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|In Remembrance of my Aunt
Evelyn Dale Potter
2-18-1951 ~ 9-16-1997
|Since my Grandma Ethel's death, I wanted to put together a page for my Aunt Dale. My Aunt Penny also has a webpage in remembrance of her. I am not a writer nor do I use the most proper grammer in my writings. I write the way I think, so please bare with me as I share with you my memories, thoughts and feelings.
She was one of the most loving people I know. She always treated my brothers and I as her own. She was much like a mother me, especially after my parents divorce. Always caring on how I felt. Always there when I needed her or wanted to be with her.
There's not much I can remember of her from when I was young. As a kid, I mostly played with my cousins. She told me, when I was a young teenager, that she taught me how to ask for things when I was a toddler. For some unknown reason to me, she laughed when she told me. Guess it was humorous when I was a toddler and I grunted for everything I wanted.
During the last few months of my parents marriage, she helped my dad take care of my bothers and I. We lived with our mom and our dad got us at during the nights when he was able to pick us up. She helped out by feeding us and took us school in the morning. My dad and my aunt, with her family, lived in Upland, CA and, my bothers and I lived in Rialto, CA. The early morning drive was about 30 or so miles and lasted about 30 to 45 minutes, a few times an hour. She got us to school on time and got her kids to their schools a bit late. She did all that for my father and for us.
After my parents divorce, we moved in with our dad. That was where we wanted to live...which is a totally different story. Anyway, she took care of us while our dad was at work. We were at her house for dinner every night. She got us to school or out the door to get us to the bus on time. She took us all every place she had to go to. She took us to doctors when we needed to. We practically lived with her.
For about four years, she was a major part of my life. She never tried to take the place of my mom, but she filled the spot. It was her nature to treat me as her son. With all her love and support, she never belittled me. She paid attention to me and to my feelings. She knew my and my brothers favorite foods and made sure there was extra servings for us. She allowed me my freedom to do what ever I wanted to do and to go where ever I wanted to go, to a certain extent because, she didn't allow bad behaviors.
Here are a couple of memories I have of her during those four years.
When my cousin, Brandon, and I were late for school or missed it all together, she told them that the car wouldn't start. The way she put it to us is that if she was not in the car to turn the key, then the car won't start. Clever....
It took her a long time but, she stopped smoking all together. Yea!!!
She enjoyed playing Scrabble, Up-words, and Perquackey with my Grandma Ethel.
She taught me how to play Solitaire.
There are so many memories I have of her but, they also enclude her family. Besides, there are to much details to explain everything. So, I'll keep those to myself.
My final thoughts and feelings... The day she died is a day I will never forget. I was in the field competing for top tank crew for the battlion (I was in the Marine Corps at the time). I had a good morning and then, around noon, a Red Cross message reached me. I was shocked to hear the news. My wife, Amy, and I planned on seeing her at the hospital the weekend right after that day.
To back track a little, she died early that morning. When my house was called, Amy answered the phone. The caller was my father and he told her about the death my aunt. Amy knew that the only way I could get out of the field was to get a Red Cross message to me. Regardless who called the Red Cross in the first place, I was notified and was able to get out of the field.
I was sadden and heart broken. A part of my heart died that day. I couldn't stop myself from crying in front of my friends. The ride out of the field was a slow one to me. All the memories of her flooded my mind. I couldn't think clearly. My first sargent tried to talk to me but, I didn't understand what he said, eventhough I heard him clearly.
When I got back to the company office, emergency leave papers (vacation) were waiting for me and so was Amy. I thought that my company would just let me go home for the day. The way it was put to them is that she help raised me and that qualified me for emergency leave. I took my forteen day leave.
Due to the lack of proper funds, my aunt was cremated and her ashes were spread acrossed the ocean. I never seen her body after her death. I wasn't invited to furneral. I never had a chance to say "good-bye". I was badly hurt by her death and I hated her for leaving me the way she did. That hate didn't last long.
For me to feel at peace, I went on a special trip. My family and I went to Upland where she once lived. Then we drove the way she took my brothers and I to school before my parents divorce. The whole road trip, I only talked about my Aunt Dale. It was the only I can be with her. The only way I could say good-bye. The only way I could mend my broken heart and be able to smile again.
When I was in Kuwait in December 1998 through April 1999, I thought about her from time to time. I missed her so much and I wished I was able to say good-bye to her. When I was totally alone, all I did was cry. I couldn't help it. I lost control of myself. All I wanted was to tell her that I love her and to say my final good-bye. I thought that trip of mine had worked for me but, it just subsided my hurt feelings.
When I returned home to California, I took another trip. That helped me to cope with my loss but, it wasn't the same as the trip before.
I finally got my closer when I saw my Grandma Ethel for the last time. I was able to say good-bye to the both of them. At first, I wanted to tell my grandma how I felt about my aunt and I want her to tell my aunt when she got to heaven. When I saw her, I couldn't say anything to her other that to intoduce to her my youngest son, Dylan. That night, my heart was at peace. This heart warming peace also subsided my hurt feelings.
There was a couple of times after my grandma's death I cried all of the sudden. I missed the both of them so much. I wanted them both back. I knew I had to let them go. Then, the more I thought about them, the less I cried. I decided to make a remembrance page for them. Finally, I have true closer. Finally, I can think about them and smile...
Aunt Dale... I will always love you... Rest in Peace, Forever
Final notes... This page was written on January 30, 2002.
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TLW's Fountainscope™ (Fountain Historyscope)
By T.L. Winslow (TLW), the Historyscoper™
© Copyright by T.L. Winslow. All Rights Reserved.
Original Pub. Date: June 6, 2020. Last Update: June 16, 2020.
Westerners are not only known as history ignoramuses, but double dumbass history ignoramuses when it comes to the history of Fountains. Since I'm the one-and-only Historyscoper (tm), let me quickly bring you up to speed before you dive into my Master Historyscope.
About 3,000 B.C.E. the earliest known fountain is located in Mesopotamia, consisting of a series of basins fed by a natural spring, which is later copied by the Greeks and Romans.
About 500-300 B.C.E. Ancient Greece has a plethora of fountains, esp. near temples, incl. the city of Corinth, known for the white marble Pirene (Peirene) Fountain, along with a bronze fountain of Poseidon standing on a dolphin in Megara, designed by Theagenes, and a fountain in Lerna surrounded by pillars with seating provided, designed by Eupalinus; Athens had many fountains incl. the Fountain of Pan called the Panopos Fountain, with water supplied from natural springs such as Caliroi (the source of the Ilisos River) or Klepsidra, Asklipios, and the Erechtieda Sea; the Enneacrunus Fountain in Athens is called Callirrhoe for the nine pipes that fed it; two temples were above it, according to Pausamas, one dedicated to Demeter and Persephone, and the other to Tiptolemus; the fountain in the Erechtheum (Erechtheion) (-406) on the N side of the Acropolis in Athens is supplied by a spring of salt water, and a similar spring supplies the Temple of Poseidon Hippios in Mantinea.
In 97 C.E. former Roman gov. of Britain Sextus Julius Frontinus (40-103) is made supt. of Roman waterworks, and writes De Aqueductibus Urbis Romae (De Aquaeductu); at this time the length of the nine aqueducts serving Rome is 264 mi., 222 of which are cut beneath the surface; they branch into 247 main reservoirs, serving 744 points of distribution within the city (591 public fountains, 95 baths, 58 barracks and theaters); total output: 330M gal. of water per day for 1M sweet-smelling people wiping their butts with sponges on sticks; too bad, they line the pipes with lead, leading to sterility et al., dooming the Romans?
In 652 C.E. the 177-ft. (54m) Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in Ch'ang-an (X'ian, Shaanxi), China is built; 50 years later it collapses, and Empress Wu Zetian has it rebuilt with five new stories in 704; in ? a Musical Fountain opens, featuring 1,024 water nozzles synchronized to music and light; watch video.
In 1499 Italian Dominican priest-monk Francesco Colonna (1433-1527) writes the romance The Dream of Poliphilus (Hypnerotomachia Poliphili) (Gk. "hypnos" + "eros" + "mache" = sleep + love + fight) (Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream) (incunable) (Venice), which describes a mythical world filled with fountains where Poliphilo pursues his love Polia, finally getting a kiss by the Fountain of Venus, only to wake up from his dream, causing grand fountains to become a rage in Italy in the 16th-17th cents.
In 1546 Henry VIII founds Trinity College at Cambridge U., which goes onto become the largest Oxbridge college; grads later incl. Isaac Newton, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Adam Sedgwick, Lord Byron, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bertand Russell, James Clerk Maxwell, Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, and Ludwig Wittgenstein; in 1599-1608 a fountain is built in the Great Court.
