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The 7 Craziest Comics of Bob Haney: From JFK Shapeshifters to Satanic Nazis
This year, the Eisners are honoring the legendary Bob Haney with the 2011 Bill Finger Memorial Award for Excellence in Comics Writing, and if you ask me, that's long overdue. In a career that spanned five decades, Haney's contributions to the DC Universe included co-creating the Teen Titans, Metamorpho and Eclipso and a long run as the writer of The Brave and the Bold, working with artists like Neal Adams and the incredible Jim Aparo.
And he also wrote some of the craziest comic books I have ever read, like the time Batman sold his soul to the devil, the the time they retconned the JFK assassination with shapeshifters, and the time the Atom resurrected a man from the dead by doing gymnastics on his cerebellum.Haney didn't just embrace the wild, anything-goes attitude of the Bronze Age, he strapped a jetpack on it and rocketed it to a headquarters at the center of the sun. He set the gold standard for an entire era of DC comics, writing stories in which no premise was too insane to make a grand adventure and no character was off-limits for a team-up with Batman. So with the award being officially handed down next month, ComicsAlliance has decided to show you just why he's so great with a look at Bob Haney's Craziest Stories!
Haney's most prominent role at DC was unquestionably his tenure as the writer of Brave and the Bold, during which he scripted dozens of Batman team-up stories that were frequently among the Dark Knight's most bizarre adventures. Case in point, Brave and the Bold #108, with art by Jim Aparo, in which Batman teamed up with Sgt. Rock and sold his soul to the Devil.
The fact that Batman was hanging out with Sgt. Rock in 1973 was itself a point of contention for a lot of readers, since Rock's creator (and fellow crazy comic writer) Robert Kanigher had previously gone on record as saying that Rock was killed on the last day of World War II. Of course, Kanigher had previously written a story where Rock was seen after the war, which is why Haney decided to include him in BATB in the first place, but… well, suffice to say that it's complicated. Just trust me on this one: All things are possible on Earth-Haney.
The more important aspect of the story, though, comes when Batman, attempting to rescue a kidnapped child with a rare blood disease, is shot and dumped unceremoniously down a well to drown.
That's right: Batman is willing to sell his soul in order to get a second chance at punching out a criminal. Oh, and also saving the kid, but let's be honest: It's mostly the punching.
This being comics, just saying that out loud is enough to summon Satan from the fiery depths of hell, and sure enough, a mysterious man drops the rope and bucket down the well and hauls Batman out so that he can get a second chance at crook-bashing. But after returning to Gotham City, Batman runs into the same mysterious man, who tells him that at his command, Batman will start committing acts of pure evil, an ominous statement that seems to come true when an ex-con who was going straight throws himself into the path of a speeding truck rather than talk to Batman.
At this point, Batman's getting understandably worried about the taint of Lucifer upon his soul, but fortunately, Sgt. Rock shows up and lets him know that everything's all right. There's nothing to worry about — It's not really the devil that's been harrassing Batman all this time.
Even better, it's really actually both. Maybe. After Batman karate-chops some Satanic Nazis on the roof of a train that ends up at Hitler's secret underground bunker and Sgt. Rock makes a solid but unfortunately failed effort at capping der Führer, Batman talks about how the spirit of evil is always around, and we get a shot of the mysterious guy limping away, casting the shadow of the Devil on the ground in front of him.
Students, if you are ever asked to write a paper about World War II, please include all of this information. You will most likely fail, but it's worth it.
Created by Will Eisner, Chuck Cuidra and Bob Powell in 1941, the Blackhawks were a team of independent fighter aces who fought the Nazis and then, after the war, turned their attention to… well, to still fighting Nazis most of the time, but really, can you blame them? Anyway, by the '60s, Blackhawk had largely become a comic about a bunch of fighter pilots who would often go several issues without actually flying a plane. Clearly, the formula needed some changing.
Enter Bob Haney and artist Dick Dillin in 1967, who set out to revitalize the team by leading readers into "The NEW Blackhawk Era," which started with Superman, Batman and the rest of the Justice League basically calling the team to a meeting so that they could tell them how bad they sucked. Batman specifically called them out on "antiques" who "just don't swing," with the message being that their out-of-date tactics just couldn't cut it in the grim and gritty world of DC's Silver Age. Seriously.
The solution? Recasting the Blackhawks as The Worst Super-Heroes Ever.
Under the orders of Blackhawk the rest of the team took new codenames and identities, and they were rough. Sure, "The Weapons Master" has a nice ring to it, and "The Golden Centurion" at least had a set of impenetrable Iron Man armor that they got by throwing its previous owner into a volcano and burning him alive (no joke!), but it's a pretty steep, sharp decline to get from there to "The Listener" and his terrible ear-covered pajamas.
What's really telling, though, is that Blackhawk himself decided to just go ahead and stick with "Blackhawk," with his new gimmick being that he flew around in an airplane. One imagines that this decision might've been made after seeing what the rest of the team was up to.
The Era — such as it was — lasted less than a year, and astonishingly, these guys haven't been seen since. Not even Dr. Hands and his rented tuxedo! What gives?
Haney wrote a lot of unlikely team-ups in the pages of Brave and the Bold, but never moreso than in BATB #124. The story was ostensibly another Batman/Sgt. Rock tale (Sgt. Rock apparently being the character who brought out the madness in Haney's work), but it's actually a team-up between Rock, Batman, Bob Haney and Jim Aparo, with a cameo by editor Murray Boltinoff.
And it all gets started when The Thousand, the gang of terrorists menacing Our Heroes in the story, show up at Jim Aparo's house to force him to draw Batman and Sgt. Rock dying in the comic they are all in right now.
Admittedly, this is a pretty great plan. I mean, the only real way to kill someone in comics — albeit usually temporarily — is to get the creators to do it. But while Aparo's apeerless apenciling certainly seems to have definitive power over what Rock and Batman are doing, it's not like the bad guys came to the "real world" in order to make this happen. Everyone seems to exist within the story itself.
The only conclusion?
Jim Aparo and Bob Haney are gods. Could there be any other reason for that bearded majesty?
Unsurprisingly, the story ends with Haney and Aparo getting away and secretly assisting the Batman in bringing down the crooks, but honestly, why isn't this done more often? Sure, comics are always putting fictional universes in danger, but "Batman wins or you, the writer of Batman, will face the consequences?" That is how you motivate someone to tell a great story.
Of all of Bob Haney's creations in the DC Universe — including, if you want to get technical, himself and Jim Aparo — the most successful were unquestionably the Teen Titans, so it's understandable that he'd eventually go back to the well of teenage super-heroes eventually.
And he did just that in the pages of World's Finest #215, when he and Dick Dillin created The Super-Sons! Set in an imaginary (but aren't they all?™) future, the Super-Sons were the children of Superman and Batman. Except that really, they were just those characters as teenagers hanging out with each other. There was no real change involved at all, to the point where they wear the same costumes and their names are even "Bruce Wayne Jr." and "Clark Kent Jr."
The only discernible difference is that they were always being hassled by their fathers and perpetually faceless, unidentified mothers.
Either way, their adventures mostly consisted of riding around America on a motorcycle (occasionally in costume) and swapping the hip, "with it" bits of slang that make up Haney's trademark dialogue. They took their dads to a new-age camp to bond over primal scream therapy (seriously) and once even faced the horror of A Town Run By Women!!
Also, they had pillowfights.
And for bonus, non-Haney weirdness, the saga came to an end in a story by Denny O'Neil and Rich Buckler where the Super-Sons were revealed to be a computer simulation that Superman and Batman cooked up for their own enjoyment, only to have them come to life and start emitting dangerous radiation, which led to Superman and Batman ordering them to destroy themselves in a disintegration pit. Kind of a dick move, World's Finest.
Speaking of the Teen Titans, Haney's final story before his death in 2004 was a return to the franchise he'd co-founded with The Teen Titans Lost Annual, and it is amazing. For one thing, it features the art of Jay Stephens and Mike Allred with a cover by original Titans artist Nick Cardy. And then there's the story, set in the swingin' '60s — an era that provided the backdrop for his original stories — and focusing on an alien plot to kidnap John F. Kennedy and replace him with a shape-shifting alien.
