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Some weeks back, in the Linux word processing road map, I mentioned a new application for writing documents called LyX. In this column I'd like to present an overview, showing what you can use it for, how to get started using it, and where to go to learn more.
LyX has a GUI, but it isn't a traditional WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") word processor. In contrast to specifying exactly how each character in the document will look -- "make this word Helvetica Bold at 18 points" -- you can specify the structure of the text, such as whether a selection is a chapter heading, part of the body text, an index entry, and so forth.
LyX comes with many document classes already defined -- such as letter, article, report, and book -- containing definitions for the elements these document types may contain. You can change the look of each element and the look of the document as a whole -- and you can change the look of individual selections of text, but with these elements it's rarely necessary. Its authors call the new approach WYSIWYM, or "What You Say Is What You Mean."
Since LyX uses LaTeX as a back-end to do the actual typesetting, and it's capable of exporting documents to LaTeX input format, you can think of it as a way to write LaTeX input files in a GUI without having to know the LaTeX language commands.
But even those who do use LaTeX and related typesetting languages may find LyX useful: Many people find it quick and easy to make documents in LyX that are much harder to do in LaTeX -- such as a multi-column newsletter layout with illustrations. You can also import your LaTeX files (and plain text) into LyX for further layout or manipulation.
If you use Debian, you'll want to install the
package; otherwise, see if it is included with your Linux distribution
or get it from the LyX Web site, http://www.lyx.org/.
When editing you'll see that LyX has all of the commands you'd expect from a word processor -- for example, some of the commands found on the Edit menu include Cut, Copy, Paste, Find and Replace, and Spell Check.
Here are some of its major features:
LyX runs under X, and you start it in the usual way -- either by
choosing it from the applications menu provided by your window manager
or by typing
lyx in an xterm window.
To start a new document from scratch, you'd choose "New" from the File menu. You can also make a document from one of the many templates included with LyX, which have the basic layout and settings for a particular kind of document all set up for you -- just fill in the elements for your actual document. To make a new document from a template, choose "New from template" from the File menu and then select the name of the template to use.
The following is a list of some of the included template names and the kind of documents they're usually used for:
Documents suitable for submission to IEEE Transactions
Format suitable for papers submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics
Template for letters formatted according to German conventions
Documents written in the SGML DocBook DTD
Movie scripts as they are formatted in the US film industry
Template for letters formatted according to Italian conventions
Article format suitable for submission to IEEE Conferences
Basic format for letters and correspondence
LinuxDoc-SGML documents as used by the Linux Documentation Project
Article format suitable for submission to publications of the American Physical Society (APS), American Institute of Physics (AIP), and Optical Society of America (OSA)
Format for producing slides and transparencies
To view what the document will look like when you print it, choose "View DVI" from the File menu. This command starts the xdvi tool, which previews the output on the screen.
To print the document, choose "Print" from the File menu. You can also export it to LaTeX, PostScript, DVI, or plain text formats; to do this, choose "Export" from the File menu and then select the format to export to. (If you plan on editing the document again in LyX, be sure to save the actual .lyx document file.)
The LyX Documentation Project has overseen the creation of a great deal of free documentation for LyX -- including hands-on tutorials, user manuals, and example documents.
On the LyX Web site is The LyX Graphical Tour, a Web-based tutorial which shows you how to create and edit a simple LyX file.
LyX has a comprehensive set of built-in manuals, which you can either read inside the LyX editor like any LyX document or print out. All of the manuals are available from the Help menu.
For example, to run LyX's built-in tutorial, choose "Tutorial" from the Help menu. This command opens the LyX tutorial in a new buffer, which you can then read on the screen or print out by selecting "Print" from the File menu.
The following table lists the name of the manual as it appears on the menu, and describes what each contains:
An introduction to using the LyX manuals, describing their contents and how to view and print them
A hands-on tutorial to writing documents with LyX
User's Guide
The main LyX usage manual, describing all of the commonly-used commands, options, and features
Extended Features
This is "part ii" of the User's Guide, describing advanced features such as bibliographies, indices, and documents with multiple files, and techniques used in special-case situations, such as fax support, SGML-Tools support, and using version control with LyX documents.
Shows which elements of LyX can be customized, and how to go about doing that
Reference Manual
Describes all of the menu entries and internal functions
Known Bugs
LyX is in active development and, as with any large application, bugs have been found. They are listed and described here.
LaTeX Configuration
This document is automatically generated by LyX when it is installed on your system. It lists an inventory of your LaTeX configuration, including the version of LaTeX in use, available fonts, document classes available, and other related packages that may be installed on your system.
Finally, LyX installs some example documents in the
/usr/X11R6/share/lyx/examples directory. Here's a partial listing of
these files with a description of what each contains:
Describes how to make 'foils' (slides or overhead transparencies) with the FoilTeX package
Examples of the various bullet styles for itemized lists
An example of using LyX as a composition environment for literate programming
Techniques for numbering and labeling equations
Making your own macros in Math mode
Writing two-column bilingual documents
Examples of using tables in LyX
These files discuss and show the use of LyX in the field of astronomy.
Examples of documents written in the format used by the American Mathematical Society
Example of a DocBook document
Example of multi-column format
Example of a Hollywood script
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Michael Stutz was one of the first reporters to cover Linux and the free software movement in the mainstream press.
Read more Living Linux columns.
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Thanks for joining us at Vegtoberfest 2012!
Our 2012 Vegtoberfest was Open the Cages Alliance's FREE fall festival to celebrate healthy, sustainable and compassionate vegan food choices and lifestyles! The festival was held at Riverside Park in south Baltimore on Saturday, October 27, 2012.
Please note that we do not have a 2013 Vegtoberfest in the works, but please join us at our other upcoming events listed on our events page.
Vegtoberfest 2012 Report and Photos!
Vegtoberfest is Open the Cages Alliance's annual autumn festival to celebrate and promote compassionate, healthy and sustainable vegan food choices and lifestyles (www.vegtoberfest.com). The 2nd Annual Vegtoberfest was held on Saturday October 27th, 2012 at Riverside Park in Baltimore, Maryland. THANK YOU to everyone who attended Vegtoberfest 2012, and to all the wonderful volunteers who helped to spread the word and make it happen! Based on the head counts from our "greeter" volunteers, 800-900 people attended this year's Vegtoberfest!
More than 50 exhibitors/vendors set up booths in Riverside Park, including nine vegan food/beverage sellers, and several more vendors who distributed free vegan food samples. Joseph Gonzales, Staff Dietitian with the Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine, spoke about optimum vegan nutrition. Demosthenes Maratos, Communications Director for the Sustainability Institute at Molloy College, presented a basic introduction to vegan living, and explained that veganism is about more than just food - it's about withdrawing financial and other support from the exploitation of animals for any reason. The Riverside Park gazebo served as a stage for our musical performers: Ron Kipling Williams, Georgie Jessup, and Woody Lissauer. Baltimore Hoop Love demonstrated hula hooping tricks, and got festival-goers of all ages up and hooping! The Vegtoberfest Kids' Corner offered arts and crafts projects for kids throughout the festival, and kids "trick-or-treated" for vegan goodies from participating exhibitors.
Eight chefs competed in this year's Vegan Chili Cook-Off. Attendees were invited to sample all eight entries and vote for their favorite chili! Congratulations to winning chef Amanda Berman for her first-place "Loco Cocoa Chili!"
The Indypendent Reader invited us to contribute a write-up and photo essay on Vegtoberfest, which was published online the following Monday: www.tinyurl.com/IndyreaderVegtoberfest2012. We thank Mark Peters of Mark Peters Photography for volunteering his time and talents! Full Vegtoberfest photo album: www.tinyurl.com/Vegtoberfest2012FBalbum.
By holding events like Vegtoberfest which are both educational and social in nature, OTCA seeks to make it easier and more fun for everyone to adopt and sustain vegan lifestyles. Events like Vegtoberfest are part of our mission to foster and support a culture of compassion and justice for all animals.
Vegtoberfest was organized and hosted by Open the Cages Alliance. Thanks for joining us at this family-friendly event!
