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Cities in England have so much to offer for accessible holidays. Places such as Bath, Chester and York are often the cultural hub of the surrounding regions, making them the ideal place to delve into art, history, music and food. With this handy guide from Monarch Mobility, discover England's most accessible cities.
In no particular order Englands most accessible cities
Exeter, Devon
The vibrant city of Exeter has long been praised for its accessibility. As well as its spectacular high street and imposing cathedral, the relatively new development, Princesshay, was designed with wheelchair and mobility scooter users in mind. With big name brands such as Hotel Chocolat and Zara, as well as stylish restaurants, Princesshay is a hub for shopping and dining in the city centre. The shopping centre is part of the Shopmobility scheme, so if you need to you can hire a wheelchair or mobility scooter to explore the area.
At the opposite end of the high street, Exeter's Guildhall shopping centre is also worth a visit. The centre has a growing number of modern eateries including the West Country pizza and cider restaurant, The Stable, and Caribbean restaurant Turtle Bay. Guildhall shopping centre is undercover and on two levels. The upper level and car park are accessible via a lift. There are also accessible public toilets on the ground level.
When visiting Exeter High Street, it's worth keeping in mind these tips from Visit Exeter: "Exeter's High Street is reasonably level with only a slight incline as you go up in the direction of Princesshay. Public toilets for people with disabilities are located just behind the High Street (near St Stephen's Church) on the ground floor of St Stephen's House at 9 Catherine Street." The website also notes that there are accessible toilets in Marks and Spencer and House of Fraser in the high street.
If you'd like to explore the city's quayside, there is a steep incline, according to Visit Exeter, but the quayside area is level. On The Waterfront is a spectacular restaurant on the quay, famous for its delicious pizzas. The restaurant is accessible and there are toilets just past the restaurant.
Exeter is an exciting city home to art, music and culture. The Exeter Phoenix is a venue hosting a range of exhibitions and live acts. Disabled visitors can bring a companion free of charge to all events and the venue has been adapted for maximum accessibility. Nearby, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum also hosts fascinating historic exhibits as well as photography, film and other events. Mike Ellis, manager of Shopmobility Exeter, took a tour of the museum on a large mobility scooter. He said: "I can't tell you what a treat it is to be able to get around a building without obstacles. It's been well thought out and will be a treat for disabled visitors."
Bath, Somerset
With its famous Roman baths, Royal Crescent and boutique shops, Bath is a unique city and UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is also mostly accessible to disabled visitors. Visit Bath encourages wheelchair and mobility scooter users to stop by at the Bath Visitor Information Centre to plan a day out: "If you're looking for ideas of what to see and do both in the city of Bath and the surrounding area, we can help you with reliable and inspirational ideas." There is also a Shopmobility scheme, so you can hire equipment to explore the historic city.
In a blog post for Visit Bath, Ben Rushgrove, a British sprint runner with cerebral palsy, explored Bath with a friend in a large wheelchair to see how accessible the city really is. The pair ventured through Abbey graveyard, Royal Victoria Park and Royal Crescent. Inside Number 1 Royal Crescent, the heavy-duty wheelchair manoeuvred easily through the historic grade two listed building. So, if you're visiting Bath's top attractions in a mobility scooter or motability scooter, you should have no problems.
The Roman Baths are one of the city's most iconic attractions. The thermal springs below the city rise within the baths and still flow with natural hot water. Over one million visitors flock from all over the world to see this famous landmark. Although it is a well-preserved historic site, the visitor experience for the Roman Baths has been adapted to make the site 90% accessible using lifts and ramps.
One of the city's more unique attractions is the Fashion Museum. Leading you through contemporary and historic fashion, the museum is full of fascinating displays. The museum is accessible to wheelchair and mobility scooter users via lifts and ramps and has an accessible toilet. To continue your journey through art and culture, visit the Victoria Art Gallery, which hosts a varied programme of exhibitions and is accessible for disabled visitors.
Chester, Cheshire
With its leaning, Tudor buildings, quaint shopping streets and historic monuments, Chester is a captivating city to explore. Despite its ancient appearance, the city centre is mostly accessible for wheelchair and mobility scooter users.
One of the city's most popular features is The Rows, a series of half-timbered galleries forming shops above the street. Unique to Chester, the Rows date back to the 13th century. According to a guide by Cheshire West & Chester Council, the Rows are accessible to disabled visitors. The guide includes detailed information on how to access each section of the site.
As well the Rows, Chester's famous city walls are also accessible. The impressive boundaries were built to keep Chester safe and were patrolled by soldiers for hundreds of years. According to Explore The Walls, the site is accessible for those with limited mobility: "The Walls have varying degrees of accessibility for disabled people, with many access points via either stepped, ramped or level access." For full details on disabled access at Chester's City Walls, visit Disabled Go.
No visit to Chester would be complete without a trip to Chester Zoo. Featured in Channel 4's The Secret Life of the Zoo, this exciting attraction is home to over 15,000 animals and 125 acres of zoological gardens. Welcoming over 1.9 million visitors every year, Chester Zoo is a wonderful place to spend a sunny day and learn about some of the world's most remarkable animals. The zoo prides itself on being accessible for wheelchair and mobility scooter users and offers free entry to carers, disabled parking, accessible pathways and toilets.
Norwich, Norfolk
As one of England's most spectacular historic cities, the streets of Norwich are lined with beautiful architecture, independent shops, quaint pubs and picturesque scenery. In the heart of Norfolk, it's hard not to fall in love with this pretty city. Despite its historic charm, Norwich is also accessible to disabled visitors.
Due to the layout of this old city, there are a few steep inclines and cobbled streets, but there are alternative routes. For detailed information about these areas, pop into Norwich Tourist Information Centre and chat to the staff about exploring the city with a mobility or motability scooter. If you're venturing into the city for some retail therapy, Norwich also runs a Shopmobility scheme at Chapelfield Mall shopping centre.
Many of Norwich's iconic buildings, museums and attractions are accessible. The imposing Norwich Cathedral is well worth a visit. As you can see this beautiful building from most parts of the city centre, discovering what's inside is fascinating. The cathedral offers accessible toilets though there is limited parking for blue badge holders. There is ramped, level or lift access to every part of the cathedral, so you won't miss out on anything.
To discover the history of this majestic city, head to the Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell. Exploring Norwich's unique history from medieval times to the modern age, you're sure to learn everything you need to know about the city, including its textile trade and the production of chocolate. City of Stories recommends the museum to disabled visitors: "The Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell has made a real effort to make their beautiful medieval building accessible for everyone. They've installed a platform lift from the main entrance and another lift within the museum."
For a taste of arts and culture, head to Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. With permanent collections of art, pottery and historic artefacts, there's always plenty to see. Keep an eye on the centre's upcoming exhibitions and events before your visit.
Truro, Cornwall
As the only city in Cornwall, visitors flock to Truro as a hub of art and culture. Its imposing cathedral juts out of the centre, surrounded by independent shops, restaurants and cafes. According to Visit Truro, much of the city centre is accessible to disabled visitors, despite the occasional cobbled street.
With a mostly flat city centre, Truro is a fairly easy city to navigate in a motability scooter. It's not overwhelming like many other cities in the UK and retains the tranquillity of the countryside which surrounds it. Every public toilet in Truro has accessible facilities which are marked out on a city map you can pick up from the Tourist Information Centre. You'll also need a RADAR key to access the bathrooms, so make sure you pick one up before a day exploring the city. If you need to hire mobility equipment, Truro runs a Shopmobility scheme in the city centre.
Once you set eyes on Truro Cathedral, you'll be eager to find out what's behind its magnificently ornate walls. Soaring high above shops and houses, the cathedral is open to the public and accessible to wheelchair and mobility scooter users. There is ramped access at the front of the cathedral in High Cross and other ramps inside to allow access to most of the building, as well as disabled toilets near the restaurant.
To browse Cornish food and wares, head to Lemon Street Market. This pretty little market offers three delightful cafes, perfect for a break during your visit to Truro. Pop into Baker Tom's for delicious artisan breads and cakes or browse artwork from the region in the Lander Gallery. Just 30 minutes outside Truro, explore the mysterious grounds of The Lost Gardens of Heligan. These awe-inspiring gardens have a unique history. Around 25 years ago, the gardens were unknown and unseen, lots under weeds and bracken. After a great restoration, these historic gardens were uncovered and are now open to the public. Most of the 13-acre northern gardens are accessible and there are toilets and disabled parking bays available.
York, Yorkshire
As one of England's oldest cities, you'd be forgiven for thinking York wasn't the best place for an accessible holiday. However, despite the city's many historical features, many of its beautiful buildings and services are accessible to wheelchair and mobility scooter users.
