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Winterport Water District Superintendent Amanda Smith has recently been selected as one of the nine finalists in the second annual Cintas & Carhartt Cold Crew contest.
Voting will take place through March 31 at the official contest website, www.cintas.com/carharttcoldcrew/vote, and the grand prize winner will receive an all-expenses-paid trip for two to the 2013 Country Music Association Music Festival June 6-9 in Nashville, Tenn.
"My husband and I are huge fans of earlier country music — Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash — and Nashville is so rich in country music history," Smith wrote in a recent interview by email.
Smith came across the Carhartt contest while surfing the internet for wastewater-related information.
"When I saw that last year's winner was a woman in the wastewater field, I thought, 'I can put in for this,'" Smith wrote.
Smith's work at the Winterport Wastewater Treatment Facility requires durable and warm work clothes. Whether standing in a trench, up to her thighs in freezing water, or at home, farming with her husband, Smith relies on Carhartt products for protection, especially during the Maine winter.
"Not a day goes by that I don't look like a Carhartt advertisement," Smith wrote in her contest essay. "With miles of roadway to keep plowed, walkways and access points to keep shoveled, and 42 fire hydrants to keep clear from snowplows … I need layers!"
Her favorite Carhartt product are insulated coveralls.
"I can not afford to be too cold or too hot, and I certainly can't afford outerwear that won't hold up," she wrote. "Away from work, my husband and I are making a first attempt at farming, or we are playing in the woods… so guess what you will typically find me wearing? Thank you for making a great product."
Cintas Corporation and Carhartt launched the Cintas & Carhartt Cold Crew contest in September 2012, following this success of the previous year's contest.
The contest targets workers in the U.S. and Canada whose jobs require them to withstand tough conditions in cold temperatures. These individuals were encouraged to share their stories and photos and explain why Carhartt workwear is essential to their jobs.
The other eight finalists are:
- Armand Cournoyer, an electrical inspector from Lorette, Manitoba, Canada
- James Tatem, a arborist foreman from Hooksett, N.H.
- Rebecca Barrett, a property management laborer from Neguanee, Mich.
- Paul Wright, a certified pump operator from Pineville, N.C.
- Dawn Martin, a cattle rancher from Beulah, N.D.
- Dave Bensette, a mailman from Tecumseh, Ontario, Canada
- Cynthia Gottwald, a mail carrier from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Tim Ahlstrom, a framing contractor from Arvada, Colo.
"We're excited for the voting round of the Cintas & Carhartt Cold Crew contest, a competition that truly highlights the hardworking spirit of men and women across the country, and we look forward to the continued success of our rental work wear partnership with Cintas," said Rick Fecowicz, director of Carhartt licensing, in the press release.
Carhartt, established in 1889, is a global brand that develops rugged apparel for workers on and off the job. Headquartered in Dearborn, Mich., with more than 4,400 employees worldwide, Carhartt is privately owned and managed by the descendants of the company's founder, Hamilton Carhartt.
"This contest is a great reflection of the character of our companies," said Brad Heizman, director of garment strategy at Cintas Corporation, in the press release. "Both Carhartt and Cintas are known for providing tough, durable products and quality, dependable service, and we want to recognize the workers who reflect those same characteristics."
Cintas Corporation, headquartered in Cincinnati, provides a variety of services — from fire protection to document management services — to approximately 900,000 businesses, primarily in North America.
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You can read a couple of things into the Ike Davis demotion relating to Daniel Murphy.
One, there's talk-show speculation Murphy was pressured by Davis' presence and the possibility of him losing the position. Second, that the Mets still have faith in Murphy.
It's the latter.
Jerry Manuel said Murphy is his first baseman, and it actually looks like that's going to happen. For how long is another question.
With Murphy hitting below the Mendoza line this spring, and him not having much power to begin with, first base could be a black hole offensively for the team.
Murphy, at this stage of his career, is not a power hitter, but that's not to say he can't develop more power.
All along we've heard how the Mets rush some players and don't have patience with others. Murphy has gone through a lot, enough to earn the Mets' patience for now.
With David Wright ahead of him, Murphy, a natural third baseman was moved to another black hole, left field, at the end of the 2008 season.
He showed enough to where he was the starting left fielder last season, but it didn't take. The Mets once considered him as a possible second baseman, but saddled with Luis Castillo's contract, that didn't work either.
So, it was on to first base a couple of months into last year, where Murphy played surprisingly well considering. The only problem is he doesn't hit for the prototypical power of a first baseman.
But, he's only 24 with one full season on his resume. But, after he settled in at first, he become more comfortable at the plate, made some adjustments, and hit .282. He also hit 38 doubles, which is an indication of some pop, and led the team with 12 homers.
Who knows? Maybe he'll develop into a .300 hitter and hit 20 to 25 homers. It could happen.
But, if the season hinges on Murphy hitting for power, then the Mets are in big trouble anyway. Theoretically, they'll get power from Wright, Carlos Beltran, Jason Bay and Jeff Francoeur. All should hit close to 30 homers.
If Murphy doesn't, then so what?
Let's take a look at this team. There are questions in the bullpen and the rotation has been horrid this spring. The Mets need a bounce-back year from Wright, and Beltran, and possibly Jose Reyes will open the season on the disabled list.
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Later this year, these two (pretend) cosmonauts, along with four other as-of-yet-unnamed crew members, will embark on an historic, 500 day (pretend) mission to Mars, evaluating man's ability to cope with the taxing journey to the Red Planet.
In October, the European Space Agency put out the call for Russian-speaking volunteers who were interested in taking part in the (pretend) mission. Romain Charles, from France, and Diego Urbina, a Colombian-Italian, are the first two (pretend) cosmonauts selected for the (pretend) trip, dubbed Mars500.
The crew will be locked in a (pretend) space capsule in Moscow with food and supplies, where they will remain for 18 months. Halfway through the (pretend) journey, some of the crew will make their way into a (pretend) Mars lander and execute a walk on a (pretend) Mars surface. Perhaps there they'll run into another group of (pretend) cosmonauts who recently set out on their own (pretend) Mars mission.
