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Vampire Diaries Recap of Season 4, Episode 9, "O Come All Ye Faithful": Winter Is Coming
It is official: Nothing good ever comes out of a Mystic Falls party. Someone always uses the shindig to hide their dirty deeds and someone else always gets killed. Spoiler Alert: The Winter Wonderland party in tonight's ep is no different. Even if, for a second, it looks like it might be.
Vampire Diaries Season 4, Episode 9, "O Come All Ye Faithful" opens with Elena (Nina Dobrev), once again, lying in bed with Damon (Ian Somerhalder). Only this time she's fully clothed and they are not getting any kind of busy. Now that everyone knows Elena is sire-bonded to Damon the thrill is gone for the sexy Salvatore. It has been replaced by guilt. And Damon can barely at Elena without thinking of what he "took" from his little brother. "I told him that I'd set you free right after I didn't' tell him that we slept together," Damon says. "So what do you want to do?" Elena replies. He looks into her eyes and admits, "I want to throw you back on my bed and never let you leave."
Meet Delena: The New Non-Couple
But Damon doesn't do that. Instead he and Elena head out to the Gilbert family lake house where Bonnie (Kat Graham) and Professor Shane (David Alpay) plan to try to hypnotize the vampire killer out of Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen). Little Jer is chopping wood when the couple arrives. He's stiffens immediately when he sees Elena. But Bonnie calms him down. He tenses up again minutes later, when he has to verbally invite his big sister into their family home so that she can step through the doorway. Elena enters cautiously. And it's all-good—until she makes the mistake of touching Jeremy on the arm. He instinctively turns to stake her. She stops him with a vamp submission hold. Then things get… awkward.
Back in town, Stefan (Paul Wesley) visits Klaus (Joseph Morgan) to discuss the whole Jeremy/hunter dilemma. He finds the Original Vampire (OV) painting a donation to yet another Mystic Falls Charity Event. Klaus calls it an "expression of postmodernism." Stefan describes it as a "post-modern snowflake." They jibe each other a bit before Stefan asks about the sword that supposedly holds the key to the map that will lead to the cure for Elena. Klaus did indeed find it during his dig in Italy. And, in a sweeping move of trust, he shows it to Stefan and explains how it works.
Trust Fall
While the OV chats with Stefan, his 12 hybrid charges are across town planning his demise. Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) has talked Tyler (Michael Trevino) into leading them in plan that starts with the wolf dozen somehow capturing Klaus and ends with Bonnie using the body jump spell to put the OV into Tyler's body so the hybrids can then trap the OV's essence by burying him cement. Tyler thinks it's the only way and that his sacrifice his a show of leadership. It all sounds wrong to us. And Caroline (Candice Accola agrees. "My boyfriend is a dumbass martyr," she says when she tells Stefan the hybrids' plan.
Back out at the lake house, Elena tries not to martyr herself as she sits across from her little brother, unarmed. Professor Shane's theory for this treatment is that he needs to give Jeremy a "detour" to the "see-a-vampire, kill-a-vampire" conditioned response that comes with hunterdom. The PhD says that he's trying to teach Jer to tap into the subconscious side of himself that recognizes Elena as a beloved sister who he shouldn't kill. They put Jeremy under then ask him about Elena. He says, "She's not even my real sister. She's just the reason everyone I've ever loved died." This sad, but oh-so-true statement reveals that, no, the hypnosis is definitely not working.
Let it snow, let it snow…
In fact, the only thing that is working the way it should is the snow machine Mayor Lockwood has parked in the middle of the town square. The fundraiser looks delightful. That's why Caroline and Stefan are using it to distract Klaus. When the OV shows up to check on his donation, Car flirts with him and keeps him entertained, buying Stefan time to ransack Casa Klaus, looking for the sword.
Stefan doesn't find it. So he heads to town to tell Caroline she will need to make Tyler call-off the Kill Klaus plan. "Well that's not going to happen," Tyler snaps when he overhears Stefan talking to Caroline. Ty gets mad at Caroline for sharing the deets. He, again, tells Stefan the hybrids will not call it off. When Stefan vamps up to Tyler, threatening to force him to squash his plans the other hybrids step out of the shadows and the tables turn. The wolves take Stef and Car hostage and march them out to the old Lockwood dungeons to prevent them from ruining the plan. Stefan tries to explain to them that they only need to let Klaus live long enough for him to find the cure for Elena. But Tyler comes back at him with their truth: The hybrids don't want to be cured because, when their vampire half is taken away, they will go back to being werewolves who have to go through a painful change on every full moon, whether they want to or not.
Speaking of plans, Damon comes up with a great idea to help recondition Jeremy. Rather than have Jer focus on his love for his sister, D suggests, why not have him focus on his love for Bonnie — another person who would also be devastated if he took Elena out. This idea seems to work and they move forward with the hypnosis. While Bonnie and Shane work on Jer, Elena heads outside to reminisce about the last time she was out at lake house. You remember that time, don't you — back when she was crazy-in-love with Stefan and the two played house while hiding from Klaus. Ah, memories….
Back at the Winter Wonderland party, Tyler bumps into his mother and, when she hands her under-aged son a glass of wine, he decides to tell her the hybrids' plan. Tyler shares because, well, technically he will be gone for a while once Klaus hijacks his body. Mayor Lockwood hears this but clearly doesn't process it right away, as the first thing out of her mouth is a lament over the fact that Tyler will miss graduation.
Forever Young
While Bonnie reconditions Jeremy, Shane and Delena have a chat, which starts, as many Damon convos do—with the vampire threatening to kill the professor. Shane lets the latest threat roll off his back as he tells them that they don't really need the sword to find the cure. He claims the cure lies with the first immortal, Silas, who was buried alive in a super-secret location that he has figured out. Shane tells them that if they dig up the great immortal dude his blood will end vampirism by being the cure for immortality. Or something like that. It all sounds like a load of bull to us. But Damon and Elena lap it up.
Damon calls Stefan right way to share the good news. And his little brother, who is being held captive in the woods, deep underground actually has strong enough cell phone reception to receive and answer the call. (Who is his service provider?!) After he hears the word, Stefan tells his captors. Convinced that he and Blondie will not ruin their plans, they let them go.
Back out at the lake house, Shane claims that the only reason he's helping Damon and Co. is because he wants to be the researcher to uncover the first real immortal man. It will be his award-winning discovery. Freedom leads Caroline to make a discovery of her own. She realizes that, because they've stashed Rebekah's (Claire Holt) daggered body in the tunnels they can "kill two original birds with one stone" and, instead of having Bonnie transfer Klaus into Tyler's body, they could stash the OV in his Original Sister. For obvious reasons, Ty thinks this is a genius idea.
Caroline shares the good news with Hayley and the wolf girl immediately texts Professor Shane about their new "problem." Shane tells her to fix it. And she does by sneaking up on Caroline and breaking her neck. She shoves Car into a bathroom stall and the Winter Wonderland Party then leaves.
Out in the festivities, Stefan and Klaus chat. Stefan confesses to breaking into the safe to look for the sword. He says he doesn't trust Klaus. And the OV looks offended. "What do you want from me? A secret handshake?" he asks.
April makes a big discovery
Meanwhile the new Miss Mystic Falls saunters into the bathroom and finds Caroline's lifeless body. She feels for a pulse, screams then runs for the door. Car wakes and blocks her exit. "Have you seen Hayley?" she asks. April is understandably stunned. Before she can recover, Caroline nonchalantly calls Stefan and tells him to go move Rebekah's body because "That little werewolf slut has lost her mind." Caroline quick-catches Stefan up on everything while Aprils stands crying in front her with her mouth open. After she ends her call, Caroline looks into April's eyes and compels her to forget everything that just happened. Or, so she thinks. April, who now wears Jeremy's vervain bracelet, can't be compelled. A quick thinker, however, April plays it off, nods along to Caroline and walks out.
