Anushka's whirlwind century props Ceylinco Insurance

Anushka's whirlwind century props Ceylinco Insurance

Anushka's whirlwind century props Ceylinco Insurance

Anushka Perera second officer tournament, scoring 118 in 64 balls, including four sixes and 16 fours and linked in the 115 run partnership for the third wicket with Asela Fernando (76) which helps Ceylinco run-up to a formidable 295 runs in 39.4 overs.

Honorary bowling weekend away to Jayantha Pushpakumara (6-38-5) which helps Bodyline fine of five wickets win over AIA Insurance.
Hilton Colombo Residences recorded their second win in a row, defeating AMW Group 49 runs, the wind created by Malintha Gajanayake, top scoring with a stylish half-century (64, including 9 fours) and PT Gunawardena bagging 4 for 35.
Supun Subasinghe scored a quick fire 87 runs in 88 balls with two sixes and 10 fours for HSBC "A" when they beat Trelleborg Lanka by a huge margin of 139 runs.

Top order batsman, Anushka Perera hit a whirlwind century to sustain Ceylinco Insurance convincing 58 run win over the Asian Alliance Insurance, in 12 Ceylon Cold Stores underway sponsored, Elephant House Lemonade Trophy, MCA "D" division 40 More League Tournament 2015 continues the weekend ago.

Yukon Jack: Freezeway funny but it did not happen

Yukon Jack: Freezeway funny but it did not happen

Yukon Jack: Freezeway funny but it did not happen

Lucy the elephant is back in the news that another group of animal activists, this one called "In Defense Animals" Valley Zoo has cited as the most ruthless of the environment and inducted the zoo, to the shame of their space. For all I know it's a man with a logo. A. "hall of shame?" What's that even mean? Look, I'm sick of this debate. I agree, Lucy is not here. I am also afraid that he would kill her wrinkled ass move. This is the same argument over and over again with something new, ever. Let us end this once and for all. What is it going to take? What always take? Money. So let's get it. Here's the solution. "In Defense of Animals," PETA or even Robert Barker himself, cough up the money. Make up the numbers. One million dollars? $ 5,000,000? I do not care. Think of it as an insurance policy. If he survived, you get your money back and Lucy ride off into the sunset Sri Lanka. Rod in the tail, daisy chained with hundreds of other pachyderms and we all live happily ever after. If he croaks halfway through the operation dumbo drop we use your money to renovate and improve the living conditions of animals that are still alive. Win win. Unless you're a dead elephant but it will not happen hippies were right? In the meantime ... I'll just be quiet my big yap.

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A BC university students master thesis proposes that the city of Edmonton to build a 11-km road frozen throughout the downtown core of the city. A "freezeway" if you want. Cute. But it will not happen. Ever. If not, I will let myself be dragged around pantsless on freezeway word for the entire 11-km stretch or until such time that I received a third-degree hemorrhoids. I get it. Great time. We've been revamping the city center. I get it. This is really going to get international attention and become a legitimate tourist attraction. I get it. We all want to live in a beer ad and is quite close. I get it. We want hockey everything. But let's get our heads out of the clouds. Let's think about old people. Let's think about the people drunk. Let's think about those stupid. Hip fracture, split lip and a separated shoulder. The city is struggling to minimize the possibility of injury. They are in the business of clearing the ice is not the business of making ice. They went to even greater lengths to minimize liability. If you think a group of lawyers who will vote in favor of our city in an ice glass you may have to wear a helmet full time, skates or not. In the meantime ... I'll just be quiet my big yap.

