FOUR men were arrested after violence between armed men erupted in Newbold.
Three of the people involved had to be taken to hospital for treatment, with one needing plastic surgery on an injury below his ear.
As many as ten people fought near to Kirby Court on High Street in the early hours of Sunday (August 5).
Some of those involved were armed, with police recovering weapons including a knife and a machete from the scene.
Police were called to reports of a violent confrontation at around 12.15am. on arrival they found four men leaving the scene and three others who were injured.
The four men, aged 19, 23, 27 and 34 were arrested and have been questioned in connection with allegations of wounding with intent and violent disorder. they have since been bailed pending further enquiries.
Detective Sergeant Neal Candelent, leading the investigation into the disorder, described the fight as an isolated incident and said he would like to hear form anyone who had witnessed the fight or who had any information that may assist the police.
She was a staple of nightclubs and television from the 1950s — when female comics were rare indeed — until her retirement in 2002. Diller built her stand-up act around the persona of the corner-cutting housewife (“I bury a lot of my ironing in the back yard”) with bizarre looks, a wardrobe to match (by “Omar of Omaha”) and a husband named “Fang.”
Wrote Time magazine in 1961: “Onstage comes something that, by its own description, looks like a sackful of doorknobs. with hair dyed by Alcoa, pipe-cleaner limbs and knees just missing one another when the feet are wide apart, this is not Princess Volupine. It is Phyllis Diller, the poor man’s Auntie Mame, only successful female among the new Wave comedians and one of the few women funny and tough enough to belt out a ‘standup’ act of one-line gags.”
“I was one of those life-of-the-party types,” Diller told The Associated Press in 1965. “You’ll find them in every bridge club, at every country club. People invited me to parties only because they knew I would supply some laughs. They still do.”
She didn’t get into comedy until she was nearly 40, after her first husband, Sherwood Diller, prodded her for two years to give up a successful career as an advertising and radio writer. Through it all, she was also a busy mother.
“We had five kids at the time. I don’t how he thought we’d handle that,” she told the AP in 2006.
A Chicago Tribune columnist, describing her appearance at a nightspot there in 1958, noted she was from San Francisco, hailed her as “the weirdest, wildest yet” — and made sure to mention her five youngsters.
Her husband managed her career until the couple’s 25-year marriage fell apart in the 1960s. Shortly after her divorce she married entertainer Warde Donovan, but they separated within months.
Through both marriages and other relationships, the foibles of “Fang” remained an integral part of her act.
“Fang is permanent in the act, of course,” she once said. “Don’t confuse him with my real husbands. They’re temporary.”
She also appeared in movies, including “Boy, did I Get a Wrong Number” and “eight on the Lam” with Bob Hope.
In 1966-67, she was the star of an ABC sitcom about a society family trying to stave off bankruptcy, “The Pruitts of Southampton.” Gypsy Rose Lee played a nosy neighbor. in 1968, she was host of a short-lived variety series, “The Beautiful Phyllis Diller show.”
But standup comedy was her first love, and when she broke into the business in 1956 it was a field she had largely to herself because female comics weren’t widely accepted then.
Although she could be serious during interviews, sooner or later a joke would pop out, often as not followed by that outrageous “AH-HHAAAAAAAAAAAA-HA-HA-HA!” laugh.
“It’s my real laugh,” she once said. “It’s in the family. when I was a kid my father called me the laughing hyena.”
Her looks were a frequent topic, and she did everything she could to accentuate them — negatively. she wore outrageous fright wigs and deliberately shopped for stage shoes that made her legs look as skinny as possible.
“The older I get, the funnier I get,” she said in 1961. “think what I’ll save in not having my face lifted.”
She felt different about plastic surgery later, though, and her face, and other body parts, underwent a remarkable transformation. Efforts to be beautiful became a mainstay of her act.
Commenting in 1995 about the repainting of the Hollywood sign, she cracked, “It took 300 gallons, almost as much as I put on every morning.” she said her home “used to be haunted, but the ghosts haven’t been back since the night I tried on all my wigs.”
She recovered from a 1999 heart attack with the help of a pacemaker, but finally retired in 2002, saying advancing age was making it too difficult for her to spend several weeks a year on the road.
“I have energy, but I don’t have lasting energy,” she told The Associated Press in 2006. “You have to know your limitations.”
