![]() ![]() The Complete Edition, is what the designers of the game actually wanted. So, if you've got the EE, you get the **** story that you would get anyway, but also the gameplay is ****. Except all's the Enhanced Edition does, is trivialise the gameplay, by making the difficulty way too easy (so much that they had to make a new setting for the game). The only thing IWD has going for it, is the gameplay. Improved UI / High Res: Mods already did it. IWD was not designed to have every single Character you own, start Dual-Wielding.ĭifficulty Setting: Yeah, 'cause you've broken the game. The big **** up, however, comes from BG2's Proficiency system. ![]() Giving Dual-Classers access to Kits only breaks the game. Just 'cause Katanas are in the game, doesn't mean that you're going to get the magical ones.Įxtra Classes, Races and Kits: Dual-classing your characters was already God-mode, especially as you get to make all six characters exactly how you want. None of it even matters, because getting loot is still random. Ammo Bags and Scroll Cases and the like were already modded into the game a long time ago. Adding in Katanas and more Scimitars doesn't exactly fix the game. That's kinda a big deal in a game which emphasizes combat and party composition.Īccording to esteemed IE analyst, Lilura, I'd say give it a pass: You also lose the Character Arbitration button - it wasn't implemented to the EE - which allowed you to remodel your party at any point if you decided that one of your team members is no longer valid, or you need someone else for a given situation (like a Bard), or if you're playing an Iron Man variant and someone gets chunked to death. Over a Chapter's worth of gold down the crapper.You get BG2 kits (that really don't fit in IWD and make it much easier, since they were just slammed in, and IWD doesn't have an SCS-equivalent that would revamp encounters to accomodate the fact that you now get access to broken class kits with blanket immunities with no noticable downside) and BG2 proficiencies (which are kinda limiting in the context of a game that dispenses loot semi-randomly), gain stuff that resident Beamdog employees will tell you require Epic Arcane Magic to mod in while in reality it's mostly like a coffee break's worth of time and research. I purchased a Raise Dead spell from the local healer and had my cleric use that in a vain hope of getting around the restriction, and received the feedback "Target is unaffected by the spell". Wait, what? Then I had a nasty feeling that I had read somewhere in DandD rules that elves can't be raised, they can only be resurrected. So I carted all his equipment back to town and went to the local healer to raise him for 800GP, only for the Raise Dead option to be greyed out. I went to raise him with my priest, only to realize that evil clerics don't get the Raise Dead spell, they get the 'Slay Living' spell instead (duh). Numerous Lance of Disruptions/Skull Traps/Magic Missiles managed to take out Yxuonmei, who was blinded from the Cloud of Pestilence. It was then simply a matter of triggering the encounter with a PC and then falling back. ![]() ![]() My strategy involved summoning Fire Elementals and bears to attack the three mages, then laying down a bunch of Web and Cloud of Pestilence spells in the doorway. Yxuonmei wasn't the one who was causing me trouble, it was all her flunkies, particularly the 3 snake-mages that spawn behind you and cast Feeblemind. Just beat Yxuonmei with my magic heavy party, and I'll admit I needed about 6 reloads. ![]()
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![]() The competition and encouragement gave Taylor a belief in himself. He qualified for the London 2012 Olympics, and represented Great Britain in front of the eyes of the world. He won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in 2010, and then gold four years later. Taylor fought a long time, and came a long way to get to Saturday's fight in Las Vegas. If he beats Ramirez in their junior welterweight unification bout, Taylor will become Scotland's first unified champion in the four-belt era. On Saturday night, Taylor's going to attempt to accomplish that goal of becoming an undisputed boxing world champion - something not done by a Scot since Buchanan at lightweight (unifying the WBA, WBC and the lineal championships). "I was only a young pup, 18 or 19 years old and he's saying, 'You're going to be world champion one day,'" Taylor said. However, he needed a little convincing when it came to the legend's prediction for his career. Ken Buchanan, likely the greatest Scottish boxer ever at the time, stepped into Taylor's gym that day.