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Ben Affleck to play Batman in 2015 Superman sequel
Ben Affleck has been cast as Batman in a forthcoming Superman sequel, bringing together the two superheroes in one film for the first time.
The 41-year-old will star opposite British actor Henry Cavill, who will reprise his role as Superman from the most recent film, Man of Steel.
Director Zack Snyder revealed the big screen superhero mash-up at a comic convention in San Diego last month.
Production is expected to begin next year for release in the summer of 2015.
"We knew we needed an extraordinary actor to take on one of DC Comics' most enduringly popular super heroes, and Ben Affleck certainly fits that bill and then some," Warner Bros President Greg Silverman said in a statement.
Mr Snyder, who also directed Man of Steel, said in a statement that Mr Affleck will provide an "interesting counter-balance" to 31-year old Cavill's Clark Kent.
"(Affleck) has the acting chops to create a layered portrayal of a man who is older and wiser than Clark Kent and bears the scars of a seasoned crime fighter, but retain the charm that the world sees in billionaire Bruce Wayne," said Snyder. "I can't wait to work with him."
The sequel - which has yet to be given a title - will reunite Man of Steel stars Amy Adams (Lois Lane), Laurence Fishburne (Perry White) and Diane Lane (Martha Kent).
Christian Bale most recently played Batman in director Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy.
Michael Keaton and George Clooney have also donned the black mask and cape in previous Batman films.
Ben Affleck's film Argo, which he starred in and directed, won an Academy Award for best picture earlier this year.
The superhero genre is not new to Mr Affleck, who previously starred as the blind hero in the 2003 Daredevil film based on the Marvel Comics.
Batman and Superman are part of DC Comics universe, which is part of the Warner Bros Entertainment division.
Revenues from the latest films featuring Superman and Batman have exceeded $1bn (£655m) in recent years.

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After quiet weather for most of the Thanksgiving holiday, a series of storms are brewing and expected to hit the Bay Area this week.
We can expect a storm each day starting Wednesday and lasting through Sunday with periods of heavy rain and gusty winds at times.
There is a concern of flooding in the North Bay and in the Santa Cruz mountains.
The San Anselmo creeks and rivers are among those at risk, so the city is handing out free sandbags and sand so residents can prepare for the wet weather. They remember the devastaing flood in 2005, and a smaller one in 2008. And so, the city wants to prevent downtown businesses from being submerged in water, like in years past.
Some residents, like Maynard Brusman, are taking it in stride. "Any place has problems," he told NBC Bay Area. "The rain is great. But you have to prepare for it."
Here's how it breaks down according to the NBC Bay Area weather department.
Tuesday will be a mostly cloudy day to start with areas of dense fog and drizzle. The clouds will increase in the afternoon as the first in a series of storms moves into the coast.
Storm No. 1 arrives early Wednesday morning. This will be heavy on the winds and moderate on the rain. This is a Bay Area wide system that will hit the entire region. It arrives before sunrise with the strongest wind and rain hitting between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. Rain totals will be between .25 to 1.25 inch. The highest totals will be over the North Bay valleys. Rain will linger into the afternoon. Widespread Bay Area wind gusts of up to 50 mph could also bring down trees and create power outages.
Storm No. 2 will arrive Thursday and will last into Friday. It is a traditional north to south weather system with rain starting north of the Golden Gate and moving south. This system has more moisture content with as much as five inches of rain falling the North Bay. The current model projections have the flooding risk the highest on Friday. Local creeks, small rivers and streams will be at the greatest risk for quick rising water. Large Bay Area rivers could rise as much as 3 to 10 feet. There are no flood stages expected at this time. You can moniter conditions here.
Storm No. 3 is still developing, but has the potenital for even more moisture with periods of heavy rains on Saturday that could linger into Sunday. The first break in the weather will be next Monday.
The storms will also bring high surf along the coast. Probably not enough for the Mavericks surf contest to be called, but that is a possibility so stay tuned.
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• If you have a telephone system that requires electricity to work (such as a cordless phone or answering machine), plan for alternate communication - have a standard telephone handset, cellular telephone or pager ready as a back up.
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• Use battery-operated flashlights, not candles.
• Customers with generator should make sure they are properly installed by a licensed electrician. Improperly installed generators pose a significant danger to our crews.
• Unplug or turn off all electric appliances to avoid overloading circuits and fire hazards when power is restored. Simply leave a single lamp on to alert you when power returns. Turn your appliances back on one at a time when conditions return to normal. Report a Power Outage: 1-800-743-5002
• Before calling PG&E about a power outage, check to see if other neighbors are affected. This would confirm if an outage has occurred in just your residence or within the neighborhood area.
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DEATHSMILES! The game sold 20,000 copies in Japan during its first week on sale. This is the first traditional shooter to break the Japanese top ten this generation.
Originally an arcade game developed by Cave, DEATHSMILES was the company first effort at self-porting and self-publishing an Xbox 360 title. Previously, Cave had brought in developer 5pb to handle the porting duties.
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As a long time left leaning local environmental activist, I have been scratching my head over why our environmentally minded,(I thought) City of Berkeley equates environmentalism with high density big development projects, like the high rise apartment building featured as "luxury apartments" in Judith Sherr's article in the Jan. 18 issue of the "Berkeley Voice", and dubbed an "ecotower" by "East Bay Express" writer and editor Robert Gammon. Is environmentalism being turned on its head? Rosa Koire's book, "Behind The Green Mask: U.N.Agenda 21", telling of her similar experiences with the City of Santa Rosa and its relationship to international interests, is a stunning eye opener.
Can you remember when we started hearing jargon phrases like "smart growth", "high density urban mixed use", and that word that is music to an environmentalists' ears,"sustainability"? The U.N.'s idea of sustainability is quite different from what the average environmentalist might have in mind. Have you watched as old buildings are torn down and huge building after huge building is erected now seemingly unoccupied? Why? The City of Berkeley did not come up with this stuff. The exact same lingo, methods, and policies, "climate change action plans", are being adopted by cities all over this county, country and world. El Cerrito, Oakland, Walnut Creek Albany, have all unbeknownst to most of their constituents, signed on with ICLEI. The International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives is tasked with carrying out the goals of U.N. Agenda 21 originally signed onto by George Bush Senior, and by every subsequent president. Shouldn't it concern us that an outside unelected non governmental organization is inserting itself into the zoning and planning departments of cities all over this country and regional boards are being created that make land use decisions unaccoutable to the public?
"Smart growth" is not a local initiative. It is a land and power grab by international corporate forces who are hijacking and financing the unwitting frightened leftist environmental movement into accepting phony solutions for global warming. Those on the left who are willing to make sacrifices and take personal responsibility for environmental degradation, need to apprise themselves of how they are being used, the ultimate goal being to take away the sovereignty of local city governments, take away property rights of average citizens via redevelopment, eminent domain and rezoning, and to increase government control over our lives.
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When Charlie Sheen ran late for the Washington, D.C. show of his tour on Tuesday, he somehow wrangled a police escort from Dulles Airport to downtown. Now everyone's asking who gave the OK, yet no one has admitted to approving.
Sheen, who had been in court for a child-custody case, tweeted about the help, along with a photo from his seat, both of which have since been deleted from his Twitter account: "in car with Police escort in front and rear! driving like someone's about to deliver a baby! Cop car lights #Spinning!"
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Heyward's night off has nothing to do with Niese
NEW YORK -- Instead of attempting to halt his early-season struggles while facing Mets left-hander Jon Niese for the first time since their last encounter left him fractured and bloodied, Jason Heyward was given a chance to rest as the Braves opened a three-game series on Friday night at Citi Field.
"It's ironic this is the first day off," said Heyward, whose jaw was fractured when Niese's wayward fastball dented the right side of his face on Aug. 21.
Manager Fredi Gonzalez decided to rest Heyward before he learned that this would have been the first time he'd face Niese since that scary at-bat.
"I didn't even think about it until [Friday] afternoon. when [hitting coach Greg Walker] and I were talking," Gonzalez said. "I have never seen any residual effects since Heyward came back."
Gonzalez said that his decision had more to do with simply feeling this was the right time to rest Heyward, who has batted .136 with a .271 on-base percentage while manning the leadoff spot through each of the previous 15 games.
"He's been one of the unluckiest guys," Gonzalez said. "He's hit the ball hard. I don't know what his batting average is for hard-hit balls, but it has to be up there."
Heyward's struggles are reminiscent of last season when he struck out once every 5.75 plate appearances and compiled a .114 BAbip (batting average balls in play) while hitting .121 through his first 17 games. This season he has struck out once every 4.11 plate appearances, but he has produced a line drive in 19 percent of his plate appearances, which is slightly higher than the career percentage (18) he carried into the season.
