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While Malbranque is likely to command only a nominal fee, the former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder, signed by Roy Keane, ranks among Sunderland's highest earners and his removal from the payroll may help finance Bruce's on-going search for a new left winger.
Angeleri returns to his old club in Argentina just a year after arriving at the Stadium of Light having failed to adapt to English football. McCartney, meanwhile, spent last season on loan at Leeds United and, although his high wages have effectively ruled out the possibility of a sale, it is thought he will shortly be...
Bruce is also still hoping to move on his unwanted defenders Matt Killgallon and Nyron Nosworthy – who spent last season loaned to Doncaster Rovers and Sheffield United respectively – before the transfer window closes, and would also be prepared to sell the goalkeeper Craig Gordon and the defender Anton Ferdinand. The ...
Having systematically dismantled the squad he inherited from Keane two years ago, Sunderland's manager has very much his "own" players at his disposal now. Bruce, though, remains aware that Malbranque was very much a crowd favourite whose departure will provoke mixed emotions among fans.
"Steed has done remarkably well for the past two or three years but it's maybe the right time for him to move on," he said. "We wish him well."
Elsewhere, Swansea City have completed the signing of Leroy Lita from Middlesbrough after the striker completed his medical. The striker joins for a fee of £1.75m, and has signed a three-year contract to become the club's fourth summer signing.
Senator Yuen Pau Woo hopes other parties will pledge to continue Liberal government's Senate experiment should they come to power.
The leader of the Senate’s swelling group of independents is calling on federal parties to take clear positions on Senate reform as they write their 2019 election platforms.
In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Senator Yuen Pau Woo said he views the Liberal government’s Senate experiment as a success and is hoping other parties will pledge to continue the practice should they form government.
In just three years, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has transformed the Senate by appointing 45 senators to the 105-seat chamber, all but two of whom sit as part of the Independent Senators Group (ISG) led by Mr. Woo. The two exceptions are Peter Harder, the government leader in the Senate, and David Richards, who is am...
Nine other senators appointed by previous prime ministers also sit with the ISG. The remaining chamber is made up of 31 Conservatives and 10 independent Liberals, with four vacancies.
Senators are unelected and can sit until age 75. Mr. Trudeau’s first term as Prime Minister happened to coincide with a period in which a large number of senators retired. Mr. Woo estimates that even if a new government were to start appointing senators who are affiliated with the governing party, it could take two or ...
The shifting power trend is raising questions as to how much longer the Senate can maintain its traditions based on the concept of an opposition party challenging the government side.
“If you start to extrapolate how that goes, I see it perhaps morphing into more of like a think tank. I don’t think you have to use the adversarial system,” said ISG senator Bev Busson, a former RCMP commissioner who was sworn in to the chamber in September.
In an interview, Ms. Busson said she has never been political and the ability to sit as an independent influenced her decision to apply.
“I think an independent Senate is really what serves Canada the best. At the risk of sounding political, I think the American system of elected senators is an example of how things might not work so well,” she said.
Conservative MP Stephanie Kusie, her party’s critic for democratic institutions, said the Conservatives have not settled on a final campaign position when it comes to the Senate. However she said the party would likely favour a return to the Harper government’s practice of appointing senators who were elected in provin...
Ms. Kusie said campaign contribution records of some of Mr. Trudeau’s Senate appointments indicate support for the Liberal Party.
The NDP has long supported abolishing the Senate, but the Supreme Court said in 2014 that such a move would require the unanimous consent of the provinces.
NDP MP and democratic-reform critic Nathan Cullen said the party continues to support abolishing the Senate, but has not yet decided if its 2019 platform would propose interim measures for dealing with Senate vacancies.
“They’ve had a better run of not being in scandal, which is good. That’s a pretty low bar,” he said. Mr. Cullen said he is concerned by the increase in lobbying activity focused on independent senators, and the NDP’s core concerns regarding accountability and the democratic legitimacy of the Senate remains.
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The 2008 Marin County Junior Golf Championships were held on Monday, July 1, 2008 at the Indian Valley Golf Club in Novato. 85 boys and girls from throughout the bay area competed in the Junior Golf Association of Northern California event. Marin golfers were well represented at the event and played very well against a...
