"If a patient has a low oxygen saturation and they respond to supplemental oxygen why don't we just put them on a non rebreather mask non-stop? It would surely provide them with enough oxygen that they would never desaturate".
Secondly, increased blood levels of O2 can suppress the ventillatory drive, especially in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) who demonstrate CO2 retention(1-2). CO2 retention, defined as increased blood gas values of CO2, can occur in patients with severe COPD (1). The mechanisms for this physiological process are still not completely understood. Carbon dioxide values, in a normal functioning system, regulates the drive to breath, via central and peripheral chemoreceptors (3). In patients with CO2 retention this mechanism is altered and their body responds to circulating levels of oxygen; lower levels of O2 facilitates breathing and higher amounts suppress (1-3). Therefore increasing the amount of delivered oxygen to a patient with this condition could possibly result in apnea.
Hyperoxia (higher than normal levels of oxygen) has also been shown have other systemic effects on the body (4-7). In the peripheral vasculature, hyperoxia causes vasoconstriction. The amounts of vasoconstriction and blood flow reduction varies in body area as the coronary arteries and brachial arteries demonstrate markedly reduced blood flow when exposed to hyperoxic states, the reduction in the cerebral arteries appears to be less (5-7). In addition to the vasoactive effects, hyperoxia can also lead to an increase in reactive oxygen species which can lead to oxidative stress and damage tissue (7).
Rarely does one chemical, tissue or system act completely in isolation. Your body is not a petri dish and we do not operate in a vacuum. The effects from something seemingly innocuous to one organ system may result in deleterious effects to another. Just because the reaction in a cell to a given amount of substance is beneficial is does not always mean that more of that chemical is always good. Human physiology is a story, with many subplots and characters with an exer-expanding number of volumes as we learn more about the body.
7 Rossi P and Boussuges A, Hyperoxia-induced arterial compliance decrease in healthy man, Clin Physiol Funct Imaging. 2005 Jan;25(1):10-5 source.


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Guatemala: Forgotten Trauma
Samuel Loewenberg ventures to Guatemala to survey the underlying issues of the Central American country's extreme poverty. There, income inequality equals the worst in Africa - particularly among indigenous communities. In some regions, an estimated 75 percent of the children from infants to the ages of 6 and 7 are chronically malnourished. It is a startling example of food scarcity in a country a mere four-hour flight away from the U.S.
Loewenberg also explores Guatemala's close economic ties with the U.S. as Guatemalan workers are being driven out due to immigration crackdowns and the reverberating economic crisis. Many Guatemalans are dependent on remittances sent from the U.S. and experts now worry that the country is facing a demographic time bomb as men return home from the U.S. without work or prospects.
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More than two million Guatemalans live in extreme poverty, and nearly half of the children in Guatemala are malnourished. In some areas, nearly every child is affected.
Most suffer from chronic malnutrition, which means that while they are getting enough calories, the food they eat is severely lacking in vitamins and protein.
As Samuel Loewenberg reports, this poor nutrition affects not only their bodies, but their future.
Guatemala: Behind the Famine
Last month, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared a "state of calamity" as Guatemala experiences the worst drought in 70 years. Approximately half of the population lives below the poverty line and 50 percent of children are suffering from chronic malnutrition. But these are only the surface casualties of a vulnerable nation ravaged by 36 years of civil war, genocide and now, the encroaching drug war spilling over from the northern border with Mexico.
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Tarzan's Treasured Tigers (1924) - In an attempt to capitalize on the increasing popularity of the Tarzan stories first published a decade earlier, the studio decided to make a feature-length film with the Our Gang characters based on those stories. Mickey Daniels was cast as Tarzan, Mary Kornman as Jane, Jackie Condon as Boy, and the monkey that would be in "One Wild Ride" as Cheeta. The native African tribe that worshiped tigers consisted of Ernie, Farina, Pineapple, Powder-Puff, and Mango. Joe Cobb was the leader of many less prominent characters, on a big game hunting expedition intent on bagging some of these rare tigers.
Tarzan and Jane decide Boy's hair needs to be cut for the first time. Terrified of the knife about to be used and preferring his natural hair style, we see Jackie jump onto the vine by their treehouse, swing on that and several more vines, and finally drop to the ground. Unfortunately he lands in a pool of quicksand, and there is a long sequence showing him struggling and gradually sinking until he is in a little past his waist, realistically stopping when his body displaces an amount of quicksand equal to his weight. Tarzan, Jane, and Cheeta search for Boy in different directions. Meanwhile, Joe's band tracks tiger droppings to the native village. When Chief Ernie doesn't tell Joe where the tigers can be found, there is a fight which sends the natives scattering. Joe's group continues in the direction they were going.
Cheeta finds Jackie, and is about to go back to Tarzan for help when he sees Farina, whose hair is in the style from "No Noise" or "Stage Fright" and kind of resembles Jackie's. Since Farina is close, Cheeta tries to direct him to help, but winds up scaring Farina into running into the quicksand. An identical long sequence shows Farina struggling and sinking, with the same result as Jackie. They wind up about five yards apart, but totally stuck.
Mary comes across the native village after they regroup, but they mistake her for a member of Joe's expedition, grab her perhaps thinking she is part of Joe's expedition, and prepare a large pot of boiling water. She screams, and Mickey, who had started out in the wrong direction, hears her and swings into action after making his customary yell. Cheeta finds Mickey, and directs him to the stuck boys, but when Mickey sees they're not hurt, he leaves them there to teach them a lesson. He then sneaks up to the village, and quick as lightning knocks Ernie, Pineapple, and Powder-Puff out and ties them to trees. Mary isn't sure what happened, but when the natives wake up they explain about the tiger hunt, and that they were only inviting Mary for dinner, not to be dinner. Mickey isn't sure, so he leaves them tied up, and tells Mary to take care of Mango, who is too little to understand any of what's going on.
After a couple hours, our hero catches up to Joe's expedition. The group is so clueless they let Mickey knock them out one by one, and break all their rifles. When he finally gets to the leader, he threatens Joe, who is scared into promising to stop hunting and never set foot in Africa again. Mickey then calls a herd of elephants to carry Joe and his group away to the shore. The elephants are highly intelligent and make sure the hunting party leaves and disappears over the horizon.
With film running low, Mickey hurries back to the quicksand where, with the aid of special effects that make it look easier than it really is, pulls Jackie and Farina out. Since they seem to be friends now, Tarzan Mickey is kind to the natives, cuts them loose, and takes them up on their offer for dinner before going home. When Mary asks Jackie does he realize how much trouble he's caused by not wanting his hair cut, he replies that if he hadn't run away, the hunters would have gotten the tigers. Therefore Mickey and Mary let Jackie keep his long hair.
At the screening after the film was completed, it was pointed out that while the alliteration of the title sounds nice, Africa is the wrong continent for tigers. It was confusing whether the natives were good or bad, and that the whole thing didn't make sense. It was never released to the public.
Behind the scenes rumors that cannot be verified:
At the time Joe was shorter than Jackie, but Jackie got the part of Boy because no one wanted to see Joe in a loincloth.
Due to lack of good planning, the filming was done in strict chronological order. It was too much trouble pulling Jackie and Farina out of the quicksand every time there was a brief scene showing them, so for twenty shooting days they were left in the quicksand for eight hours at at time. Food and water were tossed to them throughout the days.
Powder-Puff was so embarrassed at this film, having spent several days looking pathetic tied to a tree in a tiger-stripe loincloth, that he requested his real name be removed from all records of Our Gang activity after receiving his final paycheck in cash.
