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In a little less than three weeks I will be moving out of state to live with both my boyfriend and my girlfriend who moved in with him from Colorado a few weeks ago. Most of my immediate family are supportive of my decision or at least have the good sense to realize that their dissenting opinion won't change change my mind and therefore keep their mouths shut. The only person in my family who is being deliberately kept in the dark at this point is my grandmother who is over 70 years old and most definitely would disapprove. She is not being kept in the dark because I fear her disapproval but because she is involved in some of my legal affairs and until I can get those changed I am better off letting her believe what she wants to, which is that I am engaged to my boyfriend and we will eventually marry. In reality though I'm not sure if we will ever be legally recognized as committed to each other largely because the commitments of more than two adults to one another are not legally recognized in the United States yet. To be honest I have rustled with my feelings on the subject quite a bit. I love them both for different reasons because they are different people but with the same level of intended commitment and it isn't fair that because of how long is commonly written I would have to choose one over the other . That being said I find myself arguing with myself lately. Largely because of my disability very few aspects if my life have been within spitting distance of normal and a ceremony is one of the few "normal" things I've ever wanted id only to be able to thumb my nose at the people who said or thought my disability precluded me from committed romance.
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Day 239: Sometimes You Just Don't See The Lightning Coming or Manuscripts, Facebook And Cross-Country Running
I feel as though I have been running cross country for most of my life, at least mentally. Earlier in life it felt as though I were always running away from something, trying to put distance between myself and my disability, other people's expectations of me or sometimes lack of expectation and a laundry list of other things. If someone drew a picture of my mental self at that point I would probably have all kinds of small cuts on my face and arms the needs of my jeans would be worn through and money shoes would probably look as if they might fall apart at any second. That's definitely how I perceived myself anyway. At some point it changed though, instead of running away, trying to outdistance something I began to get the feeling that I was running toward something though if you asked who or what I was chasing I couldn't give you much of an answer. At the age of 12 or 13 a man I couldn't place as anyone I knew or had heard of at the time began showing up in my mind both while I was asleep and awake. Since I had begun writing at that time (mostly historical romances that I wouldn't pay Harlequin to publish if they asked now) I assumed for years that he was a character I simply had not found a story for which still isn't uncommon for me today. When I was a sophomore in high school I had to write a short story for class and since he was still in my head on a regular basis it seems natural that the lead male character would look like him. Fast forward to present day I am still working on that short story although it isn't so short anymore. After I completed the assignment my English teacher strongly suggested that I expand it to a full length book. My graduating class has its 10 year reunion this year and I'm still tweaking the story. Christmas of 2011 I did something highly uncharacteristic for me and that I joined a dating site without someone twisting my arm to get me to do so. Much to my continued amazement somebody responded. I looked them up on Facebook only to discover the man who had been silently in my head for over 10 years staring back at me. If I had been sitting in a regular chair at the time this are probably would have knocked it over. In that exact moment I knew who I had been running toward for half my life.
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Day 227: At the Closing of the Year
So the closing of the year is upon us. Christmas has come and gone once again. This year has had its share of tears for many people, myself included. Occasionally you run into divider moments, events which lead to a person thereafter marking time as life "before" a particular event and "after" it. For me it has been one of those years. Life will never be quite the same again. Fortunately this year has brought with it happy changes to balance the sad ones.I'm still not quite certain why my life decided to take a 360 turn from where it was to wear it is but I'm glad it did. Our relationship model doesn't make sense to most people and it doesn't have to. Within the last year I have grown so much as a person that I almost don't recognize my previous self. It may sound cliched but it's true. I have a wonderful man and woman in my life and would not trade the for the world. Looking forward to a new year I hope everybody laughs more than they cry and makes an effort to take the time to pay it forward when good fortune comes their way.
Day 223: To My Girl
The woman I'm with is the jewel of my life, We have been through hell and back and then all over again. I have been a really ssucky girlfriend and a rough excuse for a friend at times. I deserve her in my life about as much as much I deserve to win the lottery which is to say not much in my opinion. She is a beautiful, amazing, who I will strive to show how much I care.
