Newport Beach Doctor teaches about latest advancements in implants
Orange County is home to the Housewives and of course is home to some of the top doctors in the world for two reasons, the climate, and the number of people that do whatever it takes to look their best.
Dr. Michaelis is one of the most sought after dental implant dentist in Newport Beach and is an educator and patient advocate in the field of oral surgeons.
Dr Thomas Michaelis offered IJR NEWS the below article
With the latest advancements in dental implant technology it is now possible to have your Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon remove a non-restorable tooth, place a dental implant and then have a temporary crown attached to the implant all in the same day! Gone are the days where you had to wait 6-12 months before the dental implant was ready to use. The newer implant designs now allow for immediate loading. It still takes some time for the implant to integrate with your jaw bone before the permanent crowns can be made, but the overall treatment time has been significantly reduced!
The highest, most predictable success rates regarding immediate loading of dental implants involves a ‘team’ approach. The ‘team’ consists of you, your restorative dentist, and an experienced surgeon. I like to call this the ‘Medical Model’ of implant dentistry. In medicine, the general practitioners will always refer out to a specialist any problem that they are not trained to manage or where they feel it would be in their patients’ best interest to be referred to a specialist. This isn’t as common in dentistry. General dentists often want to keep their production up so instead of referring complicated
situations out to those better trained to manage them, the general dentists attempt, often with poor results, to manage these patients themselves. If a medical patient needed their gallbladder out, that patient is always referred to a surgeon. If a dental patient needs a dental implant, many of those patients are NOT referred to a surgeon. Why not? They’re both surgeries! I’m not quite sure what the reason is. If your dentist offers to do your implant surgery just know that you have options. Ask them who they would want to place an implant in their mouth….and go there. I’m partly kidding but the point I want to make is that it is critical to long-term success to be an informed consumer. The bottom line is, just be careful regarding who you choose to perform your surgery, whether it’s your gallbladder or a dental implant.
Newport Beach doctor warns the public about substandard dental implants
Newport Beach Doctor puts integrity before money – Dental Implant cautions in Orange County
Newport Beach doctor warns the public about substandard dental implants
It seems with the Internet, the public is more armed than ever to look for discounts in every area they can. Many major stores and services have opted to use internet coupons as a source for marketing. One Newport Beach Doctor thinks consumers should use caution with internet coupons when it comes to medical practice (click here for YouTube video).
In fact, this Newport Beach doctor has made it a point to educate the public about the harms of choosing to have a discount medical procedure, specifically a dental implant. Dr Tom Michaelis is a board certified surgeon that has earned a reputation of the highest integrity. However, sometimes playing the spoiler, doesn’t always sit well with those trying to make fortunes for providing services they are not qualified to do.
Dr. Tom Michaelis is making it a priority to educate the public when it comes to dental implants and has made it a very important part of his practice to be a patient advocate. In fact, for Michaelis and his business partner are often called to testify as expert witnesses in cases involving malpractice. In many of these cases, performance is ultimately compromised because of lack of training, education, experience, and sometimes a combination of all three.
It seems everywhere people look these days, there is a discount to be had with dental implants. Part of the reason is because of how implants have change the lives of so many people. Especially to those that might still have dentures, have had their teeth hurt in car accidents or injuries, and numerous other tooth fairy stories. Unfortunately where there is opportunity, there is inherited abuse and many doctors will unfortunately cut corners in procedures they’re not qualified to perform to make extra money.
IJR News was able to interview the Newport Beach Doctor, Dr. Tom Michaelis to ask him to explain the importance of quality dental implants and the necessary doctor experience to look for. Michaelis told us , “An implant that will hopefully be attached to you for the rest of your life has to be one of quality, it should be made of the highest grade titanium so it can properly attach to the bone. There are many companies that wish to make a quick buck and choose to use titanium parts or produce titanium parts that are nowhere near the quality of a good titanium implant needed for an optimal dental procedure. The problem is that many of these companies are fly-by-night operations and aren’t held responsible if an implant fails.”
“In addition, many of the dentists that are heavily marketing dental implants, lack the experience, education, and training to carry out such procedures but have exceptional marketing skills. Unfortunately, when it comes to a procedure such as dental implants, patients might want to put some research in the doctor performing these surgeries and also investigate the exact implant going into their mouth.”
IJR news is investigating some of these doctors and encourage feedback from patients that have had a good or bad experience with dental implants. Doctor Tom Michaelis can be reached at www.doctornewportbeach.com
Dr. Roxana Greenman Ph. D.
Advisory panel IJR NEWS
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How to prevent your credit form hackers
Global Payments credit card hack: What do I do?
