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With few passengers, Delta gets FAA approval to carry cargo in cabin


ATLANTA — Delta Air Lines says it is the first U.S. carrier to get federal clearance to carry cargo in its overhead bins, as it repurposes passenger planes amid a steep decline in travel due to the coronavirus pandemic. Atlanta-based Delta said it has received Federal Aviation Administration approval to use the overhead bin space […]




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US approves new coronavirus antigen test with fast results


U.S. regulators have approved a new type of coronavirus test that administration officials have promoted as a key to opening up the country. The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday announced emergency authorization for antigen tests developed by Quidel Corp. of San Diego. The test can rapidly detect fragments of virus proteins in samples collected […]




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Whole Foods to provide face masks for shoppers to prevent spread of coronavirus in stores


Amazon-owned Whole Foods will provide grocery shoppers with free single-use masks at all its stores beginning this week, in keeping with the chain's "request" that all shoppers wear masks.




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US approves new coronavirus antigen test with fast results


U.S. regulators have approved a new type of coronavirus test that administration officials have promoted as a key to opening up the country. The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday announced emergency authorization for antigen tests developed by Quidel Corp. of San Diego. The test can rapidly detect fragments of virus proteins in samples collected […]




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After falling to Indianapolis Colts in fourth round of NFL draft, former UW QB Jacob Eason vows to prove critics wrong


Former UW quarterback Jacob Eason fell to the fourth round, where the Indianapolis Colts selected him on Saturday to learn from aging veteran Philip Rivers.




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The Gonzaga Way: Zags’ unique success has proven ‘impossible’ to replicate elsewhere


Nearly every year for two decades, a title-game appearance seems a possibility for a program that has built itself into one of the nation’s most consistent.




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Why no Seattle Times editorial saying we are not enemies of the people? We prove that every day


Here is why The Seattle Times editorial board did not join other newspapers in denouncing President Donald Trump's attacks on the free press.




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NFC West roundup from Day 2 of the draft: Cardinals and Rams improve, while 49ers watch from the sidelines


Here's a look at how Day 2 of the NFL draft shook out for the rest of the NFC West.




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FDA Approves RedHill's COVID-19 Clinical Study With Opaganib; Stock Up 9%

Shares of RedHill Biopharma Ltd. (RDHL) are moving up over 9% in pre-market today, after the company announced that the U.S. FDA has approved its Investigational New Drug or IND application for a Phase 2a clinical study evaluating its investigational drug, opaganib, in patients with confirmed moderate-to-severe SARS-CoV-2 infection, the cause of COVID-19.




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Kroger To Provide Free COVID-19 Testing To Associates

Grocery chain Kroger Co. said it is making free COVID-19 testing available for its employees, based on their symptoms and medical needs. The company's healthcare division, Kroger Health, will begin offering COVID-19 testing to associates from this month. Workers will be provided self-administered kits or an appointment at the company's public drive-thru testing sites.




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How The Approval Of The Birth Control Pill 60 Years Ago Helped Change Lives

Before the pill was approved by the FDA on May 9, 1960, there were few contraceptive options available to young women. It revolutionized family planning and the sex lives of millions of Americans.




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Uber Technologies Q1 Adj. EBITDA Improves; Adj. Net Revenue Up 18%

Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER) reported a first quarter loss per share of $1.70 compared to a loss of $2.26, previous year. On average, 31 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected the company to report a loss per share of $0.83, for the quarter. Analysts' estimates typically exclude special items. Net loss attributable to Uber Technologies, Inc. excluding the impairment write-downs, net of the tax benefit would have been $1.1 billion. Adjusted EBITDA was negative at $612 million, up $257 million year-over-year.




