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'Culture,' a Magazine for Cheese Lovers
Say cheese! We recommend, review, and eat a lot of cheese.
For years, as the great cheese renaissance took off, there was no magazine to unify those making the cheese or tell the serious cheese-philes where to buy it. Then in 2008, at the bottom of the worst recession in generations, Culture magazine started. I loved it but feared its future. But, thankfully, two and half years later it's thriving like the wheels of goat-gouda at your local cheese shop.
I chatted with editor Elaine Khosrova about the evolution of the magazine, as well as the present and future of small scale cheesemaking in America.
Why did you get involved with the magazine? This isn't exactly the best time for print ventures. Yes, the print world is certainly in huge flux. Print media has forever lost its monopoly on public access to information. Launching a premium magazine about cheese under these new market conditions was definitely a giant leap of faith. But we saw a great opportunity to be the voice for this rapidly growing niche industry of specialty cheese, and the past 2.5 years have proven we were right.
What were you doing before this? I've been in food publishing for more than 20 years and on staff of various national magazines. When I was introduced to Culture's founding partners Stephanie and Lassa Skinner and Kate Arding by a colleague, I had a good working knowledge of cheese but have learned so much more about the incredible challenges and hard work involved in cheesemaking. I really admire the people I meet.
Can you sum up the current state of American cheesemaking? I see many indications that it's a growing sector with robust potential. More cheese shops, expanded cheese departments in markets, more cheese vendors at farmers' markets, more competitors at the American Cheese Society competition, more cheese menus at restaurants, new cheese books, blogs, and even our magazine. All these things point to good.
How serious is the current controversy over raw milk? To a cheesemaker, very serious. Regulations could seriously curtail choices for the producer and consumer. I appreciate the necessity for food safety regulation and enforcement but believe that with modern technology and testing, we've never been in a better position to produce safe delicious raw milk cheese. It takes dedication and care, but I have great faith in the integrity of artisan cheesemakers.
What are the biggest obstacles small American cheesemakers face right now? What I hear often is consumers don't always understand why high-quality cheese costs so much compared to industrial-made cheese. After milk expenses (or animal care for farmstead producers), operating and maintaining a legal creamery, aging a cheese, and bringing it to market, many artisans cheesemakers operate on a very small margin of profit. Their price reflects the cost of handmade food. This consciousness is hard to cultivate in the store. People need to see where cheese comes from and it's my hope that our magazine is helping to do that.
Do you have a crystal ball? What do you see for American cheesemaking ten years from now? Interesting cheese—different styles of both artisan and industrial American-made cheese—will be completely mainstream in ten years. A cheeseplate at McDonalds? I imagine we'll see more and more change and market infiltration among the big producers as they try to promote their own "artisan" product lines. Unfortunately, I think the fate of real artisan cheese, ten years hence, depends much on the course of government regulations.
About the interviewer: Martin Johnson runs The Joy of Cheese, a series of informal cheese tastings that take place at four New York City bars and the 92nd Street Y. He has worked in and around cheese for 26 years, and he spends his weekend afternoons and evenings on the counter of the Bedford Cheese Shop in Brooklyn. He blogs at thejoyofcheese.wordpress.com
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Sometimes you don't want an audience after all.
If there's a solid take-away from this week's spectacular display of grown-ups gone wild, it's this: In a world teeming with selfies, fueled by followers and sustained on likes, we're all better off, sometimes, when no one's watching.
From Donald Sterling's pitiful attempt at an apology, which looked more like a man digging his own grave, to Ann Coulter's tone-deaf tweaking of #BringBackOurGirls, which backfired beautifully, to the Solange/Jay Z scuffle seen (if not heard) 'round the world, we are reminded once again that private thoughts and private lives can be surprisingly ugly.
But we're loath to keep them private. Disgraced Los Angeles Clippers owner Sterling's downfall began, of course, with a conversation he wasn't expecting to go public. But public it went, and public he followed Monday night on CNN, where he called Magic Johnson a bad example for kids and told Anderson Cooper, "I don't know why the girl had me say those things." Talk about misreading your cues (and the zeitgeist).
There's an old saying: When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. When you find yourself with an audience, stop proving their worst suspicions.
Coulter, we know, thrives on proving our worst suspicions about her. But it's hard to believe she would have gone through with her lame, heartless Twitter stunt if she imagined the audience hijacking her meme so hilariously. Images of the pundit holding "#Bring Back My Soul," "I'm on Christian Mingle! User Name: RWNJ1958" and "I'm a miserable person who peddles hate to make money off dumb Republicans" went viral on Tuesday, after she tweeted a photo of herself mocking First Lady Michelle Obama by holding up a #BringBackOurCountry sign.
A regretful tweet? Join the club, Ann. Alongside scads of 7th grade girls and a bunch of others who should know better by now.
Meanwhile, the Internet continued to speculate what caused Beyonce's sister, Solange Knowles, to attack Beyonce's husband, Jay Z, in a hotel elevator at the Met Gala after-party, with outlets as divergent as The Atlantic, Gawker, Variety, Jezebel and the Washington Post weighing in with ruminations on family feuds, gender and race in pop culture and how quickly Solange deleted Beyonce's photos from her Instagram account. Beyonce may top Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world list, but she's powerless to steer — or stop — this Shakespeare-meets-TMZ tragedy.
My kids, 4 and 8, want nothing more than to post videos of themselves on YouTube. Inspired partly by Evan, an 8-year-old kid with his own YouTube channel (EvanTubeHD) that's garnered more than 270 million views, and partly by a culture that worships fame, they beg me to record them putting together Legos, reading books aloud and knocking down towers of pillows. No plot is too thin.
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Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
American conductor Karina Canellakis is admired for her powerful interpretations and artistic depth. In this recording of the 2018 Nobel Prize Concert, she leads the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's majestic Symphony No. 4.
When conductor Karina Canellakis won the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award in 2016, it was the launch of an incredible career. That same year, she debuted with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the popular outdoor concert at Gärdet in Stockholm. Since then she has returned on several occasions and led the orchestra in music by, among others, Beethoven, Richard Strauss, Szymanowski and Dvorák.
