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Almighty Records release the album Paul Parker: NRG Anthems this week, featuring a collection of recent remixes of mr. Parker's songs from the 80's and 90's. On it, you will find the Matt Pop club mixes of Desire and Love In The Shadows, the latter ofcourse a cover of the E.G. Daily 80's dance classic. Also out this week is the Paul Parker single Somebody To Love, including the 2013 Matt Pop Club Mix and radio edit. All are available on cd, as WAV and as MP3 through the Almighty website: http://www.almightyrecords.com
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  has_many :authors, through: :book_authors

  has_many :book_languages, dependent: :destroy
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  has_many :book_locations, dependent: :destroy
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  has_many :book_subjects, dependent: :destroy
  has_many :subjects, through: :book_subjects

  has_many :volumes, dependent: :destroy
  belongs_to :book_statuses

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  def meta_keywords
    volume = self.volumes.first
    solr_books_core = RSolr::Ext.connect url: SOLR_NAMES_FOUND
    response = solr_books_core.find q: "job_id:#{volume.job_id}", fl: 'sci_name'
    response['response']['docs'].map{|item| "#{item['sci_name']}"}.join(', ')
  end

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    Book.where(:book_status_id => BookStatus.pending_metadata.id)
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    authors.map{|author| author.name}.join(', ')
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  def meta_description

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Nigeria: 11 Strategic Interventions to Contain COVID-19 - Buhari
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
By Opeyemi Kehinde
Lagos — Following the presidential order to totally shutdown Abuja, Lagos and Ogun states starting from 11:00pm on Monday, President Muhammadu Buhari has highlighted eleven special interventions to curb the spread of the COVID-19 in the country.
Below are 11 strategic interventions put in place by the federal government as announced by the President during his broadcast:
Provision of an initial intervention fund of N15billion to support the national response
Creation of a Presidential Task Force (PTF), led by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, to develop a workable National Response Strategy which will be reviewed daily.
Recruitment of hundreds of ad-hoc staff to man our call centers and support our tracing and testing efforts in Lagos and Abuja.
Planned training of all Doctors and Nurses, to be nominated by state governors, including medical representatives from the Armed Forces, paramilitary and security and intelligence agencies, who will be trained by the NCDC and Lagos State Government on tactical and operational response to the viral disease.
Restriction of inter state and intercity movements to prevent further spread.
Execution of the school feeding programme to be coordinated by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development alongside the concerned State Governments and FCT minister.
Granting of a three-month repayment moratorium for all TraderMoni, MarketMoni and FarmerMoni loans with immediate effect.
Granting of a three-month repayment moratorium to all Federal Government funded loans issued by the Bank of Industry, Bank of Agriculture and the Nigeria Export Import Bank.
Payment of Conditional Cash Transfers for the next two months to the less privileged in the society.
Issuance of food rations for two months to all Internally Displaced Persons in the country.
Centralisation of all contributions and donations, which shall be under the management of the Presidential Task Force, who is the central coordinating body on the COVID-19 response.
Read the original article on Daily Trust.
COVID-19 - Top Things President Buhari Said in His Special Broadcast
Buhari Suspends Passenger Planes Operations Over Coronavirus
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Q: Null Reference when trying to assign a value from a map     set<Id> acctIDs = new Set<Id>();
for (Opportunity newOpp : newOpps) {
    acctIDs.add(newOpp.Install_At__c);
    acctIDs.add(newOpp.AccountId);
}
Map<Id, Account> accMap = new Map<Id, Account>([SELECT Id, Region__c, System_AM__r.name
                                                FROM Account
                                                WHERE Id
                                                IN : acctIDs]);

       if(accMap != null){
        if(accMap.get(newOpp.Install_At__c).Region__c != null)newOpp.Install_at_Region__c = accMap.get(neOpp.Install_At__c).Region__c;
        if(accMap.get(newOpp.Install_At__c).System_AM__r.name != null)newOpp.System_AM__c = accMap.get(newOpp.Install_At__c).System_AM__r.name;
       }
      System.debug('accMap' + string.ValueOf(accMap));

I know that's a lot of null checks...because no matter what I do I get the Null reference error. What am I missing?
Maybe a accMap.containskey(acctIDs) != null or accMap.get(newOpp.Install_At__c) != null ?

A: First, accMap is not null. We know this because you initialized it using the new keyword just a few lines earlier. Anytime you use new you always get a new object1. You can safely skip this check:
if(accMap != null){

Second, accMap.get(newOpp.Install_At__c) could be null. If Install_At__c is a lookup field, this should only ever be null if newOpp.Install_At__c is also null. You could use one of the two following forms to avoid null values.
// if newOpp.Install_At__c is a lookup field, we can use:
if(newOpp.Install_At__c != null) {
// For other types, we'd check the return value from the map:
if(accMap.get(newOpp.Install_At__c) != null) {

Third, strictly speaking, if the above is not null, you don't need to check for any other nulls. As such, you can just assign the value.
Fourth, you may want to assign a null value to the fields you're trying to populate to begin with, otherwise they'll be "out of sync" with the data you're copying from.
So, your final code should probably look something like this:
// Previous code omitted
Map<Id, Account> accMap = new Map<Id, Account>(
  [SELECT Id, Region__c, System_AM__r.name
   FROM Account
   WHERE Id IN : acctIDs]);
Account accRecord = accMap.get(newOpp.Install_At__c);
if(accRecord != null) {
  newOpp.Install_at_Region__c = accRecord.Region__c;
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We tried to investigate this phenomenon and found four different purposes of lynxes to come to a road pipe. First, a road pipe it is something visually outstanding in the habitat structure at forest road. Such remarkable spots are marked by carnivores, including lynxes. Snowtracking data suggest that about 90% of visits of road pipes by lynxes (more than two hundreds cases were registered) was, at least, partly for territorial marking.
Also, we noticed that approximately in 60% of the registered cases lynxes were walking, hidden in the road-forest ecotone, then they entered the road pipes and suddenly (suddenly for the possible prey) appeared on the opposite side of the road. Once the lynx killed a roe deer at the opposite side of the road close to the pipe entrance. Another time a raccoon dog was killed by lynx with such a manner. So, passing road pipe by lynx has also a hunting sense.
During rainy weather or wet snow cover a lynx, while entering a road pipe, shake up and sometimes roll to dry the wet fur (17 registrations), and sometimes they rest inside (5 registrations, at least). Two of the five resting (may be hunt-watching at the same time) continued quite long, for approximately 7 and 11 hours. Being inside road pipe lynxes couched on some substratum inside (sand, dry remains of vegetation).
Footprints of lynx and red fox in road pipe. You see that the lynx was shaking up, while entered in the road pipe.
That's interesting. Maybe the road pipe is like a temporary lair for the lynx.!
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As he approached me, I caught a glimpse of tears glistening in his eyes. The rough-looking tattoos spoke of a different era in his life that seemed to contradict to the gentleness on his face. He briefly shared with our family about his earlier years when he was part of a gang and the rough life he lived. He said, "I lived a very rough life and I lost everything, but I want to thank you for deeply touching my life tonight." He then told us that he was soon being released from prison, but this time, he would make it—because he'd found Jesus.
After 39 years of living behind bars, he was finally going home. But soon I learned that "home" was nothing more than finding a homeless shelter somewhere, because he had no one left. All his family and friends had died during the time of his incarceration.
Thirty nine years. Can you recall all that's taken place in your life—and in the world—in the past thirty nine years? Maybe that's longer than your entire life. I couldn't even begin to imagine what this man was going through, had went through, and was going to face in the outside world.
I also think of the young woman I met on death row and have corresponded with. The crime she's committed are horrendous, and she needs to be facing the consequences of these wrong choices. But I can sense the fear, remorse, and guilt that she lives with. I can't even remotely understand what she's going through.
There are many hurting people in our world. Many of which are our neighbors, co-workers, fellow church members and our family. Yet, many of them suffer and hurt. Alone. We silently pass them by without asking how they're really doing. Or we keep our conversations to safe, surface levels because we don't know what to say about the pain they're facing. Because we don't understand what they're going through, we tend to avoid them. My friend, they need you more than ever. Please don't skirt around their pain because you know you don't understand or it makes you uncomfortable.
Let me as you this: do you care about them? Do you care enough to move beyond what makes you feel awkward to what makes them feel loved?
We were able to communicate that we cared and would be praying for the inmate being released from prison. I can continue communicating with the woman on death row that I care about the demons from her past that plague her.
Inside the person who has done the most evil or is the most hurt, is a soul that will spend eternity somewhere. A soul who was created in the beautiful image of our God. Your caring gesture and compassionate heart may help determine another soul's eternal destiny.


