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|Aquaponics is a sustainable / closed circuit way of growing fresh vegetables, herbs and fish together symbiotically. More here...
If you'd like to learn more, Aquaponic Life are a not-for-profit company who are running 'Introduction to Aquaponics' and 'DIY Aquaponics' courses in East Sussex, they aim to help inspire communities to reconnect with the nature of food and become more self-sufficient. Contact Neil or Emerald at firstname.lastname@example.com
|" A cucumber, " said Dr Johnson, " should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing." I am inclined to disagree. Very good in a raita, of course, and goes curiously well with peanut butter. They are supposed by herbalists to purify the blood, but I have never quite understood what this means. More...
The new issue of the Lewes Pound will launch officially on 3rd May and will be available at our regular stall in the farmers' market and at a special stall in the LDC tent at the Chalk Life Festival up on Landport Bottom, as well as at the Southover Fayre at the Priory on 10th May.
The 3rd coincides with the start of the festivities around the 750th anniversary of the Battle of Lewes and this is referenced by some of the notes. More...
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|We never did get a winter, did we? Autumn went on forever, and now spring seems to be here. Mild, wet and windy weather has brought some beneficial effects for the gardener; however, it probably means that we will have a bumper crop of slugs.
Now, to my mind, slugs are attractive little creatures, with a rather interesting love life... more
One of the things Transition can bring is the ability to turn 'living with climate change' into inspired and positive action. We asked Chris Rowland of Ovesco to tell us his story...
A ready-to-use factual service that brings you the latest news of climate change science. You can sign up for emails here...
Read Farming on sand by Kieran Cooke.
Bulk Buying Food Group - Based in Lewes
Lewes Food Group buy food in bulk from Suma every 2 months.
Good Quality, Ethically Sourced & Organic Food at wholesale prices.
|The Lewes Pound is delighted to be sharing in the growing excitement in the build up to the commemoration of the 750th anniversary of the Battle of Lewes in May 2014.
We are working to bring out the new issue of our notes slightly early so as to coincide with the beginning of the fortnight of Battle-related events starting on 3rd May and hope the designs will reflect some of the themes. More on the Lewes Pound website...
|Image from a recent event held run by Richard Watson in Bexhill on Sea called Energy Month at which Ovesco and other groups in Community Energy South met. Greg Barker attended the event and took questions from the groups.
Ovesco leads on community climate solution...
You can plant almost anything in March, or you could, if the ground was not so depressingly wet. Walking on wet beds is not good for soil or carpets, and if the damp persists anything you have planted out might well rot. Raised beds, of course, are quick to warm and to dry. The weeds are already flourishing, and if you can get a hoe to them now, you will save trouble later. There is much to be done indoors - tomato, pepper, cucumber and aubergine seeds can go into the propagator, if you have one; in most cases, putting pots in sandwich bags will do just as well.
|Obviously we will watch the weather, and do what we can, when we can. Assuming you have washed all your pots, sharpened your tools, disinfected the greenhouse and serviced your mower (no, nor have I), perhaps this might be a good time to plan some new project. And wouldn't a decent herb garden be a good one?
More here by Jon Gunson...
The Food Group worked hard on a group constitution a while ago, using the TTL principles plus a standard model constitution for groups. We've put these on the website so that other groups can use them.
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We're gathering information about people who read our monthly newsletter/visit our website and the impact Transition Town Lewes is having in relation to your lifestyle choices, etc. It's a short survey - only 13 questions - and will probably take you no more than 5 minutes to answer. Please help if you can.
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If you are looking for an ethical place for children's savings, an East Sussex Credit Union Junior account is a good deal. Currently the interest rate is 2%, paid and reviewed quarterly. More information here... All savings are protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme
Adults can now join online Membership is growing rapidly, helped by a new partnership with Unite the Union, inviting new members from across South East England.
Some large businesses and other organisations in East Sussex, such as the Brighton & Hove Buses and Lewes District Council, have payroll schemes with ESCU for their employees. These can be a painless way of saving, and loans may be available on better terms. The Credit Union is looking for more local businesses who will offer this to their employees - it is very simple to set up.
Saving and borrowing at a credit union means more money stays local – both our savings and the interest payments if we get a loan. People can avoid doorstep lenders and money shops that will charge far higher rates and not allow early repayments. ESCU also welcomes donations, which help to fund smaller loans that often go to people most in need.
With new funding and support, our local Credit Union is growing steadily, and becoming more like a community bank – future developments include basic bank accounts and membership for community groups and businesses.
Switching to a renewable energy supplier can be a lot easier than you think – and sends out a strong message to the big suppliers.
Use our list to make your change now - wouldn't it be wonderful if these suppliers suddenly saw a peak in customers from this area?
Lewes Town Council is developing a Neighbourhood Plan, and has invited TTL to join a community steering group which will define its vision, priorities and content. If the Lewes community and council accept the Plan, it becomes statutory planning policy and any development in the area will need to conform to it. This could be an opportunity to encourage and promote sustainable design and construction, reducing energy demand in existing buildings, local community energy, sustainable transport networks, local small businesses, and more!
TTL is forming a small group to explore responses to the Plan as it evolves over the next year, drawing on Transition Town principles and practice. If you would like know more or to join the TTL group, please contact Dirk Campbell on 01273 479018.
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Late November saw Guardian journalist Duncan Clark speak to a capacity audience about his book The Burning Question at a public meeting organised by Transition Town Lewes.
|The Burning Question explores how the world has any chance of keeping within the critical 20C temperature rise agreed at the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks, given that carbon emissions keep rising exponentially.
In his talk, Duncan explained that burning fossil fuels has so far put 2,000 billion tonnes of CO2 into the air. To have a 50/50 chance of staying within the two-degree limit, the world can afford to emit only an additional 1,600 billion tonnes of CO2 (or just 700 billion tonnes for a 75% chance). Read it here...
Useful links and information
Why can't we quit fossil fuels?
Alternatives to the big energy suppliers – a comprehensive guide to renewable suppliers.
Burning Question – Actions to take
Send a message to the Big Six energy companies: switch to an independent renewable supplier. It can be easier than you think, and prices are competitive.
Take inspiration from these short, fun clips about the life cycle of stuff we consume. There may be a way of using these to spread awareness of the issues and if you have ideas and are keen to work on a project relating to this, TTL would be happy to hear from you.