In 1547-9 after being hired to redesign the future Lescot wing of the Palais du Louvre, the French Renaissance (recycled Italian Modernism) Fontaine des Innocents (Nymphes) is built in Paris by architect Pierre Lescot (1515-78) and sculptor Jean Goujon (1510-68) to celebrate the royal entry of Henry II, becoming the earliest monumental fountain in Paris.
In July 1560 Villa d'Este on Lake Como in Tivoli (near Rome), Italy, commissioned by Cardinal (since 1538) Ippolito II d'Este (1509-7) (son of Lucrezia Borgia) and designed by architects Alberto Galvani and Pirro Ligorio (1512-83) is begun (finished 1575), developing the finest Renaissance garden in Italy AKA Tivoli Gardens; it becomes known for its 500 beautiful fountains incl. a Neptune water organ fountain, Fountain of Venus, and the Oval Fountain; too bad, d'Este loots the nearby 2nd cent. C.E. Hadrian's Villa for marbles and statues for his super villa, and never makes pope; watch video; watch video; watch video; watch video; watch video.
In 1565 the 4.2m-tall Fountain of Neptune in Florence, Italy, designed by Baccio Bandinelli after being commissioned in 1559 by Cosimo I de' Medici is finished in time for the wedding of Francesco de' Medici to Grand Duchess Johanna of Austria; too bad, the local pop. thinks that it stinks, and nickname it "Il Biancone" (the White Giant); a fountain is completed by 1575; on Aug. 4, 2005 three vandals cut of one of Neptune's hands holding a trident; it is restored in 2007.
In 1588 the Residenzplatz in Salzburg, Austria is begun on the cemetery of the old monastery N of Salzburg Cathedral, starting with the Renaissance Neue Residenz, featuring a prominent bell tower, becoming the home of the prince-archbishops of Salzburg; in 1656-61 the Baroque Untersberg limestone Residenzbrunnen fountain is built, designed by Tommaso di Garona and topped by a statue of Triton modeled after the Triton Fountain in Rome, becoming the largest Baroque fountain in Europe.
In 1602 Henry IV of France has Leochares' 325 B.C.E. Statue of Diana (Artemis) removed from Fontainebleau and mounted in a special gallery in the Palais du Louvre, then has Barthelemy Prieur cast a bronze replica and set it upon a high Mannerist marble pedestal, which is turned into a fountain by hydraulics engineer Tommaso Francini in 1603, featuring bronze hunting dogs pissing water and stag heads spitting water, sculpted by Pierre Biard, and located in the Jardin de la Reine in a parterre surrounded by an orangery.
In 1612 the Fontana dell'Acqua Paola (AKA Il Fantanone = the big fountain) on the Janiculum Hill near the Church of San Pietro in Montorio, Rome is built to mark the end of the Acqua Paola aqueduct restored by Pope Paul V, becoming the first major fountain on the right bank of the Tiber River.
In 1618-9 the bronze Manneken Pis (Dutch "Little Pissing Man") Fountain in Brussels is designed by Jerome Duquesnoy the Elder, becoming the symbol of Brussels; in 1965 it is switched with a replica so it can be kept safe in the city museum.
In 1642-3 the travertine Triton Fountain (Fontana del Tritone) in the Piazza Barberini in Rome is built by Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini for his patron Pope Urban VIII; not to be confused with the nearby Fountain of the Tritons in Piazza Bocca della Verita by Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri.
In 1653 after Girolami Rainaldi and his son Carlo Rainaldi begin it and begin quarreling, Gianlorenzo Bernini's rival Francesco Borromini (1599-1667) designs Sant'Agnese in Agone (Piazza Navona) Church in Piazza Navona (Agone), Rome, dedicated to St. Agnes, who died there in 304 C.E.; the Aswan granite Fountain of the Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi) in front of Pope Innocent X's Palazzo Pamphili and Sant'Agnese in Agone, designed by Bernini features statues of river gods Nile and Ganges, allegedly shielding their eyes from the ugliness of the church, after which Borromini adds a statue of St. Agnes to the facade of his church, pretending to gaze past the fountain?; as the fountain is started during a famine in 1646, the public is vocally against it and on the verge of riot, but when it is unveiled on June 12, 1651 its size and beauty overwhelm them with pride and wonder.
In 1670 the Latona Fountain between the Chateau de Versailles and Grand Canal in France is begun by Andre Le Notre, and enlarged in 1686 by Jules Hardouin-Mansart after statuary is added in 1667 by brothers Gaspard and Balthzard Marsy, topped by a statue of the goddess Latona, mother of the Sun god Apollo and Moon gods.
In 1682 William Penn builds Franklin Square (originally North East Publick Square) in Philadelphia, Penn. as one of five open-space parks; renamed in 1825 in honor of Benjamin Franklin; in 1838 Franklin Square Fountain is built, fed by water from the Schuykill River.
In 1696 the 70.5m-tall Hercules Monument in Kassel, N Hesse, Germany is begun by Landgrave Karl of Hesse-Kassel, with a pyramid on top of an octagon topped by a copper statue of Hercules (Heracles), built in 1707-17; on June 3, 1714 the water stairs (cascade) debut.
On May 1, 1703 the Russians take Nienshanz Fortress at the mouth of the Neva River, and drive the Swedes from the Neva Delta, then seize Noteburg and rename it Schlusselburg; on May 16 Tsar (1682-1721) Peter I the Great (1672-1725) pissed-off at his Moscow nobles failing to become kulturny and adopt Western culture, officially founds St. Petersburg (modern-day pop. 5.3M) on the banks of the Neva River on territory he just took from Sweden as Russia's "Window on the West" (modern pop. 4.7M), using serfs as expendable slaves; "A giant built it; lacking stones/ "He paved the swamps with human bones" (Mikhail Dmitriev); Peter I builds the Fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul on a small island in the river on May 27, 1703-1740, designed by Swiss Italian architect Domenico Trezzini (1670-1734), who goes on to design Kronstadt (1704) on Kotlin Island 19 mi. W of St. Petersburg, St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral (1712-33) (world's tallest Orthodox Catholic bell tower), Peter the Great's Summer House (1710-14), the Alexander Nevsky Monastery (1710-13), the Winter Palace (1711-53), and the Twelve Collegia (Colleges) Bldg. Complex (1722-44) (main bldg. of St. Petersburg U.), founding Petrine Baroque, which departs from the Naryshin Baroque of Moscow and follows the Dutch, Danish, and Swedish (Flemish Renassance) styles; in 1709 Peter I begins the Peterhof Palace (Dutch "Piterhof" = Peter's Court), an attempt to ape Louis XIV's Versailles Palace, causing it to become known as "the Russian Versailles", with Domenico Trezzini as the main architect in 1714, succeeded in 1716 by Paris-born Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond (1679-1719) (Blond, James-Baptiste Blond)?, with his teacher, Versailles landscaper Andre (André) Le Notre (Nostre) (1613-1700) hired to design the gardens; the Grand Cascade of 64 fountains, modelled on Louis XIV's Chateau de Marly features the Samson Fountain (1736), with a 66-ft.-high water jet, which is upgraded in 1800-2 by local Russian Neoclassical sculptor Mikhail Ivanovich Kozlovsky (1753-1802), a gilt bronze statue of Greek god Samson tearing open the jaws of a lion to represent Russia's big V over Sweden in the Great Northern War (1700-21), with the lion representing Sweden's coat of arms, and Samson representing Russia's big V on St. Sampson's Day; in 1747-56 Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700-71) is hired by Tsarina Elisabeth to design an expansion along with the Winter Palace; Trezzini's architect son Pietro has Peter I the Great as a godfather; this year 8-y.-o. black African slave Abraham (Ibrahim) Petrovich Gannibal (Hannibal) (1696-1781), who claims he was kidnapped from a royal tribal family in Africa is presented by a Russian diplomat as a gift to Peter I the Great, becoming his adopted son, and rising quickly to a 5-language linguist, civil engineer, diplomat, and gen. (Europe's first black intellectual?) - so cute everybody should own one?
In 1710 as part of the rebuilding of Dresden after the 1685 fire, German Baroque sculptor Balthasar Permoser (1651-1732) and German architect Matthaus Daniel Poppelmann (Pöppelmann) (1662-1736) design the Zwinger Palace in Dresden for Augustus II the Strong of Saxony (finished 1728), featuring the Nymphenbad Fountain and the Wallpavilion, with sculptures by Permoser.
