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Researchers from UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, and Farallon Institute have published a paper that explains northward shifts in the occurrence of marine species normally found in more southern latitudes that took place during the 2014-2016 marine heat wave. Coastal California experienced much higher than normal sea surface temperatures in 2014-2016 first due to onset of warmer-than-normal water produced offshore by “The Blob”, and then from the incursion of warmer water from the south during the El Nino event. Under normal conditions, the coastal current offshore of California primarily flows south. This new paper in Scientific Reports shows that during those years, there was unusual northward flow along the coast. This northward flow contributed to the warm water conditions measured in Northern California and then also to the ability of southern species to be found outside of the northern bounds of their range. The authors explain that this flow brought planktonic larvae of southern species from the south and with the persistent warm water during those years, those species were able to settle and grow much farther north than normal. In the Bodega Bay area, they documented range expansions for 37 species and occurrences of 21 other species that are considered rare in Northern California.
Photo bottom left by Roger Harshaw, bottom second left and far right by Eric Sanford, and all others by Jacqueline Sones.
FI scientist Heather Robinson was recently interviewed for an article in Audubon Magazine about the seabirds of Alcatraz Island. The article details the colony and its history, explaining how the seabirds returned to breed on the island following the closure of the famous prison. Through tours, people can have a unique birding experience on Alcatraz. Heather Robinson closely monitors the bird populations on the island and disturbances to them, and that work is detailed here. This year there were healthy populations of western gulls and record high numbers of breeding Brandt's cormorants.
FI recently hired two new post-doctoral research associates, so please welcome Drs. Brian Hoover and Simon Dedman to the team.
Simon hails from the U.K. with a recently-minted Ph.D. from Galway University where he studied fisheries and marine protected areas, with a focus on skates and rays. Simon brings a wealth of expertise in quantitative science to FI that will enhance our programs in ecosystem-based fisheries management for small coastal pelagic fish species (e.g., sardine, herring, and anchovy). Simon will design and implement a population model for the California-based anchovy population, relative to its role as a key prey species in the ecosystem and the target of local fisheries.
Brian grew up in Colorado and is a recent Ph.D. graduate of U.C. Davis. With an interdisciplinary background in behavior, genetics, sensory biology, oceanography and seabird ecology, Brian’s expertise will enhance our programs of marine spatial ecology in the Northeast Pacific. Brian plies his trade at sea and in the office; he will serve as a shipboard seabird observer (a.k.a., “birder”) on CalCOFI and NMFS oceanographic surveys, and work as a lead analyst for our studies of krill using “hydro-acoustics” and net sampling. Brain will focus on developing and modeling abundance estimates and community structure of zooplankton (krill and copepods), seabirds, and salmon relative to currents in the eastern North Pacific.
Farallon Institute is excited to announce a new grant awarded by California Sea Grant for research in 2018-2020 as part of $2.87 million in federal funding that was recently designated by Congress. Our project is titled "Estimating regional krill biomass and availability: significance to California salmonids during a period of extreme environmental variability". Project efforts will include the processing of acoustically-collected data about krill abundance and distribution, and a new post-doctoral researcher will be hired. You can read more about the 12 projects funded by California Sea Grant this year here.
The annual report highlighting our work and accomplishments from 2017 can be found here.
Overfishing and climate change are co-occurring threats to marine ecosystems and the ways in which they benefit society. Farallon Institute’s Dr. Emily Klein, in collaboration with the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division (Jefferson Hinke and George Watters) and British Antarctic Survey (Tony Phillips and Simeon Hill) used a mathematical model to test outcomes of climate change to managing a large (~200,000 metric ton) international krill fishery. In their study area of the Antarctic Peninsula, this fishery targets Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), which are also critical forage for an array of charismatic predators important for ecotourism and of conservation concern, including penguins, seals, and whales. The scientists found warming waters associated with climate change could reduce individual krill weight by 40%, significantly reducing the amount of krill available for predators and the fishery, with concurrent reductions in predator abundances by the end of the 21st century. Fishing at currently permitted levels exacerbated these risks, with projected declines in penguin abundance of over 30% by century’s end. Fishing moratoriums were found to alleviate collective risks, in some cases by 20-30% for certain penguin populations. Importantly, these results depend on location and predator group, suggesting the importance of protective measures for specific populations of wildlife. In particular, the authors argue management may be able to reduce risks by implementing marine protected areas and management strategies that use monitoring to update when and how fishing occurs in response to changes in predator populations.
Read more about this study published in this weeks issue of PLoS One here.
Farallon Institute recently hosted a successful evening event featuring a State of the Ocean presentation on the latest scientific understanding of the ocean and that highlighted our 10 years of work in ocean research for conservation. Over 130 people from the community attended the event, held at Hotel Petaluma. The evening began with appetizers and beverages while guests and FI staff visited. President Bill Sydeman introduced the Farallon Institute and the State of the Ocean presentation series, and then Executive Director Jeff Dorman gave the presentation, titled "From Climate to Creatures: the State of the Ocean off Northern California". Topics spanned global issues like ocean acidification to regional changes impacting California fisheries. Following the presentation was a Q&A session with Farallon Institute scientists. An article about the event ran in that day's Petaluma Argus Courier. We were very pleased with the turnout and success of this event. Thank you to everyone who participated and showed their support.
Over the past couple of years, charismatic marine mammals have been easily seen near California's shores as they fed on dense schools of anchovy. In the summers of 2016 and 2017, particularly, the Golden Gate Bridge was an excellent vantage from which to watch humpback whales below as they fed. Despite the appearance of a vibrant nearshore marine ecosystem, anchovy populations have actually had extremely low numbers. When the abundance of these fish reaches such low numbers, their behavioral tendency is to cluster near the shoreline rather than spread out in the greater general vicinity. Having the anchovy and their predators near the shore makes them more visible to people, but gives a misleading picture about the health of their populations. This situation and Farallon Institute's recent work on assessing anchovy abundance fluctuations in California was highlighted in an article by News Deeply: Oceans Deeply. Read more here.
In a new Policy Forum published in the journal Science, FI scientist Emily Klein and co-authors spotlight the importance of inclusion and the experiences of minorities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM fields). Research clearly demonstrates the importance of diversity among scientists for more rigorous, creative, and productive science, and many institutions and organizations are actively working to promote diversity in their ranks. Yet representation of minority groups (e.g., racial, ethnic, gender, sexual identity, and persons with disabilities) in science continues to lag behind demographics in society at large. This paper aims to address the critical, and often under-acknowledged, disconnect between diversity initiatives, and the students and scientists they aim to reach.
A new paper by FI scientists Bill Sydeman, Sarah Ann Thompson, and Marisol Garcia-Reyes, along with collaborators from USGS, NOAA, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, describes regional seabird indicators in the Bering Sea. The paper was published in the journal Ecological Indicators, and shows how kittiwakes and murres each relate to climate data when data from different seabird colony sites are combined into an index. We used data for breeding success and the timing of breeding for black-legged kittiwakes, red-legged kittiwakes, common murres, and thick-billed murres. We made an index for: murre breeding success, kittiwake breeding success, murre timing of breeding, and kittiwake timing of breeding. Environmental data included sea surface temperature, sea ice cover, sea level pressure, and two measures of wind speed. These data were also combined into an environmental indices.
Results showed that the seabird indices related to different environmental indices, suggesting that seabirds across the region area are similarly affected by large-scale environmental variability.
FI scientists Bill Sydeman and Heather Robinson presented at the Pacific Seabird Group annual meeting in Tacoma, WA, on February 23-25. Bill's talk was "The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigation (CalCOFI): 30 years of at-sea seabird observations and counting", and Heather presented on "Diet of Brandt's cormorants (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) during breeding season: A novel approach". Bill was also a co-convener of the symposium "The values of long-term studies: Insight and synthesis".
Farallon Institute can now be found on the social media platforms Instagram (faralloninstitute), Twitter (@Farallon_Inst), and Facebook (@FarallonInstitute)!
Farallon Institute's 2016 Annual Report is now online. The report includes program highlights and accomplishments, and acknowledges our supporters.
A new study published in Geophysical Research Letters by Farallon Institute collaborator Chelle Gentemann, with FI scientist Marisol García-Reyes, describes the sea surface temperatures and wind characteristics along the U.S. West Coast during the 2014-2016 marine heat wave event, which was related to the heat wave event that took place in the Gulf of Alaska ("The Blob"). The nearshore warming in the California Current Ecosystem (along the coast of Washington-Oregon-California) began a few months following the development of the offshore Blob (January 2014) and ended in September 2016. Warm waters were periodically dispersed each spring with the onset of the upwelling season, though the warm water temperatures quickly returned when winds calmed. This study also demonstrated that during these three years, the upwelling season was somewhat weakened and its timing shifted, which can have serious consequences for biological communities in this ecosystem.
Results from this study were covered in an online National Geographic article on February 2, 2017.
Marisol Garcia-Reyes and Bill Sydeman have a new paper in the journal Ecological Indicators this week in which they publish the Multivariate Ocean Climate Indicator (MOCI). MOCI is a regional indicator of marine environmental conditions for the central and southern California Current. It accurately represents ocean-climate variability and major climate events such as El Ninos and the recent North Pacific phenomenon "The Blob". MOCI also relates well to biological measurements across trophic levels, including copepod abundance, rockfish growth, and seabird reproductive metrics. Since the data that are used to create MOCI are found online, MOCI is easily update-able and will be updated quarterly. More information about MOCI and the index itself can be found here.
Farallon Institute scientist Marisol Garcia-Reyes is participating in a new research project that investigates Responses of biological productivity and fisheries to changes in atmospheric and oceanographic conditions in the upwelling region associated with the East African Coastal Current. The interdisciplinary group conducting this research, led by Dr. Mahongo at the Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute (TAFIRI), includes scientists from Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, USA, and UK. Marisol will participate in developing biophysical relationship models between oceanographic conditions and biological productivity in the region.
Farallon Institute scientists Amber Szoboszlai, Julie Thayer, and William Sydeman co-authored a paper for a study that examined the role of forage fish in the California Current Ecosystem, and the results of this study were published in the journal Ecological Modelling. In this research, the authors developed and used a food web model to analyze which species are predators of forage fish (such as sardine and herring) and how much the predators' diets are composed of forage fish species. Results of this study show that many predator species consume multiple forage fish species (rather than focusing on just one type), which suggests that management on the ecosystem level rather than a species-specific level is likely to be a more successful approach to conservation. Likewise, this information suggests that declines in forage fish populations can have far-reaching effects in marine food webs.

