For some time now there has been outrage at the price of mobile data. The Minister of Telecommunication and Postal Services, Siyabonga Cwele, has asked the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) to take steps to ensure that regulations to promote more competition in the market are introduced. He also suggested that the competition commission should become involved. EngineerIT invited industry leaders to share their views on a number of the issues around the cost of data. Here are the responses.
In your opinion is mobile data too expensive or is the demand that data must fall just a populist call?
Leon Louw, executive director, Free Market Foundation feels strongly that the #datamustfall campaign is populist disinformation. He asserts that it is guilty of cherry-picking.
"A small regional provider in India, for a brief period, offered a loss-leader special deal at R11/GB. India's isolated cheapest compared to SA's mainstream was the most expensive gig. There are too many variables to compare prices across countries. Prices vary from zero to hundreds of Rand, from regional or national providers, from once-off packages to contracts, from in to out of bundles, from voice to text, and so on. Other factors include country size, population density, coverage, geography, regulations and subsidies, licensing fees, spectrum availability, quality and level of development. Where free competition is allowed, prices are fair and reasonable.
"In SA, unreliable electricity (blackouts, load shedding) means base stations must have expensive backup power. Our high crime rate means network operators experience costly vandalism and theft. Restrictive spectrum allocation raises prices substantially because duplicate towers must be built or 'farmed'.
Arthur Goldstuck, MD, World Wide Worx says that the call for data to fall fails every time because of nuances. It allows the operators to claim, correctly, that data has fallen. But that is only half the story, since the campaigners allow the operators to position the debate.
"There are two categories of data cost. If one buys big data bundles, the costs are very competitive, among the best in Africa, and comparable with some of the best in the world. If one is using data on an ad hoc basis, and the cost is coming off airtime, the costs are among the highest in the world. This is a deep irony, as it tends to be the wealthy who buy big bundles, and the poor who use data off their airtime.
Chris Daffy, chief commercial officer, MobileData says that the price of mobile data is tantamount to extortion. "The prepaid sector has the least disposable income, but is the most manipulated when charged. Considering pre-paid users eliminate a large administrative burden and risk, surely they should benefit to some extent?
Is there enough competition in the communications market or should ICASA introduce regulations to enable more players to enter the market as suggested by the minister?
Arthur Goldstuck: "Competition? We have enough but perhaps too much concentration of dominance by a few players. Telkom Mobile is, for the first time, showing it can be competitive, but it has taken a few years. Cell C took more than a decade to become competitive. The obstacles were in fact regulations that allowed the dominant players to hold onto their dominance through artificial means like the high interconnect fee.
Leon Louw is adamant that government should liberalise in order to make the market more contestable – repeal over-regulation, stating that the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services should abandon the current white paper which proposes even more stifling regulation and monopolisation.
Jacqui O'Sullivan said that Telkom recommended to parliament that ICASA conduct an enquiry into competition in the broadband market, and the associated pricing. Increased competition will encourage providers to launch disruptive initiatives that put downward pressure on market prices, and particularly for data.
Toni Pellegrino holds a more conciliatory point of view. "Of course, by increasing the number of players the competition will increase and this should reduce prices. However, the market needs disruption. New operators entering the market in South Africa will focus on data, and, therefore, will focus on LTE and LTE-A. By focusing on the new technology, they can capture the industry focusing on R&D in 4G and the path to 5G." He asserts that this will trigger more efficiency and price reductions. But he says that such disruptive strategy is only possible if operators have enough spectrum.
What is your opinion of the suggestion that the Competitions Commission should become involved?
Arthur Goldstuck says that his company has been campaigning for the past six years for the cost of pay-as-you-go data to come down. The only success has been in the drop in the cost of bundles, which are highly competitive if one buys a big bundle. However, airtime data remains prohibitively expensive.
"We believe the regulator should step in and mandate a ceiling price of 20c to 40c per MB if the operators won't do it themselves. It is not a competition issue, as competition has successfully pushed down the bundle prices. Because ad hoc users do not represent a priority market at a competitive level, it needs to become a regulatory issue. If ICASA continues to be reluctant, the Consumer Commission may well be the body in the best position to force through such change.
Toni Pellegrino believes that more joint initiatives and common efforts from the industry are needed to achieve a target instead of having extremely long politicised processes.
If the mobile industry is being subjected to more regulations, will this restrict the ability for continual expansion of network capacity?
Will the creation of a national broadband network as proposed by DTPS broadband policy work in favour of lowering the cost of data?
Are there new technical solutions that enable operators to reduce the cost of communication yet maintaining a fair profit margin?
Thank you to our participants in the discussion. It is interesting to note how frequently the subject of spectrum or its unavailability is raised. It is difficult to understand why the DTPS and government are not getting the message. Will the case of spectrum availability follow the TV digital migration path? It appears so, as the Minister of Telecommunication and Postal Service and ICASA are soon to be in court – after that one wonders how many industry players will lodge the next court application.


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Meet Maurício Galiotte, Palmeiras' next president
Kristian Bengtson December 8, 2016 December 8, 2016 Administration
One week from today, Maurício Galiotte takes over as president of Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras for the next two years. Galiotte was vice president and right hand of Paulo Nobre during his four years, and the current president's chosen one for succession. Galiotte received the votes he needed on 26 November, although the process was but a formality, as he was the sole candidate. The absence of a candidate from the opposition says a lot about how successful Nobre's presidency has been (in particular the second term) but even more about the sorry state of the opposition. Which is regrettable: a healthy opposition – proactive, propositional and scrutinising – is important in so many ways. Now, that is not for Galiotte to worry about. He will preside over a Palmeiras in absolute ascension, a protagonist, a champion, with an intact squad and plenty of financial muscle. And although not yet formally sworn in, it is he who this week conducts final negotiations for the renovation of director of football Alexandre Mattos and assistant Cícero Souza – both instrumental in Palmeiras' recent success. These negotiations successfully concluded, he will then formalise Eduardo Baptista as coach and initiate reformulation of the squad.
So who is Palmeiras' 39th president, Maurício Precivalle Galiotte? The 47-years-old father of three is a business administration graduate, with a postgraduate degree in marketing. He owns a lock factory in Barueri (greater São Paulo region) and initiated his trajectory at Palmeiras in 2001, when he was elected into the Deliberative Council. Galiotte is seen as a conciliatory leader, someone able to please Greeks and Trojans, which is rare at a club like Palmeiras. He is expected to continue the management model implemented in recent years, cementing Paulo Nobre's administrative legacy.
I met briefly with Galiotte in São Paulo a few weeks back, sensing a genuine interest and openness in regard to Palmeiras as a national and international force. "I see Brazilian kids wearing Barcelona jerseys. That's all fine, but I also want to see Spanish kids in Palmeiras jerseys" he stated, smiling. In a near future, yours truly hopes to contribute with a few ideas on how to make Palmeiras bigger, better and stronger on the international arena – and especially in the club's relation with foreign supporters.
Anything Palmeiras wishes President Maurício Galiotte the best of luck!
mauricio galiotte, president
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Podcast that examines legal issues/policies and the impact on women of color. We aim to inform, educate & provide concrete tools to empower, expand and help our community.
This current presidential administration set out to change America's courts – and, unfortunately, it is succeeding. This episode discusses a recent Presidential executive order and DOJ memo that changes the way Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) are hired and fired in this country.


Sandeman's Founder Reserve Port is named in honour of the Founder of Sandeman's. It is a combination of wines aged between 3-5 years in oak casks then being cold-stabilised prior to bottling.
Sandeman's Founders Reserve was named in honour of the founder of Sandeman's. The grapes used in this port are hand picked undergoing stalk removal and crushing before fermentation. Fermentation occurs under controlled temperature with skin maceration in order to extract the best components. Also the addition of wine alcohol is added at the ideal moment to set the balance between the wines body and bouquet.
After the harvest the wine alcohol remains in Douro until the following spring when they are taken to Sandeman's headquarters for ageing in oak wood casks. Throughout the years the wines are carefully tasted and analysed by the oenology team who also makes all necessary correction and prepares the final blend so as to keep Sandeman port founders reserve style and character. The wines selected for the blend are aged between 3-5 years being filtered and cold-stabilised prior to bottling.
The colour of Sandeman's Founders Reserve is an intense ruby red colour, brilliant and clean. Rich red fruit aromas fill the nostrils with a touch of age creating an elegant reflection of powerful flavours.


i have been hunting in iowa for the past 8 days and have 4 days left to hunt. We are experiencing poor rutting movement due to very warm weather. I got lucky last tuesday and killed this big doe, She walked into a scrap i was hunting down wind of. i let her walk into the scrape and it was fun to watch her bat around the scent wick i had hung from the licking branch. She walked away only to return 15 minutes later and do the same thing all over again. I decided i would shoot her and then totally blew the shot. I still dont know what I did to cause my arrow to miss the mark . I thought I hit her low in front of her shoulders and gave my self hell for 90 minutes before getting down to look for blood. As luck would have it , i actually hit her n the lower throat severing the jugular and wind pipe and she only went 40 yards.
The head on that thing looks like a horse's head. Congrats and enjoy the rest of your hunt.
Congratulations! Have fun hunting the bucks.


