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DEBUSSY, C.: Pelléas et Mélisande [Opera] (Zürich Opera, 2016) (NTSC) (BAC157)




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DEBUSSY, C.: Pelléas et Mélisande [Opera] (Zürich Opera, 2016) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC457)




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ART OF OHAD NAHARIN (THE), Vol. 2 - Sadeh21 [Ballet] (Batsheva Dance Company, 2018) (NTSC) (BAC172)




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ART OF OHAD NAHARIN (THE), Vol. 2 - Sadeh21 [Ballet] (Batsheva Dance Company, 2018) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC472)




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GALERIE DORÉE - The 300th Anniversary Concert (Devos, Le Concert de la Loge, Chauvin) (NTSC) (BAC171)




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GALERIE DORÉE - The 300th Anniversary Concert (Devos, Le Concert de la Loge, Chauvin) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC571)




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Joe Bonamassa - A Conversation With Alice

...I’m surprised by just how damn good the single actually IS.




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Mohammed Assani - Wayfinder

Mohammed Assani's latest record Wayfinder is a transcendent blending of traditional Indian instrumentation with modern electronics to create a South Asian-style trip-hop.




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Santrofi - Alewa

Debut album from a very engaging young band out of Accra




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Starsailor

It's been an incredible few years since Starsailor reformed in 2014 after a break from the band.




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A deep dive into the new software-defined converged infrastructure for SAS Foundation mixed workloads

This article describes the details behind the new software-defined converged infrastructure for deploying SAS Foundation Mixed Analytics workloads using IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS), IBM Spectrum Scale, IBM POWER8, and Mellanox networking technology. This article documents detailed test configurations, test scenarios, performance results, and tuning options for the converged infrastructure. This article provides a methodology to tune each component in the infrastructure horizontally, as well as tuning the solution vertically, which allowed the optimal performance to be achieved.




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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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How WebSphere Application Server V8.x handles poison messages

This article describes how IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 8.x handles poison JMS messages, looks at the behaviour of both the default messaging provider and the IBM WebSphere MQ messaging provider, and provides information on how the default behaviour can be changed.




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Automate operational business decisions with Weather Data and Business Rules services on IBM Cloud, Part 2: Complete your sample weather cancellation service

In this second installment of a two-part tutorial on how to combine Weather Data and Business Rules IBM Cloud services to automate operational business decisions based on weather conditions, you will take a closer look at the decision operation created in Part 1, learn how to create simple business rules that use weather data and a rule flow that includes these rules, and deploy the decision operation to IBM Cloud. A Node-RED flow will orchestrate a call to the weather data, the Business Rules service, and take action based on the outcome executing business rules.




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10 steps to set up a multi-data center Cassandra cluster on a Kubernetes platform

Learn how to deploy an Apache Cassandra NoSQL database on a Kubernetes cluster that spans multiple data centers across many regions. The benefits of such a setup are automatic live backups to protect the cluster from node- and site-level disasters, and location-aware access to Cassandra nodes for better performance.




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IBM i ILE RPG cloud integration sample with IBM Cloud

In this article, you can learn how to connect your ILE RPG programs from cloud applications such as Node-RED on IBM Cloud by using the REST web service call functionality of the integrated web services server.




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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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Shopping crowds raise SA virus complacency

Thousands of people have flocked to shopping malls and supermarkets across Adelaide, raising concerns of growing complacency over the coronavirus pandemic.




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Mum’s genius grocery hack saves $173

With many Australian families feeling the pinch at the moment, one Aussie mum has revealed her simple trick for creating multiple dinners using one key ingredient.




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Sarah Roberts’ Mother’s Day grief: ‘I had two miscarriages’

Motherhood, for now, looks vastly different for Sarah Roberts than she expected it to – but nonetheless, the actor wants to speak candidly about the heartbreak she and husband James Stewart endured after she suffered two miscarriages in the past year.




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Paramore star’s struggle for solo sanity

Every day has the potential to be a perfect storm for Hayley Williams.




