Facebook post by talented musician Lelum Ratnayake has
stirred much controversy.
Lelum has said,"My father passed away on 1st of March
2017."
Lelum status
Lelum is the son of veteran singer - Victor Ratnayake.
The post has raised questions as to why such a post was put
up when Victor is very much alive.
However, a website named aperata.net has reported that this
is due to Victor getting married to a 33-year old on his 75th birthday.
The website adds that the duo had been living together in
Millennium City for a few years.
It further adds that 13 years have elapsed since Victor's
first wife passed away. Chandani Ratnayake Daughter of Victor Rathnayake was passed away when she was 46 years old .
Victor Rathnayake's new wife Hashini Amendra, Hashini Amendra , Hashini Amendra foreign university degree with international student scholarship .
Former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman hacked the phones of Prince William, Prince Harry and Kate Middleton, jurors heard today.
Goodman, who returned to the witness box after weeks of ill health, was accused of being more heavily involved in phone hacking with private detective Glenn Mulcaire in 2005 and 2006 than was previously heard.
Goodman and Mulcaire were convicted in 2006 of hacking phones in relation to royal aides.
But their activities went further than that, jurors were told.
The then Ms Middleton's phone was hacked 155 times, Prince William 35 times and Prince Harry nine times, the Old Bailey trial heard.
Kate was even hacked on Christmas Day 2005, jurors heard.
The details emerged as Goodman was being cross examined by ex-NotW editor Andy Coulson's lawyer Timothy Langdale QC.
He asked: "I'm going to suggest you had direct contact with Glenn Mulcaire significantly before the time you have told us - that you yourself had been hacking on a much wider scale than you have told this court about."
Goodman said he had not been asked a direct question.
The witness said he had been assured by the Crown Prosecution Service he would not be charged with any more hacking but no-one had asked him.
When presented with a list of hacking victims, he said: "I'm not on trial for hacking," adding: "There has been no intention to deceive you or anybody else in relation to phone hacking."
On his arrest in 2006, Mr Langdale said: "It's the one thing you must have been more worried about than anything else that it would become clear you yourself had been hacking members of the royal family."
Goodman replied: "I was terrified of the whole thing. I was mortified."
Mr Langdale said Kate Middleton, who was to become the Duchess of Cambridge, was first hacked on October 21 2005.
Mr Langdale asked the witness why she had been targeted and if he had tasked Mulcaire to do it.
He replied: "She was a figure of increasing importance around the royal family. There were discussions about her and Prince William marrying, moving in, settling down. She started to receive semi royal status and things were moving on."
Mr Langdale said: "You are telling us Glenn Mulcaire hacked her without any instruction from you? Did you task him to do that?"
He replied: "I do not remember tasking him to do that. It's possible but I do not recall."
He added: "I have been as open and honest about hacking as I can be but nobody has asked me any questions about this before."
Mr Langdale said: "You knew perfectly well you hacked Prince Harry and Prince William didn't you?"
Goodman replied: "Nobody asked me."
He added that often he and Mulcaire hacked the same messages.
Goodman, of Addlestone, Surrey, denies two counts of conspiring with Coulson and others to commit misconduct in public office.
All seven defendants in the trial deny the charges against them.
Earlier, Mr Justice Saunders addressed the jury, saying: "As you know we have been waiting for Mr Goodman to be fit enough to continue to complete his evidence. We have had to wait because he has been ill."
He summarised Goodman's evidence so far for the jury before Mr Langdale began his questioning.
The trial continues.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Little Girl Statue Stands Up to Iconic Wall Street Bull (and Masculinity)
Charging Bull, which is sometimes referred to as the Wall Street Bull or the Bowling Green Bull, is a bronze sculpture that stands in Bowling Green Park in the Financial District in Manhattan, New York City. Originally guerilla art, by Arturo Di Modica, its popularity led to it being a permanent feature.