Already posted this on the gentoo forums, but I assumed the funtoo folk are a little more "viking" and decided to post this here too.
This seems like a great idea to share patches, it might come in handy for the difficult and large changes that cause breakage across the portage tree (like a gcc upgrade) and it might make disseminating patches easier. I'll try it out when I get the time :) Keep up the good work!


To provide affordable healthcare, Jupiter Health Services provides Bulk Billing for Medicare-covered services. Medicare card holders are able to bulk bill where benefits exist as outlined in the Medicare Benefits Schedule.
Depending on your preference, you can book appointments telephonically or via our purpose-built app.
Jupiter Health Services friendly, efficient reception staff are happy to make an appointment for you should you wish to phone in or visit a practice and speak to them face-to-face.
Our purpose-built Practice Locator is a fast and easy way of finding a clinic near you and booking your appointment on-the-go.
Many of the Jupiter Health Services practices have convenient access to pharmacy, pathology, chiropractic and physiotherapy services. Please review the individual practices websites, found at the bottom of each page to confirm the availability of these services at each individual practice.
As many people wish to consult a doctor outside of normal working hours, many of the Jupiter Health Services practices offer extended hours. At these practices you can see a doctor on weekends, before or after work. Same-day appointments and walk-in access for urgent care may be available. Please consult the individual practices websites to determine opening hours.


Miraculous Black & White Bridal Fair The Mira Hong KongWe would like to thank again to The Mira Hong Kong for the invitation, The Modefor the coordination of the catwalk as well as the awesome tuxedos and mini-models, King Fook jewellery group for their gorgeous accessories. Mr.Power Chan, Ms.Mimi Lo and Ms.Ann Ho as our guest models. Thank you!!


Cookies, coffee, soap and even hummus – these are just some of the Israeli products one can find on the grocery stores' shelves in Gaza, written in Hebrew just like the ones in the nearby Israeli retail chains.
Sabra is partly owned by the Strauss Group, a foods manufacturer that the students allege financially supports the Golani Brigade of the Israeli Defense Forces, according to The New York Times. The students say the Golani Brigade has been accused of human rights violations by numerous organizations.
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights and the Palestinian Student Association are among the student groups involved in the campaign, according to the university newspaper, The Fulcrum, along with the community group Young Jews for Social Justice.
"We will be raising awareness amongst the student population, collecting signatures for a petition and encouraging students to individually boycott the product," Assma Basmalah, a representative of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, told the paper.
Maybe Assma should start by raising the awareness of the actual people she presumes to defend by refusing to eat smushed garbanzos. As it turns out, her Gaza brethren are not at all attuned to the serious dangers inherent in the um, purchase of mashed beans and well, a lot of other Israeli stuff.
In 2012 the value import of Israeli products to Gaza stood at NIS 1.3 billion ($375 million), including not only water, gas and electricity, but also food and cleaning products from well-known Israeli companies such as Telma, Willifood, Osem and Tnuva, which brings subtantial tax profit to Israel.
Pity those students in Ottawa are getting so worked up when for the natives of Gaza, BDS protests just don't seem to amount to a hill of beans.
A third-generation-born Pittsburgher on her mother's mother's side, Varda moved to Israel 36 years ago and is a crazy political animal who spams people with right wing political articles on Facebook in between raising her 12 children and writing about education as the communications writer at Kars for Kids a Guidestar gold medal charity.


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Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site is a historic house museum located in the Getty Square neighborhood of Yonkers, New York.  Originally the family seat of Philipse Manor, it is Westchester County's second oldest standing building after the Timothy Knapp House. Located near the Hudson River at Warburton Avenue and Dock Street, it is owned and operated by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

History
The southwest corner, the oldest part of the structure, was built around 1682 by Dutch-born merchant and trader Frederick Philipse, the first Lord of Philipsburg Manor, and his wife Margaret Hardenbroeck. Philipse, who by his second marriage became a son-in-law of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, had amassed by the time of his death a  estate along the Hudson River that encompassed the entire modern city of Yonkers and much of western and lower Westchester County.

During Philipse's life, the building was used primarily as a stopover point on the long journey up and down the river between his home in New Amsterdam and the northern parts of his estate.  His grandson, Frederick Philipse II, the second Lord, and his great-grandson, Frederick Philipse III the last, successively enlarged and enhanced the building, making it the primary family residence.

On November 28, 1776, nearly five months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the start of the American Revolution, Frederick Philipse III and over 200 of his contemporaries signed a document declaring their allegiance to the British Crown and their unwillingness to support the Revolutionary cause. Because of his Loyalism, Philipse was branded a traitor and placed under arrest on orders signed by General George Washington. He was held in Connecticut for a time, but was given special permission to travel back to Yonkers to settle his affairs on the condition he was not to aid the British cause. In violation of his parole, he and his family fled to British-occupied New York City and later to Great Britain, leaving their estate and Philipse Manor Hall behind to be attained in 1779.

Philipse family holdings, which included the Philipse Patent, a 250 square mile tract that became today's Putnam and part of Dutchess counties, were sold at public auction by New York's Commissioners of Forfeitures during the Revolution. Philipse Manor Hall was occupied by various families throughout the 19th century.  In 1868, the building became Yonkers' municipal center (as Village Hall, and later, as City Hall) and remained such until 1908.  During this period, an elaborate monument to those Yonkers natives who had died during the American Civil War was installed on the east lawn (1891).

By 1908, the growing complexity of city government had made the building nearly obsolete as a government center. Public meetings were held, and options such as adding wings onto the building and tearing it down outright were discussed. The question became moot when Eva Smith Cochran, matriarch of a wealthy local carpet milling family, stepped in and donated $50,000 to the city as a nominal reimbursement for their care of the building during the previous 40 years. This allowed the city to turn ownership of the building over to the State of New York.  Between that time and the 1960s, the building was owned by the state but cared for by the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society. Since the dissolution of the Society, the building is owned, maintained and curated by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

From 1911 to 1912, the most intense restoration project in the building's history brought the house back to a semblance of its colonial appearance.  The building has been open as a museum of history, art and architecture since 1912.

The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.

Collections
The house is home to a ca. 1750 papier-mâché and plaster Rococo ceiling, one of two in-situ ceilings of its type in the United States.  The elaborate ceiling is covered in designs and motifs relevant to Frederick Philipse III's lifestyle.  For example, his love of music is represented by lute players, bagpipers and singers; his enthusiasm for hunting is represented by hunting dogs and game birds; and his education in the arts and sciences is represented by busts of Alexander Pope and Sir Isaac Newton.

Also of architectural significance is the 1868 City Council Chamber, designed by John Davis Hatch.  The Chamber's high, vaulted ceiling and woodwork are intentionally reminiscent of a typical English manor house's great hall.

Throughout the house are paintings from the Cochran Collection of American Portraiture.  This collection was put together by agents of Alexander Smith Cochran (son of Eva Smith Cochran and owner of the family's carpet mills) and features works by Charles Willson Peale and John Trumbull.  Represented among the 60 paintings are nearly all of the presidents of the United States from Washington to Calvin Coolidge, as well as war heroes, historical figures, and members of the Philipse family.

Further reading
Great Houses of the Hudson River, Michael Middleton Dwyer, editor, with preface by Mark Rockefeller, Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, published in association with Historic Hudson Valley, 2001. .

See also
Philipsburg Manor House
List of National Historic Landmarks in New York
List of the oldest buildings in New York

References

External links

Friends of Philipse Manor Hall
Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site at the New York Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
New York (state) historic sites
National Historic Landmarks in New York (state)
Houses completed in 1682
Buildings and structures in Yonkers, New York
Culture of Yonkers, New York
History museums in New York (state)
Historic house museums in Westchester County, New York
Art museums and galleries in New York (state)
National Register of Historic Places in Yonkers, New York
1682 establishments in the Province of New York
Philipse family

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Q: Test if screensaver is running or workspace is locked On Mac OS X, I know in Cocoa I can set up a observer for detecting future screen saver events or workspace lock events, like this:
- (id)init {
   if ((self = [super init])) {
      NSDistributedNotificationCenter* distCenter =
           [NSDistributedNotificationCenter defaultCenter];
      [distCenter addObserver:self
                    selector:@selector(onScreenSaverStarted:)
                        name:@"com.apple.screensaver.didstart"
                      object:nil];
      [distCenter addObserver:self
                    selector:@selector(onScreenSaverStopped:)
                        name:@"com.apple.screensaver.didstop"
                      object:nil];
      [distCenter addObserver:self
                    selector:@selector(onScreenLocked:)
                        name:@"com.apple.screenIsLocked"
                      object:nil];
      [distCenter addObserver:self
                    selector:@selector(onScreenUnlocked:)
                        name:@"com.apple.screenIsUnlocked"
                      object:nil];
   }
   return self;
}

But before I add these observers, is there any way to test if a screensaver is running, or if the workspace is locked?

A: You can check if the screensaver is running by checking if the ScreenSaverEngine process is running or not, by using -
pgrep ScreenSaverEngine
you can try it by using -
while true
do
pgrep ScreenSaverEngine
sleep 1
done

and then turning on the screensaver.