Fortunately, the Mars500 crew members will be given the option to (pretend) return home at the halfway point if they (really) go crazy. I'd say it's all but guaranteed—that's a whole lot of cognitive dissonance. [Fast Company]


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WHOI has been reaccredited as a degree-granting institution by the organization responsible for accrediting New England colleges and universities.
The Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) accredited WHOI in its own right—as separate from MIT, its partner institution in the Joint Program—and with no review scheduled for 10 years instead of the normal five.
In the official letter of accreditation, NEASC Chair Judith R. Gordon commended WHOI for "its clear mission, comprehensive planning processes, exceptionally well-qualified student body, dedicated and highly competent faculty, and the unique repository of oceanographic legacy data maintained by the library," and applauded steps WHOI has taken to address gender and diversity issues.
The accreditation culminates an intensive process that includes a self-study, an on-site evaluation, and a formal review. Judith McDowell, associate dean of academic programs at the time, led the self-study and coordinated the accreditation process, which began during John Farrington's tenure as dean and continued after the appointment of James Yoder to that position. Eighteen scientific and administrative staff members from WHOI departments, the Academic Programs Office, and the MBL/WHOI library, served on the self-study committee.
Dean Yoder said the outcome "shows high regard by the commission for WHOI's education programs, for the MBL/WHOI library, and for the Institution's own strong support for its education mission."
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Summertime is all about easy living, and we're doing our best to make things a little easier for you when it comes to your online activities. We begin this June issue with a warning about swine flu scams now spreading like a virus on the Web—it's easy to protect yourself if you follow basic precautions. You'll also find simple instructions for deleting the e-mail addresses of previous recipients before you forward an e-mail, and a shortcut for e-mailing a website link to a friend. Finally, browse through the selections in Great Sites for summer-ready resources including grilling tips from an expert, great deals on vacation condos, and a free tool that enables you to "see yourself slimmer" while getting ready for swimsuit season.
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E-Mail Scam - Flu Outbreak Leads To Scam Outbreak
As they do with most every major news event, cybercriminals are attempting to cash in on the worldwide hysteria over H1N1 swine flu by using a variety of online scams. These include fraudulent e-mails selling swine flu survival guides or bogus vaccines and medications. One of the more serious spam messages contains a malicious PDF file that purports to answer frequently asked questions about the swine flu. When a user accesses the file, malcode within the PDF tries to drop another piece of malware onto the user's system. If a victim opens the file, their machine is immediately infected with a Trojan, which tries to steal sensitive data.
Here's an example of one of the many flu-related spam messages:
There have also been Search Engine Optimization (SEO) attacks where malware writers register domains related to the swine flu news event, and "game" the search engines' site-ranking algorithms to have their domains displayed among the top items when users search for information on the event. These bogus websites claim to have products available for purchase that will "prevent, treat and even cure" the swine flu virus.
Be on the lookout for e-mails and websites aimed at taking advantage of the current swine flu outbreak. To avoid falling victim to these scams:
Ask The Help Desk - Before I Forward E-mails, Am I Supposed To Delete The E-mail Addresses Of The Previous Recipients?
Question: Whenever I get an e-mail with a funny joke or video, I enjoy forwarding it to family and friends. But I heard that it's viewed as inconsiderate to not delete the e-mail addresses of the previous recipients before I forward e-mails. Why is this? And how do I delete the addresses?
Answer: There are a couple of reasons why it's preferred to delete the e-mail addresses of the previous recipients before forwarding e-mails. First, it can be annoying for your recipients to have to scroll down through a seemingly endless list of addresses before they get to the "guts" of the message. More importantly, addresses left exposed in circulating e-mails can be easily harvested by spammers and other cybercrooks.
Fortunately, it's very easy to delete these addresses before you forward e-mails. And your family and friends will thank you.
Whether you are using Outlook Express, Windows Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird for PC users, or Mail.app 3.1 for Mac users, simply highlight and then delete the "From" and "To" e-mail addresses within the body of the e-mail before you forward it.
Sites Of The Month - Great Sites To Check Out In June
WHO on Swine Flu
http://who.int/en - Looking for authoritative information about the H1N1 flu virus (otherwise known as swine flu)? The World Health Organization (WHO) website is a good place to get it. This comprehensive site offers public health guidelines, updates on reported cases, pandemic status alerts, travel advice, and FAQs.
http://instructables.com - Go here to learn how to do just about anything better. The site features instructions for do-it-yourself projects in a wide variety of categories such as arts and crafts, games, gardening, music, pets, and technology. User-friendly videos and photos guide you through the projects, and user comments offer firsthand accounts of what it's like to work on them.
Go Condo
http://pickpackgo.com - Take a trip through vacation rentals at hundreds of locations worldwide. Now is a great time to find a good deal on a condo and, since condos have kitchens, you can also save on restaurant costs by cooking for yourself. To use the site, just enter your destination, travel dates, preferred price, and other details to get your results. Photos and visitor comments provide a realistic description of each property.
The Grilling Coach
http://thegrillingcoach.com - It's grilling season! And if anyone knows grilling, it's Richard Myers, otherwise known as The Grilling Coach. This site offers detailed instructions about all things related to grilling including recipes, safety instructions, how to improve your grilling skills, and grill buying guides. Check out the instructional videos for more "hot tips."
View the New You
http://weightview.com - Ever wonder what you will look like when you lose those extra pounds? Now you don't have to wait for it to happen to find out. The WeightView site allows you to upload a photo of yourself and specify how much weight you'd like to lose, then sends you back an image of you at your target weight. You can use this image to motivate yourself to stay proactive about your goals. Check out the blog and join the community for additional support.
