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Mrs. Saheli Wins State Award State of Ohio AAA School Safety Patrol Advisor of the Year! She will be recognized prior to a Columbus Clipper's game Saturday May 18th.
Fairfield County District Library and Lancaster City Schools Team Up to Create "Ride and Read" Program
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It's Official: Lancaster City Schools are Rated as EXCELLENT by the Ohio Department of Education The Ohio Department of Education released school and district report cards for the 2011-2012 school year today.
2 Hour Delay, Morning Preschool Cancelled, Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 Buses will pick students up 2 hours later than normal
Parent Project Parents here is an awesome class offered by Fairfield County Parent Project. This class offers parents answers and support when dealing with an adolescent child headed in the wrong direction. It can also offer parents of pre-teens preventive ideas to keep their children on the right path.
Lancaster Idol Finals Lancaster Idol Finals - Saturday, January 19 LHS Auditorium Elementary and Junior High Divisions 12pm - 2pm High School and Adult Divisions 4pm-6pm Winners are determined by audience vote Admission is $5.00
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Miss Ohio Cyberbullying Public Service Announcement Miss Ohio, Elissa McCracken, and LHS broadcasting students produced this public service announcement about cyberbullying.
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Boys/Girls in Grades 3-6, Basketball League Information This winter the boys and girls basketball coaching staffs will be offering a basketball league to boys and girls in grades 3-6. The purpose of our league is to provide an organized, instructional and competitive youth basketball program that introduces boys and girls in the community and surrounding area to the Lady Gale and Gale Force Philosophies, and to prepare them for future success in both ...
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This page describes how to build the MeeGo SDK QEMU tools from source, including QEMU binary, patched kernel module, and stub libGL.
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Verified on Linux (Fedora 13) on 2010-10-11 by Elliot Smith
An alternative to building from source is to install a qemugl package from one of the repositories at http://download.meego.com/live/Tools:/SDK:/Host/
Check out http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_SDK_with_QEMU#Installing_qemugl_on_64-bit_ubuntu_10.04 for more details.
If you still prefer to build QEMUGL from sources, proceed with these steps:
Checkout the QEMU GL source code (this is basically QEMU with some patches to enable GL acceleration):
git clone git://gitorious.org/meego-developer-tools/meego-emulator-qemugl-x86.git
Checkout the qemu-gl branch:
cd meego-emulator-qemugl-x86 git checkout -b qemu-gl --track origin/qemu-gl
Make sure that there is KVM enabled and that the following libraries (development package) are installed on the host machine:
Configure qemugl:
./configure --target-list=i386-softmmu --enable-gl
Check the output from configure
contains the strings below:
SDL support yes ...... KVM support yes
Build qemugl:
make sudo make install
This installs various QEMU binaries (default prefix is /usr/local
), including qemugl
and qemu-img
used in this tutorial.
Verified on Linux (Fedora 13) on 2010-10-13 by Elliot Smith using this netbook image:
with manually-built QEMU-GL (see above)
This section explains how to make a standard MeeGo netbook image run in QEMU with GL acceleration.
Create raw image file for MeeGo to install on. The qemu-img
command is part of the QEMU build:
qemu-img create -f raw meego-netbook.raw 3.5G
Install MeeGo to the raw hard disk, using the downloaded .img file as the installation CDROM:
qemugl -m 1024 -vga std -boot d -hda meego-netbook.raw \ -cdrom meego-netbook-ia32-188.8.131.52.20101012.1.img
Boot into the image:
qemugl -m 1024 -vga std -boot c -hda meego-netbook.raw
Go through the installation steps to set up a meego user. The password you set here is also used as the root password, which we'll use below.
Note: occasionally I've halted the system before the meego user is setup. When I then try to boot into the UX, it fails because the user is missing. In this case, you can manually create the user from a root prompt (inside the QEMU image) with:
useradd -d /home/meego -M -s /bin/bash meego
Halt the system.
Now boot it again (this time with networking enabled; type the command below, press return, then press tab like crazy so you can get to the boot menu):
qemugl -m 1024 -vga std -net user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:6666-:22 -net nic,model=e1000 \ -boot c -hda meego-netbook.raw
Next, edit the kernel command line on the boot menu screen so it looks like this:
vmlinuz-220.127.116.11-8.5-netbook ro root=/dev/sda2 vga=current s
This will get you a root prompt.
Then install ssh server (this makes the following steps easier, as you can cut and paste into the ssh prompt):
zypper install openssh-server chkconfig --add sshd /etc/init.d/sshd start
Use can now use ssh to login to the image with:
ssh -p 6666 email@example.com
(password is the same as you entered for your normal user when configuring the system)
Once logged in over ssh, set suid on the Xorg binary (so a normal user can start X):
chmod u+s /usr/bin/Xorg
Then install the SDK addons. First, add the MeeGo SDK repo:
zypper addrepo http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/sdk/target/repos/meego/trunk/ meego-sdk
(you may need to use a different repo, replacing trunk with some other version, depending on the netbook image you have)
Another alternative is to manually build the addons, kernel and virtiogl module in a chroot, then install them into the image.
Install the qemugl addon package into the image:
zypper install meego-sdk-qemugl-addon-netbook
Install the virtiogl module for the netbook kernel:
zypper install kmod-virtiogl
If you need to build the SDK addons or a kernel and its modules, instructions are given below. If the kmod-virtiogl package fails to install, ensure that your kernel has the version required by the virtiogl module (possibly try zypper up kernel-netbook
if your image is out of date) before trying to install it again.
