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Adrian L. Bailey, of Hammond, Louisiana, passed away on Friday, January 20, 2023, at the age of 80. He was born on October 23, 1942, in Springfield, Louisiana. Adrian was a proud veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He was a longtime resident and dependable friend of the Metairie Lawn Drive neighborhood in Metairie and the Sisters Road neighborhood in Hammond. Adrian was a reliable and handy neighbor to have, a jack-of-all-trades helping wherever he could. His was always the porch you could visit to pass the time. Adrian was loved tremendously by family and friends, and he will be missed dearly.
Adrian is survived by his children, Adrian Bailey, Jr. (Lori), Duane Bailey (Kimberley), Danica Williams (C.T.), and Kristen Pitts; grandchildren, Adrianna Bailey, Dillon Bailey, Meaghan Bailey, Connor Bailey, Joel Bailey, Payton Williams, Ashley Williams, Candace Capps, Brandon Bailey, and Deanna Pitts; great grandchildren, Kelic, Litzy, and Breanna; siblings, Brenda Bailey, Marian Meyers, Cheryl McKinney, and Roger Dale St. Cyr; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father, Lucien Bailey, Sr.; mother, Elizabeth Bazile Bailey St. Cyr; stepfather, Marion St. Cyr; brother, Lucien "Bud" Bailey, Jr.; and sister, Joan Bailey McKinney.
Family and friends will be received at Harry McKneely & Son Funeral Home, 100 W. Magnolia St., Ponchatoula, Louisiana 70454 on Monday, January 23, 2023, from 9:00 am until 11:00 am.
A Funeral Service will be held at Harry McKneely & Son Funeral Home - Ponchatoula on Monday at 11:00 am.
Interment will follow at Carter Cemetery in Springfield, Louisiana.
An on-line guest book is available at www.harrymckneely.com.


When we think about our amazing Savior, singing praises during service or pouring our hearts out to Him in prayer, it's easy to forget how much He truly relates to suffering and how much He can understand our humanity.
We don't have to fear transparency before the Lord. There's nothing that will rattle Him, shock Him, or make Him stop loving us. He delights and welcomes us with a clean slate when we repent of our sin and seek His forgiveness and healing.
"For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form" (Colossians 2:9, NIV). Yes, Jesus shared in our humanity, while remaining fully divine.
He overcame temptation (Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1-13). He was no stranger to sorrow (Mark 14:34). He experienced weariness, heartache, desperation and pain. He knew the sting of betrayal, abandonment and rejection.
Jesus showed us how to retreat into the presence of the Father to be refreshed in the midst of trial. He prayed for relief then submitted to the will of the Father.
Yes, Jesus was fully man. But, we can't forget He was fully God, too.
Our Savior defeated death through His sacrifice on the cross. He rose three days later, so that we could experience the fullness of His love and grace. Through Him we can grasp the hope of eternal life.
Because He was fully human, He understands. Because He loves us, He cares.
Because He is fully God, He is able to meet our every need.
Come, precious woman of God, fall into the arms of our loving Savior. Experience freedom, peace and hope in the light of His amazing grace. Bask in His love, demonstrated through the power of the wonderful cross.
How does knowing Jesus understands your humanity help you approach His throne of grace with confidence so that He can meet your every need?
Father God, we thank You and praise You for being the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Your faithfulness, goodness, and love strengthen us in times of uncertainty during our writing journey.
Direct our steps. Align our hearts with Yours. Drench us with Your grace as we bend to Your will.
Give us clarity and courage, showing us the next step You want us to take.
Bless us with sensitivity to Your nudging, refreshing our spirit like the spritz of an ocean breeze.
Help us trust You and follow wherever You lead, Abba.
We surrender each word we write to You.
How has God blessed you with a U-Turn, dead-end, or a detour in your writing journey?


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Easy to grow, colourful and really varied
Irises, the rainbow flower
Big, blowsy & beautiful. Scented & great for cutting
Ideal for anyone who is not sure what to order
A-Z of plants
Plant Advice
Shrubs, Bulbs, Seeds
Though we love our Perennials, Irises and Peonies, we know these are useful in the garden too!
Things we like in the home and garden and we thought you might like too
Practical Stuff
A few things that we find useful in the garden
Perennials - A to Z
Acanthus are also known as Bear's breeches, a name that was adopted centuries ago, the origin of which has long been lost. Originating from the Mediterranean their beauty was appreciated during Greek and Roman times, where the leaf form can be seen carved around the top of tall colonnades.
Achilleas are stately plants with broad, flat heads of colourful, small, round, papery flowers that range from pale yellow, through orange to rich magenta-red. Some varieties have flowers that start one colour and gradually change to another as the centre of the flowers get bigger, giving the whole plant an attractive two-tone appearance.
Asters are a must for the autumn border. Shaped like a daisy, the flowers can be as small as a 5 pence piece or bigger than a 50 pence piece. The colours tend to be in the blue/lilac or purple bracket, with a good choice of pink tones and white, but no yellow or true reds.
Among the loveliest border perennials, the distinctive, papery flowers look like small pin cushions.
Mention to a gardener that you like Bergenias (Elephant ears) and you get a long, confused stare as though to say 'what those boring things!' But I really do like and respect these robustly formed, immensely useful plants.
There are lots of types of Campanulas, all of which provide the border with a flowery, cottage feel. The other name for this variable bunch is Bellflower for the obvious reason as the flowers are bell-shaped.
These free-flowering, clump-forming plants can be divided into two groups: tall and upright with large, knob-like flowers or short and mounding with flat, wheel-like flowers.
These stalwarts of the grand herbaceous border offer structure and well-defined height. Although there are many named varieties, most are expensive and difficult to obtain.
Put Echinacea (Coneflower) into Google; and the few first pages list the plant's medical properties. But there is more to an Echinacea than a pill or powder.
Echinops, or Globe Thistles, are one of those plants that you either know or you don't. Popular with gardeners who have space and big, deep herbaceous borders, they tend to be ignored by those who have smaller gardens. This is because most Echinops can be big. If this is a problem for you try Echinops ritro 'Veitch's Blue' as it is ideal for smaller gardens.
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Different Ways To Bend A Tube
"She told me they can't bend those tubes and to call you."
"I'm sorry, we don't do that kind of work, but talk to Detroit Tube."
"Everybody I talk to says they can't do it, but you all say you bend metal tubes. What's up with that?"
What's up is that there are different ways to bend a tube, and each way makes sense for some applications, but not for others. All tube fabricators have their specialties, which means we have machines and dies that do some kinds of work easily and can't do other work without a huge investment (huge).
Mandrel Tube Bending At Detroit Tube Products
At Detroit Tube Products, we focus on mandrel bending of relatively thin-walled metal, on a tight radius. It's a process that puts support inside the tube (the mandrel or arbor) while the machine pulls the tube around a die that's shaped like the bend we want to create. Without that mandrel, the tube will tend to collapse and lose its original cross-section (round or rectangular, for example). A heavier-walled tube or pipe doesn't need so much support and can often be "empty-bent" without a mandrel and stay reasonably round in cross-section. Even a mandrel-bent tube will not be perfectly round throughout the bend area, depending on how severe the bend is.
We stock and bend a lot of 304 stainless and do 316 stainless mandrel bends. Others are less common and we may not stock but please REQUEST A QUOTE and we'll most likely surprise you!
There are different styles of a mandrel, some of them are solid rods, others with linked balls attached to the end. The balls enable more difficult bends. Ask our friend Google for "bend tooling" and you'll have a feast of images.
Applications For Bending
There are plenty of applications where you don't need that shape to be maintained: a muffler shop will bend a tube as a replacement with wrinkled, caved-in bends, and it's perfectly useful for getting those exhaust gases where they need to go. Who cares how it looks? It's under the car! Now, stainless steel tube bending for classic cars might be a different story. Furniture often has a tubular frame. Look at a stacking tubular chair, a hand-cart, or a school desk, and you'll see the bends "dented in." They're often bent in a press operation; they look uniform, stack and assemble well, and are relatively inexpensive to produce.
It all looks like tube bending, but it's all different kinds of bending. When a customer contacts us to make a part, and it's that school desk or the muffler, we can't always help. We try our best to steer them to the tube fabricator who can do it well, for a reasonable price. And the same thing happens when our phone rings and the voice says, "She told me they can't bend those tubes and to call you."
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On Friday, October 26, 11 members of the ECC Students for Life Club stood in front of Planned Parenthood in Pittsburgh and participated in the 40 Days for Life prayer campaign.
Twice a year across the world, volunteers pray for an end to abortion in front of these clinics for 40 days while also offering pregnant mothers alternative options to abortion.
The group prayed together and witnessed to the value of life to all those who passed by on the street. It was a powerful day.


