Knock Lindsay Lohan and her fake British accent all you want—we loved the remake almost as much as the original. Eleven-year-old LiLo had all the charm and maturity of Hayley Mills. Who knew that was as far as she was every going to mature? Don't pretend that you didn't try to learn their super-cool handshake.
Though it didn't create quite the franchise of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer certainly provides the same quality terror perfect for those summer sleepovers.
A classic documentary about surfers in search for the perfect wave, The Endless Summer transports viewers around the world to some of the most beautiful oceans and sunny, sandy beaches.
The summer romance between Baby and Johnny Castle is a favorite among many. We could save you from the multitude of cliched quotes Dirty Dancing delivers, but where's the fun in that? Instead we'll end with this—when you watch this movie, you'll have the time of your life.
Spike Lee's masterpiece, taking place in scorching Brooklyn in the summer, has been considered one of the best movies of all time, and certainly one of the most controversial, with poignant depictions of race relations. Do yourself a favor, and rent Do the Right Thing for the next heat wave.
Hollywood loves nostalgic movies, and George Lucas' film takes place in the 1950s on the last day of summer, following a group of teenagers in their adventures before they leave for college. With heavyweights such as Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Mackenzie Phillips and Harrison Ford, this is a must-see for any teenager heading off to college.
The Stand By Me for girls, Now and Then brings together four women who were childhood friends. Demi Moore narrates the film, as they reminisce about the summer of 1970—a summer of discovery that changed their lives.