The aliens who do the kidnapping — who look suspiciously like extraterrestrial mods — took Kennedy because they needed his help to resolve a war they were engaged in with another gang of aliens, who looked suspiciously like outer-space rockers:
To that end, the aliens brainwashed Kennedy to make him forget he was ever president, leaving one of their own in his place. Unfortunately, by the time the Titans had rescued him, the ersatz JFK had been shot in Dallas, and rather than upset a cynical public with his return, the real Kennedy opted to stay in space and form a gang of space-faring ray-gun soldiers to deal with cosmic threats.
If this is not considered a core building block of the new DC Universe, then brother, I don't even know.
My favorite of Haney's creations is unquestionably Metamorpho, the Element Man, the swingin' super-hero of 1,001 fab chemical changes that he and Ramona Fradon introduced in 1965. The stories are hilarious, action-packed and read like they're ten years ahead of everything else DC was putting out at the time, and the greatest of all Metamorpho sagas was a three-part story in which the E-Man battled The Thunderer. And considering that there was a two-parter where he had to play football with an atomic bomb against a team of evil versions of the Metal Men, that's saying something.
Given that Haney referred to Metamorpho in captions as being "The World's Second-Greatest Comics Magazine (But He Tries Harder)," it's no surprise that he was keenly aware of what Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing down the block at Marvel, and the three-issue Thunderer story is a blatant, hilarious parody of the previous year's three-issue Galactus saga in Fantastic Four. There's even a herald — Neutrog the Forerunner! — who shows up just like the Silver Surfer to announce his master's arrival.
The difference? Unlike the cosmically huge Galactus, the Thunderer was two feet tall.
Despite his tininess, the Thunderer was no less powerful than his Kirby-helmeted counterpart, quickly dominating the entire world and withstanding any attack. But unlike the Fantastic Four, who had to rely on the intervention of Uatu the Watcher and the vague threat of the Ultimate Nullifier, Metamorpho was able to turn to 13 year-old Billy Barton and quite possibly the greatest weapon in the history of comic books:
A guitar that shoots laser beams!
Bob Haney, everybody: The dude who looked at the Galactus saga and went "pft, is that all you got?"
Much as I love Metamorpho, though, the award for Haney's craziest story has got to go to Brave and the Bold #115. For one thing, it's a story that opens with Batman dying, and really, that's a hell of a way to kick off a comic book.
Of course, as it turns out, Batman's only mostly dead. Specifically, his brain functions have ceased, but his "iron constitution" (we're talking at least 18 here) is keeping his body alive for a last few hours. And to make matters worse, Batman was working a kidnapping case, and only he knows where the goons are holed up with a young lady they abducted!
Fortunately for Batman, he lives in the DC Universe, and even more fortunately, the Atom is in town giving a guest lecture at Gotham University. So naturally, with all of this information, the Atom does the sensible thing:
He climbs into Batman's brain and stomps around on it. Also, he has a little TV with him so that he can see what Batman's doing. You know, as one does.
This, thanks to Science!, stimulates Batman's brain and allows his instincts and reflexes to take over. And this being Batman, his reflexes — which I want to specify are his involuntary reactions to the world around him — are to go find crooks and beat the living hell out of them.
It's just what comes naturally to him. It's also worth noting that even within the story itself, the Atom refers to what he's doing as "the craziest thing a man has ever done," and I've got to say I agree.
Plus, it provides foolproof logic for why Identity Crisis sucks: In the DC Universe, Shrinking down and stomping on someone's brain doesn't kill them, it turns them into a super-awesome unstoppable crime-fighter and then magically brings them back to life.
Thank you, Bob Haney.


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Livzy Started conversation Oct 19, 2000
Speaking as a Doctor, I would normally recommend penicilin but I'm afriad in Mr Smith's case, nothing short of cyanide will do.
Although he'd probably enjoy the thought of impending death in torturous agony - and right more bloody songs too!
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Altogether now:duhladuhduh duh la duhduh ohhhhhhh lovecats
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Thursday, I don't care about you- it's friday I'm in love.
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Ah, yes! But... what about the glaringly obvious fact that if Robert Smith hadn't been beaten as a child and locked in the cupboard under the stairs, he probably would have been an accountant
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Tube - the being being back for the time being Posted Oct 20, 2000
Hmmm interesting... maybe I should go and beat children more often.... >;->
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Alastair Cook, the England captain, believes India have cynically escalated James Anderson's spat with Ravindra Jadeja in the hope that the hosts' premier bowler may be banned for part of the Investec series, an allegation strenuously denied by his counterpart, Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Cook described the reported altercation between Anderson and Jadeja at Trent Bridge, and the tourists' response to it, as a case of making a "mountain out of a molehill".
India elevated their allegations against Anderson, "pushing and abusing" Jadeja as the pair made their way through the narrow lobby of the pavilion for lunch on day two of the first Test, to Level 3.
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That implies a seriousness commensurate to a much heavier penalty scale than those prescribed for more Level 1 or even 2 offences.
The potential punishment for a player found guilty of a Level 3 offence, under the International Cricket Council's code of conduct, extends to a four-Test suspension.
Only three Level 3 charges have previously been made, although Level 4 also exists.
The England and Wales Cricket Board responded immediately by describing last week's incident as "minor", and Cook confirmed at his press conference on the eve of today's second Test at Lord's that a counter-allegation against Jadeja is on its way to the ICC.
Receipt of that has yet to be confirmed by the world governing body, but it is understood ECB has sent a Level 2 charge to Dubai.
Cook was unequivocal when asked if India's motivation might be to try to eliminate Anderson for latter stages of the five-match series, which stands at 0-0 after the Nottingham stalemate. "I think so. I think that's pretty much where it's come from," he said. "It's probably a tactic from India, if we're being honest."
Anderson and Jadeja's disagreement began after the latter was given not out to the seamer, and continued as the teams made their way off for lunch. There have been suggestions that India might have become poorly disposed towards Anderson previously and made the charge on that basis, rather than merely because of what did or did not take place in the stairwell.
Cook said: "I think it should be on that one incident . . . they should make sure it's that. In my opinion, it's a big mountain out of a molehill . . . We're surprised it's come to the situation it has come to."
Cook must ensure that the controversy does not put his team off their game as they try to arrest a run of nine Tests without victory, their worst Test sequence for more than 20 years. "We just can't let this be a distraction for us as a side," he said.
"We can't sit here in five days' time, and [be talking about] the build-up to it. There's been toing and froing between Jimmy, Peter Moores [England's coach] and the hierarchy at the ECB as well . . . and there has been a charge levelled back at Jadeja. I think that's quite obviously reasonable."
Cook declined to discuss the specifics of the incident, because he is not allowed to do so. However, he did appear to momentarily forget that protocol when he added: "We're just surprised it's a Level 3 incident, after hearing they've started it - certainly after hearing what happened." A hearing before a judicial commissioner, within 14 days but with the possibility of further delay in extenuating circumstances, is the established ICC procedure for a Level 3 incident.
Anderson is therefore almost certain to be free to play at Lord's, and probably in next week's third Test in Southampton, but will surely have extra unhelpful matters on his mind at both venues.
"For Jimmy, all the lads will rally round him," said Cook. "He's a stalwart of our side, an outstanding bowler with a fantastic record."
Cook is optimistic, too, that he and Dhoni, Jadeja's batting partner at the time of the Trent Bridge fracas, will have the authority to ensure relations between their teams do not descend irrevocably this summer.
"I hope not," he said. "MS and I have that responsibility as captains of the side to make sure we control our players, and do not let that happen. We have a responsibility to people watching the game, responsibility under the ICC rules."
Dhoni, however, was unrepentant about India's decision to make an allegation of Level 3 seriousness against Anderson, "We felt what happened was wrong, so we went ahead with the charges," said the captain, who was also adamant that the allegation was not tactical.
"It's not something we have done ... let's realise the facts," said the India captain. "You can put it in whatever way possible, but there are certain things that need to be followed and should be followed."
