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package com.github.ambry.protocol;

import com.github.ambry.clustermap.ClusterMap;
import com.github.ambry.clustermap.PartitionId;
import com.github.ambry.clustermap.ReplicaType;
import com.github.ambry.replication.FindToken;
import com.github.ambry.replication.FindTokenFactory;
import com.github.ambry.replication.FindTokenHelper;
import com.github.ambry.server.ServerErrorCode;
import com.github.ambry.store.MessageInfo;
import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Contains the token, messageInfoList, remoteReplicaLag for a local partition. This is used
 * by replica metadata response to specify information for a partition
 */
public class ReplicaMetadataResponseInfo {
  private final FindToken token;
  private final MessageInfoAndMetadataListSerde messageInfoAndMetadataListSerde;
  private final int messageInfoListSize;
  private final long remoteReplicaLagInBytes;
  private final PartitionId partitionId;
  private final ReplicaType replicaType;
  private final ServerErrorCode errorCode;
  private final short responseVersion;

  private long totalSizeOfAllMessages = 0;

  private static final int Error_Size_InBytes = 2;
  private static final int Remote_Replica_Lag_Size_In_Bytes = 8;
  private static final int ReplicaType_Size_In_Bytes = Short.BYTES;

  public ReplicaMetadataResponseInfo(PartitionId partitionId, ReplicaType replicaType, FindToken findToken,
      List<MessageInfo> messageInfoList, long remoteReplicaLagInBytes, short replicaMetadataResponseVersion) {
    if (partitionId == null || findToken == null || messageInfoList == null) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(
          "Invalid partition or token or message info list for ReplicaMetadataResponseInfo");
    }
    this.partitionId = partitionId;
    this.replicaType = replicaType;
    this.remoteReplicaLagInBytes = remoteReplicaLagInBytes;
    messageInfoAndMetadataListSerde = new MessageInfoAndMetadataListSerde(messageInfoList,
        getMessageInfoAndMetadataListSerDeVersion(replicaMetadataResponseVersion));
    messageInfoListSize = messageInfoAndMetadataListSerde.getMessageInfoAndMetadataListSize();
    this.token = findToken;
    this.errorCode = ServerErrorCode.No_Error;
    messageInfoList.forEach(info -> totalSizeOfAllMessages += info.getSize());
    responseVersion = replicaMetadataResponseVersion;
  }

  public ReplicaMetadataResponseInfo(PartitionId partitionId, ReplicaType replicaType, ServerErrorCode errorCode,
      short replicaMetadataResponseVersion) {
    if (partitionId == null) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid partition for ReplicaMetadataResponseInfo");
    }
    this.partitionId = partitionId;
    this.replicaType = replicaType;
    this.errorCode = errorCode;
    this.token = null;
    this.messageInfoAndMetadataListSerde = null;
    this.messageInfoListSize = 0;
    this.remoteReplicaLagInBytes = 0;
    this.responseVersion = replicaMetadataResponseVersion;
  }

  public PartitionId getPartitionId() {
    return partitionId;
  }

  public List<MessageInfo> getMessageInfoList() {
    return messageInfoAndMetadataListSerde.getMessageInfoList();
  }

  public FindToken getFindToken() {
    return token;
  }

  public long getRemoteReplicaLagInBytes() {
    return remoteReplicaLagInBytes;
  }

  public ServerErrorCode getError() {
    return errorCode;
  }

  public static ReplicaMetadataResponseInfo readFrom(DataInputStream stream, FindTokenHelper helper,
      ClusterMap clusterMap, short replicaMetadataResponseVersion) throws IOException {
    PartitionId partitionId = clusterMap.getPartitionIdFromStream(stream);
    ReplicaType replicaType;
    if (replicaMetadataResponseVersion == ReplicaMetadataResponse.REPLICA_METADATA_RESPONSE_VERSION_V_6) {
      replicaType = ReplicaType.values()[stream.readShort()];
    } else {
      //before REPLICA_METADATA_RESPONSE_VERSION_V_6 there were only disk based replicas
      replicaType = ReplicaType.DISK_BACKED;
    }
    ServerErrorCode error = ServerErrorCode.values()[stream.readShort()];
    if (error != ServerErrorCode.No_Error) {
      return new ReplicaMetadataResponseInfo(partitionId, replicaType, error, replicaMetadataResponseVersion);
    } else {
      FindTokenFactory findTokenFactory = helper.getFindTokenFactoryFromReplicaType(replicaType);
      FindToken token = findTokenFactory.getFindToken(stream);
      MessageInfoAndMetadataListSerde messageInfoAndMetadataList =
          MessageInfoAndMetadataListSerde.deserializeMessageInfoAndMetadataList(stream, clusterMap,
              getMessageInfoAndMetadataListSerDeVersion(replicaMetadataResponseVersion));
      long remoteReplicaLag = stream.readLong();
      return new ReplicaMetadataResponseInfo(partitionId, replicaType, token,
          messageInfoAndMetadataList.getMessageInfoList(), remoteReplicaLag, replicaMetadataResponseVersion);
    }
  }

  public void writeTo(ByteBuf buf) {
    buf.writeBytes(partitionId.getBytes());
    if (responseVersion == ReplicaMetadataResponse.REPLICA_METADATA_RESPONSE_VERSION_V_6) {
      buf.writeShort((short) replicaType.ordinal());
    }
    buf.writeShort((short) errorCode.ordinal());
    if (errorCode == ServerErrorCode.No_Error) {
      buf.writeBytes(token.toBytes());
      messageInfoAndMetadataListSerde.serializeMessageInfoAndMetadataList(buf);
      buf.writeLong(remoteReplicaLagInBytes);
    }
  }

  public long sizeInBytes() {
    long size = (token == null ? 0 : (token.toBytes().length + Remote_Replica_Lag_Size_In_Bytes + messageInfoListSize))
        + +partitionId.getBytes().length + Error_Size_InBytes;
    if (responseVersion == ReplicaMetadataResponse.REPLICA_METADATA_RESPONSE_VERSION_V_6) {
      size += ReplicaType_Size_In_Bytes;
    }
    return size;
  }

  /**
   * @return the cumulative size of all the messages represented by this response. 0 if the response signifies an error
   */
  public long getTotalSizeOfAllMessages() {
    return totalSizeOfAllMessages;
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    sb.append(partitionId);
    sb.append(replicaType.name());
    sb.append(" ServerErrorCode=").append(errorCode);
    if (errorCode == ServerErrorCode.No_Error) {
      List<MessageInfo> messageInfos = messageInfoAndMetadataListSerde.getMessageInfoList();
      sb.append(" Token=").append(token);
      sb.append(" MessagesTotalSize=").append(totalSizeOfAllMessages);
      if (messageInfos != null) {
        int size = messageInfos.size();
        sb.append(" MessageInfoListSize=").append(size);
        if (size > 0) {
          sb.append(" MessageInfoListFirstId=").append(messageInfos.get(0).getStoreKey());
          sb.append(" MessageInfoListLastId=").append(messageInfos.get(size - 1).getStoreKey());
        }
      }
      sb.append(" RemoteReplicaLagInBytes=").append(remoteReplicaLagInBytes);
    }
    return sb.toString();
  }

