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Sathya Sadeepani of Devapathiraja College Rathgama continues to cruise along as the leader of the Girls’ Schools category, which was introduced to the ever popular competition in the country last season. None of the positions in all three categories changed over the past couple of weeks.
Coupons will be published in the Sunday Times, the two English dailies, the Daily Mirror and DailyFT, and the two Sinhala dailies, Daily Lankadeepa and Ada, Sinhala Weekend Deshaya and TamilMirror.
In addition Dialog Axiata’s online voting system through their official Online Portal to vote for the Most Popular Cricketer (www.dialog.lk/cricket), is now alive.
Schools have been categorised under three categories — the All-Island, Emerging and Girls schools, according to the segmentation process of Sri Lanka School Cricket Association.
Gaines will tie a UW record by playing in his 54th game in Tuesday's Rose Bowl.
The Rose Bowl between Ohio State and Washington will mix old and new, as the Big Ten and Pac-12 champions will play in Pasadena for the first time in the College Football Playoff era.
After missing out on five-star Marlon Tuipulotu two years ago, the Huskies are set to sign four of the nation's top 30 defensive tackles in the 2019 class. Jacob Bandes, Faatui Tuitele among highest-graded defensive tackle recruits the Huskies have ever had.
Byron Murphy returned a deflected interception 66 yards for the game’s only touchdown to lead No. 10 Washington to a 10-3 victory over No. 17 Utah in an offensively challenged Pac-12 championship game.
While the other Power Five conferences will hold championship games that will help determine the field for the College Football Playoff, the prize in the Pac-12 title game will be a more traditional one.
After spending more than half the season recovering from knee surgery in June, Washington tight end Hunter Bryant has provided a boost for the 10th-ranked Huskies’ offense heading into Friday’s Pac-12 championship game against No. 17 Utah.
According to an email sent to Apple users, two-step verification now protects all data stored within iCloud.
Apple has extended two-factor authentication to iCloud, which - if activated - would make it much harder for scammers to gain unauthorized access to iOS data that has been backed up to the cloud.
The update was first noted by Ars Technica and Apple Insider; Engadget said today that Apple then sent emails to customers who have two-factor authentication enabled to notify them that it now extends to iCloud.
Apple first enabled two-factor authentication in March 2013, requiring users to enter a four-digit code sent to a trusted device each time they logged in using their Apple ID. But as security experts noted at the time, iOS backups and iCloud data was not covered.
That is no longer the case. "Starting today, in addition to protecting your Apple ID account information, two-step verification also protects all of the data you store and keep up to date with iCloud," says Apple's email to customers. "If you use iCloud with any third-party apps such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thund...
App-specific passwords will be available starting Oct. 1, Apple said. To turn on two-step verification, follow the directions on Apple's support site.
Two-factor authentication comes with great responsibility: Lose access to your password, device, or 14-digit Recovery Key, and you will be permanently locked out of that Apple ID.
The move comes in the wake of a celebrity photo scandal, in which naked images of Hollywood stars were posted to the Internet. The pictures, some of which were confirmed to be authentic, quickly made the rounds on Reddit, Twitter, Imgur, and other corners of the Web.
Though they appeared to have been accessed via the celebs' iCloud accounts, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Apple's systems had not been breached. During a recent interview with Charlie Rose, the CEO explained that the most likely scenario is that users' account information was uncovered during a phishing expedition.
"I could pretend to be somebody else, and you could unknowingly give me your password," Cook said, calling phishing "the No. 1 issue by far" on the Internet.
Customer protection is "our top goal," Cook told Rose. "We think we can make a contribution beyond just making sure the cloud's not hacked."
In the wake of the celeb hack, Apple pledged to boost security alerts. Cook said Apple will start sending push and email-based alerts to users if someone tries to reset a password, restore iCloud data, or log in from a new device. Previously, it only sends emails if someone does a password reset or logs in from an unkn...
It does not appear that two-factor authentication for iCloud was a direct result of the celeb hack, though. As Macrumors noted, testing was first noticed in June, months before the photos were leaked.
For more, see PCMag's review of the Apple iCloud and the slideshow above. Also check out Two-Factor Authentication: Who Has It and How to Set It Up, as well as our roundup of The Best Password Managers.
Barnes finished with 22 points (7-13 FG, 3-6 3Pt, 5-6 FT), 10 rebounds, and one assist in 37 minutes during Monday's 115-108 victory over the Knicks.