In 1762 86 ft. x 161.3 ft. Trevi Fountain in Palazzo Poli in Trevi, Rome at the junction of three roads (It. "tre vie") of the ancient Aqua Virgo is completed, designed by Nicola Salvi and completed by Pietro Bracci, becoming the largest Baroque fountain in Rome; barrels of water from it are sent across the Tiber River to the Vatican for cents.; people begin throwing coins into it, which are collected and given to charity; the belief is that one day they will be granted a safe return; later featured in several films incl. "Roman Holiday" (1953), "Three Coins in the Fountain" (1954), and "La Dolce Vita" (1960); refurbished in 1998; watch video; watch video.
In 1872 Nantes-born French sculptor Charles-Auguste Lebourg (1829-1906) begins sculpting 100+ small cast-iron Wallace Fountains (drinking fountains), financed by English art collector Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet (1818-90), which are sited throughout Paris on the busiest sidewalks and give Paris its character, also in Lisburn.
In 1886 the Jet d'Eau fountain in Lake Geneva, Switzerland begins as a relief valve in the Rhone River for a hydraulic power network, shooting water 98 ft. high and becoming a tourist attraction, causing it to be moved to the lake and opened on Aug. 25, 1891 on the 600th anniv. of the Swiss Confederation, shooting water 295 ft. high; in 1951 it swtiches from city water to lake water.
On Apr. 8-Dec. 9, 1888 the 1888 Barcelona Universal Exposition in Barcelona N of Valencia, home of the Catalan dialect on land formerly occupied by the hated Fortress of Barcelona, becomes Spain's first internat. world's fair, modernizing the city complete with the 70-acre Parc de la Ciutadella (Citadel Park), which incl. a zoo and waterfall (cascada) modelled on the Trevi Fountain in Rome, featuring a statue of Venus standing on a clam - bo?
On May 8-Nov., 1888 the 1888 Internat. Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in Glasgow, Scotland is attended by 5,748,379, becoming the largest exhibition held outside London and largest held in Scotland in the 19th cent.; the 46-ft. Doulton Fountain, deisgned by architect Arthur E. Pearece is donated by pottery manufacturer Sir Henry Doulton (1820-97), featuring a larger-than-life statue of Queen Victoria surrounding by water-carriers representing Australia, Canada, India, and South Africa; it is moved to Glasgow Green in 1890; in 1891 lightning destroys Victoria's statue, and Doulton pays for a replacement; in 2002 after it is allowed to deteriorate, £2M is donated to restore it.
In 1893 the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain (begun 1885) by London-born English New Sculpture Movement sculptor Sir Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934) in Piccadilly Circus, London is unveiled, crowned with the aluminum statue of Anteros, which he calls "the Angel of Christian Charity", but is popularly known as Eros, becoming the world's first aluminum statue. In 1926-32 he sculpts the Art Nouveau bronze Queen Alexandra Memorial for Marlborough Road in London, commemorating Queen Alexandra of Denmark.
In 1903 Elmwood, Ill.-born sculptor Lorado Zadok Taft (1860-1936) pub. The History of American Sculpture, first-ever; the 1925 rev. version becomes a std. reference until Wayne Craven's "Sculpture in America" (1968); he follows with Modern Tendencies in Sculpture (1921). In 1909 he sculpts Eternal Silence (Statue of Death) (Dexter Graves Monument) (Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.) (Dexter Graves (-1844), who led a group of 13 settlers from Ohio in 1831 to Chicago), followed by Thatcher Memorial Fountain (1918) (City Park, Denver, Colo.) (wealthy Denver businessman Joseph Addison Thatcher (-1918), showing the State of Colorado surrounded by three groups representing Loyalty, Love, and Learning, followed by Fountain of Time (1920-22) (Midway Plaisance, Chicago, Ill.), followed by The Recording Angel (1923), Fountain of Creation (unfinished) (1923) (U. of Ill. Library) (planned to complement "Fountain of Time"), Lincoln the Lawyer (1929), and The Patriots (1932) (La. State Capitol, Baton Rouge).
In 1917 Blainville-Crevon, France-born French Cubist/Dada sculptor-painter Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) sculpts Fountain, a "ready-to-wear" porcelain urinal signed "R. Mutt"; the most influential art work of the 20th cent.?
In 1921 1,077-acre Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Penn., which began as a 402-acre farm purchased in 1700 by Quaker farmer George Peirce, then a 15-acre arboretum built by his great-grandsons Samuel and Joshua Peirce, then purchased on July 20, 1906 by philanthropist Pierre S. du Pont opens to the public, consisting of 20 indoor horticultural display gardens inside a 4.5 acre group of heated greenhouses containing 4.6K different types of plants and trees, and the Main Fountain Garden (1931) incl. the Round Fountain and the Italian Water Garden, built in 1925-7, modelled on Villa Gamberaia near Florence, Italy; since 2012 it attracts 1M+ visitors/year.
On Aug. 26, 1927 the $750K rococo wedding cake style Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park in Chicago., Ill. is dedicated, donated by grain elevator heir and philanthropist Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858-1937) in honor of her brother Clarence, inspired by the Latona Fountain in the Palace of Versailles, becoming one of the world's largest fountains, featuring Apr.-Oct. water shows during the days and color-light shows in the eves.
On May 20, 1929 the 130M peseta 1929 Barcelona Internat./Universal Exposition (AKA Expo 1929) in Monjuic Hill overlooking the harbor SW of the city center of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain sees 20 Euro nations partcipate, along with the U.S. and some Latin Am. countries; it closes on Jan. 30; on May 19 the Magic Fountain of Monjuic in Barcelona, Spain below the Palau Nacional opens, designed by Catalan architect Carles Buigas (Buïgas) i Sans (1898-1979), consisting of 3,620 jets that spout water up to 170 ft.; in 1980s music is incorporated in the light-water show; Aachen, Prussia-born German-Am. architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Maria Ludwig Michael Mies) (1886-1969) and German modernist Lilly Reich (1885-1974) design the minimalist "free plan" Barcelona (German) Pavilion, known for its many highly reflective surfaces and indoor-outdoor reflective pools, and furnished with the Barcelona Chair; it is torn down shortly after it is built, becoming modern architecture's holy of holies from photos and plans alone; watch video.
On Mar. 14, 1932 the J.F. Archibald Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia is unveiled by Samuel Walder, lord mayor of Sydney, commemorating the partnership between Australia and France in WWI and named for benefactor J.F. Archibald, owner of The Bulletin mag.; the artist Francois-Leon Sicard completed it in Paris in 1926, depicting a bronze Apollo surrounded by mythical figures.
In 1954 the Friendship of the Peoples Fountain opens in Moscow, designed by K. Topuridze and G. Konstantinovsky, featuring 16 gold sculptures representing the republics of the Soviet Union.
In 1954 the Stone Flower Fountain in the Industrial Square of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow is built, named after the Pavel Bazhov fairy tale, designed by architect Konstantin Topuridze, and decorated with birds, fruit, and ears carved by Prokopy Dobrynin, becoming the first light-music fountain in the Soviet Union, with music created by Dmitri Shostakovich.
On June 15, 1960 Billy Wilder's The Apartment (The Mirisch Co.) (United Artists) debuts, a classic film about the price paid to climb the corporate ladder, starring Jack Lemmon as lowly insurance clerk C.C. "Bud" Baxter, who loans his apt. to his bosses, then learns that Mr. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) is using it for an affair with his dream girl Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine); does $24.6M box office on a $3M budget; the first million-selling movie theme hit for the Juilliard-trained Am. pianists Arthur Ferrante (1921-2009) and Louis Milton Teicher (1924-2008), who follow it with "The Apartment" (1960), "Tonight" (1961), and "Midnight Cowboy" (1969), causing them to become known as "the Movie Theme Team"; features a magical floating water tap, a home decoration that catches on and ends up duplicated on a large scale around the world incl. Menorca, Spain; watch video; watch video; watch video.
In 1961 the Modernist bronze-brass El Alamein Memorial (Kings Cross) Fountain in Kings Cross, Sydney, Australia is officially opened by Harry Jensen, lord mayor of Sydney, commemorating the two battles of El Alamein in July and Nov. 1942 by the Australian 9th Div., designed by veteran Robert Raymond "Bob" Woodward (1923-2010), resembling a dandelion.
In 1963 the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Fountain in Ancient Siam (Ancient City) (Mueang Boran), Thailand opens, becoming the world's largest outdoor museum, featuring 116 monuments and architectural attractions.