After retiring from standup, Diller continued to take occasional small parts in movies and TV shows (“Family Guy”) and pursued painting as a serious hobby. she published her autobiography, “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse,” in 2005. The 2006 film “Goodnight, We love You” documented her career.
Her other books included “Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints” and “Phyllis Diller’s Marriage Manual.”
When she turned 90 in July 2007, she fractured a bone in her back and was forced to cancel a planned birthday appearance on “The Tonight show with Jay Leno.” But it didn’t stop her from wisecracking: “I still take the pill ’cause I don’t want any more grandchildren.”
Born Phyllis Driver in Lima, Ohio, she married Sherwood Diller right out of school (Bluffton College) and was a housewife for several years before getting outside work.
She was working as an advertising writer for a radio station when a comedy turn at San Francisco’s Purple Onion nightclub launched her toward stardom.
She made her network TV debut as a contestant on Groucho Marx’s game show, “You Bet your Life.” (Diller, asked if she was married: “Yes, I’ve worn a wedding ring for 18 years.” Marx: “really? Well, two more payments and it’ll be all yours.”)
She credited the self-help book, “The Magic of Believing” by Claude M. Bristol, with giving her the courage to enter the business. For decades she would recommend it to aspiring entertainers, even buying it for them sometimes.
“Don’t get me wrong, though,” she said in a 1982 interview that threatened to turn serious. “I’m a comic. I don’t deal with problems when I’m working.”
Are you getting ready to undergo a breast lift surgery? are you nervous and unsure of what to expect during the procedure? If so, then you should schedule a consultation with your doctor in order to get as much information as possible before the procedure takes place. During this consultation, there are a few things that you should ask your doctor. You should ask her how to prepare for the procedure, what to expect on the day that the procedure takes place, and what to expect during the recovery period. By asking these questions, you will be better prepared for the procedure, and this can help to make the experience stress free.
How should I Prepare for the Procedure?
The first question that you should ask regarding your breast lift surgery concerns preparation. in many cases, a surgical procedure will require the patient to maintain a special diet or to refrain from eating and drinking for several hours leading up the procedure. Ask your doctor if there are any special instructions for you to follow or if there is anything that you can do leading up to the day of the procedure to make things run more smoothly.
What Will Happen on the Day of the Procedure?
Another important question to ask your doctor before you undergo your breast lift surgery concerns the day of the procedure itself. it is often helpful when it comes to managing stress and anxiety to know precisely what is coming. This being the case, you should ask your doctor to give you a step-by-step explanation of everything that will happen on the day of your procedure. If you know what to expect, you will be much better suited for handling the stresses of that day.
What Will the Recovery Be like?
Finally, before you have your breast lift surgery it is important to have a good understanding of what the recovery period will be like. Be sure to ask your doctor to explain the recovery process to you. it is also important to find out what sorts of risks you might be subject to during this period as this will help you to be more conscientious during your recovery.
All in all, there are several questions that you should ask your doctor prior to your breast lift surgery. it is important to have a good understanding of what you can expect before, during, and after the day of your procedure. Knowing these things will help to alleviate some of the stress and anxiety that often accompany these surgeries.
Royal Oak — Charlotte Ponce wants nothing more than to go riding on her grandmother’s horse and take her bike for a spin, but the 10-year-old will have to wait for a while before she can get back outside.
Charlotte is recovering from surgery to create her a nose, the first of many operations she will face as doctors reconstruct parts of her face damaged when she was attacked by a raccoon as a baby.
“I’ve been walking around and been doing stuff on one hand, but I can’t go outside. I used to ride my bike every day, even when it was raining,” the west Michigan girl said Wednesday during a news conference at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak.
It’s early in the progress, but her plastic surgeon is encouraged.
The first stage is complete and I’ve very pleased with the result,” said Dr. Kongkrit Chaiyasate, director of reconstructive microsurgery at Royal Oak Beaumont.
Charlotte is at the beginning of a two-year series of surgeries that will give her back a nose, part of her upper lip and her right ear, which she lost when the animal climbed into her crib and mauled her face.
“She’s so used to people looking at her differently that I just think she takes it in stride,” adoptive mother Sharon Ponce said Wednesday, one week after doctors took skin from her daughter’s forearm and folded it over on itself to sculpt the basic structure of a nose.