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I have a new love. A crush, really.
It's one of those crazy things that make the whole world seem shiny and new.
He leaves the room and you're anxious. Will he return?
He comes back and you can't help but smile.
He's a little unpredictable, but not dangerous. Not really.
He doesn't let on if he has any doubts. He has a silly grin plastered on his face - all the time. And I don't even mind.
I really want him to stick around. I want this to work. But I'm just not sure we travel in the same circles.
And he travels in SOME circles, let me tell you.
I met him the day after Thanksgiving, through our friend next door. Even though I only saw him for a short while, I kind of miss him already.
That's Copper on the left and my crush on the right, Roomba.
So the robotic vacuum was sort of fun to watch. We're seriously considering getting a refurbished entry level model just to keep up with the dust and hair. He's not going to jump up and do baseboards or move furniture himself, but still, we could keep the sneezing down in between serious vacuums, right? Thanks to Nehal for this new flirtation.
This year's Thanksgiving was for me, the best in a long while. I love it every year but this year, we had wonderful friends, mostly new and many new to each other, join us. We were part of precious little Zander's first Thanksgiving ever (he's just 2 months old!) and I got to do some serious cooking. You just can't make a dozen sides and two pies and truffles for four people. Well, you can, but they get a little frightened and that's not a nice thing to do to your guests.
To find out why I call this the McGee bird, please read here: Tips for Roasting a Holiday Turkey.
I don't know if any photos of the whole table were taken and I have a vague recollection of one of the turkey being taken, but I distinctly recall thinking about getting up to grab the camera. Deciding against interrupting the moment, I just took in the feeling of a heart full of gratitude. Happy chatter, clinking glasses, laughter and yes, a few compliments. I've been asked to share the menu and I will.
About the notations: v = vegetarian; gf = gluten-free; and oops means I forgot to put that out. The vegetarian shepherd's pie is meant to get an onion gravy which we forgot. Still, the dish got happy reviews even from the "where's my meat" husband. The salad accompanied me to Rachel & Doug's Turkey & Gumbo fest the next day (after my nooner with Roomba).
Since the salad was dead simple but got raves, I'll share the ingredients here, too. It's really lovely to have something fresh when everything on the table is braised, roasted, glazed or sauced (including the cook.) I used Olivia's Greens (mixed and spinach). Added peeled and chopped: fuyu persimmons and Asian pear, pomegranate arils (seeds). The vinaigrette, proving the adage about simple recipes getting a boost from quality ingredients, consisted of the following: Pasolivo Citrus Olive Oil, Katz Gravenstein Apple Cider Vinegar, bit of Dijon mustard, one clove of garlic grated on microplane, Yuzu Salt - Earthy Delights and freshly ground black pepper. You could use simply good quality EVOO, good cider vinegar and boost the salad with grated organic orange peel. Shake it up in a jar and toss w/salad just before serving. Tart, sweet, luscious, crunchy, bitter all in one. Bonus for entertaining, that Asian pear doesn't brown when peeled and cut.
You can find Dale at DrinksAreOnMe.net.
You can find Doug at AbleGrape.com.


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Anochetus ist eine Ameisengattung aus der Unterfamilie der Urameisen (Ponerinae).

Merkmale
Diese Ameisen verfügen wie alle Urameisen über einen Giftstachel, den sie auch aktiv nutzen. Die stark modifizierten Mandibeln stellen bei Anochetus allerdings eine mindestens genauso mächtige Waffe dar. Ähnlich wie bei den Schnappkieferameisen (Odontomachus) sind die Mandibel mit einem kräftigen Schnappmechanismus ausgestattet. Sie sind stark verlängert, kaum gekrümmt und mit nur zwei oder drei nach innen gerichteten Zähnen an der Spitze ausgestattet. Manchmal sind auch noch mehrere, weitaus kleinere Zähnchen am Kaurand vorhanden. Das Petiolarstigma ist oben abgerundet und kann zwei Dornen tragen, ist aber nicht zu einer einzelnen Spitze ausgebildet. Die Stirn ist glatt und einfarbig ohne auffällige Zeichnung. Einige Arten haben eine vage erkennbare Stirnrinne.

Ähnliche Gattungen

Anochetus weisen eine große morphologische Ähnlichkeit mit den nahe verwandten Odontomachus auf. Diese sind allerdings etwas größer und die für Urameisen typische Gastereinschnürung fehlt ihnen. Das Petiolarstigma ist bei Odontomachus außerdem zu einer einzelnen Spitze ausgebildet. Bei den Schnappkiefermechanismen der Gattungen Anochetus, Odontomachus (beide Unterfamilie Ponerinae), Myrmoteras (Unterfamilie Formicinae), Strumigenys und Daceton (beide Unterfamilie Myrmicinae) handelt es sich um das Ergebnis konvergenter Evolution.

Verbreitung
Weltweit sind 115 Arten bekannt (plus neun nur fossil bekannte). Diese Ameisen sind weltweit in tropischen und subtropischen Gebieten verbreitet. Dabei meiden sie aride Gebiete und siedeln je nach Art in Savannenwäldern oder Regenwäldern. In Europa gibt es nur eine einzige Art, Anochetus ghilianii. Diese lebt nur im äußersten Süden der iberischen Halbinsel an der Straße von Gibraltar und noch südlicher gelegenen Inseln.

Lebensweise
Die Kolonien sind recht individuenarm und bestehen aus nicht mehr als 100 Arbeiterinnen. Meist werden unterirdische Erdnester angelegt, aber auch im Schutz von liegendem Holz oder in Termitennestern sind Ansiedelungen zu finden. Anochetus ernähren sich zoophag. Bei der Jagd bewegen sich die Tiere überwiegend in der Streuschicht und erbeuten mit Hilfe ihrer Mandibel und das Stachels verschiedene Gliederfüßer.

