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Kithsiri Herath
Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Great advice from @pmarca about having conviction yet remain open to change: "You want strong views weakly held"
Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life—that's the stimulant for a story writer.
O. HENRY
Write. Start writing today. Start writing right now. Don’t write it right, just write it –and then make it right later. Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. Be wary of “writing rules” and advice. Do it your way.
TARA MOSS
Kithsiri Herath
"Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy."
Heaven isn’t just the place where darkness fades; it’s the place where the search for light gives out.
"If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation."
Kithsiri Herath
Kithsiri Herath
Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!
GORE VIDAL
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As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
Richard Ford’s 10 Rules for Writers
1. Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.
2. Don't have children.
3. Don't read your reviews.
4. Don't write reviews. (Your judgment's always tainted.)
5. Don't have arguments with your wife in the morning, or late at night.
6. Don't drink and write at the same time.
7. Don't write letters to the editor. (No one cares.)
8. Don't wish ill on your colleagues.
9. Try to think of others' good luck as encouragement to yourself.
10. Don't take any shit if you can possibly help it.
Kithsiri Herath
"Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation."
What is style, after all, but the effective use of words to engage the human mind?
STEVEN PINKER
The rule of the writer is not to say what we can say but what we are unable to say.
ANAÏS NIN
It’s not good to think very critically when you’re trying to write. Any sentence could be stifled by the critic in one if you allow him to get the upper hand. But, by and large, keeping in mind that I am a little wary of the critic in me, I think once you start trying to put images and words of dialogue together, in some way the imaginary world takes over and somehow shuts out all the harassing critical thoughts that you might otherwise entertain.
JOHN UPDIKE
Kithsiri Herath
I became a writer right about the time when my childhood ended. I was about to turn thirteen. My father was European, the old fashioned type of father, the suit and tie type, to whom no back-talk was even remotely acceptable. My brother and I would jump up to greet him formally at the door when he came home from work. My father’s days were hard. He had come over to America the worst way – as a survivor of the Holocaust death camps, arriving here with no English, no money, and no family. He needed all his strength to build a new life, and his home was to be his sanctuary. Beseeching, opinionated American children did not fit into this picture. If we had something interesting to share, fine. Something we had learned in school, a grade to make him proud. But we were never to presume to question him as equals.
The day came when I really needed to open up and challenge my father. I was a now a teenager, with a teenager’s necessary hubris. Despite my new status (as I alone saw it), my father remained strict, almost autocratic. So I broached the subject of his treating me more like an adult. Like a peer. He demanded respect (his tragic life had denied him this over and again); I wanted some too. But even as I began to open the subject, my father’s face reddened and his eyes flared. I saw that he was on the brink of losing his temper. His anger was dangerous on all scores: He would explode in volcanic rages that I feared would kill him, or give my brother and me long silent treatments that made us feel annihilated.
I took the middle ground between my own rage and silence. I began to write. I wrote my feelings out, my dreamed-of conversations, my arguments logical and my arguments whimsical. “I’m a person,” I wrote, “and I’ll say what I think from now on.”
And from that time, I have said – and written – what I thought.
Sonia Taitz
Kithsiri Herath
"Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness."
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
“A poem is a private story no matter how apparently public.”
Jorie Graham http://
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.
ANNE LAMOTT
Kithsiri Herath
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
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C.D. Wright on poetry: I write it, study it, read it, edit it, publish it, teach it... sometimes I weary of it. I could not live without it.
In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration. Consequently there must be some little quality of fierceness until the habit pattern of a certain number of words is established. There is no possibility, in me at least, of saying, “I’ll do it if I feel like it.” One never feels like awaking day after day. In fact, given the smallest excuse, one will not work at all. The rest is nonsense. Perhaps there are people who can work that way, but I cannot. I must get my words down every day whether they are any good or not.
JOHN STEINBECK
Kithsiri Herath
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
People make the mistake of regarding commitment as something solely political. A writer is committed to trying to make sense of life. It's a search. So there is that commitment first of all: the commitment to the honesty and determination to go as deeply into things as possible, and to dredge up what little bit of truth you with your talent can then express.
