As real estate leader in office property investment in the greater Paris region and other French metropolitan areas, Icade offers an approach to service properties based on user needs.
Emmanuelle Baboulin Head of Office Property Investment division
« Our expertise in devising real estate solutions, coupled with our deep knowledge of urban challenges, enables us to be by your side right from the start, by helping you find, design or upgrade your office or even choose the layout that is right for you. »
With significant property holdings, recognized knowledge ininnovative real estate solutions, and expertise in urban solutions, Icade helps its clients reinvent agile, flexible work environments that favour collaboration and innovation.
Always attentive to users, Icade helps companies find concrete, high-performing solutions as well as providing custom solutions aligned with clients’ values.
Icade possesses a portfolio of office buildings in Île-de-France and other main French metropolitan areas, as well as two businessparks and business hubs: Parc des Portes de Paris/Le Mauvin and Paris Orly-Rungis.
It also holds a portfolio of hotels and a residual asset portfolio of warehouses and housing.
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« The Portfolio Management Department’s sphere of responsibility is in line with Icade’s determination to manage its property portfolio in a more efficient, dynamic and growth-oriented fashion. »
Services, renovation, safety, and management—our employees have expertise in all those areas. Our multi-disciplinary teams are responsible for all components of each property investment project: the research phase and the design, configuration, and further evolution of your offices.
Our Property Investment teams imagine modulable real estate enabling versatility to structure agile and collaborative work.
We create spaces in our buildings and our businessparks that offer conditions favouring new ways of working: a happiness manager to lead offices and coworking spaces, concierges, large and varied food service options, gyms, shared gardens, private transport with electric shuttles, digital service applications, and more.
CSR commitments lie at the heart of our strategy for healthy, environmentally friendly work environments.
With ecodesign, use of low-carbon materials, development of renewables, roll-out of sustainable mobility solutions, connected and communicative building solutions, and urban integration of nature, we help our clients benefit from the highest standards in sustainable development.
As proof of our commitment, Icade’s buildings and office parks have earned the top labels and certifications: all our new buildings are certified HQE and/or BREEAM Very Good at minimum. As leader and best in class in CSR, Icade is also a pilot company for many other environmental certifications and standards, including Energy + Carbon - (E+C-); R2S ‘connected and communicative building’, a joint certification from the Smart Buildings Alliance (SBA) and HQE; and Osmoz, a quality-of-life and well-being certification.
Going further, as proof of the quality of our services, our office parks have been certified as Parks of Excellence by an outside accreditation organization since March 2018.
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Leveraging synergies between our Commercial Property Investment and Development divisions is one pillar of the Icade integrated real estate operator strategy. The investmentteams, as investors and contracting authorities, work hand-in-hand with Icade Promotion, which steps in as deputy contracting authority.
These synergies become reality in countless ambitious and innovative projects, such as Origine (a new, 69,000-m² urban island under construction in Nanterre) and Fresk (20,500 m² under renovation in Issy-les-Moulineaux).
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In my opinion this is the finest single pitch Raspberry Rocks has to offer. I have climbed this pitch over 50 times myself. Locate a hand crack about 20' left of Pressure Drop. Climb this handcrack into a "V Slot" then start clipping bolts, move over the roof and start the finger tip liebacking alternating with some stemming. After the seventh bolt move right into an incipient finger and handcrack. At about 80' you will find the anchors. It is possible to climb the second pitch of Weather or Not (5.8 to the summit from this point.

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# ip6 -a # sysctl -w net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv=1
The first command was mentioned on a blog post as needed to “fully enable IPv6 features, beyond what is enabled via the Control Panel”. The second command enables the acceptance of IPv6 Router Advertisements.
This turns out to NOT be be needed at all. I did a complete new Snow Leopard install from the DVD this evening on a spare MacBook Pro, and everything IPv6 worked perfectly, out of the box. IPv6 was enabled by default, and fast visits to test-ipv6.com and ipv6-test.com showed full native IPv6 connectivity.
I can only surmise that somewhere along the way, my regular MacBook Pro had had IPv6 turned off in some unusual way. Or it could be that my original MacBook Pro was originally a Leopard install, which was upgraded to Snow Leopard.
So, MacOS X Snow Leopard completely IPv6 ready, out of the box. I’ll be testing Lion in January…


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U.S. prof. gives Israeli prize money to Palestinian university (via Shivsankar):
"The American mathematician David Mumford, co-winner of the 2008 Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics, announced upon receiving the award yesterday that he will donate the money to Bir Zeit University, near Ramallah, and to Gisha, an Israeli organization that advocates for Palestinian freedom of movement.
"I decided to donate my share of the Wolf Prize to enable the academic community in occupied Palestine to survive and thrive," Mumford told Haaretz. "I am very grateful for the prize, but I believe that Palestinian students should have an opportunity to go elsewhere to acquire an education. Students in the West Bank and Gaza today do not have an opportunity to do that." "
More about Mumford here and here. He visited TIFR frequently and adopted an Indian child.

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Playboi Carti – Right Now Ft. Pi’erre Bourne Mp3 Download Audio
Playboi Carti inluded Pi’erre Bourne in two tracks in this album and here we got one joined project work from the two stars tagged “Right Now”
The seventeen track debut studio album is out by Playboi Carti titled “Die Lit”. This midnight he sneaked the amazing album out for his fans with many featured artists.
Download Mp3 & Enjoy!

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This fantasy map was created specially for Gigapan. I noticed that my previous uploads were not really panoramas, so I decided to construct one for Gigapan using a previously made map.
It was created by taking a 9,000 x 6,000 pixel version of "105 & 110 Quilt" and increasing the width by 3 times to 27,000 pixels. I would have made it larger, but my computer cannot handle images larger than 30,000 pixels.
The map contains modified aerial photography of the area around the 105 & 110 interchange in Los Angeles and is apart of my "Los Angeles Interchanges Series," which are a series of maps featuring one geography (Los Angeles), one projection type (Diamond Quilt Projection), and one aspect of the built environment (highway interchanges).
View the original map "105 & 110 Quilt" on my website: www.nikolasschiller.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/08/19/1132 /View the rest of the "Los Angeles Interchanges Series" www.nikolasschiller.com/blog/index.php/archives/category/location/california/los-angeles/interchanges /View similar Diamond Quilt Projection Maps: www.nikolasschiller.com/blog/index.php/archives/category/renderings/quilt/diamond /


