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About OPEN
Participating countries and regions
Key Focus Areas
The Obesity Challenge
London, 19th May 2021
The data released by NHS Digital which highlights that one million people living with obesity were admitted to NHS hospitals in 2019/20 reinforces the need for improved support and access to appropriate weight management and obesity services for people living with obesity. Additionally, we believe that the prevalence of obesity in England, is likely to mean that the figure for obesity hospital admissions is an underrepresentation due to reporting issues.
The lack of access to weight management and obesity services is a longstanding issue with a wealth of evidence demonstrating that people living with overweight and obesity may not have suitable services in the region that they live. For instance, less than 50% of people have access to either a tier 3 or 4 weight management service in England and analysis published in the BMJ in 2016 suggests that less than 1% of people have access to bariatric surgery. Improving access can have beneficial long term impacts for people living with obesity and health service resources. Ensuring that people living with overweight and obesity have access to suitable weight management and obesity services, as well as implementing public health policies that can prevent weight gain, will support improved health outcomes and subsequent reductions in the number of people admitted to hospital.
The data shows that women account for higher numbers of hospital admissions, with many female admissions linked to maternal care. This demonstrates a need for healthcare systems to reach women at an earlier stage before the need for hospital admission. The higher female admissions reinforce the evidence that more women seek and receive weight management support, a trend which has been demonstrated consistently for some time. This highlights the continued need to better understand how to engage men in weight management as well as other, often underrepresented, groups of society. This may require a shift in the narrative around obesity which is often stigmatising and has been shown to affect engagement and healthcare seeking behaviour.
We are supportive of the UK Government's proposed actions as part of the new Obesity Strategy such as supporting the ban on TV and online adverts for food high in salt, sugar and fat before the 9pm watershed, as well as ending 'buy one, get one free' deals on these foods. We believe both represent measures that can be effective at population level and will support people regardless of body weight and health status. However, we also believe that further efforts are required to support people living with obesity that go beyond these measures, with access to appropriate services that can support the often wide-ranging and complex needs of people living with obesity being critical.
We believe that taking a whole systems approach to obesity, which is tailored to local needs and works across the life course, and providing greater access to weight management services across all Tiers is required. This is more likely to support government ambitions of reducing the prevalence of obesity and associated health conditions, and positively impact on healthcare services.
The Obesity Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) UK is a partnership programme, bringing together different expertise across obesity to improve obesity care in the UK. Novo Nordisk has fully funded the secretariat of OPEN UK, but has no influence over the group's activities. Novo Nordisk has had no influence over the content of this statement.
OPEN is a sustained global initiative aiming to achieve national support for improved obesity care.
OPEN is a network for national coalitions of public health, policy, patient representatives and other thought leaders in the field of obesity with representation in over 15 countries including the UK, Italy, Germany and Spain.
OPEN seeks to provide national policy advocates with the opportunity to share diverse perspectives on a common challenge, identify solutions and collaborate to address the current barriers and challenges to effective obesity care.
Through the global network, members obtain insights and tangible tools on how to put in place effective national obesity strategies which deliver workable, effective solutions that successfully address the obesity challenge.
For more information or to speak to a member of the OEPN UK group, please contact Stuart Flint on sflint@imcba.com or the OPEN UK secretariat at opensecretariat@bcw-global.com
* Data taken from the Hospital Episode Statistics dataset. Data released by NHS Digital as part of the Statistics on Obesity, Physical Activity and Diet; England, 2021, an annual compendium of data on obesity, including hospital admissions, prescription items, obesity prevalence among adults and children as well as physical activity and diet.
London, 27th July 2020
OPEN UK, a group of UK obesity experts, welcome government's focus on obesity, but warn it will not offer effective weight management support for those people living with severe obesity
Support the new measures on food advertising, but there is a need to ensure that this doesn't promote unhealthy relationships with food or worsen health inequalities
Urgent need to address weight stigma and discrimination, however, focus on individual behaviour change, rather than system wide actions, and the wider determinants of obesity, has the potential to fuel existing UK weight stigma and discrimination
Group calls for further action which takes a whole systems approach and reflects the complex, chronic, multifaceted nature of obesity
We welcome the Government's renewed focus on obesity, with the actions suggested and the new 'Better Health' campaign reflecting population-level, preventative measures. For some of the population these measures may improve health related decisions, but for many people (especially those living with severe obesity), this strategy will not offer effective weight management support. Hence, we look forward to learning more about the Government's proposed improvements to NHS weight management services.
We are supportive of the ban on TV and online adverts for food high in salt, sugar and fat before the 9pm watershed, as well as ending 'buy one, get one free' deals on these foods. At a population level these may prove effective measures and help support the health of people regardless of bodyweight and health status. Similarly, the inclusion of calories on menus and alcoholic beverage labelling may also prove useful in helping people make healthier food and drink decisions. There is, however, also a need to ensure that this doesn't have unintended consequences for people with eating disorders and promote unhealthy relationships with food. Indeed, given the association between obesity and inequalities, it is imperative that new actions do not worsen health inequalities.
OPEN is committed to improving public awareness of obesity and supporting aligned actions reflecting the complex, chronic, multifaceted nature of obesity as highlighted 13 years ago in the UK Government's Foresight Report. The Foresight Report highlighted that there are over 100 factors that contribute to weight gain that are, for instance, biological, genetic, social, and psychological. As such, while the changes referred to by the Prime Minister to ban advertisements and deals for foods high in salt, sugar and fat are important population health interventions, further decisions to implement a whole system approach to obesity are needed.
We believe that a more effective strategy would be to take a whole systems approach to obesity and providing greater access to weight management services across all Tiers, rather than focusing solely on individuals making changes. Counterintuitively, in 2019, Public Health England, the Association of the Directors of Public Health and the Local Government Association commissioned a whole systems approach to obesity programme. This programme concluded that a long term, system-wide approach to obesity, which is tailored to local needs and works across the life course are needed.
Obesity is defined and should be recognised as a chronic health condition. For some people living with obesity, lifelong support and treatment may be needed, which may vary over time depending on individual needs. Any support for people living with obesity must also have long term considerations and treated with equal opportunities to access support or appropriate treatment as any other health condition such as cardiovascular disease or Type 2 diabetes. Short term solutions for a long-term health conditions do not make sense and is likely to influence inaccurate and often stigmatising perceptions and unrealistic expectations. It is therefore key that the Government consider how the 12-week initiative will be enhanced after conclusion to ensure long-term weight loss maintenance.
OPEN UK has concerns that the focus on individual behaviour change rather than system wide actions is likely to fuel weight stigma and discrimination that is already pervasive in the UK. Focusing solely on individual changes not only overlooks the wider determinants of obesity but leads to beliefs that obesity is solely within an individual's control. This is likely to lead to blame, perceptions that obesity is the result of a lack of willpower, and negative attitudes and behaviours towards people living with obesity.
There is an urgent need to end weight stigma and discrimination, across all settings including in healthcare settings and in media portrayal. Yet, there is also a need to address weight stigma in obesity related policies. In 2018, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Obesity reported that weight stigma and discrimination was widespread in the UK and that experiences of stigmatising and inappropriate care leave people less likely to seek the healthcare.
We look forward to opportunities for transdisciplinary collaboration with the Government in developing longer-term, structural solutions. With this in mind, we call for the Government to reconsider the current obesity strategy and in doing so:
Develop actions to improve public awareness of the complex, chronic, multifaceted nature of obesity
Address the wider determinants of obesity
Address pervasive weight stigma and discrimination
Reconsider the focus on short term, 12-week interventions
Consider effective treatment options for those with severe and complex obesity
About OPEN UK
OPEN is a partnership programme and sustained global initiative initiated and supported by Novo Nordisk to improve obesity care internationally. It is a network for national coalitions of public health, policy, patient representatives and other thought leaders in the field of obesity with representation in over 15 countries including the UK, Italy, Germany and Spain.
Through the global network, members obtain insights and tangible tools on how to put in place effective national obesity strategies which deliver workable, effective solutions that successfully address the obesity challenge
London, 29th June 2020: As the UK Government prepares to release its obesity plans next month, we welcome the Prime Minister's reassessment and prioritisation of obesity in the UK. The increased risk of COVID-19 on people living with obesity has illuminated the need for increased care.
Where in the past there has been a focus on intervening to prevent obesity in children and young people, we are encouraged by the early indication that a holistic approach may be taken which prioritises obesity along the full life course. As well as increased support with prevention and management, we must harness a full range of tools depending on individual cases, from supporting combined lifestyle behavioural changes to bariatric surgery. Action taken to make treatment available and accessible, needs to be supported by a system-wide approach to addressing obesity stigma, social inequalities, the built environment, food manufacturing and advertising and media portrayal among other environmental contributors to obesity.
Not only does obesity increase risk of more severe COVID-19 outcomes, it is also one of the UK's clear health inequalities, disproportionately impacting many groups including some BAME communities, and those from areas of socio-economic disadvantage.
There is a short and long-term imperative to reduce obesity prevalence in the UK. We are pleased to hear the UK Government are making obesity a priority and expect that the renewed interest will be met with ambitious targets and resources.
The Obesity Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) UK is a partnership programme, bringing together different expertise across obesity to improve obesity care in the UK. The Secretariat of OPEN UK is funded by Novo Nordisk. Novo Nordisk has had no influence over the content of this press release.