To help people get around the city centre easily, York is part of the Shopmobility scheme, lending visitors powered scooters, electric wheelchairs and manual wheelchairs. Aside from the occasional cobbled street, access throughout the city centre is fairly easy, even for motability scooter users. The city also uses the RADAR scheme, so you'll need a key to use the city's disabled toilet facilities. Pop into the Visit York Information Centre before you start exploring.
When it comes to attractions, most of York's fascinating heritage sites, museums and galleries are accessible. York Minster is the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe and is truly a sight to behold. This towering, intricate building is well worth a visit on your city trip. The cathedral has been adapted and continues to be improved for disabled visitors. Access to York Minster is via a ramp and inside, more ramps offer additional access to wheelchair and mobility scooter users.
Chocolate-making is a huge part of York's heritage, and there's even an attraction to celebrate it. York's Chocolate Story leads you through the history of chocolate making in the UK's home of chocolate. With a tour and workshops available, this is a must-see for anyone with a sweet tooth. York's Chocolate Story is accessible throughout via lifts and the gift shop is the ideal place to pick up a souvenir, or a treat to remember your trip.
For train enthusiasts, or those seeking an alternative day out, the National Railway Museum is an excellent choice. Browse over 1,000,000 objects from over 300 years of railway history, including gleaming locomotives, artwork and a captivating journey through the history of Britain's railways. The museum welcomes mobility scooters and even has some available to hire if necessary.


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Make plans to join George at the 2018 MS Book Festival coming up next weekend at the State Capitol. George will be joining a panel discussion entitled "True Crime".
The panel will be moderated by fellow Mississippi author Charlie Spillers
The discussion begins at 4:00 pm at the State Capitol Room 201H.
Other panelists include:
Radley Balko, The Cadaver King and The Country Dentist
Karen L. Cox, Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race and the Gothic South
Miriam Davis, The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story.

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Excellent Food/Bad Food What's Left to Consume?
What readies Today is Bad Tomorrow: Just What Can I Consume?
We have actually gotten in the Twilight Area when it comes to the multitude of diets being advertised today. Starting with the Atkins Diet regimen, after that the South Beach Diet plan, currently the Hamptons Diet regimen and much more. All greater in protein, reduced in carbohydrates, yet the difference should be quality of carbohydrates, not singling out one nutrient completely. If you get on the Atkins Diet, South Beach Diet or other variation of a high protein/low carbohydrate diet plan merely readjust from eating low quality carbohydrates like refined flour and sugar products (assume if it is available in a box, it's likely poor quality) to eating a lot more entire food like fresh vegetables as well as fruits – yes fruits.
Apples vs. Apple Jacks – You be the Judge
I understand the standard Atkins Diet regimen does not promote much fruit (too expensive sugar) however consider that for one min. My solid belief is that an apple is an excellent food, a bowl of Apple Jacks grain could not be on an equivalent degree. One is very processed sweetened by added white sugar as well as corn syrup, and one is natural, plucked from a tree and sweetened by the sun. Which would certainly you pick? Don't avoid fresh fruit for following your low carbohydrate diet plan to the t.
Eliminating healthy, wholesome foods is not the most effective means to discover how to eat better, yet significantly reducing on the regularity of eating very processed foods is. I saw a website which called it GM or MM: God Made or Male Made. If you think of those terms when you go to pick your foods, it begins to make even more feeling. No person states you shouldn't consume chips, or whatever strikes your fancy, however make them a reward – and eat the GM foods regularly.
Sound Judgment Diet
Typical sense will respond to the inquiry regarding just what to consume. If you are on Atkins, South Coastline or any variation of low carb diet, avoid processed foods, not natural foods.
You could still remain on a higher healthy protein food strategy, however this set minor change will certainly permit you to proceed with your eating plan for a lifetime, as opposed to a short-time. I 'd go ridiculous if I couldn't consume my everyday apple, banana or various other fruit. I love fruit. I believe there's a very good factor people prefer sweet foods – Vitamin C, and other nutrients, including bio-flavnoids.
Can You Be Addicted to Fruit?
I heard a person complain they were "addicted to fruit" as well as I needed to wonder, just what do they eat? The individual that chooses not to eat fruit because they believe it is too high in sugar, possibly does eat cookies, crackers as well as sugary cereals. They might even consume unnaturally seasoned and sweetened beverages, but they choose not to consume a health food, grown from our earth? That makes no sense, if you think of it. Did our world create and also flourish based upon refined foods? No, of course not. They are extremely current in the advancement of our world. Extremely current. As a matter of fact, we've had actually refined foods much less than 200 years while our earth is numerous years of ages.
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With the high incidence of excessive weight, and our high usage of processed foods, it's tough not to draw the verdict that one triggers the other. You will not listen to big market stating that instance due to the fact that our economy depends on us buying the items being generated by the business that use us.
Observing the epidemic of food ailments such as Mad Cow, and now Bird Flu, I could imagine a society without the standardized meat industry. It will occur – just your local farm will certainly be enabled to market meat since the huge ranch market can not guarantee safety and security of the food supply. Meat will end up being much more expensive due to the fact that when they could not mass produce it, there is nowhere for rates to go but up. So do we whimper and also weep as well as moan regarding our bad luck or do we begin to think about meat as something to enjoy and also delight in like the Sunday roasts we had years ago? We never consumed meat each day then – and we weren't so fat either. We merely didn't eat as much refined foods. Most of us had mamas in your home food preparation us dinner, making our lunches or even fixing our breakfasts.
Yes, development marches on, but when it concerns your body, common sense regulations the day. The Common Sense Diet! Attempt it on for size today.
If you are on the Atkins Diet Plan, South Beach Diet or any type of other variant of a high protein/low carb diet plan merely readjust from eating reduced quality carbohydrates like refined flour and sugar items (think if it comes in a box, it's likely reduced top quality) to eating a lot more entire food items like fresh vegetables and also fruits – yes fruits.
Eliminating healthy and balanced, wholesome foods is not the ideal means to find out to consume better, yet badly cutting back on the frequency of eating extremely processed foods is. No one states you should not consume chips, or whatever strikes your fancy, yet make them a treat – and consume the GM foods a lot more usually.
If you are on Atkins, South Beach or any variant of low carbohydrate diet, prevent processed foods, not all-natural foods. We just didn't eat as much refined foods.


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On a recent trip to Laurel Hill, we hired a Land Rover Defender through Common 4x4, a rental and adventure company that is all about getting off the beaten path and experiencing it through a legendary, military style workhorse.
The Defender is arguably the most badass adventure vehicle of all time and driving one is an experience on its own. It was made for all terrain adventure. Just riding in one we felt its remarkable off-road ability through gravel roads and muddy tracks. Its seats are higher than most cars, giving you optimal views of the world outside.
Optional camping gear is provided if you need, which is great for families and couples seeking an offbeat escape.
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Interstitial keratitis - External and Internal Eye
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SynopsisInterstitial keratitis (IK) is an inflammatory condition causing inflammation in the corneal and anterior segment of the eye. This inflammation will cause deep corneal neovascularization. Patients with IK tend to present in the first to second decade of life. If it is the first presentation of IK, it will be associated with ocular pain, redness, photophobia, and often reduced vision. Once a patient has suffered from an episode of IK, the scarring and corneal neovascularization will remain. The most common etiology of IK is syphilis. Many times the syphilis is congenital and will affect both eyes (though not always at the same time). If the syphilitic IK is acquired, it is more likely to affect only one eye. Other common conditions causing IK include herpes simplex virus (HSV), herpes zoster, leprosy, Lyme disease, tuberculosis, collagen vascular disease, HLA B-27 associated inflammatory conditions, and Cogan syndrome (hearing loss, IK, and tinnitus).
H16.309 – Unspecified interstitial keratitis, unspecified eye
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Peace - The Reynold's Story/
"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this."
On the evening of my 50th birthday I climbed into the car for a visit to see my daughter. I'd like to tell you it was to watch her participate in a school event or to see her newly decorated first apartment. But it wasn't either of those. This trip was to visit her at the drug rehabilitation center where she was undergoing treatment. This was a difficult time for our family. The circumstances that led us to this point had strained our relationship significantly and I was deeply frustrated that I was not able to "fix" this situation. As I sat outside the facility, preparing to see her, I struggled to find the words to express what was happening in my heart. I prayed again, for the thousandth time, that God would touch her heart and restore our relationship. And while I could not find a peace in the darkness of the situation, I believe God enabled me to eventually find that peace by taking me through my own journey of suffering.
My daughter completed her treatment and returned home to begin rebuilding our family's relationship, but the road to restoration was a complicated one and shortly after she returned home, we found ourselves at odds again. I was determined to make our relationship work but all my best efforts continued to fail. Months later, sitting in a church service, I found myself once again unable to communicate what was happening in my heart. But this time it was not because of my battered relationship with my daughter; it was because I was suffering a stroke.
