This blood-curdling tale of blood-thirsty vampires continues to hold audiences spellbound more than a century after its publication. Summoned to assist with legal matters regarding a real estate transaction, young Englishman Jonathan Harker journeys to the dismal, dreary castle of Count Dracula in Transylvania. The fledgling solicitor is completely unprepared for what he will discover in the days to come—and the horrifying chain of events sparked by his unsettling stay with the mysterious Count. The Dracula mythology has inspired a vast subculture, but the story has never been better told than by Bram Stoker. He succeeds entirely in his aim to terrify. His myth is powerful because it allows evil to remain mysterious, unconquerable by strength of mind or virtuous action. Van Helsing's high-thinking and scientific skill cannot resist the dreadful potency of the undead. The high virtue of Lucy can simply be drained away, as her blood is drained away, until she too joins the vampire brood. Only the old magic—a crucifix, garlic, a wooden stake—can provide effective weapons against the Count's appalling power.
Summoned to assist with legal matters regarding a real estate transaction, young Englishman Jonathan Harker journeys to the dismal, dreary castle of Count Dracula in Transylvania. The fledgling solicitor is completely unprepared for what he will discover in the days to come—and the horrifying chain of events sparked by his unsettling stay with the mysterious Count.
The Dracula mythology has inspired a vast subculture, but the story has never been better told than by Bram Stoker. He succeeds entirely in his aim to terrify. His myth is powerful because it allows evil to remain mysterious, unconquerable by strength of mind or virtuous action. Van Helsing's high-thinking and scientific skill cannot resist the dreadful potency of the undead. The high virtue of Lucy can simply be drained away, as her blood is drained away, until she too joins the vampire brood. Only the old magic—a crucifix, garlic, a wooden stake—can provide effective weapons against the Count's appalling power.
My advice to every young man starting out in life is this: when reading—or listening—turn a cold eye on the Jane Austen spin-offs, avoid the Game-of-Thrones-esque "medieval" bodice-rippers, steer clear of James Patterson's latest, stacked like so many cans of creamed corn at the entrance of the local bookstore. Instead, read Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility; pore over the original Arthurian romances penned by Chretien de Troyes in the late 12th Century; and listen to Conan Doyle and John Buchan—the giants on whose shoulders the James Pattersons, Stephen Kings, Patricia Cornwells And Dean Koontzs of the world stand.
I recommend the same line with vampires. If what I see on the train and the audiobook sites are any indication, the world is awash in vampire-fueled fiction. Teenage vampires. Mutant vampires. Rogue vampires. Human vampire hunters. Vampires that hunt other vampires. And, of course, vampires that hunt humans. I've often wondered what lies at the bottom of all this. Where is the "Ur" text, if you will, that spawned all these vampire variants?
And when Downpour offered the original tale, the granddaddy of them all, the book that set the current literary avalanche in motion, (for free, no less), I had my answer.
I understand that there are works drawing on vampire lore and legend that predate Stoker's. And I know that at the time Stoker's book was but one of many dealing with bizarre creatures and harrowing situations—that, in effect, he was one of the Stephen Kings of his day. But Stoker's book is still regarded as the original tale, the granddaddy of them all. And to listen to it was to get beyond the Hollywood hokum and the post-modern re-brandings to a riveting story of Good engaged in desperate battle against Evil.
Inundated as we are in vampire books, films, comic books, children's toys, breakfast cereals, Halloween costumes, tea cozies and needlepoint samplers, it's easy for us to look at a guy with sharp incisors and pointy ears who lives in an abandoned castle in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania and say "look out, he's a vampire!" But what makes the book so engaging and plausible—and the count so fearful—is the gradual, almost grudging way our good doctors come to the incredible, almost impossible conclusion that what they are dealing with actually is a vampire.
Hearing the count act normally (inquiring into the advisability of hiring more than one lawyer in England, for instance, or deprecating his own command of English) makes more expected scenes—as when Jonathan Harker sees him crawling headfirst down the side of his castle—even more terrifying. Stoker manages to blend the pedestrian with the gothic in a way that makes both seem—for lack of a better term—natural.
Of course being a Victorian, Stoker can't help but write like a Victorian. There is much earnest, extended discussion, many ardent vows and much noble, overwrought sentiment. Yes, it gets a little tedious at times. But it's a portal into a world we have abandoned, and some of our tedium may really be discomfort at the thought that we couldn't live out the virtues the story exemplifies.
Being a good Victorian, Stoker draws Mina Harker as a brilliant, insightful woman who contributes largely to the count's eventual overthrow—and the only character who extends Christian charity to him, thus shaming the men. That part should sit pretty well with us. But, being a good Victorian, Stoker also believes that real women are beautiful, delicate and virtuous—not wanton, licentious and shameless. As such, they are in need of protection from strong, virtuous, selfless, unashamedly masculine men who don't spend too much time on their hair. This may not sit so well with us. I found it a refreshing change from our current social milieu—and, I'm guessing, from much of what can be found in the current crop of vampire sagas.
Thank you, Downpour, for offering a great performance of a classic tale for free.
Some of the more supernatural elements of Dracula---bats flapping against windows, his ability to control and turn into mist, etc.---strike today's reader as rather more silly than terrifying. Stoker seems aware of this, as he includes a lot of nonsense to the effect that there are things of which science is not aware, and we can only rely on faith and tradition in dealing with them. Still, Dracula is in my experience of higher literary quality than the vast majority of the many vampire novels that have come since, even those that downplay or at least try to explain the supernatural aspects of vampire mythology.
There are several interesting characters here, including, of course, Van Helsing, and also the Texan Quincey Morris (who was absent from all of the adaptations I'd encountered before actually reading the original novel), but particularly Mina Harker, who in some respects is almost a sort of proto-feminist character. And the scenes with Renfield in Seward's insane asylum are genuinely creepy.
By today's standards this book might seem a bit cheesy, but in its day it was probably terrifying. The culture hadn't been saturated with vampire stories to the point of ridiculousness back then. I actually really enjoyed this book, and Simon Vance (a.k.a. Robert Whitfield) is a fantastic narrator. His voice was perfect for this audiobook.


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Ампе́р-весы́, называемые также токовые весы — электромеханический прибор, используемый для точного воспроизведения единиц силы электрического тока — ампер, с целью поверки электроизмерительных приборов.

Общие сведения
Как известно: «Ампер — сила неизменяющегося тока, который, проходя по двум параллельным проводникам бесконечной длины и ничтожно малой площади круглого поперечного сечения, расположенным на расстоянии 1 метра один от другого в вакууме, вызывал бы между этими проводниками силу взаимодействия, равную 2·10 ньютона на каждый метр длины». Формулировка содержит понятие бесконечно тонких и бесконечно длинных проводников, которые на практике невозможно реализовать. Поэтому для решения реальных задач было разработано специальное электромеханическое устройство с проводниками конечных размеров — ампер-весы. С их помощью получают данные позволяющие на основе законов электродинамики рассчитать искомую силу тока.

