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Building Java GUIs with Matisse: A Gentle Introduction
It is a curiosity that when Java was first introduced, it made a name (some would say "became synonymous with") simple interactive GUIs and animations in applets embedded on Web pages. It was the first foothold for the language. At the time, the GUI construction was simpler than a lot of the alternatives out there (it was the time of Motif, windows 3.1 and does anyone remember NeWS?).
It was also a little limiting—AWT provided a decent way of getting a few buttons and menus put into an applet or even a Java application if you were ambitious, but the results were fairly limited and simple.
To combat this and bring the possibility of richer desktop applications and a higher abstraction to GUI building in Java, Swing was created. Swing learned much from other GUI toolkits available at the time and brought in a lot more flexibility... and some more complexity.
Fast forward to a year ago and the state of the art for Swing creation revolved around numerous layout managers, the most flexible (and notorious) being the GridBagLayout. This is an amazing layout manager that lets you control just about every aspect of every widget placement in every form. The problem is, it requires you to.
Netbeans, and various other IDEs, already had good support to help with creating grid bag layouts, but these usually involved a different view of the UI from the WYSIWYG one, and it takes a while to learn all the controls and settings even in these helper tools.
In NetBeans 5.0, however, a new option is available. Matisse is a new GUI builder that uses the GroupLayout manager. This is a new layout manager that is not a part of standard Swing (yet), but can be freely distributed with your application.
Matisse is Java UI building done right. It is familiar, offers drag and drop placement, and sensible defaults that can still be altered and overridden easily for flexibility. It is a GUI builder as easy to use (with a couple of minor exceptions—more on those later) as Visual Basic, but has a huge advantage over VB in that the resulting forms and panels can be re-sized in a meaningful way, without having to write all sorts of resize event handling code.
This article will outline some of the new features in Matisse and is intended to give you a taster of what is possible with it. It details a real application (albeit very small and simple) that I recently wrote to solve a real-world need. My hope is that this will demonstrate what is possible with Matisse, and whet your appetite to find out more.
I will also point out that I am not generally a Swing or even a GUI developer. I may commit atrocities in this article from a UI perspective and, if I do, apologies. However, my point here is to show that anyone can use Matisse to make an application—even a server-side hacker like me.
Before following along with this article, you will need to grab NetBeans IDE 5.0 from http://www.netbeans.org/ and install it. I also recommend reading or printing out the Matisse GUI Builder Legend at http://www.netbeans.org/kb/50/quickstart-gui_legend.html; it provides a handy cheat sheet of what the various guidelines mean when creating a GUI in Matisse.
The source code for this example can be downloaded from here.
About the Application
You may or may not be aware, but I am co-host of a podcast all about Java called the Java Posse along with three other guys (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, and Joe Nuxoll). We record at least once a week and have adopted the approach of everyone recording their own microphone feed, and then mixing the results into a single audio file using a multi-track audio editor. This produces great results, but also takes a fair chunk of time. The longest part of the editing process is removing the mistakes or "Flubs" as we call them. This can be long pauses, words that are tripped over, more than one of us talking at the same time, and so forth. Because we are not audio professionals, and are using skype (with the inherent lag), there tends to be quite a lot of these.
As a result, I try and capture these flubs as they happen. To start with, I just wrote them down, with a rough time, but this took too long and too much attention. So, I decided to write a simple GUI app to make the job easier, and to spit out the results in the correct format for Audacity labels, which is the multitrack editor I use to edit the shows.
The format for the labels file in Audacity is very simple. It consists of a start time and end time, in seconds (with decimal fractions), and then a text table.
To keep my "flubber" application simple, I make the start and end time the same, so markings refer to an instant, not a time period. Also my labels are simply a counter, starting at 1 and counting up (this way I don't miss any when scrolling through the audio).
So, my file might look like this:
My flubber application (or jflubber as I call it, to avoid any legal issues with Robin Williams) is a simple way of starting a clock, marking flub points as instantaneous moments of time, and spitting out these moments as a text file that can be loaded into Audacity. Simple, but useful and effective.
Getting Started
Okay. Now it's time to build jFlubber. First, you need to create a Java Application, so fire up NetBeans 5.0 and:
- From the file menu, select New Project...
- In the new project dialog, select General in the left pane, and Java Application in the right pane, Click Next.
- Choose a project name (jFlubber?) and a package and name for the main class (I chose org.bldc.jflubber.Main because I own the bldc.org domain). Click Finish.
- The Main class will be created and fleshed out with a minimal implementation.
Create the UI
Now for the fun part. You will paint your UI using Matisse. First, you need a new form:
- In the projects pane (top left), right-click on the package you created with the Main class inside of it (note that you need to click on the package node, not the Main class), and select New -> JFrame Form...
- Name the form. I suggest something like JFlubberMainFrm (don't use a lowercase j at the beginning of the name because the convention in Java is for classes to start with uppercase).
- Leave everything else as default and click Finish.
- You should see a new empty grey form on the page, ready to paint the GUI into.
Your GUI needs a text label, five buttons, and a text area. The buttons are:
- Start: To start the timer
- Stop: To stop the timer
- Flub: Nice big easy to hit button to mark a flub point in the recording
- Save: Save the labels from the text area out to a text file
- Clear: Clear the text area ready for a new flub session
The text label will be at the top and will show the current time elapsed since the start button was pressed, in minutes and seconds. Why not hours, minutes, and seconds? Why not microseconds? Well, because I prefer minutes and seconds. You are, of course, free to format this stopwatch display however you like.
The text area will hold the flub points formatted in the Audacity label format. It's not strictly necessary to see this, but it is a nicety to be able to get visual feedback when a flub point is added.
To see what you are aiming towards, the finished UI should look like this:
To create this UI in Matisse, first set up the time label:
- From the component palette in the top right of the IDE, drag a jLabel over the form but don't drop it right away. Instead, move it towards the top left of the form until you see two dashed lines about a quarter of an inch from the top and the left side of the form appear. These are your guidelines in Matisse; they help you position components in a way that the GroupLayout manager knows how to resize them.
- Next, grab the right end of the new label component and drag it towards the right of the form, until you see another guideline appear about a quarter of an inch from the right side of the form.
- By doing this, you have told Matisse to keep this label anchored to the top, left, and right sides of the form, expanding the label as necessary when the form is resized.
- Next, you want a nice big font for the timer label. Select the label by clicking on it (if it is not already selected), and look in the jLabel1 properties (right side of the IDE) for the Font property. Click on the ... .
- I suggest Dialog, Bold, 18 pts for the text fonts, but you can use anything you like here.
- Click OK, You also want the label text centered (it looks nicer), so select CENTER for the HorizontalAlignment property.
- I suggest renaming the label to something more meaningful than jLabel1, so find it in the inspector pane (left side of the IDE) and click on jLabel1 there and leave the mouse over it for a second or two. It should go into rename mode. Iype in a better name, like timerLabel, and click return.
- Finally, the label still reads jLabel1 on the form. It would be better if it read 0:00, so in the properties (or by double-clicking on the label itself) change the text to read 0:00.
That seems like a lot of steps, but that's because I took the description very deliberately. In fact, with a little practice you will be creating and placing UI components very quickly and easily in Matisse. Next, you can add the buttons:
- Grab a jButton from the component palette and drag it to the top left of the form again, under the timer label this time, until the guideline appears on both the top and left of the button. Drop it.
- Do the same for a second button, but this time drop it on the right side of the form. This time, however, instead of a guideline above the button from the label, you will probably see a new type of guideline that runs through both buttons just under the text label (to align the text) as well as the familiar anchor guideline on the right of the button. When you see this, drop it.
- Now, for the clever bit: Starting with the left button, drag the right hand side into approximately the middle of the form. You will not see a guideline yet. Don't worry, and you also don't have to get it exactly half way, just approximate.
- Next, grab the left side of the right button and drag it left until it is about a quarter of an inch from the other button. This time, you should see a guideline appear. When you do, let go.
- Next, you want to make the buttons actually be the same size. Select both buttons by first selecting one, then shift-clicking on the other. Check that only these two buttons are selected and no other components (this is important).