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Book Trade – Christian Resources Together 2011; Full Workshop Text
June 15, 2011 eddieolliffe	4 comments
ALBATROSS, DODO OR JEWEL
'Is there still a place for Christian bookshops to sparkle on the High Street'?
Last year I was asked to give a lecture on Christian Retailing to the Librarians' Christian Fellowship and Steve Briars invited me to deliver similar material at this year's CRT. I am delighted to do so – although the two audiences are quite different! Since that lecture in April 2010, things have moved on a pace and we are learning to live with constant challenges and change. However, there is no lack of evidence that we are involved in changing people's lives on a daily basis.
I aim to address four incontrovertible facts facing all Christian retailers;
The UK is increasingly secularised and less open to Christian forms of spirituality
Formats, methods and channels – but not the content – are changing almost on a daily basis
Consumers, and particularly younger people, are not buying as many physical books as before
The Christian industry – Booksellers and Publishers – is undergoing a serious and prolonged period of retrenchment and rationalisation
I have invited three practising retailers –
Andrew Lacey, Manager of GLO Bookshop, Motherwell, Scotland
Melanie Carroll, Owner of Unicorn Tree Books and Crafts, Lincoln
Steve Mitchell, Retail Director of Wesley Owen
each representing different facets of our trade – to address this question;
'How can our trade best communicate the Good News in an increasingly post 'bricks and mortar' era and to a progressively digital generation?
Which of these three images describe and/or sum up today's Christian book trade;
Albatross; large seabird, majestic in flight or as in Coleridge, a 'burden or encumbrance'
Dodo; flightless bird known only in history; extinct, long gone, utterly dead and finished
Jewel; beautiful to look at, highly valued. precious to its owner, 'the jewel in the crown'
A brief trade overview
The very first UK Christian Bookshop opened in Derby in 1810 – Just over 200 years ago!
The Derby and Derbyshire Auxiliary of the Religious Tract Society opened this shop in the Cock Pit area of Derby. It then moved to The Strand around 1900 (where it was renamed The Bible and Book Shop) and on to Irongate before finishing up in its present location in Queens Street. Subsequent owners have included; Scripture Union, STL/Wesley Owen and now it is owned and operated by Koorong of Australia.
Just to add ecumenical balance, the next Christian bookshop was opened in Bristol in 1813 by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. SPCK as a society had been established much earlier in 1698 by Dr Thomas Bray, a clergyman. SPCK went on to open their second shop in London in 1836.
Many commentators would argue that to be a truly national retail chain, you need around 300 to 600 outlets to be represented in the main towns and cities. No Christian operator has ever come close although at one point in the 1990's there were probably over 600 Christian Bookshops of some shape or size across the UK, but most operated independently.
Those numbers have dwindled and are dwindling still. There is some evidence of new players entering the market year-on-year but, in my view, numbers of Christian bookshops are consistently down. I would estimate there are around 220 bookshops in the Christian niche capable of carrying out a viable trade.
Due to its unique history, Northern Ireland remains the strongest market for Christian product when compared to its population size; this region continues to sell more Christian books per head than anywhere else in the UK. Scottish shops are mostly sited in the major central belt conurbations and there are virtually no Christian bookshops in Wales outside of the Cardiff area.
The 'Missional' nature of Christian bookselling
For the past 30 years I've had the privilege of being engaged in the vocation of Christian literature distribution in its various forms. I have been involved as a bookseller, an author, a distributor and a publisher. I retain a fundamental belief in the importance of maintaining a Christian witness on the High Streets of our country. I therefore cannot but help feel that the loss of any Christian shops on the High Street is detrimental and I, for one, mourn the demise of those that have closed.
Controversially, I have long pondered whether the historical separation of Christian bookshops into a specific subset of the wider book trade will turn out in the longer term to have been a mistake? Would it have been better for our specialist outlets simply to have remained part of the wider general bookselling community as it is elsewhere in the world? To outsiders, our bookshop names must inevitably seem a little twee and out-of-touch. Does such a separation help or hinder our aspirations for engaging in Christian witness?
A quick look at the wider social environment
The UK is a largely secularised, post-Christian society with a significant multi-cultural population. There is clear anti-Christian bias throughout the media and in politics and militant atheism is on the increase. Christian TV & Radio has very low penetration, making product mass marketing difficult.
Regular church attendance is in decline in most of the traditional denominations. However, there are bright spots; the Black majority and Hillsong churches are growing. Cathedral attendance is increasing and the Emerging Church movement gaining ground.
There is a general decline in book readership in society; not just amongst Christians. Competing media and digital attractions vie for our time and the lack of time affects all of us however much we enjoy buying and reading books.
Some thoughts about channels and digitalisation
The way books are being bought is changing rapidly. An experienced international bookseller said to me only last week that, in over 30 years, he had not known a time of such momentous change as there has been in the past two years. Someone else has described the current upheaval as 'a perfect storm'.
There are enormous structural and societal changes taking place. These have been described as being as immense as the transition from parchment to the printing press. Most are outside of our control and are being imposed on us from outside of the trade. It therefore should go without saying that it is foolish to fall out amongst ourselves over changes which are so outside of our control and which are affecting the whole of retail.
Woolworths, the 45 Borders UK stores and the Irish Bookseller, Hughes & Hughes have all left the UK High Street in the past couple of years. Since Christmas this year, WH Smith bought 22 British Bookshops and Stationers stores, Borders USA entered Chapter 11 – and is effectively bankrupt – and the REDgroup in Australia went bust leaving big UK publisher debts. HMV put their Waterstones chain up for sale selling it for a knock-down £53m in the last few weeks to a Russian tycoon.
Supermarkets now sell one in every five books purchased and UK Libraries are under massive pressure due to imminent Government spending cuts.
The issue here is primarily about the explosion of differing routes to market. Print no longer dominates in terms of the delivery of ideas. Content will continue to remain key.
There are parallels with the development of digital television. More channels = fewer viewers. In our field, more 'books' (however those are defined; print or digital) equals a dispersed customer base which is no longer dependent on the traditional bookseller.
Due to digital delivery channels, it is easier to self-publish now than at any other time. Blogs and social networks proliferate but some would argue that this only leads to the problem of quantity at the expense of quality.
Territorial Rights are clearly a problem in the context of a global marketplace. Old-style publishing rights are not always recognised in the internet environment as single copy orders are taken and shipped – often across national boundaries – on a daily basis.
Paradoxically, more printed books are being published year-on-year in the UK. Book production figures in the USA rose 5% last year despite a huge increase in eBook sales.
Impact of the Internet esp. Amazon, downloads and ePublishing
Online sales make up 17% of all UK retail spending – and growing.
Digital downloading is beginning to affect the sale of print items, especially newspapers.
Book purchasing via the internet is no longer an exception, it is the norm. Amazon recorded their first £10bn sales quarter in early 2011.
Several eBook Readers are competing for attention and rapidly gaining traction in the market; Sony's eReader (Waterstones), the iPad (Apple Stores) and Kindle (Amazon).
There has been an inexorable rise in the sale of eBooks with PA figures showing that eBooks grew to 6% (£180m) of £3.1bn UK book market. This may grow to 10% in 2011.
Amazon are selling more eBooks than paperbacks; 105 on Kindle to every 100 in print. Four authors have already sold over 1 million eBooks each. Amazon lists 945,000 Kindle generated eBooks. Analysts expect 2011 sales to be $5.4bn in Kindle generated eBooks.
However, despite these figures, over 90% of sales continue to take place via print. Black and white text books are struggling but print Bibles and Children's books remain strong sales lines.
Where might all this change be heading? What is the future for our trade?
Retailing is hard graft for many categories. Shopping habits are changing fast and there is much less time available for those trips to the High Street. When time is found, then competition for time and money is increasingly fierce. Supermarkets dominate.
BBPA figures earlier this year show that the quintessential English Public House is closing down at the rate of 30 per week.
One in seven retail outlets in the UK were surveyed as being empty in September 2010. UK shop leases are the Achilles heel for all retailers. Most are expensive, with 'upward only' increases and, if not carefully drawn up, extremely inflexible. Many businesses struggle with high establishment costs and Business Rates for non-charity shops are high.
Christian bookshops are obviously not immune – and many are having a torrid time. There have been some major shake-ups in the past couple of years, with a lot of shops going and, thankfully, a few coming. The SPCK meltdown in 2008 and the IBS-STL debacle at the end of 2009 has badly destabilised Christian retail in this country.
Demographics also conspire against these specialist shops. Church attendance in the traditional denominations is largely declining and newer Churches with their younger audiences, such as Hillsong, are self-contained in terms of their resource requirements.
The challenge we face today is to ask, what should the Christian bookshop of the 21st century look like? Will it, as an entity, soon cease to exist, lost as an irrelevance in our increasingly secular world or can it be reinvented in an increasingly post 'bricks and mortar' era and for a progressively digital society?
Although I sincerely wish CLC, Faith Mission and Koorong well in their endeavours, I am no longer convinced of the chain model when it comes to running Christian bookshops. For a variety of reasons, so many major book chains have simply failed over the years. It would appear that, in many cases, their high central costs have acted as the drag on the business and this, in a crisis, hinders rather than helps. Once I would have argued strongly for the efficiencies of scale and the need for central buying that the chain model provides. Now I am no longer so sure.
In my view, there is still a lot to be said for a very good independent shop operating solely at the local level. Perhaps we've just gone full circle?
In my view, internet retailers can win every time on the basis of price, range and convenience. If 'Bricks and Mortar' booksellers are to succeed in the future, they have to provide that illusive and intangible 'sense of experience' to their customers.
Nick Page has written elsewhere that 'average' is no longer good enough. For a future, these bookshops have to be 'really good' and run by people who love books and love selling books. They have to be 'exciting, memorable, fascinating', places where events are held and reading encouraged. In short, such a bookshop must have 'personality'!
A final meditation from 2 Corinthians (NIV);
2:17 'Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, like men sent from God'.
4:1 'Therefore, since through God's mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God'.
Categories: Book trade Tags: Book Trade, Bookselling, Christian bookshops, Christian Resources Together 2011, Christian retailing, ebooks, Highleigh, Kindle, Librarians Christian Fellowhip, New technologies, online bookselling, UK Retailing
Book Trade History; '200 years of Christian Bookselling' – Part 4
April 29, 2010 eddieolliffe	3 comments
My title for this talk at the LCF Annual Conference was; UK Christian Retailing; Albatross, Dodo or Jewel? I chose the title because each one of these three images could be used to describe or sum up the Christian retail trade depending on your point of view;
Albatross; a large seabird, majestic in flight or as in Coleridge, a 'burden or encumbrance'
Dodo; a flightless bird known only in history; extinct, long gone, utterly dead and finished
I believe I had a definite calling to what for me is the vocation of Christian literature. For the past 30 years I have engaged in this activity in various forms; as a bookseller, a writer, a distributor and a publisher. I retain a fundamental belief in the importance of maintaining a Christian witness on the High Streets of our country. I therefore cannot but help feel that the loss of any Christian shops on the High Street is a bad thing and I, for one, mourn the recent demise of those that have failed particularly so many of the SPCK shops. This has thrown up fundamental questions as to how the collapse of quite so many shops was allowed to happen in the way that it so tragically did.
My 1992 title is still available on Amazon for 1p +P&P!!
Controversially, I have long pondered whether the separation of Christian bookshops into a specific subset of the wider book trade will turn out in the longer term to have been a mistake? Would it have been better for these specialist outlets simply to have remained part of the wider general bookselling community as it is elsewhere in the world, particularly the USA? To outsiders, our bookshop names must inevitably seem a little twee and out-of-touch. Does such a separation help or hinder our aspirations for engaging in Christian witness? I still don't really know the answer to that one.
Many commentators would argue that to be a truly national retail chain, you need at least 600 outlets to be represented in the main towns and cities. No Christian operator has ever come close although at one point in the 1990's there were probably over 600 Christian Bookshops of some shape or size across the UK, but operating independently. Those numbers have dwindled and are dwindling still. There is some evidence of new players entering the market year-on-year but, on the whole, numbers of Christian bookshops are consistently down.
Most Christian publishers work today on the basis that there are around 150 – 200 bookshops in the Christian niche capable of carrying out a viable trade. Interestingly, official figures from the BA suggest this is much higher with the membership of the Christian Group of the Booksellers Association holding steady at around at 400 outlets;
Year Group No.
Aug-05 Christian 408
Sep-09 Christian 400
Due to its unique history, Northern Ireland remains the strongest market for Christian product when compared to its population size; this region continues to sell more Christian books per head than anywhere else in the UK. In the other regions, Scottish shops are now mostly sited in the Central belt and conurbations and there are virtually no Christian bookshops in Wales outside of the Cardiff area.