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It is a well-known fact that everybody likes to spend his/her time outdoors because it gives relaxation, encourages family togetherness & obviously, the nice garden does something for bringing out the unique beauty of home. However, just how do people keep their garden nice & unspoiled?
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The South Campus Gateway will be overrun by superheroes, giant tapestries and three-dimensional paintings when four local artists display their work for the Arts in the Alley project this month.
Three galleries at the Gateway — the Shoebox, the Arts Initiative Space, and the Ohio Art League — will host the shows.
Adam Brouillette, a featured artist and president of the local artist group Couchfire Collective, said his work attempts to reconnect with his college years, when he wanted to be a comic book illustrator.
“I wanted to go into a storybook mentality and pay homage to the characters that I was in love with back then,” he said.
Though he considers himself a printmaker, Brouillette’s show, entitled “Heroes and Legends”, presents five paintings ranging from 6 to 18 feet wide.
“I’m trying to do something I haven’t done before and work large,” he said. “This is the first time I’ve painted on canvass since sophomore year of college.”
Brouillette said he hopes that he will soon be able to show his work in large institutions and museums. His work will be displayed in the Arts Initiative Space.
Kate Dowell, exhibition director of the Shoebox, said her gallery will show works by Erin Riley, a local tapestry weaver.
Riley’s work treats tapestries like paintings because she superimposes images from photographs she finds or takes in the real world.
“She’s working with the historical craft of weaving combined with contemporary tools like Google image search or Flickr,” Dowell said.
The Ohio Art League will host painters Ian Magargee and Christin Hutchinson, said Eliza Jones, the group’s membership coordinator. Both artists bring a three-dimensional aspect to their work.
“Ian paints on canvas with oil, but that canvas is generally put into abstract shapes,” she said. “Christin focuses mainly on abstract self-portraits on lattice than can be bent or wrapped.”
The Arts in the Alley project was started by the Arts Initiative at OSU in October to create an arts community near campus.
The group hopes that Arts in the Alley will serve as an incubator for new artists while also bringing more people to the area, said Victoria Ellwood, a spokeswoman for the Arts Initiative.
Dowell said her gallery takes applications on a rolling basis for artists who want to sell their work, and she is constantly looking to promote new artists, including students.
“We have had [OSU] grad students and alumni, but we haven’t had undergrads yet,” she said.
The Arts Initiative hopes these gallery openings will represent a jumping-off point for a strong commercial and artistic presence on campus.
“For emerging artists, this is a way that they can have space and learn to establish their businesses and careers as artists,” Ellwood said. “It’s a win-win for everybody — more space for these artists and increased activity for the Gateway.”
The Shoebox, the Arts Initiative Space and the Ohio Art League will host opening receptions at 6 p.m. on Feb. 4. The galleries will display the work for the rest of the month.


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Deep and restorative forms of sleep accounted for a mean 3.6% of total sleep among surgical ICU patients, compared with more than 33% in healthy people, reported Randall S. Friese, M.D., of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and colleagues, in the December issue of the Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection and Critical Care.
Although total sleep time was essentially normal in the ICU patients, averaging 8.28 hours per day, they had a mean of 6.2 awakenings per hour.
"Current clinical-care protocols routinely and severely deprive critically ill patients of sleep at a time when the need for adequate rest is perhaps most essential," said Dr. Friese.
The prospective study monitored sleep patterns via polysomnography in 16 patients in an urban hospital's surgical ICU for up to 24 hours (mean recording time was 19.7 hours per patient).
The patients had suffered traumatic injuries or undergone intra-abdominal surgery two to 10 days before the sleep study began. They were excluded if they were predisposed to abnormal sleep by such conditions as brain injuries, heavy sedation, hemodynamic instability, systemic inflammation, or a history of sleep disorders.
The patients spent about 96% (SD: 6%) of total sleep time in stage 1 or 2 sleep, which the researchers described as "superficial sleep." Stage 3 and 4 sleep accounted for 0.29% (SD: 0.57%) of total sleep, and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep was 3.3% (SD: 6.2%) of the total.
Previous studies have established that normal healthy people spend 50% to 60% in stages 1 and 2, 13% to 23% in stages 3 and 4, and 20% to 25% in REM sleep, the researchers said.
These differences in sleep architecture between patients and historical controls were statistically significant (P<0.001).
The group looked for links between sleep patterns and narcotic and benzodiazepam doses. No significant correlations were found but there was a nonsignificant trend toward stage 3 to 4 sleep time increasing with cumulative 24-hour benzodiazepam doses (P=0.07).
"Sleep latency does not seem to be a significant issue in the ICU," the researchers said. The mean time between initiation of polysomnography recording and the onset of sleep was 0.83 hours (SD: 1.94), suggesting that patients had little difficulty falling asleep.
The study did not investigate the causes for the subsequent disruptions leading to abnormal sleep architecture. However, the authors said, "it is likely that acute physiologic changes from illness or injury as well as environmental factors both contribute to the abnormal sleep seen in this patient population."
ICU setups and procedures may contribute to the latter category and could be modified to lessen the sleep disruption, the researchers said.
"These modifications include protocols that ensure individual patient rooms for all, patient care routines that maximize periods of uninterrupted sleep, decreased noise levels, the adoption of diurnal lighting practices, and the elimination of nonessential monitoring equipment," they said.
The authors pointed out several limitations including the convenience selection of the participants and the use of healthy historical controls.
|UT Southwestern funded the study.
No financial disclosures were reported.
Zalman S. Agus, MD Emeritus Professor
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection and Critical CareSource Reference: Friese R, et al "Quantity and quality of sleep in the surgical intensive care unit: are our patients sleeping?" Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care 2007; DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31815b83d7.

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In this paper, a new computer tomography (CT) lung nodule computer-aided detection (CAD) method is proposed for detecting both solid nodules and ground-glass opacity (GGO) nodules (part solid and nonsolid). This method consists of several steps. First, the lung region is segmented from the CT data using a fuzzy thresholding method. Then, the volumetric shape index map, which is based on local Gaussian and mean curvatures, and the "dot" map, which is based on the eigenvalues of a Hessian matrix, are calculated for each voxel within the lungs to enhance objects of a specific shape with high spherical elements (such as nodule objects). The combination of the shape index (local shape information) and "dot" features (local intensity dispersion information) provides a good structure descriptor for the initial nodule candidates generation. Antigeometric diffusion, which diffuses across the image edges, is used as a preprocessing step. The smoothness of image edges enables the accurate calculation of voxel-based geometric features. Adaptive thresholding and modified expectation-maximization methods are employed to segment potential nodule objects. Rule-based filtering is first used to remove easily dismissible nonnodule objects. This is followed by a weighted support vector machine (SVM) classification to further reduce the number of false positive (FP) objects. The proposed method has been trained and validated on a clinical dataset of 108 thoracic CT scans using a wide range of tube dose levels that contain 220 nodules (185 solid nodules and 35 GGO nodules) determined by a ground truth reading process. The data were randomly split into training and testing datasets. The experimental results using the independent dataset indicate an average detection rate of 90.2%, with approximately 8.2 FP/scan. Some challenging nodules such as nonspherical nodules and low-contrast part-solid and nonsolid nodules were identified, while most tissues such as blood vessels were excluded. The method's high detection rate, fast computation, and applicability to different imaging conditions and nodule types shows much promise for clinical applications.


