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By Naomi Fry
FXX's "Dave" proves that dealing in sexual humor doesn't necessarily mean sacrificing deeper explorations of feeling.Photograph by Ray Mickshaw / FX
On the début episode of the FXX dramedy "Dave," the finale of which aired on Wednesday, Dave Burd, a mild-mannered, curly-haired rapper in his late twenties, is at the doctor's office. He has been noticing some bumps on his groin area that he thinks should be looked at. Could he be suffering from herpes? First off, though, he has something to tell the doctor. "I just have, like, a very bizarre situation," he says. He was born with a tangled urethra, and as a newborn he had to have an operation on his genitals, so "as a result there's so much scarring down there." The surgeon, he thinks, also had to take some skin from his testicles, which is "more chicken-skinned, or ribbed," and graft it onto his penis. This means, as Dave says to the nonplussed doctor, that "my dick is made of balls."
Burd's monologue seems to position "Dave," from its start, within the gross-out comedy tradition of the "National Lampoon" movies and "American Pie"—entertainment that solicits viewers' laughter by depicting a man's appendage as a site of both need and humiliation. These are areas that Burd has been mining since 2013, when he first achieved viral fame on YouTube as the satirical, and satirically named, rapper Lil Dicky. His first hit, "Ex-Boyfriend"—which gained more than a million views within twenty-four hours of its posting—recounted his reluctance to have sex with his girlfriend after running into her chiselled, well-endowed one-time paramour. But "Dave," which is based fairly closely on Burd's path in the rap world, goes further than a mere crude joke. (Burd is not just the show's star but also a writer and co-creator, along with Jeff Schaffer, who has worked for many years on smart, anxious sitcoms, such as "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm.") The show follows Dave—a Philadelphia-born, Los Angeles-based upper-middle-class Jewish guy—in his attempt to find fame and respect as a rapper, rather than accept his station as an Internet curiosity who is beloved by frat boys and mocked by the hip-hop community.
At the show's start, Lil Dicky is already known for his YouTube rap hit "My Dick Sucks," which includes, among its lyrical highlights, the lines "Even though my dick is shoddy / it sit there like it's gaudy / and it do good work like Gandhi." But this type of sweaty, sophomoric energy serves largely as an animating ruse, a kind of honey trap for dirty-joke lovers: beyond it, "Dave" ventures into surprisingly sincere, sensitive reflections not just on masculinity but also on race, class, love, and ambition. As I watched the show over the past several weeks, I was impressed by its ability to consistently and satisfyingly arrive at an amalgam—not easily achieved—between vulgarity and vulnerability. Like another recent favorite of mine, Netflix's animated puberty comedy "Big Mouth," or the early seasons of HBO's "Girls," "Dave" is proof that dealing in sexual humor doesn't necessarily mean sacrificing deeper explorations of feeling.
"Everything I say about my penis on the show is real," Burd, who is now thirty-two, told me from his Los Angeles-area home when I interviewed him recently, over Zoom. "Finally talking about it was like getting a monkey off my back." During our conversation, Burd spoke freely and good-naturedly about a wide variety of topics, among them his O.C.D. as a teen (he felt that the only way to keep his loved ones from dying was by dedicating elaborate daily rituals to a deity he named Spirit Chief) and his gratification at having black fans ("I can't help it—it makes me happier than having white fans"). The show, too, feels like a humorous but frank unburdening. In Episode 3—one of the season's best—Dave's girlfriend, Ally (Taylor Misiak), wants him to express his desires more openly in bed. He, in turn, is laser-focussed on manipulating the room's lighting to keep the whole truth about his genitals from her. In secret, he seeks abject release with a torso-less "Fuck Me Silly III" sex doll, whose orifice he cleans with a twig wrapped in toilet paper. When he is found out by Ally, he breaks down, admitting that their sex life is hemmed in by his "life's work" of making sure she doesn't ever really see his penis. ("I love you; I love it," Ally responds, after Dave finally allows her to look at him naked.) What could have been just a repulsive gag pivots skillfully into an exploration of shame and the repercussions it can have on intimacy.
In the course of the episode, whenever Dave ejaculates, the camera pans over to a poster of the rapper Drake, grinning knowingly from the bedroom wall. (As a half-Jewish Canadian, not to mention a former teen actor, Drake has been dogged by persistent accusations of softness. But, compared with a white, suburban YouTube personality like Lil Dicky, he is clearly as hard as they come.) Dave yearns to be taken more seriously by the hip-hop community, and to gain clout among black audiences, and the show is clever and honest about portraying this attitude. Before he became a rapper, Burd told me, his goal was to make it in comedy. "I was always a huge rap fan, and I realized that rap was one way to get noticed as a comedian, because the space was wide open. There was basically just Lonely Island," he said, referring to the "S.N.L."-adjacent comedic rap trio. "So I swung hard." Lil Dicky's earlier real-life forays into the genre did often feel like gratuitous provocations. In the song "White Dude," for instance, which feels like a fratty indulgence, he complains about not being able to say the N-word and expresses relief that he's not black or a woman. Burd told me that he took "White Dude" off his YouTube channel because he finds it "embarrassing" now. "I was living in a white middle-class bubble," he said, "without much understanding of the larger context of race relations in America."
By retreading and lightly fictionalizing Burd's path, "Dave" gives us a wider lens through which to view what it means, as a person of privilege, to insert oneself into a culture that is not one's own. When Dave meets the dreadlocked, South Central-born GaTa, who recognizes him as "the YouTube rapper with the small dick and all that," he is ecstatic. "You have no idea how happy this makes me," he tells him. "I live my entire life trying to impress people of your . . ."—he pauses for a long beat—"pedigree." (GaTa, who eventually becomes Dave's hype man, is played by Burd's real-life hype man, Davionte Ganter.) What saves moments like this from being mere jokey gestures is not just the show's straightforwardness in acknowledging both Dave's nerdy white middle-class fascination with—and experiential distance from—black hip-hop culture but also its commitment to making GaTa a fully rounded character. The show's fifth episode, one of its most affecting, focusses on GaTa's bipolar disorder (a condition that Ganter has also been diagnosed with) and its intersection with his frustrated dreams of rap stardom. "I don't get paid to be calm, bro—I'm a hype man, you feel me?" GaTa says in one flashback, as his manic antics get him thrown off the tour bus of the rapper Pacman Da Gunman. Later on, in another flashback, a harrowing breakdown in a shoe store gets him hauled off to the hospital. He, too, is able to unburden his mental load when he finally confesses his struggle to Dave. "I never tell nobody this type of shit, bro. Never, ever. This shit is embarrassing," he says.
Still, the show never becomes overly kumbaya. The finale opens with a nine-minute-long Lil Dicky rap video, which portrays his misadventures after he is jailed for exposing his balls onstage. The song gets Dave in trouble with his record label, which deems its flippant tone about the racism of the criminal-justice system too problematic. Upset that his creative freedom is being stifled, Dave books a visit on Charlamagne tha God's Power 105.1 radio show, "The Breakfast Club," where he intends to début the new single, against the wishes of the label. Once he's on the show, Dave is immediately put in the hot seat about his choice, as a white rapper, to have a black hype man. "Is that cultural appropriation?" Angela Yee, Charlamagne's co-host, asks Dave, catching him off balance. "I'm wondering now if it is or not," Dave says haltingly. "Just right now, at this moment, a white rapper is wondering if what he's doing is cultural appropriation?" Charlamagne asks, in disbelief. "Here's what I'll say," Dave finally answers. "If having GaTa be a part of my rap career is in fact cultural appropriation . . . then I really don't have regrets. I know that's a bizarre thing to say, but he's, like—I got, like, one of the best friends I'll ever have out of it, so, like, I would do it again. I love this man."
Yee seems not entirely convinced. "Hashtag relationship goals," she says, a little sarcastically. And, really, why should she be? Dave's response isn't necessarily meant to be the last word here; it's another remark in an open-ended discussion, and another difficult moment in a work of self-examination. In the end, Dave decides not to premiere "Jail" on "The Breakfast Club." But, of course, we, the viewers, have already seen the video, and so we get to engage in the critical pursuit of deciding for ourselves how far a white artist can go, in the context of a racist society, when pursuing a traditionally black art form. In this, the show extends the offer of unburdening and self-examination to its viewers.
Naomi Fry is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
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5 winners and 3 losers from primaries in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont, and Connecticut
Ned Lamont makes a comeback! T-Paw does not!
By Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias Updated Aug 15, 2018, 9:09am EDT
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In an evening filled with history, a trans woman secured a major party gubernatorial nomination for the first time ever, the country is poised to send its first Muslim women to Congress, a major political party decided to run a guy with a mustache in a tough race, an important figure from the heady days of mid-aughts political blogging made a comeback, and big things happened in Minnesota for the first time since Prince died.
These primaries set up a series of races that often defy national trends: Republicans having a real shot at winning in Connecticut and a near lock on Vermont, while risking major losses in more conservative Midwestern states.
Here's who won and who lost.
Winner: Minnesota Democrats
About a week before primary day, Rachel Cohen of the Intercept dropped a scoop indicating that Minnesota Attorney General (and clear frontrunner for the Democratic Party's gubernatorial nomination) Lori Swanson had illegally relied on her official staff to do campaign work.
It was the kind of situation that appeared to run the risk of dirtying up the nominee in plenty of time for it to cripple her in November while also happening too close to primary day for the impact to sink in with the voters and get them to choose someone else.
But that didn't happen. Instead, Swanson drastically underperformed her poll numbers and finished third. The winner, Rep. Tim Walz, a Democrat who's been holding down a reddish House seat, is probably the strongest candidate Democrats could field anyway and, in light of the scandal swirling around Swanson, is certainly stronger.
This is still a tough race in November — Minnesota has been trending more conservatively in recent years — but the primary worked out very well for Democrats, and they are now more likely than not to win.
Loser: Minnesota Democrats
The exact opposite thing happened, meanwhile, in the race for Minnesota attorney general, where Rep. Keith Ellison won handily despite late-breaking domestic abuse allegations that are unverified as of now but certainly could get worse for Ellison and could hurt him even if they don't.
Furthering the contrast with the situation at the top of the ticket, Ellison is one of the most left-wing members of the House and has spent his career holding down an extremely safe urban district that gives him little obvious appeal to Minnesota swing voters in the rural Iron Range.
Losing the AG race, even if it happens, is not the biggest deal in the world. But Ellison is a high-profile national figure thanks to his associations with Bernie Sanders, so any effort by Walz, who is at the top of the ticket, and the three Democrats running in tough Minnesota House races to distance themselves from Ellison could be poorly received by an important segment of the base. Then again, if Democrats are seen as not taking domestic abuse seriously, that could also be poorly received by an important segment of the base.
A clear exoneration of Ellison would make for a happy ending to the story, but it's possible this could evolve into an ugly situation.
Winner: transgender visibility
Christine Hallquist, who won the Democratic Party nomination to serve as governor of Vermont, is a definite underdog against popular incumbent Republican Phil Scott, who swept into office after the collapse of an effort to create a state-level Medicare-for-all plan and has impressed voters with his moderation. But it would be foolish to entirely count out the Democratic nominee in a heavily Democratic state running in a national political environment that's favorable to Democrats.
What's more, Hallquist is breaking ground as the first openly transgender person to capture a major party gubernatorial nomination — a huge step forward in a country that just elected its first openly trans state legislator last fall. If she wins, she'll have a mandate to pursue an aggressive progressive agenda including a $15-an-hour minimum wage, rural co-ops to provide high-speed broadband throughout the state, and, yes, another bite at the single-payer apple.
But win or lose, her campaign will be the highest-profile political exposure for a trans person in American history.
Loser: teens
Elsewhere in the Vermont gubernatorial election, 14-year-old Ethan Sonneborn successfully got himself on the ballot despite being too young to vote.
And he got crushed, finishing in a distant fourth place behind environmental activist James Ehlers and Brenda Siegel, the executive director of the Southern Vermont Dance Festival. People really did not want to vote for a teenager. Sonneborn's campaign platform was mostly standard-issue Democratic fare, but unlike his rivals, he did come out in favor of a carbon emissions tax — an idea most experts tout as a highly efficient way to address an acute global crisis that is also famously unpopular with voters. So in theory, maybe he did so badly because of the carbon tax. But back in the real world, we all know it's because he was 14.
As a longstanding proponent of letting kids vote, I find this setback for the cause of youth political rights to be somewhat regrettable. It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Hallquist was a stronger candidate than Sonneborn, but the poor kid even got beat by the Dance Festival lady.
Winner: old-time bloggers
Ned Lamont is back!
Let me explain. Back when George W. Bush was president and long before content optimization strategy ruled the land, we had political blogs and a thing called "the Netroots." And while Netroots figures had many causes, the highest cause of all was hating Joe Lieberman.
Hatred for Lieberman ran so deep that even professional nice guy Ezra Klein once accused him of being "willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score." (This was basically accurate.)
The great lost chance to kill off Lieberman's career in electoral politics came in 2006, when he lost a primary challenge to business leader Ned Lamont.
But then Lieberman, because he's annoying, refused to endorse the Democratic nominee for Senate, choosing instead to run for reelection as the Connecticut for Lieberman party's nominee. Republicans, facing an electoral tsunami that year, basically threw in the towel and let Lieberman soak up conservative votes.
National Democrats, meanwhile, wanted to plow resources into beating Republicans and largely sat out the race. Lamont lost, Lieberman spent the 2008 cycle campaigning for John McCain, and then he was welcomed back with open arms by the Democratic caucus.
Now somehow, 10 years later, Lamont is back! Connecticut is a solidly liberal state, but its economy has been weak lately and incumbent Gov. Dan Malloy is deeply unpopular. Malloy opted not to seek another term, and the state party really needed a nominee without ties to the incumbent governing regime. A nominee like, well, Ned Lamont, who will now once again get his shot at statewide office.
Of course, given Malloy's unpopularity, the Republicans also have a shot at just winning the race, and Lamont will have to bank heavily on the national GOP's unpopularity to give him the W.
Winner: mustaches
It's been a hard century or so for mustaches in American politics, which, though not exactly unheard of in today's Congress, are normally limited to politicians taking it easy in safe seats.
Randy Bryce, an ironworker and union organizer in Wisconsin whose early campaign ad went viral back when he was running against Paul Ryan, is bucking that trend by not only running in a tough district with a mustache but making it central to his political identity as @Ironstache on Twitter.
Thank you to everyone who voted today!
And a special thanks to all the #IronStache volunteers and staff who helped to get out the vote. #WI01 pic.twitter.com/OGCguEeROi
— Randy Bryce (@IronStache) August 15, 2018
Bryce captured the imagination of the populist wing of the Democratic Party early but also gained establishment imprimatur as an official member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's Red to Blue program. That designation was in part more about coalition management than anything else, but it helped Bryce win in what proved to be a meaningfully contested primary against Cathy Myers, a somewhat more conventional figure who has managed to do things like win actual local elections in the past.
Ryan, of course, has since dropped out of contention, and the district is really only borderline winnable. Bryce, meanwhile, despite his appeal to the Extremely Online, actually has some troubles in his past, including a DUI and some failure to pay child support that make him arguably a less-than-optimal candidate.
But then there's the mustache — something a bit new, a bit working-class, and very Midwestern. Something he's hoping can help reconnect the Democratic Party with the voters of a once solidly blue state that's become a stronghold of conservatism in recent years.
Winner: Muslim women
Minnesota state Rep. Ilhan Omar won a heated Democratic primary in Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District and is now overwhelmingly likely to join the US House of Representatives last year.
As Vox's Tara Golshan writes, Omar, a 36-year-old Somali refugee who immigrated to the United States as a teenager, beat a packed field of six candidates in the race to the seat Ellison is vacating to run for Minnesota attorney general.
The Cook Political Report rates this as a D+26 district, so Omar's victory in November is essentially assured. She will almost certainly be joined by Michigan's Rashida Tlaib, and they'll become the first and second Muslim women in Congress. Tlaib won last week's primary to replace disgraced Rep. John Conyers, who resigned after sexual misconduct allegations, in another safe Democratic district.
Congress currently has only two lawmakers who identify as Muslim — and both of them, including Ellison, are men.
Loser: Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty served two forgettable terms as governor of Minnesota before running an extremely lackluster 2012 presidential campaign that featured this amazingly silly video, tried to get on Mitt Romney's ticket as VP, failed, and then cashed in as head of the Financial Services Roundtable in DC.
Then, earlier this year, he decided to hop back into politics, citing the state Republican Party's lack of top-tier recruits for the governor's race and suggesting himself as the salvation the GOP needs.
He had the name recognition (being a former two-term governor will do that for you), he had the money (working as a bank lobbyist will do that for you), but he just didn't have the voters (being kind of lame will do that for you). Pawlenty ended up losing to Jeff Johnson, a former state rep who lost as the GOP nominee for attorney general in 2006 and then lost again as the GOP nominee for governor in 2014.
It's of course possible that Johnson will do better this time around, but the overall national environment for Republicans is much worse this year than it was four years ago, so nominating a previous loser to take another bite at the apple seems like a bad idea. But that's just how lame Pawlenty (known affectionately as T-Paw to politics Twitter) seems to be.
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Toxic stew: Police seize millions of euros in fake food, drink
Posted Apr 25, 2017	by AFP
Forget fake news. European police have joined forces to seize almost 10,000 tonnes of fake and harmful food and drink, from caviar to cashews, booze to bubbly water and even unassuming stock cubes.
In Tuscany, Italian police swooped on an organised group producing counterfeit red wine in a Tuscan farmhouse
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Some 230 million euros ($250 million) worth of "potentially harmful" counterfeit food products and over 26 millions litres of beverages were impounded in a four-month joint Europol and Interpol operation involving 61 countries, the two agencies said Tuesday.
In total 13 million items were seized, and 13 people arrested during 50,000 checks carried out at shops, markets, airports, seaports and industrial estates from December 1 to March 31 in the sixth such annual operation, a joint statement said.
During the operation dubbed OPSON VI, German police cracked down on undeclared peanuts, cashew nuts and almonds mixed into imported hazelnut spreads and not labelled, which could have posed dangers for people with allergies.
"This operation has once again shown that criminals will fake any type of food and drink with no thought to the human cost as long as they make a profit," said Interpol coordinator Francoise Dorcier.
In France, police seized 179,000 counterfeit seasoning stock cubes posing as a famous brand, the two agencies said. It was not clear if they were the Maggi brand, so beloved in French households.
And in Tuscany, Italian police swooped on an organised group producing counterfeit red wine in a Tuscan farmhouse. In a new trend they also flushed out 31,000 bottles of mineral water, imitating a registered brand, in a separate operation.
Investigations took a fishy turn in Portugal, where in a warehouse in Porto thousands of cans almost expired sardines in tomato sauce were uncovered. Some 311,000 cans were seized along with 9,900 packing boxes, and the business was immediately shut down.
Some 530 kilos (1,160 pounds) of dodgy clams "unfit for human consumption" were also found in Spain, while in Denmark investigators uncovered several samples of supposed virgin olive oil which did not live up to their labelling.
More than 1,300 litres of vodka and whisky were seized in two illegal sites in Greece, and a large quantity of unrefrigerated, unpacked and unlabelled meat was tracked down with alcohol and tobacco in Ireland.
"OPSON VI confirmed the threat that food fraud represents, as it affects all types of products and all regions of the world," said Europol's head of intellectual property crime Chris Vansteenkist.