- Right-click on one of the buttons and select Same Size->Same Width from the popup menu.
- When you do this, you should see both buttons resize a bit. You might also see the form change size slightly as everything gets re-aligned. Don't worry about the form size changing; you easily can change it later.
- Change the names of these buttons to startButton and stopButton (in the same manner as for the label); also, change the text of the buttons to Start and Stop.
- Now, you want the nice big flub button. This should be the full width of the form and about twice the height of the start and stop buttons (just make it look nice and big), so grab another button and lay it out anchored to the left and right of the form, and below the start and stop buttons, then drag the height down to make it big. You should be getting the hang of the layout by now. Nice, isn't it?
- Rename the component flubButton in the inspector pane, and also change the button text to read Flub. I also recommend changing the font size in the button font properties to 18pt or something nice and big.
- The final two buttons need to be added at the bottom of the form, side by side, like the start and stop buttons. Just drag two buttons down there and lay them out just like the start and stop buttons, but anchored to the bottom of the form instead. Call these saveButton and clearButton, and rename the labels to Save and Clear respectively.
- Unlike before, instead of making these buttons the same width as each other, I find it easier to select the Save and Start buttons at the same time (shift-click until these are the only two components selected) and then right-click and make them the same width as each other, then do the same for the Stop and Clear buttons. This will get all of the buttons even sized.
- Finally, now that all of these buttons are the same width, select all four of the smaller buttons on the page, and then click the <-> icon in the toolbar at the top of the so that it is toggled on.
- By doing this, you are ensuring that these buttons will resize and retain their proportionate sizes to one another when resizing the whole form. You can test this out very easily by dragging the bottom right corner of the form to resize it. You should see all of the components resizing in realtime as you would expect. If not, double check the steps here and see if you missed any.
Finally, you want to add the text area to hold the flub points and display them.
- Grab a jTextArea from the component palette and drag it into the form until guidelines appear on the left side of the form and under the big Flub button.
- Drag the bottom right of the text area to resize it until guidelines appear on the right side of the form and above the Save and Clear buttons.
- Rename the text area to flubPointsTextArea.
At this point, it is a good idea to save all (in fact, Matisse is still fairly young, so I recommend saving a lot just as a precaution).
Again, try resizing the form in the GUI editor to make sure everything re-sizes as you would expect.
Testing It Out
You have constructed your new GUI. To give it a test, you need to add a little code to the main class to cause it to be displayed:
- In the IDE, find the Main class that the application creation wizard made for you and double-click on it to open it.
- In the main method in here, replace the TODO comment with the following two lines:
- Note that if you called your form class something other than JFlubberMainFrm, you will naturally have to adapt the above code to use that name instead.
- Finally, run the project (Run from the menu or the toolbar).
- You should see your form appear for real, and it should resize as you would expect. Of course, none of the buttons are hooked up yet, so it will be a bit useless; however, you have used Matisse to lay out a GUI with resizing events already handled for you.
JFlubberMainFrm jFlubberFrm = new JFlubberMainFrm(); jFlubberFrm.setVisible(true);
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The Slim Possibility That Microsoft's SUSE Deal Could Be Good for Linux
Aug 4, 2011 5:00 AM PT
Well July has come and gone for another year here in the Linux blogosphere, and not a moment too soon. It was a Microsoft-filled month, and that trend continued right up until the very end.
Case in point? Hard on the heels of Redmond's little birthday present to Linux a few weeks ago, the Windows behemoth and SUSE announced last week that they are renewing the years-long patent deal originally signed by Novell but due to expire next year.
Through the new agreement, specifically, the deal is being extended until 2016, and Microsoft will invest another US$100 million in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server certificates for customers receiving Linux support from SUSE.
'A Solid Foundation for Tomorrow'
The "interoperability agreement," as Microsoft called it, is intended to help customers bridge the open source and proprietary worlds, the company said.
"Our collaboration with SUSE not only helps customers to achieve success today, but also seeks to provide them with a solid foundation for tomorrow," said Sandy Gupta, general manager of the Open Solutions Group at Microsoft.
"Through our continued engagement on the technical side, an outstanding support offering from SUSE and our ability to provide mutual IP assurance, we feel confident that we will be able to deliver core value to those running mixed-source IT environments well into the future -- and into the cloud," Gupta added.
'I'm More Than a Little Concerned'
Now, for most of us here in the Linux blogosphere, the very idea of any kind of partnership with Microsoft brings on a severe attack of the willies.
This one was no exception.
"I'm more than a little concerned that Microsoft now has its fingers in LibreOffice, at least by proxy," wrote Anonymous Coward on Slashdot, for example. "From the Membership Committee members who pick who can and who cannot join the Document Foundation, to the small number of engineers who control write access to the master source code repository, LibreOffice is dominated by Novell/SUSE engineers."
'The Dupe Is Red Hat'
The intent of the deal, meanwhile, appears to be at least in part taking business away from Red Hat, Anonymous Coward suggested.
"In other words, Microsoft's patent FUD used to steer Red Hat customers to SUSE," Anonymous Coward explained. "The dupe, of course, is Red Hat, which is a LibreOffice supporter, supporting a SUSE-led project that is propped up by Microsoft in order to steal customers away from Red Hat."
Slashdot blogger Kalriath saw it differently.
'Why Are You Complaining?'
"Um, is it not a good thing that more companies are offering Linux support, no matter how vile you think those companies are?" Kalriath pointed out.
"It lends credibility to Linux as an enterprise and small business solution," Kalriath added. "And let's be honest -- Linux is king of the datacentre, but when it comes to in-house servers, they're still primarily Windows. If Microsoft wants to erode their own market share, why are you complaining?"
Bloggers at ZDNet, at OStatic and more soon weighed in with their own opinions, so Linux Girl knew it was time to learn more.
'More One-Way Technologies'
"Every time they talk about interoperability I think of Mono, where if you design for Linux it's cross-platform but if you design for Windows it only works on Windows," consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack told Linux Girl.
"The same goes for authentication: You can link Linux machines to a Windows domain but not the reverse," Mack added. "We just don't need that sort of 'interoperability,' and this deal is more of the thin edge of the wedge of feeding us more one-way technologies."
Blogger Robert Pogson saw the move as part of Microsoft's long-term survival strategy.
A Strategy for Survival
"M$ is afraid of FLOSS, and will continue to pay off Suse as long as M$ sees divide and conquer as a viable strategy," Pogson explained. "With its recent assault via software patents, that will continue until SCOTUS or US Congress kill software patents."
Software patents will, however, die sooner or later, Pogson asserted, "and M$ will see Suse and GNU/Linux as another attempt at diversification. M$ is already making far more money from segments other than its OS, but it will be a gradual shift to a normal competition on price/performance over the next few years."
As the world shifts toward Android for mobile devices, "M$ will want segments of its business making money on Linux and Linux-embedded devices," he predicted. "It will not be able to rest solely on exacting royalties. Imagine the calamity M$ would face if royalties became the basis of profitability and SCOTUS kicked software patents to the gutter."
'Linux Doesn't Even Have Bottle Rockets'
Not everyone saw it that way, however.
Microsoft "is trying to be like IBM in having a 'one stop shop' for a corporation's needs, and with deals like this it makes it that much easier for MSFT to sell WinServer," Slashdot blogger hairyfeet told Linux Girl. "SUSE is a really good solid business Linux, and with HyperV MSFT can host plenty of SUSE instances alongside Windows, making it a nice proposition for businesses."
Patents, meanwhile, "are here to stay," hairyfeet opined, "and without a solid source of revenue, FOSS is showing up to a gunfight with a Nerf bat.
"The way you win at patents is Mutually Assured Destruction, and while the other guys have ICBMs, poor Linux with the 'free as in beer' model doesn't even have bottle rockets," he added.
'A Lot Harder to Get Sued'
So, it's "simply good business" for companies to strike licensing deals with Microsoft, hairyfeet concluded.
"It is much cheaper in the long run than a decade-plus-long court case," he explained. "Having access to the MSFT patent portfolio makes SUSE a hell of a lot harder to get sued by the likes of Apple or one of the myriad trolls out there."