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Infliksimab (-{Remicade}-) je himerno monoklonalno antitelo protiv tumornog nekroznog faktora alfa (TNF-α) koji se koristi za lečenje autoimunskih bolesti. FDA je odobrila infliksimab za tretman psorijaze, Kronove bolesti, ankilozirajućeg spondilitisa, psorijatičkog artritisa, reumatoidnog artritisa, i ulceroznog kolitisa.

Reference

Literatura

Spoljašnje veze

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Моноклонална антитела
Конструисани протеини
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I've gotten a few recommendations for local bands to perform at the summer open mic nights.
So far, The Marauders, Pita & 65 Watts have been recommended to me. Any other suggestions of bands I should try to get in touch with?


To adapt the standard dust extractors DC 3800c/3900c/5800c/5900c for the Longopac-solution we have an adaption kit available. The delivery includes all necessary parts (incl. bolts and nuts) and a longopac-bag. for more information, please, contact our customer service.


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Q: Pandas selecting previous row values For instance, I have a data frame below,
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id user_id actual_Y

1   10       renew

2   10       renew

3   10       cancel

4   15       renew

5   15       cancel

6   88       renew

7   88       renew

9   99       cancel

'''
I want to select user_id row with actual_Y ='cancel'  and its previous 2 rows
like this
'''
id user_id actual_Y

1   10       renew

2   10       renew

3   10       cancel

4   15       renew

5   15       cancel

9   99       cancel

'''
How can I achieve this and selecting previous rows general
like select only N previous rows
like select 1 previous rows result would be:
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id user_id actual_Y
2   10       renew
3   10       cancel
4   15       renew
5   15       cancel
9   99       cancel
'''

A: Idea is create groups by values before cancel from back in cumulative sum and create mask for filter out groups without cancel and filter in boolean indexing with counter by GroupBy.cumcount:
N = 2

s = df['actual_Y'].eq('cancel').iloc[::-1].groupby(df['user_id']).cumsum().iloc[::-1]
mask = s.gt(0)
df1 = df[df.groupby(['user_id',s]).cumcount(ascending=False).le(N) & mask]
print (df1)
   id  user_id actual_Y
0   1       10    renew
1   2       10    renew
2   3       10   cancel
3   4       15    renew
4   5       15   cancel
7   9       99   cancel

N = 1

s = df['actual_Y'].eq('cancel').iloc[::-1].groupby(df['user_id']).cumsum().iloc[::-1]
mask = s.gt(0)
df2 = df[df.groupby(['user_id',s]).cumcount(ascending=False).le(N) & mask]
print (df2)
   id  user_id actual_Y
1   2       10    renew
2   3       10   cancel
3   4       15    renew
4   5       15   cancel
7   9       99   cancel

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With all the numerous scrums and scrambles directly in front of the nets – for both teams – the Angelina College Lady Roadrunners picked up their game-winning goal from long distance.
AC's Bailey Bowers blasted home a free kick from 35 yards out with 37 minutes elapsed in the first half, and the Lady Roadrunner defense repelled several ensuing LSU-Eunice attacks to squeeze out a 1-0 win Sunday at Abe Martin Stadium in Lufkin.
Lady 'Runner goalkeeper Aubrey Pettett did a stellar job in the nets, saving several point-blank kicks in both halves of the match. Lady Bengal Katelyn Knowles very nearly put her team ahead on numerous occasions, only to have AC defenders Bety Hernandez, Savannah Keziah and Bailey Bowers push back.
Sunday's Lady Roadrunner win capped a big weekend of AC soccer. On Friday, the Lady 'Runners held No. 1-ranked Navarro College to its lowest goal-scoring output in conference play, only to drop a 2-0 decision to the Lady Bulldogs.
The Roadrunner men's team lost a pair of tough ones, falling to Coastal Bend College 3-0 on Friday night and losing to Laredo College 3-0 on Sunday in a game suspended on Saturday because of lightning.
Both AC soccer teams will travel to Jacksonville College on Tuesday. The Lady Roadrunners face the Lady Jaguars at 4:30 p.m., and the Roadrunners follow at 7 p.m.