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THE UNPUBLISHED FILM MUSIC OF GEORGES DELERUE Vol. 1
Arranged and performed by Robert Lafond
Release date: 06-2005
A new recording of Georges Delerue music never available before on disc, skilfully arranged by Robert Lafond using digital sampling of acoustic instruments. The musical approach here is resolutely classical, including many pieces for piano and symphonic orchestra. Most of the themes from American and British films found on this compilation were composed during the last ten years of the composer's career. 12-page booklet.
01 Nobody Runs Forever 2:11
02 Without Warning: The James Brady Story 3:43
03 Sin of Innocence Part I 4:36
04 Sin of Innocence Part II 3:30
05 Women of Valor 3:33
06 Paris by Night 4:30
07 Her Secret Life aka Code Name: Dancer 4:41
Concerto for piano and orchestra
08 tempo di menuetto: Partners 3:33
09 adagio: Mister Johnson 4:13
10 allegro: Silence of the Heart 4:14
11 moderato: Sword of Gideon 4:15
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While the cues on this album may stray from the original Delerue orchestrations, they do preserve and showcase the glorious themes, which undoubtedly would have remained lost. Although the album is based upon digital sampling techniques there are few cues where this is overtly apparent and then, it is not really detrimental to the wonderful listening pleasure that this album supplies. This album must have been a monumental effort to produce, but was conspicuously worth it and it is to be hoped there will be at least a second volume. For those that love Georges Delerue or those that enjoy their scores with a classical flavour, this album is a must.
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Robert Lafond again lent his considerable talent to this release, reducing while simultaneously clarifying some of the "often overloaded" orchestration and devising imaginative settings for the themes. He added a piano to the music for Partners, Mister Johnson, Silence of the Heart, and Sword of Gideon, wrote a movement for each theme, et voilà, a piano concerto was born. There may be some stylistic incongruities—in the Adagio, a folk-song-like theme morphs into a Mozartean piano moment, and the Tempo di menuetto displays a certain Gallic charm, but so what? This music wasn't written to be dissected by musicologists. The Allegro pulses with Baroque vitality and a joyous optimism one wouldn't associate with the wrenching drama of Silence of the Heart (the theme's source), which probes the tragedy of teenage suicide. The music lulls the audience into a happy frame of mind before the characters' depression and self-recrimination take center stage. The concerto's last movement centers on a majestic theme that bears a strong resemblance to Vangelis's music for 1492. Throughout the CD, Delerue's sweet (to some, too sweet) side is much in evidence, but there are enough energetic, and, dare I say, profound moments to balance the scales. As I've tried to make clear, Lafond's arrangements, while remaining true to Delerue's musical personality, contribute handily to the CD's success. The harpsichord, flute, cello, and string setting of Women of Valor is especially charming.
ABOUT THE 2017 REMASTERED VERSION
The two volumes of UNPUBLISHED FILM MUSIC OF GEORGES DELERUE produced by Robert Lafond in 2004 and 2005 proved to be successful with film music fans who do not limit themselves to original versions. A new interpretation can only enrich our perception of a musical work. These two albums were all the more welcome as they tackled the little-known American repertoire of Georges Delerue (1925-1992). This is still partly the case in 2017.
Although Robert Lafond mainly used digital sampling techniques for these new recordings, he achieved an impressive degree of realism in the reconstruction of a symphony orchestra. He respects the melodic line of each work and brings out all the nuances of the harmonization. These versions remastered at the cutting edge of technology allow one to appreciate Lafond's work even more.
More than ever, Georges Delerue's legacy is a vibrant celebration of life, often reaching a peak in the expression of intense, often contrasting feelings. Thus, in the same piece melancholy and jubilation can be linked in the most natural way possible.
Originally, only the soundtrack to Mister Johnson came in the form of a short concerto for piano and orchestra. We had the idea of extending this classical approach to other scores that lent themselves to such treatment. This resulted in the Volume 1 Concerto, of which each movement is devoted to the main theme of a different film. As a complement, the album opens with a solo rendition of the Nobody Runs Forever main theme.
On Volume 2, it's the lengthy The Escape Artist suite that stands out above all. It is said to be the first score written by Delerue after his installation in the United States in the early 1980s. Evocative of the world of childhood, this music remains one of the most appreciated of his American period. The composer would use a similar heart-breaking music box theme in Joe Versus the Volcano, one of his last assignments.
The remastered versions of THE GEORGES DELERUE UNPUBLISHED FILM MUSIC albums arranged by Robert Lafond are available for download and streaming on most Internet music boutiques. For the best sound quality, we recommend as always 7digital which offers the FLAC 16-bit option.
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Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571 in Weil der Stadt, Germany. Kepler's grandfather was supposedly from a noble background, and once Mayor of Weil. However, Kepler's father became a mercenary who narrowly avoided the gallows. Kepler's mother, Katherine, was raised by an aunt who was eventually burned as a witch. In later years, Katherine herself was accused of Devil worship, and barely escaped from being burned at the stake. Kepler had six brothers and sisters, three of which, died in infancy. In his youth, Johannes was described as: "… ckly child, with thin limbs and a large, pasty face surrounded by dark curly hair. He was born with defective eyesight-myopia plus anocular polyopy (multiple vision).
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His stomach and gall bladder gave constant trouble; he suffered from boils, rashes, and possibly from piles, for he tells us that he could never sit still for any length of time… " (Koestler, p 24)From this inauspicious start, Johannes Kepler began his fascinating journey as a pioneer in astronomy. Johannes Kepler graduated from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Tuebingen at the age of twenty, intending to matriculate into the Theological Faculty.
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It was here that Kepler learned and became an adherent of the heliocentric theory of planetary motion, first developed by the Dutch astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. In 1594, Kepler left Tuebingen for the University of Graz to become a professor of astronomy. It was here that Kepler realized that figures of the type shown here determine a definite fixed ratio between the sizes of the two circles, provided the triangle has all sides equal, and a different ratio of sizes will occur for a square between the two circles, another for a regular pentagon, and so on.
Kepler believed that this could be used to determine the orbits of planets in the solar system. Unfortunately, Kepler proceeded from a false assumption: namely, that the orbits of the planet were circular. Despite the fact that his calculations did not match known planetary data, Kepler presumed that Copernicus's data was in error, and produced this diagram of orbits, where the outer ring represents the orbit of Saturn. Kepler stayed at the University of Graz until 1600, when he was pressured to leave due to his Lutheran faith.
Kepler traveled to the observatory of the famed Danish Astronomer and Imperial Mathematician Tycho Brahe, where he became Brahe's assistant. By all accounts, the relationship between the two was strained. We have previously discussed Kepler's upbringing. In contrast, Brahe was from an aristocratic background who shared Kepler's less than scintillating personality. As a result, the two continuously quarreled, and usually failed to resolve their academic and personal differences. However, the two realized that they needed each other.
As a result, both learned from each other's writings. Brahe died in 1601, and Kepler assumed his post as imperial mathematicus. In addition, Rudolph II requested his service as court astronomer, which Kepler preformed until Rudolph's death in 1612, During his tenure as court astronomer, Johannes Kepler labored over one of his most impressive works: Astronomia Nova. His primary motivation was to attempt to calculate the orbit of Mars. One offshot of this work was the formulation of the concepts that were eventually known as the first two of Kepler's Laws.
In 1612, Kepler became provincial mathematician to Linz, in upper Austria. Over the next fourteen years, Kepler published Harmonice Mundi, in which Kepler outlined his third law. Furthermore, he published the Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae, which combined all of his discoveries together. However, Kepler's personal life was far less successful. His first wife, Barbara, and their two sons died from the fever and small pox in 1612. In 1615, Kepler was excommunicated from the church, and his mother was placed on trial for being a witch..
Despite these tribulations, Kepler completed the Tabulae Rudolfinae in 1625. These tables reduced the mean errors in tables of planetary motion significantly. However, political unrest led in the destruction of his home during a peasant revolt, leaving Kepler without a permanent residence. Johannes Kepler was named the private mathematicus in the newly acquired Duchy of Sagan in 1628. Unfortunately, neither this position nor his previous one was a lucrative profession due to the Thirty Years War.
As such, Kepler was left having to borrow money to travel to collect an old debt leaving his second wife and children behind, penniless. Sadly, he died en route on November 15, 1630 in the village of Ratisbon. Kepler, to this day, remains one of the greatest figures in astronomy. However, his endeavors were not just limited to this field. He is often called the founder of modern optics for his first use of eyeglasses designed for nearsightedness and farsightedness, his explanations of vision by refraction within the eyes, and his explanation of the use of both eyes for depth perception.
Furthermore, he explained the principles of the telescope. His book Stereometrica Doliorum formed the basis of integral calculus. First to explain that the tides are caused by the Moon (Galileo rebuked him for this). First to use stellar parallax caused by the Earth's orbit to try to measure the distance to the stars; the same principle as depth perception. First to suggest that the Sun rotates about its axis in Astronomia Nova First to derive the birth year of Christ, that is now universally accepted.
Topic: Johannes Kepler Essay
Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571 in Weil der Stadt, Germany. Kepler's grandfather was supposedly from a noble background, and once Mayor of Weil. However, Kepler's father became a mercenary who narrowly avoided the gallows. Kepler's mother, Katherine, was raised by an aunt who was eventually burned as a witch. In later years, Katherine herself was accused of Devil worship, and barely escaped from being burned at the stake. Kepler had six brothers and sisters, three of which, died in