"It looks worse than I'm feeling," Heyward said. "I've just got to keep going and keep playing, keep feeling better and getting more comfortable. Everything is going to be fine. I've done this more times than I would have liked before, and I've been more than pleased with [how] the rest of the season has gone for me."
With Heyward out of the lineup on Friday night, Gonzalez opted to use Andrelton Simmons as his leadoff hitter. Simmons had gone a Major League-best 52 plate appearances before striking out for the first time on Thursday.
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Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Afternoon blogging buddies.
I'm a bit late with this post, I usually like to get one done at the weekend, but I've been away for a few days at my son's house, it's been lovely to spend a little time with them and the grandchildren, I've really enjoyed it, but now it's back to normal, well, as normal as it gets at mine!
So onto crafting.....
I'm here with pink again, I do like pink I have to say, that and lilac shades are faves, though in saying that I do like pale greens too, perhaps I haven't got a real fave being as I like so many, so I'll shut up and get on with it!
As usual, recipe and challenges below, hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.
Crafting From The Heart....Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion...Anything Goes
Dream Valley Challenges...Anything Goes
My Craft Creations...Anything Goes
Whoopsie Daisy....Anything Goes
CD Sunday...Animal Antics
Crafts Galore Encore...Anything Goes
Creative Cottage...Anything Goes
The Sisters Of Craft...Anything Goes
The Crafting Cafe..Lots Of Layers
Through The Craft Room Door...Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create...Anything Goes
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Papers....Clipart Fairy
Pre-coloured Image...Party Paws CDrom
Card Stock, Brads, Stickles, 3D Clear Gosss...From Stash
Sketch Idea...MFT Stamps.com
66 comments:
- aussie aNNie said...
Brilliant design. Beautiful colours. Love the journey and sorry if I have missed commenting last day or so.xxx.xx{The Journey is the Start – my personal blog}
- 20 January 2015 at 14:30
- Carol said...
A big welcome to our Challenge Blog Jacee and we hope this is the first of many visits. I love your cute Panda and the pink is such a zingy pink.
Thank you for joining in with us.
Carol xx
CD Sunday DT
- 20 January 2015 at 15:24
- Rainey's Craft Room said...
Hope the weather is being kind where you are, it's bitterly cold here but snow free thank goodness.
Love your pink card Jacee, very feminine and girly with the gorgeous shoe as the centre piece.
- 20 January 2015 at 15:26
- Wynn said...
I love pink too. You've used a great layout for your card and that image is so cute. Thank you for joining us at CD Sunday. Wynn DT
- 20 January 2015 at 16:29
- Liz McGuire, said...
I'm loving the pink! Gorgeous make, as always, Liz x
- 20 January 2015 at 19:09
- Jan Ltc said...
Gorgeous card love the colours and the adorable image xx Jan
- 20 January 2015 at 21:00
- Carol S. said...
Gorgeous card and love the colours. Sweet image too, Hugs, Carol S.xx
- 20 January 2015 at 21:27
- Sandra H said...
So beautiful is your card and gorgeous image xx
- 20 January 2015 at 21:40
- Diane said...
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous Jacee !!
hugs Diane xx
PS and cute !!
- 20 January 2015 at 21:54
- Always with a Sentiment said...
Hello Jacee. Oh wow, what a beauty. I just so love those gorgeous colours and that image is fantastic. I love the papers and gorgeous design too.
Good luck with the challenges, a sure winner in my eyes for certain.
Happy crafting.
Love Sandra xx
- 20 January 2015 at 22:10
- Elizabeth said...
Lovely card, Jacee. I love the image of the panda in the shoe. The layout is super too. Elizabeth xx
- 20 January 2015 at 22:10
- Nataliascraft said...
Gorgeous card Jacee, love the adorable image x
- 20 January 2015 at 22:22
- Veerle said...
I too love pink. Gorgeous card Jacee and I love your image.
Hugs Veerle
- 20 January 2015 at 22:29
- Carole said...
This is lovely and all the co-ordination....brilliant!What girl wouldn't want to get this!
- 20 January 2015 at 22:42
- McCrafty's Cards said...
Gorgeous card Jacee, I like the sweet image and the design.
Kevin xx
- 20 January 2015 at 22:48
- SYLVIA-ANNE said...
What a fabulous feminine card Jacee - gorgeous patterns and pinks, and I do love that shoe!
Sylvia xx
- 20 January 2015 at 23:05
- JD/ Jill said...
This is really cute!
- 20 January 2015 at 23:07
- Marie-Louise said...
Gorgeous card Jacee.
- 20 January 2015 at 23:24
- Chrissy said...
'Pretty in pink' creation Jacee..love the gorgeous image and fab papers and a really lovely card design.
luv CHRISSYxx
- 20 January 2015 at 23:34
- KT Fit Kitty said...
I love your gorgeous pink card! Such a cute image!
- 21 January 2015 at 00:05
- Elizabeth Hart said...
I love all this pink! What a delightful and very charming card!
- 21 January 2015 at 01:02
- Trish said...
A great card and one can never have too much pink!
- 21 January 2015 at 01:16
- jimlynn said...
Pretty in pink and another beautiful card. Love the pop of that flower on here too.
- 21 January 2015 at 01:38
- Beth Brovold said...
Hi Jacee!! What girl doesn't love pink...and shoes...and adorable bears...lol!!! This is just the CUTEST card...fabulous image...beautifully designed!! Isn't it nice to spend time with the Grand-kiddies...I had a nice snuggle with my new Grandson today...simply THE BEST feeling!!
Take care,
- 21 January 2015 at 05:10
- Jackie said...
A cute image and a wonderful card :o)
Jackie xx
- 21 January 2015 at 07:15
- Shirley Young said...
Lovely design with all those pretty papers, the shoe is gorgeous.
- 21 January 2015 at 07:47
- brenda said...
I often ask myself what normal actually is Jacee !!
Loving your beautifully girly creation today, can never have too much pink.
B x
- 21 January 2015 at 07:56
- Jocelyn said...
Wonderful pink card and lovely to see you joining in with us at CD Sunday. Hope to see you again soon.
Jocelyn x
CD Sunday DT
- 21 January 2015 at 08:19
- Gibmiss said...
Hi Jacee
Fabulous card... Love the image .... And Papers....
Hugs Sylvie xx
- 21 January 2015 at 08:31
- Christine L said...
So GORGEOUSLY PINK too Jacee... of course, I LOVE it (pink being my favourite colour!) You still have time today to enter it in our Anything Goes challenge at In The Pink too - I really hope you can enter! If you love pink, it's the perfect challenge for you! Check it out here: http://inthepinkchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/challenge-60-anything-goes-in-pink-of.html
Big hugs
Christine x
- 21 January 2015 at 08:33
- Craftin Suzie (Susan Wykes) said...
How fabulous Jacee! Love the pink. Aren't Grandchildren the best thing ever!!! Susan xx
- 21 January 2015 at 08:40
- Juls said...
Utterly gorgeous !! Love it :-) xx
- 21 January 2015 at 08:49
- coldwaters2 said...
WOW Jacee this is stunning, wow, the papers and design are so beautiful the image is full of awesomeness, I love it
lorraine x
- 21 January 2015 at 10:35
- Pop's Cards said...
I absolutely love this sweetie, hugs Pops x x x
- 21 January 2015 at 10:40
- Linny said...
Nothing wrong with pink. Most of my wardrobe is pink, or green! haha. love the curve mat, Great card. Linda x
- 21 January 2015 at 10:48
- Crafting Queen said...
Adorable card!
- 21 January 2015 at 12:56
- Pat K said...
Gorgeous pink card Jacee with such a sweet image. So nice to spend time with the grandchildren - great to hear you had a wonderful time. hugs, Pat K xx
- 21 January 2015 at 13:14
- Pamellia said...
I never get tired of pink card Jacee, especially yours! Love all your gorgeous papers and the wonderful panda baby, so cute!! hugs :)
- 21 January 2015 at 15:02
- meg said...
love the card Jacee great image
- 21 January 2015 at 17:16
- Sue said...
Fab pink card Jacee!!! lots of huggles Sue xxx
- 21 January 2015 at 18:01
- Lorraine said...
This is gorgeous Jacee. What a cute image, and I love the layout and all the girlie pinks.
Lorraine x
- 21 January 2015 at 19:21
- Mau xx said...
Hi Jacee, Thanks for following my blog, Not sure how you found me as I couldn't see any comment, but thrilled you did :)
Love the card That Shoe is brilliant, and love the flower.
Hugs Mau xx
- 21 January 2015 at 20:19
- cuilliesocks said...