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Brian Fleischmann
Representing: USA
Gender: Male
Athlete Year of Birth: 1978
Athlete Place of Birth: Florida
Athlete Weight: 151
Athlete Height: 5'11
Athlete Lives: Colorado Springs Array
WTS Ranking: No Ranking
ITU Points List:: No Ranking
Athlete Biography
Personal: Brian William Fleischmann… Born Aug. 8, 1978 in Jacksonville, Fla. … Graduated from Florida State in the fall of 2001.
Elite Triathlon Career: Competed at the 2001-2004 ITU Triathlon World Championship teams representing the USA. In his first year as an elite competitor in 2001, Brian placed second at elite nationals behind 2000 Olympian and U.S. No. 1 Hunter Kemper… Had an impressive 19th-place finish at the 2001 ITU World Triathlon Championships, his first as an elite.
Amateur Triathlon Career: Brian was the 1998 U.S. junior national champion and went on to place 29th at the world junior championships… In 2000, Brian placed second overall at the U.S. national championships.
Athletic Background: Swam for four years at his high school in Jacksonville… Placed second at the 1997 state meet in the 500 freestyle and fifth in the 100 backstroke…Swam his freshman year at Florida State, then switched to cross-country and track his sophomore through senior years.
Athlete Sponsors: Aigis, Asics, Power Bar,Rudy Project,Profile
Athlete Language: English
Athlete Tri Entry Year: 2001
Athlete Other Sports: swimming, running background
Athlete Education: Bachelor in Business
Athlete Proudest Moment: 19th 2001 ITU World Champs, swimming a 16:31 in the 1500 meter free in the summer of 1993.
Athlete Injuries: never get injured


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For Immediate Release
October 3, 2012
Illinois State Board of Education launches Center for School Improvement
State awards $10 million contract to international school reform leader
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) announced it has established the Center for School Improvement to help raise student performance in the nearly 4,000 public kindergarten-12th grade schools across the state, particularly the lowest performing schools. The Board recently awarded the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a proven international education reform leader, with a one-year contract worth just under $10 million in federal dollars to lead the state in comprehensive school improvement work.
"We are excited to work more closely with the American Institutes of Research as we continue our ongoing reform initiatives and school improvement work," said State Superintendent of Education Christopher A. Koch. "This international leader in teaching and learning brings decades of experience supporting schools and will help implement a systemic approach to addressing stagnant achievement gaps."
The Center will help coordinate various regional improvement efforts under the ISBE's existing network to ensure that schools receive expert, timely and relevant assistance with an emphasis on closing the achievement gap. The achievement gap refers to the performance disparity on various measures between groups of students, particularly English Language Learners, students with disabilities, low income students and racial ethnic minority students.
Some key features of this new Center include:
- The Center will bring high-quality, research-based services and resources that improve education outcomes for students.
- The Center will employ content area specialists, coaches and turnaround experts with specific expertise in working with English Language Learners (ELLs), students with disabilities, low-income students and racial and ethnic minority students.
- On-going professional development for Center staff.
- An evaluation process for Center work to promote continuous improvement and better serve districts and schools.
- Collaboration with Regional Offices of Education and Intermediate Service Centers to improve student outcomes and opportunities.
The American Institutes for Research (AIR) is one of the largest not-for-profit behavioral and social science research organizations in the world. With 1,700 global employees, AIR is a national leader in teaching and learning improvement, research, assessment, evaluation, and technical assistance to ensure that all students – particularly those facing historical disadvantages – have access to a high-quality, effective education.
AIR has established offices both internationally and across the nation, including offices in Chicago and Naperville. The State Board approved the AIR contract during the September Board meeting with plans to evaluate and renew the contract through Fiscal Year 2017. The Center will be housed at a yet-to-be determined location and may have more than one site.
"We are honored to work in partnership with the Illinois State Board of Education to build on their existing strengths and make the Center for School Improvement a model for consistently delivering high quality, research-based support that benefits students, teachers and school leaders," said Gina Burkhardt, Executive Vice President of AIR and Director of the Education, Human Development and Workforce Program. "We will draw upon our student improvement work in Illinois and other states, as well as our international expertise, to support the efforts of ISBE, school districts and schools in this very important school reform effort."
Funding for The Center is supported by federal school improvement funds allocated to ISBE under the federal Title I grant as established under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. For more information and updates on Center work, please visit: http://www.isbe.net/grants/center/default.htm
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Using statistics of gun ownership from USA Carry via About.com and Bureau of Justice gun homicide data, I was able to create the gun culture health ratio for each state.
Several maps help give a visual understanding to these numbers. The first map shows the ten states with the greatest and least percentage of population with guns.
|Same color scheme applies with yellow being the middle.
|Percentage of guns is nearly reversely correlated with the health status of the state's gun culture. Only Mississippi (high gun ownership yet high gun homicides) and Connecticut (low gun ownership yet only average gun homicides) resist the trend.
|Click to enlarge or download the image for full resolution. Maryland, which has the deadliest gun culture in all the United States, is on par with Costa Rica's. Meanwhile, Wyoming, which has the healthiest gun culture in all the United States, is on par with Latvia (which in turn beats runner up Vermont which is on par with gun owner paradise Switzerland)
The northern interior core spreading from Oregon to Wisconsin along with the rural New England states as well as West Virginia have the healthiest gun cultures. While there is an overall tendency for the states with more guns to have a healthier gun culture there are enough exceptions to show that there has to be something more. Average gun owning states like Oregon and Nebraska are among the healthiest and so is low gun ownership Vermont. Meanwhile heavy gun owning Mississippi and Louisiana (especially Louisiana) have poor gun cultures.
My own personal opinion: all the analysis points to something deeper. Gun ownership rates and gun culture healthiness are not ends of themselves but instead the product of something greater. The interior west and western Midwest have more two-parent families, better parent interaction with children, and the long Western tradition of gun ownership has made teaching respect of guns to the next generation a strong family value. Meanwhile, the deadliest gun culture states have much weaker families, higher rates of divorce (though that is now common everywhere), a more transitory population, and the most violent demographic, young men, have no tradition of gun respect but instead live in thug culture which praises the gun's deadliness.


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Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: Don't Let Politics Get You Down
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- It's politics, not principles, that are keeping our country from moving forward, Jim Cramer told his "Mad Money" TV show viewers Monday, as he demonstrated multiple ways the stock market could be making investors money, if only they weren't too scared to invest.
Cramer reminded viewers that the looming fiscal cliff is a manmade problem, one that could be solved by locking our congressional leaders in a room and forcing them to hammer out a compromise. Until that happens however, the things that are going right in the markets are being largely unnoticed, he said, as investors head for the exits and lock in gains before year end.
Some examples include Gilead Science (GILD) and Celgene (CELG) , two biotech stocks that rose 13.7% and 5.8% in Monday's trading on the heels of positive trial data on their drugs.
Cramer noted that today's news was not hard to find, as Celgene's CEO said good things were coming this fall when he last appeared on "Mad Money."
Then there's paint-maker Sherwin-Williams (SHW) , whose shares soared 5.7% on the news it's acquiring Mexican paint-maker Consorcio Comex . Precision Castparts (PCP) also saw its shares rise 4.8% on the news its acquiring Titanium Metals (TIE) . Titanium Metals' shares jumped 42% on the deal.
The list goes on, said Cramer, including a 14% pop in shares of Jefferies (JEF) on another takeover deal.
What do all these gains mean? Cramer said it means bold companies will take advantage of market's cheap stock prices to make deals happen and investors need to be paying attention. Some deals are simply too good to pass up.
The Gift of Holiday Retail
With the holiday shopping season upon us, many investors are looking to add a retail stock to their portfolios. Cramer said they need to be careful however, as retail this year has been a very hit-or-miss affair.
While some retailers, like Wal-Mart (WMT) have seen their stocks soar since April, others like J.C. Penney (JCP) are in a serious decline. That's why Cramer once again recommended Ascena Retail (ASNA) as one of the safer ways to play the retail trade.
Cramer said that Ascena remains a terrific story. The company maintains a stable of diversified stores including Justice for teens and tweens, Maurice's for women in the 20s, Dress Barn for middle aged shoppers and the company's recent acquisition of Charming Shoppes gave it Lane Bryant and others to tackle the plus-sized market.
