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Socrates ou Socrate est un nom propre, un sigle ou un acronyme qui peut renvoyer à :

Prénom et patronyme
Socrates ou Socrate est un prénom masculin d'origine grecque, désuet.

Socrates ou Socrate est aussi un patronyme.

Saints chrétiens
 Socrate (), et Denis, bourreaux repentis de saint Théodore et saint Philippe martyrisés à Pergé en Pamphylie, au sud de l'actuelle Turquie ; fêtés le 20 septembre.

Personnage de l'Antiquité
 Socrate, un philosophe grec.
 Socrate le Scolastique dit « de Constantinople », un historien né à Constantinople.

Personnalités portant ce prénom
 Sócrates (1954-2011), un footballeur brésilien.
 Socrate, nom de guerre de Lazare Rachline (1905-1968) dans la Résistance
 Sokratis Giolias, un journaliste d'investigation grec assassiné en
 Socrate Petteng, connu sous le pseudonyme de Mac Tyer, rappeur.

Personnalités portant ce patronyme
 José Sócrates, Premier ministre du Portugal.

Arts
 Socrate, une œuvre musicale pour voix et piano d'Erik Satie.
 Socrate, un téléfilm de Roberto Rossellini sorti en 1971.
 Socrate Éditions Promarex, une maison d'édition scientifique.

Sigle ou acronyme
 Socrates, un programme d'éducation de l'Union européenne.
 Socrate (SNCF), un programme de réservation de la SNCF lancé en 1993.
 Socrate (DGA), un programme d'infrastructures de communication de l'armée française.

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Homonymie de prénom
Homonymie de titre


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International schools in Switzerland have seen their pupil numbers explode in recent years, mainly driven by demand from expatriate employees of multinational firms and international organisations.
"/> International schools in Switzerland have seen their pupil numbers explode in recent years, mainly driven by demand from expatriate employees of multinational firms and international organisations.
International schools see demand soar
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Around 12,500 pupils are currently registered with the Association of Private Schools (AGEP) in Geneva, with enrolment rates running around 50 percent higher than they were a decade ago.
International schools are "two-thirds to three-quarters" responsible for this strong growth, AGEP president Norbert Foerster told Tages Anzeiger newspaper. He added that attendance at the Institut International de Lancy in Geneva, which he heads, "has exploded from 285 pupils in 1998 to 1,460 today."
The biggest international school is the Geneva International School (Ecolint), which teaches 4,260 pupils at three complexes.
The strongest demand for international education comes from families of staff of multinational firms and international organisations, the modern nomads of our increasingly globalised society, according to Ecolint head of development Michaelene Stack.
Philip Morris spokesman Julian Pidou estimates that 10 percent of the 1,500 employees at its Lausanne headquarters are affected: "It has become more difficult for our employees to find a place for their children at the international schools of their choice in recent years."
In Canton Zürich, international schools are also booming with almost double the amount of pupils since 2000. The largest is Zürich International School (ZIS) with 1,500 pupils in five locations.
ZIS spokeswoman Urte Sabelus confirmed that the increase was due to a growing number of international firms setting up their headquarters in the area, creating more demand than they can cater for: "We have waiting lists at every level."
Exclusive private schools that target foreign pupils have a long tradition in Switzerland. Now Canton Wallis also wants a piece of this lucrative and growing market.
Last week a project was announced to build an English-speaking international school called "Le Regent" in the exclusive resort of Crans-Montana. The 50 million franc ($64m) complex will cater for 150 boarders and 100 day-pupils. Unknown foreign investors brought in a fifth of the start-up capital.
Swiss families are also having an impact on international school attendance statistics. They send their children to an international school to be part of a multicultural environment with bilingual lessons and the opportunity to study for the International Baccalaureate, a rigorous school-leaving course recognised worldwide and with a reputation for providing access to the world's leading universities.
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Oak Park. Montgomery, Alabama. A great history of the park can be found here. With roots tracing back to 1899, this park is the crown jewel of the Montgomery Parks and Recreation Department. It is without a doubt a landmark of the city and one of the most important parts of the collective civic fabric. It once had a zoo and pools. It was the crux of a major part of the battle to integrate Montgomery.
A really neat 2007 history of the park (which we have not yet read) is here. We may have to go to Capitol Books and get a copy. Looks great.
Located in Oak Park, the Gayle Planetarium is one of the city's educational highlights. Jointly operated by Troy University Montgomery and the City of Montgomery Parks and Recreation Department, this intriguing attraction is open Monday thru Thursday 7:30am to 4:30pm, and Friday, 7:30am to 12pm. Public Shows are offered Monday thru Thursday at 3pm and every Sunday at 2pm.
This facility is one of the largest planetariums in the Southeast!
More history on the reverse side of the sign.
It was unclear what the Biblical Garden would be, but the arrow pointed us towards it.
Turning to the right leads not to a Biblical Garden, but to what looks like a memorial or something. Tranquil, but weird. No signs explain anything.
At the center of this garden area is this creepy statue. Is someone buried here?
Surrounding the giant pile of rocks is a moat of sorts, stocked with schools of tiny fish.
There is still beauty to be had, despite a general feeling of disrepair.
Upon closer inspection, the bridge area is home to several empty concrete slabs, contributing to the feeling that the heyday of this area was in the distant past.
Once known as Monkey Island, this pile of rocks now has no monkeys. Ducks live nearby.
Journey towards the humans. They may have food.
Assuming formation for the official ask.
Like a moving yellow carpet. The ducks have reproduced!
According to this map, some plants like they used to have during Bible times should be right over here ….
Where the sign said the "Grasses of the Field" would be, there is nothing. Guess the Bible was wrong on corn, barley, wheat, etc. Either that, or the geniuses who planned this Biblical Gardens severely overestimated their ability and/or willingness to grow said crops over the years.
Miss Betsy lives on in this tree, if not in the abandoned Biblical Gardens.
Putting the playground to use.
Secret Park Tomato Plant Up Close!
Horseshoe crowds can get rowdy.
Another look at the pits.
Been around since Grandma's time.
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Recently I was talking with one woman who said that when she visits Oak Park, she goes over to Jackson Hospital if she needs a rest room.
J Dyson, we appreciate you sharing your memories of the park. The more we hear stories like yours, the more we wish we could have seen Oak Park in its heyday.
And you're right. We're too young to offer any criticism of anything that happened in the past. The Holocaust? We weren't even born! Watergate? Guess we can't say anything about that either. But there's no getting around the fact that there are, as far as we know, no actual monkeys on Monkey Island these days.
park and I'll never forget it beauty.
an a gator.The fence still surrounds the property the wonderful arch gateway entrance, the trees much larger and camellias that are full of beautystill growing.The Bibilcal garden's keeper no longer alive to tend the plants, so it is not as it once was.Hope ahead….a large group in town are working to make changes.The hope of Montgomery Botanical Gardens coming to the space is being worked on.The park over 100 years old should be preserved and Mary Ann Neeley has been contacted to work on this.Everybody could and would enjoy a gardens.Let us hope the powers that be can join on this project.Bring back to life this old love, allow it to shine and grow a collection of plants for children to learn from, and others to enjoy.Contact the city and express your interest…..
Thank you for these comments Ethel. Reviving Oak Park is doable. I visited today. I am ready to go to work.
Bring back the Merry Go Round!
I worked in Oak Park from April 1991 till October 2011. What people do not see or appreciate is the hard work it takes to keep it up, but there are well over 200 other parks in montgomery that the city maintains as well. No there are no zoo animals left at the park, but ducks,turtles,fish. The zoo was moved back in the 70's to North montgomery. I guess there isn't a tree in Oak Park I hadn't trimmed around. And the plants you see, are maintained daily.
I remember the park in it's heyday. It was great in the 1940's and 1950's when I grew up in Montgomery. The beautiful azaleas, animals, pool, playground, picnic tables, even a pool for small children. I went to birthday parties there. I am looking forward to the Botanical Gardens. Has it been started? When will it be finished? Thanks for the memories.