Through the global network, members obtain insights and tangible tools on how to put in place effective national obesity strategies which deliver workable, effective solutions that successfully support people living with obesity.
London, 8th June 2020: The latest data from PHE, which includes providing additional clarity on the increased risk of poorer COVID-19 outcomes for people with obesity and some of its complications1, is a step toward building a clear evidence base of who is at increased risk.
The Equalities Minister has also outlined next steps to understand drivers of the disparities and relationships between risk factors. While we welcome these developments, it is clearer now more than ever, that we must go much further to increase support for people living with obesity in the UK. This will offer an opportunity to improve the health of the nation and improve COVID-19 outcomes, which will have further health and economic benefits.
In the House of Commons, the Health Secretary stated that COVID-19 had exposed huge disparities in the health of our nation. We absolutely agree; PHE disparities review confirms the anticipated trend, witnessed elsewhere, that people living with obesity in the UK are more likely to be diagnosed with, experience severe illness and to die of COVID-19. Similarly, people living in deprived areas were shown to be at greater risk, and the links between deprivation and obesity are well established.
Many Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups are also at high risk of obesity and associated comorbidities, and we agree with the Health Secretary that a continued and proactive effort to understand the drivers of these disparities is vital to understand why some groups are worse-affected and how this can be addressed. We fully advocate for the need for more research in these areas and we await the findings and outcomes of the Government's Equality Hub with interest.
Despite the need for further investigation and analysis of the data, it must be recognised that we do not need to wait for this to begin to act. Weight management and obesity treatment services have long been under prioritised and as such access remains low or non-existent for many across the population.
The impact of COVID-19 on obesity and associated comorbidities, should ignite an increase in the support available. We need better funding and clear pathways for obesity care that ensure people receive weight management support, reduce comorbidity and lower risk. We can also combat weight stigma and discrimination, particularly in medical settings where it is experienced at alarmingly high rates. Experiences of stigma and inappropriate healthcare leaves people living with obesity less likely to seek the necessary care and may lead to increased feelings of anxiety around the pandemic.
Weight management must be prioritised across all care settings and the need to make multiple treatment options, from supporting lifestyle changes to bariatric surgery, available. As the evidence showing that people living with obesity are more vulnerable to COVID-19 increases, we strongly support and encourage action to ensure people living with obesity – and all those at disproportionate risk – are fully supported within the healthcare system, now and in the long term.
1Public Health England (PHE). Disparities in the risk and outcomes of COVID-19 [Online]. 02 June 2020. Accessed at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/889195/disparities_review.pdf
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The Obesity Policy Engagement Network is a partnership programme initiated by Novo Nordisk to improve obesity care internationally.
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Obama courts Israel but continues to talk peace [March 17 - March 23]
By MIFTAH
The week was all about US President Barack Obama's visit to Israel and Palestine, the first of its kind since he took office as president. After arriving in Tel Aviv on March 20, Obama churned out a double serving of Israel-love, slathering praises and support on Israel and its leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama and Netanyahu were even wearing color-coordinated ties – blue – in a show of kinship.
On April 21, the US president was flown to Ramallah in a six-helicopter fanfare where he met with President Mahmoud Abbas. Although the two met at the presidential headquarters where late President Yasser Arafat is laid to rest, Obama noticeably skipped paying tribute to the leader.
During a joint press conference after the leaders met, Obama made two things clear. He would put the security of 'a Jewish Israel" first and would continue to support the establishment of a Palestinian state that would guarantee his first point.
Abbas played the diplomat, welcoming President Obama to Palestine and reiterating the Palestinian commitment to a two-state solution. "Today, we conducted a good and useful round of talks with President Obama. It was an opportunity to focus, on our side, on the risks and the results that exist that a continuation of settlement activity represent on the two-state solution, and over the need to release prisoners," Abbas said.
"I asserted to the President that Palestine has taken long and additional steps for the sake of making peace. I hereby assert again that we are ready to implement all our commitments and obligations, and to respect the signed agreements and international legitimacy resolutions in order to provide for the requirements of launching the peace process and achieving the two-state solution — Palestine and Israel."
President Obama was equally as cordial. "The Palestinian people deserve an end to occupation and the daily indignities that come with it. Palestinians deserve to move and travel freely, and to feel secure in their communities. Like people everywhere, Palestinians deserve a future of hope — that their rights will be respected, that tomorrow will be better than today and that they can give their children a life of dignity and opportunity. Put simply, Palestinians deserve a state of their own."
But, he was sure to reaffirm the US position on negotiations. "As I have said many times, the only way to achieve that goal is through direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians themselves. There is no shortcut to a sustainable solution," in clear reference to the US opposition to the Palestinians' status upgrade at the UN to observer state.
On settlements, Obama made these comments: "That's not to say settlements aren't important, that's to say if we resolve the (main) problems, then settlements will be resolved," Obama said, referring to the Palestinians' refusal to negotiate while Israel continues to build on Palestinian land.
Abbas, was not moved by the tepid US disapproval. "It isn't just our perception that settlements are illegal. It is a global perspective. Everybody views settlements not only as a hurdle, but more than a hurdle to a two-state solution," he said.
"We are asking for nothing outside the international legitimacy. It is the responsibility of the Israeli government to halt settlement activities so we can at least speak."
Later that day, after also visiting a youth center in Al Bireh, President Obama made an hour long speech to Israeli youth in Jerusalem's convention center. The speech was the highlight of the trip and marked what many said were Obama's true feelings about the conflict.
After heaping more praises on Israel, its people, history and accomplishments, Obama came to the crux of the matter. "The only way for Israel to endure and thrive as a Jewish and democratic state is through the realization of an independent and viable Palestine," he said.
"Peace is necessary. But peace is also just," the president said, following it with a request most Israelis would probably never consider.
"Put yourself in their [Palestinian] shoes. Look at the world through their eyes. It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own. Living their entire lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements not just of those young people but their parents, their grandparents, every single day. It's not just when settler violence against Palestinians goes unpunished. It's not right to prevent Palestinians from farming their lands; or restricting a student's ability to move around the West Bank; or displace Palestinian families from their homes Neither occupation nor expulsion is the answer. Just as Israelis built a state in their homeland, Palestinians have a right to be a free people in their own land."
He also pointed out that negotiations were necessary, but could not be futile. "There's little secret about where they [negotiations] must lead -- two states for two peoples. Israelis must recognize that continued settlement activity is counterproductive to the cause of peace, and that an independent Palestine must be viable with real borders that have to be drawn."
The next day, Obama prayed at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem accompanied by President Abbas before leaving to Jordan. Palestinians in Ramallah and Bethlehem along with other areas demonstrated against Obama's visit but were held back from reaching the venues where Obama was by preventive security forces.
Also during his visit, President Obama pledged to resume aid to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority, a pledge which came through on March 23 when the US transferred $500 million to the PA. $300 million of this sum are funds the US previously suspended and $200 million are contributions for this year.
Another result of President Obama's regional tour has been a public apology from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the deaths of nine Turkish citizens during the 2010 Israeli navy raid on the Gaza flotilla, the Mavi Marmara. Obama is said to have mediated the reconciliation.
Erdogan accepted the apology during a phone conversation with Netanyahu. Erdogan's office later released a statement saying Turkey valued its "friendship" with Israel.
Apparently, Netanyahu told Erdogan that an Israeli investigation into the incident revealed several operational errors made by Israeli forces. Netanyahu "expressed his apologies to the Turkish people for any error that could have led to loss of life and agreed to complete an agreement to provide compensation to the families of the victims."
On March 21, Israel reduced the Gaza fishing zone from six to three miles as punishment for two rockets that were fired from the Gaza Strip this week. The Kerem Shalom commercial crossing was also closed.
Palestinian minister of civil affairs Hussein al-Sheikh confirmed the measure. "The Israeli side officially informed us that Kerem Shalom crossing is closed until further notice, and that the Gaza fishing zone was reduced from 6 to 3 miles".
The two rockets, which a Salafist group in Gaza claimed responsibility for, fell in the southern Israeli city of Sderot but caused no injuries.
On March 22, three Palestinian children were from Israeli custody after being arrested earlier this week in Hebron. The minors were identified as Ahmed Abdel Raouf Burgan, 15, Ahmed Abdel Muti Abu Mayaleh, 13, and Mohammed Abdul Muti Abu Mayaleh, 13. On March 20, Israeli forces detained some 30 students who were on their way to school in the southern area of Hebron.
"This type of mass arrest of a group of minors, not on the basis of individual suspicions is unacceptable, even if the minors are formally over the age of criminal responsibility," the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem said in a statement.
Palestinian activists set up a new 'village' near Izzariyeh east of Jerusalem on March 20, setting up 15 tents on land slated for confiscation by Israeli authorities. The new village was named 'Ahfad Younis" and is part of the Bab Al Shams initiative. Israeli forces surrounded the tent village on the same day, saying Palestinians had established "an illegal settlement" and handing the residents eviction orders.
In a statement, the activists described the initiative as "first, to claim our right as Palestinians to return to our lands and villages, second, to claim our sovereignty over our lands without permission from anyone."
The activists also said the initiative aimed to highlight their opposition to the Obama administration's policies in the region, saying that it has been "complicit in Israeli occupation and colonialism."
This week also saw long-standing hunger striker Ayman Sharawneh released to the Gaza Strip. In a deal struck with Israeli authorities, Sharawneh agreed to be exiled to the Strip for 10 years in exchange for his release. On March 20, Sharawna's mother and two brothers arrived in Gaza City to meet Ayman after being made to travel to the Strip via Egypt. But the reunion was bittersweet. Not only is Sharawneh banned from returning to his home in the West Bank for a decade, but his brother and nephew were arrested by Israeli forces a day after he was released.