Day 200: My anniversary is the day AFTER The End of the World
I realized something kind of funny just now…the one year anniversary of relationship with Oz is the day after the world is supposed to cease to exist. For anybody who didn't follow that let me clarify, the end of the world is supposed to be December 21 2012. Our anniversary falls on December 22 20 12. Personally I find it very funny because the end of the world has come and gone at least twice in my lifetime, three times if you include the Y2K scare. If we are lucky to be in the same state on our anniversary (very unlikely) at some point its going to occur to one or both of us, "hey we survived the apocalypse…." I feel sorry for anybody who decides to come visit within the next hour, they will probably find something thrown at them,(by me, he's nicer than I am). Knock at your own risk.
Day I97: The Very Best Thing I Almost Didn't Do
This past year has been amazing…..amazingly chaotic. There has been stress, death, and tears of frustration cried over everything several times.Somehow this year has also been the happiest of my life to date. Roughly about this time last year I did something totally out of character: I voluntarily joined an online dating site. It ws because that site that I met one of my soul mates. Happy birthday my Love, even though we must be apart for now I love you more with each day that passes and always will. You have made my life better in ways I will never be able to adequately describe though I promise to spend the rest of our lives together trying my best to tell you.
Do you believe in soul mates?
The short answer is yes. I also believe there are different kinds of soul mate. Many people have experienced an especially strong and unique bond with an animal. There is a soul mate. The friend who always seems to be there when needed, who shows up for no other reason then to see you smile. That too is a soul mate. Is there just one romantic soul mate for every person? I believe that answer is very personal There are many people who remarry or commit to another partner when the first dies. It doesn't mean they love either person more or less than the other, only that they love each differently. The same be said of people in open relationships. That's my thoughts on the subject.
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How to survive a rights issue: As Barclays cash call deadline looms, what are investors' options?
Shareholders don't like rights issues. Any company that gives its investors the unwelcome choice between stumping up more cash or seeing their existing holding diluted can expect to take a significant hit to its stock.
Mere muttering in the City that a firm is pondering a cash call can severely undermine the share price.
The management's motive for raising money by selling new shares - normally at a hefty discount to mollify investors - is very often another major cause for discontent.
Reasons can be relatively benign, such as the wish to fund a promising takeover, but at the other end of the spectrum a company may need rescuing from the brink of financial collapse.
Cash calls: Fundraisings are sufficiently unpopular with shareholders that company bosses don't undertake them lightly
Firms can hold fundraisings via the easier and quicker route of a share placing, where they just approach their top institutional investors rather than asking all shareholders to put their hands in their pockets in a rights issue.
However, cash calls tend to be sufficiently unpopular with any type of shareholder that company bosses don't undertake them lightly, or at all if possible, so investors can always assume they involve some kind of serious business.
Barclays and G4S tap shareholders for more cash
Take Barclays and G4S, the corporate giants that have resorted to cash calls in the past couple of months. They are both in somewhat sticky situations, although of very different kinds.
Barclays announced a £5.8billion rights issue in July after being ordered by City watchdogs to build up more capital to cushion against future financial shocks.
The Bank of England's regulators telling Barclays to play it safer wasn't exactly comforting for investors when memories of the credit crisis remain raw.
Barclays reacted by quibbling about the deadline for increasing its capital buffers, and at one point suggested it might be forced to cut lending to meet the tough new rules. It got slapped down by the Bank on both counts. A jibe by Business Secretary Vince Cable, who likened the Bank to the 'Taliban' for ordering lenders to hold extra cash, did not help Barclays' cause.
Against the backdrop of this nasty political spat, Barclays shares shed 9 per cent over two days when news of the rights issue broke at the end of July and its price has yet to recover (see chart below).
Barclays has just set a September 13 deadline for investors to buy its new stock, which will start trading on October 3.
Meanwhile, G4S has just raised £350million, an amount equivalent to 10 per cent of its existing shares, as part of a package to reduce its £2billion debt mountain. Since it opted for a share placing, it was all done and dusted far faster than Barclays' rights issue.
The security firm has suffered a series of setbacks in recent years - it's doomed and costly bid to buy Danish firm ISS, the Olympics staffing debacle, and more recently a prisoner tagging contract scandal. This culminated in a poor trading update and the ousting of boss Nick Buckles earlier this year.
