Flashback was published in 2015. It's a paranormal mystery adventure for young adults featuring ghosts, psychics, and Project Mindstorm, a secret operation involving deadly mind control experiments, as Max investigates events concealed for over twenty years. The initial idea was one of the first that I had when I began my writing career but the novel took a while to develop to my satisfaction.
In Flashback, Max, a fourteen-year old boy, experiences strange dreams and visions, which appear to be from someone else's life. He also sees a ghost and fears that he might be losing his mind. However, following an encounter with elderly private detective John Carrington, Max learns of government conspiracies, secret kidnappings, and mind control experiments conducted by a rogue scientist and his psychic accomplice.
Twisted Fate is the second part of the paranormal trilogy and the story begins around the time of Max's fifteenth birthday when he receives a box of personal items that once belonged to his mother and soon begins to have strange dreams and experience disturbing visions. Max steadilylearns the shocking truth about his mother and her possible connection to Project Mindstorm.
Max also meets Julia, a girl with dark hidden secrets, as he attempts to alter his mother's fate and his own, for better or worse. He and Julia embark on a seemingly impossible mission involving deadly psychics, paranormal phenomena, and multiple shifting timelines. On the run and pursued at every turn by the powerful and ruthless Kane, Max and Julia engage in a desperate race against time in an attempt to save countless lives and transform their own destiny.
In Parallel Destiny, the third part of the trilogy, Project Mindstorm no longer exists and Kane and his associates no longer represent a danger. However, Max and Julia now have to contend with the sinister Alastair Hammond and his experiments into the existence of parallel universes and alternate realities.
Marooned within a bewildering series of multiple universes, Max and Julia are forced to fight for their own survival and to save the very fabric of reality from Hammond's deadly scheme.
Flashback was originally a single novel but more or less as soon as it was published I realized that there was more to the story. My father also read Flashback and asked when the next one was coming out. I thought that he was referring to my next novel but he meant the next paranormal adventure and pointed out several areas in Flashback where there were opportunities for more stories.
There were also some unanswered questions so I got to work on a further installment. While writing Twisted Fate I knew that there was a third story and had an idea for a novel involving parallel universes that I realized would be a perfect fit to wrap up Max's adventures. The third part of the trilogy, entitled Parallel Destiny, will be published early next year.


Fuel oil, (also known as marine fuel or heavy oil) is a fraction obtained from petroleum distillation, either as a distillate or a residue. Broadly speaking, fuel oil is any liquid fuel that is burned in a furnace or boiler for the generation of heat or used in an engine for the generation of power, except oils having a flash point of approximately 40 °C (104 °F) and oils burned in cotton or wool-wick burners. In this sense, diesel is a type of fuel oil. Fuel oil is made of long hydrocarbon chains, particularly alkanes, cycloalkanes and aromatics. The term fuel oil is also used in a stricter sense to refer only to the heaviest commercial fuel that can be obtained from crude oil, i.e. heavier than gasoline and naphtha.


And by the way, these cute little gluten free cupcake bites are not my own invention. The idea for them comes from Bakerella's book, Cake Pops . You may want to check it out, it's a gorgeous, fun and original cookbook. Speaking of which, if you haven't already, check out my recent recipe for gluten free Chocolate Raspberry Cake Pops.
My husband and children thoroughly enjoyed these decadent little gluten free treats. Though my husband said that instead of calling them gluten free Cupcakes Bites I could call them "Cake in a Cup." He could not believe that the "wrapper" of the cupcake was made of chocolate and edible, telling me he thought it was a paper wrapper until he bit into it.
Thank you for including the PDF to your chocolate cake recipe. You are so generous! Can't wait to make these.
Thanks for including the PDF to your cake recipe! I have the cookbook (and the cupcake one) but I forgot to bring them on vacation and I am making a cake for my son's birthday tomorrow. I am saved. Thanks for being so generous with your recipes!
These are so ridiculously delicious!!! Thanks for sharing :) A little time consuming, but on-so-worth-it!
My brother has Celiac and finding you're blog (Thank you PW!) has been a blessing. Can't wait to keep reading. These cupcakes are genius.


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This repo is a collection of cross platform react application samples. The goal is to have a one step build for packaging to different platforms. It uses electron for desktops ( windows, linux, osx ) and react-native for ios and android (not available yet).  It uses npm scripts for building, developing and packaging.

##Usage
* Navigate to any sub folder in the repo.
* Run the command
	* npm install
* Dev workflow for  desktops
	* Run the command  npm run dev:electron
	* Open project in any editor and make changes. It will livereload
* Dev workflow for ios,  open *.xcodeproj under platforms/ios.
	* Run the project
	* Make changes to src/ui/ios/index.ios.js
	* Cmd+R on the ios simulator
	* or Enable Livereload by pressing Cmd+Ctrl+Z on simulator and click Enable Livereload
* Packaging for osx
	* npm run package:osx
	* <ProjectName>.app dir will be created under the project/dist directory.
* Packaging for linux
    * npm run package:linux
    * \<ProjectName\>-linux dir will be created under the project/dist directory.
* Packaging for windows
    * npm run package:windows
    * \<ProjectName\>-win32 dir will be created under the project/dist directory.

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Single national technology contract to support public health agencies
10 December 2021, Ministry of Health, Wellington, New Zealand
A single national contract to deliver Microsoft services has been negotiated to provide the health and disability system's new entities with the IT and software services they need, says Ministry of Health Group Manager Digital Strategy and Investment Data and Digital, Darren Douglass.
The deal between the Ministry of Health and Microsoft will support reform of the health and disability system and deliver a number of benefits, including $27 million in savings during the agreement's three-year term and improvements in the health system's cyber-security protection and resilience.
The Ministry has contracted Spark Health to execute the Microsoft agreement.
The Microsoft agreement, worth an estimated $45 million annually, will cover the Ministry, Health NZ, Māori Health Authority, and district health boards (DHBs) and their shared service agencies. Taking effect from 12 November 2021, the Ministry will manage both the Microsoft and the Spark Health LSP contracts on behalf of the health sector.
"It makes sense to take a more strategic approach across health agencies as we move to a new operating model for the health and disability system," says Darren Douglass.
"That way we can get the most value from our investment for the benefit of health care for New Zealanders. Technology is a key enabler for the reforms and these arrangements give Health New Zealand and the Māori Health Authority the tools they need right from the start."
Government agencies typically contract individually with Microsoft under a single All-of-Government Head Agreement negotiated by the Department of Internal Affairs every three years. This agreement was due for renewal this year and as part of the renewal process a health sector-specific variation was negotiated to provide the health sector with additional concessions. During those negotiations the Ministry of Health and DHB CIOs decided to consolidate Microsoft licence arrangements as part of the renewal process and develop a shared strategic roadmap to maximise value from the investment and ensure consistency in the use of Microsoft technology across health agencies.
"The new contract offers the public greater confidence in the technology systems and services being used across the health and disability system," says Darren Douglass.
"No matter where you live, you'll know that your hospital or other publicly-funded health provider will be able to draw on the best available tools to keep you well. A lot of this technology underpins the digital services provided to primary and community health organisations, so it makes sense to be consistent."
The agreement also includes the increased deployment of Microsoft cyber security technology across health agencies which will improve protection and resilience to cyberattacks on health systems and services.
Ryl Jensen

