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The Sinhalese saw the Nayakas as Tamil. SVR’s end is owed to the British demonizing him with a view to invading Kandy on the pretext of freeing the people from tyranny, and the Englishman John D’Oyly using numerous Buddhist monks as his spies to prepare for the invasion. To these Buddhists, the English King was preferr...
SVR is made villainous in the execution narrative of the wife and children of Ahelepola, who was working with the British against SVR. He, his wife Kumarihami, children and his brother and wife were all sentenced to death. Ahelepola escaped. He could have saved his family by surrendering but failed them. The eldest, 11...
Gananath does not believe any of this, asking how it leaked out. He adds, "Surely not through the king’s executioner, very likely the only witness to the event." The so-called assembled crowd, Gananath puts down to John Davy the British surgeon’s inventiveness, "from British practices where crowds gathered at execution...
Accounts by Sinhalese like the Ahelepola Varnanava, in contrast, says Gananath, lambaste the king as a heretic Tamil while barely mentioning the execution of Ahelepola’s family. The "outrageously anti-Tamil text," puts Ahelapola in the dynasty of the sun and the moon and says he is like the mystic eagle (Garuda) that d...
The final capture of the king was guided by D’Oyly and Ahelepola. Molligoda, appointed Disava by the king, betrayed his lord. Several chiefs fled as the British approached. Ekneligoda ("who believed that his chief Ahelepola would soon be king") and 500 of his supporters from Sabaragamuwa caught the king, reviled him an...
Interpreter Don William Dias took charge and entreated D’Oyly to come quickly, writing "the Sinhalese king" has fallen into our hands and is being "subject to ill-treatment and ignominy." He asked for three palanquins (for the king and his two queens) and wearing apparel as the queens were almost naked.
Gananath brings out the many positive views of the king, a man of composure and majesty who ruled according to the shastras with a deportment that "indicated considerable dignity and firmness of mind"that could discuss the causes of lightning. Says Gananath, "In my view all these cases of the executions or punishment o...
Following up on the reference to SVR as "the Sinhalese king," Gananath notes that the Nayaka kings (except Kirti Sri Rajasinha (1747-1782) "the great Nayaka-Buddhist king") were born and raised in Kandy. Theywere practising Buddhists who "also believed, as most Sinhala Buddhists did [and do], in the great Hindu gods" s...
Gananath is an iconoclast who enjoys being that. He is critical of many established writers. He apologises for making the necessary references to caste and treason, and "to the descendants of the aristocrats who live and work in Sri Lanka today." His defence of his explicit references to caste, I find redeeming because...
Iconoclastic Gananath cannot resist pointing out that it is a mistake to say "the lion flag was the ‘national flag’ of the Tri Sinhala," the term Tri Sinhala being "of thirteenth century origin." He adds, "there was no flag, lion or otherwise, that expressed the collective unity of the three parts of the Tri Sinhala. S...
This extremely valuable bookwill enlighten the many who were brought up on nonsensical history books and school texts. It will also bother many authors whose work is questioned, but in very polite and non-confrontational but inexorable arguments cutting to the core of texts from colonial times to now. Worse, it will ex...
It is academically and intellectually salutary that Gananath Obeyesekere is, going by the spelling of his name, from the same aristocratic families whose loyalty to the Sinhalese king and uprightness he questions. That adds to the book’s credibility.
This book will promote national unity and reconciliation through greater understanding among all Lankans and help form a truthful and realistic identity. It isa tribute to Gananath Obeyesekere’s wit, sharp mind, noble thoughtsand empathy for the weak. It is most enlightening of our prejudicesand abeautiful thing for an...
A final compliment to the new publisher, Sailfish:An excellently produced book at an affordable price with the commitment to delve into the controversial. I look forward to more.
Cindy Crawford, 53, reveals her 11-product makeup routine – and it takes just ten minutes \| HELLO!
March 23, 2019 - 15:19 GMT Fiona Ward Supermodel Cindy Crawford has revealed her daily makeup routine, and you might be surprised at the amount of products she uses!