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Zombie Apocalypse (1928)
This follow up to Spook Spoofing was filmed at the same time and used a great deal of discarded footage from its companion piece. In this storyline Farina's Mumbo Jumbo charm actually works and he does indeed kill Harry. When Farina arrives at the cemetery with Harry's corpse the grave yard witch casts a spell up the bowler hat wearing corpse and turns him into a zombie. Half dead Harry bites Farina's arm and turns him into a zombie too. The decaying pair find their way into the mausoleum where Jay and Joe are hiding, there then ensues a frantic and nail biting chase as the lumbering zombie pair pursue the terrified boys through the cobwebbed darkness. Eventually Jay is cornered and one of his skinny legs is bitten by Harry. Hearing his friend's scream Joe hesitates and in doing so falls foul of Farina who quickly converts him to the joys of zombiness too. The half dead foursome emerge into the storm lashed graveyard and quickly locate Jackie, who has caught his trousers on a tree branch and is unable to escape. The grave yard witch cackles and tells her growing army of zombies to unleash the zombie plague upon the entire world. Fortunately Wheezer, who is hiding behind a tombstone observing the whole thing, has a brain wave and shouts at Joe "Eat the witch, she tastes like a doughnut." The ever hungry Joe does as instructed and instead of simply biting the old crone he eats every last scrap of her, down to her boot laces. Once the witch has been eaten the zombification spell is broken and the boys return to normal. They all cheer and pat each other on the back in congratulation, except for Jay R. who hits Harry over the head with a piece of wood and says, "That's pay back for biting my leg you little swine. It really hurt and I probably need a tetanus shot now too."
Unfortunately the US board of film censorship refused to pass this movie for cinema release on the grounds that it was too dark. Not for the storyline however just because of the lack of adequate lighting.
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A Clockwork Watermelon (1927)
Harry finds a bottle of illegal Canadian whiskey and decides to try it. He sits on the steps of a concert hall where a visiting concert pianist is playing a selection of Beethoven compositions. Half an hour later he's as fighting drunk as a skunk and raring for some ultra violence. He spots the rest of the Gang approaching and walks over to meet them and then launches an unprovoked attack on Farina. The rest of the gang simply stand by and laugh.
"Why did you do that?" asks Joe when Harry eventually stops for breath.
Harry shrugs, "It seemed like a good idea at the time, anyway it's fun beating people up."
"Is it?" Asks Jay R. "Perhaps we should try it too, just to find out?"
"I'm up for it," agrees Joe.
Jackie Condon kicks the prone Farina and laughs, "It seems like fun to me too so count me in."
"And me, I wanna hit some boys for a change," agrees Mary Ann
"Can I jab people with a pin?" Asks Jean.
Harry nods, "Sure thing but you all have to wear bowler hats, just like me, and we can be called droogs instead of Our Gang, okay?"
The rest nod in agreement and then run off to their various homes to borrow bowler hats.
The droogs reassemble ten minutes later and go on the prowl looking for other kids to beat up...
This short opening snippet is all that remains of one of the Gang's most controversial movies. The rest of the movie has been declared lost although according to Hal Roach ledgers some scenes were cut into Olympic Games. In its day the movie caused a massive controversy and was instrumental in launching a heated public debate about the pros and cons of hitting people for fun. Those in favor of hitting people won the argument by simply resorting to violence and hitting their opponents. However the film was withdraw from public circulation in cinemas after it was linked to sporadic outbreaks of vandalism and violence by children who were wearing bowler hats and humming Beethoven tunes.
1938 A Fake Odyssey (1937)
Spanky leaves his house one fine sunny morning and is surprised to see a tall black rectangular object standing in the middle of his front yard. Elmer the monkey is engaged in hitting the object with a hammer and chisel. Spanky is puzzled, the object certainly wasn't there when he came home the previous day. Puzzled, he walks around it, careful to keep a safe distance, before running off to fetch the rest of the Gang.
"Maybe it's one of those whatchamacallits?" Suggests Buckwheat.
"That's exactly what it is," agrees Alfalfa, nodding his head enthusiastically.
Spanky looks a little doubtful, "But what does it do? What's it for?"
Porky shrugs, "I dunno."
Just then Darla arrives hand in hand with her latest boyfriend, Deadpan Switzer, who stands almost two feet taller than her.
"What do you reckon on this Darla?" Asked Spanky.
Darla frowns in concentration for a moment before replying, "Err it's very nice Spanky. I think everyone should have one but I'd like a pink one, black is a little bit depressing don't you think? I mean you wouldn't be able to see it at night."
"Just like me," adds Buckwheat gleefully.
"We can always spot you by your eyes and your teeth," replies Spanky.
"One days I'm gonna creep up on you in the middle of the night an' I'll be wearing sun glasses and I'll keep my mouth closed an' you won't know what's hit you fat boy," replies Buckwheat.
Elmer the monkey has fetched a blow torch from Spanky's garage and it focusing the flame on one small area of the black object, he shakes his head, baffled by his inability to make even a slight mark on its smooth black surface.
"Can we go and do something instead of just standing here looking at a dumb black thingamajig?" Protests Alfalfa.
Just then there is a sudden flash of light and the black object has mysterious disappeared, leaving no trace.
Elmer packs up his tools and returns them to the garage.
Deadpan shakes his head sadly, "You kids have just messed up the biggest opportunity of our lives. That thing was obviously built by an alien civilization and sent here to look for signs of intelligent life. Thanks to you lot it's now decided that there is no intelligent life here and now it's gone someplace else to look for it. What a missed opportunity, we could have communicated with beings from another planet, learned the secrets of the universe, unlocked space travel and quantum mechanics." Seeing the blank looks on the faces of the rest of the Gang Deadpan simplifies things, "We could have been famous. This could have been the most important event in the history of mankind but you lot blew it."
"So," replies Alfalfa crossing his eyes and spinning one finger close to his temple, "Now that Einstein's made his crazy speech let's get on to the really import things okay?" He turns to Spanky,"So great and rotund leader, where are we going to go and what are we going to do?"
"Let's go and buy an ice cream soda with six straws," suggests Spanky.
"Make that seven," says Elmer, "I'm coming too."
Seizing Caesar (1937) - The club wants to raise money for new football equipment, so Spanky decides to put on a performance of "Julius Caesar." He has to take the title role, and tells Alfalfa to play Marc Antony, Darla to play Cleopatra, Porky to play Brutus, Buckwheat to be a slave, and all the unimportant members the Roman army. After extensive advertising, no one shows up to see the play. Spanky leads the group outside to find out why. He encounters a teenage loner, who resembles someone Wheezer once told him about, named Harry. Spanky asks him if he knows what's going on, and gets the reply,
"Are you out of your mind? Kids don't like Shakespeare, and they have much better things to do on a Saturday afternoon than watch and pay for your stupid play. They're out playing ball, swimming, fishing, some are working, like regular kids. In fact, I can't believe any of those kid shows drew any audience, but they're all normal now, and they're not going to in the future. Now good-bye, and don't bother me any more!"
Alfalfa asks, "are we still going to do the play?"
Porky: "I still want to stab Spanky in the back."
Spanky: "I feel like I've already been stabbed in the back."
Porky stabs Spanky with his cheap plastic sword anyway. Spanky emotes, "Et tu, Porky?" and falls on his face, ending the film. On the bright side, Buckwheat was glad that he didn't have to do any slave things and Darla was happy she didn't have to kiss Alfalfa, who never kicked his habit of eating onions before big performances.
After a one-day run this film was pulled from all theaters, and refunds were given under the condition that the film never be mentioned.
The Matinee Tricks (1938)
The movie starts with Alfalfa outside the cinema one Saturday afternoon waiting for the rest of the Gang to turn up. However nobody does show up because they've all been invited to an impromptu party by Butch. Eventually Alfalfa gets fed up waiting and goes into the cinema alone. The cinema is virtually empty as the movie had been running for several weeks and most of the kids in town have already seen the film, several times. Alfalfa takes a seat in the front row and pays little attention to the far too familiar movie, soon his eyelids begin to grow heavy.
Suddenly a voice speaks directly to Alfalfa, he starts up in his seat and looks around frantically. The cinema is now deserted but the movie is still running. Again the voice speaks and Alfalfa realizes that it is coming from the cinema screen.
