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Allegiant adding 5 new nonstop routes to Savannah International Airport
January 14, 2020 at 8:28 AM EST - Updated January 14 at 6:20 PM
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Allegiant announced Tuesday it will be adding new nonstop routes to the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport.
The new seasonal routes include:
Belleville, Illinois via MidAmerica St. Louis Airport (BLV) – beginning June 6, 2020 with one-way fares as low as $55.
Houston, Texas via William P. Hobby Airport (HOU) – beginning May 28, 2020 with one-way fares as low as $33.
Chicago, Illinois via Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW) – beginning May 21, 2020 with one-way fares as low as $33.
Punta Gorda, Florida via Punta Gorda Airport (PGD) – beginning June 6, 2020 with fares as low as $44.
Newburgh, New York via New York Stewart International Airport (SWF) – beginning May 20, 2020 with fares as low as $55.
In all, Allegiant is adding 44 new nonstop routes, including 14 routes to three new cities: Chicago, Boston, and Houston.
"There is a lot of leisure demand for cities that are regional destinations, and this route expansion will address some of that need," said Drew Wells, Allegiant vice president of planning and revenue. "Also, this growth is about Allegiant being true to our mission as a company. We're increasing the number of low-cost, affordable travel options for people who may otherwise be priced out of air travel."
While the airport already had a historic year, they feel this will bring them to new heights.
"Which brings their total nonstop flights from Savannah to 20 and that's part of the reason that we were able to have a fourth record breaking year and surpass three million passengers for the first time in our history," said Chairman of the Savannah Hilton Head International Airport Commission, Steve Green.
This is Allegiant's largest service expansion ever. They say it was important to not only service new areas, but to also keep fares low for customers.
"We know that they want that ultra low cost fare and so because they have that fair here it just stimulates the market and makes them want to come to Savannah even more," said Bud Hafer, Allegiant Manager for Airport Affairs.
To celebrate the largest expansion in Allegiant's history, the company is offering one-way fares on the new routes as low as $33.
"I haven't flown on Allegiant, but I will with rates like that. It sounds wonderful," said Rhonda Alexander.
Allegiant's announcement is not only exciting for some passengers but also for the local economy.
"Opening these new markets gives us an opportunity to showcase the destination that means people could relocate their business here, people will buy homes here or second homes or third homes, they'll discover Tybee Island so it really is an exposure for the entire marketplace," said Joseph Marinelli, President of Visit Savannah.
"Anytime that we can look to have our hotels, home and villas, restaurants and businesses within the destination full 365 days a year that's a great opportunity," said Ariana Pernice, Vice President of Vistor and Convention Bureau with Hilton Head Island and Bluffton Chamber.
The new nonstop routes will operate twice weekly. To find out more, click here.


More news out of the SMX Advanced AMA with Google with Gary Illyes, which you can watch on Facebook, was that Gary said they are still working on the mobile only index.
Previously, Google has said they are only experimenting with a mobile index. But I guess they are still experimenting or they are liking what they see from those experiments.
Danny Sullivan asked about Google having a "mobile only index" and Gary Illyes responded in five words "we are working on it."
So maybe we are destined to have a mobile only index, which would be interesting and potentially change things up.


Michael had a wonderful way with words... he loved literature… took a stand on politics… had strong views and was engaged. Always.
"I am only eighteen years old, and I have already become disillusioned with Canadian politics. Still, I didfollow this weekend's Progressive Conservative leadership convention with quite some interest. I view myself as an economic conservative with progressive social values, and the Progressive Conservative Party seemed to embody my values to a tee. However, as we all know by now, the convention went awry and the boring, "status quo" Peter MacKay triumphed by caving in to David Orchard."
"I always knew that I wanted to study abroad during college. In fact, Georgetown's encouragement of overseas study was a major reason I chose to enroll in the first place. I had studied French for most of my life and six months in Lyon was the perfect opportunity to put into practice all that I had learned.
Freshman and sophomore year flew by and, before I knew it, I was filling out the appropriate paperwork in the Office of International Programs. Although I was still confident and happy with my decision to go abroad for a semester, it was then that I started to think about all the things I could potentially miss while overseas.
In particular, I wondered what would happen to my role at on Lecture Fund. "I've spent the last two years contributing to an organization and now I'm just going to drop it for a while? What if people forget about me during the leadership elections in April? What if President Clinton finally comes back to speak on campus and I miss it?
Going to another country doesn't mean you have to drop everything back at Georgetown. Between Skype and email it was easy to stay in touch.
Reserving rooms through the Registrar. Preparing an agenda for weekly meetings. Responding to emails from University and Media officials. These are all things that occupy a good deal of my time as Chair of Lecture Fund. However, these are all tasks that I DON'T do as a member of Georgetown University Club Tennis. Don't get me wrong – I am committed to the team and would more than happy to help the leadership if needed. That said, I love the fact that my biggest responsibility on Club Tennis is to make sure I don't double-fault when the game is on the line.
Many of us here at Georgetown naturally gravitate towards leadership positions…. However it's crucial to realize you don't have to be the head honcho to enjoy or further an organization. Learn to appreciate the beauty of "followership"!
Throughout life, you're not always going to be in a leadership position. By sometimes flying under the radar, you can gain a new perspective and concentrate on doing the things you really value….
Keeping distance was their goal.
We all still know his name.
I took rather copious notes on your presentation on Truman. In reviewing them, it is clear to me that you got him right from start to finish. You nailed the man and clearly described his successes and failures. Along the way you made adroit use of video clips.
Your presentation style was sure and poised. You spoke clearly and confidently . The class was in the palm of your hand.
Bravo, Michael. You exhibited a clear command of your subject and impressive (especially for your age) presentation skills. That is a strong combination. Continue to cultivate that combination and you will enter, as Winston Churchill would say, "broad, sunlit uplands".
Cheers. Ever onward and upward!
PS – you may wish to share a copy of this letter with your parents. They will then know that their tuition dollars are being well invested!


The Thrillseekers from Wiltshire interviewed Meredith Russo about her poignant and powerful debut novel, If I Was Your Girl.
Students at Kings College School in Wimbledon interviewed Sunju Lee, author of Every Falling Star.
Earlier this year, we asked Reading Hackers across the country to send us their questions for YouTube superstar Zoella. Now we can exclusively reveal her answers!
As part of the Reading Hack does #LoveToRead festival Sita Brahmachari came to Newcastle Upon Tyne to talk to young people about her novel 'Kite Spirit' during half term.
This week, Reading Hackers had the opportunity to interview Man Booker judge Jon Day on everything from first jobs to fantasy novels.
What do you read to boost your mood?
We're putting together a list of mood-boosting books for young people, and we want your recommendations!
The Imaginators from Bolton interview Nat Luurtsema, author of Girl Out of Water.
Reading Well - the book list.
Last week Reading Hack in Newcastle had the amazing opportunity to meet Old Kingdom author Garth Nix. They wrote up the interview and sent it to us to share.


Ed is responsible for the background buzz during "My Iron Lung". He achieves the sound using both an E-bow and his Strat's whammy bar. The E-bow provides the sustain and the whammy bar is used to help create the gradual up/down swell in pitch. A similar technique is used during Talk Show Host too (live at least).
The effect Ed creates towards the end of Talk Show Host may be produced using a Lovetone Meatball, which is a terrific (ally expensive) envelope filter which, among many other things, can turn out that nice auto-wah which resembles record scratching. They're made in small numbers in the UK and go for a little over $300 US currency. If you want something similar and can't find the Meatball, consider an old Mu-Tron envelope filter (again, if you can find one) or, failing that, the newer Sovtek/Electro Harmonix Q-Tron.
"Karma Police" distorted guitar dropouts, courtesy of a rackmount AMS digital delay. "That machine malfunctions wonderfully," Thom says. "Ed played the notes that started it, but basically it's the machine playing itself." Ed explains that the noise was made by turning up the delay's regeneration, then slowly turning the delay speed down.
The basic effects unit in ed's rack is a korg a2 multi-fx, although it's fallen out if favor for the more analogue sounds of ok computer. "i used it a lot on the bends, stuff like planet telex - almost all the guitar is through that, all very synthesized." next up is a digitech whammy pedal - "everyone seems to have one of those, but they're great." then there's an old mxr phaser pedal, jim dunlop tremolo, a companion distortion pedal, electro harmonix small stone and electric mistress, plus roland space echos and "the usual" boss pedals. for guitars, ed has tree rickenbacker 360s, a 12-string black model and two sunburst six-strings, a couple of strats ("just for on the road, they're really solid for fx-stuff"), and a hand-built guitar made by the band's guitar tech, peter clements. it's a hybrid of a gibson neck with a rickenbacker semi-acoustic body ("a beautiful, beautiful guitar," ed adds).