For checking the lockscreen -
Install quartz -
pip install pyobjc-framework-Quartz
Much simple code -
import Quartz
d = Quartz.CGSessionCopyCurrentDictionary()
print('CGSSessionScreenIsLocked' in d.keys())

A: I found a partial solution: OSX: check if the screen is locked
Issue with this method though is it thinks its locked the moment the screensaver comes on, even if you have "require password delay" set to something greater than immediately.  Anyone know of a way to differentiate between "just screensaver being on" and "screensaver on and locked (as in now mouse move will show password screen)" ?

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Sustainability: Water - Dead Trees & Dirty Water in the Rockies
Air Date: 06/26/2013
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The Rocky Mountains supply water to more than 60 million homes in the West, but this crucial water shed is in peril due to a tiny insect called the mountain pine beetle. Scientists Reed Maxwell of Colorado School of Mines and John Stednick of Colorado State University have teamed up to study the impact of the mountain pine beetle on water quantity and quality in the area. "Sustainability: Water" is produced in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
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Sustainability- Water – Dead Trees and Dirty Water in the Rockies
ANNE THOMPSON reporting:
Renowned for their dramatic snow-capped peaks and thick pine forests, the Rocky Mountains supply water to more than 60 million people in the West. But this crucial watershed is in peril due to a tiny insect called the mountain pine beetle, a species of bark beetle.
JOHN STEDNICK (Colorado State University): Roughly 90% of the lodge-pole pine in the state of Colorado has been killed by the bark beetle. So we're talking about 4.5 million acres of trees.
THOMPSON: This loss of trees has changed more than just the landscape of the West.
REED MAXWELL (Colorado School of Mines): We've changed the balance of the watershed because we've killed some of the trees.
THOMPSON: With funding from the National Science Foundation, hydrologists Reed Maxwell from Colorado School of Mines and John Stednick from Colorado State University are leading a team of scientists to study the impact of bark beetle tree-kill on water quantity and quality.
STEDNICK: One of the things that we're trying to look at is how this is affecting the water quantity and quality in the Rocky Mountains. So right now in the state of Colorado, about 2.5 million people are affected. Their drinking water can potentially be affected by the pine beetle epidemic.
THOMPSON: The bark beetles are native to North America and are not harmful under normal circumstances. But warmer temperatures and drought over the past ten years have led to a population explosion of beetles. And that has changed three major processes of the water cycle in Colorado - snow pack, runoff and what's called "evapotranspiration."
STEDNICK: Evapotranspiration is a combination of evaporation and transpiration.
MAXWELL: That's interrupted with beetle-killed trees. And this is complicated because the beetle-killed trees don't transpire anymore, and so that will change the water cycle.
THOMPSON: Healthy pine trees, through transpiration, draw groundwater into their roots and leaves and release it into the atmosphere during photosynthesis, almost like sweat. Beetle-killed trees cannot transpire which leaves more water in the ground, to eventually run off. And dead trees have no pine needles to intercept snow and help shade the snowpack from the strong Colorado sun.
MAXWELL: We get a deeper snow pack because there's less foliage to intercept. And we have that snow pack melting off more quickly because there is less shading.
THOMPSON: Without shade, more water from snow or rain evaporates, or becomes vapor, forming clouds in the sky and leaving less water to melt and runoff to streams. The combination of less evapotranspiration and earlier snowmelt means a shorter snow season in Colorado - increasing the amount of water yield in the early spring, and leaving the soil drier in later months.
Yet, the dead trees are not only affecting the quantity of water, but the quality as well.
STEDNICK: The dead trees, the dead forests, they basically will release and have needle fall over a period of time. Those needles on the forest floor will start to decompose.
THOMPSON: Decomposing pine needles mix with runoff to form a smelly, bad-tasting "pine tree tea." By doing field collection and lab analysis on stream and runoff water, Stednick and Maxwell discovered that these fallen needles are causing a change in the natural chemical make-up of Colorado's drinking water.
LINDSAY BEARUP (Colorado School of Mines): We're looking for metals and we're looking for organic compounds as well as potentially nitrogen.
THOMPSON: While not necessarily harmful, organic compounds have to be balanced delicately when pre-treating water for consumption. Changes in organic carbon levels could lead to unsafe drinking water.
In fact, Maxwell and Stednick's team have measured higher levels of organic compounds in the soil beneath trees killed by bark beetles than in the ground under healthy trees.
MAXWELL: There's always needles that drop onto the ground and decompose. But we see a much greater amount of litter and tree-fall and stem-fall and then that tree eventually falls over. So we see a big change in the carbon balance.
THOMPSON: While the water in Colorado is still safe to drink, more research is still needed to determine the extent of the damage these organic compounds are causing.
STEDNICK: What is the long-term effect? What is the legacy of these bark beetles? How long is this organic material production or decomposition and production of organic carbon in the rivers going to last?
THOMPSON: Earlier runoff and snow melt periods, combined with less evapotranspiration, and "pine tree tea," are likely to be part of the challenge of sustainable water in Colorado for several years. All because of a tiny bug.
Climate change is already reducing flows in Colorado River, scientists say
The drought-stricken Colorado River Basin has gotten some temporary relief in the past few weeks after winter storms have pounded the region with fresh rain and snow. In fact, as the Los Angeles Times reported, the recent precipitation has caused federal water managers to lower their estimates of the risk of water shortage in the near future.
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Q: ERROR:-->PLS-00382: expression is of wrong type what's the fail on trigger???? I'm trying create a trigger that be activated when a datetime is found
on interval of time.
 CREATE TABLE R
 (
  OID_R     NUMBER NOT NULL,
  Price     INTEGER NOT NULL,
  f         DATE    NOT NULL,
  HourStart DATE    NOT NULL,
  HuorFin   DATE    NOT NULL,
  OID_E     NUMBER          ,
  OID_S     NUMBER          ,
  OID_P     NUMBER NOT NULL
 );

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER TR_D
  BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE OF OID_R ON R
  FOR EACH ROW
DECLARE
  IntervalR DATE;
  HourStart DATE;
  HourFin   DATE;
BEGIN
  IntervalR := :new.HourFin - :new.HourStart;
  IF IntervalR BETWEEN :old.HourStart AND :old.HourFin THEN
    raise_application_error(-20000, 'Is not avaible');
  END IF;
END;

A: Your description says "when a datetime is found on interval of time" then you test if the difference between the new values falls between the old values. This will never work, but it appears the actual problem you are trying to solve is "determine if the new times overlap the old ones or can the times be reset".
Your trigger has some fundamental flaws beyond the misunderstanding of result of subtracting one date from another.  Your trigger fires on insert but then uses a column from the old row, but on insert there is no old row so all operations with it result in NULL. Therefore your IF statement can never be true. So no need to fire on insert. The trigger also fires on update, but not any update. Only when the column OID_R is updated, If OID_R is not a column in the set list the trigger does not fire on update. It also appears the OID_R is (or at least should be) the primary key in which it should never be updated during normal operations. So should never fire on update. You define three variables, one incorrectly and the other two not used, so none of then are needed. We are left with the original question do the new times overlap the old ones?
Lets define valid resets as when:

*

*new end is greater than new start

*current time is less than new start

*current time is less than old start

With that we get (note there may be other conditions)
create or replace trigger tr_d
  before  update on r
  for each row
begin
   if not (    new.endhour > :new.starthour
           and sysdate     < :new.starthour
           and sysdate     < :old.starthour
          )
   then
        raise_application_error(-20000, 'is not avaible');
  end if;
end tr_d;

The outstanding question is "do the times represent values repeating daily (ie times only) or indicate times on a specific date? If repeats daily then you need to strip the day, month, year from values and sysdate.


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Bianca Andreescu, a remarkable Canadian success story
As Scott Stinson reported in the National Post this week, that decision Bianca Andreescu's parents made to come to Canada 25 years ago was, quite evidently, the right decision for everyone.
Near the end of her press conference after winning the U.S Open Tennis Championship, one of the many foreign journalists asked her about being the daughter of two Romanians. Was it more difficult to grow up in Canada as the child of immigrants?
Andreescu did not hesitate. "Definitely not," she said. "No, Canada is such an amazing country. It's so multi-cultural. I had no trouble growing up having Romanian parents whatsoever. That's why I love my country so, so much."
2019 US Open Tennis Tournament- Day Thirteen. Bianca Andreescu of Canada with the winners trophy after her victory against Serena Williams of the United States in the Women's Singles Final on Arthur Ashe Stadium during the 2019 US Open Tennis
Bianca Andreescu caught almost everyone by surprise by knocking off Serena Williams in straight sets in the final and jumping to #5 in the world from her position of No. 178 at the end of 2018.
At only 19, the Canadian sensation is being compared to past greats who burst quickly on the scene as well.
And before everyone is too smug about Andreescu's quick and certain response about her experience in Canada, she of course isn't speaking for everyone who has tried to make a new life in her country.
But she was consistent in her answers. Earlier in the tournament, she had been asked about the experience of her parents, Nicu and Maria, in leaving Romania for Canada. She said they had left in the mid-'90s. Romania was having problems, she said. "So they wanted to just have a better life, so they came into Canada," Andreescu said. "I think they made the right decision," she said.
At a couple points during the U.S. Open, Andreescu made sure to note the support that she has received in her career from Tennis Canada. She said the developmental program, the training and the coaching, has been a huge part of her success. Not for nothing did she climb into the stands at Ashe on Saturday night to clasp Sylvain Bruneau, her Tennis Canada coach, in a teary embrace after her historic win.
It is the ideal of the immigrant success story, one repeated the world over: The parents leave in search of a better life, and they find it in a new country. In this case, they have a child, and she has opportunities to grow and nurture her talent in a way she otherwise might not have had. And in return, Canada has a wonderful star, a crusher of tennis balls who is now the country's first Slam singles champion, with designs on many more.
That decision Bianca Andreescu's parents made, 25 years ago? It was, quite evidently, the right decision for everyone.
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Q: Sorting Leaderboard in MySQL I use the following SQL to order scores by rank in my leaderboard table:
SELECT score, 1+(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM leaderboard a WHERE a.score > b.score) AS rank
FROM leaderboard b
WHERE stage=1
GROUP BY id

where my table schema is like this:
CREATE TABLE `leaderboard` (
  `auto_id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `score` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `created_on` datetime NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`auto_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