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March 30, 2015 by Thomas Albert Howard
The Minaret and the Bell Tower March 30, 2015 Thomas Albert Howard
I've recently returned from some travels to the Andalusia province in Southern Spain. Under Muslim Rule in part or in whole from the arrival of "the Moor" in 711 until the completion of the Reconquista in 1492, the region has a special claim on our attention today in light of present-day misunderstandings and conflicts between Islam and "the West."
The name Andalusia is derived from the Arabic word Al-Andalus, which means the land of the Vandals (Vandalusia), the "barbarian" people who thrived there before they were later overrun by the Visigoths. In its heyday under Muslim rule, ca. the 900s to 1200s, its capital city, Cordoba, was the "ornament of the world," giving birth to the so-called convivencia, an era of relative—and often Romanticized–tranquility between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. The era witnessed the scholarly productions of the likes of Maimonides (ca. 1135-1204) and Averroes (1126-1188), who revived the thought of Aristotle, making it available for later Christian theologians such as Thomas Aquinas.
A visit to the great "Mosque Church" (Mezquita) of Cordoba was especially instructive. Emir Abd al Rahman I built the original mosque on the site of a Visigothic Christian (Arian) Church, which itself had been established atop a temple dedicated to the Roman god, Janus. Its distinguishing features are 850 columns and countless red and white double arches built of jasper, onyx, marble, and granite. Jews, Christians, and Muslim labored side by side on the mosque—the signatures of many of the master builders can still be found in the stones.
In 1236, Cordoba fell to the Catholic monarch Ferdinand II of Castile and the mosque was converted into a church. The minaret was re-purposed as a bell tower, which still calls Catholics to Mass today. Later many side chapels were added. But the most significant addition came in the sixteenth century with the building of a Renaissance cathedral nave in in the middle of the expansive era. King of Castile and Aragon and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V gave permission for this insertion, but when he visited the city, he famously commented: "they have taken something unique in all the world and destroyed it to build something you can find in any city."
He exaggerated. The original mosque structure still preponderates, even if the worship that takes place in it today is exclusively Catholic. This reality has rankled some Muslims. The Islamic Council of Spain in fact once lodged a formal request to allow Muslims to pray in the mosque. Spanish church authorities have consistently opposed this. In 2004, the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue rejected a similar request from the same group.
In April 2010 during Holy Week, two Muslim tourists were actually arrested when they with a handful of other Muslims knelt to pray. According to reports, security guards stepped in and asked them to continue their tour or leave the premises. When they refused, a scuffle broke out. Two security guards were injured, and the two Muslim men, one wielding a knife, were detained. In a statement Catholic authorities condemned the incident and reiterated that they would not allow other religions to practice inside the church.
The point of all this: old tensions die slowly, and the architectural legacy of Cordoba's amazing "Mosque Church" encodes some of the reasons for this in its history.
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If I'm not mistaken, the Turks still prohibit Christians from worshiping in the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul. Likewise Jews can pray at the wailing wall, but not the Dome of the Rock. While I don't like these restrictions, I see why they exist and wouldn't respect the religion that just let anyone hold sevices inside their respective sanctuaties.
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Actually, Hagia Sophia is a secular museum, and nobody is allowed to pray there, Muslims or Christians. Presently, there is some pressure to turn it back into a mosque, but nobody knows how that will turn out.
Christopher Standard
The 'point' noted is ridiculous. Islamic rule in Africa, Europe and the Levant was all the result of aggression and enslavement. Thank goodness for Europe that drove Islam out. If you wish to see a real travesty and heartbreak, visit the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul that was a magnificent Christian cathedral ruined by Muslims. The Turks do indeed prevent Christians from building churches and Christians are murdered and persecuted in practically every Muslim country.
LaserWolf
Does it count if you have a prayer in your heart? 😉
I think you can even get away with that in an American public school.
Now that's cutting it close!