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Q: Deploying Code to Heroku (Issues?) https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python
When i'm trying to deploy my code through $ git push heroku master i get an error:
    Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '50.19.85.132' to the list      of known hosts.
    Permission denied (publickey).
    fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Next, I was able to add the RSA host key for that IP address by $ heroku keys:add but I still get this error:
   Found existing public key: /Users/opalkale/.ssh/github_rsa.pub
   Uploading SSH public key /Users/opalkale/.ssh/github_rsa.pub... done
   (venv)Opal-Kales-MacBook-Pro:helloflask opalkale$ git push heroku master
   Permission denied (publickey).

What am I doing wrong...?

A: Add your id_rsa.pub SSH key to your Heroku account online: https://dashboard.heroku.com/account
And make sure that the corresponding private key has been added to your identity
$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

E.g.
$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/github_rsa

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Mother asks for answers after son slain in Beecher Terrace courtyard
Updated: 6:46 PM EST Mar 5, 2015
Anna-Lysa Gayle
Police are investigating a homicide at the Beecher Terrace Housing Complex.
Police are investigating a homicide at the Beecher Terrace Housing Complex.Mobile videoThe fatal shooting happened in the 1000 block of Liberty Court, just west of downtown. Police were called to the scene around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday on a report of multiple shots fired.Officers found 26-year-old Robert Jackson suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in the courtyard of the complex."Apparently he was still alive at that point. He was transported to University Hospital and again, he was later pronounced dead," said LMPD spokesman Dwight Mitchell.Jackson's mother said she had a gut feeling that her son was killed when she learned about the city's 21st homicide inside a courtyard at the Beecher Terrace Housing Complex.He did not live there."I know I had a mother's intuition this morning," said Sherrell Jackson.Neighbors heard six to seven gunshots fired around 2:30 a.m.Letitia Parker called 911."It woke me out of my sleep and then I heard a male screaming 'Help me, help me,'" Parker said.Police surrounded the courtyard inside the Beecher Terrace Housing Complex for several hours looking for witnesses and a suspect.Sherrell Jackson spoke with anger and grief while listing questions for her son's killer."Why do you have to take a life? That was my child. That was her brother. He has another brother. He has another sister, that was somebody's loved one that ya'll took away. Why do you all have to keep killing? What is so bad out here?" Sherrell Jackson said.Sherrell Jackson hopes police can help answers those questions when they catch the gunman."You got to live with the conscience. The conscience is going to be on you. Rather you turn yourself in or not," she said.Sherrell Jackson said her son had a troubled past and had served time for drug charges.Authorities do not have any suspects and have not made any arrests.Anyone who may know something about this crime is asked to called the anonymous tip line at 574-LMPD.
The fatal shooting happened in the 1000 block of Liberty Court, just west of downtown. Police were called to the scene around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday on a report of multiple shots fired.
Officers found 26-year-old Robert Jackson suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in the courtyard of the complex.
"Apparently he was still alive at that point. He was transported to University Hospital and again, he was later pronounced dead," said LMPD spokesman Dwight Mitchell.
Jackson's mother said she had a gut feeling that her son was killed when she learned about the city's 21st homicide inside a courtyard at the Beecher Terrace Housing Complex.
He did not live there.
"I know I had a mother's intuition this morning," said Sherrell Jackson.
Neighbors heard six to seven gunshots fired around 2:30 a.m.
Letitia Parker called 911.
"It woke me out of my sleep and then I heard a male screaming 'Help me, help me,'" Parker said.
Police surrounded the courtyard inside the Beecher Terrace Housing Complex for several hours looking for witnesses and a suspect.
Sherrell Jackson spoke with anger and grief while listing questions for her son's killer.
"Why do you have to take a life? That was my child. That was her brother. He has another brother. He has another sister, that was somebody's loved one that ya'll took away. Why do you all have to keep killing? What is so bad out here?" Sherrell Jackson said.
Sherrell Jackson hopes police can help answers those questions when they catch the gunman.
"You got to live with the conscience. The conscience is going to be on you. Rather you turn yourself in or not," she said.
Sherrell Jackson said her son had a troubled past and had served time for drug charges.
Authorities do not have any suspects and have not made any arrests.
Anyone who may know something about this crime is asked to called the anonymous tip line at 574-LMPD.