There is, indeed, something to these charges. Neoliberal regimes like Harper's have been strengthening their military and security apparatuses. They have been deploying their international economic policy to undergird the internationalization of capital. But the view of a pre-Harper internationalist and just Canada spins illusions about Canada's past. Canada has been long time engaged as an ally of British and American imperialism (going back to the era of the Atlantic slave trade triangle). More tellingly: it fails to situate Canada properly as an imperialist state in its own right advancing and protecting the international interests of Canadian and Western capital.
The Harper regime did not invent Canadian imperialism. It has long been a central feature of the governance and organization of Canada's foreign policy. It is necessary to avert misplaced hopes that a Liberal or NDP government might usher in a new era of cosmopolitan enlightenment in Canada. The Harper government administers a core capitalist state, with particular imperial interests, secured and cultivated through its foreign policy and international branches.
Imperialism cannot be dispensed with by a simple shift in foreign policy. Capitalism is a social system with an essential contradiction between the locally specific production and appropriation of value, the global accumulation of capital and the territorially based states. These states simultaneously protect domestic investments and facilitate the internationalization of capital in the world market. The inter-state system forms into a hierarchy of dominant core states and peripheral zones in an imperialist chain. Hegemonic states like the U.S., and international institutions like the World Bank, the IMF, NATO and the UN Security Council, politically enforce and manage the inequalities of the world market.
As the global accumulation of capital increases in its extent and complexity, foreign policy, as well as the defence and security apparatuses of the state, becomes ever more drawn into defending economic interests as geo-political imperatives. This forms an 'uneven interdependence' between states: competitive rivals over markets but cooperative allies in sustaining global capitalism. Political projects for alternate world orders, whether socialist or nationalist giving priority to democratic and territorial sovereignty, have to be confronted and subordinated.
Canada has played a critical role in modern imperialism. It has done so as a 'secondary imperialist power,' allied with the dominant empires of the UK and now the U.S., while protecting its own economic interests. It has done so through a foreign policy strategy of 'cooperative specialization.' Canada cooperates closely with the lead imperialist power. Over the Cold War period, this meant specializing in diplomacy, peace-keeping and soft power. But in the period of neoliberalism, this has meant specializing in diplomatic coverage for foreign intervention, advancing free trade agreements and the hard power of 'disciplinary militarism' of foreign combat missions.
Like the other core capitalist states, the Liberal government of Jean Chretien reorganized Canada's military and foreign policy apparatuses after September 11, 2001. The new geo-political context established by the U.S. under the Bush Doctrine radically affirmed American primacy in international relations and its willingness and capacity to act unilaterally outside of international legal restraints.
President Obama has never repudiated the approach established by the 'war on terror.' He makes constant referral to the U.S. as the 'indispensible nation' and, for another example, continually deploys drone attacks outside any international framework. This is a strategy of 'disciplinary militarism': the use of armed force to compel states, if their domestic capitalist classes and political elites are not already doing so, to adhere to the neoliberal world order under U.S. hegemony. The U.S. state under Bush-Obama has pursued, moreover, international policies for free trade, capital mobility, the re-capitalization of the banking system, and the re-building of international derivatives markets as the framework for exit to the economic crisis. These policies can be labelled the 'new imperialism' for their particular military, diplomatic and economic shaping world order.
Several features stand out. First, over the last decade the Canadian state has been re-designed to extend its security capacities. This is, in part, comprised of: establishing a new set of security doctrines; forming a Ministry of Public Safety and a new Cabinet Committee on security matters; an extensive re-haul of all the branches of the Canadian state to enhance the priority of security and protecting the interests of Canadian capital internationally; and developing new doctrines and operational procedures for Arctic security. Second, from the International Policy Statement and the Security and Prosperity Partnership of 2005, the Canadian state has systematically aligned its institutions and practices in border security and economic concerns with the USA. This has been part of building a Fortress North America. It includes: increased coordination of policing and security; transforming border and airport administration into a more common set of policies, including the 'smart borders' initiative; increased inter-departmental coordination in all areas of international overlap; and closer alignment with the U.S. on the diplomatic front, especially with respect to the Middle East and Latin America.
Third, the Canadian military has transformed its military capabilities away from peace-keeping toward flexibility for overseas deployment. This has meant: re-writing Canada's military doctrines; building operational capabilities for overseas deployment including 'networked joint capabilities' for 'multi-force, multi-country' actions; overhauling military hardware; renovating the training of troops for overseas combat, particularly urban guerilla wars; and improved functionality to operate in support of U.S. military operations. Fourth, both the foreign and economic policy branches of the state have been restructured to give priority to the internationalization of capital. This is for foreign direct investment circulating into Canada and especially for Canadian capital expanding internationally, such as mining and financial capitals. This has involved: bolstering international institutions like the WTO, the IMF and the G20; opposing international regulation constraining finance; expanding the exploitation of Canadian raw materials in Northern Canada for export; and seeking out free trade agreements, following the NAFTA framework, in Asia, Latin America and Europe.
Since first coming to power in a minority government in February 2006, Harper had mainly to steer aggressively down the path laid out by the Liberals (and accommodated by the NDP). He has methodically done so. Harper has seized whatever openings events provided to harden Canada's foreign policy. This meant marginalizing Canada's prior mediating role between imperialist powers of the peace-keeping period, and adopting a more aggressive posture. It is not possible to catalogue all the foreign policy shifts, small or even large, that have transpired. But listing some key elements illustrates the Canadian state's belligerent imperialist role under the Harper regime.
A significant upgrading of Latin American issues in DFAIT and CIDA to pursue bilateral trading agreements and the internationalization of Canadian capital, particularly in the mining sector. Under Harper, FTAs signed with Colombia, Honduras, Panama and Peru.
FTAs also signed under Harper with Jordan, Madagascar and the European Free Trade Area, and ongoing negotiations moving toward agreement with China (Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection – FIPA), India, Korea, the EU (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement – CETA), and others.
Increased coordination and integration of the auto sector with the U.S. through the 2009 auto bailouts; cooperation with the U.S. in attempting to develop the Keystone pipeline project from the Tar Sands to the U.S.; and increased coordination with the U.S. over energy supplies.
In 2011, Canada participated in the military intervention in Libya, while supporting Mubarak in Egypt to the end and the reactionary Arab gulf states. This has extended to providing military training to the Saudis, while deploying war ships to assist in the isolation of Iran.
The imperialist agenda of the Harper regime has widened the gulf between foreign and economic policy objectives of the Canadian state and the vision of a more democratic and just world order of the Canadian people. The Canadian capitalist class and political elites have been on one side of this divide; and the union and social movements on the other. These movements are diverse in their origins – Palestine solidarity, anti-war campaigners, climate change activists, anti-globalization militants, and others.
Greg Albo is co-editor of Empire's Ally: Canada and the War in Afghanistan . He is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at York University.