Agatha Christie stands as England's best selling author of all time, with a library of 66 detective novels written over her lifetime. Of all her characters, none stands quite so tall in the public imagination as Hercule Poirot, the detective of little grey cells fame. For 25 years, this role was dominated by David Suchet, who played the title character in ITV series Agatha Christie's Poirot. His name became synonymous with the character. For an entire generation of mystery lovers, including myself, he is the definitive Poirot.
Suchet retired his mustaches in 2013. And it took a couple of years before the BBC began to test the waters with new Christie adaptations from writer Sarah Phelps. Her first adaptation, And Then There Were None, starring Poldark's Aidan Turner and Game of Thrones' Charles Dance, was a smash hit. The BBC then followed by commissioning a slew of others, including The Witness For The Prosecution, which aired in 2018, and now The ABC Murders.
Phelps' first two adaptations had the benefit of being one-off mysteries, with none of Christie's regular detectives at the helm. The ABC Murders, on the other hand, is a Poirot story, the first one this new series of adaptations has tackled, and as it is considered one of Christie's most perplexing puzzles, it arrives with big shoes to fill.
It does so by making what some fans would consider radical adjustments. For one thing, there is no Captain Hastings at all, even though the novel was initially told from his point of view. They kill off Inspector Japp before the story gets started. The plot vaguely resembles the one in the books, with each victim in alphabetical order, but the killer gets farther down the list than usual. Even Poirot's pre-World War I backstory is altered from a policeman to a priest. Bereft of his regularly scheduled companions and saddled with religion, this Poirot, played by the legendary John Malkovich with an accent of indeterminable origin, is a detective very much alone.
The ABC Murders, published in 1936, is part of Christie's mid-period works, and opens with Poirot and Hastings getting back together after years apart. Poirot is older now, 16 years away from when Christie first introduced him in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and the fact that everyone is aging is a bit of a subplot. The BBC takes this as license to make Poirot very old, a has-been. He's someone who is living through the backlash part of his career, struggling to be respected by a younger generation of coppers, like Inspector Cole (Rupert Grint of Harry Potter fame), who find his 1930s-era version of Just-For-Men gel hilarious.
But while these choices may, from first blush, feel like the most non-Poirot mystery starring the world famous detective ever committed to screen, by doing this all comparisons to other adaptations fall away, including Suchet's turn at doing this story in 1992. This is not your mother's Hercule. This is Poirot by way of True Detective, with a leading man who could easily stand beside Matthew McConaughey's Ruste Cohle or Mahershala Ali's Wayne Hays, filled with a lifetime of regret.
Poirot purits will undoubtedly hate it with the power of a thousand suns.
But, despite being a Suchet fan myself, I thought this was the most compelling take on the character I've ever seen. Malkovich's performance is revelatory, a completely different spin on all familiar aspects of Poirot, but one that still feels true to the fastidious little man Christie created. In most versions, this fussiness is played for laughs, when the entire character isn't turned into a joke. (Kenneth Branagh, I'm looking at you.) Here it is not funny, but sad, a man whose vanity drives him, even in his old age, to still blacken and wax his mustaches before leaving the house. His quirks are not played for the audience's enjoyment, they're signs of an immigrant who never acclimated, and who still to this day will not change to makes the English around him comfortable.
There's also, for the first time, a dangerous streak to Poirot, a silent rage that changes the calculations of why he does what he does. Whether pushing others to see their easy answers aren't the right ones, or doing the classic "J'accuse" to the murderer in front of a salon of artfully arranged suspects, Poirot is angry. He's incensed at the lives taken, at the laziness around him. He's indignant that everyone else in the room isn't as smart as he is, and demands that they recognize this fact.
It may not be the Poirot fans are expecting. But in 2019, in an era where chaos seems to be barely held back by the righteous anger of those who are ignored, it's the Poirot we deserve.
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Sergio Quijada Domínguez: 'Normal distributors added a lot to the price.' Photograph: Courtesy of CrowdFarming
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Giving up police work to grow passion fruit might be considered an unconventional career move, but that is what Sergio Quijada Domínguez did when a hereditary heart condition forced him to retire at the age of 32 after 14 years in Spain's Guardia Civil.
Quijada, who has about 1,500 plants on his farm near Vélez-Málaga in southern Spain, found he was good at growing passion fruit – what he lacked was the knowhow to sell them.
"It was the tool I was missing," he says. "I had my product and I wanted to sell it direct to the consumer but I had no way of doing that and normal distributors added a lot to the price."
It was the man who delivered his cardboard packing cases who suggested he approach CrowdFarming, a one-stop shop to handle administration and logistics and link customers directly with farmers.
CrowdFarming was founded in 2017 by orange farmer Gonzalo Úrculo and his brother Gabriel, who wanted to get a fair price for their produce by cutting out the middleman. The site now hosts 182 farms in 12 countries with 500,000 consumers.
"In the conventional system, the supermarket decides the final selling price based on what the consumer is willing to pay," says Gonzalo Úrculo. "This determines what supermarkets pay to their suppliers, which in turn have to deal with other intermediaries. At the very end of the chain we find farmers, for whom it's a take-it-or-leave-it negotiation as they have no bargaining power and time is not on their side."
Gonzalo and Gabriel Úrculo: 'Our oranges are still cheaper than the average price for organic oranges in the countries we sell to.' Photograph: Courtesy of CrowdFarming
