Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Mahagama Sekera
Mahagama Sekera was one of the most versatile of artists this country has produced and one of the leading catalysts in the Sri Lankan artistic renaissance which started in the late 1950s. Often regarded as the nation’s finest poet of the 20th century, Sekera inspired several generations of writers even after his time.
Sekara was often being imitated but never duplicated. As a poet and a lyricist he developed the prevailing tradition and drew upon the language of the folk to up shape a modern lyrical and poetic diction. He was a poet, lyricist, painter, broadcaster, playwright, novelist, short story writer and also became a reputed moviemaker after directing his semi-autobiographical novel Thun Man Handiya as a motion picture.
Mahagama Sekera embraced a vast territory of concerns in his creative process with a sensitivity that recognized humanity and life. Having rendered a great service to the nation through his multifaceted contributions which reflect an ever-continuing significance, he still holds and is very much a part of the contemporary consciousness.
Sekara was often being imitated but never duplicated. As a poet and a lyricist he developed the prevailing tradition and drew upon the language of the folk to up shape a modern lyrical and poetic diction. He was a poet, lyricist, painter, broadcaster, playwright, novelist, short story writer and also became a reputed moviemaker after directing his semi-autobiographical novel Thun Man Handiya as a motion picture.
Mahagama Sekera embraced a vast territory of concerns in his creative process with a sensitivity that recognized humanity and life. Having rendered a great service to the nation through his multifaceted contributions which reflect an ever-continuing significance, he still holds and is very much a part of the contemporary consciousness.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
A great journalist Kate Webb
Kate Webb, who died in Sydney on May 13, 2007, at the age of 64, was one of the finest foreign correspondents to work for Agence France-Presse or any other wire agency.
She made her reputation during the Vietnam War, while working for United Press International. One of her contemporaries, Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Arnett, said “she was fearless as an action reporter, with a talent for the vivid phrase.”
To the local staff and stringers she later worked with in AFP bureaus throughout Asia, she was also an uncommonly generous and fiercely protective colleague with the highest professional standards.
For Kate understood better than most how much the international agencies depend on the knowledge, contacts and language skills of local journalists, who sometimes put themselves and their families at risk to uncover the stories the foreign press needs to survive.
Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 24, 1943, Kate Webb moved to Australia when she was eight years old.
After graduating with a philosophy degree from the University of Melbourne in 1964, she took a secretarial job at a newspaper in Sydney but was made a cadet reporter because she had no shorthand.
In 1967 she paid her own way to Vietnam, to see the war at first hand. She arrived with no job, a couple of hundred dollars and an old Remington typewriter. She began freelancing for UPI and within four years she had become the agency’s bureau chief in Cambodia.
It was there that she herself became part of the news, when she and five Asian reporters – four Cambodians and a Japanese – were captured by North Vietnamese troops inside Cambodia on April 7, 1971. The incident has passed into the folk lore of modern war reporting.
Stripped of their shoes and forced to march through leech-infected, malarial jungle until their feet were “mush”, the group were interrogated and held for 23 days. Other groups of journalists who had been captured were killed or held indefinitely, but Kate wrote that she had been courteously treated.
Naturally unconventional and blessed with a strong sense of the ridiculous, she kept her sanity by standing on her head during rest stops. Her Japanese fellow captive helped allay stress by teaching her the Japanese tea ceremony.
Her ordeal gave her a new perspective on war. In her book On the Other Side: 23 Days with the Viet Cong, she wrote: “It added faces to what had been only shadows … The Viet Cong are human beings. They are soldiers and not much different from soldiers on this side. They have homes, and they have grouches and they have sore feet.”
By the time the captives were released, the cremated body of a young woman had been found, and it was presumed to be hers. A front-page obituary in The New York Times described Kate as a soft-voiced young “waif” in striped dress and sandals who proved a cool, incisive reporter when she put on combat boots, helmet and flak jacket to go on missions with troops.