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A bar fight is brewing between the local craft beer producers and the big multi-national Anheuser-Busch Budweiser boys who recently acquired 10 Barrel Brewing at 9th and Bannock in Boise.
Idaho Beer and Wine Distributors Association, which represents 18 distributors that employ 900 people says Idaho law grants special rights to small breweries – which include every Idaho-based brewery – but not to large ones such as Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Budweiser and Bud Light.
The outcome should be interesting because the 10 Barrel building is owned by the Idaho Land Board and it leases tax-exempt space to the craft brewer. The board spent several hundred thousand dollars doing “tenant improvements” for the brewer in exchange for a 15 year lease.
If the Alcohol Beverage Control boys –read that “Idaho State Police”– decide 10 Barrel is acting illegally under the new ownership, it could put the Land Board lease in jeopardy. We expect the poor folks at the Attorney General’s office will be forced to advise both the State Police and the Land Board.
We’d bet a beer the ultimate ruling will favor the big Belgian-Brazilian beer brewer over the locals.
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- March 13, 2023
On February 24, the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution hosted “One Year After: Ukraine War Analysis and Prospects,” an all-day virtual event to discuss the effects of the war and potential post-war contexts.
The event featured Romantsova Oleksandra, executive director of the Center for Civil Liberties, the first Ukrainian organization to win a Noble Peace Prize. The recognition, which the human rights organization received in 2022, was due in part to their work documenting war crimes against civilians in occupied areas of Ukraine.
- April 7, 2022
The Carter School has collected articles and seminars written and presented by our faculty to help researchers, peacebuilders, and knowledge seekers understand the scope and impact of Russia’s war on Ukraine. As new resources become available, they will be added to this page.
- March 30, 2022
Peace and Conflict Resolution scholars and foreign affairs practitioners convened at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School’s Point of View research and retreat facility in Mason Neck, Virginia issued the following appeal to the conflicting parties in Ukraine.
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On this week's episode of the Barbless Fly Fishing Podcast we sit down with Kara Tripp - Founder of Damsel Fly Fishing, current Director of Montana Women's Fly Fishing School and guide for Gallatin River Guides. Kara talks to us about being a female in the industry, getting her start at Redding Fly Shop, and what led to her and her sister starting Damsel Fly Fishing - a company specializing in fly fishing products for women.
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One of my friends used the word "device" too often in her vocabulary. She used this word "device" more often than the device itself, because she did not know at all what it was. She thought it was something cool, which no one else has! But in fact, it turned out that absolutely everyone has devices. After all, a device is a technical device, apparatus or device that performs certain functions.
As soon as she found out that everyone has had devices for a long time, she found a new word for herself – "gadget". And this time, she knew for sure that the gadget is not just a device, but an original, non-standard technical device. Gadgets tend to be more fancy and smarter than conventional technology. It was this factor that my friend liked so much.
Today, a gadget can be called a phone, smartphone, PDA, Bluetooth headset and other high-tech gizmos. Here is the difference between these two devices. A device is an independent device, and a gadget is a gadget for other devices. Portability is an attribute of gadgets. Devices can be huge!
Traditionally, a gadget is considered a PDA and a cell phone with additional features such as text input recognition, an organizer, a text and image editor, or a slide-out keyboard. Secondly, the gadget – as it is understood now – is always digital, and the device is not necessary. Both a mechanical meat grinder and an electric saw can be called a device. Wow, and my whole house is in devices! Here are just smaller gadgets. Yes, the question arose why a phone with a built-in camera does not cause as many smiles and delight as a camera with a built-in phone.
A modern person does not need to justify why a flash drive should be in a watch, and a phone in a fountain pen. It’s just cool. Well, if you’re talking about me, I don’t need to use those words. Why not call a spade a spade? A phone is a phone, and a camera is a camera!
I use such words extremely rarely, as a rule, to emphasize, for example, the huge tricked-out functions 🙂