Short Tutorial - Shortcut For E-mailing A Link To A Friend
What do you do when you discover a great website and want to e-mail the link to a friend? Do you copy and paste the URL from the address bar into the body of your e-mail message? That method certainly works, but many browsers offer a feature that makes e-mailing a link even easier by setting up the e-mail for you. Just follow the steps below for the browser you use:
E-mailing a Link Using
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WASHINGTON — Illegal immigrants who are immediate relatives of American citizens will have an easier path to permanent residency under a new Obama administration rule that could affect as many as 1 million of the estimated 11 million people unlawfully in the United States.
The rule issued Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security aims to reduce the time illegal immigrants are separated from their U.S. families while seeking legal status, officials said.
Beginning March 4, illegal immigrants who can demonstrate that time apart from an American spouse, child or parent would create "extreme hardship" can apply for a visa without leaving the United States. Once approved, applicants would be required to leave briefly in order to return to their native country and pick up their visa.
Sources said that the administration might expand the changes to include relatives of lawful permanent residents.
The change, first proposed in April, is the latest move by the administration to use executive powers to revise immigration procedures without Congress passing a law. In August, the Obama administration began a program to halt the deportation of young people brought to the U.S. unlawfully as children.


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Leon Morin, Priest
Melville was a king of style, his best films usually tales of gangsters who are looking for a portal back to the Hollywood movies they fell out of. Leon Morin, Priest, though, is the middle of a trilogy of movies in which Melville tried to capture the experience of France during World War II, a time when Melville himself had been soldier in the Resistance -- the first, The Silence of the Sea, was his first feature as director, the third, Army of Shadows, is his most epic masterpiece, the film where he was able to bring together all of his interests, passions, and proclivities, giving them a depth and resonance they'd not quite had before.
Leon Morin was originally going to be more epic than it is, but part of Melville's goal in making it was to create a more commercial and popular movie than he had before, and so he sacrificed as much as he could bear to that goal. His first cut ran about three hours, whereas the new U.S. edition from Criterion runs 117 minutes. What Melville reportedly cut -- and this is supported by the two (tantalizingly short) deleted scenes included on the Criterion disc -- was a lot of material about everyday life in France during the Nazi occupation. The released version of the film focuses primarily on the protagonist, Barny (Emmanuelle Riva), and the object of her fascination, the priest Leon Morin (Jean-Paul Belmondo). Traces of the cut scenes haunt the film in a few anomalous and inexplicable moments, but these contribute to the overall feeling of the occupation's remote terror, like the sounds of tanks and gunshots just beyond Barny's window at night. Mostly, this is a movie about Barny's loneliness and the emotional perils that loneliness brings her to.
Unlike every other Melville film I've seen, and despite its title, Leon Morin, Priest is the story of a woman. In terms of gender, it is the inverse of Melville's typical worlds -- worlds of men in which a few women wander around as sources of mystery, objects of fascination, causes of chaos or confusion, items of inscrutability. Here, in a world where most of the men have gone off to the woods, Leon Morin is the inscrutable object of desire. He begins as Barny's fascination alone, but as she introduces more of the town's women to him, it seems as if he becomes the substitute husband, father, and devil to them all. They visit him in his ascetic upstairs lair, a place that looks like many of the ruffian hide-outs in Melville's crime movies.
Melville first wanted to film Leon Morin, Priest when he read the novel by Béatrix Beck soon after it came out in the early 1950s, but he said he waited until he could find just the right actor for the title role, and he didn't find that actor until he saw Belmondo working on Breathless (in which Melville had a cameo). Not everyone would see an actor brilliantly portraying a nonchalant gangster and think, "Oh, he'd make a marvelous priest!", but we should be grateful for Melville's odd eye, because Belmondo's performance as Morin is extraordinary. It's a role that could have been either dull or campy, but Belmondo brings many levels to it, and his inherent charisma and sexiness help us see how alluring and frustrating he is to the town's women. If we are able to participate as fascinated and even desiring spectators, we are then in the position of Barny and the other women. We, too, would want to bring all our problems to Leon Morin. We, too, would want to go Christian for him.
But the wonder of Belmondo's performance is not simply a result of his physique and presence. The wonder comes from the balance he finds between tenderness and arrogance. He fills Morin with the unconquerable confidence of the true believer, of the person who is able to admit all the possibilities of doubt because he has answered them for himself and knows that his path is the righteous one. Morin is someone we can desire as friend or fantasize as lover, but in Belmondo's performance he is also someone who vividly enacts the psychopathology of the priesthood.
It's interesting that Leon Morin received good notices from the Catholic and right-wing press when it was released, and was denounced by the Communist and left-wing press, because though it is full of Catholic words, Morin comes off a bit like the title character in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Viewers who do not hold as much antipathy towards priests as I do would likely make a less criminal comparison, but I can't conceive of interpreting the events and images of the film in any way that offers Morin (or his faith) as good news. We can sympathize with Barny, certainly, and Melville makes hers the perceptions that shape our viewing, but the final scenes are ones in which she is to be pitied and we are to regret all of our attractions to Morin and his pieties. All of the energy Barny expended on Morin, all of the time and thought and emotion she gave to the faith he led her to, brings her nothing but grief. She was a collaborator in the occupation of her mind and desires by a predatory man who used his attractiveness, intelligence, and authority for the sole purpose of luring people into his cult and making them submissive to his power.
Think of how much better of Barny would have been if she had been able to follow through with her desires for Sabine, a woman in her office who seems to share at least some of Barny's interest in her. Morin congratulates Barny when she says her desire for Sabine has ebbed, and he deliberately uses his own attractiveness to bring Barny closer to what he sees as the righteous path of heterosexual desire. His arrogance is breathtaking. He wants power over the women he encounters, he wants control over their lives, and he revels in the spell he casts. He justifies all of his awfulness by telling himself he's doing it for God.
Emmanuelle Riva's performance as Barny is as rich as Belmondo's as Morin, but inevitably less spectacular because Morin is the focus of eveyone's attention. Watch Riva's eyes -- the character of Barny may be plain and somewhat lacking confidence or conviction, but Riva's eyes suggest the character represses her strength and solidity, letting them fuel her in the way that Morin's repressed sexuality fuels his faith and violence (note how often he pushes Barny as if she's a piece of furniture).
