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GOOD NEWS !!! The Council of Ministers of the EU approved #SriLanka GSP+ - Thu May 11, 2017 8:12 pm

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Sri Lanka won the vote here in Brussels by 436 against and 119 in favor and 22 abstention for the motion to deny GSP plus for #SriLanka - Thu Apr 27, 2017 6:44 pm

bakapandithaya

kcrRanz wrote:Harsha de Silva‏ @HarshadeSilvaMP 6m6 minutes ago

Sri Lanka won the vote here in Brussels by 436 against and 119 in favor and 22 abstention for the motion to deny GSP plus for

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Baiyyo will not come here for 3-4 days Very Happy

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Sri Lanka won the vote here in Brussels by 436 against and 119 in favor and 22 abstention for the motion to deny GSP plus for #SriLanka - Thu Apr 27, 2017 4:32 pm

kcrRanz

Harsha de Silva‏ @HarshadeSilvaMP 6m6 minutes ago

Sri Lanka won the vote here in Brussels by 436 against and 119 in favor and 22 abstention for the motion to deny GSP plus for

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Dump the trump and get your suits ready - Tue Oct 11, 2016 1:12 am

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#bigday #srilanka #srilankaequity

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The best course of action is: Sit tight. - Mon Oct 10, 2016 7:37 pm

sheildskye

I am Saying -- Its too late for Sri Lanka to stop this development drive (and actually nobody wants it to stop) because the ship has sailed(from the begining of 2015 really) & this Island's enemies can just jump out of the boat (for all what I care) cos this ride will only end if it's people (citizen & patriots) want to stop it! #RealStreet not wallstreet of satan #BestStocks #InvestNow #srilanka #srilankaequity

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COCR..... Soon 65/= - Mon Oct 10, 2016 7:27 pm

sheildskye

TOTALLY #InvestNow !!!!!
#BestStocks #SriLanka #SriLankaGrowing

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Sri Lanka: How To Vote? අද ඔබ ඡන්දේ දාන හැටි දන්නවද? මෙන්න මෙහෙමයි ඡන්දේ දාන්නේ - Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:49 am

StockGuru

#‎SriLanka‬ ‪#‎GeneralElection2015‬ ‪#‎GenEle2015‬ ‪#‎GenElec2015‬ ‪#‎Vote‬ ‪#‎Ballot‬ ‪#‎Politics‬ How to vote at General Election 2015 Today...අද ඔබ ඡන්දේ දාන හැටි දන්නවද? මෙන්න මෙහෙමයි ඡන්දේ දාන්නේ

How to vote at General Election 2015 Today
#SriLanka #GeneralElection2015 #GenEle2015 #GenElec2015 #Vote #Ballot #Politics How to vote at General Election 2015 Today...අද ඔබ ඡන්දේ දාන හැටි දන්නවද? මෙන්න මෙහෙමයි ඡන්දේ දාන්නේ
Posted by Mega Scam මහා වංචා on Sunday, August 16, 2015

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මැ.කෝ. කෙරුවාව? - Report - Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:14 am

DealKing

‪#‎srilanka‬ ‪#‎elections‬ ‪#‎GeneralElections2015‬ ‪#‎news‬ කෝ මැකෝ කෙරුවාව කට ඇරලා කියන්...උඹව වීරයෙක් කරේ මහින්ද ජනපති වී ඉද්දි තියපු ජනාධිපතිවරණයයි නමුත් දැන් සිරිසේන - රනිල් උඹේ රැවුල ගිනිගන්න කන් උඹේ කට වහල මැතිවරණයේදී..කට ඇරලා කියන්න නීතියේ හැටියට සිරිසේනයා පත්කරපු ලේකම්ලා උඹ පිළිගන්නේ නෑ කියලා

#srilanka #elections #GeneralElections2015 #news තොපේ අයියා සුනන්ද දේශප්‍රිය මාසෙකට ඩොලර් 750 ට පරගැති සුද්ධන්ට අපේ රටට...
Posted by Sri Lanka Cartoons on Saturday, August 15, 2015

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How many Preferential Votes will Ranil Wickremesinghe gain from Colombo District? - Statistics from the Sunday Times - Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:10 am

DealKing

‪#‎srilanka‬ ‪#‎generalelection2015‬ ‪#‎voting‬ ‪#‎politics‬ ‪#‎ranil‬ ‪#‎UNP‬ කො#කාරයන් ප්‍රමුඛ යුඇන්පිය සහ රනිල් ඔය තරම් විමල්ට බය ඇයි..2010 අවසන්වරට පැවති මහා මැතිවරණයේදී විමල් වීරවංශ රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ යාට වඩා ඡන්ද 47,715 ගනිමින් මුළු ඡන්ද . 280,672 ගත් නිසා රනිල් ගත්තේ ඡන්ද 232,957, උපාසක බළල් රුවන් -රනිල් පවුලේ ඩේලි එරර් ප්‍රධාන පත්තර වාර්තාකාරියන්ට ගහන චම්පිකයා ගත්තේ ඡන්ද 120,333..මෙන්න බලන්ඩ රනිල්-රුවන් පවුලට අයත් සන්ඩේ ටයිම්ස් http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100411/News/page1.pdf

#srilanka #generalelection2015 #voting #politics #ranil #UNP කොලුකාරයන් ප්‍රමුඛ යුඇන්පිය සහ රනිල් ඔය තරම් විමල්ට බය ඇයි...
Posted by Sri Lanka Cartoons on Sunday, August 16, 2015