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We have seen that Richmond spends a lot more money per student than either the division average or its peer jurisdictions. For that extra money, Richmond gets vastly inferior performance; indeed it is in a race for lowest SOL pass rates in the state.
To begin examining those data in more detail, here are the 2017 disbursements (not including facilities, debt service, and reserves) per student for Richmond, the peers, and the division average (rounded to the nearest dollar).
And here are the totals for just the day school operations.
From these data, we can’t tell where those funds are going in the instruction category but we know that we aren’t getting any return for the money. The (very) large Pre-K expenditure (funded in some part by federal Head Start money) does not look to be producing results either, at least not in the overall sense.
The food expenditure makes sense in light of Richmond’s relatively large proportion of free and reduced lunches (albeit the poverty rate in Richmond does not begin to explain the low pass rates). The state data don’t tell us where the “other” educational expenses are going.
Richmond is grossly violating the state law that requires it to deal with truancy; their puny (and lawless) effort as to attendance cannot explain the relatively large expenditure for Attendance and Health.
Our new Superintendent has asked the Council of the Great City Schools to audit the Richmond budget. Let’s hope that effort provides a more detailed – and more helpful – look at how our tax money is being squandered on these awful schools.

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Chewbacca needs his Han Solo.
James Corden and Billy Eichner have spoofed Adele's 'Hello' video in a crossover with the other biggest thing on the planet now - Star Wars.
Corden, dressed as Chewbacca for Halloween, is missing his buddy Han Solo, but instead Eichner has dressed up as a cow.
'A Lonely Halloween' follows the pair as they reminisce about past Halloween nights spent trick or treating around town.
With devastating lyrics that'll no doubt have you sobbing, the pair sing along to the tune of Adele's inevitably chart-topping hit.
"Halloween, it's me," Corden starts.
"I'm too grown up these days for costumes / and I ain't doing sweets," Eichner continues.
But do the two friends get a happy Halloween ending?
James Corden to star in 'Doctor Who'?
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Have you ever had the egg bites at Starbucks? This recipe is loosely based on it, but using higher fat ingredients in the base recipe to make them a bit more keto-friendly. I've included 6 different versions of them to give you ideas, but you can essentially just take the base recipe, use your creativity and run with it.
Add eggs, heavy cream and cream cheese along with any additional cheese from your chosen recipe to a blender and pulse till smooth.
Spread the add-ins from your chosen recipe evenly amongst the cavities of your silicone egg bites mould.
Divide the egg mixture evenly between the compartments of the silicone mould, tightly cover with aluminum foil.
Put the lid on the Instant Pot and be sure that the vent is set for sealing. Press the 'Steam' button and set timer to 10 minutes. It takes about 5 minutes for the Instant Pot to come to full pressure, then the display will show a countdown timer.
Once the cooking time is up, allow the pressure to release naturally for 10 minutes, then release any remaining pressure, if any, before opening the Instant Pot.
Remove the silicone mould from the Instant Pot and allow the egg bites to cool slightly before serving. These egg bites can be stored in the fridge for up to 1 week. Simply reheat in the microwave for 30 seconds. They can also be frozen and reheated in the microwave for 1 ½ - 2 minutes.

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Emily Jenkins is angry with the world after her father and brother are killed in a coal mining accident. Then, a badly injured electrical worker named Joseph is brought to her remote West Virginia farmhouse and Emily's world is changed forever.
Kessler , B. (2001). Lick Creek: A Novel. New York, NY: Scribner.

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In such a critical situation, having Personal Umbrella Insurance from Mackey & Associates Insurance Agency will protect your home, car, future wages, and all of your priceless assets from being used to pay for the expenses.
Your Umbrella Liability policy from Mackey & Associates Insurance Agency works to give you additional protection when damages exceed the liability coverage of your standard policies. It also offers extra security for many situations that may not be included in your basic insurance.
At Mackey & Associates Insurance Agency, we are committed to the safety and security of you and your family, which is why we will work with you to create a perfect policy that protects all of your interests. Since Personal Umbrella Insurance will vary depending on your individual coverage needs, it’s important to discuss your options with one of our insurance specialists before making a decision.

