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Arc Welding Robot Track Withstands Harsh Environments
Güdel introduces ArcTrack, a flexible, pre-configured robot track motion module for arc welding applications that can reduce lead time by as much as 40 percent, according to the company.
Edited by Julia Hider
Associate Editor, Production Machining
The pre-engineered TrackMotion Floor (TMF-2) configuration has an auxiliary shelf that can carry welding equipment, large wire spools, and torch cleaning and reaming devices with the robot. The shelf is said to be able to support over 750 kg without compromising performance. The module includes robot-specific gear boxes, motors and cables. It is available for arc welding robots from companies including FANUC, ABB, Motoman and Kuka.
All of the company's units are designed and engineered for harsh environments, including welding, painting, die casting, foundries, sealing, machining and grinding. A cam follower and cartridge-bearing design is said to enable 15-min. MTTR for bearing replacement. The module is configured with guideway scrapers and a fully enclosed e-chain for a final layer of protection.
All of the company's robot track motion modules are available in lengths from 3 to 100 m and can be equipped with robot risers from 50 to 600 mm.
Güdel Inc. | 734-214-0000 | us.gudel.com
Vise Automates Milling, Eliminates Fixture Setup
A machine tool builder phased in a three-machine robotic cell to improve productivity and automate machining of spindle shafts. A new vise model that provided repeatable clamping and eliminated fixture setups was key to the success of the new project.
Making Strides To Maximize Worker Efficiency
This 40-year-old shop combines original best practices with new technologies and manufacturing approaches to make the most of its home-grown skilled labor.
Bar Puller Basics
Bar pullers are cost-effective alternatives to enable automated turning on CNC lathes. This article explains how they work and how shops can benefit from using them.
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Q: PHP How to test a value of standard class object I would like to check if the value of a standard class object has a value of 'None'. The object is a PDO and pulls data from the database.
Here is the data from a var_dump:
array (size=1)
  0 =>
    object(stdClass)[8]
      public 'Subid' => string '1' (length=1)
      public 'id' => string '27' (length=2)
      public 'english' => string 'English Standard' (length=16)
      public 'maths' => string 'Mathematics General 2' (length=21)
      public 'hsie1' => string 'Modern History' (length=14)
      public 'science1' => string 'Biology' (length=7)
      public 'science2' => string 'None' (length=4)
      public 'science3' => string 'None' (length=4)
      public 'tech1' => string 'Agriculture' (length=11)
      public 'tech2' => string 'None' (length=4)
      public 'extension' => string 'None' (length=4)
      public 'arts1' => string 'None' (length=4)
      public 'arts2' => string 'Dance' (length=5)
      public 'pdhpe1' => string 'None' (length=4)
      public 'vet1' => string 'None' (length=4)
      public 'start_time' => string '2016-11-15 19:54:08' (length=19)

Is it possible to loop through the keys and test the values?

A: You can foreach over an array and the public properties of an object
So
foreach ( $array as $obj ) {

    foreach ( $obj as $prop => $val ) {
        if ( $val == 'None' ) {
            echo $prop . ' = ' . $val;
        }
    }
}

EDIT:
I dont see why you had to change anything here is a quick test I ran
$o = new stdClass;
$o->p1 = 1;
$o->p2 = 'two';
$o->p3 = 'None';

$array = array($o);

var_dump($array);

foreach ( $array as $obj ) {

    foreach ( $obj as $prop => $val ) {
        if ( $val == 'None' ) {
            echo $prop . ' = ' . $val;
        }
    }
}

And the results were
array(1) {
  [0] =>
  class stdClass#1 (3) {
    public $p1 => int(1)
    public $p2 => string(3) "two"
    public $p3 => string(4) "None"
  }
}
p3 = None

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Home Education Lai Mohammed advocates public-private partnership to rebuild infrastructure in tertiary institutions
Lai Mohammed advocates public-private partnership to rebuild infrastructure in tertiary institutions
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has called for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) rebuilding and reinvigorating infrastructure in tertiary institutions across the country.
Mohammed spoke on Tuesday at the unveiling of the refurbished, and equipped Lecture Theatres, Faculty of Science, by Platform Capital, at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
Represented by the Managing Director of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr Buki Ponle, the Minister said in spite of the best efforts of government, there was still a discernible infrastructure gap across the nation's tertiary institutions, including universities.
He said due to neglect over the years, many structures and facilities on campuses were today in decay.
"This much, President Muhammadu Buhari, stressed at the 33rd Convocation Ceremony of the University of Calabar.
"The President advised Nigerian universities to find creative ways of exploiting the existing Public-Private Partnership policy to meaningfully bridge the infrastructure gaps existing on their campuses.
"Platform Capital has singled itself out for commendation by this initiative of refurbishing, renovating, refitting and equipping AJOSE, BOOA and BOOB Lecture Theatres as well as White House, Faculty of Science," he said.
According to Mohammed, the refurbishing of the lecture theatres by the organisation, at this time of grave economic challenges resulting in many tertiary institutions contending with diverse challenges, including dearth of infrastructure, is a heartening development between a university community and a good corporate citizen.
He commended the management and staff of Platform Capital for embarking on the project and seeing it through to completion for the overall benefit of this university community.
"It is especially heartwarming that the project was funded, redesigned, project-managed and delivered by Platform Capital.
"This is a pointer to the limitless opportunities offered by close collaboration between government and the private sector.
"To drive growth and development across sectors and institutions in the country.
"Platform Capital is indeed truly true to its core values — to be our brother's keeper, to be loyal, authentic, build capacity and knowledge," the Minister said.
Mohammed also called on other players in the private sector to drive corporate social responsibility initiatives which would impact positively on the communities where they are doing business.
The Minister commended the university's Council and Management for working in unison with Platform Capital in bringing the project to fruition.
The Minister, however, urged the management of the university and the students to ensure adequate and proper maintenance of the facilities.
He said, "The story of initiating and sustaining public infrastructure in the country over the years has been an unedifying one with projects built with humongous sums left to rot away due to lack of maintenance.
"We must change this unhappy narrative and one way to do this is for beneficiaries to take ownership of such projects.
"My charge, therefore, to members of the Obafemi Awolowo University community, particularly the students, is to take ownership of these structures and ensure they do not return to the decrepit state they were before the intervention by Platform Capital."
In his remarks, the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, commended the Chairman of platform capital, Dr Akintoye Akindele, for the initiative.
"I do not know how to thank Dr Akindele for all he has done or what he is going to do for his Alma mater, but it is certain that his love and labour shall not be in vain," he said.
Ogunbodede also urged stakeholders in the education sector to emulate Akindele to support the university in any way they deem fit.
"I humbly appeal to the government at all tiers to invest more funds into education sector so that other aspects of our socioeconomic life would be rejuvenated," he said.
Also, the Chairman of Platform Capital, Dr Akintoye Akindele, the initiative of refurbishing th lecture theatres was borne out of his desire to give back to the society.
Akindele, who is an alumni of the university said that majority of his set in his university days benefitted from free education, hence the need to give back to the society.
"To him who much is given, much is expected. Majority of us benefitted from free education and now is the time for us to give back.
"I am glad to have the privilege of giving back to the society," he said.
Lai Mohammed
tertiary institutions
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Q: Addition keys in JSON I need to make addition using NodeJS in an array JSON and then return the altered JSON like this, I need also check if key exist or not to avoid exceptions:
JSON:
{
    "cmd": [
        {
            "sales": [
                {
                    "qte1": "2",
                    "qte2": "3",
                    "someString": "test
                },
                {
                    "qte1": "66",
                    "someAttribute": "test "
                },
                {
                    "qte2": "77",
                    "toto": "tata"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

target JSON:
{
    "cmd": [
        {
            "sales": [
                {
                    "qte1": "2",
                    "qte2": "3",
                    "somme": "5"
                },
                {
                    "qte1": "66",
                    "somme": "66"

                },
                {
                    "qte2": "77",
                    "somme": "77"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

I need to add the two key qte1 et qte2
would you have any propositions ?
Best regards

A: Seems like you just want the sum of the existing keys, should be pretty simple using a couple .map commands and a .reduce:
return json.cmd.map(function(salesList) {
    return salesList.sales.map(function(sale) {
        var keysToAdd = ["qte1", "qte2"];

        sale.somme = Object.keys(sale).reduce(function(total, key) {
            return total += keysToAdd.indexOf(key) > -1 ? +sale[key] : 0;
        }, 0);

        return sale;
    });
});

