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The year: 1978
This is what was happening:
James Callaghan was Prime Minister of a minority in the House of Commons and under great pressure from Margaret Thatcher to call a general election.
One of my all-time favourite singers, Sandy Denny, died following an injury sustained after she fell down a staircase and hit her head on concrete.
Keith Moon, drummer of The Who, died from an overdose in Curzon Place, Mayfair.
The advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi was recruited by Margaret Thatcher to revamp the Conservative Party's image.
The first South Bank Show was aired with Melvyn Bragg.
James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small was screened for the first time.
Roman Polanski skipped bail and fled to France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.
A poison-filled pellet was injected into Georgi Markov using an umbrella, on orders of the Bulgarian intelligence service; he died four days later.
This was to be my final year in a decade working in the world of publishing: a decade that I had adored. Thanks to Mark Collins, I'd even been allowed to work a four-day week at Fontana, giving me one free day at home to 'think' – crazy but true, that's how wonderful it was.
But by 1978, the writing was on the wall. Publishing was in a state of turmoil. Many of the long-standing independent firms were being gobbled up or were amalgamating with large American firms. Penguin Books, which I very much looked up to in terms of design and literary integrity, had announced the appointment of a new 'Chief Executive Officer' (an unfamiliar title in UK publishing at that time) in the shape of Peter Mayer, who was coming from Avon Books in New York.
Above the first signs of change to cover design policy at Penguin in 1978
Mayer's initial relationship with Penguin's then Art Director David Pelham was seemingly good (as recounted in a joint interview between Mayer and Pelham in AOI's Illustrator magazine at the time). It would appear that Penguin's covers would not change that much. But, away from Penguin, rumours of major changes were rampant. Soon all became clear, with wholesale swathes of the Penguin list jettisoned: education, poetry and much of the Pelican list. So-called blockbusters (above) started to appear on the Penguin list, and there was a noticeable change in cover quality. It was sad to see the extremely talented David Pelham having to endure the new heavy-handed regime. Pelham resigned in frustration in 1979, saying at the time…
"The art department… became the whipping boys… if a book didn't sell."
From Penguin by Design, published in 2005.
So ended the heritage of considered cover design, which went back to the mid-1930s, and with it the loss of Penguin's heart. All part of Mayer's plan to turn Penguin around, which had been running at a loss when he joined. But in the process of his radicalisation, much of Penguin's integrity as a publisher was being lost to a loyal readership. Something that has taken many decades to rebuild.
Above Fontana was a much more commercial publisher than Penguin and this is me at full throttle with my commercial hat on.
Meanwhile, back in my own Fontana camp, I was also being pressured to be even more 'commercially' minded in the presentation of covers. The way I coped with this was to design in a hard-hitting way without losing my design integrity. It didn't always work out, of course, but I tried. It was like a mini war.
Even when a non-fiction cover had to be commercial I would try to find a way to make it acceptable. This being a cover on a cover.
There were also boardroom battles going on within the Collins family and whispers of selling the company. In between all that, I had got Mark Collins to agree to my producing three large-format illustrated books that I had devised and designed. Two were on advertising history: Bubbles (the history of Pears soap advertising) and Pipe Dreams (advertising from the tobacco industry). The third was The Magical Paintings of Justin Todd; Justin Todd was an illustrator whom I had commissioned a lot and was a big fan of. I collaborated with Tim Shackleton, one of Fontana's editors, to help out on the text side.
Above the three large format illustrated paperbacks that I designed and edited in my last year at Fontana.
Francine Lawrence and Ashted Dastor were still with me and a new secretary joined, Francis Magill: an expensively educated Scot with no trace of a Scottish accent, just like the entire Collins family. They were also Scots but sported cut-glass public school accents.
Above a classic John Gorham cover complete with his own illustration. Gorham would often collaborate with others as in the above two where he got Graham Percy to produce these delightful illustrations.
John Gorham and Ken Carroll were still my most regular and often used external graphic designers. By this time, Ken and I were pretty much inseparable. We had graduated from eating at Pizza Express and The Chicago Pizza Pie Factory to the more refined environment of Mon Plaisir in Monmouth Street, Covent Garden (still there), where we would continue to drink copious amounts of wine.
I was still young enough to take it, but this was pretty stupid as I had a long daily drive back home to Essex and a young family.
A long running and very enjoyable series that I collaborated on with photographer Robert Golden.
Francine Lawrence assures me that I fired her around this time. I have no idea why and would love to know the circumstances, as I liked her so much. As the year progressed, I became increasingly concerned about my future with the rapidly changing firm. I realised I would have to find another job outside of publishing. I had thought that, having had a lot of work published in various design annuals (particularly D&AD, which had featured 12 Fontana covers that year),
One of the 12 covers that featured in the 1978 D&AD Annual
I would be able to pick up work outside the publishing world; I had already forged relationships with David Puttnam, Alan Parker and Ridley Scott.
Having designed the identity for David Puttnam's Enigma Productions Ridley Scott asked me to do the same for his new company Scott Free Enterprises.
Over one weekend, I did some deep thinking. By this time, I had three growing children to feed and educate. I looked at them and started to panic. My first wife was a wonderfully clear thinker and would always calm me down in my moments of panic.
Above 3 examples of the Fontana Science Fiction series.
I decided that I would put it to Ken Carroll that we should start a design consultancy together. The next day, I phoned him to suggest we have a booze-free lunch. I arranged for some sandwiches and fruit and set up a table and chairs in the one-time ballroom of Collins' elegant Georgian house. Over that light lunch, we agreed to start a company. We were both completely void of any experience of running one, but the die was cast and we were about to plan our journey not just into the unknown but seemingly blind to the fact that 1978 Britain was engulfed in what was called 'The Winter of Discontent' – an ongoing saga of strikes as a result of the Labour government's attempt to control inflation by imposing rules on the public sector, on top of an economic downturn. But that didn't faze us. We were excited and pretty gung-ho with the idea.
A delightful photograph by the late brilliant Tony Evans
Above, 5 of my covers for the non-fiction department.
In October 1978, I gave three months' notice to Mark Collins and continued to work with an increasing sense of fear, anticipation and excitement at the prospect of being in control of my own destiny. Those last months slipped by as the evenings drew darker and the temperature dropped to what was to be a bitterly cold winter.
My leaving the firm coincided with the Christmas break. I recall farewell drinks, some hand shaking and walking down the stairs from my top-floor studio along the chequered tiled corridor that opened out into the elegant, warmly lit reception area of Collins. It had an arrangement of friendly, rust-coloured sofas set against hessian-covered walls and an array of rich, oriental rugs, with a runner that ran down the entrance hall to the front door. Looking back, I realise why they were called publishing 'houses' – they really were in those days, unlike the clinical, corporate spaces they are today, with security barriers and identity ribbons. As I left Collins for the last time, stepping out onto the darkened street, snowflakes were flurrying down past the glowing street lamp. I was on my own, out in the cold. And so ended my decade in publishing.
My Films for 1978:
The Deer Hunter directed by Michael Cimino an audacious beginning and end to his film career.
Days of Heaven directed by Terrence Malick proving that he is the new Lean/Kubrick
Interiors directed by Woody Allen. An underated masterpiece by Wood in Bergman mode.
