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Coronavirus unemployment: Bartenders, dental assistants top list of Washington’s hardest-hit jobs


About 14,800 initial unemployment claims by bartenders were filed from March 8 through April 25, which closely matches the number of people estimated to work as bartenders in Washington in the second quarter of 2020.




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The ‘woman in the red dress’ started a Mount St. Helens climbing tradition on Mother’s Day that endures today. Meet trailblazer Kathy Phibbs


Every Mother's Day, climbers flock to Mount St. Helens in festive dresses in the continuation of a tradition started by 'the woman in the red dress.' This Mother's Day, a new mini-documentary from OPB tells the story of Kathy Phibbs, a gifted alpinist who paved the way for a more inclusive outdoors community — and pink flamingos on mountain summits.




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BEETHOVEN, L. van: Fugues and Rarities for String Quartet (Fine Arts Quartet) (8.574051)

The string quartets of Beethoven are among the greatest works of their kind, but he composed other works for quartet which have been neglected. This album is dedicated to these intriguing rarities. Alongside the wild and monumental Grosse Fuge, in many ways the culmination of Beethoven’s achievements in the string quartet genre, this recording further displays his mastery of counterpoint by bringing to light brilliant yet forgotten original versions of his quartets Op. 18, No. 1 and Op. 131, plus six virtually unknown miniatures, including his Preludes and Fugues.




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GÓRECKI, H.M.: String Quartets (Complete), Vol. 2 - No. 3 / Sonata for 2 Violins (Tippett Quartet) (8.574110)

The Sonata for Two Violins is one of Henryk Górecki’s earliest acknowledged works—its contrasts, instrumental rivalries and sophisticated technique a worthy rounding-off of his formative period. The Third String Quartet with its evocative subtitle ‘…songs are sung’ represents a culmination of Górecki’s preoccupations with elaborate and emotive melodic shapes and closely intertwined harmonies, its final minutes recalling the beauty and poignancy of the composer’s Third Symphony (Naxos 8.550822). The First and Second String Quartets can be heard on Naxos 8.573919, ‘a recording deserving of the very highest recommendation’ (Gramophone).




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BRETÓN, T.: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 3 (Bretón String Quartet) (8.573037)

Tomás Bretón’s distinguished career as an opera composer and leading figure in Madrid’s musical life at the turn of the 20th century has tended to overshadow the significant contribution he made to Spanish chamber music. He remained true to the historic roots of the string quartet genre—his First String Quartet being a tribute to the Viennese tradition in its Classical poise. The Third String Quartet exudes Mendelssohnian inspiration in its first movement with overtly Spanish idioms, the Allegro no mucho third movement also having been turned into a version for piano trio as the Scherzo andalou. This is the first of two albums of the complete string quartets.




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WEILAND, D.: String Quartets Nos. 4 and 5 (Melbourne Quartet) (8.574028)

British composer Douglas Weiland has long been acclaimed as one of contemporary music’s most outstanding composers for the string quartet medium, and his evolving cycle has won much admiration. Composed between 2011 and 2012 the Fourth and Fifth Quartets show him at the height of his artistic powers, where he seeks connections across time, and shows a Classical commitment to form, invention and melodic beauty. His conceptions can be Schubertian in scale and scope, while also displaying the influence of Haydn and Bartók.




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GOULD, G.: String Quartet / GULDA, F.: String Quartet in F-Sharp Minor (Acies Quartett) (Gramola99028)

Review by Guy Rickards
Gramophone, May 2020




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GÓRECKI, H.M.: String Quartets (Complete), Vol. 2 - No. 3 / Sonata for 2 Violins (Tippett Quartet) (8.574110)


Review by Ivan Moody
Gramophone, May 2020




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LABOR, J.: Piano Quintet / Piano Quartet (Karmon, Sachse, Grimm, De Groot, Triendl) (C5390)




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KAPUSTIN, N.: Saxophone Chamber Music (E. Blumina, P. Bruns, Clair-Obscur Saxophone Quartet) (C5369)




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Chamber Music (Clarinet Quintet) - SCHIFF, D. / ROGERSON, C. / COLEMAN, V. (Clarinet Quintets for Our Time) (Shifrin, Dover Quartet, Harlem Quartet) (DE3576)




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BEETHOVEN, L. van: Piano Quartets, WoO 36, Nos. 1-3 (The Young Beethoven) (Lüthi, Sonoko Asabuki, A. Foster, Miucci) (CDS7854)




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WEINBERG, M.: String Quartets Nos. 14 and 15 / 3 Palms (Freszel, Silesian String Quartet) (CDAccordACD268)




