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Fungicide Tolerance and Effect of Environmental Conditions on Growth of Trichoderma spp. with Antagonistic Activity Against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Causing White Mold of Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
Marie Amperes Bedıne Boat, Beatrice Iacomı, Modeste Lambert Sameza & Fabrice Fekam Boyom
The present study was conducted to evaluate in vitro compatibility of commonly used agrochemicals as well as the effect of temperature, pH and salt on the growth of six Trichoderma spp. with antagonistic activity against S. sclerotiorum responsible for white mold of common bean. The results revealed that in dual culture, the mycelial growth inhibition of S. sclerotiorum ranged from 83.4 to 87.4 %. The highest inhibition (87.4 %) was obtained with isolate T. erinaceum It-58, while the lowest inhibition (83.4 %) was caused by T. koningiopsis It-21. Except T. asperellum It-13, antagonistic fungi were able to fully colonized pathogen in five days reaching class I antagonism according to Bell scale. The maximum inhibition percentage of volatile (54.07 %) and non-volatile compounds (68.89 %) on pathogen was respectively caused by T. asperellum It-13 and T. harzianum P-11. Fungicides affect the growth of Trichoderma differently. No growth was observed while testing compatibility of T. asperellum It-13 and T. erinaceum It-58 with Mancozeb as well as T. asperellum It-13 and T. afroharzianum P-8 with Methyl thiophanate illustrating the absence of compatibility. The excellent growth rate of Trichoderma was found at temperature range of 25–30˚C and pH range 4.5-5.5. Apart from T. asperellum It-13, all the isolates were able to grow at NaCl concentrations up to 1000 µM and were identified as superior salt-tolerant isolates.
Keywords: Antagonistic, S. sclerotiorum, Trichoderma, biological control, fungicide tolerance.
Boat, M.A.B., Iacomi, B., Sameza, M.L. & Boyom, F.F. (2018). Fungicide Tolerance and Effect of Environmental Conditions on Growth of Trichoderma spp. with Antagonistic Activity Against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Causing White Mold of Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). International Journal of Innovative Approaches in Agricultural Research, 2(3), 226-243. doi: 10.29329/ijiaar.2018.151.8
Boat, M., Iacomi, B., Sameza, M. and Boyom, F. (2018). Fungicide Tolerance and Effect of Environmental Conditions on Growth of Trichoderma spp. with Antagonistic Activity Against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Causing White Mold of Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). International Journal of Innovative Approaches in Agricultural Research, 2(3), pp. 226-243.
Boat, Marie Amperes Bedine, Beatrice Iacomi, Modeste Lambert Sameza and Fabrice Fekam Boyom (2018). "Fungicide Tolerance and Effect of Environmental Conditions on Growth of Trichoderma spp. with Antagonistic Activity Against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Causing White Mold of Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)". International Journal of Innovative Approaches in Agricultural Research 2 (3):226-243. doi:10.29329/ijiaar.2018.151.8.
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Moles are all-natural developments seen on every human skin although there are individuals that would certainly favor doing away with it with any type of all-natural or scientific means due to just how it shows up on the skin. There go to the very least 3 appropriate approaches of getting rid of moles specifically– cutting or complete excision, laser surgical procedure, and also electrocautery.
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Use this guide to upgrade or replace the solid-state drive in a MacBook Pro 15" Early 2013. This MacBook Pro uses a proprietary storage drive connector, and is therefore not compatible with common M.2 drives without the use of an adapter.
Where is the left fan in the pic? Please tell me I don't need to remove the fan before doing the replacement.
I see that for all the guides for all the MBP models with solid state storage, the battery is disconnected before the solid state storage is removed. Why?
Traditional hard drives and SSDs don't have to have their batteries disconnected before removing...do they?
You should remove it. It's just good practice when doing anything internal on any laptop.


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Меріон Рейвенвуд  () — вигаданий персонаж, який вперше з'явився в 1981 році фільму Індіана Джонс: У пошуках втраченого ковчега. Меріон Рейвенвуд, яку зіграла Карен Аллен, входить в історію коли Індіана Джонс відвідує її в Непалі, потребуючи її допомоги в пошуку Ковчега Заповіту за допомогою наконечника посоху Ра, який раніше належав її батьку д-р Абнеру Рейвенвуду (англ.Dr. Abner Ravenwood). Після 27 років відсутності (21 років у внутрішній хронології фільмів), персонаж повернувся в Індіані Джонс і Королівстві кришталевого черепа також у виконанні Карен Аллен.

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UCL English
Dr Tom Owens
Email: t.owens@ucl.ac.uk
External phone: 020 7679 3147
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Office: Foster Court 240
I took my Undergraduate MA at the University of St Andrews (2009), before doing the MSt (2010) and DPhil (2013) at St John's College, Oxford.
From 2013-2017, I was a Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge.
I came to UCL as a Teaching Fellow in September 2017.
From April-October 2018 I held a Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellowship at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study.
My research interests lie predominantly in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. My first book, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and 'the language of the heavens' (OUP, 2019) explores some of the exultant visions inspired by Wordsworth's and Coleridge's analogical imaginations. It examines the scientific patterns that the poets discovered in the world as they came to understand consciousness and cognition through highly self-conscious acts of invention, and includes chapters on: geometry and cartography, nature (representations of the Moon) and natural history (studies of spider-webs, streams, and dew), calculus and quaternions, and infra-red and ultraviolet light.
Other recent or current work includes projects on: the integrity of prose style (in writers such as Richard Hooker, Thomas Browne, Joseph Addison, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge); Jonathan Swift and Matthew Arnold; and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Wordsworth, Coleridge, and 'the language of the heavens' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).