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As Sekiro Shadows Die Twice has more of an open-world structure than previous FromSoftware titles such as Dark Souls, players might need a guide to get them through the shinobi action game.
In this guide we’ll take a look at a recommended overview route for Sekiro players to take on, to help them navigate with ease. Each area comes with its own set of enemies, mini-bosses as well as challenging bosses to face. We will provide you with an optimum route so you can glide through the game as the fast paced shinobi you are! There are additonal useful items to be picked up in each area so if you want a more in-depth look into each area, check out the Game Progress Route.
Players should note there are multiple endings to witness, which means if you’re trying to view a particular ending you should plan your playthrough accordingly, see our ending section of our Sekiro wiki for more details. The New Game+ mode also allows for further playthroughs.
Players will start of the game at the Ashina Reservoir, this acts as a prologue and tutorial area for players to get use to basic game controls. Following your acclimation to game controls, stealth your way to Moon-view tower to gain key items that you shouldn’t miss out on which include Kusabimaru and Healing Gourd. Don’t forget to heal yourself before setting off as you’ll encounter the first mini-boss of the game, Genichiro Ashina.
For more details about this area and for a walkthrough check out the Ashina Reservoir wiki page.
The Dilapidated temple is a part of a larger area, the Ashina Outskirts. After entering this area, Sekiro will gain the Shinobi Prosthetic arm, you can also find the Sculptor and Emma at the Dilapidated Temple which acts a hub. Remember to take rest a the Sculptor’s Idol before continuing your journey.
You can also take advantage of Hanbei the Undying as he will make the perfect “Training Dummy” to test out your moves, don’t worry he doesn’t mind.
For more details about this area and for a walkthrough check out the Dilapidated Temple wiki page.
The next place to visit is the Ashina Outskirts, here you will find materials needed to craft and equip your Loaded Shuriken. Here you will also need to defeat another mini-boss General Naomori Kawarada which will gain you an upgrade for your Healing Gourd. Before leaving the area be sure to talk to Inosuke Nogami’s Mother to receive the Young Lord’s Bell Charm as this will be needed for your next location the Hirata Estate.
After finding these materials and defeating the mini-boss General Naomori Kawarada you will need to head back to the Dilapidated Temple in order to craft the Shuriken and upgrade your Healing Gourd.
For more details about this area and for a walkthrough check out the Ashina Outskirts wiki page.
In this area you will learn more about the story by talking to an NPC who will give you the option to ask events have taken place. This area will grant you access to the Flame Vent, which will be helpful in fighting the mini-boss in the Ashina Outskirts. Don’t miss out on the Treasure Carps and Treasure Carp Scape merchant as they will have two Prosthetic Tools.
For more details about this area and for a the Game Progress Route and for a more detailed walkthrough visit the Hirata Estate wiki page.
After visiting the Hirata Estate you will encounter the Ashina Outskirts once again. Equipping the Flame Vent, you’ll have what you need in taking down the Chained Ogre mini-boss that lives in these parts.
Further enemies await as you make your way past the Great Serpent and go against Gyoubu Oniwa. Consuming the boss memory will increase your Attack Power so this is not to be missed.
There is a further mini-boss beat here Shinobi Hunter Enshin of Misen which will gain you another Prayer Bead if you defeat them.
Your next location will be back to the Hirata Estate, here you can collect the Bamboo Thicket Slope idol and then continue to meet The Owl who will give you the Hidden Temple Key. Two more items to claim are from Juzou the Drunkard, after defeating him you will gain Unrefined Sake and a Prayer Bead. Lastly you will fight against the agile boss of this area, the Lady Butterfly.
For more tips and for a walkthrough check out the Hirata Estate wiki page.
After defeating the Lady Butterfly you will go onto Ashina Castle which means killing further foes and returning to complete the Tengu of Ashina quest. This will unlock the Ashina Arts skill line.
The next enemy you will encounter is the fearsome Blazing Bull which drop you the Ashina Castle Sculptor’s Idol. From here use your grapple to travel to the enemy opposite, take them out to gain the Gatehouse Key.
For more tips and for a walkthrough check out the Ashina Castle wiki page.
After locating the gatehouse, use the Gatehouse Key obtained from Ashina Castle, to gain the Gyoubu’s Broken Horn and unlock the Loaded Spear which is a Prosthetic Tool.
Here you face the mini-boss Seven Ashina Spears and receive a Prayer Bead. Don’t miss out on the Bundled Jizo Statue which is found behind the Moon-View tower.
There are further items to collect here which you can check them out in our Game Progress Route.
You will return to Ashina Castle to fight General Kuranosuke Matsumoto who will use similar attacks as other Generals you will encounter. You will also need to rescue Fujioka the Info Broker who is trapped by an enemy below him. Defeat the enemy to gain access to Fujioka and proceed to speak to with him to gain the Nighjar Beacon Memo. After this he will be accessible as a vendor at the Dilapidated Temple.
Here you can also obtain the Antechamber Idol and Sabimaru. There are other enemies to defeat including Ashina Elite – Jinusuke Saze and then Genichiro Ashina.
After defeating Genichiro, talk to Kuro, the Divine Heir who will send you in the direction of Isshin Ashina, talk to him once more and take the Gun Fort Shrine Key located at Kuro’s feet.
Your path will then take you to the Abandoned Dungeon, here you will speak to Doujon. After this, drop down and find a passage which will leave you to the Shichimen Warrior.
For more tips and for a walkthrough check out the Abandoned Dungeon wiki page.
The temple will provide you with a fair few things to do, start of the area by talking to the Monk NPC who will set you the task of bringing him a “white flower”. To gain another Gourd Seed head to the room of monks with crickets.
Defeat the Long Arm Centipede Sen-Un who will reward you with a Prayer Bead and Yellow Gunpowder once taken down. There is also a Senpou Esoteric Text to pick up, before facing the Folding Screen Monkeys. Don’t leave the area before speaking to the Divine Child of Rejuvenation in the Inner Sanctum to acquire the Mortal Blade.
For more tips and for a walkthrough check out the Senpou Temple, Mt. Kongo wiki page.
After picking up the Mortal Blade port back to the top of the Ashina Castle and continue to drop down from the roof to the moat. Using your grappling hook, make your way through a few enemies and proceed to cross the bridge.
Here you will use the Gun Fort Shrine Key which you picked up near Kuro to unlock the shrine, then speak to Tengu of Ashina.
The Sunken Valley provides players with two foes to defeat, the mini-boss Snake Eyes Sirafuji and the Long-arm Centipede Giraffe. You can make your way past the Great Serpent by using the rock as cover.
For more items to gain from this area visit our Game Progress Route.
After leaving the Sunken Valley you will take the passage that leads to an Old Hag who has the Bodhisattva Valley Idol. If you give her Rice she will tell you how to get past the Great Serpent.
Here you will face the Guardian Ape and once again face the Great Serpent, using the knowledge you gained from the Old Hag.
There are plenty of items to pick up here, here to our Game Progress Route wiki page for all the lootable items. You also visit the Sunken Valley Passage. for a complete walkthrough of the area.
In the Ashina Depths you will need to defeat a number of enemies, including the Snake Eyes Shirahagi, Headless Ape, Tokujiro the Glutton, Mist Noble. There are two option foes to take on which include the Shichimen Warrior and Headless.
Check out our Game Progress Route for more tips and steps.
In Mibu Village, players will encounter two enemies, an option foe O’rin of the Water and the ferocious Corrupted Monk. You can also speak to Jinzaemon Kumano which is an option step depending on your quest as well as look the Shelter Stone.
Once more you’ll visit Ashina Castle (if all goes well) to kill the Lone Shadow Vilehand and Great Shinobi Owl. Here you can create incense and defeat the Chained Ogre to continue your path.
The final area is the Fountainhead Palace, here you will face Corrupted Monk. You can also take on some optional enemies which include the Sakura, Bull of the Palace, Headless, Shichimen Warrior and the Great Colored Carp. You will then face off with the Old Dragons of the Tree and finally the Divine Dragon.
As mentioned in the beginning of this article there are multiple endings, so depending on which you aim for, you may need to carry out certain quests. Visit the endings section of our Sekiro Shadows Die Twice wiki for more help with this.
If you enjoyed this Sekiro content be sure to check out what we thought about the game in our Sekiro Review: Shinobis Die Many Times. Find out everything you need to know about game length, replayability and difficulty. You can also check out our guides in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Beginner Guide and Sekiro Stealth Guide: How To Be A Better Shinobi. If you want to see the game live in action be sure to tune into our Twitch channel.
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The only way not to get lost in Sekiro is to have someone tell you where everything is.

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We’ve just added a brief new tutorial concerning Dreamcast light guns and how they are supported in emulators. If you’ve never used a lightgun, it’s a toy gun that you plug into your games console and then point at the screen. The console can then tell where the gun is pointing and this allows you to shoot at targets such as zombies or bad guys in various games. Light guns used to be much more common, but when CRT televisions died out, they became considerably more complex to implement at a hardware level and so are noticeably absent on more modern consoles.
One of our fondest memories from the Dreamcast era was playing House of the Dead 2 in 2-player co-op. Regrettably, there’s no way that we’re aware of to get support for two light-guns in any current Dreamcast emulators.
If you want to play light gun in your Dreamcast emulator, check out the tutorial here.


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Pink slime (also known as lean finely textured beef or LFTB, finely textured beef, and boneless lean beef trimmings or BLBT ) is a meat by-product used as a food additive to ground beef and beef-based processed meats, as a filler, or to reduce the overall fat content of ground beef. In the production process, heat and centrifuges remove fat from the meat in beef trimmings. The resulting paste is exposed to ammonia gas or citric acid to kill bacteria. In 2001, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved the product for limited human consumption. LFTB prepared using ammonia gas is banned for human consumption in the European Union.
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And they matter a lot. When Fort McMurray residents were told to evacuate, it wasn’t passports and valuable jewellery that they risked their lives to retrieve from their homes – it was their pets. Snakes, cats, dogs, birds, horses – you name it. Our family and friends of the two and four-legged variety are the most important things we have in this life. The photographs that capture and memorialize them are among our most prized possessions.
NOW is the time to have your pet professionally photographed.
This go around we are going to cool things down. Our theme this time is BLUE STEEL and it’s 100% a celebration of our pets!
We are focusing on getting a few beautiful portraits of your pet. With a simple classic set and a lighting schema that was designed by an experienced studio pet photographer for these special sessions, these photographs of your loved ones will be works of art deserving of their rightful place on your walls.
We could not wish for a better venue for our pet-centric sessions than the Mutt Show that was created PURELY to celebrate our dogs!
The BLUE STEEL Sessions are a one-of-a-kind session offering savings like we’ve never offered before. Normally such beautifully stylized sessions are available only to clients that purchase larger sessions. This is a one-time opportunity because we want you to have beautiful images – even though times are tough!
$50 from your session fee will be donated to organizations supporting pets and pet parents during the Fort McMurray wildfires.
Pebbles and Kingsley testing out the exclusive Blue Steel JAM Session set!
On session day, please arrive about 10 minutes before your session. We are on a really tight schedule and we will be unable to extend your session if you are late. You will meet my assistant and I and we will capture some amazing photos of your pup(s) in the exclusive Blue Steel set! Immediately following your photo session, you will be able to view your photos and choose your photos and products!
If you purchase your package at the time of booking, you will receive a complimentary metal photo key-chain ($49 value)! If we know in advance what you are after, we can shoot your session more suitably for your products.
Your session fee is $99.
An in person viewing and ordering session to choose your images and products immediately following your session.
Each session allows for a maximum of 2 dogs. We’re sorry but due to the limited time available, JAM SESSIONS are not suitable for extremely nervous cats or dogs. Please book a private session for these critters!
At your viewing/ordering session you will choose one of three available packages. We will assist you in choosing images suitable for your products. You are also welcome to add products from our a-la-carte product catalog. Once you decide, we will take your payment and begin retouching your images to perfection using signature BrindleBerry editing techniques.
Note: These packages are only available during your viewing/ordering session on June 11th.
PLUS 5% off any additional a-la-cart items you choose!
PLUS 10% off any additional a-la-cart items you choose!
PLUS 25% off any additional a-la-cart items you choose!
Join us on June 11th to create some amazing artwork together!
JAM Session Session Fees are non-refundable but they are transferable to a friend or family member!