The process of recovering from my stroke was slow and required me to lean on the Lord and my family in a much deeper way than I had ever experienced. My daughter began visiting me and I was thankful for the opportunity to be with her. I was still deeply troubled by the brokenness between us but I was too tired to "fix" things; instead I just had to release our relationship to the Lord and trust that He was in control. I didn't feel any fear during this season. Even after suffering a stroke, I could see the Lord moving to restore my relationship with my daughter and that knowledge filled me with a deep sense of Peace.
During my recovery, my daughter's boyfriend accepted the Lord and they began discussing what their future might look like. My daughter decided she would like to return to school and asked my husband and me if she could move home while she pursued her college degree. We agreed and I was hopeful about having her in our home again. Shortly before she moved in I went for a routine mammogram that revealed that I had an extremely aggressive form of breast cancer. I immediately underwent surgery followed by six months of treatment to eliminate the cancer. My daughter moved in with us and I began the long road of recovery.
During this time I was deeply dependent on my husband, my daughters, and many of our friends. The Lord continually showed me how his hand was at work in my life. Accepting that my health was completely in the Lord's hands taught me how to fully release my relationship with my daughter to him. He showed me that He was in control and was more capable of caring for her than I could ever be. I fully released my need to "fix" our relationship and watched as the Lord began to heal all of the brokenness between us.
I felt a Peace that I had never known before.
It was a Peace that came from releasing and trusting God to guide and direct my life in His perfect timing. Proverbs says, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding." This is a truth that I have learned through many difficult times.
My daughter's boyfriend is now her husband and I recently became a grandmother to a precious baby boy. The Peace of the Lord is a real and sustaining power that operates outside of our understanding. When we release our control and believe that He is good, we become truly free to walk in all that He has for us. This is the only true Peace we can experience, and it's the only way to live.


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Kung Fu Fun Free
Crazy grammas are ready to start a fight! This is not just a fighting game, this is the funniest one ever! Meet Kung Fu Fun Free! Welcome to the average russian street in summer, everything is peaceful and unalarming. But two furious gammas appeares in front of you and they perhaps didn't share something! Each of them has an appetite for revenge! Start this fight and show who is stronger!
HOW TO PLAY: use arrows to go forward, back and to jump. Use two extra buttons to hit your opponent. Try to save your health and become a champion! Good luck!
Kung Fu Fun Free Features:
- Realistic 3D graphics!
- Two ways of hitting: leg and hand!
- Made in best fighting traditions!
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Snoop Dogg, Boris Kodjoe & More Talk Spoiling Your Kids Right
Education, love and avoiding the long lines at Disneyland are only some of the ways celebrity dads get to spoil their kids. VIBE spoke with Snoop Dogg, Raheem Devaughn, Ne-Yo and actor Boris Kodjoe about how they control the perks that come with their jobs.
"I think spoiling kids is great ... if you do it the right way," says Kodjoe. "I spoil them in that I give them as much love as I could possibly give them."
VIBE and KFC are partnering up to send the best dad to Las Vegas. To nominate a dad who plays a positive role in their kids lives for our Fresh Fathers contest head here.


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The behaviors? Being insecure and whining.
Most men don't like being around women want him to constantly reaffirm that he loves her. They don't like listening to a stream of problems they want the widower to fix or, at the very least, listen to. Men simply aren't wired that way. Men like women who like themselves. They hate criticism, nagging, and whining.
An example: Before I dated Marathon Girl, I had a serious relationship with a friend. (Full details of this relationship can be found in my memoir Room for Two.) Because it was a long distance relationship, we could only see each other every four to six weeks. As a result, most of our communications was spent on the phone or emailing each other. (This was in the days before texting was popular.)
At first things went fine but after a month or so I noticed that most of our conversations was her either getting reassurance that I loved her and a daily list of all the things and problems in her life. After several months of this it got to the point where I found our conversations emotionally exhausting. I no longer cared about her the problems with school, student teaching, or trying to find her first job. I wanted to hear positive stories and things she was doing to solve these problems. When we had face-to-face time, just about everything focused on her need for validation or all the issues in her life. It drove me nuts.
When I started dating Marathon Girl, it was the exact opposite experience. Yes, Marathon Girl had problems (who doesn't) but for the most part they weren't the front and center of every conversation. And when they did come up, Marathon Girl was wise enough to know what problems I could solve or help her with and which ones she needed to fix on her own. And after we had one of these conversations, we'd move on to something more positive.
For example, the first time I called Marathon Girl by my late wife's name, we had a five or 10 minute talk about why it had happened, how it made her feel, and what we were going to do if it happened again. Then we went outside and spent the next hour playing basketball. It wasn't an long, tear-filled conversation because it didn't need to be. We talked about it, figured out a solution, and moved on to something more positive.
Marathon Girl also didn't spend tons of time fretting about whether or not I loved her. She felt confident in herself that if our relationship came to an end, she'd find someone better who also didn't come with a bunch of widower baggage. She pretty much let me know that her life was fine before I came into it and if things didn't work out between us, she had marathons to run and medical school to prep for if things didn't work out. That attitude was one of Marathon Girl's most attractive features.
So next time you find the widower withdrawing from a relationship, take a few minute and see if it's because the widower's not ready or if you're the one driving him away. If you want a widower (or any man) to enjoy being around you, feel confident (or fake confidence) about yourself and your life. Stop dwelling on every bad thing or suffocating the widower emotionally. That kind of behavior respells men. Focus on the positive and you'll find that the widower can't get enough of you.


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Luke Warm: "The Last Jedi"
Prefacing quickly, I have nothing but spoilers below. Deal with it.
Keeping pace with the goings-on of Star Wars (and assuming readers know the lingo), 2015's The Force Awakens ended with Starkiller Base, a fusion of a natural planet with the imperial First Order's destructive technological capabilities, being destroyed by the Republic's defenders, led by maverick pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) and the helpful infrastructure knowledge of turncoat stormtrooper Finn (John Boyega). Finn is left comatose after an encounter with Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), the Sith-like apprentice of the First Order's Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis), who conquers his sentiments by slaying his father Han Solo (Harrison Ford), but is overcome in the snowy wilderness by a mysterious junk trader, Rey (Daisy Ridley), herself an affront to the natural determinism of mitichloric accountancy with her mercurial Force capabilities. The victorious Republic, led by Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), has accessed a map leading to the long-lost last Jedi, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), in isolation ever since his student Kylo (formerly Ben Solo) was overcome by the Dark Side. Rey embraces her destiny, and with looming fuzzball Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) co-piloting the Millennial Falcon with her, she goes to meet Skywalker, offering him his old lightsaber on first sight. Rey's gesture completes director J.J. Abrams' aspiration for his film to get back "that old Star Wars feeling," after the saga's legacy was besmirched by creator George Lucas' fin de siècle prequels. In general, fans—and critics—agreed. The Force Awakens made over $1 billion and Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm forged the way for a new empire.
Playing as a simulation of 1977's original (subsequently subtitled A New Hope) by going back to the old stories (check out this excellent accountancy and assessment of callbacks) in addition to earthier, analogue special effects, Disney and Abrams played it safe, getting on base instead of swinging for fences with a satisfying adventure story starring a more inclusive and diverse cast, and spunkier banter suited to the hyper-self consciousness of contemporary social media ("Whedonisms" one might call them, in reference to Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator and Avengers director Joss Whedon). Abrams, a gifted director but more a prodigious television showrunner, used his Mystery Box method to further interest, leaving breadcrumbs of unanswered questions (Rey's lineage; Snoke's motives; how Poe survived a destructive crash landing; just what the hell Luke Skywalker has been up to) for future installments to draw out the narrative, giving The Force Awakens the sense of being the most expensive (and successful) television pilot of all time. I'm skeptical Abrams knew any of the answers (unlike George Lucas' original 1977-1983 trilogy where Luke's filial relationship to Darth Vader is implicit in Obi-Wan Kenobi's final, knowing glance to his apprentice and rival Vader), undermining this new story with Disneyfied cynicism reflected in the arbitrariness of Rey's gifts, Finn's anomalous conscientiousness, and Kylo's Vader-emulating mask. The Force Awakens seemed to be writing itself as it went along, just as Poe "names" Finn during their escape: the respective namesakes of a great American author and literary character working together to jumpstart Star Wars once again.
Now we have Episode VIII, The Last Jedi, where Abrams has given the privilege of answering sundry questions to a new writer and director, Rian Johnson, who takes the series as Luke Skywalker takes his old lightsaber from Rey: basically tossing the egregious Mystery Box bullshit away and throwing a wrench into the developing mythos. Johnson uses 150 minutes to stuff in everything he can from the old Star Wars formulas, borrowing scenes from all three original films to refashion, and then to transgress. The Last Jedi is unwieldy and choking on its abundant material, affronting the cynical product Abrams made and fans embraced. Whereas The Force Awakens played things too safe, The Last Jedi is narratively audacious, slipping into a familiar Lucasfilm mask while turning other things on their head, the canon ostensibly going up in flames. The First Order reigns and the Resistance is still feebly hanging together by a thread. From that tired launchpad, Johnson casts a scrim over the archetypal journey and tilts away from Northrop Frye and towards Jacques Derrida and deconstructive methods much more in vogue since Star Wars became a phenomenon.