īuchanan would come back often and tell Taylor his stories of fighting overseas and sharing a room with Muhammad Ali, offering all the advice he could. Then came a conversation, one that sparked a friendship and inspired a goal to become a unified world champion. Taylor had talent - there was little question about that. He was training, just another amateur hopeful in Scotland trying to become something more in life through boxing. Taylor was a teenager in the Lochend Boxing club in Edinburgh. Ramirez and Taylor spoke to Nick Parkinson to recall their memories of the moments that led them to Saturday's fight Both fighters are 2012 Olympians who turned their failure to win gold into professional careers in which they now own gold of a different kind, in the form of two belts apiece wrapped around their waists. Ramirez and Taylor have worked for decades to reach this moment. Ramirez and Taylor reflect on their paths to undisputed title fight Many fighters are champions, but few will ever do what Ramirez or Taylor will accomplish on Saturday night. Whoever wins deserves all the glory that comes with a victory of this caliber. The fact this fight is even happening is noteworthy in an era when boxing's best fighters find excuses for not fighting each other. Taylor is known for a tight, speedy attack, while Ramirez has a knack for relentlessness and carries good power. 1 fighter in ESPN's divisional rankings and a betting favorite over Ramirez, who is ranked No. Taylor-Prograis was considered by many to be one of the best fights of 2019 and was a majority decision victory, much like Ramirez's defense in 2020 over the tough Viktor Postol. In a common theme between both Ramirez and Taylor, their title bouts weren't one-sided affairs against glorified opponents. Taylor, a 30-year-old Scotland native, beat Ivan Baranchyk to win the IBF title in May 2019 before beating Regis Prograis to claim the WBA strap as well and the WBSS trophy. ![]() Taylor (17-0, 13 KOs) earned his titles through the World Boxing Super Series, a tournament that has turned out compelling fighters such as bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue and Oleksandr Usyk, the former undisputed cruiserweight champion now making noise as a heavyweight. He became a unified champion in 2019 when he stopped Maurice Hooker in Hooker's home turf of north Texas to win the WBO belt. Ramirez (26-0, 17 KOs) started his title run in 2018 when the Mexican American out of Avenal, California, battered Amir Imam to win the WBC title. With each victory they eradicated doubt about their status among the world's best 140-pounders. Over the past couple of years, Ramirez and Taylor have plowed through the division to win titles. But perhaps more importantly, the quality of that undisputed status is something that is rarely attained. ![]() ![]() ET) will be crowned the undisputed junior welterweight champion of the world, and hold all four major belts in the division. The winner of the bout at the Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas (ESPN and ESPN+, 8 p.m. Each is a growing rarity in the sport - two fighters with undefeated records, with victories over quality opponents, who will put it all on the line in what should be one of the best fights of 2021. That's not the case with Jose Ramirez and Josh Taylor. A fighter can sometimes stumble into becoming a champion if the matchmaking is good enough or the circumstances are favorable. LAS VEGAS - Not all championships are created equally.Įven in boxing, with the most legitimate belts swimming in an ocean of trinket titles, this is true. 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![]() ![]() So Alexia, who abhorred violence, was forced to grab the miscreant by his nostrils, a delicate and therefore painful area, and shove him away. Who was not friendly with Lord Akeldama? But no vampire had ever actually attempted to feed on her before! She knew one or two by reputation, of course, and was friendly with Lord Akeldama. Miss Tarabotti had never actually had a vampire try to bite her. Clearly not the sharpest of prongs, he then darted forward from the neck like a serpent, diving in for another chomp. Physical contact broken, his fangs reappeared. ![]() He reared away from Alexia, knocking over a nearby tea trolley. The vampire recovered his equanimity quickly enough. Certainly, most daylight folk wouldn't peg her as anything less than a standard English prig, but had this man not even bothered to read the vampire's official abnormality roster for London and its greater environs? Miss Tarabotti was not in the least surprised soullessness always neutralized supernatural abilities. He was simply standing there, the faint sounds of a string quartet in the background as he foolishly fished about with his tongue for fangs unaccountably mislaid. However, the moment he touched Miss Tarabotti, he was suddenly no longer darkly doing anything at all. Yet he moved toward her, darkly shimmering out of the library shadows with feeding fangs ready. For Miss Alexia had been born without a soul, which, as any decent vampire of good blooding knew, made her a lady to avoid most assiduously. In this particular case, what he did not know could hurt him. For there she sat, without escort, in a low-necked ball gown. To put the pudding in the puff: she had retreated to the library, her favorite sanctuary in any house, only to happen upon an unexpected vampire.