In my view, internet retailers will win every time on the basis of price, range and convenience. If 'Bricks and Mortar' booksellers are to succeed in the future, they will have to provide that illusive and intangible 'sense of experience' to their customers. In some respects, that's all bookshops have to offer but maybe, done well, that's all they need? The challenge we face today is to ask and answer the question, 'what should the Christian bookshop of the 21st century look like'? Is it, as the always-incisive Phil Groom has suggested, best seen as a 'sacred space' or will it, as a commercial entity, cease to exist at all, lost as an irrelevance in an increasingly secular world?
As Phil Groom has pointed out elsewhere, why do we buy expensive coffee in the surroundings of our local Starbucks or Costa Coffee when we could make the same cup of coffee at home far, far cheaper? The answer of course is that we are buying into the 'experience' and the 'sense of community'. Therein may lie the solution to the question-mark hanging over the local Christian bookshop.
This new 'old' model using innovative and collaborative local community initiatives is most definitely returning. Yes, of course you can buy books cheaper elsewhere but if the experience is delivered well, then people will continue to shop with you particularly if you are an integral part of their local community and if, more importantly, their experience of your retail offering is consistently good.
Nick Page in a blog last year is of the view that 'average' is no longer good enough. If there is to be a future, then the bookshops have to be 'really good' and run by people who love books and love selling books. They have to be 'exciting, memorable, fascinating' where events are held and reading encouraged. In short, to be successful, this bookshop has to have 'personality'!
For me, one striking fact is the high level of quality debate amongst bookshop practitioners today which in itself should encourage us that a new kind of future could emerge. Thanks for sticking with me throughout this 200-year history! I hope it didn't feel that long and that you picked up some useful thoughts en route. We have a lot to thank those early pioneers in Derby for. I would have loved to have worked in a shop where you answered the phone with 'Good morning, this is The Derby and Derbyshire Auxiliary of the Religious Tract Society, can I help you'!
Let's celebrate those 200 years of Christian bookselling in this country. The Christian message of love and hope through Jesus Christ, delivered via whatever format you might choose, still has the power to change lives and circumstances. May God bless you.
This brief history of the 'Christian book trade in the UK' is extracted from a lecture given by the author to the Librarians' Christian Fellowship (LCF) Annual Conference in London on Saturday 24 April 2010. For further information see www.librarianscf.org.uk.
Categories: Book trade Tags: Book Trade History, Booksellers Association, Bookselling, Christian bookshops, Christianity, Internet bookselling, LCF conference, Librarians Christian Fellowhip, Phil Groom
The growth of the two largest Christian bookselling chains was not to last. Sadly, SPCK Bookshops failed in 2008, having been taken over by the USA based entity St Stephen the Great (SSG) in 2006. That acquisition was mired in controversy almost from day one and the takeover foundered due to the single issue of mismanagement. The assets of SSG today remain under the interim management of the Charity Commission.
Melanie Carroll (ex. SPCK Bookseller) confirmed;
"SPCK Bookshops reached their peak in 2000 when there were 33 shops. In 2001, SPCK Brighton closed down so it was 32 but later that year SPCK Online opened. From 2002 onwards there was a slow decline and by the beginning of 2007 only 23 plus SPCK Online remained, and it was these 23 outlets which were acquired by SSG.
The shops that have opened / re-opened (since the failure) are not all on the same site as before but were opened either by SPCK team members or by supporters/space owners of the old shops. As far as I know, these (eight shops) are; Lincoln, Leicester, Cardiff, Chichester, Norwich, Truro, Hereford and Birmingham".
Wesley Owen failed as a result of the parent company IBS-STL running into serious financial difficulty brought about by a failed IT system installation and the effects of the worldwide recession. The Wesley Owen chain of 41 shops went into administration in December 2009 and was disposed of in various lots in January 2010.
The fallout on the High Street from this undoubted disaster continues.
CLC in the UK has stepped in and acquired six of the Wesley Owen shops, Koorong (a respected Australian Christian retailer, founded in 1978, with 18 stores and 60% of its home market) took over the eight largest (and most profitable) shops and Living Oasis (part of the Nationwide Christian Trust) have so far reopened 17 shops. Some shops will inevitably remain closed.
In my view, Koorong has the potential to be the ultimate winner. They have the management capability and financial capacity to truly shake up the current UK marketplace. They are most definitely the 'ones to watch'. Koorong have a reputation of not taking any prisoners! The out-turn for Christian bookselling over the next few years is likely to be very interesting indeed as a result of the entry of Koorong into the UK.
However, although I sincerely wish CLC and Koorong well in their endeavours, I am no longer convinced of the chain model when it comes to running Christian bookshops. For a variety of reasons, so many major book chains have simply failed over the years. It would appear that, in many cases, their high central costs have acted as the drag on the business and this, in a crisis, then hinders rather than helps the business.
In a centralised operation, flexibility can be very limited, hampering the ability to react quickly to any change in market conditions. It's one thing to read the winds of change; it's quite another to alter course in time to bring about the required changes. Once I would have argued strongly for the efficiencies of scale and the need for the central buying of stock that the chain model provides. Now I am no longer so sure.
There is still a lot to be said for a very good independent shop operating solely at the local level. Perhaps we've just gone full circle? Regardless of the unique external pressures in retailing, I remain convinced of the need for good quality bookshops sited in the local community. I find myself agreeing with Nick Page in his recent blog of the need for 'really good' local bookshops with knowledgeable staff who in turn are passionate about selling books.
I am equally convinced that people still want a 'shopping experience'. In turn, to survive, bookshops have no option but to provide the very best of experience; to stand out from the rest of the retail crowd and to remain totally focused on the customer.
I'll let Melanie Carroll, an experienced bookseller from Lincoln and, in my view, one of the most original and inspirational trade bloggers, have this final word; 'Think Local, Buy Local, Be Local – Don't let our local businesses become a thing of the past'!
The final part will follow shortly.
Categories: Book trade Tags: Book Trade History, Bookselling, Christian bookshops, Christianity, CLC Bookshops, IBS STL, Koorong, LCF conference, Librarians Christian Fellowhip, Living Oasis, Melanie Carroll, Nick Page, SPCK Bookshops, St Stephen the Great, Wesley Owen
April 27, 2010 eddieolliffe	Leave a comment
In the early part of the 20th century, there was a long roll-call of bookshop openings; B McCall Barbour (Edinburgh 1900), Mowbrays (London 1903), The Salvation Army (London 1911), The Church of Scotland (Edinburgh 1918, Glasgow 1922), Scripture Union (Wigmore Street, London 1925), The Evangelical Bookshop in Belfast (1926) along with the London based Quaker Bookshop in the same year.
In the 1930's, Challenge Literature Fellowship commenced trading (Guildford 1930). SPCK grew very strongly in this period with branches springing up all over the country. The Church of Scotland opened their third shop in Aberdeen in 1939 just as the Second World War started.
The most significant event of the 1940's was the establishment of the Christian Literature Crusade with their first shop opening in London in 1941. They are now in the enviable position of being the foremost UK Christian bookselling chain following the recent demise of SPCK and Wesley Owen (IBS-STL). The Methodist Book Centre in Stoke on Trent opened just as the war ended in 1945.
The Roman Catholic chain, St Paul's Multimedia (now Pauline Books and Media) started in 1955. Then in 1957, St Andrews Bookshops opened their doors in Great Missenden and in 1963, George Verwer of OM opened in Bolton. Both these shops went on to have a hugely influential effect on the UK Christian bookselling scene birthing in the case of OM, the Send the Light operation with its second shop opening in Bromley in 1966.
There was a major spate of Christian Bookshop openings in the period 1976 – 1996 with the bulk of this activity taking place in the mid-1980's. Often, these shops had names like 'Good News' or 'Oasis' or simply 'The Christian Bookshop' and several of these owner-managers are now reaching retirement, resulting in probable bookshop closures.
In the 1990's, activity in the trade became something of a two-horse race between the STL owned, Wesley Owen chain and the SPCK. Often, this was simply a difference of theology and stock-holding ethos. Independent booksellers looked on bemused and not a little alarmed! Both chains expanded rapidly in this period, in many cases by taking over other independent booksellers. In 1993, Wesley Owen acquired the 22 Scripture Union Bookshops and the 8 Church of Scotland Bookshops, followed soon after by the English based bookshops of ECL in the West Country, Crown Books around the Hemel Hempstead area and the Challenge Christian Fellowship predominately on the south coast.
Coming right up to date, there remain signs of life in this niche with Strongbraid Ltd, trading as Quench Christian Bookshops, taking over several St Andrews Bookshops sites in Southern England. However, the rising star of our industry is internet retailer, www.eden.co.uk (founded in 2004) which is giving even Amazon a run for its money!
Parts 3 and 4 will follow shortly.
Categories: Book trade Tags: Book Trade History, Bookselling, Challenge Literature Fellowship, Christian bookshops, Christianity, Church of Scotland Bookshops, CLC Bookshops, ECL, Eden.co.uk, George Verwer, LCF conference, Librarians Christian Fellowhip, OM, Scripture Union Bookshops, Send the Light, SPCK, St Andrews Bookshops, STL Bookshops, Wesley Owen
Book Trade History; 'Celebrating 200 years of Christian Bookselling' – Part 1
April 25, 2010 eddieolliffe	11 comments
It would appear that the very first UK Christian Bookshop opened in Derby in 1810 – exactly 200 years ago! The Derby and Derbyshire Auxiliary of the Religious Tract Society opened this shop in the Cock Pit area of Derby. It then moved to The Strand around 1900 (where it was renamed The Bible and Book Shop) and on to Irongate before finishing up in its present location in Queens Street. Subsequent owners have included; Scripture Union, Wesley Owen and now it is owned and operated by Koorong of Australia.
The next Christian bookshop was opened in Bristol in 1813 by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. SPCK as a society had been established much earlier in 1698 by Dr Thomas Bray, a clergyman. SPCK went on to open their second shop in London in 1836.
Quite a number of now well known Christian bookshops opened during the mid to late 19th century including, in 1852, George Muller's ECL Bookshop in Park Street, Bristol. The Wesleyan Reform Union (1849) and the Faith Mission (1889) also started their bookshops during this period as did the Protestant Truth Society (London) and the Catholic Truth Society (Manchester), also in 1889.
Pickering and Inglis opened their Glasgow shop (1893), the first of a number of shops around the country. Nicholas Gray of RL Allan & Son Publishers (Chapter House Ltd), based in Glasgow, emailed me recently with more details of the P&I background;
'The story of P & I is told in a book on the History of the Scottish Brethren by Neil Dixon. P & I started as a Brethren publisher and bookseller in the mid 1890s by preacher Henry (HYP) Pickering and his friend William Inglis who died in 1906, when John Gray (my grandfather) became HYP's partner and Managing Director. The firm expanded by printing in Glasgow and later Cardiff and opening shops in Glasgow, London, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Dublin, Bournemouth (Keith Jones is ex-P&I), Manchester and maybe some others. They were a chain before such were known but tended to operate independently. That was their inherent weakness.
By the 1930s they, along with Marshall Morgan & Scott, were the two leading UK independent publishing businesses, both with strong links to Keswick and their speakers. The bookshops were a good outlet for P & I books and their printing output gave them an advantage over MM&S.
When the new centrally-run, charity-based SU and CLC shops came along, P & I found it difficult to compete and the shops closed one by one. The last to close were Manchester in 1966 and London in 1985. However the large Glasgow shop continued flourish and survived a company merger with competitors MM&S in 1981.
My wife and I bought and refitted the P&I Glasgow shop in 1985 and opened a coffee shop which became a hit immediately. The shop was regularly voted 'Christian Bookshop of the Year' and in 1995 appeared in upmarket Harpers & Queen magazine's A-list of UK bookshops. It had an award-winning Chapter House coffee shop long before Borders latched onto the idea.
The Glasgow shop was bought by STL in 1999 and became Wesley Owen's flagship store for ten years before being bought by Koorong in 2009.
P&I characters include George Gray (no relation) who managed the London shop in Ludgate Hill during the 1950s & 60s. He gave the unpublished manuscript of 'How Great Thou Art' to George Beverly Shea, now regarded as the most popular modern hymn'.
Parts 2 – 4 will follow shortly.
This brief history of the 'Christian book trade in the UK' is extracted from a lecture given to the Librarians' Christian Fellowship (LCF) Annual Conference in London on Saturday 24 April 2010. For further information see www.librarianscf.org.uk.
Categories: Book trade Tags: Book Trade History, Bookselling, Christian bookshops, Christianity, ECL, How great thou art, Koorong, LCF conference, Librarians Christian Fellowhip, Marshall Morgan and Scott, Nicholas Gray, Pickering and Inglis, SPCK, Wesley Owen Derby
Book Trade – LCF Annual Conference 2010, London WC1
April 9, 2010 eddieolliffe	1 comment
The Librarians' Christian Fellowship (LCF) 2010 Conference takes place in London on Saturday 24th April 2010 (from 10.30 – 16.45). The theme is "Of Making Of Books There Is No End".
The morning speaker is actor, author and broadcaster Tony Jasper on "Author Minefield: Publisher Wants, People Wants, Librarian Wants" and, in the afternoon, Eddie Olliffe, who works for the publisher CWR, on "UK Christian Retailing, Albatross, Dodo or Jewel".
The venue is the Chancellors Room, Hughes Parry Hall, 19 – 26, Cartwright Gardens, London WC1H 9EF and attendance is not restricted to Librarians or members of the LCF.
Further details from – secretary@librarianscf.org.uk
Categories: Book trade Tags: Christian bookshops, Christian Publishing, CWR, LCF conference, Librarians Christian Fellowhip, Tony Jasper