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Hi loves, today I am sharing my recent collaboration with ID.AZ Premium Face Mask by ID Health Care Group. To be honest ever since I got pregnant I had no time to take care of my skin resulting it to be very dry and sensitive lately and that's not it I am one of those unfortunate ones who did not get my pregnancy glow. Pregnancy has made my skin worse, it is also really dull because I haven't been sleeping properly.
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I never try the gold mask before. This look good!
wahh feel fresh tak selepas guna mask? I nak try jugalah satu.
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The gold one looks so beautiful - and I know that now I want to buy them masks - as I love doing masks.
The water fit mask and gold mask is marvelous. I love it so much.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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Dr. Lara Sylvester has over 10 years’ experience practicing companion animal medicine in the Quinte region and has a special interest in internal medicine and cancer treatment. She strives to make her patients and their parents comfortable in a caring atmosphere that places communication at the forefront. Lara encourages you to be a part of your pet’s healthcare team.
Dr. Sylvester attained her Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree from Trent University and Masters of Science (MSc) degree from the University of Toronto before attending the University of Pennsylvania where she attained her Veterinary Medicinis Doctoris (VMD) degree. When Dr. Sylvester is not directly caring for patients, she travels across the province giving lectures to veterinary teams and is involved with the Quality Assurance program at the College of Veterinarians of Ontario.
Lara has been involved in teaching at college and university levels and served as the president of the Quinte District Veterinary Association. She was also awarded the Young Leaders Award from Trent University. At home, Dr. Sylvester enjoys running, scrapbooking and outdoor adventures with her family.


text: Be seconds from Southlake Mall and Mt. Zion Rd shopping and dining plus minutes from I-75 and downtown Atlanta. Be home at The Woods at Southlake Apartments, exceptional Clayton County apartment rentals. The Woods at Southlake offers two and three bedroom floor plans designed with you mind. Our apartment rentals feature elevated dining areas and modern kitchens with breakfast bars. Residents can impress their friends entertaining in the unique homes at The Woods or relax on their private balconies/patios after a long day. Pet friendly apartments for rent near Atlanta, GA are move-in ready! Come see why our residents love calling The Woods at Southlake Apartments home. Locally managed by JAMCO Properties, Inc.

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Acute health appointments for new clients with recent health concerns or acute illnesses. These appointment require less preparation and will focus directly on your current concern. If we feel that you also have underlying health concerns that you may not be aware of, we will discuss this with you during your appointment and suggest that you book in a functional medicine appointment, if you are interested in addressing these concerns.
If you are an existing client and would like to see Jasmin for a recent acute health event, please book a “Follow up consultation”.
Recent symptom – with a sudden onset (if you have multiple symptoms or your symptom/s has been gradually worsening over the last few months/years, we suggest a functional medicine consultation).
Supplement or test result review – if you would like Jasmin to assess your current supplementation to make sure you aren’t missing anything, or if you would like a second opinion on pathology or functional medicine tests.
Diet review – If you would like Jasmin to assess your current diet to ensure it is nutritionally sound and suitable for your unique needs.
"In April 2016 I ran in the Hill to Harbour 10km event. It was such a hard slog and it utterly wiped me out for weeks afterwards. I had done plenty of training, and just didn't have the fitness I should have (I thought I was just getting OLD!) I finally realised that my constant tiredness and cyclical energy slumps needed to be addressed because I have work to do on this earth. Jasmin is an incredibly knowledgable and kind naturopath who has taken my personal health goals and really worked with me to make them happen. I am now understanding that a lifetime of energy and mood slumps, at times deep sadness, have been a result of adrenal fatigue. So 12 months in and I have a mental clarity and focus that I haven't felt for YEARS, my emotional stability is back into the normal ebb and flow of life, and my energy levels are ever increasing. Thank you so much Jasmin x"
"Jasmin is a genuine, knowledgeable women, with a passion in helping women, men and children to live a healthier life. Jasmin tailors her services to suit her individual clients needs. She is warming and caring. If your feeling sluggish, thinking something is not quite right, wanting to get your health back on track, wanting a natural alternative, I can not recommend Wellness Vision highly enough. Jasmin is amazing and certainly a blessing to any fortunate enough to work with her."
"So impressed with Jasmine. She has the perfect mix of outstanding knowledge with lots of formal qualifications, and a kind heart and demeanour. After trying everything for 12 months with my Dr, Jasmine worked out my issues in one visit, confirmed by blood tests, and began treatment from visit two. Very highly recommended."
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"Jasmin is so knowledgeable and understanding. She was very thorough with my assessment and never pushed me into purchasing any supplements that i didnt want to, just made suggestions. Jasmin is a pleasure to work with to guide me towards meeting my health goals. I would highly recommend Jasmin to anyone."

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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The Clubhouse is Marina Azzurra Resort’s main hub, a meeting point for all guests of the tourist resort which is open at all hours.
The Clubhouse is built on a floating ferry of 40 m x 10 m divided on three floors, two of which are closed and one open. On the lower, covered floors you will find the scrumptious breakfast and dinner buffet. Guests have the possibility to order their meals to take away, so they can enjoy them in the tranquility of their houseboat. On the open upper deck there is a lounge bar with musical entertainment, from which you can admire the fading daylight or the starlit sky.
After breakfast, the ferry can set sail for an excursion reserved to all guests of Marina Azzurra Resort and Europa Tourist Group. The resort’s strategic location allows the ferry to sail up the river Tagliamento for a 25-km stretch, thus allowing for a visit to the historical city centre of Latisana, with its Neo-classic style cathedral, or to sample a glass of local wine in one of the many cellars scattered throughout the Friulian inland, the perfect way to get in touch with the local tradition. The boat ride can be made even more relaxing by a lunch on board, enjoying a light but delicious fish fry.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


text: Despite some improvement, no consensus exists to perfect quality in anesthesia handoff practice and policy. This quality improvement project was designed to assist a local anesthesia and perioperative workforce questioning the quality of its current handoff. Theories and models used to inform the project included the Inter-Professional Team Collaborative, Lewin's change theory, the continuous quality improvement theory, and the knowledge to action model. The communication assessment tool (CAT) functioned as a needs assessment yielding a gap in handoff practice of 25 participants. The CAT also served as the post project evaluation survey. The situation, background, assessment, and recommendation (SBAR) tool was preferred. Participants received SBAR education, and clinical evaluation experience (CEX) survey training. The CEX described the quality indicators of participant handovers during four consecutive weeks. Descriptive and inferential statistics used to analyze data collections included means and standard deviations, examining trends in the continuous level variables. Reliability of the CAT variables was evaluated through Cronbach's alpha test of internal consistency. Inferential analyses included independent sample t tests, Pearson correlations, and analyses of variance (ANOVAs). Statistical significance was evaluated at the conventional level, Î± = .05. The use of the SBAR handoff tool showed parity in communication competency. Quality indicators of overall handoff remained highly satisfactory. Recommendations include the consensual use of SBAR handoff and competency evaluation across the anesthesia community. Modification of handoff practices and policies will enable social change by promoting quality indicators in anesthesia collaborative communication.


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What does mint chocolate chip ice cream have to do with CRM?
One of my “rant buttons” is the way Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is usually discussed as a software-oriented, direct marketing, customers-in-the-aggregate, technology tool. Shouldn’t we focus, first, on how to manage human relationships with individual customers, and then look at how the technology can support those one-on-one relationships? In practice, it usually doesn’t work that way. Here’s a recent post I wrote on tompeters.com that sums up these thoughts.
From where I was standing, near Caroline at the front of the room, I could see the faces in the audience. They practically glowed with understanding.
Sure, technology is very helpful in remembering those “nuggets” about individual customers. But those nuggets only matter once you pull them out and use them to give customers what they want. Think of all of the nuggets about individual customers that are sitting in your CRM database. Is your company using that information only to execute more streamlined direct marketing campaigns, or are you using that information interact with individual customers in ways that are relevant to each customer?
Remember, it doesn’t matter if you know it. It only matters if you use it.

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Amidst taxpayer funding worries at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston’s State Representative Reggie Phillips said concerned students and faculty should place blame with House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago).
For example, Madigan found $35 million to fund a 1,500 student public school in his district on Chicago’s Southwest Side. According to Chicago Tribune report, he hid the money in the budget of Secretary of State Jesse White (D-Chicago) to prevent Governor Bruce Rauner from directing it to other priorities, like state colleges and universities.
State Sen. Scott Bennett (D-Cham- paign), a staunch ally of Madigan’s Chicago Machine partner, Sen. President John Cullerton, wants the debt-laden state to borrow another $4 billion make ends meet. Phillips and Republicans say the state needs to prioritize its spending, not go deeper into debt.


