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Martin Friar joined the Health and Safety Executive as Deputy Director (Insight & Service Design) in November 2015. He is responsible for ensuring that HSE's products, services, campaigns, communications, direct and in-direct interventions are developed to meet the need of end-users. His team combines a number of disciplines, including market research, social research and behavioural insights (also known as 'nudge'). His previous roles include the Insolvency Service (where he was Customer and Communications Director), and HM Revenue and Customs, where he led their Behaviour Change and Customer Segmentation Programme.
Stuart is the Ergonomics lead for Toyota Motor Europe, with the responsibility of identifying gaps and setting the pathways for all Toyota European plants. With 25 years experience in Toyota thinking ways from shop floor upwards, he has a true understanding of the working difficulties and challenges of a high paced, lean manufacturing company. His inventive approach to the management of MSD's gave rise to turn the possible negatives into business gains. The development of ergonomic evaluation tools for Toyota engineering and design, plus level ups to Toyota's Ergonomic guidelines has triggered a surge of interest in ergonomics and the impact poor design has on employees and therefore business success. Stuart is part of the Motor Industry Ergonomics Group (MIEG) working alongside JLR, AML, BMW Mini, Honda and Fords specialists, sharing ideas and best practices on the elimination of MSD's within the UK motor industry. HSL have also been an essential go to resource when reviewing and developing Toyota's regional/Global Ergonomics standards and for qualitative testing of new technology. Stuart's passion and drive to identify business gaps within Ergonomics and safety has taken the regions image of MSD risk from negative to a pro-active business focus.
Dan Shears is the National Health, Safety and Environment Director for the GMB Trade Union. GMB is a general trade union with more than 625,000 members working across the UK economy. In this role he covers industries from the Nuclear Sector to Construction sites, and workplaces from chemical plants to casinos. Dan joined GMB in January 2008, working as National HS&E Officer, with responsibility for policy development, provision of advice, support and guidance to lay members, and for negotiation with employers such as British Gas, National Grid, McVities, G4S and Asda. He was a member of the Review Panel into the Health and Safety Executive's Fee for Intervention Scheme in 2014. In October 2015, Dan was promoted to become Director of GMB's National HS&E Department, where in addition to duties listed above, he is responsible for stakeholder engagement, and the provision of advice to the GMB Senior Management Team. He has been a trade union activist for almost two decades and a Safety Representative since 2000. His particular interests are human factors; gas safety; worker involvement in health and safety management; and the development of drug and alcohol policies.
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Professor Anthony Woolf is Honorary Professor of Rheumatology, University of Exeter Medical School, and Plymouth Peninsula Medical and Dental College, and Clinical Director of the NHS National Institute of Health Research Clinical Research Network Southwest Peninsula. He is Chair of the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance, UK (ARMA). He is editor-in-chief of Best Practice and Research Clinical Rheumatology. He has long been involved in initiatives to raise awareness of the impact of musculoskeletal conditions and priority for education, prevention, treatment and research at a national, European and global level. He is a founder member and Past Chair of the Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health. He leads the Bone and Joint Monitor Project, a global health needs assessment that provides the evidence base for action working in partnership with experts and organisations globally. This has included identifying the burden of musculoskeletal conditions through the Global Burden of Disease project and developing strategies for their prevention and control through EU funded projects. He works internationally with WHO and EU and nationally with NHS England, Public Health England and Department of Work and Pensions to ensure musculoskeletal health is in all policies - health, social and employment. In particular he is working with UK policy makers on initiatives to promote healthy active ageing, increase physical activity, improve management of musculoskeletal conditions and to reduce the impact that these conditions have on people's ability to work. This has included developing the PHE/BITC MSK Toolkit for Employers.
Angela Webster is a Chartered Physiotherapist with a MSc from UCL in Neuro-musculoskeletal Rehabilitation. She has lead Musculoskeletal Health and Physiotherapy at Transport for London Occupational Health for 15 years. Research interests during this time have included factors predicting return to work time for back pain, workplace physical activity interventions and management of recurrent MSDs in the workplace.
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Kerry Trow was born in the Rhondda and initially worked in the NHS as a Registered Nurse in acute settings before changing direction to train as a public health nurse specialising in occupational health. Delivering occupational healthcare in a range of settings, he subsequently developed broad experience of health and safety management of musculo-skeletal disorders. He joined the Health and Safety Executive as an Occupational Health Inspector in 1998. He is currently a Principal Inspector managing a team of Occupational Health Inspectors which covers Scotland and the North of England. Occupational Health Inspectors are qualified occupational health nurses whose work includes delivering and supporting inspection, investigation and enforcement activity. As an inspector, Kerry has extensive experience of investigating reported upper limb disorders and inspecting health and safety management arrangements focussing on health risks in a wide range of sectors. Most recently he has conducted and managed inspection activity focussed on musculo-skeletal risks in the NHS and motor vehicle manufacturing.
Terry joined EEF in September 2011 to head policy work on occupational safety and health, health and well-being. He represents manufacturers' views and concerns to UK and European Union politicians and officials. He is a member of the EU-OSHA governing board and the European Commission's Advisory Committee on Safety and Health (ACSH) as well as two ACSH working parties looking at EU member state enforcement of EU OSH legislation and Biological agents. He has previously sat on two ACSH working groups covering work related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSD) and Electromagnetic Fields (EMF). Terry is Chair of CEEMET's (Council of European Employers of the Metal, Engineering and Technology-Based Industries) Health and Safety Committee and a Council member (trustee) of the UK Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF).
Terry has been an EH&S professional for over 35 years. Previously he was Executive Director responsible for Health and Safety Risk Management with Goldman Sachs, Environment, Health and Safety Manager with GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development and a GB Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector.
Ed is a chartered member of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors. His background is BSc(Hons) Psychology and MSc(Eng) Work Design and Ergonomics. He worked for over 15 years as an Ergonomics and Human Factors specialist for the Health and Safety Executive. For the 9 years prior to becoming an independent consultant in 2015, Ed's role was a Specialist HM Inspector in Ergonomics and Human Factors. Since 2015 as an independent consultant, Ed has continued working with a broad range of employers and industries, to identify ergonomics and human factors issues and advise companies on ways to reduce risks to worker health and wellbeing. In response to increasing calls for guidance and support by industry, a significant part of Ed's work has been focused on the emerging musculoskeletal aspects of mobile working and the use of mobile devices for work activities. In partnership with Sarah Tapley (also an ex-HSE Ergonomist), Ed has set up Mobile Office (www.mobileoffice.guru) which is an ergonomics consultancy dedicated to providing help to employers who are looking to manage mobile working issues.
Peter has over 20 years experience of successfully implementing health and safety management systems within large corporate organisations. He has worked internationally, on multi-site operations, within food manufacturing, professional services, banking, government and charity industries. Peter has extensive experience in developing Health and Wellbeing Programs and has detailed knowledge and experience of leading, working and influencing teams within a multi-disciplined environment. He has developed and implemented behavioral safety, competency based training and wellbeing programs in a range of international organisations. He has extensive knowledge of fleet safety, emergency and business continuity planning. Peter is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), is a former Chair of the IOSH Chiltern Branch and an accredited Mentor.
Jo Buchan joined Arthritis Research UK in January 2016 as a Development Programme Manager to lead on large cross-organisational programmes for the charity. She currently manages the charity's 'Flex' programme which aims to develop Arthritis Research UK's spaces and ways of working to enable collaborative, inclusive and flexible working whilst supporting employee health and wellbeing, particularly MSK (musculoskeletal) health. Over the past nine years Jo has worked and volunteered for a number of not-for-profits including St John Ambulance, Oxfam UK and Alzheimer's Society.


