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Coachella 2007: Verdicts
(Posted first so it's up while I work on the detailed report.)
(And here's last year's.)
Obviously, this only applies to the artists that I saw; I'm sure I missed a lot of good stuff.
Instruments category:
Best vocals: Win Butler (Arcade Fire)
Best guitar (electric division): Mike Stroud (Ratatat)
Best guitar (acoustic division): Rodrigo Sanchez (Rodrigo y Gabriela)
Best bass: This has to be Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), right?
Best synth: Hot Chip
Best violin section: The Arcade Fire
Best brass section: Lily Allen
Flair category:
Best audience participation: The Decemberists
Best band name: Travis
No, seriously: !!! ("chk chk chk")
Best costumes (general): Of Montreal
Best costumes (cetacean division): The Decemberists
Most endearing display of modesty: Thurston Moore introducing the band and the lead song as if no one had ever heard of Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation, or "Teen Age Riot".
Most endearing display of immodesty: Carl Newman (The New Pornographers): "Bow before our new album cover!"
Best celebrity cameo: Scarlett Johansson with the Jesus and Mary Chain on "Just Like Honey"
Organization category:
Best stage: Outdoor Theater
Best day's lineup: Saturday
Most agonizing schedule conflict: !!! vs. The Decemberists
Song category:
Best cover: Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" played by Rodrigo y Gabriela
Bands playing songs that appear in Guitar Hero:
Satellite Party covering "Stop"
The Willie Nelson Family Band covering "Texas Flood"
Rage against the Machine playing "Killing in the Name Of"
(Did RHCP play "Higher Ground"?)
Best performance of a single song: The Decemberists, "The Mariner's Revenge Song"
Band category:
Best band I'd never even heard of: The Feeling
Best band I'd heard of but never really looked into before: Hot Chip
Best band at the festival: Arcade Fire
Best overall performance: Of Montreal
This entry was posted in Coachella, Concerts, Music on April 30, 2007 by Arcane Gazebo.
Been through the desert on a camera with no screen
I'm back from Coachella, where the weather was hot and the music was awesome. I'll post a full rundown later. In the meantime, the Project 365 photoset has been brought up to date with the last five days of photos. I have a few more Coachella photos to post later as well. (I took many more but the broken screen on my camera was particularly troublesome, and most didn't come out.)
I've been completely away from internet and sources of news for five days; did I miss anything?
This entry was posted in Coachella, Travel on April 30, 2007 by Arcane Gazebo.
A pretty accurate re-enactment
I took my qualifying exam this morning. If you'd like to know it went, click here.
This entry was posted in Academia, Comics, Physics on April 24, 2007 by Arcane Gazebo.
Humans evolved for marathoning?
Here's an interesting theory that humans evolved for distance running:
Modern humans and their immediate ancestors such as Homo erectus sport several adaptations that make humans, instead of some ferocious, furry, or fleet creature, the animal world's best distance runners.
Specifically, we developed long, springy tendons in our legs and feet that function like large elastics, storing energy and releasing it with each running stride, reducing the amount of energy it takes to take another step. There are also several adaptations to help keep our bodies stable as we run, such as the way we counterbalance each step with an arm swing, our large butt muscles that hold our upper bodies upright, and an elastic ligament in our neck to help keep our head steady.
Though those adaptations make humans and our immediate ancestors better runners, it is our ability to run in the heat that Lieberman said may have made the real difference in our ability to procure game.
Humans, he said, have several adaptations that help us dump the enormous amounts of heat generated by running. These adaptations include our hairlessness, our ability to sweat, and the fact that we breathe through our mouths when we run, which not only allows us to take bigger breaths, but also helps dump heat.
This ought to settle the long-standing distance running vs. sprinting debate I recall from high school track. We distance runners can just wait for a hot day and then persistence-hunt the sprinters into submission. However, as much as I like this theory, I have to question this statement from its proponent:
"Humans are terrible athletes in terms of power and speed, but we're phenomenal at slow and steady. We're the tortoises of the animal kingdom," Lieberman said.
Um, surely the tortoises are the tortoises of the animal kingdom?
This entry was posted in Evolution, Running, Science on April 22, 2007 by Arcane Gazebo.
Could it be… SATAN?
Lots of people have come out of the woodwork this week making asinine statements about the supposed root cause of the Virginia Tech shootings, and pretty much every one of them has been incredibly stupid. Of course, some people distinguished themselves with exceptionally moronic scapegoats: video games, co-ed dorms, the teaching of evolution… but I think the winner has to be this bit from Fox News (of course):
Could Cho have been possessed by the Devil? Could that explain the massacre at Virginia Tech?
Dr. Richard Roberts, president of Oral Roberts University, shouts an unequivocal "Yes!"
"Based on what I've seen in the news," Roberts said in an interview, "there's no doubt that this act was Satanic in origin."
Congratulations, Dr. Roberts and Fox News. This is the stupidest thing I've heard all week, and it's been a long and stupid week.
On a related note, I remembered this piece from David Brin in 1999 arguing for a law that changes the names of attention-seeking criminals to something mocking:
[A]ny criminal sentenced for a truly heinous crime could be renamed as part of his punishment, with a moniker that invites disdain. New history books might state: "Robert F. Kennedy was slain in 1968 by Doofus 25 *." The asterisk is there to let anyone find the assassin's former name in a footnote, if they are truly interested, so no one is actually suppressing knowledge.
Cho Seung-hui seems like an excellent person to start with. (We can't really punish a dead man, but who knows, it might help deter potential copycats.) Why not refer to him by the title of his (reportedly awful) play, "Richard McBeef"? Or if that's not silly enough, one of the remarkably similar names from the MST3K episode Space Mutiny. Crunch Buttsteak! Roll Fizzlebeef!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2007 by Arcane Gazebo.
Webcomics snobbery
I'll confess: I'm kind of a webcomics snob. I frequently prune my reading list, look down my nose at comics that don't meet my standards, and generally struggle with the temptation to just quit reading everything except Dinosaur Comics and Scary Go Round. (And Gunnerkrigg Court, which I think of as less a webcomic than a graphic novel released a page at a time.)
Truly offensive are lame ads for unfunny webcomics. These are hard to avoid since they tend to buy space on the sites of actual talented artists. There was one that I used to see a lot called Least I Could Do whose ads made it look really, painfully bad. I don't know if it was actually funny because the ads made me actively avoid it. Another ad I noticed a lot appeared on Dinosaur Comics and other sites using Project Wonderful for ads; there wasn't much (because Project Wonderful uses little postage stamp-sized images) but it was basically just a cheesecake-looking drawing of some girl sleeping, with her chest displayed prominently. If that's the best it had to offer I wasn't going to bother clicking.
Somewhat more reliable is the links section of a comic I already like. It'll be a mixture of strips the artist artistically admires and those drawn by his friends in the webcomics community, but there's a fair bit of overlap between those two sets and most will be worthwhile. Today I noticed John Allison had added a few links to the list at Scary Go Round, including Gunnerkrigg Court, so I figured the others were probably worth checking out too. I clicked on Dresden Codak and, indeed, it's awesome. The gorgeous, surrealistic art is reminiscent of A Lesson is Learned, and the references to physics may invite comparisons to xkcd. It's not geek humor though, but rather it invokes quantum mechanics in service of its dreamlike ambience. Oh, and it's funny. I particularly like this one.
