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Wabash cross country and track and field athletes know "student-athlete" can be defined and accomplished in a 40-hour work week.
The 2009 Wabash College cross country has been honored by the US Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association as one of the top academic programs in Division III.
The Little Giants were honored as one of 110 All-Academic Teams for the 2009 season. Wabash had a team GPA of 3.55, the fourth-highest in the nation among Division III programs. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's 3.68 GPA was the highest, followed by the 3.59 GPA for the Heidelberg cross country team and Kenyon's 3.58 GPA.
"We talk about a 40-hour work week at camp," said Cross Country Coach Roger Busch '96. "Forty hours really isn't that much. We subtract athletic time, which is about an hour-and-a-half a day; we subtract classroom time from that, so it's really 16-18 hours of study time they have to find throughout the week. Just getting that on a board for the guys to visualize and then realize, 'Gee it's really not that hard.'
"Guys realize when you break it down if they show up and participate they're going to be an above-average student."
They key for Busch and Track and Field Coach Clyde Morgan is communication.
"We tell them, 'These are our expectations, what are yours,'" Busch explained. "Until we get on same page that can be a challenge. We've been pretty blessed to say we have a group of about 20 guys each that we can sit down and talk with."
Morgan acts as assistant cross country coach while Busch serves as assistant track and distance running coach in the spring. Morgan knows there are many advantages to having really smart athletes.
"They take the advice from us," Morgan said. "A Wabash man is being able to stand up and say 'I need help' or 'This is too much, Coach, I need a break.' And they're starting to understand that. If you're struggling academically because you're tired say something."
That intellectual acumen not only pays off in communication but knowing and understanding the sport.
"It's a common misconception, from my perspective, that running is easy, but it's really not as easy as people would think," Busch said. "Becoming a student of the sport is huge. You can't sprint a 100-meter dash for five miles, so understanding and being realistic about your ability and goals is essential. And doing a little bit of research so we can all talk the same language is just as important. Guys have been really great about that."
A team must compete and post a team score at the NCAA Division III Cross Country Regionals and have a minimum team cumulative GPA of 3.10 to be named a USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.
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The new video was developed and narrated by Richard Mourn, one of the original designers of FireWire-based systems and a long time board member of the 1394 Trade Association. The video provides a comprehensive demonstration of IEEE1394 transporting video data at S1600 (1600 MBps) utilizing cameras from Sony and Point Grey, and measured with a FireWire bus analyzer from DAP Technologies.
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The video illustrates a S1600 ecosystem demonstration. Devices include two IIDC (Industrial Instrumentation DC)-compliant cameras, a pair of 1394 Open Host Controller Interfaces (OHCI) and a 1.6 Gigabit/second FireSpy bus analyzer. Applications like robotics and machine vision can require multiple cameras providing 2.5Kbytes of data per isochronous cycle. FireWire can handle up to 8 cameras at 1.6 Gigabit/second and up to 16 at 3.2Gigabt/second bandwidth.
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"The government [Ethiopian] rules in a kind of commando fashion rather than building up strong governance institutions. This leads to a personalization of politics which raises important questions about the long-term sustainability of the current order. Ministers get involved in micro-managing policy – a practice that cannot be continued if the country does move to a higher level of development.
There will be increasing pressures to open the system up, but the ruling party is very reluctant to do so. It recognizes the need for capacity-building as such, but has yet to fully fathom that it will also have to increasingly cede some decision-making to civil society and autonomous actors in it. Western donors seem intent on pointing out that doing so can be of great benefit to Ethiopia as a whole and will help galvanize rather than impede its development."
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Delegation visited Ethiopia 25-29 October 2010
"When they [government officials] first came they told us an investor was coming and we would develop the land alongside one another. They didn't say the land would be taken away from us entirely. I don't understand why the government took the land."
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Dollar Tree, the discount retailer that sells everything for $1 or less, suffered a mini "flash crash" in the first two seconds after the open Thursday.
The stock plunged 18 percent before snapping back to more normal levels less than two seconds later.
"That's definitely the machines," said Keith McCullough, CEO of Hedgeye Risk Management and CNBC Contributor, on CNBC's "Fast Money Halftime Report." "Somebody had a fat finger or dumb finger."
"At the end of the day, this kind of stuff is going to be ongoing because the machines are contributing the only margin that's really left in the broker-dealer community," he said. "You saw this issue with Knight Capital." (Read More: Knight Capital Type 'Glitch' Will Happen Again).
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Dollar Tree had warned earlier that its third-quarter results would miss analyst expectations. The retailer expects earnings of of 47 cents to 51 cents a share on revenues of $1.71 billion to $1.75 billion for the current quarter. Analysts on average forecast earnings of 52 cents a share on sales of $1.77 billion.
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From the real Monuments Men: Album of Nazi-looted art
WASHINGTON — The National Archives unveiled the latest in a series of decades-old photo albums that catalog artwork stolen by the Nazis.
The leather-bound book is one of 43 known "Hitler Albums," all held by the Archives, detailing the Nazis' systematic looting of paintings, sculptures, documents, books, musical manuscripts and other cultural items all across Europe during World War II.
"The volume before us today is the last known of the 100 some volumes created during World War II by the Nazis," said Archivist of the United States David Ferriero.
The Monuments Men, a team of WWII soldiers made up of architects and artists who worked to protect artwork from Nazis and recover what had been stolen, found 39 of the albums in the weeks after the war ended. Since then, four others, including the one donated Thursday by the Monuments Men Foundation, have been discovered. The last donation of an album to the Archives was in 2012.
The albums serve as a catalog of stolen items and an example of what Adolf Hitler was trying to accomplish — destroying a culture.
"The album is yet another evidence of the Nazi theft of cultural property and it's also proof of the extent they went to document their thievery," said Greg Bradsher, senior archivist at the National Archives and an expert on Holocaust-era assets records.
The albums have helped ascertain legal ownership of stolen artwork and get it returned, but hundreds of thousands of items, worth billions of dollars, are still missing today.