She is continuously invited to conduct the major orchestras, which praise her brilliant technique and ability to bring out the unique expressive power of the music. Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 has been with her since childhood. And life was at stake in the composition of this music. "A symphony cannot consist of empty chords, rhythms and modulations. It must express what must be said, but for which there are no words," said Tchaikovsky. While composing his fourth symphony, he also faced great trials in his life.
The introductory theme by the wind instruments forms the heart, "like an annihilating power standing in the way of happiness. But joy is not lost. There is still happiness – simple, naive happiness. Deriving happiness from others allows one to live longer," commented Tchaikovsky himself on the gripping, mighty and exhilarating music.
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- The world's endangered and threatened species. // Science World;04/11/97, Vol. 53 Issue 13, p7
Presents a survival plan for endangered and threatened species. Type of animals with corresponding number of endangered species; Habitat preservation; Captive breeding programs.
- Take action! // Science World;04/11/97, Vol. 53 Issue 13, p9
Suggests tips on protecting endangered species. Opposition to the bills that aim to weaken dolphin protection; Coordination with the media to express concerns on endangered species.
- Should we downlist our national symbol? Casey, Carrie // American Forests;Nov/Dec1990, Vol. 96 Issue 11/12, p24
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- Wildlife in danger. Wilmore, Kathy // Junior Scholastic;4/15/94, Vol. 96 Issue 17, p7
Reports on wildlife that are in danger of extinction. Dispute between the preservation of the northern spotted owl and the livelihood of the loggers; Existence of the Siberian tiger in Russian taigas; Rate of disappearance of unknown plant and animal species; Success in conserving the American...
- The comeback kids! // Junior Scholastic;02/07/97, Vol. 98 Issue 12, p8
Focuses on the global movement to protect endangered species. Efforts of wildlife groups and government officials to protect endangered animals in Africa; Worldwide crackdown of poachers and illegal hunters.
- Animals on the EDGE. // Junior Scholastic;2/26/2007, Vol. 109 Issue 13, p6
The article offers information on the world's most evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered species and the program launched by the Zoological Society of London, England to protect 100 threatened species including the golden-rumped elephant shrew, the yellow-tailed woolly monkey, and the...
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was born November 10, 1924, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and raised primarily in Northern California. She graduated from Sacramento Senior High School in 1943 and went on to the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism in 1946. She later (1976) earned a Doctor of Education in Human Sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (IASHS). Lyon served as a police-beat reporter in Fresno and as a reporter at the Chico Enterprise-Record during the 1940s. In the 1950s she served on the editorial staff at two building trades magazines in Seattle (she is listed as Editorial Assistant in a 1951 edition of Construction News Bulletin). After returning to San Francisco in 1953 she worked at Glide Urban Center. She served as a professor at IASHS from 1976-1987. San Francisco Mayor George Moscone appointed her to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) in 1976, and she served as Chair in 1982-1983. She also was chair of the HRC's Lesbian/Gay Advisory Committee. Lyon has lectured and written extensively on human sexuality, censorship, and the Lesbian and Feminist Movements. She also co-founded the National Sex Forum and served as associate director and then co-director for 19 years.Del Martin was born Dorothy L. Taliaferro in San Francisco, California on May 5, 1921 to Jones and Mary Taliaferro. She was salutorian of the first graduating class of George Washington High School (San Francisco). Martin studied journalism at San Francisco State College (now California State University San Francisco). Her last name became Martin during her four year marriage to a man. She latter officially changed her name to Del. This marriage also resulted in a daughter (Kendra Mon ) and eventually two grandchildren, Lorraine and Kevin Mon. She was the first "out of the closet" lesbian elected to the National Board of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1973. Martin became a nationally known advocate for battered women, and was a co-founder of the Coalition for Justice for Battered Women (1975), La Casa de las Madres (a shelter for battered women) founded in 1976, and the California Coalition against Domestic Violence (1977). She is the author of Battered Wives (1976, updated 1981) and numerous other articles and book chapters on the subject. She lectured and taught at colleges and universities around the country. Martin was also a founding member of the Lesbian Mother's Union, the San Francisco Women's Centers, and the Bay Area Women's Coalition, and has served on many boards. She was appointed Chair of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women in 1976 and served on the committee until 1979. She also served on the Women's Advisory Council to the San Francisco Police Department, the California Commission on Crime Control and Violence Prevention, and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.Lyon and Martin met in Seattle, Washington in the early 1950s, while they were both working for building trades publications. They were platonic friends for two years before becoming romantically involved. They returned to San Francisco together in 1953 where they continue to reside. In 1955, they were part of a group of eight lesbians that founded the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB). The group was founded to counteract the loneliness and isolation they felt as lesbians, creating what was to become the first national combined lesbian organization and support network. Martin served as president from 1957-60 and Lyon was president in 1962. DOB began publishing the monthly magazine The Ladder in 1956. Lyon was the first editor (1956-1969) with Barbara Grier joining Martin and then taking over as editor. Together Lyon and Martin were among the founders of the Council on Religion and the Homosexual (CRH) in 1964, and, in 1965, Citizen's Alert (a citizen/civil rights group dealing with police brutality complaints). They also were among the founding members of the Alice B. Toklas Lesbian/Gay Democratic Club. They jointly authored the groundbreaking book Lesbian/Woman, and they both attended the International Women's Year Conference in Houston in 1977 where they helped get a lesbian rights plank into the national women's agenda. In the 1980s Martin and Lyon helped found and lead Bay Area Feminists Against Censorship.
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The saddest thing was booking my one way plane ticket. Or was it the exit gate when they verified I was leaving Japan for the last time as a resident? The hole punched through my resident card felt physical.
I can't believe three years have already gone by and I know I'm going to sound like a broken record that I miss the place.
Every time I see a music video of Tokyo I identify quickly the locations, my mind hungry to make that connection. Most recent that comes to mind is this one. In it you can see Shimbashi station. Behind the platform there is a building I used to work in. The area is a bit dodgy at night and I heard a rumour there were some interesting "services" provided for on a different level.
Speaking of work, I am still working casually. It looks like that is just the way things go here. Thankfully they keep me on, although some days I feel a bit of imposter syndrome. A positive is that students I have taught in the past still say hello and I've heard from management they enjoy my teaching. Students are a mixed bag. I get the feeling some of them are just here on parent's money: Here to play games, messaging on phones and staying up all hours. Having said that, most are motivated and I like hanging out with them.