The Story of Stuff from The Story of Stuff Project
If you have long been meaning to join the East Sussex Credit Union, there is a new opportunity! You can now join online and save and borrow knowing your cash is staying local and going to help the community in East Sussex. You can still visit the Brighton office on weekdays between 10am and 3pm, and the Lewes help point is open on Wednesdays from 10am to 12 noon in the community flat on De Montfort estate. For more help points see website
Our Credit Union also offers Workplace Savings & Loans Schemes, with payments made direct from employees' payrolls. These are currently available for staff at ESCC, Lewes and Wealden District Councils, Eastbourne Borough Council, East Sussex Fire and Rescue, Brighton & Hove Buses, University of Brighton and Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals Trust, among others. Anyone working for these employers can contact us to arrange membership and take advantage of the services on offer. Further details can be found on the Workplace Schemes page of the ESCU website.
We are also looking for willing employers to join this scheme, as we believe that this offers a valuable service to employees. Please get in touch if you think your place of employment and colleagues could benefit.
|SNUG is a Transition Town Lewes enterprise, providing draught proofing services and workshops across East Sussex. Whether you want to draught proof your home yourself, or want an expert to do it, we're here to help. more...
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Christopher Parsons is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. Parson's research is focused on corporate finance, labor economics, capital structure, real estate, urban economics and market microstructure. Prior to coming to the Harvard Business School, Parsons was an Associate Professor of Finance at the Rady School. Before that, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Preceding his position at the Kenan-Flagler School, Parsons was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, Montreal.
Parsons earned his Ph.D. in Finance at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his B.S. with Highest Honors in Chemical Engineering.
| Foundations and Trends in Finance
Empirical Capital Structure: A Review
Christopher Parsons and Sheridan Titman
Keywords: Capital Structure;
Corporate Finance;
| Journal of Labor Economics
Is a Higher Calling Enough? Incentives Effects in the Church
Christopher Parsons, J. Hartzell and D. Yermack
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives;
Performance Evaluation;
Compensation and Benefits;
| Real Estate Economics
Incentive Compensation and the Likelihood of Termination: Theory and Evidence from Real Estate Organizations
Christopher Parsons, G. Hallman and J. Hartzell
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives;
Resignation and Termination;
Compensation and Benefits;
Real Estate Industry;
| Journal of Finance
The Causal Impact of Media in Financial Markets
Christopher Parsons and J. Engelberg
Keywords: Media;
Financial Markets;
| American Economic Review
Strike Three: Discrimination, Incentives, and Evaluation
Christopher Parsons, J. Sulaeman, M. Yates and D. Hamermesh
Keywords: Wages;
Motivation and Incentives;
Prejudice and Bias;
Ethnicity Characteristics;
Race Characteristics;
Performance Productivity;
Sports Industry;
| Journal of Financial Economics
Friends with Money
Christopher Parsons, J. Engelberg and P. Gao
Keywords: Social and Collaborative Networks;
Interest Rates;
Banking Industry;
| Review of Financial Studies
Journalists and the Stock Market
Christopher Parsons, C. Dougal, J. Engelberg and D. Garcia
Keywords: Media;
Financial Reporting;
Financial Markets;
The Cost and Timing of Financial Distress
Christopher Parsons
Keywords: Taxation;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
The Price of a CEO's Rolodex
Keywords: Networks;
Executive Compensation;
The Timing of Pay
Christopher Parsons and E. Van Wesep
Keywords: Payday lending;
hyperbolic discounting;
Self-control problems;
Pay frequency;
Payday loan legislation;
Paycheck frequency;
Time inconsistency;
Employee Relationship Management;
| Evolution and Human Behavior
Voice Pitch and the Labor Market Success of Male Chief Executive Officers
Christopher Parsons, W. Mayew and M. Venkatachalam
Keywords: Success;
Leadership Style;
Personal Characteristics;
Management Teams;
| Journal of Financial Economics
Networks and Productivity: Causal Evidence from Journal Editor Rotations
Christopher Parsons, J. Brogaard and J. Engelberg
Keywords: Networks;
Performance Productivity;
Education Industry;
Journalism and News Industry;
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|Center for Mental Health in Schools, UCLA
This report examines the issue of youth gangs in schools, and examines the relationship to related issues, including bullying. The report also examines coordinated intervention efforts.
Topics: Violence, Schools
For more info please visit http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/policyissues/Youth gangs & Schools.pdf
|Bullying and Peer Victimization at School: Perceptual Differences Between Students and School Staff
|Catherine P. Bradshaw, Anne L. Sawyer, Lindsey M. O'Brennan
The data for this study came from a district-wide survey of student (n = 15,185) and staff (n = 1,547) perceptions of and experiences with bullying conducted in 75 elementary, 20 middle, and 14 high schools. Results indicated that staff at all school levels (elementary, middle, and high) underestimated the number of students involved in frequent bullying. Both middle school students and staff tended to report the greatest exposure to and concern about bullying. Staff with greater efficacy for handling bullying situations were more likely to intervene and less likely to make the bullying situation worse. Staff members' own experiences with bullying were predictive of their attitudes toward bullying and perceived efficacy for handling a bullying situation. Implications for prevention and intervention by school psychologists are provided.
Topics: Prevention, Respond to Bullying, Schools
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The school experiences of students with disabilities can be positively or negatively influenced by the attitudes and behaviors of students and staff and by general school policies. School counselors can take the lead in assessing school climate in relation to students with disabilities and initiating interventions or advocating for change when appropriate. This article provides an overview of factors to consider in creating positive school experiences for students with disabilities and suggestions for intervention efforts.
Topics: Disabilities & Special Needs
For more info please visit http://www.readingrockets.org/article/26319/
|Violence on the Job
|Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
This page offers a number of videos focused on violence in the workplace.
Topics: Violence
For more info please visit http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/video/violence.html
|Kansas Bullying Prevention Program
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|Randy J. Wiler, Director
The Kansas Bullying Prevention program website provides resources for parents, teachers and students and provides bullying prevnetion training.
Topics: Prevention, Schools
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|American Camp Association
Bullying prevention is one of five hot topics on the minds of summer camp staff. To help address this issue, the American Camp Association, in collaboration with Dr. Joel Haber, is pleased to present several tools to aid in bullying prevention.
Topics: Prevention
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|American Bar Association
It's Your Life helps LGBTQ youth in foster care navigate the child welfare system. Explore this site to understand your rights and receive the care and attention you are entitled to.
Topics: LGBT, Policies & Laws
For more info please visit http://new.abanet.org/child/Pages/lgbtq.youth.aspx
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|American Federation of Teachers
The purpose of the AFT's campaign, "See a Bully, Stop a Bully: Make a Difference," is to raise awareness and provide resources to educators, students and parents.
