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Wood chips being found in Dave's Killer Bread Not small wood shavings, not little pieces. These are pretty large wood chips (shown) and they are throughout the entire loaf This has already been reported to the FDA Dave's Killer Bread is the top-selling organic sliced bread brand in the US

i understand why ppl do small talk when they are first meeting someone, but why do some ppl do compulsive small talk all the time? my MIL just by default talks nonstop. “do you think all of that will fit in that suitcase? i always check my suitcase, don’t want to be lifting it on the plane. i take it to the gate and check it there. they let you check it for free!” “uber is here! last time i took an uber it was a prius. hard to get ubers at my house, have to call ahead.” “i talked to margaret. did i tell you that? she called me. she’s getting ready to go to the airport. 2pm fight for her. but she’s flying domestic. gets in in the evening.” but like basically nonstop for hours. never anything that needs to be said, always just kinda autobiographical and impossible to respond to with anything other than “mmmm.” it is very much the same as someone following me around with a television playing nonstop ads, but if i don’t kinda pay attention to the ads i am rude. not only can i now not have a normal conversation with my fiancé, i cannot even have interesting thoughts in my own mind.

Right, if homeschooling is actually super high quality, then homeschooling families should not object to being evaluated, tested, and checked-in-on to make sure their kids are actually learning.

Since you seemed to appreciate my pics from the oldest hotel (ryokan) in the world, Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, here are 4 more. If you want to go, rooms are pretty reasonable ($475 for a higher-end room) considering that the stay includes an unbelievable multi-course private kaiseki dinner and breakfast. Driving is your only option - it's 3 hours outside of Tokyo and trains don't go there. Fortunately, renting a car is not difficult - the hardest part is making sure to get your international driver's license from AAA (it's just paperwork, though). Hertz partners with Toyota Rent a Car so you can book through them. And you're RH side of the road. The drive is wonderful. You will almost certainly see native monkeys when you hit Hwy 37 along the Haya River. We went in November which I highly recommend. Its a little chilly but the leaves are changing color, weather is cool in Tokyo, and our room included a large onsen (natural hot spring) tub on the balcony overlooking the river. Taking tea or a little sake in a warm tub on your balcony with crisp autumn air, listening to the river run is definitional zen. The service is unparalleled. You sleep on futons on the tatami mat floor that the staff set up for you while you are at dinner. Best night of sleep I've ever had in my life. I woke up at 4:30 in the morning and went on a jog along the river in near-pitch dark. A troop of monkeys and I all startled the shit out off each other but we never actually saw one another. The staff was so kind that I swear to god I got a little misty-eyed when they bade us farewell. We were only there one night, and we drove on to Kyoto. If renting a car is too intimidating for you, no problem. Public transit to other equally stunning ryokan options in Hakone or Lake Kawaguchiko are available. Hakone Ginyu ($750/night for the best room on the property) is not as old as Keiunkan, but it's definitely a bit glitzier and you are smack in the middle of tourist hotspot, Hakone - one of my most favorite places in the world. We did the Fuji View hotel for a half-western-half-ryokan experience in Kawaguchiko, and it was a reasonable $244/night for a upscale ryokan-style room with a breathtaking view of Fuji from the balcony. I can give a little more detail on Fuji and Hakone too.

Moria, as Tolkien wrote it, would have collapsed within a year. The Misty Mountains were granite. Carve a 54-meter-tall room in granite and the ceiling cracks within months. Stress concentrates at corners, fractures propagate, the roof comes down. Subway tunnels are 6 meters tall for a reason. Quarries go open-pit because covered chambers fail. Salt is the only common rock that breaks this rule. Slanic Prahova's Unirea mine sits 208 meters underground. Fourteen trapezoidal chambers, each 54 meters tall, 32 meters wide at the floor, narrowing to 10 meters at the ceiling. Walls slope at 60 degrees. 2.9 million cubic meters removed. No interior columns. The reason is that salt creeps. Under pressure it flows like a glacier on geological time while staying strong enough to support its own weight. Fractures heal as the salt slowly migrates back into the gap. The 60-degree sloped walls are doing structural work. Load arches through the surrounding rock and the chambers stay open for centuries. This is why every vast underground hall you have ever seen in real life is a salt mine. Wieliczka in Poland. Khewra in Pakistan. The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve sits in salt caverns along the Gulf Coast because salt stays airtight and watertight at industrial scale. The dwarves mined mithril out of granite. The geology says they would have spent more effort propping up ceilings than extracting metal. Tolkien's instinct was right when he gave them endless pillars. Moria, drawn carefully, would have looked like a salt mine.