The story of the Monuments Men has recently been thrust into the spotlight. A book of the same title documenting their tale was made into a movie starring George Clooney, which was released in December.
Robert Edsel, chairman of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art and author of the book, hopes the recent Hollywood publicity will help more stolen artifacts get returned.
"We're using the visibility of my books and importantly the monuments film that, for the first time ever, is engaging the public to ask them for their help in locating and returning these important objects to their rightful owners," Edsel said.
He believes many of the still missing albums were likely picked up by American soldiers and are in the United States.
"All four of the ones we found were all found by American soldiers, one with the 101st Airborne, the Screaming Eagles, one with the 969th Field Battalion, and another with a member of the 969th," Edsel said. "We don't know that they knew each other, but it makes sense; they were all stationed in the same area."
According to Edsel, there are anywhere from five to 57 more albums missing.
He said anyone with information about items taken deliberately or as a souvenir from Europe during WWII should contact the Monuments Men Foundation.


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We already know quite a few details about Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft's upcoming attempt to retain - or grow - its market share in the browser world. Standards and speed are the main focus of IE9, and if a video of the upcoming beta release is anything to go by, they're doing pretty well. Just... Did they just manage to make the interface even less appealing?
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I'm all for the more Spartan toolbars—I find it a lot cleaner and important in the new world order of widescreen displays—but I agree that's not enough space for tabs. Hopefully we'll have the ability to have a second toolbar that can contain nothing but tabs.
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I would like to hear how you deal with the stickiness. Do you use a screen so you don't need to have them sliding off a paddle? My plan at this point for next time is about two hours before the bake to knead in a bunch more flour to make the dough manageable. This is related to what I did for my second pizza but will give the new flour time to ferment a bit. Also how big are your dough balls? I made two pizzas from your recipe and the crust was pretty thick in the middle.
Thanks -- I wasn't thinking that the flour could make so much difference. I like this KA white whole wheat a lot otherwise, so I am going to first get a recipe for it before moving on to other kinds of flour (also I have 5lbs of it to use up!).Scott
The three basic techniques that I use are:1. High hydration dough. This really lightens up the dough, making it easy to mix and enables the crust to expand to it's fullest potential. I go with a 95% hydration rate, this will vary with the type of flour used so you'll have to experiment.2. Small amount of yeast coupled with a long, slow, room temperature fermentation. This will put the kabosh on the raw, bitter, grassy taste of the bran. It will also develop the glutenus to the maximus. You may also want to try white whole wheat flour. It's an albino strain of wheat that has all the nutritional properties of regular whole wheat without the strong flavor.3. High heat oven. Most home ovens only go up to around 500 degrees. I cook my whole grain pizzas at around 625 in the gas-fired LBE. I've never had good luck with an electric oven. As soon as you open the oven door to load the pizza, the temp drops 50 degrees and the heating element just doesn't have the muscle to get it back up to temp quickly enough. Any good cook will tell you caramelization equals flavor and you need the right temperature and oven for that. Remember, brown is good, black is burnt!
Villa, when you make your bagels, do you boil them at all or straight bake? Also, did you ever put vital wheat gluten in the dough?Thanks..


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BOSTON (TheStreet) -- With the economy recovering slowly and the job market still rather tight, most would assume employers would have no trouble filling open positions. That isn't necessarily the case.
According to a recent survey by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, 80% of areas surveyed had trouble helping employers fill "middle-skilled" positions such as welders, truckers and machinists because many applicants lack the necessary qualifications.
That's because most of these positions need training beyond a high school diploma, and many prospective workers face roadblocks to getting or completing training -- such as a lack of money, child care or reliable transportation.
Specifically, 67% of survey respondents referred to participants' lack of access to transportation and child care as an obstacle, while 66% found that many of the potential workers lacked even basic skills in areas such as reading and math needed to take part in training. Additionally, 62% of respondents had difficulty finding training providers that could adapt quickly to the evolving needs of employers, while more than half (54%) noted that costs of training were too high for many prospective employees.
The survey looked at 200 of the approximately 600 state and local Worker Investment Boards tasked with helping employers find hires for open positions -- part of the Department of Labor's Workforce Investment Act Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.
The funds for the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs have also been cut by nearly a quarter (24%) since 2000 down from $2.5 billion in fiscal year 2000 to $1.9 billion this year, although the WIBs still provided job training to more than 250,000 participants in 2011. Many WIB representatives cited the decrease in funding as a formidable challenge in maximizing their goals, forcing them to make difficult tradeoffs on how to distribute limited training funds over a broad population.
"Because it takes more time and resources to prepare low-skilled participants to enter training, local areas must balance helping low-skilled workers improve their skills with serving as many individuals as possible," the GAO summed up.
To help participants, the Department of Labor coordinated with the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services to pay for and provide guidance for linking basic skills education, occupational training and support services. This "Career Pathways" approach needs more research to see how well it works, the GAO says.
"Little is known about the extent to which local areas are using career pathways approaches or how they are using these approaches -- specifically to prepare participants for middle-skilled jobs that employers have had difficulty filling," the report says.
"Without information on whether and how local areas are using these approaches to prepare participants for such jobs, DOL may not be well-positioned to help local areas use these approaches to better meet employers' needs," the GAO says.


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Police have made an arrest in connection with a weekend shooting on the Tammany Trace.
Officials said 21-year-old Jesse Stowe, of Ponchatoula, was arrested by Mandeville detectives Monday night. He was charged with armed robbery and attempted first degree murder.
Police Chief Rick Richard said detectives have recovered several pieces of evidence, including the vehicle that was taken from the victim during the attack. Officials said Stowe has confessed to the crime, acknowledging that the incident began as a drug transaction.
The victim, Leonard Breaux, 24, of Covington, was found lying unconscious on the trace suffering from a gunshot wound to the head at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday. He was in critical condition Tuesday morning.