The thinking behind the use of so many standalone pedals is simple - it opens the doors to sonic experimentation big-time. "it's how you use them, in what order you put them," as ed puts it. "out in america we pick up loads of stuff from second-hand stores, funky old pedals. we've got a great fuzz pedal - the bass on exit music, the distorted bass at the end was a 60's japanese fuzz pedal that i picked up in la. it's a great pedal. 60 bucks for this thing - you put it on a guitar and it sounds like telstar."
"Or jonny at the end of paranoid android, the phased solo thing, that's through a mutator - he did the part then fed it back through the box and played with the settings."
as for the rest, everyone plays fenders - colin plays a precision bass, jonny a telecaster, there are fender twins amps everywhere. thom uses a fender jazzmaster and a telecaster custom - one of the 1970's ones with two humbuckers and a strat-style headstock. "yeah, but he's just bought a rick. he's wanted one for ages because i had one," ed adds with a smirk.
on the amp side the band use mainly reissue valve models - "in the studio it's ac30s, fender twins and a boogie rectifier, the tremoverb, which is really nice. they're all reissue ones, we haven't got any old amps - we do so much touring they'd probably break down too much. so we got the reissue blue speaker voxes. i'd love to hear a great old 1960's vox, though, i've never heard one."


One of the perennial Anglo-Catholic hobbies is constructing and maintaining an acceptable myth of origins. That is to say, if you are going to argue that there is a historical and theological validity to the use of certain catholic principles, doctrines, and ceremonies—but not others—within Anglican churches, you need to have some reason to hand that accounts for it.
One of the classic favorites is the notion of the Ecclesia Anglicana. This is the concept that English Christianity is just a bit different from Roman Catholic Christianity—always has been, always will be—and that the Anglican Churches are simply the current expression of this separate but equal way of being. As a result, adherents of this view claim a certain freedom by identifying the differences between Roman and English practice.
I've always quite liked this notion in a big-picture kind of way, but have had all sorts of problems with it on a historical level. It's one thing to assert it with a side-order of nostalgic Victorian nationalism, it's another entirely to document it in a convincing fashion in the historical and liturgical record.
If you're going to argue a difference between "English" and "Roman," liturgical and historical evidence supports an approach that sees "Western" as a super-category made up of a number of related theological and liturgical traditions one of which is "English" and one (actually several that fuse into one) which becomes dominant as "Roman." Part of the question, then, is in the matter of definitions: what's "English" and what's "Roman" and how are these situated in relation to what's "Western"?
One way to crack the nut is to point to the formative aspects of the liturgy, and I'd approach it this way. The Sarum strand is identifiably and recognizably English in locale granted that its roots straddle both French and earlier English practice. When you compare Sarum sources against Continental Western texts and the materials designated "Roman" by the Council of Trent, one of the differences that you find is the Mass Gospel Lectionary. If I recall correctly (and this came to me while washing dishes, mind you, and I haven't consulted my tomes yet), there are differences at least in Advent, Epiphany, and in post-Pentecost.
What makes this difference major and important is not the Mass, however—it's the Office. The Mass Gospel Lectionary appears in the third nocturn of the Night Office and determines the patristic homily found therein. A different Mass Gospel lectionary suggests that the nocturn lessons may be different with the possible result that the Sarum-using folk were being formed by reading different patristic texts at different times and were being formed and normed differently than their "Roman" brethren. If you are trying to argue for a theological and practical difference between the Ecclesia Anglicana and the Roman Church especially defined by its Tridentine liturgy, one of the best ways to do it would be a thorough audit of the nocturn texts.
Come to think of it, I recall that in Advent, at least, the second nocturn readings don't quite cohere either. I seem to recall a Maximus of Turin text where the Tridentine/Roman sources have the Jerome text on Isaiah quoted below. The significance there is that the Sarum source seems to be drawing on an older "Western" strand as the Maximus likely is a hold-over from Paul the Deacon, the official Night Office collection from the Carolingian period.
So—to make a sustained and historically verifiable argument for a theologically distinct Ecclesia Anglicana one possible route could be a thorough comparison of the Night Office texts between the English and Continental sources. What you'd have to find in order to make a strong case is greater coherence between Sarum, Hereford, and York sources (perhaps Hyde Abbey as well?) than what you find in Continental sources, particularly those that feed into the Tridentine Breviary. Then, if you could further isolate a difference in perspective—so, a preponderance of a particular father or set of fathers over others—between "English" and "Roman" breviaries, then I'd be willing to give more credence to the notion of a theologically distinct Ecclesia Anglicana that contains demonstrable theological and formational tendencies from its Continental counterparts.
This entry was posted in Anglican, Church History, Daily Office, Medieval Stuff, Roman Catholic on December 8, 2010 by Derek A. Olsen.
Not in my wildest dreams would it have occurred to me then that I would live to witness what seems more and more like the systematic dismantling of the great vision of the council's decree. But I have. We Catholics have.
For evidence, one need look no further than recent instructions from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments that have raised rubricism to an art form, or the endorsement, even encouragement, of the so-called Tridentine Mass. It has become painfully clear that the liturgy, the prayer of the people, is being used as a tool—some would even say as a weapon—to advance specific agendas.
No! What? Liturgies being used a tool to advance agendas? I'm shocked–shocked, I tell you!
This leads me to pose a question to my brother priests: What if we were to awaken to the fact that these texts are neither pastoral nor ready for our parishes? What if we just said, "Wait"?
What is at stake, it seems to me, is nothing less than the church's credibility. It is true that the church could gain some credibility by giving us more beautiful translations, but clumsy is not beautiful, and precious is not prayerful.
The reaction of my friends should surprise no one who has had a chance to review the new translations. Some of them have merit, but far too many do not.
Grammar trouble… Is the "them" in the second line the translations or the reactions of his friends?
What if we, the parish priests of this country who will be charged with the implementation, were to find our voice and tell our bishops that we want to help them avert an almost certain fiasco? What if we told them that we think it unwise to implement these changes until our people have been consulted in an adult manner that truly honors their intelligence and their baptismal birthright? What if we just said, "Wait, not until our people are ready for the new translations, but until the translations are ready for our people"?
I offer the following modest proposals.
What if pastors, pastoral councils, liturgical commissions and presbyteral councils were to appeal to their bishops for a time of reflection and consultation on the translations and on the process whereby they will be given to the people? It is ironic, to say the least, that we spend hours of consultation when planning to renovate a church building or parish hall, but little or none when "renovating" the very language of the liturgy.
What if, before implementing the new translations, we do some "market testing?" What if each region of bishops were to designate certain places where the new translations would receive a trial run: urban parishes and rural parishes, affluent parishes and poor parishes, large, multicultural parishes and small parishes, religious communities and college campuses? What if for the space of one full liturgical year the new translations were used in these designated communities, with carefully planned catechesis and thorough, honest evaluation? Wouldn't such an experiment yield valuable information for both the translators and the bishops? And wouldn't such an experiment make it much easier to implement the translations when they are ready?
"What If We Just Said No?" was my working title for this article. "What If We Just Said, 'Wait'?" seems preferable. Dialogue is better than diatribe, as the Second Vatican Council amply demonstrated. So let the dialogue begin. Why not let the priests who are on the front lines and the laypeople who pay the bills (including the salaries of priests and bishops) have some say in how they are to pray? If you think the idea has merit, I invite you to log on to the Web site www.whatifwejustsaidwait.org and make your voice heard. If our bishops know the depth of our concern, perhaps they will not feel so alone.
Now since I'm not a Roman Catholic, I don't have a dog in this fight. I am, however, a person who cares deeply about liturgy, about the worshiping community, and how to connect the two in mutual reinforcing relationships for the edification of the Church.
His fear and what he cautioned me against was the exact same thing happening from the other direction. Yes, good liturgy is a critical part of forming people in Christ and what we push for may well be absolutely right—but is the act of pushing absolutely right?