Brilliant card Jacee, beautiful image and papers, great design too, hugs Kate x
- 21 January 2015 at 20:20
- Pia S said...
A pink delight! This card shows what I really like about your style: your eye for combining different patterned papers, lots of layers and a beautiful coordinating envelope!
- 21 January 2015 at 20:32
- chrissy xx said...
Oh My! This is Pinklicous lol.
LOve your image, papers and design. It always amazes my how you manage to do the inside and an envelope! LOve it.
It's always lovely to see family Jacee. We will be going to our Daughters in two months time.. I'm counting the days.
- 21 January 2015 at 22:00
- Mrs A. said...
I think I'm in pink heaven.! Your card is delightfully inside and out. An envelope too. This is all too much. Lol. Hugs Mrs A.
- 22 January 2015 at 01:44
- Pat said...
Beautiful card, lovely design and cute image. Thanks for leaving a lovely comment on my blog, you too have some gorgeous cards on your blog. Just off to become a follower.
Pat xx
- 22 January 2015 at 17:08
- anne said...
Beautiful card Jacee, such pretty colours
- 22 January 2015 at 20:54
- MaryH said...
The pink is beautiful & so festive with the tiny bear perched in that pretty shoe. I like the swirls & shapes on the card, and it's a fab layout. Great design, great color & beautiful card as well. Glad you had a chance to spend some quality time with your family. Always a big priority in my opinion. TFS & Hugs
- 22 January 2015 at 22:13
- Lynsey said...
Hi Jacee, pink is my favourite so I love this card! I love your matching envelope as well that is so pretty!
Hugs Lynsey x
- 22 January 2015 at 22:32
- Gloria Shirr (purpleglo) said...
Wow Jacee! This is stunning! I love your gorgeous/adorable image, the DP and the layout are fabulous! I love pink and purples also. My two favorite colors! I use them a lot. I too use precolored images when I can. You matched these colors perfectly.
I am your newest follower and would love for you to follow my blog as well.
Have a terrific day! Hugs, Gloria
- 23 January 2015 at 00:41
- CraftyNatalie said...
Wow, beautiful card Jacee.
- 23 January 2015 at 08:49
- Karon said...
Beautiful card, love the papers and the fabulous envelope! TFS
- 23 January 2015 at 13:47
- Marlene Atkinson said...
this is gorgeous, I love the design,colours and the image. Marlene
- 23 January 2015 at 19:49
- Rebecca Bradshaw said...
Completely and utterly fabulous! I love the image and your gorgeous papers. And always such brilliant layouts!
- 24 January 2015 at 08:51
- starcyl said...
I rally like this card, perfect for our challenge. Thanks for sharing it with us at CD Sunday this time.
Jenny x
CD Sunday DT
- 24 January 2015 at 14:35
- Anne Chilvers said...
Pretty card, inside and out, with a lovely matching envelope. The flower is gorgeous too. You can't go wrong with pink ! Thanks for joining in with the Sisters of Craft Challenge, good luck and best wishes, Anne DT x
- 24 January 2015 at 18:44
Hi, A lovely project, I love the colour choice. A lovely style. Thank you for joining us this week. Crafting From The Heart Good luck. We would love to see you again next week.
Hugs Erin DT & Co Owner xx
- 24 January 2015 at 21:24
- Bonnie Irvine said...
Your card is delightful. I love the layers of beautiful papers and the variety of the shapes and sizes of them. That flower on the shoe is a fabulous detail. Such a happy card! Thanks so much for joining our Anything Goes Challenge at Craft Your Passion. I hope we see you again soon.
- 25 January 2015 at 17:44
- nwilliams6 said...
Love the look on her face - a totally great image! Wish I had some shoes like this! Adorable card. Hugz
- 27 January 2015 at 02:22
- Dee's Craft Room said...
Another amazing card, fabulous papers and wonderful image.
- 27 January 2015 at 03:31
- Daffodil Cards said...
GORGEOUSLY girly again
- 27 January 2015 at 20:20
- Daria said...
What a nice card! Funny mage, never seen it before! Very nice layout too! Thank you for joining the Crafts Galore Encore Anything Goes January Challenge! Hope to see you again! Good luck!
- 27 January 2015 at 20:58
- Patricia St Martin said...
Just adorable and I love your layout. The pink is so pretty. Thank so much for joining us at Though the Craft room Door challenge.
Fabulous ideas and great inspiration.
Hugz from Wisconsin, Patricia
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- 28 January 2015 at 18:16
- Lou said...
This is lovely. Thank you for entering it into this month's challenge over at The Crafting Café. good luck x
- 30 January 2015 at 11:12
- Unknown said...
Great design, beautifully done. Thanks for joining us at the Crafting Cafe. Amanda x
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All these options and parameters are in the (probably REALSQL) database 'C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Optimism\Optimism.rsd', AFAICS. The "Custom..." buttons at the top of each screen-section brings up an edit screen where you can change the texts etc...Just some work to set up a different set of questions, or a different language -Ath (May 17, 2012, 09:30 AM)
I'm not really sure what you're after, but have you looked at Points Motivator?Trying it myself, and the Delete This Entry / Modify This Entry context menus don't seem to work. Even if I create a new blank file, it still shows the default items. But maybe that is just me. If so I wil start another thread.-daddydave (May 19, 2012, 10:06 AM)
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The Newry and Mourne PSNI facebook page reported: "On 16th June 2017 at 11am Police received a report of what has been described as a large black cat, possibly a panther, sighted in the Moneymore Road area of Newry!
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Los Angeles: A Tasty Burger at Township Saloon
Township Saloon
6612 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90028 (map); 323-257-8705; townshipsaloon.com
Cooking Method: Griddled
Short Order: A simulacrum of a saloon makes a very good burger
Want Fries with That? Yes; very tasty and well-executed fries
Prices: Blue Collar Burger (w/fries), $12
Walking into Township Saloon is a bit like walking into Disneyland. The similarity is due not so much in how the theme park wows with its scale (although Township certainly is a sizeable restaurant), but rather that odd disquiet a self-conscious simulation initiates. You know what it's supposed to be, but clearly it isn't the real thing. In some respects the man behind Township, restaurateur George Abou-Daoud, has made this sort of enterprise his signature. Bowery and Delancey are both unabashed New York City simulacra and Mercantile (which is directly next door to Township) is an exercise in Francophilia. This isn't meant to disparage Abou-Daoud's restaurants as some sort of deception; he doesn't sound like he's trying to fool anyone when he describes the Township menu as "Americana comfort fare." It's just that Township's self-conscious reworking of the the American saloon seems to draw attention to itself.
Of course, a little attention seeking from a burger spot is all well and good by me if there is a reason to pay. Daoud's previous restaurant in the same space, District, came and went before I ever tried it, so I made a point to drop in for lunch at Township lest I miss out on this reworked restaurant. On a recent weekday afternoon I had the place nearly to myself, despite the busy Hollywood location. This usually sends my burger senses tingling that I've missed the mark with my lunch choice. It turned out it's everyone else who's missing out (at least when it comes to the burger).
Like the restaurant's interior, Township's burger endures a bit of heavy-handed stylization. Daoud calls it the Blue Collar Burger. Again, this isn't meant to be an authentic version of the classic working person's quick lunch burger, but rather a reference to it. A "blue collar burger" may start with a homemade bun, but it wouldn't be the brioche version Township works up. The 80/20 meat to fat ratio of the eight-ounce patty is right on as is the American cheese. The lettuce, tomato, and pickle are straightforward, though the crispy onions (that is, onion rings) are less so.
The grind was pleasantly coarse and the patty loosely packed, which, when given proper heat like they do at Township, is my favorite construction. The beef flavor was clean and the patty full of juice. Mine came out with the warm, pink center of a proper medium rare, just as I'd ordered. The lettuce, tomato, and pickle were welcome reminders of a classic burger flavor profile, but the crispy onions were one topping too many. If you're curious about them I suggest requesting them on the side. The American cheese was nicely melted and, again, struck the right note for the classic burger.
The bun, while certainly not as bad as brioche can get, is just as certainly the wrong choice for this burger. It's both too much and too brioche-y. The breadiness was tempered by all of the beef and toppings, but this burger could really shine with a large commercial bun. That said, I put mine away with little hesitation and a fair amount of delight.
The medium-cut fries are fresh. The browning you see in the photo didn't come from a dirty oil, but it did mean they got a little more time in the fryer than I'd prefer. Still, they were well salted and full of flavor, rounding out the meal nicely.