Systematik

Unter anderen gehören folgende Arten zur Gattung Anochetus:
 Anochetus armstrongi McAreavey, 1949
 Anochetus bequaerti Forel, 1913
 Anochetus emarginatus Fabricius, 1804
 Anochetus faurei Arnold, 1948
 Anochetus ghilianii Spinola, 1851
 Anochetus graeffei Mayr, 1870
 Anochetus madagascarensis Forel, 1887
 Anochetus mayri Emery, 1884
 Anochetus neglectus Emery, 1894
 Anochetus paripungens Brown, 1978
 Anochetus rectangularis Mayr, 1876
 Anochetus turneri Forel, 1900

Synonyme
Folgende Namen sind Synonyme für die Gattung Anochetus:
 Myrmapatetes Wheeler, 1929
 Sternomyrmex Mayr, 1862

Quellen

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson: Ameisen. Die Entdeckung einer faszinierenden Welt. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel – Boston – Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-7643-5152-7

Weblinks
 AntWeb Bilder verschiedener Anochetus Arten

Ameisen
Formicidae


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text:
using namespace rfl;

class RflApp : public wxApp
{
    public:
        virtual bool OnInit();

        virtual int OnExit();

        rfl::Thread& GetThread();

        rfl::Runtime& GetRuntime();

    protected:
        rfl::Runtime* m_st;
        rfl::Thread* m_th;
        rfl::StdStream* m_out;
};

wxDECLARE_APP(RflApp);

class StringConverter : public rfl::Stream
{
    public:
        StringConverter();

        ~StringConverter();

        virtual void emit_val(const Value& val) override;

        virtual bool open(const Ref& r, Word wk) override;

        virtual void close() override;

        const wxString& get() const;

        void reset();

    protected:
        wxString m_string;
};

template<>
wxString rfl_get<wxString>(Thread& th);

template<>
void rfl_push<wxString>(Thread& th, const wxString& string);

template<>
wxArrayString rfl_get<wxArrayString>(Thread& th);

template<>
wxPoint rfl_get<wxPoint>(Thread& th);

template<>
wxSize rfl_get<wxSize>(Thread& th);

template<>
wxColour rfl_get<wxColour>(Thread& th);

RFL_EXT_OBJECT_ID(wxBitmap, 953)
RFL_EXT_BASE(wxBitmap)

template<>
wxBitmap rfl_get<wxBitmap>(Thread& th);

template<>
wxWindow* rfl_get<wxWindow*>(Thread& th);

RFL_EXT_OBJECT_ID(wxSizer, 47)
RFL_EXT_BASE(wxSizer)

template<>
wxSizer* rfl_get<wxSizer*>(Thread& th);

template<>
wxSizerFlags rfl_get<wxSizerFlags>(Thread& th);

template<>
void rfl_push<wxColour>(Thread& th, const wxColour& col);

#define RFL_GUI_WIDGET_0(alias, type) void alias(Thread& th) \
{ \
    wxWindow* par = rfl_get<wxWindow*>(th); \
    th.push_light_userdata(new type(par)); \
}

#define RFL_GUI_WIDGET_1(alias, type, arg0) void alias(Thread& th) \
{ \
    arg0 a0 = rfl_get<arg0>(th); \
    wxWindow* par = rfl_get<wxWindow*>(th); \
    th.push_light_userdata(new type(par, a0)); \
}

#define RFL_GUI_WIDGET_2(alias, type, arg0, arg1) void alias(Thread& th) \
{ \
    arg1 a1 = rfl_get<arg1>(th); \
    arg0 a0 = rfl_get<arg0>(th); \
    wxWindow* par = rfl_get<wxWindow*>(th); \
    th.push_light_userdata(new type(par, a0, a1)); \
}

#define RFL_GUI_WIDGET_3(alias, type, arg0, arg1, arg2) void alias(Thread& th) \
{ \
    arg2 a2 = rfl_get<arg2>(th); \
    arg1 a1 = rfl_get<arg1>(th); \
    arg0 a0 = rfl_get<arg0>(th); \
    wxWindow* par = rfl_get<wxWindow*>(th); \
    th.push_light_userdata(new type(par, a0, a1, a2)); \
}

#define RFL_GUI_WIDGET_4(alias, type, arg0, arg1, arg2, arg3) void alias(Thread& th) \
{ \
    arg3 a3 = rfl_get<arg3>(th); \
    arg2 a2 = rfl_get<arg2>(th); \
    arg1 a1 = rfl_get<arg1>(th); \
    arg0 a0 = rfl_get<arg0>(th); \
    wxWindow* par = rfl_get<wxWindow*>(th); \
    th.push_light_userdata(new type(par, a0, a1, a2, a3)); \
}

#define RFL_GUI_wxWIDGET_0(alias, type) void alias(Thread& th) \
{ \
    wxWindow* par = rfl_get<wxWindow*>(th); \
    th.push_light_userdata(new type(par, wxID_ANY)); \
}

#define RFL_GUI_wxWIDGET_1(alias, type, arg0) void alias(Thread& th) \
{ \
    arg0 a0 = rfl_get<arg0>(th); \
    wxWindow* par = rfl_get<wxWindow*>(th); \
    th.push_light_userdata(new type(par, wxID_ANY, a0)); \
}

#define RFL_GUI_wxWIDGET_2(alias, type, arg0, arg1) void alias(Thread& th) \
{ \
    arg1 a1 = rfl_get<arg1>(th); \
    arg0 a0 = rfl_get<arg0>(th); \
    wxWindow* par = rfl_get<wxWindow*>(th); \
    th.push_light_userdata(new type(par, wxID_ANY, a0, a1)); \
}

#define RFL_GUI_wxWIDGET_3(alias, type, arg0, arg1, arg2) void alias(Thread& th) \
{ \
    arg2 a2 = rfl_get<arg2>(th); \
    arg1 a1 = rfl_get<arg1>(th); \
    arg0 a0 = rfl_get<arg0>(th); \
    wxWindow* par = rfl_get<wxWindow*>(th); \
    th.push_light_userdata(new type(par, wxID_ANY, a0, a1, a2)); \
}

#define RFL_GUI_wxWIDGET_4(alias, type, arg0, arg1, arg2, arg3) void alias(Thread& th) \
{ \
    arg3 a3 = rfl_get<arg3>(th); \
    arg2 a2 = rfl_get<arg2>(th); \
    arg1 a1 = rfl_get<arg1>(th); \
    arg0 a0 = rfl_get<arg0>(th); \
    wxWindow* par = rfl_get<wxWindow*>(th); \
    th.push_light_userdata(new type(par, wxID_ANY, a0, a1, a2, a3)); \
}

#define RFL_wxWindow_METHOD_0(alias, name) void alias(rfl::Thread& th) \
{ \
    wxWindow* win = rfl_get<wxWindow*>(th); \
    if (win) \
        win->name(); \
}

