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Nimalesh Paramasivam Nearly 300 goats and chicken were slaughtered today as a part of a Hindu sacrifice.................is this called real Hindusiam???????????
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Yesterday at 4:35pm · · 1 personLoading...
Ratha Rukmani if you eat chicken it is slautered some where
so
why you bother about this. millions of chicken and goats sluatered everyday in the globe because of the eaters of flesh
this matter is tiny when compared with the whole affair
Yesterday at 4:47pm · · 1 personLoading...
Kapilkanth Sithambaram Hi dude would you think all those above peoples who are carrying animals are Hindu??
Look at their face..
Yesterday at 6:12pm ·
Prashan Jayatheepam How many people were slaughtered during the war...?...The monks should have protested then...!
Yesterday at 7:10pm · · 1 personLoading...
Don දුමින්ද @ Prashan so u agree with this act ??
sad dat u dnt get da difference betwen a war n this...
23 hours ago · ·
Prashan Jayatheepam
Mr Duminda Karunaratne……Nice to have got a comment from a fellow Thomian……OK It was a ‘War’ yes…but it was more of Genocide – now don’t you dare say ‘NO’ to this – because the whole world knows it was ‘Genocide’ and this is why Mahinda and ...his relatives are not letting foreign investigators in to the country…! So where is the transparency…?
To your question ‘Prashan so u agree with this act ??’ my Answer is ‘No’ I don’t agree with this act either...!
But my initial point was - Buddhist Monks were against this act…OK good! So shouldn’t have they been against the Genocide act during the War…? It’s a Shame to see they care for animals now when they didn’t care for humans during the War…?
Also I am not sure if you are a vegetarian…but if you are I respect your earlier ‘Comment’ – If you aren’t a vegetarian then you are doing the same thing Sir…it’s just that they killed everything in 1 day and you might eat more meat than this during the course of your entire life.
Also clicking through some of your ‘photos’ under ‘SICI Random clicks’ – looks like you are having a good bite with some roast ‘Chicken’ on your plate…? Killing or Eating they are all the same mate! If you don’t agree with this act…then you should be seriously thinking of becoming a vegetarian!See More22 hours ago ·
Don දුමින්ද
1. As long as we (Sri Lankans) declare LTTE as a terrorist group y care abt transparency ? how many inocent ppl lost thr life's coz f them??n this transparency rule applies only to 3rd world countries??
2. Yes the Monks were always against... the Genocide acts by the Bloody terrorists...
this is not abt me being the a vegi or wat evr..u seem 2 hate wat evr da monks do...again u hv brought in mahinda into this without ny relation to this topic...Sri Lanka is not wat it ws wen u left SL :) things hv changed...things like these will be banned soon...See More20 hours ago · ·
Prashan Jayatheepam
Mr Duminda Karunaratne your reply is all muddled up!
Let’s start it somewhere else as Nimalesh doesn’t accept this on his wall…
I don’t have to Live in SL to know about SL…I read more transparent news Online than what you would read in SL…mos...tly all opaque by the media! If by chance you read some transparent news then the Reuter gets shot by a mob of 4 on motorbikes in Attidiya...
'things hv changed...?' - That will be an Idle Conversation!!! That will never happen!!! - Living in SL you wouldn’t know how corrupt & crooked the country is – Only when you live abroad can you weigh against the 'Kith & Kin' Government!
Yes I agree to one pint – These things should be prohibited soon!See More6 hours ago · · 1 personNimalesh Paramasivam likes this.
Don දුමින්ද
transparent news??? lol i doubt u get those kind f stuf wen u live abroad ..haha crap..n plz dnt think dat u read more than another person...not gud for u
no point talking to a guy who sees nothin positive...hope u dnt hv plans to cum back t...o SL...jst pay a visit, aft that v'l talk...dnt jst b based on media :) tc byeSee More6 hours ago · ·
Prashan Jayatheepam
If you doubt why don’t you come and live abroad to see whether you get transparent news or not from BBC & CNN Reuters? And what’s crap? I can promise you we get more transparent news from Reuters in the UK than what you would get in SL – an...d our Reuters don’t have to be petrified to get shot by a mob and we have the right to report!