  /**
   * Return the MessageInfoAndMetadataList SerDe version to use for the given {@link ReplicaMetadataResponse} version
   * @param replicaMetadataResponseVersion the {@link ReplicaMetadataResponse} version
   * @return the MessageInfoAndMetadataList SerDe version to use for the given {@link ReplicaMetadataResponse} version
   */
  private static short getMessageInfoAndMetadataListSerDeVersion(short replicaMetadataResponseVersion) {
    switch (replicaMetadataResponseVersion) {
      case ReplicaMetadataResponse.REPLICA_METADATA_RESPONSE_VERSION_V_1:
        return MessageInfoAndMetadataListSerde.VERSION_1;
      case ReplicaMetadataResponse.REPLICA_METADATA_RESPONSE_VERSION_V_2:
        return MessageInfoAndMetadataListSerde.VERSION_2;
      case ReplicaMetadataResponse.REPLICA_METADATA_RESPONSE_VERSION_V_3:
        return MessageInfoAndMetadataListSerde.VERSION_3;
      case ReplicaMetadataResponse.REPLICA_METADATA_RESPONSE_VERSION_V_4:
        return MessageInfoAndMetadataListSerde.VERSION_4;
      case ReplicaMetadataResponse.REPLICA_METADATA_RESPONSE_VERSION_V_5:
      case ReplicaMetadataResponse.REPLICA_METADATA_RESPONSE_VERSION_V_6:
        return MessageInfoAndMetadataListSerde.DETERMINE_VERSION;
      default:
        throw new IllegalArgumentException(
            "Unknown ReplicaMetadataResponse version encountered: " + replicaMetadataResponseVersion);
    }
  }
}


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Kevin-Prince Boateng (født 6. marts 1987) er en ghanesisk fodboldspiller af tyske aner, der i øjeblikket spiller i klubben Hertha Berlin i den tyske Bundesliga.

Baggrund
Boateng er født i Berlin og har en ghanesisk far og en tysk mor. Han har tidligere været i tvivl om han ville spille for Ghana eller Tyskland. I første omgang valgte midtbanespilleren Tyskland, hvor han flere gange har spillet for U/21 landsholdet, men i juni, 2009 udtalte Boateng, at han i fremtiden ville repræsentere Ghana efter, at han ikke var blevet udtaget til ungdomslandsholdet.

Boateng har i alt 13 tatoveringer fordelt på sin krop. En af hans tatoveringer visualiserer Afrika, en Berlin og derudover har han tatoveret sin kones navn Jennifer et sted på kroppen. Omkring de to jokere der også er tatoveret på ham udtalte Boateng: "Jeg har to jokere, den ene smiler og den anden græder. Det betyder grin nu, græd senere".

Privat giftede Boateng sig med Jennifer i 2007 to dage efter han skrev under på kontrakten med Tottenham. Kevin Prince-Boateng kalder sig selv for "The Ghetto Kid" på grund af hans opvækst i det fattige Wedding kvarter i Berlin.

Hans halvbror Jérôme Boateng med fælles far er også professionel fodboldspiller og spiller for det tyske fodboldlandshold, hvor de til VM i fodbold i både 2010 og 2014 har spillet landskampe mod hinanden. Hans fem år ældre broder George Boateng er ligeledes fodboldspiller, men må ikke forveksles med den hollandske spiller af samme navn.

Karriere
Den unge ghaneser startede sin karriere i Reinickendorfer Füchse og skiftede som 7-årig til storklubben Hertha Berlin, hvorfra han blev solgt til engelske Tottenham den 31. juli 2007 efter 13 år i klubben. Boatengs karriere i Tottenham gik dog langt fra som forventet, og i januar 2009 blev han udlejet til tyske Borussia Dortmund. Efter endnu et ophold uden succes skiftede han i sommerpausen 2009 til Portsmouth F.C.. Han rejste i 2010 videre til italienske AC Milan. I 2013 flyttede han tilbage til Tyskland for at spille for Schalke 04. Han har i alt spillet for 16 forskellige hold i løbet af hans 25 år lange karriere. Han har spillet i storklubber som Barcelona, AC Milan, Dortmund og Spurs, men spiller i øjeblikket for Hertha Berlin.

Landshold
Boateng besidder dobbelt statsborgerskab, og kunne også have repræsenteret Tyskland på internationalt niveau. Han valgte dog at stille op for Ghanas landshold, som han repræsenterede ved VM i 2010 og VM i 2014.

Referencer

Eksterne henvisninger

Fodboldspillere fra Tyskland
Fodboldspillere fra Ghana
Midtbanespillere (fodbold)
Deltagere ved verdensmesterskabet i fodbold 2010
Deltagere ved verdensmesterskabet i fodbold 2014
Fodboldspillere fra Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
Fodboldspillere fra Hertha BSC Berlin
Fodboldspillere fra Borussia Dortmund
Fodboldspillere fra Portsmouth F.C.
Fodboldspillere fra AC Milan
Fodboldspillere fra FC Schalke 04
Fodboldspillere fra UD Las Palmas
Fodboldspillere fra Eintracht Frankfurt
Personer fra Berlin

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DR. KEVIN BARRETT, Chief News Anchor and Researcher–Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist, is one of America's best-known critics of the War on Terror. Dr. Barrett has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications. Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin, where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, talk radio host, an Editor at Veterans Today, and is a pundit on a number of international channels. He is the editor of We Are NOT Charlie Hebdo: Free Thinkers Question the French 9/11, an anthology that disputes the official story behind the January 7, 2015 Paris attacks, and the forthcoming ANOTHER French False Flag? Free Thinkers Question the 11/13 Paris Attacks.
JEREMY ROTHE-KUSHEL, Co-Anchor and Researcher — Jeremy Rothe-Kushel has a background in politics – from local to international, officeholder to activist – with experience in community organizing, mediajamming, documentary journalism and consensus-building in deep politics, economics and ecologics. Jeremy aims to coalesce a partisan-transcendent and permaculturally-informed #FullSpectrumPopulist #IntegralPolitics from the #RadicalMiddle with a #WeThePeoplePlatform and #CoalitionCabinet. He is working on a documentary project titled "September Eleventh Uncoverage" based on a decade of his investigative research, activism and experience of covering and uncovering the 9/11 cover-up. Rothe-Kushel has put public figures across the political spectrum "on the record" about vital issues that are often controversial and always emancipatory. Some of his journalistic encounters include Michael Hayden, John Yoo, Joe Biden, Eric Holder, Mike Pompeo, Kris Kobach, Ron Paul, Alex Jones, Jay Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Jill Stein and Amy Goodman. Jeremy has a working background in permaculture design and implementation, and future-roots music production, performance and education. While at Williams College completing his B.A. in Religion, he founded and over the next decade taught an original approach to musical education called "HipHop Empowerment", with students of diverse ages and backgrounds from the Bronx to Boston, Southern Vermont to South Los Angeles. Although he believes that well mineralized and microbialized, high-carbon humus might help solve most humanity's problems, Jeremy currently sees that the "invisible domain" of politics, culture, multimedia, law, deliberative deep democracy and cooperative startup economics contains key elements to assemble and strategic means necessary to that 'soilutionary' end.
PROF. TONY HALL, Co-Anchor and Researcher — Tony Hall is Full Tenured Professor of Globalization Studies in the University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada. He has worked there for 25 years during which time he published articles in many venues including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, the Canadian Encyclopedia, the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Literary Review of Canada, Canadian Forum, Report on the Americas, American Indian Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Canadian Historical Review, Cultural Survival, Global Research.ca, International History Review, Anthropologica, Radicalpress, Voltairenet.org, and Veterans Today. He has made many presentations to Canadian parliamentary committees and has served as an expert witness on constitutional issues in several important legal cases in Canada and the United States. Hall comments frequently on Press TV. His critically acclaimed academic books include The American Empire and the Fourth World as well as Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization and Capitalism. Both are published by McGill-Queen's University Press. In his first public presentation on 9/11 skepticism, Prof. Tony Hall joined Dr. Barrett in 2008 on a podium in Edmonton Alberta. Along with the deceased Mohawk activist Splitting The Sky as well as Ramsay Clark, Cynthia McKinney, Joshua Blakeney and Kevin Barrett, Hall worked on a legal case derived from the principle that George W. Bush should have been arrested for war crimes when the former US President visited Calgary Alberta in 2009. Prof. Hall is a contributor to both of Dr. Barrett's dual volumes examining each of the false flag terrorist events in Paris in 2015. In December of 2015 Dr. Hall co-moderated with Dr. Barrett "False Flag Islamophobia Conference," a four hour academic conference webcast live on "No Lies Radio." Now Tony Hall joins Dr. Kevin Barrett as co-anchor of "False Flag Weekly News."
"The views and opinions expressed in False Flag Weekly News are the sole responsibility of the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of NoLiesRadio.org. NoLiesRadio.org will not be responsible or liable for any inaccurate or incorrect statements expressed therein."
Eyewitness to Florida School Shooting Says There Was Second Shooter
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'Full metal garb' – Teacher describes masked gunman at Florida school shooting.
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On February 14th 2018 in south Florida, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School teacher Stacy Lippel was 20 feet from a gunman firing 'barrages' of bullets into classrooms and down the hallway.
During an interview with ABC's Good Morning America, aired February 21st 2018, Lippel described what the gunman she saw looked like.
Officers LOADING HEAVY SATCHELS (weapons?) into back of pickup truck
start at 04:30
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida–Testimony(multiple shooters)
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida
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Las Vegas Shooting Multiple Shooters Police Scanner
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2:07 Hotel Security says shots fired on 29th and 32nd floors
2:19 Police Officer on the 32nd floor says "it's been confirmed that there are at least 2 shooters with fully automatic weapons"
2:29 Black Chevy rips out of parking lot (the shooting team?)
QUESTION: were there adjoining rooms that the real 2 shooters could have escaped through and perhaps they were dressed as LV police and could blend in with the police???
Could it be that Stephen Paddock was the patsy and was murdered before all the shooting began and his room was filled with guns to incriminate him. Case Closed.
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Ever notice how these people – especially nikki haley (wonder woman) all sound like cartoon characters? that is what they are….