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Phone: (925) 671-3158. Fax: (925) 798-0636
CityCouncil@cityofconcord.org
Note: For correspondence sent to City Council, City Clerk or City Treasurer, please put Attention; followed by the name of the specific elected official.
Mayor Laura M. Hoffmeister
Laura Hoffmeister, a lifelong Concord resident, was first elected to the City Council in 1997 and reelected in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014. She served as Mayor in 2001, 2005, 2009, and 2011, Vice Mayor in 2000, 2004 and 2015, and Chair of the Concord Redevelopment Agency in 1999, 2003, and 2008.
Hoffmeister is active in her support of the various veterans and support organizations including VFW Post 1525 - Clayton Valley; Blue Star Moms and Diablo Valley Veterans. She is a past recipient of Contra Costa Women's Hall of Fame Community Leadership Award.
Prior to election, Hoffmeister served as Chair of the Redevelopment Advisory Committee (RAC), Vice Chair of the Design Review Board, and was an active member of the Economic Development Task Force, Main Street Committee, County Connection Citizen Advisory Committee and the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce.
She formerly served on the boards of the Concord Historical Society, American Association of University Women, and is a graduate of Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce's "Leadership Concord" Academy.
She holds a BS degree in City and Environmental Planning from the University of California, Davis.
Vice Mayor Ron Leone
Ron Leone, a resident of Concord since 1978, was elected to the City Council in 2010, re-elected in 2014. He served as Mayor in 2012 and Vice Mayor in 2014. Leone served 35 years in education as a high school teacher and principal. He was the teacher of the year in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District and teachers' association president. He coached high school baseball, and several championship mock trial and constitutional academic teams.
Leone was raised in the lower socio-economic, Bay View/Hunter's Point District of San Francisco, but worked his way through college earning his BA and teaching credential from San Francisco State and his MA and Administrative credential from St. Mary's college in Moraga.
Prior to his election on the City Council he served as an elected member of the Mt. Diablo Hospital District Board for 16 years; he also served as the Chairman of the Board of the John Muir Hospitals and the City's Planning Commission.
Councilmember Edi E. Birsan
Edi E. Birsan was elected to the City Council in November 2012 after being the runner-up in the 2010 election. He is an active community leader and has served in many positions, from the Director of Community Services for Concord-Diablo Rotary to the President of the Friends of the Library, to volunteer for numerous non-profit organizations.
Birsan came to Concord in 1983 working for a global, inter-modal container leasing company. He started his own company in 1986, which currently focuses on certification/inspection and service in the inter-modal equipment field. He brings a history of running a small business as well as world-class experience in pioneering efforts at containerization of global trade.
Birsan was born and raised in New York City where he earned his B.A. degree in dual majors of History and Political Science from City University-CCNY. He and his wife (they were high school sweethearts) have raised two generations in Concord and have lived in the same house since 1983 in the area off of Monument Blvd.
Councilmember Tim Grayson
Tim Grayson has been a Concord resident since 2001 and was elected to serve on the Concord City Council in 2010, and re-elected in 2014. He served as Vice Mayor in 2013, Mayor in 2014 -15, Chair and Vice‐Chair of the Local Reuse Authority, and Redevelopment Chair and Vice‐Chair.
Grayson has been a general contractor since 1999, currently serves as the Concord Police Critical Response Chaplain, and leads a church congregation. He serves or has served on the following: Association of Bay Area Governments (city delegate), Citizen Core Emergency Response Team, League of Cities Community Services Committee (State), League of Cities Annual Conference Committee, U.S. Conference of Mayors Criminal and Social Justice Committee, U.S. Conference of Mayors Tourism, Arts, Parks, Entertainment, & Sports Committee, and member of the Concord Chamber of Commerce.
Grayson holds a B.A degree from Christian Life College in Stockton. He has received the Presidential Volunteer Service Award for the past six years, and successfully completed Levels I and II of the League of Cities Leadership Program. He and his wife Tammy have been married for 27 years and have two children, Joseph and Cassie.
Councilmember Daniel C. Helix
Daniel C. Helix was appointed to the City Council in February 2011to fill a vacant position, and was subsequently the top vote-getter in the November 2012 election. He served as mayor in 2013. Helix was previously elected to the City Council in 1968, was reelected in 1972 and served as Mayor from 1972-74. In 2007-08, he served as co-chair of the Community Advisory Committee for the Concord Naval Weapons Station Reuse Project.
Helix is a past president of the Rotary Club of Concord and the former Mt. Diablo Hospital Foundation, now John Muir Health, Concord Campus. He served on the Board of the All Wars Memorial Foundation and is active in numerous philanthropic and military organizations. He served on a U.S. Congressional Commission considering changes in the Department of the Army and Governor Schwarzenegger's Military Base Retention Commission.
Helix earned a bachelor's degree in History from the University of California at Berkeley, and a master's degree in Political Science at the San Francisco State University. Both degrees were conferred magna cum laude. He is a graduate of the Army's Command and General Staff College and the War College. Helix retired as a major general in the U. S. Army in 1989. He completed a 41-year career serving both on active duty and with the Army Reserve.
Helix is a published author of an award-winning novel set in the Korean War era and has several published articles and short stories that have been published in military journals. He lives in Concord with his wife, Mary Lou. They have two children and five grandchildren.
Concord City Treasurer Tim McGallian
Tim McGallian was appointed to the City Treasurer position by the City Council after the retirement of Thomas Wentling in July 2015. McGallian previously served on the City of Concord Planning Commission from 2010 to 2015 and is president of the Todos Santos Business Association Arts Foundation.
McGallian was vice-chair of the Board of Directors of the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce from 2010 to 2015, and chaired the Chamber's Government Affairs and Economic Development Committee from 2008-2012.
He also has been active in community organizations, and served as president of the Greater Concord Kiwanis Club from 2009 to 2011 and as president of the St. Agnes School Board from 2008-2015. He has worked with the Boy Scouts, and served as head coach for the Concord American Little League and CYO Basketball.
McGallian is a Business Underwriting Specialist for State Farm Insurance for Alameda & Contra Costa Counties. He holds a BA in Strategic Management and another in Marketing from Sacramento State University. He had his wife, Michelle, have three children: Andrew Alyssa and Audrey.
Council Standing Committees
There are currently five standing City Council Committees, each of which is made up of two Councilmembers. The committees meet monthly and make recommendations to the City Council for action on items they have considered.
The Mayor makes new committee assignments following the reorganization of the City Council at the end of the calendar year. Committee members serve one-year terms. Committee agendas are available on the City's Web site.
Chair/Member
Housing and Economic Development Leone/Helix 4th Monday, 5:30 pm, Garden Conference Room
Infrastructure and Franchise Helix/Birsan 2nd Monday, 5:30 pm, Garden Conference Room
Policy Development and Internal Operations Hoffmeister/Leone 2nd Thursday, 5:30 pm, Garden Conference Room
Recreation, Cultural Affairs and Community Services Grayson/Hoffmeister 4th Thursday, 5:30 pm, City Manager's Conference Room
Youth and Education Birsan/Grayson 3rd Monday, 5:30 pm, Garden Conference Room
External Appointments
Member/Alternate
Association of Bay Area Governments General Assembly (ABAG) Grayson/Helix
Central Contra Costa Transit Authority (CCCTA) Hoffmeister/Leone
Central County Literacy Coalition Birsan/Hoffmeister
Citizen Core Emergency Response Team Grayson/Helix
League of California Cities (East Bay Division) Leone/Grayson
Transportation Partnership and Cooperation Regional Committee (TRANSPAC)
p1000 Leone/Grayson