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Focus 1.6Tdci 58 Plate
womble68 posted a topic in Ford Focus Clubdon't know where to turn now.... my focus developed a engine malfuction fault , basicly it's stuck in limp mode , it's been into 3 different garages and no one can find whats wrong, the main deal had it for a month and couldn't find the fault they just said the cluster needs replacing at a stupid price , i have sent the cluster away twice to be checked and both time came back in full working order according to the company i havent got the money just to replace the cluster just to see if it that which is what the dealer has said i need to do just for elimination process, everything works ok apart from being stuck in limp mode no the mot has run out and i cant get a new one till it's sorted , anyone able to offer any advice , had the accelerater pedal replaced and that didnt solve it either spent over 600 quid so far on labour and parts and still no joy
air filter was replaced a 3 months ago fuel filter last service which was 12 months ago so i'll give that a try cheers,
2008 1.6Tdci Titanium Fault
womble68 posted a topic in Ford Focus Clubanyone able to help, my focus has broke , had an engine malfunction put it into local garage they couldn't help although they found a couple of corroded wires which they repaired so took it to a main dealer spent a fair amount of money and they still haven't been able to sort it , first they said it was glow plugs, then it was the accelerator pedal so replaced that still same problem then they said it was the dash cluster needed replacing at a stupid price so I sent clocks to a company and they've come back with a 2 year warranty stating that they work fine no faults, basically where I stand now is the car runs but when ever I press accelerator I get a beep and display says engine malfunction and says reduced acceleration, read the error codes and comes up with immobiliser id does not match although this was the fault the main dealer said they had but they wont investigate any further until they replace the cluster even though the company I sent them to state they are working correctly , I don't want to fork out 650+ and its not the clocks and something else anyone have any thoughts on what it may be cheers
2008 1.6Tdci Titanium Fault
womble68 replied to womble68's topic in Ford Focus Clubhi thanks for the reply, when it first happened I called out green flag and they said thecode showing was the accelerator position sensor and I said this to ford but when they replaced the pedal it didn't solve it but they never mentioned checking the throttle body? can independant garage recode key and do a firmware upgrade as I don't have any confidence in my main dealer as my 17 yr old daughter showed me a photo of my car in the dealers apparently her friend is an apprentice there and he'd been working on my car for a week and couldn't find what was wrong with it ....funny how they still charged me 80 quid an hour for the apprentice to look at it, she said he worked on it on his own most of the time although the garage said it was a trained mechanic doing the work!! also I only have one key for the car would this be a problem?
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womble68 posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubHi all any advice welcomed... right had a few issues with car (1.6 tdci 08 plate) anyway been in garage several times had various things done still no fix anyway it was traced down to the cluster car running with cluster out of dash then malfunction happens wiggle clocks fault goes everything fine then comes back wiggle clocks again fault goes had the wiring all checked no breaks or anything, but if you pressed the grey terminal block on back of cluster then fault would go let pressure off and fault comes back so had cluster terminal resoldered and that's now fine seems there was a dry joint / crack in one of the terminal pins but now car will run but only with reduced acceleration everything else appears fine car runs just the pick up speed reduced , tried clearing codes , disconnecting battery but everytime touch the accelerator pedal even very lightly the warning beep and engine malfunction comes up and says acceleration reduced.... any ideas ? does the car need to go to be reset at a ford dealer or could there be a further fault with the cluster? I've already paid for 2 diagnostics and over 200 quid for replacing the earth cables because of corrosion and fault finding still car not fixed , ford want over 700 quid to replace the cluster and to upload info from old cluster to new one :(
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womble68 posted a topic in Ford Focus Clubhi i'm after some help I've previously posted about problems with engine malfunction and all sorts of stuff happing on my 2008 1.6 tdci titanium put new battery on and decided to change glow plugs because I had them anyway still no difference sometimes would be fine and then other times malfunction again, been to several garages and one said so many fault codes they wouldn't know where to start anyway just been running the car with a test meter on the battery and was charging normally at about 14.4 volts then the display beeps and said engine malfunction checked the meter and the volts had jumped up to 16.9 volts switched car off straight away left it for a few minutes then restarted everything fine voltage normal again then again the beep and engine malfunction and then volts had jumped back to 16.9 ish , rang the garage and spoke to the mechanic that first looked at it and he said that that hadn't happened when they had it hooked up but then again the car didn't show a malfunction for them either but he said that explains a lot and said that the voltage jumping would cause all sorts of problems with the pcm , apperantly there is a for technical bulletin regarding the wiring loom and corrosion which would cause this exact problem , I asked if it could be the altenator but he said very unlikey ...... so question is a: where is pcm located so I can check the wiring and trace it back to see if there is any problems with it b: does the power from altenator not go directly to the battery first? c: if ford know about this problem would / should the correct the fault ? cheers for any help given driving me nuts so hopefully can get it sorted
just had dealer on phone it said it is a calcium battery he said silver is just a term ford use but he said deffo a calcium batt... also just been down and checked voltage from altenator with plug taken off back and was running at 11.7 volts plug back in and goes up to 16 volts + and engine light comes on on dash with plug out engine light goes out but batt warning light comes on I presume this is because not enough voltage to charge batt
old one deffo silver calcium battery new one doesn't say on it waiting for a call back from battery dealer he's checking with manufacturer of battery
emmm i'll go check I just went to the local battery outlet gave the reg no. and they gave me the battery for my model although this problem was happening before I swapped the battery , I thought a new battery may help as it was the original ford one on the car and I've done 120,000 so had good use from it
2008 Focus 1.6 Tdci Titanium
womble68 posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubHi there in need of help so any info would be greatly received,i have a 2008 focus 1.6 tdci titanium about 2 months ago went out to car and wouldn't start said engine malfunction, tried a few times and car restarted and not had any probs since until yesterday same thing happened so called out green flag they couldn't help to indentify problem because their box couldn't communicate with the car but has it was running again they said see how it goes anyway thought i'd put it into garage that does work on it for a diagnostics check but they couldn't help because it came up with over 10 fault codes and they couldn't tell what may be causing the problem I got chatting to an old boy there and he said he thought it could be a fuse box problem because of the intermitten nature I drove back no problems checked the fuse box in engine bay and sure enough there was evidence of water dirt ingress so disconnected battery tried cleaning it up the best I could gave it a spray with some electrical spray replaced fuses and now the car won't even start just comes up on dash with transmission malfunction, i'm guessing that the problem is still in the fuse box unless anyone a another thought... how hard are they to take out so I could see the underneath and see if there is even more corrosion than I could see from above as said any help appreiciated
right just been tinkering got car running when I try to start it just beeps and says engine malfunction but I put a jump pack on and car starts fine, while running take test pack off and after about 10 seconds warning beep and says engine malfunction so turn off connect jump pack back up and start again leave jump pack connected for a minute or two and everything fine take pack off and malfunction again .. on test meter 14.4 volts coming to the battery when under load lights heater rear screen front screen goes down to 12.6 - 13 volts .. battery seems to hold charge ok but wondering if its the battery that's playing up and effecting the engine management or could it be the alternator ?
