Monday 4 September 2017: this was finally our 'big day' ... After months of planning and running around like headless chickens, Pete van Kets and I were finally at Serra Cafema, right up against the border between Namibia and Angola.
It was here that our ou would kick off, setting us off on an adventure where we would travel from the Kunene River - using fat-bikes and a pair of Isuzu KB 4x4 vehicles - all the way to Walvis Bay, a good 1200km of pedalling later.
I've experienced plenty of adventures in my five or so decades, but this desert route gave me sleepless nights from time to time. The harsh wilderness along the Skeleton Coast is certainly not child's play, and at times a whole week could pass without you encountering another vehicle or human being.
After an all-nighter navigating the highway from Cape Town to Windhoek, we tackled the monster 20-hour drive to Angola. Moer-and-gone backroads eventually brought us to Serra Cafema – one of Wilderness Safaris' most remote and beautiful camps - and we could spend the day getting the bikes and vehicles ready for the wilderness route back south.
Peter Van Kets, myself and the rest of the BEYOND EXPEDITIONS Team – Peter and Graham Kirk - had a few hours in which to explore this magnificent landscape, with a late afternoon boat trip on the Cunene certainly counting as one of the highlights. Languorous crocodiles, some local Himba people farming along the river banks, giant herons hunting bream, and the rugged landscape of Angola made it a breathtaking experience.
We were up bright and early on Monday morning and started pedalling (and pushing, and portaging, and swearing under our breath!) along the dunes. Your average old guy on a bike (that's me …) will take serious stick here, but I did notice that even our Chief Adventurer, Peter Van Kets, was taking some strain.
In the Isuzu KBs with their Grand Trek tyres the going was way easier, with the Kirk brothers scouting ahead to get good video and drone footage. We caught up with them at a tiny Himba village – a smattering of low mud huts, really – to spend time with some of these nearly-wild people of Africa.
There was no end to the climbs and the red sand dunes on that first day, and it took us almost four hours to reach our lunch stop. Fortunately the guide from Wilderness Safaris knew the area well, and the view over the Kunene into Angola made up for those calf cramps on the final ascent.
Fortunately for PVK, it was downhill from here; I had jumped into the Isuzu to let our videographer pedal with Pete for a while. As the riders bombed through a narrow valley, a herd of about 30-odd mountain zebra galloped alongside them for a while, and we also encountered several giraffe, gemsbok and multitudes of springbok along the way.
At night, we camped in dry riverbeds and sat around hardwood fires listening to the surrounding thousand-mile silence. This deep in the desert, you sometimes don't even hear an owl or a jackal as you lie in your tent and it is eerily silent, quiet enough to hear the occasional scorpion or beetle scuttling by in the darkness.
And this was exactly our idea behind the 'Beyond The Desert Edge'. It was not to be just another adventure or long-winded ego-crank, but would rather focus on what could be discovered here on the edge of this ancient desert. This is a place where horned adders lie in wait; where thousand year-old welwitchia plants slumber; where dewdrops from the rolling desert fog reflect an entire world; and where scorpions glow jade and aquamarine in the light of an ultra-violet torch.
There are also endless landscapes and fragile eco-systems, where you or your vehicle can leave scars for decades, so one must tread lightly. And all the silence and space mean that you spend a lot of time looking inwards, to ponder where and how you fit into this timeless planet of ours.
This is also partly why the support for 'Beyond The Desert Edge' – from sponsors such as Dunlop, Spar, Isuzu, Wilderness Safaris, Hi-Tec, Ciovita, Giant Bicycles, HoldFast, Spot-Africa and DripDrop – was so important to us. In the long run, their assistance meant we could give something back through raising funds for 'Children in the Wilderness', a charity organisation that helps to educate children in wilderness areas about nature. Find out more about this admirable cause at www.childreninthewilderness.com There are too many adventures from this incredible expedition to share in a single article, but Peter Van Kets and myself will continue to publish some of the incredible images and footage on our Social Media streams, as will our many sponsors and supporters.
Feel free to follow us at www.petervankets.com or www.jacquesmarais.co.za, on our FACEBOOK Page BEYOND EXPEDITIONS, or on the FACEBOOK Group THE GREAT BEYOND.
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Q: Как выбрать данные из массива дат за каждый час? Друзья, в БД хранятся данные на каждые 2 минуты. Я бы хотел создать такой запрос, чтобы я получил только те строки из бд, которые были последними записями за каждый час на текущий момент. Может кто то подсказать как это сделать?
Вот запрос, который, к примеру, выгружает все данные за сегодня:
  $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM core_reservs_status WHERE date > '2016-12-11 00:00:00'");

