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Video: Movie Trailer for 'Hysteria' Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal

The last we heard about Tanya Wexler’s Hysteria was way back in January when we brought you some pics and some German posters, but we’ve had nothing since.  You remember…it’s that movie we told you about with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy – the one with all the vibrators.

Actually, Hysteria is a romantic comedy based on the true story of how Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) devised the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science. Today we have a new trailer and a new poster. (I love how innocuous the poster looks, giving away nothing.)

The film is centered on this life changing invention in Victorian-era England. Dancy and Jonathan Pryce star as doctors in London treating cases of ‘hysteria’, a condition said to be characterized at the time by a woman’s irritability, anger or unexplained tears. Dancy’s character and his best friend, portrayed by (an almost unrecognizable- plastic surgery gone wrong) Rupert Everett, experiment with a new electrical device for treatment of the ailment. Maggie Gyllenhaal portrays the daughter of Pryce’s character. Gyllenhaal looks like she’s having a blast.

London, 1880. Mortimer Granville, a dedicated and forward-thinking young doctor, is struggling to establish his career. While Granville preaches sanitation and germ theory, the old guard of doctors clinging to leeches and hacksaws, scoff at his upstart ideas, and show him the door. Granville’s fortunes change when he arrives for an interview at the well-appointed private offices of Dr. Dalrymple, London’s leading specialist in women’s medicine.

I suppose, if one wanted to make a film about the invention of the vibrator, one would have to make it a comedy or else they’d have to do it ultra-seriously; hyper-dramatic and earnest. There’s no middle ground. that Hysteria calls itself a romantic-comedy adds to the fun. Of course, it’s been made with an exceedingly well-bred cast, including Felicity Jones, Anna Chancellor, Ashley Jensen and Tobias Menzies. we don’t want anyone to confuse this with fodder for the Spice Channel.

Hysteria was a hit at TIFF and a number of other festivals last year and has already opened in most of the world. it will get a limited release (NY & LA) in the US on May 18. Hopefully that means at least VOD for the rest of us.

Video: Movie Trailer for 'Hysteria' Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal

Liposuction For Flabby Upper Arms

One of the best advancements to date in liposuction technology is the invention of microcannulas and tumescent liposuction which allows for procedures to be performed on the upper arm region of the body.

Generally, it is women who choose to have upper arm liposuction because they are unable to remove excess fat in this area through regular diet and exercise. Microcannular tumescent liposuction produces excellent results when used on the upper arms of women.

- The Goal of Upper Arm Liposuction

The primary goal of upper arm liposuction is to reduce the appearance of fat upper arms which often comes with weight gain or simply age. Fatty upper arms generally result in self-conscious feelings in women when they need to wear short sleeved clothing or a bathing suit.

Thankfully, with today’s advanced techniques, upper arms can be contoured and excess fat can be easily removed. This results in much more proportional looking arms and helps to promote self-confidence in the women who undergo the procedure.

- The Upper Arm Surgical Technique

Using the Microcannular tumescent liposuction technique, very small incisions are placed in various places around the arms, and microcannulas are inserted to remove excess fat tissue all the way around the arm.

The goal of the surgery is to remove the excess fat but at the same time to leave a thin layer of residual fat to ensure that the arms remain soft and supple, as would be expected for the arms of a woman.

If all of the fat of the upper arms is removed the woman can end up looking masculine or like she has some from of physical deformity.

- The Anterior Axillary Fat Pads

The anterior axillary fat pads are located in the front of the arm-pit area of the chest. while they are not technically part of the upper arm, they are often enlarged on women as they age and should also be reduced during the procedure.

Fat deposits in this area often bulge when you wear a bra, and if not included in the procedure, often appear out of place next to a newly shaped upper arm.

- The Posterior Axillary Fat Pads

In addition to the anterior axillary fat pads, are the posterior axillary fat pads which are located on the back near the arm-pit area. Just as the anterior axillary fat pads cause unsightly bulging, so do those on the posterior.

These also should also be removed at the time of upper arm liposuction to achieve the best result possible.

- Post-Operative Care

Once your procedure is completed on your upper arms and axillary fat pads, absorbent bandages and compression bandages will be applied to the area. Within 48 hours you should notice that drainage has stopped from the surgical area, and soon there after you will be instructed to remove all bandages.