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Govt deliberately keeping HR bodies dysfunctional: Senate body
Ikram JunaidiUpdated 29 Sep 2020
The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights on Monday observed that there is a deliberate effort by the government to keep National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR) and National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRC) dysfunctional.
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights on Monday observed that there is a deliberate effort by the government to keep National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR) and National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRC) dysfunctional.
It directed the ministries of human rights and law division to address the issue within two weeks.
The committee rejected a briefing by the Ministry of Human Rights and said the minister should attend the next meeting and brief the lawmakers.
Committee Chairman Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar of the PPP said it was unfortunate that files were moving from one table to another but serious efforts were not being made to address the issue.
He said the bill of NCHR was tabled in parliament in 2011 and later the commission became functional and performed very well.
Ministries of human rights and law division directed to address issue related to non-functioning of NCHR, NCRC within two weeks
"However, now it has become dysfunction and I believe that the prime minister is being misguided over the issue," he said.
The four-year tenure of NCHR chairman Justice retired Justice Ali Nawaz Chowhan and the members expired on May 30, 2019, but the most important body, which watches human rights and has power to take suo motu notice, could not be revived.
Complying with its international obligations, Pakistan established the NCHR through Act XVI of 2012 in accordance with the Paris Principles.
The NCHR Act stipulates a broad and overarching mandate for the promotion, protection and fulfillment of human rights as provided for in Pakistan's Constitution and international treaties.
As an impartial state body, the NCHR works independently of the government and is directly accountable to parliament.
The NCHR's financial and performance reports are also directly presented to the parliament for approval on an annual basis.
Initially, the posts were advertised at the end of March and April 14 2019 was the last date for filing applications for the posts.
The process was completed and names were shortlisted.
However, while discussing the matter in the federal cabinet, an objection was raised that the federal government had to give permission for the advertisement and as per the order of Supreme Court the government means the federal cabinet.
So again permission was sought from the federal cabinet for advertising the posts and a new advertisement was placed in the press on September 22, 2019, with October 6, 2019, as the last date for applying.
In the first advertisement, there was a cap on the minimum age - 40 years - but there was no cap on the maximum age limit.
However, in the second advertisement the maximum age for the chairman was fixed at 65 years.
Former NCHR chairman Nawaz Chowhan challenged it in the IHC and the appointment was delayed.
A representative of NCRC told the Senate committee that the commission was established in February 2020 but there was no office for the chairman and officers.
Even funds were not allocated due to which complaints which have been received could not be addressed.
The Senate committee chairman said it was embarrassing that departments were set up and then kept dysfunctional.
"Incidents of child abuse have been increasing but no serious effort is being made to make the commissions functional. We reject the briefing by the ministry and the minister should attend the next meeting to brief the committee," he said.
Talking to Dawn, Mr Khokhar said he believed that the commissions were kept dysfunctional.
"The NCRC became functional eight months ago but has no office, funding and staff. I believe that an enabling environment is not being provided to let it function," he said.
Published in Dawn, September 29th, 2020
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Section 1. The name of this organization shall be the ROYAL OAK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Section 2. The objectives of the Society are to encourage historical study and research and to collect and preserve historical material and folklore connected with Royal Oak and its vicinity, and to host an Annual Dinner.
Section 1. Any person shall be eligible to membership in this Society upon payment of annual dues to be prescribed by the Board of Directors.
Section 2. All qualified members whose dues are paid, shall be entitled to a vote at the meetings of the Society.
Section 3. Honorary members in number not to exceed ten (10) percent of the active membership may be selected by the Board of Directors, or by a majority vote at any Annual Meeting, for notable service in furthering the objects of the Society. Honorary members shall pay the same dues as active member.
Section 1. The annual meeting of this Society shall be held during each year on such day as the Directors may designate.
Section 2. Special meetings of the members of this Society may be called at any time by the Board of Directors and such special meetings must be called by the Board of Directors upon presentation to the Board of a petition requesting such a meeting and signed by not less than ten (10) percent of the active membership.
Section 3. Notice of the annual meeting and of special meetings shall be mailed to each active member at his last known address at least ten (10) days before such meeting or such notice may be given by insertion at least ten (10) days before the meeting of a notice, setting the time, place and purpose of such meeting, in a news- paper circulating in the City of Royal Oak, MI.
Section 4. Twelve (12) active members shall consist of a quorum for the transaction of the business at any membership meeting.
Section l. This Society shall be governed by a Board of Directors consisting of its officers and the last two previously elected presidents and fifteen (15) other members of the Society whose term of office shall be for three (3) years, the terms of said fifteen (15) other members to be staggered so that five Directors shall be elected each year.
Section 2. Nomination of the Directors shall be made at the Annual Meetings of this Society, election to be made by ballot or by voice or other appropriate sign as may be designated by the President or Chairman of the meeting.
Section 3. Directors shall be elected to fill vacancies on the Board of Directors at the Annual meeting of this Society. However, the Board of Directors may fill vacancies before the next Annual Meeting.
Section 4. Meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such time and places as may be determined by the President of the Society provided that a written or verbal notice of such meetings shall be given to all Directors at least ten (10) days before the time set for the meeting. Two (2) absences from board meetings without advance notice shall result in that director being removed from the Board of Directors.
Section 5. A simple majority of members of the Board of Directors shall consist of a quorum for the transaction of its business except as herein otherwise provided.
Section 1. The officers of this Society shall be President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer, who shall be elected for a term of two (2) years.
Section 2. The duties and powers of the respective officers of the Society shall be such as customarily attached to the offices they hold in similarly constituted organizations, together with such other duties and authority as may from time to time be vested in them by the Board of Directors.
Section 3. The Board of Directors may from time to time appoint such other assistant officers of the Society and such committees as It may deem proper, and prescribe their respective duties and authority.
Section 1. The President may appoint such committees of members as he/she may, in his/her discretion, deem required for the proper conduction of the business of the Society and may prescribe the duties and authorities of such committees. The Board of Directors may appoint such additional committees or may instruct the President to appoint the same, as the Board may deem advisable, the duties and authorities of which committees shall be prescribed by the Board.


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Only holding # 13 Billboard for 1 week, BLACKPINK and Selena Gomez drop from the chart in the second week , will Ice Cream definitely be out of the chart next week?
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Something weird has happened
You've just found the Loch Ness Monster
KBIZOOM
Dynamite suddenly entered the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 after nearly 5 months, BTS broke the record that PSY set from 9 years ago.
Dynamite also set a record for a Kpop song to reach the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for the most weeks in history.
On January 5, the Billboard Hot 100 chart updated the weekly song rankings (as of January 9). Dynamite – an English song released by BTS almost 5 months ago, suddenly appeared at No. 5.
Last week, the song "Dynamite " dropped to No. 44 on the Billboard Hot 100. But BTS's super hit went upstream 39 places to reach the top 5 this week. The song has had 19 consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, has never been out of this chart since its release in August 2020.
Moreover, Dynamite also set a record for a Kpop song to reach the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for the most weeks in history. The previous record was held by Gangnam Style – the hit PSY released in 2012 (12 weeks). Meanwhile, Dynamite has 13 weeks in the top 10.
Immediately after the results of the Billboard Hot 100 this week were announced, BTS fans were extremely excited about Dynamite's ranking as well as the record that the song just set. In Korea, netizens also expressed surprise at the position of Dynamite, in particular, this was the 19th week since the song was released.
Someone even said that Dynamite appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 is no different from the song "Spring Day" on the Melon chart (Korea). BTS released Spring Day in 2017, but since then this song has never left Melon's top 100.
Knet commented:
No. 5?
That's great. I listen to this song every day. Great song.
But why are BTS's sales so high?
Oh, Dynamite is a zombie.
If Spring Day is a zombie on Melon then Dynamite is a zombie on Billboard.
I thought it was a summer song but I still love listening to it in winter.
To be honest, Dynamite is a great song for everyone to listen to, regardless of country or culture.
BTS is popular in America! Proud of them!
Sources: kenh14
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The new DoodleFactory Prehistoric images are great for kids birthdays...Here I stamped the image in Black on White card stock, cut the panel using the Out of the Box Technique, then stamped the image again on a piece of Basic Grey Lime Rickey Paper and Paper Pieced it over the original stamped image. I added a bit of Soft Suede to the Dinosaurs spots and toes.
Very cute kid's card. Beautiful papers. Love that blue dino.


