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Buddhism Is More 'Western' Than You Think, but Is It 'Liberal'?
November 6, 2017 melhpine Buddhism, Liberal Religion, Religion, Unitarian Universalism, United Church of Christ One comment
By Mel Harkrader Pine
My religion, Unitarian Universalism, fits neatly into the theme of this blog, but does my spiritual practice, Buddhism? If you need a reminder, our theme is, "Helping liberal religion live up to its its promise." Is Buddhism a liberal religion? It depends.
As with UUism, some see Buddhism as an approach to life, or a philosophy, but not a religion, liberal or otherwise. My answer to that is easy. Both UUism and Buddhism are what you want them to be. If you look at them as aides to life (Remember to meditate today. Make sure to recycle…and vote.) then that's what they are.
But Buddhism and UUism become religions when you turn to them for help with the big questions about the intangibles in life: Why am I here? What's my purpose? How can I lead a fulfilling life and suffer less? How can I grow my soul? What can I do for others? What becomes of me when I die?
Now, what's a liberal religion? For me, that has nothing to do with external politics but rather how the faith teaches. If its teachers stress My Way or the Highway, that's not a liberal faith. Religions that allow for, even encourage, personal reflection, questioning, and openness are liberal faiths. I worry that UUism and some other liberal churches are becoming narrower and more rigid, and I find my Buddhism is a refuge.
That doesn't mean I'm calling Buddhism a liberal religion. That would be like calling Christianity or Judaism a liberal religion. Variations in each reach across the spectrum. Some schools of Buddhism are narrow and formulaic. But, as have other faiths, Buddhism changed to meet the needs of each new culture — from the Indian subcontinent east to Burma, Thailand and Cambodia, and then north to Tibet, and finally China, Korea and Japan.
That wasn't really final, though. Buddhism is today becoming a significant, evolving Western religion, with more than a million followers in the United States. By just about any measure, there are far more Buddhists in the U.S. than Unitarian Universalists. And, as with UUism, Western Buddhism is struggling to define itself. When I asked my friend Ananda (Peace Paul), a Pure Land Buddhist minister in Hawaii, what he thought Western Buddhism would look like, he advised me to wait a century or two for the answer.
But we Buddhists sure do argue about it — with equanimity and non-attachment, of course. Or maybe not all the time. My own Buddhist path is Dzogchen, as taught by Lama Surya Das. Part of my attraction to Dzogchen is its nonsectarian nature, incorporating teachings from almost any Buddhist school, as well as from Christianity and other religions. Our roots are in Tibet, but we chant and pray in English and Pali as well Tibetan.
All this has been a long introduction to the article below from today's New York Times. In it, Robert Wright, author of Why Buddhism Is True, while responding to criticism of his book, explains much of what I find comforting in Buddhism. And how my Buddhism helps me retain equanimity and non-attachment in the face of what, for me, is a looming potential desecration of Unitarian Universalist principles.
Copyright 2017 © Mel Harkrader Pine
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The two old Lancashire clubs face wildly different situations with the same threatening conclusion: expulsion from the Football League. Is there an easy fix to any of this?
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"The current situation cannot continue." Within the statement released by the EFL on Saturday, in response to Bury owner Steve Dale accepting a takeover in principle, are five words that mean so much to so many in such different situations.
The current situation cannot continue for the EFL, who have been embarrassed by the travails of Bury – now heartbreakingly expelled from the Football League after a proposed takeover from C&N Sporting Risk collapsed – and their near-neighbours Bolton. With it, they become the first team to drop out since Maidstone liquidated in 1992. Now, only 23 teams will continue in League One this season.
This cannot continue for the many, many other clubs who are effectively insolvent and simply limping from one month to the next, often in arrears, frequently in debts of seven or eight figures.
It cannot continue for the players; either the dedicated Bury seniors who had to turn up for training every day without pay, or the wildly overpromoted and regularly hammered Bolton academy kids, including the ones who had the day off last week to collect their GCSE results. And it cannot continue for the fans, alternating between being worried to tears that their clubs may disappear and being moved to threatening anger at those who would hold up their sale.
But anyone can say Something Should Be Done. The grown-up question is: what?
Trial and errors
Like most things, including but not restricted to the EFL, the current system is less tried and tested than trial and error, with emphasis on the latter. The EFL are frequently the battered and bruised hostages to fortune of the Law of Unintended Consequences. They come up with an idea that seems logical, even forward-thinking, until the brutal ramifications of reality smack them repeatedly in the face.
Take for a moment the lower-league knockout competition originally known as the Associate Members' Cup, which has bounced through a series of sponsors from Freight Rover to Checkatrade and is now on its dozenth official title as the Leasing.com Trophy. Five years ago it was dying on its arse amid overwhelming public indifference to anything but the later rounds. There's nothing new there: your correspondent was among a club record-breakingly low 1,507 attendees for Bolton's Autoglass Trophy game against Rochdale in December 1991.
But in an attempt to drive up interest, and to introduce the stars of tomorrow to a man's game, the League decided it would be nice to invite the country's top academy teams into the tournament. It would, they thought, test their mettle away from the unreal atmosphere of training ground matches against peers by facing seasoned pros in front of real audiences, some of whom might be Big Club fans tempted down to the local ground for the first time in ages.
Except the Big Clubs didn't buy into it, any more than the uproarious lower-league fans offended that they should be positioned as patsies for well-heeled kindergartens. Manchester City and Tottenham politely declined to join in until 2017, Arsenal 2018, Liverpool and Manchester United just this season. Forced to lower the entry bar, the EFL had to rely on somewhat less crowd-pulling names like Blackburn, Reading, Stoke and Norwich.
Meanwhile, the idea had formed that one reason for poor attendances was managers "disrespecting the competition" by rotating their own squads for this minor competition. So to make sure fans got value for money, a well-meaning rule was passed restricting managers from making too many changes. The combined, unintended consequence thereof was that lower-league managers were banned from promoting their own youth players for a competition that had become ridiculed as The One With The Second-Class Reserves.
Awaiting Peter Kay's taxi
Right now, the freewheeling dumpster fire of the EFL Trophy is a relatively minor concern even to the League itself. When the statement on Bury fretted once more about "the integrity of the competition", it wasn't talking permanently experimental midweek knockouts but the world's oldest professional football league.
Integrity is an intriguing word. Coming from the Latin integer ("untouched, unhurt, unchanged, intact, whole, entire, pure, honest"), it has come to have a double meaning in the wonderfully expressive language we call English. There's the one which relates to wholeness and reliability: you don't want a building without structural integrity. But there's also the one which relates to honesty and ethics: moral integrity is vital in a partner. Or a boss. Or an owner.
Purposefully or not, the EFL statement could be referring to either or both of these. The Bury situation has been a logistical omnishambles. Most League One clubs are already 10% of their way through the season, having played five games while Bury were yet to begin. If the season is a marathon not a sprint, most clubs have been nearing the three-mile marker while Bury were still trying to find their trainers.
Meanwhile, down the A58, fellow admin-dwellers Bolton were given permission on the eve of the season to sign three emergency senior players and start their campaign, with the understanding that the impending takeover was - to quote Peter Kay's taxi office – "just turning the corner of your street now". Since then, Bolton have been forced to field a desperate selection of under-ripened Academy teenagers, all of whom have been heroic and some of whom may well defy the prevailing statistical odds to make a living from football.
But reality has started to bite, or perhaps more accurately, to maul. After a stirring opening loss at Wycombe followed by an astonishing 0-0 at home to Coventry, the wee Wanderers even went 2-1 up at Rochdale in the League Cup, but then collapsed to a 5-2 loss. Then lost 5-0 at Tranmere. Then 5-0 at home to Ipswich. And the taxi still hasn't arrived.
How to irk an entire division
During that time, an exhausted Bolton have incurred the wrath of Doncaster and the EFL, not to mention the risk of further points deduction by unilaterally postponing a midweek game. This has only intensified the questioning chorus which asks why the EFL has treated these two clubs – eight miles apart on the southern slopes of the West Pennine Moors, where wild Lancashire countryside gives way to the Mancunian conurbation – so differently.