By Julianne Pepitone @CNNMoneyTech
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A credit card hack attack on Global Payments is hitting the headlines. Here are answers to some of the key questions it raises.
What happened in the Global Payments breach?
Global Payments, a company that processes card transactions, discovered an unauthorized intrusion into its servers in early March. The company says it “promptly” notified others in the industry. It didn’tpublicly announce the breach until Friday.
The breach affects all major credit and debit card brands, because Global Payments is one link in the long chain involved in card transactions.
When a customer swipes a credit card, the data is sent to a payment processor like Global Payments, which coordinates the steps involved in authorizing the charge and submitting the transaction details to card networks like Visa (V, Fortune 500) and MasterCard (MA, Fortune 500). It’s a quick but complicated process, with lots of players in the mix.
What kind of information was stolen? What can the hackers do with it?
Global Payments (GPN) released a statement late Sunday saying thataround 1.5 million card numbers may have been compromised. That’s a big breach, but the odds are good that your card wasn’t among them. There are more than 1 billion credit and debit cards currently in circulation in the U.S., according to the Nilson Report, an industry trade publication.
Card numbers were stolen, but that’s all the thieves got. Cardholder names, addresses and Social Security numbers were not affected, according to Global Payments.
That’s good news. Stolen numbers can be used create to fraudulent cards, but they’re not enough for full-fledged identity theft.
Global Payments is still investigating how the breach happened. The U.S. Secret Service has launched its own inquiry.
What does this mean for me? Should I be worried?
While the threat of a compromised card is upsetting, customers should sit tight. If your card issuer thinks your account may have been compromised, they’ll contact you. Some may need to reissue credit cards or take other steps to contain the damage.
No matter what, you’re not liable for unauthorized charges made on your account.
As Visa (V, Fortune 500) put it in a response to the Global Payments debacle: “It’s important for U.S. Visa consumer cardholders to know they are protected against fraudulent purchases with Visa’s zero liability fraud protection policy, which exceeds federal safeguards. As always, Visa encourages cardholders to regularly monitor their accounts and to notify their issuing financial institution promptly of any unusual activity.” 
BMW is being sued for accusations of inaccurate odometer readings
In Orange County, California, a long time BMW loyal owner is suing BMW for what the owner claims is a lease that turned into a cash cow for BMW. The BMW enthusiast said this particular 528i just went sour, and eventually blossomed to lemon that carried a heavy price tag with its “magic miles” it accumulated by lease end.
With an alleged out of control odometer, and irrational driving habits brought to the attention to the plaintiff by her longtime accountant, things just didn’t add up.
(IJR News exclusive March, 20,2012) According to an IJR News interview with R.M. Greenman, the plaintiff in this case, she lives one mile from her daughter’s school and works out of her Newport Beach home. She hasn’t been on a major road trip since the economy went bad and hardly ever drives because of the proximity to her daughters school and that she works from home. Over the course of 2 1/2 years, her BMW 528i cars odometer claims she accumulated over 70,000 miles.
The car, which was repeatedly brought into the BMW dealerships countless times, was never really address in any capacity according to the plaintiff. In Fact, R.M states that at around 25,000 miles the cars odometer was getting 54 MPG (captured by her cell phone on many occasions), in which BMW confirmed, documented, and fixed “the malfunction.”
Although this owner has owned several BMWs in the past and has never made such claims, she feels she was dealt the ultimate lemon and only agreed to talk to IJR News in order to bring this to the attention of other lease owners that might have been victim to the same type of situation.
The Plaintiff told IJR this, “I asked the dealership to simply give me a new lease with a different car at around the 20,000 – 25,000 mile range (I even called corporate), I made every payment on-time for the entire period of the lease, but I feared driving the car every day. The worst part is that I could never enjoy the car in almost any capacity and at the end of the lease, I was asked to pay an enormous amount because of the bodacious miles. I must be in the wrong business, if I could lease cars and get an extra 50k miles added on at the end, it would be a no-brainer .”
Even after over five times of bringing the vehicle into BMW service, BMW and its technicians claimed they couldn’t find the problem. Although documented service records indicate that BMW claims to have fixed a miles per hour signal on the vehicle when it was reading close to 60 miles per gallon in its calculations, the final explanation was “that it would not affect anything else?” The plaintiff, having a PhD from Stanford in engineering repeatedly claimed to have challenged the technicians and service managers on this improbable explanation, and simply asked “how could it not affect anything else?”