I often look at Google street view to see how Tokyo has changed. To my surprise a whole block on the main road in Yotsuya has been razed for a new development. I hate this as it's changing my memory of it. The old Hidakaya that I got my noodle fix is gone!
Since I came back I've become a bit of a AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego). Weird right? How does that relate to Japan? Well, walking in Iidabashi there was an old office building that had small lego models behind the front glass window that the owner shifted the curtain to display to passers by. They caught my eye and that triggered a bit of an obsession I now have.
A lot of the sets I particularly like are the UCS Star Wars models. On the collectors market these cost a LOT of money. So what's a poor English teacher to do? Buy knock off copies on Aliexpress! The Imperial Shuttle was a fun build and looks fantastic. The Porsche was a pain to build but looks pretty special. While I hate the actual tedious construction, the end result makes me somewhat proud. Only problem is the place to put them. Currently I'm building the ISD and it is truly colossal! On a side note I haven't bought any more music gear, so I replaced one addiction with another.
Food-wise I found a reasonably cheap tabehodai place, Shabu house in Mary St. Prices are $27-36 depending on day and time. I won't say the food quality will blow you away, but for the price it's not too bad. In the same building there is a similarly priced yakiniku joint, Hanwoori. I haven't had the chance to check it out yet but it piques my interest for sure. On the icecream front Haagen Dazs has returned to Australia! I've tried the salted caramel (good!), but sadly none of the crazy flavours from Japan have made it here. Connoisseur have a green tea icecream which can be had for half price at times, but they have white chocolate flakes throughout. I won't say it's bad, but not quite up to the standard in Japan.
What else have I done? I bought a DJI drone, but after a few times of playing it's been mostly in the box. Boys and their toys.
When will I be back in Japan? I'm not really sure. One of my friends still there says he is contemplating his exit and says he might go back after September. What would be sadder for me would be to go back and everyone gone, so hopefully I can return again soon.
Saturday, 21 January 2017
Three Years
in exile from Japan
The saddest thing was booking my one way plane ticket. Or was it the exit gate when they verified I was leaving Japan for the last time as a resident? The hole punched through my resident card felt physical.
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Hey All! Don't miss heading over to Pure Derek Hough when you get a moment. Last night, Dancing With The Stars pro Derek Hough attended the Cosmopolitan Summer Bash at the Palihouse in West Hollywood, California. Derek wore the cutest pair of jeans and a light gray knit sweater layered over a white T. Such a Doll as always.
Also, Pure Derek Hough has several new fan reviews and pictures covering Derek's dancing in "Ballroom With A Twist" from this past week. Peta Murgratroyd, Tristan MacManus, and Anna Trebunskaya all received raving reviews as well. So, be sure to take them in as well.
PureDWTS reader DW also attended one of the "Ballroom With A Twist" shows. Below is what DW reports to us…..
I attended the North Shore Music Theater performance and wanted to add a few personal impressions: I thought Tristan was hilarious as an emcee and that he, Anna & Peta are even more gorgeous in person than on TV if that is even possible. T&A's dancing was exquisite and magical and a major treat in and of itself. They were fabulous together, and Tristan, Peta, Derek and Anna, when they danced a quartet number, were vastly superior to the troupe dancers, (which, by the way, unless I am mistaken, included Oksana from the DWTS troupe and her hair and her dancing were a hot mess. But, it might've been because she was in pain: she had an ace bandage on her ankle). When Tristan introduced Peta, the audience clapped enthusiastically, but when he introduced "a wee blonde guy you may know" the audience erupted and went crazy!!! Many have said it before, but Derek is even more stunning in person than on TV. I think, besides his undeniable physical beauty, it is his mind-blowing charisma, intensity, energy and light that he projects to the audience; I was just mesmerized and glued to his every move. Coupled with his unmatchable perfect dancing and his genuine humanity, warmth and kindness toward his fans (especially the little Down's Syndrome girl, who, when he was hugging her gave a "thumbs up" behind his back to the crowd!), and you have someone really, uniquely, one-of-a-kind special. His voice was a little scratchy and I was worried he would have to cancel, but he was a warrior and persevered. I've been a fan since he started on DWTS, but to experience him as a humorist and dancer in person was amazing and it had the effect of making me very happy. Hard to explain why, really, but true. I suspect he has that effect on a lot of people. I have to give thumbs up also to the singers from AI and the dancers from SYTYCD who were just fabulous. The only disappointment was that Derek, Tristan, Peta,and Anna didn't dance nearly long enough and that the troupe was the core of the show, with the AI, DWTS and SYTYCD stars as the icing on the cake. The troupe was OK, but over-danced, over-performed and could not even touch the excellence of D/T/P/A, and I felt I had seen way too much of them. I'm so thrilled that I got to see this show and the memories will last me a long time! Thank you Derek and all for a wonderful evening!
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51 loons rescued by center
DULUTH, Minn. — Frozen lakes and the recent spring snowstorms have grounded migrating loons and grebes in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The Duluth News Tribune reported the storms forced birds down in areas where they normally wouldn't stop, and the lack of open water has given many of the aquatic birds little or no place to take off or land.
Marge Gibson, director of the Raptor Education Center in Antigo, Wis., says her center has rescued 51 loons in the past two weeks. She says the loons generally have been in decent shape, but sometimes they need to be cleaned and fed before being released on large lakes to the south where the ice is already out.
The Duluth-based Wildwoods Rehabilitation Center has rescued one loon but well over a dozen grebes.


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Cockrill, a technology entrepreneur, will begin as Washington state's CIO on Jan. 23.
On Jan. 15, 2013, Washington Governor-Elect Jay Inslee named Michael Cockrill as the state's new CIO, replacing Bharat Shyam, who resigned in December.
"Michael Cockrill is a fantastic choice to be the next CIO of Washington state," said Shyam, who is assisting in the new CIO's transition. "It sets up a new tradition of people from the Seattle area technology community going into public service and contributing to making our society better."
