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France's oldest city, Marseille overflows with hidden secrets and treasures you will discover as you stroll its ancient streets. Culture takes centre stage for this tour, accessible to all, combining fascinating museums and some of the world's finest architectural feats, such as the now-famous MuCEM museum and Le Corbusier's "Radiant City". Get your fill of Marseille's culture and history with this delightful break, promising plenty of exciting new discoveries!
Day 1 - "Once Upon a Time, 2,600 Years Ago...": Marseille History Museum & Jardin des Vestiges
2 Rue Henri Barbusse Centre Bourse 13001 Marseille
This tour kicks off with a visit to the innovative and lively Marseille History Museum, to discover the city's impressive, 2,600-year history, from the first prehistoric settlers to contemporary urban developments, via illustrious inhabitants such as the Greek geographer Pytheas and novelist Alexandre Dumas' imaginary hero Edmond Dantès (The Count of Monte Cristo). Each stage of the tour is not only explained but brought to life with a host of interactive multimedia activities. On leaving the museum, you can visit the Bourse archaeological site, where France's first major urban archaeological digs took place between 1967 and 1983.
Accessibility: All exhibition and rest areas are accessible and all floors are served by a lift. The museum is located above the Centre Bourse car park, offering reduced-mobility parking spaces. All visitors can take advantage of the free mobile audio system, including those with telecoil hearing aids. The tour description is also available in a simplified version. All tour guides are available in large print on request and 4 braille mock-ups are placed in the permanent collections. Accessible toilets with left-hand transfer for women and right-hand transfer for men.
Day 1 – Lunch at restaurant Le Môle Passedat
MuCEM Esplanade J4 13002 Marseille
It's time for lunch at "Le Môle Passedat – La Cuisine": a welcoming table d'hôte-style restaurant with 130 covers perched on top of the MuCEM. Headed up by star-rated Chef Gérald Passedat, also at the reins of the restaurant "La Table", this eatery offers contemporary food at affordable prices to delight every palate.
Accessibility: Accessible to all.
Day 1 - "A City On the Med": MuCEM & Jardin des Migrations
7 Promenade Robert Laffont 13002 Marseille
After lunch, it's time to head back down a few floors to the MuCEM (Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations). Opened in 2013, this museum is a flagship of Marseille and now one the world's 50 most-visited museums. Built between land and sea on the jetty of Fort Saint-Jean and designed by architect Rudy Ricciotti, its extremely contemporary aspect is as enchanting as its exhibitions! Don't miss the itinerary dedicated to Mediterranean civilisations on the ground floor, together with the two temporary exhibitions per year on show on the second floor focusing on the people and towns of the Mediterranean. You can also visit the museum's "Jardin des Migrations" garden and enjoy an instructive tour combining botany and an insight into the city's evolution and human migrations. Overflowing with scents, colours and textures, the garden is a genuine ode to the senses.
Accessibility: The building is fully accessible to disabled visitors. All exhibitions are open to reduced-mobility guests and the auditorium features 10 spaces for wheelchairs. Tours of the permanent and temporary exhibitions can be booked in French sign language, or adapted to special requirements. The auditorium is also fitted with a telecoil system for visitors with hearing aids.
The museum offers a multimedia audio guide and French sign language guide to the Mediterranean gallery (equipped with braille panels), as well as magnifying glasses, wheelchairs and stick seats for hire at the cloakroom. It also features three 3D braille plans placed in strategic locations.
Day 1 – Night at Hotel Le Corbusier
Immeuble le Corbusier 280 Boulevard Michelet 3e. Rue 13008 Marseille
You will enjoy relaxing at Hôtel Le Corbusier: a UNESCO World Heritage Site located at the heart of Le Corbusier's unique architectural feat, the "Cité Radieuse" (Radiant City). The site offers an exceptional setting combining urban and natural landscapes, topped with stunning views over the sea and surrounding hills. You will also appreciate the quality cuisine served at the gastronomic restaurant "Le Ventre de l'Architecte", set inside the "Cité Radieuse".
Accessibility: Room with double bed accessible on either side, shower and accessible toilets with left-hand transfer. The nearby public car park offers several disabled parking spaces. The restaurant and hotel are both entirely accessible.
Day 2 - "The Capital of Provence": Musée Regards de Provence
Musée Regards de Provence Avenue Vaudoyer 13002 Marseille
Built inside an ancient maritime wastewater treatment plant, this museum hosts regular temporary exhibitions showcasing the finest works of Provencal painters, together with evening events in summer, often held on the rooftop terrace.
Visitors also enjoy a 40-minute digital documentary retracing the history of wastewater treatment in Marseille and the Mediterranean, how the water treatment plant functioned and its architectural project.
Accessibility: The museum is accessible via a left-hand access ramp and lift. It does not possess a private car park, but disabled parking spaces are available at Vieux Port Fort Saint Jean car park (paying). The museum provides tour guides in large print on request and telecoil-compatible headsets for guided tours. Special guided tours are also available for handicapped visitors on request.
Day 2 - "A City of Today and Yesteryear": Stroll on the Old Port & visit to Musée Cantini
19 Rue Grignan 13006 Marseille
The adventure continues with the Old Port (Vieux-Port): the emblem of Marseille and city's main cultural and historic hub. You will love visiting the iodine-scented fish market held several times a week, where you can pick up fresh fish straight from the boat or simply take a stroll before relaxing on one of the many café terraces set around the port. After this feast for the palate it's time for a feast for the eyes at the Musée Cantini arts centre, a former mansion house now dedicated to the so-called "modern" period (1900 to 1960), showcasing works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon and many more. The centre also hosts regular temporary exhibitions.
Accessibility: Audio guides and amplifying headsets are available for guided tours of the temporary exhibitions. You will find disabled parking spaces at the nearby car parks (Préfecture and Charles de Gaulle). Ramp available to the left of the main entrance. Accessible toilets with right-hand transfer.
Day 2 – Night at Hotel Le Terminus Saint-Charles
1 Place Des Marseillaises 13001 Marseille
Ideal for a restful night before the last day of your tour, Hôtel Terminus Saint Charles is ideally located facing Saint-Charles railway station and offers a drop-off zone. The reception is open 24/24, with breakfast served in the dining room from 6.30 to 10 a.m. The hotel also offers local newspapers and free WiFi.
Accessibility: The hotel features four rooms fitted with visual alarms, colour-contrasted furniture and an amplifying telephone with flash ringer and large buttons. The staff are trained to welcome reduced-mobility guests. All areas of the hotel are accessible and a lift provides access to the upper floors.
Day 3 - "Notre-Dame Basilica, the Emblem of Marseille": Notre-Dame de la Garde Basilica
Rue Fort du Sanctuaire 13007 Marseille
After learning about the site's history at the museum, you'll appreciate your tour of Notre-Dame de la Garde Basilica even more! This ancient monument offers uniquely majestic panoramic views over the city's main quarters, such as the Old Port (Vieux-Port) and Panier quarter, together with the sea, beaches, Frioul island and hills surrounding Marseille.
Accessibility: The monument and its museum are fitted with a lift to the various levels and disabled parking spaces.
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The Mediterranean, from beach to creek
Do you love the seaside and the great outdoors? Wild countryside bathed in sunlight? Then this tour was made for you! Over three days, take a tour of unspoilt places that have earned Provence's coastline such a fantastic reputation. Begin at the immaculate and practically deserted Camargue beach before continuing your trip with an invigorating stroll around the Côte Bleue Marine Park. Then cap off your long weekend between Marseille, Cassis and La Ciotat with a tour of the calanques (creeks) including the lovely and secluded En-Vau. A fresh breath of sea air!