18. 'Hopkins's Kestrel: Drafting "The Windhover", 1877-1884', Victorian Poetry, 57.1 (forthcoming, spring 2019).
17. 'Coleridge and "the general taste for unconnected writing"', The Review of English Studies, 70.293 (2019), 111-34.
16. 'Wordsworth's and Southey's Translations of Michelangelo, 1805-6', Modern Language Notes, 132.1 (2017), 68-75.
15. '"Sweetness and Light" from Swift to Arnold', The Review of English Studies, 68.283 (2017), 99-122.
14. 'Nature's Motto: Wordsworth and the Macmillans', Notes and Queries, 62.3 (2015), 430-35.
13. 'Coleridge's Parentheses and the Question of Editing', Essays in Criticism, 64.4 (2014), 373-93.
12. 'Coleridge, Nitric Acid and the Spectre of Syphilis', Romanticism, 20.3 (2014), 282-93.
11. 'Did the Wordsworths Own a Telescope?', Notes and Queries, 258.2 (2013), 232-35.
10. 'Coleridge's Reading of Two Translations of Galileo's Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems (1632)', Notes and Queries, 258.2 (2013), 229-32.
9. '"Form One Consciousness": Coleridge, Wordsworth, Milton and the Origins of the "Optic Tube" in Poetry', Notes and Queries, 258.2 (2013), 227-28.
8. 'Coleridge's lost marginalia to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (November 1803-May 1809)', The Book Collector, 62.2 (2013), 241-53.
7. '"The Telescope of the church": Coleridge, Astronomy, and Religion', The Coleridge Bulletin, 39.2 (2012), 37-47.
6. 'Coleridge's Marginal Annotations to Robert Percival's An Account of the Island of Ceylon... (1803)', Notes and Queries, 59.3 (2012), 373-75.
5. 'Astronomy at Stowey: The Wordsworths and Coleridge', The Wordsworth Circle, 43.1 (2012), 25-29.
4. 'Wordsworth and G.E. Papendiek (1788-1835)', Notes and Queries, 58.4 (2011), 540-42.
3. 'Wordsworth, William Rowan Hamilton and Science in The Prelude', The Wordsworth Circle, 42.2 (2011), 166-70.
2. 'A Wordsworth Manuscript and a Little-Known Literary Connection', Notes and Queries, 58.1 (2011), 74-75.
1. 'Wordsworth, Galignani, and the Aesthetics of Piracy', The Library, 12.1 (2011), 23-36.
'Mark L. Reed, A Bibliography of William Wordsworth 1787-1930, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)', The Book Collector, 63.4 (2014), 653-57.

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Debby Ryan has had a lot going on in her career this year. Not only did she star in the film Every Day alongside Angourie Rice, but she's also gearing up for her Netflix series Insatiable with Alyssa Milano to drop this Friday, Aug. 10. We're so glad to see one of our fave Disney alums doing such exciting things – but for the purposes of really understanding her roots, let's take it back for a minute.
Debby starred in The Suite Life On Deck and Jessie from the age of 15 to 22. Sure, she was an adult when that era of her life wrapped, but she went into it as a teen. Her new show deals with many struggles teen face IRL – so in a recent interview, she got to talking about how fame amplified normal teenage obstacles for her.
"If you're bred in a world of chaos, sometimes I think the only way you feel comfortable is to recreate that chaos in your life, which is where a lot of us misstep," Debby told People Now.
Back in April, Debby actually reunited with a bunch of other Disney stars of the past – Cole Sprouse, Alyson Stoner, So Random! star Matthew Scott Montgomery and Demi Lovato. And of course, they too know what it's like to go through their younger years in the spotlight.
"It's a nice thing to be able to see someone and be like, you get it," she added, referencing the support she always had from her Suite Life co-stars (and current pals), the Sprouse twins.
Debby isn't the only one who has recently spoken out about the chaos of being a child star. Disney alum Alyson Stoner recently spoke out about trauma caused to her during her time working on Camp Rock.
It's so great to hear Debby speaking out about struggles she's faced in order to maybe help others who are having a tough time as teens themselves.
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Home National Non-NDA states allege bias in shortlist of iconic tourist sites to be developed
Non-NDA states allege bias in shortlist of iconic tourist sites to be developed
New Delhi, April 25: Several non-NDA states have alleged that a central government shortlist of 17 destinations across India for development into "iconic tourist sites" reeks of political bias.
The destinations have been picked from 12 states, of which eight happen to be ruled by NDA governments. Odisha, Punjab, West Bengal, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have demanded that the Centre choose an iconic spot from each state of the country as all of them have something special to offer.
After the 2018-19 post-budgetary proposal, wherein finance minister Arun Jaitley envisaged the creation of 10 iconic tourist sites in various parts of the country, the ministry of tourism earmarked historical monuments, forts, temples, wildlife sanctuaries and other places of tourist interest from 12 states for consideration.
Responding to a question in Parliament recently, tourism minister KJ Alphons said the ministry identified the tourist sites on the basis of footfalls, regional distribution, potential for development and ease of implementation. The tourist spots currently in the shortlist are from Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi, Goa, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala and Bihar.
The six disgruntled states alleged that the Union tourism ministry selected a few highly regarded tourist spots from non-NDA ruled states only to create an illusion of fairness.
Navjot Singh Sidhu, the tourism minister of Punjab, alleged that the government failed to follow its own criteria in site selection. "The Golden Temple in Amritsar gets 1.10 lakh visitors on an average every day, while the Taj Mahal receives just 10,000. Despite that, the Golden Temple wasn't selected."
Sidhu said he has already written to the Union government, demanding that it consider developing sites such as the Golden Temple, Jallianwala Bagh and Khatakar Kala (the birthplace of Bhagat Singh) into iconic tourist destinations.