While any surgical procedure has risks, you can greatly reduce your risks from having upper arm liposuction by working with a skilled, experienced plastic surgeon.

Liposuction For Flabby Upper Arms

Days after giving birth, Tracy Ellerbroek of Banks needs a heart transplant

Exiled, you have no idea. the largest leaps in both transpant and immunosupressive druge took place in many places South Africa, Paris, London, Berlin as well in the US. In the US the largest leaps were in Publucly funded hospitals UCLA UCSF were in the lead in the US.

As to your contention that some government employee could have deemed her unworthy. it doesn’t happen like that in other countries. it does in the US when private insurance companies refuse to pay for care, which they do frequently. I have experience with the medical care in the UK and in Canada. Unlike the US since the invention of HMOs the doctors do not need to get prior approval for care. If it is the doctors opinion that the patient is in need of the care and would benefit from it the patient gets the care. In the US we hace the same sort of care they have in europe and Canada. IT is called medicare. the doctors do not have to get approval for care. If the patient needs care they get it, it is the doctor’s call. just like Europe and Canada. In Eurpos and Canada. They live longer and in better health.

I have a friend who is a thoracic surgeon in London. he was apalled that some clerk in an insurance office in the US has the right to over rule a surgeon. he pointed out that in the UK that would be considered practicing medicine and be illegal. he said that he NEVER asks approval for treatment. My jusban’s urologist in London Dr Niekrash, sued a hospital he was working at because they dared to question the need for an expensive medication, and won big. As the court ruled he was the patient’s doctor, who knew more about the patient than any one. Medicine used to be like that in the US before HMOs with gatekeepers entered into the US system under the guise of “keeping costs down”. it turned out how they kept costs down was by refusing care. Now stupid Americans believe that doctors must have a high school graduate with a book second guessing experienced doctors. the last 40 years have conditioned Americans to believe that doctors cannot provide health care but rather that a clerk at Aetna, or Cigna or some other company is needed to get approval. probably why Americans die younger and are more ill when alive than people in all thos other countries where doctors are paid a salary and get on with actually providing medical care. They provide excellent care and their patients are living longer than the patients whose doctors cannot make a move without approval. In addition in all those countries everyone pays premiums, everyone gets care and for much less money than in the US. They would never end up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

I am glad that Tracey got the care and is doing well. Long may it continue. but they wouldn’t be looking at massive debt and possibly having to declare bankruptcy ( meaning the doctors and hospitals will not get paid for their care). In a more civilized country the care would have been provided.

What I find interesting is that the US is no longer in the medical forefront. #1 for kidney transplants in the world Apollo hospital in India, Heart disease Paris, several hospitals. They also excell in handleing kidney failyre. Transplants and separation of co-joined twins. for the best care you go to London or Berlin. American doctors are now sending their patients to foreign countries for treatment, due to the excellent care andAmerican insurance companies are now paying for it because it is much less expensive than in the US. In addition in those countries the insurance companies do not have the gatekeeper powers they have in the US. If the doctor prescribes care it is given. Much better system. I have had care in both places, the care is better and quicker.

Days after giving birth, Tracy Ellerbroek of Banks needs a heart transplant

Are you cut out for friends with benefits?

At my last morning get together with my girlfriends the topic swayed between a few hair-raising  online dating experiences, some relationship issues, our gratitude for the invention of laser hair removal and my friend with benefits.us girls meet about once every two months and the topic of my casual relationship with my friend always arises with the same questions hovering between concern, disapproval and support. Granted, girls tell each other way more than we should and they don’t like his reasons for not wanting a relationship with me. to be equally fair, my ‘friend’ isn’t what I’m looking for in a life partner either. He has grown to be a dear friend, companion and lover but the ingredients that are missing aren’t strong enough to tear us apart or pull us closer together either.

To be a couple and sustain a committed relationship you need to have the vital ingredients: Chemistry, Commitment and Communication (which I call the 3 C’s).He and I have the chemistry and the communication, which is good enough to be friends, but the commitment to what we want out of a relationship isn’t there. Life doesn’t have to be all or nothing but if you can’t both agree on what the 3 C’s mean to you then your foundation of the conventional ‘couple’ might not be as solid as you think. If there is one C that outweighs the other then why not make that relationship work around it.Sometimes that means that a lack of chemistry will result in a beautiful friendship and far too many walk away from special people when they realise that they won’t be a couple. The same goes for the chemistry that totally outshines the other C’s and could potentially result in a bond based on sex.