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Meet el maestro, the sacred healer
by Courtney Wise September 29, 2022 September 28, 2022
Good morning, MindSite News readers. In today's edition, we introduce you to a third generation healer near Los Angeles who focuses on creating sacred connectedness. Fetal alcohol problems are often misdiagnosed, making it hard for parents to get help. The Biden administration is taking heat for seeking new psych evaluations for families separated at the border. And more.
A revered traditional healer at work in California
Jerry Tello is a third generation healer with Mexican, Coahuiltecan and Texan roots. He grew up watching his mother and grandmother help family and neighbors using an indigenous form of massage called sobadas and traditional herbal remedies. Now, he leads people through a menu of wellbeing services, including medication circles, life coaching, and family counseling in Whittier, California, just outside of LA. Though the Sacred Circles Center, where he does his work, is housed within a nondescript white building with no sign, he's certain that "the people that need to be here, will be here," he told the Los Angeles Times.
One way his practice differs from his maternal ancestors is that he's more open about it. As a child, his mother warned him not to tell his teachers about her healing because it wasn't honored by Western medicine. Tello earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and worked in community mental health clinics, but came to feel that mainstream techniques weren't right for his community's needs. With a group of therapists and community health practitioners, he helped form Calmecac (the name of a school for the sons of Aztec nobility) to "explore effective ways [for] really healing, not just treating, not just intervening, not just medicating and diagnosing but truly healing our people."
Tello, who is known within his community as el maestro – the teacher – was named a White House Champion of Change during the Obama administration. In an interview with Times reporter Karen Garcia, presented as a Q & A, he talked about his work and his approach to healing the whole person. It began like this:
"There is a word in my Indigenous Nahuatl language, Tloque Nahuaque, which, loosely translated, means interconnected sacredness. In Indigenous thought, our sense of wholeness or well-being is a sense of us being physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually balanced and harmoniously connected to ourselves and all our relations."
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The trouble with misdiagnosing fetal alcohol problems
We've known for some time that alcohol consumption during pregnancy can damage a developing fetus and cause lasting developmental and neurological problems for a child. And most people know about the most severe form of this condition – fetal alcohol syndrome, or FAS. But like many conditions, these problems occur along a continuum, known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, or FASD.
Children with FAS often have discernible facial features and cognitive impairment, making the condition relatively easy to diagnose. But when children have less severe cases, further down on the spectrum, their condition is often confused or misdiagnosed. The symptoms these kids develop – such as memory trouble, lack of impulse control, problems concentrating, or even violent outbursts – are often mistaken for childhood tantrums, ADHD, or autism.
South Carolina Public Radio spoke with parents who adopted children with FASD and have struggled to get accurate diagnoses and to access behavioral and mental health support for their kids. Despite her training, Leslie Jurado, a pediatric occupational therapist, didn't recognize that her son had FASD during the eight years it took to get an accurate diagnosis. He was instead labeled with multiple mental and behavioral disorders. "It was never presented as a spectrum," she said.
Refraining from alcohol during pregnancy is the only way to prevent fetal alcohol problems from occurring. For children who were exposed to alcohol in utero, fetal alcohol problems aren't reversible but early diagnosis coupled with good therapy and parent training can support a child's development.
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Emotional exercises for better mental health
We know that aerobic workouts are good for your mental health, but did you know there are emotional workouts you can do for yourself as well? The Washington Post spoke with mental health experts who shared the following four mental moves for busting anxiety and stress. You can add them to your self-care regimen:
Schedule a worry time. Literally. Clinical psychologist Emily Anhalt suggests dropping a 10-15 minute time period on your daily calendar to focus on stress and list out your worries. This may help cut down on constant rumination throughout the day.
Do self-reflection 'pushups.' Whenever you find yourself especially annoyed with someone else's behavior, assess yourself according to the 3Js: JOIN, JEALOUS, and JUDGE. If the behavior is something you also do, particularly along the lines of the 3Js, it may help you empathize.
Befriend tough emotions. Don't distract yourself from the emotions you'd rather not feel. Name your feelings and respect them, in order to work through them. It may also help to pay attention to where you feel the impact of said tough emotions in your physical body.
Exercise curiosity to combat anxiety. Replace the "why is this happening" that often accompanies anxiety with "what is happening" to help uncover the root cause of your anxiety and undermine its power.
Biden Administration under fire for seeking psychological tests of families separated at border
The Associated Press reports that the Biden Administration wants the parents of children separated at the US-Mexico border to submit to another round of psychological testing to assess their level of trauma from a Trump-era policy widely viewed as inhumane. Lawyers seeking compensation from the federal government for the migrant families argue that the request is an effort to downplay the mental and emotional harm they've endured.
The Justice Department is also asserting the right to have psychologists examine the children as well. While such evaluations are typical in emotional-damages claims, the government's role in traumatizing both children and adults in the course of implementing the Trump administration's forced-separation policy is well-documented, the AP report noted.
"President Biden called the Trump family separations criminal and a moral stain on the nation, but now his administration is hiring doctors to try and claim the families didn't suffer all that much," said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project. It's the latest development in a lawsuit that was filed after settlement attempts between the families and government broke down last year.
Earlier this week, we noted that lawmakers in New Jersey moved to institute "community schools" across the state in an effort to support the educational, social, and emotional needs of students. Today, we share a KQED profile of two San Francisco schools – Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School and Buena Vista Horace Mann – that highlights the positive changes on both campuses after the schools boosted mental health and wellness services.
Boldt Company, a construction group based in Wisconsin, has developed a peer network of employees to act as a first line of support in preventing suicide and improving mental health, WUWM reports. "Gatekeepers" volunteer to be a first point of contact for fellow employees experiencing mental distress. "We focus in our construction industry about physical safety, but I think in 2021, in the middle of the pandemic, we realized an opportunity to really focus on mental health and mental safety as well," said John Huggett, a Boldt Company vice president and gatekeeper. According to the CDC, construction is in the top five for suicide rates among major industries.
If you or someone you know is in crisis or experiencing suicidal thoughts, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and connect in English or Spanish. If you're a veteran press 1. If you're deaf or hard of hearing dial 711, then 988. Services are free and available 24/7.
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package org.testifyproject.core.annotation;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.testifyproject.annotation.Name;

/**
 *
 * @author saden
 */
public class DefaultNameTest {

    Name sut;
    String value;

    @Before
    public void init() {
        value = "value";

        sut = new DefaultName(value);
    }

    @Test
    public void givenValueOfShouldReturnNameInstance() {
        Name result = DefaultName.of(value);

        assertThat(result).isNotNull();
    }

    @Test
    public void callToGetValueShouldReturnValue() {
        String result = sut.value();

        assertThat(result).isEqualTo(value);
    }

    @Test
    public void callToAnnotationTypeShouldReturnAnnotation() {
        Class<? extends Annotation> result = sut.annotationType();

        assertThat(result).isEqualTo(Name.class);
    }

}


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Tram No. 135 and its century of travelling the tracks
Author: James Duncan
Author: Christen McAlpine
Editor: Megan Hutching
Tram No. 135 is a Wellington tram, built in 1921, and operated throughout Wellington until 1957. This type of tram was the most common of the Wellington tram fleet and were constructed in the local Kilbirnie tramway workshops. As with all Wellington trams, No. 135 operated on the narrower 4-foot gauge and had the new technology of air brakes fitted at manufacture.
This design of tram was known as a 'double saloon' as the tram was built with an enclosed compartment or saloon at each end and an open centre. In later years, the Double Saloons had their open centres enclosed somewhat to provide better protection from the weather, but the canvas pull-down blinds were still a feature of the centre doorways following this redesign.
The Double Saloons were all built with a centre aisle in the open centre. Following the deaths of conductors falling from the running boards while collecting fares, government regulations in 1913 stated that all tramcars in New Zealand had to have a centre aisle front to back.
The Wellington Tramway Company had formed on 21 August 1878 – and three days later, on 24 August, the Wellington tramway system began operation with steam-hauled trams. The Wellington system was the first city steam tram service in the southern hemisphere and originally ran from a terminal near the Government Buildings on Lambton Quay to a depot at the corner of Adelaide Road and King Street.
The city reintroduced horse-drawn trams in 1882 as the steam engines were widely deemed unsatisfactory — they were heavy which increased the wear and tear on the track resulting in increased maintenance costs, they were prone to derailing, and often frightened horses. The last steam-drawn tram was withdrawn from service in 1892. The financial state of the company remained in a perilous condition and after several management changes, it was purchased for a minimal price by the Wellington City Corporation in 1900.
In 1902 it was decided to electrify the system. The contract was awarded to the large engineering and contracting firm, McCartney, McElroy and Company Limited of London. The first trial electric tram run was on 8 June 1904, and the first run from Newtown to the Basin Reserve was on 30 June 1904. The implementation of the new system brought an end to the horse drawn service in August 1904. The electrified system proved popular and remained in service until 1964.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, however, Wellington City decided to replace its trams with buses and trolleybuses. The topography of Wellington played a part in this decision – the city's streets are often steep, winding, and narrow, making the greater manoeuvrability of buses a significant asset.
The first major tram line closure came in 1949, when Wadestown closed. Over the next 15 years all the lines slowly closed until the only one remaining was the Thorndon to Newtown line.
On 2 May 1964, large crowds gathered along the remaining route to witness the last trams to run through the streets of Wellington and also the last trams in regular passenger service in any city in New Zealand. Three trams had been decorated especially for the occasion, numbers 250, 251 and 252. The trams had been driven down to a closing ceremony at Thorndon tram sheds, then, after speeches from invited dignitaries, they moved off for the final time bound for Newtown. Crowds lined the streets all along the route and the trams moved slowly in procession with a local brass band. Upon reaching the Newtown Sheds, another ceremony was held with the symbolic closing of the large shed doors for the final time. Tram 252 was the official 'last tram' of New Zealand.
The principle of electric transport was retained in Wellington with many of the tram routes being served by trolleybuses until 2017.
Many of the Double Saloon type of trams were manufactured, which indicates their good design during a period of high demand for public transport in New Zealand. The inclusion of modern safety features, such as airbrakes and multiple entry/exit points, made the Double Saloon tram popular with both users and operators.
Urban areas in New Zealand grew rapidly from the 1890s to the 1920s. The development of tramway lines meant that urban dwellers could live in suburbs on sections with more space than was available in the central city, yet still travel to their workplaces every day. The electrification of tramways in the first decade of the 1900s helped to foster a new wave of suburban development. Tram 135 was manufactured a decade into the establishment of an electric tram system in Wellington and represents how the city coped with the extra demand for public transport resulting from the increase in suburban dwellers.
No.135 arrived at MOTAT in 1964, shortly after the Wellington Tramway system closed and was stored on site, until restoration work began in the late 1970s. Now restored back to original open centre configuration and painted in the 1920s Wellington livery of chocolate and cream. In December this year, No.135 celebrates its 100th birthday!
Type: Mk I double saloon
In service: 1921 - 1957
Length: 39 ft
Width: 7 ft
Seating capacity: 35
Truck: Brill 69E 'maximum traction' bogies 4 ft gauge
Motors: 2 x GE203P @ 50 HP
Controllers: GE B35 with rheostatic electric /magnetic track braking
Graham Stewart books
Grey River Argus, Volume 21, Issue 3129, 26 August 1878, Page 2. URL: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GRA18780826.2.21. Date Accessed: 8/4/2020.
History of Trams in Wellington, URL: https://www.wellingtontrams.org.nz/gallery (Wellington Tramway Museum). Date Accessed: 7/04/2020.
Hutching, M. 2019. 1964.153 Tram #135 Wellington Collection object significance research report. Auckland, NZ: MOTAT.
Marquess of Normanby, GCB, GCMG, PC, URL: https://gg.govt.nz/biographies/marquess-normanby-gcb-gcmg-pc (New Zealand Government). Date Accessed: 7/04/2020.
Nevin, B. 2018. 1964.153 Tram #135 Wellington Significance Score Sheet. Auckland, NZ: MOTAT.
'New Zealand's last electric tram trip', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/new-zealands-last-electric-tram-trip, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 11-Aug-2017. Date Accessed: 7/04/2020.
'Public transport - Horse and steam trams', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/22510/steam-trams. Date Accessed: 8/04-/2020.
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 3834, 27 August 1878, Page 2. URL: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC18780827.2.11.1. Date Accessed: 8/4/2020.
'Wellington steam-tram service opened', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/wellington-becomes-the-first-major-centre-to-begin-a-passenger-tram-service, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 27-Jul-2017. Date Accessed: 7/04/2020
Wellington City Corporation Tramways Department
Old-Time Transport Preservation League
MOTAT
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Duncan, James. McAlpine, Christen. 2021. Tram No. 135 and its century of travelling the tracks. New Zealand: The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
New Zealand Wellington City Corporation Tramways Conservation and restoration
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Streetcar Vehicle, Transit Railway Rail Vehicles Rail Transportation Equipment 07 Tools & Equipment for Transportation Nomenclature Trolley
Name/Title: Tram [No.135 (Mark I 'Double Saloon')] Maker: Wellington City Corporation Tramways Department Production date: 1921 Accession number: 1964.153 See full details
Name/Title: [Wellington Tram no. 135 in Lambton Quay] Production date: 1920s Accession number: 05-2153 See full details
Name/Title: [MOTAT heritage tram nos. 11, 100 (steam), 248, 257, 135, 321 running on MOTAT tramway] Maker: New Zealand Herald Production date: 28 Nov 1982 Accession number: PHO-2017-5.35 See full details


