And Handsel denied his motion to disqualify her as the presiding judge, which argued she displayed bias against him and had a conflict of interest because she is married to a former cop.
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At a bond hearing, prosecutors and Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court Judge Mary Handsel concluded the acting mayor's comments implied he and Massad were going to tamper with a witness, in this case Officer Howard.
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Historically, presents were given in Scotland on the first Monday of the New Year. A roast dinner would be eaten to celebrate the festival. Handsel was a word for gift and hence "Handsel Day". "A gift or present (expressive of good wishes)".
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At 1 June 2019 Malinky released their 20th anniversary double album Handsel produced by Greentrax Recordings.
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The period of festivities running from Christmas to Handsel Monday, including Hogmanay and Ne'erday, is known as the Daft Days.
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A new purse would not be given to anyone without placing money in it for good luck.The History of Ireland. Retrieved 4 July 2013 Money received during Handsel Monday is supposed to insure monetary luck all for the rest of the year. The period of festivities running from Christmas to Handsel Monday, including Hogmanay and Ne'erday, is known as the Daft Days.
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The tradition of giving alms or handsels around the Christmas period continued with the celebration of Handsel Monday on the first Monday after New Year.
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In Scotland, the first Monday after New Year's Day was traditionally known as Hansel Monday, or Handsel Monday, and gifts () were given at this time.Michael Quinion, "World Wide Words: Handsel". Retrieved 7 May 2013 Among the rural population of Scotland, Auld Hansel Monday, is traditionally celebrated on the first Monday after January 12. This custom reflects a reluctance to switch from the old (Julian) style calendar to the new (Gregorian) calendar.
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In modern Scotland this practice has died out. The period of festivities running from Christmas to Handsel Monday, including Hogmanay and Ne'erday, is known as the Daft Days.
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The word "handsel" originates from old Saxon word which means “to deliver into the hand”. It refers to small tips and gifts of money given as a tokenHandsel at Scots Language Centre . Retrieved 4 July 2013 of good luck, particularly at the beginning of something; the modern house-warming gift would be a good example. An 1825 glossary marks Handsel Monday as an occasion "when it is customary to make children and servants a present".
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Shannon, Bill (2000) Tom Allan in a Nutshell The Handsel Press,p.12. . George MacLeod, to the contrary, feared that a traditional rally-based professional Crusade would fatally undermine the congregational emphasis of Tell Scotland.Ferguson, Ronald (1990). George MacLeod.
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In 1958 he cooperated with Tom Allan in the Glasgow Central Churches Campaign.Bardgett, Frank, (2010) Scotland's Evangelist, D.P. Thomson Haddington: The Handsel Press, pp.320-334. Rev. Tom Allan had resigned as the Movement's Field Organiser in the autumn of 1955 and accepted a call to the Glasgow city-centre parish of St George's-Tron Church.
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In this respect it is somewhat similar to Boxing Day, which eventually supplanted it. If the handsel was a physical object rather than money, tradition said that the object could not be sharp, or it would "cut" the relationship between the giver and the recipient. The day is known in Scottish Gaelic as (drained Monday). The custom was also known as “handseling a purse”.
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Haddington: The Handsel Press pp.152-157, 159. By 1939 it was possible to speak of a socially-aware "new evangelism" being practiced: "The development has been away from the large meeting and toward more intensive work among people in their homes and places of work," and on a more cooperative basis between denominations.Secretariat for Evangelism (1954) Ecumenical Studies: Evangelism in Scotland Geneva: The World Council of Churches p.31.
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After a citywide visitation of Edinburgh, 1955–56, the Church of Scotland Presbytery concluded that "The year of parochial evangelism shows many more people added to the Church than the year of mass evangelism".Bardgett, Frank, (2010) Scotland's Evangelist, D.P. Thomson Haddington: The Handsel Press, p322. At the invitation of local presbyteries and congregations, D.P. Thomson led campaigns under the Tell Scotland brand in Sutherland (1955), Mull, Ross-shire and Orkney (1956) and Shetland (1957).
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The four Handsel sisters were of Danish origin but they had moved to the Wilton area. Coincidentally, an outbreak of smallpox in 1737 killed 132 people. The local people became convinced that the sisters were responsible for the deaths and accused them of witchcraft and an alliance with the devil. Without an official hearing the sisters were taken to Grovely Wood, murdered by being bludgeoned over the head, and buried a little way apart from each other so that they could not conspire against their murderers.
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No end date was set, as Tell Scotland was conceived as an ongoing movement, not a one-off campaign.Bardgett, Frank, (2010) Scotland's Evangelist, D.P. Thomson Haddington: The Handsel Press, p.299. Tom Allan explained the central part expected to be played by congregations in his pamphlets: The Agent of Mission and The Congregational Group in Action,Allan, Tom (1954) The Agent of Mission: the lay group in evangelism, its significance and its tasks Glasgow: Tell Scotland; Allan, Tom (1955) The Congregational Group in Action.Glasgow: Tell Scotland.
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The success of Dr Billy Graham's 1954 crusade in Harringay, London, then brought demands, unexpected when Tell Scotland began, that an invitation be issued to him to lead a campaign in Scotland.Shannon, Bill (2000) Tom Allan in a Nutshell The Handsel Press,p.11. . Despite the opposition of George MacLeod, the Movement's Parent Committee itself invited Graham to lead a campaign in Glasgow in spring 1955, to be extended to the whole country as an "All-Scotland Crusade" by the telephone relay system. Tom Allan justified the addition of the Crusade to phase two of Tell Scotland, and the commitment of the Movement to cooperate with the Crusade, by suggesting that such a series of rallies would better prepare congregations for their phase three task of outreach.
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During, and in the years immediately after the Second World War, as Leader of the Iona Community George MacLeod led a series of parish missions and supported the creation of new congregations in post-war housing schemes through the Church Extension movement. George F. MacLeod (1952) A Message of Friendship: the principles of a parish mission Glasgow: The Iona Community; Secretariat for Evangelism Ecumenical Studies: Evangelism in Scotland Geneva: The World Council of Churches pp.38-39. On behalf of the Home Board of the Church of Scotland, D.P. Thomson led a series of visitation evangelism campaigns; that in 1947 in North Kelvinside, the parish of Rev. Tom Allan was widely publicized, while the "Mid-Century Campaign" in Paisley, unusually, lasted an entire year, March 1950 to April 1951. Bardgett, Frank, (2010) Scotland's Evangelist, D.P. Thomson Haddington: The Handsel Press, pp.236-253.
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