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Fiber optic connectors are unique in the sense that they do not provide mere terminations to the optical cables. In fact, these are also responsible for the flawless optical fiber connection that they deliver by aligning the microscopic glass fibers perfectly. The fiber optics is incomplete without the connectors that do the job of linking equipment or application to a fiber optic protocol.
Basic design of a fiber optical connector
The design pattern of all fiber optic connectors is uniform and comprises of simplex and duplex. The simplex means one connector per end while duplex accepts two connectors on one end. You can dissect a fiber optic connector into three main parts – ferrule, coupling mechanism and main corrector body. The ferrule is designed to hold single strand of fiber. It is mostly made of ceramic, or a high quality plastic or any metal and is hollowed out at the center to offer better grip on the fiber.
The connector body holds the fiber and attaches it to the jacket, thereby, increasing the strength of the fiber and its constituents. And the coupling mechanism determines the utility of the connector across various devices such as NIC, VCSEL or a switch etc. Coupling mechanism is one of the main factors you need to consider while buying a fiber optic connector. It can be a latch style or a bayonet nut style.
Important optical fiber connector types prevalent in the industry
If you come across terms like ST, SC, LC, FC, MTP etc, you are actually reading stuff related to the fiber optics as all these terms are actually the types of optical fiber connectors. Some of these are made hybrid style too, where ST and SC and similarly other combinations are coupled to form a multi-utility connector relevant across different protocols.
Evolution of fiber optic connectors
FC connector
FC connector is screw-in type connector with 2.0mm narrow keys and maximum concentricity of 1 Micrometer. This connector is designed to complement high vibration working conditions. It also features ceramic ferrule that prevents backward reflections to a great extent. This connector is spring-loaded to offer ease of screwing into the port while minimizing the force that a fiber may experience. The CozlinkFC connector is also called PC connector as it enables direct physical contact of the surfaces of the two connecting fibers. It is one of the oldest connectors around and provided remarkable support to the single mode fiber networks. However, with the advancement of technology, it got replaced with SC and LC fiber connectors.
LC fiber connector
An LC fiber connector is a cost-effective alternative to FC connector. It delivers exceptional density and is fully fit for the applications of all kinds. Ferrule is mostly ceramic type and insertion loss is minimal too. Compliant with IEC Specification 61754-20, this fiber connector offers reliable connectivity solution for 10G networks. LC connector with APC endface is considered the most efficient arrangement as the connection caused by angled fibers is quite tight and with minimal insertion loss.
APC fiber connector
During the research and development, it was found that a straight connection comes with lots of setbacks, such as, insertion and return loss; and thus, require higher power budget management to achieve the desired outcomes. Setting the connectors at industry approved angle of 8 degrees help attain better connectivity and long-lasting performance. Thus, the APC fiber connector proves to be the better solution for enhancing the performance of the network. This, however, is made compatible with single mode fibers only and is suitable for long range networks complying withEthernet standards such as 10GBASE-LR, ER, XR, ZR and beyond.
MPO fiber optic connector
With MPO fiber optic connector, the fiber optics field can be said to have reached the acme of performance and durability. This connector is extremely handy and offers unmatchable ease of use. It offers amazing connectivity option for highly dense and well-aggregated networks and is designed to deliver 1000 mating cycles as compared to 500 mating cycles delivered by FC, ST and LC fiber optic connectors. Interestingly, MPO/MTP connector is the most affordable among all other connector types and has a plethora of benefits to offer to its user.
How MPO fiber optic connector is superior to FC and LC connectors
MPO fiber optic connector is available in Push-on/Pull-off connectivity styles. It is larger than FC and LC fiber connector and offers support for 24 fibers in single ferrule. Thus, the networks comprising of optical connections of denser varieties are attainable with MPO/MTP connector. While others are suitable either for multimode or single mode fibers, the MPO adapter can accommodate both single mode and multi-mode fibers and are required to achieve highly dense networks. The networks are fast to deploy and on a 'per fiber' basis, the MPO fiber optic connector is relatively less expensive in cost.
MTP fiber connectorguide tocombat polarity issues
Three different MTP connection methods– Method A, Method B and Method C are approved as per TIA standards. Accordingly, Type A, Type B and Type C fiber patch cords are determined in the standard. These types are straight, reversed and flipped respectively. TIA entails the guidelines for duplex fiber patch cords to be used. This patch cable should be terminated with LC or SC connector. Alternatively, an SC to LC adapter can also be used to complete the connection. The end-to-end fiber connectivity is guaranteed by using either a cross version fiber patch cord or a straight-through variant.
Method A: In this method, a type A MTP trunk cable forms connecting link between the MPO modules on the either side. A-A and A-B patch cords are essentially used to tackle the polarity issue in this case.
Method B: This method makes use of type B (reverse) cables on each side of the connection.A Type B trunk cable links the two modules on both ends. Since fiber positions are reversed, the A-B patch cords are used to establish the connection at both sides of the link.
Method C: The flipped fiber trunk cable connects the MPO adapter one each side of the MTP connections. A standard duplex A-to-B type fiber patch cords help achieve an effective fiber cable connection.
Buying components for a reliable optical fiber connection is certainly not an easy task. You need to find in detail all about the connectors, their compatibility with different products and applications, and also the method to make the connection perfect on delivery and efficiency parameters. Refer to an MTP fiber connector guide to bring more clarity in the purchasing process and ensure cost-effectiveness in establishing high speed networks.


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This year's edition of the festival in Clermont-Ferrand, the largest European short film festival, begins on February 1. This year, four Polish films are included in the international competition. The latest Polish short films will be also shown at the accompanying film market, where the stall of POLISH DOCS will be established for the thirteen time.
Four films will represent Poland in this year's competition sections at the festivals in Clermont-Ferrand. The festival selectors invited the following films to the international competition: "Horse Riders," by Anna Gawlita, "Shooting Stars" by Magdalena Jaroszewicz, "III" by Marta Pajek and "Bless You!" by Paulina Ziółkowska.
Traditionally, at the film market accompanying the festival, there will be the national stall of POLISH SHORTS, prepared by Krakow Film Foundation. Accredited film professionals and guests from around the world, who visit the stall, will be able to get information about the latest Polish short films, get oriented on the festival market and get in touch with Polish film producers, sales agents and festival representatives. In Clermont-Ferrand, apart from the representatives of KFF Sales & Promotion, there will also be the representatives of Munk Studio, Warsaw Film School, Short Waves Festival, Żubroffka ISFF, Furia film, Kijora Film and filmmakers.
In addition, during the film market there will be the premiere of the compilation POLISH SHORTS 2018/19, which includes online access to seven short feature films and seven animated films. Also, 124 Polish films will be available in the film market's video collection.
This year, Polish project "Portrait of Europe," directed by Filip Jacobson and produced by the company Furia Film, is invited to participate in the co-production forum EURO CONNECTION.
You can find more information on the festival's website .

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Neuroscientist Richard A. Murphy, the former president of the Salk Institute, was named today as the interim president of the California stem agency.
The Oversight Committee of the agency approved the appointment on a split voice vote(one no). Murphy begins work tomorrow on a six-month, $300,000 contract. He will recuse himself from "any decisions" involving San Diego institutions.
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Helen Armstrong
Hello, I'm Helen and I am the Care Manager here at Home Instead Durham.
I am involved in the day to day running of the business, which includes recruiting and supporting our CAREgivers, meeting clients and their family carers and overall ensuring our clients receive excellent care which complies with the Care Quality Commission standards and regulations.
I have worked in the field of care in Sunderland for almost 20 years since leaving full time education. My previous roles involved managing day services, residential homes and supported living services for adults with learning and physical disabilities and mental ill health.
In my spare time I enjoy spending time with my family, I have 2 young daughters who keep me very busy!
I enjoy reading, theatre and music. As a family we enjoy travelling both in the UK and abroad, enjoying new places and gaining new experiences.
I feel passionately that every client deserves the very best care and support. Sadly, with my own grandparents, I have come to realise that this can be hard to find.
I chose to work at Home Instead because I wanted to work for a company and for people whom I knew had excellent care values which matched my own. I am looking forward to being part of an exciting company which makes a real difference to the lives of the people we care for.
When I left my previous role in Sunderland my clients gave me small quotes to wish me well and to say goodbye. One of these really stood out to me.
"Whatever you do, do from the heart"
Colossians 3:3
Sue Asken
I'm Sue, I'm the Assistant Manager.
My role is to support the Care Manager, I deliver the training for new CAREGivers, and provide on-gong training & support to all CAREGivers. I visit our clients to carry out regular Quality Assurance meetings and Service Reviews, ensuring they receive outstanding care every time.
Previously I served 8 years in the British Army as a physical training instructor, then changed career to fit around raising my two daughters and worked as a pre-school manager before transferring in to care
I have worked for a few care companies and I can honestly say nothing out there that compares to Home Instead. It's a company that genuinely cares about its staff, clients and their families. It delivers outstanding care, making a difference to those they support and their families, delivering person-centred care. I'm very caring & passionate about the job and the role I play. Seeing the positive differences the team makes to clients every day makes it all worthwhile.
When I'm not working I enjoy keeping fit, including running and gym classes. I like reading, playing board games as well as going to the theatre and cinema. I like to host parties and dinners.
My biggest passion (weather permitting) is riding my Harley Davidson motorbike. It makes me feel alive.
My dog, Geordie is the 'Chief Barketing Officer'; she spends a lot of time in the office, meeting and greeting visitors and CAREGivers with lots of fuss and cuddles.