Description
The 7,100-pound (3,200 kg) sculpture stands 11 feet (3.4 m) tall[1] and measures 16 feet (4.9 m) long. The oversize sculpture depicts a bull, the symbol of aggressive financial optimism and prosperity, leaning back on its haunches and with its head lowered as if ready to charge. The sculpture is both a popular tourist destination which draws thousands of people a day, as well as "one of the most iconic images of New York" and a "Wall Street icon" symbolizing Wall Street and the Financial District. A poster showing a ballerina on the Charging Bull to promote the Occupy Wall Street movement In Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide, Dianne Durante describes the sculpture: The Bull's head is lowered, its nostrils flare, and its wickedly long, sharp horns are ready to gore; it's an angry, dangerous beast. The muscular body twists to one side, and the tail is curved like a lash: the Bull is also energetic and in motion. The bronze color and hard, metallic texture of the sculpture's surface emphasises the brute force of the creature. The work was designed and placed so that viewers could walk around it, which also suggests the creature's own movement is unrestricted — a point reinforced by the twisting posture of the bull's body, according to Durante. Charging Bull, then, shows an aggressive or even belligerent force on the move, but unpredictably.t's not far-fetched to say the theme is the energy, strength, and unpredictability of the stock market." Di Modica told the New York Daily News in 1998: That bull is one of an edition of five. … I'm hoping the other four will be going to cities all over the world, whenever somebody buys them.
In 2010, a similar Charging Bull sculpted by Di Modica, which looks "younger" and "stronger," was installed in Shanghai, called Bund Bull. In 2012 one was placed on Het Beursplein in Amsterdam.
As many American women prepare to draw attention to their role in the workplace, a Wall Street firm on Tuesday put up a statue of a girl in front of Lower Manhattan's well-known bronze charging bull, as if to fearlessly stare it down. Placing the diminutive, grade school-aged girl in front of the massive bull on the eve of International Women's Day was a way of calling attention to the lack of gender diversity on corporate boards and the pay gap of women working in financial services, a spokeswoman for State Street Global Advisors said. "A lot of people talk about gender diversity, but we really felt we had to take it to a broader level," said Anne McNally, whose firm is an investment management subsidiary of State Street Corp. In conjunction with International Women's Day on Wednesday, many American women are planning to stay home from work, which has led some schools to cancel classes. Organizers asked women who cannot afford to miss a day of work to limit their shopping to female-owned businesses or to wear red. Although women have made some headway against the glass ceiling, State Street said one out of four of the companies that make up the Russell 3000 Index still have no female representation on their boards. "Today, we are calling on companies to take concrete steps to increase gender diversity on their boards, and have issued clear guidance to help them begin to take action," State Street Global Advisors CEO Ron O'Hanley said in a statement. Much the same as the charging bull, the little bronze girl by artist Kristen Visbal was put up in the wee hours of the morning as "guerilla art," McNally said. But, unlike the bull, the firm discussed it with the city beforehand so that it could remain at least temporarily. "We're actively pursuing that it stays for a month," she said. "If the city decides that it should stay in perpetuity, we're absolutely on board with that." The bull, sculpted by Italian-born artist Arturo Di Modica, was initially taken down after he quietly placed it in front of the New York Stock Exchange in December 1989. But it was later given a permanent home, about a five-minute walk away on Broadway, in response to public support.
International Women's Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women's Day, is celebrated on March 8 every year.In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women for their economic, political and social achievements.
The earliest celebration was held as a Socialistpolitical event in 1909 in New York City. Declared a national holiday in the Soviet Union in 1917, it was predominantly celebrated in socialist and communist countries until it was adopted in 1977 by the United Nations.
History
International Women's Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. International Women's Day first emerged from the activities of labour movements at the turn of the twentieth century in North America and across Europe.
Since those early years, International Women's Day has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike. The growing international women's movement, which has been strengthened by four global United Nations women's conferences, has helped make the commemoration a rallying point to build support for women's rights and participation in the political and economic arenas. Chronology
1909 The first National Woman's Day was observed in the United States on 28 February. The Socialist Party of America designated this day in honour of the 1908 garment workers' strike in New York, where women protested against working conditions.
1910 The Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen, established a Women's Day, international in character, to honour the movement for women's rights and to build support for achieving universal suffrage for women. The proposal was greeted with unanimous approval by the conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, which included the first three women elected to the Finnish Parliament. No fixed date was selected for the observance.
1911 As a result of the Copenhagen initiative, International Women's Day was marked for the first time (19 March) in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, where more than one million women and men attended rallies. In addition to the right to vote and to hold public office, they demanded women's rights to work, to vocational training and to an end to discrimination on the job.
