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Radio Broadcast Script 265
Sunday 23 February
2003
Glossary:
apotheosis:
elevation to divine status, glorification or exhalation of a person,
principle, or practice, canonisation, idealization, highest
development
empirical: Originating in factual information,
observation, as opposed to theoretical knowledge.
glut:
excess, a supply of some commodity which greatly exceeds
demand
predatory: showing a disposition to injure or exploit
others for one's own gain
Zeitgeist: the trend of culture and
taste characteristic to an era; spirit of
the time
Today's
Script is entitled: Finding others in your domain to earn an
improvement
There was a man who had several olive trees.
When the olives are ripe they fall on the ground. To harvest them
requires someone to collect them up from the ground. The man who
owned the olive trees, hired another man to pick up the
olives.
While he was picking up olives, he saw wild pigs were
coming from a broken fence and eating the olives. He spent the rest
of the day repairing the fence.
When the owner came in the
afternoon the hired help had picked very few olives, so the owner of
the olive trees said he would not pay him much money.
The
hired help argued that since he had fixed the fence and the wild pigs
could not enter, the total sum of olives that could be collected
increased vastly and this was worth a lot of money to the owner of
the olive trees.
Should the man who fixed the fence be paid
for his insight and productive action in conserving the harvest?
If
you say productivity is working towards a goal, you would not pay him
for fixing the fence because the owner had set the goal for gathering
fallen olives.
With this narrow goal the owner concentrates on
being efficient but not effective.
There must be two kinds of
productivity for most people.
Productivity is a useful
concept only when it is limited to specific goals by specific
persons.
For those who know the terms, the owner of the olive
trees was on an S1 management scale and the person who fixed the
fence was on an S4 management scale.
In both cases, the output
of work is measurable on some scale or another. If a new piece of
information was introduced such as there was a glut of olives in the
city market at that time, and additional olives could not be sold at
a profit; how would this effect our thinking?
If a new piece
of information was introduced such as there being great shortage and
demand for olives in the market; how would this effect our
thinking?
In like manner, there are many opportunities for
picking up the fruits of our previous actions or wasting the fruits
of our previous actions by letting predatory persons, who could be
compared to wild pigs, consume the fruits of our previous actions
without our permission.
People who steal from you are not
desirable companions - these are childish persons who believe they
have a right to collect and consume the fruits of your merit.
We
find it difficult to explain the individual differences from the
developments in psychophysiology research. Because both
psychophysiology and individual differences sample physiological,
behaviour and spiritual domains a variety of logical and technical
problems make research in this field extremely difficult.
It
may be that the psychophysiology of individuals' differences awaits
the creation of general theories of behaviour before it can reach its
true apotheosis.
It has been noted by Gail & Edwards,
1983, that relatively few researchers have made their career mark by
continuous publications in this field. Many things start with
enthusiasm, suffer from delusion and move to a research path that
offer lower resistance to success.
There seems to be more
empirical studies encompassing East-West than cross- reference to
research within the western tradition.
Research, like all
other human activity, is influenced by the Zeitgeist.
In
Buddha Dhamma within the 21st century, the education of laypersons
within our organisation of necessity needs to be on a broad basis.
Our teaching of Abhidhamma on a Tuesday evening is an example of this
policy statement. Rather than take the narrow view that the teaching
are for some select band of Anglophiles, we choose to target a much
more global audience and stress 'English as a second language' in our
writings. Our weekly instruction sheets are shared with others by
publication on our web site at www.bddronline.net.au
This
follows over five years of writing experience on our radio broadcasts
every Sunday - the text of which is available at our website at
www.bdcublessings.net.au
For about two decades we printed,
published and circulated our flagship journal the Buddha Dana Dhyana
review to 35 countries free of charge.
To manage ever-rising
publication and postage charges, we decided to publish our journal on
our website at www.bddronline.net.au
From these various
experiences, we are like persons who can see the importance of
preserving a large amount of olives lying on the ground, while at the
same time picking a few olives for local consumption.
Because
small highly skilled teams work on our Buddha Dhyana Dana Review and
on our radio broadcast, we have been looking for a project for some
time that might become within the current technical skill of all
members, providing them with instant gratification of pleasures of
globalisation of our output.
Globalisation is an effective
method of increasing the total wealth in the world. It requires a
range of skills, political, technical and devotional and practical to
be exerted in a balanced approach to clear communication free from
jargon. This is the training ground we have been looking for to
actualise the five styles of our Centre which are professionalism,
friendliness, cultural adaptability, practicality and
scholarship.