Odisha tourism minister Ashok Chandra Panda said all states should have been represented as India has a federal structure. "This goes against the principle of federalism," he said, listing out architectural marvels such as the Konark Sun Temple and Jagannath Temple that should have been taken into consideration.
Puducherry chief minister Velu Narayanasamy alleged that the preference given to states ruled by the BJP and its allies was ample indication of the Centre "playing politics" on the issue. "I will meet tourism minister KJ Alphons and tell him very clearly that Puducherry is one of the most important tourist destinations in India," he said. "If even one of the tourist spots in my state is developed as an iconic destination, there will be a marked increase in tourism."
West Bengal tourism minister Goutam Deb also expressed astonishment over iconic monuments like Victoria Memorial failing to make the cut. "We have our own reservations… Ignoring non-NDA states is not justified. They should have selected one place of historical or tourist importance from each state," he said.
Bhumi Akhila Priya, the tourism minister of Andhra Pradesh, criticised the manner in which a few destinations were picked for development as iconic tourist spots when the "diverse and unique features of each place" across the country should be given due importance. "India is full of iconic monuments. The concept of just selecting a few places doesn't make any sense. I think it amounts to disrespecting our diversity," she said.
Rajeev Kohli, senior vice-president of the Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO), also termed the concept of creating iconic tourism spots as flawed.
"Every budget announcement has some proposal or other to promote tourism. However, even the Taj Mahal – one of the seven wonders of the world – lacks basic civic facilities such as public toilets and parking," he said, suggesting that governments at both the central and state levels focus on improving basic amenities at tourist sites instead of undertaking such projects.
"Instead of blaming the Centre, the states should ensure such facilities at tourist spots. Who is stopping Odisha or Punjab from doing that?" asked Kohli.
The Union tourism minister, meanwhile, dismissed the allegations of discrimination in site selection as tourism was a state subject. "Most states put very little money (into tourism). It's their job and we only supplement that," he said.
Alphons explained that the government was developing sites with significant footfalls first because it has "limited money" for the purpose. "We will keep on including more destinations," he added. (Courtesy: HT)
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Why so many overhead wires?
There's probably a very good explanation for it but the streets of Los Angeles seem to have dozens of old power lines. Or may be they're new. Walking past this area the other day I could not help notice, with the ultra modern new skyscraper in the background. There were also people having a lesson in "how not to walk".
The last time we came here…
There were no mobile phones, or cell phones as they call them round these parts. We were met then by Derek, a friend who's ambition was to live in the States and be a hot shot lawyer, who could have blamed him then, it was the 80's and he was from Nottinghamshire. His girlfriend Carol was a Californian who wanted, and did achieve, a quiet life in the UK, turning her back on California.
Like us, at the time, or a little before in his case as he'd already settled over there, we had been living in the same house in Shepherd's Bush, London, hence the connection. One of those big old regency houses near the BBC, a bit gone on the edges and divided into so called 'flats'. I had the top floor and Derek and Carol were my neighbours in a small bedsit on the floor below.
Derek's new 'Condo' in the Santa Monica area of LA was, to say the least, a little different, being the size of a junior basketball pitch and with, even for the 80's almost every conceivable mod con. A big improvement on a front room in Shepherd's Bush with a kitchen in the corner and a Baby Belling. ( Remember those? Small cookers that were used a lot in bedsits, that could heat up to nuclear fission temperatures and presented an almost unthinkable fire hazard. Common in the 70s and 80s )
I can still remember the pervading smell of gasoline when we landed at the airport, LA was suffering one of those petrochemical smogs, that we don't hear about much these days. Derek had forgotten what time he was due to pick us up, we had no means to find him apart from a pay phone in the airport, he wandered into the terminal eventually with an apology, and off we went. No texting or 'whats apping' in those heady days. I've no idea what became of Derek, he probably did become a hot shot lawyer, he was driven enough. Carol became a potter in East Anglia.
I remember also from back then the hundreds of TV channels with little worth watching and a plethora of ads, some of the oddest ads I'd ever seen on TV. Cowboys recommending medicines for constipation was a particular one that lingered far too long in the memory. It's changed a little, there are dozens of ads for the fattiest foods you could possibly imagine, and the strangest ads for medicines that have a litany of what harm they can do to you if you happen to have other medical issues. In fact they go on so much about the side effects you wonder why they are still in business. There's a whiff of lawyers around for these ads. Wonder if it's Derek?
We went out, treated by daughter, the other night, for a sushi dinner. I'm familiar with only sushi Sheffield style, where my son takes us when we go up there. Yorkshire sushi is a slightly different to LA sushi.
The place was in an unassuming parade of shops not far from the 101 Freeway, not dressy, just casual with simple seating. Quite noisy from people chattering, thankfully no music, service was quick and friendly, but as daughter said " Can't take that long to put raw fish on a plate", which was a little on the harsh side as it came looking and tasting great, and not all of it was raw.
We got there by Uber taxi, the journey there silent, the journey back we were driven by a guy who'd been Michael Jackson's driver for a short while. This journey peppered with conversation about all the places he'd been, he made us very welcome in LA, while being interrupted by the lady giving him directions to the house on his cell phone. How taxis managed in this huge town before Sat Nav and Uber is baffling.
To get an idea of the size of the place you could take a trip to the Griffith Observatory, from where you can see the whole of the city spreading out before you, with the straight roads narrowing to the horizon. We had a little outing up there. It's also where James Dean was filmed in "Rebel without a Cause", so they've put up a statue of him there to celebrate. I have to say, not the best piece of sculpture of James Dean, it's a bust, and makes him look in his late 50's, he was only 24 when he died, and I think it needs to be a full body statue to get that particular slouchy look he personified.
The unutterable glamour of flying.