It's a weekly comic, and hasn't been around very long, so its archive is depressingly small and I read through it quickly… only to discover that it's the very comic that advertised with the image of the sleeping woman. Clearly I need to reevaluate my policy relating to webcomics ads.
UPDATE: Just saw the actual dates in the archive listing: turns out Dresden Codak doesn't update weekly, but only every once in a while. The archive is actually two years worth of material.
This entry was posted in Comics on April 19, 2007 by Arcane Gazebo.
Mario Rage
Like Cory, I was dubious of the merits of watching a 25-minute video of some dude playing Super Mario Bros. I clicked the link anyway and laughed so hard it brought tears to my eyes. Turn sound on, and you probably shouldn't watch it at work.
This entry was posted in Games on April 19, 2007 by Arcane Gazebo.
No new neutrinos
The Standard Model wins another round: the MiniBooNE experiment, searching for neutrino oscillations to confirm or disconfirm the anomalous LSND result, found no new physics. Heather Ray explains in a guest post at Cosmic Variance.
Given the author's last name, her use of "awesome-o" in a section heading is suspicious.
This entry was posted in Physics on April 12, 2007 by Arcane Gazebo.
Kurt Vonnegut, R.I.P.
Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday. I've always heard he was a great novelist, but haven't ever read any of his books—the only work of his that I've read is the short story "Harrison Bergeron". I think Slaughterhouse Five is supposed to be the canonical Vonnegut book, maybe I should pick up a copy.
This entry was posted in Books on April 12, 2007 by Arcane Gazebo.
Colloquium blogging: Lawrence Krauss on the future of the universe
Today's colloquium speaker was Lawrence M. Krauss, who is somewhat well-known for doing a lot of public outreach and having written several books aimed at the general public. (One of these books was The Physics of Star Trek, which I received from three or four separate people as birthday gifts when it came out in 1995.) He's also done political advocacy, perhaps most notably fighting "intelligent design" creationism in Ohio. Today's colloquium was about neither Star Trek nor politics, however, but about the "dismal future" of the universe.
The talk was basically a series of extrapolations from the fact that cosmological observations show a universe that is not only expanding, but expanding at an exponentially increasing rate. The most direct consequence is that eventually everything that isn't gravitationally bound to our galaxy cluster will be receding away at faster than the speed of light, not only inaccessible but invisible. This won't happen for many billions of years, so it's not of any particular concern to us personally, but will be an issue for the future of life itself. As a result of being isolated to a single cluster, the amount of energy available becomes limited: I think the estimated number was 3×1067 Joules, for what it's worth. Consequently, the amount of information that can be processed also is limited, to on the order of 10120 bits. One of the more interesting numbers quoted was that, if one assumes that Moore's Law will continue to hold on the rate of information processing, civilization would run through this capacity in just 400 years. (Since at the moment we are limited to the amount of energy here on Earth, I expect Moore's Law will fail rather sooner than this, which is why I'm skeptical about Singularity talk.)
Another section of Krauss' talk was devoted to what cosmology would look like to a far-future civilization in one of these "island universes" created by expansion. Since these future scientists would be unable to observe the universe outside the cluster, they would be unable to infer the expanding universe or the Big Bang, and would conclude that the universe was static. (They could, however, estimate the age of the universe from abundance of various elements.)
Finally, on long timescales everything disappears, as dark matter halos evaporate and galaxies dissipate.
Krauss, being a more public figure than most physicists, was a very good speaker who gave an entertaining talk. He was deliberately provocative, declaring at the beginning that he would alienate most of the audience, and particularly targeted advocates of the anthropic principle. I was hoping for more fireworks in the question session, but it was somewhat tame. A video of this talk will appear at some point here on the department website.
This entry was posted in Colloquia, Physics on April 9, 2007 by Arcane Gazebo.


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October 16, 2019 April 25, 2020 ~ Ted
(This is the last part of a story starting here.)
"You told me yourself, Scumdaddy," said Julia. "There are only two kinds of life-forms: the kind which eats their parents, and the kind which eats their young. To quit hurting kids—kids like me and Sasha over there—you'll need to eat your parents."
The Scumbug bubbled. "I don't even know who my parents are."
"Not my problem. You told me it was a metaphor anyway."
"Julia!" The mother seahorse disembarked her spaceship with her husband. "Maybe we can help, Mr. Scumbug, sir. The galaxy is only so big; we can find where you came from. What's your first memory?"
The Scumbug boiled. "I woke up in my scrambag with amnesia. I didn't know where I'd come from, or where I was going, but I was stuck. I was stuck in the Big Empty in a giant cluster of Easy Cheese. I didn't even know how to operate my scrambag."
Julia blinked. "You told me your scrambag was your egg."
"Well, yeah, metaphorically, since it's the location of my first memory. Anyway, all I had with me were my lumps. My kids."
"How did you know they were your kids?" asked Sasha. "You had a bunch of little lumps and you assumed they were your kids?"
"At the time they looked just like me," said the Scumbug. "Big blobby masses. When I got hungry, I blorped on, and it crunched into a lump like this. Then I just couldn't stop myself from eating all the rest, too. Then I had nothing left to do but learn to operate the scrambag."
"…And… how do you operate the scrambag?" asked Julia.
The Scumbug shrugged by making blobby shoulders. "Thinking, mostly. I thought my way back to the galaxy. For a while I searched for the poor sod who got me trapped out there. Never found a clue about them, though."
"…Back to the galaxy?" said Julia. "You said this was your first memory. What makes you think you'd ever been to this galaxy before?"
"I had an urge," said the Scumbug.
"Okay," said the mother seahorse. "So you were in an egg. And you had an urge to come to the galaxy. And then you left the egg."
"The metaphorical egg," clarified the Scumbug.
"I think it's more literal than you intended," said the mother seahorse. "I think you were born by the Big Empty. Maybe your parents are Easy Cheese."
The Scumbug burbled. "I don't look like Easy Cheese."
The mother seahorse's husband shook. "Maybe you're not done being born yet. Seahorse-fetuses get pumped from mother to father. Maybe Scumbugs get pumped from Easy Cheese to the center of the nearest galaxy."
The ambassador laughed. "You survived giving birth, Mr. Seahorse. Maybe the Scumbug is more like a wasp-larva injected into a caterpillar, and the galaxy isn't meant to live long enough to see what it turns into." Julia made sure the ambassador remembered she had the laser-gun under his chin.
"No, no. That… that doesn't sound right." The Scumbug blorped its scrambag. It drifted upward, out of the lunar office, into the black sky.
"Where are you going?" asked Sasha.
"I'm gonna eat Easy Cheese until there's nothing left of it, or nothing left of me."
"Hey." Julia pushed the ambassador into the center of the office. "Take this guy, too. Show him what it really means to be cheesy."
The Scumbug never returned. Eventually the night sky changed from black to dark green, but it was hardly noticeable.