Meanwhile Operation Kill Klaus has begun. One of his hybrids shows up to summon the OV from the party. Klaus follows him out into the woods where he finds himself surrounded by menacing wolves. He thinks for a beat then proceeds to go redrum on the whole pack, snatching hearts out here, ripping heads off there. It's a brutal scene.
While Klaus slaughters his underlings, Hayley seeks out Tyler and tells him that she made the whole story up because she'd cut a deal with a very powerful person who could help her find information on her family. She tells Tyler he's got time to run. And he does, right out to the woods where he finds the slaughtered pack. Their bodies liter the ground inside and outside the old Lockwood mansion.
That's what friends are for…
After Tyler walks out of the dungeon, April steps out of the shadows. Still shaking and crying she walks past a headless body over to the coffin stashed in the corner and opens it. Inside lays a daggered Rebekah.
After he talks to Hayley, Professor Shane says something that we don't hear to a hypnotized Jeremy. Next thing you know Jer is back to his old, pre-hunter self. He walks up to Elena and doesn't try to kill her. Instead he hugs her. We keep waiting for him to try to stab her in the back but it doesn't happen.
What does happen is that Elena pulls out the old family Christmas decorations. She, Jer and Bonnie start to go through them while Damon watches. Elena catches him and steps outside to talk to him. She playfully holds mistletoe over his head. But he brushes it aside, telling her to stop it. Damon reminisces about how he and Stefan used to celebrate Christmas. And he worries that his brother won't be able to forgive him when he finds out what they did. To erase it, he decides to use the sire-bond to order that Elena stay away from him. "You're going to go home," he tells her. He promises to stay and help Jeremy finish the mark then adds, "I'm setting you free Elena. This is what I want. This is what will make me happy." In response Elena looks disturbed. Pained even.
Stefan has a similar expression on his face as he sits in front of the fireplace back at the Salvatore manse. He tells Caroline that rather than feel relieved, he feels guilty that, at that very moment, Klaus was possibly being killed. He says the only thing that makes them better than Klaus is that they have "family we can trust." Off this remark, Caroline decides to do a horrible thing: She taints Stefan's faith in family by hinting that Damon is up to no good with Elena. "They're together, aren't they. How together are they?" Stefan asks. With one look and a well placed silence, Caroline tells Stefan everything he did not need to know about Damon and Elena. The truth is too much. He starts to trash his place.
Meanwhile Klaus marches back into the Winter Wonderland even, bloody, ragged and with an evil look on his face — like he wants to trash the town. Luckily almost everyone had gone home. The only person left was a drunken Mayor Lockwood. She walks by the snow machine, which, by this point is making a blizzard, then spots Klaus. Drunk or not, she immediately knows something's wrong. When Klaus asks where Tyler is, she immediately starts to beg. "Klaus, please. Don't hurt him. He's my son. He's all I have." Klaus thinks for a bit then replies, "And you're all he has. There's a beautiful symmetry to that. Don't you think?" Then he grabs the mayors head and drowns her in the town fountain. And that is why we say Mystic Falls needs to call a moratorium on town parties.
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White coaches without NBA playing experience get hired a lot. Blacks? Almost never. Here are the numbers.
The aftermath of the Mark Jackson firing has been filled with a whole lot of salt. But, beyond the particular specifics involved in the Warriors' situation, there's a story that applies to the wider NBA picture. In this week's Drive & Kick podcast, Marcus Thompson III and Paul Flannery dug into that and sparked some serious questions about the hiring practices of NBA teams.
Thompson — who covered the Warriors brilliantly for years and is now a Bay Area columnist and the author of this piece — discussed the lack of comfort in the relationship between Jackson and owner Joe Lacob, in addition to Jackson's defensiveness regarding Xs and Os, tactics and overall aptitude for the job. In the context of the historic coaching turnover we've seen in recent years, it made me wonder if this specific example of race potentially factoring into hiring/firing decisions can illuminate a broader picture and point to bigger truths.
Short answer: yep.
I looked at NBA head coach hiring practices over the past 20 years, focusing on first-time head coaches. Why rookies? Because there's no directly comparable experience that goes into the hiring equation. The first time any NBA head coach gets the gig, it's a mystery as to how they'll do. It's based on feel, fit and/or how they did as a college coach or player or assistant. It's a lightly informed bet, really.
So, who do NBA teams bet on?
Those five coaches of color without NBA playing experience:
- Alvin Gentry, whose first two head coach opportunities were as an interim after the team's white head coach got fired.
- Mike Brown.
- Erik Spoelstra, who is Filipino-American.
- Dwane Casey.
- Leonard Hamilton.
That's 77 rookie NBA head coaches hired over the past 20 years. Thirty-one of them never played in the NBA. Only five of those, or 16 percent, were coaches of color. This is in a league in which more than 80 percent of the players are men of color.
It's worth noting that, at least among head coaches hired for the first time within the past 20 years, non-players have been more likely to be successful. Among those, the coaches of color have better success, albeit with an admittedly small sample size.
There's a LeBron Asterisk there, of course: two of the non-player coaches of color have split King James for most of his career. But Gentry (.475) and Casey (.449) are also above the average winning percentage for non-player white coaches. Only Hamilton, who got one dismal season with Washington, is below that level. The point stands: on average, non-player coaches of color have been the most successful subset of first-timers in the past 20 years, and they get the fewest opportunities, by far.
That point is made even more stark when you look at just the past five years, which have seen unprecedented coaching turnover.
And that one coach of color without NBA playing experience is Spoelstra. Ten white first-time coaches without NBA playing experience have been hired since the last first-time non-player black head coach was hired.
Last summer alone, nine rookie head coaches were hired. Seven were white. Six of those — Brett Brown, Brad Stevens, Mike Malone, Steve Clifford, Mike Budenholzer and Dave Joerger — had no NBA playing experience. Six in one offseason. And yet it has been a decade since any team hired a black rookie head coach who didn't play in the league.
This isn't to say the white coaches aren't qualified. It's to say that it's pretty damn shocking that qualified black coaches aren't getting some of these opportunities given the sport's racial skew.
It's a problem among the coaches who played in the NBA, too. Over the past five years, white men have gotten 38 percent of the jobs given to rookie head coaches with NBA playing experience despite being 17 percent of the player pool. Over the past 20 years, 46 former players have been hired as first-time head coaches. Sixty-five percent of them are men of color, despite (again) 83 percent of NBA players being men of color.
Overall, 15 of the last 24 rookie head coaches (63 percent) hired in the NBA were white. Over the past 20 years, more than half of the first-time head coaches hired have been white, in a league in which less than a fifth of players are white.
The lack of opportunity given to black coaches, especially those who didn't play in the NBA, is staring us right in the face and it's only getting worse. None of the candidates being mentioned for the NBA's four open jobs will break the streak, either. The two head coaches hired this offseason are both white. That Gentry, with a good record, sterling reputation and appealing philosophy, is so far down most lists is telling.
If he can't get another chance in the big chair after the majority of teams have replaced their coach over the course of two years, how are younger black non-player coaches supposed to find an opportunity? The game is tilted. Which brings us to the why.
One NBA owner, Michael Jordan, is black. Another, Vivek Ranadive, is Indian-American. The other 28 are white.
Only five NBA general managers are black, and only two of them (Masai Ujiri and Billy King) never played in the league.