Fans of League One clubs have asked a number of inter-related questions. Bolton fans wonder why their club has been forced to flog its kids to possible injury and certain defeat while the other squad rests up. Bury fans asked why their club faced ejection while Bolton were waved serenely past the bouncers. Fans of clubs hammering Bolton have wondered what happens to their points and goal difference – won without prejudice or malice, because you can only play what's put in front of you – if the Trotters should go under. Fans of clubs that should have faced Bury asked if it's fair that they don't get to play the Shakers ahead of a post-takeover recruitment spree. Fans of non-participating clubs have wondered whether it's fair that their potential promotion or relegation rivals essentially get a free hit at cowering kids. As one Tranmere fan asked, what if their 5-0 win helps them stay up on goal difference?
At this point, the dual meaning of integrity elides from wholeness to unwholesomeness. Whichever way you look at it, it's not fair. But again, it may be the EFL suffering unintended consequences.
On the eve of the season, it seemed fairly obvious that Steve Dale no longer possessed the desire and ability to run Bury as a football club. Speculation as to his motives could go on endlessly, entertainingly and libellously, so let's just say it seemed to be in everyone's best interests to thrash out a divorce. Perhaps the Football League thought immediate suspension of the club's right to play would focus minds.
It didn't, the brinksmanship continued, and the League were forced to up the threat past suspension to expulsion: on August 8, Bury were given a fortnight to prove themselves solvent or leave the League. That did eventually work, or so it seemed at the time: on Friday night, an (almost literal) 11th-hour bid from data firm C&N Sporting Risk – including Rory Campbell, son of New Labour's Burnley-loving public-enlightenment guru Alastair Campbell, but also a former analytics advisor to West Ham – was given until 5pm on Tuesday, August 27 to prove its own structural integrity. They didn't like what they saw.
One way or another, the current situation cannot continue.
Terrible news for #BuryFC. Just received this from C&N Sporting Risk who had been working hard to try to take over club ... pic.twitter.com/pSivQZwh5F
— Henry Winter (@henrywinter) August 27, 2019
A black-tie deadline day
The EFL applied the same deadline to Bolton, although not with such immediate consequences. Bury were given until 5pm Tuesday to conclude a takeover and avoid losing membership of the League; Bolton missed the same deadline, but the EFL have given them 14 days to find a buyer or prove they have the funds to complete the season. If not, they too will be expelled from the English Football League. The two-week countdown clock begins.
As any journalist or student will know, the threat of a deadline can work. Accrington Stanley chairman Andy Holt, a vocal (but constructive) commentator on the unfolding madness 15 miles south of his club, says "it's a fact that resolution and agreement only comes when pressure is applied". But by that same rationale, he says, Bolton's administrators "are taking the piss… [they have] forever said a deal is close… managers [and] owners of other clubs are sick of what's happening."
While Bury spent August being given the tough-love treatment, Bolton were allowed a grace period which is now emphatically ending. In the run-up to that opening fixture at Wycombe, the Trotters' preferred-bidder potential owners Football Ventures had played the imminent-taxi card. Turning up at Adams Park, consortium leader Sharron Brittan was met by a local TV crew but the simple question was asked most pointedly (and repeatedly) by a fan, in a Boltonian accent broad enough to make Peter Kay sound like Jacob Rees-Mogg: "'Az it bin dun? 'Az it bin dun? Come on, 'az it bin dun?"
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— David Chisnall (@dchisnallITV) August 3, 2019
It still 'azn't, and the League has threatened to cancel the taxi. As the statement says: "Having been previously advised in writing on the morning of the start of the season that the deal was all but agreed and only awaiting completion signatures, there has been constant contradictory information and no finalisation of the deal."
The delay reasons are multiple. Chris Flanagan's FourFourTwo piece last week mentioned one: the unflushable Laurence Bassini. The former Watford owner's injunction against the club sale has since been effectively (if not unarguably) sidelined by legal delay, but he's still holding his impromptu roadside rallies. By now, most of those who attend do so to mock rather than praise, with many openly laughing at his claims like hecklers at Speakers' Corner; as he held the latest, a voice from a passing car hollered "Leave us alone, you mad bastard".
It's a plea which had already emanated, with language more moderate but no less passionate, by Phil Parkinson: "Mr Bassini, leave us alone, please leave us alone. Leave this great club alone to get on with building its future." But the future doesn't include Parkinson, who (along with his assistant Steve Parkin) has now walked away with head held high and fingers crossed from the smoking ruins of the club.
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In truth, Bassini is far from the only reason why the Bolton takeover has failed to complete. It has become clear that Football Ventures, while solvent enough to buy the club, are far from rich enough to make problems go away. One of these problems is the Bolton Whites Hotel, at the south end of what for most will forever be the Reebok Stadium (now the University of Bolton Stadium). Literally and financially interlinked with the club, the hotel was nevertheless placed under a separate administration, with separate administrators, and by a separate agent: controversial former BWFC owner Ken Anderson.
Anderson had tried to sell Wanderers to Bassini before the end of last season, but the club was put into administration by the Eddie Davies Trust (looking after the interests of - and debts to – the former benefactor's family) when fine words failed to materialise into hard cash. As a secured creditor, Anderson put the hotel into administration too. Now there is not only a double administration to get out of, but an impasse between Anderson, the Trust and Michael James – the Bolton fan behind Football Ventures, and the man who has apparently been stumping up sums to make sure staff get paid.
It seems there is longstanding enmity between James and the Eddie Davies camp, which doesn't help. But neither does Ken. Football Ventures are preferred bidders for the club, but the viability of their package depends on the hotel. The hotel administrators Quantuma are duty-bound to accept the best bid for the hotel on behalf of secured creditors like Anderson. According to a press release from club administrators David Rubin & Partners, both deals were ready to be signed on Friday by all except Anderson, who then seems to have changed his demands. Anderson, as you might expect, quickly denied this and blamed the Eddie Davies camp.
To use the descriptive image painted by diligent local reporter Marc Iles, who admits he would be tearing his hair out if he had any left to grab, the three sides "have been locked in a Mexican stand-off for too long… It is high time egos are put to one side for a moment to consider what is at stake."
The current situation cannot continue.
Avoidance vs evasion
Faced with such an apparently intractable problem, the EFL apparently tired of waiting for its taxi and did the only thing that it could think of with Bury: to tap its watch and wave its fist. However, there is nothing the EFL can do about interlinked companies being under separate administrations: even if they tried to ban such arrangements for the sake of simplicity, the megamoney at stake in football means that clubs would find a way around it.
For example, see another unintended consequence of the EFL's well-meaning rules. Few would dispute that clubs need to have their spending monitored and controlled – it's at least part of the reason Bury and Bolton are in trouble, and clubs don't go into administration for the perks. Or rather, they don't since the League introduced a mandatory points penalty for "insolvency events", to deter clubs who had sought the pence-in-the-pound pay-offs as a way to clear debts quickly before bouncing back with a clean bill of health.
But back to the League's financial management rules, commonly called Financial Fair Play but actually termed Profitability & Sustainability for Championship clubs, Salary Cost Management Protocol for Leagues One and Two. With the EFL trying to cut down on unsustainable wage bills, particularly in England's second tier, they have tightened the limits.
Have the clubs responded by tightening their purse strings? No, some have taken to circumventing the ceilings – legally, but questionably – by the owners buying the ground from the club for a large dowry and a peppercorn rent. Among the proud landowners are Sheffield Wednesday owner Dejphon Chansiri, who shelled out £38m for Hillsborough, and Derby owner Mel Morris, who ponied up £80m for Pride Park.
This may seem a wonderful wheeze, but it's dangerous short-termism: a card which can only be played once and takes the club's main asset out of its hands. We have seen several examples – Coventry, Oxford and more – of clubs being hamstrung by what they see as excessive charges from landlords. Morris and Chansiri have been unimpeachably passionate supporters, but what happens if someone in a similar situation goes rogue and no longer has the club's best interests at heart?