Первые ампер-весы разработаны в 1882 году британским физиком Уильямом Томсоном (лордом Кельвином). Отличительной чертой конструкции является компактность и точность, обусловленная тем, что сила тока определяется силой взаимодействия двух коаксиальных однослойных соленоидов.

Конструкция и работа
По своей конструкции ампер-весы аналогичны аналитическим весам, у которых одна из чашек заменена на взаимодействующие проводники. Весы изготовляются из немагнитных материалов. Измеряемая сила тока определяется по силе взаимодействия двух проводников, выполненных в виде коаксиальных однослойных соленоидов, электрически соединённых последовательно. Сила взаимодействия соленоидов уравновешивается весом гирь, определяемых по формуле:  (см. рисунок), где  — масса гири, а  — ускорение свободного падения.

Сила взаимодействия соленоидов вычисляется по выражению  , в котором  — сила тока, а  — нормировочный коэффициент определяемый геометрией проводников.

При достижении равновесия выполняется равенство:  , которое легко преобразуется в выражение:  , а далее, в окончательную формулу:

Сила тока, вычисляемая по этой формуле, и является эталонным значением при поверке электроизмерительных приборов.

Возникающие погрешности
Погрешность измерения при использовании ампер-весов зависит от точности определения коэффициента  , точности принятого значения ускорения  и фактического магнитного влияния окружающей среды.

Относительная погрешность эталонных ампер-весов составляет порядка 0,001 %.

