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Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 at the Gasthof zum Pommer, an inn in Ranshofen, a village annexed in 1938 to the municipality of Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria.
In 1894 the family relocated to Leonding (near Linz), and in June 1895, Alois retired to a small landholding at Hafeld, near Lambach, where he tried his hand at farming and beekeeping.
The death of his younger brother Edmund from measles on 2 February 1900 deeply affected Hitler.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Several commentators have argued that a school photograph of Hitler may show Wittgenstein in the lower left corner, but Hamann says the photograph stems from 1900 or 1901, before Wittgenstein's time.
After Alois' sudden death on 3 January 1903, Hitler's behaviour at the technical school became even more disruptive, and he was asked to leave in 1904.
From 1905, Hitler lived a bohemian life in Vienna financed by orphan's benefits and support from his mother.
In the autumn of 1905, after passing a repeat and the final exam, Hitler left the school without showing any ambitions for further schooling or clear plans for his future career.
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna rejected him twice, in 1907 and 1908, because of his "unfitness for painting", and the director recommended that he study architecture.
Richard Strauss - For reasons of expediency, however, he was initially drawn into cooperating with the early Nazi regime in the hope that Hitler – an ardent Wagnerian and music lover who had admired Strauss's work since viewing Salome in 1907 – would promote German art and culture.
In 1909, he lived in a homeless shelter, and by 1910, he had settled into a house for poor working men on Meldemannstraße.
Hitler received the final part of his father's estate in May 1913 and moved to Munich .
In March, Prince Bernhard Wilhelm von Bülow, secretary at the Auswärtiges Amt, issued a major statement of German foreign policy aims: Anschluss with Austria, the restoration of Germany's national borders of 1914, rejection of Part V of the Treaty of Versailles, the return of the former German colonies in Africa, and a German zone of influence in Eastern Europe.
After a physical exam on 5 February 1914, he was deemed unfit for service and returned to Munich .
When Germany entered World War I in August 1914, he successfully petitioned King Ludwig III of Bavaria for permission to serve in a Bavarian regiment.
During the Battle of the Somme in October 1916, he was wounded either in the groin area or the left thigh by a shell that had exploded in the dispatch runners' dugout.
The Russian Roots of Nazism White Émigres and the Making of National Socialism, 1917–1945.
Hitler spent almost two months in the Red Cross hospital at Beelitz, returning to his regiment on 5 March 1917.
Germany Tried Democracy: A Political History of the Reich from 1918 to 1933.
He received the Wound Badge on 18 May 1918.
Recommended by Hugo Gutmann, he received the Iron Cross, First Class, on 4 August 1918, a decoration rarely awarded to one of Hitler's rank.
On 15 October 1918, Hitler was temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack and was hospitalised in Pasewalk.
The experience made Hitler a passionate German patriot, and he was shocked by Germany's capitulation in November 1918.
Hitler was a renowned orator, and honed his skills by giving speeches to military audiences in 1919 and 1920.
Hitler accepted on 12 September 1919, becoming the party's 55th member.
After his discharge from the army in March 1920, Hitler began working full time for the party.
In June 1921, while Hitler and Eckart were on a fundraising trip to Berlin , a mutiny broke out within the DAP in Munich .
The Nazi Party had used Italian Fascism as a model for their appearance and policies, and in 1923, Hitler wanted to emulate Benito Mussolini's "March on Rome" by staging his own "Campaign in Berlin".
The Bavarian Supreme Court issued a pardon and he was released from jail on 20 December 1924, against the state prosecutor's objections.
Published in two volumes in 1925 and 1926, it sold 228,000 copies between 1925 and 1932.
In a meeting with Prime Minister of Bavaria Heinrich Held on 4 January 1925, Hitler agreed to respect the authority of the state: he would only seek political power through the democratic process.
Hitler formally renounced his Austrian citizenship on 7 April 1925, but at the time did not acquire German citizenship.
However, Hitler was barred from public speaking, a ban that remained in place until 1927.
At age 39 Alois assumed the surname "Hitler", spelled as "Hiedler", "Hüttler", or "Huettler"; the name was probably regularised to its final spelling by a clerk.
Hitler became obsessed with German nationalism from a young age as a way of rebelling against his father, who was proudly serving the Austrian government.
The stock market in the United States crashed on 24 October 1929.
Hitler made a prominent appearance at the trial of two Reichswehr officers, Lieutenants Richard Scheringer and Hans Ludin, in the autumn of 1930.
The Great Depression in Germany in 1930 provided a political opportunity for Hitler.
Kurt Schwitters - The political situation in Germany under the Nazis continued to deteriorate throughout the 1930s; he lost his contract with Hanover City Council in 1934 and examples of his work in German museums were confiscated and publicly ridiculed in 1935.
During a meeting with a Japanese professor in 1931, Hitler praised the Shinto religion and Japanese culture.
Hitler had at various times contemplated suicide, and the Walther was the same pistol that his niece, Geli Raubal, had used in her suicide in 1931.
In 1932 Hitler ran against von Hindenburg in the presidential elections.
This law violated the Enabling Act as well as the constitution: the Enabling Act specifically barred Hitler from passing any law that tampered with the presidency, and in 1932, the constitution had been amended to make the president of the High Court of Justice, not the chancellor, acting president pending new elections.
Unemployment fell substantially, from six million in 1932 to one million in 1936.
Walter Benjamin - In 1932, during the turmoil preceding Adolf_Hitler's assumption of the office of Chancellor of Germany, Walter Benjamin left Germany for the Spanish island of Ibiza for some months; he moved to Nice, where he considered killing himself.
At the first meeting of his Cabinet in 1933, Hitler prioritised military spending over unemployment relief.
One million copies were sold in 1933, Hitler's first year in office.
The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany Diplomatic Revolution in Europe 1933–1936.
In a meeting with German military leaders on 3 February 1933, Hitler spoke of "conquest for Lebensraum in the East and its ruthless Germanisation" as his ultimate foreign policy objectives.
On 27 February 1933, the Reichstag building was set on fire.
On 14 July 1933 Hitler's Nazi Party was declared the only legal political party in Germany.
Germany withdrew from the League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference in October 1933.
Martin Heidegger - Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933.
Werner Heisenberg - After Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Heisenberg was attacked in the press as a "White Jew" by elements of the deutsche Physik movement for his insistence on teaching about the roles of Jewish scientists.
Thomas Mann - In 1933, after Hitler assumed power, Mann emigrated to Küsnacht, near Zurich, but received Czechoslovak citizenship and a passport in 1936.
Arnold Schoenberg - Schoenberg continued in his post until the election of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in 1933.
Fritz Lang - Adolf Hitler came to power in January 1933, and by March 30, the new regime banned it as an incitement to public disorder.
Richard Strauss - In March 1933, when Richard Strauss was 68, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power.
Anne Frank - On 13 March 1933, elections were held in Frankfurt for the municipal council, and Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party won.
I do wish we could bring Hitler over here to teach these Isaacs a thing or two.
In 1934, Hitler became Germany's president under the title of Führer und Reichskanzler.
Hitler responded by purging the entire SA leadership in what became known as the Night of the Long Knives, which took place from 30 June to 2 July 1934.
Billy Wilder - After the rise of Adolf Hitler, Wilder, a Jew, left for Paris , where he made his directorial debut with the 1934 film Mauvaise Graine.
Jorge Luis Borges - In 1934, Argentine ultra-nationalists, sympathetic to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, asserted Borges was secretly Jewish, and by implication, not a "true" Argentine.
In 1935 Hitler appointed Hjalmar Schacht as Plenipotentiary for War Economy, in charge of preparing the economy for war.
On 15 September 1935 he presented two laws—known as the Nuremberg Laws—to the Reichstag.
Sven Hedin - He met Adolf Hitler in Berlin before his lecture on April 14, 1935.
Sven Hedin - In 1935 Hedin made his exclusive knowledge about central Asia available, not only to the Swedish government, but to foreign governments such as China and Germany, in lecturers and personal discussions with political representatives of Chiang Kai-shek and Adolf Hitler.
In 1936 Hitler opened the summer Olympic games in Berlin.
The laws banned marriage between non-Jewish and Jewish Germans, and forbade the employment of non-Jewish women under the age of 45 in Jewish households.
Germany reoccupied the demilitarised zone in the Rhineland in March 1936, in violation the Versailles treaty.
Hitler sent troops to Spain to support General Franco after receiving an appeal for help in July 1936.
Britain, China, Italy, and Poland were invited to join the Anti-Comintern Pact, but only Italy signed in 1937.