Now, between MJ and Vivek, they have hired three white non-player rookie head coaches in the past two years. And one of those black GMs, Rod Higgins, has been involved in multiple white non-player rookie head coach hires. Charlotte in general has the most diverse executive suite. Charlotte's recent coaching hires, however, prove that a diverse front office is not a guarantee of a diverse bench.
But there's obviously a trickle-down effect here. Non-player coaches typically come up through the ranks; of the six hired in 2013, only one (Stevens) was a college import. Without many GMs of color, we're less likely to get front office staff of color, which prevents future GMs of color from getting hired (unless they were players, and even then, at a lower rate than white former players). Without any coaches of color who didn't play in the NBA getting chances, developing diverse staff will be tougher. NBA teams are getting really good at hiring white NBA coaches and GMs who didn't play in the league, which shows others in that category — like, say, Emerson College students — that there's a path and a connection.
Where's the Emerson College pipeline for people of color?
It's not that these owners or GMs are racist. It's that people tend to hire those most like themselves. The story of Joe Lacob and Steve Kerr knowing each other from California golf clubs is a perfect example. Social connections lead to hiring decisions. It applies across the board — MJ's propensity to hire his old buddies and Carolina folks is famous. But when 28 of the owners are white and there's little attention or effort paid to diversity, this is the result.
NBA owners have a lot on their plate right now, but I'm not sure there's a bigger structural problem than the growing tilt against coaches of color. The NBA is still ahead of other major sports in terms of leadership diversity, but it's headed in the wrong direction.
We talk about Donald Sterling's plantation mentality, but that's fish in a barrel. What about the NBA itself? This is a primarily black player pool, reporting to a primarily white coaching pool, hired by primarily white executives and getting paychecks from almost exclusively white team owners.
Now, the players are paid extremely well, and this is nothing — nothing nothing nothing — like slavery. But the power structure is pretty familiar.
Via: http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2014/5/16/5723170/nba-race-problem-coaches-gms-owners


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"The communicant must not be permitted to intinct the host himself in the chalice, nor to receive the intincted host in the hand. As for the host to be used for the intinction, it should be made of valid matter, also consecrated; it is altogether forbidden to use non-consecrated bread or other matter.
Intinction occurs in some Old Catholic Churches, and intinction is common in some Anglican Churches, which often give the communicant the choice of drinking from the chalice or receiving by intinction. In many Lutheran and Methodist Churches the communicant, not the minister, dips the host in the chalice. This is the practice in some Baptist and Congregational Churches as well, using grape juice in place of wine.
Some Eastern Catholic Churches (for instance, the Ethiopic-rite Catholics of Ethiopia and Eritrea) have adopted the use of unleavened bread, justifying it by reference to the ancient Jewish practice of using only unleavened bread at Passover meals, and give Communion by intinction.
Even when it happens that, at the time of reservation, a priest partially dips the unbroken consecrated bread into the consecrated wine instead of pouring some of the wine on it with the spoon, this does not constitute intinction in the sense here understood of performing the action at the time of administering Communion.


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"Hitchcock did more than any director to shape modern cinema, which would be utterly different without him. His flair was for narrative, cruelly withholding crucial information (from his characters and from us) and engaging the emotions of the audience like no one else." --- The Daily Telegraph
Acclaimed as the "master of suspense", film director Alfred Hitchcock has made countless psychological thrillers including "Vertigo", "Notorious", "North by Northwest", "Psycho" and "The Lady Vanishes". Widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers, Hitchcock counted among his protégés American post-war directors such as Brian De Palma, and among his fans French New Wave directors like François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol.
Twenty classics that Hitchcock directed in Britain and the United States from 1927 to 1964 will be screened from September to November to salute the master.
Presented by the Film Programmes Office of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and curated by Mr Law Waiming, the retrospective "Repertory Cinema 2010 – Alfred Hitchcock" will show a selection of his films from September 10 to November 28 at the Cinema of the Hong Kong Film Archive, the Lecture Halls of the Hong Kong Space Museum and the Hong Kong Science Museum.
The British films to be screened include: "The Lodger" (1927), "Blackmail" (1929), "Murder!" (1930), "The 39 Steps" (1935), "Secret Agent" (1936), "Sabotage" (1936), "Young and Innocent" (1937), "The Lady Vanishes" (1938) and "Jamaica Inn" (1939). The American films to be shown are: "Rebecca" (1940), "Saboteur" (1942), "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943), "Spellbound" (1945), "Notorious" (1946), "Strangers on a Train" (1951), "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956), "Vertigo" (1958), "North by Northwest" (1959), "Psycho" (1960) and "Marnie" (1964).
To tie in with the screenings, a seminar conducted in Cantonese is scheduled at 4.30pm on November 20 at the Lecture Hall of the Hong Kong Space Museum. Admission is free.
Three courses titled "How did Hitchcock make movies?", "A case for Hitchcock as the greatest director ever" and "Did Hitchcock really hate women?" will be held from 2.30pm to 4.30pm on October 23, 30 and November 6 at Function Room (AC2), Level 4, Administration Building, Hong Kong Cultural Centre. The courses will be conducted in Cantonese.
Born in London in 1899, Hitchcock studied engineering and navigation in high school and art in night classes. He was captivated by film at the age of 16 and taught himself the craft of filmmaking. He believed American films were more interesting and was particularly impressed with American director D.W. Griffiths and German directors F.W. Murnau and Fritz Lang.
Hitchcock entered the film business in 1920 by designing the title-cards of a silent movie. His first directing project, "Number 13", in 1922 was never completed due to lack of funds. After three years as a writer, he made his first silent film, "The Pleasure Garden", which was very crude in all respects. It was only his third effort, "The Lodger", that he recognised as his "first" film.
After making his name in Britain, Hitchcock was recruited by Hollywood in 1938 and thereafter made many classics. He made over 50 features in his career including some of the most influential in cinema history. In 2007, a poll conducted by The Daily Telegraph selected him as one of the greatest British directors in history. Despite Hitchcock's cinematic achievements, his five Oscar nominations for Best Director never resulted in an award - an omission for which the Academy Awards' voting system is still criticised.
His first "Hitchcockian" movie, "The Lodger" was a taut thriller about a tenant accused of murder by a jealous detective. His first talkie "Blackmail" was also Britain's first complete sound film. The sound version will be shown in the retrospective, providing an opportunity to view Hitchcock's groundbreaking methods in using sound to forward the narrative. "The 39 Steps", an espionage thriller with spies, murder and mistaken identity, is one of the best films from his early period. The film also established his signature suspense and humour.
"The Lady Vanishes", Truffaut's favourite Hitchcock film and one of his biggest box-office hits, is a fast-paced thriller about the search for an Englishwoman who disappears while on board a train. Director Orson Welles claimed that he had seen the film 11 times. It won Hitchcock the Best Director award at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards in 1939. It also captured the attention of American producers and paved the way for his American career.
Starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine, Hitchcock's first Hollywood film "Rebecca" became an instant classic and won for Best Picture and Best Cinematography at the Academy Awards in 1941. An adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's famous novel, this gothic melodrama explores the fears of a young bride who enters a great English country home and must adapt to the rules of the husband's dead wife. The film was an inspiration for Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane". Also with unexpected twists and romance, "Vertigo" is another Hitchcock masterpiece featuring a cop who must discover the truth behind the death of the woman he loves. The film ranked No.2 in the 2002 Sight and Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll.
Hitchcock collaborated with Ernest Lehman, five-time winner of the Writers' Guild of America Award, on the comedy suspense-thriller "North by Northwest". Advertising agency executive Cary Grant is mistaken for a notorious spy and is forced to go on the run for his life. The film ranked No.7 on the American Film Institution's list of the 10 greatest films in the "mystery" genre in 2008. The classic scene of the protagonist being chased by a plane across the prairie has become standard film-school textbook material.