Superman directed by Richard Donner with a touching cameo performance by Glenn Ford as Pa Kent
The remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers directed by Philip Kaufman
My Album for 1978: While visiting the Design Council, when it was in the Haymarket and had free exhibitions open to the public, I was looking at one about the British Airport Authority. It a multi-screen carousel projector presentation, there was also mesmerising sound track that I instantly liked. I found out that it was appropriately called Music for Airports by Brian Eno. I have been a fan ever since.
My Project for 1978:
I illustrated a number in this series, including the above, for Lady Collins who was the in charge of Fountain paperbacks the religiouse arm of Fontana where I was given enormouse freedom
Post Script 1979:
I designed the above spoof cover on a cover for Illustrators in 1979 as a satire on the direction of paperback cover design at the time. Inside it featured a damming piece by me on the publishing industry and the strangle hold that sales departments was having on the art directors. In the following issue of the magazine, Patrick Mortimer, the art director who took over from me at Fontana Books, heavily criticised me. He said that I was naive and should have stayed in the industry to fight the good fight. However I never saw anything remarkable come out of Fontana ever again. So, the fight was clearly lost.
The story continues:
I hope you have enjoyed this part of the journey and found it of interest.
You can pick up on what happened next in my history of Carroll & Dempsey and later Carroll, Dempsey & Thirkell (CDT). HERE.
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A rare opportunity to see the personal work of one of America's (in fact, he was born in London) great graphic designers, Ivan Chermayeff. Like the late Alan Fletcher, Chermayeff is a passionate lover of the low-tech art form of collages and has been producing them for the past half century, scavenging from packaging, envelopes and found goodies from here and there.
Cut and Paste will open from Saturday 19th July through to Sunday 14th September at The De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea.
The pavilion itself was designed by Ivan's father (the architect Serge Chermayeff) and his partner Erich Mendelsohn in 1935 and was restored to its former glory in 2005.
You can hear a recorded interview between Ivan Chermayeff and me click here.
For more on the The De La Warr exhibition click here.
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Director Richard Linklater shot Boyhood over 12 consecutive years and used a similar fragmented technique in his Before trilogy with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, which spanned 18 years.
But this new film, at almost three hours long, gives total emersion into the life of Mason (Ellar Coltrane), along with the lives of his sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater), mother Olivia (Patricia Arquette) and estranged father Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke). We literally see Manson transform in real time during the course of the film from a 6-year-old, chubby-faced boy starting school through to an 18-year-old, lanky, monosyllabic college freshman and everything in between.
Lorelei Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Ellar Coltrane
For any parent, it has many poignant moments of recollection from pain to tenderness. It is shot with terrific sensitivity void of any sentimentality and without the normal clunky "four years later" sign posting. Here, you are left to let the film reveal itself, and it works perfectly. It is a beautiful example of assured filmmaking from a director who gets very close to reality in a fictional form.
Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold in the 8mm title sequence from The Wonder Years 1993 - 1998
Many have linked Boyhood to the great British social documentary series Seven Up! (directed by Michael Apted) and François Truffaut's 400 Blows. But no one has mentioned The Wonder Years: the 1980s American television series beautifully penned by Neal Marlens and Carol Black. It features main protagonist Kevin Arnold immersed in the social and family life of a typical 1960's American suburb. Made in 1988 to 1993, spanning Arnold's age from 12 to 17. This was a far more commercial, family orientated proposition, but we witness a similar onscreen coming of age. The last episode was aired in 1993 with the final narration…
"Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers, the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place, a town, a house like a lot of houses. A yard like a lot of other yards. On a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is, after all these years, I still look back... with wonder."
I think this quote fits perfectly with Linklater's beautiful film on the complexities of family life and growing up.
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Long, long before Bob and Roberta Smith started to glorify fairground lettering in his graffiti, graphic designer John Gorham was celebrating it as an art form back in 1967…
A promotion mailer produced when John Gorham was located in London's Regent Street in 1967.
Also, from the same year this starkly simple book jacket designed by Nicholas Thirkell for Macmillan incorporates the most sort after typeface of the period, Schmalfette Grotesk a beautiful condensed sans designed by Walter Hattenschweiler in 1954 and widely used by Willy Fleckhaus in Twen magazine in the early 1960s.
Both courtesy of Nicholas Thirkell's Archive
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I make a three-hour car journey each week from Dorset to London. I use it as my thinking space. My phone is off and no one can get at me. Sometimes I seem to disappear into a trance-like state and become oblivious to the motorway signs that flash by until – hey presto – I have arrived. But, more often than not, I solve design problems or think about getting older, what may lie ahead or what I have been doing for the past half century in this funny old business called graphic design. Under normal circumstances, I am very much a 'here and now in the moment' sort of person, but when cosseted alone in a car on an open road, my mind seems to want to open up in sympathy. This is what was going on in my head during a recent M3 journey back to Dorset, why not join me...
A decade ago, I gave a speech at the Royal Society of Arts. It was called From Caveman to Spray Can. It was 40 minutes long and I'd thought about it deeply (if you've got the time to spare, click on the link at the foot of this post and it will take you to it, but make a coffee first).
Why am I thinking about this? Well, last week you might have heard about the new advice given by the World Health Organization on the hidden sugar levels in everyday food and drinks. They have advised that we should halve our intake – talk about bolting the stable door… We all know that, with the rapid increase in obesity, especially in children, we are on a collision course for many unpleasant medical issues down the line, the key one being diabetes.
So where does graphic design fit into all this?
All will become clear after you read this extract from my speech back in 2004…
"The abundance of alcohol, dressed up in fun, funky packaging, has also been targeted directly at the young, inexperienced drinker. Before you can turn around, it could be your own son or daughter who has transformed into one of the many marauding late-night drinkers who are making so many of our town centres no-go areas after 10 pm. And scenes like this are commonplace...
And here we are during the very month that the licensing laws are being extended, which will – I have no doubt – contribute to making matters even worse.
It is the same designers who make attractive to innocent eyes products filled with sugar, fat, salt and artificial additives that can heighten a child's activity to such an extent that some have to be prescribed tranquilisers. A far better use of the graphic designers' talents would be to devise a universal, clear labelling policy imposed on all food retailers so that concerned parents can see at a glance what these products really contain and the harm they can cause.
It is the same designers who decorate the packaging of McDonald's and Burger King with free promotional merchandising gifts, in order to lure our children to the latest Hollywood blockbuster at the local multiplex cinemas, where they will be fed yet more sugar, fat and salt in vast buckets while watching movies that mostly dull the mind.
And it is the same designers who create staggeringly complex interactive software games, but many so unbelievably violent that they are given an 18 certificate. But still they fall into the hands of eight-year-olds, with their parents often oblivious to what their young are viewing on their computers or what it is doing to their impressionable minds.
All of the areas that I have mentioned come into direct contact with the graphic designer.They are 'designed' but, in my view, without any or very little sense of social responsibility."
Well, that was ten years ago, and I think you'll agree that little has changed.
We may all be in love with our profession as graphic designers, obsessing over kerning, the quality of paper, the craft of letterpress or some new-fangled form of digital printing or binding. We may be happy awarding each other prizes for our work in a back-slapping, mutual admiration society. But, let's face it: in the overall scheme of things, we don't amount to much when compared to a doctor, a policeman/woman, a nurse, care worker, a teacher, an overseas aid worker or a research scientist. No, we can't measure up to that group.