Hitler began using amphetamine occasionally after 1937 and became addicted to the drug in the fall of 1942.
Edvard Munch - Adolf Hitler announced in 1937, "For all we care, those prehistoric Stone Age culture barbarians and art-stutterers can return to the caves of their ancestors and there can apply their primitive international scratching.
Edward VIII - In October 1937, the Duke and Duchess visited Germany, against the advice of the British government, and met Adolf Hitler at his Obersalzberg retreat.
As a result of the summit, Hitler was selected Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1938.
As recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum, Hitler stated his intention of acquiring Lebensraum ("living space") for the German people, and ordered preparations for war in the east, which would commence as early as 1938 and no later than 1943.
Both men had already fallen into disfavour when they objected to his demand that they have the Wehrmacht ready to go to war as early as 1938.
Chamberlain was satisfied with the Munich conference, calling the outcome "peace for our time", while Hitler was angered about the missed opportunity for war in 1938.
In early 1938, Hitler forced his War Minister, Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, to resign when a police dossier was discovered showing that Blomberg's new wife had a record for prostitution.
In early 1938, in the wake of the Blomberg–Fritsch Affair, Hitler asserted control of the military-foreign policy apparatus.
By early February 1938, twelve other generals had been removed.
In February 1938, on the advice of his newly appointed Foreign Minister, the strongly pro-Japanese Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler ended the Sino-German alliance with the Republic of China to instead enter into an alliance with the more modern and powerful Japan.
On 12 March 1938 Hitler declared unification of Austria with Nazi Germany in the Anschluss.
Hitler called off Fall Grün, originally planned for 1 October 1938.
Between 1939 and 1945 there were many plans to assassinate Hitler, some of which proceeded to significant degrees.
Between 1939 and 1945, the SS, assisted by collaborationist governments and recruits from occupied countries, were responsible for the deaths of eleven to fourteen million people, including about six million Jews, representing two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe, and between 500,000 and 1,500,000 Roma.
In private discussions in 1939, Hitler described Britain as the main enemy that had to be defeated.
In retaliation, Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek cancelled all Sino-German economic agreements, depriving the Germans of many Chinese raw materials, though they did continue to ship tungsten, a key metal in armaments production, through to 1939.
The fall of Poland was followed by what contemporary journalists dubbed the "Phoney War" or Sitzkrieg ("sitting war").
Therefore, Hitler decided to invade Poland; he made this the main German foreign policy goal of 1939.
In his "Export or die" speech of 30 January 1939, he called for an economic offensive to increase German foreign exchange holdings to pay for raw materials such as high-grade iron needed for military weapons.
Hitler was offended by the British "guarantee" of Polish independence issued on 31 March 1939, and told his associates that "I shall brew them a devil's drink".
On 15 March 1939, in violation of the Munich accord and possibly as a result of the deepening economic crisis requiring additional assets, Hitler ordered the Wehrmacht to invade Prague , and from Prague Castle proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
In a speech in Wilhelmshaven for the launch of the battleship Tirpitz on 1 April 1939, Hitler threatened to denounce the Anglo-German Naval Agreement if the British persisted with their guarantee of Polish independence, which he perceived as an "encirclement" policy.
On 3 April 1939 Hitler ordered the military to prepare for Fall Weiss, the plan for an invasion of Poland on 25 August 1939.
In response to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact—and contrary to the prediction of Ribbentrop that the newly-formed pact would sever Anglo-Polish ties—Britain and Poland signed the Anglo-Polish alliance on 25 August 1939.
The German Ambassador in London, Herbert von Dirksen, supported Ribbentrop's analysis with a dispatch in August 1939, reporting that Chamberlain knew "the social structure of Britain, even the conception of the British Empire, would not survive the chaos of even a victorious war", and so would back down.
Martin Heidegger - In private notes written in 1939, Heidegger took a strongly critical view of Hitler's ideology, however in public lectures he seems to have continued to make ambiguous comments which, if they expressed criticism of the regime, did so only in the context of praising its ideals.
At a conference held at Göring's Karinhall estate on 12 February 1940, the dispute was initially settled in favour of the Göring–Frank view of economic exploitation, which ended the economically disruptive mass expulsions.
Hitler commenced building up military forces on Germany's western border, and in April 1940, German forces invaded Denmark and Norway.
In May 1940, Hitler's forces attacked France, and conquered Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
On 15 May 1940, however, Himmler presented Hitler with a memo entitled "Some Thoughts on the Treatment of Alien Population in the East", which called for expulsion of the entire Jewish population of Europe into Africa and reducing the remainder of the Polish population to a "leaderless class of labourers".
These victories prompted Mussolini to have Italy join forces with Hitler on 10 June 1940.
On 27 September 1940 the Tripartite Pact was signed in Berlin by Saburo Kurusu of Imperial Japan, Hitler, and Italian foreign minister Ciano.
By the end of October 1940, air superiority for the invasion of Britain—Operation Sea Lion—could not be achieved, and Hitler ordered nightly air raids of British cities, including London, Plymouth, and Coventry.
Mel Brooks - The song - satirizing German society in the 1940s with Brooks playing Hitler - was an unlikely hit, peaking at 12 on the UK Singles Chart in February 1984 and 3 on the Australian Singles Chart that same year.
In the Spring of 1941, Hitler was distracted from his plans for the East by military activities in North Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East.
War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941.
Hitler and the Japanese Foreign Minister, Yosuke Matsuoka, at a meeting in Berlin in March 1941.
On 22 June 1941, contravening the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact of 1939, three million German troops attacked the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
Viktor Suvorov, Ernst Topitsch, Joachim Hoffmann, Ernst Nolte, and David Irving have argued that the official reason for Barbarossa given by the German military was the real reason—a preventive war to avert an impending Soviet attack scheduled for July 1941.
The Wehrmacht invasion of the Soviet Union reached its peak on 2 December 1941, when the 258th Infantry Division advanced to within 15 miles of Moscow, close enough to see the spires of the Kremlin.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941–1945.
Sven Hedin - After the third senate of the highest German military court in Berlin condemned to death for alleged espionage the ten Norwegians Sigurd Jakobsen, Gunnar Hellesen, Helge Børseth, Siegmund Brommeland, Peter Andree Hjelmervik, Siegmund Rasmussen, Gunnar Carlsen, Knud Gjerstad, Christian Oftedahl and Frithiof Lund on 24 February 1941, Sven Hedin successfully appealed via Colonel General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst to Adolf Hitler for their reprieve.
Joseph Stalin - During the early morning of 22 June 1941, Hitler broke the pact by implementing Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Soviet held territories and the Soviet Union that began the war on the Eastern Front.
Joseph Stalin - In September 1941, Stalin told British diplomats that he wanted two agreements: a mutual assistance/aid pact and a recognition that, after the war, the Soviet Union would gain the territories in countries that it had taken pursuant to its division of Eastern Europe with Hitler in the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
Joseph Stalin - In 1942, Hitler shifted his primary goal from an immediate victory in the East, to the more long-term goal of securing the southern Soviet Union to protect oil fields vital to a long-term German war effort.
Werner Heisenberg - Five days later, on 9 June 1942, Adolf Hitler issued a decree for the reorganization of the RFR as a separate legal entity under the Reich Ministry for Armament and Ammunition; the decree appointed Reich Marshall Göring as the president.
Following the allied invasion of Sicily in 1943, Mussolini was deposed by Pietro Badoglio, who surrendered to the Allies.
The country's name was changed to the "Greater German Reich" in 1943.
Throughout 1943 and 1944, the Soviet Union steadily forced Hitler's armies into retreat along the Eastern Front.
By late 1944, the Red Army had driven the German army back into Western Europe, and the Western Allies were advancing into Germany.
Depiction of Adolf Hitler as the Führer of the Reich on a 42 pfennig stamp, 1944.
He suffered ruptured eardrums as a result of the 20 July plot bomb blast in 1944, and two hundred wood splinters had to be removed from his legs.
In July 1944, in the 20 July plot, part of Operation Valkyrie, Claus von Stauffenberg planted a bomb in one of Hitler's headquarters, the Wolfsschanze (Wolf's Lair) at Rastenburg.
Konrad Adenauer - After the failed assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944, he was imprisoned for a second time as an opponent of the regime.
Morell treated Hitler with a drug that was commonly prescribed in 1945 for Parkinson's disease.
Franklin D. Roosevelt died on 12 April 1945. This buoyed Hitler's hope to negotiate peace with America and Britain.