The image should now be ready. It can be started in QEMU with this command:
qemugl -m 1024 -net user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:6666-:22 -net nic,model=e1000 -enable-kvm \ -vga std -enable-gl -device virtio-gl-pci -boot c -hda meego-netbook.raw
Note that you should still be able to ssh to this image as above.
If you have a handset image downloaded, follow these instructions to enable it to run in QEMU with GL acceleration.
Download a handset tarball (e.g. from http://meego.com/downloads/releases/22.214.171.124/meego-handset-day1-developer-preview), and untar the file:
tar xjvf meego-handset-ia32-aava-mtf-188.8.131.52.20100629.1-mrstnand.tar.bz2
(Note that this procedure should work for other images from http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/builds/trunk/ too.)
Build kernel and modules version 2.6.35 from below section #Build packages for image running under QEMU GL, to get a kernel file and module directory. Supppose the kernel file is "bzImage".
qemugl -m 1024 -boot c -hda meego-handset-ia32-aava-mtf-18.104.22.168.20100629.1-sda.bin -vga std -kernel bzImage \ --append "root=/dev/sda1 init s"
Inside the emulated image, install these packages:
zypper install xorg-x11-drv-vesa zypper install mesa-dri-swrast-driver zypper install openssh-server zypper install gdb-gdbserver
Copy the kernel modules into the image. Suppose that there have been modules.tgz in host machine built from kernel build step above:
scp host@ipaddress:modules.tgz . tar xzvf modules.tgz mv module_directory /lib/modules/
Add a new repo file to "/etc/zypp/repos.d/". File name could be "meego-sdk.repo", and content is as below:
[meego-sdk] name=meego-sdk failovermethod=priority baseurl=http://download.meego.com/live/Tools:/SDK/Trunk/ gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-meego gpgcheck=1 enabled=1
Run "zypper" to install qemugl addon package to the image:
zypper install meego-sdk-qemugl-addon-handset
We are done now. The new image could be started in QEMU with below command:
qemugl -m 1024 -boot c -hda meego-handset-ia32-aava-mtf-22.214.171.124.20100629.1-sda.bin -net user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:6666-:22 -net \ nic,model=e1000 -vga std -enable-gl -enable-kvm -device virtio-gl-pci -kernel bzImage --append "root=/dev/sda1"
Verified on Linux (Fedora 13) on 2010-10-14 by Elliot Smith using this netbook image:
You can manually build the software required to run an image (netbook or handset) under QEMU with GL acceleration. But this is only recommended if a pre-built package for the software you want doesn't already exist (up-to-date packages should be available for both handset and netbook soon).
The steps below should be followed from inside a MeeGo image intended to run under QEMU. You could try this inside an emulated image, or by building a chroot from the raw disk image and working inside that (the latter is the only reasonable approach for building the kernel).
For building both the qemugl addon and the kernel+modules, you will need to install a toolchain first (either into the QEMU image, the toolchain, or both):
zypper install make gcc git patch diffutils
Alternatively, this command will get you all the MeeGo developer tools:
zypper install -t pattern development-tools
The addon package installed in above section can also be built from source. These steps are fairly easy to do inside the QEMU image itself.
You don't need to do this if you already installed a meego-sdk-qemugl-addon-*
package (see above).
Install required packaged first:
zypper install libXfixes-devel libX11-devel
Checkout stub libGL source code:
git clone git://gitorious.org/meego-developer-tools/meego-emulator-libgl-x86.git
cd meego-emulator-libgl-x86 make make install
The approach we take for this is to use a chroot to build an RPM package for the new kernel and modules. This can then be easily transferred to the QEMU image and installed. Building the new kernel directly inside the QEMU image is too slow to be practical.
The first thing you'll need is a MeeGo chroot, built from the same image you're using under QEMU. See this page for instructions.
Enter the chroot.
Install rpmbuild
(used to build the RPM from the kernel source):
zypper install rpm-build
Get the MeeGo kernel-source (this contains configuration files for building MeeGo kernels):
git clone git://gitorious.org/meego-os-base/kernel-source.git
Get the virtio patches for the kernel:
git clone git://gitorious.org/meego-developer-tools/meego-emulator-virtiogl-x86.git
Copy the virtio patch into the patches dir of kernel-source:
cp meego-emulator-virtiogl-x86/linux-2.6.35-virtio-for-qemu-gl-acceleration.patch kernel-source/patches
Download the kernel source tarball (NB you want the plain series version, not one with a patch number); in this case, I used a 2.6.35 kernel:
cd kernel-source curl -o linux-2.6.35.tar.bz2 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.35.tar.bz2
Remain in the kernel-source
Edit the series
file to add the virtiogl patch to the list of patches to apply:
# Add Virtio-mem module for QEMU GL acceleration linux-2.6.35-virtio-for-qemu-gl-acceleration.patch
Edit the config-netbook
file (used for both handset and netbook) to enable VIRTIOGL as a module:
CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=m CONFIG_VIRTIOGL=m # CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK is not set # CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET is not set # CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE is not set # CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO is not set
Delete this line from the same file (we want to set a value and it could be confusing otherwise):
# CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI is not set
Generate spec files and config files:
make make -f Makefile.config
This generates config files with names in the format kernel-xxx.config
Patch the kernel:
./scripts/install-git-hooks ./scripts/sequence-patch.sh --quilt
Copy kernel config file into the source tree:
cp kernel-netbook.config tmp/linux-2.6.35-master/.config
Build a kernel RPM package (takes a long time):
cd tmp/linux-2.6.35-master make oldconfig (at each prompt, accept the default) make rpm-pkg
The resulting package is in /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/kernel-220.127.116.11+-1.i386.rpm
Copy this to the QEMU image over ssh or equivalent, for example:
scp -P 6666 /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/kernel-18.104.22.168+-1.i386.rpm firstname.lastname@example.com:/root/
Get a root prompt in the QEMU image (either by booting into single user mode or logging in via ssh) and install the RPM:
rpm -ivh /root/kernel-220.127.116.11+-1.i386.rpm
Build and install the new initrd (a RAM disk image) for the kernel and modify the boot loader:
new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --install --make-default --depmod 220.127.116.11+
(replace 18.104.22.168+ with the version for your new kernel)
Next time you boot the image, it should default to using the new kernel with the virtiogl module.