When finally turning the car in at 70,000+ miles the owner claimed to have the original tires, with the exception of one tire being replaced due to a roadside hazard, BMW has argued they are all different tires, yet carfax can’t find such tire purchases other than the one tire the Plaintiff claimed was replaced. Everything else on the car was in its original condition including brake pads, belts hoses, and provided date stamped pictures of an engine that looked factory fresh when vehicle was turned in. The plaintiff in this case feels that she is not alone. In fact, she feels that there are probably several people out there in which this has happened to and it’s possible that with an odometer malfunction on this model, BMW can benefit financially in a fairly very sophisticated fashion.
BMW has denied this claim and in fact after the vehicle was turned in, BMW hired an expert witness to drive around the car and test the alleged accusations. This of course only creates an even more indistinct view, as a chain of custody has been breached from the previous owner. In Journalism, we compare these types of tests as to having a drug dealer test the narcotics he got arrested for without the cops overseeing the operation. When a customer turns in a vehicle for any kind of service or especially at the termination of a lease they obviously also lose control of whatever happens to that vehicle.
IJR news asks any BMW owner that has experienced a similar situation to contact us immediately and we will forward your information to the plaintiff and her lawyer in order to entertain the possibility of a class action or simply add witness if this case goes to trial . In this case THE BICKEL LAW FIRM, INC. a California attorney firm that specializes in lemon law lawsuits, has taken this case and is preparing for trial if the case can’t be settled in the next few weeks.
IJR News is a consumer advocate company and simply brings various articles, whether submitted to us for evaluation or investigated by our staff, to the forefront of World-class news. We encourage all readers to confirm facts on anything you read on the internet and or print.
V.P. IJR NEWS – Senior Journalist – contactIJRnews@gmail.com
Top 7 reasons employees throw in the towel
Tips for keeping your best employees and top performers from turning in their letter of resignation.
Most people who quit their jobs give one of these seven reasons. Sadly, most of them are easily avoidable, which would mean a lot of employers would save time and money by hanging on to their best talent.
In my many years as a recruiter, I’ve probably asked candidates the question “why did you leave that job?” fifty thousand times, and gotten a wide range of answers.
Sometimes it was a layoff and sometimes they were fired, but often they quit by choice.
In my experience, most people’s reasons for turning in their resignation letter fits into one or more of these seven categories.
1. Problems with the Boss
Trying to escape egotistical or stubborn management is a theme in many people’s career stories.
Strong performers are discouraged when a good idea is turned down without fair hearing, a new business tactic has been dictated without explanation, or the boss is condescending or a micromanaging.
The best bosses know innately how to communicate strength without being overbearing. The other 99% of us need to learn the skills of management so we encourage and support our best employees.
2. Bureaucracy and Unnecessary Rules
Most workers, especially young people, avoid unnecessarily formal or bureaucratic environments, but many old-fashioned companies continue with structures like inflexible hours or too much paper pushing.
For instance, one very talented software developer quit because her boss was insistent that she be at her desk at 8:30 a.m., and reprimanded her when she was five minutes late, even though she worked late every night, and could have done her work from home.
High performers can be sensitive to red tape that keeps them from doing that job. I worked with a sales rep who sold $25 million of company products every year, and who went to work for a competitor in large part because his manager continually nagged him about filling out his forms wrong.
Putting the rules before the person cost his company a lot in lost business and training costs, when it could have been avoided if his manager had an admin help with his reports.
3. Underemployed / See No Future
We all want, and deserve, to be challenged and to use our special skills and talents.
If you need to take a job that only uses a portion of what you can do, make sure to find an outlet for those other skills in some other way, or you might grow bored.
As an employer, it can be a benefit to have someone highly qualified on your team, but look for ways to mix up their projects and get them involved in something that’s more of a stretch whenever you can so they are more engaged and connected.
4. Feeling Underpaid
Salaries usually trigger issues of self-worth, and carry a sense of secrecy, so it’s no wonder that discontent from feeling underpaid is so common yet not usually openly talked about.
If you love your job and only want to quit for more money, do yourself a favor and make sure you let your manager know. Check the going rates for jobs like yours on GlassDoor.com and if you believe you are underpaid, talk to your manager about it to understand if it’s just you, or the company as a whole.
If you’re a manager, don’t take advantage of weak negotiators. Give people fair salaries, and be willing to talk about what they’d need to do to get more. Honesty and fairness get more productivity from people because they feel a sense of control and respect.
5. Too Much Work / Unrealistic Performance Expectations
Layoffs often leave more work for the people left behind, and sometimes managers have unreasonable expectations of how quickly, or how well, a project can be done.