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This Date In Royals History – November 6, 1987
Because the internet seems to be abuzz with rumors and possibilities…let's talk trades. The Royals actually had a fairly significant trade go down on this date back in 1987.
Looking to shore up the shortstop position, the Royals decided to deal from their strength in starting pitching at the time and pieced together a memorable swap the Reds. The Royals send unsung 1985 World Series stalwart Danny Jackson along with incumbent shortstop Angel Salazar to the Reds for 22 year-old shortstop Kurt Stillwell and veteran pitcher Ted Power.
Local Trivia Question – Where did Ted Power play his college baseball?
The Reds had two strong shortstop prospects at the time in Stillwell and Barry Larkin. The Royals had a surplus of pitching (if there is such a thing) with Bret Saberhagen, Mark Gubicza, Charlie Leibrandt, Buddy Black and Tom Gordon on the way. It seemed like the perfect win/win trade and both of the main players (Stillwell and Jackson) represented their new teams in the 1988 All-Star Game at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.
Unfortunately 1988 was probably Stillwell's best of his four seasons with the Royals. He hit 10 HRs that years but never reached double figures again. He left the Royals in free agency after 1991 and played briefly for the Padres, Angels and Rangers before retiring in 1996 at age 31.
Jackson was tremendous for the Reds winning 23 games in 1988 and finished second in the National League Cy Young balloting to the Dodgers Orel Hershiser. But he would not win more than six games in either of his last two years with the Reds. DJ did resurface with Phillies posted two double digit win seasons in 1993 and 1994, even earning another All-Star nod in Philadelphia (1994).
Just A Bit More: To my knowledge, this trade is still the only one in Royals history in which players acquired by both teams would go on to make All-Star appearances with their new respective teams.
Amos Otis was the first player the Royals ever acquired by trade to make an All-Star appearance in a Royals uniform. A.O. came in a trade with the Mets on 12/03/69 and was an All-Star for Kansas City in 1970. Actually Lou Piniella was the earliest trade where the Royals netted a future All-Star when he was acquired from the Seattle Pilots 4/1/69 – however Lou didn't make the American League All-Star squad until 1972 (his one and only career All-Star berth).
The first player the Royals ever traded who went on to be named an All-Star for another team was the first Royals player ever traded. Hall of Famer Hoyt Wilhelm was taken in the Expansion Draft on 10/15/68 and then traded to the California Angels 12/12/68. He would be named to the 1970 National League All-Star team as a member of the Atlanta Braves.
Local Trivia Answer – Ted Power is the only K-State Wildcat to play a Major League game for the Kansas City Royals.
(Curt Nelson, Director – Royals Hall of Fame)


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Saturday, February 28, 2009
Musings on Pomegranate, and THAT time of the month
It is that time of the month again. Regardless of how seldom I blog, we meet each month here in my sanctuary, where I unveil to you the Daring Bakers' Challenge of the given month. This month, the challenge is a very unique chocolate cake recipe, the less because it is completely gluten-free, and more because it contains no additional sugar.
This cake has a texture somewhere between a cake, a brownie, and a custard. There is intense chocolate, as dark and inexorable as night. But scattered amidst this landscape are ruby red globes which burst into sweet, and then sour; the fruit of the Underworld that bound Persephone to Hades for three months out of each mortal year.
Picking apart a pomegranate is a messy yet rewarding exercise. Amidst ruby-stained fingers and lips, any person is bound to moan in ecstasy when the white membranes of the fruit finally yield an undiscovered cavern of yet another cluster of seeds. Add to that the pleasure of feeling the tiny, plump globules pop and flood your tongue with their sweet liquor, a sensation so eminently satisfying it is almost forbidden. Little wonder Persephone gave in to its temptation.
I wanted to pair this decadent cake with a sorbet made from another ancient fruit: figs. Why? Because I couldn't resist the sight of their plump little figures at the market. And oh, they happen to taste out of this world, and they were apparently introduced to humans as the fruit of autumn by the goddess Demeter, who is also none other than Persephone's mother. Because the deadline for this challenge is in less than 3 hours' time, I think I'll make this post a short one. As my few previous posts have been long ones, and since someone said something about a picture is worth a thousand words sometime ago, I'll let my photographs do the talking this time. I hope they do not disappoint.
The February Challenge is hosted by Wendy of WMPE's blog and Dharm of Dad- Baker & Chef. 'We have chosen a chocolate valentino cake by Chef Wan; a vanilla ice cream recipe from Dharm and a vanilla ice cream recipe from Wendy as the challenge.'
Chocolate Valentino
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
16 ounces (1 pound) (454 grams) of semisweet chocolate, roughly chopped
½ cup (1 stick) plus 2 tablespoons (146 grams total) of unsalted butter
5 large eggs separated
1. Put chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl and set over a pan of simmering water (the bottom of the bowl should not touch the water) and melt, stirring often. 2. While your chocolate butter mixture is cooling. Butter your pan and line with a parchment circle then butter the parchment. 3. Separate the egg yolks from the egg whites and put into two medium/large bowls. 4. Whip the egg whites in a medium/large grease free bowl until stiff peaks are formed (do not over-whip or the cake will be dry). 5. With the same beater beat the egg yolks together. 6. Add the egg yolks to the cooled chocolate. 7. Fold in 1/3 of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture and follow with remaining 2/3rds. Fold until no white remains without deflating the batter. {link of folding demonstration} 8. Pour batter into prepared pan, the batter should fill the pan 3/4 of the way full, and bake at 375F/190C 9. Bake for 25 minutes until an instant read thermometer reads 140F/60C. Note – If you do not have an instant read thermometer, the top of the cake will look similar to a brownie and a cake tester will appear wet. 10. Cool cake on a rack for 10 minutes then unmold.
Fig Sorbetto
12 ripe figs, trimmed
200g caster sugar
juice of 1 lemon
200ml thick cream (35% fat)
Process the figs, sugar and lemon juice until combined. Add the thick cream and pulse until smooth. Churn in an ice cream machine according to manufacturer's instructions.
29 comments:
- Leslie said...
BEAUTIFUL photos. I love the flavors you used!!!
- March 1, 2009 at 12:08 AM
- Snooky doodle said...
wow what an interesting mixture of flavours. i m also curios about the fig sorbetto. i ll try it when figs are in season :)great phots :)
- March 1, 2009 at 12:28 AM
- MeetaK said...
sensational read! loved the photos and the flavors you used. gorgeous!
- March 1, 2009 at 1:03 AM
- Dee said...
Your photos are so stunning, it's easy to overlook the evocative writing. Always a joy to visit!
- March 1, 2009 at 5:30 AM
- lisa (dandysugar) said...
Your cake is gorgeous, I love that you added pomegrante seeds. Great flavor combination with the fig sorbetto.
- March 1, 2009 at 5:50 AM
- Aran said...
beautiful pomegranate ... such intense color. and fig sorbet... delicious!
- March 1, 2009 at 6:28 AM
- Engineer Baker said...
Oh, I love pomegranates! And pairing them with figs and chocolate sounds heavenly. Beautiful job.
- March 1, 2009 at 6:32 AM
- Carrian said...
Your photos are so beautiful! Loving the pomegranate!!
- March 1, 2009 at 6:51 AM
- Sweet Bird said...
Your photos are absolutely lovely - I'm envious! I love the idea of pomegranate and chocolate together.
- March 1, 2009 at 6:52 AM
- Ash said...
This looks stunning! great photos! I love the use of the pomegranates!
- March 1, 2009 at 10:22 AM
- billy said...
oh my word! Thanks for dropping by on my site and now your blog is definitely a MUST READ for me! Those photos are stunning!! and your baking skills is indescribable! Bravo!
- March 1, 2009 at 10:29 AM
- Mallory Elise said...
oh beautiful shots Christy! wooo way to kick ass! its too bad daring bakers don't have it as a competition...makes it more exciting...
i ......... won't..........be able to blog this weekend, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! turning into you? ahhahakahak :)
- March 1, 2009 at 12:18 PM
- Chanel11 said...
As everyone has already said, seriously gorgeous photos - also loved the addition of Greek mythology to tell a story.