“It was strange and embarrassing to see that,” she said.
She went on to cover the fall of Saigon in 1975 and the rise of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge. After joining AFP in 1985, she witnessed the downfalls of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines and Suharto in Indonesia, the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the first Gulf War, the conflict in Afghanistan, and the death of North Korea’s Kim Il-Sung – a story she broke – as well as many other events.
Kate Webb detested slip-shod journalism and reporters who cut corners or who were dishonest – and she made her feelings terrifyingly clear.
But she rarely harshly judged those who got their hands dirty and did their best. She would often offer less-experienced or even less-gifted colleagues suggestions and gentle encouragement.
Once, during presidential elections in Korea, a young journalist who had been sent from Hong Kong to help her, woke on the office couch where he was taking a short nap after she had driven him relentlessly for about 24 hours. He looked up to find Kate covering him with a blanket she had conjured up from somewhere, whispering ‘good job.’ She then went back to her keyboard.
When she retired in 2001, she told an interviewer she had become “too old to keep up with front-line reporting, and that was the only kind I liked.”
In 2005, she went off on her last paid job, as visiting professor at E. W. Scripps School of Journalism in Ohio University.
One of her students wrote: “Kate Webb was not an academic, as she was fond of telling us … at best, her curricula were slipshod; she forgot for weeks to give tests or gave two or three in a row, depending on when administrators were haranguing her for grades. Nonetheless, I will remember her as one of the best professors I’ve ever had, in journalism or any other subject, because she brought into the classroom real, honest-to-god, capital E experience.”
She made her reputation during the Vietnam War, while working for United Press International. One of her contemporaries, Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Arnett, said “she was fearless as an action reporter, with a talent for the vivid phrase.”
To the local staff and stringers she later worked with in AFP bureaus throughout Asia, she was also an uncommonly generous and fiercely protective colleague with the highest professional standards.
For Kate understood better than most how much the international agencies depend on the knowledge, contacts and language skills of local journalists, who sometimes put themselves and their families at risk to uncover the stories the foreign press needs to survive.
Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 24, 1943, Kate Webb moved to Australia when she was eight years old.
After graduating with a philosophy degree from the University of Melbourne in 1964, she took a secretarial job at a newspaper in Sydney but was made a cadet reporter because she had no shorthand.
In 1967 she paid her own way to Vietnam, to see the war at first hand. She arrived with no job, a couple of hundred dollars and an old Remington typewriter. She began freelancing for UPI and within four years she had become the agency’s bureau chief in Cambodia.
It was there that she herself became part of the news, when she and five Asian reporters – four Cambodians and a Japanese – were captured by North Vietnamese troops inside Cambodia on April 7, 1971. The incident has passed into the folk lore of modern war reporting.
Stripped of their shoes and forced to march through leech-infected, malarial jungle until their feet were “mush”, the group were interrogated and held for 23 days. Other groups of journalists who had been captured were killed or held indefinitely, but Kate wrote that she had been courteously treated.
Naturally unconventional and blessed with a strong sense of the ridiculous, she kept her sanity by standing on her head during rest stops. Her Japanese fellow captive helped allay stress by teaching her the Japanese tea ceremony.
Her ordeal gave her a new perspective on war. In her book On the Other Side: 23 Days with the Viet Cong, she wrote: “It added faces to what had been only shadows … The Viet Cong are human beings. They are soldiers and not much different from soldiers on this side. They have homes, and they have grouches and they have sore feet.”
By the time the captives were released, the cremated body of a young woman had been found, and it was presumed to be hers. A front-page obituary in The New York Times described Kate as a soft-voiced young “waif” in striped dress and sandals who proved a cool, incisive reporter when she put on combat boots, helmet and flak jacket to go on missions with troops.
“It was strange and embarrassing to see that,” she said.
She went on to cover the fall of Saigon in 1975 and the rise of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge. After joining AFP in 1985, she witnessed the downfalls of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines and Suharto in Indonesia, the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the first Gulf War, the conflict in Afghanistan, and the death of North Korea’s Kim Il-Sung – a story she broke – as well as many other events.