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...and yes, I know the same guy produced both. That's what hit me about it. Almost identical fingerprint. Backing vocals, drum sounds, everything..
True. AC/DC, def leperd, shania, bryan adams, Gaga, etc, etc. Gotta be something about it that works.
At least the videos are different. One has Shania Twain in a bathtub getting a kiss from Sarah Jessica Parker - the other has the chick from "Nell" playing piano in a cornfield.


This year has marked a new milestone in my academic career by becoming a Fulbright Senior Scholar and embarked on a new research on promoting digital equity in Taiwan. I had the privilege to work with researchers in three host universities at National Sun Yat-sen University and Cheng Hsiu University of Science and Technology in Kaohsiung and Fu Jen University in Taipei.
The topic of my project is "Promoting Digital Equity through the E-Tutor Program." The E-Tutor Program is a nation-wide program implemented by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan, aiming to bridge the educational divide among students in the urban and rural schools. This program was implemented in 1996. The model is to recruit university student tutors to work with students in remote areas by means of video-conferencing through one-to-one learning. On average there are 1,000 e-tutors from 20 universities and 1,000 e-tutees from 95 K-12 schools and educational agents participating in the E-Tutor Program annually.
I am interested in learning various models to bridge the educational divide around the globe. The E-Tutor Program has a great reputation and that's why I was interested in learning more about what this program has achieved and what kind of opportunities and challenges were faced by the former e-tutees. Most importantly of all, what are the long-term impacts on students who have gone through the program? I utilized a case study approach to interview 17 former e-tutees who are now senior high school or university students. I also interviewed four university tutors and five K-12 school teachers on their perceptions of the E-Tutor Program.
The results were phenomenal. The E-Tutor Program is a well-structured project that mobilizes university faculty, administrative assistants, university students, K-12 teachers, and the local educational bureaus in each major city in Taiwan to ensure equitable delivery of learning opportunities for students in remote areas. Many skeptics wonder how video-conferencing would work for remote schools. It actually has worked quite well. Many of the schools are in remote mountains and islands, not accessible by public transportation.
By utilizing video-conferencing, the students have a chance to reach the world that goes beyond the confine of their classrooms and communities. They have a place to hang out twice a week for ten weeks each semester to meet with e-tutors who are like big brothers and sisters. The e-tutor's constant presence provides companionship and academic learning opportunities that they would not have otherwise acquired. As a result of the program, many former e-tutees indicated that they had forged long-term friendship with their tutors, found life directions, and aspired to give back to their community just like the way their tutors have given to their community.
I think the project is important because it provides a solid model on how the digital divide could be bridged through partnership between government, universities, and social enterprises. It shows that bridging digital divide or educational divide is more than just providing hardware and software. We also need to have quality tutors, culturally-relevant instructional materials, thoughtful school teachers, and leaders who are willing to break the status quo to try something new.
The E-Tutor Program started out as a project to provide after-school learning, but it has quickly evolved to combine academic learning with companionship through personalized learning opportunity. Each e-tutee was typically assigned with an e-tutor for the whole semester. An e-tutor used the first two sessions to assess the assigned e-tutee on his/her strengths and weaknesses in different academic subjects (usually math, English, or reading) and then mapped out a semester-long study plan for the e-tutee. In each session, an e-tutor would start with asking areas of concerns that an e-tutee might have to decide on the focus for the night before following a study plan.
An e-tutor might use review questions, PowerPoint, videos, or multimedia instructional materials to engage an e-tutee in learning. If an e-tutee showed little interest, an e-tutor might utilize games and other active learning strategies to encourage the learner. In a typical 90-minute session, an e-tutor would reserve at least 10 minutes to chat with the student about happenings in daily life. Oftentimes, an e-tutor got to know the family background, interests, and hobbies of an e-tutee very well. Through the trust-building process of companionship, tutees could be motivated to put in more effort in learning.
It's also a process of self-realization for the tutors who are learning how to teach, how to motivate a young student, and how to be a role model. Most important of all, the privileged university students learned that there is a divided Taiwan and there's so much they can give to help a child to reach his/her learning potentials. It's a win-win situation for both university students and K-12 students.
-The companionship is more important than academic learning. They can motivate us to learn through deep caring and support.
-They shared their personal experiences, especially on how to deal with relationship with other people. For example, my tutor would give me advice on how to handle a situation in which I just had an argument with someone.
-In addition to learning, we are not limited to our own world. Our world intersects with the tutor's world. The two worlds together expand our world views.
-The impacts are learning a lot of things and understanding that I have a choice to move to high school or university. I want to give back to my community to help other people to go to college.
-I found my purpose in life. I have a clearer goal for school, friendship, and life.
Taiwan's E-Tutor Program provides a unique model in enhancing educational equity without the barriers of race, socio-economic status, and geographical locations. While there are many successful initiatives around that world aiming at enhancing educational equity through technology, Taiwan's model is successful because it is a great example of how all stake holders, including government agencies, academics, K-12 educators, and business organizations can work together to enrich the lives of young learners. This model can be replicated in many communities in the world, including the United States. My research will provide practical insights on how we can work together to promote digital equity.
With host professor Dr. Ji-Chyuan Yang and Dr. Yi-song Shi of Cheng Shiu University and Curriculum Director at Wutai Elementary School in Pingtung.
Through my research, I visited many universities and K-12 schools. Wherever I went, I promoted Fulbright and encouraged Taiwanese scholars and students to look into grant opportunities so that they can come to America to advance their learning or research agenda. Through the support of Fulbright Foundation, I have gained new knowledge on ways to promote digital equity and I have been disseminating the information through scholarly publications and conference presentations. Many students in my research told me that the E-Tutor Program had changed their lives. I believe that if the United States can learn from Taiwan's experiences, we can change many lives of students in the United States as well.
There were not many roadblocks during my stay in Taiwan. If I have to name one, it would be finding enough research subjects at the beginning. Since I was studying the impact of the E-Tutor Program on the lives of the former e-tutees, it was hard to find them because they were spread out all over Taiwan. Luckily, I had three host universities and partners who helped me with gaining access to the K-12 teachers who stayed in touch with their students. That's how I slowly gained access to the subjects. I wrote many emails and made many phone calls to establish the initial contacts. Most people responded to me regardless if they were available for an interview or not. I think being a Fulbright Senior Scholar gave me the key to many doors. I am grateful for it.
Taiwan has excellent scholars and devoted educators who work hard to make it a better place for the students. I am deeply touched by what I have witnessed and encountered. All three host universities provided me excellent resources and research teams to assist me in my research. I enjoyed the process of bouncing ideas back and forth with my collaborators.
The Neimen Junior High School visit was a highlight during my stay in Taiwan. Through an interview with a local principal, I learned that the school was interested in establishing international collaboration partnership. I happened to know a Fulbright grantee who was planning to bring a group of high school students to Kaohsiung for a study abroad program, so I helped to arrange a school visit for the American high schoolers to visit Neimen Junior High School. The American students could practice Chinese and gain insight to Taiwan's unique school cultures other than visiting major attractions. The Taiwanese students could learn more about American culture through conversations and activities with the American students. On the day of arrival, all students at the school put up a great performance call Song Jiang Battle Array, which is a very unique Taiwanese cultural practice, to welcome the American students. The American students were able to participate in the array and practice some of the movements together. I thought it was an eye opening experience for both parties. I am glad to be able to help with promoting both American and Taiwanese cultures through this type of exchange program.
My incentive to apply for the Fulbright Scholarship was to work on a book project on digital equity. I had learned about the E-Tutor Program through Internet search. This government-run initiative is very different from most US projects in terms of the scale and partnership, so I decided to study the program to examine the factors that contribute to a successful digital equity initiative and how it is different from a US model. I have definitely gained new insights and would love to continue working on case studies in different countries. The project in Taiwan has laid a solid foundation for future research and I am grateful for the opportunity.