On Apr. 22, 1964 Pres. Johnson opens the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, N.Y. (ends Oct. 17, then reopens on Apr. 21-Oct. 17, 1965), while Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) protesters try to drown him out; the theme is "Peace Through Understanding", dedicated to "Man's Achievement on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe"; being within 10 years of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, some countries bug out, saving up for Expo 67 in Montreal, and the Bureau of Internat. Expositions refuses to sanction it, further diminishing the power of N.Y. planning czar Robert Moses; it features 140+ pavilions for 80 nations, hosted by 37 nations, plus 24 U.S. states, and 45 corporations, incl. the futuristic 140-ft.-high 120-ft.-diam. 350 ton Unisphere fountain by U.S. Steel, and a house made of formica; the Ma Bell pavilion features a picture phone; the IBM pavilion hosts a multimedia show of how a computer works, and coins the term "word processing"; the It's A Small World (After All) exhibit by Disney is a hit, along with an audio-animatronic Abraham Lincoln in the Ill. Pavilion, both moved later to Disneyland; the strawberry and whipped cream "Bel-Gem" Belgian waffle is a hit; sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov (1920-92) pub. an article on the 2014 World's Fair, with the soundbytes: "Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence", "Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone. The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books"; "In 2014, there is every likelihood that the world population will be 6,500,000,000 and the population of the United States will be 350,000,000"; "A larger portion [of the U.S.] than today will be deprived and although they may be better off, materially, than today, they will be further behind when compared with the advanced portions of the world. They will have moved backward, relatively"; "General Electric at the 2014 World's Fair will be showing 3-D movies of its 'Robot of the Future,' neat and streamlined, its cleaning appliances built in and performing all tasks briskly. (There will be a three-hour wait in line to see the film, for some things never change.)"; watch video; watch video.
In 1967 the Nat. Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Mesa Lab Bldg. in Boulder, Colo. (begun 1961) is completed, making a star of Guangzhou, China-born architect Ieoh Ming "I.M." Pei (1917-2019); situated in the foothills, you can walk out the door and greet deer. On Oct. 15, 1988 the Glass Pyramid over the new entrance in the main court of the Louvre in Paris, designed by architect I.M. Pei is inaugurated, featuring the Fontaine de la Pyramide in Cour Napoleon I of the Louvre; in 1993 his La Pyramide Inversee (Inversée) (the Inverted Pyramid) in the Carrousel du Louvre shopping mall in front of the Louvre is completed, causing speculation by Dan Brown et al. that the two pyramids represent the body of Mary Magdalene, or the Rosicrucian motto VITRIOL (Visita Interiorem Terrae Rectificandoque Invenies Occultum Lapidem) (Visit the interior of the Earth and you will find the secret stone).
In 1969 the bronze sculptural fountain installation La Joute (Fr. "The Joust"), designed by artist Jean-Paul Riopelle is opened in the Parc Olympique in Montreal; in 2003 it is relocated to the Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle; watch video.
On Mar. 15, 1970 Expo 70 (Japan World Exposition) in the Senri Hills outside Osak) opens (until Sept. 13), becoming Japan's first world fair, with the motto: "Progress and Harmony for Mankind"; the U.S. pavilion, designed by David Geiger features the largest, lightest clear-span, air-supported roof ever built, an features a display of moon rocks from Apollo 12; "Tiger Child", the first-ever IMAX film debuts; the Nine Floating Fountains are designed by Isamu Noguchi.
In 1970 Keller Fountain Park (originally Forecourt Fountain) in downtown Portland, Ore. across from the Civic Auditorium on land formerly occupied by Dot Tavern owned by future mayor (1985-92) Bud Clark opens, named after Portland Development Commission head (1958-72) Ira C. Keller, featuring a concrete water fountain designed by Angela Danadjieva modelled after waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge to the E.
On Apr. 21, 1971 the 40-ft.-high modernist Vaillancourt Fountain AKA Quebec libre! in Embarcadero Plaza, San Francisco, Calif. is unveiled, designed by Quebecois artist Armand J.R. Vaillancourt (1929-), consisting of precast concrete tubes, which is so ugly that several unsuccessful attempts are made to demolish it; in 1987 U2 gives a free concert there, and lead singer Bono sprays graffiti on it; watch video.
On June 25, 1982 the 1,495m girder Banpo Bridge over the Han River in Seoul, South Korea is completed, riding on top of Jamsu Bridge, becoming the first double-deck bridge in South Korea; in Sept. 2009 the Moonlight Rainbow Fountain opens, becoming the world's longest bridge fountain, with a world record 380 10K LED nozzles running along both sides, shooting 190 tons of water/min.to a horizontal distance of 43m; watch video.
In 1983 the steel-plastic Stravinsky Fountain near the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France opens, featuring 16 sculptures illustrating the works of composer Igor Stravinsky, designed by Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle; watch video.
In 1984 the Mustangs of Las Colinas bronze sculpture in Williams Square, Las Colinas, Irving, Tex. by sculptor Robert Glen (commissioned in 1976) opens, featuring nine wild mustangs splashing through fountains.
In 1985 the King Fahd's (Jeddah) Fountain in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is unveiled, featuring a 1,024-ft.-high water jet supplied by the Red Sea, becoming the tallest fountain jet on Earth., with 500+ spotlights illuminating it at night.
In 1988 the 80-ft.-high stone-paved tiered circular pyramid Yabba-Dabba-Doo Flintstone-wannabe Volcano Fountain (Arab. "Al Shallal") on the corniche in Yabba Dabba Abu Dhabi opens, modelled after one built in Honolulu Internat. Airport in the 1960s, and one at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev.; too bad, in Oct. 2004 it is demolished to make way for a redevelopment project; watch video.
In 1990 8-acre Waterfront Park on the Cooper River in Charleston, S.C. opens, designed by Stuart O. Dawson, featuring the Pineapple Fountain.
In 1993 the $300M Luxor Hotel-Casino (Oct. 15) and $1B MGM Grand Hotel-Casino (Dec. 15) in Las Vegas, Nev. open, starting a fad which results in the $460M New York, New York on Jan. 3, 1997, the $1.6B Bellagio on Oct. 15, 1998 (on the site of the Dunes Hotel and Casino, inspired by the Lake Como resort in Bellagio, Italy), the $950M Mandalay Bay (opens Mar. 2, 1999), and the $1.5B Venetian Las Vegas on May 3, 1999 (on the site of the Sands Hotel and Casino, funded by Sheldon Adelson), the $268M Palms Casino Resort on Nov. 15, 2001, the $2.7B Wynn Las Vegas on Apr. 28, 2005, and the $925M Red Rock Casino Resort on Apr. 18, 2006; the $40M Bellagio Fountains shoot 460 ft. into the air and feature a synchronized light-water-music show; watch video.
In 1995 the Fountain of Wealth in Suntec City in Singapore opens, becoming the world's largest fountain (until ?), with a bronze ring representing the Hindu Mandala symbol of universal harmony; the main fountain is turned off several times a day to permit visitors to walk around the central base 3x for good luck and retrieve coins; at night laser music-light-water shows are staged; the fountain is ringed by a shopping mall; watch video; fountain of wealth.
In 1995 the 24m-high Nacka Fountain in Stockholm, Sweden opens, designed by Uppsala-born Swedish-Am. sculptor Carl Milles (Carl Wilhelm Emil Andersson) (1875-1955) and copied by his asst. Marshall M. Fredericks, with the title "God, Our Father, on the Rainbow", celebrating the founding of the United Nations.
In 1995 the Swarovski Crystal Worlds (Kristallwelten) theme park in Wattens (near Innsbruck), Austria is opened by Austrian crystal glass manufacturer Swarovski to celebrate its 100th anniv., featuring the Swarovski Fountain, consisting of a glass-covered head with a mouth spouting water; watch video.
In 1996 the Rising Universe (Shelley) Fountain (originally Cosmic Cycle Water Sculpture) in Horsham, West Sussex, England is unveiled, designed by sculptor Angela Conner to commemorate the 200th anniv. of the birth of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; in 2006 it is switched off, and in June 2016 it is dismantled and removed after an 86% vote; watch video.
In 2000 the Charybdis Vortex Fountain by water sculptor William Pye opens in the Seaham Hotel and Spa near Sunderland, Northern England, based on the myth of the siren in Homer's "Odyssey" who was hit by a thunderbolt from Zeus that transformed her into a whirlpool as punishment for stealing oxen from Hercules; he later builds similar sculptors in Oman and Campinas, Brazil; watch video.