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The Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and the U.S.D.A. - Forest Service (USFS) recognize that a safe and efficient transportation system is integral to effective land management. WYDOT's transportation system crosses through eight different National Forests and one National Grassland within Wyoming. To improve mutual effectiveness, enhance context sensitivity and streamline the delivery of transportation projects, WYDOT and the USFS have taken several steps. The initial step was to develop a Statewide Memorandum of Understanding for transportation facilities on National Forest System roads (renewed every 5 years). The Statewide MOU as it is known outlines the roles and responsibilities of the WYDOT, the FHWA and the USFS during development of transportation projects. It contains procedural guidance specific to project Planning & Design, Environmental Processing, Federal Land Appropriation, Construction and Operation & Maintenance of transportation facilities on National Forest System (NFS) lands. Direction is also included concerning the Use and Disposition of NFS Resources, Signing, Third Party Occupancy and Access Control.
The second step was to create the USFS-WYDOT Liaison Program. The Liaison Program consists of one full-time, dedicated Forest Service liaison position supported with WYDOT and FHWA transportation funding. The expectations and functions of the liaison are described in the Statewide Liaison Memorandum of Understanding between the WYDOT and the USFS (renewed every 5years). The Statewide Liaison position is tasked with programmatic issues, planning, coordination, and specific transportation projects across Wyoming. The Liaison position works to enhance coordination, communication and to strengthen relationships between the USFS and the WYDOT. The liaison seeks to streamline project planning & development and to ensure projects are balanced to minimize environmental impacts on National Forest and Grassland lands and resources.
Larger State map showing National Forests and Grasslands (pdf).
The Federal Lands Highway Program provides funding and technical resources for public roads that service the needs of federal and Native American lands. The Central Federal Lands Highway Division (CFLHD) operates as part of the Federal Lands Highway Program serving the central states including Wyoming. CFLHD actively administers and cooperates with Federal Land management agencies to plan, design, construct, and rehabilitate highways and bridges on federally owned lands, including forest highways, public lands highways, park roads, parkways, refuge roads, and Native American reservation roads.
The Wyoming Forest Highway Network contains 18 routes amounting to 609.79 miles (981.15km) 1 . WYDOT, CFLHD and the USFS assign available funds to various projects within the Wyoming Forest Highway Network. The proposed projects are maintained on the Wyoming State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). The CFLHD keeps an inventory and route files available to the public as well as projects that are in development and under construction in Wyoming.

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Executive Summary: The Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2005 is an internet censorship bill. It creates a new and potentially dangerous power for courts to censor websites. This power is not proportional to the harm it is intended to ameliorate.
The bill enables copyright holders to apply for court orders against internet service providers to block access to websites whose “primary purpose” is to facilitate the infringement of copyright. This amounts to a form of judicial censorship of the internet in the private interests of copyright holders. It is inappropriate in a free society.
In a submission to the September 2014 Discussion Paper into Online Copyright Infringement, the IPA argued that proposed copyright reforms will “do nothing to tackle the underlying dynamics” that have enabled a shift in social attitudes as to the desirability of copyright enforcement. This submission is substantially drawn from the arguments made in that previous submission. The previous submission, which outlines many of the arguments below in greater detail, is attached.
Copyright is not an unlimited right. Copyright enforcement needs to be carefully counterweighed against the rights that such enforcement might limit. Intellectual property enforcement is not a sufficient justification for the abrogation of a more central right: the right to freedom of expression. The Australian government does not censor websites that can encourage much more serious harm than copyright infringement. Internet censorship for the purposes of copyright enforcement constitutes a serious and disproportionate overreach of government power and a consequent threat to freedom of speech.
Introduction: Bullying among children is a significant and serious issue. In recent years, thephenomenon described as “cyberbullying” has received a large amount of social, political, and academic attention.
The Commonwealth government has announced that it is seeking legislative change to deal with cyberbullying. The government plans to institute a Children’s e-Safety Commissioner with power to takedown harmful content directed at children from the social media sites.
The Children’s e-Safety Commissioner is a serious threat to freedom of speech.
The purpose of this paper is to outline the scope of the cyberbullying problem, the conceptual framework within it must be understood, and develop principles by which policymakers can address the cyberbullying problem. Without understanding the cyberbullying phenomenon it is impossible to devise effective policy that will not have unintended consequences and threaten basic liberties like freedom of speech. Unfortunately it is not clear that the government has clearly understood the causes, consequences, and characteristics of cyberbullying.
This paper argues that cyberbullying is a subset of bullying. It is bullying by electronic means. It is not a problem of a different kind from bullying in an offline environment. Cyberbullying is a social problem, not a technological one.
Executive summary: The government’s proposed Children’s e-Safety Commissioner represents a serious threat to freedom of speech and digital liberty. The proposed regime would create extraordinary new powers, which would be conferred on a government-appointed digital censor. The power to order certain material to be pulled down from large social media sites also gives discretionary power to a government bureaucrat.
The proposal misdiagnoses the problem of bullying on and offline. Bullying can be a significant and very harmful social problem – whether on or offline. Cyberbullying is not a special case demanding of specific laws. It should be dealt with using the same legal framework as bullying that takes place offline.
The existence of a Children’s e-Safety Commissioner will not prevent or protect young people against cyberbullying. There are many forms of harmful online activity that will not be caught by the government’s proposed regime. The regime may also drive cyberbullying to sites that are less easily monitored by parents and guardians. Smaller social media sites are less likely to have rigorously enforced community standards yet the government’s proposal is aimed only at large social media sites.
The proposal also ignores existing remedies. There are a variety of current laws that exist to catch the same conduct that the government seeks to proscribe. Legal remedies for stalking, harassment, intimidation and a range of other unacceptable behaviours are already available to victims of bullying.
The Children’s e-Safety Commissioner may provide a false sense of security among parents that cyberbullying has been dealt with. Some parents may not feel that their own efforts are still necessary when faced with the existence of the government’s cyberbullying program. Parents may fail to employ monitoring and security software believing it to be redundant. However, there will be cases of cyberbullying that are not caught by the government’s scheme but that would have been caught by parental vigilance.
Coastal Shipping Reform: Industry Saviour or Regulatory Nightmare?
Executive Summary: On July 1 2012, the Gillard Government passed the most extensive suite of changes to coastal trading since the Navigation Act 1912 in the form of the Coastal Trading (Revitalising Australian Shipping) Act 2012 and its associated Acts.
They come on top of the Fair Work Act 2009, which imposed Australian labour standards on foreignregistered ships operating with foreign crews in the Australian coastal shipping trade.
The combination of these changes have negative effects for the Australian economy and for Australian businesses and consumers.
These changes are intended to reduce the number of foreign vessels currently carrying coastal freight, and to make Australian ships more competitive. They do so by significantly increasing the regulatory burden on foreign-flagged ships.
Foreign-registered ships temporarily operating on the coastal trade must undertake at least five voyages in twelve months, and the loading dates, origin and destination, cargo types and volumes are specified at the start of that period.
Foreign-registered ships can only carry cargo if there are no Australian-flagged ships (or foreign-flagged ships transitioning to Australian flags) that can do so.
Foreign-flagged ships carrying foreign crews have to pay Australian award wages, which are far in excess of International Transport Workers’ Federation rates.
These changes are aimed at encouraging the use of vessels that employ solely Australian resident crews. In doing so, the changes have the effect of significantly reducing the flexibility in the coastal shipping trade, and squeezing foreign-flagged ships out of the market. As a result of the 2012 changes alone, the net present value of the coastal shipping industry’s net economic benefit to the Australian economy is between $76 million and $150 million less than it would be in the absence of these changes.
It is clear that the changes will increase transport costs. This could result in bulk commodities being sourced from cheaper overseas markets, thus negatively affecting Australian commodity producers.
Increased transport costs could also be passed downstream to consumers. This paper examines the broader economic effects that seem likely to arise as a result of these changes.
Finally, this paper asks what ought to be done about coastal shipping. It concludes that a marketdriven, open regulatory framework should instead govern Australian shipping, and it calls on the Abbott Government to implement changes as a matter of priority.

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Describe a contemporary issue in health care and explain why it presents a challenge in clinical practice.
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Identify the issues for people affected by this problem including the impact on individuals and their communities or workplace.
Critically discuss strategies that could be considered for implementation in the acute care AND primary health care/community setting (including cultural considerations) to address these issues.
Describe the implications of these issues for advanced practice nurses and nurse practitioners in terms of their need for education, resources and support.


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3. Hockey games have never been prettier.
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industry_corpus2: Sports