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Sri Lanka: Video - Former CB Governor Cabraal says Sri Lanka Equity prophesied on January 11 about 'A Possible Bond Scam under Yahapalana Regime' that has Arjuna Mahendran as CB Governor - Fri Aug 07, 2015 12:22 pm

StockGuru

‪#‎SriLanka‬ ‪#‎Stocks‬ ‪#‎Bonds‬ ‪#‎Economy‬ ‪#‎Finance‬ Former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal says Sri Lanka Equity Analytics Forum had 'Prophesied' on January 11th 2015 that 'A Possible Bond Scam බැඳුම්කර වංචාව could be inevitable in 2015' under Yahapalanaya Government that has Arjuna Mahendran as the Central Bank Governor

Cabraal made these comments addressing a gathering and media at the launch of the Book 'Bandumkara Magadiya' written by renown Financial Journalist at Divaina - Shyam Nuwan Ganewatta on 3rd August 2015

#SriLanka #Stocks #Bonds #Economy #Finance Former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal says Sri Lanka Equity Analytics Forum had 'Prophesied' on January 11th 2015 that 'A Possible Bond Scam බැඳුම්කර වංචාව could be inevitable in 2015' under Yahapalanaya Government that has Arjuna Mahendran as the Central Bank Governor
Posted by Sri Lanka Equity Analytics on Thursday, August 6, 2015

Relevant post posted by Sri Lanka Equity Forum Member 'User' on Sunday the 11th of January 2015 at 1:33 A.M.

http://forum.srilankaequity.com/t40460-perpetual-treasuries-to-get-a-most-of-treasury-bill-bond-business-of-new-government?highlight=perpetual+Treasuries

Post made by Sri Lanka Equity user and member 'Business Basil' on January 11th 2015 below

Perpetual Treasuries to get a most of Treasury Bill-Bond Business of New Government?

by Business Basil on Sun Jan 11, 2015 1:33 am

Perpetual Treasuries owned by Free Lanka Capital Holdings owners will mostly get a large amount of business volumes of Treasury Bills and Treasury Bonds business in new 'Yahapalana Government' of Maithripala-Ranil Regime since new Governor of Central Bank is tipped to be Free Lanka Capital's driving force Arjun Aloysius's father-in-law Arjuna Mahendran who is also the top Economic Advisor of Ranil Wickramasinghe since old times.

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Sri Lanka: Treasury Bills and Treasury Bonds explained in Simple Sinhalese - Sun Aug 02, 2015 5:47 am

StockGuru

This Video explains lots about Treasury Bills and Treasury Bonds and latest developments in the Bills and Bond Market in 2015

ලංකා ඉතිහාසයේ මෙතෙක් සිදුවූ මහා, මහබැංකු බැදුම්කර මුදල් වංචාව, ඉතාමත් සරල බසින්........... ඔබ සැමම බැලිය යුතු විඩියෝවකි ..............#Bondfraud,#bondscam, #centralbanksrilanka,
Posted by Bond Scam බැඳුම්කර වංචාව on Thursday, July 30, 2015

#SriLanka #Economy #Finance #Bonds #Bills #BondScam

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Sri Lanka: Royal Mafia of 'Politics' - Report from Sunday Times - Thu Jul 30, 2015 3:35 am

Varshaa Selvanathan

#SriLanka #LKA Royal Mafia #Mafia As you can see Viruddha Paakshikaya, I am only giving a background of the Business of...
Posted by Royal Mafia on Wednesday, July 29, 2015

‪#‎SriLanka‬ ‪#‎LKA‬ Royal Mafia ‪#‎Mafia‬

As you can see Viruddha Paakshikaya, I am only giving a background of the Business of Politics or the Politics of Business-whichever- about the UNP's past with the murky world of business with cut-throat intrigue. This, Viruddha Paakshikaya is only a prelude to the next instalment.

Reading through the long litany by my friend, Viruddha Paakshikaya last week, I felt he was writing like a man possessed, losing all sense of objectivity.

He (or she) had challenged me to produce Ranil Wickremesinghe's Top Ten business personalities, asking me to find a large magnifying glass and saying, I didn't have even three names. So, Viruddha Paakshikaya was all excited; why? I'm told Siri Kotha and Cambridge Terrace were all agog, some scrambling to get into the Top Ten and some to get out of it!

Well, Viruddha Paakshikaya, what I promised I shall deliver, but I'm in no hurry to please your deadlines. So, let's begin at the beginning of what must be a long essay. And, to do that, we must take a look at those who were UNP beneficiaries since 1977 when the UNP "opened" the economy.

For example, there was Mitsui Corporation of Japan. They were awarded several construction contracts including the new Parliament Complex, the Rupavahini Corporation and the Airport runway. They were only required to give jobs to J.R. Jayewardene's relatives. They also gave legitimate commissions to their local agents.

Then there were the local agents of companies involved in the many construction projects of the Mahaveli project. They were agents for the likes of Skanska and Balfour Beatty, which supported the JRJ regime. And, those who got spin-offs from the contracts at Mahaveli later became financial backers of Gamini Dissanayake. They were the transport agents, those who provided the cement, heavy machinery etc. They would not only finance Gamini Dissanayake's political objectives, but also undertake contracts like constructing a pavilion for his old school!