Its manual gearbox also just checked battery and its a little low just under 12v
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womble68 posted a topic in Ford Focus Clubanyone help this morning went out to car put key in to start warning beep and display said engine malfunction and power steering malfunction switched of tried again same thing turned of locked car then unlocked and car started fine, half mile down road beeping started and display said engine malfunction + power steering malfunction all lights on dash lit up, turn car of and back on started fine drove to work and home again about 15 miles been out and about again and everything is fine any ideas on this or do you think it was just a gremlin in the car lol cheers for any advice
womble68 replied to womble68's topic in Ford Focus Clubcheers fella i'm gonna check it out tomorrow we had a lot of rain over weekend and went through a few deep puddles on the lanes round me so gonna check out connectors


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I have had the issue of over-carbonation with a few of my brews. I add priming sugar to the book, so I don't think that's the issue, because it doesn't happen with all of my beers. Off the top of my head, I think it has happened to a single hop Chinook IPA, Pumpkin Ale, and then, most recently, my Celebration IPA. The Celebration was a 10 gallon batch and half was kegged (tremendous), and half was bottled. The bottled beer is very over carbonated. I won't say that it's a gusher, but the carbonation slowing comes out of the bottle and is very difficult to pour. I think that I have come to the conclusion that these beers are not getting completely fermented. With my early beers, I have gone one week in primary and one in secondary and 2 weeks in bottle. For the last 4 or 5 batches, I have been going 1 1/2 to 2 weeks in the primary and 1 1/2 to 2 weeks in the secondary (I did for the celebration). I have been using White Labs, because I feel that it leaves a much cleaner taste than any dry yeasts. My temp is constant 70-74 degrees I'm thinking that I may not be transferring enough yeast into the secondary to complete the fermentation. Could this be the issue? Or does anybody else have any possible solutions?
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December 26, 2012, 01:01:27 PM »
I don't think the problem is incomplete fermentation.
1.5 - 2 weeks in primary is usually plenty of time to complete fermentation.
Do you check final gravity a couple of times before bottling?
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December 26, 2012, 01:37:16 PM »
Frank, after following the textbook guidance regarding priming sugar for my first couple of years brewing, getting way too many gushers, I decided to cut back on priming sugar a little bit. For example, try cutting back to like 90% of what the rules of thumb would dictate. You'll still get plenty of carbonation, no worries about that, but without as many gushers. If 90% is still too much, then cut back to 80% -- incidentally, that's about where my beers are carbonated now. I still get a gusher on rare occasion for whatever reason, but it is extremely rare that I get a beer that is nearly flat. Most beers are perfectly carbonated. So that is my advice. Not sure exactly why it happens, and there are a lot of variables involved. However I do think the rules of thumb for priming sugar set the amount too high......
Just a possibility, but recommendations to overprime, at least in a few cases, might even be on purpose in order to guarantee success for beginning homebrewers who are always too eager to pop their first 6-pack, and by priming a little bit too much on the high side, they are guaranteed some carbonation when their impatience wears thin. Once they learn that the beers become gushers with age, they can choose whether they want to cut down on priming suger. For lazy brewers like me, I can wait a month before opening a bottle of beer. Sometimes. And by then, carbonation is done. Or often I will set a couple of bottles in a warm spot in my house (75 F) so that they carbonate within about one week, and leave the rest in my basement to carbonate in a cool environment (60 F). By the time the first couple are gone and I am craving some more, the ones in the basement are usually ready to roll.
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December 26, 2012, 01:49:56 PM »
Make sure you are using a calculator to determine how much priming sugar to add based on your fermentation temps and so on. If you're just adding a full 5oz bag of corn sugar to each batch, that may be a bit much for some beers. Here are two good calculators to use:
Unless you have a specific reason to use a secondary (fruit beer, dry hopping and you're reusing the yeast, etc.), you can leave your beer in the primary the whole time. I've left beer in primary for over 6 weeks with no ill effect, and I'm sure there are others here who will tell you they've gone even longer.
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December 26, 2012, 03:06:29 PM »
This is good stuff! It's so much better being an active participant in a forum than just reading them...I think I made the right decision and getting a membership.
I do take gravity readings, which all go as planned...so that's why I was getting confused by this issue of over-carbonation. I have not used a calculator, but I use a floating chart that is in the "How to Brew" book by Palmer. That's about all I use that book for. I wasn't a big fan, but it got my feet on the ground with brewing. Since I switched to all-grain brewing in June or July, the Ray Daniels' "Designing Great Beers" has been my biggest benefit especially with making recipes. So, that makes a lot of sense, Dave. When my uncle and I started in March, we were pretty anxious to trying our beers and were trying them after a week in the bottle. Now that we have a room full of beer, that's not necessary haha. So, I will try cutting the corn sugar a bit. I think we had been going on the higher end of the suggested CO2 volume as well. We bottled a honey porter a week and half ago, but with the disappointment of the bottled Celebration IPA, I used the minimum suggest CO2 volume. We will see what happens.
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December 26, 2012, 03:53:48 PM »
Because you mentioned that it was a split batch, another consideration is how well you knew the volume of the beer you bottled. If you added the amount of sugar for 5 gallons but you actually had less than 5 gallons in your bottling bucket, you'd end up with more carbonation than you intended.