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Although career advancement may seem like a daunting process, there are more than a few career resources at your disposal, to help you effectively navigate advancement, while also increasing your value as an outstanding professional asset.
Ask yourself who you know, and how they might help you both now and in the future. Building a solid professional network to support, guide, and assist you will pay huge dividends when you need it. Career planning includes keeping in touch with past contacts as well in case you ever need to tap into your network!
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For students and visitors interested in working in the field of peacekeeping and humanitarian relief, POTI has compiled a list of helpful links to aid you.
Students often ask about employment and volunteer opportunities in the general areas of humanitarian relief, peacekeeping, conflict resolution, and related fields. Since essentially all POTI students are interested in professional development and careers in these fields, we are glad to share with you the names and links of organizations where such opportunities may be found. POTI students should be clear at the outset that the completion of POTI courses does not in any way ensure future employment. Our POTI Certificates of Completion are widely recognized as a demonstration of knowledge in a subject, and students are encouraged to list their POTI courses on job applications, including the official United Nations Personal History P11 form. POTI provides training and we are glad to guide our students in how to seek employment, but POTI is not part of the United Nations and we do not serve as a career placement agency. We do not accept job applications here.
Are you interested in preparing for a career in peacekeeping?
Students should understand that employment opportunities with the United Nations are not easy to obtain. There will be periods when new missions are being mounted and there will be a need to recruit personnel, while at other times there may be no new missions and perhaps even some being concluded and resulting in an overage of available and experienced people to serve on missions. There are many individuals who wish to acquire such jobs and the assignment of individuals to these jobs can have many unpredictable aspects. However, if you are willing to be patient and also expand your job search to include both the United Nations as well as other organizations, there can be opportunities.
During my online training with POTI I got promoted to Assistant Protection Officer. The promotion came as a result of my participation in the online training and presenting the certificate awarded to the Human Resource Officer of the organization. Not only did I get promoted because of the online training from POTI, but the training from this Institution has imparted much on my peace building and protection working experience.
Test your knowledge against POTI's experts.
You might also consider volunteering with the UN Volunteers for deployment on a UN mission. This will be entry-level service and you will be on a UN Mission and in a group. Get information on how to volunteer through UNV.
Relief Web covers the area of humanitarian relief in general terms and also lists employment opportunities and maintains a current list of specific jobs.
If you are willing to work for humanitarian organizations and other organizations both in the US and world-wide there is a long list of job opportunities at Idealist. Many of these jobs will be outside what you might have originally considered but I do encourage you to look through it.
UNjobs is an excellent source of information about employment. This is a Swiss association and they do a good job of listing a wide range of jobs. It is also possible through their website to sort by organization and duty station.
Another source for information about job opportunities at the UN is provided by United Nations Jobs.
Individuals who are interested in serving as uniformed military peacekeepers should enquire through their national ministry of defence. In almost all cases, a person must first be a member of the military of one of the nations that provides troops to peacekeeping missions before they are deployed as a UN peacekeeper. For a list of the nations that provide military personnel to serve as UN peacekeepers.
Nations also provide police to UN missions, and for these opportunities applicants should enquire through their nation's ministry of foreign affairs. For more on serving as a UN police.
In addition to the humanitarian relief organisations listed here, additional lists can be found at Musée de l'Ordre de Malte and at Global Corps.
There is an additional note of caution you should keep in mind during your application process. There are some firms that claim to have access to UN employment opportunities and for a fee they will assist an applicant. Be very cautions of such offers. These may be for-profit organizations that generate revenues from eager applicants. But the UN itself will never charge an application fee.
United Nations peacekeeping missions exist in the world's most troubled and war-torn regions. Military personnel, police, civilians, volunteers, and NGO employees work to bring peace and relief under some very difficult conditions. The reward for this work goes beyond financial compensation, and can be found in our common goal as humans to help each other, to protect the vulnerable, to contribute to peace and stability, and to do our part to create a better world and a better future. Although there is a tendency to romanticize the idea of serving on peacekeeping or humanitarian relief missions, most of your days will be spent in just plain hard work that can be draining both mentally and physically, and under conditions that can be dangerous. Employment opportunities with the United Nations itself are not easy to find but we encourage you to be patient, persistent, not be discouraged, and remain flexible about serving with other relief organizations.
POTI suggests you consider employment opportunities with NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) working in fields related to peacekeeping and humanitarian relief.
Here at the Peace Operations Training Institute we salute our students who train for such opportunities and we wish them well in their honourable careers of service.