#define RFL_wxWindow_METHOD_1(alias, name, arg0) void alias(rfl::Thread& th) \
{ \
    arg0 a0 = rfl_get<arg0>(th); \
    wxWindow* win = rfl_get<wxWindow*>(th); \
    if (win) \
        win->name(a0); \
}

template<typename E>
class EventHandler
{
    public:
        EventHandler(const Ref& ref);

        ~EventHandler();

        void operator()(E& e);

    protected:
        Ref m_ref;
};

RFL_EXT_OBJECT_ID(wxWindow, 53)
RFL_EXT_BASE(wxWindow)

RFL_EXT_OBJECT_ID(wxPanel, 67)
RFL_EXT_INHERIT(wxPanel, wxWindow)

class Window : public wxFrame
{
    RFL_OBJECT_ID(59)
    RFL_INHERIT(wxWindow)

    public:
        Window(wxWindow* parent, const wxString& label, const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition, const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize);

        virtual ~Window();

        void on_close(Thread& th, const rfl::Ref& func);

    protected:
        Thread* m_close_th;
        rfl::Ref m_close_handler;

        void evt_close(wxCloseEvent& e);

    wxDECLARE_EVENT_TABLE();
};

class Button : public wxButton
{
    RFL_OBJECT_ID(61)
    RFL_INHERIT(wxWindow)

    public:
        Button(wxWindow* parent, const wxString& label = wxEmptyString, const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition, const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize);

        virtual ~Button();

        void action(Thread& th, const rfl::Ref& func);

    protected:
        Thread* m_action_th;
        rfl::Ref m_action_handler;

        void evt_click(wxCommandEvent& e);

    wxDECLARE_EVENT_TABLE();
};

class BmpButton : public wxBitmapButton
{
    RFL_OBJECT_ID(103)
    RFL_INHERIT(wxWindow)

    public:
        BmpButton(wxWindow* parent, const wxBitmap& img, const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition, const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize);

        virtual ~BmpButton();

        void action(Thread& th, const rfl::Ref& func);

    protected:
        Thread* m_action_th;
        rfl::Ref m_action_handler;

        void evt_click(wxCommandEvent& e);

    wxDECLARE_EVENT_TABLE();
};

class Checkbox : public wxCheckBox
{
    RFL_OBJECT_ID(71)
    RFL_INHERIT(wxWindow)

    public:
        Checkbox(wxWindow* parent, const wxString& label = wxEmptyString, const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition, const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize);

        virtual ~Checkbox();

        void action(Thread& th, const rfl::Ref& func);

    protected:
        Thread* m_action_th;
        rfl::Ref m_action_handler;

        void evt_click(wxCommandEvent& e);

    wxDECLARE_EVENT_TABLE();
};

class Slider : public wxSlider
{
    RFL_OBJECT_ID(73)
    RFL_INHERIT(wxWindow)

    public:
        Slider(wxWindow* parent, Int range, const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition, const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize);

        virtual ~Slider();

        void action(Thread& th, const rfl::Ref& func);

    protected:
        Thread* m_action_th;
        rfl::Ref m_action_handler;

        void evt_scroll(wxScrollEvent& e);

    wxDECLARE_EVENT_TABLE();
};

class Choice : public wxChoice
{
    RFL_OBJECT_ID(79)
    RFL_INHERIT(wxWindow)

    public:
        Choice(wxWindow* parent, const wxArrayString& choices, const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition, const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize);

        virtual ~Choice();

        void action(Thread& th, const rfl::Ref& func);

    protected:
        Thread* m_action_th;
        rfl::Ref m_action_handler;

        void evt_choice(wxCommandEvent& e);

    wxDECLARE_EVENT_TABLE();
};

class Radiobox : public wxRadioBox
{
    RFL_OBJECT_ID(83)
    RFL_INHERIT(wxWindow)

    public:
        Radiobox(wxWindow* parent, const wxString& label, const wxArrayString& choices, const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition, const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize);

        virtual ~Radiobox();

        void action(Thread& th, const rfl::Ref& func);

    protected:
        Thread* m_action_th;
        rfl::Ref m_action_handler;

        void evt_radio(wxCommandEvent& e);

    wxDECLARE_EVENT_TABLE();
};

class ColourPicker : public wxColourPickerCtrl
{
    RFL_OBJECT_ID(89)
    RFL_INHERIT(wxWindow)

    public:
        ColourPicker(wxWindow* parent, const wxPoint& pos = wxDefaultPosition, const wxSize& size = wxDefaultSize);

        virtual ~ColourPicker();

        void action(Thread& th, const rfl::Ref& func);

    protected:
        Thread* m_action_th;
        rfl::Ref m_action_handler;

        void evt_click(wxColourPickerEvent& e);

    wxDECLARE_EVENT_TABLE();
};

RFL_EXT_OBJECT_ID(wxGauge, 107)
RFL_EXT_INHERIT(wxGauge, wxWindow)

RFL_EXT_OBJECT_ID(wxListBox, 109)
RFL_EXT_INHERIT(wxListBox, wxWindow)

RFL_EXT_OBJECT_ID(wxStaticText, 113)
RFL_EXT_INHERIT(wxStaticText, wxWindow)

RFL_EXT_OBJECT_ID(wxStaticLine, 127)
RFL_EXT_INHERIT(wxStaticLine, wxWindow)

RFL_EXT_OBJECT_ID(wxBoxSizer, 131)
RFL_EXT_INHERIT(wxBoxSizer, wxSizer)

RFL_EXT_OBJECT_ID(wxGridSizer, 137)
RFL_EXT_INHERIT(wxGridSizer, wxSizer)

RFL_EXT_OBJECT_ID(wxClientDC, 43)
RFL_EXT_BASE(wxClientDC)

class MenuParser : public rfl::Filter
{
    public:
        MenuParser(rfl::Runtime& rt);

        ~MenuParser();

        virtual void emit_val(const Value& val) override;

        virtual bool open(const Ref& r, Word wk) override;

        virtual void close() override;

    protected:
        Runtime& m_runtime;
        wxMenuBar* m_bar;
        std::vector<wxMenu*> m_stack;
        wxString m_name;
        bool m_first;
};

RFL_EXT_OBJECT_ID(wxMenuBar, 947)
RFL_EXT_BASE(wxMenuBar)

extern "C"
{
    void rfl_import_module(Runtime& st);

    void gui_warn(Thread& th);

    void gui_error(Thread& th);

    void gui_alert(Thread& th);

    void gui_ask(Thread& th);

    void gui_ask_text(Thread& th);

    void gui_openf(Thread& th);

    void gui_savef(Thread& th);

    void gui_bmp(Thread& th);

    void gui_Window(Thread& th);

    void gui_Window_on_close(Thread& th);

    void gui_create_menu(Thread& th);

    void gui_Menu(Thread& th);

    void gui_Panel(Thread& th);

    void gui_Button(Thread& th);

    void gui_Button_label(Thread& th);

    void gui_Button_action(Thread& th);

    void gui_BmpButton(Thread& th);

    void gui_BmpButton_action(Thread& th);

    void gui_Checkbox(Thread& th);

    void gui_Checkbox_label(Thread& th);

    void gui_Checkbox_get(Thread& th);

    void gui_Checkbox_set(Thread& th);

    void gui_Checkbox_action(Thread& th);

    void gui_Gauge(Thread& th);

    void gui_Gauge_set(Thread& th);

    void gui_Slider(Thread& th);

    void gui_Slider_get(Thread& th);

    void gui_Slider_set(Thread& th);

    void gui_Slider_action(Thread& th);

    void gui_Choice(Thread& th);

    void gui_Choice_get(Thread& th);

    void gui_Choice_set(Thread& th);

    void gui_Choice_get_str(Thread& th);

    void gui_Choice_action(Thread& th);

    void gui_Radiobox(Thread& th);