On 30 April 1945, after intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were within a block or two of the Reich Chancellery, Hitler shot himself with his 7.65 mm Walther PPK pistol.
Max Planck - In January 1945, Erwin, to whom he had been particularly close, was sentenced to death by the Nazi Volksgerichtshof because of his participation in the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944.
Albert Speer - As early as 1953, when Wolters strongly objected to Speer referring to Hitler in the memoirs draft as a criminal, Speer had predicted that were the writings to be published, he would lose a "good many friends"
Edward VIII - However, during the 1960s he said privately to a friend, Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, "I never thought Hitler was such a bad chap.


You are only as important as the badge you have.
I suppose The word « badge » is not quite the right choice, I am talking about passes – those much coveted pieces of plastic that get you into places where the punters can't go. And that is the whole point of a pass. My piece of plastic means that I can go somewhere you cannot. However when you finally get those places that mere mortals cannot go you really wonder whether it was actually worth going in the first place.
« lanyard ». So, the more passes you have dangling from the end of your lanyard, the more important you are.
Most coveted of all passes is that which gives you access backstage. This is only given to the lucky few, such as PR people, festival organisers but never journalists. Oh no, the humble press pass might get you into the media centre, the journalists bar and of course press conferences, but it will not get you backstage. For this to happen, the humble journalist must have a special « one off » backstage pass, and on his or her trip backstage, the journalist is always accompanied by a couple of minders (gorillas in Raybans) and some PR people.
And when you get backstage to interview your chosen star you actually wonder if it was all worth it.
Legend would have us believe that backstage is a place seething with groupies, where champagne flows in rivers, where coke is sniffed in highways and not lines. Backstage is a den of iniquity, a sinful, wicked, immoral and vice filled place where rock stars hold depraved licentious, and raucous court – and so it might have been with the Rolling Stones in the mid seventies, this though is my small-town rock festival and when I get backstage to interview Ben Harper, it is quite shocking – no raw lustful hedonism, but tea and biscuits and tired roadies snoozing away on sofas. No smoking, clean toilets, plastic plants and loads of bored musicians wandering around waiting for their sound check. All very disappointing. So, a backstage pass might get you a cup of tea and a glimpse of a star or two, but it will not get you an interview, for this you need the press pass.
The smoking ban might mean that the place is a little less « smoggy » than in previous years, but it is still full of journalists propping up the bar – although the drinks in the bar at the press centre are actually more expensive than those outside in the real world.
You might think that the media centre would be full of media types, working, slaving their way over hot laptops, hammering out raw rock and roll copy.
So, to the burning question – How do you get a press pass to a festival?
Well you have to be a journalist meaning that you must be registered as such, which means you have a press card. To be registered as a journalist in France, even a freelancer, you must justify to the appropriate authorities, via salary slips, invoices, and tax returns and published examples of your work, that the majority of your income is derived from journalism.
You must obviously be working for some kind of media, be it a newspaper a TV channel, a website or even a blog. Of course, for the festival organisers, your chosen media must have a decent readership or decent viewing figures to ensure that the festival gets maximum coverage.
Your face must fit. Even if you fulfil all the above criteria; if the festival organisers don't like young they might give your press pass to someone else.
Now we come to the vicious circle.
You are not a real journalist and you want a pres pass. It took me roughly five years to crack the press pass nut. I have always done freelance writing and translating and I had always wanted to cover my local festival. As a freelance, every year you have to find a sympathetic paper or website that will cover you for an accreditation, then you have to prove to the festival organisers that you work for a serious newspaper and then you have to convince the newspaper that it is in their interest to cover the festival. So, you write around every media available to find an employer and in doing this you have to provide examples of your previously published work covering the festival. In short you lie to everyone, you cross your fingers and hope.
The powers that be at Mojo, NME and Rolling Stone had never heard of my festival and they ad never heard of me. The likes of The Times, The Guardian and the Daily Mail just didn't reply, but I was lucky enough to latch on to a couple of obscure English language newspapers that needed some music articles to fill their unfilled columns.
It is not and exact science. It is all trial and error and it is hours of Internet research, but for all would-be RnR journalists, there is a media out there for you. Just up to you to match the right media with the right festival and above all match the mood of the media with artists on the festival programme.
Any idiot can get a pass to a festival. Just stump a few hundred Euros and buy the « Pro Pass » – that pass bought by talent scouts or organisers of other festivals. A pro pass to my local festival costs just over 500 Euros. You get to see all the bands and you get access to the band PR machines. This sort of pas sis purchased by those looking for bands to put on at their own festivals or at their own concert venues.
Of course, the pass you want above all other is the Vehicle Pass – a guaranteed access and parking space for your car throughout the whole festival. Forget the Backstage or the Press Pass. On any festival, the parking passi s likes gold dust.


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We won't pull it off.
They made some big plays!
Yeah, it was a try though!
Do, or do not do. There is no try.
Keenan was solid, but I'd give the game ball to GeeGee.
Quality win engineered by qb and my version works better with the haiku. Can't deny strong case for GG though.
Now? What a great call!
Still got a win though.
as Bobby Plump! Great team W!


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Are Robot Pants the Future of Mobility?
By Stephanie Mlot 09.17.2018 :: 11:00AM EDT 09.17.2018
A stiffening "cuff" to support the knee (left); artificial muscles can raise a robotic leg (right) (via University of Bristol)
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Beyoncé puts her pants on one leg at a time, just like everyone else. But Queen Bey's trousers aren't robotic.
A research team led by the University of Bristol's Jonathan Rossiter developed a prototype pair of mechanized slacks that could help people—from the elderly and infirm to the otherwise disabled—walk without assistance.
"We are all going to get older and our mobility is going to reduce," Rossiter told the BBC. "What we want to do is give people that extra bit of boost, to maintain their independence as long as possible."
By wearing a pair of Lycra workout pants.
British scientists created what the BBC described as "air-filled bubbles of plastic"—so-called robotic muscles—that can raise a leg from the seated to standing position.
And while getting this technology into commercial trousers may take a decade or more, this marks a step toward a more ambulatory future.
There are some 10 million people in the UK with disabilities—including old-age locomotion problems, according to Rossiter. And that number is expected to increase as the population ages, putting more pressure on mobility assistance.
With a £2 million ($2.6 million) grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Bristol professor teamed up with engineers from across the country to find a robotic solution to conventional aids.
Artificial muscles resemble long strings of cocktail sausages made from clear plastic (via University of Bristol)
"Soft robotics can make materials and structures that behave in a really sophisticated way in contrast to conventional robotics," Rossiter said, citing organisms like the octopus: so sophisticated in its movement, sensing, and control that it can squeeze its gelatinous body into small spaces.
"We can take some of these capabilities and put them into artificial muscles, put them onto clothing," he added.
On display at last week's British Science Festival in Hull, the technology looks deceptively simple, like a string of cocktail sausages made of clear plastic, inflated with air.
When blown up, the strand contracts and shortens—just like your muscles—to lift a weight or robotic leg.
Now, picture this mechanism arranged around a flesh-and-bone knee. Once inflated, the structure stiffens, automatically straightening the body part and lifting the leg.
"It means you can stand more comfortably," Rossiter boasted.
Researchers have a long way to go before their devices goes mainstream; the team is already eyeing electroactive polymers for quieter movement, as well as an embedded control system.
As an everyday accessory, this contraption could discourage people from using their own muscles, allowing them to atrophy. But as a rehabilitation device, it's ideal for helping to strengthen knees and legs.
"One of our goals is to replicate human muscle in an artificial form, so that you can sew them into your trousers and you've got your power trousers," Rossiter told the BBC.
Technology and prosthetics make great bedfellows: Machine learning is improving the way artificial limbs perform. Robots, meanwhile, can already manipulate our emotions. Stay up to date on all things bionic here.
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Scott B. Cantor, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Health Services Research at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center . He has adjunct appointments and taught courses and guest lectures in the Department of Statistics at Rice University and the Division of Biostatistics at The University of Texas School of Public Health.
Scott is a clinical decision analyst, having received his bachelor's degree from Yale in Applied Mathematics and his doctorate from Harvard in Decision Sciences. From 2003-2004, he was President of the Society for Medical Decision Making, a professional society dedicated to promoting rational and systematic approaches to decision making that will improve the health and clinical care of individuals and assist health policy formation.
Dr. Cantor's research focuses on theoretical issues concerning cost-effectiveness analysis and diagnostic testing, and on clinical issues in cancer prevention, particularly prostate cancer screening and cervical pre-cancer diagnosis.