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Q: Combine lead and lag function without overlap I have this table:
COL
---
B
C
D

I need to get an output like this:
COL1          COL2
----          ----
Creation         B
       B         C
       C         D
       D   Pending

I've tried a normal lead
nvl(lead(col) order by col , 'Creation')

window function, but that would only show the first 'Creation' and not that last 'Pending' that I need.

A: Your table has N records (3 in the example provided) when query must return N + 1 (4); let's modify the initial data in order to query N + 1 records:
  with q as (
    -- Additional null record
    select null as Col
      from dual

     union all

    -- Added to the initial table
    select col
      from myTable
  )

  select nvl(Lag(COL) over (order by col), 'Creation') as Col1,
         nvl(Col, 'Pending') as Col2
    from q

Fiddle

A: You can use union all:
(select null, col
 from t
 order by col
 fetch first 1 row only
) union all
(select col, lead(col) over (order by col)
 from t
)

A: Another option is to use lead and lag in separate subqueries, and union those together; that would produce duplicates if unioned together with all:
select lag(col) over (order by col) as col1, col as col2
from your_table
union all -- all just to show raw values before duplicates are supressed
select col as col1, lead(col) over (order by col) as col2
from your_table

COL1 COL2
---- ----
B
B    C
C    D
B    C
C    D
D

But if you union without all those duplicates are supressed; and with that as an inline view (or CTE) you can then apply nvl or coalesce to the null values to get the fixed strings you want:
select coalesce(col1, 'Creation') as col1, coalesce(col2, 'Pending')
from (
  select lag(col) over (order by col) as col1, col as col2
  from your_table
  union
  select col as col1, lead(col) over (order by col) as col2
  from your_table
) t
order by t.col1 nulls first, t.col2 nulls last

COL1     COL2
-------- --------
Creation B
B        C
C        D
D        Pending

db<>fiddle
Hitting the table twice is potentially less performant than adding a single dummy row via dual; but as the original values are available to you can explicitly order the result, without introducing a flag.

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Import substitution, and then export diversification
One arm of the diversification agenda is to broaden the export base. As ever, we open with a few statistics. The balance-of-payments series from the CBN shows that products other than crude oil and gas represented just 7.7 per cent of merchandise exports in 2017. We should, however, extend the net to include all current-account receipts. On this basis, oil and gas provided 61.1 per cent of the total, current transfers (principally remittances) 30.0 per cent and non-oil/gas products just 4.7 per cent.
The top five exports in this last group by value in descending order may come as surprise: petroleum products, cocoa beans, urea, sesame seeds and tobacco. The same source has a table with the leading exporting companies by value: this is headed by British American Tobacco, Olam, and Indorama Eleme Fertiliser and Chemicals.
The authorities could do more to promote export diversification. A starting point would be the settlement of arrears on promissory notes due to the export expansion grant (EEG). The claims have been subjected to an independent audit, and amount to N1.2trn according to the local media. The exporting sector, like the rest of the economy, would benefit from the faster turnaround at Nigeria's ports, improved roads, increased power supplies and much more. It is more likely to invest where the soft and hard infrastructure for its needs is in place, a good example being companies established in the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos State.
The poor infrastructure cannot be the only obstacle. If it was, why have other leading oil producers in the developing world struggled to diversify their economies? The government targets and plans are in place yet delivery has lagged. The cases of Russia and Saudi Arabia, and, closer to home, Algeria and Angola spring to mind. Historically, the tendency for such governments has been to collect the large tax revenues from the oil industry, make a few spending cuts when the crude price plummets and import what the country does not produce.
This is no longer a viable option because of rapid population and unemployment growth, and rising popular expectations (fuelled in part by the internet and social media).
Export diversification should involve the processing of raw materials wherever possible. The Ghanaian president, Nana Akufo-Addo, likes to make this point with the following observation: Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana together account for 65 per cent of global cocoa output but together earn about US$6bn from sales of the product per year when the international chocolate industry turns over about US$100bn annually. The comparable figures for sesame seeds, which have developed into an important employer in northern Nigeria, are not available but the benefits from a boost to value-added are clear.
The gains in employment, incomes, skills transfer and government revenues as a result of processing are obvious. Exporting unprocessed goods also runs the risk of falling foul of non-tariff barriers. Earlier this year the FGN was trumpeting the growth in exports of hibiscus flowers to the US but more recently we have read that trade in the crop with Mexico has been halted due to some shipments of poor quality goods. Palm oil producers in Nigeria are serving the domestic market above all but will be aware of the EU's stance on sustainable production and related import policy.
We support export diversification where Nigeria enjoys comparative advantages, particularly when products are processed. However, it should not detract in the allocation of government time, incentives and resources from import substitution. Trade data on a customs basis from the National Bureau of Statistics support the argument. Imports of agricultural goods and other oil products amounted to N890bn and N2.67trn respectively in 2017 out of a total of N9.56trn. In passing, we note that officials have been known to cite much higher figures for agricultural imports. (On the export side, goods other than oil, gas and related oil products totalled just N630bn out of N13.60trn.)
The Dangote refinery in Lagos State, when completed in 2020 according to the Group's founder, will transform the trade in oil and related products. There are the additional benefits for employment and the infrastructure, as well as the possibility that other investors will build their own refineries. Once it has met domestic demand, Dangote intends to become an exporter of petroleum products and fertilizer to the sub-region over time.
The challenge in making savings on imports of agricultural goods is far greater than on oil products. There has been substantial investment in rice growing and milling, supported by the CBN's anchor borrowers' programme. New local brands have been developed and imports from Thailand have crashed. Yet estimates from the US Department of Agriculture suggest that Nigeria will again be the second largest rice importer globally in 2019. Smuggling from Benin and other neighbouring countries have soared, and the product is cheaper than the local brands. The domestic fish industry has a similar story to share. This underpins out argument about the allocation of government resources and incentives.
Nigeria is not alone in its struggle to diversify away from oil. Years of official indifference to the non-oil economy have created many hurdles. It is in a worse position to meet the challenges that the other oil producers we cited (other than Angola) because its budget is much smaller. This brings us back to another subject of our columns, the paucity of its non-oil revenue collection.
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Long queues at Tesco. It's one of those inadequately tilled periods when they're caught on the hop by the unexpectedly high number of people buying stuff. That well known lull of the week, mid-Saturday morning.
A tillier eventually arrives, opens up another lane, and the small and thin octagenarian lady in front of me quickly switches to the head of the new queue. A few seconds later a rather larger lady with several fewer decades under her belt asks the octagenarian if she can go ahead of her since she was ahead of her in the previous queue. Now I wasn't looking at the time, so all I hear are the verbals.
Octagenarian lady she say "no".
That's all. It was hilarious.
Both of them continue about their business without further ado, but the tillier looked quite embarrassed, with a look on his face carrying something like we shall not speak of this again.
But you probably had to be there.