I don't know what the right way to proceed is, but it is evidently clear to me that some of the methods of liturgical reform in the past century are examples of how not to do it rather than how to do it.
So, like I said, I'll be watching these developments with interest.
This entry was posted in Roman Catholic on December 16, 2009 by Derek A. Olsen.
…the Pope is putting out a Christmas album.
Be afraid, Sting, the Holy Father's cuttin' in on your turf!
This entry was posted in Roman Catholic on November 12, 2009 by Derek A. Olsen.
In the Middle Ages, there was no idea of a General Calendar of Saints' days to be observed universally. To be sure, there were many feasts which were observed universally, such as the principal feasts of Our Lady and the Apostles, the four great doctors of the Latin Church, and several of the more famous early martyrs and confessors. However, there was an enormous amount of local variation to calendars, which were regulated by local bishops and cathedral chapters with almost no direction from Rome. For this reason, one also finds some interesting gaps in medieval liturgical calendars, especially in regard to "new" Saints. The first Saint ever formerly canonized by the Apostolic See, Ulric of Augsburg, was never celebrated with a feast day in Rome itself. Pope Gregory IX, who reigned from 1227 to 1241, canonized both St. Francis of Assisi and St. Dominic. Despite the tremendous importance of these two religious founders to the life of the later medieval Church, neither appears in the 1556 edition of the Sarum Breviary, or the 1501 Breviary of Bamberg, (to give just two examples); in many other places, they were kept as mere commemorations. The same Pope once called the great preacher and miracle worker Saint Anthony of Padua "the Ark of the Covenant" while the Saint himself was still alive, yet his feast is missing from many late medieval calendars, and indeed, is not included in the 1568 Roman Breviary.
None of this will come as a surprise to medievalists but rather informs us on when and how the late and new uniformity occurred. It also explains what I have discovered—that the current Roman kalendar is simply unsuited for modern Anglicans however Rome leaning—the main current of unformity occurs after our departure thus quite a large percentage of saints in the kalendar are not part of the common heritage.
This entry was posted in Church History, Liturgy, Roman Catholic on October 28, 2009 by Derek A. Olsen.
Looks like it's finally happened! I was skeptical up to the last moment and am still trying to sort out the full story, but it looks like Rome is indeed accepting the Traditional Anglican Communion.
why nothing from Zenit yet? Here's the official word that there's going to be a forthcoming even more official word.
The response from Forward in Faith.
Some English Anglo-Catholic bishops already have a timeline put together: decide to move by Feb. 22nd, 2010.
Some healthy reminders on the size and scope of this change from Br. Stephen.
As I've said a few times today in various places, I think the major shift here is conceptual rather than actual. It changes the way the relationships between Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Orthodoxy are configured.
More to follow as data becomes available.
This entry was posted in Anglican, Roman Catholic on October 20, 2009 by Derek A. Olsen.


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In a parallel world is a bloody and thirsty for more deaths war. Together with the strong and given to the homeland, men, in the forefront, there is a commander Tanya. The young girl commanding the whole detachment of brave soldiers and brave men, now she, Buchi quite a crumb, goes to the massacre of the enemy. Our Tanya Degruchy has a terrible secret. Actually it is he, it sounds very wild, but such is the bitter truth. Buchi office worker in a senior position, the guy met something extraordinary, calling himself either a God, or something out of this world. The creature turned the kid into our Tanya, now fighting on the real front. The main character gets used to new emotions, fears, copes with all future problems. After all, now she needs to put herself in the same high position, to achieve maximum results in a difficult matter, because in the life of Tanya Degruchova leader, and the leader will not tolerate the jaws of the rear and be a simple ordinary. The leader who with the small, white, female face builds ranks of murderers and conquerors. Anime "Military chronicle of a little girl" - this is all what will happen to the little man-hero.


That quiet boy in your English class doesn't volunteer to present his project, he only helplessly overthinks the luckless chances for him to escape his humiliation. Maybe he can't explain why to even himself, but he knows he'd easily sacrifice his grade to avoid standing in the center of attention. He and countless other teens suffer through this unease every single day, most without treatment or even sympathy.
A staggering 25% of all teens are affected by an anxiety disorder, and we have yet to see the day when teachers and boards of education take these invisible illnesses seriously. Many belittle the affected students and treat the feeling as something no more than butterflies when in reality, anxiety can cause numerous physical and mental effects like getting headaches, having appetite problems, and becoming apathetic to things they used to enjoy. Severe anxiety can lead to depression that an alarming 20% of teens will experience, which can then impact a multitude of aspects in their lives. Serious depression can lead to insomnia, a decreased effort in daily activities, and participation. These effects can often be seen, but are usually blamed on the individual until a teen takes their own life out of hopelessness and helplessness, which happens less than every 2 hours.
Mental illnesses are often seen as imaginary, especially among students, because teachers see them only as an excuse for avoiding schoolwork or keeping antisocial. They see their low grades as effects of the students' laziness when it's actually due to their hopelessness for anything. What the teachers still don't realize is the possible low self-esteem, sadness, and even drug abuse that can be caused by anxiety and depression, among many other effects. Students with broken bones and with visible colds are only taken seriously because teachers can see the effects they have on them. The brain is the most important organ in the human body, yet, serious mental illnesses are treated as irrelevant compared to fixable physical conditions.
Although physical signs may not register with adults in schools, schools need to assure students by the masses that they can seek help and can recover. Not only that, but also that they are able to and should go to someone they trust about it. Many teens don't talk to anyone about the issue because they don't trust, or feel as if anyone could help them. If they receive help, 80% of teens with depression can be successfully treated and live on with happiness.
Teens today are more depressed than ever, and yet, only 30% of them are being treated for it. It is our job as a society to bring awareness and understanding to not only anxiety and depression, but many other mental illnesses impacting students' lives. We have to stop sugar-coating serious matters and turn this issue into something students feel comfortable talking about because of how many people it affects every day.


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Mr. Steven H. Melton, the only child to the late Mervelle Rivers-Melton was born February 5, 1955 in Brooklyn, NY.
While attending Boys High Steven played the game he so loved - Football. After graduation in 1973, Melton was scouted and played for Brooklyn Golden Knights and Brooklyn Kings in the Semi Pro Team shortly thereafter. At which Football passion did not cease there. Steve became a Football Coach at Boys and Girls High at which he gave back by mentoring young men and showing them love for the game. Mentoring, encouraging those to stay on the straight & narrow and being of service, Steve gave up until recent months.
In 1978 Steve undertook fatherhood to his first born daughter, Margaret (Angel), followed by his only son, Jermey (Filp), and Shanice (Sha) that also blessed him with 2 bonus daughters, Dequana (Dee),Denise (Neicy). "A house full of girls" (Steve exact words). lol……
In the late 1980's Steve went to work for the New York City Housing Authority, and four years later the Department of Sanitation. During his time at Sanitation Melton was very involved in planning events such as Empire Skating Rink, Valley Stream Park , home events, with too much to mention. Eventually becoming supervisor. After 24 years of City Services it was obvious to him to retire to enjoy life, wife, children, grands and FOOTBALL !
In 1988, while working Steve met and fell In Love with Jackie and formalized a union on August 31,1991, later to become 30 years of marriage.
One of Melton's biggest dreams was to become an homeowner. In 1998 Melton purchased and moved his wife and girls to Medford, LI for a better quality of life. Like the sitcom "The Jeffersons". Which became "Shut my damn door" and "Stop running in and out of my damn house" lol………
Melton was known by many names such as Heav, Coach, Melt, Big Steve, Stevie. But one name and title he held dear to his heart aside from Football was Pop-Pop. First grand is Donte, followed by Christopher, Saanya, Christian, Angel, Cayden, Layla, Ayden, Summer, Jah'mir and Ocean was his world and we must say they all kept him busy, never complaining and love to hear the noise (at times) in the house.
Melton had many mantras; but, one that stood out was "If nobody told you today they love you… I LOVE YOU!!"
He is survived by his wife Jackie Melton, daughters Margaret (Jermaine), Shanice, son Jermey (Anaya) bonus daughters Dequana, Denise (Chuck), Mother-in-law Hernietta (Moms) grandchildren, Sisters-in-laws, Brothers-in-laws, host of relatives, Football family, Surrogate Brother's, Surrogate Cousins and Friends.