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The Poet as Prophet and Punster: A Review of In Samarkand by Cesar Ruiz AquinoPosted: September 11, 2014
(I just found out that this came out in the Silliman Journal! This feels timely because sir Sawi won this year’s Nick Joaquin Poet of the Year)
The Poet as Prophet and Punster
A Review by Antonio Galay-David
In Samarkand by Cesar Aquino, a collection of poems and verseliterations, illustrates the poet’s development from the lush lyricism of his salad days to the word-obsessed economy of his more erudite later life. But the placement of the newer poems at the beginning of the book and the earlier ones at the end lend the collection a retrogressive movement, with the succinct newer poems “blossoming” into the more ornate eloquence of younger days. This “blossoming,” occurring in reverse of Wilde’s proposed development of wisdom in the decrease of earnestness, is skewered with the gradual decrease of what T.S. Eliot describes as high intellectualism in poetry: the later poems are whimsical but are dense with allusive reference, while as the collection backtracks the allusions diminish but the poems acquire a graver tone. This is such that the first “X-Sight” of the book appears to be a more succinct but more parodic version of the richer “X-Sight” that concludes the collection. Serving as transition between the younger and older poems are the verseliterations – poems crafted by taking lines of prose – which are on their own works of a certain gravitas easily accessible on closed reading but are in fact crafted experimentally, portending perhaps the poet’s departure from his lyricism into the laboratory of words.
But this generalization would not mention the consistencies found throughout the collection, for across time Aquino’s stylistic peculiarities remain constant. For one thing, many of the poems rely on deft execution of solidity of specification. In the early poem “Song” for instance, the oft discussed unrequited love is concretely demonstrated in all its hopelessness with the lines “your smile was the ripple I made/ on your surface of eternal water.” The same concreteness is evident in the later poem “Like the moon,” with the lines “in the gut of craters that you left” demonstrating the emptiness of absence. This also occurs in the violence of language that borders on surrealism reminiscent of Jose Garcia Villa. This is evident in early poems, like “Verb lovely flesh” as well as in later poems like the haiku “Signs of the times.”
Perhaps the most pervading consistency in the collection is the poet’s own voice of erudition, if not that Eliotian high intellectualism in the poem’s intertextuality then in the poems’ collective portending “of what is yet to happen” to quote the introduction by Edith Tiempo.
As mentioned, the poems are often heavy with allusion, revealing there not only the poet’s vast store of knowledge but also his deep connection to the Philippine poetic tradition. The several “Kalisud” poems, for instance, are given a new dimension if the reader is familiar with the allusion (Rowena Torrevillas gives useful commentary on one of the poems, “Kalisud ala Superman”). In his lyricism the poet does not hesitate to cite spiritual references, from the Kabalistic allusion of Adam Kadmon in “Name” to the Indochinese sanctity of the river Chao Phraya in “In the sign.” In less lyrical works the allusion is almost central to the poem, as the case in “Tendril.” The long poem “Eyoter,” a tour de force of allusions and linguistic puns, is so allusive it even throws in the names of the poet’s writer-friends Susan Lara, Krip Yuson and Ricky de Ungria. Aquino also admits to his influences, and Jun Lansang is oft alluded to in the poems as well. But perhaps the verseliterations are the most concrete demonstration of allusion, as at times the very point of the verseliteration is the content of the source prose.
Many of the poems are of an inherently contemplative nature, departing from pure experience and delving into the humanistic – and sometimes sociological – implications of the experience, demonstrating what Edith Tiempo describes as the “Aristotelian Heresy” in the introduction. In “She” for instance the poet imagines the embers of passion burning within the woman even after the act of intercourse (“she retains the fire”). The speculation begins when the poet declares that “she is the fire” – that in woman sex becomes being. The same goes with “X-Sight” (in both versions). The persona begins by describing the strangeness of the addressee’s lack of impact when he tries to recall her. But then it moves on to realizing why: for the trivialities of the flesh do not last in light of the eternal subject, revealed when the persona “runs into” who the addressee really is. The almost occult poetic wisdom of “Song” is described vividly in Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez’ commentary at the book’s end.
A selection of best poems would not be definitive of the collection’s quality and would come out with pronounced heterogeneity. But undoubtedly the best poems are the two “X-Sight”s, “She comes with horns and tail,” “Shock of Recognition,” “Eyoter,” “Idea,” “Plain Blues,” “Song” and “Word without end.” For the verseliterations, “words,” “The hunt for plums,” “the unprintable word” and “the birds.” “She comes with horns and tail” earns recognition for its transforming image of the crescent moon comet as horns and tail. “Shock of recognition” demonstrates that near madness typical in poetic expression. “Eyoter” almost does not make sense but demonstrates the poet’s deft use of puns (“Cesar Aquino in pun y vino”). “Idea,” like “Shock of Recognition,” demonstrates how the fantasy of imagery can be used to express unpronounceable emotions. “Plain blues” gets recognition for its delightful mockery of the formal device of metaphor in its last lines. The stylistic complexity of “Word without end,” demonstrated simply by the fact that the quatrains’ initials are anagrams of “love,” are analyzed more thoroughly in a closed reading by Ralph Semino Galan. Almost all of the verseliterations are excellent, and the above selection is almost arbitrary. But perhaps special mention should be made of “The college sits down,” which is so well crafted it piqued the curiosity of the writer of this review to try Malachi Martin’s “The Final Conclave.”
The eponymous poem, “Samarkand” deserves special mention because it is the most prototypical piece in the collection. Like most of the poems it demonstrates not the immediate experience but the possible implications of the experience, in this case the persona’s hopelessly romantic “stopping for you to catch up forever.” The allusion to the ancient capital of Tamerlane’s Mongol empire is perhaps to mirror another poem about a Mongol Khagan, Coleridge’s Kubla Khan, and the aversion of women described in that poem to Kublai Khan. The allusion is strengthened by the subtle pun “tamarind,” an allusion to Tamerlane.
In Samarkand’s lofty intellectualism comes in both densely allusive lines and in the almost deranged nature of its speculative gravitas. As such it is a daunting collection to read. But the reward of tapping into that “abundance of poetic substance of highest merit” (again taken from the introduction) is worth the effort. In Samarkand demonstrates what makes Cesar Aquino one of the country’s foremost poets.


