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At first, cellulitis appears as a red, swollen rash and the affected skin feels tender, “stretched” or even painful. As the infection worsens, those areas of inflamed skin grow larger, and the rash can spread very quickly within 24 hours. According to Diaz, cellulitis caused by more aggressive forms of bacteria can lead to blisters and dimpling of the skin along with fever and chills.
However, DeAmbrosis points out that some patients don’t have any of those associated symptoms early on.
The golden rule? If you break out into a rash, get it checked out sooner rather than later.
Luckily, cellulitis can be easily treated — but it’s important to take action before the infection spreads. In most cases, oral antibiotics clear the infection fully within 10 to 14 days. The symptoms usually start to subside after three or four days.
If the pain is intense, your doctor may also prescribe a pain reliever. It also helps to keep your feet elevated to reduce swelling.
Diaz agrees, saying it’s key to keep a close eye on any skin changes, and if you do develop a cut on the skin, make sure to wash it immediately with soap and water. After that, he says that covering any wounds with antibiotic creams and a dressing will also prevent the overgrowth of bacteria that could lead to cellulitis.
Hampstead: Firefighters from Hampstead, Manchester and Arcadia in Baltimore County responded at 6: 30 p.m. Thursday to a house fire in the 1200 block of Woodland Court. The house sustained $50,000 damage, and the residents were displaced. Units were out two hours, 30 minutes.
British actor Michael Caine poses for a photograph in London.
Michael Caine has been looking back, and on the whole he likes the view. Regrets? He's had few.
The 85-year-old star of "Alfie," ''Get Carter" and "The Dark Knight" — among many, many others — reminisces fondly in "Blowing the Bloody Doors Off," whose title adapts a line from his 1969 heist caper "The Italian Job." Being published Tuesday in the United States by Hachette, it's part memoir, part advice manual for aspiring actors and anyone else nursing an elusive dream of success.
"The luck I've had, you couldn't make it up," Caine said during an interview in his riverside London apartment, with a panoramic view up and down the Thames. "I mean, even once I was a success, I made a lot of flop movies. But I only made three at a time before I had a hit."
In print and in person, Caine describes his success as sequence of lucky breaks. His first big movie break, as a British Army officer in "Zulu" in 1964, was followed by a role as a world-weary spy in "The Ipcress File." On the back of that came his breakthrough as a callous man-about-town in "Alfie." That film made blond, bespectacled Caine a symbol of Swinging London, brought him American fame and earned him the first of six Academy Award nominations.
He went on to win two Oscars — for "Hannah and Her Sisters" and "The Cider House Rules." Later came a stint as butler and mentor Alfred in three Batman movies directed by Christopher Nolan. Along the way, he became an icon, and his signature glasses and Cockney accent spawned a thousand imitators.
Caine says his optimistic outlook is rooted in his hardscrabble early years. Born Maurice Micklewhite into a working-class London family, he was a child during the London Blitz and later, as a teenage conscript, was sent to fight in the Korean War.
"I have found it pretty easy to be happy since then," he notes in the book. "Once you've been on manoeuvrs in Korea, everything else seems like quite a lot of fun."
"I was nobody from nowhere who knew nothing about anything," he said. His drive to succeed came from "desperation — the determination to become something other than a factory worker.
"My father was an example of what I was and how lucky I was to have been born all those years later," he said. "My father was an extremely clever, intelligent man but completely uneducated and a complete waste of a brain — and that's what was happening to me, and I could see that."
Answering a classified ad led to small parts in a provincial repertory company. Then came work on the London stage, television parts, movie roles and global stardom. If he has a secret, he says, it's that he kept going when others gave up.
"If someone rejected me, I never worried about it," he said. "I tried again, because my only alternative was working back in the butter factory.
After a week filled with budget negotiations and the swearing in of the new police chief, there wasn’t much new work left for the Minneapolis City Council to do at its regular Friday meeting.
So, they tackled a big issue: whether to ask the federal government to cut back on war spending and keep those dollars at home.
Gordon is the chief author of a council resolution calling for a change in the focus of the federal spending, moving it away military and back to local communities.
St. Paul has passed a similar resolution, and Duluth and Des Moines are expected to follow with similar resolutions.
Minneapolis has seen a 30 percent cut in federal Community Development Block Grants since 2002, according to figures from the Minneapolis Finance Department. Prior to 2002, Minneapolis received $16.8 million in those grants, compared with the current $10.7 million.