He's still in youth youth detention-for now. The first youth convicted of killing Aaron Webster returned to court Dec 17 for his mandatory one-year sentence review. The youth (who can't be named) pleaded guilty to manslaughter Jul 30, 2003. Youth court Judge Valmond Romilly sentenced him to two years in custody plus a year's house arrest last December-the maximum sentence possible under the circumstances.
Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the youth's incarceration.
According to section 94 of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, all young people committed to custody for more than a year must have their sentence reviewed at the end of the first year.
Normal or not, the review didn't sit well with some members of the gay community.
Convicted gaybashers should get a chance to turn their lives around and rehabilitate themselves, says Jim Deva of Little Sister's bookstore. But only after they've served their time in jail.
It will send the wrong message if the judge reviews this youth's sentence and lets him out before he serves his second year, Deva continues. It will tell "kids with clubs" that it's okay to kill gay men.
"I'd be all for [the youth] trying to turn his life around, but he still should serve his full sentence," says McDonald, who sat through every day of the adults' two-and-a-half week trial and attended the youth's mandatory review, as well.
The review didn't get very far.
Dworkin immediately asked Judge Joseph Galati for an adjournment until January. She wanted Judge Romilly, the judge who originally sentenced the youth (and threw the book at him), to hear the review.
Though the original sentencing judge is not required by law to preside over such a review, it is preferable wherever practical, Galati ruled. And asking the youth to wait until Jan 12 for his annual review is not unfair, he added.
The review was rescheduled for Jan 12 at 9:30 am in youth court.
Though the youth's new lawyer, John Turner, didn't get a chance to make any applications to the judge before the case got re-scheduled, the Vancouver Sun recently reported that he'll be seeking at least partial release for his client to go to college.
"It just kind of stuns me," McDonald says. "Our justice system seems like it's more for the accused than the victim." Webster can't go back to college now, he adds.
Speaking outside the courtroom, Turner says Judge Romilly will have a couple of options in January. He can confirm the original sentence (the two-year jail term plus a year's house arrest). Or he could grant the youth "open custody," which means he'd be able to leave his detention centre during the day to attend college, provided he returns to the centre each night. Or he could let him out of jail entirely and allow him to skip directly to the house arrest stage, where he'd live at home under strict supervision and a curfew and only be allowed out for specific purposes such as attending school.
Webster's cousin, Fred Norman, is confident that Romilly will be firm.
Judge Romilly is the only member of the court to call the killing a hate crime so far, he points out.
In his original sentencing decision, Judge Romilly found that the attack was motivated by hatred of gays and peeping toms, and gave the youth the stiffest sentence possible.
"I fail to see why this cannot be described as a gaybashing," he ruled last December.
"Romilly is obviously the one who should be deciding this young man's fate," Deva says. "He clearly spoke about it being a hate crime, so our community will be represented when he talks.
The youth will return to youth court Jan 12 at 9:30 am for his mandatory sentence review.