Cockrill, a technology entrepreneur, has had a successful career in Seattle's tech start-ups -- he co-founded the photo-sharing site PhotoRocket and Atlas Networks, which provides Triple-Play services to consumers and small business, according to a press release from Inslee's office. He also was a key member of the executive team of Qpass Corp., a pioneering company in the field of mobile commerce, and has held management positions with Microsoft. Cockrill currently is an associate partner at Auxin Partners, a Woodinville, Wash., firm that works to commercialize intellectual property portfolios.
"Michael's experience creating and building companies shows he understands how to marshal innovation and deliver on the promise of technology," Inslee said in a prepared statement. "With the rapid pace of technological change, we need someone like Michael who understands that change without substantive improvement won't advance our efforts to make government more efficient, effective and transparent."
Cockrill brings a deep knowledge of technology and software and how they interact with people, Shyam said. "He asks a lot of great questions and digs deep, is skilled in understanding and applying technology, and is a great communicator."
Cockrill begins on Jan. 23, 2013.
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A judge spared subpoenaed members of Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon's administration from testifying before a Missouri House panel Thursday as top Republican lawmakers suggested the governor was trying to stonewall an investigation into whether officials are trying to comply with a federal proof-of-identity law.
Cole County Circuit Judge Dan Green issued a preliminary order blocking the House investigatory committee from proceeding with the subpoenas, which had been issued late Wednesday with a demand to appear Thursday morning before the committee. The Nixon administration employees had ignored the demand.
House Speaker Tim Jones, who issued the subpoenas, expressed outrage that they had been rebuffed by five current members of Nixon's administration and a former Cabinet official whom Nixon has since appointed to an administrative judge position.
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Blue Jays welcome break after JJ's rough start
Righty allows most runs in a game since '07, dropping finale to O's
BALTIMORE -- One step forward, two steps back.
That seems to be the way it's gone for the Blue Jays before the All-Star Break this season, and the final weekend series before the Midsummer Classic was no exception.
Sure, the team got Brett Lawrie back as a second baseman and won Saturday's game in his return from a six-week absence with a high ankle sprain. But a 7-4 loss Sunday to the Orioles at Camden Yards, coupled with Friday's slug-it-out loss, meant the Jays dropped another series and precious ground in the American League East before the four-day All-Star break.
The Blue Jays already knew they could not finish the unofficial first half with a .500 record, but Saturday's win offered hope that they could still pick up a series victory and enter the break on a positive note, perhaps something to build off of as they try to climb out of the cellar during baseball's second half.
But starter Josh Johnson gave up four runs in the first inning Sunday, as the Blue Jays fell behind and never recovered. Johnson went six innings and allowed seven earned runs, the most he's given up in a game since June 23, 2007.
"In some ways, it sums up the first half a little bit," Gibbons said. "But it's over and there's no looking back. I do think these four days [off] will do us some good."
But to call Sunday's loss and the series defeat a microcosm of the Blue Jays' season may be premature. They were in a deep hole early, made a charge in the middle, but couldn't recover from the deficit they created for themselves Sunday. The beginning and middle sound similar to Toronto's season, but Blue Jays fans hope the season has a different ending from Sunday's game.
"It's definitely frustrating," Gibbons said. "These four days will be good for us. Little breather, regroup and find out what we're made of and how good we are in the second half."
Although he's had spotty run support, Johnson's one win before the All-Star break is likely far fewer than he or the Blue Jays expected out of the former ace in his first season with Toronto. He missed 48 days with right triceps inflammation, but pitched to a 5.16 ERA and a 1-5 record over 12 starts and 66 1/3 innings.
Johnson's lone win came against the Orioles on June 23, part of the team's 11-game win streak.
The Orioles opened this one with back-to-back singles in the first. After a flyout, Adam Jones drove in a run with a single that flared into right field and out of the reach of Lawrie at second base. Then Chris Davis smoked a line-drive double into the right-field corner, driving in two.
"It seemed like I couldn't catch a break, I threw a couple [bad] pitches in the first inning," said Johnson, later blaming himself for putting his team in an early hole. "First batter wasn't a good pitch, I just got behind. Two hitters in a row, I threw pretty good pitches, they just got base hits. Not a good pitch to Davis."
Davis also got to Johnson in the third, putting the game seemingly out of reach and tying an American League record in the process. Jones walked with one out and Davis smacked his 37th homer of the year, a deep drive to left field that buried the Blue Jays in a 6-0 hole. Davis' blast tied Reggie Jackson's 1969 mark for the most home runs before the All-Star Break by an AL player.
"Superhuman," Gibbons said of Davis, who hit an opposite-field home run in every game this series. "He's having some kind of year. I saw him a little bit when he was with Texas coming up. He can always hit home runs. He's gotten the opportunity here to play every day. He's taken advantage of it and it's pretty impressive."
Meanwhile, Orioles starter Scott Feldman limited the Blue Jays to just three runs over 7 1/3 innings, protecting a lead throughout his first win with Baltimore. The lineup once again didn't do Johnson any favors. The Blue Jays' offense enters the break averaging 3.9 runs per game over its past 20.
"It's obviously a key, but you have to do a lot of other things well, too," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said of quality starting pitching. "It's a given that the other four teams in our division are going to be good and do things [in the second half]."
Maicer Izturis drove in a pair of runs with a two-out single in the fourth, and other than that, Toronto failed to put much of anything together until it was too late.
Feldman set the Blue Jays down in order four times. In the second, he pitched around a one-out Colby Rasmus single, and in the fifth, he stranded Jose Reyes at second base when Jose Bautista struck out.
The fourth inning was the only frame in which the Jays got to Feldman. Adam Lind doubled to right-center field with Edwin Encarnacion on first base and one out. Rasmus struck out, but Izturis knocked a seeing-eye single through the right side of the infield to drive in both runs and put the Blue Jays on the board.
The Orioles weren't done scoring runs off Johnson, though. Jones hit a solo homer to center field -- his 19th of the year -- in the fifth inning to pad the Orioles' lead.
Once reliever Tommy Hunter came on in the eighth, Encarnacion added another run. Reyes singled with one out in the eighth to chase Feldman, and after Bautista grounded out to the pitcher, Encarnacion singled home Reyes. The Jays also got a run in the ninth, when Rasmus led off with a double and Izturis again drove in a run with an RBI single.