Chemistry results in sex, but sex does not necessarily have the ingredients to result in a workable agreement between friends who intend to shag each other whenever the urge dictates. Friendship needs a little more than what the chemistry can offer.

Maybe it’s wise to clarify a friend with benefits: two single people who, for their own reasons, choose to form a sexual relationship with each other to fulfill their own personal needs.Basically, you are using each other for sex to either fill a void, avoid screwing around, keep yourself single or have your fair share of sex while you wait for ‘the one’.

If ever you think you are cut out to have this ‘friend’ you need to be damn clear that you can handle the facts: like why the other person doesn’t want anything more than sex from you, the conversations about the other people they are dating in the hope of finding ‘the one’ or their commitment issues and the gratitude that they can have their cake and eat it.

Trust is personal. You need to know your intentions and the reason why you are either wanting or agreeing to this ‘non-committal commitment’.

Can you see how the concept of a ‘friend’ that you have sex with on a regular basis may seem very unhealthy unless you are single, sexual and totally aware of the power of your choices?

I am not one to bark out do’s and don’t’s but because the non-rule rules of having a friend with benefits are as casual as the very act of the ‘relationship’, I might need to share what makes it work for me, because it can be the most fulfilling or most damaging friendship you ever have.

I know because I have been living it for nearly a year and a half and every time we are together my ‘friend’ and I have to check in with our egos, integrity, respect for ourselves and respect for each other. every good-bye doesn’t have a commitment of ‘see you again’ and sometimes we are wishing each other luck for a date or cheering each other on by telling the other not to worry because ‘that special someone’ is out there. mad right?

My friends always ask the same question: ‘Why can’t you be a couple?’It is fine for anyone else to ask you that question, but if you are asking yourself or your ‘friend’ that question then you might not be cut out for casual sex with a friend.Don’t listen to the rules about it working or not working if sex comes before the friendship or you ended up shagging an old friend on a lonely night. If you can’t forget the rules then you need to rethink your ability to do this. If you find yourself justifying to anyone, rationalising it for yourself or have any jealousy about the other’s life without you then you might not have the gusto for this unusually satisfying arrangement.

If you are shagging a friend and either of you is otherwise attached … that is not a friend with benefits … that is cheating.

Even though you are not dating, truth is so vital that it bonds you closer than you would believe. Trust is key and it fuels your right to have sex with that person that you respect and who respects you in return.Don’t shag someone you think is hot but insensitive and call them your ‘friend’. Don’t have a one nighter with someone before discussing who you are to each other and hope you wake up with the next play date and the label ‘friends with benefits’.

Making love to a partner where you have the 3 C’s can’t be found in a ‘friend’, so don’t set yourself or them up for the hope that you can pretend to be right for each other. In the moment and with a genuine friendship, it can be great sex and it should leave you grateful and hopeful at the same time.

Don’t think you will be okay without the cuddles and after-sex kisses because they are not always part of the deal. Know that they might have a half full bottle of wine in the fridge from a night with someone else. If you are going to obsess about the candles being a little shorter than when you were there last or want to count the condoms in their drawer … then you seriously have to rethink if you are cut out for this friendly sexual relationship.

You might choose to date and have sex with other people but then you need to play open cards and play it safe. The rules vary here and you may choose to use condoms with everyone else and not each other. Whatever you choose make sure that you chose together and agree to both get tested and only ditch the condom after showing each other your test results. Remember that your HIV test must be done 3 months after you last had unprotected sex to be a true reflection of your status. You have to know that you then need to talk about your other sexual encounters because condoms break, aren’t around in a time of need or seem madly unnecessary and then you must be able to renegotiate the rules as the trusting friends that you are.Truth … truth … truth … if you don’t trust them then you should either not be there or be more careful.

In our one and a half years, I’ve called it off once because I thought I had met a potential boyfriend and he has called it off once because he did his bit at giving love a shot. we supported each other and even helped each other when we needed a shoulder, but the sex stopped. we have also both had our turns sighing with relief when we were both single again and picked up where we left off. If you don’t think you can let go and stay friends when the other finds what they have been looking for then run now before you allow yourself to get hurt. If you don’t think you could have dinner with them and their new partner then you aren’t really friends … just admit it and redefine yourselves.