The Dragon King is the patron of the Geological
Museum at Upwey.
There are more that 2000 museums in
Australia.
The official founding date of the Museum was 21
January 2000. It is located at 33 Brooking Street, Upwey, Victoria,
Australia 3158, the property and home of Anita and John D.
Hughes.
As a private museum, the museum is a not-for-profit
organisation and is funded by its owner, John D. Hughes of 33
Brooking Street, Upwey, Victoria, Australia, 3158.
The Museum
has space limitations. Some specimens are toxic so, for occupational
Health and Safety reasons, the general public will not be admitted
into the Museum section where all the specimens are on display,
without supervision and safety gear.
Instead the Museum
specimens will be visible to the general public on our Internet site
www.buyresolved.com.au
A work in progress position paper on
the derived information products of the Museum was loaded on to our
web site on 15 April 2001. This is now superseded.
The Museum
is a privately owned organisation and does not have to satisfy
everybody's needs.
Museums are diverse and complex
organisations bound together by the common task of collecting,
preserving and interpreting our common heritage.
Museums
perform five core functions : acquisition, conservation, research,
communication and exhibition. They differ widely however, in their
collections and in their administrative structures and resourcing
arrangements.
We are training our next generation of Museum
helpers into our museum culture.
Our Museum blends knowledge,
experience, innovation and enthusiasm to achieve the desired
results.
The Museum may loan part of its collection for
display offsite under safety guidelines we design.
We believe
in private funding because :
There are many good semi-popular
books on rocks and minerals, mostly published in the United States of
America.
A developing interest in the remote regions of
Australia that is growing from the unequalled opportunities in this
country for getting into the outback away from the stock type of
tourist can bring a parallel interest in the fascinating history of
mining. So many of Australia's mining fields are as far removed from
the seaboard cities as it is possible to be.
The discovery
and development of our greatest mining fields, the Victorian gold
fields, Broken Hill, Kalgoorlie, and Mount Isa, has materially
changed the course of the economic and industrial development in
Australia.
A number of excellent popular books on the history
of mining in Australia are now available. These deal with mining
generally, gold mining in Victoria, and mining in various areas of
the west coast of Tasmania, in the Flinders Ranges, at Broken Hill,
Mount Isa, and Kalgoorlie.
A logical follow-on from an
interest in the history and development of the mining fields would be
an interest in the minerals found on such fields and the collecting
of such minerals.
Other methods are more unusual, not to say
curious.
There is a record of a Bavarian doctor living in a
mining district who accepted specimens in lieu of payment for his
services.
In Broken Hill, at the turn of the century a
publican traded drink to thirsty miners for choice mineral specimens
which were then abundant in that famous Australian mining centre.
This collection was subsequently purchased by a
philanthropist and distributed among four scientific institutions in
Sydney.
Australia is one of the original land masses.
Where
we live at Upwey has been submerged under the ocean many times and
covered by glaciers during several ice-ages.
The large
mountains in Australia have been eroded by time.
We can
speculate that Australia is the most geologically interesting land
mass that is not under the ocean.
We think there is a new
tourist industry about to surface by persons interested in exploring
at first hand interesting geological deposits of great
antiquity.
Not unnaturally, we envisage our Museum's prime
collection will be from the Australian continent and surrounding
islands.
The first version of a conceptual solution for the
Museum was produced on 29 October 1999.
Stage 1 plans for the
Museum were to generate a 100% increase in specimens held over the
year from the opening date.
This has been achieved.
Please
make donations of geological specimens, geological testing apparatus,
geological text books and cash to help with this project.
We
made access to our site more accessible by listing at
www.quicknetguide.com.au introduced in these words:
"While
rocks on a mountain may not last 50 years, over that time the Museum
at Upwey, Victoria, Australia, houses thousands of such specimens,
collected before being lost. A task that can never be repeated"
by John D. Hughes.
We are going to educate our Members in two
main ways. The first is to reach occupational health & safety to
a museum standard to by cleaning.
"A plan to increase the
wish of Members to develop superior cleaning and museum skills within
the Centre", prepared 19 February 2003 by Anita and John D.
Hughes, Project Leaders of Private Geological Museum at Upwey is on
the Internet at www.buyresolved.com.au
Please see the museum
website at www.buyresolved.com.au/museum
A private Dining Room
and Kitchen is under construction by Anita and John Hughes. It is
planned to keep both areas clean up to a standard where no person
ever becomes unwell due to the superior cleaning and catering
protocols.
This area has legal, financial and ethical
requirements and we have located appropriate sources of expertise for
our purposes.