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Anita Blay, aka thecocknbullkid, has apparently been writing and recording music for 23 years now, so it's about time she started getting some recognition for it. Thankfully, she has been over the last few months, with various media outlets slowly clocking onto her sound, which has been described as a mix of Neneh Cherry and Morrissey. With her new single, 'I'm Not Sorry', out this week via Moshi Moshi, she looks set to take yet another big step towards the big time. So, without further ado, we hit her up with the Same Six Questions.
It sounds clichéd but I have always been involved with music. I entered loads of talent shows and sent out demos to various places. Then at 16 I joined a studio where I learned to use software, took vocal lessons and wrote music every day. It was a great discipline to have, it taught me a lot of what I know now. I left after four years and put my stuff up on MySpace and it went from there really.
Q2 What inspired your latest single?
That curious feeling of not feeling guilty about hurting someone. It happens and it's fascinating discovering more and more people who feel like you! I enjoy exposing my own flaws because people will usually open up about theirs. That's what I've always thought music should be about.
There is no set process. But often I will have a stream of phrases or unrelated words, random thoughts and I'll scribble them down. Sometimes my lyrics come from misheard words I've heard off the TV or from passers by or even in songs. One of my songs, called 'Lovers Jeans', was inspired like that. I think 'The Antiques Road Show' was on and I thought I heard someone say "Lovers jeans". I liked the sound of it and based a whole song around it. Those are my favourite types, the accidental ones. Musically, sometimes I'll start something at home, sometimes it's structured, sometimes not. Mostly I'll try to do as much of it as I can until I realise "right this needs a chorus that's going to do this justice" and sometimes I just can't make that chorus, you need that honesty. So I'll take it to one of the guys I work with to make it into a record.
Oh god Björk, Morrissey, David Byrne, Peaches, Annie Lennox, MIA, Michael Jackson, Bowie, George Michael, Rufus Wainwright and Dolly Parton. I think the reason is because they sound like no one else but themselves and most importantly are all writers. True writers. That's the most inspiring thing for me.
I'm not instant. I'm a grower.
Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest single, and for the future?
It's just meant to be a taster, something for you to feast on whilst I finish this album. Once that's done, I want people to hear it and like it. The long term plan is to become prolific, grow fearless, get better and pave the way for other artists. That's what we all want.
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ROOTBEER
Solo artists Pigeon John and Flynn Adam (who had success as a producer for Black Eyed Peas and Madlib) hook up for this new project, Rootbeer. Claiming MGMT, A Tribe Called Quest and N.E.R.D as influences, it's the latter than smacks the most truth, with tribal percussion and squirming synth loops underlying the pair's vocals. Admittedly, they haven't yet created anything quite catchy enough to match the work of Pharrell and co, but they're certainly heading in the right direction.
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So court papers made available last week give us a little more insight, at last, as to what actually happened between Chris Brown and Rihanna after that pre-Grammy party last month. Brown, as previously reported, was in court on Thursday to be formally charged with assault. He didn't enter a plea to the charges against him.
The papers reveal that, as was rumoured at the time, it was a text message on Brown's phone that kicked off the violent row between the power couple of American pop. Rihanna, referred to as Robyn F in the papers (her real name is Robyn Fenty), apparently discovered a text message from another woman on her other half's phone. During the row that followed Brown allegedly tried to push his girlfriend out of the rented Lamborghini sports car they were in, shoving her head against the passenger window and repeatedly punching her in the face. Which was nice of him.
Brown was there to hear the charges against him last week. Rihanna was not present, but her lawyer was in attendance for the hearing. The LA court commissioner overseeing last week's session postponed the proceedings until 6 Apr and then issued a protective order against Brown, telling him: "Mr Brown, you are not to annoy, harass, molest, threaten or use force or violence against anyone". Rihanna's lawyer, Donald Etra, did not request any additional orders to be issued against Brown, telling the judge that his client did not feel a restraining order was necessary. Given the reports the couple are, in fact, back together, that would figure.
Those reports, and other rumours that Rihanna had stopped cooperating with offices investigating the crime, led to speculation that the singer would not testify against her possibly ex-ex. Etra, though, said last week his client would take to the witness stand if she was asked to do so, though he did add that she was legally obliged to anyway if subpoenaed, so that doesn't necessarily mean Rihanna is planning on providing the killer testimony that could put Brown in jail.
No mention at all in those court papers, by the way, of Eamon Holmes' role in this whole escapade. As you'll remember, back in January, when talking about American pop stars and their ridiculously large entourages, the former GMTV man told reporters: "Rihanna, for example, is a beautiful girl, but if she was your daughter, you'd give her a slap and tell her to wise up. She is surrounded by people who treat her like a little flower". Now, he isn't Rihanna's mother, but isn't it possible Chris Brown took Eamon's words too literally two weeks later? Isn't it possible the biggest star in US R&B is a big fan of the Sky/Lottery presenter? OK, no. No it's not.
CANADIAN OFFICIALS TO INVESTIGATE TICKETMASTER/TICKETSNOW TIE UP
Ticketmaster's promotion of its US-based secondary ticketing website TicketsNow will again go under the regulatory spotlight following the news the Canadian government has formally asked its Competition Bureau to investigate.
As previously reported, Ticketmaster entered the secondary ticketing market (ie enabling online ticket touting) by buying TicketsNow last year, and started pointing customers in the US and Canada to it from their primary ticket sales site whenever they were unable to sell primary tickets to an event. Consumer groups complained that the ticketing firm, which makes a commission from both the primary and secondary sites, were not properly explaining the implications of buying tickets from the latter rather than the former, ie that the seller will not be official, and that there may be a large mark-up on the ticket, so that expensive tickets are not necessarily for the best seat in the house.
Initially Ticketmaster denied those claims, saying that the TicketsNow link up was an added value service, that it meant that their customers were more likely to get tickets for in-demand events, and that it gave some guarantees to people buying tickets from online touts. But then Bruce Springsteen complained about his fans being forwarded to TicketsNow for tickets to his gigs, and Ticketmaster quickly backtracked and said it would be reviewing the way it promoted its secondary service via its main website.
After the Springsteen protest, competition officials in the US state of New Jersey investigated the co-promotion that went on between the two sister companies and subsequently demanded that all weblinks between the two websites be removed for the time being, as well as insisting on various other measures, mainly linked to the resale of Springsteen tickets via Tickets Now. The ticketing giant agreed to the New Jersey officials' demands. Meanwhile in Canada one ticket buyer has begun civil proceedings against Ticketmaster after buying an overpriced ticket on TicketsNow.
While legal types don't reckon much to that civil action, Canadian officials may as yet make similar demands to those issued by their counterparts in New Jersey. Confirming he had ordered a formal investigation into the Ticketmaster/TicketsNow situation, Canada's Industry Minister Tony Clement told the country's parliament: "The government will not stand idly by when there is potential that companies are engaging in uncompetitive practices that are hurting consumers. And that's why I am referring this matter directly to the Competition Bureau for their review".
He added: "I want an investigation to determine whether Ticketmaster is abusing its position as a ticket seller by bumping people off their site to another site which sells the tickets at a multiple of many times higher than the original price".
Ticketmaster told Reuters it would be happy to participate in any review of its activities. It also said that some of the criticism regarding the tie up between Ticketmaster and TicketsNow was based on untrue allegations that the company diverted some of its primary ticket allocation to the resale site in order to sell them at a greater mark up. The ticketing firm stressed: "Ticketmaster goes to great lengths to ensure that members of the public have the most fair opportunity possible to buy tickets in the primary market".