With her left forearm wrapped in a bandage, and holding her Care Bear, Fluffy, and her doll, Lillie, the thin girl with blond hair and blue eyes talked with spirit about how she knows the hallways of Beaumont better than her father, and how she tells him where to go while he pulls her around in her red wagon filled with stuffed animals.
She said she loves animals despite what happened to her.
When Charlotte was three months old, a raccoon that her biological parents were keeping as a pet got free from its cage and climbed into her crib. at the time, a bottle of milk was propped up against the child, so Sharon Ponce said she believes the raccoon wanted the milk.
The raccoon disfigured the right side of Charlotte’s face, which led to the loss of her right ear and most of her nose.
The Ponces, relatives of the biological mother, adopted Charlotte and her brother, Marshall, after their biological parents had their parental rights terminated and lost an appeal in 2005. Sharon, 52, and Tim, 61, live in Spring Lake, Mich., and have two sons, both in their 20s. they lost another son to crib death in 1991.
Charlotte’s nose is a work in progress. it will take at least three more surgeries before she will have a functional nose that matches her face and skin tone.
Chaiyasate said Charlotte will recover for six to eight more weeks before undergoing the next stage, building a solid structure to support the new nose.
Months down the line, Chaiyasate said he would use part of Charlotte’s bottom lip to recreate her top lip and eventually give her a new ear by carving out part of her rib for the structure and using microsurgery technique to remove skin from her chest plate to cover it.
“My goal as a plastic surgeon is not only the function but also the look,” said Chaiyasate.
Even after the process is complete, Charlotte will still need to come back for procedures once she hits puberty because she will grow and her face will change. she will also need fat injections in her left cheek throughout her life.
“I expect we’re going to know Charlotte for a really long time,” said Chaiyasate.
But on Wednesday, her parents were focused on blessings: a daughter who just days after surgery was jumping on the bed and playing Bingo with other children while working her way through a box of a dozen red, white and blue ice pops.
“I think she’s looking forward to getting it done and just being like everyone else,” said Sharon Ponce.
“The people have been tremendous and the outpouring of love she gets every day; I tell them all the time, we hear all the prayers.”
By By DAVID B. CARUSO and HOLLY RAMERAssociated Press
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – Radiology technician David Kwiatkowski was a few weeks into a temporary job at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian in 2008 when a co-worker accused him of lifting a syringe containing an addictive painkiller from an operating room and sticking it down his pants.
More syringes were found in his pockets and locker. a drug test showed he had fentanyl and other opiates in his system.
In what may be the scariest part of all, authorities say that when he swiped the fentanyl syringe, he left another one in its place, filled with a dummy fluid, ready to be used on a patient.
But Kwiatkowski did not go to jail. no one in Pittsburgh even called the police. neither the hospital nor the medical staffing agency that placed him in the job informed the national accreditation organization for radiological technicians.
So just days after being fired, he was able to start a new job at a Baltimore hospital. and from there, he went from one hospital to another – 10 hospitals altogether in the four years after he was fired in Pittsburgh. All of them told the associated Press they had no knowledge of his disciplinary history when they hired him for temporary jobs.
The potentially grave cost of those loopholes became clear only after Kwiatkowski's arrest last month in New Hampshire, where he stands accused of infecting at least 31 Exeter Hospital patients with hepatitis C by stealing fentanyl syringes and replacing them with dirty ones tainted with his blood.
Now, thousands of hospital patients who may have crossed paths with Kwiatkowski in eight states – Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York and Pennsylvania – are being tested to see if they, too, are infected with hepatitis C, a sometimes life-threatening virus that can destroy the liver and cause cancer.
As the Kwiatkowski case demonstrates, medical technicians aren't as closely regulated as doctors or nurses, and there is no nationwide database of misconduct or disciplinary actions against them, the way there is for physicians.
“It seems that what happens in Pittsburgh stays in Pittsburgh,” said Barbara Yeninas, a spokeswoman for Springboard Healthcare Staffing and Search, one of at least seven medical staffing agencies that lined up jobs for Kwiatkowski. “They get hired and they get fired and they can move on to wherever else they want.”
As Kwiatkowski made his way from one institution to another, the Pittsburgh incident was not even the only time he was accused of stealing drugs and fired.