Boys 16-17 Mathew Reinders of San Anselmo finished second overall with an even par round of 72.
Boys 14-15 Stefan Wolf and Stevie Johnson of San Rafael finished first and second with a score of 80 (Wolf won in a playoff).
Boys 12-13 Matt Briggs of Novato finished first with a score of 78.
Girls 15-17 – Yukari Shichishima finished first overall with a score of 85.
Girls 12-14 Ali Hoffman finished 3rd with a score of 102.
The Tiburon Soccer Club’s U-11 Class 1 Sharks posted a 2-0-1 record in State Cup play this weekend in Morgan Hill against top teams from Castro Valley, San Leandro and Turlock, scoring a combined 5 goals while allowing just one.
The team dedicated its Tournament play to forward Paddy O’Brien (see e-mailed Paddy photo) who was diagnosed with bone cancer at the end of the regular season. The Sharks played ferociously and deftly throughout the weekend in their season’s strongest showing in support of their teammate O’Brien.
Anchored by goalies Kevin Lehr and Brodie Cohen, and with defenders Spencer Janney, Addison Brady, Erik Doctor, Isaac Perper and Brandon Buckley, the Sharks sending countless deft passes upfield to forwards James Ingledew, Milo Leaman, Captain Zack Kopstein, Kyle Zucker, Cole Bernabie, Tom Mason and Ben Bialla, the Sha...
Coach Daire O’Conner afterwards praised the steadfast spirit of his team for making their efforts count in a determined weekend campaign in honor of their stricken teammate.
After winning the Round the Horn Tournament (with 104 teams from around the US and Canada competing) on the opening night of the one week tournament at Dreams Park in Cooperstown, the Bombers won two of their first three games.
In their first game, the Bombers beat the Tampa Tarpons 13-3 behind two home runs by Clayton Dempski (3-4 with 5 RBIs) and two-hit performances by Aubrey Sine, Zack Avila and Adam Enge. Dominic Burke pitched four strong innings giving up only two hits and striking out six and Erik Doctor threw two innings of scoreless ...
After losing their second game to the Canandaigua Braves (NY) 8-4, despite another home run by Clayton Dempski, the Bombers whacked the Connecticut Thunder 14-0. Henrik Reinertsen pitched a mercy rule shortened four inning complete game shutout allowing only 3 hits. Almost everyone on the team had hits and/or scored ru...
The Bombers U12 Baseball team only needed three home frames to beat the Chicago Thunder 18-2 in a mercy rule shortened four inning game. Erik Doctor surrendered a two-run home run to the Thunder in the top of the first but then shut down the Thunder in the second and third innings, striking out four and allowing no mor...
The Bombers followed up with eight runs in the third inning which included another Clayton Demski home run, his sixth in six games, followed by a home run by Zack Avila, his second. Blake Berry walked and scored and Henrik Reinertsen, Henry Newman and Kevin Quigley also had rbi hits in that big inning. Demski struck ou...
The Bombers 12U baseball team went 5-1 and outscored its opponents 76-15 in pool play and enters the single elimination tournament as the #8 seed among the 104 teams from around the USA and Canada. All 14 Bombers players have contributed to the tremendous success at the Dreams Park tournament. The offense has been led ...
All of the other Bomber players have contributed at the plate as well and the fact that the team, which is comprised of Little League All-Star players from Marin County and San Francisco, has great hitters from the top of the lineup to the bottom has been key to its success. The other batters are Blake Berry, Brandon B...
The team has great defense as well, no player has made more than one error and nine of the 14 players have pitched.
The Bombers play in their first elimination game tonight and if it wins it enters the Sweet 16 round tomorrow morning.
The Bombers continued their string of success in the single elimination Dreams Park Tournament in Cooperstown, New York with a 7-1 victory over the Central Penn Renegades. Zack Avila was brilliant on the mound giving up only one weak infield hit and hitting one batter in five innings while striking out five. Avila did ...
The Bombers are now one of only four teams of the 104 field left and move on to the Semi-Finals where they will play a potent team from Southern California, the Sherman Oaks Scorpions.
Does Daenerys have what it takes to be a corporate executive?
Even if your battles take place in Martin Place rather than Kings Landing, you may have encountered a Stannis Baratheon or Robb Stark in the workplace.