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RIVERVIEW – Some things in life are more significant than the moment in which they happen. Such was the case with Kevin Hartzog, Jr.'s graduation from the University of Tampa, where he received a master's degree in nursing.
Being in an environment where it is often hard to find those who identify with you culturally can be a challenge in itself. And balancing the demands of the academic requirements along with life can bring on its own adversities.
"Dedication, integrity and perseverance defines him. I am so proud of him; this is only the beginning," said Dr. Kaylee McCrary, Hartzog's girlfriend.
Hartzog, Jr., who currently resides in Riverview, is a 2007 graduate of Lakewood High School. He was vice-president of his senior class and student government. He played varsity football and was named an Ebony Scholar.
After graduation, Hartzog, Jr. took his talents on the football field to the University of Dubuque in Iowa. He later transferred to Clarke University in the same town and became the first African-American male to earn a four-year Bachelor of Science Degree in nursing in 2013. His pursuit of a master's degree led him to the University of Tampa.
Hartzog, Jr. has a strong desire to help expand the dreams of young black men, specifically in the medical arena because there are so few. His goal is to create a scholarship to help drive this career choice.
He has a passion for preventative medicine and believes becoming a family nurse practitioner is an impactful achievement to the communities he represents.
Frequently, it is hard to be what you cannot see. Therefore many kids are limited to what may be in front of them. He hopes he'll be able to plant a seed of possibility for youth to dream big.
For I know, the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
No doubt, his strong faith is an extension of growing up attending Mt. Zion Progressive Missionary Baptist Church where the Rev. Louis Murphy, Sr. tends his flock. Since moving to Riverview, he currently attends Love First Christian Center under the guidance of Pastor Jomo Cousins.


It's that time again! Our next Open House is Tuesday, October 2nd at 8pm – come meet the FamiLAB crew, see the Lab, and explore our latest member projects.
RSVP is not required, but if you let us know you are coming, we can make sure you know how to find our space, and we know how many cookies to buy! FamiLAB Open House RSVP.
Thanks for letting us come hang out and ask questions tonight! Looks like a perfect place to let my crazy ideas blossom. I can always use more tools, and instead of figuring out how to acquire said tools, I get get on with the project. Open house sold me!


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Clearly see areas of past and future focus. Identify user stories that are in the wrong place.
Multi-dimensional backlog shows the time down the left-hand side (using iterations), whilst showing 'the business' a more familiar view, with either Area Paths or Tags (along the x-axis).
Each of the blobs on the chart, represents an issue / work item. Colours show the state on the board whilst the size is the relative size.
The task burndown (in hours) runs off the left axis whilst the story burndown (in story points) is shown on the right axis.
SenseAdapt is 'actionable' so you can drillinto the items within the chart. Something that is NOT possible with other visualisations.
Rapidly filter the chart by selecting states at the top. A quick way to see what work is currently 'in progress' or is about to be started.
This is a good way to show items that are in the wrong place. Some items that have fallen into the root directory and will not be showing up in the key metrics.


The weather was truly on our side on Sunday 20th July as Vanza friends and family gathered in Richmond Park. After spending the week avidly checking weather reports hoping that Sunday's predicted thunderstorms would move to Monday, we were relieved to have caught a break and had sunshine and a mild afternoon.
As the afternoon drew on and appetites had been worked up, there was one more thing to do before sitting down for the picnic: the VCSL original potato-and-spoon race. This year however, we had a new adaptation to the game that caused quite the stir- onions. Three races later with varying degrees of cheating (you know who you are!) and/or dropped veg, it was finally time for food.
We had a delicious assortment of mouth-watering foods from traditional English picnic sandwiches to hot and spicy bhajias to flavoursome egg less banana muffins – there was something to everyone's taste and enough food to satisfy everyone's appetite. As people enjoyed platefuls of food they had a chance to catch up with friends and family and have that overdue gossip!
The whole afternoon was incredibly relaxed and we all went home having thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. As I already mentioned, we were really lucky with the weather; as soon as we left the park, the heavens opened and it started raining – a typical English summer's day. We hope that next year's picnic will be just as successful and the company just as good!


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The property is just 45 minutes north of Manhattan which means that you can easily visit the spa on a day trip. Have a romantic dinner at the award-winning Equus, and take a stroll in the woods. The hotel has an outdoor swimming pool with a Jacuzzi, fitness center, and offers luxurious in-room spa services for additional relaxation on your weekend trip.
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THC detoxification pills – do they work?
By Stephen Butler October 18, 2022 2 Mins Read
THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) is the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. It works by binding to cannabinoid receptors in the brain and central nervous system. These receptors are involved in a variety of functions, including mood, memory, appetite, and pain sensation.
When THC binds to these receptors, it causes changes in the brain that result in the "high" feeling often associated with marijuana use. However, THC also has some other effects, including increased heart rate, dry mouth, and bloodshot eyes.
THC can stay in your system for a long time. The length of time depends on how often and how much you smoke, but it can be detectable in urine for up to 30 days after your last use. This can be a problem if you're subject to drug testing at work or school.
The first drug detoxification pill we'll look at is called Super Cleansing Formula. This pill is marketed as a "natural" way to cleanse your system of drugs and toxins. The website claims that the ingredients in the pill will help to "detoxify" your body and remove any traces of drug use. However, there is no scientific evidence to support these claims.
In fact, the only ingredient in the pill that has been shown to have any effect on drug metabolism is milk thistle, which is present in very small amounts. Furthermore, there are no studies that show that this pill actually helps people to detoxify from drugs or pass drug tests.
The second drug detoxification pill we'll examine is called Detox Formula #2. This pill also claims to be a "natural" way to cleanse your system, and like Super Cleansing Formula, there is no scientific evidence to support these claims. The website for Detox Formula #2 does not list any ingredients, so it's impossible to say what, if anything, this pill contains that might help with drug detoxification.
The third and final thc detox pills we'll look at is called Drug Detox Miracle Pill. This pill markets itself as a "miracle" cure for drug addiction, claiming that it can help people to get off drugs in just 30 days. However, once again, there is no scientific evidence to support these claims. The website for Drug Detox Miracle Pill contains a lot of testimonials from people who claim that the pill helped them to overcome their addiction, but testimonials are not scientific evidence.
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Last night is all a bit of blur, but what I did realise is that when fear and adrenaline set in, we humans are a different kettle of fish. I must have run up that mountain 10 times whereas on a normal day I huff and puff up it once. The sight of the fire roaring towards the dogs was enough for anyone's superpower to kick in. It was like we had a Batman distress signal in the air.
The neighbours all came flooding across to help us beat the fire. Everyone just kicked in and got the job done. Without our neighbours and our awesome Dogtown team, I may have been writing a very different story this morning. But I am extremely grateful that we managed to not only keep the fire at bay, we managed to put it out ourselves. Which is just as well as the fire brigade only got there 2 hours after we called them. So for those 2 hours, we were running frantic and making sure the dogs were ok at all times. Of course, this always seems to happen on a Sunday in the evening and running around 50 acres of land in the dark is not for sissies. Dogtown looked like a rock concert with everyone holding up their cell phone lights to see where we were. One of the huge saving graces is the fact some of us have walkie-talkies so we could at least communicate with each other as we divided and conquered where the raging fire flared up next. We need to get more walkie-talkies urgently.
Everyone that arrived to help knew the priority was to keep the fire away from the dogs. We had a pretty big fire break around the dogs' areas but we also had various other fire breaks around the farm and the fire was right beside us, so it had obviously jumped some of the firebreaks somewhere along the line. The fact that it was probably the windiest day we've had this year didn't help the matters at all. Our neighbours had a fire earlier in the day and the fire brigade assured us all it was out but obviously, the wind had sent a few embers across and it slowly built up until it came sweeping across our farm.
The next morning, sitting among the aftermath of the fire at the top of our mountain, the smell of everything burnt and the desolate area that was once filled with bushes leaves you with an eerie feeling. I couldn't help worry about all the wildlife we come across every day, hoping they all managed to escape the blaze.
Looking down on the top octagons I was so grateful to be a part of a community that probably jumped up from their dinner plates to come and help some crazy dog people running around the mountain. The scary thing is we have a procedure in place and we had done what was advised. But when it comes to the reality of a fire engulfing the rescue centre everything in your being sets to survival mode and you end up doing things you didn't even think you were capable of.