NADINE GORDIMER
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Kithsiri Herath
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Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to perseverance. But writing is all about perseverance. You've got to stick at it. In my thirties I used to go to the gym even though I hated it. The purpose of going to the gym was to postpone the day when I would stop going. That's what writing is to me: a way of postponing the day when I won't do it any more, the day when I will sink into a depression so profound it will be indistinguishable from perfect bliss.
GEOFF DYER
Kithsiri Herath
Kithsiri Herath
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
It's a cliché, certainly, to say an artist or a writer should lead a questing life. It's less often acknowledged, however, that in pursuing such a quest, a person frequently leaves behind a trail of at least minor injustices. I believe an artist has to remind herself or himself, in other words, that when you write or paint or compose music, you draw in mysterious ways on the courtesy and genius of the community. It is this sensitivity to gifts welling up unbidden, this awareness of the fate of the community, no matter how ego-driven or self-absorbed a writer or artist might become, and no matter how singular the work, that divides art from commerce.
BARRY LOPEZ
Kithsiri Herath
In my own experience, nothing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or embarrassing his family and friends. To most people, even those who don’t read much, there is something special and vaguely magical about writing, and it is not easy for them to believe that someone they know—someone quite ordinary in many respects—can really do it.
JOHN GARDNER
Kithsiri Herath
"Nobody's easier to fool than the person who is convinced that he is right."
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
NATALIE GOLDBERG
I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
E. B. WHITE
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
RAY BRADBURY
These letters and syllables we play with are like the gritty heads of comets—miniscule in mass, but vivid in the luminescence that surrounds them. Why does a comet have a fiery tail? From the impact of plasma as it nears the sun. At the outer reaches of its orbit, a comet is a cold, sluggish conglomerate of interplanetary gravel. But then it plunges toward the light, to contest its speed with the field of the sun that locks it in a long ellipse. The stony nucleus stirs to life, whipped around the sun by the lash of gravity. Words can be comets, carrying bright clouds of context, signaling to us with a glow of multiple meanings. They splay out from the near weightless nucleus of syllables, challenged by a force field of ideas, made radiant by the impact of thought. Leaf through the bulk of today’s mail: drab constellations of expected and smog-dimmed stars. Why not write in letters of fire? We need events in our literary sky. Astonish us with the coming of a comet.
ROBERT E. LEE and LUCY LEE
Kithsiri Herath
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Human beings will be happier, not when they cure cancer or get to Mars, but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again.
We can offer answers to almost every question, but the only questions to cherish are the ones we’ll never answer.
JAMES BALDWIN
“Very” is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of “I love you very much” or the heart-slamming intensity of “I love you”?
FLORENCE KING
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
FRANZ KAFKA
The first American novel was published 227 years ago today.
Kithsiri Herath
"You can't keep up that kind of life forever. Just as with school, you enter it, learn something and then its time to leave."
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
#Writing is like breathing, it’s possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
JULIA CAMERON
There’s nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn’t in their books.
JOHN IRVING
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.
HILMA WOLITZER
It starts with Miss Benny, the fourth grade teacher who removed me from my third grade classes once a week to attend her creative writing class. It continues with at least 1,000 great books, 1,000 great paintings, 1,000 great musical compositions, etc. Plus all those great people I met, the men I loved, the friends I made, all those interesting and beautiful and awful places in which I’ve lived and visited and read about, the strange curves life throws. Unless you’re trying to write like someone else, influence, for me, anyway, is infinitely complex and ultimately untraceable.
Rachel Cantor
Kithsiri Herath
In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.
There are really only two reasons to write: desperation or revenge.
ELIZABETH HARDWICK
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh—something editors or readers won’t know they want until they see it.
WILLIAM ZINSSER
PAUL GRAHAM
Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction; in particular, the novel.