The Great Narratives are, like the Resistance, exposed and undermined: Kylo is told by Snoke to "take that ridiculous mask off"; the long-awaited, much-theorized payoff of Rey's parentage is meaningless (The Empire Strikes Back's "I am your father" revelation of Darth Vader to Luke basically becomes "Your dad was Bill the junk trader"); and Snoke himself, while his scarred face and androgynously glam rock mien indicate a compelling backstory, becomes a dead-end in the plot, cleverly murdered in his red-soaked Kagemusha throne room by Kylo Ren, a "shadow warrior." The dichotomy between Good and Evil is blurred, as during Luke's tutelage, Rey bends toward the Dark Side at its first approach; Kylo still has good in him, however dramatically irredeemable his patricide is; then there's the Rashomon ambiguity behind Kylo's dark turn, as viewers are given two separate dramatic representations of a bedside confrontation with Luke (disturbingly seeping with vibes of rape: a teacher penetrating his student's mind without consent), a he-said/he-said testimony questioning motives and perspectives upsetting the beloved Truth of Canons. We just can't know anything for sure, even if it's staged and projected in front of us.
Johnson, whose breakout independent film Brick (2005) was a paean to gumshoe film noirs, skews closer to the mid-20th century uncertainties and anxieties of Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Nicholas Ray than space opera, the central image of The Last Jedi, where Rey has descended into the perilous Hellmouth of nature (mythologically commensurate with the leviathan/sea monster we see encircling Luke's island), doesn't result in a Jungian Shadow Confrontation, like Luke's in The Empire Strikes Back's Dagobah System, but a bewildering hall of mirrors where the Hero's exposed as a series of infinitely receding facsimiles (for a moment, I thought this was whoopee!!! confirmation of my own suspicion that Rey was a clone). The sequence immediately recalls Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, where the pith of a man proves unknowable, his essence the stuff of myriad first-hand anecdotes and documentation replete with contradictions, in addition to later Wellesian imagery and themes in The Lady from Shanghai, The Trial, and F for Fake (not to mention a remarkable heath sequence—not in Welles' own adaptation, however much he inspired it—in Roman Polanski's harrowing Macbeth). In this problematic section of The Last Jedi, Rey communicates with her adversary Kylo as if they were in the same room, spaces disintegrating much like their respective identities—and the hallowed archetypes in their DNA. As in Cold War spy dramas, Good and Evil become indistinguishable, reinforced elsewhere as Finn and Rose Trico (Kelly Marie Tran) seek the help of an amoral code breaker, DJ (scene stealing Benicio Del Toro), who shows these idealistic Resistance fighters how corrupt slave states are selling arms to their righteous cause in addition to the First Order: "Good guys, bad guys: it's all the Machine." The Jedi canon, a set of books guarded by Luke, are ideological vestiges that have lost their authority throughout an apocalyptic desengaño, and it is this unmasking through which Johnson struggles to initiate Star Wars fans.
Consequently, while such maneuvers earn the goodwill of critics, the Faithful are perturbed, indicated by a disparity of the reviews and fans, who take issue with narrative decisions that pay little heed to post-Force Awakens theories and the Star Wars canon itself, the original messianic hero Luke Skywalker still whining, short-sighted, and callow as he was on Tatooine, reticent to take the mantle of the groomed archetypes of Wise Old Man (Obi Wan) or helpful Golux (the "green man" Yoda) and hemming and hawing much like Rey stridently did in The Force Awakens, functionally castrated like another archetype, the fisher king (we see he's a fisherman, an infantilization stressed as he squeezes milk from a maternal sea monster's teets). And even as he, prodded in the right direction with an unexpected appearance of his own Golux, Yoda (voiced once more by Frank Oz), makes his heralded reappearance at the climactic moment to save the Resistance, his death isn't by the sword but by what is basically a massive coronary (hot take: Luke is a milk-guzzling fisherman, and his demise is Johnson's capstone in a film with an animal rights, pro-vegan message; but I digress). Johnson answers deconstruction with the Mythic Image's resurrection, the symbol's preternatural power taking precedence over the thing-in-itself as it's Luke's meditated projection, like what an audience witnesses in the cinema, that prevails over Kylo Ren and saves the world. Still, few things rile up the faithful more than being told their concretized gods are metaphors. Rey "feeling" the Force as a stick with which Luke tickles her, points to our own dead-end concretization of metaphor, enslaved to discursive reasoning which the metaphor is there to suspend. Snoke's lifeless tub of guts on the floor has a grotesque materiality evocative of the demise of Revenge of the Sith's Count Dooku (Christopher Lee), a tragic MacGuffin who put his faith in the promised rewards of treacherous Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid). Is our faith in Disney's "answers" to Snoke (or Rey, or Finn etc), similarly shattered in an instant, proportionate to Dooku's folly?
Luke says, "it's time for the Jedi to end," and Johnson flips off The Force Awakens' hero worship by pointing out how flagrant projections of the past, as R2-D2 does with Leia's 1977 plea to Obi-Wan Kenobi, are cheap moves. Members of the Resistance aren't rebels but, as embodied by Rose Tico and Vice Admiral Holdo (Laura Dern, one of the best actors alive wasted here in a thankless role beneath her talents), rulebook space cadets, not so differentiated from their First Order counterparts, stiffly gripped by protocol that Johnson displays with Gilliamesque acuity that could have been drawn from the bureaucratic nightmares of Brazil or 12 Monkeys. The potency of the symbols has calcified, and the downturn in The Last Jedi is not a Wagnerian Twilight of the Gods but Nietzschean Twilight of the Idols, a Götzen(Poe)Dämeron (heh. I'm so clever. Whatever. Okay, I suck. Shut up). The Resistance Leadership (including Admiral Akbar) is killed in one explosion, followed by Leia, floating in space, freezing into what feels like a goddess statue.
The twilight desengaño mustn't end in crumbling despair, but an animism flowing beyond the representation, visualized by Johnson with the Force taking hold of the "statue/idol" and breathing fresh life into Leia until the It once again becomes a Thou, precipitating a transformation of the Force moving from "chosen ones" to something more universal, like the orphan child of junk traders, or a Dickensian youth on Canto Bight whose idle play with Luke Skywalker toys is an incipient guide for a colossal transformation akin to literary critic Erich Auerbach's idea of Christianity having changed the world of literary representation: "[The] birth of a spiritual movement in the depths of the common people, from within the everyday occurrences of contemporary life, which thus assumes an importance it could never have assumed in antique literature," what he addresses as the awakening of "a new heart and a new spirit," stirring the whole world. When we thought the Jedi Canon was incinerated, it's the new generation's adrift avatar who, we discover, has preserved it.
But how successful is Johnson in capturing the impact of this spiritual agon, disillusionment, and affirmation? He certainly gets it intellectually and intertextually. Crucially, the disorientation of Rey's psychic interplay with the "monstrous snake" Kylo effectively sweeps the viewer into both characters' existential maelstrom. Like the Resistance running out of fuel, the symbols are running out of spiritus, and Johnson reaches far to reclaim the myths. Luke's death by intense concentration plays as an allusion to Paul Schrader's "harmony of pen and sword," representation and life, Mishima (1985), which concludes with author Yukio Mishima's ritual suicide after his failed attempt to overthrow the government, followed by an image from Mishima's novel Runaway Horses, where the hero similarly commits seppuku while the sun blazes before him, a transcendence in death where the stillness of art and words explodes with ferocious real world significance. Luke may not have been there, on the salt planet Ahch-To to protect the Resistance and confront Kylo Ren, and yet whatever happened was transcendent enough to physically transfer the Millennium Falcon's "dangling-dice" memento from his hands to Leia's. Even after our texts have been deconstructed, the mythic forms can still move mountains, as Rey uses the Force to move stones and create an escape for her comrades. There are no impediments between liminal spaces, between the Light and the Dark, the living and the dead. The way out is the embrace of a contradiction: part of the mythic affirmation is their negation, the Tillichian God Beyond God, or Force Beyond the Force. As with Snoke's red room, the landscape of Ahch-To, where speeders act as ink stylos in the maelstrom of violent action by creating red lines over white salt, expresses an aesthetic flourish hoisting the film above franchise anonymity, a major point in a story of appropriating and re-authoring old texts, demonstrating this vital "pen and sword" harmony, a "fictional" projection (Luke) acting as the landscape's "redeemer," you could say.