The seahorses took Julia, Sasha, and the giant spider to Italy, where a horrified restaurant relinquished all the pasta they could stomach. Sasha said noodles were nice, but she preferred the algae she had back on her home-planet. Julia was glad to get her spaghetti, but knew no noodles could replace the childhood she'd lost.
Everyone in the restaurant with a smartphone took pictures of the seahorses and giant spider eating noodles. Earthlings knew aliens existed, having entered the galactic theater a decade ago, but their ambassador had sheltered them from the supposedly evil alien overlords. They'd never seen a spider devour ravioli with quite such insatiable fervor.
When those photos were posted on ButtBook, commenters realized the teen beside the spider could only be Julia, the ambassador's kidnapped daughter. As the photos grew in online popularity, it became easier and easier for Julia to track down her old friends in the comment-sections.
In the coming months, Julia and her old friends met in person for the first time ever. They got along just as well as they had a decade ago, sharing stories about the cheese they'd had to deal with on Earth or in space. Her friends were glad to meet seahorses and a giant internet-famous spider.
Then Sasha and the spider returned to space with the seahorse mother, also never to return. The seahorse father lived on the moon as Earth's ambassador. Julia ignored him, as she'd lost her taste for space-politics.
Instead, she started a noodle-restaurant. The restaurant became very popular because of Julia's famous story of being kidnapped and dragged across the cosmos, but really, she just wanted to make noodles, even if they didn't fulfill her. Noodles filled her, and that was enough.
Julia always wondered how much her speed-sickness was impacting her perception of time. As soon as she had a schedule to follow at her restaurant, she felt months pass every time she blinked. Time slid by. She was quite old when the Scumbug contacted her on a warm summer night.
She was halfway through a bowl of linguine when the dark green sky grew light green spots which orbited like the lumps in the Scumbug's blob. The lumps vibrated at her, and a voice emanated from the spot across Julia's table. "Julia!"
"Leave me alone, Scumdaddy."
"I've eaten all the Easy Cheese in the whole universe," said the Scumbug. "It turns out your ambassadaddy was right. Easy Cheese injects Scumbugs into galaxies to make them into more Easy Cheese."
"I don't care."
"But you helped me, Julia! I'm the first Scumbug to ever resist eating the galaxy to eat the universe instead, uniting all galaxies across the cosmos in a golden age of—"
"Leave it to Mr. Seahorse. He's Earth's ambassador now, on the moon. I cook noodles."
The light green circles bobbed. "But I want to make you Queen of the Universe."
"Because you helped me learn not to abduct and indoctrinate children—to rule the universe with a lighter touch."
"Then you know how and why to leave me alone." Julia slurped linguine. "I'm not one of your kids anymore, Scumdaddy. I'm 74 years old."
"Is that old for a human?"
"Yeah." Julia twisted her fork. "You took ten of those years. And with the speed-sickness, you've taken most of my time ever since, too."
"Leave me alone, Scumdaddy." When she said it, Julia couldn't help but smile. She loved how much that name annoyed the Scumbug. But it had never driven it away from her.
The light green orbs in the sky merged with the dark green surroundings. Julia finished her noodles, checked ButtBook, and went to bed.
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DIFP second-level teaching resource on Ireland and World War Two
RIA Emergency 1939-45 second level document resource
This teaching resource for second-level history, based on the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series, uses original documents to explore Ireland's experience of the Second World War; the 'Emergency'.
The Emergency: Ireland in a world at war, 1939-45, is a new teaching resource for second-level history about Ireland's experience of the Second World War, or as the period is usually referred to in Ireland, the 'Emergency'. Edited and compiled by John Gibney of the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series and Kate O'Malley of the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB), it consists of contemporary documents drawn from volumes VI and VII of the DIFP series, supplemented with material from the DIB. It is primarily intended for use as a stand-alone module for Transition Year but can also be used to build on the Junior Certificate history course by working with 'primary' source material for students and teachers to explore. It is freely available to download.
The module is divided into distinct sections. Together these form a sequence, but each section is self-contained and can be explored individually. Teachers and students can choose which sections to focus on, in what order, and how best to use it in the classroom. Each section contains a selection of original documents and is geared towards discussion and debate in the classroom. There is also supporting material such as separate biographies, a glossary, and a list of additional resources, with details on how to use these for further projects and the Leaving Cert Research Study Report. The pack also includes a short guide on how the module may be relevant to Junior Cycle, and possible means of assessment and examination that may also be useful for Transition Year.
This selection of primary sources is intended to illustrate how Ireland managed to remain neutral in the Second World War, and the challenges Ireland faced while doing so. We hope that they will allow students and teachers to explore the contemporary and historical issues raised by Irish neutrality and the Second World War, along with the experience of those who lived through the period.
The teaching resource is illustrated with material from Military Archives and UCD Archives and was designed by Fidelma Slattery of RIA Publications.
Download The Emergency: Ireland in a world at war, 1939-45.
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When I tell people I'm a stylist, I usually add "and a bit of an obsessive collector" with only a hint of sarcasm. Maintaining a collection of props while not letting the clutter get the best of you is a tall order, but it's an order that stylist and designer Arianna Jones fills. She balances ever so gracefully between minimal corners and meaningful collections in her East Dallas, TX rental.
Arianna's rental was a serendipitous find. She was on the verge of settling for an apartment on the outskirts of the city, a rental that would have compromised much of her wish list. She was on the way to meet a friend for lunch when a wrong turn led to a "for lease" sign in the neighborhood she had been coveting. She toured the apartment, saw wood floors, white walls and a flood of natural light, and it felt meant to be. She signed a lease and began the patient process of making it feel like her own.
Image above: This green corner, with its salvaged and reupholstered chair (from Arianna's friend Mili Suleman of Kufri), has become Arianna's breakfast nook and reading corner. In her spare time, she frequents the library and makers' markets, and also performs and watches stand-up comedy.
This colorful shelf welcomes the many friends and loved ones who visit Arianna's apartment. "I spend more time with those shelves than I do with the stove just behind it. It's where I keep my constantly rotating collection of library books."
This counter divides the kitchen and the living area, and the scent of the reed diffuser is very nostalgic for Arianna. Made by her friend Carrie, of Resoycled Candle Co, she says, "it's the first fragrance I ever fell in love with (quite late in life, I'm sure)." Catching the scent as she walks by is a pleasant reminder of the years they spent working in their college town, where they both sold their art. The green monstera leaves are a constant burst of color and life.
The narrow layout of Arianna's apartment has allowed her to define each space as its own separate vignette. She collected the baskets hanging in her sitting area from open-air markets over the years, and she thrifted the couch. The chair is another reupholstered gem from Kufri.
Arianna made the pillows from fabric that was given to her, and she collected the baskets from a flea market in Dallas. They're her favorite feature in that room.
The age of Arianna's apartment (1950s) provides plenty of charms and challenges. This kitchen was the only room to be updated in order to accommodate modern appliances. Everything else is original. "I had to get adapters for outlets or be careful how much I had plugged in, figure out how to light and use the gas wall heater and find and install a shower adapter, because it only came with a bathtub." The plant hanger is from her friend Helen of Denton Glass Gardens, and the masks were from Arianna's mother.