Как его изменить, чтобы были записи только с последними данными на каждый час?

A: Последние за каждый час - это у которых 58 минут, надо понимать? тогда
WHERE ... AND DATE_FORMAT(`date`, '%i') = 58

А если может быть и 59, то можно >= использовать.
Если же есть "дыры", то получи для каждого часа максимальное время в подзапросе, и по этому подзапросу выполняй отбор.

A: Можно сделать как-то так:
$mysqli = new mysqli(host, login, pass, db); //коннектимся к БД
//подготавливаем sql-запрос:
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT * FROM core_reservs_status WHERE date > ?");

//Получаем текущее время, отмотанное на час назад:
// 1 час * 60 мин. * 60 сек (получаем значение мс):
$date = getdate(time()-1*60*60);

//функция getdate() возвращает значения в массиве, из них "склеиваем" нашу строку даты:
$current_date =
$date['year'] . '-' . $date['mon'] . '-' . $date['mday'] .
$date['hours']. ':' . $date['minutes'] . ':' . $date['seconds'];

//"привязываем" параметры (строку с нужной датой и временем) к "?":
$stmt -> bind_param('s', $current_date);

$stmt -> execute(); //выполняем запрос

$result = $stmt -> get_result(); //получаем результат

/*дальше общаетесь с $result как с объектом типа mysqli_result */

Здесь используется класс mysqli. Функция getdate().

