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Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi Achievement Guide & Roadmap
Approximate amount of time to get 1000/1000
: 30+ Hours
Minimum number of playthroughs needed:
Number of missable
Do cheat codes disable achievements?:
Does difficulty affect achievements?:
Yes (All 1P vs CPU achievements, as well as 'W.Tournament True Champion' and 'Cell Games True Champion').
Road Map:
Step 1) Get the Story Mode and Hero Mode
You can alternate between Story Mode and Hero Mode as you see fit. Just focusing on one or the other can be a bit boring. Just make sure that you collect every Dragon Ball that you see in Story Mode.
All Story Mode
The Actors are All in Play!
World Domination!
Monster on a Full Moon
Beginning of a Fantastic Tale
Great Air Battle!
Goodbye, Dragon World
All 7 Are Here!
That's One Big Dragon!!
That One's Even Bigger!!
Thank You Very Much!!
All Hero Mode
I Changed the World!
How Do I Look?
Becoming Fashion Aware
The Martial Artist's Path
Master! Please Teach Me!
Limit Breaker
Growing in Power
Point Getter
Tapping into Latent Power
Skill Master
Which One Shall I Choose?
Super Attack Collector
Step 2) Get the rest of the offline
You should unlock at least a few of these while completing the Story Mode and Hero Mode. As for the rest, you can finish them off as you see fit. I've provided strategies for all of them in the achievement guide.
I Still Want To Fight
I Want to Fight Someone Strong!
Fight Seeker
Defense Learner
Defense Professional
Evasion Learner
Evasion Fiend
Interception Learner
Counter Hero
I See Right Through You!
Moves On Parade
Master of Moves
World Tournament Champion
Cell Games Champion
W.Tournament True Champion
Cell Games True Champion
Step 3) The Online Mode
You can either leave these until last or work on them concurrently with the rest of the achievements. Title King is the tricky one here. For getting the titles and wins, you can either use the
boosting section
of this board or just do it the manual way (as I did).
All Online
Battle Rookie
Regular Battle Customer
Battle Veteran
Title Holder
Title King
Achievement Guide:
The Actors are All in Play!
Excluding custom Heroes, unlock all characters and forms.
You'll get this automatically while playing through the Story Mode. Once you beat Kid Buu, the credits will roll, earning you the 'Thank You Very Much!!!' achievement. You're not done yet though, as there are a few more fights left to do. Once you complete the Janemba and Broly battles, you'll get the achievement.
World Domination! - 10
Fight on all maps.
You'll get this achievement once simply by playing through the Story Mode. You'll eventually fight on every map as you go. On the other hand, unlocking all stages for selection in multiplayer, CPU battle and online requires you to summon the dragon in the Story Mode at least a few times. Each time, you'll have the choice to wish for a new stage to be unlocked. Make sure that you choose it. There are four unlockable stages in the game:
Supreme Kai's World
Ruined Planet Namek.
I'm 80% sure that Ruined Planet Namek is unlocked after defeating Frieza during the Story Mode, rather than through the dragon.
Training All Over Again - 5
Do Training for the first time.
Self explanatory. Simply start a battle in the Training Mode accessible from the main menu, and the achievement will unlock.
Don't Forget the Basics - 20
Complete Tutorial until the end.
Go into the Tutorial section, then make sure to select every option and perform the actions the game tells you to do. I recommend playing through the whole Tutorial section before you start playing the game, as it explains a lot of important parts of the gameplay.
Beginning of a Fantastic Tale - 5
Win 1 Event Battle in Story Mode.
This achievement will automatically unlock after your first battle in Story Mode.
Monster on a Full Moon - 10
Clear a Giant Boss Battle in Story Mode for the first time.
During the Story mode, you'll have to fight Vegeta in his Giant Ape form. This battle can be a little tough at first, but make sure to use the
button to dodge to either the left or right when he attacks, and pay attention when you need to press the string of buttons - you have to be fairly quick. Once he's defeated, the achievement will unlock.
Great Air Battle! - 5
Do a Chase Battle in Story Mode for the first time.
After winning the fight against Nappa with Goku, Vegeta will follow Goku and a chase will begin. The achievement will unlock as soon as it finishes.
Goodbye, Dragon World! -
Clear Story Mode for the first time.
Just keep completing all the story battles until you finally reach the end. You'll know the end when you see it: the final battle in Story Mode is Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta fighting Omega Shenron. On a related note, you'll be able to gather one Dragon Ball every time you complete a story battle, so make sure to pick it up. They are marked on the Dragon Radar as little green dots.
I'm Going to Change the World! - 5
Win 1 Event Battle in Hero Mode.
Event battles are marked by stars on the Dragon Radar. Simply fly over to the first one, select it, and win the battle (against Captain Ginyu) that begins to unlock this achievement.
Your Real Training Starts Here - 10
Clear Hero Mode training for the first time.
Once you've chosen a Master in the Hero Mode's training menu, just complete their first sparring match and you'll unlock this achievement. Yamcha's training is the easiest.
All 7 Are Here!
Obtain 7 Dragon Balls in Story Mode.
In Story Mode, you'll be able to gather one Dragon Ball every time you complete a story battle, so make sure to pick it up. They are marked on the Dragon Radar as little green dots. Some Dragon Balls will be located at the World Martial Arts Tournament, so you'll have to win the tournament in order to get the Dragon Ball.
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Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng wants to fly out with Clinton
There are 46 comments on the www.washingtonpost.com story from May 3, 2012, titled Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng wants to fly out with Clinton. In it, www.washingtonpost.com reports that:
Blind activist Chen Guangcheng and his family "have had a change of heart" about staying in China, the U.S. State Department spokeswoman said Thursday, and American officials are planning to talk with them more to decide whether they should leave their homeland and seek asylum in the United States.
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#1 May 3, 2012
The Way Hillary,Obama are handling this STINKS!....The guy and his family are DEAD PEOPLE WALKING!......Disgraceful on the part of this LOONY GOVERNMENT...they talk out of both sides of their mouths..DAM HYPOCRITES!!....seems here the CHINKS own our ass ,and do have power......OBAMAs BANKER!!
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New Rochelle
#2 May 3, 2012
Please, go soak your head.
This is a delicate situation, and what happens will set precidents. Stop your knee-jerk hate of your country, and give it a break.
In other words, please shut up.
Mackenzie, Canada
#3 May 3, 2012
lol tough talking usa
"bar0ckalypse n0w"
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#4 May 3, 2012
... another one under the bus.
It's getting crowded down there.
United States
#5 May 3, 2012
Yep, the CHINKS own the FROSTS!
#6 May 3, 2012
UP YER HOLE WITH A MELL-O-ROLL....You as usual do not know what yer talking about...Get to the real world and off TOPIX......We had enough of a So Called TOPIX Representative INSULTING the Folk here....change yer handle, if you want to Fling shit,but Please stop with Yer MOD CRAP...Your as Worst of the Worst here..DAM HYPOCRATE!,FRAUD,LIAR, LOON NIMKOOMPOOP!
China activist appeals to Obama...
Deal unravels...
Chen fears for life...