The truth is I was surprised by just how much I enjoyed the Township burger. What's equally true is how not surprised I was by how little I enjoyed the rest of Township. My server was an attractive and pleasant aspiring actor, but she was easily distracted considering how little there was going on. Further, trying to talk to anyone there about the burger turned into a bit of a sideshow. Sure, it shouldn't be a restaurant's obligation to talk to the customer about their food with as much detail as I request, but it shouldn't be met with suspicious ire either. In the final analysis, Township makes a tasty burger for a reasonable price, but perhaps they need a bit more than.
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Jana Saalfeld is a Certified IT Specialist with IBM Software Group Services Germany. She has eight years of experience in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) field and has been with IBM for nine years. She holds a Bachelors degree in Applied Computer Science of Cooperative State University of Stuttgart. Her areas of expertise include solution and application design, implementation, integration, and technical enablement within the ECM product suite.
So you want to extend IBM Content Navigator (ICN) to provide additional functions and features for your application? It can be done. ICN provides high extensibility through the plug-in option. You can easily add new functions and features without changing the ICN code. In order to create the extensions easily, your development environment can be enhanced through a Content Navigator Eclipse Plug-in.
But before you start, I highly recommend that you read the following BLOG post by Marcel to have an overall understanding of the various options you have to extend and customize ICN: ONE UI - IBM Content Navigator as an application framework
Why Eclipse Plug-in for IBM Content Navigator?
The Eclipse Plug-in eases the creation of new projects for ICN Plug-ins and new External Data Services (EDS) implementations. The Eclipse Plug-in provides wizards to:
- Create the whole ICN Plug-in project structure automatically.
- Create and implement the Main Plug-in class.
- Add the necessary libraries to your projects build path.
- Add additional client side components such as Actions, Features, Menus, Menu Types, Viewers, Open Actions and Layouts through wizards and add the new components to the Main Plugin class.
- Add additional server client side components such as Services, Response Filters and Request Filters through wizards and add the new components to the Main Plugin class.
- Create your own EDS project through additional Configuration.
Using this extension within your development environment avoids project setup errors and makes it easy to get started with ICN development.
How do you install the Eclipse Plug-in?
Installing the Eclipse Plug-in in your development environment is very easy.
For pure Eclipse packages, you only need to add the Plug-in JAR files available from the IBM Redbooks publication, Extending and Customizing IBM Content Navigator. The JAR files are part of the downloadable materials for the book in the Eclipse dropins directory:
For Rational Application Developer, the JARs should be placed in the plugins folder.
Now restart your development environment, and that's it!
As there are two different JAR files, there are two different Eclipse extensions. On the one hand, the Plug-in creates new ICN Plug-in projects. On the other hand, the Plug-in adds an additional Configuration for Web Projects in order to create your own EDS application.
The following Figure shows the New Project creation wizard where the ICN Plug-in wizard can be selected. The EDS Configuration profile can be used within the New Web Project wizard.
Now you can start creating your own ICN Plug-ins and EDS implementations.
If you are not familiar with the ICN extension and customization options, check out the first BLOG entry from the reference list below.
Additional references
For IBM Content Navigator related blog posts, see:
- ONE UI - IBM Content Navigator as an application framework
- Getting started with the new Eclipse Plug-in for IBM Content Navigator development
- How to build a plug-in with custom search for IBM Content Navigator
- Developing Custom Step Processors with IBM Content Navigator
- Implementing a Dossier Management Solution with IBM Content Navigator
- Mobile development for IBM Content Navigator
- EDS vs request/response filters for IBM Content Navigator
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Phils enduring collision rule growing pains
DENVER -- Twice in one week the Phillies had a play at home where a catcher blocked the plate before he received the ball.
Both times the home plate umpire called out the baserunner, and both times a manager asked the play to be reviewed under Collision Rule 7.13 to see if the catcher blocked the plate illegally.
Umpires ruled Phillies center fielder Tony Gwynn Jr. out at the plate on April 13 at Citizens Bank Park, despite the fact Marlins catcher Jeff Mathis had blocked the plate. Joe Torre, Major League Baseball's executive vice president of baseball operations, called the Phillies later to tell them a mistake had been made. The umpires correctly ruled Carlos Ruiz blocked the plate on Saturday in a 3-1 loss to the Rockies at Coors Field.
It is quite confusing.
"The one yesterday was right," said Phillies catcher Wil Nieves, who started Sunday's series finale. "That's what they told us in Spring Training. You cannot block the plate without the ball even if there's no contact. We have to give them a lane. That's what happened with Mathis. He was blocking the plate. There was no lane for the runner. And they messed up. They admitted it. So right now we know to give them a lane."
Of course, catchers have been taught their entire life to block the plate one way. Now they must fight those instincts as a play develops.
"I was talking to Chooch [Ruiz] about it," Nieves said. "He's one of the best in the game at putting down the leg and blocking the plate. Trying to change that is going to be hard, so we've got to concentrate a lot. We just need to set up early in front of the plate and just try to stay there as long as we can without taking away that lane.
"If your left foot is on the line you still have a lane. If you go past that then you're blocking the plate. But if you have it on the line they still have a lot of room to slide. That's where you want to be. And then after we have the ball we can do whatever we want. And if the throw doesn't beat the runner he's safe."


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This is the wrap up for TSQL Tuesday #38. We had a good turnout this month with some new faces and with some regulars. In total, we had 22 entries. All of the entries this month were very good.
The topic was on "Standing Firm" and can be found by clicking the image to the left.
Stay tuned to twitter for future TSQL Tuesday announcements and news via the #tsql2sday hash tag.
Rob Farley (blog | twitter) – Running Goals: In his opening paragraph Rob says "Peer pressure can be useful at times, but I also find that it can make me even more stubborn." WOW! I can really relate to that. Then he proceeds to recount a story from his past that would be hard for a lot of people to overcome. I know I would have a hard time with not being able to lift my children. Now Rob is running and plans to keep going and improving. Excellent story!
Jim McLeod (blog | twitter) – Environment: Jim also decided to write about fitness and exercise, specifically cycling. Jim ties planning into his goal to cycle more and stick with it. Then he ties that into SQL Server. "Put together an environment that supports and encourages you to stick to your resolution." Plan ahead whether it be with certification or cycling, and not just for the happy times but for the rough times as well.
Thomas Stringer (blog | twitter) – Lucky 13: Like many cross country runners, Thomas wants to hit it hard. Then he wants to maintain the pace. The principle is to set out to do something and build up a routine. Routine becomes habit – and eventually becomes easier. Thomas is setting out to learn something new every day. That is a good goal.
Robert Davis (blog | twitter) – Disaster Recovery Resolutions: This month Robert happens to be providing a month long series on Disaster Recovery. In keeping with that theme, he has offered up several resolutions every DBA should make.
Koen Verbeeck (blog | twitter) – Resolving an SSIS Performance Problem: Koen reached Defcon 2 (not really – but you should read it) when presented an opportunity to troubleshoot performance problems in an SSIS package. The problem seems pretty typical – package works and then starts slowing down over time. Part of the reason for that is due to four bullet points that Koen discusses.
John Sansom (blog | twitter) – Take More Ownership: John hits on a big button in his contribution this month. There are problems within our database environments. Often times these problems are allowed to coexist. While they cost time and money and raise frustration levels, how many times do we step up and offer a solution to the real problem? It's a good story – check it out.
Matt Velic (blog | twitter) – Stuck: Matt is a thinker and he was stuck in a rut of late. Matt enjoys thinking about decisions – a lot. This was contributing to him being stuck. He reveals some quick tips about how to get unstuck and to enjoy life just a bit more.
Steve Jones (blog | twitter) – Resolute: Many people have a hard time standing up for what they want or believe. They have a hard time saying "no." We sometimes joke about DBAs being a stop in the flow in work because we say "no" too much. I think we probably do not say "no" enough. And Steve points out plenty of ways that we need to learn to say no more often. It is all about life balance. How many times do you say "no" to a new project when you already have a full plate?
Julie Koesmarno (blog | twitter) – Tribute to Mum: Julie, like her mother, is a WIT/Engineering. We learn about some of the personal life of Julie as she gives credit to her mother for being a role model as she grew up. Now, Julie wants to help be an inspiration to others as her mother was for her.
Chris Fradenburg (blog | twitter) – Avoiding the Repetitive Mess of a Disaster: Chris is the first of the first timers that participated this month (we had a few – woohoo). Besides the bottle of gel soap that must be used every time he washes his hands, he is trying to improve his environment by reducing the manual repetitive tasks. This is a good story about a disaster encountered on the first day on the new job.
Wayne Sheffield (blog | twitter) – Learning: I did a fair bit of arm twisting to get Wayne to participate this month. He was having a bit of writers block. Then a topic fell into his lap and it should provide a month of writing for him. Wayne discusses how is looking to learn and also provide a series of articles on PoSH to help others learn. It should be out soon!