Topics: Respond to Bullying
For more info please visit http://www.aft.org/yourwork/tools4teachers/bullying/
|Tips & Facts
AbilityPath.org interviewed experts, educators and parents regarding a silent epidemic facing children with special needs - bullying. The result was the report and guide, Walk a Mile in Their Shoes: Bullying and Special Needs.
Topics: Disabilities & Special Needs
For more info please visit http://www.abilitypath.org/areas-of-development/learning--schools/bullying/
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|Brain Works Project
This resource is based on research on pre-teens' coping challenges during the critical transition period from elementary to middle school. A national group of educators, emotional health and teacher education experts helped to create an open-access, "virtual classroom" where 9-12 yr. olds learn about brain and behavior changes during early adolescence.
Topics: Kids, Prevention
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Campus Strictness:
The school is very strict with some things. They do not allow underage drinking or drugs of any kind. This is a Catholic institution, so they do promote values and do not tolerate anything that does not uphold those values.
The financial aid office is helpful, but they are often slow and hard to get a hold of. I wish there were more scholarship opportunities and that they were more flexible.
Off-Campus Housing:
This is primarily a commuter school, so many people do live off campus. Finding housing can be a challenge though because we are in the middle of a residential community, so finding an apartment at a good price can be a challenge.
Health & Safety:
I have never felt unsafe. Security is always patrolling and willing to walk or drive you to your car. The area is not terrible and our security works closely with Joliet Police department.
The school has multiple computer labs on campus. There is only one color printer but plenty of printers around campus and price is not that much. Network speed is pretty good and wireless access is good. I have never had issues with wireless access. USF is primarily a computer school and I don't think it's necessary to bring personal computer to school. There are plenty of options if you need one during the day.
Off-Campus Housing:
USF is primarily a computer school. Near campus there are multiple options for renting houses or apartments. The cost is average and definitely cheaper than living on campus. The neighborhood is relatively safe but you may not always be walking distance to campus.
There are multiple lounges and computer labs for student use. The athletic center/school gym is okay but it is small. Students also get a free membership to the Joliet Park District's Athletic Center which is very nice. The dining options on campus are okay.
Health & Safety:
They are always accessible to walk with students or even pick them up and walk them to their cars or dorm.
The school tries to have various activities for the students on campus.
Off-Campus Dining:
There are not may places close by and the few that are near are fast foods.
There are classes in a downtown location and students are able to take the shuttle to class. Also, there are shuttles to Wal-Mart every Wednesday night, but I do wish there were shuttles to the off-campus workout facility as well as local sporting events.
Local Atmosphere:
I love the friendly feel as you walk through campus. Everyone on campus is so nice and willing to help out. Not to mention, we just got a new President, and he is really turning things around!
Campus Dining:
The food is okay, but there are not many options.
I not in a sport personally, but they do care about athletics very much. They are very strict towards students that break the rules, ie drinking and doing drugs. They don't have the best facilities for them to work out it but they work with what they have.
Campus Dining:
The food on campus is not very good. the hours are weird and there aren't that many choices of place and things to eat.
Multiple computer labs so there is never an issue obtaining access to computers or printing.
Drug Safety:
the only visible use of any substance is smoking. Drug usage is not tolerated.
lots fill up and off campus parking is at a premium. to get a good spot, you need to get there early a.m.
Campus Strictness:
It's a Catholic University. They expect students to comply by the laws as well as the standards of behavior set forth by the church. When you attend, you expect a certain level of strictness and it should not come as a surprise.
Health & Safety:
I never feel unsafe at University of St. Francis. The campus is small. Certain areas of the town around the campus may be unsafe, but campus security is always willing to drive you to your car and help you avoid those areas.
The transportation options at Joliet Central High School consisted of many bus routes due to the large amount of students. There were also activity buses that ran about two shifts every night for the students who played sports or who were enrolled in other extracurricular activities. I rated this with a C because although it is certainly not horrible, it is not the best it can be either. Therefore I give the transportation an average grade.
Drug Safety:
Good school classes are hard. Most teachers are helpful
There are people of many different races at USF. We have many International Students that live on campus, so that brings a lot of diversity to campus. We also have clubs that focus on the many diverse groups of people. There is International Club, UVA (Unidos Vamos A Alcanzar), and Spectrum (GSA). Through these clubs the students get to learn more about each other and themselves. The school is very supportive by allowing these clubs to hosts events open to the university. Overall, I would say that diversity on campus is fairly well. There is always room for improvement though. Which is why this year SGA is bringing in a new position named "VP of Diversity" to bring more diverse events and understanding to USF! :)
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Average "looking" students, some attractive not so much. Most students seem focused in school.
You get the best of all 4 seasons! Yes, when its cold its cold but I'm from Chicago! I couldn't expect anything less!
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This article was not so great for me until I got to the following, at which point it merely confirmed what I've observed for YEARS. Republicans cheat, big.
"The pattern, every time it repeats, leaves Democrats in agony. How is it possible, Democratic partisans ask, that 36 percent of voters in union households went for the union-busting Walker?
It is kind of like the question we asked in 2000: How is it possible that Bill Clinton's vice president lost when Clinton had just delivered the nation eight years of peace and prosperity?
And in 2004: How is it possible that George Bush won reelection after lying us into a massively unpopular war in Iraq?
And in 2010: How is it possible that all those Democrats lost in Democratic districts against all those Tea Party weirdos?
Well, at a certain point in these "How is it possible?" discussions, you have to get down to the nut cutting: Republicans win because Republicans cheat. They cheat in each and every election, systematically and predictably. They crap out last-minute turnout-killing lies: in this last, for instance, that people who signed recall petitions automatically had their vote recorded against Walker and so didn't have to go to the polls; and in 2006, in at least fifty different congressional races, an overwhelming volume of calls that appeared to be from the Democratic candidate, dozens in a row, designed to so anger potential Democratic voters that they'd stay home from the polls.
They render Democratic phone lines useless: In 2006, pundette Laura Ingraham did it by telling her radio listeners to deluge a voter protection hotline with calls; this last week by blasting out text messages inviting the same for Tom Barrett's campaign headquarters. They intimidate voters on Election Day in minority precincts, wearing scary uniforms and warning those with outstanding warrants to stay away if they don't want to be arrested. They push out horror-show media – like the Scott Walker TV commercial with the baby who was beaten to death, a crime somehow laid at Tom Barrett's feet; or the mailers the Republican National Committee sent out in 2004 to Arkansans and West Virignias that the Bible would be "banned" if "you don't vote." More prosaically, they retail statistical lies: in 2000, that Bush's proposed tax cuts would not predominantly benefit the rich; last Tuesday, that the federal government said Wisconsin added 30,000 jobs.
