A FIX FOR OLD AGE

...Cosmetic surgeon Dr Joseph Hkeik says Botox has changed many lives both physically and mentally.The injectable drug contains a tiny amount of the botulinum toxin, which blocks the transmission of acetylcholine from the nerves to the muscles, disallowing the muscles to retract.

As a result, the wrinkled area smoothes out and softens.“If used in the right hands you can get fantastic results,” Hkeik told Sydney Star Observer.“Botox can fix crow’s feet caused when you smile and when you lift your eyebrows.

It is also used to stop extreme sweating on the forehead and under the arms.”With the forever-young generation growing older, over 60 percent of cosmetic users are women and but the male proportion is obviously growing.“I do have lesbian clients but around 80 percent of males who come into my surgery are gay,” he said.In the past there have been stories of complications ranging from droopy eyes to botulism poisoning but Hkeik assures the community that cases like this are very rare.

Mild weakness or paralysis of the eye and eyebrow can also occur in two percent of cases and usually lasts two to three weeks.“It’s becoming a social thing and the results are very natural and no one can tell.

Generally the side effects include bruising and redness but this heals within two to four days.“There have been some cases of drooping fr...

Mansfield's Madrigal: 'I just do my job'

...He's been doing it for 13 years.

"It wasn't hard," Madrigal said.

"I just learned to do it that way." Much the same way Madrigal, a senior whose He learned well enough to play receiver in seventh and eighth grade.

"He doesn't use ["It doesn't stop him.

Even in the weight room, he'll go all out." Yes, Madrigal does one-arm bench presses.

He also goes through all the drills with the team, pitches in the intrasquad games and throws batting practice.

And he has pitched 1 1/3 innings this season, allowing one earned run on two hits.

"I just do my job," Madrigal said.

"I just do what's expected of me." He's a quiet, humble guy.

The kind of guy, coach Gary Vaughan said, "who just loves to be out here and loves the game." A guy teammates rally around.

He's an inspiration, the coach said, but Madrigal doesn't seem comfortable with that.

After all, he doesn't make excuses.

He just...

4 Arrested In Beating Of Man With Cerebral Palsy

...The attack Sunday occurred at Kile's apartment on a street near Interstate 10 in the city of Redlands.

The victim's friend Kathy Sulsona fielded calls Monday from outraged friends, who had just learned the man many simply know as "Steven" was the victim of a ruthless crime.

Friends said the 29-year-old Redlands man is extremely intelligent, but is confined to a wheelchair with ,' opened the door late Sunday night when three masked intruders charged their way inside Kile's tiny apartment on New York Street."They punched, kicked and pulled him out of his wheelchair.

One of the men was armed with a knife, all three men were wearing ski masks," said Carl Baker with the Redlands Police Department.The one-bedroom apartment was ransacked for valuables."There's nothing here, the computer is about four years old, worth maybe $25 at most.

A few cheap cameras, the VCR, the DVD, Direct TV box, none of that is worth anything," said Sulsona.Police said the intruders took those items and perhaps his most valuable possession, a lit-writer - a speech-generating device that attaches to his computer."He lives on Social Security only.

That's all he has, so what he has is what he's worked hard for, scraped ...

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