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Taika Waititi to direct new ‘Star Wars’ film


NEW YORK (AP) — Taika Waititi, the New Zealand filmmaker of “Jojo Rabbit” and “Thor: Ragnarok,” will direct a new “Star Wars” film. Waititi had for months been expected to take the reins of the galaxy far, far away, having already directed the season finale of the “Star Wars” streaming spinoff “The Mandalorian.” But the […]




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Alan Lund, who taught and directed music throughout the Seattle area, dies at 81 from coronavirus complications


Alan Lund taught music in the Bellevue and Highline School Districts, and directed music for the Seattle Opera Chorus, the Eastside’s Cascadian Chorale, the Boeing Chorale and, most notably, the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society.




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Alan Lund, who taught and directed music throughout the Seattle area, dies at 81 from coronavirus complications


Alan Lund taught music in the Bellevue and Highline School Districts, and directed music for the Seattle Opera Chorus, the Eastside’s Cascadian Chorale, the Boeing Chorale and, most notably, the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society.




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Alan Lund, who taught and directed music throughout the Seattle area, dies at 81 from coronavirus complications


Alan Lund taught music in the Bellevue and Highline School Districts, and directed music for the Seattle Opera Chorus, the Eastside’s Cascadian Chorale, the Boeing Chorale and, most notably, the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society.




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Alan Lund, who taught and directed music throughout the Seattle area, dies at 81 from coronavirus complications


Alan Lund taught music in the Bellevue and Highline School Districts, and directed music for the Seattle Opera Chorus, the Eastside’s Cascadian Chorale, the Boeing Chorale and, most notably, the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society.




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Alan Lund, who taught and directed music throughout the Seattle area, dies at 81 from coronavirus complications


Alan Lund taught music in the Bellevue and Highline School Districts, and directed music for the Seattle Opera Chorus, the Eastside’s Cascadian Chorale, the Boeing Chorale and, most notably, the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society.




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With recycling’s dirty truths exposed, Washington works toward a cleaner, more sustainable system


IN 2017, ABOUT three-quarters of the stuff Seattleites dumped in their blue recycling bins — from grocery store ads and crumpled cracker boxes to shampoo bottles and yogurt tubs — was shipped to China. These days, virtually none of it is. The majority of the material is being recycled much closer to home — at […]




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Car Seat Headrest’s reinvention: How a comedy EDM project redirected the Seattle indie rock stars’ new album


Seattle indie rock stars Car Seat Headrest get a sonic makeover with its electro-charged new album “Making a Door Less Open,” dropping May 1.




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Law Abidin Citizen likes dirt just fine, wins Longacres Mile at Emerald Downs


Law Abidin Citizen caught heavily favored Anyportinastorm in the final strides to win the biggest horse race in the Northwest.




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Alan Lund, who taught and directed music throughout the Seattle area, dies at 81 from coronavirus complications


Alan Lund taught music in the Bellevue and Highline School Districts, and directed music for the Seattle Opera Chorus, the Eastside’s Cascadian Chorale, the Boeing Chorale and, most notably, the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society.




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IRS sets Wednesday deadline for direct deposit stimulus payments


The Internal Revenue Service said it will accept bank account information until noon Wednesday for people who want to receive stimulus payments by direct deposit. After that, the IRS will send the money by check to the address on file, with those payments expected to arrive in late May and June, according to a statement […]




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After coaching sports at Kennedy Catholic for 31 years, Don Hoffman decides to direct them


The longtime boys and girls basketball coach was named the athletic director.




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Stock Alert: SmileDirectClub Shares Up 33% On SmileShop Patent News

Shares of SmileDirectClub Inc. (SDC) are surging over 33% in pre-market today, after the company announced that it has been granted a patent for its SmileShop intellectual property from the United States Patent & Trademark Office.




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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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Dire Pitan

Following his breakthrough debut EP Nowhere Else, which was released in 2016 and championed by the likes of BBC Introducing




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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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Johann Sebastian Bach - Harpsichord Concertos (Retrospect Ensemble; harpsichord/director: Matthew Halls)

A fresh-feeling recording of ear-popping brilliance.




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Councillor calls for $1m drought support funding to be redirected away from his area

David Littleproud will seek a review of rainfall figures as Moyne Shire councillor Colin Ryan says his region doesn't need drought support granted by the Federal Government because his area isn't drought affected.