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Feb 22, 2020: Play in a Band & Universal Health Care

Wes Borg and Maddy Kelly strike a chord with their North Vancouver audience over playing in a band. Then, Sean Lecomber and DeAnne Smith fit the billing for their debate on Canada’s health care system.



  • Radio/The Debaters

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Oscar villains, Lynn Beyak, coronavirus hospitals, Weinstein's lawyer, the creator of Comic Sans and more

Predicting this year's biggest Oscar villains, a Métis comedian addresses Lynn Beyak, how China built two hospitals in two weeks in Wuhan, a profile of the woman defending Harvey Weinstein in court, Nigeria's burgeoning tech sector, the guy who created Comic Sans and more.



  • Radio/Day 6

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Pipeline protests, COVID-19, Sonic the Hedgehog, cheating Astros, suing Juul, Coachella meets Saudi and more

Why the Wet'suwet'en protests are about more than pipelines, how climate change could make viral outbreaks more common, the worst Sonic the Hedgehog games, why professional pianists fear moving their pianos, the fan who tracked every pitch in the Astros' sign-stealing scandal, a lawsuit alleges vaping giant Juul targeted kids, how Saudi Arabia is using the art world to project openness and more.



  • Radio/Day 6

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Neglecting nursing homes, COVID-19 and the fashion industry, Marc Maron, Sarah Kurchak, I Podius and more

Activist who said nursing homes were dangerous says COVID-19 proves them right; the pandemic upends the fashion industry; Marc Maron on politics, self-doubt and his new comedy special; Sarah Kurchak on her new memoir about living with autism; John Hodgman and Elliott Kalan on their I, Claudius-inspired podcast and more.



  • Radio/Day 6

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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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People rely on devices to store information, but that's not a bad thing, researchers say

With smartphones and automated technologies taking care of our information for us, the means to store information outside of our brains is endless. But does this “information offloading” have an impact on the brain’s memory function?




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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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'This century is crucial': Why the U.K.'s astronomer royal says humanity is at a critical crossroads

This week on Spark, we speak with Martin Rees, the U.K.’s astronomer royal and author of On The Future: Prospects for Humanity, about the challenges humanity will face in the future, and how we might harness technology to tackle them.




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Apps make it easier for couples to separate, but family law experts say communication is still key

Online tools for divorce and co-parenting aim to keep the process amicable and inexpensive. These digital resources are part of a broader move to open up divorce to less adversarial conflict resolution methods like mediation, coaching and collaborative law.




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Generation of songwriters being lost due to streaming struggle, Juno nominee says

A Juno-nominated musician says a generation of songwriters is being lost due to the intense struggle artists face trying to survive financially in an industry dominated by music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music.




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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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Working from home? Trust is key, says CEO of company with completely remote workforce

Employees at Wildbit have been working remotely for 20 years. Natalie Nagele, the software company's CEO and co-founder, shared some of the keys to remote working success for those who are just starting out.




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Thursday, April 16, 2020: Saleema Nawaz, Barenaked Ladies and more

Today on q: author Saleema Nawaz, director Richard J. Lewis, Ed Robertson of the Barenaked Ladies, medical illustrator Alissa Eckert.




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Grocery shuttle bus, grasshopper in salad mix and salmon spawning

Winnipeg neighbourhood with no grocery stores has shuttle to take residents to shop, Ste-Hyacinthe family finds grasshopper in salad mix and Nova Scotia photographers capture Atlantic salmon spawning.



  • Radio/The Story from Here

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Forest therapy walks, grade four gets bravery award, cabbie confidential and remembering Sara Sexton

Thunder Bay psychologist and the healing power of forest therapy walks, Torbay Nfld boy gets bravery award for saving a classmate's life, London Ontario cabbie of twenty years talks about what he enjoys and what irks him and remembering 97 year old Sara Sexton of Newfoundland who died last month.



  • Radio/The Story from Here

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Mar 7: New technology gives amputees a hand, a big dam proposal, your dog's heat sensitive nose and more…

Was the Earth once a waterworld, the fight to be the first female astronaut and composting garbage



  • Radio/Quirks & Quarks

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How matchbooks were used to track down Osama bin Laden

From big beer and tobacco companies, to the war effort, to Hollywood, to the smallest mom and pop businesses, matchbook advertising was effective and affordable for everyone. And believe it or not, even the U.S. State Department used matchbook advertising recently to hunt down Osama bin Laden.