Dhoni also congratulated Jadeja for his restraint. He said: "I think it was good on Jadeja not to really do something. It could have gone a bit far, but I felt he addressed it in the most appropriate manner. That's something we will have to learn and move forward. Somebody has to back off at the right time. We play a sport and a lot of people look up to us."


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By John Knight
Feb 23, 2013
This "new route" sounds like it might be Biemer's Trough or Energy Crisis. Download the old Gulyash Guide here - 1986 Pete Gulyash Guide - Off the Wall
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Feb 25, 2013
|John, definitely not energy crisis or biemers...climb it and check it out for yourself, it goes out and right out of the cave and the routes you are suggesting look like they go out and slightly left. in between energy crisis and biemers trough on the topo you provided via pete gulyash's guide.
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Apr 29, 2013
|Fun route, beautiful setting.
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May 17, 2013
|Can someone draw a topo for this route and the variation? I'm a bit confused as to where it goes. I would like to add it to the e-Guide. Check out the photos I posted and let me know if it looks right. Thanks, John
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|Fantastic Route. Super easy to find once at Rusty's anchors. Consider connecting Rusty's to this by either using a double sling on the anchors of rusty's and slings on just about everything else, or go straight up from the bolt on the poor mans cave variation-also using slings on everything.
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Sep 18, 2016
|(Another) fun variation: Start on first few moves of Spring Route, clip bolt #2 of Epidural, head over to Rusty's Cave route, and before clipping chains on Rusty's, head up Poor Man's P Crack. Yields a nice long "mixed" trad and sport pitch. A few cams to 1" and a #3.5 camalot will get you up to the PMPC bolts. Several slings. 70m rope gets you down.


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Energy Take 5.2 Home Theater Speaker System Page 2
The updated S8.2 subwoofer furnishes the same heavy-duty connectors for all four of its speaker-level input and output terminals. (That's great, because I hate fiddling with the cheesy spring-clip terminals you find on some subs in this price range.) It also includes two line-level RCA input jacks labeled Xover and Input - which can be a bit confusing since the manual doesn't use the same names consistently. The Xover input bypasses the sub's crossover and level controls.
Those controls are on the front, making them more convenient to adjust, but also subject to inadvertent resetting by vacuum cleaners, dogs, and other low-slung creatures (especially the two-legged variety). Also up front is a single toggle switch labeled A for audio and V for video. The video setting kicks in a fairly prominent boost around 45 Hz - in case the average action-film soundtrack doesn't already have enough boom for you! The tradeoff is a substantial sacrifice in deep bass below about 40 Hz.
Energy recommends connecting the Take 5.2 system using the line-level subwoofer output of an A/V receiver or proc essor instead of speaker-level hook ups via the sub. I tried it both ways and found only slight differences between them using a "large" speaker setting and a standard 80-Hz crossover. However, my B&K AVR307 receiver's crossover is infinitely adjustable, with selectable slopes, so I did some experiment ing. I found that setting the front L/R speakers to "small" with a crossover frequency of 95 Hz and slopes of 12 dB per octave in both directions yielded clearly superior sound in my room, with better dynamics, enhanced midrange definition, and no penalty in sub/sat blending.
Since most people who buy the Take 5.2 system won't have the luxury of such a flexible crossover, I did most of my listening with the basic speaker-level hookup, setting the crossover frequency and output level using the subwoofer's controls. I also left the sub's mode switch in its more ac curate audio position.


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Ak'tok'tuk was a diplomat of the Chipped Tooth Tribe.
Among the Yasuki Edit
Ak'tok'tuk was a pup notoriously curious, who became fascinated with humans. He served aboard Yasuki sailing kobune until he followed a Yasuki Merchant. The merchant used Ak'tok'tuk to learn on the nezumi, to cheat the Nezumi out of valuable supplies in trade. [1]
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Ak'tok'tuk realized the merchant was not his friend, and troubled by this, he withdrew to a nearby forest. There he was visited by the Transcendent spirit of Hiruma Kazuma, the Peace Bringer who brought the Crab and Nezumi together. The spirit explained to Ak'tok'tuk his destiny was to be a link between the humans and the tribes, and it was in jeopardy because of the Yasuki merchant. [1]
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He returned and fed the Yasuki carefully constructed lies about the desires and possessions of the Nezumi tribes, leading him to commit resources to trades that yielded only a fraction of what he expected. During a gathering of prominent Yasuki at the merchant's home Ak'tok'tuk explained what he had done to the merchant and why, humiliating the merchant. The elder Yasuki found the entire incident uproariously hilarious and since that day, Ak'tok'tuk became a constant guest of the Yasuki family. [2]
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Ak'tok'tuk became a diplomat between the Nezumi tribes and the Crab, the liaison between the two races.
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Maybe your son no longer wants to be kissed goodbye in the schoolyard or your daughter wants to read her own bedtime stories. Bedtime could be getting later and later as your child gets older, or you might be about to have another baby. You and your partner might separate, or you might meet a new partner who becomes part of your life.
Being open to changing your family's existing rituals and routines or suggesting new ones is a good idea as family needs change over time.
Although you might love baking cakes with your son on Saturday afternoons, he might want to hang out with his friends. Talk with him about what he'd enjoy doing with you instead. Be ready to try new ways of spending time together.
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All Temuka woman Debbie Cuthbert wants is to buy presents for her family this Christmas.
But the Opihi College support staff member is cash-strapped, having not been paid for over a month because of the problem-plagued Novopay system.
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The $100 million payroll system was rolled out by the Education Ministry in August.
A truancy officer at the college, Mrs Cuthbert said she had not been paid in the past two pay cycles, which are fortnightly.
It is the first time in the eight years she had held the role that there had been problems.
She said Novopay had been an "absolute botch-up".
Another frustration was support staff did not have authority to call Novopay, and relied on the principal to resolve the issues.
"So I'm depending on [principal Mike Wright]. Mike's been brilliant. He's spent hours on the phone on hold.
"I shouldn't be making someone else find out where my pay is."
The payslips produced by Novopay were "bizarre", she said.
Her last one, a month ago, showed she had no pay owing and she was in debt to Novopay.
"I'm $2500 in debt to them apparently."
She had had a "couple of days" sick, which she believes may have triggered the botch-up.
"Lots of people have had similar things [happen]."
The ministry had been slow to fix problems. "It's just hideous they've let this go on. It's not on that you have to go through this, and they've just let it snowball."
"I just want to buy my kids Christmas presents . . . [but] bills come first."
Education Minister Hekia Parata told Fairfax that Novopay was implemented after "extensive testing and quality assurance".
"I am confident that Novopay was ready to implement, and confident that fine-tuning will resolve many of the issues that schools are raising."
But NZEI national president Ian Leckie said Novopay was not improving. "We don't believe this is something that can be sorted this side of Christmas."
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I am 8 weeks post tummy tuck. For the past week I have been on a business trip to the mountains. I have not been active. Basically sitting in meetings all day long. I have noticed that my abdomen has become quite swollen. I have been wearing compression throughout my trip with the exception of a couple of nights while I slept. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow, but wondered if altitude could cause swelling to be worse. Thank you.
Can High Altitude Increase Swelling After Tummy Tuck?
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Swelling after Tummy Tuck Surgery?
I know of no science to suggest that high-altitude would increase swelling after tummy tuck surgery. However, significant swelling at your stage after surgery may be related to subcutaneous tissue swelling and/or seroma. It would be best for you to be evaluated by your physician as planned.
Generally, abdominal wall "swelling" after tummy tuck may be related to:
1. Swelling in the soft tissues. This may take several months to resolve and may worsen with increased activity or at the end of the day. Patience is required to allow for resolution of the swelling. The swelling occurs because of the interruption of venous and lymphatic channels that occurs during the tummy tuck operation.
2. Fluid accumulation in the space between the skin and the abdominal wall muscle. this may consist of blood ( hematoma) or serum (seroma). This fluid accumulation can generally be diagnosed by physical examination ( occasionally ultrasound may be helpful). Treatment consists of aspiration; several episodes of aspiration may be necessary.
