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Maverick women's basketball ends win drought
January 23, 2018 Jake Rinehart	2 Comments
The Mavericks were in North Dakota this last weekend for games against the Minot State Beavers and the University of Mary Marauders.
The Mavericks ended their dry-spell by defeating Minot State by a score of 72-54 on Friday. The victory snaps MSU's four-game losing streak and is their first win since Dec. 19.
Much like the hit song from the Beatles, the milestone victory for a coach is a long and winding road. In order to secure this victory over Minot State, the Lady Mavs had to lose four consecutive games. In the end, it makes the team that much stronger and more resilient.
The reason I eluded to the hit song from the Beatles is because this victory against Minot State marked the 100th career victory for head coach Emilee Thiesse. In her six seasons in charge of the Minnesota State Women's program, Thiesse has amassed an overall record of 100-62, including a record of 75-45 in NSIC play. The Mavericks team has also made two NCAA Tournament appearances under Thiesse in the 2012-13 and 2014-15 seasons.
Taylor Klug had a monster game for the Mavs against the Beavers. Klug led all scorers with 27 points. Claire Ziegler had a great performance all-around, pulling down seven rebounds and scoring 12 points of her own.
The Beavers struggled offensively in this game. Only two players on the Minot State team scored more than 10 points, and both of those players came off the bench for the Beavers.
The Mavericks put up a great performance following the victory over Minot State, but ultimately fell to the University of Mary in overtime by a score of 84-90.
The Lady Mavs fought their way back from a seven-point deficit at halftime to force the overtime period. Minnesota State outscored the Marauders 40-33 in the second half.
The University of Mary were able to take a 70-68 lead with nine seconds to play in the fourth quarter. The Mavericks were resilient and answered with a bucket of their own, a layup by Mackenzie Dahl that left three seconds left in regulation. The Marauders had a chance to win the game as time expired, but Claire Ziegler made an important defensive play to block the shot attempt as time expired.
The Lady Mavs were led by Claire Jordan, who scored 16 points, include a perfect seven-for-seven from the free-throw line. Claire Ziegler filled the stat sheet with 12 points, seven rebounds, two assists, three steals, and three blocks, that included the final shot to force overtime.
The story of the game has to be the play off the bench for the Mavericks. In 29 minutes of play, Kirstin Klitzke scored 22 points for the Mavs' bench. Klitzke was dominant from the field, shooting 9-10 on field-goals, including 2-3 from three-point range.
Taylor Klug came off the bench against the University of Mary, having played a game-high 31 total minutes the night before against Minot State. Although she came off the bench, Klug's confidence was unwavering. She would finish the game with 16 points.
The Marauder's starters played a great game. All five starters for the University of Mary scored double-digit points, including two players who had double-doubles.
Cassie Askvig had a game-high 23 points and pulled down 10 rebounds for her fifth double-double of the season. Lauren Rotunda added 15 points and 10 rebounds of her own, also for her fifth double-double of the season. Both players played a game-high 41 minutes.
The Mavericks have a record of 5-12 overall after the weekend, including 3-8 in conference.
The Lady Mavs return home this weekend to face Sioux Falls on Friday, January 19th, and Southwest Minnesota State on Saturday, Jan. 20.
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June 29, 2016 July 13, 2016 Jove Belle
Show Up! (Marketing Series #7)
There is no doubt about it, the Internet has made marketing much easier for authors. Without leaving my office, I can reach readers on the other side of the planet. But what about the readers who live right here in my community? Is it enough to rely on my online presence to make those connections?
I don't think it is.
In this installment of the marketing series here at Women and Words, I'm making a case for being involved in your community. There is value in participating in live events, such as readings, panel discussions, and conferences.
Now, before you hyperventilate at the thought of leaving the safety of your office, take a deep breath and keep an open mind for a few minutes. Please.
Many authors, but not all, are introverts. I fully acknowledge this. It takes so much energy to put on my public face, and it's so much easier to stay in my safe little world where I don't have to talk to other people.
So why would I advocate in favor of public appearances? The answer is really very simple.
How many of you remember your first concert? The first time you heard a really powerful speaker live? Your first live sporting event? Your first…
I love to listen to music via Spotify or watch a performance on YouTube as much as the next person. But the live events leave an indelible mark. Even really bad concerts have a special place in my heart.
So, what's a shy author to do?
Here are some thoughts:
Challenge yourself to participate in a set number of live events each year. If you're an extrovert and this is super easy for you, then set the number higher. If the idea of stepping into the public eye makes you have palpitations, start lower. Even if it's only one a year, it's one more than you would have done otherwise.
Play to your strengths. If you're really good at readings, but hate teaching classes, then do readings and avoid classes. If you turn into a puddly mess when doing a reading, but feel safer on a panel, then don't do readings and do panels.
Work up to it. For example, if you'd like to do a public reading, but you're also utterly terrified by it, then ease your way into it. Record yourself and share it online. Do a podcast or interview online. Consider that a step toward a live event.
Be prepared. Take the time to practice reading your excerpt. Do it more than once. Do it in front of your wife, lover, friend, dog, mirror, whatever. Do it over and over until the words flow easily. That way, if you panic during the event, the action will be ingrained and you won't have to think about it.
Figure out which mental tricks work for you. Some people picture the audience in their underwear. Some vomit before a performance. Some find a focal point in the audience, a friendly face or two, and direct their attention there. Some do all of that and more.
Define your community. When considering which events to do, know how far you're willing to travel. For instance, I live in the Portland metro area (Oregon, not Maine), but I'm totally willing to travel to Seattle for events. I'd probably do Boise for the right event. I'm also willing to travel greater distances, but can't do that more than once or twice a year. This summer, I'll be in DC for GCLS. That's on the opposite side of the country for me.
Learn your community. Take the time to get to know the opportunities in your local area. Do you have a gay/lesbian bookseller nearby? Do you have a chain store, such as Barnes & Noble, that likes to feature local authors? What about your local library? Look for the known events and get involved. Group events are the best!
Take the time to create some opportunities. What I mean by that is, go beyond the existing events. For example, if your library hosts an annual event for queer authors, find out if they're willing to host a smaller group reading or panel discussion. Contact your local high school and offer to meet with their Gay Straight Alliance or their writing club. Same for your local community college or university. Do you have a queer resource center in your community? Contact them. What about the college radio station? Could you get a live interview? The list goes on and on and on.
Find a partner to do events with. Because, really, everything is easier when you're with a friend.