EUDORA WELTY
Yes, after the failure of my first manuscript that Artie couldn’t sell. I was staring at a blank computer screen for weeks, afraid to start down another four-year road to nowhere. Then one night in October 1992, tired of staring at a blank computer screen, I went for a walk before going to bed. I got about three blocks from my house when, seemingly out of nowhere, a police car pulled up onto the grassy part of the curb in front of me. A cop jumped out and demanded to know where I was going. I told him that I was just out for a walk, that I lived in the neighborhood. He didn't seem to believe me. "There's been a report of a peeping Tom," he said. "I need to check this out." I stood helplessly beside the squad car and listened as the officer called in on his radio for a description of the prowler. "Under six feet tall," I heard the dispatcher say, "early to mid-thirties, brown hair, brown eyes, wearing blue shorts and a white t shirt." I panicked inside. I was completely innocent, but it was exactly me! "And a mustache," the dispatcher finally added. I sighed with relief. I had no mustache. The cop let me go.
But as I walked home, I could only think of how close I'd come to disaster. Even though I was innocent, my arrest would have been a media event, and forever I would have been labeled as "the peeping Tom lawyer." It was almost 2 a.m. by the time I returned home, but I decided that I needed to write about this. I took the feeling of being wrongly accused to the most dramatic extreme I could think of. I wrote about a man hours away from execution for a crime he may not have committed. What I wrote that night became the opening scene of " The Pardon"
James Grippando( is a New York Times bestselling author.)
Kithsiri Herath
"Asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime."
Become a master and acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.
P.D. JAMES
Beware, lest in attempting the grand, you overshoot the mark and fall into the grandiose.
VOLTAIRE
If you want to be remembered as a clever person and even as a benefactor of humanity, don't write a novel, or even talk about it; instead, compile tables of compound interest, assemble weather data running back seventy-five years, or develop in tabular form improved actuarial information. All more useful than anything "creative" most people could come up with, and less likely to subject the author to neglect, if not ridicule and contempt. In addition, it will be found that most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that they can't hold the attention of a dinner table for thirty seconds, even with a dirty joke.
PAUL FUSSELL
What’s your advice to new writers?
Write every day. Habits are things you get for free, without requiring any special work. Set a daily word target. Make it small. 75 words a day is a novel a year. Finish in the middle of a sentence, so you can type three or four words the next day without having to be "creative." Don't get in the habit of only writing when there's some ritual that's been satisfied -- the right music, a clean apartment, whatever.
Especially don't get in the habit of writing while smoking or boozing. Don't hook the thing that makes you sane and whole to something that's killing you. Write even when you feel like it's shit. You can't tell what's good and what's bad while you're writing it. Don't ever rewrite until the whole thing is done. Once you start thinking about what you're writing, you lose the ability to stop writing it.
Cory Doctorow
Kithsiri Herath
“To sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.”
Read, read, read. Read everything–trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the most. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
There are simple maxims . . . which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a short one will do. Second: if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the readers to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
O. HENRY
Kithsiri Herath
It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
MURIEL RUKEYSER
Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
ANNE LAMOTT
Understand that it takes a lot of time and dedication to write anything good. The most important thing is to just keep writing. Study and emulate writers you admire. Write what you really want to write. Don’t get too fancy with the language, be clear and true. Remember there are many subjects other than yourself you can draw on: you don’t have to write what you know, you can write what you’re passionate about. The life of Chekov can make a novel, as well as your own experience. Research can be a writer’s best friend.
Judith Freeman
I think the first impulse comes from some deep emotion. It may be anger, it may be some sort of excitement. I recognize in the real world around me something that triggers such an emotion, and then the emotion seems to cast up pictures in my mind that lead me towards a story.
JOHN HERSEY
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WARD JUST
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From where does most of my suffering come? Longing for the wrong things.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAÏS NIN
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.”
C.S. LEWIS
Each of us is like a desert, and a literary work is like a cry from the desert, or like a pigeon let loose with a message in its claws, or like a bottle thrown into the sea. The point is: to be heard—even if by one single person.
