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Ask Shannon Morgan how long it takes to create a single goblet or bowl, and she’ll likely tell you, “About 20 years plus 20 to 40 minutes.” The 53-year-old owner of Girl Glass is one of the few females in the glass-blowing industry, but she’s been making a living at her craft and expanding her four-woman business in Sacramento for more than two decades.

Glassy Lady

Girl Glass is one of the few female-owned and run glassblowing businesses

May 31, 2013 Christine Calvin
From the maintenance facility at Union Pacific’s J.R. Davis rail yard in Roseville, experimental engines are being put to the test. Union Pacific engineers, electricians and mechanics — including the worker welding in the upper left of this image — pulled the engines out of 16-cylinder locomotives and replaced them with shrunken-down versions that allow for greater air filtration.

Full Steam Ahead

Union Pacific’s J.R. Davis rail yard

Apr 30, 2013 Christine Calvin
The Pipeworks gym on North 16th Street offers climbers more than 100 ever-changing routes. Everyday, the gym’s full-time team of routesetters changes a handful of paths, meticulously piecing together a massive puzzle of hand and foot holds.

Upwardly Mobile

Pipeworks' routesetters set the bar high

Mar 31, 2013 Christine Calvin
Travis Air Force Base, one of the U.S. military’s busiest passenger and cargo terminal airports, lies smack in the middle of the Pacific Flyway, a migratory path that sees 60 percent of the nation’s wintering waterfowl. “This is the worst place in the world you could ever put a military installation,” says Master Sgt. Aaron Trudeau.

Flight of the Regulator

Travis AFB uses falcons to keep migratory birds at bay

Mar 1, 2013 Christine Calvin
In a refrigerated storage room at the BloodSource headquarters, lab technician Ian Martin processes a batch of blood collected from a recent blood drive. It’s a labor-intensive process that cannot be automated, and the blood bank processes more than 250,000 such units a year.

Bloody Business

Bloodsource specializes to stay on top

Feb 1, 2013 Christine Calvin
Giraffes at the Sacramento Zoo are trained to assist in their own care. This husbandry-based training teaches the giraffes roughly 20 commands. “They know their body parts, so if I say ‘knee’, she will lift her knee until it touches my hand,” says Melissa McCartney, a zookeeper who focuses on hooved animals. That’s helpful for animals who have arthritis and need help stretching or who need their hooves trimmed.

A Tall Order

Snap: The Sacramento Zoo

Jul 2, 2012 Christine Calvin
It's nearly go time, and the five monitors in the control room at Sacramento's KCRA-TV are about to be filled with more than 80 different video and audio sources from satellite feeds, traffic cameras, helicopters, live trucks and a half-dozen reporters.

Where the News Comes First

The news team assembles in KCRA-TV's control room

Apr 2, 2012 Christine Calvin
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