But what we can do with what skill we have is put it to good use. Use that can benefit society rather that harm it, as described in the quote from my speech above. If you are a designer, ask yourself: am I colluding with a food or drinks manufacture in minimising the bad points of a product though a designed subterfuge to make the product look enticing to children? If the answer is yes, you have some serious thinking to do. A design 'strategy' is often little more than a plan of action to hoodwink customers into thinking that a product is good and safe for them and their children when it is not. Or you might be colluding on promotional material to divert attention from the many levels (with still more coming out of the woodwork) of criminal activities of the banking fraternity. There have been a plethora of insultingly patronising promotions in recent months attempting to paint a 'caring' banking picture when we all know that they don't give a shit and all that matters are their profit margins and the ever-increasing 'compensation' for the very people who plotted and planned the criminal strategy in the first place but never ended up in prison. They are still there briefing their advertising agencies to come up with yet more condescending white wash like this...
Just one on the many ads spewed out of the bank to deflect our attention from their wrong doings.
As you can tell, being with me here in the car, I'm on a bit of a rant. But, to be serious for a moment, I have been fortunate during my 50 years as a designer in attaching myself to things I love and have a passion for: literature, cinema, theatre, dance and music. All of these are areas that best reflect and comment on our existence; they make us think and they inspire us. When it comes to work, I have always believed that if you exude enthusiasm about something you love, it communicates powerfully to a client and they know you will give so much more to a project.
The truth is that the graphic design community can do so much in bringing beauty, intelligence and integrity to our society. But it can also collaborate in helping to degrade life to an increasingly depressing level. So please use your talent wisely.
Here's something that might suprise you: every designer's favourite, an Innocent smoothie. We all love their witty, charming, conversationally crafted copy and their unconventional style. But what they never tell you is...
that some of their smoothies contain the equivalent of 3.5 Krispy Kreme sugar-glazed donuts.
The other designer favourite is Vitaminwater, with its pseudo-pharmaceutical packaging looking brimming with health benefits. Not a bit of it.
Every time you down a bottle, 13 tablespoons of sugar go down with it.
Interestingly, both of these companies were bought by Coca Cola – now we're talking sugar. For more surprises, look here.
And to read the full From Caveman to Spray Can speech from 2004, click here.
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Tony Palladino, 1930-2014
"Having talent isn't worth much unless you know what to do with it… It isn't the light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light from within."- Tony Palladino.
Tony Palladino was one of those muscular American graphic designers who surfaced in New York in the late 1950's along with contemporaries, Bob Gill, Robert Brownjohn, Ivan Chermayeff, and George Lois.
He was most known for the book jacket of Robert Bloch's Psycho. The simple one colour design emotionally conjured up the mood of the book through Palladino's dramatic torn typography.
Palladino died on May 14 in Manhattan. He was 84.
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Still from A House in Bayswater
One of Ken Russell's early documentary films, A House in Bayswater 1960, is being screened on 26th June for the inaugural KPH Film Club outing.
Both written and directed by Russell it centres on the tenants of a house in London's Bayswater, under imminent threat of demolition. It is a fascinating premonition of what Russell would later develop in his dramatised work.
On hand for the evening will be Russell's daughter, costume designer Vicki Russell, who will give a unique and personal insight into her father's work and his love of the Notting Hill area.
And if that were not enough you can have a great meal too. For more information and booking details click here.
Ken Russell in his heyday
More on Ken Russell here.
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Here is another letter from Michael Wolff. Originally published for the readers of Kyoorius magazine in Mumbai. But his words and wisdom are universal and worth sharing with everyone.
Dear Reader,
I'm starting with an apology. I promised to write you an autobiographical letter about the things and images that have inspired me and still inspire me in what I do. But writing this has overwhelmed me and I'm still working on it for you. Please be patient with me.
At the same time as writing the letter I promised, I've been distracted by a quote. It's a quote that's caused me to reflect and think. It relates to our behavior as designers and in particular to the magazines that serve our business.
I think you know by now that I've always thrived on distractions.
I don't always arrive at destinations that I intend to reach. I let distractions take me on extraordinary journeys. I think not knowing where you'll arrive is the essence of creativity. If you already know you won't be surprised by the magic of what you can create. I hope you'll find these reflections useful, and that maybe they'll become thoughts you'll want to reflect on too.
Finding this distracting and insightful quote was a surprise. I wish I'd seen it many years ago. It was by a man called Norman Vincent Peale. He was born in the USA during 1898 and died twenty years ago. I'd never heard of him. He was best known for being the champion of 'the power of positive thinking'. I think he coined the phrase.
He said many inspirational things including this. "The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you'll be surprised."
But the quote that's caused me to stop in my tracks was this:
"The trouble with most of us
is that we'd rather be ruined by praise
than saved by criticism."
I've always valued criticism. I've never done flawless work. Criticism is nourishment. It's the sharpener without which our blades grow blunt.
But I think craving praise, the way it seems to me that we often do, is ruinous. I think many designers are easily seduced into self-adulation. We seem to be too easily herded into mutual admiration, ceremonies and awards that focus entirely on praise. How many doctors compete for 'the annual kidney transplant of the year' awards? Yes, the Nobel
Prize gives honour to work of great distinction. But for an ad or a piece of graphic design, come on.
It seems as if awards or being published in a magazine have come to be the most important measure of the quality of a designer's work - less banal than "was it effective", "did it sell more stuff" or "how much money did we make out of this client".
Despite those feelings, "Congratulations" has always been the first thing I want to say to anyone whose work is honoured by winning an award. Of course it's an achievement to win recognition for the quality of your work from juries or judges made up of people whose work you may admire.
In the past I was always excited to have my work and my name included with respect, and sometimes even envy, in any selection of excellence by my peers. It always felt like having climbed to some sort of summit – my head clearly seen above the sea of normality. But, and there's always a 'but' for me, the chosen work always had flaws – flaws that taunted me and always insisted on being noticed. They still taunt me today.
I don't think flawless work exists any more than flawless people. In life – with a little humility – there's always the possibility of addressing flaws and correcting them. With work, it's usually too late. By the time you see the flaws, the work's been produced. Even a car as sublime as the Citroen DS had flaws, and like every other car, or ad, or brand identity or any piece of work from the world of design, flaws are usually there.
Occasionally something like the Red Cross appears – more or less flawless. Or a poster by a 'master', a timeless piece of architecture, a fantastic ad, a breath-taking product or a perfect piece of writing by a great copywriter. These iconic pieces are rare. Why so, when there are so many brilliant and talented people in our wide world of design?
I think there are two main reasons. The first is vanity – a deadly state of mind that settles for substituting a craving for credit and recognition for simply doing a service. That's a personal issue. Most people can recognise when they're drinking from the intoxicating chalice of recognition.
The second reason is more serious and profound. I think it's a flaw in how the design industry has expanded. The design industry has slid relatively unnoticed into the clothes of mediocre and conventional business. Wanting recognition and wealth has been the basis for this evolution.
As the design business was born out of the design profession, we believed that being like our clients and being reasonable would somehow validate our efforts and we would glide into business life like lawyers and management consultants. What happened then was that we were swept up into the world of process, deadlines and project management. Serious time for thought, reflection and criticism was eroded and design became a day-rate affair.
In the early days of Wolff Olins we were free to introduce six-week holidays to encourage an input mentality over an entirely output one and an appetite for curiosity beyond just reading magazines, to balance what was sometimes an atmosphere of stressed output. We encouraged someone to take a three-year course in anthropology, on full pay, so that through this person's evolution we too would learn more about how people behave in groups.