Travelling long haul is exactly that, a long haul. I'm not convinced of the glamour. We took to the skies by the so called trendy Virgin Atlantic to Los Angeles to visit family who've gone there for a while. It was, I suspect just like any other airline, the planes are the same, and the seats not a lot different unless you pay a King's ransom to fly anything other than "Economy". We thought we'd gone one cheaper still by flying "Economy Light" until I discovered that the light meant that you could not take any clothes with you to Los Angeles that would not stuff into a case small enough to fit an overhead locker. It's probably popular as I've discovered since being here, that you only need a change of shorts and t shirt, and my wooly socks and jumpers could have stayed at home. It cost me another 90 quid to bring those woollies with us.
Stuffed into a seat with a telly in the seat in front for nearly 11 hours is not recommended for good back health, or for the digestion. And to help you along they bring what appears to be "meals on wheels-like food". It was not as bad as The dream and the reality… and they had made the effort, but after such a meal I'd have liked a good healthy walk in the fresh air rather then being cooped up in a metal tube. I suppose I could have walked up to first class to see how the other half live. To be fair they looked as raddled as we did after 11 hours and US customs to deal with. I felt like and probably looked like a badly wrapped parcel.
We'd started the journey in England with a coach ride to Heathrow which added a frisson of tension to the journey when the driver took a detour to avoid traffic jams on the M4 by heading south onto the M3. Visions of missed flight loomed but only briefly. His insistence of regaling us with every single safety advice, which was then repeated on a recording after every stop was enough to drive you to distraction, but his creative route taking enabled us to keep moving and get to the airport on time. So we forgave him.
We've been here in La La Land for a few days and the sun has not stopped shining. This massive sprawl of housing and roads stretches for miles, with glamorous areas cross-fading into the more down at heel within a few blocks. Criss cross street plans make it easy enough to get around, heaven knows how drivers from the USA manage on our roads. I doubt there is such a thing as a car without automatic transmission. The people are friendly, and chatty, unlike our British reserve. In a supermarket to pick up a Rug Doctor carpet cleaner a guy nearby volunteered that he found it so hard to do he'd just "got a guy to do it for him". Daughter replied pointing to me: "He'll do it for me".
So here we are and I'm cleaning carpets five and a half thousand miles from home. I brought an apple and orange on the journey only to have to hand it in before I reach US customs. High mileage fruit is not welcome here, and they even have sniffer dogs to seek it out.
More tales from La La Land will follow, if I can stop the sweat leeching through the keyboard.
Here's a house with a roof like a thatch, except it's tiles!


The Android platform includes an Android-specific implementation of the Vulkan API specification from the Khronos Group. Vulkan is a low-overhead, cross-platform API for high-performance, 3D graphics. It provides tools for creating high-quality, real-time graphics in applications. Vulkan also provides advantages such as reducing CPU overhead and providing support for the SPIR-V Binary Intermediate language.
This section begins with information on how to get started using Vulkan in your Android app. Next, it provides useful information that you should know about Vulkan design guidelines on the Android platform. From there, it explains how to use Vulkan's shader compilers. Last, it teaches you how to use validation layers to help assure stability in apps using Vulkan.
For more general information about this cross-platform API specification, see Khronos's Vulkan Overview. You can also keep up with the latest Vulkan-related developments at the Vulkan news page.


Result announced by various universities, boards , schools and colleges in India.
The CGBSE Raipur Board examination results of 10th and 12th classes get from CGBSE Raipur official website.
NBSE : The Nagaland Board of School Education just announced the results of the Class 10 - HSLC (New & Old Course) and Class 12 - HSSLC Examinations 2010.
LKO University B.ed Admission 2010 announced on their website. You may download lko university admit card.
Bharat Electronics Limited is going to recruit in 158 Posts for Engineering graduates and HR Professionals.
The eligible candidates should have attained degrees from AICTE approved Colleges and candidates holding engineering degrees in disciplines Electronics & Communication, Electronics, Computer Science, Communication, Telecommunication, Mechanical, Electronics & Telecommunication, Computer Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Civil Engineering. Candidates with degrees other than the mentioned ones would not be eligible to apply.
Managements candidates are also required holding a MSW or MBA full time two years degree and specialized in HRM or Personnel Management and Industrial Relations.
Vikram University Ujjain Results are available at their home page.
Vikram University is taken to have been established in Ujjain from 1st March ,1957 after the special verdict of the high Court. Vikram University is taken as legally established from the date of publication of the supplementary Madhyabharat Gazette special issue dated 25th June, 1955.
Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education ( hp board ) has declared the Plus Two (Science) Examination Results for the year 2010.
Candidates have to enter their roll numbers and by choosing the examination.
Rajasthan Education Board Ajmer declared the Rajasthan 8th Board Result or Rajasthan Board 8th Class Result 2010.
Call and say 'RESULT' after dialling 1255560 ( BSNL ), 543212222 ( airtel ) 5545678 ( Idea ) , 54321234 ( Tata DOCOMO ), 56566 ( Reliance ).
Bihar Public Service Commission ( BPSC ) result announced.
All India Pre Medical Test is a madical college entrance exam all over India . AIPMT 2010 answer key published for students .


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Apr 9 (Island) Many would have thought it was the end of the road for controversial Minister Mervyn de Silva following his recent public threat to break the legs of those who campaigned against Sri Lanka in Geneva and openly claiming he was the reason behind journalist Poddala Jayantha fleeing the country a few years back, but he was back at his best yesterday, addressing a new year festival at a Dhamma school at Kelaniya. The Minister who took off to Japan for a holiday possibly to escape more..