"Psycho" marked a high point in Hitchcock's creativity with the audience being taken step by step into the heart of darkness. A secretary escapes with her company's money and checks in at a motel for the night but never checks out again. The structure and narrative was unprecedented for its time, with the female lead being killed halfway into the film, which broke all conventions. The shot sequence in the shower scene is still unmatched. Film critic Roger Ebert commented, "It was the most shocking film its original audience members had ever seen."
Starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, "Notorious" is a classic tale of love and betrayal with a plot about the Nazis and uranium. While Hitchcock was conducting research on the atomic bomb with scientists for the film, the FBI suspected him of espionage and had him under surveillance for three months. Truffaut said the film was quintessential Hitchcock.
"The Man Who Knew Too Much" is Hitchcock's remake of his 1934 British film with Doris Day singing the theme song, "Que Sera, Sera" (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) which won the Best Music, Original Song, at the Academy Awards in 1957.
"The Lodger" is silent with English intertitles. All other films are in English with English subtitles.
Tickets priced at $50 for screenings and courses priced at $80 per session are available at URBTIX outlets. Half-price tickets are available for senior citizens aged 60 and above, people with disabilities, full-time students and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients. Programme details can be found in the leaflets available at LCSD performing venues. Credit card booking can be made on 2111 5999 or on the Internet at www.urbtix.hk. For ticketing enquiries, call 2734 9009. For programme enquiries, call 2734 2900 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/fp.
Ends/Thursday, August 19, 2010
A film still of "Rebecca" (1940).
A film still of "Strangers on a Train" (1951).
A film still of "North by Northwest" (1959).


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My all-time favorite #20 is still Lem Barney.
Korie--Great game.
Please attend classes tomorrow.
Yo Mayo, the protective boot was on his LEFT foot.
Otherwise good coverage and one helluva finish!
Sure they can! As you mentioned, today is key. Must clinch today against the Twinks so players can sit and rest--get your rotation ready; not to mention this weekend's weather forecast. If the Tigers clinch today, there's a good chance they might not even play 162 games as part of the regular season if the weather doesn't cooperate.
Split in the Bronx, come home and win 2 and the Tigers could very well be on their way to the ACLS. Anything is possible in a short series and I like Detroit's big 3--Verlander, Jackson and Porcello with run support.
311-- take 3 of 4 this week and clinch. Avoid the 1 game playoff at all costs. Do not want to return to the Metrodome Tuesday.
311-- take 3 of 4 this week and clinch. Avoid the 1 game playoff at all costs. Do not want to return to the Metrodome Tuesday.
Expect a big, clutch hit from Maggs late in game 1 today.
Let's hope for uninterrupted play in tonight's tilt so JV can go the distance. Need run support all week.
Let's hope for uninterrupted play in tonight's tilt so JV can go the distance.
Great piece.
I was at the Central game last week in Mt. Pleasant and hadn't even noticed the racial makeup of Western's starting five. I simply saw five guys from WMU squaring off against five guys from CMU.
I think Hawk's comment was dead on..."restoring faith in humanity if we only take the time..."
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The National Union of Ghana students, the largest most structured social movement formed at the conception of Ghana's Independence has been true serious turbulent times in the past year. The Union was seen as amateurish, unfocused, divided, and without any disciplined leadership.
It is a year which all Ghanaians and students in particular must face with courage to say 'Never Again!' Anyway, it won't be enough to perform just the usual talk show of 'not allowing to recur' but most importantly, it behooves on the present leadership to operate and conduct their offices as well as their behaviors to conform with that of any serious organization.
As a keen follower of student and youth affairs in Ghana, I wish to examine the poor state of NUGS, dissect its problems and offer (in my candid opinion), the way forward for the restitution of NUGS to its rightful place as a huge power block in educational matters and nation building on the whole.
Here a little bit of history will do in analyzing the situation. History recalls that the fervor for independence gained greater heights when students who had been schooled in both traditional and foreign disciplines started the agitation for Africans and Ghanaians must live like any other people of the world - in freedom and self governing.
As far back as the 18th century we hear of names whose activities together with Caseley Hayford and many others culminated into the formation of the Aborigines Right Protection Association - the first politically conscious grouping in Ghana.
Again it was through the efforts of Dr. Aggrey, Nkrumah, Padmore that WASU, WANS and similar students' organizations were formed. In 1948, the dismissal of students from Adisadel, Augustines, Mfantsipim and the subsequent formation of Ghana National College to accommodate them gave impetus to the dire need for a radical, organized and sustainable/successive student front or force. So from 1949, student activism became prominent and essential from the lower levels to the highest level of learning. In 1959 the National Union of Ghana Students was formed to give the student force one mouth piece and also address the upsurge of tribal/ethnic groupings among students. The Union was however not formalized until 1965 after the University of Cape Coast and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology were in full flight to shed light to all.
At is stage, it is important to emphasize that the running of NUGS was conventionally the prerogative of the University of Ghana at Legon with University of Science & Tech and Cape Coast University playing Secondary roles to leadership until 1962. Dr. Nkrumah realizing that the "imperialist agents" were still in charge of University Education and Student (youth) activism and therefore promoted the two universities and improved upon their facilities for KNUST for example, to become the most endowed Science & Technology institution in Africa.
These developments and the consolidation of C.P.P. activities on the various campuses plus the orientation programmes that all students entering Universities had to take upon admission into our universities gave birth to the rotational leadership style adopted by NUGS.
NUGS and Politics
We need not be shy in the face of overwhelming evidence. In fact, the National Union of Ghana Students is political institution and has a clear political orientation. It its preamble its position is established as 'a progressive organization' revealing its tilt to the left thereby emphasizing the need to continuously seek the welfare and independence of others, creating a just society and working towards continental unity. I have heard about the blaming of political parties or state institutions for the problems of the union especially in the past year.
Here again, I wish to go down the memory lane. No serious state institution, political party or private agency would dare to be at loggerheads with the student front if they really appreciate what the student force is capable of doing. Remember, all serious changes in the world succeeded because the rode on the wings of students and the youth. So yes, political parties have and will always be interested students leadership.
If my party happens to win elections which I believe it surely will soon, the student wing shall be a priority area. Let us ask ourselves whether the Tertiary wings of the political parties are formed for the mere fact having them exist just in names and nothing else. The tertiary wings constitute mainly the foot soldiers of any serious political party. May be a few examples to stress the might of students will help;
1) Religious reforms in Catholic Universities in America became successful in 1967 after continuous students demonstrations.
2) President Sukarno of Indonesia was overthrown in 1965 when students said he should go.
3) The infamous 1966 coup in Ghana on the 24th of February which ousted President Nkrumah became successful because students were quiet or quieted.
4) Hitters' regime/Nazi ruled only when brutal means were used to close down all other groups (except Nazi) on campuses between 1934 and 1945.
5) The June 4, 1979 and December 31, 1981 revolutions were successful largely for student massive involvement.
6) What about the "2000 positive change" in Ghana?
That is the power of the student force. If you dare it, you will burn! I must stress that the Convention Peoples Party, the first and perhaps the only mass based party in Africa could boast of its strength and sustenance because of her students wing - the National Socialist Students Organization [NASSO]. Indeed after many years of serious attempts to drown the name of Nkrumah and the CPP, they still surface mainly because of this wing. The student force truly is great and immense!