In a scene toward the end, Morin visits Barny at home and takes over the job of chopping wood, a chore she's been doing just fine. He shows how strong and macho he is, and then she takes back the axe and slams it into the stump. Morin can't leave it there, though, and takes it out for examination and, apparently, fixing (like a non-Catholic woman, it doesn't meet his standards). Barny then asks him if he weren't a priest if he would marry her; he laughs the question off, she asks again, he gets angry, and he furiously smacks the axe into the stump and storms out of the house. "His hand," Barny says in a voiceover, "in a single gesture, had given all and taken all away."
Apparently, in the original novel, Morin at this moment answers Barny's questions about marriage by saying, "Yes," but Melville wanted something more ambiguous. We do not know why Morin becomes so angry, though Barny seems to think it is because he wants to say yes and cannot. But that does not have to be the only answer. His fury could stem from his recognition of failure -- that he has tried to use his power over her to bring her, as Trent Reznor might say, closer to God. He also wants to enact the role of the good, masculine husband -- here she is raising her daughter, running a household, holding down a job, and he could step in as the patriarch and put her into her more proper place of motherly housewife -- he could, were he not a priest, take the axe out of her hand every day. He has failed at all of it. In that moment, he at least partly wants to sink the axe in her skull. (But though he may share certain traits with Henry, he is only a serial killer of dreams and desires, not bodies.)
As much as we pity Barny at the end of the film, we should celebrate for her, too -- she is free of this priest, and she will likely be more wary of such men in the future. Perhaps she'll return to her previous atheism. Perhaps she'll seek out Sabine again, or someone similar, someone who won't take the axe away and want to bury it in her brain. The sequel to Leon Morin, Priest, could, in fact, be a feel-good movie called Barny the Lesbian Atheist.


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The 'Social Sewing' groups here at Somerset Patchwork have been very busy this term. I think the Christmas holiday break has recharged the girls and there are some really exciting quilts nearing completion. This stunning hexagon quilt belongs to Jan from the Friday morning girls.
Look at all of those amazing fussy cut shapes!
Ann from the Thursday night girls has had a quick lesson in 'Clamshells' the Patchwork with Busyfingers way and is well and truly hooked!!! One tin is full of cut shapes and the other is quickly filling with glued shells ready to stitch.
Leigh from Tuesday night is working on her final border of Mrs Billings...you're almost there Leigh - keep going!
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
Toyo Wins Again (And I Have An Epiphany)
Just now, Toyo won their second consecutive championship as Takahiro Fujioka pitched yet another championship game gem. He and Keio's Koji Fukutani both went the distance, into extra innings, but then Toyo's Yuya Oda hit a 2-run sayonara homer to win the game 3-1 for Toyo. But now, I'm sitting in a house in the suburbs of Seattle. Nobody was broadcasting this game online that I could find, so I couldn't actually see it.
And it made me realize that I should actually declare that this blog is semi-officially on hold for a while.
I've been back in the US for a few months now, and I've been working for the last month at a software company in San Francisco, commuting down 4 days a week from Seattle. It's been a lot of fun and I'm really enjoying the job a lot and learning a lot. But on the other hand, I've barely been able to follow baseball at all. I've been to a few MLB games -- just hit a Giants-Reds one the other night, and was at Mariners-Yankees a week or two ago, things like that. But I don't really feel like I have much to contribute about those to the blogosphere. I still follow Japanese college baseball religiously, and check the NPB scores and stuff every day, but it's just not the same when I can't be there.
I'm going to try to go to North Carolina for the US-Japan collegiate tourney in 3 weeks. I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't disappointed by the current player pool that's going. There's a lot of interesting guys on that list but a lot of my favorites won't be there; Daisuke Takeuchi isn't on the invite list, neither is Kazuki Mishima. (Well, Fukutani, Fujioka, Nomura, and Sugano all are, but...) Tokaidai's catcher Fushimi Torai just turned down his invite because he had a pretty lousy semester batting-wise, and I was looking forward to seeing him again. Keio's Hayata Itoh and Hosei's Hiroshi Taki are on the invite list, but... well, we'll see.
I'm not planning to completely abandon the blog forever; I hope to write about those US-Japan games, and I'm in the early stages of planning a trip back to Japan for sometime in the September-October timeframe. But for the time being, there's no sense in lying to myself about obligations here. What free time I have these days is going towards putting together Puzzle Hunt, which is my big commitment until September 10. I could probably attempt to do some short baseball posts in the interim, but I've never been any good at that. Maybe once my life gets back in order work-wise -- this SF-Seattle commute won't last forever. We'll see.
I really do want to thank everyone for their support over the years. In case it wasn't clear, my four years as "THAT gaijin" at hundreds of baseball games all over Japan was one of the best experiences of my life, EVER. I'm sure I have plenty of adventures in store in the future, they just won't be happening for a while. And I promise this isn't goodbye, just me realizing I shouldn't just trail off into dust without some sort of explanation why. I'll undoubtedly still post here (I've still got a Big 6 roundup draft to finish as well as the Nichidai San stuff) from time to time.
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- Nadya said...
The blog will be missed, but you know best what you need to be doing. Have fun and be safe in that Left Coast place.
- MAJ said...
I enjoy Baseball and your Blog I hope you can return to it as soon as time and circumstance allows
Mark Alan Janisch
- Anonymous said...
Domo arigatou for everything. I do miss your Japan blog, but how about doing a Giants or Mariners blog? The Giants are the 2010 WS champions and they are first in the NL west. The Mariners are second in the AL west.
- JT_Dutch said...
... Thanks for creating a very engaging and enjoyable blog. Before I came here, and before Bobby Valentine made his second trip to manage in NPB, it had been a long time since I'd followed baseball in Japan. Rediscovering all of the fun and the unique nature of baseball on the other side of the Pacific has been a nice experience. Thanks again.
- Anonymous said...