Apr 9 (AD) Mihin Lanka states that the smoke warning in the cargo area of a Jakarta-bound flight, which resulted in a precautionary landing one hour after takeoff today morning, has been concluded by the investigation team as a �false warning.� Mihin Aircraft MJ603 was flying scheduled services from Colombo to Jakarta today and after one hour of take off there was a smoke warning in AFT cargo area. The pilot carried out the applicable recommended actions and more..
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Apr 9 (BN) Sri Lanka�s rupee will stabilize further and economic expansion may accelerate to 8 percent next year from 7.2 percent in 2012, the island�s central bank said. Inflation will remain in �single-digit� levels this year even as �high and volatile� food and energy costs add to uncertainty about price movements, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka said in its annual report released in Colombo today. more..
Apr 9 (DM) The arbitrary increase not only inconvenienced the vehicle-owners-to-be, but also the importers themselves, who would not have a flowery tale to relate in the coming Avurudu. Despite the blabbering of government mouthpieces that such an increase would effect only a minority given the number that can afford vehicles, a family car or a motorbike have long seized to be luxury items in the market. Besides the question arises as to how this could be an issue of a minority when more..
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Apr 9 (LBO) Sri Lankan shares closed slightly weaker Monday and trading slumped to a low of 132 million rupees, the lowest since May 2009, ahead of traditional new year holidays. The main All Share Price Index fell 0.19 percent to 5,413.12, while the more liquid Milanka index rose 0.07 percent to close at 4,897.16. Turnover was a low 132 million rupees. Lanka Securities said market activity was very low and the daily turnover was the lowest since May 2009. more..
Apr 9 (LT) �Women for Rights� demand the govt to take measures to launch a programme to socialize war widows in the North and the East. This was stated at a media meeting held by �Women for Rights� at Nelli Hotel in Vavuniya. The media meeting was attended by the President of WfR Attorney Ms. Sumana Benaragama, Co-President Ms. Saroja Paulraj, Co-President Ms. Porsia Hassan, General Secretary Ms. Kanthi Pushpalatha, Executive Members Ms. Samanmalee Gunasinghe and more..
Apr 9 (CI) Mahela Jayawaradene has reiterated that his current role as Sri Lanka captain is a short-term job and he wants to find his successor as soon as possible. He accepted a request to captain the team again after Tillakaratne Dilshan lost the post following the tour of South Africa and the results have been creditable so far, especially in this Test series and the CB Series in Australia where they pushed the hosts to a third final before drawing 1-1 more..
Apr 9 (DM) To capture the essence of watching cricket in Galle in the month of March, view your next Test Match from a microwave oven. Spectating there is exhausting, so playing has to be a nightmare. Sri Lanka does this to England in return for our requiring them to play in Cardiff in April. I was part of an audience of 10,000, mostly England supporters, masochistically exposing ourselves to the sun. There was something surreal in having travelled so far to be then more..
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Apr 9 (SLN) Sri Lanka Navy assisted in the repatriation of 9 Sri Lankan fishermen released from Indian custody, today. The fishermen and two fishing boats named �Lakashana - 1� and �Chejana - 9� were received from the Indian Coast Guard Ship �Rani Abbakka� at the International Maritime Boundary Line off Kankasanthurei by the Sri Lankan Naval Vessel P 497 attached to the Northern Naval Command. Sri Lanka Coast Guard Vessel CG 42 too assisted the mission. more..
Apr 9 (Xinhua) After enjoying impressive gains previously, Sri Lanka has slipped in the latest Network Readiness Index (NRI) compiled by the World Economic Forum, a report said. In the 11th annual 2012 Global Information Technology Report, Sri Lanka was ranked 71 with a score of 3.88. In the previous report for 2010-11, Sri Lanka was placed at 66th with a score of 3.81. Though the score has improved a bit in the latest survey, Sri Lanka has slipped in the ranking. more..
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Apr 9 (DM) A retired navy petty officer blew himself up with explosives stuffed into his belt. Police media spokesman Ajith Rohana said the incident was reported on Makubura area in Homagama this morning at around 5.30am. It is believed that he used a stock of fire crackers and stuffed them in his belt. He was found dead inside his room by two of his relatives living with him. Police said that the 59 year old victim was a mentally sick person following the death of his more..
Apr 9 (AFP) Tough economic times lie ahead for Sri Lanka as it grapples with an uncertain global climate and a ballooning trade deficit after posting record growth in 2011, the Central Bank said Monday. The bank has already predicted lower growth of 7.2 percent for the tropical island nation in 2012, down from 8.3 percent in 2011. New measures to hike interest rates, sharply depreciate the rupee and double import taxes in order to tackle the more..
Apr 9 (SM) How can an Australian citizen go crazy here? An Australian citizen cannot do politics here. An Australian citizen should remain in his country, said defence secretary Gotbhaya Rajapaksa, commenting on the disappearance of Frontline Socialist Party leader Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. Lankacnews reports that Australian high commissioner Robyn Modie has telephoned Mr. Rajapaksa and asked him to find the missing citizen of her country. The defence secretary has responded by saying that more..
Apr 9 (Reuters) Sri Lanka will see a surplus of $1.2 billion in its balance of payments by the end of this year, the central bank said on Monday, reversing the last year's deficit of $1 billion. "Sri Lanka would see a balance-of-payments surplus of $1.2 billion this year if the measures we have taken work," Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said while releasing the bank's annual report for 2011. The central bank spend more than $2.7 billion in the second half of last year to more..
Apr 9 (DM) The Frontline Socialists Party today refuted a govt officials statement made to the effect that there is no documentary evidence of Kumar Gunarathnam arriving in the country. The former Propaganda Secretary of the Movement for Peoples Struggle Waruna Rajapakshe said �Gunarathnam was born in Kegalle and studied and St. Mary�s College after which he was a student of the Engineering Faculty at the Peradeniya University, A senior govt official more..
