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European Economics Preview: Germany Factory Orders Data Due

Factory orders from Germany and final composite Purchasing Managers' survey from euro area are due on Wednesday, headlining a light day for the European economic news. At 2.00 am ET, Destatis is set to release Germany's factory orders for March. Economists forecast orders to fall 10 percent on month after falling 1.4 percent in February.




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Eurozone Private Sector Registers Record Downturn In April

The euro area private sector experienced a record downturn in April due to the severe disruption caused by the coronavirus, or covid-19, pandemic, final survey results from IHS Markit showed Wednesday. The composite output index slid to a new series low of 13.6 from March's 29.7. The flash score was 13.5. Both manufacturing and services reported record fall in output in April.




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German Factory Orders Log Record Fall In March

Germany's factory orders declined the most since the records began in 1991, as measures to contain the spread of coronavirus, or covid-19, pandemic dampened both domestic and foreign demand. Factory orders declined sharply by 15.6 percent on a monthly basis in March, much bigger than the 1.2 percent drop posted in February, data published by Destatis revealed Wednesday.




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U.S. Private Sector Employment Plunges By More Than 20 Million Jobs In April

Private sector employment nosedived in the month of April, according to a report released by payroll processor ADP on Wednesday. The report said private sector employment plunged by 20.236 million jobs in April after slumping by a revised 149,000 jobs in May.




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Fire & Flower To Close Three Alberta Stores; Q4 Loss Widens

Canadian cannabis company Fire and Flower Holdings Corp. said Thursday that it will close three locations in Alberta under a restructuring plan, enabling it to deploy resources and allocate capital to locations with higher profit potential. The company also reported a net loss for the fourth quarter that widened from last year.




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Canadian Regulators Temporarily Halt Trading Of IAnthus Stock

Canadian security regulators halted trading in shares of iAnthus Capital Holdings Inc. on Wednesday for nearly four hours amid reports about the cannabis company's difficult financial situation.




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CDC Director Says Second Wave Of Coronavirus Could Be Deadlier: Report

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned of a second wave of the novel coronavirus in the next winter, which, according to him, is likely to be even more devastating than the one that is raging across the globe. "We're going to have the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time," CDC Director Robert Redfield said in an interview with The Washington Po




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Director Alice Wu On Her New Film 'The Half Of It'

Alice Wu's new movie, "The Half of It," is a play on Cyrano de Bergerac with an LGBTQ twist. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to the director.




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U.S. Wholesale Inventories Slump Slightly Less Than Expected In March

A report released by the Commerce Department on Friday showed wholesale inventories in the U.S. decreased by slightly less than expected in the month of March. The Commerce Department said wholesale inventories slumped by 0.8 percent in March after falling by 0.7 percent in February. Economists had expected inventories to tumble by 1.0 percent.




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MASCAGNI, P.: Cavalleria rusticana / LEONCAVALLO, R.: Pagliacci [Operas] (Di Toro, Iversen, Graz Opera Chorus, Graz Philharmonic, Lyniv) (OC987)




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LISZT, F.: Later Piano Music (Historical Hungarian Portraits) (Jandó) (Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 54) (8.574059)




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Guitar Recital: Park, Ji Hyung - ALBÉNIZ, I. / BROUWER, L. / CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, M. / SCARLATTI, D. / TAKEMITSU, Toru / THIELEMANS, T. (8.574140)

Ji Hyung Park has won numerous prestigious competitions, with the 7th Changsha International Guitar Competition in 2018 his most recent triumph. The diverse selection of music performed in this programme features three virtuoso sonatas by Scarlatti, the world premiere recording of Leo Brouwer’s evocation of ancient Greek culture Las Cíclades arcaicas, Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Sonata ‘Omaggio a Boccherini’ in its original, pre-Segovia manuscript form, Takemitsu’s final work In the Woods and rare selections from Albéniz’s masterpiece Iberia. The programme ends with a colourful arrangement of Toots Thielemans’ gorgeous Bluesette.




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DANIELPOUR, R.: Passion of Yeshua (The) [Oratorio] (UCLA Chamber Singers, Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, Falletta) (8.559885-86)

Richard Danielpour’s dramatic oratorio The Passion of Yeshua—a work which has evolved over the last 25 years—is an intensely personal telling of the final hours of Christ on Earth. It incorporates texts from the Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian Gospels inspiring extraordinarily beautiful music that stresses the need for human compassion and forgiveness. Danielpour returns to the scale and majesty of Bach in this oratorio, creating choruses that are intense and powerful, and giving both Mary the mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene a central place in a work of glowing spirituality. Conductor JoAnn Falletta considers The Passion of Yeshua to be “a classic for all time.”