We collaborated with writers because an obsession with the visual aspects of design often ignored the power of language. Almost endless criticism was not seen as disloyalty, time wasting or sabotage, it was integral to honing a good solution. And it took time, because it often meant, 'throw it out and start again'.
We all know that creativity can take minutes, even seconds, and it can take weeks and months. A moment of insight turned into a creative idea can change the world. Months of mediocre process can produce the Emperor's new clothes – and it often does. Project management and pressure to deliver in a conventional, unquestioned time frame, can often blind us to opportunities we need to see.
How can we reclaim the creative, artistic, expressive, original and intuitive initiatives that define us as designers, from the grinding, boring, greedy and uninspiring businesses that are subsuming so many of us? Just as with energy and how we use it, and architecture and how we live in it, and money and how we think of it and use it, we always have to start all over again. A maxim of mine is 'Always be starting'.
Although awards deserve congratulations, don't be seduced by them into thinking everything is fine and rosy. It isn't. The world needs our insights, our imagination, our thinking and our inspiration to a higher purpose for our clients more that it ever did. Too often, we're still more pre-occupied with useful things for ourselves – recognition, growing our companies and gaining material wealth – than useful things for the world we live in.
Hopefully this worn out old paradigm is dying.
Long live a new and more fruitful one.
Read more from Michael Wolff here
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A former Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office official who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery charges for accepting kickbacks in exchange for rigging several contracting bids has been sentenced in federal court to probation and a fine.
The Times-Picayune reports former Col. Gerard Hoffman, who was director of maintenance, was put on probation for five years, and was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine. He avoided prison time, with U.S. District Judge Jane Triche-Milazzo citing his poor health.
He appeared in court in a wheelchair and hooked up to oxygen tubes. His lawyer, Paul J. Masinter, said Hoffman has liver failure and is need of a transplant.
Prosecutors say Hoffman accepted more than $7,500 worth of gifts in return for engaging in a bid-rigging scheme.
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All you have to do to earn the foursquare navigator badge is like the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum on foursquare and then check-in to the museum. You will then earn your shiny new badge and see the following message:
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Enjoy the new exhibit!
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Rev. Dana Allen Walsh has been elected as the 18th senior pastor of South Church in Andover.
Walsh, who will officially join the parish July 15, replaces Rev. John Zehring, who retired after an ordained ministry of more than 30 years, the last five as the senior pastor of South Church.
She comes to South Church from Hancock Church in Lexington, where she has served since 2006.
"We are thrilled to welcome Dana to South Church and the Andover community," Thomas Arnold, co-chairman of the church's search committee, said in a press release. "She serves with creative energy, intelligence, engagement and deep spirit and will be a vibrant addition to our church and the wider community."
Debbie Andrews, co-chairwoman of the church's search committee, added, "Dana has earned widespread respect for her effectiveness as a preacher and leader, helping people understand and act upon issues of social justice, and engaging with seekers of all ages. She is highly regarded as a person of faith and for her maturity and compassion."
In her eight years at Hancock, Walsh worked closely with the senior pastor, regularly participating, planning and leading worship services. In recognition of her contributions and increased leadership in the church, she was promoted from associate to minister in 2011.
At Hancock, she served as co-president of Lexington Interfaith Clergy Association and she created a town interfaith garden that yields more than 1,000 pounds of produce annually for a local food pantry. She also has led four international and nine regional adult and youth mission trips
"When I look at South Church, I see a vital congregation, which seeks to build on its strong history as a leader and pioneer in the United Church of Christ and Andover community," Walsh said in the release. "I see an active congregation whose members believe our Christian faith impacts all of who we are and how we live in God's world. When I look at South Church, I see a congregation that I am honored to become a part of."
Walsh grew up in Connecticut and graduated from the University of Mary Washington in Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in international affairs. She received her Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey and was ordained in 2006.
She and her husband, Sean, and son, Leighton, will live in South Church's parsonage on School Street. He is the English Department chairman and drama director at Malden High School.


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New Mobiles: Collaboration Between Mount Royal Mint and Baby Jives Co
What do you get when you cross exquisite mini soft scupture animals from Mount Royal Mint with heirloom mobiles from Baby Jives Co? I promise you find the most magical mobiles imaginable. From Mount Royal Mint and Baby Jives Co., come the Imaginary Worlds Mobiles.
These limited edition mobiles measure approximately 13 inches tall. The body of the cloud is 11″ x 6″ and the animals are about 3.5″ x 3″. They are available now for $120 to $150 and these are just a selection of what's available.
Wee Chick Cloud in Blue and Silver (above) and Pegasus Cloud in Blue and Silver (below)
Ursa Minor Bear Cloud in Gray and Silver
Don't forget– these are limited edition pieces and a couple sold out in the first day, so if there's one you can't live without, please order asap!
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Etsy Find: Nursery Mobiles from Moran Alhalel
My kids are all about origami these days so these fabric origami crib mobiles from Moran Alhalel really caught my attention.
Origami Crane Mobile- $66
Origami Fabric Boat Mobile- $66
Origami Star Mobile- $64
White Butterflies Baby Mobile- $64
These light and lovely designs come directly to you from Tel Aviv. They are fresh and airy and miles ahead of paper mobiles.
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Fun New Items from Petit Collage
Petit Collage released many fun new items this month ahead of the holiday season. With new toys and decor items in their signature style, you can stock up on gifts to last the whole year long (at least that's what I'm going to do!).
First, there are three new Deluxe Bamboo Mobiles– Safari, Flower and Yellow Bird (it already comes in Red Bird). These retail for $66.
Then the Bamboo Whale and Elephant Mighty Push Toys are adorable baby gifts. They're fun to play with and look great on display as well. These retail for $29.
New Petit Collage puzzles includes the Ocean Babies beginner puzzle ($13)…
… as well as these four floor puzzles– Our World, Alphabet Kingdom, Ocean Life and Treetop Friends.
Finally, as if that wasn't enough, the Pop-out and Play sets are beautiful ways to add a little Petit Collage to your shelves. For $9, stuff these in stockings this holiday season! Sets include Happy Town, San Francisco, Woodlands and Safari.
So what's going on your gift list?
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New Whale Mobile and More Whales from Petit Collage
Petit Collage has introduced a new design for their Deluxe Bamboo Mobile Collection– the Whale Mobile. $66
The mobile coordinates perfectly with the other adorable whale items from Petit Collage.
Whale Personalized Wood Panel, Whale Baby Wall Decal, Whale Mirror, Whale with Balloon Collage, Whale Baby Print on Wood
Petit Collage is one of our wonderful advertisers and you can use the code "BB" for 10% off.
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For the Trekkies: Your Star Trek Baby
Since the Star Trek Pillows were so popular and the new movie is in theaters, I've rounded up ten more items to satisfy the Star Trek fans and future Star Trek fans out there.
1- Star Trek Plush- these are awesome but you have to search ebay to get them
2- Star Trek Retro Poster from Harshness- $19
3- Wood Teether Vulcan Salute Wooden Toy from Little Sapling Toys- $12
4- USS Enterprise NCC 1701 Vinyl Wall Decal from lapoonstudio- $35
5- Star Trek Interactive Tribbles- $15-$20
6- Star Trek Communicator 2 Throw Pillow and Cover- $27-$35 depending on size
7- Star Trek Mr. Potato Head Set- $27
8- Star Trek Alphabet Print- $18-$45 depending on size
9- Star Trek PDF Cross Stitch Pattern Download from Pixel People- $6
10- USS Starship Enterprise Ceiling Mobile- from Ray's Scraps- $30
Some affiliate links included.