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Longroad Energy Completes Financing of Sun Streams 3, a 285 MWdc Solar and 215 MWac / 860 MWh Storage Project
Construction has begun on Longroad's Maricopa County-based PV + storage project
BOSTON, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Longroad Energy, a U.S. based renewable energy developer, owner and operator, announced today the financial close and commencement of construction of Sun Streams 3, its 285 MWdc PV and 215 MWac / 860 MWh storage project located in Maricopa County, Arizona. Sun Streams 3 is expected to begin commercial operations in 2024 and will be the largest solar and storage project in Longroad's operational portfolio.
Sun Streams 3 will be the largest solar and storage project in Longroad's operational portfolio.
"We are pleased to have achieved the key milestones of financial close and commencement of construction on Sun Streams 3, the latest phase of our flagship solar plus storage complex located at one of the most significant power hubs in the western U.S.," said Paul Gaynor, CEO of Longroad Energy. "Arizona is an important growth market, and Longroad currently has a 4 GW operating and development portfolio in the state. Longroad believes the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act will enable further development in the state and provide significant benefits for utilities and ratepayers. We are grateful to APS, our lenders led by CIBC and KeyBank, and U.S. Bank as our tax equity investor, as we move forward to bring this significant project to commercial operation."
The project interconnects with the grid at the Hassayampa switchyard, a major transmission hub in the western U.S. Sun Streams 3 will enhance electrical capacity and system reliability in Arizona; the project's total output, enough to power 90,000 homes, will be purchased by Arizona Public Service (APS) via a long-term Power Purchase Agreement.
"Arizona is one of the fastest growing states in the country, and it's our responsibility to keep the lights on year-round for the communities we serve — from homes to hospitals to manufacturing centers," said Justin Joiner, APS Vice President of Resource Management. "The energy generated by this project will assist APS as we transition to a 100% clean and carbon-free resource mix by 2050 and is one way we are maintaining an affordable, resilient and balanced energy supply for all our customers."
Longroad acquired Sun Streams 3 from First Solar in early 2021 as part of a larger transaction that included multiple projects in Arizona, including the 200 MWdc Sun Streams 2 solar project which has been operational since 2021 and additional projects which are still in development. Continuing their strong partnership, First Solar is supplying Series 6+ solar modules for the Sun Streams 3 project.
Debt financing was led by CIBC and KeyBank, and included ANZ, Commerzbank, PNC and Silicon Valley Bank. KeyBanc Capital Markets and CIBC served as Coordinating Lead Arrangers. U.S. Bank is the project's tax equity investor.
"We are proud to partner with Longroad Energy on Sun Streams 3, a strategically important project for the state of Arizona," said James Wright, Head of U.S. Project Finance and Infrastructure at CIBC. "This is another example of CIBC's commitment to helping our clients achieve their sustainability ambitions, and we are thrilled to lead this significant financing."
"Longroad Energy has an exceptional reputation as a leading developer of solar and storage projects. We are confident Sun Streams 3 will add to their successful track record," said Tyler Nielsen, director for KeyBanc Capital Markets' Utilities, Power and Renewable Energy Group. "We appreciate our collaboration with Longroad Energy on this financing and look forward to continued opportunities to support their growth."
"We believe everyone has a role to play in creating a sustainable future and helping reduce the impacts of climate change," said Eric Barr, business development officer with U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation's Environmental Finance team. "Investments like this are one way we can do our part and we're proud to partner again with Longroad to expand access to clean energy."
During construction, Sun Streams 3 is projected to employ over 300 people. McCarthy Building Companies (McCarthy), whose Renewable Energy & Storage team is based in Phoenix, Arizona, was selected as the EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contractor on the project. McCarthy also built Longroad's adjacent 200 MWdc Sun Streams 2 solar project, which recently received the 2022 Best Energy Project in the Southwest Award from Engineering News Record.
"Longroad is a leader in the renewable energy transition and we're proud to be partnering with them again for the Sun Streams 3 solar project," said Scott Canada, Executive Vice President of McCarthy's Renewable Energy & Storage team. "It's very rewarding for our team to be part of building a more sustainable energy infrastructure in Arizona, in partnership with Longroad, and to also be providing members of the local community with career opportunities in the expanding solar industry."
The 215 MW/ 860 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) will be delivered by Powin, a U.S.-based energy storage platform provider with over 17 GWh of projects deployed, under construction, or in contracting. The BESS will include SMA inverters and cells from Envision AESC, which will be integrated into Powin's modular and scalable Stack™ 750E energy segment. Longroad, in conjunction with Powin and NovaSource, will provide long-term operations and maintenance services.
Nextracker is supplying trackers for the project and SunGrow is supplying the solar inverters. Comprehensive operations and maintenance services for the project will be provided by NovaSource and Longroad's affiliate Longroad Energy Services.
The project represents 460,000 metric tons of avoided CO2 emissions annually – the equivalent of taking ~100,000 cars off the road for as long as the project operates.
Sun Streams 3 will generate more than $65 million in revenue for Arizona schools via long-term leases with the Arizona State Land Department. Longroad extends thanks to the Arizona State Land Department and Maricopa County for their continued support and collaboration through the development and construction of the Sun Streams projects.