Demo: https://jsfiddle.net/x294yt1h/

A: const data =
{
    "cmd": [
        {
            "sales": [
                {
                    "qte1": "2",
                    "qte2": "3"
                },
                {
                    "qte1": "66"
                },
                {
                    "qte2": "77"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
};

function sum(dataObj) {
    const hasCmd = dataObj && dataObj.cmd && dataObj.cmd.length > 0;
    const hasSales = hasCmd && dataObj.cmd[0].sales && dataObj.cmd[0].sales.length > 0;
    if (hasCmd && hasSales) {
        const clonedArray = dataObj.cmd[0].sales.slice();
        const summedArray = clonedArray.map(function(group) {
            const groupKeys = Object.keys(group);
            const sum = groupKeys.reduce(function (total, key) {
                return total + parseInt(group[key], 10 /* Decimal Radix */);
            }, 0);
            return Object.assign({}, group, { 'somme': sum.toString() });
        });
        // build a new object to return to include new summed array
        return { "cmd": [{ "sales": summedArray }] };
    }
    return dataObj;
}

console.log('data', JSON.stringify(data));
const newData = sum(data);
console.log('newData', JSON.stringify(newData));

A: Maybe you can first and formost refector your tree.
Like that :

{
  command: [
    {
      sales: [
        {
          quantity: [1, 2, 4],
          sum: 7
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

I don't know if your structure is open to any refectoring, but you must do something about it !

However, try to use the correct type of value in your row, and try to keep in mind to never mutate and object, use functor like map and reduce :

const cmd = [
    {
    sales: [
        {
          quantity: [1, 2, 3],
          sum: 0
        },
        {
          quantity: [67, 2, 3],
          sum: 0
        }
    ]
  }
];

const newObjectWithSum = cmd.map(sales => {
    return sales.sales.map((sale) => {
    sale.sum = sale.quantity.reduce((valueIn, next) => {
        return valueIn + next;
    },0);
    return sale;
    });
})


Me at Hoover Dam. Look at the water level. This is from the Arizona side. And LOOK at what they are building in the background. Traffiic from Nevada to Arizona and back is going to pass over one of the highest arches in the western hemisphere. This thing is amazing. Glad I got to see it under construction.


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About Kimberley › Historic Buildings & Monuments › Kimberley Club
Kimberley Club
The Kimberley Club is synonymous with the early history of Kimberley's diamond rush and reflects the impressive ambience of one of South Africa's oldest clubs. The building, with its original fixtures and fittings, allows guests a rare opportunity to experience an exclusive tradition. The Club has seen the comings and goings of some of the foremost personalities in the world, has entertained sovereigns, princes and princesses.
The Kimberley Club was founded in August 1881. Leading men of Kimberley wanted a meeting place along the lines of London clubs where they could enjoy a drink or two, good food and the company of their peers, in comfort, away from the dust and dryness of the diggings. Cecil John Rhodes was the prime mover in the founding of the Club. Some of the original members were Cecil Rhodes and his partner, Charles D. Rudd and Dr Leander Starr Jameson, as well as mining magnate Lionel Phillips and JB Robinson. Needless to say it was the men of the diamond industry who predominated.
A visitor to Kimberley once said, "the place was stuffed with money." There were more millionaires to the square foot than any other place in the world. The members were all young, ambitious and adventurous. Cecil Rhodes himself was only 28 years old at the time of the founding of the Club. It was on the veranda of the Club that he worked on plans and ideas to colonize the land north of the Zambezi, Rhodesia, which was named in his honour. The iron arrow on the pathway in the main door of the Club was placed there in 1889 to point north, as Cecil Rhodes's sense of direction was not of the best. It can still be seen today.
The original building burned to the ground on 1 November 1886. All that remained were two side walls. The fire started while members were at dinner when an oil lamp chandelier fell in the upstairs Billiard Room. The building included a great deal of wood in its construction which burned fiercely. Naturally residents of Kimberley rushed to view the disaster. Kimberley's inadequate water supply could not extinguish the blaze. Residential accommodation was added for the first time when the Club was rebuilt eight months after the fire. Four outside bedrooms were built behind the Club as well as a communal bathroom. Electricity, generated by a plant, was installed at the beginning of 1888. De Beers agreed to supply the Club with electricity from the Kimberley Mine in 1890.
Early Club rules included "No Women in the Club, "No Dogs on the Premises and "No Smoking in the Dining Room, later amended to "No Smoking until one hour after the commencement of the meal. Rhodes and Jameson were inveterate smokers.
The second building was destroyed by fire just nine years later in October 1895. Nearly everything was destroyed except the stores in the wine cellar and papers and documents rescued from the Secretary's safe. The kitchen remained unscathed and three days later meals were again being served in a house nearby. Salvaged from the ruins was the famous weighing chair, presented by Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Sir Winston Churchill in 1892 which now stands in the lounge off the bar on the ground floor.
The third Kimberley Club building was completed in mid 1896. Plans had been drawn by Greatbach who also designed "Dunluce" in Lodge Road as well as the original buildings of what is now Girls High School. A lot of the furniture still in daily use was ordered from London; the bentwood chairs in the bar lounge date from this time as well as the mahogany sideboard in the Dining Room.
Cecil John Rhodes presented his portrait, painted by Herbert Harkomer, to the Club in 1898, and this is to be seen in the bar lounge. Prince George, later the Duke of Kent, visited the Club for three days in March 1934. So pleased was he with his visit and reception at the Club that he sent a signed photograph of himself which is still among souvenirs of well known visitors to the Club. In 1947, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and the two princesses Elisabeth and Margaret, used the Club during their one day visit to Kimberley. The Queen left a diamond ring in the bathroom which was found after their departure. It was sent on and the Club received a letter of thanks from the King's aid-de-camp.
The Kimberley Club had always been a Men's Club. Ladies Nights were held very occasionally but it wasn't until 1937 that a Ladies Annexe was made available (now the Rhodes Room). A banquet was held on 12 May 1937 to celebrate the opening of the Ladies Annexe as well as the coronation of King George VI. At this stage ladies still used the back gate into the Club premises. The present Ladies Lounge off the Dining Room used to be the Billiard Room, and was brought into use towards the end of 1962 after much rebuilding and alterations were done. At last the ladies had an entrance on Du Toitspan Road, not the front door as such, but they no longer had to use a back door to the Club. It was only in April 1965 that women were admitted to the Club as Associated Members instead of having to be invited guests. After discussions at the Annual General Meeting on 25 July 1980, women were finally allowed to use the front door, the Dining Room, accommodation at the Club. including The Bar and Bar Lounge.
During the siege of Kimberley one of the club members, Fergus Carstairs Rogers was on his way home from the club when a boer shell exploded and wounded him in the leg. Willing helpers dashed to the rescue, and Mr. Carstairs Rogers (an architect in Kimberley and some of the buildings he designed are still in use) was advised to go to hospital. His reply was: "Hospital be blowed, take me into the Club!" One of the dining room tables in the Club was used as an operating table, he was plied with whisky and the splinter removed. He later had this made into a brooch and on the reverse the following inscription is seen "Taken from FC Rogers' leg during Anglo Boer War 1900". The shell splinter was presented to the Club by Mrs. Margaret Harvey in 2009 in memory of her late husband Frank Harvey, who was the grandson of FC Rogers.