См. также

 Амперметр
 Весы

Примечания

Весы
Электроизмерительные приборы

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Judicial immunity is a form of legal immunity which protects judges and others employed by the judiciary from liability resulting from their judicial actions.[1]
2 United Kingdom
3.1 Cases
3.1.1 Stump v. Sparkman
3.1.2 Harris v. Harvey
3.1.3 Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union
3.1.4 Mireles v. Waco
Historically, judicial immunity was associated with the English common law idea that "the King can do no wrong". (Compare Sovereign immunity.) Judges, the King's delegates for dispensing justice, accordingly "ought not to be drawn into question for any supposed corruption [for this tends] to the slander of the justice of the King".[2] An example of applying judicial immunity: a judge is not liable for a slander or libel suit for statements made about someone during a trial, no matter how corrupt that act was.[3][4]
United Kingdom[edit]
In the United Kingdom, tribunals are considered judicial in nature and so judicial immunity applies to them at common law. This was accepted by the Employment Appeals Tribunal and subsequently the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in respect of police misconduct hearings constituted under the Police (Discipline) Regulations 1985 (since superseded by the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2008) in Heath v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2004] EWCA Civ 943.[5] However, in P v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2017] UKSC 65, in which a police officer (an officer of the Crown, but under the Equality Act 2010 treated as an employee in employment discrimination cases) sought review of her dismissal as constituting disability discrimination due to post-traumatic stress disorder, the Supreme Court ruled that the Employment Equality Framework Directive (implemented by the 2010 Act) provided directly applicable rights of access to justice in cases of employment discrimination, which, given the supremacy of EU law, overrode the common law rule of judicial immunity.[6][7]
In the United States, judicial immunity is among a handful of forms of absolute immunity, along with prosecutorial immunity, legislative immunity, and witness immunity. The U.S. Supreme Court has characterized judicial immunity as providing "the maximum ability [of judges] to deal fearlessly and impartially with the public".[8] The justification is as follows: because of the likelihood of innocent individuals being convicted in a court of law under false claims, the "burden" of being subjected to a court of law (a trial) would "dampen" the judges "enthusiasm" or "passion".[9] Opponents of judicial immunity argue that this doctrine is not adequately justified.[10] For example, judges could be shielded from any personal capacity liability, and still be subject to official capacity liability so that they may be held accountable for their injurious acts – thus "balancing" the "evil" to better protect the fundamental rights of victims.
Judicial immunity does not protect judges from suits stemming from administrative decisions made while off the bench, like hiring and firing decisions. But immunity generally does extend to all judicial decisions in which the judge has proper jurisdiction, even if a decision is made with "corrupt or malicious intent".[11] In 1997 West Virginia judge Troisi became so irritated with a rude defendant, he stepped down from the bench, took off his robe, and bit the defendant on the nose.[12] He pleaded no contest to state charges but was acquitted of federal charges of violating the defendant's civil rights.[13] He spent five days in jail and was put on probation.[14]
Because the immunity is attached to the judicial nature of the acts, not the official title of the officeholder, judicial immunity also applies to administrative hearings, although in some situations, only qualified immunity applies.[15] In determining whether absolute or qualified immunity should be provided, the U.S. Supreme Court has identified the following factors, according to the Shriver Center's Federal Practice Manual for Legal Aid Attorneys:[15]
(a) The need to assure that the individual can perform his functions without harassment or intimidation; (b) the presence of safeguards that reduce the need for private damages actions as a means of controlling unconstitutional conduct; (c) insulation from political influence; (d) the importance of precedent; (e) the adversary nature of the process; and (f) the correctability of error on appeal.
Cases[edit]
Stump v. Sparkman[edit]
Main article: Stump v. Sparkman
One of the leading decisions on judicial immunity is Stump v. Sparkman. In 1971, Judge Harold D. Stump granted a mother's petition to have a tubal ligation performed on her 15-year-old daughter, whom the mother alleged was "somewhat retarded". The daughter was told that the surgery was to remove her appendix. In 1975 the daughter, going by her then-married name of Linda Sparkman, learned that she had been sterilized. She sued the judge. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the judge could not be sued, because the decision was made in the course of his duties. In that regard, it was irrelevant that the judge's decision may have been contrary to law and morally reprehensible.
Harris v. Harvey[edit]
Judges usually, but not always, receive immunity from being sued. One exception where a judge was sued and lost is Harris v. Harvey (1979).[16][17] Sylvester Harris was an African-American police lieutenant in Racine, Wisconsin, attacked in a variety of ways by Judge Richard G. Harvey. Harris sued Harvey because of (a) comments Harvey made to the news media, (b) threatening letters Harvey wrote to city and county officials who attempted to defend Harris, and (c) parties Harvey held for ranking state officials during which he attempted to get Harris removed from law enforcement. The jury concluded that Harvey was not eligible for judicial immunity for these actions, as such acts which were not part of the judge's normal duties (i.e. were "outside his jurisdiction"). The jury awarded Harris $260,000 damages. Another judge later added $7,500 legal fees. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit concurred with the jury's decision. Judge Harvey petitioned the Seventh Circuit court for an en banc rehearing, which was denied. His petition to the Supreme Court was also denied. Harris v. Harvey is the first case in the United States where a sitting court judge has been sued and lost in a civil action;[18] it is a binding precedent in the Seventh Circuit and is persuasive authority in the other circuits.
Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union[edit]
In Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union (1980), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Supreme Court of Virginia did not have immunity in federal court from being enjoined in its enforcement capacity where state law gave the court independent authority to initiate certain proceedings against attorneys.[19] Consumers Union was hindered from compiling an attorney directory because many attorneys they contacted declined to provide requested information out of fear of violating, and thereafter prosecuted, attorney conduct regulations promulgated by the Supreme Court of Virginia. Consumers Union filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Supreme Court of Virginia and others, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking to have the regulation declared unconstitutional and to enjoin the defendants from enforcing it.[20] The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the Supreme Court of Virginia's legislative immunity:[21]
If the sole basis for [Consumer Union's] § 1983 action against the Virginia Court and its chief justice were the issuance of, or failure to amend, the challenged rules, legislative immunity would foreclose suit against appellants. ... As already indicated, § 54–74 gives the Virginia Court independent authority of its own to initiate proceedings against attorneys. For this reason, the Virginia Court and its members were proper defendants in a suit for declaratory and injunctive relief, just as other enforcement officers and agencies were. ... If prosecutors and law enforcement personnel cannot be proceeded against for declaratory relief, putative plaintiffs would have to await the institution of state court proceedings against them in order to assert their federal constitutional claims. This is not the way the law has developed, and, because of its own inherent and statutory enforcement powers, immunity does not shield the Virginia Court and its chief justice from suit in this case.
—  Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union, 446 U.S. 719, 734-37 (1980)
Mireles v. Waco[edit]
On the other hand, misbehavior while performing judicial acts is immune. In the case of Mireles v. Waco (1991),[22] when a defense lawyer failed to appear for a scheduled hearing, the judge not only issued a bench warrant for his arrest, but instructed the police sent to arrest him to "rough him up a little" to teach him not to skip court dates. Although this was entirely unprofessional and possibly criminal, the judge was held, by the Supreme Court, to have absolute immunity from a lawsuit arising from the resulting beating, because done entirely within his activities as a judge presiding over a court.
Judicial misconduct
Diminished responsibility
Diminished capacity in United States law
^ Shaman, Jeffrey (January 1990). "Judicial Immunity from Civil and Criminal Liability". San Diego Law Review. 27: 1.
^ Floyd & Barker, 12 Co. Rep. 23, 25, 77 Eng. Rep. 1305, 1307 (Star Chamber 1607).
^ Royal Aquarium and Summer and Winter Garden Society Ltd v Parkinson [1892] 1 QB 431, Court of Appeal (England and Wales) per Lopes LJ at p 451.
^ Sirros v Moore [1975] QB 118, Court of Appeal (England and Wales) per Ormrod LJ at p 145.
^ Heath v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2004] EWCA 943, [2005] ICR 329, Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
^ P v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2017] UKSC 65 (25 October 2017), Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
^ Sikand, Maya; Profumo, Laura (8 November 2017). "The primacy of EU law: asserting the right to equal treatment v judicial immunity". Garden Court Chambers.
^ https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/444/193/case.html
^ Barr v. Matteo, 360 U.S. 564 (1959)
^ http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/1987/11/cj7n2-13.pdf
^ Jones, Ashby (November 12, 2009). "New Lawsuits Try to Pierce Shield of Judicial Immunity". The Wall Street Journal.
^ "Judge Who Bit Nose of Defendant Faces Prison". Los Angeles Times. October 11, 1997. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
^ "Judge Is Acquitted in Nose-Biting Case". Lost Angeles Times. May 7, 1998. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
^ Meiners, Roger; Al. H. Ringleb; Frances L. Edwards (2008). The Legal Environment of Business, Tenth Edition. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-324-65436-3.
^ a b "8.2 Suits Against Public Officials in Their Individual Capacity". Federal Practice Manual for Legal Aid Attorneys. Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
^ 605 F.2d 330 (7th Cir. 1979)
^ Harris v. Harvey , 605 F.2d 330 (7th Cir. 1979).
^ "The Landmark Court Case - Sylvester Harris". Sylvester Harris. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
^ Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union, 446 U.S. 719, 719–720 (1980)
^ 446 U.S. at 724–727
^ 502 U.S. 9, 112 S.Ct. 286, 116 L.Ed.2d 9
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Fully funded postdoctoral position
The Media Change and Innovation Division, Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich is seeking applications for a fully funded postdoctoral position. The successful applicant will devise and conduct original theoretical and empirical research in the fields of digital media use, well-being, algorithms, governance, privacy, and dataveillance starting in early 2022 (see recent Publications for research focus areas and our new project on the chilling effects of dataveillance).
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Contact for further information: Dr. Moritz Büchi (m.buechi@ikmz.uzh.ch)
Scholarships - Ph.D. Programs
Universidade Lusófona - Lisbon/Portugal
The Ph.D. Program in Media Art and Communication from Lusofona University (Lisbon, Portugal) offers 8 (tuition fee) to 2021 applicants with research interests in historical visual media, digital curatorship, visual arts, creative industries, and virtual reality.
Applications are open until October 30th to all international students.
The Ph.D. Program in Sciences of Communication from Lusofona University (Lisbon, Portugal) offers 8 scholarships (exemption of tuition fees) to 2021 applicants with research interests in the broad areas of the crossing between media, arts, and technologies.
Intangible Cultural Heritage: Expressions, Articulations, Transmissions
We are seeking contributions for a forthcoming multidisciplinary edited volume (Intellect) that examines intangible cultural heritage. The book will be open to scholarship from any discipline in the humanities and social sciences including practice as research and provide a critical forum for dialogue on the theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues central to an understanding of media, memory and public history today.
Cultural heritage is not limited to museums and monuments anymore but also encompasses oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, artefacts, film and media, and cultural spaces. Intangible cultural heritage stands for the collective cultural expressions of the everyday culture; it is inclusive and community-based. It is closely linked to communities, groups, or even individuals who create, recreate, and transmit it from generation to generation. According to UNESCO, "intangible cultural heritage" (ICH) is important in safeguarding cultural diversity in the age of globalisation. It is "transmitted from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and groups, and provides them with a sense of identity and continuity, thus promoting respect for cultural diversity and human creativity." (ich.unesco.org, 2021)
Intangible cultural heritage is a lived phenomenon. It constantly changes and diversifies, advances and develops, transitions, transforms, adapts, and is passed down to future generations. Hence, as a lived cultural reality, it cannot be preserved through regular or conventional means, namely by safeguarding it from any form of change. At the same time, what is important is not only how and in what way intangible cultural heritage is articulated, expressed and transmitted, but also the cultural framework in which it prospers, as well as how it is preserved.
The scope of this book will focus on exploring the concept of intangible cultural heritage and the new academic, artistic and creative directions of intangible cultural heritage that emerge from the public sphere and are part of public history. The aim will be to present scholarship that engages with aspects of intangible cultural heritage of the international arena as well as possibilities of their digital future.
You are invited to submit a 250-word abstract and a short biography by October 20, 2021. We welcome theoretical, empirical, or professional contributions of the highest standard on the following topics related to intangible cultural heritage with case studies and examples from all over the world including but not limited to:
issues of terminology
theory and local or global narratives
issues of methodology
what forces shape, create, recreate, and transmit intangible cultural heritage
the local vs the national and the international
globalisation and its effect (s) on intangible cultural heritage
intangible cultural heritage and gender studies
intangible cultural heritage and ethnicities
Chapters will be 6,000 to 7,000 words in length.
Deadline for abstract submission: October 20, 2021
Notification of acceptance: November 19, 2021
Ph.D. candidates with original empirical research are also encouraged to submit an abstract.
Prospective authors should submit an abstract directly by email to intangibleculturalheritagebook@gmail.com
Dr Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou, University of Salford (UK)
Dr Leslie McMurtry, University of Salford (UK)
PR for today's world: relationship management of multiple stakeholders
I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar PR for today's world: relationship management of multiple stakeholders by Dr Takashi Inoue, Chairman & CEO of Inoue Public Relations, Japan on Thursday 14 October 2021 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted).
What is the webinar content?
In an age of hyper-change, PR is about multiple-stakeholder relationship management and requires constant self-correction. The webinar with Dr Takashi Inoue, will explore relationship management and reflect on how this is complex in a world characterized by hyper-globalization. The webinar draws on the presenter's book published in 2018 and the presenter's experience in the Japanese high-tech industries.
The webinar will be followed by an interactive Q&A session.
Register here at Airmeet.
A reminder will be sent 1 hour before the event.
Background to IPRA
IPRA, the International Public Relations Association, was established in 1955, and is the leading global network for PR professionals in their personal capacity. IPRA aims to advance trusted communication and the ethical practice of public relations. We do this through networking, our code of conduct and intellectual leadership of the profession. IPRA is the organiser of public relations' annual global competition, the Golden World Awards for Excellence (GWA). IPRA's services enable PR professionals to collaborate and be recognised. Members create content via our Thought Leadership essays, social media and our consultative status with the United Nations. GWA winners demonstrate PR excellence. IPRA welcomes all those who share our aims and who wish to be part of the IPRA worldwide fellowship. For more see www.ipra.org.
Background to Dr Takashi Inoue
Dr Takashi Inoue is Chairman and CEO of Inoue Public Relations Inc. in Japan. He is a visiting professor at Kyoto University. In 1997 his firm was the first in Asia to win the IPRA Golden World Awards Grand Prix. The company won subsequent Golden World Awards in 2015 (Japan regulatory changes for product innovation) and in 2021 (Corona manual). Dr Inoue is the author of Hyper-Globalization: essential relationship management published in 2018.
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Transversal Entanglement
IJFMA Vol. 7 No.1
Deadline: November 29, 2021
Guest Editors: Gesa Marten and Jyoti Mistry
For this issue IJFMA Vol. 7 No. 1, we take up the title of the GEECT conference Transversal Entanglement, which took place at the Film University Babelsberg in 3rd – 5th June 2021, to further spin the threads of artistic research in film and weave them together in this journal edition. Transversal is process-oriented, transdisciplinary and multi-perspectival and aims to question and transform existing structures. Entanglement invites examination of how relations between things effect each other and how relational processes may impact and affect particular artistic outcomes.
For this issue on artistic research, we invite contributions that give consideration to new media forms and technologies, new ways of distribution and reception that are changing the filmic arts and film language. New digital possibilities put the classic cinema space into revised perspectives. Filmic narratives and imageries shape reality in a re-orientated constellation of entangled experiences. Artistic research in the medium of film invites reflection on social, political, economic, scientific and technical transformations.
We invite contributions that are case studies, experiments with and through the medium of film, collaborative projects across disciplines using film and audio-visual media and expansive historical reflections that open towards the entangled relationships between film practices and critical enquiry.
We frame this special issue through the lens of research approaches and methods and the impact of technology is driving artistic research in film forms. Contributors are encouraged to share their experiments with form, content and knowledge from the sciences and the role of technologies which traverse other art forms. Further consideration may be given to the discourses, narratives and imageries in film that expand media forms to build on technological innovations and which impact artistic developments.
Please submit to:
anna.coutinho@ulusofona.pt or https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/about/submissions
Please, check the author guidelines here:
https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/about/submissions
Timeline for publication:
Submission Full Paper – 29th November 2021
1st round feedback from reviewers – 16th February 2022
1st round return from authors – 14th March 2022
2nd round feedback from reviewers – 6th April 2022
Final Revisions – 25th April 2022
Publication Date – 8th June 2022
IJFMA Online Launch – 15th June 2022 11 am CET (TBD)
IJFMA Launch – GEECT Conference (TBD)
Nationalism and Media conference
Antwerp (Belgium)
Deadline for paper submission: 15 November 2021
Conference website: https://nationalismand.media/
Organizers: the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) and National movements and Intermediary Structures in Europe (NISE) with the kind support of Ghent University and the University of Antwerp.
For as long as nationalist movements have existed, ideological pamphlets, historical novels that constructed a romantic national past to visual arts and hashtags such as #maga on Twitter have instrumentalised media. Next to disseminating explicit nationalist messages, media (printed press and visual arts included) also play a role for nationalism by making national symbols and discourses part of everyday life. By continuously providing representations of the nation and by presenting the world as a world of nations, media help to naturalise nationalism.
Since Karl Deutsch's Nationalism and social communication (1953/1966), many studies of nationalism and national movements have pointed at the role of media. Most famously, in Imagined Communities (1983), Benedict Anderson emphasized the importance of 'print capitalism' in the emergence of modern nations. The growing distribution of newspapers, magazines, books and other print media facilitated language standardisation and literacy and through that to the development of a collective consciousness and the formation of an imagined community.