G4S shares rose 5 per cent on the day it announced the share placing, as investors were reassured by the steps to recovery outlined by new boss Ashley Almanza.
But the share price had struggled since May, when rumours of a shareholder fundraising started to circulate, and the firm's other troubles took a general toll too. At the time of its 2013 low in July, it had tumbled by nearly a fifth.
G4S shares are trading back up near their January levels now (see below).
Stock watch: Rumblings about a fundraising hit G4S's stock in May, but its new boss has since managed to convince investors of a path to recovery
What to do if you're invested in a firm holding a rights issue
Yet another reason rights issues tend to peeve investors is that they pose a dilemma - basically, to pay up or not - that requires a decision and potentially action too.
So what should you do if you hold stock in a firm that announces a right issue? We asked Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown, to talk investors through their options and what to bear in mind as they come to a judgment.
He says investors faced with a rights issue should initially ask themselves two questions:
1) Does the reason the company is raising money ring any alarm bells?
'You have to take a long hard look at the company and ask what is the money being raised for,' he cautions.
2) Do you still believe in the company and the investment case for buying the shares?
Hunter says an investor might have no spare cash, feel buying into a rights issue unbalances their portfolio, or have other individual reasons for not wanting to participate.
But 'all things being equal' there shouldn't be any reason for investors to stand aside as they have already invested in the stock.
'If you are a shareholder because you believe in a case for a company there aren't too many reasons not to take a rights issue up,' he says.
And if you are still a believer, you may regard the right issue as an opportunity to pick some stock at a slightly cheaper price, points out Hunter.
Choppy: Barclays shares have not recovered since it announced a rights issue earlier this summer
From a practical point of view, investors have four options in a rights issue:
1) Taking up the rights
'Typically, shareholders are offered the right to buy a set number of shares in proportion to the number they hold,' explains Hunter.
'In regards to Barclays, they intend to offer shareholders the right to buy one new share for every four they hold. Each share will be offered at a price of 185p, representing a discount of 40.1 per cent to [July 29th's] closing price of 309.05p.
He warns: 'If shareholders do not take up the rights issue, their stake in the company will be diluted.'
2) Selling some or all of the rights
'As shareholders can buy new shares at a discount to the market value, the rights have an intrinsic value and therefore can be traded in the market,' says Hunter.
Decision time: Barclays has set a September 13 deadline for investors to buy new stock, which will start trading on October 3
'They are known as nil-paid shares (or nil-paid rights). For example if Barclays shares are trading at 300p per share the nil paid shares will have a rough market value of 115p each.
'Barclays shareholders who decide to take up their rights can convert the nil-paid shares into ordinary shares at a cost of 185p per share.
'For example, investors holding 400 Barclays shares will be entitled to 100 nil paid shares. As the option price to take up these rights is 185p per share then it would cost £185 to convert the 100 nil-paid shares into 100 ordinary shares.
'This would give you a new holding of 500 ordinary shares (your original holding of 400 shares plus your 100 new shares from the rights issue).'
3) Tail swallowing
In this case, you sell enough rights to cover the cost of the ones you buy, effectively coming out even on the deal.
Hunter says: 'This involves selling some of the rights to generate enough proceeds to cover the cost of taking up the remainder.
'Using the above example and assuming Barclays shares were trading at 300p, if you had 100 nil paid shares they would be worth 115p each.
'Shareholders could therefore sell 65 nil-paid shares to generate £74.75. After our £10 flat rate commission charge you would be left with £64.75 which is enough to take up 35 rights without investing any further cash.
4) Not taking up the rights
If shareholders do nothing, the offer will lapse on the deadline, says Hunter.
'If the Barclays ordinary share price is below the offer price of 185p, the nil-paid shares will expire worthless.
'If however, Barclays share price is above 185p then you may receive a cash payment per nil-paid share approximately equal to the Barclays share price less the offer.'
A company undertaking a rights issue will contact shareholders to ask them what they want to do. Investors can also approach a broker for assistance.
Was this the most disastrous rights issue of all time...?
RBS boss Fred Goodwin asked shareholders to stump up £12bn just before British banks hit crisis point in 2008.
As it turned out, RBS was just months away from a £45billion taxpayer bailout. The Government now owns more than 80 per cent of the bank.