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Well Versed in Etiquette*
There are certain rules – etiquette, if you will – that people tend to follow when they interact. Those rules are usually unwritten, but they're there. In fact, they're important enough that if a person doesn't follow them, it's noticed and can be awkward at the least. As an example, if several people want to do the same thing at the same time (like buying a ticket), everyone gets a turn, and the rule is to wait until it's your turn. To 'cut in' and take an earlier turn is considered very rude. Individual places and cultures have their own rules, too. For instance, in New Zealand, you thank the bus driver when you get off the bus. Where I live (and where I grew up, too), if you visit someone else's home, you bring something with you (a bottle of wine, a box of sweets, something home-baked, etc.).
Those rules of etiquette play important roles in our lives; they tell us what to expect from ourselves and each other, and they make it a little easier to live on a crowded planet. They're important in crime fiction, too. They add to the atmosphere, and they can help give a sense of time and place.
For instance, in Agatha Christie's The Murder on the Links, Poirot and Captain Hastings travel to France to investigate the murder of Paul Renault. At one point, Poirot needs to go to Paris to follow a lead. Here's how he takes his leave of Hastings:
'Au revoir! You permit that I embrace you? Ah, no, I forget that it is not the English custom. Une poignée de main, alors.'
Poirot isn't English, but he understands the etiquette of when and with whom to shake hands, and that hugs are not seen in the same way in all cultures.
In some cultures, there are other unwritten rules about physical contact. Many (not all) of them come from religious traditions and beliefs. For example, Zoë Ferraris' novels feature Nayir ash-Sharqi who is a desert guide, and Katya Hijazi, who works in the medical examiner's office. They live in Saudi Arabia, which has a strong Islamic tradition. A part of that tradition, for religious reasons, is that men and women who are not related do not touch. In fact, in the strictest form of this tradition, they don't even speak. That custom – of avoiding physical contact between the genders – is woven into Ferraris' stories, and is simply etiquette, even among those who are not deeply observant. In fact, if I may add a personal note, I work with several teachers whose students come from Muslim homes, and who've had to learn to politely greet those students' parents without shaking hands. It takes a little effort to learn that, but it makes for much better rapport.
Fans of Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn novels know that these two protagonists are members of the Navajo Tribal (now Nation) Police, and members of the Navajo Nation. While Chee follows the Navajo tradition more than Leaphorn does, both men know that it's the Navajo custom to avoid touching someone who isn't a close friend or a family member. This, too, comes from religious tradition. Etiquette in that culture dictates that you greet someone you don't know courteously, but without physical contact. Chee and Leaphorn also know that, in that culture, you don't knock on someone's door to be invited in. You announce your presence from outside, usually by calling out or using a car horn. Then, when the occupant is ready to have you in, that person comes to the door or steps outside and welcomes you.
Hideo Yokoyama's Six Four, which takes place in Japan, tells the story of Yoshinobu Mikami, a former police inspector who now works for the police in their Media Relations division. Fourteen years before the events in the story, he was involved in the investigation of the disappearance and murder of Shoko Amamiya. The case was never solved, and it remains a black mark on the police department, and a source of shame. Then, when the police commissioner suddenly decides to pay a visit to the bereaved family, the case comes up again. Mikami's looking into the matter when he spots something unusual – an anomaly. This leads him to re-visit the case, and it opens a lot of old wounds (to say nothing of the danger in which it puts him). At one point, Mikami himself visits Shoko's father. As part of the etiquette he follows, he asks (and gets) permission to pay ritual respect to Shoko. That privilege is not granted to everyone. In fact, Amimaya doesn't want to have the commissioner in his home, and won't grant him permission to pay respects. That turns out to play an important role in the novel.
There are also several unwritten rules of etiquette when someone visits. In many cultures, a visitor is offered refreshment. In fact, in several crime novels, the police make visits where they're not offered anything, and that's a very clear sign that they're unwelcome and unwanted. In general, though, when crime-fictional police visit witnesses or even suspects, they're offered tea, coffee, and sometimes something stronger. A few of Helene Tursten's novels featuring Irene Huss include scenes where she makes such visits and is offered hospitality. It's also there in Tove Alsterdal's We Know You Remember. In that novel, police detective Eira Sjödin works to solve the murder of Sven Hagström. It's connected with a twenty-three-year-old disappearance and presumed murder, and Eira uncovers several dark secrets as she works to find out the truth. It all involves several visits to different witnesses and 'people of interest,' and most of them include offers of coffee and biscuits. It's just the unwritten rule: you put out something when someone visits.
Those unwritten rules of etiquette are an important part of human interaction. In fact, they're so important that some of the finer points (like where utensils on a table setting belong) have been included in etiquette books. But the regular day-to-day unwritten rules (like thanking a bus driver) aren't. Still, we know them and follow them. And so do crime-fictional characters.
*NOTE: The title of this post is a line from Queen's Killer Queen.
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Brown, Earl, 1903-1980
Earl Brown papers, 1934-1976
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 254
.67 linear feet (2 boxes)
Earl Brown was an African-American journalist and Harlem politician. The Earl Brown papers date from 1934 to the 1970s and document aspects of Earl Brown's journalistic and political careers, and include correspondence (1934-1960), drafts of his... more
Earl Brown was an African-American journalist and Harlem politician. The Earl Brown papers date from 1934 to the 1970s and document aspects of Earl Brown's journalistic and political careers, and include correspondence (1934-1960), drafts of his memoirs and other personal observational essays, copies of legislation he sponsored (1950-1952), certificates, invitations, financial records, a commencement address (1952), copies of his published articles, and a scrapbook of news clippings (1949-1961). less
Revels, Hiram R. (Hiram Rhoades), 1827-1901
Hiram Revels collection, 1870-1948
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc Micro R-6478
0.06 linear feet (1 reel)
The Hiram Revels collection consists principally of a scrapbook of news clippings and biographical articles on Revels. The scrapbook (1870-1893) discusses Revels as a senator, pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and president of... more
The Hiram Revels collection consists principally of a scrapbook of news clippings and biographical articles on Revels. The scrapbook (1870-1893) discusses Revels as a senator, pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and president of Alcorn University; describes local events; and contains homilies and miscellany. There are also some letters written to Revels and a couple of programs and invitations. The collection also includes several letters Revels wrote to his family (1870-1900); a biographical sketch written about him in the first person which appears to have been written by his daughter, Susie; a typescript of an obituary of Revels; and legal papers regarding settlement of his estate. There are also letters soliciting information about Revels from Hermann R. Muelder of Knox College, who planned to write an article about Revels. Obituaries of his daughter, Susie Revels Cayton, complete the collection. less
Jones-Sadler family papers, 1876-1931
0.01 linear feet (1 folder)
The Jones-Sadler family was an African-American family living in Greenville, Mississippi, after the Civil War. The Jones-Sadler Family Papers, 1876-1931 consists of correspondence and other documents relating to Cornelius Jones and to Charles and... more
The Jones-Sadler family was an African-American family living in Greenville, Mississippi, after the Civil War. The Jones-Sadler Family Papers, 1876-1931 consists of correspondence and other documents relating to Cornelius Jones and to Charles and Sarah Sadler and family. The collection includes: transcript from Kansas City General Hospital with a letter offering employment to Callie Patterson; certificate of service and pension request for Charles Sadler; a midwife permit dated 1923 and five documents relating to Sarah Sadler's receipt of her husband's pension; receipt for room, board and tuition for Estelle Walker at Central Tennessee College; a three page obituary, six letters and one flyer advertising Cornelius Jones's Candidacy for the third Congressional District in Mississippi; and two letters to Sarah Sadler Cornelius and Hannah Jones. less
Bancroft Library. Oral History Center
California Afro-American Oral History Project transcripts, 1967-1979
2.0 linear feet (12 volumes)
These oral history interviews form part of the Negro Political History series of the Earl Warren Era Project completed by the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. The interviews were conducted with... more
These oral history interviews form part of the Negro Political History series of the Earl Warren Era Project completed by the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. The interviews were conducted with African Americans who helped shape the history of California in the 20th century. Subjects covered include the importance of the interviewee to California history, both governmental and social. The interviews provide information about the subjects' personal lives; struggles with discrimination; achievements in public service, business, or the professional world; and unique contributions. This collection consists of oral history interviews with Frances Mary Albrier, A. Wayne Amerson, Julian Bagley, Odessa Cox, E. A. Daly, C. L. Dellums, Walter Gordon, Ira deVoyd Hall, Jr., Tarea Hall Pittman, Wilson Riles, and William Byron Rumford. Topics covered include labor, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, education, civil rights, the Virgin Islands, journalists, legislators, and housing. less


This week, as part of our Christmas activity folders, we are turning to a creative party idea for recycled materials. You probably already knew that ecological Christmas trees are very fashionable these days.
