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KTET Kerala Teachers Eligibility Test 2017-18 for Teachers | Last date: 3 December 2017
KTET Kerala Teachers Eligibility Test 2017-18 KTET examination to assess the quality of teacher candidates for Lower Primary, Upper Primary and High School Classes in Kerala.The detailed eligibility and application process of KTET Kerala Teachers Eligibility Test are given in below.
KTET Kerala Teachers Eligibility Test 2017-18:
Job Role Teachers
Qualification B.A/B.Sc/B.Com/B.El.Ed./ B.Sc.Ed./Others
Total vacancies Not Disclosed
Last date 3 December 2017
Exam date 28 & 30 December 2017
KTET Kerala Teachers Eligibility Test Detailed Eligibility:
Category I:
Higher Secondary/ Senior Secondary or (or its equivalent) with at least 45% marks and two year Trained Teachers' Certificate TTC / DEd [by whatever name known] conducted by Board of Examination, Govt. of Kerala or its equivalent. OR
Higher Secondary/ Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 45% marks and 2-year Diploma in Elementary Education (by whatever name known), in accordance with NCTE (Recognition Norms and Procedure), Regulations 2002. OR
Higher Secondary/Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and 4 year Bachelor of Elementary Education (B.El.Ed.) OR
Higher Secondary/Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and 2 year Diploma in Education (Special Education). OR
Other Equivalent qualification.
Category II:
B.A/B.Sc./B.Com. and 2 year Diploma in Elementary Education/Trained Teachers' Certificate TTC / DEd [by whatever name known] conducted by Board of Examination, Govt. of Kerala or its equivalent. OR
B.A/B.Sc/B.Com with at least 45% marks and 1 year Bachelor in Education (B.Ed.), in accordance with NCTE (Recognition, Norms and Procedure) regulations issued from time to time in this regard. OR
Higher Secondary/Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and 4 year Bachelor in Elementary Education (B.El.Ed.) OR
Higher Secondary/ Senior Secondary (or its equivalent) with at least 50% marks and 4 year B.A/B.Sc.Ed or B.A. Ed or B.Sc.Ed. OR
Category III:
BA/BSc/B.Com with at least 45% marks and a B.Ed. Degree in the subject concerned (from any one of the Universities in Kerala or have acquired these qualifications from any other Universities recognized as equivalent thereto). OR
For Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology, those who have MSc.Ed. Degree in the subject concerned with not less than 50% marks from one of the Regional Institutes of Education sponsored by NCERT will be eligible to apply. For Botany and Zoology subjects, those with MSc.Ed. Degree in Life Science with not less than 50% marks from any of the Regional Institutes of Education are eligible to apply. OR
BA or equivalent with at least 45% marks and who passed in LTTC are eligible to apply.
Category IV:
Those who have acquired qualifications for the posts of Language Teachers of Arabic, Hindi, Sanskrit & Urdu (up to Upper Primary level), Specialist teachers & Physical Education teachers as mentioned in Chapter XXXI of KERALA EDUCATION ACT AND RULES are eligible to apply for K-TET- IV. OR
Note: Candidates, who have acquired Certificate/ Diploma/ Degree in teaching in any subject, and are approved by Universities/NCTE/ Board of Examinations/ Government of Kerala, are eligible to apply for K-TET-IV.
KTET Kerala Teachers Eligibility Test – Scheme of Examination:
There shall be only one paper in this category. All questions shall be Multiple Choice
Questions (MCQs) each carrying one mark. There will be four alternatives out of which one
will be the correct answer. The total number of MCQs shall be 150.
Subject Questions Marks
Child Development and Pedagogy 30 30
Mathematics 30 30
Environmental Studies 30 30
Language I-Malayalam/ Tamil/Kannada 30 30
Language II- English/Arabic 30 30
Total 150 150
Mathematics and Science/Social Science/ any other teachers 60 60
Language I-Malayalam/Tamil/ Kannada/ English 30 30
Language II-(Other than Language I) Malayalam/English 30 30
Adolescent Psychology, Theories of Learning & Teaching Aptitude 40 40
Language: Malayalam/ English/ Tamil/Kannada 30 30
Subject specific areas (Content & Pedagogy) 80 80
Child Development, Pedagogy & Teacher Aptitude 30 30
Language Malayalam/English/ Tamil/Kannada 40 40
Subjects specific paper (Content & Pedagogy) 80 80
Qualifying Marks for KTET Kerala Teachers Eligibility Test:
A person who scores 60% or more in the K-TET examination will be considered 'K-TET passed' or 'K-TET qualified'. Relaxation of 5% will be allowed to the candidate who belongs to SC/ST, OBC and differently abled categories. Visually impaired candidates who have not less than 40% of disability are allowed to 10% relaxation for acquiring K-TET.
Negative Marks: There shall be no negative marks for the test.
Examination Fee: Rs.500/- (For SC/ST/PWD candidates: Rs.250/-)
Examination dates for KTET Kerala Teachers Eligibility Test:
Category Date of Examination Duration Time
KTET I 28 December 2017 10.00 am – 12.30 pm 2 ½ hrs
KTET II 28 December 2017 2.00 pm – 4.30 pm 2 ½ hrs
KTET III 30 December 2017 10.00 am – 12.30 pm 2 ½ hrs
KTET IV 30 December 2017 2.00 pm – 4.30 pm 2 ½ hrs
How to apply for KTET Kerala Teachers Eligibility Test 2017-2018?
All interested and eligible candidates can apply for this position in online latest by 3 December 2017.
Submission of Online Application from: 20/11/2017 to 03/12/2017
Downloading Admit Card through website: 15/12/2017
Date of Examinations: 28/12/2017 and 30/12/2017

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After hosting a brief stint in the defunct Sink|Swim space in Logan Square, the popular, crowd-pleasing Good Fortune pop-up has found a permanent home elsewhere in the restaurant-packed neighborhood.
Now situated in The General's former home on California Avenue, a stone's throw from other local hot spots like Mi Tocaya Antojeria—turning this street into a veritable Restaurant Row—the restaurant seeks to elevate the ethos that earned it acclaim in the first place.
That means an emphasis on sustainable seafood and fish, prepared in elegant style with a nod towards seasonality. It's all courtesy of chef Charles Welch, formerly of Honey's.
Good Fortune's vibe is certainly inspired by supper clubs of yesteryear. In fact, THEY describe it as a "1970s dinner party," with the best of the era's music entertaining diners as they grub.
Articles about Good Fortune
A's List: The modern supper club offers new twists, while paying homage to the past.


These high quality printed flags are constructed of a heavyweight, 200 denier, nylon material. This is a high quality flag that boasts brilliant colors of all printed images. This flag is fitted with a canvas heading and brass grommets for outdoor use. This is a durable, quick-drying flag that is perfect for flying in light to moderate wind areas as well as in wet weather conditions.This Flag is Single/Reversed, the image is visible on both sides of the flag, correct on the front side and reversed on the back. Made in America!