This kind of stuff doesn't really get reported, or noticed: it happens too late to get into the news before the polls open (that's the point of the tactics), and then, once the polls close, all the media oxygen is taken up with horse-race stuff (the bad guys know that too). Bringing this stuff up also violates a sort of unspoken faux-macho journalist code: "That's politics," they say; "both sides do it" (they don't); and if the victimized campaign brings it up, they're just whining. The bad guys work with this bias very effectively, for instance keeping a handy mental file of isolated, occasional Democratic abuses – the one incident you hear about over and over was the tire-slashing of Republican get-out-the-vote vehicles in Milwaukee eight years ago, for which four Democratic campaign workers including the son of a congresswoman went to jail – to feed journalists' both-sides-do-it brain-deadedness.
Someday, some clever political scientist might figure out a way to quantify just how many points on election day Democrats have to make up to bring things to square. Until that point – or probably even after that point – we can expect the usual Wednesday morning diet of earnest reflections on what the polling just past "says" about the electorate. Republicans will keep pushing, pushing, pushing their vision for what kind of world they want to live in – union and public-employee free. Democrats, free of any particular vision for society at all, will go into "battle" retailing themselves as the nicer fellows in the contest, and earnestly hope the electorate goes along.
The answer is not for Democrats to cheat. But it begins with the Democratic establishment doing business in a way that doesn't make their most devoted partisans feel like slapping them upside the head.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/how-republicans-cheat-democrats-and-democrats-cheat-themselves-20120612#ixzz1yFOfvbkc"
How about Watergate?
How about Republican paid campaign workers and volunteers, every four years, going to minority neighborhoods and distributing flyers that voters with odd-number i.d.'s (or license plates) vote on Tuesday and the others vote on Thursday-- two days after the election was over.
One of the MANY reasons I simply dislike Republicans, generally speaking. Whereas I respected the old, moderate Republicans like Rockefeller and Javits, but not today. They don't exist today.
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Flying Wings parts failure
Flying Wings parts failure
I have for four years owned two Alpha+ kites. One was flows twice and the other was unflown. The nose and all leading edge fittings have on mere assembly failed on both kites: Instead of being flexible and tough they have become brittle and weak.
Flying Wings does not respond to my emails and am concerned about replacing the fittings with parts originating with Flying Wings.
Is this type of age-related failure common?
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It's not the manufacturer, it's the design,..... rubber fittings dry-rot, hard plastic is not flexible enough for all objectives. You choose your poison, there are flaws each and every choice!
You need an accurate measuring device (micro, calipers, etc) and a source for replacement parts to order.
A few bucks and some quality time together on the kitchen table will get your wings back flying again.
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Re: Flying Wings parts failure
Some of the Alpha+ fittings are still flexible and strong, so I would surmise that Flying Wings got some of its parts from good manufacturers and some from bad.
I replaced the broken leading edge connectors with 6mm equivalents by Avia. It looks like I can replace the nose fitting with one made from a nock and some tygon tubing. Tygon seems to last over ten years around here if it is kept out of the sun. Surgical tubing seems to degrade after about four years, even if kept in a bag.
The failure of Flying Wings to stand behind its products is unfortunate. Fortunately, it has competitors with more integrity.
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These episodes of Ciao Italia aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.
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- Delicious Sauces/Le Salse Deliziose (#2204)
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- Organic Pasta/Pasta Organico (#2319)
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- Mushroom Fantasy/Una Fantasia Dei Funghi (#2109)
- Three(Creamy) Soups/Tre Zuppe Cremose (#2314)
- Let's Make Dinner/Facciamo La Cena (#2313)
- Have A Cookie/Avere Un Biscotto (#2108)
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- Macaroni/Maccheroni (#2106)
- What Figs! - Che Fichi! (#2308)
- Italian Cooking Lessons/Lezioni Di Cuciina Italiana (#2307)
- St. Anthony's Feast/La Festa Di San Antonio (#2105)
- Give Me Scallops!/Dammi Cappesante! (#2306)
- Homemade Ricotta/Ricotta Fatta In Casa (#2305)
- Onions Make the Meal/Le Cipolle Fanno Il Pasto (#2104)
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- Eat Salads!/Mangiate L'insalate (#2303)
- Pizza On Parade/Una Parata Della Pizza (#2103)
- Sweet Things/Cose Dolci (#2302)
- Fresh Fruit, So Good/La Frutta Fresca, Buonissima (#2301)
- White Asparagus/Asparagi Bianchi (#2102)
- Lamb Roman Style/Abbacchio Alla Romana (#2101)
- More Umbrian Cooking/Piu' Cucina Umbra (#2226)
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Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe Painting at An American Place, New York , 1944
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In the early 20th century, American photography's most influential proponent was Alfred Stieglitz, who made photographs, published the quarterly Camera Work from 1903 to 1917, and exhibited photography as a fine art in his galleries. In 1933, Ansel Adams traveled to New York City to share his portfolio with Stieglitz, and in 1936, the gallery owner offered to exhibit Adams's work.
Over time, Adams's friendship with Stieglitz grew, as did his lifelong friendship with Stieglitz's wife, Georgia O'Keeffe. It is possible to read Alfred Stieglitz and Painting by Georgia O'Keeffe as a later portrait of the married couple, with O'Keeffe represented by one of her abstractions from nature. The portrait was taken only two years before Stieglitz died.
The portfolio that attracted Stieglitz to Adams included signature images such as Monolith: the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite. The negative for this image was the last one Adams made during a daylong trek with friends on April 17, 1927, and he knew with the trip of the shutter that he had caught something exceptional. In 1927, Adams made contact prints, the format of the negative determining the image size. Only later would he print it with an enlarger so that he could more fully convey Yosemite's grandness, as in this print from 1979.
Like other professional photographers, Adams supplemented his livelihood with commissions, many of which featured subjects far removed from his dramatic visions of the Western wilderness. In 1962, Adams accepted a commission to photograph the rolling hills and open pastures just outside of Sacramento, producing descriptive images of foothill granite outcroppings and the dramatic branching of California oaks in grassy fields. Oak Tree, Sunset City is one of these photographs.


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As the passengers rode along, they watched the beautiful scenery pass by as herds of deer are running through the fields. In the background, beautiful Christmas carols played and the excitement of the season sparkled in the eyes of the many children who gathered to ride on the Polar Express.
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Santa Claus boards the Polar Express at the North Pole train stop, spending his return trip gathering childrens' Christmas lists.
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A parade of chefs, led by head chef Spaghetti, danced and sang their way through the cars dolling out warm, rich hot chocolate and yummy Christmas cookies.