Allow yourself to recharge. If you need some alone time to re-focus your energy, take it.
Be bold. Be brave.
Live events are one of my weakest areas when it comes to marketing. I'd love to hear from others about what they do and why. Share your thoughts!
Until next time, happy reading!
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rhavensfyre says:
That is a really great idea about reaching out to the gay/straight alliance at a local high school. I still live in the county where I went to school and they started one a few years ago. Thank you for putting that idea out there.
Jove Belle says:
If you reach out to them, come back and let us know how that goes!
szegerton says:
Good advice there. It may be an idea for authors to work up to a big event reading by doing a few spoken word open mic spots – over here that often limits the time to 5 minutes, and one is in the company of several others, and consequently camouflaged! There is a wee feature on my WordPress site I wrote for authors taking a new book out to events: "Swatting the Butterflies – how to survive an encounter with an audience", on szegerton.com. Some of it shadows your own blog, but there are a few practical tips as well.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing your blog with us!
I'm one of those weird "extroverted introverts.", which means I don't really have a hard time going out in public and interacting and chatting and being around lots of people. But when it's over, I totally need a recharge. And yes, I do live in my head. But I also like to know what's going on in yours, so when I do events and when I interact at events, I'm interested in what you — you in the audience — are thinking. I've been an MC at a variety of public events and I also taught for a couple of years and for my job, I have to do some public speaking, but I make sure to schedule some alone time after that, because I need silence or just time to be in my own space and my own head.
All that said, it used to be (like, back in the day), that you could in fact be a reclusive writer and still get lots of attention. This new world of publishers doing much less for an author in terms of marketing and tech and social media and constant reachability ensures that we have to go public much more than we used to. And like Jove says, it's one thing to be out in the real world doing an event and another to be online doing it.
So yes, friends. Engage and do a couple of events a year. Find your comfort zone with what works for you. You may actually surprise yourself. 🙂
Thanks, Jove!
And thanks to commenters for more tips.
I require a huge build up to live events and then need downtime after. But I always have fun when I'm there.
I. Beacham says:
Absolutely loved reading this and it made me laugh…loved the cartoon!
But did it make you want to do a live event?
I'm lucky. Doing live events doesn't phase me.
Yep! That is lucky!

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Bryan Deaner's living room includes artifacts such as Nigerian coil currency (sitting on a slatted metal table), a petrified-wood stump and Asian bamboo nests — all enjoyed from a classic Eames aluminum lounge chair.
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As his light-filled home in North Portland's Overlook neighborhood reveals in abundance, Bryan Deaner is a self-described "cultural insomniac" who lives for traveling and collecting beautiful objects from Eastern Europe to southern South America, Asia to Africa. And for a man who once visited Japan just to see the architecture of Tadao Ando, the design of Deaner's house couldn't be all function without beautiful form.
Deaner has dubbed his modern house the Interchange residence, denoting its crossing of borders both personal and geographical. After a divorce, Deaner worked with William Kaven Architecture to create the home, where he has lived since 2010, the year of the tiger. It was an architectural new beginning. Sitting beside a tree-lined bluff overlooking industrial North Portland's shipyards and the Willamette River, it utilizes industrial materials like steel and concrete to poetic effect, even among a neighborhood of modest old wood-framed cottages. And though the house is oriented around an interior courtyard, emphasizing private space rather than a front porch and yard, Deaner seems happiest inviting curious neighbors inside the house for a cocktail, or groups of friends over for a dinner party. If they happen to ask about the corner piece from a 17th-century Tibetan Buddhist temple sitting on his shelf, he's happy to oblige — not as the braggart owner, but to share his childlike enthusiasm for the excursions that brought these treasures to his home.
An artistic pride and joy is Deaner's Picasso etching from the artist's 1930s Vollard Suite series. Beside it is a Tibetan temple piece and an 18th-century Burmese monk sculpture the homeowner found on a trip to Bangkok.
The dining chairs are a kind of designers' in-joke. Two white Philippe Starck Ghost chairs are paired with a classic Emeco Navy Chair as well as an Icon Chair by Philippe Starck with Emeco, the latter of which is an homage to the Navy Chair. Deaner had the bench custom designed.
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A statue of the Chinese goddess of compassion, Quan-Yin, situated in a corner of Deaner's bedroom that looks out to the library and courtyard.
"I was just in Marrakech last fall, and not only did I fall in love with Morocco, but the duality of the ancient world meeting this glitzy modernity was just fascinating," he says. "Part of the brief I wrote to the architects was I wanted a clean container but something with a soul. I travel; I collect things from around the world. But I didn't want it to be like a museum: You can touch things and pick them up."
Down the hall from a rustic French farmhouse table and petrified-wood stools from Java near the entry, for example, is a statue of the Chinese goddess of compassion, Quan-Yin, anchoring the bedroom. "The line of sight to the Quan-Yin was deliberate," the homeowner explains. "She draws you in to the procession in the house."
Deaner serves cocktails to his architect, Daniel Kaven, and Kaven's wife, Sherri. Deaner loves to entertain, be it with friends or Portland's arts and tech communities.
The floor plans.
Deaner jokingly calls his collection of vintage glass decanters his "counter bling." No electrical outlets were placed on the kitchen's tile backsplash to maintain a seamless, uniform look.
Upstairs are artworks not only by the likes of Matisse and Picasso but acclaimed local artists such as Michael Hensley and Dorothy Goode. A steel-etched photograph by another local, Garrett Price, titled "Interchange" and portraying a Fremont Bridge overpass, inspired the house's theme of artful juxtapositions. There is also, hanging in the middle room, a photograph by one of the home's architects, Daniel Kaven of William Kaven Architecture. Deaner and Kaven met at a gallery, and though Kaven's firm had only one built project at the time, Deaner says he knew the job was Kaven's to lose because of the fusion of interests in art and design.
The front door gives way to a generous great room with a dining table featuring Philippe Starck chairs, a kitchen with striking sharkskin-toned glass tile and a collection of vintage glass decanters ("My counter bling," Deaner jokes). Bhe center of the house truly is its outdoor courtyard, which includes a fireplace and is overlooked by every room in the house.
Deaner's travel room includes a chair that converts to a bed, as well as a carved-wood stool from Java that he found in a Bali gallery. Deaner also took the black-and-white photos on the rear wall while traveling.
The travel room also includes an antique betel-nut serving box from Indonesia that's holding coins and other small artifacts Deaner has collected from around the world.
The library is anchored by a classic Eames lounge chair and a back-lighted photo by architect Daniel Kaven.