Alan Dykes (blog | twitter) – Solid Skills: Alan is pretty much a self taught SQL Developer. He has recently resolved to sharpen his skillset. He learned from reading another post about how performance can vary by using a different tsql solution (e.g. NOT EXISTS versus LEFT OUTER JOINS).
Robert Pearl (aka Bobby Tables) (blog | twitter) – HealthySQL: Some more arm twisting on this one. Bobby has an excellent idea and it is something we should resolve to do every year as Data professionals. Too often we get into the break/fix mode rather than the preemptive strike mode. Regular maintenance (like you should do with your car) keeps things running longer and with less overall cost.
Hemanth.D (blog | twitter) – Firmness of Purpose: Hemanth is the second of our first timers to participate this month. Hemanth goes back and explores the past a little and how community ties in with the #SQLFamily. Hemanth wants to be more resolute in the upcoming year when faced with an issue and ensuring the issue is resolved.
Mickey Stuewe (blog | twitter) – Spoons: Mickey introduces us first to Neo and his effort at bending a spoon. Then she correlates that to her writing ability. For her to write is like trying to bend a spoon with her mind. So she uses other tools to accomplish the goal. She shared a couple of tools of which I think I will try the mind mapping tool. That might mean some bizarre maps though.
Ed Watson (blog | twitter) – Speaking of Resolve: Another first timer to the party (iirc), Ed shares his resolution to start speaking more at the local level. Ed was more prone to flight than fight when it came to public speaking. He talks about his experience and what he did in 2012 to start speaking publicly.
Jeffrey Verheul (blog | twitter) – Standing Firm: Jeff had already planned out his goals by the time TSQL Tuesday rolled around. After he had written some goals, he ran into a rough patch. Based on that week, he has chosen to stand more firm and improve all that much more.
Ana Mihalj (blog | twitter) – Getting Involved: Another warm welcome to another first timer. Ana is from Bosnia and Herzegovina and has been working on blogging and getting involved in the community for the past year and a half. Now she wants to step up her efforts.
Ken Watson (blog | twitter) – Not an Average Accidental DBA: Ken shares a story on how he transitioned from a jack of all trades to being a DBA. Ken is not enamored with being an average DBA and is working at something about which he is passionate. He chased a dream and it is working out for him.
Tim Ford (blog | twitter) – Bring out your Dead: You'll get it once you read his post. Tim is bringing back #Learn365. If there were two themes this month it was exercise and learning. Learn365 is right up that alley with learning. Go check it out.
Chris Yates (blog | twitter) – Hoops and Databases: We have a baller among us. Chris talks about the resolve he had as a High School athlete to be a better ball player and make it to the Collegiate game. That same resolve is applicable to being an Exceptional DBA. Practice your craft and stand firm in your determination to be an Exceptional DBA.
My entry (twitter) – A Firm Foundation: I shared a story that relates to disaster recovery and database consistency. In that article, I also explored the immediate impact of changing the page verify for your database (plan cache).


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You are a task-driven boss, who focuses a lot on achieving goals. You have a big picture thinking ability, where you can assess the business and commercial impact of issues or challenges that might arise and react in an appropriate action. Of course, when your employees encounter obstacles and difficulties, you are willing to help them. As you have a high critical thinking ability, you think broadly and rigorously about issues and challenges which lead to your best solution. This could sometimes creates chaos in the business though due to your self-centeredness. Want to find out ways for improvement? Scroll down to find out the 10 personality traits of a great boss.
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That's right BBM fans — the iconic mobile social network will begin rolling out for Android and iPhone customers around the world from September 21. Soon, you'll be able to easily connect with friends on different platforms. As you may know BBM was previously exclusive to BlackBerry smartphones, and it will be available as a free download in Google Play and the App Store.
While some of you are no strangers to BBM, many will be new and might be asking: What is BBM? Below, you'll find all the highlights about BBM for Android and iPhone.
BBM for Android and iPhone features:
- BBM Chat – Enjoy real, immediate conversations with friends on Android, iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones. Not only does BBM let you know that your message has been delivered and read, it also shows you that your friend is responding to the message.
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The longest day
Forget about Groundhog Day: For the last three weeks, it's been January 3 in the United States Senate.
While the rest of the world has moved on, one day at a time, the Senate's been stuck in a time warp. There is a reason: senators can change the rules for a Congress on Day One, and with Democrats trying to craft a plan on filibuster reform, they ended Jan. 3 - and each subsequent day the Senate was around - by recessing, rather than adjourning.
So here's what the Senate missed: Obama's inauguration on Jan. 20; Obama's public inauguration on Jan. 21; Beyonce lip-syncing the national anthem; the NFL playoffs; the college football championship game; the Golden Globes; the premieres of Bunheads and Girls; most of the Australian Open; and the Manti Te'o mess.
But no worry, now that the Senate voted Thursday night to approve the new rules, it can rest easy and put Jan. 3 behind it. Friday is a new day: Jan. 25.


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Even more evidence now points to cannabis as an effective treatment for PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder. Confirming research showing PTSD may be particularly responsive to cannabinoids, this new Israeli rat study refines the timeline of effective cannabinoid treatment for the debilitating condition. Long before this important research, though, the effectiveness of cannabis and cannabinoids in treating PTSD was becoming well known. Again, much of the research is Israeli. American researchers are denied permission by the DEA to study medical cannabis.
Although events and conditions that can cause PTSD are diverse, including auto accident. Post-traumatic stress disorder is common following significant orthopedic trauma. But war experiences are key triggers for PTSD and now nearly two million Americans have served America's in its two longest wars, Iraq and Afghanistan. A search of Science Daily finds:
How ironic, and troubling, that those who have served their country, and now suffer from combat exposure-caused PTSD do not have the freedom to use this effective medication back home, at least in most US states. Even states with medical marijuana laws do not all include PTSD as a qualifying condition. Instead, those who theoretically fought for freedom, ours and their own, now have their own freedom of medical choice denied. Some will suffer the antithesis of freedom, incarceration, for choosing a natural and safe (zero deaths) medication for their PTSD symptoms. Federally, all are criminals, felons. Sadly, with its war on cannabis, America violates it basic tenets of personal choice and the core right of American citizens to be left alone by their government.
Instead of enjoying to freedom of medical choice, Iraq and Afghanistan PTSD-wounded are commonly prescribed powerful pharmaceutical anti-depressant and even anti-psychotic drugs. One of the many possible negative results of anti-depressant use is thickening of the arteries. In this latest study showing the effectiveness of cannabinoids in treating PTSD, CB1 receptor antagonists were shown to block this protective effect. This demonstrates the key role of CB1 receptors, also activated by cannabis, in treating PTSD.
Related to PTSD is TBI, or traumatic brain injury. Often coming from IED blasts in Iraq and Afghanistan, TBI afflicts thousands of veterans. Israeli research shows that TBI also is responsive to cannabinoid treatment. But that is topic of another post.


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CUHA Honored by the Red Cross
(Greek Peak, NY) - Dr. Eric Ledbetter and Wendy English (of CUHA) and the Shamrock Animal Fund received the Real Heroes Animal Rescue Award from the American Red Cross of Cortland and Tompkins Counties at a breakfast ceremony at Greek Peak Mountain Resort.
Dr. Ledbetter performed vision saving cataract surgery on Zacky the Yorkie earlier this year. The surgery was made possible when the CUHA Patient Assistance Fund and the Shamrock Animal Fund helped pay for some of the cost of the surgery.
Zacky's owners, Richard Eimicke and Kathy McSherry, were also in attendance along with Zacky himself who gave a wave to the crowd that applauded as the award was given. Zacky's story was seen on television in early March, seen on NBC 3, CBS 5 and CW 6 in Syracuse, New York. He was also featured on CNYCentral.com. One of the segments from that coverage was played at the Red Cross breakfast. It showed Dr. Ledbetter removing the cataracts and restoring Zacky's vision with an artificial intraocular lens.
The Real Heroes Breakfast celebrates the Red Cross mission of alleviating human suffering by recognizing people from throughout Cortland and Tompkins counties who performed heroic acts in life-threatening situations. Among this year's honorees: Two bystanders who performed CPR to save the lives of strangers and first responders who saved a man who lost his arm in a farming accident.
We thank the Red Cross for this honor and congratulate all of this years worthy recipients!


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Below are the final designs alongside the finished tattoos.