"We are in danger'...
Hillary ignores...
Activist Chen Guangcheng: Let Me Leave China on Hillary Clintons Plane
May 2, 2012 10:10 PM EDT
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beasts Melinda Liu, blind dissident Chen Guangcheng says hes been abandoned by American officials at a Chinese hospital and begs to leave the country on Hillary Clintons plane.
I need your help, Im absolutely, absolutely ready to fly out on Hillary Clintons plane. Please tell the embassy what Im saying.
#7 May 3, 2012
What makes him think that WE want HIM here?
(Especially since his actions have increased friction between China & USA)
How does he expect to support himself??
(Not on OUR dime!)
Who does he think he is??
#9 May 3, 2012
you NITWIT he is a HUMAN BEING...America is the last HOPE IN THIS MISERABLE WORLD FOR humanity to EXIST,...NUMNUTS ,YOUR obama,RECIPIENT OF THE nobel peace prize AND ALL IT MEANS IS A fraud,hypocrite...iF A moran like you CANNOT SEE THE humanity OF THIS ,WELL JOIN THE AHs HERE AND IN THE WORLD!........seems you not aware of THE STATUE OF LIBERTY and its meaning.....Ques is Who the Hell do you think you are??..Go get another Beer!
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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Since: Mar 10
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#10 May 3, 2012
China activist appeals to Obama...
Deal unravels...
Chen fears for life...
"We are in danger'...
Hillary ignores...
#11 May 3, 2012
You say that now. What if all the rest of the TIRED and POOR from around the world come knocking on your door and want to come in. Will YOU support them?? How many immigrants are you able to house and feed? How many has your bleeding heart TAKEN INTO YOUR HOME already??
<I thought so>
Mackenzie, Canada
#12 May 3, 2012
tough TALKING Americans...
stick their nose into everything
cant even protect a blind activist....who wanted to go to their country....
and who was technically on American soil at the US embassy
until they say lets go to the hospital and get you checked out...
and then left his blind a$$
CHINA SAID JUMP USA>>>THE USA JUMPED and JUMPED
Q: What prompted your change of heart?
A: The embassy kept lobbying me to leave and promised to have people stay with me in the hospital. But this afternoon as soon as I checked into the hospital room, I noticed they were all gone.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/02/world/asia/chen ...
#13 May 3, 2012
The Same way yer Tribe Came To AMERICA!...Every thing AMERICAN? YER NOT!..You do not know What AMERICA is all about!.Brave Men and Women Gave it all for this to be so....Ya sound like a HITLER!A Trailer Park Racist,World Hateing Dumb Programed Freak.SKINHEAD!..No matter how much I insult yo..no Difference..you are what you are,Small,insignificant,Ignora nt,Without our a Purpose in Life except to spout yer TRASH,and yer HATE of Humanity!...YUCK!..Thats LOW!!....No go cash Yer Food Stamps and yer SS check,and yer disability check for yer Brain Damage!
United States
#14 May 3, 2012
Well, he is Chinese, thus he has every rights to be here in the USA and be on welfare, indeed. What else?
United States
#15 May 3, 2012
It is always fun to watch two monkeys going at it at each other.
#16 May 3, 2012
So you expect that the GOVERNMENT should take care of everyone? <LOL<
As in the words of Margaret Thatcher:
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money. Margaret Thatcher
Keep your dream buddy, before reality starts to crumble (as it has already started).
<The government IS running out of other people's money>
United States
#17 May 3, 2012
Why would this neo-Marxist want to come here? So that he could be among friends?
I propose a prisoner swap. We send them all our DC politico neo-Marxists, and we take the blind guy.
Funny how commies like to fight each other all the time. That Orwellian Constant War thing of mass mind control, I guess.
#18 May 3, 2012
We should bring him and his family to US to show the world how compassionate we are. Then we should put him through law school to study American laws to replace his Chinese law degree. American laws are a must for any activist because we have better laws than any other countries.
After he gets his law degree, he can teach our blind and disable citizens and criminals to go en masse into the Chinese Embassy to ask for asylum. If China gives them asylum, we get rid of a lot of problems. If China does not give them asylum, we can show the world the true color of China.
Shenzhen, China
#19 May 3, 2012
This guy has to learn English first, which would be tough at age 40.
#20 May 3, 2012
Yer very Little...we are not the UK,who have their own problems...this is not some Million Ill eagles Here DUMBO....but a Person and his family who now puts AMERICA on trial...Are we a Gentle,Nation? A Nation of Compassion?,A Haven for the Oppressed?.Thet Shining Nation in the World??..Of course we are.Not a BRAINLOCKED NITWIT LIKE YOU!.This.as witnessed by many great Americans like EINSTEIN,SOKORSKY,Writers,Arts ..who came here from tyranny,...But Yer a confirmed RED NECK SKINHEAD with personnel problems..notably a feeling of inferiority,and insecurity!!...Poor Dumb Jerk....
#21 May 3, 2012
We can put him on a fast track. He will learn his English and get his law degree in no time. Most American can't speak English very well anyway.
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Is it possible to create a shortcut from a .exe using batch scripting?
Using batch alone? Probably not, unless you're just copying a shortcut from the Start Menu to somewhere else. We had this issue when building/refining our latest deployment process and certain groups wanted shortcuts to everything on their desktop.
The Windows NT Resource Kit has a utility named
If you can get away with VBS, this would work:
Yes it is possible to create a shortcut, sort of... you can create a .url file which works just like a shortcut (.lnk) file from at least windows 98 on up to currently Windows 7. The .url file which is actually used for the Windows Favorites bookmarks is a simple text file which references a url and some additional information. Here is a simple example of making one from a batch file:
Which results in a file named Explorer.url to be created with this content inside of it:
Double clicking on it will work just as a shortcut and run the program.
I think there's no way to create a batch file direct from a batch file, maybe you could write in the windows registry from bat or if you dont bother in using a third party app in this job, you can download shortcut.exe (www.optimumx.com) and call it in a bat. shortcut.exe /f:"%AllUsersProfile%\desktop\ShortcutName.pif" /a:c /t:folder:\MyApp ... i/image.icon.....
Have you considered using Symbolic links? This maybe the closest alternative you can get. 1. Only Administrators can create symbolic links. 2. Requires VISTA or Higher OS with NTFS.
The utilities used to create them are built-in: MKLINK.exe and/or LINKD.exe and can be easily scripted in a batch file.


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It's been nearly a year since Mark.Nine released his last LP, Artificial Horizon, and what has come from it? A 5 track EP. But this is no ordinary EP, this album is a gateway to the LP that will be released later in 2008. Each song tells it's own story, each melody drifts off into space. Listen to the album, close your eyes, and paint the picture you imagine. This album is exactly what it is; In Memories.
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Easy Breezy Chocolate Mousse
Total Time
Prep 20 mins
Cook 2 hrs
This recipe hails from Austria, the use of chocolate with whipping cream and cinnamon is typically Austrian. Even though there is no gelatine used, it firms up nicely and has a creamy, silky texture. 2 hours of cooling is included in the cooking time.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa
- grated zest of one orange
- orange zest ribbons and mint (to garnish)
- Heat 1/3rd of the whipping cream in a heavy bottomed sauce pan but don't let it boil, turn off the heat. Add the chocolate chips and stir until melted, add 1 tsp cinnamon and the grated orange zest und mix well.