Deaner enjoys hosting get-togethers that soon spill out into its confines, a truer living room than the actual one. And for all the artwork and antiquities and the carefully curated furniture of Eames chairs and European sofas, the lushness of the plants bracketing the courtyard seem like the most eye-catching artwork of all, a theater of nature and natural light coming though the floor-to-ceiling glass.
"Having grown up in New Mexico, we're really into courtyards," says Kaven. "That's a fairly common element in that desert condition. We really tried to make that work here, and it's amazing how well it works here and on such a small site."
Every room at the Interchange residence opens onto the back courtyard, which reflects Kaven's architectural beginnings in New Mexico. Lush bamboo and other plantings create a small oasis amid busy North Portland.
Deaner enjoys a cocktail in the library, looking out at the courtyard.
The artwork between the windows by Garrett Price, "Interchange," inspired the name of the house as well as the theme of renewal.
Before long, Deaner's job as global brand manager for Intel — or, more likely, his own happy wanderlust — will have him on the road again, be it to Prague or Ibiza. And while this bachelor makes no bones about his love of collecting objects and even travels themselves, his passion remains rooted in people: the chance to experience their creations and to share those with others.
"Some places you go, like Russia, you really feel like a tourist, like an outsider," Deaner says of his travels. "Other places, like Brazil, you feel like you fit in right away. That's what I wanted this house to be."
In front, the house is set back from the street and festooned with plantings to keep a low profile.
Artwork in the guest bedroom includes pieces by (from left) Garrett Price, Jill Torberson, Leigh Ryan, Michael Endo and Martha Wallulis. These works are bookended by two Matisse linocuts from his Pasiphae series depicting the mythological queen who birthed the Minotaur.
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2019 NASFAA National Conference - Orlando About 2019 Conference Summaries Four Questions That Will Determine the Future of Student Aid
Four Questions That Will Determine the Future of Student Aid
By Allie Bidwell, NASFAA Senior Reporter
With a presidential election and potential reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA) on the horizon, opinions abound regarding how to reform the country's higher education system to better serve students. While lawmakers may be zeroing in on specific policy proposals, there are larger questions being debated, albeit unknowingly.
During the final session of the 2019 NASFAA National Conference in Orlando Thursday, NASFAA President Justin Draeger and Vice President of Policy and Federal Relations Megan Coval shed some light on what impact these policy proposals have for the fundamental philosophy of higher education. Proposals that seek to increase accountability for institutions, make college tuition- or debt-free, or mandate annual loan counseling, for example, are really taking a stance on questions such as:
Who has the primary responsibility to pay for college?
Who is primarily responsible for student success?
Is the current institutional business model sustainable?
Is college worth it?
"Where you fall on this side of the equation … leads to potentially some very different public policy outcomes," Draeger said. "And while this question isn't being posed specifically, at least in public debate, this is largely what we're debating."
Those who believe the primary responsibility to pay for college lies with students and families, for example, will likely also believe in some sort of need analysis formula, he said, as well as consumer information. Those who believe the responsibility lies with society or the public, he said, will more likely gravitate toward policies that focus on outcomes measures and institutional accountability.
The reality, however, is that there's also a large amount of middle ground between those two camps of thought, which complicates the discussion, Draeger said.
The conversation around higher education cost and quality has also shifted in the last 10 years. In 2008, Draeger said, higher education was part of the conversation. But today, higher education is talked about "in every single policy conversation," he said.
"That's a good thing. And it can be a bad thing," he said, noting that policy proposals don't always line up with the reality of what students are facing, or the political climate of the day.
Free college, for example, may sound like a simple concept to students and families, or even to some politicians, but is a much more complicated concept for those who work in higher education. Most of the presidential candidates, Draeger said, have not yet nailed down exactly what they mean by free college—whether it's for two years or four, paid for on the front or the back end, or whether it covers tuition and fees or all expenses.
And with policy proposals and regulations also come more requirements for institutions. One lesson that can be learned from the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is that increased accountability doesn't address underlying issues of inequality, Draeger said.
"If we miss the boat on those issues, we could end up doing more harm than good," he said.
Likewise, policy proposals related to student success shed light on who lawmakers may think bears the responsibility for student success, Coval said. If they push for a student unit record system, or more consumer information, for example, they may believe students and families bear the responsibility. Risk-sharing proponents may feel that institutions are primarily responsible for student success
Additionally, things like school closures or scandals within higher education—such as the recent "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal—can impact how both lawmakers and the public at large view higher education as a whole, whether or not those instances apply to the vast majority of institutions.
When schools close quickly and without warning, for example, it becomes "a black eye" on all institutions, Draeger said. Likewise, instances such as the admissions scandal may reinforce ideas the public has that the system is "rigged."
Still, 70% of the general public says it's very important that Americans get some form of college education, but many feel that the system as structured needs to improve. Further complicating the situation, and how policymakers can address concerns, is the fact that there is a partisan divide on the reasons why people feel America's higher education system is not working.
"When we hear the system is rigged, and when we see scandals in the institutions in this country, it can make the most optimistic person cynical. When it feels rigged, it means there's no opportunity," Draeger said.
"I'm reminded that we play a very large, important, and vital role in bringing and in some cases restoring the hope that wherever you are right now … there is a pathway forward that can break sometimes generational wealth gaps and disparities," he said. "That's the commitment it's going to take from all of us to tackle the issues we talked about today."
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{Blu-ray Review} Something's Out There: The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)
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It looks like it's been through hell."
Seven years before Event Horizon, the duo who would eventually go on to write The Conjuring penned what is basically a low-rent version of, well, Event Horizon. If you ever saw The Dark Side of the Moon—say at your local video store—you probably remember it as "the movie where the Bermuda Triangle is a portal to the moon, for some reason." And it is, eventually, though it takes some time to get there.
Feeling a bit like a couple of spec scripts that got crashed rather haphazardly together, Dark Side of the Moon opens with a text crawl introducing us to the (then) far-flung future of 2022, as we join the crew of the Spacecore 1 on a "refab" mission to repair a nuclear satellite that has gone out of orbit and drifted toward, well, you can probably guess where from the title.
We meet the whole crew in short order—including their feminine computer, Lesli, played as a '30s femme fatale by Camilla More, aka Tina from the fourth Friday the 13th—just before the power mysteriously goes out. Now drifting in space, running out of oxygen, with the temperature plunging and on a collision course with the moon, the crew encounters a derelict, thirty-year-old NASA shuttle.