Information and inventories of cemeteries and wilderness grave sites in the Yukon, Alaska, northern BC, and the NWT.
Short bios, listed by the person's home town.
This large site provides bios of the most prominent people buried here, and a master burial database makes finding a specific grave easy.
With tens of thousands of cheechakos on the trail to the goldfields, accidents along the waterways of the North were inevitable - here is a list of some of them.
A review of the book by Claire Rudolph Murphy and Jane G. Haigh. .
These very descriptive letters home originally appeared in the Hollister Free Lance newspaper in 1898.
Biographies of 120 of the people who gave places in Alaska their names.
A listing of all Alaska State Troopers and other peace officers who have been killed in the line of duty in the state.
A listing of all police officers (NWMP, RNWMP and RCMP) who have been killed in the line of duty in the territory.
A photo of 11 members of the crew with a complete listing of crew members and some biographies.
A wide variety of biographies and death notices related to people buried at the Pioneer Cemetery, which closed in 1965.
One of the things that makes the Yukon "The Land of Magic & Mystery" is that there are ghosts everywhere!
In an article published in January 1898, The Dyea Trail claims that George Adams was the first American to set foot in the Yukon basin, in 1865 - was he really?
The almost certain death of William Albee and his wife in the wilds of northern British Columbia got extensive coverage in American newspapers in June 1930.
Dr. Albrecht came to Alaska to work in the Matanuska valley farming community that had been established, and went on to become an internationally-known expert on Northern health issues.
William Anstett - "Chicken Billy"
A lengthy article about Dawson farmer William Anstett, by Frank G. Carpenter, from the El Paso Herald of July 8, 1916, with lots of detail about Yukon agriculture.
A newspaper report of the death by suicide of trapper and miner Charles A. Bailer, who shot himself in a room at the Commercial hotel.
A moving collection of letters follow an attempt to earn money during the Klondike rush, which ended in tragedy.
A biography of one of the prime architects of Alaskan statehood.
Deemed the greatest ice captain of the 20th century, "Captain Bob" worked as a sealer, Arctic explorer, ice captain and scientist.
Beaton worked for the Hudson's Bay Company for 45 years, 30 of them as factor of posts in the Fort St. John region.
In 1934, the French millionaire started north from Edmonton in a bizarre expedition to explore the country with 2 limousines, 5 Citroen half-tracks, and 130 horses.
Between 1904 and 1911, Captain Joseph Bernier did more than any other person to solidify Canada's claim to the Arctic Islands.
Commodore Bertholf's long career with the Revenue Cutter Service and Coast Guard included a recue mission that earned him a Medal of Honor.
George and Martha came for the gold, but remained to play important parts in the Yukon's development.
Distributed to combat rumours that Capt. George Black, Conservative candidate for election to Parliament, was an outsider and non-resident of the Yukon.
A series of affidavits regarding Black's death by drowning in the Stikine River near Glenora in April 1898, including a list of his heirs.
A brief look at Henry's activities in turn-of-the-century Yukon and Alaska.
"Tommy" (1882-1964) lived in Carcross for some 40 years, and wrote verse that some people think equals that of Robert Service.
One of the most daring of the early Arctic explorers is all but forgotten today.
An introduction to a man who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his part in one of the greatest of Alaskan rescue missions.
A very good biography of Clum, who arrived in Alaska in 1898 as a Special Commissioner for the Post Office, and was very influential until his departure in 1909.
A biography of this black pioneer of Washington State and Alaska, by Douglas Q. Barnett.
This site gives a lengthy extract from the book Fractured Veins & Broken Dreams, the history of Conrad's Yukon silver mines.
While his exploration of the coast of Alaska in 1778 was not one of his greatest accomplishments, it added an enormous amount of information to the blank spots on the maps of the northern coast.
A fairly lengthy letter published in the Alaska Search Light of August 29, 1896 describes a trip up the Kenai River with Cooper.
This lengthy article by Arsenio Rey-Tejerina examines Cordova's influence on Alaska, and provides information on other Spanish expeditions.
This article from the November 19, 1898 issue of The Dyea Press tells of Dahlman's death during a blizzard on the Chilkoot Pass.
A brief article about the death of a former Yukon bush pilot being killed in the crash of a twin-engined bomber in 1943 led me on a search to find out more about his life.
Marie was the author of the words to Alaska's State Song, "Alaska's Flag."
A report on the death by drowning in the Yukon River of the 15-year-old son of one of the owners of the Taylor & Drury mercantile company.
The story of one of Alaska's most famous pioneer fliers.
Chief scout during the Riel Rebellion, Ennis later went north to the Klondike - a pair of newspaper articles from 1923 are posted.


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Pentax KP is the unofficial successor to Pentax K3 II originally released in 2015 although the parent company Ricoh states that KP doesn't replace K3 II.
The camera boasts an impressive 24.3 MP APS-C CMOS sensor.
The autofocus (AF) system employs 27 points. The majority of the AF points are located in the centre in order to boost focus under low-light conditions.
The 3-inch LCD screen is really practical and plays an integral part during shootings and recordings. The screen supports vertical tilting, which implies that it can be viewed from above or below. For example, one could place the camera on the ground and look from above when shooting close-ups of flowers. Furthermore, Pentax KP utilises a design called "air-gapless" that reduces screen reflections during bright outdoor conditions. There's also a handy Outdoor View Setting that automatically adjusts for brightness.
The camera normally records in full-HD format. However, it can combine multiple 4K photos and create a 4K video using the 4K Internal Movie mode.
The price listed on Ricoh's US site is US$1,099.95. This means that the local price in New Zealand will be about $1,780.
Pentax KP goes on sale on February 25th in the US. Pentax hasn't revealed any details about the worldwide release schedule.


The Charlie Daniels Band was formed in 1970, with Charlie Daniels joined by Barry Barnes (guitar), Mark Fitzgerald (bass), Fred Edwards and Gary Allen (drums), and Taz DiGregorio (keyboards). They started recording southern rock-styled albums for Kama Sutra. Although a multi-instrumentalist, Daniels was a limited vocalist, but his voice was well suited to the talking-style "Uneasy Rider", which reached the US Top 10 in 1973. He followed it with his anthem for southern rock, "The South's Gonna Do It". In 1974, Daniels had members of The Marshall Tucker Band and The Allman Brothers Band join him onstage in Nashville. It was so successful that he decided to make his so-called Volunteer Jam an annual event. It led to some unlikely combinations of artists such as James Brown performing with Roy Acuff, and the stylistic mergers have included Crystal Gayle singing the blues with the Charlie Daniels Band.
The Charlie Daniels Band underwent some personnel changes on 1975's Nightrider, with Tom Crain, Charlie Hayward and Don Murray (3) replacing Barnes, Fitzgerald and Allen respectively. When Daniels moved to Epic in 1976, there was a concerted effort to turn the band into a major concert attraction, despite the fact that at 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighing 20 stone Daniels was no teenage idol: he hid his face under an oversized cowboy hat. The albums sold well, and in 1979, when recording his Million Mile Reflections album, he recalled a 20s poem, "The Mountain Whipporwill", by Stephen Vincent Benet. The band developed this into "The Devil Went Down To Georgia", in which Johnny outplays the Devil to win a gold fiddle. Daniels overdubbed his fiddle seven times to create an atmospheric recording that topped the US country charts and reached number 3 in the US pop charts. It was also a UK Top 20 success.
In 1980 the band recorded "In America" for the hostages in Iran, and then in 1982, "Still In Saigon" , about Vietnam. The band were featured on the soundtrack for Urban Cowboy and also recorded the theme for the Burt Reynolds movie Stroker Ace. The 13th Volunteer Jam was held in 1987, but financial and time constraints meant the event was put on temporary hiatus (it resumed four years later). In the late 80s Daniels appeared in the movie Lone Star Kid and published a book of short stories, but continued touring and playing his southern boogie to adoring audiences.
During the 90s Daniels updated "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" with Johnny Cash and continued in his politically incorrect way - in simple language, he advocates both lynching and red-baiting; not a man to stand next to at the bar. He signed a new recording contract with Liberty in 1993, but also targeted the white gospel market through a deal with Sparrow Records. The albums The Door and Steel Witness earned Daniels several awards from the Christian recording community. In 1997 Daniels inaugurated his own Blue Hat Records and also released his first children's album, By The Light Of The Moon: Campfire Songs & Cowboy Tunes, on the Sony Wonder label. Two years later he took his Volunteer Jam event on the road for the first time.


NORWOOD, N.J. – John G. Henrici, a resident of Norwood, died Sunday, March 6. He was 81.
Henrici was a U.S. Army veteran. He also was a painter, who retired from Handford Brown Company in Fort Lee after 47 years of service. He was a coach in Norwood for many years for both the Immaculate Conception basketball team and Little League baseball.
He is survived by his wife, Eileen; his children, John Gregg, of Florida, Steven and his wife, Tara, of Northvale; grandchildren, Steven, Brenda and Sarah; and brother, Walter.
He was predeceased by his daughter, Theresa; and a brother, Francis.


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MAFG aligned with Freedom Warranty in 2016 to provide industry leading services, products and plans to automotive dealers and dealerships. "Freedom Warranty is always revolutionizing the industry in terms of VSC's, GAP, wheel and tire, financing and more," a spokesperson for MAFG stated.
"Freedom Warranty allows my agency to offer dealers and dealerships second to none services, products and plans. Any brand, make and model. An industry leading cpo/wrap like VSC. 200k starting miles. A fair, generous and transparent claims process. The easiest to use portal in the industry, and much more", MAFG owner J. Gregory Shenenberger said. "There is nothing like it on the market from an all-encompassing end."
MAFG partners with dealers in the American, Asian, Euro, salvage, r-title and exotic vehicle markets and also supports classic vehicle aficionados. "Several of our favorites are older version Ferraris, Lambos and Vettes, so we definitely support the rapport we have in the classics markets. Also love the antiques and resto-mod markets. When we say any vehicle, we mean any vehicle; any definitely means any with us and with Freedom Warranty."
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1. What do you understand by constitution?
2. What is the importance of Kenya having a constitution?
3. Explain the meaning of devolved government.
4. All the rights and freedoms of an individual citizen are outlined in the _____________.
5. What are the 3 main branches of government?
6. When did Kenya get a new constitution?
7. What is the county government responsible for?
8. Under what circumstances is the Kenyan constitution amended?