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Four Houston police officers were shot and another suffered a knee injury Monday, Jan. 28, while serving a search warrant, police Chief Art Acevedo said. About a dozen narcotics officers and several patrol officers responded to a residence where police suspected drugs were being sold, Acevedo told reporters. The narcotics officers announced themselves as they breached the front door shortly before 5 p.m. Then the gunfire started, Acevedo said. more


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NI Sports Forum expresses disappointment at Curriculum Schools Programme funding decision
The Curriculum Sports Programme which provides almost 50 coaches to our schools from the IFA and Ulster GAA has been a hugely successful and worldwide acclaimed physical activity intervention aimed at the Key Stage 1 grade. This programme has a positive impact on the physical well-being of over 35,000 young people per year and provides an avenue into sports club participation and lifelong involvement in sport and physical activity.
Research conducted in 2012 found that the estimated annual cost of dealing with obesity in Northern Ireland is £370m a year with a 5% increase in obesity in adults from 1997 with six in 10 adults and a quarter of children are overweight and obese. Chest Heart and Stroke recommends that, by 2021, 70% of primary-school pupils should be able to access at least two hours of high-quality PE each week however recent research outlined in the NI Assembly highlighted that only 4% of primary pupils are accessing that recommendation. NI Sports Forum believes that the financial investment in this programme and future impacts would save the Northern Ireland Executive substantial future outlays in fighting obesity, diabetes, inactivity and makes the case that surely prevention is better than the cure?
Richard Johnson, NI Sports Forum Chairperson stated, "We are thoroughly disappointed to hear that the funding for the Curriculum Schools Programme from the Department for Education will not continue into 2019 and beyond. The draft Programme for Government outlines greater levels of collaboration between governmental departments however there is a significant concern that the rationale for making decisions for these areas has shown the independent and insular approach rather than a holistic nature of the impacts across health, education, sport, recreation, community and social cohesion. Without an Executive at Stormont, we have had a lack of appropriate decision making and accountability on activities and events such as the Belfast 2021 Commonwealth Youth Games, Outdoor Education Centre Closures, the Road Closures Order and NI Sports Forum is alarmingly concerned about the impact the lack of an Executive is having on the sporting sector as the months dwindle by."
NI Sports Forum and Klubfunder join forces to support sports clubs and organisations
3fivetwo Group and Northern Ireland Sports Forum partner to give athlete recovery a 'sporting chance'