Gamini Dissanayake also had Finco - (Remember, Viruddha Paakshikaya, how S.P. Amarasingham of The Tribune said the Mahaveli flows not to Trinco but to Finco!) - a firm of his in-laws.

If those were the suave, English educated urban businessmen, in Christian Dior short sleeves shirts and tie, there was R. Premadasa with his coterie of indigenous businessmen - the self made Sinhalese businessman in white sarong and shirt.

There was S.M.A. Aloysius alias Aloysius Mudalali, Kattar Aloysius of Free Lanka Trading, a rare breed because he was a friend of Premadasa, Dissanayake and Lalith Athulathmudali!
Then there was Nawaloka Mudalali, H.K. Dharmadasa, who was really a fan of J.R.
Jayewardene (JR said at the opening of his hospital that had he been monarch of England he would say, "Rise, Sir Nawaloka" and knight him. Instead, Dharmadasa got the 'Deshabandu' award and ironically, JRJ breathed his last at the same hospital he opened).

Anyway Nawaloka Mudalali was a UNPer and Premadasa was a party man, so their interests didn't clash. So whenever Premadasa appealed to the people to hoist the National Flag on February fourth, Nawaloka Mudalali made a handsome profit. "Mudalali" as he was known those days also kept a line open to Premadasa through a super secretary at that time considered to be the Vice-President of Sri Lanka under the Premadasa Presidency.

The 'Grayline' Wijeratnes were also Premadasa's men running a luxury intercity bus service but had some 3000 of their jackpot machines destroyed overnight when Premadasa ran foul of Joe Sim and his casinos. Yet, the Grayline people bounced back under D.B Wijetunga but that is another story.

Premadasa also backed the Casino types. Aloysius Mudalali opened the first casino in Sri Lanka "next door" to Janadhipathi Mawatha. When others in the UNP wanted to close down casinos, Premadasa howled saying so many jobs would be lost. But close them he did when he thought Joe Sim had become too friendly with his family.

Then there was Lalith Athulathmudali who as Minister of Trade and Shipping had a natural reason to befriend the commercial world. But rather than be befriended by the traditional lot, he built his own loyalists by giving them breaks to do business. People like Chanaka De Silva were foremost among them. De Silva a former Royal College opening bowler had worked at Lewis Browns. He became an agent for Mitsui and was to later purchase Kelani Tyres.

So, basically the players at the time were Premadasa, Dissanayake and Athulathmudali- the three musketeers of the UNP, each preparing for the post - JR Presidential stakes. They all knew they needed financial resources to compete with each other. JRJ gave them Housing, the Port and the Mahaveli. So they could use government machinery to cut each others neck, so that his own was saved.

Perhaps another who ran in this race would be Ronald Joseph Godfrey de Mel who wanted to be something more than being a finance Minister. But he was jittery about Upali Wjewardena, the country's most colourful entrepreneur at the time who said, modestly that his intention was to be like the famous World War II German leader Erhard who said, "First Finance Minister, then Chancellor (Erhad succeeded but Upali didn't neither did Ronnie)
This dislike of Upali Wijewardena made Ronnie de Mel and Premadasa form an alliance of convenience against the "common enemy"-Upali and that too helped JRJ who did what the British did-divide and rule.

Now among these- apart from Aloysius there was a group which was able to keep everybody in the UNP happy: the Rajahs They had JR in their left pocket, Premadasa in their right pocket, Dissanayake in their shirt pocket and Athulathmudali in their hip pocket, but let's put all this in perspective Viruddha Paakshikaya.

Athulathmudali really, was their lawyer. When he was practising as Minister of Trade he did business with them, but I concede there were no allegations of impropriety or favouritism. JR also maintained good relations with them and again there were no allegations of impropriety other than possibly when he argued their case with officials of the Insurance Corporation after some factories of the Rajahs were burnt down out during the 1983 July riots to obtain higher compensation.

As for Dissanayake and the Rajahs, it was one school chum of his, whose name unfortunately rhymes with 'crook' who dealt with him. Then there was also the Rajah's London correspondent who would look after Dissanayake when the latter was in Old Blighty.
Dissanayake, of course was blessed with school boyish good looks and was a charming man. He made easy friends with the rich and famous-Upali Wijewardena and even Harry Stassen Jayawardena. He was apolitical when it came to business buddies and he regarded the Rajahs as one of them.

But it was Premadasa who was Number One with the Rajahs. After all the Rajahs knew he was only a heart beat away from the Presidency, being Prime Minister to a President, though fit, was in his eighties. So much so that the Rajahs who had not done too well during the SLFP's 1970-77 rule advertised one day in the newspapers in 1978 that they had 40-odd agencies for world wide companies, for instance for Parker pens. When the principals came to Sri Lanka, tea with the PM at the Parliamentary complex was a sure fixture on the schedule but Premadasa would never talk business - only small talk: " How long are you here for? and "Where are you going from here? But ask any businessman and he will tell you how important it is to show off that you can get your principal to have tea with the Prime Minister of the country!

But the 1983 riots did hurt them and since then like most businessmen anyway, they began siphoning off monies, mostly to Australia and the Australian High Commission in Colombo perks up when their passports arrive while lesser mortals have to hang around and suffer the ignominy of harassment for visa!