Cramer said that Ascena's diversification of its brands is perhaps its largest strength, as each concept has little to do with the others. Yet all of Ascena's stores focus on customer service and relationships, something that never goes out of style.


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I like the look of these Anastasia Hair Powders. You can have some fun with your look without visiting a salon or damaging your hair, you can wash it out without any problems, too.
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Today, I had to slowly explain to my son that an "analogy" is a literary device, not a genre of porn. FML
by Anonymous / 01/27/2013 at 1:50pm / United States (Michigan) / Kids
Today, I had to explain to my husband that the 5-second rule doesn't apply if you drop the floss into the toilet. FML
by PeeFlavouredFloss / 01/13/2013 at 10:36pm / Canada (Quebec) / Miscellaneous
Today, my mother came back from her trip to Vegas. Her breasts were obviously 2 letter sizes larger. I asked if she got a boob job and she denied it, saying that it's against her religion. She's an atheist, and a liar. FML
by Brooke / 01/15/2013 at 12:45am / United States (California) / Miscellaneous
Today, I was walking out of my girlfriend's house with her when I saw her thong drying on the rack. I picked it up, sniffed it and put it on my face as a joke. She replied with, "Those are my mother's." FML
by Anonymous / 01/16/2013 at 12:52am / United States (California) / Miscellaneous
Today, I took my grandma to what I thought was a nice movie. An actor used the word "cunt", which prompted her to ask what that word meant in a loud "whisper". She followed up even more loudly with, "Does that mean pussy?" FML
by troll of a gran / 01/08/2013 at 12:10pm / United States (Oklahoma) / Miscellaneous
Today, I unknowingly used my shampoo thinking it was leave-in-conditioner. While walking to work, it started to rain. I started to produce suds. FML
by nomegusta / 01/05/2013 at 10:59am / United States / Miscellaneous
Today, while giving my girlfriend a back-rub, she moaned and commented, "If only you could fuck this well." FML
by Anonymous / 01/12/2013 at 12:57pm / Norway (Rogaland) / Love
Today, after 3 years with my dream girl, I decided to pop the question by making her complete a scavenger hunt ending in her finding me, suit and everything, by the park bench where we had our first kiss. She came home tired and, instead of following the clues, decided to watch TV all day. FML
by ItRainedOutside / 01/06/2013 at 3:49am / United States (Florida) / Love
Today, I went on another date with a guy I've had a crush on for a long time. Afterwards, we went back to my place for the first time and things got heated. While taking my pants off, he recoiled and asked if I thought it was still No Shave November. FML
by Anonymous / 01/26/2013 at 12:20pm / Ireland (Dublin) / Intimacy
Today, I went out to meet a wonderful woman I'd chatted with online. I did have a few fears about if she was really just some guy trying to make a fool out of me. When I met her, she really was a girl, and was happy to see me. Problem: she was actually 13. I'm 34. FML
by lifsabtch / 01/06/2013 at 12:24pm / Love
Today, I found a lost dog and called the owner. When he arrived, I thought it would be cute to put the dog down so he would run back into his owner's arms, like in movies. As soon as I put the dog down, it ran away again. FML
by DrakeB / 01/20/2013 at 11:34am / United States (Washington) / Animals
Today, I discovered after 11 months, my girlfriend is finally ready to have sex. I discovered this by walking in on her and one of my friends. FML
by finallyready / 01/08/2013 at 2:56pm / United Kingdom (Birmingham) / Love
Today, I was having sex with my new boyfriend, and I realized that he enjoys making airplane sound effects while inserting himself inside of me. Moment ruined. FML
by kblevss / 01/05/2013 at 4:21am / United States (New Jersey) / Intimacy
- Today, while on a ride at a water park, someone stole my thongs. The ground is hot enough to burn… Today, my boyfriend and I were having sex and he thrusted too fast. It caused him to come out of me… Today, I was complaining to a coworker about how my manager had changed my schedule without telling…


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Packers Fan Fest the best fest
I'm back home and settled in. My new autographed stuff has been put away.
My brother Jon and I had a blast once again.
I've kissed my children and my wife and now it's time to post some pics.
Take a look.
Without further ado…
Here's a picture of Packer Pro Bowl defensive lineman AARON KAMPMAN at his autograph table. Aaron signed a Packers mini helmet for me. A true gentleman.
Here's Packers Pro Bowl Safety NICK COLLINS signing a mini helmet for me. Congrats on your 1st Pro Bowl, Nick. Hopefully, many more to come!
Some of you may know that I'm a huge Packers equipment collector. Jerseys, gloves, cleats, etc. Anything I can get my hands on. Well, above I'm pictured with the best equipment manager in all of the NFL- GORDON "Red" BATTY. I had just finished watching "Red" put on an equipment clinic for fans when we posed for this picture.
Pictured above is future NFL Hall of Famer KEVIN GREENE. Kevin is one crazy dude. He played crazy and now he gets the opportunity to coach crazy-for my Green Bay Packers. Kevin signed the Carolina Panthers mini helmet shown in the picture.
Here's former offensive lineman JERRY KRAMER signing my print depicting the most famous play in NFL history. "The Lombardi Sweep." 'Nuff said.
Here's former Packers All Pro Safety LEROY BUTLER signing my 16×20 photo print. LeRoy needs some fan-player interaction training. I've met this guy numerous times over the years and he thinks his sheet don't stink. I can't dig that.
Oh well, they all can't be nice.
Current Packers running back RYAN GRANT signs my game used cleats. Sweet..!
Big ol' WILLIE DAVIS signs my mini helmet. Willie is enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It was an honor to meet you, Willie!
What a great weekend…Go Packers!
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Happy – it looks like a lot of fun! AND sorry – got your email – "senior moment" (or these days – mom-of-teenagers-moment!) It was Zack, not you! Saw ball catching and my mind said you even though the words said something else! Sorry!
Wow, that's pretty cool that you got all those autographs! Sounds like you had a great time!
I was a bit confused, but, no problem. Besides, Zack has nothing on the Happy Youngster (except maybe a thousand baseballs!)
It was!
Thats awesome!!!!! Im a HUGE packers fan! This year i went to training camp and got around 20-25 Packers autographs.
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I gotta get a brick of cheese of you, if you come down? I want to see what all the hype is about.
Sweet! Go Pack.
Just tell me what type you would like and it's yours! I'm definitely coming up April 7-9.
Hi Happy … just doing some random searches and stumbled across your post here. Where did get the Lombardi Sweep pic if you don't mind me asking? Also, is that an 18×24? It looks a little larger than a 16×20.
I bought it from a friend of mine. It's on tackboard and it's an 18X24.
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Mackinac Island is world-famous for its fudge, and with National Fudge Day coming up on Sunday, June 16th, we thought it seemed fitting to celebrate.
The sweet and creamy treat has been a staple on the island for more than a century – ever since Harry Murdick opened the first fudge shop in Michigan on Mackinac Island in the late 1880s. Today, Mackinac Island is home to seven different fudge confectioners with several locations of each on the island.
Here are just a few other reasons why Mackinac Island fudge is Pure Michigan:
- Mackinac Island is home to more than 15 fudge shops within a 3.8 square mile radius.
- Each summer, visitors flock to the historic Northern Michigan destination and bring back a sweet souvenir – more than 10,000 pounds of fudge leave the island each day during travel season.
- Many fudge shops on Mackinac Island have a special ventilation system to waft the smell of freshly made fudge out onto the Main Street sidewalk. Ryba's was the first to have this system in 1960.
- Mackinac Island fudge makers ship in about 10-tons of sugar per week and 10 tons of butter per year to make fudge. About 80 percent of the sugar used comes from Michigan.
- President Gerald Ford visited Mackinac Island in July 1975, and made a personal stop at May's Candy Shop for fudge.
To get our fans involved with the Fudge Day fun, we've teamed up with four shops from around the island – Joann's Fudge, May's Candy Shops, Murdick's Fudge and Ryba's Fudge – to offer fans on Twitter the chance to win a prize package of fudge every hour between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. this Friday, June 14th. To be eligible to win, fans can simply tweet their favorite flavor of fudge to @PureMichigan on Friday.