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Mobiles from Zid Zid Kids
Zid Zid Kids has introduced their Shadow Animal Mobile Collection. These are cut by hand and made out of recycled paper, cardboard and faux-leather details.
There's an Elephant, Butterfly, Bird, Peacock, Giraffe and Camel. $36 each
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More Mobiles from Trendy Peas
Trendy Peas has added a few more mobiles to their current collection of laser cut acrylic designs.
The Airplane and Clouds Mobile, the Birds on Branches, Bus Car Bike, and Cloud and Rain Drops Mobiles are all $39. There are three other mobiles currently from Trendy Peas– the Deer Fox Bunny, the Flock of Birds and Stacked Owls.
As far as themes and subject matter go, I really love the Airplane and Clouds Mobile and the Bus Car Bike Mobile because there isn't anything simple and modern to rival them. We've got owls and birds and other animals, but these really clean white transportation themed mobiles are something different to keep in mind.
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Leather Triangle Mobiles
Continuing our triangle theme for the year, I present these Leather Triangle Mobiles from The Alison Show. These modern mobiles are available in four colorways for $65 each.
She has a really cool blog too!
I wish I had more time to tackle all the posts my blog reader these days. Hope BuyModernBaby made it into your reader! If not, you can now sign up for our weekly(ish) newsletter and stay up to date.
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Mobiles from Argington (and some new bedding)
Argington, an Eco-friendly and affordable modern baby furniture brand, has recently debuted a versatile pair of mobiles that would perfectly accessorize any modern nursery.
The Birds of a Feather and 5 Little Monkeys mobiles are made of laser cut walnut plywood and retail for $65 and $55 respectively.
Notice the new bedding above as well. There are a few new Bam Organic bedding pieces from Argington. The orange in the photos is their Plaid pattern and there are lots of other patterns that can be used to mix and match.
You can see the Birds of a Feather mobile above as well as the Nest bedding pattern. They've got some really beautiful options and they're available for twin beds too!
coming soon!: ABCKids mobile storage
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New Bath Items and Mobiles from 3 Sprouts
You're going to love the new Bath Storage from 3 Sprouts. The Walrus, Owl and Fox are made of wetsuit material and stick to tile or glass to hang and store bath toys. $26
The Deer, Goat and Polar Bear hampers are also new. I'm partial to the goat. $25
The bath storage and hampers are obvious and excellent additions to the line of cute storage items that 3 Sprout is known for, but the big surprise this season is the mobiles! Take a look at the Bear, Owl and Peacock. $25
These will be available shortly.


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SAN DIEGO - A Lakeside man thought a Mission Beach vacation home would be the perfect place to celebrate his daughter's college graduation, until he said he was duped in a scam.
According to David Chavez, he saw an ad on Craigslist that read: "You are only steps away from the beach!"
The property in the 700 block of Island Court had an oceanfront view, and Chavez was hoping to rent it to celebrate his daughter's UC San Diego graduation party at the end of the month.
"I needed one fairly large, so I found a five-bedroom that seemed to fit my needs. Price was in my price range -- right around $600 or $700 a night," said Chavez.
Chavez then signed the rental agreement and agreed to wire $1,100 to the Craigslist poster as a deposit.
"I was feeling a little nervous," said Chavez. "I've never rented a beach house like this through Craigslist."
Chavez then asked the Craigslist poster to see the house twice. Both times, the supposed owner never showed.
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"I asked if I was on the agreement for Memorial [Day] weekend and he said, 'No, you're not' and I said, 'Uh oh, there's a problem,'" said Chavez.
Chavez said he believes it was all a scam. He called the San Diego County Sheriff's Office, who issued a search warrant for Craigslist to release records on who posted the ad.
The scammer used the name of a former realtor out of Los Angeles. 10News tried calling but the phone number found was disconnected.
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Saturday, September 08, 2012
The Confessions of a Quebec Anglophone
The other night I wrote about how shocked I was by the senseless act of cowardly violence that stole the life of poor Denis Blanchette.
And how stunned I was to see his deranged killer scream "The English are rising!!!" As if he was acting in our name, as if we the Anglos of Quebec shared his crazy views and his blind hatred.
When we most definitely do not. We are a peaceful community, we live in harmony with our French-speaking neighbours, friends, colleagues, strangers, lovers. We have our little quarrels like any others. But all the Anglos I know, live in Québec because they LOVE it.
And what we dearly wish is that all sides in The Great Quebec-Canada Debate would stop using us for their own purposes. The federalists who would have us waving Canadian flags like idiots in downtown Montreal. The anti-Quebec kooks who make it sound like we're living in Nazi Germany, waiting for the dreaded language police to knock on the door.
The New Jesuits in the PQ who would make us appear like a threat to the future of French on the island of Montreal, to win votes from those who do not know us. The French and English media who would turn us into caricatures, to suit the prejudices of their readers.
Not long ago, the magazine L'actualité ran a story that claimed that the Anglos were stubbornly refusing to integrate, didn't care about the protection of the French language.
And estie crisse de tabarnac, didn't even know who the pop starlet Marie-Mai is !!!!!
When the reality is far more complex, and far more encouraging.
So I was really happy to see that the great Montreal writer, filmmaker, and funny guy Josh Freed, has replied to that L'actualité article, and that at a tragic time like this one it couldn't be more BEAUTIFUL.
Here's the original article.
And here's my slightly edited for length translation:
Hello, My name is Josh and I admit it, I'm an Anglophone. I'm a pretty typical Montreal Anglo, I'm Jewish. Like most Jews here, I went to a Protestant school, because at that time, Catholic schools did not really want us. I spent every morning of my childhood learning traditional Christian songs that only Jewish Montrealers sing: Like Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so, and Onward Christian Soldiers .
Unfortunately, as I learned all those Protestant hymns, I did not learn much French. At that time English schools in Quebec did not teach that language well. In high school, my French teacher was Mrs. Schwartz. She taught me French three hours a week with an English accent from the West End - which was partly Paris and partly Cavendish Mall. But my French became incomprehensible as soon as I went east of Schwartz's Delicatessen.
I grew up on a Montreal street named Deleppy. At age 15, I learned its real name was De L'épée. I discovered that when I took a taxi for the first time and the French driver passed twice under the sign with the name of my street without finding it.
Slowly, I learned to adapt, to speak French better, and live in this French city full of francophones, allophones, xylophones! I worked in French, I flirted in French, I even voted for René Lévesque in 1976 to boost the power of French.
My wife (also English) and I sent our son to French schools for eight years. At first, he spoke a language with bastard phrases like: " Dad, I want a collation (snack). ' Even today, he believes that "depanneur" (convenience store) is a regular word in Canada like "metro" and "autoroute".
Our goal was to make sure he spoke French better than me. And we succeeded. At age 16, he is bilingual and totally embarrassed to hear my Anglo-before-bill 101 accent, which makes me say ' Longay ' instead of Longueuil.
And I think my story is typical of many of us. The community around me has changed and adapted a lot in 30 years. Our grandparents and their ancestors did not speak any French, they were too busy with their daily struggle to survive. Now, almost all send their children to English immersion or French school.