The hanging dress is an example of how Arianna carefully curates her collections. She couldn't bring herself to wear it, but she couldn't bring herself to get rid of it either, so she turned it into a focal point. It hangs next to vintage photos she has been collecting over the years.
"This Oprah Show box set was both the most thoughtful gift I'd received in recent memory and a great excuse to have a picture of her in my house." Oprah is in good company with ceramic jars made by Freckled Pottery that Arianna purchased from The DIME Store.
Arianna's desk sits directly across from her couch, so it serves as both her work station and entertainment console. "This wall is the first thing I rearrange when I am in a creative rut, which makes it the most inspiring spot in my home." The vase is another great find from The DIME Store, made by Thro Studio.
Looking into the back half of the apartment begins to provide Arianna with the respite she needs. The bedroom is one of her calming spaces. Her sheets are from Linen Shed.
"This is my dream bed - a simple frame with dark linens and tucked into a corner that gets amazing light." It is pretty dreamy, especially with the backdrop of this Moroccan wedding blanket from Casablanca Living and array of pillows from Odd Bird Co, another Texas company.
Another example of how Arianna balances collections, layering and light just right. The side table and round mirrors are from Target, the table was a trade from a friend, the layered mirrors have been "thrifted and gifted." She made the wall hangings, and that enviable collection of mannequins came from store closures over the years.
Arianna traded a rug for this table and uses it to showcase her most beloved items. The necklace on the mannequin is from a jeweler called F is For Frank, another Dallas maker.
A detail of the treasured collections on Arianna's bedroom table. "My jewelry is all either handmade or gifted to me by important women in my life over the years - usually from their travels. I also keep gold confetti on hand in case someone stops by with good news. It's a surefire way to improve someone's day." The art deco necklace is by Kristin Miller, the agate necklaces are by Archer Plus Hare, the leather and bead necklace is by Olessya, the white pendant necklace is by Lucky and the others are thrifted.
Arianna's background is in Contemporary Fine Art and Fashion Design, which she translated into a styling and design career. This beauty dates back to 1955 and is the workhorse she uses to create Owynn, her line of classic, quality bags.
One of the biggest challenges with her space is the section of her home where she keeps her sewing supplies, inventory and styling kit. "Every time I look at it, I think about how much better the space would suit me if it were just open. I don't know that I'll figure it out any time soon."
This thrifted shelving unit was a lucky find, since it fits the built-in cabinet perfectly. It holds inventory for Owynn, Arianna's line of handmade market bags.
The bathroom light makes keeping plants difficult, so Arianna keeps a steady supply of eucalyptus to add a reviving scent and bit of life to the space. The glass prisms hanging in the window are by Denton Glass Gardens.
What Arianna loves most about her home is "having a space to love on and share with the things and people I care about most in the world."
Stylist and designer Arianna Jones in her East Dallas apartment.
Love, love, love! And also, how cool is Ms. Jones? Majorly inspiring.
I love all the rooms. All the finishing touches are absolutely fantastic. A lot different to homes here in the UK.
I love this tour. A beautiful, REAL space. Bravo.
I freaking love your apartment!
Love this apartment! It's so real and livable and not overly perfect. Everything looks like a still life, but a natural one.
I am so insanely in love with this apartment. If i took all my travel collections and fabrics and all things that I loved – and could do SOMETHING LIKE THIS…I'd be happy. No sure it would be this beautiful but it would really be my happy place. You make it seem also…DO-ABLE! What a beautiful job.
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Delegates: The Real Cabal That'll Determine Nigeria's Next President
Samson Toromade | Citizen
The 2023 general elections are starting to reach the stage where the political heavyweights will be separated from the pretenders, with political parties electing their candidates in primary elections nationwide.
The presidential ticket is without a doubt the biggest prize, and political parties have to elect their candidates by June 3rd 2022.
How the presidential candidates are decided
There are three ways political parties nominate candidates: direct, indirect or by consensus.
Direct primaries allow all card-carrying members of a party to vote for the candidate in an election. It's like an in-house version of the general elections. But this process is rarely used by political parties in Nigeria.
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The consensus process involves the party adopting a candidate without an actual election. This candidate is anointed above others eyeing the ticket, but the other aspirants must sign a written consent and endorse the candidate.
Unlike direct primaries, indirect primaries don't allow every card-carrying member of a party to vote. Instead, that task falls to a group known as delegates.
Who are these delegates?
In the Nigerian political system, there are two types of delegates: ad hoc delegates and statutory delegates.
Statutory delegates are usually party members who are current or former occupants of elective legislative and executive positions, as well as political appointees and certain elected officials of the party. These delegates are very powerful, but they were — apparently — mistakenly left out of the drafting of the new Electoral Amendment Act signed in 2022.
Lawmakers have sent an amendment bill to President Buhari to correct this, but he hasn't signed it yet. As it stands, statutory delegates won't be involved in the 2023 process.
And now to the main star of the show, the ad hoc delegates.
Ad hoc delegates are those that are elected at the local government level of a party to, for example, vote for a presidential candidate at a national convention. Think of it like if each household elected a representative to help them vote on election day.
These delegates are elected at congresses organised by the party. Each party is free to define the rules for the number of delegates that can vote for its candidates. For example, the All Progressives Congress (APC) elects three delegates from each of Nigeria's 774 local government areas as well as six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This leaves the party with 2,340 delegates to elect its presidential candidate.
The 2022 Electoral Act has crowned ad hoc delegates as the stars of the 2023 general elections.
What's a delegate worth?
The conversation around delegates usually revolves around how much money they can finesse out of aspirants trying to curry their favour to win tickets. They're right in the middle of the dollar rain that descends on the political scene when it's election time.
It's not so far-fetched to see why this is so. Delegates are the kingmakers in Nigeria. Their real worth is that they're really the ones who'll determine Nigeria's next president before millions of Nigerians can even vote in 2023.
So, if you know anyone that is a delegate, hail them properly. All power belongs to them…for now.
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A three-story school building has collapsed in the Iyana-Ejigbo area of Lagos. In a statement on its official Twitter account, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) confirmed that Excel College, located at 15, Ansarudeen Street, Ile-Epo Bus-Stop, Ejigbo, collapsed at 8:15am this Staurday, 19th September, 2020. Fortunately, nobody was trapped, and no injuries or […]
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Today's subject on Abroad Life moved to Malaysia in 2013 for school. He talks about how the organised crime scene in Malaysia almost made him go into fraud and why he's back in Nigeria. So, when did you leave Nigeria for Malaysia? 2014. My brother and I got expelled from Madonna University, and after my […]
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Tata Steel and Thyssenkrupp abandon joint venture on regulatory demands | Business News
Tata Steel says it is business as usual for its Port Talbot steelworks but "all options" are on the table for its European business after a key merger plan was abandoned.
The Indian company and Germany's Thyssenkrupp had wanted to create the second-largest steelmaker in Europe through a 50/50 partnership – a deal that unions said would safeguard investment and the 4,000 jobs in South Wales.
But the firms announced on Friday they had decided to part ways because remedies demanded by the EU competition regulator went beyond the "logic" of the deal – agreed last June following two years of talks.
