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MAHO EXPO “SUMMER SPLASH”
CONVENTION & TRADE SHOW
July 24-26, 2026 – Hilton Columbus at Easton
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MAHO members are Independent Natural Products Industry Retailers, Manufacturers, Brokers and Distributors throughout the Midwest.
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The MAHO Expo and Summer Splash Convention is the annual premier event bringing association retailers, exhibitors and industry professionals together.
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With your participation we continue to effect policy change and ensure that we maintain your right to sell products, and the rights of your customers to make healthy choices.
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🚨 **Ohio's HB 943 could have far-reaching implications for the natural products industry.**![]()
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While the bill is aimed at restricting the sale of certain weight-loss and muscle-building supplements to minors, many in the natural products community are concerned it could create new compliance burdens for retailers, reduce consumer access, and set a precedent for broader state-by-state regulation of dietary supplements.![]()
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Now is the time to make your voice heard.![]()
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The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH-USA) has made it quick and easy to send a message to your Ohio State Representatives.![]()
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👉 Take action here: [ANH-USA Action Center](anh-usa.org/action-center/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)![]()
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Please take just a few minutes to help protect consumer access to natural health products.
Always be nice to crows.The crow on your fence knows your face. She's known it for years. She told her family about you. They've never met you. They also know your face now. The grudge was inherited.![]()
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University of Washington researchers wore masks while trapping crows. Years later, crows who had never been trapped — young birds born after the study — would scold and dive-bomb anyone wearing that specific mask. The information was taught across generations.![]()
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She uses tools. She solves multi-step puzzles. She plans for the future — caching food she'll need later in locations she's scouted. She understands water displacement well enough to drop stones into a tube to raise the water level and reach a floating treat.![]()
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When one of her family dies, the others gather. Not to mourn — to study. They investigate how the death occurred, identify the threat, and adjust their behavior. They hold a safety briefing over a casualty.![]()
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She eats 40,000 grubs and pest insects per family per season. She eats carrion. She buries seeds that become oak trees. She's running a three-shift operation — pest removal, sanitation, reforestation — and she remembers the face of everyone who's ever thrown a rock at her.![]()
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#Crows #BackyardWildlife #BirdIntelligence
The eclipse path of totality will sweep across a dramatic stretch of the world. It begins in the Atlantic, crosses southern Spain and Gibraltar, then move through North Africa across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, into Egypt, and onward through Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Somalia. Some of these regions, especially in Egypt and Libya, will enjoy the very longest darkness with famously clear skies.On August 2, 2027, day will turn to night across parts of three continents, and for nearly six minutes the Sun will vanish completely. It will be the longest total solar eclipse visible from land until the year 2114.![]()
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This is being called the eclipse of the century, and for good reason. Most total eclipses plunge you into darkness for only two or three minutes. This one will last up to about 6 minutes and 23 seconds at its peak, an extraordinarily long stretch of totality. An eclipse this long over land will not happen again for roughly 100 years.![]()
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The reason it lasts so long comes down to a rare alignment of cosmic timing. The eclipse happens when Earth is at its farthest point from the Sun, making the Sun appear slightly smaller in the sky. At the same time, the Moon will be near its closest point to Earth, making it look slightly larger. A big Moon covering a small Sun, with the shadow racing across the equator where it lingers longest, adds up to those precious extra minutes of darkness.![]()
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The path of totality will sweep across a dramatic stretch of the world. It begins in the Atlantic, crosses southern Spain and Gibraltar, then moves through North Africa across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, into Egypt, and onward through Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Somalia. Some of these regions, especially in Egypt and Libya, will enjoy the very longest darkness with famously clear skies.![]()
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For everyone standing in that path, the experience will be surreal. The temperature will drop, the horizon will glow with a strange twilight in every direction, stars and planets will appear in the middle of the day, and the Sun's ghostly outer atmosphere, the corona, will blaze around the black disk of the Moon.![]()
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One vital reminder. Never look directly at a solar eclipse without proper certified eclipse glasses, as it can permanently damage your eyes. Regular sunglasses are not safe.![]()
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It is still a couple of years away, which gives plenty of time to dream about where to witness it.![]()
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If you could travel anywhere along that path to stand in six minutes of daytime darkness, where would you want to be?
Three nerve cells. That is the entire gap between a dragonfly seeing a mosquito and its wings already changing course to catch it. Most animals run a decision through layers of brain tissue before a muscle even twitches. The dragonfly skips almost all of that. The signal fires. The body moves. The mosquito is already gone. What makes this even stranger is the accuracy. Dragonflies do not chase prey from behind like most aerial hunters. They calculate where the insect will be and fly to that spot instead — intercepting, not following. Studies tracking their hunts show a success rate somewhere between 95 and 97 percent. That is not a good hunting day. That is every day. The spiny basket formed by their legs during a strike closes around the target mid-flight, so the mosquito rarely even knows a predator existed. There was no struggle. No warning. Just air, then not. Ancient fossils place dragonfly ancestors in the sky over 300 million years ago — before dinosaurs, before flowers, before most things people think of as old. The nervous system that makes all of this possible has barely changed since then. Some things were right the first time. The oldest reflex still wins. [TLPZB]
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Calling all Independent Natural Product Retailers... It is time to register for the 2024 MAHO Expo!
Call the MAHO Office and register today @ 614-798-1117. We have a sold-out show floor with many brand-new exhibitors just waiting for you - with fabulous discounts!