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DALBERG, N.: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2, 3 (Nordic String Quartet) (6.220655)




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LANGGAARD, R.: String Quartets (The) (Nightingale String Quartet) (3-CD box set) (6.200004)




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HARTMANN, E.: Piano Quintet / String Quartets, Opp. 14 and 37 / Andante and Allegro (E. Schneider, N. Dupont, Nys, J. Grimm, D. Blumenthal) (8.226183)




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Piano Trio and Quartets - ELSNER, J. / SZYMANOWSKA, M. / MOZART, W.A. / LESSEL, F. (Warsaw Music Salon) (Arte dei Suonatori) (CDAccordACD269)




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MICHL, J.C.W.: Quartets Nos. 1-6 for Bassoon, 2 Violins and Cello (Hoadley, The Hall String Trio) (8.574054)

Upon hearing a chamber piece by Joseph Michl in Munich in 1772 the English composer and music historian Charles Burney wrote, ‘I hardly ever heard a composition that discovered more genius and invention.’ Even though Michl achieved success writing for the operatic stage and his contemporary reputation rested on his sacred works, the Bassoon Quartets present the epitome of urbane sophistication—elegantly constructed and full of imaginative detail—and at times resembling miniature concertos.




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KRČEK, J.: String Quartets Nos. 1-4 (Czech Philharmonic Quartet) (UP0214)




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BEETHOVEN, L. van: String Quartets Nos. 13 and 15 / Grosse Fuge (Tetzlaff Quartet) (ODE1347-2D)




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BEETHOVEN, L. van: Chamber Music - Piano Quartet, Op. 16 / Minuets and Dances (Sofia Kim, Kroh, Segal, Sarid, IU Wind Ensemble, Dorsey) (8.574040-41)

In his first decade in Vienna, Beethoven seems to have been preoccupied with music for wind instruments. The best-known example is his Quintet in E flat major, Op. 16, which he arranged at the same time for piano quartet. He also wrote music for dances and settings of folk songs, and reflected the public’s interest in automata by writing for musical clock. The Napoleonic wars were mirrored in Beethoven’s music of the period, especially in his military compositions such as a series of Marches and the Equali, scored for trombones, which were later played at his funeral.




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SINIGAGLIA, L.: String Quartet Works (Complete), Vol. 1 - String Quartet, Op. 27 / Brahms Variations / Hora Mystica (Archos Quartet) (8.574183)

The renowned Italian composer and mountaineer Leone Sinigaglia wrote a fascinating series of pieces for string quartet that reflect his powers of characterisation and elegance. Flowing melodies can be heard throughout, not least in the Concert-Étude, Op. 5, while the more substantial Variations on a Theme of Brahms, Op. 22 display his technical skill and expressive variety, whether reflective, sombre or exuberant. His String Quartet in D major, Op. 27 exemplifies his dual inheritance: a commanding central European facility, combined with a natural Italian lyricism.




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Cello Quartet Recital: Kolophonistinnen (Die) - BRAMBÖCK, F. / STRAUSS I, J. / STRAUSS II, J. / SHOSTAKOVICH, D. / TANSMAN, A. (Heldinnenleben) (Gramola99218)




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Automate operational business decisions with Weather Data and Business Rules services on IBM Cloud, Part 1: Get started with a sample weather cancellation service

Businesses can make IT operations smarter by reacting to weather events and automating operational decisions that factor in weather data. This article describes the steps to combine services to automate decisions that consider weather data by running business rules. The business decisions could result in actions such as sending notifications, adjusting prices, generating promotions, triggering IoT devices, or initiating business processes.




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Make your websites smarter with Schema.org, Part 2: The Schema.org syntaxes

The second part of this four-part series shows you how to translate the abstract information model for data in your web pages into one of the three formats supported by Schema.org: RDFa, Microdata, and JSON-LD




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Make your websites smarter with Schema.org, Part 1: Introduction to the Schema.org information model

Schema.org is an initiative originally created by search engine companies and experts to support web publishers by describing the things that web pages are actually about. This series, in which I explain the Schema.org core information model, helps you expand your web developer skills and get a head start on advances in search engine platforms and personal assistants like Siri, Google Assistant, and Alexa.




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Get started with Docker and Kubernetes

Docker and Kubernetes are the building blocks of the next generation of DevOps. In this tutorial, you'll see how to build Docker images, run them locally, and then push those images to your IBM Cloud account so you can deploy them to a Kubernetes cluster running in the IBM Cloud.