She also visits some of our lovely ladies and gentleman, either to give them lots of licks and love or to encourage them to go out for a short walk with her.
Paula Turnbull
I'm Paula. I am the first person you will see if you call or ring into the office, which you are welcome to do at any time. This has given me my title of Director of First Impressions. My job role is to ensure that our lovely CAREGivers are in the right place at the right time, so that each of our clients have their visits exactly when they asked for them. My aim is to be there for our clients, and direct our CAREGivers to the person that they need within the office.
I posted my CV online after I was made redundant, I was contacted by Trudi (Owner of Home Instead Durham) she emailed me the job description of a new position she wanted to add to her rapidly growing company and I knew instantly it was my new path in life and it was destiny that brought us together. I've been here since 2015.
Home Instead and their values stood out to me. I believe in Trudi's ethos of "The Mum Test" as this is what I would want for mine, and I would not hesitate for any of our CAREGivers to help my Mother. I feel at home working for Home Instead, as I work with my lovely colleagues that are like minded and just as passionate about providing excellent care, and we all support each other.
My background is that of Licensee and running a Public House which has given me my social skills that I use with my friendly nature when I first say "Good Morning" to you. I then went on to work within Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation before destiny sent me to work with Home Instead where I have a great passion to make a difference.
I enjoy spending quality time with my Husband and Son, who is showing his skills as an up and coming footballer. A new addition to our family, Skye our pet dog is keeping us on our toes. Most weekends you can find me on the lines and goalpost championing on my son with his interest, while I love dreaming about lovely classy cars. I enjoy socialising and love driving.
Sharon Pennock
I'm Sharon Pennock; I am the Care Co-Ordinator. My responsibilities are to support clients and CAREGivers. I love to make sure that clients are having their wishes and needs met so they can live safely and independently. I carry out Quality Assurance Checks and support CAREGivers to carry out their roles professionally and to a high standard. This is included shadowing CAREGivers, assessing their competence on a regular basis and doing supervisions.
I can be found at the Memory Café we hold every month, a place that enables people to meet and share experiences and take part in activities if they choose to. I am Proud to work for Home Instead as it provides outstanding quality care for people with a consistent, reliable and personal approach.
I began my career in care in 2002 supporting people with learning disabilities and mental health needs to live independently with Sunderland City Council . I have worked at Sunderland Royal Hospital and provided support for people with palliative care support needs in North Tyneside and reablement support after a discharge from hospital in Durham.
I enjoy driving, especially in the countryside, and I love relaxing at my holiday home. I like to socialise, I am a big music fan and my favourite thing is to cook and bake cakes and pies.
My favourite quote in life is "if I can make one person smile, then my day has not been wasted!"
This is Geordie, she spends a lot of time in the office, meeting and greeting visitors and CAREGivers with lots of fuss and cuddles.
Geordie lives with Sue, our Assistant Manager.
She also visits some of our lovely ladies and gentlemen, either to give lots of licks and love to, or to encourage them to go for a short walk with her.
This is Geordie demonstrating how our CAREGivers should perform basic life support.
Vicky Metcalfe
Hello my name is Vicky and I am the Care Quality Supervisor.
I saw an advert on the Internet for a position at Home instead and applied and in a few days I had an interview with Trudi and Annette. I can remember reading up on Home instead and was really taken by what Trudi had set up .
I have worked in the home care setting for 13 years I wanted to step up my career and take the next steps.
I love Home instead because they are different and have gave me the opportunity to do what I have wanted for a while. I love meeting new CAREGivers and clients
My responsibility's it to carry out spot checks and observations on CAREGivers, I introduce CAREGivers to clients and I carry out quality assurance checks.
I also work in the office and audit important records and making sure they are all correct and up to date.
I love spending time with family I have two young girls that like to be out at parks, swimming, cinema and a little shopping. We go away on little day trips adventures when ever we can. Every other week I have mate date, food, cinema and a giggle with the girls.
Trudi Jameson
Hello, I'm Trudi, Owner and Director of the Durham office.
A lot of my time is spent out and about in the local community raising the profile of Home Instead and the services that we can provide.
I have worked within the health and social care field for 30 years, providing support and care to adults. I am pleased to be in a position, as a business owner to be able to ensure that the care we provide is only that of the highest quality and that it is delivered with care and compassion by the CAREGivers we employ.
The peace of mind families get knowing their loved ones are supported by a reliable and trustworthy CAREGiver is enormous and the benefit to the Client is being able to remain living in their home and maintaining their independence for as long as possible, while building a friendly relationship with their CAREGiver
I have had personal experience of home care with my mother, even with knowing the care sector as well as I do, I struggled to find her quality, reliable and flexible care, which led to many frustrations for both of us.
I want to provide the type of care that I just couldn't find for my mum, the way care should be provided but sadly, very often isn't.
I have a fantastic office team working alongside me, and a team of wonderful CAREGivers. They all share my passion for providing the right care, at the right time, in the right way and making sure the care we provide passes 'The Mum Test'
Achieving a rating of OUTSTANDING from the Care Quality Commission was validation for all of us, that we are doing exactly what I set out to achieve.
You can read more about why I decided to bring Home Instead Senior Care to Durham here www.homeinstead.co.uk/durham/7209.do/why-i-brought-home-instead-to-durham
Annette Connor
Hello, I'm Annette Connor and I am the Operations Manager.
I look after the operational side of the business, which includes meeting clients and their families. At Home Instead we don't tell client's what they need; we take the time to find out what is required and what is important to the individual, once I know what that is, I then ensure bespoke care plans, tailored specifically to the individual are developed.
I manage the day to day running of the office and ensure we comply with the Care Quality Commission standards.
I have worked in the care industry for all my career, running and managing residential homes and supported living services.
I was delighted when Trudi asked me to work with her and I'm proud to work for a company where the person who needs the support is at the centre of the decisions and directs their own care.
We are both passionate about what we are doing and I really feel like I have a new lease of life, we are just so positive this is what we want to do. Everyone deserves good care and we will only provide a service that we would want for our own family, care that passes 'The Mum Test'


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WestEdge is a mixed-use project that will contain 2.7 million square feet of office, research, residential, retail, hospitality, educational/training, and conference/event space that is master planned to engage the 35,000 people who work, obtain medical care, and advance their education in the Charleston Medical District. In 2013, Gateway entered into a Public Private Partnership with the WestEdge Foundation (the City of Charleston and the Medical University of South Carolina Foundation) to plan and create a development plan for 25 acres of a 60 acre former landfill located between the Medical University of South Carolina and The Citadel; just east of the Ashley River. During the past five years, Gateway has planned and subdivided the site, obtained environmental permits from the Corps of Engineers and the South Carolina Department of Ocean & Coastal Resource Management (OCRM), designed and constructed a unique pile displacement system to support the roads and infrastructure (and modeled the Tax Increment Financing structure to fund related costs), negotiated a new right-of-way (the "Hagood Connector," a pedestrian and vehicular artery) connecting WestEdge with the Medical District and negotiated land swaps/purchases with adjoining land owners. Working in tandem with its development partners, Gateway has completed or has underway $305 million of development, including:
- Over 100,000 SF of retail space, including a Publix Grocery Store
- 587 residential units
- 155,000 of office space
- 2,000 parking spaces
- New roads, infrastructure and linear park
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- 237 Apartments
- 20,000 SF of streetfront retail
- https://livecaroline.com/
- 350 Apartments
- 68,000 SF of streetfront retail space, which includes 50,000 SF Publix and the 6,000 SF Woodhouse Spa
- Under construction and will deliver Fall 2018
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- Eight story, 155,000 Class "A" Office Building
- 15,000 SF of streetfront retail space
- 138,000 SF of office space, including research labs on the top floor and a dining/event/conference facility with a rooftop terrace on the 7th floor
- Under construction and will deliver Fall 2019
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bryce, taylar, and beckett | two years later
Every year since 2014, I have photographed a wedding in Indiana, Pennsylvania. This is the couple that started it all. Theirs was one of the first weddings where afterwards I thought, "I want to photograph more people/weddings like that." Kind, generous, sweet-as-pie people who love their people so much and throw a fun party of a wedding.
When I was back up in Indiana in August, Taylar asked if I would do a family session for them. I'm so glad we made it work, these three together are so much fun. Photographing love over and over again will never get old.
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ROI Maximisation
Small ideas that make big dollars: How to up your AirBNB rates
by Tania Braukamper
"We've found that if you offer a hair dryer," says Nathan Blecharczyk, speaking about AirBNB, "you can make on average $10 more a night." And Blecharczyk should know: he's one of the site's founders. "Per night, $10. Like, that's how important a hairdryer is." Blecharczyk made the
recently while speaking at Quartz's The Next Billion conference in San Francisco. It may have been a small and specific tidbit of advice from the Airbnb cofounder and chief technology officer, but it warrants further thought. If something as small as a hair dryer can make such a real and calculable difference, what else could be impacting your earning potential? Blecharczyk didn't give an extensive list beyond the humble hair dryer, but logic and anecdotal evidence are a good starting point when looking at what else to consider. Think of it this way: if you'd narrowed down your search to two very similar properties and were making a final choice between the two, what factors would nudge you into booking the slightly more expensive one? What conveniences or comforts would you be willing to spend extra dollars on?