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hi i was thinking currently i have the money for an imac but my perents my add me some money so i was thinking whats better a g4 or a imac beacuse i dont have a apple monitor and i dont know if my current pc"s monitor would go in . any way please help me think this one up.
If you have an old VGA monitor, you'll need an adapter for the tower's video card.
Choose from the latest graphics card options from both ATI and NVIDIA. Standard configurations offer 64MB of fast DDR SDRAM. The Advanced ATI Radeon 9800 Pro option includes a 128 MB DDR SDRAM frame buffer. All feature both ADC and DVI ports with dual display support and include a DVI to VGA adapter.
That DVI-> VGA adapter lets you use a VGA monitor right out of the box. You won't need to buy an adapter separately.
*edit- Which is what I think Brad was saying upon closer inspection. But I'll leave this post for clarity's sake.
As far as purchasing advice, *cough* General Discussion *cough* If that monitor you mentioned is any good and has some years left in it, I'd go with the G4 tower. Unless desktop space is a big concern for you, it's going to be the best choice in almost all regards. It's going to have a lot more expandability for the future, which extends its usable liftime and saves you money in the long run.
Of the 3 machines mentioned in your subject, the iMac and the PowerMac already have close to the max power that a G4 can achieve and the eMac's not too shabby either. For that reason, I'd forget about potential processor upgrades. However, processors are not the only ways to give a computer more power.
Depending on what you're going to use it for, I can almost guarantee that the PowerMac is going to be more versatile. If you're into video, Photoshop, or Garageband, you can load up on memory. You can stick up to 2 Gig in the later PowerMacs and 1.5 in the pre-DDR PowerMacs. The iMac and the eMac are both limited to 1 Gigabyte (which is not too shabby in itself). Outside of memory-intensive applications like those, more memory is still a good idea, just not quite so much of it. Memory is perhaps the cheapest and easiest way to boost a computer's performance. Once you throw enough in there that virtual memory becomes a figment of the computer's imagination, you'll be one happy camper. I'd say 512-768 is more than enough to do that for gaming and regular computer uses. With those memory-intensive apps of course, the more the better.
If you're going to be heavy into the Mac gaming world, small as it may be, again the PowerMac is the choice for you. The video cards in the eMac and iMac are part of the logic board, the main board of the computer. You cannot upgrade your video card capabilities in those machines without flat-out replacing them. The PowerMac uses a regular AGP slot so you can upgrade the video card whenever you like.
Thirdly, if you're going to want more hard disk space someday you can just throw one, two, or even three more into the PowerMac. The eMac and iMac have only got the physical space and the system configuration to handle one internal hard disk. You can attach any number of firewire drives to any of the three machines, but it negates the desktop space advantage of the eMacs and iMacs. You also have the option to add a second optical drive to the PowerMac.
Last of my little PowerMac sales pitch is the monitor. Someday you may want a bigger monitor or you may want to go LCD. With the eMac and the iMac you're married to the display you've got. The G4 can drive almost anything you could get for it, and it can drive more than one of them.
Moving to GD. Purchasing advice.
i have a graphic card geforce fx 5600 with 256 mb ram and it has a dvi.. ooo now i get what is it for..
can i add this card on a emac?
you cant add anything to eMacs or iMacs accept for RAM and an Airport card. You can change to hard drive and the optical drive if you want but it's not easy.
That doesn't matter. The iMac and eMac still won't take it. On top of that, most PC video cards will not work in Macs. Remember: on the hardware level, Macs and PCs are very different. Different CPUs, different motherboards, different instruction sets. Sometimes you can find ATI and nVidia cards that can flash the ROM to work, but it's not a foolproof procedure.
For all intents and purposes, you should consider the eMac and iMac to be like "desktop notebooks" (yes, it may sound strange). Like notebooks, they are all-in-one (commonly called AIO) computers. Like notebooks, very little in them is upgradeable. Like notebooks, the video card is not replaceable.
An aside: a lot of people whine about the lack of expandability in these regards about the iMac and eMac. What they tend to forget, though, is that the vast majority of consumers never touch their video cards, etc. Also, they tend to ignore the rising number of notebook computers that, you guessed it, don't offer expandability. Yet, they think the eMac and iMac should somehow be an exception to these rules. It doesn't really make sense for Apple to redesign and bloat the size of the eMac and iMac to allow for extra cards for a tiny number of people in an already tiny market share. If you want expandability, get a tower.
say if i get a ibook can i plug it on a pc monitor? or a-tv monitor or a apple DVI monitor??
Which part don't you understand? That you can't replace the cards in some machines or that they need special Mac-version cards? It doesn't matter that ATI and nVidia have made cards for Macs in the past. If you have a video card from a PC, it simply will not work out of the box in a Mac without some modifications.
Some cards can be flashed, but this does not work with everything. Here is a page with video card flashing instructions, but you will see that there are risks involved and that flashing the GeForce 4 series is completely unsupported.
You know, you'd find a lot of these answers if you actually read Apple's web site yourself.
The iBook G4 is also equipped with VGA video output to mirror your work to an external display or projection device. Just connect your external display or projector to the Video output port using the included Apple VGA Display Adapter, and you?re up and running.
Displaying your multimedia projects on a big-screen TV is easy. Simply connect your TV to the Video output port via the optional Apple Video Adapter, and you?re on television.


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using APL.SyntaxTreeGeneration;
using APL.Errors;
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Notice of Extension of Eligibility for PA-14-150 "Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD or Other Dual-Doctoral Degree Fellowship (Parent F30)"
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NIH realizes that the timing of this change in eligibility may be problematic for some applicants. Therefore, NIH will accept F30 applications for the August 8, 2014 due date from applicants who would otherwise only be eligible to submit an initial (-01) application for the April 8, 2014 due date.
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The author/choreographer Sandra Man and the visual artist/choreographer Moritz Majce, who both live in Berlin, have been working together since 2010. What distinguishes their collaboration is that they view and produce choreography not from the perspective of the performing arts but rather as a visual art: as art in space. For the exhibition Choros III (Koroška), conceived by the duo as an artistic research project on the choir and choreography, they have developed outdoor choral constellations as a way of engaging with the specific spatial conditions of landscape as nature, and with the possibilities for its reception as well as with its acoustics, its prospects, and its horizon. In parallel, an exhibition will be presented at Kunstraum Lakeside that is also composed as a kind of landscape of various views and sounds.
Sandra Man (b. Austria, 1977) lives and works in Berlin, Vienna, and Obervellach.
Moritz Majce (b. Austria, 1977) lives and works in Berlin and Vienna.