Kate Webb detested slip-shod journalism and reporters who cut corners or who were dishonest – and she made her feelings terrifyingly clear.
But she rarely harshly judged those who got their hands dirty and did their best. She would often offer less-experienced or even less-gifted colleagues suggestions and gentle encouragement.
Once, during presidential elections in Korea, a young journalist who had been sent from Hong Kong to help her, woke on the office couch where he was taking a short nap after she had driven him relentlessly for about 24 hours. He looked up to find Kate covering him with a blanket she had conjured up from somewhere, whispering ‘good job.’ She then went back to her keyboard.
When she retired in 2001, she told an interviewer she had become “too old to keep up with front-line reporting, and that was the only kind I liked.”
In 2005, she went off on her last paid job, as visiting professor at E. W. Scripps School of Journalism in Ohio University.
Thomas Crampton
Social Media in China and across Asia
Sri Lanken journalist J. S. Tissainayagam what did he said to bbc
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Premakerti da alwis
Athula Ransili lal who ware a senior journalist of rupawahini ,has been told this speech on DS senanayaka media day on 2010.11.01. i could take it to my camera
manoj aratahnayaka
todays reality of journalism of our country
all are forgetting those thing.about Premekirti da alwise.today all thing are changing so fast as a journalist at last to where are we hop to go.
Athula Ransili lal who ware a senior journalist of rupawahini ,has been told this speech on DS senanayaka media day on 2010.11.01. i could take it to my camera
manoj aratahnayaka
Athula Ransili lal who ware a senior journalist of rupawahini ,has been told this speech on DS senanayaka media day on 2010.11.01. i could take it to my camera
manoj aratahnayaka
today sri lanken sms by athula ransiri lal
how bad today sinhala language.coz some once using like these.Athula Ransiri lal has been told these thing on 2010.11.o1 on DS senanayaka media day. i could record to my camera his speach.
After North Korean strike, South Korean leader threatens 'retaliation'
Hours after North Korea's deadly artillery attacks Tuesday, South Korea's president said "enormous retaliation" is needed to stop Pyongyang's incitement, but international diplomats urgently appealed for restraint.
"The provocation this time can be regarded as an invasion of South Korean territory," President Lee Myung-bak said at the headquarters of the Joint Chiefs of Staff here, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
The incident -- in which two South Korean marines died -- is "the first direct artillery attack on South Korean territory since the Korean War ended in an armistice" in 1953, Yonhap reported.
In addition to the slain marines, 15 South Korean soldiers and three civilians were wounded when North Korea fired about 100 rounds of artillery at Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea, South Korean authorities said. Hundreds of island residents boarded boats and fled to safety, as the attack also set houses and forests on fire.
Some U.S. forces had been helping the South Koreans in a military training exercises, but were not in the shelled are
The provocation this time can be regarded as an invasion of South Korean territory.
--President Lee Myung-bak
"The provocation this time can be regarded as an invasion of South Korean territory," President Lee Myung-bak said at the headquarters of the Joint Chiefs of Staff here, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
The incident -- in which two South Korean marines died -- is "the first direct artillery attack on South Korean territory since the Korean War ended in an armistice" in 1953, Yonhap reported.
In addition to the slain marines, 15 South Korean soldiers and three civilians were wounded when North Korea fired about 100 rounds of artillery at Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea, South Korean authorities said. Hundreds of island residents boarded boats and fled to safety, as the attack also set houses and forests on fire.
Some U.S. forces had been helping the South Koreans in a military training exercises, but were not in the shelled are
The provocation this time can be regarded as an invasion of South Korean territory.