To many people a hair dryer seems like an obvious must-have but, as we've already discovered above, they're more valued that you might expect. Blecharczyk was quick to point out that males in particular often overlook them because they don't use one themselves. "And so they just don't think about it and they don't supply it, but it's a real pain in the butt for a traveler who wants one to have to haul it with them, and just better if they know it's there." The key point here is to go outside your own daily routine and try to imagine the needs of all types of people. You might not use an iron and ironing board regularly yourself, but your guests will appreciate them — especially if they're travelling for business and have shirts to press. Business customers, and indeed "digital nomads", will also appreciate a laptop-friendly workspace. Because no-one wants to spend hours at a time hunched over a kitchen bench, even if your industrial-chic metal bar stools do look straight out of the pages of
magazine. A comfortable and practical workspace is so important to some people, in fact, that they're more than willing to shell out extra dollars on a property that has one. Depending on your location and the season, heating or air conditioning could be another deal-breaker. Guests staying for longer periods of time value having access to a washer and/or dryer so here's another tip: if you don't have one on your property but do have a good laundry service within easy distance, be sure to mention it in your text. At least potential guests will know there's another option. Any time you list a property on AirBNB, do be sure to accurately tick as many amenities as you can. Potential guests can filter their results based on whether these things are available, so you don't want to cut yourself out of the running simply because you forget to tick the 'hair dryer' box on your listing.
It's a situation some AirBNB guests will know too well: they land later than planned, their phone refuses to work, and all the details of where they need to go are stored safely in the recess of their inbox… which they can't access. The hassle of arranging to meet hosts for check-ins is one of the few disadvantages of AirBNB over traditional hotels. Odds are you don't want to open up a 24-hour check-in desk (because, you know, you have a life) but offering as much flexibility as possible will be a comfort to potential guests. If you can install a key code or lock-box that negates the need for you to be there when they arrive, it can be easier for all involved (and you can still meet up with the guests to show them around once they've safely found their way). Flexible check-out is also a big plus for some guests who would rather sleep in and pack languidly than be booted out of a place while they're practically still in their pyjamas. Offering to at least store their baggage after check-out can be a convenience some travellers will pay extra for if they're not leaving the city until later in the day.
Hotels often charge (rather exorbitantly) for parking, so if you're able to include parking in your listing you've already earned yourself kudos and potentially higher daily rates. Do some market research into what hotels in your area are charging and experiment with adjusting your fees. Travellers comparing your property with the hotels will see that, once parking is added into the mix, they're still getting a better deal with you, even if you've bumped your rates by a few dollars. Just be careful to find the sweet spot on pricing, since not all of your guests will have cars.
Other extras
A Nespresso machine on the bench crowned by a bowl of brightly coloured capsules is like a shining gift from heaven to the coffee addict who's just woken up. A bottle of local wine, bread basket or selection of fresh fruits is manna for the just-arrived weary traveller. In an
for the official AirBNB blog, hosts discussing their most popular amenities singled out these small but welcoming details, and in particular the thrill guests find in receiving local gifts that give a sense of the community they're staying in. "I provide a small, regional gift for breakfast, depending on the season," said one. "I provide local craft brews, flowers from my garden, lots of books on the city, local organic snack bars and the [local] newspaper arrives each day," said another. These personal touches don't have to cost you, as a host, a lot of money, but they do lead to increased satisfaction, better reviews, and in turn, more bookings. Potential guests can see from your listing and from the comments that you're a host who pays attention to detail and goes above and beyond — and when it comes to assuring a stranger they should spend their dollars with you, there are few things more convincing than that.
Tania Braukamper
Tania is a talented writer and photographer who covers a wide range of topics at airhosta.
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Every Rise EP is out!
I am extremely excited and proud to share this album with you. This album is about being let down and having absolutely no way out other than acceptance. What I'm most happy about is that it has a mix of songs and ambient works. I hope you enjoy it. Listening and sharing it with others is an amazing way to support my work. Creating art is one of the few antidotes to the frightening place the world continues to be.
My friend Jesus Beltran and I spent an afternoon shooting the video for 'Every Rise' in his backyard which happens to be Upper Stevens Creek County Park near the Santa Cruz Mountains. We ended up hiking 7.5 miles in the process! The first cut of the video was beautiful but as I watched it, I was reminded by one of my favorite videos of all time 'So What Cha Want?' There is such a weird, psychedelic nature to it with nothing much to say but playing in the woods. We made it even weirder and I'm so happy with the result. Mystery lives in nature and that's what this song is about. Please enjoy.


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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Shares of grocery stores and home improvement companies rose Wednesday on speculation they would benefit as more Americans stay close to home in the next few weeks because of terrorist fears.
Most issues in the retail sector moved into the green to give the sector's main measure a better than 1 percent gain. The S&P Retail Index $RLX finished the session at 277.33.
Supermarket stocks swung strongly to the upside under the assumption that no matter what happens during a war, people will continue to shop for food. Of the top six advancing components of the retail index, five of them were food stocks.
Albertson's ABS, +0.00%, which reported lower earnings and sales earlier Wednesday, closed up nearly 7 percent, or $1.25, to $20.
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. GAP, -2.76% plowed ahead 5.4 percent, or 25 cents, to $4.85 while Kroger KR, +2.38%, the nation's largest food seller, was higher by 4.4 percent, or 60 cents, to $14.16.
Winn-Dixie WIN, +2.18% took in 65 cents, or 5.1 percent, to $13.40 while Safeway SWY, +100.00% trekked up 79 cents, or 4.1 percent, to $20. Supervalu SVU rose 17 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $14.62.
Also seeing gains were Dow Jones Industrials' components Home Depot and Wal-Mart. Home improvement retailer Home Depot HD, -1.17% nailed 61 cents, or 2.5 percent, to close at $24.55 while Wal-Mart WMT, -0.04% was up 89 cents, or 1.7 percent, to $53.05. Wal-Mart was one of five retailers allowed to stay in the bidding for Britain's Safeway.
On the downside, CVS CVS, +0.58% fell 4.4 percent, or $1.16, to $24.95. JP Morgan cut to "neutral" its stance on the drug store retailer from "overweight."
Best Buy BBY, +0.66% slipped by 24 cents to $30.26. On Tuesday, the electronics retailer gave pink slips to 60 people in its corporate offices in Eden Prairie, Minn., according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Actually, the company eliminated 120 jobs, but half of them were already vacant.
Rival Circuit City CC, +1.23% fell 16 cents, or 2.9 percent, to $5.33.
Toys "R" Us TOY, +0.21% ended higher by 35 cents, or 1.2 percent to $29.60. After the bell, Moody's kept in place the leading toy retailer's long-term debt rating at Baa3, but lowered the rating outlook a notch to "negative."
In a press release, Moody's said that change came after the company reported fiscal 2002 results that were below Moody's expectations.
"Although the conversion of its U.S. toy stores to the Mission Possible format has improved the shopping experience, this initiative has yet to demonstrate quantifiable financial traction," the agency said in a press release.
Toys "R" Us continues to struggle to step up traffic in it stores despite an extensive plan to shake up sales and merchandise mix. See full story.
Shares of Restoration Hardware RSTO closed higher by 13 cents, or 5.2 percent, to $2.63. After the markets closed, Restoration Hardware reported that it had swung to a profit in the fiscal fourth quarter of $9.7 million, or 26 cents a share, over last year's loss of $21.7 million, or 42 cents a share. See full story.
Also reporting profits after the bell was Nike NKE, -0.43% at $124.7 million, or 47 cents a share, a penny above the average estimate of analysts reporting to Multex. Shares were higher by $1.09, or 2.2 percent, to $50.08 ahead of the results.


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Top Nine?!
I'm sure all you lovers of instagram are familiar with topnine - an app that generates your most popular photos into a collage.
While I'm not a lover of instagram (I have been VERY VOCAL about it), I decided to give the app a try to see what my popular photos are. The results were surprising:
They are ALL environmental portraits!! What the heck? For the past year, I've noticed my work has been changing/evolving, but I didn't realize it changed this much! Now I realize that these are the MOST POPULAR ones based on likes, but overall, looking at my body of work on IG, I'm not shooting much lifestyle anymore. While I love a great emotive portrait, I crave my storytelling photos - they are the ones we'll look back on as a family one day and say..... remember when you used to do that??
The good thing about this realization, is that it is giving me the kick in the ass I need to focus more on shooting lifestyle and documentary photography. Over the week, I've been really trying to shoot intentional storytelling/lifestyle images - to get back into the swing of things (and to document the stories I've been missing out on). I'm happy to report that it's been a HUGE success. I feel like I got my mojo back!
To be truthful, I was considering shelving my 365 project for next year. Not that it's a ton of work, but I was in such a horrible rut (see my las blog post here), that I wasn't certain I could commit to another year.
While I've missed days here and there in all my 365's, this year was the first that I missed WEEKS. I had zero desire to pick up my camera.
I eventually came to the realization that I was in this rut because I wasn't taking as many of the photos that I actually love. Yes, I like my environmental portraits - they make the Aunts and Grandmothers VERY happy - but the lifestyle photos, with all the messiness and imperfection are the ones that matter to me - and I think will matter much more to Olivia in the long run.
While I HATE goal planning and making resolutions that I'll never keep for the new year, I want 2018 to focus more on telling the story of us. I've already signed up for a Lifestyle workshop in 2018 (with one of my favorites Colie James Photography) and decided to give Project Life another go.
I might be putting a lot on my plate for next year, but fingers crossed I can manage.