Why?That is what my friends want to know most of all. I wish I had a man.I wish that I could find someone to share myself and my life with and I’m doing my bit to find him. I’m dating and I’m out there, but he hasn’t arrived yet. Don’t tell me that if I’m single then I don’t really want to be in a relationship unless you are single too and know how the world of dating has changed. I’ve heard that enough from my attached friends and never once from my single ones who know that we aren’t broken just because we haven’t found our ‘one’ yet.

Here’s another why.I’m a 36 year old woman who happens to love sex, yet I was born without the ability to screw around. I get offers for quickies, one night stands and a hell of a lot of affairs and no fibre of my being can do any of it. I need to go on a few dates first and that can be quite off-putting to some guy who’s hoping for a bit of unattached fun.My friend with benefits works for me because on the first date we both saw the chemistry and incompatibility. we both stated our truths and desires and we agreed, together, that we would take it one shag at a time.only once did I ever want more and we spoke about it for hours. I had been on a horrible date and just wanted the simple way out. I wanted to force a relationship and we both knew it would destroy our agreement and friendship. we took a break and he checked in to see if I had settled my fears and irrational perception of love for him. I had and we started over as the special friends we are, with a genuine, caring and sexual bond.

I’m lucky, I sleep over and we have dinner and watch TV while we chat about our days and our lives. I think he doesn’t take enough risks in life and that would just annoy me and he thinks that blogging is nothing resembling a career and can’t support me. we giggle and wish each other’s future partners the best of luck because we would kill each other.

You might not be asked to sleep over. You might never mingle with their friends. they may choose to date other people. You may want to talk about a lover who just hurt you. they might compare your sexual experiences to another they have just had. The list of may and may-nots is endless but if the idea of not coping with any of these issues scares you, annoys you or brings about jealousy in you then face facts … you might not be cut out for ‘friends with benefits’.

Are you cut out for friends with benefits?

Ready To Wear: The ‘Fatal’ dress acts like plastic surgery – but without the mess

by Susannah Frankel

Monday, 2 August 2010

Interactive fashion – that genre rare for its democracy in a world of diktats – comes in many shapes and forms. for those old enough to remember Bodymap, it might once have entailed buying a skirt that could be worn long or short, a sartorial miracle achieved merely by folding over a super-stretchy waistband more or fewer times. Rocket scientists need not apply.

Somewhat more challenging was Issey Miyake’s highly inspiring A-POC (A Piece of Cloth), introduced by the visionary designer at the turn of the millennium and encouraging the consumer to cut out their outfit – a dress, a skirt and a top, leggings and a T-shirt, whatever – from a single Crayola-coloured piece of cloth (hence the name) and all with handy, dot-to-dot type guidelines built in.

From the very same stable as the Bodymap formula at least is the Wolford Fatal dress, a seamless tube of techno-stretch fabric that can be worn mid-calf, knee or thigh-length as either a dress or skirt, and may even double up as a strapless top. Marvellous, particularly for holidays as a space-saving invention par excellence and, given its extreme versatility, not far off a bargain at £89.

Ah, but isn’t this the most unforgiving of wardrobe solutions, I hear the cling-a-phobic among you cry. but no! Wolford, it almost goes without saying, knows a thing or two about such things. The company’s unparalleled body-sculpting hosiery and bodies in particular are a fashion staple from which those in the know have benefited for years, and even decades, by now. And the Fatal dress is no exception: the more you fold it, the more supportive it becomes, acting not unlike plastic surgery but, thankfully, with none of the associated mess.

Mine’s a black one – well, it would be, wouldn’t it? – although it comes in myriad hues. whatever… chez Frankel hours of fun were to be had trying and testing out the many ways that this light-as-a-feather and entirely minimal garment may – or indeed may certainly not – be worn. think fashion in the realms of a Seventies game show – The Generation Game meets It’s A Knock out, if you will.

It’s only drawback? As with fine stockings, any jewellery may snag the Fatal dress, so handle with the greatest of care.

Ready To Wear: The ‘Fatal’ dress acts like plastic surgery – but without the mess