"This is weirder than the Flying Dutchman," the captain (Robert Sampson, Dean Halsey in Re-Animator) proclaims, in case the nautical themes have been going over your head up to that point. It is pretty weird, though. In spite of being lost for decades and having no crew, the ship has power and atmosphere (albeit with unusually high levels of sulfur, hmm) and, weirder still, is soaked in salt water and covered in seaweed.
They find only one person on board—or what's left of him. The remains of the only crew member who wasn't accounted for when the ship made a crash landing in the Bermuda Triangle thirty years before. Cause of death? A weird, bloody-but-sterile perfect triangle cut into his stomach.
The triangle motif in Dark Side of the Moon both is and isn't subtle. Triangles are everywhere in this movie. Worked into the architecture of the ships, emblazoned on uniforms, in the light and shadows that frame characters in shots. In one scene, a character is watching ones and zeros scroll along a computer screen—ostensibly, she is deriving some kind of information from this—and the numerals form triangle patterns.
After a while, you are seeing (or noticing) triangles everywhere. The three rockets on the back of the ship form a triangle, but then, that's true of actual space shuttles, too…
They bring the body back onto the ship, and in short order he's up and about, killing or possessing or both the crew members one by one, each one of them with a bloody triangle in their torso. The first time he strikes, a bloody head briefly comes out of that wound and… does something. It's unclear, and also pretty much the film's only nod toward a creature effect besides some yellow contacts and a third-act fake-out with a dryer hose.
Dark Side of the Moon is decorated up in the kinds of nonspecific Christian apologetics that may not be surprising if you've seen some of the other films that the Hayes brothers wrote—The Conjuring, sure, but also The Reaping(2007). The thing that they bring onto their ship is the devil in all but name—when asked, he gives the classic answer that he has "many names."
A big reveal comes when our protagonist figures out that the latitude and longitude of the Bermuda Triangle is 666—if you take out all the other numbers. And our hero—a lowkey atheist—saves the day by regaining his faith. And, y'know, using a nuke. This is a movie from the '90s, after all.
So, just what is going on? Well, apparently the Bermuda Triangle is a portal to the dark side of the moon and maybe along the way it passes through hell? Whatever happens, the devil has hitched a ride on it, and he intends to "take what is mine," by which he apparently means souls. He's going to use those souls to eventually become more powerful than god, until "heaven is nothing more than a crucible filled with dust."
What any of this has to do with the Bermuda Triangle, exactly, is anyone's guess. When asked about that particular plot point, the devil seems to indicate that it's simply "convenient." It seems like it would be more convenient if it was located in the middle of Times Square, but what do I know about the geo-theology?
Wikipedia claims (without citation) that the film's title is a nod to the Pink Floyd album, which seems like it might be a stretch, but then again, there are all those triangles…
The movie that wraps all of this is mostly workmanlike, the only feature credit for director D.J. Webster, but the Blu-ray from Unearthed Films makes it look as good as it can. The picture is never muddy, the chiaroscuro of the shadows and light are nice and sharp, and you can generally understand the characters when they're talking.
The crew of the Spacecore 1 are mostly made up of character actors with filmographies dominated by television, but they all do creditable work, and while they are occasionally called upon to very seriously say mumbo-jumbo, most of the time the dialogue is solid.
The production designers of Dark Side of the Moon had obviously seen both Alien and Aliens, but that was pretty unavoidable on space thrillers in 1990. There's a dinner sequence, in particular, that calls back the one in Alien, albeit much less dramatically. It does, however, introduce us to Chekhov's coffee creamer. And it's hard to imagine that Joe Turkel—who is perhaps the movie's biggest star, having appeared in both The Shining and Blade Runner, to name just a couple—wasn't cast partly for his resemblance to Lance Henriksen as Bishop.
There's nothing terribly wrong with Dark Side of the Moon, but, aside from its rather more literal take on the same plot as Event Horizon almost a decade before, there's little enough to make it stand out, either. But if what you've got is a hankering for a Dennis Wheatley novel in spaaaace, you could certainly do a lot worse.
What may be the film's best sequence is saved for last, as the camera pans across a miniature set showing the various wreckage from the Bermuda Triangle strewn across the surface of the moon, with an ominous voiceover and earth partly illuminated in the background. Roll credits.
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KNOWN FOR BEING ONE OF THE GREATEST GOLFERS OF ALL TIME, ACHIEVING OVER 150 WORLDWIDE WINS
Widely recognised as one of the best golfers ever, Gary Player is a South African former professional golfer who was also known as The Black Knight and International Ambassador of Golf when in action on the green. A nine-times champion, Gary is an icon in the golfing world and is a household name amongst most. Throughout a decorated 53 year-long career, he has amassed an impressive amount of knowledge surrounding key topics from setting and achieving goals to performing under pressure in which he is able to relate to corporate organisations as an after dinner speaker.
A determined player throughout his amateur career, Gary set his sights on becoming the world number one by the time he was 16. Turning professional only a year later, it didn't take him long to establish himself as a golfer with an abundance of skill. Throughout the 1950's during the American golf boom, Player competed frequently in the PGA Tour and eventually topped the money list in 1961.
Now with the third-highest amount of professional wins in the world, Gary boasts an incredible number of 152 victories and has been inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame for his consistency unbeatable performances. Some of his greatest achievements include winning the Masters Tournament and the Open Championship on three separate occasions, the PGA Championship twice and the US Open making him the only golfer outside of the USA to take first place at all four major championships.
With his talent not going unrecognised, Gary was voted Sportsman of the Century in 2000 and also received the highest honour achievable from the United States Golf Association, the Bob Jones Award . On top of his induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974, he has also had the Gary Player – A Global Journey exhibition launched in his honour.
Since his retirement in 2009, Gary continues to raise money for education, nutrition and medical care for disadvantaged children in South Africa with The Player Foundation. He also remains tied to his sport as he launched a golf course designing company, Gary Player Design, who were heavily considered to design the 2016 Summer Olympics course and operate in more than 36 countries. An established businessman, Gary has also launched Player Real Estate, Gary Player Academies and Black Knight Enterprises as well as having authored or co-authored nearing 40 books.
A hugely highly regarded sportsman, businessman and public figure, Gary Player can without-a-doubt make a truly unforgettable impact at corporate events and functions of all types. An incredibly keen philanthropist is also always willing to make appearances at charity golf days as well as other sports-related events.
To book Gary Player as the golf speaker for your corporate event, function or conference, simply contact the Champions Speakers agency using the contact details below.