įor his part, the vampire seemed to feel that their encounter had improved his ball experience immeasurably. Private balls were never more than middling amusements for spinsters, and Miss Tarabotti was not the kind of spinster who could garner even that much pleasure from the event. Miss Alexia Tarabotti was not enjoying her evening. Soulless is the first book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London’s high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart? With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire - and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Second, she’s a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. (Oct.Buffy meets Jane Austen in the first book of this wickedly funny NYT bestselling series about a young woman whose brush with the supernatural leads to a deadly investigation of London’s high society.Īlexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. This intoxicatingly witty parody will appeal to a wide cross-section of romance, fantasy and steampunk fans. Well-drawn secondary characters round out the story, most notably Lord Akeldama, Alexia's outrageous, italic-wielding gay best vampire friend. After Alexia kills a vampire with her parasol at a party-how vulgar!-she and Conall must work together to solve a supernatural mystery that grows quite steampunkishly gruesome. The only man who notices her is brash Lord Conall Maccon, a Scottish Alpha werewolf and government official, and (of course) they dislike each other intensely. She's also soulless, an oddity and a secret even in a 19th-century London that mostly accepts and integrates werewolf packs, vampire hives and ghosts. Prickly, stubborn 25-year-old bluestocking Alexia Tarabotti is patently unmarriageable, and not just because she's large-nosed and swarthy. Carriger debuts brilliantly with a blend of Victorian romance, screwball comedy of manners and alternate history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Luckily, they were never put to the test in a real situation. During demonstrations there were reports that babies fell asleep and became unnaturally still inside the masks! It is likely that the pump didn't push enough air into the mask and the babies came close to suffocating. In fact there was some question over the safety of the baby’s gas mask. Despite instruction courses, few parents were totally happy with putting their child in an airtight chamber. Health Visitors and Child Welfare Centres gave lessons on how to use the mask. When the gas masks were made people didn’t realise that asbestos was a dangerous substance. With the baby inside the mask, an adult could start to use the hand pump. This was pushed back and forth to pump air into the mask. Attached to this was a rubber tube shaped like a concertina with a handle. There was an asbestos filter on the side of the mask, and this absorbed poisonous gases. The canvas had a rubber coating to stop gas seeping through the material, and the straps were tied securely so that the mask was airtight. Then they wrapped the canvas part around the baby's body with the straps fastened under its bottom like a nappy, and its legs dangling free below. There were also special gas masks for babies - parents placed their baby inside the mask so that the head was inside the steel helmet and the baby could see through the visor. The gas mask in the picture was designed for people who had breathing difficulties or other medical problems and was more like a helmet as it fitted over an adult's entire head. ![]() An advisor to the government - Liddell Hart - told the government to expect 250,000 deaths in the first week of the war alone. The government had planned for tens of thousands of deaths in London alone. ![]() In 1938, the British Government gave everyone, including babies, gas masks to protect them in case the Germans dropped poison gas bombs on Britain. ![]() ![]() ![]() That leaves the opposing team in the red zone with a new set of downs. Russell sometimes stops a 30 yard play from going for 50 and the score. Russell is played to reduce the greatest amount of harm, neglecting the fact that a team can prevent scoring passes without being a successful pass defense. Outlook: Negative utility is the operative phrase there. This was John Morgan’s write-up of his 2008 campaign: It was a disastrous move defined by poor angles, poor tackling, and a lot of memes in the olden days of Field Gulls. With Ken Hamlin gone, Russell was the Hamlin replacement. He was best known for recording nine interceptions in the 2003 season with the Minnesota Vikings. Numero uno for me is free safety Brian Russell, whom Ruskell inked to a 5-year, $25 million contract fresh off two seasons with the Cleveland Browns. TJ Houshmandzadeh might be a popular choice among others given his 5-year, $40 million contract ended after one season, but I think he also joined the team during Matt Hasselbeck’s decline and that hurt the entire