Well, this year, you could make one yourself! And that, by recycling plastic spoons that you have on hand!
How to make a fake Christmas tree in plastic spoon?
Making a fake Christmas tree in plastic spoons is a great way to replace a cut tree or, simply, to complete the festive atmosphere in a room of his house. Instead of throwing away the purchased plastic spoons, you can use them to make a beautiful DIY Christmas decor piece. Thus, you will give a green touch to your living space. Best of all, this original Christmas decoration is very cheap.
A fake Christmas tree made of plastic spoons can also be a manual activity project for families. Create one or more with your children to decorate the room of the little ones or to offer them as gifts to your loved ones!
How to make a fake Christmas tree in a plastic spoon?
We said it: the fake Christmas tree made of plastic spoons is a very cheap DIY deco project. This is so because the spoons you will need do not cost much but also because the other materials you will need are very accessible. In addition, you could decorate your fake Christmas as you wish!
Below is the list of materials to collect for this project.
As you see in this list of materials, plastic spoons are just one option for this kind of project. In fact, you could very well replace them with spoons made of wood. In this way, you will give a more natural look to your fake Christmas tree.
Some DIYers on the web have even opted for a DIY Christmas decor made with real spoons diverted mini fir. You are also free to experiment with this type of material if you wish!
Moreover, know that this type of project is also feasible with plastic forks. The difference between spoons and forks is that they will more closely mimic the appearance of a fir tree. However, they are probably a little less suited to work, especially if you expect to make this project a manual activity to share with your children.
And now that you've decided what type of material you want, you can go on to make your fake Christmas tree. Here are the instructions for doing this!
Start by gathering all the materials you need. Then follow the steps outlined below.
Then prepare your spoons. If you use plastic spoons, you can decide to paint it in a color of your choice. The painting is to consider also if you work with wooden spoons. One possibility is to realize this step at the very beginning of your project. Another possible approach would be to paint the tree once it is ready. Both options are possible but you will need different paints depending on which one you prefer.
If you decide to paint your spoons before putting the false tree together, you could bet on pot paint. If you are going to paint the tree when it is ready, you will work more easily with a paint spray bottle. In both cases, you can decorate your fake Christmas tree even more once the paint is dry.
Decide which option you prefer to give more color to your Christmas tree. If you go for the first option, allow enough time to paint the spoons and allow to dry before continuing. Note that you do not need to paint all the spoons, just the part you will use to make your tree afterwards.
Once your spoons are ready, cut their handles. This step is much simpler to do with plastic spoons. These are quite easy to cut with scissors. If you have decided to work with another material, you may need suitable instruments.
The amount of spoons used for this project depends entirely on the size chosen for your fake Christmas tree.
You might also decide to stick the spoons without cutting them. In this case, move forward, hiding the visible ends well.
When you are ready with the preparation of the spoons, you can move on to the next step of putting together your fake Christmas tree. For this, it should take the pieces of spoons and stick on the support of your choice.
Starting at the bottom of the cone and moving all around the base, attach spoons with some hot glue. The bottom row will be the longest. Work will progress much more easily and quickly as you climb up the cone.
Note: if you do not have a foam cone at home, you could also use a paper cone that you will make yourself. To do this, use cardboard paper which will be more rigid and not likely to be deformed by the effect of the glue. We also advise you to provide a filling for the cardboard cone. Thus, you will make your fake Christmas tree DIY stronger and stronger.
When you are done sticking the spoons on the cone, let it dry. Do not rush to decorate your fake Christmas tree any more time that all the elements have not taken well on the cone.
At the end of the necessary time (which will depend on the materials you use and the size of the fake Christmas tree), you can add a top to your tree. For that, use a star that you have on hand or make a creative decoration yourself!
When you're done with the previous steps, you may decide to decorate your fake Christmas tree further. This is an optional step that will allow you to further personalize your creation and the space it will adorn. For the Christmas decoration of your fake fir tree, you can choose between several interesting options.
A nice option would be to paint your fake Christmas tree in a color of your choice. At this point, opt for a spray paint on the entire surface of the tree. Before painting your Christmas tree fake with this type of paint, be sure to clear the area where you work. Plan also protection for the worktop and the walls next to it.
After applying the paint, let it dry and expose your tree.
You could also use glitter to further embellish your fake Christmas tree in plastic spoons. For this, we advise you to use an acrylic sealant. This one would spray on the surface of your creation. Complete this step once the tree is ready or before putting it together. This kind of product will help prevent glitter glitter from falling all over your house.
Once the product is applied, you can go to the next step and decorate your tree with glitter.
The mini Christmas tree you have just made can also be decorated with all kinds of other creative and original ornaments. For example, you have the opportunity to make small pompoms. These help you to imitate the appearance of balls on your fake Christmas tree. For this, use textiles in various colors.
Also know that you can learn how to make pompoms of various sizes at home. We recently published a complete tutorial on making this type of DIY deco. It is to discover in this article .
Whatever the size and shape of your mini balls, you can stick them quietly on your fake Christmas tree with a little bit of glue. Once again, allow a little time for the glue to dry before exposing your DIY decor!
There you go ! You now know how to make a fake Christmas tree in spoons or forks and how to decorate it. You could even decide to make several mini festive trees. Exhibit them on your fireplace or on a support table at home! Those who love DIY deco projects and have had little time are free to make mini trees of this type to accompany Christmas gifts to their loved ones!
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The Benefits of Regularly Publishing Articles
On November 29, 2013 | 0 Comments
By Michaela St. Onge
Published in Top-Consultant.com
Many people are under the assumption that, in order to write an article for publication, you need to be a professional writer. This is not the case. Though you do need expertise in whatever subject area you plan to write about, virtually anyone is capable of this feat. That said, why aren't more business professionals seeking the benefits of publishing articles and actually doing it?
Frequently the thinking goes like this:
"The process is too over-whelming and I don't have enough time."
"No one wants to read anything I have to say."
"I'm not going to get anything out of this."
These common worries and misconceptions must be cast aside, because writing and publishing articles is one of the most significant things people can do help their business. Being regularly published in professional business journals and trade and industry magazines can not only boost sales and publicity for your firm, but also offer you an invaluable level of credibility.
So how can you go about doing it? Contrary to popular belief, the road to regularly publishing articles is uncomplicated. "The hardest thing was to commit to what is (to me) a relatively expensive process in 'blind faith,'" admits Jim Edholm, President of Business Benefits Insurance, a consulting firm focused on planning employee benefits. "If I hadn't published before, I might not have taken the step, which would have been a terrible error in judgment." Though committing to the process may seem a daunting undertaking, Edholm explains that failing to do so can represent a missed opportunity, as a dedication to writing articles for publication can deliver continuous positive results.
But before such results come your way, specific steps must be followed. "After deciding to commit, you need to be absolutely positive that you have multiple subjects about which to write," Edholm says. "You also need to think about your business from your customers' perspective in order to develop articles that will ring editors' chimes," says Renate Rooney, CEO/Founder of RCR Associates, Inc., a strategic management and operations consulting firm that helps businesses implement breakthrough strategies. Rooney, like Edholm, understands this importance, and advises new writers to seriously think about their target market and focus on getting published in journals read by their customers. "Being able to relate to the audience for whom you are writing is crucial," she says, "so you must make time to do it; the effort can only help your business."
Since writing can be undeniably hard work, you need to be ready for all that it entails. That includes preparing to mercilessly edit, and to understand that "editing takes a thick skin," says Chuck Dennis, Vice President of Knowledgence Associates, a consulting firm focusing on the intersection of marketing, sales and customer service. Helpful here is to remember that you don't have to be on your own: "It's useful to work with someone who has [written articles] before," advises Steve Lipka, President of Avatar Strategic Partners' Business Technology Practice, specialists in "making technology work for you."