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Did Safer Really Have to Be Later for Big Cars?
What can one say about a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge who opens his opinion in an important auto safety case by likening the two plaintiffs on opposing sides of the issue to Scylla and Charybdis? Especially since one of the plaintiffs was this writer.
Well, one can extend the Homeric metaphor to its geographic home between Italy and Sicily and say that Judge Skelly Wright gave motorist safety an impulsive boot. Or, one an be saddened by the shallow cavalier quality of his judgment.
The case involved the mid-1977 decision by Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams to require passive restraints on all new large cars by 1982 models, all middle-sized cars by 1983 models and all small-size cars by 1984 models. The auto companies were free to meet the standard, designed to protect car occupants in a crash, by using air bags, passive belts or any other engineering system that could comply.
Pacific Legal Foundation, a business-front law firm, sued to overturn the standard on the ground that passive restraints were not proven effective. Judge Wright rejected their contention by citing test results and other evidence to the contrary.
We challenged Secretary Adams' decision because we believed that the auto safety law did not authorize the secretary to phase in safety standards for passenger cars based on wheelbase size and that the nature of the phase-in (small cars last) was capricious. We also showed that the initial effective date–giving the industry four years to start complying with large cars–was insupportable. The secretary's own auto safety agency wanted an earlier date.
Our counsel, Alan B. Morrison, argued further that Secretary Adams took the possibility of a one-House congressional veto as a factor in his long lead-time decision and, since such a veto was unconstitutional, the secretary's decision should be set aside.
Judge Wright took only four pages to dispose of all these arguments, and it showed. As one who followed the legislative track of the 1966 auto safety bill step by step, I was astonished to read the judge's interpretation of the phrase "type of motor vehicle" to include types of passenger car size. The idea that they were authorizing a department to set safety standards that were weaker for VW cars than for Chevrolet Impalas would have shocked the members of Congress in 1966.
The court did not say a word in rebuttal to Morrison's argument that since the standard could be met by a passive belt system almost immediately, there was no justification for condoning a four- to six-year lead time on the basis that air bags required that kind of development time.
The latter allegation weighed heavily on Judge Wright_ Neither the Justice Department attorneys nor the Ford Motor Company attorney, John H. Pickering, volunteered or were asked about auto industry research on air bags in middle- and small-size cars. Ford Motor Co., for example, effectively tested air bags on Pintos as far back as 1971.
So deferential are the courts to government agency findings of fact that most lawyers do not argue the facts. Instead they try to upset an agency decision by arguing that it was made contrary to law. This is a double handicap in front of a judge like Skelly Wright whose career has drawn heavily on the Roman dictum "Out of the Fact Comes the Law."
The handicap applied as well to the argument that Secretary Adams improperly permitted his decision on lead time to be affected by the possibility of a congressional veto. We had eyewitness accounts of top department officials admitting that the veto prospect was an important factor in delaying the standard's effective date. But one federal judge prohibited our taking depositions of these officials and even disallowed the filing of affidavits by the witnesses.
Judge Wright's decision virtually destroys the vehicle safety standards program of the Department of Transportation. With a four- to six-year phased-in lead time as a precedent upheld by his court, Judge Wright has provided the auto industry with a dilatory response capability of decisive proportions. Henceforth when the department proposes a standard, auto companies can request phase-ins based on vans, big cars, small cars, middle-size cars and any dozen other distinctions which their superfluous product differentiation imaginations can concoct.
Auto safety administrators will come and go between the time a standard is proposed and when it is issued. It will have taken almost 13 years for the passive restraint standard to have been partially issued. The auto moguls can now chortle and say, "You haven't seen anything yet."