Pure Michigan will then choose one winner at random each hour to win a package from one of the shops in the following order:
- 10:00 a.m. – Joann's Fudge
- 11:00 a.m. – May's Candy Shops
- 12:00 p.m. – Murdick's Fudge
- 1:00 p.m. – Ryba's Fudge
Winners will be contacted through Twitter with details on obtaining their prize. Tweets must include the hashtag #puremichiganfudge and entrants must follow Pure Michigan on Twitter.*
Additionally, we encourage fans that are on Mackinac Island on Sunday, June 16 to celebrate National Fudge Day by taking a tasty tour around the island to find your favorite shops and flavors. Fudge shops can now also be found in other vacation spots across the state of Michigan, such as Traverse City, Petoskey and Frankenmuth, and fudge fanatics can order their favorite flavor online from shops across the state.
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This is a highly interesting article about the effect of Edward Snowden's actions on health IT. In the interview with PPR's own Dr. Deborah Peel, the issues of privacy that our government is currently facing can also be applied to the healthcare industry. As Dr. Peel aptly states, "The Department of Health and Human Services claims its actions are justified to lower healthcare costs. These are obviously very different agencies collecting different kinds of very sensitive personal information, but both set up hidden, extremely intrusive surveillance systems that violate privacy rights and destroy trust in government."
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As part of the ACE-21st Century Grant, that provides after school and summer programming to almost 1,200 students in the Beeville ISD and St. Mary's school districts, robotics have come to Beeville in a big way.
According to Stan Simonson, superintendent of St. Mary's, "The kids love the robotics program. Hands-on learning is key to getting students involved in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) careers."
All Beeville ACE students in grades 3-12 had an opportunity to participate in the summer robotics program. In all, about 130 students were involved in a robotics class this summer.
St. Mary's is in its fourth year of robotics, but, this year, the school really stepped up its game. Moving away from the Lego robot kits and the Lego Mindstorm robots, the students now build their own prototypes. Now they are working with electronics, circuitry and programming.
Leonard Scott, associate computer information technology professor from Coastal Bend College, worked with 60 St. Mary's students on robotics throughout the summer program. He commented that the students enjoyed the entire program, but the electronics and soldering circuit boards were especially cool.
Mrs. Davila, an adjunct professor at CBC, taught the robotics courses at the Moreno SPACE program. She raved about how good the children were and how engaged and interested in the material they were. Working with 3rd through 7th graders was a challenge for Davila. "This year, since the program was new, we started everyone off with the basics of robotics, which is the mechanical. Some students advanced rapidly, others were enjoying the building and construction aspects of robotics. All I know is that next year, I am going to have to step up my game for the returning students."
According to Becky Simonson, CBC computer science professor, Davila is not kidding. "She will be challenged to stay ahead of the students." Simonson explained that the robotics curriculum is based on the concept of mechtronics and programming. Mechtronics is the hybrid of mechanics, mechanical engineering, electronics, electrical engineering and programming.
Miss Simonson teaches COSC1309 Introduction to Logic, which uses robotics as a tool to teach computer logic. The course is an introductory course and requires no prerequisites. According to Miss Simonson, the students have a group of objectives to meet and then are free to explore at their own pace.
"This summer, I had to purchase a second level of humanoid robot for a group of my students," she said. "They built the first one and got it working and were ready to move on." The second robotic kit is the type used in advanced university programs.
The robotics program is a program of study offered at CBC. The students from St. Mary's and Beeville ISD, upon entering high school can obtain a Level 1 computer programming certificate based on the robotics curriculum.
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I hate to say it, but right now I completely hate nursing her. We are on week 3.5 and I am still in massive pain when she nurses. We had maybe one good day when I thought I'd finally gotten the latch down, then I got mastitis and had to exclusively nurse on the non-affected side for a few days. I pumped every 2 or so hours on the affected side to try to keep up supply, but by the second day I was getting literally drops each time. After five days of antibiotics, the mastitis is gone, but the massive pain is not. I started nursing her again on the "broken" side a couple days ago and expected pain, but now it's on both sides. I canNOT get her to latch deeply. The nipple is always flattened/pinched when she comes off. I unlatch and relatch her 100 times each session, and maybe in that 100 times she'll get a good latch once or twice but invariably she pulls off a bit and brings her lower jaw in tightly. I've tried watching the Dr. Newman BFing vids on YouTube and tried his "wait til the open wide, then forcefully bring them straight on chin first" to try to get the asymetrical latch he talks about, I've tried the "scoop" in the nipple (where you pull it in a bit so you're presenting more of the areola) that they talk about in the "Womanly Art of Breastfeeding" book. I've had two LLL consults over to my house and seen a lactation consultant. I just can't get it. It seems fine (or better) when I'm with them but when they're not here it's horrible again. It hurts just to breathe. I can't stand having ANYTHING touching my nipples; it's horrible. Pumping hurts - not as much as her nursing, but it definitely hurts. We're not talking open bleeding sores that'd I'd expect to be so painful - there are sores, but they're just flat white scabs (our doctor said it was scabs, not a bleb or milk blister). On days when she cluster feeds (like today) I spend most of the day in tears dreading having to feed her. I end up giving her a bottle of pumped BM once a day just to give my nipples a break and she has a better latch on the bottle than she does on me! I assume it's because it's a firmer surface and I can get it shoved in her mouth and therefore force her lower jaw open more. My meager pumped supply is almost gone and I'm dreading it (like, could be gone tomorrow). I know they say no pacifiers and that the baby should fulfill all their sucking needs on mom, but I can't physically have her do that as much as I want to. Not that it matters, because she rejects pacifiers usually.
I want to do this so badly. I'm the biggest BFing advocate and I want to get this down, but I'm so frustrated and in so much pain and I spend the day with my boobs hanging out (since it hurts to wear a shirt or a bra) looking like a hot flipping mess. I'm seriously considering exclusively pumping until my nipples are healed but I want to have the "true" nursing relationship SO badly and I don't know if I'd be able to get her to ever latch correctly on me then.
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BRANDON Hazel Mae Corey, 87, died Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013, at her home.
She was born May 1, 1925, in Shoreham, the daughter of Arthur and Lottie Carey.
She married Arthur John Corey Aug. 23, 1952, in Brandon. Mr. Corey died in 1993.
Mrs. Corey enjoyed playing bingo, fishing, dining out and feeding animals.
Survivors include a daughter, Patricia Guillemette of Brandon; five stepchildren, Larry Garrow of Rutland, Joan Atwood of Leicester, Doris Aldridge of North Carolina, Helen Hal of Ludlow and Betty Osmer of Florida; four grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, a great-great-grandchild and numerous step-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by six brothers, Ernest, Charles, Stuart, Francis, Ralph and Pete Carey.
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Sound Off for January 15th: Is Lance Armstrong's confession too little, too late?
Oprah Winfrey is confirming that Lance Armstrong came clean to her about his use of performance-enhancing drugs during their 2 1/2 hour interview Monday.
She says the cyclist was "forthcoming" as she asked him in detail about doping allegations that followed him throughout his seven Tour de France victories.
Winfrey said she had not planned to address Armstrong's confession before the interview aired on her OWN network but, "by the time I left Austin and landed in Chicago, you all had already confirmed it."
Winfrey interviewed Armstrong at a hotel in downtown Austin.
The session was to be broadcast on Thursday but Winfrey said it will now run in two parts over two nights because there is so much material.
Armstrong won every Tour from 1999 to 2005, but each of those titles was stripped last year as the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released a massive report built around the testimony of former teammates.
USADA accused Armstrong of masterminding a long-running and sophisticated doping operation on his teams.
The 41-year-old Armstrong vehemently denied the charges for years, and fiercely attacked his critics. But after losing his titles and being abandoned by corporate sponsors, he has changed course.
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The retirement for Manny Pacquiao, who said he was done with boxing following his April 9, 2016, victory over Timothy Bradley, proved to be short lived. He will return to the ring after a nearly seven-month break for a Nov. 5 bout in Las Vegas against WBO welterweight titleholder Jessie Vargas. Pacquiao is hardly the first famous person to walk away from their chosen fields only to get the itch and return. Take a look at some other celebrities who have "unretired."