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With Infinite Crisis in closed beta, Warner and Turbine have released another champion spotlight video to help entice you to sign up. It's of the red-suited wonder, The Flash. The fastest man on earth. Hopefully, such a moniker doesn't mess with his dating prospects. Check him out below, and sign up for the beta here. Infinite Crisis is out later this year on PC.
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LOTRO Update 11: Treachery of the White Hand out next week
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Tue, May 07, 2013 | 08:36 BST
Lord of the Rings Online dev to close abandoned player homes in next update
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Fri, May 03, 2013 | 16:00 BST
Infinite Crisis champion spotlight videos and art star Gaslight Catwoman, Poison Ivy
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Wed, May 01, 2013 | 14:34 BST
Infinite Crisis goes into closed beta next week
Infinite Crisis will go into closed beta next week on May 8, Turbine and Warner have announced. Those who would like to try their hand at the superhero MOBA can sign up here. In celebration, the developers have releases some new artwork showing the multiverse variants of Wonder Women. To get an idea of what she's like in the arena, have a look at this previously released video. The free-to-play MOBA is scheduled to launch later this year on PC.
Fri, Apr 26, 2013 | 15:07 BST
Infinite Crisis champion profile videos feature Gaslight Batman, Doomsday
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DDO: Shadowfell Conspiracy to launch this summer
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Sat, Feb 16, 2013 | 18:14 GMT
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Comment posted Water Resources (Scotland) Bill introduced – issues arising by John Sinclair.
Reading my comment does not make sense, but the whole nature of the market has evolved. When I was told they were pumping and generating at the same time I did not beleave either. Two different people have told me about the expansion, I know that still does not make it true. Hopefully someone in the known will correct me if I am wrong.
John Sinclair also commented
- "madness" well put.
- There are two tunnels feeding four generators and one tail race. So in theory two can generate and two can pump. Interesting to know the hydraulics of water flow in the tail race if they do pump and generate at same time. As I said its what I was told, yes I do find it hard to beleave, but the "unstable" wind generation has brought in a new vairable in to the market. Yet again someone in the know could correct me, years ago I read the maximum of wind power on a grid could only be 16% and then the excess would be exported to a more stable grid. Are we not being conected up to Norway. I may be getting my facts wrong, but there should be an open and transparent debate on energy production.
- My understanding is there is a limit on how much wind power can be connected live to the grid, go above and the grid becomes unstable. Hydro powered by a dam is very stable and the limiting factor is the volume of water. Correct me if I am wrong but Cruachan has started pumping and generating at the same time and a new cavern is in the planning stage along with building a bigger dam. All hydro stations are being reassessed for environmental damage, in America some have been dismantled http://vimeo.com/31305629. There are many good solutions out there, some will not make corporation the profit and will undermined their monopoly.
- Very interesting, trying to get my head round it, Tom Johnstone (After leaving Parliament he was Chairman of the Scottish National Forestry Commission (1945-48), Chairman of North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board (1946-59), Chancellor of Aberdeen University (1951-65) and governor of the British Broadcasting Board (1955-56).) led the way at one point for Hydro Power, I might be wrong, no public money was spent, the profit paid of the debt very quickly, then sold of cheaply by Thatcher to give us all cheap energy.
Recent comments by John Sinclair
- Struan and then some: the revelation of planned elderly care provision in Argyll and Bute
Very well put Dougie, what is free, give all OAP free bus passes, those with bigger incomes we tax more, therefore they still pay for their "free" bus pass. Nothing is FREE, everything has to be paid for. - Struan and then some: the revelation of planned elderly care provision in Argyll and Bute
not posted a long time, http://www.anfieldroad.com/dont-buy-the-sun/ - Blair still Bliar, still trying to flog his tainted goods
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0 - SNH accused of costing Jura jobs
enjoy - Oban Concern for Palestine group grows
It is a very serious acusation to accuse people of behaving like the Nazis. My mother lived through WWII and many of the boys she grew up with at her school left to fight the Nazis and many didn't come back. Recently I spent an evening with her tracing all their graves, so I do not think what she said was done lightly but with a heavy heart. I also stated that the Palestinians are treated badly by other Arabs, this was witness by someone who I have known all my life. The way in which the Palestinians are being treated is wrong, no spin or lies can change the truth, open your eyes.
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May 25, 2013: The first wave of acts confirmed to play the Belladrum festival's GoNorth Seedlings Stage on August 2-3 has been announced – Cleavers, Prides, Roman Nose, Blood Relatives, Red Ronson, Ranald, Dylan Tierney, Crystal Seagulls, Three Blind Wolves, Garden Of Elks, The Oxides, Fat Goth, St Max And The Fanatics, Fake Major, State Of Flux, Bear Arms, Little Fire and Lionel.
Sarah Hayes' debut EP, Mainspring, is streaming on Bandcamp ahead of its release on May 28. She has Glasgow gigs scheduled for The Old Hairdressers on May 29 and The Wee Chill festival at SWG3 on June 29.