"Welcome Alfalfa" says the voice as swirling black and white patterns cover the screen. "It is I, Naughty Gus. You think you've been looking for me but in reality I've been looking for you for days. You want to know what the matinee really is don't you?"
Alfalfa nods eagerly.
"Look on the empty seat next to you," instructs the voice, "There is a chocolate sundae and a bag of popcorn. If you choose the chocolate sundae I'll show you the truth behind the matinee. But it will be dangerous and once you start upon the journey there is no going back."
Alfalfa swallows nervously and asks in a trembling voice, "Is there a second choice?"
The voice replies, "It you have a cowardly nature and prefer ignorance and safety to knowing the truth about the matinee simply choose the popcorn and the film you were watching will resume and you'll forget that you ever heard my voice."
Alfalfa picks up the tub of chocolate sundae and the bag of popcorn and appears indecisive.
"To give you some time in which to make your decision there will be a short intermission," instructs the voice, "Here is a Felix the Cat cartoon, you have five minutes to make your choice."
Alfalfa holds the tub in one hand and the bag of popcorn in the other, "Matinee or safety" he whispers as he watches Felix clambering over a mess of girders high on the New York Skyline. His eyes grow tired and begin to close.
A voice wakes him up. "Sorry dearie you'll have to go, you've been here for hours and the next show is due to start soon. It's got Lon Chaney in it and it's not suitable for children. Come on dearie, time to go home"
Alfalfa rubs his eyes and stands up.
"Oh you've spilled your popcorn," says the usherette, she lowers her voice a little, "Don't worry I'll give you some fresh popcorn on the way out."
"But where's my chocolate sundae?" Asks a confused Alfalfa.
The usherette shakes her head, "I was the one who sold the refreshments. You didn't have a sundae, I distinctly remember that you chose popcorn."
This film was part of a cost cutting exercise made by MGM who had envisaged make a number of similar movies each featuring only one Rascal at a time. However the audience at the trial screenings complained that Alfalfa should have chosen the chocolate sundae as that had far more potential for an interesting storyline. This negative feedback coupled with the cost of psychiatric treatment required by the confused Carl Swizter, who was apparently convinced that there was some unknown truth about the matinee which had been kept from him, meant that the movie was shelved and left to gather dust. Twenty years later during a TV interview Carl Switzer declared that the shelving of the movie had been a deliberate ploy to suppress any questioning of the true nature of the matinee.
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Mathematricks (1929)
After negotiating a sponsorship deal with 'Numeracy 4 Nuts', an alternative mathematics foundation Hal Roach agreed to make a mathematics based Our Gang movie, the result was Mathematricks. During its initial screening for the 'Numeracy 4 Nuts' executives the film was seized by government agents and impounded. It was considered by many high ranking mathematicians to be a work of pure anarchy which threatened the numeracy of the nation. Only one copy of this strange movie still exists and that one is kept under lock and key at the Smithsonian Institute. There is a long and complicated procedure which must be first gone through in order to view the movie and then only under the supervision of the archives curator and two armed guards.
There isn't much in the way of a story but apparently the 'Numeracy 4 Nuts' foundation wanted it that way. The episode largely takes place in the Hal Roach Studios classroom, where a stand in for studio teacher Fern Carter was used. Miss Fern Cotton is engaged in teaching four of the Our Gangers mathematics. She explains the new 'Nuts Numeracy' philosophy to the kids telling them that any sheep can copy their teacher and find the correct answer to a sum but it takes imagination and creativity to produce a wrong answer and then give a convincing explanation as to how it was reached. Pretty quickly Farina and Joe cotton on to the principles. Joe imaginatively misses an entire one hundred out of the answer to a multiplication problem and explains that the hundred column is actually still there but it is in a different time stream and isn't visible in our present. He also misses the numeral 8 from the answer to a long division problem, giving the answer as 273 instead of 2738. Apparently the Pope had recently proclaimed a injunction against the use of the number 8 in mathematical problems on Wednesday afternoons in Culver City or at least Joe claimed that he had. Miss Cotton gives Joe a gold star to stick on his school book. Eager to show that he could equal anything that Joe could do, Farina also produced two wrong multiplication answers. He explains that he added an extra 1 to the first answer because it was the first problem and took two units away from the second answer because it was the second problem. Farina was rewarded with a gold star too. Jean stuck Miss Cotton with a pin and then complained that the whole thing was silly and that she couldn't give any answers to any of the problems because invisible pixies had magicked all the numbers away. Miss Cotton gave her a gold star too. Harry simply drew a picture of his cat and picked his nose. Miss Cotton gave him a gold star too, so that he wouldn't feel left out.
Emergency Exit (1940)
This episode starts with Mickey arriving at the Our Gang club house. Nobody is there yet so he climbs up to the old hay loft and tired from lack of sleep, because he was worrying about his parents all night, the small boy falls asleep.
The sound of voices wakes him and Mickey is about to climb down from the hay loft when he realizes that the Gang are talking about someone that they don't like.
'He's a total pest' says Spanky, 'always trailing around behind us. Doesn't he realize that he's not wanted?"
"We could just tell him straight out," suggests Alfalfa, "Next time we see him we can all just shout 'Get Lost' and turn our backs on him."
"Good idea," says Spanky, "Let's put it to the vote. All members of the He-owl that gets mistaken for a brown eagle in a chipmunk suit club raise you right hand if you agree with chairman Alfalfa's suggestion."
Spanky does a quick count, "That's everybody if you include Porky, he had his left hand up but he can't tell the difference 'tween left and right."
"Neither can I" replies Alfalfa, "I just made a lucky guess."
Everybody laughs except for Mickey. The small boy watches as the rest of the Gang leave the club house to play a game of baseball before lunch. Alone once more Mickey sobs and wails, "Why does nobody like me?" He squeals, "My new daddy won't talk to me, my own mummy even forgot my name and called me Bobby. Now the Gang hates me too. I can't stand this any more, I make everyone's life a misery." He looks up at a wooden beam and spots an old length of rope.
"You're doing that all wrong," says a voice.
Mickey guiltily drops the rope that's been trying to form into a noose and turns his head rapidly left and right.
"Over here."
Mickey glances at a stack of old straw bales and spots Deadpan Switzer and Uh-huh sitting there sharing a packet of pop corn. Deadpan jumps down and crosses the dusty loft. He extends his hand and says, "Here, give me the rope and I'll tie a proper noose for you. I learned how to do them in scouts."
Uh-huh jumps down from the straw bales and joins them too. "So why do you want a noose Mickey? Are you planning on saying goodbye to the rest of us, permanently?"
Mickey hangs his head and begins to sob again as he explains how his daddy and mummy have treated him and how the Gang doesn't want him around any more.
Uh-huh shakes his head and says, "Uh uh, you've got it all wrong Michael, hasn't he Deadpan?"
Deadpan finishes tying the noose and nods his head and says, "Uh huh. Your new daddy doesn't talk to you because he's dumb, didn't you notice that he's got no tongue? Bootleggers cut it out when he narked on them to the feds."
Uh-huh nods and adds: "And your mum probably called you Bobby because you're wearing Wheezer's old sweater, the one with BOBBY knitted across the front of it. It was just a simple mistake that's all."
Mickey looks up and manages a weak smile, "Gee thanks fellers but why did the Gang say that stuff about not wanting me around."
Deadpan grins, "Why do you think?"
Mickey thinks and then he grins too, "They didn't say it was me at all! I just thought that they were talking about me. They were probably talking about that mangy old dog that keep turning up. I'm right aren't I?"
Deadpan looks at Uh-huh and then shakes his head, "Sorry Mickey they were talking about you. You see the problem is they are sick of listening to you whining and crying all the time about nothing."
Uh-huh nods and adds "And lets not forget that you are seriously stinky. Phooey do you pong? I'm nearly gagging just talking to you now and the loft windows are wide open."