3. Separation of the abdominal wall muscle repair may lead to a swelling/bulge appearance. This may be diagnosed on physical examination with your surgeon examining you in different bodily positions. One of the steps of a tummy tuck procedure involves reapproximation (plication) of the rectus muscles. These muscles have spread apart during pregnancy and/or weight gain. Bringing them together again in the midline helps to "tighten" the abdominal wall as well as to narrow the waistline.
4. Residual adipose tissue may be confused for swelling. Again this is most easily diagnosed by physical examination. Additional liposuction surgery maybe necessary to improve the results of surgery.
Generally, it takes many months for swelling to resolve after tummy tuck surgery and it may take up to one year (or greater) a complete skin redraping to occur.
I hope this helps.
Learn more: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/Procedure_tummyTuck.htm
High altitude does not increase swelling
I practice plastic surgery in Albuquerque, NM, at one mile above sea level. My patients do not appear to have more swelling than when I was practicing in Pennsylvania. There is no physiological reason that it should happen.
Lower abdominal swelling at eight nweeks post op is not uncommon. If it is not very swollen in the morning but gets worse as the day goes on, you have little to worry about. If you are constantly swollen, you should discuss this with your doctor.
Good luck.
High Altitude related Swelling
Fascinating question. Why would high altitude cause swelling around the surgery area but not cause swelling anywhere else in the body? There is no physiologic reason why this should happen. If I had to guess I would think you were too active as a more plausible explanation.
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Bradford Council has confirmed the elaborate mausoleum of one of Keighley's grandest families was among the Utley Cemetery memorials attacked by stone thieves.
The full extent of the harm recently committed on tombs in the graveyard comprises a depressing catalogue of damage to expensive, carved stonework.
One of the memorials picked on by the criminals was the historic 118-year-old Butterfield Chapel, built for the Butterfields of Cliffe Castle. This mausoleum has had a large statue removed.
Other damage recorded by the district council includes two tombstones pushed over and smashed, at least five other statues removed, and at least six stone ornaments – called finials – stolen or damaged.
As reported in the Keighley News, this latest spate of vandalism was inflicted at the end of January. A Bradford Council spokesman confirmed the stone removed on that occasion had been abandoned by the thieves, and is now in a council store.
Charlie Bhowmick, of Utley Cemetery Action Group, said he has written to senior councillors and officers emphasising the distress being caused by those targeting the graveyard.
Earlier this week, Steve Hartley, Bradford's interim strategic director of environment and sport, said: "Following on from a meeting with the Utley Cemetery Action Group, we are looking at various options available to make improvements to the cemetery, including what can be done to reinstate these memorials."
Describing the Butterfield Mausoleum, Keighley historian Ian Dewhirst said: "It's a very extravagant, ornate mausoleum, and this isn't the first time it's been vandalised. It's appalling – let's face it, we don't respect our dead anymore, do we?
"Other things have been going missing from this cemetery over the years. There was a marvellous stone carving of a blacksmith's tools, and another one of a little boy picking flowers – both of those disappeared many years ago."
Local resident Matthew Hunter, 35, who regularly walks his dog in the cemetery, said: "It's heartbreaking to see how much is going missing. And it's still going on.
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From the moment Brian Burke was hired there was never much doubt Jay Feaster's shelf life here was short.
Still, the hockey world was stunned at the timing of Burke's announcement Thursday he had relieved Feaster of his GM duties as well as assistant GM John Weisbrod.
Until Burke explained it.
Fact is, Burke had recently finished his extensive evaluation of the organization, determined the leadership and direction of the organization needed to change and made the recommendation to ownership.
Just as the new ownership group of the Toronto Maple Leafs determined Burke wasn't their guy and fired him on the eve of last year's regular season, Burke saw no wisdom in prolonging the inevitable.
There's never a "good time" to break up.
Hard to argue with the move given his determination the team is too small, too passive and the club's recent drafting and trading history was sub-par.
"As soon as this decision was reached and sold to ownership, I wanted it done," said Burke, in typically brilliant form.
"I think once you make a decision to terminate someone, they're entitled to learn that as quickly as possible. Obviously, you'd like to avoid the Christmas situation. Ken (King) and I talked about that at length. The way this worked, for me get my report done and spend the time that I felt the staff here deserved ... It shouldn't have been two weeks and, 'Here's what I think. Let's make a change.' It was 75 days of being around, asking a lot of questions. I've called the teams that these guys worked for before they got here. I've asked for outside evaluations of our drafting and our current roster. I think it was done about as thoroughly and fairly and academically as you can do it. I think Jay was entitled to that. So that took time. And then, we had to get it around an ownership and so unfortunately it's closer up against Christmas than we wanted.
"I'd rather do it now than in 10 days. And second, there's another team doing a search. Time could be of vital essence here."
Key point.
The Buffalo Sabres are also deep into a search for their next GM so there's competition out there for those potentially on Burke's wish list like Joe Nieuwendyk, Jim Benning, Lawrence Gilman, Claude Loiselle, Dave Poulin and Jason Botteril.
They couldn't have announced it last week for fear of overshadowing Jarome Iginla's return and in the new year Burke will be knee deep in Olympic issues as the American team boss.
The timing actually makes perfect sense.
Besides, patience is not something Burke has much of so why continue down the same path any longer?
"You go back and evaluate (Feaster's trades) and you can reach your own conclusion whether we received full value in those deals," said Burke.
"You can evaluate our drafts and see whether we did the best we could in those drafts. Obviously I reached the conclusion that we haven't. I'm not shovelling dirt on people. You guys want to dissect all these things, please do it, but I'm not going to do it. Jay's my friend. It's not fun firing a friend."
This wasn't a personality clash. This was a philosophical difference in approach.
"Successful teams are big," said Burke, predictably.
"We're not big enough, that's one thing, and we're not hostile enough for me. I don't like playing flag football. I like teams that bang and I don't like the way we play."
The new GM will need to think similarly.
"I think that you need a blueprint and you need a determination to assemble a team a certain way and that's what this GM's going to have to have, not because it's Brian Burke's view on life that we like big hockey or hard hockey but that's what wins in our league," said Burke who immediately sent down Sven Baertschi.
"That person has to share that blueprint. We want black and blue hockey here. That's what we do in Alberta. That's the first thing. We've got to be big and more truculent. I want a little more hostility out there than I'm seeing right now."
As director of hockey operations, Burke made it clear he didn't sign up to be the team's GM and will only hold the interim title as long as it takes to find a suitable replacement who he said may or may not have GM experience.
He insists the hire will have free reign to name his assistant and must have be draft savvy.
"We've got to make sure we get these picks right — it's not optional," said Burke.
"That's the only rainbow when you have a tough year. You've got to hit home runs and Jay did last year with Monahan, but that's one part of this management team that comes in, these two people are going to have to have expertise in that area. Other than that, either a young guy with great promise, maybe some experience or just a young star that hasn't been given a chance."
The canvas is once again blank in Calgary and the time is perfect to start anew.
"Anyone can paint a barn," smirked Burke, "but you need a special person to paint a masterpiece."
It's as good a time as any to start that search.
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Emirates to Cut Bahrain Flights by 50 Percent in Wake of US Attacks
Emirates is to slash by half the frequency of its flights to Bahrain, following a slump in business after the terrorist attacks in the US on September 11.
It will cut one of its two daily round-trip flights between Dubai and Bahrain, for two weeks, an official told the Manama-based Gulf Daily News.
Country manager Edris Taher said the service suspension was part of a network reduction, following the decrease in business.
"The airline industry has been one of the sectors hardest hit by these incidents," he explained.
Taher said Emirates Flight 241, which arrives Manama at 8.10 a.m. daily from Dubai and Emirates Flight 242, which departs the Bahraini capital at 9.15 a.m. daily for Dubai, would be discontinued until October 10.
Emirates Flight 243, which arrives in Manama each day at 6.40 p.m. from Dubai and Emirates Flight 244, which departs Manama at 7.50 p.m. for Dubai, will continue to operate.