- In a large mixing bowl whip the rest of the cream to stiff peaks, pour the chocolate mixture into the whipped cream and and carefully fold in with a spatula, do not stir.
- Pour the mixture in 4 dessert bowls, put the rest of the cinnamon and the cocoa in a tea strainer and sieve over the dishes.
- Put in the fridge and let set for at least 2 hours or over night.
- When ready to serve, garnish with a swirl of orange zest and some fresh mint.
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Oh gosh this was so good! Chocolate mousse is my very favorite dessert and only one restaurant made it perfectly but now I can make it at home. Just a bit of orange flavor that goes so well with the chocolate and it is not hard to make at all. This will be enjoyed again! Made and reviewed for Pick A Chef - Fall 2012.
Clear five stars from a very happy DH who had this for his 50th birthday and raved about it! This is so much more quickly made than mousse au chocolat with eggs, I'll keep making this now when I want to make orange chocolate mousse. I used 70 percent organic chocolate with orange flavouring and whipping cream with 30 percent fat content - we don't have heavy whipping cream here. But the texture turned out awesome, and it looked most elegant. Thanks for posting this winner!!
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OMG, this is soooo good, and you are right about it being easy. I was a little nervous when I noticed it had no sugar and semi-sweet chips, but shouldn't worried as it was great. I did add a teaspoon of vanilla to the whipped cream but that was the only change. It was so awesome as you'd taste the chocolate and then get a taste of cinnamon and then orange - and not overly sweet, loved this and will be making it often. Mad for PAC fall 2011


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An Analysis of Basic Design Education in Turkey and Implications for Changes in Postsecondary Art Curriculum
Date: August 1998
Creator: Oztuna, Haci Yakup
Description: This study explored the current status of Turkish basic art education and the objectives of the first year art program at the university level in Turkey. Also, the researcher attempted to explore the objectives and expectations of Turkish art professors and to examine the applicability of certain concepts of American basic design education in the teaching of studio foundation courses in Turkish art schools. The study included the literature review concerning changes in educational philosophy related to the history of design education in the West and in Turkey.
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Art Criticism and the Gendering of Lee Bontecou's Art, ca. 1959 - 1964
Date: December 2005
Creator: Estrada-Berg, Victoria
Description: This thesis identifies and analyzes gendering in the art writing devoted to Lee Bontecou's metal and canvas sculptures made from the 1959 - 1964. Through a careful reading of reviews and articles written about Bontecou's constructions, this thesis reconstructs the context of the art world in the United States at mid-century and investigates how cultural expectations regarding gender directed the reception of Bontecou's art, beginning in 1959 and continuing through mid-1960s. Incorporating a description of the contemporaneous cultural context with description of the constructions and an analysis of examples of primary writing, the thesis chronologically follows the evolution of a tendency in art writing to associate gender-specific motivation and interpretation to one recurring feature of Bontecou's works.
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Art Museum Resources and Teacher Use.
Date: May 2006
Creator: Eggemeyer, Valerie
Description: I proposed that both Bruner's (1963) idea of the spiral curriculum and Yenawine's (1992) theories of teaching for visual literacy in the museum set the stage for significant learning for students when used together. If school teachers lay a foundation of knowledge about a museum object, especially through museum resources, then the student may transform and apply this 'prior knowledge' (explicit memories from the classroom) while on the museum visit tour. When docents utilize Yenawine's (1992) methods toward the goal of visual literacy, the semantic knowledge of the classroom is then fused with museum learning, building stronger memories and facilitating deeper understanding as students learn about museum objects. This research explored the correlation of these two theories in a qualitative manner based on observations of actual museum visit preparation in classrooms in Casper, Wyoming, and how it related to a museum tour at the Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center. The research revealed that conditions do exist within the community that would facilitate Bruner's (1963) idea of a learning spiral, yet not in the manner envisioned. The observed conditions toward a spiral was accomplished through the participant teachers relating the museum exhibit to their operational curriculum in a variety of ...
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Changing Perceptions of Heraldry in English Knightly Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Date: August 1996
Creator: Lewis, Robert Lee, III.
Description: The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and discuss the changing ways in which the visual art of heraldiy was perceived by the feudal aristocracy of twelfth- and thirteenth-century England. It shows how the aristocracy evolved from a military class to a courtly, chivalric class, and how this change affected art and culture. The shifts in the perceptions of heraldry reflect this important social development of the knightly class.
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A Comparison of Texas Pre-service Teacher Education Programs in Art and the 1999 National Art Education Association's Standards for Art Teacher Preparation
Date: May 2002
Creator: Breitenstein, Gary
Description: Texas programs in pre-service art teacher preparation vary little. Since 1970, the National Art Education Association (NAEA) has created voluntary standards in hopes of decreasing variability among programs. In 1999, the NAEA published Standards for Art Teacher Preparation, outlining 20 content areas that art pre-service programs should provide their students. To obtain information on the implementation and the extent to which these 20 standards are being implemented, a questionnaire was sent to all programs in Texas. The 20 standards were the dependent variable for the study. The four independent variables used in this ex post facto study were: the size of the institution where the program exists; the number of full-time art faculty; the number of full-time art education faculty; and, the number of undergraduate art education students who graduated last year. The 20 standards or provisions were scored on a Lickert scale with six options: zero (not taught) to five (comprehensively taught). The response size (N = 23) was 47% of the state's 49 approved programs. The results from the survey suggest no significant difference among programs. However, the results showed a significant difference in the number of provisions taught between programs with no art educators and those with ...
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Complementary Dualities: The Significance of East/West Architectural Difference in Paquimé
Date: August 2005
Creator: Hughes, Delain
Description: This thesis provides the first formal and phenomenological analysis of the architecture in Paquimé, otherwise known as Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico. The eastern and western halves of the city are divided by a stone wall and reservoirs. The monuments on the east are rectilinear, puddled adobe structures used primarily for domestic and manufacturing purposes. The buildings on the west, on the other hand, are open earth mounds lined in stone for public displays. This thesis analyzes each building individually, the relationship of the structures to one another, and the entire layout of Paquimé in order to better understand Paquimian visual culture.
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Conversations with the Master: Picasso's Dialogues with Velazquez
Date: August 1997
Creator: McKinzey, Joan C. (Joan Connie)
Description: This thesis investigates the significance of Pablo Picasso's lifelong appropriation of formal elements from paintings by Diego Velazquez. Selected paintings and drawings by Picasso are examined and shown to refer to works by the seventeenth-century Spanish master.
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Critical Cultural Consciousness in the Classroom Through an Art-Centered Curricular Unit, "Respect and Homage."
Date: August 2004
Creator: Kuster, Deborah A.