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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Carry on the conversation and later on, say that this is your friend from school. Give the friend clues as to who you are.
Later, say a fake and simple name like John or Jason.
Say to meet the friend in the lunch room tomorrow and explain what you will be wearing. This is a great way to end the conversation.
First in a spot where there is a lot of people, start shouting "Oh my god is that who I think it is?!?" and stuff like that. When people say "what?" go on to step 2.
Say "Look it's Feartrip oh my god its Feartrip look everyone it's Feartrip I can't believe this".
Soon people will be saying "Where, where is Feartrip?". Ignore them and carry on telling everyone that Feartrip is around.
Wait a few minutes, then start again claiming it is someone else. You can pretend Elvis is there, or any of the J-Mods. Think of as many famous players as possible.
First, go to a crowded place, where people are likely to have skillcapes, such as the GE. Click follow, and follow the player around until talked to.
Ask the same thing over and over again.
Start spamming and tell the player that he/she is lying as soon as you get an answer.
If the player does not talk, spam with text effects. Saying "Cyan:Wave:@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@" is a fairly good way.
Pretend to be best friends with an easily annoyed person but always ignore what he/she says. When you get bored say "It's over!" and leave.
Not answering them is key!
Publicly announce that you are best friends with the person, like "Me and -his/her username here- are best friends forever!"
If the player doesn't get annoyed, leave.
Go to Al Kharid and go to the duel arena.
Deposit all your expensive items in the bank next to the hospital. Leave items nobody wants like potatoes and lettuce. Also remember to un-wield your armour and weapons and put them in the bank.
This will attract lots of challenges. Choose the highest combat level and duel.
Lose. This will really annoy the challenger because he/she is probably thinking they'll get some sort of rare but all they end up with is a potato!
Alternately, you can stop someone who is trying to practice firemaking.
They will be doing it in long streams, so after the player has made about 3 and you know what direction the fires are going in, make a fire right in his/her path to interrupt him/her. This is not illegal or against the rules and is a good way of stopping bots!