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Bank Economists At Sea On Housing
"Bank Economists At Sea On Housing"
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Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
New Zealand
September 1, 2008
Following a recent article in New Zealand's South Island leading daily newspaper The Press "Leaky homes and the housing bubble", the writer responded to comments by the New Zealand ANZ National Bank Chief Economist, Mr Cameron Bagrie with an article " Understanding Housing Bubbles ".
Within the article " Understanding Housing Bubbles " I pointed out the need to focus on "supply and demand", structural issues, the increasingly recognized shortcomings with respect to the training of economists and that "they need to live in the real world".
While the comment "they need to live in the real world" may be seen as rather direct – it had the desired effect of stirring the economists at the ANZ National Bank in to action by opening up further - with a full blown follow up response (see attachment) within ANZ National Bank Property Focus August 2008 Edition "Putting Humpty back together again".
This engagement by the Banks economists is to be applauded and encouraged – and other professional economists, urban valuers / appraisers and planners need to emulate the socially responsible approach of the ANZ National Bank economists - by participating actively in public debate and discussion of these important issues.
One of the major reasons why we have the current "housing bubble" in Australia and New Zealand today – is because professionals – and professional organizations - have too often failed to exercise their professional responsibilities to engage effectively in these important public issues or reverted to "weasel words" for reasons of misguided commercial convenience.
The Property Council of New Zealand has regrettably reverted back to "weasel words" of late – an issue I had discussed earlier within a widely distributed communication "The Need for Clarity" to the Housing Industry Association of Australia
Within the follow up article "Putting Humpty back together" –the ANZ National Bank economists commence by stating that there is some support for the hypothesis that structural urban issues account for housings relative unaffordability.
In reality – the international intellectual debate on this issue overwhelmingly supports the position that regulatory impediments and inappropriate infrastructure financing are by far the major reasons why housing exceeds three times annual household incomes in stressed markets. Much of this international research can be accessed via the Demographia website and referenced also via the writers articles on Scoop New Zealand ( here and here ).
The writer also attempts to explain these issues "in layman's terms" within "Getting performance urban planning in place ", within the April 2008 article "Scoop: Urban Planning Degrades Housing Productivity" and "Scoop: Housing: Dealing With Real Structural Issues".
Within the April article I set out clearly the degrees of degradation of the pricing and performances of the United Kingdom and New Zealand housing markets in particular. These are the issues economists and other professions need to focus on.
The focus now is on "workable solutions".
Put simply – if urban markets housing exceeds three times annual household incomes and acceptable new starter house and land packages at two and a half times median household income are not being provided on the urban fringes (which are the only supply and inflation vent) – then this clearly proves that there are supply constraints that need to be dealt with.
The Bank economists attempt to suggest that "supply and demand"is only one factor to consider – then make the astonishing assertion that housing is not a "pure market" (whatever this term may mean). This description is rather unfortunate – because it illustrates that they do not adequately understand the importance of the issue of constraint on supply in constrained urban markets (such as those in New Zealand and Australia).
They fail to mention that most of the urban markets throughout middle North America are not constrained (their definition supposedly of "pure markets" – which regrettably they appear unaware of) and that they are easily supplying affordable housing below three times household incomes.
I touch on these matters within recent Op Eds on the United States Planners website "The Housing Bubble: The Planner's Role and Lessons Learned | Planetizen" (reprint Frontier Center for Public Policy, Canada "The Housing Bubble" ) and the Houston Business Journal "Affordable housing no accident in Houston" (19 US Business Journal reprints to date) .
The point is then made by the Bank economists that downwards pressure on the pricing of housing is "sticky". Try telling that to the Californians, Floridians, the British and the Irish! I One only has to read "Scoop: US Association Of Realtors July 2008 Report" and "Scoop: Housing: The Disaster Zone Of California" – to learn how "unstuck", unstable and destructive artificially created bubble urban markets are
The ANZ National Banks Property Focus article then embarks on what can only could be described as a long winded ramble, in attempting to explain what the roles and responsibilities of policymakers are with respect to these issues. It is necessary to reprint the entire paragraph –
"Second, we have a few issues with the notion that housing policy being predominantly set with a view to providing a match between supply and demand. For sure, housing affordability and related issues are substantial policy challenges that should materially influence policy settings. Yet there are other areas to be mindful of. For one, there are strong lags involved, and by the time policymakers typically respond, or realize that a response is necessary the horse has typically bolted. Additionally, policymakers track record is very poor. Who or why should we suddenly make them God in terms of trying to fix market disequilibrium's? You can certainly try to iron out extremes. But just like the RBNZ and currency intervention, it is neither a policymakers job nor desire to turn trends. All the international research tells people firmly that they can't. Finally, decisions by policymakers are taken for a host of reasons. A fair degree of Auckland housing policy for example is being influenced by a wider regional strategy for transport. Policymaking is neither black nor white. It involves tradeoffs. As we head in to the election debate will no doubt rage about tax cuts. The potential economic benefit, who gets what amount and how they are to be funded, or potential implications for spending. But the key point is simply that for every policy decision. There is a winner, and other pockets that don't benefit".
The above example of "mangled English" would suggest the ANZ National Bank may need to consider English speaking classes for its staff - before embarking on "Structural Urban Economics" classes for its economists.
Then the paragraph that follows commences with the extraordinary statement "Third, supply demand indicators have not been seriously out of whack".
It is to be hoped that the ANZ National Bank economists will enlighten their readers in their next Edition – about how "demand" would be influenced, if Local Authorities allowed (as their counterparts in middle North America do) the construction of 234 square metre (including double garages) starter homes on 700 square meter lots for $140,000. And further to this –manufactured housing of 180 square metres inclusive of serviced lots for $73,000 all up.
It is to be hoped too - that in upcoming Editions of ANZ National Bank Property Focus – they explain to their readers what the costs and consequences are to the public and wider economy of having our housing market inflated out to in excess of four times our GDP – whilst the affordable housing market of Houston for example is around 1.3 times its GDP. According to the US Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis – the Houston GDP (population 5.6 million) is in excess of three times the size of New Zealand's (population 4.3 million). Yet even expressed in US dollar terms (at current exchange rates) New Zealand's generally poor quality 1.6 million residential units are "worth" considerably more than the 2 million generally much better quality residential units in Houston.


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SAN FRANCISCO — In their own ways, all three RSAC keynote speakers pushed forward the narrative that the infosec community must focus on incremental cybersecurity improvements in order to enact real change.
Rohit Ghai, president of RSA, opened the 2018 RSA Conference with a number of sports metaphors espousing the value of teamwork, small improvements
in coming
"There are 50,000 of us here which is a great testament to the growing power of our community, and what we do with our time together matters more now than ever," Ghai said in his opening RSAC keynote. "Now matters because it drives what's next. So, let's not talk about the hackers' advantages; they can do that in their own conference. Let's talk about our advantages. Instead of talking about the future of threats, let's talk about the future of security."
Ghai noted that it can be hard to celebrate the successes of the cybersecurity community because good security doesn't make headlines, but he laid out three "Cybersecurity Silver Linings" that can help infosec pros focus more on positive cybersecurity improvements.
"We need to pay attention not just to the technology of defense but the psychology of defense. The spirit of the defender matters as much as the shield that she or he wields," Ghai said. "For years, we have motivated ourselves by the fear of what happens if we fail. What if we could inspire ourselves with the glory of what we enable when we are successful?"
Ghai's silver bullets — ending the "silver bullet" fantasy, the quicksilver law of cyberdefense, and the magic of sterling teamwork — advocated focusing more on incremental improvements, anticipating risk when adopting new technology, and enabling better cooperation and collaboration both within infosec and across business teams to improve security.
Ghai noted that the adoption of new tech has been speeding up and with that comes the need to be much better about anticipating risk. "There is huge value in security that is built-in rather than bolted-on," Ghai said.
Beyond fostering teamwork within security teams, Ghai said the importance of cybersecurity has been spreading to those outside of the infosec community.
"If necessity is the mother of invention,
Chris Young said in his RSAC keynote that this increased teamwork needs to become top of mind for everyone in order to truly see cybersecurity improvements.
Chris YoungCEO, McAfee
"Despite a-breach-a-day headlines, we all have to agree cybersecurity has not yet reached a level of priority that it needs to reach for us to truly be able to manage the attack landscape that we face," Young said, adding that, "Cybersecurity is still a sidebar conversation in so many
Young said cybersecurity awareness is there in enterprise C-suites, but those executives "don't yet know how to translate that awareness into action that permeates an entire organization." Young said it was the responsibility of infosec professionals to help execs understand, but he said the responsibility
"Many people don't believe that cybersecurity is their job and their responsibility, but part if it is because we haven't yet taken up the cultural mantle as part of ours," Young said. "We must prioritize cybersecurity across different domains of society — in the public sector, the private sector, for consumers — if we are
Raising the awareness of cybersecurity and being able to translate that awareness
"How do we make security the new sustainability in corporate America so that it becomes part of the culture, part of how we think about what we do everywhere?" Young asked. "On September 12, 2001, it wasn't a technical breakthrough or solution that changed air travel. Instead, every stakeholder — because of the risk — ultimately got on board, from world leaders to CEOs of airlines to the crew to all of us that travel… decided that we're going to now be a part of the safe and secure air travel culture. We can't wait for that to happen in our industry."