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A major player at Vatican II, Archbishop Lefebvre made these 12 official statements at the Council exposing the danger of its documents. He warned that the faithful would become confused, doubting the necessity of the Church, the sacraments, the conversion of non-Catholics, and the necessity of authority. Covers collegiality, the priesthood, marriage, religious liberty, and ecumenism.


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Q: Debugging PhoneGap apps using WebView/GapDebug I'm working on my first phonegap app. Before going deep into the development, I really wanted to create a debugging environment. Here is what I got so far by researching on the web and trying those whole day.
The community is suggesting many tools, But I finally picked up Chrome WebView and GapDebug. Now I'm able to connect to the system using USB Debugging
I'm connecting the local server from my android device using the PhoneGap Developer App and it works fine. But my problem is, when I check the chrome://inspect it does listed the device. But no app is listed for the debugging.
Here is the screenshot from chrome.

Here no app is displayed while an app is running.
Here is the screenshot of GapDebug

And the PhoneGap server

I'm connecting the app using 192.168.137.1:3000
I've added this in chrome Port forwarding settings and GapDebug proxy setting But no luck.
As per the documentation of GapDebug, I have set the following in my config.xml
<gap:config-file platform="android" parent="/manifest">
 <application android:debuggable="true" />
</gap:config-file>

And added the android:debuggable="true" to the <application> element in AndroidManifest.xml.
Can anyone suggest me how can I get the debugging tools working.
Thanks.

A: You can't debug the phonegap developer app because it's a signed app downloaded from google play. You have to run your app on the device
try with this command, it should run your app
phonegap run android --device

or this one
phonegap cordova run android --device

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New Haven High School has taken on spreading awareness for Mental Health Week. Mental Health Week was on March 25th through the 29th. FCA and Student Council both put together something for each day of the week to get the student body and the teachers involved.
Throughout the week, music was played every day in between classes to get the students pumped up through the day. On Monday, all of the students in the high school were talked to by CHADS Coalition representatives about suicide awareness. On Tuesday, warm fuzzies were supposed to be given out to the students at lunch, but they were handed out Wednesday morning instead. Also on Wednesday, a positive note was placed in every locker in the high school to spread kindness and happy vibes to the students. At lunch on Thursday, students were given a soda float to drink and enjoy. On Friday, after the last dismissal bell rang, a bubble machine was on outside for the students to enjoy as their last day of Mental Health Week.
The student body was asked to share their thoughts on how the school took part in Mental Health Week.
"I think we should celebrate things like this more often because it makes everyone feel better about themselves," stated Chloe Kearney.
"My favorite activity this week was the warm fuzzies. This year I actually tried to give out as many compliments as I could and got rid of all of my string. It was pretty fun. It made me feel good-- it was a good way to spread positivity around the school," mentioned Alex Trentmann.
As you can see, many students enjoyed getting involved with the activities the school provided for Mental Health Week. The student body relished spreading awareness for this week. It helped people come out to talk about serious topics and come together as a whole!


does the club get a discount on the NEC resto show tickets?
I'm going to head to the show this weekend and wondered if we can get a discount on tickets via the club ?
Yes, you'll find all club discounts HERE.
Thanks David. £18.50 so not bad, annoying they then slap a £1.95 fee on top to print it yourself! I think I'll be going Sunday, but not decided yet.