But Orioles closer Jim Johnson came on to put out the fire, and after a tense ninth inning that brought Reyes to the plate as the tying run with two men on base, Johnson secured Toronto's fate to earn the save.
Gibbons and several players were hopeful the mental and physical break that awaits most players on the Blue Jays' roster will be restorative enough to make a charge up the standings in the second half.
"Hopefully just take some time off and get away from the game for four days, and sometimes that's good," Johnson said. "Get your mind off baseball. Get your mind off pitching or hitting or whatever it is and just think about nothing."


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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — It's hard to completely trust any government that reserves the right to assassinate me (or you) with a robot airplane. So it's no wonder that many people are skeptical about the government's economic data.
There's a lot of money riding on the accuracy and credibility of U.S. economic data. A lot of that faith is misplaced, but it's not because the government is actively fudging the numbers or lying to us. Unlike a lot of people in Washington, the statisticians who crunch the numbers are a professional bunch who want to get things right.
We know that because we can verify much of what they produce from other independent sources. By and large, the government data are consistent with numbers produced by the private sector.
Of course statistics, by their very nature, can never be perfect or pure, no matter how well-meaning their creators.
Frequently we make it even tougher on ourselves by misinterpreting what the data could tell us with a bit of certainty. Too often we pay attention to the wrong numbers and ignore a more useful alternative. Those problems in understanding the data are compounded when we try to use them to make political points.
In recent years, the unemployment rate has become one of the most politicized economic numbers. Which means it's also become one of the most misunderstood numbers. I have a partial solution for that, as you'll see.
In theory, the jobless rate should be noncontroversial. It's simply the percentage of people who want a job who can't find one. However, it's more complicated in practice. What does it mean to look for work? How hard do you have to try? How often do you have to try? What does it mean to have a job? Does it have to be a full-time job to count? What if it's irregular work?
Back in the 1940s, the government defined those terms: Any paid work in the past week counts as a job. And to be counted as officially unemployed, a person must have actively looked for work some time in the past month.
With a few exceptions, those are still the definitions used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Political opponents of Barack Obama (and of George W. Bush before him) are wrong to suggest that the current administration has moved the goal posts on unemployment. (Optional Bob Woodward joke here.)
Under those definitions, the official unemployment rate (known as the U-3 rate) was 7.7% in February; there were 12 million people who said they had looked for a job without success, compared with 155.5 million in the labor force. Read U.S. economy adds 236,000 jobs in February.
But there were also 6.8 million people who said they wanted a job but weren't even looking, perhaps because they were discouraged. Or maybe other hurdles, such as transportation problems or child-care duties, stood in their way. See the data on the BLS website.
In addition, 8 million people said bad economic and business conditions limited them to part-time hours even though they preferred to work full-time.
If you count those discouraged workers and involuntary part-timers as unemployed, the unemployment rate jumps to 14.3%. The government reports this number as the U-6 rate. See the alternative measures of unemployment on the BLS website.
Some people call the U-6 rate the "real" unemployment rate, but that doesn't make sense: It includes millions of people who do have a job, even if it's not the one they want.
What's the 'real' unemployment rate?
Some analysts have begun paying attention to a different measure of labor-market slack: the labor participation rate. This is simply the percentage of adults, age 16 and up, who are in the labor force (either working or actively looking), excluding those in institutions such as the military, prisons or hospitals.
The idea for using the participation rate is that so many discouraged workers have stopped looking for a job that the official U-3 unemployment rate has become irrelevant.
For instance, the U-3 rate fell to 7.7% in February, in part because the labor force shrank by 130,000. The drop in the unemployment rate to a four-year low wasn't necessarily great news.
About 40% of unemployed people have been out of work longer than six months, far more than at any time since the Great Depression.
It stands to reason that many people who've been unemployed that long without finding a new job would simply give up, drop out of the labor force and no longer be counted as officially unemployed.
But we can't pretend they don't exist.
The participation rate is currently 63.5%, down from 66.2% at the beginning of the recession, matching a 31-year low. If the participation rate were still at 66.2%, the unemployment rate would be 12.1%.
So is that the "real" unemployment rate? Not really. There's no reason to think that a 66.2% participation rate is the correct level. More than 3 million people turn 65 each year. The number of retired people is soaring. Yet these people are still counted as part of the adult population.
Because the population is aging, the participation rate is falling rapidly. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that it will fall to 63% by 2021, even with the economy at full employment.
These people haven't dropped out of the labor force; they've retired.
If we really want to understand the health of the labor market, it'd be best to focus on employment and unemployment of the working-age population, 25 to 65, and leave millions of teenagers and octogenarians out of the equation.
Unfortunately, this data isn't published by the government in the monthly employment report, and it isn't seasonally adjusted, so it's harder to analyze. But it is available on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website. In 2012, the participation rate for the working-age population was 77.5%, down about three percentage points from the peak of 80.2% in 1997. Find the data yourself.
It means that the vast majority of working-age adults, men and women, are working or looking for work. But it also means that many millions have given up hope of finding a job. Some of them will never work again.
If the participation rate were where it was in 2007, about 3 million more working-age adults would be in the labor force, and the unemployment rate for that group would be about 9%, instead of 6.8%.
That means that the "real" unemployment rate is about two percentage points higher than the official rate. If we understood that, we might be trying to do more to create jobs.
Long-term unemployment is our country's biggest problem, and if we don't do something quick, it'll cause permanent damage to our economy, and ruin the lives of millions of people.


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Remember the Humble Indie Bundle? The brilliant initiative back in May by many indie developers to sell some great indie games, DRM-free, for whatever price that you chose?
Well, those folks have announced that all those games that you purchased can be activated on your Steam account as well! They've emailed every Humble Indie Bundle customer with this:-
Dear Humble Indie Bundle customer, thanks for your purchase back in May! I have some good news regarding your games. Since launching the bundle, our most common request has been the ability to download it on Steam. Well, I'm happy to announce that Valve has made this possible
Along with this, they've given the Steam redemption code for all the games (World of Goo, Penumbra Overture, Aquaria, Gish, and Lugaru HD). So all you need to do is go to your Steam account, click on Add Steam Gameand copy-paste the redemption key, and lo and behold, you have all five games in your account! Oh, and the Bundle will still be available for direct download forever. I wish they'd follow this model of serving customers in the long run!