Boards Of Canada have unveiled new song Reach For The Dead, taken from forthcoming album Tomorrow's Harvest, out on June 10.
May 24, 2013: The line-up for King Tut's Summer Nights, which runs in the Glasgow venue from July 15 to August 1, has been revealed. The headliners are The Recovery!, Sunshine Social, TeKlo, Alarm Bells, Taffy, Sienna, So Many Animal Calls, Michael Cassidy, The OK Social Club, SOS, Departures, Fake Major, Prides, Waiting For Go and Arches. Other acts worth checking out include Cherri Fosphate, The Clock, The Youth And Young, Campfires In Winter, Kevin Harper, Discopolis and Father Sculptor. There's also a Pop Cop DJ set on July 25.
Quickbeam song Grace is available for free download – it's taken from the band's self-titled debut album, out on June 3.
Giant Fang has unveiled a video for Aqualung.
May 23, 2013: A Music Open Day is being held at Aberdeen's Lemon Tree on May 26 with a programme that includes three music industry panels, a soundcheck workshop and live music from Revere, Uniform, Leanne Smith and Marionettes. Free tickets to the evening show will be available to anyone who attends the free seminars during the day.
The Wickerman Festival has added Admiral Fallow, Chic ft Nile Rodgers, Dreadzone, Waylayers and Greg Wilson to its line-up on July 26-27.
Algernon Doll track Anti-them is available for free download – it's taken from second album Citalo-pop, due for release on June 10.
May 22, 2013: The Basement Coffee House in Ayr has been shortlisted by NME as Scotland's representative in a public vote to find the best small venue in Britain. The 80-capacity venue opened eight months ago.
Tomorrow's second instalment of the Dewar House Experimental Batch series sees Edinburgh's Caves host free live music from Kid Canaveral, The Last Battle and Adam Ross (Randolph's Leap). There will be 550 tickets available on the door on a first come, first served basis.
May 21, 2013: Camera Obscura song Fifth In Line To The Throne is available for free download in exchange for an email address. It's taken from the band's fifth album Desire Lines, out on June 3, and pre-ordering it will get you another track, Do It Again.
Book Group have released their debut EP, Homeward Sound.
Sparrow And The Workshop's third album Murderopolis, out on May 27, is streaming in full via DIY - one of the songs, The Faster You Spin, is also available for free download.
May 20, 2013: Garden Of Elks' debut EP, Extended Play, is available to buy and stream.
The Clock have a video for their excellent song Everything's Eventual, which is released on May 28. They have Glasgow gigs lined up at Broadcast on June 1 and Roxy 171 on June 20.
May 18, 2013: The 16-strong T Break line-up for T in the Park on July 12-14 has been unveiled - Arches, Blindfolds, DARC, Fake Major, Hector Bizerk, Honeyblood, Machines In Heaven, Michael Cassidy, Poor Things, Pronto Mama, Seams, Sunshine Social, The Merrylees, The Velveteen Saints, Vasa, Waiting For Go.
Anna Sweeney has announced she is taking a full break from music and has cancelled her scheduled appearance at Wickerman in July as she relocates to Reading for work in June. Another musician swapping Scotland for England is Plum, who is moving to Brighton in July.
May 17, 2013: The stage times have been released for the 35 acts playing Stag & Dagger across seven Glasgow venues on May 18.
Franz Ferdinand's fourth album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action will be released on August 26 – check out this brief trailer.
Frightened Rabbit recorded a cover of Best Coast's The Only Place for Australian radio show Triple J. The band release their Late March, Death March EP on June 2.
The Mouse That Ate The Cat song When I Wake Up is available for free in exchange for your email address.
The title track of Adam Stafford's forthcoming second album Imaginary Walls Collapse is streaming here.
May 16, 2013: The Discopolis remix of Bwani Junction single Civil War is available to download for free from SoundCloud.
Born To Be Wide's next seminar at Edinburgh's Electric Circus on May 30 is on the topic of goNORTH, with a panel featuring broadcaster Vic Galloway, goNORTH duo Amanda Millen and Alex Smith and Chasing Owls frontman Ben Sunderland explaining how musicians and delegates can get the most out of the annual Inverness convention. Tickets are free.
AC/DC have backed a campaign to erect a bronze statue of their former frontman Bon Scott in his hometown of Kirriemuir in Angus. Community music group DD8 Music hope to raise £50,000 via Kickstarter by June 5.
Kite And The Crane's debut EP, Found In The End, is out on Bandcamp.
May 15, 2013: Biffy Clyro have a video for their new single Opposite.
The View are playing a one-off show at Glasgow's King Tut's on June 12 for the Sunday Mail Centenary Fund.
Adam Stafford is launching his second album Imaginary Walls Collapse with a gig at Glasgow's Glad Cafe on July 5 with support from Siobhan Wilson and Robbie Lesiuk.
May 14, 2013: The Wee Chill will mark its 10th anniversary with a two-stage bill at Glasgow's SWG3 on June 29 for the West End Festival. The line-up features Malcolm Middleton, James Yorkston with Sparrow & The Workshop (collaborative debut), Aidan Moffat (spoken word), Three Blind Wolves, Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire, Miaoux Miaoux, Fake Major.
Tommy Perman, who recently left FOUND, has unveiled his new solo project ComputerScheisse – check out These Beautiful Minds, the title track of his debut EP, out on July 15 through Phuturelabs.