Every passenger listened intently to the reading of "The Polar Express." Chefs passed by each table showing the wonderful pictures in the book, while keeping the excitement high on the train. Games, magic tricks and activities kept little ones engaged all the way to the North Pole.
Belington residents and OnTrac volunteers came to the North Pole to help welcome the Polar Express train to its destination. Ribbons, bows and thousands of bright lights illuminated the beautiful setting. Spaghetti taught everyone the chant, "Yahoo! Ho Ho Ho," in hopes of getting the attention of Santa Claus.
Santa boarded the Polar Express at the North Pole, spending his trip back to the Depot visiting with those who believed to confirm their Christmas present wishes.
Ten-year-old Ian McDonald told Santa he wanted a video game and Ghillie suit for Christmas. Broderick McDonald, age 12, asked Santa for a new pair of binoculars.
Audra McDonald, age 6, told Santa she wanted an Easy Bake Oven and a fortune cookie maker.
"If he asked me, I would ride in the sky in Santa's sleigh," Audra McDonald said. "I would not be afraid."
Braxton Bishop, 6, told Santa he wants more trains on Christmas Day. Mother Marsha Bishop, from Oak Hill, said she was glad they were able to make the trip.
"Braxton loves trains, and I wanted to give him something special," Marsha Bishop said. "So we decided to book a ride on the Polar Express. I searched online and thought this sounded fun. We are going to make reservations tonight for next year."
Spaghetti, portrayed by Missy McCollam, said representatives from Warner Brothers rode on the local Polar Express recently.
"They are very impressed that our energy is still high," McCollam said. "We work hard to keep everyone engaged, and plan activities at least every five minutes. It is as fun for us as it is for those riding the train."
Santa gave a sleigh bell to everyone who believed, and the bells ringing out sounded magical as everyone exited the train.
"We should come again and do this next year," said Audra McDonald. "This was so much fun!"


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Thursday, April 24, 2014
By Leslie Bridgers email@example.com
Staff Writer
South Portland city councilors are taking on the governor -- and they're not alone.
Sen. Dick Woodbury and Sen. Rebecca Millett
The council on Monday will vote on a resolve to oppose the state's two-year budget, which Gov. Paul LePage is proposing to balance by slashing funds to cities and towns.
On Tuesday, the Gorham Town Council will decide whether to send a letter to its delegation "expressing very serious concern" about the proposed budget, which would suspend municipal revenue-sharing for two years, shift tractor-trailer excise taxes from local government to the state and stop refunding towns and cities for exempt equipment taxes.
Since LePage announced his budget proposal, municipal officials have taken out their calculators and broken down the impact that each of the cuts would have on their communities.
Now, they're turning to their legislators for help protecting the programs that are most critical to them.
In the bedroom town of Cape Elizabeth, losing revenue from excise and business equipment taxes wouldn't make much of a dent. But $640,000 of shared revenue from the state funded 8 percent of the town's budget this year, said Town Manager Mike McGovern.
Town and school officials met with Sen. Rebecca Millett, D-Cape Elizabeth, on Monday to talk about their state budget concerns.
McGovern said she and other legislators have been "very sympathetic" to their worries about losing revenue-sharing.
Independent Sen. Dick Woodbury will hold a series of forums for residents to tell him about their priorities, starting with his hometown of Yarmouth on Monday and making his way to Cumberland, Falmouth, Gray and North Yarmouth throughout the week.
While most towns are at least talking to legislators to get on message, South Portland would take it a step further by making a statement as a city.
The two-page resolve lists the impact on South Portland of each of LePage's proposed cuts for a total reduction in revenue of $2 million next fiscal year and $2.8 million the year after.
If the gap were funded solely by a property tax increase, the owner of a $200,000 home would pay $166 more in 2015 than this year.
Cutting spending instead would "undermine the city's ability to provide public services," the resolve says.
South Portland City Manager Jim Gailey didn't return a phone call Friday, nor did Adrienne Bennett, spokeswoman for LePage.
Staff Writer Leslie Bridgers can be contacted at: 791-6364 or at


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The potential impact of stats on the playoff selection committee
This week, a committee of commissioners and athletic directors is hunkered down in a conference room in Indianapolis selecting the field of 68 teams for this year's NCAA basketball tournament. As usual, the bracket it unveils on Sunday night will likely be met with controversy.
Recently, there's been increasing criticism surrounding the committee's continued reliance on the 32-year-old RPI ratings as the primary measuring stick for teams' accomplishments (records vs. RPI top 50, top 100, etc.). The relatively simplistic formula consists of a team's winning percentage (25 percent), its opponents' winning percentage (50 percent) and its opponents' opponents' winning percentage (25 percent). With the advent of more advanced metrics like Ken Pomeroy's efficiency ratings, among others, many feel the NCAA is rigidly clinging to an archaic system.
Meanwhile, next month in Pasadena, Calif., FBS commissioners will begin constructing their own playoff committee, one that will select its first four-team football field in December 2014. Unlike in basketball, college football has a chance to start from scratch with its methodology. Executive director Bill Hancock said the commissioners are keen on a "data-driven" approach. But he added, "No single ranking could ever be the end-all, be-all for college football. There are just not enough data points."
So far, the commissioners have talked largely in generalities about the committee's directive. We know, for example, that there will be an emphasis on strength of schedule. But what's the best way to measure that? And given that both the current BCS formula and the RPI ratings exclude margin of victory -- a universally derided flaw by statisticians -- will the committee use more mathematically sound ratings systems in the future?
|Who will make up the committee?
SI.com sought the recommendations of five noted college football and basketball stats gurus to get a better feel for how the 2014 committee should embark on its task. They are:
• Bill Connelly, author of SB Nation's Football Study Hall and Football Outsiders' S&P efficiency ratings
• Ed Feng, publisher of ThePowerRank.com and Sports Illustrated contributor
• Brian Fremeau, author of BCFToys.com and Football Outsiders' FEI efficiency ratings
• Jerry Palm, CBSSports.com bracketologist and former publisher of CollegeBCS.com and CollegeRPI.com
• Ken Pomeroy, publisher of the KenPom.com basketball efficiency ratings
While each offered their own unique perspectives, their responses coalesced around three primary themes:
"Transparency is important to the commissioners," said Hancock. "Coming out and explaining their selections." That's encouraging, but some say that openness should perhaps begin even sooner.
• Palm: "The most important thing that needs to be included is accountability. Whatever formula they choose, it needs to be open so it can be independently validated, and it needs to be explainable, so that people know how they are being judged. If a formula starts incorporating some higher math elements in an effort to be more accurate, they run the risk of not being able to truly explain what's going on under the covers."