When he's at corporate events, Gary is known to cover the following topics:
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Watch Gary offering some of his expert tips, here:
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Golfing Hall Of Famer
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Nationwide Business Leaders Weigh in on Hiring Plans During and After the Pandemic
Pearson Partners International recently published a study on the business and economic impact of COVID-19. Over 500 business leaders participated from across the nation, representing companies ranging from small, private organizations to multi-national conglomerates. Along with questions about operational impact, business continuity and the economy, business leaders were asked about plans for hiring and staffing now and in the future.
Below, we summarize these business leaders' input on hiring activity and plans in the fourth segment in our series following the study.
Capitalizing on a Slow Market
While overall hiring has slowed, some companies have taken advantage of the opportunity to add star players to their teams during the economic downturn. One CEO said, "During this economic time, I have found that great opportunity is available with talented employees who would not have been previously available." Several business leaders reported seeing an increased need for talent. One said, "My company is growing its market share and still needs employees to get that done." At the board level, one CEO reported, "Demand for experienced board members and advisors has increased markedly in the past two to three months."
Over a tenth (11 percent) of respondents said that their companies plan to increase hiring in the next year. Of those, most (88 percent) said they expect to increase hiring by 10–25 percent. Respondents who reported plans to fill top positions within the next year said that they plan to hire people in customer service, executive management, engineering, information technology, marketing, public relations, risk management, legal, healthcare sales, marketing and business development. While most respondents (91 percent) did not anticipate creating any new job titles on their leadership teams as a result of the crisis, several said that existing roles will have added responsibilities.
Some Hesitation
Still, downsizing, hiring freezes and employee furloughs affected almost two-thirds (62 percent) of respondents' companies. "We have eliminated open roles, frozen other positions and made some layoffs," reported one CEO respondent. While many positions were eliminated, many respondents reported that their companies were still actively hiring for certain positions. One said that hiring at their organization "will remain relatively flat but, we will backfill critical roles."
Some respondents reported mixed hiring activity, depending on the functional role. One CEO said, "We have increased hiring in customer-facing positions and placed a hiring freeze on non-essential positions." Another commented, "We will be building capabilities and talent in some new areas while adjusting our capacity in other areas. New hiring depends on the role and the need for specific skills in many cases." Another said that "hiring will be partially based on client response and new technology considerations. New technology is at the forefront today, and that will build efficiencies and effectiveness. Going forward, we need to continue nurturing technical skills and delivery."
Executives Wary of Making a Change
While unemployment is at an all-time high, many executives have become increasingly wary of changing jobs or relocating. In fact, a recent study of CHROs by Salveson Stetson Group (a Pearson Partners International global partner firm) found that most executives (64 percent), said they would not be interested in considering a career move during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, for the right opportunity, more than half (57 percent) said they would accept a job without meeting the manager face-to-face or experiencing the workplace environment. Two-thirds of executives (66 percent) said they would not accept a position that would require relocating, but a majority (82 percent) said they would accept a position that was remote-only.
Hiring Via Video
When asked whether they would consider hiring an employee based solely on video interviews, and not having met in person, our respondents were about evenly split. 37 percent said they would, 34 percent said they would not and 29 percent said it would depend on the position. One CEO said she would be willing to do so "only if I or one of my leadership team members knew the candidate personally."
Many companies are still hiring and filling positions in critical roles. While hiring has slowed due to the crisis, it has not stopped and in fact, in some industries and functional areas, hiring has increased. Many companies have been able to activate business continuity plans, implement work-from-home strategies and deploy technology to get work done. Some companies have taken the opportunity to develop new products, services and business lines. For companies with the resilience to do so, this environment represents a good time to recruit and upgrade talent resources.
Read more in our full study on The Business and Economic Impact of COVID-19.
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The Resilience Project Exhibit is Up!
My featured artist exhibit, "The Resilience Project," is on display in the Arches Gallery (building W-9) at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton through April 1. A reception will be held as part of the center's Second Saturday Art Walk from 6 to 9 p.m. on March 10.
Included in the exhibit are 28 photos focused on the theme of resilience, as well as photos taken by students from Holmes Middle School in Annandale. The student work is part of the Artist in Residence program I'm participating in thanks to the Arts Council of Fairfax County.
Come see my work! To read more about the exhibit and get a preview of the photos on display, go to http://glenncook.virb.com/resilience
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Photo Exhibits
Daily Photo: March 3, 2017
The last of the pictures in Road Show is one of only two that feature dancers. It also happens to be one of my favorites, taken of my daughter Emma in Pittsburgh last October.
The show runs through tomorrow night, when the Workhouse Arts Center holds its annual Collectors Showcase fundraiser. If you're interested in attending the Collectors Showcase, go towww.workhousearts.org to purchase tickets.
Daily Photo x 2: March 2, 2017
Two more photographs that appear in "Road Show," my exhibit at the Workhouse Arts Center that ends with the Collector's Showcase fundraiser this Saturday. Both photos have appeared here before.
The first, taken in October in Paris, is what you see when you look up from the ground at the Eiffel Tower. The second, "Congregation of Bees," was taken during a visit to Durham, N.C., last summer.
I hope you'll consider going to the exhibit before it closes. If you're interested in the Collectors Showcase event, go towww.workhousearts.org.
Daily Photo: January 23, 2017
My poster for "Road Show," now in building 16 at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton through March 4. Exhibit hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays.
Daily Photo: February 1, 2017
View from the Ranch — outside Moab, Utah, August 2016
Part of my exhibit, Road Show, at the Workhouse Arts Center, the Daily Photo was taken outside Moab, Utah, during a photo excursion to four states last August. The scenery in this part of the U.S. is breathtaking, and the photos are equally good in black and white or in color. For this, I chose to stick with color because of the contrast between the rocks and the gorgeous blue sky.
To see more photos in the exhibit, stop by the Workhouse and go to the second floor of Building 16. The show is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays through March 4.
Daily Photo: February 16, 2017
Harlem Mural — New York City, January 2016
Another "Road Show" selection, today's "Daily Photo" was taken while walking through Harlem with my wife last January during a trip to New York City. As anyone who visits this page regularly knows, I'm a great fan of graffiti and outdoor artists, and this one in particular caught my eye for two reasons.
First, seeing how the artist managed to navigate the many textures on the metal door is a remarkable feat. You can see many doors like this in New York and other urban cities, but this one is beautifully executed. Second, I love how the sprinkler/fire alarm bell is incorporated into the left eye, giving an already surreal work a cyborg effect.