That's not all that the email said, though; they also mentioned that they're hard at work for the second edition of the Humble Indie Bundle. Kick ass news? You bet!


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Nets drop Thunder 110-93 as Durant ejected
Joe Johnson scored a season-high 33 points, Deron Williams added 19 points and 13 assists, and the Brooklyn Nets snapped Oklahoma City's 12-game home winning streak by beating the Thunder 110-93 Wednesday night in a game featuring the first ejection of Kevin Durant's career.
The Nets squandered a 23-point lead and allowed Oklahoma City to tie it at 85 before ripping off a 23-8 run to seize control right back. Durant was ejected near the end of the surge, arguing with Danny Crawford after the referee had already issued a technical foul against Kendrick Perkins.
Durant scored 27 points and Russell Westbrook had 26 points and 10 assists for Oklahoma City, which lost for only the third time at home this season.
Durant, the three-time scoring champion, had never before been ejected in his six NBA seasons but got tossed after Brooklyn rallied largely from the foul line. The Nets made 11 free throws in a span of just over 5 minutes, pulling away after Oklahoma City had finally fought all the way back.
Brook Lopez added 25 points as Brooklyn ended a seven-game losing streak in the series and got a win for interim coach P.J. Carlesimo against the team that fired him back in 2008.
The Thunder clamped down after trailing by 16 at halftime, rallying to pull within 71-68 when Westbrook finished off a 12-3 burst with a jumper from the left elbow with 3:47 left in the third quarter. Lopez powered his way in for a two-handed slam to stem the tide for Brooklyn, but Oklahoma City kept coming.
Durant and Kevin Martin connected on consecutive 3-pointers to finally even it up at 85 with 7:11 to play, only for Johnson to answer with a runner at the other end to put the Nets right back ahead and start the clinching run.
The Nets managed to get Carlesimo a rare win in Oklahoma City - something that proved difficult during his brief stretch on the Thunder sidelines.
Carlesimo was the coach when Oklahoma City got its franchise, leading the SuperSonics for their final season in Seattle and then going 1-12 in charge of the Thunder. He was fired and replaced - then on an interim basis - by Scott Brooks, who has overseen the team's rise into a championship contender.
Back when Carlesimo was in charge, Durant was starting his second year in the NBA and Westbrook was a rookie who had yet to break into the starting lineup. Now, they're both established All-Stars.
"For it to come together as quickly as it has, I think people believed that this was going to be a good team, with the nucleus they had and even starting out, the pieces," Carlesimo said beforehand. "Russell, of course, was a huge addition the first year here and ever since then, there's been good moves and they've tweaked it."
Carlesimo also singled out the additions of Thabo Sefolosha and Perkins - both after he was fired - as key steps in the franchise's rise.
"It's a team I feel closer to than a lot of other teams. Hopefully, we helped KD and Nick (Collison) a little bit and Russell a tiny bit that first year, but I think it's safe to say they've gone on and overcome whatever coaching they got from me," Carlesimo said, drawing laughs.
At the start, it looked like Carlesimo's new squad would run away with it against the Thunder, who started the day with the league's best record.
Johnson and Lopez combined to go 9 for 9 from the field to propel the Nets to a quick 27-11 lead, and Brooklyn tried to keep the hammer down by re-inserting Williams after they had committed three turnovers in a span of five possessions without him to start the second quarter.
Upon returning, Williams immediately set up Keith Bogans for a 3-pointer, then used a behind-the-back, bounce pass for an assist on Kris Humphries' jumper before nailing a 3-pointer of his own to push the lead out to 45-24. Brooklyn led by as much as 23 twice - including at 55-32 after Johnson drilled a 3-pointer off a touch pass from Gerald Wallace - before Westbrook and Serge Ibaka teamed up to score nine straight points to breathe some life into Oklahoma City.
Notes: Carlesimo's only win with the Thunder - after the SuperSonics had relocated from Seattle - came at home on Nov. 2, 2008, against Minnesota. ... The Thunder's largest previous deficit of the season was 16 in a loss at home against Memphis. ... Oklahoma City got a delay of game warning for failing to get onto the court in time for tip-off, as part of the NBA's emphasis on allowing teams 90 seconds between the end of introductions and the tip-off. ... Nets reserve Jerry Stackhouse sat out with a sore right hamstring.


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Mariners top prospect hurls scoreless frame against World Team
NEW YORK -- For the second consecutive season, right-handed starting pitcher Taijuan Walker made an appearance in the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game. But Sunday's game at Citi Field was extra special for Walker because his dad, Frank, was in the stands.
"My dad and I never had the best relationship, but he's here now and I've been having a good time with him," Walker says. "He watched the Futures Game on TV last year, but this is the first time he's seen me play professionally in person. I'm really excited he's here."
Walker's mother, Nellie Garcia, was also in the stands, and D-backs prospect Matt Davidson, Walker's teammate at Yucaipa High School in Southern California, joined him on the U.S. Team. They all watched as Walker pitched one scoreless inning with one walk, with his fastball topping out at 97 mph. In 2012, he also tossed a scoreless inning, with one hit and one strikeout.
Ranked the No. 1 prospect in the Mariners organization by MLB.com, Walker made his debut with Triple-A Tacoma in late June. He earned the promotion from Double-A Jackson by tallying 96 strikeouts in 84 innings, posting a 2.46 ERA and holding opponents to a paltry .195 batting average, giving up just 58 hits. His first three starts with the Rainiers have been nothing short of brilliant, with a 2-0 record, 0.56 ERA and 16 strikeouts in 16 innings.
"I wasn't expecting to start that well at a new level with a lot of ex big leaguers, but I'm glad I'm having so much success," Walker says. "The hitters are more patient and foul the ball off a lot more waiting for their pitch, but I'm really just trying to go right after them and make them put the ball in play. I'm trying not to be too fine and working on throwing my off-speed pitches for strikes and getting ahead in counts."
Walker, 20, throws a four-seam fastball that hovers around 98 mph, along with an 82-mph changeup. He also added an 88 to 94-mph cutter this season.
"I wanted the cutter to keep hitters off my fastball," Walker says. "I'm a power pitcher, so hitters want to jump on the fastball early. If I throw the cutter early, they jump on that and I get a lot of ground balls."