Barnes ended Monday's game with a 22-and-10 double-double. The line was nice on the surface but he contributed basically outside of points and rebounds. On nights his shot is falling, his production appears much better and this was one of those nights. Barnes is fine to roster in standard formats as long as you don't n...
OJ Simpson should be happy about his upcoming parole review - but instead he's dreading it, a prison pal has said.
On July 20, the 70-year-old - who is currently eight years into a nine-to-33-year sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping, among other charges - will be told if he can leave his Nevada prison.
But while the media was kept out of his previous parole hearing, Simpson says this one has become a 'circuslike environment' of live feeds, media hype and same-day rulings, a close friend told Page Six.
At Simpson's last parole hearing, in 2013, pre-hype and press were not permitted, Page Six claimed.
But this time there will be live broadcasts and a same-day ruling.
'The Juice is sweating it over the parole hearing,' said Jeffrey Felix, Simpson's former prison guard and self-styled 'BFF,' who wrote the book 'Guarding The Juice'.
'He's been told there will be media tents outside, pool reporters in his room and the Carson City hearing room, and cameras sending a live feed to the media outside.
If granted parole, OJ would be released back into the community on October 1.
'OJ thinks he deserves his parole - he's been clean for nine years, hasn't had any write-ups, took all the programs and classes they told him to take,' Felix continued.
'But he thinks all this media hype is going to screw with the parole board and put pressure on them to keep him locked up.
Brooke Keast, a spokesperson for the Nevada Department of Corrections, said: 'We must make the hearing public. The only way we could safely do this is to have it streamed live.
However, the Board of Parole website notes that 'approximately 30 distinct organizations' have applied to attend the hearing, if not the courtroom itself.
Keast said all parole hearings are public, but Simpson's high profile meant that too many people would want to attend.
When asked about whether the same-day verdict was unusual, the Board of Parole referred to a written statement on its website.
It said: 'The Board occasionally conducts hearings with a majority of the members of the Board. When a majority is present, and the decision is unanimous, the result is provided to the inmate at the time of the hearing.
'Because of the media interest in this case and to facilitate returning to business as usual, the Board opted to conduct this hearing with a majority of the members.
It added that despite claims by Page Six, this was not 'unusual' and had last happened in June of this year.
'The Board opted to conduct this hearing with a majority panel because of the intense media interest,' it said. 'Over 800 release and violation hearings are held each month and the media interest in this one case is a disruption to our operation.
It also said there was no chance that the media would affect the judgement of the board, saying they would abide by their 'oath to faithfully execute their duties'.
Simpson requires a unanimous vote of four parole officers to be granted parole. Otherwise, three more officers will be called in to vote.
The board anticipates a maximum of a 30 minute deliberation period before it returns a vote.
The former sports star and actor was convicted in 2008 of taking sports memorabilia from a Las Vegas hotel-casino at gunpoint in 2007.
Prosecutors said his order that people stay in the room amounted to kidnapping.
He was sentenced to 33 years, with possibility of parole after around nine years, in Lovelock Correctional Center.
In 2013, a parole board granted him parole on the robbery charges, but he continued to be held on other charges.
It has previously been reported that Simpson's advanced age and good behavior in prison have increased his chance of parole.
While some were predicting the death of commercial mortgage-backed securities as early as 2008, at least one conduit loan has recently turned up in hell, of all places-or, at least Hell’s Kitchen. The Meridian Capital Group, the commercial real estate finance and advisory firm, successfully negotiated a $6.55 million c...
The company, Chatham 44 Commercial Associates, obtained the relatively scarce financing for a retail condo at 604-610 10th Avenue, which houses a Dunkin Donuts, a wine and spirits retailer, and the Peruvian restaurant Pio Pio, among others. The proceeds of the new loan, which was provided by Citigroup Global Markets, a...
Modou Sougou pumped in four goals as hosts Mumbai City FC defeated Kerala Blasters 6-1 in a lop-sided Indian Super League game in Mumbai yesterday. The night belonged to Sougou, who scored in the 12th, 15th, 30th minute and second half injury time, as he made a mockery of Kerala's defence at the Mumbai Football Arena h...
Kerala pulled one back in the 27th minute with Seiminlen Doungel scoring but their joy was short-lived as Sougou, the highest goal scorer this season for Mumbai, slotted home in the 3Oth minute to complete the hat-trick and take his side 3-1 up.
Refugees wait to cross the Greek-Macedonia border, 24 August 2015. Photo Credit: Bundesministerium für Europa, Integration und Äusseres, Wikipedia Commons.
