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GERVASIO, G.B.: Mandolin Sonatas (InchordisEnsemble) (TC720701)




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BEETHOVEN, L. van: Symphonies (Complete) / Missa Solemnis (Vienna Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, Thielemann) (4-Blu-ray Disc Box Set) (749904)




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Hosted VMware environments and recovery solutions in IBM PureApplication Platform, Part 3: Building a disaster recovery solution with PureApplication Software

With the release of IBM PureApplication Platform and PureApplication System firmware V2.2.3, you can create automatically configured hosted VMware environments for more flexibility on how you run and manage your workloads. This series of articles provides a step-by-step guide for users of the PureApplication Platform W1500, W2500, W3500, and W3550 models to work with these advanced capabilities. In Part 3, you set up disaster recovery and learn how to perform three different disaster recovery procedures.




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Pandemic to hasten digital disruption: QBE

QBE's chief executive says the eventual recovery from COVID-19 will hasten the trend of digital disruption that was underway before the pandemic began.




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Unbelievable Adele weight loss photo leads to eating disorder warning

A body image expert has warned against the praise of Adele’s latest Instagram photo, saying it can be a “trigger” for people who suffer from eating disorders.




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Fake news isn't new: Modern disinformation uses centuries-old techniques, author says

Author Heidi Tworek says we can learn from media manipulation's long history to understand how disinformation functions now.




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From lab-grown meat to molecular coffee: How tech is disrupting the food industry

With plant-based burgers, bean-free coffee and the proliferation of insect farms, experts say alternative foods are on the verge of upending the traditional agriculture and livestock industries.




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How smart home tech could perpetuate discrimination and racial profiling

Amazon and Google have made a hard push into the home security market, but civilian surveillance could have real impacts on privacy and racial profiling.




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Disabled people want disability design—not disability dongles

People with disabilities want to be participants in design, not recipients of design




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Tech distractions may harm your concentration, but you can reverse it, says psychologist

Technology isn't permanently harming our ability to concentrate, despite the widely held belief that our devices and the internet are making us worse at focusing, according to a cognitive psychology expert.




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Toronto Time-Zone, Gene Sloan Interview, Canada Disco Legends

We find out why Toronto needs to have its own time zone, we meet our show’s legendary announcer, and we uncover how Canada’s biggest disco band went from polyester suits to prison uniforms.



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Discovering yourself through music

Guest host Laurie Brown speaks to 2020 Juno nominees Frank Kadillac of Neon Dreams and singer iskwē about how finding their voices changed the way they make music.




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What this writer learned about looking ahead and planning for disasters

Bina Venkataraman, author of The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age, studies the art of looking ahead for solutions during dangerous times. It's a skill she honed while working on the Ebola Task Force for former U.S. president Barack Obama.




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Milton's Paradise Lost: a survival guide for a fractured world

When we first meet Adam and Eve in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, they live in a perfect world. But by the end, they're expelled into one that is marked by exile, war, illness and death. IDEAS explores what the poem says to us about how to grapple with an uncertain future — and if we can find our collective way back home.




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Saturday special: How has COVID-19 disrupted your life?

Life has changed dramatically for many Canadians because of the COVID-19 pandemic. On a special Saturday edition of Checkup, our expert panel will answer your questions about money, medical concerns, relationships and parenting in this period of social distancing and quarantine.



  • Radio/Cross Country Checkup

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How has COVID-19 disrupted your job?

The federal government this week passed its $107-billion aid package to help Canadians struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. But will it be enough to make April rent?



  • Radio/Cross Country Checkup

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Can we cultivate social solidarity in a time of physical distancing?

Any meaningful recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will require imagination, risk, solidarity and vulnerability; it will mean refusing to ‘free-ride’ and a willingness to sacrifice. How can we cultivate this capacity for social solidarity in our time of social fragmentation and mutual distancing?



  • Ethics
  • Community and Society
  • Health
  • Epidemics and Pandemics

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Various Artists - The Rough Guide to Undiscovered World

A high-quality collection of labyrinthine fusions from tantalisingly unfamiliar artists.




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Buffy, but for Wrestling: Can physical sport find its place during social distancing?




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Country Drive: What's next for troubled Paradise Dam?

RN Drive's Country Drive ploughs through some of the most important news of the week from rural and regional Australia.




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Is the Swedish model a death sentence? And, does Australia need a post-Covid economic partnership with the US, Japan and India?

Sweden's virus experiment: death sentence, or a way forward?




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Solomon Islands: encounters in paradise

If your government failed to provide running water, electricity, roads, safety from gender violence, or other staples of everyday life, what would you do? In the Solomon Islands people are taking matters into their own hands, even schoolgirls. If their government can’t provide, they’ll try.




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Dane Greenstreet serving in the Australian Army for almost 17 years before being medically discharged.




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A distinctly Australian industry?

