Nyungar tourism in the South West region of Western Australia : A quopardar or best practice approach for Nyungar tourism operators

Nyungar Tourism Operators involved in this research project acknowledge the need for a quopardar or best practice which is underpinned by the need to strive for excellence, to have a committed approach to improvement in every area of their organization, to establish and maintain a high quality service and for continually improving performance to achieve better outcomes for their visitors. There is a desire to protect and promote Nyungar culture, its practice and Nyungar knowledge as well as increase the economic value of the Nyungar community within the tourism industry. The challenge for Nyungar Tourism Operators is to be both innovative and competitive. Each of the tourism outlets involved in the research have put together the best possible resources available to them from their own Nyungar boodjar to give the tourist or visitor a “unique, authentic Nyungar experience” through stepping back in time. This also helps the visitor to experience and understand the impact of colonisation on Nyungar culture and to also share Nyungar knowledge, spirituality and customs of our Nyungar lifestyle. Nyungar Tourism Operators and other Case Study participants share a desire for commercial viability, to encourage a sustainable, quopardar or best practice approach that respects and protects both Nyungar culture and boodjar or country. This quopardar or Best Practice Guide is aimed to incorporate these objectives, philosophies and visions

How Big is Big Enough? Firm Size as a Barrier to Exporting in South Carolina's Manufacturing Sector

International Relations/Trade,

Twentieth century English history plays

Twentieth Century English History Plays - An attempt to define the scope and limits of the genre of the history play, in relation to twentieth century English historical drama, through an examination of selected plays which exemplify various approaches to history. This includes major works by writers of the first rank, such as Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, T S Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, and Edward Bond's Early Morning; as well as successful works by minor playwrights, representing popular taste and response, such as Gordon Daviot's Richard of Bordeaux, Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons and Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun. Shaw's Saint Joan illustrates the new tradition of history play stimulated by Shaw, with his emphasis on discursive rational elements, an anti-heroic tone and diction, an overtly modern perspective, and a consciousness of different possible views of an event. Gordon Daviot's Richard of Bordeaux, Reginald Berkeley's The Lady with a Lamp and Clifford Bax's The Rose without a Thorn# popular plays by popular playwrights of the 1930's, demonstrate the meeting and crossing of two traditions, the Romantic and the Shavian. They exemplify the kind of narrowly realistic theatre in vogue at the time with its concentration on the obvious exterior world. In contrast, T S Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Charles Williams's Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury, stylised in form and treatment, illustrate the use of history to explore deep psychological and spiritual areas of conflict. Three plays of the 1960's - Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun and John Osborne's Luther - reflect different concerns and different levels of imagination but a common interest, in their various ways, in religious motivation. Robert Bolt and Peter Shaffer provide two examples of minor playwrights going to history as a source, in the one case for a moving character portrait (A Man for All Seasons) and in the other for spectacle and sensation (The Royal Hunt of the Sun). They illustrate the putting over of history in a popular way. A playwright of much greater calibre, John Osborne is drawn to an historical subject for its religious interest. His play, Luther, focuses on the individual of remarkable stature who is both prime mover and victim of social and religious forces. It is a forceful rhetorical piece moving towards expressionism and a more poetic and violent form of theatre. This trend in modern drama is vividly demonstrated by the concluding play of the study, Edward Bond's powerful surrealistic drama, Early Morning. Revolutionary in approach and intention, it is a disturbing dream vision which opens up new possibilities for the treatment of history. <p

Preliminary report on the Black Thunder, Wyoming CTBT R and D experiment quicklook report: LLNL input from regional stations

This report presents a preliminary summary of the data recorded at three regional seismic stations from surface blasting at the Black Thunder Coal Mine in northeast Wyoming. The regional stations are part of a larger effort that includes many more seismic stations in the immediate vicinity of the mine. The overall purpose of this effort is to characterize the source function and propagation characteristics of large typical surface mine blasts. A detailed study of source and propagation features of conventional surface blasts is a prerequisite to attempts at discriminating this type of blasting activity from other sources of seismic events. The Black Thunder Seismic experiment is a joint verification effort to determine seismic source and path effects that result from very large, but routine ripple-fired surface mining blasts. Studies of the data collected will be for the purpose of understanding how the near-field and regional seismic waveforms from these surface mining blasts are similar to, and different from, point shot explosions and explosions at greater depth. The Black Hills Station is a Designated Seismic Station that was constructed for temporary occupancy by the Former Soviet Union seismic verification scientists in accordance with the Threshold Test Ban Treaty protocol