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Apr 9 (SMH) The men came an hour before dawn on Saturday, carrying guns but wearing no uniforms, to tell the neighbours of Premakumar Gunaratnam to keep quiet. They encircled the leftist's house in Colombo and cut the power, before storming it and taking him away. Mr Gunaratnam, a socialist politician with a long history in Sri Lanka who moved to Australia in 2006 under the skilled migration program, has not been seen since. His wife, Champa Somaratna, a GP in Sydney, more..
Apr 9 (Xinhua) President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday reiterated that he stands committed to protect the human rights of his people. Speaking at the launch of the annual report of the country's Central Bank, President Rajapaksa said that the govt is also keen to ensure the peace which was achieved after 30 years of war is sustained. Sri Lanka will in May celebrate three years since the Tamil Tiger rebels were defeated by the military after a bloody more..
Apr 9 (PTI) The CPI-M today urged the Centre to take up political and diplomatic efforts to ensure full rehabilitation and resettlement of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka. Expressing concern at the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka, a resolution adopted at the party's 20th congress said the Centre should also impress upon the Sri Lankan govt to conduct an independent and credible enquiry into alleged human rights violations there and reach a political settlement, more..
Apr 9 (DM) The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) launched today by JVP dissidents charged that recent abductions of their activists showed that the capitalist govt was alarmed at the revival of socialism in Sri Lanka. Party Chairman Senadeera Gunatilake said the forming of their party was the beginning of a new era to unite the socialist movement in the country for a struggle against the capitalist administration and to bring about social reform. more..
Apr 9 (LBO) Indian Oil Corp.'s Sri Lanka unit plans to invest about 35 million US dollars to expand an oil tank farm in the eastern port of Trincomalee to store and export products, an official said. Lanka IOC Managing Director K R Suresh Kumar said the firm has completed initial studies on revamping the tanks which are of World War 2 vintage. "We plan to revamp the tank farm and upgrade the facility," he told LBO. "We want to use it to store petroleum more..
Apr 10 (NS) How did the UN Panel report on Lanka affect the local commentators? I say nothing about foreign commentators because all cultures across the World have popular tropes that depict foreigners as credulous fools (the Brooklyn bridge story, the �parangiya kotte giya� story, etc.) and we can draw on this common heritage to come to terms with the acts of some foreign commentators. But, what about the natives (who are savvy individuals full of native cunning according to the same tropes)? more..
Apr 10 (NS) The fourth BRICS Summit met in New Delhi on March 29. It was attended by Presidents Dilma Rouselff (Brazil), Dmitry Medvedev (Russia), Hu Jintao (China), Jacob Zuma (South Africa) and Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh (India). Started as the Russia-China-India strategic dialogue 10 years ago on the initiative of President Vladimir Putin, the grouping was later joined by Brazil in 2009 and South Africa in 2011.Today BRICS represents 43 percent of the world population and more..
Apr 10 (SO) The UNP, which was the most formidable political force in the country had rendered invaluable services to the nation since its inception under a number of leaders. Some of them had been epoch-makers in the political and socio-economic history of Sri Lanka and earned the most appropriate designations such as Jaathiye Piya and Bath Dun Piya for the immeasurable services they rendered to the nation during their tenures of office. more..
Apr 10 (LB) With the abyss of a collapsing external economy staring it in the face, the government finally stopped encouraging profligacy in vehicle imports and raised duties. Nothing, other than automobiles, seem to have been touched, hence though welcome for other reasons, the impact on the trade deficit will be limited; too little, too late, a knee-jerk reaction. The plunge in the exchange rate will do more than the new vehicle duties to check sinking external accounts. more..
O� Mother Lanka what ails thee ?
Apr 10 (LB) Though the treasury vehemently rejected the claim, that the tax revision which came into effect from March 31, was made on the requirements of the IMF, facts were revealing. The Treasury said that the decision to raise the import tax on vehicles was taken for the economic development of the country and to save foreign exchange. The decision to increase taxes on vehicle imports was taken on a common basis and therefore taxes for three wheelers and motor cycles more..
Apr 10 (TC) Gotabhaya Rajapaksa does not want the national anthem to be sung in Tamil. Two more Buddha statues are being erected Jaffna by the Lankan Armed Forces. The statues of two Tamils, one Indian and one Englishman, located in the Batticaloa town High Security Zone, have been beheaded. Connect the seemingly disparate dots and a coherent picture emerges: that of a regime committed to a Sinhala supremacist peace in a Sinhala supremacist Sri Lanka. more..
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Apr 10 (GV) If Sri Lanka is fast becoming a pariah state in the eyes of the world, it has nothing to do with the recent UNHRC Resolution. The writing has long been on the wall. As a nation, we are ruled by a group of men who seem to have nothing but contempt for the rule of law, let alone for truth in the public sphere. Violence and threats of violence against critics, the suppression of media freedom, extra-judicial killings, misplaced economic priorities and corruption on a scale that more..
Apr 10 (LB) Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka, Sri Lanka�s ambassador to France says �The Sri Lankan public paid him to use his capacity to think and write, not to play the role of a deaf mute.� In an e-mail interview, in the aftermath of the controversy over his being sent a fax by the External Affairs Ministry over alleged corruption issues after he made some statements (post-Geneva), he answers questions about what happened. Q: What did you mean when you said that more..