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The company's YouTube for Android app has been updated to remove videos from the app, according to a blog post by Google's VP of Product Development, Matt Rogers.
YouTube has been a thorn in the side of YouTube for some time, and YouTube said in November that it was considering pulling its popular video streaming service from Google Play.
Google declined to comment on the matter.
Google has been rolling out a series of updates to the YouTube app in recent weeks, including an improved search experience, new video editing tools and a new "YouTube for Everyone" video editor.
Google has also updated its app to remove ads from video clips, which is also a feature of the new Google Play store update.
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The YouTube app has also received a major update, which now features new videos, and has an enhanced search experience that allows users to search for videos on a list of search terms.
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The Special Joint School Board Meeting of Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted ISD #2687 and Lester Prairie ISD #424 was called to order at 8:00 p.m., by Chairperson James Raymond. ISD #2687 School Board Members present were Gene Lorentz, Mary Pettit, James Raymond, Michael Steckelberg, Charles Weber, Randy Heuer, Leo Weber, Ken Zimmerman, Carol Fury and Jim Fowler. Members absent: Richard Lammers. Also present were Lester Prairie School Board Members: Murl Kletcher, Chester Hoernemann, Fred Blaser, Nancy Krull, Gene Starke, Barry Kyllo; and Superintendents James Redfield and Riley Hoheisel.
Members of the individual School Boards were introduced along with their respective Superintendents.
Architect Bob Abendroth presented the background and need for the HL-W-W decision to move forward with a plan for a new high school.
Jim Fowler presented information prepared by Ehlers and Associates, including a report illustrating the various financial perspectives.
Discussion ensued as to programs and curriculum offerings, should the two districts combine. Administrators were asked to research the curriculum and program possibilities and prepare a report that would be presented to the two Boards on Wednesday, May 19, 1999.
The next joint meeting of the School Boards of ISD #2687 and ISD #424 will be held on Wednesday, May 19, 1999, at 7:30 p.m., at Lester Prairie Schools.


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from CodeWarrior.CodeWarrior_suite import message_document
import core
import itertools

def encrypt(message, key):
    # convert message to 128-bit blocks
    blocks = core.to_blocks(map(ord, message))

    # transform each block and apply transformation from array to matrix
    for block in blocks:
        core.transform(block)
        core.encrypt_block(block, key)
        core.transform(block)
        print 'Cipher for this block: ', core.list_to_hex(block)

    # flatten out blocks
    flat = list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(blocks))
    result = ''.join(map(unichr, flat))
    return core.list_to_hex(flat)

def encrypt_file(file, key):
    with open(file, 'r') as fr:
        message = encrypt(fr.read(), key) # TODO: write
        with open('encrypted', 'w') as fw:
            fw.write(message)

def decrypt(message, key):
    blocks = core.to_blocks(core.hex_to_list(message))
    for block in blocks:
        core.transform(block)
        core.decrypt_block(block, key)
        core.transform(block)

    flat = list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(blocks))
    result = ''.join(map(unichr, flat))
    return result

def decrypt_file(file, key):
    with open(file, 'r') as fr:
        message = decrypt(fr.read(), key) # TODO: write
        with open('decrypted', 'w') as fw:
            fw.write(message)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # er nutzte die Tests aus http://www.inconteam.com/software-development/41-encryption/55-aes-test-vectors#aes-ecb-128
    # und er sah, dass es gut war
    message = core.hex_to_unicode('6bc1bee22e409f96e93d7e117393172a')
    key = '2b7e151628aed2a6abf7158809cf4f3c'
    encrypted = encrypt(message, key)
    decrypted = decrypt(encrypted, key)
    print 'Expected Cipher: 3ad77bb40d7a3660a89ecaf32466ef97'
    print 'Message: ', message
    print 'Encrypted: ', encrypted
    print 'Decrypted: ', decrypted

    encrypt_file('message.txt', key)
    decrypt_file('encrypted', key)

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Q: How to draw 3D surface plot from .csv with asymptote How can one draw "regular" 3D surface plot in Asymptote from data.csv?
Following (I dare to say basic) code with the help of pgfplots does the job (suppose you have optimal data format):
\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[colorbar]
\addplot3 [
surf,
mesh/ordering=y varies,
mesh/cols=15,
] table [col sep=comma,] {data.csv};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

graph
To my basic knowledge, only mesh/cols has to be set-up for given data set. Is there any -almost- general approach also in Asymptote?
NOTES:
Why Asymptote: Pgfplots are great Latex package, fun to use with great documentation and tutorials. However, even when I compile with LuaLaTeX, I am worried about performance - I expect that I will generate several 3D plots with more than 1 000 points, with might take long. Also very big feature is .prc format, which I would like to be able to utilize.
Why generic: I am still learning LaTeX, programming (mostly in python) and Asymptote syntax seems to me hard to grasp. There is great tutorial from Mr. Staats, and "package documentation," but they dont seem to cover my situation (or am I mistaken?) and I am not sure that I am up to learn Asymptote syntax ...
Final note: If there is no general approach, which could be easily utilized, as with pgfplots code above, please inform me (than this question might become off-topic, if it is not already) or, if there is the file data.csv needed, I will upload sample data.
Regards, Tomas
EDIT: Uploaded sample data.csv here (google drive)
I have to admit I lack knowledge of terminology in 3D graph creation. I have data structured in I would call a matrix - for each value of x, there is y changing by constant value and finally value of z. This information is passed to pgfplots package in the code above by lines
mesh/ordering = y varies,
mesh/cols = 15

I think I understand the code in the example as far as this:
//Necessary module imports
import three;
import grid3;

bool renderPRC = true; //Pretty essential for me, I would like to obtain graph in PRC format

if(renderPRC) {
    // PRC TRUE
    settings.prc=true;
    settings.embed=true;
}
else {
    // RASTERIZE
    settings.outformat="png";
    settings.prc=false;
    settings.render=3;
}

file in=input(data.csv).line().csv(); // I am not sure, if "data" should be with ".csv" or not

real[][] a=in.dimension(0,0); //Initiation of array a with data collection until the end of file

 real[] x=a[0];
 real[] y=a[1];
 real[] z=a[2]; // Assignment of values from array a to x, y, z arrays; depending on column index? (data.csv has 3 columns)

//if I understood correctly, next are pen settings, which I think I dont need except for any contour, that would emphasize the "z" value.

Next goes surface part, which is beyond my knowledge.
Remark: I looked closely in linked answer at solution with triangulation:
How to plot a surface from a set of data?
As I dont have enough of a education/knowledge in mathematics, understanding of that is (now) beyond me, but I see that data in that answer resemble mine by theyre structure. I have also tested triangulation approach to create 3D graph with python and matplotlib, using its triangulation (ref: https://python-graph-gallery.com/371-surface-plot/).
Is that simillar to Asymptote and can answer from user g.kov be used also in my case? I test it as soon as I will have access to Asymptote and test it further (and edit the question again if needed).

A: With respect to the example Asymptote: draw surface from data points in 3D, the data are very well organized.
The file data.csv is just a 3 columns, with x_i,y_j,z_(i,j), first in i, then in j.
The first task is to clean the data.csv file, that is remove the first line containing characters and not data and a blank line. That is my data1.csv. Moreover do not use in as name since it is a keyword with Asymptote.
Since it is three columns, real[][] a=fic.dimension(0,3) does the job. a[i] is line i+1 of the file containing x,y,z.
As in Asymptote: draw surface from data points in 3D, there is at least to solution to draw the surface.
Solution 1: surface(triple[][] f, real [] x,real [] y)
We need to construct, x, y and z. ymesh/15 gives the way with loops.
To simplify I work with b=transpose(a) (it avoids one loop).
Please find the code (notice that I use scaling in z so that the surface is not too flat).
import three;
import grid3;
import graph3;
import palette;

// since the value of z=f(x,y) are small
// there is scaling in z
unitsize(.5cm,.5cm,2cm);
currentprojection=orthographic(18,17,3);

bool renderPRC = true; //Pretty essential for me, I would like to obtain graph in PRC format

if(renderPRC) {
    // PRC TRUE
    settings.prc=true;
    settings.embed=true;
}
else {
    // RASTERIZE
    settings.outformat="png";
    settings.prc=false;
    settings.render=3;
}

// data1.csv is a refactorized to eliminate the first line containing string
// and also a blank line
file fic =input("data1.csv").line().csv();

// it is 3 columns
real[][] a=fic.dimension(0,3);
// a[i] is 3 array of x,y,z value

int xmesh=15;
int ymesh=a.length#15;
real [][] b=transpose(a);

// solution 1 : construct the vectors real []x, real [] y and the matrix real[][] z
// which correspond to the grid and the values on the grid
real [] xpt,ypt;
ypt=b[1][0:ymesh];
for(int i=0;i<xmesh;++i)
{
    xpt.push(b[0][i*ymesh]);
}
real[][] zpt=new real[xmesh][ymesh];
for(int i=0;i<xmesh;++i)
{
    for (int j=0;j<ymesh;++j)
    {
        write(i,j);
        zpt[i][j]=b[2][i*ymesh+j];
    }
}

surface s=surface(zpt,xpt,ypt,Spline);
s.colors(palette(s.map(zpart),Rainbow()));
draw(s);
xaxis3(Label("$x$",.1),Bounds,InTicks);
yaxis3(Label("$y$",0.5),Bounds,InTicks);
zaxis3(Label("$z$",0.5),Bounds,InTicks(beginlabel=false));

and the result

Solution 2: create a function
As in Asymptote: draw surface from data points in 3D, it is possible to use a function f depending on two variables and to draw the desired parametric surface. In my opinnion it is more difficult to understand and it is crucial to give the right parameters.
Please find the code
//Necessary module imports
import three;
import grid3;
import graph3;
import palette;

// since the value of z=f(x,y) are small
// there is scaling in z
unitsize(.5cm,.5cm,2cm);
currentprojection=orthographic(18,17,3);

bool renderPRC = true; //Pretty essential for me, I would like to obtain graph in PRC format

if(renderPRC) {
    // PRC TRUE
    settings.prc=true;
    settings.embed=true;
}
else {
    // RASTERIZE
    settings.outformat="png";
    settings.prc=false;
    settings.render=3;
}