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Getting started with the IBM Cloud, Part 2: Build an advanced Cloud Foundry app on the IBM Cloud platform

See how to develop and deploy advanced Cloud Foundry applications in the IBM Cloud. Doug Tidwell shows you how to create a globally available app that uses a cloud-hosted NoSQL database.




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Getting started with the IBM Cloud, Part 3: Doug Tidwell demos how to work with containers on the IBM Cloud platform

See how to develop and deploy advanced Cloud Foundry applications in the IBM Cloud. Doug Tidwell shows you how to create a globally available app that uses a cloud-hosted NoSQL database.




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Getting started with the IBM Cloud, Part 4: Learn how to use serverless computing with the IBM Cloud Functions platform

See how to use IBM Cloud Functions to make the most of serverless computing. Doug Tidwell shows you how to generate code that manages a cloud-hosted NoSQL database.




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Getting started with IBM Cloud Node.js applications, Part 1: Create a front-desk visitor log with Node.js

In this article, you learn how to use the IBM Cloud to write a Node.js application for an organization’s front desk, which needs to log visitors in and out. Along the way you will learn how to use Node.js, the Express HTTP server library, and a Cloudant database. You will learn how to do this in the highly available IBM Cloud. This is a basic introduction to Node.js programming on the IBM Cloud platform.




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Getting started with IBM Cloud Node.js applications, Part 2: Create a front-desk visitor log with Node.js

In the first article in this series, you learned how to build a Node.js application on the IBM Cloud. However, that application was not very responsive or visually appealing. In this article you learn how to use the Bootstrap theme for your application to look better, and how to use the AngularJS library to make it more responsive.




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Hosted VMware environments and recovery solutions in IBM PureApplication Platform, Part 1: Getting started with hosted VMware environments

With the release of IBM Bluemix Local System 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 W1500, W2500, W3500, and W3550 models to work with these advanced capabilities. In Part 1, you get started with creating and deploying hosted VMware environments in Bluemix Local System. Specifically, you learn how to allocate resources, configure external access to VMware components, and configure and deploy virtual machines in VMware.




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JB Hi-Fi gets virus lift in March quarter

JB Hi-Fi has posted strong March quarter growth as customers forced to work from home rushed to buy home appliances and technology products before COVID-19-related social restrictions were brought in.





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John Carter

Hollywood has had 100 years to make a movie about John Carter, but this big screen treatment is a mess from start to finish.




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Husband Harold Carter, accused of Nollamara murder of wife Jessica Carter, faces Perth court

The husband of a woman found dead at a Nollamara home by family members is charged with murdering his wife sometime between Wednesday and Saturday last week.




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'Uncharted territory': People hit the road as coronavirus restrictions are wound back

Northern Territorians are hitting the roads, pools and sportsgrounds in droves today, for the beginning of one of Australia's largest wind backs of coronavirus restrictions.




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Nickel miner Western Areas happy with quarterly results

Wheatbelt nickel miner Western Areas says it is pleased with its quarterly results, despite seeing small drops in production and sales and higher costs.




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Abortion providers charter 'very expensive' private planes to regional Queensland during coronavirus crisis

Abortion service providers are left with chartering private flights to regional Queensland, saying infrequent schedules and short-notice cancellations during the COVID-19 pandemic make flying commercial untenable.




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La Cucina dell'Arte

Simplicity is the best antidote to over-complex artistic performance, says 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie




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Country kindergartens and schools struggle to pay bills and support families during drought

Communities in the grip of drought are doing everything they can to keep their local kindergartens from shutting down, but they fear they're running out of options.




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Peter Gutwein says claims a coronavirus outbreak started after a dinner party are a rumour

Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein says the Chief Medical Officer's claims that the north-west Tasmanian coronavirus outbreak started with a dinner party of health workers are a rumour that will be followed up.



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Victoria Police pursuit policy to be examined at coronial inquest into death of 'big-hearted' man

A police car may have reached speeds of up to 154 kilometres per hour during a pursuit that ended in the death of Raymond Noel Thomas in Melbourne's inner north, a court hears.




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There's a reason St Kevin's College boys started a sexist chant: society is geared against women

Toxic masculinity's latest appearance comes in the form of private school boys chanting a sexist song on a packed tram. So what do we need to do to set things right? asks Emma Jane.




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Volunteers curate artefacts of far north Queensland's Chinese heritage

Each Thursday in a back-alley warehouse, a group of volunteers come together to meticulously clean, repair and catalogue artefacts collected from the remnants of a Chinese temple that once stood proud in the Cairns CBD.



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Freya Jobbins started her art practice by creating life sized sculptures