660 research outputs found
Audrey McFarlane and Peter Franks, 1996
No full textLeft-right: Gerald Murphy, Acting President of the Australian Cooperative Education Society, Professor Murray Gillin, President Elect of the World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE), Audrey McFarlane, University of Victoria, Canada and Peter Franks, Executive Director, WACE, all attendees at the Second Pacific Cooperative Education Conference sponsored by Swinburne, Victoria University of Technology and RMIT and held at the Sofitel, Melbourne. Photograph originally appeared in Connections, the 'Swinburne Staff News', 1 August 1996
Julia Franks on her novel Over the Plain Houses: Women, Witches, and Fed-up White Men.
No full textJulia Franks, author of the novel Over the Plain Houses, a finalist for the 2016 Crook’s Corner Prize, on witches, women, and fed-up white men.
Her novel is set in 1939, when the USDA has sent agents into the North Carolina mountains to instruct families on modern agriculture and homemaking. One of them is a young woman with more enthusiasm than experience, but farm wife Irenie Lambey is immediately drawn to the lady-agent’s self-possession. Already, cracks are emerging in Irenie’s marriage to Brodis, an ex-logger turned fundamentalist preacher. To find some time when she’s not beholden to him, she has taken to rambling the night woods, storing the keepsakes of her life in a mountain crevice.
But it’s not long before Brodis becomes suspicious of his wife’s nocturnal life: the midnight excursions, the billowing white nightshirt, the strange talismans, the supernatural stealth. One surreal night he realizes that a certain evil has entered his life. The possibilities unnerve him. Perhaps the malevolence comes from the federal government and the lady agent. Or perhaps it comes from an ancient, more sinister force. This spellbinding debut by Julia Franks is the story of a woman intrigued by the possibility of change and escape—stalked by a Bible-haunted man who fears his government and stakes his integrity upon an older way of life. As Brodis chases his demons, he brings about a final act of violence that shakes the entire valley. Over the Plain Houses bares the myths and mysteries that modernity can’t quite dispel
Wayland: smith of the gods
No full textThis paper considers the origins of the legend of Wayland, the Anglo-Saxon mythological smith. The origins of the Wayland legend come from Scandinavia but have roots in classic literature. Almost all literary references to Wayland have been lost and it is believed that a feast day dedicated to Wayland has been Christianised; however, it is possible to trace his legend through some lines of poetry and through objects such as the Franks Casket. A Neolithic burial site in Berkshire was appropriated as the place where travellers would leave their horses to be shod by the supernatural smit
Rachel Franks, Double Agent: A Librarian and a Crime Author - William Blick Interviews Rachel Franks (January 2024)
No full textThe following is an interview from January 2024 with Librarian and Crime Scholar, Rachel Franks and was posted on the Captivating Criminality Blog:
Rachel Franks is the Coordinator, Scholarship at the State Library of New South Wales and an Honorary Associate Lecture at The University of Newcastle (Australia). She holds PhDs in Australian crime fiction (Central Queensland University) and in true crime texts (University of Sydney). A qualified educator and librarian, her extensive work on crime fiction, true crime, popular culture and information science has been presented at numerous conferences, as well as on radio and television. An award-winning writer, her research can be found in a wide variety of books, journals, magazines and online resources. She is the author of An Uncommon Hangman: The Life and Deaths of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard (2022)
Company Law – The excesses of legislation
No full textThe author reviews the state of company law in England following from an assertion by the Law Society’s Company Law Committee that company law is not of a high enough standard. Article by John Franks, Chethams published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Company Law – The excesses of legislation
No full textThe author reviews the state of company law in England following from an assertion by the Law Society’s Company Law Committee that company law is not of a high enough standard. Article by John Franks, Chethams published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Normans and Other Franks in 11th Century Byzantium: the Careers of the Adventurers before the Rule of Alexius I Comnenus
No full textThe paper examines the Frankish presence in Byzantium during 11th century. It was stressed that the mentioned period was the time of a great influx of westerners to the East. At first,
most of them visited Constantinople as pilgrims during return journey from the Holy Land. The
author points out that the term Franks (Frankoi) was basically attributed to the Eastern Franks/Germans,
while in the course of time the Byzantines started to use it to identify rather Western Franks
(i.e. French, Normans, Burgundians etc.). The author studies the circumstances in which the new
mercenaries and adventurers meet the Empire, trying to define the reason of their success. Another
issue investigated in the text is the extent to which Franks got promoted within the social hierarchy in Byzantium during the 11th century. Finally, the author argues that before the presence of great families such as Petraliphai, Raoul or Rogerioi there was at least one house of Frankish descent, which was raised significantly earlier and whose founder was Hervé Frankopoulos
Wieso sollte Anne Franks Tagebuch nicht gemeinfrei werden?