Hi, since I read your last text I decided to go to North Carolina myself and bought tickets (my chance to see the japanese prospects in person)... Why would Ito not be there?
Thanks for your interesting writings!
Patrick Wilson
- Anonymous said...
I am sure the crowd over at Lookout Landing and USSMariner would be delighted if you'd stop by occasionally, now that you're back in the states.
(Appologies if I missed your appearances there, I don't follow their game threads that closely).
- Deanna said...
Patrick: Team's been decided, Itoh is on it. I still need to get plane tickets if I'm going, because I'm so lazy.
Anon 2, um... that would work if I was actually following the Mariners, which I'm not, being as I live in San Francisco 4 days a week. I've gone to a few M's games but right now I don't have enough time to really contribute anything insightful, and I'd really rather have something useful to say before I say it :)
- John K. said...
Hi Deanna,
First off I want to thank you for sharing with us so many of your experiences with baseball here and abroad for the past few years. I found my way to your site through NPB Tracker at some point and have been hooked ever since. I was introduced to the world of Japanese (high school) baseball through the works of Adachi Mitsuru, and your site has provided a wonderful opportunity to connect to the real world subject matter.
I post not only to thank you but also to ask for advice. I recently decided to go to grad school at UW, and one of my professors there has graciously put me in contact with a colleague of his at Todai. I leave July 4th to head to Tokyo and work in his lab until the 26th of August, at which point I plan to travel for a week (apparently I have family in Minabe) before heading back to the States.
Being a baseball fan, what would you suggest I do/see during my time in Japan. I have limited command of the language (I'm yonsei and only have a year of study...back when I was a 1st year), but hope to take in as much as possible.
Thanks again,
John K.
- Deanna said...
John -- send me an email at email@example.com and I'll try to answer that better for you. Same goes for anyone else.
I'm heading to NC for the college tourney tomorrow, I'm kinda nervous about it but it'll be nice to see the guys again, assuming we don't get rained out...
- erichandwanda said...
Best of luck with your new job! I have been in Japan for work but always missed the season so I am really hoping I can catch some baseball there before too long. But reading your blog is the next best thing to being there. Thanks for all the good posts over the years whether you post again soon or not your hard word is definitely appreciated!
- Unknown said...
Thanks for all the great posts over the years and good luck with your new job. I have been to Japan for work but not during the baseball season so I have never seen a game there. I think your great blog is the next best thing to being there! Thanks for all the good stories, news, and pics. Your blog and all the hard work you put into it is greatly appreciated!


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It has taken me seven weeks to be able to admit this, with the knowledge that the initial eight-episode run is about to end -- I love WWE's Total Divas. Or at least it has me hooked and turning in every week, which is more than Raw or Smackdown do.
There are a lot of reasons for this, I think, and they deserve exploring.
For one, I've been a fan of Nattie Neidhart's ever since I hung out with her for a day years and years ago at a fan fest in Oshawa, Ontario, and learned first-hand what a quality individual she is. That shows through on the show. And with SLAM! Wrestling along for the ride as Nattie, TJ Wilson and Harry Smith all got signed by WWE, it feels like they are part of the website in some ways. Plus, TJ as Tyson Kidd has been a great sort-of villain on the show, though we know it ends in a wedding anyway.
But that's hardly the only reason to keep tuning in.
It's a little bit of the glimpse behind the curtain that is intriguing, and we see the Mighty Oz behind the scenes, whether it's instructing the Divas on their matches or the seamstress, Sandra Gray, who steals every scene she's in.
We always knew these people were there, pulling the levers behind the WWE superstars, but it is really neat to get to see them in action.
The fact that most of the Divas are dating men from the roster definitely helps. John Cena's house, wow, but not unexpected. And Daniel Bryan, er, Bryan Danielson, is as genuine as he has always seemed on the indy circuit.
I find myself rooting for Jimmy Uso, who has gotten more mic time on Total Divas than he ever has on WWE TV. Think about that for a second -- on Monday Night Raw, they have THREE hours to fill every week, and I know so little about him. Yet on Total Divas, through his up-and-down relationship with Naomi, I feel like I not only know the guy, but that we could go for a beer and talk about woman problems. (Not that I have any, dear.)
Compare the WWE guys to the non-wrestlers who have been brought in as wrestlers, and you can see their comfort level with a camera and performing.
Note I said performing.
I am perfectly aware that Total Divas is scripted, as is most reality TV. And I DON'T watch reality TV, unless you count rooting for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Cleveland Browns during their respective seasons.
So it leaves me wondering, can Nikki Bella really be that way? Could Jo-Jo really think a relationship with Justin Gabriel was going to work? Does Eva look as smoking hot in person?
When I got into pro wrestling, it was the 1980s and the WWF was really cartoonish and the NWA delivered action ... and the AWA seemed like a befuddled uncle. But promotions always gave you a little insight into a person, vignettes away from the arena. There was Magnum T.A. making the women swoon, or hunting for Kamala in the jungle (Jerry Jarrett's backyard, apparently). They were hokey and fun.
Today, we get professionally shot, polished, screen-ready vignettes with the Wyatts or the Matadors. That's all well and good, but it doesn't click with me, which means I'm not clicking in, except as a job.
So, in a way, Total Divas is taking me back to the past -- except now I have a PVR and can watch it at my leisure, and will continue to do so when the next version comes up on E!
I'd love for its success to find its way into the regular programming, even if it's a shortened version of MTV's Cribs, where we see where a wrestler trained, or meet his or her family, or talk to a trainer. The NFL does this great on its pregame shows, and with so much TV time available, WWE should too.
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Mystic Cheese Company built on tradition, ingenuity
When you literary types hear the names Melville and Melinda Mae you obviously think of Herman Melville, author of " Moby Dick" and may even know the more obscure fact that Melinda Mae is a girl who eats a whale in a Shel Silverstein poem.
You probably don't think of cheese.
But those are actually the names of the first two original American cheeses to be made by The Mystic Cheese Company - inspired by owner/founder Brian Civitello's favorite literature.
