Launching Phase III of The Presidential
Initiative:
‘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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