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December 26, 2012, 04:53:36 PM »
Actually, we bottled nearly six gallons now that I think of it. Our keg is an 1/8 of a keg...I think it's 3.8 gallons, maybe 4. I'm pretty sure I used 5 ounces of priming sugar. All of my notes are at my Uncle's house. That's where we do the brewing.
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December 26, 2012, 07:56:23 PM »
Couple of important factors. First, beer fermented at a cooler temp will retain more dissolved CO2 than one fermented warmer, so this time of year its often necessary to use less priming sugar. The calculators ask about temp for this reason.
Second, I think beers with more body naturally fizz up more vigorously just because the extra body holds the bubbles better.
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I've been putting off the official launch of this new version of my blog because I don't feel it's ready yet. No author photo, no link to my book, no press kit, no calendar, et cetera. But I'm between two big events and I need to announce it in some way. So forgive the hasty look of the place. I just moved in.
First off, my story, "A Flash of Hope," is the story of the week on the wonderful Moth Podcast, available on iTunes at this page: http://tinyurl.com/djy2ms The Moth Podcast is often the #1 podcast in the country (up there with This American Life, Car Talk, and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me), so I'm thrilled to be on display. And they mention my book! (Some of you may know this story by the title I usually give it, "The Most Heartwarming Wet T-Shirt Contest Ever." They needed something shorter.)
In other news--bigger but more localized--I'm opening for David Sedaris at FSU in Tallahassee on Thursday....


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"Over a year ago, Microsoft executives sent out feelers to Facebook to see if the company would be interested in acquiring Bing, though the overture was not officially sanctioned by Steven A. Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, one of these people said. Mr. Zuckerberg declined, saying Facebook had too much else to concentrate on. Dawn Beauparlant, a spokeswoman for Microsoft, declined to comment, as did Ashley Zandy, a spokeswoman for Facebook." Seems Facebook is smart.
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On Aug. 20, comedian and actor Pauly Shore will perform one show only at City Stage in downtown Wilmington. The show is being presented by the nearby Nutt Street comedy club.
Shore came to fame in the early '90s via MTV, hosting events and shows in a surfer dude persona known as The Weasel. An on-air VJ from 1989 to 1994, Shore's success at MTV led to a string of movies like "Son in Law" and "Encino Man."
But many may not know that Shore has a long history connected to stand-up comedy.
His father is comedian Sammy Shore and his mother founded The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, where he essentially grew up around a long list of comedians performed and came to fame.
Shore did a great interview with Marc Maron on his WTF podcast last fall. In it Shore talks about growing up around The Comedy Store, becoming a stand-up comic, his life and famous comics like Richard Pryor and Sam Kinison.
Check it out below.
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The CCRI Knights men's basketball team hosted the Pointers of the University of Connecticut at Avery Point for their home opener on Tuesday. The Knights defeated the Pointers 92-55. With the victory the Knights improved to 3-2 on the season and 1-1 in Region XXI play.
After getting off to a slow start, the Knights found themselves trailing 6-5 five minutes into the game. From there, the Knights heated up and went on a 12-3 run over the next five minutes and never looked back. The Knights went into halftime leading 47-22. In the second half, the Knights kept up their fast pace and outscored the Pointers 45-33 to coast to the win.
Leading the way for the Knights was freshman guard Rob Hazard (North Providence) with 15 points, including two 3-pointers, while adding five assists.
Captain Isaac Medeiros (Johnston) added 14 points with five assists. The Knights three other starters also played very well, led by Jerome Harris (Hartford, Conn.) with 11 points, two steals and a blocked shot. Captain Bryan Yarce (Cranston) led the Knights with a game-high seven assists to go with three steals and five points while Pat Marchand (Cranston) added a team-high eight rebounds. Rounding out the Knights attack was Flavio Barros (Woonsocket) who scored 10 points on a perfect 4-for-4 from the field and 2-for-2 on free throws, plus four rebounds, and Elijah Okagbare (Bourne, Mass.), who added nine points with four rebounds.
"Nice team victory tonight for our young men," CCRI head coach Rick Harris said. "They deserve this kind of night due to their hard work in practice along with outstanding team play. We can now enjoy the next few days with our first families for Thanksgiving."
The Knights return to action Saturday the 24th when they will travel to Middletown, N.Y. to play the Colts of Orange County Community College at 1 p.m.
No. 6 Lady Knights shoot to No. 16 in NJCAA Poll
The CCRI Lady Knights basketball team is off this week, however they received some excellent news on the national scene. After going a perfect 6-0 in the first six games and 1-0 in Region XXI play, the team's hard work was rewarded with a No. 16 national ranking in the latest NJCAA Division II women's basketball poll. To view the poll, please go to: http://www.njcaa.org/.
The No. 16 ranked Lady Knights will face No. 1 ranked Johnson County CC on Saturday, Dec. 1 in their home opener at 2 p.m. for what should be one of the most exciting women's basketball games to be played in Rhode Island this year. All Lady Knights' home games are played at the Vincent A. Cullen Fieldhouse located on the CCRI Knight Campus in Warwick and admission is always free.


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Number: 111- 47
Date: July 23, 2010
President Signs S. 1508
"Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010"
On July 22, 2010, President Obama signed S. 1508, the "Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010," which became Public Law 111-204.
This follows passage of this bill by the House on July 14, 2010 (by a vote of
414 - 0). The bill as passed by the House was the same bill passed by the Senate on June 23. (See Legislative Bulletin 111-45.)
The law includes the following provisions of interest to SSA.
Three-Year Review by Agency Head
- Beginning with the year after enactment, requires the head of each Federal agency to review agency programs and activities every three fiscal years and identify those that may be susceptible to significant improper payments.
- Sets forth risk factors for conducting improper payment reviews, including: (1) whether the program or activity is new to the agency; (2) the volume of payments made; (3) whether payment decisions are made outside of the agency; (4) recent major changes in program funding, authorities, practices, or procedures; (5) the level and quality of personnel training; and (6) significant deficiencies in auditing practices.