--President Lee Myung-bak
සද වතියට වගේ
උතුවම් සද වතියට වගේ
මා නුබට බැදී ප්රේමේ
නෝවේ ලොවේ කිසිත් සැපක්
සතුටක්
සැනසුමක්
නුබතරම්
ගිම්හනේයේ
සදු බැහැල ගිහින්
පාළුව සංකාව හැරදමල
නුබ ඇවිදින් හිත හදල
මා නුබට බැදී ප්රේමේ
නෝවේ ලොවේ කිසිත් සැපක්
සතුටක්
සැනසුමක්
නුබතරම්
ගිම්හනේයේ
සදු බැහැල ගිහින්
පාළුව සංකාව හැරදමල
නුබ ඇවිදින් හිත හදල
තනිකම පාළුව
මකල
හිත සතුටින්
ගත සතුටින්
අදරෙය ි
මන් නුබට
සුදු පාට
මගේ කෙල්ල
හිදිමි මන් නුබ
ලග සැමදා ආදරෙන්
N. Korea fires on S. Korea, killing 1 and injuring 15
CNN stated that North Korea fired artillery toward its tense western sea border with South Korea on Tuesday, killing at least one South Korean soldier, the Yonhap news agency reported.
Two civilians and 13 other South Korean military personnel were injured, with three of the soldiers seriously hurt, Yonhap said.At least 200 rounds of artillery hit an inhabited South Korean island in the Yellow Sea after the North started firing about 2:30 p.m. local time, Yonhap said.
South Korea's military responded with 80 rounds of artillery and deployed fighter jets to counter the fire, the report said.
Sharp tensions on the Korean Peninsula 
Report: N. Korea fires on S. Korea RELATED TOPICS
Images of plumes of smoke were quickly broadcast on Yonhap television from the island of Yeonpyeong, but it was not immediately clear what the artillery had hit.
The island has a total of about 1,300 residents, a fisherman who lives on the island told Yonhap.
Some residents started fleeing for the South Korean mainland, which is about 145 kilometers [90 miles] away. Other residents were seeking shelter at schools.
The South Korean government immediately called an emergency meeting of its security ministers.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak ordered his ministers to take measures against an escalation of the situation, presidential spokeswoman Kim Hee-jung said, according to Yonhap.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Cambodia festival stampede kills 345
The dead and injured are being taken from the scene where at least 345 people died in a stampede during a water festival in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Prime Minister Hun Sen, speaking Tuesday morning, said 345 people had been killed and more than 320 injured. He described the chaos as the biggest tragedy to strike his country since the communist rule of the Khmer Rouge, whose radical policies are blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people during the 1970s.
everybody who opposes a pure Sri lanken ,sinhala Govt. will be murdered
| hese letters holding out grave threats state that when the terrorism demanding division has been destroyed and efforts are being made to unite the country , local and international websites ,newspapers and Lawyers who appear on behalf of these media and all others who are traitorous in respect of the country will be murdered . | |
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
TOT for SLCJ lectures ,who,when.how,to where
As I think teaching is the most hard thing, but one could say no its easy to teach. I don’t think so I can remember some of my teachers how they been to teach us. At school at classes also college.ets.. the way look at students, the way speaking, the way walking in the room…different .also planning the lesson
So many new thing I could learned 1st time in my life. but I’m not biggest man or biggest journalist in a big big world. but its big big thing ur TOT,World is going crazy sometime people also running too fast,and with their old traditional way to teach, like a Hitler,some time i feel if they were student,imaging while there are teaching what they will see? ,I don’t wanna go fast ,I don’t wanna go slowly .im gonnnnna normally.i wish that I will meet good teacher every day every time to learn something new for my life.teaching is not really easy thing.it can change the world those who can teach well.