Angry institutional and private shareholders have since joined forces to mount a £4.5billion case against the bank and its directors, claiming they were misled over its financial strength.
RBS has stated that it will defend itself 'vigorously' against the claims of shareholders.
Hunter says that with hindsight the RBS rights issue was throwing good money after bad.
But he adds: 'There were a number of people in the City who weren't aware let alone the retail investor.
'What we have learned from that is private investors need to look very searchingly at the purpose of a rights issue.'
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Study Questions Feasibility of Entire Genome Sequencing in Minutes
Amsterdam, October 17, 2012 – The claim that nanopore technology is on the verge of making DNA analysis so fast and cheap that a person's entire genome could be sequenced in just minutes and at a fraction of the cost of available commercial methods, has resulted in overwhelming academic, industrial, and global interest. But a review by Northeastern University physicist Meni Wanunu, published in a special issue on nanopore sequencing in Physics of Life Reviews, questions whether the remaining technical hurdles can be overcome to create a workable, easily produced commercial device.
Earlier this year Oxford Nanopore Technologies, one of the pioneering companies of sequencing discoveries, announced that they expect nanopore strand sequencing to achieve a 15-minute genome by 2014 at a cost of $1,500. This is a far cry from the $10 million it cost to sequence an entire genome just 5 years ago.
Since the idea of nanopore sequencing was first proposed in the mid 1990s, huge advances have been made. The basic idea is exceedingly simple: a single thread of DNA is passed through a tiny molecule-sized hole—or nanopore—and the various DNA bases are identified in sequence as they move through the pore.
But according to Wanunu, the reality of manipulating technology based on pores so tiny that 25,000 of them can fit side by side on a human hair has proved a daunting task. The main challenge has been to slow the process down and control the movement of the DNA strand through the pore at a rate slow enough to make individual DNA bases readable and usable. A new approach using enzyme-controlled movement, developed to overcome this problem, has its own drawbacks including poor enzyme activity resulting in limited processivity and uncontrolled forward-reverse motion.
Another major dilemma has been whether protein or solid-state pores provide the most promising technique. At first, naturally occurring porous proteins were investigated. But in the early 2000s, heralded as offering better capability and flexibility, various solid-state nanopores made of silicon or graphene were tested. "Since both lipid-embedded protein channels and solid-state nanopores have drawbacks, it will be interesting to see which device, or what combination of devices, will be available in years to come, if any," Wanunu says.
At this time there are still many hurdles to overcome, he adds, including the inability of nanopores to provide any spectroscopic information about the identity of a molecule, uncertainties about whether translocation occurs at a constant speed, and the complications of pore clogging.
Writing in a comment published in the same issue, John Kasianowicz from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US, a pioneer in the field, agrees that plenty of challenges remain: "There are indeed still many problems to address in order to enable practical electronic nanopore-based sensing devices. However, by better understanding the road already developed in this nascent field, the journey will hopefully appear a little less daunting."
In a final comment on Wanunu's review, the founder and Director of Oxford Nanopore, Hagan Bayley, looks ahead to the future: "In the longer term, by using solid-state pores… it may be possible to read DNA sequences at microseconds rather than milliseconds per base. This could be done by using tunnelling currents or other characteristics of the DNA bases for which graphene—with its unusual electronic properties—might after additional development provide a superior substrate and in so doing deliver another massive leap forward on top of a decade of unprecedented progress."
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"Nanopores: A journey towards DNA sequencing" by Meni Wanunu ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2012.05.010) The commentaries on the review are: Bio-inspired nanopore-based sensors by John J. Kasianowicz.
( http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2012.05.012); Are we there yet? By Hagan Bayley.
( http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2012.05.015). The study and commentaries appear in Physics of Life Reviews Vol 9, Issue 2 (June 2012).
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Christine O'Donnell Lies About Attending Oxford University
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Sargent reports that Chris Fletcher, who oversaw the Institute's 2001 Oxford Summer Programme and the course O'Donnell took, said the course wasn't overseen by Oxford at all.
"We never represented it as a course run by Oxford University," Fletcher told Sargent.
From the story, which you can read in full here:
Fletcher said the only connection to Oxford is that they rented space there and organized some lectures with "guest lecturers from Oxford and Cambridge" as well as from other institutions."It wasn't an official course of Oxford University," Fletcher said. "It wasn't sponsored by Oxford University. We rented the space."