Kwiatkowski, 33, became a radiology technician in 2003 in his home state of Michigan after completing a training program. He earned a degree two years later from Madonna University in Livonia, where he was a catcher on the baseball team and became one of the small school's all-time leaders in two inglorious categories: passed balls and steals allowed.
Former teammate Mario D'Herin said Kwiatkowski was regarded as a liar. at one point, he claimed to have cancer.
“Then he said it was Crohn's disease, and it was like the boy who cried wolf – nobody really believed him,” D'Herin said.
In court papers, the FBI said he admitted making up several stories about his life, telling people he had played his college ball at the University of Michigan or saying he had a fiancee who died tragically. Investigators could find no evidence he was treated for cancer.
Kwiatkowski's parents told investigators their son had problems with alcohol, anger and depression. they also believed he had Crohn's disease, a painful bowel condition sometimes treated with fentanyl patches.
Through jail officials, Kwiatkowski declined to be interviewed. His court-appointed lawyer would not comment. Nor would his mother in Canton Township, Mich.
Kwiatkowski has pleaded not guilty to stealing drugs and tampering with needles in New Hampshire. He told investigators he was innocent and suggested that a co-worker had planted a fentanyl syringe found in his car.
“I've already said it. I did not take any drugs or do any drugs … and I'm gonna stick to that,” he said, according to the FBI account.
People involved in a 2010 incident at Arizona Heart Hospital tell a different story. Kwiatkowski was 10 days into a job assignment when a co-worker found him passed out in a bathroom stall. a stolen syringe, bearing a label for fentanyl, floated in the toilet. In the emergency room, he tested positive for both cocaine and marijuana.
“I'm going to jail,” he moaned when he regained consciousness, according to an account given to state regulators by the colleague who found him.
This time police were summoned, but the officers decided not to file charges or even write up a report after being told that Kwiatkowski had flushed the syringe. “We had no evidence. We had nothing except what they told us,” said Phoenix Officer James Holmes, a police spokesman.
Hospital officials alerted Springboard, which had gotten Kwiatkowski the assignment in Arizona, and also informed the Arizona Medical Radiologic Board of Examiners, which took steps to revoke Kwiatkowski's license. Springboard also sent a report to the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists, the organization that 37 states rely on to verify that technicians have proper credentials.
But after learning police hadn't filed charges, the national accreditation group dropped its inquiry without ever speaking to anyone at the hospital or the state licensing board, said a spokesman, Christopher Cook.
Just days after Kwiatkowski's firing, he landed a new job filling in for striking technicians at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. He faxed a handwritten note to Arizona licensing officials from a Philadelphia airport hotel saying he would surrender his license rather than fight the accusations.
If Kwiatkowski had been a doctor, that loss of his Arizona license would have jeopardized his ability to work anywhere in the U.S. but in this case, he had nothing to worry about. Like many other states, Pennsylvania doesn't require most radiological technicians to be registered and doesn't maintain records of disciplinary actions against them.
He soon moved on to other hospitals, including Hays Medical Center in Hays, Kan., where he worked in the heart catheterization lab and was involved in the care of 460 patients who are now undergoing testing for hepatitis C.
Linda Ficken, 70, who went to Hays to get a pacemaker two years ago, was informed last week that she has been diagnosed with hepatitis C. the Kansas health department said two other patients have been diagnosed with a strain of the virus closely related to the one Kwiatkowski carries. further analysis is planned.
“I was pissed,” Ficken said. “And I still am. and also with the people that employed him, because he put me and my family in jeopardy, he put a lot of people in jeopardy and this is just going to continue to mushroom. somebody fell down on the job someplace. He didn't slip through the cracks on his own.”
Hospitals and the staffing agencies that routinely help them fill jobs are supposed to share responsibility for verifying that workers have proper licensing and good reputations. but four of the states where Kwiatkowski worked over the full course of his career – New Hampshire, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan – don't even license radiology workers.
The institutions that allowed Kwiatkowski to keep working offered a variety of excuses and explanations as to how he slipped by various background checks and managed to get licensed in other states.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center spokeswoman Gloria Kreps said that when he was accused of stealing fentanyl, officials did not contact police because they did not believe they had enough evidence. “We noticed unusual behavior, caught him with a syringe, but did not witness him in the act of committing a crime,” she said.