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Now Linda Ronstadt, the song whisperer, and genre surfer.
by Highervibrations1 | Dec 6, 2022 | Music
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There's somebody waiting alone in the street
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Here you are all alone in the city
Where's the love that you took to your side
Lonely faces will stare through your eyes in the night
And they'll say
Woman sweet woman
Please come home with me
You're shining and willing and free
But your love is a common occurrence
Not like love that I feel in my heart
Still, you know that may be what I need
Is someone to lay down beside me
And even though it's not real
Just someone to lay down beside me
You're the story of my life
Someone to lay down beside me
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The street lights are off
The sun will soon share all the cost
Of a world that can be sort of heartless
Not like the love that I feel in my heart
Still, you know that may be all you'll get
Is someone to lay down beside you
Just someone to lay down beside you
You just can't ask for more
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Title Written by Originally by
Lo siento mi vida Linda Ronstadt, Kenny Edwards, Gilbert Ronstadt Linda Ronstadt
Try Me Again Linda Ronstadt, Andrew Gold Linda Ronstadt
Winter Light Linda Ronstadt, Eric Kaz, Zbigniew Preisner Linda Ronstadt
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Linda Ronstadt's vocal range
According to our database, the vocal range of this artist is:
D#3 – C6 (2.8 octaves)
Song with the LOWEST pitch:
When You Wish Upon a Star (Eb3-F5)
Song with the HIGHEST pitch:
The Dark End of the Street (G4-C6)
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Linda Ronstadt – "Blue Bayou" (Official Music Video)
"Blue Bayou" (Official Music Video)
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Linda Ronstadt-Don Lane Show 27th October 1983
Love this interview for the frankness, humility, grace, and freely expressed unbridled opinions. No controversy here, just honesty and an accurate assessment of the hypocrisy of the world, not to mention, Rupert Murdoch.
Rare Linda Ronstadt 1970s interview talks about The Eagles
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Full Dvd available at 70s-tv.com. Title is Linda Ronstadt: Rare TV Appearances. Packed with long forgotten footage of her in her prime.
Since bursting onto the music scene in 1967, Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music, and soul. As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s – with songs like "You're No Good," "When Will I Be Loved," and "Blue Bayou"—Ronstadt filled huge arenas and produced an astounding eleven Platinum albums. Ronstadt was the first artist to top the Pop, Country, and R&B charts simultaneously, she won 10 Grammy ® Awards on 26 nominations and attained a level of stardom the Tucson native never could have imagined.
In LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE, Ronstadt is our guide through her early years of singing Mexican Canciones with her family; her folk days with the Stone Poneys; and her reign as the "rock queen" of the '70s and early '80s. She was a pioneer for women in the male-dominated music industry; a passionate advocate for human rights and had a high-profile romance with California Governor Jerry Brown. Ultimately, her singing voice was stilled by illness and forced her into retirement but her music and influence remain as timeless as ever. With moving performance footage and appearances by friends and collaborators including Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, and Jackson Browne, LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE celebrates an artist whose desire to share the music she loved made generations of fans fall in love with her — and the sound of her voice.
Rachael Price sings Tom Waits' "Take it With Me" on our May 25, 2019, show.
The band: Chris Thile, Josh Dion, Chris Eldridge, Alan Hampton, Alex Hargreaves, Gabriel Kahane.
Take it With Me (Tom Waits) – Rachael Price | Live from Here with Chris Thile
Durham Cool is the place where you discover great music new and old
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Someone donated some Merino Wool at the library, so I will donate the things that I make with it.
Pattern is Baby Bolero from the book One Skein by Leigh Radford (affiliate link). Very cute.
I didn't see an email address so I'll post here. responding to the "bottle cap bowl question"
How cute... Someone is going to happy.


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The Walter Grice House
89, Wells Street, Aurora, Ontario, L4G, Canada
Walter Grice House
Located in a residential neighbourhood of early 20th century homes in southeast Aurora, the Walter Grice House is a one-and-a-half storey bungalow with a steep gable roof and front veranda.
The Walter Grice House has been recognized for its heritage value by the Town of Aurora By-law #4851.06R.
Built with the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement, the Walter Grice House is a good example of the bungalow style. Well placed within an intact neighbourhood of well-maintained early 20th century Arts and Crafts, Bungalow and Edwardian residences, the builder and first occupant of the property, Walter Grice constructed this house for himself and his wife Clara.
Although the neighbourhood of Rose Mount was subdivided just before World War I, the lot remained vacant until 1923 when Walter, a local carpenter built his family home. The Grice family made this house their home until 1958.
A good example of the bungalow style, with its large veranda and decorative windows it has a number of features found in the popular 1920's design catalogues from companies such as Sears-Roebuck, which also illustrated common features of the Arts and Crafts architectural movement.
Source: Heritage Designation Report: The Walter Grice House, Town of Aurora By-law #4851.06R
Character defining elements of the Walter Grice House include the:
- one-and-a-half-storey construction
- large roof with central gable that extends beyond the main structure to cover the veranda
- veranda balustrade and brick piers
- decorative multi-pane windows
- historic exterior doors
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The Carpenter's House
69, Wellington Street East, Aurora, Ontario
Located in a residential block of Wellington Street that contains several 19th century buildings,…
Aurora Post Office
15213 Yonge Street, Town of Aurora, Ontario
A substantial 2 storey building, the Aurora Post Office is a centrepiece of historic downtown…
89 Mosley Street, Aurora, Ontario
The Armoury is located adjacent to a municipal park and the central heritage district of Aurora. It…


As a service provider, Transport Dorchies' approach is based on our traditional know‐howand a strong geographic presence. Strategically based in northern France since 1980, close to Lille and the multimodal plaoorm of Dourges, the company is also located in Perpignan and Cavaillon.
With its privileged geographic location, at the heart of major freeways axes, Transport Dorchies offers a regular daily service that meet all types of regional needs.