Deadpan nods, "It's true Mickey, you smell like something crawled into your socks and died about three months ago." He hands the smaller boy the neatly tied noose, "There you go kid, I'd go ahead if I were you. But I want you to do us all a favor first, OK? Write a suicide note and ask them to bury you really deep so the rest of us don't have to put up with the lingering stench." He turns to Uh-huh and says, "Let's split and get some fresh air and maybe go for a soda, are you up for it?"
"Uh-huh" replies his friend and they both jump down from the hayloft and leave.
This movie was never screened as Mickey Gubitosi renewed his contract to work for MGM for a greatly reduced salary, as they'd intended all along. It is rumored that similar movies were made featuring each of the principle actors in order to keep their salaries and their egos in check.
Butch's Revenge (1939) - Butch was coming out on the losing end in every film, so to be fair this idea was conceived. Determined to get revenge for being humiliated by Alfalfa in the boxing and wrestling matches and remembering Alfalfa was once hypnotized into thinking he was D'Artagnan, Butch decides to hypnotize Alfalfa, but this time into thinking he's Houdini.
Setting the plan in motion, The Woim sneaks up on Alfalfa from behind and grabs him to hold him still while Butch hypnotizes him. Partway through the process, Spanky, Buckwheat, and Porky rush to Alfalfa's aid, but they all get hypnotized as well. Under hypnosis, Buckwheat and Porky confess to ripping Butch's wrestling suit off under the mat and knocking him out from behind the curtain alongside the boxing ring.
Butch decides to get even by telling the gang they should show off their escape skills after going swimming. In the most overworked plot development ever, Butch and Woim steal their clothes while the gang is swimming. Emerging in their wet underwear, the foursome lets Butch and Woim tie them to trees. Butch then thinks of the biggest insult he can, and writes "MUG" in large letters on the gang's chests, using black paint for Alfalfa, Spanky, and Proky, and white paint for Buckwheat.
Butch and Woim then plant the gang's clothes in Waldo's garage to frame another enemy. They write a note to Darla telling her where to find the gang. After a few hours, she finds them, and Alfalfa explains they bet Waldo that they could get loose before the paint dried, but they lost. Also, that he didn't win the boxing and wrestling matches fairly, the gang is guilty of breaking into the school at night when their phony sick excuse note didn't work, and that he thinks Darla is an awful vamp for constantly playing him and Butch against each other, and that he doesn't want anything more to do with her. Darla is offended, and turns to leave. That triggers the end of the hypnotic spells. The boys call for help, but now can't give a good reason, so Darla leaves anyway, telling them that she will send the truant officer for them the next morning.
After the initial screening, it was pointed out that this would wreck future Alfalfa-Darla story lines in progress, so it was quietly shelved.
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Ghost Eater (1938) - A bizarre short that was apparently meant to pay tribute to Norman Chaney. Instead, it just comes off as insulting.
While digging through his family's ice box, Spanky is visited by the ghost of Chubby Chaney. Spanky learns that the only way to communicate with Chubby is by giving him food. His response will depend on if he accepts the food (if he accepts an apple, he's saying "applesauce", if he accepts bananas or peanuts, he's saying "this guy is nuts/bananas").
Spanky and the Gang use this ghost to help them solve a series of poorly-thought-out mysteries.
A bad concept that was done more appropriately (and far better) with the 1990's series "Ghostwriter".
Reunion in Rhythm (the original version) (1937) - The infamous two-reel version, this was produced in honor of the series' fifteenth anniversary, this short finds Spanky (Joe Cobb), Alfalfa (Mickey Daniels), Darla (Mary Kornman), Buckwheat (Farina Hoskins), Porky (Jackie Condon), and Pete the Pup (Dinah the Mule) as they try to (what else?) put on a show.
The opening scene shows Spanky/Joe attempting to play hooky from school because he doesn't want to take part in the class play. Some coaxing from Alfalfa/Mickey and Pete/Dinah convinces him to go.
In front of the school, Buckwheat/Farina and Porky/Jackie are hungrily waiting for the play to start (so they can get to the refreshment table); Darla/Mary brought two apples to school (one for the teacher and one for Alfalfa/Mickey). The two hungry boys eat the apples when she isn't looking.
At school, Alfalfa/Mickey asks the teacher Miss Lawrence/George B. French if he'll be able to sing a song in the school play. French sort of ignores him, obviously not too happy about having to play a female character.
The scenes in the show are pretty much the same as those used in the final version. And if you thought Carl Switzer's singing was bad, wait 'till you hear the silent Gangsters sing. The only former Gang member in this film with a good voice is Johnny Downs, here playing the Georgia Jean La Rue role. Like George B. French, Downs looks extremely uncomfortable at the fact that he has to be in drag.
An extremely bizarre experimental short that left test audiences extremely confused. MGM thought the finished product was terrible, and forced the Roach staff to remake it with the then-current Gang as the stars, and the former Gangsters in mere cameos. Farina, Jackie, Johnny, George French, and even Dinah were so embarrassed by the finished product that they refused to appear in the remake.
Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Aug 17, 2013 9:41:44 GMT -5
Liar, Liar Pants on Fire (1939)
After the departure of Farina the Our Gang writers needed a new scapegoat who the kids could accuse of being lazy and a liar. Worried that Alfalfa was becoming far too popular and overshadowing his son Mister McFarland suggested that Alfalfa might be the ideal candidate to be Our Gang's resident liar. A script was soon drawn up in which numerous wrongs befall the various members of the Gang. Eventually Spanky calls an emergency meeting of The Three Fingered Peruvian Sloth Club and the Gang gathers in their barn to discus their problems. From their various accounts it soon becomes apparent that each time a Gang member is wrongly accused of some misdeed Alfalfa has been noticed lurking in the vicinty and smoke has also seen to be rising from the back pocket of his trousers. Spanky points his finger at the club chairman and declared, 'It's all Alfalfa's fault, he's lazy and a liar.'
Alfalfa loudly protests his innocence, whereupon the back of his trousers burst into flames. The entire Gang point their accusing fingers at the cowlick kid, as he plunges his backside into a barrel of water, and they chant 'Liar, liar pant's on fire!"
The movie was never screened after a legal suit was brought against Hal Roach Studios by Mister Switzer. This action resulted in a substantial compensation payment and a public apology by the studio declaring that Carl Switzer was the most trustworthy kid in the whole of Hollywood who was always scrupulously honest.
Of course, if we're going to discuss terrible unclaimed Rascals shorts that never really existed, we must cover the work of Helmut Jabobsom Schroeder.
Schroeder, a German refugee who fled to America during the Nazi takeover, was perhaps best known for his Weimer era avant garde films 'A Dog With Three Legs' and 'The Woman Who Left.' His best-reviewed work, 'Lost In The White,' reportedly concerned a young couple and their infant child struggling to survive in an isolated cabin after a blizzard leaves them snowbound. No known copies of these films survive.
Hal Roach, however, was apparently more impressed with 'The Crazy Children', a series of silent shorts obviously influenced by The Gang, and hired Schroeder as director and scenarist for a brief period just before selling the series to MGM. Surviving Gang members disliked talking about him, though when pressed, all vividly remembered him. A huge, bearlike man with a beard and an inpenetrable accent which often required translating by the assistant director, he seemed to want the Gang to think of him as a grandfather figure. More than one kid remembered being snuck up on, seized without warning, and thrown into the air repeatedly by this laughing behemoth, who called them 'mein bunny rabbits.' Spanky particularly loathed being slapped on the stomach while he proclaimed him, "My grumpy little bear cub." He was evangelical about his vegetarian-nudist lifestyle and often discussed his morning outdoor exercise regimen, conducted entirely in the buff; "The mental image," one grown Rascal stated, "was terrifying."