Even so, The Last Jedi is strapped within the palpable grip of its own Mickey Mouse chrome dome, a politic and demure conscientiousness in step with a Discourse that's interrogated the reactionary sins of the saga's antecedents which were born of the idiosyncratic and Romantic imagination of one storyteller (governing things even when it was in the hands of other directors and writers). The progressive steps in casting and representation in the Disneyfied Star Wars should be lauded, but all of these characters are representations of our best selves, even the tempted Rey and enraged Kylo estranged from mysterious daemonic energy, with all its epiphanic grandeur and wayward hazards, flowing from a storyteller's natural imagination. Finn and Rose's wild-bantha chase to find DJ is a huge plot thread that leads nowhere, deliberately calibrated to feed a theme of futility (I don't think, as some fans have criticized, that it's a meaningless misstep), but exhibiting Deconstruction's post-Freud bloodlessness, bereft of the rawness that the despair this disillusionment demands. Doubt seeps into the new enterprise. Revisiting Han, Luke, and Leia decades after their creator concluded his original trilogy, things can't help but feel (and appropriate in Johnson's vision)...non-canonical? We want to believe, if anything floating with Yoda's wisdom that "we are what we grow beyond," but there's the nagging sensation that this is all counterfeit, the "Avellaneda Star Wars."
While George Lucas' study of mythology guided him through all six of his films, a wild and mysterious Freudian energy of unrestrained release (in which he perhaps exposed himself too nakedly for our comfort in the prequels) courses through his films' veins, be it in the taunting mischief of Han Solo, the salaciousness of Jabba the Hut, the haughtiness of Watto, or the enveloping Oedipal anxieties of Anakin Skywalker, elevating the emotional stakes of the stories. Revenge of the Sith, through Palpatine, already proposed how the Sith and the Jedi "are the same in every way," the suggestion an acknowledgement of the Dark Side itching beneath Lucas' influencing texts of Joseph Campbell and C.G. Jung and their uncomfortable affinities to 20th century fascism. The derided prequels tumbled towards an uncomely perversity that is rare in studio blockbusters (short of something like Death Becomes Her). Anakin Skywalker's entropy from Art's Beautiful Boy to a castrated technological cyborg is poetically consonant with Lucas' digital palette, his story tracing how Anakin's shadows precipitate his tragedy: the flesh-and-blood stuntman (Darth Maul), the computer augmented octogenarian (Count Dooku), and finally the complete cyborg with his spare fleshly vestiges (General Grievous). The sweet kitsch of "Hold me like you did by the lake on Naboo" crosses with the withering fiend enclosed in his black robotic sarcophagus, exhibiting an unmitigated frenzied imagination of a visionary surrendering to what's coming forth from within. There's a danger in letting go, but that's what makes Lucas' films so primally transfixing, exhilarating--and discomforting.
The new films are—perhaps necessarily by virtue of current dictums—sexless, neutered, like Darth Vader himself, over-determined and studied, more machine than human, the cute Porgs nesting on the battleship but still surrendering to the machine; the galaxy far, far away is unfailingly polite (so polite, in fact, that Abrams and Johnson have almost entirely done away with the essential comic buffoon or clown archetype--C-3PO and R2-D2 being sidelined, no Watto, Jar-Jar, etc. No, cutesy BB-8 doesn't count). John Williams' score, this time more than ever, is exhausted and extraneous, blaring on auto-pilot. The Mishima callback of Luke's death is held at length from the power and longing inherent in Schrader's film (itself, like Mishima, quite dangerous), instead comfortably held as a reverent callback to Luke's twin suns on the horizon. However much Johnson, to his credit, fiddles and blasphemes the gospels handed to him by Disney, the transparency of a corporate mission statement arches over his theme (conversely, I'd argue the unfairly maligned "failures" of other franchise resurrections like The Godfather Part III, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, and, ahem, Revenge of the Sith, embrace an absorbing discord of historicism in both form and content that make them all comparably superior; I'm pretty alone on this, but whatever). The earnestness of its characters, meanwhile, doesn't make less ecstatic vehicles for life energies than for didactic Life Lessons fitting an after school special, or paternalistic HOW WE SHOULD LIVE NOW think pieces in Vulture, Salon, or Slate. Nevertheless, contra Abrams, it's hard not to admire the startling self-sufficiency of Johnson's film (a film when compared to Abrams' pilot), its open threads leading to Episode IX being almost inconsequential in its 150-minute integritas portrait. But can an anarchy of imagination, a rebellion to imperial structures and mandates, take hold in this franchise, the auspices of which are as resolutely uncompromising as the uncannily disturbing CGI Peter Cushing of Rogue One, and more than that, in harmony with viewers glad to see the creator dispatched and rejected, the fulfillment of a new monoculture where, portended by General Grievous, cybernetics have colonized earthly terrain?
The status of Star Wars finds Disney putting more faith in Johnson so that he can run wild with his own trilogy (assuming audience scores don't derail box office numbers), perhaps following his star gazing stable boy. After Colin Trevorrow was laid off from writing and directing Episode IX, J.J. Abrams is again taking the reigns, which is somewhat disheartening (I'm one of about four or five people who doesn't think Trevorrow is all that bad, but as indicated by his Jurassic World, he would probably be working in a similarly deconstructionist vibe in tune with Johnson). While preserved in The Last Jedi, the archetypes are hanging confusedly in the balance, rudderless. In my dreamworld (which, admittedly, is not a perfect world), I wonder how welcome it would be to once more hear the whisper of the man from Skywalker Ranch. Oh George, if only you would hold me again like you did by the lake on Naboo!


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Tiny house, 2017 version
Every year since 2007, l design a new set of house-shaped paper toys. It started on a whim, after studying xmas villages and putz villages, traditions that where new to me after moving from France. In France we have la crèche et les Santons, which is kind of the same thing, but with an emphasis on little characters. Every year as a little girl I would design new little characters : a bird charmer, a mom with her baby.
But since I had a baby of my own in another country, l needed a new tradition, something in between my 2 cultures. So I created at first little peekaboo houses (babies love them and I will create some more this year) and then a whole advent calendar in like, 2008 ? Nowadays everybody makes little advent calendar houses, but at this time it was a rather novel idea. Look at me, being nostalgic with a blog !
This year I wanted simple, small ornaments that I could hang anywhere in my messy house. l'm thinking of doing an even more tiny version (these are 2 inches high) but under one inch it gets really difficult to fold and glue, especially with the tabs. It's a cute challenge! 2 inches is just the right size for fun and small ornaments.
Download the free printable pdf and make a village for your desk ! They are easy to make at this size :


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Find My Holiday > Golf Holidays
There are clusters of golf course in the Basque Country, Sud Landes, Biscarrose/Arcachon and Lacanau/Medoc. Our Villa Resorts are particularly convenient for golfers. We have quality rentals in our collection in all of these places. Justin & Alex are also keen golfers and can recommend where to play and how to obtain golf passes.


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Global IT Spending Will Grow 6.2 Percent in 2018, Gartner Forecasts
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion in 2018, an increase of 6.2 percent from 2017, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc.
"Although global IT spending is forecast to grow 6.2 percent this year, the declining U.S. dollar has caused currency tailwinds, which are the main reason for this strong growth," said John-David Lovelock, research vice president at Gartner. "This is the highest annual growth rate that Gartner has forecast since 2007 and would be a sign of a new cycle of IT growth."
However, Lovelock says, spending on IT around the world is growing at expected levels and is in line with expected global economic growth. "Through 2018 and 2019, the U.S. dollar is expected to trend stronger while enduring tremendous volatility due to the uncertain political environment, the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiation and the potential for trade wars."
Enterprise software spending is forecast to experience the highest growth in 2018 with an 11.1 percent increase. Barring unexpected disruption, the software industry is expected to continue capitalizing on the evolution of digital business. Application software spending is expected to continue to rise through 2019, and infrastructure software will also continue to grow, bolstered by modernization initiatives.
Even with a strong end to 2017, worldwide spending on data center systems is forecast to grow 3.7 percent in 2018, down from 6.3 percent growth in 2017. The longer-term outlook continues to have challenges, particularly for the storage segment.
The strength at the end of 2017 was primarily driven by the component shortage for memory components, and prices have increased at a greater rate than previously expected. Whereas previously, component shortages were expected to ease into 2018, the shortages are now expected to continue throughout the year with the supply not expected to ease until the end of the year.
Worldwide spending for devices — PCs, tablets and mobile phones — is forecast to grow in 2018, reaching $706 billion, an increase of 6.6 percent from 2017. "The device market continues to see dual dynamics. Some users are holding back from buying, and those that are buying are doing so, on average, at higher price points," said Lovelock. "As a result, end-user spending will increase faster than units through 2022. However, total end-user spending and unit shipments are expected to be lower compared with previous forecasts, as demand for ultramobile premium devices, ultramobile utility devices and basic phones is expected to be slow."
Lovelock will provide further analysis on the key drivers of the IT market at the Gartner Tech Growth & Innovation Summit taking place from April 30 through May 2, 2018 in San Diego, CA. (For more information visit https://www.gartner.com).


