The history of England under the house of Stuart, including the Commonwealth. [A. D. 1603-1688]

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Jacobite Minstrelsy; with Notes, and Historical Details in relation to the House of Stuart, from 1640 to 1784.

Mode of access: Internet.

A genealogical account of the royal house of Stuart, kings of Scotland : from the year 1043, to its union with the English crown, in the reign of James the sixth, king of Scotland: also, from that time to the commencement of the illustrious house of Brunswick; and down to the present.

Mode of access: Internet.

Exhibition of the royal house of Stuart.

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Knowmore (House of Commons)

Knowmore (House of Commons) is a large scale generative interactive installation that incorporates embodied interaction, dynamic image creation, new furniture forms, touch sensitivity, innovative collaborative processes and multichannel generative sound creation. A large circular table spun by hand and a computer-controlled video projection falls on its top, creating an uncanny blend of physical object and virtual media. Participants’ presence around the table and how they touch it is registered, allowing up to five people to collaboratively ‘play’ this deeply immersive audiovisual work. Set within an ecological context, the work subtly asks what kind of resources and knowledges might be necessary to move us past simply knowing what needs to be changed to instead actually embodying that change, whilst hinting at other deeply relational ways of understanding and knowing the world. The work has successfully operated in two high traffic public environments, generating a subtle form of interactivity that allows different people to interact at different paces and speeds and with differing intentions, each contributing towards dramatic public outcomes. The research field involved developing new interaction and engagement strategies for eco-political media arts practice. The context was the creation of improved embodied, performative and improvisational experiences for participants; further informed by ‘Sustainment’ theory. The central question was, what ontological shifts may be necessary to better envision and align our everyday life choices in ways that respect that which is shared by all - 'The Commons'. The methodology was primarily practice-led and in concert with underlying theories. The work’s knowledge contribution was to question how new media interactive experience and embodied interaction might prompt participants to reflect upon the kind of resources and knowledges required to move past simply knowing what needs to be changed to instead actually embodying that change. This was achieved through focusing on the power of embodied learning implied by the works' strongly physical interface (i.e. the spinning of a full size table) in concert with the complex field of layered imagery and sound. The work was commissioned by the State Library of Queensland and Queensland Artworkers Alliance and significantly funded by The Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Queensland, QUT, RMIT Centre for Animation and Interactive Media and industry partners E2E Visuals. After premiering for 3 months at the State Library of Queensland it was curated into the significant ‘Mediations Biennial of Modern Art’ in Poznan, Poland. The work formed the basis of two papers, was reviewed in Realtime (90), was overviewed at Subtle Technologies (2010) in Toronto and shortlisted for ISEA 2011 Istanbul and included in the edited book/catalogue ‘Art in Spite of Economics’, a collaboration between Leonardo/ISAST (MIT Press); Goldsmiths, University of London; ISEA International; and Sabanci University, Istanbul.

[Speeches delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives in 1844.]

[no. 1] Evans, George. The tariff of 1842 vindicated.--[no. 2] Evans, George. Discussion on the tariff.--[no. 3] Stewart, Andrew. Speech ... in defence of the tariff and distribution.--[no. 4] Wethered, John. Speech ... on the tariff.--[no. 5] Dayton, W.L. Speech ... on the tariff.--[no. 6] Stephens, A.H. Speech ... against the tariff bill reported by the committee of ways and means.--[no. 7] Rives, W.C. Speech ... on Mr. McDuffie's proposition to repeal the tariff act of 1842.--[no. 8] The tariff, a tract for the times, by a citizen of Virginia.--[no. 9] Tariff doctrine.--[no. 10] The sub-treasury.--[no. 11] Stuart, A.H.H. Speech ... on the bill to incorporate the subscribers to the fiscal bank of the United States.--[no. 12] Archer, W.S. Speech ... on the treaty for the annexation of Texas.--[no. 13] Jarnagin, Spencer. Speech ... on the treaty for the annexation of Texas.--[no. 14] Benton, T.H. Texas annexation bill.--[no. 15] Whig text book.--[no. 16] Hardin, J.J. Speech ... reviewing the public life & political principles of Mr. Van Buren.--[no. 17] White, John. Speech ... in defence of Mr. Clay upon the charge of "Bargain and sale".--[no. 18] Davis, Garret. Extract from the speech ... exhibiting the expenditures of Mr. Van Buren's administration, the public debt, and the condition of the Treasury at its close.--[no. 19] Barnard, D.D. Letter ... in review of the report of the committee of ways and means on the finances and the public debt.