Who said I was talking to you – for God’s sake I was only arguing…! I don’t personally know you to ‘sweet-talk’ you!
I have visited SL more than 10 times in the last 8 years and I will keep on visiting the country – but the Corruption, Sleaze & dishonesty has to stop somewhere! A good place to start would be the parliament!
If you don’t want to base it on media - what else should you base it on Sir…? Can you give me some examples…?
“no point talking to a guy who sees nothin positive...” – This is the easiest escape route you can trigger in an quarrel! I am up for it…What’s next…? You started it…I should finish it!
I pity the country if you become president one day!See More5 hours ago ·
Don දුමින්ද
ayyo..i am wasting my time hear arguing with a guy who rely on BBC & CNN Reuters....atleast read a SL based online paper...
"Who said I was talking to you – for God’s sake I was only arguing…! I don’t personally know you to ‘sweet-talk’ you!... "
hel no i dint mean it...i left college 5 years back n i left ma old habits thr..so i dnt think thr's a chance for any sweet things :P
"what else should you base it on Sir…? Can you give me some examples…?"
ya..cum c it in ur own eyes.... Colombo is not al abt Sri Lanka..stupid idiots think dat colombo equals SL..... at least visit Gampaha..:P
no more replies please...wasting time...See Moreabout an hour ago · ·
Prashan Jayatheepam
Gampaha...Surely there's a better place for an Example? If it was wasting your 'Valuable' time why did you start it Initially...? I never started it...!
“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear 'Stupid' than to open it and prove you'...re a complete FOOL!" Stupid people always think they are right!
It's 'here' not 'hear'...Disgrace!See More34 minutes ago ·
Don දුමින්ද
seems u dnt kw wr Gampaha is ....haha
"It's 'here' not 'hear'...Disgrace!" ya accept it...
“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear 'Stupid' than to open it and prove you'...re a complete FOOL!" Stupid people always think they are ri...ght!"
exactly :P
Use Gmail to make VoIP calls
Use Gmail to make VoIP calls: Hands-on review
Google's dialpad for making outbound calls from Gmail.
With Google's rollout Wednesday to Gmail, the built-in Google Talk chat app is finally getting its own voice. Specifically, a plugin that lets you surface a dial pad so you can launch VoIP calls from the Gmail.com in-box, or from within iGoogle. The big caveat is that the service is currently being rolled out only to U.S. Gmail users.
We've been expecting something like this to happen since Google snapped up VoIP company Gizmo 5 last November, and there's even been speculation that this could have been a desktop app. But no, on Tuesday we discovered the online feature in-house and on Wednesday, Google made the VoIP news official. We buckled down to review the new service as soon as we got our online update.
Calling from Gmail
We tested the Google Talk VoIP capabilities on a Windows desktop, a Windows laptop, and a Mac laptop. You'll see the "Call phone" button in the Google Talk sidebar just under your name and status bar. In some cases, clicking to activate Google Talk's VoIP service will prompt you to install the Google Talk voice and video plugin before you can begin dialing. The plugin is requisite, but you may have already done so to try out video calls, an existing feature.
It may go without saying, but we'll say it anyway--you will need to have a microphone handy, either in the computer itself, or in a headset, in order to hear your caller from your computer.
The VoIP interface itself is plain, in typical Google fashion, with just a dial pad on the bottom right of the screen. One extra tab shows your call history. Making outbound calls is straightforward--just type the digits. Since the new VoIP chat feature is integrated with your Google address book, you can also type a contact's name to get their number to appear; then call, call away.
When Google has added calling functionality to your Gmail, this is what you'll see.
We were pleased with the call quality, overall, which we tested with other U.S. callers using landlines and mobile phones. Calls were loud and mostly clear, however, there were a few moments of garbled voices on multiple calls. There was also sometimes a noticeably persistent high buzz, but it did not distract from the meat of the call. The experience was about on par for VoIP calls, which are known to break up due to variable conditions with the callers' hardware, strength of Internet connection, and the telecommunications channels that process the voice data.