Furthermore, what happens if a truly malevolent owner, with eyes only on real estate, buys the club merely to own the land, and to hell with football? Legal discretion suggests names are best left unsaid but students of football history will know how that one has played out, all too often.
Holt: end it
Derby and Sheffield Wednesday are chasing the Premier League gravy train, but down at humble Accrington, Andy Holt has much more realistic aims. "All supporters tell me that all they want is a sustainable club, that can, win, lose, draw, get promoted, get relegated, without going bust," he says. "They can take the ups and downs, all part of a Saturday. Surely this isn't too much to ask?"
For Holt, the blame lies with hubristic owners overstretching the clubs they're in charge of – threatening their existence by gambling with financial futures. "It's owners that take the risk, not supporters. If [previous Bury owner] Stewart Day had asked his supporters whether they wanted him to overspend and risk their club, the answer would have been 'Never risk our club for short-term gain'."
As unpopular as financial restraints can be, Holt insists the EFL has a duty to impose them - and indeed tighten them up. "Our regulation has to match what the vast majority of supporters want and not what a few over-excited, over ambitious owners want. This can be regulated for. But if we only listen to owners, we have no hope of resolving the real issues of clubs, supporters and communities being battered into oblivion by gambling owners. And that's either their owners gambling and failing, or other owners gambling and disadvantaging any non-gambling club. That's what the EFL review has to resolve. Will it achieve this? I doubt it, but I will definitely be trying."
Laurel and Harvey
As the summer has worn on, there has been a notable toughening of the EFL's language and stance. It's always a risk to ascribe this to one person, but it's worth noting that in June, Debbie Jevans CBE finally wrenched the reins of control from Shaun Harvey.
The controversial former chief exec was inextricably linked with various EFL PR disasters, from the Sky deal which almost caused a breakaway of Championship clubs, via the ongoing circus of the Carabao Cup draws, to the EFL Trophy changes for which he morphed from cheerleader to Comical Ali spin doctor. (He also assured Bolton fans earlier this year that the future was bright under Ken Anderson, who'd done a great job. You'd think Harvey would be able to smell administration coming, considering he'd presided over two during his time at Bradford and two more when he was at Leeds.)
Harvey's exit was announced in February by Jevans, whose quotes were a masterclass in passive aggression. The EFL, she said, "would like to thank Shaun for all he has delivered since joining as CEO in 2013," almost inviting listeners to add "whatever that may be". Then came the dagger, before the bunch of wilted flowers: "Shaun and the board have agreed that the time is now right for a change of leadership and a new direction. We are pleased that Shaun has agreed to stay on until the end of the season." Pleased, you note, not delighted. You can hear the teeth gritting together.
With Harvey leaving town to join a different circus somewhere and a replacement CEO as yet unappointed, Jevans has become the default leader – not something unusual for the former Grand Slam circuit tennis player who has previously had top organising roles for the 2012 Olympics and the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Under Jevans, the EFL have started to take a tougher line, and not just in the imposition of deadlines. As last week wore on toward Bury's deadline, the EFL announced what-next plans for if Bury left the league: three clubs rather than four relegated from League One, still four clubs promoted, and the Shakers would have to ask the FA to rejoin lower down the pyramid. The timing and tone was reminiscent of the mysterious business associate casually opening his jacket to reveal the previously hidden fire-arm.
Jevans has also displayed a determination to stop such things happening again which goes beyond sympathy and hand-wringing. She acknowledged to Marc Iles that the much-derided (but actually misnamed) fit and proper persons test was insufficient: "The Owners' And Directors' Test shows that a person can run a business in company law but we need to look at what we can do outside of that." The current situation cannot continue.
Rogues' parade
Which brings us back to the issue of "what we can do". It may not be Jevans that's doing the doing – as the search for a permanent chief exec goes on – but she will not enjoy seeing founder members expire on her watch.
"I understand this will be a deeply upsetting and devastating time for Bury's players, staff, supporters and the wider community," she said of the Shakers. "There is no doubt today's news will be felt across the entire football family."
For now, all the EFL has is the deadline and the threat. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Jevans admits the differing approaches at Bury – where the aim was to squeeze out Dale and force a sale – and Bolton didn't work, but still backs the thinking: "The two situations were very different because Bury are owned by an individual whereas Bolton are being run by administrators."
Even so, the attitude has changed, and Bolton too are now under a ticking clock. Most Trotters fans are happy for the EFL to introduce a timeline ("AZITBINDUN?") but the trouble with going public and setting deadlines – perhaps rushing what should be a considered process – is that it doesn't always attract the right people. It can attract pipe-dreamers and evil schemers. It can encourage those who would gamble the farm on near-future success, and those slash-and-burn capitalists who would quite happily see businesses go to the wall as long as there's a short-term bob or two in it for them.
Bury recognised the rogues' parade. They enjoyed double promotions in 1996 and 1997 via the chequebook of Hugh Eaves, a millionaire chartered accountant who later confessed to misspending the funds he was managing. By 2002, Bury were in admin and slipping into the bottom tier, a pain eclipsing even that of seeing their local rivals Bolton establish themselves in the Premier League. And as ever in football finance, the repercussions were wider than the Gigg Lane pitch.
A humble proposal
One thing the EFL might want to consider, although it would be a huge ask, is abolishing the football creditor rule which protects players of dying clubs and makes sure they get their full payout. As with low-interest mortgages (loans made specifically on property, thereby inevitably causing goods-specific inflation), it's common-sense economics: if a contract is inviolable, it may live to outlast the conditions in which it was signed.
This is not to say that contract law is an inherently bad thing: down the decades it has protected many vulnerable workers who would otherwise be at the caprice of the staff-owning class. But it is surely ridiculous and unfair when the rules are applied unevenly. At an insolvent club, administrators cannot make players – easily the most expensive wage-earners – redundant, so they have to chip away around the edges.
This usually means stiffing those who do not come under the 'football creditors' rule. Inevitably, this means short-changing local businesses, including charities – St John's Ambulance always end up on the losing side – and loyal club staff working for buttons. Non-football creditors may get as little as 10p in the pound; club staff may get shown the door.
When Bury went into admin in 2002, the administrators had to lay off dozens of people – from laundry assistants to receptionists – but they couldn't even consider asking the players to accept a settlement, let alone redundancy. They still can't. Meanwhile, protesting club stalwarts are bicycle-locking themselves to drainpipes. The current situation cannot continue.
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Other onlookers have made their own suggestions. One well-meaning thought was that clubs should never be owned by one person, in case they turn out to be a bad 'un. That's an understandable fear, but an impractical suggestion. Yes, the German model of 50+1 works well for the Bundesliga, but it's entrenched in German culture as well as structure.
Besides which, how would you go about implementing that at clubs that are healthily, successfully run by one-man bands? As Bolton and Bury have discovered, it's hard enough to find one prospect with the right combination of wallet, ego and determination to run a club; collecting more than one of these characters and convincing them to work in concert might be an impossible ask. Even if it could be achieved, it's tempting to think that it would make clubs less stable rather than more so, with backbiting, divisions, empire-building and more reshuffles than the average Italian government.
Others have loudly protested that no club should be able to start a season in administration. Accrington's Andy Holt has said that should be the norm from now on, if it were up to him: "No club unfit to start a season would ever be allowed to. They'd be expelled before a ball is kicked. Same rules for EVERY club."
This solution certainly has the advantage of cleanliness. It might even smack of common sense. What it doesn't have is consistency. From 1999 to 2013, clubs started the season in admin on 13 occasions: Palace (1999), QPR (2001), Barnsley (2003), Leicester (2003), Bradford (2004), Wrexham (2005), Boston (2007), Stockport (2009), Portsmouth (2010), Plymouth (2011), Portsmouth again (2012), Port Vale (2012) and Coventry (2013). The reasons for those administrations are as varied as the clubs' paths since – you'll notice that some have gone into non-league, others to the Champions League. Had that rule been in place, they might all have been phoenix clubs at best, memories at worst. And we would have a very different Football League.