Even though we believed we were prepared for such a disaster we were quickly given a quick jolt into reality, we were anything but prepared for such a big fire, moving at such a fast speed. We needed to get water and pressure up the mountain to be able to do anything to calm the flames. We had nothing that would allow us to do this. Fortunately, our fire beaters helped us do the job but we could have, and should have, had a portable water pressure pump, generator and water tank that we can connect to the bakkie and get to the outlying areas of the farm because that's where the fire came in from.
We found that the areas where there was precast walling the fire was stopped in its tracks. So we are looking at putting another perimeter around the dogs' area in walling but we have called on experts to come and give us solid advice. In the past, we hadn't gone that route because we simply don't have the budget for it but after the fire, we simply can't afford not to. I never want to go through that extreme fear again. So I am appealing with all my being for help to put in the best fire prevention and firefighting programme possible.
As always I believe everything is a learning experience, this was probably one I would have been happier to avoid but I'm a big stickler for learning and being educated in your field and obviously running a rescue centre also now includes firefighting skills.
Something I did learn through all of this, while I thought about last nights disaster was how we act so differently when fear sets in, it's no different for our dogs. Yip, I am that sad, everything always ends up about dog behaviour.
Now even though we had procedures and plans in place when it came down to the moment we all kind of moved to autopilot. The reason being, like dogs we hadn't practised the procedure, we hadn't rehearsed it enough that it was 2nd nature to us. So we reverted back to our survival mode. How many times do we teach a dog an alternative behaviour to stop an undesirable behaviour? Ie: we teach a jumping dog to sit because they can't jump if they are sitting. But are we practising this behaviour regularly in different locations under different circumstances under exciting and fearful situations? Probably not, so when the dog is in a situation where they are over aroused they generally fall back to their coping survival moves because we haven't habituated the new behaviour.
Can an underlying behaviour really be extinguished? My answer as always is that it depends on the dog, it depends on their genetics, their environment, their upbringing, their fear coping skills (which to me personally is the biggest factor) and of course the management of their situations.
I know through meeting rescued Vick dogs ( https://bestfriends.org/sanctuary/explore-sanctuary/dogtown/vicktory-dogs ) that most of them went on to achieve canine good citizen awards and became ambassadors for the breed. When I've spoken to the trainers involved in their rehabilitation they often said that they were not well bred "genetically". Meaning they didn't have the fighting spirit in them that some dogs have, their go-to behaviour is to flee the situation. So even though their breed and their upbringing dictated how they should act, it was not their go-to behaviour and rehabilitation was, in fact, easier than some dogs that had not gone through such a horrific experience in life.
So it proved that how you raise a dog does not guarantee the outcome. They had been raised in the worst way possible, if "its how they are raised" was, in fact, true they would never have accomplished everything they had in their lifetime. Think about it, it's the same for humans, 2 people can grow up in the same environment and one can fall onto the wrong side of the tracks and the other excel in life. So many factors contribute to how their lives develop but it my personal opinion again, I reckon it's how they cope under pressure and in fearful situations.
I know for me common sense does not always prevail when there's a panic, my fear response is to get in there and sort it out. Not always realising the dangers I put myself in but I also think that is what motivated me to start a rescue centre and take in difficult to home dogs. I can't tell you the amount of time while driving at night I've got out of my car to try and catch a stray dog. I know I should also be considering my safety but my get in there and sort it out mode kicks in and before I know it I'm km's away from my car, on my own in the dark and I'm not even sure I locked the car. That's stupid and every time I tell myself, how stupid it is and make plans for how I would deal with the situation better next time. I think my only saving grace is as I'm getting older, I am slowly getting a little wiser and thinking through things better.
Well, now I've completely digressed from the matter at hand, I'll bring everything back to the fact that we need your help to be better prepared if disaster strikes again. I realise nothing is foolproof but if we can even be a little bit more prepared next time and have the necessary firefighting tools and we practice, practice, practice. Then we have learnt from this awful experience. Email pat@dogtownsa.org for more information on how you can help.
Thank you for listening to me ramble again, that's what makes us a great family, we listen to each other and help each other through the ups and downs and there's always the crazy dog lady in every family, ours just has a lot of crazy dog lovers! We call them townies!
I love you townies and not a minute goes by when I'm not grateful for everything you help us achieve.


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Ben Andron's clever new comedy White's Lies starring Broadway diva and Tony winner Betty Buckley opened at New World Stages on Thursday May 6th. TheaterLife.com was on the isle opening night and at the festive after party at the Time Hotel.
Tuc Watkins ("Desperate Housewives" and "One Life to Live") portrays a divorce attorney Joe White, a compulsive lothario, keeping his feelings at bay with a lifetime of one night stands and a knack for turning tricks with a bevy of beautiful broads. When Joe learns his mother's dying wish is to have a grandchild, a series of outrageous events spiral out of control once Barbara (Andrea Grano), a jilted ex-girl friend,unexpectedly turns up at his office convinced that his gift for deception would make him the perfect lawyer to represent her in a pending divorce.
Director Bob Cline skillfully puts the talented top notch ensemble, which also features Peter Scolari (from TV's "Newhart), Rena Strober, Jimmy Ray Bennett and Christy Carlson Romano through their paces with panache and wit. He deftly turns the polished production (scenic design by Robert Andrew Kovach and costumes by Michael Bevins) into an delightfully nimble bumpy ride by adroitly mining the shallow tale for every imaginable laugh and then some!


It's pretty cold here in Edmonton so I'm trying to not spend too much time outside. The cold plus the elevation tires me out pretty quickly. That's just fine, though, because I'm here for long enough that I'll be able to see everyone and do everything without feeling rushed.
My one sister, her daughter, and I went to a quilt fabric store on Saturday; they had lots of nice fabrics but none that really caught my eye. Today I went to a Fabricland with the other sister and again, there were lots of nice fabrics but none that jumped out at me cooing, "buy me... you know you want me." I'm hoping to go to a different fabric shop tomorrow; I might find something there.
We looked at clothes in the Bay on Saturday and in a Winners today. I saw nice coats in both places but both were well over $200 on sale and that's kind of a ridiculous amount to pay for a coat, now, isn't it? I've had fun trying on clothes, though. In many ways it's more fun to shop with people who are also trying on lots of clothes because I get to share the experience and get/give advice on the clothes being tried. Both of my sisters and I are going to go clothes (and maybe fabric?) shopping while I'm here and I'm really looking forward to that. I think my mom and I will also be fabric shopping one day; I'm really looking forward to that, too.
My family celebrated Christmas today. It was great! My one sister hosted the celebration and made a yummy summper with a roast, yorkshire puddings, sweet potatoes, and potatoes. She also made many yummy cookies. I ate a lot of the pink ribbon ones :) Everyone seemed to like their gifts and we all talked and laughed and laughed and laughed. We finally got physically tired but this was a year where I think we couild have stayed for a couple of hours more if we didn't get so tired so quickly.
The day was not all filled with fun and great times, though. I found out that Janet, one of the women that I'd met in Westport, had died of metastatic breast cancer on Christmas Eve. We'd known that she wasn't doing well; on December 14 she was having a shunt put into her brain to release the swelling there from the brain mets and treatment, and her liver was not functioning well.
But she'd planned to go to England in February and she's made other summer plans and we'd hoped she'd pull through, but she didn't. She was 36, married to a wonderful man, and had a cute little pug. I loved her: she was kind and funny and compassionate and somehow always said the perfect thing. Janet was the cutest woman - she was shorter than me, even, and she looked gorgeous in hats. Her taste in clothes was eccentric but definitely cool. She was one of those people who everyone wanted to stand next to, and who everyone wanted to get to know better. This planet will not be the same without her.
My heart is breaking because she's dead - selfishly, I wish she was still here. I'm glad that she's not in pain or suffering anymore but I already miss her so much. I can only imagine how difficult this is for her husband - she worried about him, you know, and whether he would be ok after she was gone. I hope that he (and their dog) is ok.
I hope to see you again in a long, long, long time, my friend. Until then, be at peace, jellykins.
I'm sitting here stuffed and happy after eating a huge, delicious meal and yummy desserts made by Ian's mom. I'm so full that I can't even think of eating - and I'd saved room for dessert!
Tomorrow I leave for Edmonton; hopefully the travel issues that have been plaguing the country will be gone. The terrible weather across the country has made traveling very difficult. I'm very glad that I haven't had to be in the airport or a train station waiting for my flight. And that my luggage didn't go on a trip without me. :) At least I know that I'll get to Edmonton somehow and I'll get to see my family. I'm so excited!