Between sea & hills, La Ciotat with all the family
A renowned seaside resort, the town of La Ciotat has plenty of surprises up its sleeve! You can opt for a casual seaside stroll or take the easy route into the hills. This break offers a variety of activities: outdoor recreation led by "Expenature", the beautiful ''Jardins de l'Espérance" park, fun and games at the "Flots Bleus" Casino and culture at the Eden Theatre – the world's oldest movie theatre still in operation! There's no doubt about it, La Ciotat has something for every taste. What's more, the town has recently refashioned its footpaths, now accessible to reduced-mobility visitors, for an enchanting break between town and country.
The leading lights in architecture
For your architecture-themed day, this tour will show you buildings and works designed by leading lights including Jean Nouvel, Franck Gehry, Rudy Ricciotti, Stefano Boeri, Le Corbusier, Kengo Kuma, Pouillon, Vasarely, Tadao Endo and others. It will take you to the MuCEM and its amazing footbridge before you get to visit the Villa Méditerranée that is half suspended over the Mediterranean Sea. When lunchtime arrives, we suggest you head to Le Ventre de l'Architecte (literally 'the architect's belly'!) in the Cité Radieuse designed by the great Le Corbusier. The FRAC and its fascinating façade is the next stop on the tour. The Regards de Provence Museum is an example of a very successful restoration while the luminescent modular components which make up the Fondation Vasarely are simply mesmerising. Lastly, conclude your tour at Château La Coste, where architecture meets wine.
The Three Kings Cake
Epiphany in Provence is like nowhere else!
The Marseille Thriller Novel – Crime School (PART2)
Drawing its inspiration from the city's sulphurous reputation since the early 20th century, this literary movement is a spinoff from the 'Roman Noir' crime novel
The herbs de Provence
'Herbes de Provence', the perfume of our sun-baked hills...
Christmas in Provence and 'Santon' Figurines
Christmas festivities, culture and tradition in the land of the 'Santon' figurine
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Provence Tourisme est une association loi 1901. Sa mission, confiée par le Département : promouvoir le tourisme dans les Bouches-du-Rhône dans le respect de l'environnement et des habitants et garantir aux visiteurs un accueil de qualité.
The best of the destination
En accord avec les aspirations et les goûts de chacun, Provence Tourisme propose d'incontournables valeurs sûres comme des conseils pour sortir des sentiers battus, grâce à sa connaissance profonde du terrain et de par sa neutralité commerciale.
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George Dunford is Content Director at ArtsHub and screenhub. He has been in digital leadership roles in the cultural sector for more than 10 years including at the National Library of Australia, RMIT University, National Museum of Australia and the Wheeler Centre.
He created the Digital Strategy Forum in the National Museum of Australia to introduce new ideas to the organisation. At the National Library of Australia he chaired the Digital Culture series, which looked at how culture was influenced by emerging digital trends.
He has written for The Futurist, Meanjin, Wanderlust and The Big Issue. He co-wrote Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-made Nations, The Big Trip, along with guidebooks to Finland, New Zealand and others.

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The White House recently announced a Presidential Initiative called "Computer Science for All" along with proposed new funding for states and communities to provide all students across the country with the opportunity to engage and learn computer science.
The Cyber Innovation Center (CIC) was prominently recognized for its contributions to expanding computer science in K-12 schools and supporting the professional development of computer science, cyber, and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers across the country.
This announcement caps a series of meetings between the CIC and the White House over the past six months. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Management and Budget individually invited the CIC to meet with them in Washington, D.C. Both offices were very interested in the success that CIC's education model was having across the U.S. and actively sought input from CIC.
The Computer Science for All initiative will provide $4 billion in funding for states and $100 million directly for districts in the President's budget for fiscal year 2017. The funds would increase access to K-12 computer science by giving states and districts the resources to train teachers, expand access to high-quality instructional materials, and build effective regional partnerships, all areas of expertise for the CIC.
According to the White House, the funding will allow more states and districts to offer hands-on computer science courses across all of their public high schools, engage students early by creating high-quality computer science learning opportunities in elementary and middle schools, expand overall access to rigorous STEM coursework, and ensure all students, including girls and underrepresented minorities, have the chance to participate.
Along with the CIC, high profile organizations such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft as well as some of CIC's national education and community partners were highlighted for their commitments to improving computer science education and developing the nation's future workforce. Key highlights for the CIC include the following: reaching 10,000 teachers over the next two years through its computer science, cybersecurity, and STEM-focused curricula; delivering tailored professional development to teachers in 50 different communities across the country; and engaging 1,000 underserved students, including girls and minorities, by hosting hands-on educational and awareness events focused on computer science and cybersecurity.
"We should all be proud of the CIC's contributions and commitments to building a more secure and prosperous future for the next generation both here in Louisiana and across the United States," said Bossier Parish Police Jury President Wanda Bennett.
For more information on the Cyber Innovation Center's education programs, visit www.nicerc.org.


I hope that John Espey will become a frequent contributor to the Book Review. His review of "Pepys at Table" (Jan. 27) was perfectly delicious.
For a pictorial biography I am writing on Natalie Wood to be published in May, 1986, I would appreciate hearing from anyone who knew her.
Will the Real Lamming . . .
Kenneth Atchity's review of "The Notebook of Gismondo Cavalletti" (Book Review, Jan. 27) indicates that author R. M. Lamming is a man. The preface to Harper's excerpt from "The Notebook" (February issue) tells us that Lamming's novel is "her first."
If the author is indeed a woman, her achievement is all the more remarkable; diarist and primary characters all seem to be male.
R. M. Lamming, who are you?
For a book about the Korean War (and with a view toward personal interviews this spring), I would appreciate receiving brief details of service from veterans who fought in Korea during the first six months of the war.


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It must be borne
[The following is the text of the messages I have just sent to the Austen-L and Janeites groups-I believe I explain the context sufficiently to make what I wrote explicable]
As you will see, below, I feel I have no choice but to set the record straight on some matters of importance to me. But first, my apologies to those of you in Janeites who have in the past objected to discussions of shadow stories---I did not start this thread here, I did not have any desire for this thread to be started here, but now that it has been started, these are important points for me to be clear about here, publicly.
Perhaps this particular round will be a source of amusement for David, Victoria, Jeannie and others who believe that Jane Austen never wrote any shadow stories. ;)
"It must be borne" was the title of the talk I gave at Chawton House in July (i.e., 8 weeks ago), in which I revealed publicly, for the first time, my own original interpretation of the circumstances of the shadow story of _Emma_, in which Jane Fairfax's giving birth to a girl baby is followed by Jane Fairfax covertly giving that baby to Mrs. Weston to pretend it is really Mrs. Weston's baby (just think about the rumors last year about Sarah and Bristol Palin).
It was in the Spring of 2007 that I made my breakthrough and figured out that, in the shadow story (always, I must repeat that caveat), Jane gave her baby to Mrs. Weston. That was shortly before I gave my first public talk about Jane Austen, at Oxford (for which honor I will always be grateful to Fiona Stafford, Georgina Green and Olivia Murphy!), about the puzzles of _Emma_ in June, 2007. I came to that discovery after being uncertain for over two years from the time I first realized Jane F. was pregnant, as to whether the various physical symptoms Jane F. was undergoing in the latter part of the novel were reflective of an actual birth or of a miscarriage or even an abortion. After all, the big question was, if she was pregnant, what happened to the baby? Then I realized the solution to JA's diabolically clever puzzle. It was, as you might imagine, a wonderful moment for me.
Even though I did not reveal my discovery publicly until July, 2009, I began, in June, 2007, revealing it in confidence to selected friends. It was four months after I began doing that, that in October, 2007, I privately revealed the above to a new acquaintance, Anielka Briggs, whom you cannot fail to have noticed has recently joined this Janeites group. It is her recent posts in Janeites and Austen-L which have prompted me to set the record straight.