Eucalyptus oil production sounds like a distinctly Australian industry. While we once where the dominant player in the market, we've long been outpriced by cheap imports. Laura Poole reports that families, with a long history in this old art, are trying to keep up local production.




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Judge dismisses driver's parking fine challenge as 'legal nonsense'

A self-declared "free spirit man" who contested a parking fine in court loses his year-long battle, with a judge saying the case involved "legal nonsense" and was "an unnecessary waste" of resources.



  • Law
  • Crime and Justice
  • Courts and Trials
  • Government and Politics
  • Local Government
  • Community and Society

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Warrnambool family facing deportation over kidney disease saved by ministerial intervention

Immigration Minister David Coleman overturns a department ruling based on Rajasegaran Manikam's kidney disease diagnosis that would have seen the Manikam family deported to Singapore.




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Regional ANZ customers 'disgusted' and 'furious' over loss of Bank@Post services

ANZ customers can no longer utilise banking services at their local post offices after the bank failed to reach an agreement with Australia Post on their Bank@Post service.




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Family wants answers about how son with disability was injured in care home

Eden Camac, who has a complex disability, broke both hips and his left leg while at a supported accommodation facility. An ambulance was not called until 10 hours after the incident and his family wants to know what went wrong.




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Bundaberg's Paradise Dam capacity to be reduced to 42pc despite drought

Farmers in the drought-declared Bundaberg region are angry 105,000 megalitres of water will be released from Paradise Dam, saying it will go to waste at a time when water availability is so critical.




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Paradise Dam will have 'some difficulty' in extreme flood event

Authorities fear there is a chance the Paradise Dam in southern Queensland will become unsafe if there is a major flood, with the local mayor saying it is the largest failure of a piece of infrastructure in Queensland's history.




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Paradise Dam is shedding water, so what's wrong and is it all necessary?

SunWater is about to shed the equivalent of 32,000 Olympic pools of water from Bundaberg's Paradise Dam, which is less than 20 years old so what went wrong?









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This worm is your most distant ancestor

Scientists say Ikaria wariootia, which lived 550 million years ago, was bilaterian, meaning it had a mouth, an anus and a through gut — just like humans and most animals.




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How much is a prayer worth? For Christians surviving a disaster, the answer is about $4.30

Thoughts and prayers don't usually come with a price tag attached, but a study finds they have a different value for different people, depending on religious observance.



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Wheelchair dancing brings joy, challenges perceptions about disability

It's a 73-year-old event, but for the first time, wheelchair dancers have taken to the stage at the Mackay Eisteddfod in north Queensland, to the audience's delight.



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  • tropic
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  • Australia:QLD:Mackay 4740

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Police conducted a re-enactment of Gerard Ross's 1997 disappearance




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How the shack folk of Naval Base defied a huge industrial development to preserve their pocket of paradise

The heavy industrial area of Kwinana is home to Perth's only remaining beach shack community, but there are fears a new container port could destroy the simple lifestyle the locals have worked so hard to preserve.




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Power disconnections double in three years as West Australians struggle to pay electricity bills

More than 60 West Australian homes and businesses are having their electricity cut off on an average day for failing to pay their bills, with the number more than doubling in just three years.




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Power bill pressure bites as people like Alison Coats face energy disconnection for not paying

Alison Coats was juggling a new job at an inner-city law firm and raising three young boys when her life "imploded". She is just one of a growing number of people who have struggled to stretch the household budget to pay the bills.




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Police urged to apologise to man with disability prosecuted for 'doing nothing wrong'

A man with a disability was strip searched and prosecuted after a false claim he was photographing children at a beachside suburb, leading to calls for an apology from WA Police.




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Diagnosed with anorexia two years ago, Amanda is one of the forgotten victims of eating disorders

Almost 20 years after she first sought help for an eating disorder, single mother Amanda Baldi says she feels no closer to recovery in a state without a single residential treatment centre.




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Galaxy almost 5 billion light-years away discovered by WA desert telescope

A high-tech telescope situated in Western Australia's desert discovers a galaxy almost five billion light-years away.




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Ryder Cheshire house in Mount Gambier sits empty because of NDIS delays




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NDIS delays leave disabled clients waiting as purpose-built home sits empty for eight months

A purpose-built home for people with a disability in Mount Gambier has sat vacant for eight months despite having clients ready to move in.



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  • southeastsa
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  • Australia:SA:Mount Gambier East 5291
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'Backup dish' in the Darling Downs made high-quality Moon landing video the world never saw

While dishes at Parkes and Honeysuckle Creek take the credit for beaming the vision of the first steps on the Moon to the world, staff known as 'Creekers' at Cooby Creek in Queensland say it was their work that made the whole project possible.



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  • Australia:QLD:Toowoomba 4350

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Vincent O'Dempsey charged with murder over cold case disappearance

Police allege Mr O'Dempsey killed Vincent Allen, who was last seen alive in 1964. His body has never been found.