Police in Macedonia fired tear gas and stun grenades at desperate migrants stranded for days at the Greek border and who are demanding passage to western Europe, as soldiers began erecting a metal fence to keep them out.
Macedonia, along with other Balkan countries on the migrant route, began turning away “economic migrants” nearly two weeks ago. Human rights groups have criticized the decision, under which only Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans are allowed through.
The new restrictions triggered days of protests from Iranians, Pakistanis, Moroccans and others, stranded in squalid tent camps on the border. Some Iranians have sewn their lips shut. One man on Saturday threw himself on railway lines before the police, screaming and flailing.
Saturday’s violence broke out after one migrant, believed to be a Moroccan, was electrocuted and badly burned when he climbed on top of a train wagon.
An angry crowd surged towards lines of Macedonian police and began throwing stones, a Reuters photographer at the scene said. The police responded with tear gas and stun grenades, driving the crowd back, a Reuters photographer at the scene said. Some officers threw stones.
In a surge that began about 18 months ago, migrants have been flowing across Balkan borders, having landed by boat in Greece from Turkey. Human rights groups say international conventions require countries to treat asylum requests on merit, not on the basis of nationality.
Earlier on Saturday, Macedonian soldiers began driving metal poles around 3 meters high into the cold, muddy ground, building a barrier similar to that erected by Hungary on its southern border. European Union member Hungary in September and October sealed its southern border to migrants, calling them a threat to the s...
“We would like to underline that the border will remain open,” said spokesman Aleksandar Gjorgjiev. “We will allow passage for the people who come from war-affected regions as we have done thus far.” Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia say they began filtering the migrants after Slovenia, further along the route, announced i...
The number of migrants making the journey to Europe rose dramatically this year compared to 2014, although the influx shows signs of decreasing as winter approaches. Germany expects roughly 1 million refugees and migrants to arrive this year alone.
The plan would widen Route 15 from two lanes to four between Battlefield Parkway and Montresor Road. It would also add intersections and traffic circles in key areas of congestion.
WASHINGTON — A long-awaited plan to widen a portion of Virginia Route 15 in Loudoun County has been advanced by the county’s board of supervisors.
The board voted unanimously to approve the plan and sent it into the design phase after an hour of public comment and a presentation from county staff. The plan would widen Route 15 from two lanes to four between Battlefield Parkway and Montresor Road. It would also add intersections and traffic circles in key areas of...
Virginia Del. David LaRock, who represents the part of Loudoun County affected by this project, urged the board to pass the motion, saying that public safety was at stake.
“Please, in anyway possible, expedite this, given the urgency and the need to avoid future loss of property and life and injury,” LaRock said.
While a safer road with less gridlock sounds ideal, many residents are concerned about the project. The concerns ranged from the viability of certain intersections to the entire plan itself. Gladys Lewis of the group Journey Through Hollowed Ground said that she was worried about what the expansion could do to the area...
“We have grown increasingly concerned that the designers proposed by the county’s transportation planners, which do not follow the guidelines of the existing corridor management plan, will result in the degradation or destruction of historic and economic asset along the corridor,” Lewis said.
Members of the board voiced their concerns as well, mostly surrounding specific details of the plan. Despite those concerns, the motion was passed 9-0, as board members said their issues could be addressed during the design process.
“I do think it’s a key point that was brought up, that no matter what we say here, it can still be changed going forward,” said supervisor Tony Buffington, who was worried about the traffic impact of a proposed traffic light.
County officials had been gathering feedback on the project for over a year before they made the final presentation at Thursday’s meeting, and there’s no sign that community outreach will end. There’s another opportunity for the public to learn more about the project Wednesday night at 7 p.m. at the Lucketts Community ...
David Cameron finds himself in dire straits. There are impressions in a nervous Tory Party that the British prime minister is going soft in response to the firm stance taken by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the school boy assertions of the Euro sceptics. The Tories, slaves to an intoxicating vision of past Britann...
The British Euro sceptics would prefer to evacuate that seat, and at least 200 Tory MPs have made murmurings and squeaks to the effect that they want an EU exit at some speed. What this has done is place Cameron in a situation which effectively sees only one policy in terms of dealing with the EU: the curbing of immigr...
Island mentalities tend to be padded ones – and that padding can tend to resemble the material used in a hermitic asylum. Apocalyptic predictions crowd the Tory frequency, even if Cameron said in 2011 that, ‘Immigrants make a huge contribution to Britain.’ Cameron has prevaricated on the subject, because he knows that ...