They didn't alert the national credentialing organization, she said, because they felt that was the responsibility of Maxim Staffing Solutions, the agency that had placed him. Officials at the staffing agency's parent company did not return calls for comment.
Matt Price, chief executive of Advantage RN, the staffing agency that got Kwiatkowski the position in Philadelphia, said his stint in Phoenix was so short that it was easy for him to hide that he ever worked there.
And because of the need to find strike-replacement workers fast, Temple asked the company to verify only the last two jobs held by each applicant. So even though Kwiatkowski listed his Pittsburgh job on his resume, no one called the hospital for a reference.
In Kansas, which in 2010 became the last state to license Kwiatkowski, the Board of Healing Arts verified his education, national certification and other state licenses, but not his work history, said the agency's lawyer, Kelli Stevens.
In the section of his application detailing previous jobs, he left out nine hospitals, including the two that fired him for suspected drug abuse. He answered “no” to a long list of questions about misconduct, saying he had never been disciplined or used illegal drugs.
He also asked the state to waive its requirement that he send a photocopy of his American Registry of Radiologic Technologists identification card. He claimed that his wallet had recently been stolen and complained in a rambling email about having trouble getting a school he attended to send proof of his degree.
Cook, the spokesman for the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists, said Kwiatkowski's case underscores the need for a national database of disciplinary actions.
The agency has about 315,000 technicians registered with it. it handles about 3,000 complaints per year. Last year, it issued 222 public sanctions for misconduct that ranged from criminal convictions to failure to follow professional standards.
“If ARRT had more access to information held by state agencies, employers and others, we believe this number would be higher,” Cook said.
Things finally began to unravel for Kwiatkowski in New Hampshire, where a temporary stint at Exeter Hospital starting in April 2011 turned into a permanent job in a cardiac catheterization lab. a co-worker complained that she saw Kwiatkowski acting strangely and sweating, with bloodshot eyes. He was sent home after saying his aunt had died.
Another co-worker said he once saw him with white foam around his mouth. others told of him shaking, sweating through his scrubs and frequently running off sick to the bathroom, sometimes in the middle of a procedure. a patient's relative discovered a fentanyl syringe in a public bathroom.
In April, Kwiatkowski was charged with leaving the scene of an accident after he backed into a car and drove away.
In May, three doctors simultaneously reported that patients recently treated in the catheterization lab had tested positive for hepatitis C. Within days, Kwiatkowski was also identified as having hepatitis C, and he was suspended as the state began investigating.
In July, police in Massachusetts said they found him intoxicated in a hotel room with a suicide note. He was arrested soon after.
Laboratory testing found that 31 patients had a strain of the hepatitis C virus matching the one Kwiatkowski carried, health authorities said. it isn't clear when he contracted hepatitis C. Prosecutors said in court papers that they have evidence he tested positive at least as far back as 2010. Michigan officials said he tested negative in 2006.
In response to the AP story, Exeter Hospital on Tuesday called for mandatory disclosure by health care facilities about problem workers. the hospital said there should be a national registry system covering all workers providing patient care, and hospitals that share information should be protected from employment lawsuits.
Also Tuesday, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said it sent letters to about 2,000 patients who may have been exposed to hepatitis C by the former medical worker. the hospital said the letters were not in response to the AP story.
Kwiatkowski's license in New York is still listed on a state website as active and in good standing.
David B. Caruso reported from New York. associated Press writers Eric Tucker in Washington, Paul Davenport in Phoenix and Ed White and Mike Householder in Detroit contributed to this report, as did AP researcher Jennifer Farrar in New York.
Copyright 2012 the associated Press. All rights reserved. this material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Studies have shown that people who are morbidly obese are much more susceptible to major health problems, such as cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks, and stroke. It's for that reason that many more people are turning to various diet and exercise solutions as well as weight loss surgery. all of these options can have a very positive impact on your overall health as well as your appearance. however, after losing a lot weight, many people experience issues with their body contour. That's why visiting an Edina plastic surgeon is often an important step in the weight loss treatment process.
when a person gains a lot of weight, the skin will stretch out a large degree. however, after losing weight, the skin will only shrink back around the frame to a certain degree. many people find issues with stretch marks and loose skin after losing their weight. This is just the natural state of skin laxity.
if you or someone you love is dealing with such matters, it's important to speak with the team at our Twin Cities cosmetic surgery practice about your body contouring options. We'd like to look at some of the most common procedures right now.