He adds that by the time you buy an orange from a supermarket in northern Europe it has been travelling or been in storage for at least three weeks. But with CrowdFarming, in return for a direct relationship with the grower, the customer gets a better, fresher and often cheaper product.
"We only pick oranges when they're wanted," he says. "You send in your order, the next day we pick them and they're with you within three days. Plus, I earn five times what I would on the open market. That said, our oranges are still cheaper than the average price for organic oranges in the countries we sell to."
Within three years of setting up the CrowdFarming website, Úrculo was able to quit his day job and concentrate on running the brothers' organic orange farm in Valencia.
Their customers, mostly from northern Europe, like to visit the farm and when disease forced the brothers to replant 10,000 trees, someone came up with the idea of asking customers to adopt them. Within a year, the trees had all been paid for. Across the platform, 188,842 trees, plants or fields have been adopted.
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Kelly Go worked with CrowdFarming right from the start when she set up her Auro Chocolate business in the Philippines. She buys cocoa beans from a series of cooperatives and carries out the fermentation and drying process before going on to make chocolate.
"We pay farmers between 30-50% above the commodity market price," says Go. "Compared to a west African farmer, our farmers are earning almost double. We also pay for their certification as organic farmers. Once they're certified they get an additional premium. We also run training programmes and help farmers to enter competitions in order to gain more recognition."
Auro produces about a tonne of chocolate a day and sells about 70% of it in the Philippines. In common with others on the CrowdFarming platform, her biggest international client is Germany, where demand for organically produced goods is high.
In Cammarata, in central Sicily, Nicola De Gregorio uses ancient grain varieties to produce his Fastuchera handmade pasta. The grain harvested from the traditional Sicilian tumminìa and russulidda varieties is milled and the pasta dried in the traditional way over the course of several days, unlike conventional pasta which is dried quickly, at high temperatures.
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De Gregorio joined the CrowdFarming platform in 2019 and says "it helped me get through Covid by having a direct relationship with clients".
Most of Fastuchera's customers are in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and De Gregorio says they often drop by to visit the farm, especially those who have adopted wheatfields.
"People are prepared to pay more because they know they are supporting a form of agriculture that minimises environmental impact and where the emphasis is on quality," he says.
Nicola De Gregorio: 'People are prepared to pay more for quality.' Photograph: Enzo Fratalia/Courtesy of CrowdFarming
Sustainable farming is something Quijada – who sells his passion fruit mainly to customers in Belgium, France and Germany – also values and he says the platform shares that philosophy.
As well as facilitating contact between growers and consumers, CrowdFarming minimises environmental impact by keeping transportation to a minimum.
"Of course, I can't compete with Colombia or Vietnam where passion fruit grow wild, but Europe is big – big enough to buy all the passion fruits or avocados or mangoes that we grow in Spain," says Quijada.
In the traditional supply chain, farmers sell to intermediaries, who transport the produce to their storage depots and then sell the products to a supermarket chain, which distributes them to local stores. Then the consumer has to travel to the supermarket. CrowdFarming ships direct from the farmer to the consumer and the platform ensures that different orders to the same destination are grouped together so trucks are always full.
The system is a win-win for producers and consumers and for the environment, says Úrculo. "Buying food directly from farmers is the most powerful everyday act available to anyone to create a positive social and environmental impact," he says.
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The Korean watch brand Romanson was established in 1988. In the beginning the company exported its production to the Middle East market. But gradually, introducing the revolutionary new technologies in the production and developing the unique design of the models, the company got the leading position in the global watch industry, and now it has the multibranch distribution network which is presented in more than 70 countries. Annual income reaches $ 25 million.
The innovative developments pushed the company to the forefront of the watchmaking industry. For the first time were introduced the watches with the dials which are protected by the cutting glass that has been carved in diamond shape. The 3.89 mm ultra-slim watches still don't have any analogues. The company also created the Rose Gold dry plating technique.
Since 2003, the Romanson company has presented its products at the Swiss Basel World exhibition. The same year it became the brand of the year.
Basically the company produces its collections in Switzerland. The first "Swiss" line became the collection Eleve. Then were launched the collections of the premium watches Premier and Trofish, with its "chess" model of the women watches, which caused a wave of the real interest to the models. Quite interesting are the lines of the collections Classic, Classic Lady, Active, Trendy and Ceramic.
Deserved fame and the highest quality allowed the company to create the watch models designed for the presidents, who participated in the summit of North and South Korea.
In the design of the numerous collections among with the luxury models embodied the tendencies of the modern art and elegant classic.
The watch models of the company are designed with the high quality Swiss movements. In the case's and bracelet's creation are used stainless steel and ceramic. The dials are equipped with a sapphire crystal and time's indicators of time. The straps are made of leather.
The watch models price is in the medium range. The refined and perfect design of the models and the authentic Swiss quality can be the great excuse to buy the watches of the Romanson company and get the irreproachable appearance.


