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UMP Joins Elite Club
No full textKUANTAN: UNIVERSITI Malaysia Pahang (UMP) has joined the list of the world’s elite higher learning institutions after six subjects offered at the campus here were listed in the QS World University Rankings by Subjects 2023
Organisational culture and coach-athlete relationships: An ethnographic study of an elite rowing club
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This thesis explores how coach-athlete relationships are influenced within the organisational culture of a rowing club. Relational Cultural Theory and the work of Weber are used to examine how the concept of organisational culture informs understanding of coach and athlete relating. The study, covering a complete competitive season, involved an eleven month long ethnography of an elite rowing club in Great Britain. The findings demonstrate the visceral, enculturated and complex nature of coach-athlete relationships in elite sport. Relational disconnection occurred in the disenchanted organisational life, where intrinsic values were subordinated to a rational quest for efficiency, control and ultimately success, as well as traditional social ordering based on status and gender. Relationships were characterised by power over relating, distance and impersonal relations, caretaking rather than caring about, fragile trust by the athlete and trust through surveillance by the coach, where emotion was concealed and conflict avoided. However, enacting shared identities, the emotion involved in competing and the fact this was a voluntary organisation with competing values, provided an escape from simulacra of elite sport to allow for multi-value paradigm of interests. The opportunity for coaches and athletes to connect with each other based on their values and with emotion exposed their humanity and revealed the potential for relational mutuality and authenticity. The study challenges the valorised coaching and elite sport relationships and lifestyle. Implications for coaching include providing individuals with confidence to raise the issue of relationship, providing coaches and athletes with knowledge of connection and disconnection in relationship and the outcome on well-being. The need to develop a systemised approach to embedding growth-fostering relationships in the culture of high performance sport is highlighted.This study is funded by an Isambard Scholarship from Brunel University
Florence
No full textUnidentified author. Discussion of Florence, Italy. Some history but mostly personal travel memories focusing on art; review of the Uffizi Gallery, churches and general mention of famous areasAcceptable condition. Discoloration due to acidity of paper. Wrinkled paper. Typewritten.Original manuscript is held by The Study Club (New Brunswick, N.J.)This presentation is one of a series of presentations from 1925-2010, by members of The Study Club, in New Brunswick, NJ, a woman's club dedicated to studying, presenting and discussing the important issues of the da
Pan America
No full textAn informed discussion by Peg Campbell of all aspects of Pan America, from its early colonization by Asians, Europeans and Africans to the melting pot and "cosmic race" of 1956. Includes a discussion of slavery in South America and the vast differences in geography.Handwritten in pencil. Acceptable condition. Some discoloration due to acidity.Original manuscript is held by The Study Club (New Brunswick, N.J.)This presentation is one of a series of presentations from 1925-2010, by members of The Study Club, in New Brunswick, NJ, a woman's club dedicated to studying, presenting and discussing the important issues of the dayAuthor's identity supplied by The Study Club. Manuscript lacks author identification
Arden Club Plays by Date
No full textA list of all theatrical productions staged by the Arden Club and the Arden Workshop from the creation of the club in 1915 to 1969. The list includes the name of each play, its author, the month and year it was produced, and the names of the faculty directors associated with the production
Safety of nuclear reactors, or, Is standing on a soapbox really safe?
No full textArgues that nuclear energy plants are necessary for America and that the safety of these plants will be assured by future developments. The paper's author, Ann Joyce, is the daughter of the man who developed the atomic submarine; her husband was chief engineer at Princeton's fusion experiment. Ralph Nader's concerns in the mid 1920s are addressed, point by point. The author asks how many nuclear accidents could you name in 1978, when the paper was written. Note: The paper was written shortly before Three Mile Island.Typewritten. Handwritten notations in pencil and red pencil. Acceptable condition. Some discoloration due to acidity; rusting of paperclip in upper left corner.Original manuscript is held by The Study Club (New Brunswick, N.J.)This presentation is one of a series of presentations from 1925-2010, by members of The Study Club, in New Brunswick, NJ, a woman's club dedicated to studying, presenting and discussing the important issues of the da
The Thursday Murder Club: Launching a megabrand author - a publishing case study
No full textIn 2020, the Christmas book charts in the UK made headlines: Barack Obama’s eagerly awaited autobiography, The Promised Land, was beaten to the top spot by The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, a debut cosy crime novel set in a retirement village. Not only did Osman’s book beat the former US president’s expected bestseller, it also broke records, becoming the fastest-selling debut crime novel of all time. Although Osman has a certain level of fame in the UK from his TV appearances on shows such as Pointless, his celebrity status does not entirely explain the novel’s huge sales. This article tracks the acquisition, publication, and promotion journey of The Thursday Murder Club in order to understand the industry and cultural context of its success and to interrogate the role of celebrity in the creation of author brands. The findings suggest that the unexpected scale of the success of the book owed to a number of factors, including in-depth editing by the novel’s agent, editor, and author to tighten up the plot, an extensive and strategic promotional campaign, the pandemic (which drove interest in the book’s genre and themes), and the quality of the writing. We find that the book’s success was accentuated by Osman’s celebrity status rather than being entirely reliant on it. This research adds to the growing scholarship on celebrity authorship by means of an in-depth case study and provides insight into the processes behind publishing a ‘celebrity’ book and launching a megabrand author
The 2010 regulations on golf groove design: impact on ball flight characteristics during a controlled shot.
No full textThe purpose of this study was to investigate the difference in the amount of spin that can be generated during a controlled golf shot, as a result of the 2010 rule change regarding restrictions applied to the design of the grooves on the clubface implemented by the United States Golf Association and the Royal & Ancient Golf Club. Ten experienced golfers (mean ± SD; age, 23.0 ± 0.67 yr; playing experience, 13.2 ± 1.6 yr; handicap, 1.6 ± 1.4) were required to play a total of 120 shots inside a state of the art golf simulator with 3 clubs consisting of ‘old’ pre 2010 U-groove design and ‘new’ post 2010 V-groove design. With the U and V grooved clubs, participants played 10 shots from a fairway mat and 10 shots from a rough mat using a 9 iron, PW and SW. Backspin (RPM) and, as a measure of accuracy, distance landed from the pin (yds) were recorded. Compared to the U-grooves, the newer V-groove design imparted significantly less backspin from both the fairway and rough surfaces (P < 0.05), additionally, shots with all clubs were consistently further away from the pin (P < 0.05). The newer groove design does not enable players to impart as much backspin on the ball as they previously could and our data suggest that the recent change in golf club design might therefore reward driving accuracy
Elite Social and Savings Club
No full textBlack and white photograph of a presentation by the Elite Social and Savings Club to Dr. Lucius H. Pitts from Mrs. Jeanetta Scott at Miles Colleg
Marketing Project for Granite Pointe Golf Club
No full textGolf Club Management and OperationsA report, prepared by the students of the G-257 class taught by Steve Bareham, for the Granite Pointe Golf Club in Nelson, BC. The students compiled a collection of different ideas and observations intended to benefit the golf club in broadening golf participation and increasing revenues
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