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Canadian Tire puts the wrench in customers' hands
Tony Maraschiello October 30, 2017
© Canadian Tire. Retrieved from strategyonline.ca on October 28, 2017
It's one of Canada's largest – and oldest – retailers. And for nearly a century, Canadian Tire used good old fashioned advertising methods to reach millions of loyal customers – weekly newspaper flyers, TV ads and the annual catalog were promotional staples for the retail giant.
Today, the company still pushes its products through these time-tested methods. But through a multi-million dollar investment in technology, it is augmenting the way it develops, promotes and sells everything from snowshoes to truck tires to pet food.
Social media is playing an increasingly bigger role in the company's product development reboot. Take its Tested for Life in Canada program. Canadian Tire has put the product development process online and in the hands of close to 15,000 Canadians who have signed up to put the retailer's merchandise through the ringer. The reviewers test products at home and openly share their reviews and experiences with Canadian Tire, customers, and with other testers, through various social media channels.
By developing a unique social media component to its bread-and-butter product development process, Canadian Tire is putting the fate of dozens of popular products – and perhaps its reputation – directly into the hands of everyday Canadians.
© Canadian Tire. Retrieved from Bing on Oct. 30, 2017.
Risky business?
For close to 100 years, you could say Canadian Tire has built a loyal following of Canadian shoppers one weekly flyer at a time.
For most of its history, the iconic bricks-and-mortar retailer relied heavily on traditional marketing and advertising methods – paper flyers, annual catalog, television advertising (who can forget the famous Albert commercial?) – to promote its thousands of products to Canadians from coast and coast. The strategy worked wonders for the perennial earnings powerhouse.
But with the increasing use of social media by consumers to promote, discuss or even trash a product or service, Canadian Tire decided to use customer sentiment to sway the development of its products.
First introduced in 2015, the Tested for Life in Canada campaign asks Canadians to test products and share their results publicly through various social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The testers even have a members-only digital social hub on which they are encouraged to discuss the products they have tested and offer more feedback to the company.
While some neutral observers may raise a Spockian eyebrow at the reviews and allege that they are scrubbed by the company before being posted online, one "tester" claims he has never had any pushback from the retailer on his reviews – good, bad or ugly.
"There is no direction from Canadian Tire saying 'Thou shalt love our products'," Eric St-Jean, a Tested for Life participant, told the Financial Post.
Canadian Tire says the testers are not compensated for their feedback, but they do get to keep any products they evaluate. And all of the tested products are marked in store and online as such, with a "Tested For Life in Canada" badge and links to the testers' online feedback.
It's a rather bold departure for a company that in the past based its product selection process on Category Business Managers, who would scour the world for products to stock the company's nearly 1,700 retail and gasoline outlets.
The new social media strategy shows the retailer takes its customer input seriously.
Once the product has been put through its paces, testers assign it a star rating out of five. Products that receive 4.5 stars or above receive the "Tested for Life in Canada badge," while those that receive lower scores, do not. After testing, feedback is shared with the buyer and the product vendor, providing an opportunity to improve or enhance product features and selection as required.
For example, the company developed a new drill bit, the Maximum 7 Edge Titanium Coated Drill Bit Set, and put it through the Tested for Life process. It passed with flying colours.
Not all products get the thumbs up, though, which perhaps speaks to the authenticity of the process. The pop-up Coleman Instant Tent went through the tester program – which concluded the tent needed to improve its waterproofing to decrease internal moisture. Canadian Tire took that feedback and worked directly with the vendor to make the necessary improvements, adding an awning to ward off rain.
The Windcatcher Airbed was widened by four centimetres and its air valve strengthened after tester feedback.
The success of the Tested for Life program is also starting to rub off on other social media tools at Canadian Tire. Through the Facebook at Work app, employees at Canadian Tire Financial Services started a group to share photos of their pets. That caught the attention of the manager responsible for buying pet supplies who started using the pet-friendly employees as a focus group, gathering reactions to new products that could potentially be added to store shelves.
Lessons for Others
In putting product reviews in the hands of its customers, Canadian Tire is opening the door to a new product development feedback process that can be both credible and authentic if done right.
And while the strategy is not replacing thoughtful and expert product sourcing and selection by its Category Business Managers, the "Tire" is showing that there is room to augment its current product development process honed over nearly 100 years with a new way to engage customers.
Through it Tested for Life online program, Canadian Tire has proven that it is open for business when it comes to multiple opinions, approaches and viewpoints. You can't get more Canadian than that.
Organization: Canadian Tire
Name of Organization Contact: Joscelyn Dosanjh, Manager, Corporate Communications
Authored by: Tony Maraschiello
If you have concerns as to the accuracy of anything posted on this site, please send your concerns to Peter Carr, Program Director, Social Media for Business Performance.
Canadian Tire: http://www.canadiantire.ca/en.html
Canadian Tire Tested For Life in Canada Program: http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/tested-for-life-in-canada.html
Communitech News: http://news.communitech.ca/news/canadian-tires-digital-garage-tunes-up-ideas-and-gets-them-running/
Canadian Business – http://www.canadianbusiness.com/lists-and-rankings/most-innovative-companies/canadian-tire/
American Marketing Association: https://www.ama.org/publications/MarketingInsights/Pages/the-new-innovation.aspx
Financial Post: http://business.financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/tested-for-life-canadian-tire-corp-taps-customer-testers-for-a-hands-on-marketing-tool
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Fovea Hex – The Salt Garden III
Posted on December 6, 2019 • 05:00 by 5:4	in CD/Digital releases | Leave a comment
It all began with a trilogy. This was back in 2005 when, over the course of three successive years, Irish musical entity Fovea Hex (singer Clodagh Simonds, together with a changing roster of collaborators) put out the trio of EPs – Bloom, Huge and Allure – that would become collectively known as Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent. An album in all but name, each part of the trilogy was accompanied by an additional disc where the music had been extensively remixed by The Hafler Trio. Following this there was a four-year wait until their only actual album, Here Is Where We Used To Sing, was released in 2011, again with an accompanying disc of remixes (titled Three Beams) by Michael Begg, Colin Potter and William Basinski. After which a further five years would pass before their most recent, even more slow-to-emerge trilogy The Salt Garden, the third and final part of which has recently – finally! – been released.
It's worth taking a moment just to reflect on two significant aspects of all this. First is the group's disinterest (for the most part) in more conventional contemporary release practices. i described Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent as an album in all but name, yet at a risk of contradicting myself the fact is that it wasn't, and isn't, an album, but – to borrow a phrase from The Hafler Trio – a 'trilogy in three parts'. There's something rather old-school about it, not unlike like the practice during the 1990s in which, due to the popularity of the relatively new CD medium, instead of releasing bog standard singles, artists would instead put out dual maxi-singles, one disc of which typically featured three or four songs, the other disc a collection of remixes. Taken together, the two discs would often last as long (if not longer) than an album, and being able to spend time with a cluster of songs that were then reworked was always an enormously enjoyable listening experience. Read more
Tags: ambient, electronic, folk, Fovea Hex, Ireland, song
World Music Days 2019, Estonia (Part 2)
Posted on May 15, 2019 • 15:11 by 5:4	in Concerts, Festivals, Premières | Leave a comment
The one opportunity to hear music for full orchestra at this year's World Music Days took place on Friday evening at the Estonia Concert Hall, performed by the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Olari Elts. The Estonian Music Days' tradition of recent years has been to begin the Friday orchestral concert with the presentation of the Au-tasu award, given to the work by an Estonian composer premièred during the previous year deemed by a jury to be the best. In its 2016 inaugural year, one of the younger generation, Liisa Hirsch, took the prize, but since then the award seems to have become simply a celebration of Estonia's most well-established senior composers: Toivo Tulev in 2017, Erkki-Sven Tüür in 2018, with this year's winner being Helena Tulve. i'm not at all suggesting the compositions that won were not the best in that particular year, but it nonetheless seems a little troubling to see the award so quickly gravitate to the upper echelons of Estonian contemporary music. Arvo Pärt in 2020? That being said, though it didn't win, special mention was given to a work that, to my mind, wasn't only one of the best of last year but one of the best i've heard in the four years i've been attending the festival: Conatus by Liina Sumera. It's a work i raved about it at its première last year, and while i haven't yet heard all of the works shortlisted for this year's award, it would have been entirely fitting if Sumera's dazzling electronic work had taken the prize. Read more