On a Thursday morning we have a Rhythm and Rhyme session. This is led by a fully qualified dance teacher, Ruth Goodwin, who inspires both the boys and girls in a session of music and movement.
Using a selection of nursery rhymes and pop music, Ruth encourages the children to develop their rhythm and listening skills, to follow simple instructions and to understand the discipline of taking turns. She uses singing, counting and physical movement to enhance all of these.
Ruth's aim is for all the children to be able to skip before they go to school. Something that can seem so easy, actually requires a lot of co-ordination, balance and muscle strength!
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There is plenty written about the real estate market. Much of it simply echoes national news. Rocky Mountain Econometrics writes exclusively about the Treasure Valley real estate market from an economics perspective. You not only get the history of area sales, but also, the reason why sales are responding the way they are. Subscribe to the the Rocky Mountain Econometrics Real Estate Newsletter. It is never too late to be better informed.
Anyone thinking the halcyon home sales numbers of 2005 will return as soon as a bailout package is in place needs to think again. The world has changed. However, sales of 2,000 + homes each year in an area as small as the Treasure Valley is still a reasonably good market. The market is much more competitive than it was a couple of years ago, and it will remain . . . . .
The local market is quite volatile at the moment, and will likely remain so for several months. Even though they have retreated substantially in the past few months, prices of both new and existing homes are probably still about twelve to fourteen percent too . . . . . . .
Sales of new homes in the Treasure Valley are not only at record lows, they are too low to support indigenous population growth. It would be premature to predict a major rebound in homes sales in the immediate future. However, even at current depressed sales levels, in the absence of net out-migration from the area, pressure will soon start to . . . . . .
As bad as November and December sales levels were, January will be the real test. January is typically the lowest sales month of the year. At one level, it is hard to imagine sales falling much, if any, from December's depressed level. There just isn't much room left for sales to drop. However, since 2002, January sales of both new and existing homes have, on average, declined between 9 percent and 40 percent from each preceding December. . . . . . .
New Homes – January is traditionally the worst month of the year for new home sales, and this year was no different. There were only 68 sales of new single-family homes. January sales are typically about 26 percent lower than preceding December sales and the previous record decrease was 42%. Last month set a new record with a decrease of 45 percent from the 124 sales in December of last year.
It was no surprise when January sales were low, January sales are always several percentage points below the preceding December. However, February sales are usually about 12 percent better than the respective preceding January. Not so this February. . . . . .
Good news, with caution. March set a new record for the February to March increase in Treasure Valley new homes sales with an increase of 63 percent. The previous record was a 41% increase in March of 2005. The cautionary part of the story has to do with . . . . . . . . .
There were no records set in April, for either increases or decreases in sales. That may be good news in itself. There were 106 new single-family homes in April. This is exactly the same number of sales as reported in March. That is relatively good news. April typically sees sales drop from the preceding March by about 5 percent. So, to the extent that last month held even with March of this year, it equates to about 5 percent better sales than normal. . . . . . . . . .
Everyone looking for the big new-home Treasure Valley market recovery will have to wait a little longer.There were 94 new single-family homes in May. This represents a decrease of 21 percent from the 119 sales in April. This is a particularly week number when one considers that . . . . . . . . .
New home sales increased by 46 percent in June, but overall numbers remain in the doldrums.June sales of new single-family homes in the Treasure Valley totaled 146, an increase of 46 from the previous month. Forty-six percent is the largest May to June increase in several years. Unfortunately, the major factor th . . . . . . . . .
New home sales decreased by 11 units in July. It was a move counter to the desires of most people in the industry, but they can take some solace in the fact that it was only a step back, not a full retreat.
July sales of new single-family homes in the Treasure Valley totaled 131, a decrease of . . . . . . . . . .
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MSE-6 - Building a Star Wars Droid with Blue and Leebles at 3d-palace!
Mesh view of the droid - chamfered in new max tool you can see I forgot to select by edge angle arg.
The wheels. A tip is to remember to bulge out from the middle slightly and for realism then flatten at the bottom. I did not flatten at the bottom however I was in a hurry - also it makes animation a pain.
I had no idea what these were so I used a boolean operation and made them into little phillips head things. The boolean only required 10 minutes of cleanup. Go team.
Lots of buttons or something - I always assumed it was like a Big Trak of the 1970s. You pressed in the buttons to make it do stuff.
This was a piece I did for my Sunday streaming based on the original 1977 MSE-6. The star on its side was added as I was trying to demonstrate how to add decals using camera mapping in Arnold to the people watching the stream. it was created from scratch in about 90 minutes (just under) while fielding questions and my stream was moderated by the ever helpful Leebles.