Without a doubt, you will need to get an Edina tummy tuck after losing a lot of weight. The tummy tuck is designed to reduce the amount of excess skin around the lower abdominal area. During the surgery, an incision is made that spans from hipbone to hipbone. using this incision, excess skin and fat is removed in order to make the stomach look flat and taut.
The lower body can sag after major weight loss, especially the buttocks. That's where the butt lift comes in. using expertly placed incisions, excess fat and skin will be removed and the buttocks will appear tighter, tauter, and better contoured.
when you lose a lot of weight, you may notice some drooping and sagging of the upper arms and tricep area. This is common, and it doesn't need to be endured. An arm lift will combine liposuction and carefully placed incisions to help improve the overall tone and contour of the arms.
We mentioned above how the lower body can be affected by weight loss, and many times the thighs will have loose skin and contouring issues that need to be addressed. The thigh light will help target loose skin of the inner thigh and upper thigh, making you look much better contoured overall.
The chest area can droop and sag after weight loss, which is why a breast lift surgery is common for weight loss skin tightening patients. This will make breasts that droop or sag look perkier and firmer. It's also a standard surgery for mommy makeovers, in which pregnant women enhance and restore their appearance.
By combining multiple surgeries, you can undergo a total body lift. The total body lift will revise your overall appearance, making you look better contoured, with little sagging skin to speak of.
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The NHS chief tasked with carrying out a Government review into the cosmetic surgery industry says he aims to raise standards and target “grubby practices”.
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director at the NHS, was asked by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley to examine whether the industry needs tighter control following the PIP breast implant scandal.
Sir Bruce will also look at whether people have enough information before deciding to have surgery, and whether they have received the right aftercare.
An estimated 47,000 British women are thought to have had PIP implants, which tests showed were filled with non-medical grade silicone intended for use in mattresses.
NHS experts also found the implants were twice as likely to rupture as other brands.
Sir Bruce told Sky News: “We had trouble contacting women that had had breast implants because there was no central record of who had had what. And women who had undergone a procedure in good faith found themselves high and dry when things went wrong.”
Talking about the industry as a whole, he added: “The consumer can reasonably expect that whatever is being put into them meets a certain standard.
“Also they have a right that whoever is putting it in is adequately qualified and properly trained, and they can expect there is a regulatory environment that assures that the first two practices are happening.”
he pointed out that there are some parts of the industry that function in a very responsible, ethical way but there are “some pretty grubby practices”.
Sir Bruce said he was concerned about people winning surgery in raffles, discounts for introducing friends, a buy one-get-one-free attitude and some “pretty hard core advertising”.
he said people need to be given “proper information and proper time to digest that information”.
he also said: “I am concerned that too many people do not realise how serious cosmetic surgery is and do not consider the life-long implications – and potential complications – it can have.”
Mr Lansley has asked that the review considers a national implant register, making it routine practice for surgeons to register all devices – from breast implants to hip replacements.
The register could be used to detect trends and identify individual patients. Clinics could also be required to join a scheme similar to that run by the travel industry, meaning patients would have protection if a company went bust.
The review could also recommend a tightening of the rules on anti-ageing dermal fillers. at the moment, they only require basic safety checks and can be legally injected by anyone.
a minimum training requirement for cosmetic surgeons could also be introduced. a new ComRes survey found that 45% of women who said they would have considered surgery before the scare, now said they were less likely to have it.
The body which represents plastic surgeons has backed better regulation.
Fazel Fatah, president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), said: “We would like the review to take this opportunity to draw a clear line between cosmetic treatments that are seen as a commodity and cosmetic surgery that is serious medical treatment which must be provided by fully trained and qualified surgeons.”
Sure, when our city is mentioned in most any national media outlet, there’s some lazy reference to us as the Religious Pun of the West. But let’s be serious: when it comes to sectarian turmoil, the real battle for hearts and minds is fought on the bikes.
In Colorado Springs, we’ve got all kinds of true believers; below is a look at three of them. Rest assured that once Aug. 24 has come and gone, they’ll still be out there, spreading the Gospel.