An age-old problem
It is, indeed, a marvel that no clubs have been thrown out of the 92 since, well, 1992, when Aldershot and Maidstone United both kicked the bucket. Several have come close, and some have recovered to thrive. Excepting the above season-starters, administration entrants have include Bournemouth, Hull, Derby, Leeds, Luton and Southampton, illustrating that a spell on the naughty step needn't lead to everlasting trouble.
But the question has to be asked how long clubs can survive when living beyond their means: in the past decade, a quarter of EFL clubs have faced liquidation. Rory Smith, former FourFourTwo contributor turned chief soccer correspondent for the New York Times, this week dared to wonder whether perhaps 92 professional clubs, plus a dozen or so in non-league, was too many for the country to support.
Some reacted with shock, but with all due respect to Rory, this was far from a new suggestion. Back in the 1960s, Brentford chairman Jack Dunnett discussed a merger with QPR's Jim Gregory. Nothing came of that and Dunnett was chased out of town but took over at Notts County and spent much of the 1980s as Football League president, and his opinion hadn't changed: that failing clubs should be allowed to die, that via the calculatedly inoffensive euphemism of "natural wastage" the League would slim down to 90, 80 or maybe even 70 clubs – and that this would in no way be a bad thing.
Perhaps, as Rory suggests, some clubs might have to go semi-pro. It seems a counterintuitive proposal when more and more non-league clubs are seeking advantage by going full-time, but perhaps that's part of the problem: chasing the unattainable via the unsustainable.
In May, writer Daniel Storey compiled a list of clubs who had been late paying players. Besides Bolton and Bury (but of course), these included Oldham, Oxford, Macclesfield, Reading and Southend – and that's just the clubs at which the embarrassing news emerged. Increasingly, clubs are living hand-to-mouth, without enough liquidity to safely see through the week or month. At least in that way, they're showing a commonality with some of their fans.
Cash-to-crash
The 2008 financial crisis is more than half of Jadon Sancho's life ago, but not everybody has recovered. Low wage rises – we're in it together, you know – combined with ludicrous inflation of accommodation cost (either the average mortgage outgoing or the rent which inevitably follows it as an economic rule) has left more people with less money in their pocket. The cash they – we – have must be divvied up ever more carefully, in some cases desperately so: it's not just Bolton's unpaid staff who have been forced to rely on foodbanks. In times like these, suddenly £23 to watch Rotherham doesn't feel like a sensible option. Sorry, Millers, nothing personal.
Such financial uncertainty affects lots of different people, including those you might assume are on the other side of the fence. The very reason Steve Dale was invited to buy Bury was the financial trouble of former owner Stewart Day, a property developer affected by Brexit, Grenfell and what he claimed was the unwillingness of banks to lend to small companies like his.
Instead, Day borrowed from peer-to-peer lending services, so when one collapsed and his companies followed suit, the suffering investors were not faceless suits but ordinary people – buy-to-let couples, retirement lump-sum investors, parents who'd hoped to get their offspring through the spiralling expense of a university education by buying a student flat and then selling it on again.
Meanwhile, Bury were throwing money about like a man with no arms, assembling a squad they now literally can't afford to pay in order to target promotion from the fourth tier. It worked until it didn't. They were promoted at Tranmere on April 30 but have only played one game since: their closing home game with Port Vale. It was supposed to be a celebratory finale to the season, not the valedictory victory lap of a club soon to die.
With what can now be seen as dramatic foreshadowing, the BBC match report's second mention of Bury is "the cash-strapped Shakers". Only the most pessimistic of the 6,700 fans at Gigg Lane that day could have suspected it might be the club's final fixture. But then, not many fans are aware of the economists' analogy of a brick on elastic. It may be that the twanging we hear is not heartstrings, but the unavoidable result of years of irresponsible overspending.
Bury and Bolton will not be the last on deathwatch. The current situation cannot continue.
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'1% excise on non-silver jewellery will stay'
Earlier this month, the finance ministry had clarified that if the turnover of a jeweller during the preceding financial year was more than Rs 12 crore, he would be liable to pay the excise duty.
He said clear instructions had been issued to field officers that no inspector will enter the premises of jewellery makers because there is provision of self-certification.
NEW DELHI Union finance minister Arun Jaitely stood firm on the government's plan to impose 1% excise duty on non-silver jewellery, saying the measure was aimed at linking gold with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) which he hoped would be rolled out soon.
Replying to the debate on the Budget in Lok Sabha, the FM made it clear that the duty was not applicable on small traders and the government would ensure that tax officials did not harass jewellers.
Also read: Jewellers lost 20% of business after government's PAN mandate
Several lawmakers, allies and the opposition had mounted pressure on Jaitley to roll back the duty. Jewellers across the country had downed shutters for several days demanding a rollback.
"The day we get your (Congress) blessing, GST will be implemented. Then all goods will come under GST and it is natural that gold will also be included. This (1% excise duty proposal) is a preparation towards it," Jaitley told Lok Sabha. "Nobody will be harassed," he said.
The 1% levy on non-silver articles would be imposed on jewellers with Rs 12 crore turnover in the previous year and in coming years whose turnover would be Rs 6 crore or more. "This will be applicable only on principal traders and not manufacturers. There are clear instructions," said Jaitley.
Several lawmakers who participated in the debate demanded a rollback of the duty saying small jewellers would be hurt. NDA ally Shiv Sena also demanded that the levy be rolled back. Jaitley in his 2016-17 budget imposed an excise duty of 1% (without input tax credit, and 12.5% with input tax credit) on jewellery.
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Spotlight - East Middlesbrough Platinum FC
North Riding FA highlights the work of a fantastic club in developing disability football locally.
East Middlesbrough Platinum are an Adult Pan Disability team.
We spoke to their coach, Dave, about the club.
Why did you want to set up your club?
I set up the club because I wanted to keep playing disabled football and pass on what I've learnt to others, I wanted to give younger disabled people the opportunity to play football and achieve success.
How did you recruit for your session?
I recruited through word of mouth and on social media platforms such as Facebook. Mostly it was through conversations with disabled people and friends.
What impact has this activity had on your club and its participants?
The biggest impact I think it's had been that not only have the players become close friends and support each other in everyday life as well as on the pitch, but the confidence of several players has improved incredibly. They believe in themselves a lot more than when they first joined and that is the biggest thrill for me as a Manager.
Do you have any top tips for other clubs looking at setting up a disability team?
Biggest tip I can give is don't set up a team or a club with the view of winning at all cost. Set up a club with the values and views of playing the game right and having fun. Teach the players the values of hard work and determination and respect for others. Winning may come it may not but the best thing you can do for your players is give them the chance to enjoy themselves.
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Border backs Australia to keep building momentum
Australia's knack for grinding out wins despite not playing at their best is helping them build momentum for a strong tilt at the World Cup title, former skipper Allan Border has said, reports hindustantimes.com.
Defending champions Australia beat Pakistan by 41 runs in Taunton on Wednesday to seal their third victory in four games at the tournament, with their only defeat coming against India on Sunday.
A struggling middle order and a lack of support for the main pace duo of Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins have emerged as Australia's main concerns in the early days of the World Cup, but the team are currently second in the overall standings.
"Australia aren't playing at their best but they are winning matches. That's the way I saw the win over Pakistan," Border wrote in a column for the International Cricket Council.
"In the early stages of the World Cup, you want to be right amongst the pacesetters after four rounds and Australia very much are.
"They are building nicely and all the teams will feel the total package is still in them. They'll talk about being relentless and consistent... and they can create momentum for some of the big teams they still have to play."
Border added that Australia should consider using Steve Smith to shore up their bowling attack and backed the 30-year-old to use his leg-spin to good effect.