Description: The purpose of this study was to describe the implementation, structure, content and outcome of an art-centered unit developed for 5th grade students. This unit was designed to be an example/model of specific tools and procedures that teachers can use in the art and general classroom to promote critical cultural consciousness, which is the ability to analyze both the covert and overt elements of a culture with the purpose of developing a holistic viewpoint that values the cultural heritages of self and others. The participants selected for this study were all the students in three 5th grade classes. The art-centered unit focused on three artists-Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett and Charles White-under the theme "Respect and Homage." The research methods used in this investigation were qualitative. This study was written in a style that described the research design with its origins, organization and implementation. The implementation of the curricular unit developed for this study took place in the art and general classroom. Of particular interest in this study was the framework and structure of the art-centered unit, designed around two specific strategies utilized to promote critical cultural consciousness. One strategy in this unit was the identification of art-related or art-centered micro-cultures ...
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Critical Theory and Preservice Art Education: One Art Teacher Educator's Journey of Equipping Art Teachers for Inclusion.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Allison, Amanda
Description: This qualitative action research study examines how critical theory defined and guided my practice as an art teacher educator while I provided inclusion training for seven preservice art teachers during their student teaching. Sources of data included a personal journal, the inclusion curriculum I created for the preservice teachers and questionnaires and interviews. Primary findings indicated that critical theory had a substantive impact on the evolving development of my teaching philosophy, in particular my attention to issues of power redistribution in the classroom and my developing notion of teaching as form of artistry. The findings of this study also indicate that the primary impact of critical theory upon the preservice teachers was the articulation of their personal narratives and its relation to the development of their teaching identities. Further, mentoring these preservice art teachers in critical theory increased their competence in solving educational dilemmas. A primary finding of this study was how significant of a role the supervising or mentor teacher plays in developing preservice teachers' identity. As this is acknowledged, valued and utilized, more collaborative relationships among these stakeholders in the education of the preservice art teacher can be forged. The study provides implications for art teacher educators as ...
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Dallas as Region: Mark Lemmon's Gothic Revival Highland Park Presbyterian Church
Date: August 2004
Creator: Bagley, Julie Arens
Description: Informed by the methodology utilized in Peter Williams's Houses of God: Region, Religion, and Architecture in the United States (1997), the thesis examines Mark Lemmon's Gothic Revival design for the Highland Park Presbyterian Church (1941) with special attention to the denomination and social class of the congregation and the architectural style of the church. Beginning with the notion that Lemmon's church is more complex than an expression of the Southern cultural region defined by Williams, the thesis presents the opportunity to examine the church in the context of the unique cultural region of the city of Dallas. Church archival material supports the argument that the congregation deliberately sought to identify with both the forms and ideology of the late nineteenth-century Gothic Revival in the northeastern United States, a result of the influence of Dallas's cultural region.
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Causal concepts in chemical vernaculars
- Rom HarréAffiliated withGeorgetown University Email author
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Though causality seems to have a natural place in chemical thought, the analysis of the underlying causal concepts requires attention to two different research styles. In Part One I attempt a classification and critical analysis of several philosophical accounts of causal concepts which appear to be very diverse. I summarize this diversity which ranges from causality as displayed in regular concomitances of types of events to causality as the activity of agents. Part Two is concerned with the analysis of contrasting chemical discourses, comparing the classical atomist style of Boyle, and Lavoisier and von Liebig with the later energeticist style of van't Hoff and Hinshelwood. In detail different clusters of causal concepts can be abstracted from these discursive styles, yet they all approximate the Realist format for causal discourse. By way of summary I make an attempt to map the vernacular distinctions of Part Two onto the philosophical territory of Part One. The argument is rounded off with a brief analysis of a chemical publication of 2008.
KeywordsHume Kant Causality Powerful particular Regularity Events Agency
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- Causal concepts in chemical vernaculars
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Foundations of Chemistry
Volume 12, Issue 2 , pp 101-115
- Cover Date
- 2010-10
- 10.1007/s10698-010-9091-8
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- 1386-4238
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- 1572-8463
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- Springer Netherlands
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Clubbing, nightlife and going out in Melbourne
Your ultimate guide to 24-hour Melbourne
We investigate how we became a city of night owls and show you how to make the most of an increasingly sleepless city
Rave of Thrones: The Resurrection
Hold the door! DJ Kristian Nairn (aka Hodor) is returning to Melbourne in October
Upcoming parties in Melbourne
Your guide to clubbing in Melbourne
Late-night fun in Melbourne
How to pull the ultimate all-nighter in Melbourne
Your guide to making the most of 24-hour Melbourne, from drinks and dancing to midnight feasts
The best late-night bars in Melbourne
No lockouts here! When you're keen to kick on, consult our guide to classy fun after one
The best late-night eats in Melbourne
You're up late. You need a feed. We're not here to judge, we're here to help
How Melbourne became a late-night city
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The people who keep Melbourne running after dark
Meet the people working through the night to keep the city ticking, from public transport to police
How Melbourne's 24-hour public transport could change your life
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Experience Victoria as you never have before at the RACV Great Victorian Bike Ride, where you'll ride through Victoria's beautiful scenery from the Grampians to the Great Ocean Road. The annual bike ride has been running for 30 years and is quite possibly the best-kept secret in local travel, for two unbeatable reasons: you can experience great scenery by day and a party atmosphere by night. Riders can opt to do a three, five or nine-day ride across Victoria. The three-day option (188km) runs along the coast from Apollo Bay, Bellbrae, Queenscliff to Geelong from December 1-4. The five-day course (339km) runs from the historic town of Halls Gap and winds down to the coast past the Twelve Apostles to finish at Apollo Bay from November 26 to December 1. For riders who are in it for the long haul, there's the nine-day ride from Halls Gap to Geelong (527km) from November 26 to December 4. This event is open to riders of all ages (children included), though a reasonable level of fitness is expected. While the rides will cover plenty of distance, full support and service from the RACV Great Victorian Bike Ride will ensure no one gets left behind. Everything is included in the ticket price: the support team will provide three meals a day, toilets, hot showers at the campsites and luggage transfers. Don't have a tent? There are rental options available. It's not all about the riding either – once you get off the saddle, the evenings will take on a festival atmosphere with live mu
George's Bar
A quirky theme does not a great bar make – but at George's Bar in Fitzroy, you're guaranteed both. Late last year, Fitzroy awoke to a huge George Costanza mural and a sign on the door instructing patrons to "BE MORE LIKE GEORGE". A flurry of media interest ensued (Jason Alexander himself even tweeted about it), but the real test was whether the Johnston Street bar would stand the test of time. Thankfully, it has. George's Bar has built a following around its chilled-out attitude and lack of pretension from friendly bar staff. They'll happily make you a top-notch Old Fashioned or pour you a Little Creatures on tap. If you're hungry, don't go past the toasties: the classic Art Vandelay is a fat stack of double cheese, or if you're feeling adventurous, go for the Dealership: a combo of Twix, maple butter and pretzels. George's Bar also does a great trivia night on Wednesdays and comedy night on Thursdays. Fridays and Saturdays are all about the local DJs. Naturally, photos of Costanza are placed around the walls – but whether you're a Seinfeld fan or not, George's Bar is the local you've been looking for.