Automobile reporter Charles Ewing recently noted that Joan Claybrook, Secretary Adams° auto safety chief, used to be called the "Dragon Lady" in Detroit. Now, he says, the industry, viewing Claybrook's "developing maturity," is "more likely to refer to her as Big Sister." Perhaps the auto companies also will tip their hat to Judge Wright and, in their habitually inverted way, call him "St. George."

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The 2nd volume of this two-volume set is an invaluable resource of the beginnings and origins of the towns that incorporate Western Massachusetts. ? The area of Granville was sold by a Native American chief to James Cornish in 1686. ? The inhabitants of Chicopee fled to Springfield every time the native Americans attacked. ? The present town of Ludlow was originally an area called "Stony Hill" that the author refers to as a "rude country" due to its wild environs. ? Southwick's collection of records were partially misplaced and then used for a journal instead of their original purposes. ? In the 1720s Catherine Noble was the first teacher of Westfield and was paid 25 shillings a month. ? Northampton was the home of Caleb Strong who served the people for years as a Senator under the new Constitution and then Governor of Northampton for seven years. He retired vowing never to leave home again, until the people cried for him to serve. ? Holland takes particular pains to cite the facts around the area's houses of worship to the minutest detail, even citing the assigned seating in the pews. ? When the town of Lee was first incorporated their first vote was to send soldiers off to war to fight for the Revolution. ? The first settlers in the town of Pittsfield were almost all Congregationalists. ? The famous Jonathan Edwards was sent to Stockbridge to be a missionary to the Housatonic Native Americans. These are just a few of the thousands of facts this book lays bare about this old American area Whether you are a Bay Stater or just a Mass-phile, this glimpse into the past can satisfy even the keenest historical scholar. First published in 1855 by publisher Samual Bowles and Co. Springfield, Massachusetts.
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As the year continues to wind down, it is never a bad time to think about small business taxes. Here is a quick look at some tax tips for small business that can pay big dividends for the year.
1)	Update Your Accounting - It's important as part of your year-end tax strategy to have a good understanding of your company's financial situation. Spend extra time ensuring your books and records are up-to-date and accurate. It would not hurt to plan time with your accountant for year-end advice, particularly to your operations.
Depending on your income tax rates in the foreseeable new year, deferral of income can make the best sense for many sole proprietors, partnerships, LLC's and S corporation. Ensure that your cash flow can handle the deferred income.
Don't forget to push any charitable donations for next year to the current year. Make sure you get a receipt for the tax deduction.
Office supplies: Stock up on fax paper, printer cartridges, stationery and other office items.
Pay bills early: Pay your bills before the new year in such areas as: cell services, subscriptions, rent, insurance and utilities.
Equipment purchases: if you will be buying new office equipment, consider purchasing now. You'll have to decide whether an immediate write off is best or spread the depreciation over a period of years. Consult with your accountant to examine your circumstances and company structure to maximize your deductions. In addition, your equipment will have to be in your office, "in use" by year-end.
Other Items: This category includes: pre-payment of subscriptions, business travel bookings, equipment repairs, and maintenance.
4)	Inventory Write Offs - Depending on your accounting methods, you may wish to check inventory for goods that have been damaged or have become obsolete. The drop in market of the inventory can provide your company with added deductions.
5)	Contribute to a Retirement Plan - Make payments to your retirement plan or set one up before the year-end to reduce your income for this year. Check the contribution limits for your type of plan.
These year-end tips will apply differently to each business owner's situation and accounting method. The cash method of accounting allows for deductions and income for the year they are paid or received. The accrual method of accounting applies income and deductions in the year earned and incurred. Take the time to review the best strategy with your accountant and make the most of the year-end tax planning for your small business.