Cindy Crawford's ageless beauty is something we'd all quite like a piece of, so we were mighty pleased when we saw that she had shared her entire makeup routine with the world. That's right, the 53-year-old recorded her beauty regimen for Vogue magazine, and you might be surprised to learn that it only takes her ten mi...
So what’s in her beauty bag? The model unsurprisingly likes to prep her skin with her own brand, Meaningful Skincare, using the Youth Activating Melon Serum as a base, before de-puffing her undereye area with a pair of makeup artist-approved Golden Ice Globes - worth $125 - that she cools down in a glass of iced water....
She calls her go-to makeup look the "basic face", saying: "You want to have your simple routine [so that] you know you’re going to feel good in case you run into that person you used to go to high school with. Sometimes it's just those little things, like an eyebrow or mascara. They can just finish a look."
Cindy’s foundation of choice is By Terry’s Light-Expert Click Brush Foundation followed by NARS Stick Concealer for extra coverage on her hyperpigmentation. She dusts a little Chanel Healthy Glow Powder to set, but added that she prefers not to use too much in case it settles into any fine lines.
The Constitution assigns executive authority to the president—but a President Trump would hand it off to Mike Pence.
On Wednesday night, America will meet the man who could be the nation’s next chief executive officer—and it’s not Donald Trump.
The Constitution says that “the executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America,” but Trump isn’t one to be bound by tradition. He has, instead, made it clear that he intends to hire “the best” and “the most talented” people to exercise power on his behalf. And right at the top, running t...
Donald Jr. wanted to make him an offer nonetheless: Did he have any interest in being the most powerful vice president in history?
So it’s striking how little focus there’s been on Pence’s record as an executive. He made his reputation in Congress as a legislator and advocate of conservative ideas, and his tenure as governor may be best known for a series of ideological clashes, including over religious freedom and gay rights. But the office for w...
But not all Indianans agree. Before he abandoned his re-election bid to join Trump’s ticket, Pence faced an uncertain political future in the state. “I don't think it's any secret that this race was going to be very close and very much a referendum on Mike Pence because he just wasn't popular,” the Indiana Fiscal Polic...
And whatever Pence’s successes as an administrator, he’s struggled to deal with dissent. He tried setting up a state news agency in 2015, to bypass the independent press, only to abandon the half-baked proposal in the face of near-universal criticism.
Similarly, he hasn’t gotten along with independent officials. Indiana elects an unusual number of statewide officeholders—not just a governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general, but also a secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, and superintendent of public instruction. All but that last office are occupied by ...
In the months between now and November, Pence’s record is likely to receive substantially more scrutiny. But for the moment, he’s being assessed mostly in terms of his electoral impact—likely negligible—and not as the man who might run the federal government for the next four years.
That’s a mistake. Trump’s advisors have made it perfectly clear that he intends to delegate day-to-day operational responsibility to his vice president. When Pence takes the stage tonight, voters should listen closely. They could well be hearing from the nation’s next chief executive.
In the past year, the city of Los Angeles has seen the number of cyberattacks launched against it grow by 250 percent – and that’s a good thing. Spotting so many incidents means city officials are able to detect and mitigate them before they become major problems.
This capability is largely the result of the city’s Integrated Security Operations Center. Completed on Aug. 1, 2015, ISOC is the culmination of a two-year physical and virtual project to consolidate more than 200 million log records and data every 24 hours.
Part of ISOC involves running a security information and event management (SIEM) solution on Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud, but managing it on a massive scale across 41 departments and involving almost 40,000 employees and 4 million city residents, Ross said.
“We’re really running big data to identify cyberthreats and cyberbreaches so that we can remediate and resolve them very quickly,” he said. With ISOC, the city now identifies and remediates on average more than 10,000 intrusions per month.
ISOC has two objectives. The first is situational awareness, or translating those millions of records into meaningful cybersecurity posture dashboards, which are shared among 300 users, Chief Information Security Officer Tim Lee said. The dashboards’ tools include SIEM that powers visual dashboards that show the type o...
When an incident comes in, it get triaged and assigned to the proper cyber team member, who can, if necessary, escalate it and pull in help from the LA Police Department or FBI. Incidents enter as Level 1 and can move to Level 2, which is remediation and mitigation, or Level 3, which is most critical.