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It began, as everything in the culture seems to, with Oprah.
Reuben (Big Rube) Harley had had just about enough of getting up
at 3 a.m. to slave in his grandmother's kitchen. Besides, the
comments he collected as he made the rounds for his small
catering business, delivering chicken and baked goods to
barbershops around Philadelphia, weren't compliments to the chef.
Instead customers mooned over whichever vintage sports jersey Big
Rube had chosen to drape over his 300-plus pounds that day. He'd
tell the curious exactly whose uni he was rocking and, if they
asked, how much it had set him back. He would not, however,
divulge his source: the shotgun retail space of Mitchell & Ness
Nostalgia Co., tucked into a block of Walnut Street in
center-city Philly. A clue to why he so carefully kept his
counsel is right in the name: Ness, as in Eliot, as in what every
anonymous inner-city kid wants to be, if only for a moment:
untouchable. "Whatever everyone else was doing, I was always
[doing something else]," Harley says. "I had to stand out in a
crowd." ¶ Since 1985, when Mitchell & Ness owner Peter Capolino
discovered 12,000 yards of wool flannel in a warehouse, M&N had
carved out a niche as haberdasher to the balding hedge-fund
manager who wanted to look like the Brooklyn Dodgers of his
youth. But Harley was a clotheshorse of a different color, not to
mention generation--one of the few young black customers M&N's
retail store had from the moment he bought his first throwback, a
1983 Andre Thornton Cleveland Indians jersey, as a 17-year-old in
It took a decade of steady patronage for Big Rube to realize that
his destiny lay on the other side of the counter. In April 2001,
when he caught an OutKast music video in which the performers
wore vintage baseball jerseys, it occurred to him that every one
of the jerseys hung in his closet. Around the same time, Ms.
Winfrey devoted a show to "women who followed their dreams." The
episode inspired Harley to march into Capolino's office, assert
that he could take the company places it hadn't been and accept
an offer from Capolino of $500 a month plus expenses (and one of
every jersey in the M&N line).
Capolino, 58, has tastes that run toward Barry Manilow and what
Harley calls "that Leave It to Beaver look." Big Rube rolls his
eyes at Capolino's hip-hop malapropisms, according to which Run
DMC is a new pickup truck and R&B music is a record store. But
before Harley made his pitch, M&N was bumbling along with less
than $3 million in annual sales, mostly from its retro baseball
line, and Capolino didn't need a doctorate in urban studies to
realize he had little to lose by bringing aboard this
entrepreneur who had been buying from him on layaway for years.
Partly at Harley's urging, M&N turned from gray flannels to
double knits and mesh. It issued jerseys in hot colors (the
powder blue of Bob McAdoo's Buffalo Braves and Lance Alworth's
San Diego Chargers, the electric greens of Adrian Dantley's Utah
Jazz and Pete Maravich's Atlanta Hawks) and striking patterns
(the horizontal swaths of Wes Unseld's Washington Bullets and
Alex English's Denver Nuggets). It sized to the capacious
dimensions favored by hip-hop artists and pro athletes, not the
body-hugging specifications of buyers for chains such as Modell's
and the Sports Authority.
That summer of 2001 Harley finagled his way into a late-night
party in Manhattan to mark the release of Faith Evans's disk
Faithfully by P. Diddy's Bad Boy Records label. By the time Big
Rube headed back to Philly several days later, he had
instructions from Diddy to assemble a wardrobe. "I'm gonna
spoon-feed you," Harley promised. Staying true to the M&N creed
of forswearing seasonal "collections," he dribbled out product to
his new patron one throwback at a time.
Retro sports fashion became a full-blown social phenomenon the
following January, when P. Diddy cohosted the American Music
Awards on ABC. From his spot in the wings at L.A.'s Shrine
Auditorium, Big Rube supervised costume changes at every
commercial break, sending his emcee mannequin out in a succession
of jerseys that evoked Cooperstown, Canton and Springfield: a
1969 Tom Seaver Mets; a '94 Drew Bledsoe Patriots; a '73 George
McGinnis Pacers; a '74 Hank Aaron Braves. Eleven jerseys in all.
"Shaq called the next day," Harley says. "He wanted every piece
that Puff wore."
Soon customers began filing into retail temples such as the NBA
Store in New York City, Distant Replays in Atlanta and the Total
Sport chain in the mid-Atlantic states, eager for product from
M&N, which has exclusive licenses from the NBA, the NFL, the NHL
and Major League Baseball to reproduce authentic uniforms that
have been out of circulation for at least five years. A year ago
the company logged $25 million in sales; projections for 2003 are
about $40 million. According to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers
Association (SGMA), licensed team and league clothing is the only
sports apparel category to buck a recent trend of declining
sales, and retro jerseys are leading the way.
Meanwhile, sneaker companies are cashing in on a parallel vogue.
Led by the Nike Air Force 1--the Uptowns that have become to
Generations X and Y what Converse Chuck Taylors were to baby
boomers--throwbacks were the lone athletic footwear category to
avoid a net decline in sales in 2002, according to the SGMA. Old
school shoes go naturally with retro jerseys and fitted caps,
according to Andy Hyman, the former bartender who began Distant
Replays as a kiosk in a shopping mall in 1998. "Everybody," he
says, "tries to match 'em up."
The NBA's Hardwood Classics line has spread from a back corner of
the league's Manhattan store across much of the main floor. Old
school leather and satin jackets, velour and fleece warmups,
fitted and knit caps, headbands and wristbands--even
throwback-influenced nba4her dresses--have joined the singlets of
Bird and Magic and Oscar. The league credits much of its
merchandising revenue growth (to $3 billion this year from less
than $2 billion only three years ago) to the retro craze.
A season ago only eight NBA teams suited up for games in retro
uniforms, and then only for one night apiece. This season a dozen
teams will pull on the old stuff, some of them six times each, on
what the league calls Hardwood Classic Nights nights. These
events are designed to drive the sales not only of Hardwood
Classics merchandise but also of new mass-produced apparel lines
from Nike (NBARewind) and Reebok (Fresh Retro), which are less
faithful to the originals but cost only a quarter of the $175 to
$350 that M&N charges for most of its items.
The newcomers cross classic designs with names and numbers of the
moment: Phila graces the front of a Sixers jersey circa 1966, but
a surprise Iverson and 3 cover the back. (Larry Brown never could
turn AI into Hal Greer, but a piece of clothing seems to be
trying.) Consumers who regard that shirt as apostasy can always
turn to ABA retros (you can have your Pittsburgh pro hoops in
either Pipers or Condors), college retros (George Gervin's
Eastern Michigan, Jerry West's West Virginia, Fennis Dembo's
Wyoming), high school retros (Darryl Dawkins's jersey from
Orlando's Maynard Evans High), Rucker League retros (Westsiders
and Uptowners) and even Jewish amateur team retros. (Be the first
at your bar mitzvah in a Philadelphia SPHAs or a Second Story
Fashion is a remarkably accurate cultural barometer: Flapper
dresses in the Twenties heralded the loosening mores of that era;
the gray flannel suit summed up the uptight '50s. Does the vogue
in retro basketball fashion point where the on-court hoops
culture is headed? It's too soon to say for sure, but in the NBA,
at least, some teams have already shifted from one-on-one
basketball to the more team-oriented old school approach marked
by the New Jersey Nets' Princeton offense and the fluid attacks
of the Dallas Mavericks and the Sacramento Kings.
"I don't know if I can handle another kid wearing an Alex English
Nuggets jersey," says Russ Bengtson, editor-in-chief of Slam,
"but considering how low the scores have been, people do look
back kind of wistfully at the Nuggets' 140-point games. The
bubble has to pop soon, though. When is too much too much? You
take it to the next level, and the next, and the next, and pretty
soon you run out of levels."
For now the elevator is still ascending, stopping at every sport.
For its home opener against North Texas on Aug. 30, Oklahoma
pulled on uniforms from the '40s and '50s, the Bud Wilkinson era.
Once again, The Duke footballs are spotted on the line of
scrimmage at NFL games. At the NHL's Heritage Classic in Edmonton
last month, Montreal Canadiens goalie Jose Theodore wore a knit
toque along with his mask, a la Jacques Plante, and touched off a
frenzy across Canada for the logoed and tasseled ski cap.
Basketball nonetheless leads the way, accounting for the largest
share of M&N's business, and there was something symbolic about
the fact that the sport's dauphin, LeBron James, temporarily fell
from amateur grace as a high schooler last season by accepting a
couple of free throwback jerseys.