After calling it quits in early 2011 to devote more time to his family and be a full-time father, Phil Collins announced in the fall of 2015 that he was ending his short-lived retirement. The singer of "Against All Odds" and "You Can't Hurry Love" has since put out an autobiography and oversaw the reissue of his entire discography. He is also reportedly planning a return to playing concerts and possibly recording new music.
Muhammad Ali
Athletes, and boxers, in particular, are notorious for being unable to stay retired. "The Greatest" was no different. While still holding the heavyweight belt in 1979, Ali retired at age 37. He came back the following year to fight, and lose badly to, Larry Holmes. Despite calls for him to retire for good, Ali, seen here in 1983 with President Ronald Reagan, fought one last time on Dec. 21, 1981, losing a 10-round decision to Trevor Berbick.
Frank Sinatra
Ol' Blue Eyes broke more than a few hearts when he decided to call it quits in 1971 at the age of 55. But his disappointed fans didn't have to wait long for his return. Two years later he staged his comeback in a television special that was so successful he didn't hang it up for good until the mid-1990s.
Michael Jordan
At the peak of his career, and after leading the Chicago Bulls to three straight NBA titles, Jordan walked away from the game in the fall of 1993 to pursue a career in professional baseball. After a mostly forgettable year in the minors, he returned to the Chicago Bulls in the spring of 1995, leading the team to three more championships in 1996-98. While he retired again in early 1999, he made another comeback in 2001, playing two final seasons with the Washington Wizards at age 38.
Barbra Streisand
After announcing in 1994 that she planned to stop touring, Streisand performed her final "farewell" concert in 2000, saying she was done for good. She returned in 2006 with a comeback tour to raise money for her foundation. Since then, she's stuck around and even released a couple new studio albums.
Garth Brooks
The country music superstar announced his retirement in 2000. His decision to not tour held for more than a decade, but he returned to live performances with a five-year residency in Las Vegas starting in December 2009. He also has returned to the road, kicking off his first world tour in 13 years with shows featuring his wife, fellow country star Trisha Yearwood, in the Chicago area in September 2014.
Ozzy Osbourne
Burned out by touring, Osbourne announced the 1993 live album "Live & Loud" would be his final album and dubbed his tour in support of the album "No More Tours," a play on his "No More Tears" album. But by 1995, he was back again, releasing the album "Ozzmosis" and returning to touring, dubbing his concert performances "The Retirement Sucks Tour."
Brett Favre
Some athletes find that they miss the game too much to stay retired. Favre was so great that he did so twice, with neither "retirement" lasting more than a few months. First, he retired in March 2008 after 16 seasons with the Green Bay Packers, including a Super Bowl title in 1997. By that summer he had decided he wanted to return and was traded by the Packers to the New York Jets. After one season with the Jets, he again retired, only to come back in the summer of 2009 with the Minnesota Vikings. He led Minnesota to the playoffs in 2009 and returned for a lackluster season in 2010 before retiring for good.
Lance Armstrong
Armstrong won his seventh consecutive Tour de France title in 2005 and retired afterward. He later un-retired in 2008 and would compete in two more Tour de France competitions, finishing third in 2009 and 23rd in 2010. The United States Anti-Doping Agency would disqualify him from those races in 2012 and ban him from cycling for life for doping offenses.
Magic Johnson
The Los Angeles Lakers star announced on Nov. 7, 1991, that he had tested positive for HIV and was retiring immediately. Johnson initially said that he did not know how he contracted the disease, but later acknowledged that it was through having multiple sexual partners during his playing career. Despite his retirement, Johnson played in the 1992 NBA All-Star Game, earning MVP honors after recording 25 points, nine assists and five rebounds, and attempt an aborted comeback before the 1992-93 season, before actually returning for the last 32 games of the 1995-96 NBA season.
After releasing "The Black Album" in 2003, Jay-Z declared it would be the last album he would ever make. The "retirement" was short-lived, as he continued to work on various side projects and make guest appearances, culminating in his 2006 comeback album "Kingdom Come."
Amanda Bynes
In one of the shortest retirements ever, Bynes announced in June 2010 that she was retiring, tweeting that "I don't love acting anymore, so I've stopped doing it." A month later she had a change of heart and "unretired," later telling People magazine that she was simply taking time off from acting. In the fall of 2012, she again announced her retirement from acting, this time telling People she planned to focus on launching a career as a fashion designer and rapper.
In the summer of 2002, Cher embarked on Living Proof: The Farewell Tour, billed as the final live concert tour of her career, although she vowed to continue making records and films. Originally scheduled for 49 shows, the worldwide tour was extended several times, eventually running for 326 dates and ending in 2005. In 2008, she began a three-year, 200-performance residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and in March 2014 she returned to touring with her Dressed to Kill Tour in support of her 26th studio album, "Closer to the Truth."
Sugar Ray Leonard
Starting in 1982 when he suffered a detached retina, Leonard set off on a string of retirement-comebacks that saw him retire and unretire a total of four times before hanging up his gloves for good in 1997.
Clint Eastwood
The Oscar-winning actor-director claimed in 2008 that "Gran Torino" would be his last acting role, but that he would continue working behind the camera. He's since directed movies such as "Invictus," "Jersey Boys" and "American Sniper," but came out of his self-imposed acting retirement to star in 2012's "Trouble with the Curve," directed by Robert Lorenz, who worked with Eastwood as an assistant director on several films.
Joaquin Phoenix
Whether it was for real or just a publicity stunt, Joaquin Phoenix announced his retirement from acting in 2008 to pursue a career as a rapper. While his supposed career change was filmed for the mockumentary "I'm Still Here," he soon came out of "retirement" for his Oscar-nominated role in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2012 film "The Master."
Evangeline Lilly
After starring on the hit show "Lost," Lilly told E! in 2010 that she was retiring from acting when the show wrapped up following its sixth season and just wanted some "quiet space." By the following year she had returned, appearing in the 2011 movie "Real Steel" opposite Hugh Jackman and has since appeared in "The Hobbit" movies as well as "Ant-Man."
Mario Lemieux
The Pittsburgh Penguins star retired from the NHL following the 1996-97 season. In 1999, he headed up an ownership group that bought the team out of bankruptcy and a year later he came out of retirement to play for his team. He continued playing with the Penguins before ending his career for good in 2006.
Ryne Sandberg
After retiring from baseball in 1994, the Chicago Cubs second baseman came back to the team for the 1996 and 1997 seasons.
Roger Clemens
After initially retiring following the 2003 season, his fifth with the New York Yankees, Clemens signed a one-year deal with his adopted hometown Houston Astros in early 2004 to join close friend and former Yankees teammate Andy Pettitte. He won his seventh Cy Young award in 2004 and after much retirement speculation returned to the team in 2005, helping the Astros to the World Series. After implying that he was retiring for good in 2006, he again returned to the Astros for one final season before wrapping up his career for good with a return to the Yankees in 2007.
Ricky Williams
Facing a four-game suspension after testing positive for marijuana use, the Heisman Trophy winner and Miami Dolphins running back abruptly retired from the NFL in 2004, instead studying Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of holistic medicine, at the California College of Ayurveda that fall. He returned to the Miami Dolphins in July 2005, paying back a percentage of his signing bonus and completing his original four game suspension. After being suspended for another NFL drug policy violation in 2006, he played for the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts before returning to the Dolphins for 2007-10. He played one final season for the Baltimore Ravens before retiring again in February 2012.
Stephen King
In 2002, the best-selling author announced that we was retiring due to the pain he continued to suffer from a 1999 accident in which he was almost killed by a van while walking along a Maine road. While the pain limited his writing, he eventually made a comeback, including penning a column for Entertainment Weekly and writing more than a dozen novels since his retirement announcement.
Mickey Rourke
Disenchanted with acting in 1991, Rourke decided to return to boxing, in which he had excelled as an amateur from 1964 to 1973. He was undefeated in eight professional fights, with six wins and two draws, but after a couple years returned to acting.