The area demands high order behaviour at all
times.
On our present assessment (19 February 2003) we need to
use effect consultative processes to communicate routine and
non-routine information clearly to senior managers, peers and
subordinates and promote available learning methods to support
colleague's competence in Geological museum technology.
Competency
in this shall be assessed using all the relevant sources currently
provided in a museum, public gallery, contemporary art space, Science
exploration Centre and/or keeping place.
This will be found at
bsxfm1502a of The Australian National Training Authority Museum and
Library, Information Services Industry Training package cul99 page
283 to page 286.
Underpinning knowledge and skills will be
safety procedures for working with hazardous chemicals, listening,
questioning and clarification, oral reporting, report writing and
visitor service.
Competency in this unit needs to be assessed
over a period of time in a range of contexts and involving a
combination of direct and indirect and supplementary forms of
evidence.
Assessment shall occur either on the job , off the
job or in a combination of on and off the job.
The assessment
will include measurement of Members' home work space, on the theory
that if they cannot keep their own home work space up to standard,
they cannot ensure their own health and safety at home, there is
great doubt, whether they can contribute to the health & safety
of colleagues in the new museum/ dining room / kitchen.
Although
the museum/ dining room is a private area closed to the public and
most Members, there is a need to maintain an attractive and
functional environment for visitors.
Access and exit points
are to be kept clear and access devices operate effectively.
Signs
and notices in the area of responsibility are to be visible and
accurate.
Visitors' behaviour and the use of the institution
are monitored for breaches in security and acceptable
behaviour.
Minor breaches in visitors' behaviour and dealt
with in a firm, polite and appropriate manner in accordance with the
institution's procedures. Difficult situations are to be reported
promptly to appropriate personnel.
Persons need to respond
appropriately to incidents concerning visitors and colleagues.
The
situation is assessed promptly and the degree of problem is
established. Incidents are recorded in accordance with the
institution's procedures and practices.
The area is a private
Museum and dining room and the management team is not encouraged to
exploit innovation and initiative that increases the loading on the
building.
Support is provided to the team to develop mutual
concern and camaraderie.
The team receives support to identify
and resolve problems, which impede its performance.
Within the
performance space will be an area where high quality holograms of
rocks and minerals and other cultural objects will be
shown.
Relevant individuals/ organisations may include
internal and external personal, the media and significant
individuals.
All persons will operate within the goals,
objects and plans, systems and process and ethical standards of a
private museum.
At present only four Members can meet these
standards, two of whom are not available this year to assist for
reasonable periods of time (more than 6 hours a week).
We are
about to recruit persons who are suitable for this project.
We
have one professional cleaner on our committee. His house has the
highest level of cleanliness of any Member. So the benchmark of
cleaning knowledge is easy to measure.
We are about to launch
a three-month campaign, where we encourage Members to clean their own
houses to a higher standard.
Members are encouraged to
contact our Member who is a professional cleaner for
information.
Please see the museum website at
www.buyresolved.com.au/museum
The second method is to get them
to read the other examples of successful Internet sites displaying
rocks and minerals to be found at
www.quicknetguide.com.au
Rockdoctors Guide to Minerals:
Provide the basic information needed to identify common rocks and
minerals
URL: http://www.cobweb.net/~bug2/rock1.htm
Atlas
of Rocks and Minerals: This web page was constructed to aid
undergraduate instruction at the Geology Department of the University
of North Carolina.
Photomicrography.
URL:
http://www.geosci.unc.edu/Petunia/IgMetAtlas/mainmenu.html
Geological Museum at Upwey: "While rocks on a mountain
may not last 50 years, over that time the Museum at Upwey, Victoria,
Australia, houses thousands of such specimens, collected before being
lost. A task that can never be repeated" By John D. Hughes
URL:
http://www.buyresolved.com.au/museum
Rocks and Minerals of
Kentucky: This is an expanded version of "Rocks and Minerals of
Kentucky," by Warren H. Anderson.
URL:
http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/webrokmn/rocksmin.htm
Rocks Minerals
Magazine: For Everyone Interested in Minerals, Rock collecting.
URL:
http://www.rocksandminerals.org/
DesertUSA - Rocks and
Minerals: Desert Environment Geology Rocks, Gems Minerals.
URL:
http://www.desertusa.com/Thingstodo/geo/geology.html
Rocks and
Minerals: Welcome to the "Rocks and Minerals" slide
show.