"It's an all-sport thing, but guys identify with basketball
players more than anybody," Harley said last month. He was
sitting in the M&N corporate offices on Philly's South Broad
Street. Moments before, the rap artist Freeway had bopped over
from the retail store to get a moment's face time. The two had
agreed to meet in Manhattan that evening at a Jay-Z concert at
Madison Square Garden for which M&N had designed the ultimate
prop, a huge jersey in Knicks colors that would be raised to the
rafters, as at an NBA immortal's farewell ceremony. "Besides,
basketball is the hood," Harley went on. "Pick up your ball, show
your style. Baggy shorts, bigger jerseys--that's the culture.
Basketball players want to be artists, and artists want to be
basketball players. That's never gonna go away."
Indeed, ballplayers have cut rap records for years, and hip-hop
artists have rhapsodized about basketball shoes since at least
1986, when Run DMC spat about My Adidas. Now Reebok is selling
Jay-Z's hugely popular signature shoe, a stylistic descendant of
the 20-year-old Nike Uptown, and the company has just brought out
a model for rapper 50 Cent. What we're witnessing isn't merely a
convergence of sports, fashion and music but a smoking, twisted
three-car pileup.
Why retro is happening now--and primarily in basketball, the most
cutting-edge, next-obsessed sport of all the majors--is something
of a mystery. But consumers across the demographic spectrum, by
snapping up P.T. Cruisers and merchandise from Restoration
Hardware, seem to be saying that their forebears kept it more
real than anyone does today. Inner-city youths have the
additional motivation that hooked Harley: the desire to
differentiate themselves through bold, high-end style. Baby
boomers, and even Generation Xers now pushing into early middle
age, wish they could stay young, but if they can't, they seem
willing to settle for looking the part, and retro fashion helps
in the self-deception.
Moreover, in an age in which news about the Lakers often comes
with an Eagle, Colo., dateline, many fans simply don't want to
take the chance of wrapping themselves or their kids in the gear
of some clayfoot. Why not pull on shoes from a time when the
worst thing to hit the papers was the allegation that George
McGinnis had sneaked a ciggy butt in practice? Or, if you're
David Stern, why not costume your potential miscreants in
Hardwood Classics?
"Both history and style are driving this," says Hyman of Distant
Replays, where few days go by without some athlete or rap artist
ducking in. "We've got customers who won't leave the store
because they want to fill your ear with sports trivia. But if
some like [the clothes] because they look good, we've got to work
that angle, too."
And so from basketball's Jermaine O'Neal (who has called
jersey-collecting a competitive sport among his Pacers teammates)
to baseball's Cliff Floyd (who has a thing for old Sixers, be
they Billy Cunningham, Jelly Bean Bryant or Moses Malone) to
football's Warren Sapp (who has built a closet for his throwbacks
and usually refuses to buy jerseys of quarterbacks) to rap star
Fabolous (who accessorizes his more than 500 vintage jerseys with
matching warmups), the phenomenon has become, as Hyman puts it,
"Prada for men." On his album Street Dreams, Fabolous gives a
shoutout to the guys at Mitchell & Ness: Rube, tell Pete to keep
it comin'.
Capolino has long since bumped up Harley's salary and perks, as
well as his title, to vice president of marketing. (As he lives
larger and larger, Big Rube's jersey size enlarges, too; since
joining M&N in 2001, he's up one notch to an XXXXL.) Running a
circuit that includes music awards shows and All-Star weekends,
he's now equal parts traveling salesman, product-placement guy,
design guru, public face, and confidant to the stars. His
cellphone chirps constantly. "Wassup?" he answers, and,
inevitably, "Watchagot?" But his conversations with clients go
beyond crude commerce. Having achieved the same meteoric success
as so many of the rapmasters and superstars he services, Big Rube
patiently and compassionately hears out his clients as if--well,
as if he were Oprah.
Just don't utter the f word in his presence. "A fad is here
today, gone tomorrow," Harley says. "This isn't a fad, because it
can't be. These uniforms are the history of sports. They're just
like the players wore them, down to the fabric and stitching and
lettering. Styles come and go, but you can't change the 1979
Magic Johnson jersey. It has its place in time."
y definition, a cutting-edge trend can't begin with a
mass-marketing campaign. Style dictated from the top down will
have no Kid Zero, no Promethean urchin who spilled onto the
sidewalk one inspired morning in customized joints or a jersey
that no one had ever rocked. In the late '80s, as Nike, Reebok
and Adidas turned to multimillion-dollar endorsers and flogged
signature lines of basketball shoes, kids on the street could no
longer ask, "Ay yo, Money, where'd you get those?" Everyone knew,
because everyone wore the same few things.
Robert (Bobbito) Garcia, author of Where'd You Get Those? New
York City's Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987, is a music consultant,
deejay, movie actor and writer but also an over-the-moon
basketball Benny, a former pro ballplayer in Puerto Rico who
still travels with a trick ball handling troupe, Project
Playground, that does halftime shows around the world. Garcia cut
off his sneaker survey in '87 because that's when the money and
marketers took over--when high school stars began to choose
colleges based on whether the team wore Nikes, and basketball
shoes became, as Garcia writes, "over-designed and straight-up
Bobbito is a throwback himself, to an era when kids weren't
blindly brand-loyal. Coming of age in New York City during the
late '70s and the '80s, he cared less about a shoe's provenance
than its look, feel, performance and ability to confer
distinction. "Envy is one of the seven deadly sins, and the
easiest way to avoid it is to always be ahead of everyone in the
sneaker game," he writes. While watching NBA games on TV, he
confesses, he used to hope players would go down with ankle
sprains, so the camera would bore in and he could check out
brand, lacing, colors and customizations.
Garcia recalls a day in the early '80s when an interloper showed
up at Harlem's Goat Park, "a white dude with an old school jump
shot like butter, like he'd played with the Fort Wayne Pistons.
He had on a pair of One-Stars"--the Converse model that appeared
in stores for the 1974-75 season and disappeared, just like that.
Was it the guy's game that had Bobbito and his posse fiending for
those shoes? Or the shoes that had them bugging over his game? In
the retelling, Garcia can't divorce one from the other. In his
head, style and substance had long since merged into one.
You might think Garcia would welcome the vogue in retro shoes,
for it's allowing kids to recapture the foot-fetishism that fired
his own youth. But as a connoisseur, not a collector, he rolls
his eyes at patrons of Soho boutiques like Classic Kicks, and the
Alife Rivington Club, a tiny, signless, buzz-your-way-in space on
a half-abandoned, graffiti-festooned block on the Lower East
Side, where the door opens onto deep-pile carpet, wood paneling
and wall-mounted glass display cases of shoes in hard-to-find
"Some of us have been retro for 30 years," Bobbito says, "and now
we've got people wearing jerseys who don't even play ball. I
mean, they suck at ball. Everything's been taken so far out of
context. Now sneakers have become such icons that they're being
bought and never worn. Yeah, we used to buy joints, put 'em on
ice, then bust 'em out a few years later to be able to say, 'Ha!
You're not wearing these!' But to never wear 'em? It's freaky.
"A lot of people assume that the NBA influences kids, and that's
true. But kids influence the NBA, too, especially with so many
players in the league so young and from urban communities heavily
influenced by hip-hop culture. Off-season, guys come back around,
see the thin sideburns, the Uptowns, the Mitchell & Ness and say,
'Lemme rock that s--- in the league next year!'
"But I get a little tight when I see a kid in Nike Dunks or
Adidas [Superstar] shell-toes who doesn't know where they come
from or who wore them initially. I mean, when I was 13, I knew
who the Harlem Rens were. I knew about that dude from Stanford,
Hank Luisetti. I do mind if people wear Wes Unseld and don't know
who Wes Unseld was. Mitchell & Ness is a status symbol in the
ghetto, which is f---ed up--you got nothing in the bank, no
vision for owning a home, and buying throwback jerseys is to your
detriment unless you have money to burn. But what I hope happens
with the retro phenomenon is that people basically look back and
say, Wow. That they learn history."
Laude Johnson can identify the very moment he became a
self-described "history stalker"--can point to it with as much
precision as Reuben Harley cites that Oprah episode. It was 1996.
Johnson was working as a licensor for the NBA, and the league had
just published its latest encyclopedia, to celebrate its 50th
anniversary. As he leafed through the book's more than 800 pages,
Johnson discovered that only three pages and part of a fourth
addressed black basketball before the NBA and integration. There
was scant mention of all-black teams like the Rens and the
"physical culture clubs" in cities around the Northeast that
didn't play in a formal league yet settled among themselves the
title of "colored basketball world's champion." Johnson, troubled
and curious, chased down a copy of Arthur Ashe's standard text on
the history of African-American sports, A Hard Road to Glory, and
learned more, though not enough to quell what was growing into an
Soon Johnson dived into microfiche collections at the Library of
Congress and Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture. He visited the archives of black newspapers in New York
City, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. He used genealogical
websites to chase down descendants of players and managers. Over
the ensuing years, through stints with Nike, Phat Farm and
Benetton, he spent vacations, sick days and weekends trying to
fill in the blanks. "My wife truly thought I was crazy," he
The stories he came upon reeled him further and further in. He
read about Brooklyn's Smart Set Athletic Club, whose star player
was Lena Horne's father, Edwin. He saw today's symbiosis between
music and basketball prefigured in dance halls and casino
ballrooms where dancing lasted from game's end till dawn. He
learned the tale of Cumberland Posey, a centerfielder for the
storied Homestead Grays, who was an even better basketball
player, first under an assumed name at Duquesne, then for
Pittsburgh's Monticello Athletic Association, and who developed a
friendship and sandlot basketball rivalry with the city's great
white player of the day, a guy named Art Rooney.