Civitello uses a number of awesome alliterations to describe Melinda Mae:
"Melinda Mae is a rinded soft ripened 5.5-ounce square cow's milk cheese concisely curated in our ripening room for 23.5 days at 87.5 percent relative humidity. Premeditated not to pillage palettes and conquer cuisine, Melinda Mae marries well with malty brews, lighthearted whites, and mother nature's initial annual offerings of wild edibles, crisp cultivables, and preservable pomum."
Melville, he says, "is a soft ripened cow's milk cheese square aged in our ripening room a fleeting seven days…Young Melville has a bright acidic and briny edge that quickly reaches a fine equilibrium of mellow tartness masked with rich lactones and a mild buttery finish."
Everything about the Mystic Cheese Company, still in its infancy, is unconventional; including the way the cheese is made - in a pod, which is actually a mobile artisan cheese factory.
"We took two large recycled chipping containers and turned them into a mobile cheese making infrastructure, which means we make cheese inside the containers on a farm," Civitello explains. "The best way to get great tasting cheese is to have fresh, clean milk. So our first mobile installation is at Gray Wall Farm in Lebanon where we started in November."
The operation begins at 7 a.m. when Civitello and his small crew begin collecting the warm milk.
The cheese couldn't be fresher, he says, because "While they milk the cows, we draw off milk directly from the cows. Our milk is never cooled. It goes straight from the cow into our pasteurizer.
Civitello says that what he is doing has never been done before in the U.S. or even in the world.
"We're the only cheese makers that don't own a farm. I created the cheese pod. I designed and built everything from scratch. It just came out of my head. All the equipment inside it is homemade."
Civitello grew up on a 50-acre farm in Salem.
"My grandfather was a first generation immigrant from Italy," Civitello says. "He was into farming and cooking and keeping animals. I had a very food-oriented upbringing. He always had a fondness for cheese. He told me a story of when he first came to this country and his family kept some goats and he would make cheese."
Inspired by his grandfather's story, Civitello set out on a journey in his early 20s. He went overseas and apprenticed with all sorts of cheese makers in Italy - both artisan and industrial. When he returned to the U.S. he finished a degree in agricultural economics at University of Connecticut with the intention of starting his own cheese company one day.
Civitello began making cheese 15 years ago and opened a consulting company four years ago. He then started traveling around the country, teaching people how to make better cheese and he was also involved in designing factories for cheese makers. He founded The Mystic Cheese Company two years ago.
"I spent the last 15 years of my career trying to open my own company. It's taken me awhile to get there," Civitello admits. "'Melinda Mae' is really a poem about finishing something you start. Cheese-making is a tough career path. It's a lot of hard and physical work. It takes a lot to create your own company and get it going. A lot of people don't follow through with it. Most of the day is spent cleaning, 20 percent making cheese."
Civitello plans to continue to blend art and science and release a total of five cheeses.
"There's a big artisan cheese movement in the U.S. I use what I learned in Europe and combined with general curiosity and experimentation, I've come up with my own original American recipes that don't taste like any other cheeses."
Why The Mystic Cheese Company if it's based in Lebanon? Within the year Civitello plans to open a retail and education center for cheese in Mystic.
"I'm building up varieties on the manufacturing side and then I'll launch into the retail side," he says.
Currently The Mystic Cheese Company produces a few hundred pounds of cheese a day and ships more than 600 pieces of cheese a week in Connecticut alone. Mystic Cheese can be found in restaurants and cheese stores and was just selected to be sold at Whole Foods markets.
If you can't get to a Whole Foods, on Sunday, The Mystic Cheese Company will be at the Grilled Cheese Get Down at Gray Wall Farm in Lebanon. Mystic Cheese will serve special seasonal grilled cheeses featuring Melville and Melinda Mae along with a green salad and gazpacho from the Caseus Grilled Cheese Truck, seltzer and soda from Hosmer Mountain, and ice cream from The Farmer's Cow.
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, separated
1 stalk green garlic, white and light green parts sliced thin
4 eggs
1/4 cup whole milk
Heaping 1/2 cup Melinda Mae, cubed
2 (or more) thin slices of Melinda Mae
Salt and pepper to taste
2 slices of bread, toasted
In a small frying pan, melt 1 tablespoon unsalted butter on medium high heat, add green garlic. Cook until browned and fragrant, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
In a double boiler, with the water on a low simmer, add 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, milk, eggs, salt and pepper. Wisk until the eggs begin to take some shape, 1 to 2 minutes.
Using a heat proof spatula, continue stirring the eggs. About halfway through cooking time, after approximately 5 minutes, add the cooked green garlic and cubed Melinda Mae and fold into the egg mixture to incorporate. Continue stirring until the eggs have reached your preferred consistency. Ideally they will still be wet, but soft, fluffy, and cooked through.
Spoon egg mixture onto toasts, lay slices of Melinda Mae on top, and place under the broiler for a minute or so, just until the cheese melts. Serve immediately.
What: The Grilled Cheese Get Down
When: Sunday, May 18, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Where: Gray Wall Farm and The Mystic Cheese Pod, 49 Chapell Road Lebanon
How much: Tickets are $22.75 and available at http://www.zvents.com/lebanon_ct/events/show/370233966-the-grilled-cheese-get-down. Refunds will be given in the event of rain. Tickets include live music by Hannah Fair. Bring your own seating.
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I had a shift recently where I was The Raven. I went from room to room, it seemed, dispensing Bad News. Not the most fun shift I have had. "You know that numbness in your hand? Brain tumor. Sorry." "Hey, that vaginal bleeding? Turns out your baby died a couple of weeks ago. Bummer." "That chest pain you had yesterday went away because you completed your infarction. You're probably going to need a new heart now. Just sayin'." "Wow. Your liver's big. Did you know you had mets?"