“The United States will spend more in Afghanistan next year than the entire food stamp budget for the country — and way more than the federal government will contribute toward education,” said Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer of the Minnesota Arms Spending Alternative Project, which joined the City Council in support of the resolution.
The council approved the resolution 12-0, with Council Member Kevin Reich not in the room at the time.
Police Chief Janutionee Harteau’s new leadership team includes one of her top priorities — a new division that will focus on police training, mentorship and professional development.
Inspector Lucy Gerold will head the new Leadership and Organization Development Division, which will focus on leadership training, employee engagement and professional development from the date of hire through an officer’s career. She has 36 years of service in the department most recently in the 3rd Precinct, which is south of downtown and east of 35W.
Travis Glampe will be deputy chief of professional standards. He has been with the department for 12 years, most recently in charge of the Internal Affairs Unit, which focuses on the integrity of employees.
The new assistant chief, Harteau’s previous job, will be Matthew Clark, an 11-year department veteran who most recently has been a commander of the 5th Precinct, in the city’s southwest corner..
The deputy chief of patrol will be Eddie Frizell, also an 11-year veteran, who has been commanding the 1st Precinct, which is downtown Minneapolis. Frizell was deployed to Iraq as a commander with the Minnesota National Guard’s 94th Cavalry.
The deputy chief of investigations will be Kristin Arneson, a 26-year department veteran. She has served as a homicide investigator and as a commander in the 5th Precinct. Since May, she has been deputy chief of the Patrol Bureau.
Tree of the Week showcases some of the biggest and most beautiful trees in the GTA, as compiled by Megan Ogilvie. Here, 12-year-old Luca Assad tells us about her family’s giant silver maple tree that brings them joy in every season.
Growing tall and proud on our front lawn is an astonishingly beautiful silver maple.
My parents bought this house in 2009 and with it came the enormous tree that stands in our front yard today.
Our tree is estimated to have been around for 150 to 175 years, which is before Canada was even a thing. People also say it is the biggest tree in our Guildwood neighbourhood.
Surrounding our tree are beautiful flowers and plants, which are home to many insects. Many little creatures, such as birds, squirrels and chipmunks, live in our tree. Although it can be a bit noisy and messy, we still have to appreciate how our tree can make such a great home for so many creatures.
Our tree hasn’t just seen Canada grow up, but also me and my siblings, Lola, 15, Coco, 9, and Hugo, 3.
The four of us love this tree almost as much as all the animals do.
We have put a swing on one of the biggest branches and love to play on it in the summer. In the fall, our silver maple provides such a great leaf pile for us to jump into.
We also enjoy hiding little toys in the tree, to make a fun game of seek-and-find. I hope that our tree stays standing forever so that we can continue to have as much fun with it as we do now.
Last year’s winter really had a great affect on our tree. On New Year’s Day, me and my mom were admiring how pretty our tree looked with a fresh coat of snow on it when we noticed a huge crack down the middle of it.
We found out later that our tree had sadly developed something called frost crack. An arborist had to come and cut off two of the biggest branches of our tree. We luckily got to keep the enormous branches and now have them in our backyard.
Many people come to look at our tree, admiring its amazing size and the tree sap that drips down the front of the tree. Sometimes people come just to take pictures of our amazing tree.
One of our neighbours loves our tree so much that she was the one who gave us the idea to write this article. Since Christmas, every Saturday she would give us the latest edition of the Star’s “Tree of the Week” as inspiration. Thank you so much, Sharon, for giving us the great idea to write this article.
Symphony of Science: Black Holes.
Black holes can gobble down matter and spew out vast beams of matter, focused by intense magnetic fields. Click to ergospherenate.
Black holes are intrinsically cool.
1) In the center of every big galaxy lies a supermassive black hole. Our Milky Way has one, four million times more massive than our Sun.
2) Not only that, but there are tens of millions or possibly billions of smaller black holes wandering the galaxy! Never fear, though: The odds of one getting close enough to Earth to do us any harm are so small that the Universe could be a thousand times its current age, a million times, and we’d still never get close to one.
But just knowing they’re out there…yikes. And see? That’s cool. There’s something fascinating and forbidding and compelling about black holes. They’re weird, they defy our everyday logic, they’re the ultimate endpoints of matter.