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DISHER— a fully-integrated electronics design and development firm headquartered in Zeeland, Michigan, recently made the top 10 list for PCB Design and Engineering Solution Providers for 2018. The Top 10 listing was featured in the December 2018 PCB and Engineering issue of Embedded Advisor magazine. The companies were chosen by Embedded Advisor based on their ability to develop innovative technologies in combination with providing outstanding customer service.
DISHER Electronics works alongside a diverse set of customers from a variety of industries to provide world-class printed circuit boards for many unique applications. DISHER's experienced team, cross-functional knowledge, agile tools and processes fuse together to create high-quality designs, PCB layouts, and simulations/models. DISHER works with customers on projects that include: systems design, software and firmware design, hardware design, prototyping and enclosure design, and verification and bench testing.
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It's the time of year for twinkly lights and glittery decorations, and one of the other things I love about the holiday season is the fact that you get to bring out your shiniest apparel for Christmas and New Years parties. Whether its a statement necklace, glittered shoes or sequined skirts, I say the sparklier the better.
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Das Makes a Statement
Walk around campus and you will see the same poster of two men everywhere. The one on the left has a scarf draped around his neck a necklace of chili peppers, and the other has his nose full of cigarettes. That's Das Racist. The up-and-coming Brooklyn-based rap group was flying[Read More…]


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Where is Tom Wolfe when we really need him. Bonfire of the Vanities is over 30 years old, but the inside look it gave to the Manhattan upper crust is as revealing as ever. In the mind of Donald Trump, he's the alpha Manhattan male, the king of the hill, at the top of the heap. You don't mess with the Donald. Ailes tried, and is paying the price.
I've had a lot of time on my hands since we moved to California, and I've read extensively about almost every President. The only one who bears comparison to Trump is Andrew Jackson. But there's a big difference between them. Jackson was absolutely devoted to the Constitution. His veto of the Bank of the United States charter was very controversial, and may well have led to the Panic of 1837. He didn't care. To him, the bank was unconstitutional.
What is Donald Trump devoted to? His country, I'll give him that. But beyond that no one really knows. And yet here he is leading in Iowa with five days to go. It's unsettling.
I get angry when I think about it, but I'm not mad at Trump or his tribe. Trump's a demagogue. That's just who he is and what he does. He sees an opportunity and he takes it. It's like getting mad at a dog for rolling around in an old moose kill. He's just being a dog.
And the people who believe in Trump are good Americans. They're my people. When I was a kid growing up, they were our neighbors. I like these people. I'm still one of them, really.
These people have been betrayed, they know it, and they are very angry. It started with Bush 1 and his desire to be kinder and gentler than the inflexible Reagan. As a matter of fact, since Reagan the Republican Party has not had one principled conservative in its leadership. Not one, in 28 years. That's what makes me angry. A political party led by the likes of Bush 1, Dole, Bush 2, McCain and Romney deserves the fate it suffered. Thanks largely to the Bushes, the Republican Party, the Republican brand, is practically worthless.
Hence, Donald Trump.
If Trump doesn't show up tomorrow night Cruz should speak directly to the Trump voters. Tell them he understands who they are, and why they're frustrated and angry. The Washington cartel, the mass of politicians from both parties, has, indeed, sold them down the river. And that cartel is what the people of Texas elected him to fight, not to join. And he has fought that cartel from the day he has sworn in, and they hate him for it. He poses a threat to them. Their fear is so strong that at least some of them would rather nominate Trump, and face certain defeat, than having to face Ted Cruz as President.
Because if he is elected that Washington cartel knows exactly what he'll do. He'll do just as he says he would, and they would be in the fight of their lives.
Trump's voters need to understand that the Washington cartel is like the Terminator. You don't reason with it. You don't do a deal with it. You don't negotiate with it. You fight it, tooth and nail, and you defeat it.
And you have to know what you're doing. To take on the cartel will require someone with special skills and knowledge. There is a very good reason we've never elected a political novice, other than a general, to the Presidency. We want to have some idea of what we're getting, not a pig in a poke.
This is why not showing up tomorrow is such a huge mistake. People are just getting to know him. They're trying to figure out what kind of guy he really is. By walking out of the debate he's revealing a rash, impetuous streak that people don't want in a President.
I've developed a strange new respect for Fox's Brett Baier. The questions he asked Trump, and the way he asked them, makes me take him seriously. If he doesn't bore in on ethanol tomorrow night I will be sorely disappointed.
The darkest days are behind us, and every day is longer than the last. The greening of the land has begun, the first signs of spring appear.
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The M12 rack was developed for the M16 and M16A1 and still works fine for the M16A2 and M16A3.
The locking arms trap the carry handle and keep you from lifting the rifle clear of the recesses.
The M16A4, M4 and M4A1 are flat-top designs and can be maneuvered out of the rack without unlocking it.
There's instructions in TM 9-1005-319-23&P (Nov08) to cut a piece of 1-1/2x1/8 angle iron so that it blocks the pistol grip and holds flat-tops captive in the rack.
You drill it in place in the rack, remove it for painting, then bolt it in.
There's hardly any tool clearance for the nut on the other side, so you're not removing it with the rack bolted to the wall. Also the bar is tight enough that you can't move it as long as the bolts protrude through the back of the rack. Actually a well thought out modification by our military.
And back in its home:
Inside a lockable closet as well. I need to strip out the walls and make the closet fire resistant too.


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Learn more: 2017 to 2018 Syllabus.
The Representative position was created to ensure that at least one person was representing every single chapter in the UW Greek Community, thereby truly creating a collaborative network of sustainability-minded individuals. The GGRP founders intended to create a position that had minimal time requirements and could be easily balanced with a heavy academic/work load, but also had the potential to be scaled up dramatically if a representative was passionate about a project.
- Attend Meetings
- Official Chapter Recognition
- Sustainability Project
- Final Project Report & Presentation
- Quarterly Event
Designed to be a collaborative network of sustainability-minded individuals from the Greek community, attendance and getting to know others in the group is THE MOST IMPORTANT PART. If you want to be involved, please commit to making the meetings.
When: Every other Wednesday
(1/10, 1/24, 2/7, 2/21, 3/7)
Time: 6 to 8 pm
Where: TBD
If you know you will have a schedule conflict or can't make one of the meetings, let us know ahead of time.
After making sure that you'll be able to attend the meetings, a Green Greek Representative must become officially recognized as such by their chapter. This process can vary within chapters. However, usually a conversation with the Chapter President, in which you discuss the role, responsibilities, and expectations of this position, and then an official announcement at a Chapter meeting is sufficient. Some chapters have formalized "Sustainability Chair positions, in which Lead Representatives must go through a formal voting process.
This is a practicum, a place to learn and apply knowledge. As a representative, you'll explore the universe of green building, sustainable design, and cleantech solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges in a real-life context, specifically in your own community: UW Greek Housing. Representatives join a project task force group and work to solve a specific sustainability problem within their Chapter house or the Greek Community at large. During the first meeting, a project leader will lead each task force in setting goals for the quarter, establishing a timeline, and determining the first steps. At the end of the quarter, task force groups will compile their team's work into a final project report and present their team's accomplishments at the final meeting.
Learn about the current available projects by visiting the Project Gallery.
The final report and presentation aren't intended to be a ton of work. The report can be compiled of a Title/Overview page and three sections (see below) and the presentation is a verbal overview of the report. For best results, take pictures and keep track of your group's work along the way.
Final Report:
- What Your Group Did (List Goals & Accomplishments)
- What Were the Challenges/Results (include any measurable data here)
- What Are Your Recommendations/Next Steps? (This section is geared towards implementing sustainable solutions within your own chapter, as well as guiding representatives who want to pick up the project in the future.)
The Events & Outreach Coordinator will be working on a community-wide event (more details to come)! It is expected that you promote the event to your chapter and attend if possible. The quarterly event usually occurs on a weekend morning from 9 am to 12 pm. Food is so
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ASCRS Meeting - April 14-16
AST Products
In one week AST is heading to DC to exhibit at the 2018 ASCRS Annual Meeting!
As the largest US meeting of the cataract and refractive surgery industry, ASCRS has proven to be a great place for us to network and exhibit our growing line of ophthalmic surgical products. We're looking forward to another busy year and hope to see many familiar and new faces in DC! Join us in the Exhibit Hall at Booth #2815!


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Material Spotlight: Bead Work
If you have ever been in a Montessori classroom, you have probably noticed the bead material. It is an indispensable part of Montessori mathematics curriculum, and it is so striking and beautiful that it's hard to miss. (Also, it's pretty large). Here's a picture of the cabinet:
A specific number of beads is strung on a wire, and the color of the beads corresponds to the number. One bead is red; two beads on a bar are green; three are pink; four are yellow; and so on. These are called bead bars. Next, there are chains made out of the bars. Two bars of two (green) are put together to make a chain; three bars of pink; four bars of yellow; all the way up to ten bars of orange, making a chain of ten ten bars, or one hundred chain. Next, each color of beads is presented in a square: four green beads, nine pink beads, sixteen yellow beads, all the way up to 100 orange beads. Finally, the beads are presented in a cube: eight green, 27 pink; 64 yellow, 1000 orange.
There are also two beaded counting frames, where each wire is labeled for ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands.
Here's how it works - and guys, this is genius.
On the most basic level, children can use the bead bars to learn to count, and then to learn to add. If your child went to a Montessori preschool, you probably have seen reams of paper with little beads colored in and the number of beads written beneath it. My own daughters were also thrilled to bring home their addition books, where they showed, for example, how a two bar placed next to a five bar added up to seven beads. Children can master their simple addition and subtraction in this way, by combining different bead bars and counting them.