Lely & the Stuart portrait painters; a study of English portraiture before & after Van Dyck:

"Of this work 375 copies (of which 350 are for sale) have been printed on pure rag paper; also (for a subscriber) 30 copies (25 for sale) on hand-made paper, with an extra set of the plates. Of the ordinary edition this is no. 21."

A sermon delivered before His Excellency : Levi Lincoln, Esq., governor, His Honor Thomas L. Winthrop, lieutenant governor, the Hon. Council, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. May 30, 1827, being the day of general election /

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Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage : Inquiry into a Sustainability Charter by the Cooperative Research Centre for Construction Innovation

The Cooperative Research Centre for Construction Innovation1 (hereafter called Construction Innovation) supports the notion of the establishment of a Sustainability Charter for Australia and is interested in working collaboratively to achieve this outcome. A number of challenges need to be addressed to develop this Charter. This submission outlines these challenges and possible responses to them by a Sustainability Commission.

Netflix : a house of cards or the new HBO?

'House of Cards' was a $100 million, 13-episode TV series starring Kevin Spacey and directed by David Fincher, that premiered in 2013 exclusively online, available only to Netflix subscribers. For over a year, Netflix had received much media attention for both its rapid international expansion and for its financial woes resulting in a plummeting share price and had some financial analysts postulating that it might not even survive. This article asks how can a company that teetering on the brink spend $100 million commissioning a TV series, let alone push ahead with global expansion? It asks is Netflix’s business model sustainable? And if it is, what does its entry into original programming mean for the future of television?

Wasting Time? Art, Science and New Experience. Examining the Artwork, Know more (House of Commons)

Today the future is travelling rapidly towards us, shaped by all that which we have historically thrown into it. Much of what we have designed for our world over the ages, and much of what we continue to embrace in the pursuit of mainstream economic, cultural and social imperatives, embodies unacknowledged ‘time debts’. Every decision we make today has the potential to ‘give time to’, or take ‘time away’ from that future. This idea that ‘everything‘ inherently embodies ‘future time left’ is underlined by design futurist Tony Fry when he describes how we so often ‘waste’ or ‘take away’ ‘future time’. “In our endeavours to sustain ourselves in the short term we collectively act in destructive ways towards the very things we and all other beings fundamentally depend upon”

IT pricing: Copyright law, consumer rights, and competition policy. A submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications Inquiry into IT Pricing

For a hundred years, since Federation, Australian consumers have suffered the indignity and the tragedy of price discrimination. From the time of imperial publishing networks, Australia has been suffered from cultural colonialism. In respect of pricing of copyright works, Australian consumers have been gouged; ripped-off; and exploited. Digital technologies have not necessarily brought an end to such price discrimination. Australian consumers have been locked out by technological protection measures; subject to surveillance, privacy intrusions and security breaches; locked into walled gardens by digital rights management systems; and geo-blocked.

Submission to House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics Inquiry into Home Ownership

This paper empirically examines the effect of current tax policy on home ownership, specifically looking at how developer contributions impact house prices. Developer contributions are a commonly used mechanism for local governments to pay for new urban infrastructure. This research applies a hedonic house price model to 4,699 new and 25,053 existing house sales in Brisbane from 2005 to 2011. The findings of is research are consistent with international studies that support the proposition that developer contributions are over passed. This study has provided evidence that suggest developer contributions are over passed to both new and existing homes in the order of around 400%. These findings suggest that developer contributions are thus a significant contributor to increasing house prices, reduced housing supply and are thus an inefficient and inequitable tax. By testing this effect on both new and existing homes, this research provides evidence in support of the proposition that not only are developer contributions over passed to new home buyers but also to buyers of existing homes. Thus the price inflationary effect of these developer contributions are being felt by all home buyers across the community, resulting in increased mortgage repayments of close to $1,000 per month in Australia. This is the first study to empirically examine the impact of developer contributions on house prices in Australia. These results are important as they inform governments on the outcomes of current tax policy on home ownership, providing the first evidence of its kind in Australia. This is an important contribution to the tax reform agenda in Australia.