"It was our curriculum, and we did the grades," Fletcher continued. Fletcher's conclusion about O'Donnell's Oxford claim: "It's misleading."
Here's a screengrab we took of O'Donnell's LinkedIn, in case she edits the page.
Of course, the Fairleigh claim also wasn't quite accurate. As Politico reported, outstanding debt kept O'Donnell from earning her 1993 degree until just a few weeks ago.
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Politico caught that O'Donnell's 2006 campaign site described her as a graduate of the university.
Our coverage of this race is here.
Late Update: A new report late tonight suggests O'Donnell did not attend Claremont Graduate University as she indicated.
Gary Scott, a radio producer in Los Angeles and longtime political reporter and editor, uncovered tonight on his blog that O'Donnell does not seem to have attended the Southern California school.
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The same resume lists O'Donnell as having attended Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. The claim seemed suspicious since O'Donnell had yet to receive her undergraduate degree, from Farleigh Dickinson University, until last summer. So I asked CGU's public relations officer, Rod Leveque, if the school had any record of O'Donnell attending classes there. His response:
In short, no. Claremont Graduate University has no student or education record for an individual named Christine O'Donnell.
In 2002, O'Donnell was listed as a "Lincoln Fellow" at the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank also based in Claremont. However, the institute is not affiliated with the Claremont Graduate University or any of the other Claremont Colleges. One of the Claremont Institute's fellows, Harry Jaffa, did teach at the Claremont Graduate University back when it was known as Claremont Graduate School.
TPM also reached the university spokesman Leveque.
He tells us:
Claremont Graduate University has no student or education record for an individual named Christine O'Donnell.
Later Update: Read our full report on Claremont.
Wednesday Update: O'Donnell issues a statement Wednesday saying she did not create the LinkedIn profile. Read her explanation here.
Late Wednesday Update: TPM's Evan McMorris-Santoro spoke with the O'Donnell campaign, which says they are still figuring out what to do. His report is here.


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Pacific Growth reiterated its buy rating on shares of NetFlix (NFLX ) on Oct. 7.
Analyst Derek Brown says Blockbuster (BBI ) now expects to reach its goal of 2 million subscribers later in 2006 than originally anticipated. He believes this offers further support to his notion that an inflection point in NetFlix's business may have been triggered by Blockbuster's recent price increase. He notes NetFlix updated its third quarter guidance to reflect, among other things, accelerating trends in its core business, raising its 3.35-3.50 million subscriber totals to 3.59-3.61 million. The analyst reiterates his buy rating in light of apparent business fundamentals, competitive dynamics, and valuation considerations.


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Scott Safety Celebrates 80 Years of Fire and Detection Technology Innovation
Scott Safety Celebrates 80 Years of Fire and Detection Technology Innovation
MONROE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Scott Safety, a subsidiary of Tyco International, is celebrating 80 years as a global leader in development and manufacture of leading-edge fire protection and detection equipment and technology—but the company is really celebrating 80 years of safer industrial and military emergency preparedness and response. "The solutions we produce reflect the leading edge of protection technology—and that's because the men and women using Scott equipment aren't truly ready to respond using anything less than the best and most reliable gear available," said Mike Ryan, Vice President and GM of Scott Safety.
Scott Safety's publicly-traded parent company Tyco just completed a three-way split of its operating companies, anchoring Scott's development and manufacturing role in fire protection and life safety products around the world. "At Scott, we've always focused on our customers and the environments and conditions in which they operate. By innovating with purpose based on our customer's requirements— providing solutions that are optimized for their specific needs for 80 years, we've become a true partner in every sense of the word," said Ryan. "The relationships we have with our customers start and end with their safety first and foremost—our success is based on applied knowledge that goes right to the safety and well-being of people."
Over nearly nine decades, Scott Safety's approach to product development and purpose-driven innovation has positioned the company as the preferred provider to major US metropolitan fire departments, US military forces, homeland security and other "first responder" organizations including the New York City Fire Department, the US Navy and the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense.