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NAS DAR AIRCO Partners with Kilolo District Council for Community Welfare Initiative
Dar es Salam, Tanzania : Friday, July 12, 2019
National Aviation Services (NAS), the fastest growing aviation services provider in the emerging markets, through its joint venture in Tanzania, has partnered with the Kilolo District Council, to support community welfare initiatives in the district. Through this partnership, NAS Dar Airco will contribute to health, education and tourism promotion to benefit the local population.
The agreement was signed by Miguel Serra, General Manager NAS DAR Airco, and Aloyce Kwezi, Kilolo District Council's Executive Director.
The first initiative launched recently included the construction of staff housing for the $2 million Kilolo District Hospital that is currently in the final stages of completion. The hospital is one of its kind and aims to provide upgraded healthcare and skilled medical professionals.
NAS will support the construction of the housing complex with a contribution of $22,000. This complex will accommodate doctors, nurses and other general staff serving the hospital.
Miguel Serra who is driving these corporate social responsibly initiatives said "NAS Dar Airco has a strong presence in Tanzania with ground handling and cargo operations at three major airports including Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro and Dodoma. Since we started operations in the country in 2016, we have also contributed significantly to the aviation industry in Tanzania. As our business grows, so does our social responsibility to the communities we live and work in. By partnering with the Kilolo District Council we hope to do our part in supporting the government's efforts to provide quality healthcare to the local population."


Saviss recognized quickly the import-ance of getting involved. "A Bruin is not just a student but a member of a larger society that cares about its surroundings," Saviss stated, explaining her motivation to volunteer at UCLA. Saviss participated in numerous volunteer activities with her sorority Pi Beta Phi, helping to raise funds to support breast cancer research with various programs and awareness walks.
However, her desire to support her community did not stop there. After a rigorous interview process, Saviss was appointed Marketing Manager of Promotional Items for the UCLA Student Giving Committee. The Committee, the student component of the UCLA Fund, aided in seeking the donations, participation, and awareness of the student body, encouraging students to give back to the university that had given them so much. Commenting on her experience, Saviss explained, "giving back to a community and an institute who gives its students a plethora of life-long skills and experiences is key to maintaining the prestige of our school." In her role, she was challenged to design effective gifts in order to attract students and promote the tradition of giving back.
Ramona also excelled in academics. Saviss earned all A's in her classes at UCLA, obtaining a combined GPA of 3.468. Saviss also attained a valuable global perspective, traveling to France for an intensive four month program on French, culture, language, fashion, and history. There, she became certified in French wine tasting, and achieved a GPA of 4.00.
Employing her education to pursue her passion, Saviss secured an editorial internship at Angelino Magazine, a luxury lifestyle publication. In this role, she pitched ideas for stories and wrote, fact checked, and researched articles for the publication. "Writing is one of my passions," Saviss related, "I love the fast-paced environment, the race to finish a story." In the future, Saviss stated she hoped to continue in the field, and aspired to someday be an editor.
In her advice to other Bruins, she impart-ed, "find something you are passionate about and dive right in–get involved." Saviss took advantage of all the opportunities UCLA had to offer, and though she spent fewer years here than most, she made something of every minute.
Even in shorter tenure at UCLA, Saviss certainly came to shine.


Agents are offered the chance to join small group visits to a number of schools in a particular region of the UK immediately following a Workshop. These familiarisation or FAM trips are valued by the agents as they enhance the Workshop experience, giving them an opportunity to see the schools first hand, visit the local area and meet staff and students.
There are normally three trips on offer following each Workshop, each involving 5-6 schools located in different regions of the UK, to be visited over 2-3 days. Each trip can normally accommodate around 15 agents. The organisers of the BBS Workshop select the clusters of schools and invite them to host an agent visit. Most of the schools will be attending the Workshop but sometimes the group will include one or more schools that attended a previous Workshop.
BBSN is responsible for organising the FAM trips and works with the schools to organise the accommodation and schedule. There is an admin fee for each participating agent, payable to BBSN. The costs of transport (apart from the cost of the return journey to London from the final school visited), accommodation and meals for the agents are met jointly by the schools. The schools agree as a group which agents they accept on their trip, depending on which countries they are keen to recruit pupils from.
How do agents sign up?
When agents apply to attend the Workshop, they are given the opportunity to apply to join one of the FAM trips on offer. Agents will be informed once their place on a trip has been confirmed and an invoice for the administration fee will then be sent.
How can we host a FAM trip?
Please contact us if you are interested in being one of our FAM trip host schools.


Topic: 1994 348 Challenges _of 32 how to confirm "factory" challenge cars.
Topic: My considerations on the (best) 348 challenge.
Re: My considerations on the (best) 348 challenge.
We have seen the excellent documentation from Luca. What documentation would you be able to provide, showing your car to be one of the two first private challenge cars?
Do you have any pictures of where your pull is placed, that is within the drivers reach while fully harnessed in?


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Counting Birds to Save Gorillas: How Citizen Scientists Protect Gorilla Habitat
Gorillas will always be nearest to our hearts, of course, but every year on Global Big Day, we turn our attention to some other important forest creatures: birds.
Global Big Day is a worldwide bird counting program sponsored by The Cornell Lab each year in May to count numbers and types of birds found across the globe. Because the presence of birds is an important indicator of health for the Congo Basin rainforests where mountain gorillas and Grauer's gorillas live, the Fossey Fund's biodiversity research focuses on birds and we participate in this global count every year.
Students in the DRC in search of birds in the rainforest.
This year, our scientists in the Democratic Republic of the Congo invited children from the Club des Amis de la Nature to join us. We talked to them about the importance of birds in the gorilla habitat and showed them how to use binoculars before setting off in search of birds. It's never easy to spot birds in a rainforest, but right away we found a few sunbirds, which help plants reproduce by feeding on their nectar. We also identified 10 other bird species: a hamerkop, a lizard buzzard, an African cuckoo hawk, the African pied hornbill, a long-tailed hornbill, several African grey parrots, a black-and-white mannikin, the common bulbul, a yellow-billed kite and the swamp palm bulbul. The students — and our scientists — had a great time exploring the rainforest and learning about the wide variety of birds that make their homes in this biodiverse habitat.
Students spotted this African pied hornbill in the Nkuba Conservation Area.
Meanwhile, in Rwanda, students from 10 local secondary schools joined our team of researchers and staff to count birds near their schools as part of our "citizen science" programming. Together, these groups in Rwanda recorded 101 separate species of birds!
Projects like Global Big Day are important because they allow us to involve ordinary people — citizen scientists — in our scientific research. When students and other community members take part in events like this, they take pride in the fact that they are helping to expand what is known about the critical and biodiverse habitat that surrounds their own communities.
The African sunbird's feeding habits encourage plant growth.
Global Big Day is just one piece of this education puzzle. We work year-round with secondary school teachers and students to develop conservation education programming that teaches the importance of gorillas. We run Nature Clubs that allow students to develop their own projects, such as tree planting and community gardens, that help their local communities thrive while reducing pressures on the nearby forests. We invite university students to our Karisoke Research Center to conduct research alongside our scientists.
All of these citizen science programs fit well with three of the four Fossey Fund pillars: conducting critical science to develop conservation strategies, training future leaders to address the conservation challenges of tomorrow, and helping communities through livelihood, food security and education initiatives. And of course, like everything we do, they uphold our primary pillar and the reason the Fossey Fund exists: Saving gorillas.
This yellow-crowned canary was spotted by our citizen scientists in Musanze, Rwanda, on Global Big Day.
The hadada ibis has a distinctive call and a large range that includes the area near Karisoke Research Center.
Golden monkeys are seasonal breeders
Rwandan university students arrive at our Ellen campus
Students grow trees near gorilla habitat in Rwanda