RockNess have announced more acts for the festival on June 7-9 including Fenech-Soler, Fatherson, Public Service Broadcasting, The Boy Who Trapped The Sun, Niteworks and Jemma Tweedie.
Too Many Fireworks Records will donate all profits from sales of Variations Of Chopin, an album of contemporary interpretations of the composer's music, to the fundraising campaign for drummer Robbie Cooper, whose cancer fight was documented on The Pop Cop.
May 13, 2013: New releases out now include Young Aviators' debut album Self Help, Eagleowl's debut album This Silent Year, and Cherri Fosphate's new Burning Youth EP.
May 10, 2013: The live schedule for goNORTH in Inverness on June 5-6 has been unveiled – it includes a Scottish Bloggers Showcase hosted by The Pop Cop, Peenko and Song, by Toad featuring a four-band bill of Garden Of Elks, Friends In America, The Yawns and Flutes.
May 9, 2013: The documentary Hunting For Remoteness details The Magnetic North's visit to Orkney – where frontman Erland Cooper is from – for the making of their debut album. It will be released on June 24 alongside a reissue of that record, Orkney: Symphony Of The Magnetic North. You can watch the trailer here.
Alphabetical Order Orchestra are streaming their first song, The Architect. The band is made up of My Latest Novel members Chris Deveney, Gary Deveney and Ryan King.
A Band Called Quinn have launched a crowdfunding campaign to support performances of their multimedia show Biding Time (remix) at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August.
May 8, 2013: Three Blind Wolves have released their new album, Sing Hallelujah For The Old Machine.
May 7, 2013: Adam Stafford's new single Please is streaming online – it's taken from his second album Imaginary Walls Collapse, out in July.
May 6, 2013: The T in the Park Roadshow is bringing free live music to Scottish towns this month – it stops at Glasgow today for The View at Kelvingrove Park (1pm) and Buchanan Street (3.30pm); Edinburgh on May 10 for Vigo Thieves at Queen Margaret University's Student Union (noon), Dundee on May 11 for The LaFontaines at Overgate Centre (noon); Aberdeen on May 12 for Sienna at Aberdeen University (noon); and Ayr on May 18 for The Redettes at Ayr Railway Station (noon).
Fake Major have a video for Fiction, a song on their Have Plenty Of Fun EP. Fellow Comets & Cartwheels artist Finn LeMarinel has a new video for Garden, taken from his debut album Violence.
Capitals have released a sampler of all the tracks on their debut album A National Service, out on June 3.
May 3, 2013: Episode 11 of BBC ALBA's Rapal music TV programme is on iPlayer and features Cara Mitchell, Brown Bear & The Bandits, Three Blind Wolves and Anna Sweeney.
Steve Mason has accused Samsung of plagiarising the video for The Beta Band's 2004 single Assessment for their new television advert. Both show historical figures running down a beach and helicopters circling overhead.
May 2, 2013: Young Aviators' debut album Self Help is streaming on Electric Honey's SoundCloud ahead of its release on May 13.
May 1, 2013: Travis have a video for Where You Stand, the first single and title track of the band's seventh album, out on August 19.
Fake Major's debut EP, Have Plenty Of Fun, is available for download.
My Latest Novel have gone on hiatus, with three of the members forming Alphabetical Order Orchestra - look out for music from them next week.
Kobi Onyame has a video for his new single The Real Part 2.
Trapped In Kansas have unveiled new song Collapse Rebuild.
Rob St John's new AA single Charcoal Black And The Bonny Grey/Shallow Brown is out now.
April 30, 2013: Boards Of Canada will release Tomorrow's Harvest, their first new album in eight years, on June 10.
Quickbeam song Immersed is available to download for free from DIY – you can also listen to snippets from every track of the band's self-titled debut album, out on June 3.
Discopolis have unveiled the video for their new song Falling (Committed To Sparkle Motion), out on May 5.
April 29, 2013: The SAY Award will stream each of the 20 longlisted albums for 24 hours through their app, starting today with Miaoux Miaoux's Light Of The North. You can read The Pop Cop's feature here.
Panda Su's new song MAPS is available to buy now on Amazon, while Bwani Junction's new single Civil War is on iTunes.
The Boy Who Trapped The Sun has a video for new song California ahead of his May tour in Scotland.
The Pastels have a video for Check My Heart, taken from their forthcoming new album Slow Summits, out on May 27.
Frank Turner covered Frightened Rabbit's The Modern Leper for Jim Gellatly's In:Demand Uncut session.
April 27, 2013: Episode 10 of BBC ALBA's Rapal music TV programme is on iPlayer and features two fantastic unreleased songs by Beerjacket as well as The Holy Ghosts, The Merrylees and Ray McCartney.
Travis, Johnny Marr, Hurts, James Skelly, Jack Savoretti, Willy Mason, Foy Vance, Steve Mason, Milo Greene and DIIV have been added to the T in the Park line-up, which has now been separated into day-by-day splits.
Edinburgh venue The Forest Cafe, which has been banned from hosting live music due to council restrictions, are looking for acts to play their new monthly event, the Forest Big Night Out at Old St Paul's, which launches on May 23. Email email@example.com for details.
April 26, 2013: The Burns an' a' that! Festival will feature live music as part of Weekend in the Park at Ayr's Belleisle Park on May 25-26. Rose Parade, Little Fire, Pronto Mama and The Bluebells are among the free acts; Justin Currie + Rachel Sermanni play a ticketed gig on May 26.