The NUGS Dilemma
Today, NUGS is (supposed to be) comprised of six blocs though one has fallen out, namely: University Students Association (USAG); Ghana National Union of Polytechnic Students (GNUPS)-the breakaway bloc; Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG); Ghana Union of Professional Students (GUPS); Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) and Regional SRCs representating the second cycle and basic schools grouped in regions (REG/SRCs).
The leadership of the union is no longer rotational but congressional, where delegates from the various institutions gather to elect new officers. I shall now discuss some of the major issues that need to be addressed.
1) Constitution. Representation by accredited schools to congress is prescribed clearly in the constitution on the bases on a range of population which gives an undue advantage to smaller schools. For example, a school or a campus with a population of less than ten 10,000 can bring 15delegates to any congress while those above, can bring 25. Now, if you compare the University of Cape Coast with a population of almost 30,000 and the University for Development Studies which has three campuses treated as three separate schools with a combined population of less than 12,000 but has can present 45 delegates (because of each of the three campuses has 15 delegates), then the issue unfair distribution of delegates becomes clearer.
There are many of such representational disparities especially if you look at the case where despite the fact that TTAG and USAG blocs have the largest population of students yet it is GUPS bloc with the least student population which always has the largest number of delegates at congresses. This must be addressed at once!
Again, the allocation of powers in the constitution must also be looked at critically because after elections, nobody except congress or perhaps Central Committee that can enforce punitive measures on any erring executive. I shall therefore advise that a constitutional review committee be set up now!
2) Most of the leaders are elected on the bases of their involvement in Central Committee meetings and attendance at congresses or how they frequent other campuses without giving much prominence to the substance or maturity of the individual. And this creates lots of problems with respect to team building and adjusting to reconcile their different agenda. It is therefore important that orientation programmes and team building activities are organized for newly elected leaders.
Here I must recognize the initiative of Hon O. B Amoah, (Deputy Minister Ministry of Education, Science and Sports) for organizing such a programme for the executives of the 2006/2007 academic year. We must be sustain such a programmes.
3) The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) seems not to have a vision and a strategic plan which could be reviewed from time to time to suit contemporary situations. As a result of this situation, NUGS does very well under repressive and dictatorial governments than under civil and democratic ones. Specifically, the fire and vigor with which students fought in this country and contributed to national development in the 70s, under the PNDC and even before independence is manifestly at variance with the periods under civilian administrations.
One is thus tempted to assume that the union is for agitation and nothing else. But I think the unions' agenda cannot be limited to struggling to bring about change alone but it must also work at maintaining the best changes and establishing an order where, we continue to seek their assistance in all spheres of life. After all that is education is supposed to make them - agents of progressive change and the well being of humanity. The new President and his executive must work at getting possibly a five year strategic plan for the union to pursue. I sure believe it give direction to the union and shape its leadership from swaying into unnecessary engagements for cheap popularity.
If they fail to heed to sound reasoning and the counsel of others and allow amateurish, shallow thinking, emotionally wavering individuals to dictate the pace of their movement they shall end up no different from their immediate predecessors. Care should be their watch word.
The greatest task they must accomplish at all cost is to bring back GNUPS, work at uniting the union and deepen the brotherhood among the rank and file of students.
The way forward:
a. Build positive mental attitudes and behave as leaders.
b. Establish superior human relations, network and build bridges.
c. Set big and challenging goals - big dreamers and great thinkers.
d. Assume responsibility for what you do individually and collectively. No blame game and shirking of responsibility.
Never underrate the experience of your predecessors no matter their weaknesses. They constitute a fountain of information you must drink from. I shall conclude by quoting a great man, Ghana's first president and foremost patriot, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah; "In all political struggles, there come rare moments, hard to distinguish but fatal to let slip, when all must be set upon a hazard and out of the simple man is ordained strength".
The image of NUGS is dented, confidence among Ghanaian students in their leadership is on the downside, Ghana weeps from a large number of drifting youth yet this great nation must celebrates her golden age of independence next year. This is the period in which you are called to serve Ghana; think, watch and maintain focus!


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Furniture Design Archive
If you're tasked with redesigning the Virgin Atlantic clubhouse at Los Angeles International airport – the very last room visitors to the US' beautiful west coast are going to see before jetting back off to their own grey lives – you'd best make sure you do a bloody good job of it. Virgin Atlantic were thoroughly aware of the potential pitfalls of such a project, and so have set about creating a space which encapsulates the warm, individual spirit that the company has gone to such lengths to establish. And it seems to us that they've succeeded.
Bringing a new perspective to industrial design and illustration, a show at The Aram Gallery sees RCA graduate Rachel Gannon illustrate a series of furniture designs, with each discipline feeding into the other as Rachel's work is exhibited alongside products by industrial designers André Klauser and Ed Carpenter, who work together under the moniker Very Good & Proper.
Moving Mountains is the brainchild of Hawaiian designer Syrette Lew, who founded the company in Brooklyn as a vehicle for her stunningly simple designs. She has a range of jewellery and bags, but specialises in furniture, having launched her first collection last summer. The objects are all hand-crafted from wood and maintain a timeless sensibility, drawing inspiration both from traditional shaker furniture and modern geometric shapes and colours. The resulting objects are simple but stunning, showing off the marks of the maker's hand to highlight the uniqueness of each made-to-order piece. They're damn good at photographing their catalogue too…
There was a time when if someone said "leather furniture" to me, a horrid image of an ugly, olive green, squashy three-piece looking like it had had an allergic reaction to something was conjured. Thankfully, designers such as Kueng Caputo have refreshed my opinion of leather furniture by bringing it into the present day with an air of sophistication and coolness.
Sometimes the best projects are just people injecting some light into dormant, ubiquitous objects that lurk in corners waiting to be transformed. Ever contemplate how the clutter of objects on your shelves don't really fit on your shelves? No problem. Kyuhyung Cho – creator of such design classics as the Poke Stool and Oneness is back with collaborator Erik Olovsson to give a new answer to our interior design prayers in the form of ROOM, a collection of mismatched boxes that can be arranged to form a curiously beautiful shelving unit. As well as being easy on the eye, it's also pretty hilarious, particularly the part that has a separate hole for each of your pens to sleep in like a stationery version of a dovecote. Lovely.
We're absolutely gutted not to be at the Salone Del Mobile right now as it turns out this is the year that everyone is there (that's right, EVERYONE). Among them is Jamie Wolfond, one of Brooklyn's youngest and finest furniture designers, who's there to launch his debut collection at Designersbloc. If last year's display is anything to go by the whole Designersbloc show should be a treat, but Jamie's work in particular is well worth the journey.
Ambika Subramaniam is currently studying for a BFA at Washington University in St. Louis, though the level of skill evident in her designs suggests a skill far beyond her years. Her design fuses her Indian and Louisiana heritage to create efficient design solutions influenced by the mythologies and traditions of eastern culture. These chairs are from Ambika's Framed Seats series, through which she considers furniture as a means of framing interior spaces. Constructed from wooden bases and a series of interwoven ropes, they almost resemble sailboats – practical and sturdy while simultaneously appearing somewhat fragile. They also come in a choice of big, medium or very very small, much like the chairs Goldilocks tests in The Three Bears tale. Furniture design doesn't get much more appealing than this.
I'd like to say that I tracked Jamie Wolfond down through meticulous research and an encyclopaedic knowledge of the North American furniture design scene, but the reality is I was trying to find his email address to contact him about a magazine delivery. Still I'm seriously glad I found his website as its contents are a refreshing take on contemporary furniture design.
Piet Hein Eek already has an international reputation for creating furniture from waste material. He made his name in the 1990s for producing products built entirely from discarded materials too expensive to be turned into anything else. His frustration with this situation stemmed from the fact that the materials were thrown away not because they were of no use, but because the cost of labour was too great to make the finished products economically viable.