In recent years, though total factor productivity (TFP) convergence phenomenon has gained tremendous importance yet further deliberations for identification of catalytic factors that can help developing countries to achieve their steady developmental paths, are under way. Against this backdrop, present study investigates the principal determinants of TFP convergence by employing data of 91 developing countries over the period 1960-2015 and with USA being the frontier country. In concordance with the existing literature, main focus remains on technology diffusion for the catch-up process and is measured by means of trade openness (TO) and foreign direct investment (FDI) with introduction of their interaction terms. However, TFP is computed by incorporating the Growth Accounting Model while empirical results are drawn from the 2-step GMM estimation technique. It is surfaced that though high degree of openness benefits TFP growth and convergence but FDI has a dominating role. Therefore, governments can play a competent role via unflagging efforts in ensuring that the right kind of policies are enacted, promoting trading activities and FDI flows.


The comet, actually known as 46P/Wirtane, will make a close pass of Earth on December 16.
Chodas said, "Comet Wirtanen has already been visible in larger amateur telescopes, and while the brightness of comets is notoriously hard to predict, there is the possibility that during its close approach comet Wirtanen could be visible with binoculars or to the naked eye". Closest approach is on December 16 when it will be 7,199,427 miles away.
For nonscientists, this lasting memorial to a Wisconsin comet hunter will simply be a fresh opportunity to look up - if the winter skies cooperate. The comet has an orbital period of approximately 5.5 years. It should be just as visible for a week or two because its appearance will change gradually.
Comet Wirtanen is especially interesting in that this comet makes the 20th closest approach to Earth go any comet in 12 centuries. Wirtanen discovered five comets and three asteroids during his long career, which included a stint doing ballistics research during World War II.
These constant swings by the sun come with a cost.
Don't expect to see the comet's tail. The Hubble Space Telescope examined Wirtanen in 1996 and found a tiny core of only seven-tenths of a mile (1.1 km), one of the smallest cometary nuclei we know of.
The comet's bright display will be preceded by the shooting stars of the Geminid meteor shower, which will create a Christmas light show for people with their eyes to the heavens.
Astronomical photographer Stephen Chadwick captured the comet last week. That simply makes the comet much easier to find, if you are not accustomed to using a star chart.
Comet 46P/Wirtanen reached "perihelion", which is the closest part of its orbit to the sun, earlier this week and will zoom close to Earth tomorrow, which is Saturday, December 16. The comet appears to be a close twin to comet Hartley 2, the second target of the Deep Impact mission.
The comet is a member of the "Jupiter family" of comets.
"NASA-sponsored ground, air and space-based observatories getting in on the action include NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar in California; the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility on Maunakea, Hawaii; the Hubble, Chandra, Swift and Spitzer space telescopes; and an airborne observatory known as the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)", NASA officials wrote in a statement". But the atmosphere around the comet, or coma, is bigger than Jupiter. Astronomers have predicted the comet will have a magnitude of 4.2, which means that a dark, clear sky and an absence of ambient light will most likely be needed to see it.
I will be honest, Mahomes has played awesome this year and I am not so stoked that we have to face this kid for years and years. Berry hasn't played since Week 1 of 2017 after suffering a season-ending ruptured Achilles tendon against the Patriots.
Little progress has been made on denuclearizing since President Trump met with Kim in June. Trump has suggested he could meet Kim again early next year.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insisted he was not "the pope of football tactics" as his side prepare to host Manchester United in the Premier League on Sunday.
If he doesn't have a rest in a match we have already qualified then he would play until he explodes, was a normal option to leave him out.
In a terse statement, United said: " Manchester United has announced that Jose Mourinho has left the Club". You can see on the pitch it is impacting the players.