With the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones Season 3 airing, we asked psychologist Elizabeth Neal and executive coach Iain Crossing where the Westerosi power-grabbers are most likely to find a foothold in today's organisations and what they should do to be more effective leaders.
Crossing, who consults with major ASX-listed companies, says the fictional monarchs demonstrate traits that all occur, to some extent, at various levels of the management chain.
Only one character has what it takes to be an effective corporate executive. Others may flourish with the right training.
Stannis Baratheon would be a junior manager respected by his subordinates.
Stannis is a blustering leader with powerful allies - the kind of person Crossing says may be found in junior management or senior operational roles in a family-run or semi-government business with no dedicated HR resources and weak governance.
Neal says Stannis is cold, lacks empathy, has a grandiose sense of self-importance and tends to overestimate his abilities. He is authoritarian and is unlikely to go back on decisions, which can lead to negative consequences.
The psychologists say Stannis would benefit from having a mentor, along with regular coaching to make him less reliant on his allies. He should work on grounding his goals on realistic expectations and timeframes, they say.
Joffrey Baratheon is most likely to get in trouble with HR.
Joffrey was born to power but has never demonstrated any effort or desire to lead, Neal says.
Emotionally unstable, antisocial, immature, unreliable, reckless and irresponsible, Joffrey 'displays a pattern of pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others', she says.
In a workplace, Joffrey is likely to be verbally abusive; his 'casual bullying' will likely drive subordinates to leave the organisation.
Narcissism can make executives more charismatic and isn't always a bad thing, but the psychologists don't think Joffrey is likely to respond to professional development programs because his narcissism indicates that he is too insecure to change.
When facing a Joffrey in the workplace, your best bet is to lodge 'complaints with HR and try get him moved on', Crossing says.
Robb Stark would be a star employee who rises through the ranks.
Robb was pushed into the job and while inexperienced, has so far been successful on the battlefield by being a collaborative leader.
He leads his northmen with a high degree of integrity, earning their respect and loyalty with higher ideas and moral values.
Of all the would-be monarchs we've seen in the HBO TV series so far, Crossing says Robb best fits the archetype of the 'traditional Aussie battler' - a manager who has risen through the ranks in a difficult situation.
Crossing says Robb's hands-on, collaborative approach works well in the lower ranks of management, but he will need to take a wider view if he is to lead a larger organisation.
'You can definitely be a collaborative leader but what tends to separate people as they move up the leadership ranks is an increasing level of self-belief backing the decisions they make,' he says.
Daenerys Targaryn is the only one who could make it as an executive.
Daenerys Targaryen is the only character who would make it as a corporate executive as she is, psychologists say.
The 'mother of dragons' is collaborative and resourceful, a fast learner and highly adaptable to change. She leads with compassion and what Neal says is 'an appropriate amount of maternal instinct while remaining unswayed by emotion'.
'I can't fault her leadership style. That's the kind of leader I would respond to well, personally,' Neal says.
Daenerys is a risk-taker who has strong beliefs about right and wrong and takes it upon herself to champion her ideals of social justice.
Crossing says she is most likely to be a self-made businessperson who may have burned some bridges on the way up, noting that she may have to rethink her strong moral positions if she were to be leading a publicly listed corporation.
'Ultimately, when executives have to answer to shareholders, they have to be pragmatic about certain things,' Crossing says.
Balon Greyjoy is the disgruntled employee who nobody likes.
Balon Greyjoy leads the Iron Islands. His ideas tend to be old-fashioned and outdated and he is likely to be resistant to new ways, approaches, process or systems regardless of their proof of efficacy, Neal says.
Balon tends to be irritable, impatient and unapproachable, and seems to be deeply resentful of his failures.
Crossing likens him to a resentful professional who wants a management role but doesn't have the influence, skills or style to climb the corporate ladder.
Although the psychologists doubt that Balon would respond well to training, they suggest he work on his interpersonal skills and try hard to improve his personal brand in the workplace because chances are, nobody likes him.
Mance Rayder would lead a lobby group or NGO.
Mance Rayder is the 'king beyond the wall': a pragmatic, unassuming leader who seeks to save his people from the coming winter.