LOS ANGELES — With National Hockey League teams opening rookie camps this week, and with training camps opening next week, the 2013-14 NHL season is just about upon us, and our focus will, of course, quickly turn to the teams and their players.
But before Frozen Royalty begins its coverage of the 2013-14 Los Angeles Kings, starting with Friday's media day during their Rookie Camp (players are expected to be on the ice at 10:00 AM today at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California), there is one bit of news left from their 2011-12 Stanley Cup Championship to catch up on.
As many are aware, former Kings greats Marcel Dionne and Rogie Vachon each received a Stanley Cup ring from the team during the opening day festivities on January 19, 2013, at Staples Center.
Another Kings alumnus had to wait just a bit longer for his Stanley Cup ring, one who worked 2,632 consecutive games over 34 seasons with the Kings (37 years with the franchise), and was as deserving as anyone.
That Kings alumnus is none other than retired head athletic trainer Pete Demers, who got his start with the Kings organization back in 1971, when he became the head athletic trainer for the Springfield Kings of the American Hockey League, which was the Kings' AHL affiliate, at the time.
Last week, his Stanley Cup ring finally arrived, just a bit later than anyone hoped.
Demers spends his summers in Nova Scotia.
As they were for Dionne and Vachon, Kings President/Business Operations Luc Robitaille, and now-former Kings Governor and Chief Executive Officer, Anschutz Entertainment Group Tim Leiweke were behind the move to get a Stanley Cup ring for Demers.
Seeing the 2011-12 Kings win the Stanley Cup had Demers overflowing with pride.
After the on-ice celebration once they had won the Stanley Cup on June 11, 2012, the celebration moved into the Kings dressing room, a private affair for the players, coaches, and selected team staff. But a few others were invited, including Demers.
Demers pours the beer he saved from the 1993 Stanley Cup Final into the Stanley Cup, with Jarret Stoll looking on.
Demers had a bottle of Budweiser beer that he had saved from the Kings' 1993 Stanley Cup Final, one that he vowed not to open until the Kings won the Stanley Cup.
19 years later, during the locker room celebration, Demers finally got his chance to open that bottle and pour it into the Stanley Cup.
Demers was humbled and honored.
Demers never thought that the Kings would fail to win the Stanley Cup while he was working.
Kings defenseman Jerry Korab; Calder Cup (AHL Championship) 1971.
Indeed, Demers continues to play an active role with the Kings, and they have kept him involved.
Although Demers has only been back home in Los Angeles for a little over 24 hours, as of this writing, you can bet he will be showing off his new jewelry to his friends, family, and probably anyone else, for that matter, as soon as he gets the chance.
"I'm going to wear this ring with pride," he said.
Given the strong sense of pride that Demers displayed throughout his Hall of Fame career with the Kings, that should come as no surprise whatsoever.
Stick tap to photographer David Sheehan (@calishooterone on Twitter) for his contributions to this story.
I remember as a kid, that at the end of the 71-72 season, Pete Demers was voted the unsung hero of the team that year. I remember it due to the lengthy intro given about him and thinking to myself that the amount of time and dedication mentioned didn't fit any King player I knew. lol. Well deserved Pete.


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from flask import Flask, request
from flask_restful import Api

import logging
from logging.handlers import RotatingFileHandler

app = Flask(__name__)

api = Api(app)
logger = None

def add_resources():
    def add_device_api():
        from routes.api.device.device import Device

        api.add_resource(Device, '/device')

    def add_user_api():
        from routes.api.user.user import User, CategoryCount

        api.add_resource(User, '/user')
        api.add_resource(CategoryCount, '/category-count')

    def add_leaderboard_api():
        from routes.api.leaderboard.leaderboard import Rank, UserImage

        api.add_resource(Rank, '/rank')
        api.add_resource(UserImage, '/user-image/<phone>')

    def add_image_api():
        from routes.api.image.image import ChooseSample, Sample, StartDraw, Compare

        api.add_resource(ChooseSample, '/new-sample')
        api.add_resource(Sample, '/sample/<_id>')
        api.add_resource(StartDraw, '/start-draw/<_id>')
        api.add_resource(Compare, '/compare/<_id>')

    def add_developer_api():
        from routes.api.developer.dev import ChangeScore, DeleteScore, InitializeDevices

        api.add_resource(ChangeScore, '/change-score')
        api.add_resource(DeleteScore, '/delete-score')
        api.add_resource(InitializeDevices, '/initialize-devices')

    add_device_api()
    add_user_api()
    add_leaderboard_api()
    add_image_api()
    add_developer_api()

@app.before_first_request
def before_first_request():
    def make_logger():
        handler = RotatingFileHandler('server_log.log', maxBytes=100000, backupCount=5)
        # handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG if debug else logging.INFO)
        formatter = logging.Formatter("[%(asctime)s] %(levelname)s - %(message)s")
        handler.setFormatter(formatter)

        app.logger.addHandler(handler)
        app.logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)

    make_logger()
    global logger
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    # 로거 set

    logger.info('-------- Logger started --------')

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    logger.info('Requested from {0} [ {1} {2} ]'.format(request.host, request.method, request.url))
    logger.info('Request data : {0}'.format(request.form))

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    # flask.wrapper.Response 클래스의 인스턴스
    logger.info('Response status : {0}'.format(response.status))

    return response

@app.teardown_request
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    logger.info('Teardown request')

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    logger.info('---- Teardown appcontext')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    add_resources()
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How much snow did Liberty get today? Find the latest snow report for Liberty, with ski conditions, recent snow totals and snowfall in the weather forecast. Scroll left to see the most recently recorded Liberty snow totals for the last five days or scroll right to see the Liberty snow forecast for the next three days. Read the snow reporter comments (if provided) for more details on skiing at Liberty for the day. See base depth recorded at the upper mountain, mid mountain and lower mountain stations, along with the current weather at the summit and base elevations, including wind mph and direction. Click through for a full weather forecast. How many lifts are open and how many runs are open at Liberty? Check out the Liberty ski report, including number of lifts open, acres open and runs open, as well as the terrain park status. Click Add to Compare to see a side-by-side comparison of Liberty vs. other ski resorts (up to 10 total). Liberty snow reports are sourced directly from the ski resorts and are only recorded during the official ski season's opening to closing dates.
it was as expected warm and slushy conditions. it was the last day of an awesome season exploring the ikon pass so no regrets. the park jumps are pretty good.
what I get for going on a Saturday... Some of ice and some powder. only one bad area of brown slushy stuff on Lower strata... Far too many little kids out of control and experienced skiers doing their own professional slalom course on the beginner trails. Double Diamonds look great with lots of moguls but nobody on them trade maybe groom them out and let some of these want to be professionals stay there instead of racing on the beginner trails. I'll go somewhere else too many other options.
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This week the children have been learning about babies and how we grow. We have been lucky enough to have some special visitors each morning. Each bay that visited us was slightly different in age and the children were able to see how each one was developing. They had lots of questions about how the babies ate, moved and slept. We found out that every baby was different. The children also talked about how they have changed since they were babies and toddlers.