Chris Tucker
After roles in "Friday," "Dead Presidents," "The Fifth Element" and "Jackie Brown," Tucker hit paydirt with the hit film "Rush Hour" in 1998. Over the next nine years, he only appeared in "Rush Hour 2" and "Rush Hour 3," before taking a break completely after 2007. It would be another five years before director David O. Russell's lured him out of semi-retirement with a role in his Oscar-nominated film "Silver Linings Playbook."
Daniel Day-Lewis
After "The Boxer" in 1997, Day-Lewis went into semi-retirement in order to pursue his passion for woodworking. He moved to Florence, Italy, and eventually took up shoemaking as an apprentice. Following a five-year break, he returned to acting for Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York," earning an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
Lily Allen
In September 2009, the English singer announced that she was considering a career in acting, that she would not renew her record contract, and that she had "no plans" to make another record. She opened a clothing store with her sister, launched her own record label and started a family (giving birth to daughters in November 2011 and January 2013). She started recording music again in 2012 and eventually released her third studio album, "Sheezus," in May 2014.
Evander Holyfield
After initially indicating he planned to retire in the fall of 2012, the former four-time heavyweight boxing champion decided not to go through with his formal announcement, planned for his 50th birthday party on Oct. 20, 2012. Later that month he told TMZ that he definitely wasn't retiring, saying that he still considers himself a "serious contender." However, in June 2014, after not fighting in more than three years, Holyfield announced his final retirement.
Katt Williams
After announcing he was retiring from stand-up comedy on Dec. 3, 2012, Williams reversed course just three days later, with a representative telling TMZ that his sudden retirement announcement was due to him feeling "unappreciated" and "totally disrespected by all the things that happen to him in the city of Seattle." A day before his "retirement" announcement, Williams had been arrested after a bar dispute in Seattle.
Toni Braxton
In February 2013, Braxton said she was retiring from music and would like to focus on acting. However, by June, she had announced that she was back in the studio working on her eighth album, a collaboration with Babyface that was eventually released in February 2014.
Andy Pettitte
After months of speculation about his future, Pettitte announced his retirement from the New York Yankees in February 2011. This first retirement lasted only one year, with Pettitte sitting out the 2011 season. When he joined the Yankees as a guest instructor during spring training in 2012, he got the itch to return. After two seasons back, he again retired following the 2013 season.
Bjorn Borg
Nearly a full decade after leaving the court in 1983 at the age of 26, 11-time Grand Slam winner Borg returned to tennis in 1991. Growing his hair out like in his heyday and playing with an old-fashioned wooden racket, he failed to win a single set in his first nine matches back, eventually re-retiring in 1993 without having won a single match in his comeback bid.
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|Program Goal: Support individuals with significant disabilities, including older individuals who are blind or severely visually impaired in the achievement of their independent living goals.
|Objective 1 of 2: Through the provision of services (either directly or through contracts), increase the percentage of consumers receiving services funded through OB Title VII, Chapter 2 funds who report having access to services needed to improve their ability to live more independently and participate fully in their communities.
|Indicator 1.1 of 1: Older blind individuals served by the program: Increase the percentage of Title VII, Chapter 2 consumers who report having access to previously unavailable assistive technology aids and devices, and increase the percentage of Title VII, Chapter 2 consumers who report improved ADL skills.
Source: Annual 7-OB reports.
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I heard STAT say he was going to focus more on defense before last season too. I need to see him do more of it ON the court & do less talking about doing it OFF the court.
Yes - it's better
No - it's worse
Hakeem talks about I guess "consulting" players during the season to help the player make adjustments to what he taught. Its good to see he takes that kind of pride in what he teaches considering it cost $100k. The Knicks should just hire Hakeem to be the new assistant coach and let him and LJ just work with Stat year round, but I don't thoink Hakeem would agree.
I heard STAT say he was going to focus more on defense before last season too. I need to see him do more of it ON the court & do less talking about doing it OFF the court.
Were not going to get much more defensively out of Amare but he should focus on what he can do well.
He should just improve on defensive positioning and being a pesky defender, he is a great shot blocker and should work on that as much as possible.
STAT/Tyson/Camby is a pretty good shotblocking threat.
Evidence Amare can swat shots and alter them with the motivation.
Wow, Amar'e has lost so much weight going by those videos.
Cmon, hakeem He needs head fakes with those moves.
Looks like he's talking the talk, again. We'll just have to see. I'm not sold ,yet.
I agree .. bringing Camby & K.Thomas to N.Y. purpose have to be to tutor Stat's future defensive-effort on par with the elite PF in the league.
Coach Woodson annnd our BIG-3 should invite all our new-veterans to a practice workout 3 weeks before training-camp open .. to get all veterans on the same-page.
I want to see a scrimage-practice of Camby/Stat/Novak/Brewer/Felton vs Tyson/K.Thomas/Melo/Smith/Kidd
I can totally see Amare using "The Dreams" moves. They almost have the same build and have soft hands around the paint. Amare just needs to be confident in the post and try not to force it, use his size, agility to attack the basket in a way that will award him trips to the charity stripe...even if he doesn't convert on the basket. Draw double teams, stay away from the parimeter and stay in communications with Tyson/Camby when on the floor together.


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Any insight into sudden loss of appetite in my 6-month old?
I have been back to work for 3 months. My daughter eats 6 times/day. Once in the morning (6 am) before I leave for work, three bottles with the grandparents during the day and then twice in the evening (5 pm & 8 pm) before bed. She sleeps from 9 pm to 6 am.
Her three bottles with the grandparents used to total 12 - 14 oz; within the last week - we're lucky if she drinks 10.
Is she just getting more efficient with 3x/day that she nurses so she needs less during the day? Other ideas?
At her 6-month checkup (2 weeks ago) - her weight looked good.


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So I've just watched the programme 'extraordinary breastfeeding' broadcast in the UK on Channel 4.
Although a couple of things disappointed me, overall I thought it was very positive and quite sweet. Families with extended nursers were presented as loving and kind with perhaps a few eccentricities.
For anyone who didn't see it the programme focused on a few families:
a family tandem feeding twins aged 2+ in Bath, England.
a family with a 4 year old boy still feeding, going through the process of adopting a baby from China.
a young mum feeding her 19 month old while working to promote breastfeeding in an community in Lancashire with traditionally low breastfeeding rates
a family from Cumbria with 2 older girls - one self-weaned at 5, one weaning at 7.
The family with the twins were weaning them 'cold turkey' after they had been feeding them on demand. After a couple of tough days and nights the twins were accepting it and were now happy to have their little mugs as an alternative and were having 'hugs' on demand. It was sad to see them so unhappy initially though.
The mum with the 4 year old boy was presented as a kind and genuine person. She was hoping to breastfeed her new daughter from China and we saw her first unsuccessful attempts.
The young mum/activist also came across as very well-meaning and enthusiastic.
The family from Cumbria were about as extreme as it gets. The older daughter who had weaned several years before was still drawing pictures of breasts and the whole family were clearly breast fans. The 7 year old feeding was a big girl and you saw her feeding several times. Yet even this was presented with the best of intentions. There was a reference to breastfed babies having high IQ and the families got a chance to express themselves with a supportive narration.
In all cases fathers mentioned were supportive. The only bit that I was really disappointed by was the reference to the father from Cumbria 'joining in' with the breastfeeding. and the idea this 'is common in breastfeeding families'. I really really don't think that is true.
I would still like a programme about 'ordinary breastfeeding' but it was a lot better than I had feared it might be. It was genuinely quite sweet in places. Breastfeeding was presented as something a loving family might choose to do. They mentioned the World Health Organisation recommendation to feed to at least 2 years and even the 'extreme family' were given a chance.
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CHARLES TOWN – With a combined more than 100 years of service to Jefferson County, the four longest-serving employees, and many others, were recognized Thursday afternoon by the Jefferson County Commission.
County employees Sandy McDonald, Ralph Lorenzetti, David Holmes and Debra Pittinger ranked at the top of the employee years of service list.
Pittinger, deputy clerk of the circuit clerk's office, ranked at the top of the list with 32 years of employment with Jefferson County.