You’ll see a lot of familiar faces in there. I was pleased to see my old friend Brian McNamara (in the blue shirt, first appearing at the 1:38 mark) there, too. We were in grad school together at UVa, and that video is (I believe) actually from a PBS show called “Monster of the Milky Way”, which I worked on a bit a few years back (the show was funded in part by a NASA mission I was involved with). So that was fun to see him again.
I’m a big fan of the Symphony of Science series, too. Heck, I’m in one. But they’re all pretty good, and well worth your time to watch. You can find them all on melodysheep’s YouTube channel.
And if you want to learn more about black holes, here’s something for you: an article I wrote called Ten Things You Don’t Know About Black Holes. How many did you not know?
Anshula recently returned from hospital and Arjun is by her side to take care of his sister. The 33-year-old actor will return to work next week. "The production team stepped up to help Arjun when he approached Raj Kumar sir for a break from the shooting. Arjun made sure to wrap up the Nepal schedule a day early and flew back to Mumbai quietly. He has been with Anshula ever since," a source close to the development said, adding that the siblings duo's father Boney Kapoor and family friends also rallied behind Anshula during the time.
When asked about this, Arjun told Mirror, "Anshula is better now and just needs some more rest. She tried her best to convince me that she was okay so that I could finish work but honestly, I'd rather see her recover in person."
Arjun Kapoor will be next seen in ‘Namaste England’ opposite Parineeti Chopra. Then he will start working on 'Panipat' with Sanjay Dutt and Kriti Sanon.
Jahnvi Khushi Anshula & boney Kapoor spotted at bastian bandra.
CIVIL WAR Roundtable of Eastern N.C. meets on April 25 at Golden Corral, Marine Boulevard. Social at 6 p.m., program at 7 p.m. Call 910-353-9559.
ALTERNATIVE Access to Capital seminar from 1 to 4 p.m. April 24 at Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, 1099 Gum Branch Road. Pre-register at 910-938-6322.
NEW RIVER Lodge No. 736, A.F.&A.M., will have a Stated Communication at 7:30 p.m. April 25 with refreshments after meeting.
TAKE OFF Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) meets every Thursday at Pine Valley Methodist Church. Weigh in at 4:30 p.m. meeting at 5 p.m. Call 910-455-4930.
RICHLANDS Lodge 564 will hold an Emergent Communication to confer the 1st Degree at 7:30 p.m. April 25 with refreshments following degree.
SPECIAL OLYMPICS Onslow County Spring Games from 9:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 26 at Northside High School. Opening ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Call 910-265-1756.
SWANSBORO High School Band Boosters presents �Jazz for Dinner� fundraiser at 6:30 p.m. April 26 at the Swansboro Town Hall Annex. Tickets $25 each. Call 910-389-8251.
PREMIER NURSING and Rehab Center, 225 White St., will hold a yard sale fundraiser from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 26. Call 910-353-7222.
SOUTHWEST Meadowview Community Club meets at 7 p.m. April 25.
JACKSONVILLE VFW Post 9133, 1450 Piney Green Road hosts a barbecue chicken dinner fundraiser from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. April 26. Plates $7, eat in or take out. Call 910-353-6810.
SWING FOR A Cure golf tournament fundraiser sponsored by Hampstead UM Church Relay for Life Team at 12:30 p.m. April 26 at Olde Point Golf and Country Club, Hampstead. Cost $55. Call 910-549-7206.
Paul Stewart grew impatient waiting for Katie Guay to feel comfortable making history, so he finally did it for her. The director of officiating for the Eastern College Athletic Conference's (ECAC) hockey programs, Stewart informed Guay he scheduled her to referee a game between Union and Sacred Heart in 2015. She figured it was a routine women's college hockey assignment — until he told her it was actually a men's game, a step she had been reluctant to take.
"I don't know if I'm ready," she told him.
"Now you're second-guessing me?" he fired back.
And just like that, Guay became the first woman to officiate in Division I men's college hockey. Then last month, she served as a referee for a game between Harvard and Boston College in the Beanpot, the first woman official in the history of the prominent tournament. Might she also become the first woman to referee an NHL game one day?
Of the five major professional sports, the NHL is the only major league to not have a woman officiate on its stage, exhibition or otherwise, and it is actively looking to change that. To help identify potential future officiating talent for the NHL and other professional leagues, the NHL has been encouraging women to participate in its annual combine.
