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SENYAKA
Real Name: Suvik Senyaka
Former Aliases: none

Height:
5`10`
Weight: 173 lbs.

Hair color:
unknown
Eyes: unknown

First appearance:
Uncanny X-Men #300

Known Relatives:
none

Profession:
mercenary

Group Affiliation:
Selene`s Inner Circle,
formerly Carrion Cove
Rebellion, Acolytes


Powers:

drain life-force from other beings upon physical contact, increasing his natural strength, endurance, reflexes, and recuperative abilities, while enabling him to form psionic whips out of bio-electric energy that can channel his life-absorbing ability, disrupt nerve centers to cause pain and paralysis, and sear into the flesh of his victims

Scientists Want to Bring Some Animals Back from Extinction. Including one from Sri Lanka:)
Saturday, 23 March 2013 - 12:58 AM SL Time


On Friday at a National Geographic-sponsored TEDx conference, scientists met in Washington, D.C. to discuss which animals we should bring back from extinction. They also discussed the how, why, and ethics of doing so. They called it `de-extinction.`

There are a few guidelines for which ancient species are considered, and sadly, dinosaurs are so long dead they aren`t in the picture. Their DNA has long ago degraded, so researchers are fairly sure that Jurassic Park will never happen.

On Friday at a National Geographic-sponsored TEDx conference, scientists met in Washington, D.C. to discuss which animals we should bring back from extinction. They also discussed the how, why, and ethics of doing so. They called it `de-extinction.`

There are a few guidelines for which ancient species are considered, and sadly, dinosaurs are so long dead they aren`t in the picture. Their DNA has long ago degraded, so researchers are fairly sure that Jurassic Park will never happen.

They chose the animals using the following criteria: Are the species desirable do they hold an important ecological function or are they beloved by humans? Are the species practical choices do we have access to tissue that could give us good quality DNA samples or germ cells to reproduce the species? And are they able to be reintroduced to the wild are the habitats in which they live available and do we know why they went extinct in the first place?

(CNN) -- On March 19, 2003, Iraq was invaded by an `alliance of willing states` headed by the U.S. and UK. My U.N. inspection team and I had seen it coming -- and I felt an emptiness when, three days before the invasion, an American official called me to `ask` that we withdraw from the country.
While we were sad to be ushered out in the midst of a job entrusted to us by the U.N. Security Council -- one that we were doing well -- there was a certain relief in knowing we had all made it out safely. We had worried that our inspectors might be taken hostage, but as it turned out the Iraqis had been very helpful during our time there.

Minister Mervyn Silva today said that he is the most suitable SLFPer to be the next Prime Minister.

The Minister in response to a question raised by a journalist said that he is the most suitable candidate in the SLFP for the Prime Ministerial post.

There is no other person in the SLFP who is more suitable than I am to be appointed premier. My sister, brother and brother in law were all killed. I was injured, I have been jailed. My family home in Beliatta was destroyed. I have done my politics with the Rajapaksas. I should be the Presidents most trusted man, so give it (Premiership) to me, he said at a press conference. (Hafeel Farisz and Lahiru Pothmulla)

image analysis of shots taken by the Curiosity rover`s MastCam last month appears to have revealed a shiny metal object sticking out of a rock on the Martian surface.

Italian imaging specialist Elisabetta Bonora was going over Curiosity`s latest photographs and found the object in a set of pictures taken by the rover on January 30. The object appears to be embedded in bedrock and is both casting a shadow and reflecting sunlight in some areas, but Bonora said that gauging the size of the object is proving tricky.

The true intention of the three deputies of US President Barack Obama visiting the country was to collect information to use them against Sri Lanka in the global forums, Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities Minister Wimal Weerawansa charged.

Addressing a ceremony held at Mawathagama to distribute houses among low income families under the `Janasevana` programme, Minister Weerawansa stressed that the goal of the three US officials` was to show the world that law and order had collapsed and therefore the allegations of war crimes during the humanitarian operation have to be probed before an international tribunal.

The appointment of UNP Deputy Leader was postponed, while senior UNPer Joseph Michael Perera was re-appointed as Assistant Leader at the party`s Working Committee meeting held at the `Sirikotha` party headquarters this evening.

At the meeting another senior UNPer Gamini Jayawickrama Perera was appointed as Chairman while Tissa Attanayake was reappointed as General Secretary. Senarat Kapukotuwa was appointed as Treasurer and Daya Gamage as National Organizer. MP Lakshamn Kiriella was re-appointed as the Vice President of the party.(KB)

Enjoy:))

one of the best food items from back home I would say:))

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Daybreak is sudden and swift, as though an unseen hand had simply reached out and raised a dimmer switch. Cued by the dawn, thirty-four chimpanzees awaken. They are still in the nests they built the previous night, in trees at the edge of an open plateau.

A wild chimpanzee does not get out of bed quietly. Chimps wake up hollering. There are technical names for what I`m hearing pant-hoots, pant-barks, screams, hoos but to a newcomer`s ear, it`s just a crazy, exuberant, escalating racket. You can`t listen without grinning.

:)) for a better version click on the below FB link:)

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=185661141564671

Aliens get abducted...:)

Kumā rajī va (344 413 CE) was a Kuchean Buddhist monk, scholar, and translator. He first studied teachings of the Sarvastivada schools, later studied under Buddhasvā min, and finally became a Mahā yā na adherent, studying the Madhyamaka doctrine of Nagarjuna. Kumā rajī va settled in Chang`an, which was the imperial capital of China. He is mostly remembered for the prolific translation of Buddhist texts written in Sanskrit to Chinese he carried out during his later life.

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