This is the first year that Jefferson County has recognized the years of service their employees have dedicated to their jobs. Based on the hire date, employees with five, 10, 15 and 20 years of employment were presented with a certificate from Jefferson County Commission.
Because this was the first year of awards, employees with more than 20 years were also recognized.
Debbie Keyser, county administrator, said the county's employees are so important because they are the face the public, municipalities and other government entities see.
"(The employees) are Jefferson County," Keyser said.
Speaking before the crowd that gathered in the commission's meeting room in the basement of the Charles Town Library, Keyser said since she began working for the county last fall, one thing she has realized that makes the county important is that despite the size of Jefferson County, all the employees get to know one another like family.
She said that according to national statistics, the average length of service to an employer today is 4.7 years.
Considering Jefferson County employees are racking up more than 30 years, this is a great accomplishment for the county, she said.
"We are here celebrating something great," Keyser said. "We have people who have spend their career here, and that's just phenomenal. How lucky are we that we have employees that got to stay in the county for so long."
– Staff writer Michelle Horst can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 138, or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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ST. JOHNSBURY The owner of a historic St. Johnsbury building severely damaged by fire last month wants to rebuild.
Owner Bruno Ravel is still too upset about the fire to talk to reporters. But he has been talking with historic preservationists, real estate developers and the local Chamber of Commerce about how to rebuild despite having no insurance, Vermont Public Radio reports.
Scott Beck, the chambers executive director, owns a bookstore in a neighboring building that was rebuilt after a fire in 2000. He knows how much work it will take just to stabilize the building.
The third floor is mostly gone, part of the roof is gone and part of the façade, he said of the fire on Railroad Street. So theyve got their work ahead of them, for sure.
One preservationist estimates the building will cost $1 million to rebuild.
Fires have burned parts of downtown St. Johnsbury in 2000, 2003 and in 2008.
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Odd-couple pairing Jeff Burton, Luke Lambert have speed but need some luck
July 9, 2013
The Jeff Burton/Luke Lambert tandem is still one of the most fascinating driver and crew chief pairings in NASCAR.
At first glance, the 30-year-old engineer and 46-year-old driver might seem like "The Odd Couple" but the two have gelled together nicely, at least off the track where the two share inside jokes and interests as if they are long-time high school buddies.
Lambert was first paired with Burton in the summer of 2011, when the then 28-year-old was named interim crew for the struggling No. 31 Sprint Cup team. Together the pair earned two top-5s and five top-10 finishes in 17 Cup races
Following that success, Lambert was actually sent over to the Nationwide Series, to work with Elliott Sadler in his pursuit of the championship with the No. 2 team. At the time, Lambert almost viewed the decision as a demotion. After all, he had done everything asked of him, propelling Burton from 25th in the standings to 20th by the end of the season.
But the move wasn't a demotion at all -- it was part of a larger scheme designed to get Lambert some championship experience in advance of his eventual return to the Sprint Cup Series.
"He's so young and so talented that it must have been easy to look at us moving him down last year as a step back," Burton told SB Nation in March. "But we made it clear to him that we believed in him and that it really was a step up."
Lambert flourished with the assignment, scoring four race victories, 15 top-5s and 24 top-10s en route to finishing second in the season championship to Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and crew chief Mike Kelley.
"The Nationwide deal gave me a lot of confidence," Lambert told SB Nation on Friday at Daytona International Speedway. "It gave me a lot of exposure to situations that I haven't experienced."
Thrilled with how the young mechanic handled the pressure-filled championship battle, Lambert was put back on top of the pit box once team owner Richard Childress, felt his Cup program was at a level where Lambert could succeed long-term paired with Burton.
And the team has been competitive but also suffered from a lot of bad luck this season.
Burton is 21st in the championship standings but has had incredibly bad luck. The past month is a snapshot of how this season has gone thus far for the No. 31 team. The team had been coming off three-consecutive top-11 finishes at Dover, Pocono and Michigan and was running strong on the road course at Sonoma when a run-in with Tony Stewart dropped him to 31st in the final running order.
Then again at Kentucky, the team had a fast car and was running in the top-10 when Burton received damage on a late restart and finished 19th.
Lambert knows his team his team has the speed to make the Chase, he just worries that they might run out of time, sitting 21st, with no wins and eight races remaining before the Chase cut-off.
"The important thing is that we have a lot of speed in our car and that the team is working well together," Lambert said. "But we have to keep our heads down and do the best work that we can. Hopefully, the cards will start falling our way and we'll get the results we deserve."
Kwikset will be the primary sponsor for the team this weekend at Daytona International Speedway and has launched a Twitter campaign and sweepstakes that will give fans a chance to win a VIP Experience with Burton and Richard Childress Racing during the Chase race at Charlotte in Oct.
For more information and to enter the sweepstakes, fans can visit www.iHeartTheMayor.com
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Colin and I are at Home Depot picking up some art supplies for our upcoming shoot. We are in Galveston, TX for 10 days shooting reenactments and interviews for the documentary I've been working on. I am enjoying the break from the editing room and dabbling in the art department.
It's obvious to the local cashier when we get to the front of the line that we aren't from the area. She is very warm and friendly.
"What are you doing in Galveston?" she asks. We pause, unsure exactly how to answer. Many people in Galveston are not fond of recounting this dark memory.
"We are making a crime documentary," I say vaguely.
The cashier reaches into the shopping cart and pulls out a bow saw. She stops for a moment.
"Creepy," she says, "I remember this story."
The story happened 10 years ago. A man was found dismembered, his body parts stuffed into black plastic garbage bags and thrown out to the bay. Part of our art tasks is to recreate body bags. I consult the crime scene photos with care.
Unfortunately, dear reader, I am not supposed to get into too many details about the project, but I've given you enough information to Google it.
It's hot down here in Texas during the month of August and the air is hot and thick, especially when loading and unloading heavy gear all day. Coming home to an air conditioned house is just about the best feeling in the world. We all drink lots of water and quite a lot of Schiner Bock, a local Texan beer.
When riding around the town we listen to "Galveston" by Glen Campbell basically on repeat and it's days and days before I can get it out of my head. The food here is mostly fried, so it's difficult to eat healthily, but we do visit some amazing barbeque joints, and the fish is fresh.
We film a tour of the jail where the accused spent three years awaiting a trial. It's completely abandoned and boarded up. One of the old jailers takes us through, the only thing lighting the way is a small LED light mounted to the top of the camera and his flashlight.
It's a perfect place to film, and when we finally get to the cell we've wound down and around so many twists and turns that I am not sure I would be able to find my own way out. Thankfully, I don't have to.
I've been cutting this documentary for over a year, so it is meaningful to be here, where it all went down. I stand in front of the house where the alleged murder happened. It's late in the evening and I watch the sun set in the horizon. We are shooting with a large jib, filming sweeping shots of the house on Avenue K during magic hour.
Though I've seen the house before; in many news broadcasts, and photos, none of them can quite capture the feeling I get from actually standing here. Like many things you have seen in footage but never visited, the house is larger than I expected and the street is nicer.
There are mixed emotions so it is difficult to describe; I feel the horror of what happened here. But am also giddy with the kind of excitement you feel when you finally get to go to a place you've wanted to see for a long time.


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For Immediate Release
April 20, 2005
Springfield, Ill. The Finance Committee of the
Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) will review the
2005 School District Financial Profiles at its meeting
today. Approval of the profiles is anticipated at the
State Board of Education meeting tomorrow, April 21, 2005.
The School District Financial Profile was designed to
better illustrate information on school district finances
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Man denies charge of prescription fraud
BARRE — A Springfield man with a long criminal record has been charged with trying to pick up drugs prescribed to his dead father.
Matthew A. Pape, 38, pleaded not guilty to felony prescription fraud Thursday in Washington County criminal court in Barre. If convicted, he faces a maximum of two years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
According to the police affidavit, Pape went to the Medicine Shoppe in Barre and tried to pick up a bottle of the sedative clonazepam for his father, Phil Pape. A pharmacist told police Matthew Pape came into the pharmacy and said he had two prescriptions he was to pick up. After being told there were no prescriptions there for him, Pape placed the order for clonazepam, according to the affidavit. The pharmacist told police Pape asked how much the drug would cost and whether he could charge the drug instead of paying cash.