This perhaps led to his repeated attempts to sneak nudity past the censors. The only short of his known to survive more or less intact, 'A Summer Day,' rehashes the old 'clothes stolen while skinnydipping' schtick, though in this case it's a goat that eats Spanky and Alfalfa's garments, leaving them to make their way home while trying to keep out of sight. According to some accounts, this was originally planned as a solo Spanky vehicle but Alfalfa's parents demanded he be included as well. They did him no favor. Unoriginal and episodic, it plays like a silent with dialogue and was in fact reportedly a remake of Schroeder's 'Crazy Children' short 'Bare At The Party.' Perhaps the only solid laughs come from the scenes near the end; hiding in barrels of flour, Spanky and Alfalfa find themselves delivered to the home of a wealthy woman hosting a garden party and use their flour-covered state to imitate statues as they attempt to slip away. When an inebriated party-goer leans against one of the 'statues,' he's startled to come away with a white palm and the outline of his hand on one figure. (Spanky's expression is priceless.) This obviously could never make it past the censors in 1938 and the film was never shown publicly.
The same is true of 'Gym Dandies,' which is known only through a few stills and fragments and apparently involves Spanky and Alfalfa fleeing Butch and Woim and taking refuge in a health spa. The only intact segment is the end where Spanky and Alfalfa try to hide in a steam room. Butch and Woim, for some reason wearing only towels, almost catch the boys but they flee, Spanky turning up the steam to hide their escape. The other patrons, adults in various stages of undress, emerge complaining of the heat and the disruption, but Butch and Woim remain inside until, in the gag end, they emerge shrunk to pint size, clutching their oversized towels and vowing vengeance against their startled opponents in squeaky voices. The special effects are crude but impressive for the era. Still, it's difficult to imagine how he thought this would make it past the Hays office.
There were other problems, most notably his gags involving Buckwheat. In Schroeder's shorts, he was often shown chasing little girls in an imitation of Harpo Marx; at least one short had him gnawing a huge bone of indeterminate origin while stirring a cauldron from which a human leg protruded. This was too much for even Roach, who was also aggravated by Schroeder's overwrought Teutonic dialogue. In the example cited, Butch goes on for three solid minutes about a tormenting monster that haunts him and while it's agreed Tommy Bond's performance was remarkable, it seemed a little much for just Buckwheat and Porky piggy-back in a gorilla suit. Schroeder was let go halfway through filming of 'Cradle Days,' a short which seemed inexplicably influenced by The Baby Burlesks, in which the Gang played infant versions of themselves going through a standard 'Rascals' plot wearing oversized diapers on giant sets left over from 'Brats.' The footage shot was scrapped and Roach elected to go ahead with the MGM deal to recoup his losses. Schroeder, a deeply troubled man, later commtted suicide, leaving a note addressed to Scotty Beckett, who, perhaps foruitously, never saw it.
The Stick's Sense (1928)
First time director and screenwriter M Day Shyamalan was the guiding hand behind this project which was shelved without ever being put on general release. The basic plot was simple enough; Farina is hit over the head by his little sister. Unfortunate for Farina she had used an ancient Juju spirit stick belong to Farina's grandfather, a stick which had once belonged to an African witchdoctor. Initially Farina notices no ill effects, other than a slight bump on his head, that is until he encounters Harry laying in the middle of a road. When he asks Harry what he's doing there Harry replies that he's just been run over by car and that he feels cold and clammy. Farina comments that his friend and sparring partner does indeed look even paler than usual, even his freckles seem to have faded away. At this point Joe and Jackie turn up and ask Farina why he's standing in the middle of the road talking to himself. Confusion ensues as Farina insists that he's talking to Harry and the other boys inform him that he can't be talking to Harry because Harry isn't there and furthermore Harry was run down and killed by a car earlier that morning. The two boys escort Faina to the funeral parlor owned by Jay R. Smith's father and tell him to go inside and see for himself. Sure enough Farina soon spots the corpse of Harry laid out in a coffin. Farina is extremely puzzled when he turns to his right and finds that Harry is also standing next to him looking even paler than he did earlier. Just then undertaker's son Jay R. Smith enters the room and asks Farina why he's looking so shocked and disturbed. Farina tells him what has happened to him that day and explains that not only can he see Harry laid out in a coffin but he can also see him standing next to Jay R. Jay R. Smith nods his head in understanding. He explains that the Juju stick that Farina was hit with has bestowed upon him the stick's sense and that he can now see dead people. When Farina asks Jay R. Smith how he knows this Jay R. admits that he's dead himself, having fallen off a ladder a week earlier.
Although a test screening met with an initially fairly positive reaction the storyline had soon leaked out and was printed in several newspapers and cinema magazines. A snap survey of cinema goers soon revealed that now they knew about the 'surprise' ending they wouldn't be wasting their money going to see the movie, especially as they'd heard that it wasn't even funny. Hal Roach decided to cut his losses and shelve the movie. Having been fired by Hal Roach, M Day Shyamalan set up his own production studio where he went on to produce a number of other movies with 'surprise' endings. Pretty soon his movies were losing money at the box office as newspapers began running competitions for their readers to guess the surprise twist ending to the latest M Day Shyamalan movies in advance. Surprise endings became so expected that they no longer held any element of surprise at all and were unofficially known as 'Shyamalans.' Bored with the formula the general public voted with their pockets and stayed away from his later movies. Shyamalan was forced to sell his film studios and give up directing. He later graduated from college and became a child psychiatrist. Towards the end of his long life he apparently delighted in telling his grandson bedtime stories with twist endings..
From The MGM days...
NEVER ON A SUNDAY: A remake of 'Little Sinner,' in which Froggy decides to go fishing rather than attend Sunday school. In the updated version, rather than being scared by an eclipse and a Baptist revival service, the errant boy is torn apart by wild jackals. Mickey speaks at the funeral and comments that while his friend's death was indeed tragic, it was no more than he deserved for playing hookey from Sunday school.
A TAX-ING DAY: Mickey, Froggy, Janet and Buckwheat explain the Municipal tax code in all its intricate detail. Removed from circulation because it was feared some audiences might actually find it interesting.
Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Aug 24, 2013 16:24:37 GMT -5
It's All About Socks (1943)
This short is split into two sections. In the first section Froggy calls for Mickey (he must have been really desperate for friends). The younger boy is busy tidying his clothes cupboards so Froggy volunteers to help and explains to Mickey how to organize his sock drawer by color and sock length. Froggy tells the younger boy how to arrange the longer pairs of less used sports socks at the back of the drawer and the every day, go to school, socks near the front. With his sock drawer sensibly organized, Froggy explains, Mickey will now be able to get ready for school with the minimum of fuss. "I'll show you have to organize your undies next week," he promises the eager youngster, "but you'll need to iron them all first."
Eager to cater to the female cinema going audience too the second section of the short features Janet explaining that the same sock organizing system works equally well for girls before adding that arranging socks by season is also a useful tip. The back wall of Janet's bedroom then slides to one side revealing a huge revolving stage complete with 240 young uniformed tap dancers and an 88 piece orchestra who accompany Janet's excruciating rendition of "The Seasonal Sock Song.'
This movie was so nauseating that the film's assistant editor actually vomited several times during the editing process before he'd had enough of the whole thing and then tipped all of the exposed film into a metal trash can before setting it on fire. It is certainly true that no copies of the film now exist. The assistant editor was apparently escorted from the MGM studio by armed security guards but they were unable to prevent him from shouting 'if you hadn't stopped me I'd have gotten rid of all the rest of the rubbish that Janet was in too.' If only.


A seminal Surgeon General's report issued 50 years ago this month was the start of a host of anti-smoking measures credited with saving millions of lives.
The study, led by the Yale School of Public Health and published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, used mathematical models to gauge the impact of tobacco control, which started with a seminal 1964 report from the U.S. surgeon general, outlining the effects of tobacco use, as well as subsequent anti-smoking measures implemented over the past half-century. It found that those efforts have significantly shifted public attitudes and behaviors around smoking.


On 8/25/18, Dragon's Lair North Houston held its inaugural Lair Con. I was truly surprised by how many tables they fit inside the store between the shelves! It was well organized.