Better Georgia, the liberal political action committee staffed by former state Young Democrats president Louis Elrod, is out with a new email attacking "extremist legislation that would make our state a laughingstock and hurt Georgians."
The so-called "War on Christmas"-themed legislation Better Georgia refers to is Senate Bill 283.
S.B. 283 is a one-page bill that allows local school systems to "educate students about the history of traditional winter celebrations and shall allow students and school system staff to offer traditional greetings regarding the celebrations, including, but not limited to: Merry Christmas; Happy Hanukkah; and Happy Holidays."
In their own words, the liberal PAC Better Georgia believes Senate Bill 283 is extremist legislation that would make our state a laughingstock and hurt Georgians.
State Senator Jason Carter, the presumptive Democrat nominee for Governor, voted for Senate Bill 283 [SOURCE: Senate Vote #435; 4 February 2014].
Using the transitive property here for a second, if Better Georgia believes Senate Bill 283 is extremist legislation that would make our state a laughingstock and hurt Georgians; and Jason Carter voted for the extremist legislation that would make our state a laughingstock and hurt Georgians; then does Better Georgia believe Jason Carter is an extremist legislator that would make our state a laughingstock and hurt Georgians?
Let Better Georgia's words, and Jason Carter's votes speak for themselves.


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Futile? Nope, Just Zero
On November 23, 2020 November 23, 2020 By rolcottIn Physics: Electromagnetism, Uncategorized
"Megabar superconductivity."
"Whoa, Susan. Too much information, too few words. Could you unpack that, please?"
"No problem, Sy. A bar is the barometric pressure (get it?) at sea level. A megabar is—"
"A million atmospheres, right?"
"Right, Al. So Ranga Dias and his crew were using their Diamond Anvil Cells to put their chemical samples under million-atmosphere pressures while they tested for superconductivity—"
"Like Superman uses?"
"Is he always like this, Sy?"
"Just when he gets excited, Susan. The guy loves Science, what can I say?"
"Sorry, Susan. So what makes conductivity into superconductivity?"
"Excellent question, Al. Answering it generated several Nobel Prizes and we still don't have a complete explanation. I can tell you the what but I can't give you a firm why. Mmm… what do you know about electrical resistance?"
"Just what we got in High School General Science. We built a circuit with a battery and a switch and an unknown resistor and a meter to measure the current. We figured the resistance from the voltage divided by the current. Or maybe the other way around."
"You got it right the first try. The voltage drop across a resistor is the current times the resistance, V=IR so V/I=R. That's for ordinary materials under ordinary conditions. But early last century researchers found that for many materials, if you get them cold enough the resistance is zero."
"Zero? But … if you put any voltage across something like that it could swallow an infinite amount of current."
"Whoa, Al, what's my motto about infinities?"
"Oh yeah, Sy. 'If your theory contains an infinity, you've left out physics that would stop that.' So what'd stop an infinite current here?"
"The resistor wasn't the only element in your experimental circuit. Internal resistance within the battery and meter would limit the current. Those 20th-century researchers had to use some clever techniques to measure what they had. Back to you, Susan."
"Thanks, Sy. I'm going to remember that motto. Bottom line, Al, superconductors have zero resistance but only under the right conditions. You start with your test material, with a reasonable resistance at some reasonable temperature, and then keep measuring its resistance as you slowly chill it. If it's willing to superconduct, at some critical temperature you see the resistance abruptly drop straight down to zero. The critical temperature varies with different materials. The weird thing is, once the materials are below their personal critical temperature all superconductors behave the same way. It's seems to be all about the electrons and they don't care what kind of atom they rode in on."
"Wouldn't copper superconduct better than iron?"
"Oddly enough, pure copper doesn't superconduct at all. Iron and lead both superconduct and so do some weird copper-containing oxides. Oh, and superconductivity has another funny dependency — it's blocked by strong magnetic fields, but on the other hand it blocks out weaker ones. Under normal conditions, a magnetic field can penetrate deep into most materials. However, a superconducting piece of material completely repels the field, forces the magnetic lines to go around it. That's called the Meissner effect and it's quantum and—"
"Even though we've got a good theory for the materials with low critical temperature, the copper oxides and such are still a puzzle. Here's a diagram I built for one of my classes…"
"The top half is the ordinary situation, like in a copper wire. Most of the current is carried by electrons near the surface, but there's a lot of random motion there, electrons bouncing off of impurities and crystal defects and boundaries. That's where ordinary conduction's resistance comes from. Compare that with the diagram's bottom half, a seriously simplified view of superconduction. Here the electrons act like soldiers on parade, all quantum‑entangled with each other and moving as one big unit."
"The green spirals?"
"They represent an imposed magnetic field. See the red bits diving into the ordinary conductor? But the superconducting parade doesn't make space for the circular motion that magnetism tries to impose. The force lines just bounce off. Fun fact — the supercurrent itself generates a huge magnetic field but only outside the superconductor."
"How 'bout that? So how is megabar superconductivity different?"
critical temperaturemegabarMeissner effectRanga Diassuperconductivity
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Praised be Jesus Christ and Mary His Most Holy Mother! As everyone knows, last Tuesday November 11th we celebrated Veterans' Day. We all prayed for the members of the armed forces of our nation and we prayed for all those who have given their lives for our country, making the supreme sacrifice. Some parishioners may recall when the holiday was called Armistice Day. My father always referred to it by the former name until the day of his death. The origin of the holiday goes to the year 1918 when at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month the armistice was signed ending what we call today the First World War. But the day itself was sacred long before, for it is the Feast of the great Soldier-Saint, St. Martin who is the only saint given the wondrous title Equal to the Apostles. (In Latin he is called Martinus, Pars-Apostoli!).
In 1918 November 11th was also a Monday. The hostilities had ceased on Friday November 8, 1918. The German Emperor fled to Holland on Saturday the 9th, and the last Austrian Emperor, the Blessed Karl (beatified in 2004) and his family left Vienna on Sunday the 10th. But the warring parties made the solemn agreement that the armistice would wait to be signed until the Feast of the great St. Martin. For he is the Patron of all soldiers and the patron of both Germany and France. Who was this saint upon whom history waited and what is his story?
St. Martin lived at the end of the fourth century and was from the Roman province of Panomia (in present day Hungary). As a young man he enlisted in the Roman Army and was a centurion assigned to the province of Gaul (present day France) where there was fierce fighting. He was considered the bravest and most valiant soldier serving in the Imperial Army at that time.
Soon he heard of the preaching of the Faith and became a catechumen, one preparing for baptism. One day the great Martin entered a French village where he found an old man freezing in the cold. He immediately drew his sword and with one graceful swoop, cut his red military cloak in two, giving half of it to the shivering man. That night in a dream Our Lord appeared to Martin wearing the half cloak. And Our Lord said to him, "Martin whatever you have done for the least of my brethren, you have done for me. From now on you shall be a soldier in my army, marching beneath the Cross." Martin was immediately baptized and began to live in the forest as a monk.
the bale of hay and betraying him. He was discovered and the people brought Martin back to Tours there to be made Bishop. He became the holiest Bishop in the world and was noted for his love for the poor and his desire for the priests to live exemplary lives. The bravest soldier of the Roman army now became the greatest bishop in the history of the Church.
Si beve il buon vino!
(On St. Martin's Day, one drinks the good wine!) Finally, St. Martin's last gift to us is the unusual meteorological phenomenon that occurs each year in mid-November in the Northern Hemisphere. At that time there is a slight warming of the earth, almost two months into the autumn season. This is called St. Martin's Summer.
O Glorious St. Martin, Equal to the Apostles, pray for us and save us. Watch over our armed forces and watch over our children! May You who gave your life to doing good, and still do so from heaven, bless and protect us. Warm the coldness of our hearts so we may love God as did You. Help us to see Our Lord in the poor and suffering as You did. O St. Martin bring peace to the nations of the world and save us who pray to You!
May I then on this Veterans' Day extend the gratitude of the parish to all of our own parishioners serving in the armed forces and to all our (and my fellow) veterans. (I had the honor to serve in the USAF for eight years).
But today I also salute another category of parish veterans. Although some did indeed serve in the armed forces, the veterans of whom I write are our founding parishioners. How blessed we are that so many of them are here with us; they are our mothers and fathers in the faith. They saw the dream of a church arise here and their sacrifices have built our parish. How happy I always am, when standing in front of the Church, people approach me and say with true and justified pride, We were here at the beginning. You saw Monsignor Potterton (then Father) unearth the first shovel of dirt. We will ever be grateful for all you have done, dear Veterans of St. Paul the Apostle. May God bless and reward you! To that end, I would like to invite all of the founding parishioners of St. Paul to the 11.00am Mass on Sunday November 23th, the Solemnity of Christ the King. I would ask them all to sit in the "pie" close to the shrine of the Blessed Mother to receive a blessing and our recognition and gratitude. To that Mass also I would like to invite all parish volunteers so that we may thank them on the Sunday before Thanksgiving and that they, too, may be blessed and recognized. After Mass refreshments will be served in the Lower Church.
MINISTRY OF HOSPITALITY: Please consider being part of this very important ministry in our parish. For many years Mrs. Ursula Coughlin and Mr. Andy Coughlin have selflessly dedicated themselves to this important work of evangelization. Many hands make light work, so please sign up for this important ministry by contacting Mrs. Coughlin.
MEMORIALS: For those who would like to give a memorial in memory of a loved one, please call the Parish Office and speak with Mrs. Genna, our administrative assistant. We are presently memorializing a statue of St. Paul for the chapel, and six pavement lights for funerals. These are quite beautiful and they burn unbleached wax candles. We also have two more St. Kilian candle racks to be memorialized. We are grateful for all you have contributed to our new state of the art sound system (done by Monte Brothers who installed the sound system in the newly renovated St. Patrick's Cathedral).