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Love your hospo job, but getting sick of wearing the same thing every day? Looking to inject some personality into the uniforms of your staff? Cargo Crew – the Melbourne-based leaders in high-quality uniforms – are listening. Cargo Crew are known for their diverse uniform collections, which range from Scandi-cool aprons with leather straps to chino pants that look as good at work as on your days off. Now, they're going one step further by offering you the chance to completely customise your uniform. Your Way offers endless options. You can select embroidered patches or pin badges to your shirt, monogram your apron and mix and match your outfit. For the full range, visit the website, look around and get in touch with the Cargo Crew team who will take care of the rest. Alternatively, Melbourne customers can head to Cargo Crew's Your Way kiosk at their Brunswick East showroom (4-6 Barkly St, Brunswick East 3057. Mon-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm). There you can mix and match your selection and get ideas for your perfect personalised uniform.
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Sustainable Ranching & Agroforestry
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Rancho Colibrí - located in the northwest of Costa Rica - promotes sustainable farming & ranching (
), hiking & trail riding, and is home to the Laughing Falcon Nature Reserve and the Institute for Central American Studies
We are located less than an hour from the Liberia International Airport and are blessed with sweeping views of the Gulf of Papagayo and the Guanacaste Conservation Area.
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The Department of Campus Safety coordinates Hood College transportation requests. All requests for vans, buses and/or vehicles for student activities, student field trips and any other College-related transportation should be made through the Office of Campus Safety.
All drivers of Hood College vehicles need to be approved. Print the Authorization for Release of Information form, fill it out and return it to the Department of Campus Safety at the switchboard desk in the Whitaker Campus Center. Any questions or concerns about transportation needs should be addressed to Doreen Jarvis at the switchboard or at ext. 3964.
Through an integration of the liberal arts and the professions, Hood College provides an education that empowers students to use their hearts, minds and hands to meet personal, professional and global challenges and to lead purposeful lives of responsibility, leadership, service and civic engagement.
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Historic home tours are a staple in communities on every continent. People want to honor their famous people and point out elegant architecture. Famous people and elegant architecture attract a certain audience, so together, preservation, careful maintenance of historic properties, and well-crafted historic home tours add to the pride and prestige of every community, and bring in dollars from heritage tourists.
The following techniques can be applied to many interpretive sites, historic and natural, but I want to call attention to historic properties because they are so prevalent, striking, and tell the story of the community, yet they are often staffed by volunteers who love the place but don't have access to interpretation training.
Before I get to interpretation, I need to say a word about preservation of the resource. In the conclusion of their book, The Gifts of Interpretation, authors Larry Beck and Ted Cable make a simple, but critical statement:
"The first and most important lesson is: Do not destroy the gift."
This leads to a lengthy discussion, but I'll make just three notes.
1 – Recognize that your historic property is a gift that offers many values to your visitor and your community. Protect that gift.
2 – Your historic property is fragile. Yes, it may have stood for a hundred years, but it can be destroyed by a few bad decisions. Those decisions can involve turning landscapes into parking lots, removing the site's small outbuildings, maintaining the structure using modern materials or by workmen who don't understand historic preservation (see The Secretary of the Interior's Guidelines for Historic Preservation at NPS.gov), and every small, daily decision that bit by bit chips away at the site's historic integrity. Do not destroy the gift!
3 – In your interpretation remember that it's always about the people: the people who built and inhabited the site, more than the structure or the furnishings … and that leads us to the way you present your historic home and your organization to the public and your community: interpretation.
Techniques for memorable interpretation
- The landscaping and outbuildings are an important part of the story. It's common to protect the massive Victorian home but tear down and haul away the tool shed, the carriage house, the well house, and the storage shed, and to rip out 100-year old plants and replace them with modern varieties. But these complete the story of how people here lived, what they did, and more. They provide interesting and valuable connections – we have a garage, they had a small barn where they kept a carriage, wagon, and fed the horses on the side. Here is where they butchered hogs in early winter and here is where they fed the chickens. These are wonderful elements for interpretation and understanding of life at your site.
- Make a personal, human, connection between people and time. It's common for beautiful, large, impressive structures to be saved, while the homes of average people, the middle class, face urban renewal. You can't save everything, nor do you want to, but in your interpretation contrast and compare life in this fine home with life elsewhere in the city at that time. Explain how the average person lived. Identify with your average audience – today's middle class – and note how, say, a mercantile owner and his family might have lived. Explain the average size house in cost, space, outbuildings, etc., and compare that with us today, then to those who lived in your house museum.
- When you interpret the past know that we can't imagine the past. Tour guides often say: "Imagine it's 1888." That's not going to happen; we can't do that. You have to paint that picture for us with your description, or show us a picture, or otherwise bring us into that era. Unless we have studied that time period, we know only a smattering about it, and we cannot imagine it with enough detail to follow your story.
- Begin with the exterior. So often we rush inside, yet it is the beautiful architecture seen from the street that attracts many people to your historic home. Begin with the beauty outside.
- Walk around the structure, noting landscaping, especially calling attention to period, historic/heirloom plantings. Note the outbuildings if present, or show a photograph of them, or show a photo of a typical outbuilding layout and explain the function of the structures (so much gets destroyed over time). It's important to establish the physical context of the site.
- Note what houses, shops, and offices lined the streets around your historic home. Again, you are building context within the community. Today the home may be the only remaining structure of its kind in the surrounding area, but when built the entire street may have been filled with these beautiful structures. Look for Sanborn Insurance Company city maps. They are excellent resources and can be copied and used as a "pocket exhibit" to show the nearby structures.
- Now begin to focus on the structure itself. Point out elements of the architectural style and note the era it was popular and the years it was built. Help your audience grasp
the elements of this style so they can confidently identify t
he style when they see it in another city, or back home. This should be a learning goal: Visitors will be able to identify four characteristics of a (Art Deco/ Victorian/ Colonial/ Greek Revival) house.
- Know why your site is architecturally and historically significant. There are historic homes everywhere. Why should a traveler skip others but stop at yours? What makes you so special? Be sure that answer is a central part of your interpretive message. Another learning goal: Every visitor will understand that this place is important because … .
- Once you know your significance, create your essential message – your compelling story. From that develop a strong theme that ties your tour together. This should be a complete sentence that you repeat several times during the tour and that the visitor can remember and ponder.
- Know the difference between a house and a home. A house is wood, brick, masonry, construction, and architecture. Sure, there are some good stories there that must be told. But people identify with people. Tell the story of home – a place where people lived, where children were raised, where a family lived and died. Those are the powerful, memorable stories. Tell the stories of home and you will hold the attention and gain the heart of your audience.
- Begin on time and end on time, but plan plenty of time for a relaxed tour.
- Face the visitors, don't talk to the furniture.
- Speak to the people in the back, then everyone will hear you.
- Be relaxed, you are part of the experience. You don't have to be like anyone else or do the tour like anyone else. Enjoy the tour and be yourself, with a smile.
- Select the number of "stops' and limit them to your most important stories, some outside, some inside. You don't have to, or want to, say something about everything. People don't want a firehose, just a drink of water. Don't walk two feet and stop: move some, talk some, and keep the flow going.