I was there for 6 hours – held 2 gaming sessions, discussed game mechanics with other interested gamers who did not have time to play, and sat in on a panel where they were talking about neighborhood game designers.
For the sessions, we played the same scenario as the previous events – teenagers "recruited" by a criminal organization because they had the potential to become hybrids with psychic powers. The first group did not escape and were compelled by the villain to begin training to become operatives. Here is a picture of our table and of the first group.
The second group escaped. Sadly, I got so caught up in the second session that I forgot to take a picture of those players.
Jeremy also helped get our basic rules and Paranormality books in a local game shop. Thanks, Jeremy!!


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Virgo: A flower is a daisy that symbolizes innocence. The apparatus are known for their technical character, reason, wisdom. They're considered timid and shy, but they are extremely witty.
They are used for wild flower, they develop mostly on broad meadows and greens.
Libra: birth blossom is an peony that represents passion and luxurious. Produced from the markers of scales are famous for their appealing character and equilibrium. They're kind, nice and intimate folks.
The name derives from Greek mythology. She was handed over to Paeon, that had been assumed to greet the Greek god. Its roots were used for medical purposes.
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Have you ever wanted to plot on the go? Plot on the beach? Plot at your neighbor's house?
Personally, I wanted to discover how to make a flexible "factory" for printing circuits on textiles. Whatever your motives may be, this textile plotter is a fun way to learn about CNC machines and make a plotter that can be used on any flat surface. It can also be used to make circuits on textiles if you buy the right materials!
Accuracy - Accurate within 2-3 millimeters as long as the belts don't skip. The traces are a bit blobby, so I wouldn't create traces that are closet than 3 -4 millimeters apart.
Common fail points / Future Design Tweaks- I would use a coupling shaft to drive the syringe over using a custom plunger on a threaded rod. It makes changing materials substantially easier while reducing material waste. I would also use a motor driver hooked up to something like Grbl for true control.
This plotter was made by hacking a makeblock plotter kit. It seems entirely possible to source your own parts and make it cheaper and better. Please let me know if you do!
This project was inspired by the Bot of Cloth from MIT - https://vimeo.com/20221819 . In an excited stupor (the kind that occurs from realizing your project dreams may come true) I printed all of the Thingiverse files for the Bot of Cloth. Unfortunately, they weren't quite strong enough to achieve what I was going for, so I ventured into the exciting unknown land of customizing a Makeblock kit to make a textile plotter.
10.) Electrical tape for "sealing" edges. Iron on binding would be better than this.
11.) .STL for printing a syringe extruder.
An unlimited canvas requires some serious responsibility! With this in mind, you can make your plotter just about any size (limited only by the geared band). My base is 34" x 24". Cut out a rectangle for whatever dimensions suit your fancy.
You'll want to attach elastic bands to each corner with three prong side release clips. These should be CA'd onto the textile with an acrylic piece. Yes, CA'd is a word. No, do not look it up.
Anyways, I used electrical tape to clean the sides of the plotter. I would probably use fusible binding tape in the future as rubber tape and fabric does not naturally bond very well.
You'll need to bond some of the rotating components directly to the textile. There are many ways from sewing to glueing, but I instead used screws and nuts to bond milled components to the base fabric.
I used many of the milled pieces, mechanical pieces and the microcontroller from the makeblock kit and added my own acrylic pieces and electronics to the mix.
Instructions for normal assembly here.
1.) Building an extruder to support the motor and syringe. The syringe needs to be removable.
2.) Building a "frame". You'll need to create pieces that can support the elastic that holds the fabric tight onto a table. These also frame the plotter bed, making it look tidy.
3.) "cars" for the two sides of your X axis to slide easily up and down the fabric. One needs to support a motor and the other needs to support the other side of the notched belt. Surprisingly, you don't need wheels, bearings or anything to remove friction to have the plotter work properly.
The syringe extruder is driven by a 3D printed syringe plunger attached to the linear actuator motor rod. I printed these little studs on an Objet resin machine, but actually found that they print really well on a makerbot as well. For the makerbot versions, I ended up using the original syringe plunger rubber cap to make the printed plunger as air tight as the standard one.
Many of the instructions for making a Makeblock plotter / using their electronics are documented well by Makeblock. This Instructable can help you with assembly in terms of plugging in the two X, Y steppers. You'll need to add an additional stepper for extrusion, so you may want to wire up an easy stepper motor driver to the linear actuator motor. I used one of the extra RJ cables and cut off the connector. I then soldered it to the motor driver to plug into the Makeblock board.
I only used two of the stop triggers as none of the my designs are out at (12000, 12000) or whatever that would be.
The Makeblock software can be found here. Personally, I found it a bit cumbersome to use and the Processing code never quite connected with the Arduino serial. I think Makeblock changed their main MCU from a Leonardo based device to an Uno based device and never updated instructions / the code base. No problem, though as it's uber easy to create custom interfaces by taking advantage of Arduino + Processing Serial communications!
I wrote a quick Arduino script that is ported to Processing so that I could get a test going easily.
I hard coded in my traces with a parametric zig zag. Ideally, of course, this would be Gcode, but I wanted to see if this would even work before setting up additional software. I found that a pattern works decently for this where you step about 100-200 steps and then extrude for about 5 steps and this continues as you create a pattern. Let me know how this works for you.
Getting extrusion to be reliable is a bit cumbersome. I ended up attaching fabric to a piece of 1/4" wood and using long nose 20 gauge syringe needles to get a somewhat decent print. It helps to hold the wood near the syringe needle tip. With a bit of finessing, it's possible to get good conductive traces! Again, I wrote an interface for processing and serial ported that to Arduino. If you use a proper 3 stepper motor driver board, you should be able to use something like Grbl and both run the extruder and the X/ Y steppers in synchrony. I can't promise anything, but I would imagine that this greatly improves your print and traces!
1.) load the plotter with acrylic and graphite conductive paint. This one works like a very messy charm. The 5ml syringe should be filled as much as possible with the syringe plunger (attached to the linear actuator motor) flush, or below the top of the syringe casing.
2.) Mount your fabric onto a piece of 1/4" wood so you can hold the material and the plotter tight for the printer to have a good, clean topology. Place this at the 0,0 point on your plotter.
3.) Load the syringe onto the motor and then load the motor on top of the extruder support.
4.) Turn the linear actuator rod until the syringe extrudes a small little blob.
5.) Press go in processing and hold the wood just under the syringe while it prints. You should be slightly levitating the board over the textile base while it prints.
Once your print is done, press in components and huzzah! Textile circuit! This acrylic paint takes about 1.5 hours to dry and get really conductive. Do not tilt the drying board as the paint will run.
This Instructable is a grand overview of this process. I left out my code and a few files, but let me know if you would like to see something more comprehensive and I would be happy to update this instructable.
Impressionnant, remarquable, belle maîtrise de la technologie et de l'électronique ainsi que de la programmation mais si l'objectif est d'imprimer des motifs sur du textile à base d'encre conductrice, un pochoir irait bien et vous en auriez pour bien moins cher car là c'est une débauche d'équipements, un marteau pour écraser une punaise!


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Review #234 [Blog Tour] // The Four Profound Weaves – R.B. Lemberg
The Four Profound Weaves are of Wind, Sand, Song, and Bone. Uiziya searches for her aunt to teach her to final weave, bone, and a nameless man travels with her to find his purpose while the world.
Why this book?: I've been a fan of Lemberg for some time now. It was only natural that I excitedly pick up their first full novel in the Birdverse.
It's been a while since I've written a review, for a lot of reasons. But as I mentioned before, there was no way to deny this book and author the chance to bring me back into the world of reviewing. But I have to be honest, too. This review brings me a lot of pain. I was originally introduced to R.B. Lemberg's work through my friend Corey Alexander, and fell in love with Lemberg's world and writing nearly immediately. For a while, we would talk about Lemberg's awe-inspiring work constantly, and Corey would send me other pieces of their writing that they thought I would enjoy. Corey recently passed, and now jumping back into this world is both so comforting, yet so painful.