After this is mastered, children can move to the counting frames and learn to build very large numbers - the larger counting frame includes millions. They learn about place value and are set up to understand decimals. They learn to combine large numbers through the manipulation of the beads on the frame. 317 + 482, for example, is solved by having three beads on the hundred wire, one on the tens wire, seven on the ones wire, and then moving over four more on the hundreds wire, eight on the tens wire, and two on the ones wire. The child can then see that the sum is 799 by counting the beads on the wires and understanding their place value.
The beads also brilliantly show children how squaring and cubing works. When you look at the the orange square, you are literally seeing ten ten bars - ten squared - as a square. It makes the concept obvious. The cubes present the same way: 10³ = 1000 beads literally in a cube, where each side = 10. Presented like this, squaring and cubing makes sense. We are not just attaching a random word to the idea of multiplying a number by itself, because the child sees that when you multiply a number by itself it makes an actual square.
The bead material makes mathematics visual as well as manipulative - children can see what is happening as they move the beads, and that makes remembering it easier. It is not just rote memorization. Mathematics in traditional elementary schools has moved towards trying to present the concepts and theory of math alongside - or even instead of - the memorization (if you have a child in elementary school now you have probably heard about math mountains and ten partners), but Montessori math has been teaching the concepts and presenting the theory of math for generations already. The beads make it even more concrete, and more attractive, for children. It is difficult to resist the draw of a lovely and organized cabinet of colorful beads, especially when presented alongside the colored pencils and small pieces of paper used for drawing the work you've laid out, and when you're figuring out the sums and equations you've created.


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By: Caroline Grand
With every great, career-changing album comes the redheaded stepchild of artistic success: the problem of setting the bar too high. We've seen it happen time and again with debut albums which will forever remain the best albums (see: Is This It) or with bands who, with one sub par release, banish themselves to the realm of nostalgia-listening (looking at you, MGMT and Modest Mouse.) Higher expectations, it seems, create greater room for disappointment.
Radiohead, with their peerless catalog of iconic and innovative albums, seems like a perfect candidate for such disappointment. A Moon Shaped Pool, released with limited fanfare and promotion this past May, will be held to a standard wholly unlike that of any of its contemporaries.
That being said, had A Moon Shaped Pool been released by any other artist, it would immediately be hailed as their best. From the lush melody of "Daydreaming" to the arrestingly eerie "Decks Dark" and "Ful Stop," Radiohead's latest release demonstrates a kind of meticulous care and attention to detail rarely found in today's ethos of immediate gratification. There is something in A Moon Shaped Pool which is elusively beautiful and difficult to define, yet not a single moment feels underdeveloped or incomplete, as evidenced in how long tracks like "Burn The Witch" and "True Love Waits" have been in the works before their final arrangement. A Moon Shaped Pool is vulnerable and emotionally engaging without losing any intrigue in its honestly; it is a dark statement beneath a glimmering surface; it demands a second listen, and many more.
Is it Radiohead's best album? In light of their previous work, it's difficult to tell. But A Moon Shaped Pool is certainly Radiohead at their most complete and gorgeously human, and it more than meets the standards of its predecessors. Even with a remarkable career behind them, Radiohead shows no signs of burning out or falling into irrelevance; to demand "the best" now from a band with clearly still so much creative energy, actual and potential, would be a foolish request indeed.


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Boston's Lucic fined $5,000 for spearing
NEW YORK — Boston forward Milan Lucic has been fined $5,000 for spearing Detroit defenseman Danny DeKeyser during their opening playoff game.
Lucic was fined by the NHL on Saturday for spearing DeKeyser in the second period of the Red Wings' 1-0 victory Friday night.
No penalty was called on the play.
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CMS Athletics Week In Review (11/30 – 12/6/15)
Posted: December 9, 2015
Athletics Week In Review (Full Version)
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Men's Water Polo
A 17-game winning streak along with a perfect SCIAC record and 27th conference championship were just some of the highlights of the 2015 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men's water polo team's stellar season. Last week, CMS got the chance to play in the National Collegiate Men's Water Polo Championships play-in game, but fell to USC by a final score of 20-5. The Stags end the season with a 21-8 overall record (11-0 SCIAC) and will return a number of key starters next season, including All-SCIAC first-teamers Alex Waggoner (CMC '17) and Rye Newman (CMC '17).
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Women's Basketball
The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's basketball team lost to Westmont 61-53 in its only game of the week. Forward Kris Brackmann (CMC '17) played more than 30 minutes and was 6 for 11 from the floor with three three-pointers, in addition to six rebounds. Center Kailee Severt (CMC '18) notched 16 points and three rebounds. The Athenas hold a 4-2 record in the young 2015-16 season and will play their first SCIAC game on Dec. 9 at Chapman before a home matchup against George Fox on Dec. 12.
Women's Swim and Dive
The women's swimming and diving team hosted Redlands in a SCIAC dual meet over the weekend. The Athenas won the meet 165-75 and took all but one event. Naomi Ngo (CMC '19) and Kayla Flaten (CMC '17) helped the team win the 400-yard medley relay, Ngo earned first in the 200 butterfly while Flaten beat the field in the 200 breaststroke. Riley Hoffman (CMC '19) was the anchor of the 400-free relay team and also won the 100 free and 200 free. The men's and women's teams will next compete in the Winter Invite in South Gate on Dec. 11-12.
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Men's Basketball
After starting the season with two losses, the Stags have now won six straight thanks to a thrilling 77-76 win over San Diego Christian at the Rains Center last week. CMS trailed at halftime by eight points but Michael Scarlett (CMC '18) helped rally the Stags, as he led the team in scoring with 23 points and drilled three three-pointers in the second half. Shelby Lane (CMC '16) collected 12 rebounds and had the game-sealing block as time expired after Nicolas Segura (CMC '18) put CMS up by one with 12 seconds left. The 6-2 Stags won't play again until Dec. 29 at Concordia.
Men's Swim and Dive
The men's swimming and diving team hosted Redlands in a SCIAC dual meet over the weekend and won all 13 of its contests, and earned first, second and third in the 400-medley relay and the 200 free. John Jeang (HMC '19), Aaron Lutzker (HMC '19) and Jackson Crewe (HMC '19) each won three events, as they all participated in the 400 medley relay, with additional first-place accolades going to Jeang in the 100 free and 400 free relay, Lutzker in the 200 butterfly and 200 breaststroke, and Crewe in the 200 free and 500 free. The men's and women's teams will next compete in the Winter Invite in South Gate on Dec. 11-12.
by Tony Steege and Chris Watts
Sports Information Assistant and Director of Athletics Communication
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In our 2nd assignment, we had to create character descriptions of two main characters in 250 words. So, here is a little more to read about Anne and Li, as you met in my first assignment.
Anne Jenkins intended to prove her worthiness as the bank's new marketing director. Marketing was certainly beneath her intellectual ability, but it was her only job offer, compliments of mother's political pull.
If her father had been alive, he would have called her with a word of encouragement today. Instead, she attempted to calm her nerves by playing her favorite Bach Partita on the piano for an exclusive audience. Her cat, Holly, had been the only one to hear Anne play in years.
She focused on her posture as she entered the bank, then nodded politely, without expression, to loan officers and tellers already diligently performing their duties.
"Could they possibly be comparing me to Audrey Hepburn?" Anne joked with herself. She had taken the time to swoop her hair up, accentuating her long neck and angular jawline. The classic black dress with the bolero jacket made her feel somewhat like the Hollywood starlet, fueling desperately-needed confidence.
In actuality, no one compared her to any movie star. They noticed a mute, towering frame. For a second or two, at most.
"Good morning?" Anne knocked lightly on her manager's open door. Throughout the interview process, she distinctly felt unwelcome, even despised. She hoped today would be different.
Anne's fists remained clenched as Mrs. Ashe lifted her gaze from the Wall Street Journal.
"My, oh, my. Don't we look sophisticated today," Mrs. Ashe stated cooly as she folded her newspaper.
Anne's color drained from her face. So much for hope.
Li Vo watered the plethora of plants on her miniscule deck. Navigating through the container garden in her Christian Louboutin pumps was always challenging, but she managed not to trip.
Then it was time for her to leave. The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco was having a fascinating dragon exhibit from the obscure country of Bhutan. She'd call her mother on the way to the airport.
"Only a week, Mom. "
"I don't understand though. You no longer curator. You graphics designer. Why all these trips?" Her mother worried.
These trips were non-negotiable. No matter what, or who, was going on in her life, she'd slip out of the city she loved, but could no longer tolerate. Her mother would be the only one receiving the courtesy of a goodbye. Li's many friends loved her, but they found her abrupt departures frustrating. There would be no emails or texts for at least a few weeks from her now.
"Lie?" The ticket checker verified Li's ticket and driver's license.
"It's pronounced 'Lee,'" Li responded with her crooked smile. Li Vo informally dropped the "e" in her Vietnamese name, but hadn't taken the legal steps to have it removed.
He studied the Asian woman, noticeably longer than the other passengers. Surely, she was too beautiful to be kind-spirited as well. Perhaps he would try to engage her on the flight.
Li recognized the checker's reaction. She looked down while taking back her documents.
"Thank you," she murmured before proceeding.
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1919: strikes, struggles and soviets
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The Jewish community in Germany has been advised by their government not to wear the kippah in public in case they become targets of antisemitic attacks.