NHL Director of Officiating Stephen Walkom said the league plans to reach out to Division I hockey coaches this year for help spreading the word about the NHL Exposure Combine to their seniors, women in particular. The ideal candidate is a strong skater, to keep up in a game that's as fast as it's ever been. The appeal to players it's a way to stay in hockey after their college career is over. Walkom even tried to sell Kendall Coyne Schofield on it as an option for the future after the U.S. women's national team forward posted an impressive lap of 14.346 seconds in the NHL's fastest skater competition at the All-Star Game in January.
Guay was one of seven women who were invited to the combine this past August, but she and two others had scheduling conflicts.
"I don't think we really have a deadline for putting a woman [official] in the NHL," Walkom said. "I think we want the most talented individuals doing our games regardless of who they are or where they're from. Our big goal is to just deepen the pool of aspiring young officials, men and women, and get them involved and get them to try officiating, especially those that are great athletes and great skaters who played at a pretty high level. And then I know one day, somebody is going to like it enough and be good at it that one day we see them in pro hockey."
Violet Palmer became the first woman to call an NBA game in 1997, and after Sarah Thomas made her debut as an NFL referee in 2015, she officiated a playoff game between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Chargers in January. While there hasn't been a female umpire in an MLB game, women have worked spring training games. Sandra Hunt, Nancy Lay and Kari Seitz all worked as center referees in the MLS roughly two decades ago.
"What it comes down to is, it doesn't take an X or a Y chromosome to stick your hand in the air and call a penalty," said Stewart, who called more than 1,000 NHL games over two decades. "Which lavatory you use doesn't really matter to me. When I hire you, I hire you for your ability to recognize penalties and skate and get in shape and be where you need to be to make the call."
Guay became a referee in 2006, when gas prices had just spiked and she needed some extra cash to recoup the money she was spending driving to and from women's league games. She had played four years of college hockey at Brown, and she missed being in the rink. But what started as a part-time gig shifted to something more serious when Guay realized that officiating could lead her to international tournaments.
Stewart said he has six women on his officiating roster, including Guay, and he's recruited them personally, constantly handing out his business card. Though Guay initially laughed off Stewart's suggestion that she referee men's Division I games, she now works an equal amount of men's and women's games. After Guay refereed that Beanpot game between Boston College and Harvard, legendary Eagles Coach Jerry York had some unsolicited feedback for Stewart. "She's superb. What a great skater and good demeanor," York told him.
"This isn't a gimmick," Stewart said. "She's got the right stuff."
While the focal point will be the NHL level, Guay believes the path for adding more female officials needs to begin at the game's lesser levels.
"I do think it'll happen in my lifetime for a female to get out there in the NHL, but I think in order for it to happen, assigners at the lower level, the junior level, need to provide opportunities to females in order for us to see a female referee in the NHL," Guay said. "As players develop and grow and make it to the show, officials are put on a similar path, so they need to be given the development at the lower levels first in order for them to work their way up. ... That's something that I'm hoping, me being out there at the college level will open not only young kids' eyes to realize that there's potential out there, but also assigners' eyes in providing more opportunities for females in the boys' and men's game."
Two NHL players interviewed for this story were supportive of women refereeing their games, but they wondered if a woman could be a linesman, since that official is tasked with breaking up post-whistle scrums and fights. Elizabeth Mantha, who attended the NHL Exposure Combine in August, has worked as both a referee and a linesman in Quebec, and she said she's had to break up a few fights in games with 15- to 17-year-old boys.
"But I'm 5-foot-10 almost, so for me, it's OK," she said. "I may not be as strong as a man, but I was able to do something at least. . . . Sometimes you just need to talk in a fight and tell the players and guys to stop and just speak with them and work with them. Sometimes you can get away with that. We have tactics."
Said Walkom: "We have less and less fighting in the game now than we ever have. You just need to be agile and quick and a great backwards skater and a great communicator as a linesman with some good hockey sense. I wouldn't rule out one position over the other."
"It's really a hard world to be in," she said. "They're going to try to take advantage of the fact that we're women and think maybe that we're maybe more soft and we don't apply the rules and we can get run over."
Guay is often asked about how male coaches and players regard her. Her answer is that she's usually treated like any other official, which is all she wants.
"Getting a few f-bombs is really a sign of respect because that means they're not treating me any differently than any of the other officials out there," she said. "It's been a lot of fun. When I first got into it, doing guys hockey was something that I never thought was a possibility."