Eating white elephant in the room

Eating white elephant in the room

Eating white elephant in the room

Debt now stands at more than $ 2.1 billion and rising every day. The development of government services, programs and jobs in the last few decades now as expensive to maintain as it is clearly not sustainable given the economic conditions of our department.
One Bermuda Alliance was elected to office based in part on promises to restore order and a sense of fiscal responsibility to our public spending. But nearly two years, the debt of the island remains a giant white elephant storming around the room.
Anaemic economic growth limit government revenue enhancement options and the ability to fund the public sector expenditure.
With about 20 percent of the labor force working in the public sector Bermuda, even meet government salaries become an increasing challenge.
But any significant recovery in key sectors of the domestic economy may be at least one more year.
It is true that new infrastructure investments in the hospitality sector is imminent as a result of securing rights Bermuda hosting the America's Cup 2017. This will result in almost immediate knock-on effect in the construction and satellite industry. And, in the end, tourism-related businesses ranging from retail to restaurant to taxi will also benefit.
Consolidation rather than expansion is the order of the day in the industrial re / insurance, driver's head of international sectors, and the ongoing wave of mergers and acquisitions will result in job losses and loss of economic activity in the short-term spillover.
The government also can not rely on the type of runaway growth in the offshore sector and industrial natural satellite in the 1980s, 90s and early 21st century, to finance spending, especially to restore the island's wealth.
So borrowing has become increasingly difficult and expensive. Every penny that we borrowed to be paid back, with interest, and Bermuda is no longer look like once it's a sure bet to international donors.
As a result of the economic stagnation of the island which is in progress, the Government also found it more and more difficult to persuade the international credit rating agencies that Bermuda has a credible plan in place to balance the books.
While it quickly became accepted that the job-for-life of the old civil service culture to be part of the past in Bermuda (even among public sector employees), there is no wholesale reduction in staffing levels.
The government so far has avoided the type of austerity measures that hard has become increasingly common in other jurisdictions.
Pay freeze has been substituted for pay cuts, furlough days for layoffs.
This week stand-off between the government and public sector employees on a monthly leaf enforced absence is an impressive exercise in street theater but perhaps not the most constructive method pursue collective bargaining negotiations. Also to win public support for their cause.
Patience is wearing very thin with government employees whose livelihoods escaped the worst damage resulting destabilization of economic contraction of worldwide decline combined with fiscal policy and immigration country bordering on criminal neglect.
The latest disruption to public services, including schools, ferries and buses, has been disturbed and upset thousands of residents.
The government would do well to not confuse the public sector union declaration selfish feeling the actual labor. But, of course, both political parties Bermuda so afraid of alarming the public sector employees - all of them potential voters - who may feel threatened by talk of structural reforms necessary for the original and the civil service which they choose to continue to talk about the subject.
Keep in mind that every person who worked in the public sector is also the taxpayers and consumers of public services. Many of them also believe that public funds are being badly spent; after all, they are witnesses inefficiency every day.
Those who bear the tax dollars pay check public sector is also increasingly impatient with the government is still spending too much, borrowing too much, taxes too much and economises much, too little.



That is why finding a blue ribbon Spending and Government Efficiency Commission has completely ignored (including, of course, the recommendation to reduce the size of the Parliament of Bermuda's top-heavy, case studies on waste and excess).

Made with a special mandate to recommend ways we can "streamline government processes, including quangos, improve services and make government more efficient, more cost effective, more transparent and more user-friendly", which seems to have been filed and the OBA totally forgot SAGE's final report.

Instead the government continues to spoil the white elephant in the room. And, frankly, we can no longer pay peanuts....

Current Affairs Daily - January 31, 2015, Saturday

Current Affairs Daily - January 31, 2015, Saturday

Current Affairs Daily - January 31, 2015, Saturday

1. Serena Williams lifted the Australian Open Women's Singles
He beat the world number two Maria Sharapova,, 16 times in a row since 2004.
Serena Williams beat Maria Sharapova in the final by 6-3, 6-7 to win the Australian Open Women's Singles title for the sixth time.
He became the second oldest woman to win a Grand Slam singles title after Martina Navratilova won Wimbledon in 1990 ago.
With this victory, Serena Williams won 19 Grand Slam titles in his career.
Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player currently ranked No. 1 in women's singles tennis.

2. The Central Bank of India opens first forex hub in Gujarat in Vadodara
Central Bank of India opened its first hub in Gujarat forex at t Urmi Char rastain Vadodara for Today, Reserve Bank of India has overseas offices in Nairobi, Hong Kong and a joint venture with Bank of India, Bank of Baroda and the Zambian government.
provide fast and efficient services for importers and exporters.
The bank plans to open a forex hub in Delhi before March 2015 and then marched to Kolkata and Chennai later this year.

3. Naresh Takkar appointed CEO ICRA
He will continue to hold the title this time as a director and CEO of ICRA, Ltd. in the company.
Naresh Takkar appointed CEO (CEO) of the Indian rating agency ICRA.