1913-1914 International Women's Day also became a mechanism for protesting World War I. As part of the peace movement, Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February. Elsewhere in Europe, on or around 8 March of the following year, women held rallies either to protest the war or to express solidarity with other activists.
1917 Against the backdrop of the war, women in Russia again chose to protest and strike for "Bread and Peace" on the last Sunday in February (which fell on 8 March on the Gregorian calendar). Four days later, the Czar abdicated and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote.
1975 During International Women's Year, the United Nations began celebrating International Women's Day on 8 March.
1995 The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a historic roadmap signed by 189 governments, focused on 12 critical areas of concern, and envisioned a world where each woman and girl can exercise her choices, such as participating in politics, getting an education, having an income, and living in societies free from violence and discrimination.
2014 The 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58) – the annual gathering of States to address critical issues related to gender equality and women’s rights — focused on “Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls”. UN entities and accredited NGOs from around the world took stock of progress and remaining challenges towards meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs have played an important role in galvanizing attention on and resources for gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Official UN Names
Year
UN Theme
1996
Celebrating the Past, Planning for the Future
1997
Women and the Peace Table
1998
Women and Human Rights
1999
World Free of Violence Against Women
2000
Women Uniting for Peace
2001
Women and Peace: Women Managing Conflicts
2002
Afghan Women Today: Realities and Opportunities
2003
Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals
2004
Women and HIV/AIDS
2005
Gender Equality Beyond 2005; Building a More Secure Future
2006
Women in Decision-making
2007
Ending Impunity for Violence Against Women and Girls
2008
Investing in Women and Girls
2009
Women and Men United to End Violence Against Women and Girls
2010
Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for All
2011
Equal Access to Education, Training, and Science and Technology: Pathway to Decent Work for Women
2012
Empower Rural Women, End Poverty and Hunger
2013
A Promise is a Promise: Time for Action to End Violence Against Women
Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality
2017
Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030
The world of work is changing fast, through innovation, increasing mobility and informality. But it needs to change faster to empower women, whose work has already driven many of the global gains in recent decades.
Women still predominantly occupy jobs that pay less and provide no benefits. They earn less than men, even as they shoulder the enormous—and economically essential—burden of unpaid care and domestic work.
Realizing women’s economic empowerment requires transformative change so that prosperity is equitably shared and no one is left behind. The international community has made this commitment in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Equal Pay For Women
It doesn’t matter where they work or what they do. Women globally are paid less than men for the same work.
Why does the gender pay gap persist? In many countries, disparities in education have begun to close. But that’s not enough to knock down gender-based discrimination in the world of work. It keeps women out of some jobs and segregates them into others—often the lowest paying ones.
Many constraints stem from balancing paid work and family responsibilities. Inflexible working hours and limited parental leave are among the factors forcing women into part-time employment or even out of the workforce for long stretches. Some countries still mandate women to retire earlier than men.
What can we do? Call for passing and enforcing laws and regulations upholding the principle of equal pay for work of equal value. Ensure that businesses do their part to close the gender pay gap.
Share Unpaid Care
Women make a huge economic contribution that fills gaps in services. Why is it unshared and uncounted?
Cooking, cleaning, caring for children and the elderly—economies depend on such work, valued at between 10 and 39 per cent of GDP. It can contribute more to an economy than manufacturing or commerce.
Unpaid care and domestic work fills gaps in public services and infrastructure—and are largely provided by women. That’s an unfair burden and an unfair barrier to equal labour force participation and pay. Reducing these requires shifting norms around who does this work, and investing in decent, paid work in the care economy.
What can we do? Pass policies that reduce and redistribute unpaid work, such as through more paid jobs in the care economy, and encourage men to share care and domestic work. Invest in systems to provide water, electricity, transportation and other essentials that reduce household labour.
"Lets make this world better place for you and for me and the entire human begins"
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Upcoming Hollywood Movies
2017 List
Here is the list of
Upcoming Hollywood Movies 2017 .55 of these movies are the ones to watch
out for. This list is subject to changes as it depends on censor certification
and producers. At times the release dates of various upcoming hollywood movies
may get postponed due to various reasons. Below is the Hollywood Movies 2017
calendar once that is over you can find the updated list for 2017 also.