Tata made it clear that it planned to operate its European operations as normal, for now at least, saying Port Talbot was cash positive and it would look for strategic opportunities.
Port Talbot was the centre of a union-led campaign to secure the industry's future in 2015 and 2016 as the industry grappled high costs and cheap Chinese imports
Its statement said: "While the proposed joint venture was an important strategic initiative for Tata Steel to create a sustainable portfolio in Europe that would have also helped to de-consolidate the European business and de-leverage its balance sheet, Tata Steel remains committed to the above strategy and would explore all options to achieve similar outcomes in the future."
Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of the steelworkers' trade union Community, said: "This is obviously a major development that raises as many questions as answers.
"It's important that there are no kneejerk reactions by Tata Steel in response to this development.
"Now is the time for calm heads and a clear focus on the future of Tata Steel Europe.
"It's vital that the business is kept intact and the right steps are taken to safeguard jobs and continue investment to ensure a sustainable future.
"Sadly, this may mean yet another period of uncertainty for steelworkers and their families. Community will continue to hold the company to account and to the commitments that have been made to the workforce."
Tata Steel shares were more than 6% lower following the announcement.
German-listed Thyssenkrupp saw its market value climb by almost 20%.
That was because many investors had resisted the resulting split the joint venture would have caused and also reflected wider changes across the business confirmed in Frankfurt earlier in the day.
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Mumbai: Gold demand in India rose on Friday, after prices fell 3% in the past two days, luring jewellers who began restocking and preparing for the wedding season beginning mid-January, dealers said.
"For the past few weeks they were on sidelines expecting a price fall. Now, they think it is a good buying opportunity at current levels."
At 3:42 pm, the most-active February gold on the Multi Commodity Exchange was 1.2% up at Rs27,157 per 10 grams, tracking a firm world market and on a weak rupee.
Demand was weak earlier this week due to year-end holidays and ongoing Khar Mass. Khar Mass is a month in the Hindu calendar, from 16 December to 14 January, which is considered inauspicious for gold buying and starting new ventures.
International spot gold rose 1% to $1,561.89 an ounce.
The rupee, which plays an important role in determining the landed cost of dollar-quoted gold, fell to 53.3 to the dollar from Thursday's close of 53.07/08, as importers stepped up dollar-buying.


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88% of Coronavirus Patients Died while on Ventilators
Biomedical equipment specialist Dean Edwards conducts depot-level maintenance at Tobyhanna Army Depot, Penn., on a ventilator as the Army supports COVID-19 response efforts worldwide. Edwards is employed by the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency, part of the U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command.
One of the main problems of the COVID-19 crisis has been the number of ventilators available for patients to use to help them breathe while in hospital beds. New York State Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and President Trump got into arguments over how many ventilators New York was short. Even DIY engineers tried to combat the situation by 3-D printing ventilator parts and giving them to hospitals. Many people were worried about how the decision would be made to give out the rest of the ventilators to some people and not be able to give them to others, essentially saving some people and letting others die.
In a paper published in the journal JAMA about New York State's largest health system demonstrated that 20% of all those who were hospitalized died, which is a similar statistic to the percentage who die in "normal" times among patients who are admitted for respiratory distress. The most striking statistic though is that 88% percent of the 320 COVID-19 patients on ventilators tracked in the study died. According to previous studies, roughly 80% of patients died on ventilators occurring in situations before the pandemic. The paper also stated that of the patients who died, 57% had hypertension, 41% were obese, and 34% had diabetes which are all risk factors listed by the Centers for Disease for Control and Prevention.
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Chevrolet announces mysterious new production model, will be used for NASCAR
Mar 14, 2012 at 10:50am ET
Chevrolet has announced plans to enter the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with a "vehicle based on a new nameplate to the brand's lineup."
While the company declined to release additional information, they stated the model will "closely resemble" the production vehicle and both cars will be introduced later this year.
According to Jim Campbell, Chevrolet's Vice President of Performance Vehicles and Motorsports, "We are keeping the wraps on the new car for now and will continue to prepare for next season by testing camouflaged vehicles. We know that Chevrolet fans are eager to see the new racecar and we hope that the prospect of being able to own one just like it will make the wait a little more bearable."
Note: 2007 Chevrolet Impala SS race car pictured
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The portrait of Dora
Dora is the pseudonym given by Sigmund Freud to a patient who became a famous case study of psychoanalysis. In an attempt of critical response to Freud's case study, the case of Dora is reinterpreted by french writer and feminist Hélène Cixous as an act of an abused woman to revolt against male power over women's body and language in the early 1900's Vienna. Based on that, when it has come to design a poster for the theatrical play "The portrait of Dora", I have imagined the girl as a half person, meaning that she is still a young woman, and yet somehow she has already been abused, while the other half of the poster remains black, as to remark that Dora has secrets. The hand of the girl is placed between the figure and the empty space, touching the dark, has to symbolize that she is unveiling herself to the spectators of the play.


Can drop from Lei Shen's Burial Trove from the solo scenario Troves of the Thunder King on Isle of Thunder.
I just got this from the Treasures of the Thunder King off Horridon in LFR.
I just received this from Treasures of the Thunder King in LFR. Not sure why I received it as a holy priest.
I can confirm that it drops from Shiny Pile of Refuse, which is dropped from Oondasta, as compensation for not getting loot (kinda an upgraded version of gold bags).


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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest...
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3. Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for...
4. Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell ( March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with inventing and patenting...
Leonardo da Vinci ( 14/15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who is widely considered one of the most diversely...
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author (described in his...
6. Isaac Newton
Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was a British American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the...
7. Benjamin Franklin
8. George Washington Carver
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Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research...
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Louis Pasteur ( December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French biologist, microbiologist, and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles...
Marie Skłodowska Curie, born Maria Salomea Skłodowska (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist...
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Empowering africas youth through basketball slam dunk for nonprofit
Empowering Africa's Youth through Basketball is a Slam Dunk for this Nonprofit Organisation
Youth participating in LYSD's MiLéDou basketball programme learn integration, leadership skills and confidence, both on and off the court. LYSD received grant funding through the Cities Alliance Catalytic Fund.
[9 February 2017] -- It is no secret that Africa has a large and growing young population. More than half of all Africas are under 25, and they face considerable social challenges – unemployment, ethnic divisions, and inequalities, among others – with little hope of economic or social mobility.
One non-profit organisation, Leading Youth, Sport and Development (LYSD), has found a novel way to integrate and empower youth in some of Africa's poorest neighbourhoods: through basketball.
LYSD takes the approach that sports speak to youth in a language they understand. It uses basketball as a tool to bring boys and girls from different social backgrounds together, fostering social inclusion and cohesion.
It operates mainly through its main programme, MiLéDou, which means "we are together" in Mina, a southern Togolese dialect. MiLéDou runs from October to June each year, engaging youth aged six to 20 in various localities throughout Togo and Côte d'Ivoire.
Through MiLéDou, LYSD uses basketball as a way to attract and bring together youth in disadvantaged areas. The sessions are open to all youth, and a desire to learn the game is the only selection criteria.