Some sample data rows are as follow:
auto_id     score      id  created_on
====================================================
1,          72023456,   1, '2014-12-30 11:49:59'
2,          1420234,    1, '2014-12-30 12:00:21'
3,          420234,     1, '2014-12-30 12:00:38'
4,          16382,      1, '2014-12-30 16:31:12'
5,          16382,      1, '2014-12-30 16:34:18'
6,          16382,      1, '2014-12-30 16:37:43'
7,          17713,      1, '2014-12-30 16:38:35'
8,          17257,      1, '2014-12-30 18:53:45'
9,          10625,      1, '2014-12-30 18:58:10'
10,         17272,      1, '2014-12-30 18:58:59'
11,         17328,      1, '2014-12-30 18:59:44'
12,         17267,      37, '2015-01-02 17:11:59'
13,         16267,      37, '2015-01-02 17:12:30'
14,         16267,      37, '2015-01-02 17:13:02'
15,         35509,      37, '2015-01-02 17:17:46'
16,         18286,      37, '2015-01-02 18:20:09'
17,         16279,      37, '2015-01-02 18:20:43'
18,         16264,      37, '2015-01-02 18:21:15'
19,         16265,      37, '2015-01-02 18:40:04'

Since id is player's ID, I have to GROUP BY id. It gives the following result:
id   score        rank
=========================
1    72023456     1
37   17267        11

How can I obtain the following expected results?
id   score        rank
=========================
1    72023456     1
37   35509        2

The current problem is, the existing result is not the MAX score of the player.
Bonus: My ultimate goal is to get the entries 1 rank higher & 1 rank lower than specific id.

A: As MySql does not have Windowing Functions the query that you need has to mimic its behavior, so you have to use variables.
select id, score, @rank :=@rank+1 as rank
  from (
         SELECT b.id, max(b.score) as score
           FROM leaderboard b
          GROUP BY id
          order by score desc
        ) tab
        ,(select @rank := 0) r

EDIT: I made a little mistake. I've corrected it now.
The output will be:
id   score        rank
=========================
1    72023456     1
37   35509        2

Basically what I'm doing is creating an iterator on the query and for every row it will increment the variable. As I added the order by it will rank your values based on that order by. But that rank has to happen outside the query because the order be alongside with the rank will mess things up if there is more than two IDs
I will edit the query with the solution for "1 rank higher & 1 rank lower than specific id."
EDIT: for the bonus (not pretty though)
select id, score, rank
from (
   select tab.id, tab.score, @rank :=@rank+1 as rank
     from (select @rank := 0) r,
            (SELECT b.id, max(b.score) as score
            FROM leaderboard b
            GROUP BY id
            order by score desc) tab
) spec
where spec.id=2
UNION
select id, score, rank
from (
   select tab.id, tab.score, @rank :=@rank+1 as rank
     from (select @rank := 0) r,
            (SELECT b.id, max(b.score) as score
            FROM leaderboard b
            GROUP BY id
            order by score desc) tab
) spec
where spec.rank=
(select rank-1
from (
   select tab.id, tab.score, @rank :=@rank+1 as rank
     from (select @rank := 0) r,
            (SELECT b.id, max(b.score) as score
            FROM leaderboard b
            GROUP BY id
            order by score desc) tab
) spec
where spec.id=2)
UNION
select id, score, rank
from (
   select tab.id, tab.score, @rank :=@rank+1 as rank
     from (select @rank := 0) r,
            (SELECT b.id, max(b.score) as score
            FROM leaderboard b
            GROUP BY id
            order by score desc) tab
) spec
where spec.rank=
(select rank+1
from (
   select tab.id, tab.score, @rank :=@rank+1 as rank
     from (select @rank := 0) r,
            (SELECT b.id, max(b.score) as score
            FROM leaderboard b
            GROUP BY id
            order by score desc) tab
) spec
where spec.id=2)
order by rank;

Note that you put the specific ID on the clauses spec.id=2 (I've put 2 because I had to change the values on my enviroment to test it)
Here the SQL Fiddle with my test with the two queries working: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/75047/2

A: The reason the score isn't the max is that, since score isn't in the GROUP BY clause, MySQL is just picking the first value as a representative. Technically, this isn't valid SQL. You probably want to use MAX(score) AS score.
As for the rank, since MySQL doesn't support window functions you'll have to hack something yourself. You can look at this SO post for more info. The standard ways seem to be to use mutable variables to count the rows, or to join the query to itself using an inequality in the ON clause. Neither seems very elegant.


It's hard to be more committed to the labor movement than Aramark's Tim Tracy.
Tim is a steadfast supporter and a 12-year Shop Steward, who is filled with ideas for promoting his Union.
He is also experienced in the art of tagging, aka graffiti art.
Tim got interested in graffiti years ago. He came out of LA's punk scene in the late 70's and early 80's, when punk aficionados started tagging LA buildings with their favorite bands.
In 1987, he started the influential graffiti art magazine, Can Control, which he continues to run today. A few years later, he launched a website under the same name.
Tim is a also a graphic communications whiz, and he shares his talents by frequently sending in artwork he has designed for Local 117 flyers, buttons, stickers, and pins.
Tim's work helped secure a strike fund for Local 117 members in the private sector last year.
Tim is acutely aware of the constant attacks on working people and the need to fight back.
"The Union helps put food on our tables, it supports our medical, and it allows us to support our children," he said.