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Fargo Showrunner Noah Hawley on the Finale and His Plans for Season 2
By Denise Martin
Photo: Chris Large/FX
Requisite spoiler warning: The Fargo finale is full of many wonderful surprises. If you haven't yet seen it, turn around and come back later. And you might want to read our recap before you do.
FX's adaptation of Fargo turned out to be a marvel, at once familiar to those who've watched and rewatched the original Coen brothers film, yet wholly original. As in the 1996 classic, Tuesday's extra-long and extra-bloody finale found the bad guys paying for their sins, the decent folks of Bemidji going back to life as usual, and us a little bummed about having to stop playing in the snow. For extra closure, we rang up executive producer Noah Hawley to discuss how he chose to tie up the various threads before heading off to season two, which, like HBO's True Detective, will focus on an entirely new story and set of characters. We also got the story behind episode seven's wild, one-shot Malvo massacre and also asked about Bill's adopted Sudanese son, since that whole thing was the best.
Molly doesn't get to put down Lorne or Lester. Was that a decision that you went back and forth on?
Every episode starts with a disclaimer: This is a true story. Real life unfolds differently than scripted stories, and I took my cue from the movie Fargo. Jerry Lundegaard (played by William H. Macy) is arrested in the end in a motel by a bunch of state cops or cops from whatever jurisdiction he has fled to. Molly isn't there [for Lester's demise] because it's not her jurisdiction and the reality is there's an APB out for the guy and whichever cops found him found him. That worked because it felt real, whereas in the sort of John Wayne version it would be John Wayne kicking down the door and getting the bad guy. As much as I want to give the audience the sort of satisfying conclusion that they're expecting, I also know they're expecting it because it's such a cliché at this moment. If I could find an ending that they didn't see coming but is hugely satisfying on its own, it felt like more of an accomplishment to me.
Fargo Season Finale Recap: Frozen Dope
Fargo's Allison Tolman on That Surprise Twist
Some showrunners seem to think their stories can only be "honest" if the hero or someone close to them dies, and since this was a close-ended story, you could have killed off anyone. But Molly, Gus, and their family come out of it alive. What was your thinking in how to end the story?
Haven't I killed enough people? [Laughs.] I mean, but you didn't know that's how it was going to end. There was a real tension to it. I certainly could have killed one of them. But I also think it's true that I was adapting this movie, and this movie has a very iconic ending to it where all the good people are home safe and sound in the end except for Jerry's poor wife. The movie ends with Marge, a baby in two months, and Norm getting the three-cent stamp. Life is going to go back to normal. I think that's a huge element of why the movie's so powerful. This very decent woman went out and faced a real evil and came home and gets to go back to her small town life. In my mind, there was never a version that wasn't going to end that way, but that's not a card I was going to show anyone.
For me, the death of Lester's second wife, Linda, was the show's most tragic moment. How low could Lester sink?
It was certainly his snakiest act. But I was also impressed by the audience's ability to still root for him in a way. This is a guy who put a gun in a child's backpack, you know? We all should have given up on him in that very moment. But there's something about characters who make things happen. He took on a sort of Malvo-like quality, and I still get people who consider Malvo the protagonist of the show. There's something fun about him. He's an anarchic character. He pushes people. There's humor to it. It's seductive.
Lester gets the upper hand on Lorne with the bear trap and Gus ultimately takes him out. Was Lorne getting too cocky in underestimating and condescending to these these small town people he'd been toying with?
He's basically spent his whole life seeing how far he can push civilized people to act in uncivilized ways, and he recognizes something in Lester when they're in the elevator in Vegas that he hasn't seen before and that's more interesting to him than this scam he's been running. I do think he underestimates Lester, obviously, who gets the drop on him and turns out to be a better strategist than Malvo. With Gus, the universe, for whatever reason, kept putting Malvo in front of Gus — who in some ways spent the whole time trying to make up for their first interaction. But there, Malvo also wins. Because if his goal is to push civilized people to do something animal, then it works — he pushes Gus to that point where Gus shoots him.
Can you talk about casting Key and Peele's Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele as FBI agents Pepper and Budge? Did you write with them in mind, or did the idea come up later?
That idea came up while we were shooting episodes three and four. Pepper and Budge are partners, they're a pair, so you needed actors who felt like an old pair of shoes or an old married couple. I joked with them that when I first met them that Key and Peele is just them auditioning for different types of movies. They didn't dissuade me from that idea. They were fun to work with, and they loved getting the opportunity. Pepper and Budge are slightly comic characters in a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern kind of way, but there's drama there. The idea that Deputy Solverson has the answers and she's like a guru on a mountaintop and they finally find her and they're sitting at her feet going, "You have to tell us. Who is he?" I mean, they were so great in that moment.
Malvo's massacre of the crime syndicate Pepper and Budge were keeping tabs on plays out in one long tracking shot of a building's exterior windows, as Malvo shoots his way through each room. Was that a budgetary decision, or was it really how you wrote it?
Not only was it in the script, the outline I turned in to the network came with a diagram attached. That would have been somewhere back in April or May of last year. I just loved this idea that he would go in — because messing with Malvo is a bad idea — and methodically get rid of the Fargo syndicate. What I liked about the way we shot it is there's comedy to it, which felt very Coen brothers to me. And while we were shooting, that episode of True Detective aired with their six-minute tracking shot, and I thought it worked great in that episode, and I thought it had so much tension. Ultimately, that's a more macho version. What we were doing was much more in the spirit of our show, and in order to pull it off, we used a combination of live-action filming and the creation of a CG building that we then could do the camera move on.
Was there ever any intention of checking back in with Stavros (Oliver Platt) or Mr. Wrench (Russell Harvard), whom Malvo tells to come find him?
Yeah, there was a scene in episode seven with Stavros and Gus, where Gus went back investigating the company car and finds Stavros throwing copies of his book into the fireplace. It was a really beautiful, kind of haunting scene, and it will be in the DVD extras, but in some ways it didn't really move the story forward. The way we left Stavros was so iconic and it just didn't feel like it added enough to the overall story. It also felt like it slowed down that specific episode so we ended up taking it out. And then I liked the idea that Mr. Wrench is out there. If you as a viewer had it in the back of your head that he was going to show up in the last two episodes, I didn't mind that.
When you think about next season, do you worry about the freshness of the idea being gone? People were skeptical at first but now you'll have high expectations for any kind of follow-up.
Now they're gonna see me coming, right? It was such an impossible task to take on in the first place and the only way to do it was to trust my instincts. I had no idea the show would work as well as it did. I just sat in a room with a few writers and we bounced stuff off the wall, and if we really liked something, we put it into the show, and if we didn't, then we didn't. So I would do it the same way again. I wouldn't want to repeat myself, that's for sure.
But structurally, you'd have to do something different next time. This season had a lot of nods to many Coen brothers movies, as well as specific Fargo archetypes, (the two hitmen, a Marge type, a Jerry type, a similar crime). I'm wondering if you think your approach to another season would have to change.
I like the idea that somewhere out there there's a big leather-bound book called The History of True Crime in the Midwest and these are all stories in it. There might on the surface be a connection between the stories but maybe once you get deeper you see something. I like that idea.
When we talked about the briefcase that unites this show with the movie, I know you hadn't yet heard from the Coen brothers. Now that the show is all in the can has that changed?
Well, they've got their next movie and I'm sure they're in pre-production on that. We're not BFFs calling each other every ten minutes. I think they're very pleased with how this came out and surprised that it did come out this way. But those guys more than anyone I've ever met really have created a bubble for themselves that allows them to do the work that they do. I'm hoping they make 15 more movies, so I don't want to get in the way of that.
Before you have to jump, I wanted to ask about my favorite moment on the show, which is the story of how Bill and his adopted Sudanese son Tahir found each other. Where did that come from?
We had toyed with the idea of having a sort of lost boy presence, a larger lost boy presence in the season, but there ends up being too much story. But I did want to preserve this because it seems like something the Coen brothers would make up, that all these kids from the Sudan would come and be living in Minnesota, the coldest region in the country. I wanted to play around with that. I liked that it played into the "you just have to accept the mystery" theme the Coens established in A Serious Man that we played with. And it really showed Bill in a different light. He had said to Molly a year earlier, in the same episode, "Sometimes you just go to bed unsatisfied," and here he is saying to her, "Sometimes things just work out." There was a change there that played into what was about to happen, which is that out of the blue Lester was going to run into Malvo again and the whole thing was going to come back, and Molly was going to get another chance.
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In a week of trailer releases, a new bit of trailer footage has come out now for London Has Fallen the sequel to 2013's Olympus Has Fallen. The trailer begins showing Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) and President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) taking a jog near the White House before we cut to when several world leaders including President Asher all come to meet in London, England for the British Prime Minister's funeral. All seems to quiet as we then see several areas in London decimated and the other world leaders taken out. All that's left is the president whom a terrorist named Barkawi (Alon Aboutbol) wants to kill.
It is a race against time as Barkawi continues to reak havoc all over the city killing people left and right and destroying landmarks. Banning and his team must do everything in their power to stop the mad man from not only killing the president but unleashing hell upon every major city in the world. The trailer as expected is heavy on the action and patriotism just like its original.
Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Alon Aboutbol, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Jackie Earle Haley and Melissa Leo all star in the action flick. London has Fallen hits theaters March 4 2016. Scroll down to see the new trailer.