About ICRA

It is the second largest company in terms of rating the Indian customer base. It is a joint-venture between Moody and various Indian commercial banks and financial services companies.
ICRA Limited (ICRA) is an investment and credit information agencies and professional independent India.
Established in 1991, and was originally named the Investment Information and Credit Rating Agency of India Limited (IICRA India).

The company was renamed ICRA Limited, and went public on April 13, 2007, with a listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange.
4. Baranagar Cooperative Bank license canceled by the Reserve Bank of India
Reserve Bank of India has canceled the license Baranagar Kolkata-based Co-operative Bank Ltd. as the bank turned bankrupt and all efforts to revive the bank has failed.
The central bank has given a license to cooperative banks on 15 April 1996.
i, i, i. It was placed under all directions including from the 30th of July 2013. Directive extended three times by January 29, 2015 be the last time limit
Banks are not in a position to pay current and future depositors in full as and when they claim increases.
Now, the liquidator will begin the process of closing and any depositors will get back to Rs 1 lakh from the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation in accordance banking norms.

5. PaySmart prepaid card launched by mRUPEE & Ratnakar Bank

With the help of this PaySmart card, mRUPEE customers will be able to withdraw money from an ATM VISA-licensed and also pay for goods and services at all merchants that accept Visa debit or credit cards nationwide.
MMP Mobi Wallet Payment Systems launches open-loop, a new powered VISA prepaid card in partnership with Ratnakar Bank (RBL).
MMP Mobi Wallet Payment Systems is a subsidiary of Tata Teleservices.
To get a Smart card PAY, customers should visit the outlet Retailers mRUPEE and ask PaySmart cards to retailers.
Customer service especially targeting the unbanked. Value for money PAY Smart cards will continue to range from INR 200 to INR 100,000.


6. T Suvarna Raju was appointed as the new chairman of Hindustan Aeronautics
T Suvarna Raju was appointed as the new Chairman of Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL).
He will become chairman of the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL).
He replaces RK Tyagi.

7. ICICI Bank account holders can use Twitter to transfer funds
Now customers of ICICI Bank can use Twitter account to transfer their funds.
To avail this facility users or customers must subscribe ('follow') Twitter handle bank and sign up for the facility, he said.
Customers also can recharge prepaid mobile phones and also they can check their bank balance.

iv. To transfer funds, the sender needs to know the Twitter handle of beneficiaries.
The Bank will not charge a fee for the transfer of funds but the sender will have to pay the applicable fees for NEFT or RTGS transactions.
The sender will receive an SMS with a unique code after the transfer; the receiver will need to put on a special web page where he / she will be directed to complete the transaction.

8. Kanagasabapathy J Sripavan is new Chief Justice of Sri Lanka
Kanagasabapathy J Sripavan sworn in as 44th Chief Justice of Sri Lanka.
Note: Shirani Bandaranaike was the first woman Chief Justice of Sri Lanka, reportedly dismissed and appointed by the Parliament of Sri Lanka in 2013.
Justice Shirani Bandaranayake Sripavan successful.
Sripavan is the second Tamil become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka after Suppiah Sharvananda, who served between 1984 and 1988.

9. India successfully test-fired a missile Agni-5
India today successfully test-fired Agni-5 missile from Wheeler Island off the coast of Odisha.
It is about 17 meters long, 2 meters wide and has a launch weight of about 50 tons. Missile can carry a nuclear warhead more than one ton.
Agni-5 is an intercontinental missile surface-to-surface nuclear capable ballistic attack has a range of over 5,000 miles.

10. Commemorative Postage Stamp on Bharat Swachh
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Prasad said that cleanliness is close to the heart of Mahatma Gandhi and realize her dream appreciated there is a strong need to observe Swachhagraha as Gandhi has launched Satyagraha .. Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today released a set of commemorative stamps in Swachh Bharat.

11. Krishna Chaudhary appointed new Chief ITBP
He will be in office until June 2017
Krishna Chaudhary has been appointed the new head of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
He currently works as the Director General of Railway Protection Force. i, i, i. Position ITBP DG has been vacant since January 1 following the retirement of Subhas Goswami on December 31 last year.
The ITBP intended for deployment along the Indian border with the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is one of the eight Central Indian Army, raised on October 24, 1962 under the Act of CRPF, in the wake of the Sino-Indian War of 1962.