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Anti-satellite missile: An attack with this space weapon could blind US military systems
The US military currently has at least 100 satellites for military purposes in the geostationary orbit.
By Shubham Sharma
With increasing geopolitical differences, the possibility of an international war between US and Russia or China can be deterred but not ignored. The biggest superpowers on the planet have developed their defences in every way possible, but in the era of military controlled space programs, US could be facing some serious damage owing to its heavy dependence on satellite-based systems.
Whether military or civil operations, the United States has been following the satellite-based strategy since the dawn of the space age. The country is technically equipped to deal with all kinds of threats, provided their space assets remain untouched.
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It is highly plausible that either China or Russia, which are known for taking advantage of not only their own strengths but also the weaknesses of their potential adversaries, can use anti-satellite missiles to achieve their ultimate goal of deterring US military intervention without firing a single shot. These missiles will not do any damage on the ground but could easily cripple US military's communication, coordination, navigation, and surveillance systems by incapacitating or destroying their satellites in geostationary Earth orbit.
"If you were an adversary attacking the US, you'd start by attacking satellites," said Peter Singer, a senior fellow at nonpartisan think tank New America. "The first shots in a war between the US and China or Russia, no one would likely hear".
Counter space programs
On 11 January 2007, China successfully destroyed its defunct weather satellite, FY-1C, at an altitude of 537 miles using SC-19 ASAT missile with a kinetic kill war head. The test drew world condemnation due to a large amount of debris generated, but for the People's Republic of China, it was a part of its coherent counter space strategy, which went far beyond the goal of developing better and new ASATs. Over next few years, they pacified the outcry over debris generation and switched to non-destructive and little debris-generating tests for direct-ascent ASAT developments in 2010, 2013, and 2014.
According to a 2015 report from the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, "Since 2008, China has tested increasingly complex space proximity capabilities," and its "recent space activities indicate it is developing co-orbital anti-satellite systems to target U.S. space assets".
Just like China, Russia has also been conducting a bunch of anti-satellite missile tests. Though not as successful historically, the country has proven its revamped outer space might with at least five anti-satellite missile tests in last few years. Most recently, it launched PL-19 Nudol missile from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome test launch facility.
The amount of investment in ASAT capabilities is a clear threat to US agencies and companies, which have at least 500 satellites (100 for military purposes) in space.
US leading, but ineffectively
The US, which successfully shot down a failing satellite using a ship-mounted SM-3 Standard Missile in 2008, is still way ahead in its ASAT program. But, despite being ahead in the territory, the country would not want to go to war with space-capable powers. According to a report from Business Insider, Chinese and Russians are still using analogue systems in their older military assets and could retaliate even if their satellite systems are crippled.
As of now, America's strength is its liability, but with dated analogue technology moving towards an exit in coming years, it could soon be a level playing field for all space-capable superpowers. Militaries and much of the world's economy are likely to be more dependent on the information and communication systems supported by satellites in the orbit. And, protecting these assets will become the highest priority for all nations.


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This is exactly what happened to one physician before he became my client. He is a partner of a very large practice and brings home more than $1.5mm a year, and yet he has only $100,000 in his bank account. If he stops working today, the money will run out in three months.
How did he get into such a quandary? In short, real estate.
My friend Sally has a friend who is a software engineer at Facebook. The recent Facebook IPO made him a millionaire, many times over. According to Sally, he is overwhelmed by this sudden wealth and wondering how to deal with this mountain of money.
I have a suggestion: put the money in nine buckets.
Let me explain. All you newly rich Facebook employees need is a framework to deal with your money. It is a 3 by 3 box. Horizontally, it is divided into Need, Want, and Aspiration. Vertically, it is divided into Short, Med, and Long.
1. Facebook is a great service to help you keep in touch with friends and family. But a great service does not equal great investment.
2. When was the last time you clicked on a Facebook ad? I can't recall when I ever did. The click-through rate for Facebook ads is 10% that for Google ads, for good reason. Google ads are delivered at the moment you have actionable intent, while Facebook ads are delivered when you don't want any distraction.
3. As more and more people use mobile devices to access Facebook, this will present a big challenge since it is nearly impossible to display distracting ads on tiny mobile screens.
Two months ago, I got a call from client of mine, who asked my opinion about an opportunity to invest in pre-IPO Facebook shares. He explained that he and his business partner were offered the opportunity to invest in a private fund that will hold Facebook shares.
I know nothing about these funds, but I told my client to stay away. As a general principle, I always steer my clients away from private funds unless they run the funds themselves. The reason is very simple: these are unregulated vehicles where there is no government oversight and there is no transparency whatever. You don't know what monkey business they do with your money. Most business people intuitively grasp that if the private deal is about starting a restaurant; but once the deal is about buying Facebook shares, many of them throw caution to the wind.
I met Joseph in a startup networking event. He was trying to attract investors for his latest venture. He has an impressive resume: he founded a tech company that was later sold for tens of millions of dollars in the 1980s.
I was immediately struck by the "never say old" motto of this 75-year-old entrepreneur. But one thing did come across as odd: he was trying to raise a mere $500k for his new venture. Why didn't he just fund the venture out of his own pocket?
Two months ago, we bought another investment property.
The condo with two bedrooms and two baths was being sold through a short sale. The asking price was only $80,000. We did our research; the condo could rent for $1,300 per month in the market. So it's a no-brainer.
At the time, there were four other bidders. We decide to be aggressive and employ an escalation clause. We would bid $80,000, but if someone bid higher than us, we would increase the bid by $500 increments, up to limit of $95,000.


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Monsters University on Blu-ray and DVD
Our family seen Monsters University in theatres this year, and it quickly became one of our favourite animated films of all time. Perhaps it's the funny characters, unique storyline – in any case, it's one that definitely had be added to our movie library.
The film is the second after Monsters Inc. but takes the same characters {with the addition of new ones}, and goes way back to the university days to tell the story of how monsters become 'a scarer'.
Ever since college-bound Mike Wazowski (voice of Billy Crystal) was a little monster, he has dreamed of becoming a Scarer—and he knows better than anyone that the best Scarers come from Monsters University (MU). But during his first semester at MU, Mike's plans are derailed when he crosses paths with hotshot James P. Sullivan, "Sulley" (voice of John Goodman), a natural-born Scarer. The pair's out-of-control competitive spirit gets them both kicked out of the University's elite Scare Program. To make matters worse, they realize they will have to work together, along with an odd bunch of misfit monsters, if they ever hope to make things right. "Monsters University" bravely explores themes of self-discovery and the revelations that come with growing up.
As always, my girls watch the bonus features right after one viewing of the film. They were all very interested in the Deleted Scenes, learning why some of the scenes made the film while others didn't. Having visited the animation studios before and taking 'lessons' from real Disney animators, I always love learning about the art of making animated characters. Scare games is another feature that my girls love!
Monsters University is in stores now, on multi-formats including Blu-Ray 3D, Blu-Ray, DVD & Digital Copy. It would make an excellent Christmas gift for your little Monsters fan {adults are included here}. We've watched this a couple times now on family movie night, and I know they weren't the last.
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my three little granddaughters would love to watch this at Grandma's house….heck, Grandma and Grandpa would like to watch it too!
I just sent a care package to my youngest with that movie in it
Marylou Simmons says
We went to see this in the theaters this year with 2 of the grandkids. We all loved it. Someone will be getting a copy for Christmas and maybe one for us too!


Acne is a condition that affects individuals of all ages, genders, and races, but many are unsure of exactly what is a cause of acne that causes teens to break out.
Generally speaking, teenagers are more prone to having problems with acne due to the hormones associated with this time of life.
Anyone who has ever been around teens is more than aware of the raging hormones, but these hormones can not only affect an individual's attitude, but also his or her appearance.
However, hormones should not take all the blame, as there are other issues what cause acne.
Most teens are quite active and engage in many activities, including sporting events that can aggravate acne prone skin.
If teens do not use the proper cleaners to ensure their skin is clean, they are opening their skin up to formations of blackheads or pimples.
Consider a trip to your local dermatologist's office to find the proper soaps or face washes that will keep anyone's skin fresh and properly cleaned to prevent infection.
Regardless of your extracurricular activities, a trip to a dermatologist is a good idea to control any potential problems and find out exactly what can cause acne given your situation.
Usually, a major factor of skin issues in teens is due to an increase of oil secretions on the skin.
This includes skin on the face, neck, back, arms, and the rest of the body.
Due to the overproduction of this oil, bacteria can infect the skin's pores and develop into pimples or blackheads.
Although you will not be able to stop overproduction of the oil by your skin through topical creams, cleaners, or soaps, your dermatologist will be able to prescribe medication to control the hormones that cause this excess of oil.
By trying to control the problem before it erupts, you will be able to ensure your skin is clear and free from blemishes.
Anyone that has graced our earth, has reached a stage in their life that is ….
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Das Haus Ditfurter Weg 37 ist ein ehemals denkmalgeschütztes Gebäude in der Stadt Quedlinburg in Sachsen-Anhalt.