The thing that struck me during that shift, as it has so many times before, is how differently people experience and process Bad News. It's almost like a case-control study, since I have a fairly standard method of dropping the hammer on the poor folks who receive The Badness. How they respond seems more dependent on the patient-specific factors than on my delivery. For example:
Option 1: Hysterics. Common in the young, common with less serious bad news, and also common in certain distinct social/cultural groups. More common in the families of the afflicted than in the patients themselves. Can present with simple weeping, but can easily escalate to high drama. Faux seizures and violence against walls are common elements. The most distressing thing I have recently seen was a young man harshly mistreating his girlfriend/fiance who was having a miscarriage. We were all kinda sorry he didn't cross any bright lines so we could have called the cops on him. Challenging to manage in the short term, but tends to blow over quickly.
Option 2: Paralysis. Perhaps the most common response. As Dr. Rob says, "Saying words like "cancer" is like dropping a bomb; people won't hear much else in the visit after you say that." So true. The unexpected "Hey, that's a tumor" on CT scan commonly results in this sort of emotional vapor lock. It's much worse when there's no action item and when the patient doesn't feel that sick. Typical physical findings include the fixed thousand-yard stare and monosyllabic responses to direct questions. For me it's a non-management item, since I'm usually passing the baton to the inpatient team, but I feel bad for these folks. I feel obligated to try to draw them out of the catalepsy, but in truth, these folks just usually need some time to process.
Option 3: Incomprehension. A real challenge when it's genuine:
Option 4: Fatalism. Reminds me of an Onion story: "Faced with the prospect of a life-threatening disease, the 34-year-old husband and father of three drew a deep breath and made a firm resolution to himself: I am not going to fight this. I am a dead man. On Feb. 20, less than a month after he was first diagnosed, Kunkel died following a brief, cowardly battle with stomach cancer." This actually seems more common with cardiac or stroke patients. I tell someone that they are having a heart attack, and they just sort of check out and let events overwhelm them. I recall one guy heading off the the cath lab, all of 45 years old, telling his wife, "I've had a good run."
Option 5: Stoicism. Directly proportionate to the degree of familial hysteria, it also presents on its own. I personally am quite comfortable with the stoics, because I think I identify with them. A more long-term thinker might worry about their coping skills when the shit ultimately hits the fan and the stoicism runs out. But in the short term it's a useful mechanism to defer the anxiety and grief than accompanies Bad News, and it's probably the easiest for me to manage.
Option 6: Creepy stoicism. There are things so awful that the stoic response is glaringly maladaptive. I remember a dad, informed of his young son's death, who calmly responded that the Good Lord giveth and taketh and are there papers for me to sign? Wowie. Sick sick sick.
Option 7: The mature response. I don't know how to better describe this, but some people have the gift of a capacity to absorb the bad news, allow an appropriate shared emotional reaction, and turn back to me with an "OK, that sucks, what do we do now?" demeanor. I'm not sure I'll handle it that well when it's my turn. I hate this because it's an article of faith in the ER that the nicest people always have the worst outcomes, and these are the folks that I tend to really like, personally.
I'm sure I've missed a few variations, and the possible combinations of the types are near-infinite. As a student of human nature I am fascinated by the differences and commonalities in the responses. I feel sympathetic grief for these folks, the few among the hordes of worried well congesting the ED who bear real life-changing illness. Generally I don't get to do much to help them. I'm the perennial bad guy -- I drop the bomb and then shuffle them off to someone else to get better -- which is a pity because I'd really like to have a positive contribution to their care. I console myself that the bearing of the Bad News is an important job in itself, that well-done it can position patients to accept and move forward, whereas poorly-managed it can be highly traumatic. So by being tactful, careful, and supportive in my presentation, the diagnosis can be the first step in the therapy.
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The holidays are in full swing, the stores are bustling with holiday shoppers, moms are baking their traditional Christmas butter cookies, but not all seems right with the world — not in our post-Sandy world.
How do we get through what are suppose to be festive days with friends and family and even ourselves while worrying about when they, or we, can return to our homes, our normal lives, our ordinary routines?
To get some answers and some suggestions about how to deal with — and even enjoy — this time of year, the Herald spoke to two experts in the field, Paul Engel, Ph.D., a social worker with the Foundation for Religion and Mental Health, and Social Worker Neil Henry, the director of the Baldwin Counseling Center.
The holidays are here, but many of us are still living with the after-effects of the hurricane. How do we deal with this? Engel: Whether you are back in your home and rebuilding or still living elsewhere, there's no doubt that everyone is affected in some way. In fact, it can be months or years before life returns to normal. But the holidays are a time of tradition, and the routine of that tradition can be very helpful in getting back of a sense of control over your life. Remember, the reasons for celebration haven't changed — it's just the circumstances are different.
How can a family observe the holidays if they're not in their own homes? What if we have others living with us temporarily?
Engel: Keep as many of the regular traditions as possible, but be creative in recognizing that this year is different because of the hurricane. If you've got more people in the house than normal, give everyone their own area to decorate so that everyone feels as if they're part of the festivities. Let everyone pick a dish to cook — you'll have a bigger meal with some new and some familiar foods. If finances are a consideration this year, suggest that people make gifts or limit their list to just one or two items. Just as with other activities, attempts at bringing back the familiar will help in the healing process.
Some people have said they want to "observe" the holidays but feel guilty about "celebrating." What would you say to them?


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Malloy says state on path to tough recovery
Addresses regional business group: Governor says Connecticut has made improvements
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Tuesday he sees an improvement in the state's economic climate, but there are tough times still ahead with little hope of help from the federal government.
"Progress has been made," Malloy told about 200 guests as the keynote speaker for the Bridgeport Regional Business Council's annual Capitol luncheon, which was held at the Bridgeport Holiday Inn & Conference Center.
He told the audience of business people, politicians and nonprofit executives that when he was elected two years ago Connecticut was last in job creation, had the largest per capita debt, an underfunded pension, and an education system that's been failing many urban children. Steps have been made in all these areas, he said, but more needs to be done in a difficult environment.
He said under his administration, the state has provided funding to help almost 800 businesses expand and retain employees in two years compared with just 200 that received help in the previous six years.