The so-called 'second Gutenberg revolution' (early 19th century) rendered printing considerably faster and cheaper, eventually putting the 'mass' in mass media. This was salutary for national movements, often lacking the infrastructure that modern states possessed, and facilitated their global development. Global reach and very low costs associated with social media today provide platforms not only to national movements aspiring to state-building, but also to fringe ultra-nationalist groups without access to mainstream media.
While media can contribute to the construction of nations, media are also formed by nations, since nations often determine the institutional and legal frameworks within which media operate. For the study of nationalism, the question is then whether this media dissemination coincides with a nation, or rather reaches another community.
Studies on the organization of media usually depart from a top-down approach, without taking into consideration the active roles that audiences take up in making meaning. The 'everyday nationhood' concept complements these studies by proposing a bottom-up approach, focusing on the place 'ordinary' people give to the national through their media consumption and their own production of media content. As a consequence, social media have unifying and dividing effects on nation building as through them competing definitions of modern nationhood come to the fore.
Despite the consensus about the idea that media are important for nationalism, this relationship is rarely explored in depth. How exactly can we understand the relationship between different forms of both media and nationalism? What are the common characteristics and the differences between different geographical and political contexts? How did the relationship between media and nationalism evolve? Given the enormous growth of media in late modern and contemporary history, has its importance for nationalism grown accordingly? And how did the rise of transnational (social) media and user generated content media affect nationalism?
This conference is intended to cover cases from all parts of the world and welcomes papers based on different theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, and from different disciplines and fields, such as history, media and communication studies, political science, sociology, linguistics and literature. The conference will take place in person, at the University of Antwerp. However, certain timeslots will be reserved for online sessions, in order to facilitate the participation of scholars who would otherwise be unable to travel to Antwerp, and to encourage scholars from outside Europe to participate. Requests for a place in the online sessions should be clearly indicated when submitting an abstract.
Possible themes include:
Revisiting media and nationalism theories;
Media and nationalist propaganda;
Media and banal nationalism;
Media and everyday nationalism;
Media and national indifference;
New media and nationalism;
Media, nationalism and gender/sexuality/class/age/ethnicity;
The representation of nations in media;
The role of media in naturalizing the idea of a 'world of nations';
Media as sources for nationalism research;
Social media and nationalism as a part of civil societies and public spheres
Competing definitions in both visual and literary media
Media, education and nationalism
Abstracts may contain proposals for individual papers, entire panels and workshops. Abstracts are to be submitted before November 15th 2021 at nationalismand.media/abstract.
All abstracts will be peer reviewed before final acceptance.
We will let you know whether your abstract has been accepted in January 2022.
The conference is organized by ASEN (asen.ac.uk), NISE (nise.eu), the University of Antwerp's Departments of History, Literature, and Communications Studies (uantwerpen.be), and Ghent University's Departments of History and Communications Studies (ugent.be).
If you have any queries, you can contact the organizing team by email at hello@nationalismand.media or by telephone and WhatsApp on +44 78 85 99 16 33.
We look forward to welcoming you to Antwerp.
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Tenure-track or tenured full-time position in Communication studies
UCLouvain
UCLouvain invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured full-time position in Communication studies
The candidate will have teaching assignments in the field of organizational communication and in research methods within the Master of Communication as well as the Bachelor's degree in Information and Communication. Part of the teaching activities can take place on the Mons site and/or in evening programmes.
As such, the candidate should be able to intervene in the following teaching areas:
Information and communication theories
Strategy of organizations (in the business sector as well as in the non-profit sector)
Sensitive communication and crisis communication
Qualitative methods in information and communication studies
The candidate will develop, carry out and lead a cutting-edge research program in the field of organizational communication that could be rooted in one of the following paradigms:
Critical approaches to organizational communication
Constructivist and/or interpretative approaches of organizational communication
Processual approaches of organizational communication
The candidate should master at least one of the following research methods:
Ethnomethodology
Discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis
Mixed methods research in communication
The candidate will contribute to the research activities carried out at the Institute for Language & Communication in collaboration with the members of the research "Laboratoire d'analyse des systèmes de communication d'organisation". Part of the research activities can be carried out on the Mons site.
Application deadline: Monday, November 15, 2021 at noon
More info here: https://jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAcademique/job/An-academic-position-in-Communication-studies-%281FTE%29/720721401/
ICA 2022 Paris submissions
Deadline: November 5, 2021
ICA 2022 Paris submissions: Submission to ICA 2022 in Paris is now open for business and we would love to see your papers! Submit your work at this website: https://ica2022.abstractcentral.com/.
GSD will accept full research papers, full theory papers, research escalators (extended abstracts), poster proposals, and panel proposals this year. The full GSD CfP is available here: www.icahdq.org/mpage/GAME_CFP.
Deadline for submission is Friday, 5 November 2021, at 12:00 Noon ICA Headquarters time (EST).
GSD social event in October: GSD leadership is planning a virtual event in GATHERTOWN ( https://bit.ly/GamesMeetGreet) to share information about the division and facilitate collaborations on ICA papers and panels. RSVP form is here: https://forms.gle/xUgNqBSQQNCHfsdW8
Emerging Media Technologies in the Tourist Encounter
Special Issue of Tourism Geographies
This special issue examines practices, meanings and impacts of emerging media technologies: digital, mobile, geo/locative and augmented reality technologies within tourism geographies. The special issue aims to situate emerging media technologies within processes of the production and transformation of space, spatial knowledge and social relations within the tourist encounter. We ask contributors to the special issue to consider: What are the configurations of different technologies involved with tourist experiences? In what ways do emerging media technologies shape tourism imaginaries and experiences? What are the particular cultural inflections in the relationship between digital and tourist practices? How do broader infrastructural and economic conditions shape the relationships between digital and tourist practices?
Papers in this special issue will explore the unfolding contexts of media, digital and emerging technologies in tourism geographies across breadth and depth and may include the following topics:
Culturally and geographically situated explorations of digital practices in tourist sites (including empirical investigations into travel photography, virtual reality headsets, online travel writing, and travel vlogs)
The role of emerging media technologies for wayfinding and placemaking
Digital practices and infrastructures in relationship to tourism work and livelihoods
Specific studies of social and digital media platforms and apps and tourist practices (eg. Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp)
Specific studies of geo/locative and augmented reality technologies and tourist practices (eg. GoPro, WallaMe)
Non-use and non-digital environments such as sacred and religious sites
In-depth qualitative or ethnographic studies of emerging media technologies in literary tourism, film tourism, theme parks, fan tourism, music tourism, food tourism, heritage tourism, or roots tourism in comparative contexts (we particularly welcome studies situated in countries in the Global South)
Tourism locations and technologies and of visual cultures
Jolynna Sinanan, University of Manchester
Christian Ritter, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Contact email: emergingmediatourism@gmail.com
Abstract submission: 15 Oct 2021
Full publication timeline: https://www.tgjournal.com/emerging-media-technologies.html
We are looking forward to receiving your contributions.
Gender and Media Matters. Widening the Horizons of the Field of Study
Sapienza University of Rome and online on Zoom
The Conference has the objectives of advancing discussion about gender and media studies and exchange among scholars from different countries, providing an overview of the most recent and original studies on gender and the media, and giving prominence to research strands that are not always visible in the international arena.
There will be two keynote lectures, three round tables and fifteen parallel panels. The opening lecture will be given by Rosalind Gill (City, University of London). The closing lecture will be a dialogue between Milly Buonanno (Sapienza University of Rome) and Paola Bonifazio (University of Texas at Austin).
Free registration: https://tinyurl.com/yeknskre
Full programme: https://www.gemmaconference.com/wp-content/uploads/Conference-Programme-1.pdf
info@gemmaconference.com
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HOUSTON >> Tom Brady threw for 226 yards and two touchdowns and the New England Patriots snapped a two-game skid and clinched a playoff spot with a 27-6 win over the Houston Texans on Sunday night.
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Book Review: The Thousandth Floor By Katharine McGee
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NEW YORK AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE.
A thousand-story tower stretching in to the sky. A glittering vision of the future where anything is possible – if you want it enough.
WELCOME TO MANHATTAN, 2118.
A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. Everyone there wants something… and everyone has something to lose.
Leda Cole's flawless exterior belies a secret addiction – to a drug she never should have tried and a boy she never should have touched.
Eris Dodd-Radson's beautiful, carefree life falls to pieces when a heartbreaking betrayal tears her family apart.
Rylin Myer's job on one of the highest floors sweeps her in to a world – and a romance – she never imagined… but will this new life cost Rylin her old one?