FRANÇOIS MAURIAC
All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself—though, thank God I had never committed them to paper—I think are nonsense. You write what you write, and then either it holds up or it doesn't hold up. There are no rules or particular sensibilities. I don't believe in that at all anymore.
JAMAICA KINCAID
Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn’t the writing; it’s the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?”
WILLIAM ZINSSER
Kithsiri Herath
A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. The Beatles did.
Just as composers go to concerts and artists visit galleries, writers read. You will learn, in the most enjoyable way, more about style and language from reading good literature than you will ever acquire from workshops and how-to books.
JUDITH BARRINGTON
Kithsiri Herath
The bigger the word, the less emotion it conveys.
Avoid exclamation points! Really!! Because they’re distracting!! Almost as much as CAPITALIZING THINGS!!!
Make sure that each scene gives us new information, rather than rehashing things we already know. Never tell us the same fact twice. Because it’s boring and stops the flow of the story. Never tell us the same fact twice. Because it’s boring and stops the flow of the story.
If the reader doesn’t know there’s intrigue a foot, there is no intrigue afoot.
Scenery without subtext is a travelogue.
Everything must be earned. In story, there’s no such thing as a free lunch – unless, of course, it’s poisoned. Think Snow White. In other words, if it’s free, it’s going to cost you big time. (I refrained from using an exclamation point in that last sentence, I admit, it’s not easy! Oops.)
There are two basic motivating factors for just about all human action: Fear and Desire. Almost always, these two are pitted against each other.
The most important element of any story is to make the reader want to know what happens next. Period. Everything else is gravy.
'Weapons of Mass Instruction' - The guerrilla marketing efforts to persuade you to read http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/01/taking-literature-to-the-streets/432558/ …
Kithsiri Herath
"Unspoken feelings were as heavy and lonely as the ancient glacier that had carved out the deep lake."
Barrett Brown won a National Magazine Award for columns he wrote from prison. Here's his new piece: http://interc.pt/1JVuj5e #Ellies
Kithsiri Herath
"It occurred to me after I ground the coffee that what I really wanted was ice tea. I’m forever realizing things too late."
Flags are bits of colored cloth that govts use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds& then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead
-Arundhati Roy
A character is never a whole person, but just those parts of him that fit the story or the piece of writing. So the act of selection is the writer's first step in delineating character. From what does he select? From a whole mass of what Bernard DeVoto used to call, somewhat clinically, "placental material." He must know an enormous amount more about each of his characters than he will ever use directly--childhood, family background, religion, schooling, health, wealth, sexuality, reading, tastes, hobbies--an endless questionnaire for the writer to fill out. For example, the writer knows that people speak, and therefore his characters will describe themselves indirectly when they talk. Clothing is a means of characterization. In short, each character has a style of his own in everything he does. These need not all be listed, but the writer should have a sure grasp of them. If he has, his characters will, within the book, read like people.
WILLIAM SLOANE
A character has his own logic. He goes his way, one goes with him; he has some perceptions, one perceives them with him. You do him justice; you don’t grind your own axe.
SAUL BELLOW
Nissanka Rajapaksa
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Kithsiri Herath
- Andrew Neil was discussing nanny state with two 10-year-old schoolgirls
- Charlotte began voicing her opinions and backed them up with statistics
- The TV presenter told girls when he was their age he would break rules
- Unimpressed, Charlotte suggested presenter was not educated properly
Veteran broadcaster Andrew Neil was left stunned during a debate about the sugar tax on children's channel CBBC when a 10-year-old girl demolished his argument and suggested he wasn't 'educated properly enough' to understand healthy living.
The stunning put down by schoolgirl Charlotte, from Wirral, left the Daily Politics presenter reeling in shock, with the red-faced journalist jokily admitting that 'many people have said that.'
Charlotte put the former editor of the Sunday Times to the sword with her carefully prepared notes and impressive statistics about the sugar tax and the idea of the nanny state.
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Nissanka Rajapaksa
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Abstract
Objective To investigate whether language used in science abstracts can skew towards the use of strikingly positive and negative words over time.