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Podcast: Black History Month. Some musical notes. (Feb 14, 2020)

The guest host of this podcast is Ashley Jackson. She is an accomplished musician, who has studied the music of both Margaret Bonds and Florence Price, who composed and worked during the civil rights movement in the United States. In this podcast, Dr Jackson gives us both an historical and a personal perspective on how the struggles of these composers, and those of her grandmother, helped make possible what she does today. Harpist Ashley Jack ...more




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Podcast: Richard Danielpour’s oratorio The Passion of Yeshua (Mar 13, 2020)

DANIELPOUR, R.: Passion of Yeshua (The) [Oratorio] UCLA Chamber Singers, Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta 8.559885-86 Raymond Bisha introduces Richard Danielpour’s oratorio The Passion of Yeshua, a 105-minute work for large chorus, six soloists and orchestra that takes the listener back to Jesus’ final day on earth, removing as much as possible the accretions of history since that moment in ...more




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From the Naxos Blog: Is there a doctor in the mouse? (May 01, 2020)

Source: The Flemish American As I write this blog, I’m in a lock-down situation in London arising from the Covid-19 epidemic. What was planned as a quick 7-day visit to the capital has turned into a longer-term relationship, since my home base of Thailand has pulled up the drawbridge against returning travellers such as myself. I’m staying in a hotel near London’s Paddington Station, and my permitted daily emergence to do a spot of ...more




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FEENEY, P.: Victoria [Ballet] (Northern Ballet, 2019) (NTSC) (OA1299D)




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FEENEY, P.: Victoria [Ballet] (Northern Ballet, 2019) (Blu-ray, HD) (OABD7264D)




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RACHMANINOV, Sergey: Piano Solo Recordings, Vol. 6 - Victor Recordings (1922-1924) (8.111413)

After the end of his contract with Edison, the period covered in Volume 5 (8.111408), Rachmaninov signed for Victor in April 1920 and recorded for the company for the rest of his life. Victor was keen to record their star pianist in his own compositions, as well as short works by Chopin and popular encore pieces. This volume also contains the very rare test pressing of Le Cygne in Alexander Siloti’s transcription, and the premiere release first take of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 first movement, recorded acoustically in 1924.




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PAER, F.: Agnese [Opera] (Teatro Regio Torino, 2019) (NTSC) (DYN-37850)




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PAER, F.: Agnese [Opera] (Teatro Regio Torino, 2019) (Blu-ray, HD) (DYN-57850)




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SZARZYŃSKI, S.S.: Completorium / Missa septem dolorum Beatae Mariae Virginis (Wrocław Baroque Ensemble, Kosendiak) (CDAccordACD261)




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MARGOLA, F.: Chamber Music - Concertos for Soloist and Orchestra (Convervatorio Arrigo Boito di Parma Orchestra) (TC901390)




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VERDI, G.: Trovatore (Il) [Opera] (Arena di Verona, 2019) (NTSC) (754608)




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VERDI, G.: Trovatore (Il) [Opera] (Arena di Verona, 2019) (Blu-ray, HD) (754704)




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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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HANDEL, G.F.: Messiah (1742 version) (Mields, Schachtner, Kristjánsson, Berndt, Gaechinger Cantorey, Rademann) (ACC-30499)




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Eamonn McCormack - Storyteller

It’s a very good album and the more I listened to it the better it sounded.




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My Life Story - World Citizen

Pop pioneer Jake Shillingford is one of the British music scene's most overlooked heroes. Having debuted with his band My Life Story back in 1993, the group enjoyed huge critical acclaim but were not rewarded with the epic chart success they deserved. Returning after an 18 year absence to release his fourth studio album, World Citizen, Shillingford ressurects the band's legacy with what is effortlessly the band's finest release to date. 




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Monitor mobile devices with the Geospatial Analytics service

Obtain, run, and extend a Node.js starter application that uses the IBM Cloud Geospatial Analytics service. With the Geospatial Analytics service, you can monitor moving devices from the Internet of Things. The service analyzes a device message stream from MQTT and tracks device locations in real time with respect to one or more geographic regions.




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Send SMF data directly to the IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator

If you are already using IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator and Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS (TDSz), you can now directly load data to Db2 Analytics Accelerator with the TDSz schema, without storing data in Db2 tables. With this feature, you can save CPU and space on expensive storage and also store and query data over a longer period at a more detailed level. This tutorial shows you how.




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Top 10 editor's picks for IBM Operational Decision Manager

See top 10 editor's picks of IBM Operational Decision Manager content published on developerWorks, updated to include some of the best tutorials published in the past year.