And many of these children have the Quebecois accent of a lumberjack and the sophistication of a sommelier. " Dad, passe-moé le Grand Cru Château Dépanneur 2004, s'il te plaît. "
To borrow a joke from Yvon Deschamps: "We can't make fun of our anglophones anymore, they have become bilingual! They understand us. "
That said, it seems that we do not know Normand Brathwaite, Véronique Cloutier, nor many other French stars L'actualité asked us about. Even I don't really know Marie-Mai. But hey, I don't know 99% of young English-Canadian pop singers.
Yes, many of us are in solidarity with the dreams and fears of francophone Quebec, but as l'Actualite discovered, many are simply tired of Quebec politics. The important thing is that 80% of Anglophones say they define themselves as Québécois in the survey, something we never would have done even a decade ago.
We Anglos chose to stay here while hundreds of thousands of others left (although many of their children returned to study and live here because they missed their hometown). We Anglos like Montreal, while too many francophones have left it for the suburbs. Maybe we need a new law "301", which prevents francophones from leaving the island to ensure that Montreal stays French?
Like many Anglos, I have tried to live elsewhere, but I've always missed my city... I have Montreal in my blood. It is a city that I love, a city totally unpredictable, chaotic and vibrant like no other in Canada. It is a tolerant city, sometimes frustrating, but always fun.
This is a great laboratory where French and English mingle and mix as in no other city on the planet. A place where the stand-up comic Sugar Sammy can make a show that combines English and French and sell more than 30 000 tickets. No, Anglos and Francos do not mix enough in their personal lives ... It will take time.
The important point is that things are improving rapidly in Quebec, our English-speaking community is growing faster than many others in the Western world. Quebec is a fascinating place and it has made us anglophones more interesting too.
Just like my journey from Deleppy Street to De L'épée, our community has come a long way over the years. But it is a journey that has just begun, and we must all have patience, generosity and empathy to help it along.
With that, I think we can build a strong anglophone community in a strong French Quebec, a place where the two solitudes will be one.
My name is Josh and I admit it, I'm still an anglophone. Until next time!
Yup. Good boy Josh. Sometimes we have to speak for ourselves eh? Tell the New Jesuits tasse toé câlisse or shut up, and the angry Canadians to just fuck off.
So we can live in peace, haul our asses down to the corner depanneur or dep, pick up a case of beer, give thanks we can only do that in Quebec.
And ask ourselves the existential question: When our kids start to say moé, the slang version of moi, is it all over, or have we finally arrived?
And as for me who does know who Marie-Mai is, what I want to know is it OK to say that I don't like Justin Bieber either?
But say instead that I prefer a group like Vulgaires Machins, that dedicated the following song to, among others, the striking students, the artists, the drug addicts, the gays, the feminists, the nudists, the lazy, the crazy, the unemployed, the hippies, the pacifists, the parasites, the professional troublemakers, the whores and the marginalized.
In short: just about everybody who lives in this wild and wonderful French nation in Canada.
And invites them all to shove it up the asses of the Quebec Liberals and the Harper Conservatives.
I thought so eh? That's my Québec.
And this is my musique...
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- Anonymous9:20 AM
Yeah whatever. Out here almost all the people who fled Quebec see it as a racists Franco shit hole. More than one would nuke the place if they could. But I say why waste a few good MIRVs when the Quebecois are busy doing the job anyway.....mass shootings, poor health, low birth rate etc.... All the things that make Quebec "great"!ReplyDeleteReplies
hi anonymous....and where is 'out here?' Alberta, Alabama, or Brockville where they stepped on the Quebec flag? What kind of people would want to nuke another province? Are they sick or what? It saddens me to see so many bitter people withering away with hate, like grapes to raisins. While we in Montreal have such a wild and sexy time.... :)Delete
- Anonymous11:53 AM
You're full of shit. You think the francos are little angels and the big bad rednecks are mean to them.Delete
Teen attacked for speaking English
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A St. Leonard Mother is outraged, after her 17 year old son was viciously attacked because he spoke English.
The family, who wishes to remain anonymous to protect themselves, says last Saturday following supper with visitors, five teenagers, cousins went for a walk. Around the corner, near a park, a man between 18-20 began hassling them, hurling racist epitaphs their way.
"In French that man said, ici a Quebec, il faut que tu parles Francais, or something like that, went up to my son's face and my son just kind of put his hand to his chest and said please move back, in English. And, he got in his face and was screaming hey Gee, hey Gee ( a derogatory name for Italians), and turned around and punched him in the face twice."
The Mom tells CJAD the guy reached into his pocket for something. That's when her son and four others ran home to call police, who in turn brought in an ambulance.
She blames the politicians for ramping up the language rhetoric, especially since the P.Q. win, with the issue now boiling over and turning violent.
Police have not yet arrested a suspect.
The family is expecting medical test results within a few days.
- Anonymous1:42 PM
There is no doubt. Canadians are living through, very sad and terrible times. As long as Harper is leader, it's going to get much worse. Anger is seething just beneath the surface. Canadians really despise dictatorships. Harper has stepped way over the line.ReplyDelete
Doesn't matter where I go, Dr. office, supermarket, or a pharmacy, everyone hates Harper. Quebec isn't alone in that department. Canada is clearly, under a zone of destruction. Everything Harper touches, he destroys. Harper pissed away a, $13 billion dollar surplus. He now has Canada, in the worst debt we have ever known.
Harper will never convince us, he didn't use his robo-call cheat, to win the election. Harper is famous for his, dirty tactics, dirty politics, lies, corruption, thefts, and cheating to win. That will be Harper's history, in our kids future text books. The worst and most corrupt P.M. The Canadian traitor of this century.Replies
hi anonymous...historians will record that Stephen Harper was the best friend Pauline Marois ever had. For she invoked his name on the campaign trail all the time, promised all those who hate him that she would spank him regularly, and it obviously worked.Delete
But not for long. For I'm also sure that history will record that his divisive policies finally caused Canadians to united, and the moment the NDP came alive in Quebec, the writing was on the wall...
- Anonymous8:32 AM
Really? History will record the NDP will have their life blood sucked out, just like the PCs, Liberals and even the Bloc. Quebec voters are fickle to the extreme and it will cost the NDP in the long run. To keep their Quebec voters happy, they will piss off the rest of the nation.Delete
- Anonymous8:38 AM
Really? History will record the NDP will have their life blood sucked out, just like the PCs, Liberals and even the Bloc. Quebec voters are fickle to the extreme and it will cost the NDP in the long run. To keep their Quebec voters happy, they will piss off the rest of the nation.Delete
- Anonymous2:34 PM
'Out here almost all the people who fled Quebec see it as a racists Franco shit hole.'ReplyDelete
- 'racists,' hey?? Hey Einsten, let me guess, who aren't an English teacher. Reform Party idiots think because there's French on a cereal box they're 'forced' to be bilingual. Most of these toothless hayseeds can't even speak English properly. The current measures taken by Quebec to protect its lingual integrity are perfectly acceptable. If anything, it's thanks to them them there are far, far more bilingual Québécois than there are bilingual ROC Canadians.Replies
- Anonymous6:51 PM
Toothless hayseed? Oh thats a good one! Well better than fat, drunk Franco who smokes to much and has to worry about when the next mass shooting takes place in their "progressive society"Delete
Or are you one of those latte sipping urbane liberals who is just so much smarter than everyone because you and your little echo chamber all say so. Hope you don't mugged by a poor person or a person of colour, haha, might mess up your world view. But hey keep defending the racist land of Quebec, they are going to need friends pretty soon anyway.
hi anonymous...I always thought our bilingual policies made us a more interesting place. As well as setting us apart from the Americans, which is essential for the survival of our culture. I've always wondered why the Anglos who fled Quebec were so afraid of another language?Delete
I guess they weren't very brave....