Antisemitic hate crimes have risen 20% in the last year and nine out of ten cases have been blamed on the extreme right. Concerns have also been raised about the growth in support for the far right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) within the ranks of the German army and police force - traditional breeding grounds for right wing authoritarianism.
On 13 April 1919, in Amritsar in the Punjab, India, 50 soldiers under the command of the British General Dyer opened fire on a crowd gathering in the Jallainwala Bagh – a garden-cum-open area popular for meetings and social or religious gatherings.
Many of the crowd were there to celebrate Vaisakhi, the Sikh New Year. No one was armed, there were no disturbances, it was peaceful.
The British authorities put the number of dead at 379, with more than a thousand injured. The actual number of fatalities will never be known.
As 1919 began, working-class people in Britain and many other countries looked forward to leaving the Great War behind them and rebuilding their lives.
The 'Great War' was finally over. When it had begun in August 1914, the British government predicted that it would be won by Christmas, but it had dragged on for four more years, with dreadful suffering and loss of life. In 1916, Britain began conscripting its men to fight.
Now that the fighting was done, the soldiers expected to go home to their civilian lives. Lloyd George had induced then to vote for him by pledging rapid demobilisation.
11 November 1918 had been merely an armistice. The war would not be officially over until peace terms had been negotiated.
The victorious Allied countries began six months of talks in Paris in January 1919, before compelling Germany to sign the treaty that ended the war at Versailles on 28 June.
The British left hailed the Russian revolution in 1917.
On 18 January 1919 in London, a mass meeting launched the 'Hands Off Russia' campaign to oppose British military intervention in support of the White armies' attack on Bolshevik Russia. The campaign's National Committee brought together the scattered sections of the British left: the British Socialist Party, Independent Labour Party, Workers' Socialist Federation and Socialist Labour Party.
This would be the year in which the capitalist state rigorously enforced the role of the police, purging them of rebels, ensuring their loyalty and cutting any link between them and the workers' movement. The events of 1919 shaped the police force we have now: an obedient enforcer of the system's interests.
1918 had ended with British women voting in a general election for the first time ever. But it was only those aged 30 or over and who met a property qualification who could vote.
After Britain and its Allies had won the war, proclaiming themselves champions of freedom and democracy, the people of its imperial possessions stepped up their democratic demand for some of that freedom for themselves.
In its largest colony, India, Britain imposed the Rowlatt Act, extending wartime powers of indefinite imprisonment without trial. It prompted anger and rebellion, against both the Act and continuing British rule.
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Obit: Evelyn A. Knepprath, 78, of Boltonville
Dec. 26, 2017 – Boltonville, WI – Evelyn A. Knepprath, 78, of Boltonville, entered eternal life where she was reunited with her husband Alfred on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2017, at Aurora Medical Center in Grafton surrounded by her loving family.
She was born on June 6, 1939, the daughter of the late Lawrence and Lucille (nee Krell) Staehler and on January 26, 1957, Evelyn was united in marriage to Alfred J. Knepprath at St. Michael Catholic Church. Alfred preceded Evelyn in death on May 25, 2000.
Evelyn worked at Regal Ware and retired from Shopko after 26 years in retail. She was a long time member of St. Michael Catholic Church and the Boltonville Sportsman's Club. Evelyn's greatest joys came from spending time with her family. She enjoyed their frequent visits, getting to watch her grandson race in Plymouth, and being an important part of BK Nation. In her free time Evelyn liked to watch NASCAR and the Milwaukee Brewers.
Those Evelyn leaves behind to cherish her memory include five children, Glenn (Lori Blank) Knepprath of Kewaskum, Sandra (Wade) Myers of the town of Farmington, Daryl (Helene Kukuk) Knepprath of Kewaskum, Judy (Dwight) Helsell of Campbellsport, and Allyn Knepprath of Kewaskum; eight grandchildren, Scott (fiancé Crystal King) Braun, Sarah (Michael) Otten, Melissa (Jeremy) Wilson, Brittni Knepprath, Brandon (Deanna Frederick) Knepprath, Tony (fiancé Rachel) Helsell, Adam (Krystal) Helsell, and Kristin Immel; 13 great-grandchildren, Kierra, Alessandra, Angelina, William, Ethan, Destiny, Gabriel, Casey, Cylee, Wyatt, Noah, Mackenzie and Libbie; a brother, Ronald (Cheri) Staehler of Eden; two sisters, Jeannette (Preston) Pierce of Onalaska, and Rosemarie Dean of Fox Lake; a sister-in-law, Lucille Knepprath of Saukville; many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
In addition to her husband and parents, Evelyn was preceded in death by a sister, Arlene (Ray) Herriges; a son-in-law, William Braun; a sister-in-law, Virginia (Wolf) Buettner, and three brothers-in-law, Lloyd Dean, Willard Knepprath and Robert Knepprath.
A private family service for Evelyn will be held on Tuesday, January 2, 2018, at the Myrhum Patten Miller & Kietzer Funeral Home, 215 Forest Ave, in Kewaskum. Rev. Edwin Kornath will officiate and burial will follow at St. John of God Cemetery.
The Knepprath family would like to extend their heartfelt appreciation to the staff at Aurora Medical Center in Grafton especially nurse Liz.


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"Flowers lift the spirit and restore the soul."
—Martha Lever
Inspired by vibrant colors of deep pink, purple and orange as well as her mother. With these containers she wanted to honor her mother who had a passion for gardening. She also wanted to use the herbs for her Shamanic practice. We went together to select containers and flowers that gave her positive energy.


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We had a fascinating start to Malachi in Sunday School! After starting Psalm 103 in worship last week, serendipity had us considering again how prone we are to forget God's benefits. The people of Israel hadn't returned from exile all that long before their hearts began to harden again, and God sent Malachi, whose name means "Messenger", to remind them that He loves them. They have the audacity to question that love, but God patiently reminds them of His faithfulness.
Our worship began with Prudentius' ancient praise poem, "Of the Father's Love Begotten," set to a moving 12th century chant. We joined centuries of saints in offering our "high thanksgiving and unwearied praises" as we deliberately enumerated God's mercies.
Our sermon considered how David's words in Psalm 103 could pertain to his own life. God's forgiveness was a life-changing reality for him, especially after an event like his adulterous episode with Bathsheba.
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And forget not all His benefits:
3 Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases,
4 Who redeems your life from destruction,
Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,
5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. (Ps. 103, NKJV)
David knew from experience God's healing, redeeming, crowning, satisfying, and renewing capabilities. God's love is the victor in the end, not our sin.
Thanks be to God. Deo gratias.


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LA Times Nabs Andy McCullough From KC Star
The Los Angeles Times is adding sports reporter Andy McCullough to its Dodgers beat. He will join the paper in January from The Kansas City Star, where he has covered the Kansas City Royals baseball team since early 2014. Prior to this, McCullough covered pro baseball for The Star-Ledger, reporting on the New York Mets and New York Yankees during his time there. Follow the Los Angeles Times sports team on Twitter for updates on local athletics.
Some personal news: I am joining The Los Angeles Times to cover the Dodgers. The new job starts in January.
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How should Christians grieve over the loss of a loved one? Sometimes we feel that because we are believers we shouldn't ever show remorse in front of other people. We think it shows signs of weakness or that we don't trust God.
Here's something that we should realize. Even Jesus wept. When Lazarus was in the grave, Jesus grieved over the loss of a loved one. Being a Christian doesn't mean that we don't experience hardships or losses. In fact, Christians may experience more of this than unbelievers. And it doesn't mean we do not shed tears. While we realize that our friends and loved ones are in Heaven, we still miss their presence here on Earth.
What is different about the way we grieve is that we have hope and peace—hope that one day we will see our loved ones again, and peace that God is right beside us in our grief, even weeping with us.
Perhaps you've lost a friend or a loved one recently. Remember that it is okay to show remorse and grief, because even Jesus wept.
And also remember that you have a Heavenly Father Who is looking out for you and walking beside you in your grief.
There is a sweet joy that comes to us from sorrow. — Charles Spurgeon
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Kitchen Rush: Piece of Cake
The restaurant you inherited has been going pretty well, already employing many acclaimed chefs and serving the elite of fine dining, thanks to your commitment, professionalism and hard work! But now, as the customers' demands rise, new necessities appear that you need to accommodate, with quality pastry-making being the number one priority! Are you going to live up to your restaurant's reputation and provide fine desserts to your customers?
Piece of Cake, an expansion for Kitchen Rush, adds a new type of order with desserts, ice-cream mini-orders, two new ingredients (crème and fruit with custom-shaped wooden tokens), and a new type of token (ice cream scoops). An extension to the game''s board introduces additional actions for the players, and there is also a 60" hourglass for a specialist worker who can perform improved versions of the available actions.
1 Game Board
4 Player Mat Extensions
1 3D Cardboard Freezer
30 Dessert Order Cards
8 Specialist Ability Cards
1 Ice-Cream Objective Card
1 Upgrade Card
12 Wooden Crème Tokens
12 Wooden Fruit Tokens
12 Wooden Cubes (Chocolate Chips & Nuts)
30 Wooden Disks in 5 colors (Ice-Cream Scoops)
20 Ice-Cream Order tiles
6 Ice-Cream Plates
1 Locked Token
3 Specialist Tokens
1 60" Hourglass (Specialist)
1 Rulebook
Players: 1-4
Time: 30-45 mins
Ages: 12+
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Seeing Red / Villains
In "Seeing Red", while Willow and Tara bask in reconciliation, Buffy tracks down the Trio's new lair. The evil nerds are busy stealing the Orbs of Nezzla'khan (Gesundheit!) which give Warren strength and invincibility. After a disturbing encounter with Spike, Buffy foils the Trio's plans to rob an armored car - setting Warren on a mission of revenge. Kristen and Mike discuss Spike's mortifying behavior, and the tragic end of one of the series' most beloved characters.