Estimates of Improper Payments and Actions to Reduce and Recover Improper Payments
- Requires agency heads to: (1) produce a statistically valid estimate of the improper payments in their agencies; and (2) include such estimates in their annual financial statements.
- Expands agency reporting requirements with respect to improper payments to require reports on actions to both reduce the number of improper payments and recover improper payments.
OMB Report Requirement and Authorization for Pilot Projects
- Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) report to specified congressional committees in each fiscal year on actions agencies have taken to report on and recover improper payments; and (2) provide guidance to agencies for implementing actions to reduce improper payments and strategies for addressing risks and establishing internal controls. Such report would be due no later than 6 months after enactment.
- Authorizes the Director of OMB to establish one or more pilot programs to test accountability mechanisms to ensure compliance with this Act and eliminate improper payments.
Agency Head to Conduct Recovery Audits
- Requires agency heads to conduct recovery audits for agency programs that expend $1 million or more annually, if such audits would be cost-effective.
- Allows agencies to retain up to 25 percent of funds recovered from a recovery audit to be used to address improper payments; up to 25 percent for the program's original purpose, and up to 5 percent for the Office of Inspector General. The remainder would be returned to General Revenues or the appropriate trust fund. This provision would apply only to recoveries of overpayments made for years after enactment from discretionary appropriations – e.g., SSA's LAE.
Inspector General Report
- Requires each agency's Inspector General to report each fiscal year on agency compliance with this Act.
Effective Date
- Unless otherwise specified, the provisions of the law are effective upon enactment.


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Syracuse Views Fall 2018
What catches your eye on the Syracuse University campus—a beautiful sunset over campus, a cool class project or time spent on the Shaw Quad? Take a photo and share it with us. We select photos from a variety of sources….
Michael Lenox will be on campus April 9-12 to speak about business strategy, innovation and sustainability
The Sustainable Enterprise Partnership (SEP) announces that Michael Lenox, Samuel L. Slover Professor of Business at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business Administration, will be the SEP's 2012 Fetner Sustainable Enterprise Fellow.
As the Fetner Sustainable Enterprise Fellow, Lenox will be on the SU campus April 9-12 to work and meet with faculty, students and the business community and share his internationally recognized expertise in the intersection of business strategy, public policy and the natural environment.
On Monday, April 9, Lenox will discuss sustainability-related research trends and opportunities with SU and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) faculty and graduate students. Later in the week, he will lead a luncheon discussion for faculty and Ph.D. students on "Sustainability in the Curriculum," based on his leadership experience with this topic at Darden and Duke University. There will additionally be presentations from Whitman sustainability-focused curriculum innovation grant recipients.
During his time in Syracuse, he will also meet with graduate students enrolled in the SEP's Certificate of Advanced Study in Sustainable Enterprise (CASSE) program and will guest teach the CASSE course "Managing Sustainability."
On Wednesday, April 11, at 8 a.m., Lenox will share his research on trends in green tech entrepreneurship and innovation with the business community at a breakfast in the Whitman School's Milton Room. To register for this event, contact Carolyn Hilleges at email@example.com.
The Fetner Sustainable Enterprise Fellow is made possible through a gift by Hal Fetner '83, president and CEO of Durst-Fetner Residential, and his wife, Nina. This recognition is given annually to an academic expert in sustainable enterprise whose three- to four-day residency involves direct, in-depth work with faculty and students.
"We are so pleased that Dr. Lenox is this year's Fetner Sustainable Enterprise Fellow," says Fetner. "Michael Lenox is recognized internationally for his expertise in innovation and entrepreneurship. Our students and faculty, as well as the business community, have much to learn from his perspective on the importance of sustainability to economic growth and competitive success."
Lenox's recent work explores firm strategies and non-traditional public policies that have the potential to drive "green" innovation and entrepreneurship.
Lenox's research has appeared in more than 25 refereed academic publications and he is often cited in national media outlets. In 2009, he was recognized as a Faculty Pioneer by the Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education for his leadership in integrating social and environmental issues into his teaching and research. Also that year, he was named as the top strategy professor under 40 by the Strategic Management Society.
Lenox serves as the faculty director for the multiple-university Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability. He is the executive director of Darden's Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Prior to joining Darden in 2008, he was a professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, where he was the founder and faculty director of Duke's Corporate Sustainability Initiative.
The SEP is a collaborative initiative of the Whitman School of Management, L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (SyracuseCoE), and provides world-class education and research on sustainable enterprise by leveraging the academic, public and private sector resources of Central New York and beyond to address this significant and growing area of concern for businesses and other organizations.
The Aspen Institute's 2011-12 Beyond Grey Pinstripes report recently ranked the Whitman School of Management among the top in the world for integrating environmental, ethical and social issues into graduate business education. This first-time Beyond Grey Pinstripes Top 100 ranking recognizes Whitman's M.B.A. program and the SEP as major contributors to SU's leadership in teaching and researching issues pertaining to sustainability in business and society.
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Chancellor Kent Syverud discussed diversity and inclusion, proposed changes to Title IX and faculty complaint procedures at the Dec. 12 University Senate meeting. He recognized Teresa Dahlberg's new appointment as provost of Texas Christian University and Dina Eldaway's selection as…
Scott Lathrop, assistant professor of marketing practice in the Whitman School, was interviewed by CNY Central for the story "Has Cyber Monday lost its luster? Experts say no."
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Mary Lovely, professor of economics in the Maxwell School, was interviewed by the Financial Post, Marketplace, Bloomberg, and WHYY's Radio Times program for stories about General Motors.