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Q: How to join THREE different SQL queries having common column 1st Query:
select MONTHNAME(batchStartDate) AS MONTHS,
    MONTH(batchStartDate) AS MONTHNUMBER,
    SUM(totalCandidatesInBatch) AS CANDIDATES_ENROLLED
from batch
group by MONTHS
order by MONTHNUMBER;

2nd Query:
select MONTHNAME(resultApprovedOndate) AS MONTHS,
    MONTH(resultApprovedOndate) AS MONTHNUMBER,
    SUM(totalCertified) AS CANDIDATES_CERTIFIED
from batch
where totalPass is not null AND
    totalFail is not null AND
    resultApprovedOnDate<=curDate() and
    resultApprovedOnDate is not null
group by MONTHS
order by MONTHNUMBER;

3rd Query:
select MONTHNAME(assessmentDate) AS MONTHS,
    MONTH(assessmentDate) AS MONTHNUMBER,
    (SUM(totalPass)+SUM(totalFail)) AS CANDIDATES_ASSESSED
from batch
where totalPass is not null AND
    totalFail is not null AND
    resultApprovedOnDate<=curDate() and
    resultApprovedOnDate is not null
group by MONTHS
order by MONTHNUMBER;

As you can see these Queries have common column MONTHS and MONTHNUMBER , I want to join the result of these three queries.
I have tried UNION but that doesn't work.
Can anyone tell me what's happening and what could be the solution?
OUTPUT
1st QUERY
 # MONTHS, MONTHNUMBER, CANDIDATES_ENROLLED
 January,       1,       50
 February,      2,       35
 March,         3,       205
 April,         4,       85
 May,           5,       616
 June,          6,       26

2nd QUERY
 # MONTHS, MONTHNUMBER, CANDIDATES_CERTIFIED
  January,       1,            34
    April,       4,            72
     July,       7,            484
   August,       8,            30

3rd QUERY
 # MONTHS, MONTHNUMBER, CANDIDATES_ASSESSED
 February,       2,           101
    March,       3,           134
      May,       5,           32
     July,       7,           75
   August,       8,           75
September,       9,           150
  October,       10,           75
 November,       11,           77
 December,       12,          152

I want the output to be displayed in a form
# MONTHS, MONTHNUMBER, CANDIDATES_ENROLLED, CANDIDATES_CERTIFIED, CANDIDATES_ASSESSED

and also if a table has a Row Missing then the value should be filled with zero or null.Ex- In 3rd Query Output January is missing then candidates assessed should be 0 or null.

A: Look at this link:
https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_join.asp
It shows you the different types of joins (I'm assuming you want to do a "join").
Union is used to combine two or more sets on top of eachother.
Using join you can join based on a related column between your tables

A: I think this can be done with a single query:
select MONTHNAME(batchStartDate) AS `MONTHS`,
    MONTH(batchStartDate) AS `MONTHNUMBER`,
    SUM(totalCandidatesInBatch) AS `CANDIDATESE_ENROLLED`,
    SUM(
        IF(NOT(totalFail IS NULL) AND
            NOT(totalFail IS NULL) AND
            resultApprovedOnDate <= curDate() AND
            NOT(resultApprovedOnDate is null),
            totalCertified,
            0
        ) AS `CANDIDATESE_CERTIFIED`,
    SUM(
        IF(NOT(totalFail IS NULL) AND
            NOT(totalFail IS NULL) AND
            resultApprovedOnDate <= curDate() AND
            NOT(resultApprovedOnDate is null),
            totalPass + totalFail,
            0
        ) AS `CANDIDATESE_ASSESSED`
from batch
group by MONTHS
order by MONTHNUMBER;


Prior to MPI, I was briefly at the CNRS (French National Center for Research in Sciences) laboratory GREYC at the University of Caen. Before that, I was at Technicolor Rennes Research and Innovation Center working with Patrick Perez on the European Project AXES.
I completed my PhD on December 2012 — my thesis was done under the joint supervision of Frederic Jurie (GREYC, CNRS UMR 6072,University of Caen) and Cordelia Schmid (LEAR, INRIA Grenoble). I was funded under the ANR (French National Research Agency) project SCARFACE.
Before moving to France I spent five years working for an Integrated Master of Technology in Mathematics and Computing at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), India and one year as a R&D Engineer with the Technology Planning Group of Samsung Delhi R&D, India.


Device fires lengths of steel chain.
There was an awkward-looking pistol grip at the opposite end, and a sort of grooved, broom handle affair about six inches in front of that.
"What is it?" Rydell asked.
"...Martial says, it's more like a directional grenade, you understand? Or sort of like a portable fragmentation mine. Main thing he told me is you don't use it in any kind of confined space..."
Fontaine reached over and tapped the fat square barrel lightly, once, with his forefinger. "In here. Thing's packed with four hundred two-foot lengths of super-fine steel chain, sharp as razor wire."
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The lesson offers students various strategies to subtract multiples of ten from any number. The strategies include using place value or a hundreds chart to solve the problems. Several examples are provided to enhance students understanding. The lesson may be used in conjunction with other basic subtraction lessons.
Begin by asking students to write down a number (67) and take away ten. Ask for their strategies on how they subtracted 10.
While reading the content pages, reinforce vocabulary and give students additional examples of subtracting multiples of 10 problems in order to help them practice. Use the additional resources to enhance understanding.
Introduce the notes on subtracting multiples of 10. Have students practice problems with each strategy. Use the additional resources to enhance understanding.
Have students practice problems as a large class.
Follow Activity page with students. Have students work individually. Increase the level of difficulty based on each individual student's progress.
Distribute the Homework page. Check their work at the beginning of the next class.
In closing, ask students to tell you which strategy helps them subtract by multiples of 10 the easiest.