Design Retrospective analysis of all scientific abstracts in PubMed between 1974 and 2014.
Methods The yearly frequencies of positive, negative, and neutral words (25 preselected words in each category), plus 100 randomly selected words were normalised for the total number of abstracts. Subanalyses included pattern quantification of individual words, specificity for selected high impact journals, and comparison between author affiliations within or outside countries with English as the official majority language. Frequency patterns were compared with 4% of all books ever printed and digitised by use of Google Books Ngram Viewer.
Main outcome measures Frequencies of positive and negative words in abstracts compared with frequencies of words with a neutral and random connotation, expressed as relative change since 1980.
Results The absolute frequency of positive words increased from 2.0% (1974-80) to 17.5% (2014), a relative increase of 880% over four decades. All 25 individual positive words contributed to the increase, particularly the words “robust,” “novel,” “innovative,” and “unprecedented,” which increased in relative frequency up to 15 000%. Comparable but less pronounced results were obtained when restricting the analysis to selected journals with high impact factors. Authors affiliated to an institute in a non-English speaking country used significantly more positive words. Negative word frequencies increased from 1.3% (1974-80) to 3.2% (2014), a relative increase of 257%. Over the same time period, no apparent increase was found in neutral or random word use, or in the frequency of positive word use in published books.
Conclusions Our lexicographic analysis indicates that scientific abstracts are currently written with more positive and negative words, and provides an insight into the evolution of scientific writing. Apparently scientists look on the bright side of research results. But whether this perception fits reality should be questioned.
Kurundu Hewage Nandisena
Kirthi Walgama
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Amazing Mud Paintings on School Walls in Bihar
After the festival was over, Asai enlisted the children once again, this time to help wash away the mud paintings, returning the material to the soil. Through this experience, Asai was teaching the children the meaning of life as a cycle in today’s context, by painfully wiping away his own work.....
http://www.patnabeats.com/amazing-mud-paintings-on-school-walls-in-bihar/
Kirthi Walgama
Kithsiri Herath
Kithsiri Herath
Kirthi Walgama
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Two out of three developers are self-taught, and other trends from a survey of 56,033 codersOn Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Sachini Herath <sachi...@gmail.com> wrote:Sachini HerathUndergraduate,Computer Science and Engineering,University of Moratuwa.
Kithsiri Herath
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Why Was 5 x 3 = 5 + 5 + 5 Marked Wrong
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Nissanka Rajapaksa
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UC Davis Chancellor Apologizes For Trying To Scrub Pepper Spray Incident From Google
But she hasn’t heeded the calls for her to resign.
Nissanka Rajapaksa
Kithsiri Herath
CV of failures: Princeton professor publishes resume of his career lows
Johannes Haushofer bravely posts document listing degree programs he did not get in to and academic positions he did not get
Kithsiri Herath
U.S. families struggling with teens' phone addiction: report
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10-Year-Old Hacks Instagram; Wins $10K From Facebook
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Nissanka Rajapaksa
Dharmapala Gunawardena
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Nissanka Rajapaksa
New MacArthur Competition to Award $100 Million to Help Solve a Critical Problem of Our Time
".......................100&Change will consider applications from across the United States and around the world. Nonprofit and for-profit organizations can apply, subject to eligibility rules. The competition will not accept applications from individuals or government agencies.
To participate, applicants must first register on the website by September 2, 2016. Then they must complete a substantive online application, detailing the problem, solution, and budget, along with posting a video pitch. Proposals will be accepted through October 3, 2016. Semi-finalists will be announced in December. Each semi-finalist will receive assistance from an expert team to identify and address questions about technical and organizational capacity required to implement each proposed solution, including specific plans to monitor, evaluate, and learn during implementation. Each semi-finalist will also be asked to show significant, authentic engagement with affected communities. MacArthur’s Board of Directors will select finalists in the summer of 2017. Finalists will present their solutions during a live event in the fall of 2017, after which the Board will make the final decision about the $100 million grant recipient. .........................."
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
Spend some time living before you start writing. What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, “Write what you know.” It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one.