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This is the story of a sword. The blade began as a little seed in my mind after reading the book “Swords of the Viking Age” by Ian Pierce. As I turned pages 148 and 149, very much at the end of the book and having already seen many photographs of wonderful pattern-welding, I was stunned by two photographs depicting a sword found in Vehmaa and dating to the 8th century. My first impression looking at the photographs on both pages is that I was looking at two different swords but reading the brief notes I was further shocked in realizing that it was only one. Ever since I saw that blade I wanted to try and figure out how the pattern was created.
That was many moons ago. Then going back some three or four years I saw Jeff's repair on the handle of a Viking sword and that sword and another were shown at Fire&Brimstone. When I held the one blade with the Petersen L morphology, I felt a more compelling need to try to make the Vehmaa sword.
It took me the best part of a year of on and off reviewing my original notes on the pattern and developing new ideas to sort out how could it be re-made. Aided at times by a 3D CAD program to determine the composition, layer count and arrangement of the rods, I was able to figure out the individual patterns but not quite able to determine how where they put together and the transitions from one pattern to another realized. One day when I least expected it, I came up with a plausible solution and even if it is not how the original was made, I was happy enough with the plans to make some billets and get ready to test my thoughts in the fire.
I used 1095 and 15N20. About 6 kg of steel to begin with and run the tests I wanted with enough material to spare. I made core rods and edge rods. The edge rods were 1095 and W2.
The five rods that were to become the core of the blade needed to be twisted and/or manipulated to very precise dimensions. The day I did the twists I had two pages of carefully detailed directions as to where to start and stop each twist and how many turns to do. It was nerve wrecking as any one single mistake would have thrown the pattern off. Everything needed to line up as close to the layout directions as possible.
The next issue was to figure out how much material to remove from either side to expose the pattern exactly where it was intended and for most people who have done this, they would realize that the pattern is shown at different depths on different sections on both sides of the blade.
The most dificult weld was the last. Attaching the wrap-around edge to the core had to be done when the billets were ¼” thick and there was no wiggle room for any offset as it would simply ruin the carefully develop pattern.
Unfortunately, the first sword did not show the correct patterns after grinding as a result of miscalculating the depth. The blade was very interesting in itself but not was I was going after. So a second blade was started and with the gained knowledge from the previous one, the patterns were pre-arranged where after grinding they will show at the correct depth.
So now it was on to profiling on the grinder and heat treating. The blade look really pretty dressed in its tempering colors.
But it had a little bit of a warping towards the point which I tried and tried to straighten at tempering temperature for a couple days. Finally I thought I had straighten it just to come in the shop the next morning and see that that curve had come back to some degree after cooling. I thought that it was such a little curve that I put it in the vise cold and tried to fix it. The blade broke in two.
Too bad as the pattern was for the most part there. The serpent section was not as tight as I wanted but everything else was right on. The next week instead of feeling pity on myself I went back to the shop to make a new set of billets for a third attempt. Although for a day or two I did walk with my head down.
Third time’s a charm. I had the sword I wanted with the correct amount of tightness for the serpent and although one of the chevron sections did not have the correct spacing, it was close enough. I was not planning on hilting the blade or making a scabbard but I needed some sort of sheath to keep the blade in so I made a wooden one and it looked so nice that I was compelled to finish it with a leather wrap and lambskin liner. At that point there was no turning back from making a hilt for it too.
The blade itself is 950 grams and the length without the tang was 32 ½”. Width of 1 7/8” at the base and tapering from there. Polishing the w2/1095 edge to show contrast was a bit tricky and ended up using a method similar to the Japanese polish for the edge.
I had a smile on my face when it was finished.
Here you can see how subtle the edge pattern is.
For those interested in trying to figure out the pattern-welding, there are a couple more images at my website made in Photoshop by combining many sectional pictures. The proportions of the handle and blade were a bit deformed by the program but the pattern is more easily discerned.
Scroll to the very end of the pages for those two images.
My respect for the smith who made the original sword is enormous. I don't think that I actually followed the process that he used to make his sword in making mine. He knew what he wanted to do and how to do it. Thanks to all my friends that help me in one way or another through questions and answers on the making on the different parts of this blade. You know who you are.
Oh my God! That is magnificent! I can't recall seeing a pattern on a pattern welded sword that I like more. The hilt and scabbard are outstanding too! Thank you for sharing this!
That is a legendary Finnish blade and since I read about it last year I had been dreaming of one day being able to commission it. You did extremely well. The patterns on this make it a masterpiece of design and execution. Thank you for sharing it. Whoever ends up with it will be so happy. I wish I could throw my hat in the ring. Well done. Just amazing.
That is amazing! Well done Sir! Truly an incredible piece.
An immensely beautiful creation, and the walk-through was very informative.
It's incredible how many talented swordsmiths post to this forum.
In viewing your website I see no other European based pieces, is this your first?
Thank you, guys. For the time being this sword is going to stay home.
I have made some falcata and several seax but mostly I do Japanese-style work.
Ah yes, I see that now, apologies.
An intelligent & artistic dedication on everything I have seen. Kudos to you.
Really outstanding work. The winding pattern near the blade tip is truly incredible. Absolutely stunning. I also really love the texture on the scabbard.
I am amazed and in awe of what the top sword smiths can accomplish. It does not seem like some thing that well executed would ever be possible.
I was at one time caretaker for a large pattern welded langsax with a red bone handle that you made. I thought it was great, but this is just beyond her in so many ways.
This is significant work , a real leap within a craft that is constantly surpassing it's self.
Exceptional and inspiring and so beautifully executed.
Well done Jesus , I hope this pushed you even further .
So this is the real Vehmaa sword. This sword, however, dates from the 8th century and was discovered in Vehmaa, Finland. The date of its discovery remains unknown.
This sword may well have the most beautiful pattern of any I've ever seen!


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Please take from the Cracow direction Zakopane. Shortly before the town begins, you also see the filling station Orlen and Mc Donald on the right side, on the left you will see panel with name Zakopane and the train bridge. Please drive under the bridge and follow the street for a ride long up to the crossroads just by district Olcza approx. 4.5 km now. On the crossroads on the left side you see hotel COS imperial now. You only have approx. 2 km from there. Please turn on the crossroads on the left and follow the street direction Cyhrla now .You will see on the right side Nosal and later on the left side and little timber church (monument) The street's name is "Oswalda Balzera". These are rather sharp curves. Please be careful. As soon as you are past at the little church on the left side, drive more slowly, you do not drive on any further because on the next curve, special turn left directly on this curve to the little settlement street pure.
The street is called Chlabowka Gorna. It is a little settlement. Please take the street which leads into the settlement below. Pensjonat u Ani is positioned approx. 100 m from the main street on the right side.


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ST. LOUIS – March 1, 2019 – The St. Louis Sports Commission and St. Louis University High School are partnering to host a FREE clinic for youth baseball and softball coaches on Saturday, March 2 at St. Louis University High School. The Coach It Right! clinic runs from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and takes place inside the Danis Field House.
ST. LOUIS – Jan. 23, 2019 – The St. Louis Sports Commission is accepting nominations for its annual Carl Fricks Sportsmanship Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to graduating high school seniors from the St. Louis metro area who exemplify outstanding sportsmanship. This year, the organization will award $20,000 in scholarship funds with the top award winner receiving $10,000 to apply to higher education expenses. Administered by the Sports Commission Associates – the Sports Commission’s young professionals group – the scholarship program is part of the organization’s efforts to celebrate and elevate sportsmanship in the community.
The Sportsmanship Scholarship application packet can be obtained online at sportsmanship.org/scholarship or by calling 314-345-5130. The packet is also attached. Nominations must be received by April 16, 2019. The recipients will be selected by April 30.
ST. LOUIS – Jan. 7, 2019 – US Youth Soccer has awarded the 2021 US Youth Soccer Midwest Regional Championships to St. Louis. The games will take place June 25-30, 2021 at Creve Coeur Park Soccer Complex and Lou Fusz Athletic Soccer Complex in Maryland Heights. The Missouri Youth Soccer Association and St. Louis Sports Commission will serve as the host organizations for the event.
ST. LOUIS – Dec. 13, 2018 – St. Louis area viewers can see the likes of Sister Jean, Jim Thome and Ozzie Smith receive the prestigious sportsmanship award named for Stan The Man. The 99-year-old nun who charmed the nation during March Madness and the two Baseball Hall of Famers were among the good sports honored at the Musial Awards in St. Louis last month. On Wednesday, Dec. 19, a special one-hour presentation of the Musial Awards will air on KSDK 5 On Your Side at 9 p.m. The show will also be seen in 13 other cities, including Houston, Seattle, Minneapolis, Denver, Cleveland and Sacramento. Dates and times for those airings appear at the end of this news release.


text: It's Pints for Nonprofits/Not-for-profits tonight/afternoon at the Mad River Brewery Tap Room benefiting the Northcoast Environmental Center and they're bringing the music starting at 4 p.m. with Caveman Dave followed by "members of Thursday Night Bluegrass" and then the Mad River Rounders. It's all free, but as you know, a buck from every pint sold goes to this local nonprofit. Also free tonight is some gut bucket blues courtesy of our own Buddy Reed joined by Big Leg Rai who will be at Blondie's right there on the corner of LK Wood Blvd. and California in Arcata.


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In addition to fiction, Lehua writes non-fiction and creative non-fiction articles on many different subjects. They are generally organized by searchable categories.
Blog Tours, Guest Posts, & Interviews: articles by other authors and Lehua’s interviews of authors. These are usually part of a blog tour for a book.
Book Reviews: Thoughts on books, often featuring books written by Hawaiian authors. Most books are about Hawaiian history or island culture or feature characters, setting, or plots from Hawaii.
Character Haiku: Character Haikus are short poems written from the perspective of a character that reveals more about motivation and plot.
Island Style: generally non-fiction articles that feature an island perspective or cover topics such as Hawaiian history, local culture, traditions, and growing up in Hawaii.
Learning ‘Ōlelo: definitions and examples of commonly used Pidgin and Hawaiian words. More listed under Pidgin Dictionary.
Mainland Living: generally non-fiction articles about living in rural Utah and everyday life.
The Business of Writing: non-fiction articles that deal with publishing, writing craft, and marketing.
The Niuhi Shark Saga: excerpts and non-fiction articles that relate to topics in the series.