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Being a big Gossip Girl fan, I knew I was going to fall completely in love with this book as it was described as a 'futuristic Gossip Girl'. I began reading this book with absolutely no clue on what kind of drama was going to go off, all I knew was it was like Gossip Girl, which gave me a big enough idea on how bitchy these characters were going to be and what lengths they would go to get their own ways. I'm totally going to put my hands up now and say I love drama, as long as it isn't my own, and this novel feeds you the most perfect amount. The drama isn't over the top and unrealistic, it is the right type of drama for 5 teenagers and if I'm being honest, the Gossip Girl gang are WAY more complicated then this gang.
The story starts with a prologue explaining a mysterious girl falling off the thousandth floor at a party, which pulls you in immediately as you just need to know who the girl was. Once the prologue has got you down and gripped, it takes you on the journey of 5 teenagers; you have your typical Gossip Girl gang of teens with ridiculous amounts of problems, along with parents hiding secrets from their children. Some stories will be more exciting than others; I especially enjoyed Eris' and Rylin's the most, as they were so different from each other but there lives were more similar than they could ever know. Eris lived in one of the highest floors of the tower, with as much money as she could possibly need, until a secret comes out and leads her to live the life of the poor. Rylin, already living the life of the poor, gets to experience the life of a higher when she begins dating a wealthy guy called Cord. Whilst they were the most fascinating to me, each character pulls you in one way or another with their drama.
Being as this is 2118, it is absolutely jam packed with all sorts of futuristic gadgets that I could only dream of having in this lifetime! Hovers, retinal scans etc. The lower the floor however, the less gadgets you get. They even go as far as futuristic drugs such as; halluci-lighters. Not only is there a whole new standard of electronic gadgets, another extraordinary thing going on in this book is the fact that the thousandth-floor tower is like a world in it's own! In one tower is everybody's apartments, a school, parks, shops, everything you could possible need is in just this one tower, how amazing would that be!?
I'm so excited to see how the characters will be in the sequel, but also sad that one character will no longer be with us due to falling off the tower, and excited all over again because a new character will be taking her place, so I'm looking forward to seeing what this character brings to the gang! Having 5 perspectives to read is different for all people; sometimes it's too much to take in and sometimes it's more fun to read all different POV's. Even though there may be some characters you don't particularly like, they all have a role in each others lives and the death. Trust me, if one POV get's boring, just be a trooper and keep marching on because I promise you, it all adds up at the end and this is an ending you don't want to miss!
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The Assassination of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
On March 10, 2019 March 10, 2019 By RSBIn The House of StuartLeave a comment
On Monday we briefly discussed the rise of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, who made his start as "favorite" of James I and then sought to ingratiate himself with the Prince of Wales in the King's twilight years via a seven-month jaunt to Madrid. Today we're going to take a closer look at his last years in the dawn of Charles I's reign.
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The Almost Spanish Alliance
On March 4, 2019 March 4, 2019 By RSBIn The House of StuartLeave a comment
The "Spanish Match" as it has become known captures a bizarre and sophomoric jaunt from the future Charles I and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham through Spain and France as they hunted for the next queen of England. The King of Spain's sister, Maria Anna, was their target, but though the potential alliance went nowhere, they did in fact stumble upon Charles's future wife – Henrietta Maria of France. The episode's significance stems from the political impetus behind it, while its now infamy comes from the sheer ridiculousness of the scheme.
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The Other Children of Charles I & Henrietta Maria of France
On January 26, 2019 January 25, 2019 By RSBIn The House of StuartLeave a comment
For all that Charles I led England into a civil war and then lost his crown and, well, head, he was at least one half of a happy marriage. For an institution once upon a time comprised mainly of foreign alliances and quiet desperation, that's something, no? After a rocky start, Charles and Henrietta Maria of France settled into the kind of complacent domesticity to which political matchmaking aspired, and from this came nine children. Two of those sons – Charles II and James II – would end up kings. A daughter, Mary, would become the mother of another – William III. And another daughter, Henrietta Anne, would marry into the French Royal Family and end up a dazzling fixture at Versailles.
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Royal Roundup: Everything Else That Happened Last Week [UPDATED]
On February 4, 2018 February 8, 2018 By RSBIn Royal RoundupsLeave a comment
While we were busy covering the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in Sweden and Norway last week, the rest of the British Royal Family was still conducting business as usual. We had television interviews, other foreign tours and wedding dates set while the rest of us were busy tracking Kate's battle against floral Erdem dresses, so let's catch up.
First and foremost, as we've discussed, this was a very busy January for Kate. Even taking away the tour, she carried out more engagements this month than she ever has for the month of January in the past. But more importantly, the entirety of the BRF's workload is on the upswing.
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Catholicism & Stuart England
On August 27, 2017 September 3, 2017 By RSBIn The House of StuartLeave a comment
The Stuarts' relationship with Catholicism is fascinating, but not wholly surprising. The founder of the royal House in England was James I, who succeeded the last Tudor monarch, Elizabeth I, in 1603. He originated in Scotland, the great-great-grandson of Henry VII and son of Elizabeth's bested rival, Mary, Queen of Scots. Mary's Catholicism – alongside her poor marital choices, gender and foreignness – lost her her crown and James's Protestantism, even if sincere, was hardly a choice.
His faith ensured his place in the English succession, a point he reinforced by marrying the Protestant princess, Anne of Denmark, thus ensuring a Protestant heir. It spoke to anti-Catholic feeling in England – and Scotland, for that matter – but it's worth noting the larger power balance in Europe. France and Spain, England's true peers on the continental stage, remained Catholic. England was continually in and out of war with Spain, wounds which were very much wrapped up in the Reformation, from Henry VIII's divorce from Katherine of Aragon, to the earnest desire of their daughter, Mary I, to marry King Philip II and deliver England back to Rome. Elizabeth I began her reign with tolerance, but as the decades wore on, she moved further and further away from appeasement, religion the source of nearly every plot and rebellion against her.
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The Flight of Henrietta Maria of France
On August 23, 2017 August 27, 2017 By RSBIn The House of StuartLeave a comment
A few weeks ago we covered the bizarre six-year period during which the Princess of Wales (Caroline of Brunswick) left England for Italy, living a life of excess and scandal, while her husband, the future George IV, tried to launch a case for divorce against her. Part of what made that so notable is how relatively rare it is for senior members of the British Royal Family to live abroad – save foreign marriages and official positions, historically, those instances are almost always driven by political necessity.
We've talked about Charles I and Henrietta Maria of France before, but we focused on their first five years of marriage when the two were at odds and in the middle of petty power plays. By the dawn of the 1630s, their home life was a happy one, and over the subsequent decade they produced seven children, settled into domesticity and were seemingly besotted with one another. The same can't be said for Charles's public life, which is to say his rule.
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Pettiness & Politics: The Early Years of Charles I & Henrietta Maria
On July 2, 2017 July 2, 2017 By RSBIn The House of StuartLeave a comment
For all that Charles I's reign ended with his execution and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France, spent the next decade plus in exile, their relationship stands as one of the happiest examples of an arranged marriage in royal history. It did not, however, start out that way.
When the couple married in 1625 Charles was 24 and had only been sitting on the throne for a little over a month. Henrietta Maria was just 15, the younger sister of King Louis XIII of France and the pet of the Bourbon family. The most striking difference between them from the get-go was not age, but religion. England was not only avidly Protestant, but deeply suspicious of both Catholics and foreigners. The last time the English had had a Catholic consort was King Philip II of Spain during the reign of Mary I, a period of time marked by the burning of 300 Protestants and a campaign to return England into the folds of Rome. Needless to say, there was little interest in history repeating itself.
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The First English Princess of Orange
We know that the Glorious Revolution concluded with the accession of William III and Mary II, and we know that the Dutch couple was called upon because Mary was the deposed king's Protestant daughter. But a lesser-known truth is that William was half-English himself, his mother having been Mary Stuart, the Princess Royal and daughter of Charles I. Because of that, William was closely tied to the royal House of Stuart as a grandson of one of Britain's kings.
Of the two Mary Stuarts who became Princesses of Orange, certainly the second would become the more famous, ruling Britain for six years as queen regnant, but her aunt and mother-in-law was an interesting character, too. The eldest daughter of Charles I and Henrietta Maria of France, she was old enough to comprehend the significance of the civil war that broke out in England in the 1640s, and yet was long-married and removed from the conflict as the war came to a close and her father was executed. She, in many ways, had a birds-eye view of the monarchy's temporary abolishment, but was protected from its effects in a way her younger siblings were not.
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Regicide: The Execution of Charles I
On January 30, 2017 August 23, 2017 By RSBIn The House of Stuart1 Comment
On January 27, the trial of Charles I, King of England concluded and the following verdict was read out:
"That the king, for the crimes contained in the charge, should be carried back to the place from whence he came, and thence to the place of execution, where his head should be severed from his body."
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Drag the vertices of the triangle to change the lengths and angles.