"The fifth, and even the fourth, bowling option is looking like a slight concern for them," Border said. "I think they should look at Steve Smith having a bowl, I really do."
"Leg spin takes wickets and whether it's Adam Zampa coming back in or Smith trying a bit of his spin, that should improve the attack dramatically."
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The onetime spokesman for Warren Jeffs has filed a $100-million lawsuit against the polygamous sect leader, saying Jeffs asked him to falsify church records and arranged a break-in at his excavating business when he refused.
The lawsuit offers a window into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the reportedly vicious politics of Jeffs, who was recently sentenced to life in prison in Texas for sexually assaulting two young girls whom he said were his spiritual brides.
Former sect spokesman Willie Jessop said in court papers that Jeffs asked him last year to put a letter containing false information in church records, which the sect considers sacred, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. The letter was intended to cast doubt on allegations that Jeffs had married two different underage girls in Texas.
Jessop said he knew the information in the letter was false and refused to add it to the records, according to the lawsuit. In response, Jeffs had him excommunicated and demanded he leave the sect's enclave, which straddles the Utah-Arizona border. Jessop wouldn't budge.
In April, Jessop said in court papers, someone broke into his excavating business and stole computers, hard drives and other files, the Tribune reported. Jessop blamed Jeffs and his associates. Jeffs is well-known for aggressive acts of retaliation, including expelling hundreds of teenagers -- the so-called "Lost Boys" -- reportedly to reduce competition for the sect's women.
A few months after the alleged break-in, Jeffs was sentenced to prison in Texas. He remains the sect's leader, however, and recently ordered members to hand over their personal possessions to church officials, who'd determine if they're worthy of getting them back.
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C-DIFF advice from experience Omega 3: The answer to so much!
Had CDiff 2 years ago. The enzymes cured it for me. Now I have contracted something similar from the hospital where I work, but have finally conquered that too.
This latest chronic diarrhea issue seems to be coming from the air and the water, believe it or not. Anyway, my solution is simple..... COLLOIDAL SILVER.
1. Drink 1/2 to 1 oz. everyday.
2. Gargle thoroughly (spit out) at least once per day.
3. Use the silver as nose drops or nasal spray frequently.
The attack here must be on the sinuses, as that is the true source of the problem.
Silver is working for me, and I am actually completely cured now.
I buy the silver from Utopia online. Really good deal at this moment from Utopia. Half price. I plan to get 4 more on Friday.
The 3 items above are my COMPLETE answer for CDIFF.
A Probiotic Formula to support a healthy digestive function!
This is imperative for ideal absorption and utilization of nutrients!
Everyone I know is feeling "sick" somehow. In addition to C-Diff, I have seen so many problems originating in the sinuses, mucous causing every kind of problem thereafter, especially digestive. Below may help you with all the "thereafter" as it did me.
All humans need this now! Badly!
"This medication may rarely cause a severe intestinal condition (Clostridium Difficile associated diarrhea) due to a type of resistant bacteria."
I stopped the antibiotic and began to get well!!!!! Can you believe that what the doctor gave me to treat it was actually causing it to continue??? God.
called Jarrow-dophilus (Vitacost.com) but you need extra Acidophilus then.
Diet is equally as important as the nutrition from supplements. Probiotic (enzymes) are the most important treatment of all! And the minerals help a lot.
Pig Pak from Youngevity, your 90 essential nutrients.
There it is, folks. The simple solution that works!
The following is what I was hoping would finally work but never did! Instead, it created pure hell on earth.
Flagyl (metronidazole) 250mg every 4 hours (Vancomycin did not work! It does not work on this!!!!!) Frequency matters here! NOT every 12 hours! (Now I say never take it for more than the first 2 weeks!!!, regardless what the doctor says).
It can take a year to eliminate, so don't despair. The earlier you catch and treat it the less time it takes. But nearly always takes a 2nd 2-week prescription at the very least. I was on Vancomycin for 3 months without success. It just got worse. Switching to Flagyl has helped but for the nausea, but only for a week and then it began to get much much worse! I am back again to ground 0 even with the Flagyl, so obviously I don't have the answer!
Intravenous vancomycin has proven not to work very well at all. Capsules are better.
C-DIFF is not contagious after the 3rd day of antibiotics (Flagyl), so they say. This according to the team of digestive disease associates. The infectious disease specialist says this is not true, and that it can always be contagious. I do agree with him. But I query him since he could not understand how the spores could create a situation where the 3rd stool specimen in a row was the only one positive. He didn't understand the 'pockets' that are causing such a holocaust in me! He even said I must just wait until something else was invented.
Note: I will probably need to add another capsule or 2 of only acidophilus because this has only 4.4 billion and Bio-K plus has 50 billion organisms. But maybe 2 of these will be enough and I won't need much more acidophilus. But even with both it is cheaper this way.
Oh yes, also I found the enzymes that include ox bile, betaine, pancreatin, papain, pepsin and bromelain to be very bad for me. They wouldn't stay down for more than 5 minutes! So READ your ingredients!
If you have a day when you feel really really toxic and sick, Oscillococcinum flu remedy helps a lot. Available at most drugstores.
Hyland's "Carbo Vegetabalis" homeopathic tablet. Healthfood stores carry these.
Hyland's Chelidonium helps the washing machine churning effect.
I found it most definitely helps to avoid gluten, too. Diet is equally important as the pills you take!!!
WASH HANDS... WASH HANDS... WASH HANDS!
Plain old hand soap is best, antibacterial or alcohol based cleaner doesn't kill C-Diff or MRSA.
It spreads or even REINFECTS from hands, yours or someone else's, everytime a toilet is used without washing hands... hands to food to mouth.
C-Diff takes 3 times around of stool samples to prove or disprove its presence. One negative does not mean the next day won't be positive. (If the first is positive, the next 2 aren't necessary, of course). Quickest test in a HOSPITAL LAB, not Quest Diagnostics! That took me 3 weeks to get the results and by that time the bug had migrated stronger, as well as being infectious in the meantime.
Views differ about it being airborne. It is only airborne at a diarrhea explosion or flushing your toilet after one. This I believe truly, and that it is always contagious and can re-infect you over and over again that way. It can drift out onto your clothes and body. Close your toilet lid before flushing. And wash your clothes often. Certainly wash your hands every time. Then clean your toilet seat with Chlorox wipes and pour more Lysol POWER disinfectant with bleach into your toilet bowl. Also use the chlorox blue cake for the toilet water tank.
MRSA is airborne and can be prevented by TEA TREE OIL in nostrils regularly. But I have opinions of a digestive disease team of doctors, an infectious disease specialist, and a very experienced nurse which differ. Doctors say it is not airborne. The nurse who has worked with it says it is, as is the opinion of another nurse I know. You are going to have to find out more elsewhere, I'm afraid. Oh yes, the world's expert, Youngevity's own Doc Ed, says that it is always contagious. And I believe him completely.
So... I just wish you luck. You will need it!
Chlorox wipes for toilet seats.
Lysol POWER disinfectant with BLEACH for toilet bowls.
Those are the ONLY two that work.
Don't miss any doses of Bio-K plus or your minerals.!
Good luck, I hope this works for you, as I wouldn't wish my ordeal on anyone. But I am now no longer resigned to the fact it is killing me at 66. To my knowledge, I have no other options. If you do, please oh please contact me! Below is email address.


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Burntburgers on December 29, 2022 at 12:50 am
I love how the Liberals give up their rights so easily
danielangel vega on December 29, 2022 at 12:52 am
Wow,these gun owners ARE FAT !!!!! They protect [themselves]from diabetes or high cholesterol [WHO can they protect with a gun] ? … we all know they molest children and animals ,am I right,🤔
Diaz Army on December 29, 2022 at 12:54 am
4 more years
Flying V on December 29, 2022 at 12:54 am
Washington Compost 😃
I. Lewis on December 29, 2022 at 12:56 am
country is built on genocide. we are illegal lmfao
Luke 18:13 on December 29, 2022 at 12:56 am
They should make a Trump gillie. Just one big gold, wavy in many directions gillie. It would be very effective trying to hide in soros's vault.