The programme relies on a network of local educators to implement weekly basketball sessions during the season. Educators are trained to organise basketball practices and, most importantly, mentor each child in the group. They follow children throughout the entire school year, gathering critical information such as who goes to school and who does not, who demonstrates potential for future educational opportunities, who suffers from poverty, and who possesses athletic talent.
The most promising students have a chance at scholarships (funded by LYSD), integration into good schools, internships, and basketball camps. These students, in turn, move on to become role models in their communities and inspire other young people. The programme pays special attention to gender; one third of participants in MiLéDou are girls.
So far, LYSD has been a great success and continues to gather momentum. Since its launch in March 2013, it has:
Organised events for approximately 3,000 participants aged six to 20 from 15 localities in Côte d'Ivoire and Togo.
Raised funds to give 47 scholarships. Five of MiLéDou's brightest young minds have joined prestigious institutions of higher education in South Africa and the United States.
Sent 11 of its most determined players to National Basketball Association (NBA) camps in Africa. One player is now in preparatory school in the United States.
Laid the foundation for national youth boys' and girls' basketball teams in Togo.
In 2015, LYSD received a grant through the Cities Alliance Catalytic Fund to extend the MiLéDou programme to young migrants in Yopougon, one of Abidjan's most disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The grant, which was given to the International Office of Migrations (IOM) and implemented by LYSD, funded work with three schools and one club in Yopougon, with special consideration paid to the challenges faced by that young migrant girls.
LYSD is the brainchild of Jean-Luc Kossigan Agboyibo, its president and founder. A native of Togo, Jean-Luc comes from a family of 17 children and was raised by his mother and older siblings. His 13 sisters instilled in him the importance of women in society – views that have carried over into and helped shape LYSD's strong focus on gender equality.
In 1999, Jean-Luc left Togo for France to study at the Sorbonne. During his stay in France, he experienced firsthand how difficult integration can be. After graduation, French laws prevented him from acquiring a work visa, opening his eyes to global inequalities.
He returned to Africa, where he worked at Africa Top Sports and Canal+ Afrique. He became convinced that sports could help make a social impact in villages and small cities and create a more inclusive environment. In 2012, he founded LYSD, and now devotes himself full-time to managing and developing the organisation.
Meet some of LYSD's Inspiring Students
Alphonse participated in MiLéDou in the village of Kpalimé, Togo, from 2013-2014. Despite facing many obstacles, he never gave up. LYSD recommended him to the African Leadership Academy (ALA), a school of excellence in South Africa. After two years at ALA, he was accepted by the University of Rochester in the United States, where he is studying electrical and computer engineering.
Flora is a 17-year-old Ivorian girl from Yopougon who left school in seventh grade because her mother was not able to pay her school fees. She discovered basketball in 2015, and the court became an escape and a way to make friends. She plays on the U18 national team and has found the courage to start taking French lessons. She received a scholarship from LYSD.
Freddy is a gifted young basketball player from in Togo. In 2014, LYSD helped him to spend a week a basketball academy in Senegal and an NBA camp in Burkina Faso. A few months later, Freddy received a scholarship to pursue his dream of playing basketball at Liberty Christian School in the United States.
Mariette from Lomé was orphaned by her mother and not recognised by her father. She was captain of an under-18 Togolese national team that LYSD initiated in 2015 in partnership with the Togolese Basketball Federation. She won a scholarship from LYSD for her last year in high school and is currently studying English at the University of Lomé.
Merveille, from the village of Kouvé, entered high school when she was just 13 years old. A natural leader, she does not hesitate to raise her voice to denounce discrimination, especially from the boys in her village. LYSD offered her a scholarship this year and believes strongly in her capacity to become a spokeswoman in her community.
Nono is in high school in Lomé with a scholarship from LYSD and is a member of the U18 selection. She became one of LYSD's young educators, and is using her leadership skills and strong values to spark interest in basketball among young girls.
Youth in Yopougon's Saint Bernard parish playing basketball on a court built with funding from the Cities Alliance Catalytic Fund. Photo: LYSD
The programme pays special attention to gender; one third of participants in MiLéDou are girls.
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Alexandra's Pitt Crew
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Thank you for taking a moment to learn about our beautiful baby girl, Alexandra Nicole. In April of 2016, (15 months old) she was diagnosed with Pitt Hopkins Syndrome (PTHS), an extremely rare, neurodevelopmental disorder caused (in her case) by a micro-deletion of her TCF4 gene on her 18th chromosome. The news was devastating to say the least…there isn't a moment that goes by that we don't think about her and her diagnosis. There are approximately 1000 people (mostly kids) in the world diagnosed with this syndrome. There are less than 600 here in the United States…and only 7 diagnosed kids here in Arizona. Alexandra is one of them. This site is dedicated to enlightening and educating the community on living with PTHS and to help support the efforts of the Pitt Hopkins Research Foundation (PHRF).
Please take some time to read Our Story to learn about our journey so far. You probably have never heard of Pitt Hopkins Syndrome, no worries, most doctors haven't either. (Sigh…) But the good news is, you can find plenty of information regarding this rare syndrome (clinical characteristics, prevalence, and causes). We have assembled a renowned team of clinical doctors, therapists and specialists who work with Alexandra on a weekly basis. Our normal is filled with researching the latest news in genetics and neurology, important doctors appointments, therapy sessions (play time!) and rigorous developmental evaluations.
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Beginner's Guide to College Success
Dr. Jonathan Golding (Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky)
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HomeLife as a College Student Athlete: Keeping the Right Perspective
Life as a College Student Athlete: Keeping the Right Perspective
August 12, 2018 Jonathan Golding Getting Things Done, student athlete, Studying, Uncategorized, What Should You Do, What to docollege, student athlete, studying, What to do
It seems that a lot has been written about student-athletes in college, but often this writing skips past the challenges that these individuals face balancing their lives. No matter what the sport, big time men's basketball or less publicized women's tennis, student athletes have a difficult task negotiating the academics and athletics. Over my 30 years as a Professor, I have taught and supervised hundreds of student-athletes. I have talked to them a bit about dealing with college with dual-demands, but I never took the time to really understand how these individuals manage their lives. For this post, however, I talked at length with Jenny Schaper, a star catcher on the University of Kentucky women's softball team (coached by Rachel Lawson) to try and uncover what it is like to be a college student athlete. Below is our conversation.
Dr. Golding: How do you manage your athletic and academic schedules?
Jenny: I have a lot of late nights and a lot of early mornings. I'm pretty much used to it now. It was a lot harder when I was a freshman to manage everything because freshman year you had to have mandatory 8 study hall hours a week on top of class and practice and adjusting to college life so I think freshman year was a lot tougher. But as I've gotten older I've learned my own time management techniques.
Dr. Golding Did anyone ever tell you about time management skills?
Jenny: We have an academic advisor and she's really helpful. Freshmen go through orientation, where they're talked to about grades, time management, getting your work done, all that kind of stuff, I think that's really helpful. But it is a lot on yourself just figure it out and kind of learn as you go. There's usually about five or six other girls in an incoming class who are doing the same thing as you. Our coach actually made us fill out time sheets our freshman year. The day was broken up into 30-minute segments every day, and you had to write what you were going to be doing every thirty minutes of the day. I know, it's a little excessive, but it helped you think about what you had to get done. Stuff like that was really helpful.