Lage
Es befindet sich östlich der historischen Quedlinburger Neustadt auf der Westseite des Ditfurter Wegs gegenüber dem Harzklinikum Dorothea Christiane Erxleben. Im Quedlinburger Denkmalverzeichnis war das Gebäude als Villa eingetragen.

Architektur und Geschichte
Das massive verputzte Gebäude wurde Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts in einem Elemente des Barock zitierenden Jugendstil erbaut. Bedeckt ist die Villa von einem mit Dachhäuschen versehenen, tief herunterreichenden Mansardwalmdach. Der Hauseingang ist repräsentativ mit einer kleinen Freitreppe gestaltet. Oberhalb der Tür befindet sich ein ovales Oberlicht. Die Türen und Fenster des Hauses waren original erhalten (Stand 1998). Zum Teil fand sich noch die ursprüngliche farbige Verglasung.

Zumindest ab dem Jahr 2015 wird das Gebäude nicht mehr im Denkmalverzeichnis geführt.

Literatur
 Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Sachsen-Anhalt (Hrsg.): Denkmalverzeichnis Sachsen-Anhalt. Band 7: Falko Grubitzsch, unter Mitwirkung von Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried und Mario Titze: Landkreis Quedlinburg. Teilband 1: Stadt Quedlinburg. Fliegenkopf, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4, Seite 111.

Einzelnachweise

Kulturdenkmal in Quedlinburg
Wohngebäude in Quedlinburg
Villa in Quedlinburg
Ditfurter Weg (Quedlinburg)

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When Dr. Jorge Garcia-Zuazaga founded Apex Dermatology and Skin Surgery Center in 2011, he had a mission to transform lives through healthy skin. Whether helping a patient to become cancer free, improve acne or smooth away wrinkles, Apex has been empowering people ever since.
And to help more Northeast Ohioans, Apex is expanding its reach. This fall, Apex opened a new office in Westlake. This office joins the other six facilities in Mayfield Heights, Solon, Concord, Hudson, Parma and Medina to offer comprehensive skin cancer surgery, medical dermatology and innovative aesthetic services.
"When I founded Apex Dermatology, my vision was to create a complete dermatology center where patients can experience the highest level of dermatologic care with same-day appointments," says Dr. Garcia, who specializes in Mohs micrographic surgery.
It is this patient-centric approach that has catapulted Apex Dermatology to become a leader in skin care.
Setting the tone in the new Westlake office is Dr. Aziza Wahby. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Iowa, Dr. Wahby's love of classical music brought her to the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she earned a master's degree in violin performance. After earning her music degree, she decided to follow in the footsteps of her mother, a nurse, and father, an orthopedic surgeon, and further her education in medical school in New York and Florida. She completed her dermatology training at University Hospitals, bringing her back to town where her fiancé plays violin for the Cleveland Orchestra.
Very personable, Dr. Wahby is a doctor of osteopathic medicine and applies those philosophies to skin care.
Joining Dr. Wahby in the new Westlake office is Medical Aesthetician Anne Keller. With more than 15 years of experience, Anne specializes in skin rejuvenation treatments, including body contouring, dermaplaning, chemical peels and specialized acne treatments.
"My goal is to get patients' skin in the greatest health possible, so they are not prone to aging, rosacea and sun damage," says Anne, who studied cosmetic lasers at the National Laser Institute in Arizona and is a Certified CoolSculpting Specialist.
"At Apex, we build strong relationships and truly invest in our patients to help them maintain healthy and vibrant skin," Dr. Wahby adds.


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Fauci admits that mRNA injections don't stop infection or transmission, but just as Bill Gates did, he recklessly calls for even more dangerous experimental drug development
On Twitter, independent journalist Alex Berenson wrote: "It [the mRNA 'vaccine'] doesn't stop infection or transmission. Don't think of it as a vaccine. Think of it – at best – as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and a terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS. And we want to mandate it? Insanity."
None of what he said is untrue, but just for daring to say it Twitter banned his account — just as it has wrongly banned and suspended tens of thousands of people for speaking the truth or sharing an opinion (including me).
Berenson's thread on this reads: "Can't wait to see Twitter's lawyers try to explain this. Remember when Twitter banned me? Remember the fifth strike? Yes, that was Twitter banning me for writing that "It doesn't stop infection. Or transmission." Hey, check out this "Perspective" piece that ran yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, maybe's the world's top medical journal: Yeah, but who wrote the Perspective? Probably just some nobody looking for attention [Fauci]." [an allusion to Fauci's alleged narcissism]
Just as with the Wuhan lab leak, the powers that are having to admit they're wrong when the evidence became so widespread it was foolish to continue to deny and suppress it (both of which they did over the last year, shamelessly). But the way they're doing it is both disingenuous and manipulative.
Fauci added his name to a scientific paper that just came out (mid-Dec, 2021). In it, he all but admits that the 'vaccine' he pushed onto the world isn't up to par, by arguing for the need for continued research to find a version of the drug that actually works to prevent transmission of Covid-19.
The mRNA shots are "safe and effective" we're being told, even though doesn't do the most basic thing vaccines do: provide immunity or prevent transmission.
The unvaccinated are blamed for its failure, rather conveniently, similar to Nero blaming the Christians for his own act of arson, or Hitler blaming convenient scapegoats for the Reichstag fire.
About a month ago (Nov. 2021) Bill Gates admitted problems with the so-called 'vaccine' (which is not a vaccine), essentially acknowledging that they don't stop viral transmission (even though that's what a real vaccine is supposed to do).
Instead of calling for it to be abolished – which any sane, responsible person would do, given the disaster that all this has unleashed on the world — Gates argued for its further technological refinement.
And we know from bitter experience over the last two years that whatever drugs they create will be forced on us without room for debate – which is medical tyranny.
Gates admitted, "We didn't have vaccines that block transmission. We got vaccines that help you with your health, but they only slightly reduce the transmission. We need a new way of doing the vaccines."
Robert Malone said from the start that mRNA technology was too risky and would result in worse mutations, immune to the drug, due to ADE. This was denied by the propagandists who outrageously call themselves 'fact-checkers' (very Orwellian of them).
Malone was maligned for daring to speak the truth — along with thousands of other scientists and physicians. They were right all along, but are still being maligned by the MSM – which has yet to admit it was wrong to shamelessly promote such lies.
These new admissions from two of the core co-conspirators of the new medical tyranny (Gates, Fauci) are tantamount to admitting that humanity is the guinea pig and this really is a violation of the Nuremberg Code.
The intent of that law was to prevent medical experiments on unwilling test subjects, such as happened at Auswitsch and Unit 731, during World War II.
Photos from Unit 731, where medical atrocities were performed on unwilling test subjects.
Perhaps they too were told the drugs they'd be given were "safe."
Are we unwilling test subjects? If we're coerced into taking them, against our will, then yes we are. Austria is the first nation-state to have mandated them for all citizens, so it is a clear violation of that international Law.
It has been argued that vaccine mandates are also coercive and violate the Nuremberg Code since people must have jobs to live. And vax passports too, since access across borders and into some venues is crucial for some people.
Prosecuting this is a different matter, however. When all the power is on the side of the oppressor, this tends to influence courts to side with power. They shouldn't but they do.
see https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/nih-scientists-urge-pursuit-universal-coronavirus-vaccine
Fauci is affiliated with The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institute of Health (NIH) which funded the development of SARS-CoV2.
Describing the paper, Fauci's institute says that, "The authors call for an international collaborative effort to extensively sample coronaviruses from bats as well as wild and farmed animals to help understand the full "universe" of existing and emerging coronaviruses.
"Such studies could, they say, provide early warning about coronaviruses poised to cause outbreaks in humans. They write that carefully controlled human challenge trials, in which volunteers are exposed to coronaviruses, could yield a fuller understanding of coronavirus disease processes and inform vaccine design."
[NB – In other words, instead of shutting down the program, admitting they're wrong, and facing criminal prosecution for crimes against humanity, they want to increase their efforts to push experimental injections on humanity, by force. What could go wrong?]
They continue: "Despite the availability of safe, effective COVID-19 vaccines, it remains unknown whether and how permanent immunity can be achieved, the NIAID authors note.
[NB – This is yet another example of gaslighting us into believing that a drug that had multiple serious adverse effects and isn't effective at preventing infection and transmission is both "safe" and "effective." A safe, effective vaccine is one that provides full, permanent immunity and has no adverse side effects. mRNA shots do neither]
"They say SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, will probably continue to circulate indefinitely in periodic outbreaks, and animal coronaviruses of unknown transmissibility and lethality may emerge at any time.
[NB – In reality, nothing can stop its spread now — but it's not actually a serious disease. It has a relatively low mortality rate. The only reason people take it seriously is due to media fear-mongering]
"Therefore, we must greatly accelerate our efforts in coronavirus vaccinology, they write. The authors outline the features of an ideal universal coronavirus vaccine that would provide durable protection from most or all coronaviruses for individuals of all ages and communities at large . . .
[NB – But rather than developing such a drug in a lab, as would normally be done, it was forced on the world through an unprecedented campaign of coercion, through lockdowns and mandates, enforced by fines and arrests, with disastrous economic, social, political, and health consequences.]
The net effect is that those who continue to take it will have compromised immune systems — making many of them dependent for life on whatever Big Pharma wants to pump us full of. And Fauci et al plan to force us to take even more experimental drugs in the future, turning humanity into a race of perpetually ill drug addicts.
In other words, we can expect a dystopian nightmare in which pharmaceutical corporations control all our lives, ruin our health, get the media to lie to us, and force us to accept all of it at the end of a loaded gun. All because of an ordinary respiratory disease that under normal circumstances no one would pay attention to.
Technological optimism and pessimism
Technological optimists always push ahead with experimental technologies in this way, violating the precautionary principle at our expense, and replacing ethics with the ideal of 'progress.' A good metaphor is gambling: a person could win everything, but it's more likely that they'll lose everything.
To be sure, this haphazard attitude has brought us many great conveniences and inventions, but it has also caused great tragedies and perils, including the environmental crisis — which is often compared to a runaway train nearing a canyon with no bridge. It is now giving us medical tyranny.
In the face of this, what's called on is a healthy dose of what's termed "technological pessimism" to counter the reckless optimism that's already driven us well past the danger zone.
According to a research paper on attitudes towards new technologies, one can "receive contradictory messages from media and opinion leaders" and
"risks may be intrinsically uncertain or not known; psychological proclivities shape
the reception of messages." This can lead to either risk over- or under-estimation. Right now, we're suffering from a bad case of risk under-estimation at the highest levels of governance.
The risk of nuclear annihilation and global warming are two results of reckless technological progress.
The worst-case scenario is a dystopian future like that pictured in the film THX-1138, in which everyone is forced to take meds all the time, to control them, robots and computers run everything, and humanity is reduced to a herd of obedient slaves. If they make the drug addictive, that would be the final touch.
THX-1138 poster from 1971 — or about 50 years ago — which seems quite prescient now.
The enforcers of medical tyranny in the future it envisions are robotic police – which have now been invented.
Were the mRNA shots designed to fail?
The first comment on that thread (which has thousands of comments now) is quite good and worth sharing: "the term "breakthrough infection" is engineered, Orwellian doublespeak. Up until Covid, it was understood that the correct, scientific term to use when someone is A) vaccinated and then B) gets infection/disease anyway is "vaccine failure.""
That's a good point. In other words, the 'vaccine' is a failure and this truth cannot be evaded, except with doublespeak. But instead of abandoning the program, which has brought them so much power and wealth, they're doubling down, insisting that even more experimental injections are necessary.
And it could well be that the mRNA shots were designed to fail in order to create the kind of destabilization through controversy necessary to justify an authoritarian takeover of previously free societies. In other words, this chaos is by design
I have previously reported that some doctors are saying mRNA 'vaccines' were designed to fail: "There are simply too many 'breakthrough' cases in too many countries for the jab to be called a success. But instead of blaming the jab, and abolishing it, the unvaccinated are unjustly scapegoated. This is in addition to the problem of the negative side-effects.
"Were they designed to fail, on purpose, or did they fail as a result of poor design and lack of sufficient testing? I would tend to go with the former theory: they were designed to fail because (1) their failure can be blamed on the unvaccinated (scapegoating is politically useful if you're trying to impose Communism) and (2) it makes a lot of people much sicker over time, which is good for business for pharma corporations."
The only difference between this and what's being imposed on us is that the state is forcing it on everyone.
The hope is that we'll all awaken out of this nightmare and correct the situation before it goes much further. If we don't, humanity will go down a very dark path from which it may never emerge. This is just as serious as the environmental crisis, in my view. They both pose existential threats to humanity.
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Государство Израиль насчитывает 75 городов, которые объединены в 7 административных округов. Плотность городского населения в Израиле одна из самых больших в мире, в городах проживает около 90 % населения страны. Статус города не обязательно свидетельствует о численности населения, хотя обычно присваивается населённому пункту, преодолевшему барьер в 20 000 жителей.