im not a teacher still studding .oh as think i m a student yet ,how many thing that i have to learn and to take experience. i think journalism is not a since which we most study,its a art to close people and to give the knowledge to the people. complicate sometime even though be a good journalist if couldn't teach well.but you have given us to all a good lesson. its practically 1st time in my life i could learn these. thank you sir
im not a teacher still studding .oh as think i m a student yet ,how many thing that i have to learn and to take experience. i think journalism is not a since which we most study,its a art to close people and to give the knowledge to the people. complicate sometime even though be a good journalist if couldn't teach well.but you have given us to all a good lesson. its practically 1st time in my life i could learn these. thank you sir
Johan Romare
Manoj Rathnayaka SLCJ 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
you can go
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kssok isysk h,s fkdolskak
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h,s fkdolskak
Tn hkak’’’’
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cSj;a jkak
Tn hkak’’’
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Tn hkak’’’’’
Ug fokak uf.a cSjs;h
Tn .kak Tfns cSjs;h
b;ska Tn hkak’’’
msnsfokak bv fokak
cSj;a fjkak wo oskg
fygg;a’’’ususuu’’’’’
cSj;a fjkak
bvoS’’’’ug’’
Tn hkak’’’’’
wE;ajS’’’’
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Journalism is....
Journalism kiyanne news ma witarada? Sahittiyen samajayata sethak wennema nadda???? Martin wikramasinghat hoda journalist kenek...ape ada inna ayata amataka unata.Mahagaam sekara,Premakerti da alwis...Sunil Santha..samajayta wada karapu jou...rnalist la..adath minissunta matakai e sewaya....namuth ada inna wansak kara journalist la.news ma witarai...news walin karanna puluwan samaja mehewara mokadda..bambuwa tamai...Sunil Shantha parallowo yawapu ewaka SLBC eka ada Sunil shantha namadinawa.e news walata nemei.media ID eka nati real journalims walata..
Friday, November 12, 2010
Henry in the House: Tax man (compromise) cometh
The bottom line on the Bush-era tax cuts for the rich is that President Obama has not caved in on extending them -- yet. But check back next week when Congress returns for its lame-duck session.
In an interview in Washington with The Huffington Post, White House senior adviser David Axelrod initially sent shock waves all the way here to Seoul because of a headline that said, "White House Gives In On Bush Tax Cuts."
The story was published just as we hit the seven-day mark in this Asian tour that has run through a series of time zones, so everyone from the president on down to White House staffers and humble reporters have gotten little sleep. The standard greeting in our work space is, "Did you get any rest?" or the much simpler, "I'm hitting the wall."
In an interview in Washington with The Huffington Post, White House senior adviser David Axelrod initially sent shock waves all the way here to Seoul because of a headline that said, "White House Gives In On Bush Tax Cuts."
The story was published just as we hit the seven-day mark in this Asian tour that has run through a series of time zones, so everyone from the president on down to White House staffers and humble reporters have gotten little sleep. The standard greeting in our work space is, "Did you get any rest?" or the much simpler, "I'm hitting the wall."
Apple computer for sale: only $160K!
(CNN) -- And you thought the MacBook Air was pricey?
An auctioneer is selling its distant ancestor and one of the world's first personal computers -- the Apple-1 -- for an estimated $161,600 to $242,400.
In 1976, Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the computer out of Jobs' family garage and sold it for $666.66.
The Apple-1 will be auctioned by Christie's in London, England, on November 23, with a simultaneous auction held online.
The Apple-1 that's up for sale is believed to be one of about 200 of those computers that Jobs and Wozniak created in 1976 and 1977. It comes in an original box -- with the return address pointing back to the California garage where Apple Corp. began -- and features the original Apple logo, which showed Isaac Newton getting hit on the head with an Apple.
Bonus: It also includes a signed note from Steve Jobs, which is typed on notebook paper.
The tech specs on the computer aren't impressive, and the Apple-1 wasn't shipped with a keyboard or computer monitor.
But the history makes up for that. The Apple-1 is regarded by some as the first personal computer and the gadget that kicked off the home computing revolution. "Prior to this, all home personal computers were sold as kits that involved soldering skills and a knowledge of electronics," the auction site says.