- March 1, 2009 at 12:26 PM
- Vera said...
Breathtakingly beautiful, Christy!
Your photos are amazing!
- March 1, 2009 at 3:32 PM
- Arlette said...
amazing photos and I love the combination you used I must try that
- March 1, 2009 at 5:08 PM
- Y said...
Sounds so heavenly! I'm wishing I still had a piece of that cake around right now, as I'm craving it all over again. Totally agree with your description of the cake.. especially the bit about it being custardy!
- March 1, 2009 at 8:58 PM
- natalia said...
ciao ! I love your idea ;figs and pommegranate !! Great !
- March 2, 2009 at 2:53 AM
- Sweet Tooth said...
Wow, those photos are really stunning! I like your way of putting the "we chose..." in quotation marks and in cursive, elegant way around the wording!
- March 2, 2009 at 10:53 AM
- ice tea: sugar high said...
Interesting flavours. Very intriguing. Beautiful photos as always =)
- March 2, 2009 at 2:19 PM
- ice tea: sugar high said...
I knoww.. I'm still can't decide whether I'm coming or not. I don't really know anyone. I really want to though. Are you coming? Duncan's macaroons are really tempting.
- March 2, 2009 at 4:35 PM
- Stephanie said...
I absolutely love what you did with this challenge. Your pictures have made me love pomegranate more than I already did.
- March 3, 2009 at 12:52 PM
- Suzie said...
The photos are beautiful - I can't wait to try this recipe. And I'll definitely follow your lead on the pomegranate.
- March 3, 2009 at 8:15 PM
- Nico said...
Beatiful, I really like the combination, I already have it in mine "things to try".
- March 4, 2009 at 9:00 AM
- Irene said...
I love this! The pomagranate looks like rubies buried in the earth. So beautiful!
- March 4, 2009 at 11:28 AM
- Dharm said...
How interesting to pair the cake with pomegranate! Thanks for joining us on the challenge this month!
- March 8, 2009 at 12:17 AM
- Angela said...
What stunning photos! And you writing is just fantastic too---so strong and evocative.
Loved reading this entry :)
- March 17, 2009 at 6:58 AM
- Mallory Elise said...
you're done? hooray! well i havnt started yet. i can make it tomorrow, then we can post saturday or sunday. either~ except i need your questions miss lazy!!!!
- March 20, 2009 at 8:54 AM
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Excuse me for asking but I am wanting to use a blog header from the same website as yours. I can't figure out how to move my header text to the available space on the header. I am sure it is easy but I can't figure it out. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks my email is firstname.lastname@example.com. Michelle
- March 20, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Thank you for the beautiful inspiration! i see a pomegranate and my knees begin to quiver....everytime someone asks me what my favorite food is, without fail, i blurt out POMEGRANATES. that usually scares scares them away and i am left with no friends or any chance to tell them the many ways you can eat them.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
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If also you were wondering: "Michelle, you use ultrasound regularly in your anesthesia practice. Are you ever tempted, maybe late at night, on call, when nothing else is going on and all the patients are tucked up in their little beds, to take a quick peek and see what weird contortions your fetus is doing? Because you think you feel it moving around in there, but at this point it could just as well be gas or the remnants of this afternoon's beef stroganoff?" Well, the answer to that is also: yes--yes I am, and yes I have. I don't have the right kind of ultrasound probe of course (different probes have different degrees of penetration--we as anesthesiologists usually use a linear ultrasound for line placement or nerve blocks and as such usually don't need to see much deeper than two or three inches; while obstetrical ultrasound obviously goes deeper and through more tissue) but at this point, even at three inches it's enough to see a select body part or two.
(That's the feets.)
Hope your week is starting off right.
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Second of all, way cool with the ultrasound.
If I had access to an ultrasound machine and I was pregnant again, I would totally hit that up all the time!ReplyDelete
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I am so jealous!! If you and I stood side-by-side, people would probably peg me for the pregnant one, no joke. Congrats on the third little bean!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:07 PM
I too am jealous. I am back at my pre-pregnancy weight from my one kiddo, who is 2.5, but I still have a little belly and I look way more pregnant than you do in those pics! Congrats and thanks for keeping us updated! :)ReplyDelete
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I've always wondered if pregnant women transilluminate. Could you try it out for me! or maybe it might be easier at a later gestation :)ReplyDelete
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those are some ugly scrubs...please tell my you dont wear crocks with that..ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous5:15 PM
Michelle, since being pregnant (or when you were pregnant w/ Mack), did you change the types of cases you did? When I was on my anesthesia rotation in med school, the doctors would ask if anyone in the room was pregnant and adjust accordingly.ReplyDelete
There was one anesthetizing location where I was scheduled to work where there was no gas scavenging system in place. I asked if I could be substituted out for that one occasion.ReplyDelete
Otherwise, I take the usual precautions, or extra precautions if I'm working around fluoroscopy or the like (wear double lead, try to limit my exposure as possible, etc.). But I would say overall I'm doing the same stuff that I was before.
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Anyone who knows how to correctly spell "fluoroscopy" is awesome in my book! (Having been there and done that personally, I learned plenty about it.) And I love your reply about the Prada scrubs...that just made me laugh. There are so many variations on them these days, but I suppose the OR is a place where they're utilitarian rather than cutesy. And I'd totally be sneaking an occasional peek if I had access to ultrasound while pregnant. Love these little updates!ReplyDelete
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Cutesy scrubs are not the hospital-owned ones, they are ones that (usually nurses) buy to wear for work on the floors. In the OR, you have to wear hospital owned and laundered scrubs for sanitation purposes. Although, at least at my hospital, they tell us not to leave the hospital with our scrubs, we all do it. So I guess it doesn't really matter in the end, we COULD all wear cutesy colored scrubs since we all take them in and out of the hospital anyway, but doctors just don't do that. That's a nursing thing. The nurses can have their Prada scrubs, I'll keep my ugly hospital-owned ones.ReplyDelete
Congratulations! Although I must say I am officially hating you right now. Im twenty weeks along and quiet frankly look like two, okay three of you. How do you stay so tiny during pregnancy?ReplyDelete
I totally "squee"ed when I found out you were pregnant with a similar due date to mine (July 13 here with baby 2). While my bump is as unimpressive as yours, my breasts have ballooned to a G cup (I'm a size 6) so people who know me can easily tell. My husband is an ER doc, and we have abused the ultrasound machine to determine the sex for both of my pregnancies. Fun misuse of resources! Yay!ReplyDelete
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Hold staff meeting. Write up report. Take apart a 236-year-old historic dam.
After Labor Day, Jerry Kauffman has an unusual item on his to-do list. As head of the University of Delaware's Water Resources Agency, he has been charged with overseeing the deconstruction of a dam that has been in existence since colonial times.
Removing Dam No. 1 from the White Clay Creek will improve water flow and water quality in the creek, which was designated a National Wild and Scenic River in 2000. It also should make for some great fishing next spring and in years to come.
"Adult shad live in the Atlantic Ocean. In the spring, they travel up the Delaware River to spawn in fresh water," says Kauffman. "But when they arrive at dams they can't travel any further. By removing this dam, we'll be re-opening 3 1/2 miles of spawning habitat for American shad for the first time in more than two centuries."
The dam is located near present-day Delaware Park on land once owned by Daniel Byrnes, a Quaker preacher and miller.
American shad are richly flavored and make good eating. In the late 1890s, the Delaware River had the largest annual commercial catches of any river on the Atlantic Coast. However, the American shad catch started to decline in the early 1900s. Pollution was the biggest culprit, says Kauffman. "The Delaware was so polluted by the mid 20th century that oxygen levels were too low for migrating shad to survive," he says.
With the passage of the federal Clean Water Act in 1972, water quality in the Delaware River rapidly improved, enabling more adult shad to survive in the river and more adult and juvenile shad to return to the Atlantic Ocean after spawning.
However, restoring shad populations in northern Delaware can only go so far with structures such as Dam No. 1 still blocking the shad's passage upstream. A number of other states also have made dam deconstruction a priority. In Rising Sun, Md., the Octoraro Dam was removed in 2005 and more dams in that state are slated for removal.