As always, stories that take place in the Birdverse immediately throw you into a mystical world with so much depth, complexity, and so much love. I've always been so interested in learning more about the Birdverse and the mythology that surrounds the goddess, and this book definitely helped with that. Having read a few of Lemberg's other short stories, I had some background information and immeidately felt at home in everything that was going on. I do know that sometimes, with fantasy books just diving into the lore and complexities of it's world, it can be a little confusing, so I can definitely see a new reader struggling with this book. But the stories are so worth it, and the world doesn't ever let you down in how inclusive, complex, and interesting they are.
I greatly enjoyed The Four Profound Weaves. I loved how the weaves were introduced and explained, I loved Uiyiza and the nameless man's relationship and how they intereacted throughout their story. I especially really enjoyed the idea of weaving out of things like song and wind and death, and the imagery that went into describing the cloths created from these weaves. Everything about the story was as magical as I was expecting, and it had me turning the pages to find where they went or what they did next. I wanted to keep reading even when it was over, to continue experiencing adventures with the characters long after it had ended.
Final Rating: ★★★★★
This was definitely something I needed right now. I love Lemberg's writing, I love Birdverse, and with everything going on, this was the perfect piece to come back to.
Definitely. As I mentioned earlier, it might be a little confusing because Birdverse is pretty complex with different magics, like deep-words and the weaves. It might take a little bit to get used to, but I can promise that all Birdverse stories are so worth the small amount of confusion you might go through.
R. B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe and Israel. Their stories and poems have appeared in Lightspeed Magazine's Queers Destroy Science Fiction!, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Uncanny Magazine, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, and many other venues. R.B.'s work has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, and other awards. You can find more of their work on their Patreon (patreon.com/rblemberg) and a full bio at rblemberg.net.
Website: http://roselemberg.net/
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Published: September 4th, 2020
Publisher: Tachyon Publishers
Synopsis: via Publisher
Wind: To match one's body with one's heart
Sand: To take the bearer where they wish
Song: In praise of the goddess Bird
Bone: To move unheard in the night
The Surun' nomads do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assassins in the Great Burri Desert. But aged Uiziya must find her aunt in order to learn the final weave, although the price for knowledge may be far too dear to pay.
Among the Khana in the springflower city of Iyar, women travel in caravans to trade, while men remain in the inner quarter, as scholars. A nameless man struggles to embody Khana masculinity, after many years of performing the life of a woman, trader, wife, and grandmother.
As his past catches up, the nameless man must choose between the life he dreamed of and Uiziya—while Uiziya must discover how to challenge the evil Ruler of Iyar, and to weave from deaths that matter.
In this breathtaking debut set in R. B. Lemberg's beloved Birdverse, The Four Profound Weaves offers a timeless chronicle of claiming one's identity in a hostile world.
About the Birdverse: The Birdverse is the creation of fantasy author R. B. Lemberg. It is a complex, culturally diverse world, with a range of LGBTQIA characters and different family configurations. Named after its deity, Bird, Birdverse shorter works have been nominated the Nebula, Hugo, Tiptree award, and Rhysling awards. The Four Profound Weaves is the first full-length work set in the Birdverse.
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TheKnightsWhoSayBook says:
Eek I actually had to go back and (re)read the other Birdverse stories to fully get what was happening in Profound Weaves… too confusing for me to just dive in, but of course it's worth it!


Mr. Schlitt, Congratulations for Successful events during your tenure. How has been your journey in India so far and what is the future road map?
My journey in India has so far been a truly wonderful learning experience. There is much that I have learnt during my time and which has allowed me the opportunity to create a meaningful impact on the exhibition portfolio for Messe Duesseldorf India.
In a world of profound changes, with the acceleration of innovation and a growing competitive landscape in the exhibition market, it is necessary for the Messe Duesseldorf Group in India to assert its identity through the creation of powerful brands catering to the wide array of markets.
This for us is the right time, when we are riding the momentum of our recent successes in exhibition portfolios,strengthening our existing exhibitions by adding new target segments and creating new entities by mergers and acquisitions.
We cater to some important industry sectors in India and would like to take advantage of this increased level of visibility to further grow our profile.
Our vision 2030 is a natural step for further growth aimed at supporting our ambitions to scale up the existing exhibitions, bring new topics, raise our standards and bring credibility to an important international market like India.
Medical fair the oldest exhibition brand in India, has been doing a great service to Indian medical fraternity for more than a decade, do you have any plans to maximize more shows every year?
I believe that organizing a trade fair is a strategic venture; therefore, the starting point is the exhibitor. The purpose is, and it generally is, to promote the medical industry and attract investments as a means for sector development. Therefore, we are evaluating all options to further develop the market and be a catalyst.
Yes, additionally, we are assessing the feasibility for organizing more shows, focusing on its objective, theme and market scope. Besides market conditions, we as an international trade show organizer, must also keep in view other critical aspects for the sustainability of the trade fair.
An analysis with respect to the above-mentioned factors and the identification of ways to ensure that the essential requirements are met, should be the initial assessment for the feasibility of any addition to our existing shows.
sub-segments like AI, Medical Equipment, Hospital Architecture, HMS etc.?
With more than 4 decades of experience as the leading healthcare business platform in Germany, MEDICA is a hub of knowledge. In India, Medical Fair India with 25 years of existence has gained key insights into the country's healthcare market.
MEDICAL FAIR INDIA is well known for its ability to detect trends and respond to new Innovations. Therefore, each edition is unique as it explores new sub-segments and opportunities for diversification. The successful segments which have been added to MEDICAL FAIR INDIA are CLINLAB India – Conference &Exhibition on IVD and Clinical Laboratory and FTR4H (Future for Health lounge and pavilion)which explore show Mobile, Internet of Things, Data & Artificial Intelligence and Roboticstrans form the Healthcare Industry. The 2019 edition will see the launch of Reha India, powered by REHACARE to be featured for the first time in India,alongside Medical Fair India. This segment will focus on the rehabilitation sector in India bringing together all categories of stakeholders in this segment.
In addition, medgate today, our esteem partner will drive the conference on vital issues,development and innovation in healthcare industry. Together with industry stakeholders and partners, MFI is constantly exploring new topics which should the right fitment for business and technical education at the show.
Could you Please get us a glimpse into comparative medical products buying behavior in India, Europe and Africa markets?
Global medical device production value will witness strong growth. However, gaining a market share in the traditional markets (Western Europe, and the US) will remain difficult due to growing regulatory scrutiny and pricing pressures.
The US will remain the largest producer and consumer of medical devices, accounting for majority of the global market. Operating in and exporting to emerging markets of Latin America and Eastern Europe will be challenging due to decelerating growth of these regions' healthcare industries. Although it has been hard to penetrate the Asia Pacific medical device market, this region may present unique opportunities for medical device producers to grow and gain new markets.
The region was the fastest growing medical device market, rising at a CAGR of 10%. For instance, China's and India's healthcare service revenues are expected to advance, resulting in a large number of new hospital construction projects and thus soaring demand for medical and surgical equipment.
As online buying is future of procurement; how do you align your exhibitions with this emerging buying platform?
The big bang of Information-communication technologies and media facilities in the last decade have bridged distances and made an astonishing mass of information available, facilitating its transfer both in qualitative and quantitative terms. Without any doubt, habits and behavior have drastically changed the way of doing business, through Internet-based services. Online marketplaces and business databases, companies' websites and industry portals are facilitating B2B andB2C linkages, and actual business transactions are possible though e-commerce.
Following the Indian government's push for digital transactions, the purchase of medical equipment and machinery online will bring more transparency and efficiency into the procurement process. Exhibitions like Medical Fair India provide a platform to populate this information to the larger audience and amplify the platforms available.
Medical Fair's success has inspired local competition having local advantage, how have you been successfully staying ahead of your competition?