Mance is a powerful leader who inspires great loyalty in his disparate followers. He is innovative and humble, preferring a flat organisational structure and honest egalitarian dialogue with his subordinates to the more traditional style of ruling from above.
In the modern world, Crossing says Mance is most likely to lead a lobby group or NGO, in which members are self-motivated to work towards a common goal.
'A lobbyist group needs a different leadership style to a global conglomerate,' he notes. 'Because there is a communal belief, it is relatively easy to manage while the purpose remains strong.
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Part of containing Gasol and/or Randolph will depend on Amar’e Stoudemire’s play. The reserve center/power forward might even find himself on the court at times with starting center Tyson Chandler.
“They’re a pretty big team on the inside and they play well together,’’ Stoudemire said. “They’ve been together for a while now, so they’ve got pretty good chemistry.
Gasol is listed at 7-1 and a generous 265 pounds, while Randolph is 6-9 and a svelte 260 pounds. Gasol averages 17.8 points and 7.9 rebounds and is widely considered as one of the league’s better passing big men, while, Randolph is averaging 16.4 points and 11.2 rebounds.
“He’s a good passer, he’s a good basketball player, he knows the game of basketball,’’ Stoudemire said of Gasol. “He takes the game as it’s given to him, which is great.
Those who know little about Yiddish often associate it with humor. But most Yiddish literature isn’t particularly funny except in a horrible, un-American way: comically-told plots in which people suffer terribly or die horrible deaths. Even the relentlessly upbeat Sholem Aleichem, whose Tevye stories inspired the relen...
This depressing aspect of Yiddish literature has a profound source beyond Jewish historical realities: Jewish tradition is fundamentally skeptical of art, and consequently, Yiddish literature’s greatest humor is really humor about literature’s supposed redemptive powers. Consider one of modern Yiddish literature’s foun...
Mendele the Book Peddler is the pseudonym—or more accurately the persona, since he often appears as a character—of S.Y. Abramovitsh (1836-1917), a man whose biography would be implausible as fiction. A child prodigy who could identify each word touched by a pin stuck through a volume of Talmud, Abramovitsh was orphaned...
Once Abramovitsh escaped into actual marriage, he spent decades in poverty but eventually became a founder of both modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature. His early works satirized corrupt Jewish communities in the hope of reforming them; Abramovitsh initially believed that assimilation would eradicate anti-Semitism. The...
Benjamin’s sanest words could be a summary of millennia of European Jewish history.
Travels of Benjamin the Third (1878; available in English in Tales of Mendele the Book Peddler, trans. Hillel Halkin, and quoted here) is about a pair of shtetl idiots who decide to journey to the Promised Land and end up walking around the block. Like Don Quixote, our leading idiot, Benjamin, is driven mad by books—in...
But the greatest blend of comedy and horror comes when Benjamin and Sendrel are kidnapped and sold into the Russian army—a common mid-nineteenth-century scam in which wealthy Jews would pay criminals to kidnap young Jewish men to fill conscription quotas. With their beards and sidelocks shaved, our heroes realize they ...
At the court martial, Benjamin defends himself: “I see that kidnapping men in broad daylight and selling them like chickens in the market is permitted, but that when those same men seek to free themselves, they’re guilty of a crime! … We hereby declare, the two of us, that we are, have been, and always will be ignorant...
The original Don Quixote concluded with Quixote recovering his senses and disavowing his delusions. But no one in the Jewish version disavows his delusions, ever. Instead, Abramovitsh promises us a sequel that will continue Benjamin’s journey to the Promised Land—which, generations later, is exactly what happened to ma...
“Right now, economic concerns are front and center for investors. They were particularly confident that the United States is strong, but now doubts are starting to creep in,” said Rick Meckler, partner at Cherry Lane Investments in New Jersey.
“It seems very unlikely that the trade issues would get resolved very quickly. They’ve indicated that they made progress so many times, it is a situation where investors want more concrete rather than just talk of progress,” Meckler said.
Dr Ahmed Yakubu Alhassan, Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture in-charge of Crops, has said current statistics indicated that the country was about 56 per cent self-sufficient in rice production.
Dr Alhassan made the remarks at a day’s National Rice Development Strategy (NRSD) validation workshop which has the objective of doubling rice production by 2018.

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