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Asthma Basics
Asthma has become one of the most common chronic disorders in the developed world. Asthma is difficult to describe, but the International Consensus Report on the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma defines it the following way: "Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways in which many cells and cellular elements play a role".
Throughout the developed world, typically 5% of adults and 10% of children have clinically significant asthma. Its prevalence has increased significantly over the last 25 years and is now thought to affect around 300 million people worldwide.
Asthma can be a serious condition, which occasionally proves fatal, accounting for 1,131 deaths in the UK in 2009. However, most deaths and hospital admissions for asthma are preventable. Asthma is a condition that can be managed successfully and part of that management should include a strategy for allergen avoidance.
For example, in the UK, around 5.4 million people suffer from asthma, which includes 1.1 million children. The condition costs health services around £1 billion a year and accounts for an annual 1.1 million lost working days and around 80,000 hospital admissions.
Asthma comes in several forms
There are two primary types of asthma – childhood onset and adult onset. Most asthma does begin in childhood and is often associated with other related conditions like eczema and rhinitis.
Childhood onset asthma often has clearly identifiable triggers which will bring on an attack.
Adult onset asthma may be a continuation of childhood onset asthma, or it may be a new onset of the condition. Asthma can occur at any age, and should be considered in anyone who has a chronic cough. In adult onset asthma, there is often no obvious trigger, except for a chest infection.
There are also several sub-categories of asthma, including:
Nocturnal asthma: Many people with asthma are woken at night with an attack. This feature has been associated with poor overall control of the disease.
Occupational asthma: Officially recognised as an industrial disease, occupational asthma is caused by exposure to a substance in the workplace. The UK Health and Safety Executive lists around 50 causal airborne substances, such as isocyanates, aluminium and hair spray ingredients, and various kinds of dust like flour and wood dust and animal dander.
Brittle asthma (types 1 & 2): This is a severe form of asthma. In type 1 the disease is uncontrolled and marked by very variable peak flow in air to the lungs. In type 2, there are sudden severe deteriorations from a stable baseline air flow from the lungs.
Exercise-induced asthma: Physical activity is a common asthma trigger, particularly in children.
Aspirin-sensitive asthma: Asthma that is brought on by aspirin and related drugs, such as anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen. Asthma may also be brought on by other drugs, such as beta-blockers.
It can run in families
Asthma tends to run in families. However, asthma is not a single-gene disorder, with a clear line of inheritance. There are several 'susceptibility' genes involved in asthma, each contributing to the risk of developing the disease.
Diagnosis depends upon the doctor taking a careful medical history from the patient and noting whether the hallmark symptoms of wheeze, chest tightness, breathlessness, and cough are present. There are no laboratory or other tests which can definitely diagnose asthma and distinguish it from other lung conditions. However, if your doctor suspects asthma you may be subject to breathing tests to help confirm the diagnosis. Such tests include:
Spirometry: Spirometry is breathing into a machine which measures how much air you can exhale, which shows whether the airways are obstructed or not.
Peak expiratory flow rate test: A small hand-held device, called a peak flow meter, is used to measure how fast you can blow air out of your lungs in one breath. The peak flow meter can be a useful tool to use yourself at home to monitor your asthma.
Skin prick, or blood tests, are often carried out to find out which allergens might be triggering your asthma.
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Asthma tends to be a chronic disease (that is once you have asthma it will remain with you for the rest of your life). However, around a half of children do 'grow out of' asthma by the time they become teenagers, sometimes to re-emerge in adulthood. Like other chronic diseases, such as diabetes, asthma is not curable in the same way that, say, an infection can be cured. However, asthma can be controlled successfully so you can still live a full life.
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Join Andy Needham for an in-depth discussion in this video Solving the camera data and refining the results, part of Creating a Show Open in Nuke X and Cinema 4D.
So, we've tracked our shots. We've removed points in the sky that aren't going to help the solve. Now we want to see what kind of solve value we get when we do our initial solve. So, we're going to press solve here and that will solve the cameramation. So settling the camera just means we're taking the tracks that have been tracked in the tracking phase and producing a 3D representation of the camera used to shoot the original footage. So our initial solve error is 1.49.
Not too bad, not too bad to start off with. You never know, you'll definitely see higher areas than this, and that's usually a sign that you've either got your track settings wrong or, you know, you've either masked out too much of the shot. Don't be afraid of going back and retracking the shot if need be. You know, you might have to throw everything out and start again. But for now we are going to reduce this error. We want to get it below one for HD footage. You know, if you've got 3k, 4k you can probably get away with a higher error.
And its kind of relative to the frame size. So certainly for something like full HD. There you will want to be under one. Otherwise, you're going to see slipping in your tracks and you know, nobody wants that. Before we solved the short, we saw that there was some points that had really weird motion. I can just press space bar to max the view here. And we talked about how camera tracker would just reject those points. It's done so with this one. It just doesn't like it at all. And you know, we can see why.
That is just not a good point. What we want to do now is use threshold and the. Various settings in the autotracks tab to go through and pick out these points that have large errors and just remove them from our solve. So, the maximum error that we're coming across at the moment is 8.86. We can definitely get that lower. If we click into the error max field,.
And hold down command, and then click the max error. If it's not already viewable here, press F just to frame up the graph. So the max error is the threshold for the error max. And the error max if we hold over here is the maximum reproduction error per frame. So, this is the representation of our shot. We can scrub through it. It's like a play head. And you know that if we move to this part of the shot, this is where the higher areas are occurring.
So, we can use the thresholds to actually bring this down. And you can see, if I move the threshold slightly, it's. Starting to reject points. If we just frame the viewer, we'll move along in time, and somewhere around here, and if I bring down the threshold drastically, you know, now we know that a lot of points are rejected. So, we want to start bringing this back. To an area where more of the good tracks are coming back.
And one thing to bear in mind and this is why we tracked so many features is your number of tracks. As we go through culling large numbers of features, we're going to reduce the number of tracks throughout the shop. And you want to be careful not to go below one hundred feet just because the camera tracker needs that to create an accurate solution. At the moment we're pretty safe, you know, we've got thousands of features on the frame so far. So we definitely have enough room to go through the shot and cut large numbers of these features that are just Producing huge errors.
So we'll do that, initially. And the workflow is, as we've done before, select your error max. And your max error. Frame up the result. Reduce the threshold. Delete the rejected points. Will ask you if you are sure you want to do that. And we'll say yes. And then it's going to think about it for a second, and it will update the solve, and you can see we've actually reduced the error. So, you should go through your shot, reducing the max error, but you can also reduce the max track error as well.
If we frame that up and this one will be quite sensitive, so you might want to just use the numbers by clicking into the field and pressing the down and up arrows, you can do that, and if you go to the right of a number, you go into a different increment. So, again, same work flow, reduce the threshold and delete the rejected points. At the same time I'm just going to actually increase the minimum length of the tracks to say lets actually use the threshold here in length and track length min.
And if we see we've got we can move this quite away. So I'm going to make sure it's around the 20 mark along the tracks are going to be more reliable so we're going to delete the rejected points and say yes to the warning. And even though it's a small change it's a change in the right direction. So what we need to do really is continue working in this way to bring the error down. So, as we've seen, this process is a lot of tweaking, and, it will take some time, just to get the arrow down.
You will need to, as said, bear in mind the number of tracks, that you're not deleting too many. So, it's a slow and steady process, and I want to spend some more time to get this arrow down below one before moving on to the next video. So, if you're following along, you should go ahead and do that too.