Tags: Eino Tamberg, EMD2019, Estonia, Estonian Music Days, Finland, Helena Tulve, Ireland, John Buckley, Lotta Wennäkoski, Maria Kõrvits, Märt-Matis Lill, Mayke Nas, Mirjam Tally, Netherlands, Pekka Jalkanen, Romania, Timo Steiner, Ülo Krigul, Violeta Dinescu, WMD2019, World Music Days
At the northernmost edge of Tallinn, looking out over the Baltic Sea towards Finland, is a huge concrete edifice called the Linnahall. Built during the Soviet occupation, it was constructed as part of the USSR's hosting of the 1980 Olympic Games, as a coastal hub for the boating events. It's a place i've gone to visit each time i've been in Tallinn during the last four years, to savour, and marvel at, its complete incongruity. Of course, Tallinn has the usual complement of modern office blocks, skyscrapers and the like, the scale and sharp edges of which are themselves at some remove from the more modest sizes and gentler inclines of the Old Town and the remains of its surrounding wall. But the Linnahall is different: it's the personality, if you will, of the architecture that feels so completely alien: massive, brutalist, sprawling and immovable, a testament to human engineering, designed to make an enormous impact. It is, in every sense of the word, imposing. And everything about that, it seems to me, is at odds with the temperament of so much Estonian contemporary music, where the tone is more nuanced and focused, emphasising such things as contemplation and perhaps smallness, informed by the natural world, organicity and intuitive creativity, open to more than just what we immediately see and sense, less about making a big impact or impression than just unassumingly being one. The Linnahall is Tallinn's 'other': as congruous to the city as an astronaut's footprint on the surface of the moon.
This year, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the country's annual Estonian Music Days, the festival hosted the ISCM World Music Days, and even before setting off for Estonia i wondered if the bringing together of these two very different festivals would result in a similar kind of incongruity. Would it be EMD slash WMD, adjacent to each other; EMD and WMD, happening together but separate entities; EMD within WMD, one embedded in the other; or even EMD versus WMD? In previous years as i've tentatively begun to know better the thought and practice underpinning Estonian contemporary music, i've been (and continue to be) fascinated at its relationship with the rest of the musical world. Such as it is: i think it's fair to say, putting it mildly, that the relationship is a complex one; i've detected varying quantities of disinterest and/or bemusement, and occasionally even hostility, toward what goes on beyond the country's borders. So the effect of the collision of these two particular festivals was always going to be extremely interesting. Read more
Tags: Adrián Demoč, Daeseob Han, David Fennessy, EMD2019, Estonia, Estonian Music Days, Finland, Galina Grigorjeva, Ireland, Jaan Rääts, Japan, Jukka-Pekka Lehto, Junghae Lee, Latvia, Liisa Hirsch, Margo Kõlar, Olav Ehala, orchestral, Rein Rannap, Ruta Paidere, Slovakia, South Korea, strings, wind orchestra, WMD2019, World Music Days, Yasuhiro Miyake
Gráinne Mulvey/Christopher Fox – Aeolus/untouch, John Wiggins – The Listened To Sound, Lee Fraser – Cor Unvers
Posted on August 7, 2018 • 16:29 by 5:4	in CD/Digital releases | Leave a comment
A new EP out on the Metier label brings together two works that each exist in an interesting relationship to real sounds. Irish composer Gráinne Mulvey's Aeolus, as the title suggests, takes its inspiration from the eponymous king of the island of Aeolia, names better known to us today via the Aeolian harp and its associated mode. Her piece is an acousmatic exploration of material rooted quite obviously in field recordings, though subjected to considerable amounts of processing and sculpting. Throughout, there's a strong sense that the work is, if not about, then deeply informed by the idea of sound as the result of wind and air friction. The piece begins with, and from time to time returns to, the ambiance of the open air, to the soft accompaniment of birdsong, and Mulvey's subsequent treatment of sounds transforms them into sheets of shimmer, or as if being propelled through tubes or tunnels, or even heard only by their reverberation, making identification difficult. There's a lovely intimate tactility in this, made more fascinating by the hands-off nature of these transformed sounds, seemingly all the product of no direct physical contact. At various points there are distinct aural similarities to The Hafler Trio (particularly Intoutof), but for the most part Mulvey avoids the clichés of acousmatic music, producing something far more abstract, yet in which its points of origin remain (just about) tangible.
The other work on the disc, Christopher Fox's untouch, is the first of a two-part work (untouch—touch) for solo percussion. While the second part involves the soloist striking Thai gongs, untouch reconfigures their actions to the triggering of sine tones. There's something genuinely uncanny about this abstraction (surely enhanced by seeing it in performance) both in the nature of the tone's timbre – which doesn't bear any meaningful similarity to gongs yet knowing about the second part continually brings them to mind – as well as their unfolding over time, begging the question of whether their continuity and the patterns that briefly emerge are arbitrary or closely-controlled. An intriguing, unconventional pair of works. Read more
Tags: Christopher Fox, electronic, field recording, Gráinne Mulvey, Ireland, John Wiggins, Lee Fraser, UK, USA
Free internet music: Press Charges
Posted on January 31, 2018 • 14:41 by 5:4	in CD/Digital releases, Free internet music, Thematic series | 1 Comment
There's so much i could write about in this series looking at free internet music, that i think it'll be something i'll have to return to regularly from now on. For the time being, though, i'm ending this series with an album that's one of the most imaginative and effective reworkings of existing material that i've ever heard. It's by Irish musician Dunk Murphy of whom, it must be said, i've seriously wondered over the last few years if he can do no wrong. He's the creative force behind the project Sunken Foal, whose three Friday Syndrome volumes (released in 2012, 2013 and 2015) are all absolutely stunning demonstrations of his unique experimental approach to blending acoustic and electronic sounds into something that, stylistically speaking, is very hard to describe, but if we were to call it electronica then that wouldn't be entirely untruthful.
In between volumes 2 and 3, in 2014 came Press Charges, which appears to be a one-off project, but on its strengths one hopes it's something Dunk Murphy will return to in the future. Murphy has taken a dozen songs by Smokey Robinson – either more recent solo tracks or older numbers recorded with The Miracles – and used just the vocal line, around which he has created an entirely new musical context. It's worth stressing that knowledge of the originals is not in any way vital to enjoying this album in its own right; far from it, as one would expect from Murphy they're a sublimely enjoyable collection of punchy, soul-infused tracks that strike a perfect balance between the edginess of their beat and bass patterns with the overtly lyrical streaks running throughout each song. However, spending time with the originals goes a long way to highlighting just how ingenious are Murphy's reworkings, which in every case bears almost no resemblance to the original arrangement, yet manage to stay utterly true to the song's underlying lyrical tone. Read more
Tags: arrangement, Dunk Murphy, electronica, Ireland, Press Charges, Smokey Robinson, soul
Fovea Hex – The Salt Garden II
Posted on August 29, 2017 • 17:43 by 5:4	in CD/Digital releases | Leave a comment
It's high time i flagged up one of the standout new releases i've been spending time with over the summer. Whenever Irish experimental electronic folk group Fovea Hex put out something new, it's not just a cause to rejoice but a guarantee of something unique and indescribably wonderful. They've been around for 12 years now, though their attitude to releases during this time has been measured and meticulous: just one album has emerged so far, Here Is Where We Used To Sing (reviewed here, and one of my Best Albums of 2011) and a collection of EPs and singles.
The earliest of these EPs, painstakingly drip-fed over an 18-month period from late 2005 to mid-2007, formed the Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent trilogy, comprising Bloom, Huge and Allure. The tenth anniversary of this trilogy's release in a gorgeous limited edition box set, supplemented with three bonus discs containing reworkings of the material by The Hafler Trio, was just last month. Before getting to their new music, i should say something about this trilogy, as it ranks among the most genuinely astounding, epiphanic music i've ever encountered. Had 5:4 existed in 2007, i would have bent the rules and made it my album of the year. In describing them as 'experimental electronic folk', i'm perhaps obviously struggling to articulate where exactly Fovea Hex most comfortably fit. Folk is surely the group's most defining feature – spearheaded by the unaffected natural beauty of Clodagh Simonds' voice – yet the complexity of the soundworlds that are woven around her voice encompass experimental electronics, field recordings and ambient music (Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and Colin Potter were among those involved in the trilogy's creation). Where the '60s expanded folk music into 'electric folk', Fovea Hex exploded it into 'electronic folk', and on Bloom, Huge and Allure, this found expression in a sequence of songs and interludes that, ten years on, continue to resonate with sheer authenticity, laden with echoes of the past while its entire demeanour is ultra-modern, with infinite sonic scope. Though long sold out, the trilogy is available via Bandcamp, and while this lacks the dazzling additional Hafler Trio meditations – the last of which lasts an entire hour – it nonetheless stands as one of the most significant and radical musical landmarks of the 2000s. Read more