Although she has been a serious Austen scholar for many years, with particular focus on genealogical matters, Anielka, by her own honest and explicit acknowledgment to me at the time she first contacted me in October 2007, previously had NO idea whatsoever as to any shadow or concealed plotting in _Emma_. She acknowledged quite freely that _Emma_ had always been opaque to her. Therefore, with regard to the above, it is quite odd when Anielka now writes "No need to wait for me to print a book to tell you my theory - might as well tell you now and get your feedback. Besides, it would be terrible to publish a book and then discover you had the theory wrong, wouldn't it?".
This statement by her, made immediately after she has cited a sampler of some of the textual clues regarding Jane F's concealed pregnancy, gives the false and misleading impression that somehow the notion of Jane F. being pregnant was Anielka's idea--but it was not. This idea of Jane having a baby and giving it to Mrs. Weston was one I explicitly revealed to Anielka in October 2007, and as to which she had no prior inkling whatsoever.
Be that as it may, despite the oblique advice which Anielka, by the above comment, unmistakably is giving to ME (and which I take as being as "kindly meant" as the advice the shadow Mrs. Elton gives to the shadow Jane F. about "the abolition", which, as I stated at Chawton House, is code for "abortion"!), I will nonetheless somehow blunder ahead on my own and "deliver" my book about the shadow story of _Emma_ .
But that leads to one OTHER very important point in regard to this matter. When I privately revealed my interpretation of Jane F's pregnancy and baby swap to Anielka in October, 2007, she then made what I consider a very, very important discovery for the world of Janeites, i.e., that there was a word game in _Emma_ which seemed to suggest a real life referent for Jane F's pregnancy and baby swap.
Anielka revealed the essence of her discovery publicly on March 2, 2009, in Austen-L, and so I quote her now:
"Jane Austen uses these codes all the time. For example, in "Emma" the Weston's baby is Miss Anna Weston which is Miss A. Weston = Miss Awe-ston which (as with Elinohr) is the correct pronunciation of the educated classes for Miss Austen ("oss-tin" being also the more modern pronunciation). Jane Austen uses the same code for Miss Emma Watson with the addition of an anagram. Miss E. Watson = Miss aWEston = Miss Austen once again."
I.e., anyone reading those comments can readily infer that "Anna Weston" becomes "Ann Awe-ston" becomes "Anna Austen". That was the brilliant discovery that Anielka made in October 2007 AFTER I privately revealed to her that Jane Fairfax had given her baby to Mrs. Weston. And, by the way, when I mentioned this discovery of the punny meaning of "Anna Weston" at the end of my recent Chawton House presentation, I cited its brilliance and gave Anielka full credit for that discovery.
Please note that if you don't know anything about the shadow story of _Emma_, in particular that Jane F. gives her baby to Mrs. Weston, then this "Anna Weston/Ann Awe-ston/Anna Austen" word game, while elegant and beautiful in its "hiding in plain sight" aspect, is not significant in terms of what it seems to suggest about the Austen family.
After all, as to the overt story of _Emma_, where Anna Weston really is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Weston, the word game is only a private hommage. I.e., it would suggest that Mr. and Mrs. Weston stand for James Austen and his first wife, and that the girl baby, Anna Weston, stands for Anna Austen. If there is no baby swap, i.e., then the word game is just an Austen family in-joke.
But if you know that in the shadow story of _Emma_, Jane F gives her baby to Mrs. Weston, then the innocent word game takes on additional potential meaning.
Apropos that, Anielka wrote the following the other day in Austen-L:
"Also if you look at Ellen's magnificent calendar for Emma http://www.jimandellen.org/austen/emma.calendar.html
you will notice something interesting about 1796 which she has kindly spelled out for us!"
Here are the relevant portions of Ellen's calendar entries:
"1793 Birth of Jane Fairfax; she is 21 when story opens...."
"1796: Jane Fairfax's mother dies when Jane is three"
"1796, June 23: Harriet is 17 when novel opens so Harriet Smith born in the same year that Mrs Jane Fairfax died. Edith Lank has suggested Miss Henrietta Bates could have left Highbury during this time to help her poor sister, thus giving an alibi for a pregnancy (!). See Edith Lank's intriguing essay in /Persuasions/ 7, pp. 14-15. "
In regard to the above, note that Anna Austen and Fanny Knight were both born in 1793, and that James Austen's first wife died in 1795.
But note also that Ellen's entry for 1793 should have read "Births of Jane Fairfax [and Emma Woodhouse, they are both] 21 when story opens..."
That is the truth as to the above matters.
Kitty Scraps said...
Dear Arnie,
I've been lurking on the list for a very long time, years in fact, and have never ventured forth a comment in any of the discussions because frankly I feel woefully inadequate to the task of contributing anything worthy in such esteemed company. Instead I have indulged in reading all the beautifully written and well thought out theories of it's various members meanwhile wishing I had a better understanding of what everyone was posting about.
I'm not a scholar, obviously, I'm not even a college graduate, I'm just a 40 something full time working woman who decided seven years ago to improve my mind by extensive reading. It was my great fortune that I started with Jane Austen and eventually stumbled across the yahoo group a few years ago which today finally led me to your blog.
I've been a great admirer of yours. When I have time to indulge in reading the list I've often marveled at your posts, how well thought out and presented your arguements were, how educational they were to me the novice reader, and how I ended up longing for more as in a Austen Sub Plot/Shadow Stories for Dummies version from you.
It's rather daunting for me to presume to even comment on things that I know so little about but my courage has been properly raised to the challenge and I hope I'm not ridiculed to presume too much by begging of you to please give me advice on how to read my beloved Jane in such a manner as to increase my understanding of her and hopefully discover these shadow stories for myself.
I don't know how many people in the yahoo group are like me, silent and unenlightened but longing to have the shroud removed from our eyes. But you would certainly have my unwavering devotion should you generously decide to take up the task of tutoring we (if my presumption of others is correct or me if I stand alone in my silent lurkerdom) who fear to give voice to our secret longings thereby exposing our ignorance to the list members and have been suffering in bliss-less silence.
I fear I ask too much. Pray tell me it's not too much to ask, for one word from you will silence me forever on this topic and I will return to lurkerdom forever more.
Arnie Perlstein said...
Kitty, you are so melodramatic! ;)
I would give you three pieces of advice to start:
1. Re-read all the novels regularly, and consciously try to read against the grain, meaning, try to imagine that the narrator is being very sly, and is hinting at motivations and actions of the characters other than the heroine which are not as they seem.
2. Go to the JASNA website...
http://www.jasna.org/
click on "Publications" on the left side of the homepage, and then just start reading articles in Persuasions and Persuasions Online, many of which are readable online.
3. Join JASNA and start attending AGM's--they are great fun, and you will both learn a lot at them, and also meet others who love Jane Austen. The October 2009 AGM is sold out (I missed out on it myself!), but the October 2010 AGM in Portland would be a good one for you to attend.
Otherwise, if you have specific questions as you go along in your readings that have to do with subtext and shadows, just bring them to this blog, I will try to help!
Thanks for your very kind words, ARNIE
But Mrs Weston did not dance at the ball with Mr Elton.Wasn't it because she was expecting a baby?Or was that merely due to the fact that it was wrong for married women to be dancing ?
Zaineb,
In the shadow story of Emma (i.e., the parallel fictional universe that lurks in the shadows of the text of the novel, placed there by Jane Austen), I claim that Mrs. Weston did not dance with Mr. Elton precisely because she was PRETENDING to be pregnant!
Oh.Well, I suppose that could be a theory. Are you going to write a book about to it ??
Yes. ;)


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Alleged double-murderer hiring new lawyer; accused of slaying ex-boss, colleague
Updated: Jan. 30, 2019, 12:03 p.m. | Published: Jan. 02, 2018, 5:50 p.m.
Ex-con indicted for alleged double murder at former job
Gallery: Ex-con indicted for alleged double murder at former job
By Frank Donnelly | fdonnelly@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Accused double-murderer Ricky Dennis is hiring a new lawyer.