offense. While Ruskell made some brilliant moves to get Julian Peterson and Patrick Kerney, he had a few duds. My fandom goes back to the Mike Holmgren/Tim Ruskell years, and, well. Williams never played another game in the NFL. He was a schematic misfit and it was a horrid showing against the Blaine Gabbert led San Francisco 49ers that resulted in his benching and eventual release. ![]() Other than an opening day scoop and score for a touchdown against the St. Byron Maxwell got paid by the Philadelphia Eagles (becoming one of their worst FA signings ever), and the Seahawks opted to sign Williams on a 3-year, $18 million contract. It’s really hard not to single out Cary Williams as the worst FA acquisition under Carroll. Finney and Ahkello Witherspoon didn’t even play a game here but at least they had trade value! Eddie Lacy, Robert Gallery, Ziggy Ansah, J’Marcus Webb, Bradley Sowell, and Luke Joeckel were particularly glaring disasterclasses for how ineffective they were. Matt Flynn obviously was not a good signing but Russell Wilson’s presence prevented potential disaster from happening, so I’ll leave him off for now. On the downside, many of the whiffs were on guys who essentially were jettisoned from the league immediately after their failed Seahawks stint. In the Pete Carroll era, Seattle has had massive home runs in the form of Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril, and it looks like Uchenna Nwosu may be another gem. Traded players don’t count, and undrafted free agent rookies also do not qualify. It’s the slowest part of the NFL offseason, so why not dive into the history books and shudder at some of the worst free agent signings the Seattle Seahawks have ever made? ![]() ![]() ![]() Tonal Pattern Memory has been shown in many studies over the years to be a strong auditory processing area correlating to reading abilities. ![]() It is recommended to be played twice a week for as long as needed for the client to progress enough through the therapy levels, with no effective expiration date or limit to the number of sessions available. This can be recommended by professionals as young as 7 if testing indicates it is necessary. It introduces different tonal activities, such as memory, pitched linguistic and non-linguistic stimuli using tonal patterns, frequency sweeps, interaural timing/intensity differences, and allows the player to improve at these skills. Insane Earplane is an easy to learn flying game designed to improve a variety of tonal listening and processing skills. It is NOT recommended for clients under the age of 8. This app is designed to be used 4-5 times per week for an 8-week block, and each session lasts around 10 minutes to play through each of the 3 games within EMT. Acoustic Pioneer have also developed the deficit-specific auditory/visual working memory program known as ‘Elephant Memory Training.’Įlephant Memory Training (EMT) has 3 games that are played each session. New York, NY: Delmar Learning.Īnother program that is lacking, not only the audiology or speech language field, but also the educational psychology field is a lack of a multi-sensory input (auditory and visual) working memory program that can incrementally improve working memory in children and adults. Assessment and management of central auditory processing disorders in the educational setting: From science to practice (2nd ed.). (2015) Training CAPD: The what, who, how, and why of Dichotic Listening Training. (Central) auditory processing disorders – The role of the audiologist (Position statement). Retrieved from American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Guidelines for the Diagnosis, Treatment and Management of Children and Adults with Central Auditory Processing Disorder. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. Treating Deficits in Auditory Processing. ![]() Difficulties here can lead to symptoms such as distractibility in a classroom, difficulty understanding lessons when another sound is present, under-utilization of other auditory skills which aid in following the teacher in an educational setting, which in turn can have significant impacts on learning and can also affect reading and language development.īarker, M.D. These pathways and skills are required for a number of other audiological abilities such as focused attention, alternating focus to different sounds from either side of the listener, following a speaker in competing noise (e.g., classrooms). This skill requires functional pathways to each cortical hemisphere of the brain and the communicating pathway between each hemisphere (auditory portion of the corpus collosum). Several studies indicate significant correlations between poor dichotic performance and other learning and reading difficulties.