Other newly-announced concerts on sale include Lana Del Rey + Kassidy at Glasgow's SECC on May 16 (replacing her two dates at the Academy on May 15/16) Bombay Bicycle Club at Edinburgh's Liquid Room on June 7, Belle & Sebastian at Inverness' Ironworks on July 1, We Are Scientists at Glasgow's Oran Mor on July 29, Kid Canaveral + Ballboy at Edinburgh's Liquid Room on August 10.
Kid Canaveral + The Last Battle + Adam Ross (Randolph's Leap) also play a free show at Edinburgh's Caves on May 23 with 300 tickets on the door on a first come, first served basis as part of a Dewar's event.
April 25, 2013: Seasick Steve, The Pigeon Detectives, Julie Fowlis, Meursault, Washington Irving, PAWS and The LaFontaines have been added to the Belladrum Festival line-up on August 2-3.
Washington Irving have released Palomides Volume 1, the first half of their debut album.
The View are streaming Kill Kyle, one of two new songs on their compilation album Seven Year Setlist, out on June 17.
April 24, 2013: The showcase list of artists picked to play goNORTH in Inverness on June 5-6 has been announced. For the third consecutive year there will be a bloggers' showcase stage hosted by The Pop Cop, Peenko and Song, by Toad. More details to follow soon.
Kilmarnock's Dirty Weekender will feature 45 acts over three venues on May 31 to June 2 including Fridge Magnets, Bwani Junction, The Ok Social Club, Ross Leighton (Fatherson) and Chris Helme.
Poor Things' new single Morgan is free to download – it's taken from their Hurricane Poor Things EP, out on June 10.
Similarly, Cherri Fosphate are giving away Wool from their Burning Youth EP, out on May 11.
April 23, 2013: Glasvegas will play Aberdeen's Garage on June 27, Edinburgh's Liquid Room on June 28 and Glasgow's ABC on June 29.
Reverieme's second album With Up So Floating is out now.
Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire have announced they will release their self-titled new album through Middle Of Nowhere Records in July.
Herculean have a video for Red Weather, taken from The Falling Thunder EP, out on June 7.
April 22, 2013: Stag & Dagger have added Phosphorescent, Rachel Sermanni, Randolph's Leap, French Wives, Fake Major, Prides, Chris Devotion & The Expectations and Donald Macdonald & The Islands to the Glasgow festival's line-up on May 18.
Episode 9 of BBC ALBA's Rapal music TV programme is on iPlayer and features Brown Bear & The Bandits, Cara Mitchell, The Open Day Rotation and John Wean.
Texas have unveiled a video for The Conversation, the title track from their first album in eight years, out on May 20.
Bronagh & The Boys have released their debut single Green, taken from A Young Heart EP, out on May 19.
April 19, 2013: Kassidy's Barrie-James O'Neill and his girlfriend Lana Del Rey have recorded a cover of Summer Wine (made famous by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood), backed with a video featuring handheld footage of the pair in Los Angeles.
My Bloody Valentine, Trash Talk, Fidlar and The VirginMarys have been added to the T in the Park line-up.
April 18, 2013: Pre-sale tickets are available for Regina Spektor at Glasgow's Academy on August 20 and Kings Of Leon at the ciry's Bellahouston Park on August 15, the latter being part of the Glasgow Summer Sessions.
The Mirror Trap have unveiled a video for Westminster Ghost Story, the first track to be taken from their second album Stay Young, due out this autumn.
April 17, 2013: Midnight Lion have changed their name to Prides and expanded to a trio with the addition of Kitty The Lion's Callum Wiseman on guitar and vocals. To coincide with the announcement, they have unveiled wonderfully addictive new song Out Of The Blue.
T in the Park have added Local Natives, Lucy Rose, Swim Deep, Theme Park, Lewis Watson and Sons & Lovers to the festival on July 12-14.
April 16, 2013: Doune The Rabbit Hole have announced that this year's festival will take place at the new location of Cardross Estate at Port of Menteith in Stirlingshire on August 22-25. The line-up features Clinic, Meursault, Rachel Sermanni, Alasdair Roberts, Washington Irving, The Pastels, PAWS, Beerjacket, Rick Redbeard, We Are The Physics, Randolph's Leap, Siobhan Wilson, Panda Su, Shambles Miller, Jo Mango and TeenCanteen. See here for full day-by-day splits.
April 15, 2013: James and Twin Atlantic will headline the Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival on August 2-3. Other acts on the bill include Admiral Fallow, Fatherson, Rick Redbeard, Noisettes, The Horrors and King Charles.
April 13, 2013: Edinburgh's live music scene has suffered yet another setback with Forest Cafe having its live music licence reviewed, causing the immediate postponement of gigs there, starting with the Solas Showcase scheduled for today.
Newsnight Scotland featured a report on the music industry on April 10, prompted by the Wide Days convention in Edinburgh. Watch the segment on BBC iPlayer, with contributions from Stanley Odd's Dave Hook, Plum's Shona Maguire, Chemikal Underground's Stewart Henderson, Wide Days organiser Olaf Furniss and journalist Nicola Meighan. The interviews were conducted by Galleries drummer Andrew Black.
April 12, 2013: Episode 8 of BBC ALBA's Rapal music TV programme is on iPlayer and features Niteworks, The Holy Ghosts, Miaoux Miaoux and The Merrylees.
Eagleowl have unveiled Not Over, the first offering from debut album This Silent Year, which will come out through Fence Records on May 13.
Dear Lara, aka David Lan, has released his debut EP Plans as a free download.
April 11, 2013: Capitals' debut album A National Service will come out on June 3, with those who pre-order it (from just £5) getting an immediate download of any of the record's 11 tracks, one of which is Reliever.