In "Villians", with her girlfriend murdered and her best friend clinging to life, Willow's pain and rage push her over the edge. After saving Buffy's life, the turbocharged witch tracks down Warren. The other Scoobies try to keep Willow from going over the edge, but they're too late and witness the flaying firsthand. We examine Buffy's insistance that she can't kill Warren, and Spike's regression and trip to Africa.
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Rickie Fowler's opening 65 this morning was the lowest round he's carded in 31 career PGA Championship rounds. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkNF7XjVAAEyeTN.jpg
St. Louis brought the noise yet again.
#LiveUnderPar 👏👏 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkNGN_3XsAAyzjp.jpg
.@PGAChampionship Round Two Hole Locations: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkM5zbsUUAAdW3-.jpg
Our @GCTigerTracker 's post-script from Day 1 where even Tracker could've used a shirt change after Thursday's start 😅 watchgolf.ch/gr1Ms5 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkNJ4Y8WwAAD6XJ.jpg
Opening-round 71 @EllieMaeClassic ?
For a mid-career @NBA star, we'd call that a success.
#LiveUnderPar https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkNEQCYVAAAB4Lb.jpg
He may have shown up fashionably late, but that didn't stop @IanJamesPoulter from an early run up the #PGAChamp leaderboard watchgolf.ch/yEwb2y https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkNTCItUcAEblSU.jpg
🎗 Players honor Jarrod Lyle
💪 @TigerWoods and @JordanSpieth fight back
🏀 @StephenCurry30 's got game
All that and more in The Takeaway: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkNXXjJU0AAyMcW.jpg
👀See the courses that have hosted multiple PGA Championships: bit.ly/2mSB13o https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkNY-UCXsAAQMaF.jpg
The best shots from Round 1 of the #PGAChamp
3. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!
2. @JordanSpieth reels it in
1. Precision from @ZachJohnsonPGA https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkNskVpUwAAwJeC.jpg
6 birdies in Round 1 for @DJohnsonPGA , including this chip-in.
#PGAChamp https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkN8vJ_UYAE2C_u.jpg
One shot back heading into Round 2 of the #PGAChamp
@RickieFowler is looking for his first career major. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkO831xUYAIe6Ar.jpg
Round 2 has begun from the #PGAChamp
Friday's tee times: pgat.us/2OqJy9v https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkPH_nCWwAACaMc.jpg
Now on the tee: Dustin Johnson, Adam Scott, Bubba Watson. #PGAChamp Scores: watchgolf.ch/xJNDjh https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkPPya9UwAA6UVZ.jpg
These major winners are looking to add the PGA Championship to the list.
Watch Bubba, DJ and Adam now: bit.ly/2MiagDS https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkPQunHXgAAI3Am.jpg
✔@ZachJohnsonPGA 's chip-in
✔@ProTOURCaddy 's dance
❌The high-five/fist bump interaction ... 😂 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkPRzMaVAAAwV74.jpg
Here are the hole locations for Round 2 of the @PGAChampionship . #PGAChamp https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkPGYhXU4AE9hmI.jpg
Now on the tee: Jon Rahm, Jordan Spieth, Justin Rose. #PGAChamp Scores: watchgolf.ch/xJNDjh https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkPaH5rXcAEHQ50.jpg
Fans lining the entire 10th hole as leader Gary Woodland tees off for his 2nd round. #PGAChamp https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkPZl0mV4AAYQWZ.jpg
Rahm(-2), Rose(-3) and Spieth(+1) are out on the course for their second round.
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Looking for a Place to Relax and Sip a Bit of Oregon's Bounty?
Oregon is known for many amazing things: lush forests, picturesque high-desert views, breathtakingly beautiful mountain ranges, a rugged coast, and fertile valleys. And some of the hills above those fertile valleys, the ones that inhabit certain microclimates along the Yamhill river, for instance, represent some of the best wine-growing terroir in the entire world.
Portland may be known internationally as a craft beer Nirvana of sorts, but it is also internationally known for the quality of the wines produced nearby. But you don't have to take our word for it; the medals speak for themselves.
Within forty-five minutes (on a good day) you can drive from the heart of downtown Portland to some of the most highly regarded wineries anywhere in North America. Because of this proximity to greatness, Portlanders take their wine as seriously as they take their beer.
There are a bounty of excellent wine bars in the Portland area, and our world-renowned restaurants pride themselves in stocking some of the region's and world's best wines.
So whether your quest for vino takes you all the way to McMinnville or just across the neighborhood, you're sure to find something worth drinking. Here's a few standout spots that should definitely be on your short list if you're a wine lover living in PDX.
Yamhill County - Oregon Wine Country
The Yamhill River, an eleven-mile long tributary of the Willamette, snakes its way through some of the best pinot noir growing territory in the world. In the area, there are several family-owned and world-class wineries dotting the rolling hills between the collection of quaint towns that line either side of Highway 99W.
Nearly all have tasting rooms with free, or nominally priced tastes available to visitors, and most of the wineries put on special events around the fall crush and Thanksgiving weekend.
Since the Oregon wine renaissance that began in the early nineteen-seventies has drawn more and more affluent locals and visitors to the area, the towns have responded by carving out more family-friendly activities, and erecting restaurants good enough to get wine tasters to stay in town for dinner.
And while the area around Dundee isn't the only wine-producing region in the state, it is definitely the best known and the easiest to get to from Portland.
Portland's Best Wine Bars
Cooper's Hall
One of the newest and least pretentious wine bars in the city, Cooper's Hall (cooper is another name for a barrel-maker) boasts forty-four taps that rotate through the massive hall's seasonal wine offerings. Not all of the taps are devoted to wine, but the majority of them are, leaving a handful of taps for craft beer and hard cider. They serve their wines alongside rotisserie-cooked meats and all the wines are produced in barrels, and then kegged on site.
Tesoaria, one of the award-winning-est wineries in the entire state, also has a wine bar and tasting room up on North Williams. The owners split their time between the winery and vineyard they operate in Roseburg and their tasting room. They offer food and wine pairings, the opportunity to bottle your own wine from their live barrels, and a variety of special events throughout the year.
Noble Rot
Noble Rot has one of the city's best restaurant views, period, and as if that weren't enough, it also sits on top of a LEED-Platinum certified building fed by its own aquifer. The restaurant sports a rooftop garden, an unbelievable wine list with more than three-hundred selections, more than forty wines by the glass, and a full bar with both craft cocktail and beer offerings.
One of the most casual wine bars in all of Portland, Enso is composed of a beautiful long bar and open seating areas for groups to mingle and come together over great wine. They offer home delivery in the Portland area and an affordable wine club with tiered pricing. What's not to love?!
Muse Wine Bar
Muse, over on Northwest Raleigh, is an intimate, beautiful little wine bar. They have an outstanding array of wines, many from small boutique or artisan producers, and all offered at a good value. They serve charcuterie and fine cheeses to complement their wine service and offer several craft beers and ciders as well.
SE Wine Collective on SE Division
Since they opened in the late summer of 2012, the Southeast Wine Collective, just off of SE Division at SE 35th Place, has been producing and serving wines that have garnered local and national attention. They've been written up in the New York Times, Wine Spectator, Portland Monthly, and many other local, regional, and national publications.
The facility provides space and equipment to local winemakers so that all have the opportunity to thrive in a truly collective sense. They have a five thousand-square foot event space, and an onsite catering partner for large events. The Wine Collective is also open to accommodate smaller parties with both wine and food most evenings, and for extended hours on the weekend. Small plates and a unique menu make for a very festive evening out, when paired with just about any one of their well-curated wine flights.
Pour Wine Bar
Pour Wine Bar, on Northeast Broadway and Twenty-Seventh features small production wines, served alongside simple seasonal plates in a sleek modern setting. They offer Northwest varietals alongside selections from Europe and California, aiming to provide their patrons with the best possible example of each varietal and style. They offer wine and food pairings and several special events throughout the year.
Mt. Tabor Fine Wines on SE Hawthorne
With nearly 20 years experience serving wine lovers both new and old, proprietor Sandy Thompson has been running Mt. Tabor Fine Wines from the same location on SE Hawthorne Blvd. With a wide variety of French and Italian wines from abroad, he's also become quite the master when it comes to finding the best of what the Pacific Northwest has to offer.
Neighbors and wine lovers are all invited to share in his knowledge every Friday night from 4:00 to 7:30, when Sandy hosts hand-selected tastings that showcase 6 different wines from various regions. Many of Oregon's best small growers have exclusive relationships with the shop, which puts out annual offerings to select customers only. You won't get a better or faster education on Oregon's pinot noir selection anywhere else!
Getting Your Vine On in PDX
Portland is home to many stellar wine-tasting rooms, and with the award-winning vineyards only a forty-five minute drive away, it is truly at the center of wine lovers paradise. Get out there a try a glass of what put Oregon on the international wine map soon; you'll be happy you did!
[Photos Via: Wikimedia; Flickr Commons; Cooper's Hall; PDX Wine Tour]