I hope that you all have a good Christmas tomorrow, filled with good presents and wonderful company. I'm sure you've all been good this year so Santa should be quite good to you all.
I can't believe that it's almost Christmas!!!! I've got all my shopping done but none of it is wrapped yet. I'll be getting up early tomorrow to get all the wrapping and laundry done. I'll be leaving home tomorrow to spend a couple of days with Ian's parent's and then I'm off to Edmonton. I have a lot to do tomorrow to be ready. We're doing laundry now but I still have a lot of packing and stuff yet to finish.
Sometime after I get back from Edmonton in January, I need to see my family doctor about my lower back. My physiotherapist is encouraging me to find out what's going on there. I do think that it's related to improper dragonboat paddling posture and I hope that there's something that can be done to lessen the pain.
You wouldn't think that I'd be in such pain, would you, because I take a boatload of painkillers? Well, yeah, me too. But the pain in my lower back has been increasing steadily over time and since I'm not taking the painkillers for it, I'm not going to go and increase those ones. There is another one - Celebrex - that lessens the pain at night. But even taking that, the pain is going up.
All I have left to do on my dress is to tack down the facings and sew on the buttons. Yay! I spent most of my time today putting in the invisible zipper.
Once the invisible zipper has been sewn into the seam, the next step is to close the seam below (and possibly above) the zipper. This is currently the part of inserting the zipper with which I have the most trouble. Because the zipper teeth lie right on the seamline and create a bump there, it's very hard to join the seam below without going off-track or making a bump or bubble on the right side of the garment.
In the past I've just sewn the last stitch or two by hand, which makes the seam look perfect. However, I'd rather avoid hand-sewing, if possible. So today I took extra time with the invisible zipper, trying to find a way to sew this part by machine. I think I've got a technique that'll work but I want to give it a try some more before I post it.
We had a winter storm (dubbed "snowmageddon" by some local news people) blow through today so I stayed cozy inside instead of venturing out into the storm. I sewed all afternoon and part of the evening, and now I'm almost finished the vintage pattern dress that I'm working on. I'm so excited - it looks really, really good and I already know that it fits :) It's going to be so awesome!!!!
All I have left to do is put in the zipper and buttons/buttonholes, hem it, and hand-sew the facings down. It'll take a while to do all that but not as long as you might think - I have a procedure for putting invisible zippers in so I don't have to undo and redo the zipper if things don't match.
Well, ok, it's not much of a procedure, but it works for me: first, baste the seam to receive the zipper closed, making sure that the match points and cross-seams are matched. Press the basted seam open. Lay the invisible zipper right-side down on the seam allowances, lining up the middle of the zipper with the basted seamline and pinning one side in place. Sew that side of the zipper tape to the seam allowance only, keeping the rest of the fabric out of the way. Then make sure that the zipper is flat on the opened seam allowance, and pin and sew the remaining zipper tape to the other side of the seam allowance. Remove the basting stitches and stitch the invisible zipper in place using the invisible zipper foot.
I've been feeling out of sorts over the last few days: I've been alternating between rage and tears with calm times in between. I was driving around today and I was really angry at one point, which doesn't improve my driving (some might say that it has the opposite effect), so I calmed myself down and tried to figure out just why I'm so emotional. I can't be PMSing because I don't have the hormones around to do that.
I realized that part of the reason I was angry right then was because of the driving experience: there are more people on the road than usual, and many of those people seem to be unaccustomed to driving and/or don't know where they're going. I'm the kind of person who knows where I'm going and I want to get there; people who are meandering around in their cars drive me nuts.
But I haven't been driving all the time that I've been emotional lately. Of course I have been in quite a lot of pain lately because of my tooth and sinus.... and thinking back, pain makes me cranky and when I'm cranky I get moody. So I expect that a large part of my moodiness is related to the pain I feel - chronic pain is a terrible thing.
I don't think that's the whole story, though. I know that there's the Christmas stuff going on and I'm still mourning my dad, but I don't think that these are the major components of my present moodiness. Remember I was asking about what I could tell people when they ask what I do? I've realized that the real issue here is more that I need to learn to value what I do right now and not what I used to do. And I think this is what's bothering me most now: I'm searching for meaning in my life. You wouldn't think that this would make me angry and teary, would you? Well, except that searching for meaning tends to leave me feeling a bit down, and that easily transforms itself into anger and sadness.
So.... knowing this, I can hopefully deal with it in some way. I have more tools in my arsenal now with the meditation and journaling so maybe I can do this without avoiding the negative issues altogether.
The movie takes place after zombies have already wiped out most of humanity and lives in fortified cities with power and a sort of frontier culture. They have hardware and make runs out to the surrounding city to get things. One alpha-zombie starts to follow them and leads the rest of the zombies to the fortified city.
There are other things going on in the movie and there's a whole story to the whole thing, but for me the best part was the zombies and their behaviour. I found this movie a bit scarier than most of the other movies I've watched because in many ways it seemed more realistic. Watching the zombies learn to use tools and to overrun the city was breathtakingly frightening. There are scenes in the movie that are a bit disturbing (such as when the zombies are feeding, as well as some of the deaths) but for the most part, it isn't too gory.
We really enjoyed this movie and highly recommend it. Even during the holiday season.
I chose the fabric for my dress today - after hemming and hawing and looking over many of my fabrics, I chose the fabric that I bought in Lexington. Apparently it was called Stratosphere by Robert Kaufman (although the fabric has been discontinued and is quite hard to find) and it comes in several colourways. My favourite colourway is the one I'm using: the one used in this bag. Isn't it gorgeous? The light and medium blue circles with the white lines pop off of the black background! I love love love this fabric soooo much and I think it'll look beautiful in this dress.
I only managed to cut out the pieces today because I got up late and had to get my port flushed. Fortunately, the home care nurse was able to flush my port without help. Unfortunately, the nurse was there for about an hour which cut into my available time. I didn't mind that much because it sounded like she had a lot going on with some patients that weren't doing well. So if it helped her to just sit for a bit and use my phone, well, that's ok with me.
I've finished working on one of my vintage patterns and I'm very, very pleased with the fit. I did a sample outfit to make sure everything was where it should be and, well, it is :) Even Ian said that the dress lines and fit were flattering on me. Now all I have to do is figure out which fabric to use - I'm thinking of using my cherry corduroy fabric but I also have this houndstooth that's really nice. We'll see.
Thanks for all of your one-line answer suggestions and wording for when people ask what I do. I never really thought about talking about what I consider my hobbies - making jewelry and sewing - instead of talking about where I was working when I worked outside the home.
I was thinking about this today and I realized that one of the reasons I find this so hard is that I'm still not in a place where I feel that I'm contributing to society. And even though I know that it shouldn't matter, I worry that if I tell people that I'm not working in the workforce, they'll think less of me. If we had kids I could say that I was a mom and I feel that would be more socially acceptable than not working at all.
But being home without kids and not working isn't something our society really values, at least in my mind. Or maybe it's something that I never really valued - after all, I valued work over almost everything else - and so I'm having a hard time valuing my non-work contributions to society and the people around me. I think it would be healthier for me to accept my life and value it for what it is, but doing that will take time.
I was also thinking about whether or not to tell people that the reason I'm not working is because I have cancer. I usually don't to tell people about the cancer because I feel that it's too deep of a subject for a light social gathering and because I don't really want to deal with people's reactions to my cancer. Not to mention the fact that I want people I meet to see that there's more to me than just the cancer - in other words, I don't want to be defined solely by my cancer. So unless people push it - and make no mistake, some do - I think I won't mention the cancer.
Finally, I've also been thinking about whether and how to word the fact that I'm not working because of a medical issue. Do I say that I'm on long-term disability, on leave, on medical leave, on disability, or something else? I know that I'm on disability and all, but I don't like to think of myself as disabled, you know? I guess I'm not quite comfortable with that label so I think I wouldn't say LTD or disability, which leaves the "on leave" options. Of course being on medical leave is true whereas being on leave isn't quite as precisely true.
Hmmmmmm.... it just occurred to me that if I could just get over the fact that I seem to place more value on my work as an employee than on living my life, I wouldn't even need to tell people that I have an employer, would I? I could dodge that bullet altogether!
So all I have to do in order to find the optimal phrase - and believe it, which is important to me - is get over the fact that I don't work outside the home for someone, and learn to value my intangible contributions to society and the people around me, and talk about those. Thanks, everyone!