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EÖTVÖS, P.: Tri sestry (Three Sisters) [Opera] (Chenez, David DQ Lee, Egorov, Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, D.R. Davies, N. Petersen) (OC986)




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MALIPIERO, G.F.: Symphony No. 6 / Ritrovari / Serenata mattutina / 5 Studi (Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Iorio) (8.574173)

The unconventional structure of Gian Francesco Malipiero’s music takes us on a journey through unexpected, sometimes incredibly beautiful vistas. The Sixth Symphony is a rich and songful celebration of string sonorities and moods, while the heroic Ritrovari and evocative Serenata mattutina display Malipiero’s expertise in writing for unusual chamber ensembles. The Cinque studi, heard here in their premiere recording, demonstrate an astonishing range of contrasting moods—a kaleidoscopic sonic tour with no more than a small orchestra, which juxtaposes orchestral strings with a wind group of a single flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon and two horns, and a percussion group of cymbal, bass drum, tambourine, celesta and piano.




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ROBINSON, M.: Improvisations on The Fourteen Stations of the Cross Based on Themes by N. Rorem (M. Robinson) (DE3549)




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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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GAVRILIN, V.A.: Russian Notebook (The) / Anyuta (excerpts) (Shkirtil, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony, Serov) (8.573883)

Valery Gavrilin was one of the most colourful and significant Russian composers of the second half of the 20th century. He was only 25 when he composed The Russian Notebook, a ‘poem of love and death’ crafted in a new musical language that doesn’t employ folk melodies but does use folkloric texts, and with a virtuosic vocal part. These stylised tunes are combined with rich melodies to form a haunting cycle heard here in a 2018 orchestration. The ten numbers from the ballet Anyuta are lively, melodious and touchingly beautiful.




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GROVEN, E.: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 (Kristiansand Symphony, Szilvay) (8.573871)

Many interwar Norwegian composers tried to create a new national music by combining elements of authentic folk music with new techniques. Eivind Groven was considered one of the most innovative composers in this quest, integrating the structure of folk dances from his rural upbringing into familiar formal principles. Both symphonies make use of techniques of so-called ‘progressive transformation’, which led fellow composer Arne Nordheim to declare: ‘While others made instrumentations of folk tunes, Groven created sounds, for example in his [two] symphonies which, in my opinion, are quite unique.’




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Win Eurovision 2020: A Tribute To The Artists And Songs 2xCDs

Luckily for Eurovision fans, all 41 songs will be available on EUROVISION 2020 – The Album - which is released on May 15th On UMC Records.




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Manage account approval in an OpenWhisk application

This tutorial shows you how to write an application that allows users to self register, and then have their accounts approved or declined by an administrator.




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Use Clojure to write OpenWhisk actions, Part 3: Improve your OpenWhisk Clojure applications

In the previous two tutorials, you learned how to write a basic OpenWhisk Clojure application. In Part 3, I'll show you how to improve any such application. First, you'll learn how to support arguments that include double quotes. Then you'll learn how to use a permanent database (Cloudant) instead of a variable to store the information.




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Performance improvement using IBM AIX flash cache

This article demonstrates how performance with IBM AIX flash can drastically improve read requests from a storage subsystem by running performance benchmark tests. The test team experimented using different performance benchmarks and measured the performance data to demonstrate the variation with and without AIX flash cache.




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Eurovision Big Night In: See the contenders

The Eurovision: Big Night In telecast on Saturday will be remarkable for achieving a feat of technical wizardry not seen on Australian television.




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Nov 2, 2019: New Brunswick Ugliest Province & Parks

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder when Peter Anthony and James Mullinger discuss if New Brunswick is the ugliest province. Then, Nikki Payne and Jon Steinberg draw a line in the sand over whether or not everyone should go to the park.



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Eight years after, Canada's move to close Iranian embassy still controversial

This week on The House, we look at the Trudeau government's quest for answers after the downing of UIA Flight PS752. Plus, interviews with: a former bureaucrat who helped close Canada's embassy in Iran; a legal scholar on the dispute between the Wet’suwet’en people and Coastal GasLink; a Venezuelan opposition leader on the unrest in her country; and a debate on monarchy vs. republicanism.