On Nov. 6, 2002 the 3m-tall bronze Rainman (L'Uomo della Pioggia) Fountain debuts in Florence, Italy for the Florence Social Forum, designed by artist Jean-Michel Folon; too bad, its location on a roundabout in front of Obihall Theater makes it a target for motorists, and it is damaged in 2015 and 2017.
On July 6, 2004 the £3.6M Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain at the SW corner of Hyde Park S of the Serpentine Lake in London, England opens, featuring 545 pieces of Cornish granite arranged in 165 ft. x 260 ft. x 20 ft. stream bed surrounded by a lush grassy field; watch video.
In July 2004 $17M Crown Fountain opens in Millennium Park in Chicago, Ill., designed by Catalan artist Jaume Piensa, consisting of a black granite reflecting pool between a pair of 50' glass brick towers covered with LEDS that display digital videos incl. waterfalls and 1K+ Chicago residents who puff their cheeks as a stream of water shoots out of their mouths; watch video.
In 2004 the Tornado Musical Fountain opens in Europa Park in Rust, Germany, later moved to the Colosseo Hotel; more are installed at Futuroscope in Poitiers (2011), Sharjah, UAE, Wetzlar, Germany, Tbilisi, Georgia, Ningbo, China, and Busan, South Korea, which becomes the world's largest indoor water show.
In 2006 the Big Giving Fountain in South Bank, Central London opens, designed by Klaus Weber, consisting of six industrial waste human sculptures with water spurting from various orifices; it is soon dismantled.
In 2007 the Magic Water Circuit in Lima, Peru opens, consisting of 13 illuminated fountains, becoming the largest fountain complex on Earth; the fountains incl. the $13M Tunnel of Surprises, the Maze of the Dream, the Fountain of Harmony, the Rainbow Fountain, the Fountain of Illusion, the Walk-in Dome, the Fountain of Life, the Magic Fountain, and the Fountain of Fantasy; watch video; watch video; watch video.
In 2007 the 24-ton 40-ft.Julie Penrose Fountain in Am. the Beautiful Park in Colo. Springs, Colo. opens, designed by David Barber and Bill Burgess, consisting of an open loop of silver-colored panels containing 366 water jets, all sitting on a hidden turntable that rotates at 4 rph.
On May 8, 2009 the $218M Dubai Fountain on manmade Burj Khalifa Lake in Dubai, UAE opens. shooting water 500 ft. into the air while being illuminated by 6.6K lights and 50 colored projectors and accompanied by music; watch video; watch video.
In 2009 the 24m-tall 4-floor Dubai Divers Fountain in Dubai Mall features fiberglass divers; watch video.
In 2009 the 100m x 5 m Toilet Bowl Waterfall (Fountain) in Shiwan Park in Foshan, Guangdong Provice, South China opens, designed by Shu Yong, consisting of 10K recycled toilets and urinals; watch video.
On June 21, 2011 the 80-ft.-tall bronze Alexander the Great Fountain in Skopje, Macedonia is unveiled, becoming the largest Alexander the Great Statue on Earth (until ?); watch video.
On May 31, 2012 the Aquanura Fountain in the Efteling Theme Park in the Netherlands opens, becoming the largest fountain in Europe and the 3rd largest on Earth after the Dubai Fountain and the Bellagio Fountains; it consists of 200 fountains subdivided into 9 types along with four large water-spouting frogs; watch video.
In Apr. 2013 the Osaka City Station Water Fountain in Japan opens, consisting of a large rectangular water fountain with a digital water droplet printer that displays a digital time readout along with falling floral and other shapes; watch video.
On Sept. 24, 2016 Pres. Obama dedicates the Smithsonian Institution's Nat. Museum of African Am. History and Culture on the Nat. Mall in Washington, D.C. (opened Dec. 19, 2003), featuring the Contemplative Court, complete with a cylindrical fountain raining down from a skylight to the center of the room.


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Static display
Tag Archive: Royal Air Force
There goes the siren that warns of the air raid,
Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak.
Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne,
Got to get up for the coming attack.
Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines,
Remove all the wheelblocks there's no time to waste.
Gathering speed as we head down the runway,
Got to get airborne before it's too late.
Running, scrambling, fire,
Rolling, turning, diving, going in again.
Running, scrambling, fire, Rolling, turning, diving,
Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die.
Won't you run, live to fly, fly to live, Aces high!
Move in to fire at the mainstream of bombers,
Let off a shell burst and then turn away.
Roll over, spin round to come in behind them,
Move to their blindsides and firing again.
Bandits at 8 O'clock move in behind us,
Ten ME-109's out of the sun.
Ascending and turning our spitfires to face them,
Heading straight for them I press down my guns.
Rolling, turning, diving,
Rolling, turning, diving, going in again.
Rolling, turning, diving, Rolling, turning, diving,
Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die.
Won't you run, live to fly, fly to live, Aces high!!!
Iron Maiden –1984
Duxford Flying Legends is an anually held airshow at Duxford airfield, a famous WW2 airfield known especially for its role in the Battle of Britain – and since it was 70th anniversary of this famous battle this year, it would be a sin not to visit. This will be a multipart report, as are from my previous airshows so keep checking back for new updates.
A pair of Spitfires taking off at the beginning of the airshow
On my trip around England, I've stumbled upon this museum unexpectedly, recommended and guided to, by my editor Jay and one of the co-writers for the Scale Aircraft Modelling magazine, Brian. Unfortunately, we didn't have much luck with weather as it was pouring outside, so we decided to visit the nearby pub and wait until the rain stops over a couple of pints… After an hour or so, weather remained soaky wet and since there was a long drive ahead of us, we decided to get wet and see the exhibits anyway…
Sea Vixen FAW.1 once ruled the decks of Royal Navy carriers.
Another '50s fighter – French Air Force Mystere IVA
It was the first time I saw the Javelin and oh my, what a big bird it is – reminded me of a fighter version of the Vulcan bomber.
Meteor was one of the first British jet fighters – and still looking good!
War Trophy from the Falklands war in 1982 – Argentinian Pucara
There are numbers of exhibits in hangar as well, but due to the lack of time, bad lightning and cramped exhibitis, I took only a few photos… but defintely worth visiting though…
Sea Harrier FA.2, upgraded from FRS.1 sporting the Argie Dagger kill from Falklands war
For full list of exhibits, visit the museum webpage:
Spitfire Mk.1, Hurricane, Spitfire Mk IX, Bf 109G
Spitfire Mk Vb, Spitfire TR. IX, Hurricane Mk.1, Buchon HA-1112
Bf 108 Taifun, Hurricane Mk.1, Spitfire Mk LF IXe
Royal Air Force – Hawk T.1, Hawk T.2, Tornado F.3
USAF F-15C Eagle, Royal New Zealand AF Boeing 757
French AF Mirage 2000, Belgian AF F-16AM
Avro Lancaster


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Erica Smith & A ; Andy Smith. University of Ballarat. Australia Abstract An of import board in womb-to-tomb acquisition policy in both the UK and Australia has been the chance for workers to derive makings through work. In Australia this chance has frequently been provided through the traineeship system which is a signifier of 'modern apprenticeship' that has now been in topographic point for 20 old ages. Two national Australian research undertakings on the bringing of makings through work have been undertaken over a five-year period by the writers and co-workers. Both undertakings involved research with workers. directors. developing suppliers. industry organic structures. and relevant functionaries at State and national degree.
The 2003 undertaking surveyed 400 companies that provided qualification-based preparation at work and besides included 12 endeavor instance surveies. The 2008 undertaking involved six indepth industry instance surveies. each of which involved interviews with relevant senior stakeholders and two endeavor instance surveies. every bit good as in-depth interviews with senior policy functionaries. employer peak organic structures and trade brotherhoods. The surveies showed that many advantages accrue to workers every bit good as to employers from the bringing of makings through work. However there are besides some disadvantages and debatable countries for workers. some of which may go more evident as the planetary fiscal crisis affects employment. In the treatment. some analogues are drawn between the Australian and the UK attack to presenting makings to lower-level workers through work.
This paper uses informations from two national research undertakings in Australia to discourse the pros and cons of deriving makings through work. The paper is confined to makings delivered by the vocational instruction and preparation ( VET ) . As Australia enters its 3rd decennary of 'training reform' ( Smith & A ; Keating. 2003 ) . deriving makings through work has expanded from being chiefly the state of male trade learners to being a platitude activity for 100s of 1000s of workers through traineeships and through other workplace-based plans. Traineeships are a signifier of apprenticeship that is shorter than the traditional apprenticeship ( normally 1-2 old ages as opposed to 3-4 old ages ) . and frequently in newer or service industries. For illustration retail is the most normally delivered traineeship country. They were introduced as a consequence of the Kirby study ( Kirby. 1985 ) and were intended originally to supply apprenticeship type agreements for a broader scope of workers. including adult females. and to better youth unemployment.