Statistically Scorpio tattoo designs are looked for more than any other
A few nice scorpion tribal tattoos images I found:


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Learn How to Make the Clay-Roasted Thigh from 'Hannibal', Pancakes From "Twin Peaks"
Looking for holiday recipes I stumbled across Binging with Babbage, Andrew Rea's recipe site that take fictional foods in entertainment and makes them a reality. Touching everything from the Big Kahuna Burger in Pulp Fiction to the Breakfast Dessert Pasta from Elf (so. much. sugar.), there were a pair of genre-themed recipes hiding within the batch.
"The history of eating one's fellow man is rich with culinary tradition and innovation, carried on in no small part by Dr. Hannibal Lecter," explains Rea. "In this pivotal scene, he gives a fellow killer a taste of his own medicine, so to speak – if, at the time, he had medicine in his bloodstream, because he's eating his own leg. So to speak." The site carries both instructions and full list ingredients.
"Looking at his work, it would appear as though David Lynch loves a few themes: surrealism. Dream sequences. Machinery. And apparently, coffee. Learn how to make the fluffiest of pancakes and the coffeeist of coffees with the help of Nick Fisher from Cocktail Chemistry as we welcome back Twin Peaks this weekend."
NECA Teases Pennywise Action Figure and More!
It was a busy holiday weekend for NECA as they not only dropped their annual five days of downloads – including all of their clothed figures – but they also revealed their Herbert West Re-Animator retro-styled box set, as well as a few other forthcoming releases.
With the New York Toy Fair just a little over a month away, NECA teased their Pennywise action figure based on the character created by Stephen King. Bill Skarsgård played the character in the record-breaking adaptation of IT, which is just about to cross $700M worldwide. The below photo shows the backside of the evil clown to go along with a red balloon taunting his appearance in action figure form.
But that's not all as NECA shared a sneak at their Aliens Series 13 Kenner-styled Scorpion Alien, and their Friday the 13th Part 2 Ultimate Jason Voorhees!
On Christmas Eve we all float…#necaxmas pic.twitter.com/wOIjRcoyDr
— NECA (@NECA_TOYS) December 25, 2017


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"Abnormal wiring of the connectome in adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder", Molecular Autism, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 65, 2015. Download paper (1.64 MB)
"Constrained spherical deconvolution-based tractography and tract-based spatial statistics show abnormal microstructural organization in Asperger syndrome", Molecular Autism, vol. 6, pp. 4, 2015. Download paper (1.75 MB)
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Emollients are non-cosmetic moisturisers which come in the form of creams, ointments, lotions and gels. Emollients help skin to feel more comfortable and less itchy. They keep the skin moist and flexible, helping to prevent cracks.
One of the most important elements in managing all types of eczema is to keep the skin soft and supple by frequent and generous use of emollients.
Emollients are available as creams, ointments and lotions, any or all of which might be suitable to use at different times, depending on whether a person's eczema reacts to a specific ingredient or ingredients in an emollient.
Creams contain a mixture of fat and water and feel light and cool to the skin. For this reason many people with eczema prefer creams for day time use. All creams contain preservatives and people can become sensitive to them, although this is not common.
Ointments do not contain preservatives. Ointments can be very greasy and some people find them cosmetically unacceptable. However, because they are very effective at holding water in the skin, they are useful for very dry and thickened skin. Ointments should not be used on weeping eczema – use a cream or lotion instead.
Lotions contain more water and less fat than creams, but are not very effective at moisturising the skin. However, they are useful for hairy areas of the body.
Used every day, emollients may be all you need to keep mild to moderate eczema under control.
Eczema Treatment - Soap Substitutes
Soap is very drying to the skin and is best avoided by people with eczema. The hands are particularly at risk, as they are washed more frequently. Liquid soaps/cleansers and perfumed products should also be avoided as they tend to irritate skin with eczema.
Emollient soap substitutes do not foam but are just as effective at cleaning the skin as soap. Soap substitutes can either be applied before bathing, showering or washing, or while in the water.
Bath Oils
Bubble baths are extremely drying and potentially irritating to people with eczema. A daily bath removes dirt and skin debris which could cause infection. There is a range of emollient bath oils available, which can also be used in the shower, either on a sponge, or applied all over the body before showering off.
Emollient shower gels are also obtainable and your GP or Nurse/Pharmacist will be able to advise you about the range of bathing products available.
How are emollients applied and when?
Apply emollients after bathing, while water is still trapped in the skin for extra hydration.
Use liberally and frequently – at least three times a day.
Apply gently in the direction of the hair growth. Never rub up and down vigorously as this could trigger itching, block hair follicles or create more heat in the skin.
- Continue to use the emollient, even when the eczema has improved as this will help prevent flare ups.
Which emollient should I use?
Finding the right emollient is a matter of trial and error, so the best emollient is the one you or your child prefers to use. Your GP, nurse or pharmacist should be able to advise you on the different products available and you find more information in our emollients factsheet and our emollients product list will give you a guide to what is available. Each of these is available to download in the related documents to the right of this page.
Emollient Facts
Emollients are not the same as cosmetic moisturisers. They are usually unperfumed and have no anti-ageing ingredients.
Used every day, emollients may be all you need to keep mild to moderate eczema under control.
Some products leave more oil on the skin than others, so finding what suits you best may be a process of trial and error.
You can use bath oils in the shower by putting them on a damp sponge or by applying them 'neat' all over your body before showering off.
- Correct use of emollients can reduce the need for topical corticosteroids.
One of the most important elements in managing eczema is to keep the skin soft and supple by frequent and generous use of emollients.


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Oh and New Zealand has had this sort of hand wringing, fiscally extravagant approach to social policy presented before. The Royal Commission on Social Policy reported in 1988 wanting benefits and taxpayers' money for just about any group or individual identified as not having a "fair go". The Lange Government to its credit ignored Rosslyn Noonan's post-modernist structuralist treatise on recreating a grand social welfare state, and it was called the most expensive door stop in history.
This report is shorter, and cheaper in real terms, but should have the same fate.


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I prefer not to use GoDaddy because I always encounter performance issues. However, one of my clients is rather insistent on using them... so we are.
I've tested this with a vanilla Wordpress 3.0+ install with no active plugins, but it always seems to happen for me: Whenever a new page/post is called by the browser, we encounter 3-10 second "waiting" times.
I don't have this problem on any non-godaddy wordpress installs (they nearly always get their pages in queue in under 2 seconds). But all my Godaddy installs exhibit this behavior.
Is anyone familiar with this issue?


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Can Donald Trump gain enough black voters to make a difference in 2020?
Can Donald Trump gain enough black voters to make a difference in 2020?
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DETROIT-It's a challenge to tell stories about people in this city who see its problems and are working hard to be part of its rebirth. It's a challenge because press accounts of Detroit are training us to view the city in three morbid ways.
"Ruin porn" is the favorite negation. Photo after photo of broken windows, vandalized schools, abandoned and decaying buildings. Murder capital, riots, corruption, crummy cars, poverty, racial bigotry. Detroit has something for nearly everyone to hate or ridicule, and ruin porn-porn in the sense of provoking civic, not sexual, degradation-has become a shorthand way to convey scorn.
The second genre is shoot 'em up. Last month's Metro Times: "A car turned from Jefferson onto Chalmers. It drew closer, then slowed when it reached Jackson's house. The headlights panned the front of the home until they revealed the ex-cop sitting there on the otherwise dark porch, staring back. He had a shotgun in his lap."
Conventional coverage's third variety focuses on Detroit as the site of weird art. The "ice house," a structure covered with sheets of ice, is a commentary on frozen assets. An artist is selling 1-inch-square plots of Detroit land for a dollar to "inchvestors" building a "surreal virtual world."
The common denominator: Detroit is an urban wasteland, nearly 140 square miles of urban blight. A clever reporter from Britain's The Economist wrote, "Detroit has space, and quiet. It has, as Wallace Stevens said about a snowy landscape, 'nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is.'"
Kevin Butcher, pastor of Hope Community Church on the city's extreme southeast edge, responds: "What are we doing when we castigate and point and forget that down in all of that are sons and daughters of God? . . . How dare we dehumanize Detroit and call ourselves followers of the Christ who touched everyone as if they were all equal in God's eyes?"
Last month I tried to learn about this city as viewed by followers of Christ who see all Detroiters as created equal.
Some of them work at the Central Detroit Christian Community Development Corporation (CDC2), several blocks west of Woodward Avenue, a main drag lined with magnificent old church buildings. The neighborhood is about a mile south of the city's thriving cultural center, filled with museums and Wayne State University buildings, coffee shops, and boutiques. That relative prosperity hasn't stretched north across Grand Boulevard.