At a conference Tuesday in state Supreme Court, St. George, Justice William E. Garnett said Dennis' family is in the process of retaining Mario F. Gallucci as his criminal defense attorney.
Gallucci will replace lawyer Thomas Reilly, who had been previously assigned by the court to represent the defendant.
Dennis' trial had been tentatively scheduled to start Tuesday, but was adjourned due to the latest development.
Garnett ordered the parties back to court on Friday for a conference to confirm Gallucci's retention.
The judge said he intends to start the trial in early February.
Outside court, Gallucci said he looks forward to representing Dennis.
"I was recently retained to try this very interesting circumstantial-evidence case," said Gallucci. "Cases without witnesses always interest me, and Mr. Dennis maintains his innocence in this matter."
The bearded defendant did not address the court during the proceeding.
Dennis, 33, is charged with two counts each of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and second-degree criminal weapon possession.
He potentially faces life in prison without parole if convicted of first-degree murder.
Dennis, an ex-con on federal probation at the time of the killings, previously worked for Universal Merchant Funding at 124 Buel Ave. -- where the victims were found dead on the evening of Jan. 24, 2017, according to court filings.
The victims -- Michael Genovese, 57, and Carl Clark, 52 -- were each shot three times in the head in a rear office, police said.
Dennis left the business, prior to the incident, under "acrimonious" circumstances, prosecutors have said.
There also was a third individual inside the building at the time of the incident who escaped through the front door, prosecutors said at a prior court proceeding.
Investigators mounted a case against Dennis based in part on witness accounts that aligned with surveillance footage at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, court records said.
Dennis' gray Honda Accord, authorities said, was registered passing the bridge over at 4:26 p.m. and leaving Staten Island at approximately 6:31 p.m.
A witness told the authorities the suspect was carrying a silver firearm and was wearing a mask that covered the bottom half of his face.
Law enforcement officers recovered a black mask from Dennis' vehicle, according to papers filed in Dennis' federal court case.
Dennis was on federal probation then after serving a 12-year sentence stemming from the assault of a Pennsylvania gun shop owner, and the subsequent sale of firearms taken from the business, federal officials said.
Assistant District Attorneys Lisa Davis and Michael Tannousis are prosecuting the murder case.


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Yves Leccia, Ile de Beaute, Blanc, 2013 This wine blew us away with its purity. It has an intensity of flavor yet an ethereal lightness. It is the essence of an island—all bright sunshine, wet sand and salty sea breeze in a glass.
The Yves Leccia Blanc is a blend of Vermentino and Biancu Gentile. While we have a few Vermentinos in the shop, we have no Biancu Gentile, . . . until now. We opened the wine and right away it was clear that there was something different, and special, going on in the glass. Noted wine authority, Jancis Robinson, recently published, Wine Grapes, the definitive tome on the ampelography (identification and classification) of wine grapes. According to her, Biancu Gentile is a "rare, aromatic Corsican," and by rare, we are talking just 6 hectares in the world, all on Corsica. Here is a link to a really interesting post, if you would like to dig deeper.
Simultaneously playful but serious, the Leccia Blanc offers a delicious wine to enjoy on its own, but it will enhance any table featuring a range of seafood, from briney mussels and sweet scallops to meatier, steelier fish like swordfish or shark., as well as some fresh vegetables from Walker Farm or Old Athens Farm—or your own garden! Corsica is a real intersection of the South of France and Italy, so plates with olives or feta to capture the brininess of the wine should pair nicely. There is a beautiful interplay of full and salty with this wine. It'd pair beautifully with a sheep cheese, like the local Vermont Shepherd (while all of their offerings are excellent, I'd recommend the eponymous offering with this wine) produced just up the road in Putney.


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Charlotte leaders commemorate 205 people killed in local car crashes
WFAE | By Kenneth Lee Jr.
Charlotte leaders this past Sunday commemorated the hundreds of lives that have been lost on city streets for the "World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims."
The day is meant to bring awareness to the alarming number of people killed and severely injured in preventable traffic crashes. In 2021, 42,060 people in the U.S. died in traffic crashes, according to the National Safety Council. So far in 2022, there has been a 7% increase in people killed nationwide compared to 2021.
That trend isn't reflected locally, however: After years of higher traffic deaths, Charlotte fatalities are down so far this year. Forty-two people have died this year in traffic wrecks in Charlotte.
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"While Charlotte's fatal crashes are currently down by 32%, we cannot bring back the lives that have already been lost to traffic violence," said the city's Transportation Director Debbie Smith.
City leaders and volunteers placed 205 pairs of shoes in First Ward Park in uptown Sunday to represent those who lost their lives in traffic wrecks in Charlotte between 2019 and 2021. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings said traffic enforcement is a priority, but the city also needs people to drive responsibly.
"Listening to the stories from people who have lost loved ones, and understanding the trauma that these types of fatalities leave behind, we want to assure those families that CMPD remains committed to working together with community leaders to do what we can to make Charlotte a Vision Zero City," said Jennings, referencing the city's pledge to end traffic fatalities by 2030.
Three bonds approved in the midterm elections included $146.2 million of transportation funding, which will go toward sidewalk improvements, walkability and pedestrian safety measures and more transportation infrastructure. Shannon Binns, executive director of the advocacy group Sustain Charlotte, said he hopes the city will continue to invest in safety measures to help reduce traffic fatalities.
"We must redesign our streets for the safety of those most vulnerable and commit to making safety a higher priority than speed," said Binns. "We applaud the city of Charlotte's efforts to move in this direction and urge them to always prioritize their critical work of ensuring that our streets are safe for every person."
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Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse is the fastest production roadster
by Shubha Gopalakrishnan
We already got a whiff of the 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse, and now Bugatti has given us a complete low-down on the roadster that is a tad faster than its precedessor- Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport. It is claimed to be the fastest roadster in production which is smoothly backed up by the 1,200 horsepower from the engine. The roadster which is an evil combination of Grand Sport and Super Sport, has a quad-turbo W-15 engine with a top speed of 255mph. That we believe is slower than the speed of Super Sport (267 mph), yet faster than Veyron Grand Sport Roadster. (229 mph) The car reaches a top speed of 62mph in 2.6 second sprint. The roadster sits on Vitesse type 20-inch alloy wheels.
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The Grand Sport Vitesse comes painted in two versions namely, "Lake Blue" and "Jet Grey" with the former costing €1.91 million ($2.5 million) while the latter costs €1.75 million. ($2.28 million).
World premiere of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse
Bugatti presents most powerful roadster ever at Geneva Motor Show
Following the success of the Veyron 16.4 Super Sport, Bugatti did not have to wait long before it received the first inquiries about an open-top version of the Grand Sport that could also deliver 882 kW (1,200 hp). "We were instantly electrified by the idea of transferring the power of the Super Sport to the Grand Sport, which previously delivered a maximum of 1,001 hp, and thus taking the roadster to a new level," says Wolfgang Dürheimer. The President of Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. continues: "Our team has managed to transfer the world's most powerful car engine to the open-top sports car while taking all vehicle dynamics and aerodynamic parameters into consideration. We are proud to present the fastest roadster ever at the Geneva Motor Show with the world premiere of the 1.200 hp Grand Sport Vitesse."
Dynamics in figures. The new Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse boasts a remarkable maximum torque of 1,500 Nm (at 3,000-5,000 rpm) from the 7.9-litre capacity of its W16 engine. The maximum output (1.200 hp) is reached at 6.400 rpm. These figures allow the car to reach 100 km/h (62 mph) from standing in unbelievable 2.6 seconds. The top speed of 410 km/h (255 mph) makes the four-wheel drive (like all Veyrons) Grand Sport Vitesse the fastest production roadster ever. The maximum speed is reached on closed tracks with special safety precautions. In "normal" handling mode, the Grand Sport Vitesse is electronically limited to 375 km/h (233 mph).