The Dubai-based airline will also reduce flights to a number of its 57 on-line destinations, including Muscat, Doha, Dammam, Karachi, Hyderabad, Hong Kong, London, Birmingham, Dusseldorf and Zurich, the official told the paper -- ALbawaba.com


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Joshua Grace, American Fork, Utah, age 84, passed away Feb. 16, 2011, of pneumonia and congestive heart failure. Born June 3, 1926, Lehi, Utah, to Julia Jane Turner and James David Grace. Married Ella Marie Thayne, April 14, 1944. Later sealed in S.L. Temple. Married Kathleen Gividen Nelson, June 13, 1998. Navy Veteran of World War II. Loved family, friends, helping others, cars, teaching, hunting, and woodworking. Member of LDS Church. Served as Bishop, Senior Missionary-Houston, TX, Coordinator for Mt. Timpanogos Temple Dedication, and Stake Executive Secretary. Children: Anita (Clifford) Norman, Christine-deceased (Jim) Deveraux, Trudy (Kent) Karren, Robert (Cheryl), Ned (Cherry), Mark, and Clint (Bonnie). 25 grandchildren; 64 great-grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday, Feb. 22, at noon. Viewing Monday, Feb. 21, 6-8:00 p.m. and Tuesday from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. Both viewing and funeral services held at 9th Ward Chapel, 673 E. 300 No., American Fork, Utah. Burial in American Fork Cemetery. Under the direction of Anderson & Sons Mortuary. Online condolences and memories may be sent at www.andersonmortuary.com.


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Already known for surrendering curbside parking spaces to bike racks, Valencia Street in the Mission district may be on the verge of an even more radical role reversal. Pedestrians and motorists trade places in the corridor's six new "parklets," where temporary patios, benches and social spaces are perched directly in the parking lane — taking one, two or three parking spots at a time. It can feel revolutionary to visit one, which is appropriate because the concept was born of guerilla tactics.
"We were interested in exploring a new range of possibilities for the metered parking space," said Matthew Passmore of Rebar Art and Design, the design studio that launched the idea.
Attempting to spark a conversation about public open space, Rebar temporarily transformed a downtown parking space into a minipark, borrowing an idea from European cities. They rolled sod out onto the pavement, adorned it with a tree and a bench, and, when the parking meter expired two hours later, departed as quietly as they had come.
"Part of the experiment we were conducting was to see how The City would react," Passmore recalled. "We didn't hear anything from anyone for a few months, until someone in the Mayor's Office got in touch with us and said 'This is great, we love it, we'd love to talk about how we can do more of this.'"
Six years later, 23 fully sanctioned parklets exist in The City with at least as many more on the way. With Rebar's help, San Francisco is leading a movement to reclaim small sections of city streets as public space.
PARK(ing) Day, an annual event that encourages citizens around the world to temporarily transform parking spaces into whatever a neighborhood needs — art galleries, bike repair shops, health clinics, vegetable gardens — this year involved approximately 1,000 installations in 200 cities and 35 countries, according to early estimates.
On the official side, San Francisco's Pavement to Parks program, an interdepartmental effort to reappropriate unused street surfaces, includes an innovative permitting system that has been mimicked by other U.S. cities.
"It opened up a new way of thinking as far as how we use our streets," said Planning Department staffer Andres Power, who has led The City's effort. "Parklets provide a tool to move back to the way things once were, when streets were places."
Passmore, who administers PARK(ing) Day, has since joined forces with The City. He and his team helped the Planning Department conceive its pilot program last year, and built one of the first installations at 22nd and Bartlett streets, a sprawling wooden patio featuring seating for at least a dozen as well as two bike racks in place of three parking spots.
"Our mission is to make PARK(ing) Day totally obsolete, such that the event becomes obvious or unnecessary because people have already started thinking past the issues that it raises," he said. "I think it's happening here."
San Francisco's permit allows neighborhood or business sponsors to build a parklet of their own design and at their own cost, provided it meets a set of parameters and is selected by a review board. A request for proposals went out in May for the program's second wave; Power's department received 35 applications, two-thirds of which will receive permits and could begin construction by early December. A third round of applications will open around the same time.
"People are quite excited about this program, and I think the designs of the projects are getting better and better," Power said.
The temporary nature of the parklets — they're installed above the existing infrastructure, with no modifications to the curb, drainage, or street design — is the key to the program's success. It allows for a playful, experimental approach to design — one on Valencia features dinosaur-themed topiary. It also prevents the permanent loss of parking spaces. Permits are renewed annually and can be revoked at any time for several reasons, including blight and lack of maintenance.
These conditions have helped mitigate scattered concerns over parklet proposals, often centered on the loss of parking and an uptick in illegal activity. Some Noe Valley residents and business owners objected to the idea of a pilot Pavement to Parks plaza in the neighborhood last spring, but softened when a temporary and smaller-scale parklet was offered instead.
"The primary concern was that you lose parking spaces, and parking spaces are very important to the commercial community," said Bob Roddick, president of the Noe Valley Merchants and Professionals Association and the Noe Valley Association. "However, we felt that the social benefit gained was well worth the loss."
That permit holders are financially invested yet retain the freedom to shut their parklet down provides another check; design and construction costs typically range between $5,000 and $15,000, Powers said. There's always the chance that new parklets will go ignored — on a recent weekday afternoon around lunchtime, parklets throughout the Mission were sparsely used. But Powers doesn't believe The City is anywhere near a saturation point.
One Inner Sunset neighborhood that recently received its first parklet may soon be clamoring for more. "We wanted a place where people can make social connections," said Adam Greenfield, a resident who helped spearhead the project. "It's interesting to see how many people will walk past and say, 'Wow, I never thought of that before.'"
The small seating area parked outside Arizmendi Bakery challenges another critique of parklets: that they simply serve as outdoor patios for adjacent restaurants and cafes. Greenfield occasionally watches to see how many parklet users are customers. Some are and some aren't, he said, but more importantly, most everyone feels comfortable to sit and chat with neighbors as the N-Judah rumbles by just a few feet away.
Add it to the list of San Francisco firsts. Over the past two years, The City's parklet permit program has served as a national model for cities looking to infuse new life into underutilized streets. The program's integration of private sponsorship, citizen involvement and temporary streetscape improvements has proven irresistible to governments and residents on both coasts, and appears poised to keep growing.
New York City was the first to follow. NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan initiated the exchange. During a visit with city leaders in 2008, she challenged San Francisco to develop its Pavement to Parks plaza program, a larger and more permanent approach that commenced with the Castro Commons at 17th and Castro streets last year.
Around the same time, PARK(ing) Day was catching on in The City, so the Planning Department moved to also permit temporary, community-sponsored parklets through the Pavement to Parks initiative. New York became enamored with the idea, and nine months later had a program of its own.
"We copied San Francisco completely," said Assistant Commissioner Andy Wiley-Schwartz. "Introducing people to the idea that streets can be more than just for conveying traffic is something that's hard to do. So when you have these experiments that you can put down on top of the existing roadbed, that kind of thing is a very powerful notion."
Oakland became interested in institutionalizing a similar program after years of participation in PARK(ing) Day. After consulting with Andres Power and other Planning Department staff, Oakland's Community and Economic Development Agency unveiled a pilot program in September that will result in eight to 10 parklets being approved for a one-year trial period.
The hope is to stimulate retail development by improving the pedestrian experience on city streets, said Erik Angstadt, deputy director of planning and zoning. "If you make it pleasant for people to be on the streets, most of the other things are going to follow," he said. "Especially for a cash-strapped city, it's a way of shifting some of that burden from the public sector to the private sector."
Also embracing parklets in the Bay Area are Emeryville and San Jose. They have company in Los Angeles; Long Beach; Seattle; Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Portland, Ore.; Vancouver, British Columbia; and elsewhere.
"For the last 50 years of development, clearly the car has been primary," Angstadt said. "We're beginning to shift out of that."
November 2005: Rebar Art and Design stages San Francisco's first parklet on Mission Street.
September 2006: PARK(ing) Day spreads beyond San Francisco to 13 cities worldwide; 81 parklets appear, including 34 in Bay Area.
November 2008: New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan visits S.F. and challenges leaders to develop new public plaza program.
May 2009: Mayor Gavin Newsom unveils The City's first Pavement to Parks plaza at Castro and 17th streets.
March 2010: San Francisco's first official parklet appears in front of Mojo Bicycle Café on Divisadero Street. It's soon followed by another at Bartlett and 22nd streets.