Jonathan is a co-complier of the celebrated Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, and is the author of several books on Christian spirituality, including The Awakening of Hope, The Wisdom of Stability, and The New Monasticism.
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Is waging 'war' the only way to take on the coronavirus?
Why public discourse seems to get stuck fighting everything.
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What do climate change, drugs, and Christmas have in common? The United States has supposedly been at "war" with all of them.
When facing any sort of crisis, big or small, Americans often frame the situation through the lens of a battle. So when coronavirus brought daily life in the United States to a halt last month, it seemed nearly inevitable that President Donald Trump would declare himself a "wartime president."
"The world is at war with a hidden enemy," he tweeted. "WE WILL WIN!"
Similar language has been invoked by leaders around the world. France's President Emmanuel Macron deployed the phrase "we are at war" no less than six times in one speech last month. And in a rare special address to the United Kingdom last week, Queen Elizabeth II invoked the "Blitz spirit" of World War II, a time of shared sacrifice.
Wartime rhetoric serves as an aggressive moral appeal, drumming up emotion and calling people to action. But here's the thing about the war on coronavirus: We've already lost it.
"I think war metaphors are best used as a mobilizing effort," said Stephen Flusberg, an associate professor of psychology at Purchase College in New York. "And it's too late in the United States. We've failed."
If coronavirus were truly a "war," the United States would be the best prepared in the world, with a so-called "defense" budget at $700 billion a year and climbing — more than what the next seven largest countries spend added together. What the country was unprepared for was a pandemic, something infectious disease experts had warned was eventually coming.
Warlike language has been part of our speech for so long, it usually goes unnoticed. When the Spanish Flu hit England in the summer of 1918, newspapers warned their readers to prepare "defenses" against the disease. Soon enough, they described the flu as a "new foe," and people freaked out, panic-buying quinine. It sounds all too familiar to anyone who's been following the news of coronavirus, which the New York Times first painted as a "mystery" illness in January, something to "combat" in February, and an "all-out war" in March.
Fighting words have their time and place, language experts say, but public discourse seems to get stuck fighting everything. Studies show that this framing can paralyze people with fear and limit our collective imagination about what can be done to fix complex problems. In times of pandemic, calling the virus an "invisible enemy" can evoke xenophobia and racism. The framing primes people to view problems like climate change as a battlefield — this side vs. that side — widening partisan divides while obscuring any common ground.
"When a metaphor is used again and again and again, it really makes people experience something in those terms," said Veronika Koller, a linguist at Lancaster University in England. In other words, people start to feel like they're living in wartime. This can help governments gain public support for short-term actions that would normally be unpopular, like closing borders or exercising emergency powers. But for a prolonged crisis, it results in fatigue, Koller said. From climate change to cancer to coronavirus, the struggle is not a matter of weeks, but months, years, and decades.
Researchers say that it's clear we need a new way to discuss big problems, a broader repertoire of metaphors to choose from. "There's a paucity of the imagination around insurmountable challenges," said Brent Ryan Bellamy, an instructor at Trent University in Canada.
Last week, Trump tweeted, "The Invisible Enemy will soon be in full retreat!" Though he didn't mention the virus, no one seemed confused by what he was referring to — a sign that the war narrative has firmly taken hold. But others are already describing the pandemic in creative terms, comparing the government's response to a storyline in a Harry Potter book, or practicing social distancing to a string section playing quietly (it only works, after all, if everyone does it). A group of linguists are attempting to #ReframeCovid, tracking international efforts to put new words to the crisis.
Flipping the usual script can lead to fresh critiques, new alliances, and eventually, if the new metaphors take hold, different ways to cope.
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Trying to get your child through the night without getting wet? Here are some tips that might help.
You might expect that the moment your children learn how to control their bladders during the day that will also mean immediate nighttime success, but that scenario is quite rare. The truth for most children is that nighttime dryness takes weeks to months to follow suit. So the first thing to do is simply relax. It's fine to keep your little one in nighttime pull-ups until he or she has a successful track record of a few dry nights in a row.
If you feel like your child could use a little incentive to try to keep his or her pull-up dry (after two months of daytime success) then a reward chart can be a good place to start. One thing to keep in mind about rewards for potty training is that in order for them to be effective, the reward must come as immediately as possible. So, for example, if your little guy wakes up with a dry pull-up, the reward would be ready as soon as he shows you his success.
Overtiredness can be the culprit for many things, including bedwetting. Have a good look at the number of nighttime hours of sleep your child is getting, and if it's any less than 11, try adding to it. When a child is overtired the body tends to sleep more heavily, which could be interfering with the body's messages to the brain that would encourage a wake-up to use the toilet.
Occasionally children just take the easy way out, no matter how much coaxing and rewarding a parent does. For some children, staying dry at night is just not a priority and they won't do it even though they can… So, if it's been at least six months since your little one mastered daytime dryness and you've tried the above suggestions many times over, then you may need to test your child by going diaper free at night. Be ready to wake a few times in the first week to change sheets and PJs, and also put a plastic mattress cover on for protection. Try it for two weeks. If you see your child moving in the direction of progress with more and more dry nights, then you know you are on the right track. If, however, there is little to no success, then trust that it's more a matter of biology than stubbornness and go back to the pull-up for a few more months.
It's never wise to punish a child for nighttime accidents. One in ten school-aged children still has trouble controlling his bladder at night, so it's more common than you might think. It's not your little one's fault, and it's just a matter of age and biological maturity before success comes.