The View will release singles compilation Seven Year Setlist on June 17 – the album features two new songs, Dirty Magazine and Kill Kyle.
Several Scottish acts have posted tracks from forthcoming new albums – check out Washington Irving – Wandering Wits, United Fruit – Taste I Can't Give Up and Hector Bizerk – Orchestrated Madness.
April 10, 2013: Promoters Cry Parrot will host their 6th Birthday Party at Glasgow's Glue Factory on April 26 with a gig featuring Sacred Paws, Hector Bizerk, Tut Vu Vu, Ultimate Thrush, Ela Orleans and Sad City.
Three Blind Wolves are previewing Slow Summer Deer, taken from their Sing Hallelujah For The Old Machine album, released on May 6.
Where We Lay Our Heads single Keanu Leaves is out now.
Great Cop are giving away new song Stop Hiding as a free download.
April 9, 2013: Mogwai guitarist John Cummings uploaded a photo of himself at Glasgow's George Square yesterday where more than 300 people gathered, inspired by his band's 2011 song George Square Thatcher Death Party.
Hi-Arts, which promotes arts in the Highlands and Islands, has issued notices of redundancies to all 10 of its staff in the wake of funding cuts.
April 8, 2013: Fridge Magnets will play a 'silent gig' at a secret outdoor location in Glasgow on May 15 (6pm) – tickets can be won through organisers Deezer. The band will perform inside a mobile perspex box with the 300-capacity audience able to hear them through headphones.
Kassidy have released new mini-album People Like Me.
April 7, 2013: Song Of Return have launched their Singles Club project on Bandcamp through which they'll be selling unreleased tracks. Month 1 contains Torn Between The Tides (see video) and Enough.
Cairn String Quartet, who were profiled on The Pop Cop in March, have unveiled their orchestral cover of Kid Canaveral's Low Winter Sun.
Travis have made new song Another Guy available to download for free through their website. It also has a video.
April 6, 2013: The following 16 HMV and Fopp stores in Scotland will remain open following Hilco's takeover – HMV: Aberdeen, Ayr, Dundee, East Kilbride, Edinburgh Fort Kinnaird, Edinburgh Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh Princes St, Glasgow Argyle St, Glasgow Buchanan St, Glasgow Fort, Inverness, Livingston, Stirling; Fopp: Edinburgh; Glasgow Union St; Glasgow Byres Rd.
Bwani Junction have a video for new single Civil War, out on April 29.
Rachel Sermanni and Emma's Imagination are among the acts playing the Kintyre Songwriters Festival in Campbeltown on May 24-26.
Quickbeam will launch their debut album with a gig at the disused Govanhill Baths in Glasgow on May 31. They will be supported by Fake Major whose debut Have Plenty Of Fun EP comes out on May 1.
April 5, 2013: Spotify director Mark Williamson will give the keynote speech at next week's Wide Days event in Edinburgh as part of a session on the business of streaming. The full running order is here.
Episode 7 of BBC ALBA's Rapal music TV programme is on iPlayer and features Anna Sweeney, Cara Mitchell, Discopolis and Paul McGranaghan.
Dot JR has uploaded new song Waterfalls to SoundCloud.
April 4, 2013: The Tiree Music Festival will take place in An Talla on July 20-21 with a bill that includes Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire, Washington Irving, The Youth And Young and Brown Bear & The Bandits.
Galleries' fantastic new single Midnight Rush is out now.
Casual Sex have made a video for their debut single Stroh 80. They play Glasgow's Nice 'n' Sleazy on April 5 and Oran Mor on April 7.
April 3, 2013: Comlongon Rocks have added a third day of live music to its line-up at Comlongon Castle in Dumfries & Galloway on May 17-19. The festival's line-up features Three Blind Wolves, Emma's Imagination, The OK Social Club and Saint Max.
Chem 19 are offering three days of free recording time to five Scottish acts through their Creative Scotland Demo Fund. To apply, musicians (under-25s only) should email a link to some demos and a bio to firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject Chem19 Demo Fund Enquiry before April 26. Chosen acts will also take part in a live showcase.
Siobhan Wilson + Julia And The Doogans + Jo Mango will play Glasgow's Roxy 171 on June 26 as part of the Scottish Fiction Presents: Aye Tunes vs Peenko night at the West End Festival.
April 2, 2013: Acts confirmed for The Insider Festival in Aviemore on June 21-23 include Rachel Sermanni, Karine Polwart, Hector Bizerk, Urstan, David Thomas Broughton, Miaoux Miaoux, Pete Roe, Jonnie Common, Adam Holmes And The Embers and Sparrow And The Workshop.
Up-and-coming acts can apply to play the Hebridean Celtic Festival in Stornoway on July 17-20 through their One Step Further competition which is open to musicians aged 18-25. To enter, artists need to email firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject HebCelt New Talent Submissions and include links to three songs, a biog and high-res photo. Closing date is April 12.
April 1, 2013: Quickbeam's self-titled debut album will be released through Comets & Cartwheels on June 3 – check out the video for lead track Immersed which will be available as a free download on April 29.
We Were Promised Jetpacks will headline the second night of the three-day Solas Festival in Perthshire on June 22.
Minor Delilah will be giving away copies of their new EP, Only Dust Can Hear You, to anyone who attends their launch gig at Glasgow's Classic Grand on May 3.
Top 10 tips of 2012
Happy New Year! If your 2012 resolution is to discover some hot new bands then today's your lucky day.