When Premadasa became president, the Rajahs became emperors. Everything had fallen into place. A lingam ( Who was by now in their coat pocket) had become the most important man in Sri Lanka next to the President. Everything financial had to go through this man. The power of the Rajahs at this time was illustrated in this story:

You see, Viruddha Paakshikaya, the Rajahs work on a Commission basis - they have several freelancers in the field when tenders are called. They provide them with some pocket money for incidental expenses- taking an official for dinner at the Hilton or offering some cash to a Technical Evaluation Committee member- even a Minister. The freelancers have to clinch the deal and prove they did it. Then the Rajahs dole out their commissions because they are also really the agents for the tenderers.

One of these freelancers was a crook. He was absolutely with Gamini Dissanayake, who had fallen out with Premadasa during the halcyon days of the impeachment, and Premadasa wanted the crook sacked as a free-lancer of the Rajahs. It had been discovered that Dissanayake had been given funds and a vehicle for his political work against Premadasa. The Rajahs stood firm. They told Premadasa to go to hell-metaphorically of course. It just shows the clout they had with a UNP President because they knew he couldn't do without them -and vice versa too.

They were able to get the Airbuses purchased for AirLanka and when the Eels tendered by offering Boeing aircraft the wrath of the President fell on them. The state run Observer at that time lashed the pants out of the Directors of Eels who learned the lesson of their lives- not to mess around with the Rajahs. And what followed was that the Rajahs, the agents for an obscure Middle Eastern airline, became local collaborators for AirLanka. And Viruddha Paakshikaya complains beating his strident drum when our government merges AirLanka with Emirates, picked as the No. 1 airline of the world!

But what happened next was the LTTE assassinated Premadasa and the otherwise shrewd Rajahs never bargained that the gentle Dingiri Banda Wijetunga would be President of the Republic on May 1, 1993

Now it was not that Wijetunga would have been averse to some help from the Rajahs. But when you are blinded by making money you forget little things like looking after others. So Dearly Beloved Wijetunga shut the door firmly in the face of the Rajahs, though some say it was a communal minded decision

He had his own breed of men to nurture and promote-The Earls of Gunasekara, the Nilames of Kataragama and the like. And one Rajah looked to us in the SLFP in total desperation! By this time they (the Rajahs) no doubt backed Dissanayake as a stand by choice but the October 1994 bomb dashed their hopes with the UNP. Undeterred, they hitched their wagon to the rising stars in our own party- with ulterior motives of creaming the little fat that was left in this land.

I do concede, Viruddha Paakshikaya, in all this, Ranil Wickremesinghe kept aloof. Viruddha Paakshikaya refers to a story that the Rajahs sent him a big bouquet of flowers when he became leader of the House and that Ranil had told a nosey friend who queried from where they were: "new appointments, new friends."

It just goes to show how the Rajahs operate; The only problem they had was they forgot to
send flowers to D.B. Wijetunga!

Now, I can almost see Viruddha Paakshikaya saying, "so where's the Top Ten of Ranil Wickremesinghe that you promised?"

Well, I did say that Ranil Wickremesinghe, had kept aloof from all this business of business from 1977 to 1994 when the UNP ran riot in Sri Lanka, when contending party leaders were competing for the hands of businessmen and gave them favours in return for their patronage of political work.

But what of now? Ranil Wickremesinghe is the Leader of the UNP. Viruddha Paakshikaya will surely agree that no businessman, in his right sense would not 'cultivate" Ranil Wickremesinghe.

Even in the 1977-94 period Ranil Wickremesinghe was no insignificant pup in the UNP regime especially after he became Minister of Industries and then Prime Minister for 15 months.

He once went to the Paris Aid Consortium. He had negotiated with the United States on garment quotas. He bailed out one or two companies that had got into serious financial difficulties.

He was the friend of some non-political business groups-the Singers, the John Keells, the Ceylon Group, the Tobacco company to name a few -who had kept their links with all parties and governments without getting involved in political wheeler dealing and financing as far as we know.

As you can see Viruddha Paakshikaya, I am only giving a background of the Business of Politics or the Politics of Business -whichever- about the UNP's past with the murky world of business with cut-throat intrigue. This, Viruddha Paakshikaya is only a prelude to the next instalment.

So I will bide my time, my friend. Today's information will help you and our readers - to judge whether those in Ranil Wickremesinghe's Top Ten- when they are revealed -are any better or much worse than the lot that have been rewarded with an honourable mention today.!

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/980802/news5.html

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Sri Lanka: Google Loon: Is It possible in Sri Lanka Yet? - Thu Jul 30, 2015 1:46 am

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Jul 29, 2015 (LBT) - It's been two years since Google first disclosed Project Loon, and while the company continues to keep most details of the project secret, the technology and challenges behind it are slowly coming into focus.

Loon is an ambitious attempt to bring the Internet to the roughly 5 billion people on the planet who are out of range of existing networks. The project involves suspending cellular access points under high-altitude balloons to provide Internet access to those on the ground, an idea that sounds elegantly simple but was anything but.

A series of recent presentations and talks by Google X employees have revealed some of the technical and commercial challenges the company faced in realizing Loon, and in nearing its target cost of $10,000 per balloon.

The balloons travel in air currents at an altitude of around 60,000 feet. That's close enough to Earth to maintain a direct connection to smartphones but high enough to avoid aircraft. It's also in a part of the atmosphere criss-crossed by high-altitude winds, so Google can steer the balloons by moving them up and down to catch air currents moving in different directions.