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WA and the ACT both decriminalised marijuana, but they have gone in very different directions since

The ACT is in the spotlight right now for marijuana law reform. But years ago another Australian state went down a very similar path in loosening the law when it came to recreational cannabis use.




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WA announces direct flights to China as PM Scott Morrison aligns Australia to Donald Trump's America

As WA Premier Mark McGowan proudly announced direct flights from Perth to Shanghai this week, it flew in stark contrast to Scott Morrison's US visit that put several Chinese noses out of joint, writes Eliza Borrello.





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Launceston burial fees proposed to rise by 15pc for fifth consecutive year, funeral directors outraged

If you are hoping to be buried in Launceston's main cemetery, you'll need deep pockets, with the cost of a single plot "skyrocketing" more than 225 per cent in recent years, and it's set to go up again. Why does it cost so much?




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Man who 'told police he had coronavirus' charged with disobeying public health direction

A Tasmanian man who allegedly left his home without a lawful reason and told police he had coronavirus when he was pulled over is charged with failing to comply with a public health direction.




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Direct Tasmania to New Zealand flights discussed, but new COVID-19 cases identified

The Premier says Tasmania is talking about the first direct flights to New Zealand since the late 1990s if a "trans-Tasman bubble" excluding coronavirus can be maintained, as the state's four-day case-free run crashes with two new cases.





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Melbourne dance company Chunky Move premieres Token Armies by new artistic director Antony Hamilton

Antony Hamilton, who stepped into the artistic director role of Chunky Move in April, presents a five-year vision in the epic, collective new work Token Armies.




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Former Tennis Australia director was 'pushing' for Channel 7 to win Australian Open rights, court hears

A court hears Harold Mitchell was "pushing" for Tennis Australia to sign a contract for the broadcast rights of the Australian Open with Channel 7 when he was the sports body's director in 2013.




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Greenough prisoners getting their hands dirty and aiming at a better life

A Mid West conservation and land management program is skilling up prisoners in Greenough and reducing the rate of re-offending.




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Catching honey possums in Torndirrup National Park

Researchers from the University of Western Australia (UWA) are spending their mornings chasing down the tiny marsupials to study their sugary diets.






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How Alison Wylie went from digging in the dirt to 'decolonising archaeology'

Alison Wylie spent her childhood summers at archaeological excavation sites. Today, she's redefining the scientific field to include Indigenous perspectives.




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How to ensure free speech; and the EU’s new copyright directive

Many Western governments continue to struggle with free speech. It’s not that they’re necessarily against it, it’s just that they don’t know how to effectively regulate out the offensive stuff.




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NATO’s nadir and how best to move forward

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, has seen better days. Historian and military analyst, Andrew Bacevich, once described it as an organisation that privileges “nostalgia over self-awareness”. But most critics, Bacevich included, want NATO refocused and retooled. So what needs to change in order to restore the alliance as an effective military force? What role should the United States play in such a reshaping? And how can NATO be strengthened without increasing tensions with Russia?




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ABC's editorial director says AFP raids an 'uncomfortable development'

The ABC's editorial director Craig McMurtrie says the raids by the federal police on the ABC's Sydney offices are an uncomfortable development with implications for press freedom.




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ABC Managing Director comments on AFP raid

Federal Police seized files relating to a 2017 series of stories about ADF forces in Afghanistan.







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Court to decide bail for IT expert accused of directing record meth importation

Police oppose bail for an IT expert accused of directing the importation of more than a billion dollars' worth of drugs into Australia, after prosecutors alleged he was part of a sophisticated plan of cyber coverup and stolen identities.



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Australia's world-first floating hotel in dire straits as Kim Jong-un seeks renovations

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un orders the removal of all "shabby" facilities at the Mount Kumgang tourist site the current resting place of Townsville's former Barrier Reef Floating Resort.





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Warning of 'dire consequences' for some Murray-Darling irrigators if water trade restricted

As farming groups lobby the Federal Government to take action on soaring water prices, water brokers warn some irrigators will be worse off if the Government intervenes in the trade.




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Kakadu uranium protest documentary Dirt Cheap unearthed by Northern Territory Library

A rare copy of the nearly 40-year-old documentary Dirt Cheap, which details the early resistance against uranium mining in Kakadu National Park, is rediscovered in Darwin.




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NT writer, director and actor Trisha Morton-Thomas on travelling to Cannes Film Festival

From Crocodile Dundee to Baz Luhrmann's Australia, Northern Territory landscapes have featured on the international stage, but it has been mainly 'outsiders' who have had the resources to produce films in the Territory.