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An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.
As the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King's propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.
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A View of the Empire at Sunset by Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips's A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping story of the life of the woman who became known to the world as Jean Rhys. Born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in Dominica at the height of the British Empire, Rhys lived in the Caribbean for only sixteen years before going to England. A View of the Empire at Sunset is a look into her tempestuous and unsatisfactory life in Edwardian England, 1920s Paris, and then again in London. Her dream had always been to one day return home to Dominica. In 1936, a forty-five-year-old Rhys was finally able to make the journey back to the Caribbean. Six weeks later, she boarded a ship for England, filled with hostility for her home, never to return. Phillips's gripping new novel is equally a story about the beginning of the end of a system that had sustained Britain for two centuries but that wreaked havoc on the lives of all who lived in the shadow of the empire: both men and women, colonizer and colonized.
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All the Ever After: The Untold Story of Cindarella's Stepmother by Danielle Teller
We all know the story of Cinderella. Or do we? As rumors about the cruel upbringing of beautiful newlywed Princess Cinderella roil the kingdom, her stepmother, Agnes, who knows all too well about hardship, privately records the true story…
A peasant born into serfdom, Agnes is separated from her family and forced into servitude as a laundress's apprentice when she is only ten years old. Using her wits and ingenuity, she escapes her tyrannical matron and makes her way toward a hopeful future. When teenaged Agnes is seduced by an older man and becomes pregnant, she is transformed by love for her child. Once again left penniless, Agnes has no choice but to return to servitude at the manor she thought she had left behind. Her new position is nursemaid to Ella, an otherworldly infant. She struggles to love the child who in time becomes her stepdaughter and, eventually, the celebrated princess who embodies everyone's unattainable fantasies. The story of their relationship reveals that nothing is what it seems, that beauty is not always desirable, and that love can take on many guises.
The Glitch by Elisabeth Cohen
Shelley Stone, wife, mother, and CEO of the tech company Conch, is committed to living her most efficient life. She takes her "me time" at 3:30 AM on the treadmill, power naps while waiting in line, schedules sex with her husband for when they are already changing clothes, and takes a men's multivitamin because she refuses to participate in her own oppression.
But when she meets a young woman also named Shelley Stone who has the same exact scar on her shoulder, Shelley has to wonder: Is she finally buckling under all the pressure? Completely original, brainy, and laugh-out-loud funny, The Glitch introduces one of the most memorable characters in recent fiction and offers a riotous look into work, marriage, and motherhood in our absurd world.
The High Season by Judy Blundell
No matter what the world throws her way, at least Ruthie Beamish has the house. Lovingly renovated, located by the sea in a quiet Long Island village two ferry rides from the glitzier Hamptons, the house is her nest egg—the retirement account shared with her ex-husband, Mike, and the college fund for their teenage daughter, Jem. The catch? To afford the house, Ruthie must let it go during the best part of the year.
It's Memorial Day weekend and Ruthie has packed up their belongings for what Jem calls "the summer bummer": the family's annual exodus to make way for renters. This year, the Hamptons set has arrived. Adeline Clay is elegant, connected, and accompanied by a "gorgeous satellite" stepson.
The widow of a blue-chip artist, living in a world defined by luxury and ease, Adeline demonstrates an uncanny ability to help herself to Ruthie's life. Is Adeline just being her fabulous self, or is she out to take what she wants?
When an eccentric billionaire, his wayward daughter, a coterie of social climbers, and Ruthie's old flame are thrown into the mix, the entire town finds itself on the verge of tumultuous change. By the end of one unhinged, unforgettable summer, nothing will be the same—least of all Ruthie.
The Testament of Loki by Joanne M. Harris
In the sequel to The Gospel of Loki, Loki's adventures continue when he finds a way out of the end of the world and plans to restart the power of the Norse gods.
The end of the world—also known as Ragnarok to the Norse gods—has occurred, and Loki has been trapped in a seemingly endless purgatory, in torture, until he finds a way to escape. It seems that he still exists in the minds of humanity and uses that as a way to our time.
Back in the ninth world (Earth), Loki finds himself sharing the mind of a teenage girl named Jumps, who is a bit of a mess. She's also not happy about Loki sneaking his way into her mind, since she was originally calling on Thor. Worse, her friends have also been co-opted by the gods: Odin, Jump's one-eyed best friend in a wheelchair, and Freya, the pretty one. Thor escapes the netherworld as well and shares the mind of a dog, and he finds that it suits him.
Odin has a plan to bring back the Norse gods ascendancy, but Loki has his own ideas on how things can go—and nothing goes according to plan.
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Chapter Alpha Chi Omega Is Installed Newspaper Clipping, June 1918
This article discusses the installation of Alpha Gamma (The University of New Mexico) chapter.
Collegiate Notes, Fall 2015
Photographs and brief descriptions highlight the achievements of collegiate chapters.
Directory of Alpha Chi Omega, November 1948
This directory lists the names and addresses of Fraternity leaders, including members of the National Council, standing committees, province leaders, alumnae district leaders and alumnae state chairmen. It also lists each collegiate chapter along with its president and alumnae advisor and each alumnae chapter or club with its president and meeting information.
Gladys Hayden to Mrs. Edgar Steiner Telegram, April 1, 1918
Gladys Wilson Hayden (Alpha Gamma, The University of New Mexico) expresses thanks that her group at the University of New Mexico has been accepted to affiliate with Alpha Chi Omega.
Helene Jackson Initiation Certificate, September 20, 1921
Hera Day Activities by Chapter Report, February-March 1941
This report lists each chapter and its altruistic activities for Hera Day. Many of the activities center around children or senior citizens.
Kathryn Lenihan Working at Desk Photograph, c. 1970
Kathryn Lenihan (Alpha Gamma, The University of New Mexico) served as the administrative director for the central office from 1966-73.
Life Loyal, Fall 2015
This page lists Alpha Chis who have joined the Life Loyal program between April 1 and June 30, 2015.
Lois Burdick to Lois Tullis Letter, July 2, 1975
Lois Allen Burdick, (Alpha Gamma, The University of New Mexico) writes to Lois Tullis about plans for the reinstallation of Pi (University of California, Berkeley) chapter, about the fact that alumnae support is needed for the reinstallation to take place and about the Greek system at the University of California, Berkeley.


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The outlook for data scientists: less hype, more hiring.
The exuberance surrounding big data has passed its peak and is trending down, the technology research firm Gartner declared last August in its annual "hype cycle" report on perceptions of technology.
Perhaps, but it remains a rising market for data scientists. Salaries rose 8 percent on average in the last year, with bonuses adding $56,000, according to a salary and employment survey released on Tuesday by Burtch Works, a recruiter of professionals with quantitative skills.
The survey also points to a shift in demand for data scientists. The share of workers with deep data skills who are employed by start-ups fell by more than half, to 14 percent this year from 29 percent last year. Linda Burtch, managing director of the recruiting firm that bears her name, said the change reflected how much companies in mainstream industries like retailing, consumer products, insurance, health care and manufacturing were building up data science capabilities.
Khalid Ahmed, 25, is finishing up his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. His field of computational physics and materials science, Mr. Ahmed said, has increasingly become a data science — and he has veered in that direction. He was recruited by several companies including start-ups. One analyzed credit-card data to target marketing and advertising campaigns. Instead, Mr. Ahmed chose to join Ford Motor as a data engineer in its hybrid car program.
In Charlotte, N.C., Ahmer Inam, 39, recently left Sonic Automotive, a large auto retailer with 100 dealerships in 14 states, where he was director of predictive analytics. He enjoyed the work, but ultimately he decided he wanted to move beyond tailored marketing. "Our work was designed to seduce a customer toward a particular vehicle and determine the optimal price," he said.
There is an apparent contradiction between the buoyant job market for big data practitioners and Gartner's judgment that, on the perception scale, big data has moved from high expectations to what Gartner calls the "trough of disillusionment." But, in fact, it fits a familiar pattern of technology absorption and use. Significant new technologies always take time to move into the mainstream as people and organizations learn to exploit them. It takes years.
The classic study of the phenomenon, "The Dynamo and the Computer: An Historical Perspective on the Modern Productivity Paradox," by Paul David, an economic historian at Stanford University, was published in 1990. In it, Mr. David noted, the electric motor was introduced in the early 1880s, but its real payoff in productivity was not evident until the 1920s. It took that long for businesses to reorganize work around the industrial production line, the efficiency breakthrough of its day, made possible by the electric motor.
Similarly, it took a while for personal computers and the Internet to deliver big gains. And so too for big data, which harnesses computing, modern digital data and the software tools of artificial intelligence.