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text: Main Content Act 281 of 1986 friendly link Printer Friendly bills affecting index and updates Search within this Statute for ***** Act 281 of 1986 THIS ACT IS REPEALED BY ACT 57 OF 2018 EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2019 ***** THE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCING ACTAct 281 of 1986AN ACT to encourage local development to prevent conditions of unemployment and promote economic growth; to provide for the establishment of local development finance authorities and to prescribe their powers and duties; to provide for the creation of a board to govern an authority and to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for the creation and implementation of development plans; to authorize the acquisition and disposal of interests in real and personal property; to permit the issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness by an authority; to prescribe powers and duties of certain public entities and state officers and agencies; to reimburse authorities for certain losses of tax increment revenues; and to authorize and permit the use of tax increment financing. History: 1986, Act 281, Eff. Feb. 1, 1987 ;-- Am. 1993, Act 333, Eff. Mar. 15, 1994 ;-- Am. 2000, Act 248, Imd. Eff. June 29, 2000 © 2017 Legislative Council, State of MichiganThe People of the State of Michigan enact: DocumentTypeDescription Section 125.2151SectionLegislative findings; short title. Section 125.2152SectionDefinitions. Section 125.2153SectionAuthority; establishment by municipality; establishment by next Michigan development corporation; limitation; powers. Section 125.2154SectionResolution of intent to create and provide for operation of authority; notice of public hearing; hearing; resolution exempting taxes from capture; action of library board or commission; resolution establishing authority and designating boundaries; filing and publication; alteration or amendment of boundaries; validity of proceedings; establishment of authority by 2 or more municipalities; procedures to be followed by Next Michigan development corporation. Section 125.2155SectionBoard; appointment, qualification, and terms of members; vacancy; reimbursement for expenses; chairperson; oath of office; rules; procedure; meetings; removal of member; publicizing expense items; financial records open to public; subsections (1) and (5) inapplicable to certain authority. Section 125.2156SectionDirector, employment; compensation; term; oath of office; bond; chief executive officer; duties; acting director; appointment or employment, compensation, and duties of treasurer; appointment or employment, compensation, and duties of secretary; legal counsel; employment of other personnel; municipal retirement and insurance programs. Section 125.2157SectionPowers of board generally. Section 125.2158SectionAuthority as instrumentality of political subdivision. Section 125.2159SectionTaking, transfer, and use of private property. Section 125.2160SectionFinancing activities of authority. Section 125.2161SectionRevenue bonds. Section 125.2161aSectionInsufficient tax increment revenues for repayment of advance or payment of obligation; appropriation; filing claim; information required in claim; distributions; determination of amounts; limitations; distribution subject to lien; indebtedness, liability, or obligation; certification of distribution amount; basis for calculation of distributions and claims reports; use of 12-month debt payment period. Section 125.2161bSectionRetention and payment of taxes levied under state education tax act; conditions; application by authority for approval; information to be included; approval, modification, or denial of application by department of treasury; appropriation and distribution of amount; calculation of aggregate amount; lien; reimbursement calculations; legislative intent. Section 125.2162SectionTax increment financing plan. Section 125.2162aSectionDesignation as certified technology park; application to Michigan economic development corporation; agreement; determination of sale price or rental value for public facilities; inclusion of legal and equitable remedies and rights; marketing services; additional certified technology parks; priority to certain applications; duties of state. Section 125.2162bSectionCreation of authority in which certified technology park designated; agreement with another authority; designation of distinct geographic area; consideration of advantages and benefits; capture of amounts levied by state and local and intermediate school districts; application for approval of distinct geographic area; competitive application process; requirements. Section 125.2162cSectionDesignation as certified alternative energy park; application; criteria; agreement; determination of sale price or rental value for public facilities; inclusion of legal and equitable remedies and rights; limitations; pledge to support authority's tax increment bonds; ownership and operation by economic development corporation. Section 125.2162dSectionConveyance or lease of public facilities at less than fair market value or below market rates. Section 125.2162eSectionNotice of designation of next Michigan development area; marketing of authority district by Michigan economic development corporation; pledge to support tax increment bonds. Section 125.2163SectionTax increment revenues transmitted to authority; expenditure of tax increment revenues; retention or reversion of excess revenue; prohibition; abolition of tax increment financing plan; annual financial report. Section 125.2164SectionTax increment bonds; qualified refunding obligation. Section 125.2165SectionDevelopment plan generally. Section 125.2166SectionAdoption of resolution approving development plan or tax increment financing plan; public hearing; notice; record. Section 125.2167SectionDevelopment plan or tax increment financing plan as constituting public purpose; approval or rejection; considerations; amendments; procedure, notice, findings, and amendment as conclusive; contest. Section 125.2168SectionRelocation of person; notice to vacate. Section 125.2169SectionPreparation and submission of budget; manner; approval; cost of handling and auditing funds. Section 125.2170SectionDissolution of authority; resolution; disposition of property and assets. Section 125.2171SectionProceedings to enforce act. Section 125.2172SectionEffective date. Section 125.2173SectionConditional effective date. Section 125.2174SectionConstitutionality of act.


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ORLANDO, Fla. — The bishops of the Anglican Church in America have voted to accept Pope Benedict XVI's invitation to bring their 3,000 members into the Catholic Church.
The unanimous vote of eight members of the House of Bishops, who met in Orlando, Fla., brings 120 parishes in four dioceses across the country into the Church.
Also present at the March 3 vote and in support of it were representatives of "Anglican use" parishes admitted on a one-by-one basis to the Catholic Church in accordance with the Pastoral Provision of Pope John Paul II in 1980.
The move is seen as significant for both the "Anglo-Catholics" in the Anglican Church in America and the worldwide Traditional Anglican Communion — and the Catholic Church.
"We are returning to the Roman Catholic Church as community with a common past and a common future," commented Christian Campbell, a Florida lay member of the Anglican Church in America and coordinator of a blog called TheAngloCatholic.com.
Allies in Orthodoxy
Campbell believes that Pope Benedict intends for the Anglo-Catholics to be allies in his struggles to raise the quality of liturgy in the Catholic Church as well as reinforce orthodoxy: "Maybe some elements of the sacred have been lost in recent years and he wants us to help wage the battle against all the defects."
Father Dwight Longenecker agrees. "That's exactly what Pope Benedict is doing," said the onetime Anglican priest, who converted to Catholicism 15 years ago and has been a Catholic priest for three and a half. "I think the Pope sees the Church divided into two: not between Roman Catholics and Protestants, but between those who believe the Christian faith and those who do not. He is trying to gather all those who believe in the Christian faith into communion with the Holy See."