Dam No. 1 will be Kauffman's first dam removal project but it won't be his last. Thanks to an $85,606 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the nonprofit group American Rivers, six additional northern Delaware dams will be removed, reopening 14 miles of fish passage, all the way to the Pennsylvania state line.
Because Byrnes' dam is one of the few remaining timber-crib dams in the area, Kauffman and his team aren't just pulling it down willy-nilly. Three years ago, when he started planning the dam's removal, he connected with Rebecca Sheppard, associate director of UD's Center for Historic Architecture and Design.
"We evaluate the significance of historic properties in Delaware and throughout the region but this was the first time we were asked to document a historic dam," says Sheppard. "My grad students and I did a lot of research to learn about dams and about this dam, in particular. Then in March, we put on our hip waders and waded into the White Clay for the actual field work."
Sheppard learned that Byrnes built his dam around 1777, which was a very busy year for the miller, as well as for the new nation. In early September of that year, shortly after the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, George Washington held a war council at Byrnes' residence, now known as the Hale-Byrnes House. The Marquis de Lafayette and others helped Washington plan the defense of Philadelphia at this meeting.
There are plans to move portions of the dam to the Hale-Byrnes House. It could be used for school programs and during public events that are held periodically at the house.
Kauffman expects the deconstruction of the dam to go slowly, and not just because the goal is to keep portions intact for transfer to the Hale-Byrnes House.
"This dam was a high-tech, class A dam in its time," says Kauffman. "Byrnes was a miller from Brandywine Village and he knew what he was doing. Built with just logs, stones and iron pins, the dam has stood intact for centuries. It was only during recent storms that it has started to show deterioration."
"Once all seven dams are removed there will be new recreational activities for the public," notes Kauffman. "We'd like to establish a kayak trail so people can travel the route of this historic waterway. There also will be opportunities to fish for shad at county parks, including one located off Old Manor Road in Wilmington and another in Windy Hills in Newark."
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Post-game breakdown, video: Concordia
So what have we learned about the UConn Huskies after two exhibition games?
Well, the Huskies are certainly deeper and more talented than last season.
Their strength clearly resides in the backcourt.
They have some promising new players.
And rebounding is still an issue for the Huskies.
Here's a post-game breakdown from Monday's 98-38 rout of Concordia University of Chicago, a Division III program:
-- Check out the attached video of Kevin Ollie's press conference.
-- Ollie has seen improvement in his team since the first exhibition game on Wednesday against Southern Connecticut State University.
After taking Tuesday off, the Huskies have two days of practice to prepare for the season opener against Maryland Friday in Brooklyn.
"I'm excited about this team," Ollie said. "We're going to go in the lab and continue to work on what we've been working on – that's transition, that's rebounding, that's keeping our man in front of us. I thought they got better tonight."
The Huskies did two things better than it did against Southern, and that's rebound and limit fast break opportunities. They won the rebounding battle, 49-26, and allowed six fast break points.
Against Southern, they were out-rebounded, 48-43, and gave up 27 fast break points.
-- After watching tape of UConn's win over Southern Connecticut, Ollie discovered that the guards shared a good portion of the blame for the rebounding woes.
"I apologized to my big guys," Ollie said. "They boxed out. It was the lack of guards boxing out that first game against Southern. And we gave up a lot of points in transition. …We've got to clean up with the guards."
-- Sophomore guard Omar Calhoun led the team in rebounding against Concordia, finishing with seven to go with his team-best 16 points. Phil Nolan, a sophomore center, had six.
-- Ollie made one change to the starting lineup from the exhibition opener, replacing Tyler Olander in the frontcourt with Nolan.
Nolan had eight points in 18 minutes.
He's starting to earn the trust of his teammates. Ollie would just like to see Nolan take his time more when he makes a move.
"He's gaining respect in the locker room, which is good," Ollie said. "Guards are throwing the ball to him when he's open. That's what he's got to continue to do."
-- Eleven different Huskies played double digit minutes. Freshman Terrence Samuel led the way with 28 minutes. He played well, contributing 10 points and 12 assists.
"Get everybody involved and get into the lane," Samuel said when asked how he could help the Huskies this season.
The starting backcourt of Shabazz Napier (five points, four assists) and Ryan Boatright (four points, five assists) only played a combined 30 minutes.
-- Pat Lenehan, a walk-on out of Xavier-Middletown, took advantage of extended playing time, scoring seven points in five minutes. The UConn bench roared with every basket.
-- Graduate student Lasan Kromah, who played three years at George Washington before graduating and coming to UConn, is excited to play againstMaryland. He's fromGreenbelt,Md.
"We've been practicing for a month now playing against each other," Kromah said. "Now we have two scrimmages underneath us. We can't wait till Friday."
-- Early signs indicate that UConn will be a better 3-point shooting team this season. The Huskies have more perimeter weapons.
Six different players converted from 3-point range on Monday. Calhoun (4-for-7), Leon Tolksdorf (3-for-7), Kromah (3-for-5), Niels Giffey (2-for-3), Napier (1-for-1) and Lenehan (1-for-1) all connected.
The Huskies made 14 of 28 overall.
-- Calhoun is still working his way back from two hip impingement surgeries last spring. He's playing at about 90 percent.
He's been spending extra time in the gym, He worked out at Gampel Pavilion at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, a good two hours before practice.
"Over the last week I stayed in the gym trying to get my craft…," Calhoun said. "I think I did a good job of getting everything where I wanted it to be.
He also recently received a pep talk from his father who came up for a visit from New York.
"He just told that I'm no longer rehabbing and I'm more taking steps forward…," Calhoun said. "And now it's time to start showing what I can do. He knows me more than anybody else. He knew that's what I needed, and it definitely worked."
-- Stat of the night: UConn had more points in the paint (40) than Concordia scored overall.
-- Concordia coach Tyler Jones and Ollie are good friends. When Jones served as the general manager of the Connecticut Pride of the Continental Basketball Association, he drafted Ollie. They helped the Pride win the 1999 CBA championship.
Jones, an East Hartford native, played at Trinity College.
"It's an honor and pleasure to come back to Hartford," Jones said. "We're a privileged bunch from Chicago. Coach Ollie is absolutely phenomenal. My relationship with him is why this all happened. So I want to thank the University ofConnecticut for allowing it and for coach Ollie, personally, with a great amount of gratitude.
The exhibition game had a Coaches vs. Cancer theme. Jones, a prostate cancer survivor, wore a sweater vest with the words, "Box out Cancer." The UConn coaching staff wore tennis shoes to support Jones' cause.
-- Ollie on the impact of his team's improved depth: "There's very healthy competition in our practices right now, and I really, really like that. I think that's what builds success in a team."
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Last month—April 10, to be exact—marked the third anniversary of my exit from the salaried workforce and my entry into what I've taken to calling Plan B Nation. After four-plus years at Harvard Law School, where I'd handled speeches and other behind-the-scenes writing for then-Dean (now U.S. Supreme Court Justice) Elena Kagan, she decamped for Washington, D.C., and I decamped for parts unknown at the peak of the Great Recession.
It was, to put it diplomatically, not an easy time. The economy was in free fall, plus I had no idea what to do next. Which maybe wasn't such a bad thing because, had I known what I wanted to do, I likely couldn't have done it. (Did I mention the Great Recession?) Floundering in spring 2009 put me in excellent company. Yes, I was freaked out and unemployed, but I certainly wasn't alone.
In recent weeks, I've been thinking a lot about the road I've traveled since those anxiety-ridden days and feeling a lot of compassion for the me who so stolidly trudged through them. I've also been thinking about what I've learned and what might be worth sharing. Here are five of the biggest lessons that I still carry with me.
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I've written about this before, and it's a really important point. In New Passages, bestselling author Gail Sheehy ballparks two years as the minimum time needed to stabilize following a layoff or other "life accident." Five to seven years is common. A related point: Transitions tend to meander—to be less like ladders and more like the classic labyrinth, where you wind your way slowly towards the center, almost arrive, and then suddenly find yourself on the outer rim, and then, just as unpredictably, back at the center again. I often find it helpful to remind myself that this is just the nature of the beast.