Proms 2017: Gerald Barry – Canada (World Première)
Posted on August 28, 2017 • 12:55 by 5:4	in Festivals, Premières | 11 Comments
They may start to behave in ways that are challenging and distressing, both for themselves and those around them. For example, they may:
become restless or agitated
shout out or scream
become suspicious of others
follow someone around
ask the same question repeatedly.
It is important to look at why the person is behaving this way and try to identify which needs are not being met. This will mean trying to see things from their perspective as much as possible. Meeting a person's needs appropriately can make these behaviours easier to cope with, or prevent them from happening in the first place.
The above words are paraphrased from guidelines on how to respond to someone grappling with the effects of dementia. They're a useful starting point, i think for considering the output of Gerald Barry, particularly his most recent offering, Canada, premièred at the Proms last Monday. For while Barry himself may not display the signs of this affliction (though, listening to his painfully weird pre-concert interview with Louise Fryer, one wonders), his music most certainly does. It's perhaps the archetypal 'Marmite music': you either think it's the best thing since – and the perfect accompaniment to – sliced bread, or a ghastly streak of shit-coloured malevolence that you wish with all your being had never come into existence. Read more
Tags: Gerald Barry, Ireland, Proms, Proms2017, vocal
St Peter's Church, Drogheda: James Dillon – The Louth Work: Orphic Fragments (World Première)
Posted on May 3, 2017 • 12:16 by 5:4	in Concerts, Premières | Leave a comment
It shames me to admit that, until February this year, i'd never heard of Louth Contemporary Music Society. On the one hand, it's ridiculous that i hadn't: for the last seven-or-so years they've been putting on fascinating concerts featuring music by, among many others, Terry Riley, György Kurtág, John Zorn, David Lang, Sofia Gubaidulina, Michael Pisaro, John Cage, Christian Wolff, Tan Dun, Alvin Lucier and Éliane Radigue, performed by the likes of Musicircus, Kronos Quartet, Carducci Quartet, Ian Pace, Trio Mediaeval, Garth Knox and the Hilliard Ensemble, as well as several of the aforementioned composers themselves. Not being aware of such fantastical goings-on seems entirely absurd. Yet on the other hand, not only is pretty much everyone i've spoken to about them in the last few months equally unaware of these concerts, i've not encountered any promotion or discussion about them in the usual new music places. Perhaps the shame lies elsewhere. Either way, it's time to shout out loudly about what's really going on on the east coast of Ireland, and it's largely thanks to the tirelessly enthusiastic one-man-bandery of Eamonn Quinn, co-founder and curator of LCMS, whose efforts have at last been celebrated with his being awarded the 2018 Belmont Prize for Contemporary Music (Alex Ross won the prize in 2012), a belated but very richly deserved acknowledgement of Quinn's exceptionally open-minded and energetic approach to concert curation. Read more
Tags: Ireland, James Dillon, Jennifer Walshe, UK
Linda Buckley – chiyo (UK Première)
Posted on March 29, 2014 • 20:11 by 5:4	in Lent Series | 1 Comment
We're back in Ireland for the next in my Lent Series devoted to music by women composers. Linda Buckley comes from the wonderfully-named Old Head of Kinsale, in County Cork. Her studies have centred around Trinity College Dublin, where she completed her Ph.D. and now lectures. Buckley composes intrumental and electronic music, which appear to be characterised by what i can only describe as a kind of intense radiance, incorporating an overt triadic impulse and also strong tendencies toward the microtonal. Put simply, she makes the pitch domain shine in a way that both comforts and blanches, a quality that permeates her sumptuous 2011 orchestral work chiyo. Read more
Tags: Ireland, Lent2014, Linda Buckley, orchestral
Jennifer Walshe: Detleva Verens – Scintillia
Posted on March 17, 2014 • 14:21 by 5:4	in Lent Series | Leave a comment
As it's St Patrick's Day, who better to feature next in my Lent Series than one of the most brilliant voices in Irish contemporary music, Jennifer Walshe. In appraising Walshe's work, it's impressive enough to consider just the seemingly boundless intricacies of her imagination. Famously, Walshe has fabricated the existence of a group of composers under the umbrella collective Grúpat, each with their own very extensive back-stories and discrete artistic personalities. Many of Walshe's compositions are attributed to these Grúpat figures, pseudepigrapha that demonstrate her remarkable breadth of compositional interest. But equal to this imaginative power is Walshe's virtuosity as a vocal performer; it's not always clear what on earth is coming out of her mouth (or indeed why), but such questions are hard to formulate when one's grappling with her incredible dexterity and stamina, both of which have practically become the stuff of legend. Read more
Tags: Ireland, Jennifer Walshe, Lent2014, vocal
Proms 2013: Frederic Rzewski – Piano Concerto (World Première) & Gerald Barry – No other people. (UK Première)
Posted on August 20, 2013 • 11:30 by 5:4	in Festivals, Premières | 4 Comments
Prophets, visionaries, seers, they're an acquired taste, are they not? Often they get relegated to an idealistic niche characterised as "head in the clouds"—yet a more careful survey reveals that most luminaries are among the most earthly-wise and practical of people. This difficult-to-digest paradox coloured much of the music at yesterday's late night Prom, which, alongside Feldman's timeless Coptic Light, featured the UK première of Gerald Barry's 2009 work No other people. and the first performance of Frederic Rzewski's new Piano Concerto, performed by the composer with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ivan Volkov. Read more
Tags: concerto, Frederic Rzewski, Gerald Barry, Ireland, orchestral, piano, Proms, Proms2013, USA
Proms 2012: Elaine Agnew – Dark Hedges (World Première)
Posted on August 5, 2012 • 10:19 by 5:4	in Festivals, Premières | Leave a comment
Yesterday afternoon's Prom brought the first performance of Dark Hedges, by the Northern Irish composer Elaine Agnew. It was given by the combined forces of the Ulster Youth Orchestra of Northern Island and the Ulster Orchestra, conducted by JoAnna Falletta, with a solo flute part played by housewives' favourite, James Galway. Before speaking of the piece itself, it's worth highlighting the performance, which demonstrated in startlingly vivid fashion the skill and musicianship that young players bring to new music; their playing throughout was deeply impressive. Read more
Tags: Elaine Agnew, Ireland, orchestral, Proms, Proms2012
Mind-bogglingly beautiful: Fovea Hex – Here Is Where We Used To Sing
Posted on May 14, 2011 • 12:33 by 5:4	in CD/Digital releases | 3 Comments
Clodagh Simonds likes to take her time. Following an early spell of musical incandescence in the late '60s and early '70s (in her own group, the fascinating prog folk outfit Mellow Candle), the Irish singer was content to hover in the fringes for three and half decades before taking centre stage again in 2005. But even then, her return was a gradual one; in a new guise, Fovea Hex, Simonds took a further three years to unveil a one-hour cycle of music, titled Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent. But what music it was! the nine tracks—released as three EPs: Bloom (2005), Huge (2006) and Allure (2007)—did nothing less than reinvent from the bottom up the notions of what song is and can be. This was no irreverant act of avant-garde ruthlessness, however; Simonds' folk leanings (and they are only leanings; she has repeatedly stated that she neither thinks of herself as a folk singer, nor does she feel part of a tradition)—despite their proximity in an apparently alien context—were loudly and proudly proclaimed seemingly at every moment. It was, in short, an almost incredible blending of ancient and modern ideas, an enterprise made all the more successful and telling by the contributions of such figures as Brian Eno, Colin Potter, Carter Burwell and The Hafler Trio's Andrew M. McKenzie, who also mesmerisingly reworked each EP for an accompanying CD series.
That choice of title, Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent, could not have been chosen more wisely; it encapsulates perfectly the paradox confronting the listener in Fovea Hex's music. On the one hand, as already stated, the folk elements are emphatically foregrounded, and folk music is at its heart communal music, not to be sat back and listened to, thought about and critiqued; on the contrary, it invites our participation, we are compelled to join in, to speak. Yet equally emphatic is a profound sense of ritual—not exactly a religious sense, it's more diffuse and unfocused than that, but nonetheless a potent, perhaps pagan forcefulness that invokes a rather different kind of response. Rituals are communal acts too, of course, but participation here has more ebb and flow; at times, whether by rubrics or by our inner sense of the numinous, we are compelled to be silent. This unique, magical paradox has returned in dazzling fashion on Fovea Hex's new album, Here Is Where We Used To Sing, released last month. Read more
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