It's no secret that Fort Standard make fantastic objects of use and pieces of exquisite furniture. The New York-based designers have been featured on the site before for their intricate and extraordinary contribution to the world of adventure, Life Is Precious, a ten-piece survival kit for the distinguished hiker. Now we're featuring them again for their most recent beautiful object, created for an excellent cause. Chainsaw Stools are a collection of stools roughly hewn from fallen trees and painted with colours inspired by storms. They've been produced to raise funds for aid relief after Hurricane Sandy and we're pretty confident they'll have done an excellent job of it.
Where can you find a giant bronze thumb, a chair made out of a female mannequin and a statue of a cowboy all in the same London location? That's right, The Barbican! And it's not a collection of weird, semi-fetishistic memorabilia, but an excellent exhibition of some of the most notable works to mark Pop Art's takeover of the design scene in the latter half of the 20th Century.
'Tis the season of furniture adverts and we're getting bombarded from all sides by bogus pine warehouses flogging their beige leather numbers at 'only one nine nine!' To counteract this is the cooling oasis of Nick V. De Marco's website, which showcases his extraordinary, ultra non-boring furniture. Sure, Nick's more of an artist than a carpenter, but it doesn't mean we want his molecular Void table in every room of our house. Check out the rest of his rather colourful portfolio over on his site.
Jack of all trades and master of quite a few Jonathan Zawada has added yet another string to his already stringy bow in the form of a set of beautiful textured tables. Affordances #1 (You Only Reincarnate Infinitely) are an open edition of side tables made from three modular pieces of marble and granite. Easily pieced together and intuitively designed, the really exciting feature of these hard furnishings is the patterns; the limitless possibilities afforded by the rich natural textures in the granite and marble that add a maximalist aesthetic to an otherwise minimal design.
There was a time, as a young budding freelancer, when my business partner (that's much too professional a title really) and I used to work on his kitchen table all day. We'd eat breakfast and lunch there and sometimes dinner too, with our computers pushed to one side for five minutes so we could shovel down tins of soup. The best part of this otherwise disheartening existence was rigging up a table tennis net on the table every lunchtime and pretending we worked in some trendy up-and-coming studio where 50% of your time is spent brainstorming over foosball or hot-desking on bean bags.
It was London Design Festival last week and so creative stores city-wide joined in the excitement; perhaps none more so than Darkroom. The design accessories store launched a season of products based on the work of Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass using themes he introduced during his time with the legendary Memphis group.
We're no strangers to the age-old conundrum of how best to fix a wobbly table leg at dinner (see folded up train tickets, the restaurant menu, a salt shaker, your foot), and neither, it seems, is Ana Rita Antonio. A Portuguese-born, Oslo-based designer who claims to have too much time on her hands, her recent project 14 Ways of Replacing a Table Leg does exactly that, and takes full advantage of her limited resources. This hilarious project was first presented as the second chapter of an ongoing series The Poetics of Miss Understanding as part of her graduation show from DesignLAB and promises to be the first of many strange but brilliant ideas from Ana.
It's important not to underestimate the significance of where you place your behind. Not that I'm going to judge you for, say, a misjudged grassy patch (the modern world is rife with dogs, after all) or a a triple pronged camping chair (we've all been there) but when thrones such as these are a feasible option, you might want to rethink your choices. Besides, the stool may well have been shunned by comfort-seeking hedonists left, right and centre since sofas became a thing, but if Ikea has taught us anything it's that independent interior design should damn well play a part in your Swedish mass-produced life, and that means the stool is on its way back in.
Impractical yet inexplicably cool and beautiful. these wooden sleeping pods are the fixed gear bikes of the furniture design world. Designed by Australian design collective SIBLING, these cosy little "transient dwellings" are the sort of place you may want to conceive a child in, or perhaps embroider a quilt. Perfect, also, if you live in one of those big trendy warehouses and you want to separate yourself from your frantically copulating or raving housemates. Great example of a nice idea being made into something real and smile-inducing.
Wiktoria Lenart is a product designer based in Wroclaw, Poland. She's just finished work on her first marketable product, Worknest, a modular wooden workstation that allows you to organise the chaos of your desk. The surface of the desk is embellished with fine grooves that allow you to hang a myriad attachments from it, and there's a bookshelf/room divider with similar functionality.
Dutch designer Lex Pott has a product design practice that's intuitive in its logic, making use of natural processes, historic traditions and happenstance to inform the conceptual backbone of his physical projects. He's fashioned jewellery from coins, intentionally tarnished mirrors for aesthetic purposes and even, most impressively, created furniture that's reliant upon the oxidisation of its component materials.
I've never experienced such joy as when I began exploring the website of Al Que Quiere, an extraordinary collection of furniture you've only ever seen in your dreams and in that bit in the 1985 film Return to Oz. We've already gushed about them on our site so now we're going to gush about their blog, which is a cohesive collection of every image that has inspired the pieces they create. The best bit? You can actually see the items that have directly inspired their work. Love that.
Studio Swine are pretty unique in their commitment to sustainability in the luxury product market. There's not many other designers out there that would trawl the oceans for plastic to create a bespoke stool or use human hair as a production material for luxury eyewear. It seems to us that they're almost single-handedly championing recycling and reusing in their area of the creative industries – which is all well and good on its own, but all of Swine's output also looks fantastic.
We came across South Korean designer Wonmin Park tucked away in a basement of the Spazio Rossana Orlandi – just below the space in which Konstfack were exhibiting – but don't be fooled, the quality of this man's work can't be contained below ground. Wonmin is a graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven and since 2011 has presided over his own studio creating unique products and furnishings, all notable for their ethereal beauty (not a word you'd normally associate with an object designed to cradle your backside).
It might be over now but we've still got one or two bits and pieces left over from Milan Design Week that we're not done talking about just yet, one of which is the collaboration between Philips, Kvadrat and Patricia Urquiola at Moroso's Milan showroom. To celebrate the launch of Patricia's first textile collection for Kvadrat, Moroso held a special launch event, The Revolving Room, that played host to these innovative fabrics.
With the design world's attention now well and truly turned towards Milan, different exhibitors try different things to have their contributions stand out from the crowd. And while for some it's all about being as big and as loud as possible, it's great to see a brand realise that less can be more. COS have teamed up with Parisian duo Bonsoir Paris (whose talents we have espoused before) to produce a beautiful installation in the Ventura Lambrate district of this year's Salone.
"Everyone's a winner baby" sang Hot Chocolate and in a way they were right, but in another, more accurate way they were wrong. Of course all the work which gets nominated for the Design Museum's prestigious Designs of the Year is brilliant, but we've just this minute received word which projects scooped the top prize in each of the seven categories.
Kyuhyung Cho is one of our creative heroes, from incredible typography to innovative designs for diplomas. It is no surprise that Kyuhyung has managed to blow us away yet again with his new project The Poke Stool. These simply-designed pieces are unbelievably versatile – through a series of holes, you are able to slot them together to create higher stools, tables and sculptures. They also come in a range of different colours, all complementing each other nicely. You know when we say that something is ruddy good? Well, this is pretty freaking amazing.
Right then team, Thursday morning starter for ten – why is Henry Ernest Dudeney famous? Because in 1903 this mathematician worked out how to turn a perfect square into a perfect equilateral triangle by dissecting it into four distant shapes. Fast forward 100 years and architects David Ben-Grünberg and Daniel Woolfson, who work together as The D*Haus Company, have applied Henry's approach to creating a stylish, super versatile table.