В Израиле можно выделить две чётко выраженные городские агломерации:
 Гуш-Дан, в котором проживает около трети населения страны
 Хайфа и Крайот, где сосредоточено около 7 % населения страны.

Данные откорректированы по состоянию на июнь 2010 года, согласно отчётам Центрального статистического бюро Израиля.

Список городов
В общей сложности 75 муниципалитетам министерством внутренних дел Израиля присвоен статус «город», самым новым городом стал арабский посёлок Кафр-Касем в 2008 году.

В Израиле имеется 14 городов с населением более 100 000 человек, в том числе столица Израиля Иерусалим с населением более 700 000 человек.

Список включает четыре города, расположенных в округе Иудея и Самария, на территории Западного берега реки Иордан, на которую не распространён израильский суверенитет. Площадь и население Иерусалима включают в себя Восточный Иерусалим, аннексированный Израилем в результате войны 1967 г. и включённый в муниципальные границы Иерусалима по «Закону об Иерусалиме» 1980 года, который не получил признания международного сообщества.

Административные округа

Карта
Легенда карты:
  Столица Израиля
  Административные центры округов
  Города с населением свыше 100 000 человек
  Города с населением менее 100 000 человек

См. также
 Список городов на Западном берегу реки Иордан и в Секторе Газа
 Еврейские поселения на Западном берегу реки Иордан и в Секторе Газа

Примечания

Ссылки
 Центральное статистическое бюро Израиля. Численность населения городов и округов.

 Мир карт Западное Средиземноморье

Города
Списки:География Израиля


What is the value of fiber laser cutting machine?
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Pediatrics. 2013 Sep;132(3):454-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-1384. Epub 2013 Aug 5.
Blood Cultures Are Not Useful in the Evaluation of Children with Uncomplicated Superficial Skin and Soft Tissue Infections.
Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2015 Sep;34(9):924-7. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000768.
Skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) are common pediatric diagnoses in both outpatient and inpatient settings. Blood cultures are frequently obtained for evaluation of SSTIs. Multiple studies have demonstrated that blood cultures rarely demonstrate true pathogenic bacterial growth, and even positive cultures do not change clinical management. Obtaining blood cultures has been associated with increased length of hospital stay. In addition, false-positive blood cultures may occur and result in repeat blood cultures and increased hospital charges. Clinicians should avoid obtaining blood cultures in pediatric patients with uncomplicated SSTIs but instead should focus on obtaining wound cultures when possible.