We were also able to link our Google Voice account to our Gmail account. This made it possible to receive and answer inbound calls from our Google Voice number, though it isn't necessary to have a Google Voice number to use the new VoIP feature in Google Talk. However, you will need a Google Voice account to pay for International calls (Google Voice numbers are free, by the way.)
Is Google's VoIP a Skype killer?
We're going to hold off on any final pronouncements until we live with the service for a while and get some more local and international calls under our belt. What we will say is that there are a few compelling reasons for users to choose Google Talk's Gmail VoIP service over Skype, and convenience is chief among them.
Google Talk has already had a video chat integrated into the service; this competes with video calls made through Skype, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, and other chat services. Adding free local and low-price international calls will be attractive to users who can easily launch a voice call from within Gmail if video isn't an option. However, we didn't notice an easy way to switch between voice and video calls once a phone call was under way.
Google's rates, compared to other VoIP providers.
Having the VoIP service tie into the Google address book is another perk that could attract new users. If you're keeping track of the service offerings, then the ability to make free outbound calls from the computer to a landline (in the U.S. or Canada) may tip the scale in Google's favor, depending on your individual calling habits. Skype calls are free from any computer in the world to any other (or from one mobile Skype app to another), but calling from the computer to the landline requires purchased credits. Google's phone calling service currently doesn't appear to dial other users through their Gmail accounts.
According to a Google's chart on calling rates (pictured above), calls cost 2 cents a minute to landlines in the U.K. and France, and 6 cents a minute to India. As CNET mentioned in an earlier post, Google says it has no plans to raise rates beyond 2010, though the company will see if it grosses enough on international calls to continue supporting free calls to the U.S. and Canada.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
How PRABHAKARAN met his death :KP Speaks out
How PRABHAKARAN met his death :KP Speaks out(Exclusive Videos of KP visiting the IDP camps with a delegation of senior diaspora)
http://www.nftnews.com/ful
http://www.nftnews.com/ful
| Written By Daily Mirror | 2010-08-25 01:15:20 | ||
Q: What happened finally to your plan of rescuing Prabhakaran and his family by helicopter? Why did the plan not take off? It�s a very sad story After Prabhakaran�s son Charles Anthony asked me to rescue his family members by air I devised a plan and made preliminary arrangements. I arranged for a ship to be kept waiting at a far �off port beyond the reach of the Sri Lanka navy. I also made arrangements to buy a second-hand helicopter from an Ukrainian contact. The idea was for one or two trained pilots from the LTTE�s airwing �Vaan Puligal� to fly into the Wanni. If Prabhakaran was willing ,the family except for Charles Anthony were to be flown out. If the leader was unwilling then he and a few other of his bodyguards and senior leaders were to be flown by the copter and dropped off in a jungle location in Lanka. Afterwards the heli would fly out to the ship with Prabhakaran�s wife Madhivadhani, daughter Thuwaraga and younger son Balachandran and perhaps a few others. I would be waiting for them at the ship. Thereafter I planned to keep the family safely in one of three countries. Perhaps in rotation. Q: Were these countries ready to accept the family? Were they western nations? No, they were not countries in the west. Two were in Africa and one in Asia. I had been in touch with senior govt officials of these countries through my representatives. When I had sounded them out on this matter they were willing. Q: The plan itself was rather risky? Were you confident of it succeeding? Yes, it was risky but I was ready to carry it out. We had no choice. If we didn�t risk it, the alternative was certain death. I also had a secret hope that Prabhakaran may agree at the last minute and opt to fly out. So I devised the plan. The key element was surprise. If the first stage was successful we may have tried further flights too to rescue others. Q: But then what went wrong? It never worked out. It required about 1.5 million US dollars to implement the plan. I did not have that kind of money. The LTTE overseas structure had to give me the money. Castro had promised Charles Anthony that Nediyavan in Norway will transfer the necessary funds to me. But he never did it. I made repeated requests that it was urgent and time was running out. I would be told, �the money is coming, money is coming�. But sadly it never came. Also Nediyavan was in touch with Atchuthan the Air wing chief living abroad. Earlier he had agreed to provide the required LTTE pilots for the operation. But then suddenly acting perhaps under Nediyavan�s orders he stopped communicating with me. I was really frantic. I approached mercenary pilots to fly the helicopter but nothing further could be done without necessary funds. And then in mid-May the Sri Lankan army launched a three �pronged offensive and boxed off the Valainjermadam- Mullivaaikkaal- Vattuvaahal area. After that it was too late to attempt a helicopter rescue. So with great sorrow I abandoned the plan. I was furious with Nediyavan and Castro but helpless to do anything. Q: And within days all were