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Presentations Of Information (POI): What is Patentable?
of Silvia Cataldi
Among XXI century's inventions we also count those about presentations of information (POI), out of which graphical user interfaces (GUI) constitute a subset. But what are the characteristics necessary in order to make POI, and in particular GUI, patentable?
In almost all areas of daily life, anybody can experience and use some particular types of presentations of data or information, such as those generated by electronic devices or systems, be they commonly used or not. These are cognitive data, that is to say interaction modes between human beings and machines in general, delivered through direct information – either in visual, acoustic, tactile and haptic form – to a user, having no impact on the technical functioning of the device or system.
When are POI patentable?
In order for POI to be patentable, two hurdles should be overcome: the first one is represented by Art. 52(2)(d) of the European Patent Convention – EPC, while the second one is the inventive step requirement established by Art. 56 of EPC, in a revised version for POI.
According to Art. 52(2)(d), POI are not patentable as such. However, if there is at least one technical feature like a computer, a screen, a device, a process implemented by a computer, then information become patentable and so they get over the first hurdle.
With regards to the assessment of the inventive step requirement, it is necessary to establish if the features of the invention actually contribute to its technical character. Usually, POI taken by themselves are not technical. However, if in the context of the invention they contribute to produce a technical effect reaching a technical objective, then it can be stated that they contribute to the invention's technical character and so they get over the second hurdle as well.
When does a feature defining a POI produce a technical effect?
In order to answer this question, the so-called three criteria test is used, that is an assessment regarding whether or not the user is actually supported by the POI during the performance of a technical task/objective, through a continuous human-machine interaction.
In particular, by actually supported we mean when the feature allows to assist the user while performing a technical task objectively and reliably, therefore when the user really succeeds in reaching the desired technical effect. This does not happen, for example, if the final effect depends on the subjective interests or on the users' preferences. In fact, human perceptions cannot be qualified as having a technical nature.
Examples of non-technical and technical.
Non-technical: depending on the user's psychological – therefore subjective – factors, such as showing only urgent notifications in order to minimize the user's burden and oversight. Because urgent, burden and oversight are based only on human psychology.
A significant example has been discussed in the decision T1235/07 of the Technical Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office – EPO, regarding the visualization of tree diagrams including commercial information, as shown in the picture, like the sales of certain companies in certain countries. By selecting some countries, a user could visualize the sales distribution of specific companies. These data were not considered as technical and nor was their visualization mode, because they do not pass the above mentioned three criteria test. In fact, these data do not support the user in the performance of a technical task or objective, through a continuous human-machine interaction.
Technical: physical or physiological parameters, such as the visualization of an image flow where the parameters to establish the images delay and the change time is calculated according to physical properties of the human visual perception, in order to ensure an image transition which is compatible with the human physiological perception.
A relevant example has been discussed in the decision T0690/11 of the Technical Board of Appeal of EPO, regarding a machine comprising visualization means set up in order to show a succession of several screens playing a real-time evolution of a therapeutic treatment on a patient, as shown in the pictures.
Through these screens, the user can become aware of the machine internal status during the treatment, which he/she wouldn't have known otherwise. Therefore, a sort of loop is created between information provided by the machine through the screens and the actions that the user can carry out on the machine itself, by varying for example some functioning parameters or detecting possible breakdowns, if in a certain moment the treatment is in a phase where the user was not expecting it to be.
In short, presentations of information are patentable if information show the internal status of a device or system or machine in real time, and therefore concern the internal functioning of the device or system or machine – automatically detected – changing over time and dynamically updated, thus favouring the human-machine interaction.
This allows the user to get information about the internal status of the device or system or machine which he/she couldn't have obtained otherwise and also makes it possible to intervene on the functioning of the device or system or machine, by modifying the parameters or detecting for examples some technical malfunctioning.
More information about GUI are available in EPO's Guidelines for Examination.
Considerations about GUI
As previously mentioned, GUI can be considered as a POI's subset.
GUI mainly regard the input of information into a system through a graphic interface.
Usually, input data are already technical by nature, since they have to be compatible with certain technical protocols of devices, systems or machines.
Typically, features regarding the graphical design of a list generated according to aesthetic considerations or to a user's subjective preferences, do not contribute to an invention's technical character.
Example of patentable GUI
A significant example has been discussed in the decision T1629/08 of the Technical Board of Appeal of EPO, regarding a communication mobile device with a specific keyboard that can be used both with right and left hand. The device is also equipped with a program or predictive routine that, based on the signal corresponding to the pressure exerted by a user on a button, predicts the alphanumeric sequence and the values of the command, thus allowing the user to push the buttons very quickly.
This graphic interface is patentable because it improves the device ergonomics: being the keyboard smaller than a normal one, it can be used both with right and left hand and it helps the user to input data as the text is predicted by the program, so a loop between the user and the device is established, as previously described.
Example of non-patentable GUI
A relevant example has been discussed in the decision T58/11 of the Technical Board of Appeal of EPO, regarding a graphic interface of predictive texts as well, but in this case the invention's aspects are purely linguistic, since the words' selection reveals non-technical considerations about the chances that a specific word will be inserted by a user later on in the text he/she's typing.
In fact, this solution may solve the problem of how to select words of a dictionary which are likely to be inserted in a text, according to the context. This is a non-technical issue, as it could be solved by a linguist expert who is not considered as a technician having technical skills. Therefore, these linguistic aspects are included in the user's psychological sphere that, as previously discussed about POI, do not have a technical character nor contribute to a technical effect.
POI and GUI belong to the so-called industry 4.0 which, for its specific and ever-evolving nature, will certainly require developments and updates in the Patent Law, too.
of Silvia Cataldi Posted January 14, 2020
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Richard Pinhas / Tatsuya Yoshida / Masami Akita [Merzbow] - Process and Reality (September 16, 2016) CUNEIFORM RECORDS
Richard Pinhas / Tatsuya Yoshida / Masami Akita [Merzbow] - Process and Reality (September 16, 2016)
Masami Akita (Merzbow)
Tatsuya Yoshida
Avant-Rock Icons Richard Pinhas, Tatsuya Yoshida and Merzbow Form a
French-Japanese Noise Summit on Process and Reality, a Richly Textured, Politically Charged Soundtrack for the Collapse of Modern Society
Three founding fathers of experimental music join forces to conjure a serenade for a society on the verge of collapse on Process and Reality, an hourlong whirlwind of pessimistic prophecy transformed into a heady monolith of sound. Boundary-stretching guitarist Richard Pinhas, founder of the influential French electronic-rock band Heldon, teams with two icons of the Japanese avant-garde – drummer Tatsuya Yoshida, mastermind of warped-prog legends Ruins, and Masami Akita, a.k.a. noise guru Merzbow – to summon a brutally honest, politically potent, sonically tumultuous reflection of the last gasps of the industrial age.
Process and Reality, due out September 16, 2016 on Cuneiform Records, marks the first recorded convergence of these three avant-rock giants, though Pinhas has recorded with both Yoshida and Merzbow in the past and all three have toured extensively together in Japan (often joined by the equally iconic guitarist Keiji Haino). The album, recorded in Tokyo during a recent high-profile tour, captures the fevered intensity and violently textured depth of the trio's collaborative improvisations
Simultaneous with his studies on the guitar, Pinhas earned a PhD in philosophy from the Sorbonne, where he studied with the late French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, and his aggressive, combustible music has always been honed to a keen edge by its philosophical bent. Process and Reality takes its name from an influential 1929 book by English mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, which posits reality as a continual process of becoming.
That's an apt summation of the music made by Pinhas, Yoshida and Akita, which seethes and roils in a constant state of both turbulent flux and visceral realization. The guitarist says of his collaborators, "They explore 100% of their possibility. We have the same kind of spirit."
That spirit seems to blanch in the face of the modern age. Though he doesn't regard Process and Reality as the still-to-come third part of his "Devolution Trilogy," which began with 2014's Desolation Row and continued with 2014's Welcome… In the Void, a duo collaboration with Yoshida, Pinhas obviously feels that the music created on the new recording expresses a similarly foreboding worldview. The album arrives in the shadow of a series of tragic terrorist attacks in the guitarist's native France, in the midst of an unprecedentedly ugly American presidential election, and in the aftermath of the Brexit vote that sent shockwaves across Europe, with no end in sight to the crisis in the Middle East and ensuing refugee crisis.
The global forecast on the album's 2016 release is riddled with dark clouds, as an overwhelming mood of political turmoil roils the global consciousness.
While many of those world events were still in the future or in a more nascent stage when Process and Reality was recorded, they fulfill Pinhas' bleak vision of our fates. In what he calls "the Industrial Age Final Times," the economically distressed Detroit is the "city of the future" and civilization will be transitioning from wars over oil and gas to battles for water, the very stuff of life itself. In his darkly clouded crystal ball, ecological disaster, global terrorism, a sweeping wave of Fascism in Europe and increasing technological reliance all forebode decades of "very bad things happening."
While those subjects weren't expressly discussed during the making of the album, Pinhas says they can't help but have made an impact on it. "A musician is doing what he's doing when he's doing it," he explains. "All your thoughts, everything you do is the result of the historical time where you're living. The mood is changing and we're heading toward something very chaotic. The music I've been doing over the last several years is trying to be a reflection of this chaos and void that we're coming to."
If all of this sounds more like the dystopian vision of a science fiction writer rather than that of a ground-breaking experimental musician, that's no accident. Pinhas has enjoyed intellectual friendships with a number of science fiction writers tracing back decades, including Michael Moorcock, Philip K. Dick, Norman Spinrad and the late Maurice Dantec, with whom Pinhas formed the project Schizotrope. He sees his own fatalistic premonitions as akin to their writings.
"Normally musicians and writers have a premonition of reality before it happens," Pinhas explains. "That's why I'm very involved with science fiction writers. They have an insight or vision of what will become our near future. If you read the books of very good science fiction writers in the '70s, they describe the society where we're living now."
The outlook embodied by the music on Process and Reality is stunningly pictured in cover art worthy of a cyberpunk novel, rendering an oil tanker as a surrogate for the decaying post-industrial future. It was created by Patrick Jelin, the gifted French designer also responsible for the covers for classic Heldon albums Interface (1977) and Stand By (1979), as well as Pinhas'1979 solo effort Iceland.
Despite the dark context, the very process that the title Process and Reality hints at is one of transforming chaotic reality into a gorgeous, densely layered and richly textured monolith of beauty, one radiant with the breathtaking colors of a purple-tinged sky preceding a storm. The music swells into being on the first track, "TVJ 00 (Intro)" – not much for elaborate titles, Pinhas assigns his pieces a letter/number combo a la the Köchel numbers associated with Mozart's compositions – as Pinhas and Akita create a dizzying maelstrom of guitar and electronics noise over Yoshida's pummeling drum assault, a torrent of layered noise that won't seem unfamiliar to Merzbow aficionados.
The centerpiece of the album is the 35+ minute second track, "TVJ 33 (Core track)," on which Yoshida establishes a lurching groove under the gradually swelling colors that bloom from Pinhas' lush guitar blooms and Akita's insistently buzzing electronics. The sound builds to a glimmering intensity, both punishing and blissful, which the trio maintains for nearly 20 minutes. Finally the barrage disperses, leaving behind rippling echoes of metallic tones occasionally disrupted by blasts of digital noise, unexpectedly revealing the bandmates' Fripp and Eno influences.
The respite doesn't last long, however, as a harsh metal-on-metal industrial soundscape overwhelms the calm. "TVJ 66 (Non-Sens)" follows with crushing waves of sound, an aural whirlwind stirred by Merzbow's piercing gales. The album concludes with the relatively serene "TVJ 77 (Quiet Final)," a stop-start mind-bender that delves into space-rock psychedelics.
Process and Reality arrives well into Richard Pinhas' fifth decade as a recording artist and constant innovator. Recognized as one of France's major experimental musicians and a pivotal figure in the international development of electronic rock music, Pinhas' stature in France is analogous to Tangerine Dream's in Germany: the father figure of an entire musical movement. Inspired by a wide range of music from classic '60s rock to '70s jazz fusion and progressive rock, Pinhas recorded seven albums with Heldon between 1974 and 1979 before disbanding the project to focus on his work with a wide range of collaborators.
Throughout his long career he's constantly evolved, remaining on the bleeding edge of multiple genres, while younger generations continue to catch up and rediscover his work, whether sampling it in new music or simply revealing its profound influence. He's reissued his early work on Cuneiform as well as releasing a steady stream of new music, while also penning books on philosophy and his mentor, Deleuze.
His collaborators on the album are two of the most revered and influential musicians of the Japanese experimental music scene. Since 1985, Tatsuya Yoshida has led the avant-prog group Ruins, a power duo (usually) with its own invented language and an equally singular sound. Yoshida has also led several other groups, including Zubi Zuva, Koenji Hyakkei and Korekyojinn, and released a number of solo projects.
He spent time as the drummer of the influential prog group YBO2 alongside guitarist KK Null, whom Yoshida currently joins in the latest incarnation of the longrunning noise-rock band Zeni Geva. Yoshida has worked with many of the most prominent figures in the avant-garde, including Fred Frith, John Zorn, Derek Bailey, Bill Laswell, Yoshihide Otomo, Acid Mothers Temple and countless others.