• Fremeau: "The primary thing the committee needs to do is establish a consistent process. I've advocated for a requirement that committee members take the time to retroactively select and seed 20 years of four-team fields. Evaluate their own individual priorities and those of the whole committee through that process. Establish consistency over time."
• Pomeroy: "I don't think there's any right or wrong answers here, but whatever is decided it's important to bracket it on prior seasons, and make those results public, to see if it makes sense."
• Fremeau: "I doubt this will happen, but I think they need to have a non-voting data person in the room as well. Someone to help the members interpret ratings and other data sources, answer questions that are posed and hold the group accountable to information that is shared."
Since 1936, college football's national champion has been determined almost entirely by how few games it lost. Pollsters rarely slot a one-loss team above an undefeated team, unless the undefeated team is from a widely perceived weaker conference. Meanwhile, the current BCS formula does not include margin of victory, a fairly universal method for determining team strength. The experts agree that the committee needs to look beyond mere W's and L's.
• Fremeau: "Wins and losses are only one piece of the puzzle in evaluating teams. How each game was played -- scoring margins, drive and play efficiency, impact on the outcome of less-predictable events like turnovers and special teams -- can be measured. The committee can add in context that a computer cannot, like injuries. All of this could be valuable in making decisions about which teams are in the field."
• Feng: "The most simple metric is margin of victory. Better teams tend to win by more points. There's a strong correlation between average margin of victory and winning percentage. I know this is a political problem, since the committee does not want to encourage running up the score. However, we've seen the downside of not using margin of victory. The current BCS computer polls were not allowed to [incorporate MOV], and they had Notre Dame ranked higher than Alabama before this year's national title game."
• Palm: "There are three things that are necessary in a football metric that aren't universally accounted for now: margin of victory, home field advantage and games played outside [Division] I-A. There are too few games played to allow for the exclusion of MOV. Also, I think MOV is a reasonably accurate indicator of how the teams performed in a football game (except in overtime games). ... And playing [Division] I-AA teams is a choice. That choice needs to be reflected somehow in the strength of a team's schedule."
• Fremeau: "Frankly, I think the committee needs as much data as possible in the room. The drive efficiency work I do and the play-by-play work Bill Connelly does are just a small part of a broad palette of measures available. Use them all."
• Connelly: "We tend to drastically overstate the importance of head-to-head matchups. ... If we've seen two teams play on the same field, we are naturally going to take the result of that battle heavily into account. But that's one week. Teams play 12 games. If Team A loses to Team B (especially by a small margin) but clearly outplays Team B in the other 11 weeks of the season (according to records, eyeballs, and/or computer rankings), Team A deserves a playoff spot over Team B."
Of course, the danger of using advanced stats or ignoring head-to-head results is the committee might wind up producing a bracket that the majority of the public -- accustomed to seeing rankings ordered largely by team records -- rejects.
• Pomeroy: "It probably seems straightforward that you'd want the four 'best' teams in the playoff, but this isn't really true because we've generally seen that close losses to good teams represent team strength more than a close win against a bad team. Fans, media and players wouldn't really want to see a three-loss team that played a very tough schedule get in over an unbeaten that played a weaker schedule."
Schools like Ohio State are already ramping up future schedules in anticipation of the new system -- but no one has yet to say how strength of schedule will be determined. From 1998-2003, the BCS standings included a SOS component that mimicked the RPI's aforementioned formula. The NCAA uses a simplistic listing of opponents' cumulative records, while Jeff Sagarin's ratings are widely cited and may well prove valuable for the committee.
The tricky thing, according to our panel of experts, is that the truest ratings of schedule strength involve some pretty intense math. Read carefully.
• Fremeau: "There are many ways to measure schedule strength, and many of them are valid. I like to use this example. Imagine two schedules. Schedule A consists of the six best teams in the country and the six worst. Schedule B consists of the 12 most average teams in the country. Which is tougher? Ask Alabama, and they'll obviously say Schedule A. Alabama would have a much easier time running the table against Schedule B. But ask the worst team in the country which one is easier, and they'll say the opposite. The worst team in the country would have a hell of a time winning a single game against Schedule B. ... So depending on who you are, you can perceive the exact same schedule of teams very differently."
• Connelly: "If we have to judge a team simply on strength of schedule, then I like the way Fremeau approaches it. He basically asks how other teams of a certain level would expect to perform given the same schedule. You need stats more advanced than simply win percentages to do that well, but from a 20,000-foot view, that's the right approach."
• Fremeau: "My approach is to calculate the likelihood of an elite team (defined as two standard deviations better than average) going undefeated against the entire schedule. (Click here for FEI SOS.) That's not the only way to measure strength of schedule, and it may not be the best. But it is specific and consistently applied, and that matters most."
• Feng: "Calculating strength of schedule first depends on taking a team's raw stats and accurately adjusting them for their schedule. From these adjusted numbers from each team, one can determine a team's strength of schedule by looking at the adjusted numbers of their opponents.
"Many people make a 'one-step' adjustment for a team's opponents. For example, let's say Alabama has a raw margin of victory of 12.0. Its tough schedule makes for an adjustment to 14.0. The problem is, Alabama's MOV has changed, so you should really do the calculation again for all teams. Most people stop after one step. ... It's better to solve for these variables simultaneously. This requires knowing some linear algebra. But linear algebra is hard, so most people don't do this. ... I was looking around at some college basketball rankings, and I found someone that does a good job using margin of victory and solid math."
• Pomeroy: "You don't necessarily need to consider schedule strength directly since it would be calculated by whatever [rating] system(s) you create ... Now, if you really need a schedule strength ranking, I'd recommend taking the best five to 10 systems out there and average their schedule strength estimate."
Pomeroy may be on to something there. Given that the prospective committee members aren't likely to be up on their linear algebra, and given that fans might not forgive a 10-3 team being elevated over a 12-1 team due to its hypothetical chances of going undefeated, it may be best to form a simple consensus. But then again, the BCS already did this to some extent, throwing together six random computer ratings and expecting fans to accept their legitimacy.
Attendees at past BCS meetings usually include a handful of highly paid lawyers and TV and p.r. consultants. If they want to assemble this committee correctly, they ought to add a statistician or two to the payroll.


