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Funny press release by LTTE peace secretariat after the SLAF bombing at X-Ray base, Iranamadu

Sri Lankan news theater is full of incidents these days due to the intensified military activities all around the island. On 23rd of this month(January) SLAF bombed an LTTE base called X-Ray base in Iranamadu area. This base was believed to be the hideout of LTTE chief V. Prabhakaran, and many speculations were aroused about the fate of Prabakaran. After a dead silence of about 9 to 10 hours LTTE began to talk about the bombing incident. First the military spokesman of LTTE described it as a bombing a civilian settlement. This was something always happened after every bombing raid carried out by SLAF

See this news article on Asiantribune about his comments on the bombing raid- http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/9264

But hours later the Peace Secretariat of LTTE in Killinochchi issued this press release.

Extensive bombing over forest areas in Kilinochchi

In three separate sorties spread over 20 hours, Sri Lankan Air Force carried out extensive bombing over Ambalahamam forest area in Kilinochchi destroying vast extents of forests.

At 11.30 am and at 5.20pm on Wednesday and again at 6.45am on Thursday Sri Lankan Air Force dropped more than 16 bombs over the Ambalahama forest area damaging around 10 hectares of forest land.

The Forest Protection Division of the LTTE has undertaken extensive forest replanting in recent times. These young plants as well as many old forest plants were destroyed in this mindless bombing of the Sri Lanka military.

Speculation is strife among Kilinochchi residents about the rationale behind the bombing of forest areas which only results in the destruction of the environment.

24 January 2008

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Even though this press release itself if of a lot humor, the other funny thing behind this is these mass murders that don't care even about a human life are now crying over a forest. Isn't this funny enough to make your day??

Pulutta

A good fight may keep you and your marriage healthy

ANN ARBOR, University of Michigan ---A good fight with your spouse may be good for your health, research suggests.

Couples in which both the husband and wife suppress their anger when one attacks the other die earlier than members of couples where one or both partners express their anger and resolve the conflict, according to preliminary results of a University of Michigan study.

Researchers looked at 192 couples over 17 years and placed the couples into one of four categories: both partners communicate their anger; in the second and third groups one spouse expresses while the other suppresses; and both the husband and wife suppress their anger and brood, said Ernest Harburg, professor emeritus with the U-M School of Public Health and the Psychology Department, and lead author. The study is a longitudinal analysis of couples in Tecumseh, Mich.

"Comparison between couples in which both people suppress their anger, and the three other types of couples, are very intriguing," Harburg said.

When both spouses suppress their anger at the other when unfairly attacked, earlier death was twice as likely than in all other types.

"When couples get together, one of their main jobs is reconciliation about conflict," Harburg said. "Usually nobody is trained to do this. If they have good parents, they can imitate, that's fine, but usually the couple is ignorant about the process of resolving conflict. The key matter is, when the conflict happens, how do you resolve it?"

"When you don't, if you bury your anger, and you brood on it and you resent the other person or the attacker, and you don't try to resolve the problem, then you're in trouble."

Of the 192 couples studied, 26 pairs both suppressed their anger and there were 13 deaths in that group. In the remaining 166 pairs, there were 41 deaths combined.

In 27 percent of those couples who both suppressed their anger, one member of the couple died during the study period, and in 23 percent of those couples both died during the study period.

That's compared to only six percent of couples where both spouses died in the remaining three groups combined. Only 19 percent in the remaining three groups combined saw one partner die during the study period.

The study adjusted for age, smoking, weight, blood pressure, bronchial problems, breathing, and cardiovascular risk, Harburg said.

The paper only looks at attacks which are considered unfair or undeserved by the person being attacked, said Harburg. If the attack is viewed as fair, say an abused child or woman who believes they deserved the attack, then the victim does not get angry, Harburg said.

Harburg stresses that these preliminary numbers are small, but the researchers are now collecting 30-year follow-up data, which will have almost double the death rate, he said.

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Source:- www.eurekalert.org

Pyramid scam again in Sri Lanka?????

About an year ago Sri Lanka government banned a pyramid scheme in the name of GoldQuest. And recent reports indicates that it has started again using the name "Lotus Marketing".

The previous Gold Quest scheme had spread across Sri Lanka, marketing gold coins for double their worth. Sri Lanka's Central Bank noticed that the equivalent in their currency of millions of dollars had left the country, a drain of much needed currency. They also realized that many of the $400-transactions were done with credit cards and that many people were effectively loaning their cards' use to other people in order to make the offshore payments. The financial losses suffered by Sri Lankans were acute since average incomes in Sri Lanka are under $1,500 per household.

But at that time Sri Lanka took extraordinary measures to stop the flow of currency and the personal losses to citizens. Its Central Bank applied a law that prohibits the loaning of credit card usage and it persuaded local banks to stop facilitating transactions involving the scheme. The president of Sri Lanka issued a national warning to the citizens to beware of the scheme's folly and pledged support for new laws to prohibit pyramid schemes in the marketplace.