Optimized drive system. The 199 hp increase over the Grand Sport has been mainly achieved by using four larger turbochargers with new intercoolers. Furthermore, Bugatti has extensively reinforced all drivetrain components in order to safely transfer the immense forces at all times. The gearing of the seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox (DSG) in particular has been adapted to the new requirements. In this context, as on the Super Sport, Bugatti has also modified the air ducting in the area of the drivetrain. As a consequence of the larger turbochargers and the overall reduced back pressure, it was even possible to reduce the fuel consumption slightly despite the increased output. The fuel system, with a four-pump tank, has been taken from the Super Sport.
Chassis. In order to put the unrivalled power onto the road absolutely safely and masterfully, the engineers have reconfigured the chassis of the Vitesse. Thanks to the quick-responding dampers that have been adapted from motor racing, the control of the vehicle has been further improved and perfectly balanced. Body roll and pitching during hard acceleration and braking are now virtually imperceptible. Optimised wheel-load fluctuations have further reduced understeer and allow a maximum level of active safety. In addition to the incomparable lateral acceleration of up to 1.4 g, the precise interaction of the tires (on all-new, lighter 20-inch "Vitesse"-type alloy wheels), together with the intelligent all-wheel drive system, ensures extremely good handling. The chassis, all-wheel-drive system and the revised ESP form a dynamic alliance: since the reconfigured ESP kicks in slightly later, for example when you accelerate out of corners, the Grand Sport Vitesse also provides a more dynamic performance in these situations. It goes without saying that Bugatti has adapted the brake-cooling system to account for the even higher engine output. The brakes, which are unparalleled in terms of stability and performance, now have additional and larger air intakes.
In general, it can be said that the Grand Sport Vitesse is even sportier than the 1,001 hp Grand Sport, but at the same time it has not been turned into a full-blown racing car. It therefore remains easy to master for the driver. In this context, it is simply astounding that Bugatti managed to increase comfort in the chassis area by reducing the dynamic natural frequency.
Body. Bugatti has developed a new roof spoiler for the Grand Sport Vitesse that significantly reduces wind noise and buffeting in the interior. Furthermore, there will be a new windbreak for the roadster that can be stored away compactly in the luggage compartment when not in use. Both details will also be available for the Grand Sport. Together, they allow extremely relaxed, open-top driving even at speeds of around 200 km/h (124 mph).
Numerous aerodynamic measures at the front and rear that appeared on the Super Sport have been adapted for the Grand Sport Vitesse. The front end is therefore characterized by larger air intakes; the two central air intakes to the left and right of the Bugatti radiator grille are divided horizontally by a bar. The bottom air vent stretches sideways into the wheel housing and gives this exceptional sports car an extremely masterful appearance. Immediately below this air intake, you will see a new, visually refined front spoiler that has been designed in a similar way to the splitters used in motor racing. The improved xenon headlights from the Super Sport, which are now framed in black, are also new. The rear end, which is also derived from the Super Sport, is characterised by a double diffusor and a centrally positioned twin tailpipe. A new Park Distance Control system (PDC) watches over the front and the rear.
The two air scoops on the left and right of the engine cover (redesigned for the Vitesse) are a
characteristic of the Grand Sport and thus also of the Grand Sport Vitesse. These air scoops fulfil two tasks on the roadster. On the one hand, they pull in air for the engine, and on the other, they are an elegantly integrated part of the anti-roll protection system. As on the Super Sport, a full-carbon-fibre monocoque, which allows an extremely high torsional rigidity combined with maximum passive safety, is also used on the Grand Sport Vitesse. The outer skin is also made completely from carbon fibre and, consequently, the new Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse is available in clear-coated visible carbon.
Interior. Carbon fibre is (along with stainless metals such as Aluminium and Magnesium) also the dominant material in the interior of the Grand Sport Vitesse. Numerous interior parts are now made from carbon fibre in the 1,200 hp roadster. This includes the centre console extension, a cover with EB logo in the rear-bulkhead leather trim (between the seat backrests) and the belt outlet covers on the seats. The décor on the centre console, the door inserts and the adjoining trim on the instrument panel are also made from carbon fibre. The bicolor black trim parts are also new in the Grand Sport version, and so is a special seat design for the Grand Sport Vitesse. The two-tone leather seat covers are enhanced by contrasting stitching between the seat base and the side sections. Contrasting stitching is also featured on the leather armrest between the seats, which comes without the typical quilting. Also new: knee pads in the centre tunnel area, an additional 12 V socket (in the glove compartment), the restraint systems, the illuminated start and parking lock button (same as Super Sport), an instrument cluster with shift-up information and – as a matter of honour – the power gauge that now goes up to 1,200 hp!
Configuration of the show vehicles. There is no end to the individualisation options for the Bugatti. Each one of the 350 Veyrons built is therefore unique. This also applies to the two Grand Sport Vitesse models that Bugatti is exhibiting at the 2012 Geneva International Motor Show. The blue version of the new roadster is finished in visible carbon fibre. The upper area of the body is finished in "Blue Carbon" while the roof area and air scoops are "Lake Blue". The lower body panels (side skirting, front spoiler, radiator grill frame and rear apron with diffusor), the inner surfaces of the wheel rims and the underside of the automatically extending rear spoiler are in "Light Blue Sport", which has a hint of turquoise. The exterior colours are picked up again in the interior. While the large surfaces feature dark blue tones, "New Light Blue" is used for the contrasting stitching and the Vitesse labelling on the seats. This Vitesse
version costs 1.91 million euros.
The second Grand Sport Vitesse is painted in dark "Jet Grey". Instead of two colours, this model uses an interaction between shiny areas (lids, roof and air scoop) and matte surfaces and elements (side parts, exterior mirrors and door handles). The radiator grill and wheel rims have been painted black. The orange underside of the rear wing matches the "Tangerine" colouring that Bugatti has used, for example, for the seats, the carpets, the underside of dashboard, the door edging, the contrasting stitching and the Vitesse labelling in the interior. All other surfaces, including the carbon parts, are black. In both cases, the aggressive, dynamic look of the vehicles fits in with the positioning of the new Grand Sport Vitesse. Its price is 1.75 million euros.
The classic Grand Sport, a sports car with an elegant, artistic orientation, will, of course, remain in the range. Following the success of the L'Or Blanc (created in cooperation with Berlin-based porcelain makers Königlichen Porzellan-Manufaktur), Bugatti is currently working on further unusual ways to individualize the Grand Sport. In Geneva, the world's most exclusive car manufacturer is presenting a version of the roadster in visible carbon fibre in a brownish finish for the first time. One challenge for the production is to give the visible carbon a transparent gleam while allowing the colour to radiate vibrantly in a certain light. On the Grand Sport presented in Geneva, the carbon parts made in the new colour "Brown" (lids, rear end, front spoiler and side skirting) shimmer in an almost bronze shade depending on how the light falls. To create a contrast, the side parts on this Grand Sport, right up to the rear air intakes, are made from polished aluminium. The interior of the sports car, with "Gaucho" coloured leather and dark stitching (colour "Coffee"), complements the exterior. It costs 1.79 million euros.
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To advocates for early childhood education, health care for the undocumented poor, homeless housing and welfare payments, Brown's remarks smacked of indifference.
It would be fair to say that the vast majority of Brown's fellow Democrats in the Legislature agree with his critics, setting up what is likely to be the major conflict over the budget this year. For instance, the incoming speaker of the Assembly, Anthony Rendon, is a passionate advocate of expanding early childhood education. Brown's new budget consolidates, but freezes, spending on that program.
It's not a new conflict. From the onset of Brown's second governorship in 2011, he's been reluctant to expand "safety net" services to the poor, openly fearing that new entitlements would lead to deep budget deficits during the next recession and privately fearing that a major legacy goal – stabilizing the state's boom-and-bust finances – could crumble.