Dr. Golding: Have there been times where you had to make a decision between studying, for example, and going to practice, or working out on your own? Or do you find that you manage things so well that that doesn't really come up?
Jenny: You never really have to pick one or the other. Our coach, personally, is really good about school coming first. She's a very big believer in that. Just last week, one of our girls was struggling a little bit with her grades, so the coach didn't take her on our away trip so she could stay and do schoolwork. I guess there was a choice where she picked academic over athletic, but personally, I've never had to not participate in something in order to get schoolwork done.
Dr. Golding Do you talk to your professors about being an athlete?
Jenny: Most don't ask. You're the one who asks about it. I've never had any professors have issues with it, but girls on my team have.
Dr. Golding: Professors who said that your teammates couldn't miss class?
Jenny: Yes. My roommate this year—a professor told that she should quit softball to take the class more seriously. And she's a 4.0 student, so it's not like it's causing problems. She stayed in the class. She was like, "I'm going to prove her wrong, I'm going to show her that I can do it."
Dr. Golding Are you ever jealous of students who aren't participating in sports?
Jenny: Sometimes, especially around the holidays I get very jealous. We have to come back January 2 every year, just to start practicing. We get about two weeks for Christmas, which is nice, but most students get about a month. We've never gotten a spring break. Plus, I stay here over the summer just to work out. Definitely, at times like that, yes I'm jealous. I'm not so much jealous of the party scene, but just of having free time.
Dr. Golding: When you're here in the summer, you can't have an actual job, right?
Jenny: You can, but you just have to register it. And you can't get any special perks. That's a really big violation.
Dr. Golding: You're a junior now. What advice would you give to freshmen about how they have to think about being in college, because it's so different from being in high school?
Jenny: You have to know yourself, and you have to understand what kind of student and worker you are. The most important thing is your choices. You could choose to sit down and do your homework, or you could choose to hang out with your friends. It's about where you want to succeed in life. One thing I remember my coach saying was that in college you can be good at athletics, academics, or partying, and she said you can be good at two out of the three, but you can't be good at all three. So it's your priorities, really.
Dr. Golding: What keeps you so motivated to do well? A lot of students who aren't athletes could learn from the athletes.
Jenny: I think that being an athlete has taught me how to work hard for things, and that things aren't just going to be given to you. You have to actually earn them. I think very highly of myself and of the people I like to associate myself with. I take a lot of pride in being able to be a successful athlete and a successful student, and I think that just being able to say that I do it and I do it well is important to me.
After talking to Jenny (and I hope you will agree), I have a much greater appreciation for what it is like to be a student athlete, and the demands you must deal with to succeed both academically and athletically. Of course, thanks to Jenny and best of luck to her as she moves on to her senior year!
Please note that the comments of Dr. Golding and the others who post on this blog express their own opinion and not that of the University of Kentucky.
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Auditions, BBQ & Trip Info… & Did I hear SPRING BREAK! Ready, Set, GO!!!
I know it doesn't feel like it today, but Spring Break is almost here! One more week….
It is almost Spring, and that means, time for the annual Trojan Band Barbecue! This is one of my favorite events!
Students are required to sell 30 tickets to this event. If students do not sell tickets, a donation of $175 is requested. Selling tickets is easier than you think! Sell tickets at your work, to your family, neighbors, teachers, and local businesses. Our community knows about this and is just waiting for your to ASK.
Make plans to volunteer at this awesome fundraiser!
We will have a planning meeting THIS Tuesday at 5:30 pm, the location is to be determined. Please join us and help us make this the BEST, most successful BBQ yet!
Auditions are this Tuesday, March 27. Students should have received an etude and should perform their etude, scales, and sight-reading for the audition. For a full break down of the audition process please visit https://chstrojanband.com/bandauditions.
The auditions are important to ensure that we are serving our students in the appropriate band class. As you know we have three amazing concert bands that all come together to create our Trojan Band! The Concert Band is an on level high school band, the Symphonic Band is an accelerated high school band experience, and the Wind Ensemble closely resembles a collegiate band experience. By preparing concerts in smaller ensembles, we are able to increase personal responsibility and expose our students to more literature that is appropriate for their skill level. Additionally, it allows more students to exercise leadership potential in their respective ensembles by performing solos and leading their sections.
Auditions will take place after school and will involve our current 8th -11th graders. Students are welcome to warm-up and practice with one another in the band room before their auditions. Eighth Graders are welcome to report right after school and either practice with some of our current high school students before auditioning, or get in line and be heard at the next available audition time. Our goal is to finish all auditions by 6:00PM. Students are welcome to go home once they are finished auditioning. A phone is available in the band room if your child needs to call you when they are finished.
Congratulations to our Winter Guard!!
Our Winter Guard competed at Kell yesterday and placed 2nd with their highest score of the season, 82.3! Way to go, Winter Guard!!!
All travelers need to have paid $459 each so far toward their trip.
We have been having some delays with Super Holiday Tours posting payments made with cash or check. As a result, we will begin to track cash and check payments through Charms, like we did with the trip to New York. We hope that this will resolve some frustration that keep coming up with accounts and payments.
We need ALL travelers need to register on the Super Holiday Tours Website at www.superholiday.com and going to Online Trip Registration. Our trip code is: CHS30117-18B. Please complete that registration ASAP! All the accounting for the trip is being done by them so they need you to register so they can apply the funds you have paid to your account.
Posted in CHS Band and tagged #CHSHollywood, #trojangold, #trojansallin, Band Banquet, Band BBQ, Carrollton High School, Carrollton High School Band, Carrollton Trojan Band Boosters, CHS Band Program, CHS Trojan Band, CHS Winter Guard, Gold Standard on March 25, 2018 by CHS Trojan Band.
Thank you to everyone who made it out to the performing arts center to support our students! In addition to many supportive friends and parents, it was great to see Mr. McClendon and Mr. Hall in the audience for some of our performances! We are so fortunate that they continue to live in our community and serve as a supportive resource to our staff and students. Also, it was special to look out in the audience and see our administrators in attendance! Amidst their complex schedule of supporting all of our programs at Carrollton City Schools, Mr. David Brook and Dr. Mark Albertus found time to support our band students. The reward is in sharing our music with you! Thank you to all who were in attendance to support our students and allowed us to share our music!
What amazing performances by all three of our ensembles! Concert Band continues to show incredible growth and were led by our student teacher to excellent ratings on stage. They received a 1, 2, 2 on stage and a 1 in sight-reading! It was an exciting performance.
Mr. Bright led our Symphonic Band to receive a 1, 1, 1 on stage and a 1 in sight-reading! This was the Symphonic Band's most challenging program at LGPE to date and was a memorable performance.
Our Wind Ensemble led by Mr. Carr also received a 1, 1, 1 on stage and a 1 in sight-reading! Additionally, this was the first time that the ensemble received a perfect 45/45 A's in all captions. The students' attention to detail continues to improve daily. We all look forward to starting new music on Monday.
I am so glad that we provide three ensembles to allow more of our students an opportunity to practice leadership! What remarkable performances! Many colleagues commended us on our student's performance! So proud to be a Trojan!