Frances Marshall on December 29, 2022 at 12:57 am
Thank you President Trump for defending our Second Amendment & National Anthem! Godbless our troops and God be with my son as he serves in the United States Navy!
NuclearQuantumLasersPewPewPew on December 29, 2022 at 12:57 am
Echo, echo, wait what? Wait what? Hold on.. Hold on.. Is the second voice in my head? Is the second voice in my head? Who said that!?! Who sai….. (Rest of this message was deleted with 40,000 emails… And a island).
Montgomery on December 29, 2022 at 12:58 am
I'm glad I voted for President Trump, Americans first, immigrants second, illegals never!
Immortalkalashnikov on December 29, 2022 at 12:58 am
To quote President Trump, "Come and Take It". God I am so fucking glad this man won over Hillary Clinton.
Manyo Lagos on December 29, 2022 at 12:59 am
Very nice dance after the speech .. kudos
cup cack on December 29, 2022 at 1:01 am
Build that wall make it tall underneath land mines so the Mexicans can not crawl
William Ohe on December 29, 2022 at 1:01 am
Mario S on December 29, 2022 at 1:03 am
The biggest mistake in American history..
Drain the swamp lol
What a bunch of idiots.. that believe anything that this clown says
I have the best people 😂
How stupid do you have to be
M N on December 29, 2022 at 1:05 am
Trump keeps getting better!!
Thank You Mr.President 🇺🇸🦅
Bon Appetit on December 29, 2022 at 1:07 am
Fuck the NRA and fuck guns!
Tonee B on December 29, 2022 at 1:13 am
i can't believe a president can be more retarded than this. every other country in the world laughs at him and mocks him for good reason. well good luck usa….
Proverbs 1:7 on December 29, 2022 at 1:13 am
You're looking at a two-term president right there!
Chemo Boy - DannyPheleps on December 29, 2022 at 1:14 am
They have gun control there at the trump speech though?
hahahaha what hypocrites.
trump gets to be safe from guns but not your kids… ?
Joshua Smith on December 29, 2022 at 1:14 am
He has made America great again!
TheWh1teWolf on December 29, 2022 at 1:15 am
My wife Just got me an NRA membership for our anniversary!! Now I got to pay it foward and get my brother and dad one!!
WE STAND W THE NRA!!
Brady Meelker on December 29, 2022 at 1:15 am
The videos audio is crap come on washington post
Aleks Dyskin on December 29, 2022 at 1:16 am
The best US President ever.
Mark Cruz Jr. on December 29, 2022 at 1:16 am
Beautiful speech beautiful president so glad I'm on the RIGHT side of history ✌🏽
Tallacus on December 29, 2022 at 1:16 am
I want a well trained populace, where everyone is always carrying, you watch crime will go down instead of up like in Chicago. An armed society is a polite society, I want the president himself to be open carry as well
Genghis Khan Wei on December 29, 2022 at 1:16 am
For those of You..you relish Trump's constant Lying..His trashing of Black Men..The Handicapped..Those of you who are delighting in his Whoredom and Adulterous activitys..Those of You Who love THIS LIAR,,,THIS MAN OF SIN…This is Your Destiny;👉👉👉 According to the Early Church Father John Chrysostom, one such antichrist, commonly understood to rise in power in the last days and often associated with the "little horn" in the Prophet Daniel's final vision and the "Man of sin" in Paul the Apostle's Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, [5] is explained by Paul as follows:
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his mouth, annihilating him by the manifestation of his coming. The coming of the lawless one is apparent in the working of Satan, who uses all power, signs, lying wonders, and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false, so that all who have not believed the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned.[6
twijayamail on December 29, 2022 at 1:17 am
New level of evil created
tip pullthemnow on December 29, 2022 at 1:20 am
This old fake orange corrupt idiot . A fucking coward when it came in defending this country in war. Shove that gun up his furry Neanderthal ass
JW Piranesi on December 29, 2022 at 1:22 am
puuppet clown
All the Trumpanizes are rattling their cages
danielvincentkelley on December 29, 2022 at 1:23 am
As this piece of garbage pays lip service to the 2nd Amendment, I want you to remember folks, this sack of garbage sat beside Diane Feinstein and said he prefers to "take the guns early, due process later…" which EXACTLY VIOLATES US Citizens RIGHT to DUE PROCESS, that our firearms be THIEVED without a conviction. That is EXACTLY THE ORDER OF TYRANNY HISTORICALLY, Hitler, Mao, Stalin they all picked and chose ARBITRARILY who would and would not be allowed to have arms. Bear this in mind, he said this in the context of MANY STATES NOW ENACTING "LAWS" that DO EXACTLY THAT, thieve firearms without a conviction, without DUE PROCESS, merely on UNSUBSTANTIATED COMPLAINTS from CRONY CROOKS, the viciously corrupt pig force that Trump can't get their damn cocks out of his face and who he has made his de facto STANDING ARMY which The Founders stated explicitly is The Bane of Liberty, a Standing Army atop the ruins of The Militia.
Dom Tor on December 29, 2022 at 1:24 am
He loves guns, except at his events where they are forbidden. Or at any NRA event, where the are forbidden by the NRA.
John Michale on December 29, 2022 at 1:27 am
Whats the point of this
RyanMiller3039 on December 29, 2022 at 1:28 am
Stand and Fight
Jon on December 29, 2022 at 1:31 am
The world needs to boycott all American products and citizens..
Fuck America and Israel..
Let them burn
nik mxforever on December 29, 2022 at 1:33 am
Best President ever MAGA
Jose Puente on December 29, 2022 at 1:35 am
🐐
Scott Coraci on December 29, 2022 at 1:35 am
Next to the failing NEW YORK TIMES is THE WASHINGTON POST
Deadpan Barry on December 29, 2022 at 1:36 am
Love Trump greetings from Ireland.
j steele on December 29, 2022 at 1:38 am
I betcha I can't carry a gun into that rally? So, why all this B's about arming teachers. 18 can't drink beer but can buy 2 assault weapons and 1000+ rounds of ammunition? 1787 was a long time ago.
Mike Oprisi on December 29, 2022 at 1:39 am
Rough to listen too with that echo
g black on December 29, 2022 at 1:40 am
Trump is full of shit and the nra is full of cowards that need guns to feel tough ect!
copsuicide on December 29, 2022 at 1:43 am
fuck donald trump and everybody who stands with him hi how are you good morning
Stubs P on December 29, 2022 at 1:44 am
I can't stand all these pussy ass liberals your colors don't run
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WSTale » Celebrities » Jeremy Clarkson suffers loss on farm after Meghan Markle row
Jeremy Clarkson suffers loss on farm after Meghan Markle row
Jeremy Clarkson: The Sun issues apology over Markle column
Jeremy Clarkson, 62, told his fans on social media the piglet he brought home to his farm earlier this week had died today. The Clarkson's Farm star was dubbed a "proud dad" on Wednesday after she shared a picture of his new piglet announcing her arrival.
The heartwarming snap, which showed the TV star cradling the tiny farm animal, was captioned: "A piglet. Our first." (sic)
But things took a tragic turn earlier today as Jeremy shared a picture of the piglet seemingly sleeping on a bed of hay.
He simply announced: "She's died."
Fans of the Top Gear presenter rushed to the post's comments section to send him their condolences.
Iainlaurence said: "Sorry for your loss."
Supportingspecies_01 lamented: "Sho looked so happy and full of life in your arms." (sic)
I_bee_lalo simply commented: "I'm so sorry to hear that."
The sad update comes after Jeremy returned to social media weeks after his comments about Meghan sparked uproar amongst some readers.
Jeremy recently said he is "horrified" after "causing so much hurt" in a column he wrote in The Sun about the Duchess of Sussex.
More than 20,000 complaints had been made to the press regulator after the Grand Tour star wrote in December he "hated [Meghan] on a cellular level".