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4 Dec. 2020. A company developing health metrics with artificial intelligence received a grant to better understand polycystic ovary syndrome, an endocrine disorder affecting women. The $155,000 Small Business Innovation Research or SBIR funds were awarded to Onegevity Health in New York from National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of National Institutes of Health.
Onegevity Health develops consumer health assessments that combine a range of measurements and variables, with analytics driven by A.I. algorithms. The company's technology analyzes a person's multiple "omics": genomics, proteomics, blood biomarkers, microbiome, metabolic indicators, and others. Onegevity says it then conducts deep-dive analytics with pattern recognition and deep-learning neural networks to reveal health and wellness patterns and anomalies, based on trillions of data points the company says it collects from its customer community.
Onegevity already offers multi-omics assessments for gut health, aging, and athletic performance. The SBIR grant supports creating a new home-based test to better understand polycystic ovary syndrome or PCOS, a common endocrine disorder in women of reproductive age. PCOS, according to WomensHealth.gov, affects one in 10 women of child-bearing age, caused by a hormonal imbalance that results in missed or irregular menstrual periods, leading to infertility or fluid-filled cysts in the ovaries.
The Onegevity test will combine genomics, microbiome measures, and metabolic indicators, integrated with individual health record data, to develop a molecular profile of women with PCOS and without. The company says results of the test can help identify better diagnostic biomarkers and new treatment targets. In addition, the company plans a study collecting a range of genomic, microbiome, and metabolic data from blood, urine, and fecal samples from women with PCOS, compared to those without the disorder.
"PCOS is a devastating disorder and patients who suffer from it face many uncertainties and difficulties in managing their symptoms," says Onegevity CEO Paul Jacobson in a company statement. "This platform will utilize the latest sequencing and analytical technologies, and, for the first time, we will integrate multi-omic data to provide a more comprehensive view of PCOS. This can reveal new insights and offer a more precise approach towards its management."
Varykina Thackray, a co-investigator on the project, is professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, at University of California in San Diego. Thackray notes that "the power of 'omics approaches in providing insight into the pathology of complex diseases, such as PCOS, and recent studies from my lab and others [indicate] that changes in the gut microbiome are associated with PCOS."
Christopher Mason, professor of computational biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, and a co-founder of Onegevity, is the project's principal investigator. "The exclusive technology will offer unique and personalized insights on reproductive health more broadly for women," adds Mason.
NIH says it awards more than $1 billion a year in its SBIR and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. SBIR and STTR grants are set-aside from the general NIH research budget for U.S.-owned and operated small businesses to engage in federal research and development that has a strong potential for commercialization.
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Queen of Blood: Precursor to Alien; Contemporary to Star Trek
September 4, 2012 //
Dennis Hopper is fatally fascinated by the Queen and her torpedo tits wrapped in tempting red velvety space fabric. And they haven't even gotten her amazing hairdryer helmet off yet!
I recently took one of my occasional dives into American International Pictures with Curtis Harrington's Queen of Blood, a talky, slowwww-moving, sci-fi feature from 1966 about an ill-fated space voyage to Mars in response to an alien distress call.
Most striking in the film are the very brief, gauzy, luminous shots of the alien ship, pre-crash, with no dialogue, lots of slow, silent movement, and a truly unearthly ambience. Don't get me wrong; this film is AIP schlock, but Harrington knows how to get a feel for an alien environment.
Unfortunately, these scenes, which I've read were modeled on some early Russian sci-fi films, are fleeting, and the rest of the film is mostly talking, and the dialogue – about unappetizing space food and rigid rocket schedules – cannot contend with those visuals. In fact, the pre-flight Earth scenes are surprisingly unattractive. Set in 1990, the film is neither prescient nor pretty. The costumer must have imagined requisite astronaut outfits in hideous hues of mustard.
Mustard astronaut uniforms. Yuck.