Since the 1980s. apprenticeships and traineeships likewise have been opened up to grownups and to parttime workers. While there are many advantages that accrue to workers. companies and the state from these new developments there are besides some debatable countries. Many statements have been advanced against Australian traineeships ( eg Snell & A ; Hart. 2008 ) and these statements are by and large rooted in the male trade involvement groups. The statements have been buttressed by many illustrations of hapless pattern whereby some preparation suppliers during the 1990s. through design or ignorance. delivered hapless quality preparation and were seen to mistreat the handiness of authorities support ( eg Schofield. 2000 ) . This paper does non turn to this issue as it has been well-rehearsed in the literature and is frequently transparently traceable to male trade involvement groups wishing to retain authorities support for developing to their ain constituencies instead than distributing it across the broader economic system and to a greater assortment of workers. The paper focuses instead upon more general pros and cons associated with bringing of makings through work.
Background And Literature Review
Three policy developments have facilitated the bringing of VET makings through work. While this subdivision focuses on Australia there are many parallel developments in the UK and in other states. The three factors are: the gap of the preparation market. the debut of Training Packages ( the model for organizing. presenting and presenting national competence criterions ) . and the handiness of authorities support for makings delivered in workplaces. These developments are briefly described in the undermentioned paragraphs.
An opening-up of the nationally recognized Vocational Education and Training ( VET ) preparation system in Australia has seen motion from a close monopoly by the Technical and Further Education system ( TAFE ) . the public supplier. to one in which over 4. 000 Registered Training Organisations ( RTOs ) . including merely over 100 TAFE Institutes existed in 2001 ( Brennan & A ; Smith. 2002 ) and about 8000 1 in 2008. Non-TAFE suppliers are able to entree authorities support and offer national makings ; although there were private suppliers antecedently they were non able to make either of these things. The growing of non-TAFE RTOs has been assisted peculiarly by what are known as 'User Choice' policies in the support agreements for the big learner and trainee preparation market. Around 400. 000 Australians ( from a work force of 12 million people ) are engaged in apprenticeships and traineeships at any one clip ( NCVER. 2007 ) of whom a proportion are newly-recruited workers including school-leavers. but of whom a big figure are what are known as 'existing workers' . that have been offered the chance to derive a making through preparation. frequently on-the-job.
The development of national competence criterions. which are available for usage for many different intents. has been one manner in which Australian authoritiess has provided support for preparation in companies and establishments. Similar developments have occurred elsewhere. The English National Vocational Qualifications ( NVQ ) system ( Fletcher. 1991 ) was introduced in 1991 ; NVQS were presented as a agency of bettering profitableness and heightening economic public presentation ( NCVQ. 1990. as reported in Matlay. 1999 ) . In Australia. national Training Packages. similar ( although by no agencies indistinguishable ) in nature. but non introduced until 1997 ( Smith & A ; Keating. 2003 ) . supply a national model for course of study for all suppliers presenting nationally recognised preparation. Training Packages consist of national industry competence criterions ( known as units of competence ) gathered into makings at assorted degrees. together with assessment guidelines and. normally. a assortment of support stuffs.
If scholars do non necessitate complete makings. nationally recognized Statements of Attainment may be issued for one or more units of competence. There are now around 80 Australian Training Packages. many covering industry countries which did non hold entree to nationally recognized preparation antecedently. such as funerals. beauty. seafood and the defense mechanism industry. All Australian Training Packages can be viewed on the National Training Information System web site at World Wide Web. National Technical Information Service. gov. gold. Australian Training Packages have many similarities with the English NVQ system although there are besides some important differences. There has been considerable contention about the educational efficaciousness of Training Packages ( some of these arguments are summarised in Smith. 2002 ) but a HighLevel Review of Training Packages ( Schofield & A ; McDonald. 2003 ) . and a current reappraisal due to describe mid-2009 ( National Quality Council. 2009 ) . both of which were underpinned by broad audiences. have shown widespread support for the general construct.
Fiscal inducements for the bringing of on-the-job makings autumn into three chief classs. First. employment inducements are available for companies enrolling workers and puting them onto apprenticeships and traineeships. These are paid on enlisting. at mid-point. and on completion. While a major focal point of these subsidies is on freshly recruited workers. the inducements are besides available for what are called 'existing workers' within certain parametric quantities. Second. support is available for the 'training' portion of apprenticeships and traineeships. In most instances this is provided without inquiry one time an learner or trainee has been contracted by a company. but there are some limitations around support in some States and Territories. This support flows to the RTO selected by the employer ( purportedly in concurrence with the trainee or apprenticeship ) for the proviso of off-the-job preparation. It is known as 'user choice' support ( Smith & A ; Keating. 2003 ) . Apprentices and trainees may go to developing on twenty-four hours or block release. or the preparation may be chiefly on-the-job with support and visits from the RTO.
In some State and Territories ( which have the duty of supervising the quality of VET and of administrating 'user choice' financess ) . RTOs are required to supply a certain figure of hours of 'real' preparation – Internet Explorer of off-the-job preparation. The 3rd signifier of support for on-the-job bringing is that provided by a assortment of national and State/Territory support strategies which vary from twelvemonth to twelvemonth harmonizing to industry demand and authorities policies. These may include targeted support for skill shortage countries or for equity groups. A longstanding plan in this class. for illustration. is Well – workplace English linguistic communication and Literacy – which is now tied closely to the bringing of plans that do non concentrate entirely on linguistic communication and literacy but embeds their development through the bringing of nationally recognised makings or units of competence.
Around 200. 000 Australians commence traineeships each twelvemonth and the traineeship plan constitutes the chief manner in which makings are delivered through work ; statements have been proposed through industry peak organic structures such as the Australian Industry Group that funded on-the-job preparation should be 'decoupled' from. traineeship agreements but as yet these statement have non gained sufficient grip to be put onto the policy docket. It is clear that these three developments have combined – as they were intended – to promote the bringing of makings on the occupation to big cohorts of workers. The presence of big Numberss of RTOs has encouraged acute – possibly over-aggressive – selling of qualification-base bringing in order for RTOs to entree user pick or other support. With the focal point on criterions of public presentation. Training Packages are good suited to bringing in endeavors ; in fact it has been argued that they are better suited to such bringing than to bringing in educational establishments ( Boorman. 2001 ) .
The Research Method
This paper uses findings from two big national Australian research surveies for which the fieldwork was undertaken in late 2003 and 2007- 2008 severally. For the first undertaking – Study 1 – ( Smith. Pickersgill. Smith & A ; Rushbrook. 2005 ) the research method was as follows: Three exploratory focal point groups of employers and other industry stakeholders to guarantee that major issues were covered ; Case surveies in 12 endeavors. in four States and Territories. Four industry countries were covered: cordial reception. manufacturing/process fabrication. call Centres and arts/media. and were selected to stand for diverse industry sectors and preparation civilizations. Case survey sites were chosen in concurrence with accomplishments councils and the mention group. In each industry country. three endeavors were visited: one that was an endeavor RTO ( registered as a preparation supplier in its ain right ) . one that offered nationally-recognised preparation through RTO ( s ) . and one that offered none or virtually no nationally-recognised preparation. Interviews were carried out with senior line directors. human resource directors. departmental directors. developing staff. workers at different degrees with the administrations. and brotherhood representatives.
A study of all 195 endeavor RTOs ( based on the National Training Information Service listing ) and a sample of 400 medium-to-large companies ( from the commercially-available Dun & A ; Bradstreet database ) that were non enterprise RTOs but that employed human resource directors and therefore might be expected to hold some committedness to preparation. Just over a one-fourth of endeavor RTOs ( 51 or 26. 2 % ) responded together with 73 other companies. supplying approximately comparable Numberss for analysis. Telephone interviews with State Training Authority staff in several States and Territories. to clear up 'user choice' and other support agreements. The undertaking was undertaken to scope the proviso of nationally-recognised preparation ( ie qualificationbased preparation ) in endeavors. Previous research in this country had by and large been descriptive and based in single industry countries.