The column has now been removed from the publication's website and Jeremy took to Twitter to apologise last month.
In his message to followers on December 19 he described a reference he made to a scene in Game of Thrones as "clumsy".
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"I'm horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future," he said.
"In a column, I wrote about Meghan, I made a clumsy reference to a scene in Game of Thrones and this has gone down badly with a great many people."
The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), told BBC News the complaints were being assessed in accordance with its standard procedure.
Nearly 21,000 complaints were made to IPSO making it the organisation's most complained about article.
Jeremy's own daughter Emily Clarkson defended the Duchess, saying: "I want to make it very clear that I stand against everything my dad wrote about Meghan Markle."
Meanwhile, Jeremy and his beloved tractor will soon be returning to viewers' screens for the second series of Clarkson's Farm.
The first launched onto our screens in 2021, following the broadcaster as he attempted to run a 1,000 acre farm in the Cotswolds alongside a host of hilarious characters – all of whom are set to return, too.
The upcoming season will bring a "deeper insight into another year on Diddly Squat Farm.
"Jeremy aims to diversify, expanding his limited agricultural knowledge under the watchful eye of his no-nonsense team", Amazon previously teased.
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Wednesday, May. 11th, 2016
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Walk-ins are welcome. Details on the clinic are on their website.


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The Los Angeles Sparks will put their perfect home record on the line when they host the Eastern Conference-leading Washington Mystics on Sunday afternoon. The Sparks have won seven in a row overall and are 6-0 at Staples Center this season. Los Angeles, the defending WNBA Champions, started the season 2-2, but improved defensively and have won nine of their last ten including three in a row on their recent road trip out East. They will begin the day just 1.5 games behind West-leading Minnesota and will play the Lynx on July 6th. Nneka Ogwumike, the reigning WNBA MVP, recorded 21 points and nine rebounds in the win over Connecticut on Tuesday, while Chelsea Gray added 15 points and five assists. Candace Parker contributed 14 points with seven rebounds and five blocked shots. Gray has moved into the starting point guard position and has excelled after taking over for Kristi Toliver, who left Los Angeles to sign with Washington. The Sparks shoot the ball extremely well, ranking first in FG% (49.4) and second in three-point percentage (38.2).
Washington is two games ahead of the New York Liberty in the Eastern Conference and have won three in a row overall, but are just 3-3 on the road. The Mystics are coming off a 67-54 victory over New York on Thursday as Elena Delle Donne and reserve Ivory Latta scored 15 points apiece, while the starters combined to make only 10-of-41 shots from the field. The bench players came through for Washington, combining for 30 points on 11-of-27 shooting. Starting guard Tayler Hill was a horrendous 0-for-11 from the field including missing all six three-point attempts, but she managed to make all six of her free-throws. The Mystics will be meeting Los Angeles for the second of three meetings this season. Washington dropped the first game on May 19th at Staples Center 99-89 as they allowed L.A. to shoot 54.8% from the field and 10-of-21 from long range. Washington plays their next five games on the road.
The Sparks are on a roll right now and are terrific at home. The Mystics are struggling offensively, scoring nine points in the first quarter last time out. They managed to pull it out, but they won't get so lucky with Los Angeles. The Sparks roll.
Mystics are 7-2 ATS in their last 9 games playing on 2 days rest.
Mystics are 7-3-1 ATS in their last 11 road games.
Mystics are 6-13 ATS in their last 19 Sunday games.
Mystics are 2-7 ATS in their last 9 vs. Western Conference.
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Sparks are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games overall.
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Apple launches iPhone trade-in in Italy, coming to Australia later this week
Christian Zibreg on July 1, 2014
Last August, Apple Stores in the United States started accepting customers' older iPhones (iPhone 3G and up) in exchange for a credit redeemable against the purchase of a brand spanking new iPhone.
The iPhone trade-in has since expanded to Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany and has now gone live in Italy. Furthermore, the initiative is set to expand to Australia in the coming days.
Customers in Italy can now trade in their older iPhone model for an Apple Store Gift Card worth up to €220, which works out to about $300. Folks can then use the store credit towards the purchase of a new iPhone, helping bring upfront payment down to a more bearable level…
Part of Apple's existing iPhone Reuse and Recycle initiative, the trade-in promise to dispose of customers' iPhones in an environmentally sound manner rather than throw the devices away in landfills.
The iPhone trade-in was first communicated to Italian customers via Apple's free of charge Apple Store app for the iPhone and iPad. Well connected blogger Mark Gurman has learned that the iPhone trade-in will go live in Australia as soon as this week, with retail employee training down under now in full swing.
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You mean like you could give another person your tank and take theirs? That could work, but it might have to be a one and done type of deal.......otherwise, people would spilt for an rtsoft and jut keep swapping it to battle, so they would essentially have two for the price of one.
What if it makes it where you can only have one of each tank in your garage.
One type of tank per garage is what we have right now.......what are you going to do with more than one? Bigot still doesn't solve the tank sharing problem, which is the same as music piracy. Two people get something that only one paid for. One person could battle with an rtsoft all day, and then give it to his buddy for the night. Both could keep trading, and would essentially get two for the price of one.


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About the Author. Daniel Goleman: Docteur en psychologie, il a enseigné à Harvard et a été journaliste au New York Times. Ses livres sont aujourd'hui. L'Intelligence Emotionnelle 1 by Daniel Goleman, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Buy L'intelligence émotionnelle: Intégrale by Daniel Goleman, Thierry Piélat, Daniel Roche (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low .
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Those were days when the preeminence of IQ as the standard of excellence in life was unquestioned; a debate raged over whether it was set in our intelligenc or due to experience. But here, suddenly, was a new way of thinking emotionnellle the ingredients of life success. I was electrified by the notion, which I made the title of this book in Like Mayer and Salovey, I used the phrase to synthesize a broad range of scientific findings, drawing together what had been separate strands of research — reviewing not only their theory but a wide variety of other exciting scientific developments, such as the first fruits of the nascent field of affective neuroscience, which explores how emotions are regulated in the brain.
I remember having the thought, just before this book golemam published ten years ago, that if one day I overheard a conversation in which two strangers used the phrase emotional intelligence and both understood what it meant, I would have succeeded in spreading the concept more widely into the culture. Little did I know. I once found a quip about EQ printed on a shampoo bottle in my hotel room. And the concept has spread to the far corners of our planet.
Even so, I prefer EI as the English abbreviation for emotional intelligence. My e-mail inbox often contains queries, from, for example, a doctoral student in Bulgaria, a school teacher in Poland, a college student in Indonesia, a business consultant in South Africa, a management expert in the Sultanate of Oman, an executive in Shanghai.
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Back in I was able to find only a handful of such programs teaching emotional intelligence skills to children. Now, a decade later, tens of thousands of schools intelllgence offer children SEL.
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In the United States many districts and even entire states currently make SEL curriculum requirement, mandating that just as intelligenxe must attain a certain level of competence in math and language, so too should they master these essential skills for living.
In Inetlligence, for instance, specific learning standards in SEL abilities have been established for every grade from kindergarten through the last year of high school. To give just one example of a remarkably detailed and comprehensive curriculum, in the early elementary years students should learn to recognize and accurately label their emotions and how they lead them to act. By the late elementary years lessons in empathy should make children able to identify the nonverbal clues to how someone else feels; in junior high they should be able to analyze what creates stress for them or what motivates their best performance.
And in high school the SEL skills include listening and talking in ways that resolve conflicts instead of escalating them and negotiating for win-win solutions.
In Europe, the U. Has led the way, but more than a dozen other countries have schools that embrace EI, as emotionjelle Australia and New Zealand, and here and there countries in Latin America and Africa.
In some states and nations, SEL has become the organizing umbrella under which are gathered programs in character education, violence prevention, antibullying, drug prevention and school discipline.