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Geek Couples: The Doctor & The Master
With "Hold me closer, Lady Master" ringing in his ears, Chris Morley finds a thin line between love & hate.
Roger Delgado planting a smacker on the lips of Jon Pertwee. Anthony Ainley puckering up with any of Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker or Sylvester McCoy. Eric Roberts offering to show Paul McGann his Eye of Harmony.
Of course, these encounters never actually happened - at least not to anyone's knowledge - but New-Who though seems to delight in giving the Master just as much chance for romance as the Doctor. And sometimes with the Doctor!
Beginning with the series three finale and the John Simm Master, The Sound Of Drums would stop short of revealing the Doctor and Master are brothers, even though Russell T Davies script looked like it was going that way, but clearly a bromance is shared between them. One which was never so apparent in early stories.
This is in part because the Tenth believed he was the last of his kind and discovering he wasn't, only to think he would be again, was a hard blow to take. But perhaps this bromance was also a foreshadowing of the approach his Twelfth self would adopt for series ten?
Certainly the Master's supposed death scene in Last Of The Time Lords was played out like one half of a couple losing their significant other...
DOCTOR: There you go. I've got you. I've got you.
MASTER: Always the women.
DOCTOR: I didn't see her.
MASTER: Dying in your arms. Happy now?
DOCTOR: You're not dying. Don't be stupid. It's only a bullet. Just regenerate.
MASTER: No.
DOCTOR: One little bullet. Come on.
MASTER: I guess you don't know me so well. I refuse.
DOCTOR: Regenerate. Just regenerate. Please. Please! Just regenerate. Come on.
MASTER: And spend the rest of my life imprisoned with you?
DOCTOR: You've got to. Come on. It can't end like this. You and me, all the things we've done. Axons. Remember the Axons? And the Daleks. We're the only two left. There's no one else. Regenerate!
Of course, he didn't die, and the Simm Master returned for The End Of Time, only to seemingly sacrifice himself. An act purely to punish the Time Lords? Or a gesture of love for his old friend?...
His regeneration into a female body and her fixation on her old enemy, added a whole new dimension to their relationship. Michelle Gomez took her predecessors' fascinations with the Clangers & Teletubbies and turned them up to eleven as she whirls by St Paul's Cathedral in the midst of an invasion by the Cybermen, having seemingly decided to take inspiration for her new look from Mary Poppins!
Now, who could she possibly want to play Bert to her Mary? That's right, her intellectual equal and moral opposite. Although he's not sure who she is at first...
MISSY: You know who I am. I told you. You felt it. Surely you did.
DOCTOR: Two hearts.
MISSY: And both of them yours.
DOCTOR: You're a Time Lord.
MISSY: Time Lady, please, I'm old-fashioned.
DOCTOR: Which Time Lady?
MISSY: The one you abandoned, Doctor. The one you left for dead. Didn't you ever think I'd find my way back?
Something of the state of their long-term relationship is revealed when talk turns to their home planet.
DOCTOR: Why are you still alive?
MISSY: You saved me.
DOCTOR: I saved Gallifrey.
MISSY: Yes, Gallifrey too, I suppose. There's always collateral damage with you and me. It's our Paris.
Ah, Paris. The Doctor had of course visited the French capital as a younger man with Romana in tow. If his Twelfth incarnation also had a swift Eurostar excursion to the continent with Missy then that happened off-screen. In a tenuous link though, he keep Missy locked in a vault, a word we get from the old French term voute, for much of series ten.
How she came to be beneath the campus of St Luke's University in Bristol in a Quantum Fold Chamber is entirely the Doctor's doing, and something of a mercy situation. The Doctor having been given the duty of executing Missy, yet unable to do so.
The Doctor swore to watch over her for 1000 years, but as the saying goes "if you love somebody set them free" and so after about 70 years he set about rehabilitating his old friend. It seemed to have ultimately worked as once again and without doubt this time she fatally stabs her previous self after realising that being the Doctor's friend was all she ever really wanted - this after batting away the Simm Master's hints at being more than a bit aroused by his future incarnation.
Alas, a rekindling of the Doctor/Master bromance was not to be, as one good fatal wounding beget another. Perhaps it was because the Simm Master could not accept Missy returning to help the Doctor and doing the right thing. Or perhaps it was a case that if one Master could not be with the Doctor, then no Master will...
It seems the latest incarnation of the Master, as played by Sacha Dhawin, has for now at least dropped any pretense of friendly intentions towards the Doctor. An opening gambit of attempting to kill the Thirteenth Doctor and her 'fam' on a plane with a bomb instead of a pilot not exactly coming from a place of love.
But as we have seen from his two predecessors, there's a thin line between love and hate.
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The Thibodaux City Council has delayed action on a proposal to raise city sewer fees to finance a new sewerage treatment facility.
Debate about the increase received renewed attention early this week when John Toups, a local business owner and Thibodaux resident, sent out a leaflet decrying the increase and the mayor's attempt at approving it.
The council chambers were packed as citizens awaited debate on the increase, which is intended to shore up the sewer account and provide financing for a $7.2 million sewerage treatment facility on the north side of town.
While there is nothing wrong with the city's wastewater treatment facility, the infrastructure used to move sewage from the north of the city to the facility south of the city is often overburdened. The city's sewer account also incurs an annual loss, which was about $200,000 last year, according to the city's most recent audit.
To solve these issues, Mayor Tommy Eschete has proposed a sewer fee increase to be phased in incrementally across three years. The total increase will raise residents' monthly sewer fee by $1.01 per 1,000 gallons of water used when fully implemented. This increase would both shore up the sewer finances and provide increased capacity for the city through the new facility, Eschete said.
Much of the debate came from Toups who said he thinks the mayor could use money from other sources such as sales tax money to finance the project.
Eschete likened that to "robbing Peter to pay Paul" and said he would rather have the fees generated by the sewer system pay for improvements to it.
James Ryan, with Government Consultants of Louisiana, Inc., said it is within the city's authority to use other areas to finance the increase, but investors like to see the system that they are investing in is sustainable, thus making the use of sewer fees more attractive.
Toups also suggested imposing fees on land developers in the north side of the city as they stand to benefit from the project. The J.B. Levert Land Co. owns the remaining undeveloped land along North Canal Boulevard to the city limits.
The mayor reasoned that such fees would ultimately be passed down to businesses or residents, which would discourage growth.
Councilman Lloyd "Chip" Badeaux raised the possibility of simply having a holding pond for wastewater on the north side, which would then be pumped to the city's existing facility when rain isn't straining the system.
Jimmy Ledet, the Thibodaux manager for engineering firm T. Baker Smith, said while such a holding pond is an option, it wouldn't provide for greater sewage capacity for the growing city.
The council decided unanimously to postpone action until the Sept. 4 meeting. Eschete said he plans to get more details on an alternate financing plan through the state Department of Environmental Quality. That plan may necessitate a smaller increase, he said.


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Council votes unanimously to support submission
By Tim Miller
Phil Ker.
The Dunedin City Council has reiterated its support for the Otago Polytechnic and its chief executive Phil Ker.
The council voted to approve its submission on the Government plans to merge the country's 16 polytechnics into a single national institute.
The submission supports Mr Ker's alternative plan, which would allow polytechnics to keep control of their decision-making and budgets.
Mayor Dave Cull said Otago polytechnic was not only one of the best in New Zealand in terms of education and community involvement, it had also remained commercially viable, despite a difficult funding environment.
Taking local control away from successful polytechnics would only result in a ''dumbing down'' of the sector which is the opposite of what the Government was trying to achieve, Mr Cull said.
''We could end up with a complete collapse so we need our polytech to remain at least semi-autonomous so it can be an exemplar for the rest of the country like it has been for the past few years.''
Cr Andrew Whiley urged others make a submission in support of the polytechnic before the April 5 deadline.
After voting to approve the submission, councillors also officially thanked Mr Ker and the rest of the staff at the polytechnic for their work.
A motion was put for the council to record a vote of thanks to Mr Ker and the rest of the staff for their stewardship of the institution and for their constructive engagement with the proposals to improve the polytechnic sector across the country.
Councillors voted unanimously to support both the submission and the vote of thanks.
tim.miller@odt.co.nz
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Off-Broadway Premiere Set for "American Psycho" Musical
By Dave Quinn	• Published at 8:16 am on July 15, 2014
Patrick Bateman has killer looks and killer tendencies. And this spring, the investment banker turned serial killer we came to love in Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel and Mary Harron's 2000 film, "American Psycho," will make his way back to New York in a new musical adaptation opening in March 2015 at the Second Stage Theater.
The musical comes off-Broadway after an acclaimed 2013 run in London, where it starred the Eleventh Doctor from "Dr. Who," Matt Smith, in the Patrick Bateman role made famous by Christian Bale in the film. No casting has been announced yet for the Second Stage production, but Rupert Goold ("Enron"), who directed the show in London, will once again direct here.
The 1980s-set "American Psycho" musical features many of the hit songs used in the film -- "Hip to be Square" by Huey Lewis & The News, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears For Fears, "Don't You Want Me" by the Human League, etc.
Additional songs come from Tony-winning composer Duncan Sheik ("Spring Awakening").
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The stage show's book is written by one of the "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" scribes, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Both Sheik and Aguirre-Sacasa will reportedly be making changes to the show before its New York premiere.
Previews for "American Psycho" are set to begin in February 2015.


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Q: The dreadful lunch
There are $100$ cakes for lunch at $1$pm. One of them is poisoned. The poison takes exactly $1$ hour to kill the person who ate it. But still, some people have to taste it (just through a small piece) to make sure the lunch can be held safely. It is now $11$:$30$am. What is the minimum amount of people that have to risk their lives?

I have no idea what the answer is. Someone can eat multiple cakes so I know the answer is not 100.
By the way, can someone change the tags? I actually don't know what tag(s) it belongs to.


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16 janvier 2022 Le quotidien en ligne pour les opérateurs et les usagers du transport 11:11 GMT+1
Foreword by Giuliano Gallanti,
Chairman of ESPO
It is my pleasure to introduce this Annual Report which covers the period mid-2006 to mid-2007.
This is the first Annual Report ESPO produces in co-operation with the Institute of Transport and Maritime Management Antwerp (ITMMA). I am particularly grateful to Theo Notteboom and Bert Vernimmen of the Institute who have meticulously prepared the market analysis section of this document. You will find it contains a comprehensive and practical overview of the major developments and trends in the different market segments of European ports. It furthermore provides clear insight in the policy implications for European port authorities and thus makes the link with the work of ESPO which is described in the second part of the report.
The co-operation with ITMMA, which took effect in May 2006, was inspired by the need to ensure that policymakers have the essential insights in the complex mechanics of our sector. At a time when the European Commission is planning to map out a comprehensive policy for seaports, this cannot be overestimated.
I believe ESPO should generally make better use of the wealth of European know-how on port-related matters to complement its lobby work. At the same time ESPO could also develop a catalyst role in the field of port knowledge and expertise, which today is very much scattered around Europe. We are currently exploring ways to give this concrete shape and you will no doubt hear more about our plans during the coming year.
The changes that drive seaports progress at such a speed that well-intentioned policy initiatives can be totally outdated by the time they are implemented. The port services' Directive, which was the direct result of the 1997 Green Paper of Commissioner Kinnock, is a case in point. During the 10 years that elapsed between the publication of the Green Paper and the withdrawal of the Directive, the sector has changed so much that it would be difficult to fit it in some of the proposals developed years ago.
We want to prevent a similar scenario happening with the EU ports policy that is currently taking shape. This is why we are advocating a flexible approach. By limiting legislative intervention, we believe it will be easier for Europe to find an appropriate and adaptable policy framework for our diverse and dynamic port industry. As you will read further in the policy section of this report, we believe the essential way forward consists of a mixture of instruments that provide guidance and clarification (so-called "soft law"), stimulate best practice and review legislation where necessary.
Finally, I am very pleased that over the past year we managed to close a partnership with our colleagues of the European Federation of Inland Ports. Given that the interests of inland and maritime port authorities increasingly coincide, I am convinced it will strengthen the overall representation of European ports in Brussels.
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Q: Expected execution behaviour of jetty ContainerLifecycleListener with Priority annotation? I created a number of classes that implement ContainerLifecycleListener and registered them in my Application class with a Priority annotation.
Is it expected that tasks start according to the priorities assigned when jetty starts?
Thanks.
Please see code below:
@Priority(TaskPri.NORMAL)
public class Task1 implements ContainerLifecycleListener {
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}

@Priority(TaskPri.LOW)
public class Task2 implements ContainerLifecycleListener {
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}

public class TaskPri {
    public static final int NORMAL = 6500;
    public static final int LOW = 6000;
}

public class App extends ResourceConfig {
      public App() {
 packages("com.example.tasks").register(Task1.class).register(Task2.class);
     }
 }

There is an option to register the classes with bindingPriority, cannot find what it exactly means, any ideas ?