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When Zionism is racism: Ron Dermer and Bibi Netanyahu, on the record
Posted on July 14, 2013	by Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism
by Larry Derfner, 10 July 2013 – +972 Magazine
http://972mag.com/when-zionism-is-racism-bibi-netanyahu-and-ron-dermer-on-the-record/75515/
Imagine if a politician in another country had bragged about lowering a minority group's birthrate – like Netanyahu and his new ambassador to the U.S. did.
Ron Dermer, who was named by Netanyahu yesterday to be Israel's new ambassador to the United States, is known as an even more right-wing Republican version of his boss. Haaretz's Barak Ravid wrote:
"Dermer's positions on policy are far more extreme than Netanyahu's. European and American officials have expressed shock by his positions on the settlement issue, on peace talks with the Palestinians, and on the principle of an independent Palestinian state."
It gets worse, though. Dermer is also a proud champion of about the ugliest possible anti-Arab views, having defended Bibi publicly when his mentor made the single most offensively racist remark of his career, which is going some.
This episode took place at the beginning of January 2007, when Netanyahu was out of power, preparing his run for the prime ministership again, and wanting to mend fences with the supremely important ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) voting bloc. They had supported Netanyahu en masse in his successful 1996 race, but he had alienated them in the early 2000s as finance minister in the Sharon government, when he slashed government child subsidies, which badly hurt large, poor families, who are especially prevalent among two population groups: the Haredim and the Israeli Arabs. So Netanyahu went to talk to a gathering of Haredi municipal officials, putting a positive spin on the cuts he'd imposed. His speech was written up in Haaretz and Yedioth Ahronoth. From the latter:
"In his speech, Netanyahu referred to the cuts in child pensions, saying that since they were implemented "two positive things happened: members of the Haredi public seriously joined the workforce. And on the national level, the unexpected result was the demographic effect on the non-Jewish public, where there was a dramatic drop in the birth rate."
There was a dramatic drop in the "non-Jewish," i.e. Israeli Arab, birthrate – and Netanyahu, speaking to a Jewish audience, is not only citing this as a "positive thing," he's bragging that it was his decision to further impoverish large families that did it!
He didn't just say this once, either; I'd read that he made the same boast to a group of ultra-Orthodox Knesset members.
Imagine if a politician in just about any other country made such a statement about a minority group. But Israel is, well, special, so Netanyahu's remarks, reported in Yedioth and Haaretz, made no waves whatsoever. So I decided to write an op-ed about the speech in The Jerusalem Post, and titled it "A bigot called Bibi," in which I said he'd gone beyond the pale and put himself in the category of racist demagogues like Jean Marie Le Pen and Jorg Haider.
Ron Dermer, at the time the Minister of Economic Affairs at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, defended the statement in a sarcastic reply in the Post titled "The nerve of Bibi":
"Netanyahu was caught red-handed. Who would have thought that an Israeli leader circa 2007 could think, let alone say, something so shocking? And we thought the quaint notion that leaders of the Jewish state wanted more Jews than non-Jews in it was passe."
Dermer's point was that since a Jewish state is legitimate, and since a Jewish state requires a Jewish majority, deterring non-Jewish citizens from having children by hurting them economically is legitimate, too. And there's nothing wrong with bragging about it in front of Jews, either. He concluded:
"But while [Derfner] should be commended for bringing this story to our attention, he is mistaken in calling Bibi a bigot. He is only a Zionist, and apparently even a proud one."
This is Israel's new ambassador to the United States, and I'm sure he'll do fine there, playing his Republican friends off the Obama administration. It's too bad, though, he wasn't named ambassador to the United Nations; it would have been interesting to hear him chastise the General Assembly for its declaration, since overturned, that "Zionism is racism." Zionism isn't racism, but there are plenty of Zionists whose Zionism damn sure is; Netanyahu is one, and he just sent another one to represent this country in Washington.


Left foot forward (a journey into reenactment): Balls and Turnips.
Back in the early days of summer a notice went up for a Georgian dinner in London, at what is a traditional day time chop house dating back to 1757, an event run by Miss B and Miss Kitty Pridden.. I decided it would be an experience and an opportunity to wear a big hat.
On a related note there was a big dinner and ball held in Brighton just under two weeks ago, right on my doorstep, that I was completely oblivious of! I felt a little miffed at first but when some splendid pictures emerged from Alan Balding I wondered if I would have been comfortable, dancing is not compulsory nor would be an extensive knowledge of ettiquette.. yet still.. it looked suitably reserved that I felt my usual reenacting role as a French soldier out in the fields might kick in and I might have to give a hearty BOOO as the 'Victory of Waterloo!' was cheered and then kick the Prince Regent (Below) up his sizable arse, before fleeing to take Lydia Bennett up the servant's quarters.
My outfit was a bit of a thrown together officer and a gentlemen guise, revolving largely around a green Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen (German) jacket which is sadly awaiting the arrival of it's epaulettes and appropriate grey trousers, but no matter, there would be plenty of generic Georgians in attendence. I considered wearing a sword but was hesitant incase an overzealous Bobby decided I should not be wearing it around London town, not that likely but it would marr the evening if it did happen. The internet didn't help much as it is obsessed with knives, knives, knives and guns. Not a whit on whether a Gentlemen can wear a sword to dinner. So a swagger stick would suffice for dash and thrashing any street urchins.
I'd peered at maps of how to get there but wasnt sure of scale, as it happened I arrived early and quite thirtsy from hurrying so that I took to the Jamaica wine house for a pint and stood amongst a horde of besuited men, Thursday night drinks is apparently the done thing in London business circles, indeed every pub I saw was spilling out onto the street.
Arriving back at Simpson's tavern I was ushered inside by a bearded waiter and introduced myself, being given a playing card and a glass of gin punch and chatted to some other guests and the charming hostesses as I awaited my friends.
Upstairs at the tables my first course was spicy turnip soup and the banter was already flowing, punctuated by tales of local characters and dinner trivia, and a guest giving us a rather operatic song.
Each table setting also had a stack of (chocolate) coins and a dice and the gambling begun, Poor James was cleared out, and I quit whilst ahead. Coins were also good for tipping the lovely waiters, which paid off as I ended up with an extra pudding, always get the staff on side!
My main course was a big pie followed by a cinnamon Jelly, that was not actually jelly as we know it but rather a spiced boozy drink with fruit in it, which was good because I had half expected it to be a dollop of animal jelly. not so. and of course where there is cheese and puddings their is port.
It was a great night all round and more like a party than 'going to a restaurant' and all being paid for in advance their was no menial and petty business about money at the end, also you didn't just get a drink with each course, when a bottle was empty another would just magically appear.
Although not strictly a reenactment event I felt it was very much the full experience of the time, the jollity, the indulgence, the decour. The original idea was more early Georgian, 1750s stylee, when there was a lot more lace, big frocks and Wiggery but those who dress up tend to include the Napoleonic sort and no distinction is made, indeed you don't even have to dress up, although WHY WOULDN"T YOU?
Tootling back to Blackfriars I felt people were making way for me, a couple even apologised for almost nearly being in the way, aaah it's good to be an officer and a gentlemen out on the town and having a fine old time of it, just have to watch out for the debtors gaol. Damn bailiffs.
Maybe going again in December, but now it is time to start getting stuff out for Bovington which won't be quite such salubrious surroundings. Back in the ranks, back in the mud!


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Jack Ross refuses to blame Sunderland's schedule for FA Cup exit at hands of Walsall
Manager Jack Ross admitted Sunderland were well off the pace as they turned in a poor performance in their second round defeat against Walsall
Sunderland manager Jack Ross (Image: Sunderland AFC via Getty Images)
Jack Ross refused to blame Sunderland's busy schedule for the Black Cats' meek FA Cup exit at the hands of Walsall.
The Wearsiders lost their second round replay 1-0 at the Stadium of Light with Liam Kinsella's strike early in the second half proving enough to book the Saddlers a third round date at Championship side Bolton Wanderers.
Sunderland have played Saturday-Tuesday for the last three weeks, including the weekend game at Accrington Stanley which was abandoned after 70 minutes due to torrential rain, but Ross was not looking to deflect attention from his side's poor display.
"It's no excuse," he insisted.
"Walsall played Saturday and have had a similar fixture list.
"Our conditioning levels are good enough as a squad and there was a freshness about our team.
"I've absolutely no excuses for tonight other than we didn't play well.
"First and foremost that should always fall on me, first as a manager because it's my preparation and my selection.
"No excuses.
"It was disappointing to come out the competition but disappointing in terms of the performance level as well.
"It was a night where we didn't play particularly well, especially in the first half.
"At least in the second half, post the substitutions, we had a greater intensity even if we still didn't play particularly well.
"It was one of those nights, I don't want to say you want to quickly forget because you always want to take something from a game, but it wasn't a memorable one for us."
Defeat ended Sunderland's 16-game unbeaten run in all competitions, and this was also only the third time this season they failed to find the net - the other occasions coming in the EFL Cup against Sheffield Wednesday, and the Checkatrade Trophy against Stoke City U21s.
Ross said: "That [goalscoring] record is a very good one and is a credit to the players.
"But yes, it was a night when we didn't look very threatening.
"We huffed and puffed but lacked that spark.
"I've been fairly fortunate this season that each and every time players have taken their opportunities.
"This is probably the healthiest our squad has been this season, and I think players have that awareness that they need to play well to get in the team and remain there.
"Tonight, individually, a lot didn't reach the levels they are capable of.
"That gives you more to ponder in terms of selection moving forward."
With Sunderland now out of the competition, their League One game at Charlton Athletic will go ahead on FA Cup third round weekend, January 5, as scheduled.
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Marcel Kittel (Quick Step Floors) powered past Katusha-Alpecin's Alexander Kristoff with perfect timing to take his 5th stage win of 2017. A victory made even more impressive as he was involved in a crash with 15km to go. He chased back, was in 10th postion coming around the final corner, then unleashed his sprint from 6th on the grid. Chapeau Skittles and chapeau Quicksteppers. Philippe Gilbert goes into the final time trial with a 50sec buffer.
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NGC 144 (również PGC 1917) – galaktyka spiralna (Sc), znajdująca się w gwiazdozbiorze Wieloryba. Odkrył ją Frank Muller w 1886 roku.