Al Brody
Of all the local advocates beating the drum for connected trails, better street design, and improved education of other road-goers, 13-year-resident Al Brody generally pounds the loudest. His Bike Colorado Springs group often appears before government bodies to “fight for the continuation of bicycle infrastructure improvement,” as he puts it.
Otherwise, though, the 53-year-old retired Air Force officer likes to play with his collection, which includes, at the least, a pedal-powered boat he built himself, a tandem bike, and a couple recumbents (wherein the biker rides lower to the ground in a reclined position, centrally redistributing the weight). all told, around 20 creations sit in his 2½-car garage.
One of the most fun is a one-speed with two hard plastic tires in the back that would look pretty familiar to any 5-year-old: an adult-sized big Wheel, which usually run around $600.
And what does one do on an adult-sized big Wheel?
“There’s [people] that just like the feeling of a power slide,” Brody says. “And if you’ve never done that, you owe it to yourself to try it. And if you’re a guy, watching a woman have her first power-slide experience is pretty enjoyable.”
Umm, what?
“If you can picture a little kid’s big Wheel: You’re riding along in a straight line, and the next thing you know you’re spinning around. the back end comes loose, and it starts to spin. that feeling is what drifting is — it’s the same thing,” he says. “It really is interesting to see a woman on a big Wheel that’s never done it; and then it breaks loose, and they just have this … almost like an orgasm. It’s an amazing thing to watch. And I’ve seen it many times. It’s good for guys, but watching a woman do it is even better.”
That aside, Brody also built a bicycle that has a 20-inch-wide, 34-inch-tall race-car tire in the back — the Hoosier Daddy, he calls it.
“It’s huge for a bicycle — it’s huge for a car,” he says. And, as attendees at new Belgium Brewing Co.’s annual Tour de Fat festival already know, “It looks absurd.”
Brody lives in Rockrimmon, and when evacuating the Waldo Canyon fire, he took documents, pictures, a few mountain bikes and his wife’s electric folding bike. He then rode one of them back into the evacuation zone to check on things, when the city was not releasing information on damaged houses.
Since his home went unharmed, Brody’s been free to get back to his welding ways. He describes the whole bike-modification thing as a subculture that’s driven, in part, by the folks who partake of the Burning Man festival. It’s an intense crowd, he says, and he’s just doing the best he can.
“I try to be on the leading edge, but it’s hard to stay there.”
Ben Schwenk
Recumbents come in all shapes and sizes, but the one Ben Schwenk commutes on is a tricycle, with two wheels on the front and one in the back. He’s put some 2,700 miles on it in the last year or so, and likes the added speed and stability. the latter’s important because Schwenk, 40, had his left leg amputated when he was 18.
The amputation was forced by a staph infection contracted during a string of 25-plus surgeries attacking the cancerous osteosarcoma in his left femur. more recently, doctors discovered a thumb-sized tumor at the base of his skull. It’s unknown whether it’s malignant or benign, but it’s causing intense vertigo, and surgery is scheduled soon either way.
All that, and Schwenk says that still, life’s pretty good.
“Like I say, and a lot of people know me: I lost my leg, but I gained my life,” explains the employee of Compassion International, a globally focused religious organization that tries to lift children out of poverty. “And I really did. I wouldn’t be who I am if I still had the leg.”
In addition to converting to Christianity in the intervening years, Schwenk’s earned a black belt in taekwondo, and become something of an inspiration to the school kids he talks to and the other amputees he meets (and asks to join his riding group). And for a man who says he’d “love to see that our community goes beyond cycling just as a hobby,” the pedal-powered proselytizing just makes sense.
“It’s very freeing,” he says of his trike. “I don’t run right now — I’ve never run since I’ve been an amputee. so, this is really giving me a lot of freedom to just get out there and do what I want to do. And since January this year, we’ve sold a car just so I would go out and cycle a lot more. I’ve lost 70-plus pounds in the cycling process.”
Living in the northeast Powers Boulevard area, and cycling to Voyager Parkway daily, Schwenk is clearly a braver man than most. And he’s got the brushes with death to prove it.