If you’re a manager, set realistic expectations, and ask for the input and agreement of the employee, so you are setting your employee up for success, not for failure.
6. Not Feeling Recognized
Many bosses think that being hypercritical or withholding acknowledgment will make people want to perform, but instead, it makes them want to update their resume and take that call from the recruiter.
To show your people you value them, find something they are proud of, and genuinely acknowledge them for it privately and in front of other people. Make a habit of recognizing each person for one contribution every week so they know you value their contribution, and they’ll be loyal.
7. Negative Company Culture or Poor Ethics
Companies that tolerate or encourage gossip, lying, unethical behavior and unfair competition within the team or with customers are toxic to most high performers, particularly young workers who hold high standards of teamwork and fairness.
The tone of a company is set from the top, and it’s important as a manager to make sure that you are part of the solution and not part of the problem. If the negative or unethical culture comes from above you, it might be time to work on your own resume.
Newport Beach Doctor accused of camouflaging surgery centers
Newport Beach Surgeons – Surgical Centers in Newport Beach –
Dr. Anthony Mork – Spinal Surgical Centers – Newport Spinal Surgery –
MicroSpine Surgical Center
This article has been submitted by readers regarding repeated reports investigated by IJR staff about Dr. Tony Mork (Anthony Mork), we welcome any comments that either support or dispute this already heavily reported accusations. IJR News does not endorse or dispute the articles that are posted by independent authors but are posted for informational awareness, and if the meet world Journalism standards
This article was submitted by one of our readers regarding a surgeon that has had several malpractice accusation claims against him through very transferable means and fronts. Besides the abundance of apparent provable claims this Newport Beach spinal surgean continues to perform procedures. The point of this article is to investigate deeper into the several reports of medical malpractice from procedures under the care of endoscopy endoscopic spinal surgeon Dr. Anthony Mork (a.k.a. as Dr. Tony Mork).
Mork, originally from DeFuniak Springs, Florida to his most recent location Newport Beach, Ca. Information received by IJRNews has confirmed his practice Microspine Surgical Center continues to perform these procedures out of Newport Beach California uner Anthony Mork. This is an outrage to think the Board of Orthopedic Surgery continues to grant Dr. Mork the certification to perform surgery with several victims testifying to his negligence. IJRNews has received official reports filed by more than 5 complaints against Dr. Anthony Mork and his practice for charges ranging from malpractice, fraud, misdiagnosis, to performing unnecessary procedures solely for profit. If that was not enough this doctor has been using aliases for his practice and himself. Regardless of numerous complaints tot he performing these r It has been brought to our attention that a spinal surgeon licensed in Florida has been performing procedures that have left many with poor to unsatisfactory life threating results. A numerous of complaints have been filed against this doctor but are unsuccesful per the doctor moving locations.
We welcome the readers of IJRNews.com to comment on their thoughts regarding the
TESTIMONIES
Numerous articles and accusation against Dr. Anthony Mork of Newport Beach can be found all over the internet. Before having any ind of consultation or work by this surgeon please read the following sites:
- Leah writes – “I had lumbar surgery by Dr. Anthony Mork in 2003, a laser-assisted discectomy. Even though the surgery made my back and leg pain better, shortly thereafter I developed a severe post-operative infection which required 6 weeks of IV antibiotics, oral antibiotics, sleeping in a recliner for a year because I couldn’t lay down from all the pain, a back brace which I wore for 24 hours a day, and a four-wheeled walker. I cannot express how much pain I was in. I contacted Dr. Mork about the infection and was told that it never happened before with any of his patients. I don’t believe him. Any doctor that has done 5,000 surgeries in 5 years, which Dr. Mork claims, is bound to have several patients who develop post-operative infections. Even though I respected Dr. Mork at the beginning of this process, I have lost all respect for him and would never recommend him to anybody. By the way, my L5-S1 disc dissolved due to the infection, and those two vertebrae fused on their own. I am doing a lot better now, can lay flat to sleep, no more walker or cane, and am stronger. But I will never forget the hell that I went through because of Dr. Mork.”
Leah’s comments and numerous others can be found @ http://www.scoliosis.org/forum/showthread.php?677-Microspine-Center-Florida&
- mgt55ddrt wrote - ”my name is dan and dr mork nicked my spinal cord in my neck and put me in a wheel chair.
over a five year period I still where a brace for drop foot. my right arm and hand are curled up.