Medical Fair India is segmented into multiple areas of specialization, with a global presence and expertise. Our exhibitors achieve their objective both ways – by catering to the domestic market (MFI) and international market with MEDIC Alliance, which is the partner for medical trade fairs worldwide from our global network of Messe Düsseldorf in Bangkok, Bogotá, Moscow, São Paulo, Suzhou and Singapore!
India is a very sensitive market when it comes to Medical exhibition and conference. However, we have been consistent in our pricing, delivery and standards. This has really helped us to stay ahead of other available options in this industry. Medical Fair India acts as a platform where connections are made and business relationships are nurtured. With global engagements and participation from over 20 countries, MEDICAL FAIR INDIA is now synonymous to the Medical industry in India and working furtherto increase the level of visibility and act as a catalyst for defining the healthcare industry in India.
What does India as a market mean to you, Please share your vision for Indian healthcare industry, Medical tourism etc?
I believe that India's competitive advantage lies in its large pool of well-trained medical professionals. India is also cost competitive compared to its peers in Asia and Western countries in terms of manufacturing of medical devices. The cost of surgery in India is about one-tenth of that in the US or Western Europe.


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Axios Jun 27, 2018
Report: Snap planning to launch gaming platform this fall
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Snap Inc. is preparing to launch a platform this fall that will let developers create games that can be played on the Snapchat app, two sources tell The Information.
Why it matters: The company recently rolled out third-party developer tools that would allow developers to plug into the app's data, and vice versa. The move, which will help it compete with the likes of Facebook, will also help Snap build out new features, like games, to engage users.
Snapchat has lined up at least one gaming partner to make a game for the new platform, per The Information.
The bigger picture: As The Information notes, "Messenger-based gaming hasn't caught on in the U.S., but Snap's young, highly engaged user base may give it an advantage."


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Two river barges delivered by 3. MAJ
On 10th April 2015 two river barges (PN 13134,13135) for the transportation of crude petroleum and petroleum products were delivered in the shipyard 3. MAJ.
The barges, of length 59.5 m, width 16 m and with a total height of 4.6 m, will be served by special pushers.
The barges were constructed by the shipyard 3. MAJ for the Swedish company WISBY TANKERS. The barges were constructed under the supervision of the classification society BUREAU VERITAS.
Cutting of plates for Yard 512 has begun
Last Thursday 9th April, with the cutting of plates on Uljanik island, the production process of construction of the partially equipped hull of a self-propelled cutter suction dredger constructed by ULJANIK Shipyard for the Company IHC Holland B.V. has started. The Contract had been signed at the end of February of last year and the vessel will be 152 meters long and have a height of 28 meters.
A load bearing capacity of 1,650 tonnes will be achieved by the vessel with a draught of 6 meters, while the top sailing speed would be 11.5 knots. Three main engines MAN 6L48/60, each having a power of 7,200 kW, will be installed in the Vessel.
On Friday 3rd April 2015 Yard 509 – a LPG (liquid petroleum gas) barge for the transportation of liquefied gas constructed by ULJANIK Shipyard for the shipyard 3.MAJ, i.e. for the Swedish company Wisby Tankers AB, was launched into the sea.
The godmother at the launching was Mrs. Ester Buić, Manager of Legal Affairs, Insurance Business and Investment in the company ULJANIK Business Information Systems (PIS), who, with the cutting of the rope, launched the barge into the sea. On this occasion Mrs. Buić thanked Wisby Tankers AB and ULJANIK Shipyard for the trust shown and the opportunity given to her to take part in this significant moment when the craft and the sea touch for the first time.
Main Engine Installation in Yard 502
On Friday 18th April 2014, as per Owner's request, the installation of the main engine in Newbuilding 502 has been celebrated in Uljanik on its island Slipway No.2. This is the second of two contracted ferries (RO-PAX) to date intended for the transport of passengers, trucks and other vehicles in the Caspian Sea area and which have been built by ULJANIK Shipyard for the State Service of Maritime and River Transportation of Turkmenistan.
In celebrating the installation of the new engine, the leading people Uljanik were joined by Mr. Akmammet Puhanov and Mr. Serdar Hajyyev of the State Service of Maritime and River Transportation of Turkmenistan.
Four barges delivered in 3.MAJ
Four barges for the transportation of crude oil and products intended for sailing by river were delivered today (Wednesday 23rd April) in the shipyard 3. MAJ Brodogradilište.
All the barges have the same characteristics; length 59.5 m, width 16 m and height 4.6 m and deadweight 2500 tonnes. Same will be serviced by special pushers. The barges were built under surveillance of the Classification Society Bureau Veritas and will sail under the Colombian flag.
Fourth Ferry for Jadrolinija launched
On 05th April 2014, Yard 506 constructed by ULJANIK Shipyard for the Croatian national shipping company Jadrolinija from Rijeka was launched into the sea from slipway number one.
This is the fourth and final vessel of a series of four identical Ro-Ro passenger vessels designed for two-way direct sailing for the transportation of 600 passengers in summer months or 320 passengers in the winter period in the closed lounge. The ferries will also be able to transport 145 standard vehicles or 16 trailers of 40 tonnes each.
Apart from leading people from Uljanik and Jadrolinija, Mr Siniša Hajdaš Dončić, Minister of Maritime Affairs, also attended the launching while the first lady of the ceremony, Ms Slavica Afrić, an employee of the Marketing department of Jadrolinija, released the vessel into the sea with the traditional cutting of the rope.
Stern Trawl launched
In Uljanik on the 29th March, Hull No. 493 – "Taurus", the first of two contracted Stern Trawls constructed by ULJANIK Shipyard for the Russian company CJSC "Taurus" from Murmansk, was launched. This ship has been constructed for fishing purposes, i.e. trawling and, in accordance with this, will be equipped with facilities for the processing, packing, freezing and storing of caught fish.
The first lady of the launching ceremony, the godmother of the ship, wasMs Ekaterina Kolodkina, Deputy Director for Management and Planning in theshipowner's company who, with the traditional cutting of the rope, released theship into the sea.
Mr. Anton Brajković, President of Uljanik's Supervisory Board with hiscollaborators, His Excellency Dr. Robert Markaryan, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republicof Croatia and Mr. Yuri Parshev, Directorof the company CJSC "Taurus" from Murmansk,were all present at the launching ceremony.


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The Clientele will always remind me of my friend Jez, who I met while working in a call centre during the first five years after moving to Ottawa. He was a few years younger than I but shared very similar tastes in music and also a similar insatiable appetite for discovering new music. I can't remember which of us caught wind of The Clientele first but it likely wasn't long before we were both raving about them to any one who would listen. And when The Clientele unbelievably made a stop at a tiny club here in Ottawa in 2007 (with Beach House opening!), we didn't hesitate in picking up tickets. Jez and I don't get out for drinks nearly as often these days as we used to but when we do, music is always one of the main topics of discussion.
And speaking of music discussion, I believe The Clientele was today's topic? Right.
"Rain" is one of only three tracks of thirteen on "Suburban light" that hadn't previously seen the light of day on some release or other. It's definitely a mood piece, sounding very much like a showery dusk in the middle of fall (or pretty much every day this summer in Ottawa). The jangly guitars pittering and pattering against the windows and MacLean's vocals, breathily fed through a guitar amp, sing about longing, of love and summer lost. "And I want you so bad in my heart. And I touch your shadowed fingers in the dark. And the stars have fallen on this night like rain." It's all grey and misty and lovely, like laughing with tears in your eyes. And I just want to listen to it all day long.
Sounds like it was recorded in 1968! Reverb heavy, jangly and sweet! I can't believe I've never heard of them.
I thought they might be up your alley. Really great band. I'm glad they're back at it.
Definitely right up my alley. I looked up their wikipedia page and it said that they didn't really make an impact in the U.K. but were popular across the pond. I'll have to listen to more of their music.
Most definitely. I have a bunch of their records in my collection and aiming to add the rest, including the new one when it comes out.


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