Brown slashed social and health services deeply in his first budget, and left little doubt that he intended the "retrenchment" to be permanent. Ever since – even when revenues jumped from an improving economy and his temporary tax increase – he has insisted that K-12 schools and reserves have the highest priorities.
Brown also has been more than a little defensive on the issue. "California has an extensive safety net for the state's neediest residents who live in poverty and the state has maintained those core benefits despite the recession," his new budget declares.
The politics of poverty have become more contentious because California's recovery from the Great Recession has revealed the state's increasingly stark economic disparities.
Although unemployment has dropped to less than half of what it was during the depths of the recession, California still has millions of impoverished residents – far more, proportionately, than any other state, according to the alternative measure of poverty the Census Bureau devised a few years ago that has become widely accepted as being more accurate.
California's "official" poverty rate, 16 percent, is only slightly higher than the nation's, but by the alternative measure, which includes the cost of living, it's nearly 24 percent of the state's residents, or about 9 million people.
In reality, it could be even much higher.
Brown's budget projects that during the 2016-17 fiscal year, Medi-Cal, the state's version of the Medicaid health care system for the poor, will swell to 13.5 million enrollees, more than a third of the state's population. That would be twice as many Medicaid enrollees as the next largest state, New York, and approaching 20 percent of the nationwide total.
The Public Policy Institute of California devised its own measure of poverty similar to the Census Bureau's alternative and came up with a slightly lower overall percentage. However, when it included those living in "near-poverty," the ranks of the impoverished doubled to about 40 percent, or 15 million-plus people – more than the populations of all but four states.
Poverty is markedly higher, PPIC's study found, in Latino and black households, particularly those with low educational levels.
Most poor adults are either working or looking for work, rather than depending on welfare. However, they're usually limited to low-paying, often temporary, jobs, such as farm labor, because middle-class jobs for those without strong educational or technical training credentials – factory jobs, especially – have diminished.
Scarcely a million Californians – about 3 percent of the state's residents, most of them children – are drawing welfare benefits. Nevertheless, welfare benefits are one of the flashpoints in the larger debate over what, if anything, California should do about poverty.
What upsets me is that we are still living in a state where the grant for a CalWORKs family is impossibly tiny.
California's benefits for what it calls CalWORKs are higher than those of any other state, topping out at $704 a month for a single-parent family of three, but California's cost of living, particularly for housing, more than offsets that number.
"What upsets me is that we are still living in a state where the grant for a CalWORKs family is impossibly tiny," state Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, fumed after Brown's budget was unveiled.
Mitchell has become a fierce warrior on the latter point, called the "maximum family grant," that blocks benefits for children conceived while the mother is on welfare. She has authored legislation to repeal the two-decade-old rule, but so far has been frustrated.
Welfare is a component of what has become, in effect, a major economic sector in California – the care, feeding, housing and education of the state's poorest residents.
Brown's budget declares that it will spend $136 billion on "health and social services to California's vulnerable and at-risk residents," 75 percent of which will come from the federal government.
The poor kids whose enrollments drive the formula – as defined by their eligibility for reduced- or no-cost lunches – aren't hard to find since 60 percent of the state's 6 million-plus K-12 students qualify.
Federal, state and local spending on the poor approaches, and may even top, $200 billion a year, or roughly 10 percent of the state's economy. It flows into grocery stores, gas stations and other retail outlets, into the rental housing market, and into the state's medical care system. It supports extensive public and private agencies that employ thousands.
But to advocates for the poor, it's too little.
They want Brown to loosen the purse strings. They want the minimum wage to be boosted to at least $15 an hour. They want more low-income housing. They want a ballot measure that would hike taxes on properties worth $3 million or more to support anti-poverty programs.
Given the huge number of poor Californians, the politics of poverty are likely to become even more contentious. But so far, at least, politicians have focused on its effects, rather than causes, and have been reluctant to address its deeper issues, such as easing the housing shortage, or making California more competitive for investment that would bring more well-paying, blue-collar jobs.


"I thought it was a very positive performance. We got our balance and mindset just right"
Exeter City manager Paul Tisdale praised the balance his players struck as they put in an impressive performance to beat Chesterfield 2-1 at home on Tuesday night.
The victory, which came courtesy of a Jayden Stockley header and an own goal from Alex Whitmore, moved City two points closer to third-placed Wycombe Wanderers in the automatic promotion places.
The Grecians went into the match as strong favourites as Chesterfield currently sit bottom of the table with two wins from their last 12 matches. However, Tis knew it was never going to be as easy as some people predicted going into the match.
City had to wait until the 37th minute to nudge themselves in front as Jayden Stockley met Jake Taylor's cross to head home. The Grecians had had the better chances up until that point but had to be patient to unlock a Chesterfield side who also threatened at times themselves.
"It was always going to be that way and we discussed that before the game," said Tis. "People may have thought that it was going to be all us, but it was never going to be the case and actually when you see that they are a team that has beaten some of the teams at the top of the table – Luton, Notts County and us – I don't think we were under any illusions it was going to be an easy game.
City made it 2-0 when Whitmore turned Hiram Boateng's cross into his own net, but the Grecians then conceded a goal six minutes from time to set up a nervy finish.
Saturday sees City host Crawley Town, while Wycombe play league leaders Accrington Stanley. So how does Tis see the battle for the final automatic promotion spot?
"It is three games to go and we are two points closer to Wycombe," said Tis. "It is what it is, we are in fourth place, if they win every game then we are in the play-offs or, well we haven't even done the calculations as we are thinking of third.


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Gaudenzio Marconi (také Guglielmo nebo Gaudenz; 12. března 1841 Comologno, Onsernone, kanton Ticino – 1855 Brusel) byl švýcarský fotograf a malíř italského původu. Proslavil se uměleckými akty. Jeho fotografie posloužily jako předlohy pro díla slavných umělců, jako byl Auguste Rodin.

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Marconi se narodil v italské oblasti Švýcarska rodičům italského původu. Sehrál roli ve vývoji rané fotografie modelů. Koncem 60. let 19. století se zapsal jako malíř a fotograf na École des Beaux-Arts v Paříži. Jeho specializací byly fotografie aktů. Jeho modely často zaujímaly patetické pózy podle antických nebo renesančních soch, sloužily také studentům jako předlohy k malbě nebo kresbě. Pro soudobé umělce aranžoval i dvojice, trojice či skupiny postav. Používal je při své práci například Auguste Rodin.

Po vypuknutí komuny Paříž opustil a v roce 1872 se přestěhoval do Bruselu, kde si otevřel firmu Photos des Beaux Arts Marconi a vedl galerii ve čtvrti Schaerbeck. Oženil se s Adrienne Fontaine (* 1844) z Amsterdamu. V roce 1885 jeho stopy mizí. Předpokládá se, že zemřel. Jeho dílo bylo znovuobjeveno roku 1996, 24 fotografií představilo FotoMuseum v Antverpách.

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Guillaume Henry had his first walking show for Patou at the brand's charming headquarters in the Île de la Cité. Over the pandemic, Patou built up its identity as a playful young Parisian brand that's popular with influencers with a collection that was early into the celebration of exuberant oversized shapes on French themes. Well, post-isolation years, it's as if Patou has shed its chrysalis and emerged into the sunshine in super slimmed-down body-conscious shape. Tiny mini shifts, hourglass curve-clinging dresses, sexy high waisted bootcuts, little cropped tops. The voluminous flounces had more or less flounced out.
And there was Julia Fox. The fact that she topped off the show in a body-dress with an Art Nouveau print is an indication, perhaps, of how far the perception of this brand has penetrated. But Henry always said that his main way of designing is listening to what his coworkers (mostly female) and girlfriends say, clocking who they admire, who they're talking about, and observing what they're actually wearing on a daily basis. Which brought him around to the idea of muses—a classification to which Fox seems to belong right now.