- Use pocket exhibits and surprises: have touchable items in a pocket that you can bring out at the perfect moment, stash things, like the mentioned Sanborn map, or a tool, or a unique invention, that you can grab at that point on the tour and pass around or demonstrate to your audience to bring your story to life.
- Use a quote or poem or short story, and select someone from the audience to read it – stash a hat or coat at the right place to dress them and create an instant character.
- Don't tell how things worked; show how things worked. What do you have that visitors can operate? A mouse trap? An apple peeler? A churn? Simply lifting the lid of a Dutch oven is action and can elicit a "Wow, that's heavy!"
- Be prepared for odd questions and encourage spontaneity; laugh and have fun.
A few years ago I was privileged to meet with Michael Jenkins, CEO of Leisure and Recreation Consultants of Dallas. Mr. Jenkins, and his large entertainment company, are/were major consultants to Disney, Six Flags, and Sea World. Plus, he had half a dozen theatre shows touring the country, and he was producing shows in Vegas. He and several of his people met with our state park staff to discuss strategies for our state park system. It was an interesting look at recreation for profit (big profit). Here are excerpts from my notes. You may see something familiar.
- People don't see your buildings, but they read your signs. Your signs immediately show the quality of the place. If they see photocopied sheets put up with Scotch Tape they know to expect a cheap operation. Poor signage and publications tell your audience that you don't care enough about them to do it right. Your signs must be fantastic; they predict the experience.
- Today's audience is active/participatory. They want to do things, be hands-on, explore, and discover. When they leave they want to say: 'That was really worth the effort, the time, and the money.'
- They have a desire for a real place – they want authenticity of place, authenticity of people, and authenticity of message.
- Education is key, but it takes fine-tuning and must be combined with entertainment. Once people perceive the entertainment, the enjoyment, the fun, they will stick with you through anything. Entertainment is secondary to your message or story, but it is essential or you lose everything.
Five trends to watch now:
- People are more sensitive to the environment than ever – It's not just that you are 'green,' but are you visibly green? Do you let your visitor know you are green? Is greenness part of your story? Can the visitor easily participate with you in being green?
- People are looking for a personalized experience. They want an individual, memorable experience that fits their family or group – not a 'one size fits all' vacation.
- People want authenticity with natural or historical significance. They want to see and experience the real thing, and they want it to be meaningful. (This equates to Freeman Tilden's, "Coming face to face with The Thing Itself.")
- People want something that is worthwhile and lasting, and If they are with their kids they want the kids to do something remarkable and learn something important, and it all make a lasting memory.
- People want a thrill with a happy ending.
Logan, Utah is a western town built like a western town. The cold water of the Logan River flows through town, mountains rise at the east edge of the small city and the Wellsville Mountains tower over the beautiful Cache River Valley to the west.
The town design gives a feeling of wide-open spaces and uncramped landscapes, and that wide open character is strong on Main Street. Main Street is wide, very wide, many lanes wide, and with parking on each side beyond that. It's so wide that you should consider packing a lunch before crossing the street. I was there when the street department resurfaced Main Street. At one point the surface was complete but the centerline and lane lines were not yet painted. The street was open, but people were having trouble knowing where to be and many were driving left, then right, across two or three lanes. It was odd to drive the wide street without lines. It gave a feeling of uncertainty and insecurity. It reminded me that we all needed a little direction.
In our interpretive sites our front desks are staffed by a variety of people: perhaps an Interpreter, a volunteer, a clerk, or the Ranger, or the Superintendent. Each of these becomes a critical front line interpreter the moment a visitor walks in. At that moment, that front desk person is the most important staff person in the park. When a visitor enters your visitor center they need a little direction in addition to your warm welcome and beautiful smile. In your park they are in new territory. Just wandering around promotes that feeling of uncertainty, insecurity, lack of direction, and lack of purpose. "Hello, welcome, look around" is not enough. That's that wide road without lines, without direction. Visitors need and want direction. Maslow's basic needs of safety, security, and belonging are all engaged right here. The visitor needs to feel welcome, safe, know what to do and see first, and feel he can accomplish something. The visitor needs to know a sequence of events that serve as lines to follow. Your visitor needs a great elevator talk!
An elevator talk lasts about the time it takes to ride an elevator to the 10th floor – two minutes or so. An elevator talk is direct, clean, simple, friendly, and gives the visitor enough information, but vital information, to be welcome and to know a sequence of events to follow to begin the best experience in your visitor center, then in your park. A well-planned elevator talk gets your visitor off to the right start.
An elevator talk should accomplish these things:
- Welcome, smile, we're glad you're here.
- Name your site, always use the full name. The visitor needs confirmation of where they are, who operates the place and that it's important. The full name confirms that.
- State your site theme so the visitor hears why your site is important. Your interpretation plan has identified overarching themes. Pick the most meaningful one and use it.
- Give direction. Sometimes it's important to see the video first because it gives background, overview, and site significance in one planned package. At other sites it may not matter what they see first, but by you providing a sequence to follow the visitor has direction and that makes him feel more secure.
A sequence organizes the mind and the visit. Create a logical sequence that's easy to understand and follow: First, see our exhibits on the left, next, be sure to see the hallway exhibits, then don't miss the quarter-mile walk to the overlook that begins right out the side door…instant organization! 'Lines' people can feel comfortable following and a sequence that makes them feel successful when completed.
Maybe you have one exhibit gallery. What sequence can you give for that? "Go in there and look around." – NO. Pick out the two most important exhibits and note those. "Our exhibit gallery is (there)… its PURPOSE is to… .Be sure to see the exhibit on the left about our first settlers, and the one about the creation of the mountain." That's a sequence that states a purpose, shows importance, then gives direction. It provides simple organization that produces a feeling of comfort and confidence for visitors in a new place who want to know what to do.
Anyone remember that 'O' in POETRY? Helping the visitor organize is 'O' so important. A good elevator talk makes you and your park look good, and makes the visitor experience so much better than merely a weak 'Hello, take a look around.'
Practice your elevator talk.
In recognition of the 50th anniversary of The Wilderness Act I'm reposting this blog from two years ago. Join me in celebrating Wilderness.
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
– Jimmy Carter
The Introduction Section:
When people use the word 'wilderness' I wonder if they intend for it to have the meaning I associate with it. They could mean the bucolic countryside, something you might say if you take a drive in the country. But they usually they are referring to territory "further back" than a countryside with roads, fields, woodlots, cows, beans, and farmsteads.
Maybe they mean backcountry. I see that as something more remote than the countryside: deeper forests, fewer houses and fields, more wild than tame – or maybe that is my southern upbringing talking. Here in the temperate forest our backcountry is filled with forests. Backcountry could be tundra or plains or desert or alpine or swamp or other somewhat remote, mostly natural landscape. Maybe backcountry is the undeveloped areas of a park. It could be a few hundred or a few thousand acres, but some see these countrysides as 'wilderness.'