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Saying Goodbye to Venerable Places: Rites for Leave Taking in Religious Houses
October 29, 2009
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It's an autumn season for the American Catholic Church. Much of the landscape that held the ethos of U.S. Catholicism is turning beautiful colors, browning and falling to the ground of memory. Hospitals, educational institutions and social service centers founded during the last high immigrant era of American Catholicism are changing shape, mission and or closing their doors. An incredibly beautiful experience of Christian life is slowly fading into winter. Religious communities of men and women are among those profoundly impacted by this transition of Church. What kind of rite and pastoral care might be employed when vowed religious communities leave a venerable place of their history or surrender its care to the local diocese? Two recent experiences of that will be the focus of this reflection: one Franciscan and one Augustinian. This article will look at some resources and ritual paradigms for leave-taking "venerable" places of religious presence.
For the Franciscans, leaving a parish in the Mission District of San Francisco in the summer of 2004, there was such a profound sense of loss and grief. A logo on a T-shirt commissioned by the transition committee said, "IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE FRANCISCAN ORDER." It had the flavor of T-shirts printed for funerals of gang members. The pattern of the funeral rite was chosen to accompany this leave-taking. The situation among many of the religious and parishioners was still conflicted. Many had not yet resolved themselves to the withdrawal of the friars from the parish and neighborhood. "The buildings were ours," said one older friar. "They were shaped over the years for a religious community of men and adorned with our iconography and mythology." Imagine a diocesan priest with a fourteen bedroom house, two schools and six car garage. For a new experience of Church to take place there, we struggled with how best to bring closure. How to set parishioners free enough to open a new chapter of their history? How to do this with our hearts breaking? Even though more appropriate to the Solemn Easter Vigil, the Paschal candle was chosen to lead the procession in and out of the church. Resurrection faith passed from generation to generation, from Easter to Easter, is a faith that will continue to lead the Christian community in this place.
The origin of the rites were twofold. The orations, readings and preface were chosen from the Rite of Dedication of a Church and an Altar. The dismissal rite was patterned after the Order for Christian Funerals with an adapted "Final Commendation" at the end and the dedication of a memorial plaque. The provincial minister of the west coast Franciscans was the presider for the closing liturgy. Introductory rites acknowledged the more than a century of service by this religious community in the local Catholic community and greater neighborhood of the area… but focused on the founding personalities and foundation stories. "Rehistoricizing" is the telling of the foundation myth of a community through another lens, in our case, of the Paschal Mystery. (G. I Waldkoenig, "Closing Churches in the Light of American Religious History," Gaede, Ending with Hope (2002), 30-42.) The homily took up this pastoral issue by highlighting the pattern of diminishment and vitality in the life of California Catholicism. The Franciscan presence began in San Francisco with foundation of Mission Dolores in 1776 and diminished when the final pastor abandoned the site after 1846 to move to the wharf at the era of the Gold Rush. When German immigrants began pouring into the city nearly forty years later, national parishes were founded to serve them. St. Anthony's began as a national parish in 1893 by German Franciscans, but found itself soon after ministering to Italians and Irish, and later Asians and Hispanics. Its vitality to the present was always shaped against the movement and acculturation of mixed immigrant communities.
The Prayer of the Faithful spoken in the three current principle languages of the parish, prayed for the local and universal Church and its leaders, the communities past, present and future, especially those still conflicted after the decision to withdraw from St. Anthony parish. It prayed also for healing and reconciliation of any words spoke in anger or frustration during the period of discernment and for any relationships that remain broken or strained. The conclusion of the prayer focused on New Testament images of foundation. "…We pray that you keep us ever mindful that wherever two or three are gathered in your name, your holy presence will be known. Wherever you lead us we will continue to be your holy people, your imperishable temple."
After the Prayer after Communion, a Final Commendation, procession and the dedication of a memorial plaque on the Bell Tower was adapted as a rite of leave-taking for the liturgy. "Before we go our separate ways, let us give thanks for the ministry of the Franciscans to this parish of St. Anthony. May our farewell express our deep affection for the church and this place. May it ease our sadness and strengthen our hope." A brazier of incense as in the Dedication of a Church had been placed on the altar together with the keys of the parish. The friars sang a good-bye hymn, the west coast version of "The Blessing of St. Francis," and the parishioners sang a popular Spanish farewell song back to the friars.
The presider prayed, "Into Your hands, Father of Mercies, we commend the many friars and lay leadership who have served this parish of Saint Anthony over these 111 years… Bless this parish community as it begins a new era of its history. In the new Jerusalem, gather us all with you and the communion of saints to the fullness of eternal life."
As the provincial minister handed back the keys of the parish to the local dean, he added an additional comment, as often happens in funerals. In this case, it was a request for pardon for any we had harmed over the years the Franciscans had the care of the parish. The dean, representing the Archdiocese, likewise added a further comment in tribute to the friars' century of ministry in that place. Others began to stand up from the pews to offer a final tribute. The rite suddenly became extended and tedious. Perhaps it tried to do too many things at the end. Story telling and eulogies could have been done better at the ample reception planned afterward. After the handing on of the keys and the gratitude was expressed, people appeared anxious to leave. The dismissal rite was delayed to the blessing of the memorial plaque at the church's street level bell tower. All of the assembled friars kissed the altar as a final gesture of leave taking.
At the blessing of the memorial, an action modeled on the burial, the provincial used words adapted from the Rite of Blessings for the Site of a New Church. The final blessing and dismissal called for a future of vibrant faith, " May Christ who promised to remain with his Church forever continue to fill our hearts with the assurance of God's presence."
For the Augustinians of Villanova province, leaving Washington, D.C. in April of 2007, a different climate of pastoral care was presented. "We didn't want to leave the place grieving," said its final prior Rev. Luis Vera, OSA. The community planned to move to a cooperative formation project between all of their U.S. provinces in the Mid-west. Their mission and tradition of religious community needed to journey to Chicago. Still, the history of the more then seventy years of presence in the Washington area needed to be remembered and celebrated ritually. Augustinian College had served at its current site behind Catholic University since 1992 when it had moved from the former location where it had been founded in 1923. The rites chosen focused on "remembering well" and reinforcing the tradition of religious life observed over the years in both places. The change of buildings in 1992 had been marked with little fanfare and rites of transition. This leave-taking needed to honor a history in both locations.
Besides a spacious building, the rites also sought to adequately take leave of the two communities of Washington Theological Union and the folks in the immediate neighborhood of the friary with procession and repeated simple chant, "Praise, Praise, Praise the Lord," by heart without hymnals. The friars and their guests were gathered in chapel by Augustine's own exhortation, "…we are Christians, and we want to go on with the journey, and even if we don't want to go…. all who come into this life are compelled by the turning wheel of time to pass on. There must be no room for any kind of idleness; keep walking…" Words adapted from the Final Commendation from the Order of Christian Funerals, tried to acknowledge the feelings of loss and grief. "May our farewell express our feelings for this place and for the people who have lived here."