You can see this and other photos through March 4 at the Workhouse Art Center in Lorton as part of "Road Show," the lead exhibit to the Collector's Showcase gallery on the second floor of building 16. The exhibit is open Wednesdays through Sundays.
'Road Show' Exhibit Now at Workhouse
Each winter, the Workhouse Arts Foundation holds its Collectors Showcase exhibition and fundraiser, featuring donated pieces from each of the 90-plus studio and the Arches Gallery artists. Last year, one of my photos was selected as "Best in Show" by Sarah Newman, an independent curator with past exhibits at the National Gallery of Art and Corcoran Gallery of Art.
As a result, I was invited to have my own exhibit at the entrance to this year's showcase, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. on March 4. The exhibit, dubbed "Road Show," features 12 photographs taken during 2016, a year in which I traveled to 18 states and three countries.
All 12 photos are for sale, with 30% of the proceeds benefitting the Workhouse's art, education and history programs. This teaser video gives you a sneak peek at the show, which was installed yesterday. I also will feature selected images from the show — with the stories behind each — in upcoming "Daily Photos" here and on my blog.
Starting this weekend, you can see the photos for yourself during the gallery's regular hours (11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Sundays) and at the second Saturday event on Feb. 11.
For more information about the Collectors Showcase and art lottery, visit www.workhousearts.org. And stop by Building 9 to see three more of my photos and the work of the other Arches Gallery artists.
Headshots/Photo Sessions


The Duchess of Sussex's mum is 'looking forward to welcoming her first grandchild'.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have just announced that they are expecting their first child and the family have been sharing their excitement.
A statement released by Kensington Palace revealed that Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, is 'very happy' about her daughter's pregnancy news.
'Ms Doria Ragland is very happy about the lovely news and she looks forward to welcoming her first grandchild,' a spokesperson said (via The Telegraph).
Other members of the royal family also shared their best wishes for the couple, who attended Princess Eugenie's wedding in Windsor on Friday.
Doria Ragland joined Meghan and Harry at a Kensington Palace event in September.
'The Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, and Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are delighted for the couple and were able to congratulated them in Friday at the wedding in person,' the spokesperson added. The Palace has not revealed whether the Duchess' father, Thomas Markle, has been told.
Since Harry and Meghan tied-the-knot in May, there has been speculation surrounding Doria spending more time in the U.K.
With her first grandchild now on the way, we could be seeing Meghan's mum a lot more often.


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Cambridge Opera Journal
Marschner's villains, monomania...
Howe, Blake 2016. Music and the Agents of Obsession. Music Theory Spectrum, Vol. 38, Issue. 2, p. 218.
July 2000 , pp. 109-134
Marschner's villains, monomania, and the fantasy of deviance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954586700001099
Marschner's villains occupy an important place in the history of operatic style, forming a bridge between characters such as Dourlinski or Pizarro and Wotan or the Dutchman. His villains may also be understood against the background of early nineteenth-century pathology, and particularly the syndrome of 'monomania'. Marschner's music, which partially 'heroicizes' the villains in keeping with the contemporary rise of the sympathetic villain, parallels efforts to redefine the nature of madness. Marschner's operas could thus simultaneously construct and undermine the hegemony of bourgeois values, and become a vehicle through which composers, performers, and audiences could explore the contradiction between social/sexual order and the fantasy of deviance.
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Address by Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, Chairman of the National Committee of the Progressive People's Party (PPP) at a Press Conference on Local Government, Decentralisation and Election of MMDCEs held in Accra on April 25, 2018
Posted April 25, 2018 admin
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Media;
Thank you for accepting our invitation. We appreciate your presence here as we, the Progressive People's Party (PPP) recognize that your work is critical to achieving stability and ensuring the transparency and accountability we need in this nation.
We have called you here today to present to you our position on the state of local government and decentralisation in Ghana, address the key reforms needed for Ghana to maximize her potential and, accordingly guarantee rapid and sustained development at both the local and national levels.
As you are all aware, one of the major policy visions of the PPP is the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs). This is a vision we committed to at the founding of our party in the year 2012. And we will do all it takes to constitutionally ensure its passage to make sure it happens.
Before we discuss our main topic here this morning, I wish to inform you that the PPP is steadily conducting constituency elections at the constituency level throughout the country. Attention will shift to the regional elections next month. The PPP has remained active and strengthening its presence in the towns and villages across the country. Our party's representatives can be heard on radio and television making contributions to discussions on national affairs. To them, the party's leadership sends a big "thank you for the time and the numerous sacrifices" In June, we will turn our attention to the overseas branches of the party. What we are doing here today demonstrates that the PPP remains the alternative waiting and preparing itself to be given the opportunity to deliver great results as a party in power.
State of Local Government:
It is necessary for us to let the whole country know why the topic we are discussing today is so important. Our lopsided centralized form of administration has contributed in a very significant way to four problems we have in this country:
Problem 1: Poverty of all types;
Problem 2: Low level of development;
Problem 3: Disconnect between the people at the community level and local government and its leaders – everyone looks to the center based in Accra; and
Problem 4: A nation that has become a chronic underachiever – economy, health, quality of life, etc
We believe that our local areas remain underdeveloped mainly because the leaders, the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives are selected by one person – the President based mostly on political patronage. Sometimes, not always, the people who become Chief Executives are the ones rejected by the people when they stood election to become Members of Parliament. As a result, they listen to Accra and NOT the people they are put there to serve.
The problem of empowering the people at the local level has persisted in Ghana because the Constitution we are working with took a big part of that power and gave it to the President. This problem many believe is still with us due to the usual problems people in power have had in parts of Africa and other less developed countries, "… the reluctance and lack of political will by central governments to cede power and authority to local governments; local level political participation has not been accompanied by accountability; and the poor or inadequate allocation of resources by central governments to local authorities."
What else accounts for the fact that we are still talking about the people electing their own MMDCEs when the first Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS 1) promised to remove all constitutional impediments by the end of 2004?
Article 240 (1) of the Constitution says that "Ghana shall have a system of local government which shall, as far as practicable, be decentralized". It is the same Article 240 that gives authority to Parliament to enact appropriate laws "… to ensure that functions, powers, responsibilities and resources are at all times transferred from the Central Government to local government units in a co-ordinated manner". But Parliament's ability to bring about full decentralization is hampered by the Constitution. Therefore, there is the need to amend the 1992 Constitution to remove the offending parts that have become road blocks.