Different dashboards show the various levels of situational awareness, Lee said. For instance, city executives and managers will only see the time and criticality of the top 10 incidents -- a high-level look. Another dashboard offers a more detailed operational picture for all the departments’ security teams, and each ...
Before ISOC, this kind of consolidated information wasn’t possible because cybersecurity in LA was fragmented, with different teams running different infrastructure and security. “If somebody attacked one part of the network, the other part wouldn’t even know it happened,” Ross said. ”It allowed someone to attack diffe...
ISOC’s second objective is sharing meaningful threat intelligence with stakeholders, including external groups such as FBI and the Secret Service through a threat intelligence portal. “It allows us to consolidate the threat intelligence, really quickly react with precise information in regards to that threat and simult...
ISOC is working. In a 30-day span earlier this year, the city contained 16 zero-day ransomware attacks that affected five departments.
“We found these viruses ahead of the anti-virus companies,” Lee added.
And that’s important not only to protecting data and infrastructure, but also the bottom line. The cost of a data breach is $154 per record, according to the California Department of Justice.
3 Outside the veil of the ark in the Tent of meeting; let Aaron see that it is burning from evening till morning at all times before the Lord: it is a rule for ever through all your generations.
4 Let Aaron put the lights in order on the support before the Lord at all times.
5 And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake.
6 And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord.
7 And on the lines of cakes put clean sweet-smelling spices, for a sign on the bread, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
8 Every Sabbath day regularly, the priest is to put it in order before the Lord: it is offered for the children of Israel, an agreement made for ever.
9 And it will be for Aaron and his sons; they are to take it for food in a holy place: it is the most holy of all the offerings made by fire to the Lord, a rule for ever.
11 And the son of the Israelite woman said evil against the holy Name, with curses; and they took him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
12 And they kept him shut up, till a decision might be given by the mouth of the Lord.
14 Take the curser outside the tent-circle; and let all in whose hearing the words were said put their hands on his head, and let him be stoned by all the people.
15 And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head.
16 And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.
17 And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.
18 And anyone wounding a beast and causing its death, will have to make payment for it: a life for a life.
20 Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever damage he has done, so let it be done to him.
21 He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.
22 You are to have the same law for a man of another nation living among you as for an Israelite; for I am the Lord your God.
23 And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, and they took the man who had been cursing outside the tent-circle and had him stoned. The children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
Parker, a sophomore, is enjoying cross country season despite being the Cedars' lone female runner.
Distance running, can be a lonely, you-against-you type of endeavor that challenges the body, the mind and the spirit. Sometimes all at once.
Of course, for those who run for sport there are fellow runners to compete with and against, bringing a team element into play that sometimes gets overlooked.
And then there's Lebanon High sophomore Claudia Parker, a team unto herself. Parker, a personable, pleasant three-sport athlete who also swims and plays softball, is the lone girl competing for the Cedars in varsity high school cross country this season.
On the surface, it sounds like a sad story: The poor girl has no teammates, you say. She has no one to share the ups and downs of competitive athletics with, right? She's all by herself.
Well, that's true in a way. There's no doubt when Parker lines up at the starting line for a race she only sees opposing uniforms when she looks to her left and her right.
But she's hardly alone, training alongside her male teammates at practice and encouraged by head coach Tommy Pearson and his staff on a daily basis.
It's not the situation Parker would have picked for herself but she runs - and smiles - her way through it.
"It's fun, but it's really hard to keep going during a race," said Parker, whose best time to date is 24 minutes, 52 seconds for 3.1 miles. "But every time I pass somebody, I know the whole (boys) team is cheering for me. The boys really get me pumped up. At our last home meet, a bunch of the junior high boys came over...
There is, however no getting around the solitude at the starting lines, where Parker carves out a spot for herself while full teams stake out their territory and encourage each other as race time draws near. But she's even found a positive in that.
"It's hard, but it makes me feel good that I'm still running," Parker said. "And they (fellow competitors) always say, 'good job' and stuff. And they're like, 'Wow, that's impressive that you're the only one on your team."