But at that altitude, the balloon and the electronics are battling frigid temperatures of around -65 degrees Celsius.

Batteries and other components don't work well in the cold, so all the electronics sit in a large Styrofoam-insulated container to keep them warm. Most are kept switched on even when they're not needed, so the components stay warm. Perhaps counter-intuitively, that means better battery life, because bringing cold components back to life requires more energy than just leaving them ticking over.

The cold also makes the nylon the balloons are made from turn brittle and causes lubricants to break down -- challenges to Google's goal of keeping each balloon in the air for at least 100 days. The balloons are bathed in strong ultra-violet and cosmic radiation, adding to the challenges, and endure extreme pressure changes as the helium inside expands and contracts as the balloons float in and out of sunlight.

When Loon was first announced, high-altitude balloons typically could stay aloft for no more than a couple of days before puncturing, and some thought Google's endurance goal was crazy. But the company is now regularly meeting its 100 day target, and one balloon stayed aloft for 187 days.

For the communications, the initial plan was to send proprietary Wi-Fi signals to fixed antennas on the ground, but that was soon switched to cellular LTE signals. This brought the advantage of being able to deliver a signal directly to a smartphone, and means Loon can operate in a part of the spectrum with much less interference than the Wi-Fi bands.

Most of Google's current balloons carry radios that operate in the 2.2GHz and 2.6GHz LTE bands -- chosen because those bands provide coverage across the U.S., Europe and Asia. The signal from each balloon covers an area with a radius of 40 kilometers, and Google is preparing to do tests in the 700MHz LTE band to cover an area four times as large.

The balloons Internet connection comes from access points on the ground, and because a balloon wont always be within range of one, the signal is passed from one balloon to the next until an access point is in range. This balloon-to-balloon network can run at speeds of up to 4Gbps while the downlink speed to handsets on the ground is around 30Mbps at best.

Keeping track of the balloons is perhaps one of the easiest challenges, because it involves sifting massive amounts of data and modeling wind patterns -- the kind of things Google's data scientists are adept at doing.
Balloons stay in communication with Google through the Iridium satellite network. They send out location and other data at intervals ranging from every second to every couple of hours. But the balloons actually log thousands of data points every second that are recorded and stored for later analysis, so any part of the flight of any balloon can be analyzed.

Flight tests are currently taking place in New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, and the state of New Mexico, and one of the most recent innovations has been an automatic balloon launch system.
For Loon to cover the world, tens of thousands of balloons will need to be in the sky at any one time, and with a 100-day life span per balloon, that means hundreds of launches each day to keep the network up and running. At that level of activity, a system that relies on humans would have trouble keeping up.
But for all that's known about the technology behind Loon, the biggest unanswered question is perhaps the most interesting: when will it be commercially available?

Google declined an interview request for this story. It has said it won't offer Loon service to consumers itself but rather is partnering with cellular operators around the globe, essentially leasing out the balloons as they pass over areas that need coverage. Under this business model, Google is freed from the hassle of dealing with individual subscribers and can operate under the carriers' existing wireless licenses.
Unfortunately, there's still no clear indication of when commercial service will be available. Google says it want's to bring the cost per balloon down to about $10,000, and it's not there yet, but it is getting close.
"We're well within 10X of that," said an engineer.

Courtesy: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2934789/internet/two-years-on-googles-project-loon-floats-into-focus.html
Courtesy: http://www.lbt.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9527:google-loon-is-it-possible-in-sri-lanka-yet-&catid=65:expert-advice&Itemid=98
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Sri Lanka Wake Up: හෙලයිනි නැගිටිව් මේ යූ ටියුබ් ලින්ක් එකවත් බලපන්! - Tue Jul 28, 2015 6:13 am

Varshaa Selvanathan

හෙලයිනි නැගිටිව් රට බේරා ගනිව් මේ යූ ටියුබ් ලින්ක් එකවත් බලපන් #Youtube #SriLanka #Eeelamcoming #LTTE #News #TamilTigers As a Sri Lankan we hope Nobody will be Happy to See this Song...2013 මාර්තු 1 වෙනිදා ටැමිල් ඊළාම් නැෂිනල් ටෙලිවිෂන් නම් යූටියුබ් චැනලයේ ඔස්සේ ප්‍රචලිත කරන ලද දැනට 206,000 වැඩි විව්ස් තියන 4000 කට වඩා වැඩි සබ්ස්ක්‍රයිබර්ස් ලා සිටින , ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඉතිහාසයේ අප රට ආක්‍රමණය කර පාණ්ඩය ආර්යචක්‍රවර්ති ඉන්දියානු එළාර රජුගේ පින්තුරයෙන් පටන් අරන්.... ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ රාජ්‍ය ත්‍රිවිද හමුදාවල් සහ පොලිසිය සටන් වැදී 2009 මය 18 වෙනිදා නැති කල ත්‍රස්තවාදී නායක - අප රටේ උතුර රජ කර ප්‍රභාකරෙන් වීරයෙක් කර පෙන්වන වීඩියෝවක්... ලාංකිකයෙනි පොඩ්ඩක් බලන්ඩ, සිතන්න..ප්‍රභාකරන් විනාශ කරත් තවත් නැගී සිටින, නැගී සිටීමට බලා සිටින කට්ටියක් මේ රටේ සිටී..Uploaded to Youtube from Tamil Eelam National Television on March 1st 2013..and starts with a picture of Indian Pandayan Chola Invader of Sri Lanka Elara...and the video shows Prabhakaran as Hero (who was defeated by local Armed Forces and Police on 18th May 2009)..the Youtube video has over 206,000 views and 4000 subscribers and it shows still there is a a big crowd in our country who wants separatism under a Different Land... Link Thalaimagan Em Prabaharan - Tamil Eelam Song - Tamil link in Here...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aEWq_345HM