In November 1918 Paul Robeson played his last football game for
Rutgers, at the Polo Grounds, then walked across the street to
the Manhattan Casino, the mecca of early black basketball in New
York City, to play for Harlem's St. Christopher Club against its
neighborhood rival, the Alpha Physical Culture Club. Today that
intersection, at 155th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard,
is the site of Holcombe Rucker Memorial Park. "It's a hell of a
coincidence," Johnson says. "The ghosts of the guys who played at
the Casino probably walk over to share stories with the ghosts of
Rucker Park."
Johnson ultimately poured his discoveries into an as yet
unpublished manuscript that aspires to be the hoops equivalent of
Robert Peterson's landmark history of Negro league baseball, Only
the Ball Was White. But along the way, given his background in
the sportswear business, Johnson couldn't help but daydream. When
he had lived in Brooklyn, he had never heard of the Smart Set. "I
asked myself, How cool would it be to wear a T-shirt that said
Smart Set Athletic Club of Brooklyn? And walk around Brooklyn in
Before he got around to sending his manuscript off to publishers,
he caught wind of the retro craze and decided to launch a line of
vintage replica apparel. He riddled out colors and details of
uniforms from game accounts and the odd photograph, then used
computer software to reproduce logos for such teams as the
Washington, D.C., 12th Streeters and the Atlantic City Vandals,
who played in the 1910s and '20s. He secured from erstwhile Rens
star John Isaacs, as well as the descendants of Robeson and
Horne, the right to use their names. And he attached to each
item--the line includes jerseys, cage shirts, caps and casino
jackets--a hangtag with a brief history of the team. Since its
rollout in September, the authenticity and subtle styling of
Black Fives apparel has made it a hit. It also may be the only
sportswear line whose website includes a bibliography.
Johnson has slipped product to the usual tastemakers, from LeBron
James and Jermaine O'Neal to P. Diddy and Ludacris to John Salley
of The Best Damn Sports Show Period and Big Tigger of BET's Rap
City. But he has a tweedier audience in mind, too, that's just as
hip in its own way. And so Black Fives gear has made its way to
the homecoming fashion show at Howard University and into the
hands of Princeton professor Cornel West, who's the Oprah of the
chin-stroking set.
"I have to be the Big Rube as well as the big bookkeeper, big
driver, big stock boy, big salesperson and big p.r. guy," says
Johnson, who works XXXXXXXXL days. "It's draining, but I signed
up for it. I'm not trying for a slam dunk, like Jay-Z and
Mitchell & Ness. I'm just trying to box out and hit my foul
The cage shirts have been a particular hit. In basketball's
infancy, games took place in wire-mesh cages and players wore
long sleeves to protect themselves from laceration. "There's
never been a long-sleeve throwback with cuffs till now," Johnson
says. "Retailers constantly complain, 'How can I sell a tank top
in basketball season?' And I've had lots tell me that not
everyone likes big, loud letters and numbers. They have customers
who want something clean and preppy."
With engineering degrees from Carnegie Mellon and Stanford and a
comfortable house in Greenwich, Conn., Johnson looks across a
social chasm at Reuben Harley, albeit with admiration. "Rube is
an organically grown kid from Philly who lit the match," he says.
"The gas leak had started already, but he made it explode."
At the same time the nexus with hip-hop culture leaves Johnson
unsettled. "In basketball, marketers try to glamorize [playground
stars and drug casualties] Earl Manigault and Joe Hammond, and as
a result, that's how far back a lot of black people want to go.
It's as if we got rescued off the playground. A lot of older
black players have told me they didn't realize they were part of
basketball until the NBA came along. Well, Black Fives is like
saying we were on the Mayflower, and that resonates with people.
"I'm not a politician or a sociologist, just someone who thinks
it must have been pretty cool to have been involved in basketball
then. We're letting people see that there's something really
attractive about that time. No clutter, just refined, clean
lines. Look at the logos. There's not a rocket ship among them. I
don't want to go back to 1910 and get lynched, but there is
something worth recapturing from the old days. My jerseys are an
excuse for a father to have a conversation with his son, as
opposed to an argument over why anyone would spend $350 on a
friggin' Nolan Ryan jersey." (The average price of a Black Fives
jersey is $225.)
Even today, history can illuminate some surprising things. Two
players thought to be among the NBA's most incorrigible--Iverson
and Rasheed Wallace--have been the most conscientious in using
fashion to nod toward the game's past. Iverson will wear jerseys
of Bill Russell and Oscar Robertson in press conferences and make
clear that he's honoring them for having paved the way for him.
Wallace, meanwhile, wears Air Force 1s in games.
We shouldn't kid ourselves: It's unlikely that either player
would be making such a fashion statement if the gear didn't also
help him stand out. Listen to Jacksonville Jaguars defensive
tackle Marcus Stroud, who cites World B. Free's Cleveland
Cavaliers jersey as his favorite simply because, as he puts it,
"I haven't seen anyone else with that one." Indeed, in Bobbito's
book there's a dorky publicity still of Free himself, circa 1974,
when he was Lloyd Free, a Brooklyn-bred gunner for Guilford
(N.C.) College. He's wearing mismatched Chuck Taylors, one high
black and one low black, and practically screaming, "You've never
seen anyone else in these!"
That hey-look-at-me urge seems to be primordial. Which suggests
that, as long as there's fresh product in the pipeline, someone
will wear it, if only to set himself apart, to collect on Reuben
Harley's solemn promise: "Every jersey we make, you're gonna get
a comment." At the same time, Jay-Z's farewell record, The Black
Album, includes a cut called What More Can I Say, and some
culture vultures wonder if one line--and I don't wear jerseys I'm
thirty plus--may signal the beginning of the end of retro
In any case, now that we're lousy with retro shoes and retro
shirts and retro caps and retro sweats and retro headbands, it's
impossible not to wonder if someone will fill the lone niche
remaining. We're talking, of course, about true retro shorts.
Mention this to Big Rube, and his face registers discomfort,
contempt and every emotion in between. (Is it John Stockton he's
picturing? Isiah Thomas? Bob Kurland in satin Marilyn Monroes?)
"I call 'em coochie cutters," Harley says, shaking his head
emphatically. "No. The culture wouldn't accept it."
It's the culture, after all, that leaks the gas. Long before a
Reuben Harley or Bobbito Garcia or Claude Johnson puts a match to
What we're witnessing isn't merely a convergence of sports,
fashion and music but a SMOKING, TWISTED THREE-CAR PILEUP.
"THIS ISN'T A FAD," Harley says. "These uniforms are the history
of sports. Styles come and go, but you can't change the '79 Magic
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On the chilly eve of a holiday that represents coming together with family, Colts Neck did so as a town - to pray, to cry and to fondly remember a family gone so suddenly.
Hundreds gathered on the front steps of the town hall for a candlelight vigil honoring Keith and Jennifer Caneiro and their two children.
Jennifer and the kids, Jesse, 11, and Sophia, 8, were killed in a suspected arson at their home on Willow Brook Road in the township Tuesday morning. Keith was found dead on the front lawn from a gunshot wound.
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Today I am very glad to share an interesting and fascinating video by Adil Lemghari Idrissi from Morocco: the last Storyteller.
From the clip's description: a documentary about storytelling in Morocco, masters and couple of apprentices trying to preserve this art from fading, they meet twice a week and they take stories from their masters or 'Maalam' (wise person), they record them and translate them into French and English; the goal from this initiative to preserve this art and bring it to life again, also share it with other cultures.
Well, I think they did a wonderful work.
People who feel the importance of oral traditions and narrations have a strong important rule in our society using modern ways of sharing information recording them in every way.
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"A Family That Prays…" A Retreat for Married Couples and their Children December 15th – 16th – FREE to Attend
"A Family That Prays" is a powerful weekend designed to enrich marriages, faith & family. Spouses will grow closer in their sacrament, children will explore a deeper encounter with God and families will be strengthened in their love for one another. Held during the season of Advent, this family retreat will help you and your loved ones draw closer into the mystery of the season and prepare our hearts in a new way for the celebration of the birth of our Savior!
The retreat will be held at the St. Joseph Abbey in Covington and will begin on Saturday, December 15th at 8am and end after lunch on Sunday, December 16th.
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