The posse of c'lebs who have been on that Kilimanjaro jaunt for Comic Relief have completed their mission. Girl Aloud Cheryl Cole, GMTV bloke Ben Shephard, Radio 1 irritant Fearne Cotton and telly-presenter-actress-type Denise Van Outen were the first of the celebrities in the Comic Relief team to make it to the summit of Africa's biggest mountain this weekend, with a Twitter feed seemingly submitted from the summit reading: "At the summit, God knows how". Surprisingly, given this was a BBC project, U2 weren't at the summit to provide a little congratulatory album plug, which was a bit of a poor show if you ask me. It's the Africans I'm thinking about here, Bono.
The rest of the celebs followed soon after, including Chris Moyles, Ronan Keating, Gary Barlow and that other Girl Aloud Kimberley Walsh. From what I hear, they all found it pretty hard going as the summit approached, which isn't surprising, it is a very high mountain. Alesha Dixon, the last of the celebrities to make it to the top, reportedly crawled her way to the summit as she really struggled with the whole low oxygen malarkey, poor girl.
Making up for all the torment a little, presumably, was the news that donations generated by the Radio 1 spearheaded Red Nose bonanza had already passed a million, the most money ever made by a Comic Relief project on the nation's favourite. Confirming that achievement, Radio 1's Head Of Programmes Ben Cooper told reporters: "This is fantastic news! We're overwhelmed by the generosity of our listeners. It's the first time Radio 1 alone has raised a million pounds for Comic Relief. Chris and Fearne and the rest of the team out in Kilimanjaro will be spurred on by this great news".
Participating celebrities will now return home to the UK before Friday's big Red Nose Day bash. Most media attention, tabloids anyway, is sure to be on Girl Aloud and 'X-Factor' judge Cole, whose other half Ashley was, as you no doubt know, arrested for being drunk and disorderly after a night out clubbing while his wife was in Africa last week, and after being photographed having what his PRs are calling an "intellectual conversation" with an unnamed woman. Perhaps they could sell tickets to the Cheryl/Ashley Cole showdown and raise another million for Comic Relief. Not that we'd want to encourage domestic violence or anything, we're no Eamon Holmes here at CMU you know.
The US Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame are planning an exhibition devoted entirely to Bruce Springsteen. 'From Asbury Park To The Promised Land: The Life And Music Of Bruce Springsteen' will open on 1 Apr, three days ahead of the institution's annual induction ceremony. 'The Boss', who has just released his 24th album, was inducted back in 1999.
Previous exhibitions at the Hall have focussed on the likes of Bob Dylan, Ray Charles and John Lennon. Curator Jim Henke says: "He's someone we've always wanted to do a big exhibit on. So it's one of those things that I'd bring up with his manager from time to time. Last summer they said, 'Yes, it makes sense now'".
Springsteen has provided a number of items for the display, including a number of guitars. Springsteen's manager Jon Landau said: "Once he knew this was real, that it would really happen, he wanted it to have as much depth as it could possibly have. He is fully behind this exhibition and the effort the museum has made to really get things right".
The Universal Music Group has won the previously reported and potentially landmark court case between it and FBT Productions, the company owned by producers Marky and Jeff Bass who were very involved in the early career of Eminem, and who have a royalty entitlement to Slim Shady's early releases via Universal's Interscope division.
As previously reported, the FBT v Universal case centres on the level of digital royalties that are due to artists and their collaborators. Record companies treat digital sales like physical sales, and pay artists a relatively modest cut of revenue as a royalty - 12% in this case. But FBT argued that digital sales are more akin to licensing deals where record companies licence the use of their recordings, normally to media or brands, rather than selling actual copies. It's a crucial distinction because most artists are due a much bigger cut of revenues generated by such licensing deals, 50% in this case.
Had FBT won this case, it could have had big ramifications across the record industry, because labels selling digital music by any artist whose record contract is too old to specifically reference downloads could argue they should be getting the higher licensing royalty rate for any digital sales. Coming as record companies rely increasingly on their own digital revenues to make the books balance, to suddenly have to pay out significantly higher royalties to artists could have been crippling.
So good news, for Universal et al, that the Federal jury in this trial sided with the major record company over the hip hop production outfit. Summarising their ruling, US lawyer Fred Davis, who was not involved in the litigation, told the LA Times: "[The jury is] saying that the digital download is the modern version of a record sale. And the economics to the artist are the same for a digital download as they were for the sale of a single, back in the glory years".
The Bass brothers' lawyer told reporters his clients were reviewing their options, adding: "We are very surprised by the jury's verdict. We don't understand it, and the fight's not over". Rulings made in a federal district court like the one that heard this dispute are not binding, so future similar lawsuits in other US courts could go another way - and, as previously reported, the Allman Brothers Band and Cheap Trick have an ongoing legal dispute with Sony Music on the same issue. That said, the ruling in this case will be persuasive and will surely be referenced by the labels in any future litigation on the matter.
Coolio has been arrested at Los Angeles International Airport and charged with drugs possession. No further details of the incident, which took place on 6 Mar, have been released, and according to reports, his manager Susan Haber claims she hasn't spoken to her client since it happened. The hip hopper and recent 'Celebrity Big Brother' star, real name Artis Ivey Jr, has been released on bail of $10,000.
Anti-Flag have been forced to cancel all of their upcoming European tour dates because frontman Justin Sane broke his collarbone during the course of a gig in Norwich on Wednesday when a stage dive went wrong.
A message on the band's website read: "Tonight in Norwich Justin broke his collar bone. There was a scuffle in the crowd, he dove head first in, landed awkwardly and that was that. We hate to cancel the remaining shows with Rise Against and our own headlining shows in Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Russia. But after [guitarist] Chris Head having to fly home from Glasgow due to a death in the family, Pat's [Thetic, drums] three broken ribs that he started the tour with and now this it's obvious the UK is trying to kill us. Fuck it, we'll reschedule it all, you may have won the battle, but we WILL WIN the war. Cordially yours. Anti-Flag".
Russia has chosen a Ukrainian performer to be its entry for this year's Eurovision Song Contest. Anastasia Prikhodko's song 'Mama' only made the shortlist a couple of days before heats took place, but ultimately garnered the most votes from the judges and TV viewers. The 21 year old artist, who was disqualified from representing Ukraine after a voting dispute in which her people claimed that she had been treated unfairly by the judges, sings her verses in Russian but her chorus in Ukrainian. It would seem like quite an achievement to have won over the Russian population, given the recent dispute between the two countries.
Prikhodko is already a name in her native country, having won a TV talent contest in 2007. The singer, who won 25% of the TV audience's vote, said: "I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me, as well as all the judges. I do think I'll represent Russia well at Eurovision 2009".
Kings Of Leon's 'Sex On Fire' has been confirmed as the biggest selling download ever in the UK. They just overtook Leona Lewis, whose 'Bleeding Love' was the previous digital best seller. The Kings passed Lewis' 547,000 digital sales last week. Well done them.
Kano has indicated that Damon Albarn has no time to work on a new Blur album, because he's too busy with a third Gorillaz record, says The Daily Star.
The grime star also told the tabloid that he's been working with Albarn on the new Gorllaz LP, saying: "I went into the studio with Damon a while ago. We worked on a demo idea that he came up with in Lagos in Africa. We went back and actually produced the idea. It just so happened that I added a little bit on a couple of tracks he gave me. It's all sounding good".
He continued: "The album's not wrapped up yet. I think the process Damon goes through is that he makes loads of demos, then cuts them down and starts getting into the production. He's at that stage now where he's finishing off the record".
It's no surprise that Albarn is prioritising Gorillaz. Despite their live plans, Blur have never promised new material. Plus the band don't seem especially committed to a full scale return; as previously reported Dave Rowntree apparently has his sights set on becoming a barrister.
Au Revoir Simone, the trio responsible for some rather fine vocals on 'Paris' by Friendly Fires and Shinichi Osawa's fantastic cover of The Chemical Brothers' 'Star Guitar', return with a new album of their very own later this year. 'The Bird Of Music' will be released by the band's own label Our Secret Record Company on 19 May. Yup.
Here's the tracklist:
Another Likely Story
Knight Of Wands
Trace A Line
Only You Can Make You Happy
Take Me As I Am
Anywhere You Looked
Organized Scenery
