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It's Dental Health Month!  Here at Big Sandy, we have a great technical program for Dental Hygienists and Dental Assisting.   These professionals create beautiful smiles for a living as a dental assistant or hygienist. Students gain the technical and interpersonal skills essential for work in a dentist’s office.  Students regularly advertise free student-led dental cleaning sessions in Paintsville.

 Here are more great resources for excellent dental health:

The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on this day in 1886, upon Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.  100 years later, in anticipation of her anniversary, the American industrial trades and the French artisans came together to restore Lady Liberty's shine.    They raised hundreds of millions of dollars over four years.  Teams went up and took apart her icon torch.   Workers welded, sanded, and restored the metal that had been exposed to saltwater damage for a century.  Along the way, workers explored the relationship between their two countries, the gift-giving of one culture, and the symbolism of another one.

In 1986, her shiny new visage was unveiled.

Breast Cancer will affect around 1 in 4 women in their lifetimes.  In 2024, more than 360,000 people will be diagnosed with breast cancer.  Here are a few library articles for people navigating the trail of breast cancer in their lives.

“You Have Breast Cancer”   How can the four words every woman dreads mean something different each time they're spoken? Four brave survivors share why breast cancer and its treatment are now more personal--and personalized--than ever before.

Pictured: LaTonia Taliaferro-Smith, PhD, a researcher at Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University, is working hard in finding a cure for cancer in 2012. Eight women in her husband's family have been diagnosed with breast cancer. She specializes on triple negative breast cancer, a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer that disproportionately affects black women and Latino women.

Breast Cancer: A Family Affair  While breast cancer can strike young women--one in 227 thirtysomethings will develop it--there's no denying the risk increases substantially as you get older. Figuring out what form, exactly, that vigilance should take can be particularly difficult for those who've watched their mothers battle the illness. Do you make over your lifestyle, start mammograms early, or even submit to prophylactic surgery?  Meet three women who changed their lives as a result of their mothers' breast cancer diagnoses--and find out how their experiences can help you protect your health.

Pictured: Breast cancer survivor Marisa Gefen, right, shares a moment with her daughter, Estella Gefen, 5, prior to the Living Beyond Breast Cancer's Reach & Raise massive yoga event on the Philadelphia Art Museum's steps on Sunday, May 19, 2019. 

Men with Breast Cancer Fare Worse  Researchers say male breast cancer rates rose from 8.6 cases per 1 million in the 1970s to 10.8 cases per million in the 1990s. But the increase was much smaller than that for women, who had a 52 percent increase.  Consistent with past analyses, the study also found that male breast cancer patients were older when diagnosed and more likely to have advanced disease.

This weekend on June 30, we celebrate National Corvette Day.  If you're involved with either automotive engineering or industrial maintenance, you may be interested in one of Kentucky's unique manufacturing plants -- the GM Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green.  The Corvette Museum nearby sells tickets to tour the plant and see how America's premier sportscar is created on a factory floor of 1 million+ square feet.   Since its opening in 1981, it has produced over 1.1 million Corvettes.  This fall in late August, the plant will celebrate another Corvette Caravan week on the parkways of Kentucky.

12 Amazing things We Learned at the Corvette Assembly Plant Tour

Branding the Social: Leisure, Consumption, and the Corvette Community

Maintenance Strategies for Industrial Multi-Stage Machines: The Study of a Thermoforming Machine

Recently, plant tours closed amid the rumors of an "unthinkable" improvement.   Factory managers definitely didn't want any snoops to bring the news to the outside world.  Perhaps during the Corvette Caravan days the new improvements will be revealed.  For more car news, check out the library app Flipster for Motortrend and Car & Driver magazine issues!

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