May 2010: Planning Department again seeks proposals.
September 2010: San Francisco Planning Department issues first formal request for proposals for new program. June 2011 (approximate): The City's first residential parklet appears on Valencia Street.
September 2011: Four more parklets are installed, bringing citywide total to 21. PARK(ing) Day celebrates seventh anniversary.
Nov.-Dec. 2011: 25 more parklets will be permitted, and proposals sought again.


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UPDATE, 6:35: Makeup is Sept. 22, a mutual off day. There was a lot of talk about the Yankees wanted to do the DH but the Rays woudn't cooperate.
DEVELOPING: Tonight's game is rained out, putting Derek Jeter's pursuit of 3,000 hits on hold. The makeup date is still being determined, with the Rays preferring a September doubleheader. The Yankees reportedly want a doubleheader on Saturday. Jeremy Hellickson will be skipped if there is no doubleheader on Saturday with David Price starting Saturday and James Shields on Sunday.


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Going out, Getting down and going home…safely.
Both the City of Santa Fe and Santa Fe County have made great strides in adding and improving pedestrian and bicycle paths in the past few years. Hoofing it to catch a show or meet some friends for a few drinks is easier than ever. But just because you're not hurtling through space in tons of metal, glass and plastic doesn't mean you can throw safety and responsibility to the wind. According to the most readily available statistics, from 2008, 38 percent of fatally injured pedestrians age 16 and older had blood alcohol concentrations at or above 0.08 percent. That percentage rose to 53 percent after 9 pm. Only 14 percent of drivers involved in pedestrian deaths had as much alcohol in their systems. So drunk pedestrians walking in front of sober drivers can be as much of a problem as drunk divers hitting sober pedestrians. Remember two things: If you're too drunk to drive, you're probably drunk enough to be arrested for public drunkenness and, even on nice, well-lit sidewalks and trails, it's best to walk with a friend, especially after dark.
Bike Riding
Pedal power is a near-ideal way to make the scene in Santa Fe, especially if you're not straying too far out of town. Just remember that you're still operating machinery, and Santa Fe's uneven streets, strange curbs and rail tracks mean you need to keep your wits about you at all times. Bicycles have the right to use the roads because they're legally defined as vehicles. That's a double-edged sword because it means that, yes, you can be issued a DUI for riding your bike drunk. The state Department of Public Safety didn't return a call inquiring whether or not current laws would strip a drunk bicyclist of his or her driver's license. If you're going to bicycle to bars, remember to have good, operable lights on the front and rear of the, er, vehicle, and always wear a helmet, preferably one without beers strapped to both sides.
The simple answer is, don't do it. To gauge how many drinks you can have before you're likely to hit the legal limit, check out our chart on page 19. But remember that such charts are only the roughest guidelines and there are many variables in determining blood alcohol content. If you're going to drive, keep yourself well away from reaching the limit—there's a level of drunkenness where you're subject to legal charges when driving, but your judgement and coordination is probably compromised before you hit that point. This is one case where it's definitely better to be safe than sorry.
In a perfect world, public transportation would be the best way get your reckless on and still be safe and sane. We're lucky to have the bus system that we do, but budget cuts have taken a toll on its usefulness for the nightlife crowd. Last November, weekday buses that used to operate until
11 pm dropped an hour and now stop at 10 pm. If you're going from downtown to the south side, that means you'll have to catch your bus shortly after 9 pm. Saturday buses stop even earlier, and don't get us started on Sundays and holidays. If you like to drink in the afternoon and go to bed early, you're all set.
Grabbing a cab is the best way to go if you have some distance to cover and don't have any sober friends to lean on. Capital City Cab does a stand-up job, and cabbies are generally on the prowl at closing time. Still, there's only so many of them so, if you're planning on taking a taxi, it's best to call and order one well in advance (think 40 minutes)—you can stand on a corner in Santa Fe for days without a cab just happening by. Santa Fe County's CADDy program subsidizes rides on Friday and Saturday between 5:30 pm-2:30 am: Cab rides for one or two people are a flat fee of $5 and rides for three or more are $10. To use CADDy, call 995-9528 and don't forget to tip the driver. We think there's room for another cab company in Santa Fe—maybe one with an after-hours specialty, and we're hoping it'll be a fleet of alternative energy tuk-tuks, possibly powered by the alcohol-rich breath of the passengers.
By far the most stylish way to bar crawl in downtown Santa Fe, pedicabs are easy to spot loitering near downtown bars, and they're happy to take you as far as, well, the Railyard. It's lovely to hop in the back with a friend and watch some fit young thing port you about, but the range is sadly limited. Would it help if we added pedals for the passengers? As with a regular cab, don't forget to tip your pedicab operator. To make a reservation, call 577-5056.
Designated Driver
If you know you're going out and you know you're going to drink, the designated driver is the all-around winner. We know it sucks to be the one to corral your blind-drunk friends and remind them that, no, they don't want to hook up with their ex or pee off the balcony at Koi but, on the other hand, it can be entertaining and, in the era of Facebook and Instagram, you can get immediate revenge. On the other hand, prudence might suggest retaining embarrassing photos and video for future blackmail use.
In lieu of teleportation, which the Chinese are working on, Santa Fe could obviously use some innovative, late-night transportation options. But in the meantime, we've got to work with what we've got and please, everyone, be smart and be careful out there.


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With Christmas just around the corner, now is a good time to be aware of fraud and the simple steps required to protect your personal information – especially when shopping online.
This week is Fraud Awareness Week, and MasterCard are encouraging New Zealanders looking to purchase goods online to protect themselves.
"Scams and fraud are evolving with changing consumer habits and their use of technology," say Peter Chisnall, Country Manager for MasterCard New Zealand.
"As Kiwis are increasingly shopping online, they should remain vigilant about where they are sharing their personal information.
"People need to know they are giving their details to a legitimate organisation or individual and what the information is being used for.
"If in doubt, it is safest to double check and not give away any personal information."
Peter says MasterCard customers unlucky enough to be affected can take comfort in the fact that products include Zero Liability Protection, meaning even if credit or debit card details are stolen, they are covered for any unauthorised purchases.
Anyone who thinks their credit or debit card details have been stolen or scammed should contact their bank immediately.
Fraud Awareness Week runs from 15 – 21 November, and is being run by the Ministry of Business and Innovation and Employment's Consumer Protection team, in support of a global education campaign initiated by Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
MasterCard's top tips to promote safer shopping online.
- • Guard your privacy and do not disclose personal information unless you know who is collecting it and how it is being used. Some websites sell their customer information to third parties, so check the small print and opt out of sharing your information if you don't want other people to use it.
- • When you purchase goods online a secure browser will encrypt the personal information that you send over the Internet. Ensure that the URL begins with https and the little lock symbol appears which will help ensure your transaction is more secure.
- • Ensure you have anti-virus software loaded on all your devices, including your PC, tablet and smartphone and regularly download security updates. Most of us have updated software for our computers but rarely for our smart devices.
- • Making purchases using a credit or debit card is often safer as liability for unauthorised charges is limited. As a customer, it's your responsibility to inform your financial institution if you become aware of or see an unauthorised transaction on your card, or if your card is lost and stolen. Unauthorised transactions are normally covered under MasterCard's Zero Liability policy, with your bank reimbursing you for any unauthorised transaction.
- • Many financial providers also put an extra level of security on online purchases which protects the cardholder's confidential information. This is usually done by submitting an additional password known only to the cardholder, for example with MasterCard SecureCode. It provides enhanced protection against the risk of credit or debit account numbers being accessed by fraudsters in cyber space, taking online security to a whole new level.
- • It is important to keep records of transactions and payments online. Remember to check the payment details before submitting the final payment; check the returns policy and data protection cover. Finally, print out a copy of the transaction, get a copy emailed directly to you, and make sure that the amount matches on your statement at the end of the month.
- • It's not difficult to set up a page on the Internet, so the onus is on you to do some background research on the retailer you are buying from, especially if they are not a familiar brand name or you have not come across their website before.