Recording as Merzbow, the prolific Masami Akita has released more than 400 recordings of ear-shattering noise music, becoming one of the foremost icons of the music. He's previously released three duo albums with Pinhas on Cuneiform: Keio Line, Rhizome, and Paris 2008. Merzbow's work draws inspiration from a number of divergent streams, including early electronic music, free jazz and fusion, heavy metal and prog, to extra-musical sources including Dada, fetish and BDSM culture, visual arts, Butoh dance and surrealism. In recent decades he's adhered to a vegan and straight edge lifestyle and been strongly committed to the causes of animal rights and environmentalism.
Process and Reality Track Listing:
1. TVJ 00 (Intro) (3:14)
2. TVJ 33 (Core track) (36:29)
3. TVJ 66 (Non-Sens) (12:10)
4. TVJ 77 (Quiet Final) (10:33)
Tatsuya Yoshida: drums
Masami Akita (Merzbow): noise electronics
Richard Pinhas: guitars & analog synth guitar
All titles composed by Richard Pinhas / Tatsuya Yoshida / Masami Akita.
Recorded at Gok Sound studio, Tokyo, Japan.
Guitar overdubs at Heldon studio, Paris, France.
Mixed by Joe Talia in Melbourne, Australia, December 2015.
Mastered by John Cuniberti.
Graphic design and visual art by Patrick Jelin.
Musician photos by Cedrick Pesque.
STREAM/SHARE: "TVJ 33 (Core Track)" [excerpt]
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Genre: Rock / Electronic / Experimental / Noise
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NEC Faculty Member and Jazz Trumpet Legend John McNeil Receives 2016 FONT Music Award of Recognition
September 25 Concert "Honoring John McNeil" Caps FONT Music Festival
New England Conservatory faculty member and trumpet legend John McNeil is the recipient of this year's Award of Recognition from New York's prestigious Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT Music). Previous recipients include Wadada Leo Smith, Kenny Wheeler, Raymond Mase, Bobby Bradford, Eddie Henderson, and Laurie Frink.
The FONT Music Festival (September 19-25) culminates in "Honoring John McNeil" on Sunday, September 25, 5 p.m. at The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, Room I-202, 55 West 13th St., New York City. Admission by donation. For more information visit www.fontmusic.org
The concert will include a performance of "Anxiety Option" for trumpet and electronics written and performed by Jeff Beal, an accomplished trumpeter and composer of music for film, television, and the concert hall – and a student of McNeil. Following Beal's set, John McNeil will take the stage with his ensemble: Gary Versace, piano; Jerome Harris, bass; and Jay Sawyer, drums. The 2016 Laurie Frink Career Grant award winner, Tony Glausi, will join them.
The theme for this year's festival is Flexus, taken from the title of an influential book by the late Laurie Frink and John McNeil. Asked about the selection of McNeil as the FONT Music Awardee for 2016, NEC alum Dave Douglas said, "McNeil has long been a forward-looking voice on the instrument in jazz, influencing many in subsequent generations. His unique view of jazz practice has opened doors for countless players. FONT Music is proud to be able to celebrate him in our community this year."
Douglas co-founded the FONT Festival in 2003 with the late Roy Campbell Jr. "The Festival of New Trumpet Music started on a cocktail napkin," Douglas said in a 2013 interview. He had been asked to program a month of music at a venue on New York's Lower East Side, and he and Campbell wondered whether it could be filled with creative trumpet music. "We started this list, and within ten minutes we were already way over the number that we could program," said Douglas. The festival has been promoting and supporting music by a diverse community of brass players ever since.
John McNeil was born in 1948 in Northern California and was a largely self-taught trumpeter. By the time he graduated from high school in 1966, he had already begun playing professionally. He moved to New York in the mid-1970's, where his reputation as an innovative trumpet voice grew. Today, he is regarded as one of the most original and creative jazz artists in the world.
For over three decades he has toured with his own groups and received widespread acclaim as both a player and composer. His highly personal trumpet style communicates across the full range of contemporary jazz, and his compositions combine harmonic freedom with melodic accessibility. McNeil's restless experimentation has kept him on the cutting edge of new music and has prevented easy categorization of his music.
Although his background includes such mainstream jazz groups as the Horace Silver Quintet, Gerry Mulligan, and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, McNeil is equally at home in free and unstructured settings.
This stylistic versatility has put him on stage with such disparate artists as Slide Hampton and John Abercrombie. In addition to his revelatory trumpeting and composing, he is in demand as an arranger and record producer. McNeil has been a member of the New England Conservatory jazz faculty since 1981.
NEC's Jazz Studies Department was the first fully accredited jazz studies program at a music conservatory. The brainchild of Gunther Schuller, who moved quickly to incorporate jazz into the curriculum when he became president of the Conservatory in 1967, the Jazz Studies faculty has included six MacArthur "genius" grant recipients (three currently teaching) and four NEA Jazz Masters.
The program has spawned numerous Grammy winning composers and performers and has an alumni list that reads like a who's who of jazz. As Mike West writes in JazzTimes: "NEC's jazz studies department is among the most acclaimed and successful in the world; so says the roster of visionary artists that have comprised both its faculty and alumni." The program currently has 105 students; 55 undergraduate and 50 graduate students from 16 countries.
John McNeil Website
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Joshua Breakstone / The Cello Quartet - 88 (October 21, 2016) CAPRI RECORDS
Guitarist Joshua Breakstone Pays Tribute To Great Pianist-Composers
With His Unique Cello Quartet
88, out October 21 on Capri Records, features compositions by Mal Waldron, Sonny Clark, Harold Mabern, Lennie Tristano, Cedar Walton and others
"Fire in velvet. A fitting description of Joshua Breakstone's jazz guitar." – Paul Weidman, The Santa Fe New Mexican
" Breakstone produces guitar lines that flow through smooth, mellow-toned, bop-based phrasing.....There is depth and thoughtfulness in his playing, a sense of graceful development even when he is swirling along with jumping intensity." – John S. Wilson, The New York Times
Though he may only have six strings at his disposal, guitarist Joshua Breakstone has felt a lifelong connection to jazz's great piano players. On his latest release, 88 (due out October 21 from Capri Records), Breakstone pays tribute to some of his favorite pianist-composers with a smoking set of pieces penned by some of the music's greatest keyboard practitioners. Along with a new composition from Breakstone written in tribute to his piano-playing heroes, the album features classics by the likes of Mal Waldron, Barry Harris, Cedar Walton and Elmo Hope.
"I feel like pianists and guitarists are related, in a way," Breakstone says. "Supplying harmony as well as being a soloist, I'm called on to fill the same interactive role as my brothers on the piano – so I have a lot of appreciation and love for the instrument and those who play it."
Despite the theme of the album and the row of ivories prominently featured on its cover, 88 doesn't actually include a single note played on the piano. Instead, the recording is the third outing for Breakstone's unique Cello Quartet, with cellist Mike Richmond, bassist Lisle Atkinson and drummer Andy Watson. That singular instrumentation provides a different perspective on the music itself, which is precisely what Breakstone intended to celebrate.
"There's so much great music by pianists that I've played over the years," he explains. "These aren't necessarily my favorite tunes by pianists or the greatest songs ever by piano players, nothing like that. It's just a nice set of nine songs that offer my take on the different conceptions of these piano players and composers and what they mean to me."
While in recent years he's played most often with the Cello Quartet or in a trio setting, Breakstone has a long history with some legendary piano players. His 1983 debut release as a leader, Wonderful!, featured Barry Harris, who's represented on 88 by the simmering "Lolita." The guitarist's follow-up, 4/4=1, was the first of several recordings he made alongside Kenny Barron. Over the course of his career he's also worked with Tommy Flanagan, Sid Simmons, Joanne Brackeen and organ great Jack McDuff, and led tributes to Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell.
A lovely solo guitar meditation opens the album, setting the stage for Harold Mabern's urgent burner "The Chief," its forceful melody rendered in unison by Breakstone and Richmond. The slinky, serpentine groove of Sonny Clark's "News for Lulu" follows, highlighted by the leader's flowing, elusive lines and a soulful solo turn by the cellist. Atkinson's knotty rubato phrases kick off Cedar Walton's scintillating "Black," while Breakstone virtually whispers his way through Mal Waldron's tender classic "Soul Eyes."
The title tune, Breakstone's sole original on the album, is a finger-snapping mid-tempo bop tune that fits perfectly in the spirit of the album. Watson's vigorous swing fuels Elmo Hope's fiery "Moe Is On," while the drummer's hushed brush work supports Tadd Dameron's mournful ballad "If You Could See Me Now." The album wraps up with the whole band at its most muscular for Lennie Tristano's surging "Lennie's Pennies."
"With each song that I play," Breakstone says, "I try to communicate to the audience what it is that I love about that tune. Is it exciting, is it beautiful, is the harmony stimulating, is it funny, is it sweet, is it romantic, does it break my heart?"
The Cello Quartet is keenly adept at capturing the full gamut of emotions, despite its unusual make-up. The idea for the band was one of many inspirations that Breakstone has taken from his travels in Japan, a country that has eagerly embraced the guitarist and his music for nearly 30 years. His regular tours of the country are one component of a new documentary, Joshua Breakstone, Soft Hands: Jazz Ethereal, that was recently produced for Colorado Public Television.
In the case of the Cello Quartet, its original incarnation was assembled at the behest of the late bassist and promoter Mitsuru Niushiyama, Breakstone's close friend and collaborator. "He was getting a little older," Breakstone recalls, "and didn't feel like dragging around a bass anymore, so he came up with an idea. He called me up and asked if it was cool to book me with a rhythm section plus cello." The idea wasn't unprecedented – bassists including Ray Brown, Oscar Pettiford, Sam Jones and Ron Carter have played the cello, although not with guitar – and Breakstone immediately embraced the concept. Immediately upon returning home he began assembling a Stateside version of the band.
"My original idea was that it was going to be like a guitar trio with the cello as a solo instrument, just like if we added a saxophone or trumpet," Breakstone says. "But after a few nights the group gelled in a different way and became a string section accompanied by percussion."
88 shows off just how dynamic and interactive the Cello Quartet can be. The album offers a fresh slant on the post-bop tradition, deeply rooted in the language of the music yet boasting a distinctive blend of colors and textures that create an utterly contemporary sound. Doubtless these pioneering pianists would approve of being honored that way.
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DALLAS, April 1, 2019, (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rocky Mountain High Brands, Inc. (OTCQB: RMHB), a fully reporting lifestyle brand management Company specializing in high-quality health and wellness products, announced today that the Company will be a presenter at the Spring Investor Summit on Monday, April 1st and Tuesday, April 2nd in New York City.
The Spring Investor Summit's focus is to highlight publicly-traded companies under $5 billion in market cap across all sectors. The event will feature 200 presenting companies, 1,200 institutional and retail investors, 2,000 one-on-one meetings, and an assortment of industry panels. Michael Welch, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rocky Mountain High Brands, Inc., will participate on the cannabis industry panel.
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The German supervisory authority LfDI Baden-Württemberg imposed the first fine in Germany under the GDPR. Due to a violation of Art. 32 GDPR (Security of Processing), a German social network operator was fined EUR 20.000 in September 2018.
The company had notified a data breach from July 2018 to the supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 33 GDPR, reporting that personal data of 330.000 users, such as e-mail addresses and passwords, had been hacked. The company fully cooperated and gave insights on internal structures, which showed that passwords had been stored unencrypted. The company thereby failed to grant data security according to Art. 32 (1) (a) GDPR. Due to its exemplary cooperation and readiness to follow all recommendations of the supervisory authority – also taking into account the total financial burden of the additional costs of implementation and the fine – the company was not fined higher.
Wegen eines Verstoßes gegen die nach Art. 32 DS-GVO vorgeschriebene Datensicherheit hat die Bußgeldstelle des LfDI Baden-Württemberg mit Bescheid vom 21.11.2018 gegen einen baden-württembergischen Social-Media-Anbieter eine Geldbuße von 20.000,- Euro verhängt und - in konstruktiver Zusammenarbeit mit dem Unternehmen - für umfangreiche Verbesserungen bei der Sicherheit der Nutzerdaten gesorgt.
For further information please contact the LfDI Baden-Württemberg (contact details above).
The Swedish Data Protection Authority has examined whether more than 350 companies and authorities have appointed a data protection officer. The audit shows, among other things, shortcomings in nearly a quarter of the unions selected for control.
According to the General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, all authorities and also certain companies are obliged to designate a data protection officer. This person shall check that its own organization complies with data protection regulations, and inform and advise internally.
"It is a very important role when it comes to raising awareness and compliance with GDPR, which is why we prioritized this as our first GDPR review," says Inspector General Lena Lindgren Schelin.
The Swedish Data Protection Authority has conducted a broad review of more than 350 authorities and companies and has examined whether they appointed a data protection officer and, if they also have reported this to the Swedish Data Protection Authority, which they must do.
The audit shows that the majority of the organizations have notified and appointed a data protection officer in time. However, some sectors stand out in a negative way. Of the 51 unions included in the supervision, nearly 25 percent had deficiencies.
"The review was conducted shortly after GDPR came into effect on May 25th. Therefore we have not gone further than issuing reprimands. But, if in the future we continue to see shortcomings when it comes to appointing a data protection officer, fines will be on the table", says Lena Lindgren Schelin.
On September 12th 2018, the Austrian DPA made its very first administrative penal decision for infringements of the GDPR and Austrian Data Protection Act.
The Austrian DPA imposed a fine on a Limited Liability Company which is running a sports betting café as the controller within the meaning of Article 4. 7 GDPR of an image processing system (video surveillance). The subject cameras have been in use at least since March 22nd 2018.
The controller has violated Art. 5 para. 1 lit. a and c as well as Art. 6 para. 1 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and several provisions of the Austrian Data Protection Act (DSG).
Due to these administrative offences, the Limited Liability Company as a controller is imposed administrative fines to the total amount of € 5.280,00.
The infringements refer to the following: the video surveillance system covers public streets as well as parking lots, both part of the public area in front of the entrance of the sports betting café. This is not adequate for the purposes of the processing and is not limited to a necessary extent. There are no logs of video surveillance processing operations. There is no deletion of the personal image data recorded by the video surveillance within 72 hours and no separate logs for processing in this regard and a justification for an extended storage period is missing (as determined in the Austrian Data Protection Act). In Addition to that, the filmed area does not have adequate signage about CCTV.
The controller lodged a complaint with the Federal Administration Court against this decision.


