ through which the President takes English Language Skills across the country with a special focus on Spoken English, is being launched by the President from Temple Trees in the morning of Tuesday February 19, 2013.

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Child pornography: continual, unimaginable ABUSE

Child pornography has come to stay, and it has become the fastest growing profitable business today for the producers of films, movies and DVDs involving child pornography. It is also a powerful element in the internet viewed by many for self-gratification, and others, especially paedophiles, who collect them not only to satisfy their sex urges and sexual fantasies but also to prepare children for sexual abuse, and to produce new child pornography with children the offenders have entrapped. Paedophilia, described as the sexual love of children, is a deviation which occurs both in heterosexual or homosexual men, and even in rare cases of women, to make up for their inability to form a successful sexual bond in an adult relationship and to redeem their self-esteem.

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Reminiscences of GOLD

From PC to VC - THE RISE AND RISE - [Prof. Sirimal Ranawella]

“From PC to VC.” This is the telling phrase that Prof. Sirimal Ranawella used, though with a sense of humour, to describe the meteoric rise in his career. He started his working life as a Police Constable and ended up as the Vice Chancellor, University of Ruhuna. Well known as a historian and an epigraphist, he is still pre-occupied with his research even at the age of 92. Reminiscences of Gold met with this remarkable man at his residence in Ratmalana to take a glimpse at his past.

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