What is the problem and what are the facts we must deal with? The most offending parts of the Constitution in terms of usurping the powers of the people are the following:
1. Article 242 "A District Assembly shall consist of the following members:
(a)One person from each local government electoral area within the district elected by universal adult suffrage;
(b)The member or members of Parliament from the constituencies that fall within the area of authority of the District Assembly as members without the right to vote;
(c)The District Chief Executive of the district; and
(d)Other members not being more than thirty per cent of all the members of the District Assembly, appointed by the President in consultation with the traditional authorities and other interest groups in the district."
2. Article 243 which reads, "243 (1) There shall be a District Chief Executive for every district who shall be appointed by the President with the prior approval of not less than two-thirds majority of members of the Assembly present and voting at the meeting."
3. Article 243 (3) which says that:
"The office of District Chief Executive shall become vacant if:
(a)A vote of no confidence, supported by the votes of not less than two-thirds of all the members of the District Assembly is passed against him; or
(b)He is removed from office by the President; or
(c)He resigns or dies. "
Many of us have on numerous occasions called for these sections of the Constitution to be amended.
We were offered one opportunity to make our case to the Constitutional Review Commission only to be disappointed. So it is necessary to recalI the White Paper government issued after the receipt of the report prepared by the Constitutional Review Commission appointed by the late President John Fiifi Atta Mills. With regard to the mode of selecting Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives:
"…Government does not accept the recommendation that Parliament should be empowered to determine specific mechanisms for choosing Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives. Government does not also accept the recommendation that…Metropolitan Chief Executives should be popularly elected. Government is of the view that in decentralizing in a unitary state, a delicate balance ought to be struck between central control and local autonomy. Consequently, Government is of the view that article 243 (1) of the Constitution should be amended for the President to nominate a minimum of five persons who would be vetted by the Public Services Commission for competence after which three nominees would contest in a public election elections. We the Progressives protested against this. Our point was and still remains that if the Constitution were to be amended as stated above, local development would continue to be dictated by Central government in Accra and will therefore not be based on the urgent priorities and needs of the local people. Our local areas we said would consequently continue to be under-developed. Our position remained that Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives must be elected at the local level by the people so that they, the people and not Accra, will have control on the development agenda of their local areas based on their established priorities. This is the only way to ensure sustainable development at the local level.
We have continued to make the point that if the people are smart enough to cast a vote to elect a Assembly Member, a Member of Parliament and a President, they are certainly smart enough to cast a vote to elect their Chief Executive.
We urged former President John Dramani Mahama to cement a positive legacy as the one who saw wisdom in staring total power in the face and decided to give a big chunk of it back to the people in order to accelerate development at the local level. Unfortunately, the former President allowed the work done by the Constitutional Commission to go to waste. Nothing was implemented.
So what has happened during the present Akufo-Addo administration?
To attempt addressing the failure of the local government system, the NPP administration has created 38 new Metropolitan, Municipal and Districts, to bring the number of Districts from 216 to 254. This means 254 Chief Executives and thousands of Assembly Members appointed by virtue of political association who quite often disregard he development needs of the people in favour of political objectives.
An unfortunate development on the local government front is the allocation of 20.6 Million Ghana Cedis to Members of Parliament to monitor Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND) projects and respond to educational emergencies that may occur. This total figure constitutes 2.3% of 924.8million expected to accrue to GETFUND for the 2018 fiscal year. According to a formula recently approved by parliament, each MP is expected to receive from this amount an average of 72,000 for 2018. This is in addition to the MPs' Common Fund which the Chief Executives and MPs routinely fight over to the detriment of the people.
Our MPs are happy and busy defending the GETFUND related allocation without addressing the implications for parliament as the weakest link in our governance system in relation to the executive arm of government. Why was this fund not sent directly to the MMDAs? Between the Member of Parliament, and the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Officer at the Assembly, who is more qualified and capable to undertake monitoring and evaluation of development projects at the local level?
The PPP finds these developments troubling indeed. We think it is another way for the Executive to preserve their firm grip on the Legislature and local governance. The PPP is demanding that government should stop dancing around these ineffective local government systems and rather take urgent steps to implement reforms that would make our local government effective and efficient in the core areas of development that brings accountability to the doorstep of the people.
Election of MMDCEs:
As I have stated already, one of the major policy visions of the PPP is the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs). This is a vision we committed to at the founding of our party in the year 2012. What we are doing is part of our program to ensure that his happens.
When it happens, it will remove the democratic deficit in the operation of the 1992 constitution, give power back to the people, allow local government authorities to focus on local issues, guarantee accountability at the local government levels, and trigger the race to growth and development among the MMDAs nation-wide. Ultimately, the race would see the districts that represent the basic units of development, competing effectively and efficiently to progress simultaneously.
Again, these reforms, when implemented, would take away the President's powers of appointment of the MMDCEs. The Executive's control and influence in the districts would decrease as the local government officials, especially the MMDCEs would no longer be answerable directly to the President but to the people. If the people are satisfied with their work, they will be re-elected. If not, they would be ousted through the ballot box.
We must also remind everyone that throughout the world, mayors or chief executives re more often than not elected directly by the people. London, Washington, DC, and right here in Africa, Johannesburg, Abidjan and Dakar among others elect their mayors.
Some people may wonder why we are talking "plenty" about this when the Akufo-Addo Administration says it is going change the Constitution to enable the election of MMDCEs. What's our worry?
Where we differ with the NPP: We want the election of the MMDCEs now, not later.
The policy to elect MMDCEs which has been a PPP policy since the party was formed in 2012, found its way into the New Patriotic Party (NPP's) 2016 manifesto. There is nothing wrong with changing your mind when presented with superior facts as the PPP and progressives had done for years. But it created "credibility and believability" issues.
The NPP had promised to implement the policy but failed to make it happen when they won the 2000 elections and governed the country between 2001 and 2008.
The NPP, again in its 2016 manifesto promised to "oversee the direct election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) within 24 months of election into office, to coincide with the next District Assembly elections in 2019." It is obvious that per the schedule recently released by government that election of MMDCEs will not happen until well after the 2020 elections.
In July 2017, the President assured the nation at the orientation for newly appointed MMDCEs that the elections would take place as promised, insisting that they would be the last batch of MMDCEs to be appointed. But not long after that, and in a spectacular "U" turn, a Deputy Local Government Minister, Honourable O.B. Amoah, gave reasons why Ghanaians must not expect the election of MMDCEs in 2018 or 2019, contrary to what the President had said.