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3. Exact Stop Loss level.
4. Exact Profit Taking level.
Yes, very interesting. No guesswork again, my friend! And no hardwork...wonderful!
Once you have place the order, just sit down and let the System works. And you will notice, that this system will give you very nice results, again and again.
Fibonacci Sapper will analyze and determine the main trend. Then, it will draw and show you the three possible Entry points that have biggest chance to be touched before the price pulls back to the originate trend.
b. the optimum Profit Taking level.
And as I have already said, after the order is taken, just sit down or leave it until one of the SL or TP is done. Simple.
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Yes, Fibonacci Sapper is not an automatic system or an Expert Advisor.
Fibonacci Sapper is a manual trading system with a high accurate result and performance.
Just test it for yourself, and you will be amazed.


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Q: How to get latest version of a column combination on MySQL 8 We have a database with over 7 million entries, and we are struggling to find the best SQL query to obtain the latest entries for each a & b & c combination on each version. For instance:
create table my_table
(
  id                int auto_increment    primary key,
  a                 int                                  not null,
  b                 varchar(64)                          not null,
  c                 varchar(128)                         not null,
  version           varchar(64)                          not null,
  timestamp         datetime                             not null
);

With the following indexes:
/* Composite Index on a,b,c columns */
create index ix_my_table_a_b_c on my_table (a, b, c);
/* Index on version */
create index ix_my_table_version on my_table (version);

If we have the following data:
+----+---+-------+-------+---------+---------------------+
| id | a |   b   |   c   | version |      timestamp      |
+----+---+-------+-------+---------+---------------------+
|  1 | 1 | A84BS | BBK3S |    A    | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 |
|  2 | 1 | A84BS | BBK3S |    A    | 2020-01-01 01:00:00 |
|  3 | 1 | A84BS | BBK3S |    A    | 2020-01-01 02:00:00 |
|  4 | 2 | H8SSS | KKL90 |    A    | 2020-01-01 01:00:00 |
|  5 | 2 | H8SSS | KKL90 |    A    | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 |
|  6 | 3 | JKSIE | OOPW2 |    A    | 2020-01-01 02:00:00 |
|  7 | 4 | KL093 | IURYD |    B    | 2020-01-01 02:00:00 |
+----+---+-------+-------+---------+---------------------+

The returned rows for version A would be all the unique a,b,c combinations with version=A and the higher timestamp:
+----+---+-------+-------+---------+---------------------+
| id | a |   b   |   c   | version |      timestamp      |
+----+---+-------+-------+---------+---------------------+
|  3 | 1 | A84BS | BBK3S |    A    | 2020-01-01 02:00:00 |
|  4 | 2 | H8SSS | KKL90 |    A    | 2020-01-01 01:00:00 |
|  6 | 3 | JKSIE | OOPW2 |    A    | 2020-01-01 02:00:00 |
+----+---+-------+-------+---------+---------------------+

I have tried the following query to obtain these output, but doesn't seems to be so fast:
SELECT first_value(id) OVER(PARTITION BY a, b, c ORDER BY timestamp desc) latest_rows FROM my_table WHERE version='A';

Which would be the best query to obtain this result? Should I change the indexes or the structure of the table to obtain a significant improvement?