The survey was the first to depict the phenomenon at a national degree. It developed theoretical accounts of acceptance of qualification-based preparation by endeavors. The 2nd undertaking – Study 2 – ( Smith. Comyn. Brennan Kemmis & A ; Smith. forthcoming ) . consisted of comprehensive instance surveies of traineeships in six countries: cleansing. kid attention. building. retail. finance & A ; insurance and meat processing. Within each instance survey. site visits were made to two company illustrations. and extra interviews were carried out at national and industry degree. As good. interviews were carried out. at a more general degree. with 13 high-ranking stakeholders – senior functionaries in authorities. employer and employee extremum organic structures. and other major participants in the traineeship system. This undertaking was undertaken because the contention environing 'abuse' of the system. discussed in the Introduction to this paper. had stifled other research in the country. The purpose of the research was to place characteristics of high quality traineeships with the ultimate purpose of bettering pattern to a uniformly higher degree. The instance surveies were carried out during 2007-8 and were completed before the oncoming of the Global Financial Crisis.
Findingss And Discussion
This subdivision of the paper discusses the pros and cons of deriving VET makings through work.
The pros
The handiness of makings through work agencies that many people that were antecedently without makings are now able to derive them. Often. but by no mean ever. these workers have had unsatisfactory experiences at school and tend to miss assurance and self-efficacy in their abilities to get the hang 'study' . As the preparation does non hold much focal point on schoolroom bringing and frequently a comparatively low accent on written stuffs success is comparatively easy achieved. The undermentioned quotation mark is taken from a preparation director in a big cleansing company in Study 2. Her workers were set abouting a Certificate III making in Asset Maintenance ( Cleaning ) . a batch of these traineeships are you know. aiming a blue collar audience… like person who's been a cleaner. may hold been a cleansing agent for 5. 10 old ages. but there's been no formal acknowledgment of what they've done. and … they see themselves as merely a cleansing agent and the fact that the traineeship is besides competence based and can recognize accomplishments that they already have. without them necessitating to attend… a traditional schoolroom environment and holding it on the occupation. so the combination of on the occupation and that acknowledgment that what they're making really does hold some value someplace in an educational model. has made them experience. I think. merely a batch more proud about what they do. in themselves. with their ego regard.
There is an absolute acknowledgment among employers that such plans benefit their companies every bit good as their workers. Study 1 discussed in some item the ways in which developing staff needed. and were able. to 'sell' qualification-based preparation to their senior directors by underscoring the portion which such preparation played in pulling and actuating staff. every bit good as supplying grounds of attending to quality as required by industry regulative organic structures. This long account. from a Study 2 employer of trainees in an butchery. shows how the involvements of workers and employers dovetail. It would be five old ages ago I suppose. the butchery was truly traveling through a growing jet. and one of the biggest dangers they had was the deficiency of meat inspectors. So what they did was they started with a group of people making Certificate II in Abattoirs and some of them went through and did Certificate III. and they identified the group that they wanted to travel on and go their meat inspectors. The group went through and did the meat inspector class of survey and it is rather a hard and long-run committedness. A few of these were adult females who started. and they were cleaners.
They were cleaning up the bloody putting to death floors. and you know. pretty mean work. truly mean work. and they went right through the system to go meat inspectors. Which. for them. they were adult females who were likely I don't know. in their 40's and had likely. I'd say had you know. pretty basic employment all of their working lives. And you know. it took them through into an business and a wage graduated table that they likely couldn't have of all time dreamed of. They were improbably proud of themselves. And highly committed. The employers have built tremendous shops of good will because of what they've done for those people. And those people of class. because they'd been workers all their lives. they know how to work. So that besides makes for a reasonably good work force. and that's why. I think. this butchery is reasonably successful. you know. They truly don't have a batch of turnover but they really have gone through a reasonably large growing jet over the last 5 old ages. and they have found it hard to pull the needed Numberss of staff. This was one manner of 'growing their own' and keeping on to them.
When it came to offering the preparation for the group of employees who were to go meat inspectors. we had meat leading on our range ( of enrollment ) . but we decided against presenting it because we didn't think we were really the best administration to make it at that degree. So we really bought in OTEN ( a distance instruction TAFE supplier ) . and they did that. and they qualified a group of about 8 people at that place as meat inspectors. So if you like. from a calling tract point of position. they started on pretty mean rewards with their Certificate II in butchery through to meat inspectors. which would gain them $ 100. 000 a twelvemonth. Of class. this enterprise was driven by necessity. The butchery needed to hold these people. because without meat inspectors. of class. they can't move any merchandise. This is likely the best illustration of an abattoir's attack to preparation and committedness to preparation. It is a necessity to run into conformity issues around AQIS demands and if they're making the preparation decently. if the motive is that they have to make it to run into choice criterions or statute law so that's still a good ground to make and make it good. It is a existent advantage to aim and back up willing staff in preparation.
A batch of the people we have that do these classs left school because it was a bad experience. And if you put them back into an environment that they equate with 'back to school' they are really immune. Whereas if they merely go to work. and they're shown how to make something. it's non even called preparation to them. it's merely that I'm demoing you how to make something and they work. and they get good at it and they get paid. and they're truly happy. And so of class. the assessment procedure is rather informal. There's no sitting trials. or things that frequently take them once more back to their unhappy school yearss. And they achieve a making. and they do really value it. And you know. there are some people there that don't truly care excessively much. because for them it's about working and acquiring paid. But there are a batch of people there that ne'er achieve anything academically. but because they didn't. doesn't average they're stupid people. It's merely that that type of larning didn't do it for them. whereas on the occupation acquisition has evidently been successful for them.
They've had a good experience and they've got their making and they're reasonably proud of that. While the above treatment shows that supplying makings through work makes workers experience good and companies more confident in showing themselves as 'employers of choice' . what are the more concrete advantages for workers? A paper produced from Study 1 informations ( Smith. 2006 ) indicated that adult females in peculiar benefited from qualifications-based preparation. The paper showed how the new phenomena had removed many of the barriers to deriving makings in VET that had antecedently been identified ( Butler & A ; Ferrier. 2000 ) . These barriers included practical issues such as the demand to go to a college-based location. frequently after-hours. every bit good as underlying issues such as the clap of regard for work typically undertaken by adult females and the deficiency of female function theoretical accounts. More by and large the paper showed that informations from Study 1 indicated that lower-status workers received more developing by and large every bit good as qualification-based preparation in companies that had adopted qualifications-based preparation.
These informations begin to reply the inquiry famously posed by Rainbird ( 2007 ) 'Can developing take the gluey gum from the floor of low wage for workers? ' They are consistent with UK surveies such as that undertaken of NVQ degree 2 makings by Hillage & A ; Mitchell ( 2003 ) . A farther advantage of qualifications-based preparation is that set abouting an initial making enables people to come on to higher degree makings. This installation is frequently used to recommend for extended usage of Recognition of Prior Learning processes. A lower degree making may be awarded chiefly on RPL and hence may be seen as being of little added value either to the company or to the worker apart from the 'feel good' factor. But the existent benefit of RPL into lower-level makings is the entree to higher-level makings. The abattoirs illustration above is one illustration of such a tract. There was some grounds that the handiness of makings might better working within an industry. in other words get downing to supply the 'decent work' that is valorised by industrial dealingss bookmans. The stakeholders in the cleansing industry in Study 2 were united in their hope and belief that developing would raise working conditions. better safety. and address the low position of cleansing as an business.
The national brotherhood representative was hopefuls that by the simple fact of multi-skilling workers. the current atomization of work in the industry could be ameliorated and proper full-time occupations created. The industry was at the clip of the survey fragmented into 'men's and 'women's' occupations but the preparation covered both countries of work and the instance survey findings suggested that most undertakings could be safely undertaken by either gender. A simple but frequently unmarked advantage for workers of deriving makings through work is that they do non hold to pay for their preparation. In a few instances where the preparation involves attending at an RTO on a regular footing. trainees are asked by the RTO to pay a part towards their preparation ( this has typically been a fanciful sum and was introduced to better buy-in to the procedures ) but by and large it is wholly free.
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The disadvantages of deriving makings through work autumn into two chief classs. The first is the unity of the making. including its transferability. and the 2nd is the inquiry of entree to the preparation. Integrity of makings In Study 1. over-contextualisation of makings sometimes seemed to happen and was a peculiar where preparation was preponderantly on-the-job with small schoolroom constituent. The issue at interest is whether workers who gain in-house makings gain accomplishments and cognition that are movable to other contexts. and. in a somewhat different point. derive sufficient apprehension of other ways of operating employers and developing staff frequently talked proudly about the intimacy of tantrum of the preparation to the endeavor. For illustration. a national call centretraining director in Study 1 described how the bringing of preparation and appraisal of workers was embedded within normal public presentation direction processes. Training Packages with their accent upon results instead than curriculum lend themselves good to workplace bringing. although they are intended to supply for broader apprehensions and cognition. We sensed in Study 2 that there was a greater edification among companies in their apprehension of such issues and that companies by and large showed that they wished their workers to accomplish a broader point of view and to larn different ways of dong things.