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Thanks to Trump's Family Separations, Democrats Are in the Hot Seat for Taking Private Prison Cash
"So long as the public is less aware of these issues, they can't really punish the legislators who are taking money."
Madison Pauly
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In a theater outside Miami last month, as a debate between four Democratic candidates for Florida governor approached the two-hour mark, 18-year-old activist ErrDaisha Floyd took the mic and turned the conversation toward a topic close to her heart: private prisons. The companies that run them "provide a direct incentive to contract-holders to ensure and keep large prison populations," said Floyd, whose uncles have been held in for-profit correctional facilities. Addressing all the candidates, she asked, "Will you pledge not to accept contributions from these groups?"
It's a question more and more Democrats have been confronted with in recent weeks as the Trump administration's family separation and detention policies draw attention to American prison corporations, which lock up three-quarters of the people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement—including both adults and mothers with children—for profit.
The GEO Group and CoreCivic, America's two biggest private prison operators, have long been significant political donors. They've traditionally and unsurprisingly favored Republicans, who have supported prison privatization as a cost-saving measure since the companies were founded during the Reagan administration. But like most corporations, they've hedged their bets—directing roughly 20 percent of their combined political giving over the past two decades to Democratic candidates, state parties, and committees, according to company profiles from the National Institute on Money in Politics.
As a result, contributions from the private prison industry have ended up in the war chests of some surprising names in liberal politics, including retiring California Gov. Jerry Brown, who received $91,200 combined from GEO and CoreCivic (then known as the Corrections Corporation of America) in his final gubernatorial race—the most of any Democratic politician in the past 10 years. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee—which accepted a $10,000 gift from the GEO Group last year—has also received $350,000 bundled by current and former private prison lobbyists this election cycle, according to one investigation. (The DCCC did not return a request for comment.)
Public awareness of the role private companies play as ICE jailers-for-hire has generally remained low, even though concerns over family detention and the conditions in for-profit prisons—which are typically less safe and secure than their government-run counterparts—flared up periodically during the Obama years. "So long as the public is less aware of these issues, they can't really punish the legislators who are taking money," explains Loren Collingwood, a political scientist at the University of California-Riverside.
But this summer, Trump's separation of thousands of migrant families and stories of troubling conditions at some of the facilities where they were held put concerns about private companies that detain immigrants squarely in the national spotlight. And as scrutiny grows, Democrats increasingly appear worried that their practice of quietly accepting campaign cash from prison profiteers is evolving into a political liability.
"Some people think it's OK to speak out against [hard-line immigration policies] while at the same time being deeply in bed with a company that works with politicians to put more people in jail."
So while a slew of Democratic politicians took to Twitter and cable news to slam the administration's hardline border policies, some have also been cleaning up their books. At least eight congressional Democrats have refused to accept attempted donations from GEO's political action committee in recent months, according to the PAC's July Federal Election Commission filing. That includes prominent party figures like Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Dick Durbin of Illinois, and Chris Coons of Delaware, as well as New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. And in late June, a spokeswoman for DCCC chair Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico confirmed to the Albuquerque Journal that Luján's reelection campaign had donated $7,000 in GEO contributions to local groups helping immigrant families and victims of violence. At least two other Democratic members of Congress, when questioned by reporters about taking private prison contributions, have said they donated the money to groups like RAICES, which represents separated families. (To be clear, we're not really talking about a ton of cash—so far this election cycle, CoreCivic and GEO have steered all but 6 percent of their roughly $1 million in spending on congressional midterm races toward Republicans.)
"We decided to make it a policy not to accept private prison donations because studies found for-profit prisons have lower staffing and training and have more violence and are less secure than public-run prisons," the political director for Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) told the Young Turks, explaining why the Swalwell campaign recently returned a GEO contribution. A spokesperson for Rep. David Price (D-N.C.), who returned a $1,000 GEO contribution this year, cited the Trump administration's "cruel and inhumane family detention and child separation policies."
Private prison cash has become a particularly fraught issue in Texas—a stronghold of the industry and the site of far more privately run ICE detention centers than any other state, including more than 10 run by GEO or its subsidiaries, as of 2017. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), a moderate from a border district, has taken more money from private prison companies than any other congressional Democrat this election cycle and, in contrast to many of his peers, has been a vocal defender of such contributions. He's gotten $36,400 from the industry so far this cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. "GEO is one of the largest employers in my district and plays an important role in maintaining our public safety," he said. "Without them, rapists, murderers, and other offenders would not be incarcerated."
"Accepting donations from companies that profit from the systemic injustices and suffering that results from them is incompatible with the values and platform of our Party."
Further down the ballot, in the race for Texas' Senate District 19, state legislator Roland Gutierrez is making hay of a four-year-old $5,000 GEO Group donation to his opponent, former Rep. Pete Gallego. "No candidate should take contributions made possible through tearing apart families," said Gutierrez, who says he donated a $250 contribution he received from GEO. In response, Gallego has vowed not to take campaign cash from "companies charged with implementing the insanely wrong policy of family separation." (GEO does not hold separated children, though it does lock up parents whose kids were taken away at the border.)
Beyond Texas, the biggest movement is happening in other centers of the private prison industry: Florida and California. In Florida, home of the Boca Raton-based GEO Group, that's largely thanks to pressure from a civil rights group known as the Dream Defenders, of which ErrDaisha Floyd is a member. The group has collected pledges from Reps. Debbie Wasserman-Schulz (D) and Charlie Crist (D) to not accept private prison donations, the Miami New Times reported, as well as from all four Democratic candidates at the gubernatorial debate. And in early July, the Florida Democratic Party passed a resolution that prohibited the party from taking money from the industry, as well as its affiliated PACs and lobbyists, over objections from "old-guard party officials," as the New Times put it. "Some people think it's OK to speak out against [hardline immigration policies] while at the same time being deeply in bed with a company that works with politicians to put more people in jail," one Dream Defender activist told the paper.
The California Democratic Party soon followed suit, after a petition criticizing private prison contributions to San Diego Democrats spurred state Senate majority leader Toni Atkins to give away thousands she'd taken from the industry. On July 13, state Democratic Party chair Eric Bauman announced that the party would no longer accept cash from private prison companies, and that it would donate the money it has received since May 21, 2017—including $97,000 from CoreCivic and GEO—to pro-immigrant and prisoner-reentry organizations. California Democrats and the state party accounted for three-quarters of the money private prison companies spent on Democrats across the country between 2016 and 2017.
"Accepting donations from companies that profit from the systemic injustices and suffering that results from them is incompatible with the values and platform of our Party," Bauman said in a statement.
"When we're dealing with a mass incarceration crisis, we don't need private industry incentives that may contribute—or have the appearance of contributing—to over-incarceration."
The trend, though, isn't limited to these few states. Some New Mexico legislators are donating or returning CoreCivic and GEO contributions. Even a Chicago alderman, in a state that bans private prisons, faced calls from left-wing activists to give up three years' worth of donations from the GEO Group, according to the Chicago Tribune. The alderman, Raymond Lopez, said he knew GEO as the parent company of a drug treatment and outpatient facility in the neighborhood he represents, and at first didn't understand what detention centers were—but this month decided to donate the $2,750 he received from GEO to a charity that supports migrants. "It's become more widely known what their business model is," he told the Tribune. "I know what perceptions can be."
While Dems scramble, Republicans aren't completely off the hook. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu is facing calls from a Democratic challenger, Molly Kelly, to give up the $23,000 he collected from CoreCivic and GEO during his current and previous gubernatorial campaigns. (In response, New Hampshire Republicans have pointed out that the Democratic Governors Association has accepted $150,000 from prison companies since 2017.) And in Florida, activists have reportedly targeted Miami Rep. Carlos Curbelo, as well as Ashley Moody, a candidate for Florida attorney general who has taken $3,000 from GEO this election cycle.
Asked about the controversy over its campaign cash, CoreCivic spokesperson Amanda Gilchrist said in a statement, "We've partnered with the federal government under every administration—Democrat and Republican—for more than 30 years. These decisions appear to be rooted in politics." GEO did not respond to a request for comment.
As the controversy over family separation fades from the headlines, it's unclear if the lesson for Democrats will stick. Back in 2015, following revelations that Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign had accepted thousands in contributions from private prison lobbyists, her campaign promised to donate direct contributions from the industry to charity. "We should not contract out this core responsibility of the federal government," a Clinton spokesperson told Vice News at the time. "When we're dealing with a mass incarceration crisis, we don't need private industry incentives that may contribute—or have the appearance of contributing—to over-incarceration." Then, in 2016, the Democratic Party platform declared the intention to "close private prisons and detention centers." But the national party's policies on accepting prison industry money still remain unchanged.
Rick Scott Is Getting a Boost From a Private Prison Company. Too Bad It Might Be Illegal.
Trump's Immigration Crackdown Is a Boom Time for Private Prisons


The global bio-based plastics industry is expanding thanks to wider product ranges and improved product performance, but faces challenges from lack of funds for projects and sparse recycling infrastructure, according to a new report.
Frost & Sullivan's Global Bio-based Plastics Market also notes that many bioplastics companies are now transitioning from laboratory and pilot production to commercialization of products. More diverse product ranges are also allowing companies to expand bioplastic into new uses.
In 2008, the bioplastic market earned €570.6 million in revenue, a figure Frost & Sullivan expects to grow to €1.1 billion in 2015.
One new area that bioplastics are expanding into is high performance engineering plastics, due to improved production and additives, the report notes. That development has helped create bioplastic alternatives for automotive and electronic uses, on top of packaging, which has been the dominant bioplastic use.
The report notes that the main short-term challenge companies will face is finding funding for project expansions due to the worldwide economic downturn, and the major long-term challenge will be to improve the end-of-life infrastructure for bioplastics.
If bioplastics are put into the recycling stream and get mixed in with conventional plastic, they will contaminate the recycled material. In facilities where machines are able to identify bioplastics as different from other plastics, they end up going in the trash stream, and the low volume of bioplastics in use does not provide other recyclers much incentive to invest in new technologies for identifying and separating bioplastics.
Another end-of-life solution for bioplastics is composting - typically in industrial settings - but again, the infrastructure for industrial composting worldwide is slim. A third solution the report touches on is incineration, which would also need new infrastructure set up.


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All shareholders are entitled to receive, free of charge, a copy of the reports for each financial year or a copy of a concise report if one is prepared. In the interests of keeping all shareholders informed our default position is to notify every shareholder by email that the reports are available for download at our website, www.sydneyrenewable.com when the reports are published. If you wish, you can opt to not receive these notifications. Also, at any time, you can ask us to send you a copy of the most recent results.
The 2017 Financial Year was an exciting period for your company. We completed the oversubscribed share offering, commenced generation and saw the PV Array perform better than expected when compared with the forecasts outlined in the October 2016 Offer Information Statement (OIS).
In April 2017 we completed our share offer and raised $1.47 million. In a show of confidence in SRPC, the offer was oversubscribed. Consistent with SRPC's focus on creating an investment for small-scale investors, all applicants were allocated at least one share, resulting in 146 holdings in the company.
Net profit after tax (NPAT) for the 12 months ended 30 June 2017 was $47,100, 39% ahead of the OIS forecast of $33,775. Earnings per share for the same period was $90 per share, compared to the PDS forecast of $65. NPAT was ahead of the forecast in the PDS reflecting higher than expected electricity sales and higher than expected income from the sale of large-scale generation certificates.
For each month since December 2016, when generation commenced, your PV Array has generated electricity ahead of the minimum required to deliver the forecast 545 MWh in its first full year of production.
The directors are committed to making distributions to shareholders as soon as practicable after having due consideration of the performance of the PV array to date and other factors outlined in the OIS.
The 2017 Financial report, Directors' Report and Auditor's Report, all of which have been lodged with ASIC, and are available here.
Thank you for your support and we are looking forward to seeing you at the meeting.