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Q: Connected component as children type (TypeScript, ReactJS. React-redux) Have component Translate and Text, And want to define Translate as children for Text, but Translate have connection to the store and there is a problem (I don't understand why).
Translate component
import * as React from 'react'
import {connect} from 'react-redux'
import appState from '../store/types/appState'

type TranslateProps = {
  translations?: string[]
  keyString: string
}

class Translate extends React.Component<TranslateProps, any> {
  public render() {
    return (
      <React.Fragment>
        {this.translateString(this.props.keyString)}
      </React.Fragment>
    )
  }

  private translateString(key: string) {
    return this.props.translations[key] ? this.props.translations[key] : key
  }
}

const mapStateToProps = (state: appState) => ({translations: state.translations})

export default connect(mapStateToProps)(Translate)

Text component
import * as React from 'react'
import Translate from './Translate'

type TextProps = {
  children: React.ReactElement<Translate> | React.ReactElement<Translate>[]
}

class Text extends React.Component<TextProps, any> {
  public render() {
    return (
      <StyledText>
        {this.props.children}
      </StyledText>
    )
  }
}

export default Text

And I have an compile error: TS2304 cannot find name 'Translate'
My tsconfig:
{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "baseUrl": ".",
    "lib": ["es2015", "es2016", "DOM"],
    "outDir": "./dist/",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "target": "es5",
    "sourceMap": true,
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "jsx": "react"
  },
  "typeRoots": [
    "node_modules/@types"
  ],
  "types": [
    "core-js",
    "webpack"
  ],
  "exclude": [
    "node_modules"
  ],
  "compileOnSave": true,
  "allowJs": true
}

Any component which not connected to store doesn't give this exception, any with always gives. Where is a problem?

A: For the original Translate component class, Translate as a value refers to the class itself while Translate as a type refers to the instance type of the class.  In contrast, connect returns the new component class as a value, and the result of connect cannot be used as a type.  The default export obscures things a bit; to make the problem clearer, imagine you wrote:
const Translate2 = connect(mapStateToProps)(Translate);
type TextProps = {
  children: React.ReactElement<Translate2> | React.ReactElement<Translate2[]>;
}

Here Translate2 is only a value, not a type.
If you really wanted the instance type of the connected component, you could use InstanceType<typeof Translate>.  However, the type argument to React.ReactElement is supposed to be the props type of the component (i.e., TranslateProps), not the component instance type.  So it would be more correct to import TranslateProps and use it in place of Translate.  However, there seems to be minimal benefit to declaring the type of the children prop at all (as opposed to relying on the default ReactNode) because:

*

*You are not taking advantage of the type information in the implementation.

*At call sites, all JSX elements are typed as JSX.Element, which extends React.ReactElement<any>, which is assignable to React.ReactElement<T> for any T regardless of the actual component type of the JSX element.  So you are getting checking that children is a JSX element or an array of JSX elements (as opposed to other kinds of ReactNodes such as strings), but you are not getting any checking that the component type is correct.

Thus, the best solution may be to just remove the declaration of children from TextProps.