About Longroad Energy Holdings, LLC
Founded in 2016, Longroad Energy Holdings, LLC is focused on renewable energy project development, operating assets, and services. Longroad has developed or acquired 4.3 GW of renewable energy projects across the United States and has raised $10 billion of equity, debt, and tax equity to support completion of its portfolio. Today, Longroad owns over 2.4 GW of wind, solar, and storage projects and operates and manages a total of 4.0 GW on behalf of Longroad and third parties. Longroad is owned by the NZ Superannuation Fund, Infratil Limited, MEAG MUNICH ERGO Asset Management, and Longroad Energy Partners, LLC.
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If you're clearly in a hurry to get to Bruges, then the P&O Ferries Hull to Zeebrugge ferry is probably not your best choice. There's plenty of flights that will get you to Brussels and then onto Bruges in a few winks plus, there's also now a new direct train service from London. Clearly, you have to be a fan of slow travel to enjoy the concept of taking a ferry.
If you're looking to travel with your family and bringing the car to Europe, then the choice of taking the ferry is an easy choice to make. Plus if you have pets, it is a far more easier bringing them by ferry. I can't think of anything more terrifying that being stowed into the cargo hold of a plane and being stuck there for the duration of a flight.
However, I don't have any pets. No car too. Which begs the question- why on earth am I taking the ferry to Zeebrugge in the first place?
Open disclaimer. P&O Ferries invited me to experience their route plus secondly, I really don't know Bruges. Last time I visited, it was a cold December night, just 2 days after the Brussels attacks, There was a sombre mood in the air and I wasn't particularly feeling in the Xmassy mood to soak up the markets and melting snow.
My other reason, is simple. Nostalgia. I took this trip based on a memory of a previous crossing to Amsterdam with a rival ferry company. It was February and not the ideal time to cross the North Sea. However, I was with a great group of friends. We weren't in any particular hurry to reach Amsterdam and the fares were pretty decent. The ship and facilities were nothing much to write home about. I did enjoy the novelty of watching the latest Indiana Jones movie onboard in their cinema. The rest, the dining experience was nothing much to write home about. Nor was the terrifying spectacle of drinking beers with a bunch of inebriated stag and hen groups tearing up the bar from the early hours. Luckily, we were tired enough and slept through the night with hardly any disturbance. Then there's the fact of waking up in a boat and hearing the ship's horn bellow as it is about to enter port. It is quite a thrilling way to reach somewhere. Beats waking up for a 5am cheap flight anyday.
So almost 10 years later, for a variety of reasons, I am back on a mini cruise , from Hull to Zeebrugge with the girl. The trip gives us the opportunity to spend the night in the beautiful and historic city of York. From York, Hull is just over an hour and 30 minutes by train. We hop on a cab at Hull Station and soon find ourselves in Terminal 2 in the Port of Hull which is where we will depart for Zeebrugge.
The ferry terminal is pretty chill. There is hardly any queue for checking-in. It was 2 hours before departure and a surreal sight to see no queues. The chatty and friendly lady at check-in tells us that with only 200 passengers ( it can hold upto 930 passengers ), it will be a pretty quiet crossing given it was a bank holiday Monday. Security is a breeze and barely 5 minutes after getting our tickets, we were walking up the ramp via the rear of Red Deck 5. Curious, we have a wee wonder and find the deck has a Sunset Show Lounge, a Bar, a casino that is no longer in operation, a Starbucks Coffee café, duty free shop, a reception, a Bureau de Change, and cabins to the front.
We have a standard inside no frills cabin with two bunk beds. The room comes with an ensuite shower and toilet. The room is a bit dated but functional. You have a reading light, plug points (including a USB port) and the beds are itself are pretty comfy. Granted, it is pretty cramped but given the amount of time we intended to spend in the cabin , we were pretty happy with this. However if your budgets permit, definitely do consider the option of upgrading to one of their club class cabins. They are quite spacious and I'd love to wake up to the view of the sea.
After dumping our bags in the rooms we head to the outer decks as the ship is about to leave port. There is a nice outdoor sundeck where you can grab a bottle or glass of wine from the ship's bar and have a drink. It was a gloriously late April sunny afternoon and perfect for alfesco drinks. At £14 a bottle for their house wine, granted this is not the cheapest bottle of wine you will buy in your life but then again, I have spent far more on far worse wine.
Their feedback whets our appetite and after we polish off the wine, we clearly look forward to our meal.
You have the choice of two restaurants on the P&O cruise ferry from Hull to Zeebrugge. You have the Kitchen, an all-you-can-eat dining venue with a very impressive selection of meal options. On the other hand you have the Brasserie, à la carte restaurant offering a more premium dining experience. I check the prices for the Brasserie and the Kitchen and they are not too far apart but we had already pre-booked a package of dining in the Kitchen plus breakfast which for around £24 which is pretty decent value.
I've never been a huge fan of the all-you-can-eat buffet type restaurants but when you have the leisure of time and the luxury of an open evening, it doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
The buffet options are impressive as I mentioned and include a salad bar, a selection of hot soups, a hot buffet that include meal, fish and veggie options and a themed hot buffet which had a nice selection of curries plus naan bread and poppadoms. I really enjoyed the curries and the salad bar. To top it all of they have a fantastic cheese board selection plus dessert selection that included mousse, baked desserts, fruit and a range of gourmet ice-creams. This was the mother of all buffet meals. I think I went a bit overboard with the buffet and ate too much.