URL:
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Slideshow/Slideindex.html
Ratings:
N/R
Australian Gold Prospecting Page: How to find gold and
where to look in
Australia. Crevacing, dredging, panning and
detecting. A prospector's first
stop.
URL:
http://www.uq.net.au/~zzdvande
Canadian Rockhound: The
Canadian Rockhound introduces beginners and children to
the world
of rocks, minerals, fossils, gemstones and Canada's geology. It also
serves as an online resource centre for collectors of minerals
and fossils.
URL: http://www.canadianrockhound.com/
Illustrated
Dictionary of Jewelry: includes jewel terms, mineralogy, jewelry
manufacturers, jewelry styles, gemstone cuts, etc.
URL:
http://www.AllAboutJewels.com/jewel/glossary/
Lapidary Rock &
Mineral Society of B.C.: information on the dealers and feature
displays in the B.C. Gem & Mineral Show
URL:
http://www.lapidary.bc.ca/rocks/
Rockhounds Information: A
link page for gem and mineral enthusiasts.
URL:
http://www.rahul.net/infodyn/rockhounds/rockhounds.html
Rocks
and Minerals - Franklin Museum: Specimens, on display at The Geology
Museum, range from the most common to the extremely rare.
URL:
http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/rocks/rocks.html
Rocks and
Minerals Lab: In this lab you will learn about rocks and minerals.
Minerals are the building blocks of rocks, and rocks are the
building blocks of the Earth's crust.
URL:
http://www.gpc.peachnet.edu/~pgore/geology/historical_lab/rocks_minerals.php
theImage.com:
includes great images and image capture techniques for gemstones
and
minerals, and a large amount of information.
URL:
http://www.theimage.com/
Cooloola Rocks : supplies Australian
and world wide rock and mineral specimens
URL:
http://www.coolrocks.com.au/
Kansas Geological Survey:
URL:
http://www.kgs.ukans.edu/
Probert Encyclopaedia - Rocks &
Minerals : The Probert Encyclopaedia. Rocks & Minerals. Rocks,
minerals, geology information and minerology.
URL:
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/rocks.htm
Rice NW Museum
of Rocks and Minerals : The Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and
Minerals - site created by Compatible Computers.
URL:
http://www.ricenwmuseum.org
Rocks and Minerals of Guam: A
Guide to Identifying What You Find ... : ROCKS and MINERALS of GUAM.
A Guide to Identifying What You Find Around our Island.
URL:
http://www.heptune.com/guamrock.html
We need persons to help
us with this private Museum project.
The main tasks
include:
taking photographs of specimens with a digital camera,
cropping and enlarging them to our standards, placing them on our
websites,
writing appropriate identifying texts, summarising the
content of other websites,
becoming professional in cleaning and
mounting specimens and be able to work in
a team in a
professional manner.
To some extent we are recruiting
volunteers with a will to learn.
We invite you to experience
the charm of an ancient geological museum with the exhilaration of
using modern techniques to helping your self and others. For further
information, contact Julian Bamford on 9754 3334
The Private
Museum is a private project of Anita & John D. Hughes who are
resident practitioners at our Centre.
May you be well and
happy.
The authors and editors of this script are: Anita
Hughes, RN Div 1, John D.
Hughes, DipAppChem TTTC, GDAIE, Evelin
Halls DipFLC and Pennie White, BA, DipEd.
References
Chalmers,
R.O., Australian Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones Australia,
1970.
Kizilos, Tolly, 'Kratylus automates his urn works",
Harvard Business Review,
May-June 1984, Vol 3, p 136.
Gale,
Anthony & Edwards, John, University of Southhampton
'Psychophysiology and
Individual Differences: Theory, Research,
Procedures, and the interpretation of
data" Australian
Journal of Psychology, Volume 35, No. 3, 1983, pp 361-379.
Hughes,
Anita & John D., A plan to increase the wish of Members to
develop
superior cleaning and museum skills within the Centre, 19
February 2003 by
Project Leaders of Private Geological Museum at
Upwey available at URL
www.buyresolved.com.au
Hughes, John
D., assisted by Anita Hughes and Pennie White, Geological Museum at
Upwey, Our ref: LAN 2 I:museum1, prepared 4 January 2003, this
document is a
revision of John D. Hughes Private Museum document,
prepared 24 May 2002 by John
D. and Anita M. Hughes.
New
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Lesley Brown (ed.), Oxford
University
Press, Oxford, 1993.
Talent, J.A. Minerals,
Rocks and Gems A Handbook for Australia, circa 1970.
Webster's
New International Dictionary, G & C Merriam Co., USA,
1964.
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Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score: 12.0
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