Executive director Lisa Johanon, 50, has lived in her central Detroit neighborhood 23 years. Her house, like many of its neighbors, has ornate moldings, carved doors, and leaded glass. It sits on nearly half an acre and appreciated throughout the 1990s, but economic downturn deepened by the decline of the Big Three automakers has lowered its value and caused many neighbors to flee. In CDC2's housing development area (approximately 18 blocks) "we typically have 25-30 vacant homes. Now we have 88."
CDC2's offices are in the basement of an 11-unit low- and moderate-income apartment building owned by the organization. The warmly painted space with walls of pumpkin, gold, and sage green is divided into several offices and a big room neatly arranged with rows of tables, Gateway computers, and some couches. CDC2 employs six full-time and six part-time staff, along with five part-time housing counselors. Learning from pastor and Christian Community Development Association founder John Perkins, they emphasize the three Rs: relocation, reconciliation, and redistribution. This means that the employees live in the neighborhood, so they can live where they minister.
For Johanon, "redistribution" means bringing resources, including skills and education, back into the community. The organization works with about 400 families annually: "If you start working with a child at age 5 or 6, when they become adults these are going to be your future leaders. These are the people who are going to view the community differently, who are not going to have victim mentalities, who are committed to being here, who have a work ethic and a strong relationship with Christ."
Johanon points to Vinny, a polite 20-year-old intern: "He's one of those life changers." Over the years Vinny has been in Breakthrough Enrichment (a Tuesday night program that provides a hot meal, art, drama, dance, or music class, Bible time, and homework help), summer day camp and overnight camp, middle school program, after-school program, high school program, and more day camp and overnight camp, and ongoing relationships with two youth leaders. Through CDC2 his parents started going to church. The organization was there when Vinny's dad died last year and when the family went through foreclosure.
Vinny is the same age as Johanon's son, and she has tracked what happened to her son's neighborhood friends: school dropouts at age 16, incarcerated at least once by age 18, and "at 19 most had had their first child . . . the tug and the pull of the streets."
Tony McDuffy, 40, is a soft-spoken African-American man in a neighborhood without many dads around. Only about one out of six kids in central Detroit lives in a two-parent home. Johanon met Tony when he was 15. He's now one of the youth leaders, mentoring kids like Vinny. Johanon says, "He's far more impactful than I can ever be."
With only 15 percent of kids in her area graduating from high school, CDC2 focuses resources on helping kids get their diplomas. The organization also owns a deli, an ice cream store, and a produce market where young people who go through employment training can work. After five or six months, they move on to jobs with local employers, including the concession stands at Joe Louis Arena and a local McDonald's franchise. They're valuable employees because they've learned the secret of "showing up" and they have interested adult mentors.
Last summer CDC2's Peaches and Greens, the produce market, began selling fresh produce from a brightly painted truck that winds its way through the neighborhood like an ice cream truck. The store and the truck, filled with produce grown in a CDC2 community garden or bought at a wholesale market, is CDC2's attempt to provide access to nutritious foods in a part of the city that has one grocery store and 23 liquor stores.
CDC2 is broadening its jobs focus, working to retool people in "niches where there is a prospect of a job at the end." That includes energy auditing and medical billing, through partnerships with qualified trainers and employers.
It is hard sometimes to see progress, so Johanon keeps a list in her purse with the names of those whose lives have changed because of her organization: "If you just build houses, it becomes a ghetto 20 years later if you haven't done anything to change people's mentalities."
Riet Schumack is a blunt-spoken woman who knows how to get things done in her Brightmoor neighborhood in far northwest Detroit. She volunteers 50 hours each week, acting as secretary for the Brightmoor Alliance, gardening, working with kids, and just being a presence-someone who cares. When she sees criminal activity, she calls the police. When she sees a decrepit and abandoned home, she and her husband Mark, a professor at the University of Detroit Mercy, have been known to buy it, renovate it, and make it available to a solid citizen. They don't do it to make money. (One of their purchases cost them nearly $50,000 after renovations, and it's appraised for only $20,000.) They do it because they care about the neighborhood.
Brightmoor, 12 miles northwest of CDC2 but within the city limits, is a neighborhood founded in the 1920s for Appalachian whites recruited to work on Henry Ford's assembly line. The houses were small frame structures without inside bathrooms. They sat on large lots-and the expectation was that residents, after working for several years, would build larger and more permanent houses. Then came the Depression, and those plans stalled. The neighborhood never prospered.
Riet Schumack greeted me in front of the house she and her husband bought in 2006. For years they had wanted to move to Brightmoor to do urban gardening, but it had taken a while to find the right house. This house became available when the previous owner, a single mother, abandoned it after thieves broke in three times. The Schumacks offered to pay her what she still owed.
The house was in terrible shape, but with the help of their church they remodeled it and moved in. Now, four years later, the house overflows with life. It sits on a huge lot with towering shade trees in the backyard, which slopes down to the Rouge River. It's a flood plain, so the Schumacks can't build or garden on most of it, but it gives the neighborhood a quiet, country feel. At the top of the backyard, on higher ground near the house, is a chicken coop. The 13 hens produce about nine eggs a day in mid-winter. The yard has beehives, a compost pile, and firewood stacked neatly along the fence.
Near the driveway sits a greenhouse. The Garden Resource Program, sponsored by several local groups to help urban gardeners, helped her build it after she completed a six-week class on extending the growing season.
We walked down the street so Schumack could show me one of the community gardens, but she also wanted to check on a house where she had seen suspicious activity-a squatter? A legitimate tenant? Later she spent 15 minutes on the phone, calling various neighbors until she learned that a new tenant had moved in.
In a neighborhood like Brightmoor it's important to keep track of neighbors; otherwise, "people break in and then start squatting." Schumack ticked off the status of the small frame bungalows across the street: "Most are rentals . . . owner, rental, rental, nice rental." She paused at one house: "Someone abandoned and stripped the pipes out of it. It flooded and is now pretty useless."
As Schumack told me this story, a teenaged boy dressed in shorts dashed out of her neighbor's house, despite the snow on the ground and 10-degree temperatures. She scolded him affectionately, reminding him that he stayed home from school because he was supposed to be sick. One of the kids involved with the community garden, he earned enough last summer to buy a computer with his share of the profits.
More than a dozen kids are involved with the garden, helping to build the frames and haul the compost, planting and tending the gardens, and selling the produce at a nearby farmers market. They share in the profits depending on how much labor they put in. As the number of beds has increased, from two the first summer to 24, the program has become more organized. Kids took a weekly financial literacy class and last year learned about giving some of their bounty to others.
Schumack and her neighbor, Sheila Hoerauf, are seeing how activity in the neighborhood can bring tangible results. When Schumack first moved in, she took an eight-week course that covered urban gardening topics and explained how to apply for city-owned land. Schumack learned "if you have problems with crime, community gardening would be a very good thing to do." It didn't take long before she could test that theory.
A house on the other side of a city-owned lot was an active crack house. Schumack got permission from the city to plant a garden on the lot. They located the garden so they could keep watch on the house: "Crackheads and prostitutes came in and out all the time. . . . They were dealing from there." Schumack and Hoerauf called the police every time they saw the dealer there, but by the time the police came he would be gone. Then on Good Friday they called, the police came, the dealer was still there, and the police arrested the whole crew.
Schumack's church came and boarded up the house, scribbling Christian graffiti on the boards. Eventually the Schumacks bought it out of foreclosure. The parents of one of the kids involved in the gardening project now live there.
Last month at the other end of the street a house abandoned six weeks earlier sat amid a field of ice. Thieves had stripped the pipes. Water had been flowing continuously out of the basement and onto the yard and into the street. Schumack called the city to turn the water off, but no one had yet come.
Schumack acknowledged that new neighbors don't always know what to think of her: "Sheila and I are called the Bible ladies. We always go up and knock on the door, tell them who we are, and offer our help." Sometimes the neighbors "are suspicious, like, 'Who are you? What do you want from us?' . . . We just continue to be friendly."
Dan and Cherie Bandrowski graduated from college, attended Bible school, thought deeply about John Perkins' ideas, and moved into Brightmoor in the mid-1980s. They knew they wanted to work with kids over a long time so they could develop lasting relationships. They do not have children of their own, and they throw their love and labor into Wellspring, a nonprofit organization that offers Kumon math and language arts tutoring for low-income kids. It operates out of a small frame house in Brightmoor that also functions as a community center, with a basketball court outside and foosball and pingpong in the basement. The Bandrowskis live down the street.
Last year 68 children, ages 6-17, received math tutoring. Thirty of those students also enrolled in the Kumon reading/language arts program. The classes are a big commitment for parents and children. Each class lasts 90 minutes, twice a week. A child in both classes spends at least six hours a week at the tutoring center, and that doesn't include the nightly homework, which requires parental supervision.