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This one-man killing squad doesn’t need a firearm when he’s got a pocket knife, a corkscrew and his fists
Director Antoine Fuqua, Eminem, an IMAX gamble and an aggressive release date all contributed to the film’s record $35 million opening
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TV Producer and Event Coordinator specializing in one of a kind celebrations for Private and Corporate events in Southern California. Karen was Co Executive Producer of the Hallmark movie "The Note." "The Note" became the networks third highest-rated and third most-watched original movie premiere in its history.
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Your buddy isn't a puppy anymore. Sure, you still have playtime, walks, and plenty of snuggles, but as dogs mature, there's often a gradual physical decline. Incontinence is one of these signs of aging, and it's not uncommon in older canines.
If your pooch is prone to having accidents, learn to compensate for this annoying problem. Understanding incontinence and its treatments will keep your home protected while providing cleanliness and dignity to your senior dog.
Incontinence is uncontrolled bladder function. Loss of bowel control isn't quite as common but is another form. Both can be due to a number of reasons, especially as a dog gets older.
Yes, it's a sign of the natural aging process, but incontinence is demonstrating underlying conditions. More of a nuisance than anything else, the condition itself is not a serious problem. What's causing it very well could be, though.
You have to differentiate between an intentional release and incontinence. If a dog stares at you while going to the bathroom in an improper location, this isn't an accident. But if you notice shy or uncomfortable behavior, visual evidence, strong odors, and excessive grooming, your dog may be incontinent. Incontinence can be just a dribble or a full release. It may occur when they're sleeping, walking, standing, or sitting. If you notice these signs, make a vet appointment immediately.
There isn't a root cause of incontinence. It can occur in any animal at any time. Puppies, for example, will need training to develop proper bathroom habits. Incontinence in younger and adult dogs can stem from a number of issues, including trauma and anatomical defects. These situations are fairly rare, however.
Senior canine incontinence has the highest prevalence. Pups most affected by it are large-breed spayed females. Males of any size can develop prostate problems as they age, too. With the increased amount of contributing factors for incontinence in older dogs, it may require multiple vet visits to figure out the exact cause.
It's not your dog's fault if they're suffering from incontinence. There are a host of causes that could be making your pet relieve themselves uncontrollably. The most common are urinary tract infections. Additionally, tumors and stones can spur accidents. Kidney disease and gastrointestinal disorders also have a high potential to make an animal incontinent.
Arthritis is a typical cause or contributing factor of incontinence in senior dogs. Since it makes mobility difficult, your pup may lose proper bathroom habits. There's a chance they could be holding it till they have an accident because their bodies are hurting too much to go outside to relieve themselves.
Spinal injuries are another incontinence culprit. If your little buddy had an injury to bone, discs, or nerves, controlling their bodily functions may not be possible.
Dementia, brain tumors, and infections can cause incontinence in canines. These conditions lead to behavioral changes, including memory lapses. An early sign of mental disorders in dogs is forgetting housetraining. Not only should you monitor them for their own safety, but you'll need to take them outside after every meal, nap, and drinking session.
It's important that your pup keeps their dignity. Never make them feel like they did wrong for having an accident: they won't understand the situation or why you're mad. Overall, whenever an animal is suffering from a physical or mental decline, the last thing you want to do is berate them or show anger. These are their golden years, so they deserve unconditional love, affection, understanding, forgiveness, and acceptance.
The first line of medical defense against canine incontinence is medication. If there's a suspected infection, your vet will provide antibiotics. Drugs that strengthen nerves and muscles could control accidental urination. Pain medication relieves symptoms of arthritis. In female dogs, hormone replacement therapy is a potential resolution: administering estrogen doses might be the key to eliminating incontinence.
Surgery may be an option if there's a defect or damage to the urinary tract or other areas. This requires a specialist because it's a complicated operation, so your vet will provide a referral and help you every step of the way. Just remember that this procedure may not entirely stop incontinence, but it will greatly reduce the problem.
Having an incontinent pet can be disastrous to a home. You'll need to be adaptable if you don't want to spend your days cleaning up accidents. Take measures to improve your dog's dignity and quality of life while keeping your residence tidy.
Always use an enzyme cleaner to detract your pooch from frequenting the same area to relieve themselves. Puppy pads placed in popular areas will save time, money, and your carpets. Using waterproof covers wherever your pet sleeps is also a good idea.
Vitamin C and cranberry supplements may potentially help by acidifying the animal's urine, which is often beneficial to treating or preventing various problems, including incontinence. Yet there are times when this natural remedy can have the opposite effects, so check with your vet before going this route.
Dog diapers are advantageous in extreme cases of incontinence. When using them, make sure to change the diapers often. Clean and dry the covered areas to reduce infection, irritation, and overwhelming smells. Keeping the fur trimmed around the site will make for easier cleanup. But only use this as a last resort if increased potty breaks and walks aren't helping the situation.
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In a major step towards sustainability, Uratex, one of the leading mattress companies in the Philippines, has announced its collaboration with the Seaqual Initiative. The partnership aims to reduce the company’s carbon footprint and create environmentally friendly products that are both comfortable and sustainable.
Let’s help bridge the gaps, keep the oceans blue, and encourage the community in protecting the environment and conserving our natural resources for future generations to enjoy.
The result of this collaboration is the Trill Seave Collection, a line of sleep products made from recycled ocean plastic. The Trill Seave Collection includes a mattress, topper, and pillow, all manufactured using post-consumer recycled plastic that has been converted into a woven fabric. The collection’s name, “Seave,” is derived from the words “sea” and “save,” emphasizing the importance of preserving our oceans and marine life.
READ MORE: Uratex Monoblock launches Bawal Ang Marupok campaign
This innovative collection positions Uratex as a pioneer in the sustainable sleep products market within the Philippines. By adopting eco-friendly practices and creating products that benefit both consumers and the planet, Uratex becomes the first company in the country to offer sustainable mattress options.
In addition, the company’s commitment to sustainability goes beyond product development, encompassing various aspects of its operations.
Uratex focuses on using clean and renewable energy, tree planting, waste reduction, waste management, upcycling, and continuous research on sustainable materials and circularity. These efforts significantly contribute to reducing waste and pollution.
READ MORE: Uratex: Your comfort partner
According to the World Bank Organization, the Philippines is one of the world’s worst polluters when it comes to ocean plastic waste. Every year, an estimated 2.7 million tons of plastic waste are generated in the country, with 20 percent of that ending up in the oceans. This has caused a huge environmental crisis, with plastic pollution endangering marine life and threatening the health of our oceans.
“Let’s help bridge the gaps, keep the oceans blue, and encourage the community in protecting the environment and conserving our natural resources for future generations to enjoy’” said Peachy Medina, Uratex Managing Director
The Uratex Trill Seave Collection is available at leading department stores, select Uratex dealers, showrooms, and the Uratex online shop. The Trill Seave mattress retails at P8,999; topper at P7,499 and pillow at P1,299.
READ MORE: Uratex PH celebrates 50th anniversary with ‘Project 50’
Marvey Alcantara, Business Unit Director for VisMin, commented on the convenience of ordering the Trill Seave Collection, saying, “It comes compressed in a box, not the usual bulky mattress, making it easier to deliver to any place in VisMin.”
With the launch of the Trill Seave Collection, Uratex takes a significant stride towards sustainability and eco-friendly business practices, setting a precedent for other companies in the industry to follow.