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Chris Hall: Health expert warns reopening provincial economies will be 'tricky'

Some provinces will begin reopening their economies next week, a move one public health expert described as a delicate experiment — because so little is known about how many people are immune, or how long any immunity to the COVID-19 virus might last.



  • Radio/The House

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The Live, Improvised, and Last Episode

This week: For our last episode ever, we’re performing live from the Broadway Theatre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and improvising the entire show from audience suggestions



  • Radio/This is That

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Providers bieden gratis tv-zenders tijdens coronacrisis

Nederland kampt al enkele weken met de gevolgen van de uitbraak van het coronavirus. Veel mensen zitten hierdoor noodgedwongen thuis. Om de verveling helpen tegen te gaan hebben bijna alle tv-aanbieders besloten de komende tijd een aantal betaalzenders gratis aan te bieden aan hun klanten.




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Provider Freedom gaat toch al 128 klanten aansluiten

Internet provider Freedom, de 'opvolger' van het door KPN ingelijfde XS4ALL, zou vorige week groots van start gaan. Het zal echter niemand verbazen dat de uitbraak van het coronavirus ook hier roet in het eten gegooid heeft. De lancering is voor onbepaalde tijd uitgesteld. De geplande Launch Party in Paradiso was drie weken geleden al afgelast.




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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky - Pictures, Sarcasms & Visions (feat. piano: Steven Osborne)

This sensitive, dynamic recording is a joy, and may even constitute a revelation.




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Outback droving families dying out as younger generations leave industry

Generations of droving families have been running cattle through outback Queensland, but that could soon end as young people leave the regions in search of other opportunities.




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Canterbury Bankstown Council sets sights on three-dimensional crossings to improve road safety

Three-dimensional zebra crossings have turned up in Iceland, England and even the tiny outback town of Boulia in Queensland and now one Sydney council is exploring whether it could join the trend.





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Coronavirus today: Governor cheers legislative approval of increase in business grant program, announces expansion of surgeries, opening of public swimming pools

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The post Coronavirus today: Governor cheers legislative approval of increase in business grant program, announces expansion of surgeries, opening of public swimming pools appeared first on Arkansas Times.





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Tulips proving popular with tourists in north west Tasmania but it's the soil where the real work is going on

Tourists flock to this tulip farm to see the flowers, but it is under the ground where the serious farming is happening.




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Blood from Daryl Deutscher's Dadswells Bridge rare turkeys is being used to improve the global flu vaccine.




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Sentinel turkeys keep us one step ahead of flu, providing blood for up-to-date vaccines

Turkeys bred on a farm in western Victoria are at the centre of the global fight to improve the flu vaccine.







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Mangrove tree on cattle property carbon dated as more than 700 years old

When cattle farmer Lindsay Titmarsh decided to carbon date a grey mangrove that had caught his eye on his Queensland property, he discovered it was the oldest known mangrove in Australia.





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Dementia patients see improvement through music




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Mating echidnas of Moonie keep outback family up all night, but citizen science provides silver lining

Lynelle Urquhart's home on a property west of Moonie in outback Queensland is normally quiet. But she has been having trouble sleeping lately, thanks to late-night activity under the floorboards.




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New Hope threatens to sack 150 coal miners unless New Acland mine expansion approved

New Hope says the Queensland Government must approve its New Acland mine expansion by this weekend or redundancies will begin on Monday, in what is considered the state's longest-running mine dispute.




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Groundwater impact review questions Government's own report on controversial New Acland coal mine

Drought-stricken Queensland farmers are worried about where their underground water is going as a new report questions the impact of a controversial coal mine.





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Indigenous cultural training improving education and teacher experience

For the past four years Broken Hill's Indigenous community has welcomed all new public school teachers to the area with a cultural induction they hope will improve education for all students.