Remembrance was connected to mission by lingering on the formal words of the original documents as they were proclaimed in different parts of the building. The prior used the original documents of the foundation of the institution with its significant dates and signers to recall the history in its profound, humorous and sometimes tragic incidentals. The procession moved from the chapel to different parts of the building, beginning with the front door. Prayer acknowledged the founder's initiative, vision, resources, and benefactors in the place where these memories were most contained. The front door and foyer with photos of the old Augustinian College, images of Sts. Augustine and Nicholas of Tolentine and paintings of the first prior had welcomed new recruits and visitors over the years.
The rite proclaimed readings from the Constitutions and the Rule from the Augustinian Order in different "stations" of the building, looking backward and forward in gratitude. The proclamation in the common room spoke about hospitality and "and "friendship founded in Christ." (Augustinian Constitutions, 120-A)
The ordo or ritual pattern of house blessing served as another background to the rite. Exhortation, remembrance, and thanksgiving, moving from the chapel to the main spaces of the house were interweaved with quotes from the founding documents and mythology of the Order. "God of joy, no room will have life unless touched by your love." Praise and acknowledgment of the key values of common life together were noted in each room of the house - values imperative to flourishing of religious life in the new location. The processional chants reflected a sense of continuity with what was done in the past and what was about to happen. The rite sought to move with a "clear, conscious and purposeful effort from one thing to another." It sought to be whole, purposeful and honest.
The refectory together with the chapel and common rooms were particular loci of the community's life together with common prayer at its source. Saint Augustine writing set the stage. "The God of gods did graciously will to be hungry for our sake. He came to be hungry himself and to fill us with rich food; he came to endure thirst and give us drink; he came to be clothed in our mortal nature and clothe us in immortality; he came poor to make us rich." The oration in the library spoke of the need for study as a source of intellectual formation and apostolate. The prayer was addressed to the God of wisdom, "we know you are a source of life… We give you thanks for the times we came to nourish our spirits and our intellects with your wisdom and the wisdom of all the ages. "
The rite ended in the chapel, in the same place as it started. The local prior read the certificate of closing from the Prior General in Rome. "I suppress the religious houses of Augustinian College." As the seal was surrendered to the provincial, he responded in gratitude, "I thank you in the name of the Church and of your brothers for the service you have rendered." Intercessions followed for the Order, the Church and the local bishops honoring the corner stones of this mission and community: "For the courage to move onward with hope;" "To live with the beauty ever ancient, ever new;" "For those who are conflicted for words spoke in anger or frustration;" "For any relationships that remain broken or strained ... we pray to the Lord."
The last prayer acknowledged the finality of the closure. "Although the existence of Augustinian College has now come to an end… we give thanks to you for all the blessings we have found here." The life of this community will continue in another place. The history of Augustinian College has been a privileged period of grace given us by God. We who have come in trust to this place are moved with a new resolve to be renewed in heart."
The community and students stayed in the building for the ensuing weeks as they packed and moved their possessions and artifacts from the building. They celebrated a final Eucharist in the chapel for just the members of the local community to take leave of the space a final time. The Eucharist was consumed and the tabernacle emptied. The brothers extinguished all the candles around the table and principal icon of Our Lady of Good Counsel. The altar cloth was slowly and purposefully folded removed. The prior gave the final blessing, after which the professed and student friars sang the final "Salve Regina," kissed the altar and processed from the chapel. "The life of this community will continue in another place…Accompany us as we move from here to new sacred places..." No more rite would be celebrated there.
On what might one assess the effectiveness of these rites? Noble simplicity especially in the context of grief is perhaps one primary criteria against the temptations to do a lot of words. Honest ritual that does not manipulate to any predetermined goal and adequate, lavish time to walk though the varied stages of grief and farewell together. Finally, any rite of leave-taking is efficacious if it reconciles and sets a community of people free enough to step wholeheartedly into the next chapter of their history.
Michael Weldon, OFM, a Franciscan friar from Santa Barbara, CA. Province, is the author of A Struggle For Holy Ground: Reconciliation and the Rites of Parish Closure (Liturgical Press, 2004). He is currently the Director of Spiritual Formation and Assistant Professor of Pastoral Studies at Sacred Heart School of Theology, Hales Corners, Wisconsin.
Photos by Johan van Parys of the Franciscan Church in Tielt, Belgium founded in the 17th C. left by the Franciscan Order in 2006.
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3:00pm Tuesday 17th December 2013 in Winchester By Lauren Howard, Reporter
A LUCKY punter from Winchester has won a whopping six-figure payout from the bookies just in time for Christmas.
The 65-year-old man, who has asked not to be named, took home more than £134,000 for just a £1 bet on the weekend's football after correctly predicting the results of 15 games.
The unmarried man said he'd be spoiling his grandnieces and nephews this Christmas after his fortunate windfall.
He placed his bet at the St George's Street Coral shop in Winchester on Sunday taking home a jackpot of £134,535.70 after accurately predicting the results of games played up and down the country including Saints' draw against Newcastle.
As Jay Rodriguez put in his equaliser after a one-two with Steven Davis on Saturday the striker managed to hold off the magpies at St James' Park resulting in a draw.
The man said: "I knew I was in the running for a bumper payout with two games to go, but then had a nervous few minutes when Bolton came back from two-nil down to level at two-two, but fortunately Wigan got the winner in that game, and then Liverpool thrashed Spurs, so I was able to enjoy the second half of that game."
"I've played the Coral Football Jackpot since the start of the season, and this is my first win, and what a win it was, the perfect early Christmas present. Top of my list will be a holiday in the sun next year."
Coral's David Stevens said: "We are delighted this customer has become our biggest small-staking Football Jackpot winner so far, and the timing couldn't be better to ensure he has a very merry Christmas on us. It was a great effort to predict 15 correct outcomes, and he deserves his massive prize, and all for just £1."
The unnamed punter predicted a home win for Cardiff v West Brom, Everton v Fulham and Wigan v Bolton; an away win for Blackpool v QPR, Charlton v Derby, Middlesbrough v Brighton, Kilmarnock v Dundee United, Hearts v Inverness, Aston Villa v Manchester United and Tottenham v Liverpool; and draws for Newcastle v Southampton, West Ham v Sunderland, Nottingham Forest v Ipswich, Hull v Stoke and Norwich v Swansea.
David Stevens said Coral's regular customer was over the moon with his takings and said the jackpot would turn out to be a life-changing sum of money.
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