New book published! Knowing Why: 137 Evidences that the Book of Mormon is True - Taylor Halverson, Ph.D.
My latest book was just published. Knowing Why: 137 Evidences that the Book of Mormon is True. Edited by Jack Welch, Neal Rappleye, Stephen Smoot, David Larsen, & Taylor Halverson. (American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, Inc.), 2017.


'Tis the season to be thankful and I am so thankful for each of YOU - my followers, fellow overachieving teachers, and blogging friends! I wanted to do something really special for the 1,000 milestone of this little blog of mine, so I'll be posting a new giveaway option each day this week! I'll be giving away some of my FAVORITE teaching resources and there are lots of ways to enter each of the giveaways, so I hope you'll drop by each day!
For the first day, I'm giving away TWO $25 Barnes & Noble Giftcards. I mean, come on, the most favorite resource of every teacher has to be a GOOD BOOK! So, if you win, spend this to purchase a few new books for your classroom or treat yourself to a great read - the choice is yours!
My all-time favorite children's book is The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo. Absolutely LOVE it!
Congrats on your 1,000 followers!
The Giving Tree by far! The first book (besides Dr. Seuss) that I remember reading as a child!! There are a ton more that are worthy, but none that are as memorable.
Congrats on your followers - that is amazing!!
Mine also is a Kate DiCamillo....The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Congrats on all your followers! Seems like you were just starting not that long ago!
Mine is Hooway for Wodney Wat. It's so so sweet.
SOOOO hard to choose. I'm so in love with Leonardo the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems. Simple, yet so very profound.
Growing Firsties is having a giveaway!!
Frog and Toad. Love their little friendship.
Congrats on 1,000! That's crazy! My favorite book (so hard to commit!) is The Twits.
Anything by Dr. Seuss is awesome. As I child I loved Oh Say Can You Say.
My favorite children's book would have to be Morse the Moose Goes to School. It's not very popular but just adorable!
Oh, this is a hard one!! Today it's going to be Strega Nona.
I love any Patricia Polacco books.
My all time favorite book to read aloud is The BFG by Roald Dahl. I have been reading it aloud every year for probably 20 of the 27 years I am teaching.
My all time favorite childrens book is Dr. Seuss ABC book. Both of my children LOVED it and I've read it to each of them about 100 times!
My personal favorite that was read to me and I enjoy reading to my own kids is The Monster at the End of the Book. Love that book!!!
that is tough, but it would have to be tikki tikki tembo...maybe!
Such a hard decision...I'm going to have to say The Giving Tree !
I love the book "100 dresses". It is a great early chapter book.
Oh I will always love The Giving Tree!
There's a Monster at the End of This Book! I even bought the app for my iPad!
So many good ones to choose from...but Ferdinand the Bull has to be my ALL time favorite!
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards. I love reading it aloud using voices for all of the characters. I love when my students beg for me to read more.
Congrats on 1000 followers! So many favorite books! Today, I'll go with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
I love, love, love The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Kate DiCamillo). The kids and I both cry every year!
Any book by Kevin Henkes!
Charlotte's Web is my all time fav!
I have always loved reading aloud Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech!
My favorite children's book is The Whingdingdilly by Bill Peet, I love that book!
Congratulations!!!! I love your blog and look forward to reading more posts. I blogged about your giveaway. Check it out.
Forgot my all time favorite children's book. Goodnight Moon was my absolute favorite book to read to my boys when they were little. I still love to look at their copy of the book.
My favorite children's book was Goodnight Moon. Always a classic!
Just one favorite book?! Eeek! I'm going to go with There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom. I started every year of teaching 4th grade with that read aloud!
I love Skippyjon Jones. He is so much fun to read!
Hard to choose... Charlotte's Web (lower grades) and Harry Potter (upper grades).
I love a lot of books, but my favorite one to read aloud is Skippyjon Jones.
I love Chyrsanthemum and so many others!
As a child it was The Gingerbread Man. Now I don't think I could pick.
Wow, that's hard. I love anything Kevin Henkes does. I'd have to throw out I Love You Stinky Face too because I adore reading that one to my kids!
My favorite children's book? Too hard to choose, but right now I am going with Spoon. A simple story with a nice message about being happy with who you are.
So many books, so little time. Love reading this blog!
Love You Forever is a favorite.
Right now I am reading Because of Winn Dixie to my class and lovin' it.
Just found your blog. Thanks for the give-away. My favorite book is Peter Cottontail.
My favorite classic - any Eric Carle book. My favorite right now - any Skippy John Jones book!
Congrats on all the followers! My favorite books are the Skippy Jon Jones series.
My favorite would be Winnie the Pooh.
I don't know if I had a favorite but I love reading to my sons.
I love Giraffes Can't Dance!
Congratulations on 1000 followers! My favorite children's book is "Owl Moon". I love the illustrations and the words.
Ilove reading my students The Hundred Dresses!
Congrats on all of your lucky followers. My favorite book is any of the Boxcar Children books. They are great stories and very wholesome for our students.
I have too many favorite books. I have a soft spot for Kevin Henkes, though. Love Owen.
Congrats Amanda that s great!
Harriet the Spy ~ This is the only book I remember from my childhood. I'm thinking it might have been my first chapter book that I read. I loved that book.
I love reading Owl Babies to my kindergarten class...they cannot get enough of this book!
My favorite Christmas book is Mr. Willoby's Christmas Tree!
My favorite book that I read to my first graders this time of year is Olive, the Other Reindeer.
My all time favorite book is It Looked Like Spilt Milk!!
reading through all of your comments sure brings back lots of memories.
My fav is A Nice Surprise for Father Rabbit. I don't think it's very well known, but my dad used to read it to me all the time when I was little. Definitely a family favorite!
My favorite children's book is Where the Wild Things Are. I just love it!
Congrats Amanda on reaching this amazing milestone. My all time favorite book is The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
As a kid, Bridge to Terabithia, Wrinkle in Time.
My favorite book growing up was the Nancy Drew series. Loved them!
So many books to choose from, I'll go with Pinkalicious.