// data1.csv is a refactorized to eliminate the first line containing string
// and also a blank line
file fic =input("data1.csv").line().csv();

// it is 3 columns
real[][] a=fic.dimension(0,3);
// a[i] is 3 array of x,y,z value

int xmesh=15;
int ymesh=a.length#15;
real [][] b=transpose(a);

// Solution 2 : create a function.
// Be careful the arguments for the surface creation are strongly related
// to the shape of the data
triple f (pair t) {
return (b[0][round(t.x)*ymesh],b[1][round(t.y)],b[2][round(t.x)*ymesh+round(t.y)]);
}

surface ns=surface(f,(0,0),(xmesh-1,ymesh-1),xmesh-1,ymesh-1,Spline);
ns.colors(palette(ns.map(zpart),Rainbow()));
draw(ns);

xaxis3(Label("$x$",.1),Bounds,InTicks);
yaxis3(Label("$y$",0.5),Bounds,InTicks);
zaxis3(Label("$z$",0.5),Bounds,InTicks(beginlabel=false));

and the same result


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Brandon Ford's B-Movie Bonanza – Episode 25: Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1982)
Bear City
MakingOf 'Bad Teacher' Featurette.
Making "9 Ball" The Movie Glen Burnie, MD- Day 6
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Format Perspective Preview – Richard Gilligan
moebius – First short movie project from 2006/7
5D rebel's guide: building an explosion
Movie Magic w/ Mark Chavarria
This is the story of a true South African legend.
Shortly before his death, Reg and the Park family authorised a documentary to be made about the life of this charismatic and hugely influential man.
The project commenced with Reg sitting down in front of the cameras shortly before his death (cancer), and telling the story of his life in his own words over a number of sessions.
These interviews have formed the backbone of the documentary, which features rare footage of early posing routines and competitions, and includes interviews with many famous figures from the world of bodybuilding – including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Platz, Frank Zane, Lou Ferrigno and Joe Weider.
The film tells the story of a young man from Leeds who emerged from the bleakness of the second World War to create the most magnificent physique in the world. It tells how his dedication and unique talents shaped body-building for decades as he pushed the boundaries – winning the Mr Universe title at only 22 in 1951. He won again in 1958 and again in 1965, creating a record that is unlikely to be surpassed – and his achievements were steroid free!
It tells of the love story between Reg and his South African wife, Mareon, and of Reg – the family man and loving father – who moved his young family out to South Africa in 1958 to escape the harsh British climate.
It tells the story of the man who defined the movie muscle-man genre through his role as Hercules in the early 1960's. Following in the footsteps of actors like Steve Reeves, and paving the way for Arnold Schwarzenegger.
But Reg Park was not only a muscle-man, he also had brains. He founded the first chain of gymnasiums in South Africa, edited and published the very popular Reg Park Journal that had a circulation of over 60 000 worldwide in the late 1950's. He was also a teacher and healer to many through his understanding of the body and his remarkable instinct for healing.
Reg created an institution at the Wits University Medical School when Professor Philip Tobias used Reg as a live model for his annual anatomy lecture to the second year medical students. The lecture became such a well-attended event that it had to be moved into the Great Hall on campus due to all the non-medical students who would also attend.
Generations of doctors were exposed to Reg's understanding of the human body in this lecture and many of them later referred patients to Reg for rehabilitation. In the interviews Reg worked behind the scenes with South African and international sportsmen and for the first time he reveals his role in helping South Africa win the 1995 rugby World Cup.
Reg Park was an amazing man who never failed to touch the lives of people with whom he came into contact. Despite his incredible success he remained a humble man – unaffected by his fame.
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Q: Trying to inject an array of objects as an input value, value entered shows [object Object] I'm trying to inject an array of one key objects into a hidden input for a form so that when I submit the form, it returns the contents of the array in a way I can spread into a new array using .split. However, when I check the values of the input, it shows the contents as [object Object], [object Object], ... even though the actual array may look like [{test: 1}, {test2: 1}, ...]. How do I get the objects to essentially spread into the value for the input?
  var sprints = [];

  function newSprint() {
    var li = document.createElement("li");
    li.className = "color1";
    li.setAttribute("onclick", "this.classList.toggle('checked')")
    var inputValue = document.getElementById("sprints-input").value;
    li.innerHTML = inputValue
    if (inputValue === '') {
      alert("You must write something!");
    } else {
      document.getElementById("sUL").appendChild(li);
      var sprintInput = document.getElementById("sprints");
      li.setAttribute("data-name", inputValue);
      sprints.push({[inputValue]: 1});
      sprintInput.value = sprints;
    }

the sprintInput is where I'm trying to inject my array of objects, sprints. I've also tried ... to spread it but it doesn't seem to work in browser code as it reffers to it as an unrecognized token.

A: What Liron suggested worked: JSON.stringify converted the json object into a string that could then be injected into the value in an input field in HTML. Was doing this so I could then bring that data over into NodeJS and load that as an object.


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Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (Vouziers, 21 april 1828 – Parijs, 5 maart 1893) was een Frans filosoof, historicus, schrijver en criticus.

Leven en werk
Taine werd geboren in een lakenmakersfamilie in de Ardennen. Hij was een uitmuntend student, maar kreeg zijn diploma literatuur en filosofie niet toegekend vanwege "al te geavanceerde opvattingen". Hij werd leraar, ging schrijven voor vooraanstaande bladen, volgde verder studies positieve wetenschappen in Parijs en promoveerde uiteindelijk toch op de fabelschrijver Jean de La Fontaine. In 1866 werd hij hoogleraar kunstgeschiedenis aan de École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts en vanaf 1871 aan de Universiteit van Oxford. Vanaf 1878 was hij ook lid van de Académie française.

Samen met Ernest Renan bepaalde Taine in belangrijke mate het geestelijk klimaat van Frankrijk in de tweede helft van de 19e eeuw (de Encyclopædia Britannica uit 1911 stelt dat "de toon" van het werk van Émile Zola en Guy de Maupassant direct terug te voeren is op het werk van Taine). Als wetenschappelijk humanist koesterde hij bewondering voor de natuurwetenschappen en samen met Pierre Janet was hij een van de promotors van de natuurwetenschappelijke psychologie. Taine werd sterk beïnvloed door Auguste Comte en Herbert Spencer en bepleitte streng deterministische, positivistische wetenschappelijke werkwijzen. De nadruk werd gelegd op het experiment, ook in de menswetenschappen.

Dit positivistische denken paste Taine ook toe op de literatuurwetenschappen. Zijn methode bestond erin de voorwaarden te onderzoeken die het voor een schrijver mogelijk maken een werk tot stand te brengen (ras, milieu en ogenblik). Door de literatuurwetenschappen te ontdoen van esthetische en morele aspecten en teksten te onderzoeken op basis van wetenschappelijke methoden, verrichtte Taine baanbrekend werk in de literatuurgeschiedenis, die zich tot dan beperkte tot beoordelingen en beschrijvingen. Aan het einde van de 19e eeuw werd Taines leer door veel critici gehekeld vanwege zijn dogmatisme, schrijvers als Anatole France en Charles Péguy braken weer een lans voor het subjectivisme, maar in de 20e eeuw werden zijn opvattingen weer in ere hersteld via het Russisch formalisme (Viktor Sjklovski, Roman Jakobson), van waaruit het verder werd ontwikkeld, met nieuwe instrumenten.

Taine schreef ook enkele literaire beschouwingen, reisaantekeningen en brieven.

Bibliografie

 1853 De personis Platonicis. Essai sur les fables de La Fontaine
 1854 Essai sur Tite-Live
 1855 Voyage aux eaux des Pyrénées
 1856 Les philosophes français du XIXe siècle
 1857 Essais de critique et d'histoire
 1860 La Fontaine et ses fables
 1864 Histoire de la littérature anglaise, 4 delen.
 1864 L'idéalisme anglais, over Carlyle.
 1864 Le positivisme anglais, over Stuart Mill
 1865 Les écrivains anglais contemporains. Nouveaux essais de critique et d'histoire.
 1865 Philosophie de l'art
 1866 Philosophie de l'art en Italie. Voyage en Italie, 2 delen.
 1867 Notes sur Paris. L'idéal dans l'art
 1867 Notes sur Paris. Vie et opinions de M. Frédéric-Thomas Graindorge
 1868 Philosophie de l'art dans les Pays-Bas
 1869 Philosophie de l'art en Grèce
 1870 De l'intelligence, 2 delen.
 1871 Du suffrage universel et de la manière de voter. Un séjour en France de 1792 à 1795.
 1875–1893 Les origines de la France contemporaine (I: L'ancien régime; II à IV: La Révolution; V en VI: Le Régime moderne)
 1894 Derniers essais de critique et d'histoire
 1897 Carnets de voyage: Notes sur la province 1863-1865

Literatuur en bronnen
 A. Bachrach e.a.: Encyclopedie van de wereldliteratuur. Bussum, 1980-1984. ISBN 90-228-4330-0
 François Léger, Monsieur Taine, Critérion, Parijs, 1993, ISBN 978-2741300373

Externe links
  Bibliographie.
  Bio-bibliografie

Lid van de Académie française
Frans historicus
Frans filosoof
Frans schrijver
Frans literatuurcriticus
Frans wetenschapper