In suburban areas, for-profit Kumon centers charge between $85 and $115 a month per subject; Wellspring charges families $15. Even that stretches the budget of many parents in the Brightmoor area-and requires extensive Wellspring fundraising to pay Kumon royalties.
The payoffs for kids are big. Detroit public-school students scored dismally low on recent NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) tests, but Wellspring's Kumon students-90 percent of whom come from low-income families-are exceptions: "Kids who stick with us until eighth grade are doing 10th-grade math."
Over the years the Bandrowskis have tried various programs to develop deep relationships with the children who come to the center. "We've had pre-employment training, job coaching, mentoring, backpacking, and camping." Their paid and volunteer staff members disciple teenagers. Kids wind down after their tutoring sessions in the basement recreation room.
Living and working in the neighborhood over decades "gives a depth to relationships. There are no shortcuts. It takes time, it takes suffering and lots of heartache." Even though some of the kids stumble-they mention many pregnancies and a kid who went to prison (who calls Dan "Pops")-Cherie sums up their experience: "I'm very rich." Dan adds a caveat: "There's richness here, but it's not without suffering."
Detroit has other followers of Christ sprinkled through its neighborhoods. A mural at the CDC2 building depicts an urban street scene that features old people sitting on porches while children play in the street. Zechariah 8 inspired the image: "Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing."
Lisa Johanon says, "It's a beautiful picture of heaven, but I like it to be the picture of central Detroit. We will have a community that is safe enough for senior citizens to sit on their porches with their canes in hand. Kids can play on the street-and not be so burdened down with adult life and responsibilities."
Detroit sits on a stretch of the Detroit River that runs east and west, so in a quirk of geography the city is north of Windsor, Ontario: Yes, here the United States is north of Canada. Detroit forms a sprawling semi-circle divided by roads that radiate out from downtown, which is located right on the river.
Detroit early in the 20th century, fueled by the growth of the automobile industry, was the fastest-growing city in the United States. Between 1910 and 1920 the population more than doubled, from 465,766 to nearly a million. Detroit reached its population peak of 1.9 million in 1950 and has been leaking people to the suburbs and beyond ever since. The next census will show about 800,000 people living within the city's 138.8 square miles.
That square mileage figure probably zipped by you, but it's significant: Detroit grew geographically during its boom years, annexing huge swaths of territory to the west and east, completely surrounding the smaller cities of Hamtramck and Highland Park. Detroit is now vaster than all of San Francisco, Boston, and Manhattan combined. Since Detroit grew along with the auto industry, it resembles a Western city much more than an Eastern one. Blessed with plentiful and relatively flat land, the city has had a more suburban feel, with many poor neighborhoods made up of single family homes with yards and trees.
It took Detroit's city council eight years to adopt its latest master plan, making it obsolete the day it was adopted, says Deborah Younger, executive director of Detroit Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). It planned for growth rather than downsizing, and only now are city officials beginning to talk openly about the need to "right size" the city. Right sizing acknowledges that the city has too few people, too much land, and too little money to provide services.
Trying to figure out how to downsize will require great wisdom among the many bureaucracies, both public and private, that wield power and allocate resources in a city that has decades of mismanagement and grudges either to nurse or overcome. As the city decides which neighborhoods are "winners" and which are "losers," residents will be looking to see what new mayor and (former basketball star) Dave Bing and the new city council will do. Bing's office plans to use data to come up with a viable land use plan, but will the data include what's happening in Brightmoor or central Detroit?
Meanwhile, business opportunities remain. For the past five years Mark Wallace, 32, has been managing and leasing commercial real estate in downtown Detroit, where he's lived for seven out of the past 10 years. He grew up in a small farming community an hour from the city, studied public policy at Princeton, became interested in poverty and inequality issues, and taught high school in Detroit for three years.
He's a Detroit booster who rides his bike all around the city: "I'd like to spend the rest of my working life in Detroit. . . . [There is] tremendous opportunity for people my age, which is absent in more mature markets like Chicago or New York." He says the city has to create an environment conducive to new business, "where the burden of taxes and physical plant upkeep is not so excessive that business can't locate here."
Wallace plays poker with Gideon Pfeffer, 29, a married father of one child who came to Detroit from New York in 2002 to set up a mortgage company and says, "The business community really embraces young talent because there's not a ton of it. . . . If you come up with a good idea and have a good business model, work hard, you can definitely succeed in the market."


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One Lone Cat is back with a new vlog where I talk about everything from losing my YouTube partnership to my attempts to get healthy and going into the world of cryptocurrency.
Music: "Atlantis" by Audionautix- YouTube Audio Library
One Lone Cat is back with a new vlog where I talk about everything from losing my YouTube partnership to my attempts to get healthy and going into the world of cryptocurrency.
Music: "Atlantis" by Audionautix- YouTube Audio Library
It's been a while since I have written a blog post that wasn't promoting a podcast or anything. Since I am having some difficulty conveying what I'm about to write here in a video for One Lone Cat, I figure that while I am at The Rose Quartz Stand covering for my mother today, I would do a written post today to bring you up to speed on what has been going on.
To say that 2018 has been an interesting year is little more than an understatement. For starters, I lost my YouTube partnership back in February because my channel did not meet the new requirements that YouTube put forth in the wake of the whole Logan Paul scandal where he filmed a dead body hanging from a tree and made jokes about it. The new requirements to be a YouTube partner is to have 4000 views within a 12-month period AND 1000 subscribers, neither of which my channel had. It's not really that big of a loss for me in the long run because even if I wasn't already going to quit YouTube over the Adpocalypse last year and just upload videos to the site, the whole losing my partnership thing would have been the deciding point for me.
After I got the notice about my partnership ending, I upgraded the site yet again to the business plan because I needed more file space to finish uploading my back catalog and with the business plan, I have unlimited storage space so I can upload videos indefinitely. As of now, I think that I have reedited and uploaded about 75 percent of my back catalog. The longer videos I had to convert to podcast so I can fit them on the site because I have a 2 GB file upload limit. And that's not including the new content from One Lone Cat I put up in December and January.
As far as YouTube goes, I also had to cancel my AdSense account so I could get my YouTube earnings even though it was under the 100-dollar limit. And since I am no longer affiliated with Google I guess it's safe to disclose how much I made from Google. I ended up with about 76 dollars and out of that, I only made 30 dollars from YouTube in the six years I've been in the Partner Program. The remaining amount came from my Blogger sites, most specifically the Chester Gillette site. Unfortunately my Google check had to go toward my property tax.
What a way to celebrate 10 years as a YouTube video maker.
If that wasn't bad enough, my cat Crumb died just before St. Patrick's Day. She was seventeen years old which in cat years is pretty old. I just want to say thanks for all the well-wishers and support. And it was great that she got to spend her closing years with me and I was able to share her with you on One Lone Cat and on Instagram.
However, not everything that has been going on this year has been bad. In that aspect, I started diving into the wonderful world of cryptocurrency, specifically bitcoin and ethereum. I tried to buy about a hundred dollars in Bitcoin but my bank card's anti-fraud system kicked in. So I got the idea that if I can't buy bitcoin, I would mine for it instead. So I installed apps on my phone where I would be able to mine for bitcoin and ethereum and set up a Blockchain wallet. If anything, even if I don't have a wife and kids, I might as well have a decent retirement.
And I turned 40 years old this year. Kind of makes you wonder how your life went by so fast. And I know that there is a stigma attached to men who are 40 and single with no baby mama drama but I'm starting to realize that I'm actually in a better spot than I realized. I am coming up on one year living alone; I'm financially independent; and I lost twelve pounds in the last month. But then again I still don't drive and that will probably always be my Achilles' heel when it comes to women.
As you know, I have been filling in at The Rose Quartz Stand since late last year. Well actually I'll be filling in a little more frequently for the next couple of weeks (with the exception of days where I have to work at my real job) because my father is having open-heart surgery done on Thursday. So things are going to be crazy for a little while.
All things considered, I still think that 2018 is going to be my year. Big things are coming this year. Hopefully I'll get back to making more content, even though I am unsure what direction I want to take the site in now that I no longer have YouTube. Whether it is more One Lone Cat vlogs or more podcasts or revert back to writing as I did when I first started this site a decade ago. Either way I should have something soon.
In the meantime, I hope this post will tide you over until then.
I celebrate Christmas alone where I do everything from giving Crumb Christmas presents to cooking a bachelor Christmas feast.
One Lone Cat is back in its new home on the site. While I fill in for my folks at the Rose Quartz Stand, I talk about why I decided to post videos to the site instead of YouTube and show off the Christmas decorations in town. Oh, and Crumb gets a new bed.
Vintage Crumb pic from 7 years ago via Timehop.