Those employers that took a national position. such as those in the meat processing industry. seemed peculiarly witting that their traineeship plans were developing a national accomplishments pool and needed to widen beyond preparation for the current workplace. In footings of benefit to workers. a broader making is referrable because accomplishments and cognition learned in one topographic point are more readily movable to a new company either within or external to the original industry. A lodger preparation attack is besides more acceptable to workers peculiarly those who are more extremely educated. For illustration workers interviewed in the Study 1 call Centre were already knowing with several possessing grades. They did non like the strong workplace-specific focal point of their Certificate III making and hence did non value it. They said they would hold preferred a greater sum of 'real training' . They did non object to analyzing at Certificate III degree but did object to poor-quality preparation that was embedded so far within their work that it was non seeable. In Study 2 a cleansing supervisor was disappointed with the low criterion of appraisal in the plan as delivered by the preparation supplier which he attended.
He said 'anyone could go through it' . and would hold preferred a much more strict appraisal. Linked to these 'complaints' was a general feeling among all involved at the company degree in Study 2 companies that the over-use of RPL detracted from the benefit of makings. Reasons for this position varied from that put frontward by the traineeship director from a big company who said that she could non swear the quality of acquisition gained through any other company. to workers who truly wanted to larn new things and did non desire to lose out on larning chances through being given RPL. More by and large the unity of workplace-based makings could be compromised where an RTO lacked the capableness to present preparation to a high criterion. In Study 2 several companies talked of the trouble they experienced in happening an RTO that provided high quality larning stuffs and paid an appropriate sum of attending to their trainees. Some employers in Study 1 and Study 2 mentioned the big sum of clip that needed to be devoted to supervising RTOs' public presentation. Some ailments were directed specifically at RTOs who employed 'generalist' staff that were non familiar with the industry but relied upon working in partnership with the companies who were expected to supply on-the-job preparation and transport out the majority of the appraisal.
While these instances were by no agencies in the bulk. the system of workplace bringing removes preparation and appraisal from the regard of directors of educational establishments and makes quality control more hard. Integrity can besides be compromised by employers who like the thought of holding qualified staff but lack the motive or accomplishments to work efficaciously with the presenting RTO. The marketisation of VET in Australia. while non needfully hurtful overall. encourages aggressive and bottom-line-focused selling of makings to companies. In illustrations of such selling in Study 1 the proviso of makings at different degrees was carefully costed for the companies demoing cross-subsidisation of some makings by others which attracted greater sums of preparation. In Study 2 an RTO trainer in the cleansing industry mentioned several instances where employees had been enrolled on traineeships and so withdrawn – even literally pulled out of the class- when it became clear that hope-for support was non available. However in other instances. employers persisted with the preparation in the absence of support.
Therefore the experience of the trainee is extremely dependent upon the quality of the employer's input and the employers' adept usage of the excess accomplishments and cognition gained by the trainees. . As a cleansing trainer in survey 2 said The traineeship is great. so they're traveling to acquire a spot more assurance. but if they're non able to set all that into pattern at work… in some of the rating signifiers I've even seen things ( written ) such as: 'What's the usage? ' 'Why did we trouble oneself? We've been back to work now for four months and are non allowed to make any of this. ' The unity of the making therefore depended upon the handiness of a assortment of workplace undertakings that would supply chances for rehearsing all the accomplishments learned. While some companies were aware of this demand and rotated trainees to let for broader acquisition. others did non demo much involvement – or were possibly incognizant of the demand. While many issues like these could be attributed to a deficiency of involvement by employers in preparation and a desire merely to entree available support. it is merely every bit likely that the employers did non truly understand what they needed to make. or lacked the accomplishments or cognition to play their full portion in the procedure.
This is barely surprising sing that the makings in many of these industries and businesss were still in their babyhood. Access to makings through work Assuming that the unity of makings can be improved. doing makings available through work is a great advantage to many lower-paid and lower-status workers in times of full employment. Both Study 1 and Study 2 were carried out in the tight labor market which characterised most of the first decennary of the 21st century in Australia as in many other states. Some of the industries such as meat processing. cleansing and call Centres. suffered to a really great extent from an ability to pull workers and peculiarly workers of high quality. Workers were attracted to the thought of deriving makings so long as the chance did non look excessively endangering. However the undermentioned troubles could be identified. As unemployment rises due to the Global Financial Crisis. makings that are chiefly available through work become unavailable to the unemployed.
Delivery patterns that involve a close web of common parts from RTOs and from employers may be hard to pull out and to accommodate to institutional-base bringing. This is particularly where the traineeship setup has underpinned developing for the industry ( eg call Centres. meat processing ) so that 'simulated' workplaces have ne'er been developed within RTOs. Workplaces that are fighting with endurance in a hard economic clime are improbable to welcome petitions from RTOs to entree their installations for bringing of preparation. and RTOs are improbable to hold the financess to develop their ain premises. Even in the return to full employment that we hope may happen in the non excessively distant hereafter. entree to makings is still patchy. Access to makings through work is merely available through employers that engage with the system and typically is greater in a big workplace than a little 1. as Study 1 showed. Study 1 besides showed that employers that engage are likely to be better employers in footings of human resource and preparation patterns more by and large and hence there is a dual disadvantage to those non working for such employers. The deficiency of geographical propinquity to a good RTO acts as a barrier to forestall entree by workers to makings through work in the same manner as it prevents entree separately ; while employers do utilise RTOs for bringing in non-traditional manners. Study 2 showed that the quality of preparation is likely to be lower where RTOs are non near by.
A more elusive point about entree surfaced in Study 2. For persons. since traineeships were frequently attached to a occupation which they would make anyhow. at that place seemed to be small grounds of a witting determination to set about the making. This is in blunt contrast to the much longer-established apprenticeships where typical entrants have expressed a desire to set about 'an apprenticeship' which sometime even over drives even the committedness to the peculiar industry country ( Smith. 2000 ) . In Study 2. workers frequently expressed gratitude towards the employer. who provided the chance for a traineeship. and in one cleansing instance company workers seemed to be incognizant of the handiness of patterned advance chances stating that they would be happy to set about higher degree makings merely if their director asked them to. They therefore seemed to hold abrogated duty for their ain acquisition tracts. This seemed partially because their relationship with the RTO was ever mediated through their employer. Finally some points are deserving sing although did non emerge during the research surveies.
A worker set abouting a making through work is making so under conditions of unequal power relationships. If his or her supervisor is besides his assessor. public presentation or relationship issues may go tangled with the preparation. If the completion of probation or other public presentation mileposts are dependent on completion of phases of the makings. so RTOs may be put under force per unit area to go through or to neglect the employee depending on the wants of the employer in relation to a peculiar worker. For the worker. so. anxiousness about work could go conflated with anxiousness about larning in a manner that would non happen to the same extent if makings were separate from the workplace. More by and large. a worker may be happy to set about the occupation for the clip being but is non needfully committed to the business to the extent of welcoming the chance of set abouting a making. If he or she is obliged to make so. the motive for larning might be reasonably low.
While Study 2 provided illustrations where stakeholders argued cogently that completion of a Certificate II or III making in one industry frequently provided good foundation for working in other industries. our surveies did non look into in any systematic mode this facet of makings through work. In a more practical point. support regulations sometimes mean that people can 'use up' their entitlement to support and be able subsequently to pull support for preparation in countries in which they wish to analyze. intending they presented an extra disbursal for their ulterior employers. Consideration of preparation in some articled trades over the past 50 old ages in Australia. which provide a premier illustration of the handiness of makings through work. would besides supply a fruitful country for survey which is non possible to research to the full in this paper. Some dysfunctional results of restricting preparation in articled trades to a individual theoretical account include the remotion of chances to work in certain industries except through apprenticeships. and the ossification of preparation patterns. These are of class set aboard some extremely functional results.
The paper has used qualitative and quantitative informations from two national surveies to analyze the pros and cons for workers of deriving makings through work. While the focal point has been on workers. needfully there has been some treatment of pros and cons for employers. In possibly more ways that some observers would admit. the involvements of workers and employers frequently coincide in the country of preparation. While single facets of undertaking makings through work have been researched rather extensively. this paper is possibly a innovator in trying to pull together the major issues. It is apparent that a great trade more analysis is necessary to supply a consistent image of the issue for the intents of bettering policy and pattern. peculiarly with respect to the demand to keep the advantages through times of changing economic activity.
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