After the meal, I was naturally comatose. We went for a stroll around the ship to walk off the post dinner coma and found ourselves pretty much alone on the outer sun deck again. To our left was the last stretch of sun drenched land we would see in awhile. A quick look at Google Maps revealed the place to be the Spurn National Nature Reserve.
We head back to checkout the range of entertainment options available onboard. There's plenty to keep you amused. We discover a games arcades , a small play area for kids ( worth noting that during the summer months children's entertainers are employed to keep the kids entertained plus there are specially trained staff to help run a kids club). There's even a quiet lounge where you can sit down with a book and just enjoy the sea views. There's also a programme of live music and bingo which pulls in the crowds. I'll admit, I wasn't too enamoured by the live musicians but they had the sparse crowd of onlookers entertained. The floor later transforms into a disco which I imagine pulls in a few punters. We leave soon. We don't know whether it was the incredible amount of food we consumed or whether we were just tired but we go for another wee stroll on the outer deck for a breath of fresh sea air.
We had timed it perfectly. The sun was about to sink into the horizon and given the clear weather conditions, the sky looked spectacular. I don't know if you've ever had the pleasure of seeing the sunset from the sea but it really is something else, especially given how perfect the weather was. We huddled together on one of the benches and enjoyed the sky turn red, pink and then that beautiful shade of pale blue when you can't tell the difference between the sea and sky.
Spot of Duty Free Shopping..
We head back to our cabin but get distracted by the duty free shop enroute. It is a good time to catch up on a bit of window shopping. We try out some designer shades, try out the latest range of perfumes and even buy a few essentials- extra storage memory cards for the GoPro! While shopping, we had duty manager Carrie who has been working on this route for the last 18 years! We were curious to know more about what life was like onboard and what motivated her to do the job all these years.
We go to bed at around 11pm and sink soon into a deep sleep. At 6.30am we have a wake up call and bleary eyed head to the kitchen for breakfast. There's a nice selection of hot food on offer but we're both still heavy from last nights epic buffet so we slurp on lots of caffeine and grab some fruit before heading back to the room to pack our bags. Around 8.30am the ship finally comes into sight of land. Skies are blue. Sun already has a nice sting. The prospect of another beautiful day in a different country. The seagulls whirr above our head as the ship honks loud and clear to announce journeys end. We grab our bags and return our keys at reception. The end of any journey in life is always a bittersweet moment. The end of an experience and the beginning of something fresh, unknown. What next?
Securities and custom is a doddle and within 5 minutes we're walking our way towards our transfer coach that will whisk us to Bruges in little over 30 minutes. Ostend is just 25 minutes away while Antwerp is 1 1/2 hours away so there's plenty of choice of places to visit. If you are returning in the evening, you have little under 7 1/2 hours in Bruges to enjoy yourself. We had the luxury of staying for 3 whole days and then travelling to Portugal so that was pretty much our journeys end. I'm not a fan of rushing through a place and I would much prefer staying for a 2 night short break before returning. The P&O Ferries site give you the option of booking your onward stay in Bruges so checkout their site for more details.
So. In the end to summarise, we both enjoyed it. The food was a major highlight and surprise compared to my previous experience of mini cruising. While the entertainment am sure will appeal to others, I'd love to see other options like the in house cinema making a comeback. Another plus were the staff who were really friendly and helpful.
The overall package works well if you have the luxury of time and in no particular hurry to get from A to B. Taking the mini cruise harks back to a more distant era of travel when the journey itself was truly the adventure. Cruising is making a comeback, maybe a reaction to the frantic pulse of modern life and the difficulty of getting away from it all.
After an hour of leaving land, the night before my GPS signal disappeared and I could no longer track the ship's route on my phone. No wifi ( you can buy it onboard if you feel the need to be connected) and no clue of where we were in that wide stretch of blue sea between the English and Belgium coast- it felt strangely exciting and peaceful.
Out to sea. No stress and strains, just the gentle waves below lulling you in a deep sleep.
P&O Ferries run frequent crossings to and from Hull to Zeebrugge. There are lots of choices of cruises, with the Bruges minicruise a very popular one. The mini cruises (based on a short break, car and two adults and an inside cabin) from Hull for £129. For more information and offers ring 0800 130 0030 or check out the P&O Ferries website.
I was invited by P&O Ferries to experience their mini cruises from Hull to Zeebrugge. All opinions expressed here, are entirely my own.
Hi I am Kash aka the BudgetTraveller I have been travelling in style on a budget for the last 6 years focussing on cool trends in Budget Travel like Luxury hostels and street food guides for over 40 cities.
There's something that keeps calling me regarding taking a ferry somewhere and I think it's mostly the nostalgic connection to heading across to Ireland with my parents as a kid but also the desire to see just how different it all is to cruising which we tend to do a lot (and visit Belgium and Bruges quite often too). Despite living just ten minutes away on foot from Portsmouth's port I've only once set foot on a ferry there once and that was just an overnight work's do booze cruise and mostly lost in an alcoholic haze. Love getting on ships, love seeing those sunsets at sea and feeling the gentle motion (or rough; we quite like rocky conditions too), and taking a ferry crossing somewhere now that we're more travel-oriented really appeals; good write-up that's nudging me closer to making a booking at some point.