  • Radio/Under the Influence

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Parents of Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan say a memorial is more important than an inquiry

This week on The House, two Conservatives join us to talk about what's next for the party now that Andrew Scheer has resigned. Bloc MP Stephane Bergeron lays out his party's demands to work co-operatively with the Liberals. Finally, the parents of a soldier who died in Afghanistan talk about media reports saying that the war was a failure.



  • Radio/The House

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Canada doesn't need diplomacy tips from China, foreign minister says

This week on The House, Champagne joins us to discuss the China question, infrastructure and city planning expert Nadine Ibrahim talks about high-speed rail and Chris Hall talks with former political strategists David Herle, Jenni Byrne and Scott Reid of the Herle Burly podcast.



  • Radio/The House

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Champagne says Canada, allies deserve answers on downed UIA Flight PS752: Chris Hall

This week on The House, Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne joins Chris Hall to offer his reaction to an intense week in Canadian foreign relations and provide a sense of what comes next. Then, a panel of MPs reflect on how the crash of Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752 is reverberating across the country. Plus, Iran is an emerging player in the global disinformation game. In the wake of military tension between the U.S. and Iran this past week, false narratives have taken over the internet and infiltrated legitimate sources of news. BuzzFeed news reporter Jane Lytvynenko joins Chris Hall to unpack this troubling issue. And as Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs and supporters rally in British Columbia to support the Gidimt’en and Unist’ot’en front-lines following the eviction of Coastal Gaslink workers from Wet’suwet’en territory, Chris Hall catches up with Chantelle Bellrichard, a B.C.-based CBC Reporter with the Indigenous Unit.



  • Radio/The House

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Canadians want expanded access to medical assistance in dying, says Lametti

Justice Minister David Lametti says he thinks Canadians want more access to medical assistance in dying following a court ruling that struck down provisions limiting it to people whose death is near. That’s the theme he says is emerging from the responses of nearly 300,000 Canadians to an online questionnaire that ended Jan. 27 — the largest number of responses the department has ever received during a public consultation.



  • Radio/The House

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Chris Hall: Bellegarde says Indigenous people need 'allies' - and blockades don't help

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde sits down with CBC's The House to talk about protests, blockades and how to save the Indigenous reconciliation project.



  • Radio/The House

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Immunity passes could be an 'interim measure' on the way to reopening society, physician says

Testing Canadians for immunity to the novel coronavirus — and issuing passes to those immune to the disease — could be a stepping stone to fully reopening the country’s economy, an Ottawa-area physician says.



  • Radio/The House

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Sawayama

Reminiscent of the early 2000s top musical styles, Rima Sawayama mixes nu-metal with R&B-Pop to rave reviews. As Brittany Spanos wrote for Rolling Stones, "Sawayama sounds like Britney Spears’ Blackout by way of Korn — and it inexplicably works."




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Prisoner Condo Project, Harold the CBC Historian, Saskatoon Silly Siren

This week: We hear from the spokesperson for secret pilot project that’s been housing Nova Scotia inmates in unused condominiums, we talk with the CBC Radio One historian, and we travel to Saskatoon to meet the paramedics behind the silly siren. Plus, we make a very serious announcement.



  • Radio/This is That

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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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Rededicating England to Mary, Bernie Sanders as America's zaydie

Monsignor John Armitage talks about Christians in England rededicating their country to Mary; and whenever Talia Lavin sees U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, she sees a zaydie, the Yiddish word for grandfather.




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Susan Choi's Trust Exercise is an intense coming-of-age story — with a surprising twist

In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, the American author spoke about the novel's timely depiction of power dynamics, memory and consent.



  • Radio/Writers & Company

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Sarah Broom on family bonds and the meaning of home in her award-winning memoir, The Yellow House

The New Orleans-born author spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about generational love and the power of place.



  • Radio/Writers & Company