12. MAP for the first Indian bulit fenced elephant sanctuary near Bengaluru
It will be the first fenced elephant sanctuary in India which will be built near Bannerghatta Biological Park in Karnataka. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has announced the first Indian to make the fenced elephant sanctuary near Bengaluru.

13. Paul van Ass appointed as the new coach of Men's Hockey team
. He is a former Dutch field hockey coach
i. Paul van Ass appointed as the new coach of the Indian men's hockey team.
He replaces Terry Walsh from Australia.

SHRC Directing Compulsory Insurance

SHRC Directing Compulsory Insurance

SHRC Directing Compulsory Insurance

Chairman JB Koshy Rights Panel directed the government to provide insurance protection to the veterinarian who took care of street dogs, birds infected and rogue elephant.
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala State Human Rights Commission directed the secretary of the head of the government to implement compulsory insurance for veterinarians who enjoy risk occupations such as provision for a rogue elephant tranquilizer.
The complaint also stated by the vice president of the Kerala Kennel Club V Ramkumar.
Complaints by Ramkumar to the commission said that the vet at risk while being involved in the treatment of street dogs
Complaint says that veterinarians who work in areas where the recently dead ducks in large numbers in Alappuzha, also face risks.
Instructions were issued in the background where the incident Gopakumar vet died after being trampled elephant as he tries to manage tranquiliser for it.

Eaton: Ridiculous wife alienate sleep apnea machine, bring peace

Eaton: Ridiculous wife alienate sleep apnea machine, bring peace

Eaton: Ridiculous wife alienate sleep apnea machine, bring peace

People who agree to use the CPAP machine, as I have, despair. They are beyond tired during the day. Their own because you can never complain about being tired and get sympathy or understanding. Try It. The next time you're in a meeting with three people or more, mention to them that you feel dead tired, really tired. They will all be over you with their own story.
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and found someone had attached a leaf blower to your face and leave it on. Now imagine grateful they did.
"You can not sleep during the night? Try two years! I do not have a good night's sleep in two years."
We have decided that the importance and success do not have time to sleep.
Welcome to the world CPAP machine. CPAP stands at an alarming Crushing Pride Pace. Once you wear a CPAP mask, you are no longer able to generate anything but affection. You must accept the fact that if you need a sleep apnea machine, nobody is going to hug you again when you fall asleep - except, of course, your wife is an intensive care nurse who really loves his job.

There are two scientific ways you can determine if you have sleep apnea:

1. Ask one of your friends is less empathy to sit beside your bed and wait for your alarm to go. When it does, ask him to give you two choices. You can get right at that moment, or you can sleep for 10 minutes more but he will turn on Rush Limbaugh on full volume and beat you with a stick for 10 minutes it. If you choose to mental and physical beating, you may have sleep apnea.
2. You can go to test all night where you wire them with tubes and sensors and all sorts of things futuristic and then challenge you to sleep while strangers staring at you all night. If you agree with this and are willing to pay you a part of a big bill, you may have sleep apnea.

After getting past this annoying setback, I decided this was a chance to prove once and for all that I was out of the machine bed. If I could go to the gym and work out five times a week, for crying out loud, I can certainly breathe alone at night, I think.
Two days ago, I went home and found that my dog is usually good Sundance accidentally locked in our bedroom for about an hour when I left. He showed his anger by chewing holes in a variety of things and gnawing through the straps that usually hold my leaf blower to my face.
I found myself standing in a store where they sell potties elevated, hikers and all the supplies you will need to be one of the cool people in a nursing home. I found the sleep apnea mask and find a brochure that shows very handsome, fit man with a long tube attached to the middle of her face as she is a human / elephant hybrid of the future. His wife was so beautiful it curled him as he had died and gone to heaven because he is the world's most attractive men elephant. Obviously he pretends to be an intensive care nurse.
You do not just walk in and buy the equipment you need when it comes to sleep apnea thing because people who sell them are planning to sell it to you again and again for the rest of your life because they think your insurance company will pay for all this. It is designed to quickly wear out. You go to the office as you will try to negotiate a good deal on a car. It takes a long time. I do not mind; I just sit in front of my sales guy and let my spirit roam riding electric scooter shop a little about. He finally stopped talking to me for fear of him and me too much.
I found the negative sleep. That bed was so bad that it is worse than no sleep at all. I finally woke up after waking up suddenly gasping 250 times. I do not feel fresh. I spent the rest of the day had a short out-of-body experience, be very surprised every time someone spoke to me and wondered if I somehow got stuck in a very boring, endless dream.
I wonder if John Lennon secretly have sleep apnea machine that he hid when he did the famous "bed-in" with Yoko. He and Paul McCartney was, after all, wrote these words:
Now I'm awake and grateful to be alive. I was tired but I can change the station if someone turned on the radio, and I will not let anyone, friend or foe, to come to my house, smiling and carrying a bat. You can call me old. You can call me weak. Just do not take my leaf blower way. And do not wake me up in the morning.
I can relate, I'm just going to sing, "All I'm saying is give the engine a chance." ...