Sony brought the RoboCop remake/reboot to the International Comic-Con in San Diego, as part of the studio and Screen Gem's 2013 panel. The project quietly begun its viral marketing campaign at Comic-Con last year, but has since gone into silent mode. That's because the film ended up being delayed from its original August 2013 release date (Sony replaced it with Elysium), after having generated a whole lot of mixed-to-negative buzz over the RoboCop costume changes, rumors of creative control issues, and elements present in an earlier script draft.
The lineup at the RoboCop Comic-Con panel included director José Padilha (Elite Squad), along with cast members Joel Kinnaman (The Killing), Abbie Cornish (Seven Psychopaths), Samuel L. Jackson (The Avengers), and Michael Keaton (Toy Story 3). Moderation duties for the panel were handled by Ralph Garman (Family Guy).
In RoboCop, the year is 2029 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Their drones are winning American wars around the globe and now they want to bring this technology to the home front. Alex Murphy (Kinnaman) is a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit. After he is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp utilizes their remarkable science of robotics to save Alex’s life. He returns to the streets of his beloved city with amazing new abilities, but with issues a regular man has never had to face before.
The panel started off with footage of a faux news report, featuring SLJ hamming it up as Pat Novak - a character the actor later described as being a cross between Rush Limbaugh and Al Sharpton - talking about the advantages of using robots to keep the peace in war zones. We then got fake news footage of robot soldiers patrolling the streets of Tehran, cross-cut with clips from a congressional hearing where OmniCorp head Ramond Sellers (Keaton) and his assistant (?) Liz Kline (Jennifer Ehle) argued that robotic soldiers should be allowed on U.S. soil.
One congressman, in particular, kept asking Sellers "What do they feel?" - as in, what do the robots "feel" when they make a mistake (after a while, Sellers replied "Nothing"). This ethical question was then hammered home by subsequent footage, which showed a robot misidentifying a Tehran child as being a threat and machine-gunning them to smithereens in broad daylight in the street. Shortly thereafter, the video ended, as Novak explained that the Pentagon has cut the live news feed. Overall, a good chunk of that RoboCop material felt like a spot-on, yet dry, satire of a contemporary news program.
Padilha confirmed that was intentional (re: channeling the satirical approach in Paul Verhoeven's original film), as he explained that he felt little need to go and re-imagine the 1987 RoboCop movie because "It is a beautiful film"; instead, Padilha sought to take the concept and update it to address certain "big issues" faced by our modern society. He also mentioned a few times over that his take on RoboCop deals primarily with the humans vs. robots issue - be it questions of responsibility raised by the use of robotics in warfare (ex. who is to blame when drones/robots make a mistake) or how we should always be concerned about who is the person using some form of new technology, seemingly dangerous or not.
After Padilha and the present cast members spoke for a while, the Hall H crowd was treated to the official RoboCop Comic-Con teaser trailer. It started with shots of Detroit, juxtaposed with footage where Sellers said that “Americans want a machine with a conscience”. We were then shown clips of Alex Murphy’s home life with wife (Cornish) and child, before getting a glimpse at the different "origin story" behind the titular cyborg. In this film, it appears that Murphy suffers irreparable physical damage after his car explodes in his home driveway (though, the culprits responsible for planting said bomb were kept a mystery).
Gary Oldman showed up momentarily, as one of the scientists who ends up giving Murphy the "RoboCop treatment" (after he informs Cornish's character that her husband will otherwise be a wheelchair-bound vegetable for the rest of his life). The trailer also included footage showing a black-armored RoboCop in action, being tested in motion by Jackie Earle Haley's character, and engaging criminals in gunfire battles (including, riding a motorcycle down a narrow hallway as he is fired upon relentlessly). Finally, there were clips that showed that Murphy's Robo-visor is retractable, in addition to a collection of clips that show Cornish attempting to appeal to RoboCop's humanity and remind him that he is her husband (but seeking intimate comfort elsewhere when that fails).
A question about why RoboCop still has a human hand in the trailer, to which Padilha explained that Omnicorp lets RoboCop keep his original hand so he may shake the hands of others (i.e. provide human contact to convince the public that he is not dangerous).
One which led to Padilha promising that his remake would approach big social issues in the same ironic fashion as Verhoeven's RoboCop did.