Malloy proposed a $43.8 billion budget to cover the next two years, while he's also facing a potential budget deficit of more than $136 million, according to the state Office of Fiscal Analysis. This is happening as the state pressures the business community to increase hiring beyond the anemic pace of last year while facing potentially millions of dollars in federal funding cuts from automatic spending cuts known as sequestration.
Don't expect any help from Washington, according to the governor, who characterized the sequester and the federal debt-ceiling crisis as manufactured problems.
Malloy spent four days in the nation's capital in February for the National Governors Association and Council of Governors meetings and described the experience with federal lawmakers as "four days of my life I'll never get back."
But he also said Connecticut has also manufactured some of its own problems, particularly on job growth. When the nation added 23 million jobs, Connecticut and Michigan were the only two states that weren't part of that, he said. Michigan had an excuse, though, Malloy said: The auto industry was restructuring.
"We have no excuses," Malloy said.
Malloy said the state needs to leverage its institutions of higher learning, among other measures. He noted that little research money is coming into Connecticut's premier schools compared to those in states like North Carolina and Virginia.
Looking ahead, Malloy said he presented his budget with the goals of improving education and jobs, and reducing the tax burden on the middle class. He said he expects a new two-year budget to take until June to finalize, and is concerned that lawmakers have already tallied up almost $1 billion more in spending than the governor has proposed.
Before the event, BRBC President and Chief Executive Officer Paul Timpanelli said people were concerned about Malloy's proposal to scrap the car tax and his plans for hospital reimbursement payments for the poor and uninsured.
Municipal leaders have decried the car-tax plan, saying it will force them to shift the burden to property owners.
"My good friend, the mayor of Bridgeport, and others have a right to complain," Malloy said of his proposals to address the state's problems while not exceeding the spending cap and raising taxes.
Despite the outcry over the car tax recently, no one asked about the proposal during Malloy's talk. The issue of hospital reimbursements did come up, however.
Malloy proposed ending some low-income assistance programs and moving thousands of people off the federal Medicaid program. His budget office has justified the move by noting that federal health care reform is supposed to provide private insurance coverage to more people in 2014.
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A 1987 graduate of Notre Dame High School in Fairfield, Ganino told the governor he found at his 25th reunion about 40 percent of his classmates now live outside of Connecticut.
Malloy said the issue is about opportunity, with states that are creating jobs avoiding that kind of loss. To combat them, the governor said Connecticut must play to its strengths, including insurance and finance, as well as addressing its shortcomings.
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After the event, Ganino said he supports the governor's efforts.
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But something has to be done, the certified public accountant said.
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When nothing is working, it's hard to look at the process without feeling overwhelmed. Where to even begin? We looked at the choke points and the patient flow to see what worked, what didn't work, and where we could find efficiencies. For us, the initial problem seemed to be the waiting room -- it was always full! This was in fact caused by various bottlenecks at triage, bed placement, MD assignment, disposition decision, and admission to the hospital. Eliminating (or at least reducing) the bottlenecks was undertaken in sequence, during which we had to deal with cascading consequences -- for example, getting patients in beds faster resulted in physicians being overwhelmed by the influx, which slowed discharges, etc.
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The biggest conceptual change was that the ER's gridlock was not an ER problem, but a hospital problem. Nurses and doctors on the floor could not shrug it off as "somebody elses's problem" but were obligated to take ownership and contribute solutions. Other service lines were also involved.
Management Practices
While the fundamental problem was identified -- dissatisfied patients -- there was no clear understanding of exactly which factors determine patient satisfaction. Furthermore, the ED was a data-poor environment, with limited ability to track patient flow. The physicians historically had been managed via a policy of "benign neglect," and there was substantial variation in the docs' operational capacities.
New Resources
It is hard to bootstrap yourself up without increased resources. Every ER Director has a wish list a mile long of the things they would like. In an environment of limited resources, we had to choose the few areas in which we could get the most 'bang for the buck.'
Culture Change
It sounds like fluff, but this is incredibly important. Working in a county-ER type setting, with a lot of uninsured/welfare patients, there's a temptation to view patients as parasites, or burdens, or anything other than customers. To rebuild the concept of customer service as the core mission of the ER, to instill it into the staff within the ER, and to communicate that it was not "show" but a real and sustained focus of the organization was a very difficult endeavor. To do this while at the same time empowering the nursing staff and improving morale was exceedingly difficult. Leadership is an interesting phenomenon, and the investment from the top leadership in the hospital as well as the ER nursing leadership was the key to driving much of the culture change.
This sort of change did not come overnight. In fact, since the seminal events that instigated our performance improvement plan, the time elapsed has been several years (longer than the existence of this blog). Staying power, continued focus, an emphasis on long-term trends instead of short-term oscillations in data, and the patience required to effect the change and see it sustained over time were required. Notions of an overnight turnaround or abrupt changes would have been unrealistic and probably would have poisoned the relationship between management and the ER staff.
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Q I hope BART from Fremont to San Jose opens before my next birthday on Aug. 6. Will it?
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A No, but you're a mere 50 years old and the opening is not far away. There's a big shindig planned Wednesday in San Jose when the California Transportation Commission comes to town to dole out $39.6 million, the final allocation of $768 million it promised in state funds 14 years ago thanks to Gov. Gray Davis.
That was a critical move, as it marked the first time any money had been set aside for the $2.3 billion BART project. Santa Clara County voters later approved two sales taxes for BART, and the Federal Transit Administration chipped in $900 million. The 10-mile link from Fremont to Berryessa will open in two years and is $70 million under budget.
Officials who will meet at the future Berryessa station on Mabury Road include CTC Chairman Carl Guardino, Congressman Mike Honda, California State Transportation Agency Secretary Brian Kelly, VTA General Manager Nuria Fernandez, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, VTA chair and San Jose City Councilman Ash Kalra, Metropolitan Transportation Commission Executive Director Steve Heminger, San Jose City Councilman Sam Liccardo and Palo Alto City Councilwoman Liz Kniss. Whew!
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