At the last count there were 762 Scottish musicians on Twitter, so narrowing that down to the eight I think you should listen to isn't an easy or pleasant task, let me tell you. But here are the ones I'd put my money on, plus my two favourite non-Scottish newcomers…
FRIENDS IN AMERICA (Facebook/Twitter) (Glasgow)
Crisp melodies, an indie-rock entity with genuine variation and originality, four engrossing musicians with distinct personalities including a dapper frontman with astute lyrics you can/want to make out. Their debut EP is due for release in early 2012, but check them out live – they're heartbreakingly magnificent. I've got relatives I don't love half as much as this band.
Friends In America – You're
February 9, Captain's Rest, Glasgow (info)
CAFÉ DISCO (Facebook/Twitter) (Glasgow)
If catchy pop songs were easy to make, everybody would be at it. Sadly they're not, so it takes a special kind of magic to rattle out the sort of riffs Café Disco dream up, thanks in no small part to the Swinton twins on guitar, Paul and Rachael.
Café Disco – Terra Nova
January 15, King Tut's, Glasgow (free acoustic set in downstairs bar)
May 5, Brew at the Bog, Inverness (tickets)
SEBASTIAN DANGERFIELD (Facebook/Twitter) (Edinburgh)
Classy, carefully thought-out and executed folk-rock from the capital. A fine choice as winners of the 2011 Scotsman Radar Prize and makers of arguably the past year's finest EP, The Sound of the Old Machines.
Sebastian Dangerfield – The Sycamore Tree
February 25, Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh (tickets)
BASTILLE (Facebook/Twitter) (London)
Bastille – Flaws
The only act I hadn't already heard of in the Blog Sound Of 2012 longlist that was worthy of further investigation. Dan Smith's solo project-turned-band is the most triumphant mix of indie and electro I've come across since The Postal Service.
YOUNG AVIATORS (Facebook/Twitter) (Glasgow via Northern Ireland)
Following in the footsteps of Two Door Cinema Club and Snow Patrol by relocating from Northern Ireland to Scotland to pursue their musical ambitions, Young Aviators are polished, charismatic and good-to-go for the big time. Their Hunting For Heaven EP is a belter.
Young Aviators – Hunting For Heaven
PAWS (Facebook/Twitter) (Glasgow)
The unpredictable thrill of watching PAWS live, when they turn up the reverb to ridiculous levels and blitz the audience with an aural assault of raw punk-rock, hasn't really been captured in their recordings. That should change with their debut album, which they'll be making in London in mid-January, and is strongly rumoured to be coming out on FatCat.
PAWS – Lekker
January 9, Vic Galloway BBC Radio Scotland session
January 26, Electric Circus, Edinburgh (tickets)
February 2, Cafe Drummond, Aberdeen
February 3, Madhatters, Inverness
February 4, Newmarket Bar, Thurso
February 16, Kirkcaldy High School (pupils only)
February 25, Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh (tickets)
MIKE NISBET (Facebook/Twitter) (Oban)
You can't help but admire Mike Nisbet, quietly going about his business with little fanfare before releasing a remarkable debut album that makes you wonder why more musicians don't spend as much time honing their craft as they do pimping themselves on Facebook. Vagrant is a proper singer-songwriter's record, untouched by fads or trends. It deserves to make this man the biggest word-of-mouth success story from Scotland since Admiral Fallow.
Mike Nisbet – El Frida
January 15, The Pop Cop Subcity Radio session
March 10, Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh
March 11, Hootananny, Inverness
CRAIG_FS (Facebook/Twitter) (Glasgow)
I was a wee bit unsure about this Glasgow Podcart discovery when I heard some of his earlier tunes, but Grass Stains is a surefire deal-breaker: eight and a half minutes of epic, euphoric electro-house fusion with an outstanding vocal from Rachel Tesfaye. If you're searching for the next Calvin Harris, I think you're looking at him.
Craig_FS – Grass Stain (feat. Rachel Tesfaye)
BEAR'S DEN (Website) (London)
Former Cherbourg frontman Andrew Davie was top of The Pop Cop's ones to watch in 2011 list as a solo artist, but he decided to take his incredible songwriting talents into a new heart-on-sleeve group called Bear's Den and they could well be the latest sensations from the Communion scene.
Bear's Den – Fickle Love
January 20, Mitchell Library, Glasgow (tickets)
OSKAR EMPIRE (Facebook/Twitter) (Wick)
Going out on a limb with this band. All there is to judge them by is one demo, but it brilliantly conjures up the spirit of Blink-182 (before their woeful reunion album). If Oskar Empire have more like Hide And Seek up their sleeves, their prospects look very healthy indeed.
Oskar Empire – Hide And Seek
As well as all the acts above, 2012 should be the year There Will Be Fireworks, Galleries, Bear Bones, Withered Hand, Dot JR, Make Sparks and The Jezabels all become famous and make millions from their new albums. Right? Right.
2 Responses to "Top 10 tips of 2012"
Alex Says:
What were your tips for last year ? Just asking.
The Pop Cop Says:
Here you go, Alex: http://thepopcop.co.uk/2011/01/ones-to-watch-in-2011/


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Guide your process improvements with deep insights into past and current performance that also help you predict future performance. With our Process Intelligence (PI) solution, you can analyze past performance and see how processes are executing end-to-end in real-time. Everyone involved a process—including managers, process engineers, operations and technical staff—gains insights to make better decisions. You'll understand how to use business processes more effectively. You'll also be able to transform your business proactively based on facts. Our customers have improved product and service quality, productivity and profitability. They've transformed business insights into actions to tune their businesses. Learn more about customer successes. THE COMPLETE SOLUTION: Get there faster with pre-defined and integrated products | Watch the video |
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