I have no balance and stumble everywhere.he created a stroke on my right side.its kind of like he said sorry about that and sent me home.never heard from him again.”
find his post and others @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr-Y8wTQ3Q4
-Steven Barone writes - ”I have personally experienced and which I believe, in my opinion, have contributed to and resulted in permanent injury that I sustained while being treated at the MicroSpine Surgery Center while under the care of Dr. Anthony Mork and Dr. Scott Haufe of MicroSpine”
Steven’s statements can be found @ http://www.microspinehurtme.com/index.html
- georgia_paraleg claims – “I am a victim of Microspine and Dr. Mork. I went in with minor problems. Due to his leaving bone fragments in, I suffered an 8 mm (about 1/2 inch) tear to the dura or thecal sac, and severely leaked spinal fluids. The failures of this clinic left me with partial paralysis and largly contributed to my divorce. I am, and may always be, a chronic pain patient. In addition to the great work of microspine, they have had the audacity to send me to collections for not paying for the two additional surgeries it took to correct his mistake (I paid for the first surgery in cash up front). If I could do it all again, I would run as fast as I could away from Microspine or Dr. Mork. btw…they keep you sedated but awake during the surgery so you can feel the drilling in your back, and Mork isn’t even nice about it. If you say ouch, you will get “don’t say ouch, tell me where it hurts! is it the same pain or is it different?” The guy is nuts.”
georgia_parelg comment can be found @ http://www.scoliosis.org/forum/showthread.php?677-Microspine-Center-Florida&s=5925f51f14bb4b975dfcc7a406b26b59
2011 funniest news highlights
The most newsworthy articles of 2011
2011 a great year for odd news
12 ODDEEst Stories of 2011
Published on 12/31/2011 under Strange Stories - by Gracie Murano -77,477 views
JANUARY: 3500 brave people rode the subway half naked to celebrate “No Pants Subway Ride” in New York
Thousands of people dropped their trousers in the New York City subway, baring their bods to their briefs with bitter temperatures upstairs.
At 3 p.m. Sunday, participating New Yorkers stripped down to their festive underwear to kick off the 10th annual “No Pants Subway Ride”, tucked their pants away into their bags and rode on as usual as unsuspecting passengers gawked away.
The party, organized by the New York-based group Improv Everywhere, only took place from the waist down — pantsless transit riders kept their top halves fully clothed, donning scarves and gloves as the temperature hovered around a far-from-balmy 30 degrees. According to organizers, at least 3,500 people participated in New York, eventually converging on the city’s Union Square to celebrate. (Link | Via)
FEBRUARY: The man who got a tattoo on his penis to win a car
A German man didn’t have to hand over a dime for a new car, but he did have to pay in ink.
Andreas Mueller won a silver Mini Cooper by pulling off the craziest stunt during a radio show contest by getting a tattoo of the word ‘MINI’ on his penis. Radio listeners heard Muller shriek as he received the tatty on his man part while a female host watched. “Once I’m sitting in the car, it won’t matter anymore,” said Mueller, 39. (Link)
MARCH: The sex book filled with 200 blank pages that outsold Harry Potter
An empty book entitled ‘What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex’ has soared up the bestseller charts. Outselling the likes of ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’ by JK Rowling and ‘The Da Vinci Code’ by Dan Brown, ‘Professor’ Sheridan Simove’s publication moved 134,256 places up Amazon’s bestseller list to reach number 744. The book claims to reveal the mysterious workings of the male mind, providing a probing insight into what, other than sex, occupies their thoughts, and was recently featured on the ITV1 show ‘Lorraine’, with Lorraine Kelly. However, each of the 200 pages are completely blank. It seems the £4.69 journal has become a craze on campuses up and down the country, with students using the blank pages to take notes in lectures.
The book’s ‘author’ said of the sales, ‘When the book was published I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would outsell Harry Potter.’ Prof Simove went on to reveal that the subject matter tackled in the book was thoroughly researched. ‘After many years of hard work I finally realized that men think of absolutely nothing apart from sex,’ he added. (Link)
APRIL: The woman so obsessed with pink that she decorated her entire house as a shrine to the colour
A young mother is so obsessed with pink that she has turned her home into a shrine to the color. Wanda Matthews, 20, has loved pink from a young age, and, as soon as she moved into her own place, she set about transforming it. Her bedroom, living room, kitchen, bathroom and children’s playroom are a candy-coloured testament to her passion for pink, with everything from the carpets, wallpaper, furniture and bedding in varying shades of the rosy hue.