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Driver says sorry to motorists after fire on the A1
AN APOLOGETIC van driver has escaped injury after his vehicle went up in flames on the A1.
The westbound carriageway of the road was closed between Haddington and Gladsmuir following the fire last Friday afternoon.
Firefighters from Haddington and East Linton received a call at about 12.35pm after reports of a van "well alight".
They used a high-pressure hose and were joined by colleagues from Police Scotland.
Chief Inspector Neil Mitchell, East Lothian's area commander, was among the first on the scene.
He said in his column in the Courier this week: "This quickly took hold and before long the whole van was alight in the hard shoulder and I had to shut the road. Fortunately, the driver got out in time but a great deal of his personal items and work tools were destroyed.
"Despite this, the self-employed driver's main concern was the inconvenience he was causing others. Whilst we were talking he asked me through this column to apologise to those caught up in the delays."
Traffic was diverted at the Oaktree roundabout to use the A199 Macmerry road.
Long tailbacks were reported on the A1 as a result of the accident, with firefighters stepping down at about 1.45pm and the road re-opening before 2.30pm.


Come join us at 6:30 on Tuesday, August 11th at the Jade Lounge as as we invite local musicians to perform their best covers of environmental songs. Our goal is to identify new supporters and build power for Oregon's environmental community. Can you come out and help us stand up to the out of state polluters who are threatening our home?
This is just a partial list of prizes. There will be more to come as we here back from other Vendors.


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NWF Urges Lawmakers to Fund Collaborative Conservation to Address America's Wildlife Crisis
National Wildlife Federation Urges Lawmakers to Fund Collaborative Conservation to Address America's Wildlife Crisis
Mike Saccone
'The greatest barrier to wildlife conservation in our nation is the chronic underinvestment in proactive, on-the-ground collaborative conservation'
WASHINGTON, D.C. —The National Wildlife Federation urged lawmakers to take a comprehensive approach to addressing America's wildlife crisis as the U.S. Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee hosts a hearing on the Endangered Species Act. Collin O'Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, urged lawmakers to expand their conversation to include proactive investments in wildlife conservation through the bipartisan Recovering America's Wildlife Act.
"America's wildlife are in crisis — with more than one-third of all species at-risk or vulnerable to potential extinction in the decades ahead. We cannot regulate or deregulate our way out of this monumental problem," O'Mara said. "The greatest barrier to wildlife conservation in our nation is the chronic underinvestment in proactive, on-the-ground collaborative conservation efforts for species of greatest conservation need, before these species require emergency room measures under the Endangered Species Act. We thank Senator Barrasso for seeking broad input on the best way to recover wildlife species and we urge the Committee to prioritize reaching bipartisan agreement on providing significant dedicated funding for collaborative wildlife conservation, through the Recovering America's Wildlife Act or a similar piece of legislation.
"Congress has shown — through the recent Farm Bill and the wildfire fix we championed — that it can pass significant conservation legislation. We encourage the Committee to seize the opportunity for landmark progress addressing America's wildlife crisis."
The National Wildlife Federation is working at the forefront of U.S. wildlife policy, and prioritizing efforts to restore wildlife populations across the United States. The Federation worked with U.S. Representatives Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., and Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., to introduce the Recovering America's Wildlife Act in the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this session of Congress.


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Q: How do you loop through the field name in javascript recordset? I'm using the following code to query a sqlite database using javascript and everything is working fine:
function getQueryRecord(tx, rs) {
                var stringResult = '';
                for(i=0;i<rs.rows.length;i++)
                {
                    r =rs.rows.item(0);
                                    $('#someting').append(r['field1'] + ' ' + r['field2']);
                }
            }

            function getUserGroup()
            {

                var db = window.openDatabase("scores", "", "Previous Scores", 1024*1000);

                db.transaction(function(tx) {
                    tx.executeSql('SELECT * FROM user_group', [], getQueryRecord);
                 });
            }

Is it possible to do something like the following in getQueryRecord to loop through all the field? If yes, what is the correct syntax?
for(k=0;k<r.fields.length;i++)
{
  $('#something').append(r[k]);
}

Thank you.

A: Have you tried the for...in syntax:
for(k in r) {
   if (r.hasOwnProperty(k))
      $('#something').append(r[k]);
}

Within the loop k will be equal to the name of the first property, then the second property, etc. (Though having said "first" and "second" the order of iteration is arbitrary.)
The if statement with .hasOwnProperty() is "optional" depending on your object structure/heirarchy: it tests whether a particular property is a "direct" property of the object or a property from somewhere up the prototype chain (noting that the for...in structure returns both types of properties). If you're not sure if you need it then you probably do.
Note: this technique applies to JavaScript objects in general, not specifically to your database objects.