- Anonymous8:38 AM
They left because they didn't want to waste their time on a tongue that is basically worthless outside of Quebec. They also left because they didn't want to in a economic shit hole either. As for Quebec "culture" Pfff, I don't see any "culture" in that place, or anything of value really.Delete
- Anonymous10:46 PM
just sayin' hiReplyDelete
comments sayin' more about the commenters than the post
don't let the bastards get you down
empathy and compassion might be the key
blessings ...mikeReplies
hi mike...thanks and don't worry I never let the bastards get me down. I simply can't believe the level of angry bordering on violent rhetoric I'm seeing. Canadians attacking other Canadians for who they are, in a country like this one, is just madnes, and can only lead to bitterness and disaster...Delete
- Anonymous1:45 PM
most of the resentment in western canada has to do with the perception of the "privileges" Quebec garnered over the years.Delete
as a westerner i watched this happen over and over, often enough to ask myself why?
it seems quebec leaders asked for things for their people and negotiated hard.
western leaders really never cared about their people trusting in the economy and corporations to take care of their employees
if westerners were more honest they would have to lay the blame at the feet of their representatives rather than at the success of Quebec negotiators and by extension Quebec in general.
western conservative (include republicans) insanity runs like this :
I believe that it is of direct benefit to me to have all Canadians homed, fed, have decent water available , be educated, have health care provided, live in a non-toxic environment, be informed and provided the resources and support to have a productive life as a birthright of being born into one of the richest countries in the world …a non-comprehensive list but you get the idea.
When a man provides these to his own extended family regardless of their abilities or contributions he is a sainted pillar of the community.
When a politician wants to do these things for the citizens of his country he is a god-less socialistic communist
simple really ....but really insane.
hi Red...you're wrong. I don' shit on a whole province. I don't generalize like many Albertans do with Quebec. There are good Albertans and bad ones like everywhere else. But I have noticed that for years Albertans have been making tons of foul comments about Quebec, while French Quebecers don't say the same things about Alberta. So I figure I should speak up for them, and if sometimes I'm a little rude when dealing with SOME Albertans, who can blame me eh?Delete
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hi anonymous...empathy and compassion are always a good idea. And I can assure you nobody in Quebec hates other Canadians, as much as some of those Canadians seem to hate them. When you read the comments in the French papers there are no ugly ones like I read in the Globe every day. If more English Canadians could read French they'd understand that, and better understand the situation, instead of mouthing off and showing their ignorance. Like it or not, the French and the English are condemned to live side by side FOREVER however they choose to govern themselves,Delete
so we might as well we friends, or we will ALL drown in our own bile...
hi Mich...you're not the first one to say that The reason I have a dark background is that I like to run pics and I find they stand out better that way. I'm rather attached to the look, but I do care about my readers, I have been wondering why I'm going blind, so maybe it's time for a template change.... ;)Delete
- Sylvain3:12 PM
Here's something that would never happen in Alberta,ReplyDelete
Your blog's motto is "Fighting bigots, and bullies as hard as I can". You should start closer to home buddy.
- Anonymous11:06 PM
I am leaving Quebec next year after spending 4 years here. I spent 50 years in the U.S. and 4 here. But in these 4 I have heard more anti-Jewish comments than in all my years in the U.S. I have had more nasty anti-American and anti Anglophone comments or unkind behaviour than I care to remember. THe anti-immigrants sentiment is all over.ReplyDelete
I have received hostility again and again from Francophones.
Actually, I came in thinking I would love the culture-I had always been fond of French culture. I quickly learned that I would not be able to appreciate the hostility and anger and exclusionary prejudice of a substantial part of the Francophone community. I was not able to comprehend the 300 years of pain that Francophones use to justify their angry sense of self justification. Nor did I get why that was being dumped upon immigrants, First Nations People, Jews, Anglophones and me.
Several years ago, a study by Leger showed Quebec to be the most racist province in Canada. Francophones are fond of saying "at least we admit our racism, the others are lying". Many Anglophones who live here tell me "what racism, I have never been despised". Immigrants know better. An American woman took me aside during an Anglophone's rant about how there's no problem here. She said "Honey, I have been here for 10 years. They never stop hating you, and I'm married to a Francophone.".
There are businesses, such as Hydroquebec, I am told, and the Quebec government that practically won't hire anyone other than French named white people. This is not a healthy place, despite the nostalgia some Anglophones here feel for smoked meat at Schwartz's and the "good old days".
- Anonymous11:26 PM
Well here it is... I guess. Montreal Simon, I respect you but I think your love of Montreal is causing flaws in your reasoning in regards to the whole french/anglo debate regarding Quebec. So to set some context..I am a born and raised Montreal , Quebec as an Anglo. My parents were both first generation immigrants from Europe. My first memories as a kid were walking in the deep snow in Parc Mont Royal.i am still here at 36.I am raising my first born child here eventhough I can choose between several other places. I grew up in French immersion schooling since kindergarten. By the time I was in highschool I was called the guy who can speak the craziest french by all of my anglo collegues. I had friends and family in Quebec city and one of my best friends was French Canadian. I celebrated and learned all the Quebec traditions.etc. etc. etc. All this being said I appreciate Montreal for its diversity, its originality, youth, cultural flair, uniqueness etc. However none of this makes up for the fact that this place is....and will be forever completely screwed over by the pety bullshit language debate. I have travelled to so many countries in the world and lived in many of them over the last 16 years. I always felt welcome and embraced anywhere I went as broken as my Italian, German, Spanish or any other language was. Here comes the best part. As a Canadian who is "well travelled" I travelled very little in Canada throughout my life. My first experience was living in Victoria BC for 4 years. . When people found out I was from Montreal, Quebec the knives really started coming out. People hated my guts before they even knew me...and the best part...I agree with them. People would say. aww you frenchies are disgusting...why don't you have a rotten accent like the rest of them? You guys always stir the pot...we could care less if you seperate..etc. On every account western Canada was pretty close to the truth. Eventually we (wife and I) decided to come back to Montreal. I can safely say this is the single place on the globe that I hate with all my heart but somehow I am still here. I gerw up being discriminated against for job interviews because my name wasn't Ivon Deschamps, I was sworn at by STcum transport workers because I spoke English. and coat check charge. Doesn't matter the subject at school if the teacher was french I was flunking and the kids with french family names were acing..eventhough most couldn't read ABCs and I was reading Fyodor Dostoyesfky at the time. There are a million incidents of discrimination I have been through but to cap it off I will leave you with one. I went to a "depanneur" near work the other day. One I always go to where the girl speaks both French and English. In fact the girl is English but out of respect for the law she always starts in French. She has served me in English many times. This time what looks like a manager is near by...he is disgruntled and mumbeling all sorts of things in French. She greets me in French "bonjour"... I answer Hi! she says it will be 5 dollars 11 cents to witch the manager starts ranting " another pig, another damn pig, make it five fifty for that pig..etc etc. So to wrap up don't try to wax over ..1. a completely rotten infrastructure / corroded pipes from 1945 and collapsing buildings/ bridges and slackness in evaluations of structural integrity by the city due to internal corruption and language politics. A complete failure of a functional public transit system, deteriorating streets and highways, medicare system that is parallel to what is happening in Nigeria or Haiti,snow removal that takes three weeks after initial snow fall, a city that invests billions in language laws in regards to buisnesses, multi national corporations that are ready to pack up and leave due to harrasment and minimal growth. Icing on the cake...All people who are not PURE LAINE...will be call immigrants and fakes and made to feel unwelcomeReplyDeleteReplies
hi anonymous...maybe my love of Montreal does blind me to some of the city's faults, but I'm not blind to the petty bigots who would make Anglos feel unwelcome, and I'm not deaf to the chattering of the PQ language parrots who are forever drawing the most dire conclusions, and claiming that the province is turning into another Louisiana. And had I been in that depanneur I would have told that manager what I thought of him/her in English and French. But what I'm saying is that these smallminded people are a minority. French-speaking Quebecers are always going to be concerned about being culturally assimilated, but most recognize that their language and their culture, but most of them recognize that their language and culture have made great progress. And as more young Anglos grow up at ease in both English and French, the inevitable frictions will eventually disappear.Delete
Now as for the city's infrastructure...I'm not even going to try to defend that. Except to say that Toronto, where I live these days, is just as bad. We're not the smartest of people, but we do have some hidden qualities, and hopefully we can learn to live with each other as we have for so long, and will forever...