The mother of two, from Bolton, wears something pink every day from her pink wardrobe, and her kitchen even has a pink kettle, toaster, pots, and pans. She only buys pink cleaning products, listens to a pink iPod and makes calls on her pink mobile. Her young daughters have happily fit in with the colour scheme, wearing pink clothes and playing with pink toys. (Link)
MAY: The man who was arrested for underage drinking six hours before turning 21
There’s bad luck, and then there are times when fate’s just being damn cruel. This is the latter scenario. Jesse Robinson was booked on May 21, 2011 for underage consumption. The thing is, he was born on May 22, 1990. That’s right, Springboro police arrested him at about 6:30 p.m., less than six hours before he turned 21, the legal drinking age. (Link)
JUNE: The 3-yr-old toddler who escaped an 8-floor fall by getting stuck in the air conditioning unit
A lucky three-year-old boy had a miraculous escape after he fell from an eighth floor balcony and became trapped in the building’s air-conditioning unit. The toddler, who has not been named, had been left home alone in theapartment in Beijing, China, before he fell. Neighbours, who heard him screaming in terror, called the police for help. But when they noticed he was starting to slip they decided to take the matter into their own hands. Two grocery shop workers, Mr Wang and Mr Zhou, leapt into action climbing out of the window and grabbing the boy’s arm in the nick of time.
A passing witness, a Mr Miao, said he suddenly heard screaming and when he looked up he saw ‘a kid was stuck behind an air conditioner while his legs were dangling in the air.’ Mr Miao added, ‘Then several men appeared at the balcony on the 7th floor. One of them climbed over and caught the boy’s wrist’. (Link)
JULY: The man who got stuck in manhole while trying to get his mobile phone back
Walking to a friend’s house, Jared Medeiros was set upon by a group of men who left him battered and bruised. And, adding insult to injury, his mobile was then chucked through a manhole cover by the attackers. But the 21-year-old refused to accept that the phone was gone and decided it would be a good idea to stick his head down the drain to retrieve it and call the police.
Bad idea. He became stuck fast – and the alarm was raised only after he had been in there screaming for about 40 minutes. ‘I was concerned but I was also laughing – it was funny!’ said Brianna Mooney, 16, who raised the alarm. Mr Medeiros was freed by firefighters, who spent hours trying to pull him out. He said he had been beaten and kicked by four men.
Photos of his predicament were made public by police in Ceres, California. ‘I don’t understand why they would sit and take pictures,’ said Mr Medeiros. ‘That kind of p****s me off.’ (Link)
AUGUST: The woman who got stuck with her car in fresh wet cement and didn’t want to leave so she wouldn’t ruin her shoes
A female lawyer got into a sticky situation when she attempted a U-turn and drove straight onto a bed of freshly laid wet cement in Houston, Texas. Road workers stationed in the city couldn’t believe their eyes as the driver totally ignored the bright orange markers and planted all four wheels of her £70,000 luxury Lexus square on the concrete.
Three users of the website ‘Reddit’ were on hand to take pictures and within a few hours a social media storm of laughter had been created. One user, changitochulito, who witnessed the incident from an office block said the cement was barely five minutes old before it claimed its first set of wheels. Police were eventually called in to rescue the woman, but it’s understood she decided to stay in her car so as not to ruin her shoes. (Link)
SEPTEMBER: The woman who was left ‘uniboob ‘after bad plastic surgery and then became a model
A 40-year-old woman went public with her ‘botched’ breast enhancement operation in a bid to warn other women about the dangers of using unqualified plastic surgeons. Dinora Rodriguez, from Los Angeles, California, was left with a ‘uniboob’ after her breasts were conjoined by skin. She also had a nip-tuck operation on her eyelids that has meant she is now unable to close them.
Mrs Rodriguez is now featured in a new advertising campaign being mounted by the American Board of Plastic Surgery in an attempt to warn people about the dangers of using unqualified surgeons. The ASPS want to warn people considering surgery to be on their guard against what they call ‘white coat deception’. The advert featuring Mrs Rodriguez was unveiled at the annual conference of the ABPS in Denver, Colorado. (Link)
OCTOBER: The couple who got married on Octber 31st with a Halloween-themed wedding
Newlyweds Steve and Karen Vailes got into the spirit of Halloween when they had a spooky wedding at a Bristol Register Office, with everyone coming dressed as a ghoulish character. The couple were both dressed as skeletons, with the bride, Karen, wearing a black outfit instead of the usual white wedding dress. The guests were also convinced to come as creatures of the night, with some dressing as witches and others donning vampire costumes. The groom, Steve, admitted he was a bit hesitant at first but loved it once he got into the swing of things. (Link)
NOVEMBER: The baby who was born at 1:11 on 11.11.2011
Jacob Anthony Saydeh won’t have any trouble remembering precisely when he was born. Virtua Memorial hospital in Mount Holly, N.J. says Jacob entered the world at 11:11 a.m. on Friday — 11-11-11.