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from polyaxon.k8s import k8s_schemas
from polyaxon.k8s.custom_resources.crd import get_custom_object
from polyaxon.lifecycle import V1Statuses
from polyaxon.polyflow import V1Notification
from polyaxon.polyflow.environment import V1Environment
from polyaxon.polyflow.termination import V1Termination
from polyaxon.polypod.custom_resources import get_service_custom_resource
from polyaxon.polypod.pod.spec import get_pod_spec, get_pod_template_spec
from polyaxon.utils.test_utils import BaseTestCase

class TestServiceCRD(BaseTestCase):
    def test_get_service_custom_resource(self):
        main_container = k8s_schemas.V1Container(name="main")
        sidecar_containers = [k8s_schemas.V1Container(name="sidecar")]
        init_containers = [k8s_schemas.V1Container(name="init")]
        termination = V1Termination(timeout=10)
        environment = V1Environment(
            labels={"foo": "bar"},
            annotations={"foo": "long-foo-bar" * 300},
            node_selector={"foo": "bar"},
            node_name="foo",
            restart_policy="Never",
        )
        metadata, pod_spec = get_pod_spec(
            namespace="default",
            main_container=main_container,
            sidecar_containers=sidecar_containers,
            init_containers=init_containers,
            resource_name="foo",
            volumes=[],
            environment=environment,
            labels=environment.labels,
            annotations=environment.annotations,
        )
        custom_object = {
            "serviceSpec": {
                "template": get_pod_template_spec(metadata=metadata, pod_spec=pod_spec),
            },
            "termination": {"activeDeadlineSeconds": termination.timeout},
            "collectLogs": True,
            "syncStatuses": True,
            "notifications": [],
        }
        expected_crd = get_custom_object(
            namespace="default",
            resource_name="foo",
            kind="Operation",
            api_version="core.polyaxon.com/v1",
            labels={"foo": "bar"},
            custom_object=custom_object,
            annotations={"foo": "long-foo-bar" * 300},
        )