Please, do not wake me up. No, do not shake me. Leave me where I am. I just sleep.

Marek: the practice of misclassifying workers Employers deceive us all

Marek: the practice of misclassifying workers Employers deceive us all

Marek: the practice of misclassifying workers Employers deceive us all

When I graduated from Texas A & M University in 1969, after my active duty in the US Marine Corps Reserves, I joined the local carpenters union as a mechanical drywall. Wages and benefits are excellent and it is a quality job, the middle class. The non-union traders enjoy the same type of lifestyle. We all received a good pay per hour, overtime, workers' compensation insurance coverage and have tax deducted and paid work. There is a bond between the company and workers. We work hard to keep our jobs secure. If the company we do well, we will be given to. And we.
I like the construction industry, and I speak from experience when I say it must be saved from itself. Since 1938, our family business has helped build the monuments of this city and this country. More importantly, our company - like many others during the past 75 years - has helped tens of thousands of hardworking Americans enjoyed a respectable blue-collar, middle-class standard of living. But, now we are threatened middle class like never before.

Fast forward to today and my, how things have changed.
Many construction companies are now looking for ways to avoid the employees altogether. They do not want the bond between the company and workers. The truth is they want as few strings as possible because it has employees in the book meant to be out of money to pay per hour, overtime, benefits, workers comp, payroll taxes, in accordance with the labor laws and the possibility of being audited by the federal government to verify the immigration status workers.

So what do they do?
As taxpayers, we all suffer while the work and the women took the brunt of it.

In our industry, as in others, many companies "misclassify" their employees, which means they pretend their workers "independent subcontractor" when they meet the legal definition of an employee. This practice enables companies to get permission on all employer obligations, which largely protect workers. No employees, no overtime pay and minimum to comply with the law. No benefits such as health insurance, paid vacation and holidays. There are no workers' compensation insurance or jurisdiction of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration to protect workers. Taxes on labor are not arrested and sent to our federal government. The Texas unemployment trust fund is reduced as a direct result. And now that the Affordable Care Act is a state law, the employer mandate that gives companies more incentive to dismantle workers into the underground economy.

It is already illegal to misclassify employees, but the company continues to do so due to the enforcement of government and self-policing by the industry sorely missing.
A bipartisan House committee report Texas recently said, "An employer misclassifying compromise the free market through unfair competition and Announces lawlessness." The panel noted that the Texas Workforce Commission found more than 60,000 workers have been misclassification in 2013, making $ 8.6 million in unpaid taxes. I believe those numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. Keep in mind that the Labor Commission can only identify some of what actually happened because the institution of limited resources.
No doubt the federal government, including lawmakers from both parties, has failed us so far on immigration reform and other fundamental problems facing our shrinking middle class. But there is time to turn the corner. Government action, however, is not enough.

You might think that when immigration audits identify them later deported illegal workers. That's not true at all. The employer is only required to terminate them. Looks like they are rarely deported in such situations. So, many end up working for unscrupulous employers who call them independent contractors know the workers are not likely to take legal action.
Contractors who obey the law can not compete with those using independent-contractor business model. Those who deceive their taxes this way can underbid ethical contracting by about 35 percent. While cheaters get a contract, middle-class jobs that fall by the wayside.
The elephant in the room is that many of the workers who do not have the same legal status. Most started working under the traditional employer-employee relationship. But as immigration enforcement action, which comes as an attack work under President Bush and now auditing employee-eligibility verification form (I-9s) under President Obama, removed them from the rolls legitimate businessmen, they migrate to the independent-contractor models.
Marek is president and CEO of the Marek Family Company, specialized subcontractor based in Houston.
Coming Monday: What are our elected leaders should do, and what the private sector solutions take root here, in Houston.