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"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit"
Like many of you, my initial foray into a BodyTalk practice came with many questions: Now what? What should I call my practice? How will clients find me? Who should I work on? Do I know enough? Is there another course that will help? The questions multiplied along the way and came with a lot of self-doubt that blurred my vision. I had no execution or business plan.
Many practitioners notice shifts and swings in their existing client practice, and most simply struggle with launching out of the gate. I see practitioners who struggle to find themselves in the process. While having many credentials may seem to be one alternative, there is nothing that beats a sound business strategy and a commitment to your own personal development. An execution plan with a strategy for your business accompanied by a continuous improvement process plan serves you well.
My own enthusiasm for BodyTalk propelled me into taking more courses to advance myself as a knowledgeable practitioner. While these courses provided insights and perspectives, I was still challenged with creating, managing and maintaining a client practice. While some clients shifted rapidly, others had no sustainable changes. I wanted a variety of clients and not just repeats. With no manager to provide feedback, I had to learn how to self-manage and rely on my clients for feedback. Each client then became a teacher, a practical learning tool, a case study through which I refined my practice.
Keen observation and listening to the tone and quality of a client's voice as well as what was unsaid--body language, eye movement, worry lines, gait, posture--all conveyed specific emotional and mental states. This gave me insights into the nuances of my client's world. Through self-enquiry, I was better prepared to be an observer and gain clarity into myself; this enabled me to be more present and ask clear questions that not only informed me but also got the client to focus on their issues and take responsibility for their health process.
In the beginning, I didn't know much more beyond Fundamentals. Learning and memorizing the protocol chart and the techniques was still far off from understanding it in terms of the real application for every client. My perspectives expanded as I carefully observed formulas that came up. The adage "we can't see the forest for the trees" holds true for the client and ourselves. It simply means that we cannot see the situation as it really is while we are in the midst of it. We lose perspective when we are too heavily invested in a particular agenda, outcome, approach.
The rigors of maintaining a credible client practice meant that I had to keep careful client records, payment records, expense records, time records. You build a practice, one client at a time. Records allow you to see facts and monitor progress--the return on investment for your education, time and energy. You are then able to make better decisions and course corrections in your practice. It is equally important to routinely receive sessions on your business and yourself.
Most of us don't know how to manage a clinically-based client practice. Self-imposed discipline and rigor serve you with practice management skills. Along with record-keeping, an ongoing review process is key. Successful business leaders set goals and objectives and have an evolving strategy to achieve intended outcomes in a dynamic environment. Having a professional office space and website is a small part of the equation. Getting new clients to walk through your door, establishing client rapport, getting results and having new client referrals are important criteria in developing a successful business practice. This requires refining your client interaction skills. If you engage in self-doubt then your clients will not have a sense of confidence in you. And conversely, displaying too much "head" knowledge intimidates clients and hinders heart-based resonance.
Clients come to us because they are looking for a different perspective into their imbalance. Hence, one of the big roles we play is as a health educator. Profound shifts occur when the client has an "Aha" moment. Learning to communicate this is an art and often requires personal insight into oneself. Connecting and partnering with other practitioners who practice differently than you also helps provide different perspectives. Be willing to ask and receive feedback and input. In many traditional crafts and healing systems, students are required to be apprenticed to a master healer for years if not decades before they qualify to see clients clinically or teach. There is wisdom in this tradition, and while modern day life doesn't quite lend itself to this age-old system, we can all avail of this tradition in a modified way through a self-imposed apprenticeship to the discipline of the science and art of client practice. Technology and social media resources provide limitless options to share and gain understanding.
As practitioners, it is not always easy to see ourselves objectively and this prevents us from observing our clients objectively. A BodyTalk community or a partner system can be valuable to help develop and refine the art of being a practitioner.
Be honest with yourself about your level of proficiency, knowledge and skill sets, and your commitment to a successful client practice. Very often it's easy to look at other successful practitioners as achievers while your own practice waxes and wanes. Ultimately, it is your client interaction skills and results that matter the most. Learning from other's insights and perspectives allowed me to see what I wasn't seeing before.
There is an advantage in academia in being subject to the scrutiny of a peer review process. This methodology can help you standardize and elevate the quality of work you deliver. This can be applied in your own practice by setting up post-client session surveys, one-on-one reviews with a skilled and insightful practitioner, or a group of practitioners more experienced than yourself. As I embarked on my "continuous improvement" plan, my clientele shifted as well. They now include complex and chronic health issues, cases with a poor prognosis by the medical system, practitioners from other medical systems, and more.
BE CURIOUS. Engage in discovery and a better understanding of your client and each session. Start noticing a pattern in your client's sessions, responses, intake and monitoring. How are they taking responsibility for their healing? Dive deep into an anatomy, physiology or consciousness concept every day. Commitment to an ongoing learning process is key.
"You don't know what you don't know. And you will never know what you don't allow yourself to see." Stay humble to the fact that you cannot know everything about a client. It can also be self-defeating if we get into the "I don't know enough; maybe I should take this new course" cycle. Allow a bake-in practice period with what you know and dive deep.
Study/Trade groups. Connect with other practitioners in the classes you attend to form study groups and trade groups. Create an agenda and schedule to meet and stick to it diligently. Share your client cases and your assessments while carefully listening to other perspectives and viewpoints. Offer community clinics with other practitioners.
Continuous Improvement Process. Engage in ongoing self-review. Set up a feedback system with clients. How do you show up in the world and your client practice? Don't be afraid to admit/face your challenges; instead, leverage them as opportunities for practice. How comfortable are you explaining BodyTalk in a 30-second sales pitch to varying audiences? Do their eyes glaze over with your narrative? If they are still listening and asking more questions, then you have won them over.
Practitioner partnerships. Partner with other BodyTalk practitioners, physical therapists, yoga teachers, holistic practitioners, acupuncturists, chiropractors, herbalists or naturopaths. Offer trades. Form your own community of professionals. Consider partnering with someone whose style is in contrast to yours. Consider partnering on specific client cases for 1 or 2 sessions. Offer splitting a session fee with another practitioner or set up a referral system. Reciprocate when they refer clients to you.
Case-study hour. Do a peer review and present your client cases with specifics where you are challenged so that you can learn from others. This can be as simple as a weekly BodyTalk buddy chat over coffee or Facetime. Very often, simply bringing contrasting observations to a tough client case brings about radical shifts in subsequent client visits.
Community hour. Get together once a quarter and offer sessions in a community clinic format. Offer free 10-minute sessions to your yoga community, the senior-retired community, homebound community, daycare, natural health food stores, libraries. Partnering with other practitioners helps.
Client demographics. Who is your ideal client? Who do you wish to serve or who do you attract? Are you the occasional practitioner who likes to work on house pets, do you prefer to work on just family and friends, are you a solo professional or in a community of practitioners? These are all vastly different skill sets. "It is important to know what type of person has the disease rather than knowing what type of disease the person has." Understanding the client's lifestyle, environment, beliefs and attitudes that created and locked certain disease patterns into place has served me well. We now know that this forms the basis of epigenetics.
Session retrospectives. Notice what issues you tend to work on. In contrast, what do you dislike working on? Do your sessions often have a specific theme? What sections of the protocol do you go to mostly and what do you stay away from? Do your client sessions resonate with your own life experiences and perspectives? How do you limit your client interactions to hold on to your beliefs and attitudes firmly? Will you refuse to work on someone with opposing or radical viewpoints vastly different from your own? What type of clients trigger you? Is there shared common ground with them? Is there something that you may be unwilling to see about yourself that is reflected in your client's coping mechanisms. Our clients are sometimes our greatest mirrors for our own issues.
Daily mindfulness practice. For some, this is exercise, running or yoga practice. Simply being and observing can help hone new observation skills and adds value to your client practice daily. This is perhaps the most important part of my practice and can be as little as 5 to 10 minutes a day or upwards of an hour a day.
Business health reviews. What is the state of your business? Are you making money or do you spend more than you save? Do a Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat analysis on yourself. Work on the W, O, T. Address these in your peer review groups. Your practice changes every day, month, quarter and year. Be willing to do a retrospective to align your changing practice as your life and perspectives change. Measure your outcomes, and change your strategy dynamically. A successful practice is a combination of attitude, perseverance, skill, wisdom of experience, and a disciplined approach on your part to commit to your craft as a skilled practitioner.