If, like us, the way you decide which wine to buy is governed by a simple combination of colour and price, then you too will more often than not find yourself with a screw top bottle. Of course for convenience that's all well and good, but there's definitely a certain satisfying ritual about uncorking a bottle – the anticipation, the delicate angles and that satisfying pop that promises imminent alcohol. The London-based Portuguese designer Gonçalo Campos clearly feels the same way, and his new Rolhaî is a tribute to this simple act. The three legs of the cork table screw into the surface using corkscrew technology, and as Gonçalo explains: "Thanks to the amazing mechanical properties of cork, this elementary action is enough to keep the table sturdy and stable."
Furniture factories generate a huge amount of timber waste – usually 50-80 per cent during normal manufacture. What happens to all these chippings, sawdust and shavings? In one factory they've been transformed to create a wild, foamy chair seat.
Not often does furniture actually make you dribble, but the images on Al Que Quiere's stylish site had half the editorial team open-mouthed and more hypnotised than the Podlings in The Dark Cyrstal. Drawing influences from the Doric pillars of ancient Greece, this Los Angeles furniture and object-making collective have some of the most original and mystically beautiful pieces we've seen for a long time. No detail spared, even their info page, which can notoriously be quite lifeless, is genuinely engaging and fascinating. Bravo, Al Que Quiere! Bravo. Beware though, Prices on request.
If you're lucky enough to find yourself in Stockholm between February 4 and 8 then you're in for a bit of a treat. Local designers, artists and craftspeople of Örnsberg are coming together for the first time to launch their very own artist-operated auction house, the Örnsbergsauktionen, where they'll be selling an enormous range of covetable work.
Well done Ana Kraš, you're not only one of the most beautiful women I have ever, ever seen, and the wife to Devendra Banhart – you're also extraordinarily talented. It's not often that a product designer invents something so unique and brilliant that it can just keep being produced and photographed and never lose it's charm, but Ana has totally just knocked that theory out of the park. Her big woven lanterns, or 'Bonbons', are cool, fun, colourful, friendly and well made; a theme that runs consistently throughout all of her other creations.
Earnest Studio is the working Moniker of Netherlands-based designer Rachel Griffin, whose practice spans everything from experimental printed matter, public installation and furniture design. For a one-man show Rachel's portfolio is incredibly impressive; she's built large-scale wooden structures in Norwegian towns, created experimental storytelling spaces, produced books that question the nature of design and built functional modular furniture that you'd actually want in your house. Impressive stuff we're sure you'll agree.
RCA graduate Tomás Alonso commands a lot of respect here at It's Nice That. We can't help but admire the way he makes functional furniture in new and exciting (but often deliciously simple) ways. Sure, it helps that his products look really good, but it's Tomás' commitment to function over form that we appreciate the most – if it doesn't do the job properly, he won't bother making it. You can see this commitment to function throughout all of his work, but his ongoing project A Frame Tables highlights it the best. It's a series of foldable trestles that can be stored flat when they're not in use, meaning you can fit a beautiful piece of furniture in even the tiniest of spaces. No big deal? You try finding space to eat dinner in a typical London flat.
On first viewing this tasty selection of stools, my immediate reaction was one of "Wow, I really fancy a liquorice allsort", then my pang of sweet need gave way to pure Wow!
If you're looking for a comfortable place to park your backside for the day (it doesn't have to be for the whole day) then we thoroughly recommend the latest offering from Australian designer Timothy John; the Sidecick Stool. Crafted from powder-coated steel with a cork seat, the Sidekick reminds us of those glass beakers you used to find in school chemistry labs back in the day when you were allowed to mix chemicals in your hands and lick asbestos mats, and for that reason we're pretty damn keen on it – even though we definitely can't afford one!
Take a moment in your day to gaze in amazement at these fantastically creative transformations of the humble, versatile garden chair. This particular chair design is embedded in our perceptions of garden life, yet hardly registers on our conscious visual radar. I mean, how often do we notice the noble plastic providers of adequate comfort while we chow down on the delights of a summer BBQ?
If creativity is catching then Barcelona has been in the grip of an epidemic this past year. So much fun, interesting and exciting work has been produced there these past 12 months across a host of disciplines that it's never a great surprise to discover a project we like hails from the Catalan city. The latest we can add to the list is Midi Colors by lagranja design. This new collection of tables, cabinets and shelves for the Sistema Midi company uses a bright colour palette and extruded aluminium as the starting points to create really eye-catching, playful and good-looking pieces of furniture.
Here we have it, our brand spanking new Students of the Month! Hailing all the way from Vancouver, Knauf and Conrad are in their fourth year of studying at Emily Carr University and produced this rather beautiful Profile Chair last year. Of all our entries this month, Conrad and Knauf showed a rare knack for collaboration and a strong sense of the importance of the finished product. This subtle yet incredibly beautiful chair is a testament to how well they work together as a duo, which we will hear much more about below (along with some top tips on how to make your student work as lucrative as possible).


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Max & Ruby DVD Giveaway
If you've got Max & Ruby fans at your house, then you'll want this. The irrepressible duo are heading to Grandma's house in this new Nickelodeon DVD, "Max & Ruby: A Visit with Grandma," for mud pies, rainbow paintings, puzzles and more. Cute, no? And it can be yours – just click "comments" and tell us, what's your favorite memory of times you spent with your grandmother? We'll draw a winner's name on … hmmm… this week's already halfway over! Monday, July 19.
Meanwhile, congrats are due to Jennifer J – who won last week's Mary Engelbreit cookbook!
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ABN Amro has hired Henry Kus as director of weather and insurance derivatives. The Dutch bank said it had made the appointment in response to "rapidly increasing" investor demand for weather derivatives products.
Source: Risk magazine | 19 Dec 2003
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Robin Brough
Teacher, Preschool
Robin is the lead teacher in the Buttercups half day preschool class. She moved to Colorado twelve years ago and went on to go to school at Naropa University. She graduated with a degree in Early Childhood Education and a focus on visual arts and traditional eastern arts. Robin worked at Snow Lion School in Boulder for many years before moving to the Denver area. She is very excited to be a part of the Mountain Phoenix community. Robin loves to travel to far away places, and enjoys spending time hiking, camping, and doing yoga in her free time.
Joy Wegs
Lead Teacher, Preschool
"Auntie Joy" is the Lead Teacher in the Sweet Peas classroom. She says she is elated to embark on her third year ofteaching at MPCS, which she calls her home away from home! Aside from her teaching responsibilities, she is also a mother to two spirited boys (Aizik – (Grade 3) and Ember (Pre-K), a wife and a yoga instructor. She holds a BA in Outdoor Recreation and Leadership, a two-year degree in teaching and has completed the LifeWays of North America training, focusing on Stiener's views of child development birth through age 7. Along with a few other inspired community members and friends in Grand Junction Colorado, she started a Waldorf Mixed Age Kindergarten called River Canyon. This past summer she was able to focus and deepen her yoga journey, while this fall she will begin her Masters in Waldorf Early Childhood Education.
Michele Ford Kuntz
Lead Teacher, Preschool
Michele Ford Kuntz ("Auntie Chele") is the lead teacher of the full time Mountain Dandelions preschool classroom at Mountain Phoenix Community School. In 1999, Michele moved to Denver from Seattle, and after working in the corporate world for several years, realized her true calling in life to teach. After teaching various grades from Kindergarten through Third, in both public and private settings, Auntie Chele feels completely at home with the Waldorf Curriculum and in the Early Childhood Program at MPCS. Michele has an undergraduate degree in Theater from the University of Washington, as well as a Master's in Curriculum and Pedagogy from the University of Colorado at Denver where she graduated top of her class and received the "Outstanding Graduate" award, as chosen by her professors. Michele is very excited to bring her passion for the arts to her teaching. In addition to being a teacher, Michele has two children who attend MPCS, a loving husband, and she enjoys reading, knitting, bike riding and travel.