Source: https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/113372-credit-card-fraud-warning.html


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War medals awarded, 68 years later
MILLBORO – It would not surprise anyone who knows Herman Cauley that he earned a Good Conduct medal from the U.S. Army in World War II. But it might be a surprise to learn that it took almost 70 years for that medal, and several others, to reach the 102-year-old gentleman whose roots in Millboro run deep.
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Spend Happier: What to Spend Your Money On
CYNDI FINKLE, 43, Los Angeles, art studio owner
"When my now-11-year-old daughter was born, my husband and I opened a Scholarshare 529 account and committed to saving $100,000--roughly enough to cover her first three years--for her college fund by 2018. We made monthly contributions, which started at $250 in the early years and increased incrementally over time, but a hundred thousand seemed like a crazy number to reach on our own. So when our daughter was a baby and toddler, we asked her grandparents, aunts, uncles, and friends to donate to the account instead of buying her toys that would only be played with for a few weeks. After that, we asked that some of the money they'd usually spend on gifts for my husband or me go to her fund. In December 2011, we hit our goal. In all, our family and friends contributed about $10,000--it's the ultimate gift they could have ever given us."
JESS DOVE, 30, Fairfax, VA, public school teacher
"I've always been a planner and I like managing my money, but my husband is the opposite. When we got married in 2008 and merged our accounts, he owed $10,500 in student loans and credit card debt. He handed me a manila envelope bulging with three years' worth of receipts, bank statements, and bill notices and asked me to take over. We also had a mortgage, two car payments, and a baby on the way. I spent about a month figuring out exactly how much he owed to each creditor. Then I went with the 'snowball plan' that I had read about in Dave Ramsey's personal finance book: the idea of tackling smaller debts first so you have little victories in the beginning and working your way up to the bigger ones. To do this, we ate more meals at home, cut our cable, and put ourselves on a strict $100-a-week budget for fun stuff. If an emergency came up--like our car needed new brakes--we used our fun money to cover those bills. By the end of 2011, we'd paid off all our debt but the mortgage!"
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For the Chevrolet S-10 and Trailblazer currently being sold in Brazil. Might be relevant since the S-10 will eventually be sold in the US as the Colorado.
Pictured above is one of the hoses from the power steering system and, right as it runs behind one of the front suspension links, there's a massive hole from where the fluid was leaking (or rather, gushing). I took this shot before the mechanics at the dealership pulled the hose off, but I could easily stick my index finger through the hole. According to them, the hole was caused by normal suspension travel and could lead to a recall due to design or manufacturing flaw.
This is the first ever part to fail on this car and, if anyone's considering a Chevrolet Colorado when they come out, might be worthy checking out this specific hose, on the passenger side, close to the wheel, every now and then.


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The California Army National Guard's Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment, one of the oldest Chinook helicopter units in the Army, is no stranger to Afghanistan.
The unit deployed to Regional Command-East five years ago, and all of the unit's pilots-in-command and flight engineers either were on that deployment or had previously deployed to Afghanistan while on active duty.
Although the unit from Stockton, Calif., has ample experience with Afghanistan, they recently mobilized to Fort Hood for the first time.
"It's a lot different to deploy in the Guard than in active duty," said the Schooner's tactical operations officer, Chief Warrant Officer-3 Lucas Eggers.
Before mobilizing at Fort Hood to be trained by Division West's 166th Aviation Brigade, the Schooners conducted three two-week training exercises focusing on pre-deployment training tasks at Camp Roberts in California. This enabled them to focus specifically on flight training in Texas. In fact, the group amassed more than 400 flight hours, including more than 150 hours of night flying, at Fort Hood.
Much of the Schooner's flight preparations focused on both individual as well as collective flight training, particularly air assault missions. The focus on individual training was the result of two of their senior flight engineers, including their first sergeant, being unable to deploy because of medical reasons in the week prior to mobilization.
Despite the challenges, the Schooners rose to the occasion and quickly advanced several members of the team to fill out 12 fully mission-qualified crews.
First Sgt. Jeff Stanfield, who met the unit at Fort Hood one week after the rest of the unit, was glad to have the opportunity to assist the group. "Luckily, I'm already part of the family," Stanfield said.
After several days of initial inprocessing and deployment readiness activities, the Schooners began their flight training with local area orientations and then began individual readiness level progression training, maximizing their training by supporting III Corps units.
In particular, the 166th Aviation Brigade arranged for them to support the 85th Civil Affairs Brigade, a civil affairs battalion that was conducting a deployment readiness certification, and two companies from 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, that were conducting company-level collective training in preparation for a deployment scheduled for next summer.
"The (1st Cavalry Division) mission was basically the typical mission set that we're going to be doing once we're overseas," said Schooners platoon leader 1st Lt. Chase Ross. "We'll pick them up and then we'll drop them on another target. We're practicing time-on-target, navigation, and talking on the radios."
The Schooners also supported the 120th Infantry Brigade's training of another deploying expeditionary force unit by conducting casualty evacuation operations, enabling soldiers in the Army Reserve's 993rd Transportation Company to practice calling in medical evacuation requests and communicating with aircraft. This simultaneously enabled the Schooners to familiarize themselves with the special requirements involved with a Chinook helicopter casualty evacuation.


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Cortisone shot
I`ve been dealing with a nagging case of runners knee on and off for the last 8 months. I am in physical therapy, and can currently run about 3 miles before the pain kicks in. I decided to get a cortisone shot today to see if I could kick the inflammation and finally get over this. How long do I need to wait before I try some easy - moderate running?
At least three days is the general rule for the cortisone to affect the local tissue, but I would wait 7-10 days because that would allow for more tissue healing. Use that time to do your therapy diligently. Then you should be able to ease back into your running routine without constantly being held back by that nagging pain.
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Editor's Note: Any reference to TheStreet Ratings and its underlying recommendation does not reflect the opinion of TheStreet, Inc. or any of its contributors including Jim Cramer or Stephanie Link. All three major indices are trading up today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) trading up 37 points (0.2%) at 16,943 as of Wednesday, July 9, 2014, 12:45 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,468 issues advancing vs. 1,471 declining with 161 unchanged. The Utilities sector currently sits down 0.1% versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.3%. On the negative front, top decliners within the sector include Entergy ( ETR), down 1.3%, Calpine ( CPN), down 1.3%, Edison International ( EIX), down 0.9%, Northeast Utilities ( NU), down 0.9% and DTE Energy ( DTE), down 0.9%. Top gainers within the sector include Energy Company of Parana ( ELP), up 1.5%, CPFL Energy ( CPL), up 1.2% and TransCanada ( TRP), up 0.8%. TheStreet would like to highlight 3 stocks pushing the sector lower today: 3. Dominion Resources ( D) is one of the companies pushing the Utilities sector lower today. As of noon trading, Dominion Resources is down $0.36 (-0.5%) to $68.79 on average volume. Thus far, 895,766 shares of Dominion Resources exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.3 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $68.70-$69.38 after having opened the day at $69.25 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $69.15. Dominion Resources, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in producing and transporting energy in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Dominion Virginia Power (DVP), Dominion Generation, and Dominion Energy. Dominion Resources has a market cap of $40.0 billion and is part of the utilities industry. Shares are up 6.9% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 6 analysts that rate Dominion Resources a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold. TheStreet Ratings rates Dominion Resources as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income. Get the full Dominion Resources Ratings Report now. STOCKS TO BUY: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12 months. Learn more.
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ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Enrico Letta faced a new challenge to his leadership Thursday as the head of his own party tried to orchestrate a power grab.
Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi called a party leadership meeting to decide whether to yank support from Letta's fragile coalition government, accusing the premier of failing to make progress on key financial reforms.
Renzi, 39, has been critical of Letta since December, when Renzi was voted head of their Democratic Party.
If successful, Renzi could be tapped to form a new government, but it would need to win a vote of confidence in both houses of Parliament.
"I believe that Italy is going toward a new Renzi government," said Giovanni Orsina, deputy director of the school of government at Rome's LUISS University. "Whether this is going to be stronger than Letta's government and more stable, of course, is to be seen."