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The Taiping Revolution: A Failure of Two Missions is a book written by Robert Hsiang Teng Lin in 1979. The monograph was published in two editions in the year 1979 in the English language. This book is held by ninety-four libraries worldwide. This monograph interrogates the history of Chinese Civilization since the Taiping revolution. Lin holds a Ph.D. in Sociology. Earlier in 1977, Lin had also published an archival publication; The Taiping Revolution: A Comparative Historical and Sociological Study of a Movement from the Perspective of Intercivilizational Encounters and Missions. The publication is available in two editions held by three universities worldwide.


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Kingswinford - Kingswinford is a town of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the English West Midlands, situated 5 miles 8.0 km west-southwest of central Dudley. In 2011 the area had a population of 25,191, down from 25,808 at the 2001 Census.The current economic focus of Kingswinford is education and housing for commuters. Positioned at the far western edge of the West Midlands Urban Area it borders on a rural area extending past the River Severn but its position at the edge of the Black Country and its long standing in the area means it has had significant industrial influence in the past. This is illustrated by the influence in creating local workhouses, which shows a population of 15,000 plus in the 1831 census.
Nicola Richards - Nicola Faye Richards, born 1995 , is a British Conservative Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament MP for West Bromwich East since the 2019 general election.
Dudley Kingswinford - Dudley Kingswinford is an English rugby union football club based in Kingswinford in the West Midlands. The club currently plays in the sixth tier of English club rugby, participating in Midlands 1 West . The club runs seven senior sides, a ladies team and a full range of junior sides.
The Kingswinford School - Kingswinford academy is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Kingswinford, West Midlands, England.
Kingswinford Rural District - Kingswinford Rural District was a rural district in Staffordshire, England from 1894 to 1934. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894, and originally consisted of the two parishes of Amblecote and Kingswinford. Amblecote became a separate urban district in 1898, leaving Kingswinford the only parish in the district.%0AThe district was abolished in 1934 under a County Review Order. Most of the parish was added to the Brierley Hill Urban District, with Prestwood and Ashwood becoming to the parish of Kinver in the Seisdon Rural District. Since 1974, the former now forms a part of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, whilst the area in Kinver is in the South Staffordshire district.
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« Crystal Palace v Arsenal and the question: do transfers take clubs up the league?
Football corruption and scandals. Why is it all so under reported? Part 1 »
By Tony Attwood
Untold Updates and solving the mobile problem:
In the last article on football corruption and scandals (Why is it all so underreported part 1) I reached the point of noting that scandals, corruption and illegality exist aplenty in football and yet there seems to be a certain resistance to the notion that when we see something that looks odd which should go digging.
But an alternative view could easily be that in many aspects of our society, when we spot some dubious and illegal activities these could well be the tip of the iceberg, and so more investigation is worthwhile.
Now clearly Untold Arsenal can't do this – we don't have the resources of a national newspaper, the BBC or any similar organisation, but it seems a lot of the time to be left to us to highlight certain dubious goings-on that come apparent.
So yes, the media has picked up on the Rio Fedinand missed drugs test of 2003, the Bruce Grobbelaar Match-Fixing saga of 1994, and then the Ryan Giggs Affair in which the player got super-injunctions to hide his multiple extra-marital affairs including one with his brother's wife.
And these issues raise questions, such as why in a democracy, a super-rich footballer needs special protection after his regular indiscretions when such protection is simply not available to ordinary members of the public because they could never afford the legal fees.
Elsewhere Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano were involved in a Third-Party Ownership case (which is interesting as Untold recently ran the story of how agents are now getting around the rules on this) wherein West Ham broke many of the rules and were fined £5m. As a result of having these illegally registered players, WHU were not relegated and Sheffield Utd were. The Independent later reported WHU had to pay Sheffield Utd £18m compensation.
Unfortunately, personal lives—and romantic escapades in particular—have become among the most frequently discussed aspects of English football, with that of John Terry perhaps the most famous of the lot. But the rest … well you often have to go searching to find it.
Of course not everyone accused of wrongdoing is found to have done wrong as with Harry Redknapp's Monaco bank account named after his dog Rosie and the taking of bungs. Mr Redknapp left court without a stain on his character.
Andy Gray and Richard Keys, however, did nothing illegal but got kicked out of English TV coverage of football for sexist remarks about a female official. TalkSport didn't mind having them however, and they can be seen all the time on BeIN sports across the Arabic speaking world.
Meanwhile in 2012, former Southampton defender Claus Lundekvam claimed that he, his teammates and opposing captains had constantly manipulated certain aspects of matches "almost every week". He stated that "We could make deals with the opposing captain about, for example, betting on the first throw, the first corner, who started with the ball, a yellow card or a penalty. Those were the sorts of thing we had influence over." No one seemed to get really worked up about it.
The following year the Mail reported on a Euro wide match-fixing ring which Liverpool allegedly benefited form during a 2009 Champions League campaign. In 2013 the BBC reported on "Match-fixing revenues comparable to global firms – Interpol". A short while ago most European papers reported on Uefa's statement that match-fixing was out of control.
With such a history in football, my view is that it would be helpful if all of football was as open as possible – after all the issues concerning Manchester City's income and its subsequent threats against Uefa are still to be resolved. Meanwhile, although Uefa's statement concerning the fact that it could not cope with the level of match-fixing was not reported much in England (apart from by Untold) much of the rest of Europe did sit up and take note.
Plus we have other issues here too such as the way referees are kept away from interviews, while at the same time a logical protection against the corruption of referees as happened in Italy (by having each referee only in charge of any team in the league twice in a season) has not been implemented in the PL. Look at what happens in much of the rest of Europe and you see that they did take these things more seriously.
Part 3 follows after the Crystal Palace v Arsenal game.
January 10th, 2020 | Category: Arsenal stories | 5 comments
5 comments to Football corruption and scandals. A few stories that did get reported. Part 2
OT: Three Players that Could Leave Arsenal in January
Paul Merson, Martin Keown, and some un-named ex-Arsenal player could all leave Arsenal in January. We are not sure what we would get in return for them. The rumour is that we could get a couple of candy wrappers and a used piece of gum for the three.
Other headlines in the news:
1. Why Arsenal Should Sign Fred Flintstone
2. The Expected 100-10-11-1 Arsenal Lineup
Hint: 100+10+11+1=1010
3. Arsenal Transfer News Digest: The Latest Rumours Assessed
They are all crap rumours.
4. How Do You Say Mesut Ozil in Chinese?
Mmmmm, mmmmmmm, mmmmm, mm, mmmmmmmmmmmmm!
5. 30 Players That Will be Crucial in Arsenal's Top Four Push
Name every player on the roster
mick shelley
The un-named one could be any one of Stewart Robson, Charlie Nicholas or Alan Smith to name but three.
I'm thinking that if we don't hear or read about scandals, corruption etc, then how do we know that any have occurred? The handful of misdemeanours you've mentioned might be the majority, plus a few bits like the WAG war between Rebecca Vardy & Colleen Rooney, some fool who plays for us drives into a tree, Wimbledon's manager gets sacked for betting offences and Joey Barton regularly beats somebody up.
I'm sure that if it's newsworthy we'll find out about it soon enough, like this from todays Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jan/10/eritrea-footballers-on-the-run-death-kidnap-asylum-hiding-uganda
Thanks Mick.
I don't think it could be Stewart Robson. A piece of used gum is far too much to pay for him.
Tony Attwood
I'm sure that if it's newsworthy we'll find out about it soon enough,
That is a belief and of course in our society one can believe pretty much anything.
The alternative approach is to search for evidence. It can be slow and difficult, and one can be ridiculed for doing it, but it at last has some science in it somewhere.


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Once DPS gets the blood result in and decides to suspend a suspect's license, they send the notice to the suspect, not to the lawyer. Why? Because they are hoping that a DWI suspect will throw the notice in the trash, and they know that our firm will request a hearing to fight the suspension.
DPS should not be sending notice to individuals who have legal counsel. My firm does not contact individuals when we know they are represented by counsel, it's unethical. But the usual ethical rules don't constrain DPS, they make a lot of money suspending licenses, so if they need to cheat to win, they will.
So, if the cops took your blood and you hired a DWI lawyer check your mail for letters from DPS. If you receive notice that DPS is moving forward with a license suspension notify you must immediately contact your lawyer. The letter won't look like anything special, so be vigilant and don't be a victim of DPS blood draw ALR scheme.