In Henry's mind, it was deeper than that—considering that muse culture has very high art French roots. He found photos of young women students carving clay maquettes at the Beaux Arts school in the late 19th century, the time of the Belle Epoque and Toulouse Lautrec, and of female stage and cabaret performers. He wanted to capture something of that in a self-directed way for the worlds young women are inhabiting these days.
To that end, he collaborated with the extraordinary Maison Ernest, the footwear company which set up in 1904, specializing in lace-up boots for the stars of the Folies Bergères. Amazingly, they're still going strong. "Honestly, the girls in the show loved them," he declared.
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Finding Peace in the Chaos of Farming
"The truth is over the years you realize that the work never goes away. You do your best and at the end of the day you try to find satisfaction with what you accomplished", reflects Mark Cain on the demands of farm life. After 33 years invested in Dripping Springs Garden, Mark Cain and his partner Michael Crane understand the reality of working sunup to sundown to realize their farm dream, a process that literally started from the ground up. Unlike the more traditional intergenerational farm transition, Dripping Springs Garden represents an increasingly more common farm narrative: the first generation farm. These are farms started by individuals with no family land, no hands-on childhood experience, and no predetermined operation to take-over. Every decade, the number of these first generation farmers grows and in recent years has reached a tipping point that demands a new model for supporting new and beginning farmers. As this new breed of farmer enters the market, they are seeking opportunities to gain hands-on experience from the ground-up, they need alternative land access models, and most importantly, seek mentors that understand their perspective. Enter Mark Cain, the farmer with a degree in ecology with a passion for the outdoors that fell in love with the potential for organic farming to help heal the land, heal himself, and heal his community. Without family land or formal training, Cain's story is similar to so many new farmers striking out on their own to gain the knowledge, skills, and experience to pursue the dream of owning a farm. Over the last several decades he and his partner have taken an idea and transformed it into a successful business in the Ozark mountains of northwest Arkansas, all the while helping guide others on the path to realizing the farm dream. "They're like farmer shamans, guiding others into community-based organic agriculture in our part of the world" says long-time friend Keith Richards.
So what steps did this successful operation take to get where it is today? To start, they studied at the feet of other masters of industry and have continued to adapt, grow, and hone their craft over the years. Their land was selected because it was a beautiful, isolated space surrounded by nature, not because it was previously a working farm, so they understand the challenges of building a operation from the ground up. They have developed their business with intention, choosing to invest in time and planning to maximize each acre to ensure a diverse range of crops can be grown and harvested year round for market. While others may have increased acreage or markets, Mark chose to instead diversify crops, refine production techniques, add high tunnels, and focus on developing a successful internship program. All of these elements are components farms across the region can adopt, adapt, and utilize to grow their operation.
Yet the most compelling aspect of Dripping Springs Garden is not the cultivation but rather the culture, one that is focused on not only surviving but thriving. Mark embraces regenerative agriculture, a reflection of his deeper belief that the farming can be restorative instead of extractive to both the environment and the community. Mark has seen first hand how despite farming's potential for positive, the one resource that suffers the most in the industry are the people. The demands of farming require a unique combination of both physical endurance and mental resolve but many entering the industry push too hard, too soon, for too long, often resulting in injury, breakdown, or burn-out. For the team at Dripping Springs Garden, it is about finding the balance of passion, hard work, and honoring yourself. Cain achieves this balance by operating the farm on a Mediterranean schedule allowing for mid-day siesta for yoga, meditation and relaxation during the warmest hours of the day. Mark is actually a certified yoga teacher and provides interns with the opportunity to join him in practice. The daily break provides "a golden opportunity to let go of everything for a little while to restore the body and mind" according to Cain. Dripping Springs Garden also provides time for family meals, with Mark and Michael cooking, eating, and socializing with their 4-6 interns to enjoy the fruits of their labor and socialize in a non-work setting. While the schedule and activities provide a more balanced work day, Mark also credits them with keeping him from experiencing the exhaustion many at his stage in the business often feel. Mark notes, "I have other things that I find value in, especially those that allow me to be creative. People have to find those unique outlets they can integrate into their operation." He also stresses the importance of having young farmers working alongside them, not only as an investment in the future of farming but also as a way to reconnect with the joy of farming through the eyes of the interns (a view you can share from the farm's instagram feed, run by the interns).
With all of the incredible experience and success, it is enough inflate anyone's ego but I can assure you these are still two humble farmers interested to helping others by sharing their journey. Mark admits he has "made a million mistakes and tried to learn from a few" but still has a passion for farming because according to him, they have balanced farming with creative outlets and are surrounded with aspiring farmers still in awe of the daily farm life. He knows that many people look at his model, his schedule, and his approach and will say "I don't have time" but believes if he does not take care of himself and his employees, the operation will not be the regenerative system he is striving for. Cain's zen approach to farming is something we can all take to heart, "We have to feel good about what is happening right now. Not what could be. It is not about waiting for something to give you peace but finding it in the moment."
Mark is looking forward to sharing more about his unique journey in January 2018 at the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Conference in Chattanooga, TN where he will kick off the conference in his plenary session with an exploration of where he began and the lessons he has learned along the way. We hope you will be joining us to learn from Mark and the other 90 speakers during the 56 educational sessions, short courses, field trips, and networking events. Register today to take advantage of Early Bird rates! Living on a tight budget? Check out our fee waivers.
Post originally appeared on the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Blog: http://www.ssawg.org/ssawg-blawg/2017/10/25/finding-peace-in-the-chaos-of-farming
Header Image: Mark Cain (right) and Michael Crane gather flowers to sell at nearby farmers market. Photograph by Beth Hall, Northwest Arkansas Times.
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A Brief History of America.
It is the story of fighting for the right to vote – it is the STORY OF AMERICA.
The right to vote is the most fundamental right because every issue that people care about – local, national, world – is affected by the actions of elected politicians.
We didn't start out with all Americans having the right to vote. Women couldn't vote. Black Men couldn't vote. Poor people couldn't vote. Young people couldn't vote.
The right to vote has never been freely given – it has always had to be demanded. Part of this story is a pattern. Every time a new group has gotten the right to vote, there has been pushback. Politicians have pushed back every time, to try to limit that right to vote so that they can keep the narrowly defined electorate that elected them.
In 1870, five (5) years after the end of civil war, Black Men finally got the right to vote.
It wasn't until 1920, 50 years later, before women could vote. 72 years after Seneca Falls convention for Women's rights. 72 years! It was only after suffragettes stood outside the White House for 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, for 2 and 1/2 years in silence, and after 33 suffragists were arrested, beaten and tortured in what became know as the "Night of Terror" that women got the right to vote.
Up until 1964, if you could not afford to pay a poll tax, you could be denied the right to vote. The 24th amendment prohibited Poll taxes in federal elections, but Southern states still had poll taxes for state elections.
Almost 100 years after the end of the civil war, most African Americans in Southern States still couldn't vote.
In Mississippi in the early 60s, fewer than 7% of eligible African Americans were registered to vote.
Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing black voter registration in Mississippi. The KKK and local authorities attacked the activists. Some of the attacks were violent and at least three people were murdered: Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney.
One Sunday the next year, 1965, was the march for Voting Rights in Selma, Alabama. Activists planned to deliver a petition demanding "the right to vote" at the state capital. As they tried to march across the bridge out of Selma, lawmen attacked them. Many were seriously hurt, including future Member of Congress John Lewis, who was beaten so badly by Alabama state troopers that they fractured his skull.
Pictures of "Bloody Sunday" caused international outrage, and pressured President Johnson to call for comprehensive voting rights for all Americans one week later. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (the "VRA") was enacted a few months later.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (the "VRA") sought to deliver on the promise of the 15th amendment.
The VRA had two major components: Section 2 prohibited voting practices that restricted minority voting rights. Section 5 required areas with a history of racial discrimination to get pre-clearance before enacting any voting changes.
But even with all of these changes, young people still couldn't vote.