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Founded in 1552, more precisely on February 9, the City of Valdivia is one of the most important in Chile and, as a result of its size and significance, it is a mandatory destination for travelers that take the Panamerican Road.
Lying 842 kilometers away from the City of Santiago, capital of the country, its geography provides perfect harmony for the dwellers' daily life amidst the green of the sown fields, crossed by winding rivers and creeks that provide humidity to this singular region.
The traits of this city are established by the whims of the Calle Calle River, whose properties were taken advantage of by the German communities during the establishment and creation of this beautiful metropolis. This is perceived through a particular architecture and some local customs.
Offering multiple activities, among which industry and commerce stand out, as well as tourism, which has increased remarkably in the last few years, Valdivia features diverse natural and cultural attractions to lure visitors year round.
As a result of all these characteristics, a visit should be paid to Valdivia in order to get to know every corner of this settlement. It may turn out to be a wonderful experience.
Its streets and avenues, the favorite nooks chosen by its inhabitants and some typical tours, among which Borde Río Ecological Park stands out, and the scenes made up by its rivers are part of the reasons to visit at this coquettish city that has already become a classic of tourism in Chile.
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The performer introduces a stack of business cards, each with a different celebrity's name written on the backside. The cards are dealt into two piles of five cards, a volunteer is then asked to select a pile, merely think of one of the celebrity's names, in mind only, and then shuffle and mix the ten cards together. The performer takes back the ten cards and proceeds to cut the stack a couple of times mixing all the cards together, he then hands his spectator the stack of cards asking for him to hold onto them.
The performer explains that he would like to try an experiment with ESP, he asks for the spectator to "spell-out" the last name of the celebrity they selected using the cards to represent each letter of the name to do this quietly and not say it aloud. But as they reach the final letter of their selected name to slide that card forwards and hold their hand over it on the table. The performer then proceeds to write something onto a slip of paper and folds it up and hands the slip to another volunteer to hold. Asking his spectator to name aloud for the first time what celebrity they selected. The spectator names it aloud and the performer grins as he asks his spectator to flip over the card, it reads "The Award for Best Actor is Robert Deniro."
The spectator with a great surprise is amazed to find their own selection, as the second volunteer is then asked to open the folded slip of paper which it matches 100% the name of the selected celebrity written in BOLD letters. Needless to say the audience is amazed and not to mention totally flabbergasted, as the performer thanks his participants and takes a bow.
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True Numbers adds semantics to numerics
Mathcad creator wants to build a wiki of numbers that lets users see and record the meanings and histories behind the numbers they are using.
Rafe Needleman
Aug. 10, 2009 5:15 p.m. PT
Allen Razdow, who wrote Mathcad in 1985, has just released his latest tool for engineers and other numerically-inclined professionals: True Numbers, an online service and specification that lets users see and record the meanings and histories behind the numbers they are using.
Say you're an engineer and you're working on a bridge, and in your calculations you need a value for the tensile strength of the steel you want to include in part of the structure. Your company probably has a spec for the material you want, so you grab it and put it into your design. (I'm not an engineer, so please forgive me if I have this process somewhat wrong.)
With True Numbers at work, that constant would have a link to information about it, possibly including the source of the value, tolerances around it, maybe a history of the use of the value in your organization, and possibly an internal discussion of the value.
"Just having a little bit of semantics around numbers has several advantages," Razdow told me, as he explained how his initiative is focused on the social side of engineering: the process before and after an engineer sits down to work through a problem, where he or she needs to know how the work will fit with the work of others.
Some of the data behind my number. Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET
It sounds a lot like a wiki project, and there are similarities, especially the social angle. But Razdow does not see himself building the one universal database of all numbers, a Wikepedia of constants. Rather, he sees True Numbers as a platform for numerically-inclined businesses to use to get their people in sync on numeric values that matter--as a way to get people to understand what's behind the numbers they use.
Razdow wants the True Numbers system to be open and free for all, but hopes to make money selling enterprise server products to support it.
There's more to True Numbers than just the hyperlinked database of numbers. There's a nearly natural-language system for creating and categorizing entries, which also creates formatting for numbers that can be embedded in online documents. For example, I used True Numbers to create a spec for house paint. I tried "minimum depth of paint layer = 50 microns," and it gave me formatted HTML with a link: 50 μ. The number creator enforces unit integrity. Durations must have a time unit, for example. (Although if you're an engineer and you're relying on True Numbers to make sure your units match, you've got problems.)
Numbers also go into a "numberspace" that categories all entries. Unfortunately, the numberspace browser requires Java and seems to just barely work, and only on Internet Explorer; a more compatible numberspace viewer is being developed.
True Numbers is an interesting experiment in bringing a social space to numbers. If the concept gets traction at engineering or manufacturing companies, and if using True Numbers is not onerous, it could end up supplementing wikis as a collecting point for group intelligence.
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Since Hoggart and Mendoza's paper on 'African immigrant workers in Spanish agriculture' in Sociologia Ruralis in 1999 there has been a proliferation of interest in labour migration to/ in rural Europe. It is now clear that the rural realm has been, and is being, transformed by immigration, and that low-wage migrant workers in the food production industry are playing a particularly prominent role in this transformation. This paper takes stock of the literature and identifies seven key issues associated with low-wage labour migration, contemporary food production, and rural change. Most notably, since the 1990s, there has been growing demand for migrants in the segmented, and sometimes exploitative, labour markets of the European food production industries. This demand has been met across a variety of contexts, with states and labour market intermediaries playing a largely supportive role. However, migrants' integration into rural communities has often been problematic, with the emphasis being on the need for, rather than needs of, low-wage migrant workers.