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Sri Lanka Reminiscences : 'Sivaram's killers will be brought to justice' - Speech by Mangala Samaraweera on May 06, 2005 at Sri Lanka Parliament outlining the 'Lost Media Freedom in Sri Lanka from 1977-2004' - Fri Jul 17, 2015 10:27 pm

Varshaa Selvanathan

[size=14]The speech of Information and Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera on the demise of the late journalist Sivaram Dharmaratnam, made on the occasion of Adjournment Debate on May 06, 2005.[/size]

Jul 17, 2015 (LBT) - Honourable Mr. Speaker, We strongly believe that the people's right of access to information, free from any hindrance, must be secured by any Government. The basic foundation of building up good governance is the media freedom.

That is the sustainable democratic fundamentality of our Government. History testifies that the People's Alliance or the present Freedom Alliance Government is sincerely dedicated to that cause. Our Government which inherits such a prestigious history has an inalienable moral right to react whenever there is a threat or an influence against the media freedom.

Under this political backdrop, we unreservedly condemn the assassination of Sivaram Dharmaratnam, a senior member of the "TamilNet" editorial staff. Sivaram was abducted away by a gang of thugs on April 28 and was brutally killed.

As soon as this information reached the President, the Police initiated a far-flung investigation on the orders of the President. Investigations are proceeding at the moment. We will not hide any evidence that the investigations will reveal. We are active to bring the culprits to books and deal with them according to the law, irrespective of their positions. I make this announcement on the floor of this august assembly with profound sense of responsibility as the Media Minister.

Sivaram Dharmaratnam was not only the editorial staffer of the "TamilNet" web site but he was also a veteran war analyst and a political critic who wrote to the "Sunday Times" and the "Daily Mirror" newspapers under the pseudonym "Tharaki". He contributed controversial political columns in favour of the LTTE organization in large numbers.

Do not forget that Sivaram also criticised certain LTTE activities in his articles some time back. Facts pertaining to the cause of assassination of Sivaram have not been ascertained fully yet. If he was killed because of his journalistic involvement, that has to be condemned by everybody with utmost aversion.
Honourable Mr. Speaker, The Freedom Alliance Government, which upholds the people's inalienable right of access to information will not condone acts of this nature at any cost. Such acts will not be sponsored or encouraged by any means.

We have, in the past, dealt with individuals who have pressurised journalists ignoring their positions. When there were threats to Iqbal Athas because of his engagement as a journalist, we took steps to investigate and punish the offenders. We did so because of our appreciation of media freedom as a sustainable political principle.

At this moment of dialogue on the assassination of a media personnel, I think it appropriate to recall in brief the way the Media and Media personnel were pressurised during the previous regimes. Both the United National Party and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party held the reins of Government from time to time in this country. No Government brought pressure to bear upon the media in this country prior to 1977, as a matter of principle. The UNP regimes since coming in to power in 1977 considered influencing the media as a matter of state policy.

As soon as the UNP gained power in 1977, state owned media institutions, Lake House and the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation were brought under the control of the Sirikotha. The staunch UNP member Ranapala Bodhinagoda was appointed as the Chairman of the Lake House. Ranjan Wijeratne, who subsequently became a strong Minister was appointed as a Working Director.

They started their control over the Lake House by harassing the SLFP and other leftist employees in various ways. Senior journalists such as Silumina Chief Editor Wimalasiri Perera, Dinamina Chief Editor Peramunethileka, Daily News Chief Editor S. Pathiravithana, Silumina Deputy Editor Nimal Horana, Dinamina Deputy Editor Poojitha Wijetunga, Dinamina News Editor Dayananda Kumaradasa, Dinamina Sub-editor Wimalaweera Perera, Daily News News Editor Nihal Ratnayaka and Dinamina Staff Reporters Upali Rupasinghe, Yapa Karunaratne and Kulatunga Somaratne were dismissed by way of political victimization.
SLBC leading media person, Sinhala services Director H. M. Gunasekera, Amarabandu Rupasinghe, Premakeerthi de Alwis, and Newton Gunaratne were interdicted. The "Times"Company which published the leading newspaper "Lankadeepa" continuously over decades was taken over by the Government and was closed down.

When Lankadeepa reappeared in circulation under the Vijaya newspaper group, President Premadasa pressurised it at length and at a certain stage, being annoyed by a news item appeared in the Lankadeepa, went to the extent of threatening its owner Ranjith Wijewardena in public saying "Ranjith, be aware of what is going to happen to you".

He held out threats of murder in Parliament against Upali Group newspaper owner Upali Wijayawardena who defied UNP commands. By and large the private media were totally denied the media right of criticising the Government. Competent authorities were appointed to control the media that worked independently without holding a brief by the UNP.

The newspapers "Attha", "Janadina", and "Sirilaka" were sealed over and over again. They were subjected to many harassments and the transport of their newspapers by bus was prohibited. Government advertisements were denied to them.