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(WB, Cartoon Network, September 9, 1995-December 13, 2002)
Joe Alaskey – Sylvester, Tweety, Daffy Duck, Beaky Buzzard, Charlie Dog, Mugsy, Marvin the Martian, Michigan J. Frog, Cool Cat, Colonel Rimfire, various
June Foray – Granny, Witch Hazel
Frank Welker – Hector, Spooky, Catsello, Cecil Turtle, various
For the history of Looney Tunes, check out the post here.
Created by Tom Minton and James T. Walker, and developed by Fay Whitemountain, The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries followed Granny (June Foray) as she traveled around the world solving various mysteries. Keeping her company and sometimes aiding her was her pets, Sylvester and Tweety (both Joe Alaskey). Only sometimes because Sylvester spent most of the time trying to eat Tweety. Fortunately, he was thwarted by Tweety's resourcefulness and Granny's other pet, bulldog Hector (who was redesigned to look more like Marc Antony, voiced by Frank Welker). Hector would often beat Sylvester up for his attempts, typically off-camera but sometimes behind a screen.
Granny, Sylvester, Tweety and Hector in a pickle...barrel.
Along their adventures, the cast frequently encountered various other Looney Tunes characters (sometimes playing a different role in the story). Amongst them were Daffy Duck, Beaky Buzzard, Charlie Dog, Marvin the Martian, Michigan J. Frog (all Alaskey), Yosemite Sam, Taz, Gossamer, Sam Sheepdog, The Crusher, Hugo the Abominable Snowman, Nasty Canasta (all Jim Cummings), Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepe Le Pew (all Greg Burson), Babbit (Corey Burton) and Catsello (Welker), Hubie (Cummings) and Bertie (Jeff Bennett), Witch Hazel (Foray), Rocky (Cummings) and Mugsy (Alaskey), Hippety Hopper, Count Blood Count (Burton), Cecil Turtle (Welker), Pete Puma (Stan Freberg), and the Goofy Gophers (Bennett & Burton). There was even an appearance by Tweety's original incarnation of Orson.
There's always time for a golden snack.
Three other more obscure characters also made appearances from the period of Warner Bros. Animation's first return. After three years of outsourcing their cartoon productions when they closed their in-house studio upon completion of The Bugs Bunny Show, Warner Bros. decided to reform the studio in 1967. Because Warner Bros. was bought by Seven Arts Associates shortly after, it was known as Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation. During this time, a new character was introduced: Cool Cat (Larry Storch). He was a hep tiger who wore a beret and spoke in beatnik slang. His primary antagonist was Colonel Rimfire (also Storch), a big game hunter. Cool Cat's series only ran for five short films when the studio closed again in 1969. Cool Cat (Alaskey) was featured in every episode in some form or other (background, picture, brief speaking role, etc.). Colonel Rimfire (Alaskey) and another Cool Cat character, a ghost named Spooky (Welker), made appearances. They were the only characters from the W-7 era to make any other major appearances in a Warner Bros. production.
Following the clues no matter where they lead.
The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries debuted on the WB as part of the Kids' WB programming block on September 9, 1995. It was the pair's first starring vehicle since the 1976 anthology series Sylvester and Tweety. The series was an homage to Warner Bros. Animation's theatrical short glory days and the long-running TV series Murder She Wrote (which also starred an elderly amateur sleuth character). The series was written by Minton with Tim Cahill, Julie McNally Cahill, Alicia Marie Schudt, Robert Schechter, John P. McCann, Chris Otsuki, Carolyn Gair-Taylor, Karl Toerge, John Behnke, Rob Humphrey, Jim Peterson, Frank Santopadre, Rick Rodgers, Jim McLean, Brian B. Chin and Dave Cunningham. Behnke, Humphrey and Peterson were also sometimes credited as The Trio on episodes they wrote together. The series' theme was composed by Richard Stone, who also did the rest of the music with J. Eric Schmidt, Gordon Goodwin, Cameron Patrick and Steve Bernstein. Animation duties fell to Tokyo Movie Shinsha, KoKo Enterprises, and Dongyang Animation.
Meeting important people.
The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries ran for five seasons and was later integrated as part of the omnibus program, The Cat & Bridie Warneroonie Pinky Brainie Big Cartoonie Show. For the first season, each episode was a single half-hour mystery. It was also dedicated to the memory of Sylvester and Tweety creator Friz Freleng, who had died months prior from natural causes at the age of 88. Starting with season two and lasting until the show's end, each episode was split into two mysteries. The final episode, "The Tail End / This is the End", never aired on Kids' WB after the series' cancellation. It was finally aired during the show's run on Cartoon Network two years later on December 13, 2002.
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During the show's run, it was nominated for several Daytime Emmy and Annie Awards, with June Foray winning two consecutive Annies for her portrayal of Granny. For years, the only release of the show on home media were two VHS tapes in Germany. In 2008, exactly 13 years after the first episode's debut, Warner Home Video released the complete first season to DVD. No further releases have been planned or announced, however five episodes were later released in the 2016 compilation Sylvester and Friends vol. 1.
"The Cat Who Knew Too Much" (9/9/95) – In New Orleans for a canary crooning contest, Tweety ends up birdnapped by Rocky and Mugsy.
"Platinum Wheel of Fortune" (9/16/95) – Clearing Granny of a theft becomes difficult when Sylvester ends up pursued by Pepe's cousin, Pitu Le Pew.
"Double Take" (9/23/95) – Sylvester and Tweety hunt down the culprit of a crimewave in Denmark to clear Granny's name.
"A Chip Off the Old Castle" (9/30/95) – Granny investigates the theft of Ireland's Blarney Stone.
"Something Fishy Around Here" (10/7/95) – Investigating the theft of the world's largest tuna in Japan has Sylvester and Tweety run across some Triad assassins.
"B2 or Not B2" (11/4/95) – Granny investigates who's targeting Bingo winners on her cruise.
"Bull Running on Empty" (11/11/95) – Granny heads to Spain to investigate the theft of the Pamplona Periscope.
"A Ticket to Crime" (11/18/95) – Granny tries to solve the death of the host of a gathering of detectives.
"The Maltese Canary" (11/25/95) – While Granny runs Sam Spade's office in San Francisco, a cast of characters believe Tweety is the Maltese Canary.
"It Happened One Night Before Christmas" (12/16/95) – Granny tries to figure out what happened to the $8000 from her brother's company.
"Outback Down Under" (1/27/96) – Granny investigates the disappearances of Australian sheep.
"It's a Plaid, Plaid, Plaid, Plaid World" (2/3/96) – Granny investigates the theft of a family tartan in Scotland.
"Go Fig" (2/17/96) – Granny investigates the theft of a rancher's fig crops.
"Spaced Out / Autumn's Leaving" (9/7/96) – Granny uncovers an alien invasion. / Granny and company encounter Witch Hazel in a New England forest.
"Catch as Catch Cannes / Yodel Recall" (9/14/96) – Granny investigate the theft of film prizes while Sylvester disguises himself as a film producer to pursue Tweety. / Granny investigates the kidnapping of the Von Trump singers as Sylvester meets the Abominable Snowman.
"Don't Polka Me / The Granny Vanishes" (9/28/96) – Someone replaces accordion reeds with duck calls at a dance festival while two other cats try to get Tweety. / Granny disappears on the Orient Express.
"The Scare Up There / If It's Wednesday, This Must Be Holland!" (11/2/96) – Sylvester is plagued by gnomes on a plane. / Granny pursues a smuggler who stole rare flowers from Holland.
"Curse of De Nile / Hawaii 33 1/3" (11/9/96) – Granny investigates the disappearance of an archaeologist in Egypt. / Granny investigates the disappearance of Hawaiian Tiki statues.
"Keep Your Pantheon / London Broiled" (11/16/96) – Sylvester chases Tweety into Pandora's Box and ends up back in time. / The Shropshire Slasher makes Granny his next target while exposure to a formula causes Tweety to change repeatedly into a monster.
"They Call Me Mr. Lincoln / Froggone It" (2/15/97) – Accidentally using Abraham Lincoln's toothpick gets Sylvester kicked out of the state. / Granny investigates the kidnapping of Michigan J. Frog.
"One Froggy Throat / Mush Ado About Nothing" (2/22/97) – Sylvester can't get away from Michigan J. Frog. / Hector and Sylvester become Granny's sled dogs.
"The Star of Bombay / Happy Pranksgiving" (9/13/97) – Granny investigates a missing Indian film star. / Granny is on the hunt for the Squeegee the Clown parade balloon.
"Is Paris Stinking? / Fangs for the Memories" (9/20/97) – French authorities task Granny with discovering the origin of a foul smell in the city. / Granny and the pets are forced to take shelter in a spooky castle belonging to a vampire.
"Moscow Side Story / Fair's Fair" (10/11/97) – Granny is hired to find the Borscht Belt that turns its wearer into a comedian. / As the others try to win a pie eating contest, Tweety investigates suspicious activity in the bake-off.
"El Dia de Los Pussygatos / 3 Days & 2 Nights of the Condor" (11/1/97) – Granny has to help rescue a Mexican mayor being held for ransom. / Sylvester finds competition with Beaky Buzzard for Tweety.
"Yelp / Jeepers Creepers" (11/15/97) – Granny enters Hector into a dog show to find a stolen diamond collar. / Granny investigates missing jewels at a party while Sylvester's former partner appears to cause trouble.
"Fleas Release Me / Niagara's Fallen" (2/7/98) – Granny investigates the disappearance of the performers of a flea circus. / Granny investigates the diversion of the water at Niagara Falls.
"Spooker of the House / Furgo" (2/14/98) – Sylvester is haunted by Howard Taft at the White House. / The pets try to get Granny's Nash back from Rocky and Mugsy.
"The Fountain of Funk / Yes, We Have No Canaries" (2/21/98) – A technology nerd didn't pay attention to the 70s growing up and wants Granny to find it for him. / Granny is hired to find stolen canaries from Kanary Island.
"The Shell Game / Rasslin' Rhapsody" (2/28/98) – Sylvester and Tweety end up stranded in the Galapagos Islands and meet Cecil Turtle. / A night of wrestling gets interrupted when someone steals the championship belt.
"Ice Cat-Pades / To Catch a Puddy" (4/25/98) – Granny solves an ice hockey mystery with Babbit and Catsello. / Sylvester is believed to be a cat burglar.
"Family Circles / Sea You Later" (5/2/98) – Granny investigates crop circles while chasing Tweety leads Sylvester to encounter Foghorn Leghorn. / Manatees rampage against Lake Placid sea creatures.
"A Case of Red Herring / Roswell that Ends Well" (5/9/98) – Granny helps a famous Swedish lawyer. / Granny searches for a missing alien in the New Mexico desert.
"A Good Nephew is Hard to Find / Mirage Sale" (5/16/98) – Granny visits her nephew in Tokyo. / Granny investigates a playboy who was drafted into the Foreign Legion and vanished.
"The Stilted Perch / A Game of Cat and Monster!" (9/19/98) – A criminal magician Granny put away turns up at the bed and breakfast they stay at. / Granny and the pets head to the Black Forest to rescue Colonel Rimfire.
"You're Thor?! / I Gopher You" (9/26/98) – Granny is hired to find the golden statue of Thor. / Granny searches for a cattle rustler.
"Hold the Lyin' King, Please / Suite Mystery of Wife – At Last I Found You…" (10/3/98) – Sylvester trades places with a lion. / Granny believes a mild-mannered scientist may have bumped off his nagging wife.
"The San Francisco Beat / The Triangle of Terror" (10/10/98) – Granny investigates the disappearance of a Beatnik's magic flute. / While searching for a musical triangle for a conductor, Sylvester ends up lost at sea.
"Casino Evil / Happy Bathday to You" (11/7/98) – Sylvester replaces an albino monkey in Vegas while Granny searches for it. / Granny and the pets explore a bath factory in England while Tweety celebrates his birthday.
"The Rotha-Khan / Good Bird Hunting" (11/21/98) – Sylvester accidentally breaks the cement footprints of a town founder and Granny is put in jail as a result. / Sylvester finds an idol Granny searches for and it makes him all-powerful.
"Feather Christmas / A Fist Full of Lutefisk" (12/12/98) – Granny helps a little girl retrieve the bird her parents got rid of. / Granny investigates a giant's theft of a Norway town's lutefisk.
"Venice, Anyone? / The Fifty Karat Furball" (1/16/99) – Granny investigates the disappearance of the water in Venice. / Sylvester accidentally swallows the I of Istanbul, which Rocky and Mugsy planned to steal.
"Son of Roswell That Ends Well / A Mynah Problem" (1/30/99) – Granny and the pets go to space to retrieve a general. / Granny investigates a missing Mynah Bird which Sylvester plans to eat.
"Whatever Happened to Shorty Twang / A Big Knight Out" (2/13/99) – Granny investigates the disappearance of a country singer. / Granny attends a medieval festival where someone stole King Arthur's stone and sword.
"Brussels Sprouts / The Golden Bird of Shangri-Claw" (2/27/99) – Granny disguises Hector as Napoleon to retrieve a statue of him. / Granny tries to find out why Mt. Everest isn't the tallest in the world anymore while Sylvester and Tweety end up in Shangri-Claw.
"When Granny Ruled the Earth / Dutch Tweet" (3/27/99) – Granny and the pets watch a documentary about their ancestors. / Granny goes to Amsterdam to bid on a figurine two thieves have their sights on.
"Bayou on the Half Shell / Seeing Double" (5/1/99) – Hector and Sylvester are in obedience school while Granny and Tweety look to stop a giant crawdad. / While exploring Happy Pet Village, Tweety meets his double and they drive Sylvester crazy.
"This is the Kitty / Eye for an Aye Aye" (9/18/99) – Granny volunteers at the zoo. / Granny finds Captain Kidd's missing treasure map and goes treasure hunting.
"When Harry Met Salleri / The Early Woim Gets the Boid" (9/25/99) – Granny investigates ghosts stealing the sound of music in Austria. / Granny investigates the disappearance of silk worms from a silk factory in Korea.
"Blackboard Jumble / What's the Frequency, Kitty?" (11/20/99) – Sylvester and Hector battle with blackboards. / Sylvester flees from a friendly ghost.
"Dial V for Veterinarian / California's Crusty Bronze" (2/5/00) – It's vet time for the pets. / Granny tries to save a restaurant's reputation.
"The Tail End? / This is the End" (12/13/02) – Everyone thinks Sylvester took the Manx mouse and wants his tail in payback. / Sylvester finally eats Tweety and ends up in jail for 100 days while beset upon by an angry mob.
Labels: 1990s, 2000s, Cartoon Network, Kids WB!, Looney Tunes, Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, Warner Bros. Animation, WB