Once your article is published, your hard work will pay off as you'll undoubtedly begin to see results. A result maybe something as simple as a congratulatory email from a colleague, or a "Wow this article is pretty interesting" from a client, but it could also be as great as the formation of a new business partnership. No matter the extensiveness of the feedback you are given, every bit of recognition stemming from your published article affords you credibility as an expert— something that is otherwise not easily attainable. Shelley Hall, Founder/President of Catalytic Management, a firm that specializing in business performance and growth consulting, calls credibility the single most important result she receives from writing and publishing articles. "Deciding to do articles has been one of the best things I've done for my business. When people see you in print they instantly place you among the top in your field. Publishing is a great way to inform people of how you approach a business challenge and how you would creatively solve the problem," she explains.
Similarly, Vin D'Amico, Founder and President of Damicon, where consultants "turn businesses from fragile to agile," recalls a time when he spoke with a prospect by telephone, then e-mailed him a copy of a published article. After the prospect read the article, the two set up an appointment which led Vin to land a new client. "Having that article available helped the sales process enormously by establishing my credibility and eliminating the need for reference checks," he says. Once you've written an article, you need to take advantage of it.
"I always load my briefcase with all my published articles before going out on a sales call. At the right time in a meeting, I pull out the right article, and it always helps to solidify the prospect's interest," says Dave Vogel, President of Intertech Engineering Associates, which provides the medical device industry with product development and validation, project management, and building internal expertise. Carol Bergeron, President and Founder of Bergeron Associates, practices organizational performance consulting and coaching, and has also learned to use her published articles to her advantage. "It has been great to send published articles to business associates, prospects and clients as another way to communicate my expertise. They can operate as a prelude to being referred to prospects, and even winning business from new clients," she says.
In addition to specific proactive techniques, you may also experience positive results without much extra work at all. Jim Edholm, for example, recently published an article on how businesses need to reevaluate their company dental plans. Within two weeks following publication, he was contacted by two different businesses looking for dental reevaluations, as well as a fellow broker looking at the possibility of jointly cooperating on a new product, and even a documentary producer requesting an interview with Jim, the now- published healthcare expert.
For some, however, the most important thing is not having a prospective client contact them due to the publication of a recent article. Vin D'Amico recommends people publish articles "to accumulate material that can help position them as an expert, not to attract people to contact them." The steady production of diverse articles is the precise marketing material that has established those working at Damicon as credible "agility experts," continuously delivering solutions that work. Initially, he "wanted to get [his] name recognized as authority," Vin explains, and regularly publishing articles (and a column) has allowed him to do just that.
Michaela St. Onge is a former intern at emerson consulting group, and a graduate of Lafayette College. Email inquire@thoughtleading.com for more information.
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Dossett, Wendy; Burns, Andrew; Schmidt, Bettina; University of Chester; Alister Hardy Society; Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity St David (Religious Experience Research Centre, 2021-08-03)
Introduction to the Festschrift - Essays in Honour of Peggy Morgan
Mission Team Life Transformative discipleship and leadership development in context
Knowles, Steve; Graham, Elaine; Silk, Ian G. (University of Chester, 2021-06)
Mission team life - the lived experience of missioning together that is given shape and meaning through relationships, practices, processes and values - is a social reality and modus operandi whose transformational potential has been largely unrecognised. The way discipleship is currently being reimagined for churches is impoverished by this lack of recognition. This study investigates the shape of mission team life in lived experience and its impact on those who participate in it. Using qualitative research methods including semi-structured interviewing, thematic analysis, theological reflection and poetic reframing I draw on the life-stories of thirteen mission leaders in a variety of local contexts to explore both the constituent elements and the overall character of mission team life. As a reflective practitioner and facilitator of mission teams I bring my own experience to the interpretation of their narratives. I demonstrate that mission team life comprises six interweaving relational dynamics: synergia (co-working), koinonia (the sharing of lives), diakonia (serving), pneumatika (spiritual practices), mathemata (lessons learned) and euremata (attending to surprise discoveries). The character of the whole is relational, complex, chaordic, adventuresome and Spirit-filled. Such life together is a way of discipleship in which vocations are mutually discerned and leadership emerges in context. An understanding of the dynamics and character of mission team life can equip the Church's theological imagination in vital areas. This research addresses debilitating dichotomies highlighted or implied in recent official reports through a robust conceptualisation of discipleship and an account of practice based in lived experience. Reflective practitioners whose values in ministry are formed through mission team living demonstrate an understanding of collaboration, compassion, hospitality, spirituality, co-empowerment and prophetic imagination. When these qualities also become the hallmark of the mission teams they lead the result can be a way of discipleship that is both imaginative and transformative. My conceptualisation of the relational dynamics of mission team life is thus a fresh paradigm, offering to churches, missions and the academy a way of seeing, understanding and living a transformative discipleship rich in spirituality, synergy, community, ministries and leadership potential.
Are Alcohol and Drugs ever acceptable to Buddhists?
Dossett, Wendy; University of Chester (Equinox Publishing, 2021-10-25)
This short chapter explores the ways in which the fifth precept has been interpreted in different social locations, as well as Buddhist ritual use of entheogens, the association of spirituality and psychedelics, and Buddhist approaches to addiction recovery.
What is Pure Land Buddhism?
A short introductory essay on Pure Land Buddhism addressing its history, texts, teachings and internal diversity.
Neocolonial Auspices: Rethinking the Ekumen in Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish Cycle
Hay, Jonathan; University of Chester (International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (Idaho University), 2021-12-01)
Although the Ekumen in Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish Cycle have frequently been read as a utopian social body, their policy of contacting native cultures frequently provokes the erasure of that same cultural multiplicity which they purport to value. Hence, the uneven cultural synthesis enacted by the Ekumen across the galaxy cannot be intended as a positive epistemology of multicultural society. Rather, throughout the Hainish Cycle, the colonial practices of the Ekumen rhetorically contrast the series' emphasis upon the multifaceted forms of life and culture found across the unassimilated worlds of the galaxy. Accordingly, Le Guin's series problematizes the colonial practices of the Ekumen through what we might profitably term its mundane dialectic, which consequently engenders a cogent means of neocolonial discourse.
A lot of snow out of one cloud: : A Concordance Analysis of Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish Cycle
Hay, Jonathan; University of Chester (Hélice, 2021-12-09)
Whereas prior academic studies of the Hainish Cycle have been primarily produced by means of textual analysis, I demonstrate that a concordance analysis of its six novels reveals significant, yet heretofore overlooked, ecological aspects of Le Guin's series. As becomes apparent, snow imagery literalises the Hainish Cycle's New Wave moves from technological, to biological and sociological concerns, emphasising the series' significant challenge to the technophilic assumptions and eschatological foundations of the preceding Golden Age. Accordingly, this article demonstrates the primacy of the datum of snow within the narratives of the Hainish Cycle novels, and delineates its important contribution to the series' SFnal dialectic on aggregate.
'I'm Gonna Be the Best Friend You Could Ever Hope For—And the Worst Enemy You Could Ever Imagine': Frank Miller's All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder and the Problem of the Boy Sidekick in the Twenty-First-Century Superhero Narrative
Andrew, Lucy; University of Chester (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-07-25)
Andrew examines the representation of the boy sidekick/adult detective relationship in Frank Miller's All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder (2005–2008). The chapter explores the ways in which Miller's graphic novel revises, rewrites and problematises the classic Batman/Robin relationship, with particular emphasis on power, violence and abuse. It explores the disturbing parallels that the text draws between the boy sidekick and the love interest, the troubling power imbalance between the adult superhero and his boy sidekick, and the dangers inherent in introducing an innocent and traumatised boy into the violent world of an adult crime fighter. The chapter concludes by identifying how tonal and structural shifts in the comic-book medium have contributed to the growing prevalence of problematised Robin figures in twenty-first-century Batman narratives.
Introduction: Step Forward, Sidekicks
Andrew, Lucy; Saunders, Samuel; University of Chester (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-07-25)
Saunders and Andrew offer a definition of the sidekick in crime fiction and provide a brief account of the origins and development of this figure from the nineteenth century to the present day. They outline significant moments in the history of the sidekick, establish key trends in the construction of the sidekick, and identify and interrogate widely held views about the sidekick's function and representation in crime fiction. They make a case for the wider significance of the sidekick beyond the role of help-mate or foil to the infallible detective and point towards the key contributions that the sidekick has made and continues to make to the canon of crime fiction. They also offer a brief introduction to each of the essays and key themes/ideas explored by contributors throughout the collection.