2. Sometimes the grass is greener because it's greener.
I put off leaving the Boston area for more than a year on the theory that wherever you go, there you are. Could moving to another place really make me happier? I'm happy to say that the answer is an unequivocal Yes. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that moving to an area that I love is probably the single most important step I've taken to move my life forward. In particular, moving to a place where I have a strong network of friends has made everything far easier—as well as a lot more fun.
3. If you don't know what to do for sure, start moving anyway.
Transitions, by their nature, generally involve a temporary loss of clear inner direction. That was certainly the case for me: I was searching without really knowing what I was looking for (which, not surprisingly, made it really hard to find).
Looking back, one of the most useful things I did during this time was to take action even if nothing felt quite right—to experiment, try things out. That's how I came (lackadaisically, glumly) to write my very first personal essay—which led to a blog on Huffington Post, which led to writing for Salon, which led to this blog, which led to writing for SecondAct (including Notes from Plan B Nation, my new monthly column), Psychology Today, and a bunch of other stuff, which, remarkably enough, actually does feel right and for which I feel really grateful.
And you don't need to take my word for it: I've since come across similar advice in books by career guru Barbara Sher and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. "You won't encounter accidental good fortune—you won't stumble on opportunities that rocket your career forward—if you're lying in bed," Hoffman writes in The Start-Up of You. "When you do something you stir the pot and introduce the possibility that seemingly random ideas, people, and places will collide and form new combinations and opportunities." I couldn't agree more.
4. Be kind to yourself.
We've all heard a lot about mindfulness by now, but this quality doesn't really get you very far unless it's paired with self-compassion. Psychology professor Kristin Neff is a pioneering researcher on this topic, and her book Self Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind is geared to a popular audience and provides an excellent roadmap for further exploration.
5. Let yourself be surprised.
The biggest difference between lucky and unlucky people may be that lucky people are open to seeing the unexpected. (For more on this, check out this reported research.) Expanding your peripheral vision can do a lot to expand your opportunities. I've found it to be useful—as well as fun—to consciously expect the unexpected. (Most recent example: I'm about to go off to look at a potential new home that I discovered last night on Facebook.)
Strangely enough, my Plan B Nation life has turned out to suit me far better than the life I had before. I'm finally doing work that feels both meaningful and creative. I have a great community in a place where I love living. The road I've traveled to get here was pretty remarkably hard, but that doesn't tell me I did something wrong. It simply tells me that I'm human.


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A brain abscess is a collection of pus, immune cells, and other material in the brain, usually from a bacterial or fungal infection.
Alternative Names
Abscess – brain; Cerebral abscess; CNS abscess
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Brain abscesses commonly occur when bacteria or fungi infect part of the brain. Swelling and irritation (inflammation) develop in response to this infection. Infected brain cells, white blood cells, live and dead bacteria, and fungi collect in an area of the brain. Tissue forms around this area and creates a mass.
While this immune response can protect the brain by isolating the infection, it can also do more harm than good. The brain swells. Because the skull cannot expand, the mass may put pressure on delicate brain tissue. Infected material can block the blood vessels of the brain.
The germs that cause a brain abscess can reach the brain through the blood. The source of the infection is often not found. However, the most common source is a lung infection. Less often, a heart infection is the cause. Germs may also travel from a nearby infected area (for example, an ear infection or a tooth abscess) or enter the body during an injury (such as a gun or knife wound) or neurosurgery.
In children with congenital heart disease or a blood vessel birth defect, such as those with
The following raise your risk of a brain abscess:
A weakened immune system (such as in
Chronic disease, such as cancer
Drugs that suppress the immune system (corticosteroids or
Right-to-left heart shunts, usually the result of congenital heart disease
Symptoms may develop slowly, over a period of 2 weeks, or they may develop suddenly. They may include:
Changes in mental status Confusion
- Decreasing responsiveness
- Eventual
- Inattention
- Irritability
- Slow thought processes
- Decreased movement
Decreased sensation
- Decreased speech (aphasia)
- Fever and chills
- Headache
- Language difficulties
Loss of coordination
- Loss of muscle function, typically on one side
- Stiff neck
- Vision changes
- Vomiting
Signs and tests
A brain and nervous system (neurological) exam will usually show signs of
Tests to diagnose a brain abscess may include:
Blood cultures Chest x-ray
Complete blood count (
Head CT scan
Electroencephalogram (
EEG) MRI of head
- Testing for the presence of
antibodiesto organisms such as Toxoplasma gondii and Taenia solium
A needle
A brain abscess is a medical emergency. Pressure inside the skull may become high enough to be life threatening. You will need to stay in the hospital until the condition is stable. Some people may need life support.
Medication, not surgery, is recommended if you have:
Several abscesses (rare)
A small abscess (less than 2 cm)
An abscess deep in the brain
An abscess and
Shunts in the brain for
hydrocephalus(in some cases the shunt may need to be removed temporarily or replaced)
Toxoplasma gondii infection in a person with HIV
Antibiotics will be prescribed. Antibiotics that work against a number of different bacteria (broad spectrum antibiotics) are most commonly used. You may be prescribed several different types of antibiotics to make sure treatment works.
Antifungal medications may also be prescribed if the infection is likely caused by a fungus.
Immediate treatment may be needed if an abscess is injuring brain tissue by pressing on it, or there is a large abscess with a large amount of swelling around that it is raising pressure in the brain.
Surgery is needed if :
Increased pressure in the brain continues or gets worse
The brain abscess does not get smaller after medication
The brain abscess contains gas (produced by some types of bacteria)
The brain abscess might break open (rupture)
Surgery consists of opening the skull, exposing the brain, and draining the abscess. Laboratory tests are often done to examine the fluid. This can help identify what is causing the infection, so that more appropriate antibiotics or antifungal drugs can be prescribed.
The surgical procedure used depends on the size and depth of the abscess. The entire abscess may be removed (excised) if it is near the surface and enclosed in a sac.
Certain diuretics and steroids may also be used to reduce swelling of the brain.
Expectations (prognosis)
If untreated, a brain abscess is almost always deadly. With treatment, the death rate is about 10 – 30%. The earlier treatment is received, the better.
Some patients may have long-term neurological problems after surgery.
- Brain damage
- Meningitis that is severe and life threatening
- Return (recurrence) of infection
- Seizures
Calling your health care provider
Go to a hospital emergency room or call the local emergency number (such as 911) if you have symptoms of a brain abscess.
You can reduce the risk of developing a brain abscess by treating any disorders that can cause them. Have a follow-up examination after infections are treated.
Some people, including those with certain heart disorders, may receive antibiotics before dental or urological procedures to help reduce the risk of infection.
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Ishikawa savors shot to resurrect career with Bucs
PHILADELPHIA -- Left out in the cold on Opening Day a year ago, Travis Ishikawa will be basking in the 59 degrees that are forecast for the season opener in Pittsburgh on Monday.
"Big league cold is always warmer than Minor League cold," Ishikawa smiled. "Funny how that happens."
PHILADELPHIA -- Left out in the cold on Opening Day a year ago, Travis Ishikawa will be basking in the 59 degrees that are forecast for the season opener in Pittsburgh on Monday.
"Big league cold is always warmer than Minor League cold," Ishikawa smiled. "Funny how that happens."
After failing to make the Orioles out of Spring Training 52 weeks ago, Ishikawa was in Norfolk on his way to a 19-at-bat big league season with Baltimore and the Yankees. At the end of the 2013 season, he seemingly was headed out of the Majors forever. But barring the unforeseen, he will be standing on the third-base foul line at PNC Park as an Opening Day Pirate this year, which at the beginning of camp was not the expectation.
"After the type of year I had last year, the joy of being back on a Major League club on Opening Day is a joy in itself," said Ishikawa, 30, whose last full season in The Show was 2010 with the Giants. "But even if I had been in the big leagues a number of years, there is something about Opening Day.
"I know they keep talking about making it a national holiday. I definitely think it should be. This is America's pastime. Baseball has so much history in America, Opening Day deserves to be celebrated. It is a special moment for us as players, for anyone who has ever played from Little League on up, or who ever watched a game with his dad as a kid."