October is American Pharmacists Month—this is YOUR MONTH! Yes, we've been celebrating every October for years, but this October is DIFFERENT! From conducting tours of the OTC aisles to giving patients free "care packages" to volunteering your time to a worthy cause, there are so many ways to raise awareness with your patients, Members of Congress, and other decision makers. We have so much more to offer than patients currently have access to due to coverage limitations.
We've made it easy for you to celebrate this special month. Visit APhA's website at www.pharmacist.com/american-pharmacists-month to get media coverage, reach your community, and use social media to share your contributions to safe and effective use of medications. Be sure to send any coverage, clips, or event photos from your celebrations to APhA at aphm@aphanet.org. We will PUMP YOU UP!
Don't forget that October 20 is National Pharmacy Technician Day. This is a day dedicated to the invaluable contributions technicians make to pharmacy practice.
You can also celebrate American Pharmacists Month and connect with patients by volunteering. APhA is a volunteer-led organization. We couldn't survive, let alone prosper, without the volunteer contributions and leadership of thousands. Speaking on behalf of our APhA staff, we are truly grateful for the opportunity to work with so many awesome folks. We've made it easy for you to volunteer with us as well!
What you may not know is that many, if not most, of our staff "walk the walk" by volunteering their personal time in various other organizations and associations. We do it to not only give back, but to continue learning and to gain new perspectives.
For me personally, that has meant volunteering in my community, with various associations, and importantly for more than 30 years with my alma mater, the West Virginia University (WVU) School of Pharmacy. Like many pharmacists with their own alma maters, I serve on WVU's visiting committee for the school. Through that volunteer involvement (this is a little scary!), I've known every dean at the 100-year-old school except the first one!
A few months ago, WVU announced that the recently retired pharmacy school dean, Pat Chase, was named Dean Emeritus. Such an honor is not a slam-dunk for a retiring dean, so I'm very pleased, but not surprised. You see, in addition to Pat's body of work at WVU, and her longstanding membership in APhA, she has also served in numerous volunteer roles in our profession over many years. Most recently, she completed her term as President of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). During her years as an AACP volunteer, she helped mentor dozens, if not hundreds, of Fellows as part of AACP's leadership training programs. Many of these Fellows go on to become leaders in pharmacy.
Pat's years of volunteerism are a shining example of how pharmacists can give back to their community and their profession. As you celebrate American Pharmacists Month, think of the many ways you can volunteer in your community and your profession. Make a difference all year long!


On November 23rd, the Mayor of Braga, Ricardo Rio, inaugurated the new facilities of Grupo Bernardo da Costa, a space with more than 2000m2 and an investment of 800,000 euros.
The Bernardo da Costa Group was also distinguished as the "Business Ambassador of Braga", because it is considered a business group that demonstrates a continuous concern with the well-being of its employees, its profile of technological innovation and its business dynamics.
It was a memorable party where we gathered customers, friends and partners.


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If you request more than 5 days (10 sessions) then you will trigger a penalty notice you will incur a fine of £60 per child per parent.