According to the affidavit, after Pape placed the order using a valid prescription refill, one of the pharmacists told the other pharmacist he thought Phil Pape was dead. The pharmacist told police she confirmed from online obituaries and the Vermont Medicaid portal that Phil Pape had died in October.
The pharmacist called police. The responding officer asked to see the prescription bottle the pharmacist had filled and she told him the police could keep the bottle because she had filled it with vitamin B, not the drug.
While in custody, police said, Pape did not understand why he was under arrest, as he was simply trying to get a list of all the medications his father had been taking in order to figure out "what had killed him," police said.
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By Sharna Johnson: Freedom Newspapers
Area law enforcers and emergency responders agree the post-9/11 climate has made federal funding more attainable for local agencies.
Clovis/Curry County Emergency Management Director Ken De Los Santos said federal funding for responders over the last five years has totaled more than $1.5 million.
The terrorist attack in New York City has increased response readiness awareness and brought federal funding within reach of municipalities like the city of Clovis, De Los Santos said.
Funding must be used to fill specific, pre-approved requests, meeting federal criteria. Communication equipment, technology upgrades, hazardous material response equipment and training have been the primary benefits seen by local departments, he said.
De Los Santos said the next major purchase planned by the county is a mobile command unit — a vehicle complete with onboard communication equipment and other resources. Local agencies will be able to utilize the truck at the scene of a major incident to assist and manage responders at the location of an incident.
Last November's fire in Floyd is an example of an event where the mobile unit would have been useful, De Los Santos said.
Each year Curry County receives a lump sum based on requests, and De Los Santos disperses the funds among individual departments.
"All I say is, 'I've got some money,' and they give me their lists," he said.
Deputy Police Chief Dan Blair said the funds granted by the Department of Homeland Security, created in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, have enabled Clovis police to better equip officers and to upgrade vehicle radio and communication systems. Before 9/11, the need for better equipment was there, but budgetary constraints forced purchases to be made piecemeal, he said.
Earlier this year the police department also purchased 143 radio scramblers with grant money to afford them privacy in their communications.
"Before 9/11 the communication things would have been harder to get for us. It (9/11) did speed it up," Blair said. "We were buying radios before every few years. This gave us the opportunity to equip all cars and all officers, and it's still an ongoing thing."
Portales Police Capt. Lonnie Berry agreed that communications upgrades have been the biggest boon to law enforcement on the coattails of the largest domestic terror attack in U.S. history.
"It's caused them to be aware, making sure things are put in place," Berry said. "The biggest thing it did was make sure we had operable (and uniform) communications. If an agency shows up from Roswell, they can talk to an agency from Portales."
Rescuers and fire personnel also have benefited from the more accessible coffers.
"Over the past few years that additional funding has helped us purchase some equipment and training we wouldn't have had otherwise," Fire Chief Ray Westerman said. "For us the equipment is hazardous material equipment, and with the railroad and the amount of traffic on Highway 70, we needed it — we just couldn't afford it. We relied on the Cannon Air Force Base team, and their availability is subject to a lot of factors.
"Immediately after 9/11 the focus was terrorism and training for first responders," Westerman said.
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina helped reinforce that point.
"Then after Hurricane Katrina it brought into focus that we need to be ready for large-scale events of any kind. It has raised our awareness for first responders over a broad range of potential disasters," Westerman said.
"It did raise awareness for some other agencies in the country that maybe they weren't equipped well. It certainly raised awareness of politicians and gave fire departments an avenue to obtain the things needed."


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How information on a birth, death or marriage certifcate can make your search just that little bit harder.
As in my previous post Birth Death & Marriage certificates contain a wealth of information. Some good, some correct and some information that just causes confusion.
Below is a summary of information that I have taken from the BDM certificates for the family of John Shoulders & Mary Ryan (now known to be Hanratty).
Mary Ryan married John Shoulders in 1851 in Armidale. They had four children. John died in 1858 at Hernani, near Armidale.
Children of John & Mary were:
Emily (1851-1949) – married William Harris
Mary (1852-1880) – married Charles Jackson
James (1853-1871) not married
Ellen (1856-1922) married George Mathews (1) and Horatio Baker (2)
Information from the certificates is as follows:
- According to her marriage certificate in 1851 Mary's maiden name was Ryan and she was given consent to marry by her guardian R G Massie.
- John's death certificate in 1858 shows that he had been in the colony for 26 years (making his arrival around 1832. More details on John can be found here). He was listed as being 42 years old, making his birth year to be around 1816.
- Being given consent to marry would indicate Mary was under the age of 21 years. Having a guardian would also indicate that her parents were not around or they were deceased.
- Mary's name is listed as 'Marianne Ryan' on John Shoulder's death Certificate.
- The death certificate of Mary and John's son – James Shoulders in 1871 (aged 22) shows Mary's name as "Mary Ann Ryan".
- Mary married again in October 1858 to Edward Beasley (variant spellings are: Beasley, Beazley, Beezley, Beesley). The Marriage Certificate for Mary and Edward does not have much information. It shows that Mary was a widow and living at Wellington Vale. (note to self: For the first time I have noticed that one of the witnesses on this certificate is an A Clarke! – I wonder if this is Mary's father refer point 2 below). But if it was her father, why his name would not be listed under 'father' is not known.
Details from the BDM Certificates of John & Mary's children are:
- On the birth certificate of Mary & John's daughter Ellen Shoulders (born 1856), it shows Mary's age as being 23. The informant was 'Marianne Shoulders' mother and that she was born at Clarence Town, Williams River.
- Marriage certificate of Emily Shoulders to William Harris in 1868 does not indicate her parent's names.
- Death certificate of Emily Harris (nee Shoulders) in 1949 has her parents has John Shoulders & Mary Beasley.
- On the marriage certificate of Charles Jackson and Mary Shoulders in 1868, it shows that Mary's maiden name was 'Beezley' and that her father was Edward Beezley. This is incorrect as Mary's surname was Shoulders. Edward was her 'stepfather'. Considering that her father had died at a young age, I'd say that 'Edward' would have been considered as her father. The name of her mother is not listed. Edward also gave Mary consent to marry.
- On the death certificate of Mary Jackson nee Shoulders in 1880, it shows that her parents were John Shoulders and Mary Nauratty. When I saw this, I thought it might have been a typo or incorrect information but it turns out that it's closer to the truth than anything else.
- On the marriage certificate of George Mathews and Ellen Shoulders, it does not show neither parents' names but Ellen was given consent to marry by Mary Ann Beezley, the mother of the bride.
- On the marriage certificate of Ellen Mathews (nee Shoulders) to Horatio Baker in 1921, shows her mother as being Mary Ann Brown and her father as John Shoulders.
- The death certificate of Ellen Baker (died 1922) shows her mother's name as Mary Ann Brown. Where this surname of Brown comes from is beyond me and I tend to ignore as it's quite obvious that it's not correct.
- After many years of research found the death certificate of Mary Beasley (formerly Shoulders – nee Ryan). It was in 1909 and was listed as 'Brezley' It showed that her Father was 'Arthur Hanratty' Pig Merchant. Mary was 73, making her birth year to be 1836 and her place of birth was Clarence Town and that she was '15' when she married John Shoulders in 1851. It also shows that she was '20' when she married Edward Beasley in 1858, which would make her birth year to be 1838.
What other research I did to confirm the correct details about Mary.
- As Mary's name was listed as Ryan on her marriage, my initial search consisted of checking every birth record in the NSW BDM index's for a birth of a Mary Ryan around the mid 1830's and then double checking death records for deaths of the 'parents'. This was a rather fruitless search seeing that I had no idea of the names of her parents.
- I have done a great deal of research in looking for 'Arthur Hanratty' (as you can see here)
- I have checked the indexes again to find the birth of Mary Hanratty (or variant spelling) with her father being Arthur, but no record of her birth has been found.
So what can I take from this. Not everything is as it seems. Don't take it for granted that what is on a certificate is correct. Verify all details, it might be correct, it might not be. You never know, doing a little bit more digging, might eventuate in finding the truth, though rather disjointed at times. It will fit together eventually.
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