Letta, 47, made a pitch to hold on to power Wednesday, highlighting the economic relief since he took power 10 months ago. He said the economy is showing signs of growth after years of contraction and the country's high public debt has begun to decline for the first time in six years.
While analysts say a Renzi government could accelerate reforms, it also risks alienating Silvio Berlusconi's center-right party, an influential component of the opposition.
"One of the thorniest issues we see is the reaction of Berlusconi's Forza Italia, which opposes a Renzi-led government," said Unicredit analysts Chiara Corsa and Loredana Federico.
Investors appeared unfazed by rapid escalation of Italy's political discord. Italy had no trouble selling long- and medium-term paper, raising 7.5 billion euros ($10 billion) in a set of bond sales that saw yields drop in across the board.
If Letta survives the new challenge, a major Cabinet reshuffling is likely.


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Q0957+561 A,B is a quasar, one component of which (A) was seen to undergo a change in brightness possibly as a result of microlensing by a planet-sized body located in a foreground galaxy.1 If the lensing object, estimated to have a mass about 0.01 times that of Jupiter, exists, then it may be a rogue planet since no lensing effect was observed that could be attributed to a host star. However, this interpretation would imply that there are about one million rogue planets per star, a number far greater than that predicted by our present understanding of planet formation. On the other hand, it has been suggested that the light curve variations could have been caused by a drop in the quasar's energy flux.2
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- Magazzino, Cosimo, 2009. "Sul Welfare State. Considerazioni critiche e proposte di riforma," MPRA Paper 25528, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Gordon L. Brady & Cosimo Magazzino, 2017. "The Sustainability of Italian Public Debt and Deficit," International Advances in Economic Research, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 23(1), pages 9-20, February.
- Cosimo Magazzino, 2016. "The Relationship among Real Gross Domestic Product, CO2 Emissions, and Energy use in South Caucasus and Turkey," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 6(4), pages 672-683.
- Cosimo Magazzino, 2016. "Fiscal variables and growth convergence in the ECOWAS," African Journal of Economic and Management Studies, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 7(2), pages 147-163, June.
- Cosimo Magazzino, 2015. "Energy consumption and GDP in Italy: cointegration and causality analysis," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 17(1), pages 137-153, February.
- Cosimo Magazzino & Francesco Felici & Vanja Bozic, 2015. "A new approach to the Scoreboard," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 42(4), pages 659-688, September.
- Cosimo Magazzino & Lorenzo Giolli & Marco Mele, 2015. "Wagner's Law and Peacock and Wiseman's Displacement Effect in European Union Countries: A Panel Data Study," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 5(3), pages 812-819.
- Francesco Forte & Cosimo Magazzino, 2015. "Ricardian equivalence and twin deficits hypotheses in the euro area," Journal of Social and Economic Development, Springer;Institute for Social and Economic Change, vol. 17(2), pages 148-166, October.
- Cosimo Magazzino, 2014. "A Panel VAR Approach of the Relationship among Economic Growth, CO2 Emissions, and Energy Use in the ASEAN-6 Countries," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 4(4), pages 546-553.
- Francesco Forte & Cosimo Magazzino, 2013. "Twin Deficits in the European Countries," International Advances in Economic Research, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 19(3), pages 289-310, August.
- Vanja Bozic & Cosimo Magazzino, 2013. "Credit Rating Agencies: The Importance of Fundamentals in the Assessment of Sovereign Ratings," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 43(2), pages 157-176, September.
- Magazzino, Cosimo, 2013. "Revenue and expenditure nexus: A case study of ECOWAS," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), vol. 7, pages 1-27.
- Cosimo Magazzino, 2012. "The Nexus between Disaggregated Public Spending and GDP in the Euro Area," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 32(3), pages 2560-2579.
- Magazzino, Cosimo, 2012. "Wagner versus Keynes: Public spending and national income in Italy," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 34(6), pages 890-905.
- Michele Dalena & Cosimo Magazzino, 2012. "Public Expenditure and Revenue in Italy, 1862–1993," Economic Notes, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA, vol. 41(3), pages 145-172, November.
- Cosimo Magazzino, 2012. "On the Relationship between Disaggregated Energy Production and GDP in Italy," Energy & Environment, , vol. 23(8), pages 1191-1207, December.
- Cosimo Magazzino, 2012. "Fiscal Policy, Consumption and Current Account in the European Countries," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 32(2), pages 1330-1344.
- Cosimo Magazzino & Eva Valleri, 2012. "Public Capital, Employmentand Total Factor Productivity: Evidence From Italian Transport Sector," Articles, International Journal of Transport Economics, vol. 39(1).
- Cosimo MAGAZZINO, 2011. "Nonprofit, Criminal Hubs And Rent Seeking. Evaluation Of The Calabrian Experience," Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism, ASERS Publishing, vol. 0(1), pages 42-60, June.
- Forte Francesco & Magazzino Cosimo, 2011. "Optimal Size Government and Economic Growth in EU Countries," Economia politica, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 3, pages 295-322.
- Cosimo MAGAZZINO, 2011. "The Nexus Between Public Expenditure And Inflation In The Mediterranean Countries," Theoretical and Practical Research in Economic Fields, ASERS Publishing, vol. 0(1), pages 94-107, June.
- Cosimo Magazzino, 2009. "Legge di Wagner e spesa pubblica italiana disaggregata: un approccio VAR," ECONOMIA PUBBLICA, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 0(5-6), pages 133-156.
- Francesco Forte & Cosimo Magazzino, 2014. "Optimal size of governments and the optimal ratio between current and capital expenditure," Chapters,in: A Handbook of Alternative Theories of Public Economics, chapter 15, pages 342-367 Edward Elgar Publishing.
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- Cosimo Magazzino & Lorenzo Giolli & Marco Mele, 2015. "Wagner's Law and Peacock and Wiseman's Displacement Effect in European Union Countries: A Panel Data Study," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 5(3), pages 812-819.
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GREENSBORO, NC -- Trampoline parks are springing up in record numbers. Adults and kids alike seem to enjoy them....and get hurt there. That's what Two Wants to Know team found when they looked through 911 medical call records to those parks. As Lechelle Yates discovered both critics and park owners want people to know the dangers of jumping for fun.
Ceresa Cecil brought her godson Ethan to Airbound Trampoline Park in Greensboro for a little birthday fun. "It's a great way to stay active."
She signed a waiver. And she saw the warning signs. Neither really made her think about possible dangers. I know when I got here I was like, 'Oh I have to sign the waiver,' but you think about it, lots of places you go, you've got to sign a waiver."
You might need to sign a waiver because people are getting hurt at trampoline parks. Airbound Trampoline Park opened in Winston-Salem in March 2012 and in Greensboro August 2013. 9-1-1 records show EMS made 11 trampoline -related visits to the parks since then. We counted calls for an injury with bleeding, a twisted knee and broken ankles.
The Child Injury Prevention Alliance says its organization is seeing unnecessary injuries in trampoline parks. Dr. Gary Smith says, "There is not enough supervision and they're not being used appropriately."
No government guidelines control jump parks yet, but Airbound follows a voluntary standard of one monitor for every 32 jumpers. The monitors explain and enforce the rules and the rules are written everywhere. Still not everyone listens. ATP co-owner Andy Baer steps in on a court to talk to a jumper. "You're not jumping for five minutes. I just told you not to and you went and did it. You have to sit down."
Andy says, "The kids think that they are better than the rules or think, 'I don't have to follow them,' they're the ones that get hurt because they're doing the things they shouldn't be doing."
Baer says his stats show kids are more likely to get injured in organized sports. But he says a sprained ankle can happen. It is an extreme sport after all. "Obviously we're striving to make that number zero. I don't like seeing people get hurt but obviously sometimes there are risks to having fun. We try to minimize risk as much as possible."
Ceresa says all the supervision made her feel safe, but she felt some responsibility as well. "It definitely can be dangerous if you're not paying attention."
Other safety features at the park:
- every trampoline has another one underneath it in case the top one rips you won't fall to the floor
- the springs are covered with heavy pads
- netting keeps jumpers inside the court
Backyard trampolines actually account for the majority of the injury statistics you see. Typically because they have the least supervision.