The 6-feet-4, 210-pounder was selected by the Mariners in the first round of the 2010 First-Year Player Draft, and has the build, temperament and stuff to be a big-league pitcher in the near future.
"I like to set my goals high, and right now, my main goal is to make it to the big leagues this year," Walker says. "I think it's possible. I feel like I'm ready right now. I'm just going to keep working hard and wait for the call."
Mariners prospect Ji-Man Choi, known for his bat, also made his Futures Game debut with the World Team in Sunday's game. The 22-year-old first baseman from South Korea began 2013 at Class A Advanced High Desert, where he hit .337 with seven home runs in 48 games for the Mavericks. The lefty hitter was promoted to Double-A Jackson in early June. Through 32 games with the Generals, he is hitting .235 with six home runs and 17 RBIs.
"It's an honor to be here with the best young players in the game," said Choi. "It makes me happy to know people believe I belong with them."
Choi took over at first base in the sixth inning for the World Team and went 0-2 at the plate.
A converted third baseman who has also spent some time behind the plate, Choi has struggled with injuries early in his career. His goal is to stay healthy in 2013.
"I've never played more than 66 games and it is one of my goals to play more than that this year," he says. "When I'm healthy, I know I can do a good job so that's the most important thing for me going forward."


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I shy away from many popular spiritual movements, which seem to come and go like feathers in the breeze. But Celtic spirituality is not one of these. Celtic spirituality is solid and deeply rooted in a spiritual heritage.
I have been deeply drawn to Celtic spirituality with its creation-centered orientation. It has been a "coming home" for me because I have always felt a strong bond with creation.
From the time I was a small child on an Iowa farm, I have often felt God's nearness when I have been with the created world. I thought of this as I stood on a snowy Kansas hillside on New Year's Eve.
I was on a silent retreat, heading back to my room for the night. I paused to look at the dark, cloudy sky, and there I saw a single star shining brilliantly through a small opening.
Immediately I sensed a truth awaiting me in the night sky. I stood for many chilly minutes in sacred communion, gazing at that radiant star until I saw it as all the "strong stars" of comfort that I'd been given in the previous year of darkness when grief had consumed my spirit.
I finally walked on, assured that God would guide and guard me well as I walked into the future.
The sacredness of all of life is one of the most basic tenets of Celtic spirituality, and it is this aspect that most speaks to my relationship with God, although there are other Celtic dimensions that also enrich and enhance my spiritual journey.
As we move through Lent, I suggest that Celtic spirituality can be a superb catalyst for renewing and strengthening our relationship with God. As we explore our inner terrain during these six weeks of re-turning ourselves back to the Holy One, we can use these Celtic aspects as stepping stones for our spiritual growth.
The presence of God in the ordinary
Every aspect of Celtic life was approached as an opportunity for union with the divine. The Celts believed that God permeated every part of their life, and they sensed this presence everywhere. Their faith assured them that God was lovingly concerned about each of their daily moments, no matter how ordinary or mundane.
There is evidence of this especially in the Carmina Gadelica, a marvelous resource of prayers and blessings that Alexander Carmichael collected in the 19th century during his 60 years of travel among Celtic people in the western Scottish islands.
These prayers are filled with the Celts' ordinary moments. They sang and prayed while they were working at outdoor tasks such as fishing, herding sheep, and milking cows or indoors with the household duties of kindling the hearth, weaving cloth, cooking, and cleaning. From rising to sleeping, from birth to death, they embraced God in their lives.
We can do the same. The setting for our prayer is different from that of the Celts, but, like them, we are immersed in ordinary events and God is still in our midst. Our Celtic praying today can be about such things as sitting at computers, traveling on expressways, going to the supermarket, watching football games, or caring for children.
I recently suggested to a young father that he bless his three small children each day. He looked surprised and said, "Can I do that? I thought only priests could bless. How would I do it?"
I described how the Celts easily extended blessings and assured him that each of us can and ought to also entrust our loved ones to God each day. I explained that all his blessing needed was the loving touch of his hand on his children and a brief "May God and the angels guide, guard, and protect you this day (or this night)."
Lenten practice: Choose one thing that you do everyday such as brushing your teeth, getting dressed, turning on your computer, eating, rising from bed in the morning, or going to sleep in the evening. As you do this action, pause to remember that God is with you. Do this every day for the entire six weeks. Or choose to bless your children each morning and evening.
Discover the goodness of creation
The Celts were deeply wedded to nature. It was through creation that divinity was most manifest for them. They experienced a oneness with God in hills, stones, springs of water, caves, and many other parts of creation.
In a manner reminiscent of the Hebrew psalms, cosmic elements such as the stars, sun, and moon are threaded through Celtic prayers of petition, praise, and blessing. They call out to the "son of the dawn, son of the clouds"; they behold the "lightener of the stars" and celebrate "thou bright white moon of the seasons."
Many of us today live within the walls of home, work, and recreation, rarely venturing far into the world of creation unless it is a special outing to the beach, park, or a sporting event. Even those who work outdoors or spend time there recreationally often fail to give attention to the sacredness of the created world. Yet creation offers a wonderful opportunity to enter into oneness with the Creator. All it takes is a deliberate turning of the heart and a desire to be present to the wonders inherent in nature.
Lenten practice: Make a deliberate effort to listen to the created world each day. Pause to look at a plant or gaze at the moon. Pay attention to the falling snow or the first new buds on a branch. Notice the clouds or the shape of a flower. Listen to the sea or the sound of the wind. Receive the deeper messages hidden in these gifts of creation.
The Celtic high cross
Esther deWaal emphasizes that we cannot just look at the creation-centered aspect of Celtic Christianity. We also have to include the cross because it was so central to their lives.
It is not surprising that the cross held great significance because these people lived in times of struggle, in a climate that was often harsh and dark. Suffering was never far from their doorstep. It was the cross of Christ that gave them courage to endure their trials and difficulties.
I remember the day I stopped at an ancient cemetery in Ireland to view the old stone high crosses with their full circles. I looked with awe at these memoirs of history as I saw how each cross told a story of a certain aspect of creation and redemption, or the life of a saint, through interlacing designs and drawings carved on the stones.