Christmas is less than two weeks away and of course we hadn't done much in the way of shopping before now. The holiday kind of crept up on me, which isn't that much of a surprise given that I've been sick and all. The days have all sort of blended together with the only remarkable days being the ones where I either get something done or I'm in pain.
The other day I was in pain; I thought that my temporary filling had come out. I saw another dentist to check it out and fortunately, the filling is fine; it's the sinus that's the problem. They did an xray and showed me that the edge of the root of that tooth rests against the sinus cavity - I knew the root was close to the edge but not that they were basically lying next to each other.
Ian's Christmas party was tonight. I didn't quite finish the dress in time - if I'd had an extra couple of hours I could have done it but the time wasn't there. I wore the outfit I already had, which was fine - I looked good :) I definitely will finish the dress (and re-use the pattern) because it looks good on me.
The party was fun; we had turducken for dinner and some kind of creamy pudding thing for dessert. The opening salad was very elegantly displayed: the salad dressing was contained in a hollowed out cucumber and the vegetable toppings were spilling out of a tomato. It was both lovely and delicious!
The thing is, whenever I meet new people, they ask what I do for a living.... and I don't know what to tell them. Tonight I awkwardly mumbled some stuff about "being on medical leave", or "on leave right now" from the company I work for. I'm uncomfortable telling people that I'm at home because I don't have kids and I feel weird about not having a job, you know? I feel like I need a good, one-line thing to tell people that is truthful, rolls off the tongue easily, but doesn't give too much away - do any of you have one?
Ian's company Christmas party is on Friday.... and although I have an outfit to wear, it's always nice to have something new. I have some black lace striped fabric and some shiny black lightweight satin stuff, and looking through my patterns, I thought the fabrics would work for the dress in this pattern (with the satin fabric used on the neck and waist part). I think it'll look good if I finish in time and if I don't, as I say, I have another outfit to wear.
I am happy to report that although I'm still sick, I'm feeling a bit better - my throat is less sore, although my ears are still as stuffy.
Oh, will this tiredness and sore throat never end? I saw a doctor about my throat today but there's no bacterial infection and so there was nothing that he could give me. He did prescribe some eyedrops for the eye that's infected - yes, one of my eyes has pinkeye. Again.
I also talked to the dentist who did the temporary filling, and since the tooth does feel a bit better since the temporary filling (it's hard to tell, because the rest of my face feels awful), I can have that filling replaced when I get back from Edmonton. I don't want to take a chance on getting it replaced before I go because I don't want to be sicker before I go. I just hope that the temporary filling isn't what's making my throat sore.
Later on, I saw the oral surgeon that had ordered the CT scan of my jaw. The CT scan came back fine - there's no osteonecrosis or mets there or anything. He did say that the tooth that's been sore is VERY close to the nearby sinus cavity, and that that sinus cavity showed thickening in the CT scan (indicating a sinus infection, which is probably chronic since I didn't have symptoms at that time). He thinks that the tooth irritates the sinus cavity which irritates the tooth and which irritates the sinus cavity and on and on... and that the chronic sinus infection flares up when that tooth is worked on - which is why I get so sick after the fillings.
So.... I'll be on amoxycillin for the next days and on the eyedrops for seven days. After that, if I'm not all the way better, the oral surgeon wants to send me to see an ear, nose, and throat specialist.
The doctor said I should feel better within two days of starting the antibiotics. I'm really hoping that Thursday brings me good health.
Finally, my sore throat is gone and I'm feeling mostly better. My ears - well, one ear; yesterday it was the left one and today it's the right - are stuffed up so I can't hear all that well. The tv is up much louder than usual tonight, much to Ian's surprise :) I have a small cough that is bringing stuff up which I don't like but until it gets worse, I'll try and ignore it.
While I've been sick I haven't been outside much which is all to the good, really. We've had a LOT of snow over the last week or so and it's starting to get cold out there. Bundling up to go outside is more work than it's worth. It sure looks pretty from here, though.
I've been working on my sewing patterns. I've made some adjustments to one and have traced out another top. It turns out that the table I use for making jewelry is a great size for working on patterns. I'm looking forward to trying out these patterns when I'm feeling even better.
How can I still be sick?
I'm still sick - ugh. My throat is still very sore and has little red bumps all over the place, making it difficult to swallow. I have almost no appetite, partly because it hurts to swallow and partly because I'm still tasting the anaesthetic in the zoe filling. I did a bit of research and I discovered that some people are sensitive to one of the components of the filling (one that's used in perfumes). I guess it's possible that my sore throat is from the filling.
Then again, I could just be sick - and since Ian is not feeling his very best right now, it's possible that I really am sick with something that I gave to Ian. We've been careful to limit contact and wash our hands and stuff so it's also possible that we've both picked up something that's going around.
At least I'll get lots of rest this weekend, even if I wish I could get some sewing done. Maybe next week.
How can I be sick again?
I'm sick again. My throat is sore, my ears are plugged, my sinuses hurt, my head hurts, I'm exhausted, and I think I'm running a fever. I can't find my thermometer, so I'm not sure about the fever but I woke up drenched twice last night and since I don't get night sweats I figure it's fever.
So Stephen Harper managed to prorogue Parliament until January 26. It's made the news around the world. I guess the thinking is that the time off will make the coalition fail and will give people time to think about things. I wish that the Conservatives would stop the rhetoric crap about how the coalition is wrong and unconstitutional, because they're wrong. The coalition's efforts are allowed by the constitution, in fact. It annoys me to no end to think that the Conservatives are deliberately manipulating people by lying to them and stretching the truth.
Did you know that if local anaesthetic is injected very sloooowly, it doesn't hurt? It's true. The endodontist replaced one of my fillings with a temporary one today to see if that tooth is hurting because of the old filling. The endodentist also said that when the anaesthetic is injected slowly, the freezing takes better than if it's injected quickly. From now on, I'm asking anyone giving me local anaesthetic to do it slowly so that it don't have to hurt anymore.
My throat is a little sore as well, and it's occurred to me that the last time I had a filling done, I wound up with pneumonia afterward. Hmmm. How could that happen? I hope that I don't wind up with pneumonia (even the walking kind) again.
Oh yeah, I get to see my actual dentist tomorrow, too. I guess this is going to be a week of dentistry goodness.


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Hey, I am giving away a most excellent copy of the Japanese cut of the 1984 cult classic Troma film, Toxic Avenger. This is the one that really put the Troma Team and Lloyd Kaufman on the map and I want to give you a copy of the Japanese cut of the film (with about 6 minutes of footage not available anywhere else), autographed by the great Lloyd Kaufman. Just tell me the first movie that I ever reviewed on this site, then go to colexions.com find search for member Corey Buckner and tell me any three items in his collection. Email your replies to catfishkempster@gmail.com. The contest will run from August 6, 2014 to August 31, 2014 and If there are multiple correct entrants, then the winner will be chosen from them. PLUS: You also have a chance to win an additional DVD (of my choosing), but you'll have to watch the video to find out how.
And when you've done all that, why not go to the Troma store and buy everything there and make Lloyd Kaufman and the Troma Team ridiculously rich for the almost 40 years they have put into the business and Tromaville. Do it for Lloyd, and do it for Toxie!!!
August 6, 2014 | Categories: Calgary, Canadian, Classic, contest, crazy, dvd, funny, Toxic Avenger, Troma | Tags: bad movies, contest, dvd, free, Horror Con, Lloyd Kaufman, reviews, toxic avenger, Troma, yyc | Leave a comment
**EDIT** WE HAVE A WINNER** Get a Copy Of Manborg on DVD FOR FREE!!!
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Congrats to Scott T. of Calgary, Alberta, Canada for being the one that is first to respond. You sir, will have yourself a copy of Manborg.
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November 20, 2013 | Categories: 2000's, Awesome, b movies, blogging, contest, exploitation, Manborg, movies, Uncategorized | Tags: awesome, bad movies, free, low budget, Manborg, movie | 1 Comment
Do You Have a Blog or Site Dedicated to Bad or Weird Movies? Lets Swap Links!
How would you like to share links? I am having a lot of fun with this blog, and hope you are enjoying it too. If you have a blog or site that is dedicated to B-Movies, or weird movies…or unusual movies or what ever, I'd love to see it. Heck I might even want to feature it here… AND I would love to link to your site while having you link to mine. What do you say? We lovers of the strange need to stick together.
Email me if you are interested at ilikebadmovies@gmail.com
June 26, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: B Movies, bad movies, blog, blogging, drive in, feature, horror, links, sci-fi, science fiction, sharing | Leave a comment
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969) a.k.a. Doppelgänger – Surprisingly Well Made
Ok… Well I liked this film more than I expected!