Patrick Wolf has announced that a new single, 'Vulture', will be out on 20 Apr, ahead of the release of that upcoming new album 'The Bachelor' on 1 Jun.
Wolf says of the track: "Vulture is a collaboration between myself and the infamous electronic industrial genius, Alec Empire. I became a follower and fan of Atari Teenage Riot when I was 15 and it had always been a dream of mine to collaborate with Alec or one the amazing producers and noise makers that formed part of the Berlin Digital Hardcore Collective".
It'll be available digitally and via 7". As previously reported, the release of the new album has been funded via www.bandstocks.com.
Little Boots has announced the release of a new single, 'New In Town', out 25 May, to precede the release of her much-anticipated debut album. And that's it, really.
The Ting Tings were forced to cancel a gig at Brixton Academy on Friday. The band blamed a power failure in the Lambeth area and told fans to hold onto their tickets until the date can be rearranged. The duo said this: "It's a shame that it's the last night of our tour is postponed and we appreciate the support of all our fans who have turned up tonight. We will be coming back and can't wait for a rescheduled Brixton date!"
U2 will today announce details of a new world tour that will kick off in Barcelona in June and be called the U2 360 Degree Tour, or so says Billboard. The 360, rather than being a reference to the kind of business deals that are much talked about in the music world these days, refers to plans to stage these shows in the round as it were (so stage in the middle, all of a stadium's seats used), complete with some kind of cylindrical video screen. Or something. The tour is due to be sponsored by Blackberry.
Given reports last week, ahead of Michael Jackson's shambolic appearance at The O2, that Jacko and promoters AEG planned to do as many Jacko shows at the Dome later this year as ticket sales demanded, it should be no surprise there are rumours Jacko will double the length of his residency from the current ten days to twenty days later this week. Of course he has to do 22 shows to beat Prince's record, though I seem to remember that Jacko/Prince rivalry was mainly manufactured by Smash Hits in the late 80s. It seems mad now that you'd pitch Jackson against Prince, but then again someone decided Oasis and Blur should be rivals in the 90s when they were clearly in totally different ball parks music wise. Anyway, I seem to have digressed. The news here is that promoters of the Jacko Freak Show should announce extra dates this week.
Devo are to play the whole of their seminal album 'Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo?' at a gig at the Kentish Town Forum on 6 May. Tickets priced at £30 are available now.
2000 TREES FESTIVAL, Upcote Farm, nr Cheltenham, 17-18 Jul: British Sea Power, Fightstar and Frank Turner to headline, with Amplifier, Wild Beasts, Dananankroyd and CMU favourites Rolo Tomassi also on the bill. www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk
WICKERMAN FESTIVAL, East Kirkcarswell Farm, nr Kirkcudbright, 24-25 Jul: The Zutons, The Human League, Billy Bragg and Dreadzone all confirmed. www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk
SONISPHERE FESTIVAL, Knebworth, 1-2 Aug: Nine Inch Nails, Anthrax, Airbourne and Killing Joke all added to the bill. www.sonispherefestivals.com
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. Missing in action for almost three years now, not counting his collaborations with the likes of Does It Offend You, Yeah? and work under alias The Rhythm Method, ex-Death From Above 1979 man Sebastien Grainger has finally rounded up enough material to release a solo album, and boy, what an album it is. "Insanely catchy", "frighteningly good" and the words "fuck" and "yes" are all phrases that come to mind after listening to 'Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains', a rip-roaring journey through classic rock, dance-punk and sheer huge-rock-sound-meets-huger-dance floor perfection. 'I Hate My Friends' is a prime example of Grainger's ability to mix big with soft, catchy with not-too-commercial - a bit like if you dressed Kings Of Leon up in Soulwax's clothing and told them to remove their heads from their bottoms. 'By The Cover Of Night (Fire Fight)' is another excellent addition to 'The Mountains', boasting Grainger's enormous, distinctive "whoa whoa" vocals to their max whilst remaining true to the sound he's created for himself since departing from DFA1979. Anthemic and just as catchy as his expanding back catalogue of work, 'Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains' is a fantastic, full-length and full-force start to a promising solo career. TW
Release Date: 16 March
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Music group Media Village, who, I think, have used offices in EMI's old Brook Green HQ of late thanks to their alliance with the major through the Relentless Records label, have announced they will be moving to new offices in Soho as EMI closes down its Hammersmith base. All of the Media Village companies, which include The Village Agency, Big Wheel Promotions, Outcaste Music Publishing, Stimulus Management and the Media Village marketing firm, will be based at the new office.
Media Village co-founder Paul Franklyn says the move will precede an expansion of the groups various businesses. He told CMU: "This is an exciting opportunity for Media Village. We are always looking for ways to evolve as a company and keep ahead of the game. The music industry is changing and being able to offer artists and managers a complete music service is an important step forward. We look forward to helping our artists on the road to success".
EMI's Label Services division has announced another tie up with an indie, this time Dutch electronic label Black Hole Recordings. EMI will handle the indie's physical distribution in the UK and Ireland.
Black Hole MD Arny Blink told CMU: "We're extremely happy to be welcomed into the EMI family and look forward to a long and prosperous working relationship. With their flexible approach and excellent infrastructure, EMI Music Services was the ideal partner for us to further develop our business in the UK".
EMI Label Services' Matthew Crosswaite added: "We're delighted that Arny, Tijs and all the team at Black Hole Recordings have decided to partner with EMI Label Services in the UK and Ireland. They're a great label that we've worked with in the past on a number of Tiësto projects and so we're looking forward to working with them again".
Among the dance music artists and producers to work with Black Hole are Andain, JES, Mr Sam, Cosmic Gate, Mark Norman, First State and, as aforementioned, Tiësto.
Globally-focused indie digital rights body Merlin has announced a deal with iMesh, who are, in case you wondered, the third biggest subscription-based digital music service in the US. The Merlin/iMesh deal means music from labels represented by the rights body will now appear on iMesh's services ahead of their planned expansion to Europe. Merlin will also support iMesh's efforts to legitimatise the Lphant P2P network.
Confirming the deal, Merlin top man Charles Caldas told CMU: "We are pleased that iMesh inherently recognised the value of the Merlin repertoire in expanding their footprint to the global market, and are happy to be involved in working with them to license and legitimise the Lphant P2P network. It shows again that the tremendous efficiency and global reach that Merlin provides those wishing to license the world's most exciting and commercially valuable independent repertoire has been recognised".
iMesh President and Chief Marketing Office Talmon Marco added: "We have long understood the importance of independent music. This agreement adds substantially to the availability of that content to iMesh users. The agreement is an extension of the understanding of iMesh and supporting labels, that music fans will maintain loyalty to a site when revenue is directed to content creators. In this instance, we add Lphant to the list of iMesh services".
While rival pretend-to-play game 'Rock Star' gets ready for its Beatle release, the makers of 'Guitar Hero' are reportedly planning to follow up its own headline grabbing release - a Metallica version of the game - with a partnership with the mighty Van Halen. Game blog Joystiq makes the claim, saying songs like 'Jump' and 'Hot For Teacher' are expected to appear on that version of the game.
Dutch live music streaming service Fabchannel.com, which streamed concerts recorded at a venue in Amsterdam as well as LA's Roxy Theatre, has closed down. The people behind the nine year old service say that they reckon continued economic hardships in the music industry and the advertising sector have made their short and long term prospects too gloomy to continue.
A statement from the company issued Friday says: "After an energetic start in 2008 with the introduction of video commercials on Fabchannel.com, media partnerships with renowned news sites like nu.nl and Spiegel.de as well as signing a worldwide partnership with Universal Music Group, in the last few months it has been getting ever more difficult to reach the set targets. The audience has not increased as planned, mostly due to the majority of major record labels giving no consent to record their artists. At the same time, the online advertising and sponsoring market has been put under big pressure due to decreasing budgets of advertisers and sponsors".