Patterns of borrowing, obsolescence and polysemy in the technical vocabulary of Middle English
Sylvester, Louise; Parkin, Harry; Ingham, Richard; University of Westminster; University of Chester; Birmingham City University
This paper reports on a new project, Technical Language and Semantic Shift in Middle English which aims to address questions about why semantic shift, lexical and/or semantic obsolescence and replacement happen and to try to uncover patterns of narrowing, broadening, obsolescence and synonym co-existence at different levels of the lexical hierarchy. The data is based on the Middle English vocabulary for seven occupational domains collected for the Bilingual Thesaurus of Everyday Life in Medieval England, with the addition of two further domains representing the interests of the elite and professional classes. This paper offers three case studies illustrating how we used the type of information in the BTh, the MED and the OED to construct the semantic hierarchy on which our analyses are based; an example of how data are interpreted in relation to change within a particular semantic field; and an exploration of how obsolescence by distinguishing between obsolete lexemes and obsolete senses. We then present some results of our analyses of obsolescence, polysemy and borrowing in our data.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain
Parkin, Harry; University of Chester (Oxford University Press, 2021-08-03)
A dictionary of family names found in Britain in the present day. A concise version of the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland (2016).
Collaboratory, coronavirus and the colonial countryside
Williams, Howard; University of Chester (JAS Arqueologia, 2020-12-01)
Introducing the second volume of the Offa's Dyke Journal (ODJ), this five-part article sets the scene by reviewing: (i) key recent research augmenting last year's Introduction (Williams and Delaney 2019); (ii) the key activities of the Offa's Dyke Collaboratory in 2020; (iii) the political mobilisation of Offa's Dyke in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns; (iv) the ramifications of accelerated efforts to decolonise the British countryside on both archaeological research and heritage interpretation on linear monuments; and (v) a review of the contents of volume 2. Together, this introduction presents the context and significance of ODJ volume 2 for both research on the Welsh Marches and broader investigations of frontiers and borderlands.
Living after Offa: Place-Names and Social Memory in the Welsh Marches
How are linear monuments perceived in the contemporary landscape and how do they operate as memoryscapes for today's borderland communities? When considering Offa's Dyke and Wat's Dyke in today's world, we must take into account the generations who have long lived in these monuments' shadows and interacted with them. Even if perhaps only being dimly aware of their presence and stories, these are communities living 'after Offa'. These monuments have been either neglected or ignored within heritage sites and museums with only a few notable exceptions (Evans and Williams 2019; Williams 2020), and have long been subject to confused and challenging conflations with both the modern Welsh/English border and, since the 1970s, with the Offa's Dyke Path. Moreover, to date, no study has attempted to compile and evaluate the toponomastic (place-name) evidence pertaining to the monuments' presences, and remembered former presences, in today's landscape. Focusing on naming practices as memory work in the contemporary landscape, the article explores the names of houses, streets, parks, schools and businesses. It argues for the place-making role of toponomastic evidence, mediated in particular by the materiality of signs themselves. Material and textual citations to the monuments render them integral to local communities' social memories and borderland identities, even where the dykes have been erased, damaged or obscured by development. Moreover, they have considerable potential future significance for engaging borderland communities in both dykes as part of the longer-term story of their historic environment.
Public Archaeologies from the Edge
Williams, Howard; Clarke, Pauline; Gleave, Kieran; University of Chester; University of Salford (Archaeopress, 2020-11-26)
The chapter serves to introduce the first-ever book dedicated to public archaeologies of frontiers and borderlands. We identify the hitherto neglect of this critical field which seeks to explore the heritage, public engagements, popular cultures and politics of frontiers and borderlands past and present. We review the 2019 conference organised by Uiversity of Chester Archaeology students at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, which inspired this book, and then survey the structure and contents of the collection. We advocate that public archaeologies should seek to incorporate and foreground perspectives 'from the edge'. By this we mean public archaeology should make frontiers and borderlands – including the people living with them and seeking to traverse them – paramount to future work.
A "WomEsanist" Theory: Autoethnography of Triads of Familial Generations of Nigerian Esan Women's Perceptions of Body Size and Image
Rees, Emma; Ugege, Elsie O. (University of Chester, 2021-06)
I consider the under-theorised genre of less powerful cultures, like my Esan culture, as a site for the subversion of dominant discourses. Espousing a novel feminist theoretical framework – "WomEsanism", in combination with autoethnographic research methodology, I aim to advance the understanding of Nigerian Esan women's constructions of ideal body size and image while reflecting on my own status as an Esan woman. My research trajectory was constantly characterised by self-interrogation and self-analysis, while relating my personal experience to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings articulated by other Esan women participants of my study. I recruited 16 sets of triads of familial generations of Esan women from all five local government areas of Esanland. A triadic family set comprised of daughter, mother, and grandmother. The total number of individual participants were 48. I used the snowballing sampling technique to locate families that met my inclusion criteria. I collected data from myself through introspection and from my participants via one-to-one in-depth interview using semi-structured questions, and real-life observations. Then, I conducted a thematic analysis on all data types I collected. "Being beyond body in bodies" emerged as my overarching interpretation of my findings. Two complementary but inter-related themes supported the articulation of this interpretation and are: "being beyond body" and "being in bodies". "Being beyond body" was expressed through three analytical sub-themes namely, "abilities"; "circumstance"; and "essence". Esan women's abilities in terms of body responsiveness, connectedness to body, and comfort in body, influence their innate image that transcends corporeal representations. In addition, they expressed their innate beliefs of how life circumstances, like nature events and socio-economic events, rationalise their views of being beyond body. Still, they derived an innate essence from both spirituality, mostly demonstrated through religion; and being human. "Being in bodies" echoed the body as a social phenomenon described as "slim", "average" and "fat" by my participants. These are socially-fluid categorisations of body size. Furthermore, four analytical sub-themes created contexts for understanding these body sizes and are: "nourishment and youthfulness"; "health and wellbeing"; "attractiveness"; and "respect and personality". Together, these cultural perceptions of body size and image by my participants are embedded in the intersections of the multiple social spaces which they occupy. I conclude that my study is beneficial to the academic discipline of Public Health for understanding the connections between socio-political locations, resultant cultures, and body image. This research was also an opportunity for me to gain skills relevant for my learning how to learn about the diverse world via discourses of gender constructs; culture and bodies; politics of knowledge; sociology of health; and the autoethnographic research methodology as a critical social research approach.
Interpreting Wat's Dyke in the 21st Century
Williams, Howard; University of Chester (Archaeopress, 2020-11-26)
Linear monuments offer special challenges in the context of the public archaeology of frontiers and borderlands. This chapter tackles the interpretive neglect of Britain's second-longest early medieval earthwork, Wat's Dyke, showing how its sparse and sporadic archaeological attention is reflected in poor and out-dated public archaeology and heritage interpretation. I evaluate the current media and mechanisms by which various publics – including global digital audiences, visitors to the Anglo-Welsh borderlands through which the monument runs, and local communities living in the Dyke's environs in Flintshire, Wrexham and Shropshire – can access, experience and learn about Wat's Dyke. Having identified how Wat's Dyke is fragmented and obscure in the landscape despite its monumental presence, and how its digital resources are inadequate, I then propose new avenues for developing innovative interpretations of Wat's Dyke for both existing and new audiences which aim to provide up-to-date and engaging resources and connect the monument to the rich cultural landscapes, past and present, through which it runs. I argue these recommendations provide the basis for both enhancing awareness and knowledge. I also argue they provide a more robust resources for current and future generations of research and public engagement. I also suggest they serve to combat the risk of pseudo-archaeological narratives and extremist political appropriations of Wat's Dyke.
Envisioning Wat's Dyke
Williams, Howard; Swogger, John G.; University of Chester (Archaeopress, 2020-11-26)
In response to the challenge set by one of us (Williams this volume), this chapter explores new avenues for a public archaeology of Wat's Dyke. A host of digital and real-world initiatives for public and community engagement are suggested, but the focus is upon one new initiative: the What's Wat's Dyke? Heritage Trail which aims to envision Wat's Dyke within the town and suburbs of Wrexham using a comic medium. From this basis, the potential is explored for using the linearity of Wat's Dyke as a gateway to explore the complex historic and cultural landscapes of the Welsh Marches from prehistory to the present.