Private institutions which gave advertisements to these papers were influenced. Such influence was exerted not only to political papers but also to independent newspapers. The raid of "Attha" press and taking its editor to the 4th floor became a daily routine.

As far as the Lake House papers were concerned, not only the lead news, but also the headlines, pictures, captions and even page settings were the decisions taken by the Presidential Secretariat. Taking the pages of the Lake House papers to the President or their approval by the Information Officer was the general order of the day during that period.

There was a habit of the President's Information Officer visiting the News Unit of the SLBC at 3.30 a.m. everyday during that time. Ignoring all other important information, the News Broadcast had to begin with some news to bolster the President's image. Each media institution had a Special Presidential Unit.
The UNP, soon after coming into power in 1977 completely prohibited publication of Cabinet secrets in violation of the people's right to be aware of information. The first action was filed in court under the State Secrets Act by former Minister Ronie de Mel against journalist Prasad Gunawardena of the "Island" newspaper. For the first time in history, newspaper editors were summoned to Parliament and tried under Parliamentary Privileges Act and were punished.

On one occasion the "Observer" editor was summoned to Parliament for inadvertently inter-changing captions of two pictures.

The Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Act was passed in Parliament within three days on January 30, 1978 as an act of urgent national importance.

On February 02,the two medieman Philip Cooray and Herald Peiris were summoned to Parliament functioning as a Court of Law and they were punished. On that occasion Prime Minister J. R. Jayewardene in his address threatened that "In future offenders will not escape this place with a punishment of this leniency".
Honourable Mr. Speaker, The then Justice Minister Nissanka Wijeratne misused the law in an attempt to control the media. An attempt was made in 1984 to amend the Press Council Act to prohibit writing articles in newspapers under pseudonyms.

The UNP influenced not only the media institutions. They harassed mediamen endlessly. Richard de Soyza, the mediaman of international repute was abducted in the night of February 18, 1990, and was brutally killed and his body was thrown into the sea.

All media personalities and civil organizations clamoured in chorus demanding a fair inquiry into this murder. UNP regime only lingered on a mild form of investigation while ignoring our cry as the Opposition in Parliament for a parliamentary debate on this murder. Following Richard de Soyza's assassination, his contemporary colleagues Amal Jayasinghe, Arjuna Ranawana, Varuna Karunatilleke and Aruna Kulatunga fled away from the country to save their lives.

The "Divaina" newspaper photographer Wimal S. Surendra who took a photograph of a powerful UNP female activist in 1983 was mysteriously murdered on the road right opposite the house of former Minister John Amaratunga.

That was a death that remains a mystery to date. H. E. Dayananda who serialized "Wame Kathawa" in the Wednesday supplement of "Divaina" newspaper was murdered.

The script writer of "Kavuda Me, Monawada Karanne" drama, Dehiwala MMC of the UNP itself disappeared mysteriously. Kithsiri Samaranayaka, the Lankadeepa journalist who at times criticised the Government severely, was stabbed to death at the bus halt opposite the mosque of eye hospital junction.

The Dickwella area correspondent Gunasena Kasturiarachchi was murdered mysteriously.Apart from this, the Government never bothered to hold a formal inquiry in respect of the murders of veteran journalists of high esteem like Premakeerthi de Alwis, Thevis Guruge and Kulasiri Amaratunga.

The Bomiriya residence of the "Divaina" newspaper was attacked with bombs. Journalistic activities of veteran journalist Dayasena Gunasinghe were subjected to injunctions for the sin of writing an editorial in the "Divaina"criticising President J. R. Jayawardene's public announcement that "each person must look after his own security".

"Attha" cartoonist Yoonus' mouth was cut by employing thugs. The doors of the SLBC were closed to artistes of the highest national fame like Premasiri Khemadasa, Pandit W. D. Amaradeva, Nanda Malani, Vijaya Kumaranatunga, Sugathapala de Silva, Professor Ediriweera Sarachchandra and R. R. Samarakone because they demanded the withdrawal of a proposal to abolish former Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike's civil rights.

Piyadasa Malalgoda who wrote and published the poem "Devadattha of the modern era" was taken to the dubious 4th floor on 12 occasions for interrogation and he was prosecuted.

That was an era, the private electronic media had no chance to announce news. Unlike today, political dialogues were not known over the electronic media those days. Announcement of news was a Government monopoly.
The resignation of Lalith Athulathmudali and Gamini Dissanayaka from their portfolios over the impeachment issue was prohibited to be published. This prohibition on the SLBC and the Rupavahini applied even to the news of impeachment against Russian President Yeltsin. The expulsion of the President of Argentina following an impeachment was banned to be announced over the radio and the television.

The UNP which did not tolerate workers' agitations over their 17 year rule completely banned publication of news relating to workers' strikes through the State media. The State radio and television left no room for publication of news pertaining to the opposition and completely banned showing opposition members on the television.

Under such circumstances a mass cry developed among the public to re-establish the lost media freedom. The People's Alliance took over the reins of Government under this back drop. The People's Alliance Government under the leadership of President Kumaratunga acknowledged the people's right of access to information as a matter of Government Policy.

Soon after the People's Alliance formed the Government, steps were taken to implement a media procedure ensuring the independence of the media. A Parliamentary Select Committee was established to formulate a State Media Policy.