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This is a show unlike any tribute you have ever seen or heard before. As a Broadway, television, and motion picture actor for over 35 years, Robert Neary creates a one of a kind, cut above the rest, production and actually takes on the full persona of Neil Diamond. He talks about the songs and tells stories behind them. You will swear you are watching the master himself, as he and the band perform 20 of Neil Diamond's greatest hits. Songs like "Cherry Cherry", "I Am, I Said", "I'm a Believer", "Solitary Man", "Holly Holy", "Coming to America", "Sweet Caroline" and so many more. With a surprise finale that will leave you absolutely breathless. Close your eyes while you play the promo video and hear how exactly Robert has captured every nuance of Neil Diamond's signature vocals. You can only imagine the amazement that it brings when you witness the show live. So Good! The Neil Diamond Experience is guaranteed to leave you speechless!
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To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing
Surveillance, technology, and society
Last week, the London Metropolitan Police ('the Met') proudly announced that they've begun using 'LFR', which is their neutral-sounding acronym for something incredibly invasive to the privacy of everyday people in Britain's capital: Live Facial Recognition.
It's obvious that the Met expect some pushback here:
The Met will begin operationally deploying LFR at locations where intelligence suggests we are most likely to locate serious offenders. Each deployment will have a bespoke 'watch list', made up of images of wanted individuals, predominantly those wanted for serious and violent offences.
At a deployment, cameras will be focused on a small, targeted area to scan passers-by. The cameras will be clearly signposted and officers deployed to the operation will hand out leaflets about the activity. The technology, which is a standalone system, is not linked to any other imaging system, such as CCTV, body worn video or ANPR.
London Metropolitan Police
Note the talk of 'intelligence' and 'bespoke watch lists', as well as promises that LFR will not be linked any other systems. (ANPR, for those not familiar with it, is 'Automatic Number Plate Recognition'.) This, of course, is the thin end of the wedge and how these things start — in a 'targeted' way. They're expanded later, often when the fuss has died down.
Meanwhile, a lot of controversy surrounds an app called Clearview AI which scrapes publicly-available data (e.g. Twitter or YouTube profiles) and applies facial recognition algorithms. It's already in use by law enforcement in the USA.
The size of the Clearview database dwarfs others in use by law enforcement. The FBI's own database, which taps passport and driver's license photos, is one of the largest, with over 641 million images of US citizens.
The Clearview app isn't available to the public, but the Times says police officers and Clearview investors think it will be in the future.
The startup said in a statement Tuesday that its "technology is intended only for use by law enforcement and security personnel. It is not intended for use by the general public."
Edward Moyer (CNET)
So there we are again, the technology is 'intended' for one purpose, but the general feeling is that it will leak out into others. Imagine the situation if anyone could identify almost anyone on the planet simply by pointing their smartphone at them for a few seconds?
This is a huge issue, and one that politicians and lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic are both ill-equipped to deal with and particularly concerned about. As the BBC reports, the European Commission is considering a five-year ban on facial recognition in public spaces while it figures out how to regulate the technology:
The Commission set out its plans in an 18-page document, suggesting that new rules will be introduced to bolster existing regulation surrounding privacy and data rights.
It proposed imposing obligations on both developers and users of artificial intelligence, and urged EU countries to create an authority to monitor the new rules.
During the ban, which would last between three and five years, "a sound methodology for assessing the impacts of this technology and possible risk management measures could be identified and developed".
I can't see the genie going back in this particular bottle and, as Ian Welsh puts it, this is the end of public anonymity. He gives the examples of the potential for all kinds of abuse, from an increase in rape, to abuse by corporations, to an increase in parental surveillance of children.
The larger issue is this: people who are constantly under surveillance become super conformers out of defense. Without true private time, the public persona and the private personality tend to collapse together. You need a backstage — by yourself and with a small group of friends to become yourself. You need anonymity.
When everything you do is open to criticism by everyone, you will become timid and conforming.
When governments, corporations, schools and parents know everything, they will try to control everything. This often won't be for your benefit.
We already know that self-censorship is the worst kind of censorship, and live facial recognition means we're going to have to do a whole lot more of it in the near future.
So what can we do about it? Welsh thinks that this technology should be made illegal, which is one option. However, you can't un-invent technologies. So live facial recognition is going to be used (lawfully) by some organisations, even if it were restricted to state operatives. I'm not sure if that's better or worse than everyone having it?
At a recent workshop I ran, I was talking during one of the breaks to one person who couldn't really see the problem I had raised about surveillance capitalism. I have to wonder if they would have a problem with live facial recognition? From our conversation, I'd suspect not.
Remember that facial recognition is not 100% accurate and (realistically) never can be. So there will be false positives. Let's say your face ends up on a 'watch list' or a 'bad actor' database shared with many different agencies and retailers. All of a sudden, you've got yourself a very big problem.
As BuzzFeed News reports, around half of US retailers are either using live facial recognition, or have plans to use it. At the moment, companies like FaceFirst do not facilitate the sharing of data across their clients, but you can see what's coming next:
[Peter Trepp, CEO of FaceFirst] said the database is not shared with other retailers or with FaceFirst directly. All retailers have their own policies, but Trepp said often stores will offer not to press charges against apprehended shoplifters if they agree to opt into the store's shoplifter database. The files containing the images and identities of people on "the bad guy list" are encrypted and only accessible to retailers using their own systems, he said.
FaceFirst automatically purges visitor data that does not match information in a criminal database every 14 days, which is the company's minimum recommendation for auto-purging data. It's up to the retailer if apprehended shoplifters or people previously on the list can later opt out of the database.
Leticia Miranda (BuzzFeed News)
There is no opt-in, no consent sought or gathered by retailers. This is a perfect example of technology being light years ahead of lawmaking.
This is all well-and-good in situations where adults are going into public spaces, but what about schools, where children are often only one step above prisoners in terms of the rights they enjoy?