- Anonymous11:40 PM
forgive bad spelling and grammar on the last post. i had to chop it down because my rant was so long that the site requirements wouldn't take it. I just want to say.. to any rebuttle in defense of the bullshit culture anglophones and allophones suffer in Quebec and Montreal...Please bring the best you have..because I can argue this subject until I croak or for the next hundred years. We Suck. Love Montreal QuebecReplyDelete


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Utah State basketball: Aggies block upset attempt vs. Nicholls State (+video)
LOGAN — In what was once a 22-point blowout, Utah State held on in the final minutes to beat Nicholls State 79-72 on Thursday night in the Smith Spectrum.
Utah State had nine team blocks in the first half, led by senior forward Kyisean Reed who had four. Reed made 7 of 9 field goals to go along with 12 rebounds, four blocks and three steals to lead the Aggies.
"I just got position where I wanted the ball," said Reed, who scored a team-high 20 points. "It was pretty easy in the first half."
Nicholls State failed to score for a six-minute stretch in the first half, part of a 16-2 run which allowed the Aggies to take a 14-point lead with 8:17 before halftime in the annual holiday World Vision Challenge tournament.
The Aggies defense held the Colonels without a basket in the 1:30 in the half, which ended 43-22.
"I think we just had too big of a lead," Reed said.
Nicholls State came roaring back in the second half, led by guard T.J.
Carpenter. The freshman hit four 3s, including one with just fewer than four minutes in the second half to pull the Colonels within five. He drained a pair of foul shots a minute later to shrink the lead to three.
Junior guard Thomas Dantrell scored on back-to-back layups to keep the Colonels close, but Carpenter fouled out with 1:29 to play. He finished with 23 points, four assists and a steal.
Carpenter's fifth foul may have saved the Aggies. The Colonels scored just two points in the final 1:48, and Aggie junior guard Preston Medlin had an assist and drained two foul shots to help put the game out of reach.
Medlin finished with seven points, nearly half his season average.
Utah State head coach Stew Morrill said his Aggies were fortunate to win.
"We thought it was going to be easy, then (Carpenter) hits three 3s because we don't guard him," Morrill said. "We've got to grow up."
The Colonel's traditional leading scorer, senior guard Fred Hunter, scored 17 points — well below his season average of 25.3. The 6-foot-5, 240-pound guard went 7-16 from the field, grabbing 10 rebounds and two steals in 31 minutes of play.
Freshman point guard Marcel Davis led Utah State in assists with seven, but the Aggies stopped taking care of the ball in the second half, giving up 15 points from turnovers in the final 20 minutes.
"We're not the quickest team, so we have to be disciplined," Morrill said.
Utah State junior center Jarred Shaw finished with 19 points and 11 rebounds, but turned the ball over five times.
"We were up and just got lackadaisical," Shaw said. "If we do that in conference, we'll get beat pretty bad."
"To me it feels like we lost," he added. "We didn't play well at all."
Utah State will face UC Davis on Friday at 8 p.m. in the Spectrum.
"We'll move on," Reed said.
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Poor Mummy
My wife was reading the other day that women are getting the raw end of the deal if they stay at home with the kids because the kids begin to see her as the disciplinarian and all round grumpy one. But dad is the hero. Mums are too busy to play with the kids non stop for hours because they are doing selfish things like washing, cleaning, ironing, shopping and apparently reading a book only 46 times isn't enough. Before you know it, it's dinner time and the real war begins.
But then, out of the madness of the dining room the kids hear a sound. It's a key sliding into lock and turning to release the bolt. "Daddy!" they both cheer with delight, deep down thinking, "Thank Christ you're home, mummy really has been annoying today not giving me everything that I want. Now get on your knees and let me ride you round the room 50 times!"
Having taken a deep breath you manage to find some energy from deep within to tear open your suit and uncover your SuperDad outfit. The keys get dropped where you are, your coat only makes it as far as the stairs and the kids get down from the table before they've finished their dinner, despite mummy telling them not to and they run up and give you the biggest hug in the world ever!
Mummy smiles and says welcome home, but really she's thinking, "Bastard!" and starts to pick up your stuff. The routine that mummy has been trying to enforce all day ruined in one quick horsey ride, or squeezey cuddle and you don't care because the kids are loving you rather than screaming at you.
It's this time of day when my wife loves me least. But increasingly as I've tried to learn how to relax more and take things in my stride, my wife maintains the balance by becoming more and more uptight and increasingly snappy with the kids. It begins in the morning when the youngest wakes up and mummy goes to get him, "Daddy?" he says refusing to be picked up by his mummy. The daughter gets home from school, "What did you do today, sweety?" her mother asks. "Nothing, can't remember." When daddy comes home, "What did you do at school today, sweety?" an hour later she is still describing in great detail all of the things that she loved about her day. Bed time, "I want daddy to put me to bed." "Daddy can you read me a story?" "I don't want to play with you mummy, I want to play with daddy."
But what can I do? What are the consequences of being there for your children when they want you to be? What is the issue with being known as the fun one? I don't know, but I'm sure every time my wife squeezes that feeling of resentment and anger deep, deep down into her little box of emotions, it can only shorten the amount of time before I find out.
Opi #
It sounds like you have some really negative attitudes towards your wife. Have you not thought that, instead of becoming more relaxed, you could try to back her up more when she's trying to bring some order into your children's lives? Maybe you should spend some time together, talking about the things that you both believe are important in parenting, and working out (between the two of you), times when you can be a little more strict and she can be able to relax a bit? This post just comes across as you being secretly proud that your kids like playing with you more than with their mum. It's so sad. I grew up in a house like this and as a consequence I feel sorry for my mum and have little respect for my dad. The respect I do have for him comes from my memories of him doing his fair share of getting us up in the morning, cooking us dinner, changing nappies etc, not from my memories of him playing rough and tumble with us while my poor mum watched, knowing (rightly) that it was going to end in tears.
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Genuinely not trying to sound like I'm having a go, but I do think if you're aware that your wife is harboring feelings of resentment and anger towards you because of this, it's surely your responsibility to have an adult conversation with her about the situation, and together, find a way to resolve it?
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