The look inside the rocket, where the better chunk of the movie takes place, will feel familiar to anyone who ever watched Star Trek, minus almost all the consoles and fabulously blinking lights. Sort of an office in outer space.
The astronauts in question include John Saxon, post-teen heartthrob and pre-Nightmare on Elm Street; Dennis Hopper, post-James Dean era and pre-Easy Rider; and a blonde actress Judi Meredith, pre- and post- lots and lots of minor roles. On hand as their moon base boss is Oscar™-nominee Sir Basil Rathbone, finishing off the final leg of his career as a fixture in cheap horror. He talks, a lot.
Model of the Queen of Blood with her pulsating eggs by Dr. Mark C. Glassy.
When the astronauts finally rescue the Queen, the movie moves! Florence Marly undoubtedly inspired some sci-fi boners in her skintight space suit and hypnotic stares accompanied by flirtatious smiles focused eerily on her teeth. She's also green, though the shade seems inconsistent from scene to scene. The skin, in addition to her high-altitude wig, distinguish her from the humans on hand, though Dennis Hopper seems awfully tempted to cross-breed. The Queen (never actually named in the film) is the best character by far, partially because she doesn't have to deliver any leaden lines, but also because Harrington really seems taken with her, with close-ups fantastic as the actress's face flares mystery and sex – and what we know from the title, an underlying danger.
Yeah, she's a vampire. The title had to come from somewhere.
How is this a pre-cursor to Alien? She's laying eggs! Sadly, we never get to see those laying scenes. Instead, after she's defeated, the surviving astronauts start finding pulsating, glowing ostrich-sized eggs stashed away in cupboards on the ship. Cupboards!
Moreover, as in the 1979 Ridley Scott film, the crew is trapped on a ship with a female alien, this one far curvier than the one Sigourney Weaver faced off against. In addition to their reproductive agendas, both aliens spend a good deal of time making their threat most palpable off the screen. When they do appear, look out!
Pit-stop on Phobos! It has a great view of the red planet.
But remember I said this wasn't all schlock. Harrington slips some sneaky suspense scenes into the dragging first half by tossing in scenes of belatedly answered calls to a stranded ship on the Mars moon Phobos. Yes, in this movie, that constitutes suspense, and surprisingly, it kind of works. The movie has fans!
Harrington doesn't always show everything. Some scenes jump and he trusts us to put together the gaps, which we can do handily. The biggest gap of all, however, remains the alien race and their true intentions in making their way toward Earth, at least until the astronauts 'splain it to us as they hazard their guess.
As much as I enjoy making up my own story, I could have done with condensing the first half of the film to ten minutes and spending that banked extra time on the alien ship. No dialogue – we already know that's going to clunk. Just more images. Maybe this is where we could have seen more of Maya Deren's influence on Harrington.
Time for a remake! Ridley Scott, come back home. You need to make amends after the fucking mess of Prometheus. Make it full circle: pay homage to early experimental Russian science fiction filmmaking, AIP schlock from queer cinema master and Maya Deren follower Curtis Harrington, and YOURSELF from 1979. You can make this a great film. Tip: watch those dialogue-free scenes on the alien ship and your heart will lead you. Also, make the film on less than 100 grand. This will save you from the overreaching grandiosity and over-reliance on special effects. Everybody needs to do an AIP movie now and again, just to keep it real.
Florence Marly's end credit as a question mark. See Ridley Scott, you can make a movie and not explain shit and still not make it an exercise in audience frustration!
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Don't give Harrington any credit outside of the ship interior scenes and dialogue. In fact, even the story structure was lifted. This was not modeled on a Russian film, but rather completely hacked together with it. Harrington did not even change the astronauts costumes. The gauzy feel only comes from a bad print from the original. http://www.cineclassik.com/2010/12/mechte-navstrechu-1963-mikhail.html
The Russian film stills look great. One day I may chance upon this one.
A much better precursor is Maria Bava's Planet of the Vampires.
I think Planet of the Vampires is more of a Body-Snatcher movie, and Rodriguez must've been watching it before The Faculty. While Planet of the Vampires is certainly better than Queen of Blood, it doesn't really remind me of Alien other than the crew getting picked off one by one. (And I couldn't keep the Vampire crew straight for the life of me.) Plus, the Queen of Blood did lay all of those eggs.