And to make the Veterans Day birth even more remarkable, the boy’s mother is an Air Force veteran and his father currently serves in the Air Force. It’s the second child for Staff Sgt. Christopher Saydeh and his wife, Danielle. They live at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, where he is a member of the Air Force security forces. They are a third-generation military family.
Jacob weighed 8 pounds, 13 ounces. (Link)
DECEMBER: The couple who set the record for world’s largest Christmas light decoration
The Christmas lights world record was smashed by an Australian couple. David and Janean Richards have an incredible 331,038 fairy lights covering their property – smashing the previous world record. David Richards, a barrister and father of three, has been working for the past four years to bring together all the decorations. The illuminations have helped raise money for the charity SIDS and Kids – an organisation Mr Richards said helped his family during tough times in 2002.
Although their entry into the Guinness World Records and the money raised for charity have obviously gone well with the Richards, the household doesn’t plan to do the same thing next year. The couple will be passing the lights on, as a way of encouraging the new owners to raise money for charity.(Link)
Drug mixup warning released by U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(CNN) – Machinery problems at a drug manufacturing plant prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to warn patients of a possible mix-up affecting various prescription pain medications and over-the-counter drugs.
The FDA is advising patients who use certain prescription medications produced by Endo Pharmaceuticals to visually inspect their pills. And consumers who have select bottles of Excedrin, Bufferin, NoDoz and Gas-X, produced by Novartis, are being told to discard the products in a voluntary recall that started Sunday.
The over-the-counter drugs involved in the recall were manufactured at a Lincoln, Nebraska, facility which also produced various prescription pain medicines for Endo Pharmaceuticals, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. These pills include Percocet, Opana and Percodan.
“Due to problems that occurred when these products were packaged and labeled at the site, it’s possible that tablets from one product may have been retained in the packaging machinery and then may have carried over into the packaging of another product,” said Dr. Edward Cox, director of the Office of Antimicrobial Products, Office of New Drugs, Center for Drug Evaluation of Research for the FDA.
“This could result in an incorrect pill ending up in the bottle of another product. The likelihood of this occurring in medication dispensed in patients is estimated to be low,” he added.
The prescription opioids could have ended up in the bottle of another prescription drug or over-the-counter products, although “the risk of pills ending up in the wrong bottle is a rare event,”according to the FDA.
There have been no reports of adverse events due to this problem, Cox said.
Patients who take an affected Endo Pharmaceuticals products should visually inspect all the pills in their bottles, according to the company and FDA. Endo Pharmaceuticals posted pictures of the products on their web page for tablet identifications.
The products listed there: Opana ER (oxymorphone hydrochloride) extended-release tablets CII; Opana (oxymorphone hydrochloride) tablets CII; oxymorphone hydrochloride tablets CII; Percocet (oxycodone hydrochloride and acetaminophen USP) tablets CII; Percodan (oxycodone hydrochloride and aspirin, USP) tablets CII; Endocet (oxycodone hydrochloride and acetaminophen USP) tablets CII; Endodan (oxycodone hydrochloride and aspirin, USP) tablets CII; Morphine Sulfate Extended-Release Tablets CII; and Zydone (hydrocodone bitartrate/acetaminophen tablets, USP) CIII.
“We are asking patients to check their medicines, to look for any tablets of a different size, shape or color from their regular medicine,” Cox said. “If they find any tablets that are different, stop taking the pain medication and take the medicine to the pharmacy. We are telling patients to look carefully at all tablets in pain medication bottle.”
Patients who have questions should contact Endo Pharmaceuticals or their doctors, he advised.
Pharmacists are also being asked to “visually inspect and verify the identity of all tablets dispensed,” Cox said.
“The likelihood of finding a wrong pill in an opioid pain medication is low,” he said. “Patients should not be alarmed. These steps we’re recommending are additional steps we are recommending to further reduce an already low likelihood of medication mix-up.”
The Nebraska plant has been temporarily shut down, which could cause drug shortages and disruptions in the supply chain for Endo Pharmaceuticals.
“We anticipate that there may be a short-term disruption in the supply of these products to patients. This temporary supply disruption is not related to the efficacy or safety of these products,”according to the company.
“We are not aware of any patient having experienced a confirmed product mix-up and there have been no adverse events attributable to a product mix-up. We believe the likelihood of product mix-up reaching a patient is remote,” according to the company.