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FOR 18-YEAR-OLD ISABELLE ANDERSON, THE PANDEM MAYIC ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED FOR WHEN SHE, IN HER WORDS, GOT STUCK IN HER OWN HEAD. A HEAD THAT WAS TELLING HER, SHE MUST GET TN. HAD THERE NOT BEEN A PANDEMIC, BEATING US WHAT HAPPENED? >> ABSOLUTELY NOT. THERE WAS LIKE A PERFECT STORM OF EVENTS THAT CONTRIBUTED TO DEVELOPING THIS EATING DISORDER. DEBORAH: BEFORE THE SPRING OF 2020, ISABELLE HAD BEGUN DIETING AND LOST 40 POUNDS. BUT WHEN THE WORLD SHUT DOWN, SHE DEVELOPED AN ADDICTIONO T EXCERCISE AND OBSESSIVE HABITS OF FEW CONTROL, CUED BY A CULTURE THAT WAS SAYING, IF NOT NOW, WHEN. I WAS VERY RIGID ABOUT WHEN I HAD TO EAT. THAT IS SOMETHING I'M STILL WORKING PAST. DEBORAH: ISABELLE DID NOT WANT TO DIVULGE WHAT HAD BEEN HER DAILY CALORIE INTAKE OR TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS, FOR FEAR OF TRIGGERING ISSUES IN OTHER YOUNG WON.ME HER MOTHER KNEW THERE WAS A PROBLEM WHEN ISABELLE'S PEODRI STOPPED. >> WHEN THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN FOR A YEAR, IT HAS NEGATIVE CONSEQUENTHI TS. THAT REALLY STARTED THINKING THAT WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING FOR HER. DEBORAH: DR. ANGELA GUARDA, WHO RUNS THE EATING DISORDERS OGPRRAM AT JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL, DIAGNOSED ISABELLE WITH ANOREXIA. THE EATING DORISDER THAT INCLUDES OBSESSIS ONABOUT WEIGHT, FOOD AND BODY IMAGE AND CAN LEAD TO EXTREME DAN DA NGEROUSLY UNHEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS >> THE PANDEMIC SEEMS TO HAVE DRASTICALLY AFFECTED THE RISK FOR EATING DISORRSDE MORE SO THAN FOR OTHER PSYCHIATRIC CONDITIONS. DEBORAH: AND, NEARLY TWO YRSEA INTO THE PANDEMIC, DR. GUAARD SAYS CASES HAVE NOT LEVELED OFF, WITH MANY YOUNG PEOPLE STILL SUFFINERG FROM THE EFFECTS OF STRESS, SOCIAL ISOLATION AND THE INITIAL CHANGES IN EATING PATTERNS. IN FACT, PRE-COVID, PATIENTS COULD WAIT UP TO 3 WEEKS FOR AN INPATIENT SPOT IN THE EATING DISORDERS PROGRAM, NOW THE WAIT CAN BEONS. M >> THIS IS A WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON. DEBORAH: IT IS SOMETHING ISABELLE REALIZED WHEN SHE STARTED COLLEGE LAST FALL AT AMHERST IN MASSACHUSS.ET WE SPOKE TO HER FROM HER DORM ROOM >> PEOPLE REALLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW EXPANSIVE THIS CONDITION IS AND HOW MANY PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH IT. DEBORAH: AND MANY PRESENT JUST LIKE HER. >> IT IS IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY EATING DISORDERS ARE NOT VISIBLY UNDERWEIGHT. IN FACT, MANY OF THE MAJORITY ARE GOINTOG BE NORMAL WEIGHT FOR A HIGHER WEIGHT. DEBORAH: ISABELLE SAYS SHE FEELS ABOUT 80% RECOVERED, AND IS NOT LETTING AT LTHITTLE VOICE IN HER HEAD WIN OUT. >> THERERE S AOME DAYS THAT ARE HARDER THAN OTHERS, BUT FORHE T MOST PART I FEEL REALLY GREAT ABOUT WEAR A MASK. -- WHERE I AM AT. DEBORAH: ISABELLE SAW DR. GUARDA ONLY VIRTUALLY WHEN SHE WAS TREATED AS AN OUTPATIE.NT SHE STILL CHECKS IN WITH HER AND WHILE AT SCHOOL, RECEIVES HELP THROUGH HER COLLEGE'S DIETITIAN AND COUNSELING CENTE IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW NEEDS HELP, DR. GUARDA RECOMMENDS CONTACNGTI THE NATIONAL EANGTI DISORDERS ASSOCIATION. THEY HAVE A HELPIN L YOU CAN FIND A LINK ON WBAL-TV.COM, UNDER MARYLAND PEACE OF
For years to come, there will be many conclusions about how the pandemic impacted our mental health. But already, doctors know eating disorders were made worse by the pandemic.A recent journal of the American Medical Association study concluded the pandemic promoted and intensified disordered eating behaviors among some. For Isabelle Anderson, 18, the pandemic may always be remembered for when she, in her words, "Got stuck in her own head." When asked had there not been a pandemic, did she believe this would have happened?"Absolutely not," Anderson said. "I was waking up each morning with nothing to do, essentially, but focus on what I ate and look in the mirror. It was the perfect storm that contributed to me developing this eating disorder."Before the spring of 2020, Anderson had begun dieting and lost 40 pounds, but when the world shut down, she developed an addiction to exercise and obsessive habits of food control. This was cued by a culture that was saying, if not now, when."The meals I were eating were very small in portion and devoid of nutrients at all times. I was very rigid about when I had to eat and that's something I am still working on," Anderson said.Anderson did not want to divulge what had been her daily calorie intake or total weight loss for fear of triggering issues in other young women. Her mother, Melissa Anderson, knew there was a problem when her daughter's period stopped."When that doesn't happen for a year, it has negative consequences. So, that really started us thinking we needed to do something different," Melissa Anderson said.Dr. Angela Guarda, who runs the eating disorders program at Johns Hopkins Hospital, diagnosed Isabelle Anderson with anorexia, an eating disorder that includes obsessions about weight, food and body image and can lead to extreme and dangerously unhealthy weight loss."The pandemic seems to have drastically affected the risk for eating disorders. In fact, more so than other psychiatric conditions," Guarda said.Nearly two years into the pandemic, Guarda said cases have not leveled off, with many young people still suffering from the effects of stress, social isolation and the initial changes in eating patterns.In fact, before the pandemic, patients could wait up to three weeks for an inpatient spot in the eating disorders program. Now, the wait can be months."I'd never seen anything like this, and this is a worldwide phenomenon," Guarda said.It is something Isabelle Anderson realized when she started college last fall at Amherst College in Massachusetts."People really don't understand how expansive this condition is and how many people struggle with it," Isabelle Anderson said."It's important to recognize that the majority of individuals affected by eating disorders are not visibly underweight. In fact, the majority are going to be at a normal weight or higher weight," Guarda said.Isabelle Anderson said she feels about 80% recovered and is not letting that little voice in her head win out."There are some days that are harder than others, but for the most part, I feel really great about where I'm at," Isabelle said.Isabelle Anderson saw Guarda only virtually when she was treated as an outpatient. She still checks in with her and while at school and receives help through her college's dietitian and counseling center.If you or someone you know needs help, Guarda recommends contacting the National Eating Disorders Association at their website or call their help line at 800-931-2237.
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For years to come, there will be many conclusions about how the pandemic impacted our mental health. But already, doctors know eating disorders were made worse by the pandemic.
A recent journal of the American Medical Association study concluded the pandemic promoted and intensified disordered eating behaviors among some.
For Isabelle Anderson, 18, the pandemic may always be remembered for when she, in her words, "Got stuck in her own head." When asked had there not been a pandemic, did she believe this would have happened?
"Absolutely not," Anderson said. "I was waking up each morning with nothing to do, essentially, but focus on what I ate and look in the mirror. It was the perfect storm that contributed to me developing this eating disorder."
Before the spring of 2020, Anderson had begun dieting and lost 40 pounds, but when the world shut down, she developed an addiction to exercise and obsessive habits of food control. This was cued by a culture that was saying, if not now, when.
"The meals I were eating were very small in portion and devoid of nutrients at all times. I was very rigid about when I had to eat and that's something I am still working on," Anderson said.
Anderson did not want to divulge what had been her daily calorie intake or total weight loss for fear of triggering issues in other young women. Her mother, Melissa Anderson, knew there was a problem when her daughter's period stopped.
"When that doesn't happen for a year, it has negative consequences. So, that really started us thinking we needed to do something different," Melissa Anderson said.
Dr. Angela Guarda, who runs the eating disorders program at Johns Hopkins Hospital, diagnosed Isabelle Anderson with anorexia, an eating disorder that includes obsessions about weight, food and body image and can lead to extreme and dangerously unhealthy weight loss.
"The pandemic seems to have drastically affected the risk for eating disorders. In fact, more so than other psychiatric conditions," Guarda said.
Nearly two years into the pandemic, Guarda said cases have not leveled off, with many young people still suffering from the effects of stress, social isolation and the initial changes in eating patterns.
In fact, before the pandemic, patients could wait up to three weeks for an inpatient spot in the eating disorders program. Now, the wait can be months.
"I'd never seen anything like this, and this is a worldwide phenomenon," Guarda said.
It is something Isabelle Anderson realized when she started college last fall at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
"People really don't understand how expansive this condition is and how many people struggle with it," Isabelle Anderson said.
"It's important to recognize that the majority of individuals affected by eating disorders are not visibly underweight. In fact, the majority are going to be at a normal weight or higher weight," Guarda said.
Isabelle Anderson said she feels about 80% recovered and is not letting that little voice in her head win out.
"There are some days that are harder than others, but for the most part, I feel really great about where I'm at," Isabelle said.
Isabelle Anderson saw Guarda only virtually when she was treated as an outpatient. She still checks in with her and while at school and receives help through her college's dietitian and counseling center.
If you or someone you know needs help, Guarda recommends contacting the National Eating Disorders Association at their website or call their help line at 800-931-2237.
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Q: SELECT query on string field that treat dash char "-" as a space I have a table in which a VARCHAR(255) field could have "-" dahs char used as a blank space because it reports chemical compounds retrieved from external DBs. The same compounds could have been written without dash char(s) and a blank space instead of them or a subset of them. For instance, the compound "2-hydroxy-propionic acid" could have been written

*

*"2-hydroxy propionic acid"

*"2 hydroxy-propionic acid"

*"2 hydroxy propionic acid"

All of them are proper writings and they refer to the same compound. Is there an elegant way to SELECT the stored field "2-hydroxy-propionic acid" if the search string is one of the other 3? That is just an example, the dash char could be just one or even more than 2.