The National warning issued against Pyramid Schemes by Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
You can get the full pdf in following link,
http://www.cbsl.gov.lk/pics_n_docs/02_prs/_docs/notices/notice_20070430.pdf

The Lotus Marketing in Sri Lanaka has opened their new office at No. 209/10 SSS Best Bulb Building, 2nd Floor Union Place, Colombo 02. They have started selling a range of new products like Bio Disk, Pendent etc...(This time not Gold Coins). It is said that this scam tooo belongs to QuestNet and few training seminars also had been held in one of the Hotels in Sri Lanka. Go to www.questnet.com or www.lotus-mktg.com to check there products. QuestNet is an illegal company in Sri Lanka and that's why they have registered them selves in a new name. Now Some sales representatives have already started their businesses and few other small scale training seminars had also been held in some part of the country.

There are rumors indicating that some high ranking government officers are also behind this scam.

So please be aware of this new development and be vigilant.

References
1. http://www.pyramidschemealert.org/psamain/news/srilanka.html
2. http://www.cbsl.gov.lk
3. Emails


Pulutta

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Chain mails and the reality

If you are a net surfer chain mails should be nothing new in your mailbox.

A typical chain letter consists of a message that attempts to induce the recipient to make a number of copies of the letter and then pass them on to one or more new recipients. A chain letter can be considered a type of meme.Common methods used in chain letters include emotionally manipulative stories, get-rich-quick pyramid schemes, and the exploitation of superstition to threaten the recipient with bad luck or even physical violence or death if he or she "breaks the chain" and refuses to adhere to the conditions set out in the letter.

Chain letters are capable of evolution, generally improving their ability to convince their hosts to replicate them over time.This sometimes occurs through deliberate modification of the chain letter by a recipient, or sometimes through purely accidental imperfect copying.

Although no laws currently exist banning chain letters; they are viewed as a general nuisance as that frequently multiplying letters clog up the postal system and do not function as correspondence mail, but rather, a game. Some colleges and military bases have passed regulations stating that in the private mail of college students and military personnel, respectively, chain letters are not authorized and will be thrown out. However, it is often difficult to tell chain letters from genuine correspondence.

Most of the chain mails contains rumors that are circulating among the net users. And if you search a bit about the news item you will be able to find the actual story behind the mail. For an example go through the following set of pictures that were circulating in past two three years.

Most of the receivers of this mail accept this to be true , and don't try to search the reality behind these pictures.

But according to the Snopes.com this was actually a stunt performed by a group of street performers in an unknown location. So this can be considered as an event of street magics. The chain mail leave out the last picture given below because it shows the boy after the stunt event.

So next time when you receive a chain mail don't forget to look what is the real story behind the mail before forwarding it to your friends.

I've found some useful sites to check the reality behind most of the chain mails we receive daily.

those are

1. http://www.truthorfiction.com/
2. http://www.snopes.com

Finally I would like to add a funny chain mail I received recently,

victim of chain letters .... ! ?

I want to thank all my friends and other unknown people who have forwarded chain letters to me in 2003, 2004 & 2005, 2006 and 2007.


Because of your kindness:


I stopped drinking Coca-Cola after I found out that it's good only for removing toilet stains.


I stopped going to the movies for fear of sitting on a needle infected with AIDS

I smell like a wet dog since I stopped using deodorants because they cause cancer.

I also stopped answering the phone for fear that they may ask me to dial a stupid number and then I get a phone bill from hell with calls to Uganda , Singapore and Tokyo.

I also stopped drinking water outside for fear that I will get sick from the rat shit and urine.

When I go to parties, I don't look at any girl, no matter how hot she is, for fear that she will take me to a hotel, drug me, then take my kidneys and leave me taking a nap in a bathtub full of ice.

I also donated all my savings to the Amy Bruce account. A sick girl that was about to die in the hospital about 7,000 times. (Poor girl! she's been 7 since 1993...)

My free Nokia phone never arrived and neither did the free passes for a paid vacation to Disneyland.

Made some Hundred wishes before forwarding those Dalai Lama, Ganesh Vandana, Tirupathi Balaji pics etc.. Now most of those "Wishes" are already married (to someone else)!

You can add your own notes based on your similar experience and send them to your friends. If Yahoo deletes my account, it doesn't matter BUT PLEASE DON'T SEND me "Yahoo is deleting accounts: Due to sudden rush..." Otherwise I'll delete my E-Mail account!

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you do not send this e-mail to at least 913760 people in the next 10 seconds, a bird will shit on your head today at 7:10 p.m.

Give me a break!! "The World Is Filled WIth Foolish Ppl And Some Think They Got Talent Too !!!" I also haven't got the million dollars that Bill Gates was going to give me for forwarding mails.

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References.

1. Chain letters- from Wikipiedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_e-mail)
2. Bread and media Circuses - Snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/crushboy.asp)