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Q: How do I plot a histogram in R for a table with 'char' and 'int' data types? I have a huge data set (3920 by 2) containing different department names in column one ('char') and job listings in column two ('int'). How do I plot a histogram for this (No of positions vs departments)? I do not know the no of unique departments.
Here are a few sample entries from the table.
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A: df1 <- data.frame(Agency = c("A","C","C","B","A","B"), Positions = c(1,2,3,4,2,6))

sp <- split(df1$Positions, df1$Agency)
summed <- unlist(lapply(sp, sum))

barplot(summed, main="Agency", ylab="Positions",
        xlab="Agency")

I split data by Agency, after that I sum it up, and plot it by barplot, not histogram.


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Crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant at One Year: Back in the Disaster Zone
David McNeill revisits Japan's northeast and the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant a year after it was battered by the triple disaster of March 11 and finds a region still struggling to emerge from its huge shadow.
"The world is heavy on us," says Sakurai Katsunobu, recalling the day that its weight almost crushed the life out of his city. On the morning of March 11 last year, Minamisoma and its mayor were struggling with the same mundane problems as many other small rural cities across Japan: a declining, greying population, creaking public services and a faltering local economy. By nightfall, an existential disaster had engulfed Mayor Sakurai's office, one from which it has yet to reemerge.
It began with the huge quake that struck off the coast of the city of 71,000 at 2:46pm. Less than an hour later, Sakurai was on the roof of the city office, squinting toward the sea about six miles away. "We could see this huge cloud of dust rising into the air from the Pacific. I asked someone, 'is that a fire?' Then we realized it was the tsunami." Even as he spoke, the deluge was inundating hundreds of homes, drowning old people and children; sometimes whole families. By evening, corpses were being brought to a makeshift morgue in a local college.
The March 11 quake and tsunami took 630 lives in Minamisoma, including 100 children. For days, Sakurai wondered if his elderly parents were among the casualties. But instead of looking for them he was dealing with the crisis that would define his city. On March 12, an explosion blew apart the building housing reactor 1 at the Daiichi nuclear plant, 23km south of his office. Operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) and the central government were silent on what was happening. Public television said there was no need for panic. Minamisoma's citizens made up their own minds and began to flee from rumours of radiation.
Flag on the wall inside Minamisoma City Office
Within a few days, the town had almost emptied of people. Twenty-seven thousand – a third of the population – have yet to return a year later. "They're scattered all across Japan," says Mr. Sakurai. "We know of some families in America too. Who knows if they will ever come back?" About 150 of his city's 830 employees are expected to quit this year, what he calls a 'municipal meltdown' brought on by the stress of last year's calamity. "We had to work everything out for ourselves because there was no help from the central government. We're seeing the results of that now."
Today, the power plant is officially "in a state of cold shutdown" according to Tepco. The 20km exclusion zone that surrounds it runs into the southern border of Minamisoma and swallows up Mayor Sakurai's small farm. Police officers with dosimeters pinned to their chests prevent locals from going through a roadblock, even the Mayor who runs the city. Reporters and citizens who venture inside through back roads can be arrested.
Checkpoint on the outskirts of Minamisoma into the 20km exclusion zone
(photos David McNeill)
Inside the zone, life has frozen in time. Homes have been abandoned and reclaimed by weeds along a route that emptied on a bitterly cold night 12 months ago. Thousands of farm animals and pets have been left to die. Cars wait outside supermarkets where their owners left them in Tomioka, Okuma and Futaba, once neat, bustling towns that now take their place alongside the Ukrainian nuclear ghost town of Pripyat. Even birds have deserted this area, if the latest research is to be believed. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bird-numbers-plummet-around-stricken-fukushima-plant-6348724.html Roughly 80,000 people who once lived here have not been told when, if ever, they can return.
The reason is signaled by a symphony of beeping noises from dosimeters aboard our bus on the way to the plant. A party of about 40 journalists, including five foreigners, has been granted a restricted tour. As we drive through a police checkpoint and into the town of Tomioka, about 15 km away, the radioactivity climbs steadily, hitting 15 microsieverts per hour at the main gate to the nuclear complex. At the other end of the plant, where the gaping buildings of its three most damaged reactors face the Pacific Ocean, the radiation level is 100 times this high, making it still too dangerous to work there.
Inside the plant's emergency coordination building, the air is filled with the sound of humming filters laboring to keep the contamination out. Hundreds of people work here every day, many sleeping in the makeshift beds and cots scattered throughout the building. Workers in radiation suits and full-face masks wander in and out. Some are young, shaven-headed, tough-looking men who eye us warily. Several reporters have claimed (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-in/9084151/How-the-Yakuza-went-nuclear.html) that subcontractors at the plant employ Yakuza gangsters, an accusation not denied by Tepco. "There are so many subcontractors here that it's not impossible," said a Tepco spokesman. A large digital clock showing the current radiation reading inside the building dominates the wall of the central control room, where officials in utility suits huddle around computers.
"Our main challenge now is to remove the nuclear fuel from the reactors," explains Takahashi Takeshi in his first interview since he took over as plant manager two months ago. "It's a technically very difficult problem, but we cannot hurry and we want to take it step by step." His predecessor Yoshida Masao was forced to quit in December after being diagnosed with cancer – unrelated to his work, insists Tepco. Takahashi too looks drawn and exhausted. But he is satisfied with the progress being made in bringing the plant to a state of cold shutdown, meaning that radiation releases are under control and the temperature of its nuclear fuel is consistently below boiling point.
The term is considered controversial. Engineers have only a rough idea of where exactly the melted fuel lies inside the damaged reactors, or of its exact state. The fuel is being kept cool by thousands of gallons of water that Tepco pumps onto it every day and which it is struggling to decontaminate. Engineers are frantically working to build more water tanks, and create space to store them. On a ridge about 20 meters from the reactors is a huge field of gleaming 1000-ton water tanks – about 100. A building crew is leveling land next to the tanks to make way for more. "In April the existing tanks will be full so they are trying to make more space," admits a Tepco official.
We are told to wear our full-face masks for the climax of the visit – a tour of the six reactors. Every inch of our bodies is covered and even in the subzero temperatures of Fukushima in February, it is unbearably hot. Thousands of men worked through last year's summer heat of over 30 degrees Celsius in this protective gear, struggling to clear debris from the quake and tsunami and bring water to the reactors. "They were dropping like files in the heat," said one worker who spoke anonymously. "But they just had to keep going. They had no choice because no one else could do it."
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"The worst time was when the radiation was 250 Millisieverts (per year – the maximum, temporary government limit) and we couldn't find people to do the work," explains Sakamoto Kazuhiro, an onsite subcontractor. "We could only work in two-minute bursts, when we were extracting cesium from contaminated water."
Some of that work is clear onsite. The concrete building housing reactor 1, which was blown apart in the first explosion on March 12, is now completely covered with a tarpaulin designed to contain its radioactivity. As our bus drives slowly by the building, the beeping dosimeters climb to100 microsieverts an hour. But as the most badly damaged reactor 3 looms into sight, its mess of tangled metal and steel gives off a startling reading of 1,500 microsieverts. Its cargo of lethal fuel includes plutonium and the roof of the building housing the reactor was blown off the second explosion. "It's still too dangerous for workers to enter reactor No.3," admits engineer Hibi Yasuki.
Fukushima Daiichi reactor 3 (left) and 4 (right)
The state of reactor 2, meanwhile, sparked some panic recently after Tepco reported that the heat of the fuel inside was climbing and apparently resisting efforts to bring it down. The nightmare scenario of another out-of-control reactor was briefly conjured up by the media before Tepco banished it by claiming faulty equipment. "We've identified the problem as a broken thermometer," says plant manager Takahashi in response to repeated questions about the reactor. "I'm terribly sorry to everyone for causing so much concern."