Bis(2,4,6-triamino-1,3,5-triazin-1-ium) tris­(pyridine-2,6-dicarboxyl­ato)­zirconate(IV) tetra­hydrate

The title compound, (C3H7N6)2[Zr(C7H3NO4)3]·4H2O or (tataH)2[Zr(pydc)3]·4H2O (tata is 2,4,6-triamino-1,3,5-triazine and pydcH2 is pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid), was obtained by reaction between pydcH2, tata and zirconyl chloride octa­hydrate in aqueous solution. In the structure, the ZrIV atom is nine-coordinated by three (pydc)2− groups, resulting in an anionic complex which is balanced by two (tataH)+ cations. One of the NH2 groups shows positional disorder, with site occupation factors of 0.60 and 0.40. There are four uncoordinated water mol­ecules (one of which is disordered with occupation factors of 0.70 and 0.30) in the crystal structure. Several inter­molecular inter­actions, including O—H⋯O, O—H⋯N, N—H⋯O, N—H⋯N, C—H⋯O and C—H⋯N hydrogen bonds, a C—O⋯π inter­action [O⋯Cg 3.89, C⋯Cg 4.068 (3) Å; C—O⋯Cg 89° where Cg is the centroid of the triamine ring], and π–π stacking [with centroid–centroid distances of 3.694 (2) and 3.802 (2) Å] are also present

Economic Characteristics of South Carolina Manufacturing Sector Exporters

International Relations/Trade,

OSI Passive Seismic Experiment at the Former Nevada Test Site

On-site inspection (OSI) is one of the four verification provisions of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Under the provisions of the CTBT, once the Treaty has entered into force, any signatory party can request an on-site inspection, which can then be carried out after approval (by majority voting) of the Executive Council. Once an OSI is approved, a team of 40 inspectors will be assembled to carry out an inspection to ''clarify whether a nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion has been carried out in violation of Article I''. One challenging aspect of carrying out an on-site inspection (OSI) in the case of a purported underground nuclear explosion is to detect and locate the underground effects of an explosion, which may include an explosion cavity, a zone of damaged rock, and/or a rubble zone associated with an underground collapsed cavity. The CTBT (Protocol, Section II part D, paragraph 69) prescribes several types of geophysical investigations that can be carried out for this purpose. One of the methods allowed by the CTBT for geophysical investigation is referred to in the Treaty Protocol as ''resonance seismometry''. This method, which was proposed and strongly promoted by Russia during the Treaty negotiations, is not described in the Treaty. Some clarification about the nature of the resonance method can be gained from OSI workshop presentations by Russian experts in the late 1990s. Our understanding is that resonance seismometry is a passive method that relies on seismic reverberations set up in an underground cavity by the passage of waves from regional and teleseismic sources. Only a few examples of the use of this method for detection of underground cavities have been presented, and those were done in cases where the existence and precise location of an underground cavity was known. As is the case with many of the geophysical methods allowed during an OSI under the Treaty, how resonance seismology really works and its effectiveness for OSI purposes has yet to be determined. For this experiment, we took a broad approach to the definition of ''resonance seismometry''; stretching it to include any means that employs passive seismic methods to infer the character of underground materials. In recent years there have been a number of advances in the use of correlation and noise analysis methods in seismology to obtain information about the subsurface. Our objective in this experiment was to use noise analysis and correlation analysis to evaluate these techniques for detecting and characterizing the underground damage zone from a nuclear explosion. The site that was chosen for the experiment was the Mackerel test in Area 4 of the former Nevada Test Site (now named the Nevada National Security Site, or NNSS). Mackerel was an underground nuclear test of less than 20 kT conducted in February of 1964 (DOENV-209-REV 15). The reason we chose this site is because there was a known apical cavity occurring at about 50 m depth above a rubble zone, and that the site had been investigated by the US Geological Survey with active seismic methods in 1965 (Watkins et al., 1967). Note that the time delay between detonation of the explosion (1964) and the time of the present survey (2010) is nearly 46 years - this would not be typical of an expected OSI under the CTBT

Real-time earthquake alert system for the greater San Francisco Bay Area: a prototype design to address operational issues

This paper describes a prototype for this EAS (real time) in the Bay area. Approach is pragmatic, attempting to establish a prototype system at a low cost and quickly. A real-time warning system can protect the public and mitigate earthquake damage. The proposed system is a distributed network of real-time strong-motion monitoring stations that telemetered data in real time to a central analysis facility which could transmit earthquake parameter information to an area before elastic wave energy arrived. Upgrades and issues that should be resolved before an operational EAS can be established, are listed