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How To Get Rich is a distillation of his business wisdom. Primarily concerned with the step-by-step creation of wealth, it ruthlessly dissects the business failures and financial triumphs of 'a South London lad who became rich virtually by accident'. Part manual, part memoir, part primer, this book is a template for those who are willing to stare down failure and transform their lives.
Canny, infuriating, cynical and generous by turns, How To Get Rich is an invaluable guide to 'the surprisingly simple art of collecting money which already has your name on it'.
Felix Dennis is one of Britain's wealthiest self-made entrepreneurs with an estimated fortune of £500 million. And he didn't get there simply by reading about how to get rich. He went out and did it.
Appreciating that those intent on becoming rich will not have the time or inclination to read page upon page of guidance and advice on the subject, Felix Dennis has reduced his own business wisdom to 88 tenets of wealth-generation, all written in his inimitable style.
How to Make Money is for those determined to get rich, for those who will not confuse reading with doing, for those who seek the narrow road. (First published in hardback as 88 The Narrow Road.)
God speed ...
and Good Luck!
The second collection of original verse by the maverick multimillionaire publisher Felix Dennis.
Praise for Felix Dennis's first volume of poetry, A Glass Half Full:
'The unpredictable Felix Dennis bursts forth as a 21st-century Kipling' Tom Wolfe
'If Waugh were still alive, he would fall on Dennis's verse with a glad cry of recognition and approval' John Walsh, Independent
'At least one of these poems will be instantly anthologised' Melvyn Bragg
'A Glass Half Full is funny, poignant and a breath of fresh air. I loved the whole thing' Sarah Broadhurst, Bookseller
'A Glass Half Full blew me away, Dennis is a crouching tiger about to wreak mayhem amongst the bleating lambs of English poetry' Mick Farren, author of Give the Anarchist a Cigarette
'A fantastic collection! Rich, sumptuous and beautifully threaded' Jon Snow
Following in the footsteps of A Glass Half Full, Lone Wolf and When Jack Sued Jill, Homeless In My Heart - Felix Dennis's long-awaited new collection of verse - is 'the story of a fool whose life was saved by poetry'.
Felix Dennis's life has been a long series of unlikely events: incarceration by the British government in 1971 following the longest conspiracy trial in British history; recording a chart single with John Lennon; co-authoring Muhammad Ali's first biography; becoming one of the richest individuals in Britain; launching one of the most successful media brands in the world; falling into crack cocaine addiction; beginning the task of planting a huge native broad-leaf forest in the Heart of England; salvaging the wreckage of a life dedicated to hedonism; and, lastly, and most surprisingly of all, discovering that he could write the kind of poetry that people wanted to read and to hear.
Now, with the publication of Homeless In My Heart, Felix Dennis's extraordinary talents have come to fruition - from ironic tales of darkness and savagery to hymns of praise for the glories of nature. Homeless In My Heart fulfils the promise predicted by the author and critic Tom Wolfe, who has called Dennis 'a 21st-century Kipling [whose poetry] rollicks and rolls with rhyme, meter and melody'.
Never one to shy away from difficult subjects, in Love, Of a Kind Dennis brings awkwardness, pain and intimacy together in an inimitable and pithy way. In over 50 new poems, accompanied by woodcut engravings, not only does Dennis present us with a different kind of love, but he also presents us with a different way of talking about love.
With his work admired by the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, Stephen Fry and Benjamin Zephaniah, Love, Of a Kind is an invaluable and indispensible collection of poetry for any poetry lovers' shelf and, for that matter, any lover's shelf.
When Jack Sued Jill is the latest collection of original verse by maverick multimillionaire publisher Felix Dennis. Taking the innocence of nursery rhymes and turning them into something altogether darker, Dennis turns his piercing eye on the follies and absurdities of modern life.
From ASBOs to Osama Bin Laden, creationism to crack houses, Humpty Dumpty to Tony Blair, nothing and no one is spared. Even more shockingly, once you've read Dennis's updating of 'Little Miss Muffet', you'll never be able to think of her in the same way again.
Scathing and hilarious, imaginative and unpredictable, When Jack Sued Jill is an essential collection of twisted nursery rhymes for the twenty-first century.

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Marginal note:Authorization to proceed immediately
97.35 (1) Despite section 97.34, if, on ex parte application by the Minister, a judge is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the collection of all or any part of an amount assessed or demanded under this Act would be jeopardized by a delay in the collection of that amount, the judge shall, on any terms that the judge considers reasonable in the circumstances, authorize the Minister to immediately take any action described in that section to collect the amount.
Marginal note:Notice not sent
(2) An authorization may be granted by a judge notwithstanding that a notice in respect of the amount has not been sent to the debtor at or before the time the application is made if the judge is satisfied that the receipt of the notice by the debtor would likely further jeopardize the collection of the amount and, for the purposes of sections 97.22, 97.24, 97.26, 97.28, 97.31 and 97.32, the amount in respect of which an authorization is granted is deemed to be an amount payable under this Act.
(3) Statements contained in an affidavit filed in the context of an application made under this section may be based on belief but must include the grounds for the belief.
Marginal note:Service of authorization
(4) An authorization must be served by the Minister on the debtor within 72 hours after it is granted, except if the judge orders the authorization to be served at some other time specified in the authorization, and, if a notice has not been sent to the debtor at or before the time of the application, the notice is to be served together with the authorization.
Marginal note:How service effected
(5) Service on a debtor must be effected by personal service or in accordance with the directions of a judge.
Marginal note:Application to judge for direction
(6) If service on a debtor cannot reasonably otherwise be effected as and when required under this section, the Minister may, as soon as is practicable, apply to a judge for further direction.
Marginal note:Review of authorization
(7) If a judge of a court has granted an authorization, the debtor may, on six clear days notice to the Deputy Attorney General of Canada, apply to a judge of the court to review the authorization.
Marginal note:Limitation period for review application
(8) An application under subsection (7) must be made
(a) within thirty days after the day on which the authorization was served on the debtor in accordance with this section; or
(b) within any further time that a judge may allow, on being satisfied that the application was made as soon as was practicable.
Marginal note:Hearing in camera
(9) An application may, on request of the debtor, be heard in camera, if the debtor establishes to the satisfaction of the judge that the circumstances of the case justify in camera proceedings.
Marginal note:Disposition of application
(10) On an application, the judge is to determine the question summarily and may confirm, set aside or vary the authorization and make any other order that the judge considers appropriate.
(11) If any question arises as to the course to be followed in connection with anything done or being done under this section and there is no direction in this section in respect of the matter, a judge may give any direction in respect of the matter that, in the opinion of the judge, is appropriate.
Marginal note:No appeal from review order
(12) No appeal lies from an order of a judge made under subsection (10).
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Is the Netherlands becoming the new Sweden? The country has serious problems with migrant gang shootings, migrant riots and a new report, out today, shows that there is a surge in car fires as well.
A famous Dutch blog obtained official statistics on car fires throughout the country. It showed that on average 40 per cent of car fires were deliberate. In the region of Utrecht this number was as high as 60 per cent.
Over the past decade car fires in Amsterdam, Culemborg and parts of Rotterdam have become a serious problem affecting the lives of people forced to live in the multicultural utopia of the modern Netherlands.