Our Winter Guard competed Saturday at Flowery Branch Invitational. They placed 1st with a score of 79.97 in the Scholastic A Class. These girls are having a fantastic season and we are so proud of them!
They are selling Raffle Tickets for a 50 inch Smart TV in preparation for their trip to SAPA Championships in Chattanooga, TN. Tickets are $10 each and the winner will be drawn on April 7th at the SAPA Championships! See any of our amazing, talented Winter Guard members for your tickets!!
Photo of Mr. Alexander at Walt Disney World with the Carrollton Band in 2015.
Mr. Leland Alexander returns to Carrollton as the Carrollton Middle School Band Director. After graduating from the University of West Georgia, Leland served as the Assistant Band Director at Eagles Landing Christian Academy for one year and then took a job in Commerce, Georgia as the Band Director at Commerce High School. While at Commerce, Mr. Alexander increased participation in the band and achieved many accolades with his students. We are very excited about Mr. Alexander returning to our team full time as we prepare for next season and years to come!!!
I hope that those of you going on this amazing trip have begun paying for it! Don't let the deadlines sneak up on you! Super Holiday Tours has 4 deadlines for payments, and one is quickly approaching! March 23rd due date to have $459 paid on each account! Remember, you have already paid $50 as a deposit, so you will need to have paid an additional $419 by March 23rd. Super Holiday Tours will be handling delinquent accounts this time.
Students are required to sell 30 tickets to this event. If students do not sell tickets, a donation of $150 is expected. Selling tickets is easier than you think! Sell tickets at your work, to your family, neighbors, teachers, and local businesses. Our community knows about this and is just waiting for your to ASK.
Posted in CHS Band and tagged #CHSHollywood, #trojangold, #trojansallin, Band BBQ, Band Prom, Carrollton High School, Carrollton High School Band, Carrollton Trojan Band, Carrollton Trojan Band Boosters, CHS Band Program, CHS Trojan Band, CHS Winter Guard, Gold Standard on March 18, 2018 by CHS Trojan Band.
Students need $7.00 for lunch at American Pie. Please bring exact change.
Lunch will be at American Pie: $7.00. Please bring exact change to pay Mr. Carr on Friday. Money will be collected on the way to American Pie and we will pay as 1 group.
Our Winter Guard competes this Saturday at Flowery Branch High School as they continue their SAPA Competition schedule. At their previous competition which was held at McEachern HS in the WGI Circuit they made finals and performed again on Saturday! Then captured 3rd place overall at the Atlanta Regional! If you see one of our Winter Guard members, please congratulate them on their fantastic season so far!
They will be selling Raffle Tickets for a Smart TV soon in preparation for their trip to SAPA Championships in Chattanooga, TN.
Each traveler must have paid $459 by March 23rd!
The Band Barbecue is one of our primary fundraisers for the general band booster funds. These funds are used throughout the year to provide transportation, props, food, insurance, etc. We will have a BBQ planning meeting March 27th at 6:30 pm in the a location to be determined. Please join us and help us plan the best BBQ yet!
We will have a Coca Cola Fundraiser starting in mid May. It will be for individuals going on the Hollywood Trip to earn funds that will be applied directly to their trip accounts.
Posted in CHS Band and tagged #CHSHollywood, #trojangold, #trojansallin, Band BBQ, Band Prom, Carrollton High School Band, Carrollton Trojan Band, CHS Winter Guard, Gold Standard on March 11, 2018 by CHS Trojan Band.


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AVRStudio4 will connect to the simavr-gdb-server via this gdb-target-plugin.
You need to download the bin-package and execute the AVRSTUDIO_REGISTER.CMD to register the plugin with AVRStudio4. Before deleting the files, you should UNREGISTER.CMD the files.
It comes with the sources.
Allthough i don't use gdb on windows (only on linux) , i would like to thank you for publishing your work here.
Actually, I am doing exactly that.
simavr runs on my Ubuntu host, while AVRStudio4 runs on a windows virtual machine.
1) Debian or Ubuntu ?
2) I guess GDB is ( alot ? ) more powerful than the dragon ?
3) Can I use the Dragon to work with GDB instead of buying AVR jtag ICE for this plugin ?
Ubuntu is more or less the bleeding edge, with lots of current stuff and packages. Works stable enough for me.
Debian is rather security-oriented. That is, they lag behind 1-2 years in packages, but they are tested well and pretty safe.
Of course, you can set the package manager to any repo you want. Above is for standard installation.
The GDB server is part of simavr, but it works with any other gdb-server I guess.
I would prefer the built-in debugger of AVRStudio over this plugin. BUT if you want debug the hackable simavr, you will need this.
My bad, I meant is GDB + dragon more powerful in debugging capabilities than using Studio + dragon ?
It's the same (in functionality, if not operation). But why guess about this - you can try it out for yourself using simulavr. Start two command prompts. In one run "simulavr -g -f project.elf" and then just leave it running. In another run "avr-gdb project.elf" then type the command "target remote localhost:1212" or the shortened form "ta re localhost:1212". Now just keep typing "step" to step through the program. In fact in gdb you just type it once and then keep hitting [enter] which repeats the last command.
Studio has a CPU-specific debugger - for example you can see the IO regs with clear names.
The Studio built-in simulator mk II has very detailed models for the CPUs, much better than simavr.
If you are using the Dragon target (only restriction is not to use the occupy the debug wire), then you have a very good debugging solution.
Why use Studio + GDB-plugin + simavr?
Well, simavr is 100% hackable. You can embed it into any context. For example, you can emulate a complete board around it.
You cannot do that with Studio. Studio just simulates the CPU-side of life, not the input/output pins.
I tried to hack the simulator mk ii, but had to realize the above... and then I found simavr.
I have added the ATTiny10 target to simavr, and as the next step I plan to write an emulator for the stuff around the chip. Then I can truely debug that thing.
1)Is Studio actually running GDB as its debug client app.for Atmel's JTAGs or something they wrote internal ?
2) What language(s) allows one to design a plugin for Studio, Eclipse, etc and does Atmel provide the interface info for free ( I guess so )?
3) How long did it take you to write the code for the plugin and using what language?
Seems like a great effort and thanks for it !
2) this plugin is written in c#. it is a COM component. atmel provides an SDK, but that is for c/c++ plugin development.
3) it is impossible to distinguish between the code analysis/reverse engineering of Studio and writing the plugin. i like writing in c# (for rapid windows development) coupled with p/invoke. some parts of the plugin are written in c/c++.
I understand that this topic is outdated, but I'd like to know one thing.
There isn't a demand to be able to connect to remote GDB targets from Atmel Studio, is there?
solution to simulate CPU+peripherals here. Am I right?
Ah... No, haven't heard of any demand for that specifically. Atmel Studio uses a protocol called TCF (from Eclipse) instead of GDB between the GUI and the debug agent.
Where may I read more about TCF, GUI<->debug agent connectivity and, probably most important, debug agent<->3rd party hardware/software? Manual or guide, maybe?
I will. Your project seems great! I saw it somewhere already, but didn't pay enough attention.