Caps have been suggested on incoming numbers, and he has mooted it as a possibility. An ‘emergency brake’ has also been suggested. Thus far, these have yet to find form, largely because the prime minister doesn’t want to find himself with less leg room in renegotiating Britain’s position within the EU.
Britannic exceptionalism is central to this presumption. ‘This is a real pressing problem. We cannot go into long, rambling negotiations with the European Union, particularly if they’re not going to play ball.’ It never occurs to Paterson that it is the British authorities, rather than those in Brussels, that do not wa...
But the value of labour is not distinct from its absence. When a person ceases to work or has fallen on hard times, the welfare buffer kicks in. Such a view is unduly holistic to the penny pinchers from White Hall to the Commons. Indeed, one of the Cameron proposals is to deport immigrants who have been jobless for six...
Walker’s view sees labourers as shifting units of productivity, and services as abstract provisions. A consciousness of human agency is totally absent. Instead, he obsesses about a ‘single market in services and a digital economy’, the ill-informed TTIP trade relationship between Washington and the EU, and the irritati...
If the court decision comes down against the recalcitrant British authorities, millions of fines may be levied. But the mortal risk will be to the Tories, who keep supping from the poisoned chalice of European union time and again, even as the illusion of British power persists with stubborn determination. Only such a ...
By meeting yesterday, Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Roh Tae Woo underscored an anachronism of cold-war history.
Since it was established after World War II, South Korea has had no formal diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union, and few unofficial contacts. The first Soviet tourist ship to dock in a South Korean port since World War II - the 13,000-ton Mikhail Sholokov - did not drop its gangplank until Sept. 4, 1988, 43 years afte...
Russia was interested in Korea as far back as the mid-19th century. Russian merchants traded there in lumber and metals. The Russian Orthodox church began sending missionaries to the peninsula.
Japanese and Chinese competitors wanted similar access and exports, and the rivalries led to war - first between Japan and China in 1894 and 1895, then between the Russians and Japanese in 1904 and 1905. Japan won both times, and the Russian influence in Korea waned. Japan set up a protectorate over Korea and in 1910 a...
Several attempts by Korean nationalists to overthrow Japan's harsh rule were crushed. After World War I, a Korean Government in exile was established by Syngman Rhee in Shanghai.
Japanese investment led to major social and economic changes, particularly through the industrial development of the northern half of the country, which adjoined the Japanese industrial complex in Manchuria. The southern half remained mostly agricultural.
In World War II the Allies called for the restoration of an independent Korea ''in due course'' during the Cairo Conference in 1943. After the fighting stopped, the major powers divided Korea in two for occupation purposes, with Soviet forces in control north of the 38th parallel and American forces south of it.
The details of unification and independence for Korea were left to the two superpowers. As the cold war broke out, the two sides soon deadlocked on the establishment of a provisional government and in 1947 sent the issue of Korea's future to the United Nations General Assembly, where a temporary commission was set up t...
But the Soviet occupation authorities refused. Elections in the southern sector, with United Nations observers on duty, took place in 1948, and the Republic of Korea was established south of the 38th parallel. A separate Communist-controlled Government was set up in the north, which renamed itself the Democratic People...
Soviet troops withdrew from the north at the end of 1948, and United States forces went home from the south in mid-1949, a few months before Secretary of State Dean Acheson outlined an American retrenchment in Asia with a Pacific ''defense perimeter'' that did not include Korea.
But on June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded the south, and United States troops were sent back to the country, where they were joined by contingents from many other nations under the United Nations flag. After three years of fighting, the battle lines stabilized close to the frontiers before the war.
Under a 1953 truce agreement at Panmunjom a demilitarized zone was established near the 38th parallel.
Soviet-North Korean relations have had their own difficulties. After the Chinese-Soviet split of the early 1960's, President Kim Il Sung of North Korea tried to avoid complete identification with either side. But since the mid-1970's North Korea leaned more toward China. Mr. Kim visited Beijing in 1975, a year after he...
Soviet-North Korean trade declined by 10 percent between 1982 and 1983, and in 1984 Mr. Kim visited Moscow, for the first time in nearly 20 years, looking for economic aid.
During Mr. Kim's visit, Mr. Gorbachev's predecessor, Konstantin U. Chernenko, said that reunification of the two Koreas should be worked out peaceably. South Korean officials later said that North Korea had proposed secret talks on unification with the United States. But the Reagan Administration refused, insisting tha...
With the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, the South Korean Government began trying to turn its economic boom to its political advantage. In part, this involved setting up diplomatic relations with countries in the Soviet bloc. So far, South Korea has opened embassies with all the Eastern European nations except East Germany and...

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