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From Buddhist centers and temples, to monasteries and stupas, prayer wheels like this one are turned clockwise to release prayers and mantras into the heavens. We've had this one scaled down a bit to fit on your desk or altar space. Handmade in Nepal of brass and copper with coral accents.
The outside of the wheel includes the 8 Auspicious Symmbols along with the mantra of compassion, Om Mani Padme Hum, written in Sanskrit script. This mantra invokes the powerful benevolent attention and blessings of Chenrezig, the embodiment of compassion. Inside the prayer wheels are scrolls containing this mantra and prayers which multiply with each turn.
Spin the wheels clockwise whenever you feel the need to improve your karma. We hope it brings you continuous good wishes and joy!
Prayer wheel measures approximately 6 inches tall and 3 inches wide. Handmade in Nepal.


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However, The Orders of St John Care Trust (OSJCT) is now home to two very special ‘Paro’ seals. Paro seals are therapeutic robots designed for people living with dementia. This week Paro paid a special visit to the residents at Langford View Care Home in Bicester.
Paro is a robot that looks and behaves like a baby harp seal and is intended to have a calming effect on residents living with dementia by provoking emotional responses. Paro’s coat is a pure white synthetic fur and his sensors allow him to react to the person who is holding him, stroking him and talking to him.
Paro first visited the Trust during a pilot study conducted by The Oxford Institute of Population Aging. The study endeavored to understand how older people and people with dementia benefit from interacting with therapeutic robots. The study found that Paro made residents feel less lonely, more loved and some residents who tended to be isolated started to enjoy more social interaction.
Paro’s charm was certainly appreciated by residents at Langford View, who spent time stroking him and talking to him and were fascinated by his responsive movements. Residents were unanimous: come back again soon, Paro!


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As of 2012, reported offerings include: baked goods, cheese, flowers, herbs, vegetables, honey, jams, and nuts.
As of 2014, reported offerings include: baked goods, cheese, flowers, eggs, herbs, vegetables, honey, jams, nuts, prepared foods, coffee, and fruits.
As of 2012, reported offerings include: organic products, baked goods, cheese, herbs, vegetables, and jams.
As of 2012, reported offerings include: organic products, baked goods, cheese, flowers, eggs, seafood, herbs, vegetables, honey, jams, meat, nursery plants, nuts, plants, poultry, prepared foods, and soap.
As of 2012, reported offerings include: baked goods, flowers, herbs, vegetables, honey, jams, nuts, plants, and prepared foods.


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From kid programmer in 1971 to Forbes cover story in 2003, "outlier" Richard Sheridan(U-M grad BS Computer Science '80, MS Computer Engineering '82) has never shied from challenges, opportunities nor the limelight. While his focus has always been around technology, his passion is actually process, teamwork and organizational design, with one inordinately popular goal: the business value of joy! Sheridan is an avid reader and historian, and his software design and development team at Menlo Innovations didn't invent a new culture, but copied an old one ... Edison's Menlo Park New Jersey lab. Henry Ford's recreation of the Menlo Park Lab in Greenfield Village was a childhood inspiration!
Some call it agile, some call it lean ... Sheridan and his team call it joyful. And it produces results ... business and otherwise. Five Inc. magazine revenue growth awards, invites to the White House, speaking engagements around the nation, numerous articles and culture awards and so much interest they are doing a tour a day of the Menlo Software Factory™. Sheridan was recently enlisted by Portfolio at Penguin to write a book about all he has learned about the effect of a culture focused on Joy. Rich is writing in his "spare time."


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On his Fox News Channel show, Tucker Carlson criticized the President for his approach on immigration, while being in an important meeting with a bipartisan group of congressional leaders.
In 2016, Donald Trump ran on the premise that America’s borders ought to be real. That the repeated amnesties of the past have betrayed voters and that this country deserves immigration policy that looks out for American interests rather than those of foreign countries. Almost nobody in Washington agreed with him at the time. Almost nobody in Washington agrees with him now.
Congress is full of people from both parties who believe that the point of our immigration policy is to provide cheap labor to their donors and to atone for America’s imaginary sins against the world. They couldn’t care less about immigration’s effect on you or your family. Yet, these are the same people the president now says he trusts to write the immigration bills — the one he will sign no matter what it says. So, what was the point of running for president?
You will remember the president also ran on his skills as a negotiator and he clearly has skills as a negotiator. Where were they today? The president signaled he’d be happy to legalize hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants now and that at some point in the future tackle all that other stuff like making sure they can’t bring millions of their relatives from the Third World along with them. That’s not much of a negotiation.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


text: Join the Jetty & Farias' crew for our 3rd Annual Full Moon Fashion Show on Saturday, July 30 @ 10pm! This has been an incredible night the past couple of years and we are looking forward to another great event! It's also the 50th anniversary of the Seashell so you know there will be all sorts of crazy party favors! Drink specials, beautiful people sporting the latest & greatest Jetty apparel and good times around the pool...this is one you don't want to miss! This is a 21+ event, please be respectful and drive safe!


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How many times have we heard this from our kids? If you grew up before the age of video games your first response might be, “Go outside!” On second thought, this might be a good opportunity to grab a few moments with your kids and get everyone moving.
There are lots of activities that come to mind when escaping out the door into the sunshine. You can go for a walk around the neighborhood, take a bike ride, or play hopscotch on the sidewalk. But there are so many other activities that can get your heart pumping. Consider one of these fun ideas the next time your kid is having a hard time finding something to do.
End with a sprint across the yard.
Everyone has their own version of tag, but here’s a fun version to try out with the kiddos. Stuff a colored scarf or bandana in the waist of everyone’s shorts. Players try to steal each other’s “tail”. When a tail gets caught, the dragon must do something of your choosing, which should be decided before play begins. For example, 5 jumping jacks, hop on one foot, call out a favorite fruit or vegetable, etc., and then the tail is returned and play continues. In this way, no one is “out” and left standing around doing nothing while the rest of the dragons are running.
Everyone remembers Red Light, Green Light and all the giggles that ensue when someone gets caught running the red light, right? Let’s put an animal spin on it! Ask the kids to name three different animals: one slow, one medium, and one fast. For example, a turtle, a donkey and a cheetah. As everyone runs, call out a different animal and mimic that animal’s speed.
Not all family activities have to be structured and full of rules. What fun family activities keep you and your kids active?
Is there a reimbursement benefit for having a health club membership?

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Musician and Sound artist. Born in Brazil, 1985. Graduated with honors at The Naggar School in Musrara, Jerusalem, July, 2010.
The last two years focusing his energy on free improvise of electronic music with his electronic instrument FeedNoise.
When it's a sunny day preforms at the street of Amsterdam with the Biovon van tube.
He is studying at the institute of Sonology/Royal conservatory in the Hague.

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Flux is a 2nd generation industry leading offline bending software, completely redesigned from the ground up incorporating intelligent bend technologies packaged with an incredibly easy and quick to use interface all design to save you time.
The FLUX engine has the capability to support 25+ file formats natively.
The FLUX Interface “Clarity” is designed to be a clean and intuitive interface helping reduce the all-important “Click” count and searching for which button to use!
Typical processing time for FLUX to import and process your CAD files is a few seconds!
FLUX has the capability to import and explode assembly files.
FLUX has extensive press brake tooling libraries and configuration for automatic tooling along with additional support for angle measurement tools and the capability to create custom tools.
Optimal use of back gauges for part support and Multistage setups are a key feature of FLUX.
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Validation for Bending is even more powerful with FLUX, with complete bend and brake analysis it will give you the visibility on any problems before instigating production parts.
FLUX comes with standard and customisable reports that can be printed or saved in electronic formats. These reports show everything from the tools used to setting positions through to sequencing of the parts.
If you can’t see your brand check in with us as we are always adding more.