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RePHIL aims to a) ensure its security and functionality and offer improved facilities to researchers expand its research activities by contributing to research and innovation through the use of new advanced technological tools b) broaden its access and use by stakeholders through a series of actions including the communication and dissemination strategy c) contribute to the support of productive sectors of fisheries, fish farming and related businesses as well as tourism d) help in the exploitation of mineral resources by searching for undersea energy reserves through modern hydroacoustic equipment e) contribute directly or indirectly to the number of scientific publications in new scientific fields and to f)contribute to the realization of new doctoral theses and create jobs for young researchers.


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Unknown. Nature, late 16th century. Bronze, H. including base: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, 32.602b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 32.602b_front_view1_bw.jpg)
Unknown. Nature, late 16th century. Bronze, H. including base: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, 32.602b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.32.602b_front.jpg)
Unknown. Nature, late 16th century. Bronze, H. including base: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, 32.602b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.32.602b_back.jpg)
Unknown. Nature, late 16th century. Bronze, H. including base: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, 32.602b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.32.602b_mark.jpg)
Unknown. Nature, late 16th century. Bronze, H. including base: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, 32.602b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 32.602b_left_side_bw.jpg)
Unknown. Nature, late 16th century. Bronze, H. including base: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, 32.602b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 32.602b_right_side_bw.jpg)
Unknown. Nature, late 16th century. Bronze, H. including base: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, 32.602b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 32.602b_threequarter_front_bw.jpg)
Unknown. Nature, late 16th century. Bronze, H. including base: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, 32.602b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 32.602b_threequarter_back_bw.jpg)
Unknown. Nature, late 16th century. Bronze, H. including base: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, 32.602b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 32.602b_back_view1_bw.jpg)
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DIMENSIONS H. including base: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS European Art
ACCESSION NUMBER 32.602b
CREDIT LINE Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam
CAPTION Unknown. Nature, late 16th century. Bronze, H. including base: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, 32.602b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 32.602b_front_view1_bw.jpg)
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The U.S. government is employing a new strategy to effect the global entrenchment of overly restrictive copyright law: incorporating DMCA-like copyright provisions in its free trade agreements. Having failed to persuade nations worldwide to adopt U.S.-style copyright regulations via the WIPO Copyright and WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaties the government has included anti-circumvention obligations in its bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with Jordan (Article 4(13)) Singapore (Article 16.4(7)) Chile (Article 17.7(5)) Morocco (Article 15.5(8)) Australia (Article 17.4(7)) CAFTA (Article 15.5(7)) Bahrain (Article 14.4(7)) and Oman (Article 15.4(7)). It now seeks to include similar provisions in its current multilateral free trade negotiations with 33 countries in the Americas.
This time however there's a twist: the provisions will be even more restrictive. How so? Like the DMCA the draft of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) IP chapter contains a provision that would require all FTAA countries to ban the circumvention of technological protection measures. It would also similarly prohibit the manufacture and distribution of certain circumvention tools technologies and devices. But while the DMCA contains a few narrow exemptions to these prohibitions the draft FTAA IP chapter contains none. As a result FTAA countries' national copyright law will be entirely supplanted by "anti-circumvention" law. In effect this allows U.S. copyright owners' rights to trump FTAA countries' national sovereignty and domestic public policy priorities and consumers and technology developers in FTAA countries risk losing all of their existing rights under their own national copyright laws.
When the FTAA negotiations stalled over the inclusion of intellectual property provisions in November 2003 the U.S. Trade Representative moved to Plan B. It announced that it would start negotiations for bilateral FTAs with various Latin American countries: Peru Colombia and Ecuador (the Andean community) and Panama. These negotiations are still under way. An FTA with 5 Central American countries (Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua) and the Dominican Republic that includes DMCA-style provisions went into effect in August 2005.
Below are resources on the technological protection measure provisions in the FTAA and bilateral FTAs as well as information about the impact of the DMCA's provisions in the United States since 1998. Also below are resources on Internet Service Provider provisions modeled on section 512 of the U.S. copyright legislation in recent bilateral FTAs together with information about how the U.S. ISP safe harbor provisions have been used since 1998.
Presentation at El Derecho de Autor: Nuevos Temas en el Entorno Digital, Lima, Peru.
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