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (also known as Doppelgänger) is a 1969 British Science Fiction film about an expedition to a new planet discovered in the same orbit as Earth, but exactly opposite the Sun as out Planet. A planet55 that turns out to be the exact mirror of our own – right down to the events, languages and people. A weird and highly improbable situation – none the less, I found the movie compelling. Average acting, but surprisingly good sets and special effects (compared to many other films high lited on this site, at least), this one is a little like a diamond in the rough.
Here is what Wikipedia has to say about the plot Remember – Wikipedia always spoils the plot:
Travelling through the Solar System in 2069, the unmanned Sun Probe locates a planet that lies on the same orbital path as Earth but is positioned on the opposite side of the Sun. Dr Kurt Hassler (Herbert Lom) of EUROSEC (EUROpean Space Exploration Council) has been transmitting Sun Probe flight data to a rival power in the East, but Security Chief Mark Neuman (George Sewell) uncovers the betrayal and shoots Hassler dead in his laboratory. EUROSEC director Jason Webb (Patrick Wymark) convinces NASA representative David Poulson (Ed Bishop) that the West must launch astronauts to investigate the planet before Hassler's allies in the East. With EUROSEC member states France and Germany unwilling to offer financial support, Webb obtains majority funding from NASA. American astronaut Colonel Glenn Ross (Roy Thinnes) and British astrophysicist Dr John Kane (Ian Hendry), head of theSun Probe project, are assigned to the mission.
Launched from the EUROSEC Space Centre in Portugal in the Phoenix spacecraft, Ross and Kane pass the first half of their six-week round trip in stasis, with "Heart Lung Kidney" machines managing their life functions. Three weeks after launch, the astronauts are revived in the orbit of the planet. Scans for the existence of extraterrestrial life prove to be inconclusive, and Ross and Kane decide to make a surface landing. While the astronauts descend through the atmosphere, an electrical storm damages their Dove lander shuttle, which crashes in a mountainous region that is revealed to be Ulan Bator, Mongolia. When an air-sea rescue unit returns Ross and Kane, the latter fighting serious injuries, to the Space Centre in Portugal, it is apparent that the Phoenix mission has been terminated after three weeks and that the astronauts have arrived back on Earth.
Neuman and EUROSEC official Lise Hartman (Loni von Friedl) interrogate Ross, who denies that he aborted the mission. Shortly after, Kane dies from the injuries that he sustained in the crash. Eventually, Ross assembles a series of clues that point him to the conclusion that he is not on Earth, but indeed on the unknown planet — a Counter-Earth that is a mirror image of his. Many, including his wife, Sharon (Lynn Loring), are baffled by his claims that all aspects of life on the planet — from the print in books to the plan of his apartment — are reversed. However, Webb is convinced of the truth when Ross demonstrates the ability to read aloud from a sign, without hesitation, when it is reflected in a mirror. Later, X-rays from Kane's post-mortem examination reveal that his internal organs are located on the wrong side of his body. Ross conjectures that the two Earths lie parallel, which would mean that the Ross from the Counter-Earth is living through similar experiences on the far side of the Sun.
Webb suggests that Ross recover the flight recorder from Phoenix, and then return to his Earth. EUROSEC constructs a replacement for Dove that is designed to be compatible with the reversed technologies of Phoenix. Modifications include the reverse-polarisation of electric circuits, although neither Ross nor the scientists can be certain that the differences between the two Earths extend to the direction of electric current. The shuttle is re-christenedDoppelganger, a term denoting a duplicate of a person or object in the original German. Lifting off and entering orbit, Ross attempts to dock with Phoenix. However, Doppelgangerexperiences a technical malfunction, indicating that current is constant after all. The shuttle detaches from Phoenix and loses contact with EUROSEC, falling through the atmosphere towards the Space Centre with Ross struggling to disengage automatic landing control. EUROSEC is unable to repair the fault from the ground, and Doppelganger crashes into a parked spacecraft. Ross is incinerated in the collision and a chain reaction obliterates the Space Centre, killing personnel and destroying all records of Ross's presence on the Counter-Earth.
Decades later, a bitter Jason Webb, long since dismissed from EUROSEC, has been admitted to a nursing home. In his dementia, the old man spies his reflection in a mirror mounted on a window. Rolling forwards in his wheelchair, and reaching out to touch his image, Webb dies when he crashes through the mirror.
Whew! that's a lot, and sorry for taking the easy way out by posting that but it is way better than I could hope. I like this movie, and say watch it, if you get a chance.
Check out the Trailer here:
June 25, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 1969, b-films, bad, bad movies, bfilms, cheesey, chezzy, Doppelgänger, drive in, film, fun, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, juxtaposition, movie, movies, sci-fi, science fiction, special effects, switch mirror | Leave a comment
Mars Need Women (1967) – And Actors
Mars needs women – they have a Y chromosome deficiency on the planet making the deficit of women to men at a 100 to 1 level (like any lan party or comic convention), and they've come to Earth to replenish their supply of babes.
A quirky, super low budget film that was made for television, this is kind of fun. Good? Oh, Hell no – but fun. A lot of actors in this are also found in Curse of the Swamp Creature and Zontar – The Thing From Venus (both reviewed on this blog), as I believe they share writers/directors. I guess there was a stable of actors for use in these crappy films.. I doubt that the film made much of a splash at the time, as it is hard to find a copy of it now. I did find a copy on Youtube (that I watched to write this), but most links reference the Rob Zombie song of the same name.
Here is the plot summary from Wikipedia:
The premise is that a military decoding station has intercepted a message, only three words, "Mars Needs Women". As the plot unfolds it's revealed that Martians have a genetic deficiency that produces only male babies. They launch a mission to Earth consisting of five Martians who recruit volunteer women to come to Mars. They meet strong resistance on the part of the Earth authorities.
Oh, and a Martian falls in love with a hot female DNA expert.
Should you watch it? Oh, probably not, but if you decide that you want to check it out on youtube.
Here's a clip:
And here is the whole thing (no, i't not in Russian – there's just Russian subtitles available if you need them):
June 19, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 1960s, 1967, abduction, agar, aliens.invasion, B Movies, bad movies, badmovies, campy, drive in, film, loopy, low budget, Mars Needs Women, Martians, movie, movies, naive, NASA, quirky, sci-fi, science fiction, silly, space, spaceship, stupid, television, watch | Leave a comment
The Stuff (1985) – The Food You Eat – That Eats You
I just watched a very silly 1985 movie called The Stuff. Loved it too…
Here's the basic idea: A man discovers a white goo like substance bubbling from the ground, weirdly decides to taste it, and it turns out to be sweet and delicious. Soon the product was being mass marketed as "The Stuff" and takes America by storm.
Marketed in a tub like Ice Cream, but with what seems like the consistency of a cross between marshmallow paste and shaving cream, people start eating it as a desert but quickly it becomes the only meal it's fans eat. Slick commercials sells the products to the masses selling it's flavour and the fact that it has zero calories – a practically miracle food it would seem. Well, have you heard the saying that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.
Well, the Stuff becomes so popular that it starts killing the Ice Cream industry. Dairy officials hire former F.B.I. agent turned industrial saboteur, David "Mo Rutherford (played by Michael Moriarty) and Junk Food King, Charles W. "Chocolate Chip Charlie" Hobbs (played by the always great Garrett Morris), to find out what's actually in The Stuff, and help destroy it.
The more he looks into just what The Stuff is, the more he realizes just how diabolical and dangerous The Stuff actually is. Teaming up with an Advertising guru that helped popularize The Stuff, a kid who discovered early how dangerous the Stuff is when it took over his family and a Militia leader (played by Paul Sorvino), the take on the manufacturer, distributer and The Stuff itself.
A definitely silly film that takes a poke at mass marketing and how the public easily falls prey to it, I have to recommend this film – it has a charm that is so rare in film. Sure it's weird – so am I and people like me (well, they say they do). Watch this film. Go out and buy the DVD, or watch it on Netflix (that's what I did)… Or even watch it for free on Youtube (I didn't know it was available there until about 30 seconds before writing this sentence). – Just watch it.
And here is the whole damned movie in it's entirety:
June 13, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 1985, advertising, bad movie, bad movies, drive in, film, free, funny, gullible, horror, Michael Moriarty, movie, must watch, Paul Sorvino, recommended, sci-fi, science fiction, silly, The Stuff, videos, youtube | Leave a comment