"Claudia's situation is definitely unique, being the only girl," Pearson said. "That's really what we've had the past couple years - one girl, two girls, maybe three girls. She's a great kid - she shows up, she works, really she's no different than any other kid on the team.
"More power to her, she keeps showing up and toeing the line. I feel bad for her at the starting line. All the teams are doing their chants and she's just at the line. I'll check with her and make sure she's good to go. It's cool to see her working, hopefully she just keeps progressing."
Parker, who is home-schooled, took up running last year as a way to stay in shape for swimming, and immediately caught the bug. Now, she runs because she wants to run, not for any other reason.
"I ran to stay in shape for swimming and just started liking it more," she said. "It's the challenge, the mentality of needing to get past the block of, 'I can't do this' and just keep going. And the team is just amazing for running, better than any other team I could ask for."
That said, Parker remains hopeful that she'll have some female teammates to train with next year. And with Pearson working hard to build a feeder program at the junior high level, that definitely could happen. She's also planning to do some recruiting of her own.
"I'm hoping," she said. "It would be nice to have someone to practice with, and then at the meet have someone to stay right beside me, where we're talking and saying, 'OK, we're almost there, you got this.'"
Despite her status as the team's only female runner, Parker still got to experience the thrill of a big team victory last week when the Lebanon boys picked up their first non-forfeit win since 2014 with a triangular meet sweep of Solanco and Conestoga Valley.
Of course, she couldn't physically contribute to the boys' win, but the bonds she's developed along her semi-solo journey had her feeling a part of it nonetheless.
"I was really happy for them," Parker said. "Especially since they're always happy for me. It did feel like a great victory for all of us."
Goals from Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino in the first half gave table-toppers Liverpool a seemingly unassailable lead.
A goalkeeping howler from Alisson Becker saw Liverpool concede for the first time this season, but they held on to win 2-1 at Leicester and extend their 100 per cent start to the Premier League season. Goals from Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino in the first half gave table-toppers Liverpool a seemingly unassailable lead...
But Leicester couldn't find the equaliser as Liverpool's defence remained firm in front of Alisson to secure their fourth successive win heading into the international break.
Alisson's counterpart Kasper Schmeichel, making his 300th appearance for Leicester after signing a new contract in midweek, was into the action within the first three minutes.
Mohamed Salah put Firmino through but he could only fire against Schmeichel's legs, and from the rebound, Salah side-footed wide.
The Reds took a 10th-minute lead when Senegal winger Mane made the most of his ricochet off Harry Maguire from Andrew Robertson's cross to bury left-footed to Schmeichel's right for his third goal of the season.
Liverpool remained on top and Joe Gomez sent a header looping well over the bar from Trent Alexander-Arnold's corner.
Leicester's first chance came in the 22nd minute when Demarai Gray got away from a defender to latch on to Ghezzal's pass and squeezed in a shot that Alisson smothered.
The home side continued to find it hard to open Liverpool up, and were being forced to try their luck from distance as James Maddison fired over from long range.
But they had eased themselves into the game and were finally starting to give Klopp's side something to think about.
Just as Leicester might have thought they had turned the tide, Liverpool broke away quickly and doubled their lead.
Salah forced Schmeichel to push his shot around the post, and from their second successive corner, Firmino met James Milner's flag-kick with a firm header into the far corner of the net from 10 yards.
Leicester pressed to reduce the arrears following the restart and Ghezzal surprised Alisson with a low cross that bounced just wide of the far post.
Maddison was the nearly man again in Leicester's next attack, when only the outstretched leg of the lunging Gomez blocked a goal-bound effort after he wriggled past Alexander-Arnold.
Leicester were having their best spell of the game as the hour mark approached.
Wes Morgan failed to sort his feet out from point-blank range after Marc Albrighton and Gray also missed contact from Ben Chilwell's low centre.
Leicester's persistence was rewarded in the 63rd minute.
And after so much criticism of Liverpool's goalkeeping department in recent years, it was another howler from their last line of defence.
Klopp made a double substitution on 69 minutes in a bid to wrest back control as Naby Keita and Xherdan Shaqiri came on for Henderson and Salah.
The changes made little effect however, although Leicester's charge faded as Liverpool held firm in the closing stages.

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