I see even more separation, more distance, less of man and more of nature in wilderness. I occasionally get the privilege to join Dr. Joe Roggenbuck and friends in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. That's a long and descriptive name; it's the official name. There is The Boundary Waters, a beautiful mass of lakes and connecting streams in the woods of northern Minnesota. Here you'll find seaplanes, motorboats, roads, homes, outfitters, and lodges nestled around the clear lakes and the north woods of the Superior National Forest. The area is rustic, charming and beautiful. But within that, there is the Wilderness. When you enter the Wilderness you know it, it's marked on the ground and on maps, and you feel the Wilderness. It's as though the atmosphere around you changes, and there are no planes, homes, or motorboats, only the water, the rough portage trails, the glacier-carved land, and you and your canoe and your paddle. What you bring is what you have, what you take home is a lot more of yourself.
The Digression Section:
We perceive things oddly, yet we think we perceive things completely and entirely. Yet, our perception is … about us. It begins and ends with our own memory and our first impression, our first 'seeing' of a place. When we see a landscape we accept it as what we see – a field, a forest, a canyon, a trail through the woods, a stream through a forest. That glance of a few minutes or a few days becomes the basis of our naming that place "wilderness." We can expand our perception into understanding through experiences and research – gaining knowledge and understanding of the place. We slowly change our first-impression perception "sense of place" into an understanding-of-the-story "sense of place," a deeper, more meaningful "sense of place."
That forest we first perceived as "wilderness" may be owned by a lumber company and may have been logged three times. It may have had roads and railroads crisscrossing it; it may have been homesteaded, even have been a small community. Our glance revealed an untouched place, but history tells a deeper story. With that added knowledge and experience our "sense of place" changes, it evolves as we gain an understanding of the story of the land.
The Back to the Topic Section:
But what about this word, wilderness? Environmental activist and writer, Edward Abbey wrote:
"Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necessity of the human spirit."
Is that wilderness just the countryside? Is it backcountry? Is it parkland? Of course the answer is a resounding: YES! … but, not exactly. True Wilderness is so much more.
On September 3 of 1964 something extraordinary happened. After over sixty drafts and eight years of work Congress passed, and President Lyndon Johnson signed, The Wilderness Act. It created the legal definition of Wilderness in the United States, protected 9.1 million acres of federal land, and created a mechanism for designating Wilderness Areas to the National Wilderness Preservation System.
The Wilderness Act is well known for its succinct and poetic definition of Wilderness:
"A Wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain."
Oh, one more thing: that little 'w' in wilderness changed forever. A capital 'W,' Wilderness, denotes lands in the National Wilderness Preservation System. This very special status of protection tells you these lands are among the wildest and most remote in the nation. They are even dangerous. You are own your own out there. It's you and nature, and the challenges can be many. Want nice roads, developed trails, and a soft bed? – There are plenty of places to go for those things, but Wilderness with a capital "W" is not one of them. In Wilderness, man, and signs of man, are short-time visitors who do not remain. In Wilderness the land itself is supreme.
Passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act was not easy, but it was remarkable. The Wilderness Act is one example of the success of tireless efforts of conservationists and elected officials who worked together for a greater nation, and during that era passed to our generation the gifts of protected places, clean air, clean water, wildlife habitat, places for outdoor recreation, wild rivers, and more. Today, we largely take these laws for granted. I encourage you to celebrate the people and legislation that has created America's great environmental legacy, and work to keep the legacy alive.
Interpreters, include these great environmental laws in your programs, including why and how your own site was selected and preserved. Our audience is two or three or four generations away from these events and have little emotional or physical contact with the places or benefits we reap from these laws (they do breathe the air and drink the water!). When people leave your site, they should appreciate the work of those who brought your site into existence.
We are good at walking through the forest, patting the bunny, touching the snake, and watching the hawk soar, but in the end, your audience needs to understand that they can enjoy those things only because someone fought to save a special place: your place, they place where they are standing.
You may have a special place –a place you can return to and connect to good memories, or have peace and quiet, a place to think and restore surrounded by your favorite comforting things. For some this may be in your room surrounded by memories and books, for others this may be a library, and for others it may be outdoors along a trail, river or on a mountaintop. Your special place is chosen by you and has meaning to you. Parks, historic sites, nature centers, and similar places also have select and specific places within them that hold special meanings and significance, but we seldom think of our sites that way, and seldom take the time to seek out the location with the most significant meanings attached to them. A funnel can help.
My interpretation planning process begins with a funnel. That is, I begin with a discussion of the general resources and the many potential interpretive topics within a site. Through questions and activities we narrow those to a few of the most important. From those, reflecting on mission, significance, audience, and site resources, we move deeper into the funnel to narrow the field further and identify the highest and best topics of interpretation. I ask – If you could tell your visitor only one thing, what would that be? Or, if a visitor says he has just fifteen minutes to spend at your site, what single place tells the most important story of your site?
This generates a lot of discussion. We easily interpret many things – a little here, a bit there; rabbits on Friday and snakes on Saturday. But it's often a challenge to identify one topic and one place that speaks to your site's most important story. Far too seldom do talk the time and ask the questions to seek out our most important story. Often, this procedure leads to a totally unexpected place.
I remember leading interpretation planning at Historic Washington State Park some years ago. The state park is filled with historic houses and stories abound at every turn. Which is the most important, if we could save only one structure what would it be? If we had to stand in the location where this history 'shouts the loudest' where would that be? There were many responses and a very satisfying discussion: This famous person? …That significant event? …This iconic structure?
The funnel-down discussion helped us focus and made us think differently. Eventually we agreed that none of our 'regular places' was THAT place. Rather, we would guide the visitor to the middle of the old gravel and dirt road that leads into town from across the tracks and through the woods to the north, a place that was not a flashy stop on the town tour. Through the funnel-down process we recognized that The Southwest Trail is what brought people to Washington; every structure, every event, and every story there is connected to that old dirt and gravel road.
Identification of this place introduced a new resource, new interpretation, and new value to Historic Washington. It reshaped our approach to interpretation.
More recently, I led this first phase of interpretation planning for Wilmington State Parks in Delaware. A goal of the planning process is to identify strong themes for the site. We identified three, including:
The power of the Brandywine River and the passage of time connect us to people and events that changed Wilmington and the Nation.
The Brandywine River flows through the site, so this message could be used in several locations. But that's not good enough. We needed to identify a single location where this theme echoed with clarity and strength. Where in the park does this theme come to life? We decided that there is such a powerful place:
Standing at the south end of The Swinging Bridge over Brandywine River, the visitor can see the clear, flowing river and the sluice that diverted river water to the several mills. Above and upriver are several bridges built at different times and in different styles.
These distinct features are tangible evidence of changes in industry and technology in Wilmington. Understanding the history is meaningful to this site, but also significant to understanding the growth of this Nation. Across the eastern states, then in all areas where rivers were available, this pattern of river/industry development occurred. As people begin to understand the industrial development pattern based on the river here, they can understand one of the important growth patterns of the nation.
This concept of message (theme) combined with a meaningful location focuses site interpretation. It replaces what is often a somewhat random and general topic selection with a thematic message that focuses on a significant resource or event of that site and engages the visitor in that unique site experience. As a result, the visitor takes home your story and remembers your site as significant and meaningful.