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Just like our skin, our hair also experiences environmental damages and signs of aging. Hair becomes weaker, duller, and thinner with time losing its sheen and glow. Often it leads to split ends or frizz, making your hair unmanageable.
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Author has written 15 stories for General, Love, General, Life, Young Adult, Friendship, Fantasy, Humor, and Romance.
Hola. As my name indicates, I am Amethyst Oceana.
I joined this website in order to post up my fictions and share them with everyone who comes to this site. I also joined this site in order to review other works written by other authors. I think I will very much enjoy being on this site, as I really love writing and reading in every aspect.
If you'd like to check out my Fanfiction.net profile, please use the following link: http://www.fanfiction.net/~amethystocean
Well, this is all for now. If you're interested to know some things about me then well... um... just scroll down below...
I am a girl who tends to write stories that may seem a little... dark? But honestly, I'm only trying to portray life as it really is. There are so many issues we struggle with today, and I just feel the need to touch up on them.
I love several genres of fiction; my favorites being horror, romance, and humor.
Favorite Fruit: It's a toss up between strawberries and peaches.
Favorite Music: Hmmm... don't really have a favorite... if it's got a catchy beat, I'll like it. Though I do have a thing for rock...
Favorite Colors: Purple, blue, and black (I know black isn't exactly a color... it's more like absence of color. But still... it's cool).
Hmmm... I think I'll cut the "Favorite List" short. I'm running out of things...
Racism; Don't even get me started about this...
Discrimination of ANY kind.
Narrow minded people.
Nosy people. (Sadly, I'm a bit of a hypocrite D: )
Poorly written stories that make me want to gauge my eyes out with metal spikes. (But like I said, I don't flame. I just go throw up somewhere).
The list goes on.
My family and friends.
Writing, naturally, of course. ;)
Reading. I thirst for knowledge on a daily basis. Or weekly. Or monthly. ...Maybe a decade...
People with a sense of humor.
Sarcasm; when used wisely.
Playing on the computer until my eyes BLEED... @_@
Ummm... scary/funny/romance movies...
And I love God.
Thinks hard--oh, and the wonderful authors on this site! ;) You all do a fabulous job of keeping me entertained.
"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you." --Anonymous
"Young minds are open and apt to change; old minds are open and apt to stay the same." --Me
"Men and their friends have desires; desire your friends more than you desire your desires lest your desire be to destroy yourself." --Me
"In politics, if you want anything said ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman." --Margaret Thatcher
"Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend." --Marcel Achard
"There are only two kinds of men - the dead and the deadly." --Helen Rowland
"A hard man is good to find." --Mae West
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." --Albert Einstein
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." --Albert Einstein
"I've got seven kids, the three words you hear most around my house are: "Hello, goodbye, and I'm pregnant." --Dean Martin
"Death is life's way of telling you you're fired." --Proverb
"In my sentences I go where no man has gone before...I am a boon to the English language." --George W. Bush
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." --Mark Twain
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." --Unknown
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." --Oscar Wilde
"Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill." --Johnny Carson
"To the world you may be just one person; but to just one person, you may be the world." --Unknown
There are a few people on this site whom I would like to thank for all their constant, wonderful support:
AndromedaMarine: Thank you so much for all your positive reviews of encouragement. Your words mean so much to me, and the fact that we can relate so well is even better. You're an amazing individual and your stories are beautiful. Just as you have been nudging me in the right direction, so will I give you a friendly nudge as well. Keep writing. Never, ever stop. I'd love to see you become as famous as someone like J.K. Rowling (don't know if you like her, but you get my emphasis), or even the other incredibly talented twentieth century poets of the modern time. You'd do well to continue writing, yourself. You're a great inspiration for other writers such as myself. Thank you so much.
mei-yasasame: You have been a great and loyal friend all these long years that I have known you, and even though the genres of my stories aren't quite exactly your taste, it means a lot to me that you read them anyway. Thanks, hun. I really appreciate it. It's good to know that I'll always have the support of my best friend. :) Keep on doing what you're doing, kid. You're awesome.
Chubby Cheese Goo: And last, but not least, thank you so much CCG. For everything. You are truly the apple of my eye, my own little cherry blossom, and my perfect bundle of precious joy. You are so beautiful and wonderful, did you know that? Well, it's true. I owe it all to my greatest supporter who has been there for me for as long as I can remember. You are my motivation. You are the reason I write; the reason I live; and the reason I choose to love. Thank you for everything. You don't know how much it means to me when you love me. You make me want to be a better person. I can't thank you enough. I love you, babe.


Metabones has upgraded its adapters to support the new Panasonic GH5 and the Canon 18-80mm cine zoom, via a free firmware upgrade. Metabones' official information says:
DJI has introduced the new Phantom 4 Advanced with a 1"-type, 20-megapixel sensor and a mechanical shutter which can shoot 4K video at 60 frames per second. The camera now records H.264 4K videos at 60fps or H.265 4K at 30fps, with a 100Mbps bitrate. The Phantom 4 Advanced+ version comes with its own 5.5-inch 1080p screen integrated into the controller. Flight time extended to 30 minutes. The Phantom 4 Advanced and Phantom 4 Advanced+ is £1,469 (1,549 EUR) and £1,699 (1,849 EUR) and will be on sale on April 30. The official info says:
Nikon has added many of the 4K video capabilities of its prosumer D500 to the new D7500 enthusiast model, which has just been revealed. Like the D500, the cheaper D7500 uses the same 20.9 MP DX-format CMOS sensor with an ISO up to 1,640,000 and can record 4K UHD video but with a 1.5x crop - of its already-cropped DX sensor compared to full frame. At 1080p it gets three-axis image stabilisation and Active D-lighting to control dynamic range, and there is no crop factor.
The aperture can be power-adjusted, there is 4K output via HDMI, a flat picture profile that assimilates log gamma, and both a mic and headphone jack. There is zebra patterns to aid exposure in video, too. The D7500 is priced at £1299 body only. Nikon's information says:
High Dynamic Range may be the buzzword of the moment for video right now, but there have been very few affordable consumer output device like TVs that can cope with it. Sony has now announced its European pricing for its new Bravia 4K HDR TVs, which start at £3500 for a 55-inch OLED model in the UK. The screen is very thin and the OLED technology gives a much more detailed, rich picture. The official information says:
Zeiss has added a new 135mm f/2.8 lens to its Batis family of full-frame autofocus optics for Sony E mount. There’s built-in optical image stablisation and an OLED display in a metal housing which is weather resistant. The lens will be available in May for £1749.99/ $1999. Zeiss’ official information says:
Canon has revealed new firmware for many of its cameras including the C700, C 100 Mark I and II, XC10, XC15 and ME series.
Of most interest is the change to the C100 Mark II which allows a shutter angle priority mode. This maintains the shutter angle when frames rate are changed and is ideal for switching between normal speed and slow-motion. Sony cameras have this feature and it’s been very popular.
The C100 Mark II also now works better with the popular EF 24-105 f/4 L Mark II lens, compensating for changes in aperture as you zoom. The Mark I C100 gets the similar peripheral illumination correction for the 24-105mm lens as well as 50mm f/1.8 STM, 35mm f/1.4L and 18-135mm EF-S zoom.
The range-topping C700 gets extra recording modes when using the Codex recorder, including 4K/QFHD ProRes, 4.5K Max at 100fps, 4.5K cinescope at 120fps and 422 HQ 10 bit at 60fps.
The XC10 and XC15 hybrid cameras get increased compatibility with 130-standard CFast cards, and the ME cube cameras have lots of updates including new auto exposure modes, improved white balance and monitor support, and support for more lenses.
All the firmware updates can be downloaded from the Canon download page.
Sony's popular A7S Mark II and A7R Mark II have had their prices cut in Europe. Official dealers are offering up £500 or 600Euros off the Sony mirrorless cameras which are often bought by filmmakers. In the UK, it means the high-resolution A7R Mark II has dropped from £2999 to £2499 and the more film-ready A7S Mark II from £2899 to £2499 at many retailers.
Both cameras has a similar price increase last summer, blamed on currency fluctuations and other global factors at the time.
The move fuels speculation that Sony is getting ready to reveal Mark III versions of the cameras.