For you hard-core Apple fans, here are the tech specs:
"An Apple-1 motherboard, number 82, printed label to reverse, with a few slightly later additions including a 6502 microprocessor, labeled R6502P R6502-11 8145, printed circuit board with 4 rows A-D and columns 1-18, three capacitors, heatsink, cassette board connector, 8K bytes of RAM, keyboard interface, firmware in PROMS, low-profile sockets on all integrated circuits, video terminal, breadboard area with slightly later connector, with later soldering, wires and electrical tape to reverse, printed to obverse Apple Computer 1 Palo Alto. Ca. Copyright 1976."
However mystifyingly impressive those numbers may look, Nick Bilton from The New York Times writes that this setup "could barely power a game of Pong."
An auctioneer is selling its distant ancestor and one of the world's first personal computers -- the Apple-1 -- for an estimated $161,600 to $242,400.
In 1976, Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the computer out of Jobs' family garage and sold it for $666.66.
The Apple-1 will be auctioned by Christie's in London, England, on November 23, with a simultaneous auction held online.
The Apple-1 that's up for sale is believed to be one of about 200 of those computers that Jobs and Wozniak created in 1976 and 1977. It comes in an original box -- with the return address pointing back to the California garage where Apple Corp. began -- and features the original Apple logo, which showed Isaac Newton getting hit on the head with an Apple.
Bonus: It also includes a signed note from Steve Jobs, which is typed on notebook paper.
The tech specs on the computer aren't impressive, and the Apple-1 wasn't shipped with a keyboard or computer monitor.
But the history makes up for that. The Apple-1 is regarded by some as the first personal computer and the gadget that kicked off the home computing revolution. "Prior to this, all home personal computers were sold as kits that involved soldering skills and a knowledge of electronics," the auction site says.
For you hard-core Apple fans, here are the tech specs:
"An Apple-1 motherboard, number 82, printed label to reverse, with a few slightly later additions including a 6502 microprocessor, labeled R6502P R6502-11 8145, printed circuit board with 4 rows A-D and columns 1-18, three capacitors, heatsink, cassette board connector, 8K bytes of RAM, keyboard interface, firmware in PROMS, low-profile sockets on all integrated circuits, video terminal, breadboard area with slightly later connector, with later soldering, wires and electrical tape to reverse, printed to obverse Apple Computer 1 Palo Alto. Ca. Copyright 1976."
However mystifyingly impressive those numbers may look, Nick Bilton from The New York Times writes that this setup "could barely power a game of Pong."
Brazil auctions parts of Amazon for logging
Brazil has begun to auction parts of its rainforest to private companies for logging.
One million hectares are being made available as logging concessions this year, expected to rise to 11 million hectares within five years.
Eventually, up to 10 percent of Brazil's 280 million hectares of public forest could be managed by logging companies, with the land remaining publicly owned.
While this may sound like an environmentalist's worst nightmare, the Brazilian government claims it will reduce demand for illegal logging and make sure the forests are managed in a sustainable way.
So could the policy help save the Amazon rainforest, or does it simply legitimize its destruction?
CNN spoke to Marcus Alves, one of the directors of the Brazilian Forestry Service, and Daniel Nepstad, a leading environmental scientist who has studied the Amazon for 25 years and is director of the Amazon Environmental Research Institute's international program, to get their views.
One million hectares are being made available as logging concessions this year, expected to rise to 11 million hectares within five years.
Eventually, up to 10 percent of Brazil's 280 million hectares of public forest could be managed by logging companies, with the land remaining publicly owned.
While this may sound like an environmentalist's worst nightmare, the Brazilian government claims it will reduce demand for illegal logging and make sure the forests are managed in a sustainable way.
So could the policy help save the Amazon rainforest, or does it simply legitimize its destruction?
CNN spoke to Marcus Alves, one of the directors of the Brazilian Forestry Service, and Daniel Nepstad, a leading environmental scientist who has studied the Amazon for 25 years and is director of the Amazon Environmental Research Institute's international program, to get their views.
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