The Biography of Borderlands: Old Oswestry Hillfort and Modern Heritage Debates
Williams, Howard; McMillian-Sloan, Ruby; University of Chester (Archaeopress, 2020-11-26)
Responding to the recently published edited collection exploring the hillfort and landscape context of Old Oswestry (Shropshire, England) by heritage professionals connected to the Hands off Old Oswestry Hillfort heritage protection campaign (Malim and Nash 2020), this chapter reviews and reflects on the significance of the overall 'life-history' or 'biography' of Old Oswestry hillfort and its immediate environs to the present-day emotive and mnemonic significance of the monument. It argues that this biographical dimension fosters the hillfort as a locus of borderland identity, which explains the affinities of local inhabitants to Old Oswestry and frames the ongoing debates and conflicts regarding its significance and setting. Giving greater attention to researching and communicating this biography promises to inform and foster future public engagement and community action.
Undead Divides: An Archaeology of Walls in The Walking Dead
In 2010, the zombie horror genre gained even greater popularity than the huge following it had previously enjoyed when AMC's The Walking Dead (TWD) first aired. The chapter surveys the archaeology of this fictional post-apocalyptic material world in the show's seasons 1–9, focusing on its mural practices and environments which draw upon ancient, biblical, medieval and colonial motifs. The study identifies the moralities and socialities of wall-building, dividing not only survivors aspiring to re-found civilization from the wilderness and manifesting the distinctive identities of each mural community, but also distinguishing the living from the undead. The roles of the dead and the undead in mural iterations are also explored. As such, dimensions of past and present wall-building practices are reflected and inverted in this fictional world. As part of a broader 'archaeology of The Walking Dead', the chapter identifies the potentials of exploring the show's physical barriers within the context of the public archaeology of frontiers and borderlands.
Editorial and Contents of Flash Fiction Magazine (11.2)
Blair, Peter; Chantler, Ashley; University of Chester (University of Chester, 2021-10-01)
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Postliberal positions in public theology
Fulford, Ben; University of Chester (Bloomsbury, 2022-06-30)
In this chapter, I seek to show that, contrary to widespread caricatures as fideists eschewing publicly intelligible critical scrutiny, or sectarians advocating Christian disengagement from the public realm, postliberal theologians have a deep commitment to publicness in both these senses, which arises from their commitment to the irreducible particularity of Christian beliefs, practices and the stories which norm them. It is, I argue first, because of this commitment to Christian particularity and the orientation to the public it entails, that they are critical of attempts to establish the public status of Christian belief and practice on a putatively universalist foundation or general theory of human existence or religion. They pursue this critique in order to preserve the public character of Christian faith. Second, to different degrees, they seek to mobilise what they take to be core resources of Christian tradition, not least its central scriptural narratives, in order to frame, orient and exemplify constructive Christian engagement with public issues and events. Third, they have sought to find ways to articulate the modes and terms of critical public accountability for Christian beliefs and practices without lapsing back into the very modes of theological and ethical argument against which they protest. These tend to liken the public intelligibility of Christian meanings to those of the culture of a community, to combine realist, coherentist and pragmatic understandings to describe what it means to call Christianity 'true', which admit of a range of public ways of assessing Christian discourse without subordinating it to a distorting set of criteria.


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Unification ministry calls on N. Korea to restore inter-Korean communication channels
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SEOUL, June 15 (Yonhap) -- The unification ministry urged North Korea on Tuesday to restore inter-Korean communication lines immediately as this week marks one year since the cross-border communication lines were suspended.
On June 16 last year, the North vowed to cut off all communication lines with the South and even blew up an inter-Korean liaison office in its border city of Kaesong in anger over anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets coming in from the South.
"The inter-Korean communication channel must be immediately restored without any conditions... we urge North Korea to restore the inter-Korean communication lines," the ministry official said.
"The inter-Korean communication channel is the most fundamental means of communication, and the two Koreas have agreed to maintain such a channel several times," she added.
Relations between the two Koreas have remained chilly, with the North not responding to offers for talks and cross-border cooperation since a no-deal summit between Pyongyang and Washington in February 2019.
This file photo, taken from the South Korean border city of Paju on Sept. 8, 2020, shows the South Korea-built support center for the Kaesong Industrial Complex in the North Korean border town of Kaesong, which was severely damaged by the indirect impact of the North's destruction of the inter-Korean liaison office adjacent to the center in June of that year. North Korea marked the 72nd anniversary of the North Korean government's establishment the next day. (Yonhap)
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Our supply chain is a container of ideas and proposals, communication, research and discoveries. It brings together different sectors and skills, stemming from the desire to combine different energies and the best resources for the culture of Italian excellence in the world of cereals, flour and associated finished products. The culture and the concept of 'Italian Made' is undoubtedly the common denominator that embraces all of the various food-processing and industrial businesses involved.
Our supply chain takes care of managing raw materials from the earliest stages of knowledge of the cereal, of the crops, of processing the product with advanced technology and experience, up to the transformation of the final product into products such as pasta, bread and bakery products in general.
Our supply chain shows you, as customers, every stage of the process, cultivation and processing of raw materials, to give you the feeling of being profound connoisseurs and representatives of products you will offer with all its distinctive features.
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The collaboration between the various companies of the supply chain lead to the creation of a full training service within a research center, characterized by a large and futuristic auditorium, a mill, fields conceived as open spaces for precision agriculture and a campus serving for accommodation purposes. The center therefore provides for training from any point of view: from knowledge of seeds to the production and marketing of finished products.
S.I.S., founded in 1947 with the aim of multiplying and spreading the cereal varieties set up by the Institute of Plant Breeding of Bologna and by private individuals, is the leading company in the wheat seed sector and it is the oldest reality left in totally Italian hands. S.I.S. played an important role in the growth of productivity and quality of the domestic cereal farming. In 2017 Bonifiche Ferraresi S.p.A. has signed an agreement for the acquisition of a shareholding in S.I.S., an important operation for the control strategy of the agri-food supply chain.
BONIFICHE FERRARESI, established in 1871, is the largest Italian agricultural company by land surface, operative in the cultivation and marketing of agri-food products. The BF Group - of which Bonifiche Ferraresi is a part - currently has assets of approximately 9,500 hectares and includes 17 companies - including subsidiaries and affiliated companies. The BF Group is the first and only Italian agro-industrial group listed on the stock exchange. In 2015 OCRIM entered the share capital of BF SpA, an operation considered synergistic for the development of the cereal supply chain as the BF Group represents a reference production platform for the entire sector.
OCRIM, founded 1945, is one of the most important players in the milling sector worldwide and is specialised in the design and construction of mills for grinding wheat, corn, cereals in general and feed mills. Ocrim, thanks to its Italian Made brand, proves and documents the production and logistics process, which is carried out entirely in Italy at the company's workshops in Cremona, based on the pursuit of quality and design, which are the true and often unwritten laws of Italian culture. To confirm this business orientation and to integrate its service, in 2017 Ocrim took over FBC, an historical Italian company specialised in the design and construction of handling systems such as palletisation, wrapping or capping of the full pallet.
PAGLIERANI has been operating since 1926 as a leading company in the design, construction of machines and complete lines for weighing, packaging and bagging purposes. Paglierani is the partner that offers complete solutions and services for a variety of sectors: milling, animal feed, cement, chemical and petrochemical, sugar, dairy, cereal and many other industries.
The company designs and builds single machines and complete lines to give the customer the convenience of working with a single supplier. In 2008 Paglierani and Ocrim have signed an important corporate partnership and together they are the global players in the supply of "turnkey formula" milling plants.
MILLING HUB is a limited company whose purpose is to create and manage milling plants at the Ocrim site in via Riglio, Cremona. Milling Hub stands as a local hub for a better defense of the territory, ensuring the traceability of Italian raw materials from the field to the finished product through the control of the agri-food chain.
The project, put in place by Ocrim, consists in the construction of milling plants of which the single customer will have an exclusive use, with the double advantage of having a customized plant and the absence of management costs. Bonifiche Ferraresi, which committed to the project in its values, became the second shareholder.
LE STAGIONI D'ITALIA is the flagship parent brand of the BF Group, which landed on the shelves of large-scale distribution in 2018. To date, the brand's product portfolio consists of eight categories typical of the Italian tradition: pasta, rice, herbal teas, legumes and cereals, honey, extra virgin olive oil, tomato purée and pulp and shortly fresh eggs. All products are 100% Italian raw material. The keywords to best describe Le Stagioni d'Italia products are: Italian spirit, biodiversity, short and integrated supply chain, sustainability and traceability.
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