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Top 10 editor's picks for IBM Business Process Manager

See top 10 editor's picks of IBM Business Process Manager content published on developerWorks, updated to include some of the best tutorials published in the past year.




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Editor's picks: Top five WebSphere Liberty tutorials

If there is one thing that IBM WebSphere Liberty gives you, it's the freedom, and flexibility, to dynamically create applications both on-premises and in the cloud. This article highlights the top five tutorials in developerWorks for WebSphere Liberty.




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Reader and editor picks! Top Connect series content

Connecting to the cloud was big in 2016 for IBM middleware users and continues to be in 2017 as more environments move to the cloud. Learn which Connect series articles our readers and editor chose as their favorites from the developerWorks library.




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Develop an IBM i2 Analyze data access on-demand connector

IBM i2 Analyze is an extensible, scalable, and service-oriented analytical environment that is designed to provide organizations with access to intelligence when and where they need it, so they can make faster and more informed decisions.




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vStorm Enterprise integrated with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) running on IBM Power Systems

Veristorm vStorm Enterprise makes data migration to Hadoop environments flexible, secure and easy. vStorm already supports data movement to Hadoop solutions running on Linux on IBM Power Systems. Read this article for details about how vStorm was tested to integrate with and move data specifically to Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) on IBM POWER8.




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Top Internet of Things articles and tutorials

This article compiles all of the previous top tutorials lists.



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Top Internet of Things articles and tutorials (December 2017)

The most popular articles for 2017 on the Internet of Things are highlighted in this article for your convenience.



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IBM Connections Customizer Tutorial, Part 5

IBM Connections Customizer lets developers modify the look and behavior of Connections easily and comprehensively. The Introduction to Connections Customizer tutorial series is a quick way learn about Customizer. The fifth video in the series shows how to use Customizer design properties to make sophisticated modifications to the Customizer user interface.




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IBM Connections Customizer Tutorial, Part 3

IBM Connections Customizer lets developers modify the look and behavior of Connections easily and comprehensively. The Introduction to Connections Customizer tutorial series is a quick way learn about Customizer. The third video in the series shows you how to get set up on IBM Connections Cloud, how to enable Customizer, and how to share your customizations with IBM.




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IBM Connections Customizer Tutorial, Part 4

IBM Connections Customizer lets developers modify the look and behavior of Connections easily and comprehensively. The Introduction to Connections Customizer tutorial series is a quick way learn about Customizer. The fourth video in the series shows how three sample customizations were created, to showcase the range of customization possibilities the new feature makes available.




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IBM Connections Customizer Tutorial, Part 1

IBM Connections Customizer lets developers modify the look and behavior of Connections easily and comprehensively. The Introduction to Connections Customizer tutorial series is a quick way learn about Customizer. The first video in the series introduces the concepts behind Customizer, how it works, and what it can do for you.




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IBM Connections Customizer Tutorial, Part 2

IBM Connections Customizer lets developers modify the look and behavior of Connections easily and comprehensively. The Introduction to Connections Customizer tutorial series is a quick way learn about Customizer. The second video in the series shows you how to use the Firefox Grease Monkey scripting extension and takes you through creating a Hello World customization.




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Achieving high performance on IBM AIX using Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI)

This article describes the Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) Flash support on IBM AIX. CAPI technology has been used on AIX to accelerate I/O operations to IBM Flash storage. AIX CAPI Flash driver stack has been optimized into a monolithic driver model which further reduced the I/O code path length. CAPI Flash technology provides a superior performance advantage in terms of IOPS per processor when compared to the traditional Fibre Channel I/O. We also describe at a high level how a user can use CAPI-based flash devices on AIX.




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Configure multifactor authentication for IBM Cloud Node.js applications

Passwords are not a complete security solution; they can be stolen or shared. In this tutorial, you learn how to use a random string delivered by email as a second authentication factor. I also discuss several methods for risk analysis, which is used by the application to decide whether a second factor is warranted.




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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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On demand data in Python, Part 1: Python iterators and generators

The oldest known way to process data in Python is building up data in lists, dictionaries and other such data structures. Though such techniques work well in many cases, they cause major problems when dealing with large quantities of data. It's easy to find that your code is running painfully slowly or running out of memory. Generators and iterators help address this problem. These techniques have been around in Python for a while but are not well understood. Used properly, they can bring big data tasks down to size so that they don't require a huge hardware investment to complete.




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Amazing story of baby born with rare birth defect

HELPLESSLY watching her newborn son Colton fight for his life just hours after she nearly died in childbirth is something mother-of-three Kaila Stace will never forget.