Tepco officials constantly apologize, drawing on the most profound Japanese mea culpa in the dictionary, which literally translates as 'there is no excuse for what we have done." The apologies have become perfunctory and ritualized, failing to douse public anger over the scale of the disaster, or some of the company's sharp-elbowed tactics since it began. Compensation has dribbled into the pockets of evacuees who have lost everything and are stuck in legal limbo, without homes or clear futures. In one now infamous incident, the utility argued against a compensation claim by a golf course operator, saying that radioactive materials from the nuclear plant belong to individual landowners, and are not the company's responsibility. Lawyers for the Sunfield Nihonmatsu Golf Club, 45 kilometers west of the plant, said they were "flabbergasted" by the argument.
Radiation from the Daiichi plant has blanketed eight percent of the entire country, according to the government.Nearly all of the 23 million tonnes of rubble from the tsunami and quake is still piled up around the coast because it is widely believed contaminated and the government can't persuade local authorities to dispose of it.
Much of the worst radiation damage was inflicted on March 14 and 15, when a plume from the plant was carried by winds northwest and over pristine farming land in Fukushima, one of Japan's key food baskets. "It rained on those nights and the rain brought the radiation down on top of us," says Ito Nobuyoshi, a farmer in the mountain village of Iitate, 40 km from the plant and a half hour scenic drive from Minamisoma. For reasons that remain murky, the government delayed releasing data that would have shown the radiation's path and saved many from heavy exposure. Hundreds of families unknowingly evacuated into the most irradiated areas. "It was a crime and the people in government who made that decision should go to jail," says Ito.
Outside Minamisoma Village Office, Feb. 2012
He is among a tiny number of farmers who have ignored a government directive to evacuate from this area. The directive has emptied once thriving towns around the plant whose population numbered 114,000 people, including over 6,000 from Iitate. An unknown additional number, anywhere from 50,0000 - 120,000, according to observers, has moved voluntarily because of radiation fears, ignoring official claims that life inside or around Fukushima Prefecture is safe.
Cleaning up the contamination and convincing people to return is a mammoth task. Across the region, workers in boiler suits and masks have descended on towns with power hoses, trying to scour the Daiichi plant's toxic payload from playgrounds, parks and other public areas. The workers have removed most of the most dangerous contaminant – cesium - from the grounds of Minamisoma Middle High School, says its principal Hamano Shinichi. Like other public buildings here, the school has planted a large dosimeter outside its front gates showing the current radiation in large digital letters in an attempt to reassure local parents – with limited success. Only half of its 360 students have returned since last year, Principal Hamano admits.
Outside IItate Village Office, Feb. 2012
A radiation readout outside the
Minamisoma Middle High School,
2 km from the exclusion zone
"I don't know if we will ever recover to what we were before March 11 but we are certainly improving," he says, pointing to the flashing red dosimeter outside, which reads 0.2 microsieverts. Last March, radiation was ten times that high here, a level that exceeded central government guidelines of 1 millisievert of radiation a year. In response, the government controversially hiked the limit to 20 millisieverts, sparking bitter protests for placing children at risk. Many children have since reported low immunity and other health problems, though nobody has proved a link to the nuclear plant. Hamano says that his students are still limited to two hours play outside a day, and are told to stay on the main roads when walking home and avoid 'hot spots' around the city. By April, he expects the radiation to have fallen enough to allow unlimited outside play. "We will survive this horrible event, I believe."
Outside the zone, the government is decontaminating hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland and forest by scraping off a 5 cm-layer of topsoil, an operation it estimates will leave a pile of nuclear waste almost 29 million cubic meters high – enough to fill one of Tokyo's largest stadiums 80 times. Across the Fukushima countryside, trucks trundle to 'temporary' dumps with their cargo of poisoned clay past mask-wearing security guards, a plan Ito and others insist is doomed to failure. "They're just moving the radiation from one place to another," he says. "Who is going to take it when they're finished? Fukushima will stay poisoned for decades to come."
Workers' beds inside the Daiichi Plant
Cleaning up and compensating for the triple disaster will add to Japan's already groaning debt burden. Although its powerful economy is showing signs of life after contracting in 2011, the nation faces profound long-term structural problems, notably a looming demographic crisis. In January 2012, the health ministry forecast that the population of 128 million will fall by 30 per cent in the next half-century, while soaring life expectancy will further burden the state. The shrinking and ageing population means the government will struggle to cope with ballooning social welfare costs and the aftermath of March 11, while trying to pay off Japan's public debt – at $12 trillion, the worst in the industrialized world.
Mayor Sakurai and other observers fear that the central government may have backed off from the more radical changes needed to guide the country through what former Prime Minister Kan Naoto called Japan's worst crisis since World War II. Mr. Kan became a convert to alternative energy before being dumped by his party last year. His successor, Noda Yoshihiko, has signaled business as usual for nuclear power and little else in the way of new initiatives, except for a hike in sales taxes to pay for recovery. "I think we can recover, but we need leadership and I see little of that," says Sakurai.
At the Daiichi complex, the task is clearer and less clouded by politics. Plant manager Takahashi must somehow cool the uranium fuel inside its reactors, locate and remove it and make the plant safe to dismantle. Work here is hard, unrelenting and in the long term possibly fatal. Takahashi says he is motivated above all by one thing: "We will try to allow people to return to their homes as early as possible."
It is a mammoth task. Japan's government has admitted that dismantling the reactors and its 260-ton payload of nuclear fuel will take up to 40 years. Many people believe the government and Tepco will eventually be forced to recognize that the people who fled from this plant a year ago may not return for decades. In the meantime, the work at Fukushima Daiichi goes on. And on. . .
David McNeill is a Tokyo-based correspondent for The Independent, The Irish Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is an Asia-Pacific Journal coordinator.
Recommended citation: David McNeill, 'Crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant at One Year: Back in the Disaster Zone,' The Asia Pacific Journal, Vol 10, Issue 9, No 4, February 27, 2012.
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• Nishioka Nobuyuki, Toward a Peaceful Society Without Nuclear Energy: Understanding the Power Structures Behind the 3.11 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
• Satoko Oka Norimatsu, Fukushima and Okinawa – the "Abandoned People," and Civic Empowerment
• Hirose Takashi, A Farewell to Nuclear Power – a Lecture on Fukushima
• Koide Hiroaki, Philippe Pons, and Paul Jobin, Nuclear Irresponsibility: Koide Hiroaki Interviewed by Le Monde
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The Pakistani government will not approach the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout package as of now and will instead explore alternative options to bring the cash-strapped country's economy back on track, Finance Minister Asad Umar said on Saturday.
Umar made the remarks while talking to businessmen at the Karachi Chamber of Commence and Industry, Dawn online reported. He said that instead of rushing into the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, the government was looking at different avenues.
The minister also announced that the government will unveil a mini-budget on January 23 instead of January 21, citing Prime Minister Imran Khan's travel commitments.
Umar rejected reports that the government was only borrowing money, saying several agreements had also been signed to bring investment into the country. "The impacts of the investment agreements will start surfacing from the next week," he added.
Pakistan is in talks with the IMF to secure a $8 billion bailout deal for its ailing economy.
Earlier this month, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) finalised a $6.2 billion support package to help Islamabad address its balance of payments challenge. The package involved $3.2 billion worth of oil supplies on deferred payment, besides a $3 billion cash deposit.
Pakistan has already received $2 billion in cash deposit from Saudi Arabia, while the third tranche of $1 billion is due in the first week of February. During Khan's visit to Saudi Arabia in October, it was announced that the kingdom will provide a $6 billion package to Islamabad.
The deal included $3 billion in balance of payments support and just as much in deferred payments on oil imports.
Pakistan's "all-weather friend" China too, had pledged to lend it financial support to shore up the dwindling foreign exchange reserves.