“I have to use a flag to get everybody’s attention — otherwise, being so low, I could be on a truck’s grill,” he says with a note of wry irritation. “I was joking recently, saying I was being invited to a barbecue. And they’re like, ‘What does that mean?’ I was like: ‘I was about to be on a Dodge grill because they didn’t want to stop.’”
Besides the typically thoughtful motorist, other perils lurk — like the city’s infrastructure.
“Not all the bike trails start and finish — some of them start and finish in the middle of nowhere, and they’re never connecting through,” Schwenk says. in addition: “There’s not always a sidewalk; sometimes it’s a trail system that just ends and goes into a dirt road, and that makes it really difficult.”
Allen Beauchamp
Besides being a firm advocate for all things recumbent — the shop he works at, Angletech/Cycle Different, calls the typical upright bike the “upwrong” — Allen Beauchamp just wants you to ride something.
“My main focus is getting people on bikes that are on the periphery: people that have a very difficult time,” says the 44-year-old advocate and board member of the Colorado Springs Cycling Club. “Either they just don’t have knowledge and they feel really intimidated walking into a bike shop — which is a lot of people, I’ve found out — or people that just haven’t been riding for years and years and years, and they just don’t feel safe. And then kids and people with physical needs.”
In addition to working with the city to help spread the good word in general, helping the latter group is a big part of what Beauchamp does. besides selling two-, three- and four-wheel recumbent bikes, Angletech can then customize almost any part to fit somebody’s malady. they can suggest different shifters; calculate ranges of motion; balance each cycle according to body size; and change something based on how much strength a certain limb has.
“Many times we have people that come in [with] either a traumatic brain injury or stroke, and they have one very weak side, and maybe limited control, or no control, at all,” Beauchamp says. “So, what we can do is, the trikes have a left and a right brake and a left and a right shifter on their hand grips. so what we do is, we swap all of the controls over to the strong side.”
Among others, the shop sells the Challenger Velomobile — an enclosed pod with wheels on the outside that can feature internal fans and windshield wipers, and could’ve been designed by Apple — and the Yuba Mundo, a bike capable of packing up to 440 pounds. Generally, prices for all these run between $750 and $3,500, with customizations ranging up to an additional $1,000.
Beauchamp himself has nine bikes at home.
“Another thing that I’m into, is, they’re called fat bikes — some people call them snow or sand bikes — and it’s something that, in the last two years, has really blossomed; and they have immense tires,” he says. “In the last year or two they’ve become a little bit more mainstream, and people, like myself included, are finding out that they’re just plain fun to ride everywhere. And it’s the only bike I own that I can ride up a full flight of stairs on, because the tires are so big.”
PUBLISHED: 16:00 EST, 11 August 2012 | UPDATED: 16:00 EST, 11 August 2012
Men facing prostate surgery could avoid post-operative impotence with a simple new treatment that uses microscopic plastic beads.
The procedure – called Prostate Artery Embolisation – is set to revolutionise how men with an enlarged prostate or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) are treated.
At the moment, the standard treatment is to cut out a section of the swollen prostate. but complications are common following this operation, and every year thousands are left suffering with sexual dysfunction, incontinence, infection and bleeding.
Benign prostatic hyperplasia is common as men age – half of over 50s will have some prostate overgrowth, and three-quarters of 80-year-olds
The new procedure can be done under a local anaesthetic using a catheter (a small plastic tube) to inject tiny plastic particles no bigger than a grain of sand into the blood vessels that feed the swollen prostate.
Radiologists pinpoint where to deposit the tiny spheres by watching on an X-ray television monitor as they insert the catheter through the thigh’s right femoral artery and into the tiny blood vessels that branch off it.
These spheres ‘plug’ these blood vessels, reducing the blood flow to the prostate and forcing it to shrink by as much as a third. the remaining blood supply allows the prostate to function at a healthier level.
‘With a faster recovery, reduced symptoms, improved urination and fewer potential side effects, it could lead to changes in accepted prostate therapy,’ say researchers.
Clinical trials in Portugal and Brazil have indicated that the procedure is effective and safe, with minimal side effects and no risk of incontinence or impotence.
Most of the 200 cases involved in the studies went home within four to six hours of treatment.
Complications are common following the operation, and every year thousands are left suffering with sexual dysfunction, incontinence, infection and bleeding
In particular, one trial, conducted at the University of S
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