A: You could use REPLACE in order to replace any hyphens with spaces in the WHERE clause:
SELECT  *
  FROM  MyTable
  WHERE (REPLACE(myField, '-', ' ') = REPLACE('2-hydroxy-propionic acid', '-', ' '));

This works because all hyphens in the source field are replaced by spaces, and the hyphens in the criteria are also replaced by spaces.
In this way, all the results will be returned regardless of where the hyphens are (or are not).
Output based on your example rows:
2-hydroxy-propionic acid
2-hydroxy propionic acid
2 hydroxy propionic acid

Here's a working fiddle showing this in action.


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Many have heard of the Greek goddess, Artemis, but not many know of her Roman comparison Diana. There are some differences but many similarities. Both versions are referred to as the goddess of the hunt, as well as the moon and of childbirth or fertility. Diana had many qualities that could be looked upon and thought to be respectable as well as what she stood for and protected. (#2) Diana's story is one that should be respected. The Greek version says that Artemis was born on the island of Delos. She was the daughter of Zeus and Leto as well as the sister to her twin Apollo. It is said that immediately after she was born, she assisted as a midwife for the birth of Apollo. This is where she gets her association with childbirthing and being …show more content…
"Diana" is the Roman name, "Artemis" is the Greek name, "Lucina" is the name of her as the goddess of childbirth and healing, and "The Triple Goddess" is her other name. "The Triple Goddess" in statue form shows Diana as having three different heads. One head is a horse, one is a dog, and one is a bear.
The companions of Diana were woman that she was completely comfortable around. She never was in the company of men with the exception of her twin brother, Apollo. She and her companions would do everything together. They would bathe, eat, talk, hunt, and even dance together.
There have been stories of men coming across Diana and her companions bathing and she did not take that too well. She did not like having males hanging around so she would run them off. Remember, she was very protective of her hunting companions chastity and would go to great lengths to avoid a threat to it.
Diana was a goddess that someone could look up too and want to be like her. Not only was she beautiful, but she was her own independent self. She didn't need anyone else taking care of her. She had many values and would protect them. She was in a way, a mother hen. Diana all around was someone to feel safe
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The first things we will look at to show women's roles reflected in Classical mythology are the attributes of the female gods. Of the fourteen main Olympian Deities, only six of them are women. This includes Hera, Hestia, Demeter, Artemis, Athena, and Aphrodite. Of these six I believe Hera, Demeter, and Aphrodite best portray the role of women in Greco Roman society, as reflected in Classical mythology…
Apollo In Greek Mythology
Apollo was the son of Leto and Zeus and the twin of Artemis. Leto, also called Latona, was the Titan daughter of…
Mythology study guide chp 1-4
11. Athena – she was the goddess of war, wisdom, She was the protector of civilized life.…
The Odyssey - Gender Roles
The literature of this sort of masculine society, of which the Iliad and Odyssey are examples, aptly illustrates these social conventions. The themes of these works are subjects which are of interest to men; warfare, hunting, the problems of the warrior and ruler, and so forth. That which would concern women, such as domestic affairs, is not involved in this literature, or is dealt with only casually. Keeping in mind this important attribute of epic poetry, which is the direct result of its social and intellectual environment, one cannot help noting the great difference between the Odyssey and all other epic poems. No other literary work of this period, or of a similar cultural background, gives such a prominent position to women. No reader of the Odyssey can help having vivid memories of the poem's outstanding female characters. There are many women in the Odyssey and all of them contribute in mean-ingful ways to the development of the action. Furthermore, they are treated seriously and with respect by the poet, as if there were no difference between his attitude toward them and his feelings toward the chieftains for whom his epic was composed. Among the memorable women in the poem are Nausicaa, the innocent young maiden; Arete, the wise and benevolent queen and mother; Circe and Calypso, the sultry and mysterious temptresses; Penelope, the ideal of marital devotion and fidelity; Helen, the respectable middle-class matron…
Athena In Homer's Odyssey, Metamorphoses
Athena is one of the most important goddesses in Greek mythology. Appearing in both The Odyssey, Metamorphoses, and other literatures, she is the goddess of wisdom and military victory. In Metamorphoses and other Roman works, she is called by the name of Minerva. In both works of literature, Athena is shown to exhibit much use of disguise, be worshipped generously, and be merciless to those who she opposes.…
Women's Roles in Ancient Greece and Rome
In Ancient Greece and Rome, much off what we know about the lives of women is recorded by men. Because of this, the public lives of women are more understood than the aspects of their private life. Did women loathe their roles in society in secret, or did they revel in their ability to be free of the expectations that burdened their male counterparts?…
Hephaestus Research Paper
Leto (Latona) and Zeus (Jupiter) are the parents of the versatile god Apollo and his twin sister Artemis (Diana), the virgin hunter.…
olympic gods
Artemis - Goddess moon, forest, childbirth and the hunt. Although she was associated with childbirth and children, Artemis was a virgin.…
The Lost Hero Characters
Hera is the wife of Zeus, goddess of marriage and queen of the gods. Roman form: Juno. Aeolus is the Greek god of the winds Roman form: Aeolus. Apollo is the Greek god of sun, prophecy, music, and healing; son of Zeus and twin of Artemis Roman form: Apollo. Ares is the Greek god of war; son of Zeus and Hera, and half- brother of Athena Roman form: Mars. Artemis is the Greek goddess of hunt and moon; the daughter of Zeus and twin of Apollo Roman form: Diana. Boreas is the Greek god of the North wind, one of the four directional anemoi (wind gods); the god of winter; father of Khione. Roman form: Aquilon. Demeter is the Greek goddess of agriculture, a daughter of the Titans Rhea and Kronos. Roman form: Ceres. Dionysus is the Greek god of wine; son of…


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