As a world leader in the design, manufacturer and sale of high performance respiratory protection products, Scott develops and produces monitoring and sensor equipment and other protective solutions for first responders, law enforcement, military and civil defense/homeland security, as well as emergency services in agricultural/forestry industries, petroleum, oil and gas sector and chemical, construction and industrial environments. From oil and gas operations in some of the world's most extreme environments, to the nation's leading edge military and security forces, Scott's legacy grew from a culture of purpose-built, "real world" protective solutions. "We've focused on the customer and their needs as the first step in every product development initiative," said Tina Deatherage, Scott Global Marketing Communications Manager. "We ask ourselves 'what can we produce to make their jobs safer?'"
The North Carolina based company got its start as Uniloy; company owner and founder Earl Scott developed the first pivoting aircraft tail-wheel to allow planes to safely land in 1932. The company's reputation for high quality aviation components during WW II gave Scott entry into even larger military safety and protective equipment contracts, and in 1941, Scott changed the name from Uniloy to Scott Aviation.
The fledgling defense contractor went on to develop the first "walk-around" oxygen device for military aviators, leading to an array of innovations in Self Contained Breathing Apparatus including the first Air-Pak and the first mask-mounted regulator and high pressure oxygen cylinders.
The company was purchased by Tyco International in 2001. Over the ensuing years, Scott changed its name to Scott Safety, building its stock in trade around safety and protective products for civil fire services, public safety and industrial applications. This focus would firmly establish the brand's safety legacy and lead to an evolution in industrial protective equipment and practices worldwide.
Scott Safety currently produces more than 300 products and serves significant segments of the global civil and military defense markets, industrial safety, oil and gas, maritime and other industrial safety environments.
Scott's position in the recent restructuring falls within Tyco's Life Safety Products division. The company will continue to be a global provider of emergency services protection products including fire protection, detection and suppression and life safety products. Tyco's broad portfolio of products and services, sold under well-known brands such as Tyco, Scott Safety, SimplexGrinnell, Sensormatic, Wormald, Ansul, Simplex, Grinnell, serve security, fire detection and suppression and life safety needs in commercial, industrial, retail, institutional, and governmental markets, as well as residential and small business markets. Tyco employs nearly 70,000 people across an extensive global footprint of more than 1,200 locations, serving customers in more than 50 countries.
About Scott Safety
Scott Safety, a business unit of Tyco International, is a premier manufacturer of innovative respiratory and other personal protective equipment and safety devices for firefighters, industrial workers, police squads, militaries, homeland security forces, and rescue teams around the world. With five global manufacturing locations, Scott produces products that protect thousands of individuals each day from environmental hazards including smoke, toxic fumes, combustible gases, falling objects, and contaminants. The Scott product line includes self-contained breathing apparatus, supplied air and air-purifying respirators, gas detection instruments, thermal imaging cameras, and firefighter locators.
About Tyco
Tyco (NYSE:TYC) is the world's largest pure-play fire protection and security company. Tyco provides more than three million customers around the globe with the latest fire protection and security products and services. A $10+ billion company, Tyco has more than 69,000 employees in more than 1,000 locations across 50 countries serving various end markets, including commercial, institutional, governmental, retail, industrial, energy, residential and small business. For more information, visitwww.tyco.com.
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Lyon Distilling Company Becomes as Maryland's First Craft Distillery
Lyon Distilling Company revives the distilling industry in Maryland with small, handcrafted batches of rum, whiskey, and unique liqueurs.
St. Michaels, MD (PRWEB) February 07, 2014 — After successfully navigating small town zoning, lengthy permit processes, and a government shutdown, the Lyon Distilling Company of St. Michaels, MD is proud to be Maryland's only full production distillery to open in nearly half a century.
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Lyon Distilling Company is open from 12-6 every day for tours, tastings and sales.
The founders of Lyon Distilling Company, Ben Lyon, 31, and Jaime Windon, 33, are both lifelong food and drink enthusiasts, and share a passion for creating sustainable local economic impact. Lyon gained experience as a home brewer and working at a small brewery and distillery after college, while Windon, a professional photographer, also has extensive experience in the bar and restaurant business. For more information, please visit http://www.facebook.com/lyondistilling, or contact the distillery through liquor(at)lyondistilling(dot)com or (443) 333-9181. For a short behind-the-scenes look at the distillery click here.


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