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Roy Hopp, a member of the Christian Reformed Church, serves that denomination through the work of the Board of Publications. Hopp is also director of music at Woodlawn Christian Reformed Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan.


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Representatives from five of the 13 Colonies gathered here recently to fan enthusiasm for the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, and Martha Carson-Gentry was ready for them.
They came from Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, where Carson-Gentry is a high school teacher in west Chester County, and her principal has been heard to say: "I'm becoming increasingly terrified to ask her, 'What's new?' "
Carson-Gentry is a woman obsessed by the fact that most Americans don't have the foggiest idea what the Constitution is about, and she is doing something about it.
A recent survey of U.S. adults found that almost 50% did not know that the Constitution was written to form the federal government and define its powers. In fact, 27% of those polled identified the Bill of Rights as the Preamble to the Constitution, 59% said they didn't know what the Bill of Rights was, and 26% confused the Constitution with the Declaration of Independence.
That general ignorance is one reason the Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution has scheduled regional meetings to stimulate interest in the document that prescribes how our government will operate day to day, the limits of its authority and the rights that "We The People" have allowed that government.
Crusade in Classroom
The lack of knowledge of the Constitution galls Carson-Gentry, but her students are in the minority. They not only know what the Constitution is, they have lived it.
Their teacher has brought Speaker of the House Jim Wright, civil rights heroine Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King III into the classroom. She has also invited President Reagan and Lee Iacocca, although both declined because of more pressing business.
She has raised money for local contests, writes a bicentennial newsletter for the state commission on the Constitution and still finds time to teach four classes.
She also had time to come to the fourth of seven regional bicentennial meetings and to address workshops on what can be done locally to increase awareness of the Constitution at little or no expense. (The national bicentennial commission has little money to aid state and local groups.)
Carson-Gentry, a petite, graying woman, is an example of just the kind of local help the commission is looking for.
Student Radio Spots
She has her students doing radio spots on local stations. One, made by a bright-eyed Laotian girl who spoke in broken English about Benjamin Franklin, "brought tears to my eyes," Carson-Gentry said. "It just filled your heart up and it was one of the biggest moments of her life. I could just see her sweet little face light up!"
Carson-Gentry has tapped all kinds of local resources, experts at the state university in west Chester said.
"We don't have to be terribly astute, but there are people out there who are," she said. "I don't know all that much. I just call people who do. Ask them. They want to tell you what they know."
One day in class, one of her students allowed as how his grandfather was going to be Speaker of the House, and the dauntless Carson-Gentry prevailed on the youngster to ask the representative from Texas to address the class on the Constitution.
She followed up with a letter that read, in part: "Your grandson, Eric. . . is very proud of you and on the first day of school when I was explaining. . . what our plans were, he very quickly raised his hand and told us about his grandfather. . . . It would mean a lot to your grandsons and their fellow students."
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She added: "My ancestor, Samuel Price Carson, signed the Texas Declaration of Independence and was the first secretary of state of Texas. Will that help?"
Wright replied: "Thank you very much for the invitation which Eric delivered. I am truly very much impressed with your program and would be honored to be a part of it . . . ."
What impressed Carson-Gentry was that the envelope carried a postage stamp. Wright had not used his franking privilege.
When Rosa Parks, the black woman who refused to sit in the back of the bus in Montgomery, Ala., accepted an invitation to talk to Martha's class, guests agreed to attend. She raised $5,000 from local businesses for a luncheon to which she invited black senior citizens as well as her students.
"The students needed that exposure, and then in assembly after the luncheon, when all of the principals spoke, the students asked questions. They were extremely knowledgeable, and I was so proud!"
The national commission, headed by former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, is mightily impressed with the way Carson-Gentry delivers her message and would like to have a thousand more like her.
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The same day that she was holding forth to volunteers, Herbert Brownell, 84, U.S. attorney general under President Eisenhower, was addressing students at West Orange High School not far away.
"They had been studying like blazes," he said, "and they knew their stuff. They were just as bright as could be, and asked questions interminably." Then he visited a nearby university campus, where he ran into apathy.
"There was a hiatus in the '60s and '70s when history was not taught. It's very evident, and I think one thing we can do, in terms of the bicentennial, is to get those courses back in the curriculum. Perhaps we haven't done a good enough job in dramatizing the modern applications of the Constitution. Anyhow, that accounts for some spots of absolute ignorance. There's no doubt that an awful lot of people don't know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution."
Back at the meeting, Paul Clark, head of state and local programs for the commission, was summing up the problem:
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He outlined the plans for the next five years during which the commission will guide the American public through the Constitution's signing and ratification, culminating in 1991 in a celebration of the Bill of Rights and the other 16 amendments.
He spelled out what the 800 local commissions are doing, from excerpting a 1780s Philadelphia newspaper in Indiana to moving state Supreme Court deliberations into outlying towns in Washington state and Louisiana, from living-legacy parks built by retired people to changing street names, from firehouse suppers in rural Delaware to soapbox oratory in a Philadelphia park.


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In a post on X (embedded below), Samsung Australia has announced the long-awaited Galaxy Unpacked launch event, which starts on Wednesday, January 17, at 10:00 am (Pacific Standard Time). The event will take place in San Jose, California, but will also be broadcast live on Samsung's website as usual.
The short teaser video hardly reveals any details about the event, but the tagline "Galaxy AI is coming" clearly suggests that the focus will not be on the hardware of the Galaxy S24 series, but rather on its AI features. But this doesn't mean innovations in terms of hardware, prices and preorder bonuses will be absent.
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The Philippines is looking to get hold of at least one ex-U.S. Navy Lockheed P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft, with its original sensors and equipment, as it aims to increase its maritime domain awareness over contested waters in the South China Sea.
Speaking to Filipino reporters, defense secretary Delfin Lorenzana said, “It will be good if we acquire even one P-3C Orion, provided it has all its original equipment. Otherwise, it will just be another transport plane. We will find out if we can get one or two.” He said he would make a formal request to the U.S. “soon,” through the U.S. Excess Defense Articles Program.
Currently, the Philippines’ primary maritime surveillance aircraft are five Beechcraft King Air TC-90 turboprops donated by the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force in 2017. The Philippines is no stranger to the P-3 Orion, with the U.S. Navy having mounted numerous sorties from Clark Air Base while it was used as a surveillance platform during the Marawi siege in 2017.
Manila also took delivery of its pair of new Leonardo AW159 Wildcat naval helicopters on May 7, destined to be deployed from the Jose Rizal-class frigates. The first ship was launched in South Korea on May 24.


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