The over-the-counter items involved in the Novartis recall include Excedrin and NoDoz products with expiration dates of December 20, 2014, or earlier, as well as Bufferin and Gas-X products with December 20, 2013, or earlier expiration dates.
Novartis had suspended operations at, and shipments from, the Lincoln, Nebraska, facility. The company said this was done “to accelerate maintenance” and make other improvements, adding that it currently “is not possible” to determine when the plant will reopen.
Consumers who have the affected products can contact Novartis Consumer Relationship Center or try to obtain a refund.
Girls go to Jupiter and Boys go to Mars
Although this is been a very close race since first recognized by children in the 1st to 4th grade levels, the subject seems to be a everlasting debate. The stats are finally in, and they might in fact change the course of time as we know it. Boys go to Mars to get more candy bars and girls go to Jupiter to get more stupider
In a random email sent to 25,000 IJR News readers the results are in, it seems that 55% of those polled feel that boys actually go to Mars to get more candy bars, and of course, girls go to Jupiter to get more stupider. Is stupider even a word?
The most interesting thing about the official IJR News survey was that 60% of the emails sent out were to females and 30% to males, and 10% refused to say. Just as there are more woman alive in the U.S. and are eligible to vote, the U.S. has never sen a woman president. This simple fact adds substance to the new results.
This sample poll according to most dietitians is a very accurate estimate as to be national poll asking the same question.
Although the IGR staff doesn’t side or concur with this result, it is official, and we must honor it. This is finally a time for the boys of this world to celebrate, and they’re going to have a lot of candy bars and go to Mars. Unfortunately, for the girls of our world, they will end up going to Jupiter and well apparently according to the study won’t gain much knowledge there.
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Ciara Greenman – Guest junior journalist representing Orange County, and is a proud member of a California Distinguished School. ContactIJRnews.Gmail.com
“Layaway Angels” bless again
Complete Strangers Touched By Altruistic “Layaway Angels”
After 25 years of working in the retail industry, George Bianchi, store manager of Kmart in Brockton, Mass., says he’s never seen a more giving gesture than the nationwide Christmas phenomenon he’s experienced firsthand.
Over the past couple of weeks, three people stopped by his store and asked to pay off the layaways of complete strangers.
“I saw this exact thing on the news, so when someone walked in, I knew right away what they wanted to do,” said Bianchi. “I think it’s absolutely wonderful.”
This altruistic phenomenon, which first started in Michigan, has been sweeping the nation. More than 1,000 layaway accounts adding up to more than $400,000 have been settled by layaway angels, according to Shannell Armstrong, public relations director for Sears Holdings Corporation, the company that owns Kmart. Kmart says these angels are completely consumer generated and not part of a company program.
Brockton, a working-class town, is one among many southern Massachusetts towns hardest hit by the recession. On three separate occasions, the store received visits by so-called “layaway angels,” anonymous donors on a mission to ease the financial burden of the holidays.
Layaway accounts are set up to give shoppers the chance to slowly pay down the price of a gift. But for one woman who was touched by a layaway angel, all that was left on her payoff balance was 10 cents.
“She didn’t have words to explain how happy she was,” Bianchi said.
In most cases, including the Brockton Kmart, the donors were asked not to be identified.
“They just want to be left alone and never found out,” said Bianchi.
Scientific research suggests some people are more likely to act in ways that put the welfare of strangers ahead of their own.
The motivation behind the Good Samaritan can best be described by scientific theories that seem to work together, according to Scott Huettel, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, who leads a lab that has conducted research on altruism.
The “warm glow theory” suggests that acting in ways that benefit others can naturally generate a feeling of internal reward.
“That act of giving modulates the brain system in the same way that receiving does,” said Huettel. “The brain regions that we’re sure deal with motivation showed increase in activation when people are giving.”
Research suggests that for some, the act of giving generates motivation chemicals in the brain called dopamine. The dopamine neurons turn on other parts of the brain and help generate feelings that make people want to do the same act of giving again.
Altruism also reflects some social connection with another person, Huettel said. The connection to give is stronger when it involves helping one specific person rather than a larger group, where the service might get lost.
“In layaway, they’re going in, finding and helping specific people, rather than just giving an amount that could help anyone,” said Huettel. “Having an identifiable person to help turns to be a greater motivator rather than thinking about the general greater good.”
The woman who was helped by a so-called layaway angel told Bianchi that she would not have been able to pay off the items she needed had it not been for the donor.
“It really hits your heart when you see that,” said Bianchi. “In all my time in retail, I’ve never seen anything like it.”
The items for the three layaway customers totaled about $1,000. The items were basic necessities like pajamas, children’s toys and baby items, Bianchi said.
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