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Who Arted? Framing a Curatorial Intervention [Core77] – Steve and I talked about how great it is when street artists build on each others' work in our Interactions article, Kilroy was Here. The "Who Arted" group has really formalized this idea in parts of Brooklyn, serially framing, thereby curating street art.
But what are we to take away? Is this some counter-establishment commentary? Some kind Dadaism reincarnated or an art project born of a lazy Saturday evening "potluck" that comes in little plastic baggies? Ha! Is it some conservative attempt to contain and sterilize an otherwise loose and "free" art form? Are these frames meant to control and connote a more sanctioned museum-like quality? -OR- More intriguingly, is this a fun, yet purposeful recommendation towards a comfortable middle ground; a less combustible space between tension and expression?
ComScore Study Confirms What We Already Knew: You're Wasting Money on Ads No One Sees [AdAge Digital] – Many, many apps and web-based services (and concepts we encounter on projects regularly!) are predicated on an advertising-based revenue model, but (as we all know from our own behavior – this study is in the category of things-we-really-didn't-need-a-study-to-know) these ads are very rarely even glimpsed. If a banner ad falls in a forest, etc…what are the implications to our virtual-economy?
ComScore announced it has developed measurement software it's calling Validated Campaign Essentials, which includes at its core an analysis of which ads in an online campaign were in-view (50% of the ad must be viewable for at least one second.) The company said at an event this morning that it tested out the software over the last two months on campaigns for 12 big brands, including Kraft Foods, Ford, and Sprint. One of the key findings: 31% of the 1.7 billion ad impressions were never in view.
Buying the Body of Christ [Killing the Buddha] – This is a pretty thorough history of the Cavanagh Company, a 69-year old business that provides a product believed by many to transmogrify into the body of Christ: altar bread. A wide variety of influences cultural, logistical, ritualistic, theological and economic have driven innovation over the years. The company is now faced with bitter bested competitors (nuns!), niche-products (gluten-free wafers) and Polish knock-offs, all of which threaten their 80% market share.
Had production remained the exclusive bailiwick of monastic communities, it is likely that the findings of Vatican II would have prompted some minor changes in Communion-wafer production. Among the guidelines issued by the Church was a directive to "make the bread look more breadlike," head of production Dan Cavanagh told me. It is a change whose significance may yet be lost on the millions of churchgoers who continue to think of hosts as a form of Styrofoam. Nevertheless, Cavanagh's more "breadlike" whole-wheat wafer caught on. It became the industry standard, and forced the Poor Clare nuns to follow suit. In fact, the doctrinal changes of Vatican II were only a starting point for innovation. The Cavanagh Co. soon led the way to wholly aesthetic alterations in the host, to marketing campaigns and 1-800 numbers. The ethos of the altar bread industry changed profoundly, which is precisely what the Sisters of St. Clare found so unjust: 'And they had the audacity to send samples and a price list to every parish in the United States! We were doomed. Priests started calling to say they preferred the "other" breads. Orders dropped. Our spirits drooped.'
advertising, altar bread, Brooklyn, cavanagh, comscore, culture, frame, framework, graffiti, nuns, religion, ritual, street-art
Itadakimasu
Theresa, my wife, just bought us both these wonderful lunch carriers made by the Japanese company Zojirushi. Besides being a simple, functional, aesthetically pleasing and complete solution to the problem of moving food around, my new lunch carrier gave me a cool cross-cultural experience today as I opened it up for lunch at work for the first time.
Last night, Theresa packed us both food for today. As I pulled the three separate, sealed containers out of the metal tube they sit in, wondering what would be in each one, I felt a deep sense of the shared enterprise that is my home life, and the caring that my containers filled with homemade food represented.
Reflecting back on the time I spent living in Japan, I thought about how this unpacking of a homemade lunch is an experience that many Japanese men (gender roles being what they are in Japan) have every day.
For the first time, I really felt how much that ritual-preparing, packing, unpacking, eating lunch-can express the emotional facet of shared lives.
Itedakimasu: I will receive.
Itadakimasu, japan, ritual, zojirushi
What symbols stand for
In Suketu Mehta's stunning Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found is the following passage
I ask him about the rituals of the renunciation. He gives me a parable. A long time ago, a man was conducting a wedding. A cat was running around the marriage hall, disturbing things. So he tied it to a pillar. Afterward generations of the man's family, whenever they had a wedding, found a cat and tied it to one pillar of the hall, believing it to be a required wedding custom. The goings-on around this diksha, the doctor says, are like that cat tied to the pillar: The original meaning has been lost, and people are just doing it because that it how it has always been done.
Reader's Digest reports, via the New York Times about the growing presence of fake wedding cakes. Average price for a wedding cake is $543, and
"For as low as $100, you can snag a pretty good replica made out of foam, with a secret compartment tucked in the back for hiding that special first piece," the article states.
It's intriguing to play an Idiocracy-esque futurist and imagine how the ritual will decay (or is that evolve?) further. In 50 years will we wave a knife around and toss sugar packets, to symbolize the symbols of the cake and the cutting-of-the-cake?
Anne points out the similarity to the Roast Beef story where successive generations cut the ends of the roast beef because that is how they were taught. When they go all the way back to the origin, it turns out they didn't have a big enough pan and so that "ritual" was simply a coping mechanism.
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cake, fake, india, maximum city, ritual, roast beef, symbols, wedding
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There's nothing better than cracking open a time capsule and reminiscing about times gone by, especially when it's all about the 80s! Each yearly capsule provides lots of information — nuggets on the good, the bad, and the ugly of history & politics, music, movies, television, sports, people who died and people who were born. So dive on in, remember the totally...
Posted by Pia Sooney on Aug 26, 2007
It was a new decade, and 1980 started off with a bang in the form of both natural and man-made disasters – including the eruption of Mount St. Helens and the assassination of John Lennon. Ronald Reagan is elected towards the end of the year, the beginning of his almost decade-long reign as the leader of the free world. Music was getting a shake up as well with a move away from the...
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Are These the '80s Most Notable Moments?
Posted By Nicole on Mar 31, 2016
CNN is debuting a new original series tonight called The Eighties and as part of an intense marketing campaign has been highlighting some of the decade's biggest political, cultural and technological impacts on today. Recently, it released 80 moments from the '80s that it thinks are the most notable events of the decade. The list includes events like: February 22, 1980: Miracle on ice happens as U.S. hockey team defeats...
New Spotify Ad Says 'The NeverEnding Story' Streamed Every Day
It's been thirty years since the 1980s classic The NeverEnding Story hit theaters, but a clever new Spotify advertisement reminds us that while stories might end- songs are forever. At least one person every single day listens to the movie's title track, The NeverEnding Story by English singer Limahl, Spotify says. It's even hard to believe for the movie's hero, Atreyu. who makes a brief cameo in the Spotify ad with none other than...
80s Vespa Scooters Revived As The World's Coolest Office Chair
1980s Vespa scooters are considered to be somewhat of a design icon- in fact, many people seek out 80s Vespa scooters for their classic look and reliable make. But for those who don't necessarily have what it takes to pull off being seen riding around town in a vintage scooter, Spanish company Bel & Bel has created the "Scooter Chair." The Scooter Chair is totally cool in that it combines vintage art- which was...
Why Aren't Neighborhood Kids Shoveling Driveways to Earn Money Anymore?
Posted By Nicole on Feb 18, 2016
You've most likely seen the viral memes that begin circulating once again every winter. It seems like every cold season, folks reminisce about how children in the 70s and the 80s used snowstorms as an opportunity to make some extra cash, going around from house to house to offer their services shoveling snow. Gone are those days, they say, thanks to the distraction of social media and video games and texting. Kids simply...
There's nothing better than cracking open a time capsule and reminiscing about times gone by, especially when it's all about the 80s! Each yearly capsule provides lots of information — nuggets on the good, the bad, and the ugly of history & politics, music, movies, television, sports, people who died and people who were born. So dive on in, remember the totally bodacious 1980s, and maybe even learn something new!...
The advances in technology that began in previous years continue to gain speed in 1982 with the release of the Commodore 64 computer and the first CD player by Sony. The shift is so significant that Time Magazine names The Computer as the person of year in 1982. Other big news items include the opening of Epcot Center, the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Tylenol scare, the death of John Belushi, and the birth of...
The glamour and excitement typified by the 80s really kicks into gear in 1981. Charles and Diana marry, MTV launches and IBM releases the original 5150 IBM PC. Music and technology are changing at a rapid pace. The American hostages in Iran are finally released after 14 months of captivity, the first heart-lung transplant is performed an the first female Supreme Court Justice is appointed. Amid so much progress and change, however,...
It was a new decade, and 1980 started off with a bang in the form of both natural and man-made disasters – including the eruption of Mount St. Helens and the assassination of John Lennon. Ronald Reagan is elected towards the end of the year, the beginning of his almost decade-long reign as the leader of the free world. Music was getting a shake up as well with a move away from the disco and singer-songwriter sounds of the 70s. New...
Timbuk 3 said it best in one of the year's top songs, "The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades." 1986 was marked by both advances and setbacks. Technology advances helped the Soviet Union launch the Mir Space Station and had the UK and France building the Chunnel. Sadly, it also saw the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and the explosion of one of the nuclear reactors at Chernobyl. We saw Fergie get married to the Duke of York and...
1988 was a politically active year with indictments handed down in the Iran-Contra affair, a presidential election in which George HW Bush beats out Michael Dukakis, and the election of Sonny Bono as the new mayor of Palm Springs. To escape the politics and the natural and manmade disasters, people flocked to the movies to see some great cinema. This was the year of Rainman, Coming to America, Die Hard, Beetlejuice, and A Fish Called...
In world events and culture, 1985 can be characterized as heralding in the new. Windows 1.0 is released, the FDA develops a test for screening blood for AIDS, the first successful artificial heart transplant occurs, Gorbachev becomes the de facto leader of the Soviet Union, and the NES game system hits the US. Heck, even Coke was new in 1985. On the music front, this was the year of both "We Are the World" and "Live Aid." Big singles...
1987 saw its share of strife and turmoil. The current events of the time included an Amtrak train crash, the Iran-Contra affair, the Unabomber bombing Salt Lake City and the Black Monday stock market crash on October 19th. Add in a typhoon in the Philippines and two different plane crashes and it's no wonder that this was also the year that Prozac hit the market for the first time. It wasn't all doom and gloom, though. Aretha Franklin...
In many ways, 1989 provided the perfect bookend to this decade that saw so much change. It continued the social, political and technological changes that mark the 1980s. The Berlin Wall came down, the first GPS satellite was put into orbit, and the first black governor in the US was elected. Progress indeed. On the darker side, we suffered through Hurricane Hugo, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The music...
Posted By Pia Sooney on Aug 9, 2007
Some would argue that the launch of "Miami Vice" alone is enough to claim 1984 as the height of the 80s. If that weren't enough, it saw the release of the first Apple Macintosh and had us asking "Where's the Beef?" With Reagan re-elected, Space Shuttle Discovery taking off on its maiden voyage and Michael Jackson burned in the filming of Pepsi commercial, 1984 certainly had its share of excitement. 1984 gave us too many great 80s...
One site reader described the awesomeness of 1983 as follows. 1983, hands down. Michael Jackson and The Police dominate the Billboard charts, while "Murmur" is released and the Smiths put out their first single. Hair bands have not yet screwed up MTV for the rest of us. "National Lampoon's Vacation" and "Valley Girl" are in the theaters, but George Lucas has hinted at the suck in our movie...


Solid wood and pressed veneer chair with a design which focuses on the interplay of positive and negative spaces. Designed by Sami Kallio its back and side panels form solid shape and support, but forms are also created by the gaps in between creating interesting shapes. Available in 4 stylish colour finishes.