To that list, he could have added anyone who ever made a team after starting a camp as a non-roster player. Ishikawa, who still has to be added to the 40-man roster before Sunday's 3 p.m. ET deadline, accepted the Pirates invitation to camp because he felt it was the one that gave him the best chance to make a club. While prospect Andrew Lambo, perceived to be the Pirates' first choice to join Gaby Sanchez in a first-place platoon, struggled, Ishikawa proved to have delivered himself to the right place at the right time.
"I had some calls this offseason," Ishikawa said. "The best opportunity, I thought, was here.
"Most of the other situations, other guys were already established at first base and I would have been a left-handed pinch hitter off the bench. Everything I had heard and read, the Pirates were looking for someone to platoon with Gaby."
After a slow start, Ishikawa hit .290 in 31 Spring Training at-bats, launched three home runs and drove in six runs, good numbers that he said came from not unnecessarily worrying about the numbers, never mind he obviously needed some production to resume his Major League life.
"I have had a lot of Spring Trainings and I have learned that you can't allow yourself to worry about results," Ishikawa said.
"I know I have been a victim of this in the past. But if you start worrying about the results rather than the process, you are focusing on things you can't always control. You end up trying too hard and pressing and maybe making corrections for the worse.
"When I got off to a really slow start, I was able to take positives from each at-bat. I felt I was seeing the ball. The swings I was taking were good, I focused on the positives."
Hanging onto Major League life by a thread, Ishikawa had considerable pressure to ignore. He eased it by not looking at this as his last chance.
"If it didn't work out and I ended up going to the Minor Leagues, it wouldn't have been fun, but I don't have a straight timeline where if I am not in the Major Leagues I am going to quit," he said. "When the time is right, God will put me where he wants me to be."
Jay Greenberg is a contributor to MLB.com.


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Did you have much experience in film before you made Black Biscuit ?
Nothing but a love for movies. I've always been into underground cinema, stuff like Andy Warhols early Edie Sedgwick films, Tarnation, Julien Donkey Boy,
66, The Last Movie by Dennis Hopper which is my favorite film. I wanted to change the rules of cinema. To improvise like Jazz, and to be adventurous. Buffalo
To get rid of professionalism, actors, plot, story boards, traditions and create a film that stands alone and new.
How did you finance the film ?
I didnt sit down one day and say 'Im going to get a budget together, then Im gonna find some actors, then locations…' no, I just did it on the run.
Filming took about 1 year. If I met someone who was interesting, or charismatic I'd ask them if they wanted to be in a movie with me.
Whatever. Some of the cast were people who aspired to be actors but I had them play themselves. We're surrounded by superstars and we don't even see it.
I was working as a life model, and I just fed that money into the project. I also went from door to door asking people to donate 1gbp.
The film cost about 500gbp to make. It was shot on my mobile phone, and some childrens cameras. I was going through a Jim Jones cult, vampire, psychedelic 60's faze when I made it.
It's a very distinctive film, what gave you the concept ?
I just thought that there were a lot of unwritten laws, rules, and targets that filmmakers subconsciously have tattooed on their brains about cinema.
That cinemas should look and be a certain way.
All this film dogma come's from critics, film teachers, internet trolls, and some of the film festival submission rules. And for a young filmmaker all that can really kill your style.
I don't like being told what to do when it comes to being creative, so I made a film that would burn all these misconceptions on how to make a feature film.
You don't need experience, technology, money, or even a plan to do it, just let the love of being creative take over you on the spot.
Theres a lot of footage ?
There's a lot of life out there.
What is the plot of the film ?
The film is more about a spirit than a plot, I guess I wanted to capture today's zeitgeist.
I see a lot of disappointment and isolation. Young kids who cant find direction or work, mass social surveillance with CCTV, celebrity culture, governments you cant trust.
We're living in an untrusting world, we've almost got too much freedom, but no freedom.
This century is going to be a Catch 22 I can feel it.
I chose to look for the most common character of our times. Lost misfits.
People that don't belong anywhere, a Black Biscuit. They live way, way out on the outskirts of society.
Whether your homeless, or a internet media whore your still missing.
I wanted to show the world these characters, and to get rid of some of the myths that surround's the lonesome drifter anti-hero. The Film director as the new modern rebel.
The films technique is very diverse, what led you to this style ?
I just work off the cusp, I don't plan at all. I sit down and follow a path. Some days I'll feel like Im from the 1920's, another day I might be choppy or in a cinema-verite mood.
Im constantly changing, shedding my skin, Im like a rolling stone not gathering any moss. I don't follow trends, I live in my own strange universe.
I guess Im a bit like that character from American Beauty, the one who films the plastic bag….Ricky something.
I see beauty in a lot of trivial things, stuff that gets lost in this fast world we live in.
The types of films I love often get called pretentious, but I feel that's just from people who don't have an open mind and are scared of the unknown.
Try something new, and be a creator not a critic.


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Gary Goldsmith was once filmed offering drugs to undercover reporters a few years ago. However, the Duchess of Cambridge had forgiven his previous antics and invited him to her wedding in 2011.
Gary Goldsmith claims credit for helping the Duchess get back together with the Duke of Cambridge after their temporary break-up in 2007, saying she stayed at his villa on Ibiza where she spent "a huge amount of time on the phone, walking around the pool".
Hello magazine is famed for paying large sums of money for interviews with high status people and in this case; those with high status family connections. It says it doesn't discuss its arrangements with interviewees; but is known for paying up to £1 million for some interviews.
Mr Goldsmith has also expressed that he believes he'll play a very important role in helping to bring up the royal child when it is born in July, stating, "Would I play a part in the future monarch's upbringing? Of course I would. And it's another young baby growing up to play with, which I'd love to be a part of."
The contents of the interview with Hello! magazine remains to be seen; though many say the interview will be quite thorough and certainly include a lot of questions about the Duchess.


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Loyola University is saying bye bye to bottled water. After a year-long campaign titled "UnCap Loyola," students voted March 28 to prevent sales of the bottles on campus starting in the fall.
But advocates of the ban say it's about more than reducing plastic waste.
"This isn't just about sustainability, this is also about social justice," said Alexandra Vecchio, president of the Student Environmental Association.
"We're not trying to limit our access to water," Vecchio added. "If anything, we're trying to ensure that everyone around the world has access to clean and fresh drinking water."
The ban will begin with bottled water, originally provided by Aramark, disappearing from the school's cafeterias next semester. Then, come spring, the beverage will no longer be available from vending machines.
The bottled water ban initiative became a joint effort between student government, the Student Environmental Association and even some school administrators last spring.
Student body president, Julia Poirier, another proponent of the ban, said access to water should be a fundamental human right and not a commodity.
Not everyone agrees with getting rid of bottled water, however.
On the day the vote passed, Student Senator Dominic Lynch argued that students' consumer rights would be limited by the ban.
"Loyola's campus is part of the very same earth that victims of water privatization live on. Those victims have a right to water, I'm not denying that. But we, too, have a right and that right is the right to choose what water we want. We do not lose that right when we step on Loyola's campus. The ban on bottled water ignores those facts," Lynch wrote in an editorial for the school paper.
But administrator Rob Kelly, vice president for student development, said that's not the case. He said the school has already started installing refill stations, where students can easily fill reusable containers with free water.
"We are located on the North Side of Chicago," he said. "If students want to get bottled water there's a place they can go to off campus, but we want to educate them about what does that mean."
Kelly said students can still bring their own bottled water to school, but no longer selling the product is a way for the Loyola to make a statement against privatizing water.
Meanwhile, other Chicago colleges have started similar practices. For example, Columbia College Chicago recently began installing refill stations to its existing water fountains.
She added that about 90 schools across the country have either banned or reduced the sale of bottled water on their campuses.
"I feel like we are leading the charge on the issue in Chicago," Proirier said. "I know a lot of schools have reached out to us because they're interested in the movement."