This Act may be cited as the "Offshore Oil and Gas Worker Whistleblower Protection Act of 2010".
SEC. 2. Whistleblower protections; employee protection from other retaliation.
(H) objected to, or refused to participate in any activity, policy, practice, or assigned task that the covered employee reasonably believed to be in violation of any provision of such Act, or any order, rule, regulation, standard, or ban under such Act.
(2) GOOD FAITH BELIEF.—For purposes of paragraph (1)(E), the circumstances causing the covered employee's good faith belief that performing such duties would pose a health and safety hazard shall be of such a nature that a reasonable person under circumstances confronting the covered employee would conclude there is such a hazard.
(1) IN GENERAL.—A covered employee who believes that he or she has been discharged or otherwise discriminated against (hereafter referred to as the "complainant") by any employer in violation of subsection (a)(1) may, not later than 180 days after the date on which such alleged violation occurs or the date on which the covered employee knows or should reasonably have known that such alleged violation occurred, file (or have any person file on his or her behalf) a complaint with the Secretary of Labor (referred to in this section as the "Secretary") alleging such discharge or discrimination and identifying employer or employers responsible for such act. Upon receipt of such a complaint, the Secretary shall notify, in writing, the employer or employers named in the complaint of the filing of the complaint, of the allegations contained in the complaint, of the substance of evidence supporting the complaint, and of the opportunities that will be afforded to such person under paragraph (2).
(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the date of receipt of a complaint filed under paragraph (1) the Secretary shall initiate an investigation and determine whether there is reasonable cause to believe that the complaint has merit and notify, in writing, the complainant and the employer or employers alleged to have committed a violation of subsection (a)(1) of the Secretary's findings. The Secretary shall, during such investigation afford the complainant and the employer or employers named in the complaint an opportunity to submit to the Secretary a written response to the complaint and an opportunity to meet with a representative of the Secretary to present statements from witnesses. The complainant shall be provided with an opportunity to review the information and evidence provided by employer or employers to the Secretary, and to review any response or rebuttal by such the complaint, as part of such investigation.
(B) REASONABLE CAUSE FOUND; PRELIMINARY ORDER.—If the Secretary concludes that there is reasonable cause to believe that a violation of subsection (a)(1) has occurred, the Secretary shall accompany the Secretary's findings with a preliminary order providing the relief prescribed by paragraph (3)(B). Not later than 30 days after the date of notification of findings under this paragraph, the employer or employers alleged to have committed the violation or the complainant may file objections to the findings or preliminary order, or both, and request a hearing on the record before an administrative law judge of the Department of Labor. The filing of such objections shall not operate to stay any reinstatement remedy contained in the preliminary order. Any such hearing shall be conducted expeditiously. If a hearing is not requested in such 30-day period, the preliminary order shall be deemed a final order that is not subject to judicial review. The Secretary of Labor is authorized to enforce preliminary reinstatement orders in the United States district court for the district in which the violation was found to occur, or in the United States district court for the District of Columbia.
(i) STANDARD FOR COMPLAINANT.—The Secretary shall dismiss a complaint filed under this subsection and shall not conduct an investigation otherwise required under subparagraph (A) unless the complainant makes a prima facie showing that any behavior described in subparagraphs (A) through (F) of subsection (a)(1) was a contributing factor in the adverse action alleged in the complaint.
(ii) STANDARD FOR EMPLOYER.—Notwithstanding a finding by the Secretary that the complainant has made the showing required under clause (i), no investigation otherwise required under subparagraph (A) shall be conducted if the employer demonstrates, by clear and convincing evidence, that the employer would have taken the same adverse action in the absence of that behavior.
(iii) VIOLATION STANDARD.—The Secretary may determine that a violation of subsection (a)(1) has occurred only if the complainant demonstrates that any behavior described in subparagraphs (A) through (F) of such subsection was a contributing factor in the adverse action alleged in the complaint.
(iv) RELIEF STANDARD.—Relief may not be ordered under subparagraph (A) if the employer demonstrates by clear and convincing evidence that the employer would have taken the same adverse action in the absence of that behavior.
(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the receipt of a request for a hearing under subsection (b)(2)(B), the administrative law judge shall issue findings of fact and order the relief provided under this paragraph or deny the complaint. At any time before issuance of an order, a proceeding under this subsection may be terminated on the basis of a settlement agreement entered into by the Secretary, the complainant, and the person alleged to have committed the violation. Such a settlement may not be agreed by such parties if it contains conditions which conflict with rights protected under this Act, are contrary to public policy, or include a restriction on a complainant's right to future employment with employers other than the specific employers named in the complaint.
(iii) to provide compensatory and consequential damages, and, as appropriate, exemplary damages to the complainant.
(C) ATTORNEY FEES.—If such an order is issued under this paragraph, the Secretary, at the request of the complainant, shall assess against the employer or employers a sum equal to the aggregate amount of all costs and expenses (including attorneys' and expert witness fees) reasonably incurred by the complainant for, or in connection with, the bringing of the complaint upon which the order was issued at the conclusion of any stage of the proceeding.
(D) BAD FAITH CLAIM.—If the Secretary finds that a complaint under paragraph (1) is frivolous or has been brought in bad faith, the Secretary may award to the prevailing employer reasonable attorneys' fees, not exceeding $1,000, to be paid by the complainant.
(E) ADMINISTRATIVE APPEAL.—Not later than 30 days after the receipt of findings of fact or an order under subparagraph (B), the employer or employers alleged to have committed the violation or the complainant may file, with objections, an administrative appeal with the Secretary, who may designate such appeal to a review board. In reviewing a decision and order of the administrative law judge, the Secretary shall affirm the decision and order if it is determined that the factual findings set forth therein are supported by substantial evidence and the decision and order are made in accordance with applicable law. The Secretary shall issue a final decision and order affirming, or reversing, in whole or in part, the decision under review within 90 days after receipt of the administrative appeal under this subparagraph. If it is determined that a violation of subsection (a)(1) has occurred, the Secretary shall order relief provided under subparagraphs (B) and (C). Such decision shall constitute a final agency action with respect to the matter appealed.
(A) IN GENERAL.—If the Secretary has not issued a final decision within 300 days after the filing of the complaint, the complainant may bring an action at law or equity for de novo review in the appropriate district court of the United States with jurisdiction, which shall have jurisdiction over such an action without regard to the amount in controversy, and which action shall, at the request of either party to such action, be tried by the court with a jury. The proceedings shall be governed by the same legal burdens of proof specified in paragraph (2)(C).
(iv) reasonable attorney fees, including litigation costs, and expert witness fees.
(A) IN GENERAL.—Any person adversely affected or aggrieved by a final order issued under paragraph (3) or a judgment or order under paragraph (4) may obtain review of the order in the United States Court of Appeals for the circuit in which the violation, with respect to which the order was issued, allegedly occurred or the circuit in which the complainant resided on the date of such violation. The petition for review must be filed not later than 60 days after the date of the issuance of the final order of the Secretary. Review shall conform to chapter 7 of title 5, United States Code. The commencement of proceedings under this subparagraph shall not, unless ordered by the court, operate as a stay of the order.
(B) NO OTHER JUDICIAL REVIEW.—An order of the Secretary with respect to which review could have been obtained under subparagraph (A) shall not be subject to judicial review in any criminal or other civil proceeding.
(6) FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH ORDER.—Whenever any employer has failed to comply with an order issued under paragraph (3), the Secretary may file a civil action in the United States district court for the district in which the violation was found to occur, or in the United States district court for the District of Columbia, to enforce such order. In actions brought under this paragraph, the district courts shall have jurisdiction to grant all appropriate relief including, but not limited to, injunctive relief and compensatory damages.
(A) IN GENERAL.—A person on whose behalf an order was issued under paragraph (3) may commence a civil action against the employer to whom such order was issued to require compliance with such order. The appropriate United States district court shall have jurisdiction, without regard to the amount in controversy or the citizenship of the parties, to enforce such order. In cases where the Secretary and the complainant file civil action to require compliance, the action of the Secretary shall take precedence.
(B) AWARD.—The court, in issuing any final order under this paragraph, may award costs of litigation (including reasonable attorneys' and expert witness fees) to any party whenever the court determines such award is appropriate.
(1) EFFECT ON OTHER LAWS.—Nothing in this section preempts or diminishes any other safeguards against discrimination, demotion, discharge, suspension, threats, harassment, reprimand, retaliation, or any other manner of discrimination provided by Federal or State law.
(2) RIGHTS OF EMPLOYEES.—Nothing in this section shall be construed to diminish the rights, privileges, or remedies of any employee under any Federal or State law or under any collective bargaining agreement. The rights and remedies in this section may not be waived by any agreement, policy, form, or condition of employment.
(d) Enforcement of Nondiscretionary Duties.—Any nondiscretionary duty imposed by this section shall be enforceable in a mandamus proceeding brought under section 1361 of title 28, United States Code.
(e) Posting of Notice and Training.—All employers shall post a notice which has been approved as to form and content by the Secretary of Labor in a conspicuous location in the place of employment where covered employees frequent which explains employee rights and remedies under this section. Each employer shall provide training to covered employees of their rights under this section within 30 days of employment, and at not less than once every 12 months thereafter, and provide covered employees with a card which contains a toll free telephone number at the Department of Labor which covered employees can call to get information or file a complaint under this section.
(f) Designation by the Secretary.—The Secretary of Labor shall, within 30 days of the date of enactment of this Act, designate by order the appropriate agency officials to receive, investigate, and adjudicate complaints of violations of subsection (a)(1).
(B) includes an applicant for such employment.
(2) The term "employer" means one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, trusts, unincorporated organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or trustees, and includes any agent, contractor, subcontractor, grantee or consultant of such employer.
(3) The term "Outer Continental Shelf" has the meaning that the term "outer Continental Shelf" has in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.).


This is a full day Cape Peninsular sightseeing tour. We follow the Atlantic coast line past Clifton, Camps Bay and Llandudno to the picturesque fishing village of Hout Bay . Here you have the option of going on a 30 minute boat ride to view the seal colony (R50). Then it is over the Constantiaberg Mountain to the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve. There are also hikes that can be made. On the way back to Cape Town we stop at the rare Jackass penguin colony at Bolders Beach.
with a cellar tour in one region and wine entrtance and or tastings in the others. By the time you get back to your hotel in Cape Town you should be suitably relaxed.
Where the Whales can be seen from as close a 50m. The female whales come here to give birth ans it is an amazing sight to witness the birth of a calf.
Spyhopping - poking just their heads out of the water.


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Jaxon's Cure
Our Beautiful Son Jax
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First day of Kindergarten 2005
This is a picture of our son Jaxon, it was taken on his first day of Kindergarten. What a handsome young man, a typical 5 year old, full of life and not a worry in the world. A caring and generous son, one that every parent dreams of having. Little did we know a few months later he would be stricken with a rare and almost always fatal disease called Subacute Sclerosing Pan encephalitis (SSPE) which is caused by an altered form of the measles virus. As you go through our website you will find more information about Jax, his condition, various treatments and links to other related websites. You'll also learn more about our organization and it's primary focus which is to help raise awareness and find a cure. Many symptoms mimic other disorders and can be easily misdiagnosed . . . early diagnoses is critical. Knowing this we feel it is our obligation to spread the news about SSPE praying that no other child has been infected by this disease, but if so hoping that information on our website will be of some benefit.
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