I thought of these high crosses recently as I spoke with a newly widowed 85-year old man. I had called to see how he was coping with his grief. After he expressed his loneliness and sadness, he told me numerous details of how he'd first met his wife, proposed to her, and about their ups and downs as they lived together through the years. As he spoke, I pictured his life with its many descriptions of joy and sorrow as etchings on one of the Celtic high crosses.
Lenten practice: Each of us has our own high cross. During Lent take time to draw a high cross. Place the story of your life, with its joys and sorrows, on the cross. Do this through words or by drawing symbols. Hold this cross in your hands as you behold your life. Unite with the life of Jesus as you do so. If you prefer not to draw or write, simply hold a crucifix in your hands and reflect on your life's story as you unite with Jesus.
A love of learning and wisdom
Non-cloistered monasticism flourished during the Celtic Christian era and influenced the common folk, especially with its regular schedule of chanted prayer and its love of learning.
This attentiveness to learning was first fostered by the wise druids in pre-Christian times. Celtic monasteries were intent on furthering knowledge. The monks took study and deeper ways of knowing very seriously. Surprisingly, this learning and wisdom developed even amid the Dark Ages.
Continual study and learning is vital to spiritual growth. I often wonder how it is that I take the time to feed my body every day but pay so little attention to nourishing my inner being with good theology and spirituality when I am struggling with deadlines and difficult schedules. How easy it is to starve the spirit when life gets hectic and full.
The Celts' love of learning calls me back to my own need for this as a source of growing wiser and deeper.
Lenten practice: Ask yourself how you are growing and stretching mentally in your relationship with God and others. Do you have a commitment to ongoing learning? Are you growing wiser spiritually? Read a good spiritual book or participate in a parish adult-formation program.
Silence and solitude
The Celts valued silence and solitude in their simple, ascetic rural lifestyle. Sometimes individuals chose to live in very remote areas where they could experience a deep and strong bond with the ruggedness of land and sea. It was here that they most knew the mystery of creation and the Creator.
Silence and solitude dear out the complex cobwebs of our daily rushing and provide a space in which to renew the purpose of our relationships and our work. It is hard to find silence and solitude where most of us live now. These valuable requirements of spiritual growth are not easily available to us.
However, we can find reflective spaces if we are intent on doing so by turning off the car radio, watching less television, or turning inward when we are engaged in activity that allows for inner quiet such as spending time in the garden, working on the car, commuting on the train or bus, or going for a walk or other forms of exercise. While we do these things we can intentionally turn toward the divine presence within us and around us.
Lenten practice: Choose a time once a day where you can have a time for stillness and quiet listening.
The lorica, or breastplate prayer
Some time ago I was accompanying a woman in spiritual direction who was experiencing severe anxiety attacks. She had a professional position that required her to speak in front of large groups and would often be overwhelmed with fear and worry. I suggested she use a Celtic prayer called the lorica, or breastplate prayer, used for protection from danger and harm.
The loricas were invocations on behalf of self or others in which one was "clothed" or shielded with the power of God and the saints. The Celts knew the need for protection because of the danger of natural elements as well as their spiritual concerns regarding temptation and evil.
Another Celtic prayer of safeguarding was that of the cairn. In this prayer the Trinity, Mary, or other saints would be called on for protection as the right hand was stretched out and the forefinger extended while pivoting around sunwise, thus totally encompassing or enclosing oneself in a safe circle while calling on God for protection.
Lenten practice: Pray your own lorica to remind yourself of God's protection: "God before me, God behind me, God above me, God below me, God beside me, God always in my heart."
The otherworld
The Celts valued the realm of the otherworld and believed it to be their true home. It was considered to be the greatest source of their wisdom and the place where great deeds were done. They experienced their lives enfolded in mystery and moved easily between their internal and external worlds It was a wonderful sphere, unbounded by time and space, where all was possible.
In Celtic myths and legends many "wonder voyages" over the western sea took them to the otherworld. Boats, bridges, mists, birds, darkness, and special sites such as circular mounds of earth were common sources of entry and travel to this realm of mystery. These sources were often referred to as the "thin places."
The deep connection and easy accessibility to this hidden realm greatly influenced the faith of Celtic Christians. This is most evident in their invocations to the saints and angels who were approached as accessible and present guardians, ready to guide and to give assistance.
Lenten practice: Choose a saint whose virtues you admire; pray to this saint during Lent and try to develop his or her key virtues in your life.
Other Celtic spirituality characteristics
There are many other characteristics of Celtic spirituality that could enrich your Lenten experience this year, such as:
- A devotion to the Trinity (Lenten practice: Be more aware of the indwelling Presence when making the sign of the cross);
- spiritual friendship (talk with a spiritual guide or trusted friend or restore a broken relationship with a soul friend);
- hospitality, a spirit of joy, and a deep sense of community (visit the lonely, welcome the unwanted); and
- adventure and exploration of new frontiers (become more aware of the people of your world, especially those who need systems changed in order to provide for their physical and social needs).
As you pray with a Celtic spirit this Lent, choose one or more of the above as your spiritual practice. As with every Lent, you'll need to decide which suggestions are most pertinent for you. May you discover the power for spiritual growth in the gift of Celtic spirituality this Lent.
This article appeared in the March 2001 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vo. 66, No. 3, pages 12-16).
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"We can take those numbers that I get from that (the USGS map), put it in the GPS on a boat and the divers can go right to the site. I mean it's accurate to within less than 30 feet. The divers took cameras along as they dove to between 200 and 300 feet.
"We were able to watch the video onboard the boat," he said, "so we're obviously gathered around this tiny little screen watching it. You can see the conning tower sticking up and the torpedo tubes and dive planes. Yeah, that's a sub! So it was exciting!"
It didn't take long for the powers-that-be to take notice.
"We were contacted by the navy because they found out in short order that we had located the sub," said Fabian. "They informed us that it's considered sovereign immune property, which means it still belongs to Germany or Great Britain technically, and we're not to disturb it. We're fine with that because our divers aren't into looking for relics or bringing anything up. That's not what they do."
I think this is very cool – a WW1 Submarine re-discovered after the best part of 90 years… a bit geeky, but very cool. So in my very best American I say 'Good Job Gary!'


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