So we are asking the current NPP administration to stay the course and muster the political will to undertake this all important reform of election of MMDCEs. We understand that there are some people in that party's leadership who don't want to give up what they consider to be their party's hold on local government so they can use it to win elections. To those people, we ask, your party lost the 2008 elections, the NDC lost the 2000 and 2016 elections even though they controlled the local governments across the country.
Delay tactics:
The Deputy Minister's revelation was anchored on a supposed challenge posed by Article 55 (3) of the 1992 constitution – "Subject to the provisions of this article, a political party is free to participate in shaping the political will of the people, to disseminate information on political ideas, social and economic programmes of a national character, and sponsor candidates for elections to any public office other than to District Assemblies or lower local government units." This is an entrenched provision that requires a referendum to amend to pave way for political parties to sponsor candidates for local government elections. But this fact is not new. The NPP a party with many lawyers has known this. So if they wanted to go this route, the process of change should have started right away when power was handed to them by the people.
The option still remains to go the non-referendum way without touching the political affiliation revision as a first step to get the MMDCEs elected directly by the people.
We have observed that if care is not taken, this important policy may become labeled as a purely NPP matter. We are here to declare that this is real, national interest policy. The Minister of Local Government and her deputies must involve us, the PPP and others as important stakeholders in all the public events on this subject we have been reading and hearing about in the media. We want the election of MMDCEs to happen and we want to state our case to the public directly why we support this government policy. At the same time, we want the opportunity to inform the nation why this policy must be implemented sooner rather than later.. Accordingly, we are asking our party members to attend all public events organized on the topic of the election of MMDCEs everywhere in country and make our position clear to the people. We are also asking government to make available to us the schedule for these events. This time around, we do not want government to say one thing and turn around and do something different. And we want everyone to note that the election of MMDCEs WILL be an important campaign topic in 2020.
We take President Akufo-Addo at his word that he is really in a hurry to develop the country as he says often. If he wants the development to happen quickly, then the election of MMDCEs must become one of his top priority items. Article 55 (3) must not be used as a delay tactic as many are afraid of now. Our leaders must make the election of MMDCEs happen even if it will take away some of their powers. A great leader is one who envisions what is good for his country and its people and does it even if it does not sit well with the leadersit as his followers' personal wishes.
We in the PPP believe that election of MMDCEs would be a powerful, positive game changer for Ghana's development. And as we declared at the 4th National Convention of the Progressive People's Party (PPP) held from the 20th to 21st of October 2017, in the Bolgatanga consensus, our party shall "continue to promote the election of MMDCEs as the most important governance reform needed for Ghana's democratic and economic development, and demand that it is made a top priority in the nation's governance agenda".
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A whaler and other vessels in a light breeze, 1788
"A whaler and other vessels in a light breeze," John Askew, 1788, National Maritime Museum.
Whaling became a juggernaut industry in the 19th century. In the period of my study, it is an important a lucrative business, but not yet the cultural and economic force it would become. This is partly evidenced by the fact that this is the first image I have examined that explicitly depicts whalers.
What first caught my attention on this piece was the ensign flying from the stern of the whaler herself.
Merchant vessels, including one of the other ships in this very painting, flew the red ensign. It is much the same as the flag we see above, but instead of the white field intersected by St. George's Cross, it was a pure red field with the King's Colors as a canton. The red ensign could also be flown by British naval vessels, as could the white ensign shown above, and a blue ensign. These three flags divided Royal Navy vessels into three fleets, and a white or blue ensign was a strong sign of a naval vessel, not a merchant.
Clearly we are looking at a whaler. Her bulwarks are not pierced for a single cannon, and the rails running larboard to starboard are distinctive to whalers (they were meant to hold the whale boats when not pursuing their prey). The common answer to flying a "wrong" ensign is that it could be used to confuse an enemy. If this were the case, her whaleboats would be aboard, not out hunting whales while some hungry privateer closed on her. Another possible answer is that the artist knew little of the sea and merely painted ensigns he recognized. As one of Askew's earlier works, this is possible, but he was a marine artist and appears to have known what he was doing.
I don't have an answer for this particular ensign being used, and suspect it may not have been as strange to the people of the past as it is to me. Perhaps vessels in the British merchant fleet did not think much about which particular ensign they used, as the most important aspect of it was to identify the nationality of your ship.
Askew depicts whalers at work in their boats, chasing the fluke of a tail. Our intrepid whalemen are clad in blue, brown, and red jacket. They wear black cocked hats and brown, grey, and blue breeches and trousers.
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Congratulations to Dr Amaury Triaud, now at the University of Birmingham, recipient of the 2020 Fowler Award from the Royal Astronomical Society. The Fowler Award is for scientists making a "particularly noteworthy contribution to Astronomy & Geophysics at an early stage of their research career".
The citation reads: "Between 2007 and 2017, Dr Triaud led the radial-velocity follow-up of planet candidates south of declination −10 degrees from the Wide-Angle Search for Planets (WASP). His programme led to the discovery of over 130 planets from some 1000 candidates, making WASP the most successful of all ground-based transit searches."
Amaury started looking for WASP exoplanets as a graduate student at the Geneva Observatory, under the direction of Didier Queloz (himself recipient of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discoveries of exoplanets). Didier's group at Geneva operated the CORALIE spectrograph on the 1.2-m Euler telescope at La Silla in Chile. Euler/CORALIE was the ideal follow-up instrument to vet the transiting exoplanet candidates coming from WASP-South, able to show which ones were genuinely the transits of planetary-mass bodies (only 1-in-10 of all candidates), and which were merely transit mimics. Amaury organised and ran the campaign, observing of order 1500 candidates and leading to the discovery of around 150 planets.
The Euler 1.2-m telescope
While the citation mentions the campaign for Southern candidates south of declination −10 degrees, the Geneva group were also responsible for much of the follow-up in the equatorial strip from −10 to +10 degrees, where the candidates came jointly from data from WASP-South and from SuperWASP-North on La Palma.
Amaury's work extended into studying the orbits of the WASP exoplanets, showing that many of the orbits were misaligned. He also developed programs identifying and studying the low-mass binary stars that also came from the WASP survey, and is now looking for circumbinary planets orbiting these low-mass binaries.
This entry was posted in exoplanets, WASP project and tagged Amaury Triaud, Coralie, Euler/CORALIE, Fowler Award, Geneva Observatory, RAS, WASP-South on January 13, 2020 by waspplanets.


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