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Now the case can be made scientifically: This is the big news contained in a recently completed meta-analysis of evaluation studies of SEL programs for children from preschoolers through high school. The massive survey was conducted by Roger Weissberg, who directs the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning at the University of Illinois at Chicago — the organization that has led the way in bringing SEL into schools worldwide. The data show that SEL programs yielded a strong benefit in academic accomplishment, as demonstrated in achievement test results and grade-point averages.
In participating schools, up to 50 percent of children showed improved achievement scores and up to 38 percent improved their grade-point averages.
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SEL programs also made schools safer: At the same time, attendance rates rose, while 63 percent of students demonstrated significantly more positive behavior. In the world of social science research, these remarkable results for any program promoting behavioral change, SEL had delivered on its promise. Now the first preliminary scientific evidence for that notion has arrived. Mark Greenberg of Pennsylvania State University.
A codeveloper of the PATHS curriculum in SEL, reports not only that the program for elementary school students boasts academic achievement but, even more significantly, that much of the increased learning can be attributed to improvements in attention and working memory, key functions of the prefrontal cortex.
This strongly suggests that neuroplasticity, the shaping of the brain through repeated experience, plays a key role in the benefits from SEL.
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Perhaps the biggest surprise for me has been the impact of EI in the world of business, particularly in the areas of leadership and employee development a form of adult education. Such claims in the business world too often prove to be fads, with no real underlying substance.
But here a far-flung network of researchers has been at work, ensuring that the application of EI will be grounded in solid data. Today companies worldwide routinely look through the lens of EI in hiring, promoting, and developing their employees. For instance, Johnson and Johnson another CREIO member found that in divisions around the world, those identified at mid career as having high leadership potential were far stronger in EI competencies than were their less-promising peers.
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The 10 Best Things to Eat Around Times Square, 2010
by Robert Sietsema
The $4 fried whiting sandwich from Kim's Aunt Kitchen is a culinary dream come true, and you can't get a better one, even up in Harlem.
Three weeks ago, in something of a bad mood, we reviled The 10 Worst Things to Eat Around Times Square, and they were really, really bad — including a mayo-gobbed salad of fake crab meat, a sodden and stale knish from a street cart, and a glued-together foursome of "barbecue" sliders reeking of liquid smoke. No one would eat any of these things except out of sheer desperation, which is what tourists are faced with as they're herded around the city's worst tourist trap by their handlers.
This sainted Cuban lunch counter — a literal stone's throw from Times Square — easily makes our top 10 list.
Now, to make amends to those same abused tourists, and to let New Yorkers know that they don't necessarily have to give Times Square a wide berth if they're hungry, we present the 10 Best Things to Eat Around Times Square. So, tie on your bib, jump on the subway, and prepare to be dazzled with our gastronomic suggestions.
As always, if you disagree, or have your own suggestions of spectacular things we've missed, please jot them down in the Comments.
The sirloin special at Tad's Steaks is nearly enough food for two.
10. 10 oz. sirloin steak at Tad's Steaks You always thought Tad's was awful, right? Well, though the meat is not the kind of marbled, grass-fed steak you dream about, and though you'll have to glue your dentures solidly in to eat it, the sirloin is a thing of beauty: flopping over the edge of the plate, cooked over flame as you watch, drooling, to a nice smoky char, ringed with little delicious bits of fat and gristle, swimming in meat juices and accompanied by a baked potato, Texas toast, and a salad. 701 Seventh Avenue, 212-382-1164
9. Ma Po bean curd at Szechuan Gourmet This second branch of a beloved 39th Street Chinese restaurant is only steps from the northern end of Times Square, just off Broadway. Named after a pock-marked Chengdu street vendor, Ma Po bean curd features silken wiggly cubes in a thick sauce incorporating fermented beans, tiny bits of ground pork, and Sichuan peppercorns, and if you ask nicely, they'll make it mega-spicy. 244 West 56th Street, 212-265-2226
8. Chicken teriyaki at Teriyaki Boy Served with a nicely dressed salad and white rice, and offered at the mind-bogglingly low price of $3.99, the chicken teriyaki is generous and toothsome, and the spare dining room upstairs seems far from the hurly-burly of the Square, but most patrons carry out. We assure you, it tastes much better than the picture looks! 732 Seventh Avenue, 212-265-8181
The $3.99 chicken teriyaki special at Teriyaki Boy must be accounted one of the best deals around Times Square.
A borek with a side of babaganoush makes a perfect meal at Gazala Place.
7. Borek at Gazala Place These amazing pastries — with a well-browned, flaky outside topped with black sesame seeds — make great hand-held meals. Boreks with a variety of vegetarian and meat-bearing fillings fly periodically from the ovens of the city's only Israeli Druze restaurant, and there are many other healthy Middle Eastern meals available in the relaxing dining room, two blocks west of Times Square, but well worth the hike. 709 Ninth Avenue, 212-245-0709
6. Cheese blintzes at Café Edison Representing a sort of Eastern European French crepe, the cheese blintzes are superb: crisp and chewy and surmounted by a dollop of sour cream, the way they've been eaten in the Garment Center for nearly a century. Find them at Café Edison, a slightly seedy hotel dining room that will transport you to an earlier era, and a favorite of hip New Yorkers who find themselves unavoidably near Times Square at meal time. 228 West 47th Street, 212-840-5000
5. Cock-a-leekie at St. Andrews Sure there are great burgers, pot pies, and meal-sized salads at St. Andrews, one of only two Scottish restaurants in the city that we know of, but why not go with one of the weirder Highlands dishes like haggis (a sheep's stomach stuffed with oats and organs) or the less-challenging cock-a-leekie, a mellow soup featuring leeks and spring chicken. 140 West 46th Street, 212-840-8413
You don't have to be gay to enjoy the taste of cock-a-leekie soup at St. Andrews.
Pungent with cracked black peppercorns and bathed in a vinegary barbecue sauce, the Owensboro lamb sandwich at Virgil's reminds us of Johnny Depp — but only because Owensboro, Kentucky, was where he grew up.
4. Owensboro lamb sandwich at Virgil's Real Barbeuce Certainly, Virgil's is not one of the city's best barbecues — it wouldn't even figure in the top 10 — but there are some fine products on the menu, imbued with flavor deriving from actual smoke. The best is the lamb sandwich, a generous wad of thickly sliced meat on rye with a pair of sides and sliced pickles. Oddly enough, it's also reasonably authentic, making it one of the only places in town to barbecue meat in the northern Kentucky style. 152 West 44th Street, 212-921-9494
3. Fried whiting sandwich at Kim's Aunt Kitchen In the area sandwiched between Times Square and Rockefeller Center, New York has been enjoying a renaissance of lunch wagon food recently, and no cart exemplifies this more than Kim's Aunt Kitchen. Just one block east of the square, it offers a selection of fish sandwiches, over-rice dishes, and even a bulgogi special, which clues you in to the nationality of Kim. The whiting sandwich is our hands-down favorite. Corner of 46th Street and Sixth Avenue, lunch only
2. Octopus salad at Margon Served with a humongous plate of rice (white or yellow) and beans (red or black), the octopus salad at this long-running and authentic Cuban lunch counter arrives well-slicked with oil, dotted with green olives, and zapped with onion and cilantro, and the swatches of octopod are tender as all get-out. If you can find a spot to sit (sometimes you have to wait five or 10 minutes), dining in the narrow and tumultuous space is half the fun. 136 West 46th Street, 212-354-5013
Mmmmm — Margon's octopus salad, served with rice and beans.
And here's our number one choice of a meal around Times Square, the miraculous katsudon at Sapporo.
1. Katsudon at Sapporo This aging noodle shop has long been a haven for homesick Japanese travelers, and the ramen, gyoza, and curries are superb, but our greatest affection is for the luncheon delight katsudon, consisting of a perfectly fried pork cutlet mired in egg and onion, squirted with a vaguely sweet sauce and served over a big bowl of rice. A cup of miso soup comes alongside, making this one of the best under-$10 meals in town. 152 West 49th Street, 212-869-8972
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