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Russia: Book On 'Love And Sex In Islam' Causing Controversy, But Scholars Say Topic Is Nothing Unusual
December 03, 2004 16:36 GMT
By Gulnoza Saidazimova
Russia's Ansar publishing house recently released a book titled "Love And Sex In Islam." The collection of articles and fatwas -- decrees issued by Islamic scholars -- was first presented at a book fair in Moscow last summer and immediately became a best-seller. Russia's muftiyat -- or board on Islamic affairs -- has criticized the book, which is being sold at most mosques with the word "sex" on its cover hidden.
Prague, 3 December 2004 -- Abdullah Muhametov is an editor at the Ansar publishing house who compiled the 300-page "Love and Sex in Islam." He describes it as a collection of works by medieval writers like Imam Al-Ghazali and Al-Jihaz, as well as modern authors such as Yusuf Al-Qaradawi and contemporary Russian experts on sex.
He told RFE/RL that the book offers information on sex and love in accordance with the principles of Islam.
For Muslims, the primary sources of information about any issue, including sex, are the Koran and the Hadith, a body of laws and stories about Prophet Muhammad's way of life. Muhametov said there is an Arabic equivalent of the word "sex" in the Koran and that it is every Muslim's obligation to be knowledgeable about the topic.
"Neither Allah nor the Prophet -- may peace be upon him -- nor prominent Islamic scholars are embarrassed to speak on this issue," Muhametov said. "They give very precise explanations on what is allowed and what is prohibited. Islam doesn't say this topic must not be covered. On the contrary, Islam says it is a shame to have no knowledge about this, because sometimes one is embarrassed to ask a question and commits a sin."
Muhametov believes stereotypes about Islam, as well as about sex in general, are the main reasons behind the negative reactions to the book.
"For Muslims in the Russian Federation, the very word 'sex' is connected with debauchery and sexual licentiousness," Muhametov said. "Although we all know very well that 'sex' is a usual word, a definition used to describe [a natural] phenomenon."
In contrast, Muhametov said, reaction to the book from Islamic scholars and many readers in the Caucasus has been largely positive.
The Spiritual Board of Muslims in the European part of Russia (DUMER) held a meeting to discuss the book and decided that it cannot be sold or spoken about in mosques.
The deputy mufti of DUMER, Damir Hazrat Gizatullin, is critical of the book. He said that parts of it go against the principles of Adab, the code of conduct for Muslims, but refused to elaborate.
"Some rude expressions [used in the book are against Adab]," Gizatullin said. "I don't want to speak about it. I don't want to speak."
Gizatullin believes that "Love and Sex in Islam" is nothing but a project designed to make money.
"I think...well, not only I, many other people think this book is a commercial project -- that's it," Gizatullin said. "[People from Ansar publishing house] approached us when they needed to sell it. I think it would be better to come to us and discuss a book before publishing it."
Sex guides, similar to the famous Hindu sex treatise the Kama Sutra, have long existed in Central Asia.
But Ansar's Muhametov said that the book does not contradict Adab. He believes it follows the principles of Islam and offers readers information about what is considered misbehavior in Islam, like sex outside of marriage, as well as on some controversial issues, such as gay marriage.
"Islam condemns any form of homosexuality," Muhametov said. "Therefore, our book gives an explanation on the issue of gay marriage. The topics of sex outside of marriage, relations with jins [spirits], and hermaphrodites are also covered. Anyone can get any information on what is meant by 'sex.'"
Sex is not an unusual subject of discourse in the Islamic world. Many Muslim writers, poets, and even medieval doctors have explored the topic in their work.
Sanjar Nazar is an expert on Uzbek literature. He said that many classic works on sex and love have been written by Muslim writers, but that unlike contemporary Western literature, they describe sex in a more subtle way.
"Of course, there are parts of those works devoted to relations between men and women," Nazar said. "For example, [medieval Uzbek poet] Alisher Navoii describes the relationship between [the characters of ill-fated lovers] Laily and Majnun beautifully. But when I read it, I didn't think it was about sex. I perceived it as another stage of a great love."
Another Uzbek expert on Muslim literature and art, Sayfiddin Sayfullah, said that sex guides, similar to the famous Hindu sex treatise the Kama Sutra, have long existed in Central Asia. He said they were written mainly for kings and consisted of recommendations on how to enhance sexual performance and pleasure and related issues.
"Once I came across a manuscript that described a type of woman with high sexual potential," Sayfullah said. "There was a description of body type and the shapes of eyes and lips. They used to estimate a woman according to the description. There also were recommendations on what sex positions were better and information on what food and herbs to eat in order to enhance sexual performance. It was all given in the form of poetry."
Doctor Ilshat Nasyrov of Russia, who has translated scores of works by Muslim authors into Russian, writes on the islam.ru website that unlike other religions and cultures, in Islam, there is no idea of platonic love. Love and sex are strongly intertwined in Islam. Within a marriage, sex exists for pleasure, as well as procreation. The concept of celibacy does not exist.
The Prophet Muhammad condemned celibacy and sexual abstention, even in the name of Allah. Nasyrov writes that the notion of love is always tightly connected with sex because sex is a natural manifestation of love and has sacred meaning in Islam.


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WCU joins Xfinity On Campus
Sep 19, 2016 Sunny Morgan
This semester, West Chester University became one of four area universities to offer their students living on campus free streaming on any devices with Xfinity On Campus.
With Xfinity on Campus, students can sign up to access 80-plus television channels in real time, stream their favorite movies and shows and record on their DVR from a laptop, phone or any other handheld device.
"This is the type of video service that students are looking for," said Jennifer Bilotta, the Northeast Director of Public Relations at Comcast.
Similar to Netflix and Hulu, Xfinity On Campus streams shows and movies at the touch of a button, but this new offering could give those pricey subscription-based services a run for their money.
"Students now have the option of choosing what to watch, when to watch it, and how to watch it."
Comcast pitches the program all over the country, and many schools choose to add the program into their students' on campus living experience.
"We offer the program to schools across the country and WCU hopped on board," Bilotta added. "It shows how open WCU and the other local schools are to offering their students this new and exciting offering."
Xfinity On Campus was launched in 2014 after Comcast noticed a shift in the way millennials watch television. According to a digital democracy survey, about three quarters of millennials stream TV shows or movies on devices at least once a month. This semester, 36 new schools across the country joined the program.
Among them are Northeastern University, the University of Pennsylvania, Villanova University and Temple University. The University of Delaware, Drexel University, and Rider University were already signed on.
If a student wishes to gain access to premium or international channels, it is an additional $9.95 a month per channel. In addition, they have added a cloud DVR at no additional cost, giving students the option to record up to 20 hours of shows.
To start streaming, all you have to do is visit xfinityoncampus.com, search for "West Chester University," log in using your WCU ID and password, and click the "Start Watching" button.
Sunny Morgan is a second-year student majoring in communication studies with a minor in journalism. She can be reached at SM848270@wcupa.edu. Her Twitter is @SunnyMorgan97.
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The past is over and done and has no power over me. I can begin to be free in this moment. Today's thoughts create my future. I am in charge. I now take my own power back. I am safe and I am free.
Positive Thoughts and Positive Actions = Positive Results!