Recode reports that, in schools, the surveillance threat to students goes beyond facial recognition. So long as authorities know generally what a student looks like, they can track them everywhere they go:
Appearance Search can find people based on their age, gender, clothing, and facial characteristics, and it scans through videos like facial recognition tech — though the company that makes it, Avigilon, says it doesn't technically count as a full-fledged facial recognition tool
Even so, privacy experts told Recode that, for students, the distinction doesn't necessarily matter. Appearance Search allows school administrators to review where a person has traveled throughout campus — anywhere there's a camera — using data the system collects about that person's clothing, shape, size, and potentially their facial characteristics, among other factors. It also allows security officials to search through camera feeds using certain physical descriptions, like a person's age, gender, and hair color. So while the tool can't say who the person is, it can find where else they've likely been.
Rebecca Heilweil (Recode)
This is a good example of the boundaries of technology that may-or-may-not be banned at some point in the future. The makers of Appearance Search, Avigilon, claim that it's not facial recognition technology because the images it captures and analyses are tied to the identity of a particular person:
Avigilon's surveillance tool exists in a gray area: Even privacy experts are conflicted over whether or not it would be accurate to call the system facial recognition. After looking at publicly available content about Avigilon, Leong said it would be fairer to call the system an advanced form of characterization, meaning that the system is making judgments about the attributes of that person, like what they're wearing or their hair, but it's not actually claiming to know their identity.
You can give as many examples of the technology being used for good as you want — there's one in this article about how the system helped discover a girl was being bullied, for example — but it's still intrusive surveillance. There are other ways of getting to the same outcome.
We do not live in a world of certainty. We live in a world where things are ambiguous, unsure, and sometimes a little dangerous. While we should seek to protect one another, and especially those who are most vulnerable in society, we should think about the harm we're doing by forcing people to live the totality of their lives in public.
What does that do to our conceptions of self? To creativity? To activism? Live facial recognition technology, as well as those technologies that exist in a grey area around it, is the hot-button issue of the 2020s.
Image by Kirill Sharkovski. Quotation-as-title by Elizabeth Bibesco.
Reappropriating the artifacts of late-stage capitalism
During our inter-railing adventure this summer, we visited Zurich in Switzerland. In one of the parks there, we came across a dockless scooter, which we promptly unlocked and had a great time zooming around.
As you'd expect, the greatest density of dockless bikes and scooters — devices that don't have to be picked up or returned in any specific place — is in San Francisco. It seems that, in their attempts to flood the city and gain some kind of competitive advantage, VC-backed dockless bike and scooter startups are having an unintended effect. They're helping homeless people move around the city more easily:
Hoarding and vandalism aren't the only problems for electric scooter companies. There's also theft. While the vehicles have GPS tracking, once the battery fully dies they go off the app's map.
"Every homeless person has like three scooters now," [Michael Ghadieh, who owns electric bicycle shop, SF Wheels] said. "They take the brains out, the logos off and they literally hotwire it."
I've seen scooters stashed at tent cities around San Francisco. Photos of people extracting the batteries have been posted on Twitter and Reddit. Rumor has it the batteries have a resale price of about $50 on the street, but there doesn't appear to be a huge market for them on eBay or Craigslist, according to my quick survey.
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Local singer-songwriter to celebrate debut album at Yellow Cab
Local singer-songwriter Amber Hargett's debut album, "Paper Trail," a collection of lushly-recorded Americana songs, is being released at Yellow Cab Tavern in Dayton on Saturday, March 30. CONTRIBUTED
By Don Thrasher
Amber Hargett's magnificent debut, "Paper Trail," getting its official release at Yellow Cab Tavern in Dayton on Saturday, March 30, is a collection of lushly-recorded Americana songs and she's as surprised as anyone.
"I had no intentions of making a record like this and releasing it publicly," she said recently. "My husband, Nick, was like, 'You've got these songs backed up, why don't we make a go of it?' He suggested we do it so we at least have a record for ourselves."
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She reluctantly agreed to share a few originals with Patrick Himes at Reel Love Recording Company, who not only recorded the sessions and helped with arrangements, but also played keyboards, drums and other instruments on "Paper Trail."
"I just wanted to get my family off my back," she said. "I told Patrick, 'They've been asking me to do this for a long time so I just want to record some acoustic versions of the songs.' He was like, 'If that's what you want, OK.' I played him a couple of songs and we ended up scheduling our first studio date."
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Luckily for music fans, the singer's plans for a simple acoustic project were scuttled when Himes dropped a bombshell after the first song was recorded.
"Patrick really surprised me," Hargett said. "He goes, 'I know you said you just want to do acoustic and that's fine because the songs stand alone fine, but I think they're good. You really should consider doing this with a full band.' I'm like, 'I don't have a band.' He's like, 'That's alright, I play a number of instruments.' (laughs) Huh, that's the understatement of the year."
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Hargett agreed to try one song to see how it would go. In the end, the album has extra touches like keyboards, percussion, electric guitars and even strings and horns.
"Going back and hearing that first song with all the layers on it, was a really compelling argument for doing more songs like that," she said. "It really brought the songs to life. It really tells the whole story by giving you visuals and so much for depth. I'm so grateful for Patrick for being my one-man band."
While Himes played many instruments, he also enlisted some talented friends such as Brian Hoeflich, Erich Reith, Gary King and Trey Stone.
"I'm acutely aware of how fortunate I am to be doing this right now," Hargett said. "There is so much good musicianship right in our own backyard but I didn't know it existed until I was a part of it."
Who: Amber Hargett with Neo American Pioneers and Biscuits & Gravy
Where: Yellow Cab Tavern, 700 E. Fourth St., Dayton
When: 8 p.m. Saturday, March 30. Doors open at 7 p.m.
Cost: $9 in advance, $12 at the door
More info: 937-424-3870 or www.yellowcabtavern.com
Artist info: amberhargett.bandcamp.com
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