I am delighted to join a school that has warmly welcomed me from the day I arrived in Doha. Thank you everyone!
As an experienced Deputy Head from an outstanding primary school in London, I have demonstrated a track record of achieving exceptional outcomes in children's learning. It was accomplished through positive relationships with the students, staff and parents alike.
I am proud to be part of the Ta'allum group which provides a bigger stage for experienced teachers and leaders, offering scope for a brilliant support network. As an accredited leadership facilitator for the Institute of Education, I aim to encourage the growing culture of strong leadership here starting with our boys in year one. This will consequently train them to become the frontrunners in all industries across the globe.
We will not only strive for excellence for our students in English and Mathematics but our aim is to ensure that the children also take pride in their co-curricular activities. My passion lies in the arts and sports which will see our students thrive, being motivated to achieve their artistic and sporting dreams; should that be their desire.
I aim to further promote the Qatari Islamic traditions and values so that all students become confident, respectful and well-rounded individuals. I will be relentless and committed in my approach to delivering the best opportunities for our boys by cultivating their creativity through high-quality teaching and learning.
I greatly look forward to your support and engagement building on the successes already achieved at Al Maha Academy Boys School.


The XUV300 is based on the X100 platform which also underpins Tivoli.
It gets two engine options and several first in segment features.
Mahindra for long was in need of a strong contender in the subcompact SUV space as it's the segment which garners strong volumes at present. SUVs have sold like hot cakes in the last five years and subcompact and compact SUVs more so as despite not be a true off-roader, they definitely have the appeal. The ascent of the subcompact SUV segment was also the reason why Mahindra lost its position of being India's largest UV maker since Maruti Suzuki now has the throne, thanks to the ever-popular Vitara Brezza. That said, the home-grown UV maker is finally up with the all-new Mahindra XUV300 which is launching on February 14, 2019 and according to our review is potent enough to give a sweat to the competition.
The all-new Mahindra XUV300 is built on SsangYong's X100 platform which also spawns the SsangYong Tivoli which in-turn means that the XUV300 inherits some of the characters of the Tivoli. However, both are not exactly the same models as Mahindra has made changes to other underpinnings of the XUV300. For instance, it gets a new suspension set-up along with an entirely new steering mechanism.
The XUV300 is even shorter in dimension than the Tivoli as Mahindra has axed its overhangs to keep its length under four metres. Though, it has the same 2620 mm of wheelbase as the Tivoli which is also the largest footprint in the segment. The Mahindra XUV300 also appears different in design than the Tivoli and Mahindra says that it's taken inspirations from its elder sibling- the Mahindra XUV500. Just to relate, the haunches are exaggerated like we have seen on the XUV500 and even the grille gets the similar chrome studs, though they are sleek. The Golf-Stick shaped fog lamps too are adjoined with the projector headlamps in a peculiar manner where the thin LED strip is adjoining both the units. Moreover, in silhouette, the Mahindra XUV300 looks really close to the Vitara Brezza and people are likely to confuse it with one if the XUV300 is parked with the body cover on and the dual-tone 17-inch alloy wheels could only work as a separator in such case.
The Mahindra XUV300 has simply upped the ante in the subcompact SUV segment with the kind of cabin it gets. The colour combination of off-white and black and the materials used are exact same which we have seen on the Mahindra Marazzo but it seems even plush in this one. It also gets the silver finish on the dash and central console and piano black touches on the doors' armrests. The layout of the dash and central console is rather conventional with the 7-inch touchscreen taking the centre stage with a cluster of switch knobs stacked below for climate control and other functions. The cabin is also well-appointed according to our review and there is no major ergonomic issue like one in the Marazzo. The legroom at the rear is decent but it has a boot space of 308 litres which is the smallest in the segment.
The Mahindra XUV300 will get two engine options - a 1.5 litre diesel unit and a 1.2 litre petrol motor.
The Mahindra XUV300 will be launched with two engine options- diesel and petrol. The diesel engine is the same 1.5-litre four-cylinder unit which powers the Marazzo but it's been detuned for the XUV300. Here it produces 115 bhp at 3750 rpm and 300 Nm of peak torque between 1500 - 2500 rpm. The petrol engine is a 1.2-litre, three-cylinder turbocharged unit which churns out 110 bhp at 5000 rpm and 200 Nm of peak torque between 2000 - 3500 rpm. At the launch both the engines will be mated to a six-speed manual transmission as standard. There won't be an automatic variant at the launch which is a big miss as it would have added credentials for city runabouts and more so because all the competitors have an automatic transmission on offer.
The Mahindra XUV300 scores even here as it offers up to seven airbags including one for the driver's knees. It also gets other safety features like ABS with EBD and rear parking sensors as standard. Moreover, it is equipped with all the driver-aid features like the Electronic Stability Program (ESP), Hill Start Assis, Hill Descent Control and Traction Control.


MAG (Manchester Airports Group) has selected global IT provider SITA to implement further passenger self-service across the group's three main airports. This follows a tender process that concluded in November 2018, after which SITA was awarded a five-year framework agreement to provide new check-in, self-bag-drop and boarding points across Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports.
To support this, SITA will provide more than 660 staffed and self-service common-use points at check-in, transfer and boarding across all three airports. At Manchester Airport – the group's busiest airport – SITA will significantly increase staffed and self-service check-in kiosks as well as introduce SITA's self-bag drop in Terminals 1 and 3, where passengers can check in their own bags in under a minute.
Nicholas Woods, CIO of MAG, said, "Our passenger numbers continue to grow rapidly across our three airports. At the same time our passengers want to spend as little time completing the travel steps such as check-in, bag drop and boarding.
As part of the baggage reconciliation system upgrades at Manchester Airport, baggage will be tracked so that each bag is accounted for at every step of the journey. This will have a tremendous impact on reducing the possibility of a bag being mishandled, providing passengers more certainty on where their bags are at all times.
Sergio Colella, SITA president for Europe, added, "With more than 60 million passengers per year across three airports, we can help MAG meaningfully streamline their passenger and baggage processes to accommodate even more passengers while providing a smooth, seamless experience for each of those passengers.


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Anesti Danelis
This Show Will Change Your Life
The Hanover Tap
Winning Canadian songsmith frequently hits a high note of excellent comedy
Reading time: 2 mins
Kevin Ibbotson-Wight
4 - 28 August 2022
While This Show Will Change Your Life will not change your life, it will likely leave you with a smile as wide as that worn by the charming Canadian himself
Tucked away in the New Town, The Hanover Tap is a bit out of the way from the main Fringe madness, and many venues have complained about limited footfall during August. Happily, musical comedian Anesti Danelis doesn't seem to be struggling for punters. Another performer who carved a niche during the pandemic with a prolific line of videos about life in lock down, more than a few are surely here to see how Danelis' live show stands up. And while This Show Will Change Your Life will not change your life, it will likely leave you with a smile as wide as that worn by the charming Canadian himself.
Danelis brings a winning, sunny demeanour to every song, interacting gently with the audience in between and taking a clear interest in the people who have come to hear him play. The tunes themselves vary from wistful acoustic strumming with sharply subverted lyrics to keyboard-driven stomp-a-longs. Danelis shifts more than capably between instruments and there is a clear Flight of the Conchords influence in some of his lyrical dexterity, and there's a fondness for abruptly pausing a tune in order to hurl out a verbose punchline that's intentionally out of metre, and which frequently undercuts the previous lyrics.
As with all shows of this genre, some songs are more memorable than others. Most are very good however, and two in particular burrow in like the industrious earworms they are through Danelis' ability to extend a theme to the end of its elasticity. The first is a series of diatribes against all of who have slighted him, which he admits during the choruses were all said in his mind. The other, dealing with his sexuality, is an unhinged warning of what you risk happening when you dump a bisexual. Basically, he'll plough his way through your entire family. The imagery would risk veering into the worrying, if it wasn't delivered with Danelis' inherently cherubic persona.
There's often some scepticism when it comes to musical comedy as, like horror comedy in cinema, it can be desperately difficult to hit the correct balance. Happily, Danelis gets it absolutely right. The song-writing itself is never less than strong, and he's an excellent wordsmith. He's also got the bonus of that effervescent charisma.


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WRS has a priority deadline of December 1, 2018 for students who wish to be considered for funding starting next fall. Details can be found on our Admissions Information webpage.