        crd = get_service_custom_resource(
            namespace="default",
            resource_name="foo",
            main_container=main_container,
            sidecar_containers=sidecar_containers,
            init_containers=init_containers,
            volumes=[],
            termination=termination,
            environment=environment,
            labels=environment.labels,
            annotations={"foo": "long-foo-bar" * 300},
            collect_logs=True,
            sync_statuses=True,
            notifications=None,
            ports=[],
            is_external=False,
            replicas=None,
        )

        assert crd == expected_crd

    def test_get_service_custom_resource_missing_keys(self):
        main_container = k8s_schemas.V1Container(name="main")
        metadata, pod_spec = get_pod_spec(
            namespace="default",
            main_container=main_container,
            sidecar_containers=None,
            init_containers=None,
            resource_name="foo",
            volumes=[],
            environment=None,
            labels=None,
            annotations=None,
        )
        notifications = [V1Notification(connections=["test"], trigger=V1Statuses.DONE)]
        custom_object = {
            "template": get_pod_template_spec(metadata=metadata, pod_spec=pod_spec),
            "ports": [12, 121, 12],
            "isExternal": True,
            "replicas": 4,
        }
        expected_crd = get_custom_object(
            namespace="default",
            resource_name="foo",
            kind="Operation",
            api_version="core.polyaxon.com/v1",
            labels=None,
            annotations=None,
            custom_object={
                "serviceSpec": custom_object,
                "collectLogs": False,
                "syncStatuses": False,
                "notifications": [n.to_operator() for n in notifications],
            },
        )

        crd = get_service_custom_resource(
            namespace="default",
            resource_name="foo",
            main_container=main_container,
            sidecar_containers=None,
            init_containers=None,
            volumes=[],
            termination=None,
            collect_logs=None,
            sync_statuses=None,
            notifications=notifications,
            environment=None,
            labels=None,
            annotations=None,
            ports=[12, 121, 12],
            is_external=True,
            replicas=4,
        )

        assert crd == expected_crd


DESCRIPTION: shinnai has reported some vulnerabilities in Microsoft Visual Studio, which can be exploited by malicious people to overwrite arbitrary files or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
1) The "StartProcess()" and "SyncShell()" methods of the PDWizard.ocx ActiveX control can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands on the system. Other insecure methods have also been reported e.g. "SaveAs()", "CABDefaultURL()", "CABFileName()", and "CABRunFile()".
2) The "Load()" and "SaveAs()" methods of the VBTOVSI.DLL ActiveX control can be exploited to e.g. load a local file and save it in an arbitrary location or overwrite an arbitrary file.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 6.0. Other versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION: Set the kill-bit for the ActiveX controls.