ĭichotic skills are required to distinguish a different sound in each ear at the same time. Recently a study was presented that confirms the effectiveness of Zoo Caper ( ASHA, 2015). This is available for professionals to recommend and set up as young as age 5. ![]() It uses animal sounds and/or speech sounds separately (in a dichotic fashion) in each ear requiring the listener to correctly identify which animal is making a sound. It introduces dichotic concepts slowly and allows the player to improve as they play through the game. Zoo Caper is a game designed to incrementally improve dichotic listening skills. ![]() ![]() Oleksandra Vasylenko, as a special representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, conducted intensive negotiations, and thanks to them, the fund is already showing successful results of its activities. Cause IQ is a website that helps companies grow, maintain, and serve their nonprofit clients, and helps nonprofits find additional foundation funding. Owners who claim their business can update listing details, add photos, respond to reviews, and more. simultaneous blue honeysuckle and first comparison crop harvest. We then deliver the collected food to our partner agencies for distribution. Want updates when Harvest Foundation has new information, or want to find more organizations like Harvest Foundation Create free Cause IQ account. Characteristics of all three foundation germplasm groups are utilized in breeding. These food drives include the annual National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger food drive. ![]() We should not forget about the support of Ukrainian parliamentarians - people's deputy Dmytro Solomchuk turned this idea from many official papers into reality, and Mrs. Collier Harvest uses surplus food from food drives and daily retail collections to feed our hungry neighbors. Our foundation works thanks to the comprehensive support of our American friends and partners, namely thanks to the famous patron, philanthropist, businessman and philanthropist in Ukraine and around the world, Mr. Our mission is to hold the agrarian front. Edit Website Tech Stack by BuiltWith Section. Young Life is a Christ-centered ministry that helps kids know Jesus, grow in their faith, and serve Him. These include Euro, CrUX Dataset, and CrUX Top 10m. ![]() We provide support to small and medium-sized farmers in harvesting, grain storage, agricultural logistics, help to conduct a sowing campaign and teach farming. Harvest Foundation Programs Grantmaking Personnel Financials Form 990s Peers IRS 501 (c) type 501 (c) (3) Num. Harvest Foundation is actively using 3 technologies for its website, according to BuiltWith. Our support for global food security is aimed at the development of the agricultural sector and the management of small agricultural producers in the developing world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Neighbours tell stories passed down over the years. There are rumours that a secret door once led to a concealed wine cellar. They show a house with three bedrooms, each with a separate entrance and its own bathroom. Courtesy Earl Haas Thomas Hooper:Īlthough there is no mention of the Cook Street house in his portfolio, the blueprints are signed by the architect and bear his address. She paid cash for the two lots and took out a building permit in her name and commissioned Hooper to design her brothel. Business was booming and she decided to move into a more upscale facility in Fairfield. She arrived from California in 1912 at the age of 50 and took over an established brothel on Broughton Street with a steady clientele from the Union Club and Driard Hotel. The going price is just under $2 million.Ĭhristina is a shadowy figure. According to the real estate blurb it was remodeled into a five-suite apartment complex in 1945 and it’s the first time the house has been on the market in 55 years. It’s a gorgeous four-square house built in the Classic Revival style. ![]() And in 1912, the same year he designed Hycroft in Shaughnessy, Vancouver’s Winch Building and submitted plans for UBC, he designed Christina Haas’s, Cook Street brothel. He designed hundreds of buildings including the Victoria Public Library, the Rogers Chocolates and the Munro’s Books Building in Victoria. Thomas Hooper once had the largest architectural practice in Western Canada. This is an excerpt from my chapter on the Red Light District in Sensational Victoria. Christina Haas commissioned Thomas Hooper to design her Cook Street brothel in 1913. In 1912, when it was tough for a woman to make a decent living, Christina Haas arrived in Victoria and bought herself a brothel. Unless otherwise indicated, all blog content copyright Eve Lazarus. I’d like to thank Catherine Falks for naming her son Anders and not William or John/Jack. Another interesting connection to Vancouver’s history is that Rose’s brother Douglas Smith engineered the “gravity driven falling ball drive” on the Gastown Steam Clock-his name is on the plaque. ![]() He married the boss’s daughter Rose Smith (who also happens to be Anders Falk’s grandma). One of the sons John (Jack) worked for Ideal Ironworks. William married Harriet and they raised three kids at a house on Quebec and 30 th. During the ‘40s