Susan Skokan
Floater, Preschool and Kindergarten
Susan has been caring for children full time since 2007. She dove in to Waldorf methods the summer of 2011. During that school year she cared for teacher's toddler children, as well as providing before care for grades students and private after care for ECE students. After two years successfully running her own licensed, mixed-age home preschool; she is thrilled to be back at Mountain Phoenix as the Early Childhood Float and ECE after school enrichment assistant.
She took her ECE courses through FRCC and is a photography major at Metro. Susan earned her LifeWays Early Childhood Certification in May of 2013 – a "Sister to Waldorf" program that focuses on birth to age 7. Since 2011 she has attended as many of the WECAN monthly continuing education classes that Nancy Blanning hosts as she is able (9 during the 2012-2013 school year) and is currently in the Foundations studies that MPCS is hosting. She has been blessed to observe classes at six other Waldorf schools in the area and is a voracious reader – hungry for more and more knowledge of child development and Waldorf pedagogy.
Susan adores getting to know all the children at MPCS. She especially loves to paint, felt wool, sing, garden and lazure. She loves to practice eurythmy, yoga and swim. She is enjoying volunteering in one of the 3rd grade handwork classes and working on becoming better friends with knitting and crochet. She is inspired by these rhythmic yet dynamic days.
Every day, she strives to take each moment as it comes, see the chance for meeting the children with spiritual reverence and remembering that THERE IS TIME! At first, Susan wanted Auntie Joy to substantiate that claim. Over time, she finds it more and more true, especially using slow, gentle movements to give a child warm nurturing moments in their day. "It's so fun when they want me to sing a song again and again, because I know they've enjoyed it." Susan loves to watch leaves fall with them, discover snow, stare at the sky or a ladybug, tell stories, and just look into light filled eyes.
Laura Childers
Lead Teacher, Kindergarten
Laura has been involved in Waldorf Education for about 18 years, beginning at the Waldorf School of Orange County where she was a parent. In addition to initiating a biodynamic CSA, as well as gardening and eating organically at home, she also volunteered and contributed original artwork, performed puppetry and participated in acting, set decoration and painting, as well as costume making for class plays and eurythmy performances at the school. She sang in choral groups for festivals, contributed photography, watercolor paintings and graphic design for yearbooks, and participated in several committees, alongside teachers and fellow parents.
Laura completed her Waldorf teacher training with a specialization in Early Childhood from the Waldorf Institute of Southern California, where her practical knowledge of the Waldorf curriculum was deepened by understandings of Steiner's pedagogical indications for education from a teacher's perspective. She loves to quote another class parent, who says the following of their family's own experience, "Waldorf education is great for children, but it's even a better education for parents!" Midway through her teacher training, she began teaching full-time at Journey school, one of the first Waldorf charter schools in Southern California, and taught a mixed age Kindergarten there for 5 years.
In addition to her Waldorf training, Laura has a BA in Organizational Management from Ashford University. She has worked in a mixed-age Nursery and taught Kindergarten at two Waldorf initiatives, working as pedagogical chair for the Board of Trustees for both schools. While taking a course for experienced Early Childhood teachers called "Nurturing the Roots", she visited and fell in love with Colorado and learned about Mountain Phoenix! Miss Laura is thrilled to be here, and hopes to "nurture the roots" –helping Mountain Phoenix grow and thrive as the Waldorf impulse for education is realized in a public school setting.
Kathy Peters
Assistant to Ms. Laura, Kindergarten
With a Master's Degree in Recreation and Leisure Studies from New York University, and as a former Recreation Therapist, Kathy feels passionately about the importance of play in the development of the whole child.
A lover of the visual arts, Kathy also studied Art History in Florence, Italy, for a semester as part of her undergraduate work.
Waldorf education embraces the arts, the natural world, and movement in a media-free environment; all of which Kathy seeks out for her own children. Kathy recognizes that the rhythms and opportunities for imaginative play and creativity are the building blocks for our Preschool/Kindergarten children to develop as whole human beings.
In her free time, Kathy enjoys preparing healthy, organic meals for her family, and learning about health and environmental issues. Researching the benefits of play and nature in child development is a primary passion. Kathy has been a member of the Denver Holistic Moms Network for 5 years, and is an active member of "A Vegan Life" Colorado. She is active in two Waldorf study groups. 'Ms. Peters' is grateful to be given the gift of being a part of a child's journey at MPCS, and her goal is to be worthy of imitation in a natural, loving, and creative environment.
Liz McCune
Teacher, Kindergarten
Ms. Liz is excited to be the teacher of the Morning Glory AM Kindergarten class. In her pre-kid years she worked as a Marriage and Family Therapist, but more recently has spent the past two years as an assistant in the Kindergarten and loved it so much that she began the teacher training program at Rudolf Steiner College this past summer. Ms. Liz was introduced to the "magic" of Waldorf education through seeking to find a fitting pre-school program for one of her own children! She and her family landed at a Waldorf based home preschool and life since then has never been the same. Waldorf education inspired a renewed love of childhood, magic and learning!
Ms. Liz is also a MPCS parent – her four children all attend the school (5th, 3rd, 1st and Pre-K)! Their family has chickens, bees, and a new, much bigger than expected, puppy. Originally an Ohio buckeye, she is married to a Colorado native, but has previously lived in Albania, Texas, Mississippi, Scotland (her 2 boys were born there) and back in Ohio, before settling down in Denver 5 years ago! In her spare time, you can find her….wait, what's spare time? Her most recent achievement: winning the Blue Ribbon at the Denver County Fair for her 9 grain bread (she mills the flour)! Lately, her (nighttime) dreams include crockpots and wool roving.
Andrea Thompson
Teacher, Kindergarten
Ms. Andrea is thrilled to be the lead teacher in the Skylarks classroom. In 2005, Andrea completed her Masters in Elementary Education at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She then moved to Beulah, CO and taught at a small community school until her first child was born. She then taught in a pre-k class in Golden for two years. Last year, Ms. Andrea was an assistant in the Skylark classroom and fell in love with the class and the Waldorf method. It felt like coming home to her and she is overjoyed to lead the Skylarks.
Ms. Andrea also has two daughters who attend Mountain Phoenix. Isabel is in second grade and Hazel is in kindergarten. Andrea's path to Mountain Phoenix was paved by her search for an education for her own children. She has personally experienced the effects of a Waldorf-inspired education and wholeheartedly believes in this method.
Andrea loves to hike, bike and do yoga. She also knits, gardens, and plays (a little) guitar. However, spending time with her husband, daughters, and her shaggy dog (Magpie) is her very favorite way to spend a day.


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Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Hawthorne's Works).
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, (Riverside Press), 1902. Octavo, 13 volumes. Three quarters leather. Complete set of Hawthorne's works. Gilt tooling and titles to the spine, top edge gilt. In near fine condition. A nice set.
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Americanization class, Portland, 1924
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Charles Chin, John Wong and William Wong stand on the steps of either Portland High School or the Chestnut Street School as part of a pageant dramatizing immigration to the U.S.
The three students attended an Americanization class at the Chestnut Street School. This photograph was published in the Portland Sunday Telegram on March 30, 1924.
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- Title: Americanization class, Portland, 1924
- Creator: Portland Press Herald Newspaper
- Creation Date: 1924
- Subject Date: 1924
- Town: Portland
- County: Cumberland
- State: ME
- Media: Glass negative
- Local Code: 2005.061.7687; Coll. 1949
- Collection: Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection
- Object Type: Image
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