"There is a lot of talk about ecumenism," declared the Most Reverend John Hepworth, primate of the 300,000-strong worldwide communion, shortly after the historic vote. "But this is true ecumenism."
Archbishop Hepworth's home community of Australia has already voted to accept Pope Benedict's historic invitation, outlined in the November 2009 apostolic constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus. The Pope's invitation opened the door for disaffected Anglicans to join the Catholic Church while retaining what the Pope terms their distinct "spiritual and liturgical patrimony," including their liturgy, married priests and distinct parishes.
Hepworth, a onetime Catholic seminarian, says there has been an Anglo-Catholic minority in the Anglican Church working for reunification for centuries. This "high church" movement gained adherents in the 19th century. One of them, John Henry Newman, ultimately converted on his own and became a cardinal of the Catholic Church. (Pope Benedict XVI will beatify Cardinal Newman this September during his visit to the United Kingdom.)
In the early 20th century, says Archbishop Hepworth, reunion talks began with Rome, but these foundered during the Second World War.
Subsequently, talks resumed, but the Anglican Communion's ordination of women and acceptance of homosexuality made unification increasingly unlikely.
The ordination of women (which first took place in 1976 in the U.S.) provoked the breaking away of large numbers of Anglo-Catholics worldwide into several groups, the largest of which is the Traditional Anglican Communion led by Archbishop Hepworth. Traditional Anglican Communion members not only agreed with the Catholic Church that women could not be priests but also feared that this move would forever block reunification.
No longer saddled with the liberal views of the mainline Anglican-Episcopal Churches of England, America, Australia and New Zealand, the Traditional Anglican Communion determined to approach Rome.
While Pope John Paul II was sympathetic to Anglo-Catholic aspirations, he would leave the details to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, limiting himself to the encouragement to "be generous."
"If you want action, we found, the CDF was the place," said Hepworth. The cardinal was more than sympathetic. A man who shared Anglo-Catholics' emphasis on the sacredness of liturgy, Cardinal Ratzinger even assisted them in developing their own hymnal.
On his advice, the Traditional Anglican Communion issued a formal statement of their wish to reconcile with Rome three years ago. Last November came Pope Benedict's much-anticipated response laying out the rejoining process and the structure awaiting the returnees.
"Doctrine was not a problem with those of us in the Anglo-Catholic tradition," commented Archbishop Hepworth. But some of the people who joined the new Church did need persuading, he added.
The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, for example, has been reflected for centuries in the Anglican calendar of saints by the feast of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. "Wickedly," jokes Hepworth, "we have asked our Catholic brothers, 'What took you so long?'" (The Catholic Church has celebrated the feast day of the Immaculate Conception since the late 1400s but defined the doctrine only in 1854.)
As for papal infallibility, says Hepworth, Traditional Anglican Communion members see it as an authority issue. But they have witnessed the Anglican Communion's notable failure to stop some churches in North America from blessing homosexual partnerships and accepting homosexual clergy, even though the majority of Anglicans, in Africa and India, condemn both. So they realize the need for a single authority, says the archbishop.
"The doctrinal test that Rome put to us was acceptance of the Catholic Catechism. We have accepted it," said Hepworth.
The Catholic Church, says Hepworth, has in turn accepted Anglo-Catholic liturgy and spirituality, its approach to theology, and its "discipline," which involves married clergy.
In the new Anglo-Catholic "ordinariates," as the national groupings will be called, while married bishops are not allowed, married priests are. Moreover, the ordinaries (heads of the ordinariates) can be priests rather than bishops and will be accorded all the authority of bishops, except the power to ordain priests. These ordinaries will be nominated by a council of clergy and approved by Rome.
Designed to Last 300 Years
Moreover, the married priesthood is no "grandfather" institution. It will persist with new ordinations of married men, says Hepworth, though each married candidate for ordination must be approved on a per-case basis by Rome. "This is designed to last 300 years," said the archbishop.
Individual Anglo-Catholics will have to sign a document agreeing to the reunion and accepting its doctrinal implications, but will be admitted to the Catholic Church in corporate, parish ceremonies at which neighboring Roman Catholic parishes will be welcome.
Campbell says that Anglo-Catholics in the U.S. are aware of the Catholic Church's struggles and flaws. "We know this is not a panacea. But, for us, there really is no choice. We have always believed that Christ instituted the ministry of the bishop of Rome to be fundamental to the Church. We are obliged to seek communion with him and with the bishops who are in communion with him."
At a practical level, he noted, Traditional Anglican Communion congregations are spread thinly. Once reunited with Rome, Anglo-Catholics can receive the sacraments at Catholic churches when they travel or move from their parishes. As well, they can welcome Roman Catholics to receive the sacraments at their hands.
Once all the bishops worldwide have voted, says Archbishop Louis Falk, primate of the Anglican Church in America, the next step is for the Traditional Anglican Communion to canvass its diocesan synods for a response to the reunion and then for the communion's worldwide college of bishops to meet with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to iron out the details. Archbishop Falk hopes this will happen shortly after Easter.
Finally, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will proclaim the existence of each Anglo-Catholic ordinariate, and the process of re-ordaining bishops and priests and admitting parishes can begin.
"The Pope's invitation just blew us away," said Archbishop Falk. "It was so pastoral, so gracious and so charitable. Let's go!"
Father Longenecker, who began his spiritual life as an evangelical Protestant and is a priest in a parish deep in the Bible Belt, hopes the Anglo-Catholic ordinariates will prove a bridge for evangelicals to move towards the Catholic Church.
"Many educated evangelicals are dissatisfied with what I call big-Baptist evangelical Christianity. They've discovered the historical Church and liturgical worship. So they try the Episcopal Church and run screaming away when they find lesbian bishops and 'gay marriage.' Or they try a Catholic church and find people kissing statues of the Infant of Prague or Our Lady of Guadalupe."
The ordinariates, on the other hand, might provide a less shocking way of connecting with the Catholic faith.
Steve Weatherbe writes from Victoria, British Columbia.