ANNIE PROULX
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Walking on water: The Floating Piers – in pictures
Nissanka Rajapaksa
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International Yoga Day
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Nissanka Rajapaksa
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Super-rich Swiss village opts for £200,000 fine instead of accepting 10 refugees
Amarasiri Gunawardena
Kithsiri Herath
Amarasiri Gunawardena
මා මඩකලපුව සිදුවීම ගැන කියද්දී කිසිම වෙලාවක හමුදාව ඉවත් කිරීමක් ගැන කතා කලේ නැහැ. රජයේ හැසිරීම ගැන ඉඟියක් කලා පමණයි. හේරාට මගේ කවි පොතේ ලියා තිබූ කවියක් මතකද මන්ද ...
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රුදුරු බිය නොම මවන - සඳුන් සුවඳින් පිරුන
විභූති ද පිච්ච මල් - සුවඳ විහිදෙයි සිතින
ටිටින් ටින් ටිටින් ටින් - මිණි නගන හඬ සමග
ළමුන් පිබිදී උදෙන් - යතියි අකුරට සිතින
දෙපස පිරි වන ලැහැබ - පසු කරද්දී දිගට
පාළු බව මකන්නට - සිටී සෙබළෙකු නැගිට
ඈත බන්කරයකින් - නැගී ඇති යකඩ බට
සිහින් කෙඳිරිලි හඬක් - නැගී මා දෙසවනට
මග දෙපස පිරි ලැහැබ - කපා දා ඇත දිගට
වී කුරුල්ලෙකුට වුව - සැඟවිලා යා නොහැක
නිස්ශබ්දතවයකි! - දැනේ සුළු බියක් සිත
ඈත මග පෙනේ දුර - මිරිඟුවක් නැගී ඇත
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DAG
Kithsiri Herath
Kithsiri Herath
Nissanka Rajapaksa
Origin of the photo found in FB post of Uganda’s President's Press officer Wanyama Don Innocent
Kithsiri Herath
Nissanka Rajapaksa
Nihal Ananda
Nihal Ananda
Now THAT'S a room with a view
Nissanka Rajapaksa
Nihal Ananda
Nihal Ananda
Nihal Ananda
Nihal Ananda
My dad bought my mam a smartphone for her birthday, and she has just been added to the family WhatsApp group
Nihal Ananda
Rich and poor teenagers use the web differently – here's what this is doing to inequality
Nihal Ananda
- Spend the most energetic and creative forty hours of your week doing a few limited tasks over and over again so that a pathological profit-oriented corporate-establishment can maintain itself a little better.
- Cram the wild, truly creative and madly generous part of your psyche into evenings, weekends and a few weeks off, when you’re too knackered, uptight and rushed to meaningfully develop it; when you’d much rather blitz out or buy some entertainment than create anything for yourself.
- Talk about one and two, and all media reports of one and two, over and over again: ideally by complaining.
- Use any other microns of free time to pursue sex, drugs, excessive cgi stimulation, money, power, crude tribal bonding and whatever momentary prestige tokens you can acquire within the constraints of the system.
- Repeat until death bed, when you suddenly realise that your whole life has been a pointless sham and the pure experience of solitude that encroaching death brings on is impossible to communicate meaningfully to any of your so-called friends and loved ones, who watch on helplessly (even impatiently) as the pseudo-life you have ‘lived’ passes inexplicably into a moment of genuine aliveness that nobody can understand.
Nihal Ananda
David Foster Wallace, my teacher
Nissanka Rajapaksa
Badra Kamaladasa
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Nissanka Rajapaksa
Nissanka Rajapaksa
Nissanka Rajapaksa
Nihal Ananda
Dalit Scholar #sukkannaVelupula rejects receiving PhD certificate from the VC the main culprit in discriminating dalit Scholar #RohitVemulahttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G61v1IPCAEg (38 Sec video)
Nissanka Rajapaksa
http://www.paperhelp.org/
Nihal Ananda
Nihal Ananda