it was the Embassy Ballroom, in the ‘60s it was Dante’s Inferno, later it hosted psychedelic bands as Retinal Circus, and since 1982 it’s been a gay joint called Celebrities. The building has gone through a number of transformations over the years, but mostly stayed in the entertainment business. Hooper was a highly regarded architect, and his buildings included Hycroft in Shaughnessy, the Winch building, and at least one brothel. Thomas Hooper designed the building in 1911 for the Lester Dance Academy. In the 1920s William played piano in the house band at Lester Court at 1022 Davie Street. Jack’s younger brother William was a musician who worked at the Bay as his day job. William and Mary Garden family in Stanley Park mid-1890s. It was also Jack who took this photograph of his parents on what looks like really large tricycles. When he wasn’t taking photos, he was likely hanging out at the rowing club-this ca.1910 photo of the rowing club was one of his photos. And that was lucky for us, because he shot some of these wonderful photos of early Vancouver. John (known as Jack) became a lumber broker and he was also an avid photographer. Jack Garden, back row fourth from the left with members of the Vancouver Photography Club. William died suddenly in 1897, and it appears that the “Sons” had other ideas, because the business disappeared from the directories the following year. William and Mary Garden arrived in Vancouver in 1889, opened up the Garden and Sons Wholesale Tea and Coffee on East Hastings, and lived for a time at a house at Thurlow and Alberni. I wrote about the Garden family a couple of weeks back. This story appears in Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the city’s hidden history William and Jack Garden before they left for Canada in the late 1880s. ![]() ![]() ![]() We subsequently installed the Trex deck boards in two 20x23 foot sections using a single Trex deck board at an adjacent angle to separate the two sections from each other. In 2006 Trex was still offering the first generation Trex Origins.īecause of snow load considerations, our contractor installed the deck joists 16 inches apart using 2x10 in. ![]() My wife and I decided to install the deck boards ourselves and after comparing various composite deck products that were now on the market, we again chose Trex, primarily because of our satisfaction with the deck installed at our coastal home. The house included a 900 square foot elevated deck, partially covered, with southern exposure. In 2006, we built a home in central Oregon, a high desert area known for cold winters with snow, occasional sub-zero temperatures and summers with intense sun and extremely dry humidity. As you read on, this has not been the case with further Trex experiences, and I attribute the overall condition of this deck to being primarily under a covered porch, subjected to only rain and limited direct sunlight. It has faded a bit but the grain is still intact and the railing is secure. Other than a yearly light washing with my pressure washer to remove dirt and a small accumulation of mold, the deck has kept its integrity. This deck has now been installed at this coastal home for 18 years. I used white washable chalk to snap chalk lines along each joist length and used the framing square to mark exact screw drill points on each Trex board. thick edge which I slid between each deck board to create the proper spacing between them. I installed the decking with the aid of a small framing square with a 1/4 in. I chose to use square slotted deck screws, specifically designed for composite decking and in the same reddish color as the decking itself. Although a hidden fastener system was offered, it was expensive and labor intensive, given that there were no side grooves to install the fasteners into this early product. end posts and post caps all in Trex material. lengths of material to cut into balusters, and 4x4 in. I also purchased railings, additional 2x2 in. I chose the reddish colored Madeira, which was a part of the Trex Accents line, in 20 foot lengths. ![]() This first generation Trex, referred to as Trex Origins, measured approximately 1 inch thick, did not have side grooves for a hidden fastener system, and came with a light simulated wood grain finish on one side. In preparation for the top decking, I subsequently replaced the porch joists with 2x8 fir boards spaced 12 inches apart, even though the company recommended a 16 inch span, to minimize the flex that naturally occurred with Trex lumber. With really nothing else available as a comparison, I chose to use Trex, a deck board made from recycled plastic and wood composites. Here's my product review of Trex decking. This was 1999 and a brand new product was just making its way into the decking and railing industry. While owning a nearly one hundred year old home on the harsh Oregon coast, the time finally came to replace the rotted covered front porch deck and stairs. ![]() |
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