It seems to be the case that many deadly car accidents involves alcohol or drugs. Remember there are times in which two drivers happened to get into an accident in which there are no intoxicants involved. On Tuesday, April 28th there was such an accident on Sherman Way. A man in his 60s was driving east on Sherman Way, made a left hand turn on Woodman Avenue and collided with a vehicle going west.
The man that was driving the eastbound car was taken to a nearby hospital and was pronounced dead from the injuries of the accident. The driver of the vehicle going west was treated for injuries at the scene of the crash. With a left hand turn one would imagine a vehicle had to be going rather fast to cause fatal injuries. A "t-bone" situation with a driver turning right is often more dangerous because the driver has to bear the brunt of the impact through just the drivers side door. An impact on the passenger side door must have been at an unusual angle or at high speeds.
The man that died in the accident was a male hispanic. Los Angeles Police Department officer Liliana Preciado said there was no DUI involved and this was being treated as simply a traffic accident. If you have any more information on this particular case please feel free to comment below. If you live in Van Nuys and you know more about the intersection of Sherman Way and Woodman Avenue have you seen a major accident around this area?


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Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Michael Malice (Author and Media Personality) about the power and manipulation done by corporate mainstream media. Michael Malice is an author and host of the "Your Welcome with Michael Malice" podcast. His most recent book is "The New Right". Michael talks about how the corporate mainstream media uses its power to rig elections against outsiders like Tulsi Gabbard, Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang. He makes the point that it is not the Democrats that run the media, but that the DNC is run by the media. Malice believes it is becoming clearer to many on the left that it is not Democrat vs. Republican, but establishment vs. outsider. Malice gives examples from the past of how the media has controlled the narrative putting it's agenda first.
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Socialism Is More Popular Than You Think, Mr. President
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Most surveys show Trump would lose in a matchup against a democratic socialist named Bernie Sanders.
By John Nichols / The Nation / Feb. 6, 2019
Donald Trump's State of the Union Address did not feature a musical soundtrack. But, if it had, surely the orchestral accompaniment would have soared when he got to the line: "We are born free, and we will stay safe. Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country."
But, just as surely, the music would have quieted down as the camera shifted to the assured countenance of newly elected US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York Democrat who was elected last fall after campaigning as "an educator, organizer, Democratic Socialist, and born-and-raised New Yorker running to champion working families in Congress; or that of US Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who won her 2018 primary and general election races as a member of Democratic Socialists of America and was endorsed by DSA's muscular chapter in the Detroit area.
And the music would have stopped when it got to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who is often referred to as "America's best-known socialist," and whom a lot of people would like to see challenge Trump in the 2020 presidential race.
The president might have wanted the joint session of Congress, and the American people who bothered to listen in, to believe that "Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country. America was founded on liberty and independence—not government coercion, domination and control."
But every recent national poll of prospective 2020 voters has Sanders, the democratic socialist, beating Trump, the socialism basher.
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Rangnick says Covid has hampered Man Utd progress
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29 December 2021, 12:19 pm ·2-min read
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Ralf Rangnick said Wednesday that the upheaval caused by the coronavirus crisis had hindered his efforts to stamp his authority on the under-performing Manchester United squad.
United are unbeaten in all four games they have played under the German, who replaced Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on an interim basis late last month.
But a Covid-19 outbreak at the club meant United had not played a match for more than two weeks before Monday's disappointing 1-1 Premier League draw at struggling Newcastle.
United, who host Burnley on Thursday, are seventh in the Premier League table, seven points behind fourth-placed Arsenal, but with two games in hand.
Asked if he had achieved as much as he had wanted in his first weeks in charge, Rangnick said: "Of course not.
"Every coach, every ambitious coach -- and there's no difference between other coaches and myself in that area -- wants to take faster steps and larger steps forward.
"But in order to do that, you need to be able to train.
"As you know, we had to close Carrington (training base) for four days. Before that we had eight or nine outfield players in training, so directly after the Norwich game, and they only came back in small bits and pieces.
"The last three days we were almost back to full strength with regard to the size of the squad, but we couldn't do that much in training."
Rangnick said his players had looked good in the few training sessions they had managed before the Newcastle game, which made Monday's performance a "negative surprise".
French international Raphael Varane made his first appearance since November 2 at St James' Park in a central defensive partnership with Harry Maguire, which was far from convincing.
However, Rangnick defended the former Real Madrid man.
"Rafa hasn't played for the last five or six weeks and even before the Tottenham game he was injured so in total in the last three months he hasn't played that many games," he said.
"Yes, he made a mistake before the first goal that we conceded, but apart from that, I think he was OK. I wouldn't say that he was outstanding and the same with Harry, but they did OK."
Defender Victor Lindelof, who missed the trip to Newcastle after testing positive for coronavirus, will still be absent for the Burnley match, while Paul Pogba remains out with a thigh problem.
Bruno Fernandes will be unavailable due to a one-match suspension, after collecting his fifth yellow card of the Premier League season.
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