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Climate change is one ingredient of a cocktail of factors driving the ongoing destruction of pristine forests on Earth. We here highlight the main physiological challenges trees must face to deal with increasing drought and heat.
Forests experiencing embolism after a hot drought. The upper-left pic shows Scots (Pinus sylvestris) and black (P. nigra) pines in Montaña de Salvador (Espuñola, Barcelona, Spain) during a hot Autumn in 2015 favouring a massive infestation by pine processionary caterpillars (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) and tree mortality the following year (Lluís Brotons/CSIC in InForest-CREAF-CTFC). To the right, an individual holm oak (Quercus ilex) bearing necrotic branches in Plasencia (Extremadura, Spain) during extreme climates from 2016 to 2017, impacting more than a third of the local oak forests (Alicia Forner/CSIC). The lower-left pic shows widespread die-off of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) from 'Aspen Parkland' (Saskatchewan, Canada) in 2004 following extreme climates in western North America from 2001 to 2002 (Mike Michaelian/Canadian Forest Service). To the right, several dead aspens near Mancos (Colorado, USA) where the same events hit forests up to one-century old (William Anderegg).
A common scene when we return from a long trip overseas is to find our indoor plants wilting if no one has watered them in our absence. But … what does a thirsty plant experience internally?
Like animals, plants have their own circulatory system and a kind of plant blood known as sap. Unlike the phloem (peripheral tissue underneath the bark of trunks and branches, and made up of arteries layered by live cells that transport sap laden with the products of photosynthesis, along with hormones and minerals — see videos here and here), the xylem is a network of conduits flanked by dead cells that transport water from the roots to the leaves through the core of the trunk of a tree (see animation here). They are like the pipes of a building within which small pressure differences make water move from a collective reservoir to every neighbours' kitchen tap.
Water relations in tree physiology have been subject to a wealth of research in the last half a decade due to the ongoing die-off of trees in all continents in response to episodes of drought associated with temperature extremes, which are gradually becoming more frequent and lasting longer at a planetary scale (1).
During a hot drought, trees must cope with a sequence of two major physiological challenges (2, 3, 4). More heat and less internal water increase sap tension within the xylem and force trees to close their stomata (5). Stomata are small holes scattered over the green parts of a plant through which gas and water exchanges take place. Closing stomata means that a tree is able to reduce water losses by transpiration by two to three orders of magnitude. However, this happens at the expense of halting photosynthesis, because the main photosynthetic substrate, carbon dioxide (CO2), uses the same path as water vapour to enter and leave the tissues of a tree.
If drought and heat persist, sap tension reaches a threshold leading to cavitation or formation of air bubbles (6). Those bubbles block the conduits of the xylem such that a severe cavitation will ultimately cause overall hydraulic failure. Under those conditions, the sap does not flow, many parts of the tree dry out gradually, structural tissues loose turgor and functionality, and their cells end up dying. Thus, the aerial photographs showing a leafy blanket of forest canopies profusely coloured with greys and yellows are in fact capturing a Dantesque situation: trees in photosynthetic arrest suffering from embolism (the plant counterpart of a blood clot leading to brain, heart or pulmonary infarction), which affects the peripheral parts of the trees in the first place (forest dieback).
I started to blog in the middle of my PhD, exactly on 17 February 2011 — as a scientist I remember my first blog like a soccer-loving kid might remember his/her first soccer ball. Postgraduates from ACAD have recently asked me to give a talk about my blogging experience, and I couldn't resist turning my talk into a blog.
The cover of the February (polar bears) and December (water flea) 2017 issues of the Spanish magazine Quercus featured two of my popular-science articles. Founded in 1981, and with a current print run of some 15,000 copies monthly, Quercus has pioneered the dissemination of ecological and environmental science with a conservation edge in Spain and survived the digitalisation age, which has recently deserved the prestigious 2018 BBVA prize for Biodiversity Conservation. My liaison with the magazine already spans seven years with 49 articles published in three theme series (conservation biology: 2011-2012; animal behaviour: 2013; and climate change: active since January 2017 in collaboration with my colleague David Vieites).
I write in blogs, but I am not a blogger in the sense of owning and managing a blog. More exactly, I write about science using a language that should be understandable by an audience of scientists and, primarily, non-scientists. The best English expression I have found to qualify such activity is 'popular science' (I use it interchangeably with 'blog' hereafter). And blogs are just one platform (internet) to publish popular science.
In fact, I publish popular science on a regular basis here in ConservationBytes, and in Quercus: a printed Spanish-language magazine about ecology and biodiversity. My articles in those outlets typically synthesise the findings, and expand the background and implications, of high-profile research papers from the primary literature. Sometimes, I also write blogs to maximise the audience of my own publications (e.g., here and here), or to discuss a topic of general interest (e.g., numerical literacy). I have listed all my blogs on ConservationBytes at the end of the text.
Frankly, I had never stopped to think why I started and why I keep writing popular science. So after a bit of brainstorming, I have come up with five personal motivations which will probably resonate with those of other scientists entering the Blogosphere (1) — see here Corey's take on the virtues of blogging.
When you are in the early stage of your research career, letting your peers know that you exist is essential, unless one already publishes hot papers that everybody reads and cites, and/or you have already amassed quite a reputation in the scientific community (not my case). Let's be clear: my blogs are bound to be read by more people than my research papers, because blogs magnify the chances of being detected by search engines (2), and because the size of the scientific community is dwarfed by the size of the internet community. Doubtless, self-promotion drew me into popular science in the first place, when I was just a PhD student — ahead of me lay some five to ten years over which I would have to compete hard for funding and publication space with a respectable crowd of other researchers, let alone to create new partnerships with colleagues in and out of my area of expertise. So, blogging initially meant like saying 'hey! I am here, I am doing science'.


Process sheets are the most important part of any collaboration. Do you know how they work?
The vast majority of musicians rely on their knowledge and wits, or that or their managers, to navigate the music industry. That approach is good at first, but as your level of success begins to rise it's always smart to surround yourself with people who may be better versed in the more complicated areas of the business. For example, songwriting credits and royalties.
You don't have to follow industry news closely to know there have been many lawsuits involving artists and their teams where disputes boil down to who gets paid and how much they get paid for a song or record. While some of those cases are the result of shady business practices, others come to pass because the people involved at the point of creation were not fully aware of how Performance Rights Organizations (or PROs) calculate payouts.
As SonicBids explains, a publishing split sheet (often simply referred to as a split sheet) is a document that states who wrote what percentage of the song(s) recorded by a band or artist. A split sheet should be created for every song you write, before ever shopping it to a third party to be published commercially.


Chika Ugo holds a Bsc. in Political Science from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He quickly ventured into Supply Chain Management and obtained a Master's degree in Logistics and Supply Chain from Newton Hill Univerisity of Science & Technology as well as a Ph.D in System Logistics. Chika Ugo is a highly skilled Supply Chain Management professional with over thirteen (13) years of insightful value creation across multiple industries. He has worked across major industrial sectors from bottom to top management positions in Logistics and Supply Chain Management ranging from shipping to IT, Manufacturing and International Commodity trading. As an expert in product traceability model and reverse logistics, he has won many awards and implemented policy changes in logistics which resulted in significant cost reduction in companies he has worked with.
His area of expertise includes and not limited to Integrated Logistics and Supply Chain, Warehouse Optimization, International Trade Development, Procurement, Shipping, Negotiations, Material Planning/Management, Distribution, Stock and Inventory Management, Control/Logistics special projects and Collateral Management. He is a member of Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), Chartered Institute of Supply Chain Management (CISCM) and Certified Institute of Warehousing and Material Management (CIWMM). He has attended many trainings locally and internationally in leadership and management and he has the privilege of being a member, Sagaci Research Expert Council in Logistics and supply chain management for Africa. He is a 2015 Kennedy school of Government, Harvard University Alumni.
Peter is a well-known name in Europe and Africa in travel logistics, sales and marketing and management. A German, but with a deep love and understanding for Africa. An experienced professional, an accomplished director and motivator of various projects across E.U, countries and Africa.
Peter Hallebach lost his heart to Africa since he was working in South Africa, Zambia, Mauritius and Nigeria. "Africa was never on my list", that's what Peter confesses when talking about Africa. "But the continent is so full of friendly people, wonderful insights and rich of opportunities – I had to learn Africa was different from what I thought".
Peter is now more than 40 years in the travel trade, which has developed over the decades from an all manual process environment to pure logistics and workflow-driven industry.
Even far away of being a coder, Peter has a huge imagination for the realization of IT-interfaces, work processes, and data flow. Change Management as well as his "never too old for a start-up" – mentality, paired with his strong financial acumen makes him a solid, demanding and more than trustworthy partner and advisor. Peter acts as Non-executive Director for Equatoriallogistics.
Kenneth Ahiarakwem holds a B.Tech degree in Project Management Technology from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria and M.Sc (Eng) in Production and Operations Management from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden as well as M.Eng degree in Engineering Management from University of Ottawa, Canada. Kenneth is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI), a member of AACE International and PMI and has worked in many leadership position for many multi-national corporation including MAN Diesel, Jacobs Engineering & TransCanada on many large Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) projects across the globe. Kenneth also taught part time at the Mount Royal University Project Management Certification Program.
He has volunteered his services for many charitable organizations including World Computer Exchange that foster computer knowledge in developing countries. Kenneth has long developed interest in Project Controls, Project Management as well as Supply Chain Management focusing on Value creation.