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Stephanie Van Hook: Beyond Coping — How to Find the Strength to Take on Climate Change
Across the board, hope is one of the key emotional states that compels us to act.
It's hard to ignore not just the scientific reports, but also the on-the-ground reality of climate disruption. It's getting hotter and drier, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates we have about 12 years to reverse this direct trend. It's a challenge requiring us to come together as a mature and functional human family.
It's a tall order because at its root, the climate crisis is also the crisis of human relationship—how we relate to our own emotional states, those of others, and, ultimately, conflict. To solve problems with—not for—human beings, which is what this crisis requires, we need to be conflict-literate. We need to be in touch with our own emotions and feelings, which can be as scary inwardly as climate change can feel outwardly. The situation is dire: Rising temperatures in just the United States and Mexico are predicted to increase the numbers of suicide by an extra 21,000 people per year by 2050, according to a study led by Marshall Burke at Stanford University.
Unchecked strong emotions elicited by personal and environmental stress (sometimes this is called structural violence) can usurp the mental energy we need for sustained nonviolent action. Yet healthy human relationships are full of what cultures of restorative justice and conflict resolution call "healthy conflict": inner and outer processes of resolving disputes that promote clarity and growth and strengthen relationships in community.
And while many people are "conflict avoidant," even fearful (think fight-or-flight) of someone with contrary opinions and ideas, we don't have to be intimidated. All of our faculties are tested in conflict situations. What helps us take on conflict intentionally and offers us resilience is the depth of our capacity to weather various emotional and mental energy, both ours and others'—and put them to work. These psychic energies are some of the most precious natural resources and sources of power we have.
"I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger," Gandhi said, "and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world."
What Gandhi knew is that emotions have immense potential—and that we can harness that power for meaningful and effective action.
We have our work cut out for us because anger over climate disruption is not the only emotion we're working with. Ashlee Cunsolo, a researcher linking climate and mental health, has documented that the Inuit in Arctic areas in Canada believe their way of life is under threat, and are experiencing greater anxiety, depression, grief, and fear. In Indonesia, a sense of panic is likely what's motivating the government to move its capital city to Borneo, because Jakarta is sinking and running out of potable water. And in the U.S., most of the public is feeling "worried about harm from extreme weather events," as well as feeling helpless, disgusted, and even hopeful, according to an early 2019 report from over a decadelong research project at Yale called Climate Change in the American Mind.
Like a wind turbine taking in all of the wind—whether it passed over a manured field or a lavender meadow—all of these negative and positive emotions can be harnessed by our minds and expressed in positive, effective ways that help us take on climate conflict from a position of inner strength.
Even denial can be harnessed, if we take a little time to understand it with a compassionate lens.
We've come to know denial at its worst, the passive resignation we experience as wildfires spread and species disappear. Denial is also a powerful coping mechanism for releasing ourselves from the stress that comes with anger, grief, or overwhelm, with feeling like the problem is just too big. However, as clinical psychologist at Columbia University Wendy Greenspun is careful to point out, "the very thing that protects us also prevents us from taking action."
She suggests that to break down our defense mechanism, we should connect with others and take on self-care strategies. For example, we can calm our reactivity with mindful breathing to activate our parasympathetic nervous system, go out in nature, spend time with friends, and even take on some form of meditation. We can explore such strategies by attending workshops and retreats, like those hosted by Greenspun, that focus on how to handle the stresses of climate disruption. And we can also seek out organizations and individuals making change and get involved, even through offering similar workshops within our own circles.
Naming our emotions also helps. When we do, we activate a part of the brain that helps to regulate them. This helps especially well when experiencing more than one emotion at a time, which is common and often confusing. Behind my anger toward the government for deregulating harmful industries, I may also experience anxiety. By naming both, I own them. Then, because I've made myself aware of them, I can decide more easily how to constructively act with the power locked up in those feelings. Activists in Iceland, for instance, held a public funeral for the Okjökull glacier, motivated by owning their grief. The action resonated around the world.
But what about hope? What about connection?
Across the board, hope is a key emotional state that compels us to act. Not the hope that someone is going to single-handedly solve our problems—but hope that it can be done if we take strategic collective action. The National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation has identified such a strategy, bringing together informal science education institutions (aquariums and zoos, for example) and social psychologists with tools for effective conversations. Their main goal is to connect their audience with examples of grassroots positive change being realized in communities all over.
That hopeful attitude just might be enough to help us stay balanced in the face of overwhelming circumstances. Barbara Fredrickson, psychologist and professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has dedicated decades to researching positivity. In a 2003 study, for instance, she looked at resiliency and the role of positive emotions in how college students at the University of Michigan coped with the aftermath of 9/11. She wanted to find the coexistence of positive emotional states with negative states—terror and anxiety on the one hand, and greater closeness and gratitude on the other.
And after many years of research, she did. She found that cultivating positive emotions in crisis can put our minds at greater ease and undoeffects such as increased blood pressure, vasoconstriction, and heart rate that come with the onslaught of "negative emotions" like fear, anger, and anxiety. And we can do it intentionally: Use humor, hug someone you love, even try smiling more (this one makes me cringe as a feminist, but the science says it can trigger endorphins).
Don't discount how you feel. As my meditation teacher liked to say, this is a come-as-you-are party. Wherever you find yourself right now is how we need you to show up. Just show up.
First published in YES! Magazine in partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.
School children hold placards and shout slogans as they participate in a protest outside the Scottish Parliament on March 15, 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Students around the world took to the streets on March 15 to protest a lack of climate awareness and demand that elected officials take action on climate change. Inspired by Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old environmental activist who started skipping school since August 2018 to protest outside Sweden's parliament, school and university students worldwide have followed her lead and shared her alarm and anger. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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Order of Maria Isabel Luisa
Order of Queen Maria Isabel Luisa, Gold Cross
Product version - Order of Queen Maria Isabel Luisa, Gold Cross
SKU: 01.ESP.0113.101.01.000
$190-310 USD
Image courtesy of Medal Medaille.com
Bronze gilt/Enamelled
Obv: ISABEL II REINA DE ESP. Rev: M. Y. L. AL MERITO MILITAR
24x39mm (including suspension)
The Cross of Maria Isabel Luisa (Cruz de la Reina Maria Isabel Luisa) was established by King Fernando VII/ Ferdinand VII on June 19, 1833. It was founded in commemoration of the ceremony at which Princess Maria Isabel Luisa, future Queen Isabel II/Isabella II, was formally declared to be the heiress of the Spanish throne.
It was awarded to military personnel that belonged to any of the branches of the Spanish Army, in recognition of meritorious services either in wartime or time of peace.
At the beginning it had a single class, the Silver Cross, to reward all the troops. In 1839, the Enameled Cross was added for recipients who were promoted to officer status.
The Cross was annulled on December 9, 1868 and it was replaced by the Order of Military Merit.


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Idan Ofer's OPC Energy raises NIS 155m on TASE
26 Aug, 2019 15:57
Kobi Yeshayahou
The company issued 4.1% of its share capital to four investment institutions, putting the public's aggregate holdings over 30%.
OPC Energy (TASE: OPCE), controlled by Kenon Holdings (NYSE: KEN; TASE: KEN), a company under the control of Idan Ofer, has completed a private placement of 4.1% of its share capital, raising NIS 155 million from four investment institutions. Two months ago, the company raised NIS 120 million from three investment institution in another private placement. The company, whose market cap is NIS 3.7 billion, issued its shares at NIS 26.50 a share, the same as yesterday's closing price.
Kenon, which owned 72.9% of OPC Energy's shares before the latest financing round, now owns a 69.9% stake in the company. At the same time, the public's holdings in company are rising to over 30%, making OPC Energy eligible for inclusion in the Tel Aviv 125 Index.
Migdal Insurance and Financial Holdings Ltd. (TASE: MGDL), which acquired 1.4% of OPC Energy's shares in the previous round, also took part in the latest round, spending NIS 15 million more and increasing its holdings in OPC Energy to 8.64%. Another investment institution acquired 2% more of OPC Energy in the current round, bringing its stake up to 4.7% of the company's share capital, while a third investment institution picked up an addition 1% of the company, giving it a total holding of 2.2%. A fourth investment institution bought 0.5% of OPC Energy's capital in its first investment in the company.
As in its previous offering, OPC Energy stated, "The company will use the proceeds for its business activity, as its board of directors may decide from time to time." OPC Energy's share is up 2.5% today, and has gained 42% since the beginning of the year.
OPC Energy builds and operates power plants, and supplies electricity to private customers and Israel Electric Corporation (IEC). The company owns 80% of the Mishor Rotem power station project, with a production capacity of 466 megawatts. At the same time, OPC is currently moving ahead with plans to construct a large power station near the Plugot Junction (Kiryat Gat) that will supply 396 megawatts. Construction will be through Zomet Energy, in which OPC has a 95% holding. The company is also currently building another power station in Hadera with a 148-megawatt capacity.
OPC Energy finished the first half of 2019 with NIS 659 million in revenue, 1.1% more than in the corresponding period in 2018. The company reported an 11% drop in net profit to NIS 40 million.
Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on August 26, 2019
Idan Ofer
OPC Energy raising NIS 120m
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