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We grabbed a Norwegian breakfast before hopping onto the bus at 11:30 along with the entire crew, for a bus ride that we were told would be taking us “6 hours West”. I feel like mentioning that like yesterday, today was one of the coolest days of my life. While it certainly might get redundant, it’s no less true. Here we were, 12 new friends, getting on a bus, getting ready for this amazing adventure, already having a great time, but having no idea what was in store for us – no idea what sort of adventure awaits.
Naturally, all we can do in the group is try to predict where we’re going. We see signs and our initial guess is we’re headed to Bergen. It’s a big, well known city, and from a timing standpoint, 6 hours seems appropriate (remember none of us have ever been to Norway before so we’re a little clueless as to how long it takes to get around.) We stop at in Gol at Tollefsen Theodorsen Mathus and wow, what a meal – venison burger with a strawberry cream sauce.
At this point it’s great just to get to know everyone in the cast and crew. As a cast we’re all super appreciative of the opportunity that’s been presented to us. We’re 12 of about approximately 1,000 applicants (1 in 83.33 chance) hand selected to be gifted this opportunity. Kudos to the casting director for picking an amazing group. We commented that here we are… back in the land that our great (or great, great) grandparents left, seeking a better life, and were here being treated like royalty (a term I don’t use pejoratively, if a king were here, I can’t imagine better treatment.) It’s certainly better treatment than Ballard had for King Harald when he visited last year (see His Majesty’s – HM’s – “throne”). Truly, even if you were the richest man in the world, it couldn’t be better than this.
We jump back on the bus for more journey, which turns out to be absolutely gorgeous. There were some pretty unreal landscapes, mountains and fjords everywhere we went… and we kept on following those signs to Bergen. Suddently, as we approached the end of a large fjord, the bus pulled off the highway and into at hotel located and the very end of the fjord. We were in a town called Flåm (pronounced “flome”), an offshoot towards the end of the Sognefjord – the longest in all of Norway – over 100 miles long! We checked into the Fretheim Hotel, and had a few hours to explore.
I went on a walk with Derrick, Joni, and Lauren. We took lots of pictures of the fjord, boats, and each other. We joked that after 90 minutes, we had about 4 years’ worth of killer Facebook profile pics! Back to the hotel we had another killer meal – salmon with artichoke hearts, caviar cream sauce, carrot soup with ginger, and a desert consisting of fruit sorbet with strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries.
Tomorrow we leave at 10:00. We don’t know where we’re going, but we’re packing for the cold. We’ll be spending the night at this next location, becoming coming back to this hotel then next night. Taking it all in, it was a bit of a “pinch me” moment. Her I was sitting in a giant room with huge glass windows looking out over a fjord, being told you have a big overnight adventure the next day, but not knowing what to expect.
After our group briefing, most of us made our way to the stave church themed bar down the road. Most folks opted for beer, I went with an aquavit, vodka, sprite, lime juice mixed drink, and yes, I know traditionally aquavit isn’t supposed to be used in mixed drinks but I really don’t care. While we were out I learned that Johnny went to Edina High School in Minnesota, and was great friends with Lauren Rice (elementary school classmate of mine in Ballard, super small world), and he even took her to their school’s Tolo sophomore year!
Right now I’m back in the hotel room which I’m sharing with Derrick, and we’ve been talking about what an amazing experience this already has been, and how truly fortunate we are. Can’t wait for what tomorrow holds!


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I’ve been scared to write this for so long. Part of me wanted to share it and another part desperately didn’t. Looking at the photo on the left makes me feel terribly sad – at the time this photo was taken (June 2012) I was overweight, unhappy and unfit. But I was too scared to admit it. Or do anything about it.
I had been overweight for the best part of ten years, and had always hid under layers of clothing, and endless scarves. I always had to cover up in any situation and never dreamt that one day in the future... I would be able to wear a bikini whilst on holiday.
Leading up to the holiday I was so anxious about what to wear and what to pack because my wardrobe was no longer ‘mine’. Nothing fitting and worse still I felt a stranger in my old clothing, it was a struggle and I never thought losing weight would mean throwing away my entire wardrobe and starting all over again.
Even though the old photos make me feel incredibly alienated and disgusted, they will always have a purpose. Body image and weight is such a personal issue, and this has undoubtedly been my biggest challenge. I’m not perfect and never will be, I will always be insecure and lack great confidence in myself, but to finally have achieved something I never thought was even possible has taught me that if you want to make a change in your life - there is only you who can make it happen.
To finally be able to walk down the street without a shield of guilt so tightly wrapped around me, to be able to go into a clothing shop and actually enjoy trying on clothes that fit and to have someone tell me I look beautiful and for me to believe it for the first time in my life – it's emotional for me to express into words how much of an impact this has had.
How amazing for you, not the weight loss but the emotions you have from losing weight. I've lost a couple of pounds recently and it's so bizarre being able to wear slightly different styled clothes, throwing clothes away that you never thought in a million years would be 'too big'. I remember throwing a pair of pj's away recently and the fact that something usually meant for slobbing around in, didn't matter how big it was was now ridiculously big was a great mile stone.
I'm glad you now have the confidence you deserve.
Fantastic! I lost 5 stone and had to completely start with a new wardrobe. Even down to knickers being too big. The changes in your head take longer to adjust to, years in my case. I look at old photos and its just not me any more. Its been 14 years now and I hope some time in the future you can feel the same as me and look back and feel proud of what you've achieved.
Good for you girl, I've put weight on since moving to the US (combination of US potions and working from home), I could probably do with loosing weight but I don't know were to start to be honest. You've inspired me to work a little harder at doing something about it.
You look absolutely amazing, you really are glowing!
This is fantastic and I am so pleased for you. You should be very proud of your achievements. It's great that you posted this and have the other photo because it can be a constant reminder of how far you have come. I've had some personal issues to overcome in recent times and, although different from yours, I can relate and I realize how much dedication these sorts of things take. Wishing you the best.
You look Fab!! Can I ask how you managed it? I piled on 3 stone during my time in uni, I dropped 2 of them before my wedding but since then they have inched back on and I just cant seem to get enough motivation to shed them again! And I really want to my size 12 wardrobe is no longer fitting and I refuse to start buying size 14 when everything I have is so pretty and perfectly good clothing, just gotta drop about a 1 stone to get back into most of it nicely!


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The Heart of Ohio Antique Center delivers nostalgia, fun and good, old-fashioned treasure hunting.
Stacked precariously just outside the entrance, the sculpture-like display of vintage wooden canoes immediately draws the eye. Nearby, a white tag on a contraption resembling a suspended, airy bird’s nest identifies it as “maybe” being a field cradle — the kind women used when they took their babies with them to pick crops.
One’s mind instantly begins to stir with questions and possibilities. Who paddled those canoes? How many babies have dozed in that cradle on warm afternoons? Every antique hides a story, and Springfield’s sprawling 116,000-square-foot Heart of Ohio Antique Center has more than most, with upwards of 700 vendors selling their wares in the store’s 1,400 booths and showcases.
That means you won’t find mailboxes that were decorated in someone’s basement or painted rocks with inspirational messages. Instead, the Heart of Ohio Antique Center is part museum, part amusement park funhouse and part vintage department store.
Pristine dining room sets, colorful and highly collectible millefiori paperweights and old military medals are found alongside items that make you scratch your head in wonder. How is it possible that the key to a little Mickey Mouse tin plate windup toy was not lost after so many years?
Some items transport you to back to your grandmother’s always overly warm living room. A black panther ceramic lamp with a pyramid red shade, Weller Pottery teapots, orange and blue Fiestaware and sunburst clocks conjure times you had to be polite to relatives. A stunning art nouveau dragonfly pin reminds you how you regrettably passed over a similar one years ago.
Shopping at the center also can be a wake-up call about your age when you see some things classified as antiques: a pink Maytag wringer washer, a pink dial phone and Pyrex kitchenware. The hundreds of brightly lit showcases, long aisles and dizzying number of small treasures can make you feel as if you are lost in a vortex (in a good way).
“It’s not just about the things you buy. It’s about the hunt,” says mall owner and president Bruce Knight, an antiques dealer who opened his first small shop in 1968 after military duty in Vietnam.
A year later, he founded an antiques show with 40 dealers at the Clark County fairgrounds that still runs to this day. The Heart of Ohio Antique Center building originally housed a flea market business owned by someone else, but it didn’t survive six months. Bruce, who owned the property, opened his antique mall there in 1998.
Bruce co-owns the business with his wife, Vivalyn, who is partial to collecting oil paintings, carved wooden figures and English pottery. “I always loved antiques, but didn’t think much about them until I learned from Bruce,” she says.
The couple’s center is strong on glassware, high-quality primitives (think birdhouses, benches and cabinets) and unusual wooden furniture. Abbey Knight, the owners’ daughter, makes sure that mid-century modern pieces (such as Herman Miller chairs) are represented.
Vivalyn says she believes it is time for Victorian pieces to come back in favor with collectors, but her husband isn’t so sure. “Deciding what’s big next for collectors is the interesting part, so we attract shoppers and vendors do well,” explains Bruce, who has a long waiting list of dealers who want to be part of the center.
Despite the huge inventory, the place runs with amazing efficiency. Showcases and booths are well-lit and not crammed. Employees roam the floor, each carrying a large ring of keys to open glass cases. Red wagons and plastic totes are available for hauling your finds, or a porter will store your selections in a bin near the cashier. Spacious restrooms and a cafe with an ice cream soda shop are located just inside the main entrance. Curbside loading is available.
Wearing comfortable shoes is a must. Although the floors are carpeted and temperatures inside the massive space are always pleasant, it’s at least a mile around the place if you walk each row, and that doesn’t count for backtracking or getting lost, even with a map.
Like when you spot the trophy. OK, it’s not the trophy from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s most famous race, but it is an Indianapolis Motor Speedway trophy nonetheless — slightly tarnished silver and still important.
Again, you wonder: Who won this race so many years ago? Are there no more relatives who want to keep the prize? You can’t help but stop and press your face to the glass to read the faint inscription, and, as you do, you can almost smell gasoline and burning rubber.
Here are a few other places throughout Ohio where you can delve into the past.


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text: Desserts in South Korea by Mintel Global Market Navigator provides you with annual year-end market size data, most recently updated in 2012. This comprises all packaged frozen, chilled and ambient products which are RTE or need preparation. Most products will contain sugar and/or sweeteners. Market value and volume comprises sales through all retail channels including direct to consumer. Market size for Desserts in South Korea is given in KRW and tonne with a minimum of five years' historical data. Market Forecast is provided for five years. Included with this snapshot is socio-economic data for South Korea. Population, Consumer Price Index (CPI), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Exchange Rates.