The Medal Maker

The Medal Maker PDF Author: Roger Vaughan
Publisher: Altamira Creation
ISBN: 9783952217429
Category : Sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Victor Kovalenko, who's teams have won more Olympic medals in sailing than those of any other sailing coach in history, grew up in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 60s. The Medal Maker tracks his development from top sportsman in the Soviet Union to his initial Olympic success as a sailing coach of the Ukrainian team. But Victor's innate curiosity and broad philosophical outlook clashed with post-Soviet, Ukrainian politics. When Australia beckoned, he was ready. He turned what appeared to be a mission impossible into double gold at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. At the time he was dubbed The Medal Maker. The name has stuck with good reason. To date, in eight Olympic Games, Victor's team have amassed ten Olympic medals, six of them gold.

Medal Maker

Medal Maker PDF Author: Roger Vaughan
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ISBN: 9783952217436
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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The Medal Maker

The Medal Maker PDF Author: Roger Vaughan
Publisher: Altamira Creation
ISBN: 9783952217429
Category : Sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Book Description
Victor Kovalenko, who's teams have won more Olympic medals in sailing than those of any other sailing coach in history, grew up in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 60s. The Medal Maker tracks his development from top sportsman in the Soviet Union to his initial Olympic success as a sailing coach of the Ukrainian team. But Victor's innate curiosity and broad philosophical outlook clashed with post-Soviet, Ukrainian politics. When Australia beckoned, he was ready. He turned what appeared to be a mission impossible into double gold at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. At the time he was dubbed The Medal Maker. The name has stuck with good reason. To date, in eight Olympic Games, Victor's team have amassed ten Olympic medals, six of them gold.

The Medal

The Medal PDF Author:
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Category : Medals
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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The Transmitter

The Transmitter PDF Author: Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland
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Category : Personnel management
Languages : en
Pages : 798

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Coins and medals of the emperor Francis Stephen of Lorraine

Coins and medals of the emperor Francis Stephen of Lorraine PDF Author: Tomáš Kleisner
Publisher: Tomas Kleisner
ISBN: 8070363169
Category : Coins, Austrian
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Literaturverz. S. 196 - 200.

The Franklin Journal, and American Mechanics' Magazine

The Franklin Journal, and American Mechanics' Magazine PDF Author:
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Journal of the Franklin Institute

Journal of the Franklin Institute PDF Author: Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher:
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Vols. 1-69 include more or less complete patent reports of the U. S. Patent Office for years 1825-59.

A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles PDF Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1126

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Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts

Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts PDF Author:
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 798

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Vols. 1-69 include more or less complete patent reports of the U. S. Patent Office for years 1825-1859. cf. Index to v. 1-120 of the Journal, p. [415]

On the Origin of Spin

On the Origin of Spin PDF Author: Brendan Bruce
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 1490571353
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 511

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This book was written to try and answer the question: ‘where and when did political spin originate?’ It deals with the techniques of news management developed and used in those advanced democracies who have laws to protect a free press. such as the United States of America, and to a lesser extent its first cousin, several times removed, the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, or to be more precise, England, who in 1695 became the first country in the world to enshrine a free press into their constitutional law. This joint history of legal protections of press freedom; governmental toleration of free speech; progressive legislation to widen the franchise; vigorous growth in political parties; pluralism and its consequence, the peaceful coexistence of different interests, convictions and lifestyles; a healthy adherence to Burkean ‘little platoons’ of volunteers; and, most of all, sophisticated developments in mass media technologies and consumer marketing techniques; all of which means that the Anglo-Saxon cousins are, and have always been, in the vanguard of news management. Government and media have been at war from the very beginning. Au fond this is a struggle for allegiance. The media want the allegiance of their readers and viewers, because this brings them the profits they need to remain in business. As Patrick Le Lay, then CEO of the main French private channel TF1 put it: "There are many ways to speak about TV, but in a business perspective, let's be realistic: TF1's job is to help Coca-Cola sell its product. What we sell to Coca-Cola is available human brain time." Government on the other hand wants the allegiance of the voter, to acquire or retain power. The famous Victorian editor of 'The Times', Thomas Barnes, once said that the "newspaper is not an organ through which Government can influence people, but through which people can influence the Government." Politicians would reverse the dictum. And therein lies the causus belli. The politician's strategy for winning this war was stated most succinctly by that arch media manipulator, David Lloyd George: "what you can't square, you squash; and what you can't squash, you square." The media for their part, are determined to be neither squashed nor squared. From 1800 in the US and 1832 in Britain (when Germany and Italy were just a glint in the eye of some petty princes; and France was recovering from yet another pointless 'revolution' leaving behind yet another example of Kafka's bureaucratic slime); competitive, party based elections produced extraordinary outbursts of creativity. Politicians learned that the art of politics is about making and then winning arguments. As each successive cutting edge novelty arrived, the spin doctors quickly adapted and improved their techniques by adroitly exploiting the new medium’s benefits. For two centuries (and even before) the ‘Anglo-Saxons’ have led the world in spin: this is the history of that journey.