dead? Yes. They were all dead. The whole family was gone. I was extremely sad at Balachandran�s death. He was only 12 years old. I had never seen the boy in person but when he was a child I used to talk to Prabhakaran frequently. This boy would be on his lap and Prabhakaran would often give the phone to him saying �Intha KP Mamavode kathai�(Here, talk to KP uncle) So I would chat with him. Later I lost touch with the boy but I was apparently still existing in his memory. When the war escalated and shelling increased the boy was very frightened. Later when Charles asked me to arrange for an aerial rescue and I started working on the plan , young Balachandran had been told not to worry and that he would be going to KP uncle soon. The little fellow had then put some of his belongings in a small bag and had been carrying it around with him all the time saying �Naan KP Mamata poren.� ( I am going to KP uncle) Sometimes in my thoughts, I visualize Balachandran with his bag telling people that he was going to KP Mama and waiting for a rescue that never took place. When I think of that I get so sad and angry at Nediyavan for obstructing the plan. Q: Why did he do that? I really don�t know but it must have been on Castro�s instructions. They did not want KP to get credit I think. But this was really a symptom of what had gone wrong in the LTTE. Individuals were letting their petty jealousies and divisions affect the overall good of the movement and struggle. Q: You are sure about the entire family being killed? There are stories spread by sections of the Tamil Diaspora and Tamil Nadu politicians that Prabhakaran is alive and Madhivathani is alive and so on? What do you say? These types of tales are spread by some for their selfish motives and others believe them because they don�t want to accept emotionally that it is over. Q: But you don�t have first �hand knowledge of this? Obviously no! But I was in touch with Soosai till the last stages. I have also heard about these matters from official sources. Most importantly I saw Prabhakaran�s body on TV. Q: But these people disputing it say it was not his body? Utter nonsense. When I saw the TV image I immediately knew it was Prabhakaran. I was so upset that I cut myself off from people and spent hours alone crying, reflecting and meditating. Q: One of the reasons for this confusion was due to yourself also. When Prabhakaran�s death reports surfaced you announced to the media that it was not so and that he was alive in a safe location. Subsequently you went back on that denial. This action eroded your credibility greatly and provides ammunition to your critics. Why this flip-flop? Can you explain? Yes, I will be happy to explain. What happened was that Prabhakaran ,Pottu Amman and some others broke out clandestinely in one group and moved through the lagoon and coast. Two other groups also moved out in different directions. The idea was to reach the jungles safely. Reconnaissance missions done earlier showed that the soldiers were in three layers around the encircled area. Soosai with whom I was interacting was informed that Praba and Pottu had broken through all three layers. After that there was no communication. We both assumed that the leader had reached a safe place and predictably cut off communication to avoid being monitored. It was after this that I issued the statement about silencing our arms. I did this in consultation with Soosai. I was using this statement as a basis to accelerate peace initiatives and come to an arrangement where the remaining people could be saved. Nadesan and Pulidevan from another location were also engaged in negotiations. It was the earlier, information received by me that Prabhakaran had broken through the military layers that gave me the belief that he had reached safety. It was this confidence that made me dismiss reports of Prabhakaran�s death and state that he was safe. Also the first media report about Prabakharan being dead was in relation to the ambulance escape. That report was false. Prabhakaran was not in an ambulance But shortly before I lost contact with Soosai the sea Tiger chief surprised me by saying that Prabhakaran could not break through and had returned. Soosai said that he was only a few hundred yards away from the place he was in. Soosai said that the break out attempt had failed and Prabhakaran had returned without Pottu Amman. He could not give me any more information other than that ,except to say the fighting was really fierce. A little later I lost contact with Soosai. Some time later I saw Prabhakaran�s body on TV and immediately realised it was all over. But I must emphasize that my earlier statement denying Prabhakaran�s death and subsequent statement confirming it were both given with all honesty. I did not intend to mislead anyone. I made them on the basis of the information available at that time. People must remember that fighting was going on and communication was difficult. They say �Porin moodupani�(fog of war) about war situations where people get wrong information about the situation. | ||
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did u see this??? check it out..-Google - public data
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Sri Lanka defends war conduct, slams rebel "human shields"
Sri Lanka defends war conduct, slams rebel "human shields": "
By Ranga Sirilal | Reuters
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Sri Lanka said on Tuesday the army did all it could to avoid civilian casualties during the war with Tamil rebels and blamed the United Nations for failing to halt the rebels' use of civilians as human shields.
Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who led the army to victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) last year, justified the troops' conduct in the final days of the fighting.
Speaking about civilian deaths, into which Western countries and the United Nations had called for an independent probe, Rajapaksa said the government fought with a zero-casualty policy among civilians and most of those killed in the rebel-held area were separatists.
'Nobody talks (about) how you can identify civilian casualties from combatants. It was very difficult to identify civilian casualties,' he said. 'There is video evidence how the LTTE were fighting in civilian clothes and how they were changing uniform to civilian clothes when they were injured.'
The war prompted repeated accusations of human rights violations by both sides. Allegations by rights groups that thousands of civilians died just before the war ended amplified that criticism.
Rajapaksa, President Mahinda Rajapaksa's brother, was testifying before the state-appointed Commission on Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation, focusing on the final phase leading to the surrender of the Tamil Tigers in May 2009.
He blamed the United Nations and international community for not pressing the LTTE to release civilians who he said had been used as human shields since the war began.
'They could have done much more to force LTTE to release the people,' he said. 'Unfortunately it was the other way around, pressurising the government and president to cease the operation.'
Political analysts and rights groups have questioned the credibility of the commission. Some analysts say it was set up to divert the U.N. war crimes probe and pacify Western nations.
Over the weekend, Sri Lanka's minority Tamils complained of a number of human rights violations. Witnesses told the commission of loved ones taken away by unidentified gangs and by the military, never to be heard of again.
Sri Lanka has criticised the U.N. war crimes panel, appointed as to advise Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, on 'accountability issues' and accuses the West of applying double standards.
© Reuters
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By Ranga Sirilal | Reuters
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Sri Lanka said on Tuesday the army did all it could to avoid civilian casualties during the war with Tamil rebels and blamed the United Nations for failing to halt the rebels' use of civilians as human shields.
Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who led the army to victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) last year, justified the troops' conduct in the final days of the fighting.
Speaking about civilian deaths, into which Western countries and the United Nations had called for an independent probe, Rajapaksa said the government fought with a zero-casualty policy among civilians and most of those killed in the rebel-held area were separatists.
'Nobody talks (about) how you can identify civilian casualties from combatants. It was very difficult to identify civilian casualties,' he said. 'There is video evidence how the LTTE were fighting in civilian clothes and how they were changing uniform to civilian clothes when they were injured.'
The war prompted repeated accusations of human rights violations by both sides. Allegations by rights groups that thousands of civilians died just before the war ended amplified that criticism.
Rajapaksa, President Mahinda Rajapaksa's brother, was testifying before the state-appointed Commission on Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation, focusing on the final phase leading to the surrender of the Tamil Tigers in May 2009.
He blamed the United Nations and international community for not pressing the LTTE to release civilians who he said had been used as human shields since the war began.
'They could have done much more to force LTTE to release the people,' he said. 'Unfortunately it was the other way around, pressurising the government and president to cease the operation.'
Political analysts and rights groups have questioned the credibility of the commission. Some analysts say it was set up to divert the U.N. war crimes probe and pacify Western nations.
Over the weekend, Sri Lanka's minority Tamils complained of a number of human rights violations. Witnesses told the commission of loved ones taken away by unidentified gangs and by the military, never to be heard of again.
Sri Lanka has criticised the U.N. war crimes panel, appointed as to advise Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, on 'accountability issues' and accuses the West of applying double standards.
© Reuters
Friday, August 20, 2010
Ma Maxmilan
This is why we call him the best..wow...needs some talent
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