A surrounding was brought about for the media institutions and media personnel to act freely. The Act empowering Parliament to summon journalists before Parliament for the purpose of trial and punishment was removed from the legal system.

Publication of News was freed from State influence. Private Sector media institutions were allowed to publish news. Opposition members too were accommodated in political dialogues in State media institutions. The Government gave approval to open a number of private television channels to compete with State media.
There were some media institutions and personnel who misused the freedom afforded by us. Often they produced news insulting the President. Yet, in contrast with the previous regime, no threats of murder was held out against such people. Even under unfortunate circumstances at times, the Government applied the law impartially. The people behind such incidents are no more a secret today.

The media freedom and the freedom of the individual media personnel are intertwined. We are aware that no journalist can act independently in the absence of a sustainable economic strength of his own.
In view of this situation, the People's Alliance Government implemented a number of welfare projects to uplift the standard of living and dignity of journalists. An insurance scheme was introduced for them. A housing scheme was inaugurated for them. A training programme was initiated. Their salaries were increased. Journalists who were politically victimised were relieved.

4 committees were appointed to ascertain and report on welfare amenities to journalists. Provision of computer, e-mail and various modern facilities were ensured through the Department of Government Information.

Honourable Mr. Speaker, The UNP who toppled the Freedom Alliance and regained power in 2001 resumed their usual media policy which they pursued throughout their 17 year rule since 1977.

They dissolved the Information Department. A separate media unit was established under the Prime Minister's Office. All the State media institutions were brought under the control of UNP henchmen within that unit.
The decisive posts of private media institutions were filled by appointing their henchmen. It was these henchmen who were necessarily participated in the foreign tours and discussions abroad attended by the Prime Minister.

The international sojourns by these groups at the expense of public funds became the order of the day. The selected crowd of journalists obedient to Government received highest perks. An invisible mechanism of horror was in motion against independent journalists. The victims of this mechanism included not only the local journalists but also the foreign journalists. The deportation of the internationally renowned journalist Paul Harris is the best example in this regard.

While Ranil Wickremesinghe was the Prime Minister, the doors of State media institutions were completely closed to the opposition. The journalists who were deemed not loyal to the Government were deprived of their employment. Some were transferred.

Some were intimidated. Opponents were tortured mentally and physically. Live political debates participated by politicians of the opposition were completely barred from telecast.

Even in case of dialogues among the ruling party members, if a listener were to express opinion, it had to be approved in advance before the programme is telecast. The State media was used perennially to slander and unease organisations and individuals not supportive of the Government.

It was on such a background that the Freedom Alliance Government came into power. In our election manifesto we assured the people that the mentality of imposing Government official opinion on the people will be eliminated and that the media will be made open institutions to debate open views freely.
We have fulfilled that pledge even by now. We were pledged to expose the Government to open criticism, irrespective of the status or position of the individual concerned, if the criticisms were in the common interest of the people. Today, a journalist is at liberty to criticise any member of the Freedom Alliance Government without any hindrance.

We assured the people to protect their right of access to information without any barriers under whatever the circumstances. That promise has been fulfilled to the very letter by now.

It is imperative to establish within our society an environment where a journalist could practice his profession free from occupational hazards whatever the political ideologies he held. The Freedom Alliance Government guarantee the people that it will take every step towards this end fearlessly.

Honourable Mr. Speaker, The torments coming on the way of a journalist cannot be checked by Government action alone. Everybody who respects democracy should cooperate in this regard.

There must exist a consensus among all for that purpose. A number of North East journalists came to be brutally murdered even while a ceasefire was in force. "Dinamurusu" newspaper Editor Ramesh Nadarajah belonging to the EPDP was murdered. Aiyadurei Nadesan, the "Weerakesari" reporter was killed on May 31, 2004.

Kandasamy Aiyar Balanadarajah (Sinnabala), another journalist was murdered on August 16, 2004. On July 26, 2004, "Dinamurusu" newspaper free lance reporter S. Kamaladasan was shot at on his legs. On March 06,2005, "Dinamurusu" reporter Sathasivam Kamalanathan was shot at causing him fatal injuries. This murder was clearly a result of the power struggle among armed groups in the North East. We have to severely condemn these killings, whoever the perpetrators were.

So far, we are not in a position to conclude definitely that the assassination of Sivaram is a result of the conflict among armed groups in the North East. Nevertheless, certain political parties, indiscriminately point the accusing finger at their opponents in respect of this murder, make announcements in order to gain petty political mileage.

Certain political parties attempt to take advantage of this situation in order to build up animosity between the LTTE organisation and the Government in order to demolish the growing good-will between the two parties.
We vehemently condemn such attempts of self-motivated political propaganda made in the name of media freedom. Announcements of this nature may preclude the possibility of eliciting the reality behind the assassination of Sivaram.

Honourable Mr. Speaker, All of us, ignoring our party affiliations should join hands to build up a political environment that will leave no room for this kind of brutal murders in the future. We believe that we will be able to ascertain the motive of this murder and discover the people responsible for this crime before long. We will leave no loopholes to suppress evidence pertaining to this crime. I give that assurance to this House in my capacity as the Media Minister.

In conclusion I reiterate that we unreservedly condemn this brutal murder. We extend our deep sympathies and sorrow to Sivaram's wife and children.

Courtesy - Daily News - http://archives.dailynews.lk/2005/05/17/fea01.htm
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