Brandon Campbell is a RedEye special contributor


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Female Vocalist of the Year Performs Live With Wynonna Judd Using Shure UHF-R Wireless NASHVILLE, TN, May 19, 2008 —TobyMac, Casting Crowns, Chris Tomlin, Trin-i-tee 5:7, and the David Crowder Band may have been among some of the top honorees at the 39th annual GMA Dove Awards held at the Grand Ole Opry House, but it was Natalie Grant who stole the show when she was named Female Vocalist of the Year for the third consecutive time, and performed her hit "Bring it All Together" live with country icon Wynonna Judd using Shure UHF-R wireless."To hear my name nominated in such company is such a huge honor," Grant told the Shreveport Times, humbly paying tribute to all the other artists singled out for kudos at the event. "My microphone used to be a hairbrush, and my audience used to be stuffed animals. I hold loosely to it all. I may be the flavor of the moment right now, but at some point it will be someone else's turn."Having traded-in her hairbrush this night for a handheld Shure KSM9, Grant joined artists Chris Tomlin, Israel Houghton, and Ricky Skaggs in making the dual-diaphragm microphone with switchable polar patterns her wireless instrument of choice. Others performing live—including Switchfoot and the David Crowder Band—counted upon Shure UHF-R wireless systems using SM58 handheld transmitters."It's always a pleasure to mix when Shure is coming down the line," Dove Awards production mixer Michael Abbott said. "The KSM9 capsule and UHF-R wireless continues to be the best combination in the industry." Tom Davis, the award show's audio producer, and Steve Gilreath, its executive producer, concurred with Abbott's assessment of Shure products heard onstage. "The sound quality and consistency of KSM and Beta mics on drums, amps, and vocals always make mixing a pleasure," Davis said, whose statement was quickly supported by Gilreath, who added, "Shure came through again for the Dove Awards. As producer of a show this size, I've got tons of items to worry about. Thanks to Shure, my microphone complement is nowhere on that list!" The third time was also the charm for Shure endorsing artist Chris Tomlin at this year's Dove Awards, who once again walked away with Male Vocalist of the Year honors, a distinction he has won since 2006. As the highlight of the Gospel Music Association's annual convention, the Dove Awards aired live on the Gospel Music Channel.
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Tufo installation secrets...
So after my blow out last weekend of my wheel and Tufo, I got around last night to putting on my Tufo clincher/tubular. I realize some secrets after struggling like a muthafugga to get them on in the past.
1) Let them sit for a few days inflated when you get them.
2) Keep them indoors (especially in the winter) to allow maximum stretching.
3) If you get the chance, stretch them during the time that they are waiting to be installed. How? Literally let the air out, put your foot on the floor holding on to the tire and streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetch them like an old school Jack Lalane workout tool. Careful to have the valve on the side not where your foot is or near your hands. I did this like twice in two days for like 3 or for minutes.
4) When it is time to install, start with the valve area like you would with a tire and tube.
5) Get the valve in and start by squeezing the tire between two fingers to seat the lips that attach themselves to the rim. Work this system of squeezing and seating those lips about ¾ away around the rim.
6) Things at this point start to get tight. You need to more or less stretch that remaining part of the tire you're trying to get on the rim up and upside down…almost as if the tire tread is looking at the nipple wells of the rim (remember with clincher Tubulars you do NOT use rim tape).
7) Note that to get that last part up and over the rim as you are stretching, I learned a secret from
8) You then flip and roll that remaining part of the tire up and onto the rim.
9) You'll note that it is not yet seated in the rim in that last remaining area. I inflated the Tufo to like 20PSI then squeezed and seated the lips of the clincher tubular all the way around the rim.
10) Done! In like less than 4 minutes. The stretching and pre-inflation over the foirst two days is the key.
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Pets, Pets, Pets
May 30th "Parallel" Pet Event: -Microchip Clinic at the Last Hope Dog Walk
As community outreach Last Hope Animal Rescue will be hosting a low cost Microchip Clinic again during our annual Dog Walk at Wantagh Park. On Sat. May 30th (rain date June 6th) from 1 pm to 5 pm we will be working together with the Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter to bring this money saving pet protection opportunity to the public.
No appointment is necessary, and pets are welcome at the microchip clinic even if they are not staying for the Dog Walk. Chip and go! We will be set up north of the marina, by the dog runs. The dogs will be implanted under the shelter tent, and as an extra precaution, cats will be brought inside
Microchips, when registered properly, are a microscopic marvel. A transponder the size of a grain of rice can be a pet's ticket back home. The chip is not a GPS, but does have a unique serial number that can be read using a radio frequency scanner. A phone call to the toll free 24/7 registry gives all info needed to reunite the pet with his owner.
Locally we've had some amazing microchip recoveries. Last June a Jack Russell appeared in N. Amityville. Babylon Shelter found a chip that traced him to Atlanta 930 miles away. The feisty pup had vanished from a pet sitter 6 months before. We flew him home. AirTran picked up the tab. A Westie at Babylon Shelter went back to an original owner who had lost him 2 years before, while Team Vivi found "Bugsy" a missing NYC dog a year later in a Rhode Island shelter. Further away a British SPCA rescued an injured cat last month with a microchip that IDed him as Kofi, who had gone missing in 2005. The fugitive feline is home sweet home after 3 ½ years. Only shelters and veterinarians have scanners. Municipal shelters are supposed to scan all dogs and cats, yes, cats too, on intake. (I can't stress the following enough- all LI found dogs belong in the town shelter, at least temporarily, to give owners the best chance of getting their dogs back. Misguided zealots are telling folks that a post on Craig's List is sufficient; wait a few days and then either keep the dog or give him away. Nothing could be further from the truth. Use this as your ethics barometer: What if the lost dog were your dog?) We are working on getting all the LI shelters to scan DOA animals also to give distraught owners closure.
Bayer seems to have the most sensitive scanner. I spoke to Dr. Silene Young, Bayer's product manager, who explained the 3 types of scanners. Frequency specific scanners (125kHz) may only pick up their own brand; a universal scanner is a misnomer because it only reads US chips, it may not read a number, but merely detects the presence of a chip; while an ISO compliant scanner like the resQ™ device reads all chips including 134.2kHz used by Europe, Japan, and Bayer. A third party test confirmed that the resQ™ reader read 200 out 200 encrypted AVIDs, 50 out of 50 unencrypted AVIDs and 100 out of 100 Home Agains. Most shelters have a collection of scanners. I did an experiment. My dogs have Home Agains. I borrowed Babylon Shelter's resQ™ reader and tested it on my 3 pups and a Last Hope Dachshund. All the chips came up. I was impressed, and if nothing else, learned to use all the scanners at the shelter several times before determining a stray does not have a chip. Enough techno talk. Unlike your kids, pets can't negotiate a cell phone or a beeper, but they can sport a microchip for an extra level of ID protection and definitive proof of ownership. Got chips? If the answer is no, come to the Last Hope Clinic on May 30th. Call 631-661-614 for more details. Those pups and people wanting to stay for the party, visit www.lasthopehopeanimalrescue.org to learn more about the Dog Walk fun and frolic. Sorry, kitties, you must chip and go!
Our poster pets come from 2 town shelters this week. At Hempstead Shelter (785-5220) Beltagh Ave. Wantagh, "Hofstra" is a shy Swiss Mt. Dog mix #2309 found on the campus after being hit by a car. He healed nicely. There is also a female 8 mon. Rottweiler pup #2517. Meanwhile "Josie and the Pussy Cats" is playing at Oyster Bay Town Shelter (677-5784) Miller Pl. Syosset where there are many more cats than dogs right now. "Josie" (#103) is a sweet gray calico declaw.Her band of pals include: "Powder" #154 a white polydactyl Siamese mix; his brother "Moose" #152- also with extra toes; more declaws in the lobby: "Delilah" & longhaired "Oliver".


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The average listing price on SpeedList for this year, make, and model is $27,158.
This vehicle has been on SpeedList for 172 days.
2018 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport 2.4 Base 27/21 Highway/City MPG Van Hyundai proudly serving the following cities Carrollton, Coppell, Frisco, Plano, Dallas, Irving, Lewisville, Highland Village, Little Elm, and The Colony.
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