Is the sky falling? Maybe, maybe not, but there is a deep sickness beginning to take hold of the American psyche that threatens to undermine the principles that have long held the democratic experiment together.
Broadly speaking, we can characterize the fear that eats at the Western mind in medical terms, as having both acute and chronic maintaining factors. The source of the more immediate of the two—acute fear—should be evident to most thoughtful persons. It is hard to ignore the tsunami of violence that permeates American culture. Recent headlines announced that 2015 has just marked the 204thmass shooting in the past 204 days. (1) We are a society at perpetual war, with military forces stationed all over the globe to protect our "strategic interests." Most justify it in their minds as the price we pay for freedom and peace. When the blowback comes, it reinforces our projections of "them" as the enemies of peace. As the cycle of war and violence escalates, we up the ante, convinced that more gun ownership and increased military spending will protect us from harm.


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10Qs with Nick Poulin of Tall Horse
September 18, 2013 February 23, 2015 | Stephen Quirk
Tall Horse is a project fronted by Portland's Nick Poulin. Poulin was already known to Portland's music fans and musicians for [dog] and [pony], a video production team with a focus on music videos. He'll be recording his first full length album with band members Dominic Grosso , Dustin Saucier, Kris Rodgers, and others. The band will be appearing at Slainte on Wednesday, September 25th for a limited edition EP release event, and again on October 18th with Caro Khan. Tall Horse can be found on Soundcloud and Facebook.
What brought you to Portland?
I had just finished school in Boston, MA and Los Angeles, CA for film. I moved back to Maine to be close to the family (and I absolutely hated LA. At the time it was a no-brainer) and moved to Portland after getting a job at Channel 13 as an editor. Portland's music scene, food, amazing beaches, and creative people keep me here. Portland is home.
I have a little one man business taking pictures of cars for dealerships. I work around my own schedule, so my main focus is music.
The first time I ever played in front of people, at Slainte in May. I was playing with Ashley Brewer and Ryan Havey after rehearsing for over four months. I was so nervous my hands were trembling and sweating uncontrollably for hours. The funny thing is we were only scheduled to play three songs. Just three. I don't know what was going on with the sound that night, but I couldn't even hear my guitar over the crowd. Luckily, I had been playing those songs for over a year, so I just went from muscle memory. We played a song that I wrote called "Mud", and about halfway through Ashley and I looked at each other because the whole crowd had gone quiet. I honestly thought something was wrong, but I guess they liked it.
Ha ha, this set was at Slainte too. Everyone was huddled around the bar watching the Red Sox game. I was feeling pretty good about my set that night, but most of the people interested in listening to the music had left after a few musicians sang "Fuck The Taliban", a parody of "Rock the Casbah" (I still have the lyric sheet if you'd like to take a look). After my first song, when only two or three people clapped, I got on the mic and said "Thank you, all two of you" and played the rest of my set without stopping. I admit I was cranky, and sick, and it was pouring outside, but I ended up playing a set I was really happy with anyway.
After the set, a guy came up to me and told me I have a great voice. And that made up for all the frustration.
"It's a Wonderful Life" by Sparklehorse and "Huggable Dust" by Okay. Both of these albums are pop albums turned on their head. It's what I'm working toward as a musician. I'm not there yet, but I'm having fun trying to get there.
My guitar. If I go on a weekend trip I have to bring it with me. I can't go a day without playing.
I should be seeking advice, not giving it, because I'm still a rookie. But, I can definitely say that if you're that person writing songs every single day, keep doing it. Just keep writing, and playing, and singing. I played and recorded my own material for three years before I had the guts to share it with anybody. Play, record, share. Ride the wave. It's fun. People need to hear your perspective.
A girl once told me to get off my high horse. It was one of those moments where you're so frustrated and emotions are getting the best of you and you wish that you could rewind about fifteen minutes back to when everything was fine. That was a big moment for me. I had just lost my job and my girlfriend, so the shit was really hitting the fan. It's the moment I decided to take charge of my own life and push forward as a mostly solo musician. There already is a band called High Horse, so I changed it to Tall Horse.
It is and always will be Prince.
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