That's a good thing.
I saw it on Facebook – and I liked it. I had heard it before, and I've heard managers say the first line with heartfelt belief, and I can understand why.
What if we spend the time and money to train our staff … and they leave?
The statement is a logical outgrowth of fiscal responsibility and that's a real concern. There is a cost to training. What if we make this investment in our staff, including volunteers, and they up and leave? OUCH! In many interpretive sites we have full-time staff, part-time staff, and volunteers. Certainly the part-time staff and volunteers might move around – a lot. They join us for a few months then find a better paying position or leave for a variety of other reasons. That's the way it works, unless there's an intervention!
The Facebook quote I read recently continues:
Manager: What if we spend the time and money to train our staff – and they leave?
Training officer: What if we don't train our staff – and they STAY?
Surprisingly, just days after reading this on Facebook, a training manager told me he couldn't hire me to do a training workshop for his educators and volunteer docents because his boss said: We have a large staff and a lot of turnover. What if we spend the money to train our staff – and they leave?
Given the scope of most corporation or agency budgets, good training doesn't cost that much, yet reaps significant benefits. By spending relatively little time and money to train staff well, employees are much more likely to stay, and be much better employees, to boot. They will be the ones we want to stay.
Good training goes beyond teaching practices and procedures. It's an intervention that changes normal patterns. Good training builds trust and loyalty as it teaches your philosophy. It creates community among the staff and establishes your agency culture within each employee – full-time, part-time or volunteer. Training leads to each employee finding a common set of goals and their own purposeful relationship to your mission and operation. All this leads to building a team, staff retention, customer satisfaction, and it increases the total success of your organization.
Training is not only for those persons doing a particular task for your organization, but should include the chain of command that directs and evaluates the work. In the field of interpretation, interpretation training is not only for interpreters. If we train interpreters, educators, docents, and first-contact staff in the best practices of interpretation and customer service, their managers should also be trained to understand those best practices and to manage to achieve them. This makes the entire organization stronger and better equipped to set goals, provide direction, perform to the fullest, and evaluate success.
I have seen this happen using the National Association for Interpretation's Certificated Interpretive Guide training program. After using it as a foundation for interpretation training for several years, we approached management about using the same training for managers. The concept was that if manager are to manage interpretation they need to understand what we teach our interpreters. There was some consternation about managers having to take interpretation training, but I pointed out that this would not be interpretation training for interpreters, but would focus on techniques for managing the interpretation function of the park, complete with goal setting, teamwork, monitoring, and evaluation. The argument worked, and over a three-year period all state park superintendents completed the CIG program, with a lot of emphasis on how to use the CIG concepts to manage park interpretation. This put managers and their park interpreters on the same page. Along the way we built a team, strengthened agency culture, and generated understanding and support for interpretation. It was all good.
The question: What if we spend the time and money to train our staff and they leave? is a glass half empty. Let's fill it up. If we train our staff well they will stay, and we will all be better for it!
I'm pleased that my friend Lari Jo Johnston agreed to write this piece for my blog. You'll enjoy it.
The Best Christmas Gift Ever
In January 2008, I was fed up with my life. I wanted a change and gave myself an ultimatum. Within the coming year I was going to find a job that brought me joy. I gave myself 12 months. I don't set goals – I set deadlines. I made a list of all of the things that would make me happy. For the next 11 months, I actively pursued opportunities within that list.
One early spring day I took a day off from work and went on a field trip with my daughter's 2nd grade class to the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program's (CBBEP) Nueces Delta Preserve. I could not get over the potential of the preserve, but I certainly did not see myself interpreting nature there. The following fall, a 5th grade teacher at my daughter's school handed me a business card and said I should apply for the education position. I looked down and to my surprise; it was the position at the CBBEP Nueces Delta Preserve. I filled out the application, and waited.
The elementary school was taking a field trip to the Delta Preserve in late November and asked if I would go because the teacher was new and was nervous. Knowing the facility was without an educator, I did what any good teacher would do, I recalled the area, created activities based on state standards, and made a field journal for the students. It was a complete success. The teacher was impressed and the CBBEP field biologist hosting the trip told me I should email the director and tell him how successful our trip was. Well actually, he told me to tear their program apart, but I could not do that. I waited 48 hours, then carefully worded my email to the Director.
Within a week, I received a call from the Director. He wanted me to come in for an interview. After two interviews, I was not sure what to think. He said he would give me a call when they made a decision. At 4:30pm on December 24th I received that call. He offered me the job. It was the best Christmas gift ever.
On January 5th 2009 I walked into a highly secure building owned by the Port of Corpus Christi for my first day of work as an environmental educator for the Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program. I was not sure what to expect. I found out that the education program reached 25 teachers and 200 students a year. What was I supposed to do the rest of the time? So I got to work. In that first year, we saw 2,000 students and 150 teachers. Every year I have seen growth in the program. This year we saw nearly 12,000 students and 300 teachers. I often get asked how I continue to grow the program. Well, I started out with what I knew. Education was the key. I wanted connection and interpretation to be strong, so that is what I continually work toward. We now have a staff of 2 and part-time staff of 3 and we work together to interpret the land while considering state standards and tests scores.
What makes the Nueces Delta Preserve special? Passion. Each and every one of my staff and volunteers is passionate about the delta, the connection we make with students and teachers, and the curriculum we create here. The job has been the best Christmas present ever because it is a gift that keeps on giving. I get to influence the lives of thousands of children and teachers each year, not to mention that they influence me as well. So, as we go into this holiday season remember that you too have the best Christmas gift ever. You get to influence peoples' lives in a very special way. Go forth and spread the interpretive good news!
Today, Lari Jo is Director of Environmental Education at the Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries' Nueces Delta Preserve near Corpus Christi, Texas. As part of her continuing advancements at the preserve, she asked me to lead Certified Interpretive Guide training for her staff. This week she was notified that she, her staff, and volunteers have successfully completed the requirements and are certified. Congratulations!


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8. The death of O'Ren Ishii's parentsKill Bill Vol. 1
Only Tarantino would commit a pivotal background story in a live-action movie to anime. Despite being a cartoon, the scene doesn't lose its inherent emotional power and blood-soaked brutality. In fact, the deaths are enhanced by the artist's embellishments. A plunging sword gets a triple take while the man brandishing it looks outright demonic. QT relishes death's detail. We watch as O'Ren's father's eye slowly rolls back into his head. And although the mother dies offscreen, watching her gathering pool of blood soak, then drip and rain through a bed is positively traumatic.


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An internet provider installed us a microwave link:
The issue is that:
The ping from our side to the gateway is about 1-2 ms, which is great, but it remains like this for only 12 hours, then it start to give latency and time outs 100 - 800 ms.
The provider changes only the channel and the ping reduces to 1-2 ms, i asked them after they changed the frequency channel to go back to the old channel to check if it's a noise issue or not, apparently as expected thing remained 1-2 ms. We have been in this case for two days.
Any one has an idea of what could cause this issue ? or had this issue before.