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In Brief: Cognizant to lay off 350 employees; Swiggy crosses 500 mn delivery orders in October
Team TC	23 Dec, 2019
Information technology firm Cognizant is planning to lay off about 350 people who earn annual salaries ranging from Rs 80 lakh to Rs 1.2 crore, The Economic Times reported. The move is aimed at cutting costs and turning around the focus to digital services from traditional technology services, the report said. The employees going out are aged between 50-55 years and most of them are based out of India. The report revealed that the list has been submitted to chief executive officer Brian Humphries' office.
This comes months after news reports the technology will be laying off 5,000 to 7,000 mid-to-senior level employees over the next few quarters. Last month, Cognizant planned to sell its $250 million-a-year content moderation business.
Also Read: Cognizant to cut 7,000 jobs, exit its content moderation business
Swiggy has 60% revenue market share in food delivery: Co-founder Sriharsha Majety
Bundl Technologies, the Bengaluru headquartered company which owns and operates food delivery platform Swiggy said that it has crossed 500 million delivery orders in October, exceeding its target of 360 million a year set for 2020. The company's co-founder and CEO Sriharsha Majety told the Times of India that Swiggy has a 60% revenue market share in food delivery. Majety added that the company is moving towards improving its bottom line as discounts have come down. He also said that Swiggy will continue to invest in new growth areas like Stores and parcel delivery service Go.
Tech Mahindra, CET jointly unveil CoE at College Engineering Technology campus
Information technology major Tech Mahindra and College of Engineering and Technology (CET), Bhubaneswar have jointly unveiled a center of excellence (CoE) within the college campus to train young graduates in artificial intelligence (AI). The Pune headquartered company has also started operations in its state-of-the-art facility for international business process outsourcing (BPO) operations at Fortune Tower, Bhubaneshwar, the companies said in a joint statement. This move came amid the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between Tech Mahindra and CET that outlines the government's objective to upskill young students with new-age technologies like AI and equipping them with the knowledge of applying these technologies in everyday life. Tech Mahindra added that the facility will provide additional employment in the BPO sector for the state and will also help the skilled-in-Odisha youth seeking an opportunity in the international business domain, the joint statement added.
Finly raises funds from AngelList India, others
Bengaluru-based startup VV Finly Technology, which owns expense management platform Finly, has raised an undisclosed sum in a funding round from Gemba Capital, venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya-led Social Capital, and angel collective AngelList India, The Economic Times reported. Das42 Capital and 91Springboard also participated in the latest round. The company did not disclose the financial details of the deal. Founded in 2015 by Vivek AG and Veekshith C. Rai, the platform automates accounts payables for mid and large-sized businesses, assists companies to setup internal financial controls. In 2017, Essel Group-owned digital payments company Itzcash invested an undisclosed amount in Finly.
Cognizant Layoffs Swiggy Bundl Technologies Sriharsha Majety Tech Mahindra CoE MoU College of Engineering and Technology Finly VV Finly Technology Gemba Capital Chamath Palihapitiya Social Capital AngelList India Das42 Capital 91SpringBoard


With so many cooking oils on the supermarket shelves, telling them apart, understanding which fats are useful in improving our health and knowing how to best use them is tricky. Clearly, not all oils are equal, and some are more beneficial to our goal of youth prevention and feeling good.
In this post, I'm going to run through the basics of fats, before examining just five of the many types of oils available.
Fatty acids are often categorized into one of two groups – unsaturated and saturated. An easy way to remember the difference is that unsaturated fats are usually liquid at room temperature and come from seeds, fatty fish and vegetables. Saturated fats are solid at room temperature and are found in animals and tropical plants.
Saturated fats raise your total blood cholesterol levels and increase your risk of heart disease. Unsaturated fats, which include monounsaturated and polyunsaturated, are known as good fats and can have positive effects on your body, helping to protect against type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and age-related brain decline.
Omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids are types of polyunsaturated fats and are required by the body for many reasons. They build healthy cells and help to maintain nerve functions and the brain. These essential fats are only found in food – the body can't produce them.
One of the most important factors to consider when choosing which oil to cook with is the smoke point – the temperature at which the oil begins to smoke when heated. You'll often want your pan nice and hot, but when oil is heated beyond its smoke point, the fat starts to break down, releasing free radicals and a chemical called acrolein. This substance gives burnt food its bitter aroma and flavour.
Let's examine the facts behind five oils found on supermarket shelves.
Due to the popularity of the heart-healthy Mediterranean diet, olive oil has become one of the most researched cooking oils. There are many different types of olive oil, each one suited to a certain purpose. Whether you're using it on your skin or drizzling it on salad, the source of your olive oil is important because some lower quality kinds can be diluted with cheaper oils, or even extracted using chemicals.
Olive oil is high in monounsaturated fatty acids, helping to prevent heart disease by lowering cholesterol.
This is just one of the ways extra virgin olive oil is regarded as heart-healthy.
The more 'virgin' or less processed the oil is, the more polyphenol compounds it contains. This antioxidant can protect our body from free radical damage as well as control the rate at which we age.
Made from pressed hazelnuts, this oil is pale yellow and has a sweet, nutty taste. In the kitchen, hazelnut oil can be used in salad dressings, with grilled meat and fish and is perfect to dip with bread.
Hazelnuts are high in healthy polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats and low in unhealthier unsaturated fats.
A rich source of Vitamin E – one cup of hazelnuts offers about 86 percent of the daily vitamin E requirement. It is also an excellent source of Vitamin C and Vitamin A. The antioxidant properties of these vitamins can help prevent the onset of premature ageing.
Hazelnut oil is a mild astringent that can help tighten pores and regulate the excretion of oils by the skin's glands.
Sunflower oil is extracted from confection seeds – one of two types of sunflower seeds. Refined sunflower oil is pale yellow in colour, with a mild and pleasant taste.
The refining process makes sunflower oil more stable and suitable for high-temperature cooking, but this usually involves the use of chemical solvents. This method of refining may remove certain naturally occurring nutrients.
Sunflower oil is high in polyunsaturated fats, but as this is largely omega 6 polyunsaturates, you also need to make sure you're getting enough omega 3s in your diet to balance things out.
With a smoke point of approximately 225°F, sunflower oil is good for deep-frying dishes, but, this method of cooking has long been associated with negative effects on health.
Unrefined extra virgin avocado oil is produced by pressing the pulp and separating the natural oil in a centrifuge, making it one of few edible oils not derived from seeds. Buttery-tasting, avocado oil has an extremely high smoke point of approximately 520°F, making it adaptable in the kitchen for stir-frying, baking and salads.
Green avocado oil has a similar fatty profile to olive oil, so it's high in monosaturated fats. When eaten in moderation, and replacing saturated and trans fats, it can have a beneficial effect on blood pressure.
Studies have shown avocado oil's polyhydroxylated fatty alcohols reduce skin damage and inflammation from ultraviolet light exposure.
Antioxidants found in other fruits and vegetables are known to neutralise free radicals, but research suggests avocado oil's benefits may be able to affect mitochondria, something imperative to arresting the aging process.
Extracted from the meat of matured coconuts, the sweetness of coconut oil makes it ideal for baking and sautéing. It has a low smoke point, so should be avoided for high-temperature cooking. Research into the many potential health benefits of coconut oil has led to over 1500 studies.
Almost half of the fatty acids in coconut oil are made up of lauric acid, a substance linked to many potential benefits. Once absorbed by the body, it morphs into monolaurin, an antimicrobial agent able to fight viruses, bacteria and other pathogens.
Coconut oil, like other plant-based oils, doesn't contain cholesterol. More than 85 percent of the fats in coconut oil are medium-chain triglycerides.
Coconut oil promotes the growth of healthy probiotics in the digestive tract. It helps in the absorption of essential nutrients and fat-soluble vitamins.
With anti-inflammatory benefits, digestive aids, essential antioxidants and cholesterol-lowering properties, it's obvious that using the right oil, in the right way, can have a major impact on living a longer, healthier life.
One final note on storing and reusing oil – did you know that all cooking oils will eventually break down over time and become rancid? If you have oil in your cupboard that has been there for a long time, give it the sniff test. Rancid oil has an unpleasant odour and flavor, and while it might not harm you immediately, long-term consumption has been linked to problems such as obesity, cancer and early aging. Store all your cooking oils in a cool dark place, away from sources of heat. This will help to prolong their life.
No matter which type of oil you are working with don't be tempted to reuse it. Using the same oil, again and again, creates free radicals, which in turn can cause cancer. Other problems with this practice include atherosclerosis, heart disease, and Alzheimer's disease.