These are the list of top hollywood movies releasing in 2017.
01.Lion
Five year old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of Kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
Official "Lion" Movie Trailer 2017
02.Split
While the mental divisions of those with dissociative identity disorder have long fascinated and eluded science, it is believed that some can also manifest unique physical attributes for each personality, a cognitive and physiological prism within a single being.
Though Kevin (James McAvoy) has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher (Betty Buckley), there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy, The Witch), Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him—as well as everyone around him—as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.
Official "Split" Movie Trailer 2017
03.Jackie
JACKIE is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). JACKIE places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband’s legacy and the world of "Camelot" that they created and loved so well.
Official "Jackie" Movie Trailer 2017
04. Guardians the Superheroes
The Guardians - a team of Superheroes created in the secret labs during the Cold War - gather to save the world from the villainous maniac August Kuratov and prevent nuclear disaster. Releasing 24th Feb 2017. India Nationwide Release by Muviwale Entertainment Pvt Ltd.
Official "Guardians the Superheroes" Movie Trailer 2017
05.Logan
In Theaters - March 3, 2017
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Dafne Keen
Directed by James Mangold
Official "Logan" Movie Trailer 2017
06.Skull Island
A team of explorers and soldiers travel to an uncharted island in the Pacific, unaware that they are crossing into the domain of monsters, including the mythic Kong.
Official "Skull Island" Movie Trailer 2017
07.Beauty & the Beast
An adaptation of the Disney fairy tale about a monstrous-looking prince and a young woman who fall in love.
The film stars Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as The Beast, Luke Evans as Gaston, Kevin Kline as Maurice, Emma Thompson as Mrs. Potts, Ewan McGregor as Lumière, Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, and Stanley Tucci as Cadenza.
Official "Beauty & the Beast" Movie Trailer 2017
08.Life
An international space crew discovers life on Mars.
A suit-wearing briefcase-carrying baby pairs up with his seven-year old brother to stop the dastardly plot of the CEO of Puppy Co.
Official "The Boss Baby" Movie Trailer 2017
10.Fast & Furious 8
When a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of crime and a betrayal of those closest to him, the crew face trials that will test them as never before.
Youth tries to kill himself thinking that lover at Wattala shop ....
would belong to another (CCTV)
A few months before this a girl working in a textile shop in the town of Wattala was stabbed
by a knife and killed by a youth supposed to have been her lover. This youth who concealed a knife in his person began stabbing the girl over and over again when those who came there to buy the clothes and sales personnel of the shop were watching all the time. The 19 year old girl, Fathima Roshana Ismi who faced stabs on 13 points of her body died on the spot. At that moment the youth too had tried to cut his throat and put an end to his life too but he only received some injuries. Later he was admitted to hospital.
Though the two of them had started a love affair, since both parties had opposed a marriage between the two religions relating to a Muslim and Buddhist, the girl concerned had made a decision to put a stop to the affair. However, saying that he did not like his lover belonging to another, the boy had thought of killing his lover and then killing himself too in this manner.
The CCTV footage of the shop outlet relevant to this incident has been released to the internet. The video of the scene, from BELOW
After India’s historic ODI series defeat against Bangladesh on Sunday night, Mahendra Singh Dhoni said he was willing to step down if that helped Indian cricket. India went down by six wickets in the rain-marred second ODI to lose the three-match series.
A sentimental Dhoni fielded a barrage of questions from the media and many of them were around his future as captain. “I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me. Even the Bangladesh media is smiling,” Dhoni said at the post-match press conference.
“I am really enjoying my cricket. But when the earlier question was asked, I knew this question was coming. These are the questions that will keep popping up. The media loves me. If it is a justifiable thing that if you remove me and the Indian cricket will start doing really well, and if I am the reason for all the bad that is happening to Indian cricket, definitely I would love to step away and play as a player,” he added.
“It doesn’t matter who is the captain. I was never really in line to become a captain. It was a job or responsibility for me. I have taken that responsibility. It was given to me, I took it. If they want to take it away, I am happy to give it away,” he said.
/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F406486%2F28e12a85-582b-4642-a06b-e4159d8a76d6.jpg)