No full texthttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/anne-franks-diary-in-a-copyright-law-paradox-70-years-after-her-death/article27244584 Nach deutschem Recht ist es eindeutig: Am 1. Januar 2016 werden die urheberrechtlich geschützten Werke von Anne Frank gemeinfrei. Der Text der kritischen Edition von 1986 war nach § 71 UrhG nur 25 Jahre geschützt, also bis 2011. Update: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/books/anne-frank-has-a-co-as-diary-gains-co-author-in-legal-move.html?_r=1 http://www.univie.ac.at..
Be prepared: climate change and the Victorian bushfire threat
No full textFirefighters, emergency services and communities need to prepare for much greater bushfire risk from climate change, argues this report.
Key findings
1. Climate change is increasing the risk of bushfires in Victoria and lengthening the fire season.
Extreme fire weather has increased over the last 30 years in Victoria. The fire season in Victoria is starting earlier and lasting longer. Fire weather has been extending into October and into March.
Australia is a fire prone country and Victoria has always experienced bushfires. Today climate change is making hot days hotter, and heatwaves longer and more frequent, with increasing drought conditions in Australia’s southeast.
Record breaking heat and hotter weather over the long term in Victoria has worsened fire weather and contributed to an increase in the frequency and severity of bushfires.
2. Victoria is the state most affected by bushfires and is on the frontline of increasing bushfire risk.
Over half of known fatalities due to bushfires in Australia have occurred in Victoria.
Victoria has sustained around 50% of the economic damage from bushfires despite covering only 3% of Australia.
Victoria’s 2014–15 bushfire season outlook has been upgraded from an “above normal” fire season to a “major” fire season following record October warmth and expected ongoing hot, dry conditions.
3.Recent severe fires in Victoria have been influenced by record hot, dry conditions.
The 2009 Black Saturday fires in Victoria were preceded by a record breaking decade-long drought with a string of record hot years, coupled with a severe heatwave in the preceding week.
In the lead up to the bushfires on Saturday 7th 2009, maximum temperatures were up to 23°C above the February average in Victoria and record high temperatures for February were set in over 87% of the state.
4. In Victoria the economic cost of bushfires, including loss of life, livelihoods, property damage and emergency services responses, is very high.
The total economic costs of bushfires in Victoria in 2014 are projected to be more than $172 million. By around the middle of the century these costs will more than double.
These projections do not incorporate increased bushfire incident rates due to climate change and so could potentially be much higher.
These projections do not incorporate increased bushfire incident rates due to climate change and so could potentially be much higher.
5. In the future, Victoria is very likely to experience an increased number of days with extreme fire danger. Communities, emergency services and health services across Victoria must prepare.
Fire severity and intensity is expected to increase substantially in coming decades in Victoria. The fire season will continue to lengthen, further reducing the opportunities for safe hazard reduction burning.
Increasing severity, frequency and the lengthening fire season will strain Victoria’s existing resources for fighting and managing fires.
By 2030, it has been estimated that the number of professional firefighters in Victoria will need to approximately double (compared to 2010) to keep pace with increased population, asset value, and fire danger weather.
Australia must cut its emissions rapidly and deeply to join global efforts to stabilise the world’s climate and to reduce the risk of even more extreme events, including bushfires
Diversity between Panels of the Franks Casket – Spelling and Runic Paleography
No full textThe Franks Casket, a small whalebone box from about 700 AD, contains 59 Old English
words inscribed in runes. Systematic differences between its panels have never called into
question the standard procedure of explaining one panel basing on the others. The present
paper aims at a re-examination of the validity of this approach. The panels show a large
enough differentiation of spelling and paleographical features to exclude the possibility of
a single author for the whole Casket
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