During much of the Vietnam war, the young people who were being sent to fight and die could not vote for the leaders who were sending them there. One of the motos of the youth movement in the 60s was "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote". This changed with the ratification of the 26th Amendment in 1971.
By 2008, all these changes were working and people were voting in great numbers. There was historic voter turn out in North Carolina.
In 2008 African Americans registered and voted at a higher rate than whites for the first time in North Carolina history. America's first African American president won because of the youth vote.
I wish this was the end of the story. But it isn't.
To explain their plan, we are going to have to talk about GERRYMANDERING.
Everybody in North Carolina lives in at least three different voting districts: US Congress, North Carolina State House and North Carolina State Senate. Every 10 years, after the census, the voting districts are redrawn as part of reapportionment.
Each state draws its own district lines – and the laws in each state governing how the voting districts are drawn are different. When they redraw the lines, it is called redistricting.
North Carolina draws its State Senate and State House districts at the same time – the NCGA draws the voting maps and the governor cannot veto them.
After 2008, out-of-state groups poured money into states where the state legislature have "primary control" over the redistricting process, like NC.
In 2011, the NC state legislature (the NC General Assembly or "NCGA") drew some of the most gerrymandered electoral districts in the country – both for themselves, and NC's US Congress seats.
The VRA had been working. For example, in North Carolina African American voter registration surged and North Carolina emerged as a swing state in national elections.
There was pushback. Shelby County, Alabama – a couple counties away from Selma – had been a covered jurisdiction under the VRA, and it brought suit to overturn a key component of the VRA.
In 2013, the US Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision along ideological lines to overturn the formula used to determine "pre-clearance" under the Voting Rights Act in the Shelby Co. vs Holder case. Chief Justice Roberts said that America had "changed".
The same day that "Shelby" was announced in 2013, an NC Lawmaker said, "now we can go with the full bill." A voting bill was already drafted, and waiting.
The types of ID's that were allowed for voting did NOT include Student IDs OR Government Employee IDs.
"Voter ID" laws disproportionality affect women. Of those disenfranchised by NC's 2013 law, 64% were women.
However, no lawsuit was brought on that basis because state laws that discriminate based on GENDER are NOT subject to "strict scrutiny" in judicial review of state laws under 14th amendment "Equal Protection" evaluation.
Note –> We never passed the Equal Rights Amendment. The ERA died right here in NC when the NCGA refused to ratify it.
Because NC's 2013 "Voter ID" law did not allow Student IDs, mostly did not allow out-of state Driver's licenses, and ended pre-registration – young people were affected at a higher rate than voters over 30.
In 2016, a federal Court overturned the law. They found emails that showed that lawmakers had intended to discriminate against "African Americans with almost surgical precision". The NC legislature appealed the ruling.
In 2016 – 2017, courts also struck down all 3 voting maps drawn by the NCGA in 2011 as unconstitutional Racial gerrymanders in violation of the Equal Protection Clause. The NCGA has continued to pushback by appealing the ruling, and drawing other gerrymandered voting maps that even now being challenged in court.
In 2018, about 83% of North Carolinians live in state legislative districts that are affected by what SCOTUS affirmed were Racially gerrymandered districts. The current NCGA was elected from racially gerrymandered voting maps.
In May 2017, the US Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of the case overturning NC's "Voter ID" law. The same day the Supreme Court announced that it wouldn't take up the appeal seeking to reinstate the discriminatory voter-ID law, NC lawmakers announced that they intend to pass a NEW VOTER ID law to restrict voter access.
NC lawmakers have now passed a proposed "Constitutional Amendment" to require a yet-to-be determined type of "Photo ID" to vote in person for all future elections. The proposed amendment to the NC Constitution would give these same lawmakers the ability to decide what kinds of ID are allowed when they come back into session in November.
By choosing the types of "Photo IDs" that will be required to vote, lawmakers elected from racially gerrymandered voting districts will be able to choose the demographics of voters for the 2020 election.
A new census will be done in 2020, and the lawmakers who control the NCGA in 2020 will get to draw the voting district Maps almost however they want after the 2020 census.
NC Lawmakers have also restructured the NC State Board of Elections, which oversees all voter registration and election activities, by merging it with the NC State Board of Ethics, which enforces ethics and lobbying laws, and changed the structure and manner of appointment to the merged board.
The new law changed the number of members of the NC State Board to eight (8), and each County Board of Elections to 4 members. The Board members are evenly divided between two political parties (which means more deadlock). It also takes away the ability of Secretary of State to investigate and levy fines for ethics violations.
The NCGA has done several versions of this change to the Board of Elections, each of which has been challenged and either entirely or partially overturned by courts. The first version of the change was struck down by state courts, lawmakers made some changes to the judiciary, then came back with a slightly different version. A 9th member has been appointed to the state Board of elections by court order.
NC Lawmakers are now trying to amend the state constitution to change the NCSBE back to eight members with an amendment to the state constitution.
NC Lawmakers keep loosing in court. In an attempt to get more favorable judgements, the have made significant changes to the judiciary in NC.
They passed a law redistricting the two most populous counties, Wake and Mecklenburg. Previously, District Court judges in Wake and Mecklenburg were elected from the whole county. This new law breaks these counties up into "districts" which, gives the NCGA the ability to draw voting districts in a way that suits them.
Changes to Wake county judges is particularly of concern, because Wake County Superior Court 3-judge panels are the venue to review challenges to NCGA actions and redistricting plans. In fact, these lawmakers have a case pending in Wake county right now for violating the NC Constitution prohibition on mid-cycle redistricting of legislative districts.
The next chapter in this story will be written by you. You will write it using your RIGHT TO VOTE. Your future is on the ballot this year in North Carolina.
YOU have been empowered by those who came before you to make your voice heard by registering to vote, and in November – VOTE!
Sept. 22, 2018, L. Aylett Colston. Earlier versions of the post were presented at "Uniting for our Future" on July 14th, 2018 at The Enterprise Center in Winston-Salem, NC; the "Fight4Her" Summit on August 11, 2018 in Chapel Hill, NC; and at the "Using your voice: Empowerment through Voting" workshop at the International Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro, NC, Sept 22, 2018.
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PORT CLINTON - The Sandusky Ski Club will hold its annual Awards Banquet at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Catawba Island Club, Port Clingong. Cocktails are at 5 p.m. with a buffett at 6 p.m. Newly elected officers for next season will be installed. For more information call 419-239-8545.


My life now is about proving I am the person who can handle anything. My parents wanted me to finish education as soon as possible and marry a rich guy, but this is definitely not the way I wanted it to be. I decided to prove them wrong. I have a full-time job, I do what I like, and I'm really proud of myself. I'm also working as a part-time stylist. I do pretty well, as I had some publications in various magazines, but I chose studying journalism instead of styling because I started thinking about future – there are more chances to get successful. My biggest trouble is combining full-time job and studying – I'm only 22 and I still want to go out, or meet my friends. Today, actually, is my last free day this month – and it's only the 14th.


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TUNIS — Tunisian women led a march by more than 1,000 demonstrators on Saturday, including men, to demand equal inheritance rights for both sexes in the North African country.
Last year, President Beji Caid Essebsi announced plans to set up a commission to examine "individual liberties" and "equality in all domains", including inheritance.
His announcement sparked opposition from Muslim clerics, who issued a statement saying the proposals amounted to "a flagrant violation" of Islamic precepts.
The 2011 revolution in Tunisia toppled the regime of autocratic president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and sparked uprisings across the Arab world, where changes to inheritance rights are considered a taboo.
"There must be equality, it is in the constitution," adopted after the 2011 uprising, said Sana Ben Achour, president of the Beity association which supports women.
The commission examining individual liberties is expected to release its first report in June and would recommend a policy of step by step changes, one of its members said.
It could suggest families take it upon themselves to equally distribute the inheritance between sons and daughters, thus bypassing Islamic precepts.