It continued: "The management and shareholders of Fabchannel expect that this situation is not going to change during the next years. Therefore, they have jointly taken the decision to stop all activities in order to avoid getting into financial problems and, for example, lose the possibility to use the archive they have been building in the future".
The Fabchannel website will go offline later this week. They are the latest in a number of attempts to get a live-music-based web service off the ground to close, though to be fair they stuck at it for longer than most. While many of the very early live music websites - which were invariably video based - failed because of the lack of broadband reach and a reliance on clunky player-based streaming, licensing problems have been a bigger problem for more recently launched services. There is also an argument that video recordings of live music, unless filmed in a TV studio environment, or filmed on numerous cameras and subsequently edited by an experienced director, don't actually really work and will therefore only really ever appeal to hard line fans of any one band.
The Times - they're a newspaper - are set to release a selection of live recordings from Noel Gallagher made at his semi-acoustic show as part of the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs series back in 2007. The recordings include a number of Oasis classics plus some cover versions.
Tracks will initially be made available, for free, via iTunes - a special link will be published each day in the Times from tomorrow. Then a CD featuring eleven tracks will be given away with next weekend's Sunday Times, while a sixteen track version of the record will be available to buy via iTunes from next Monday. The Times promotion has been organised by covermount experts Upfront.
Although the Times downloads and CD will be given away, a donation has been made to the Teenage Cancer Trust as part of the campaign, which precedes this year's Royal Albert Hall gigs for the charity which kick off on 24 Mar.
In case you're interested, the songs available for download via The Times are as follows:
10 Mar: (It's Good) To Be Free
11 Mar: Talk Tonight
12 Mar: Cast No Shadow
13 Mar: The Importance Of Being Idle
14 Mar: Don't Look Back In Anger
While the freebie CD will feature the following:
Fade Away
The Butterfly Collector
Slide Away
The Local Radio Company, which owns 21 local radio stations around the UK, is looking to raise an extra £1.5 million by issuing 600 million new shares. It wants the money to fund a restructure, having just posted pre-tax losses of £5.6 million for the last year. The restructure may include the acquisition of new radio stations in areas where the company already has a presence, the logic being that the economies of scale to be made from running a number of stations in one area could make existing stations more profitable.
In a financial statement to shareholders, the company's Chairman Anthony Gumbiner said: "The financial results for the year ended 30 September 2008, an extremely challenging year for the Group, have been disappointing. The Directors continue to believe in the long-term strategy of owning local radio stations and local media assets. The Directors intend to continue to support the Group's stations in regions where the Group has a strong presence and will also consider acquisition opportunities in areas where the Group already has a presence and where the Directors believe the Group can successfully operate these services at lower cost".
The financial report also revealed the company plans to revert back to its old name, Radio Investments Ltd, and also confirmed its intention to sell the recently relaunched Jazz FM digital station to a consortium led by TLRC's former top man Richard Wheatly.
In related news, those aforementioned 'economies of scale' that TLRC can make when it owns a number of radio stations in the same part of the country have been criticised, in a way, in Parliament. TLRC recently centralised the news operations of a number of its stations in the North West to reduce costs. Macclesfield MP Nicholas Winterton raised the resulting loss of journalists at his local TLRC station, Silk FM, as evidence that the media recession is having a negative effect on local news provision.
Winterton told the House: "My hon Friend the shadow Leader of the House raised the matter of the news journalists being made redundant by local newspapers and local radio stations. Silk FM, which is part of The Local Radio Company has recently got rid of both its news journalists in Macclesfield. One of them has been made redundant and the other has been transferred to a new centre - which will cover at least three local radio stations - in Burnley, 40 miles from Macclesfield. Will she find time for a debate, either on the Floor of the House or in Westminster Hall, on the problems facing local newspapers and local radio stations, and on their failure now to provide proper news coverage, which is affecting the information that is available to people in my constituency, among others?"
Winterton was responding to wider concerns that a number of local newspaper groups and radio firms, not to mention ITV, are increasingly centralising their local news operations to reduce costs.
What would a new week be without some kind of tally of the biggest selling singles and albums in the UK? It would be nothing, that's what, so it's pretty lucky there is one.
First, on with the singles, where The Saturdays have got themselves to number two with a healthy combination of charity and young ladies in their pants. Yes, indeed, following the success of The Spice Girls' pant-infused video for their Children In Need single, The Saturdays have taken their lead and gone with a theme irrelevant to the charity they're raising money for in the video for their cover of Depeche Mode's 'Just Can't Get Enough'. But even that's not enough to stop the onslaught of Flo Rida, who has elbowed them right out of the way, showing no regard for charity or underwear, and plonked himself down on the number one spot with his new single, 'Right Around'.
As for the rest of the top 10, it's just the normal shuffle around, although it's worth mentioning that Lady GaGa still has two singles in that bracket. Please make it stop. And when it comes to the remaining 30 places on the chart, frankly, everyone should try harder. Chipmunk is a new entry at 21, with 'Chip Daddy Chip', Kinds Of Leon rise up from 55 to 29 with 'Revelry', Beyonce makes a similar move from 88 to 40, and U2's woeful single 'Get On Your Boots' continues its plummet down the chart, settling this week at 30.
U2's single might have received a vote of no confidence, but the same cannot be said for their album, which has been bought in droves. In the UK anyway. But with the amount of publicity it's had from, er, all those publicly-owned broadcasters, you'd kind of hope it'd do well. And it has, because it's not only knocked The Prodigy down to number two and seen U2 equal The Rolling Stones and Madonna for the third highest amount of number one albums (10 of them in all), but it also sold more this week than rest of the top five put together. Apparently lazy songwriting is excusable, I was wrong.
You'd think with all that excitement there wouldn't be any room for any more new entries this week, but you'd be wrong. Red Light Company have gone in at 13 with their debut album, ' Fine Fascination', Tina Turner's 'Platinum Collection' follows at 14, and then down at 25 Irish rockers The Answer hop in with their new album, 'Everyday Demons', thanks in part to being AC/DC's tour support, but mainly it's down to being featured on BBC Breakfast last week, I reckon.
And that's it for the charts this week, which are deftly cut and pasted together by tiny elves at The Official Chart Company.
MIA has denied her new baby has been named Ickitt, as was rumoured last week. Writing on her MySpace blog, she wrote this weekend: "My baby is not called Ickitt, Pickit or Lickit thank you very much to all the Hollywood press. He's a baby, he dont need press! I didnt release the baby name because I didnt think it was news!!!! But I will be back with something news worthy soon, till then go pick on Apple, Satchel and Moon Unit".
She's referencing the children of Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow, Tonya Lewis and Spike Lee, and Frank Zappa and Gail Zappa there, in case you wondered.
50 Cent has offered Joaquin Phoenix some advice for his planned hip hop career. As previously reported, Phoenix says he's quit acting to become a rapper, though his career change has so far been met with mainly mockery and claims it's all an elaborate spoof. Fiddy says that if Joaquin wants to make a proper go of the rap lark that: "He should write about the things that he has real interest in, the things he has been influenced by. Because, when an artist writes something that's totally away from their experience period, it can't be embraced".
A lot of rows have sprung up in the pop world in recent weeks and I have avidly been following all of them. This is by far my favourite, though: Miley Cyrus vs Radiohead.
Apparently Miley requested to meet Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood before they performed at the Grammys last month. She was left fuming when they declined (politely, I think) because she'd already sent text messages to everyone she knows telling them she was about to hang out with Oxford's finest.
Cyrus told WENN: "My manager asked and said, you know, 'Miley, she's really obsessed and she'd really like to meet them', and they were like, 'Yeah, we don't really do that'. I left 'cause I was so upset. I wasn't going to watch! I'd already texted all my friends, we were all freaking out. Stinkin' Radiohead! I'm gonna ruin them, I'm gonna tell everyone".


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